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Lukewarm take: using tabs instead of spaces isn't hard at all if you have a well-behaving editor. In my experience of a week now, it makes the resizing of code even a bit easier (you can make its width two spaces in more narrow views and expand it to four in larger ones). It sucks that it's hard to do this with Python. TBH it seems like it was a mistake for PEP8 to recommend (and in a way, enforce) the use of spaces. A bit of a "heated" discussion at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/120926/why-does-python-pep-8-strongly-recommend-spaces-over-tabs-for-indentation

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Listened to When You Have to Fork a Project: All About Valkey | Open at Intel by PodBean Development 
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In this episode, Madelyn Olson, a maintainer of the Valkey project and an AWS engineer, joins us to discuss the life of an open source maintainer and the experiences surrounding the launch of the Valkey project. We cover the pivotal moments that led to the creation of Valkey, a Redis fork, following the Redis license change. Madeline also shares insights on the challenges and pressures of being a maintainer, strategies to manage burnout, and the significance of creating a community-driven, open source project. The episode highlights the technical advancements and future directions for Valkey, working to leverage modern hardware, manage large clusters, and expand the extension ecosystem.   00:00 Introduction 00:48 Redis License Change and Birth of Valkey 06:17 Maintainer Life and Burnout 14:54 Forking a Repository: When and Why 19:30 Community-Driven Open Source Projects 21:32 Future of Valkey and Closing Remarks   Guest: Madelyn Olson is a co-creator and maintainer of Valkey, a high-performance key-value datastore, and Principal Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS). She focuses on building secure and highly reliable features, with a passion in working with open-source communities.

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Oh amazing thank you! That's exactly what I was looking for, and has given me many more things to add to mine, thank you 🤓

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Listened to Open Source is Critical Infrastructure | Open at Intel by PodBean Development 
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In this episode, we chat with Luis Villa, co-founder of Tidelift, about everything from supporting open source maintainers to coding with AI. Luis, a former programmer turned attorney, shares stories from his early days of discovering Linux, to his contributions to various projects and organizations including Mozilla and Wikipedia. We discussed the critical importance of open source software, the challenges faced by maintainers, including burnout, and how Tidelift works toward compensating maintainers. We also explore broader themes about the sustainability of open source projects, the impact of AI on code generation and legal concerns, and the need for a more structured and community-driven approach to long-term project maintenance.   00:00 Introduction03:20 Challenges in Open Source Sustainability07:43 Tidelift's Role in Supporting Maintainers14:18 The Future of Open Source and AI32:44 Optimism and Human Element in Open Source35:38 Conclusion and Final Thoughts   Guest: Luis Villa is co-founder and general counsel at Tidelift. Previously he was a top open source lawyer advising clients, from Fortune 50 companies to leading startups, on product development, open source licensing, and other matters.  Luis is also an experienced open source community leader with organizations like the Wikimedia Foundation, where he served as deputy general counsel and then led the Foundation’s community engagement team. Before the Wikimedia Foundation, he was with Greenberg Traurig, where he counseled clients such as Google on open source licenses and technology transactions, and Mozilla, where he led the revision of the Mozilla Public License.  He has served on the boards at the Open Source Initiative and the GNOME Foundation, and been an invited expert on the Patents and Standards Interest Group of the World Wide Web Consortium and the Legal Working Group of OpenStreetMap.  Recent speaking engagements include RedMonk’s Monki Gras developer event, FOSDEM, and as a faculty member at the Practicing Law Institute’s Open Source Software programs. Luis holds a JD from Columbia Law School and studied political science and computer science at Duke University.  

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OK! I *think* I've finished. You can now "rescue" any embedded Tweet and recreate it as simple HTML - no tracking. Includes: 🗣 Avatars inlined as WebP 📸 All attached photos inlined 🎥 Video poster inline, <video> to original mp4 🔗 Hyperlinks don't use t.co #️⃣ Hashtags & @ mentions linked 🔄 Includes reply threads & quote Tweets 🕰 Semantic time 🔍 Schema.org metadata 🖼 Cards 📊 Polls ♥ , ♻ & 🗨 counts One command. No API key needed. Code at https://github.com/edent/Tweet2Embed Feedback *very* much welcome!

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As was mentioned, Tidelift is generally pitched at bigger orgs, so I'd recommend reaching out to see if it's worthwhile.

(I'm a Tidelift maintainer)

There's also things like https://stackaid.us or https://thanks.dev that may be easier to onboard to

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