Foojay Podcast #19: Working Free For Fun Brings Fame & Fortune

Many developers spend a lot of their time on side projects. It’s an opportunity to learn new techniques and get involved in communities.

But sometimes it can also lead to a new job.

Or even starting a business based on such a project.

Today we are talking to people who achieved such a transition and became famous and rich, or at least some of each…

How working for free for fun brought me fame and fortune - or at least some of each - in the end…

Guests

• Tim te Beek
  - https://twitter.com/TimteBeek
  - https://docs.openrewrite.org
  - https://www.moderne.io
• Maarten Mulders
  - https://twitter.com/mthmulders
• Lukas Eder
  - https://twitter.com/lukaseder
  - https://www.jooq.org/

Podcast host

• Frank Delporte
  - https://twitter.com/FrankDelporte
  - https://foojay.social/@frankdelporte

Content

• 00'00 Intro
• 00'31 Introduction of the guests
• 02'28 What projects are the guests working on?
  - https://maven.apache.org/
  - Maven Central Search: https://github.com/mthmulders/mcs
  - https://foojay.io/today/introduction-to-maven-toolchains/
  - https://docs.openrewrite.org
  - https://www.moderne.io
  - https://www.jooq.org/
  - https://foojay.io/today/5-great-reasons-to-use-jooq/
• 06'34 How Tim got a job at Moderne
• 08'23 The connection between OpenRewrite and Moderne
• 09'23 How jOOQ became a company
  - https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/the-cathedral/0596001088/
  - https://scala-slick.org/
  - https://foojay.io/today/vaadin-and-jooq-match-made-in-heaven/
  - https://foojay.io/today/multiple-spring-boot-apps-same-project/
• 14'44 Building a product is more valuable compared to offering support
  - https://entreprenerd.lowagie.com/index.html
• 21'22 About open-source licenses
• 23'48 Why and how Info Support allows Maarten to work on open-source within working hours
• 27'47 What you can learn from an open-source project
  - https://entreprenerd.lowagie.com/index.html
• 28'54 Does every developer have to do be an open-source contributor?
• 32'13 Becoming rich thanks to open-source? Projects versus Products…
  - https://s.apache.org/for-the-grabs_maven
• 48’33 About the Fosdem talk about OpenRewrite
  - https://foojay.io/today/foojay-io-at-fosdem-2023-trip-report/
  - https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/migrations/
• 48’53 Benevolent dictator for life and how to make money from a programming language
  - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benevolent_dictator_for_life
  - https://business.jooq.org/
• 51'22 Outro

Originally published at https://foojay.io on April 17, 2023.