tl;dr:"If I didn't have something like Heroku in my life I doubt that my career would be the same or even I would be the same person I am today. It's really hard to describe what having access to a platform that lets you turn ideas into production quality code does to your output ability. " The author also worked on the product at Salesforce. "I ended up working there and when I did I understood why Heroku had fallen so much."
tl;dr:The recent vulnerability discovered in log4j2 is a "perfect microcosm of all of the major ecosystem problems with "Open Source." It is "a culture of taking from open source without giving anything back." This software is used by the largest of companies while the maintainer of log4j2 describes his work as "a spare time passion project," with a total of 3 people funding it prior to the vulnerability being discovered. Christine believes it's an obligation for companies to donate in return for using OS software.
tl;dr:"Emacs has a package that helps me organize my workflow, focus my note-taking and even keep a timeclock for how long I spend working on tasks. This package is called Org mode, and this is my flow for using it."