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John Mayer, closet software developer

Adam Keys Code, Curated, Music April 15, 2009 0 Minutes

“The idea is to run as many concurrent streams of production as we can.” – Is John Mayer recording an album or bootstrapping an indie app?

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Published April 15, 2009

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