The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source



A new path to full-time open source

By Changelog Media/Wed, 29 Mar 2023 13:45

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 thi

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News: GitHub Copilot X, Chatbot UI, ChatGPT plugins, defining juice for software dev, Logto, Basaran & llama-cli

By Changelog Media/Mon, 27 Mar 2023 18:45

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 so

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Bringing Whisper and LLaMA to the masses

By Changelog Media/Wed, 22 Mar 2023 21:00

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 transcrip

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News: 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

By Changelog Media/Mon, 20 Mar 2023 18:00

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 c

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Goodbye Atom. Hello Zed.

By Changelog Media/Wed, 15 Mar 2023 14:00

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

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News: Dalai, InputOutput.dev, Wik, Rspack, Doodle, Marqo & iLLA

By Changelog Media/Mon, 13 Mar 2023 19:00

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 framewo

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Chasing the 9s

By Changelog Media/Thu, 09 Mar 2023 22:00

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

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News: New OpenAI APIs, self-hosting all the things, the Dart Frog project, curl's NuGet story & Hacker Stations

By Changelog Media/Mon, 06 Mar 2023 20:45

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

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You’re just a devcontainer.json away

By Changelog Media/Wed, 01 Mar 2023 22:30

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

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News: Stack Overflow's architecture, Lobsters' killer libraries, Linux is ready for modern Macs, what to expect from your framework & GoatCounter web analytics

By Changelog Media/Mon, 27 Feb 2023 22:30

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 &

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Into the Fediverse

By Changelog Media/Fri, 24 Feb 2023 22:00

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 commu

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News: Sidney Bing, Elk for Mastodon, writing an engineering strategy, what's next for core-js & cool tool lightning round

By Changelog Media/Mon, 20 Feb 2023 20:50

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-

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What it takes to scale engineering

By Changelog Media/Fri, 17 Feb 2023 21:00

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 i

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News: Load testing a $4 VPS, TOML for .env files, counting unique visitors sans cookies, the Arc browser & a love letter to Deno

By Changelog Media/Mon, 13 Feb 2023 20:15

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 fing

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Git with your friends

By Changelog Media/Fri, 10 Feb 2023 21:00

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, a

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News: OpenAI's new text classifier, teach yourself CS, programming philosophies are about state, you might not need Lodash & overrated scalability

By Changelog Media/Mon, 06 Feb 2023 21:40

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 ph

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News: Data tool belts, Build Your Own Redis, the giscus comments system, prompt engineering shouldn't exist & ALPACA

By Changelog Media/Mon, 30 Jan 2023 20:30

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 f

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Mainframes are still a big thing

By Changelog Media/Fri, 27 Jan 2023 22:00

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. Cam

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News: Prioritizing tech debt, UI components to copy/paste, learnings from 20 years in software, git-sim & jqjq

By Changelog Media/Mon, 23 Jan 2023 19:50

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 eas

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Just Postgres

By Changelog Media/Fri, 20 Jan 2023 20:30

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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News: Premium PCB cheat sheets, a disappearing AWS dev, HyperSwitch, Servo is back at it & Cloudflare Wildebeest

By Changelog Media/Mon, 16 Jan 2023 20:30

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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Premium PCB cheat sheets, a disappearing AWS dev, HyperSwitch, Servo is back at it & Cloudflare Wildebeest

By Changelog Media/Mon, 16 Jan 2023 20:30

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

By Changelog Media/Sat, 14 Jan 2023 22:00

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

By Changelog Media/Mon, 09 Jan 2023 21:45

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

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News: 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

By Changelog Media/Mon, 09 Jan 2023 21:45

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

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Don't sleep on Ruby & Rails

By Changelog Media/Fri, 06 Jan 2023 22:00

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

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Clipboard, unbundling tools for thought, microfeed, prepare to be productive & a look inside Matrix

By Changelog Media/Mon, 02 Jan 2023 20:00

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 TechCrunc

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News: Clipboard, unbundling tools for thought, microfeed, prepare to be productive & a look inside Matrix

By Changelog Media/Mon, 02 Jan 2023 20:00

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 TechCrunc

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State of the "log" 2022

By Changelog Media/Fri, 23 Dec 2022 15:30

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

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GPT has entered the chat

By Changelog Media/Fri, 16 Dec 2022 20:00

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

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News: tRPC, a bug tracker embedded in git, awesome ChatGPT prompts, half-baked cloud dev envs & Whisper.cpp

By Changelog Media/Mon, 12 Dec 2022 20:00

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 W

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tRPC, a bug tracker embedded in git, awesome ChatGPT prompts, half-baked cloud dev envs & Whisper.cpp

By Changelog Media/Mon, 12 Dec 2022 20:00

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 W

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Coming home to GitHub

By Changelog Media/Fri, 09 Dec 2022 22:30

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

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Building a VM inside ChatGPT, Advent of Code 2022, webdev Liam Neeson, Fedifinder & BDougie

By Changelog Media/Mon, 05 Dec 2022 21:00

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 abou

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News: Building a VM inside ChatGPT, Advent of Code 2022, webdev Liam Neeson, Fedifinder & BDougie

By Changelog Media/Mon, 05 Dec 2022 21:00

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 abou

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ANTHOLOGY - Wasm, efficient code review & the industrial metaverse

By Changelog Media/Fri, 02 Dec 2022 23:00

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 cod

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Free Heroku EOL, Stable Diffusion 2.0, Twitter SRE explains why it stays up, Git Notes & Joel Lord

By Changelog Media/Mon, 28 Nov 2022 20:30

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

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News: Free Heroku EOL, Stable Diffusion 2.0, Twitter SRE explains why it stays up, Git Notes & Joel Lord

By Changelog Media/Mon, 28 Nov 2022 20:30

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

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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

By Changelog Media/Mon, 21 Nov 2022 20:00

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

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News: Kindle as a smart device, Changelog on Mastodon, GPT-3 up in your CLI, no arch better than bad arch & Mish Manners

By Changelog Media/Mon, 21 Nov 2022 20:00

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

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ANTHOLOGY — Advocating for and supporting open source

By Changelog Media/Fri, 18 Nov 2022 21:00

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 ev

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News: Tracking layoffs, tech worker demand still high, ntfy, devenv, Markdoc & Mike Bifulco

By Changelog Media/Mon, 14 Nov 2022 17:45

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

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Tracking layoffs, tech worker demand still high, ntfy, devenv, Markdoc & Mike Bifulco

By Changelog Media/Mon, 14 Nov 2022 17:45

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

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Beyond Heroku to Muse

By Changelog Media/Fri, 11 Nov 2022 22:00

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 g

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News: Useful Vim commands, bad first ideas, PETS config manager, Kaizen shirts for sale & infinite canvas tools

By Changelog Media/Mon, 07 Nov 2022 21:45

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 t

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Useful Vim commands, bad first ideas, PETS config manager, Kaizen shirts for sale & infinite canvas tools

By Changelog Media/Mon, 07 Nov 2022 21:45

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 t

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The story of Heroku

By Changelog Media/Fri, 04 Nov 2022 21:00

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 develo

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Linux mythbusting & retro gaming

By Changelog Media/Fri, 28 Oct 2022 21:00

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. W

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News: Sonic search, building software like an SRE, leaving the cloud, an HTTP crash course & breaking up with CSS-in-JS

By Changelog Media/Mon, 24 Oct 2022 17:55

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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Sonic search, building software like an SRE, leaving the cloud, an HTTP crash course & breaking up with CSS-in-JS

By Changelog Media/Mon, 24 Oct 2022 17:55

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

By Changelog Media/Fri, 21 Oct 2022 22:00

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 an

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Harmonai revisited, lessons learned from public salary, Open Core Ventures, Stripe is Paypal in 2010 & Helix

By Changelog Media/Mon, 17 Oct 2022 19:30

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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News: Harmonai revisited, lessons learned from public salary, Open Core Ventures, Stripe is Paypal in 2010 & Helix

By Changelog Media/Mon, 17 Oct 2022 19:30

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

By Changelog Media/Fri, 14 Oct 2022 16:45

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

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Forking SQLite, generative AI for music, saying no to sprints, awesome diagramming tools & state machine facts

By Changelog Media/Mon, 10 Oct 2022 18:30

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 machine

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News: Forking SQLite, generative AI for music, saying no to sprints, awesome diagramming tools & state machine facts

By Changelog Media/Mon, 10 Oct 2022 18:30

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 machine

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A new batch of web frameworks emerge!

By Changelog Media/Fri, 07 Oct 2022 21:00

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 Pa

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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!

By Changelog Media/Mon, 03 Oct 2022 17:45

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

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News: Hacktoberfest is ON, DiffusionBee is 1.0, Dracula UI is out, GitX is undead, Prerender is off AWS & we'll be at ATO!

By Changelog Media/Mon, 03 Oct 2022 17:45

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

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A guided tour through ID3 esoterica

By Changelog Media/Fri, 30 Sep 2022 20:00

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 t

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Firefox supports blockers, NATS is great, Uber's MFA fatigue, OAuth2 drawn in cute shapes & an aging programmer

By Changelog Media/Mon, 26 Sep 2022 15:30

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 & Jorg

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News: Firefox supports blockers, NATS is great, Uber's MFA fatigue, OAuth2 drawn in cute shapes & an aging programmer

By Changelog Media/Mon, 26 Sep 2022 15:30

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 & Jorg

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Product development structures as systems

By Changelog Media/Fri, 23 Sep 2022 21:00

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 tex

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Ladybird, how QR codes work, GitUI, software vs systems & Stable Diffusion ported to Tensorflow

By Changelog Media/Mon, 19 Sep 2022 18:45

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 Diff

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News: Ladybird, how QR codes work, GitUI, software vs systems & Stable Diffusion ported to Tensorflow

By Changelog Media/Mon, 19 Sep 2022 18:45

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 Diff

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Stable Diffusion breaks the internet

By Changelog Media/Fri, 16 Sep 2022 20:45

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

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News: Quality is systemic, React is a self-fulfilling prophecy, Difftastic, Devbox & the shortest URLs on the web

By Changelog Media/Mon, 12 Sep 2022 18:30

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 t

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Quality is systemic, React is a self-fulfilling prophecy, Difftastic, Devbox & the shortest URLs on the web

By Changelog Media/Mon, 12 Sep 2022 18:30

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 t

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Typesense is truly open source search

By Changelog Media/Fri, 09 Sep 2022 21:00

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

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News: Python's :=, email falsehoods, no more self-hosting & Leon

By Changelog Media/Tue, 06 Sep 2022 21:00

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 liv

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Python's :=, email falsehoods, no more self-hosting & Leon

By Changelog Media/Tue, 06 Sep 2022 21:00

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 liv

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Building actually maintainable software ♻️

By Changelog Media/Fri, 02 Sep 2022 20:30

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

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News: Qalculate is awesome, Restic adds compression, CS teachers coping with Copilot & Heroku's next non-free chapter

By Changelog Media/Mon, 29 Aug 2022 17:45

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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Qalculate is awesome, Restic adds compression, CS teachers coping with Copilot & Heroku's next non-free chapter

By Changelog Media/Mon, 29 Aug 2022 17:45

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

By Changelog Media/Sat, 27 Aug 2022 23:00

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

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News: SSH tips and tricks, retro Apple UIs, iOS Privacy and TikTok, Marta & Tauri vs Electron

By Changelog Media/Mon, 22 Aug 2022 20:00

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 Zhulano

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SSH tips and tricks, retro Apple UIs, iOS Privacy and TikTok, Marta & Tauri vs Electron

By Changelog Media/Mon, 22 Aug 2022 20:00

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 Zhulano

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Fireside chat with Jack Dorsey ♻️

By Changelog Media/Fri, 19 Aug 2022 22:00

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

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News: Stand-up advice, Redis explained, big changes for Deno, DevDash & Minimum Viable Python

By Changelog Media/Mon, 15 Aug 2022 17:40

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 Ca

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Stand-up advice, Redis explained, big changes for Deno, DevDash & Minimum Viable Python

By Changelog Media/Mon, 15 Aug 2022 17:40

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 Ca

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The power of eBPF

By Changelog Media/Sun, 14 Aug 2022 03:00

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

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Chapters, PiBox, using one big server, oncall compensation, being swamped is normal, Tabler & Gum

By Changelog Media/Mon, 08 Aug 2022 17:50

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

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News: Chapters, PiBox, using one big server, oncall compensation, being swamped is normal, Tabler & Gum

By Changelog Media/Mon, 08 Aug 2022 17:50

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

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The legacy of CSS-Tricks

By Changelog Media/Fri, 05 Aug 2022 22:00

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

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News: OkSo, Markdown generator speeds, Egr Mgr framework, Crockford says retire JS & messy code not required

By Changelog Media/Mon, 01 Aug 2022 19:45

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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OkSo, Markdown generator speeds, Egr Mgr framework, Crockford says retire JS & messy code not required

By Changelog Media/Mon, 01 Aug 2022 19:45

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!

By Changelog Media/Fri, 29 Jul 2022 20:00

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

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News: Soft deletion, obscure data structures, driving away your best engineers, a blog platform for hackers & moar RSS

By Changelog Media/Mon, 25 Jul 2022 18:25

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

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Soft deletion, obscure data structures, driving away your best engineers, a blog platform for hackers & moar RSS

By Changelog Media/Mon, 25 Jul 2022 18:25

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

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From WeWork to upskilling at Wilco

By Changelog Media/Sun, 24 Jul 2022 03:00

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 fict

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News: Spicy designs, more open source opinions, privacy-focused services, the real cost of context switching & jqq

By Changelog Media/Mon, 18 Jul 2022 16:30

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 Nis

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Spicy designs, more open source opinions, privacy-focused services, the real cost of context switching & jqq

By Changelog Media/Mon, 18 Jul 2022 16:30

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 Nis

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Build tiny multi-platform apps with Tauri and web tech

By Changelog Media/Fri, 15 Jul 2022 21:00

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.

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Bun, K8s is a red flag, "critical" open source packages, Rustlings & FP jargon in simple terms

By Changelog Media/Mon, 11 Jul 2022 18:30

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 straigh

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News: Bun, K8s is a red flag, "critical" open source packages, Rustlings & FP jargon in simple terms

By Changelog Media/Mon, 11 Jul 2022 18:30

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 straigh

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Oxide builds servers (as they should be)

By Changelog Media/Fri, 08 Jul 2022 19:40

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

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DevTool platform types, things to know about databases, starting with commas, Lobsters turns 10 & Upptime

By Changelog Media/Tue, 05 Jul 2022 20:00

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. I

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News: DevTool platform types, things to know about databases, starting with commas, Lobsters turns 10 & Upptime

By Changelog Media/Tue, 05 Jul 2022 20:00

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. I

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Actual(ly) opening up

By Changelog Media/Fri, 01 Jul 2022 20:30

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 pers

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Markwhen, Tauri 1.0, SLCs & imposters

By Changelog Media/Mon, 27 Jun 2022 17:30

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. If you like this, would listen to it, and want us to keep it going… let us

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News: Markwhen, Tauri 1.0, SLCs & imposters

By Changelog Media/Mon, 27 Jun 2022 17:30

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. If you like this, would listen to it, and want us to keep it going… let us

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Lessons from 5 years of startup code audits

By Changelog Media/Fri, 24 Jun 2022 16:00

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

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What even is a DevRel?

By Changelog Media/Mon, 20 Jun 2022 15:15

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

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Two decades as a solo indie Mac dev

By Changelog Media/Fri, 10 Jun 2022 17:45

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 evo

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Stacked diffs for fast-moving code review

By Changelog Media/Fri, 27 May 2022 15:30

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

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Schneier on security for tomorrow’s software

By Changelog Media/Fri, 20 May 2022 21:00

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

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Run your home on a Raspberry Pi

By Changelog Media/Fri, 13 May 2022 21:00

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 prefe

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Mob programming deep dive

By Changelog Media/Fri, 06 May 2022 20:00

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 wor

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Warp wants to be the terminal of the future

By Changelog Media/Tue, 26 Apr 2022 20:00

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 t

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Practical ways to solve hard problems

By Changelog Media/Fri, 22 Apr 2022 22:00

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 wr

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The story of Vitess

By Changelog Media/Tue, 12 Apr 2022 19:00

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

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Wisdom from 50+ years in software

By Changelog Media/Wed, 30 Mar 2022 17:15

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 gene

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ONE MORE thing every dev should know

By Changelog Media/Fri, 11 Mar 2022 21:00

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

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Securing the open source supply chain

By Changelog Media/Tue, 01 Mar 2022 22:00

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 sour

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Making the command line glamorous

By Changelog Media/Sat, 26 Feb 2022 00:00

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

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Git your reset on

By Changelog Media/Tue, 15 Feb 2022 16:30

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

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Principles for hiring engineers

By Changelog Media/Tue, 08 Feb 2022 17:00

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. Ove

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Learning from incidents

By Changelog Media/Fri, 04 Feb 2022 22:00

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 go

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Song Encoder: Forrest Brazeal

By Changelog Media/Mon, 31 Jan 2022 20:45

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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Supabase is all in on Postgres

By Changelog Media/Tue, 25 Jan 2022 03:30

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

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Making the ZFS file system

By Changelog Media/Tue, 18 Jan 2022 20:30

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

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Complex systems & second-order effects

By Changelog Media/Mon, 10 Jan 2022 17:30

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 veh

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State of the "log" 2021

By Changelog Media/Mon, 20 Dec 2021 20:30

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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AI-assisted development is here to stay

By Changelog Media/Fri, 17 Dec 2021 22:00

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 ro

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Deeply human stories

By Changelog Media/Wed, 08 Dec 2021 18:45

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

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Help make state of the "log" 2021 extra special!

By Changelog Media/Fri, 03 Dec 2021 00:25

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 b

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Returning to GitHub to lead Sponsors

By Changelog Media/Thu, 02 Dec 2021 00:00

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

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Shopify's vision for the future of commerce

By Changelog Media/Fri, 19 Nov 2021 22:00

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, cont

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1Password is all in on its web stack

By Changelog Media/Fri, 12 Nov 2021 22:00

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 fu

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Connecting the dots in public

By Changelog Media/Fri, 05 Nov 2021 18:00

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 u

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Song Encoder: $STDOUT

By Changelog Media/Fri, 29 Oct 2021 14:00

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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Oh my! Zsh.

By Changelog Media/Mon, 25 Oct 2021 19:30

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 e

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This insane tech hiring market

By Changelog Media/Tue, 19 Oct 2021 20:30

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

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Lessons from 10k hours of programming

By Changelog Media/Fri, 08 Oct 2021 21:00

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 de

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Learning-focused engineering

By Changelog Media/Fri, 01 Oct 2021 21:00

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 engineerin

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Fauna is rethinking the database

By Changelog Media/Fri, 24 Sep 2021 21:30

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 ba

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The business model of open source

By Changelog Media/Fri, 17 Sep 2021 20:30

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

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Coding in the cloud with Codespaces

By Changelog Media/Sat, 11 Sep 2021 04:00

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 rea

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We ask a lawyer about GitHub Copilot

By Changelog Media/Wed, 08 Sep 2021 12:00

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 a

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Why Neovim?

By Changelog Media/Tue, 31 Aug 2021 21:30

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 Vi

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OAuth, "It's complicated."

By Changelog Media/Mon, 23 Aug 2021 21:30

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 know

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Building software for yourself

By Changelog Media/Mon, 23 Aug 2021 18:00

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 use

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Richard Hipp returns

By Changelog Media/Thu, 19 Aug 2021 21:30

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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Leading leaders who lead engineers

By Changelog Media/Wed, 11 Aug 2021 11:00

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

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Kaizen! The day half the internet went down

By Changelog Media/Thu, 05 Aug 2021 11:00

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 episo

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Modern Unix tools

By Changelog Media/Sat, 31 Jul 2021 01:00

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

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Why we 💚 Vim

By Changelog Media/Wed, 21 Jul 2021 14:15

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 wr

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The story behind Inter

By Changelog Media/Mon, 19 Jul 2021 20:30

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 ab

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Massive scale and ultra-resilience

By Changelog Media/Fri, 09 Jul 2021 19:00

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 K

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The foundations of Continuous Delivery

By Changelog Media/Fri, 02 Jul 2021 23:00

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 Dav

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xbar puts anything in your macOS menu bar

By Changelog Media/Mon, 21 Jun 2021 20:00

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 ju

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Funds for open source

By Changelog Media/Fri, 18 Jun 2021 21:00

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 the

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Every commit is a gift

By Changelog Media/Thu, 10 Jun 2021 11:00

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

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Exploring Deno Land 🦕

By Changelog Media/Tue, 08 Jun 2021 12:00

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 im

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Maintainer week!

By Changelog Media/Fri, 28 May 2021 21:00

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

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Inside 2021's infrastructure for Changelog.com

By Changelog Media/Fri, 21 May 2021 21:00

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 t

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Open source goes to Mars 🚀

By Changelog Media/Fri, 14 May 2021 19:00

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 peop

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Elixir meets machine learning

By Changelog Media/Fri, 07 May 2021 21:00

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

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Let's mint some NFTs

By Changelog Media/Tue, 27 Apr 2021 11:00

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 t

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Into the Nix ecosystem

By Changelog Media/Tue, 20 Apr 2021 11:00

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 writin

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Curl is a full-time job (and turns 23)

By Changelog Media/Mon, 12 Apr 2021 21:45

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 ha

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The future of the web is HTML over the wire

By Changelog Media/Mon, 05 Apr 2021 21:00

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-d

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Restic has your backup

By Changelog Media/Fri, 02 Apr 2021 19:45

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 interesti

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Open source, not open contribution

By Changelog Media/Fri, 26 Mar 2021 20:00

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

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Big breaches (and how to avoid them)

By Changelog Media/Wed, 24 Mar 2021 19:00

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

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Leading a non-profit unicorn

By Changelog Media/Tue, 16 Mar 2021 15:00

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

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Darklang Diaries

By Changelog Media/Fri, 26 Feb 2021 20:00

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

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Community perspectives on Elastic vs AWS

By Changelog Media/Wed, 17 Feb 2021 17:00

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, Elasti

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Open source civilization

By Changelog Media/Fri, 29 Jan 2021 22:00

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 sharin

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The rise of Rocky Linux

By Changelog Media/Fri, 22 Jan 2021 17:00

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

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What the web could be (in 2021 and beyond)

By Changelog Media/Tue, 12 Jan 2021 18:00

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

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State of the “log” 2020

By Changelog Media/Mon, 21 Dec 2020 20:00

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,

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You can FINALLY use JSHint for evil

By Changelog Media/Sun, 20 Dec 2020 05:00

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 ma

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Coding without your hands

By Changelog Media/Sun, 13 Dec 2020 05:00

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 f

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Growing as a software engineer

By Changelog Media/Wed, 02 Dec 2020 22:00

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,

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The future of Mac

By Changelog Media/Fri, 20 Nov 2020 22:45

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 a

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The Kollected Kode Vicious

By Changelog Media/Fri, 13 Nov 2020 22:00

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 wit

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Inside 2020's infrastructure for Changelog.com

By Changelog Media/Fri, 06 Nov 2020 22:45

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 Kuberne

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Maintaining the massive success of Envoy

By Changelog Media/Fri, 30 Oct 2020 22:00

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 c

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What's so exciting about Postgres?

By Changelog Media/Fri, 23 Oct 2020 21:45

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 Pos

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Shopify’s massive storefront rewrite

By Changelog Media/Fri, 16 Oct 2020 21:00

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

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Spotify's open platform for shipping at scale

By Changelog Media/Fri, 09 Oct 2020 20:00

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 source

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The team that fashioned Apollo 11

By Changelog Media/Thu, 08 Oct 2020 11:00

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 ac

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Gitter’s big adventure

By Changelog Media/Wed, 30 Sep 2020 13:00

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 bac

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How open source saved htop

By Changelog Media/Thu, 24 Sep 2020 20:00

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

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Estimating systems with napkin math

By Changelog Media/Fri, 11 Sep 2020 22:15

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 pret

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Inside GitHub's Arctic Code Vault

By Changelog Media/Fri, 04 Sep 2020 21:00

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

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Bringing beauty to the world of code sharing

By Changelog Media/Wed, 26 Aug 2020 14:55

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 C

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Celebrating Practical AI turning 100!! 🎉

By Changelog Media/Fri, 21 Aug 2020 16:15

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

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Working in Public

By Changelog Media/Wed, 12 Aug 2020 21:30

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 listeni

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Designing and building HEY

By Changelog Media/Fri, 07 Aug 2020 21:00

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

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Making Windows Terminal awesome

By Changelog Media/Fri, 31 Jul 2020 21:00

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 in

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It’s OK to make money from your open source

By Changelog Media/Wed, 22 Jul 2020 22:00

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

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Laws for hackers to live by

By Changelog Media/Thu, 16 Jul 2020 11:00

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?

By Changelog Media/Fri, 10 Jul 2020 17:30

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

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The intersection of coding and fonts

By Changelog Media/Fri, 03 Jul 2020 18:00

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 hundre

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Big updates in Safari 14

By Changelog Media/Mon, 29 Jun 2020 21:30

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 pl

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Shipping work that matters

By Changelog Media/Thu, 25 Jun 2020 11:00

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 ar

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The ONE thing every dev should know

By Changelog Media/Tue, 16 Jun 2020 18:00

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 TD

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Creating GitLab’s remote playbook

By Changelog Media/Tue, 09 Jun 2020 11:00

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,

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De-Google-ing your website analytics

By Changelog Media/Wed, 27 May 2020 11:00

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

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Leading GitHub to a $7.5 billion acquisition

By Changelog Media/Mon, 18 May 2020 18:30

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

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VisiData is like duct tape for your data

By Changelog Media/Tue, 12 May 2020 17:00

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 op

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Gatsby's long road to incremental builds

By Changelog Media/Wed, 06 May 2020 11:00

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 o

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Indeed's FOSS Contributor Fund

By Changelog Media/Thu, 30 Apr 2020 21:00

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

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Work from home SUPERCUT

By Changelog Media/Wed, 22 Apr 2020 11:00

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. He

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Visualizing the spread of Coronavirus

By Changelog Media/Mon, 13 Apr 2020 21:00

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 necessar

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Securing the web with Let's Encrypt

By Changelog Media/Tue, 07 Apr 2020 20:00

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, jus

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The 10x developer myth

By Changelog Media/Tue, 31 Mar 2020 21:00

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 rese

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Welcome to The Changelog

By Changelog Media/Mon, 30 Mar 2020 20:31

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 t

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Prepare yourself for Quantum Computing

By Changelog Media/Tue, 24 Mar 2020 19:00

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 t

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Engineer to manager and back again

By Changelog Media/Wed, 18 Mar 2020 20:30

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 sof

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Pushing webpack forward

By Changelog Media/Fri, 13 Mar 2020 21:45

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

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Altair 8800 and the dawn of a revolution

By Changelog Media/Wed, 11 Mar 2020 11:00

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 — calle

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Enter the Matrix

By Changelog Media/Mon, 09 Mar 2020 20:15

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-s

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From open core to open source

By Changelog Media/Mon, 02 Mar 2020 22:00

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-d

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The developer's guide to content creation

By Changelog Media/Fri, 21 Feb 2020 15:30

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 gener

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The dawn of sponsorware

By Changelog Media/Mon, 17 Feb 2020 22:00

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 sponsorshi

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Productionising real-world ML data pipelines

By Changelog Media/Fri, 14 Feb 2020 21:00

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 landsc

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Good tech debt

By Changelog Media/Thu, 06 Feb 2020 12:00

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

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The soul of an old machine

By Changelog Media/Tue, 04 Feb 2020 12:00

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 — calle

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Open source meets climate science

By Changelog Media/Fri, 31 Jan 2020 22:30

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 di

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Intro to Rust programming

By Changelog Media/Fri, 24 Jan 2020 19:30

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

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Meet Algo, your personal VPN in the cloud

By Changelog Media/Mon, 20 Jan 2020 21:00

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 s

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State of the “log” 2019

By Changelog Media/Tue, 14 Jan 2020 22:30

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 exci

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Gerhard goes to KubeCon (part 2)

By Changelog Media/Fri, 27 Dec 2019 21:00

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,

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Gerhard goes to KubeCon (part 1)

By Changelog Media/Wed, 18 Dec 2019 16:30

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 Sharm

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Trending up GitHub's developer charts

By Changelog Media/Sat, 14 Dec 2019 16:00

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 h

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Building an open source excavation robot for NASA

By Changelog Media/Wed, 11 Dec 2019 16:00

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 I

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Re-licensing Sentry

By Changelog Media/Sun, 08 Dec 2019 04:00

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 paramet

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The making of GitHub Sponsors

By Changelog Media/Sun, 01 Dec 2019 04:00

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 l

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Five years of freeCodeCamp

By Changelog Media/Fri, 15 Nov 2019 18:00

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

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Finding collaborators for open source

By Changelog Media/Sun, 10 Nov 2019 04:00

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 headi

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Back to Agile's basics

By Changelog Media/Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:00

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 Cl

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Pioneering open source drones and robocars

By Changelog Media/Fri, 18 Oct 2019 11:00

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 Robocar

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Let's talk Elixir!

By Changelog Media/Wed, 09 Oct 2019 19:00

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 fo

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Maintainer spotlight! Valeri Karpov

By Changelog Media/Wed, 02 Oct 2019 17:42

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 softwa

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Nushell for the GitHub era

By Changelog Media/Fri, 27 Sep 2019 19:00

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

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Machine powered refactoring with AST's

By Changelog Media/Thu, 19 Sep 2019 11:00

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 kno

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Generative engineering cultures

By Changelog Media/Tue, 17 Sep 2019 11:00

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 f

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Modern software is built on APIs

By Changelog Media/Fri, 06 Sep 2019 11:00

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 Postma

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Maintainer spotlight! Feross Aboukhadijeh

By Changelog Media/Thu, 29 Aug 2019 20:00

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,

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OSCON 2019 anthology

By Changelog Media/Fri, 23 Aug 2019 11:00

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 abo

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Shaping, betting, and building

By Changelog Media/Fri, 16 Aug 2019 11:00

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.

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Observability is for your unknown unknowns

By Changelog Media/Wed, 07 Aug 2019 20:00

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 a

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Federating JavaScript's language commons with Entropic

By Changelog Media/Fri, 02 Aug 2019 11:00

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 common

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Go is eating the world of software

By Changelog Media/Thu, 25 Jul 2019 17:00

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

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Learning the BASICs

By Changelog Media/Tue, 16 Jul 2019 11:05

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 a

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The war for the soul of open source

By Changelog Media/Tue, 16 Jul 2019 11:05

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, wha

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The Pragmatic Programmers

By Changelog Media/Thu, 11 Jul 2019 11:00

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

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Python's Tale

By Changelog Media/Tue, 02 Jul 2019 11:00

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 a

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Maintainer spotlight! Ned Batchelder

By Changelog Media/Fri, 28 Jun 2019 20:00

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 ma

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Boldly going where no data tools have gone before

By Changelog Media/Wed, 19 Jun 2019 18:20

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, r

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The state of CSS in 2019

By Changelog Media/Fri, 14 Jun 2019 19:00

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 hel

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Python's new governance and core team

By Changelog Media/Thu, 06 Jun 2019 11:00

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 thi

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Creating and selling multiplayer online games

By Changelog Media/Fri, 24 May 2019 11:00

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

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Off the grid social networking with Manyverse

By Changelog Media/Sat, 18 May 2019 21:00

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-gri

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Quirk and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

By Changelog Media/Fri, 10 May 2019 21:00

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. Th

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Inside 2019's infrastructure for Changelog.com

By Changelog Media/Sun, 05 May 2019 04:00

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 deploym

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Running functions anywhere with OpenFaaS

By Changelog Media/Thu, 25 Apr 2019 17:00

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 s

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From zero to thought leader in 6 months

By Changelog Media/Thu, 18 Apr 2019 16:30

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 —

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Wasmer is taking WebAssembly beyond the browser

By Changelog Media/Fri, 12 Apr 2019 11:00

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’

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All things text mode

By Changelog Media/Thu, 04 Apr 2019 19:00

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

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Why smart engineers write bad code

By Changelog Media/Fri, 29 Mar 2019 11:00

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

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Funding OSS with Mozilla Open Source Support awards

By Changelog Media/Wed, 13 Mar 2019 11:00

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” blo

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Homebrew! Part Deux

By Changelog Media/Wed, 06 Mar 2019 14:35

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 th

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Containerizing compute driven workloads with Singularity

By Changelog Media/Thu, 28 Feb 2019 12:00

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 worklo

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Enabling open code for science at NumFOCUS

By Changelog Media/Fri, 22 Feb 2019 18:00

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 educatio

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With great power comes great responsibility

By Changelog Media/Fri, 15 Feb 2019 12:10

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 l

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Tactical design advice for developers

By Changelog Media/Wed, 06 Feb 2019 12:00

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

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A UI framework without the framework

By Changelog Media/Wed, 30 Jan 2019 21:25

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 componen

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GitHub Actions is the next big thing

By Changelog Media/Wed, 23 Jan 2019 21:38

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 G

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source{d} turns code into actionable insights

By Changelog Media/Wed, 16 Jan 2019 12:00

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 driv

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Perspectives on Kubernetes and successful cloud platforms

By Changelog Media/Wed, 09 Jan 2019 12:00

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

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State of the "log" 2018

By Changelog Media/Wed, 19 Dec 2018 12:00

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

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Untangle your GitHub notifications with Octobox

By Changelog Media/Thu, 13 Dec 2018 18:41

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 wit

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The insider perspective on the event-stream compromise

By Changelog Media/Wed, 05 Dec 2018 21:50

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

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A good open source password manager? Inconceivable!

By Changelog Media/Wed, 28 Nov 2018 18:22

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

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Tidelift's mission is to pay open source maintainers

By Changelog Media/Wed, 21 Nov 2018 12:00

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 put

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The road to Brave 1.0 and BAT

By Changelog Media/Wed, 14 Nov 2018 12:00

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 con

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There and back again (Dgraph's tale)

By Changelog Media/Fri, 09 Nov 2018 17:45

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,

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Drupal is a pretty big deal

By Changelog Media/Wed, 31 Oct 2018 18:35

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

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Venture capital meets commercial OSS

By Changelog Media/Thu, 25 Oct 2018 15:35

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

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Keepin' up with Elm

By Changelog Media/Wed, 17 Oct 2018 11:00

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

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BONUS – Sustain Summit 2018

By Changelog Media/Mon, 15 Oct 2018 18:24

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

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A call for kindness in open source

By Changelog Media/Wed, 10 Oct 2018 17:05

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 partici

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#Hacktoberfest isn’t just about a free shirt

By Changelog Media/Mon, 01 Oct 2018 18:10

#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 t

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REST easy, GraphQL is here

By Changelog Media/Wed, 26 Sep 2018 15:40

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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Join the federation?! Mastodon awaits...

By Changelog Media/Wed, 19 Sep 2018 16:50

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-o

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Kubernetes brings all the Cloud Natives to the yard

By Changelog Media/Wed, 12 Sep 2018 11:00

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 a

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The first cloud native programming language

By Changelog Media/Wed, 05 Sep 2018 11:00

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

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Segment's transition back to a monorepo

By Changelog Media/Wed, 29 Aug 2018 11:00

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

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Istio service mesh and microservices

By Changelog Media/Wed, 22 Aug 2018 16:47

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

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Open sourcing the DEV community

By Changelog Media/Wed, 15 Aug 2018 17:00

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 t

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Jeff Robbins is an actual rockstar [rebroadcast]

By Changelog Media/Fri, 10 Aug 2018 19:06

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 Orb

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Rebuilding Exercism from the ground up

By Changelog Media/Wed, 08 Aug 2018 16:20

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, th

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Biases in AI, helping veterans get jobs in software, open science

By Changelog Media/Wed, 01 Aug 2018 11:00

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 op

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AWS Amplify and cloud-enabled apps

By Changelog Media/Wed, 25 Jul 2018 11:00

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 othe

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The Great GatsbyJS

By Changelog Media/Wed, 18 Jul 2018 11:00

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 stati

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Putting AI in a box at MachineBox [rebroadcast]

By Changelog Media/Wed, 11 Jul 2018 17:51

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

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The impact of AI at Microsoft

By Changelog Media/Wed, 04 Jul 2018 11:00

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,

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Programmable infrastructure

By Changelog Media/Wed, 27 Jun 2018 11:00

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

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Computer Science without a computer

By Changelog Media/Wed, 20 Jun 2018 11:00

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 h

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Python at Microsoft

By Changelog Media/Wed, 13 Jun 2018 11:00

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 o

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Corporate interests in open source and dev culture

By Changelog Media/Wed, 06 Jun 2018 11:00

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, devel

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Curl turns 20, HTTP/2, QUIC

By Changelog Media/Thu, 31 May 2018 11:00

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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The beginnings of Microsoft Azure

By Changelog Media/Wed, 23 May 2018 15:05

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 re

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Prisma and the GraphQL data layer

By Changelog Media/Wed, 16 May 2018 11:00

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

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Burnout, open source, Datasette

By Changelog Media/Wed, 09 May 2018 11:00

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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Scaling all the things at Slack

By Changelog Media/Wed, 02 May 2018 15:04

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 abou

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Code Cartoons, Rust, WebAssembly

By Changelog Media/Wed, 25 Apr 2018 11:00

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),

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Ember four years later

By Changelog Media/Wed, 18 Apr 2018 11:00

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 we

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Elasticsearch and doubling down on "open"

By Changelog Media/Wed, 11 Apr 2018 11:00

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 databa

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Winamp2 JS

By Changelog Media/Fri, 06 Apr 2018 11:30

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

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That's it. This is the finale!

By Changelog Media/Fri, 30 Mar 2018 19:00

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 it

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Automated dependency updates

By Changelog Media/Fri, 23 Mar 2018 19:00

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 envir

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Live coding open source on Twitch

By Changelog Media/Fri, 16 Mar 2018 19:00

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

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Truffle framework and decentralized Ethereum apps

By Changelog Media/Tue, 13 Mar 2018 19:00

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,

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JavaScript sprinkles in Basecamp turned Stimulus

By Changelog Media/Tue, 06 Mar 2018 20:00

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

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We couldn’t afford an Oculus so we built one

By Changelog Media/Fri, 23 Feb 2018 20:00

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

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Moore's Law and High Performance Computing

By Changelog Media/Fri, 16 Feb 2018 20:00

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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Devhints - TL;DR for Developer Documentation

By Changelog Media/Fri, 09 Feb 2018 20:00

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 inter

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The impact and future of Kubernetes

By Changelog Media/Fri, 02 Feb 2018 20:00

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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Gitcoin: sustaining open source with cryptocurrency

By Changelog Media/Fri, 26 Jan 2018 20:00

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 an

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Building a secure Operating System (Redox OS) with Rust

By Changelog Media/Fri, 19 Jan 2018 20:00

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, Jerem

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Secure Messaging for Everyone with Wire

By Changelog Media/Fri, 15 Dec 2017 20:00

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 bas

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Blockchains and Databases at OSCON

By Changelog Media/Thu, 14 Dec 2017 20:00

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

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The Story of Visual Studio Code

By Changelog Media/Tue, 05 Dec 2017 16:00

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

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The Cloud Native Computing Foundation

By Changelog Media/Wed, 29 Nov 2017 20:00

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 th

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The History of GNOME, Mono, and Xamarin

By Changelog Media/Tue, 21 Nov 2017 20:00

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 wh

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Faktory and the future of background jobs

By Changelog Media/Sat, 18 Nov 2017 20:00

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

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Data Science at OSCON

By Changelog Media/Fri, 10 Nov 2017 20:00

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

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Functional CSS and Tachyons

By Changelog Media/Fri, 10 Nov 2017 18:00

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

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My roadmap to become a blockchain engineer

By Changelog Media/Wed, 08 Nov 2017 20:00

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 20

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Rails as a day job, Diesel on the side

By Changelog Media/Sat, 04 Nov 2017 18:30

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 Ru

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Bisq, the decentralized Bitcoin exchange

By Changelog Media/Fri, 03 Nov 2017 16:00

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 back

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Operação Serenata de Amor (Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Government Corruption 😱)

By Changelog Media/Tue, 31 Oct 2017 16:00

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 intellige

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Functional Programming

By Changelog Media/Sat, 28 Oct 2017 19:00

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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The Future of RethinkDB

By Changelog Media/Tue, 17 Oct 2017 19:00

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 M

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The Kotlin Programming Language

By Changelog Media/Fri, 13 Oct 2017 19:00

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 throu

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Automating GitHub with Probot

By Changelog Media/Fri, 06 Oct 2017 19:00

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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Conversations about sustaining open source

By Changelog Media/Fri, 22 Sep 2017 19:00

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

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Community, Building Remote-first Teams, and Web Performance Inclusivity

By Changelog Media/Fri, 08 Sep 2017 19:00

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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Building an artificial Pancreas with Elixir and Nerves

By Changelog Media/Fri, 11 Aug 2017 19:00

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

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You are not Google/Amazon/LinkedIn

By Changelog Media/Fri, 04 Aug 2017 19:00

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

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ANTHOLOGY — The Future of Open Source at OSCON 2017

By Changelog Media/Fri, 28 Jul 2017 19:00

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

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10 years of RabbitMQ

By Changelog Media/Fri, 21 Jul 2017 19:00

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 produ

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The power of wikis, the problem with social networks, the promise of AI

By Changelog Media/Fri, 14 Jul 2017 15:00

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

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Ubuntu Snaps and Bash on Windows Server

By Changelog Media/Fri, 07 Jul 2017 19:00

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-ser

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Why is GraphQL so cool?

By Changelog Media/Fri, 30 Jun 2017 19:00

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 f

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Deploying Changelog.com

By Changelog Media/Fri, 23 Jun 2017 19:00

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 de

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The serverless revolution

By Changelog Media/Fri, 16 Jun 2017 19:00

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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GitHub's Open Source Survey (2017)

By Changelog Media/Fri, 09 Jun 2017 22:00

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

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JAMstack, Netlify CMS, and 10x-ing Smashing Magazine

By Changelog Media/Tue, 30 May 2017 19:00

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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The Backstory of Kubernetes

By Changelog Media/Sun, 21 May 2017 07:00

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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BONUS - Sustain Open Source Software

By Changelog Media/Thu, 04 May 2017 17:45

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

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Open source at Microsoft, inclusion, diversity, and OSCON

By Changelog Media/Fri, 28 Apr 2017 21:00

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 th

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Open source lessons learned

By Changelog Media/Fri, 28 Apr 2017 17:50

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

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Firefox Debugger and DevTools

By Changelog Media/Mon, 17 Apr 2017 19:00

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

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First-time contributors and maintainer balance

By Changelog Media/Mon, 10 Apr 2017 17:00

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 o

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Open Source at Google

By Changelog Media/Tue, 28 Mar 2017 17:00

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 o

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Learning JavaScript and Bringing People Together

By Changelog Media/Sat, 25 Mar 2017 03:00

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

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Let's Encrypt the Web

By Changelog Media/Sat, 18 Mar 2017 03:00

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, Cer

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The burden of open source

By Changelog Media/Thu, 09 Mar 2017 12:00

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 b

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The Story of Atom

By Changelog Media/Fri, 24 Feb 2017 20:00

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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Feedbin and RSS resurgence

By Changelog Media/Tue, 21 Feb 2017 20:00

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

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Managing Secrets Using Vault

By Changelog Media/Fri, 17 Feb 2017 20:00

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 i

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ANTHOLOGY – Hacker stories from OSCON and All Things Open

By Changelog Media/Fri, 10 Feb 2017 20:00

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

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Reproducible builds and secure software

By Changelog Media/Fri, 03 Feb 2017 20:00

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

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GunDB, Venture Backed and Decentralized

By Changelog Media/Fri, 27 Jan 2017 20:00

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

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ANTHOLOGY – Hacker Stories From OSCON, All Things Open, and Node Interactive

By Changelog Media/Fri, 13 Jan 2017 20:00

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 Ker

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Open Collective and funding open source

By Changelog Media/Mon, 09 Jan 2017 23:00

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 sou

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webpack

By Changelog Media/Sat, 17 Dec 2016 00:00

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 eff

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Homebrew and Swift

By Changelog Media/Fri, 09 Dec 2016 20:00

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 pro

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HTTP/2 in Node.js Core

By Changelog Media/Tue, 06 Dec 2016 18:00

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 Nod

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18F and OSS in the U.S. Federal Government

By Changelog Media/Fri, 25 Nov 2016 20:00

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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Python, Django, and Channels

By Changelog Media/Fri, 25 Nov 2016 16:30

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 Rai

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Servo and Rust

By Changelog Media/Fri, 18 Nov 2016 14:00

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

By Changelog Media/Fri, 11 Nov 2016 14:00

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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The Road to Font Awesome 5

By Changelog Media/Fri, 04 Nov 2016 16:00

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 A

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99 Practical Bottles of OOP

By Changelog Media/Fri, 28 Oct 2016 14:00

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 whic

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.NET Core and Microsoft's Shift to Open Source

By Changelog Media/Fri, 21 Oct 2016 14:00

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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Homebrew and package management

By Changelog Media/Fri, 07 Oct 2016 14:00

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 an

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Ethereum and Cryptocurrency

By Changelog Media/Fri, 30 Sep 2016 20:00

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 la

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How we got here

By Changelog Media/Fri, 23 Sep 2016 20:00

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 h

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GitLab's Master Plan

By Changelog Media/Fri, 16 Sep 2016 20:00

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 th

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TensorFlow and Deep Learning

By Changelog Media/Fri, 09 Sep 2016 20:00

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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Sourcegraph the 'Google for Code'

By Changelog Media/Fri, 26 Aug 2016 20:00

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 ne

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GitHub's Electron

By Changelog Media/Fri, 19 Aug 2016 20:00

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 co

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Best Practices Badge from Core Infrastructure Initiative

By Changelog Media/Fri, 12 Aug 2016 20:00

David A. Wheeler, from Core Infrastructure Initiative, joined the show to talk about the CII Best Practices Badge program.

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Libscore, Velocity.js, Hacking

By Changelog Media/Sat, 06 Aug 2016 01:00

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 mark

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ZEIT, HyperTerm, now

By Changelog Media/Sat, 30 Jul 2016 01:00

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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SiteSpeed.io and Performance

By Changelog Media/Sat, 23 Jul 2016 01:00

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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Open Source at Facebook

By Changelog Media/Fri, 15 Jul 2016 15:00

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

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ngrok and Go

By Changelog Media/Sat, 09 Jul 2016 01:00

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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GitHub and Google on Public Datasets & Google BigQuery

By Changelog Media/Wed, 29 Jun 2016 20:00

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 dat

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Ecto 2 and Phoenix Presence

By Changelog Media/Wed, 22 Jun 2016 06:00

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 m

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Ubuntu Everywhere

By Changelog Media/Sat, 18 Jun 2016 01:00

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 fut

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The advantages of being a blind programmer

By Changelog Media/Sat, 11 Jun 2016 01:00

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 wi

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A protocol for dying

By Changelog Media/Sat, 04 Jun 2016 01:00

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 accomplis

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IPFS (InterPlanetary File System)

By Changelog Media/Sat, 21 May 2016 01:00

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

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Jewelbots and Getting Kids Coding

By Changelog Media/Sat, 14 May 2016 01:00

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 p

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23 years of Ruby

By Changelog Media/Sat, 07 May 2016 01:00

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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Why SQLite succeeded as a database

By Changelog Media/Sat, 30 Apr 2016 01:00

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 fund

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JavaScript and Robots

By Changelog Media/Tue, 19 Apr 2016 01:00

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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Your Huginn Agents Are Standing By

By Changelog Media/Fri, 15 Apr 2016 01:00

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

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Haskell Programming

By Changelog Media/Sat, 26 Mar 2016 01:00

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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The future of WordPress and Calypso

By Changelog Media/Fri, 04 Mar 2016 09:30

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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TiddlyWiki

By Changelog Media/Sat, 27 Feb 2016 02:00

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 ca

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freeCodeCamp

By Changelog Media/Fri, 12 Feb 2016 23:00

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

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Elixir and the Future of Phoenix

By Changelog Media/Tue, 09 Feb 2016 10:15

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

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Funding open source

By Changelog Media/Sat, 30 Jan 2016 01:00

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 so

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Crystal: Fast as C, Slick as Ruby

By Changelog Media/Fri, 29 Jan 2016 08:00

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/effo

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Elm and Functional Programming

By Changelog Media/Sat, 16 Jan 2016 02:00

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

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ZeroDB

By Changelog Media/Fri, 08 Jan 2016 02:00

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 encryp

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JSON API and API Design

By Changelog Media/Fri, 01 Jan 2016 07:30

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

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DOUBLEHEADER — 24 Pull Requests and Libraries.io + Flynn

By Changelog Media/Fri, 25 Dec 2015 02:45

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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Redux, React, and Functional JavaScript

By Changelog Media/Fri, 18 Dec 2015 10:00

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 ecosyste

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Building the Ultimate Hacking Keyboard

By Changelog Media/Fri, 11 Dec 2015 07:30

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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Kong, APIs, Microservices

By Changelog Media/Sat, 05 Dec 2015 02:00

Ahmad Nassri from Mashape joined the show to talk about Kong, an open-source management layer for APIs and Microservices.

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Discussing Vue.js and Personal Projects

By Changelog Media/Sat, 28 Nov 2015 03:00

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

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The Offline First Revolution and Speech Recognition

By Changelog Media/Sat, 21 Nov 2015 02:00

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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Metabase and Open Source Business Intelligence

By Changelog Media/Sat, 14 Nov 2015 02:00

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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RethinkDB, Databases, the Realtime Web

By Changelog Media/Sat, 07 Nov 2015 02:00

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

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Otto, Vagrant, Automation

By Changelog Media/Wed, 04 Nov 2015 00:30

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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Caddy HTTP/2 Web Server

By Changelog Media/Sat, 31 Oct 2015 01:00

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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OAuth 2.0, Oz, Node.js, Hapi.js

By Changelog Media/Tue, 20 Oct 2015 01:00

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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Cylon.js, Gobot, Artoo, IoT

By Changelog Media/Sat, 10 Oct 2015 01:00

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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CROSSOVER — CodeNewbie and Community

By Changelog Media/Sat, 03 Oct 2015 01:00

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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OSCON and Open Source

By Changelog Media/Fri, 25 Sep 2015 00:15

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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Metasploit, InfoSec, Open Source

By Changelog Media/Tue, 22 Sep 2015 23:30

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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CROSSOVER — Turing-Incomplete

By Changelog Media/Fri, 11 Sep 2015 11:30

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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GitUp and the UX of Git

By Changelog Media/Sat, 05 Sep 2015 01:00

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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Clojure, ClojureScript, and Living Clojure

By Changelog Media/Sat, 29 Aug 2015 01:00

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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BoltDB, InfluxDB, Key-Value Databases

By Changelog Media/Sat, 22 Aug 2015 01:00

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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Middleman and Static Site Generators

By Changelog Media/Sat, 15 Aug 2015 01:00

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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Prometheus and service monitoring

By Changelog Media/Fri, 07 Aug 2015 06:45

Julius Volz from SoundCloud joined the show to talk about Prometheus, an open-source service monitoring system written in Go.

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Mesos and Mesosphere DCOS

By Changelog Media/Fri, 31 Jul 2015 07:45

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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JavaScript in the Wild at NEJS Conf

By Changelog Media/Sat, 25 Jul 2015 01:00

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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Betting the company on Elixir and Ember

By Changelog Media/Sat, 18 Jul 2015 01:00

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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Semantic UI Returns

By Changelog Media/Sat, 11 Jul 2015 01:00

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 h

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Go in the Modern Enterprise and Go Kit

By Changelog Media/Sat, 04 Jul 2015 01:00

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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Octopress 3.0

By Changelog Media/Fri, 26 Jun 2015 13:30

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 Bran

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The HTTP/2 Spec

By Changelog Media/Fri, 19 Jun 2015 08:30

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, p

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Ampersand.js, SPAs, WebRTC

By Changelog Media/Sat, 13 Jun 2015 01:00

Henrik Joreteg joined the show to talk about Single Page Apps (SPAs), Ampersand.js, WebRTC, JavaScript coding styles, and more.

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Sustaining Open Source Software

By Changelog Media/Fri, 05 Jun 2015 08:45

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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Building Bridges

By Changelog Media/Fri, 29 May 2015 09:00

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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Modern WordPress using Bedrock and Sage

By Changelog Media/Fri, 22 May 2015 08:30

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 w

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GopherCon 2015

By Changelog Media/Tue, 19 May 2015 10:45

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 al

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The Future of Node.js

By Changelog Media/Sat, 16 May 2015 02:00

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 ba

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All Things Ruby with 2015's Ruby Heroes

By Changelog Media/Sat, 16 May 2015 01:00

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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17 Years of curl

By Changelog Media/Fri, 01 May 2015 07:00

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 wo

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BONUS — Magic cURL Feature

By Changelog Media/Thu, 30 Apr 2015 14:00

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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TypeScript and open source at Microsoft

By Changelog Media/Fri, 24 Apr 2015 05:45

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

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The Rust Programming Language

By Changelog Media/Sat, 11 Apr 2015 21:00

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 Ru

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Internet Connected Things Using Spark

By Changelog Media/Sat, 04 Apr 2015 03:00

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

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React, React Native, Flux, Relay, GraphQL

By Changelog Media/Fri, 27 Mar 2015 08:45

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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The State of Go in 2015

By Changelog Media/Wed, 25 Mar 2015 10:30

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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Elixir and Phoenix

By Changelog Media/Fri, 20 Mar 2015 06:00

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 an

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Mind the Gender Parity Gap

By Changelog Media/Fri, 13 Mar 2015 09:45

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 alienat

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10+ Years of Rails

By Changelog Media/Fri, 06 Mar 2015 18:00

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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GitHub Archive and Changelog Nightly

By Changelog Media/Fri, 27 Feb 2015 18:45

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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Front-end Developer Interview Questions

By Changelog Media/Sat, 21 Feb 2015 02:15

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 langua

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Laravel PHP Framework

By Changelog Media/Fri, 13 Feb 2015 22:45

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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Going fulltime on The Changelog

By Changelog Media/Wed, 11 Feb 2015 22:15

BIG news! This is the episode where we discuss Adam going fulltime on The Changelog.

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Aurelia, Durandal, Leaving AngularJS

By Changelog Media/Fri, 06 Feb 2015 23:45

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 m

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The Rise of io.js

By Changelog Media/Fri, 30 Jan 2015 23:00

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 worki

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rkt, App Container Spec, CoreOS

By Changelog Media/Fri, 23 Jan 2015 17:15

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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Better GitHub Issues with HuBoard

By Changelog Media/Fri, 16 Jan 2015 21:30

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 technica

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Phusion Passenger (aka Ruby Raptor)

By Changelog Media/Thu, 08 Jan 2015 19:45

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

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End of Year 2014

By Changelog Media/Sat, 20 Dec 2014 03:00

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 Tr

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Open Sourcing .NET Core

By Changelog Media/Wed, 10 Dec 2014 20:30

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’v

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All things Perl

By Changelog Media/Wed, 03 Dec 2014 20:15

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 commu

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Buckets CMS on Node.js

By Changelog Media/Fri, 28 Nov 2014 18:00

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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The Road to Ember 2.0

By Changelog Media/Tue, 18 Nov 2014 15:15

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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Inspeqtor and OSS Products

By Changelog Media/Tue, 11 Nov 2014 17:30

Adam and Jerod talk with Mike Perham about his new project Inspeqtor and his approach to better application infrastructure monitoring.

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The PHP Language Specification

By Changelog Media/Tue, 11 Nov 2014 02:00

Adam and Jerod talk with Sara Golemon about her work at Facebook, The PHP Language Specification, and making PHP awesome.

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Lineman.js and JavaScript apps

By Changelog Media/Thu, 28 Aug 2014 02:00

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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Keep a CHANGELOG

By Changelog Media/Fri, 08 Aug 2014 01:00

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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Xiki and Reimagining the Shell

By Changelog Media/Wed, 16 Jul 2014 03:00

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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Blogging for Hackers

By Changelog Media/Wed, 16 Jul 2014 02:00

Parker Moore joined the show to talk with Adam about blogging for hackers with Jekyll and GitHub Pages.

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Tedit, JS-Git, Jack

By Changelog Media/Wed, 16 Jul 2014 01:00

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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Gittip and Open Companies

By Changelog Media/Thu, 29 May 2014 23:00

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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Rails Girls Summer of Code and Travis Foundation

By Changelog Media/Tue, 20 May 2014 00:30

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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Google's Dart Programming Language

By Changelog Media/Thu, 08 May 2014 23:00

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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Ruby Tooling, chruby, ruby-install, Security

By Changelog Media/Fri, 02 May 2014 07:30

Adam and Andrew talked to Postmodern about his open source projects chruby, ruby-install, chgems, ronin, and more.

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MEAN.js & Full-Stack JavaScript

By Changelog Media/Fri, 25 Apr 2014 22:00

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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The Sass Way and Open Publishing

By Changelog Media/Fri, 18 Apr 2014 17:00

Adam and John talk about Sass, The Sass Way, Middleman, and open publishing on GitHub.

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Go, Martini, Gophercasts

By Changelog Media/Wed, 16 Apr 2014 17:00

Jeremy Saenz joined the show to talk about Go, Martini, Gophercasts, and more.

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Node Black Friday at Walmart

By Changelog Media/Sat, 11 Jan 2014 09:00

Eran Hammer joined the show to talk about Node.js and Black Friday at Walmart.

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Flynn Updates

By Changelog Media/Fri, 20 Dec 2013 14:45

Andrew talks with Jonathan Rudenberg and Jeff Lindsay about their hard work and updates on Flynn, their open source PaaS.

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RethinkDB

By Changelog Media/Wed, 11 Dec 2013 14:00

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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Keep npm Running

By Changelog Media/Tue, 26 Nov 2013 15:00

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

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ZURB Foundation 5 and Front-End Frameworks

By Changelog Media/Sat, 16 Nov 2013 10:00

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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Hoodie, noBackend, Offline-First

By Changelog Media/Sat, 09 Nov 2013 10:45

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

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Capistrano and Burnout

By Changelog Media/Wed, 30 Oct 2013 12:30

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 sour

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Open Karma and Design Love for OSS

By Changelog Media/Sat, 26 Oct 2013 07:00

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

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Exercism.io and Crowd-Sourced Code Reviews

By Changelog Media/Wed, 16 Oct 2013 12:30

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 language

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Balanced Payments and Open Sourcing Everything

By Changelog Media/Wed, 09 Oct 2013 13:00

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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Semantic UI

By Changelog Media/Sat, 05 Oct 2013 07:15

Andrew and Adam talk with Jack Lukic about Semantic UI.

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Ghost Blogging Platform

By Changelog Media/Thu, 26 Sep 2013 13:00

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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Kickstarting Espruino

By Changelog Media/Fri, 20 Sep 2013 06:15

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 sour

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GitLab and Open Source

By Changelog Media/Fri, 13 Sep 2013 12:45

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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RVM and Ruby Version Managment

By Changelog Media/Fri, 06 Sep 2013 12:30

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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npm Origins and Node.js

By Changelog Media/Thu, 22 Aug 2013 13:00

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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Go Programming

By Changelog Media/Wed, 14 Aug 2013 13:00

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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Flynn, Tent, Open Source PaaS's

By Changelog Media/Tue, 13 Aug 2013 13:00

Adam Stacoviak and Andrew Thorp talk with Jeff Lindsay and Jonathan Rudenberg about Flynn, open source, PaaS and more.

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AFNetworking, Helios, iOS Development

By Changelog Media/Tue, 06 Aug 2013 13:00

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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API Wrappers and Ruby

By Changelog Media/Tue, 30 Jul 2013 11:00

Adam Stacoviak and Andrew Thorp talk with Drew Blas of Chargify about API wrappers, Ruby, open source, and more.

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Ruby off Rails

By Changelog Media/Mon, 22 Jul 2013 13:00

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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Civic Hacking and Code for America

By Changelog Media/Wed, 03 Jul 2013 15:00

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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Sass, libsass, Haml

By Changelog Media/Thu, 27 Jun 2013 03:00

Adam Stacoviak and Andrew Thorp talk with Hampton Catlin about Sass, libsass, Haml, Tritium, Moovweb and more.

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Sass, Bourbon, Product Design

By Changelog Media/Wed, 12 Jun 2013 13:00

Adam Stacoviak talks with Phil LaPier about Sass, Bourbon, Neat, sustaining open source, product design, and more.

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Sidekiq and Ruby

By Changelog Media/Fri, 07 Jun 2013 15:00

Adam Stacoviak and Andrew Thorp talk with Mike Perham about sustaining open source, sidekiq, message processing with Ruby, and more.

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Discover Meteor.js

By Changelog Media/Wed, 29 May 2013 13:00

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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Pair Programming and Ruby

By Changelog Media/Wed, 22 May 2013 13:00

Adam Stacoviak, Andrew Thorp, and Steve Klabnik talk about pair programming, distributed teams, workflows, Ruby and more with Avdi Grimm.

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Docker and Linux Containers

By Changelog Media/Fri, 17 May 2013 13:00

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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Vagrant and HashiCorp

By Changelog Media/Wed, 15 May 2013 13:00

Adam Stacoviak and Andrew Thorp talk with Mitchell Hashimoto, the creator of Vagrant and founder of HashiCorp.

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Sustaining Open Source and Building an Open Company

By Changelog Media/Thu, 09 May 2013 13:00

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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Discourse and Ruby

By Changelog Media/Fri, 03 May 2013 13:00

Adam Stacoviak, Andrew Thorp and Kenneth Reitz talk with Jeff Atwood about Discourse and more.

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We're Back and We're LIVE!

By Changelog Media/Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:00

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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News Roundup

By Changelog Media/Wed, 08 Aug 2012 13:00

Andrew and Wynn run down the news from the last month.

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Cloud 9 IDE

By Changelog Media/Tue, 17 Jul 2012 13:00

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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Ruby Motion and MacRuby

By Changelog Media/Tue, 26 Jun 2012 13:00

Wynn and Sam caught up with Laurent Sansonetti to talk about MacRuby, RubyMotion, and more.

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Celluloid and Concurrency

By Changelog Media/Thu, 31 May 2012 13:00

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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Luvit and Lua Bindings for libuv

By Changelog Media/Wed, 23 May 2012 13:00

Wynn caught up with Tim Caswell to talk about Luvit, his new project that provides Lua bindings for libuv.

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Adhearsion, Telephony, XMPP

By Changelog Media/Fri, 13 Apr 2012 13:00

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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CocoaPods and MacRuby

By Changelog Media/Thu, 05 Apr 2012 13:00

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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Solarized and Linux on the Desktop

By Changelog Media/Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:00

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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.NET, NuGet, Open Source

By Changelog Media/Fri, 16 Mar 2012 13:00

Wynn caught up with Phil Haack to talk about NuGet and growing the .NET open source community at GitHub.

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Travis CI, Scaling Apps, Riak

By Changelog Media/Tue, 06 Mar 2012 14:00

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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The League of Moveable Type

By Changelog Media/Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:00

Adam and Wynn caught up with Micah Rich from The League of Moveable type to talk about open source typography.

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tmux, dotfiles, and Text Mode

By Changelog Media/Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:00

Wynn sat down with Brian Hogan and Josh Clayton to talk about tmux, dotfiles, and the joys of text mode.

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Vagrant and Virtualized Environments

By Changelog Media/Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:00

Wynn caught up with Mitchell Hashimoto from the Vagrant project to talk about virtualized environments, DevOps, and more.

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Spine and Client-Side MVC

By Changelog Media/Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:00

Wynn caught up with Alex MacCaw to talk about Spine, CoffeeScript, writing books, and working at Twitter.

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Foundation and Other Zurb Goodies

By Changelog Media/Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:00

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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Spree and Ecommerce in Rails

By Changelog Media/Thu, 03 Nov 2011 13:00

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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Growl and Open Source in the App Store

By Changelog Media/Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:00

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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HTML5 Boilerplate and JavaScript

By Changelog Media/Fri, 19 Aug 2011 13:00

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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RVM and BDSM

By Changelog Media/Thu, 04 Aug 2011 13:00

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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Code for America

By Changelog Media/Tue, 26 Jul 2011 13:00

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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Pow, Rails 3.1 Asset Pipeline, CoffeeScript and More

By Changelog Media/Wed, 13 Jul 2011 13:00

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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CDNJS

By Changelog Media/Tue, 21 Jun 2011 13:00

Adam and Wynn caught up with the developers behind CDNJS, a community-powered CDN for JavaScript libraries.

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IronJS, F#, and .NET

By Changelog Media/Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:00

Wynn caught up with Fredrik Holmström to talk about IronJS, F#, and open source in .NET.

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Oh My Zsh

By Changelog Media/Thu, 26 May 2011 13:00

Adam and Kenneth caught up with Robby Russell to talk about his community-driven zsh project.

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Fog, the Ruby Cloud Services Library

By Changelog Media/Fri, 20 May 2011 13:00

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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RubyGems and RubyGems.org

By Changelog Media/Wed, 11 May 2011 13:00

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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Twisted and Evented Programming in Python

By Changelog Media/Tue, 03 May 2011 13:00

Kenneth and Wynn caught up with Glyph Lefkowitz from Twisted to talk about the project and evented programming in Python.

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Amplify.js, jQuery, CoffeeScript

By Changelog Media/Wed, 27 Apr 2011 13:00

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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Vim round table discussion

By Changelog Media/Tue, 12 Apr 2011 13:00

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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Goliath, Event Machine, SPDY

By Changelog Media/Wed, 06 Apr 2011 13:00

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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Erlang, CouchBase, Merging with Membase

By Changelog Media/Wed, 30 Mar 2011 13:00

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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Formalize and News Roundup "Design Edition"

By Changelog Media/Tue, 22 Mar 2011 13:00

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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Serve, RadiantCMS, Design and Prototyping

By Changelog Media/Wed, 16 Mar 2011 13:00

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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MongoDB, NoSQL, Web Scale

By Changelog Media/Wed, 09 Mar 2011 14:00

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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Ruby, Rails, the Cloud

By Changelog Media/Tue, 01 Mar 2011 14:00

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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Git, Showoff, XBox Kinect

By Changelog Media/Tue, 22 Feb 2011 14:00

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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Jenkins and Continous Integration

By Changelog Media/Tue, 08 Feb 2011 14:00

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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Open Government and the Citizen Coder

By Changelog Media/Tue, 01 Feb 2011 14:00

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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YUI 3, Node.js, JSLint, Douglas Crockford Code Reviews

By Changelog Media/Tue, 25 Jan 2011 14:00

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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Redis In-Memory Data Store

By Changelog Media/Mon, 17 Jan 2011 14:00

Wynn caught up with Salvatore Sanfilippo to talk about Redis, the super hot key value store.

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Ruby 1.9, Nokogiri, Tender Lovemaking

By Changelog Media/Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:00

Wynn caught up with Aaron Patterson, aka @tenderlove, to talk about Ruby 1.9, Nokogiri, and muscle cars.

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Hackety Hack and _why

By Changelog Media/Wed, 05 Jan 2011 14:00

Steve Klabnik joined the show to talk about learning to program with Hackety Hack and why the lucky stiff.

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Rails 3.1 and SproutCore

By Changelog Media/Thu, 09 Dec 2010 14:00

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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Building Telephony Apps

By Changelog Media/Tue, 30 Nov 2010 14:00

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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Riak Revisited

By Changelog Media/Tue, 09 Nov 2010 14:00

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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Scripty2, Zepto.js, Vapor.js

By Changelog Media/Tue, 26 Oct 2010 13:00

Wynn caught up with Thomas Fuchs to talk about script.aculo.us, Scripty2, Zepto.js and the future of Prototype.

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DevOps and Chef

By Changelog Media/Tue, 12 Oct 2010 13:00

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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PubSubHubBub and the Real-Time Web

By Changelog Media/Tue, 05 Oct 2010 13:00

Wynn chatted with Julien Genestoux (github/twitter) from Superfeedr about PubSubHubBub, XMPP, Websockets, and the real-time web.

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Django Dash, Python, Ruby

By Changelog Media/Thu, 23 Sep 2010 13:00

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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Homebrew and OSX Package Management

By Changelog Media/Tue, 14 Sep 2010 13:00

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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Mongrel2 and high performance web sites

By Changelog Media/Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:00

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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Node Knockout

By Changelog Media/Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:00

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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960.gs and CSS Grid Frameworks

By Changelog Media/Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:00

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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The WebSocket protocol

By Changelog Media/Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:00

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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Sencha Touch

By Changelog Media/Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:00

Wynn caught up with David Kaneda to talk about mobile web app development with Sencha Touch.

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CoffeeScript and JavaScript

By Changelog Media/Fri, 23 Jul 2010 13:00

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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Mobile Web Development and jQuery

By Changelog Media/Fri, 25 Jun 2010 13:00

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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Padrino Ruby Web Framework

By Changelog Media/Thu, 17 Jun 2010 13:00

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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JSON and JavaScript

By Changelog Media/Tue, 08 Jun 2010 13:00

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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RaphaëlJS and Running an Open Source Project

By Changelog Media/Tue, 25 May 2010 13:00

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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Tornado, Hip-hop, Three20

By Changelog Media/Tue, 18 May 2010 13:00

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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The Ruby Racer

By Changelog Media/Tue, 11 May 2010 13:00

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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Sammy.js and Semantic Versioning

By Changelog Media/Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:00

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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Tweets from Chirp, Twitter's Developer Conference

By Changelog Media/Tue, 20 Apr 2010 13:00

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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Node.js and Server-Side JavaScript

By Changelog Media/Tue, 06 Apr 2010 13:00

Adam and Wynn caught up with Felix Geisendörfer to talk about Node.js, server-side JavaScript, and JSConf 2010.

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Ruby, TextMate, Red Dirt Ruby Conf

By Changelog Media/Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:00

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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NoSQL Smackdown!

By Changelog Media/Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:00

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

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Open Source Publishing

By Changelog Media/Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:00

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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Ajax.org frameworks

By Changelog Media/Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:00

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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OAuth, Hurl.it, Baconfile

By Changelog Media/Sat, 27 Feb 2010 14:00

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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Riak, the New Erlang-based NoSQL Store

By Changelog Media/Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:00

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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Civic hacking

By Changelog Media/Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:00

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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Gordon is such a Showoff

By Changelog Media/Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:00

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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Ordered List, RailsTips.org, and MongoMapper

By Changelog Media/Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:00

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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All things GitHub

By Changelog Media/Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:00

Chris Wanstrath joined the show to talk about the past, present, and future of GitHub.

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Fix-me, Configliere, more Node.js

By Changelog Media/Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:00

Marshall Culpepper Appcelerator is back and we go through the news together.

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Appcelerator's Titanium and Titanium Mobile

By Changelog Media/Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:00

Marshall Culpepper joined the show to talk about Appcelerator’s Titanium Desktop and Titanium Mobile.

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10gen and MongoDB

By Changelog Media/Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:00

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

By Changelog Media/Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:00

Friend of the show, Steven Bristol from LessEverything join us to discuss the latest in open source.

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Document Cloud and Underscore.js

By Changelog Media/Sun, 06 Dec 2009 14:00

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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Chrome OS, Thor and ROaR

By Changelog Media/Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:00

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

By Changelog Media/Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:00

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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The original Changelog Weekly

By Changelog Media/Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:00

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 clu

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Haml, Sass, Compass

By Changelog Media/Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:00

Natalie Weizenbaum and Chris Eppstein joined the show today to discuss Haml, Sass, and Compass.

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