Max Howell I give this advice to everyone I coach/mentor. This needs to be shouted from the roottops, and if it's not taught in universities, it should be.

Do Open Source.

As an open source maintainer with over a billion monthly downloads, it is still basically impossible to get adequate compensation for the value you created.

tea Protocol is addressing OSS sustainability in a fundamentally new way: Through a decentralized/web3 protocol. 🧵

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I spent the last 5 months reverse engineering Denuvo's protection in Hogwarts Legacy and finally managed to bypass it using more than 2000 hooks 😂

One of the toughest challenges of my life.

Here's my blog post about it:

momo5502.com/posts/2024-03-…

Did you know open-source software (OSS) is a hidden titan, valued at $9 trillion, yet remains the most underappreciated backbone of the tech world?

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New podcast w/ Max Howell, Founder of tea Protocol

- Unlocking the open-source (OS) economy
- Compensating devs to create OS
- The relationship between OS and capitalism
- The emergence of commercial OS
- Open-source AI
- Valuing OS
- $TEA token

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In 2021 I was once again between paid work and wanting to work on Open Source fulltime. I looked at what was there and decided it couldn’t realize my dream. One evening I realized that I could wait forever for some one else to make my dream true—or I could fix it myself. So I…

my friends over at tea Protocol are hiring a devops eng!

oppy to work on an important mission (OSS Funding) with a legendary founder ( Max Howell, creator of brew )

if you're interested, email [email protected]

created by yours truly while nap trapped by my son

The best advice I received as CEO was “call people that know things you don’t and talk to them” and while when I received it I was like “ugh, but I have no time ALREADY, how am I going to fit that in?” I still did it and boy did it really help.

We crossed 400,000 sign-ups to tea Protocol this morning—we’ve been live less than 3 weeks.

tea Protocol’s mission is to reward Open Source developers for their invaluable contributions to all modern digital infrastructure.

Sign up! app.tea.xyz

Loved meeting Fabian. What a legend in the space!

tea protocol fixes this. tea Protocol

whenever you feel imposter syndrome, remember that the first men who flew, were bicycle makers.

We made a mistake and own it. Our mission is to empower open source devs—not increase their burden.

Always use

✅ “git reset --hard”

If the code doesn’t go to your repo, it’s too weak to survive anyway. Just end its suffering quickly. Only amazing code deserves to live.

Besides, life is too meaningless. The humanity is losing the sense of fulfilment gradually.

Occasional…

Tea is amazing. Open source sustainability is very important to me, and with tea I think we can get a fair bit to solve it.

Also fun fact. pypandoc was the first project on the tea testnet, and I was the first OSS maintainer to sign up.

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