42 // Self-made tools with Linus Lee
Metamuse · Adam Wiggins, Mark McGranaghan, Linus Lee
October 28, 202158m 25s
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Show Notes
In a world dominated by mass-produced software, making your own tools is a way to take back agency in your digital life. Linus joins Mark and Adam to talk about his experiences building a personal software ecosystem; tools that are a reflection of the maker’s values and taste; and packaging/sharing solutions like Docker, CodePen, Replit, and Deno. And: is it possible for software to ever be “done”? — Linus thinks so.
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Show notes
- Linus Lee @thesephist
- Surface Duo
- Nintendo DS
- Backbone.js
- Spensa (farming technology startup)
- Django
- Replit
- Monocle
- full-text search
- Ink (programming language)
- changing lightbulb meme
- DigitalOcean
- August (Linus’ self-made x86 assembler)
- Metamuse episode with Weiwei Xu
- situated software
- stream fusion in mathematics
- reverse proxy
- software erosion aka bit rot
- FileMaker Pro
- newline-delimited JSON
- flat dependency trees
- dynamic linked libraries
- Go static linking
- not invented here
- Hundred Rabbits
- lil apps
- Szymon Kaliski
- An app can be a home-cooked meal
- Lucerne (Linus’ self-made Twitter client)
- TweetDeck
- Taylor Swift
- Go by Example
- multi-tenancy
- Metamuse episode on local-first
- whoami
- game modding
- Deno
- Deno’s sandboxing and permissions
- Qubes OS
- Docker container
- Heroku Buttons
- macOS .app bundles
- CodePen
- xkcd on modern software dependencies
- ProseMirror
- Metamuse episode on filmmaking
- curl maintainer has been at it for 23 years