143 / Open Source Maintainers Owe You Nothing

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Culture

• How to Drive Meaningful Change - Handling objections to your proposal (jgefroh.substack.com)

  Joseph Gefroh writes part four of their series, this time with a framework explaining how to handle objections.

• Advice That I Can't Get Out of My Head (blog.staysaasy.com)

  Stay SaaSy shares three pieces of advice that are stuck in their head and explain why.

Software

• A formula for responsive font-size (jameshfisher.com)

  Jim shares their formula for responsive font sizes without breakpoints.

• Jujutsu: a new, Git-compatible version control system (lwn.net)

  Daroc Alden introduces Jujutsu, a new version control system which aims to be simpler and easier to grok than Git.

• Do you have any programming "white whales"? (lobste.rs)

  edwardloveall asks people on Lobsters what projects they can’t seem to finish, but keep coming back to.

• Bashing Bevy To Bait Internet Strangers Into Improving My Code (oneirical.github.io)

  Julien Robert shares their experience with Bevy, a game engine written in Rust.

Cutting Room Floor

• Open Source Maintainers Owe You Nothing (mikemcquaid.com)

  Mike McQuaid explains how to avoid burnout as an OSS developer.