The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

Building software for yourself (Interview)

Aug 23, 2021

01:11:51

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Why Not Just Keep Them to Yourselfy?

01:31

Is There a Side Hustle?

03:42

Cloud Kit

05:47

Introduction

3min

Monocle - What's Ink?

3min

Is There a Side Hustle?

4min

Why Not Just Keep Them to Yourselfy?

2min

Using Go Java Script or Lea?

4min

Syntactica Lea

2min

Monocle

2min

Are You Using Ink to Develop Your Programming Skills?

4min

The InkFormator - A Tool to Write Ink Scripts

2min

10.

Getting Ink to Be an Official Get Ub Recognized Language?

3min

11.

Launch Darkly - Feature Management for the Modern Enterprise

5min

12.

Do You Really Know What You're Doing?

3min

13.

How to Write Your Own Programming Language?

2min

14.

Ink and the Unnamed Project

4min

15.

You're Not Mapining Your Career Upon Your Side Project

4min

16.

Monocle - Personal Universal Search

3min

17.

Are You Really in Charge of the Tools You Own or Use?

2min

18.

Cloud Kit

6min

19.

Monoclos - I Want to Share This With Adam but Not Linus

2min

20.

How to Shear Knowledge With Monocle

4min

21.

Taylor Swift, 84 Results

2min

22.

Why Don't More People Build It?

5min

23.

Is There a Filter Bubble?

2min

24.

Monoclek

2min

25.

Change Law Podcast - What's Your Standard Assumption?

3min

Today we’re talking to Linus Lee about the practice of building software for yourself. Linus has several side projects we could talk about, but today’s show is focused on Linus’ dynamically typed functional programming language called Ink that he used to write his full text personal search engine called Monocle.

Linus is focused on writing software that solves his own needs, all of which is open source, to help him learn more deeply and organize the knowledge of his life.

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