I didn’t feel like working on it

This blog has been quiet for the past 4 months. And not only that, but most of my open-source projects have been quiet too. I just didn’t feel like working on it.

This is something that Adam Stacoviak and Jerod Santo talk about occasionally on their Changelog podcast¹, whose episodes generally involve interviewing people from the open-source community. I think they called it “project maintainer fatigue”, where an open-source project maintainer basically gets tired, at some point, with the work involved with managing their project.

I have very small projects, and I only dedicate a small amount of my free time to them, so I don’t get this a lot but it does happen every now and then. It usually doesn’t last this long though… I guess I’m getting old.