Do you run an open source project? Does it seem like you never have enough time to support it?

Have you considered starting one but are unsure if you can commit to it? The challenge is real.

On this episode, we welcome back Philip Guo, who has been a solo maintainer of the very popular

PythonTutor.com project for over 10 years. He has some non-traditional advice to help keep your sanity and keep your project going

by holding down a busy, full-time job.

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Philip, welcome back to talk Python to me.

All right.

I'm super excited to be here.

I think it's my third time here, I believe.

This, I do believe this is your third time here.

The first time you came, we talked about the C Python source code and we spent a lot of time talking about C-Oval.C.

You had been doing a graduate student course walking them through the, basically,

the source code of Python to talk about interpreters, right? Yeah, yeah. That was back when I was

at the University of Rochester. That was back in the Python 2.7 days. And I've heard recently on

your shows, there have been people who've done updated versions for Python 3, right, updated versions

of this interpreter walk. Yeah, yeah, exactly.

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