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Entry-level tech jobs are getting wiped out (News)
The San Fransisco Standard published some sobering news for new graduates, the Forge team decided to put an AI agent in your shell, Fernando Borretti says you can choose tools that make you happy, Jujutsu’s flexibility and safety changed Nathan Witmer’s approach to version control, Anil Dash is as excited about MCP as almost everyone else is & Alex Kladov shares two rules of thumb around pushing “ifs” up and “fors” down.
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Dull, dirty or dangerous (Friends)
We sit down with Scott Hanselman at Microsoft Build 2025 to discuss open sourcing all the things, cool stuff Windows can do, where we want (and don’t want) AI to fit into our lives, building arcade cabinets, and so much more.
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- Outshift by Cisco – AGNTCY is an open source collective building the Internet of Agents. It’s a collaboration layer where AI agents can communicate, discover each other, and work across frameworks. For developers, this means standardized agent discovery tools, seamless protocols for inter-agent communication, and modular components to compose and scale multi-agent workflows.
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- Scott Hanselman – Website, GitHub, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- Keys Left?
- Scott Hanselman.com
- microsoft/winget-cli
- Cephable
- Pieces for Developers
- Arcade | Scott Hanselman’s Blog
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Refactored in prison (Interview)
Preston Thorpe joins us from inside prison, where he awaits a hopeful release within the next 12 months. His journey has been anything but easy—marked by hardship and uncertainty. But over the past few years, Preston has undergone a profound transformation. He’s refactored not just his skills, but his identity. Today, he proudly calls himself a software engineer and an open source contributor. In this episode, Preston shares his story of redemption, resilience, and what comes next.
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- Outshift by Cisco – AGNTCY is an open source collective building the Internet of Agents. It’s a collaboration layer where AI agents can communicate, discover each other, and work across frameworks. For developers, this means standardized agent discovery tools, seamless protocols for inter-agent communication, and modular components to compose and scale multi-agent workflows.
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- Preston Thorpe – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Preston Thorpe - My Story
- Preston Thorpe - About
- GitHub – PThorpe92
- Unlocked Labs
- exa – Replacement for ls
- eza – Modern replacement for exa
- micro – Terminal-based text editor
- The Stanford Prison Experiment
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Windows Subsystem for Linux is open source (News)
Microsoft finally opens the source of WSL, Paolo Scanferla describes an inherent trade-off in TypeScript’s type system, Alberto Fortin is taking a step back from heavy LLM use while coding, a pseudonymous hacker spent two weeks coding from their Android phone, and NLWeb might become the HTML of the open agentic web.
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#define: I'm going pants (Friends)
Welcome back to #define, our game of obscure jargon, fake definitions, and expert tomfoolery. We’ve gathered some awesome friends, new and old, to see who has the best vocabulary and who can trick the everyone else into thinking that they do.
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- Outshift by Cisco – AGNTCY is an open source collective building the Internet of Agents. It’s a collaboration layer where AI agents can communicate, discover each other, and work across frameworks. For developers, this means standardized agent discovery tools, seamless protocols for inter-agent communication, and modular components to compose and scale multi-agent workflows.
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- Angelica Hill – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Matthew Sanabria – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- John Henry Müller – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, Mastodon
- Breakmaster Cylinder – Website, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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NATS and the CNCF kerfuffle (Interview)
Derek Collison — creator of NATS and Co-founder & CEO of Synadia — joins the show to dive into the origins, design, and evolution of NATS, a high-performance, open-source messaging system built for modern cloud-native systems and part of the CNCF. Derek shares the story behind NATS, what makes it unique, and unpacks the recent tensions between Synadia and the CNCF over the future of the project.
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- Derek Collison – GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- NATS.io
- Protecting NATS and the integrity of open source: CNCF’s commitment to the community
- CNCF and Synadia Align on Securing the Future of the NATS.io Project
- Synadia and the NATS project
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A critical look at MCP (News)
Rasmus Holm takes a critical look at MCP, Stefan Judis shares a new term he learned from Scott Hanselman, Raf beautifully describes the curse of knowing how, Void is an open source Cursor alternative & React Jam is back for its 6th online game jam.
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Kaizen! Tip of the Pipely (Friends)
Kaizen 19 has arrived! Gerhard has been laser-focused on making Jerod’s pipe dream a reality by putting all of his efforts into Pipely. Has it been a big waste of time or has this epic side quest morphed into a main quest?!
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Discussion #544: 🎧 Kaizen 19
- httpstat: curl statistics made simple
- Making DNSimple with Anthony Eden
- Our Slack is dead. Long live Zulip!
- flyradar: Manage your Fly.io resources in style
- oha: HTTP load generator, inspired by rakyll/hey
- Testing Varnish with varnishtest
- Hurl - Run and Test HTTP Requests
- Varnish Software Enterprise
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Building Zed's agentic editing (Interview)
Nathan Sobo is back talking about the next big thing for Zed—agentic editing! You now have a full-blown AI-native editor to play with. Collaborate with agents at 120fps in a natively multiplayer IDE.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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Firefox could be doomed (News)
The DOJ’s beef with Google might spell doom for Mozilla, Clayton Ramsey makes a plea for not using ChatGPT for writing, Tim Cook loses a big gamble, Brandon Reinhart migrates his game dev away from Rust and Bevy, and Ibrahim Diallo throws zip bombs at malicious bots.
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When life gives you LLMs... (Friends)
Our old friend, Zeno Rocha, returns to discuss email etiquette, the strange new world of AI SEO, the coming LLM enshittification, and SLATE Auto – the just-announced $20k modular EV truck.
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- Getting to Resend (Changelog Interviews #585)
- When life gives you Lemons 🍋 U make Billions 💸
- Can I email… Support tables for HTML and CSS in emails
- Email Marketing Platform | Litmus
- Profound | Optimize Your Brand’s Visibility in AI Search
- AI Product Rankings
- SLATE Auto
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Chasing that next BIG thing (Interview)
Drew Wilson is back! It’s been more than a decade since Adam and Drew have spoken and wow, Drew has been busy. He built Plasso and got acquired by GoDaddy. He built a bank called Letter which didn’t work out…and now he’s Head of Design at Clerk and back to chasing that next big thing.
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I just want to code (News)
Zach Bellay tells us about the devil and the angel on his shoulders, Pete Koomen thinks today’s AI apps are like horseless carriages, Hyperwood is an open source system for crafting furniture from simple wooden slats, Scott Antipa agrees with YAGNI but adds YAGRI & Antony Henao debunks three common myths that get engineers stuck.
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Hello, Matworld! (Friends)
Join us on a journey to make believe worlds with our good friend Mat Ryer. The assignment; we each get to make up a new world where we invent a new gadget and declare a new rule. This episode is sure to delight loyal fans and especially those who enjoy Mat Ryer on the show and a good/bad song or two.
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Make sales not features (Interview)
Kendall Miller is a bubbly extrovert who sticks his fingers in a lot of pies. He advises tech companies like FusionAuth, positions tech products like Civo & Tensorlake, organizes tech networks like CTO Lunches, and even sells whiskey & gin to tech people like us via his Friday Deployment Spirits brand. Kendall has learned a lot since he first entered the industry and he’s eager to share what he knows, and who he knows, with the world.
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Fresh beats for endless flow state (News)
We drop our fourth Changelog Beats album, Dex Horthy proposes the 12-factor AI agent, Thorsten Ball takes us step-by-step through building a coding agent, Zachary Huang builds an LLM framework in 100 lines of code & Philip Laine’s Spegel project gets unknowingly forked by Microsoft.
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Vibing into the vibe (Friends)
Nick Nisi joins us to confess his AI subscription glut, drool over some cool new hardware gadgets, discuss why the TypeScript team chose Go for their new compiler, opine on the React team’s complicated relationship with Vercel, suggest people try Astro, update us on his browser habits, and more.
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- Godwin’s law - Wikipedia
- Gitingest
- Raycast
- Maccy
- BUSY Bar
- Flipper Zero
- The Casio Secret Sender
- Game Genie - Wikipedia
- Why Go? · microsoft/typescript-go
- Astro
- Framer
- Eleventy
- Use long flags when scripting
- ZEN browser
- Apple’s Acquisition of Pixelmator is Complete
- The Dysfunctional Developer
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Making DNSimple (Interview)
Anthony Eden, Founder & CEO of DNSimple, joins the show to talk about the world of managed hosting for DNS and more.
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Google's new protocol has AI agents talkin' (News)
Google announces an open protocol for AI agent collaboration, Datastar is an Alpine.js / htmx love child, Matthias Endler documents things he finds common in the best programmers, turns out Linus Torvalds built Git in 10 days & Zev is a CLI that helps you remember (or discover) terminal commands using natural language.
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Proud pod parents (Friends)
Richard Moot joins us to discuss Changelog helping Square launch a developer pod and the excitement around MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers. What might it foretell about the future of human/robot relations?
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- The Square Developer Podcast
- Rhea Lana on Scaling a Pop-Up Business to 120 Franchises
- The Bottom Line
- Square Developer on YouTube
- Fireside Chat with Jack Dorsey & Adam Stacoviak
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The era of durable execution (Interview)
Stephan Ewen, Founder and CEO of Restate.dev joins the show to talk about the coming era of resilient apps, the meaning of and what it takes to achieve idempotency, this world of stateful durable execution functions, and when it makes sense to reach for this tech.
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The AI 2027 scenario (News)
Daniel Kokotajlo and the AI Futures Project lays out a potential scenario of superhuman AI’s impact, Liam ERD generates beautiful, interactive ER diagrams from your database, Mozilla takes on Gmail with “Thundermail”, algernon explains why grepping remains terrible & Vitor M. de Sousa Pereira rans on the insanity of being a software engineer.
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Turn him into a walrus (Friends)
Jerod turns Adam into Lego, a Walrus, and a Walrus in the style of Studio Ghibli…and so much more. This is a good one to watch on YouTube.
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Adam Pictures:
- Min Browser mentioned on Friends #76
- Introducing 4o Image Generation | OpenAI
- Lynyrd Skynyrd – That Smell Lyrics
- Show HN: I vibecoded a 35k LoC recipe app
- Recipe Ninja
- Revisit / Catch-Up Episodes
- Haml, Sass, Compass (Changelog #1)
- The Go Programming Language with Rob Pike (Changelog #3)
- Document Cloud and Underscore.js with Jeremy Ashkenas (Changelog #5)
- 10gen and MongoDB (Changelog #7)
- Interview or an ad?
- I Accidentally Became A Meme: Disaster Girl
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The 1000x faster financial database (Interview)
In July of 2020, Joran Dirk Greef stumbled into a fundamental limitation in the general-purpose database design for transaction processing. This sent him on a path that ended with TigerBeetle, a redesigned distributed database for financial transactions that yielded three orders of magnitude faster OLTP performance over the usual (general-purpose) suspects.
On this episode, Joran joins Jerod to explain how TigerBeetle got so fast, to defend its resilience and durability claims as a new market entrant, and to stake his claim at the intersection of open source and business. Oh, plus the age old question: Why Zig?
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- Notion – Notion is a place where any team can write, plan, organize, and rediscover the joy of play. It’s a workspace designed not just for making progress, but getting inspired. Notion is for everyone — whether you’re a Fortune 500 company or freelance designer, starting a new startup or a student juggling classes and clubs.
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The idealization of farming by tech (News)
Theodore Morley wonders why tech workers so frequently point our wanderlust toward hands-on trades, Eduardo Bouças explains why he’s lost confidence in Vercel’s handling of Next.js, “xan” is a command line tool that can be used to process CSV files directly from the shell, Pawel Brodzinski takes us back to Kanban’s roots & Sergey Tselovalnikov weighs in on vibe coding.
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Of agents & agency (Friends)
Long-time JS Party panelist Amal Hussein joins Jerod to catch up on her career path, to opine on the viability agentic coding, to feel all the feelings that AI brings out of us as developers, and to share something new in her life that changes everything.
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Leading leaders who lead engineers (remastered) (Interview)
This week we’re bringing you a remaster of our epic 2021interview with Lara Hogan – author of Resilient Management and management coach / trainer for the tech industry.
The majority of our conversation focuses on the four primary hats leaders and managers end up wearing; mentoring, coaching, sponsoring, and delivering feedback. We also talk about knowing when you’re ready to lead, empathy and compassion, and learning to lead.
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- An excerpt from Resilient Management on A List Apart
- Paloma Medina
- Core Needs: BICEPS
- Lara’s book
- The Manager’s Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change
- Your brain on progress – Increment
- Voltron!
- I’m a cog
- The Changelog #342: From zero to thought leader in 6 months with Emma Bostian
- Lara Hogan on mentorship and sponsorship
- What does sponsorship look like?
- Linchpin from Seth Godin
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Revenge of the junior developer (News)
Steve Yegge’s latest rant about the future of “coding”, Ethan McCue shares some life altering Postgres patterns, Hillel Wayne makes the case for Verification-First Development, Gerd Zellweger experienced lots of pain setting up GitHub Actions & Cascii is a web-based ASCII diagram builder.
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Here's my Siri theory (Friends)
Justin Searls from Breaking Change joins the show to discuss Apple’s Intelligence blunder, the end of the good times in the tech industry, and POSSE Party, his in-progress product that lets “any dummy with a website enjoy a life of algorithm-free luxury.”
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- Breaking Change
- Daring Fireball: Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino
- Michael Tsai - Blog - Rotten
- The nervous Craig Federighi’s “Back to the Mac” presentation for Apple
- This Vision Pro strap is totally globular!
- The good times in tech are over
- You’re invited to my POSSE party!
- Vision Pro Creator Taking Over Siri After Apple Intelligence Setbacks
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Securing ecommerce: "It's complicated" (Interview)
Ilya Grigorik and his team at Shopify has been hard at work securing ecommerce checkouts from sophisticated news attacks (such as digital skimming) and he’s here to share all the technical intricacies and far-reaching implications of this work.
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- Powering Shopify’s High-Performance, PCI DSS v4 Compliant Checkout with Sandboxing
- PCI Compliance: What Is It and Everything Retailers Need to Know
- PCIv4: SRI gaps and opportunities - Google Docs
- Shopify/remote-dom
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Our interfaces have lost their senses (News)
Amelia Wattenberger bemoans the computer’s great flattening, the Learnk8s team lets you manage your cluster from a spreadsheet, Jan Swist gets a surprising response from Cursor, the French and German governments team up for an open source Notion alternative & XPipe lets you access your entire server infrastructure from your local desktop.
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Friends on the frontend (Friends)
Adam’s friend on the frontend, John Long joins the show to explore his usage of AI, design tools and the stack he prefers. We talk Next.js vs Rails, maintaining open source, building websites with Framer, their mutual love for Figma, and more.
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- Opine Docs - Getting Started Guide
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Reaching industrial economies of scale (Interview)
Beyang Liu, the CTO & Co-founder of Sourcegraph is back on the pod. Adam and Beyang go deep on the idea of “industrializing software development” using AI agents, using AI in general, using code generation. So much is happening in and around AI and Sourcegraph continues to innovate again and again. From their editor assistant called Cody, to Code Search, to AI agents, to Batch Changes, they’re really helping software teams to industrialize the process, the inner and the outer loop, of being a software developer on high performance teams with large codebases.
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Everyone is talking about MCP (News)
Vibe coding is the new vibe, AI engineers are all taking about MCP, Tom Usher wants you to kill your algorithmic feeds, Curiositry shares his troubleshooting expertise, Nikola Ðuza thinks we should keep blogging for the LLMs & James Stanier answers the question, should managers still code?
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Friendly Feud: JS Party Edition (Friends)
Our award-winning JS Party game show is back with a new name, a new channel, and the same ol’ survey-response-guessing fun! The JS Party crew join us to see who knows y’all best. Survey says!
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- Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
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Antirez returns to Redis! (Interview)
Antirez has returned to Redis! Yes, Salvatore Sanfilippo (aka Antirez), the creator of Redis has returned to Redis and he joined us to share the backstory on Redis, what’s going on with the tech and the company, the possible (likely) move back to open source via the AGPL license, the new possibilities of AI and vector embeddings in Redis, and some good ’ol LLM inference discussions.
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JavaScript fatigue strikes back (News)
Allen Pike on the JavaScript ecosystem after a decade away, Lars Wirzenius was there at the birth of Linux, Piotr Migdał archives things in Markdown, Jacob Stopak is gamifying Git with Devlands & Juan Diego Rodríguez runs down how CSS functions (will) work.
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Kaizen! Pipely goes BAM (Friends)
It’s Kaizen 18! Can you believe it? We discuss the recent Fly.io outage, some little features we’ve added since our last Kaizen, our new video-first production, and of course, catch up on all things Pipely! Oh, and Gerhard surprises us (once again). BAM!
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- “Backslashes Are Trash”
- Pop!_OS by System76
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- Make it Work
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Building for application developers (Interview)
Anurag Goel, Founder/CEO of Render, joins Adam to discuss what they’re doing to solve cloud problems for application developers. They just raised $80M they don’t even need and they’re poised to solve boring problems like object storage, and less boring things like building for the AI era.
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- Changelog Interviews #621: Building the developer cloud with Kurt Mackey (CEO of Fly)
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AI killed the tech interview. Now what? (News)
Kane Narraway thinks through the radical change AI tools have brought to the technical interview process, Rhys Kentish built an app that makes him touch grass, Microsoft announced their progress on quantum computing, Chris Horsley learns about software estimations by yak shaving a washing machine install & Andreas Gohr built StumbleUpon for the IndieWeb.
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Change my mind (Friends)
Jerod and Adam use Chris Kiehl’s post on development topics he’s changed his mind on (over the last 10 years) as a proxy for discussion on dev things they HAVE and HAVE NOT changed their minds on.
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- File over app — Steph Ango
- ssh - How can I set customise settings for htop? - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
- The Cleanest Mac/PC Hybrid Desk Setup You’ve Seen by @Ludalx on YouTube
- Amy Hoy
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Programming with LLMs (Interview)
For the past year, David Crawshaw has intentionally sought ways to use LLMs while programming, in order to learn about them. He now regularly use LLMs while working and considers their benefits a net-positive on his productivity. David wrote down his experience, which we found both practical and insightful. Hopefully you will too!
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- sketch.dev
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- How Tailscale’s free plan stays free
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AI is stifling tech adoption (News)
Declan Chidlow proposes that AI is stifling tech adoption, Ariel Salminen shares 17 pieces of advice she’s learned about leading successful product teams, Benj Edwards tells the story of WikiTok, the React team sunsets Create React App & Ruben Schade says boring tech is mature, not old.
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Discovering discovery coding (Friends)
Fire up a REPL, grab your favorite Stephen King novel, and hold on to the seat of your pants! Jimmy Miller returns to reveal why, at least for some of us, discovery coding is where it’s at.
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- Blinkist
- Amazon.com: Tools Of Titans
- The best, worst codebase (Changelog Interviews #609)
- Discovery Coding
- Thinking outside the box of code (Changelog Interviews #552)
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Fostering open source culture (Interview)
Arun Gupta is back, this time with his latest book in hand titled “Fostering Open Source Culture” to share his wisdom and experiences of fostering open source culture. BTW you can use the code OSCULTURE20 to get 20% off (both print and e-book). Use this link and enjoy.
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Tech is supposed to make our lives easier (News)
Bill Maher excoriates the software industry for making our lives more difficult, two professors from the University of Washington put together a curriculum to help us manage life in the ChatGPT world, Daniel Delaney thinks deeply on chat as a dev tool UI, Benedict Evans explores our assumptions that computers be ‘correct’ & the Thoughtbot team writes up six cases when not to refactor.
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The state of homelab tech (2025) (Friends)
Techno Tim joins Adam to catch up on the state of Homelab for 2025, the state of AI at home and on-prem (AI Homelab) and where that’s heading, building a creator PC, choosing the parts for your build, GPU availability, Windows being user hostile, and why Tim is happy to be using Windows, Mac AND Linux.
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- Building My ULTIMATE Linux Workstation
- Homelab Services Tour 2025 - What am I Self-Hosting
- HomeLab Hardware Tour (Early 2025)
- Building a Low-Power, Fully Loaded Plex Server
- MacWhisper by GoodSnooze (Gumroad)
- Mel Robbins: Let Them Theory
- Changelog News - Everyone knows your location
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Build software that lasts! (Interview)
After 30+ years in the software industry, Bert Hubert has experienced a lot. He founded PowerDNS, published articles for places like IETF / IEEE, and built his own parliament monitoring system. That just scratches the surface.
Recently, Bert wrote about what it takes to build software for the long term. Let’s dig in.
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- Shifting Cyber Norms: Microsoft security POST-ing to you
- On Long Term Software Development
- Life Long Learning: Dealing With New Things
- Lawmakers use haka to protest in New Zealand’s parliament
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Everyone knows your location (News)
Tim Sh tracked himself down through in-app ads, Sniffnet comfortably monitors your Internet traffic, Cate Huston opines on what makes a good team, Victor Shepelev draws on 25 years of coding to share seven things he now knows & Grant Slatton tells you how to write a good design document.
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Over the top auth strategies (Friends)
Dan Moore from FusionAuth joins us for a wide-ranging discussion about modern auth strategies. We talk magic links, OTP, MFA, passkeys, password managers & so much more.
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- Dear new developer (Changelog Interviews #572)
- N-Acetyl Cysteine (NAC): Uses and Risks
- Authentication & User Management Software - FusionAuth
- We Don’t Want Your Password
- Magic Links Have Rough Edges, but Passkeys Can Smooth Them Over
- Passkeys for a passwordless future (Changelog Interviews #544)
- Password Safe
- Microsoft’s new password manager works across Edge, Chrome, and mobile devices
- Building A Self-hostable Product
A few more links from Dan
- Passkeys: they’re not perfect but they’re getting better
- Passkey Adoption Doubles in 2024
- WebAuthn Explained
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Turso is rewriting SQLite in Rust (Interview)
Glauber Costa, co-founder and CEO of Turso, joins us to discuss libSQL, Limbo, and how they’re rewriting SQLite in Rust. We discuss their efforts with libSQL, the challenge of SQLite being in the public domain but not being open for contribution, their choice to rewrite everything with Limbo, how this all plays into the future of the Turso platform, how they test Limbo with Deterministic Simulation Testing (DST), and their plan to replace SQLite.
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- Introducing Limbo: A Complete Rewrite of SQLite in Rust
- Limbo on GitHub
- Antithesis
- SQLite Copyright
- Upcoming Changes to the Turso Platform and Roadmap
- My Story by pthorpe92.dev
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DeepSeek-R1's epic pull request (News)
Xuan-Son Nguyen opened a low-level code PR written 99% by DeepSeek-R1, Adam Wathan announces the release of Tailwind CSS 4.0, Matheus Lima opens up the Computer Science history books to create list of influential papers, Namanyay Goel thinks AI is creating a generation of illiterate programmers & Russell Baylis shares what he’s learned about optimizing WFH lighting to reduce eye strain.
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Fallthrough & Friends (Friends)
Kris Brandow & Matthew Sanabria from Fallthrough.fm join Jerod to discuss tools we’re switching to, whether or not Go is still a great systems programming language choice, user-centric documentation, the need for archivists & more.
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- CPU.fm
- Tools Worth Changing To in 2025
- Helix
- Jujutsu
- Replacing Git with Git featuring Scott Chacon
- Reddit comment
- The Seven-Action Documentation model
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From open source to acquired (Interview)
Ashley Jeffs shares his journey with Benthos, an open source stream processor that was acquired by Redpanda. We talk about the evolution of data streaming technologies, the challenges he faced while growing the project, the decision to bootstrap versus seek venture capital, and what ultimately led to the acquisition. We discuss reactions to licensing changes, what it’s like to have your thing acquired, the challenging yet fulfilling nature of open source work, what’s next for Benthos, and what it takes to enjoy the journey.
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- Data streaming and Benthos with Mihai Todor & Ashley Jeffs (Go Time #192)
- Announcing Bento, the open source fork of the project formerly known as Benthos - WarpStream - Stream More, Manage Less
- warpstreamlabs/bento: Fancy stream processing made operationally mundane. This repository is a fork of the original project before the license was changed.
- Benthos | Benthos
- Redpanda Acquires Benthos to Deliver a Complete, End-to-End Streaming Data Platform
- redpanda-data/connect: Fancy stream processing made operationally mundane
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Make computing personal again (News)
Benj Edwards wants to put the “personal” back in “personal computer”, the answer.ai folks took Devin for a month-long spin, Asaf Zamir explains why senior engineers can remain ICs and still have a fulfilling career, Fabrizio Ferri Benedetti rethinks documentation by putting user actions first & Tero Piirainen lays out his case for Nue, the standards first web framework.
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Other people's robots (Friends)
Jerod & Adam discuss Nvidia’s recently announced personal AI supercomputer, Waymo’s latest infinite loop, what’s involved in getting a “modern” terminal setup, and whether or not AI has gone mainstream… warts & all!
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- Nvidia announces $3,000 personal AI supercomputer called Project Digits - The Verge
- We talked to the guy who was stuck in a Waymo robotaxi on a dizzying loop
- What’s involved in getting a “modern” terminal setup?
- Warp docs - Terminal features
- Connections Episode 1: The Trigger Effect : James Burke and Connections on Wikipedia
- chriskempson/base16: Not a theme, but a framework
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The world of embedded systems (Interview)
Elecia White, host of Embedded.fm and author of Making Embedded Systems, joins us to discuss all things embedded systems. We discuss programming non-computers, open source resources for embedded, self-driving cars, embedded system like the GoPro, Traeger smokers, and even birthday cards. According to Elecia, embedded is going everywhere.
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- Embedded.fm
- Making Embedded Systems: Patterns for Software Development (Amazon)
- Making Embedded Systems (ClasspertX)
- Wokwi
- MicroPython on GitHub
- Nordic Thingy:91 X – Prototyping cellular IoT and Wi-Fi locationing
- FreeRTOS
- Adafruit
- Kalman filter (Wikipedia)
- Chibitronics
- CrunchLabs
- FIRST Inspires
- Hackster.io
- Hackaday
- Instructables Circuits
- A Smart Lamp That Wakes You Up at the Optimal Time (Instructables)
- Open Source Hardware Summit (2025)
- CrowdSupply Teardown (Portland 2025)
- Hackaday SuperCon (2024)
- Hardwear.io
- Electronica
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The new $30,000 side hustle (News)
Bloomberg reports on a concerning new trend in tech hiring, Sean Goedecke has a lot to say about large established codebases, Jacob Bartlett thinks Apple is ruining Swift’s original vision, Ahmed Khaleel built a cool tool for turning GitHub repos into interactive diagrams & Bridget Harris goes deep on the potential of crypto stablecoins to disrupt Visa and Mastercard’s duopoly.
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It's a peccadillo circus (Friends)
Mat Ryer is back! He plays the piano, we tell each other truths/lies, we pay homage to the 8” floppy disk, Mat accepts an open source medal, and so much more. It’s a real circus. MatGPT!
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The power of the button (Interview)
Rachel Plotnick joins us for the first show of 2025 to discuss her book “Power Button” and the research she did, and why we love/hate buttons so much. We also discuss her upcoming book “License to Spill” as well as the research she’s doing on energy drinks.
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- Touchscreens Are Out, and Tactile Controls Are Back.
- Power Button
- License To Spill
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10 big predictions for 2025 (News)
M.G. Siegler goes way out on a limb with some BIG predictions of things that could happen this year, Simon Willison’s year-end roundup is a must-read and perhaps the only thing you have to read to get up-to-speed on the state of the LLM, Allen Pike describes a method for magic, Tom Critchlow thinks small databases are magic & James Stanier agrees with me about Parkinson’s Law and the usefulness of deadlines.
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State of the "log" 2024 (Friends)
Our 7th annual year-end wrap-up is here! We’re featuring 12 listener voicemails, dope Breakmaster Cylinder remixes & our favorite episodes of the year. Thanks for listening! 💚
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Many episodes were favorited more than once! We only list the first mention here…
AJ Kerrigan’s favs:
- We have a right to repair! with Kyle Wiens (Interviews #582)
- Building customizable ergonomic keyboards with Erez Zukerman (Interviews #608)
- Open source threaded team chat?! with Alya Abbott (Interviews #607)
Erno Voutilainen’s favs:
- Retirement is for suckers with Cameron Seay (Friends #36)
- #define: legendary with Thomas Eckert, Nick Nisi & Mat Ryer (Friends #47)
- Two tickets for Departure, please with Helena Zhang & Tobias Fried (Interviews #618)
Don Mackinnon’s favs:
- From Chef to System Initiative featuring Adam Jacob (Friends #55)
- Rails is having a moment (again) with DHH (Interviews #615)
Brett Cannon’s favs:
- From Sun to Oxide with Bryan Cantrill (Interviews #592)
- Free-threaded Python with Pablo & Łukasz (Interviews #611)
- Gradually gradually typing Elixir featuring José Valim (Friends #28)
- Linux distros with Jorge Castro (Ship It! #122)
- Let’s talk FreeBSD (finally) with Allan Jude (Interviews #574)
- The Oban Pros with Shannon & Parker Selbert (Friends #35)
- Why we need Ladybird with Andreas Kling & Chris Wanstrath (Interviews #604)
- Retired, not tired. with Kelsey Hightower (Interviews #595)
Nabeel Sulieman’s favs:
- The Moneyball approach with John Nunemaker (Interviews #612)
- Into the Bobiverse featuring Dennis E. Taylor (Interviews #603)
Rusty Nail’s favs:
- Lessons from 10k hours of programming (Remastered) with Matt Rickard (Interviews #613)
- “Founder Mode” at work when you’re not a founder (Go Time #332)
- The best, worst codebase with Jimmy Miller (Changelog Interviews #609)
- Bus factors & conspiracy theories (Friends #70)
Jamie Tanna’s favs:
- Yeeting stuff into public with Jamie Tanna (Friends #31)
- OpenAPI & API design with Jamie Tanna (Go Time #328)
- 1999: A Film Odyssey (Changelog++ 🔐) (Friends ++)
- Hack Club takes to the High Seas featuring Acon (Interviews #620)
- Gotta give to get back with Danny Thompson @ THAT (Interviews #617)
Jerod’s favs:
- We ain’t afraid of no Ghostty! with Mitchell Hashimoto (Interviews #622)
- Kaizen! NOT a pipe dream with Gerhard Lazu (Friends #50)
- You have how many open tabs?! featuring the hallway track at THAT (Friends #29)
- Future of [energy, content, food] featuring the hallway track at THAT (Friends #30)
- The man behind the Sandwich featuring Adam Lisagor (Interviews #601)
- Starbucks DVD peddlers with Emily Freeman & Justin Garrison (Friends #60)
Adam’s favs:
- In the beginning (of generative AI) with Joe Reis (Interviews #576)
- Shift left, seriously. with Deepak Prabhakara & Schalk Neethling (Interviews #575)
Also mentioned:
- Prime Digital Academy
- Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) - IMDb
- The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) - IMDb
- Jump Around - Wikipedia
- FreeBSD At 30: The History And Future Of The Most Popular BSD-Based OS
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We ain't afraid of no Ghostty! (Interview)
Mitchell Hashimoto joins the show to discuss Ghostty, the newest terminal in town. Mitchell co-founded HashiCorp, took it all the way to IPO, exited in 2023—and now he’s working on a terminal emulator called Ghostty. Ghostty is set to 1.0 this month, so we sat down to talk through all the details.
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- First episode with Mitchell Hashimoto! Changelog Interviews #72: Vagrant and virtualized environments
- Ghostty 1.0 is Coming and more at Ghostty 👻.
- Zig - Zig is a general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal and reusable software.
- Warp
- Changelog & Friends #53: There’s a TUI for that
- Changelog Interviews #511: The terminal as a platform
- Changelog Interviews #555: Back to the terminal of the future
- Michael Flarup runs Pixel Resort and created the Ghostty icon
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The code, prose & pods that shaped 2024 (News)
This episodes diverges from our traditional fare. I’ve reviewed the 50 previous editions and picked (IMHO) the coolest code, best prose & my favorite podcast episode from each month!
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Kaizen! Three wise men? (Friends)
Gerhard is back for Kaizen 17! We discuss our CPU.fm changes in-depth, detail new Zulip / Neon integrations & put our Pipedream to the test. Oh, and a Gerhard surprise (of course)!
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- Discussion #525: 🎧 Kaizen 17
- iA Presenter
- A new era for the Changelog Podcast Universe (CPU.fm)
- #533: Enable team members to replace changelog_dev with a prod db dump
- #534: Enable team members to run dev with a Neon db branch
- Get started with 1Password CLI
- thechangelog/pipedream
- Namespace – Accelerate your developer workflow
- Hurl - Run and Test HTTP Requests
- vcr/vcr: Record and reply your test suite’s HTTP interactions
- pipely.tech
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Building the developer cloud (Interview)
Kurt Mackey is back for a deep dive into what it takes to build the developer cloud. Kurt joins Adam to discuss the alliance between companies and cloud, something Kurt refers to as the “Rebel Alliance,” cloud complexity vs usability, Fly’s future with Postgres and why they’ve waited, thoughts on Neon and Supabase (Kurt shares a hot take), and our CDN saga and plan to build a simple CDN on Fly called Pipely (still a Pipedream).
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- Neon
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- Percona
- vantage.sh/cloud-cost-report
- Pipedream
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A new era for the Changelog Podcast Universe (News)
We’re making some big Changelog changes in 2025, the previously featured Stanford study on ghost engineers doesn’t live up to the hype, Git ingest is a simple service that turns any GitHub repository into a simple text ingest of its codebase, Simon Willison dishes out some hard-earned wisdom he acquired by working at Lanyrd / Eventbrite & Matheus Lima warns us about six mistakes that new managers make.
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ShopTalk & Friends (Friends)
Chris Coyier and Dave Rupert join Adam and Jerod for a ShopTalk & Friends conversation on the viability of the web, making content, ads to support that content, Codepen’s future plans, books, side quests, and social networks devaluing links.
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Big news - A new era for the Changelog Podcast Universe and CPU.fm launches in 2025.
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Hack Club takes to the High Seas (Interview)
Jerod is joined by Hack Clubber Acon, who is fresh off the GitHub Universe stage and ready to tell us all about High Seas, a new initiative by Zach Latta and the Hack Club crew that’s incentivizing teens to build cool personal projects by giving away free stuff.
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- How do you do, fellow Hack Clubbers? (Changelog Interviews #536)
- High Seas | Hack Club
- Apocalypse: Toronto’s zombified high school hackathon!
- Celeste
- Nitro Type | Competitive Typing Game | Race Your Friends
- Secret of Mana - Wikipedia
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If not React, then what? (News)
Alex Russell answers the question, “If not React, then what?” Csaba Okrona identifies four core problems that create and reinforce knowledge silos, Rob Koch’s Markwhen is like Markdown for timelines, Jeff Geerling is quite impressed by Apple’s latest iteration on the Mac mini & Sylvain Kerkour took the time to draw a comparison of Amazon’s O.G. S3 service with Cloudflare’s R2 competitor.
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Let's archive the web (Interview)
Nick Sweeting joins Adam and Jerod to talk about the importance of archiving digital content, his work on ArchiveBox to make it easier, the challenges faced by Archive.org and the Wayback Machine, and the need for both centralized and distributed archiving solutions.
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- ArchiveBox
- ArchiveBox/abx-dl
- ArchiveBox/abx-pkg
- So you want to build a social network?
- The Internet Archive Loses Its Appeal of a Major Copyright Case
- Hachette v. Internet Archive | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Fahrenheit 451 - Wikipedia
- Winamp Skin Museum
- Fiscal Sponsorship – Hack Club
- DigestBox
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Waymos make bad neighbors (Changelog++ 🔐) (Friends)
Adam & Jerod hallway-track-it before our All Things Open interviews. We discuss the trend in rebooting old school vehicles, our likes & dislikes of EVs, the Hummer’s new crab walk, Tesla’s gambit & more (This episode is for Changelog++ ears only.)
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- Scout Revival - YouTube
- “Push the Button” - YouTube
- Lidar - Wikipedia
- SUDDAR | Bobiverse Wiki
- Waymos make bad neighbors - YouTube
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Busting the ghost engineers (0.1x-ers) (News)
Ben Affleck’s take on AI replacing actors, Stanford researcher (Yegor Denisov-Blanch) busts the ghost engineers, Electrobun takes a crack at Electron apps, April King opens up a cookies can of worms, John Arundel thinks many of us are making a career ending mistake & Typogram’s CodingFont.com is like Zoolander’s Walk Off but for coding fonts.
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Local-first, y/n? (Friends)
Our friends Johannes Schickling & James Long join us to discuss the movement of local-first, its pros and cons, the tradeoffs, and the path to the warming waters of mostly local apps.
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- James’ local-first post
- Bear - Markdown Notes
- livestorejs · GitHub
- ElectricSQL | Postgres sync engine
- Overtone
- Zero Sync
- Automerge CRDT
- Jazz - Build local-first apps
- localfirst.fm
- Ink & Switch define “Local-first software”
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Two tickets for Departure, please (Interview)
Today we’re joined by a dynamic duo, Helena Zhang & Tobias Fried, who team up on all sorts of digital passion projects. This includes the wildly popular Phosphor Icons plus their latest joint, Departure Mono, a monospaced pixel font with a lo-fi technical vibe… that both Adam & Jerod are pretty much in love with. We discuss their tastes & inspirations, how they collab, making money on passion projects like these, velvet ropes & so much more.
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Project sites
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AI makes tech debt more expensive (News)
Evan Doyle says AI makes tech debt more expensive, Hunter Ng researches the ghost job ad phenomenon, Gavin Anderegg analyzes Bluesky in light of its recent success, Martin Tournoij rants against best practices & Evan Schwartz tells us why he thinks binary vector embeddings are so cool.
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Bus factors & conspiracy theories (Friends)
Adam & Jerod discuss the news! Our Merch sale, useful built-in macOS CLI utilities, the slow death of the hyperlink, systematically estimating a project’s bus factor, The Browser Company abandoning Arc, the Dead Internet theory & more!
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- All Things Open AI Conference
- The Internet Archive is back as a read-only service after cyberattacks
- Useful built-in macOS command-line utilities
- The slow death of the hyperlink
- The github plugin my coworkers asked me not to write.
- The Bus Factor | MClare Blog
- A Novel Approach for Estimating Truck Factors
- Glass Onion (2022) - IMDb
- Knives Out (2019) - IMDb
- Arc is a dead browser walking (How-To Geek)
- Better version of the same story (via The Verge)
- You should go to conferences
Links we didn’t get to
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Gotta give to get back (Interview)
We’re on the main stage at THAT Conference with Danny Thompson. He has an amazing story and journey into tech. Thanks to our friends at Cloudflare for helping us get to THAT Conference earlier this year to enable this conversation.
Special thanks to Nick Nisi and Clark Sell for coming in clutch and getting us the audio to ship this show!
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The democratization of spreadsheets (News)
Changelog Merch is now on sale, IronCalc sets out to democratize spreadsheets, Grant Slatton writes about algorithms we develop software by, Mark Rainey gives respect to the ultimate in debugging, Gitpod is leaving Kubernetes & Johannes Kaufmann’s html-to-markdown converts entire websites into Markdown.
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ANTHOLOGY – Self-hosted, self-confident & self-employed (Friends)
We take you one last time back to the All Things Open 2024 hallway track to talk with some friends, new & old. We speak with Alex Kretzchmar about self-hosting. We speak with Israa Taha about self-confidence. We speak with Avindra Fernando & Adhithi Ravichandran about self-employment.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- Self-hosted media server goodness (Changelog & Friends #44)
- Self-Hosted Show
- Nix & NixOS
- Self-Hosted 133: No Google October
- Perplexica is an AI-powered search engine
- Foo Camp - Wikipedia
- BarCamp - Wikipedia
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ANTHOLOGY — Packages, pledges & protocols (Interview)
The hallway track at All Things Open 2024 — features Carl George, Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat for a discussion on the state of open source enterprise linux and RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux), Max Howell, creator of Homebrew and tea.xyz which offers rewards and recognition to open source maintainers, and Chad Whitacre, Head of Open Source at Sentry about the launch of Open Source Pledge and their plans to helps businesses and orgs to do the right thing and support open source.
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Tactile controls are back in vogue (News)
IEEE Spectrum reports on the return to physical buttons and dials, Microsoft released GenAIScript, iFixit’s Elizabeth Chamberlain announces a big Right to Repair win, Daniela Baron reimagines technical interviews & John O’Nolan, shares some thoughts on open source governance and how to create trust within technology, communities, and media
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Wine Web and a whole lot of Whatnot (Friends)
We join the Whiskey Web and Whatnot podcast live from the hallway track at All Things Open 2024. Topics include: Chianti, content creation, open source, fake jobs, cancel culture, Silicon Valley (ding), frontend frustrations, the Roman empire & more.
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Rails is having a moment (again) (Interview)
(Includes expletives) David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH), creator of Ruby on Rails and co-owner of 37signals, joined the show to discuss this Rails moment and renewed excitement for Rails. We discuss hard opinions, developers being cooked too long in the JavaScript soup, finding developer joy, the pros and cons of the BDFL, the ongoing WordPress drama with WP Engine, and what’s to come in Rails 8.
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- Rails World 2024 Keynote - David Heinemeier Hansson
- What’s New in Ruby on Rails 8
- Rails is leaning hard into SQLite right now
- The Empowered Programmer (Justin Searls) - Rails World 2024
- Kamal - Deploy web apps anywhere
- LiteFS - Distributed SQLite
- Turso - libsql
- RubyGems.org
- Automattic is doing open source dirty
- Matt’s “Response to DHH”
- Capture less than you create
- My Freedom of Speech
- Open Source and Power with Matt Mullenweg (Rework podcast)
- Breaking Camp
- Our cloud-exit savings will now top ten million over five years
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Developing with Docker (the right way) (News)
Daniel Quinn weighs in on how to develop with Docker The Right Way, Mitchell Hashimoto says Ghostty will be publicly released this coming December, Kevin Li writes about the value of learning how to learn, The Browser Company moves on from Arc & the React Native team ships its new architecture.
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Ten years of freeCodeCamp (Friends)
At the tail end of 2019, we got together with Quincy Larson to celebrate ten years of Changelog & five years of freeCodeCamp by recording back-to-back episodes on each other’s pods. Can you believe it’s now five years later and we’re all still here doing our thing?! Let’s learn what Quincy and the amazing community at freeCodeCamp have been up to!
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Five years of freeCodeCamp (Changelog Interviews #369)
- Ten years of Changelog (Backstage #9)
- How to Learn to Code and Get a Developer Job [Full Book]
- Learn to Code RPG – A Visual Novel Video Game Where you Learn Computer Science Concepts
- podcast - freeCodeCamp.org
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Elasticsearch is open source, again (Interview)
Shay Banon, the creator of Elasticsearch, joins us to discuss pulling off a reverse rug pull. Yes, Elasticsearch is open source, again! We discuss the complexities surrounding open source licensing and what made Elastic change their license, the implications of trademark law, the personal and business impact of moving away from open source, and ultimately what made them hit rewind and return to open source.
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- Elasticsearch Is Open Source. Again!
- Changelog Interviews #429: Community perspectives on Elastic vs AWS
- Why we had to change Elastic licensing
- Changelog Interviews #578: What exactly is Open Source AI?
- Drafts of the Open Source AI Definition
- Llama.com
- “Llama the leading open source model family”
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Naming conventions that need to die (News)
Will Crichton wishes some naming conventions would die already, GitHub user brjsp noticed that Bitwarden’s new SDK dependency isn’t open source, Joaquim Rocha details his forking best practices, Sophie Koonin explains why you should go to conferences & Mike Hoye puts WordPress on SQLite.
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You'll rent chips and be happy (Friends)
Zac Smith left his role leading Equinix Metal in June of 2023. Since then, he’s been thinking deeply about the present and potential future of data centers, OEMs, chip makers & more.
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- Building on global bare metal (Founders Talk #84)
- Whiplash (2014) - IMDb
- You’ll own nothing and be happy - Wikipedia
- From Sun to Oxide (Changelog Interviews #592)
- We have a right to repair! (Changelog Interviews #582)
- SSI Alliance
- Three Mile Island nuclear power plant will reopen for Microsoft
- Ethical Hacker Warns: Check Your Charger ASAP & What Happens After Clicking Adult Sites
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Lessons from 10k hours of programming (remastered) (Interview)
This week we’re going back in time to one of our top performing shows of all time where we talk with Matt Rickard about his blog post Reflections on 10,000 Hours of Programming. These reflections are about deliberately writing code for 10,000 hours. Most don’t apply to beginners. He was clear to mention that these reflections are purely about coding, not career advice or soft skills. If you count the reflections we cover on the show and be the first to comment the amount of reflections on this thread in Zulip, we’ll give you a coupon code to use for a 100% free t-shirt from the merch store. Good luck…
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- Reflections on 10,000 Hours of Programming
- Heptagon of Configuration
- Linux Kernel Docs on commenting
- Ahmad Nassri on JS Party
- Todo or Die - Python Edition
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Working from home is powering productivity (News)
Nicholas Bloom finds WFH is powering a productivity boom, Matt Mullenweg has decided that WP Engine’s beatings will continue until morale improves, Levels.fyi has added a salary heat map, Gareth Edwards highlights just how fragile the Internet really is & Artem Zakirullin details how cognitive load is what really matters in software development.
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The indispensable cog (Friends)
Go Time co-host, Johnny Boursiquot, joins Adam & Jerod to discuss not making the (first) cut, applying Founder Mode, being a cog (or not), realizing that companies are posting fake engineering jobs & the (maybe) imminent demise of the .io TLD.
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- Hugh Glass - Wikipedia
- 300 multiple choices (Go Time #300)
- Learn Go with Johnny
- “Founder Mode” at work when you’re not a founder (Go Time #332)
- I’m a cog.
- Ask HN: Who is pretending to be hiring?
- The Disappearance of an Internet Domain
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The Moneyball approach (Interview)
John Nunemaker joins us to share his new thesis for acquiring Rails based SaaS apps. He’s early days on his next big thing called Very Good Software and recently acquired Fireside, a podcast hosting service started by Dan Benjamin. This comes after many years since John’s acquisition of a lifetime of Speakerdeck to GitHub, which laid the foundation for these moves.
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The slow death of the hyperlink (News)
A bias against hyperlinking has developed on platforms, GitHub engineering continues to evolve Issues, Evan You announces VoidZero, some companies are only pretend hiring & Klaas van Schelven asks: does it scale (down)?
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Developer (un)happiness (Friends)
Abi Noda, co-founder and CEO at DX, joins the show to talk through data shared from the Stack Overflow 2024 Developer Survey, why devs are really unhappy, and what they’re doing at DX to help orgs and teams to understand the metrics behind their developer’s happiness and productivity.
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- Abi leads DX - The developer intelligence platform
- Stack Overflow 2024 Developer Survey
- Insights from the 2024 Developer Survey
- Changelog.com News 106
- 80% of developers are unhappy. The problem is not AI, nor is coding (shiftmag.dev)
- The One Number You Need to Increase ROI per Engineer (getdx.com)
- Measuring developer productivity with the DX Core 4 (getdx.com)
- @addyosmani - Good code is like a love letter
- Brian Reagan on pain
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Free-threaded Python (Interview)
Jerod is joined by the co-hosts of core.py , Pablo Galindo & Łukasz Langa, a podcast about Python internals by people who work on Python internals. Python 3.13 is right around the corner, which means the Global Interpeter Lock (GIL) is now experimentally optional! This is a huge deal as Python is finally free-threaded. There’s more to discuss, of course, so we get into all the gory details.
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- core.py
- What’s New In Python 3.13
- Free-threaded compatibility status tracking
- 🧵 Free-Threaded Wheels
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Display custom maps on your website for free (News)
OpenFreeMap puts OpenStreetMap data on your website for free, Fatih Arslan builds a Dieter Rams inspired iPhone dock, Joseph Gentle thinks the Rust programming language feels like a first-gen product & the web dev community is debating the viability of Web Components once again.
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The wrong place to slap a person (Friends)
Nick Nisi joins Adam and Jerod to talk about Karaoke, ARC and the business model of web browsers, this WordPress drama, and an epic bonus for Changelog ++ subscribers.
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- Zulip with us!
- Enchanted iOS / macOS app
- Ollama
- Tuning a guitar with ChatGPT
- Arc CVE
- Pocket Casts iOS
- WP Engine is not WordPress
- WP Engine Cease and Desist (PDF)
- Automattic sends WP Engine its own cease-and-desist | TechCrunch
- WP Engine is banned from WordPress.org
- WP Engine is not WordPress
- Matt Talks About WordPress Situation
- These responses are like whoa
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Leveling up JavaScript with Deno 2 (Interview)
Jerod is joined by Ryan Dahl to discuss his second take on leveling up JavaScript developers all around the world. Jerod asks Ryan why not try to fix or fork Node instead of starting fresh, how Deno (the open source project) can avoid the all too common rug pull (not cool) scenario, what’s new in Deno 2 & their pragmatic decision to support npm, they talk JSR, they talk Deno KV & SQLite, they even talk about Ryan’s open letter to Oracle in an attempt to free the unused “JavaScript” trademark from the giant’s clutches.
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- Node.js: The Documentary - YouTube
- From Node.js to Deno: How It All Began - YouTube
- 10 Things I Regret About Node.js - YouTube
- JSR: the JavaScript Registry
- rusty_v8: Rust bindings for the V8 JavaScript engine
- JavaScript™ (Dear Oracle)
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Imagine Fly.io on your own VPS (News)
Mahmoud Mousa releases Sidekick, a tool for hosting side projects on a cheap VPS, Ryan Dahl, has had enough of Oracle bogarting “JavaScript” but not even using it, Thomas Rampelberg’s kty is a sweet terminal for Kubernetes, Redis users are considering alternatives after their relicense & a bunch of smart JS folks wrote up nine Node.js pillars.
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Kaizen! Just do it (Friends)
Gerhard Lazu joins us for Kaizen 16! Our Pipe Dream™️ is becoming a reality, our custom feeds are shipping, our deploys are rolling out faster & our tooling is getting just right.
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- Discussion #520: 🎧 Kaizen 16
- github.com/thechangelog/pipedream
- 🎬 Why we started building our single-purpose CDN for changelog.com
- Join us in Zulip
- Namespace – Accelerate your developer workflow
- Setup the app locally with just one command: just contribute #521
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The best, worst codebase (Interview)
Jimmy Miller talks to us about his experience with a legacy codebase at his first job as a programmer. The codebase was massive, with hundreds of thousands of lines of C# and Visual Basic, and a database with over 1,000 columns. Let’s just say Jimmy got into some stuff. There’s even a Gilfoyle involved. This episode is all about his adventures while working there.
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- The best, worst codebase
- Join our Zulip (It’s better than Slack)
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Why GitHub actually won (News)
Scott Chacon writes up his insider take on GitHub’s success, Sentry wants other companies to take the Open Source Pledge, Benj Edwards used AI to reproduce his late father’s handwriting, Dave Kiss explains the current hype that PHP is getting & Taylor Otwell raises $57 million series A from Accel.
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Reverse rug pull, so cool? (Friends)
Jerod & Adam share our Zulip first impressions, react to Elasticsearch going open source (again), discuss Christian Hollinger’s blog post on why he still self-hosts & answer a listener question: how do we produce podcasts?
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- All Things Open 2024
- Elasticsearch is Open Source, Again
- Elastic’s return to open source
- Why I still self host my servers (and what I’ve recently learned)
- Is Linux collapsing under its own weight? (Changelog News #111)
- We take requests!
- Grafana’s Big Tent
- Riverside: HD Podcast & Video Software
- Kaizen! Four PRs, one big feature (Ship It! #70)
- A guided tour through ID3 esoterica (Changelog Interviews #508)
- A Nick-level emergency (JS Party #333)
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Building customizable ergonomic keyboards (Interview)
Erez Zukerman shares the story of launching the ErgoDox EZ on Indiegogo (May 2015), what it takes to create customizable ergonomic keyboards, the benefits of split keyboards and custom key layouts, repairability and longevity, community engagement, and the attention to detail required in everything they create. We talk through their keyboard lineup, our personal experience with how we mouse and keyboard…we cover it all.
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- ErgoDox EZ
- Changelog Interviews #582: We have a right to repair! with Kyle Wiens (iFixit)
- FairPhone
- ZSA.io
- DIY trackpad for the Voyager
- How to spray paint your keyboard
- ZSA cards
- Linus Tech Tips - Ergodox EZ Review
- Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic Keyboard
- Pagat.com - A website dedicated to cards and card games.
- Ergodox EZ on Indiegogo
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Is Linux collapsing under its own weight? (News)
A Rust for Linux developer resigns amidst rising tension in the Linux community, Bret Victor shows off what he’s been working on for years, Rachel (by the bay) laments how useless “SRE” has become as a role, Doug Turnbull makes the case for hiring junior devs & Baldur Bjarnason says the LLM honeymoon phase is about to end.
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Starbucks DVD peddlers (Friends)
Emily Freeman joins the show alongside our Ship It co-host, Justin Garrison! We hear Emily’s burnout story & learn how she and Forrest Brazeal are putting tech-focused influencers on tap. But first: area code turf wars, bad movie reboots & buying used DVDs… at Starbucks?!
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- 1999: A Film Odyssey (Changelog++ 🔐)
- The Andromeda Strain
- Song Encoder: Forrest Brazeal
- freeman + forrest
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Open source threaded team chat?! (Interview)
We’re joined by Alya Abbott from Zulip, the open source, organized, threaded, team chat for distributed teams of all sizes. We talk about Zulip’s origins, how it’s open source, the way it’s led, no VC funding, what makes it different/better, how you can self-host it or use their cloud, moving to Zulip, contributing and being a part of the community…all the things.
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- Zulip - the open source, organized, threaded, team chat for distributed teams of all sizes
- chat.zulip.org
- Moving to Zulip
- zulip/zulip-terminal
- zulip/docker-zulip
- Flutter.dev
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Cursor wants to write all the world's code (News)
The Cursor AI code editor raises $60 million, RedMonk’s Rachel Stephens tries to determine if rug pulls are worth it, Caleb Porzio details how he made $1 million on GitHub Sponsors, Elastic founder Shay Banon announces that Elasticsearch is open source (again) & Tomas Stropus writes about the art of finishing.
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#define: piggyback (Friends)
What happens when you take two #define champs (Taylor Troesh, Thomas Eckert), a grizzled veteran (Adam Stacoviak), a british bard (Mat Ryer), a PhD (Carol Lee) & you pit them against each other in a game of fake tech definitions?! There’s only one way to find out…
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Reinventing Kafka on object storage (Interview)
Ryan Worl, Co-founder and CTO at WarpStream, joins us to talk about the world of Kafka and data streaming and how WarpStream redesigned the idea of Kafka to run in modern cloud environments directly on top of object storage. Last year they posted a blog titled, “Kafka is dead, long live Kafka” that hit the top of Hacker News to put WarpStream on the map. We get the backstory on Kafka and why it’s so widely used, who created it and for what purpose, and the behind the scenes on all things WarpStream.
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- Kafka is dead, long live Kafka
- Apache Kafka - open-source distributed event streaming platform used by thousands of companies for high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration, and mission-critical applications.
- Current 2024
- Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka
- Bobby Brown - My Prerogative
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What good programmers worry about (News)
Waymo cars make bad neighbors, Leonardo Creed pulls together wisdom from Linus Torvalds & the Art of Unix Programming to conclude what good programmers worry about, Max Schmitt makes the argument that toast notifications create a bad user experience, ChartDB is a web-based database diagramming editor, Simon Tatham makes a list of code review anti-patterns & scientists confirm that ‘flow state’ is very much a thing.
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The great escape room (Friends)
Adam & Jerod catch up with our ol’ friend, Suz Hinton! It’s been a couple years since Suz was a regular on JS Party. Since then, she moved back to Australia, earned a degree in cyber security & won a fidget spinner from the NSA… but that’s not all!
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- Suz on Changelog pods
- Suz on freeCodeCamp pod
- Suz Live coding: OSCON edition
- Lego Cooking - YouTube
- New Kids On The Block - Hangin’ Tough - YouTube
- NSA Codebreaker Challenge
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Flavors of Ship It! (Interview)
Flavors of Ship It on The Changelog — if you’re not subscribed to Ship It yet, do so at shipit.show or by searching for “Ship it” wherever you listen to podcasts. Every week Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash explore everything that happens after git push — and today’s flavors include running infrastructure in space, managing millions of machines at Meta, and what it takes to control your 3D printer with OctoPrint.
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- Gina Häußge – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon
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- Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
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This episode is from these original episodes of Ship it:
- Ship It! #92: Shipping in SPAAAACCEEE with Andrew Guenther from Orbital Sidekick
- Ship It! #102: Managing Meta’s millions of machines with Anita Zhang from Meta
- Ship It! #107: 3D printed infrastructure with Gina Häußge from OctoPrint
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Practices of reliable software design (News)
Chris Stjernlöf got nerd-sniped and ended up writing down his practices of reliable software design, Ben Visness has had enough with the npm community’s propensity to pull in micro-libraries to suit every need, “Stay SaaSy” makes three metaphors for problem solving categories, Troy Hunt takes us inside the “3 billion people” National Public Data breach & Dasel is one data tool to rule them all.
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The Winamp era (Friends)
You won’t believe the bizarre secrets Jordan Eldredge found investigating corrupt Winamp skins (#7 will shock you)! You also won’t believe how long we can wax nostalgic about the era of Napster, Aladdin & Pearl Jam.
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- Webamp.org
- The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins
- Mainlining Nostalgia: Making the Winamp Skin Museum
- The Winamp Skin Museum is powered by an sqlite3 database
- Winamp Skin Museum
- AC/DC - Back In Black (Official 4K Video) - YouTube
- Tom Waits - “Alice” - YouTube
- A 1979 Tom Waits interview : r/OldSchoolCool
- Led Zeppelin - Black Dog (Official Audio) - YouTube
- Led Zeppelin IV - Wikipedia
- Jain - Makeba (Official Video) - YouTube
- One Jump Ahead - YouTube
- Justin Frankel - Wikipedia
- All Apologies - YouTube
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Why we need Ladybird (Interview)
Andreas Kling and Chris Wanstrath have joined forces to form a non-profit called Ladybird Browser Initiative to manage the newly forked Ladybird browser. We discuss what it’s going to take to get to alpha, the why behind Ladybird, avoiding incentives other than those of the users, their plans for incremental adoption of Swift as the successor language over C++, and of course what they hope Ladybird can achieve as a truly independent open source browser that’s for the people.
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- Ladybird announcement (from Chris Wanstrath)
- Ladybird.org
- Ladybird Browser (on GitHub)
- The Changelog #10: All things GitHub with Chris Wanstrath
- Changelog Interviews #554: The serenity of building your own OS with Andreas Kling
- Swift.org
- Crafting Interpreters by Robert Nystrom (book)
- Click (2006) Official Trailer (from Adam Sandler)
- Plug: Void.dev
- Plug: Andreas Kling on YouTube
- Plug: Cozy lofi from Katalin Kult (ghost whiskers)
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The best, worst codebase (News)
Jimmy Miller tells us about the best, worst codebase he’s ever seen, The Phylum Research Team follows up on the great npm garbage patch, Zach Leatherman logs his findings on sneaky serverless costs, David Cain wants you to go on quests instead of goals & Ashley Janssen gives us szeven rules for effective meeting culture.
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Picking a database should be simple (Friends)
Database aficionado, Ben Johnson, joins Jerod to answer the age ol’ question: which database should you use? Answering that isn’t always easy, which means it’s time to play the “It Depends” jingle & weigh (some of) the options.
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- Jepsen - Consistency Models
- LiteFS
- litestream
- rqlite
- BoltDB, InfluxDB, Key-Value Databases with Ben Johnson (Changelog Interviews #170)
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Into the Bobiverse (Interview)
Dennis E. Taylor joins the show to take us “Into the Bobiverse” and other books he’s written. Dennis shares the backstory on how he went from programmer to author/writer and creator of Audible’s Best Science Fiction Book of 2016, his process for iterating and developing the story as he writes, plans for a Bobiverse movie, and what’s next in book 5 coming out in September 2024.
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- We Are Legion (We Are Bob) - on Audible
- Not Till We Are Lost - on Audible
- Feedback - on Audible
- Xprize - Deep Tech + Quantum
- Self-replicating spacecraft on Wikipedia
- Hard science fiction on Wikipedia
- Dennis E. Taylor on Wikipedia
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80% of professional programmers are unhappy (News)
The latest Stack Overflow Developer Survey has some concerning results, Joeri Sebrechts helps you do plain vanilla web dev, MIT’s “missing semester” course looks pretty amazing, a dive into the fascinating history of CSV & a tool to get request analytics from the nginx access logs.
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From Chef to System Initiative (Friends)
Adam Jacob goes solo with Adam for an epic pod into his journey to get to System Initiative. From SysAdmin at 8 years old, to discovering Linux and working for Mom-and-pop ISPs, to open source changing his life and starting Opscode and building Chef. Buckle up. This is a different flavor of “Friends” for you. Enjoy.
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- Ximian
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- I’ll Devour You! (I shall look forward to the fight)
- RIP Ezra Zygmuntowicz
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Open is the way (Interview)
Joseph Jacks (JJ) is back! We discuss the latest in COSS funding, his thesis for investing in commercial open source companies, the various rug pulls happening out there in open source licensing, and Zuck/Meta’s generosity releasing Llama 3.1 as “open source.”
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- OSS Capital
- Changelog Interviews #320: Venture capital meets commercial OSS
- Mark Zuckerberg on Llama 3.1, Open Source, AI Agents, Safety, and more
- Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s AI Era
- Open Source AI Is the Path Forward
- Just realized that I’ve led 37 rounds of funding at incorporation where OSS Capital was the first investor on the cap table…
- Silicon Valley! Jian Yang’s New Pied Piper scene
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The Swiss government goes open source (News)
The Switzerland federal government requires releasing its software as open source, Google decides not to deprecate third-party cookies, Mark Zuckerberg says “open source” AI is the path forward, GitHub allows anyone access to deleted / private repository data & Tailscale wants to build a New Internet.
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The BSOD CrowdStrikes back (Friends)
Robert Ross joins us in CrowdStrike’s wake to dissect the largest outage in the history of information technology… and what it means for the future of the (software) world.
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- Inside the 78 minutes that took down millions of Windows machines
- How the CrowdStrike outage unfolded — a timeline
- Nick Burns, Your Company’s Computer Guy
- Real men test in production… The truth about the CrowdStrike disaster
- No More Blue Fridays
- House committee calls on CrowdStrike CEO to testify on global outage
- CrowdStrike CEO called to testify to Congress over cybersecurity’s firm role in global tech outage
- Beyond the Headlines: The Unsung Art of Software Outage Management
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The man behind the Sandwich (Interview)
Adam Lisagor (Sandwich Video founder) takes us behind the Sandwich to share his insights into the importance of storytelling in the tech industry, the value of helping Founders communicate their stories effectively, the details behind his new AI company, and the apps he’s making for Apple Vision Pro at Sandwich Vision.
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- Sandwich (Video)
- useful.computer - The AI app/company Adam and Beamer are working on
- Sandwich Vision - Television and Theater apps for Apple Vision Pro
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Southwest flies high over CrowdStrike outage (News)
Brendan Gregg details how eBPF can help us have no more blue Fridays, Misty De Meo thinks GitHub is starting to feel like legacy software, Gavin D. Howard does not want Rust to be used for everything, The Notion team published a deep dive into how they used the WASM version of SQLite to improve browser performance & Gregor Ojstersek writes up how to build good relationships inside and outside your engineering teams.
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There’s a TUI for that (Friends)
Nick Janetakis is back and this time we’re talking about TUIs (text-based user interfaces) — some we’ve tried and some we plan to try. All are collected from Justin Garrison’s Awesome TUIs repo on GitHub. This episode is “AI free.”
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- Justin Garrison’s awesome-tuis repo
- aristocratos/bashtop - Linux/OSX/FreeBSD resource monitor
- aristocratos/btop - A monitor of resources
- “Getting started with tmux” on YouTube
- Changelog Interviews #511: The terminal as a platform (with Will McGugan)
- LazyDocker - manage everything Docker
- Superfile - fancy and modern terminal file manager
- Ranger - VIM-inspired filemanager
- Elia - TUI for interacting with large language models
- Atuin - Making your shell magical
- Warp - the terminal reimagined
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What even is the modern data stack (Interview)
Benn Stancil’s weekly Substack on data and technology provides a fascinating perspective on the modern data stack & the industry building it. On this episode, Benn joins Jerod to dissect a few of his essays, discuss opportunities he sees during this slowdown & explain why he thinks maybe we should disband the analytics team.
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- Benn’s Substack
- It’s time to build
- github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core
- Disband the analytics team
- A gambler’s guide to giving talks
- gilesbowkett/archaeopteryx
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The six dumbest ideas in computer security (News)
Marcus J. Ranum’s 2005 post on dumb ideas in computer security still holds up, Barry Jones argues why story points are useless, Posting is an HTTP client as a TUI, Varnish ceator Poul-Henning Kamp (phk) reflects on ten years of working on the HTTP cache & es-tookit is a major upgrade to Lodash.
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Last DevRel standing (Friends)
Shawn “swyx” Wang is back to talk with us about the state of DevRel according to ZIRP (the Zero Interest Rate Phenomenon), the data that backs up the rise and fall of job openings, whether or not DevRel is dead or dying, speculation of the near-term arrival of AGI, AI Engineering as the last job standing, the innovation from Cognition with Devin as well as their mis-steps during Devin’s launch, and what’s to come in the next innovation round of AI.
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- DevRel’s Death as Zero Interest Rate Phenomenon
- Measuring Developer Relations
- pandas
- Jasper AI
- Writer.com
- harvey.ai
- Cognition.ai
- Anthropic
- Changelog Interviews #594: Microsoft is all-in on AI: Part 2 (with Mark Russinovich, Eric Boyd & Neha Batra)
- The Rise of the AI Engineer
- AI News
- von Neumann probes (Self-replicating spacecraft)
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It all starts with Postgres (Interview)
Paul Copplestone, CEO of Supabase (the meme-lord himself), joins the show to take us on the journey of Supabase leading Postgres for life, and how it all starts with Postgres as the base-layer substrate for the entire Supabase platform. They’re laser focused on the drive ahead, not the rear-view mirror.
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- Supabase.com
- Changelog News #54: 🔥 Supabase quietly went public today
- “Build in a weekend, scale to millions”
- 29% of Y Combinator batch (W24) use Supabase
- Oriole joins Supabase
- We are moving to General Availability (April 2024)
- Changelog #476: Supabase is all in on Postgres
- How to Run Supabase Locally
- Supabase local development
- Changelog #590: Good timing makes great products
- Fly Postgres, managed by Supabase
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Programming advice for my younger self (News)
Marcus Buffett writes his younger self programming advice, Swyx asks and answers whether or not DevRel is dead, the Ghost team opens up their ActivityPub server, Pongo is like MongoDB but on Postgres, Jack Kelly is funding Ladybird because he can’t fund Firefox & Hyrum’s Law.
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A different kind of rug pull (Friends)
Adam & Jerod discuss the news! But first, we discuss how you can keep up with the software world (good question, Tyler Boyd!) On the docket: Developer job postings trend, the Ladybird Browser Initiative, the Polyfill.js supply chain attack & is the future self-hosted?
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- Announcing the Ladybird Browser Initiative
- Chris Wanstrath’s announcement
- Polyfill supply chain attack hits 100K+ sites
- The future is self-hosted
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Code review anxiety (Interview)
Carol Lee (Clinical Scientist) shares her research on code review anxiety. We dive deep into her recent research paper “Understanding and Effectively Mitigating Code Review Anxiety”. We get into all the nooks and crannies of this topic — common code review myths, strategies for coping, the need for awareness and self-reflection, the value of exposure and practice to build confidence, the importance of team dynamics, respect, empathy, and connection, and more. This show is jam-packed with goodies for everyone…and we even give a nod to the work we did on our podcast Brain Science.
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Get in touch with Carol at carolslee29--at--gmail.com
- Carol’s research paper Understanding and Effectively Mitigating Code Review Anxiety
- Code Review Anxiety Workbook
- Developer Success Lab (or also)
- Brain Science
- Margin: Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial, and Time Reserves to Overloaded Lives
- Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
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The scariest chart in all of software (News)
Software developer jobs are trending down, the creator of dotenv creates a better dotenv, the Chrome team puts Gemini Nano AI model right inside your browser, a pollyfill.js supply chain attack hits 100k+ sites & Steph Ango asks, “What can we remove?”
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Kaizen! NOT a pipe dream (Friends)
Welcome to Kaizen 15! We go deep on the big Changelog News redesign, give shout outs to folks who’ve helped us along the way & Gerhard takes us on his journey to turn Jerod’s pipe dream into a reality!
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- Discussion #511: 🎧 Kaizen 15 - changelog.com/friends/50
- Navel gazing on Wikipedia
- Omphaloskepsis on #define: game theory, dude
- Pull Request #510: News redesign
- Pull Request #517: 29 reasons to subscribe to Changelog News
- Pull Request #513: Remove # from episode numbers in commit messages
- Pull Request #516: Trace GitHub Actions Workflows
- worldpagespeed.fly.dev
- pipedream.changelog.com
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MAJOR.SEMVER.PATCH (Interview)
Predrag Gruevski and Chris Krycho joined the show to talk about SemVer. We explore the challenges and the advantages of semantic versioning (aka SemVer), the need for improving the tooling around SemVer, where semantic versioning really shines and where it’s needed, Types and SemVer, whether or not there’s a better way, and why it’s not as simple as just opting out.
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- Hyrum’s Law
- unison-lang.org
- TrueNAS SCALE
- React Versioning Policy
- Ubuntu version history
- semver-ts.org - Semantic Versioning for TypeScript Types
- The Wi-Fi only works when it’s raining
- April Cools
- obi1kenobi/trustfall
- How to Query Almost Everything (with Trustfall) - 10min tech talk
- More than 1 in 6 of the top Rust libraries has broken SemVer by accident
- How cargo-semver-checks works & why it’s important
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Please let this be Peak LLM (News)
Søren Fuglede Jørgensen builds a font thats also an LLM, Hugo Landau writes about the demise of the mildly dynamic website, SQL Studio is the simplest little database explorer ever, Mathew Duggan reviews GitHub Copilot Workspace & Stephan Schmidt lays out the case against mocking + what to do instead.
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Where DOESN’T curl run (Friends)
Daniel Stenberg shares his guiding principles for BDFL’ing curl, gives us his perspective on the state of the internet, talks financial independence, ensuring curl won’t be the next XZ & more!
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- curl turns 26 today
- My BDFL guiding principles
- The I in LLM stands for intelligence
- tiny-curl
- Verified curl
- How to verify a curl release
- github.com/curl/trurl
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Securing GitHub (Interview)
Jacob DePriest, VP and Deputy Chief Security Officer at GitHub, joins the show this week to talk about securing GitHub. From Artifact Attestations, profile hardening, preventing XZ-like attacks, GitHub Advanced Security, code scanning, improving Dependabot, and more.
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- Where does your software (really) come from?
- Keeping secrets out of public repositories
- GitHub Advanced Security
- Dependabot
- Introducing Artifact Attestations–now in public beta
- Software Bill of Materials (SBOM)
- 😶🌫️ Who in the world is Jia Tan?!
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The onset of "Senior Engineer Fatigue" (News)
Luminousmen writes about Senior Engineer Fatigue, Microsoft rethinks its AI-based Recall feature, Mike Hoye gives a big shout out to the “diff” program, Thom Holwerda covers ChromeOS’ quiet switch to Android Linux subsystems & Mihail Eric tells the inside story on how Alexa dropped the ball on being the top conversational system on Earth.
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Putting the Apple in AI (Friends)
Justin Searls joins us for hot takes on Apple’s 2024 WWDC keynote. Apple Intelligence stole the show, but did it steal our hearts? Oh, and we learn all about Justin’s Vision Pro Life and how he hopes/expects Apple’s latest device to improve in future iterations.
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- Justin’s podcast: Breaking Change
- Apple WWDC 2024: the 13 biggest announcements
- macOS Sequoia Preview
- Compare iPhone models
- RCS on Wikipedia
- Rug pull, not cool! (Changelog & Friends #40)
- Sandwich’s Theater app (Adam Lisagor)
- Steve Jobs QA - WWDC 1997
- Asahi Linux
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1999: A Film Odyssey (Changelog++ 🔐) (Friends)
Adam & Jerod hallway-track-it between Microsoft Build interviews. Was 1999 the best year in film history? Was 2004 the worst? Have you heard the full story behind Blues Traveler’s “Hook”? Are you still reading this? Go listen! (This episode is for Changelog++ ears only.)
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Retired, not tired. (Interview)
Kelsey Hightower is back to share more of his wisdom. This time it’s one year after his retirement from Google. But guess what? He might be “retired,” but he’s not tired. In this episode Kelsey shares what drives him, what he fears, and how he thinks through his life choices and parenting. This is a good one.
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- “I’m retired, not tired.”
- Changelog & Friends #6: Even the best rides come to an end
- Run:ai
- Brondell Bidet
- From Sleeping in His Car to Distinguished Engineer at Google (Kelsey Hightower)
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Apple finally gets Siri-ous (News)
Apple announces its “new” style of AI, piku gives you “git push” deployment on your own servers, Dabo Chen rebuilds nanoGPT in a spreadsheet, Mark Seemann thinks you’ll regret using natural keys in your database design & Glyph Lefkowitz describes his grand unified theory of the AI hype cycle.
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#define: legendary (Friends)
What happens when you take three #define newbs (Thomas Eckert, Nick Nisi, Mat Ryer) & pit them against the grizzled vet, Adam? Find out on this episode because our award-worthy game of fake definitions is back & this time it’s even more legendary!
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Microsoft is all-in on AI: Part 2 (Interview)
Mark Russinovich, Eric Boyd & Neha Batra join us to discuss the state of AI for Microsoft and OpenAI at Microsoft Build 2024. It’s safe to say that Microsoft is all-in on AI.
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Yet another open source rug pull (News)
A popular open source iOS authenticator app goes rogue under new ownership, Andreas Kling steps back from SerenityOS & forks Ladybird, Vhyrro takes a thought-provoking try at a “static effect system”, Matt Bessey is over GraphQL & Marc-Andre Giroux still likes GraphQL sometimes (in the right context).
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Is it too late to opt out of AI? (Friends)
Tech lawyer Luis Villa returns to answer our most pressing questions: what’s up with all these new content deals? How did Google think it was a good idea to ship AI Summaries in its current state? Is it too late to opt out of AI? We also discuss AI in Hollywood (spoilers!), positive things we’re seeing (or hoping for) & Upstream 2024 (June 5th)!
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- Upstream 2024 | A celebration of open source
- ANTHOLOGY — The way of open source (Changelog Interviews #563)
- On self driving, Waymo is playing chess while Tesla plays checkers
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Microsoft is all-in on AI: Part 1 (Interview)
Scott Guthrie joins the show this week from Microsoft Build 2024 to discuss Microsoft being all-in on AI. From Copilot, to Azure AI and Prompty, to their developer first focus, leading GitHub, VS Code being the long bet that paid off, to the future of a doctor’s bedside manner assisted with AI. Microsoft is all-in on AI and Build 2024’s discussions and announcements proves it.
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Why you shouldn't use AI to write your tests (News)
Swizec’s article on not using AI to writes tests, LlamaFs is a self-organizing file system with Llama 3, a Pew Research analysis confirmed that the internet is full of broken links, Sam Rose built a spectacular interactive study of queueing strategies & Jordan Cutler shares a real-life experience of him writing clear/readable code… and it backfiring.
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It's a long & windy road (Friends)
We kick off our Microsoft Build 2024 “coverage” in this free-wheelin’ conversation with our friend, Shaundai Person! We’re talking Netflix infra, we’re talking sales, we’re talking real-world AI usage, we’re talking career choices…. What’s a good next step? Listen in!
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From Sun to Oxide (Interview)
Bryan Cantrill, Co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company, joins Adam to share his journey from Sun to Oxide – from Sun and Fishworks, to DTrace, to ZFS, to Joyent and Node.js, and now working to build on-prem cloud servers as they should be at Oxide.
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- Shouting in the Datacenter
- Efficiency you can hear
- Joyent
- Changelog Interviews #475: Making the ZFS file system with Matt Ahrens, co-founder of the ZFS project
- Oxide
- Oxide Principles
- Oxideo Docs: Hypervisor and Storage
- Changelog Interviews #155: The Future of Node.js with Scott Hammond
- TJ Holowaychuk’s Farewell Node.js
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Kyle explains "Legacy Software" to the aliens (News)
Taylor Troesh writes Kyle explaining “Legacy Software” to the aliens, Vitaly Friedman addresses why so many designers feel misunderstood and under appreciated in business contexts, Oracle dumps Terraform for OpenTofu & hackers discover how to reprogram NES Tetris from within the game.
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Self-hosted media server goodness (Friends)
Alex Kretzschmar joins Adam to discuss their experiences with building the “perfect media server” and all the hardware and software involved to make it happen — LinuxServer.io, PerfectMediaServer.com, Plex, Jellyfin, ZFS, mergerfs, TrueNAS, Docker Compose and so much more in this episode.
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- linuxserver.io
- perfectmediaserver.com
- ZFS is resource efficient.
- selfhosted.show
- The Best Media Server CPU… in the world.
- A Cheap No-Frills OPNsense box
- mergerfs
- The beginning of linuxserver.io
- jimsalterjrs/sanoid
- Jellyfin
- Plex
- Restic
- Auto-Restic
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Building the Patreon for developers (Interview)
Birk Jernström from Polar joins the show to tell us all about the creator platform for developers: why he built it, how it works, why it works how it works, what’s in store for the future & we even give Birk some super deep UX feedback on the funding flow.
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- Polar
- SerenityOS on Polar
- SerenityOS issues on Polar
- SerenityOS on GitHub
- David Hewitt on Polar
- GitHub Sponsors
- Open Collective
- Vagrant and Virtualized Environments with Mitchell Hashimoto (Changelog Interviews #72)
- The serenity of building your own OS with Andreas Kling (Changelog Interviews #554)
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Avoiding the soft delete anti-pattern (News)
Tim Fisken explains the problem with soft deletion, a simple measure of software dependency freshness is proposed, a deep-dive on sound design in software, a web app with over 80 handy developer tools built in & Luke Plant reminds us that programming mantras are proverbs, not laws.
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Motivated by play (Friends)
Annie Sexton has been on quite a journey since she was last on the show back in early ‘22. On this episode, Annie takes us on that journey, shares her new-found perspective & tells us about how she’s approaching her side project this time around.
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- Git your reset on (Changelog Interviews #480)
- I’m rebuilding my notes app, Typist, and here’s why
- Ben Gillin on Instagram
- How to talk to LLMs | Storybot demo - YouTube
- AI video post-processing in the cloud | Sieve + Daily - YouTube
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Good timing makes great products (Interview)
Paul Orlando is back to talk about his book titled “Why Now?” You may remember Paul from his last appearance (a fan favorite) talking with Jerod about complex systems & second-order effects. Paul’s book, “Why Now?” explores the concept of timing and the importance of understanding the ‘why now’ in business and product development. We discuss timing examples from the book that were either too early or too late (such as the first video phone and car phones), the need to consider both technological advancements and user demand when assessing timing, the significance of timing in the success of companies like Apple and the launch of the iPhone, Uber and Heroku, and more. Also, join our Slack community for a chance to get a signed copy of Paul’s book.
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- Why Now: How Good Timing Makes Great Products (by Paul Orlando)
- StartupsUnplugged.com
- Unintended Consequences (Systems, complexity, second-order effects)
- Changelog #474: Complex systems & second-order effects
- Catching up with Yahoo’s Fire Eagle geolocation service
- The Web 2.0 Show #46 - Fire Eagle
- The Conjoined Triangles of Success
- The confidential YouTube Investment Memo by Sequoia you were never meant to see
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Why your framework doesn't matter (News)
Bahaa Zidan says your web framework doesn’t matter, DHH writes about magic machines, Dylan Huang reviews thousands of opinions on HTMX, Tim Ottinger says programming is thinking & Tim Spann says small language models (SLM) for the win.
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The Wu-Tang way (Friends)
Our friend Ron Evans is a technologist for hire, an open source developer, an author, a speaker, an iconoclast, and one of our favorite people in tech. This conversation with Ron goes everywhere: from high-altitude weather balloons, to life on Mars, to Zeno’s paradox applied to ML, to what open source devs should learn from the Wu-Tang Clan & more.
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- Book: A City on Mars
- Bio-Dome - Wikipedia
- Zeno’s paradoxes
- TinyGo on Hackaday
- ggerganov/llama.cpp: LLM inference in C/C++
- What exactly is Open Source AI? with Stefano Maffulli
- On the dangers of stochastic parrots | The Alan Turing Institute
- 2053: A Go Odyssey (Go Time #235)
- Getting started with TinyGo
- Looking back at Go from 2053 with Ron Evans - YouTube
- The Hybrid Group
- Ali Spagnola - YouTube
- GopherCon 2024 - Register Now
- FOSDEM 2024 - Home
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Castro leans into indie (Interview)
This week we’re joined by Dustin Bluck to discuss his acquisition of the well known (and beloved) Castro podcast app to take it indie-focused once again. As previous users of Castro, we were excited to dig into the details behind this popular podcast client to see what’s next, how the deal was done, a peek into the code, and where exactly this indie and creator focused podcast app can go.
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- A Fresh Start for Castro
- Podcast app Castro now owned by indie developer Bluck Apps
- I am the owner of Castro Podcasts. Ask me anything!
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Good ideas in computer science (News)
Daniel Hooper lists out all the good ideas in computer science, Jeff Geerling declares 2024 the year corporate open source dies, Jared Turner says all kinds of works-in-progress are waste, Daroc Alden covers the leadership crisis in the Nix community & John Hawthorn explains why Ruby may be faster than you think.
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The ol' hot & juicy (Friends)
Frequent guest (and almost real-life-friend) Adam Jacob returns to share his spicy takes on all the recent “open source meets business” drama. We also take some time to catch up on the state of his open source-based business, System Initiative.
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Run Gleam run (Interview)
This week we’re joined by Louis Pilfold, the creator of the Gleam programming language. For the uninitiated, Gleam is a functional programming language for building type-safe systems that compiles to Erlang and JavaScript and it’s written in Rust. We discuss the inspiration and development of Gleam, how it compares to other languages, where it shines, the overwhelming amount of support Louis is getting through GitHub sponsors, what’s next for Gleam and their near-term plans for a language server.
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The threat to open source comes from within (News)
Forrest Brazeal is concerned about the open source threat from within, Vicki Boykis explains why Redis is forked, John O’Nolan and the Ghost team plan to federate over ActivityPub, Llama 3 is now available for “businesses of all sizes” & nolen writes up questions to ask when you don’t want to work.
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Rug pull, not cool! (Friends)
If Changelog News had an extended edition, this might be it! Jerod & Adam discuss Hashicorp’s Cease and Desist letter, Redis getting forked, Boston Dymanics’ scary cool new robot, Justin Searls’ extensive use of the Apple Vision Pro, Thorston Ball moving from Vim to Zed, Firefox becoming hard to use, Beeper joining Automattic & more.
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- Our Response to Hashicorp’s Cease and Desist Letter
- Redis is forked
- Boston Dynamics’ new humanoid moves like no robot you’ve ever seen
- Vision Pro was a better deal than my Mac Studio
- From Vim to Zed
- It’s getting hard to use and recommend Firefox, I’m afraid for the free web
- Leading and building Raycast (Changelog Interviews #587)
- Beeper is joining Automattic
- Texts.com
- Pidgin, the universal chat client
- MarkdownDown
- Turndown
- Playroom - Build Multiplayer Games in Minutes
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Leading and building Raycast (Interview)
This week Adam is joined by Thomas Paul Mann, Co-founder and CEO of Raycast, to discuss being productive on a Mac, going beyond their free tier, the extensions built by the community, the Raycast Store, how they’re executing on Raycast AI chat which aims to be a single interface to many LLMs. Raycast has gone beyond being an extendable launcher – they’ve gone full-on productivity mode with access to AI paving the way of their future.
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Devin's Upwork "side hustle" exposed (News)
YouTuber “Internet of Bugs” breaks down why AI “software engineer” Devin is no Upwork hero, Redka is Anton Zhiyanov’s attempt to reimplement Redis with SQLite, OpenTofu issues its response to Hashicorp’s Cease and Desist letter, Brian LeRoux introduces Enhance WASM & PumpkinOS is not your average PalmOS emulator.
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More BMC goodness (Friends)
Our beat freak in residence returns, this time to discuss the shiny new Dance Party album! We deconstruct its nostalgic mix, break down some of our favorite tracks & even learn that BMC is writing a mysterious book…
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Replacing Git with Git (Interview)
This week we’re talking to Scott Chacon, one of the co-founders of GitHub, to discuss the history and future of Git and Scott’s new project Git Butler, a branch manager tool that’s aiming to improve the developer experience of Git using Git. We also touch on the contentious topic of open source licensing and the challenges of defining “Open Source”, FSL vs GPL, and more.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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HashiCorp strikes back (News)
HashiCorp sends OpenTofu a nasty-gram in the wake of Matt Asay’s infringement claims, Polar is like Patreon but for software creators, a Common Corpus of LLM data is released on HuggingFace & Loki is an open source tool for fact verification.
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Kaizen! There goes my PgHero (Friends)
This is our 14th Kaizen episode! Gerhard put some CDNs to the test, we’ve taken our next step with Postgres on Neon & Jerod pushed 55 commits (but 0 PRs)!
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- Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- Discussion #499: 🎧 Kaizen 14 - changelog.com/friends/38
- bunny.net - The Content Delivery platform that truly Hops!
- bunny.changelog.com
- Hyperping | Uptime monitoring with public status pages
- Issue #486: CDN cache misses increased 7x after Oct. 8, 2023
- Pull Request #492: Migrate Postgres to Neon.tech
- ankane/pghero: A performance dashboard for Postgres
- Pull Request #507: Deploy PgHero & connect to Neon.tech Postgres
- Pull Request #508: Enable changelog.com devs to create prod db forks with a single command
- Tigris | Globally Distributed S3-Compatible Object Storage
- video.gerhard.io
- pod.gerhard.io
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Getting to Resend (Interview)
This week Adam is joined by Zeno Rocha — the creator of the beloved Dracula theme and Co-founder and CEO of Resend. They discuss his personal journey and the challenges of balancing work and family life, how becoming a parent has given him new perspectives and influenced his decision to start his own company, the role of citizenship and immigration in his journey, how he prepared for the Y Combinator interview, meeting Paul Graham, the challenges of sending email, and the future of Resend and the possibility of a Series A round.
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- Cloudflare – Cloudflare’s Developer Week is happening April 1-5, 2024. Also you can hang with Adam and the rest of the folks at Cloudflare at the Cloudflare offices in Austin, TX on Wednesday, April 3rd at 5:30pm — register here.
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- Resend.com
- Dracula Theme
- React Email
- Changelog Interviews #248: Open source lessons learned
- Changelog Interviews #405: It’s OK to make money from your open source
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Who in the world is Jia Tan? (News)
The big story right now is the recently uncovered backdoor in liblzma (aka XZ) – a relatively obscure compression library that happens to be a dependency of OpenSSH.
This incident is noteworthy for so many reasons: the exploit itself, how it was deployed, how it was found, what it says about our industry & how the community reacted. Let’s dig in!
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The undercover generalist (Friends)
Which is smarter: specializing in a particular tech or becoming more of a generalist? It depends! Which is why Jerod invited “undercover generalist” Adolfo Ochagavía on our “It Depends” series to weigh the pros & cons of each path.
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We're flipping the script (Interview)
Script flipped! Today we’re sharing two interviews of us on Other People’s Podcasts (OPP): Kathrine Druckman from the Open at Intel podcast invited us on the show at KubeCon NA in November and Den Delimarsky hosted Jerod on The Work Item podcast in February.
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- Katherine Druckman – LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Den Delimarsky – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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Another one bites the dust (News)
Redis’ re-licensing prompts forks like Drew DeVault’s Redict, Matthew Miller thinks we need more community built software, Paul Gross makes the case that DuckDB is the new jq, Anton Zhiyanov shares how he makes a living as a developer despite being “pretty dumb” & Baldur Bjarnason chimes in on the state of the web developer job market.
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Retirement is for suckers (Friends)
THE Cameron Seay joins us once again! This time we learn more about his life/history, hear all about the boot camps he runs, discuss recent advancements in AI / quantum computing and how they might affect the tech labor market & more!
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CHANGELOGwhen you sign up to get $100 OFF the team plan. - FireHydrant – The alerting and on-call tool designed for humans, not systems. Signals puts teams at the center, giving you ultimate control over rules, policies, and schedules. No need to configure your services or do wonky work-arounds. Signals filters out the noise, alerting you only on what matters. Manage coverage requests and on-call notifications effortlessly within Slack. But here’s the game-changer…Signals natively integrates with FireHydrant’s full incident management suite, so as soon as you’re alerted you can seamlessly kickoff and manage your entire incident inside a single platform. Learn more or switch today at firehydrant.com/signals
- Tailscale – Adam loves Tailscale! Tailscale is programmable networking software that’s private and secure by default. It’s the easiest way to connect devices and services to each other, wherever they are. Secure, remote access to production, databases, servers, kubernetes, and more. Try Tailscale for free for up to 100 devices and 3 users at changelog.com/tailscale, no credit card required.
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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It's a TrueNAS world (Interview)
This week Adam talks with Kris Moore, Senior Vice President of Engineering at iXsystems, about all things TrueNAS. They discuss the history of TrueNAS starting from its origins as a FreeBSD project, TrueNAS Core being in maintenance mode, the momentum and innovation happening in TrueNAS Scale, the evolution of the TrueNAS user interface, managing ZFS compatibility in TrueNAS, the business model of iXsystems and their commitment to the open-source community, and of course what’s to come in the upcoming Dragonfish release of TrueNAS Scale.
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- imgproxy – imgproxy is open source an optimizes images for the web on the fly. It makes websites and apps blazing fast while saving storage and SaaS costs. It uses the world’s fastest image processing library under the hood — libvips. It is screaming fast and has a tiny memory footprint.
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- TrueNAS
- Tailscale on TrueNAS SCALE
- Changelog Interviews – #574: Let’s talk FreeBSD (finally) with Allan Jude
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No Maintenance Intended (News)
A new badge for open source projects that won’t be getting any maintenance, everything Chip Huyen learned from looking at 900 open source AI tools, CNBC writes up tech’s renewed layoff trend, Teable is a Postgres-Airtable fusion & Target announces an open source fund.
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The Oban Pros (Friends)
Today you get Sorentwo for the price of one! We are joined by Shannon & Parker Selbert, both halves of the mom-and-pop software shop behind Oban, the robust job processing library that’s been delivering our emails & processing our audio for years.
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- Shannon Selbert – Website, GitHub
- Parker Selbert – GitHub, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- The Oban Pro featuring Parker Selbert (Backstage #23)
- Robust Job Processing· Oban Pro
- Elixir and Phoenix with Chris McCord (Changelog Interviews #147)
- github.com/thechangelog/changelog.com
- Hatchet
- Have an Enemy | Getting Real
- Mojito island is a mirage – Signal v. Noise
- Attack of the Canaries! with Haroon Meer from Thinkst (Changelog Interviews #557)
- Cronitor
- Buzzsprout
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We have a right to repair! (Interview)
This week Adam went solo — talking to Kyle Wiens, Founder and CEO at iFixit, about all things Right to Repair. They discussed the latest win here in the US with Oregon passing an electronics Right to Repair law to allow owners the right to get their stuff fixed anywhere as well as limit the anti-repair practices of parts pairing. They also discussed the history of the DMCA, the challenges posed by Section 1201, the challenges of recycling products with glued-in batteries, the need for producer responsibility, the future of repairability, repair scoring systems to inform consumers, and so much more. Did you know that iFixit funds its advocacy work through the sale of its tools and parts? So cool.
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CHANGELOGwhen you sign up to get $100 OFF the team plan. - CIQ / Rocky Linux – CIQ is Rocky Linux’s founding support partner. They support the free, stable, and secure Linux distro called Rocky Linux.
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- Oregon Just Struck a Blow to Parts Pairing and Won a Decade of Repair Support
- Repair.org
- E-Reuse Conference
- iFixit.com
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Puter is the internet OS (News)
Puter puts an entire operating system in your web browser, the kapa.ai team write down how to structure your docs for LLMs, Daytona is an open source Codespaces alternative, Gleam v1.0 has been released & Rolldown is a JavaScript bundler written in Rust.
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Bourbon and better software (Friends)
Adam is joined by Robert Ross, Founder and CEO of FireHydrant — they discuss Bourbon, sniffing arms, better software, leading a successful startup, scaling teams, building vs acquiring, and Adam even gets Robert to commit to watching Silicon Valley!!
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It's not always DNS (Interview)
This week we’re talking about DNS with Paul Vixie — Paul is well known for his contributions to DNS and agrees with Adam on having a “love/hate relationship with DNS.” We discuss the limitations of current DNS technologies and the need for revisions to support future internet scale, the challenges in doing that. Paul shares insights on the future of the internet and how he’d reinvent DNS if given the opportunity. We even discuss the cultural idiom “It’s always DNS,” and the shift to using DNS resolvers like OpenDNS, Google’s 8.8.8.8 and Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1. Buckle up, this is a good one.
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Apple backs off killing EU web apps (News)
Apple backs off killing web apps (but the fight continues), Luka Kladaric writes about how to ship quality software in hostile environments, Deno’s new package registry is an npm superset, Martin Fowler on the value of periodic face-to-face & Eugene Ghanizadeh wants us to get more decentralized than the Fediverse. Leave us nice words!
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Zed's secret sauce (Friends)
The Zed text editor has come a long way since Nathan Sobo came on the show last year to tell us about this follow-up to Atom. Zed is open source now, has the underpinnings of collaboration built in, is beginning its journey toward full extensibility, is coming to Linux soon & shows serious promise if Nathan’s team can mix their secret sauce just right.
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- Zed.dev
- Goodbye Atom. Hello Zed. (The Changelog #531)
- Introducing Channels for Collaboration
- Zed is now open source
- User themes now in Preview
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Leading in the era of AI code intelligence (Interview)
This week Adam is joined by Quinn Slack, CEO of Sourcegraph for a “2 years later” catch up from his last appearance on Founders Talk. This conversation is a real glimpse into what it takes to be CEO of Sourcegraph in an era when code intelligence is shifting more and more into the AI realm, how they’ve been driving towards this for years, the subtle human leveling up we’re all experiencing, the direction of Sourcegraph as a result — and Quinn also shares his order of operations when it comes to understanding the daily state of their growth.
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Dance Party (Interview)
Listen to our newest album called Dance Party as a podcast! This is an EPIC bundle of BMC bangers. We double dog dare you to listen and try NOT to dance 🕺
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Natural Language Programming (News)
GPTScript is a new scripting language to automate your interactions with LLMs, Adam Wiggins conducts a retrospective on Muse, Nikita Prokopov surveyed a bunch of popular websites to see how much JS they loaded on their pages, Pages CMS is a no-hassle CMS for GitHub pages & Jim Nielsen writes about the subversive hyperlink.
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Brewing up something for work (Friends)
Mike McQuaid, maintainer of Homebrew, and now CTO at Workbrew joins us to discuss open tabs, social media spam and distractions, TikTok’s addictive nature, Apple Vision Pro and its potential future, the maintenance of software, the swing back to old school web development, the value of telemetry in open source projects, Mike’s ongoing involvement in Homebrew and what they’re working on at Workbrew, Homebrew’s relationship with Apple, the importance of developer experience, and sooo much more.
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Making shell history magical with Atuin (Interview)
Today we speak with Ellie Huxtable, the creator of a magical open source tool for syncing, searching & backing up your shell history. Along the way we learn all about the sync service, why she likes Rust, the branding / marketing of the project, how she quit her job to work on it full time, the business model & so much more.
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- Atuin
- Efficient Linux at the CLI with Daniel J. Barrett (Changelog Interviews #547)
- Here’s how to quickly navigate your shell’s history of commands
- RVM and Ruby Version Managment with Michal Papis (Changelog Interviews #102)
- thoughtbot/rcm: rc file (dotfile) management
- ivaaaan/smug: Session manager and task runner for tmux
- RVM
- Wayne Seguin
- RVM and BDSM (Changelog Interviews #66)
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Quantum computing gets a reality check (News)
Ship It is back! IEEE Spectrum writes about quantum computing’s reality check, Maxim Dounin announces freenginx, Nadia Asparouhova goes deep on AI & the “effective accelerationism” movement, Angie Byron helps first time open source contributors avoid common pitfalls & Miroslav Nikolov writes up his advice for high-risk refactoring.
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Yeeting stuff into public (Friends)
Jamie Tanna (who has a website) joins us to discuss the indie web, living with ADHD, sharing his salary history with the world & building DMD – a dynamite open source tool to help you better understand the use of dependencies across your org.
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- Jamie’s first Changelog pod: Request For Commits #4)
- One year in the indieweb
- Blogumentation
- Why I Have a Website and You Should Too
- did you know jamie has a website
- My Salary History
- Memento (film) - Wikipedia
- DMD
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What exactly is Open Source AI? (Interview)
This week we’re joined by Stefano Maffulli, the Executive Director of the Open Source Initiative (OSI). They are responsible for representing the idea and the definition of open source globally. Stefano shares the challenges they face as a US-based non-profit with a global impact. We discuss the work Stefano and the OSI are doing to define Open Source AI, and why we need an accepted and shared definition. Of course we also talk about the potential impact if a poorly defined Open Source AI emerges from all their efforts.
Note: Stefano was under the weather for this conversation, but powered through because of how important this topic is.
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- Open Source Initiative (OSI)
- Discuss the “Open Source AI Definition”
- A new draft of the Open Source AI Definition: v.0.0.5 is available for comments
- The Open Source AI Definition
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We can dance if we want to... (News)
Changelog Beats drops a new Dance Party album, Will McGugan’s new Toolong (tl) terminal app, Mitchell Baker is out as Mozilla CEO, Microsoft’s Jordi Adoumie announces sudo for Windows, Tatu Ylonen tells the tale of how they got SSH to be port 22 & Jack Lindamood gives an “Endorse” or “Regret” rating for ~50 different services, tools & processes he used over the 4 years he led infrastructure at a startup.
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Future of [energy, content, food] (Friends)
We’re taking you back to the hallway track at THAT Conference where we have 3 MORE fun conversations: one with Samuel Goff about the future of energy, one with YouTuber Jess Chan about the future of content creation & one with Vanessa Villa / Noah Jenkins about ag tech & the future of food.
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Taking on Goliath (Interview)
This week on The Changelog we’re talking with Nadia Odunayo, founder of StoryGraph. Nadia started out as a one woman dev and product team — she’s had to adjust and maneuver along way to becoming the Amazon-free alternative to Goodreads.
We talk about the importance of customer research, the iterative nature of customer research and what it takes to synthesize and analyze the findings to guide product development, the technical challenges and learnings she faced while building StoryGraph, for example at several points they’ve faced challenges in handling an influx of users and had to re-architect the system. We also talk about the business model of StoryGraph and how they generate revenue through Plus subscriptions, and partnerships with publishers for book giveaways.
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The promise of hackable software (News)
Geoffrey Litt thinks browser extensions are underrated, Adolfo Ochagavía on being a generalist in a specialist’s world, Jack Garbus praises the Arch Wiki, Terence Eden tries to rebuild FourSquare for ActivityPub using OpenStreetMap & Sebastien Dubois teaches us how to connect ideas together.
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You have how many open tabs?! (Friends)
We’re taking you to the hallway track at THAT Conference in Austin TX, where we have 3 fun conversations: one with our old friend Nick Nisi from JS Party, one with our new(ish) friend Amy Dutton from CompressedFM (who has been a guest on JS Party of late) & one with our brand new friend / long-time listener Andres Pineda from the Dominican Republic.
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In the beginning (of generative AI) (Interview)
This week on The Changelog we’re talking with Joe Reis about data engineering and the beginning of generative AI. We discuss phone hacking via frequency, the role of a data engineer, this AI hype cycle we’re in, build vs buy, the disconnect between data analysts and the business, ethical considerations around AI-generated content, and more. We also discuss the tension between AI and traditional engineering, as well as the inevitability of AI integration into pretty much everything.
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$100k for indie game devs (News)
The Rune team announces $100k in open source grants for indie game devs, the Zed code editor is now open source, the Ollama team releases Python & JavaScript libraries, Max Bernstein tells the story of Scrapscript & Pooya Parsa writes up some notes from a tired maintainer.
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Gradually gradually typing Elixir (Friends)
Our old friend José Valim & his team have been hard at work adding gradual typing to Elixir. They’re only 1-3% of the way there, but a lot of progress has been made. So, we invited him back on the show for a deep-dive on why, how & when Elixir will be gradually typed.
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- Read Write Own – Read, Write, Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet—a new book from entrepreneur and investor Chris Dixon—explores one possible solution to the internet’s authenticity problem: Blockchains. From AI that tracks its source material to generative programs that compensate—rather than cannibalize—creators. It’s a call to action for a more open, transparent, and democratic internet. One that opens the black box of AI, tracks the origins we see online, and much more. Order your copy of Read, Write, Own today at readwriteown.com
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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Shift left, seriously. (Interview)
This week we’re going deep on security and what it takes to shift left, seriously. Adam is joined by Justin Garrison (co-host of Ship It), plus two members of the BoxyHQ team — Deepak Prabhakara, Co-founder & CEO and Schalk Neethling, Community Manager and DevRel as well as fellow Changelog Slack member.
We discuss how to shift left, the role of the developer and the burden of security, the importance of tooling, the difference between authentication and authorization, and a mindset change for when security takes place — it’s a matter of “when” not “who.”
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- Synadia – Take NATS to the next level via a global, multi-cloud, multi-geo and extensible service, fully managed by Synadia. They take care of all the infrastructure, management, monitoring, and maintenance for you so you can focus on building exceptional distributed applications.
- Read Write Own – Read, Write, Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet—a new book from entrepreneur and investor Chris Dixon—explores one possible solution to the internet’s authenticity problem: Blockchains. From AI that tracks its source material to generative programs that compensate—rather than cannibalize—creators. It’s a call to action for a more open, transparent, and democratic internet. One that opens the black box of AI, tracks the origins we see online, and much more. Order your copy of Read, Write, Own today at readwriteown.com
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- Deepak Prabhakara – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Schalk Neethling – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Show Notes:
- BoxyHQ.com
- SAML Jackson - Enterprise SSO made simple
- Enterprise SaaS Starter Kit
- MVSP (Minimum Viable Secure Product
- Minimum Viable Secure Product (MVSP) checklist
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GitHub Actions as a time-sharing supercomputer (News)
Alex Ellis’ new actions-batch project uses GitHub Actions as a time-sharing supercomputer, DevDocs.io combines multiple API documentations in a fast, organized, and searchable interface, Jarred Sumner announces Bun’s very own JavaScript shell, Shoelace is a forward-thinking library of web components & Martin Heinz writes an awesome guide to building an indoor air quality monitoring system with Prometheus, Grafana & a CO2 sensor.
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The state of homelab tech (2024) (Friends)
Techno Tim is back with Adam to discuss the state of homelab in 2024 and the trends happening within homelab tech. They discuss homelab environments providing a safe place for experimentation and learning, network improvement as a gateway to homelab, trends in network connection speeds, to Unifi or not, storage trends, ZFS configurations, TrueNAS, cameras, home automation, connectivity, routers, pfSense, and more.
Umm, should we make these conversations between Adam and Tim more frequent?
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- Read Write Own – Read, Write, Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet—a new book from entrepreneur and investor Chris Dixon—explores one possible solution to the internet’s authenticity problem: Blockchains. From AI that tracks its source material to generative programs that compensate—rather than cannibalize—creators. It’s a call to action for a more open, transparent, and democratic internet. One that opens the black box of AI, tracks the origins we see online, and much more. Order your copy of Read, Write, Own today at readwriteown.com
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- Ubiquiti and Unifi
- Cisco Meraki
- pfSense
- TrueNAS
- Proxmox
- Intel Core i9-13900K
- Plex
- Home Assistant
- OCuLink Interface
- OpenZFS
- Changelog & Friends #7: Dear Red Hat… (w/ Jeff Geerling)
- (Byte My Bits) Intel 13th Gen + Unraid + Plex = OMG4K!
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Let's talk FreeBSD (finally) (Interview)
This week we’re joined by FreeBSD & OpenZFS developer, Allan Jude, to learn all about FreeBSD. Allan gives us a brief history of BSD, tells us why it’s his operating system of choice, compares it to Linux, explains the various BSDs out there & answers every curious question we have about this powerful (yet underrepresented) Unix-based operating system.
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- Rocky Linux – From Flops and Threads - Episode #4: Ask Me Anything (AMA) with OpenELA — OpenELA will provide sources necessary for downstreams compatible with RHEL to exist, with initial focus on RHEL versions EL8, EL9 and possibly EL7. The project is committed to ensuring the continued availability of OpenELA sources to the community indefinitely. By welcoming other organizations and community members to join and contribute actively, OpenELA seeks to build a robust, community-driven standard that ensures impartiality and equilibrium in the EL ecosystem.
- Read Write Own – Read, Write, Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet—a new book from entrepreneur and investor Chris Dixon—explores one possible solution to the internet’s authenticity problem: Blockchains. From AI that tracks its source material to generative programs that compensate—rather than cannibalize—creators. It’s a call to action for a more open, transparent, and democratic internet. One that opens the black box of AI, tracks the origins we see online, and much more. Order your copy of Read, Write, Own today at readwriteown.com
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- Allan Jude – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- The FreeBSD Project
- FreeBSD on Wikipedia
- Repology, the packaging hub
- Allan’s podcast: 2.5 Admins
- FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS (Amazon)
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A plea for lean software (News)
Niklaus Wirth makes his plea for lean software, PocketBase puts your entire backend in 1 file, Vanna is a Python RAG framework for accurate text-to-SQL generation, Henrik Karlsson wants you to think more about what to focus on & Calvin Wankhede shares how he built a fully offline smart home (and you should too).
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Kaizen! Should we build a CDN? (Friends)
It’s our 13th Kaizen episode! We’re back from KubeCon, we’re making goals for the year, we’re migrating to Neon & we’re weighing the pros/cons of building our own custom CDN.
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- Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- 📄 Kaizen 13
- Migrate Postgres to Neon.tech by gerhard · Pull Request #492
- CDN cache misses increased 7x · Issue #486
- 🎥 TGI RabbitMQ
- Neon.tech
- Supabase Postgres · Fly Docs
- Vercel Postgres
- KeyCDN - Content delivery made easy
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Amazon's silent sacking (Interview)
Justin Garrison joins us to talk about Amazon’s silent sacking, from his perspective. He should know. He works there. Well, as of yesterday he quit. We discuss how the cloud and Kubernetes have transformed the way software is developed and deployed, the impact silent layoffs have on employees and their careers, speaking out about workplace issues (the right way), how changes in organizational structure can lead to gaps in expertise and responsibility which can lead to potential outages and slower response times.
By the way, we officially let the cat off out of the bag in this episode. Justin has joined the ranks here at Changelog and is taking over as the host of Ship It! Expect new episodes soon.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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The I in LLM stands for intelligence (News)
Daniel Stenberg is frustrated with the state of AI tooling for finding security bugs, Brian Birtles is surprised by weird things engineers believe about web dev, Feross Aboukhadijeh details the fallout from a nasty npm prank, Rob Pike shares what he thinks they got right and wrong with Go & Gavin Howard writes up why he believes “all code is tech debt” is all wrong.
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Dear new developer (Interview)
Hello 2024! We’re kicking off the year with Dan Moore, author of ‘Letters to a New Developer’ — a blog series of letters of what Dan wished he had known when starting his developer career. We discuss the value of online communities for new developers, the importance of communication skills, and the need to stay relevant in a rapidly changing industry. Dan shares his best advice for new developers, including the importance of saying no, leaving code better than you found it, and the value of skill stacking. So much wisdom and advice in this episode!
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- Letters to a New Developer - What I wish I had known when starting my development career
- Letters to a New Developer (the book)
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State of the "log" 2023 (Interview)
Our 6th annual year-end wrap-up episode! This time we’re featuring 12 (yes, 12!) listener voice mails, our favorite episodes of the year & some insanely cool Breakmaster Cylinder beats made just for this occasion. Thanks for listening! 💚
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Arthur Maltson’s favs:
- Friends #11: An aberrant generation of programmers with Justin Searls & Landon Gray
- Interviews #551: DX on DX with Abi Noda
- Interviews #453: Leading leaders who lead engineers with Lara Hogan
Hal’s favs:
- Interviews #524: Mainframes are still a big thing with Cameron Seay
- Interviews #545: Rebuilding DevOps from the ground up with Adam Jacob
- Friends #20: Beat freak in residence with BMC
- Changelog News
Rory O’Connor’s favs:
Brett Cannon’s favs:
- Interviews #565: Pushing back on unconstrained capitalism with Cory Doctorow
- Interviews #558: Open source is at a crossroads with Steve O’Grady
- Interviews #549: Storytime with Steve Yegge
- Interviews #537: Hard drive reliability at scale with Andy Klein
- Special: Next Level
- Interviews #553: 30 years of Debian with Jonathan Carter
- Interviews #533: A new path to full-time open source with Filippo Valsorda
- Interviews #524: Mainframes are still a big thing with Cameron Seay
- Interviews #523: Just Postgres with Craig Kerstiens
Jarvis Yang’s favs:
Jamie Curnow’s favs:
- Interviews #540: Engineering management (for the rest of us) with Sarah Drasner
- Interviews #527: What it takes to scale engineering with Rachel Potvin
- Friends #16: The beginning of the end of physical media with Christina Warren
- Changelog Beats!
AJ Kerrigan’s favs:
- Interviews #553: 30 years of Debian with Jonathan Carter
- Interviews #547: Efficient Linux at the CLI with Danil J. Barrett
- Friends #15: #define: a game of fake definitions
- JS Party #299: Tech by Choice with Valerie Phoenix
- Friends #20: Beat freak in residence with BMC
Alex’s favs:
- Friends #23: The state of the 2023 tech market with Gergely Orosz
- Interviews #535: Examining capitalism’s chokepoints with Cory Doctorow
- Interviews #565: Pushing back on unconstrained capitalism with Cory Doctorow
- Interviews #534: LLMs break the internet with Simon Willison
Schalk Neethling’s favs:
- Friends #11: An aberrant generation of programmers with Justin Searls & Landon Gray
- JS Party #288: Refined thinking with Jim Nielsen
- Friends #12: You call it tech debt I call it malpractice with Kris Brandow
- Go Time #291: Go templating using Templ
- Friends #18: Human skills to pay the bills with KBall
- JS Party #299: Tech by Choice with Valerie Phoenix
- Cory Doctorow on restoring the dream of tech workers - YouTube
- Matteo Collina on how he believes AWS fooled devs & sabotaged the industry (to make more money) - YouTube
- Unpopular opinion! We’ll move from streaming back to owning content - YouTube
Tillman Jex’s favs:
- Interviews #549: Storytime with Steve Yegge
- Interviews #565: Pushing back on unconstrained capitalism with Cory Doctorow
- Friends #7: Dear Red Hat… with Jeff Geerling
Jamie Tanna’s favs:
Adam’s favs:
- Friends #17: Kaizen! Slightly more instant
- Interviews #557: Attack of the Canaries! with Haroon Meer from Thinkst
Jerod’s favs:
- Interviews #526: Git with your friends featuring Mat Ryer
- Interviews #532: Bringing Whisper and LLaMA to the masses with Georgi Gerganov
Also mentioned:
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The code, prose & pods that shaped 2023 (News)
This episodes diverges from our traditional fare. I’ve reviewed the 50 previous editions and picked (IMHO) the coolest code, best prose & my favorite podcast episode from each month!
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#define: game theory, dude (Friends)
What happens when you take four grizzled #define veterans and throw an Emma Bostian into the mix? Find out on this episode because our award-worthy game of fake definitions is back and this time it’s even better!
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- Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
- Lars Wikman – Website, GitHub, X
- Taylor Troesh – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn
- Emma Bostian – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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ANTHOLOGY — The technical bits (Interview)
This week we’re taking you to the hallway track of All Things Open 2023 in Raleigh, NC. Today’s episode features: Heikki Linnakangas (Co-founder of Neon and Postgres hacker), Robert Aboukhalil (Bioinformatics software engineer) working on bringing desktop apps to the web with Wasm, and Scott Ford who loves taking a codebase from brown to green at Corgibytes.
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- Robert Aboukhalil – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Scott Ford – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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Open source LLMs are catching up (News)
A group of researchers set out to test claims that its open source rivals had achieved parity (or even better) with ChatGPT on certain tasks, Richard Hipp and his team have rewritten SQLite’s text-based JSON functions, Ratatui is a Rust crate for cooking up TUIs, Morris Brodersen built a complex app in vanilla JS as a case study & Headscale is Kristoffer Dalby’s open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server.
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HATEOAS corpus (Friends)
Jerod is back with another “It Depends” episode! This time he’s joined by Kris Brandow from Go Time and they’re talking all things API design. What makes a good API? Is GraphQL a solid choice? Why do we do REST wrong? And WTF does HATEOAS mean, anyway?
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- PHP: a fractal of bad design
- PostGraphile Instant GraphQL API
- HATEOAS
The Tech Behind the New Grooveshark - OpenAPI Spec
- HTTP Specifications
- Roy Fielding Dissertation on REST
- Mike Amundsen
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Hare aims to be a 100 year language (Interview)
This week on The Changelog we’re joined by Drew DeVault, talking about the Hare programming language. From the website, Hare is a systems programming language designed to be simple, stable, and robust. When we asked Drew why he created it, he said “[because] I wanted it to exist, and it did not exist.” Wise words.
We discuss Hare (of course), why he’s so passionate about all things open source, the state of the language, fostering a culture that values stability, and oddly enough — what it takes to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
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- sourcehut - the hacker’s forge!
- Drew on SourceHut
- The Hare programming language
- Himitsu
- SourceHut’s 2022 Financial report
- Can I be on your podcast
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Leaked GPT prompts & Firefox on the brink (News)
ChatGPT’s new GPTs feature leak their prompts, Firefox’s share of the browser market will soon drop below 2%, Robin Berjon tries to formalize a name for those who can’t be named, Amy Lai tells the tale of the weirdest bug she’s ever seen & Facundo Olano trumps the “code is read more than written” cliche with his own: “code is run more than read.”
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The state of the 2023 tech market (Friends)
Gergely Orosz is back for our annual year-end update on the tech market, writ large. How is hiring? Has AI really changed the game? What about that OpenAI fiasco?
We also talk in-depth about Gergely’s self-published book, The Software Engineer’s Guidebook, which has been four years in the making.
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Gleaming the KubeCon (Interview)
This week we’re gleaming the KubeCon. Ok, some people say CubeCon, while others say KubeCon…we talk with Solomon Hykes about all things Dagger, Tammer Saleh and James McShane about going beyond cloud native with SuperOrbital, and Steve Francis and Spencer Smith about the state of Talos Linux and what they’re working on at Sidero Labs.
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- Tammer Saleh – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- James McShane – GitHub, X
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- Spencer Smith – GitHub, LinkedIn
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
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Was Jamstack a zero interest rate phenomenon? (News)
Zach Leatherman on the tension and future of the Jamstack community, Chenxin Li helps you avoid 13 bad practices in data visualization, Laravel Pulse is coming real soon, Max Chernyak develops a new way to accomplish long term refactors & Spencer Baugh makes the case for more libraries and less services in our software stacks.
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Bringing Dev Mode to Figma (Interview)
This week on we’re joined by Emil Sjölander from Figma — talking about bringing Dev Mode to Figma. Dev Mode is their new workspace in Figma that’s designed to bring developers and design to the same tool.
The question they’re trying to answer is “How do you create a home for developers in a design tool?” We go way back to Emil’s startup that was acquired by Figma called Visly, how we iterated to here from 20 years ago (think PSD > HTML days), what they did to build Dev Mode, what they’re doing around codegen, the popularity of design systems, and what it takes to go from zero to Dev Mode.
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Watching OpenAI unravel in real-time (News)
The internet watches OpenAI unravel in real-time, tldraw has a new experiment going with GPT-4 Vision that turns mockups into code, Tony Ennis makes the case for HTML First, James Somers writes a “eulogy” to coding for The New Yorker & Laurence Tratt describes and details four kinds of optimisation.
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It dependencies (Friends)
Jerod goes one-on-one with our old friend Justin Searls! We talk build vs buy decisions, dependency selection & how Justin has implemented POSSE (Post On Site Syndicate Elsewhere) in response to the stratification of social networks.
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- Lineman.js and JavaScript apps with Justin Searls (Changelog Interviews #128)
- Must have 10 years experience with Lineman.js: Why the right tools fail for the wrong reasons
- Justin’s favorite newsletter
- Changelog Nightly source code
- indieweb.org/POSSE
- POSSE on justin.searls.co
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All the places Swift will go (Interview)
This week we’re talking about Swift with Ben Cohen, the Swift Team Manager at Apple. We caught up with Ben while at KubeCon last week. Ben takes us into the world of Swift, from Apple Native apps on iOS and macOS, to the Swift Server Workgroup for developing and deploying server side applications, to the Swift extension for VS Code, Swift as a safe C/C++ successor language, Swift on Linux and Windows, and of course what The Browser Company’s Arc browser is doing to bring Arc to Windows.
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- Swift is available for macOS, Windows, and Linux
- The Browser Company (who are bringing their Arc browser, written in Swift, to Windows) recently open sourced their bindings for WinRT
- The Swift on Server Working Group
- Swift extension for VS Code (if Xcode isn’t your thing)
- NSA recently published a report urging people to move off of C and C++:
- John McCall (who chairs the Language Steering Group) at CppNow recently
- The goals for Swift 6
- Miguel de Icaza proposing using Swift in the Godot game engine
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Share your terminal with anyone on the web (News)
sshx lets you share your terminal with anyone on a multiplayer infinite canvas, Herbert Lui writes three things about your competitors, Anton Medvedev’s fx is a terminal JSON viewer & processor, Danny Castonguay shares advice on attending large conferences & Jeremy Pinto’s experimental RAGTheDocs project is working toward an exciting reality.
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Backslashes are trash (Friends)
Mat Ryer returns with his guitar, an unpopular opinion & his favorite internet virus.
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- S100 Pbzzbaf Ebnq, Fhvg 7-701, Qevccvat Fcevatf, GK 78620
- ILOVEYOU - Wikipedia
- Samy (computer worm) - Wikipedia
- MySpace Worm Explanation
- The Net (1995) - IMDb
- Renfield (2023) - IMDb
- The Rock (1996) - IMDb
- Adaptation. (2002) - IMDb
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Pushing back on unconstrained capitalism (Interview)
This week we’re talking with Cory Doctorow (this episode contains explicit language) about how we can get back to that “new good internet.” Cory’s new book The Internet Con offers a lens to this conversation about disenshittifying the internet through anti-trust laws, limits on corporate tweaking, regulating unconstrained capitalism, and all the ways enshittification is enabled. Cory also shares his experience recording his own audio book under the direction of Gabrielle de Cuir at Skyboat Media, and what’s to come from his next Science Fiction book The Lost Cause.
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- The Internet Con
- libro.fm
- The Lost Cause
- Cory’s talk at DEF CON 31
- Changelog Interviews #535: Examining capitalism’s chokepoints
- Skyboat Media
- The History of the Standard Oil Company by Ida M. Tarbell
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How to write a good comment (News)
David Hugh-Jones has a lot to say about what makes a good comment, Hugging Face released a distilled variant of Whisper for speech recognition, The New Stack reports on C++ creator Bjarne Stroustrup’s plan for bringing safety to the language, Jeff Sandberg declares that CSS is fun again & Jose M. Gilgado praises the beauty of finished software.
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Beat freak in residence (Friends)
We’re joined this week by the beat freak in residence himself, the mysterious Breakmaster Cylinder. Listen along as we talk about how we make our beats, what inspires us for our music, and some behind the scenes on our latest albums.
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Our Albums
- Next Level: Buy on Apple Music or Bandcamp. Stream on Spotify or Apple Music.
- Theme Songs: Buy on Apple Music or Bandcamp. Stream on Spotify or Apple Music.
Notes from the show
- Watermelon Sugar X Seaside
- The Song Michael Jackson ‘Stole’ From Hall & Oates
- Sia - Elastic Heart feat. Shia LaBeouf & Maddie Ziegler (Official Video)
- Halt and Catch Fire Theme
- Pole Position Theme Song (Cover)
- Osmo Coding Jam
- Let’s Rescore Mad Max: Fury Road
- Ballroom Blitz (Wayne’s World)
- Bohemian Rhapsody (Wayne’s World)
- Jay_cee: Castlevania NES Speedrun in 10:45 (WR)
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Observing the power of APIs (Interview)
Jean Yang’s research on programming languages at Carnegie Mellon led her to realize that APIs are the layer that makes or breaks quality software systems. Unfortunately, developers are underserved by tools for dealing with, securing & understanding APIs.
That realization led her to found Akita Software, which led her to join Postman by way of acquisition. That move, at least in part, also led her to join us on this very podcast. We think you’re going to enjoy this interview, we sure did.
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- Modern software is built on APIs featuring Abhinav Asthana (Changelog Interviews #360)
- Why Aren’t There More Programming Languages Startups?
- Building for the “99% Developers”
- Postman Live Insights: automatically discover, monitor, and add APIs
- Zapier | Automation that moves you forward
- Flows | Postman API Platform
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What will React come up with Next? (News)
The hubbub of the web dev world right now is Next.js’ integration of React Server Components, Kent C. Dodds writes up why he doesn’t use Next, Lee Robinson responds with why he does, the NixOS team hits a milestone in their reproducible builds effort & OpenSign is an open source alternative to DocuSign.
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Protecting screen time (Friends)
Jared Henderson joins us to discuss the state of the art in software parental controls and how we protect our children and lock down our home networks from the constant onslaught of malicious and unwanted content.
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- NextDNS - The new firewall for the modern Internet
- pfSense® - World’s Most Trusted Open Source Firewall
- Gertrude | Mac Internet Filter, Parental Controls and Activity Monitoring
- Tailscale · Best VPN Service for Secure Networks
- Vapor
- hummingbird: Lightweight, flexible HTTP server framework written in Swift
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ANTHOLOGY — The way of open source (Interview)
This week we’re taking you to the hallway track of All Things Open 2023 in Raleigh, NC. Today’s episode features: Matthew Sanabria (former Engineer at HashiCorp working on Terraform Enterprise), Nithya Ruff (Chief Open Source Officer and Head of the Open Source Program Office at Amazon) & Jordan Harband (Open Source Maintainer-at-large with dependencies in most JavaScript apps out there.
There has been many changes this year in open source, and each of these perspectives lends insight into challenging and changing waters happening right now in open source.
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- OpenTofu
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- System Initiative
- Jordan Harband on GitHub Sponsors
- 📸 Jordan’s GitHub contributor city
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Next Level (Interview)
Listen to our Next Level album as a podcast! We grew up in the days of the Nintendo Entertainment System and the Sega Genesis. It’s no surprise that so many of our tracks are inspired by the 8-bit and 16-bit music of our youth. From Castlevania to Contra, Sonic the Hedgehog, and many more — we were inspired by all the nostalgic soundtracks from the games that got us here, to give our pods one-of-a-kind vibes. If you’ve been head nodding to our beats during our shows and you’ve been wishing for a way to listen outside of our pods, then this release will be an absolute delight.
It’s dangerous to go alone! Take this on your next coding adventure or deep work session…
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Introducing Changelog Beats (News)
Changelog drops full-length musical albums in collaboration with Breakmaster Cylinder, Justin Searls on why the right tools fail for the wrong reasons, The Unix Sheikh says we have too many level of abstractions, Adam at PiCockpit compares the newly-announced Raspberry Pi 5 to the competition & Jorge Medina assures us that we’re not lacking creativity, we’re just overwhelmed by content.
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Human skills to pay the bills (Friends)
Long time friend KBall makes his “first” appearance on The Changelog by way of Changelog & Friends. You likely know Kevin from his panelist position on JS Party. Today he’s sharing his passion for coaching and developing human skills.
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Pushing ntfy to the next level (Interview)
This week Jerod goes solo with Philipp Heckel, creator of ntfy, to discuss this simple HTTP-based service that lets you send notifications to your phone or desktop via scripts from any computer. They discuss why he built it, how he built it, and what his plans are for the future of this beloved side hustle.
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LMMS are the new LLMs (News)
Chip Huyen documents the shifting sand of large data models, Herman Õunapuu reviews the Zimaboard, Bryan Braun shares 4 of his most recent VSCode configuration discoveries & Swizec Teller wrote a great summary of the inaugural AI Engineer Summit.
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Kaizen! Slightly more instant (Friends)
Gerhard joins us for the 12th Kaizen and this time talk about what we DIDN’T do. We were holding S3 wrong, we put some cash back in our pockets, we enabled HTTP/3, Brotli compression, and Fastly websockets, we improved our SLOs, we improved Changelog Nightly, and we’re going to KubeCon 2023 in Chicago.
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- 👕 Kaizen T-Shirt
- 🗒️ Kaizen 12
- Changelog Neural Search by Duarte O.Carmo
- Fastly URL purge
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Coming to asciinema near you (Interview)
This week we’re joined by Marcin Kulik to talk about his project asciinema. You’ve likely seen this out there in the wild — asciinema lets you record and share your terminal sessions in full fidelity. Forget screen recording apps that offer blurry video. asciinema provides a lightweight, text-based approach to terminal recording with lots of possibilities. Marcin shares the backstory on this project, where he’d like to take it, who’s supporting him along the way, and we even included 11 minutes of bonus content for Changelog ++ subscribers.
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RTO vs WFH & the case for strong static typing (News)
Jacob Kaplan-Moss’ recommendations for remote vs colocated teams, Duarte Carmo created a neural search engine from Changelog transcripts, Tom Hacohen says strong static typing is a hill he’s willing to die on, Orhun Parmaksız created a CLI that makes your keyboard sound like a typewriter & Luke Plant spits hard truths about simplicity.
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The beginning of the end of physical media (Friends)
On September 29th, Netflix shipped its final DVDs, marking the end of an era in physical media. So, we invited our friend Christina Warren (aka film_girl) from GitHub to pour out a drink with us and lament the end of this golden age of access to the films we all love.
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- Netflix Mails Its Final DVD to Customers, Marking the End of an Era - IGN
- Netflix Prepares to Send Its Final Red Envelope - The New York Times
- Netflix’s Qwikster Debacle | MIT Technology Review
- The Ultimate Movie Platform - Kaleidescape
- Matt Damon on Hot Ones
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Tauri’s next big move (Interview)
This week we’re joined by Daniel Thompson, Co-founder and Core Member of Tauri. It’s been a year since we last had Daniel on the show. He catches us up on all things Tauri, their continued efforts towards Tauri 1.5 (which just released), the launch of CrabNebula and how they’re the people pushing the Tauri ecosystem forward and building on top of it, the state of Electron vs Tauri, and UI with Tauri. He even surprises us with his idea of creating a web browser.
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InfluxDB drops Go for Rust but gokrazy is really cool (News)
InfluxDB finishes a multi-year rewrite in Rust, the Raspberry Pi 5 will be on sale by the end of the month, the Bruno team builds an open source API explorer that’s local-first and will never have a cloud, Xe Iaso thinks gokrazy is really cool & Matt Rickard shares lessons from years of debugging.
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#define: a game of fake definitions (Friends)
Jerod gathers a group of friends for our first game show experiment here on Changelog & Friends! This is a game of obscure jargon, fake definitions & expert tomfoolery. Our contestants checked their imposter syndrome at the door, because they either know what these words mean or they fake it ’til they make their peers think they do.
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Vibes from Strange Loop (Interview)
This week we’re taking you to the hallway track of the final Strange Loop conference. First up is AnnMarie Thomas — an engineering, business, and education professor. AnnMarie gave one of the opening keynotes titled “Playing with Engineering.” We also caught up with many first-time and multi-time attendees who shared their favorite moments from Strange Loop over the years. You’ll hear from Richard Feldman, Colin Dean, and Taylor Troesh. Last up we talk with Pokey Rule. He gave a talk about his project called Cursorless which is a spoken language for structural code editing.
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Also, a huge thanks to Alex Miller (the organizer of Strange Loop) for being so kind to us and getting us there for the final Strange Loop. It was quite the experience.
AnnMarie
Richard Feldman
Colin Dean
Taylor Troesch
Pokey Rule
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The missing sync layer for modern apps (News)
ElectricSQL is a project that offers a local-first sync layer for web and mobile apps, Ned Batchelder writes about the myth of the myth of “learning styles”, Carl Johnson thinks XML is better than YAML, Berkan Sasmaz defines and describes “idempotency” & HyperDX is an open source alternative Datadog or New Relic.
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Open source is at a crossroads (Interview)
This week we’re joined by Steve O’Grady, Principal Analyst & Co-founder at RedMonk. The topic today is the definition of open source, the constant pressure on the true definition of the term, and the seemingly small but vocal minority that aim to protect that definition. In Steve’s post Why Open Source Matters, he says “open source is at a crossroads” and there are some seeking to break the definition of open source to one that is more permissive to their desires, and they are closer than ever to achieving that goal. Today’s conversation goes deep on this subject.
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- You can FINALLY use JSHint for evil with Mike Pennisi
- Introducing Infrastructure Manager powered by Terraform - cloud.coogle.com
- Luis Villa’s Open(ish) Machine Learning News newsletter
- Open Source Initiative - donate
- Deep Dive: AI Webinar Series
- Stefano Maffulli, Executive Director of OSI since 2021
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Death by a thousand microservices (News)
Andrei Taranchenko says the software industry is learning once again that complexity kills, Casey Muratori outlines a long list of Unity alternatives, Filip Szkandera builds a functioning (macro) processor for RISC-V & Matt Basta tells the tale of the time he built a web-based Excel clone inside Uber only to have it discarded a week later.
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What do we want from a web browser? (Friends)
A hoy hoy! Our old friend Nick Nisi does his best to bring up TypeScript, Vim & Tmux as many times as possible while we discuss a new batch of web browsers, justify why we like the ones we do & try to figure out what it’d take to disrupt the status quo of Big Browser.
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- Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome | Ars Technica
- Arc from The Browser Company
- Sizzy — The browser for web developers
- Polypane, The browser for ambitious web developers
- Orion Browser
- Vivaldi Browser | Powerful, Personal and Private web browser
- The Ladybird browser project
- Horse Browser
- Web Browser Quiche on the App Store
- Nyxt browser: The hacker’s browser
- Opera browser goes free with version 5.0 launch • The Register
- Nick’s vim + tmux video
- Vim with Me playlist
- Our viral short on Instagram Reels
- Gabe Kangas on Mastodon
- Rich Harris on JS Party
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Attack of the Canaries! (Interview)
This week we’re joined by Haroon Meer from Thinkst — the makers of Canary and Canary Tokens. Haroon walks us through a network getting compromised, what it takes to deploy a Canary on your network, how they maintain low false-positive numbers, their thoughts and principles on building their business (major wisdom shared!), and how a Canary helps surface network attacks in real time.
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Bun 1.0 is here & Mojo is ready for download (News)
Bun 1.0 is out of the oven, Mojo is now available for local download, Vince Lwt asked 60+ LLMs a set of 20 questions & published the answers, Textual Web turns TUIs in to web applications & James Haydon dives deep to discover the bug that the UK air traffic control meltdown.
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Doomed to discuss AI (Friends)
Author, journalist, travel writer & software engineer Jon Evans joins us to weigh in on the cultural history (and present-day sentiment) of AI doom. Along the way, we talk plausible Sci-Fi, ultrasound drug delivery, the maybe-evolving laws of physics & even weirder stuff.
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- Inside GitHub’s Arctic Code Vault
- A Study: Ancient Egyptians used sound waves in building pyramids
- Extropia’s Children Redux - by Jon Evans
- The Only Way to Deal With the Threat From AI? Shut It Down | Time
- Nick Jones
- Dennis E. Taylor
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OpenTF for an open Terraform (Interview)
This week we’re talking about the launch of OpenTF and what it’s going to take to successfully fork HashiCorp’s Terraform. We’re joined by Josh Padnick to discuss what exactly happened, how HashiCorp’s license change changes things, who has been impacted by this change, and ultimately what they are doing about it.
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- The OpenTF fork is now available!
- opentffoundation/opentf
- Kelsey Hightower on HashiCorp CEO Dave McJannet’s use of the word “malicious” on Oxide & Friends
- Terragrunt
- Terraform’s license
We were going to link to the video where HashiCorp CEO Dave McJannet’s used the word “malicious” in regards to their strategy and actions towards the open source community, but it has been taken down. This was the link to the video with a timestamp jumping to the part in question - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59rEiAyYEVk&t=920s
This tweet/post from Bryan Cantrill brought this to the community’s attention.
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A portrait of the best worst programmer (News)
Dan North tells the tale of Tim, the worst programmer he’s worked with (who also is a heck of a programmer), Kevin Lin declares that OpenTelemetry delivers on its promise for open observability, Justin Garrison details Terraform vs GitOps vs System Initiative, Inc. writes how Apple beats burnout & Aline Lerner’s advice on how (not) to sabotage your salary negotiations before you even start.
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You call it tech debt I call it malpractice (Friends)
Go Time panelist (and semi-professional unpopular opinion maker) Kris Brandow joins us to discuss his deep-dive on the waterfall paper, his dislike of the “tech debt” analogy, why documentation matters so much & how everything is a distributed system.
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Back to the terminal of the future (Interview)
This week on The Changelog Adam is joined by Zach Lloyd, Founder & CEO of Warp. We talked with Zach last year about what it takes to build the terminal of the future, and today Adam catches up with Zach to see where they are at on that mission. They talk about the business model of Warp, how they measure success, reaching product/market fit, building features developers love, integrating AI, and the pros and cons of going open source (again).
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OpenTF sticks a fork in Terraform (News)
OpenTF announces they’re forking Terraform and joining the Linux Foundation, Meta gets in the LLM-for-codegen game with Code Llama, Matt Mullenweg announces WordPress.com’s new 100-year plan, Paul Gichuki from Thinkst learns that default behaviors stick (and so do examples) & Marco Otte-Witte makes his case for Rust on the web.
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The serenity of building your own OS (Interview)
This week we’re talking to Andreas Kling about SerenityOS and Ladybird. Andreas started SerenityOS as a means of therapy. It’s self-described as a love letter to “‘90s user interfaces with a custom Unix-like core.” Andreas previously worked at Nokia and later at Apple on the WebKit team, so he had an itch to do something along the lines of a browser, and that’s where Ladybird came from. We get into the details of compilers, OSs, browsers, web specifications, and the love of making software.
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- serenityOS
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- The Jakt programming language
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All your CAPTCHAs are belong to bots (News)
New research shows that CAPTCHAs are now utterly useless, hundreds of concerned technologists signed the OpenTF Manifesto to keep Terraform open source forever, Josh Collinsworth writes down all the things you forgot (or never knew) because of React, Mike Seidle shared some quick-but-powerful advice on building new software features & Erlend Sogge Heggen urges new open source projects to join the Fediverse (by way of Mastodon).
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An aberrant generation of programmers (Friends)
Our friend Justin Searls recently published a widely-read essay on enthusiast programmers, inter-generational conflict & what we do with this information. That seemed like a good conversation starter, so we grabbed Justin and Landon Gray to discuss. Let’s talk!
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- Test Double
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- Louisville’s AI Schoolbus Route fiasco
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30 years of Debian (Interview)
This week we’re talking with Jonathan Carter who’s on his fourth term as Debian Project Lead (DPL) and we’re talking about 30 years of Debian!
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- A Brief History of Debian
- Debian Free Software Guidelines
- The Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG)
- DPL Platform (2022)
- Debian project leaders
- About Debian
- debconf.org
- PinePhone
- Software in the Public Interest (SPI)
- Changelog Interviews #237: Reproducible builds and secure software
- hackclub.com
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The relicensings will continue until morale improves (News)
HashiCorp adopts a Business Source license, Matt Rickard hypothesizes why Tailwind CSS won, WarpStream sets out to make a Kafka-compatible offering directly on S3, Vadim Kravcenko publishes an excellent guide for managing difficult software engineers & Russ Cox gives an update on Go 2.
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Kaizen! S3 R2 B2 D2 (Friends)
Gerhard joins us for the 11th Kaizen and this one might contain the most improvements ever. We’re on Fly Apps V2, we’ve moved from S3 to R2 & we have a status page now, just to name a few.
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Thinking outside the box of code (Interview)
Leslie Lamport is a computer scientist & mathematician who won ACM’s Turing Award in 2013 for his fundamental contributions to the theory and practice of distributed and concurrent systems. He also created LaTeX and TLA+, a high-level language for “writing down the ideas that go into the program before you do any coding.”
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- The Man Who Revolutionized Computer Science With Math - YouTube
- TLA+ Helps Programmers Squash Bugs Before Coding - IEEE Spectrum
The TLA+ Home Page
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The open source licensing war is over? (News)
Matt Asay thinks the open source licensing war is over, LangUI is an open source Tailwind component library for your AI chat app, Ivan Kuleshov modded a Mac mini to run via PoE, Apple joins Pixar and others in the Alliance for OpenUSD & John D. Cook says sometimes you shouldn’t pick the best tool for the job.
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DX on DX (Interview)
This week Adam is joined by Abi Noda, founder and CEO of DX to talk about DX AKA DevEx (or the long-form Developer Experience). Since the dawn of software development there has been this push to understand what makes software teams efficient, but more importantly what does it take to understand developer productivity? That’s what Abi has been focused on for the better part of the last 8 years of his career. He started a company called Pull Panda that was acquired by GitHub, spent a few years there on this problem before going out on his own to start DX which helps startups to the fortune 500 companies gather real insights that leads to real improvement.
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- GitHub acquires Pull Panda
- DevOps Research and Assessment
- A Better Way to Measure Developer Productivity
- DevEx: What Actually Drives Productivity
- How Google Measures and Manages Tech Debt
- Defining, Measuring, and Managing Technical Debt
- Changelog Interviews #527: What it takes to scale engineering (with Rachel Potvin)
- Dr. Nicole Forsgren Joins DX
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Something interesting is going on at Stack Overflow (News)
The fall of Stack Overflow, researches dig up some new (and potentially unavoidable) LLM attacks, Google proposes a new API that Ron Amadeo calls a DRM gatekeeper for the web, the Python Steering Council affirms PEP 703 & Lucas McGregor writes why no one wants to talk to your chatbot.
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Homelab nerds, unite! (Friends)
Ok Homelabbers, it’s time to unite! Join Adam and his new friend Techno Tim for 1.5 hours of homelab goodness. From networking and WiFi, virtualizing Ubuntu running Docker containers, to Home Assistant and automation, building a Kubernetes cluster, to gutting a perfectly good machine just to build exactly what you need to run the ultimate Plex server — that’s what homelab is about. Let’s do this.
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- Ubiquiti / Unifi
- Proxmox
- Ubuntu
- Rocky Linux
- 45drives - Storinator AV15
- Docker
- Portainer
- Kubernetes
- Plex
- Pi-Hole
- Tailscale
- ZFS (OpenZFS)
- Changelog Interviews #475: Making the ZFS file system (with Matt Ahrens)
- Protectli
- Sysracks
- Rackstuds
- ASUS ProArt Z790
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From Docker to Dagger (Interview)
This week we’re joined by Solomon Hykes, the creator of Docker. Now he’s back with his next big thing called Dagger — CI/CD as code that runs anywhere. We’re users of Dagger so check out our codebase if you want to see how it works. On today’s show Solomon takes us back to the days of Docker, what it was like on that 10 year journey, his transition from Docker to Dagger, Dagger’s community-led growth model, their focus on open source and community, how it works, and even a cameo from Kelsey Hightower to explain how Dagger works.
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- dagger.io
- docs.dagger.io
- Changelog & Friends #6: Even the best rides come to an end
- Ship It! #48: Launching Dagger
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Supabase quietly went public (News)
Our friends at Supabase quietly went public today, Redpoint’s InfraRed 100 report is out, Twitter is now X, GitHub’s Copilot Chat now in public preview (for businesses) & Oxide has homelab plans (in 2050).
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Bringing the cloud on prem (Friends)
Adam was out when Bryan made his podcast debut here on The Changelog, so we had to get him back on the show along with his co-founder and CEO Steve Tuck to discuss Silicon Valley (the TV show), all things Oxide, homelab possibilities, bringing the power of the cloud on prem, and more.
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- Crate tui
- On the Metal with Jeff Rothschild
- Oxide specs
- The Changelog #496: Oxide builds servers (as they should be)
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Storytime with Steve Yegge (Interview)
This week it’s storytime with Steve Yegge! Steve came out of retirement to join Sourcegraph as Head of Engineering. Their next frontier is Cody, their AI coding assistant that answers code questions and writes code for you by reading your entire codebase and the code graph. But, we really spent a lot of time talking with Steve about his time at Amazon, Google, and Grab. Ok, it’s storytime!
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- steve-yegge-platform-rant-follow-up.md
- Steve Yegge joins as Head of Engineering (or, “Why I left retirement to join Sourcegraph”)
- All You Need Is Cody
- Cody is Cheating
- A good day with Jeff
- Steve Yegge on Wikipedia
- Why I left Google to join Grab
- Cody AI
- Yin and Yang on Wikipedia
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Magical shell history & why engineers should focus on writing (News)
Ellie Huxtable’s Atuin makes your shell history magical, Dmitry Kudryavtsev writes why he thinks engineers should focus on writing, LazyVim promises to transform your Neovim setup into a full-fleged IDE, Geoff Graham shares with Smashing Magazine how he writes CSS in 2023 & Brad Fitzpatrick collects a public list of bad issue track behaviors.
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Dear Red Hat... (Friends)
Red Hat’s decision to lock down RHEL sources behind a subscription paywall was met with much ire and opened opportunity for Oracle to get a smack in and SUSE to announce a fork with $10 million behind it.
Few RHEL community members have been as publicly irate as Jeff Geerling, so we invited him on the show to discuss.
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- Jeff: Dear Red Hat: Are you dumb?
- Jeff: Removing official support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Jeff: I’m done with Red Hat (Enterprise Linux)
- The rise of Rocky Linux with Greg Kurtzer
- Oracle coverage on Changelog News
- Debian is cool
- TechCrunch: Why SUSE is forking Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Adam Jacob’s tweet
- Red Hat’s June 21st blog post
- Red Hat’s June 26th blog post
- Oracle’s epic press release
- Mike McGrath’s post clarifying use of the term ‘freeloaders’
- Mike McGrath posting about ‘bad-faith action’
- An analysis of the GPL issues with RHEL Business Model
- SUSE’s fork press release
- Rocky Linux’s response
- The problem with Rocky Linux and free beer | LinkedIn
- AlmaLinux’s response
- Huge Open Source Drama - YouTube
- LTX 2023
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Types will win in the end (Interview)
This week we’re talking about type checking with Jake Zimmerman. Jake is one of the leads at Stripe working on Sorbet — an open source project that does Type checking in Ruby and runs over Stripe’s entire Ruby codebase. As of May of 2022 Stripe’s codebase was over 15 million lines of code spread across 150,000 files. If you think you have a bigger Ruby codebase, Jake is down to go byte-for-byte to see who wins. Jake shares tons of wisdom and more importantly he shares why he thinks types will win in the end.
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Oracle smacks IBM over RHEL (News)
Oracle smacks IBM for their handling of RHEL, the folks at The Dam share a Slack clone in 5 lines of Bash, Justin Jaffray writes up 13 ways to think about joins, llama.cpp learns web chat thanks to a contribution by Tobi Lütke & Meta is willing to pay 3 engineers to remove Python’s GIL.
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Efficient Linux at the CLI (Interview)
This week we’re talking to Daniel J. Barrett, author of Efficient Linux at the Command Line as well as many other books. Daniel has a PhD and has been teaching and writing about Linux for more than 30 years (almost 40!). So we invited Dan to join us on the show to talk about efficient ways to use Linux. He teaches us about combining commands, re-running commands, $CDPATH hacks, and more.
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Streak redemption, vectors are the new JSON, CommonJS is hurting JavaScript & the rise of the AI Engineer (News)
Lukas Mathis writes about streak redemption, Jonathan Katz thinks vectors are the new JSON, Andy Jiang says CommonJS is hurting JavaScript & Swyx on the rise of the AI Engineer.
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Even the best rides come to an end (Friends)
On Monday, Kelsey Hightower announced his retirement from Google. On Tuesday, he sat down with us to discuss why, how & what’s next.
Along the way, Kelsey teaches us how not to suck at work, analyzes his magical demos, fights off the haters (again) & opines on System Initiative, Dagger & 37Signals moving off the cloud.
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- “Today I’m announcing my retirement from Google.”
- Not Everyone Can Be Kelsey Hightower - Greg Poirier - YouTube
- Rebuilding DevOps from the ground up with Adam Jacob
- Why we’re leaving the cloud
- We have left the cloud
- MRSK — Deploy web apps anywhere
- Two decades as a solo indie Mac dev with Jesse Grosjean
- btop on GitHub
- Dagger
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Don't make things worse! (Interview)
Taylor Troesh joins Jerod to discuss a bevy of software development topics: yak shaves, dependency selection, -10x engineers, IKEA-oriented development, his new content-addressable programming language & much more along the way.
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- IKEA-Oriented Development
- 11 Ways to Shave a Yak
- How to be a -10x Engineer
- The Lindy Effect
- Crafting Interpreters
- The Unison language
- Scrapscript
- The Mother of All Demos - Wikipedia
- Opening Keynote: Greg Young - Stop Over-Engenering - YouTube
- The art of destroying software (Greg Young) - YouTube
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AI poisoned its own well, libraries to UnsuckJS, we need more Richard Stallman & ChatGPT package hallucination (News)
Tracy Durnell thinks AI has already poisoned its own well, Adam Hill’s microsite catalogs everything you need to UnsuckJS, Lionel Dricot thinks we need more Richard Stallman, not less & the Vulcan team proves you can’t trust ChatGPT’s package recommendations.
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There's a whole PEP about that (Friends)
Brett Cannon (our unofficial ambassador to the Python community) is here to help alleviate our pip install anxiety. Along the way, we ask him about Python 4, removing the GIL, what he thinks about Chris Lattner’s Mojo project, Rust in the Python world & way more (of course).
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- In response to the Changelog #526
- Raku
- Perl Mongers
- pipx
- Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe
- Mojo.🔥
- Why Mojo
- Astral
- RustPython: A Python Interpreter written in Rust
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Rebuilding DevOps from the ground up (Interview)
This week we’re joined by Adam Jacob and we’re talking about his mission at System Initiative to rebuild DevOps. They are out of stealth mode and ready to show off their transformative new power tool that reimagines what’s possible from DevOps. It’s an intelligent automation platform that allows DevOps teams to build detailed interactive simulations of their infrastructure and use them to rapidly update their production environments.
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- System Initiative
- System Initiative launch demo
- What if Infrastructure as Code never existed, by Adam Jacob
- 10+ deploys per day at Flickr
- Changelog Interviews #353: The war for the soul of open source
- Changelog Interviews #460: The business model of open source
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An open platform for LLMs, speed matters, imaginary problems, Val Town & how to finish your projects (News)
An open platform for operating LLMs in production, working quickly is more important than it seems, imaginary problems are the root of bad software, Val Town is a social website to write and run code & Aaron Francis’ guide to finishing your projects.
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"Mat Depends" (Friends)
Mat Ryer is back and he’s brought with him 10 tips to be a 10x developer (like he is). After that, we try a new segment we’re calling “Tool Time” (and try out a few jingles for it along the way). Finally, it’s time to review our previous unpopular opinions and put some new ones into the world for your (dis)agreeing pleasure. Join us for an automagical time!
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- How ‘Back to the Future 2’ Tricked You Into Thinking Crispin Glover Returned
- Mat on The Changelog #526
- The Synergistic Interplay between Vitamins D and K for Bone and Cardiovascular Health
- Introducing Wood Milk: Aubrey Plaza’s Newest Product #drinkwoodmilk - YouTube
- golangci-lint
- credo for Elixir
- 1Password
- ntfy.sh
- Queen Latifah - U.N.I.T.Y. - YouTube
- NextDNS
- NextDNS wiki on UnifiOS
- I Made a Tiny Touch ID Button for Mac!
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Passkeys for a passwordless future (Interview)
This week we’re talking about Passkeys with Anna Pobletts, Head of Passwordless, at 1Password. Will Passkeys enable a passwordless future? Time will tell. Anna shares the what, the why, how, and the when on Passkeys.
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- Passkeys: the future of authentication in 1Password
- Passage by 1Password
- Passkeys Overview (Apple Developer)
- Supporting Passkeys (Apple Developer)
- passkeys.directory
- passkeys.dev
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Reddit goes dark, Lemmy lights up, OpenObserve, some blogging myths & Jefro on Automotive Linux (News)
Reddit goes dark as subreddits protest, Lemmy lights up as disillusioned redditors turn to the fediverse, OpenObserve is a cloud native observability platform, Julia Evans dispels some myths about blogging & Red Hat’s Jeffrey “Jefro” Osier-Mixon tells Adam and Jerod all about Automotive Linux at Open Source Summit NA.
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Reactions to Apple’s new vision (Friends)
Homebrew project leader Mike McQuaid joins us to weigh in on Apple’s big Vision Pro announcement. We also hit on our favorite (and least favorite) non-AR things from the WWDC 2023 keynote.
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- Apple’s official Vision Pro page
- Sarah Dietschy: I Tried the Apple Vision Pro 👀
- The Verge: Apple Vision Pro first look
- Valve Index
- WWDC Highlights
- Apple sure kicked Meta’s butt today, right?
- CmdrTaco on the iPod
- Day One
- Aaron Levie’s tweet
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ANTHOLOGY — It's a Cloud Native world (Interview)
This is our last week of hallway track coverage at The Linux Foundation’s Open Source Summit North America 2023 in Vancouver, Canada. Today’s anthology episode features: Jeffrey Sica (Developer Experience & Programs @ CNCF), Eddie Zaneski (Kubernetes SIG CLI), Yaron Schneider (Co-creator of Dapr and Founder and CTO at Diagrid).
Special thanks to our friends at GitHub for sponsoring us to attend this conference as part of Maintainer Month.
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- Yaron Schneider – GitHub, X
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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Part 1
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Starlight, Knuth asks ChatGPT, Stack Overflow mods strike, Reddit API pricing revolt & open source AI has a new champ (News)
The Astro team releases a new documentation builder, legendary computer scientist Donald Knuth plays with ChatGPT, over 500 volunteer mods have signed an open letter to Stack Overflow Inc, Reddit faces a revolt due to their new API pricing & the Technology Innovation Institute release Falcon, a new open source LLM that’s topping Hugging Face’s leaderboard.
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Kaizen! The best pipeline ever™ (Friends)
Gerhard is back! Today we continue our Kaizen tradition by getting together (for the 10th time) with one of our oldest friends to talk all about the continuous improvements we’re making to Changelog’s platform and podcasts.
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- Kaizen episodes
- Gource
- Gerhard’s Ansible blog post from 2014 (!)
- changelog.com on GitHub
- GitHub discussion changelog.com#452
- Ken Kost’s merged contribution
- Jerod wants a WiFi BaseStation XG
- Gerhard recommends Mikrotik
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ANTHOLOGY — Maintaining maintainers (Interview)
This week on The Changelog we’re continuing our Maintainer Month series by taking to you back to the hallway track of The Linux Foundation’s Open Source Summit North America 2023 in Vancouver, Canada. Today’s anthology episode features: Stormy Peters (VP of Communities at GitHub), Dr. Dawn Foster (Director of Open Source Community Strategy at VMware), and Angie Byron (Drupal Core Product Manager and Community Director at Aiven).
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- Dr. Dawn Foster – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Angie Byron – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- GitHub Sponsors
- GitHub Accelerator
- CHAOSS
- Changelog Interviews #321: Drupal is a pretty big deal
- Drupal
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An API store for LLMs, DeviceScript, Nyxt: the hacker's browser, expectations debt & there's still no silver bullet (News)
The Gorilla team is building an API store for LLMs, DeviceScript is Microsoft’s new TypeScript programming environment for microcontrollers, Nyxt is a hackable browser written in Lisp, Morgan Housel writes about expectations debt & I issue a gentle reminder to my fellow software engineers: there’s still no silver bullet.
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Introducing Changelog & Friends (Friends)
What if your favorite conference’s hallway track continued year round? That’s the vibe we’re trying to capture with Changelog & Friends, a new Friday talk show from your friends at Changelog. In this intro episode, Adam & Jerod talk all about our new MWF plan for The Changelog , discuss what this Friends flavor is all about, and have a lot of fun along the way.
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- Friday: Changelog & Friends
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ANTHOLOGY — Open source AI (Interview)
This week on The Changelog we’re taking you to the hallway track of The Linux Foundation’s Open Source Summit North America 2023 in Vancouver, Canada. Today’s anthology episode features: Beyang Liu (Co-founder and CTO at Sourcegraph), Denny Lee (Developer Advocate at Databricks), and Stella Biderman (Executive Director and Head of Research at EleutherAI).
Special thanks to our friends at GitHub for sponsoring us to attend this conference as part of Maintainer Month.
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The common denominator for these conversations is open source AI.
Beyang Liu and his team at Sourcegraph are focused on enabling more developers to understand code and their approach to a completely open source, model agnostic, coding assistant called Cody has significant interest from us.
Denny Lee and the team at Databricks recently released Dolly 2.0, the first open source, instruction-following LLM, that has been fine-tuned on a human-generated instruction dataset and is licensed for research and commercial use. They want to be the platform of choice the future of AI development.
Stella Biderman gave the keynote address on generative AI at the conference and works at the base layer doing open source research, model training, and AI ethics. Stella trained the EleutherAI pythia model family that Databricks’ used to create Dolly - 2.0.
- Cody from Sourcegraph - Read, write, and understand code 10x faster with AI. Cody answers code questions and writes code for you by reading your entire codebase and the code graph.
- Free Dolly: Introducing the World’s First Truly Open Instruction-Tuned LLM
- EleutherAI - Empowering Open Source Artificial Intelligence Research
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Trogon, StableStudio, life after Apple, Google's problematic new TLDs & how to discuss programming languages (News)
Will McGugan’s Trogon auto-generates friendly TUIs for your CLI apps, Stability AI’s official open source variant of DreamStudio, John Calhoun writes about life after 26 years programming at Apple, Google’s news TLDs could be a boon to scammers & Pablo Meier documents a way to discuss programming languages.
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Engineering management (for the rest of us) (Interview)
This week Sarah Drasner joins us to talk about her book Engineering Management for the Rest of Us and her experience leading engineering at Zillow, Microsoft, Netlify, and now Google.
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- sarahdrasnerdesign.com
- Sarah Drasner on CSS Tricks
- Book: Engineering Management for the Rest of Us
- The Peter principle
- Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations
- Dr. Nicole Forsgren
- The Engineer/Manager Pendulum
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Syncthing, Thunderbird, Baseline & vector databases (News)
Thunderbird is thriving on small donations, Syncthing is a super-cool continuous file sync program, LLMs are so hot right now and they’re making vectors hot by proxy & MDN defines a Baseline for stable web features.
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How companies are sponsoring OSS (Interview)
This week we’re celebrating Maintainer Month along with our friends at GitHub. Open source runs the world, but who runs open source? Maintainers. Open source maintainers are behind the software we use everyday, but they don’t always have the community or support they need. That’s why we’re celebrating open source maintainers during the month of May. Today’s conversation features Alyssa Wright (Bloomberg), Chad Whitacre (Sentry), and Duane O’Brien (Creator of the FOSS Contributor Fund and framework). We get into all the details, the why, the hows, and the struggles involved for companies to support open source.
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- Alyssa Wright – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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We’re at Open Source Summit North America 2022 this week. If you’re there, come see us at the Maintainer Month booth in the expo area.
- FOSS Funders (fossfunders.com) - Working together to fund open source.
- Maintainer Month
- Bloomberg Launches FOSS Fund to Support Free and Open Source Projects
- Bloomberg Corporate Philanthropy
- Hire My Team
- Changelog Interviews #392: Indeed’s FOSS Contributor Fund with Duane O’Brien
- Sovereign Tech Fund
- Changelog Interviews #490: Schneier on security for tomorrow’s software
- Investing in Open Source: The FOSS Contributor Fund by Duane O’Brien, Mandy Grover
- Changelog Interviews #515: ANTHOLOGY — Advocating for and supporting open source
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Mojo might be huge, chatbots aren't it, big tech lacks an AI moat & monoliths are not dinosaurs (News)
Jeremy Howard thinks Mojo might be the biggest programming language advance in decades, Amelia Wattenberger is not impressed by AI chatbots, a leaked Google memo admits big tech has no AI moats & Werner Vogels reminds us that monoliths are not dinosaurs.
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Livebook's big launch week (Interview)
José Valim joins Jerod to talk all about what’s new in Livebook – the Elixir-based interactive code notebook he’s been working on the last few years.
José made a big bet when he decided to bring machine learning to Elixir. That bet is now paying off with amazing new capabilities such as building and deploying a Whisper-based chat app to Hugging Face in just 15 minutes.
José demoed that and much more during Livebook’s first-ever launch week. Let’s get into it.
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Launch Week
- Day 1: Deploy notebooks as apps & quality-of-life upgrades
- Day 2: Distributed² Machine Learning notebooks with Elixir and Livebook
- Day 3: Hubs and secret management
- Day 4: Build and deploy a Whisper chat app to Hugging Face in 15 minutes
- Day 5: Data wrangling in Elixir with Explorer, the power of Rust, the elegance of R
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Hyperswitch, the future of programming, Thoughtworks' latest tech radar & your docs aren't "simple" (News)
Hyperswitch is like the adapter pattern for payments, Austin Henley writes about the future of programming by summarizing recent research papers, Thoughtworks published their 28th volume of their Tech Radar, the team at General Products reminds devs to scan our technical writing for words such as “easy”, “painless”, “straightforward”, “trivial”, “simple” and “just” & we finish with a lightning round of cool tools.
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Hard drive reliability at scale (Interview)
This week Adam talks with Andy Klein from Backblaze about hard drive reliability at scale.
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- Backblaze Drive Stats for 2022
- 10 Stories From 10 Years of Drive Stats Data
- Hard Drive Life Expectancy
- The SSD Edition: 2022 Drive Stats Review
- SSD 101: How Reliable are SSDs?
- Hard Drive Cost Per Gigabyte
- A Behind the Scenes Look at Our US East Data Center
- Sean Has a New Friend. His Name Is Guido.
- The Storage Pod Story: Innovation to Commodity
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Dataset wars, Bark, Kent Beck needs to recalibrate, StableLM & blind prompting is not prompt engineering (News)
The dataset wars are heating up, Bark is a transformer-based text-to-audio model that can generate highly realistic, multilingual speech as well as other audio, Kent Beck needs to recalibrate after using ChatGPT, the team behind Stable Diffusion release a new open source language model & Mitchel Hashimoto weighs in on prompt engineering.
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How do you do, fellow Hack Clubbers? (Interview)
This week we’re joined by Zach Latta, the Founder of Hack Club. At 16, Zach tested out of high school and moved to SF to join Yo as their first engineer. After playing a key role at Yo, he founded Hack Club to help teen hackers start coding clubs around the world. Today, teen hackers can meet IRL, online, at a hackathon, or leverage Hack Club Bank a fiscal sponsor to create their own organization. Hack Club is the program Zach wished he had in high school.
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- Invest in the future hacker generation
- hackclub.com
- Hack Club Bank
- hackclub/sprig
- Sprig - The game console where every player is a creator
- Meet the 18-year-old who left his job at ‘Yo’ to spread the joy of coding
- Founders Talk #81: The future of code search with Quinn Slack
- Changelog Interviews #369: Five years of freeCodeCamp
with Quincy Larson - SSH Tron
- The World’s Longest Hackathon: The Hacker Zephyr, July 2021
- ToorCamp
Thanks to the “How Do You Do, Fellow Kids?” meme for this title’s inspiration.
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Free Dolly, GitHub Accelerator's cohort, improving Tailscale via Apple’s open source & what the heck are passkeys?! (News)
Kara Deloss announces GitHub Accelerator’s 2023 cohort, Databricks releases the first open source, instruction-following LLM, fine-tuned on a human-generated instruction dataset licensed for research and commercial use, Mihai Parparita writes how he improved Tailscale thanks to Apple’s open source & Neal Fennimore asks and answers the question: Passkeys: what the heck and why?!
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Examining capitalism's chokepoints (Interview)
This week we’re talking with Cory Doctorow (this episode contains explicit language) about his newest book Chokepoint Capitalism, which he co-autored with Rebecca Giblin. Chokepoint Capitalism is about how big tech and big content have captured creative labor markets and the ways we can win them back. We talk about chokepoints creating chickenized reverse-centaurs, paying for your robot boss (think Uber, Doordash, Amazon Drivers), the chickenization that’s climbing the priviledge gradient from the most blue collar workers to the middle-class. There are chokepoints in open source, AI generative art, interoperability, music, film, and media. To quote Cory, “We’re all fighting the same fight.”
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- Buy Cory’s books
- Gig Work Is the Opposite of Steampunk
- TikTok’s Enshittification
- Rural towns and poor urban neighborhoods are being devoured by dollar stores
- What is Chokepoint Capitalism?
- Revenge of the Chickenized Reverse-Centaurs
- Cory on Twitter explaining “chickenization “
- Red Team Blues: Another audiobook that Amazon won’t sell
- The Memex Method
- Changelog Interviews #221: How we got here with Cory Doctorow
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Ken Thompson's keynote, Tabby, The LLama Effect, Codeberg & facing the inevitable (News)
Ken Thompson’s 75-year-project is a jukebox for the ages, Tabby is a self-hosted AI coding assistant, Codeberg is a collaboration platform and Git hosting for open source software, content and projects, TheSequence explains The LLama Effect & Paul Orlando writes about Ghosts, Guilds and Generative AI.
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LLMs break the internet (Interview)
This week we’re talking about LLMs with Simon Willison. We can not avoid this topic. Last time it was Stable Diffusion breaking the internet. This time it’s LLMs breaking the internet. Large Language Models, ChatGPT, Bard, Claude, Bing, GitHub Copilot X, Cody…we cover it all.
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- AI-enhanced development makes me more ambitious with my projects
- Cerebras-GPT: A Family of Open, Compute-efficient, Large Language Models
- I lost everything that made me love my job through Midjourney over night.
- ChatGPT plugins
- nomic-ai/gpt4all
- Houston AI
- Unreal Engine 5.2 - Next-Gen Graphics Tech Demo (State of Unreal 2023)
- Apple’s secret M1 coprocessor
For our Changelog++ subs…
For the fiscal year 2021, Alphabet (Google’s parent company) reported revenues of $182.5 billion, and the revenue breakdown was as follows:
- Advertising: $147.5 billion
- Google Cloud: $14.9 billion
- Google Play and other sources: $25.1 billion
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Twitter's open algorithm, Auto-GPT, LLMs as "calculators for words", SudoLang & stochastic parrots (News)
Twitter publishes (some of) its recommendation algorithm, Toran Bruce Richards puts GPT-4 on autopilot, Simon Willison shares a good way for us to think about LLMs, Eric Elliot creates a powerful pseudocode programming language for LLMs & I define and demystify the term “stochastic parrot”.
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A new path to full-time open source (Interview)
After years of working for Google on the Go Team, Filippo Valsorda quit last year to experiment with more sustainable paths for open source maintainers. Good news, it worked! Filippo is now a full-time open source maintainer and he joins Jerod on this episode to tell everyone exactly how he’s making the equivalent to his total compensation package at Google in open source.
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- Filippo on Go Time talking fuzzing
- Filippo on Go Time talking security
- I’m now a full-time professional open source maintainer
- age file encryption
- mkcert
- yubikey-agent
- Lemonade Stand
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GitHub Copilot X, Chatbot UI, ChatGPT plugins, defining juice for software dev, Logto, Basaran & llama-cli (News)
GitHub announces Copilot X, Mckay Wrigley created an open source ChatGPT UI buit with Next.js, TypeScripe & Tailwind CSS, OpenAI is also launching a ChatGPT plugin initiative, Brad Woods writes about juice in software development, Logto is an open source alternative to Auth0, Basaran is an open source alternative to the OpenAI text completion API & llama-cli is a straightforward Go CLI interface for llama.cpp.
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Bringing Whisper and LLaMA to the masses (Interview)
This week we’re talking with Georgi Gerganov about his work on Whisper.cpp and llama.cpp. Georgi first crossed our radar with whisper.cpp, his port of OpenAI’s Whisper model in C and C++. Whisper is a speech recognition model enabling audio transcription and translation. Something we’re paying close attention to here at Changelog, for obvious reasons. Between the invite and the show’s recording, he had a new hit project on his hands: llama.cpp. This is a port of Facebook’s LLaMA model in C and C++. Whisper.cpp made a splash, but llama.cpp is growing in GitHub stars faster than Stable Diffusion did, which was a rocket ship itself.
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- ggerganov/whisper.cpp
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- Arm Neon technology
- Apple’s secret M1 coprocessor
- ggerganov/llama.cpp
- Introducing LLaMA: A foundational, 65-billion-parameter large language model
- facebookresearch/llama
- Ludacris Llama Llama Red Pajama Freestyle
- The Changelog #506: Stable Diffusion breaks the internet with Simon Willison
- Large language models are having their Stable Diffusion moment
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Self-hosting in 2023, no more Alpine Linux, type constraints in 65 lines of SQL, Initial V, Minimal Gallery, the legacy of Visual Basic, tracking fake GitHub stars & Mastodon's 10M (News)
Michal Warda on self-hosting in 2023, Martin Heinz will never use Alpine Linux again, Oliver Rice at Supabase creates type constraints in Postgres with just 65 lines of SQL, Aaron Patterson converted a BMW shifter into a Bluetooth keyboard that can control Vim, Piet Terheyden has been curating beautiful & functional websites daily since 2013, Ryan Lucas put together a history of Visual Basic, turns out it’s easy for an open source project to buy fake GitHub stars & Mastodon hit 10 million accounts.
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Goodbye Atom. Hello Zed. (Interview)
This week we’re talking with Nathan Sobo about his next big thing. Nathan is known for his work on the Atom editor while at GitHub. But his work wasn’t finished when he left, so…he started Zed, a high-performance multiplayer editor that’s engineered for performance. And today, Nathan talks us through all the details.
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- zed.dev
- Zed raises $10M for a code editor built for collaboration
- The Changelog #241: The Story of Atom with Nathan Sobo
- GitHub officially says farewell to Atom
- Founders Talk #7: Henk Rogers / The Tetris Company
- Prioritize enablers and blockers - linear.app
- Zed’s language support
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Dalai, InputOutput.dev, Wik, Rspack, Doodle, Marqo & iLLA (News)
Dalai is the simplest way to run LLaMA on your local machine, simple web tools that just work without annoying you, Wik is a tool to view wikipedia pages from your terminal, Rspack is a fast, Rust-based web bundler, Doodle is a pure Kotlin UI framework, Marqo is tensor search for humans & iLLA is an open source alternative to Retool.
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Chasing the 9s (Interview)
This week Adam talks with Marcin Kurc about chasing the 9s. Marcin is the Co-founder and CEO of Nobl9 where they build tools for managing service level objectives, aka SLOs. We also talk about service level agreements (SLAs), service level indicators (SLIs), error budgets, and monitoring, and how it all comes together to help teams align on goals, improve customer satisfaction, manage risks, increase transparency, and of course, a favorite around here…continuous improvement. Kaizen! This is an awesome deep dive into the world of chasing those 9s, and how teams are levering SLOs to earn the trust of their customers as well showcase transparency.
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New OpenAI APIs, self-hosting all the things, the Dart Frog project, curl's NuGet story & Hacker Stations (News)
Reorx lists awesome apps & tools using the new ChatGPT API, Ernie Smith ranks self-hosted app alternatives, Very Good Ventures brings Dart to the server, Daniel Stenberg tells curl’s NuGet story & Hacker Stations showcases tech workspace setups from all over the world.
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You’re just a devcontainer.json away (Interview)
This week we’re joined by Brigit Murtaugh, Product Manager on the Visual Studio Code team at Microsoft, and we’re talking about Development Containers and the Dev Container spec. Ever since we talked with Cory Wilkerson about Coding in the cloud with Codespaces we’ve wanted to get the Changelog.com codebase setup with a dev environment in the cloud to more easily support contributions. After getting a drive-by contribution from Chris Eggert to add a Dev Container spec to our codebase, we got curious and reached out to Brigit and asked her to come on the show to give us all the details.
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- containers.dev
- Dev containers templates and on GitHub
- Dev containers CLI
- PR #437 (from Chris Eggert): Add GitHub Codespaces support - https://containers.dev 👀
- Beginner’s Series to: Dev Containers
- The Changelog #459: Coding in the cloud with Codespaces with Cory Wilkerson
- The Changelog #277: The Story of Visual Studio Code
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Stack Overflow's architecture, Lobsters' killer libraries, Linux is ready for modern Macs, what to expect from your framework & GoatCounter web analytics (News)
Sahn Lam details Stack Overflow’s monolith/on-prem architecture, Hillel Wayne asks the Lobsters community for killer libraries, Linux 6.2 is ready to run on M1 Macs thanks to Asahi Linux, Johan Halse writes up what to expect from your web framework & Eli Bendersky on using GoatCounter for blog analytics.
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Into the Fediverse (Interview)
This week Evan Prodromou is back to take us deeper into the Fediverse. As many of us reconsider our relationship with Twitter, Mastodon has been by-and-large the target of migration. They helped to popularize the idea of a federated universe of community-owned, decentralized, social networks. And, at the heart of it all is ActivityPub. ActivityPub is a decentralized social networking protocol published by the W3C. It is co-authored by Evan as well as; Christine Lemmer-Webber, Jessica Tallon, Erin Shepherd, and Amy Guy. Today, Evan shares the details behind this protocol and where the Fediverse might be heading.
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- ActivityPub - W3C Recommendation (23 January 2018)
- PeerTube
- Twitter says it’s intentionally blocking apps like Tweetbot
- Changelog.social
- Mastodon Roadmap
- The Changelog #257 with Evan Prodromou
- Medium embraces Mastodon
- Cosocial
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Sidney Bing, Elk for Mastodon, writing an engineering strategy, what's next for core-js & cool tool lightning round (News)
Simon Willison rounds up the goings on around Microsoft’s new GPT-powered Bing search, The Vue/Vite team build a nimble web client for Mastodon, Will Larson writes about writing an engineering strategy, Denis Pushkarev seeks support to maintain core-js & I share a lightning round of cool tools I’ve found and used recently. ⚡️
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What it takes to scale engineering (Interview)
This week we’re talking to Rachel Potvin, former VP of Engineering at GitHub about what it takes to scale engineering. Rachel says it’s a game-changer when engineering scales beyond 100 people. So we asked to her to share everything she has learned in her career of leading and scaling engineering.
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- Rachel’s 2016 paper on Google’s developer infrastructure
- Harvard Business Review on Psychological Safety
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Load testing a $4 VPS, TOML for .env files, counting unique visitors sans cookies, the Arc browser & a love letter to Deno (News)
Alice Girard Guittard finds out how much she could you really get out of a $4 VPS, Brett Cannon wonders if using TOML for .env files is a good idea, Nic Mulvaney details how they count unique visitors to a website without using cookies, UIDS, or fingerprinting, after a few months, Chris Coyier is still using the Arc browser & Alex Kladov pens a love letter to Deno.
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Git with your friends (Interview)
This week we invited our friend Mat Ryer to join us for some good conversation about some Git tooling that’s been on our radar. You may know Mat from Go Time and also Grafana’s Big Tent, which we help to produce. We speculate, we discuss, we laugh, and Mat even breaks into song a few times. It’s good fun.
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- Git Heat Map
- Git Sim
- git-bug
- GitUI
- Git Branchless
- Jerod’s pick - GitX
- Mat’s pick - ReviewPad
- How did Git get its name?
- MacStadium
- Beyond Code Season 1: Keep Ruby Weird 2014
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OpenAI's new text classifier, teach yourself CS, programming philosophies are about state, you might not need Lodash & overrated scalability (News)
OpenAI’s working on an AI classifier trained to distinguish between AI-written and human-written text, Oz Nova and Myles Byrne created a guide to teach yourself computer science, Charles Genschwap recently realized that all the various programming philosophies can be boiled down into a simple statement about how to work with state, you probably don’t need Lodash or Underscore anymore & Waseem Daher thinks scalability is overrated.
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Data tool belts, Build Your Own Redis, the giscus comments system, prompt engineering shouldn't exist & ALPACA (News)
Jeremia Kimelman takes stock of his “data tool belt”, Build Your Own Redis with C/C++ is ready to read, giscus is a comments system powered by GitHub Discussions, Matt Rickard says prompt engineering shouldn’t be a thing and won’t be a thing in the future & Kolja Lubitz’s ALPACA is engine for building adventure games and interactive comics.
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Mainframes are still a big thing (Interview)
This week we’re talking about mainframes with Cameron Seay, Adjunct Professor at East Carolina University and a member of the Governing Board of the Open Mainframe Project. If you’ve been curious about mainframes, this show will be a great guide.
Cameron explains exactly what a mainframe is and how it’s different from the cloud. We talk COBOL and the state of education and opportunities around that language. We cover the state-of-the-art in mainframe land, System Z, Linux on mainframes, and more.
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Prioritizing tech debt, UI components to copy/paste, learnings from 20 years in software, git-sim & jqjq (News)
Max Countryman wrote up a framework for prioritizing tech debt, shadcn builds a copy/paste-able UI component library in public, Justin Etheredge shares 20 things he’s learned in his 20 years as a software engineer, Jacob Stopak’s git-sim lets you easily visualize git operations without affecting your repo & Mattias Wadman implemented jq in jq.
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Just Postgres (Interview)
This week we’re talking about by Postgres with Craig Kerstiens, Chief Product Officer at Crunchy Data, and a well known ambassador for Postgres. Just Postgres. That’s what this week’s show is about.
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- webstack
- The Art of PostgreSQL
- Crunchy Data
- Postgres Playground
- The Changelog #510: Taking Postgres serverless with Nikita Shamgunov from Neon
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Premium PCB cheat sheets, a disappearing AWS dev, HyperSwitch, Servo is back at it & Cloudflare Wildebeest (News)
WestArtFactory’s premium PCB cheat sheets, Maxime Topolov tells of a disappearing AWS dev, Juspay Technologies releases HyperSwitch for payment processing, Servo gets new funding for 2023 & Cloudflare’s open source Wildebeest.
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The principles of data-oriented programming (Interview)
Jerod is joined by Yehonathan Sharvit, author of Data-Oriented Programming, to discuss the virtues of treating data as a first-class citizen in our applications and the four principles that make it possible.
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A simpler alternative to deleted_at, rules of thumb for better software, faking it until you automate it, the only civilized way to read online & AI and the big five (News)
Brandur Leach’s easy, alternative soft deletion strategy, Lane Wagner’s zen of proverbs, Nicolas Carlo says fake it until you can automate it, Felix A. Crux thinks feeds are the only civilized way to read online & Ben Thompson analyzes AI and the big five tech companies.
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Don't sleep on Ruby & Rails (Interview)
Welcome to 2023 — we’re kicking off the year talking to Justin Searls about the state of web development and why he just might write a “You Might Not Need React” post. He’s been so productive using Turbo and Stimulus (and tailwind) in Rails 7 that we had to talk about the state of Rails development today and a bunch of other fun topics around building for the web in 2023.
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- SO PRODUCTIVE in Rails 7
- Shaking my head big time at The Changelog #509
- What excites you about Ruby on Rails in 2022?
- The Changelog #509
- Ship It #44
- Debugging Ruby with VS Code
Searls says:
For liner notes purposes, @hsbt and @ko1 have indeed both contributed to ruby.debug but it was clearly Koichi’s baby.
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Clipboard, unbundling tools for thought, microfeed, prepare to be productive & a look inside Matrix (News)
Jackson Huff’s clipboard powertool for the command line, Fernando Borretti thinks tools for thought should be unbundled, Listen Notes helps you run a microfeed on Cloudflare, Martin Rue says to be productive, be prepared & Paul Sawers takes TechCrunch readers inside Matrix and features its recent adoption wins.
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State of the "log" 2022 (Interview)
Our 5th annual year-end wrap-up episode! Sit back, relax, pour a glass of your favorite beverage and join us for listener voice mails, our favorite episodes, some must-listens, and of course the top 5 most listened to episodes of the year. Thanks for listening! 💚
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Listener favs:
- Go Time #250: Mat’s GopherCon EU diary
- Ship It! #44: Fundamentals with Kelsey Hightower
- The Changelog #454: The return of Richard Hipp
- Backstage #18: Tenet with heavy spoilers
- Backstage #23: The Oban Pro with Parker Selbert
- The Changelog #464: This insane tech hiring market with Gergely Orosz
- The Changelog #516: This !insane tech hiring market with Gergely Orosz
- The Changelog #480: Git your reset on with Annie Sexton
- The Changelog #494: Lessons from 5 years of startup code audits with Ken Kantzer
Jerod’s favs:
- The Changelog #474: Complex systems & second-order effects with Paul Orlando
- The Changelog #477: Song Encoder: Forrest Brazeal
- The Changelog #506: Stable Diffusion breaks the internet with Simon Willison
Adam’s favs:
- The Changelog #486: Practical ways to solve hard problems with Frank Krueger
- The Changelog #502: Fireside chat with Jack Dorsey from the main stage at Square Unboxed 2022
Both our favs:
- The Changelog #513: The story of Heroku with Adam Wiggins
- The Changelog #484: Wisdom from 50+ years in software with Brian Kernighan
Adam’s must-listens:
- The Changelog #515: Advocating for and supporting open source at ATO ’22
- The Changelog #508: A guided tour through ID3 esoterica with Lars Wikman
- The Changelog #500: The legacy of CSS-Tricks with Chris Coyier
Jerod’s must-listens:
- Ship It! #62: Operational simplicity is a gift to you with Gary Bernhardt
- JS Party #244: The spicy React debate show 🌶️
- Go Time #256: gRPC & protocol buffers with Akshay Shah
Most popular episodes of 2022:
- ONE MORE thing every dev should know with Jessica Kerr
- Wisdom from 50+ years in software with Brian Kernighan
- Securing the open source supply chain with Feross from Socket
- Principles for hiring engineers with Jacob Kaplan-Moss
- Making the command line glamorous with Toby Padilla from Charm
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GPT has entered the chat (Interview)
To wrap up the year we’re talking about what’s breaking the internet, again. Yes, we’re talking about ChatGPT and we’re joined by our good friend Shawn “swyx” Wang. Between his writings on L-Space Diaries and his AI notes repo on GitHub, we had a lot to cover around the world of AI and what might be coming in 2023.
Also, we have one more show coming out before the end of the year — our 5th annual “State of the log” episode where Adam and Jerod look back at the year and talk through their favorite episodes of the year and feature voices from the community. So, stay tuned for that next week.
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- AI Notes
- Why “Prompt Engineering” and “Generative AI” are overhyped
- Multiverse, not Metaverse
- The Particle/Wave Duality Theory of Knowledge
- OpenRAIL: Towards open and responsible AI licensing frameworks
- Open-ish from Luis Villa
- ChatGPT for Google
- The Myth of The Infrastructure Phase
ChatGPT examples in the wild
- Debugging code
- TypeScript answer is wrong
- Fix code and explain fix
- dynamic programming
- Translating/refactoring Wasplang DSL
- AWS IAM policies
- Code that combines multiple cloud services
- Solving a code problem
- Explain computer networks homework
- Rewriting code from elixir to PHP
- Turning ChatGPT into an interpreter for a custom language, and then generating code and executing it, and solving Advent of Code correctly
- Including getting #1 place
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tRPC, a bug tracker embedded in git, awesome ChatGPT prompts, half-baked cloud dev envs & Whisper.cpp (News)
tRPC helps you move fast and break nothing, Michael Muré embeds a bug tracker in git, Fatih Kadir Akın curates some awesome ChatGPT prompts, Mike Nikles thinks dev environments in the cloud are a half-baked solution & Georgi Gerganov ports OpenAI’s Whisper model to a lightweight, portable C/C++ program.
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Coming home to GitHub (Interview)
This week we’re joined by Christina Warren, Senior Developer Advocate at GitHub, and a true tech and pop culture connoisseur. From her days at Mashable covering the intersections of entertainment and technology, to Gizmodo, to Microsoft, and now her current role at GitHub we talk with Christina about her journey from journalist to developer, and the latest happenings coming out of GitHub Universe.
BTW, we’re planning to get Christina on Backstage in the new year to talk about Plex, MakeMKV, and all things that go into hosting your own media server. Drop a commment on this episode with a +1 if you want to see that happen.
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CHANGELOGand get the team plan free for three months. - FireHydrant – The reliability platform for every developer. Incidents impact everyone, not just SREs. FireHydrant gives teams the tools to maintain service catalogs, respond to incidents, communicate through status pages, and learn with retrospectives. Small teams up to 10 people can get started for free with all FireHydrant features included. No credit card required to sign up. Learn more at firehydrant.com/
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Overtired
- Rocket
- Mona Sans & Hubot Sans
- The Changelog #493: What even is a DevRel?
- The Changelog #459: Coding in the cloud with Codespaces
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Building a VM inside ChatGPT, Advent of Code 2022, webdev Liam Neeson, Fedifinder & BDougie (News)
Jonas Degrave builds a virtual machine inside ChatGPT, Advent of Code 2022 is in full swing, Mat Ryer impersonates Liam Neeson as web developer, Luca Hammer’s Fedifinder project helps you join the Fediverse & we chat with Brian (BDougie) Douglas about Open Sauced at All Things Open 2022.
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ANTHOLOGY - Wasm, efficient code review & the industrial metaverse (Interview)
This week we’re back at All Things Open 2022 covering the hallway track. Up first is Shivay Lamba and he’s schooling us on all things server-side WASM. It’s the new hotness. After that, we talk with Yishai Beeri, CTO of LinearB about the world of code review, PR queues, AI developers, and making human developers more efficient, and happier. And last, we talk with Guy Martin from NVIDIA about what’s going on in the Industrial Metaverse. He shares details about an open source project developed by Pixar called Universal Scene Description (USD) and what they’re doing with NVIDIA Omniverse.
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- Guy Martin – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
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Free Heroku EOL, Stable Diffusion 2.0, Twitter SRE explains why it stays up, Git Notes & Joel Lord (News)
Heroku’s free plans officially reach EOL, Swyx explains the mixed reaction to Stable Diffusion 2.0, a real Twitter SRE explains how it continues to stay up even with ~80% gone, Tyler Cipriani tells us about one of Git’s coolest, most unloved features & we chat with Joel Lord about brewing beer with IoT & JavaSCript at All Things Open 2022.
Oh, and help make this year’s state of the “log” episode awesome by lending your voice!
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This !insane tech hiring market (Interview)
This week we’re back talking to Gergely Orosz — this time not quite about the insane tech hiring market, but more so the flip side, the 180, the not so good tech hiring market, the layoff market and what you can expect. There’s a lot of FUD out there, so hopefully this show gives you a lens into what’s really going on, and what to really expect. Maybe more so, how to keep your job or find a new job. We come to this topic with great compassion and great understanding, so please…there is a community here for you. There’s a lot of people in our Slack. Call it your home, it’s free to join and everyone is welcome.
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- Sentry – Working code means happy customers. That’s exactly why teams choose Sentry. From error tracking to performance monitoring, Sentry helps teams see what actually matters, resolve problems quicker, and learn continuously about their applications - from the frontend to the backend. Use the code
CHANGELOGand get the team plan free for three months. - InfluxData – With its data collectors and scripting languages, a common API across the entire platform, and highly performant time series engine and storage, InfluxDB makes it easy to build once and deploy across multiple products and environments. InfluxDB’s new storage engine allows developers to build real-time applications even faster and with less code. Sign up for the InfluxDB Beta program to give it a try.
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- Gergely Orosz – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- The Changelog #464: This insane tech hiring market
- PragmaticEngineer.com
- Wired.com: Despite Big Layoffs, Tech Workers Are Still in Demand
- Layoffs.fyi
- Adyen
- Fast.co
- Which one of these will be the biggest “unicorn” failure ever?
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Kindle as a smart device, Changelog on Mastodon, GPT-3 up in your CLI, no arch better than bad arch & Mish Manners (News)
Matt Healy says your next smart device is a $30 Kindle, Changelog sets up an instance as Mastodon takes off, Anurag Bhagsain puts OpenAI’s GPT-3 in your CLI, Kirill Rogovoy argues that no architecture is better than bad architecture & we talk to Mish Manners at All Things Open 2022.
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ANTHOLOGY — Advocating for and supporting open source (Interview)
This week we’re taking you to the hallway track of All Things Open 2022 in Raleigh, NC. Let’s set the stage, here’s what we like do when we go to conferences — we setup our podcast studio at our booth where all the other vendors are and we talk to everyone we can. We give out t-shirts, stickers, pins, high fives…and it’s a blast.
Today’s anthology episode from ATO features: Arun Gupta (VP and GM of Open Ecosystem Initiatives at Intel), long-time friend Chad Whitacre (Head of Open Source at Sentry), and Ricardo Sueiras (Principal Advocate in Open Source at AWS).
The common denominator for each of these conversations is advocating for and supporting open source. Special thanks to Todd Lewis and team for inviting us to come back to ATO. We enjoyed meeting long time fans and new ones too.
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- Square – Develop on the platform that sellers trust. There is a massive opportunity for developers to support Square sellers by building apps for today’s business needs. Learn more at changelog.com/square to dive into the docs, APIs, SDKs and to create your Square Developer account — tell them Changelog sent you.
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- Chad Whitacre – GitHub, X
- Ricardo Sueiras – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Arun Gupta
Chad Whitacre
- The Changelog #87: Sustaining Open Source and Building an Open Company
- The Changelog #123: Gittip and Open Companies
Ricardo Sueiras
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Tracking layoffs, tech worker demand still high, ntfy, devenv, Markdoc & Mike Bifulco (News)
Roger Lee has been tracking all tech layoffs since COVID-19, Amanda Hoover says tech worker demand is still high, ntfy helps you send push notifications for free, devenv lets you share development environments without containers, Markdoc scales from personal blogs to massive documentation sites & we talk with Mike Bifulco at All Things Open 2022.
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Beyond Heroku to Muse (Interview)
This week we’re back for part 2 with Adam Wiggins — going beyond Heroku and the story of Muse (listen to part 1). After a six-year adrenaline high on Heroku, Adam needed time to recover and refill the creative well. So, he moved to Berlin, did some gig work with companies…dabbled in investing and advising. But he wasn’t satisfied. Adam likes to build things.
Ultimately, he was just waiting for the right time to reconnect with James Lindenbaum and Orion Henry — the same fellas he created Heroku with. Eventually they founded Ink & Switch, an independent research lab which led to innovations that made Muse possible. Muse is a tool for deep work and thinking on iPad and Mac. Today’s show is all about that journey and the details in-between.
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CHANGELOGand get the team plan free for three months. - FireHydrant – The reliability platform for every developer. Incidents impact everyone, not just SREs. FireHydrant gives teams the tools to maintain service catalogs, respond to incidents, communicate through status pages, and learn with retrospectives. Small teams up to 10 people can get started for free with all FireHydrant features included. No credit card required to sign up. Learn more at firehydrant.com/
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Featuring:
- Adam Wiggins – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- (Part 1) The Changelog #513: The story of Heroku with Adam Wiggins
- My journey into the Berlin startup scene
- Making computers better
- Museapp.com
- Ink & Switch
- Adam’s Heroku values.md
- Muse principles
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Useful Vim commands, bad first ideas, PETS config manager, Kaizen shirts for sale & infinite canvas tools (News)
Colin Bartlett’s 50 useful Vim commands, Jeremey Utley on why your first ideas aren’t always the best, Emanuele Rocca’s pets configuration management project, our Kaizen shirts are now on sale & Arun Venkatesen makes a microsite for infinite canvas tools.
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The story of Heroku (Interview)
This week on The Changelog we’re joined by Adam Wiggins, co-founder and former CTO of Heroku, for an exclusive trip down Heroku memory lane. Adam and Jerod are both tremendous fans of Heroku and believe (to this day) they represent the apex in developer experience for delivering code to production.
We talk through the beginnings of Heroku, the v1 most people have forgotten about, the era of web hosting back in 2008-2010, the serendipity of Silicon Vally in those days, pitching to Y Combinator, the makings of git push heroku, the Heroku style and name, the sale of Heroku to Salesforce, potential regrets — and we tee up part 2 coming next week with Adam going beyond Heroku and the story of Muse.
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- Adam Wiggins – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Heroku.com
- Heroku Lifts Ruby on Rails Development into the Cloud
- Post-exit: What on earth is Heroku co-founder Adam Wiggins doing in Europe? (spoiler: not vacationing)
- My journey into the Berlin startup scene
- Heroku on Crunchbase
- Adam Wiggins’ Heroku values
- End of a chapter: My Heroku departure message
- Making computers better
- The Twelve-factor App
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Linux mythbusting & retro gaming (Interview)
This week we’re doing some Linux mythbusting and talking retro gaming with Jay LaCroix from Learn Linux TV. This is a preview of what’s to come from our trip to All Things Open next week. By the way, make sure you come and check us out at booth 60. We’ll be recording podcasts, shaking hands, giving out t-shirts and stickers…and speaking of gaming, you can go head-to-head with us on Mario Kart or Rocket League on the Nintendo Switch. We’re giving that Switch away to a lucky winner at the conference, but you have to play to win. If you’re there, make sure you come see us because we want to see you.
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CHANGELOGand get the team plan free for three months. - InfluxData - InfluxDays 2022 – InfluxDays is back — this is a two-day developer conference from our friends at InfluxData dedicated to building IoT, analytics, and cloud applications with InfluxDB. It’s happening on Nov 2nd and 3rd - learn more and register at influxdays.com
- Sourcegraph – Transform your code into a queryable database to create customizable visual dashboards in seconds. Sourcegraph recently launched Code Insights — now you can track what really matters to you and your team in your codebase. See how other teams are using this awesome feature at about.sourcegraph.com/code-insights
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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Sonic search, building software like an SRE, leaving the cloud, an HTTP crash course & breaking up with CSS-in-JS (News)
Valerian Saliou’s Sonic search backend, Brandon Willett on how to build software like an SRE, DHH on why they’re leaving the cloud, Amos’ HTTP crash course nobody asked for & Sam Magura tells why he and the Spot team are breaking up with CSS-in-JS.
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The terminal as a platform (Interview)
This week we’re talking with Will McGugan about using the terminal to not just build software, but also to deliver software. Will is a few months into his journey of building Textualize, a company he started around his open source projects Textual and Rich. When combined Textual and Rich give you a Python framework to build beautiful full-featured TUIs for the Terminal. We talk with Will about his big idea of the terminal as a platform, how he got here from first principles, what it takes to build Textual apps and whether or not they can replace not so good web admins, building, launching, and distributing Textual apps, why Python was his choiice of language, the big picture and business model behind Textualize, and why he’s building this as open source and in public.
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- FireHydrant – The reliability platform for every developer. Incidents impact everyone, not just SREs. FireHydrant gives teams the tools to maintain service catalogs, respond to incidents, communicate through status pages, and learn with retrospectives. Small teams up to 10 people can get started for free with all FireHydrant features included. No credit card required to sign up. Learn more at firehydrant.com/
- Sourcegraph – Transform your code into a queryable database to create customizable visual dashboards in seconds. Sourcegraph recently launched Code Insights — now you can track what really matters to you and your team in your codebase. See how other teams are using this awesome feature at about.sourcegraph.com/code-insights
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- Will McGugan – GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Textualize.io
- Textualize is Hiring!
- Textualize/textual
- Projects using Textual
- Textualize/rich
- Projects using Rich
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Harmonai revisited, lessons learned from public salary, Open Core Ventures, Stripe is Paypal in 2010 & Helix (News)
We revisit our Harmonai story from last week, Jamie Tanna reviews posting his salary history publicly, Sid Sijbrandij’s new (open core) venture fund, Zed Shaw thinks Stripe is like Paypal in 2010 & Helix is a new Rust-based terminal.
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Taking Postgres serverless (Interview)
This week we’re talking about serverless Postgres! We’re joined by Nikita Shamgunov, co-founder and CEO of Neon. With Neon, truly serverless PostgreSQL is finally here. Neon isn’t Postgres compatible…it actually is Postgres! Neon is also open source under the Apache License 2.0.
We talk about what a cloud native serverless Postgres looks like, why developers want Postgres and why of the top 5 databases only Postgres is growing (according to DB-Engines Ranking), we talk about how they separated storage and compute to offer autoscaling, branching, and bottomless storage, we also talk about their focus on DX — where they’re getting it right and where they need to improve. Neon is invite only as of the recording and release of this episode, but near the end of the show Nikita shares a few ways to get an invite and early access.
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- InfluxData - InfluxDays 2022 – InfluxDays is back — this is a two-day developer conference from our friends at InfluxData dedicated to building IoT, analytics, and cloud applications with InfluxDB. It’s happening on Nov 2nd and 3rd - learn more and register at influxdays.com
- Retool – The low-code platform for developers to build internal tools — Some of the best teams out there trust Retool…Brex, Coinbase, Plaid, Doordash, LegalGenius, Amazon, Allbirds, Peloton, and so many more – the developers at these teams trust Retool as the platform to build their internal tools. Try it free at retool.com/changelog
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- Nikita Shamgunov – Website, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- neon.tech
- Neon doubles funding to $54M
- DB-Engines Ranking
- datafold.com
- The Changelog #476: Supabase is all in on Postgres
- The Changelog #461: Fauna is rethinking the database
- Practical AI #94: Operationalizing ML/AI with MemSQL
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Forking SQLite, generative AI for music, saying no to sprints, awesome diagramming tools & state machine facts (News)
The libSQL community is forking SQLite, StabilityAI announces Haromai and Dance Diffusion, Robin Rendle doesn’t believe in sprints, Shubham Garg curates some awesome diagramming tools & Chris Pressey writes up some must-read facts about state machines.
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A new batch of web frameworks emerge! (Interview)
This week we’re talking fresh, faster, and new web frameworks by way of JS Party. Yes, today’s show is a web framework sampler because a new batch of web frameworks have emerged. There’s always something new happening in the front-end world and JS Party does an amazing job of keeping us up to date. So…what’s fresh, faster, and new?
The first segment of the show focuses on Deno’s Fresh new web framework. Luca Casonato joins Jerod & Feross to talk about Fresh – a next generation web framework, built for speed, reliability, and simplicity.
In segment two, AngularJS creator Miško Hevery joins Jerod and KBall to talk about Qwik. He says Qwik is a fundamental rethinking of how a web application should work. And he’s attempting to convince Jerod & KBall that the implications of that are BIG.
In the last segment, Amal talks with Fred Schott about Astro 1.0. They go deep on how Astro is built to pull content from anywhere and serve it fast with their next-gen island architecture.
Plus there’s an 8 minute bonus for our ++ subscribers (changelog.com/++). Fred Schott explains Astro Islands and how Astro extracts your UI into smaller, isolated components on the page, and the unused JavaScript gets replaced with lightweight HTML — leading to faster loads and time-to-interactive.
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- Square – Develop on the platform that sellers trust. There is a massive opportunity for developers to support Square sellers by building apps for today’s business needs. Learn more at changelog.com/square to dive into the docs, APIs, SDKs and to create your Square Developer account — tell them Changelog sent you.
- FireHydrant – The reliability platform for every developer. Incidents impact everyone, not just SREs. FireHydrant gives teams the tools to maintain service catalogs, respond to incidents, communicate through status pages, and learn with retrospectives. Small teams up to 10 people can get started for free with all FireHydrant features included. No credit card required to sign up. Learn more at firehydrant.com/
- Retool – The low-code platform for developers to build internal tools — Some of the best teams out there trust Retool…Brex, Coinbase, Plaid, Doordash, LegalGenius, Amazon, Allbirds, Peloton, and so many more – the developers at these teams trust Retool as the platform to build their internal tools. Try it free at retool.com/changelog
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- Luca Casonato – GitHub, X
- Fred K. Schott – Website, GitHub, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Feross Aboukhadijeh – Website, GitHub, X
- Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
JS Party #234 - #
JS Party #237 - #
JS Party #238 - #
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Hacktoberfest is ON, DiffusionBee is 1.0, Dracula UI is out, GitX is undead, Prerender is off AWS & we'll be at ATO! (News)
Digital Ocean kicks off Hacktoberfest 2022, Divam Gupta releases DiffusionBee 1.0 with “Image To Image” support, Zeno Rocha open sources Dracula UI for React, GitX gets brought back from the brink & Prerender.io engineers save a bundle by moving off AWS.
Oh, and join us at All Things Open in early November!
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A guided tour through ID3 esoterica (Interview)
This week we turn the mics on ourselves, kind of. Lars Wikman joins the show to give us a guided tour through ID3 esoterica and the shiny new open source Elixir library he developed for us. We talk about what ID3 is, its many versions, what it aims to be and what it could have been, how our library project got started, all the unique features and failed dreams of the ID3v2 spec, how ID3v2 and Podcasting 2.0 are solving the problem differently, and how all of this maps back to us giving you (our listeners) a better experience while listening to our shows.
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Show Notes:
- A new chapter for Changelog podcasts (our shows have chapters baked in now, whoop whoop!)
- thechangelog/id3vx
- Id3vx – a library for parsing and encoding ID3 tags
- Ship It! #70: Kaizen! Four PRs, one big feature
- Folyo
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Firefox supports blockers, NATS is great, Uber's MFA fatigue, OAuth2 drawn in cute shapes & an aging programmer (News)
Mozilla says Firefox will continue to support current content blockers, Nabeel Sulieman thinks NATS is great and recommends you check it out, InfoQ breaks down Uber’s recent security breach, Klemen Sever explained OAuth2 by drawing cute shapes & Jorge Manrubia reflects back as an aging programmer.
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Product development structures as systems (Interview)
This week we’re talking about product development structures as systems with Lucas da Costa. The last time we had Lucas on the show he was living the text-mode only life, and now we’re more than 3 years later, Lucas has doubled down on all things text mode. Today’s conversation with Lucas maps several ideas he’s shared recently on his blog. We talk about deadlines being pointless, trajectory vs roadmap and the downfall of long-term planning, the practices of daily stand-ups and what to do instead, measuring queues not cycle time, and probably the most controversial of them all — actually talking to your customers. Have you heard? It’s this newly disruptive Agile framework that seems to be working well.
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Useful engineering metrics and why velocity is not one of them
- How finishing what you start makes teams more productive and predictable
- How high capacity utilisation hurts a team’s performance
- How and why exploiting uncertainty makes products more profitable
- Why tall hierarchies slow organizations down and how to fix them
- Talking to your customers: a disruptive Agile framework
- Why your daily stand-ups don’t work and how to fix them
- Why long-term plans don’t work and how to fix them
- “Planning Is Guessing” at Startup School by David Heinemeier Hansson
- Actionable Agile Metrics for Predictability
- The Changelog #488: Mob programming deep dive (with Woody Zuill)
- The Changelog #340: All things text mode (with Lucas da Costa)
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Ladybird, how QR codes work, GitUI, software vs systems & Stable Diffusion ported to Tensorflow (News)
Andreas Kling’s new cross-platform browser project, Dan Hollick’s nerdy deep-dive on QR code tech, Stephan Dilly’s Rust-based terminal UI for Git, Miłosz Piechocki’s opinion on junior vs senior engineers & Divam Gupta’s Tensorflow port of Stable Diffusion.
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Stable Diffusion breaks the internet (Interview)
This week on The Changelog we’re talking about Stable Diffusion, DALL-E, and the impact of AI generated art. We invited our good friend Simon Willison on the show today because he wrote a very thorough blog post titled, “Stable Diffusion is a really big deal.”
You may know Simon from his extensive contributions to open source software. Simon is a co-creator of the Django Web framework (which we don’t talk about at all on this show), he’s the creator of Datasette, a multi-tool for exploring and publishing data (which we do talk about on this show)…most of all Simon is a very insightful thinker, which he puts on display here on this episode. We talk from all the angles of this topic, the technical, the innovation, the future and possibilities, the ethical and the moral – we get into it all. The question is, will this era be known as the initial push back to the machine?
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- Simon Willison – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Simon Willison on Wikipedia
- Stable Diffusion is a really big deal
- Exploring 12 Million of the 2.3 Billion Images Used to Train Stable Diffusion’s Image Generator
- Exploring the training data behind Stable Diffusion
- Stability.ai
- Greg Rutkowsk on ArtStation and on Twitter
- Stable Diffusion Launch Announcement
- Stable Diffusion Public Release
- The full text of the CreativeML Open RAIL-M license
- Prompt injection attacks against GPT-3
- Twitter thread about the ethics of the Stable Diffusion release from Joshua Achiam who works on AI safety at OpenAI
- Lexica.art - that really good search engine for 10m+ Stable Diffusion images and prompts
- Simon’s Twitter thread about Stable Diffusion - I keep on adding new things to this as they happen, the thread has been running for a few weeks now
- 4.2 Gigabytes, or: How to Draw Anything - a great post that talks through the process involved in getting good results out of Stable Diffusion using image2image and multiple round-trips through the model
- This tweet from Simon has a animated GIF of the Stable Diffusion Discord scrolling by during the 1.5 model preview
- Textual Inversion also see this thread on Twitter
- This tweet talks about the Stable Diffusion concepts library, using Textual Inversion
- This tweet has great examples of Textual Inversion in action
- Simon’s Datasette Cloud preview - Check it out and signup
- Compressing images with Stable Diffusion
- “neuromancer” on Lexica
- Online Art Communities Begin Banning AI-Generated Images
- The Changelog #296: Burnout, open source, Datasette
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Quality is systemic, React is a self-fulfilling prophecy, Difftastic, Devbox & the shortest URLs on the web (News)
Jacob Kaplan-Moss writes up a hot take on software quality, Wilfred Hughes creates the diff tool he’s always wanted, Josh Collinsworth thinks React is only great at being popular, Jetpack’s Devbox project looks pretty cool & James Williams sets out to find the shortest URLs on the internet. Oh, and chapters are here!
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Typesense is truly open source search (Interview)
This week we’re joined by Jason Bosco, co-founder and CEO of Typesense — the open source Algolia alternative and the easier to use ElasticSearch alternative. For years we’ve used Algolia as our search engine, so we come to this conversation with skin in the game and the scars to prove it. Jason shared how he and his co-founder got started on Typesense, why and how they are “all in” on open source, the options and the paths developers can take to add search to their project, how Typesense compares to ElasticSearch and Algolia, he walks us through getting started, the story of Typesense Cloud, and why they have resisted Venture Capital.
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- Jason Bosco – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Typesense on the iconic Nasdaq billboard in Times Square
- typesense.org
- typesense/typesense
- Typesense Cloud pricing
- Typesense on HN
- Why Upgrade to GPLv3
- Airbyte
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Python's :=, email falsehoods, no more self-hosting & Leon (News)
Martin Heinz thinks you should be using Python’s walrus operator, you probably believe some falsehoods about email, Carlos Fenollosa threw in the towel after self-hosting his email for 23 years & Leon is an open source personal assistant that can live on your server.
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Building actually maintainable software ♻️ (Interview)
This week we’re sharing the most popular episode of Go Time from last year — Go Time #196. We believe this episode was the most popular because it’s all about building actually maintainable software and what goes into that. Kris Brandow is joined by Johnny Boursiquot, Ian Lopshire, and Sam Boyer. There’s lots of hot takes, disagreements, and unpopular opinions.
This is part two of a three part mini-series led by Kris on maintenance. Make sure you check out Go Time #195 and Go Time #202 to continue the series.
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- sam boyer – GitHub, X
- Ian Lopshire – GitHub, X
- Kris Brandow – GitHub, X
- Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- Go Time #195
- Go Time #202
- Uber’s Go Style Guide
- Why smart engineers write bad code
- Rant about “performant”
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Qalculate is awesome, Restic adds compression, CS teachers coping with Copilot & Heroku's next non-free chapter (News)
Qalculate has a command-line interface, Michael Eischer adds compression to Restic, Emery Berger warns his fellow CS professors about Copilot, and Heroku GM Bob Wise details Heroku’s next chapter (which excludes free accounts).
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Building Reflect at sea (Interview)
This week we’re talking with Alex MacCaw — he’s well known for his work as founder and CEO of Clearbit. In May of 2021, Alex shared a personal update with the world on his blog. After much reflection, he decided to step down as CEO of Clearbit to go back to his roots. In his words, “I love the early stages of company building. Hacking together code, setting up the Stripe account, getting the first customer. That’s my jam.”
We talk with Alex about this portion of his journey at Clearbit, the Catamaran he bought in South Africa and then sailed across the Atlantic Ocean, and the new thing he’s building called Reflect that let’s you keep track of your notes, books, and meetings.
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- Alex MacCaw – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- A personal update
- Alex’s first appearance on The Changelog
- reflect.app
- Clearbit
- Earl Grey Capital
- Google - “Catamaran”
- The Manager’s Handbook
- Ross Moser
- Beginning of Infinity
- Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies
- remirror/remirror
- Replicache
- Mimestream
- The Changelog #455: Building software for yourself with Linus Lee
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SSH tips and tricks, retro Apple UIs, iOS Privacy and TikTok, Marta & Tauri vs Electron (News)
Carlos Alexandro Becker shared some SSH tips, Sakun Acharige (a Comp Sci student + visual design enthusiast) created System.css, Felix Krause built a browser app that shows the JavaScript commands being executed by iOS app in-app browers, Yan Zhulanow decided to create Marta, and Lőrik Levente did a comparrison between Tauri & Electron using a real world application he’s building called Authme.
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Fireside chat with Jack Dorsey ♻️ (Interview)
This week we’re re-broadcasting a very special episode of Founders Talk. Adam was invited by our friends at Square to host a fireside chat with Jack Dorsey as the featured finale of their annual developer conference called Square Unboxed. Jack is one of the most prolific CEOs out there. He’s a hacker turned CEO, often working at the very edge of what’s to come. He’s focused on what the future has to offer and an innovator at scale. He’s also a Bitcoin maximalist and has positioned himself and Block long on Bitcoin.
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Show Notes:
- Block.xyz
- Square Unboxed 2022
- Square Unboxed 2022’s replay on YouTube
- Square Unboxed 2022’s recap blog post
- Jack Dorsey on Lex Fridman (#91)
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Stand-up advice, Redis explained, big changes for Deno, DevDash & Minimum Viable Python (News)
Lucas F. Costa on why your daily stand-ups don’t work and host to fix them, Mahdi Yusuf deeply explains Redis, the Deno team announces some big changes coming, DevDash is a highly configurable terminal dashboard for developers and creators & Brett Cannon determines what is a Minimum Viable Python (MVPy).
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The power of eBPF (Interview)
eBPF is a revolutionary kernel technology that has lit the cloud native world on fire. If you’re going to have one person explain the excitement, that person would be Liz Rice. Liz is the COSO at Isovalent, creators of the open source Cilium project and pioneers of eBPF tech.
On this episode Liz tells Jerod all about the power of eBPF, where it came from, what kind of new applications its enabling, and who is building the next generation of networking, security, and observability tools with it.
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Show Notes:
- eBPF’s website
- Brendan Gregg’s eBPF-based tracing tools
- Cilium’s website
- BPF Compiler Collection (BCC)
- Meta’s Katran project
- Cloudflare’s packet filtering
- Parca continuous profiling
- Cilium’s Hubble
- Netflix’s Falco project
- Cilum’s Tetragon project
- eBPF Summit 2022
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Chapters, PiBox, using one big server, oncall compensation, being swamped is normal, Tabler & Gum (News)
We add episode chapters to the website, KubeSail sells a PiBox, Nima Badizadegan wants you to use one big server, Gergeloy Orosz details oncall compensation across the software industry, Greg Kogan isn’t impressed with how swamped you are at work, a dashboard template built on Bootstrap & Charm releases a CLI tool for shell scripts.
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The legacy of CSS-Tricks (Interview)
Episode 500!!! And it has been a journey! Nearly 13 years ago we started this podcast and as of today (this episode) we’ve officially shipped our 500th episode. As a companion to this episode, Jerod and Adam shipped a special Backstage episode where they reflect on 500 episodes. And…not only has it been a journey for us, but it’s also been a journey for our good friend Chris Coyier and CSS-Tricks — which he grew from his personal blog to a massively popular contributor driven model, complete with an editor-in-chief, a wide array of influential contributors, and advertisers to help fund the way. The news, of course, is that CSS-Tricks was recently acquired by DigitalOcean in March of 2022. We get into all the details of this deal, his journey, and the legacy of CSS-Tricks.
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- Chris Coyier – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Backstage #24: Reflecting on 500 episodes
- CSS-Tricks is joining DigitalOcean!
- CSS-Tricks joins DigitalOcean, expanding our commitment to community
- CSS-Tricks Design History
- Geoff Graham
- ShopTalk Show.com/
- Codepen Challenges
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OkSo, Markdown generator speeds, Egr Mgr framework, Crockford says retire JS & messy code not required (News)
Oleksii Trekhleb has a new drawing app, Zach Leatherman did some markdown generator speed tests, Jorge Fioranelli built a framework for Engineering Managers, Crockford got interviewed on Evrone & Daniel Sieger wrote up his clean coding advice.
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Long live RSS! (Interview)
This week we’re joined again by Ben Ubois and we’re talking about RSS. Yes, RSS…the tech that never seems to die and yet so many of us rely on it daily. Ben is the creator of Feedbin, which is self-described as “a nice place to read on the web.” Ben is also the maker of a new app on iOS for people who like podcasts. It’s called Airshow and you can download it at airshow.fm. Ben catches us up on the state of Feedbin, we discuss the nine lives of RSS and its foundational utility for the indie web, the possibilities and short-comings of RSS, we get deep in the weeds on the Podcast 2.0 spec and the work being done on <podcast:chapters>, and Ben also shares the details on his new app called Airshow.
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- Ben Ubois – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- feedbin.com
- The Changelog #240: Feedbin and RSS resurgence with Ben Ubois
- Matt Rickard - Thoughts on RSS (source)
- podcastindex.org
- listennotes.com
- Canonical MAAS
- airshow.fm
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Soft deletion, obscure data structures, driving away your best engineers, a blog platform for hackers & moar RSS (News)
Brandur thinks soft deletion probably isn’t worth it, the orange website delivers a high quality discussion on data structures, Podge O’Brien drops satirical management advice, team pico delivers prose.sh, Mat Ryer shares his thoughts on estimations & Matt Rickard’s thoughts on RSS have us thinking about it as well.
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From WeWork to upskilling at Wilco (Interview)
This week we’re joined by On Freund, former VP of Engineering at WeWork and now co-founder & CEO of Wilco. WeWork you may have heard of, but Wilco maybe not (yet).
We get into the details behind the tech and scaling of WeWork, comparisons of the fictional series on Apple TV+ called WeCrashed and how much of that is true. Then we move on to Wilco which is what has On’s full attention right now. Wilco has the potential to be the next big thing for developers to acquire new skills. Wilco aims to be the ultimate simulator to gain new skills on a real-life tech stack. If you want to skip ahead, you can request access at trywilco.com/changelog — they are moving our listeners to the top of the waiting list.
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Featuring:
- On Freund – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Wilco
- Wilco “Hello world”
- Wilco gamifies your path through your software engineering career
- Wilco on Product Hunt
- WeWork
- WeCrashed on Wikepedia
- The History of WeWork.com: From Wordpress to John Quincy Adams
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Spicy designs, more open source opinions, privacy-focused services, the real cost of context switching & jqq (News)
Anthony Hobday has 37 ways to spice up your designs, James Bennett has opinions on open source and PyPi security, Alicia Sykes compiled some awesome security/privacy options, ContextKeeper layouts out the real price of context switching, and Nick Nisi tells us all about jqq. Bam! Bam! Bam!
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Build tiny multi-platform apps with Tauri and web tech (Interview)
This week we’re talking with Daniel Thompson about Tauri and their journey to their recent 1.0 release. Tauri is often compared to Electron - it’s a toolkit that lets you build software for all major desktop operating systems using web technologies. It was built for the security-focused, privacy-respecting, and environmentally-conscious software engineering community. The core libraries are written in Rust and the UI layer can be written using virtually any frontend framework. We get into all the details, why Rust, how the project was formed, their resistance (thus far) to venture capital, their full commitment to the freedom virtues of open source, and all the technical bits you need to know to consider it for your next multi-platform project.
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Featuring:
- Daniel Thompson – GitHub, LinkedIn
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- tauri.app
- Tauri 1.0 Release
- Tauri prerequisites
- Tauri SOCIAL_CONTRACT.md
- Awesome Tauri
- The Changelog #470: Returning to GitHub to lead Sponsors with Jessica Lord
- rust-lang/rustlings
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Bun, K8s is a red flag, "critical" open source packages, Rustlings & FP jargon in simple terms (News)
Jarred Sumner’s Bun comes out of the oven, Jeremy Brown doesn’t want you prematurely optimizing, Armin Ronacher’s not excited about his “critical” Python package, Daniel Thompson from Tauri thinks you should check out Rustlings, and we draw a straight line between Functional Programming jargon and boujee Gen Z slang.
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Oxide builds servers (as they should be) (Interview)
Today we have a special treat: Bryan Cantrill, co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer! You may know Bryan from his work on DTrace. He worked at Sun for many years, then Oracle, and finally Joyent before starting Oxide.
We dig deep into their company’s mission/principles/values, hear how it it all started with a VC’s blank check that turned out to be anything but, and learn how Oxide’s integrated approach to hardware & software sets them up to compete with the established players by building servers as they should be.
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- Sourcegraph – Transform your code into a queryable database to create customizable visual dashboards in seconds. Sourcegraph recently launched Code Insights — now you can track what really matters to you and your team in your codebase. See how other teams are using this awesome feature at about.sourcegraph.com/code-insights
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Featuring:
- Bryan Cantrill – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Show Notes:
- Oxide Computer
- Pierre Lamond
- Brendan Gregg shouting in the datacenter
- On Hubris and Humility: developing an OS for robustness in Rust
- Oxide on My Wrist: Hubris on PineTime was the best worst idea
- Omicron: Oxide control plane
- Oxide on Twitter
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DevTool platform types, things to know about databases, starting with commas, Lobsters turns 10 & Upptime (News)
We’re listening! This week’s experimental, super-brief Monday edition of “The Changelog” has the following new features: It’s longer, there’s no background music during the stories, and it includes stories previously not featured in the newsletter.
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Actual(ly) opening up (Interview)
Adam and Jerod are joined once again by James Long. He was on the podcast five years ago discussing the surprise success of Prettier, an opinionated code formatter that’s still in use to this day. This time around we’re going deep on Actual, his personal finance system James built as a business for over 4 years before recently opening it up and making it 100% free.
Has James given up on the business? Or will this move Actual(ly) breathe new life into a piece of software that’s used and beloved by many? Tune in to find out.
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- Square – Develop on the platform that sellers trust. There is a massive opportunity for developers to support Square sellers by building apps for today’s business needs. Learn more at changelog.com/square to dive into the docs, APIs, SDKs and to create your Square Developer account — tell them Changelog sent you.
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Featuring:
- James Long – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Actual’s website
- Actual’s Discord
- Actual on GitHub
- Open-sourcing Actual
- You Need a Budget
- Dave Ramsey’s EveryDollar
- The Broken Window Theory
- Absurd SQL on GitHub
- Tauri
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Markwhen, Tauri 1.0, SLCs & imposters (News)
We’re experimenting with something new: a super-brief Monday edition of “The Changelog” to help start your week off right and keep you up with the fast-moving software world.
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Lessons from 5 years of startup code audits (Interview)
Adam and Jerod are joined by Ken Kantzer, co-founder of PKC Security. Ken and his team performed upwards of 20 code audits on well-funded startups. Now that it’s 7 or 8 years later, he wrote up 16 surprising observations and things he learned looking back at the experience. We gotta discuss ’em all!
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CHANGELOGand get the team plan free for three months. - InfluxData – The time series platform for building and operating time series applications — InfluxDB empowers developers to build IoT, analytics, and monitoring software. It’s purpose-built to handle massive volumes and countless sources of time-stamped data produced by sensors, applications, and infrastructure. Learn more at influxdata.com/changelog
- Honeycomb – Guess less, know more. When production is running slow, it’s hard to know where problems originate: is it your application code, users, or the underlying systems? With Honeycomb you get a fast, unified, and clear understanding of the one thing driving your business: production. Join the swarm and try Honeycomb free today at honeycomb.io/changelog
- Sourcegraph – Transform your code into a queryable database to create customizable visual dashboards in seconds. Sourcegraph recently launched Code Insights — now you can track what really matters to you and your team in your codebase. See how other teams are using this awesome feature at about.sourcegraph.com/code-insights
Featuring:
- Ken Kantzer – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
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What even is a DevRel? (Interview)
This week Lee Robinson joins us to talk about his journey as a DevRel. We talk about what it means to be a DevRel, what orgs they fall under, how he runs his team at Vercel, Lee’s three pillars of DevRel: education, community, and product, we compare the old days of DevRel vs now, and of course what makes a DevRel a good DevRel.
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- FireHydrant – The reliability platform for every developer. Incidents impact everyone, not just SREs. FireHydrant gives teams the tools to maintain service catalogs, respond to incidents, communicate through status pages, and learn with retrospectives. Small teams up to 10 people can get started for free with all FireHydrant features included. No credit card required to sign up. Learn more at firehydrant.io
- Honeycomb – Guess less, know more. When production is running slow, it’s hard to know where problems originate: is it your application code, users, or the underlying systems? With Honeycomb you get a fast, unified, and clear understanding of the one thing driving your business: production. Join the swarm and try Honeycomb free today at honeycomb.io/changelog
- Retool – The low-code platform for developers to build internal tools — Some of the best teams out there trust Retool…Brex, Coinbase, Plaid, Doordash, LegalGenius, Amazon, Allbirds, Peloton, and so many more – the developers at these teams trust Retool as the platform to build their internal tools. Try it free at retool.com/changelog
Featuring:
- Lee Robinson – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
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Two decades as a solo indie Mac dev (Interview)
This week Jesse Grosjean joins us to talk about his career as a solo indie Mac dev. Since 2004 Jesse has been building Mac apps under the company name Hog Bay Software producing hits such as WriteRoom, Taskpaper, and now Bike. We talk through the evolution of his apps, how he considers new features and improvements, why he chose and continues to choose the Mac platform, his business model and pricing for his apps, and what it takes to build his business around macOS and the driving force of the App Store.
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- Retool – The low-code platform for developers to build internal tools — Some of the best teams out there trust Retool…Brex, Coinbase, Plaid, Doordash, LegalGenius, Amazon, Allbirds, Peloton, and so many more – the developers at these teams trust Retool as the platform to build their internal tools. Try it free at retool.com/changelog
- Sentry – Working code means happy customers. That’s exactly why teams choose Sentry. From error tracking to performance monitoring, Sentry helps teams see what actually matters, resolve problems quicker, and learn continuously about their applications - from the frontend to the backend. Use the code
CHANGELOGand get the team plan free for three months. - MongoDB – An integrated suite of cloud database and services — They have a FREE forever tier, so you can prove to yourself and to your team that they have everything you need. Check it out today at mongodb.com/changelog
Featuring:
- Jesse Grosjean – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Editor’s note: Technically Jesse has been doing Hog Bay Software for 18 years (since 2004). We rounded up to 20 years (2 decades) for the title’s sake.
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Stacked diffs for fast-moving code review (Interview)
This week we’re peeking into the future again — this time we’re looking at the future of modern code review and workflows around pull requests. Jerod and Adam were joined by two of the co-founders of Graphite — Tomas Reimers and Greg Foster.
Graphite is an open-source CLI and code review dashboard built for engineers who want to write and review smaller pull requests, stay unblocked, and ship faster. We cover all the details – how they got started, how this product emerged from another idea they were working on, the state of adoption, why stacking changes is the way of the future, how it’s just Git under the hood, and what they’re doing with the $20M in funding they just got from a16z.
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- Square – Develop on the platform that sellers trust. There is a massive opportunity for developers to support Square sellers by building apps for today’s business needs. Learn more at changelog.com/square to dive into the docs, APIs, SDKs and to create your Square Developer account — tell them Changelog sent you.
- Sentry – Working code means happy customers. That’s exactly why teams choose Sentry. From error tracking to performance monitoring, Sentry helps teams see what actually matters, resolve problems quicker, and learn continuously about their applications - from the frontend to the backend. Use the code
CHANGELOGand get the team plan free for three months. - MongoDB – An integrated suite of cloud database and services — They have a FREE forever tier, so you can prove to yourself and to your team that they have everything you need. Check it out today at mongodb.com/changelog
Featuring:
- Tomas Reimers – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Greg Foster – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- The Mom Test
- Phabricator
- Graphite demo video
- graphite.dev
- docs.graphite.dev
- Graphite jobs
- $20m funding from a16z
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Schneier on security for tomorrow’s software (Interview)
This week we’re talking with Bruce Schneier — cryptographer, computer security professional, privacy specialist, and writer (of many books). He calls himself a “public-interest technologist”, a term he coined himself, and works at the intersection of security, technology, and people.
Bruce has been writing about security issues on his blog since 2004, his monthly newsletter has been going since 1998, he’s a fellow and lecturer at Harvard’s Kennedy School, a board member of the EFF, and the Chief of Security Architecture at Inrupt. Long story short, Bruce has credentials to back up his opinions and on today’s show we dig into the state of cyber-security, security and privacy best practices, his thoughts on Bitcoin (and other crypto-currencies), Tim Berners-Lee’s Solid project, and of course we asked Bruce to share his advice for today’s developers building the software systems of tomorrow.
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- Sentry – Working code means happy customers. That’s exactly why teams choose Sentry. From error tracking to performance monitoring, Sentry helps teams see what actually matters, resolve problems quicker, and learn continuously about their applications - from the frontend to the backend. Use the code
CHANGELOGand get the team plan free for three months. - FireHydrant – The reliability platform for every developer. Incidents impact everyone, not just SREs. FireHydrant gives teams the tools to maintain service catalogs, respond to incidents, communicate through status pages, and learn with retrospectives. Small teams up to 10 people can get started for free with all FireHydrant features included. No credit card required to sign up. Learn more at firehydrant.io
- Sourcegraph – Transform your code into a queryable database to create customizable visual dashboards in seconds. Sourcegraph recently launched Code Insights — now you can track what really matters to you and your team in your codebase. See how other teams are using this awesome feature at about.sourcegraph.com/code-insights
Featuring:
- Bruce Schneier – Website, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Schneier on Security
- Public-Interest Technology Resources - maintained by Bruce Schneier
- WannaCry, Petya, NotPetya: how ransomware hit the big time in 2017
- The Tinder Swindler (official trailer)
- Trust No One: The Hunt for the Crypto King (official trailer)
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Run your home on a Raspberry Pi (Interview)
This week we’re joined by Mike Riley and we’re talking about his book Portable Python Projects (Running your home on a Raspberry Pi). We breakdown the details of the latest Raspberry Pi hardware, various automation ideas from the book, why Mike prefers Python for scripting on a Raspberry Pi, and of course why the Raspberry Pi makes sense for home labs concerned about data security.
Use the code PYPROJECTS to get a 35% discount on the book. That code is valid for approximately 60 days after the episode’s publish date.
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- FireHydrant – The reliability platform for every developer. Incidents impact everyone, not just SREs. FireHydrant gives teams the tools to maintain service catalogs, respond to incidents, communicate through status pages, and learn with retrospectives. Small teams up to 10 people can get started for free with all FireHydrant features included. No credit card required to sign up. Learn more at firehydrant.io
- Retool – The low-code platform for developers to build internal tools — Some of the best teams out there trust Retool…Brex, Coinbase, Plaid, Doordash, LegalGenius, Amazon, Allbirds, Peloton, and so many more – the developers at these teams trust Retool as the platform to build their internal tools. Try it free at retool.com/changelog
- Sourcegraph – Move fast, even in big codebases. Sourcegraph is universal code search for every developer and team. Easily search across all the code that matters to you and your organization: find example code, explore and read code, debug issues, and more. Head to info.sourcegraph.com/changelog and click the button “Try Sourcegraph now” to get started.
Featuring:
- Mike Riley – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- mikeriley.com
- Portable Python Projects (Running your home on a Raspberry Pi)
- Manjaro
- Pi-hole
- Raspberry Pi hardware
- Jeff Geerling
- Raspberry Pi PCIe Devices
- Techno Tim
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Mob programming deep dive (Interview)
We’re talking with Woody Zuill today about all things Mob Programming. Woody leads Mob Programming workshops, he’s a speaker on agile related topics, and coaches and guides orgs interested in creating an environment where people can do their best work. We talk through it all and we even get some amazing advice from Woody’s dad. We define what Mob Programming is and why it’s so effective. Is it a rigid process or can teams flex to make it work for them? How to introduce mob programming to a team. What kind of groundwork is necessary? And of course, are mob programming’s virtues diminished by remote teams in virtual-only settings?
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- Sentry – Working code means happy customers. That’s exactly why teams choose Sentry. From error tracking to performance monitoring, Sentry helps teams see what actually matters, resolve problems quicker, and learn continuously about their applications - from the frontend to the backend. Use the code
PARTYTIMEand get the team plan free for three months. - MongoDB – An integrated suite of cloud database and services — They have a FREE forever tier, so you can prove to yourself and to your team that they have everything you need. Check it out today at mongodb.com/changelog
- Retool – The low-code platform for developers to build internal tools — Some of the best teams out there trust Retool…Brex, Coinbase, Plaid, Doordash, LegalGenius, Amazon, Allbirds, Peloton, and so many more – the developers at these teams trust Retool as the platform to build their internal tools. Try it free at retool.com/changelog
Featuring:
- Woody Zuill – X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
“More work can be done faster by having less people working at any given time.” - Woody Zuill
- Jessica Kerr on episode #483
- MobProgramming.org
- Mob Programming for Introverts
- Remote Mob Programming
- The Mob Mentality Podcast
- An Intro To Mob Programming
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Warp wants to be the terminal of the future (Interview)
Today we’re talking with Zach Lloyd, founder of Warp — the terminal being re-imagined for the 21st century and beyond. Warp is a blazingly fast, rust-based terminal that’s being designed from the ground up to work like a modern app. We get into all the details — why now is the right time to re-invent the terminal, where they got started, the business they aim to build around Warp, what it’s going to take to gain adoption and grow, but more importantly — what’s Warp like today to get developers excited and give it a try.
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CHANGELOGand get the team plan free for three months. - Square – Develop on the platform that sellers trust. There is a massive opportunity for developers to support Square sellers by building apps for today’s business needs. Learn more at changelog.com/square to dive into the docs, APIs, SDKs and to create your Square Developer account — tell them Changelog sent you.
- FireHydrant – The reliability platform for every developer. Incidents impact everyone, not just SREs. FireHydrant gives teams the tools to maintain service catalogs, respond to incidents, communicate through status pages, and learn with retrospectives. Small teams up to 10 people can get started for free with all FireHydrant features included. No credit card required to sign up. Learn more at firehydrant.io
- MongoDB – An integrated suite of cloud database and services — They have a FREE forever tier, so you can prove to yourself and to your team that they have everything you need. Check it out today at mongodb.com/changelog
Featuring:
- Zach Lloyd – GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Practical ways to solve hard problems (Interview)
Frank Krueger joined us to talk about solving hard problems. Earlier this year he wrote a blog post titled “Practical Guide to Solving Hard Problems,” and a lot of what he had to say really resonated with us. The premise is simple — if you have to write some code that you’re just not sure how to write…what do you do? What are the practical steps that you can take when you’re feeling stumped? Today’s show goes deep on that subject…practical ways to solve hard problems and ship your best work.
Frank has his own podcast called Merge Conflict — check it out at mergeconflict.fm.
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- Sentry – Working code means happy customers. That’s exactly why teams choose Sentry. From error tracking to performance monitoring, Sentry helps teams see what actually matters, resolve problems quicker, and learn continuously about their applications - from the frontend to the backend. Use the code
CHANGELOGand get the team plan free for three months. - InfluxData – The time series platform for building and operating time series applications — InfluxDB empowers developers to build IoT, analytics, and monitoring software. It’s purpose-built to handle massive volumes and countless sources of time-stamped data produced by sensors, applications, and infrastructure. Learn more at influxdata.com/changelog
- WorkOS – A platform that gives developers a set of building blocks for quickly adding enterprise-ready features to their application. Add Single Sign-On (Okta, Azure, Google, Microsoft OAuth), sync users from any SCIM directory, HRIS integration, audit trails (SIEM), free magic link sign-in. WorkOS is designed for developers and offers a single, elegant interface that abstracts dozens of enterprise integrations. Learn more and get started at WorkOS.com
- Retool – The low-code platform for developers to build internal tools — Some of the best teams out there trust Retool…Brex, Coinbase, Plaid, Doordash, LegalGenius, Amazon, Allbirds, Peloton, and so many more – the developers at these teams trust Retool as the platform to build their internal tools. Try it free at retool.com/changelog
Featuring:
- Frank Krueger – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Practical Guide to Solving Hard Problems
- Frank’s app iCircuit
- Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools
- Merge Conflict
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The story of Vitess (Interview)
This week we’re joined by Deepthi Sigireddi, Vitess Maintainer and engineer at PlanetScale — of course we’re talking about all things Vitess. We talk about its origin inside YouTube, how Vitess handles sharding, Deepthi’s journey to Vitess maintainer, when you should begin using it, and how it fits into cloud native infra.
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- FireHydrant – The reliability platform for every developer. Incidents impact everyone, not just SREs. FireHydrant gives teams the tools to maintain service catalogs, respond to incidents, communicate through status pages, and learn with retrospectives. Try FireHydrant free for 14 days at firehydrant.io
- WorkOS – A platform that gives developers a set of building blocks for quickly adding enterprise-ready features to their application. Add Single Sign-On (Okta, Azure, Google, Microsoft OAuth), sync users from any SCIM directory, HRIS integration, audit trails (SIEM), free magic link sign-in. WorkOS is designed for developers and offers a single, elegant interface that abstracts dozens of enterprise integrations. Learn more and get started at WorkOS.com
- Sourcegraph – Move fast, even in big codebases. Sourcegraph is universal code search for every developer and team. Easily search across all the code that matters to you and your organization: find example code, explore and read code, debug issues, and more. Head to info.sourcegraph.com/changelog and click the button “Try Sourcegraph now” to get started.
Featuring:
- Deepthi Sigireddi – GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- vitess.io
- Vitess Architecture
- github.com/vitessio/vitess
- Vitess Benchmarks (Are we fast yet?)
- New in MySQL 8.0
- CNCF Graduation Criteria v1.3
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Wisdom from 50+ years in software (Interview)
Today we have a special treat. A conversation with Brian Kernighan! Brian’s been in the software game since the beginning of Unix. Yes, he was there at Bell Labs when it all began. And he is still at it today, writing books and teaching the next generation at Princeton.
This is an epic and wide ranging conversation. You’ll hear about the birth of Unix, Ken Thompson’s unique skillset, why Brian thinks C has stood the test of time, his thoughts on modern languages like Go and Rust, what’s changed in 50 years of software, what makes platforms like Unix and the web so powerful, his take as a professor on the trend of programmers skipping the university track, and so much more.
Seriously, this is a must-listen.
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- InfluxData – The time series platform for building and operating time series applications — InfluxDB empowers developers to build IoT, analytics, and monitoring software. It’s purpose-built to handle massive volumes and countless sources of time-stamped data produced by sensors, applications, and infrastructure. Learn more at influxdata.com/changelog
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Featuring:
- Brian Kernighan – Website
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Brian’s Wikipedia
- PDP-7 on Wikipedia
- Understanding the Digital World: What You Need to Know about Computers, the Internet, Privacy, and Security
- The C Programming Language
- UNIX: A History and a Memoir
- The Go Programming Language
- The Mythical Man-Month
- Dick Hamming’s You and Your Research
- Brian on Lex Fridman’s podcast
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ONE MORE thing every dev should know (Interview)
The incomparable Jessica Kerr is back with another grab-bag of amazing topics. We talk about her journey to Honeycomb, devs getting satisfaction from the code they write, why step one for her is “get that new project into production” and step two is observe it, her angst for the context switching around pull requests, some awesome book recommendations, how game theory and design can translate to how we skill up and level up our teams, and so much more.
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- Sentry – Working code means happy customers. That’s exactly why teams choose Sentry. From error tracking to performance monitoring, Sentry helps teams see what actually matters, resolve problems quicker, and learn continuously about their applications - from the frontend to the backend. Use the code
CHANGELOGand get the team plan free for three months. - Retool – The low-code platform for developers to build internal tools — Some of the best teams out there trust Retool…Brex, Coinbase, Plaid, Doordash, LegalGenius, Amazon, Allbirds, Peloton, and so many more – the developers at these teams trust Retool as the platform to build their internal tools. Try it free at retool.com/changelog
- MongoDB – An integrated suite of cloud database and services — They have a FREE forever tier, so you can prove to yourself and to your team that they have everything you need. Check it out today at mongodb.com/changelog
Featuring:
- Jessica Kerr – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- The ONE thing every dev should know (and other words of wisdom) with Jessica Kerr
- Graceful.Dev - the successor to Ruby Tapas
- Games: Agency As Art
- Trespassing on Einstein’s Lawn
- Shigeru Miyamoto on Wikipedia
- Better coordination, or better software?
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Securing the open source supply chain (Interview)
This week we’re joined by the “mad scientist” himself, Feross Aboukhadijeh…and we’re talking about the launch of Socket — the next big thing in the fight to secure and protect the open source supply chain.
While working on the frontlines of open source, Feross and team have witnessed firsthand how supply chain attacks have swept across the software community and have damaged the trust in open source. Socket turns the problem of securing open source software on its head, and asks…“What if we assume all open source may be malicious?” So, they built a system that proactively detects indicators of compromised open source packages and brings awareness to teams in real-time. We cover the whys, the hows, and what’s next for this ambitious and very much needed project.
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CHANGELOGand get the team plan free for three months. - Square – Develop on the platform that sellers trust. There is a massive opportunity for developers to support Square sellers by building apps for today’s business needs. Learn more at developer.squareup.com to dive into the docs, APIs, SDKs and to create your Square Developer account — tell them Changelog sent you.
- Retool – Retool is a low-code platform built specifically for developers that makes it fast and easy to build internal tools. Instead of building internal tools from scratch, the world’s best teams, from startups to Fortune 500s, are using Retool to power their internal apps. Learn more and try it for free at retool.com/changelog
- WorkOS – A platform that gives developers a set of building blocks for quickly adding enterprise-ready features to their application. Add Single Sign-On (Okta, Azure, Google, Microsoft OAuth), sync users from any SCIM directory, HRIS integration, audit trails (SIEM), free magic link sign-in. WorkOS is designed for developers and offers a single, elegant interface that abstracts dozens of enterprise integrations. Learn more and get started at WorkOS.com
Featuring:
- Feross Aboukhadijeh – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Socket.dev
- socket.dev/npm/issue
- socket.dev/npm/lists/removed
- socket.dev/npm/package/left-pad
- socket.dev/npm/package/umbrellajs
- socket.dev/npm/package/airbnb-fejax
- Dev corrupts NPM libs ‘colors’ and ‘faker’ breaking thousands of apps
- Popular ‘coa’ NPM library hijacked to steal user passwords
- Popular NPM package UA-Parser-JS poisoned with cryptomining, password-stealing malware
- Vulnerabilities in NPM allowed threat actors to publish new version of any package
- cve.org
- browserslist.dev
- The Changelog #227: Mad science, WebTorrent, WebRTC with Feross Aboukhadijeh
- The Changelog #326: The insider perspective on the event-stream compromise with Dominic Tarr
- JS Party #185: Into the Wormhole with Feross Aboukhadijeh
- JS Party #210: What’s in your package.json? with Tobie Langel
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Making the command line glamorous (Interview)
This week we’re talking to Toby Padilla, Co-Founder at Charm — where they build tools to make the command line glamorous. We talk about the state of the art, the next big thing happening on the command line and in ssh-land. They have an array of open source tooling to build great apps for the terminal and Charm Cloud to power a new generation of CLI apps. We talk through all their tooling, where things are headed for CLI apps, the focus and attention of their team, and what’s to come in bringing glamor to the command line.
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- Sentry – Working code means happy customers. That’s exactly why teams choose Sentry. From error tracking to performance monitoring, Sentry helps teams see what actually matters, resolve problems quicker, and learn continuously about their applications - from the frontend to the backend. Use the code
CHANGELOGand get the team plan free for three months. - WorkOS – A platform that gives developers a set of building blocks for quickly adding enterprise-ready features to their application. Add Single Sign-On (Okta, Azure, Google, Microsoft OAuth), sync users from any SCIM directory, HRIS integration, audit trails (SIEM), free magic link sign-in. WorkOS is designed for developers and offers a single, elegant interface that abstracts dozens of enterprise integrations. Learn more and get started at WorkOS.com
- MongoDB – An integrated suite of cloud database and services — They have a FREE forever tier, so you can prove to yourself and to your team that they have everything you need. Check it out today at mongodb.com/changelog
Featuring:
- Toby Padilla – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- charm.sh
- Charm Cloud
- kitty - The fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal emulator
- betaworks: build better
- Julie Zhang on Twitter
Glamour projects
Wish projects
Bubble Tea projects
- achannarasappa/ticker
- maaslalani/slides
- mergestat/mergestat
- minio/mc
- supabase/cli
- antonmedv/llama
- dlvhdr/gh-prs
- tendermint/starport
- mathaou/termdbms
- mvisonneau/gitlab-ci-pipelines-exporter
- oz/tz
- trashhalo/imgcat
- maaslalani/gambit
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Git your reset on (Interview)
This week we’re joined by Annie Sexton, UX Engineer at Render, to talk about her blog post titled Git Organized: A Better Git Flow that made the internet explode when she suggested using reset instead of rebase for a better git flow. On this show we talk about the git flow she suggests and why, how this flow works for her when she’s hacking on the Render codebase (and when she uses it), the good and the bad of Git, and we also talked about the cognitive load of Git commits as you work.
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CHANGELOGand get the team plan free for three months. - InfluxData – InfluxDB empowers developers to build IoT, analytics, and monitoring software. It’s purpose-built to handle massive volumes and countless sources of time-stamped data produced by sensors, applications, and infrastructure. Learn about the wide range of use cases of InfluxDB at influxdata.com/changelog
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Featuring:
- Annie Sexton – Website, LinkedIn, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Git Organized: A Better Git Flow
- I wrote a thing (on Twitter)
- A User’s Guide to the Brain - by John J. Ratey, M.D.
- How to Squash Commits in Git
- Move assets to S3 #400
- What is executive function?
- Dopamine
- Norepinephrine
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Principles for hiring engineers (Interview)
This week we’re joined by Jacob Kaplan-Moss and we’re talking about his extensive writing on work sample tests. These tests are an exercise, a simulation, or a small slice of real day-to-day work that candidates will perform as part of their job. Over the years, as an engineering leader, Jacob has become a practicing expert in effectively hiring engineers — today he shares a wealth of knowledge on the subject.
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- FireHydrant – The reliability platform for every developer. Incidents impact everyone, not just SREs. FireHydrant gives teams the tools to maintain service catalogs, respond to incidents, communicate through status pages, and learn with retrospectives. Try FireHydrant free for 14 days at firehydrant.io
- Retool – Retool is a low-code platform built specifically for developers that makes it fast and easy to build internal tools. Instead of building internal tools from scratch, the world’s best teams, from startups to Fortune 500s, are using Retool to power their internal apps. Learn more and try it for free at retool.com/changelog
- WorkOS – A platform that gives developers a set of building blocks for quickly adding enterprise-ready features to their application. Add Single Sign-On (Okta, Azure, Google, Microsoft OAuth), sync users from any SCIM directory, HRIS integration, audit trails (SIEM), free magic link sign-in. WorkOS is designed for developers and offers a single, elegant interface that abstracts dozens of enterprise integrations. Learn more and get started at WorkOS.com
Featuring:
- Jacob Kaplan-Moss – Website, Mastodon, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Series: Work Sample Tests
- Work Sample Tests: A Framework for Good Work Sample Tests: Eight Rules for Fair Tests
- Work Sample Tests: Wrap Up and Q&A
- The Changelog #474: Complex systems & second-order effects with Paul Orlando
- A New Morality of Attainment (Goodhart’s Law)
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Learning from incidents (Interview)
This week we’re joined by Nora Jones, founder and CEO at Jeli where they help teams gain insight and learnings from incidents. Back in December Nora shared here thoughts in a Changelog post titled “Incident” shouldn’t be a four-letter word - which got a lot of attention from our readers. Today we’re talking with Nora about all things incidents — the learning and growth they represent for teams, why teams should focus on learning from incidents in the first place, their Howie guide to post‑incident investigations, why the next emerging role is an Incident Analyst, and she also shares a few book recommendations which we’ve linked up in the show notes.
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- Sentry – Working code means happy customers. That’s exactly why teams choose Sentry. From error tracking to performance monitoring, Sentry helps teams see what actually matters, resolve problems quicker, and learn continuously about their applications - from the frontend to the backend. Use the code
CHANGELOGand get the team plan free for three months. - WorkOS – A platform that gives developers a set of building blocks for quickly adding enterprise-ready features to their application. Add Single Sign-On (Okta, Azure, Google, Microsoft OAuth), sync users from any SCIM directory, HRIS integration, audit trails (SIEM), free magic link sign-in. WorkOS is designed for developers and offers a single, elegant interface that abstracts dozens of enterprise integrations. Learn more and get started at WorkOS.com
- Subspace – Network-as-a-Service that helps developers accelerate real-time applications for hundreds of millions of users worldwide. When every millisecond counts, Subspace gives you the fastest, most reliable network to route your traffic through. And it all works via a global IP proxy that sets up using a simple API. Learn more and get started for free at subspace.com/changelog
Featuring:
- Nora Jones – LinkedIn, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- “Incident” shouldn’t be a four-letter word
- Howie: The Post-Incident Guide
- About Chesley B. “Sully” Sullenberger, III
- Minding the Weather (How Expert Forecasters Think)
- Seeing What Others Don’t: The Remarkable Ways We Gain Insights
- Community: Learning from Incidents
in Software - The Changelog #462: Learning-focused engineering with Brittany Dionigi
- Costa Concordia disaster
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Song Encoder: Forrest Brazeal (Interview)
Welcome to Song Encoder, a special series of The Changelog podcast featuring people who create at the intersection of software and music. This episode features Pwnie Award-winning songwriter Forrest Brazeal.
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Show Notes:
- 168 AWS Services in 2 minutes
- The Ransomware Song
- That Sinking Feeling (The #HugOps Song)
- Serverless v Containers
- Look At You Now (The Google Cloud Song)
- Kingston Trio-Merry Minuet
- Big Tech ((It’s Probably Fine))
- The AWS Elastic Load Balancer Yodel Rag
- Song Encoder: $STDOUT
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Supabase is all in on Postgres (Interview)
This week Paul Copplestone, CEO of Supabase joined us to catch us up on the next big thing happening in the world of Postgres. Supabase might be best known as “the open source Firebase alternative,” a tagline they might be reluctant to maintain. But from Adam’s perspective, he’s never been more excited about what they’re bringing to market for Postgres fans. In the last year, Supabase has gone from 0 to more than 80,000 databases on their platform — and they’re still in beta…and it’s open source. Hopefully today’s show sheds some light on why everyone is talking about Supabase.
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CHANGELOGand get the team plan free for three months. - FireHydrant – The reliability platform for every developer. Incidents impact everyone, not just SREs. FireHydrant gives teams the tools to maintain service catalogs, respond to incidents, communicate through status pages, and learn with retrospectives. Try FireHydrant free for 14 days at firehydrant.io
- Subspace – Network-as-a-Service that helps developers accelerate real-time applications for hundreds of millions of users worldwide. When every millisecond counts, Subspace gives you the fastest, most reliable network to route your traffic through. And it all works via a global IP proxy that sets up using a simple API. Learn more and get started for free at subspace.com/changelog
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Featuring:
- Paul Copplestone – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Supabase
- Supabase docs
- supabase/supabase
- Supabase Realtime
- Tweet: Total databases on the Supabase platform
- Tweet: In 2021 Supabase grew…
- The Changelog #461: Fauna is rethinking the database with Evan Weaver
- postgresql.org
- Firebase
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Making the ZFS file system (Interview)
This week Matt Ahrens joins Adam to talk about ZFS. Matt co-founded the ZFS project at Sun Microsystems in 2001. And 20 years later Adam picked up ZFS for use in his home lab and loved it. So, he reached out to Matt and invited him on the show. They cover the origins of the file system, its journey from proprietary to open source, architecture choices like copy-on-write, the ins and outs of creating and managing ZFS, RAID-Z and RAID-Z expansion, and Matt even shares plans for ZFS in the cloud with ZFS object store.
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- InfluxData – InfluxDB empowers developers to build IoT, analytics, and monitoring software. It’s purpose-built to handle massive volumes and countless sources of time-stamped data produced by sensors, applications, and infrastructure. Learn about the wide range of use cases of InfluxDB at influxdata.com/changelog
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Show Notes:
- Matt Ahrens on openzfs.org
- State of OpenZFS 2021 by Matt Ahrens
- ZFS RAIDZ stripe width, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love RAIDZ
- ZFS fans, rejoice—RAIDz expansion will be a thing very soon
- Common Development and Distribution License 1.0
- Linus Torvalds: Avoid Oracle’s ZFS kernel code on Linux until ‘litigious’ Larry signs off
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Complex systems & second-order effects (Interview)
Paul Orlando joins Jerod to talk through some unintended consequences that occur when systems operate at scale. We discuss Goodhart’s Law, The Cobra Effect, how to design incentive systems, dependency management decisions, the risks of autonomous vehicles, and much more along the way.
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- Square – Develop on the platform that sellers trust. There is a massive opportunity for developers to support Square sellers by building apps for today’s business needs. Learn more at developer.squareup.com to dive into the docs, APIs, SDKs and to create your Square Developer account — tell them Changelog sent you.
- FireHydrant – The reliability platform for every developer. Incidents impact everyone, not just SREs. FireHydrant gives teams the tools to maintain service catalogs, respond to incidents, communicate through status pages, and learn with retrospectives. Try FireHydrant free for 14 days at firehydrant.io
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Show Notes:
- The Unintended Consequences blog
- A New Morality of Attainment (Goodhart’s Law)
- The Cobra Effect Redesigned (Examples & Antidotes)
- The Cobra Effect (Part 2)
- Uncertainty Saves Lives – the Peltzman Effect
- Garmin Hack and Dependence
- Autonomous Vehicles and Scaling Risk
- A Pattern Language
- Growth Units: Learn to Calculate Customer Acquisition Cost
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State of the "log" 2021 (Interview)
Our 4th annual year-end wrap-up episode! We don’t naval gaze often, but when we do… we make sure you get your money’s worth. Reflections, most popular episodes, our favs, and new this year: listener voice mails. Thanks for listening! 💚
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- Retool – Retool is a low-code platform built specifically for developers that makes it fast and easy to build internal tools. Instead of building internal tools from scratch, the world’s best teams, from startups to Fortune 500s, are using Retool to power their internal apps. Learn more and try it for free at retool.com/changelog
- LaunchDarkly – Fundamentally change how you deliver software. Innovate faster, deploy fearlessly, and make each release a masterpiece.
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The Changelog’s most popular episodes of 2021:
- Why we love Vim
- Modern Unix tools with Nick Janetakis
- OAuth, “It’s complicated.” with Aaron Parecki
- Why Neovim? with TJ DeVries
Jerod’s personal favorites of 2021:
- Community perspectives on Elastic vs AWS
- Exploring Deno Land with Ryan Dahl
- Why we love Vim
- Lessons from 10k hours with Matt Rickard
- Song Encoder: $STDOUT
Adam’s personal favorites of 2021:
- We ask a lawyer about GitHub Copilot
- Exploring Deno Land with Ryan Dahl
- Leading a non-profit unicorn with Quincy Larson
- Let’s mint some NFTs with Mikeal Rogers
- Every commit is a gift with Brett Cannon
- Shopify’s vision for the future of commerce with Ilya Grigorik
- Oh my! Zsh with Robby Russell
- The business model of open source with Adam Jacob
Other links mentioned:
- Ship It! 1
- Ship It! 15
- Changelog Merch
- Tim Caswell on Twitter
- Dumb & Dumber: And Totally redeem yourself!
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
AI-assisted development is here to stay (Interview)
We’re joined by Eran Yahav — talking about AI assistants for developers. Eran has been working on this problem for more than a decade. We talk about his path to now and how the idea for Tabnine came to life, this AI revolution taking place and the role it will play in developer productivity, and we talk about the elephant in the room - how Tabnine compares to GitHub Copilot, and what they’re doing to make Tabnine the AI assistant for every developer regardless of the IDE or editor you choose.
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- InfluxData – InfluxDB empowers developers to build IoT, analytics, and monitoring software. It’s purpose-built to handle massive volumes and countless sources of time-stamped data produced by sensors, applications, and infrastructure. Learn about the wide range of use cases of InfluxDB at influxdata.com/changelog
- Teleport – Securely access any computing resource anywhere. Engineers and security teams can unify access to SSH servers, Kubernetes clusters, web applications, and databases across all environments. Try Teleport today in the cloud, self-hosted, or open source at goteleport.com
- FireHydrant – The reliability platform for teams of all sizes. With FireHydrant, teams achieve reliability at scale by enabling speed and consistency from a service deployment to an unexpected outage. Try FireHydrant free for 14 days at firehydrant.io
- Sourcegraph – Move fast, even in big codebases. Sourcegraph is universal code search for every developer and team. Easily search across all the code that matters to you and your organization: find example code, explore and read code, debug issues, and more. Head to info.sourcegraph.com/changelog and click the button “Try Sourcegraph now” to get started.
Featuring:
- Eran Yahav – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Deeply human stories (Interview)
Today we’re bringing our appearance on DevDiscuss right here to The Changelog. Jerod and I guested their launch episode for Season 7 to talk about deeply human stories we’ve covered over the years on this podcast. For long-time listners this will be a trip down memory lane and for recent subscibers this will be a guided tour on some of our most impactful episodes. Special thanks to Ben Halpern and Christina Gorton for hosting us. Check out their show at dev.to/devdiscuss
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- InfluxData – InfluxDB empowers developers to build IoT, analytics, and monitoring software. It’s purpose-built to handle massive volumes and countless sources of time-stamped data produced by sensors, applications, and infrastructure. Learn about the wide range of use cases of InfluxDB at influxdata.com/changelog
- LaunchDarkly – Fundamentally change how you deliver software. Innovate faster, deploy fearlessly, and make each release a masterpiece.
- Teleport – Securely access any computing resource anywhere. Engineers and security teams can unify access to SSH servers, Kubernetes clusters, web applications, and databases across all environments. Try Teleport today in the cloud, self-hosted, or open source at goteleport.com
- Square – Develop on the platform that sellers trust. There is a massive opportunity for developers to support Square sellers by building apps for today’s business needs. Learn more at developer.squareup.com to dive into the docs, APIs, SDKs and to create your Square Developer account — tell them Changelog sent you.
Featuring:
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Ben Halpern – GitHub, X
- Christina Gorton – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Show Notes:
- Five years of freeCodeCamp with Quincy Larson
- Oh my! Zsh. with Robby Russell
- A Protocol for Dying with Pieter Hintjens
- Leading Leaders Who Lead Engineers with Lara Hogan
- Every Commit is a Gift
- Open Sourcing the DEV Community with Ben Halpern
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Help make state of the "log" 2021 extra special! (Interview)
We’re prepping for our 4th annual state of the “log” episode where we look back at the year, discuss some of our favorite episodes as well as the most popular ones, and talk a bit about what we have in the works for 2022 and beyond.
We thought it’d be awesome to include some listener voices on the show! So, please share your favorite Changelog guests, topics, or a-ha moments you’ve had over the last year.
If you get your message included in the episode, we’ll send you a free t-shirt.
It doesn’t have to be super produced. Just pop open your Voice Memos app on your phone
or use QuickTime or Audacity on your laptop. Tell us what’s on your mind.
Then upload your audio to ~> changelog.fm/sotl
We’re recording the episode next week, so don’t sleep on the opportunity. We’d love to hear from you!
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Returning to GitHub to lead Sponsors (Interview)
Today we’re joined by Jessica Lord, talking about the origins of Electron and her boomerang back to GitHub to lead GitHub Sponsors. We cover the early days of Electron before Electron was Electron, how she advocated to turn it into a product and make it a framework, how it’s used today, why she boomeranged back to GitHub to lead Sponsors, what’s next in funding open source creators, and we attempt to answer the question “what happens to open source once it’s funded?”
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- InfluxData – InfluxDB empowers developers to build IoT, analytics, and monitoring software. It’s purpose-built to handle massive volumes and countless sources of time-stamped data produced by sensors, applications, and infrastructure. Learn about the wide range of use cases of InfluxDB at influxdata.com/changelog
- LaunchDarkly – Fundamentally change how you deliver software. Innovate faster, deploy fearlessly, and make each release a masterpiece.
- Teleport – Securely access any computing resource anywhere. Engineers and security teams can unify access to SSH servers, Kubernetes clusters, web applications, and databases across all environments. Try Teleport today in the cloud, self-hosted, or open source at goteleport.com
- Square – Develop on the platform that sellers trust. There is a massive opportunity for developers to support Square sellers by building apps for today’s business needs. Learn more at developer.squareup.com to dive into the docs, APIs, SDKs and to create your Square Developer account — tell them Changelog sent you.
Featuring:
- Jessica Lord – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- GitHub Sponsors
- GitHub Sponsors docs
- GitHub Sponsors is now out of beta in 30 countries
- changelog.com/search?q=GitHub+Sponsors
- Sponsor Mat Ryer
- Sponsor curl
- I just hit $100,000/yr on GitHub Sponsors 🎉
- We Just Gave $154,999.89 to Open Source Maintainers
- Datasette Desktop
- The Changelog #216: GitHub’s Electron with Zeke Sikelianos
- The Changelog #241: The Story of Atom with Nathan Sobo
- The Changelog #370: The making of GitHub Sponsors with Devon Zuegel
- The Changelog #381: The dawn of sponsorware with Caleb Porzio
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Shopify's vision for the future of commerce (Interview)
Today we’re joined by Ilya Grigorik to talk about Shopify’s developer preview release of Hydrogen and the preview release of Oxygen which is in early access preview with select merchants on Shopify. Hydrogen is their React framework for dynamic, contextual, and personalized e-commerce. And Oxygen is Shopify’s hosted V8 JavaScript worker runtime that leverages all of their platform with the hope of scaling millions of storefronts. We cover what developers can expect from the Hydrogen framework, Shopify’s big bet on React Server Components, the future of Shopify at scale with Hydrogen powered by Oxygen, and a world where merchants never have to think about the complexities of scaling infrastructure.
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- Retool – Retool is a low-code platform built specifically for developers that makes it fast and easy to build internal tools. Instead of building internal tools from scratch, the world’s best teams, from startups to Fortune 500s, are using Retool to power their internal apps. Learn more and try it for free at retool.com/changelog
- Sourcegraph – Move fast, even in big codebases. Sourcegraph is universal code search for every developer and team. Easily search across all the code that matters to you and your organization: find example code, explore and read code, debug issues, and more. Head to info.sourcegraph.com/changelog and click the button “Try Sourcegraph now” to get started.
- FireHydrant – The reliability platform for teams of all sizes. With FireHydrant, teams achieve reliability at scale by enabling speed and consistency from a service deployment to an unexpected outage. Try FireHydrant free for 14 days at firehydrant.io
Featuring:
- Ilya Grigorik – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Ilya’s Twitter thread
- Meet Hydrogen: A React Framework For Dynamic, Contextual And Personalized E-Commerce
- Hydrogen > new
- Shopify/hydrogen
- Changelog Search > “Ilya Grigorik”
- Changelog Merch
- Kids Anthem
- React Server Components Explained
- Building Blocks of High Performance Hydrogen-powered Storefronts
- The Changelog #416: Shopify’s massive storefront rewrite with Maxime Vaillancourt
- JS Party #178: Running Node natively in the browser with Eric Simons from StackBlitz
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1Password is all in on its web stack (Interview)
This week we’re bringing JS Party to The Changelog — Mitch and Andrew from the 1Password team talk with Amal and Nick about the company’s transition to Electron and web technologies, and how the company utilized its existing web stack to shape the future of its desktop experience.
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- Retool – Retool is a low-code platform built specifically for developers that makes it fast and easy to build internal tools. Instead of building internal tools from scratch, the world’s best teams, from startups to Fortune 500s, are using Retool to power their internal apps. Learn more and try it for free at retool.com/changelog
- Sourcegraph – Move fast, even in big codebases. Sourcegraph is universal code search for every developer and team. Easily search across all the code that matters to you and your organization: find example code, explore and read code, debug issues, and more. Head to info.sourcegraph.com/changelog and click the button “Try Sourcegraph now” to get started.
- FireHydrant – The reliability platform for teams of all sizes. With FireHydrant, teams achieve reliability at scale by enabling speed and consistency from a service deployment to an unexpected outage. Try FireHydrant free for 14 days at firehydrant.io
Featuring:
- Mitchell Cohen – GitHub, X
- Andrew Beyer – GitHub, X
- Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- 1Password 8: The Story So Far
- w3c community group for web extensions
- 1Password Security Design
- GopherJS
- React
- Svelte
- Electron
- Rust
- Neon (rust in Electron)
- RFCs for JMAP?
- 1Password Careers Page (they are hiring!)
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Connecting the dots in public (Interview)
Today we’re joined by Shawn “swyx” Wang, also known as just “swyx” — and we’re talking about his interesting path to becoming a software developer, what it means to “learn in public” and how he’s been able to leverage that process to not only level up his skills and knowlege, but to also rapidly advance his career. We cover Swyx’s recent writing on the light and dark side of the API economy — something he calls “living above or below the API,” his thoughts on Cloudflare eating the cloud by playing Go instead of Chess, and we also talk about the work he’s doing at Temporal and how’s taking his frontend skills to the backend.
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- Teleport – Securely access any computing resource anywhere. Engineers and security teams can unify access to SSH servers, Kubernetes clusters, web applications, and databases across all environments. Try Teleport today in the cloud, self-hosted, or open source at goteleport.com
- Square – Develop on the platform that sellers trust. There is a massive opportunity for developers to support Square sellers by building apps for today’s business needs. Learn more at developer.squareup.com to dive into the docs, APIs, SDKs and to create your Square Developer account — tell them Changelog sent you.
- LaunchDarkly / TrajectoryConf – Software powers the world. LaunchDarkly empowers all teams to deliver and control their software. DevOps and feature management are reimagining how we build and release new products. On November 9th and 10th, LaunchDarkly is hosting Trajectory Conference 2021 — a two-day event for software innovators who want to break orbit, not systems. Trajectory is a fully-virtual conference that focuses on the technology, people, and processes that continuously deliver better user experiences and more powerful software. Register for free at trajectoryconf.com
Featuring:
- Shawn Wang – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Learn in Public
- The Light and Dark Side of the API Economy
- Eating the Cloud from Outside In
- The Coding Career Handboox (this link includes an embedded coupon code for 30% off)
- Cloud Operating Systems and Reconstituting the Monolith
- No Zero Days: My Path from Javascript Newbie to Full Stack Developer at Age 30
- freeCodeCamp.org
- #Doccies (we’re planning to do something around this soon, stay tuned in 2022)
- Cloud Distros and the Deployment Age of the Cloud
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Song Encoder: $STDOUT (Interview)
Welcome to Song Encoder, a special series of The Changelog podcast featuring people who create at the intersection of software and music. This episode features $STDOUT and contains explicit language.
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Featuring:
Show Notes:
Listen to $STDOUT
Track list (in order of appearance)
- Pair Programming
- Hell.js
- Language Flamewars
- Meetings
- Tech Lead
- Over Engineering
- Opinions
- Interviews
- Estimates
- 3AM in San Fransisco
- Remote Life
- Integrations
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Oh my! Zsh. (Interview)
Robby Russell is back on The Changelog after more than 10 years to catch us up on all things Oh My Zsh — a delightful, open source, community-driven framework for managing your Zshell configuration. It comes bundled with plugins, themes, and can be easily customized and contributed to, because hey, that’s how open source works. In this episode Robby gives us a glimpse into the passion and the struggle of being an open source software maintainer.
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- LaunchDarkly / TrajectoryConf – Software powers the world. LaunchDarkly empowers all teams to deliver and control their software. DevOps and feature management are reimagining how we build and release new products. On November 9th and 10th, LaunchDarkly is hosting Trajectory Conference 2021 — a two-day event for software innovators who want to break orbit, not systems. Trajectory is a fully-virtual conference that focuses on the technology, people, and processes that continuously deliver better user experiences and more powerful software. Register for free at trajectoryconf.com
- Teleport – Securely access any computing resource anywhere. Engineers and security teams can unify access to SSH servers, Kubernetes clusters, web applications, and databases across all environments. Try Teleport today in the cloud, self-hosted, or open source at goteleport.com
- Square – Develop on the platform that sellers trust. There is a massive opportunity for developers to support Square sellers by building apps for today’s business needs. Learn more at developer.squareup.com to dive into the docs, APIs, SDKs and to create your Square Developer account — tell them Changelog sent you.
Featuring:
- Robby Russell – GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- The Changelog #61: Oh My Zsh with Robby Russell
- Oh My Zsh
- ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/pulls on GitHub
- d’Oh My Zsh
- colorize plugin
- Planet Argon
- maintainable.fm
- Oh My Zsh merch
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
This insane tech hiring market (Interview)
This week we’re joined by Gergely Orosz and we’re talking about the insane tech hiring market we’re in right now. Gergely was on the show a year ago talking about growing as a software engineer and his book The Tech Resume Inside Out. Now he’s laser focused on Substack with actionable advice for engineering managers and engineers, with a focus on big tech and high-growth startups. On today’s show we dig into his recent coverage of “the perfect storm” that’s causing this insane tech hiring market.
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changelog21. Learn more and register for free at influxdays.com - Retool – Retool is a low-code platform built specifically for developers that makes it fast and easy to build internal tools. Instead of building internal tools from scratch, the world’s best teams, from startups to Fortune 500s, are using Retool to power their internal apps. Learn more and try it for free at retool.com/changelog
- Sourcegraph – Move fast, even in big codebases. Sourcegraph is universal code search for every developer and team. Easily search across all the code that matters to you and your organization: find example code, explore and read code, debug issues, and more. Head to info.sourcegraph.com/changelog and click the button “Try Sourcegraph now” to get started.
- Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com
Featuring:
- Gergely Orosz – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- blog.pragmaticengineer.com
- The Perfect Storm Causing an Insane Tech Hiring Market
- The FB engineering manager interview process
- What are ways you can prepare for a software engineering or engineering manager promotion ahead of time?
- The Web 2.0 Show #63: Twilio - Telephony in the Cloud
- Jeff Lawson and his book Ask Your Developer
- Chris Herd on Twitter — “Every time a competitor mentions return to office our recruiters reach out to their people. We’ve hired 15+ of their engineers in the last 2 months.”
- The Changelog #422: Growing as a software engineer with Gergely Orosz
- Anonymous job search with Djinni.co
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Lessons from 10k hours of programming (Interview)
Today we’re talking to Matt Rickard about his blog post, Reflections on 10,000 Hours of Programming. Matt was clear to mention that these reflections are purely about coding, not career advice or other soft skills. These reflections are just about deliberately writing code for 10,000 hours, which also correlates with the number of hours needed to master a skill.
If you count the reflections we cover on the show and be the first to comment on this episode, we’ll get in touch and send you a coupon code to use for a 100% free t-shirt in the merch store. Good luck…
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- InfluxData – InfluxDays NA 2021 Virtual Experience (October 26-27) — InfluxDays is an event focused on the impact of time series data. Find out why time series databases are the fastest growing database segment providing real-time observability of your solutions. Get practical advice and insight from the engineers and developers behind InfluxDB, the leading time series database. Our listeners get $50 off the Hands-on Flux Training - use the code
changelog21. Learn more and register for free at influxdays.com - Retool – Retool is a low-code platform built specifically for developers that makes it fast and easy to build internal tools. Instead of building internal tools from scratch, the world’s best teams, from startups to Fortune 500s, are using Retool to power their internal apps. Learn more and try it for free at retool.com/changelog
- Sourcegraph – Move fast, even in big codebases. Sourcegraph is universal code search for every developer and team. Easily search across all the code that matters to you and your organization: find example code, explore and read code, debug issues, and more. Head to info.sourcegraph.com/changelog and click the button “Try Sourcegraph now” to get started.
- Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com
Featuring:
- Matt Rickard – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Reflections on 10,000 Hours of Programming
- Heptagon of Configuration
- Linux Kernel Docs on commenting
- Ahmad Nassri on JS Party
- Todo or Die - Python Edition
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Learning-focused engineering (Interview)
This week we’re joined by Brittany Dionigi, Director of Platform Engineering at Articulate, and we’re talking about how organizations can take a more intentional approach to supporting the growth of their engineers through learning-focused engineering.
Brittany has been a software engineer for more than 10 years, and learned formal educational and classroom-based learning strategies as a Technical Lead & Senior Instructor at Turing School of Software & Design. We talk through a ton of great topics; getting mentorship right, common coaching opportunities, classroom-based learning strategies like backwards planning, and ways to identify and maximize the learning opportunities for teams and org.
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Sponsors:
- InfluxDB – InfluxDays NA 2021 Virtual Experience (October 26-27) — InfluxDays is an event focused on the impact of time series data. Find out why time series databases are the fastest growing database segment providing real-time observability of your solutions. Get practical advice and insight from the engineers and developers behind InfluxDB, the leading time series database. Our listeners get $50 off the Hands-on Flux Training - use the code
changelog21. Learn more and register for free at influxdays.com - Teleport – Teleport Access Plane lets you access any computing resource anywhere. Engineers and security teams can unify access to SSH servers, Kubernetes clusters, web applications, and databases across all environments. Try Teleport today in the cloud, self-hosted, or open source at goteleport.com
- LaunchDarkly – Ship fast. Rest easy. Deploy code at any time, even if a feature isn’t ready to be released to your users. Wrap code in feature flags to get the safety to test new features and infrastructure in prod without impacting the wrong end users.
- Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com
Featuring:
- Brittany Dionigi – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Camille Fournier (Camille Forn-yay) - An incomplete list of skills senior engineers need
- Katrina Owens - Cultivating Instinct
- Note-taking and the decision to externalize memory
- Guide to Medical Education in the Teaching Hospital - lots of good things about how they integrate learning into their day-to-day business operations
- Science of Learning Concepts for Teachers (Project Illuminated)
- Culturally Responsive Teaching - A 50-State Survey of Teaching Standards
- What is Project Based Learning (PBL)?
- A powerful way to improve learning and memory
- Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon
- Jeli - dedicated incident analysis platform
- Turing School of Software and Design
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Fauna is rethinking the database (Interview)
This week we’re talking with Evan Weaver about Fauna — the database for a new generation of applications. Fauna is a transactional database delivered as a secure and scalable cloud API with native GraphQL. It’s the first implementation of its kind based on the Calvin paper as opposed to Spanner. We cover Evan’s history leading up to Fauna, deep details on the Calvin algorithm, the CAP theorem for databases, what it means for Fauna to be temporal native, applications well suited for Fauna, and what’s to come in the near future.
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Sponsors:
- InfluxDB – InfluxDays NA 2021 Virtual Experience (October 26-27) — InfluxDays is an event focused on the impact of time series data. Find out why time series databases are the fastest growing database segment providing real-time observability of your solutions. Get practical advice and insight from the engineers and developers behind InfluxDB, the leading time series database. Our listeners get $50 off the Hands-on Flux Training - use the code
changelog21. Learn more and register for free at influxdays.com - LaunchDarkly – Ship fast. Rest easy. Deploy code at any time, even if a feature isn’t ready to be released to your users. Wrap code in feature flags to get the safety to test new features and infrastructure in prod without impacting the wrong end users.
- Teleport – Teleport Access Plane lets you access any computing resource anywhere. Engineers and security teams can unify access to SSH servers, Kubernetes clusters, web applications, and databases across all environments. Try Teleport today in the cloud, self-hosted, or open source at goteleport.com
- Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com
Featuring:
- Evan Weaver – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Spanner vs. Calvin: Distributed Consistency at Scale
- Trust Fauna
- Fauna pricing
- Fauna on GitHub
- CAP theorem
- What is a Relational Database Management System?
- Fauna on Crunchbase
- Fauna on Changelog.com
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
The business model of open source (Interview)
This week we’re joined by Adam Jacob, CEO of System Initiative and Co-Founder of Chef, about open source business models and the model he thinks is the right one to choose, his graceful exit from Chef and some of the details behind Chef’s acquisition in 2020 for $220 million…in cash, and how his perspective on open source has or has not changed as a result. Adam also shared as much stealth mode details as he could about System Initiative.
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Sponsors:
- InfluxDB – InfluxDB empowers developers to build IoT, analytics, and monitoring software. It’s purpose-built to handle massive volumes and countless sources of time-stamped data produced by sensors, applications, and infrastructure. Learn about the wide range of use cases of InfluxDB at influxdata.com/changelog
- Square – Develop on the platform that sellers trust. There is a massive opportunity for developers to support Square sellers by building apps for today’s business needs. Learn more at developer.squareup.com to dive into the docs, APIs, SDKs and to create your Square Developer account — tell them Changelog sent you.
- Teleport – Teleport Access Plane lets you access any computing resource anywhere. Engineers and security teams can unify access to SSH servers, Kubernetes clusters, web applications, and databases across all environments. Try Teleport today in the cloud, self-hosted, or open source at goteleport.com
- Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com
Featuring:
- Adam Jacob – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Read this Twitter thread from Adam Jacob
- The Changelog #353: The war for the soul of open source featuring Adam Jacob
- The Changelog #429: Community perspectives on Elastic vs AWS (a deep dive on the business of open source)
- Progress Announces Acquisition of Chef
- Chef co-founder and CTO Adam Jacob stepping down, will remain on board of directors
- Tailwind CSS
- Why We’re Relicensing CockroachDB
- Founders Talk #75: The journey to massive scale and ultra-resilience
featuring Spencer Kimball, CEO & Co-founder of Cockroach Labs - System Initiative
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Coding in the cloud with Codespaces (Interview)
On this special edition of The Changelog, we’re talking with Cory Wilkerson, Senior Director of Engineering at GitHub, about GitHub Codespaces. For years now, the possibility of coding in the cloud seemed so close, yet so far away for a number of reasons. According to Cory, the raw ingredients to make coding in the cloud a reality have been there for years. The challenge has really been how the industry thinks, and we are now at a place where the skepticism in cloud based workflows is “non-existent.”
After 15 months in preview, GitHub not only announced the availability of Codespaces for Teams and Enterprise — they also showcased their internal adoption, with 600 of their 1,000 engineers using it daily to develop GitHub.com.
On this episode, Cory shares the full backstory of that journey and a peek into the future where we’re all coding in the cloud.
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Featuring:
- Cory Wilkerson – GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- GitHub’s Engineering Team has moved to Codespaces
- Cory’s companion Twitter thread to his blog post
- Codespaces marketing page
- Kelsey Hightower on Twitter — “Back in the day we wrote code on our own computers.”
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We ask a lawyer about GitHub Copilot (Interview)
This week we’re bringing JS Party to The Changelog — Nick Nisi and Christopher Hiller had an awesome conversation with Luis Villa, co-founder and General Counsel at Tidelift. They discuss GitHub Copilot and the implications of an AI pair programmer and fair use from a legal perspective.
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- Luis Villa – Website, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Christopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- GitHub Copilot
- OpenAI
- Google v. Oracle
- GNU General Public License
- Fair use
- Lotus v. Borland
- Transformative Use
- Authors Guild v. Google
- Ethical Open Source Movement
- Eleuther AI
- W3C Web Machine Learning Working Group
- Does free software benefit from ML models being derived works of training data?
- Cassidy Plays with GitHub Copilot
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Why Neovim? (Interview)
This week Neovim core maintainer TJ DeVries joins Jerod and guest co-host Nick Nisi (from JS Party) to follow-up on our Vim episode with a conversation dedicated to Neovim. TJ tells us why Neovim was created in the first place, how it differs from Vim, why Lua is awesome for configuration and plugins, what LSPs are all about, the cool tech inside tree-sitter, and how he’s writing his own fuzzy file finder for Neovim called Telescope.
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- Retool For Startups – More and more startups are using Retool to focus their time on their core product. That’s exactly why Retool launched “Retool For Startups” — it’s a program that gives early-stage founders free access to a lot of the software needed for great internal tooling. Retool has bundled together a year of free access to Retool with over $160,000 in partner discounts to save you money while building Retools apps with common integrations. Learn more, apply, join lightening demos and much more at retool.com/startups
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Featuring:
- TJ DeVries – Website, GitHub, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Our Vim episode
- neovim.io
- Twilight on Changelog News
- tree-sitter
- nvim-lspconfig
- Nick’s dotfiles
- nvim-ts-context-commentstring
- LuaSnip
- telescope.nvim
- TJ’s Twitch stream
- Nick Nisi on TJ’s YouTube channel - Neovim Builtin LSP Tutorial: Customizing Renames w/ Nick Nisi
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OAuth, "It's complicated." (Interview)
Today we’re joined by Aaron Parecki, co-founder of IndieWebCamp and maintainer of OAuth.net, for a deep dive on the state of OAuth 2.0 and what’s next in OAuth 2.1. We cover the complications of OAuth, RFCs like Proof Key for Code Exchange, also known as PKCE, OAuth for browser-based apps, and next generation specs like the Grant Negotiation and Authorization Protocol, also known as GNAP. The conversation begins with how Aaron experiements with the IndieWeb as a showcase of what’s possible.
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Featuring:
- Aaron Parecki – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- IndieWeb.org
- IndieWeb Chat
- It’s Time for OAuth 2.1
- OAuth 2.0
- OAuth 2.0 Simplified
- GNAP Core Protocol
- oktadev.events
- GNAP (Grant Negotiation and Authorization Protocol)
- PKCE (Proof Key for Code Exchange)
- Books about OAuth 2.0
- OAuth 2.0 Playground
- The Nuts and Bolts of OAuth 2.0
- Okta Developer Day - Auth for All - Virtual Event: August 24, 2021
- Okta Developer Day Labs - August 25, 2021
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Building software for yourself (Interview)
Today we’re talking to Linus Lee about the practice of building software for yourself. Linus has several side projects we could talk about, but today’s show is focused on Linus’ dynamically typed functional programming language called Ink that he used to write his full text personal search engine called Monocle.
Linus is focused on writing software that solves his own needs, all of which is open source, to help him learn more deeply and organize the knowledge of his life.
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Featuring:
- Linus Lee – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Monocle
- Ink
- Building your own programming language
- Crafting Interpreters
- Thorsten Ball on creating a programming language (Go Time 28)
- GopherCon 2021: Linus Lee - When Toy Languages Grow Up
- Monocle search for Taylor Swift
- Linus’s Taylor Swift tweet
- Apollo
- Purple Cow
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Richard Hipp returns (Interview)
This week, Richard Hipp returns to catch us up on all things SQLite, his single file webserver written in C called Althttpd, and Fossil – the source code manager he wrote and uses to manage SQLite development instead of Git.
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Featuring:
- Richard Hipp – Website, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- The Changelog #201:Why SQLite succeeded as a database
- SQLite
- Althttpd
- Fossil SCM
- Bedrock
- DuckDB
- AskGit
- Chisel
- Pkchr
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Leading leaders who lead engineers (Interview)
This week we’re joined by Lara Hogan – author of Resilient Management and management coach & trainer for the tech industry. Lara led engineering teams at Kickstarter and Etsy before she, and Deepa Subramaniam stepped away from their deep roots in the tech industry to start Wherewithall – a consultancy that helps level up managers and emerging leaders.
The majority of our conversation focuses on the four primary hats leaders and managers end up wearing; mentoring, coaching, sponsoring, and delivering feedback. We also talk about knowing when you’re ready to lead, empathy and compassion, and learning to lead.
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Featuring:
- Lara Hogan – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- An excerpt from Resilient Management on A List Apart
- Paloma Medina
- Core Needs: BICEPS
- Lara’s book
- The Manager’s Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change
- Your brain on progress – Increment
- Voltron!
- I’m a cog
- The Changelog #342: From zero to thought leader in 6 months with Emma Bostian
- Lara Hogan on mentorship and sponsorship
- What does sponsorship look like?
- Linchpin from Seth Godin
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Kaizen! The day half the internet went down (Interview)
This week we’re sharing a special episode of our new podcast called Ship It. This episode is our Kaizen-style episode where we point our lens inward to Changelog.com to see what we should improve next. The plan is do this episode style every 10 episodes.
Gerhard, Adam, and Jerod talk about the things that we want to improve in our setup over the next few months. We talk about how the June Fastly outage affected changelog.com, how we responded that day, and what we could do better. We discuss multi-cloud, multi-CDN, and the next sensible and obvious improvements for our app.
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- LaunchDarkly – Ship fast. Rest easy. Deploy code at any time, even if a feature isn’t ready to be released to your users. Wrap code in feature flags to get the safety to test new features and infrastructure in prod without impacting the wrong end users.
- Sentry – Working code means happy customers. That’s exactly why teams choose Sentry. From error tracking to performance monitoring, Sentry helps teams see what actually matters, resolve problems quicker, and learn continuously about their applications - from the frontend to the backend. Use the code
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Featuring:
- Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- What does Kaizen mean? (Wikipedia)
- Fastly 8th of June outage took offline The Guardian, CNN, New York Times, BBC and Changelog. Slack, Amazon, Stackoverflow and many others were also affected
- This is how it all started
- @danhett becomes famous on Twitter because of this tweet
- WIRED: What really went down when the internet went down
- BLOOMBERG: What Is Fastly and Why a Slew of Websites Went Offline
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Modern Unix tools (Interview)
This week we’re talking with Nick Janetakis about modern unix tools, and the various commands, tooling, and ways we use the commmand line. Do you Bash or Zsh? Do you use cat or bat? What about man vs tldr? Today’s show is a deep dive into unix tools you know and love, or should know and maybe love.
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- LaunchDarkly – Ship fast. Rest easy. Deploy code at any time, even if a feature isn’t ready to be released to your users. Wrap code in feature flags to get the safety to test new features and infrastructure in prod without impacting the wrong end users.
- Sentry – Sentry shipped their SDK for Next.js. Now in your Next.js apps, you can capture errors, measure performance, manage releases, configure suspect commits, and automatically upload sourcemaps to view unminified JavaScript and TypeScript with zero(-ish) configuration. Use the code
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Featuring:
- Nick Janetakis – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Modern alternatives to Unix commands
- Modern Unix
- bat
- fzf
- mcfly
- envsubst from GNU gettext; envsubst in Go
- https://uses.tech
- NanoVMs let you run your apps faster and safer with Unikernels
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Why we 💚 Vim (Interview)
On this special edition of The Changelog, we tell Vim’s story from the mouths of its users. Julia Evans, Drew Neil, Suz Hinton, and Gary Bernhardt join Jerod Santo for a deep and wide-ranging discussion about “the best text editor that anyone ever wrote.”
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Featuring:
- Julia Evans – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Drew Neil – Website, GitHub, X
- Suz Hinton – GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Gary Bernhardt – GitHub, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Companion “Vim with me” videos
Vim configs
Links from Julia
Links from Drew
Links from Suz
Links from Gary
Learning Vim
Extras
- Changelog Community (join us in #vimparty)
- Changelog++
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The story behind Inter (Interview)
This week we’re talking to Rasmus Andersson about his journey as a software creator. We talk about the work he’s doing right now on Playbit, a computing environment which encourages playful learning, building, and sharing of software. We also talk about his work on the Inter typeface, as well as the reasons why this font family needed to be free and open source.
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- Retool – Retool is a low-code platform built specifically for developers that makes it fast and easy to build internal tools. Instead of building internal tools from scratch, the world’s best teams, from startups to Fortune 500s, are using Retool to power their internal apps. Learn more and try it for free at retool.com/changelog
- Sentry – Sentry shipped their SDK for Next.js. Now in your Next.js apps, you can capture errors, measure performance, manage releases, configure suspect commits, and automatically upload sourcemaps to view unminified JavaScript and TypeScript with zero(-ish) configuration. Use the code
PARTYTIMEand get the team plan free for three months. - Grafana Cloud – Our dashboard of choice Grafana is the open and composable observability and data visualization platform. Visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources like Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Postgres and many more.
Featuring:
- Rasmus Andersson – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Playbit - a computing environment which encourages playful learning, building & sharing of software.
- The Inter typeface family + the project page on Rasmus’s site
- Rasmus’s projects
- shop.rsms.me
- The Roboto family of fonts
- InterFace from Dalton Maag
- What notable logos are set in Helvetica or Helvetica Neue?
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Massive scale and ultra-resilience (Interview)
This week we’re sharing a recent episode from Founders Talk that we continuously hear about from listeners. Listen and subscribe to Founders Talk at founderstalk.fm and anywhere you listen to podcasts.
On Founders Talk #75 — Adam talks with Spencer Kimball, CEO and Co-founder of Cockroach Labs — makers of CockroachDB an open source cloud-native distributed SQL database. Cockroach Labs recently raised $160 million dollars on a $2 billion dollar valuation. In this episode, Spencer shares his journey in open source, startups and entrepreneurship, and what they’re doing to build CockroachCloud to meet the needs of applications that require massive scale and ultra-resilience.
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- Retool – Retool is a low-code platform built specifically for developers that makes it fast and easy to build internal tools. Instead of building internal tools from scratch, the world’s best teams, from startups to Fortune 500s, are using Retool to power their internal apps. Learn more and try it for free at retool.com/changelog
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Show Notes:
- Spencer is a co-founder of GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) (but is no longer involved with the project)
- Cockroach Labs
- CockroachCloud - Build and scale fast with CockroachDB-as-a-service on AWS and Google Cloud.
- How We’re Building a Business to Last
- Cockroach Labs scores $160M Series E on $2B valuation
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The foundations of Continuous Delivery (Interview)
This week we’re sharing one of the most popular episodes from our new podcast Ship It. Ship It launched in May and now has 8 episodes in the feed to enjoy…it’s hosted by Gerhard Lazu, our SRE here at Changelog.
In this episode, Gerhard talks with Dave Farley, co-author of Continuous Delivery and the inventor of the Deployment Pipeline. Today, most of us ship code the way we do because 25 years ago, Dave cared enough to drive the change that we now call CI/CD. He is one of the great software engineers: opinionated, perseverant & focused since the heydays of the internet. Dave continues inspiring and teaching us all via his newly launched YouTube channel, courses, and recent books. The apprentice finally meets the master 🙇♂️🙇♀️
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- LaunchDarkly – Ship fast. Rest easy. Deploy code at any time, even if a feature isn’t ready to be released to your users. Wrap code in feature flags to get the safety to test new features and infrastructure in prod without impacting the wrong end users.
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Featuring:
Show Notes:
- Continuous Delivery, the YouTube Channel (new video every Wednesday)
- Continuous Delivery, the course
- Continuous Delivery, the staple book
- Continuous Delivery Pipelines, the new book
- Dave Farley’s blog
- TDD Quiz
- Dave Farley on Twitter
Gerhard’s favourite CD videos, in order of preference:
- SpaceX and Software Engineering | How To Learn
- How To Build Quality Software Fast
- Why CI is BETTER Than Feature Branching
- What’s Wrong With The State Of DevOps?
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xbar puts anything in your macOS menu bar (Interview)
On this episode we’re talking with our good friend Mat Ryer whom you may know from the Go Time podcast. Mat created an awesome open source tool for putting just about anything in your Mac’s toolbar. It was originally written in Objective-C, but it just got a big rewrite in Go and abig rename from BitBar to xbar.
If you don’t use a Mac don’t hit skip on this episode quite yet! There are lessons to be learned for anyone interested in hacking on tools to make your life better. Plus, with this rewrite Mat has positioned xbar to go cross-platform, which we talk about as well.
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- LaunchDarkly – Ship fast. Rest easy. Deploy code at any time, even if a feature isn’t ready to be released to your users. Wrap code in feature flags to get the safety to test new features and infrastructure in prod without impacting the wrong end users.
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Featuring:
- Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- The Changelog #3 - Rob Pike
- xbar’s website
- What happens when your old open-source project unexpectedly gets to the top of Hacker News?
- Go Time #154 - Where Jerod shares his unpopular opinion
- Go Time #144 - Building desktop apps with Go + web tech
- Wails.app
- Become a sponsor to Mat Ryer
- xbar on GitHub
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Funds for open source (Interview)
This week we’re talking with Pia Mancini about the latest updates to the mission of Open Collective. Earlier this year Open Collective announced “Funds for Open Source.” The idea is simple, make it easy for companies to invest in open source, and they will. Also, since recording this episode, Pia and the team at Open Collective along with Gitcoin announced fundoss.org as part of Maintainer Week announcements. And right now, they have a matching fund of $75,000 dollars funding open source that you can support.
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Introducing: Funds for Open Source
- Airbnb on Open Collective
- Indeed on Open Collective
- Pia Mancini on Open Collective
- Chrome’s Web Framework & Tools Performance Fund on Open Collective
- Discover awesome collectives to support
- fundoss.org - Open Source Collective partnered with GitCoin to launch FundOSS, a pilot matching campaign based on a democratic funding model.
- The Changelog #392: Indeed’s FOSS Contributor Fund with Duane O’Brien
- About Open Collective
- Open Source Collective
- Sustain
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Every commit is a gift (Interview)
Maintainer Week is finally here and we’re excited to make this an annual thing! If Maintainer Week is new to you, check out episode #442 with Josh Simmons and Kara Sowles.
Today we’re talking Brett Cannon. Brett is Dev Manager of the Python Extension for VS Code, Python Steering Council Member, and core team member for Python. He recently shared a blog post The social contract of open source, so we invited Brett to join us for Maintainer Week to discuss this topic in detail.
Thank a maintainer on us! We’re printing a limited run t-shirt that’s free for maintainers, and all you gotta do is thank them, today!
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- The social contract of open source
- github/maintainerweek
- Upstream
- Global Maintainer Summit also accessible via maintainerds.com
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Exploring Deno Land 🦕 (Interview)
This week we’re joined by Ryan Dahl, Node.js creator, and now the creator of Deno - a simple, modern and secure runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript that uses V8 and is built in Rust.
We talk with Ryan about the massive success of Node and how it impacted his life, and how he eventually created Deno and what he’s doing differently this time around. We also talk about The Deno Company and what’s in store for Deno Deploy.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- 10 Things I Regret About Node.js - Ryan Dahl @ JSConf EU 2019
- deno.land
- deno.land/manual
- Announcing the Deno Company
- The Changelog #155: The Future of Node.js with Scott Hammond
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Maintainer week! (Interview)
This week is all about Maintainer Week — it’s a week long event starting June 7th for open source maintainers to gather, share, and be celebrated. We’re joined by Josh Simmons (Ecosystem Strategy Lead at Tidelift & President of Open Source Initiative) and Kara Sowles (Senior Open Source Program Manager at GitHub). Of course we love open source maintainers, that’s why we’re so excited about Maintainer Week and making it an annual thing. Today we talk through all the details of this event, what we can expect for this year and the years to come.
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- Kara Sowles – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Stay tuned for details on our “Thank a maintainer” t-shirt giveaway.
- github/maintainerweek
- Upstream
- Global Maintainer Summit also accessible via maintainerds.com
- Sustain
- Octoverse
- gather.town
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Inside 2021's infrastructure for Changelog.com (Interview)
This week we’re talking about the latest infrastructure updates we’ve made for 2021. We’re joined by Gerhard Lazu, our resident SRE here at Changelog, talking about the improvements we’ve made to 10x our speed and be 100% available. We also mention the new podcast we’ve launched, hosted by Gerhard. Stick around the last half of the show for more details.
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- CloudZero – For software-driven companies focused on growing margins, CloudZero is the only cloud cost intelligence platform that puts engineering in control by connecting technical decisions to business results. Visit cloudzero.com/changelog to get started.
- LaunchDarkly – Ship fast. Rest easy. Deploy code at any time, even if a feature isn’t ready to be released to your users. Wrap code in feature flags to get the safety to test new features and infrastructure in prod without impacting the wrong end users.
- Grafana Cloud – Grafana Cloud is our dashboard of choice – Grafana is the open and composable observability and data visualization platform. Visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources like Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Postgres and many more.
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- Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Subscribe to Ship It our new podcast about shipping code to production and seeing what happens next. We talk about code, ops, infrastructure, observability…and the people that make it happen.
- The Changelog #419: Inside 2020’s infrastructure for Changelog.com
- The Changelog #344: Inside the 2019 infrastructure for Changelog.com
- The Changelog #254: Deploying Changelog.com
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Open source goes to Mars 🚀 (Interview)
This week we’re talking about open source on Mars. Martin Woodward (Senior Director of Developer Relations at GitHub) joins us to talk about the new Mars badge GitHub introduced. This collaboration between GitHub and NASA confirmed nearly 12,000 people contributed code, documentation, graphic design, and more to the open source software that made Ingenuity’s launch possible. Today’s show is a celebration of this human achievement and the impact of open source on space exploration as we know it.
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- Martin Woodward – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Open source goes to Mars 🚀
- Open Source on Mars: Community powers NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter
- The Mars Helicopter, Ingenuity
- nasa/fprime
- The .NET Foundation
- James Webb Space Telescope
- Maintainer Week
- The Changelog #436: Curl is a full-time job (and turns 23) with Daniel Stenberg
- The Changelog #411: Inside GitHub’s Arctic Code Vault
- The Changelog #370: The making of GitHub Sponsors with Devon Zuegel
- GitHub Skyline
- dear-github/dear-github
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Elixir meets machine learning (Interview)
This week Elixir creator José Valim joins Jerod and Practical AI’s Daniel Whitenack to discuss Numerical Elixir, his new project that’s bringing Elixir into the world of machine learning. We discuss why José chose this as his next direction, the team’s layered approach, influences and collaborators on this effort, and their awesome collaborative notebook project that’s built on Phoenix LiveView.
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- José Valim – Website, GitHub, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- Nx (Numerical Elixir) is now publicly available
- Axon
- Livebook
- Jax
- Livebook demo on YouTube
- Erlang Ecosystem Foundation
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Let's mint some NFTs (Interview)
This week we’re talking about NFTs — that’s right, non-fungible tokens and we’re joined by Mikeal Rogers, who’s leading all things InterPlanetary Linked Data at Protocol Labs. We go down the NFT rabbit hole on a very technical level and we come out the other side with clarity and a compelling use of NFTs.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Non-fungible token
- NFTs on SNL
- NFTs, explained
- Palm, A New NFT Ecosystem and Studio for Creators
- Filecoin - A decentralized storage network for humanity’s most important information
- Heart Shaped Me from Carly Chaikin
- NFT.storage
- Magic Link
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Into the Nix ecosystem (Interview)
This week we’re talking about Nix with Domen Kožar. The Nix ecosystem is a DevOps toolkit that takes a unique approach to package management and system configuration. Nix helps you make reproducible, declarative, and reliable systems. Domen is writing the Nix ecosystem guide at nix.dev and today he takes us on a deep dive on all things Nix.
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- O'Reilly Media – Learn by doing — Python, data, AI, machine learning, Kubernetes, Docker, and more. Just open your browser and dive in. Learn more and keep your teams’ skills sharp at oreilly.com/changelog
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- Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com.
Featuring:
- Domen Kožar – GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- NixOS.org
- Nix Manual
- Nix Pills
- Nix shorts - A collection of short notes about Nix, down to what is immediately needed for users.
- nix.dev - The Nix ecosystem guide
- NixOS Weekly newsletter
- The Changelog #237: Reproducible builds and secure software with Chris Lamb
- NixOS on ARM - for example, if you want to try it out on a Raspberry Pi
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Curl is a full-time job (and turns 23) (Interview)
This week we’re talking with Daniel Stenberg about 23 years of curl. Daniel shares how curl came to be, what drives and motivates him, maintaining a good cadence of an open source product, what to expect from http3, how many billions of users curl has, and Daniel also shares some funny stories like the “Spotify and Instagram hacking ring.”
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- The Changelog #153: 17 Years of curl with Daniel Stenberg
- The Changelog: BONUS — Magic cURL Feature
- The Changelog #299: Curl turns 20, HTTP/2, QUIC with Daniel Stenberg
- HTTPie
- Half of curl’s vulnerabilities are C mistakes
- curl is C
- Rust in curl with Hyper
- “I will slaughter you”
- curl Commercial Support
- Everything curl: –libcurl
- The Changelog #389: Securing the web with Let’s Encrypt featuring Josh Aas
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The future of the web is HTML over the wire (Interview)
This week we’re joined by long-time web developer Matt Patterson. Earlier this year Matt wrote an evocative article for A List Apart called The Future of Web Software Is HTML-over-WebSockets. In this episode Matt sits down with Jerod to discuss, in-detail, why he believes the future of the web is server-rendered (again) and how Ruby on Rails is well positioned to bring that future to us today.
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- The Future of Web Software Is HTML-over-WebSockets
- StimulusReflex
- Hotwire
- ChaosMage
- M.E. Patterson on Amazon
- Matt works at SkillsEngine
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Restic has your backup (Interview)
This week Alexander Neumann takes Jerod on a tour of Restic, the world-class backup solution that’s fast, secure, and cross-platform. We discuss why he created Restic in the first place, how (and why you should) you use it, some of its more interesting technical bits, lessons learned over the years building and maintaining a community, and more of course.
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Open source, not open contribution (Interview)
This week we’re talking with Ben Johnson. Ben is known for his work on BoltDB, his work in open source, and as a freelance Go developer. Late January when Ben open sourced his newest project Litestream in the readme he shared how the project was open source, but not open for contribution. His reason was to protect his mental health and the long term viability of the project. On this episode we talk with Ben about what that means, his thoughts on mental health and burnout in open source, choosing a license, and the details behind Litestream - a standalone streaming replication tool for SQLite.
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- Ben Johnson – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Go Beyond
- Open source, but closed to contributions
- Litestream.io & benbjohnson/litestream
- Litestream getting started
- The Changelog #201: Why SQLite succeeded as a database with Richard Hipp, creator of SQLite
- SQLite copyright
- SQLite - Professional Support & Extension Products
- boltdb/bolt
- Kubernetes Failure Stories
- The Changelog #170: BoltDB, InfluxDB, Key-Value Databases with Ben Johnson
- Cockroach Labs
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Big breaches (and how to avoid them) (Interview)
This week we’re talking about big security breaches with Neil Daswani, renowned security expert, best-selling author, and Co-Director of Stanford University’s Advanced CyberSecurity Program. His book, Big Breaches: Cybersecurity Lessons for Everyone helped to guide this conversation. We cover the six common key causes (aka vectors) that lead to breaches, which of these causes are exploited most often, recent breaches such as the Equifax breach (2017), the Capital One breach (2019), and the more recent Solarwinds breach (2020).
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- Neil Daswani – Website, LinkedIn, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Big Breaches: Cybersecurity Lessons for Everyone on Amazon
- Equifax data breach FAQ: What happened, who was affected, what was the impact?
- Capital One fined $80 million for 2019 hack of 100 million credit card applications
- What you need to know about the biggest hack of the US government in years
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Leading a non-profit unicorn (Interview)
This week we’re talking about the future of freeCodeCamp with Quincy Larson and what it’s taken to build it into the non-profit unicorn that it is. They’re expanding their Python section into a full-blown data science curriculum and they’ve launched a $150,000 fundraiser to make it happen with 100% dollar-for-dollar matching up to the first $150,000 thanks to Darrell Silver.
As you may know, we’re big fans of Quincy and the work being done at freeCodeCamp, so if you want to back their efforts as well, learn more and donate.
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- Quincy Larson – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- We’re Building a Data Science Curriculum with Advanced Mathematics and Machine Learning
- Why I’m donating $150k to freeCodeCamp to help fund their advanced math & machine learning curriculum
- freeCodeCamp in 2020 (and other year-end facts)
- The Changelog #369: Five years of freeCodeCamp with Quincy Larson
- The Best Tech Podcasts for Software Developers in 2021
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Darklang Diaries (Interview)
This week Jerod is joined by Paul Biggar the creator of Dark, a new way to build serverless backends. Paul shares all the details about this all-in-one language, editor, and infrastructure, why he decided to make Dark in the first place, his view on programming language design, the advantages Dark has as an integrated solution, and also why it’s source available, but NOT open source.
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Show Notes:
Special thanks to Jon Stodle for requesting this episode.
- Dark’s website
- Dark on GitHub
- Structured Procrastination
- Why Dark didn’t choose Rust
- Leaving OCaml
- Dark’s new backend will be in F#
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Community perspectives on Elastic vs AWS (Interview)
This week we’re talking about the recent falling out between Elastic and AWS around the relicensing of Elasticsearch and Kibana. Like many in the community, we have been watching this very closely.
Here’s the tldr for context. On January 21st, Elastic posted a blog post sharing their concerns with Amazon/AWS misleading and confusing the community, saying “They have been doing things that we think are just NOT OK since 2015 and it has only gotten worse.” This lead them to relicense Elasticsearch and Kibana with a dual license, a proprietary license and the Sever Side Public License (SSPL). AWS responded two days later stating that they are “stepping up for a truly open source Elasticsearch,” and shared their plans to create and maintain forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana based on the latest ALv2-licensed codebases.
There’s a ton of detail and nuance beneath the surface, so we invited a handful of folks on the show to share their perspective. On today’s show you’ll hear from: Adam Jacob (co-founder and board member of Chef), Heather Meeker (open-source lawyer and the author of the SSPL license), Manish Jain (founder and CTO at Dgraph Labs), Paul Dix (co-founder and CTO at InfluxDB), VM (Vicky) Brasseur (open source & free software business strategist), and Markus Stenqvist (everyday web dev from Sweden).
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- Heather Meeker – Website, X
- Manish R Jain – Website, GitHub, X
- Paul Dix – GitHub, X
- VM (Vicky) Brasseur – Website, GitHub, X
- Markus –
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Amazon: NOT OK - why we had to change Elastic licensing
- Stepping up for a truly open source Elasticsearch
- The SSPL is Not an Open Source License
- MongoDB transitions to Server Side Public License (SSPL) for MongoDB Community Server
- Elastic Changes Licences for Elasticsearch and Kibana: AWS Forks Both
- Truly Doubling Down on Open Source
- Read the Open Source Definition OR the annotated version of the Open Source Definition
- Keeping Open Source Open – Open Distro for Elasticsearch
- The Commons Clause
- Initial thoughts on MongoDB’s new Server Side Public License
- SSPL Re-Takes the Stage in 2021
- Server Side Public License (SSPL)
- SSPL approval process on the OSI mailing list
- February 2019 License-Review Summary
- Dgraph
- InfluxDB
- The Changelog #353: The war for the soul of open source with Adam Jacob
- The Changelog #424: You can FINALLY use JSHint for evil with Mike Pennisi
- The Changelog #371: Re-licensing Sentry with David Cramer
- The Changelog #322: There and back again (Dgraph’s tale) with Manish Jain
Adam Jacob
Adam Jacob is the co-founder and board member of Chef and talked with us back in July 2019 on The Changelog #353 about “The war for the soul of open source,” and the title of the episode could not have been more prophetic.
We pulled a segment from that episode where we talk about business models and how they correlate to open source business models, and how from Adam’s perspective…the AWS’s, the Azure’s and the Google Clouds of the world provide a humongous marketing funnel for open source businesses like Mongo and Elastic.
At the time of this conversation with Adam, Elastic was worth 1.5 Billion dollars and “killing it.”
Heather Meeker
Heather Meeker is a well respected open-source lawyer and specialist in open source software licensing and strategy. She wrote the book Open Source for Business which serves as a practical guide to open source software licensing. She is also well known for her work on the Commons Claus license which gained a lot of attention with the dust up it caused when Redis Labs’ transitioned their modules to use the license. Side note here, Redis Labs’ has since transitioned away from the Apache2 plus Commons Clause licensing due to undesired confusion in favor of the Redis Source Available License (RSAL) — which we might cover in a future episode as we chase this saga of not-quite-open source yet permissive licensing for commercial open source companies.
The whole reason for this conversation with Heather is because she’s the open-source lawyer who wrote The Server Side Public License (SSPL). We wanted to understand the design and intention of the license.
- SSPL Re-Takes the Stage in 2021
- In this Tweet, Heather Meeker said “Congratulations to Elastic on its new license!”
Manish Jain
Manish Jain is the founder and CTO at Dgraph Labs. We talked with Manish a little over two years ago on episode #322 about their challenges with licensing and re-licensing Dgraph — so, we thought it would fitting to get him on this episode.
Paul Dix
Paul Dix is the co-founder and CTO at InfluxData and shared his perspective on running an open source business, how InfluxData is innovating their commercial offering while having a permissive MIT licensed version of InfluxDB. Paul also shares his thoughts on the stand off between Elastic and AWS and why he’s long on Mongo and short on Elastic.
Paul shared a few links to Twitter threads he started:
- https://twitter.com/pauldix/status/1352604892754542594
- https://twitter.com/pauldix/status/1352615503366381570
- https://twitter.com/pauldix/status/1352727425717825536
VM (Vicky) Brasseur
VM (Vicky) Brasseur has been in free and open source software for 30 years and has been working with startups and enterprises doing open source & free software business strategy for quite a while now. We used Vicky’s post titled “Elasticsearch and Kibana are now business risks” as a reference on this situation. We even quoted her post a few times in our conversation on this episode with with Heather Meeker.
Markus Stenqvist
Markus Stenqvist self-describes as “a normal everyday web developer from Sweden.”
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Open source civilization (Interview)
This week we’re talking about open source industrial machines. We’re joined by Marcin Jakubowski from Open Source Ecology where they’re developing open source industrial machines that can be made for a fraction of commercial costs, and they’re sharing their designs online for free. The goal is to create an efficient open source economy that increases innovation through open collaboration. We talk about what it takes to build a civilization from scratch, the Open Building Institute and their Eco-Building Toolkit, the right to repair movement, DIY maker culture, and how Marcin plans to build 10,000 micro factories worldwide where anyone can come and make.
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Special thanks to Josh Fong for requesting this episode back in July 2020.
- Marcin’s TED Talk
- OpenSourceEcology.org
- Open Building Institute Kickstarter
- From this post on Vice/Motherboard — Kyle Schwarting is a farmer by trade, and a hacker by necessity. His farm, about 20 minutes outside the city limits of Lincoln, Nebraska, is full of tractors and agricultural equipment, which he picks up in various states of repair from fellow farmers, fixes up, and resells. “I would say what I’m doing is hacking,” Schwarting tells me, gesturing to a Windows laptop and a USB-to-tractor cable he Frankensteined himself.
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The rise of Rocky Linux (Interview)
This week we’re talking with Gregory Kurtzer about Rocky Linux. Greg is the founder of the CentOS project, which recently shifted its strategy and has the Linux community scrambling. Rocky Linux aims to continue where the CentOS project left off — to provide a free and open source community-driven enterprise grade Linux operating system. We discuss the history of the CentOS project, how it fell under Red Hat’s control, the recent shift in Red Hat’s strategy with CentOS, and how Rocky Linux is designed to be 100% bug-for-bug compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Regarding the name “Rocky Linux” - The new project’s name is a tribute to CentOS co-founder Rocky McGaugh. “He is no longer with us, so as a H/T to him, who never got to see the success that CentOS came to be, I introduce to you… Rocky Linux,” said Kurtzer.
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What the web could be (in 2021 and beyond) (Interview)
Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch and JS Party panelist Amal Hussein join Jerod to discuss the state of the web platform! We opine on why it’s so important and unique, where it stands today, what modern web development looks like, and where the whole thing is headed in 2021 and beyond.
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- Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Guillermo on The Changelog #213
- Guillermo on JS Party #122
- Web Vitals
- Next.js
- Nuxt.js
- SvelteKit
- Temporal
- AssemblyKit
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State of the “log” 2020 (Interview)
It’s the end of 2020 and on this year’s “State of the log” episode Adam and Jerod carry on the tradition of looking back at our favorite moments of the year – we talk through our most popular episodes, our personal favorites and must listen episodes, top posts from Changelog Posts, and what we have in the works for 2021 and beyond.
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The Changelog’s most popular episodes of 2020:
- Good tech debt featuring Jon Thornton
- The ONE thing every dev should know with Jessica Kerr
- The 10x developer myth with William Nichols
- What’s so exciting about Postgres with Craig Kerstiens
- Meet Algo, your personal VPN in the cloud featuring Dan Guido
Jerod’s personal favorites of 2020:
- Laws for hackers to live by with Dave Kerr
- Engineer to manager and back again with Lauren Tan
- Must listen: The developer’s guide to content creation with Stephanie Morillo
Adam’s personal favorites of 2020:
- Designing and building HEY with Jonas Downey
- It’s OK to make money from your open source with Zeno Rocha
- Must listen: Securing the web with Josh Aas, Shipping work that matters with Ryan Singer, Leading GitHub to a $7.5 billion acquisition with Jason Warner
Top Changelog posts of 2020:
- Monoliths are the future (Kelsey Hightower)
- Slaying Changelog’s compilation beast (Owen Bickford)
- Git is simply too hard (Mislav Marohnic)
- There’s a good reason why experienced devs say “it depends” so often (Jerod Santo)
Other links mentioned:
- Backstage #10: YouTube made me do it with Owen Bickford
- The Changelog #362: Machine powered refactoring with AST’s featuring Amal Hussein
- The Changelog #420: The Kollected Kode Vicious with George Neville-Neil
- Founders Talk #60: Leading data-driven software teams and products
featuring Travis Kimmel - Let’s set up a free, personal VPN in the cloud with Algo VPN
- 4 sources of endless content ideas 💡 by Stephanie Morillo
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You can FINALLY use JSHint for evil (Interview)
Today we welcome Mike Pennisi into our Maintainer Spotlight. This is a special flavor of The Changelog where we go deep into a maintainer’s story. Mike is the maintainer of JSHint which, since its creation in 2011, was encumbered by a license that made it very hard for legally-conscious teams to use the project. The license was the widely-used MIT Expat license, but it included one additional clause: “The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil.” Because of this clause, many teams could not use JSHint.
Today’s episode with Mike covers the full gamut of JSHint’s journey and how non-free licensing can poison the well of free software.
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Show Notes:
- You May Finally Use JSHint for Evil
- 2020 Relicensing
- JSHint: Watching the Ship Sink
- JSHint: Dug In
- JSHint: Asking Nicely
- JSHint: Wrestling it Free
- Karen Sandler from the FSC on The Changelog
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Coding without your hands (Interview)
What do you do when you make a living typing on a keyboard, but you can no longer do that for more than a few minutes at a time? Switch careers?! Not Josh Comeau. He decided to learn from others who have come before him and develop his own solution for coding without his hands. Spoiler Alert: he uses weird noises and some fancy eye tracking tech.
On this episode Josh tells us all about the fascinating system he developed, how it changed his perspective on work & life, and where he’s going from here. Plus we mix in some CSS & JS chat along the way.
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- Josh on hands-free coding
- Jerod on his RSI battle
- The Mindbody Prescription
- Talon Software
- CSS for JavaScript Developers
- Tobii Eye Tracker 5
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Growing as a software engineer (Interview)
Gergely Orosz joined Adam for a conversation about his journey as a software engineer. Gergely recently stepped down from his role as Engineering Manager at Uber to pursue his next big thing. But, that next big thing isn’t quite clear to him yet. So, in the meantime, he has been using this break to write a few books and blog more so he can share what he’s learned along the way. He’s also validating some startup ideas he has on platform engineering. His first book is available to read now — it’s called The Tech Resume Inside Out and offers a practical guide to writing a tech resume written by the people who do the resume screening. Both topics gave us quite a bit to talk about.
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- Gergely’s tweet about the pod we did with Spotify about Backstage
- Gergely’s blog
- Book #1: The Tech Resume Inside Out
- Book #2: The Software Engineer’s Guidebook
- My Unforgettable Uber Ride
- Gergely’s Indie Hackers post: 14 days, $14K in sales, 1,000 customers and what worked for me
- Things I’ve learned transitioning from engineer to engineering manager
- The Changelog #415: Spotify’s open platform for shipping at scale
with Jim Haughwout and Stefan Ålund - Spotify’s open platform for building developer portals
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The future of Mac (Interview)
We have a BIG show for you today. We’re talking about the future of the Mac. Coming off of Apple’s “One more thing.” event to launch the Apple M1 chip and M1 powered Macs, we have a two part show giving you the perspective of Apple as well as a Mac app developer on the future of the Mac.
Part 1 features Tim Triemstra from Apple. Tim is the Product Marketing Manager for Developer Technologies. He’s been at Apple for 15 years and the team he manages is responsible for developer tools and technologies including Xcode, Swift Playgrounds, the Swift language, and UNIX tools.
Part 2 features Ken Case from The Omni Group. Ken is the Founder and CEO of The Omni Group and they’re well known for their Omni Productivity Suite including OmniFocus, OmniPlan, OmniGraffle, and OmniOutliner – all of which are developed for iOS & Mac.
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- Ken Case – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Apple’s “One more thing” event
- Apple’s M1 chip
- macOS Big Sur
- Rene Ritchie - M1 Benchmarks & Experience — MacBook Pro, Air, Mac mini!
- The Omni Group
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The Kollected Kode Vicious (Interview)
We’re joined by George Neville-Neil, aka Kode Vicious. Writing as Kode Vicious for ACMs Queue magazine, George Neville-Neil has spent the last 15+ years sharing incisive advice and fierce insights for everyone who codes, works with code, or works with coders. These columns have been among the most popular items published in ACMs Queue magazine and it was only a matter of time for a book to emerge from his work. His book, The Kollected Kode Vicious, is a compilation of the most popular items he’s published over the years, plus a few extras you can only find in the book. We cover all the details in this episode.
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Inside 2020's infrastructure for Changelog.com (Interview)
We’re talking with Gerhard Lazu, our resident SRE, ops, and infrastructure expert about the evolution of Changelog’s infrastructure, what’s new in 2020, and what we’re planning for in 2021. The most notable change? We’re now running on Linode Kubernetes Engine (LKE)! We even test the resilience of this new infrastructure by purposefully taking the site down. That’s near the end, so don’t miss it!
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- Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
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Read Gerhard’s post covering all the details for Changelog’s 2020 and beyond infrastructure.
- The Changelog #254: Deploying Changelog.com with Gerhard Lazu
- The new Changelog.com setup for 2019
- Inside the 2019 infrastructure for Changelog.com
- grafana.changelog.com - Compute Resources / Workload in Grafana
- Join Linode Green Light to get early access and test new Linode products before they hit the market, provide valuable feedback to influence product direction, and become part of a community of developers helping us build the cloud that works for you.
- fluxcd/flux
- Introducing Flux
- Check out Fernand Galiana and K9s
- Bitwarden
- Grafana Labs
- Keel
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Maintaining the massive success of Envoy (Interview)
Today we welcome Matt Klein into our Maintainer Spotlight. Matt is the creator of Envoy, born inside of Lyft. It’s an edge and service proxy designed for cloud-native applications. Envoy was unexpectedly popular, and completely changed the way Lyft considers what and how to open source. While Matt has had several opportunities to turn Envoy into a commercial open source company, he didn’t. In today’s conversation with Matt we learn why he choose a completely different path for the project.
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- Matt Klein – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- “4 years ago Envoy became OSS”
- Optimizing impact: why I will not start an Envoy platform company
- The (broken) economics of OSS
- #envoycon2020
- CNCF graduated project
- envoyproxy.io
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What's so exciting about Postgres? (Interview)
PostgreSQL aficionado Craig Kerstiens joins Jerod to talk about his (and our) favorite relational database. Craig details why Postgres is unique in the world of open source databases, which features are most exciting, the many things you can make Postgres do, and what the future might hold. Oh, and some awesome psql tips & tricks!
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- Looking Back at Postgres
- Customizing My Postgres Shell
- ZomboDB
- Postgres Weekly
- Planet PostgreSQL
- pgsql-hackers mailing list
- pgsql-novice mailing list
- PostgreSQL IRC info
- Building a recommendation engine inside Postgres with Python and Pandas
- Craig’s twitter thread of building it
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Shopify’s massive storefront rewrite (Interview)
Maxime Vaillancourt joined us to talk about Shopify’s massive storefront rewrite from a Ruby on Rails monolith to a completely new implementation written in Ruby. It’s a fairly well known opinion that rewrites are “the single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make” and generally something “you should never do.” But Maxime and the team at Shopify have proved successful in their efforts in this massive storefront rewrite and today’s conversation covers all the details.
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- How Shopify Reduced Storefront Response Times with a Rewrite
- Shopify rewrites away from their Rails monolith
- Things You Should Never Do, Part I
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Spotify's open platform for shipping at scale (Interview)
We’re joined by Jim Haughwout (Head of Infrastructure and Operations) and Stefan Ålund (Principal Product Manager) from Spotify to talk about how they manage hundreds of teams producing code and shipping at scale. Thanks to their recently open sourced open platform for building developer portals called Backstage, Spotify is able to keep engineering squads connected and shipping high-quality code quickly — without compromising autonomy.
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- Jim Haughwout – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Stefan Ålund – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- spotify/backstage
- What the Heck is Backstage Anyway?
- Backstage has been accepted into the CNCF Sandbox
- Backstage on CNCF landscape
- MkDocs - Project documentation with Markdown
- Gary Niemen on how Spotify is solving internal technical documentation
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The team that fashioned Apollo 11 (Interview)
We’re helping Atlassian to promote Season 2 of Teamistry. If this is the first time you’re hearing about this podcast, Teamistry is an original podcast from Atlassian that tells the stories of teams who work together in new and unexpected ways, to achieve remarkable things. Today, we’re sharing a full-length episode from Season 1 which tells the story of the team that fashioned the Apollo 11 spacesuits.
When Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon for the first time, we don’t actually see his face. We see his moonsuit. That moonsuit — in effect — is Neil Armstrong; an inseparable part of this historic moment. While the spacesuit kept him alive to tell that story in his own words, what went unnoticed is the extraordinary team that stitched it together.
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Teamistry is the chemistry of unsung teams that achieve the impossible Season two begins September 21st. New episodes every other Monday. Teamistry is hosted by award-winning documentary and feature film director Gabriela Cowperthwaite.
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In the final episode of Season 1 of Teamistry, host Gabriela Cowperthwaite shines a light on the team of seamstresses and engineers whose meticulous craftwork, creativity, and dedication helped us realize the dream of putting a man on the moon. In this episode, Joanne Thompson and Jean Wilson — two of last surviving seamstresses who worked on the Apollo 11 moonsuits — talk about the intricate seams, needlework, and personal sacrifices that went into outfitting Neil Armstrong. We hear from Homer Reihm, one of the engineers who worked with the seamstresses, and Bill Ayrey, former historian at ILC Dover and Nicholas de Monchaux, author of ‘Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo’, who take us through the pivotal moments of this monumental task. Also, Janet Ferl, the current design engineering manager at ILC Dover, tells us how the legacy of dedication and teamwork on the Apollo 11 moonsuit continues to inspire the company today.
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Gitter’s big adventure (Interview)
Gitter is exiting GitLab and entering the Matrix…ok, we couldn’t help ourselves with that one. Today we’re joined by Sid Sibrandij (CEO of GitLab) and Matthew Hodgson (technical co-founder of Matrix) to discuss the acquisition of Gitter. A little backstory to tee things up…back in 2017 GitLab announced the acquisition of Gitter to help push their idea of chatops within GitLab. As it turns out, the GitLab team saw a different path for Gitter as a core part of Matrix rather than a non-core project at GitLab. We talk through all the details in this episode with Matthew and Sid.
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- Matthew Hodgson – GitHub, X
- Sid Sijbrandij – Website, LinkedIn, X
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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Share your feedback on our podcast and Changelog++ experiences.
- Welcoming Gitter to Matrix!
- Gitter - Where developers come to talk
- Element - All-in-one secure chat app for teams, friends and organisations
- Matrix - An open network for secure, decentralized communication
- Gitter is joining the GitLab team (March 15, 2017)
- The Changelog #384: Enter the Matrix
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How open source saved htop (Interview)
Today we welcome Hisham Muhammad into our Maintainer Spotlight. Hisham is the creator of htop - a well known cross-platform interactive process viewer. This conversation with Hisham covers the gamut of being an open source software maintainer. To set the stage, a new version of htop was announced, but not by Hisham – it was a kind takeover of the project and needless to say Hisham was surprised, but ultimately relieved. Why? Well, that’s what this episode it all about…
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- Hisham Muhammad – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Issue #992 - Is this project maintained?
- What’s new in htop version 3.0.2
- htop.dev
- LuaRocks - The package manager for Lua modules
The HTTP 413 Payload Too Large response status code indicates that the request entity is larger than limits defined by server; the server might close the connection or return a Retry-After header field.
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Estimating systems with napkin math (Interview)
We’re joined by Simon Eskildsen, Principal Engineer at Shopify, talking about how he uses a concept called napkin math where you use first-principle thinking to estimate systems without writing any code. By the end of the show we were estimating pretty much everything using napkin math.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Napkin Math on GitHub (PRs welcome)
- Napkin Math newsletter
- zk - Zettelkasten on the command-line
- How to Make Yourself Into a Learning Machine
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Inside GitHub's Arctic Code Vault (Interview)
Earlier this year on February 2nd, 2020 Jon Evans and his team of archivists took a snapshot of all active public repositories on GitHub and sent it to a decommissioned coal mine in the Svalbard archipelago where it will be stored for the next 1,000 years.
On this episode, Jon chats with Jerod all about the GitHub Archive Program and how they’re preserving open source software for future generations.
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- The GitHub Archive program
- The journey of the world’s open source code to the Arctic
- GitHub Arctic Code Vault: Tech Tree
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Bringing beauty to the world of code sharing (Interview)
Carbon is an open source web app that helps you create and share beautiful images of your source code. Whether you’ve used Carbon personally or not, odds are you’ve seen its dent on the universe of social code sharing. Mike Fix has been maintaining Carbon for a few years and he’s embraced the project as an opportunity to experiment and practice working in public.
On this Maintainer Spotlight episode, we chat with Mike about building Carbon, growing its community, sustainability models, and why he loves the world of open source.
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Celebrating Practical AI turning 100!! 🎉 (Interview)
We’re so excited to see Chris and Daniel take this show to 100 episodes, and that’s exactly why we’re rebroadcasting Practical AI #100 here on The Changelog. They’ve had so many great guests and discussions about everything from AGI to GPUs to AI for good. In this episode, we circle back to the beginning when Jerod and I joined the first episode to help kick off the podcast. We discuss how our perspectives have changed over time, what it has been like to host an AI podcast, and what the future of AI might look like. (GIVEAWAY!)
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Show Notes:
Enter to win some amazing AI hardware bundles!
Episodes mentioned on the show:
- MLOps and tracking experiments with Allegro AI
- Explaining AI explainability (Darwin AI)
- Practical AI Ethics
- Model inspection and interpretation at Seldon
- Attack of the C̶l̶o̶n̶e̶s̶ Text!
- 🤗 All things transformers with Hugging Face
- Achieving provably beneficial, human-compatible AI
- AI for Good: clean water access in Africa
- Exploring the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset
- Artificial intelligence at NVIDIA
- Growing up to become a world-class AI expert
- Helping African farmers with TensorFlow
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Working in Public (Interview)
Nadia Eghbal is back and this time she’s talking with us about her new book Working in Public. If you’re an old school listener you might remember the podcast we produced with Nadia and Mikeal Rogers called Request for Commits. If you weren’t listening then, or can’t remember…don’t worry…the back catalog of Request for Commits is still online and subscribe-able via all the podcast ways. That podcast is still getting listens to this very day!
Obviously we go way back with Nadia…and having a chance to now talk with her through all the details of her new book Working in Public, this was a milestone for this show and Jerod and I. We talked through the reasons she wrote the book in the first place, Nadia’s thoughts on the future of the internet and the connection of creators to the platforms they build their followings on, and we also talk about the health of projects and communities and the challenges we face internet-at-large as well as right here in our backyard in the open source community.
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- Join Changelog++ to directly support us, make the ads disappear, AND for a chance to win a signed copy of Nadia’s book
- The Changelog #193: Funding open source with Nadia Eghbal
- Sindre Sorhus
- Nadia’s post on Substack about Working in Public
- Buy Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software on Amazon
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Designing and building HEY (Interview)
We’re talking about designing and building HEY with Jonas Downey, the lead designer behind HEY. In their words, “Email sucked for years, but not anymore.” We were super interested in how they went about solving the problems with email, so we invited Jonas on to share all the details and a behind-the-scenes look at the making of HEY.
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- HEY.com - Email at its best, new from Basecamp
- The Changelog #399: Shipping work that matters - revisiting Shape Up & product development with Ryan Singer
- The Changelog #357: Shaping, betting, and building - featuring Ryan Singer on how Basecamp does product development
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Making Windows Terminal awesome (Interview)
Kayla Cinnamon, Program Manager at Microsoft for Windows Terminal, Console, Command Line, and Cascadia Code joined us to talk about the release of Windows Terminal 1.0 and the new Windows command-line experience. We talk about everything that went into rethinking the command line experience on Windows, the UX and UI design behind it all, the learnings of working in open source, and what’s to come for the Windows command line experience.
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- microsoft/terminal
- Windows Terminal 1.0
- Windows Terminal Preview 1.1 Release
- microsoft/cascadia-code
- Launch video: The new Windows Terminal
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It’s OK to make money from your open source (Interview)
Adam loves a good dark theme and supporting a fellow creator, and Hedy Li finished the episode we did with Nikita Prokopov covering FiraCode and reached out saying Zeno Rocha’s work on Dracula deserved the same credit. We agreed. So we linked up with Zeno about his passion for open source, how he’s changed his mind on making money with open source, his big release of Dracula Pro and the future of Dracula, and of course his new book – 14 Habits of Highly Productive Developers. Check for a link in the show notes for details on how to get your hands on Zeno’s book for free through our giveaway.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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Giveaway details!! Check this blog post for all the details to win a free copy of Dracula PRO && 14 Habits of Highly Productive Developers
- The open source Dracula Theme
- Dracula PRO - a color scheme and UI theme tailored for programming. Made for terminal emulators, code editors, and syntax highlighters. Designed to be aesthetically pleasing while keeping you focused.
- Book: 14 Habits of Highly Productive Developers
- Kindle Direct Publishing
- The Changelog #398: The ONE thing every dev should know and other words of wisdom from Jessica Kerr
- The Changelog #399: Shipping work that matters ~ revisiting Shape Up & product development with Ryan Singer
- The Changelog #248: Open source lessons learned with Zeno Rocha
- The Changelog #77: Solarized and Linux on the Desktop with Ethan Schoonover
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Laws for hackers to live by (Interview)
Dave Kerr joins Jerod to discuss the various laws, theories, principles, and patterns that we developers find useful in our work and life. We unpack Hanlon’s Razor, Gall’s Law, Murphy’s Law, Kernighan’s Law, and too many others to list here.
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What's next for José Valim and Elixir? (Interview)
We’re joined again by José Valim talking about the recent acquihire of Plataformatec and what that means for the Elixir language, as well as José. We also talk about Dashbit a new 3 person company he helped form from work done while at Plataformatec to help startups and enterprises adopt and run Elixir in production. Lastly we talk about a new idea José has called Bytepack that aims to help developers package and deliver software products to developers and enterprises.
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The intersection of coding and fonts (Interview)
A listener request led us to Nikita Prokopov and FiraCode, and we’re sure glad they did. When we think of open source software, fonts aren’t usually high on the list of things that need maintaining. That’s not true when your font also supports hundreds of programming ligatures like FiraCode does. Nikita has his hands full!
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- FiraCode on Changelog News
- FiraCode on GitHub
- FiraSans on GitHub
- FiraCode on Twitter
- Nikita on Patreon
- Glyphs
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Big updates in Safari 14 (Interview)
We’re joined by Ronak Shah and Beth Dakin from the Safari team at Apple about their announcements at WWDC20 and the release of Safari 14. We talk about Safari WebExtensions, Face ID and Touch ID coming to the web, Safari’s plans to advance the web platform, and it all comes down to their focus on privacy, power, and performance.
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- Ronak Shah – LinkedIn
- Beth Dakin – LinkedIn, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- Safari
- Safari Technology Preview
- WWDC20
- WWDC20 - What’s new for web developers
- WWDC20 - Meet Safari Web Extensions
- WWDC20 - Meet Face ID and Touch ID for the web
- JavaScript APIs for WebExtensions
- Welcoming Safari to the WebExtensions Community
- Browser Market Share Worldwide
- WebKit - Web Inspector Reference
- Follow WebKit on Twitter to keep up
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Shipping work that matters (Interview)
We’re revisiting Shape Up and product development thoughts with Ryan Singer, Head of Product Strategy at Basecamp. Last August we talked with Ryan when he first launched his book Shape Up and now we’re back to see how Shape Up is shaping up — “How are teams using the wisdom in this book to actually ship work that matters? How does Shape Up work in new versus existing products?” We also talk about the concept of longitudinal thinking and the way it’s impacting Ryan’s designs, plus a grab bag of topics in the last segment.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- The Changelog #357: Shaping, betting, and building
- Ryan’s new hobby podcast called Synthetic A Priori
- Shape Up (book site)
- “Good design requires thinking longitudinally.”
- New versus existing products
- Taguchi methods on Wikipedia
- Salt. Fat. Acid. Heat. - If you can master these four elements, you can master the kitchen.
- EconTalk podcast
- The End of Average: How We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness
- Dr Ole Peters
- Time for a Change: Introducing irreversible time in economics by Dr Ole Peters
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The ONE thing every dev should know (Interview)
The incomparable Jessica Kerr drops by with a grab-bag of amazing topics. Understanding software systems, transferring knowledge between devs, building relationships, using VS Code & Docker to code together, observability as a logical extension of TDD, and a whole lot more.
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- Symmathecist (n) - A quick definition, without the narrative
- newsletter.jessitron.com
- Listen to Jessica (and others) elsewhere on Arrested DevOps and Greater Than Code
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Creating GitLab’s remote playbook (Interview)
We’re talking about all things all-remote with Darren Murph, Head of Remote at GitLab. Darren is tasked with putting intentional thought and action into place to lead the largest all-remote company in the world. Yes, GitLab is 100% all-remote, as in, no offices…and they employee more than 1,200 people across 67 countries. They’ve been iterating and documenting how to work remotely for years. We cover Darren’s personal story on remote work while he served as managing editor at Engadget, his thoughts on how “work” is evolving and ways to reframe and rethink about when you work, this idea of work life harmony, and the backstory and details of the playbook GitLab released free of charge to the world.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- GitLab’s Remote Playbook
- GitLab Values - “No ego” is among the values detailed on this page
- GitLab’s team handbook
- Our long-term vision for remote work
- Family and friends first, work second
- Encouraging a culture of written communication
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De-Google-ing your website analytics (Interview)
Plausible creators Uku Täht and Marko Saric join the show to talk about their open source, privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics. We talk through the backstory of the project, why it’s open source, the details behind a few viral blog posts Marko shared to bring in a ton of new interest to the project, why privacy matters in web analytics, how they prioritize building new features, the technical details behind their no cookie light-weight JavaScript approach, and their thoughts on a server-side option.
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- Plausible - a lightweight, open source, privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics
- Why you should stop using Google Analytics on your website
- How one blog post changed the traction for my startup
- Will removing Google Analytics from a site hurt search engine rankings?
- Blogging statistics and trends you should know in 2020
- How to de-Google-ify your site to make it faster and visitor friendly
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Leading GitHub to a $7.5 billion acquisition (Interview)
Jason Warner (CTO at GitHub) joined the show to talk with us about the backstory of how he helped to lead GitHub to a $7.5 billion acquisition by Microsoft. Specifically how they trusted their gut not just the data, and how they understood the value they were bringing to market. We also talk about Jason’s focus on “horizon 3” for GitHub, and his thoughts on remote work and how they’re leading GitHub engineering today.
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- Retool – Retool makes it super simple to build back-office apps in hours, not days. The tool is is built by engineers, explicitly for engineers. Learn more and try it for free at retool.com/changelog
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- GitHub’s CTO on architecting engineering teams that scale
- Current stats – 40M+ developers with 100M+ repos
- Go back in time to hear our reactions to Microsoft buying GitHub - “The news is true. Microsoft is acquiring GitHub.”
- The Changelog #331: GitHub Actions is the next big thing with Kyle Daigle
Jason’s book recommendations:
- Atomic Habits by James Clear
- Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
- Team of Teams by Gen. Stanley McChrystal
The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz - High Output Management by Andrew Grove
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VisiData is like duct tape for your data (Interview)
Saul Pwanson is the creator and maintainer of VisiData, a terminal interface for exploring and arranging tabular data. On this Maintainer Spotlight episode, Saul joins Jerod for a wide-ranging discussion on crossword puzzles, biographs, and Saul’s open source gift to the world. Thanks to AJ for the suggestion!
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- VisiData
- VisiData on GitHub
- A Plagiarism Scandal Is Unfolding In The Crossword World
- Saul’s biograph
- the biograph tool on GitHub
- Support Saul on Patreon
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Gatsby's long road to incremental builds (Interview)
Gatsby creator Kyle Mathews joins Jerod fresh off the launch of incremental builds to tell the story of this feature that’s 3 years in the making. We talk about Kyle’s vision for Gatsby, why incremental builds took so long, why it’s not part of the open source tool, how he makes decisions between Cloud and open source features, and more.
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- Kyle on Founders Talk
- The Great GatsbyJS (The Changelog #306)
- Introducing Incremental Builds in Gatsby Cloud
- Experimental Page Build Optimizations for Incremental Data Changes
- Announcing Gatsby Recipes
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Indeed's FOSS Contributor Fund (Interview)
Duane O’Brien (head of open source at Indeed) joined the show to talk about their FOSS Contributor Fund and FOSS Responders. He’s super passionate about open source, and through his role at Indeed Duane was able to implement this fund and open source it as a framework for other companies to use. We talk through all the details of the program, its impact and influence, as well as ways companies can use the framework in their organization. We also talk about FOSS Responders an initiative to support open source that has been negatively impacted by COVID-19.
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- The FOSS Contributor Fund: Six Months In
- FOSS Contributor Fund - Framework
- Sentry on ‘Funding Open Source’
- FOSS Responders on Open Collective
- FOSS Responders - Virtual Funding Event (Friday - May 22, 2020)
- Sustaining FOSS projects by democratizing the sponsorship process
- fossresponders.com
- Open Source 101
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Work from home SUPERCUT (Interview)
Today we’re featuring conversations from different perspectives on working from home from our JS Party, Go Time, and Brain Science podcasts here on Changelog.com. Because, hey…if you didn’t know we have 6 active podcasts in our portfolio of shows. Head to changelog.com/podcasts to collect them all!
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- Retool – Retool makes it super simple to build back-office apps in hours, not days. The tool is is built by engineers, explicitly for engineers. Learn more and try it for free at retool.com/changelog
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Suz Hinton – GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Mark Bates – Website, GitHub, X
- Carmen Andoh – GitHub, X
- Jon Calhoun – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Mireille Reece, PsyD – LinkedIn
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Visualizing the spread of Coronavirus (Interview)
Harry Stevens is a Graphics Reporter at The Washington Post and the author of “Why outbreaks like coronavirus spread exponentially, and how to ‘flatten the curve’” — the most popular post in The Washington Post’s online history.
We cover the necessary details of this global pandemic, the journalist, coding, and design skills required to be a graphics reporter, the backstory on visualizing this outbreak, why Harry chooses R over Python, advice for aspiring graphics reporters, and how all of this came together at the perfect time in history to give Harry a chance to catch lightning in a bottle.
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- Mux – Mux has done for video what Stripe has done for payments If you’re trying to build video into your app, you’ll have to decide between building it yourself or using an out-of-the-box platform. Mux simplifies all things video to an easy to use API. Get $50 in credit to play with at get.mux.com/changelog.
- Pluralsight – Stay home. Skill up. For free. Pluralsight is totally free for the entire month of April! With over 7,000 courses from experts in software development, security, cloud and data there’s never been a better time to skill up. Learn more and get started at pluralsight.com/changelog
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- Why outbreaks like coronavirus spread exponentially, and how to “flatten the curve” ~ discuss
- COVID-19 (2019-nCoV) real time dashboard ~ full view
- ‘Contagion’ is one of the most popular thrillers on iTunes because of the coronavirus outbreak. Here’s how the film compares to reality.
- D3.js
- RStudio
- The Doctor Who Helped Defeat Smallpox Explains What’s Coming - Epidemiologist Larry Brilliant, who warned of pandemic in 2006, says we can beat the novel coronavirus—but first, we need lots more testing.
- Deadliest Enemy by Michael Osterholm and Mark Olshaker — Our War Against Killer Germs
- Michael Osterholm on Joe Rogan Experience #1439
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Securing the web with Let's Encrypt (Interview)
We’re talking with Josh Aas, the Executive Director of the Internet Security Research Group, which is the legal entity behind the Let’s Encrypt certificate authority. In June of 2017, Let’s Encrypt celebrated 100 Million certificates issued. Now, just about 2.5 years later, that number has grown to 1 Billion and 200 Million websites served. We talk with Josh about his journey and what it’s taken to build and grow Let’s Encrypt to enable a secure by default internet for everyone.
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- Pluralsight – Stay home. Skill up. For free. Pluralsight is totally free for the entire month of April! With over 7,000 courses from experts in software development, security, cloud and data there’s never been a better time to skill up. Learn more and get started at pluralsight.com/changelog
- Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com.
Featuring:
- Josh Aas – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Let’s Encrypt Has Issued a Billion Certificates
- Milestone: 100 Million Certificates Issued
- Sponsors and donors of Let’s Encrypt
- Internet Security Research Group
- The Changelog #243: Let’s Encrypt the Web with Jacob Hoffman-Andrews
- I’m a cog - Adam’s thoughts on cog mentality
- Border Gateway Protocol
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The 10x developer myth (Interview)
In late 2019, Bill Nichols, a senior member of the technical staff at Carnegie Mellon University with the Software Engineering Institute published his study on “the 10x developer myth.” On this show we talk with Bill about all the details of his research. Is the 10x developer a myth? Let’s find out.
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- Algolia – Our search partner. As the world is spending even more time online, search will be a critical lever for engaging your own users and customers. Algolia made their Pro Plan free to any developer or team working on a COVID-19-related, not-for-profit website or app.
- Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com.
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- William Nichols – X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- The End to the Myth of Individual Programmer Productivity
- Software Engineering Institute - Carnegie Mellon University
- The Personal Software Process (PSP)
- Team Software Process (TSP)
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Welcome to The Changelog (Interview)
The Changelog is deep discussions in & around the world of software… and it’s been going for over a decade.
We talk to hackers, like Chris Anderson from 3D Robotics… leaders, like Devon Zuegel from GitHub… and innovators, like Amal Hussein…
Welcome to The Changelog! Please listen to an episode from our catalog that interests you and subscribe today. We’d love to have you with us.
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Prepare yourself for Quantum Computing (Interview)
Johan Vos joined us to talk about his new book ‘Quantum Computing for Developers’ which is available to read right now as part of the Manning Early Access Program (MEAP). Listen near the end of the show to learn how you can get a free copy or check the show notes for details. We talked with Johan about the core principles of Quantum Computing, the hardware and software involved, the differences between quantum computing and classical computing, a little bit of physics, and what can we developers do today to prepare for the perhaps-not-so-distant future of Quantum Computing.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- The book — Quantum Computing for Developers
- Qubit on Wikipedia
- Quantum superposition on Wikipedia
- gluonhq/strange - Quantum Computing API for Java
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Engineer to manager and back again (Interview)
Lauren Tan joined us to talk about her blog post titled “Does it spark joy?” In this post Lauren shared the news of her resignation as an engineering manager at Netflix to return to being a software engineer. We examine the career trajectory of a software engineer and the seemingly inevitable draw to management for continued career growth. The idea of understanding “What are you optimizing for?” and whether or not what you’re doing truly brings you joy.
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- Does It Spark Joy?
- Go Fast and Break Things: The Difference Between Reversible and Irreversible Decisions
- WHAT AM I GOING TO DO WITH MY LIFE???
- The Engineer/Manager Pendulum
- The Regret Minimization Framework: How Jeff Bezos Made Decisions
- How to quit your job spectacularly well
- Stay Uncomfortable. Stay Hungry.
- The one question that will change your life
- Steve Jobs on connecting the dots
- thepricegeek.com
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Pushing webpack forward (Interview)
We sit down with Tobias Koppers of webpack fame to talk about his life as a full-time maintainer of one of the most highly used (4 million+ dependent repos!) and influential tools in all of the web.
Things we ask Tobias include: how he got here, how he pays himself, has he ever gotten a raise, what his typical day is like, how he decides what to work on, if he pays attention to the competition, and if he’s ever suffered from burnout.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- webpack with Sean Larkin (The Changelog #233)
- webpack’s homepage
- webpack on Open Collective
- webpack on GitHub
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Altair 8800 and the dawn of a revolution (Interview)
We partnered with Red Hat to promote Season 4 of Command Line Heroes — a podcast about the people who transform technology from the command line up. Season 4 is all about hardware that changed the game. We’re featuring episode 3 from season 4 — called “Personal Computers: The Altair 8800 and the Dawn of a Revolution.” This is the story of personal computers and the revolution that took place in the PC era.
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The Altair 8800 is why we have computers in most homes today. It was initially designed for hobbyists. But a few visionaries saw massive potential in this strange little machine—and worked hard to make others see it too. What they created led to so much more than anyone could have ever imagined.
Forrest Mims tells us how his co-founder, Ed Roberts, planned to save their struggling electronics company. His idea? A microcomputer made for hobbyists. That computer led to a fateful phone call from Bill Gates and Paul Allen. Dan Sokol and Lee Felsenstein recall the unveiling of the Altair 8800 at the Homebrew Computer Club, and how it sparked Steve Wozniak’s eureka moment for the Apple I. We then hear from John Markoff about an infamous software heist that set the stage for the debate about whether code should be proprietary. And finally, Limor Fried reflects on how this story continues to influence today’s open source hardware movement.
- First Invite to the Homebrew Computer Club by Fred Moore
- The Altair story; early days at MITS by Forrest M. Mims III
- WIRED article on the Altair by Randy Alfred
- Video: Demo of the Altair by Don Russ
- PC Mag article on Altair by Michael J. Miller
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Enter the Matrix (Interview)
Matthew Hodgson (technical co-founder) joined us to talk about Matrix - an open source project and open standard for secure, decentralized, real-time communication. It’s open source, it’s decentralized, it’s end-to-end-encrypted, and it’s also self-sovereign. Matrix also provides a bridge feature to bridge existing platforms and communication silos into a global open matrix of communication. A recent big win for Matrix was Mozilla’s announcement of switching off its IRC network that it had been using for 22 years and now uses Matrix instead.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Matrix.org
- Matrix spec
- Matrix on GitHub
- Welcoming Mozilla to Matrix!
- Synchronous Messaging at Mozilla (the decision post)
- Check out this link and discussion on HN about “candidates for Mozilla’s IRC successor”
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From open core to open source (Interview)
Frank Karlitschek joined us to talk about Nextcloud - a self-hosted free & open source community-driven productivity platform that’s safe home for all your data. We talk about how Nextcloud was forked from ownCloud, successful ways to run community-driven open source projects, open core vs open source, aligned incentives, and the challenges Nextcloud is facing to increase adoption and grow.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Special thanks to André Jaenisch and AJ Jordan for suggesting this show and topic!
- Nextcloud
- Nextcloud community on GitHub
- Frank Karlitschek’s talk at FOSDEM — Why I forked my own project and my own company (ownCloud to Nextcloud)
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The developer's guide to content creation (Interview)
Stephanie Morillo (content strategist and previously editor-in-chief of DigitalOcean and GitHub’s company blogs) wrote a book titled The Developer’s Guide to Content Creation — it’s a book for developers who want to consistently and confidently generate new ideas and publish high-quality technical content.
We talked with Stephanie about why developers should be writing and sharing their ideas, crafting a mission statement for your blog and thoughts on personal brand, her 4 step recipe for generating content ideas, as well as promotional and syndication strategies to consider for your developer blog.
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- Retool – Retool makes it super simple to build back-office apps in hours, not days. The tool is is built by engineers, explicitly for engineers. Learn more and try it for free at retool.com/changelog
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- Stephanie Morillo – GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- The Developer’s Guide to Content Creation
- The book did well on Product Hunt with 356 upvotes
- Writing a dev blog and need help? Schedule a 30 minute content session with Stephanie.
- What Admiral Grace Hopper really meant when she said, “It’s easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission”
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The dawn of sponsorware (Interview)
Caleb Porzio is the creator & maintainer of Livewire, AlpineJS, and more. His latest open source endeavor was announced as “sponsorware”, which means it lived in a private repo (only available to Caleb’s GitHub Sponsors) until he hit a set sponsorship threshold, at which point it was open sourced.
On this episode, we talk through this sponsorware experiment in-depth. We learn how he dreamt it up, how it went (spoiler: very well), and how he had to change his mindset on 2 things in order to make sustainability possible.
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Productionising real-world ML data pipelines (Interview)
Yetunde Dada from QuantumBlack joins Jerod for a deep dive on Kedro, a workflow tool that helps structure reproducible, scaleable, deployable, robust, and versioned data pipelines. They discuss what Kedro’s all about and how it’s “changing the landscape of data pipelines in Python”, the ins/outs of open sourcing Kedro, and how they found early success by sweating the details. Finally, Jerod asks Yetunde about her passion project: a virtual reality film which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in January.
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- Kedro on GitHub
- Kedro’s documentation
- Cookiecutter
- CausalNex on GitHub
- Atomu at Sundance
- QuantumBlack is hiring
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Good tech debt (Interview)
Jon Thornton (Engineering Manager at Squarespace) joined the show to talk about tech debt by way of his post to the Squarespace engineering blog titled “3 Kinds of Good Tech Debt”. We talked through the concept of “good tech debt,” how to leverage it, how to manage it, who’s in charge of it, how it’s similar to ways we leverage financial debt, and how Squarespace uses tech debt to drive product development.
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- Jon Thornton – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
3 Kinds of Good Tech Debt ~> discuss
“Tech debt” is a dirty word in the software engineering world. It’s often said with an air of regret; a past mistake that will eventually need to be atoned for with refactoring.
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The soul of an old machine (Interview)
We partnered with Red Hat to promote Season 4 of Command Line Heroes — a podcast about the people who transform technology from the command line up. Season 4 is all about hardware that changed the game. We’re featuring episode 1 from season 4 — called “Minicomputers: The soul of an old machine.” This is the story of Minicomputers and how they paved the way for the personal computers that could fit in a bag and, eventually, the phones in our pockets.
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They don’t fit in your pocket. But in their day, minicomputers were an order of magnitude smaller than the room-sized mainframes that preceded them. And they paved the way for the personal computers that could fit in a bag and, eventually, the phones in your pocket.
16-bit minicomputers changed the world of IT in the 1970s. They gave companies the opportunity for each engineer to have their own machines. But it wasn’t quite enough, not until the arrival of 32-bit versions.
Carl Alsing and Jim Guyer recount their work at Data General to create a revolutionary new 32-bit machine. But their now legendary work was done in secret. Codenamed “Eagle,” their machine was designed to compete with one being built by another team in their own company. These engineers recall the corporate politics and intrigue required to keep the project going—and how they turned restrictions into advantages. Neal Firth discusses life on an exciting-but-demanding project. One where the heroes worked together because they wanted to, without expectations of awards or fame. And all three discuss how this story was immortalized in the non-fiction engineering classic, The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder.
- The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
- The New Golden Age of Building with Soul by Jessie Frazelle
- The Minicomputers of the 70s by Georg Wittenburg
- Rise and Fall of Minicomputers by Gordon Bell
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Open source meets climate science (Interview)
Anders Damsgaard is a climate science researcher working on cryosphere processes at the Department of Geophysics at Stanford University. He joined the show to talk with us about the intersection of open source and climate science. Specifically, we discuss a set of shell tools he created called The Scholarref Tools which allow you to perform most of the tasks required to gather the references needed during the writing phase of an academic paper. We also discuss climate science, physics, self hosting Git, and why Anders isn’t present on any “social” networks.
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- Anders Damsgaard – Website
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- adamsgaard.dk
- The Scholarref Tools
- Why I deleted my GitHub account
- Anders Damsgaard’s photography
- stagit - Static git web viewer
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Intro to Rust programming (Interview)
We teamed up with some friends of ours at Heroku to promote the Code-ish podcast so we’re sharing a full-length episode right here in The Changelog’s feed. This episode features Chris Castle with special guests Carol Nichols and Jake Goulding talking about the strengths of the Rust programming language.
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- Carol Nichols – Website, GitHub, X
- Jake Goulding – Website, GitHub, X
- Chris Castle – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Rust is a type-safe, concurrent, and memory efficient language from Mozilla. Developers from various backgrounds are turning towards it more as a means of quickly writing performant and functional code for browsers, cryptocurrencies, operating systems, CLIs, and–oh yeah, embedded devices. Carol Nichols and Jake Goulding are Rust instructors and enthusiasts, and they join Chris Castle to talk about Rust’s underlying strengths as an ideal blend of simpler languages, like Ruby, with more memory conscious ones, like C.
Check the show notes and transcript for more details.
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Meet Algo, your personal VPN in the cloud (Interview)
The commercial VPN industry is a minefield to navigate and many open source solutions are a pain to use or ill-suited for the task. Algo VPN, on the other hand, is a self-hosted personal VPN designed for ease of deployment and security. It uses the securest industry standards, builds on rock-solid solutions like WireGuard and Ansible, and runs on an ever-growing list of cloud hosting providers.
On this episode Dan Guido –CEO of security firm Trail of Bits and Algo’s creator– joins Jerod to discuss the project in depth.
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- About Trail of Bits
- Meet Algo, the VPN that works
- Algo on GitHub
- Most VPN Services are Terrible
- An Analysis of the Privacy and Security Risks of Android VPN Permission-enabled Apps (PDF)
- 101 VPN products run by just 23 companies
- Every “free” VPN
- No one is going to risk jail for your $5/mo
- A story of the entire VPN industry, in 4 acts. Starring NordVPN.
- WireCutter’s review of the best VPN service for 2019
- WireGuard
- Getting 2FA Right in 2019
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State of the “log” 2019 (Interview)
Welcome to 2020 — on this year’s “State of the ‘log’” episode Jerod and I look back at our favorite moments from 2019 and forward to 2020 and beyond. We talk through our most popular episodes, our personal favorites, our 10-year anniversary, the excitement we have for Brain Science our newest podcast, it’s for the curious! And we also look forward to plans we have for 2020 and the decade to come…
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- Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com.
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We shipped 46 episodes of The Changelog this year (47 last year) and 200 across our entire catalog.
Most popular episodes of 2019:
- #331: GitHub Actions is the next big thing with Kyle Daigle
- #339: Why smart engineers write bad code with Adam Barr
- #352: The Pragmatic Programmers
- #354: Go is eating the world of software with Ron Evans
- #367: Back to Agile’s basics with Bob Martin
Jerod’s favorites:
- #366: Pioneering open source drones and robocars
- #370: The making of GitHub Sponsors
- #353: The war for the soul of open source
Adam’s favorites:
- #361: Generative engineering cultures with David Kaplan
- #357: Shaping, betting, and building with Ryan Singer
- Backstage #7: The John Wick trilogy
Listener todo’s:
- Go Time is back (as of April 2019) and hit their 100th episode — you should subscribe and listen
- We launched a new podcast called Brain Science — listen and subscribe
- Help us celebrate 10 years of Changelog
- Keep up with all our shows by subscribing to Master (this is the only way to get Backstage)
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Gerhard goes to KubeCon (part 2) (Interview)
Gerhard is back for part two of our interviews at KubeCon 2019. Join him as he goes deep on Prometheus with Björn Rabenstein, Ben Kochie, and Frederic Branczyk… Grafana with Tom Wilkie and Ed Welch… and Crossplane with Jared Watts, Marques Johansson, and Dan Mangum.
Don’t miss part one with Bryan Liles, Priyanka Sharma, Natasha Woods, & Alexis Richardson.
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- GitPrime – GitPrime helps software teams accelerate their velocity and release products faster by turning historical git data into easy to understand insights and reports. Ship faster because you know more. Not because you’re rushing. Learn more at gitprime.com/changelog.
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- Björn Rabenstein – GitHub
- Ben Kochie – GitHub
- Frederic Branczyk – Website, GitHub, X
- Tom Wilkie – GitHub, X
- Ed Welch – GitHub, X
- Jared Watts – GitHub, X
- Marques Johansson – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Dan Mangum – Website, GitHub, X
- Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Show Notes:
See also: Gerhard goes to KubeCon (part 1)
Prometheus
Grafana
Crossplane
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Gerhard goes to KubeCon (part 1) (Interview)
Changelog’s resident infrastructure expert Gerhard Lazu is on location at KubeCon 2019. This is part one of a two-part series from the world’s largest open source conference. In this episode you’ll hear from event co-chair Bryan Liles, Priyanka Sharma and Natasha Woods from GitLab, and Alexis Richardson from Weaveworks.
Stay tuned for part two’s deep dives in to Prometheus, Grafana, and Crossplane.
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- Retool – Retool makes it super simple to build back-office apps in hours, not days. The tool is is built by engineers, explicitly for engineers. Learn more and try it for free at retool.com/changelog
- Square – The Square developer team just launched their new developer YouTube channel. Head to youtube.com/squaredev or search for “Square Developer” on YouTube to learn more and subscribe.
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- Bryan Liles – Website, GitHub, X
- Priyanka Sharma – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Natasha Woods – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Alexis Richardson – GitHub, X
- Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
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See also: Gerhard goes to KubeCon (part 2)
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Trending up GitHub's developer charts (Interview)
In this episode we’re shining our maintainer spotlight on Ovilia. Hailing from Shanghai, China, Ovilia is an up-and-coming developer who contributes to Apache ECharts, maintains Polyvia, which does very cool low-poly image and video processing, and has a sweet personal website, too.
This episode with Ovilia continues our maintainer spotlight series where we dig deep into the life of an open source software maintainer. We’re producing this series in partnership with Tidelift. Huge thanks to Tidelift for making this series possible.
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Building an open source excavation robot for NASA (Interview)
Ronald Marrero is a software developer working on NASA’s Artemis program, which aims at landing the first woman and next man on the Moon by 2024. How Ron got here is a fascinating story, starting at UCF and winding its way through the Florida Space Institute, working with NASA’s Swamp Works team, and building an open source excavation robot.
On this episode Ron tells us how it all went down and shares what he learned along the way.
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- Ronald Marrero – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Introducing the EZ-RASSOR
- EZ-RASSOR on GitHub
- ROS.org
- What I learned working with NASA on a robotics project
- NASA Artemis program
- The Space Robotics Challenge
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Re-licensing Sentry (Interview)
David Cramer joined the show to talk about the recent license change of Sentry to the Business Source License from a BSD 3-clause license. We talk about the details that triggered this change, the specifics of the BSL license and its required parameters, the threat to commercial open source products like Sentry, his concerns for the “open core” model, and what the future of open source might look like in light of protections-oriented source-available licenses like the BSL becoming more common.
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- Beginning Machine Learning with TensorFlow.js – Get an introduction to the world of Machine Learning with Javascript and TensorFlow.js. This is a three-week course covering an introduction to Machine Learning models, tensors, and the TensorFlow.js framework. Use the code
CHANGELOGto get $100 till the end of 2019. - Square – The Square developer team just launched their new developer YouTube channel. Head to youtube.com/squaredev or search for “Square Developer” on YouTube to learn more and subscribe.
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Show Notes:
- Re-licensing Sentry + Hacker News comments
- Re-licensing Sentry - FAQ & Discussion
- https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/commit/ca8674c533a0dffc48a177554479bb85fa05891b
- Why We’re Relicensing CockroachDB
- Bruce Perns on the Business Source License
- Business Source License 1.1
- Adopting and Developing BSL Software
- The Changelog #278: Blockchains and Databases at OSCON with Monty Widenius, Brian Behlendorf, and Tague Griffith
- Adam Jacob on The Changelog
- OSI licenses
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The making of GitHub Sponsors (Interview)
Devon Zuegel is an Open Source Product Manager at GitHub. She’s also one of the key people responsible for making GitHub Sponsors a thing. We talk with Devon about how she came to GitHub to develop GitHub Sponsors, the months of research she did to learn how to best solve the sustainability problem of open source, why GitHub is now addressing this issue, the various ways and models of addressing maintainers’ financial needs, and Devon also shared what’s in store for the future of GitHub Sponsors.
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- Retool – Retool makes it super simple to build back-office apps in hours, not days. The tool is is built by engineers, explicitly for engineers. Learn more and try it for free at retool.com/changelog
- Square – The Square developer team just launched their new developer YouTube channel. Head to youtube.com/squaredev or search for “Square Developer” on YouTube to learn more and subscribe.
Featuring:
- Devon Zuegel – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Feross Aboukhadijeh on GitHub
- Sponsor your favorite open source contributors directly on GitHub
- GitHub Universe 2019 TL;DR
- Daniel Stenberg on GitHub
- curl/curl on GitHub
- curl’s FUNDING.yml
- Become a sponsor to curl
- GitHub Explore
- Open Collective
- BackYourStack
- CodeFund
- Hope in Source
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Five years of freeCodeCamp (Interview)
Today we have a very special show for you – we’re talking with Quincy Larson the founder of freeCodeCamp as part of a two-part companion podcast series where we each celebrate our 5 and 10 year anniversaries. This year marks 5 years for freeCodeCamp and 10 years for us here at Changelog. So make sure you check out the freeCodeCamp podcast next week when Quincy ships our episode to their feed. But, on today’s episode we catch up with Quincy on all things freeCodeCamp.
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KCEUGOTIME. Learn more and register. - Retool – Retool makes it super simple to build back-office apps in hours, not days. The tool is is built by engineers, explicitly for engineers. Learn more and try it for free at retool.com/changelog
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Featuring:
- Quincy Larson – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Go back and listen to The Changelog #195, Quincy’s first appearance here on The Changelog
- The Future of freeCodeCamp.org - Lessons From 5 Years of Teaching the World to Code
- The Future of the freeCodeCamp Forum
- WeWork is Desperately Squeezing Cash Out of Meetup.com by Taxing 225,000 Communities
- Every donation you’ve ever made to freeCodeCamp is now tax deductible
- Check out the freeCodeCamp podcast
- freeCodeCamp Chapter - a self-hosted event management tool for nonprofits
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Finding collaborators for open source (Interview)
Jeff Meyerson, host of Software Engineering Daily, and the founder of FindCollabs (a place to find collaborators for open source software) joined the show to talk about living in San Francisco, his thoughts on podcasting and where the medium is heading, getting through large scale market changes. We talk at length about his new project FindCollabs, the difficulty of reliably finding people to collaborate with, the importance of reputation and ratings systems, and his invite to this audience to check out what he’s doing and get involved.
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- KubeCon + CloudNativeCon (Amsterdam 2020) – Get an additional 10% off registration with the code
KCEUCHANGELOG. Learn more and register. - Retool – Retool makes it super simple to build back-office apps in hours, not days. The tool is is built by engineers, explicitly for engineers. Learn more and try it for free at retool.com/changelog
- CrossBrowserTesting – The ONLY all-in-one testing platform that can run automated, visual, and manual UI tests – on thousands of real desktops and mobile browsers.
Featuring:
- Jeff Meyerson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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Back to Agile's basics (Interview)
Robert C. Martin, aka Uncle Bob, joined the show to talk about the practices of Agile. Bob has written a series of books in order to pass down the wisdom he’s gained over his 50 year software career — books like Clean Architecture, Clean Code, The Clean Coder, The Software Craftsman, and finally Clean Agile — which is the focus of today’s discussion. We cover the origins of his “Uncle Bob” nickname, the Agile Manifesto, why Agile is best suited for developing software, how it applies today, communication patterns for teams, co-location vs distributed, and more importantly Bob shares his “why” for writing this book.
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- Bob Martin – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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Pioneering open source drones and robocars (Interview)
Chris Anderson, former Editor-in-Chief of WIRED and a true pioneer in the world of drones, joined the show to talk about his hobby gone wrong, how he started 3D Robotics, DIY Drones, and Dronecode. We also talked about his newest passion, DIY Robocars.
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KCNACHANGELOG19Feel free to use the Convince Your Boss letter in part or in full so you can your team can attend. - DigitalOcean – DigitalOcean now offers three managed databases — PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Redis. Get started for free with a $50 credit. Learn more at do.co/changelog.
- CrossBrowserTesting – The ONLY all-in-one testing platform that can run automated, visual, and manual UI tests – on thousands of real desktops and mobile browsers.
- Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com.
Featuring:
- Chris Anderson – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- 3DR
- The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More by Chris Anderson
- DIY Drones
- Dronecode
- DIY Robocars
- Donkey Car
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Let's talk Elixir! (Interview)
Jerod is joined by Chris and Desmond (co-hosts of the ElixirTalk podcast) to catch up on what’s moving and shaking in the Elixir and Phoenix communities. We discuss what’s attractive about Elixir, what it means to have the language finalized, why folks are so excited by Phoenix LiveView, the ambitious new Lumen project that’s bringing Elixir to WebAssembly, and more.
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- KubeCon + CloudNativeCon – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s flagship Kubernetes community conference which gathers adopters and technologists from leading open source and cloud native communities. Learn more and register — get 10% off with the code
KCNACHANGELOG19Feel free to use the Convince Your Boss letter in part or in full so you can your team can attend. - CrossBrowserTesting – The ONLY all-in-one testing platform that can run automated, visual, and manual UI tests – on thousands of real desktops and mobile browsers.
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Show Notes:
- InfoQ’s latest programming language trends report lists Elixir for first time
- Jerod talk about Elixir and changelog.com on Full Stack Radio
- Phoenix LiveView
- Phoenix Phrenzy
- The Lumen project on GitHub
- Elixir Forum is pretty great
- EMPEX LA is Feb 8, 2020
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Maintainer spotlight! Valeri Karpov (Interview)
In this episode we’re shining our maintainer spotlight on Valeri Karpov. Val has been the solo maintainer of Mongoose since 2014. This episode with Val continues our maintainer spotlight series where we dig deep into the life of an open source software maintainer. We’re producing this series in partnership with Tidelift. Huge thanks to Tidelift for making this series possible.
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Show Notes:
Tools Val uses
People Val respects
Val’s ebooks
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Nushell for the GitHub era (Interview)
Jonathan Turner, Andrés Robalino, and Yehuda Katz joined the show to talk about Nushell, or just Nu for short. It’s a modern shell for the GitHub era. It’s written in Rust, and it has the backing of some of the greatest minds in open source. We talk through what it is, how it works and cool things you can do with it, why Rust, ideas for the future, and ways for the community to get involved and contribute.
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- TeamCity by JetBrains – Build and release your software faster with TeamCity — a self-hosted continuous integration and delivery server developed by JetBrains. TeamCity is super-smart at running incremental builds, reusing artifacts, and building only what needs to be built, which can save over 30% of the daily build time. Learn more at teamcity.com/changelog.
- Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com.
Featuring:
- Jonathan Turner – Website, GitHub, X
- Andrés N. Robalino – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Yehuda Katz – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Nushell homepage
- The Nu book
- nushell/nushell on GitHub
- Nushell’s Discord
- Follow @nu_shell and check out This week in Nu
- The thing that’s missing from your MVP
- How not to die by Paul Graham
Code examples discussed on the show:
curl api.github.com | from-json | get current_user_url
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Machine powered refactoring with AST's (Interview)
Amal Hussein (Engineering Manager at npm) joined the show to talk about AST’s — aka, abstract syntax trees. Amal is giving a talk at All Things Open on the subject so we asked her to give us an early preview. She’s on a mission to democratize the knowledge and usage of AST’s to push legacy code and the web forward.
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- TeamCity by JetBrains – Build and release your software faster with TeamCity — a self-hosted continuous integration and delivery server developed by JetBrains. TeamCity is super-smart at running incremental builds, reusing artifacts, and building only what needs to be built, which can save over 30% of the daily build time. Learn more at teamcity.com/changelog.
Featuring:
- Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
We’ll be at All Things Open! We’re hosting a LIVE JS Party on stage and Jerod Santo is giving a talk on using Svelte for a radical new approach to building user interfaces. And as a special thanks from the team behind All Things Open, we’re giving away 5 free passes to the conference. All you have to do tweet “I want a free pass to All Things Open because…” and state your reason and copy @Changelog and @AllThingsOpen in the tweet.
We’ll DM the winners next Friday, September 27th — good luck!
For those who don’t want to wait and just want 20% off your ticket right now — use the code changelog20 when you buy your tickets. This code has UNLIMITED uses, so tell your friends! Head to allthingsopen.com to learn more and register.
- Amal’s talk at All Things Open — Machine powered refactoring: leverage AST’s to push your legacy code (& the web) forward
- AllThingsOpen.org
- AST Explorer
- StranglerFigApplication
- Abstract syntax tree on Wikipedia
- The Web Platform podcast
- Jscodeshift
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Generative engineering cultures (Interview)
Dave Kaplan (Head of Software Engineering at Policygenius) joined the show to talk about Generative Engineering Cultures and how they have become the goal of industry-aware tech teams. We talk through the topology of organizational cultures ranging from pathological, to bureaucratic, to generative, the importance of management buy-in (from the top down) on leading a generative culture, the ability to contribute original value which is deeply rooted in the concept of aligned autonomy. We also covered the 6 core skills required for us to be empowered in our teams.
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- TeamCity by JetBrains – Build and release your software faster with TeamCity — a self-hosted continuous integration and delivery server developed by JetBrains. TeamCity is super-smart at running incremental builds, reusing artifacts, and building only what needs to be built, which can save over 30% of the daily build time. Learn more at teamcity.com/changelog.
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Featuring:
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- How to build a generative engineering culture
- Policygenius.com
- Revisiting Agile Guilds: Charter Guilds
- Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
- Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
- Inspired: How To Create Products Customers Love
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Modern software is built on APIs (Interview)
Abhinav Asthana (founder of Postman) joined the show to talk about Postman, an ADE — API Development Environment — that began as open source and is now a full-fledged company that just announced a $50 million dollar Series B. We talk about why Postman has grown so successfully, APIs and their impact to core business factors, what it means to be an API Development Environment (ADE), and how they created one of the most popular API platforms and community.
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- TeamCity by JetBrains – Build and release your software faster with TeamCity — a self-hosted continuous integration and delivery server developed by JetBrains. TeamCity is super-smart at running incremental builds, reusing artifacts, and building only what needs to be built, which can save over 30% of the daily build time. Learn more at teamcity.com/changelog.
- Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com.
Featuring:
- Abhinav Asthana – GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Postman
- Postman announces $50 million in Series B
- postmanlabs/newman - a command-line collection runner for Postman
- Postman API network
- POST/CON 2019 - Postman user conference
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Maintainer spotlight! Feross Aboukhadijeh (Interview)
In this episode we’re shining our maintainer spotlight on Feross Aboukhadijeh. Feross is the creator and maintainer of 100’s of open source projects which have been downloaded 100’s of million of times each month — projects like StandardJS, BitMidi, and WebTorrent to name a few. This episode with Feross continues our maintainer spotlight series where we dig deep into the life of an open source software maintainer. We’re producing this series in partnership with Tidelift. Huge thanks to Tidelift for making this series possible.
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Featuring:
- Feross Aboukhadijeh – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- JavaScript Standard Style
- BitMidi
- WebTorrent
- patreon.com/feross
- feross.org/thanks
- patreon.com/evanyou
- Burnout in the tech industry (and why we need to talk about it)
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OSCON 2019 anthology (Interview)
We’re on the expo hall floor of OSCON 2019 talking with Eric Holscher, Ali Spittel, and Hong Phuc Dang. First up, we talk to Eric about his work at Write the Docs, ethical advertising, and the Pac-Man rule at conferences. Second, we talk with Ali about her passion for teaching developers, her passion for writing, and her new found love for podcasting. Last, we talk with Hong about her work at FOSSASIA, the disconnect between America and Asia in open source, and several of the cool open source projects they have on GitHub.
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- TeamCity by JetBrains – Deliver software faster with TeamCity — a self-hosted continuous integration and delivery server developed by JetBrains. TeamCity is super-smart at running incremental builds, reusing artifacts, and building only what needs to be built, which can save over 30% of the daily build time.
- Innovate Software at OSCON – Whether you’re looking to understand where software development is headed, or want to dive into the key technologies that you need to build resilient, useful, innovative software, the O’Reilly Open Source Software Conference (OSCON) is where you’ll find the answers you need. Secure your spot for 2020 now and save 20% on your pass with code
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Featuring:
- Eric Holscher – Website, GitHub, X
- Ali Spittel – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Hong Phuc Dang – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Special thanks to our friends at O’Reilly Media and OSCON for making our trip to Portland possible.
Eric:
- Write the Docs
- Request For Commits #5: Documentation and the value of non-code contributions with Eric Holscher
- The Pac-Man Rule at Conferences
- Ethical Advertising
- CodeFund
Ali:
Hong:
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Shaping, betting, and building (Interview)
Ryan Singer, head of Product Strategy at Basecamp, joined the show to talk about their newest book — Shape Up: Stop running in circles and ship work that matters. It’s written by Ryan himself and you can read it right now for free online at Basecamp.com/shapeup.
We talked about the back story of the book, how the methodology for Shape Up developed from within at Basecamp, the principles and methodologies of Shape Up, how teams of varying sizes can implement Shape Up. Ryan even shared a special invitation to our listeners near the end of the show to his live and in-person Shape Up workshop on August 28th in Detroit, Michigan.
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- Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com.
Featuring:
- Ryan Singer – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Shape Up
- Foreword by Jason Fried
- Principles of shaping
- Example pitches — “How we do it in Basecamp”
- Bets, Not Backlogs
- How to Begin to Shape Up
- Summary of the Shape Up method
- Shape Up glossary
- Ryan’s tweet about the Shape Up workshop
- If you have questions — email shapeup@basecamp.com
- Getting Real
- All of Basecamp’s books
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Observability is for your unknown unknowns (Interview)
Christine Yen (co-founder and CEO of Honeycomb) joined the show to talk about her upcoming talk at Strange Loop titled “Observability: Superpowers for Developers.” We talk practically about observability and how it delivers on these superpowers. We also cover the biggest hurdles to observability, the cultural shifts needed in teams to implement observability, and even the gains the entire organization can enjoy when you deliver high-quality code and you’re able to respond to system failure with resilience.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
“testing is for known knowns, monitoring is for known unknowns, observability is for unknown unknowns” – Jez Humble
- Check out Strange Loops’ impressive lineup of speakers this year
- Observability: Superpowers for Developers
- Framework for an observability maturity model
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Federating JavaScript's language commons with Entropic (Interview)
We’re joined by C J Silverio, aka ceejbot on Twitter, aka 2nd hire and former CTO at npm Inc. We talk with Ceej about her recent JS Conf EU talk titled “The Economies of Open Source” where she laid our her concerns with the JavaScript language commons being owned by venture capitalists. Currently the JavaScript language commons is controlled by the npm registery, and as you may know, npm is a VC backed for profit start up. Of course we also talk with Ceej about the bomb she dropped, Entropic, at the end of that talk — a federated package registry for JavaScript C J hopes will unseat npm and free the JavaScript language commons.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- The Economies of Open Source
- entropic.dev
- npm, Inc. has a new CEO (Bryan Bogensberger)
- JS Party #82: LIVE from NodeConf Colombia featuring Kat Marchán, Anna Henningsen, Ruben Bridgewater & James Snell — We’re linking to the transcript to point out what Kat Marchán said at NodeConf Colombia
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Go is eating the world of software (Interview)
We’re joined by Ron Evans at OSCON on the expo hall floor talking about Go and how it’s eating the world of software. Specifically we’re talking about TinyGo and what they’re doing to bring the Go programming language to micro-controllers and modern web browsers. According to Ron Evans, “embedded systems and Go are the most exciting things happening right now.”
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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The war for the soul of open source (Interview)
Adam Jacob (co-founder and board member of Chef) joins the show to talk about the keynote he’s giving at OSCON this week. The keynote is titled “The war for the soul of open source.” We talked about what made open source great in the first place, what went wrong, the pitfalls of open core models, licensing, and more.
By the way, we’re at OSCON this week so if you make your way to the expo hall, make sure you come by our booth and say hi.
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- Adam Jacob – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
You can now watch Adam’s OSCON keynote on his YouTube channel.
- “The war for the soul of open source”
- Chef
- Goodbye Open Core — Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish
- “So happy that @chef is now a 100% open source company. They are done being open core, and I have to say, I’m stoked about it. It aligns the company with its core values in a way that is so much more elegant and understandable.”
- 996 License
- Utility monster on Wikipedia
- Why we’re relicensing CockroachDB
- Redis will remain BSD licensed
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Learning the BASICs (Interview)
We partnered with Red Hat to promote Season 3 of Command Line Heroes — an original podcast from Red Hat, hosted by Saron Yitbarek, about the people who transform technology from the command line up. It’s an awesome show and we’re huge fans of Saron and the team behind the podcast, so we wanted to share it with you.
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- Tom Cormen – Website, X
- Denise Dumas – LinkedIn
- Avi Flombaum – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Femi Owolade-Coombes – Website, X
- Saron Yitbarek – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Check the show notes and transcript for more details.
Becoming a programmer used to require a PhD and having access to some serious hardware. Then, in 1965, a couple of engineers had a radical idea: make it easier for people to get started.
Beginner languages, like BASIC, burst the doors to coding wide open. Tom Cormen and Denise Dumas recall how BASIC changed everything. Avi Flombaum and Saron share tips on picking a first language in this new era of software development. And we hear from Femi Owolade-Coombes and Robyn Bergeron about how the next generation of coders are getting their start with video games.
Beginner languages give everyone an opportunity to get their foot in the door. And that helps the industry as a whole.
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The Pragmatic Programmers (Interview)
Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt, best known as the authors of The Pragmatic Programmer and founders of The Pragmatic Bookshelf, joined the show today to talk about the 20th anniversary edition of The Pragmatic Programmer. This is a beloved book to software developers all over the world, so we wanted to catch up with Andy and Dave to talk about how this book came to be, some of the wisdom shared in its contents, as well as the impact it’s had on the world of software.
Also, the beta book is now “fully content complete” and is going to production. If you decide to pick up the ebook, you’ll get a coupon for 50% off the hardcover when it comes out this fall.
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- Dave Thomas – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- The Pragmatic Programmer - 20th Anniversary Edition
- Agile Manifesto
- The humble programmer
- Considered harmful
- Edsger Dijkstra
- PDPjs, a PDP-11 Emulator
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Python's Tale (Interview)
We partnered with Red Hat to promote Season 3 of Command Line Heroes — an original podcast from Red Hat, hosted by Saron Yitbarek, about the people who transform technology from the command line up. It’s an awesome show and we’re huge fans of Saron and the team behind the podcast, so we wanted to share it with you.
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Featuring:
- Emily Morehouse – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Michael Kennedy – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Diane Mueller – Website, GitHub, X
- Saron Yitbarek – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Check the show notes and transcript for more details.
A benevolent dictator for life steps down and changes the course of the Python language forever. Guido van Rossum’s “Transfer of Power” memo brings attention to the way programming languages evolve.
In this episode, Emily Morehouse makes the connection between Python’s technical extensibility and its inclusive community. Michael Kennedy explains how Python is both easy to learn and powerful enough to build YouTube and Instagram. And Diane Mueller highlights how the Python community took the lead on so many inclusive practices that are spreading in tech—including the rise of community-led decision-making.
Sometimes, a benevolent dictator can get a language started. But Python shows it’s communities that make languages thrive.
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Maintainer spotlight! Ned Batchelder (Interview)
In this episode we’re shinning our maintainer spotlight on Ned Batchelder. Ned is one of the lucky ones out there that gets to double-dip — his day job is working on open source at edX, working on the Open edX community team. Ned is also a “single maintainer” of coverage.py - a tool for measuring code coverage of Python programs. This episode with Ned kicks off the first of many in our maintainer spotlight series where we dig deep into the life of an open source software maintainer. We’re producing this series in partnership with Tidelift. Huge thanks to Tidelift for making this series possible.
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Show Notes:
- edX
- Open edX
- Coverage.py - Code coverage measurement for Python
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Boldly going where no data tools have gone before (Interview)
Computer Scientist Yaw Anokwa joins the show to tell us how Open Data Kit is enabling data collection efforts around the world. From monitoring rainforests to observing elections to tracking outbreaks, ODK has done it all. We hear its origin story, ruminate on why it’s been so successful, learn how the software works, and even answer the question, “are people really using it in space?!” All that and more…
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Featuring:
- Yaw Anokwa – GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Hat tip to Brett Neese for the show idea
- Here’s the Singularity episode Jerod referenced
- University of Washington has a great backgrounder on Yaw and ODK
- Open Data Kit’s website is where to dive in
- Or check out the source on GitHub
- Nafundi – the company behind the project
Videos of ODK in action
- evaluating global health programs
- forest monitoring from the ground to the cloud
- mapping flood risk in Tanzania
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The state of CSS in 2019 (Interview)
We’re talking with Sacha Greif to discuss the State of CSS survey and results. CSS is evolving faster than ever. And, coming off the heels of their annual State of JavaScript survey, they’ve decided to take on the world of styles and selectors to help identify the latests patterns and trends in CSS.
We talk through the history and motivations of this survey, the methodology of their data collection, the tooling involved to build and run the survey, and of course we dig deep into the survey results and talk through the insights we found most interesting.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- State of CSS survey and the results for 2019
- State of JavaScript
- State of JavaScript on GitHub
- JS Party #54: trust.js but verify (malware, opaque surveys, and console.log debugging) and Sacha’s response “Mainly, that it wasn’t clear who exactly took the survey, how they found the survey, and whether that population sample was representative of the overall JavaScript ecosystem.”
- The Changelog #91: Discover Meteor.js with Sacha Greif
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Python's new governance and core team (Interview)
We’re talking with Brett Cannon for a behind the scenes look at Guido stepping down as Python’s BDFL (Benevolent dictator for life) and the process they had to go through to establish a new governance model, the various proposed PEPs to establish this new direction, the winning PEP, and what the future holds for Python.
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- O'Reilly Open Source Software Conference – OSCON has been ground zero for the open source community for 20 years. This year they’ve expanded to become a “software development conference” — because in 2019, software development IS open source. The program covers everything from open source, AI, infrastructure, blockchain, edge computing, architecture, and emerging languages. Use the code
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Featuring:
- Brett Cannon – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- An update on Python’s governance
- Python Enhancement Proposals (PEPs)
- Condorcet Internet Voting Service
- PEP 8000 - Python language governance proposal overview
- PEP 8001
- PEP 8002
- PEP 8011
- PEP 8016 (winning PEP)
- Python governance vote (December 2018) results
- One of Jerod’s favorite episodes of The Changelog in 2018 ~> The Changelog #318: A call for kindness in open source with Brett Cannon
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Creating and selling multiplayer online games (Interview)
We’re talking with Victor Zhou about the explosion of the .io game genre. We talked through all the details around building and running one of these games, the details behind Victor’s super popular game called Generals — which he eventually sold, and we also covered the economics behind creating and selling one of these games.
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- Rollbar – We move fast and fix things because of Rollbar. Resolve errors in minutes. Deploy with confidence. Learn more at rollbar.com/changelog.
- Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com.
Featuring:
- Victor Zhou – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
When Agar.io came out in 2015, it inspired a new .io game genre that has since exploded in popularity. I experienced the rise of .io games firsthand: I’ve built and sold 2 .io games in the past 3 years.
- How to build a multiplayer (.io) web game - part 1
- How to build a multiplayer (.io) web game - part 2
- Generals
- How I Became a Programmer - My unlikely origin story
- iogames.space
- agar.io
- slither.io
- diep.io
- “kingz.io” was discussed but no longer has a web presence
- Socket.io plays a crucial role in .io games
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Off the grid social networking with Manyverse (Interview)
We’re talking with Andre Staltz, creator of Manyverse — a social network off the grid. It’s open source and free in every sense of the word. We talked through the backstory, how a user’s network gets formed, how data is stored and shared, why off-grid is so important to Andre, and what type of user uses an “off-the-grid” social network.
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- GitPrime – Download GitPrime’s 20 Patterns book, a field guide to help engineering managers recognize achievement, spot bottlenecks, and debug development processes with data.
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- André Staltz – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Manyverse - A social network off the grid. Scuttlebutt for mobile.
- Manyverse roadmap
- Early days in the Manyverse
- Manyverse bluetooth sync
- Scuttlebutt.nz
- Manyverse on Open Collective
- Cycle.js - A functional and reactive JavaScript framework for predictable code
- The Changelog #326: The insider perspective on the event-stream compromise with Dominic Tarr
- License Zero - gainful open software development
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Quirk and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) (Interview)
We’re talking with Evan Conrad — for most of Evan’s life he has suffered from severe panic attacks, often twice per week. Eventually he stumbled upon a therapy method called Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT for short, and saw positive results. This led him to create Quirk, an open source iOS app which allows its users to practice one of the most common formats of CBT.
On the show we mentioned a new podcast we’re launching called Brain Science — it’s hosted by Adam Stacoviak and Mireille Reece, a Doctor of Clinical Psychology. Brain Science is a podcast for the curious that explores the inner-workings of the human brain to understand behavior change, habit formation, mental health, and the human condition. It’s Brain Science applied — not just how does the brain work, but how do we apply what we know about the brain to better our lives. Stay tuned after the show for a special preview of Brain Science.
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Featuring:
- Evan Conrad – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Get in touch with Evan via email at ejc@quirk.fyi
- quirk.fyi
- Quirk is FOSS (Free Open Source Software)
- On the topic of Game Juice, read Squeezing more juice out of your game design!
- Book: Feeling Good
- Flaque/quirk
- Flaque/quirk/../TRANSLATIONS.md
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Inside 2019's infrastructure for Changelog.com (Interview)
We’re talking with Gerhard Lazu, our resident ops and infrastructure expert, about the setup we’ve rolled out for 2019. Late 2016 we relaunched Changelog.com as a new Phoenix/Elixir application and that included a brand new infrastructure and deployment process. 2019’s infrastructure update includes Linode, CoreOS, Docker, CircleCI, Rollbar, Fastly, Netdata, and more — and we talk through all the details on this show.
This show is also an open invite to you and the rest of the community to join us in Slack and learn and contribute to Changelog.com. Head to changelog.com/community to get started.
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Featuring:
- Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- The Changelog #254: Deploying Changelog.com with Gerhard Lazu
- The new Changelog.com setup for 2019
- This is our Makefile
- Here’s the update_service_continuously file we talked about on the show
- Linode Kubernetes
- View our stats at netdata.changelog.com
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Running functions anywhere with OpenFaaS (Interview)
We’re talking with Alex Ellis, the founder of OpenFaaS — serverless functions made simple for Docker and Kubernetes. We talked about the backstory and details of OpenFaaS, “the curious case of serverless on Kubernetes,” the landscape of open source serverless platforms, how Alex is leading and building this community, getting involved, and maintainership vs leadership.
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- Rollbar – We move fast and fix things because of Rollbar. Resolve errors in minutes. Deploy with confidence. Learn more at rollbar.com/changelog.
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Featuring:
- Alex Ellis – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- OpenFaaS — serverless functions made simple for Docker and Kubernetes
- You can donate to support the ongoing development and independence of OpenFaaS
- Announcing the OpenFaaS function store
- OpenFaaS #TeamServerless on LinkedIn
- The Changelog #253: The serverless revolution with Pam Selle
- JS Party #49: Serverless? We don’t need no stinkin’ SERVERS with special guest Jeremy Daly
- The curious case of serverless on Kubernetes
- The Changelog #329: Perspectives on Kubernetes and successful cloud platforms with Brendan Burns
- (BOOK) - Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business
- Inlets – expose your local endpoints to the internet
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From zero to thought leader in 6 months (Interview)
We’re talking with Emma Bostian about going from zero to thought leader in 6 months. We talk about the nuances of UX including the differences between an UX Designer and a UX Engineer, we touch on “the great divide”, and we talk about Coding Coach — the open source project and community that Emma and others are building to connect software developers and mentors all over the world.
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- GoCD + Kubernetes – With GoCD running on Kubernetes, you define your build workflow and let GoCD provision and scale build infrastructure on the fly. GoCD installs as a Kubernetes native application. Scale your build infrastructure elastically. Learn more at gocd.org/kubernetes
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Featuring:
- Emma Bostian – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- emmawedekind.com
- Emma Wedekind on dev.to
- How I Gained 27,000 Twitter Followers In 6 Months
- My Journey Into Software Engineering
- 5 Books Which Will Improve Your Career
- Book —The Culture Map
- Coding Coach — a free, open-source platform which aims to connect software developers and mentors all over the world.
- mentors.codingcoach.io
- Coding Coach on Patreon
- Coding-Coach/coding-coach
- Coding-Coach/find-a-mentor
- LogMeIn
- The Changelog #333: Tactical design advice for developers featuring Erik Kennedy
- Lara Hogan on mentorship and sponsorship
- JS Party #61: How great the (front end) divide with Nick, Suz, and KBall
- JS Party #67: The great divide reprise featuring Chris Coyier
Questions from the community and Twitter
- @UKGeekgirlBCS — twitter.com/UKGeekgirlBCS/status/1115970699229843456
- @shreeshbhat — twitter.com/shreeshbhat/status/1115973319352827906
- @donnacamos88 —twitter.com/donnacamos88/status/1116061580851056640
- @LashaKrikheli — twitter.com/LashaKrikheli/status/1116051141492654081
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Wasmer is taking WebAssembly beyond the browser (Interview)
We’re talking with Syrus Akbary about WebAssembly and Wasmer — a standalone just in time WebAssembly runtime aiming to be fully compatible with Emscripten, Rust, and Go. We talked about taking WebAssembly beyond the browser, universal binaries, what’s an ABI?, running WebAssembly from any language, and what a world might look like with platform independent universal binaries powered by WebAssembly.
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- GoCD – GoCD is an on-premise open source continuous delivery server created by ThoughtWorks that lets you automate and streamline your build-test-release cycle for reliable, continuous delivery of your product.
- O'Reilly Open Source Software Conference – OSCON has been ground zero for the open source community for 20 years. This year they’ve expanded to become a “software development conference” — because in 2019, software development IS open source. The program covers everything from open source, AI, infrastructure, blockchain, edge computing, architecture, and emerging languages. Use the code
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Featuring:
- Syrus Akbary – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Wasmer — Universal binaries powered by WebAssembly (Wasm)
- Stop limiting your open source library’s potential
- Running WebAssembly from any language
- Running WebAssembly 100x faster 🔥
- Standardizing WASI: A system interface to run WebAssembly outside the web
- WASI - The WebAssembly System Interface
- wasmerio/wasmer
- appcypher/awesome-wasm-langs
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
All things text mode (Interview)
We’re talking all things text mode with Lucas da Costa — we logged his post “How I’m still not using GUIs in 2019” a guide focused on making the terminal your IDE. We talked through his Terminal starter pack which includes: neovim, tmux, iterm2, and zsh by way of oh-my-zsh, his rules for learning vim, the awesomeness of CLI’s, and the pros and cons of graphical and plain text editors.
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- GitPrime – Download GitPrime’s 20 Patterns book, a field guide to help engineering managers recognize achievement, spot bottlenecks, and debug development processes with data.
Featuring:
- Lucas Fernandes da Costa – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- How I’m still not using GUIs in 2019: A guide to the terminal — discuss on Changelog News
- In Praise of Plain Text
- lucasfcosta/dotfiles
- Neovim
- tmux/tmux
- iTerm2
- robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh
- tmuxinator/tmuxinator
- ohmybash/oh-my-bash
- webpro/awesome-dotfiles
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Why smart engineers write bad code (Interview)
We’re talking with Adam Barr, a 23 year Microsoft veteran, about his book “The problem with software,” sub-titled “Why smart engineers write bad code.” We examine that very idea, the gap between industry and academia, and more importantly what we can do to get a better feedback loop going between them.
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- Raygun – The Raygun platform let’s you see a complete picture of your software health in one place by monitoring every part of your software stack in one tool. Bring your whole team together and break down the walls between your monitoring tools. Do it all in one fully integrated platform. Learn more at raygun.com/platform.
- Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com.
Featuring:
- Adam Barr – X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- The Problem with Software on The MIT Press
- Lambda School
- Bradfield School of Computer Science
- Law of Demeter
- Strange Loop
- Association for Computing Machinery
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Funding OSS with Mozilla Open Source Support awards (Interview)
We’re talking with Mehan Jayasuriya program officer at Mozilla about MOSS — the Mozilla Open Source Support (MOSS) program which recognizes, celebrates, and supports open source projects. Earlier this year we caught the “MOSS 2018 Year in Review” blog post — this post highlighted many of their efforts in 2018 so we reached out to talk through the history, goals, and impact of this very generous project.
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- DigitalOcean – The simplest cloud platform for developers and teams Whether you’re running one virtual machine or ten thousand, makes managing your infrastructure too easy. New accounts get $100 in credit to use in your first 60 days.
- GitPrime – Download GitPrime’s 20 Patterns book, a field guide to help engineering managers recognize achievement, spot bottlenecks, and debug development processes with data.
- Raygun – The Raygun platform let’s you see a complete picture of your software health in one place by monitoring every part of your software stack in one tool. Bring your whole team together and break down the walls between your monitoring tools. Do it all in one fully integrated platform. Learn more at raygun.com/platform.
- Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com.
Featuring:
- Mehan Jayasuriya – Website, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Mozilla Open Source Support (MOSS) awards program
- MOSS 2018 year in review
- Mitchell Baker on Wikipedia + Mitchell Baker on Twitter
- Mozilla Foundation
- Apply for a MOSS award
- Open source inclusion basic checklist for open source projects on mozilla/diversity
- In Memoriam: Gervase Markham
- The Changelog #335: Enabling open code for science at NumFOCUS
- MozFest
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Homebrew! Part Deux (Interview)
We’re talking with Mike McQuaid about Homebew 2.0.0, supporting Linux and Windows 10, the backstory and details surrounding the security issue they had in 2018, their new governance model, Mike’s new role, the core team meeting in-person at FOSDEM this year, and what’s coming next for Homebrew.
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- GitPrime – Download GitPrime’s 20 Patterns book, a field guide to help engineering managers recognize achievement, spot bottlenecks, and debug development processes with data.
- Raygun – Unblock your biggest app performance bottlenecks with Raygun APM. Smarter application performance monitoring (APM) that lets you understand and take action on software issues affecting your customers.
- Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com.
Featuring:
- Mike McQuaid – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Homebrew on HackerOne
- brew.sh
- Donate Homebrew on Patreon
- Here’s how Eric Holmes gained commit access to Homebrew in 30 minutes
- adamstac/laptop
- thoughtbot/laptop
- MikeMcQuaid/strap - Bootstrap your macOS development system
- Homebrew governance
- Homebrew formulae analytics
- “This is why people don’t contribute to your open source project” —Mike McQuaid
- Hot Shots! Part Deux - starring Charlie Sheen
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Containerizing compute driven workloads with Singularity (Interview)
We’re talking with Greg Kurtzer, the founder of CentOS, Warewulf, and most recently Singularity — an open source container platform designed to be simple, fast, and secure. Singularity is optimized for enterprise and high-performance computing workloads. What’s interesting is how Singularity allows untrusted users to run untrusted containers in a trusted way. We cover the backstory, Singularity Pro and how they’re not holding the open source community version hostage, as well as how Singularity is being used to containerize and support workflows in artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, and more.
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- Raygun – Unblock your biggest app performance bottlenecks with Raygun APM. Smarter application performance monitoring (APM) that lets you understand and take action on software issues affecting your customers.
- Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com.
Featuring:
- Gregory M. Kurtzer – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Sylabs.io
- Sylabs Cloud
- Special thanks to Jacob Chappell (phpHavok) and Andre Marcelo-Tanner (kzap) for kicking things off on Ping
- Now Live: Singularity 3.0!
- sylabs/singularity
- Open Containers Initiative
- Founders Talk #61: Isaac Schlueter on building npm and hiring a CEO
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Enabling open code for science at NumFOCUS (Interview)
We’re talking with Gina Helfrich the Communications Director for NumFOCUS about their story and history, the impact of open code on science, the difference between sponsored and affiliated projects, corporate backing, the back story of their education and events program PyData, and the struggles of storytelling and fundraising.
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- Raygun – Unblock your biggest app performance bottlenecks with Raygun APM. Smarter application performance monitoring (APM) that lets you understand and take action on software issues affecting your customers.
- Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com.
Featuring:
- Gina Helfrich – X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Special thanks to Bryan W. Weber for suggesting this episode
- NumFOCUS — Open Code • Better Science
- NumFOCUS — Sponsored projects
- NumFOCUS — Affiliated projects
- We talked Spack on Request for Commits #13 with Todd Gamblin
- We talked rOpenSci on The Changelog #263 with Karthik Ram
- PyData.org
- Digitizing images of the Sun from the 1970s with SunPy Maps
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
With great power comes great responsibility (Interview)
Adam and Jerod are joined by JS Party panelist Nick Nisi and #causeascene advocate Kim Crayton for a deep discussion on ethics in the technology industry at-large and our roles as software developers. If you’ve never heard Kim describe what life is like online for underrepresented and marginalized folks, you have to listen to this show!
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- GitPrime – Ship faster because you know more. Not because you’re rushing. GitPrime helps software teams accelerate their velocity and release products faster by turning historical git data into easy to understand insights and reports.
- Rollbar – We move fast and fix things because of Rollbar. Resolve errors in minutes. Deploy with confidence. Learn more at rollbar.com/changelog.
- Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com.
Featuring:
- Kim Crayton – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- We start by asking the question: should we npm-uninstall-facebook.com?
- Jerod and Nick first met Kim at NEJS Conf 2017
- Kim also keynoted Node+JS Interactive 2017
- Kim’s podcast discusses these topics often
- The #causeascene movement being lead by Kim
- Read Kim’s article on QZ about defining diversity & inclusion terms
- Here’s coverage of bots mimicking female/black voices on NBC, Wired, and NYTimes
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Tactical design advice for developers (Interview)
Adam talks with Erik Kennedy about tactical design advice for developers. Erik is a self-taught UI designer and brings a wealth of practical advice for those seeking to advance their design skills and learn more about user interface design. We cover his seven rules for creating gorgeous UI, the fundamentals of user interface design — color, typography, layout, and process. We also talk about his course Learn UI Design and how it’s the ultimate on-ramp for upcoming UI designers.
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- GitPrime – Ship faster because you know more. Not because you’re rushing. GitPrime helps software teams accelerate their velocity and release products faster by turning historical git data into easy to understand insights and reports.
- Rollbar – We move fast and fix things because of Rollbar. Resolve errors in minutes. Deploy with confidence. Learn more at rollbar.com/changelog.
- Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com.
Featuring:
Show Notes:
- Learn UI Design
- Erik’s color generator that Jerod logged about
- 7 Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI
- 7 Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI — Part 2
- 3 Pro Tips on Alignment
- Learn UI Design Blog
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
A UI framework without the framework (Interview)
Jerod and Adam talked with Rich Harris –a JavaScript Journalist on The New York Times Investigations team– about his magical disappearing UI framework called Svelte. We compare and contrast Svelte to React, how the framework is embedded in a component, build time vs. run time, scoping CSS to components, and CSS in JavaScript. Rich also shares where Svelte v3 is heading and the details on Sapper, a framework for building extremely high-performance progressive web apps, powered by Svelte.
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- GitPrime – Ship faster because you know more. Not because you’re rushing. GitPrime helps software teams accelerate their velocity and release products faster by turning historical git data into easy to understand insights and reports.
- Rollbar – We move fast and fix things because of Rollbar. Resolve errors in minutes. Deploy with confidence. Learn more at rollbar.com/changelog.
- Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com.
Featuring:
- Rich Harris – GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Thanks to Kevin McGee for suggesting this interview on Ping
- The Great Divide by Chris Coyier
- Frameworks without the framework; why didn’t we think of this sooner?
- Rich’s spectacular work on display in a piece for The New York Times on Twitter bots
- Watch Rich’s talk at JSConf EU 2018, “Computer, build me an app”
- Svelte website
- Follow Svelte on Twitter
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
GitHub Actions is the next big thing (Interview)
Adam and Jerod talk to Kyle Daigle, the Director of Ecosystem Engineering at GitHub. They talk about GitHub Actions, the new automation platform announced at GitHub Universe this past October 2018. GitHub Actions is the next big thing coming out of GitHub with the promise of powerful workflows to supercharge your repos and GitHub experience. Build your container apps, publish packages to registries, or automate welcoming new users to your open source projects — with access to interact with the full GitHub API and any other public APIs, Actions seem to have limitless possibilities.
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- DigitalOcean – DigitalOcean is simplicity at scale. Whether your business is running one virtual machine or ten thousand, DigitalOcean gets out of your way so your team can build, deploy, and scale faster and more efficiently. New accounts get $100 in credit to use in your first 60 days.
- GitPrime – GitPrime helps software teams accelerate their velocity and release products faster by turning historical git data into easy to understand insights and reports. Ship faster because you know more. Not because you’re rushing.
- Rollbar – We catch our errors before our users do because of Rollbar. Resolve errors in minutes, and deploy your code with confidence. Learn more at rollbar.com/changelog.
- Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com.
Featuring:
- Kyle Daigle – Website, GitHub, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Learn more information about GitHub Actions
- Read this post by Jessie Frazelle on how a GitHub action works
- Marketplace of GitHub actions (only available to people in the public beta for now)
- Pull Reminders helps you remember to review code and get pull requests merged.
- Future of Software: Developers at the center of the universe
- This org has repos of different GitHub actions for many situations
- Adam logged Sarah Drasner’s list of awesome GitHub actions
- Article from GitLab about the importance of continous integration
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
source{d} turns code into actionable insights (Interview)
Adam caught up with Francesc Campoy at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2018 in Seattle, WA to talk about the work he’s doing at source{d} to apply Machine Learning to source code, and turn that codebase into actionable insights. It’s a movement they’re driving called Machine Learning on Code. They talked through their open source products, how they work, what types of insights can be gained, and they also talked through the code analysis Francesc did on the Kubernetes code base. This is as close as you get to the bleeding edge and we’re very interested to see where this goes.
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Show Notes:
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Perspectives on Kubernetes and successful cloud platforms (Interview)
Adam caught up with Brendan Burns (co-creator of Kubernetes and Partner Architect at Microsoft Azure) at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2018 in Seattle, WA to talk about the state of Kubernetes, the importance of community, building healthy cloud platforms, and the future of cloud infrastructure.
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Show Notes:
- The Commons Clause
- Brendan’s talk at KubeCon — !go, Interacting with and Extending Kubernetes in a Polyglot World
- Read The Illustrated Children’s Guide to Kubernetes — Here’s a link to a pdf version of it
- Metaparticle is a standard library for cloud native applications on Kubernetes.
- cncf/artwork — CNCF related logos and artwork
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State of the "log" 2018 (Interview)
On this year’s “State of the ‘log’” episode we’re going behind the scenes to look back at 2018 as we prepare for 2019 and onward. We talk through our most popular episodes, most controversial episodes, and even some of our personal favorites. We also catch you up on some company level updates here at Changelog Media. We hired Tim Smith earlier this year as our Senior Producer, we retired Request for Commits, started some new shows…
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Show Notes:
Before we officially head into the year end I wanted to take a moment to thank you for your time and attention, it means the world to us. We work very hard to produce this podcast and we do it for you, the listeners — so thank you. Please be safe over the holiday break. Enjoy your time with family, friends, and loved ones. We’ll see you again in 2019!
Most popular episodes
- #291 – Winamp2 JS with Jordan Eldredge
- #288 – Live coding open source on Twitch with Suz Hinton
- #295 – Scaling all the things at Slack with Julia Grace
- #298 – The beginnings of Microsoft Azure with Julia White
- #297 and #314 on GraphQL
Most controversial
- #300 – Corporate interests in open source and dev culture with Zed Shaw
- Throwback to #205 – A protocol for dying with Pieter Hintjens
Staff favorites
New shows!
- You can listen to Backstage on the web or subscribe via Master
- You are subscribed to Master, right? 😉
- Listen to the new and improved JS Party
- Founders Talk is back in a big way!
- Tim Smith’s Away from Keyboard is a must-listen
- Maybe start with episode #4?
- We didn’t talk too much about Practical AI, but it’s rad too
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Untangle your GitHub notifications with Octobox (Interview)
Jerod is joined by Andrew Nesbitt and Ben Nickolls to talk Octobox, their open source web app that helps you manage your GitHub notifications. They discuss how Octobox came to be, why open source maintainers love it, the experiments they’re doing with pricing and business models, and how Octobox can continue to thrive despite GitHub’s renewed interest in improving notifications.
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- Command Line Heroes – A new podcast about the epic true tales of the developers, hackers, and open source rebels revolutionizing the tech landscape from the command line up. Presented by Red Hat.
Featuring:
- Andrew Nesbitt – Website, GitHub, X
- Benjamin Nickolls – GitHub, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Andrew was a guest on The Changelog #188 and Request For Commits #3
- The two met at a 24 Pull Requests event
- They’ve been working on Libraries.io for the last couple of years
- When it comes to clipboard managers, Andrew recommends Alfred
- For all things Octobox, start right here
- Or jump straight to its GitHub repo
- Find Octobox on GitHub Marketplace
- Or support the community on Open Collective
- Their Roadmap is also open source
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
The insider perspective on the event-stream compromise (Interview)
Adam and Jerod talk with Dominic Tarr, creator of event-stream, the IO library that made recent news as the latest malicious package in the npm registry. event-stream was turned malware, designed to target a very specific development environment and harvest account details and private keys from Bitcoin accounts.
They talk through Dominic’s backstory as a prolific contributor to open source, his stance on this package, his work in open source, the sequence of events around the hack, how we can and should handle maintainer-ship of open source infrastructure over the full life-cycle of the code’s usefulness, and what some best practices are for moving forward from this kind of attack.
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Featuring:
- Dominic Tarr – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- The issue that kicked off everything
- We covered the incident on Changelog News
- Here’s Dominic’s statement that we reference repeatedly
- Felix Krause had some on-point commentary on Twitter
- TideLift says event-stream gets 2 million downloads per week
- SwiftOnSecurity also chimed in on Twitter
- Learn more about Project Xanadu
- We discussed Reproducible Builds with Chris Lamb back in the day
- Also check out A call for kindness in open source with Brett Cannon
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A good open source password manager? Inconceivable! (Interview)
Perry Mitchell joined the show to talk about the importance of password management and his project Buttercup — an open source password manager built around strong encryption and security standards, a beautifully simple interface, and freely available on all major platforms. We talked through encryption, security concerns, building for multiple platforms, Electron and React Native pros and woes, and their future plans to release a hosted sync and team service to sustain and grow Buttercup into a business that’s built around its open source.
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- Perry Mitchell – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Buttercup
- Have I Been Pwned: Check if your email has been compromised in a data breach
- Key derivation function on Wikipedia
- Sallar Kaboli on GitHub
- Buttercup Roadmap
- Why I love password managers on Changelog News
- reproducible-builds.org
- The Changelog #237: Reproducible Builds and Secure Software with Chris Lamb
- ownCloud - The leading OpenSource Cloud Collaboration Platform
- Nextcloud
- KeePass Password Safe
- Open Source Password Management Solutions
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Tidelift's mission is to pay open source maintainers (Interview)
In this special crossover episode of Founders Talk, Adam talks with Donald Fischer. Donald Fischer and the team at Tidelift are on a mission of making open source work better — for everyone. To pay the maintainers of open source software they are putting a new spin on a highly successful business model that’s a win-win for the maintainers as well as the software teams using the software. In this episode we dig into that backstory and Donald’s journey.
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- Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com.
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Show Notes:
- There’s over $1M to pay open source maintainers on Tidelift
- It’s time to pay the maintainers!
- Tidelift
- Is React’s development “supported” by Facebook? That depends.
- Havoc Pennington
- Jeremy Katz
- Luis Villa
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The road to Brave 1.0 and BAT (Interview)
This week Adam and Jerod talk with Brian Bondy, Co-founder and CTO of Brave. They talked through the beginnings of Brave and how BAT (Basic Attention Token) could be driving the future of how we offer funding and tips to our favorite websites and content creators. Of course, they go deep into the historical and the technical details of the Brave browser and their march to Brave 1.0. The last segment of the show covers how BAT works, how it’s being used, and also their interesting spin on an ad model that respects the user’s privacy.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Brave Browser
- Browser.html, an experimental Servo browser in HTML
- Muon, a fork of the Electron framework
- Request For Commits #11: Funding the Web with Brendan Eich
- Tracking Protection in Firefox For Privacy and Performance
- StatCounter Global Stats, Browser Market Share Worldwide
- BAT (Basic Attention Token)
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There and back again (Dgraph's tale) (Interview)
This week we talk with Manish Jain about Dgraph, graph databases, and licensing and re-licensing woes. Manish is the creator and founder Dgraph and we talked through all the details. We covered what a graph database is, the uses of a graph database, and how and when to choose a graph database over a relational database. We also talked through the hard subject of licensing/re-licensing. In this case, Dgraph has had to change their license a few times to maintain their focus on adoption while respecting the core ideas around what open source really means to developers.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Open Source Licensing & Relicensing · Issue #833 · thechangelog/ping
- Dgraph — A Distributed, Fast Graph Database
- Stack Exchange Data Dump : Stack Exchange, Inc.
- Google Inc. Acquires Metaweb Technologies Inc. | Inc.com
- Official Google Blog: Deeper understanding with Metaweb
- Switching Dgraph to a Liberal License - Dgraph Blog
- The History of the LICENSE.md file of Dgraph
- Commons Clause License
- The Open Source Definition | Open Source Initiative
- It’s not okay to pretend your software is open source | Drew DeVault’s Blog
- flickrfs - Virtual Filesystem for Flickr
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Drupal is a pretty big deal (Interview)
Adam and Jerod talk with Angie Byron, a core contributor and staple of the Drupal community. We haven’t covered Drupal really (sorry about that), but the call with Angie was inspiring! From the background, to the tech, the usage of the software, the communication at all levels of the community — Drupal is doing something SO RIGHT, and we’re happy to celebrate with them as they march on to the “Framlication” beat of their own drum.
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- Command Line Heroes – A new podcast about the epic true tales of the developers, hackers, and open source rebels revolutionizing the tech landscape from the command line up. Presented by Red Hat.
Featuring:
- Angie Byron – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Dries Buytaert started Drupal in 2001
- PHP Nuke used to be the bee’s knees (but not really)
- 2004: The scream that doomed Howard Dean
- Acquia employs Angie and other Drupal folks
- DrupalCon 2019 is in Seattle April 8-12
- Gabe Sullice is working on the API first initiative
- webchick on Drupal.org
- Differences between full and provisional core committers | Drupal.org
- Drupal core maintainers | Drupal.org
- Planet Drupal | Drupal.org
- News | Drupal.org
- API-First Initiative | Drupal.org
- Drupal Association | Drupal.org
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Venture capital meets commercial OSS (Interview)
Joseph Jacks, the Founder and General Partner of OSS Capital joined the show to share his plans for funding the future generation of commercial open source software based companies. This is a growing landscape of $100M+ revenue companies ~13 years in the making that’s just now getting serious early attention and institutional backing — and we talk through many of those details with Joseph.
We cover the whys and hows, why OSS now, deep details around licensing implications, and we speculate the types of open source software that makes sense for the types of investing Joseph and other plan to do.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- The Changelog #310 — Open sourcing the DEV community
with Ben Halpern - Request for Commits #9 — Open source and licensing with Heather Meeker
- OSS Capital
- The $100M+ revenue commercial open source software company index
- Commons Clause License
- Open Core - Definition, examples, and tradeoffs
- FOSSA
- GNU AGPL (Affero General Public License)
- Mozilla Public License
Version 2.0 - Storj
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Keepin' up with Elm (Interview)
Jerod invites Richard Feldman back on the show to catch up on all things Elm. Did you hear? NoRedInk finally had a production runtime error, the community grew quite a bit (from ‘obscure’ to just ‘niche’), and Elm 0.19 added some killer new features around asset optimization.
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Show Notes:
- The Changelog #218 was Elm’s first appearance
- NoRedInk still employs Richard and Evan
- The Python Paradox by Paul Graham
- Small Assets without the Headache in Elm 0.19
- Elm in Action
- Elm courses on Frontend Masters
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BONUS – Sustain Summit 2018 (Interview)
In this special bonus call, Adam and Jerod talk with Allen “Gunner” Gunn about the Sustain Summit. They talk about what it is, the kind of conversations that happen there, issues the open source community are facing right now, and how Sustain stands out from traditional “unconferences.”
Sustain 2017 was a big hit, and this year’s event should be even better. Join us!
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Sustain Summit 2018 | A one-day event for Open Source sustainers
- Sustain 2017 Report
- The Changelog #237: Reproducible Builds and Secure Software with Chris Lamb
- The Changelog BONUS - Sustain Open Source Software with Justin Dorfman
- Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure / Ford Foundation
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A call for kindness in open source (Interview)
Adam and Jerod talk to Brett Cannon, core contributor to Python and a fantastic representative of the Python community. They talked through various details surrounding a talk and blog post he wrote titled “Setting expectations for open source participation” and covered questions like: What is the the purpose of open source? How do you sustain open source? And what’s the goal?
They even talked through typical scenarios in open source and how kindness and recognizing that there’s a human on the other end of every action can really go a long way.
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- Brett Cannon – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Setting expectations for open source participation
- Benjamin Bertrand on Twitter: “Very good talk from @brettsky about interaction in open source: https://t.co/yJYfjTYPzZ I’m sure that would make an excellent @changelog episode!”
- The Changelog #300: Corporate interests in open source and dev culture with Zed Shaw
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#Hacktoberfest isn’t just about a free shirt (Interview)
#Hacktoberfest is a once per year event in the month of October celebrating open source. For many it’s an on ramp to open source, PRs galore for maintainers, and t-shirts for those who submit 5 or more pull requests. In the end, however, it’s about the awareness of open source and its significance to the greater good to humanity as we know it.
Adam and Jerod talk with Daniel Zaltsman, Dev Rel Manager at DigitalOcean and key leader of Hacktoberfest to cover the backstory, where this project began, its impact on open source, how it has had to scale each year by many orders of magnitude, and of course we cover how you can play your part in #Hacktoberfest and give back to open source.
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Featuring:
- Daniel Zaltsman – GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- We’re joining Hacktoberfest 2018 | Microsoft + Open Source
- Request For Commits with Nadia Eghbal and Mikeal Rogers
- 24 Pull Requests
- Hacktoberfest 2018 - DigitalOcean
- Hacktoberfest 2018 - Events
- Hacktoberfest 2018 - Event Kit
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REST easy, GraphQL is here (Interview)
In this special rebroadcast of JS Party, Jerod and Suz talk with John Resig about how he’s using GraphQL at Khan Academy, some of the mistakes and successes using GraphQL, John’s feelings on jQuery, and community Q&A.
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- John Resig – Website, GitHub, X
- Suz Hinton – GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- John’s intro to the GraphQL Guide - Introduction by John Resig, author of GraphQL Guide
- Get the GraphQL Guide (beta) - Link to the Ebook & Training information on GraphQL, with a free tshirt for full edition Ebook readers
- The Changelog #255: Why is GraphQL so cool? - Link to the GraphQL Podcast
- The Changelog #297: Prisma and the GraphQL data layer - Link to the Prisma and GraphQL Data Layer
Listen to the original episode
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Join the federation?! Mastodon awaits... (Interview)
We talked with Eugen Rochko, the creator of Mastodon, about where Mastodon came from the problem it aimed to solve. How it’s not exactly Twitter alternative, although that’s its known claim to fame. Why it’s probably not going anywhere. The ins-and-outs of federation, getting started, running an instance, why you would want to — cool stuff you’ve never considered could be built on top of Mastodon. And finally, the story behind naming posted content a “toot”.
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- Eugen Rochko – GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- ActivityPub
- tootsuite/documentation
- Giving social networking back to you - The Mastodon Project
- Gargron is creating Mastodon | Patreon
- documentation/Development-guide.md at master · tootsuite/documentation
- Masto.host - Fully Managed Mastodon Hosting
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Kubernetes brings all the Cloud Natives to the yard (Interview)
We talk with Dan Kohn, the Executive Director of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation to catch up with all things cloud native, the CNCF, and the world of Kubernetes.
Dan updated us on the growth KubeCon / CloudNativeCon, the state of Cloud Native and where innovation is happening, serverless being on the rise, and Kubernetes dominating the enterprise.
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- DigitalOcean – DigitalOcean is simplicity at scale. Whether your business is running one virtual machine or ten thousand, DigitalOcean gets out of your way so your team can build, deploy, and scale faster and more efficiently. New accounts get $100 in credit to use in your first 60 days.
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- GoCD – GoCD is an on-premise open source continuous delivery server created by ThoughtWorks that lets you automate and streamline your build-test-release cycle for reliable, continuous delivery of your product.
Featuring:
- Dan Kohn – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Cloud Native Computing Foundation
- CNCF Survey: Use of Cloud Native Technologies in Production Has Grown Over 200%
- Cloud Native Computing Foundation Receives $9 Million Cloud Credit Grant from Google Cloud to Fund Kubernetes Development, Empower Community
- Cloud Native Computing Foundation Welcomes 38 New Members at Open Source Summit North America
- Software Conformance - Cloud Native Computing Foundation
- GitHub - cncf/landscape - Static Cloud Native Landscapes and Interactive Landscape that filters and sorts hundreds of cloud native projects and products, and shows details including GitHub stars, funding or market cap, first and last commits, contributor counts, headquarters location, and recent tweets.
- CNCF Cloud Native Interactive Landscape
- K8s DevStats
- KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2018
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The first cloud native programming language (Interview)
Jerod talked with Paul Fremantle, the CTO and Co-Founder of WSO2, about their new programming language, Ballerina — a cloud-native language which aims to make it easier to write microservices that integrate APIs. They talked about the creation of the language and how it was inspired by so many technologies, cloud native features like built-in container support, serverless-friendly, observability, and how it works with, or without, a service mesh — just to name a few.
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- GoCD – GoCD is an on-premise open source continuous delivery server created by ThoughtWorks that lets you automate and streamline your build-test-release cycle for reliable, continuous delivery of your product.
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Show Notes:
- Ballerina.io - Landing page of Ballerina.io : Cloud Native Programming Language
- Ballerina’s philosophy - Ballerina.io design philosophy which incorporates fundamental concepts of distributed system integration into the language
- Ballerina Central - Ballerina.io Central code repository of reusable code packages
- Coverage on The New Stack - Article on Ballerina in The New Stack
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Segment's transition back to a monorepo (Interview)
Adam and Jerod talk with two members of Segment’s engineering team: Co-founder and CTO, Calvin French-Owen, as well as Software Engineer, Alex Noonan, about their journey from monorepo to microservices back to monorepo. 100s of problem children to 1 superstar child.
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- Segment says goodbye microservices
- Goodbye Microservices: From 100s of problem children to 1 superstar · Segment Blog
- Centrifuge: a reliable system for delivering billions of events per day · Segment Blog
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Istio service mesh and microservices (Interview)
Adam and Jerod talk with Jason McGee, VP and CTO of IBM Cloud Platform about Istio — an open platform that provides a uniform way to connect, secure, control, and observe microservices. They cover what service mesh is, why its suddenly so interesting, who’s involved in Istio, their involvement with the CNCF, getting started, and what’s next for Istio.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Istio / About Istio
- The Istio service mesh hits version 1.0 – TechCrunch
- The History of the Service Mesh - The New Stack
- GitHub - cncf/landscape: Cloud Native Landscape
- Envoy Proxy
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Open sourcing the DEV community (Interview)
We talk with Ben Halpern the founder and webmaster of dev.to — a community for developers to talk about software. Last Wednesday they open sourced the codebase of the dev.to platform, so we wanted to talk through all the details with Ben. We talked through the backstory, how Ben realized this could become a business, how the team was formed, their motivations for open sourcing it and why they didn’t open source it from the start, the technical stack, and their vision for the future of the site.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- dev.to is now open source
- thepracticaldev/dev.to
- dev.to roadmap
- O RLY Cover Generator
- Saron from Codenewbie
- Making dev.to insanely fast
- RailsConf talk on making dev.to fast
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Jeff Robbins is an actual rockstar [rebroadcast] (Interview)
On this special bonus episode of The Changelog, we’re playing the latest episode of Away from Keyboard with Jeff Robbins. While some dream of having a successful career, Jeff Robbins has already had several. Once the lead singer and guitarist for Orbit, Jeff has worked on some of the most famous Drupal websites. He talks to Tim about his early interest in computers, starting Lullabot, and adjusting to life after leaving the company he built and ran.
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AFK is taking a break, and will be back on August 29th. If you or someone you know would make a great guest on the show, send an email to tim+afk@changelog.com.
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Rebuilding Exercism from the ground up (Interview)
Adam and Jerod invite back Katrina Owen after years away focusing on Exercism—a 100% free platform for code practice and mentorship with over 2500 exercises and 48 different language tracks. They talk to Katrina about how the platform has changed, the direction it’s taken, the backstory on the recently launched version 2, and how she plans to turn Exercism into a sustainable business. Also, what happens if that doesn’t work?!
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Exercism
- About the new site
- The Exercism core team
- exercism on Github
- The Changelog #108: Exercism.io and Crowd-Sourced Code Reviews with Katrina Owen
- Go Time #19: Programming Practices, Exercism, Open Source with Katrina Owen, creator of Exercism
- Spotlight #2: Exercism and 99 Bottles of OOP with Katrina Owen at OSCON London 2016
- audreylim (Audrey Lim)
- Audrey Lim’s website
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Biases in AI, helping veterans get jobs in software, open science (Interview)
Adam and Jerod are on location at OSCON and talk with Camille Eddy about recognizing biases in AI, Jerome Hardaway about the work he’s doing to prepare veterans for jobs in software, and Abby Cobunoc Mayes about the work she’s doing at Mozilla for open science.
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- Abigail Cabunoc Mayes – Website, GitHub, X
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AWS Amplify and cloud-enabled apps (Interview)
We talk with Nader Dabit, Developer Advocate for Amazon Web Services, about the role of DevRel and what’s involved in this “dream job”, frontend and mobile developers using AWS Amplify to build cloud-enabled applications, how GraphQL, React, and others fit in, and the direction of React Native.
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Show Notes:
- React Native Training - Professional Private and Classroom React Native Training
- GitHub - aws-amplify/amplify-js: A declarative JavaScript library for application development using cloud services.
- AWS Mobile
- GitHub - dabit3/awesome-aws-amplify: Curated list of AWS Amplify Resources
- AWS Amplify Quick Start
- Building AI Enabled GraphQL Applications – Open GraphQL – Medium
- Introducing the AWS Amplify GraphQL Client – Hacker Noon
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The Great GatsbyJS (Interview)
From open source project to a $3.8 million dollar seed round to transform Gatsby.js into a full-blown startup that’s building what’s becoming the defacto modern web frontend. In this episode, we talk with Jason Lengstorf about this blazing-fast static site generator, its building blocks and how they all fit together, the future of web development on the JAMstack (JavaScript + APIs), the importance of site performance, site rebuilds, getting started, and how they’re focused on building an awesome product and an awesome community.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- GatsbyJS raised a $3.8M seed round and is now a startup
- GatsbyJS.org
- GatsbyJS Integrations
- JAMStack on The Changelog #251
- Firefox 61 with Accessibility Inspector
- Gatsby Showcase
- Learning how to code with Gatsby
- Workshop.me - Live Technical Training
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Putting AI in a box at MachineBox [rebroadcast] (Interview)
In this special episode of The Changelog we’re sharing a full-length episode of our newly launched podcast called Practical AI — covering AI, Machine Learning, and Data Science. In this episode Mat Ryer and David Hernandez joined Daniel and Chris to talk about MachineBox, building a company around AI, and democratizing AI.
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- Practical AI #2: Putting AI in a box at MachineBox with Mat Ryer and David Hernandez
- Practical AI with Chris Benson and Daniel Whitenack
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The impact of AI at Microsoft (Interview)
We’re on location at Microsoft Build 2018 talking with Corey Sanders and Steve Guggenheimer — two Microsoft veterans focused on artificial intelligence and cloud computing. We talked about the direction and convergence of AI, ethics, cloud computing, and how the day to day lives of developers will change because of the advancements in AI.
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- Steve Guggenheimer – Website, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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We’re releasing this AI focused show in conjunction with the launch of Practical AI — our newest podcast, hosted by Chris Benson and Daniel Whitenack. This show is focused on making artificial intelligence practical, productive, and accessible to everyone.
Learn more and subscribe at changelog.com/practicalai.
- Microsoft Build 2018
- Microsoft AI
- Azure Compute
- The Future Computed: Artificial Intelligence and its role in society
- Corey Sanders on the Azure blog
- OpenAI
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Programmable infrastructure (Interview)
Jerod Santo is riding solo talking with Kurt Mackey, co-founder of Fly. He talked to him about his work at Ars Technica, his prediction on tabs being a fad, and Kurt being a founding member of MongoHQ, which was later renamed to Compose and acquired by IBM. Jerod also talked to him about lighthouse scores, performance, and an interesting program Fly is instituting to compensate open source project maintainers.
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- Kurt’s author profile on Ars
- fly.io
- fly on GitHub
- flygit is like rawgit on fly
- JS Party #26 – 🎊 TS Party! 🎊
- JS Party #29 – Node’s survey, Ry’s regrets, Microsoft’s GitHub
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Computer Science without a computer (Interview)
Adam Stacoviak and Jerod Santo talk with Tim Bell, the founder and creator of CS Unplugged, a collection of free teaching material that teaches computer science through engaging games and puzzles. They talk to him about where this program came from him, the need for computer science in today’s K-12 education programs, how CS Unplugged fits in, and how you can get involved.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- CS Unplugged
- University of Canterbury Computer Science Education Research
- Tim Bell - Academic Staff - People - Computer Science and Software Engineering - University of Canterbury - New Zealand
- Tim Bell (computer scientist) - Wikipedia
- Modems Unplugged - Computer Science Unplugged
- Data Representation - Computer Science Field Guide
- uccser/cs-unplugged: CS Unplugged is a collection of free teaching material that teaches Computer Science through engaging games and puzzles that use cards, string, crayons and lots of running around.
- uccser/cs-field-guide: An online interactive resource/textbook for high school students learning about computer science.
- Three ways to get started with computer science and computational thinking
- Topics - CS Unplugged
- Computer Science Education Research Group | University of Canterbury
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Python at Microsoft (Interview)
We talked with Steve Dower and Dan Taylor at Microsoft Build 2018 about the history of Python at Microsoft, the origination of IronPython, Python Tools for Visual Studio, flying under the radar to add support Python, fighting from within to support open source, and more.
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Topics
- 2:22 – The history of Python at Microsoft
- 3:15 – The origination of IronPython
- 4:05 – Python tools for Visual Studio
- 7:54 – What Microsoft is doing with Python
- 10:22 – Why Python is good for people new to programming
- 12:20 – Pythonic
- 13:52 – PEP 8
- 15:47 – Black
- 18:16 – Pylint
- 21:41 – CPython
- 26:01 – Opensource at Microsoft
- 28:29 – The future of Python
- 33:55 – The latest in Python
Links
- IronPython
- Python Visual Studio
- Python Visual Studio Code extension
- Black – the uncompromising Python code formatter
- Pylint
- CPython
- Jupyter Notebooks
- Visual Studio Team Services
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Corporate interests in open source and dev culture (Interview)
Zed Shaw – creator of Mongrel, Learn Python the Hard Way, and more – joined the show to talk through a recent Twitter thread from Zed where he shared his thoughts on open source, making money in open source, corporate interests and involvement, developer culture, and more.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- PDF copy of Zed’s Twitter thread (because he’s testing his Twitter account as being private)
- The original Twitter thread
- The Changelog #34: Mongrel2 and High Performance Web Sites with Zed Shaw
- Learn Code the Hard Way
- Embrace, extend, and extinguish - Wikipedia
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Curl turns 20, HTTP/2, QUIC (Interview)
Daniel Stenberg joined the show to talk about 20 years of curl, what’s new with http2, and the backstory of QUIC - a new transport designed by Jim Roskind at Google which offers reduced latency compared to that of TCP+TLS+HTTP/2.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Daniel Stenberg on Twitter: “Twenty years of maintaining open source, and all I ever got… “
- Everything curl - Book
- Copy as curl
- Web transport, today and tomorrow
- QUIC
- QUIC Homepage
- What is the difference between TPC and UDP?
- IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force
- The annual curl user survey is up. Please donate a few minutes and answer some questions!
- curl survey 2017 – analysis | daniel.haxx.se
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The beginnings of Microsoft Azure (Interview)
We’re on location at Microsoft Build 2018 talking with Julia White, Corporate Vice President at Microsoft — a 17 year Microsoft veteran. We talked with Julia about her take on this “new Microsoft”, Satya Nadella’s first appearance as CEO when they revealed the first glimpse of Microsoft’s cloud offering which started with Office, the beginnings of Microsoft Azure, Azure as the world’s computer, and how every company is becoming a software company.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Microsoft Build 2018
- Standing out from the crowd is an awesome profile of Julia on Microsoft Story Labs
- Microsoft has turned a spotlight onto one of its coolest execs, Office GM Julia White
- Microsoft Azure
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Prisma and the GraphQL data layer (Interview)
Johannes Schickling, co-founder and CEO of Prisma, joined the show to catch us up on all things GraphQL — the tech, the possibilities, the community, how Prisma turns your database into a GraphQL API, their new business direction, Prisma Cloud, open source vs enterprise, and the upcoming GraphQL Europe in Berlin on June 15th.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- The Changelog #255: Why is GraphQL so cool? with Johannes Schickling
- Prisma raises $4.5M to build the GraphQL data layer for all databases
- Prisma | Open-Source GraphQL ORM for GraphQL Servers
- prismagraphql/prisma: ⚡️ Prisma turns your database into a realtime GraphQL API
- Quickstart | Prisma Docs
- GraphQL Radio
- GraphQL Europe 2018
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Burnout, open source, Datasette (Interview)
Adam is on location at ZEIT Day talking with Jessica Rose about burnout, Henry Zhu about his passions and pursuit of open source, and Simon Willison about data and his passion for interesting datasets in the world.
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Featuring:
- Jessica Rose – Website, GitHub, X
- Henry Zhu – Website, GitHub, X
- Simon Willison – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Jessica Rose
Henry Zhu
- Henry Zhu: In Pursuit of Open Source at ZEIT Day 2018
- Henry Zhu on Patreon
- Babel on Open Collective
- The React Podcast #4: Babel and open source sustainability
- RFC #18: Maintaining a Popular Project and Sponsored Time
Simon Willison
- Simon Willison: Datasette and Datasette Publish at ZEIT Day 2018
- Datasette on GitHub
- Posts tagged with Datasette on simonwillison.net
- Datasette: instantly create and publish an API for your SQLite databases
- Simon was super impressed and very interested in our open source podcast transcripts
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Scaling all the things at Slack (Interview)
Julia Grace joined the show to talk bout about scaling all the things at Slack. Julia is currently the Senior Director of Infrastructure Engineering at Slack, and has been their since 2015 — so she’s seen Slack during its hyper-growth. We talked about Slack’s growth and scale challenges, scaling engineering teams, the responsibilities and challenges of being a manager, communicating up and communicating down, quality of service and reliability, and what it takes to build high performing leadership teams.
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- GoCD – GoCD is an on-premise open source continuous delivery server created by ThoughtWorks that lets you automate and streamline your build-test-release cycle for reliable, continuous delivery of your product.
- O'Reilly Velocity Conference – Future-proof your systems and yourself. Learn about performance, monitoring and observability, scalability, serverless, security, and leadership. Use the discount code
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- The Changelog #129: The PHP language specification with Sara Golemon
- Julia’s upcoming talk at Velocity - Scaling yourself during hyper-growth
- Use the discount code CHANGELOG to save 20% off Gold, Silver, and Bronze passes
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Code Cartoons, Rust, WebAssembly (Interview)
Lin Clark joined the show to talk about Code Cartoons, her work at Mozilla in the emerging technologies group, Rust, Servo, and WebAssembly (aka Wasm), the Rust community’s big goal in 2018 for Rust to become a web language (thanks in part to Wasm), passing objects between Rust and JavaScript, Rust libraries depending on JavaScript packages and vice versa, Wasm ES Modules, and Lin’s upcoming keynote at Fluent on the parallel future of the browser.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Code Cartoons
- A cartoon guide to Flux
- Lin Clark – Mozilla Hacks
- Code Cartoons – Mozilla Hacks
- Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby
- WebAssembly
- Making WebAssembly better for Rust & for all languages
- Come Join the Rust and WebAssembly Working Group!
- WebAssembly Studio
- Hello wasm-pack!
- Fluent
- Lin’s talk at Fluent — The parallel future of the browser
- Agenda for the 64th meeting of Ecma TC39
- The Changelog #228: Servo and Rust with Jack Moffitt
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Ember four years later (Interview)
Chad Hietala joined the show to talk with us about the long history of Ember.js, how he first got involved, his work at LinkedIn and his work as an Ember Core team member, how the Ember team communicates expectations from release to release, their well documented RFC process, ES Classes in Ember, Glimmer, and where Ember is being used today.
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Featuring:
- Chad Hietala – GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Status Board
- Decorators
- RFC Process
- ES Classes in Ember - Glimmer VM Architecture Part 1
- Glimmer VM Architecture Part 2
- Compiling to Binary
- JavaScript Modules API
- The Project I mentioned that I worked on
- Ember Packages RFC
- EmberConf 2018 Keynote - Talks about Ember 3.0 roadmap
- Glimmer
- The Changelog #131 — The Road to Ember 2.0 with Tom Dale and Yehuda Katz
- The Changelog #165 — Betting the Company on Elixir and Ember with Brian Cardarella
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Elasticsearch and doubling down on "open" (Interview)
Philipp Krenn joined the show to talk with us about Elasticsearch, the problem it solves, where it came from, and where it’s at today. We discussed the query language, what it can be compared to, whether or not it’s a database replacement or a database complement, Elasticsearch vs Elastic the company.
We also talked about the details behind Elastic’s plan of “doubling down on open” to open up X-Pack, which is open code paid add-on features to Elasticsearch. We discussed the implications of this on their business model, and what changes will take place at the code and license level on GitHub.
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- Philipp Krenn – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Podcast topic: Elasticsearch
- Elasticsearch - RESTful, Distributed Search & Analytics
- Elasticsearch on GitHub
- Doubling down on open
- Elastic License
- We’re opening X-Pack
- Doubling Down on Open: Shay Banon on Opening the Code of X-Pack
- Go Time #48: Restic and backups (done right)
- Handling Relationships - Elasticsearch docs
- Theory Behind Relevance Scoring - Elasticsearch docs
- Papertrail
- Google Summer of Code
- Third party CSS is not safe
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Winamp2 JS (Interview)
Jordan Eldredge joined the show to talk with us about Winamp2-js — a reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and Javascript. For many of our listeners, talking about Winamp may bring to mind some extreme nostalgia about the internet of the past … and it’s certainly that way for Jerod and I. Jordan started this project in 2014 and it’s what ultimately got the attention of some folks at Facebook, where he now works on Nuclide.
We shared stories about Winamp back in the day, actually listening to music as an mp3, the technical hurdles and learning Jordan has experienced, skinning it, playlists, making it a frontend for Spotify – which is so ironic to actually say. Also, Jerod has been hacking it via livestream on Twitch to add it as an alternate audio player on Changelog.com.
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Featuring:
- Jordan Eldredge – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Follow us on Twitch
- Winamp2-js
- A reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and Javascript
- Winamp hardware device mockup
- Winamp’s woes: How the greatest MP3 player undid itself
- Butterchurn visualizer
- Nuclide - A single package on top of Atom to provide hackability and the support of an active community.
- UrlMe.me - Make memes anywhere you can type a URL
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That's it. This is the finale! (Interview)
We’re rebroadcasting the finale episode of the beloved Request For Commits. But don’t worry, The Changelog will be back with new episodes next week. In this finale episode of Request For Commits, we regroup to discuss the podcast from its start to its finish, lessons learned, community impact, and where the conversations around open source sustainability are taking place, now and in the future. It’s the end of Request For Commits, but the conversations we’ve had will continue on The Changelog. We also have some guest-host appearances for Nadia and Mikeal planned in the near future on this podcast. So, stay tuned.
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- Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, X
- Nadia Eghbal – GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Request For Commits has been respectfully retired
- Listen and subscribe to The Changelog
- The Changelog #193: Funding and Sustaining Open Source with Nadia Eghbal
- The Changelog #252 GitHub’s Open Source Survey (2017) with Frannie Zlotnick & Nadia Eghbal
- Subscribe to Nadia’s infrequent newsletter
- How I Stumbled Upon The Internet’s Biggest Blind Spot
- Open source was worth at least $143M of Instagram’s $1B acquisition
- Open source infrastructure Q&A
- What if Facebook were a nonprofit?
- Sustain - a one day conversation for open source software sustainers
- Maintainerati
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Automated dependency updates (Interview)
Rhys Arkins joined the show to talk about automating dependency updates using Renovate. Renovate is an open source tool to keep source code dependencies up-to-date using automated Pull Requests. We talked about who’s using it, the languages and environments that are supported, self-hosted vs SaaS and how that plays into supporting this open source, auto-merging, being a GitHub App and in the GitHub Marketplace, and building this as a business on someone else’s platform.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- renovateapp.com - Automated dependency updates. Flexible, so you don’t need to be.
- renovateapp/renovate
- Install Renovate on GitHub
- Renovate on GitHub Marketplace
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Live coding open source on Twitch (Interview)
Suz Hinton joined the show to talk about live coding open source on Twitch. We talk about how she got interested in Twitch, her goals and aspirations for live streaming, the work she’s doing in open source, Twitch for open source, how you and others can get started — and maybe some other fun stuff we have in the works at Changelog.
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- Gliffy – Get 25% off 1 year of Gliffy in Confluence or Jira. Transform how your team communicates, share and collaborate with anyone, integrated directly in Atlassian’s Confluence and Jira. Head to gliffy.com/changelog
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Featuring:
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Lessons from my first year of live coding on Twitch
- A guide to streaming and finding success on Twitch
- Suz’s hardware list
- Suz on Twitch (noopkat)
- Changelog on Twitch
- Open Broadcaster Software
- Awesome developer streams
- NOP on Wikipedia
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Truffle framework and decentralized Ethereum apps (Interview)
Tim Coulter joined the show to talk about Truffle — a development environment, testing framework, and asset pipeline for Ethereum. We talked with Tim about how he got into Ethereum and dapp development, Solidity vs JavaScript, smart contract testing, EthPM which is like npm but for Ethereum, Why decentralization? Why dapps? Basically, why rebuild the internet? And last but not least - who’s using Truffle and what have they built with it?
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- ConsenSys Labs
- Truffle Suite - Your Ethereum Swiss Army Knife
- Docs: Choosing an Ethereum client
- Truffle Boxes - helpful boilerplates that allow you to focus on what makes your dapp unique
- Truffle tutorials
- Truffle stats dashboard
- Ganache - Quickly fire up a personal Ethereum blockchain which you can use to run tests, execute commands, and inspect state while controlling how the chain operates.
- ethpm (Ethereum Package Management)
- Drizzle: Reactive Ethereum data for front-ends
- ConsenSys on Gitter
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JavaScript sprinkles in Basecamp turned Stimulus (Interview)
David Heinemeier Hansson joined the show to share the story of how JavaScript sprinkles in Basecamp evolved into a full-fledged framework called Stimulus. We talked about ins and outs of Basecamp as it is today, Ruby, JavaScript and David’s somewhat new found love for that language. How they open source because they can. And David’s new YouTube series called “On Writing Software Well”.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Stimulus homepage and the source on GitHub
- Stimulus 1.0
- Turbolinks
- Watch the proposition of Turbolinks if you haven’t yet
- David’s thoughts on the majestic monolith
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We couldn’t afford an Oculus so we built one (Interview)
Max Coutté joined the show to share his journey of learning the math and programming required to build an open source Oculus headset for $100. Max is 16 and lives in a small village in France. And one day he and his friends decided to built an Oculus headset because they couldn’t afford one. This show takes you through Max’s journey, how his teacher (aka Sensei) made all the difference, and how the chief architect at Oculus, Atman Binstock, advised him to make it all open source.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
“I’m 16, I’m all alone in France, and I just want to recreate a virtual world like they have in my favorite animes.” – Max Coutté
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Moore's Law and High Performance Computing (Interview)
Todd Gamblin, a computer scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, joined us to talk about Moore’s Law, his work at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the components of a micro-chip, and High Performance Computing.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- The Changelog #267: Functional Programming with Eric Normand
- If you’re a fan of Request For Commits, you can hear Todd on episode #13
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - High Performance Computing
- Dennard scaling
- Brain Chip - a brain-inspired computer by IBM
- What is NIF (National Ignition Facility)?
- Spack - flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers
- Slurm Workload Manager
- Lustre file system - open-source, parallel file system for HPC simulation environments
- Enterprise Linux
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Devhints - TL;DR for Developer Documentation (Interview)
Rico Sta. Cruz joined us to talk about his project Devhints (cheatsheets for developers). There are more than 365 cheatsheets you can contribute to and it’s open source. We talked about the design, technical implementation, community, alternate interfaces like the command line. We also talked about RSJS, RSCSS, and Docpress.
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Featuring:
- Rico Sta. Cruz – GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
“You have to sell what it is you’re building in your documentation. It’s not just describing what it is and how to use it. It’s about telling interesting stories.” - Rico Sta. Cruz
- Thanks to kzap for suggesting this show
- Devhints reminds us of cheat from @defunkt
- We talked about rsjs and rscss
- Huge thanks to @chris48s and everyone else for their contributions and support of our transcripts
- Docpress
- Building a Modern Web UI by Rico Sta. Cruz at CSSConf.Asia 2014
- The modular future of CSS by Rico Sta. Cruz at Manila.js
- RSCSS: Writing CSS without losing your sanity
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The impact and future of Kubernetes (Interview)
From KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2017 — Brendan Burns (Kubernetes co-founder) and Gabe Monroy (creator of Deis) joined the show to talk about the origin, impact, and future of Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure.
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Featuring:
- Brendan Burns – GitHub, X
- Gabe Monroy – GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
“If Kubernetes let’s you not think about your machines, I think in many cases people don’t even want to have machines, this move towards serverless containers and the orchestration of serverless containers is the next really important part of what we’re doing.” — Brendan Burns, co-founder of Kubernetes
- Kubernetes
- Deis
- Follow @KubeCon_ on Twitter for updates on the conference
- Go Time #63: Changelog Takeover – K8s and Virtual Kubelet
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Gitcoin: sustaining open source with cryptocurrency (Interview)
We’re joined by Kevin Owocki, the founder of Gitcoin. Gitcoin is a platform to monetize or incentivize work in open source software. We talked about how Gitcoin sits at the intersection of sustaining open source and cryptocurrencies, their history and roadmap, their decision to leverage the brand name of Git, bug bounties, funded issues, web3, MetaMask, and the future of Gitcoin and how open source benefits.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Gitcoin
- Gitcoin Explorer
- Gitcoin Joins ConsenSys
- Code Sponsor joins Gitcoin
- MetaMask
- Truffle
- Web 3: A platform for decentralized apps
- ERC20 Token Standard
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Building a secure Operating System (Redox OS) with Rust (Interview)
We talked with Jeremy Soller, the BDFL of Redox OS, a Unix-like Operating System written in Rust, aiming to bring the innovations of Rust to a modern microkernel and full set of applications. In this episode we talk about; OS design principals, Jeremy’s goals for Redox, why is Rust, the Micro-kernel, the Filesystem, how Linux isn’t secure enough, how he’s funding this his development, and a coding style in Rust called Safe Rust.
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- redox-os.org
- Redox book
- Redox Patreon
- Redox news
- Redox on GitHub
- Send an email to info@redox-os.org to get involved in the Redox community
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Secure Messaging for Everyone with Wire (Interview)
We talk with Alan Duric, Co-founder and CEO of Wire, an open source end-to-end encrypted instant messaging app for voice and video calls. In 2005 Alan co-founded Camino Networks which was later acquired by Skype, and his involvement with internet based voice communications goes back 20 years. We talk about the early days of Skype, why Wire is open source, the importance of encryption, the importance of secure messaging, their polyglot ways, and how they plan to stand apart from other apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal and more.
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Wire - Secure Messenger
- Wire - Security
- Wire - Developers
- Wire on Twitter
- Wire on GitHub
- Wire on Medium
- Janus Friis - Co-founder of Kazaa and Skype
- Skype Acquires Sonorit and Camino Networks
- Internet Low Bitrate Codec (iLBC)
- iLBC Freeware
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Blockchains and Databases at OSCON (Interview)
We went back into the archives to conversations we had around blockchains and databases at OSCON 2017. We talked with Monty Widenius, creator of MariaDB the open source forever fork MySQL, Brian Behlendorf, Executive Director of Hyperledger, the open source collaborative effort hosted by The Linux Foundation to advance blockchain technologies, and Tague Griffith, Head of Developer Advocacy at Redis Labs, the home of open source Redis and commercial provider of Redis Enterprise.
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- Brian Behlendorf – Website, GitHub, X
- Tague Griffith – GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Michael “Monty” Widenius on Wikipedia
- MariaDB
- Getting started with MariaDB for developers
- Business Source License 1.1
- Business Source License - FAQ
- Projects using BSL 1.1
- Adopting and Developing BSL Software
- Redis Labs
- The Changelog #45: Redis In-Memory Data Store with Salvatore “antirez” Sanfilippo
- Redis Open Source
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The Story of Visual Studio Code (Interview)
We’re back in NYC at Microsoft Connect(); talking about the backstory of Visual Studio Code with Julia Liuson (Corporate Vice President of Visual Studio), Chris Dias (Principal Program Manager of Visual Studio and .NET), and PJ Meyer (Product Manager).
We talk about the beginnings of the Visual Studio product line, how Microsoft missed the internet, how the community is judging Microsoft and looking at them with a very old lense, how Visual Studio Code evolved from lessons learned with their cloud based editor called Monaco, how they had to radically change to reach developers beyond Windows, and how this open source project is thriving.
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- Chris Dias – Website, GitHub, X
- PJ Meyer – GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Julia Liuson on Wikipedia
- Visual Studio Code
- Visual Studio
- Visual Studio Code on GitHub
- GitHub CEO Talks About How Microsoft and Apple Are Changing
- The State of the Octoverse 2017
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The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (Interview)
Dan Kohn, Executive Director of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, joined the show to talk about what it means to be Cloud Native, the ins and outs of Dan’s role to the foundation, how they make money to sustain things, membership, the support they give to open source projects, the home they’ve given to Kubernetes, Prometheus and many other projects that have become the de facto projects to build cloud native applications on.
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
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- The Future of RethinkDB (on Hacker News) with commentary from Dan
- The Linux Foundation
- Cloud Native Computing Foundation
- Cloud Native Computing Foundation - Hosted Projects
- Cloud Native Computing Foundation - Membership
- Cloud Native Computing Foundation - Members
- Cloud Native Computing Foundation - End Users
- Cloud Native Computing Foundation (“CNCF”) Charter
- Certified Kubernetes Conformance Program
- KubeCon + CloudNativeCon
- Kubernetes Training
- edX - Introduction to Kubernetes
- The Changelog #215: Best Practices Badge from Core Infrastructure Initiative with David A. Wheeler
- The Changelog #250: The Backstory of Kubernetes with Tim Hockin and Aparna Sinha
- Replacing x86 firmware with Linux and Go - shared on Hacker News by dankohn1
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The History of GNOME, Mono, and Xamarin (Interview)
We talked with Miguel de Icaza last week at Microsoft Connect(); in New York City. Miguel gave us the backstory on how he’s been competing with Microsoft for most of his developer career, and he shares the history of GNOME, Mono, and Xamarin — and what led him to now work at Microsoft.
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Show Notes:
Miguel is the creator of Gnome (a desktop environment for GNU/Linux), Mono (a cross platform open source .NET framework), and Xamarin (a platform to build iOS, Android, Mac, and Windows apps in C# and .NET) which was acquired by Microsoft in February 2016.
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Faktory and the future of background jobs (Interview)
Mike Perham is back for his 4th appearance to talk about his new project Faktory, a new background job system that’s aiming to bring the best practices developed over the last five years in Sidekiq to every programming language. We catch up with Mike on the continued success and model of Sidekiq, the future of background jobs, his thoughts on RocksDB in Faktory vs BoltDB, Redis, or SQLite, how he plans to support Sidekiq for the next 10 years, and his thoughts on Faktory being a SaaS option in the future.
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Show Notes:
- The Future of Background Jobs
- Introducing Faktory
- contribsys/faktory
- Faktory installation
- BoltDB vs. RocksDB
- RocksDB - a persistent key-value store
- The Changelog #92: Sidekiq and Ruby with Mike Perham
- The Changelog #130: Inspeqtor and OSS Products with Mike Perham
- The Changelog #159: Sustaining Open Source Software with Mike Perham
- The Changelog #170: BoltDB, InfluxDB, and Key-Value Databases with Ben Johnson
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Data Science at OSCON (Interview)
We went back into the archives to conversations we had around data science at OSCON 2017. We talked with Vida Williams (Data Scientist) and Michelle Casbon (Director of Data Science at Qordoba) about the social impact of open data, personal data and transparency, privacy, the big data problem of public surveillance, electronic fingerprinting, the rift between data scientists and computer scientists, natural language processing, machine learning, and more.
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- Michelle Casbon – GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Citizen Data by Vida Williams at TEDxRVA
- Qordoba - Localization Software for Global Brands
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Functional CSS and Tachyons (Interview)
Adam Morse joined the show to talk about Functional CSS and his project Tachyons - a CSS Toolkit that lets you quickly build and design new UI without writing CSS. We talk about Scalable CSS, the difference between “Atomic”, “OOCSS”, “BEM” and others, semantic class names, and where we go from here.
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Scalable CSS
- tachyons-css/tachyons on GitHub
- TACHYONS - CSS Toolkit
- Compositor: Tools & Services for Designers, Developers, & Creatives
- CSS Stats + check out Changelog.com’s stats here
- Wilson Miner - When We Build
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My roadmap to become a blockchain engineer (Interview)
Preethi Kasireddy, a self-employed blockchain and smart contract Engineer, joined the show to talk about why she left the best job in the world at Andreessen Horowitz on the deal team, how she got entrepreneurship envy, the roadmap she laid out in 2015 and where she’s at today as an engineer, her excitement for blockchain-based technologies, and why blockchains don’t scale.
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Why I left the best job in the world
- Blockchains don’t scale. Not today, at least. But there’s hope.
- Preethi Kasireddy on Medium
- Ask Preethi on YouTube
- Between the Wires and what is Between the Wires?
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Rails as a day job, Diesel on the side (Interview)
Sean Griffin joins the show to talk about doing Rails full-time, his love of Rust. and his project Diesel - a safe, extensible ORM and query builder for Rust. We discuss Sean’s path to working full-time on Rails, what he works on specifically, why Rust, why Diesel, and how much of Diesel’s design and featureset is a product of his experience with ActiveRecord and Rails.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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Show Notes:
- Ruby on Rails - a web-application framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.
- activerecord on GitHub
- Rust - a systems programming language that runs blazingly fast, prevents segfaults, and guarantees thread safety.
- diesel on GitHub
- Diesel website and docs
- RustConf
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Bisq, the decentralized Bitcoin exchange (Interview)
Chris Beams joins the show to talk about Bisq, the P2P decentralized Bitcoin exchange and open-source desktop application that allows you to buy and sell bitcoins in exchange for national currencies, or alternative crypto currencies. We get some background on the issues faced by crypto exchanges like CoinBase, and the now defunkt Mt. Gox. We discuss whether or not Bitcoin is a censorship resistant payment system and what it means to have anonymous transaction currency options. Bisq also has an interesting white paper about its own DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization) to support its contributors and we discuss that in detail at the end of the episode.
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Show Notes:
- Bisq - the P2P Decentralized Bitcoin Exchange
- bisq-network/exchange
- The Bisq DAO or read the source docs here and you can read the compensation requests here
- Bitcoin - Open source P2P money
- Ethereum Project
- CoinBase
- Mt. Gox
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Operação Serenata de Amor (Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Government Corruption 😱) (Interview)
Eduardo Cuducos joined the show to talk about Operação Serenata de Amor an Artificial Intelligence and Data Science project that aims to inform the general public about government corruption and spending. We talked about how this artificial intelligence project analyzes claims for reimbursement from congresspeople to determine illegal probability, how it monitors government spending, the technology behind it, and how other governments might be able to follow this model.
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Special thanks to Fabio Rehm for making us aware of this project!
- Operação Serenata de Amor
- Help fund the future of Operação Serenata de Amor
- datasciencebr/serenata-de-amor: 🕵 Artificial Intelligence for social control of public administration
- datasciencebr/rosie: 🤖 Python application responsible for Serenata de Amor’s intelligence
- Irio (Irio Musskopf) on GitHub the founder of Operação Serenata de Amor
- Data Science Brigade
- Rosie (@RosieDaSerenata) on Twitter
- Google Search for “toblerone”
- Mona Sahlin
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Functional Programming (Interview)
Eric Normand joined the show to talk about Functional Programming. We talked about FP vs OOP vs Imperative, why FP is popular again, the advantages and disadvantages of Functional Programming, and teaching Functional Programming concepts.
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Learn Functional Programming on your schedule
- Can I do FP in my language? (dev.to)
- Functional programming (Wikipedia)
- Lambda Calculus (Wikipedia)
- Maxima and Minima (Wikipedia)
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The Future of RethinkDB (Interview)
Mike Glukhovsky joined the show to talk about the future of RethinkDB. Mike was a co-founder of RethinkDB along-side Slava Akhmechet. RethinkDB shutdown a year ago officially on October 5, 2016 — and today we’re talking through all the details with Mike. The shutdown, getting purchased by the CNCF, relicensing, buying back their IP and source code, community and governance, and some specific features that Mike and the rest of the community are excited about.
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Show Notes:
- RethinkDB
- The Changelog #114 (with Slava Akhmechet)
- The Changelog #181 (with Slava Akhmechet)
- Proposal: Modifier functions · Issue #5813 · rethinkdb/rethinkdb
- The ReQL query language
- RethinkDB joins The Linux Foundation
- RethinkDB Documentation
- RethinkDB is shutting down
- Contribute to RethinkDB
- From Slava Akhmechet on why RethinkDB failed
- Announcing RethinkDB 2.3.6: the first release under community governance
- CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation) Members
- The liberation of RethinkDB
- Apache License, Version 2.0
- AGPL
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The Kotlin Programming Language (Interview)
Dmitry Jemerov joined the show to talk about Kotlin - a language created by JetBrains that’s designed to be an industrial-strength object-oriented language, and a “better language” than Java. We asked Dmitry “Why invent a new language?”, talked through Google announcing official Android support, covered some of Kotlin’s characteristics, Kotlin vs Swift, and more.
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- Dmitry Jemerov – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Kotlin Programming Language
- Kotlin Community
- KotlinConf
- JetBrains Gogland - Up and Coming Go IDE
- On the Rise of Kotlin
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Automating GitHub with Probot (Interview)
We talk with Brandon Keepers and Bex Warner about GitHub’s Probot — GitHub Apps to automate and improve your workflows. You can use pre-built apps or easily build and share your own.
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- Brandon Keepers – GitHub, X
- Bex Warner – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
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Conversations about sustaining open source (Interview)
This episode features conversations from Sustain 2017 at GitHub HQ with Richard Littauer, Karthik Ram, Andrea Goulet, and Scott Ford. Sustain was a one day conversation for open source software sustainers to share stories, resources, and ways forward to sustain open source.
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- Karthik Ram – Website, GitHub, X
- Andrea Goulet – Website, GitHub, X
- Scott Ford – Website, GitHub, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- sustainoss.org (inspired by maintainerati.org)
- maintainer.io - Scale Open Source Maintenance
- rOpenSci - Open Tools for Open Science
- Corgibytes
- Legacy Code Rocks! (you should listen to this podcast)
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Community, Building Remote-first Teams, and Web Performance Inclusivity (Interview)
Karolina Szczur joined the show to talk about community building, building remote-first teams, the hiring process in tech, product development, and the inclusivity factor of web performance.
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Show Notes:
- Houston Flood Relief Fund - JJ Watt’s fundraiser for Victims of Hurricane Harvey
- Bayou City Relief - Helping Houston Get Home
- About Karolina Szczur
- Building remote-first teams
- How to write a successful conference proposal
- CSSConf and JSConf Australia Diversity Report
- A guide to empathetic hiring processes
- Your tech job posting is broken. Here’s how to fix it.
- Lighthouse from Google
- ElectronConf Seattle 2017
- Calibre - Web performance monitoring
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Building an artificial Pancreas with Elixir and Nerves (Interview)
We talked with Tim Mecklem about building an artificial Pancreas with Elixir and Nerves to help those with Type 1 Diabetes who want to “loop” — a process which involves monitoring glucose levels, predicting where a person’s glucose levels are heading, then delivering insulin based on that prediction. Tim is a Developer at Gaslight in Cincinnati where he builds software solutions with Ruby and Elixir, and he’s a member of the Nerves Core team.
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- Tim Mecklem – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Building an Artificial Pancreas with Elixir and Nerves at ElixirConf 2017
- Listen to why Karen Sandler can’t hack her heart
- Gaslight - Ruby on Rails, iOS, and JavaScript Consultants out of Cincinnati, OH
- OpenAPS.org - #WeAreNotWaiting to reduce the burden of Type 1 diabetes
- OpenAPS Reference Design
- OpenAPS on GitHub
- The open reference implementation of the OpenAPS reference design
- The Nerves Project
- Nightscout - #WeAreNotWaiting
- Tim’s Elixir Library
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You are not Google/Amazon/LinkedIn (Interview)
If you find yourself chasing shiny objects and squirrels all time, you should 💯 listen to this episode featuring Ozan Onay (President of Bradfield School of Computer Science) where we discuss his recent blog post entitled You Are Not Google which was the #1 link in Changelog Weekly - Issue #159. This show is full of wisdom and advice for every developer out there.
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Featuring:
- Oz Onay – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Before we get to the show note links, here are some notable quotes from this episode and Oz’s post.
Software engineers go crazy for the most ridiculous things. We like to think that we’re hyper-rational, but when we have to choose a technology, we end up in a kind of frenzy — bouncing from one person’s Hacker News comment to another’s blog post until, in a stupor, we float helplessly toward the brightest light and lay prone in front of it, oblivious to what we were looking for in the first place. This is not how rational people make decisions…
Writing code isn’t really about writing. Thinking is the thing that we do. Eventually that gets translated into running code.
This is a counter-force against the marketing machine of high opinion technologies.
As of 2016, Stack Exchange served 200 million requests per day, backed by just four SQL servers: a primary for Stack Overflow, a primary for everything else, and two replicas.
- You Are Not Google
- Changelog Weekly - Issue #159
- Bradfield School of Computer Science
- Cutting through to what matters
- How to teach yourself computer science
- Teach Yourself Computer Science
- Learn how computers work
- Learn every language
- Google Search for ‘postgres paper’
- The Implementation of Postgres (paper)
- The Design of Postgres (paper)
- @loveapaper on Twitter
- All Things Open
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ANTHOLOGY — The Future of Open Source at OSCON 2017 (Interview)
This is an anthology episode from OSCON 2017 featuring awesome conversations with Kelsey Hightower (OSCON Co-Chair and Developer Advocate at Google Cloud Platform), Safia Abdalla (Open Source Developer and Creator of Zarf), and Mike McQuaid and Nadia Eghbal (GitHub Open Source Programs).
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Featuring:
- Kelsey Hightower – GitHub, X
- Safia Abdalla – Website, GitHub, X
- Nadia Eghbal – GitHub, X
- Mike McQuaid – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Kelsey Hightower
Kelsey Hightower is an OSCON Co-Chair and Developer Advocate (Google Cloud Platform) — We talked about being a co-chair, why he does live demos, and his motivations towards open source.
When you say you’re successful, I guarantee when you look around it’s because someone is celebrating your victories.
- Check out DevOps Days Austin 2017 on YouTube
- The tweets mentioned from Kelsey that were seen as “controversial by some in the community” started with this tweet, then this tweet, and finally this tweet.
- “I don’t write code for free. I write code for freedom.”
- “Best birthday gift ever!” thanks to Brian Ketelsen
Safia Abdalla
Safia Abdalla is an open source developer and creator of Zarf — We talked about being a command-line junkie and her talk on the intersection of business and open source.
- Zarf - an online platform that allows writers to sell subscription content to their readers.
- captainsafia/legit
- captainsafia/goopshttps
- captainsafia/commentator
- captainsafia/checklist
- Brief
- captainsafia/giddy
- captainsafia/fony
- Open Source at Facebook with James Pearce (Facebook)
Mike McQuaid and Nadia Eghbal
Mike McQuaid and Nadia Eghbal work at GitHub in Open Source Programs — We talked about GitHub’s Open Source Alley at OSCON and how they are working to better support open source maintainers and their communities.
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10 years of RabbitMQ (Interview)
We are thrilled to produce this show to honor RabbitMQ’s 10th anniversary. Karl Nilsson and Michael Klishin joined the show to talk through 10 years of RabbitMQ — one of the most widely deployed open source message brokers with more than 35,000 production deployments worldwide.
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Show Notes:
- RabbitMQ Server on GitHub
- How Elixir Compiles/Executes Code
- RabbitMQ Architecture Overview
- The Changelog #205: A Protocol For Dying with Pieter Hintjens
- The Changelog #242: The Burden of Open Source with James Long
- The Changelog #246: First-time Contributors and Maintainer Balance with Kent C. Dodds
- The Changelog #248: Open Source Lessons Learned with Zeno Rocha
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The power of wikis, the problem with social networks, the promise of AI (Interview)
Evan Prodromou has been involved in open source since the mid ‘90s. His open source travel guide – Wikitravel – grew up alongside Wikipedia and the web itself. In this episode, we hear Evan’s history, try to solve open social networking once and for all, and learn how sprinkling a little artificial intelligence on to our products can yield big wins without having to shoot the moon.
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
The Power of Wikis
The Problem with Social Networks
The Promise of A.I.
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Ubuntu Snaps and Bash on Windows Server (Interview)
We talked with Dustin Kirkland (Head of Ubuntu Product and Strategy at Canonical) at OSCON about 12.04’s end of life, the death of the Ubuntu phone, Snaps and snapd, and Bash on Ubuntu on Windows Server. This is the second installment of our mini-series from the expo hall floor of OSCON 2017. Special thanks to our friends at O’Reilly for inviting us to OSCON.
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Featuring:
- Dustin Kirkland – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) reaches End of Life on April 28 2017
- Snaps - universal Linux packages
- Growing Ubuntu for cloud and IoT, rather than phone and convergence
- Ubuntu Unity is dead: Desktop will switch back to GNOME next year
- The Changelog #207: Ubuntu Everywhere with Dustin Kirkland
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Why is GraphQL so cool? (Interview)
Johannes Schickling (Founder of Graphcool) joined the show to talk about GraphQL — an application layer query language from Facebook. We talked about what it is, where it makes sense to use it, its role in serverless architectures, getting docs for free via Schemas and Types, and the community that’s rallying around this new way to think about APIs.
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- Microsoft Azure OpenDev – See what’s possible with open source in the cloud. Watch the recorded videos from this live event to see real-world demonstrations of Azure supporting open technologies. Hear from leaders in the open source community. Learn how you can build containerized microservices and improve your open source DevOps pipeline.
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- Johannes Schickling – GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Learn GraphQLHow to GraphQL- Learn Apollo
- Learn Relay
- GraphQL Playground
- GraphQL.org
- Facebook’s announcement post for GraphQL
- Graphcool - Serverless GraphQL Backend - Developer platform for building serverless graphql backends
- Graphcool hit #1 on HackerNews when it launched
- GraphQL Radio - a podcast covering all things GraphQL
- GraphQL-Europe - Europe’s first GraphQL conference
- Reinventing Authorization: GraphQL Permission Queries
- Serverless GraphQL Backend architecture
- Why GraphQL is the future
- Facebook’s original draft RFC specification for GraphQL
From The GitHub GraphQL API post on the GitHub Engineering blog:
The REST API is responsible for over 60% of the requests made to our database tier. This is partly because, by its nature, hypermedia navigation requires a client to repeatedly communicate with a server so that it can get all the information it needs. Our responses were bloated and filled with all sorts of
*_urlhints in the JSON responses to help people continue to navigate through the API to get what they needed. Despite all the information we provided, we heard from integrators that our REST API also wasn’t very flexible. It sometimes required two or three separate calls to assemble a complete view of a resource. It seemed like our responses simultaneously sent too much data and didn’t include data that consumers needed.
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Deploying Changelog.com (Interview)
This week we take you behind the scenes of the new infrastructure for Changelog.com and talk with Gerhard Lazu. We relaunched the new brand and site for Changelog on Phoenix/Elixir in October of 2016 and we needed a better way to reliably host and deploy the site. That’s where Gerhard came in. We cover all the details and decisions in this show.
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- Microsoft Azure OpenDev – See what’s possible with open source in the cloud. Watch the recorded videos from this live event to see real-world demonstrations of Azure supporting open technologies. Hear from leaders in the open source community. Learn how you can build containerized microservices and improve your open source DevOps pipeline.
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- Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Gerhard guest blogged for us about Ansible and Docker way back in the day (Feb 21, 2014)
- Jerod found edeliver which was based on deliver a pure bash deployment tool with customisable strategies
- Gerhard gave a talk about the process
- ci.changelog.com
- thechangelog/changelog.com
- thechangelog/infrastructure
- Pivotal Tracker
- Concourse CI
- LastPass
- Ansible
- Docker
- Moby Project: Advancing the Containerization Movement
- Also ~> check out this tweet from Solomon Hykes
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The serverless revolution (Interview)
We talked with Pam Selle at OSCON about the serverless revolution happening for JavaScript developers. This episode kicks off our mini-series from the Expo Hall floor at OSCON 2017.
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adam@changelog.comfor a personal introduction. - Microsoft Azure OpenDev – a live one-day virtual conference (free) on June 21, 2017 focused on showcasing open source technologies on Azure. See what’s possible with open source in the cloud.
- OSCON – O’Reilly’s Open Source Convention combines the experience of the open source community with ideas and strategies for using open source tools and technologies. There’s no event quite like OSCON! When registration opens — save 20% on most passes by using the code
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- Pam Selle – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Pam is the Software Engineering Lead at IOpipe, a high fidelity metrics and monitoring service which allows you to see inside Amazon Lambda functions for better insights into the daily operations and development of serverless applications.
- The serverless revolution for JavaScript developers at OSCON 2017 by Pam Selle
- Serverless Framework
- Turing-incomplete
- The Changelog #173: CROSSOVER — Turing-Incomplete with Pam Selle, Jearvon Dharrie, and Justin Campbell
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GitHub's Open Source Survey (2017) (Interview)
On Friday, June 2, 2017 – GitHub announced the details of their Open Source Survey – an open data set on the open source community for researchers and the curious. Frannie Zlotnick, Nadia Eghbal, and Mikeal Rogers joined the show to talk through the backstory and key insights of this open data project which sheds light on the broader open source community’s attitudes, experiences, and backgrounds of those who use, build, and maintain open source software.
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- Microsoft Azure OpenDev – a live one-day virtual conference on June 21, 2017 focused on showcasing open source technologies on Azure. See what’s possible with open source in the cloud. Learn how you can build containerized microservices and improve your open source DevOps pipeline. Participate in Q&A sessions, and get hands-on experience with open source technologies on Azure.
Featuring:
- Nadia Eghbal – GitHub, X
- Frannie Zlotnick – GitHub
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- opensourcesurvey.org
- github/open-source-survey
- GitHub Blog: Announcing an open data set on the open source community
- Spotlight #10: How China Does Node with Shiya Luo at Node.js Interactive 2016
- Oh, and here’s that Wired article Mikeal mentioned
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JAMstack, Netlify CMS, and 10x-ing Smashing Magazine (Interview)
Matt Biilman and Chris Bach joined the show to talk about JAMstack, Netlify CMS, how open source drives standards, and 10x-ing the speed of Smashing Magazine.
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- Matt Biilmann – Website, GitHub, X
- Chris Bach – Website, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- JAMstack (JavaScript, APIs, and Markup) is a new way of building websites and apps that delivers better performance, higher security, lower cost of scaling, and a better developer experience.
- Netlify CMS is an open-source CMS built with JAMstack principles designed around a fully Git workflow.
- Smashing Magazine just got 10x faster
- Meet The Next Smashing Magazine
- Why Static Site Generators Are The Next Big Thing
- next.smashingmagazine.com
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The Backstory of Kubernetes (Interview)
Tim Hockin and Aparna Sinha joined the show to talk about the backstory of Kubernetes inside Google, how Tim and others got it funded, the infrastructure of Kubernetes, and how they’ve been able to succeed by focusing on the community.
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- Tim Hockin – Website, GitHub, X
- Aparna Sinha – GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- kubernetes.io
- Large-scale cluster management at Google with Borg
- Kubernetes The Hard Way
- Go Time #20: Kubernetes, Containers, and Go with Kelsey Hightower
- Bringing Pokémon GO to life on Google Cloud
- Google Cloud Platform
- Kubernetes on Wikipedia
- kubernetes/minikube
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BONUS - Sustain Open Source Software (Interview)
Justin Dorfman joined us for a special BONUS episode of The Changelog to share some details about Sustain Conference with you. It’s a one day conversation for Open Source Software sustainers at GitHub HQ (SF) on June 19, 2017. No keynotes, expo halls or talks. Only discussions about how to get more resources to support digital infrastructure. Plus, we’ll be there.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
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Open source at Microsoft, inclusion, diversity, and OSCON (Interview)
Scott Hanselman joined today’s show produced in partnership with our friends at OSCON. Scott is a Program Chair of OSCON, host of the podcast Hanselminutes, and advocate for open source inside of Microsoft and the Azure Cloud team. We talked about the oldest software he wrote that’s still in production, the shift inside Microsoft to open source and why, as well as ways to make inclusion and diversity a priority in your communities.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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Use our code changeloghallpass to get a FREE Expo Hall Pass to OSCON. This will get you access to the hallway track, the exhibitors, and a bunch of other fun stuff.
Adam and Jerod will be there at booth 231, so make sure you stop by. We’ll have some tees and stickers to give away, but they are in limited supply and reserved for members of Changelog Community, which is free to join — so go sign up.
- Scott’s podcast ~> Hanselminutes
- keysleft.com
- Join the Changelog Community (it’s free)
- BabySmash
- Codeland Conference
Related shows you should listen to:
- Spotlight #13: Node at Microsoft, ChakraCore, and VM Neutrality with Gaurav Seth and Arunesh Chandra
- The Changelog #134: Open Sourcing .NET Core with the Microsoft .NET team
- The Changelog #152: TypeScript and Open Source at Microsoft with Anders Hejlsberg and Jonathan Turner
- The Changelog #176: CROSSOVER — CodeNewbie and Community with Saron Yitbarek
- The Changelog #224: .NET Core and Microsoft’s Shift to Open Source with Bertrand Le Roy
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Open source lessons learned (Interview)
Zeno Rocha, Principal Developer Advocate at Liferay, joined the show to talk about DevRel, his open source work (clipboard.js, Dracula Theme, jQuery Boilerplate, Browser Diet, et al), and his passion for teaching and giving talks at conferences. Zeno also shared some really interesting stories about his first contributions to open source, how that played out, and the lessons learned along the way.
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Show Notes:
Special thanks to Justin Dorfman for helping connect us to Zeno Rocha for this episode — BTW check out SustainOSS.org, a one day conversation on June 19, 2017 about sustaining open source. We’ll be there!
- DevRelSummit
- Liferay
- clipboard.js
- Issue #56: OT: How did the repo get 5000 stars in a few days?
- jQuery Boilerplate
- Issue #10: Everything is wrong, so deleted all of it, this way you can start over and do it right.
- Browser Diet - The definitive front-end performance guide.
- Dracula Theme
- DevSpace - Stay up to date with what’s happening now on GitHub
- The Changelog #246: First-time Contributors and Maintainer Balance
with Kent C. Dodds - Reminder on how you spend your time
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Firefox Debugger and DevTools (Interview)
Jason Laster joined the show to talk about Firefox Debugger and DevTools. We talked about the backstory of Firefox, Firebug, the new Debugger.html, why React and Redux made a good fit to develop Debugger as a standalone application, community efforts, and getting started.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- The Recurse Center
- A quick history of Firefox DevTools
- Firebug
- Web Developer (Add-on)
- 3D view
- Issue #544 - James Long and Jason Laster of the mozilla debugger.html project - thanks Bryan Clark
- Firefox Developer Tools
- WebIDE
- XUL Tutorial
- Firefox Debugger
- debugger.html Homepage and readme
- Firefox DevTools on GitHub
- GDB: The GNU Project Debugger
- Reactide - the first dedicated IDE for React web application development
- The Changelog #242: The Burden of Open Source with James Long
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First-time contributors and maintainer balance (Interview)
Kent C. Dodds joined the show to talk about guiding and supporting first time contributors to open source. We talked about the many ways to be first-timer friendly, how to contribute to open source, the burden and balance of a maintainer, and a few of the projects Kent maintains, including his latest project at PayPal called Glamourous.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- First Timers Only
- firsttimersonly.com + GitHub repo
- all-contributors - ✨ Recognize all contributors, not just the ones who push code ✨
- all-contributors-cli
- [egghead.io] - How to Contribute to an Open Source Project on GitHub
- Changelog.com on GitHub
- Thanks to Marco Vito Moscaritolo for this PR
- Thanks to Christian Franco for this PR
- stack-overflow-copy-paste - Utility functions copy/pasted (and modified slightly) from Stack Overflow
- Managing an Open Source Project - a talk from Kent C. Dodds
- The Changelog #242: The Burden of Open Source
with James Long - Why I’m Frequently Absent from Open Source by James Long
- Healthy Open Source by Mikeal Rogers
- Learning to Quit
- Glamorous! Blog post + GitHub repo
- Make a Pull Request
Adam Stacoviak in Bosnia and Herzegovina on a peacekeeping mission with the United States Army in 2000.
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Open Source at Google (Interview)
Will Norris (Engineering Manager at Google’s Open Source office) joined the show to talk about their new release of the Google Open Source website as well as the release of Google’s internal documentation on how they do open source. Nearly 70 pages of documentation have been made public under creative commons license for the world to use. We talked about the backstory of Google’s Open Source office, their philosophy on OSS, their involvement in the TODO group, and much more.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- A New Home for Google Open Source
- Google Open Source - Bringing better technology to the world by promoting open source.
- Google Open Source docs
- TODO - Talk openly, develop openly
- GitHub now lets its workers keep the IP when they use company resources for personal projects
- Chris DiBona
- Check out the Project Metadata project Will mentioned during the show
- The Changelog #211: Open Source at Facebook with James Pearce
- Google on GitHub
- David Recordon on Changelog.com
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Learning JavaScript and Bringing People Together (Interview)
Tracy Lee joined the show to talk about bringing people together, helping people, and making an impact. We covered learning JavaScript, the ins and outs of her road to get to where she’s at today, hitting burnout and sleeping for two weeks, breaking into the JavaScript community, and the fun cruise, workshops, and conferences she’s working on for the JavaScript community.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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Let's Encrypt the web (Interview)
Jacob Hoffman-Andrews, Senior Staff Technologist at the EFF and the lead developer of Let’s Encrypt, joined the show to talk about the history of SSL, the start of Let’s Encrypt, why it’s important to encrypt the web and what happens if we don’t, Certbot, and the impact Let’s Encrypt has had on securing the web.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Jacob Hoffman-Andrews on EFF.org
- Search Changelog.com for “http/2” and “http2”
- The Changelog #161: The HTTP/2 Spec with Ilya Grigorik
- Boulder: An ACME-based CA (written in Go)
- Automatic Certificate Management Environment (ACME)
- Certbot (previously the Let’s Encrypt Client) - EFF’s tool to obtain certs from Let’s Encrypt, and (optionally) auto-enable HTTPS on your server. It can also act as a client for any other CA that uses the ACME protocol.
- Certbot’s Interactive Guide is rad
- The Crypto Wars: Governments Working to Undermine Encryption
- Root certificate trust store
- Online Certificate Status Protocol
- Jacob talked about using
.wellknownin the root of projects - Go Time #14: CaddyServer, the ACME Protocol, and TLS with Matt Holt
- [Wired] Google’s Chrome Hackers Are About to Upend Your Idea of Web Security
- Let’s Encrypt Stats
- Donate to Let’s Encrypt and/or Sponsor Let’s Encrypt
- Wanna pitch in? Check for “help wanted” tags on their repos…
- What It Costs to Run Let’s Encrypt
BONUS - From Jacob Hoffman-Andrews ~> How Not To Get Phished
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The burden of open source (Interview)
James Long joined the show to talk about his recent post, “Why I’m Frequently Absent from Open Source”. He shared several points in his blog post that struck a chord with us, so we invited him on the show to talk through the gritty details and peel back the layers of open source — the people involved, sustainability, the responsibility, the guilt, and the balance it takes to keep it all together.
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James recently left Mozilla and shortly after he launched an open source project called Prettier - an opinionated JavaScript formatter. It was a great success.
Needless to say, James experienced that overwhelming feeling many indie open source developers feel when faced with all the work required to maintain a successful open source project — the issues, feature requests, PRs, extra time required, and all the communication can really be a burden, especially when you have a full-time contracting gig and a family. His blog post was a response to this feeling as well as a love letter to his wife.
- Why I’m Frequently Absent From Open Source
- Prettier
- gamedev.net
- Scheme
- James’ advice for getting away from your monitor is to make pizza. If you plan to take his advice, he recommends that you check out The Pizza Book by Aaron Quint and Michael R. Bernstein.
BONUS LINK (from James) — Watch Hammock Driven Development by Rich Hickey
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The Story of Atom (Interview)
Nathan Sobo, founding member of the Atom editor team at GitHub, joined the show take us all the way back to the beginning of Atom to learn where it came from, the founding team, the problem it solves, on through to shipping 1.0 and beyond.
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- Nathan Sobo – GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Lambda the Ultimate
- Chris Wanstrath
- Corey Johnson
- Github Atom’s Code-Editor Nerds Take Over Their Universe
- Atom on Libraries.io
- Treetop on Libraries.io
- The super early version of Atom was built on Ace Editor
- Atom: free and open source for everyone
- Atom homepage
- @atomeditor on Twitter
- Atom on GitHub
- Atom Flight Manual – Documentation for Atom, generated by nanoc, hosted by GitHub Pages
- Atom Blog
- Atom Forum
- The Changelog #216: Electron and Cross Platform Desktop Apps with Zeke Sikelianos
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Feedbin and RSS resurgence (Interview)
Ben Ubois, the creator of Feedbin (a simple, good-looking online RSS reader) joined the show to talk about the indie web and developers, how RSS usage has changed over the years – particularly since Google Reader shutdown. We also talked about RSS vs the social web that we’re in now and the idea of an RSS resurgence and taking back control over the content we choose to subscribe to.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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Managing Secrets Using Vault (Interview)
Seth Vargo, the Director of Technical Advocacy at HashiCorp, joined the show to talk about managing secrets with their open source product called Vault which lets you centrally secure, store, and tightly control access to secrets across distributed infrastructure and applications. We talked about Seth’s back story into open source, use cases, what problem it solves, key features like Data Encryption, why they choose to write it in Go, and how they build tooling around the open core model.
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- Carnegie Mellon University
- CustomInk
- Thanks to @DerfOh (Fredrick) for submitting issue #605 to suggest this topic
- Vault by HashiCorp
- Vault on GitHub
- Vault docs
- Terraform
- The Tao of HashiCorp is the foundation that guides HashiCorp’s vision, roadmap, and product design.
- HashiCorp Releases
- Shamir’s Secret Sharing
- HashiConf
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ANTHOLOGY – Hacker stories from OSCON and All Things Open (Interview)
Karen Sandler, Rachel Nabors, and Jono Bacon joined the show by way of some great conversations at OSCON in London, UK and All Things Open in Raleigh, NC. We talked about free software, web animation and motion in user interfaces, and how open source communities organize.
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- Toptal – Scale your team and hire from the top 3% of developers and designers with Toptal. Email
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- Karen Sandler – X
- Rachel Nabors – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Jono Bacon – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Karen Sandler
Karen Sandler is the the executive director of the Software Freedom Conservancy. She has a big heart, literally. Her heart condition requires a pacemaker, but she can’t access the source code that runs it. For this and other reasons, Karen is a passionate advocate for free software. In this interview, Jerod talks with Karen about her convictions, what she’s doing about them, and how this affects her personal life and the lives of those she loves.
“I literally want to hack my heart! But I can’t.” - Karen Sandler
- Software Freedom Conservancy — Become a supporter!
- Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- Is software freedom a social justice issue? - this is the talk that Karen Sandler gave at OSCON 2016
- IANAL (“I am not a lawyer”) — IAAL (“I am a lawyer”) and TINLA (“This is not legal advice”) also redirect to this page on Wikipedia
Rachel Nabors
Rachel Nabors is a motion design for the web and UI animations expert and she was at All Things Open as a keynote and featured speker. Adam talked to Rachel about discovering repeatable business models, the state of web animation and where we’re heading, the cognitive science behind motion in user interfaces, some great places to start adding motion and animation to your interfaces, and what we might expect to see with animation and motion in Microsoft Edge.
- The UI Animation Newsletter: weekly web animation resources & inspiration
- What is Vestibular Disorder?
- Follow Dan C. Wilson to learn more about motion paths and web animiation
- If you haven’t been, check out CSS Dev Conf
- Learn with Rachel — You can check out her courses here.
- Rachel’s Keynote at All Things Open
- Microsoft Edge
Jono Bacon
Jono Bacon is a consultant and leader in community management and strategy. Jono was at All Things Open as a keynote and featured speker. Adam talked with Jono about his talk “Building a Community Exoskeleton” and how open source communities break down into read and write — those with a common interst who get together to consume something (a read community), and those who get together because they want to build something together (a write community).
- The Art of Community (Jono’s book)
- Bad Voltage (Jono’s podcast)
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Reproducible builds and secure software (Interview)
Chris Lamb joined the show to talk about his project Reproducible Builds — which is funded by The Linux Foundation’s Core Infrastructure Initiative. We talked about the importance of having a verifiable path from source code to compiled binary, what this set of software development practices is all about, what it means to have Reproducible Builds, the challenges faced when implementing these development practices, and the inherent security you gain from them.
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- This show began as an issue on GitHub
- The Linux Foundation’s Core Infrastructure Initiative Funds the Reproducible Builds Project
- Reproducible Builds
- apt-secure (Ubuntu)
- apt-secure (Debian)
- thread.com
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GunDB, Venture Backed and Decentralized (Interview)
Mark Nadal joined the show to talk about his hacker story and his venture backed open source datastore project called GunDB — a realtime, decentralized, offline-first, graph database engine. We talked about the details behind this database, how Mark secured funding, why yet another datastore, who’s using the database, how Mark plans to sustain this project through products and services, his thoughts on the RethinkDB postmortem and more.
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- Mark Nadal – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Thanks to Kevin McGee for suggesting this show on GitHub
- The Changelog #201: Why SQLite Succeeded as a Database
- GunDB Homepage
- GunDB on GitHub
- GunDB on Patreon
- GubDB todo app tutorial
- Neo4j
- Firebase
- BoostVC
- Tim Draper on angel.co
- DFJ
- Why RethinkDB Failed
- Comparisons of popular DBs (thanks Anzumana!)
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ANTHOLOGY – Hacker Stories From OSCON, All Things Open, and Node Interactive (Interview)
In this anthology episode we’re featuring three awesome hacker stories from OSCON, All Things Open, and Node Interactive — Giovanni Caligaris about how he brought LibreOffice to the people of Paraguay by translating it to their native tongue. Stu Keroff about the Linux user group he started for kids called The Asian Penguins. Shiya Luo about how China does Node, translations of documentation and books from English to Chinese, and the Great Firewall of China.
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- Giovanni Caligaris – X
- Stu Keroff – Website, X
- Shiya Luo – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
First, we talk with Giovanni Caligaris about how he brought LibreOffice to the people of Paraguay by translating it to their native tongue: Guaraní.
Second, we talk with Stu Keroff about the Linux user group he started for kids called The Asian Penguins in a school for Asian refugees where they learn to install, use, and configure Linux and open source software.
Last, we talk with Shiya Luo about how China does Node, translations of documentation and books from English to Chinese, and the Great Firewall of China (a censorship and surveillance project of the Chinese government) which makes it very difficult for the people of China to interact with the rest of the web.
- LibreOffice
- Asian Penguins
- Stu Keroff’s talk at ATO 2016 - Middle Schoolers, Linux, and the Digital Divide and the talk’s details on the ATO site.
- Shiya Luo’s talk at Node Interactive - How China Does Node
- cnpm - npm client for China mirror of npm
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Open Collective and funding open source (Interview)
Pia Mancini joined the show to talk about Open Collective, her background and where she came from, her passion to upgrade democracy, funding and sustaining open source, what open collective is, how it works, how you can support your favorite open source communities, but more importably how you can take part and start your own collective.
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Show Notes:
- Pia gave a talk at TEDGlobal 2014 on How to upgrade democracy for the Internet era (over a million views 😱)
- DemocracyOS
- Democracy Earth
- OpenCollective.com
- Open Collective — Open Source Collective
- Webpack on Open Collective
- 2016 on Open Collective, and what’s in the works for 2017!
- Open Collective Issues
- Support for paid events - Issue #177
- Together we crowdfunded a yearly budget of over $100,000 for Open Source
- Check out Gratipay and our past episode with Chad Whitacre.
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webpack (Interview)
Sean Larkin joined the show to talk about Webpack, how fast open sources moves, how fast Webpack is moving, the core team, the formation, joining JS Foundation, the problem it’s solving, the bleeding edge features, sustainability, Sean and team’s efforts to build the community, their work on Open Collective, and more.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Webpack homepage
- Webpack docs
- Webpack on Medium
- Webpack on GitHub
- Donate to Webpack on Open Collective
- “The first time you demo #webpack for a friend 😅” – @Changelog
- SurviveJS
- Read Sustaining Webpack for the Future — Part 1 and Part 2
- “Tobias Koppers (sokra, the creator of webpack) has made my life as a developer so much better. So I gave him 💰💰💰💰 – sokra.github.io” — @kentcdodds
Webpack team members mentioned by Sean.
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Homebrew and Swift (Interview)
Max Howell, famous for creating Homebrew, joined the show to talk about his start in software and open source, the tweet that was heard around the world when he interviewed with Google and didn’t get accepted, the creation of Homebrew, the naming process, as well as the difficulty letting go. We also talked about his passion for the Swift programming language, and his work on Swift Package Manager while at Apple.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Max was on The Changelog #35 way back in September, 2010
- Max’s latest open source project PromiseKit
- The BBC Micro was the first computer Max used
- Amarok - a powerful music player for Linux, Unix and Windows
- qt - cross-platform development
- Last.fm - bring together your favourite music services
- Scrobble
- “The foundation of the modern world is developer tools.”
- The Changelog #223: Homebrew and Package Management with Mike McQuaid
- The tweet heard aroud the world with 6,825+ retweets — “Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (Homebrew), but you can’t invert a binary tree on a whiteboard so f**k off.”
- Swift Package Manager
- BBC BASIC programming language
- QBasic (Quick Beginners All purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is an IDE and interpreter for a variety of the BASIC programming language
- Max’s new thing — mixmsg lets you make mixtapes with friends directly in iMessage.
- Max’s new project — Growler is planned for Homebrew, but he was hush hush about what it will do
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HTTP/2 in Node.js Core (Interview)
In this special episode recorded at Node Interactive 2016 in Austin, TX Adam talked with James Snell (IBM Technical Lead for Node and member of Node’s TSC and CTC) about the work he’s doing on Node’s implementation of http2, the state of http2 in Node, what this new spec has to offer, and what the Node community can expect from this new protocol.
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This episode is a preview of our upcoming “Future of Node.js” series recorded at Node Interactive 2016 in Austin, TX. The series is produced in partnership with Node.js Foundation and sponsored by IBM. We’ll be releasing the full series soon on our new podcast “Spotlight”. If you haven’t subscribed to Changelog Master yet, which includes all the podcasts we produce, now would be a good time to do so. You can also subscribe to Changelog Weekly where we announce all the new things we’re up to.
- Checkout the http2 repo James is working on
- Watch the talk James gave at Node Interactive — Implementing HTTP/2 for Node.js Core by James Snell
- Watch all the talks from Node Interactive
- Checkout Spotlight, our new show around big announcements, conferences, the hallway track, behind the scenes — meaningful conversations with real people in the community.
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18F and OSS in the U.S. Federal Government (Interview)
From 18F — Hillary Hartley and Aidan Feldman joined the show to talk about how 18F is changing the way the federal government builds and buys digital services.
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- Aidan Feldman – GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- The Presidential Innovation Fellows (PIF) program brings the innovation economy into government, by pairing talented, diverse technologists and innovators with top civil-servants and change-makers within the federal government.
- The White House’s Presidential Innovation Fellows program on Twitter
- The Changelog #157: Building Bridges with Sarah Allen
- The CC0 1.0 license - “Additionally, we waive copyright and related rights in the work worldwide through the CC0 1.0 Universal public domain dedication.”
- cloud.gov - The Government Innovation platform by government developers, for government developers.
- analytics.usa.gov on GitHub
- 18F on GitHub
- The System for Award Management (SAM) - certification for working as a vendor for the U.S. government
- FedRAMP Ready Products
- The Washington Post - Why a federal high-tech start-up is a money loser
- Tom VanAntwerp on Medium - 18F is Hardly a Waste of Money
- Join one of 18F’s Slack rooms
- code.gov is the next milestone in federal open source code
- Micro-purchase
- Micro-purchase stats page
- 18F Guides
- 18F Open Source Style Guide
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Python, Django, and Channels (Interview)
Django core contributor Andrew Godwin joins the show to tell us all about Python and Django. If you’ve ever wondered why people love Python, what Django’s virtues are as a web framework, or how Django Channels measure up to Phoenix’s Channels and Rails’ Action Cable, this is the show for you. Also: Andrew’s take on funding and sustaining open source efforts.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- This episode started on Ping
- Django creators: Jacob Kaplan-Moss, Simon Willison
- Python love: The Zen of Python
- Python love: Great Docs – Requests as example
- Jerod suggests RFC #5: Read/Write the Docs with Eric Holscher
- Virtues: The Django admin site
- Virtues: GeoDjango
- Wikipedia has a list of well-known sites using Django
- Andrew’s baby: Django Channels
- Getting started with Django
- Django South - consistent, easy-to-use and database-agnostic migrations for Django applications.
- If sustainability is interesting to you, check out Request for Commits
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Servo and Rust (Interview)
Jack Moffitt joined the show to talk about Servo, an experimental web browser layout engine. We talked about what the Servo project aims to achieve, six areas of performance, and what makes Rust a good fit for this effort.
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Mad science, WebTorrent, WebRTC (Interview)
Feross Aboukhadijeh joined the show this week to talk with us about his backstory, passive income, WebTorrent, WebRTC, Electron and the ins and outs of packaging apps for all platforms.
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- JavaScript Standard Style Guide
- Study Notes is Feross’s passive income maker that enables him to work on open source and other stuff he’s interested in
- FreeTheFlash - Hilarious media entertainment brought to you by FreeTheFlash Entertainment
- Webmaster World
- WebTorrent - A streaming torrent client for the web browser and the desktop
- WebTorrent Desktop is the desktop Torrent client built with Electron
- WebTorrent Desktop on GitHub
- Instant.io
- The Changelog #216 - Electron and Cross Platform Desktop Apps with Zeke Sikelianos
- Mojibar - Emoji searcher but as a menubar app built with Electron
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The Road to Font Awesome 5 (Interview)
Dave Gandy joined the show to talk about the history of Font Awesome, what’s to come in Font Awesome 5 and their Kickstarter to fund Font Awesome 5 Pro, and how everything they’re doing is funneling back into the forever free and open source — Font Awesome Free.
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You can always add more sprinkles!
- Font Awesome
- Font Awesome on GitHub
- Font Awesome Issues on GitHub
- Support Font Awesome 5 on Kickstarter — make sure you watch that video too!
- Dave said the video he created for Font Awesome Black Tie should be an example of what not to do.
- Fort Awesome — Like Font Awesome. But Better. Build and manage icons and typefaces in a single place, then serve them with a single line of code.
- Rob Madole on Twitter
- Travis Chase on Twitter
- Brian Talbot on Twitter
- Videopixie — Find great videographers, directors, video editors, and animators to work with you on your project.
- Half Baked was the set for the Font Awesome video
- Knox Avenue did the production of the Font Awesome video
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99 Practical Bottles of OOP (Interview)
Sandi Metz joined the show to talk about her beginnings on a mainframe, her 30+ years of programming experience, the ins and outs of OOP, her book Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby (aka POODR), as well as her latest book 99 Bottles of OOP which she co-authored with Katrina Owen. We also covered a few listener submitted questions at the end.
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- Sandi’s first book — Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby (aka POODR)
- 99 Bottles of OOP by Sandi Metz
- Katrina Owen co-authored 99 Bottles with Sandi
- Check out Understanding Computation — From Simple Machines to Impossible Programs by Tom Stuart — use the code
PCBWto save 40% on a print book, or 50% on an ebook from O’Reilly - Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software from the GangOfFour — Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides
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.NET Core and Microsoft's Shift to Open Source (Interview)
Bertrand Le Roy joined the show to talk about all things .NET Core, their recent 1.0 release, where it’s going, the open source around it, and Microsoft’s shift towards more open source.
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Show Notes:
Special thanks to Brett Morrison for helping us put this show together by introducing us to Bertrand 👏
- The Changelog #134: Open Sourcing .NET Core with the Microsoft .NET Team
- The Changelog #76: .NET, NuGet, and Open Source with Phil Haack
Changelog Weekly Issue #123 - .NET Core on GitHub
- .NET Core contributors graph
- .NET Core docs
- Is Microsoft the biggest OSS contributor? by Francesc Campoy
- Check out Bertrand’s podcast On .NET — YouTube / Channel 9
- Satya Nadella the CEO of Microsoft
- Orchard CMS - a free, open source, community-focused Content Management System built on the ASP.NET MVC platform.
- Scott Guthrie - lives in Seattle and builds products for Microsoft
- dot.net - this is the home of .NET. Powerful Open Source Cross Platform Development.
- Rich Lander announced .NET Core 1.0 on June 27, 2016
- Go here to get started with .NET Core
- Adam finds out there are many facets to Visual Studio — Visual Studio IDE and Visual Studio Code which is open source
- Mono - Cross platform, open source .NET framework
- The Week in .NET - Bertrand’s weekly email for the .NET community
- NuGet - the package manager for the Microsoft development platform including .NET
- .NET Command Line Interface - the command line (CLI) tools used for building .NET Core apps and libraries through your development flow (compiling, NuGet package management, running, testing, …)
- GitHub Issue #210 - Roslyn and C# on The Changelog ping repo.
- Getting started with C#
- Getting started with F#
People to follow in the .NET community
- Miguel de Icaza (Mono, Gnome, Xamarin) - @migueldeicaza
- Scott Hanselman (ASP.NET) - @shanselman
- Mads Torgersen (C#) - @madstorgersen
- Dustin Campbell (VS Code C# extension) - @dcampbell
- Nick Craver (Stack Overflow, perf) - @nick_craver
- Rowan Miller (Entity Framework) - @rowanmiller
- Don Syme (F#) - @dsyme
- Ayende Rahien (RavenDB) - @ayende
- Rachel Reese (Jet.com, F#) - @rachelreese
- Jb Evain (Unity for VS, Cecil) - @jbevain
- Immo Landwerth (NetStandard) - @terrajobst
- Maoni Stephens (garbage collector) - @Maoni0
- Frank A. Krueger (Continuous C# F# IDE for iOS) - @paeclarum
- James Montemagno (Xamarin) - @jamesmontemagno
- Stacey Haffner (gaming) - @yecats131
- Sébastien Ros (Orchard CMS) - @sebastienros
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Homebrew and package management (Interview)
Mike McQuaid joined us to catch us up on the latest in Homebrew and the recent 1.0.0 release. We talked about no more /usr/local — Homebrew moves to /usr/local/Homebrew to keep /usr/local cleaner, auto-updates, the growth of the Homebrew community and how it has grown to almost 6000 unique contributors, and more.
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- Homebrew 1.0.0!
- The Changelog #35: Homebrew with Max Howell
- Homebrew — The missing package manager for macOS
- Homebrew on GitHub
- Homebrew/brew on GitHub
- Contributors to Homebrew/brew
- Homebrew Discourse
- Welcome – Gentoo Linux
- KDE - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Qt | Cross-platform software development for embedded & desktop
- Software Freedom Conservancy Welcomes Homebrew as a Member Project
- Linuxbrew
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Ethereum and Cryptocurrency (Interview)
Gavin Wood joined the show to talk about Ethereum, Cryptocurrency, The DAO, Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), what could you build with Ethereum, and the future of digital currency. Gavin Wood is Founder of Ethereum, creator of the Solidity contract language, and Founder of Ethcore — the company that created Parity, an open source Ethereum client.
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- Fred Ehrsam’s article on Medium — Ethereum is the Forefront of Digital Currency piqued Jerod’s interest for this call
- Ethereum is a decentralized platform that runs smart contracts: applications that run exactly as programmed without any possibility of downtime, censorship, fraud or third party interference.
- Ethereum on GitHub
- Parity is a fast, light, and robust Ethereum implementation.
- Check out Parity on GitHub
- The DAO — Decentral Autonomous Organization
- Understanding The DAO Hack for Journalists
- Learn how to buy Ethereum on Coinbase
- Rent, sell or share anything - without middlemen with Slock.it
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How we got here (Interview)
Cory is a science fiction author, activist, journalist, co-editor of Boing Boing and the author of many books. We talked to Cory about open source, the open web, internet freedom, his involvement with the EFF, where he began his career, the details he’ll be covering in his keynote at OSCON, and his thoughts on open source today and where developers should be focusing their efforts.
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- Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com (Cory’s Literary Works)
- Boing Boing
- Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
- Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on GitHub
- How you got here: Cory Doctorow’s OSCON London Keynote
- Ulysses Pact on Wikipedia
- American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
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GitLab's Master Plan (Interview)
Sid Sijbrandij, CEO of GitLab, joined the show to talk about their recent unveiling of the GitLab Master Plan, $20 Million secured in a Series B funding round, their idea of Conversational Development in this “post Agile world”, and their focus on the enterprise and on-premise Git hosting as the business model to sustain and build GitLab into something ‘modern software teams’ can rely upon.”
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- The Changelog #103: GitLab and open source with Sytse Sijbrandij
- The GitLab Master Plan - YouTube
- GitLab Live Event Recap | GitLab
- Applied physics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- operable/cog: Bringing the power of the command line to chat
- Introducing Cog
- Cog + ChatOps = Continuous DevOps
- Cycle Analytics (#847) · Issues · GitLab.org / GitLab Enterprise Edition · GitLab
- GitLab Team Handbook
- GitLab Strategy
- GitLab.com - Marketing Issues
- GitLab Master Plan on Hacker News (see comments)
- Include GitLab projects in Changelog Nightly · Issue #21
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TensorFlow and Deep Learning (Interview)
Eli Bixby, Developer Programs Engineer at Google, joined the show to talk to talk about TensorFlow, machine learning and deep learning, why Google open sourced it, and more.
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- TensorFlow - An Open Source Software Library for Machine Intelligence
- TensorFlow on GitHub
- Talk: Deep Learning With TensorFlow at OSCON London
- Workshop: Diving Into Machine Learning Through TensorFlow at OSCON London
- TensorFlow Tutorials
- TensorFlow Serving
- tensorflow/models
- Google Cloud Machine Learning at Scale on Google Cloud Platform
- SyntaxNet: The World’s Most Accurate Parser Goes Open Source
- Google Brain Team
- grpc
- Magenta
- tensorflow/magenta
- Keynote: How You Got Here by Cory Doctorow at OSCON London
- Google Cloud Platform Podcast - TensorFlow with Eli Bixby
- Machine Learning from Stanford University - Coursera
- Machine Learning Engineer Nanodegree - Udacity
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Elm and Functional Programming (Interview)
Evan Czaplicki, creator of Elm, and Richard Feldman of NoRedInk joined the show to talk deeper about Elm, the pains of CSS it solves, scaling the Elm architecture, reusable components, and more.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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Show Notes:
- TI-83 series - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- The Changelog #191: Elm and Functional Programming with Richard Feldman
- Elm on GitHub
- elm changelog.md · elm-lang/elm-compiler
- elm - Upgrading to 0.17
- elm-lang.org
- elm examples
- NoRedInk
- How to Use Elm at Work
- Book: Elm in Action
- elm-conf 2016
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Sourcegraph the 'Google for Code' (Interview)
Beyang Liu, the CTO and co-founder of Sourcegraph, joined the show to talk about the backstory of Sourcegraph, how it works, how they’re aiming to be the ‘Google for Code’, ideas around offline support for code search, how it’s licensed, and their new software license called Fair Source.
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Show Notes:
- Beyang on BeyondCode at GopherCon 2015
- Sourcegraph on GitHub
- Sourcegraph.com
- Sourcegraph for GitHub
- Checkup - A distributed, lock-free, self-hosted health checks and status pages
- Fair Source License
- Sourcegraph Aims to be the ‘Google for Code
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GitHub's Electron (Interview)
Zeke Sikelianos joined the show to talk about GitHub’s Electron project and the future of web folks making cross platform desktop apps. We talked about the web revolution around native vs web app, where Electron is heading, who’s using it, and how cool it is to enable folks like Guillermo Rauch to build HyperTerm.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Electron
- Electron Docs
- Electron Issues – label:help-wanted
- Electron Issues – label:beginner
- Mojibar - Emoji searcher but as a menubar app
- browserify on npm
- Tonic + npm: browserify
- npms
- Fluid - Turn Your Favorite Web Apps into Real Mac Apps.
- GitHub Desktop - Simple collaboration from your desktop
- jiahaog/nativefier: Wrap any web page natively without even thinking, across Windows, OSX and Linux
- maxogden (=^._.^=)
- mafintosh (Mathias Buus)
- electron-userland
- Dat Project
- #213: ZEIT, HyperTerm, and now with Guillermo Rauch - Changelog
- Request For Commits - Changelog
- Subscribe to Changelog Nightly
- Subscribe to Changelog Weekly
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Best Practices Badge from Core Infrastructure Initiative (Interview)
David A. Wheeler, from Core Infrastructure Initiative, joined the show to talk about the CII Best Practices Badge program.
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Show Notes:
We talked about the purpose of the Best Practices Badge program from Core Infrastructure Initiative (a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project), how and why you should get certified, and the criteria of the best practices.
- [Show Suggstion] CII “Best Practices” badge · Issue #427 · thechangelog/ping
- linuxfoundation/cii-best-practices-badge
- CII Best Practices Badge - Rails App
- Core Infrastructure Initiative
- CII Best Practices Badge Criteria
- Get Your CII Best Practices Badge!
- Producing Open Source Software
- Curious Minds: History of Open Source & The Free Software Foundation - Part 1
- Curious Minds: History of Open Source & The Free Software Foundation - Part 2
- Shields.io
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Libscore, Velocity.js, Hacking (Interview)
Julian Shapiro, startup founder and developer, joined the show to talk about his story of entrepreneurship, open source, growth hacking, and more. Julian’s story is a story you don’t want to miss — plus he shares actionable advice on growing and marketing an open source project.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- [Guest Suggestion] Julian Shapiro / VelocityJS
- deleted.com
- Velocity.js.org
- Velocity.js on GitHub
- How to deal with startup competition
- Web Animation Using JavaScript by Julian Shapiro
- Introducing Libscore
- Libscore.com
- Libscore on GitHub
- Stripe Open-Source Retreat
- Thomas Davis on Twitter
- #63: CDNJS with Thomas Davis and Ryan Kirkman
- Jason Chen on Twitter
- Jesse Chase on Twitter
- Searching for Sugar Man (Movie recommendation from Julian)
- Man on Wire (Movie recommendation from Julian)
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ZEIT, HyperTerm, now (Interview)
Guillermo Rauch joined the show to talk with Adam about how he got into programming, how that lead him to what he’s doing now at ZEIT, the design of HyperTerm, and now.
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Show Notes:
- ZEIT
- HyperTerm
- LearnBoost
- LearnBoost on GitHub
- Cloudup
- Pure UI by Guillermo Rauch
- ZEIT (@zeithq) on Twitter
- ZEIT on GitHub
- GitHub search for “hyperterm”
- zeit.world - Free Global DNS
- Hero: Leslie Lamport on Wikipedia
- React Storybook: Isolate your React UI Component development from the main app
- ZEIT.chat (Slack Channel)
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SiteSpeed.io and Performance (Interview)
Peter Hedenskog joined the show to talk about SiteSpeed.io and web performance. We covered where it came from, where it’s going, and more importantly, simple ways you can focus on your web performance.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- [Podcast Suggestion] Peter Hedenskog of SiteSpeed.io · Issue #475
- Sitespeed.io - Analyze your website speed and performance
- sitespeed.io/HELP.md at master · sitespeedio/sitespeed.io
- sitespeedio/coach: Clear Eyes. Full Hearts. Can’t Lose.
- Wikimedia Foundation
- WebPagetest - Website Performance and Optimization Test
- Coach Panel - Chrome Web Store
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Open Source at Facebook (Interview)
James Pearce, Head of Open Source at Facebook, joined the show to talk about that very subject — open source at Facebook, his path to software development, why he’s the person to lead open source at Facebook, their view on open source, their culture of open source, how they choose what to open source, and more importantly — how they focus on, support, and nurture the community.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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Show Notes:
- Facebook on GitHub
- Facebook Open Source
- Facebook Engineering Blog
- React - Facebook’s JavaScript library for building user interfaces
- HipHop VM (HHVM) - Facebook’s virtual machine designed for executing programs written in PHP
- Hack - Facebook’s programming language for HHVM
- Facebook’s top 5 open source projects of 2015
- React Native: A year in review
- Dive into React Native performance
- Open sourcing ReDex: Making Android apps smaller and faster
- Building and managing iOS model objects with Remodel
- Automatic memory leak detection on iOS
- The Changelog #196: TiddlyWiki with Jeremy Ruston
- MK14 (Microcomputer Kit 14)
- Nuclide - Facebook’s unified developer experience for web and mobile development IDE, built as a single package on top of Atom to provide hackability and the support of an active community.
- Buck - Facebook’s high-performance build tool
- a16z Podcast: When Humanity Meets A.I.
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ngrok and Go (Interview)
Alan Shreve, creator of the beloved ngrok, joined the show to talk about ngrok — what it is, why it exists, why he wrote it in Go, and ultimately why 1.0 is open source but 2.0 is not.
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Show Notes:
- Alan Shreve (@inconshreveable) on Twitter
- inconshreveable.com (Alan’s personal website)
- ngrok Homepage
- What’s new in ngrok 2.0?
- Equinox: Package & Distribute Your Go Apps
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GitHub and Google on Public Datasets & Google BigQuery (Interview)
Arfon Smith from GitHub, and Felipe Hoffa & Will Curran from Google joined the show to talk about BigQuery — the big picture behind Google Cloud’s push to host public datasets, the collaboration between the two companies to expand GitHub’s public dataset, adding query capabilities that have never been possible before, example queries, and more!
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- Felipe Hoffa – GitHub, X
- Will Curran – Website
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
This show was produced in collaboration with GitHub and Google to announce the big expansion to GitHub’s public dataset on BigQuery.
- The Changelog #144: GitHub Archive and Changelog Nightly with Ilya Grigorik
- GitHub announcement
- Google Cloud Blog announcement
- Google Open Source Blog announcement
- Felipe Hoffa - GitHub on BigQuery: Analyze all the code
- GitHub public dataset — This 3TB+ dataset comprises the largest released source of GitHub activity to date. It contains a full snapshot of the content of more than 2.8 million open source GitHub repositories including more than 145 million unique commits, over 2 billion different file paths, and the contents of the latest revision for 163 million files, all of which are searchable with regular expressions.
- NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day Weather Data
- USA Name Data
- Google BigQuery
- Gist: BigQuery Examples from Arfon Smith
- Shawn Pearce (Google) - the unsung hero at Google who did all the hard work getting the data pipeline working for this new dataset
- Email bq-public-data@google.com to talk with Will and BigQuery’s public dataset team
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Ecto 2 and Phoenix Presence (Interview)
José Valim and Chris McCord joined the show to talk all about how they’re advancing the “state of the art” in the Elixir community with their release of Ecto 2.0 and Phoenix 1.2. We also share our journey with Elixir at The Changelog, find out what makes Phoenix’s new Presence feature so special, and even find time for Chris to field a few of our support requests.
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- The Changelog #147: Elixir and Phoenix with Chris McCord
- The Changelog #194: Elixir with José Valim
- What makes Phoenix Presence special
- ElixirConf EU
- Elm
- The Phoenix Web Framework
- DockYard - Web and Mobile User Experience Consultancy
- Chris McCord – Phoenix 1.2 and Beyond (video)
- Relisa on GitHub
- Exrm on GitHub
- Edeliver on GitHub
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Ubuntu Everywhere (Interview)
Dustin Kirkland joined the show to talk about Ubuntu — the most widely used flavor of Linux. We talked about the rise of Ubuntu, Ubuntu being everywhere, their collaboration with Microsoft to bring Bash to Windows, and what we can expect from the future of this Linux distro.
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- Ubuntu on Windows – The Ubuntu Userspace for Windows Developers
- Changelog Weekly - Issue #99
- TimeBasedReleases - Ubuntu Wiki
- MUD - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- ReleasePlanning/TimeBased - GNOME Wiki!
- Snappy Ubuntu Core | Cloud | Ubuntu
- Canonical | The company behind Ubuntu
- Mark Shuttleworth
- Ubuntu partners
- Launchpad
- Microsoft Azure: Cloud Computing Platform & Services
- Windows Subsystem for Linux Overview | Windows Subsystem for Linux
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The advantages of being a blind programmer (Interview)
Parham Doustdar is a blind programmer and joined the show to talk about the advantages he has being a blind programmer, the tools he uses, why he had to quit school, and carving your own path.
Note: We couldn’t stop using visual words when talking with Parham — even he couldn’t help himself. So you’ll get to hear us all laugh at ourselves near the end.
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Show Notes:
- Interviewing a good backend developer (without sight) · Issue #437 · thechangelog/ping
- MUD - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- An Autobiography of a Blind Programmer – Parham Doustdar’s Blog
- The Tools of a Blind Programmer – Parham Doustdar’s Blog
- The Advantages of Being a Blind Programmer – Parham Doustdar’s Blog
- Eclipse desktop & web IDEs
- Aphantasia: “how it feels to be blind in the mind”
- Hero: Uncle Bob
- Hero: Uncle Bob Martin (@unclebobmartin) on Twitter
- Docker - Build, Ship, and Run Any App, Anywhere
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A protocol for dying (Interview)
Since airing this show, Pieter passed away due to his battle with a metastasis of bile duct cancer in both lungs. But rather than listen to this show with sadness, listen with a happy heart and let’s celebrate Pieter’s life, and what he has accomplished. Thank you Pieter from the bottom of our hearts for your time on this show and for all that you are. You are loved by us my friend. This show will forever be a very special show for us.
Pieter Hintjens is the creator of ZeroMQ and The Collective Code Construction Contract (C4), a writer of many books and protocols, as well as a developer with decades of building software and communities – he’s someone who’s given so much, and continues to give - even up until the time he is planning for his death.
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Show Notes:
- A Protocol for Dying
- Donate to make Pieter’s childrens’ lives easier, when he’s not there any more
- Planned Death
- Building Online Communities
- Books by Pieter Hintjens
- ZeroMQ Homepage
- The ZeroMQ project on GitHub
- Doron Somech, Pieter’s successor
- ZeroMQ: Modern & Fast Networking Stack by Ilya Grigorik
- ZeroMQ - Get The Software
- ZeroMQ Language Bindings
- ZeroMQ - Solve a Problem
- ZeroMQ - The Guide
- C4 - The Collective Code Construction Contract (C4)
- Changelog Weekly #12
- Changelog Weekly #72
- Changelog Weekly #73
- Changelog Weekly #83
- OpenWrt
- The Changelog #203: Jewelbots and Getting Kids Coding With Sara Chipps and George Stocker
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IPFS (InterPlanetary File System) (Interview)
Juan Benet joined the show to talk about IPFS (InterPlanetary File System), a peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol to make the web faster, safer, and more open — addressed by content and identities. We talked about what it is, how it works, how it can be used, and how it just might save the future of the web.
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- IPFS is a new peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol.
- IPFS Alpha Demo - YouTube
- Ralph Merkle’s Home Page
- EverythingStays - Immutable & Distributed NodeJS Modules With IPFS
- Self-certifying File System - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Conflict-free replicated data type - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- OpenBazaar
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Jewelbots and Getting Kids Coding (Interview)
Sara Chipps, the creator of Jewelbots, and George Stocker, the VP of Engineering at Jewelbots joined the show to talk about connected wearables for kids, keeping UX simple, building a business on open source, and influencing young girls through the possibilities of coding.
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- Jewelbots - The friendship-bracelet for the Smartphone era - Friendship bracelets for the Smartphone Era (social networking, make games and custom friend animations by writing code and uploading it to their Jewelbots, transfer secret messages)
- Jewelbots on GitHub GitHub page for JewelBots!
- Girl Develop It Study material, courses on Web Concepts, HTML, CSS, ANGULAR.JS, Javascript, PHP and more
- Girl Develop It on GitHub GitHub page for Girl Develop It!
- Firebug - Developer Tools for FireFox!
- ngCordova ngCordova is obsolete, please move to Ionic Native!! Ionic Native on GitHub. Documentation for Ionic Native.
- Ionic: Advanced HTML5 Hybrid Mobile App Framework - Offical Website.
- Miguel de Icaza on Wikipedia - Wikipedia page of Miguel de Icaza!
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23 years of Ruby (Interview)
Big show! Matz, creator of the Ruby programming language, joined the show to discuss where he began as a programmer, the origins of Ruby, its history and future, Ruby 3.0, concurrency and parallelism, Streem, Erlang, Elixir, and more.
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- Full Stack Fest CFP – They have 16 speaker slots open. Talks are 40 minutes long, including Q&A.
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- Yukihiro Matsumoto – GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Yukihiro Matsumoto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Ruby Programming Language
- Ruby (programming language) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- matz/streem: prototype of stream based programming language
- Pascal (programming language) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Lisp (programming language) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Smalltalk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- mruby/mruby: Lightweight Ruby
- Larry Wall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Alan Kay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- John McCarthy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Ruby Issue Tracking System
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Why SQLite succeeded as a database (Interview)
This episode is part of our remastered greatest hits collection and features Richard Hipp, the creator of SQLite, talking with us about its history, where it came from, why it has succeeded as a database, how its development has been sustainably funded, and the how and why of it being the most widely deployed database engine in the world.
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Show Notes:
- SQLite Home Page
- GDBM
- fopen(3) - Linux manual page
- Bruce Perens - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia who co-founded the Open Source Initiative (OSI)
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JavaScript and Robots (Interview)
Raquel Vélez, aka Rockbot, joined the show to talk about where she came from, how she got into programming with JavaScript, her passion for robots and mechanical engineering, the culture of npm, and more.
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- Google Search “You can’t be it if you can’t see it”
- Beyond Code with Amanda Shih
- Reactive Podcast
- rockbot/vektor
- Smart Latinas Get The Party Started
- JavaScript Robotics: Building NodeBots with Johnny-Five, Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and BeagleBone
- squishy circuits - Google Search
- Donovan Buck (@dtex) on Twitter
- #187: Redux, React, and Functional JavaScript with Dan Abramov
- #149: React.js, React Native, Flux, Relay, and GraphQL with Facebook
- #113: Scale npm with Isaac Schlueter and Charlie Robbins
- npm camp
- Rockbot | Music For Business. Jukebox App for Customers.
- Colleen Bot (@CJBot) on Twitter
- Nicole Sullivan (@stubbornella) on Twitter
- React - A JavaScript library for building user interfaces
- Feross on GitHub
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Your Huginn Agents Are Standing By (Interview)
Andrew Cantino joined the show to talk with Jerod about Huginn, a system for building agents that perform automated tasks for you online. They can read the web, watch for events, and take actions on your behalf. Think of it as a hackable Yahoo! Pipes plus IFTTT on your own server.
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Haskell Programming (Interview)
Chris Allen and Julie Moronuki joined the show to talk about Haskell, their book “Haskell Programming”, learning to program, their book writing process, and more.
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- Julie Moronuki – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- zmanian (Zaki Manian)
- Podcast suggestion: Chris Allen and Julie Moronuki’s Haskell Book · Issue #384 · thechangelog/ping
- How to Learn Haskell in Less Than 5 Years
- Modeling Data in Haskell for Beginners
- Haskell Programming Book
- SuperGinBaby | All of my systems come to naught.
- Haskell Stack Mega-Tutorial
- Yuri the trainer who trains - YouTube
- bitemyapp/learnhaskell: Learn Haskell
- An introduction to LaTeX
- ML (programming language) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Haskell (programming language) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Purescript · Issue #392 · thechangelog/ping
- Hour of Code | Khan Academy
- Argumatronic - Teaching a 10-year-old Haskell: Day One
- Rudolf Carnap - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Armadillidiidae - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Grace Hopper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Simon Peyton Jones - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Haskell Language
- Home - The Haskell Tool Stack
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The future of WordPress and Calypso (Interview)
Matt Mullenweg, the creator of WordPress and the CEO of Automattic, joined the show to talk about the past, present, and future of WordPress. We talked about the role of JavaScript for WordPress, their new REST API, Calypso, and more.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Dance to Calypso
- Introducing the New WordPress.com
- Automattic
- The Story Behind the New WordPress.com
- State of the Word 2015
- Simplenote
- The Year Without Pants by Scott Berkun
- Beautiful Code
- The Pragmatic Programmer
- Steve Krug - Advanced Common Sense
- Dave Winer - Scripting News
- Joel Spolsky on Software
- Scott Berkun
- George Orwell - Politics and the English Language (1946)
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TiddlyWiki (Interview)
Jeremy Ruston joined the show to talk about TiddlyWiki — a unique non-linear notebook for capturing, organizing, and sharing complex information. It’s written in JavaScript and sports a custom fake DOM. We talked to Jeremy about his nearly 40 year career in programming, Hackability as a human right, Tiddlers — the atomic unit of data in TiddlyWiki and so much more.
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- TiddlyWiki · Issue #248 · thechangelog/ping
- TiddlyWiki — a non-linear personal web notebook
- TiddlyWiki on GitHub
- MK14 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Hackability as a Human Right — Jermolene TalkyTalky
- Wuthering Bytes - 26th September to 2nd October 2015
- Tiddlywinks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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freeCodeCamp (Interview)
Quincy Larson is the creator of an open source community called freeCodeCamp. We talked with Quincy about “the secret to getting good at coding”, their curriculum that spans a solid year (totaling 2,080 hours) of deliberate coding practice, plans for financial sustainability of the project, and the people behind it on the leading/teaching side and the camper side.
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- Subscribe to Changelog Weekly
- Quincy Larson on Medium
- freeCodeCamp
- Santa Barbara Hackerspace
- GitHub’s All Time Top Repositories
- Why Software Is Eating The World by Marc Andreessen
- Sebastian Thrun on Wikipedia
- Daphne Koller on Wikipedia
- Andrew Ng on Wikipedia
- Jimmy Wales on Wikipedia
- Agency (sociology) on Wikipedia
- LoopBack
- MEAN.IO - MongoDB, Express, Angularjs Node.js powered fullstack web framework
- Free Code Camp’s First Month - Medium
- Learn to Code by Coding - Medium
- lichess.org • Free Online Chess
- Opportunity cost
- #165: Everyone’s Welcome Here (Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots Podcast)
- 5 Coding Podcasts to Enlighten your Commute - Medium
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Elixir and the Future of Phoenix (Interview)
José Valim joined the show to talk about Elixir. We learned about the early days of José’s start as a programmer. José took us back to the beginning of Elixir and shared why Erlang got him so excited, we broke down features of the language, we talked about functional programming, concurrency, developing for multi-core systems, we talked about the Elixir community, the future of Phoenix, Ecto, and more.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- José Valim (@josevalim) on Twitter
- José Valim (@josevalim) on GitHub
- Elixir
- Plataformatec
- #147: Elixir and Phoenix with Chris McCord - The Changelog
- Elixir v1.2 and Ecto v1.1 · Issue #339 · thechangelog/ping
- Ruby on Rails
- plataformatec/devise: Flexible authentication solution for Rails with Warden.
- Erlang Programming Language
- jashkenas (Jeremy Ashkenas)
- jashkenas/coffeescript: Unfancy JavaScript
- A Week with Elixir - Joe Armstrong says, “this is good shit.”
- José Valim at Strange Loop 2012 - Elixir: Modern Programming for the Erlang VM
- Programming Ruby “The Pickaxe” by Dave Thomas, Chad Fowler, and Andy Hunt
- #191: Elm and Functional Programming with Richard Feldman - The Changelog
- elixir-lang/ecto - Elixir
- The Pragmatic Bookshelf “Productive |> Reliable |> Fast” by Chris McCord, Bruce Tate, and José Valim
- The Pragmatic Bookshelf “Productive |> Reliable |> Fast” 1.4 by Chris McCord, Bruce Tate, and José Valim
- Introduction - Elixir
- Hero: Guy L. Steele, Jr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Elixir Radar: the weekly email newsletter about Elixir - Plataformatec
- Exception tracking and logging from Elixir to Rollbar (elixir-addicts/rollbax)
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Funding open source (Interview)
Nadia Eghbal joined the show to discuss a HUGE topic that’s near and dear to our heart – funding open source! We discussed what it takes to fund open source software development, Nadia’s current investigative journalism efforts around funding open source (funded by the Ford Foundation), venture-backed open source projects, what it means for an open source project to be in good shape, some potential solutions to provide better long-term support for open source, and we tried to determine how much the open source of the world might be worth.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- Nadia Eghbal - Homepage
- Nadia Eghbal (@nayafia) on Twitter
- Nadia Eghbal on Medium
- Subscribe to Building Better Software Updates
- How I Stumbled Upon The Internet’s Biggest Blind Spot — Medium
- Open source was worth at least $143M of Instagram’s $1B acquisition — Medium
- Open source infrastructure: the Q&A — Medium
- What if Facebook were a nonprofit?
- GreatSchools - Public and Private School Ratings, Reviews and Parent Community
- 500 Startups
- Slack Raises $80 Million Fund to Support Platform Strategy - Digits - WSJ
- Ruby Together
- fundingoss.com
- Ford Foundation
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Crystal: Fast as C, Slick as Ruby (Interview)
Ary Borenszweig and Juan Wajnerman, the folks behind Crystal, joined the show to talk about the goals of the language, how it’s the best of both worlds between Ruby and C, why if it’s so close to and inspired by Ruby why not just give their time/effort to Ruby instead, the new compiler, and we also discussed what’s left before Crystal can go 1.0.
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- Juan Wajnerman – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- Changelog Weekly - Issue #32
- Manas Technology Solutions (manas.com.ar)
- Crystal Homepage
- Codcore/amethyst
- Hacker News search for “crystal-lang”
- The Future of Crystal
- Compile & Run Code in Crystal (play.crystal-lang.org)
- manastech/crystal
- asterite/crystal
- Initial commit with lexer, parser, ast and visitor · manastech/crystal@220bb8c
- Initial commit · asterite/crystal@50db229
- Support Crystal Language on Bountysource
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Elm and Functional Programming (Interview)
Richard Feldman from NoRedInk joined the show to talk about Elm and Functional Programming. Elm labeled itself “the best of functional programming in your browser” and boasts “no runtime exceptions.” We talked about the language, whether or not it’s really faster than React, JavaScript fatigue, and the best ways to get started with Elm.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- Richard Feldman on Twitter
- Evan Czaplicki on GitHub
- mwForum
- Elm
- Style Guide
- Elm Syntax
- Elm From JavaScript
- Elm Docs
- [Podcast Suggestion] Evan Czaplicki - designer, developer of ELM lang · Issue #281 · thechangelog/ping
- Prezi - We’re excited to announce that Evan Czaplicki…
- NoRedInk makes learning grammar fun and easy
- #187: Redux, React, and Functional JavaScript with Dan Abramov - The Changelog
- NoRedInk/elm-rails
- elm-rails 3.0.0
- (99+) Elm Discuss - Google Groups
- Join Elm on Slack!
- Building a Live-Validated Signup Form in Elm — NoRedInk Tech
- Elm Packages
- Join the Changelog community for $20/yr!
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ZeroDB (Interview)
MacLane Wilkison and Michael Egorov, the creators of ZeroDB, joined the show to talk about ZeroDB — an end-to-end encrypted database (protocol), why it’s open source, how it’s different than other encryption techniques, performance for running encrypted queries, and an interesting topic called Proxy re-encryption.
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- MacLane Wilkison – GitHub, X
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- Michael Egorov on GitHub
- MacLane Wilkison on Twitter
- @ZeroDB_ congrats on the launch!
- ZeroDB Homepage
- ZeroDB on GitHub
- ZeroDB on AngelList
- FinTech Innovation Lab London
- ZeroDB Tutorial
- MacLane Wilkison Explains ZeroDB
- ZODB - a native object database for Python
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JSON API and API Design (Interview)
Yehuda Katz joined the show to talk about JSON.API — where the spec came from, who’s involved, compliance, API design, the future, and more. We also finally got Yehuda on the show alone, so we were able to talk with him about his origins, how he got started as a programmer, and his thoughts on struggle vs aptitude.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- asm.js - A low-level, extraordinarily optimizable subset of JavaScript
- JSON API — A specification for building APIs in JSON
- Rails: The Next Five Years by Yehuda Katz @ RailsConf 2012
- JSON API: Convention Driven API Design by Steve Klabnik @ APIdays Paris 2013
- New JSON API Specification Aims to Speed API Development
- Building a modern bridge between Ember 2.0 and Rails 5 with JSON API
- The Changelog #42: Rails 3.1 and SproutCore with Yehuda Katz
- The Changelog #56: Vim with Drew Neil, Tim Pope, and Yehuda Katz
- The Changelog #131: The Road to Ember 2.0 with Tom Dale and Yehuda Katz
- The Changelog #151: Rust with Steve Klabnik and Yehuda Katz
- Ember Data v1.13 Released
- Is Ember Fast Yet?
- The Future of the Client-Side Web by Yehuda Katz
- Thor Homepage
- The Law of Leaky Abstractions, by Joel Spolsky
- The NoTCP Manifesto
- A recent tweet stream from Yehuda about his origins…
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DOUBLEHEADER — 24 Pull Requests and Libraries.io + Flynn (Interview)
We have a special doubleheader holiday show for you. Andrew Nesbitt joined the show to talk about 24 Pull Requests and Libraries.io, and Jonathan Rudenberg is back to catch us up on Flynn.
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- Jonathan Rudenberg – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- NodeCopter - Programming flying robots with node.js
- NodeCopter - Core
- CoderDojo
- 24pullrequests/24pullrequests
- 24 Pull Requests (@24PullRequests) on Twitter
- 24 Pull Requests / Homepage
- 24 Pull Requests / Sponsors
- 24 Pull Requests / Contributing
- 24 Ways - Web design and development articles and tutorials for advent
- Libraries - The Open Source Discovery Service
- Libraries.io on GitHub
- Libraries.io Support (GitHub Issues)
- howdyai/botkit
- codebar.io
- Despo Pentara (@despo) on Twitter
- Despo Pentara (@despo) on GitHub
- Flynn – The product that ops provides to developers
- The Changelog #99: Flynn, Tent, open source PaaSes and more with Jeff Lindsay and Jonathan Rudenberg
- The Changelog #115: Flynn Updates with Jonathan Rudenberg and Jeff Lindsay
- Deis | Your Paas. Your Rules.
- Dokku - The smallest PaaS implementation you’ve ever seen
- The Changelog #182: Metabase and Open Source Business Intelligence with Sameer Al-Sakran and Tom Robinson
- The Changelog 181: RethinkDB, Databases, and the Realtime Web With Slava Akhmechet
- The Changelog #180: Otto, Vagrant, and Automation with Mitchell Hashimoto
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Redux, React, and Functional JavaScript (Interview)
Dan Abramov, creator of Redux, joined the show to talk about his path to becoming a programmer, his introduction to open source, React, JavaScript, functional programming in JavaScript, his thoughts on looking outside of your bubble to other ecosystems and borrowing/sharing what you can.
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- [Guest idea] Dan Abramov (Redux) · Issue #317 · thechangelog/ping
- Redux Homepage and Docs
- rackt/redux
- “We do not need another Flux framework. We have about 50,000 Flux frameworks.” – @rookieone on #BeyondCode
- Getting Started with Redux Course by Dan Abramov on Egghead.io
- Relay | A JavaScript framework for building data-driven React applications
- Flux | Application Architecture for Building User Interfaces
- By any means necessary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Dan Abramov - Live React: Hot Reloading with Time Travel at react-europe 2015 - YouTube
- acdlite/flummox
- omcljs/om
- David Nolen (@swannodette) on GitHub
- Elm
- Middleware | Redux
- Richard Feldman (@rtfeldman) on GitHub
- The Changelog #151: Rust with Steve Klabnik and Yehuda Katz
- Hero: Jordan Walke (@jordwalke) on Twitter
- Hero: Sebastian Markbåge (@sebmarkbage) on Twitter
- Hero: Steve Klabnik (@steveklabnik) on Twitter
- RLRT: Nice interview by @changelog about #rustlang - could give it a try in the following weeks :)
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Building the Ultimate Hacking Keyboard (Interview)
László Monda (aka Lotsy) joined the show to talk about a keyboard for hackers — the Ultimate Hacking Keyboard. We discussed the features, the hardware design, the open source that powers it, and more.
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- UltimateHackingKeyboard/agent
- UltimateHackingKeyboard/firmware
- UltimateHackingKeyboard/ugl-kicad-libs
- UltimateHackingKeyboard/bootloader-left
- UltimateHackingKeyboard/bootloader-right
- From the Ground Up: How I Built the Developer’s Dream Keyboard
- Ultimate Hacking Keyboard’s campaign on Crowd Supply
- Ultimate Hacking Keyboard - Image Gallery
- KiCad EDA
- Hero: John Carmack
- Hero: Coding Horror (Jeff Atwood)
- Hero: Dean Camera (@abcminiuser) on Twitter
- Hero: Dean Camera’s “Four Walled Cubicle”
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Kong, APIs, Microservices (Interview)
Ahmad Nassri from Mashape joined the show to talk about Kong, an open-source management layer for APIs and Microservices.
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- Kong
- Kong’s plugin gallery
- Justin Dorfman pinged us
- Mashape - Powering API Driven Software
- NginX adds JavaScript scripting
- Lua
- Cassandra
- Issue to add Postgres support to Kong
- Hero: Grace Hopper
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Discussing Vue.js and Personal Projects (Interview)
Evan You joined the show to talk about Vue.js - his library for building web interfaces. We discussed what Vue.js offers, what makes it different, why developers should trust this project even if it’s “just a personal project” that’s not backed by an enterprise or a large team.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- 2Advanced
- The Changelog #160: Ampersand.js, SPAs, and WebRTC with Henrik Joreteg
- The Changelog #149: React.js, React Native, Flux, Relay, and GraphQL with Facebook
- Creative Lab 5
- Vue.js Homepage
- Vue.js on GitHub
- Vue.js Examples
- Vue.js: a (re)introduction
- Changelog Weekly - Issue #24
- Issue Stats
- Nicholas Young on Twitter: “Listening to The @changelog’s episode on @metabase, and realizing I couldn’t build businesses without open source.
- vuejs/vue-hackernews
- Hero: Zach Lieberman (@zachlieberman) on Twitter
- Hero: Aaron Koblin
- Hero: TJ Holowaychuk (@tjholowaychuk) on Twitter
- omcljs/om
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The Offline First Revolution and Speech Recognition (Interview)
Tal Ater joined the show to talk about the offline first revolution, the use of service workers, how UpUp is helping on that front, speech recognition, and annyang.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- UpUp - The Offline First Library
- TalAter/UpUp
- annyang! Easily add speech recognition to your site
- TalAter/annyang
- Introduction to Service Workers on HTML5 Rocks
- The Open Sourcer
- Hero: Jake Archibald
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Metabase & open source Business Intelligence (Interview)
Sameer Al-Sakran and Tom Robinson from Metabase joined the show to discuss Metabase - their open source tool that’s laying the foundation of their goals for open source business intelligence.
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- Sameer Al-Sakran – Website, GitHub, X
- Tom Robinson – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Metabase
- metabase/metabase
- Metabase Discussion
- Maslow’s hierarchy of needs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- 280 North, Inc. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Objective-J - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Cappuccino (application development framework) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- AWS | Amazon Redshift - Cloud Data Warehouse Solutions
- Justin Dorfman: @metabase looks awesome, can’t wait to try it out. How do you plan to sustain it? Will there be a pro version?
- Jeff Dean (computer scientist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- John Carmack - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- TensorFlow
- The Changelog #149: React.js, React Native, Flux, Relay, and GraphQL with Facebook
- The Changelog #171: Living Clojure, ClojureScript, and more with Carin Meier
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RethinkDB, Databases, the Realtime Web (Interview)
Slava Akhmechet joined the show again to catch us up on RethinkDB and the awesome progress they’ve made to power the realtime web. We talked about innovation in databases, compared and contrasted to pub/sub, Pusher, NoSQL, and even The Next Big Thing™ in databases.
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- Slava Akhmechet – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- The Changelog #114: RethinkDB with Slava Akhmechet
- Learn to code like it’s 1996
- How to pick startup ideas
- RethinkDB: the open-source database for the realtime web
- Support Facebook’s GraphQL · Issue #3711 · rethinkdb/rethinkdb
- Pusher | Leader In Realtime Technologies
- Build Realtime Apps & Take Websockets To The Next Level - PubNub
- Firebase - Build Extraordinary Apps
- NextGxDx | The Genetic Testing Resource.
- The world’s most wearable camera - Narrative
- Fidelity Investments - Retirement, Funds, and Online Trading
- An overview of C++14 language features
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Otto, Vagrant, Automation (Interview)
Mitchell Hashimoto joined the show to talk about HashiCorp’s new tool - Otto, how it compares to and compliments Vagrant, Automation, and we even talked to Mitchell about his history with software development in the beginning of the show.
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- Backtrace – Reduce your time to resolution. Go beyond stacktraces and logs. Get to the root cause quickly with deep application introspection at your fingertips.
- Linode – Our cloud server of choice! We host everything we do on Linode servers. Use the code
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- Mitchell Hashimoto – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- HashiCorp
- The Changelog #72: Vagrant with Mitchell Hashimoto
- The Changelog #88: Vagrant, HashiCorp and Beyond with Mitchell Hashimoto
- A 25-Year-Old Coding Genius Was Making $500,000 A Year In College, And He Just Raised $10 Million For A Startup
- Otto - Development and Deployment Made Easy
- Otto Announcement
- Otto, The Successor to Vagrant
- Getting Started with Otto
- Otto vs. Vagrant
- Vagrant
- Vagrant + VMware
- The Changelog #163: Go in the Modern Enterprise Using gokit with Peter Bourgon
- HashiConf
- sysdig
- InfluxDB
- The Changelog #168: Prometheus and Service Monitoring with Julius Volz from SoundCloud
- The Changelog #170: BoltDB, InfluxDB and more with Ben Johnson
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Caddy HTTP/2 Web Server (Interview)
Matt Holt and Sebastian Erhart joined the show to talk about Caddy the HTTP/2 web server written in Go. It’s time to serve the web like it’s 2015!
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- Matt Holt – Website, GitHub, X
- Sebastian Erhart – GitHub, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Caddy - The HTTP/2 Web Server Made for Humans
- Caddy on GitHub
- Experimental install script (some hate piping into bash, but others find it convenient)
- mholt/caddy
- Let’s Encrypt
- xenolf/lego on GitHub
- A technical look at the inside of Caddy (Go language)
- [Podcast Suggestion] Matt Holt - Caddy HTTP/2 Web Server
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OAuth 2.0, Oz, Node.js, Hapi.js (Interview)
Eran Hammer joined the show to talk about updates to Hapi.js, Node.js, OAuth, and deep discussions about Oz – Eran’s replacement for OAuth 2.0.
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- Eran Hammer – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Sideway (@sideway) | Twitter
- hapi.js (@hapijs) | Twitter
- On Leaving Walmart | hueniverse
- hueniverse/oz
- oz/LICENSE at master · hueniverse/oz
- Auth to See the Wizard | hueniverse
- OAuth 2.0 and the Road to Hell | hueniverse
- RFC 5849 - The OAuth 1.0 Protocol
- RFC 6749 - The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework
- OAuth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- The Changelog #116: Node Black Friday at Walmart with Eran Hammer
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Cylon.js, Gobot, Artoo, IoT (Interview)
Ron Evans, ringleader of The Hybrid Group and creator of a fleet of open source robot libraries, joined the show to talk about open source and robotics, Cylon.js, Gobot, Artoo, teaching, KidsRuby, his programming hero, and more.
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- Opbeat for AngularJS – Performance monitoring for AngularJS. Instantly pinpoint performance issues, and optimize your code. Install in minutes.
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- imgix – Real-time Image Processing. Resize, crop, and process images on the fly, simply by changing their URLs.
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- Ron Evans – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- The Changelog #150: Internet Connected Things Using Spark With Zach Supalla
- Particle (@particle) on Twitter
- Highway1 - The home for hardware entrepreneurs
- dmca/2014-10-05-tildeslash.md at master · github/dmca
- cjb/GitTorrent
- Parrot USA - Bebop Drone, Minidrones, Zik 2.0, Hands-free car kits, Automotive OEM
- DJI - The World Leader in Camera Drones/Quadcopters for Aerial Photography
- Artoo - Ruby framework for robotics, physical computing, and the Internet of Things
- Gobot - Golang framework for robotics, physical computing, and the Internet of Things
- Cylon.js - JavaScript framework for robotics, physical computing, and the Internet of Things using Node.js
- BB-8™ by Sphero – Sphero Store
- gigasquid/clj-drone
- Los Angeles & San Francisco JavaScript, Ruby on Rails, Cloud Computing, Internet of Things - The Hybrid Group
- CHARLIE GERARD
- Hero: Jim Weirich
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CROSSOVER — CodeNewbie and Community (Interview)
Saron Yitbarek, creator of CodeNewbie and the CodeNewbie podcast, joined the show to talk about helping more people discover software development, embarrassing moments, lessons learned along the way, and more.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- CodeNewbie
- CodeNewbie Patreon
- About Saron
- Flatiron School
- Ruby Rogues
- Contently
- Hero - Katrina Owen (@kytrinyx) on Twitter
- The Changelog #108: Exercism.io with Katrina Owen
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OSCON and Open Source (Interview)
Rachel Roumeliotis, the Strategic Content Director at O’Reilly Media, joined the show to talk about the history of OSCON, what you can expect from this year’s conference and the importance of open source software.
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- Open source won, so what’s next? - O’Reilly Radar
- Why Rust? - O’Reilly Media
- How to experience OSCON Amsterdam 2015 - O’Reilly Radar
- Better code is cheaper - O’Reilly Radar
- OSCON in Amsterdam - O’Reilly Conferences, 26 - 28, October 2015
- About: Open Source Convention - O’Reilly OSCON, July 20 - 24, 2015 in Portland, OR
- Hero: Guido van Rossum - Best known as the author of the Python programming language
- The Cloudcast
- Work With Us – O’Reilly Media
- The Changelog #163: Go in the Modern Enterprise Using gokit with Peter Bourgon
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Metasploit, InfoSec, Open Source (Interview)
Trevor Rosen and James “Egypt” Lee joined the show to talk about Metasploit, a collaboration of the open source community and Rapid7 – its penetration testing software that helps you verify vulnerabilities and manage security assessments.
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- Trevor Rosen – Website, GitHub, X
- James "Egypt" Lee – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Rapid7
- GopherCon
- Metasploit Project - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- rapid7/metasploit-framework
- Mumble, the open source VoIP solution
- mumble-voip/mumble
- Kali Linux | Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking Linux Distribution
- gentilkiwi/mimikatz
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CROSSOVER — Turing-Incomplete (Interview)
The entire crew behind Turing-Incomplete podcast joined the show to talk about the history and focus of their show, the ins and outs of technical podcasting, software industry trends, and more.
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- Sentry – An open source realtime error logging platform that gives you the insight you need into the errors that affect your customers.
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- Pam Selle – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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This “crossover” style show (where we invite other podcasters on) is new for us. Let us know if you’d like to hear more like this or if you prefer we stick to our bread and butter.
- Turing-Incomplete
- Pam Selle (@pamasaur) on Twitter
- Jearvon Dharrie (@jearvon) on Twitter
- Justin Campbell (@justincampbell) on Twitter
- Len Smith (@ignu) on Twitter
- Burn your résumé: Finding your next job as an engineer
- Simply Secure
- Learn to Program the World’s Most Bodacious Language with Clojure for the Brave and True
- Etherpad
- Qloudstat - Analytics & monitoring for access logs in Amazon S3
- Turing-Incomplete - Propositions as Types w/ Brian McKenna
- Turing-Incomplete - Umlauts are Metal with Kelsey Gilmore-Innis
- Turing-Incomplete - Mudit Ameta
- Turing-Incomplete - Raquel Vélez
- Turing-Incomplete - Origin Stories
- Turing-Incomplete - Corey Haines on Simple Design
- Turing-Incomplete - 2014 Retrospective
- Uncle Bob Martin (@unclebobmartin) on Twitter
- ReactiveX/RxJS
- Livecoding.tv - Watch Engineers code Products live.
- Changelog Weekly - Issue #68
- Clean Coder
- Call Recorder for Skype
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GitUp and the UX of Git (Interview)
Pierre-Olivier Latour joined the show to talk about his history as a software developer - everything from creating Quartz Composer, working at Apple, to his new project GitUp and the user experience of Git.
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- Pierre-Olivier Latour
- Pierre-Olivier Latour | LinkedIn
- MARC (archive) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Minitel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- OpenGL - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Out of the picture: why the world’s best photo startup is going out of business | The Verge
- Everpix
- everpix/Everpix-Intelligence
- Photos - Google Photos
- swisspol (Pierre-Olivier Latour)
- swisspol/GCDWebServer
- GitUp
- git-up/GitUp
- libgit2/libgit2
- Changelog Nightly - 2015-08-19
- jayeb (Jason Eberle)
- The Changelog #124: Tedit, JS-Git, and Jack with Tim Caswell
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Clojure, ClojureScript, and Living Clojure (Interview)
Carin Meier joined the show to talk about Clojure, ClojureScript, her book Living Clojure, all the fun things she loves about math, physics, and creating a programming language.
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- Carin Meier (@gigasquid) on GitHub
- Carin Meier (@gigasquid) on Twitter
- Living Clojure by Carin Meier
- Rich Hickey’s Greatest Hits - Changelog
- gigasquid/babar
- Amazon.com: The Martian: A Novel eBook: Andy Weir: Kindle Store
- Elephant 2000: A Programming Language Based on Speech Acts
- SuperMegaUltraGroovy
- (for-clojure)
- gigasquid/wonderland-clojure-katas
- pixie-lang/pixie
- Chris Liscio - Çingleton 2011 on Vimeo
- Parens of the Dead - Screencast series on zombie-themed games written with Clojure and ClojureScript
- Hero: Jim Weirich
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BoltDB, InfluxDB, Key-Value Databases (Interview)
Ben Johnson joined the show to talk about BoltDB, InfluxDB, and several other key-value store databases out there and why he’s so passionate about developing open source software.
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Show Notes:
- Ben Johnson on Twitter
- Ben Johnson on GitHub
- BoltDB - Embedded key/value store
- LMDB - Key/value store BoltDB is based on
- LevelDB - Popular embedded key/value store from Google
- InfluxDB - Timeseries database written in Go that Ben works on
- Parquet - Columnar storage format that Ben is porting to Go
- The Secret Lives of Data
- [Hero] Ilya Grigorik on GitHub
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Middleman and Static Site Generators (Interview)
Thomas Reynolds, the creator of Middleman, joined the show to talk about the history of static site generators, how he got into open-source, his love for Go, and what’s to come in Middleman v4.
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- Middleman: Hand-crafted frontend development
- staticmatic/staticmatic
- My Weird Ruby « Thomas Reynolds
- Middleman: Upgrading to v4
- hamstergem/hamster
- egonSchiele/contracts.ruby
- bhollis (Ben Hollis)
- karlfreeman (Karl Freeman)
- Arcovion (Eliott Appleford)
- People · Middleman
- Pixi.js - 2D webGL renderer with canvas fallback
- Reach any screen. API-first CMS for multi-device publishing - Contentful
- Netlify: The premium hosting service for modern static websites
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Prometheus and service monitoring (Interview)
Julius Volz from SoundCloud joined the show to talk about Prometheus, an open-source service monitoring system written in Go.
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- Julius Volz (@juliusvolz) on Twitter
- Julius Volz (@juliusv) on GitHub
- Prometheus Homepage
- Prometheus on GitHub
- Prometheus Community
- Prometheus Google Group
- What is Prometheus?
- Monitoring at SoundCloud with Prometheus
- Push vs Pull for Monitoring | Big Data for Travel – Boxever
- Icinga | Open Source Monitoring
- Nagios - The Industry Standard in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
- The Changelog #167: Mesos and Mesosphere DCOS with Tobi Knaup
- The Changelog #163: Go in the Modern Enterprise Using gokit with Peter Bourgon
- Björn Rabenstein (@beorn7) on GitHub
- John Carmack (Wikipedia)
- Rob Pike (Wikipedia)
- Dmitry Vyukov (@dvyukov) on Twitter
- Changelog Community Membership (get access to our members only Slack room)
- Changelog Weekly
- Changelog Nightly
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Mesos and Mesosphere DCOS (Interview)
Tobi Knaup, co-founder & CTO of Mesosphere joined the show to talk about the datacenter operating system, and all the open source around it.
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- Tobi Knaup (@superguenter) on Twitter
- Tobi Knaup (@guenter) on GitHub
- The Mesosphere Datacenter Operating System
- CoreOS is Linux for Massive Server Deployments
- mesos/chronos
- Kubernetes by Google
- Mesosphere
- Caffe | Deep Learning Framework
- Marc Andreessen
- Prometheus
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JavaScript in the Wild at NEJS Conf (Interview)
Jerod Santo took off his host hat this show and joined Zach Leatherman, and Nick Nisi, his co-organizers of NEJS Conf to talk about JavaScript in the wild in Omaha, Nebraska.
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- Zach Leatherman (@zachleat) on Twitter
- Nick Nisi (@nicknisi) on Twitter
- Jerod Santo (@jerodsanto) on Twitter
- NEJS Conf
- Big Wheel Brigade
- Making NEJS Conf Inclusive and Accessible
- Hero: John Resig
- The Superbytes
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Betting the company on Elixir and Ember (Interview)
Brian Cardarella joined the show to talk about the bet he’s placed on Elixir and Ember to be the focus of his company.
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- Brian Cardarella (@bcardarella) | Twitter
- Brian Cardarella on GitHub
- Elixir - A dynamic, functional language designed for building scalable and maintainable application
- DockYard - Web and Mobile User Experience Consultancy
- The New DockYard.com
- Ember.js - Ember.AutoLocation
- Robert Jackson (@rwjblue) | Twitter
- Ember.js - A framework for creating ambitious web applications.
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Semantic UI Returns (Interview)
Jack Lukic is back again to talk about what’s new with Semantic UI, the progress he, 104 contributors, and hundreds of translators have made towards a front-end standard only rivaled by Twitter’s Bootstrap numbers. We discuss the why and the how of him dedicating everything he has to Semantic UI and the potential it brings.
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- Semantic UI
- Semantic-Org/Semantic-UI-Meteor
- Translating Semantic UI Docs · Semantic-Org/Semantic-UI Wiki
- Semantic-Org/Semantic-UI
- The Changelog #106: Semantic UI with Jack Lukic
- purifycss/purifycss
- Introducing Incremental DOM
- Bootstrap’s Homepage
- Matt-Esch/virtual-dom
- Semantic UI - Investors
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Go in the Modern Enterprise and Go Kit (Interview)
Peter Bourgon joined the show to talk about building microservices using Go in the modern enterprise and his microservices toolkit Go kit.
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- Register for Gopher Slack and talk to Peter and other Gophers in Gopher Slack. Check out the #gotimefm channel and our Go Time podcast too.
- go-kit/kit
- Go kit: Go in the modern enterprise
- (21) Go kit - Google Groups
- Go and the Modern Enterprise - Peter Bourgon - London Go Gathering 2015 - YouTube
- Gophercon 2015
- Weaveworks • Weave - All you need to connect, observe and control your containers
- The Changelog #3: Google’s Go Programming Language
- weaveworks
- go-kit/kit
- kit/log at master · go-kit/kit
- kit/metrics at master · go-kit/kit
- kit/circuitbreaker at master · go-kit/kit
- kit/loadbalancer at master · go-kit/kit
- kit/ratelimit at master · go-kit/kit
- kit/tracing at master · go-kit/kit
- Dapper, a Large-Scale Distributed Systems Tracing Infrastructure
- Distributed Systems Tracing with Zipkin | Twitter Blogs
- twitter/zipkin
- Announcing Appdash, an open-source perf tracing suite - The Sourcegraph Blog
- Incubation Status Template - Apache Incubator
- kit/addsvc at master · go-kit/kit
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Octopress 3.0 (Interview)
Brandon Mathis joined the show to tell us all about the much anticipated 3.0 release of Octopress - his Jekyll-based blogging framework for hackers. Octopress 3.0 is a complete rewrite and has been in the works for quite a while. We find out why Brandon decided to go for The Big Rewrite and what’s been taking so long (hint: it’s not because the dude’s been slackin’).
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- Brandon Mathis :: Design Enthusiast :: Blog
- Brandon Mathis on CodePen
- Octopress 3.0 is coming
- The Web 2.0 Show #45: GitHub
- David Lanham
- Octopress GitHub Org
- octopress/octopress
- octopress/genesis-theme
- The Changelog #17: Open Source publishing with Geoffrey Grosenbach, Brandon Mathis, and Tim Caswell
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The HTTP/2 Spec (Interview)
Ilya Grigorik is back again — this time we’re talking about his true passion, internet plumbing, web performance, and the HTTP/2 spec. We cover everything around HTTP/2, the spec, HTTP/1 history, SPDY, binary framing layer, the semantics of HTTP/2, pipelining, multiplexing, header compression (HPACK), server push, TLS, “time to glass”, upgrading, adoption, support, and more.
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- Ilya Grigorik – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Ilya Grigorik (@igrigorik) on Twitter
- Ilya Grigorik on GitHub
- The Changelog #55: Goliath, Event Machine, and SPDY with Ilya Grigorik
- The Changelog #144: GitHub Archive and Changelog Nightly with Ilya GrigorikChangelog
- High Performance Browser Networking
- Chapter 12. HTTP/2 - High Performance Browser Networking
- HTTP/2 in one slide
- Application-Layer Protocol Negotiation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Is TLS Fast Yet?
- Implementations · http2/http2-spec Wiki
- h2o/h2o
- Nghttp2: HTTP/2 C Library - nghttp2.org
- Jetty - Servlet Engine and Http Server
- Website Performance Optimization Testing Course - Udacity
- SPDY: An experimental protocol for a faster web - The Chromium Projects
- Changelog Weekly - Issue #54
- Changelog Weekly - Issue #55
- Google’s Ilya Grigorik on HTTP 2.0
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Ampersand.js, SPAs, WebRTC (Interview)
Henrik Joreteg joined the show to talk about Single Page Apps (SPAs), Ampersand.js, WebRTC, JavaScript coding styles, and more.
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Henrik Joreteg is a JavaScript Developer, the author of Human JavaScript, and the creator of Ampersand.js.
- Henrik Joreteg (@HenrikJoreteg) on Twitter
- Henrik Joreteg on GitHub
- &yet
- Read Human JavaScript for free online!
- Ampersand.js
- Intro to npm, Browserify & Modules
- Henrik’s “A Single Page Story” talk
- RealtimeConf 2015
- Subscribe to Changelog Weekly
- Did You Pick the Wrong Web Framework?!
- MonolithFirst
- feross/standard
- Backbone.js
- HenrikJoreteg/SimpleWebRTC
- WebRTC in the real world: STUN, TURN and signaling - HTML5 Rocks
- ORTC (Object RTC) | Object API for RTC – Mobile, Server, Web
- Otalk
- Loren Brichter (@lorenb) on Twitter
- Loren Brichter on GitHub
- TJ Holowaychuk on GitHub
- Feross Aboukhadijeh on GitHub
- Guillermo Rauch on GitHub
- React Native
- Surge - Static Web Publishing for Front-End Developers
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Sustaining Open Source Software (Interview)
Mike Perham joined the show to talk about sustaining open source software, living a healthy life, how to treat one another, and more.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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Mike Perham is a well known open source software developer and author of the beloved Sidekiq and Inspeqtor.
- Mike Perham (@mperham) on Twitter
- Mike Perham on Twitter “I would be happy to chat with podcasters or bloggers about sustainable OSS to raise more awareness of the subject.”
- Sidekiq - background processing for Ruby
- Inspeqtor - application infrastructure monitoring
- The Changelog #130: Inspeqtor and OSS Products with Mike Perham
- 410 Gone on Twitter: “You can find me on github, but other than that, no more. Sorry. If it’s not directly related to work, I’m done.”
- 410 Gone on Twitter: “I also feel the need to say that this has been a few years’ coming, if you’re just reading my TL, you probably don’t get it.”
- Daniel Stenberg (@bagder) on Twitter
- Burnout — Medium
- Medium search for “burnout”
- Hacker News search for “burnout”
- Rubber duck debugging - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Help Ian Warshak Climb Mt Kilimanjaro (GoFundMe)
- Buy a Changelog tee shirt for $20 (they’re super comfy)
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Building Bridges (Interview)
Sarah Allen, cofounder of RailsBridge and Bridge Foundry, joined the show to talk about the incredible ability to make something with software, leading and teaching a community, teaching programming to kids, programming is a life skill, and more.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Beverly Nelson – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
In her day job, Sarah works with 18F to transform US Government digital services, and in her spare time works to diversify Ruby on Rails with RailsBridge, and Bridge Foundry.
We also have Beverly Nelson joining today’s show as a guest host.
- Sarah Allen (@ultrasaurus) on Twitter
- on being an ally - the evolving ultrasaurus
- the evolving ultrasaurus - Sarah Allen’s reflections on internet software and other topics
- The Changelog #146: Mind the Gender Parity Gap with Sarah Mei
- Git Resources for Visual Learners - The Changelog
- Photosynthesis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- ng-bridge/organizing
- Bridge Troll
- railsbridge/bridge_troll
- 18F/midas
- Midas
- ENIAC
- Kathleen “Kay” McNulty
- Betty Jean Jennings
- ENIAC Programmers Project
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Modern WordPress using Bedrock and Sage (Interview)
Ben Word and Scott Walkinshaw joined the show to talk about a more modern WordPress stack, Bedrock and Sage, dependency management, WordPress deployment, smarter development setup with tools like Ansible and Vagrant, and more.
If you’re someone who wants to use WordPress in more modern ways, this show is for you.
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Ben and Scott run Roots, a team of folks who help you build better WordPress sites faster with Bedrock and Sage.
- Ben Word (@retlehs) on Twitter
- Ben Word (@retlehs) on GitHub
- Scott Walkinshaw (@swalkinshaw) on Twitter
- Scott Walkinshaw (@swalkinshaw) on GitHub
- Roots - Modern WordPress Development
- Sage - WordPress Starter Theme
- roots/sage
- Bedrock - Modern WordPress Stack
- roots/bedrock
- Composer - Dependency Manager for PHP
- Blueprint CSS (super old, but it’s where things began)
- roots/bedrock-ansible
- roots/roots-example-project.com
- [Screencast] Using Composer With WordPress
- Screencasts from Roots
- The Changelog #142: Laravel PHP Framework with Taylor Otwell
- Ansible - DevOps made simple
- Vagrant - Create and configure lightweight, reproducible, and portable development environments
- Varying-Vagrant-Vagrants/VVV
- BrowserSync - Time-saving synchronised browser testing
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GopherCon 2015 (Interview)
Brian Ketelsen and Erik St. Martin, the organizers of GopherCon, joined the show to talk about what it takes to create and run a conference like GopherCon, the size of the event, the speaking track, after-parties, hack day, workshops, and more. We also covered their focus on diversity with their Diversity Scholarship Support Fund that anyone can support, even those who don’t plan to attend, as well as their child care options to ensure even those with children have the opportunity to attend.
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Changelog will be at GopherCon 2015! Yes, we’re taking The Changelog and Changelog Films on the road to cover GopherCon 2015 so make sure you say hi when you see us.
- Erik St. Martin (@erikstmartin) | Twitter
- erikstmartin (Erik St. Martin)
- Brian Ketelsen (@bketelsen) | Twitter
- bketelsen (Brian Ketelsen)
- Gophercon 2015
- Gophercon 2015 - Sponsors
- GopherCon Kickoff Party - Denver Gophers Meetup (Tuesday, July 7, 2015)
- Gophercon 2015 - After Party
- The Changelog’s 2015 Conference Scene · Issue #129 · thechangelog/ping
- Beyond Code - Season 1 Teaser
- Changelog Weekly
- Go in Action
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The Future of Node.js (Interview)
Scott Hammond, the CEO of Joyent, joined the show to talk about the history of Node, Joyent’s interest in Node, how they’ve handled the stewardship of Node over the years, their support of io.js joining Node Foundation, the convergence of the code bases for a stronger more inclusive Node community.
At the tail end of the show, just when you think it’s over, keep listening because we got Scott back on the call to discuss the news that came this week of the io.js TC voting to join Node Foundation.
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Joyent has been the core sponsor and steward of Node.js since its beginning.
- @Scott_Hammond on Twitter
- Joyent.com
- Joyent on GitHub
- @mikeal - “io.js TC just voted to join the Node Foundation.”
- io.js TC Meeting 2015-05-13
- io.js TC Meeting 2015-05-13 Issue on GitHub
- merge vs rebase ontop of io.js (GitHub Issue #6)
- Node.js Advisory Board
- Growing Up - io.js needs a foundation
- joyent/node
- iojs/io.js
- node.js & io.js convergence repo - jasnell/node.js-convergence
- The Node.js Foundation benefits all
- Node.js and io.js leaders are building an open, neutral Node.js Foundation to support the future of the platform
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All Things Ruby with 2015's Ruby Heroes (Interview)
Our guests this week are 2015’s RUBY HEROES! Big show today, lots of great Ruby talk with these heroes, great insights from this past year of Ruby, and more.
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And here are this year’s Ruby Heroes:
- Eileen Uchitelle - @eileencodes
- Jeremy Evans - @jeremyevans0
- Nobuyoshi Nakada - @n0kada
- Sam Saffron - @samsaffron
- Sarah Mei - @sarahmei
- Zachary Scott - @_zzak
- Ruby Hero Awards
- Ruby Heroes Awards Video
- nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)
- eileencodes (Eileen M. Uchitelle)
- sarahmei (Sarah Mei)
- zzak (Zachary Scott)
- jeremyevans (Jeremy Evans)
- SamSaffron (Sam)
- hone (Terence Lee)
- Gregg (Gregg Pollack)
- mruby
- ko1 (Koichi Sasada)
- Opal: Ruby to Javascript Compiler
- Roda: Routing Tree Web Framework Toolkit
- seattlerb/minitest
- discourse/discourse_docker
- Ruby Together
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17 Years of curl (Interview)
Daniel Stenberg joined the show to talk about curl and libcurl and how he has spent at least 2 hours every day for the past 17 years working on and maintaining curl. That’s over 13k hours! We covered the origins of curl, how he chooses projects to work on, why he has remained so dedicated to curl all these years, the various version control systems curl has used, licensing, and more.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
We talk through the past 17 years of this staple tool to the community and hear what Daniel has learned on his journey.
- Follow Daniel on Twitter
- daniel.haxx.se
- Daniel Stenberg on YouTube
- curl and libcurl
- curl on the NASDAQ tower
- curl, 17 years old today
- curl - Changes
- curl - Companies Using curl
- curl - Man page
- curl - THANKS
- Make a Donation to the curl Project
- The commit that started it all – bagder/curl
- Listen to the teaser for this episode to learn about a “magic feature” of curl that’s been there for over 6 years
- Richard Stallman’s Personal Page
- Richard Stallman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Linus Torvalds - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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BONUS — Magic cURL Feature (Interview)
This is a bonus clip from the after call with Daniel Stenberg for episode #153. Daniel shared the details of a “magic feature” in cURL that’s been there for over 6 years. It’s a feature he feels most people don’t know exists.
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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To start using this “magic feature”, create a .curlrc dotfile in your root with the following settings to set the -O flag by default on all URLs fetched using cURL.
# Default to -O
--remote-name-all
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TypeScript and open source at Microsoft (Interview)
Anders Hejlsberg and Jonathan Turner from the TypeScript team at Microsoft joined the show to talk about TypeScript, a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript from Microsoft. We cover Microsoft’s acceptance and support of open source, why they open sourced TypeScript, the language design, adoption, how to get started, and the future of the language.
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- Anders Hejlsberg – GitHub, X
- Jonathan Turner – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Anders is the language architect and Jonathan is the Program Manager for TypeScript.
- Roadmap · Microsoft/TypeScript Wiki
- Microsoft/TypeScript
- Welcome to TypeScript
- Follow Jonathan Turner on Twitter
- Follow Anders Hejlsberg on Twitter
- Delphi (programming language) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Turbo Pascal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Handbook - Welcome to TypeScript
- Microsoft/TypeScript-Sublime-Plugin
- palantir/eclipse-typescript
- atom-typescript
- borisyankov/DefinitelyTyped
- Home | DefinitelyTyped
- TypeScript/spec.md at master · Microsoft/TypeScript
- Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs (Prentice-Hall Series in Automatic Computation): Niklaus Wirth: 9780130224187: Amazon.com: Books
- Niklaus Wirth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Architectural Overview · Microsoft/TypeScript Wiki
- The Changelog #134: Open Sourcing .NET Core with the Microsoft .NET team
- The Changelog #148: The State of Go in 2015 with Andrew Gerrand
- The Changelog #151: Rust with Steve Klabnik and Yehuda Katz
- Monaca
- Gerrit Code Review
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The Rust Programming Language (Interview)
Steve Klabnik and Yehuda Katz joined the show to talk about the Rust Programming Language, a systems programming language from Mozilla Research. We covered memory safety without garbage collection, security, the Rust 1.0 Beta, getting started with Rust, and we even hypothesize about the future of the Rust.
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- Steve Klabnik – Website, GitHub, X
- Yehuda Katz – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Steve and Yehuda are core team members of Rust.
- Steve Klabnik
- Yehuda Katz
- Steve Klabnik comments on “Rust 1.0.0 beta is here!” on Reddit
- Rust Means Never Having to Close a Socket
- The Rust Programming Language
- The Rust Programming Language on Reddit
- Style Guidelines
- Cargo, Rust’s Package Manager
- Zinc: An experimental attempt to write an ARM stack that would be similar to CMSIS or mbed in capabilities but would show rust’s best safety features applied to embedded development.
- Skylight
- Is the six-week release cycle too frequent? - Proposals - Ember.JS
- Yehuda Katz on Twitter: “Just posted a long set of thoughts on the 6-week-release-cycle discussion we’ve been having on the Ember Discourse”
- Let’s Talk About Rust by Yehuda Katz - Confreaks TV
- The Rust Book
- Rust by Example
- Rust for Rubyists
- Rust Users Forum
- Rust Development Forum (Internals)
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Internet Connected Things Using Spark (Interview)
Zach Supalla joined the show to talk about Spark - a complete, open source, full stack solution for creating amazing internet connected things. We talk about making connected hardware easier, using Kickstarter to fund hardware projects, and Amazon’s new Dash Button. Zach also gave us a crash course on how to get started with making your own hardware.
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Spark is fully open source on GitHub from hardware to software and Zach goes deep in this episode to school us on everything we need to know.
“Building an open source business is challenging because you’re giving away a lot of what you do. So the question is, how do you build a viable business that way?” - Zach Supalla @ 23:22
- Follow Zach Supalla on Twitter
- Spark | Open source IoT toolkit
- Spark Socket
- WarKitteh - Spark Projects
- Kickstarter - Spark Electron: Cellular dev kit with a global data plan by Spark IO
- rwaldron/johnny-five
- Amazon Dash Button
- The Changelog #147: Elixir and Phoenix with Chris McCord
- Atom: free and open source for everyone
- The Changelog #104: Kickstarting Espruino with Gordon Williams
- Spark Docs | Javascript SDK
- spark/sparkjs
- spark/spark-cli
- spark/spark-dev
- Hardware design uses open source too! · Issue #104 · thechangelog/ping
- OSH Park
- Prototype to Production
- Hacking the Xbox: An Introduction to Reverse Engineering
- Novena Laptop
- Andrew (bunnie) Huang
- Metalsmith
- WarSting: A Wi-Fi scanning sword for Hobbits
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React, React Native, Flux, Relay, GraphQL (Interview)
Christopher “vjeux” Chedeau and Spencer Ahrens joined the show to talk about React, React Native, Flux, Relay, and GraphQL. They also announce on this show that React Native is now open source on GitHub.
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Christopher Chedeau and Spencer Ahrens are software engineers on the React team at Facebook.
“Now there’s one unified development experience… You learn Javascript, you learn React, and you learn some of these stylesheet concepts, and that travels with you to whatever platform you’re working on.” - Spencer Ahrens @ 24:33
- Christopher Chedeau
- Spencer Ahrens
- facebook/react
- React - a JavaScript library for building user interfaces
- React Tutorial
- facebook/react-native
- Flux - Application Architecture for Building User Interfaces
- React blog - Introducing Relay and GraphQL
- React.js Conf 2015 - YouTube
- Building The Facebook News Feed With Relay
- React Native (Site and Newsletter)
- JSX Specification
- Flexbox
- AsyncDisplayKit
- F8 2015
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The State of Go in 2015 (Interview)
Andrew Gerrand joined the show to talk about the state of Go in 2015, how Go compares to other concurrent languages, why people choose Go over other languages, the C to Go toolchain conversion, and what’s coming in version 1.5 and 1.6 of Go.
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Andrew works on the Go Programming Language at Google.
“The reasons why I choose Go (and I think why other people choose go) are a lot to do with programmer joy… the overriding sentiment amongst Go users is that Go just gets out of your way and lets you write code.” - Andrew Gerrand @ 18:32
- Andrew’s slides for The State of Go in 2015
- Andrew Gerrand (@enneff) | Twitter
- Andrew Gerrand on Github
- The Changelog #100: Go programming with Rob Pike and Andrew Gerrand
- The Changelog #3: Google’s Go Programming Language
- golang/go on GitHub
- Facebook, Mercurial or Git? - The Changelog
- FOSDEM Conf
- OSCON
- Go + HTTP/2
- Cool Math Games
- Gerrit
- Go Kit
- Go and the Modern Enterprise - Peter Bourgon - London Go Gathering 2015
- Beats, Rye & Types Podcast
- Go Programming Playlist - Youtube
- KievII - GUI Javascript library for web audio applications developers
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Elixir and Phoenix (Interview)
Chris McCord joined the show to take us on a deep dive into the Phoenix web framework and Elixir. We covered the similarities between Ruby and Erlang, getting started with Elixir, and deploying Phoenix. He also shared his plans for the 1.0 release and the future of Phoenix.
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- Postico – A Modern PostgreSQL Client for the Mac.
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- Chris McCord – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Chris McCord is the creator of the Phoenix web framework.
“Jose said it best… When he first looked into Erlang, he loved everything he saw, but hated everything he didn’t see. That’s how Elixir came about; filling in the gaps, building off all the things he loved.” - Chris McCord
- Chris McCord
- Follow Chris on Twitter
- Chris McCord on Github
- Littlelines - Ruby on Rails Consulting, Development, and Web Design in Ohio
- Elixir
- Phoenix
- Community Member Benefits
- Elixir Sips | Learn Elixir With a Pro
- Confreaks TV | Elixir Conf 2014 - Rise of The Phoenix - Building an Elixir Web Framework
- phoenixframework/phoenix
- Phoenix 0.10 Screencast: Live-reload in Action
- Phoenix 0.10 Screencast: Asset Compilation, Live-reload, & Generators
- Getting Started with Phoenix · Phoenix
- Installing Elixir - Elixir
- What is OTP? It’s The Open Telecom Platform!
- Metaprogramming Elixir: Write Less Code, Get More Done (and Have Fun!)
- Elixir Conf EU
- Matsumoto
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Mind the Gender Parity Gap (Interview)
Sarah Mei joined the show to talk through a recent article she authored titled “Mind the Gap” and why we’re missing our best chance for gender parity. We discussed our innate subconscious assumptions and prejudices towards one another, how we alienate women from the developer communities, and what we can do to step across this gap and make a conscious effort to combat those assumptions.
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Sarah shares stories about her work in trying to bring more diversity into the coding community, the credibility gap, what she’s learned from starting RailsBridge, how to reduce bias while searching for employees and conference speakers, and more.
Sarah is also the Founder of RailsBridge, the Director of Ruby Central, and a Chief Consultant at DevMynd.
- Sarah Mei (@sarahmei) - Twitter
- Sarah Mei (sarahmei) - GitHub
- Mind the Gap
- [Guest idea] Sarah Mei · Issue #150 · thechangelog/ping
- DevMynd Jobs (Working at DevMynd)
- RailsBridge
- RailsBridge Docs - Open Source Docs and Curriculum
- Bridge Foundry
- ClojureBridge
- MobileBridge
- Bridge Troll
- Ruby Central
- rubycentral/cfp-app
- A Huge List of Koans - Beverly Nelson
- Pairing with Junior Developers
- Institutional Barriers for Women of Color at Code Schools - Model View Culture
- Coding Like a Girl — Medium
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10+ Years of Rails (Interview)
David Heinemeier Hansson, aka DHH joined the show to talk through the past, present, and future of Ruby on Rails — the most beloved web application framework in the Ruby community.
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- David Heinemeier Hansson – GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Ruby on Rails has influenced many frameworks over the years, and David shares with us a candid look at 10+ Years of Ruby on Rails.
David shares stories about why he started Ruby on Rails, and explains why programmers should market their projects. He discussed his early work on Rails, some of the early early contributors to Rails, how the success of Basecamp helped Rails succeed (and vice versa), the io.js & Node.js complications, his thoughts on getting paid for working on open source, and so much more.
“If programming is going to be the thing I spend my time on, it damn well better be awesome. I need to have a good time.” - DHH @ 9:42
- Ruby on Rails
- The ORIGINAL Ruby on Rails demo – Building a blog in 15 minutes with DHH
- REMOTE: The new book from 37signals
- REWORK: The new business book from 37signals.
- The Hottest Hacker on Earth | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
- RailsConf
- RubyConf
- Riding Rails: Rails 1.0: Party like it’s one oh oh!
- Riding Rails: Rails 2.0: It’s done!
- Riding Rails: Rails 3.0: It’s ready!
- Riding Rails: Rails 4.0: Final version released!
- The Road to Merb 1.0 with Ezra Zygmuntowicz
- DHH on Twitter: “More than 3800 people have contributed code to the core Rails framework”
- DHH on Twitter: “@codesoda @steveklabnik I’d rather you spend the $$ on having your people contribute to Rails on company time, if you want.”
- DHH on Twitter: “Rails is obligation-free software. See the MIT license. You can use it to make a trillion billion and not owe anyone royalties.”
- DHH on Twitter: “Flip side: Do not contribute patches to Rails under the false notion that users of the framework will then be indebted to reward you.”
- DHH on Twitter: “You don’t owe me anything to use Rails, and I don’t owe you anything for you using it.”
- DHH on Twitter: “@steveklabnik What’s your time horizon of sustainability? Rails has been rocking that model for 10+ years.”
- DHH on Twitter: “Congratulations to @shopify for deploying on Rails 4.1. Same app has been on Rails since 2005. 10 yrs later they’re an Ecommerce powerhouse.”
- DHH on Twitter: “Rails 5 will target Ruby 2.2+ exclusively, so we can rely on symbol GC and kwargs to cleanup a bunch of cruft. Ruby on Rails keeps moving!”
- DHH on Twitter: “After all these years, programming Ruby through TextMate to make Rails dance for the web remains one of my favorite activities in the world.”
- Ruby on Rails on Twitter: “2014 has seen 708 contributors get their patches accepted into Rails: http://t.co/18k1hh0vd7 — what a spectacular community effort!”
- DHH on Twitter: “@thomasfuchs @thijs Github is on 3.0 now. On the way to 4.x. 2.3 is five years old! Rails has lived as long again as it had at the time.”
- DHH on Twitter: “The original reality-compressed 15 minute Rails demo — including WUPS!”
- DHH on Twitter: “@gordo24 I think Rails has never been in a better position regarding code, community, and leadership. Broader and more engaged than ever.”
- DHH on Twitter: “Staggering collaborative effort on Rails. Almost 12,000 pull requests processed. Just 419 still open. Incredible.”
- DHH on Twitter: “Hard to comprehend how far Ruby and Rails have come since 2004 where I attended a 40-person RubyConf with just a few doing paid Ruby.”
- [Book] Punished by Rewards - by Alfie Kohn
- [Hero] Ward Cunningham
- [Hero] Dave Thomas
- [Hero] Martin Fowler
- Ruby Mailing Lists
- Kombucha
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GitHub Archive and Changelog Nightly (Interview)
Ilya Grigorik joined the show to talk about GitHub Archive, logging and archiving GitHub’s public event data, and how he uses Google BigQuery to make querying that data accessible to everyone.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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Ilya is a web performance engineer at Google where he works day and night making the web faster.
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- GitHub Archive
- Subscribe to Changelog Nightly
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- thechangelog/nightly - GitHub
- Google BigQuery - Fully Managed Big Data Analytics Service — Google Cloud Platform
- The Changelog #55: Goliath, Event Machine, and SPDY with Ilya Grigorik
- Ilya Grigorik - igvita.com
- Dremel (software) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- GitHut - Programming Languages and GitHub
- Email updates? · Issue #83 · igrigorik/githubarchive.org
- The Chromium Projects
- High Performance Browser Networking
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Front-end Developer Interview Questions (Interview)
Darcy Clarke joined the show to talk about his repo on the HTML5 Boilerplate org on GitHub “Front-end Developer Interview Questions”. We discussed why the repo has been so successful, the challenges of translating a text document into multiple languages, managing contributions, the art of interviewing, how the expectations of front-end developers have evolved over time, and how to stay relevant in our fast moving industry.
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- Darcy Clarke – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Darcy is the creator of the Front-end Developer Interview Questions project on the H5BP org on GitHub – it’s “a list of helpful front-end related questions you can use to interview potential candidates, test yourself or completely ignore.”
At the end of the episode, we turned the tables on Darcy and asked him a few questions from the list.
“The goal is to try to have the (interview) question be more open ended, and hopefully it starts a discussion between the interviewer and interviewee.” - Darcy Clarke @ 12:28
“This document is like a high school english assignment, with over 100 group members, and they all have differing opinions, and there’s a ton of different subjects… It’s the worst kind of open source project.” - Darcy Clarke @ 22:56
- h5bp/Front-end-Developer-Interview-Questions
- darcyclarke (Darcy Clarke)
- darcyclarke/DSS
- Front-end Job Interview Questions | Darcy Clarke
- What I learned interviewing with Google | Wes Bos
- Join us on The Changelog (today?) · Issue #258 · h5bp/Front-end-Developer-Interview-Questions
- How io.js built a 146 person, 27 language localization effort… in one day. — Medium
- auduno/clmtrackr
- The Changelog #67: HTML5 Boilerplate, Modernizr, and more with Paul Irish
- Flipboard/react-canvas
- Paul Irish
- Wes Bos
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Laravel PHP Framework (Interview)
Taylor Otwell, the creator of the Laravel PHP framework, joined the show for a deep dive into Laravel, why he doesn’t release without good documentation, building apps to test your own framework, writing an API for Lavarel Forge, and more.
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- Taylor Otwell
- Follow Taylor on Twitter
- Laravel
- Laravel - Docs
- Lavavel Elixir
- Laravel Forge
- Laravel Homestead
- Blade Templating
- Snappy
- Twig Parser
- Packagist
- Laracasts
- Laravel 5 Fundamentals
- Laracasts - Meet Composer
- adamgoose/forge-cli
- Composer | Dependency manager for PHP
- Jeffrey Way
- Dayle Rees
- Vagrant Press
- Statamic
- Laracon
- Laravel: From Apprentice To Artisan
- Dayle Rees (@daylerees)
- Just Park
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Going fulltime on The Changelog (Interview)
BIG news! This is the episode where we discuss Adam going fulltime on The Changelog.
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For last two years, Adam has been rebuilding The Changelog from the ground up in his spare time, nights and weekends, and everywhere in between. As of this week, running The Changelog has become his full-time job.
Adam gave his two week notice to resign from his comfortable, enjoyable, job with Pure Charity to go full-time on this thing. Hopefully, one day we can look back on this episode and say this is where things began.
This is HUGE for us. Read the full story.
- Read the full story here.
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Aurelia, Durandal, Leaving AngularJS (Interview)
Rob Eisenberg joined the show to talk about why he left the AngularJS team, how the community responded, the allure of working for Google and getting paid to work on open source full time, why someone might choose Aurelia over other frameworks, and more.
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Rob is a former AngularJS team member, who left the AngularJS team to work on his own startup, Durandal Inc and their first open source product Aurelia, a next generation JavaScript client framework that supports ES6, WebComponents, Object.observe and more.
- Leaving Angular
- Introducing Aurelia Video
- [Guest idea] Rob Eisenberg, keeper of DurandalJS, an OSS JS project · Issue #96 · thechangelog/ping
- Home | Durandal
- Home | Aurelia
- Rob Eisenberg (@EisenbergEffect) | Twitter
- Rob Eisenberg | EisenbergEffect
- jspm.io - Frictionless Browser Package Management
- systemjs
- 6to5 Compiler
- 6to5 Name Suggestions
- Seth Godin: The Dip
- Eric Evans (@ericevans0) | Twitter
- Domain Driven Design
- Guy Bedford
- Rebecca Wirfs-Brock
- Uncle Bob Martin
- .NET Rocks!
- Herding Code Podcast
- Javascript Jabber
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The Rise of io.js (Interview)
Mikeal Rogers joined the show to talk about io.js, a friendly fork of Node.js with an open governance model. We discussed why the io.js fork exists, why they choose open governance, the roadmap and future of io.js, supporting ES6, burnout while working in open source, and the steps you can take to get involved with the future of io.js and Node.js.
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- Mikeal Rogers on Github
- io.js - JavaScript I/O
- io.js - ES6 on io.js
- iojs/roadmap
- indutny (Fedor Indutny)
- Before the Drama | hueniverse
- Node Forward
- Node Conf
- nodeschool.io
- Oakland.js
- Node Conf One-Shot
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rkt, App Container Spec, CoreOS (Interview)
Alex Polvi, CEO of CoreOS, joined the show to talk about their new open source product rkt, their App Container Spec, and CoreOS - the container only server OS focused on securing the internet.
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- Alex Polvi (@polvi) on Twitter
- Changelog Weekly - Issue #32
- CoreOS Calls Docker “Fundamentally Flawed,” Launches Its Own Container Runtime (TechCrunch)
- CoreOS.com - Linux for Massive Server Deployments
- Using docker with CoreOS
- CoreOS is building a container runtime, Rocket
- spec/SPEC.md at master · appc/spec
- Quay.io New Features
- Docker Blog: Initial Thoughts on the Rocket Announcement
- The Changelog #89: Docker, LXC and dotCloud with Solomon Hykes
- coreos/etcd
- Programming Hero: John Gilmore’s home page
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Better GitHub Issues with HuBoard (Interview)
Adam and Jerod talk with Ryan built about HuBoard - a project management solution for teams and organizations using GitHub. He gives us an inside look at how he created HuBoard, how he made the transition from free service to paid users, the technical challenges of getting set up to handle enterprise, and more.
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How do you build a business on top of the Github API? What are the technical challenges of serving big enterprise with your SasS? What would you do if Github wanted to acquire your business? Ryan Rauh joins us today to answer these questions.
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- rauhryan (Ryan Rauh)
- Ryan Rauh (@rauhryan) | Twitter
- HuBoard - GitHub issues made awesome.
- rauhryan/huboard
- Contributor License Agreement
- HuBoard Enterprise
- Crushpath :: It’s time for new business.
- Charles Lowell (@cowboyd) | Twitter
- GitHub Enterprise - The best way to build and ship software
- Faye: Simple pub/sub messaging for the web
- Ember.js - A framework for creating ambitious web applications.
- The Changelog #131: The Road to Ember 2.0 with Tom Dale and Yehuda Katz
Podcast recommendations from Ryan Rauh:
- The Joe Rogan Experience Podcast
- The Frontside Podcast
- Ruby Rogues
- Javascript Jabber
- Herding Code Podcast
- Ruby 5 Podcast
- Ruby on Rails Podcast
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Phusion Passenger (aka Ruby Raptor) (Interview)
Adam and Jerod talk with Hong Lai, one of the co-founders of Phusion. His company recently got a lot of attention for their upcoming version of Phusion Passenger, which they decided to call Ruby Raptor in a clever marketing play to get people excited about Passenger again. It worked, and we invited Hongli on the show to talk about Passenger/Ruby Raptor, the challenges of marketing open source, and how to get the internet excited about your next version.
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Hongli Lai
- Follow Hongli on Twitter
- Follow Hongli on GitHub
- Phusion Passenger
- phusion/passenger
- Ruby Raptor - A radically new Ruby web server
- Raptor Turbo Caching
- Phusion Products
- Introducing Phusion Passenger 5 beta 1, codename “Raptor” - Phusion Corporate BlogPhusion Corporate Blog
- phusion/traveling-ruby
- The Changelog #34: Mongrel2, guitar, and more with Zed Shaw
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End of Year 2014 (Interview)
Adam and Jerod close out the year and give thanks to everyone who helps support The Changelog – community members, listeners, readers, sponsors, as well as our various partners. We also discuss top topics from 2014, Changelog Weekly and how we use Trello as a CMS, contributing to the topics we cover through our Ping repo on GitHub, and what’s to come in 2015.
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- Changelog Community -Slack everyday with friends, Join the community!!
- Changelog Community Benefits - Join today to get access to the goods! It’s FREE!!
- Changelog Store - Store!!
- Changelog Weekly - Our editorialized take on what happened this week in open source and software development.
- Changelog Weekly Archive - editorialized take on this week in open source and software development.
- Changelog Weekly - Issue #29
- Changelog Weekly - Issue #30
- Changelog Weekly - Issue #31
- Changelog Weekly - Issue #32
- Changelog Weekly - Issue #33
- [Guest idea] Rob Eisenberg, keeper of DurandalJS, an OSS JS project · Issue #96 · thechangelog/ping
- Lets talk about Perl! · Issue #87 · thechangelog/ping
- Laravel: The PHP Framework for Web Artisans · Issue #31 · thechangelog/ping
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Open Sourcing .NET Core (Interview)
Adam and Jerod talk with the members of the .NET Core team at Microsoft about Microsoft’s motivation for open sourcing the base class libraries of .NET, open source vs source open, the true goal of open sourcing .NET Core, and this new Microsoft we’ve been seeing.
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- Rich Lander on Twitter
- Immo Landwerth on Twitter
- Varun Gupta on Twitter
- .NET Core is Open Source - .NET Blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs
- Introducing .NET Core - .NET Blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs
- Microsoft on GitHub
- One Week of Open Source - .NET Blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs
- .NET Foundation - Welcome to the .NET Foundation
- .NET Foundation - .NET Foundation Projects
- .NET Foundation Forums
- A less terrible .NET project build with NuGet - You’ve Been Haacked
- winjs/winjs
- NuGet.org
- .NET on The Changelog! · Issue #128 · dotnet/corefx
- .NET Channel on Changelog
- #76: .NET, NuGet, and open source with Phil Haack - The Changelog
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All things Perl (Interview)
Adam and Jerod talk with Curtis “Ovid” Poe about how he got started with Perl, what Perl is really good at, why he doesn’t expect everyone to love Perl, why Perl doesn’t get no respect, the difference between Perl 5 and Perl 6, and why the Perl community doesn’t like marketing.
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- Curtis Poe – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Curtis “Ovid” Poe - Twitter
- Ovid - GitHub
- Beginning Perl by Curtis Poe - Amazon.com
- Larry Wall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Lets talk about Perl! · Issue #87 · thechangelog/ping
- Learn Perl - learn.perl.org
- John Siracusa discusses Perl on Hypercritical | Philip Durbin [blogs.perl.org]
- John Siracusa’s Perl Page
- COBOL - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Booking.com dev blog
- Curtis Poe (Ovid) - Roles versus Inheritance - YouTube
- Ovid/Role-Basic
- Roles without Moose? | Ovid [blogs.perl.org]
- Is Perl 6 pointless, hopeless or just not done? | David Golden
- What is happening with Perl 6 and Larry Wall? : perl
- Role::Tiny - search.cpan.org
- Moose::Role - search.cpan.org
- miyagawa/cpanminus
- Catalyst | Perl MVC web application framework
- Damian Conway - Perl Best Practices
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Buckets CMS on Node.js (Interview)
Adam and Jerod talk with David Kaneda about Buckets (a simple, open source CMS built on Node.js), how he’s building Buckets, what competing with Wordpress and Drupal is like, the process of working with people on Assembly, and more.
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- Buckets homepage
- asm-products/buckets - Official Repo
- The Vision for Buckets · asm-products/buckets
- Buckets org on GitHub
- Buckets on Assembly
- bucketsio/skeleton - a basic template for creating a new Buckets project (w/ Heroku support)
- Buckets branding & illustrations bounty on Assembly
- #30: Sencha Touch with David Kaneda - The Changelog
- Mongoose ODM v3.8.19
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The Road to Ember 2.0 (Interview)
Adam and Jerod talk with Tom Dale and Yehuda Katz about the road to Ember 2.0 and the complete front-end stack it is today.
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- Tom Dale – Website, GitHub, X
- Yehuda Katz – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- tomdale (Tom Dale)
- wycats (Yehuda Katz)
- Tilde Inc.
- Ember.js - A framework for creating ambitious web applications.
- The Road to Ember 2.0 RFC (by tomdale - emberjs/rfcs)
- The Post-1.0 Release Cycle
- Skylight
- Heroku Dashboard
- discourse/discourse
- Matz - The Power and Philosophy of Ruby - OSCON 2003
- React - A Javascript Library for Building User Interfaces
- AngularJS - Superheroic JavaScript MVW Framework
- Yukihiro Matsumoto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Inspeqtor and OSS Products (Interview)
Adam and Jerod talk with Mike Perham about his new project Inspeqtor and his approach to better application infrastructure monitoring.
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- Introducing Inspeqtor | Mike Perham
- mperham/inspeqtor
- lunchy: A friendly wrapper for OS X launchctl - The Changelog
- Earn a Sidekiq blackbelt by breaking a few boards - The Changelog
- The Changelog #92: Sidekiq, Ruby, and more with Mike Perham - The Changelog
- dalli: High performance memcached client for Ruby - The Changelog
- Inspeqtor - application infrastructure monitoring
- Sidekiq - background processing for Ruby
- The Path to Full-time Open Source | Mike Perham
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The PHP Language Specification (Interview)
Adam and Jerod talk with Sara Golemon about her work at Facebook, The PHP Language Specification, and making PHP awesome.
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Featuring:
- Sara Goleman – GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Facebook’s HipHop leaves PHPers dancing - The Changelog
- HHVM
- php.standards: Specification live on git.php.net
- About CC0 — “No Rights Reserved” - Creative Commons
- php.internals: Re: PHP Language Specification
CC0 license - Announcing a specification for PHP « HHVM
- RexJaeschke (Rex Jaeschke)
- nikic (Nikita Popov)
- Extending and Embedding PHP: Sara Golemon: 9780672327049: Amazon.com: Books
- Hack
- PHP: rfc:abstract_syntax_tree
- PHP: rfc:switch.default.multiple
- sgolemon/libssh2
- @ffffux: Open Source Pro Tip: non-coding contributors are awesome…
- Facebook, Mercurial or Git? - The Changelog
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Lineman.js and JavaScript apps (Interview)
Adam and Jerod talk with Justin Searls about Lineman.js, building for the web with JavaScript, and his abstract “The Social Coding Contract.”
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CHANGELOG
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- Justin Searls – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- searls (Justin Searls)
- Justin Searls (searls) on Twitter
- Test Double | Custom Software Development | Columbus Ohio
- Lineman - Build awesome web apps, easily.
- linemanjs/lineman - GitHub
- Yeoman - The web’s scaffolding tool for modern webapps
- the-social-coding-contract.md
- Jim Weirich - Wikipedia
- Ruby Rogues #151 - Jim Weirich Tribute
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Keep a CHANGELOG (Interview)
Adam and Jerod talk with Olivier Lacan about keeping a CHANGELOG and his passion for keeping a human facing, readable history, for software projects.
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Featuring:
- Olivier Lacan – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Olivier Lacan
- Keep a Changelog
- olivierlacan/keep-a-changelog
- @Changelog: On ‘Keeping a CHANGELOG’ …
- The standard CHANGELOG file for all open source projects
- Why not just use GitHub release notes?
- Isn’t a CHANGELOG about all changes not just important changes?
- Keep a changelog for each minor release?
- Aaron Swartz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Tim Berners-Lee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Lawrence Lessig - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Xiki and Reimagining the Shell (Interview)
Adam and Jerod talk with Craig Muth about his project Xiki, the current Kickstarter he has to raise funds so he can work on it full time, and reimagining the shell.
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Show Notes:
- Kickstarter – Xiki: The Command Revolution by Craig Muth
- Xiki - The Command Revolution - official website!!
- Xiki Screencasts - screencasts!
- xsh: Xikishell - official website!
- trogdoro/xiki on GitHub - xiki on GitHub
- Xiki on Gittip - xiki on Gittip
- Xiki: The Command Revolution by Craig Muth » Let’s get Heroku to back Xiki! — Kickstarter
- Memorize.com - Learn and Remember
- Ward Cunningham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Blogging for Hackers (Interview)
Parker Moore joined the show to talk with Adam about blogging for hackers with Jekyll and GitHub Pages.
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- Jekyll • Simple, blog-aware, static sites
- News
- History
- Collections
- Add support for Sass and SCSS. by parkr · Pull Request #1932 · jekyll/jekyll
- Call me collections by parkr · Pull Request #2199 · jekyll/jekyll
- Pages | GitHub API
- Divshot - Static Web Hosting for Developers and Bootstrap Builder
- Prose · A Content Editor for GitHub
- Ben Balter » GitHubber, Gov 2.0 Evangelist, Aspiring Attorney
- Home — Parker J. Moore, Web developer, hobbyist photographer, R&B/Neo-soul singer, geek extraordinaire.
- parkr/blogsource
- The Strange Relationship the US Government has with Open-Source Software / parker’s stuff
- jekyll/jekyll-help
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Tedit, JS-Git, Jack (Interview)
Adam and Jerod talk with Tim Caswell about getting started in open source, exploring new frontiers, and his latest project Tedit – a development platform that makes programming JavaScript easy and more accessible.
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- creationix - Gittip - Creationix on Gittip!!
- creationix/git-browser - git-browser on GitHub
- creationix/tedit-app - tedit-app on GitHub
- Tedit Live Demo - Live demo, YouTube link!
- Chrome Web Store - Git-Browser - Chrome Web Store - Git-Browser
- Chrome Web Store - Tedit Development Environment – Chrome Web Store - Tedit Development Environment
- Creationix Innovations - Official Website
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Gittip and Open Companies (Interview)
Adam and Jerod talk with Chad Whitacre the Founder of Gittip to talk about what’s new this year for Gittip and the directions they are taking things.
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- The Changelog #87: Sustaining Open Source and Building an Open Company with Chad Whitacre
- whit537.org
- The Open Company Initiative
- whit537 - Gittip
- Gittip
- Building Gittip
- Building Gittip — Medium
- ashedryden - Gittip
- shanley - Gittip
- sudoroom - Gittip
- andyet - Gittip
- Building Gittip - Mission
- Turning Down TechCrunch — Building Gittip — Medium
- Bountysource
- Patreon: Support the creators you love
- Shields.io
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Rails Girls Summer of Code and Travis Foundation (Interview)
Adam and Jerod talk to Anika Lindtner and Floor Drees about Rails Girls Summer of Code, Travis Foundation, fundraising, supporting open source through grants, and ways the community is showing their support of diversity in tech.
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- Anika Lindtner (langziehohr) on Twitter
- Floor Drees (FloorDrees) on Twitter
- Floor “How I feel about being ‘on’ The Changelog later today…” and here’s the original tweet
- Rails Girls
- Rails Girls Summer of Code
- Rails Girls SoC (RailsGirlsSoC) on Twitter
- The Travis CI Blog: Travis CI and Rails Girls Summer of Code
- Travis Foundation
- Travis Foundation - Grants
- Anynines · 100% European PaaS - Platform as a service hosting for developers
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Google's Dart Programming Language (Interview)
Adam and Andrew talk with Lars Bak and Seth Ladd from Google about Dart, a new language and platform started by Google for scalable web app engineering.
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- Lars Bak (computer programmer)
- Seth Ladd
- Dart: Structured web apps for scalable web app engineering
- #dartlang · Issue #30 · thechangelog/ping
- Who Uses Dart?
- Dart - Pub Package Manager
- Try Dart - Getting Started
- Seth’s hero is Neil deGrasse Tyson and Astrophysicist and host of Star Talk
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Ruby Tooling, chruby, ruby-install, Security (Interview)
Adam and Andrew talked to Postmodern about his open source projects chruby, ruby-install, chgems, ronin, and more.
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- Postmodern on Twitter - @postmodern_mod3
- postmodern/chruby
- postmodern/ruby-install
- postmodern/chgems
- You (yes, you!) should contribute to open source - The Changelog
- Ronin
- The Elegant Ruby Web Framework - Padrino Ruby Web Framework
- The “Postmodern” Ruby environment · Yousef Ourabi
- Moving From Rbenv to Chruby and Direnv - Linh M. Tran
- BashFAQ - Greg’s Wiki
- shunit2 - shUnit2 - xUnit based unit testing for Unix shell scripts - Google Project Hosting
- ruby-install/test at master · postmodern/ruby-install
- A generic Makefile for building/signing/install bash scripts
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MEAN.js & Full-Stack JavaScript (Interview)
Andrew talks with the fellas behind MEAN.js, Amos Haviv and Roie Cohen. MEAN.js is a full-stack JavaScript solution using MongoDB, Express, AngularJS, and Node.
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- MEAN.JS - a full-stack JavaScript solution that helps you build fast, robust, and maintainable production web applications using MongoDB, Express, AngularJS, and Node.js. MEAN.JS will help you getting started and avoid useless grunt work and common pitfalls, while keeping your application organized.
- GitHub profile of Roie Cohen - co-founder of meanjs.org
- GitHub profile of Amos Haviv
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The Sass Way and Open Publishing (Interview)
Adam and John talk about Sass, The Sass Way, Middleman, and open publishing on GitHub.
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- The Sass Way
- Here’s your chance to become a contributor to The Sass Way!
- Get your very own “The Sass Way” sticker for free! Tweet @TheSassWay for details.
- #52: Serve, RadiantCMS, Prototyping, and Design with John Long - The Changelog
- @SassWatch: I’ve joined forces with The Sass Way
- #17: Open Source publishing with Geoffrey Grosenbach, Brandon Mathis, and Tim Caswell - The Changelog
- Dribbble - The Sass Way Logo by John W. Long
- Dribbble - SassWatch Sighting! by John W. Long
- Middleman: Hand-crafted frontend development
- Ruby CMS - Nesta
- Serve - Delicious ERB, Haml + Sass
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Go, Martini, Gophercasts (Interview)
Jeremy Saenz joined the show to talk about Go, Martini, Gophercasts, and more.
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- Jeremy Saenz (codegangsta) on Twitter
- codegangsta (Jeremy Saenz)
- #18: NoSQL Smackdown! (Hear Chris sing the CouchDB theme song)
- The Go Programming Language
- Announcing Martini: Classy Web Development in Go - Code Gangsta
- Martini - Classy web development in Go.
- codegangsta/martini-contrib
- codegangsta/envy
- GopherCasts
- On Go’s Web Application Ecosystem - The Changelog
- Go ahead, have an Angular Martini - The Changelog
- Flex Gangsta | Who Broke the Build?!
- Go Advent Day 11 - Build a Christmas List with Martini - The Gopher Academy Blog
- The Revel Web Framework for Go
- dl.google.com now served by Go - Google Groups
- Rob Pike
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Node Black Friday at Walmart (Interview)
Eran Hammer joined the show to talk about Node.js and Black Friday at Walmart.
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Show Notes:
- Eran Hammer (eranhammer) on Twitter
- Twitter / Search - #nodebf
- spumko/hapi
- Billion Dollar Question - Palo Alto - Developer Center - Joyent
- Node.js at Walmart: Going to production, debugging, monitoring - Developer Center - Joyent
- Twitter / eranhammer: 100% of Walmart US mobile traffic …
- Walmart Node.js Memory Leak - Blog - Joyent
- Walmart Node.js Memory Leak Part I - Developer Center - Joyent
- Walmart Node.js Memory Leak Part II - Developer Center - Joyent
- Walmart Node.js Memory Leak Part III - Developer Center - Joyent
- Node Summit 2013 Bedtime Story - Blog - Joyent
- Realtime Conference, the Imagination Platform « hueniverse
- #fuckoauth @realtimeconf « hueniverse
- Roberta Williams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Flynn Updates (Interview)
Andrew talks with Jonathan Rudenberg and Jeff Lindsay about their hard work and updates on Flynn, their open source PaaS.
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- Flynn - Open source Platform as a Service (PaaS) powered by Docker
- flynn/flynn-spec
- Jonathan Rudenberg (titanous) on Twitter
- Jeff Lindsay (progrium) on Twitter
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RethinkDB (Interview)
Slava Akhmechet, co-founder and CEO of RethinkDB, joined the show to talk with Andrew about RethinkDB - the open-source database for the realtime web.
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- Slava Akhmechet (sakhmechet) on Twitter
- RethinkDB: An open-source distributed database built with love
- rethinkdb/rethinkdb on GitHub
- John D. Carmack - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Keep npm Running (Interview)
Isaac Schlueter and Charlie Robbins joined the show to talk about the “crashyness” of npm recently and the community fundraiser they are starting to ask the community to support npm and to keep it running. Isaac is the creator of npm and a maintainer of Node.js. Charlie is the co-founder and CEO of Nodejitsu.
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- You are npm. Keep it running. Keep it awesome.
- npm (npmjs) on Twitter
- Charlie Robbins (indexzero) on Twitter
- I Zimmitti S (izs) on Twitter
- #101: npm origins and Node.js with Isaac Schlueter - The Changelog
- Nodejitsu Open Source Hosting
- Go Enterprise with node.js and npm | Nodejitsu Inc.
- Nodejitsu | CrunchBase Profile
- Billion Dollar Question - Palo Alto - Developer Center - Joyent
- @svenlito: “As a Developer I want super fast npm” - Everyone, always.
- Trent Mick (trentmick) on Twitter
- trentm/node-dashdash
- #99: Flynn, Tent, open source PaaSes and more with Jeff Lindsay and Jonathan Rudenberg - The Changelog
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ZURB Foundation 5 and Front-End Frameworks (Interview)
Adam and Andrew talk with Jonathan Smiley and Mark Hayes from ZURB about Foundation 5, front-end frameworks, and Ink — their new email framework project.
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- How this show got kicked off — @bryanzmijewski tweeted @adamstac Hey, Adam, thought you might want to know about Foundation 5
- Foundation 5 is coming soon
- ZURB Foundation turns 4.0
- Foundation: The Most Advanced Responsive Front-end Framework from ZURB
- #70: Foundation and other Zurb goodies - The Changelog
- Jonathan Smiley (smiley) on Twitter
- Prebrowsing | High Performance Web Sites
- The Changelog Weekly - Issue #13
- ftlabs/fastclick
- Ink: A Responsive Email Framework from ZURB
- Paul Irish
- Blog - JakeArchibald.com
- Jake Archibald (jaffathecake) on Twitter
- Ryan Bates (rbates) on Twitter
- #417 Foundation - RailsCasts
- #106: Semantic UI with Jack Lukic - The Changelog
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Hoodie, noBackend, Offline-First (Interview)
Andrew and Adam talk with Caolan McMahon from Hoodie to talk about very fast web development where you can build complete web apps in days, without having to worry about backends, databases or servers (with Hoodie). We discuss noBackend and the idea behind offline first.
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- Caolan McMahon (caolan) on GitHub
- Caolan McMahon (caolan) on Twitter
- Hoodie.ie
- hood.ie (hoodiehq) on Twitter
- Alex Feyerke and Caolan McMahon - LXJS 2013 - Hoodie - YouTube
- Rethinking Web Development: noBackend & Offline First by Jan Lehnardt
- Changelog Weekly - Issue #9
- The Changelog #54: CouchBase, Erlang, and Mergers with J Chris Anderson
- The Changelog #18: NoSQL Smackdown!
- hoodiehq/generator-hoodie
- LAUNCH Hackathon
- Sponsor Hoodie
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Capistrano and Burnout (Interview)
Adam and Andrew talk with Lee Hambley about some serious subjects such as Capistrano 3.0/2.0, open source burnout, various conversations around deploying, Ruby, respect, handing over the reigns and more. If you hack on open source or run an open source project, you should listen to this episode.
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- Lee Hambley
- LeeHambley (LeeHambley) on Twitter
- Time to hand over the reigns before Capistrano costs me my youth?
- The Changelog Weekly - Issue #9
- capistrano/capistrano on GitHub
- RVM 2.0 - Fundraisers
- [Book] Who Moved My Cheese?: An A-Mazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life
- Say Hello To Harrow
- Programmer Hero: Jamis Buck (jamis) on Twitter
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Open Karma and Design Love for OSS (Interview)
Adam and Andrew talk with Justine Arreche a Designer at Travis CI and Sebastian Gräßl a Freelance Developer. Together, they’re the creators of Open Karma, a tool to help bridge the gap between developers and designers in open source (they’re bringing some design love to OSS).
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- Open Karma : helping open source be more amazing
- Open Karma (OpenKarmaDesign) on Twitter
- OpenKarma (Open Karma) on GitHub
- The Travis CI Blog: New UI Improvements on Travis CI
- Justine Arreche (SaltineJustine) on Twitter
- Sebastian Gräßl (bastilian) on Twitter
- Hello, Justine.
- Sebastian Gräßl
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Exercism.io and Crowd-Sourced Code Reviews (Interview)
Adam and Jerod talk with Katrina Owen about Exercism.io - an open source platform for crowd-sourced code reviews on daily practice problems. Practice problems are available in Ruby, Elixir, JavaScript, Python, Haskell, and Clojure, and other languages are in the pipeline.
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- Rollbar – We catch our errors before our users do because of Rollbar. Resolve errors in minutes, and deploy your code with confidence. Learn more at rollbar.com/changelog.
Featuring:
- Katrina Owen – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- #105: Ghost blogging platform with John O’Nolan - The Changelog
- Hannah Wolfe (ErisDS) on Twitter
- kytrinyx (Katrina Owen)
- Katrina Owen (kytrinyx) on Twitter
- Hacking Passion, or Who is Katrina Owen?
- Therapeutic Refactoring by Katrina Owen - Cascadia Ruby Conf 2012
- Katrina Owen on Ruby Rogues
- kytrinyx/exercism.io
- exercism.io
- Introducing exercism.io
- How to nitpick - exercism.io
- kytrinyx/exercism
- msgehard/go-exercism
- Code Triage
- The Changelog Weekly - Issue #9
- The Changelog Weekly - Issue #8
- Sandi Metz (Programming Hero)
- Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby
- Confident Ruby
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Balanced Payments and Open Sourcing Everything (Interview)
Andrew and Adam talk with Marshall Jones from Balanced Payments about all they do in open source, and how they approach being an open company that desires to release as much software as they can as open source.
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- Get paid to write tutorials for DigitalOcean
- The Changelog #87: Sustaining open source and building an open company with Chad Whitacre
- Balanced - Payments for Marketplaces
- mjallday (Marshall Jones) on GitHub
- balanced (Balanced) on GitHub
- balanced/balanced-dashboard
- balanced/billy
- JSON API now has a MIME type - Changelog
- Flask (A Python Microframework)
- Make a Hangman client and get hired at Balanced Payments
- Open Products - The Changelog
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Semantic UI (Interview)
Andrew and Adam talk with Jack Lukic about Semantic UI.
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- Getting Started | Semantic UI
- Myfav.es - Start Here
- jlukic (Jack Lukic)
- jlukic/Semantic-UI
- Introduction | Semantic UI
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Ghost Blogging Platform (Interview)
Andrew and Adam talk with John O’Nolan about his open source blogging platform Ghost written in JavaScript (Node.js), and how he and his team are working hard to create this beautifully designed platform dedicated to one thing: Publishing.
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- Subscribe to Changelog Weekly
- Ghost: Just a Blogging Platform
- Ghost Blogging Platform Features
- TryGhost (Ghost)
- Ghost: Just a Blogging Platform by John O’Nolan — Kickstarter
- The Ghost Blog
- Get paid to write tutorials for DigitalOcean
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Kickstarting Espruino (Interview)
Andrew and Jerod talk with Gordon Williams about his hardware/software open source project called Espruino that’s currently raising funds on Kickstarter. Espruino is the world’s first JavaScript microcontroller for beginners or experts, now open source.
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- Kickstarter - Espruino: JavaScript for Things by Gordon Williams
- Espruino.com
- Espruino - Tutorials
- Espruino - YouTube
- Gordon Williams (Espruino) on Twitter
- Gordon Williams (gfwilliams) on GitHub
- gfwilliams/EspruinoSerialTerminal
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GitLab and Open Source (Interview)
Andrew and Adam talk with Sytse Sijbrandij, one of the Co-founders of GitLab, about building GitLab, sustaining open source, community management, and ways to handle a “road map” for your product or project.
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- Sid Sijbrandij – Website, LinkedIn, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Andrew Thorp – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- Subscribe to Changelog Weekly
- GitLab: Self Hosted Git Management Application
- GitLab 6.0 released!
- Announcing GitLab 6.0 Enterprise Edition
- gitlabhq (gitlabhq)
- sitaramc/gitolite
- gitlabhq/gitlab-vagrant-vm
- GitLab.com | Open Source Git Management Software
- Programming Hero: Yehuda Katz
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RVM and Ruby Version Managment (Interview)
Adam Stacoviak and Jerod Santo talk with Michal Papis about the history and future of RVM, the plan for RVM 2.0, the complexities of managing your Ruby version, Ruby 2.0 and more.
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- Michal Papis – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Subscribe to Changelog Weekly
- Michal Papis (mpapis) on Twitter
- mpapis (Michal Papis)
- wayneeseguin/rvm
- Issues · wayneeseguin/rvm
- RVM: Ruby Version Manager
- #rvm on freenode Web IRC
- RVM 2.0 The Plan - Google Drive
- RVM Autolibs: Automatic Dependency Handling and Ruby 2.0
- The Changelog #64: Pow, Rails 3.1 Asset Pipeline, Cinco, CoffeeScript, and more with Sam Stephenson
- The Changelog #66: RVM and BDSM with Wayne Seguin
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npm Origins and Node.js (Interview)
Andrew and Adam talk with Isaac Schlueter about the origins of npm, building an asynchronous web with Node.js, and how to get paid to open source.
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- isaacs (Isaac Z. Schlueter)
- Foo Hack » Isaac Schlueter on Web Development
- isaacs (izs) on Twitter
- isaacs/npm
- Install Node.js and NPM using Homebrew on OS X - Changelog
- node.js
- BOWER: A package manager for the web
- Grunt: The JavaScript Task Runner
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Go Programming (Interview)
This episode is part of our remastered greatest hits collection and features Rob Pike and Andrew Gerrand talking about the history and latest updates to the Go programming language.
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- Rob Pike (rob_pike) on Twitter
- Andrew Gerrand (enneff) on Twitter
- The Go Programming Language
- A Tour of Go
- Talks about Go
- Go packages
- The first Go program - The Go Blog
- The Go Programming Language Blog
- Getting Started - The Go Programming Language
- A conversation with the Go team - The Go Blog
- Go 1.1 is released - The Go Blog
- John D. Carmack - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- David Wheeler (computer scientist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Douglas McIlroy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Flynn, Tent, Open Source PaaS's (Interview)
Adam Stacoviak and Andrew Thorp talk with Jeff Lindsay and Jonathan Rudenberg about Flynn, open source, PaaS and more.
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- Jeff Lindsay – GitHub, X
- Jonathan Rudenberg – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Andrew Thorp – Website, GitHub, X
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- Subscribe to Changelog Weekly
- The Changelog #89: Linux containers, Docker and dotCloud with Solomon Hykes
- Flynn Open source PaaS (Platform as a Service) powered by Docker
- flynn/flynn-spec
- Jonathan Rudenberg (titanous) on Twitter
- Jeff Lindsay (progrium) on Twitter
- Tent - the protocol for decentralized communication and evented data storage
- localtunnel: instantly show localhost to the rest of the world
- RequestBin — Collect, inspect and debug HTTP requests and webhooks
- Twitter / marek_jelen: @TheChangelog #Flynn #PaaS …
- progrium/dokku
- progrium/buildstep
- Bret Victor (worrydream) on Twitter
- The Changelog #3: Google’s Go Programming Language
- Rob Pike - ‘Concurrency Is Not Parallelism’ on Vimeo
- Rob Pike (rob_pike) on Twitter
- airscript/heroku-signup
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AFNetworking, Helios, iOS Development (Interview)
Adam Stacoviak, Andrew Thorp and Kenneth Reitz talk with Mattt Thompson, Mobile Lead at Heroku, about his many contributions to open source.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Andrew Thorp – Website, GitHub, X
- Kenneth Reitz – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- AFNetworking/AFNetworking
- AFNetworking - a delightful networking framework for iOS and OSX
- mattt (Mattt Thompson)
- Mattt Thompson (mattt) on Twitter
- Helios
- helios-framework/helios
- Postgres.app, an easier way to use PostgreSQL on Mac - Changelog
- Heroku Postgres
- Postgres.app | the easiest way to run PostgreSQL on the Mac
- Induction ? A Polyglot Database Client For Mac OS X
- Open Products - Changelog
- Rocket: a hybrid approach to real-time cloud applications
- why the lucky stiff - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Shaun Inman // Compendium
- NSHipster
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API Wrappers and Ruby (Interview)
Adam Stacoviak and Andrew Thorp talk with Drew Blas of Chargify about API wrappers, Ruby, open source, and more.
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- Drew Blas - Explorer « The life and code of a passionate developer
- drewblas (Drew Blas) on GitHub
- drewblas (drewblas) on Twitter
- drewblas/consignment
- chargify (Chargify)
- chargify/chargify2
- chargify/doculab
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Ruby off Rails (Interview)
Adam Stacoviak and guest co-host Tim Smith talk with Jesse Wolgamott about learning Ruby, his course and mentorship Ruby off Rails, and more!
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- J.Wo
- Ruby Off Rails | Online Ruby Course full of mentoring and collaboration.
- jwo (Jesse Wolgamott)
- Comal Productions | web. mobile. training. code
- Ruby Fiddle | Ruby Snippets in the Browser
- jwo/ruby-fiddle-web
- Houston July 26-27, 2013
- User Jesse Wolgamott - Stack Overflow
- RubyoffRails (Ruby Off Rails)
- Tender Lovemaking | tenderlovemaking.com
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Civic Hacking and Code for America (Interview)
Adam Stacoviak and Andrew Thorp talk with Michal Migurski (CTO) and Ezra Spier (Fellow) about civic hacking at Code for America, technical sustainability in government, skill gap for more modern software in government, open city data and more.
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If you’re a developer, designer, researcher, data enthusiast, urban planner, or entrepreneur who wants to make a difference - Code for America’s 11-month program is your opportunity use your skills to give back to your community. Apply to be a Fellow!
- Code for America | A New Kind of Public Service
- Michal Migurski (michalmigurski) on Twitter
- Ezra Spier (ahhrrr) on Twitter
- Apply for a Fellowship. Deadline: July 31 | Code for America
- Code for America (codeforamerica) on Twitter
- Mayor Parker Announces Implementation of First City of Houston Hackathon Project
- The Changelog #65: Code for America with Erik Michaels-Ober and Max Ogden
- github.com/codeforamerica (Code For America)
- codeforamerica/honolulu_answers
- The City of Chicago is on Github - The Changelog
- codeforamerica/adopt-a-hydrant
- RailsBridge: Free Ruby on Rails workshops for women and their friends
- What is GTFS? - Transit — Google Developers
- Guido van Rossum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sass, libsass, Haml (Interview)
Adam Stacoviak and Andrew Thorp talk with Hampton Catlin about Sass, libsass, Haml, Tritium, Moovweb and more.
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- hcatlin/libsass
- Tritium from Moovweb, the web transformation platform
- Moovweb
- Sass - Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets
- The Sass Way
- The Sass Jerk - Articles
- Getting started with Sass and Compass - Beginner
- hcatlin (Hampton Catlin)
- hcatlin/sassc
- hcatlin/sassruby
- Nokogiri
- Tender Lovemaking | tenderlovemaking.com
- The Changelog #44: Ruby 1.9, Nokogiri, and tender lovemaking with Aaron Patterson
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Sass, Bourbon, Product Design (Interview)
Adam Stacoviak talks with Phil LaPier about Sass, Bourbon, Neat, sustaining open source, product design, and more.
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- Phil LaPier (phillapier) on Twitter
- Bourbon - A Sass Mixin Library
- thoughtbot/bourbon · GitHub
- Bourbon Neat
- thoughtbot/neat · GitHub
- We make web and mobile apps : thoughtbot
- thoughtbot Learn
- Hampton Catlin | Ruby, Haml, Wikipedia, iPhone Development
- Joel Oliveira (jayroh) on Twitter
- bourbon/app/assets/stylesheets/addons/_position.scss at master · thoughtbot/bourbon · GitHub
- thoughtbot Learn
- Vim Tutorial | PeepCode Screencast
- Bourbon: A set of vanilla Sass mixins that use SCSS syntax - The Changelog
- thoughtbot/cocaine · GitHub
- The Sass Jerk - Articles
- Bret Victor (worrydream) on Twitter
- Drew Wilson
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Sidekiq and Ruby (Interview)
Adam Stacoviak and Andrew Thorp talk with Mike Perham about sustaining open source, sidekiq, message processing with Ruby, and more.
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- Mike Perham – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Andrew Thorp – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- mperham (Mike Perham)
- mperham/sidekiq · GitHub
- mperham/dalli · GitHub
- mperham/lunchy · GitHub
- mperham/girl_friday · GitHub
- The Clymb
- Mike Perham (mperham) on Twitter
- Twitter / mperham: @andrewpthorp a def weakness …
- Mike’s programming hero: Tony Arcieri
- Celluloid: Actor-based Concurrent Objects for Ruby
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Discover Meteor.js (Interview)
Adam Stacoviak and Andrew Thorp talk with Sacha Greif about his new book Discover Meteor, Meteor.js, sustaining open source and more.
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- Sacha Greif – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Andrew Thorp – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- SachaGreif.com
- Discover Meteor - Learn how to build real-time JavaScript web apps
- Telescope, an open-source social news app built with Meteor
- DiscoverMeteor/Microscope · GitHub
- Sidebar: The 5 best design links, every day
- 6 months with Meteor: Why the future of the web is real-time - Changelog
- Deploy Meteor apps to your own server with Meteor.sh - Changelog
- John Resig, Sacha’s programming hero and the maker of jQuery
- Dribbble is Sacha’s design hero
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Pair Programming and Ruby (Interview)
Adam Stacoviak, Andrew Thorp, and Steve Klabnik talk about pair programming, distributed teams, workflows, Ruby and more with Avdi Grimm.
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- Andrew Thorp – Website, GitHub, X
- Steve Klabnik – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- Avdi Grimm (avdi) on Twitter
80% angel, 10% daemon, the rest is hard to explain. - Pair Program With Me
Pair widely. Pair often. Ready to broaden your pair-programming horizons, but need some help getting started? Here are some links to talks, guides, and tools for successfully pair-programming beyond your office. - Wide Teams | The blog for geographically dispersed organizations
Wide Teams is a blog and podcast about geographically dispersed teams, with an emphasis on software development teams. It covers all aspects of remote collaboration, including how to get started, interviews with active practitioners, tool reviews, and much more. - Ruby Rogues (podcast)
A great Podcast that Avdi is a part of covering all things Ruby. - Ruby Tapas | Short Screencasts of Gourmet Ruby
RubyTapas is for the busy Ruby or Rails developer who is ready to reach the next level of code mastery. Short screencasts twice a week will introduce you to a wide variety of intermediate to advanced Ruby concepts and techniques, as well as core Object-Oriented design principles. - PeepCode | Programming and Development Tutorial Screencasts for Web Developers and Alpha Geeks
The original Open Source video tutorials for professional web developers and designers. Since 2006, we’ve been your source for technical entertainment, education, and the best explanations around. - RailsCasts | Ruby on Rails Screencasts
RailsCasts is produced by Ryan Bates (rbates on Twitter and ryanb on GitHub). A free episode will be released on the first Monday of each month featuring tips and tricks with Ruby on Rails. - Exceptional Ruby: Master the art of handling failure in Ruby
Exceptional Ruby is an in-depth guide to exceptions and failure handling in Ruby. Over 100 pages of content and dozens of working examples cover everything from the mechanics of how exceptions work to how to design a robust failure management architecture for your app or library. Whether you are a Ruby novice or a seasoned veteran, Exceptional Ruby will help you write cleaner, more resilient Ruby code. - tmux | a terminal multiplexer
It lets you switch easily between several programs in one terminal, detach them (they keep running in the background) and reattach them to a different terminal. And do a lot more. - Pair with me! - Changelog
Some explanation of what “Pair With Me” is covered by Adam Stacoviak on Changelog! - Confident Code
A talk given by Avdi about code that tells a narrative. - Avdi Grimm | SpeakerRate
Past and Future talks given by Avdi – let the world know how awesome He is! - Steve Klabnik Hacking on RubyGems while listening to Ke$ha
A video of Steve writing some Ruby. Undeniably, Ke$ha is the best source of music when hacking on RubyGems. - Beverly Nelson (@bnlson) on Twitter
A developer @purecharity. Beverly works with Adam and Andrew in their day job. Passionate about teaching, she is involved in many ruby communities. - Ruby Friends on GitHub
Community starts with friendships! - Angela Harms (@angelaharms) on Twitter
Avdi’s Programming Hero. She loves Agile Development, Programming, Spirituality and ‘Unschooling.’
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Docker and Linux Containers (Interview)
Adam Stacoviak and Andrew Thorp talk about Docker, linux containers, and dotCloud with Solomon Hykes - Founder & CEO of DotCloud and the creator of Docker.
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- dotCloud - One home for all your apps
One home for all your apps. Deploy, manage and scale any web app. Build your ideal application stack by combining powerful cloud services. Go live and only pay for what you need. Live apps start at $4.32/month. - Solomon Hykes (solomonstre) on Twitter
Hacker & entrepreneur. We are automating the cloud at dotCloud.com. - Docker - the Linux container engine
Docker is an open-source engine which automates the deployment of applications as highly portable, self-sufficient containers which are independent of hardware, language, framework, packaging system and hosting provider. - The future of Linux Containers - YouTube
At PyCon Solomon Hykes shows docker to the public for the first time! - Fabrice Bellard - Wikipedia
Fabrice Bellard is a computer programmer who is best known as the creator of the FFmpeg and QEMU software projects. He has also developed a number of other programs, including the Tiny C Compiler.
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Vagrant and HashiCorp (Interview)
Adam Stacoviak and Andrew Thorp talk with Mitchell Hashimoto, the creator of Vagrant and founder of HashiCorp.
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- New intro music! Tell us what you think on Twitter.
- We’re joined by Mitchell Hashimoto of Vagrant
- Mitchell joined us in a past episode, but has since formed HashiCorp to work on Vagrant full time.
- The Common Desk is a neat co-working space in Deep Ellum of Dallas, TX.
- Discourse is an open source discussion platform we covered in a previous episode
- SCaLE is a Linux Expo in Southern California.
- Disqus is a discussion platform to integrate comments into your website.
- Some of the original names of Vagrant were BoxCutter and Hobo.
- vagrant-lxc is an LXC provider for Vagrant.
- vagrant-joyent is a Joyent provider for Vagrant.
- vagrant-kvm is a KVM provider for Vagrant.
- Chef and Puppet are two products that help automate infrastructure.
- Vagrant is sponsored by Fastly, Kiip, SoftLayer and Typekit.
- Riak is an open source, distributed database by basho
- HashiCorp will be releasing a new project, Packer. Watch HashiCorp’s Website for updates.
- Hyper-V is Windows Virtualization that ships with Windows 8.
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Sustaining Open Source and Building an Open Company (Interview)
Adam Stacoviak, Andrew Thorp and Kenneth Reitz talk with Chad Whitacre about sustaining open source through Gittip, building an open company and more.
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- Andrew Thorp – Website, GitHub, X
- Kenneth Reitz – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- We’re joined by Chad Whitacre of gittip.com
- gittip.com allows you to send recurring gifts to people you want to support
- Chad is running gittip.com as an open company
- Pledgie is a way to raise funds online
- The MacArthur Genius Grant is a program that supports awesome people doing awesome things
- Balanced Payments is the payment provider behind gittip
- Stripe is another payment provider
- Watsi is crowd funding for changing the world for good
- Balanced has open sourced their dashboard
- A BDFL is a Benevolent Dictator for Life
- The Lean Startup is a book by Eric Ries
- Heroku gives on gittip.
- MaxCDN gives on gittip.
- Reddit is an open source project and is on github
- Share projects and links with us on our subreddit
- You can sign up for the gittip newsletter
- Medium is a new writing platform
- Kenneth loves this tweet from Chad on Twitter
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Discourse and Ruby (Interview)
Adam Stacoviak, Andrew Thorp and Kenneth Reitz talk with Jeff Atwood about Discourse and more.
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- Jeff Atwood – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Andrew Thorp – Website, GitHub, X
- Kenneth Reitz – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- Hack in style with your very own Changelog tee!
- We’re member supported!
- We’re joined by Jeff Atwood, from codinghorror.com and stackexchange.com
- Stack Overflow is a community Q&A platform.
- Discourse is an open source discussion platform.
- Wordpress is an open source CMS in PHP.
- Shapado is a Q&A platform in ruby.
- OSQA is an open source Q&A system.
- Reddit is an online community where users vote on content.
- Steve Yegge’s tour de babel is a language roundup from 2006.
- Why Ruby? is a blog post by Jeff about why he did Discourse in ruby.
- mono is an open source .NET development framework.
- Discourse as Your First Rails App is a blog post about setting up the Discourse development environment.
- ember is a JavaScript framework for ambitious web applications.
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We're back and we're LIVE! (Interview)
Adam Stacoviak, Andrew Thorp, Steve Klabnik, Kenneth Reitz and Jerod Santo take the show live for the first time since August 8th, 2012.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Andrew Thorp – Website, GitHub, X
- Steve Klabnik – Website, GitHub, X
- Kenneth Reitz – GitHub, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Hack in style with your very own Changelog tee!
- We are now member supported!
- Groovy on Grails is a Groovy Open Source web app framework for the JVM.
- Rust is a new open source language from Mozilla.
- pairprogramwith.me encourages diverse pair-programming.
- gittip is a way to give small weekly cash gifts to people you love and are inspired by.
- requests is HTTP for Humans in python.
- Postgres had a big security release not too long ago.
- Servo is a browser rendering engine written in Rust.
- Rust for Rubyists is a great book about Rust, by Steve Klabnik.
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Python! aims to be a guide for learning Python, by Kenneth Reitz.
- Git Gutter keeps your editor up to date with Git.
- Premailer is Pre-flight for HTML email in Ruby.
- docker is the Linux container runtime.
- juju helps you build entire environments in the cloud.
- discourse is a new Open Source discussion platform from Jeff Atwood.
- blackbox is a tool to help archive the internet.
- Philosophy in a time of software is a Google Group about Philosophy/Software.
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News Roundup (Interview)
Andrew and Wynn run down the news from the last month.
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- Gitspective - Facebook style timeline for your GitHub feed
- Hammer.js - Easily add multi-touch to your websites
- TweetStream - Easily access the Twitter Streaming API
- t - Powerful command line interface for Twitter
- Sextant - view your Rails routes without waiting on Rake
- Episode 0.8.2 - Ruby Motion, MacRuby, and more with Laurent Sansonetti
- RubyMotion toolchain now open source
- Ruby Motion Samples - Write iPhone Apps in Ruby
- Formotion - Making iOS Forms insanely great with RubyMotion
- Eloy Duran, the creator of CocoaPods
- BubbleWrap - Cocoa wrappers and helpers for RubyMotion (Ruby for iOS) - Making Cocoa APIs more Ruby like, one API at a time.
- Cupertino - Mechanize the Apple Dev Center
- Grunt - a command line build tool for JavaScript
- Prose - A content editor for GitHub
- Jekyll - a blog-aware, static site generator in Ruby
- Octopress - a blogging framework for hackers.
- Nesta CMS - A Ruby CMS for developers and designers.
- Mousetrap.js - JavaScript Keyboard Shortcuts
- Sparrow, a Mac Mail Client, was recently acquired by Google
- TodoMVC - JavaScript Frameworks Galore!
- thoughtbot - a mobile and web application design and development firm.
- Don’t git-blame me, I was pairing
- Cheddar - Task made simple.
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Cloud 9 IDE (Interview)
Wynn caught up with Ruben and Matt from Cloud 9 to talk about what’s new with their IDE in the cloud.
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- Ruben Daniels is the CEO of Cloud9.
- Matt Pardee is a developer & evangelist for Cloud9.
- Tim Caswell was on a previous episode is an employee at Cloud9.
- Cloud9 is the README editor at GitHub.
- Ruben was on a previous episode of The Changelog talking about ajax.org.
- The Cloud9 IDE runs on a Node server.
- VFS is an open source virtual file system implementation for node.js.
- Sublime Text is a cross platform text editor.
- Ace is an open source code editor written in JavaScript.
- Heroku and JoyentCloud are cloud application platforms.
- Selenium is used for browser automation.
- Express is an open source node.js web framework.
- NPM is a package manager for node.js.
- Pastebin and gist are both ways to share snippets and pastes.
- Architect is an open source plugin system for node applications.
- treehugger is an open source JavaScript Abstract Syntax Tree library.
- Matt’s programming hero is Linus Torvalds.
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Ruby Motion and MacRuby (Interview)
Wynn and Sam caught up with Laurent Sansonetti to talk about MacRuby, RubyMotion, and more.
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- Tony Arcieri, creator of Celluloid.
- Celluloid is painless multithreaded programming for Ruby.
- Celluloid:IO provides evented I/O for Celluloid actors.
- DCell lets you build distributed Celluloid apps over 0MQ.
- Adam Keys, formerly of Gowalla, is now teammates with Tony at Living Social.
- Zed gave us the lowdown on 0MQ on 0.3.4.
- Reel aims to be a fast, non-blocking evented web server without a Rack API.
- Tony is aiming to get Reel working with Webmachine.
- Sean Cribbs talked Riak on a previous episode.
- Hubot is GitHub’s awesome Campfire bot.
- Travis uses Celluloid, as discussed on 0.7.5.
- Tony is shutting down LightRail since the release of Rails::API, from Santiago Pastorino.
- ActiveModel::Serializer aims to provide an object to encapsulate serialization of ActiveModel objects, including ActiveRecord objects.
- Wynn loves jbuilder despite its name.
- E is the secure distributed pure-object platform and p2p scripting language.
- Data, context and interaction is a paradigm used in computer software to program systems of communicating objects.
- Tahoe-LAFS is a Python-powered decentralized secure filesystem.
- Tony likes Clojure.
- Joe Armstrong and Robert Virding, creators of Erlang are Tony’s programming heroes.
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Celluloid and Concurrency (Interview)
Wynn talked with Tony Arcieri, creator of Celluloid, about concurrency in Ruby and his thoughts on Erlang, Clojure, and design patterns.
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- Tony Arcieri, creator of Celluloid.
- Celluloid is painless multithreaded programming for Ruby.
- Celluloid:IO provides evented I/O for Celluloid actors.
- DCell lets you build distributed Celluloid apps over 0MQ.
- Adam Keys, formerly of Gowalla, is now teammates with Tony at Living Social.
- Zed gave us the lowdown on 0MQ on 0.3.4.
- Reel aims to be a fast, non-blocking evented web server without a Rack API.
- Tony is aiming to get Reel working with Webmachine.
- Sean Cribbs talked Riak on a previous episode.
- Hubot is GitHub’s awesome Campfire bot.
- Travis uses Celluloid, as discussed on 0.7.5.
- Tony is shutting down LightRail since the release of Rails::API, from Santiago Pastorino.
- ActiveModel::Serializer aims to provide an object to encapsulate serialization of ActiveModel objects, including ActiveRecord objects.
- Wynn loves jbuilder despite its name.
- E is the secure distributed pure-object platform and p2p scripting language.
- Data, context and interaction is a paradigm used in computer software to program systems of communicating objects.
- Tahoe-LAFS is a Python-powered decentralized secure filesystem.
- Tony likes Clojure.
- Joe Armstrong and Robert Virding, creators of Erlang are Tony’s programming heroes.
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Luvit and Lua Bindings for libuv (Interview)
Wynn caught up with Tim Caswell to talk about Luvit, his new project that provides Lua bindings for libuv.
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- Adam recently married the lovely Heather.
- Tim Caswell is a long time friend of the show, creator of the How to Node blog.
- Lua is a powerful, fast, lightweight, embeddable scripting language.
- Luvit = Lua + libUV + jIT = pure awesomesauce.
- LuaJIT’s FFI library allows calling external C functions and using C data structures from pure Lua code.
- Luvit can take advantage of most Node libraries as long as they use non-blocking IO.
- Rackspace is using Luvit in production already, but without HTTP.
- Tim likes the callback style of coding that V8 promotes.
- Wynn asks where Node.js is on the Gartner hype cycle.
- Luvmonkey is a port of libuv bindings for SpiderMonkey.
- Tim fails to see the use case for AMD.
- Tim worked with Jeremy Ashkenas on CoffeeScript while at Document Cloud.
- Candor is a language inspired by javascript, but with less features and, therefore, less complexity. So no semicolons, no exceptions and simplified anonymous function syntax (dart-like).
- Tim has played with Go but likes Rust better.
- Tim is now working at Cloud9 and their cloud-based IDE.
- Surely Tim isn’t “the only JavaScript developer within a hundred miles of” Red Lick, TX.
- Nodebits is another Node.js blog.
- Bert Belder and Ben Noordhuis are the “libuv guys” at Cloud9.
- Boot2Gecko is “an early-stage project to expose all device capabilities such that infrastructure like phone dialers can be built with Web APIs.”
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Adhearsion, Telephony, XMPP (Interview)
Wynn caught up with Ben Klang and Ben Langfeld of the Adhearsion project to talk about Adhearsion 2.0, the future of telephony apps, XMPP, and more.
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- Ben Klang Principal/Technology Strategist at Mojo Lingo, Project Lead for Adhearsion.
- Ben Langfeld developer at Mojo Lingo, member of Adhearsion core team.
- Adhearsion is an open source voice application framework.
- Rails developers will find some familiarity in Adhearsion’s controllers and routers.
- Adhearsion just released version 2.0.
- New in 2.0, Adhearsion supports multiple backends including Asterisk, PRISM, Tropo, and others.
- Tropo underwrites the development of Adhearsion and also provides features not available on Asterisk, such as high quality text-to-speech.
- IVR stands for Interactive Voice Response.
- Adhearsion plugins are simply gems that extend the Adhearsion DSL and are similar to Rails’ Railties.
- XMPP support has been extracted into a plugin.
- Adhearsion models voice applications as MVC.
- Planning is starting for the next Adhearsion Conf. Follow @AdhearsionConf for details.
- You can watch the AdhearsionConf videos.
- These well done videos were done by our friends Opus Video. We love their split screen presentation. Never miss the speaker or the slides.
- Video is still the frontier for telephony apps.
- Ben Langfeld loves XMPP and helps maintain the Blather library, written by Jeff Smick.
- XMPP pub-sub is hot right now, as employed by the likes of Superfeedr, the subject of Episdode 0.3.7.
- Punchblock “is a middleware library for telephony applications. Like Rack is to Rails and Sinatra, Punchblock provides a consistent API on top of several underlying third-party call control protocols.”
- Adhearsion uses Celluloid which makes Ruby “look and smell a bit like Erlang, but without the yuckiness.”
- Mike Perham, Tony Arcieri, and Charles Nutter inspire Ben and Ben.
Special thanks to Julius Francisco for helping to arrange this episode.
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CocoaPods and MacRuby (Interview)
Wynn caught up with Eloy Durán, creator of CocoaPods to talk about the project, MacRuby, and his favorite Objective-C libraries.
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- Eloy Durán, Ruby developer and creator of CocoaPods.
- CocoaPods, “the best way to manage library dependencies in Objective-C projects.”
- CocoaPods uses a Podfile to specify project dependencies.
- Eloy aspires to achieve the same level of “Twitter hate” that Bundler enjoys.
- CocoaPods started on MacRuby but now is powered by MRI.
- Patches for feature requests are welcomed.
- CocoaPods specs live on GitHub, similar to the Homebrew model.
- The Passenger pane lets you configure Phusion Passenger on the Mac really easily.
- Eloy wants a Ruby lib that shows a proper unified diff for Array, Hash, String with color support.
- Listener Jonah Williams asks how the community can increase adoption.
- Objective-C is the #10 most popular language on GitHub.
- Eloy wrote a file browser for MacVim because he likes Vim but is a “gui guy.”
- If the latest Xcode has got you down, you might try AppCode.
- BlocksKit, the Objective-C block utilities you always wish you had.
- QuincyKit offers crash report managment for your iOS apps.
- JSONKit, a very high performance Objective-C JSON library.
- Wynn likes Test Flight but Eloy has switched to Hockey App.
- Laurent Sansonetti, lead developer of MacRuby is Eloy’s programming hero.
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Solarized and Linux on the Desktop (Interview)
Wynn sat down with Ethan Schoonover, creator of Solarized to talk about the science and design behind the wildly popular color scheme as well as his love for Arch Linux.
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- Ethan Schoonover is a freelance designer, creator of Solarized.
- Solarized is a sixteen color palette (eight monotones, eight accent colors) designed for use with terminal and gui applications.
- Vimscript can be intimidating for noobs.
- The Solarized palette aims to maximize sixteen colors, providing contrast on both dark and light backgrounds
- Ethan works in the CIELAB:
A Lab color space is a color-opponent space with dimension L for lightness and a and b for the color-opponent dimensions, based on nonlinearly compressed CIE XYZ color space coordinates.
- Achievement unlocked: First guest to mention fovea centralis on the show.
- “This fellow Wright” is W. David Wright, who experimented with color perception in 1930s.
- Ethan works out of the LAB space, mapping to other color spaces as tools require.
- Solarized looks great in a number of fonts as well as syntaxes.
- Wynn asks if Sass should support LAB.
- Terminus is Ethan’s favorite fixed with font, but also likes Letter Gothic Mono.
- Wynn’s litmus test for fixed fonts is the dashrocket alignment.
- Micah Rich, founder of The League of Movable Type was on Episode 0.7.4.
- Arch Linux is Ethan’s favorite Linux distro.
- xmonad is a dynamically tiling X11 window manager that is written and configured in Haskell.
- The tmux reference on the Arch wiki is most helpful. Check out Episode 0.7.3 for more on tmux.
- TotalTerminal from the talented Antonin Hildebrand.
brew tapmakes it easy to tap a new Homebrew formula repository from GitHub, or list existing taps.- Freshmeat.net is now freecode.com.
- GIMP is no Photoshop replacement.
- Haskell is an advanced, purely-functional programming language.
- XMonad.Prompt.Input is similar to Quicksilver.
- Karthik’s terminal convinced Wynn to give Solarized a go.
- Wynn figured out how to do ‘transparent’ colors in the tmux status bar.
- TaskWarrior is Ethan’s todo manager, which is saying something since he created Kinkless GTD.
- Drew Neil, creator of Vimcasts, featured on Episode 0.5.6.
- Dr. Nic Williams, on Episode #50.
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.NET, NuGet, Open Source (Interview)
Wynn caught up with Phil Haack to talk about NuGet and growing the .NET open source community at GitHub.
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- Phil Haack, GitHubber, Microsoft alumnus, .NET open source guy.
- NuGet is a Visual Studio extension that makes it easy to install and update third-party libraries and tools in Visual Studio.
- log4net is often an open source trojan horse in the proprietary enterprise.
- NuGet features a command line interface and also integrates with SharpDevelop.
- Wynn asks what impact the names .NET and C# have had on SEO and adoption of Microsoft technology.
- C# is the #11 most popular language on GitHub.
- Tiobe places C# as #3 overall.
- Line endings in Git are everyone’s problem.
- GitHub may or may not be working on (GitHub for Windows®)™.
- Phil likes SignalR, an async signaling library for .NET to help build real-time, multi-user interactive web applications.
- Jabbr is a chat client showcase for SignalR.
- NancyFx is a lightweight, low-ceremony, framework for building HTTP based services on .NET and Mono.
- OWIN defines a standard interface between .NET web servers and web applications, much like Rack for Ruby.
- Sammy.js was also Rat Pack-inspired.
- Phil thinks LINQ and Reactive Extensions (Rx) are some innovations in .NET that should influence the broader community.
- The
awaitkeyword in C# 5 will accelerate async adoption in .NET. - Wynn <3’s Hubot and especially likes the Dude and Mustachify scripts.
- David Fowler, developer on the ASP.NET team and who works on NuGet and SignalR inspires Phil.
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Travis CI, Scaling Apps, Riak (Interview)
Wynn caught up with Josh Kalderimis and Mathias Meyer from Travis CI to talk about hosted CI in the sky, scaling apps, and a little Riak.
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- Travis CI a hosted continuous integration service for the open source community.
- Josh Kalderimis is a core Travis CI team member, Rails contributor, gem developer, and general serial coder.
- Mathias Meyer, hacker on Travis, author of the Riak Handbook.
- Travis now provides first class support for Python and Perl.
- Travis also supports several versions of Ruby including Ruby
hidHEAD. - [8:15] Mathias lays out the case for Travis vs. Jenkins, namely a streamlined user interface.
- Travis runs almost exclusively on Heroku.
- AMQP powers the message queues in Travis.
- Keep an eye on Travis listener.
- The GitHub service hook makes setting up your open source project on Travis a breeze.
- If you’re a Travis user, show some love to keep the features coming.
- GitHubber Rick Olson worked on some API features to help Travis more deeply integrate with GitHub.
- Private repo support, aka Travis Pro™ is on its way. If you want to get in on the beta, donate to the project.
- Donate $500, get an hour of pairing with Aaron Patterson, Yehuda Katz, José Valim, Jon Leighton, or other Ruby pro.
- Mathias previously worked at Basho and The Riak Handbook is a collection of what he learned there.
- José Valim is Josh’s programming hero for his code and community building.
- Mathias is playing with Kestrel and Zookeeper.
- Josh and Mathias like Celluloid.
- Mike Perham’s Sidekiq has caught Josh and Mathias’ eye.
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The League of Moveable Type (Interview)
Adam and Wynn caught up with Micah Rich from The League of Moveable type to talk about open source typography.
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- Micah Rich, from The League of Movable Type.
- Caroline Hadilaksono, co-founder of The League.
- League Gothic, one of Caroline’s popular faces is Wynn’s favorite.
- Several of League fonts are available on TypeKit.
- Dave Crossland, designer of Cantarell.
- Chunk was created by Meredith Mandel.
- The League fonts are forkable on GitHub.
- FontForge is an outline font editor that lets you create your own postscript, truetype, opentype, and more.
- Glyphs is a professional font editor for Mac OS X.
- Wynn’s slide decks make use of League Gothic and Hand of Sean.
- Lettering.js gives you more control over kerning on the web.
- The Manifesto lays out the vision for The League.
- Haley Fiege contributed Sniglet.
- Barry Schwartz has contributed several fonts.
- Want to help Micah introduce typographers to git? Get in touch.
- Wynn asks about vertical rhythm, which Compass makes easier.
- Lettercase is a social font manager.
- Adam uses FontExplorer X but wishes it did more.
- Micah on Dribbble.
- Lettercase is powered by Sinatra, Warden, and Grape.
- Hoefler & Co. are Micah’s heroes in typography design.
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tmux, dotfiles, and Text Mode (Interview)
Wynn sat down with Brian Hogan and Josh Clayton to talk about tmux, dotfiles, and the joys of text mode.
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- Brian Hogan speaker, trainer, and author of _Tmux: Productive, Mouse Free development, out now from PragProg.
- Josh Clayton is a developer at Thoughtbot.
- Factory Girl - fixture replacement for Ruby.
- tmux is a terminal multiplexer similar to GNU screen.
- tmuxinator helps you manage tmux sessions.
- taskpaper.vim - Vim interface for Taskpaper.
- Josh’s dotfiles are extensive.
- A patch to reattach to user namespace in tmux.
- Palette lets you write Vim color schemes with Ruby
- Evergreen - Run Jasmine JavaScript unit tests, integrate them into Ruby applications
- The latest iTerm2 ships with tmux integration.
- tslime.vim is a simple vim script to send portion of text from a vim buffer to a running tmux session.
- vim-turbux - Ruby testing with tmux.
- Justin Smestad turned Wynn onto tmux for pair programming.
- Derick Bailey from Watch Me Code.
- pair.io gives you a one-button, collaboration-friendly dev environment for your GitHub repo.
- Jesse Dearing is the unnamed “DevOps guy” at Pure Charity.
- Thoughtbot has a company-wide dotfiles repo.
- Josh rolls his own Vim setup with Tim Pope’s pathogen.
- Brian uses TTYtter, is a terminal-based Twitter client, Wynn uses Earthquake.
- Josh likes irrsi for IRC.
- Brian likes Alpine over mutt for mail.
- Search GitHub for “tmux.conf.”
- Zach Holman says dotfiles are meant to be forked.
- Zach’s own dotfiles.
- Yan Pritzker’s dotfiles are opinionated.
- Josh says that if you don’t think your dotfiles are the best out there, you’re doing it wrong. (29:55)
- Joe Ferris at Thoughtbot inspired Josh’s dotfiles.
- Brian and Josh say Janus and oh-my-zsh are great to get started, but you need to understand your dotfiles.
- Wynn uses this shell function to list colors to put into his tmux config.
- Dotshare is web site to share dotfile configs plus screenshots.
- Pianobar is text-based command line interface for Pandora.
- Wynn uses shell.fm for Last.fm.
- Be sure and check out the Tmux Crash Course.
NEW: Humans Present: tmux a Thoughtbot Workshop.
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Vagrant and virtualized environments (Interview)
Wynn caught up with Mitchell Hashimoto from the Vagrant project to talk about virtualized environments, DevOps, and more.
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- We’re now @TheChangelog on Twitter.
- Mitchell Hashimoto from Vagrant.
- Vagrant is a tool for building and distributing virtualized development environments by providing automated creation and provisioning of virtual machines using Oracle’s VirtualBox.
- Vagrant is currently a Ruby gem.
- Mitchell uses Vagrant to test his Chef cookbooks, featured in Episode 0.3.8.
- Travis CI uses Vagrant extensively.
- Show Travis some love, tell ‘em to come on The Changelog.
- Mitchell just returned from FOSDEM.
- John Bender has helped out Mitchell with Vagrant.
- VeeWee: the tool to easily build vagrant base boxes or KVM, VirtualBox, and Fusion images.
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Spine and Client-Side MVC (Interview)
Wynn caught up with Alex MacCaw to talk about Spine, CoffeeScript, writing books, and working at Twitter.
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- Alex MacCaw, O’Reilly writer and open source developer now working on the front-end for Twitter.
- Spine Lightweight MVC library for building JavaScript applications, inspired by Backbone.
- Spine is written in CoffeeScript
- Eco is Alex’s favorite client-side templating engine.
- Alex suggests trying to use the same templating engine server-side and client-side, perhaps with Mustache, is a pipe dream.
- Spine integrates with Rails out of the box.
- Hem is like Bundler but for Node.js.
- Juggernaut enables realtime server push with node.js, WebSockets and Comet
- Spine.app “Effortlessly generate Spine, CoffeeScript and Hem applications. Spine.App gives your applications structure, CommonJS modules, a development server and more.”
- Alex is working on The Little Book on CoffeeScript in printed form for O’Reilly.
- JavaScript Web Apps covers building client-side MVC apps in a framework agnostic way.
- Twitter is hiring! Got the chops? Get in touch.
- Jeremy Ashkenas is Alex’s programming hero.
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Foundation and Other Zurb Goodies (Interview)
Wynn caught up with Jonathan and Matt from Zurb to talk about Foundation, their HTML5 front end scaffold and many projects from the Zurb playground.
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- Jonathan Smiley - Design lead at Zurb
- Matt Kelly is a developer at Zurb
- The Zurb playground showcases many Zurb’s front end experiments.
- Zurb foundation is an easy to use, powerful, and flexible framework for building prototypes and production code on any kind of device.
- Bootstrap from Twitter bakes in more style opinions and currently does not target mobile devices.
- Zurb Foundation ships in Rails, Compass, two WordPress, and ASP.NET MVC flavors.
- Flickr Bomb is a more entertaining alternative to http://placehold.it
- Joyride is a fun way to do feature tours.
- Zurb buttons are super awesome.
- Orbit is a lightweight image slider for jQuery. The version bundled with Foundation supports responsive layouts.
- Reveal is an easy way to add great looking modals to web apps.
- Zurb also offers a set of free apps including Axe and Strike.
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Spree and Ecommerce in Rails (Interview)
Wynn sat down with Sean and Brian from Spree to talk about ecommerce in Rails, SpreeConf, and their recent $1.5M funding round.
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- Sean Schofield, Spree founder and CEO of Spree Commerce, Inc.
- Brian Quinn, long time Spree contributor and CTO of SpreeCommerce
- Spree (née RailsCart) is a Rails engine that provides an out-of-the box, customizable ecommerce platform.
- Spree fully integrates into the Rails 3.1 Asset pipeline
- Rails engines have accelerated Spree adoption
- Spree is built on actively maintained community projects including Devise, Kaminari, Paperclip, ResourceController, State Machine, and ActiveMerchant.
- Spree recently closed a $1.5M funding round
- SpreeConf is geared to both business and developer audiences
- Everybody loves Sticker Mule
- Shoedazzle and SecondLife run highly customized versions of Spree.
- Spree has a growing list of community extensions.
- RailsDog Radio is a great showcase of Spree functionality. Grab the source on GitHub
- If you actually need a satellite radio, check out TSS Radio.
- Spree will unbox a new demo installation on Heroku just for you.
- Deface allows you to customize HTML ERB views in a Rails application without editing the underlying view.
- Ryan Bigg, Ruby Hero and co-author of Rails 3 in Action has joined Spree as community manager.
- Like Changelog Episodes, Spree is not SemVer compliant.
- Sean wants to explore using RailsAdmin into Spree
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Growl and Open Source in the App Store (Interview)
Adam and Wynn caught up with Chris Forsythe, lead of the Growl project to talk about Growl, their App Store launch, and his work on Adium and Perian.
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- We recently launched The Sass Way so you can get your fix of all things Sass and Compass
- Chris Forsythe is the project lead for Growl.
- Growl is a popular notification system for Mac OS X.
- Growl is now in the App Store and on GitHub
- Chris was formerly the project manager for the Adium.
- Your $1.99 will help send Chris to his first WWDC.
- GrowlMail is now a separate project.
- Over two hundred applications support Growl notifications.
- Designers have created many visual Growl styles to make Growl look great.
- Wynn’s favorite is Hud from @Rogie.
- Growl now supports GNTP, allowing Linux and Windows notifications apps to share a common protocol.
- Wynn uses Growl for visual feedback for his test suite.
- Chris also is a founder of the Perian project, a free, open source QuickTime component that adds native support for many popular video formats.
- Chris says that the GPL prevents Perian from taking the App Store path.
- The OSI is a non-profit corporation with global scope formed to educate about and advocate for the benefits of open source and to build bridges among different constituencies in the open source community.
- Chris relates the impact Steve Jobs had on his open source work.
- Evan Schoenberg inspires Chris.
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HTML5 Boilerplate and JavaScript (Interview)
Adam and Wynn caught up with Paul Irish of Google’s Chrome developer relations team to talk about HTML5, JavaScript, CSS3, polyfills, and more.
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- Paul Irish - Chrome dev relations guy at Google.
- Dion Almaer - Host of Function Source, all around JavaScript, frontend expert.
- “HTML5 is a jewel that we need to cut into a weapon” - Dion /via Yehuda Katz
- Adam is in love with GitHub’s new editor powered by Cloud 9
- HTML5 Boilerplate contains a set of best practices to use as a starting point for new projects or pick what you need a la cart.
- Boilerplate now includes Normalize.css, a customisable CSS file that makes browsers render all elements more consistently and in line with modern standards.
- Normalize is a collaboration between Nicolas Gallagher and Jonathan Neal
- Modernizr is an open-source JavaScript library that helps you build the next generation of HTML5 and CSS3-powered websites, from Faruk Ate?, Paul, and Alex Sexton.
- rack-modernizr from Marshall Yount brings Modernizr to the server
- Paul coined the term FOUT - Flash Of Unstyled Text.
- HTML5 polyfills implant html5 functionality in browsers that don’t natively support them.
- Paul makes micro microapps for CSS3, text shadows, and HSL picking.
- Paul is a fan of Chris Coyer of CSS Tricks
- Need an idea for a weekend project, check out Paul’s Lazy Web Requests
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RVM and BDSM (Interview)
Steve and Wynn caught up with Wayne Seguin to talk about his Ruby enVironment Manager and BDSM shell scripting framework projects.
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- Look us up at LSRC V next week.
- Madison Ruby Conference August 19-20, 2011 in Madison, WI.
- Wayne Seguin, developer at EngineYard, creator of RVM and BDSM.
- RVM is a command line tool which allows us to easily install, manage and work with multiple ruby environments from interpreters to sets of gems.
- BDSM aims to create a framework for maintaining and sharing server side scripts while exposing them through a consistent command line interface (CLI).
- Dr. Nic Williams, Wayne’s boss was on Episode 0.5.0
- Peter Cooper helped get the word out about RVM.
- Michal Papis has been giving Wayne a hand with RVM and BDSM.
- Ryan McGeary says “Vendor Everything” while Wayne says he vendors nothing and uses rvm gemsets in most cases.
- Bundler now plays nice with RVM.
- Using BDSM, you can create consistent service interfaces for everything in your stack.
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Code for America (Interview)
Adam and Wynn caught up with Erik and Max, Fellows at Code for America to talk about civic-focused development and open source.
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- Apply now to be a 2012 Code for America Fellow - Deadline is July 31
- LSRC V is just around the corner
- Follow @TheSassWay for your Sass news
- Code for America enlists the talent of the web industry into public service to use their skills to solve core problems facing our communities.
- Erik Michaels-Ober is a Rubyist and Fellow at Code for America
- Max Ogden is also a Rubyist and Fellow at Code for America
- Erik is using (and improving) the LinkedIn Ruby gem
- Max loves Underscore.js from Jeremy Ashkenas
- Max’s GitHub page tells recruiters to get lost.
- Carl Malamud of Public.Resource.Org aims to make government information more accessible.
- The Sunlight Foundation, featured on Episode 0.1.3
- Code For America’s GitHub page features 120 projects.
- Rails Admin is Erik’s Rails 3 engine that provides an easy-to-use interface for managing your data
- Erik and Wynn met through John Nunemaker’s Twitter Gem
- Faraday is Rick Olson’s slick Rack-like HTTP client library.
- Mislav Marohni? helps maintain Faraday
- Want to create your own programming language like Jeremy Ashekenas? Read this book!
- Max is a fan of Request from Mikeal Rogers
- Erik is a fan of Sam Stephenson, featured in Episode 0.6.4
- Brian Ford, Evan Phoenix, make Rubinius rock.
- Steve Richert aka @LaserLemon helps out with the Twitter gem. Best username evar.
- TextMate users: be nice to your Vim friends.
- The opportunity for Civic Startups
- Fight for the User
- Literary Machines is a thirty year old book from Ted Nelson.
- Open211.org - The Redirectory Project is a free and open directory of social services and resources that anyone can contribute to.
- Test your Ruby projects against multiple Rubies with Travis
- Gemcutter powers RubyGems.org
- Substance.io is an HTML5-based document editor from Michael Aufreiter
- Be sure and follow Substack on GitHub.
- Apply now to be a 2012 Code for America Fellow - Deadline is July 31
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Pow, Rails 3.1 Asset Pipeline, CoffeeScript and More (Interview)
Adam and Wynn caught up with Sam Stephenson from 37Signals to talk about his his many open source projects and developing Basecamp Mobile.
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- Nathan Smith, friend of the show, creator of 960.gs, Adapt, Formalize, and featured in Episode 0.3.2
- Sam Stephenson, programmer at 37signals, creator of massive amounts of open source.
- Pow is a zero-config Rack server for Mac OS X.
- Pow supports multiple rubies via RVM.
- Powder is a CLI for Pow.
- Prototype.js is a JavaScript Framework that aims to ease development of dynamic web applications.
- Sprockets is a Ruby library that preprocesses and concatenates JavaScript source files.
- Stitch stitches your CommonJS modules together for the browser
- ExecJS runs JavaScript code from Ruby.
- Josh Peek, Rubyist and GitHubber.
- Nack - Node.js adapter for Rack
- Sam loves CoffeeScript and hopes to never write JavaScript again.
- Sam debunks the FUD of debugging CoffeeScript. “Command-F is your friend.”
- Jeremy Ashkenas, creator of CoffeeScript ported his Underscore library as a demonstration.
- Sam weighs in on the micro framework movement and loves Zepto, Underscore, and Backbone.
- “We’re living in a WebKit world on mobile.”
- The goal of the Basecamp Mobile app was to “feel like a web app.”
- Basecamp Mobile was a team effort by Sam, Josh, and Jason Zimdars.
- “Responsive Web Design”, a term coined by Ethan Marcotte.
- Less Framework is an adaptive grid CSS framework for desktop and mobile.
- Cinco is the yet-to-be-released framework behind Basecamp Mobile built on Stitch, Backbone, CoffeeScript, and Zepto.
- Sprockets powers the new Rails 3.1 Asset Pipeline
- Jammit is an alternative to Sprockets.
- The Ruby Racer from Charles Lowell embeds the V8 Javascript Interpreter into Ruby
- The Git commit heard round the world.
- Baren generates images from Processing source.
- Jamie Dihiansan is the design talent behind the great Pow web site
- Pow uses docco for documentation.
- Rack-legacy allows you to serve up PHP from Pow.
- Be sure and snag Trevor Burnham’s excellent CoffeeScript book
- Josh and DHH are Sam’s programming heroes.
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CDNJS (Interview)
Adam and Wynn caught up with the developers behind CDNJS, a community-powered CDN for JavaScript libraries.
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- CDNJS aims to make the web faster by putting more shared JavaScript on a content delivery network.
- We’re now part of the Fusion Network
- Catch up with us at The Big (D)esign Conference
- We’ll be at Lone Star Ruby Conference 2011
- Ryan Kirkman, Co-Founder of Protosal.
- Thomas Davis, Co-Founder of Protosal, also runs backbonetutorials.com
- Fork the GitHub project to get your script included
- A CDN helps serve assets from servers closer to the user.
- CloudFlare sponsors the project.
- Cached Commons has some of the same goals, but uses GitHub as a provider.
- CDNJS packages uses the same format as NPM
- The Google Library API hosts most of the major JavaScript frameworks.
- Microjs is a micro-site for micro-frameworks
- Protosal lets you generate proposals using templates and variables to save time.
- cdnjs-command is a Ruby gem command line helper for CDNJS.
- Backbone.js is a lightweight MVC framework for client-side JavaScript.
- Brunch A lightweight approach to building HTML5 applications with emphasis on elegance and simplicity.
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IronJS, F#, and .NET (Interview)
Wynn caught up with Fredrik Holmström to talk about IronJS, F#, and open source in .NET.
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- IronJS A JavaScript implementation for .NET written in F#
- Fredrik Holmström, creator of IronJS
- F# is a succinct, expressive and efficient functional and object-oriented language for .NET which helps you write simple code to solve complex problems.
- “This JScript thing”
- Mono is an open source, cross-platform, implementation of C# and the CLR that is binary compatible with Microsoft.NET.
- IronJS continues in the tradition of IronPython and IronRuby
- IronJS implements EcmaScript 3 but is working towards EcmaScript 5 support
- Miguel de Icaza created Mono.
- Nuget is a free, open source developer focused package management system for .NET.
- Codeplex seems to be the place to find .NET open source
- GitHub is hosting more and more .NET projects
- C# and .NET are hard to Google
- Kayak is an asynchronous HTTP server written in C#
- Zed Shaw, featured on Episode 0.3.4
- Don Syme, architect behind F#
- “John” Gietzen has contributed to IronJS.
- Follow @IronJS on Twitter for updates.
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Oh My Zsh (Interview)
Adam and Kenneth caught up with Robby Russell to talk about his community-driven zsh project.
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- Robby Russell – GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Kenneth Reitz – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- oh-my-zsh A community-driven framework for managing your zsh configuration.
- Robby Russell is Chief Evangelist at Planet Argon
- Derek Sivers from CD Baby
- Robby weighs in on the bash vs. zsh debate
- Bash vs Zsh debate? Google returns 175k results on the subject
- Themes are a big selling point for oh-my-zsh
- Kenneth love is right side prompt
- Adam loves hub
- oh-my-zsh is currently the eighth most forked project on GitHub.
- Follow @ohmyzsh on Twitter for updates
- Adam likes the update message.
- Robby tries to keep the pull requests under 100.
- Robby is looking for a few volunteers to help with pull requests and issue management
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Fog, the Ruby Cloud Services Library (Interview)
Wynn sat down with Wesley Beary from Engine Yard to talk about the Fog project and the Cloud, live from Red Dirt Ruby Conf.
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- Wesley Beary aka @geemus
- The Fog project is the Ruby cloud services library
- By coincidence this interview was recorded the day the cloud went down
- Fog supports almost twenty providers for Storage, DNS, Compute, CDN
- Dr. Nic made us laugh on Episode 0.5.0
- Engine Yard pays Wesley to hack on Fog.
- AppCloud is a Ruby Platform as a Service from Engine Yard.
- You have to commit to the project to earn a slick Fog tee
- Excon grew out of Fog’s need for EXtended http(s) CONnections
- Wesley is dubious of ‘compliant APIs’
- OpenStack is backed by Rackspace and Nasa
- Wesley likes to play with Riak
- Red Dirt Ruby Conference videos will be released on May 22
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RubyGems and RubyGems.org (Interview)
Wynn sat down with Nick Quaranto at Red Dirt Ruby Conference to talk about Gemcutter, RubyGems.org, and how to get started creating your own Ruby gem.
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- Nick Quaranto, creator of Gemcutter which is now RubyGems.org
- Gemcutter is the Ruby community’s gem hosting service.
- Tom Preston-Warner, founder of GitHub
- RubyForge was the original spot to host your Ruby project.
- Peter Cooper, publisher of Ruby Inside and co-host of the Ruby Show.
- A gemspec is a manifest for a Ruby gem.
- Since a gemspec is saved as YAML, you can embed Ruby in it.
- Bundler manages a Ruby application’s dependencies through its entire life across many machines systematically and repeatably.
- Bundler 1.1 aims to speed up how gems are fetched.
- Jeweler and Hoe help you create, package, and release gems.
- Ryan Tomayko from GitHub tells us why “require ‘rubygems’” is wrong
- GitHub is no longer in the Gem building business.
- Erik Michaels-Ober uses the gem post install message to share resources with users.
- When not squashing Gemcutter bugs or applying patches, Nick likes to play with Redis and EventMachine.
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Twisted and Evented Programming in Python (Interview)
Kenneth and Wynn caught up with Glyph Lefkowitz from Twisted to talk about the project and evented programming in Python.
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- Glyph Lefkowitz is creator of Twisted.
- Twisted is an event-driven networking engine written in Python.
- Twisted has its origin in the game Divmod Imaginary.
- Glyph says Twisted programming is easier than programming with gevent and eventlet.
- Twisted.web is the most popular package, but Twisted supports a wide range of other protocols in addtion to HTTP including NNTP, IMAP, SSH, IRC, FTP, and others.
- Twisted even supports IO Completion Ports on Windows.
- Twisted’s non-blocking approach makes it great for GUI programming via GTK+, wxPython, and more, even Pygame.
- Glyph expands on his blog post drawing distinctions between Tornado and Twisted.
- Benchmark nerds should check out speed.twistedmatrix.com.
- Dustin Sallings ported Tornado to Twisted’s low-level networking stack and eliminated over 1,200 lines of code.
- Twisted success stories include LucasFilm, HipChat, TweetDeck, Justin.tv, and more.
- Twisted also powers OpenStack, used by Nasa to run its cloud.
- Glyph is proud of his rock star sister Sara.
- Twisted tracks high scores for community involvement in 8-bit beauty.
- Free Changelog stickers for the first person to @reply us with Glyph’s real name.
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Amplify.js, jQuery, CoffeeScript (Interview)
Wynn caught up with Mike Hostetler and Scott González from AppendTo to talk about Amplify.js, jQuery, CoffeeScript, Microsoft, the web, and open source.
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- AppendTo offers training and consulting for jQuery.
- Amplify.js is a set of components designed to solve common web application problems with a simplistic API.
- Mike Hostetler is CEO at AppendTo.
- Scott González works on jQuery UI.
amplify.requestmakes building JavaScript API wrapper easier, providing hooks for mocking transport and payload transformation.amplify.storeis a wrapper for various persistent client-side storage systems and provides advanced features such as cache expiration.- Amplify’s PubSub system provides offers advanced options for handling custom events including priority.
- The AppendTo guys weigh in on the all-in-one vs. best-of-breed JavaScript framework debate.
- Wynn asks how Microsoft’s adoption of jQuery has led to its adoption.
- DamianEdwards worked to get jQuery UI packages for Nuget.
- Rails now includes CoffeeScript by default.
- Wynn loves
cake. - CommonJS aims to create a standard library for JavaScript.
- Keep an eye out for AppendTo’s new Learn site, a JavaScript 101 course for newcomers.
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Vim round table discussion (Interview)
Wynn sat down with three Vim users and experts to talk about tips and tricks for using and pimping the popular text editor.
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- Drew Neil – Website, GitHub, X
- Yehuda Katz – Website, GitHub, X
- Tim Pope – GitHub, X
- Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- Vim seeks to provide the power of Unix’s Vi
- Drew Neil hosts VimCasts
- Tim Pope has created numerout Vim plugins
- Yehuda Katz from SproutCore, Rails, and jQuery fame.
- Dr. Nic says Vim is cutting edge 1960s tech.
- Janus Yehuda and Carl’s MacVim bundle
- Everyone that tried to convince Yehuda to try Vim were wrong.
- Vim is a modal interface
- Wynn laments that TextMate 2 is the new Duke Nukem
- NerdTree is a text-based treeview inside your vim
- Tim uses his vibrantink mod called vividchalk
- Yehuda wants to give Solarized Vim is cutting edge 1960s tech.
- Yehuda like visual block mode
- MacVim lets you use ?-S.
- Wynn asks how the world would be different if DHH had used Vim instead of TextMate for his famous Rails screencast.
- Tim likes
CTRL-X,CTRL-Eto bind an editor to the command line. - Yehuda says you should be using
ruby -einstead ofgrep - Drew loves
CTRL-R,CTRL-Win Vim. - “Matz is (under)rated.”
- Tim says we owe so much to Linus for Linux and Git.
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Goliath, Event Machine, SPDY (Interview)
Wynn caught up with Ilya Grigorik, Founder and CTO of PostRank to talk about Goliath, async Ruby web development, and Google’s SPDY.
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- Look for Steve Klabnik at CodeConf.
- Ilya Grigorik founder and CTO of PostRank.
- PostRank taps into intelligence from the social web.
- igvita.com is Ilya’s awesome Ruby, performance, and big data blog.
- Goliath Goliath is an open source version of the non-blocking (asynchronous) Ruby web server framework powering PostRank.
- Thin glues together Mongrel parser, Event Machine, and Rack.
- Evidently we’ve discussed Node.js “at length” on this show.
- Goliath hides much of the complexity of its asynchronous architecture from the developer
- Goliath was designed for and has been benchmarked on MRI, JRuby and Rubinius
- PostRank heavily employs AMQP
- The PostRank APIs allow you to create applications that interact with the subscription management component of the PostRank website, as well as, create and retrieve story ratings and customized RSS feeds for your users.
- The Top Posts Widget lets you showcase the most important articles on your site, encouraging viewers to click on more articles and read what matters.
- A GitHub account and a blog are key differentiators for developers looking to get hired at PostRank.
- Ilya says “presentation is 50% of the actual deliverable”. Great READMEs are important.
- Ilya looks up to Brad Fitzpatrick of LiveJournal and Memcached fame.
- Ilya’s blog tagline: “A goal is a dream with a deadline.”
- Anybody still using GTD?
- Ilya isn’t beholden to any one editor but loves both Vim and TextMate.
- SPDY: (pronounced “SPeeDY”) An experimental protocol for a faster web. The usual HTTP GET and POST message formats remain the same; however, SPDY specifies a new framing format for encoding and transmitting the data over the wire.
- If you’re using Chrome, you may be using SPDY and not even know it.
- mod_spdy is an experimental proof-of-concept SPDY Apache module.
- ØMQ zeromq: socket library that acts as a concurrency framework as discussed on Episode 0.3.4.
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Erlang, CouchBase, Merging with Membase (Interview)
Wynn sat down with Chris Anderson from CouchBase to talk about CouchDB, the merger with Membase, Erlang, and bringing NoSQL to PHPers.
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- Chris Anderson is a Couchbase cofounder, Mobile Architect, CouchDB committer, new dad
- The CouchDB music video (served up from CouchDB no less)
- Chris sings the official CouchDB theme song to kick off Episode 0.1.8
- Apache CouchDb is a distributed, fault-tolerant and schema-free document-oriented database accessible via a RESTful HTTP/JSON API.
- Damien Katz is the creator of CouchDB.
- CouchBase was formed from merging Membase and CouchOne
- Chris is one of the rare CFOs with a GitHub account
- CouchBase makes the case for NoSQL
- Membase Server currently uses Sqlite under the hood, but will be swapped out for Couch’s storage engine soon
- Mobile Couchbase runs on iOS and brings Couch to your mobile device
- CouchApps are JavaScript and HTML5 applications served directly from CouchDB.
- Zynga makers of Farmville use Membase
- The CouchApp toolkit is now maintained by Benoît Chesneau
- Aaron Miller led the charge to get Erlang on iOS, changing dynamic linking to static linking.
- SpiderMonkey was included iOS for CouchMobile and its JIT compiler made it preferable to V8 or Nitro for Couch tasks.
- GeoCouch adds geospatial features to CouchDB
- Chris outlines the distinctives for Couch’s incremental Map/Reduce
- Jason Smith in Thailand keeps the lights on for CouchBase hosting solutions
- Cloudant offers hosting for Couch in the cloud
- Wynn wants to see integration for CouchBase and Appcelerator Titanium
- Todd Anderson has a great tutorial on using jQuery mobile and CouchDB
- Damien Katz is Chris’ programming hero
- Chris says working with Jan Lehnardt is a blast
- Be sure and check out CouchDB - The Definitive Guide by Chris, Jan, and Noah
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Formalize and News Roundup "Design Edition" (Interview)
Adam and Wynn were joined by Nathan Smith, creator of 960.gs to talk about his new project Formalize and the latest news on The Changelog.
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- Nathan Smith, front end dev, speaker, and author
- 960 Grid System is a versatile CSS grid framework
- Formalize teaches your forms some manners
- An exhaustive list of HTML5 cross-browser polyfills
- Formalize even comes with Sass support out of the box
- Compass’s CSS3 module is powerful
- Wynn
<3Mustache - Adam writes Sass but converts his stylesheets to SCSS for those who prefer it
- Haml means never looking for a missing
</div>ever again - The Changelog on Convore
- HSLPicker - Most excellent color picker for your enjoyment
- Fancy buttons makes your buttons fancy with CSS
- Octopress is a blogging framework for hackers
- Brandon was on Episode 0.1.7 on open source publishing
- Nesta CMS is our favorite Ruby CMS
- reveal: jQuery modal for HTML5 and data attributes
- Zurb’s CSS playground is awesome
- rawler: Crawl your website and find broken links with Ruby
- Inception explained in C code
- JavaScript version of the Inception code, demonstrating
console.group - BeerCamp 2011 site design is fun (scroll all the way down)
- compass-magick: Extend Sass with power of ImageMagick
- jQuery Mobile Alpha 3 released
- Nathan recently spoke at DrupalCon in Chicago on his jQuery desktop project
- Adam is tickled SourceForge runs Grid Coordinates
- The Open Government project demonstrates how the space is growing
- Stylus from LearnBoost brings Node.js-flavored CSS preprocessing
- Zeldman on designers who can’t code
- Adam loves the work of Mike Kus
- Wynn’s rant should be read as ten things you can do to spread the word about your open source project
- Wynn’s post actually spurred Nathan to create a homepage at Formalize.me
- Ryan Bates’ Railscasts are awesome
- Jenkins née Hudson almost became Alfred
- Nathan loves Alfred app
- Adam and Wynn are on Team Launchbar
- Nathan stumbled across a really neat way to target Firefox in CSS
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Serve, RadiantCMS, Design and Prototyping (Interview)
Adam sat down with Designer/Developer John Long, creator of RadiantCMS about his new project Serve, design, and running a successful open source project.
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- John Long of Wiseheart design
- Serve is a rapid prototyping framework for web applications
- John created RadiantCMS, later extended by Sean Cribbs
- Radiant led John to a relationship with Pragmatic Programmers and formation of a Ruby Visual Identity team
- Serve is basically the Rails View layer, sans the Model and Controller.
- Serve’s makes it easier to use URLs that end in a
/instead of file extension - Serve’s view helper are Rails compatible
- Serve is Rack under the hood
- Acoustic is Django-inspired and aims to be between Sinatra and Rails
- “What Rails can learn from Django”
- Running a successful open source project can take over your life
- In the early days of Radiant, Subversion made it difficult to accept community contributions
- Git and GitHub has increased community participation
- Use Compass’s CSS3 module and save your sanity
- Compass can change your design workflow
- Fancy Buttons is a Compass plugin to easily create image-less buttons
- Grab the code for Adam’s nifty Serve bootstrap, which adds easy support for Haml, Sass, Compass, and more.
- Join the newly created Serve Users group
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MongoDB, NoSQL, Web Scale (Interview)
Steve and Wynn sat down with Eliot Horowitz from 10gen to talk about MongoDB, the NoSQL landscape, and the fun of building at Web Scale.
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- Eliot Horowitz CTO and Co-Founder of 10gen
- Dwight Merriman CEO & Co-Founder at 10gen
- NoSQL is a loose term for Key Value Stores, Graph Databases, and Document Databases
- MongoDB still has a large roadmap ahead
- MongoDB was first featured on The Changelog over a year ago
- Single server durability tops the list of new additions in 1.8
- Replica sets are an elaboration on the existing master/slave replication, adding automatic failover and automatic recovery of member nodes
- Shutterfly and Foursquare boast some of the largest MongoDB implemenation
- MongoDB’s sharding enables horizontal scaling across multiple nodes.
- Mongo vs. Riak (and other Dynamo inspired stores)
- Full vs. eventual consistency
- Compound indexes
- Increment operations
- Be sure and check out our Riak interviews: Part 1 and Part 2
- Mongo vs. CouchDB
- Couch uses Map/Reduce views
- Couch has great master-master replication
- Couch runs on mobile
- Mongo’s sharding is closer to a relational database
- Mongo’s Geo features now support more precise, spherical geospatial indexing
- Mongo shines at
- User profiles
- CMS data
- Mongo enjoys wide language binding support
- Eliot and 10gen think the Web Scale meme is all in good fun
- BSON [bee · sahn], short for Binary JSON, is a binary-encoded serialization of JSON-like documents
- Our interview with Douglas Crockford on JSON
- MongoDB 2.0 will be focusing on concurrency, aggregation, online compaction, and TTL temporal collections
- Eliot likes Racket when he’s not slinging C.
- Linus Torvalds is one of Eliot’s heroes
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Ruby, Rails, the Cloud (Interview)
Steve and Wynn caught up with Dr. Nic from Engine Yard to talk about the cloud, Jenkins, Ruby, and lowering the barrier of entry for learning Rails on Windows.
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- Catch up with us at Red Dirt Ruby Conf
- Steve will be at Codeconf
- Kenneth will be covering PyCon 2011
- Thanks for putting up with us for 50 episodes!
- Dr. Nic Williams is Developer Advocate at Engine Yard has a ton of open source projects
- Engine Yard uses Amazon AWS and Terremark
- Dr. Nic actively and aggressively abandons most of his 154 public repos and feels good about it due to Git and GitHub
- Steve maintains a couple of projects from _why
- Dr. Nic liked how Jamis Buck declared he abandoned Capistrano
- Dr. Nic prefers TextMate instead of “1960s technology”
- Steve likes Janus for Vim
- Steve asks about Redcar
- Engine Yard has partnered with Appcelerator for mobile app developers
- Dr. Nic helps maintain Rails Installer, the easiest way to get up and running with Ruby on Rails. For Windows. Mac and Linux coming soon.
- Luis Lavena and Charles Nutter are core to the Ruby community
- “If you have to put the shortcuts on a coffee mug!” - Dr. Nic on Vim
- Jeremy Ashkenas from DocumentCloud is a regular on The Changelog for projects like Docco, CloudCrowd, Underscore.js, CoffeeScript
- The Jenkins rename shows the power of the community to stick together
- Dr. Nic is sticking with Jenkins, but Travis is worth a look for Rubyists
- Someone send Dr. Nic an Octocat badge
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Git, Showoff, XBox Kinect (Interview)
Kenneth and Wynn caught up with GitHubber Scott Chacon to talk about Git, distributed version control, and his quest to kill Word as a book authoring tool.
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- Scott Chacon, Git evangelist, GitHubber, author of ProGit
- rsync is a software application for Unix and Windows systems which synchronizes files and directories from one location to another while minimizing data transfer using delta encoding when appropriate.
- Perforce is a commercial, proprietary, centralized revision control system developed by Perforce Software, Inc.
- Git Internals, Scott’s PeepCode PDF
- Chris, Tom, PJ, founders of GitHub
- Continuous integration is one of Git’s strengths
- Surprisingly, Scott’s
.gitconfigisn’t pimped out - gitk The git GUI repository browser
- gitx Git GUI for OS X
- gitgui Unlike gitk, git gui focuses on commit generation and single file annotation and does not show project history.
- Why Git and not Mercurial?
- Mercurial bookmarks are references to commits that are automatically updated when new commits are made. If you do hg bookmark feature the feature bookmark refers to the current changeset.
- hg-git is the Hg-Git plugin for Mercurial, adding the ability to push to and pull from a Git server repository from Mercurial.
- BitBucket is to Hg as GitHub is to Git
- Scott says he had good intentions in comparing Git to other version control systems and was not lobbing stones at Mercurial
- Scott says distributed source control systems are key to helping the open source community thrive because it lets anyone commit and get involved
- The RubyGems.org 404 is amusing
- libgit2 is a portable, pure C implementation of the Git core methods provided as a re-entrant linkable library with a solid API, allowing you to write native speed custom Git applications in any language which supports C bindings.
- GitHub has continued the libgit2 Google Summer of Code effort, supporting Vicent Marti to continue the development
- Scott says that Git is basically a key value store and we should look at uses beyond version control
- Eclipse is moving to Git away from CVS
- Git Tower is a beautiful Git UI for the Mac
- Showoff is a Sinatra web app that reads simple configuration files for a presentation. It is sort of like a Keynote web app engine.
- Kinectaby, Ruby bindings for XBox Kinect
- Wynn is excited about Scott’s project Git Scribe for writing, feeling the pain of using Word for archaic book publisher workflows
- Jason J Williams’s tools have lessened the pain for Wynn in writing the upcoming Sass book for Manning
- Everybody that works at GitHub is Scott’s programming hero but Ryan Tomayko is one of the smartest developer’s Scott knows.
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Jenkins and Continous Integration (Interview)
Kenneth and Wynn caught up with Kohsuke Kawaguchi and Andrew Bayer from the Jenkins project to talk about continuous integration, Java, and corporate backing drama.
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- CI Joe is GitHub’s continuous integration server
- Knowing is half the battle
- Jenkins née Hudson is the leading open-source continuous integration server. Built with Java, it provides over 300 plugins to support building and testing virtually any project.
- Kohsuke Kawaguchi is the creator of Jenkins
- Andrew Bayer is a Build Engineer at Cloudera
- Nearly 30K Jenkins installations worldwide
- Jenkins is written in Java but with its rich plugin system, you can run almost anything with it
- Jenkins supports Git, Mercurial, SVN, and even Visual SourceSafe
- Jenkins does more than running tests, it can also do parameterized deploys
- GitHub has fueled an explosion in Jenkins community growth
- Wynn asks why Java is only 6% of GitHub projects
- Funny cartoon on how language fanboys see one another
- Git and GitHub adoption actually sparked the name change and Oracle split
- The community voted 214-14 to rename
- Andy addresses how plugins will migrate to the new name. Thanks, Matthew J McCullough.
- At what point do projects look at a jQuery Foundation-style governance model?
- Hudson was the butler in Upstairs, Downstairs
- Alfred, the butler from Batman was a consideration, but conflicted with the Mac program
- James Clark is Kohsuke’s programming hero
- Kohsuke and Lisp’s Guy Steele are Andrew’s heroes
- MZ Scheme now Racket makes Kenneth’s head hurt
- Andrew recommends Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs from MIT
- As a build guy, Selenium gets Andrew excited
- Kohsuke is trying to hack the Airport Express to stream tunes from Linux
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Open Government and the Citizen Coder (Interview)
Adam and Wynn caught up with Carl Tashian from Open Government to talk about OpenGovernment.org, OpenCongress.org, and the rise of the Citizen Coder.
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- Carl Tashian is Director of Technology at Open Government
- OpenGovernment: Empower individuals and organizations to track government at every level
- OpenCongress.org - open source Rails app to track the goings on in the US Congress
- Library of Congress THOMAS site is the source for federal legislative information
- OpenGovernment.org, a public resource for government transparency at the state, city, and local levels. Free and open-source.
- Open States API
- The Sunlight Foundation aims to make government transparent and accountable
- Wynn helped create TweetCongress.org winner of a SXSW 2009 Web award for activism, making use of Sunlight APIs
- Follow the money and connect the dots between bills, key votes, and campaign donations.
- Transparency Data is a central source for federal lobbying disclosure, federal grants and contracts, earmarks and federal and state campaign contributions, complete with it’s own API
- GovKit
- Luigi Montanez and Wynn wrote a wrapper for Transparency Data
- Fog, the Ruby cloud services library
- Carl worked at ZipCar prior to joining Open Government
- Syncing large datasets from different providers is a big challenge
- PostgreSQL and PostGIS power the backend of OpenGovernment
- GeoServer is an open source software server written in Java that allows users to share and edit geospatial data.
- MongoDB and Rack provide a fast way to track page views in the app
- Sunlight, Code for America, and Open Government - rise of the Citizen Coder?
- Oakland Crimespotting is a case study on developers having an impact on government
- DocumentCloud, featured in Episode 0.0.5
- Jammit, Industrial Strength Asset Packaging for Rails
- Pythonistas, why not help out by creating a scraper for your state?
- Kenneth and Wynn debate the best terminal font
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YUI 3, Node.js, JSLint, Douglas Crockford Code Reviews (Interview)
Adam and Wynn caught up with Adam Moore and Satyen Desai from the YUI team to talk about YUI 3, Node.js, and working with Douglas Crockford.
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- YUI is the Yahoo! User Interface library, a collection of front end code goodies for JavaScript and CSS
- Follow the YUI Blog for the latest developments, such as the new 3.3.0 release
- Adam Moore and Satyen Desai are engineers on the YUI team.
- The Autocomplete widget provides a flexible, configurable, and accessible implementation of the AutoComplete design pattern.
- The DataTable widget renders columnar data into a highly customizable and fully accessible HTML table
- The Dial widget is an alternative to sliders
- The YUI Charts recently moved from Flash to JavaScript in YUI 3
- The Community developed the drag/move component
- YUI is on GitHub, fueling community involvement
- YUI Theater is a great source for JavaScript talks and all things YUI
- Douglas Crockford is the author of JSLint, the JSON spec, featured on Episode 0.2.6 from TXJS
- Nicholas C. Zakas aka @slicknet is the author of a number of JavaScript books
- Eric Miraglia is the Engineering Manager for the YUI team
- JSLint improves your JavaScript but will not spare your feelings
- Dave Glass - has a great talk about YUI + Node
- “I love async, but I can’t code like this”
- Many of the additional Node.js modules deal with parallel execution
- Adam suggests targeting features, not platform since features like touch will be on the desktop eventually.
- Satyen’s talk on YUI’s mobile strategy
- The module pattern in JavaScript
- The YUI Gallery lists discoverable components contributed by the community
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Redis In-Memory Data Store (Interview)
Wynn caught up with Salvatore Sanfilippo to talk about Redis, the super hot key value store.
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Show Notes:
- VMware signs the paychecks for Salvatore and Pieter Noordhuis
- Redis is an open source, advanced key-value store and data structure server wherein keys can contain strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets
- Redis internals consist of ANSI C with an evented model
- Non-blocking replication has always been a Redis design goal
- Replication in Redis is async
- Salvatore’s Redis toolbox includes the Redis Ruby gem and Sinatra
- Chances are you can find a Redis library in your favorite language
- The C client is the only officially supported wrapper
- Salvatore thinks the NoSQL moniker isn’t perfect, focusing too much on performance, but it frames a discussion
- Redis Pub/Sub is perfect for real-time apps
- GitHub’s adoption of Redis in Resque helped fuel the growth of the project
- Redis users tend to use it as a database, as a messaging bus, or as a cache
- Salvatore thinks hosted solutions like Redis-to-Go need to add more value like more frequent backups and seamless upgrades.
- Blizzard uses an 8-node Redis install in serving avatars for WoW
- Justin Campbell asks will VMWare feature Redis in any upcoming projects?
- Ezra Zygmuntowicz and GitHub were among the first “few brave users”
- After a few months Salvatore noticed a dip in adoption , but he trusted his gut and stuck with it
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Ruby 1.9, Nokogiri, Tender Lovemaking (Interview)
Wynn caught up with Aaron Patterson, aka @tenderlove, to talk about Ruby 1.9, Nokogiri, and muscle cars.
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Show Notes:
- RubyCommitters.org lists all the folks who hack on the Ruby language
- Nokogiri is a library for parsing XML and HTML
- The origins of tenderlove, Aaron’s online persona
- Hot linking, check it and see. Got a page rank of a hundred and three., to the tune of Hot Blooded
- Mechanize adds an API to any website
- Being a Ruby committer is ‘alright’
- Yugui, release manager for Ruby 1.9
- The current state of rubycommitters.org reminds us of CSS Naked Day
- REXML is a pure Ruby XML processor
- MiniTest is Aaron’s favorite testing framework
- His favorite Ruby 1.9.2 feature is speed
- texticle is a wrapper around Postgress T-Search APIs
- Aaron will be keynoting at Red Dirt Ruby Conf
- FasterCSV from JEG2, one of the organizers for Red Dirt Ruby Conf.
- El Camino, IROC-Z, or Firebird with T-tops are Aaron’s top three dream cars
- For those who have never shaved a Yak and otherwise did not know it.
- Arel is at the heart of Rails 3 ActiveRecord improvements
- Debian’s Ruby maintainer says he’s out
- Ruby Kaigi, the C conference disguised as a Ruby conference
- In addition to Japanese, Aaron also speaks Scheme and Haskell
- Wynn ? CoffeeScript
- Aaron wants to pair program with Jim Weirich
- Wynn suggests Aaron capitalize on Tenderlovemaking by organizing promiscuous pair programming
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Hackety Hack and _why (Interview)
Steve Klabnik joined the show to talk about learning to program with Hackety Hack and why the lucky stiff.
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- Steve Klabnik – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- Steve Klabnik, maintainer of Hackety Hack, newest contributor to The Changelog
- Hackety Hack will teach you the absolute basics of programming from the ground up.
- _why, creator of Hackety Hack. Help keep his memory alive.
- Abbott and Costello’s classic “Who’s on first?”
- Yakety Yak is a song written, produced, and arranged by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller for The Coasters and released on Atlantic Records in 1958
- Shoes is a tiny graphical app kit for ruby
- GTK is a highly usable, feature rich toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces which boasts cross platform compatibility and an easy to use API.
- MacRuby is an implementation of Ruby 1.9 directly on top of Mac OS X core technologies such as the Objective-C runtime and garbage collector, the LLVM compiler infrastructure and the Foundation and ICU frameworks.
- The Shoebox is a gallery of Shoes apps.
- Mad props to Heroku, Sinatra, and MongoMapper for handling a LifeHacker traffic spike
- Ruby is a great language to teach programming
- _why’s Poignant Guide to Ruby
- ChunkFive is a nice bold free and open source typeface
- Steve is intrigued by projects like cool.io and node.js and the evented style of programming.
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Rails 3.1 and SproutCore (Interview)
Adam and Wynn caught up with Yehuda Katz to talk about upcoming changes in Rails 3.1, SproutCore, and his growing list of open source projects.
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- Yehuda Katz – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- Wynn’s deck from ‘07 pays tribute to Yehuda
- Merb influenced and later merged with Rails
- SproutCore is an HTML5 application framework for building responsive, desktop-caliber apps in any modern web browser, without plugins.
- Carl Lerche is the other half of carlhuda
- Desktop MVC != Server MVC
- Handlebars.js is Yehuda’s optimization of Mustache.js
- Backbone.js is a lightweight MVC framework from DocumentCloud
- Bundler manages an application’s dependencies through its entire life across many machines systematically and repeatably.
- One of the biggest changes in Rails 3 is The Great Decoupling
- Railtie is the core of the Rails Framework and provides several hooks to extend Rails and/or modify the initialization process
- Asset handling is coming in Rails 3.1, meaning better support for Sass, Compass, and CoffeeScript
- Do you modify your Nginx setup?
- Yehuda prefers Sass and Compass to Less since the introduction of the SCSS syntax.
- Haml is the templating language of choice for sophisticated web devs.
- Yehuda likes JavaScript on the server but thinks evented frameworks like Node are more for edge cases than for the heart of the web.
- The Ruby Racer is a Ruby binding to V8 and is great for testing your JavaScripts without a browser
- Charles Lowell wrapped Handlebars.js as Handlebars.rb
- Yehuda loves CoffeeScript wants a runtime debugger before taking the plunge.
- libgit2 is a portable, pure C implementation of the Git core methods provided as a re-entrant linkable library with a solid API, allowing you to write native speed custom Git applications in any language which supports C bindings.
- Adam really loves Thor, a scripting framework that replaces rake and sake and is used by the new Rails 3 generators.
- There is no shortage of thor tasks from users on GitHub.
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Building Telephony Apps (Interview)
Wynn caught up with Chris Matthieu of Voxeo Labs to talk about Phono, Tropo, Adhearsion, and building telephony apps with open source tools.
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- We’re excited to team up with GitHub Jobs! To have your job posting read on air, just check “Advertise this listing on The Changelog Podcast for an additional $100” when you post your job.
- Chris Matthieu founder of Teleku, now with Voxeo Labs, the company behind Tropo, Teleku, and Phono.
- Tropo’s GitHub projects
- Adhearsion uses Ruby to create voice-enabled applications on top of Asterisk
- Asterisk turns an ordinary computer into a communications server
- Phono, a jQuery plugin that lets you make phone calls right from your browser.
- Jay Phillips orginally created Adhearsion
- Jason Goecke VP of Innovation at Voxeo
- AGI protocol is at the core of Asterisk
- Wynn and Chris go way back with TAPI, MAPI, and SAPI
- Google Voice transcriptions gone bad
- The SIP protocol allows multimedia communication sessions such as voice and video calls over Internet Protocol
- The Jingle protocol extends XMPP and powers Google Talk
- Wynn asks how Tropo stacks up against Twilio
- Tropo does TTS in nine languages
- Tropo’s Scripting Environment supports Ruby, Python, PHP, Groovy, and Javascript
- Tropo’s REST API offers a more traditional API approach
- Facebook Telephone lets you call your Facebook friends via Phono.
- Twelephone, if Twitter is more your bag
- Michael Bleigh from Intridea makes Twitter apps easier for Rubyists
- Facebook’s OpenGraph API makes building Facebook apps much easier than previous APIs
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Riak Revisited (Interview)
Wynn sat down with Andy Gross and Mark Phillips of Basho and John Nunemaker of Ordered List to talk about Riak, Riak Search, and moving an open source community to GitHub.
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Show Notes:
- NoSQL smackdown, live from SXSW 2010.
- Are you web scale?
- Drop us a ping@thechangelog.com and let us know who you want to get on The Changelog
- Andy Gross VP of Engineering at Basho, the company behind Riak.
- Mark Phillips Community Manager at Basho AKA * @pharkmillups
- John Nunemaker of Ordered List and MongoMapper fame
- Riak is now available as a binary download
- Bitcask, the new backend for Riak
- Riak key value store, decentralized datastore from Basho Technologies
- Riak Search, full-text search engine based on Riak
- Riak buckets, container and keyspace for data stored in Riak
- Riak KVS buckets can be automatically searchable by installing the Search pre-commit hook
- Riak supports an Apache SOLR interface
- Sean Cribbs made some waves with Ripple
- Ruby, Python, Node.js are the biggest adopters of Riak
- Riak aims to scale both up and down. Adding a node adds a linear increase in throughput and storage capacity. 50 nodes run easily on a laptop.
- Riak nodes are truly decentralized, no node is special
- Riak compares to Cassandra and Voldemort
- Riak has built-in JavaScript map reduce but unlike Couch, it’s more an ad hoc approach.
- Andy explains Riak’s link walking or bucket-key-tag relationships between objects.
- Riak now has two interfaces, the original REST HTTP interface, and a new protocol buffers interface, a faster binary interface
- Eric Brewer, a Basho board member, and his cap theorem
- Bitcask is an append-only file format where the keys are stored in memory for ultra fast lookups.
- InnoStore, the original Riak backend
- John Muellerleile, author of the popular NoSQL cartoon about distributed map reduce in Erlang
- Apache Lucene query syntax a growing standard for search
- The move from BitBucket to GitHub was ultimately about community, not about DVCS
- The THANKS file lists many Riak community contributors
- Harmony - the MongoDB-powered hosted CMS from Ordered List
- Mozilla runs several Riak clusters to log data from their Test Pilot project
- Francisco Treacy uses Riak in WideScript, “an innovative app that helps you focus and interact with your texts — on your desktop, your couch or on the go.”
- Inagist recently moved from Cassandra to Riak
- Riak has partnered with Joyent and Node creator Ryan Dahl to create Riak SmartMachines
- Mark also is a fan of Redis
- Scala and Clojure have Andy excited, too.
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Scripty2, Zepto.js, Vapor.js (Interview)
Wynn caught up with Thomas Fuchs to talk about script.aculo.us, Scripty2, Zepto.js and the future of Prototype.
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Show Notes:
- The Magic Roundabout is crazy
- Wynn got his UK badge on Gowalla
- script.aculo.us JavaScript effects framework built on top of Prototype
- Prototype - JavaScript Framework that aims to ease development of dynamic web applications.
- Thomas is one of many talented RoR core team alumni
- Scripty2 - completely rewritten version of script.aculo.us
- RaphaelJS - JavaScript vector graphics library featured in Episode 0.2.5
- Johnson Page asks “What’s the future of Prototype.js?”
- Underscore.js utility library for jQuery, inspired by Prototype, featured in Episode 0.0.5
- Zepto.js minimalist inlinable framework for mobile WebKit browsers, with a jQuery-like chaining syntax
- EveryTimeZone.com - handy tool to pick a time to meet across time zones. A promotional site for Freckle, chock full of JavaScript best practices.
- Thomas’ blog post on approaches taken with EveryTimeZone.com
- Gury Chainable syntax wrapper for the
<canvas>element - Vapor.js “The only JS framework compatible with every browser.”
- MadRobby gives mad props to @janl, @hblank, @cramforce and other JSConf.eu organizers.
- FabJS - modular async framework for Node.js
- Chris Williams’ talk on PromoteJS, an effort The Changelog supports.
- Eyeballs.js - A lightweight MVC framework for building fast, tidy JavaScript web apps
- CoffeeScript, featured in Episode 0.2.9
- Amy Hoy, Thomas’ wife, product proponent, and usability diva.
- Freckle helps you manage your time
- JavaScript Performance Rocks - three books on ultimate web app performance
- Charm Desk - Thomas and Amy tackle customer support
- PeepCode’s Smashing into Vim with the soothing voice of Dan Benjamin
- Mensch and Meslo, the latest stops on Thomas’ journey to find the ultimate Terminal.app font
- Thomas likes to fly his AR.Drone around the office
- He’s also building the Lego Milennium Falcon
- SchnitzelConf a 1-day, full-contact conference in Vienna, Austria focusing on creating products, launching businesses, and charging real money.
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DevOps and Chef (Interview)
Wynn sat down with Corey Donohoe from GitHub and Seth Chisamore from Opscode to talk about DevOps, Chef, agile infrastructure and innovation in the datacenter.
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Show Notes:
- Corey Donahoe aka @atmos, DevOps dude at GitHub
- Seth Chisamore aka @schisamo, evangelist at Opscode, makers of Chef
- Chef, an open source systems integration framework built to bring the benefits of configuration management to your entire infrastructure.
DevOps is defined as a set of processes, methods and systems for communication, collaboration and integration between departments for Development (Applications/Software Engineering), Technology Operations and Quality Assurance (QA)
- Puppet, an open source data center automation and configuration management framework.
- Cfengine, continuous datacenter automation and repair
- Knife, the Chef command line interface
- Chef Hosted platform is an instant hosted, highly scalabe Chef Server
- Chef solo lets you run Chef without a Chef server
- Chef was architected to be multi-tenant
- The Opscode Team members have impressive resumes.
- Chef includes impressive role-based authorities
- Cookbooks are like Rubygems for Chef
- Cinderella née Cider = apple + homebrew + chef + rvm
- Homebrew as the most forked project is GitHub’s stress test. Be sure to catch Max on Episode 0.3.5
- Wynn makes the case that the Swedish Chef be the face of the DevOps movement
- Silverline from Librato does complex systems management and monitoring
- EY or EngineYard, Corey’s former employer uses VMs in their architecture
- Simon Wardley’s OSCon keynote
- OpenStack is an effort to standardize the cloud
- DevOps version of the account that got Shatner back on TV
- DevOps Borat tweets from the datacenter
- Fog, Wesley Beary’s excellent Ruby abstraction layer for popular cloud providers
- Knife, donated by 37 Signals
- Wynn digs infinity_test to test against multiple versions of Ruby at the same time
- collectd, system statistics collection daemon
- Using Visage to graph collectd stats
- Sign up for the Opscode platform free beta
- Look up Seth as schisamo in #chef and #chef-hacking on IRC
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PubSubHubBub and the Real-Time Web (Interview)
Wynn chatted with Julien Genestoux (github/twitter) from Superfeedr about PubSubHubBub, XMPP, Websockets, and the real-time web.
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Show Notes:
- Superfeedr - pushes realtime data at scale using PubSubHubBub and XMPP.
- PubSubHubHub - simple, open, server-to-server web-hook-based pubsub (publish/subscribe) protocol as an extension to Atom and RSS.
- XMPP - Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) is an open technology for real-time communication and generalized routing of XML data.
- Discovery links in feeds
- Superfeeder has some big names among its publishers and subscribers
- Gowalla demo using websockets and Gowalla’s hub.
- Twitter’s streaming APIs
- Considerations for PubSubHubBub vs. XMPP
- Superfeedr’s GitHub profile
- EventMachine and Node.js are cool
- Julien loves Redis, Cassandra, MongoDB
- Superfeedr’s list of popular feeds, firehose of the blogosphere
- Redis’ as a pubsub store
- Chef from Opscode is serious cool for setting up servers
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Django Dash, Python, Ruby (Interview)
Kenneth and Wynn caught up with Daniel, Christian, and Matt from Pragmatic Badger to talk about the Django Dash, Python, and Ruby.
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Show Notes:
- Daniel, Christian, and Matt from Pragmatic Badger host the Django Dash.
- Django Dash - you’ve got 48 hours to build a Django app. Go!
- Pyweek - Build a Python app in a week
- Rails Rumble - Ruby on Rails’ a own 48 hour web application development competition.
- The Dash rules
- Great Big Crane - 2010 Dash winner
- The Dash moved to distributed version control this year on GitHub & BitBucket
- Love for Pythons’ explicit imports and Python’s module system
- Twisted - an event-driven networking engine written in Python.
- Node.js - Evented I/O for V8 JavaScript.
- Eventlet - a concurrent networking library for Python that allows you to change how you run your code, not how you write it.
- EventMachine - fast, simple event-processing library for Ruby programs.
- Christian is using Compass and Sass in Django, but hates on Haml
- Forkinit - forkin’ brilliant! Share and fork your favorite recipes.
- Flask - Flask is a microframework for Python based on Werkzeug, Jinja 2 and good intentions.
- Web.py - a web framework for python that is as simple as it is powerful.
- Google’s AppEngine Run your Python web apps on Google’s infrastructure.
- Pypy - implemenation of the Python language focusing on speed, memory usage, and sandboxing.
- Rubinius - an implementation of the Ruby programming language. The Rubinius bytecode virtual machine is written in C++.
- Manoria - an MMO city-building and resource management game [Source]
- Server tail - a service which lets you quickly and easily see real time output of log files on your servers, with just a web browser. [Source]
- Read the docs - a place to create, host, and browse docs. [Source]
- GitHub made covering the event live much more fun
- PhoneGap - open source development framework for building cross-platform mobile apps using HTML and JavaScript.
- Leah Culver, who created Leafy Chat in last year’s Dash, talked about it in Episode 0.1.5
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Homebrew and OSX Package Management (Interview)
Adam and Wynn caught up with Max Howell, creator of Homebrew to talk about package managment on OSX, beer, and scrobbling.
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- Max Howell – GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- Homebrew The awesome OSX package manager from Max Howell
- Last.fm - The world’s largest online music catalogue, powered by your scrobbles. Max’s former employer.
- Tweet Deck Desktop and mobile Twitter client
- ImageMagick - fabulous software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images which can be a pain to install on OSX.
- Amarok - is a free software music player for Linux and other varieties of Unix
- GitHub - where all the cool people put code
- Homebrew terms in the Homebrew Cookbook
- No
sudofor you and the dangers therein - MacPorts - an open-source community initiative to design an easy-to-use system for compiling, installing, and upgrading either command-line, X11 or Aqua based open-source software on the Mac OS X operating system
- Gentoo - highly optimized Linux distro
- Most forked projects on GitHub
- Max prefers British ales
- pengwynn is looking to get his hands on the Tatical Nuclear Penguin from Brewdog
- The Silicon roundabout gets its name due to the prominence of British web based companies
- Max created the Last.fm Scrobbler, proving open source can land you a job
- Transmission is beautiful on the Mac
- Glasses, This is the next generation of VLC for Mac also called Lunettes.
brew install sl, thensl— enjoy the ride!
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Mongrel2 and high performance web sites (Interview)
Wynn caught up with Zed Shaw’s non-rockstar alter ego to talk about Mongrel2, high performance web sites, guitar, and software community ponzi schemes.
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- Mongrel2 - an application, language, and network architecture agnostic web server that focuses on web applications using modern browser technologies.
- Original mongrel
- _why an anonymous and prolific writer, cartoonist, musician, artist, and computer programmer notable for his work with Ruby
- Unicorn - Eric Wong’s mostly pure-Ruby HTTP backend
- Thin A fast and very simple Ruby web server
- 0MQ Fastest. Messaging. Ever.
- Node.js Evented I/O for V8 JavaScript.
- Nginix is a HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as a mail proxy server written by Igor Sysoev
- HAProxy The Reliable, High Performance TCP/HTTP Load Balancer
- Twisted an event-driven networking engine written in Python
- libevent Asynchronous event notification library
- EventMachine fast, simple event-processing library for Ruby programs
- Websockets - technology providing for bi-directional, full-duplex communications channel, featured in Episode 0.3.1
- SPDY - An experimental protocol for a faster web
- Fretwar The guitar competition and social time waster.
- LayerTennis from Coudal
- MP3 streaming demo in Mongrel2
- Librelist a free as in freedom mailing list site for open source projects.
- Dethklok, Pantera, Slayer, Metallica
- Wynn asks if Rails is still a ghetto
- Joyent
- Ajax.im an open-source, extensible, theme-able instant messaging framework.
- Qt Cross platform UI framework
- Awesome window manager is a highly configurable, next generation framework window manager for X
- Vimperator Vimperator is a Firefox browser extension with strong inspiration from the Vim text editor, with a mind towards faster and more efficient browsing.
- Screen screen manager with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation
- Reaper is a digital audio workstation: a complete multitrack audio and MIDI recording, editing, processing, mixing, and mastering environment.
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Node Knockout (Interview)
Micheil and Wynn caught up with Gerad and Visnu from the Node Knockout to talk about the 48 hour Node.js development competition and its entries.
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Show Notes:
- Lone Star Ruby Conference - Texas’ regional Ruby conference in Austin
- Mike Perham - The awesome Rubyist whose name gives Wynn fits
- Node Knockout - The 48 hour Node.js coding competition
- Rails Rumble - Ruby’s own 48 hour coding bash
- Gerad - of Gerad & Visnu, the “data-y” and “product-y” guy
- Visnu - the “developer-y” and “designer-y” guy
- Fortnight Labs - the proper name for Gerad & Visnu, Inc.
- List of great Node Knockout Judges
- Joyent & Heroku are great places to host your Node.js apps.
- Express High performance, high class web development for Node.js
- Connect - high performance middleware framework for node featuring robust middleware for serving static files, advanced routing, cookie and session implementations, error handling and much more.
- npm is a package manager for node. You can use it to install and publish your node programs. It manages dependencies and does other cool stuff.
- Node Inspector is a web inspector based Node.js debugger
- Socket.io - Websockets toolkit covered in 0.3.1 and used in so many contest entries
- Go vote for your favorite entries!
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
960.gs and CSS Grid Frameworks (Interview)
Adam and Wynn caught up with Nathan Smith from 960 Grid System to talk about web development and CSS grid frameworks.
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- Nathan Smith – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- 960 Grid System - Nathan’s awesome CSS grid framework
- 960’s awesome templates help you plan your layouts
- Wynn’s new monitor setup is just plain obscene
- 960’s fluid support from Stephen Bau
- Episode 0.2.8 where John Resig talks about mobile web dev
- Episode 18 of the yayQuery podcast
- Wynn asks why Google’s AJAX API library doesn’t include the CSS frameworks
- Nathan and Wynn are fans of Jason Santa Maria’s layout-per-post blog
- For the non-soccer fans, a little background for Nathan’s midfielder analogy.
- We don’t need to link to Sass do we?
- Taco Town from SNL
- jQuery Cookbook, to which Nathan contributed lucky Chapter 13
- Nathan is a big Drupal fan
- Rebecca Murphey organizer of the awesome TXJS conference
- Textile vs. Markdown
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
The WebSocket protocol (Interview)
Wynn and Micheil sat down with Peter Griess from Yahoo Mail, Martyn Loughran from Pusher App, and Guillermo Rauch from Socket.IO to talk about Websockets.
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- WebSocket is a technology providing for bi-directional, full-duplex communications channels, over a single Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) socket, designed to be implemented in web browsers and web servers.
- Socket.IO provides a really simple API to leverage Sockets on the client side.
- Socket.IO Node.JS server - sockets for the rest of us (in Node.js)
- Pusher App Hosted HTML5 web sockets service
- Websocket-js A Flash fallback for browsers that do not support Websockets
- Long polling Traditional approach to emulating push for web apps
- HAProxy reliable, high performance TCP/HTTP load balancer
- True Story A collaborative planning tool for agile teams
- HTML5 Event Source A one-way websocket with limited browser support
- Node Websocket Server Micheil’s websocket server written in low-level node.js, should be 90-100% spec compatible.
- Hummingbird demo - a real time traffic visualizer
- MongoDB Awesome NoSQL database featured on Episode 0.0.7
- Redis an advanced key-value store. It is similar to memcached but the dataset is not volatile, and values can be strings, exactly like in memcached, but also lists, sets, and ordered sets.
- EM-Websocket EventMachine based WebSocket server from Ilya Grigorik
- Node.js YUI3 bindings YUI3 on the server?!
- Telehash - a new wire protocol from Jeremie Miller, the guy behind XMPP, for exchanging JSON in a real-time and fully decentralized manner, enabling applications to connect directly and participate as servers on the edge of the network.
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Sencha Touch (Interview)
Wynn caught up with David Kaneda to talk about mobile web app development with Sencha Touch.
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- Sencha Touch - HTML5 mobile application framework
- WebKitBits - David’s Tumblr for the latest in WebKit news and tips
- jQTouch - jQuery plugin for mobile web development on the iPhone, iPod Touch, and other forward-thinking devices.
- Sass - Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets for your CSS, featured in Episode 0.0.1
- Outpost Basecamp in your pocket
- iUI - Perhaps the original JavaScript toolkit for creating iPhone web apps
- PPK - Web standards and browser guru.
- Compass - Turbocharges your Sass
- Sencha demos including GeoCongress which leverages the Sunlight Labs APIs featured in Episode 0.1.3
- YQL -
SELECT * FROM Interwebs
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CoffeeScript and JavaScript (Interview)
Wynn and special guest host Micheil Smith sat down with Jeremy Ashkenas from DocumentCloud to chat about CoffeeScript, a cool language that compiles to JavaScript.
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- CoffeeScript - a cool language that compiles to JavaScript.
- DocumentCloud - an index of primary source documents and a tool for annotating, organizing and publishing them on the web.
- Haskell - an advanced purely functional programming language
- Everything in CoffeeScript is an expression
- Switch statements in CoffeeScript compile to if/else chains
- CoffeeScript has powerful comprehensions for Arrays, Objects, and Ranges
- Existential operator should look familiar to Rubyists
- Splats make JavaScript
argumentseven easier - ECMAScript 5.0 - the latest JavaScript standard
- ECMAScript Harmony
- CoffeeScript’s String Interpolation
- CoffeeScript’s Class/inheritance features
- Function binding - as President Clinton said “It depends on what your definition of ‘this’ is…” ;-)
- Jeremy loves working with
<canvas>to create Buddhabrot Fractals - Node.js finds its way into every episode!
- NPM is the new standard for Node Package Management
- JSLint cleans up your JavaScripts.
- Jade gives your JavaScript Haml envy from TJ Holowaychuk
- Lincoln Shire Poacher - RaphaelJS graphics from Chris Lloyd
- Underscore.js - featured in Episode 0.0.5
- Comet
- @CoffeeScript - Unofficial Twitter account
- Join us in #coffeescript on Freenode
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Mobile Web Development and jQuery (Interview)
Adam and Wynn caught up with John Resig at TXJS and talked about mobile web development with jQuery and TestSwarm, a continuous integration project from Mozilla Labs.
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Show Notes:
- TestSwarm - Distributed continuous integration testing for JavaScript.
- Pro JavaScript Techniques John’s JavaScript book
- Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja John’s upcoming book of trade secrets
- WebKit - The rendering engine behind Safari, Chrome, and a growing number of mobile browsers
- PhoneGap - Bridges the gap between the web and native functions on the iPhone, Android, and Blackberry
- Fennec Firefox for mobile devices
- Opera Dragonfly - cross device, cross platform debugging environment for the Opera browser-debug JavaScript, inspect and edit CSS and the DOM
- jQTouch - jQuery plugin for mobile web development on the iPhone, iPod Touch
- iUI - create WebApps with an iPhone-like Look and Feel from Firebug creator Joe Hewitt
- TouchScroll JavaScript- and CSS?3-based scroller for devices using Webkit Touch (yes, that includes Android). It is meant to mimic “native” scrolling feeling and behavior as much as possible.
- Mustache.js - Minimal templating with {{mustaches}} in JavaScript
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Padrino Ruby Web Framework (Interview)
Adam and Wynn caught up with Arthur Chiu and Nathan Esquenazi from Padrino, the Ruby web framework built on top of Sinatra.
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- Padrino - über modular web framework built on top Sinatra
- #padrino - Padrino’s IRC channel @ irc.freenode.net
- Ramaze - “Web framework for Rubyists”
- Mountable apps in Padrino
- Rack provides a minimal interface between webservers supporting Ruby and Ruby frameworks.
- CodeRack - Rack middleware directory
- OmniAuth - flexible authentication system utilizing Rack middleware.
- padrino-recipes Examples of forthcoming Padrino plugins based on Thor
- Sammy.js - Sinatra-inspired javascript framework built on top of jQuery. It’s RESTful Evented JavaScript. Featured in Episode 0.2.2
- NestaCMS lightweight Content Management System from Graham Ashton, suitable for running small web sites or blogs. Nesta is written in Ruby using the Sinatra web framework.
- Presto Wynn’s shameless port of Nesta to Padrino powering his own site
- Express - Sinatra-inspired high performance, high class web development for Node.js
- Bowline Create desktop applications with HTML+CSS
- MongoDB Powerfully simple NoSQL database, supported in Padrino via Mongoid or Mongomapper
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JSON and JavaScript (Interview)
While at TXJS — Adam and Wynn caught up with Douglas Crockford, author of both JavaScript: The Good Parts and the JSON spec, and a global namespace unto himself.
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- JSON - (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange format, easy for humans to read and write.
- The JSON Saga - how JSON came about
- JSON.parse, JSON.stringify - Parse and and generate JSON in a standard way
- YAML - YAML Ain’t Markup Language
- Douglas says we should scrap HTML5 and start over and address XSS instead
- ECMAScript 5 - Version 5 of the international JavaScript standard
- JSONP - Current hack to do XSS with JSON
- The JSON logo
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RaphaëlJS and Running an Open Source Project (Interview)
Wynn caught up with Dmitry Baranovskiy to talk about his project RaphaëlJS, running an open source project, and why living in Australia is better than living anywhere else in the world.
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- RaphaëlJS Dmitry’s JavaScript vector graphics library
- gRaphaël Charting library built on top of Raphaël
- TXJS —
var TXJS = JS + BBQ + you; - Dmitry Baranovskiy’s homepage
- SVG XML vocabulary for describing two-dimensional graphics.
- VML Microsoft-backed alternative to SVG
- Ext JS RIA JavaScript platform
- Raphael demos Wow!
- Node.js Lightning fast server-side JavaScript on top of Google V8
- Ryan Dahl Creator of Node.js
- Mustache.js Logic-less views in JS, based on Mustache from defunkt
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Tornado, Hip-hop, Three20 (Interview)
Adam and Wynn caught up with David Recordon and other Facebook developers to talk about their wide range of open source projects including Tornado, Hip-Hop, and Three20 as well as OpenGraph and OAuth 2.0.
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- David Recordon Open Source developer at Facebook, co-creator of OAuth
- Paul Bucheit Co-founder of FriendFeed, creator of Gmail
- Haiping Zhao Creator of Hip-Hop at Facebook
- Scott MacVicar Developer on Hip-hop at Facebook
- Owen Yamauchi - Three20 developer at facebook
- Joe Hewitt Original Three20 developer, creator of Firebug
- Tornado - Non-blocking web server built in Python
- epoll - the Linux magic at the heart of Tornado
- EventMachine Ruby approach to evented, asynchronous web
- Node.js - You do listen to this show, right?
- Hip-hop PHP - Pre-compile your PHP into lightning fast C++
- Three20 - iPhone framework extracted from Facebook’s iPhone app
- iPhone OS 4.0 Next version of Apple’s mobile operating system
- OpenGraph Enables web sites to become rich objects in social graphs
- OAuth2 New simpler mobile and desktop-friendly version of everybody’s favorite authentication method
- f8 Facebook’s developer conference
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The Ruby Racer (Interview)
Wynn and Gregg Pollack did a special LIVE episode at Red Dirt Ruby Conf where they sat down with Charles Lowell to talk about embedding JavaScript engines in Ruby.
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- Gregg Pollack from Ruby5 co-hosted this episode!
- Red Dirt Ruby Conf - the awesome regional Ruby conference in OKC
- Charles Lowell from the FrontSide
- The Ruby Racer Embed the V8 Javascript Interpreter into Ruby
- The Ruby Rhino Embed the Mozilla Rhino Javascript interpreter into Ruby
- Mustache - logicless views from defunkt
- Mustache.js - Jan Lehnardt’s awesome port of Mustache
- Google V8 Google’s super fast JavaScript engine
- Glenn Vanderburg asks the question “Why send JSON over the wire and not HTML fragments”
- JSON templates Precursor to Mustache
- Underscore.js Also has some templating built into this utility JS framework
- Env.js A pure-JavaScript browser environment from John Resig
- Drunk and Retired Charles’ own podcast
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Sammy.js and Semantic Versioning (Interview)
Adam and Wynn caught up with Aaron Quint, the brains behind Sammy.js, a neat JavaScript framework built on top on jQuery fashioned after Ruby’s Sinatra.
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- Texas Javascript Join us in Austin for this awesome JavaScript conference.
- Sammy.js JavaScript framework built on top on jQuery fashioned after Ruby’s Sinatra.
- Sammy’s routes really help organize your jQuery
- Sinatra A Ruby framework as classy as The Chairman himself.
- Sammy plugins Easily extend Sammy
- Mustache.js Minimal templating with {{mustaches}} in JavaScript from Jan, based on defunkt’s awesome Mustache project
- haml-js Port of Haml to JavaScript from Tim Caswell
- CouchDB document-oriented database that can be queried and indexed in a MapReduce fashion using JavaScript
- Couch apps Share your CouchDB codes
- Step control-flow the node.js way.
- Do simple async JavaScript library
- Makin’ Bacon Aaron’s slides from his JSConf talk
- Chris Williams JSConf organizer aka voodootikigod
- Chromium Google projects helping to superchare JavaScript
- LABjs aims to be an all-purpose, on-demand JavaScript loader, capable of loading any JavaScript resource, from any location, into any page, at any time.
- Fab a modular async web framework from Jed Schmidt for node.js
- Semantic versioning numbers and the way they change convey meaning about the underlying code and what has been modified from one version to the next.
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Tweets from Chirp, Twitter's Developer Conference (Interview)
While in San Francisco for Chirp, Wynn caught up with Erik and John from 140Proof, Hayes Davis from CheapTweet, and Christie Koehler from Open Source Bridge about Twitter and open source development.
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- 140 Proof Ad platform for Twitter
- John Manoogian III and Erik Michaels-Ober from 140 Proof
- Racket Monitor your log files with auralization
- Merb admin Admin screens slice for Merb, upcoming for Rails 3
- Hayes Davis Austin Rubyist and all around nice guy
- CheapTweet Find deals and coupons on Twitter
- TweetReach How far did that tweet travel?
- Grackle Lightweight Ruby Twitter API wrapper with a nice syntax
- Open Source Bridge Nice sized open source conference in Portland in June
- Christie Koehler from Open Source Bridge
- ShopIgniter PHP-based ecommerce platform built on CodeIgniter
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Node.js and Server-Side JavaScript (Interview)
Adam and Wynn caught up with Felix Geisendörfer to talk about Node.js, server-side JavaScript, and JSConf 2010.
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- NodeJS “First server-side JavaScript implementation you’d actually like to use”
- Ryan Dahl Creator of Node.js
- C64 The official home computer of the 80s
- CakePHP CakePHP enables PHP users at all levels to rapidly develop robust web applications.
- Ubuntu Upstart Daemonize your Node
- Google V8 Google’s open source JavaScript engine.
- ECMAScript International standardization of JavaScript family of languages
- WebSockets HTML5 protocol for two-way communication with a remote host
- Do from Tim Caswell simple async JavaScript library
- HowToNode.org Learn Node.js via an open blog featured on Episode 0.1.7
- Kiwi Node.js package management system inspired by RubyGems
- Express.js High performance, high class web development for Node.js with a Ruby flavor
- Fab Rack-esque framework for Node.js
- CommonJS aims to fill gaps by defining APIs in a standard library as rich as those in Python, Ruby, and Java
- jspec BDD for JavaScript
- Transloadit Because uploads and video encoding sucks
- JSConf 2010 Arrrrrrr you going to THE JavaScript conference?
- node-dirty NoSQL for the little man
- berlinjs JavaScript user group in Berlin
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Ruby, TextMate, Red Dirt Ruby Conf (Interview)
While in OKC for OpenBeta4, Adam and Wynn sat down with James Edward Gray II and talked about his many Ruby gems, TextMate bundles, and his upcoming Ruby conference Red Dirt Ruby Conf this May.
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- RubyQuiz.com Challenge your Ruby fu, feel dumb, learn something, repeat.
- OpenBeta4 We were blown away by the startup community in OKC
- Red Dirt Ruby Conf Join us in OKC for this premier Ruby event
- FasterCSV De-facto CSV handling in Ruby, now built-in to 1.9
- Ruby Kaigi Awesome Ruby conference in Japan
- TextMate James’ favorite text editor
- Ruby bundle for TextMate
- #textmate TextMate IRC channel
- #thechangelog Drop in and share your latest open source projects
- Rack Rack provides a minimal interface between webservers supporting Ruby and Ruby frameworks.
- Rails 3.0 Active Record query interface
- LA Ruby Conf Ruby conference in L.A. just wrapped in February
- Redis - an advanced key-value store. It is similar to memcached but the dataset is not volatile, and values can be strings, exactly like in memcached, but also lists, sets, and ordered sets.
- OK.rb Now meeting at OKCCoCo
- Irma’s Burger Shack Best place to grab a burger in OKC. Hey, they’re on the Twitter
- Glenn Vanderburg One of James’ Ruby heroes
- Oklahoma Mixer James’ full featured and robust FFI interface to Tokyo Cabinet
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NoSQL Smackdown! (Interview)
While at SXSW Interactive, Adam and Wynn got to attend the Data Cluster Meetup hosted by Rackspace and Infochimps. Things got a bit rowdy when the panel debated features of Cassandra, CouchDB, MongoDB and Amazon SimpleDB and started throwing dirt at everybody else’s favorite NoSQL databases.
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The participants:
- Stu Hood from Cassandra
- Jan Lehnardt from CouchDB
- Wynn Netherland from The Changelog, subbing for MongoDB
- Werner Vogels CTO at Amazon
Items mentioned in the discussion:
- Cassandra The Apache Cassandra Project brings together Dynamo’s fully distributed design and Bigtable’s ColumnFamily-based data model and powers some of the world’s largest sites.
- CouchDB Apache,CouchDB is a distributed, fault-tolerant and schema-free document-oriented database accessible via a RESTful HTTP/JSON API.
- MongoDB Combining the best features of document databases, key-value stores, and RDBMSes.
- Amazon SimpleDB a highly available, scalable, and flexible non-relational data store that offloads the work of database administration.
- Dynamo Dynamo is a highly available, proprietary key-value structured storage system that powers parts of Amazon Web Services.
- Amazon S3 Amazon S3 is storage for the Internet. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.
- Persevere Persevere helps you rapidly develop data-driven JavaScript-based rich internet applications.
- Redis Redis is an advanced key-value store. It is similar to memcached but the dataset is not volatile, and values can be strings, exactly like in memcached, but also lists, sets, and ordered sets.
- Neo4j Neo4j is a graph database. It is an embedded, disk-based, fully transactional Java persistence engine that stores data structured in graphs rather than in tables.
Special thanks to @jchris for the awesome CouchDB theme song!
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Open Source Publishing (Interview)
Adam and Wynn caught up with Geoffrey Grosenbach, Brandon Mathis, and Tim Caswell to talk about publishing with open source tools, open blogging, and the back-to-the-future world of static site generators and database-less blogs.
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- Peepcode In-depth screencasts and tutorials
- Git Peepcode The best way to get up to speed with git
- About this Blog TopFunky’s blog stack
- Brandon’s Design blog
- Open Blogging Close to the source control metal blogging where article submissions are pull requests
- EdgeRails.info Fast-moving blog for Rails early adopters
- Octopress A blogging framework for hackers built on top of Jekyll, Compass, Sass, and Haml
- HowToNode.org Tim’s open blog for how to learn Node.js
- Node Blog The blogging engine behind HowToNode.org
- Nesta Neat dynamic blogging tool on top of Sinatra
- Webby Ruby tool for creating static web sites (or other text output)
- Blosxom PERL reminds us that none of these ideas are new
- RailsCamp “Imagine yourself and a posse of like-minded ruby hackers on a country retreat with zero internet for a weekend of fun.”
- Nanoc Awesome static site generator from Denis Defreyne that powers the upcoming Compass docs site
- haml-js Bringing Haml to JavaScript views
- RaphaelJS SVG graphs in JavaScript
- Fancy Buttons Brandon’s Compass plugin for making great looking buttons out of
<button>or<a>tags - node-dirty A key value store for node.js that is simple, fast & dirty.
- TXJS Join us in Austin for an awesome JavaScript conference
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Ajax.org frameworks (Interview)
Adam and Wynn caught up with Ruben Daniels and Rik Arends from Ajax.org and talked about APF and O3, their frameworks for both browser and server based JavaScript applications.
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- Gowalla @ SXSW Check in and join the party
- RedDirt Ruby Conf Awesome new regional Ruby conference in Oklahoma City.
- Chirp Twitter’s API developers conference
- JSConf The conference for everyone’s favorite new retro language.
- Ajax.org Pure javascript application framework for creating real-time collaborative applications that run in the browser.
- O3 Collection of C++ components which are exposed through a JavaScript API
- Demo of Markup and JSON APIs
- Skinning Define a skin with XML
- Flex XML-based RIA framework from Adobe
- XAML Declarative UI XML format from Microsoft
- Google Gears Browser storage from Google, abandoned in favor for HTML5 features
- Node.js This must be your first episode of the show…
- Promises Control flow in Node
- Ajax.org’s GitHub’s page and other downloads
- CouchDB Erlang + JavaScript = NoSQL goodness
- CommonJS JavaScript standard library
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OAuth, Hurl.it, Baconfile (Interview)
Adam and Wynn caught up with Leah Culver and talked about startups, APIs, and her open source work on OAuth, oEmbed, Hurl.it, Baconfile, and more.
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- OAuth An open protocol to allow secure API authorization in a simple and standard method from desktop and web applications.
- oEmbed oEmbed is a format for allowing an embedded representation of a URL on third party sites.
- 90210 One of Adam’s favorite TV shows from the 90s
- Beverly Hillbillies For the previous generation
- Boxee Open Source media on your TV or PC/Mac
- Hurl.it Test APIs from your browser
- Charles Proxy Monitor or proxy HTTP and SSL / HTTPS traffic between your machine and the Internet.
- Gowalla’s API explorer Neat way to test your Gowalla API calls
- Baconfile Share files simply on your own S3 account
- Chunky Baconfile Wynn’s wrapper for Baconfile, a naming tribute to _why
- Motion Community microblogging on the TypePad API written in Django.
- TypeKit Legally embed fonts from the largest foundries
- Node.js The streak continues!
- How to Node Learn Node.js open blog from Tim Caswell and Micheil Smith. And it’s pronounced Michael, sorry, mate.
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Riak, the New Erlang-based NoSQL Store (Interview)
Adam and Wynn caught up with Andy Gross from Basho and Sean Cribbs, a freelance Ruby developer, to discuss Riak, the new Erlang-based NoSQL store and Ripple, Sean’s new Ruby wrapper for Riak.
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- Ripple New Ruby wrapper for Riak
- Link walking in Riak
- RadiantCMS Ruby-powered Content Management System
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Civic hacking (Interview)
Adam and Wynn caught up with Luigi Montanez and Jeremy Carbaugh from Sunlight Labs and discussed their Python and Ruby projects, government transparency, and civic hacking - open source contributions as activism.
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- Real Time Congress - iPhone app for keeping tabs on Congress, built with Appcelerator Titanium
- Anthill - Django-powered community website project that runs SunlightLabs.com
- MediaSync - Django Toolkit to simplify the static media development and deployment.
- Sunlight Labs API - Congressional data served up for your next mashup.
- Underscore.js - The tie for jQuery’s tux
- Open Government Initiative - Every .gov web site now has to outline their transparency efforts
- Apps for America - Build a mashup, win some $$$
- Great American Hackathon - Meetup and hack to improve your government
- Open Government book from OReilly - Collaboration, Transparency, and Participation in Practice
- Tweet Congress - SXSW Web Award-winning congressional Twitter directory built on Sunlight Labs API
- Capitol Words - Amazing site and API analysis of what’s said on the floor of Congress
- Open Congress - Browse, read, discuss, and vote on legislation before Congress.
- Code for America - Connecting city governments and Web 2.0 talent.
- Some new gadget from Apple
- Chromium OS - Google’s new OS discussed on Episode 0.0.4
- SauceBrush - an attempt to build a python ETL library that doesn’t suck
- Homebrew - Package management for Mac as discussed on Episode 0.1.2
- Transparency Camp - THE unconference for government representatives, technologists, journalists, developers, NGOs, wonks and activists
- Los Angeles Ruby Conf - See Luigi and others speak Ruby in beautiful downtown Burbank
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Gordon is such a Showoff (Interview)
Adam and Wynn continued chatting with John Nunemaker about recent featured projects on the blog — including Gordon, Showoff, jQuery Lint, JSpec, congomongo and more.
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- Friendly NoSQL in MySQL
- configliere - Simple Ruby configuration
- twitter-node - Node.js tweetstreaming
- Gordon - Pure JavaScript Flash replacement
- jQuery Lint - jQuery validator
- Showoff - Keynote killer?
- congomongo clojure <3 MongoDB
- Computer science in Javascript - JS as a teaching aide
- phpMoAdmin Mo’ admin for the money
- Momma’s got a FuseBox - and Daddy doesn’t sleep at night
- AppSalesGraph - measure your App store sales
- things-rb call Things.app from Ruby
- JSpec Get your Bee Dee Dee on in JavaScript
- FoursquareX Foursquare client for OS X
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Ordered List, RailsTips.org, and MongoMapper (Interview)
John Nunemaker joined the show to talk about open source, improving your craft, building a business, and how MongoDB has changed his life.
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- John Nunemaker – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- John Nunemaker
- Ordered List
- John’s Ruby projects The Twitter gem, HTTParty, Crack, MongoMapper
- MongoHQ, shared MongoDB hosting
- The GitHub Fork Queue
- Harmony, the new CMS from Ordered List
- Moonshine
- Puppet
- Navvy
- Liquid Markup from Tobias Lütke of Shopify
- Redis
- Resque
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All things GitHub (Interview)
Chris Wanstrath joined the show to talk about the past, present, and future of GitHub.
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- Chris Wanstrath – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X
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Fix-me, Configliere, more Node.js (Interview)
Marshall Culpepper Appcelerator is back and we go through the news together.
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Appcelerator's Titanium and Titanium Mobile (Interview)
Marshall Culpepper joined the show to talk about Appcelerator’s Titanium Desktop and Titanium Mobile.
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10gen and MongoDB (Interview)
Mike Dirolf joined the show to talk about how MongoDB came about, design decisions, and the future of this cool NoSQL server.
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The Weekly News (Interview)
Friend of the show, Steven Bristol from LessEverything join us to discuss the latest in open source.
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- Steven Bristol
- LessEverything
- Erlang
- Javascript on the server
- Lighthouse
- Docsplit
- Rackamole
- whackamole
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Document Cloud and Underscore.js (Interview)
Jeremy Ashkenas is the Lead Developer at DocumentCloud about their effort to revolutionize the way media organizations gather news. Jeremy discusses their open source projects CloudCrowd, Underscore.js, and JAMMIT that they’ve released along the way.
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- Jeremy Ashkenas – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X
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We’re getting the hang of this. We’re pioneering Agile Podcasting!
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Chrome OS, Thor and ROaR (Interview)
In this show we’re still trying to find our footing with this podcast stuff. Seriously, we get better at this.
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The Go Programming Language from Google (Interview)
Rob Pike is a Principal Engineer at Google and Tech Lead for Google’s Go team. Rob is also a co-creator of the Go programming language. We talked with Rob about Go — Google’s new open source programing language!
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- Rob Pike – GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X
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The original Changelog Weekly (Interview)
This goes WAAAAY back in the archive of The Changelog. So far back, that our audio was down-right horrible and you can tell we were nervous to even be recording. We were green and wet behind the ears when it came to producing a podcast (we had no clue).
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It’s the original Changelog Weekly! Wynn and Adam discuss JAMMIT, underscore, and more.
- JAMMIT - Rails plugin for asset packaging
- Underscore.js the bowtie for jQuery’s tux
- Google Go
- Firefox 3.6 beta 2
- Google Chrome OS
- creating “fancy buttons” with Compass and Sass
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Haml, Sass, Compass (Interview)
Natalie Weizenbaum and Chris Eppstein joined the show today to discuss Haml, Sass, and Compass.
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