Why maintaining a codebase is so damn hard – with OhMyZSH creator Robby Russell [Podcast #207]

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Today Quincy Larson interviews Robby Russell. Robby created the open-source project Oh My ZSH. Oh My Zsh is a framework for managing your Zsh configuration for your command line terminal. It's been extremely popular among developers for more than a decade. Robby is also the CEO of Planet Argon, a software consultancy he created two decades ago. He's done work for Nike and lots of other companies. Note that this discussion is aimed at more advanced devs and engineering managers. We talk about: - How a "Don't let that happen again" culture can make it take forever to get new code into production, and how to reverse this - Tips for reducing your team's dependency on that one developer who's been there for years - Robby's perspective on LLM tools and how they're speeding up his workflows Support for this podcast comes from the 10,113 kind folks who donate to our charity each month. Join them and support our mission at Get a freeCodeCamp tshirt for $20 with free shipping anywhere in the US: Links from our discussion: - My previous interview of Robby with his full journey: from painting houses to running a popular open source tool (2 hour listen): - Robby reading his classic "d'Oh My Zshell" article recording on an older freeCodeCamp podcast episode: - A recent interview Robby did with Kent Beck, the software engineer who created the Extreme Programming agile methodology, on his Maintainable Podcast: - Robby's Robby on Rails blog he's been maintaining for over 20 years: