711: Where did Oh My Zsh Come From? And Using Rails in 2026
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We've got Robby Russell, maintainer of Oh My Zsh, on the show to talk about why Chris has it installed, what makes a good Zsh plugin, Oh My Zsh plugins Robby recommends, what it's like working in Rails in 2026, dealing with project dependancies, and how Rails apps make use of frameworks?
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Robby Russell
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CEO and Partner at Planet Argon
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Oh My Zsh - a delightful & open source framework for Zsh
Robby Russell - CEO, Partner
Planet Argon
On Rails Podcast
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ohmyzsh/plugins/autojump
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Oh my! Zsh. (Interview)
Robby Russell is back on The Changelog after more than 10 years to catch us up on all things Oh My Zsh — a delightful, open source, community-driven framework for managing your Zshell configuration. It comes bundled with plugins, themes, and can be easily customized and contributed to, because hey, that’s how open source works. In this episode Robby gives us a glimpse into the passion and the struggle of being an open source software maintainer.
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Show Notes:
The Changelog #61: Oh My Zsh with Robby Russell
Oh My Zsh
ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/pulls on GitHub
d’Oh My Zsh
colorize plugin
Planet Argon
maintainable.fm
Oh My Zsh merch
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Maintainability w/ Robby Russell (part 2)
Robby is the co-founder and CEO of Planet Argon and the original creator of OH-MY-ZSH.
In this part 2 of the two part interview with Robby, we focus on goals of a team and how to identify areas that need some maintainability focus.
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Planet Argon
Maintainability.fm
OH-MY-ZSH
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Oh My Zsh (Interview)
Adam and Kenneth caught up with Robby Russell to talk about his community-driven zsh project.
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Featuring:
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Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Kenneth Reitz – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
oh-my-zsh A community-driven framework for managing your zsh configuration.
Robby Russell is Chief Evangelist at Planet Argon
Derek Sivers from CD Baby
Robby weighs in on the bash vs. zsh debate
Bash vs Zsh debate? Google returns 175k results on the subject
Themes are a big selling point for oh-my-zsh
Kenneth love is right side prompt
Adam loves hub
oh-my-zsh is currently the eighth most forked project on GitHub.
Follow @ohmyzsh on Twitter for updates
Adam likes the update message.
Robby tries to keep the pull requests under 100.
Robby is looking for a few volunteers to help with pull requests and issue management
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!