Date: Thu, 19 May 2022 07:00:00 -0700
<p>Beyang talks with Max Howell, creator of Homebrew, about his new package manager, Tea, which aims to solve the problem of open-source funding.</p><p>Max shares his beginnings in programming and what led him to work on early music players in Linux, <a href="http://last.fm/">Last.fm</a>, and eventually get into Mac development. Max discusses the frustrations he experienced in cross-platform development that were the impetus for the creation of Homebrew and explains how Homebrew became the de facto package manager for macOS.</p><p>Max talks about his latest project, Tea, a successor to Homebrew that aims to solve the open-source funding problem with a decentralized protocol that uses NFTs and an understanding of the package dependency graph to distribute funding to open-source maintainers.<br /><br />Show notes & transcript: <a href="https://about.sourcegraph.com/podcast/max-howell">https://about.sourcegraph.com/podcast/max-howell </a></p><p>Sourcegraph: <a href="https://about.sourcegraph.com">https://about.sourcegraph.com</a> </p>
