Birk Jernström from Polar joins the show to tell us all about the creator platform for developers: why he built it, how it works, why it works how it works, what’s in store for the future & we even give Birk some super deep UX feedback on the funding flow.

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Featuring:

• Birk Jernström – GitHub, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• Polar
• SerenityOS on Polar
• SerenityOS issues on Polar
• SerenityOS on GitHub
• David Hewitt on Polar
• GitHub Sponsors
• Open Collective
• Vagrant and Virtualized Environments with Mitchell Hashimoto (Changelog Interviews #72)
• The serenity of building your own OS with Andreas Kling (Changelog Interviews #554)

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