Hope in Source

About Hope in Source

What are the parallels between faith and open source software? Join Henry Zhu for an off-the-cuff conversation between friends. Check out hopeinsource.com and nadiaeghbal.com/public-faith for the backstory!

Publisher

Henry Zhu

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

16 Oct 2018

Latest episode

28 Mar 2026

Latest episodes

63 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   28 Mar 2026

   Words are Totems (of Etymology)

   What happens when we treat language as a historical totem? Xiq walks with me at UBC campus for https://atmosphereconf.org (https://atmosphereconf.org)! We discuss swarms of AI fairies, openness and game theory, hyperstition and psychomagic, the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, and why thinking heaven is boring is a failure of imagination and misunderstanding of the infinite.

2. 

   28 Mar 2026

   Infrastructure as Play

   What does it mean to build an infrastructure for play? Brendan Schlagel and I trace a path around the lake in Prospect Park, chatting about generational mementos, tracing maps, a pattern language for games, riding ferries, physical constraints, and the idea of a depth jam (Recorded June 2025)

3. 

   5 Mar 2026

   Snow is a Commons (Melody Kim)

   Can snow itself be like open source? Just a fun thought while walking around talking about openclaw and seeing everyone's creations.. all on a impromptu prospect park sauntercast with Melody after last week's blizzard! (titled after Illich's essay, Silence is a Commons) 0:00 highlights 0:38 route and intro 2:47 two weeks offline 4:44 open claw and open source 11:10 into the snow 14:06 the xkcd dependency comic 23:48 tragedy of the commons 25:49 200K stars and eternal September 33:40 everything was fine 39:27 go back to just being people 42:19 striving versus being 45:54 wu wei 49:16 audience of one 56:36 Spotify broke the album 1:06:42 foreground will never be replaced 1:10:47 temporal bandwidth

Who has been a guest on Hope in Source

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Laurel Schwulst
• Melody Kim
• Joseph Choi
• Austin Chen
• Sonya Mann

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

15 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

5 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 46 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

47

Social presence

0

YouTube

63

Engagement

51

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