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August 12, 2020Working in Public
Nadia Eghbal is back and this time she’s talking with us about her new book Working in Public. If you’re an old school listener you might remember the podcast we produced with Nadia and Mikeal Rogers called Request for Commits. If you weren’t listening then, or can’t remember…don’t worry…the back catalog of Request for Commits is still online and subscribe-able via all the podcast ways. That podcast is still getting listens to this very day!
Obviously we go way back with Nadia…and having a chance to now talk with her through all the details of her new book Working in Public, this was a milestone for this show and Jerod and I. We talked through the reasons she wrote the book in the first place, Nadia’s thoughts on the future of the internet and the connection of creators to the platforms they build their followings on, and we also talk about the health of projects and communities and the challenges we face internet-at-large as well as right here in our backyard in the open source community.
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Featuring:
Nadia Eghbal – GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
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The Changelog #193: Funding open source with Nadia Eghbal
Sindre Sorhus
Nadia’s post on Substack about Working in Public
Buy Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software on Amazon
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 16 min
August 07, 2020Designing and building HEY
We’re talking about designing and building HEY with Jonas Downey, the lead designer behind HEY. In their words, “Email sucked for years, but not anymore.” We were super interested in how they went about solving the problems with email, so we invited Jonas on to share all the details and a behind-the-scenes look at the making of HEY.
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Scout APM – Scout is application monitoring that continually tracks down N+1 database queries, sources of memory bloat, performance abnormalities, and a ton more. Learn more and get started for free at scoutapm.com/changelog.
Retool – Retool makes it super simple to build back-office apps in hours, not days. The tool is is built by engineers, explicitly for engineers. Learn more and try it for free at retool.com/changelog
Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com.
Featuring:
Jonas Downey – Website, LinkedIn, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
HEY.com - Email at its best, new from Basecamp
The Changelog #399: Shipping work that matters - revisiting Shape Up & product development with Ryan Singer
The Changelog #357: Shaping, betting, and building - featuring Ryan Singer on how Basecamp does product development
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 26 min
July 31, 2020Making Windows Terminal awesome
Kayla Cinnamon, Program Manager at Microsoft for Windows Terminal, Console, Command Line, and Cascadia Code joined us to talk about the release of Windows Terminal 1.0 and the new Windows command-line experience. We talk about everything that went into rethinking the command line experience on Windows, the UX and UI design behind it all, the learnings of working in open source, and what’s to come for the Windows command line experience.
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Scout APM – Scout is application monitoring that continually tracks down N+1 database queries, sources of memory bloat, performance abnormalities, and a ton more. Learn more and get started for free at scoutapm.com/changelog.
Retool – Retool makes it super simple to build back-office apps in hours, not days. The tool is is built by engineers, explicitly for engineers. Learn more and try it for free at retool.com/changelog
Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com.
Featuring:
Kayla Cinnamon – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
microsoft/terminal
Windows Terminal 1.0
Windows Terminal Preview 1.1 Release
microsoft/cascadia-code
Launch video: The new Windows Terminal
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 3 min
July 22, 2020It’s OK to make money from your open source
Adam loves a good dark theme and supporting a fellow creator, and Hedy Li finished the episode we did with Nikita Prokopov covering FiraCode and reached out saying Zeno Rocha’s work on Dracula deserved the same credit. We agreed. So we linked up with Zeno about his passion for open source, how he’s changed his mind on making money with open source, his big release of Dracula Pro and the future of Dracula, and of course his new book – 14 Habits of Highly Productive Developers. Check for a link in the show notes for details on how to get your hands on Zeno’s book for free through our giveaway.
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Featuring:
Zeno Rocha – Website, GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Giveaway details!! Check this blog post for all the details to win a free copy of Dracula PRO && 14 Habits of Highly Productive Developers
The open source Dracula Theme
Dracula PRO - a color scheme and UI theme tailored for programming. Made for terminal emulators, code editors, and syntax highlighters. Designed to be aesthetically pleasing while keeping you focused.
Book: 14 Habits of Highly Productive Developers
Kindle Direct Publishing
The Changelog #398: The ONE thing every dev should know and other words of wisdom from Jessica Kerr
The Changelog #399: Shipping work that matters ~ revisiting Shape Up & product development with Ryan Singer
The Changelog #248: Open source lessons learned with Zeno Rocha
The Changelog #77: Solarized and Linux on the Desktop with Ethan Schoonover
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 6 min
July 16, 2020Laws for hackers to live by
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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Algolia – Make every search lightning fast and deliver the results your customers want every time. Algolia’s search-as-a-service and full suite of APIs allow teams to easily develop super fast Search and Discovery experiences. Best of all, Algolia obsesses over developer experience. Learn more and get started.
Go Time – Your weekly podcast with diverse discussions from around the Go community.
Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com.
Featuring:
Dave Kerr – Website, GitHub, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Hacker Laws on GitHub
Why do so many developers get DRY wrong?
The Venture on Apple Podcasts
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 3 min
July 10, 2020What's next for José Valim and Elixir?
We’re joined again by José Valim talking about the recent acquihire of Plataformatec and what that means for the Elixir language, as well as José. We also talk about Dashbit a new 3 person company he helped form from work done while at Plataformatec to help startups and enterprises adopt and run Elixir in production. Lastly we talk about a new idea José has called Bytepack that aims to help developers package and deliver software products to developers and enterprises.
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DigitalOcean – DigitalOcean’s developer cloud makes it simple to launch in the cloud and scale up as you grow. They have an intuitive control panel, predictable pricing, team accounts, worldwide availability with a 99.99% uptime SLA, and 24/7/365 world-class support to back that up. Get your $100 credit at do.co/changelog.
Algolia – Make every search lightning fast and deliver the results your customers want every time. Algolia’s search-as-a-service and full suite of APIs allow teams to easily develop super fast Search and Discovery experiences. Best of all, Algolia obsesses over developer experience. Learn more and get started.
Brain Science – For the curious! Brain Science is our new podcast exploring the inner-workings of the human brain to understand behavior change, habit formation, mental health, and being human. It’s Brain Science applied — not just how does the brain work, but how do we apply what we know about the brain to transform our lives.
Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com.
Featuring:
José Valim – Website, GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Tech perspectives behind Nubank’s first acquisition deal (of Plataformatec)
Dashbit
Bytepack
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 7 min
July 03, 2020The intersection of coding and fonts
A listener request led us to Nikita Prokopov and FiraCode, and we’re sure glad they did. When we think of open source software, fonts aren’t usually high on the list of things that need maintaining. That’s not true when your font also supports hundreds of programming ligatures like FiraCode does. Nikita has his hands full!
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Featuring:
Nikita Prokopov – Website, GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
FiraCode on Changelog News
FiraCode on GitHub
FiraSans on GitHub
FiraCode on Twitter
Nikita on Patreon
Glyphs
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
58 min
June 29, 2020Big updates in Safari 14
We’re joined by Ronak Shah and Beth Dakin from the Safari team at Apple about their announcements at WWDC20 and the release of Safari 14. We talk about Safari WebExtensions, Face ID and Touch ID coming to the web, Safari’s plans to advance the web platform, and it all comes down to their focus on privacy, power, and performance.
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Featuring:
Ronak Shah – LinkedIn
Beth Dakin – LinkedIn, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Special thanks to Linode for helping us make this episode interruption free.
Safari
Safari Technology Preview
WWDC20
WWDC20 - What’s new for web developers
WWDC20 - Meet Safari Web Extensions
WWDC20 - Meet Face ID and Touch ID for the web
JavaScript APIs for WebExtensions
Welcoming Safari to the WebExtensions Community
Browser Market Share Worldwide
WebKit - Web Inspector Reference
Follow WebKit on Twitter to keep up
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
52 min
June 25, 2020Shipping work that matters
We’re revisiting Shape Up and product development thoughts with Ryan Singer, Head of Product Strategy at Basecamp. Last August we talked with Ryan when he first launched his book Shape Up and now we’re back to see how Shape Up is shaping up — “How are teams using the wisdom in this book to actually ship work that matters? How does Shape Up work in new versus existing products?” We also talk about the concept of longitudinal thinking and the way it’s impacting Ryan’s designs, plus a grab bag of topics in the last segment.
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Linode – Our cloud of choice and the home of Changelog.com. Deploy a fast, efficient, native SSD cloud server for only $5/month. Get 4 months free using the code changelog2019 OR changelog2020. To learn more and get started head to linode.com/changelog.
Retool – Retool makes it super simple to build back-office apps in hours, not days. The tool is is built by engineers, explicitly for engineers. Learn more and try it for free at retool.com/changelog
Brain Science – For the curious! Brain Science is our new podcast exploring the inner-workings of the human brain to understand behavior change, habit formation, mental health, and being human. It’s Brain Science applied — not just how does the brain work, but how do we apply what we know about the brain to transform our lives.
Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com.
Featuring:
Ryan Singer – Website, GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
The Changelog #357: Shaping, betting, and building
Ryan’s new hobby podcast called Synthetic A Priori
Shape Up (book site)
“Good design requires thinking longitudinally.”
New versus existing products
Taguchi methods on Wikipedia
Salt. Fat. Acid. Heat. - If you can master these four elements, you can master the kitchen.
EconTalk podcast
The End of Average: How We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness
Dr Ole Peters
Time for a Change: Introducing irreversible time in economics by Dr Ole Peters
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 33 min
June 16, 2020The ONE thing every dev should know
The incomparable Jessica Kerr drops by with a grab-bag of amazing topics. Understanding software systems, transferring knowledge between devs, building relationships, using VS Code & Docker to code together, observability as a logical extension of TDD, and a whole lot more.
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Tidelift – If you use open source to develop applications as part of your day job…our friends at Tidelift would like you to share your thoughts in their annual open source survey. Take the survey — it takes around 10 minutes on average.
Algolia – Our search partner. As the world is spending even more time online, search will be a critical lever for engaging your own users and customers. Algolia made their Pro Plan free to any developer or team working on a COVID-19-related, not-for-profit website or app.
Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com.
Featuring:
Jessica Kerr – Website, GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
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Symmathecist (n) - A quick definition, without the narrative
newsletter.jessitron.com
Listen to Jessica (and others) elsewhere on Arrested DevOps and Greater Than Code
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54 min

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