Oh My Zsh (Interview)

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Adam and Kenneth caught up with Robby Russell to talk about his community-driven zsh project.

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Featuring:

• Robby Russell – GitHub, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Kenneth Reitz – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• oh-my-zsh A community-driven framework for managing your zsh configuration.
• Robby Russell is Chief Evangelist at Planet Argon
• Derek Sivers from CD Baby
• Robby weighs in on the bash vs. zsh debate
• Bash vs Zsh debate? Google returns 175k results on the subject
• Themes are a big selling point for oh-my-zsh
• Kenneth love is right side prompt
• Adam loves hub
• oh-my-zsh is currently the eighth most forked project on GitHub.
• Follow @ohmyzsh on Twitter for updates
• Adam likes the update message.
• Robby tries to keep the pull requests under 100.
• Robby is looking for a few volunteers to help with pull requests and issue management

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!