Through the (Open Source) Looking Glass
summary
Explains why Babel 7 keeps slipping: an RC lands a week before the conference while the project still sits around beta 56, release decisions stall over backwards compatibility and automated codemods, and fundraising feels awkward after running on a roughly $10,000 yearly budget; shows a GitHub contributions graph (2012–2017) that tracks escalating overwork and describes Patreon churn, the hard choice to remove stage presets via a blog post, and prescribes concrete habits and virtues—diligence, patience, humility—for sustainable maintenance.
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chapters (28)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:32Release Date
- 1:15Anxiety Guilt
- 1:36Why am I so anxious
- 2:02Why am I feeling this way
- 2:53Concrete fears
- 3:35Fundraising
- 4:46Donations
- 5:44Selfemployment
- 6:45Removing stage presents
- 9:59How do we respond
- 10:42Self confidence
- 11:00Uncertainty
- 11:53Habits
- 12:31Culture
- 12:55Success
- 13:38Instant Expectations
- 14:37Overworking
- 15:04Taking breaks
- 15:26Entitlement
- 16:41Forgiveness
- 17:00Sacrifice
- 17:34Mirror
- 18:58Virtues
- 19:16Habit
- 19:49Maintainer
- 21:25Accountability
- 21:59Freedom
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