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Prioritizing empathy and taking risks to build Chakra UI
Founder Segun Adebayo on creating opportunities.
About The ReadME Podcast
On The ReadME Podcast, we take a look behind the scenes of the most impactful open source projects and the developers who make them happen. Our guests are coding in public, creating firmware, designing hardware, researching security vulnerabilities, creating art and music, and making phenomenal scientific discoveries. They’re also working on the periphery of open source, taking time to consider how we think about technology. In sharing these stories, we hope to provide a spotlight on what you don’t always see in the lines of code, and what it takes to build the technology that inspires us all.
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Creating space and opportunity with She Code Africa
Founder Ada Nduka Oyom on giving women the tools to thrive as developers.
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Changing the hardware development game at Adafruit
How Limor Fried paves the way for millions of makers.
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From comics in Virginia to React Core at Facebook
How Rachel Nabors brought the developer world to them.
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curl: 25 years and 200 releases later
Creator and maintainer Daniel Stenberg on his user-driven journey.
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Quitting a steady job to chase intuition
Babel maintainer Henry Zhu on taking a leap of faith with open source.
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From a master’s thesis to a global go-to
webpack’s maintainer Tobias Koppers on continuous innovation, open collaboration, and flexibility.
THE README PODCAST // EPISODE 5
Keeping the lights on with Home Assistant
Maintainer Paulus Schoutsen balances function, innovation, and playfulness.
THE README PODCAST // EPISODE 4
Humanizing bots and building community
A Python core developer, Mariatta Wijaya is right where she belongs.
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How one idea grew into a popular JavaScript ecosystem
Creator of Vue, Evan You is building an accessible framework for developers, and the door is always open.
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From a 3D side project to the dream job
A full-time, community-backed maintainer, Gina sets boundaries but stays visible.
THE README PODCAST // EPISODE 3
Taking Das Blog into the future
Maintainers Scott Hanselman and Mark Downie on breathing new life into old software.
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