Programming Throwdown Episode 148 Package Management with Max Howl. Take it away, Jason.

Hey everybody. So if you have used any OS, which is everybody who's listening to this, even if you're on your phone, you have had to deal with installing software and managing software of various ways, shapes and forms. If you're a developer, you also have to

deal with libraries, static, shared libraries, all sorts of auxiliary packages. And that makes package

management a real challenge and a real opportunity to learn more about the OS. So we're going to

kind of dive into all of that and talk about some other stuff that Max

has been up to.

So we'll jump right into it.

We have Max Howell, who's the CEO of TXYZ and the creator of HomeBrew.

Thanks so much, Max, for coming on the show.

That's great to be here.

Cool.

So one thing we kind of lead in is just

talking about the whole remote revolution, which, you know, it's almost like two years old now.

But I think it's still kind of worth talking about, especially when folks are starting new

ventures. You know, when you started TXYZ, did you start it during the pandemic?

Was it pre-post-pandemic?

And how are you handling remote work and return to office and all of these things?

That's good questions, especially nowadays.

Like, I'm personally, like, I feel that I started remote because I started with open source.

It's how I got into programming.

And the first bunch of people that I worked with were all over the world.

We had a bunch of people in Europe, some people in America, and some people in Australia.

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