Maintainers Anonymous

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Quits a job to work on open source full time and documents what actually changed: supported via Patreon and Open Collective, removed the Babel stage presets as a concrete, controversial code decision, a year of half the previous public output, and burnout from infinite issue queues. Describes building an automation — text-triggered webhook to a Bluetooth button pusher — as a recruiting demo, and argues for boundaries, concrete funding outcomes, and measurable maintenance work rather than vague calls to “support open source.”

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" chapters (14)

1. 0:00Intro
2. 3:42Output
3. 4:07Open Source Sustainability
4. 4:57What is Open Source
5. 5:13Extraction
6. 7:28Open Source
7. 8:01Licenses
8. 11:47Maintaining abstraction
9. 14:48Last Call from Laura
10. 16:32Humility
11. 17:42Existential Question
12. 18:57Faith
13. 20:05Games
14. 22:20Communication

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