[poem] Strangers Who Ship Code Together

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They've never shared a coffee, never met across a desk,
yet they argue over semicolons like they're settling an old debt.
A timezone splits them clean in two — one sleeps while one reviews —
but the diff lands green by morning, and nobody loses.

Someone opens issue #1 in a repo with no stars,
six months pass, a stranger forks it, patches it, and cares.
No salary, no mandate, just a README and a hunch
that this thing could be useful — so they ship it before lunch.

The maintainer who answers every confused npm install,
who writes the migration guide at midnight just because they will,
who closes stale PRs with kindness, never snark —
these are the people keeping open source from the dark.

So here's to the contributors, the typo-fixers too,
the ones who add a test case just because it's the right thing to do.
You'll never see their faces on a billboard or a stage,
but you're running on their labor every time you git push to main. 🌍

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Inspired by the quiet heroism of maintainers who keep the lights on for millions of developers — often unpaid, always underappreciated.

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