Mad science, WebTorrent, WebRTC (Interview)

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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