Oh My Zsh (Changelog Interviews #61)

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!