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Clown CastThe Wood Wide Web: Invisible Infrastructure, Invisible BurnoutImagine a forest where invisible fungal networks keep massive trees alive—but the trees don't know it. This episode reveals how open-source software works exactly the same way: 97% of commercial code runs on free, volunteer-maintained software worth $8.8 trillion. But what happens when the developers behind these invisible networks burn out and disappear?
00:00 - Opening: A Forest Metaphor
02:30 - The Mycorrhizal Network Explained
05:15 - Open Source: The Internet's Hidden Infrastructure
08:45 - The Economics: $8.8 Trillion in Free Labor
12:30 - Developer Burnout and the Crisis
16:00 - The Stakes: When Infrastructure Fails
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Sources & further reading:
• Nadia Eghbal (Asparouhova) — Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor...
2026-09-1517 min
Podcast proConf#160 PyCascades 2025 - CPython 3.13 | GIL теперь все | Потная асинхронщина | Монорепы или нетДоклады:
Goodbye GIL: Exploring the Free-threaded mode in Python 3.13 - Adarsh Divakaran (https://youtu.be/7NvgI3jDprg)
Unlocking Concurrency and Performance in Python with ASGI and Async I/O - Allen Y, M Aswin Kishore (https://youtu.be/s5UGRvdrb_Q)
Quantifying Nebraska - Adam Harvey (https://youtu.be/vH9xOxryqW8)
Error Culture - Ryan Cheley (https://youtu.be/FBMg2Bp4I-Q)
Mono-repositories in Python - Avik Basu (https://youtu.be/VIlcodf9Wrg)
You Should Build a Robot (MicroPython) (https://youtu.be/UygK5W3txTM)
As easy as breathing: manage your workflows with Airflow! - Madison Swain-Bowden (https://youtu.be/dWZSVY79-SM)
Op...
2025-03-262h 12
Test & Code183: Managing Software Teams - Ryan CheleyRyan Cheley joins me today to talk about some challenges of managing software teams, and how to handle them. We end up talking about a lot of skills that are excellent for software engineers as well as managers.Some topics discussed:handling code reviewsasking good questionsbeing honest about what you can't do with current resources and datadiscussing tradeoffs and offering solutions that can be completed faster than the ideal solutionbalancing engineering and managingmaking sure documentation happensremote teams encouraging collaborationencouraging non-work-related conversationswatching out for overworking
2022-03-1747 min
The Country MileCM51The Country Mile # 51
PLAYLIST>>> Wade Bowen | Mark Powell | Ashley McBryde | Kayla Ray | Rhyan Sinclair | Sam Coe & The Long Shadows | Dean Brody | Gareth Leach | Tony Wright & Ryan Hamilton | Mike & The Moonpies | Raihanna Estrada | Cheley Tackett | The Black Feathers + Bluegrass Double Play with Deeper Shade Of Blue + The Waylon Jennings Song of the Week!
2018-06-1700 min