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The Butterfly Effect: How Apple's Worst Keyboard Created a Linux Legend
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Meet Hayden Barnes, the lawyer-turned-tech-wizard who LITERALLY changed careers because Apple's butterfly keyboard was too annoying. (We're not even joking.)
In this episode:
- How despising a keyboard led to pioneering Windows Subsystem for Linux projects
- Why paying for open source software should totally be a thing again (like it's 1999)
- The creation of Pengwin: the $10 Linux distro that Microsoft accidentally made famous
- That time Hayden absolutely CRUSHED our kitchen gadget trivia (we're still suspicious)
- The secret origin of the spork (because why not?)
Featured Projects & Links:
- Follow Hayden:
- @UnixTerminal on X
- Unixterminal.bsky.social on Bluesky
- GitHub: @SirRedBeard
- Book: Pro Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL): Powerful Tools and Practices for Cross-Platform Development and Collaboration
- Pengwin - The WSL distro that started it all
Key Quote: "I'm seen as the Microsoft guy in the Linux community and the Linux guy in the Microsoft community" - Hayden Barnes, living that double-agent life
Fun Fact: Our guest passed the bar exam using the same strategy he used to ace our kitchen gadget quiz - being suspiciously good at multiple choice. (🤔)
Hosted by Hayden Ballio and Wendy Hurst
Brought to you by HeroDevs - Because someone has to keep your end-of-life software from becoming end-of-world software.
(Next time someone tells you keyboard preferences don't matter, just remember: they literally changed this guy's entire career path. Just saying.)
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