Feross Aboukhadijeh joined the show this week to talk with us about his backstory, passive income, WebTorrent, WebRTC, Electron and the ins and outs of packaging apps for all platforms.

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Featuring:

• Feross Aboukhadijeh – Website, GitHub, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• JavaScript Standard Style Guide
• Study Notes is Feross’s passive income maker that enables him to work on open source and other stuff he’s interested in
• FreeTheFlash - Hilarious media entertainment brought to you by FreeTheFlash Entertainment
• Webmaster World
• WebTorrent - A streaming torrent client for the web browser and the desktop
• WebTorrent Desktop is the desktop Torrent client built with Electron
• WebTorrent Desktop on GitHub
• Instant.io
• The Changelog #216 - Electron and Cross Platform Desktop Apps with Zeke Sikelianos
• Mojibar - Emoji searcher but as a menubar app built with Electron

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