Entries tagged: ohmyzsh

Our CEO Robby Russell recently was interviewed by GitHub and featured in the ReadME project. The ReadME Project is part of GitHub's ongoing effort to amplify the voices of open source software a series about prominent people in the open source community. He talks about how and why he first created OhMyZsh, and how it became the huge framework it is today. Robby also discusses his journey of learning to trust contributors and the parameters he uses to produce meaningful projects.

Check out the full interview here!

Robby tells the story of how he accidentally created Oh My Zsh for the freeCodeCamp podcast. In it, he talks about how Oh My Zsh originated in 2009 after learning the wonders of zsh and collaborating with other developers on different .zshrc configurations. So after numerous attempts at talking his peers into moving to Zsh, he packaged up his .zshrc configuration into a collection of smaller files and added them to Github. The rest is history. The episode even features its very own "Mean Tweets" edition ~11 minutes in.

Not the listening type? You can read the original article here.

We hope you enjoy the episode!

Earlier today, I was interviewed on Twit.tv's open source talk show about my project, Oh My Zsh.

InfoWorld recently showcased seven of the most popular productivity tools on GitHub.

Can you guess what ranked at the top?

Our own founder, Robby Russell’s, creation Oh My Zsh, which has accumulated over 43,000 GitHub stars. Created in 2009 as an open source, community-driven framework for managing your ZSH configuration, it comes bundled with a ton of helpful functions, helpers, plugins, and themes.

Check it out!