Max Howell

I was a bad fit and frankly too full of myself for the position at the time. I did not work well in the corporate structure, but due to my...

I was doing a Chemistry degree at the time, (2001), and needed a good online alias and I wanted to be consistent for ever, everywhere, and obviously the shorter the...

If you want to contribute code, it's easier to start a new project, working with other people is hard, those skills can take a decade to learn. If you however...

Most recently, Cake took me a quite a while, where I had at times weeks with an unwillingness to continue because I had to do a tricky bit and I...

I have always thought differently than is commonly imagined. Which I understand, the tweet seemed flippant and outraged. But the thing is, tweets always seem like that. Recall at the...

Over time my preferences have changed. Initially I was only developing for Linux, and thus picked GPLv2 then v3 when it came out. Over time though I've come to feel...

* **Work** Being able to build the creations I imagine is vital to my happiness. I have many ideas every month and I tend to build them all eventually. *...

I’m a huge fan of paper, but I’m not a fan of storing things. So I use the computer. I use Notes, Reminders and a single markdown document on my...

I was working at [last.fm](http://last.fm) and we made a cross-platform app that targeted Mac, Windows, Linux, Android, iPhone and Blackberry. We worked on Mac because: 1. All the IDEs worked...

I think nowadays I have it easy, since I have nearly 20,000 followers on Twitter. But I succeeded before I had followers, for example, I was a nobody before Homebrew,...