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Developer dropout is real
Nnamdi Iregbulem • Why We Will Never Have Enough Software Developers
Across the many scales and dimensions of this problem, we are never far from three enduring truths: (1) Maintainers require care; (2) caregiving requires maintenance; and (3) the distinctions between these practices are shaped by race, gender, class, and other political, economic, and cultural forces. Who gets to organize the maintenance of infrast... See more
Places Journal • Maintenance and Care
how good we are at creating change, and how good we are at living with that change.
Debbie Millman • Brand Thinking and Other Noble Pursuits
As Eghbal notes: “Like any other creator, these developers create work that is intertwined with, and influenced by, their users, but it’s not collaborative in the way that we typically think of online communities.
Alex Danco • Making is Show Business now
As the individual experiences an ever-growing sense of acceleration provided by technological developments (new media and the “speeding up” of the infosphere) alongside a general decrease in security of past provisions and expectations (read: precarity, freelance positions, housing shortages, and increasing wealth disparities coexisting with rhetor... See more
Jess Henderson • Dude, where’s my 22nd century? – On the Burnout of Future Images
It’s not the excessive consumption of code but he excessive participation from users vying for a maintainer’s attention that has made the work untenable for maintenance today
Nadia Asparouhova • Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software
In a techno-social world that is dominantly organized by the pressures of linear feeds, we need digital spaces and frameworks that celebrate the ideas that are seeds just as much as the fully formed blooms.