7. “There’s a perverse effect where, the more successful you
are, the more you get “punished” with GitHub notifications.”
@nolanlawson,
“What it Feels Like to be an Open Source Maintainer”
@nayafia
27. @nayafia
“I think the future of open-source software will
increasingly belong to...people who leave behind the
cathedral and embrace the bazaar.”
Eric Raymond,
“The Cathedral and the Bazaar”
34. @nayafia
“An observation after having reviewed 10k+ pull requests on
GitHub is that ~80% of contributors doesn't know how to
resolve a merge conflict.”
@sindresorhus
44. @nayafia
Despite being worth over $30bn and $65bn, there are only 15
meaningful contributors to Ethereum and Bitcoin respectively,
and the rate of contribution isn’t going up much with their rise in
popularity.
Fred Ehrsam,
“Funding the Evolution of Blockchains”
45. @nayafia
“The best minds of my generation are
thinking about how to make people click ads.”
Jeff Hammerbacher, Cloudera
46. @nayafia
“The best minds of my generation are
thinking about how to make people
click ads.” checking email
49. @nayafia
“Shoutout to my team at Behance for allowing me to work on
Babel part-time at work; we’re still basically the only
company working to sustain Babel in any capacity on work
time.”
Henry Zhu,
“Planning for 7.0”
57. @nayafia
“They are annoyed by the noise, and language with
which the discussions are carried on, and feel
themselves placed in a situation in which they are
exposed to insult and ill usage.”
Henry Parnell,
Treatise on Roads
58. @nayafia
“...the freest, the easiest, and the least expensive
communication between all the different parts of
the country, which can be done only [with] the best
roads…”
Adam Smith, Inquiry into the Nature and
Causes of the Wealth of Nations