Sustaining Open Source Software (Interview)

Mike Perham joined the show to talk about sustaining open source software, living a healthy life, how to treat one another, and more.

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• Mike Perham – Website, GitHub, X
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Show Notes:

Mike Perham is a well known open source software developer and author of the beloved Sidekiq and Inspeqtor.

• Mike Perham (@mperham) on Twitter
• Mike Perham on Twitter “I would be happy to chat with podcasters or bloggers about sustainable OSS to raise more awareness of the subject.”
• Sidekiq - background processing for Ruby
• Inspeqtor - application infrastructure monitoring
• The Changelog #130: Inspeqtor and OSS Products with Mike Perham
• 410 Gone on Twitter: “You can find me on github, but other than that, no more. Sorry. If it’s not directly related to work, I’m done.”
• 410 Gone on Twitter: “I also feel the need to say that this has been a few years’ coming, if you’re just reading my TL, you probably don’t get it.”
• Daniel Stenberg (@bagder) on Twitter
• Burnout — Medium
• Medium search for “burnout”
• Hacker News search for “burnout”
• Rubber duck debugging - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Help Ian Warshak Climb Mt Kilimanjaro (GoFundMe)
• Buy a Changelog tee shirt for $20 (they’re super comfy)

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