June 06, 2018

Corporate interests in open source and dev culture

1 hour 33 minutes

Zed Shaw – creator of Mongrel, Learn Python the Hard Way, and more – joined the show to talk through a recent Twitter thread from Zed where he shared his thoughts on open source, making money in open source, corporate interests and involvement, developer culture, and more.

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Featuring:

Zed Shaw – Website, GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

PDF copy of Zed’s Twitter thread (because he’s testing his Twitter account as being private)

The original Twitter thread

The Changelog #34: Mongrel2 and High Performance Web Sites with Zed Shaw

Learn Code the Hard Way

Embrace, extend, and extinguish - Wikipedia

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