THE VIDEO SHELF · open source maintainership
dotJS 2012 - Fat - What Is Open Source & Why Do I Feel So Guilty?
A dotJS 2012 conference talk by Fat (of Twitter Bootstrap fame) on what open source really means and why maintainers feel guilty about it. It covers the obligations, expectations and burnout that come with releasing popular open source software, delivered with humor.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN commenters cite it as a funny and candid first-hand account of the guilt and burnout of a prolific open source developer.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- dotconferences
- Topic
- open source maintainership
- Format
- talk
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2013–2016
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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I was there. Jeremy's talk was very inspiring. Among the top three of the day, easily. Fat's talk ( [VIDEO] ) was the funniest and Mathias Bynen's ( [LINK] ) was the most instructive.
johncoltrane on Hacker News · 2013-02
In Symbiotic Languages [video]Maybe relevant to watch this video for a first hand report of burnout from a coding rockstar: [VIDEO] From personal experience think that programming pretty much crashes and destroys your personal life when you really, really want to go above the rest. Everything changes, except …
nunobrito on Hacker News · 2016-01
In Ask HN: How do prolific programmers go about their daily lives?
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