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Ardan Labs Podcast

Open Source, Internet Security, and Nature with Matt Holt

Ardan Labs Podcast

Bill Kennedy

Ardanlabs, Golang, Computer Science, Technology, Tech, Kubernetes, Go Time Podcast, Ardan Labs, Docker, Tech Careers, Education, Bill Kennedy, Engineering

57 Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2021

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Matt Holt is the creator of popular open source projects like Caddy Web Server, CertMagic, PapaParse, & others. If you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to maintain open source projects full-time, Matt is the man to speak with. We learn how he came up with the idea for Caddy, how it works, and the pro’s and con’s of building a sustainable an open source project. Want to show your support for Caddy? Become a sponsor on GitHub! Connect with Matt: https://twitter.com/mholt6 https://g...

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0:00.0

This episode is brought to you by Arden Labs Education.

0:04.0

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0:11.0

Visit Ardenlabs.com forward slash education for more information.

0:20.0

Hi and welcome to the Arden Labs podcast, our special guest today, all the way from Utah,

0:28.6

right?

0:29.6

Matt, Utah, Matt Holt.

0:30.6

Yep, Mountains of Utah, yep.

0:33.6

Purple Mountain Majesty.

0:34.6

The first time I flew over Utah and I saw those purple mountains,

0:38.2

like that whole saying kind of made sense to me. It was like mind blowing actually.

0:43.3

Yeah, it's beautiful. It's beautiful. So Matt, how are you doing? Everything's good?

0:48.3

Yeah, good. Keeping busy. Lots to do. All right. So this is a podcast about you and we're going to jump in the time machine

0:58.0

and we're going to have a fun conversation.

1:00.0

But before we do that, for those few people who don't know who you are,

1:06.0

why don't you give everybody a couple of minutes of kind of what you're doing today?

1:11.5

Just focus on what you're doing right now today.

1:14.0

Yeah, so right now I maintain the caddy web server full time.

1:19.0

So that's a web server I wrote in Go back in 2014, launched it in 2015.

1:25.7

It uses the Go Standard Library. and it was just kind of a

1:31.5

scratching my own itch for a need there of a new kind of web server and a lot of

1:39.2

people started using it which was cool but it kept me really busy and I was

1:43.0

finishing my my undergraduate degree

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