Pushing webpack forward

We sit down with Tobias Koppers of webpack fame to talk about his life as a full-time maintainer of one of the most highly used (4 million+ dependent repos!) and influential tools in all of the web.

Things we ask Tobias include: how he got here, how he pays himself, has he ever gotten a raise, what his typical day is like, how he decides what to work on, if he pays attention to the competition, and if he’s ever suffered from burnout.

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Featuring

• Tobias Koppers – Twitter, GitHub
• Adam Stacoviak – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Jerod Santo – Twitter, GitHub

Notes and Links

• webpack with Sean Larkin (The Changelog #233)
• webpack’s homepage
• webpack on Open Collective
• webpack on GitHub

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