How Robby Russell Built Oh My Zsh To A Global Community Project Used By Thousands

Who is Robby Russell?

Robby Russell is a software developer originally from Gilroy, California, who dropped out of high school, eventually finding his way into the tech industry in Portland, Oregon. Despite a non-linear path that included painting houses and working in IT support, he ultimately founded the web consultancy Planet Argon and created the popular open-source project Oh My Zsh, building a strong reputation in the tech community.

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Oh My Zsh Creator Robby Russell – freeCodeCamp.org Podcast Interview

In this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Robby Russell. Robby created the open-source project...

ohmyz.sh Article

What is Oh My Zsh?

Oh My Zsh is an open source, community-driven framework for managing your Zsh configuration. Sounds boring. Let's try again. Oh My ...

opensourcestories.org Podcast

Robby Russell and the happy little accidental success of Oh My Zsh

Robby Russell, CEO of Planet Argon and creator of the popular dev tool Oh My Zsh, shares the story of how this open-source project began ...

medium.com Article · 2016

d’Oh My Zsh

How I unexpectedly built a monster of an open source project. This wouldn’t be my first foray into open source software; nor my last.