Today Quincy Larson interviews Ruby Russell. Robbie 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 has been extremely popular with developers for over a decade.
Ruby is also the CEO of Planet Organ, a software consultancy he founded two decades ago. He has worked for Nike and many other companies.
Note that this discussion is aimed at more advanced developers and engineering managers.
We talk about:
How a “don’t let it happen again” culture can take forever to bring new code into production, and how to reverse it
Tips to make your team less dependent on that one developer who’s been there for years.
Ruby’s perspective on LLM tools and how they’re speeding up her workflow.
Today Quincy Larson interviews Ruby Russell. Robbie 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 has been extremely popular with developers for over a decade.
Ruby is also the CEO of Planet Organ, a software consultancy he founded two decades ago. He has worked for Nike and many other companies.
Note that this discussion is aimed at more advanced developers and engineering managers.
We talk about:
How a “don’t let it happen again” culture can take forever to bring new code into production, and how to reverse it
Tips to make your team less dependent on that one developer who’s been there for years.
Ruby’s perspective on LLM tools and how they’re speeding up her workflow.
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Links to our conversation:
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Learn to code in Python from one of the greatest computer science professors, Harvard’s David J. Mullan. This is the 2026 version of the popular CS50 course. It will teach you the fundamentals of Python programming such as functions, conditionals, loops, libraries, file I/O, and more. If you’re new to Python, or to coding in general, this is a great place to start. (25 Hour YouTube Course):
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