This talk will discuss the trials and tribulations of being an open source software maintainer in 2026. As well as my day job of a Software Engineering consultant, I co-ordinate and lead Foundry Zero's Open Source project releases and maintaince. This includes reverse engineering projects such as binder-trace, LLEF and ghidra-deep-links; as well as managing our contributions to other projects, such as Angr. I will discuss the difficulty of keeping projects up to date, meeting the communities needs, and keeping the code functioning! As well as managing submissions from external contributors, and managing contributions from inside the company, from a busy group of people will full time commitments and roles. I'll be discussing a couple of case studies of real world problems our tools have faced and fixed, and how they make other people's (and our own!) jobs easier. Our aim is to help the security research community to have better tools to focus on the stuff that matters, and one of the ways we can achieve that is by releasing and maintaining open source software. I hope to encourage and excite people about the world of contributing to open source software, and the opportunities, experience and reward it can have.