Waterloo.dev Fest / Waterloo, Canada / Nov 7, 2026
Who Keeps the Lights On?.
Ten years ago I built a small open source tool because I needed it. Millions of downloads, thousands of answered bug reports and one burnout later, I started over for fun, and then open source became my job. In this talk, I share what a decade of keeping one project alive taught me about building software that lasts, and what AI means for the people who own it.