Tea with Max Howell

The Developers' Bakery

It’s time to kickoff 2024 with an amazing new episode! Joining us is the mind behind Homebrew: Max Howell.

We’re not here to talk about Homebrew today though (get back to Ep. 55 for that). Max is here to tell us about his latest project: Tea 🍵

Tea is a new protocol to sponsor open source. Tea works as a decentralized network that allows you to sponsor the projects on your dependency tree.

Join us in this episode as we walk through the possibilites that Tea unlocks, and we won’t miss the chance to talk a bit about the story of Homebrew as well.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

• 00.00 Intro
• 00.45 Episode Start
• 01.11 Max’s Introduction
• 04.21 What is Tea?
• 10.12 OSS Sponsorship is broken
• 14.05 How to join the Tea network?
• 17.47 How to donate on the Tea network?
• 23.09 Donating to the dependency tree
• 24.31 Tea test net
• 25.59 Tea vs Thanks.dev
• 28.12 Tea & crypto bad press
• 32.09 What have you learned from building Homebrew?
• 38.16 From pkgx to tea
• 41.46 The story of homebrew
• 50.42 Further reading
• 52.39 Where people can find you online?

Resources

• Tea Official Website
• @teaprotocol on Twitter
• Mentioned Resources:
  • The Tea WhitePaper
  • pkgxdev/pkgx on GitHub
• @mxcl on GitHub
• @mxcl on Twitter
• Max’s Website

Show links

• Podcast Website
• The Developers’ Bakery on Spotify
• The Developers’ Bakery on Apple Podcasts
• The Developers’ Bakery on Google Podcasts
• @thebakerydev on Twitter
• @cortinico on Twitter