Changelog Interviews

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Changelog Interviews episodes

June 09, 2020Creating GitLab’s remote playbook
We’re talking about all things all-remote with Darren Murph, Head of Remote at GitLab. Darren is tasked with putting intentional thought and action into place to lead the largest all-remote company in the world. Yes, GitLab is 100% all-remote, as in, no offices…and they employee more than 1,200 people across 67 countries. They’ve been iterating and documenting how to work remotely for years. We cover Darren’s personal story on remote work while he served as managing editor at Engadget, his thoughts on how “work” is evolving and ways to reframe and rethink about when you work, this idea of work life harmony, and the backstory and details of the playbook GitLab released free of charge to the world.
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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.
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:
Darren Murph – X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
GitLab’s Remote Playbook
GitLab Values - “No ego” is among the values detailed on this page
GitLab’s team handbook
Our long-term vision for remote work
Family and friends first, work second
Encouraging a culture of written communication
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 20 min
May 27, 2020De-Google-ing your website analytics
Plausible creators Uku Täht and Marko Saric join the show to talk about their open source, privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics. We talk through the backstory of the project, why it’s open source, the details behind a few viral blog posts Marko shared to bring in a ton of new interest to the project, why privacy matters in web analytics, how they prioritize building new features, the technical details behind their no cookie light-weight JavaScript approach, and their thoughts on a server-side option.
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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.
Retool – Retool makes it super simple to build back-office apps in hours, not days. The tool is is built by engineers, explicitly for engineers. Learn more and try it for free at retool.com/changelog
Square – Develop on the platform that sellers trust! Head to squareup.com/go/changelog to learn more and create your Square Developer account. When you build with Square, you get to outsource all the payments complexity to them. They take care of maintaining PCI compliance, detecting fraud, and managing disputes on your behalf.
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:
Marko Saric – Website, X
Uku Täht – GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Plausible - a lightweight, open source, privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics
Why you should stop using Google Analytics on your website
How one blog post changed the traction for my startup
Will removing Google Analytics from a site hurt search engine rankings?
Blogging statistics and trends you should know in 2020
How to de-Google-ify your site to make it faster and visitor friendly
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 30 min
May 18, 2020Leading GitHub to a $7.5 billion acquisition
Jason Warner (CTO at GitHub) joined the show to talk with us about the backstory of how he helped to lead GitHub to a $7.5 billion acquisition by Microsoft. Specifically how they trusted their gut not just the data, and how they understood the value they were bringing to market. We also talk about Jason’s focus on “horizon 3” for GitHub, and his thoughts on remote work and how they’re leading GitHub engineering today.
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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.
Retool – Retool makes it super simple to build back-office apps in hours, not days. The tool is is built by engineers, explicitly for engineers. Learn more and try it for free at retool.com/changelog
Square – Develop on the platform that sellers trust! Head to squareup.com/go/changelog to learn more and create your Square Developer account. When you build with Square, you get to outsource all the payments complexity to them. They take care of maintaining PCI compliance, detecting fraud, and managing disputes on your behalf.
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:
Jason Warner – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
GitHub’s CTO on architecting engineering teams that scale
Current stats – 40M+ developers with 100M+ repos
Go back in time to hear our reactions to Microsoft buying GitHub - “The news is true. Microsoft is acquiring GitHub.”
The Changelog #331: GitHub Actions is the next big thing with Kyle Daigle
Jason’s book recommendations:
Atomic Habits by James Clear
Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
Team of Teams by Gen. Stanley McChrystal
The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
High Output Management by Andrew Grove
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 33 min
May 12, 2020VisiData is like duct tape for your data
Saul Pwanson is the creator and maintainer of VisiData, a terminal interface for exploring and arranging tabular data. On this Maintainer Spotlight episode, Saul joins Jerod for a wide-ranging discussion on crossword puzzles, biographs, and Saul’s open source gift to the world. Thanks to AJ for the suggestion!
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Tidelift – Tidelift is the first managed open source subscription that pays the maintainers of the exact open source projects you depend on while giving you the commercial support you’ve been looking for. Learn more at tidelift.com.
Featuring:
Saul Pwanson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
VisiData
VisiData on GitHub
A Plagiarism Scandal Is Unfolding In The Crossword World
Saul’s biograph
the biograph tool on GitHub
Support Saul on Patreon
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
58 min
May 06, 2020Gatsby's long road to incremental builds
Gatsby creator Kyle Mathews joins Jerod fresh off the launch of incremental builds to tell the story of this feature that’s 3 years in the making. We talk about Kyle’s vision for Gatsby, why incremental builds took so long, why it’s not part of the open source tool, how he makes decisions between Cloud and open source features, and more.
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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:
Kyle Mathews – Website, GitHub, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Kyle on Founders Talk
The Great GatsbyJS (The Changelog #306)
Introducing Incremental Builds in Gatsby Cloud
Experimental Page Build Optimizations for Incremental Data Changes
Announcing Gatsby Recipes
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 4 min
April 30, 2020Indeed's FOSS Contributor Fund
Duane O’Brien (head of open source at Indeed) joined the show to talk about their FOSS Contributor Fund and FOSS Responders. He’s super passionate about open source, and through his role at Indeed Duane was able to implement this fund and open source it as a framework for other companies to use. We talk through all the details of the program, its impact and influence, as well as ways companies can use the framework in their organization. We also talk about FOSS Responders an initiative to support open source that has been negatively impacted by COVID-19.
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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:
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
The FOSS Contributor Fund: Six Months In
FOSS Contributor Fund - Framework
Sentry on ‘Funding Open Source’
FOSS Responders on Open Collective
FOSS Responders - Virtual Funding Event (Friday - May 22, 2020)
Sustaining FOSS projects by democratizing the sponsorship process
fossresponders.com
Open Source 101
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 17 min
April 22, 2020Work from home SUPERCUT
Today we’re featuring conversations from different perspectives on working from home from our JS Party, Go Time, and Brain Science podcasts here on Changelog.com. Because, hey…if you didn’t know we have 6 active podcasts in our portfolio of shows. Head to changelog.com/podcasts to collect them all!
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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.
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
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:
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Suz Hinton – GitHub, Mastodon, X
Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Bluesky, Mastodon, X
Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
Mark Bates – Website, GitHub, X
Carmen Andoh – GitHub, X
Jon Calhoun – Website, GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Mireille Reece, PsyD – LinkedIn
Show Notes:
Check out the following links for the show notes of each show featured:
JS Party #120: WFH!?
Go Time #123: WFH
Brain Science #15: Working from home
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 13 min
April 13, 2020Visualizing the spread of Coronavirus
Harry Stevens is a Graphics Reporter at The Washington Post and the author of “Why outbreaks like coronavirus spread exponentially, and how to ‘flatten the curve’” — the most popular post in The Washington Post’s online history.
We cover the necessary details of this global pandemic, the journalist, coding, and design skills required to be a graphics reporter, the backstory on visualizing this outbreak, why Harry chooses R over Python, advice for aspiring graphics reporters, and how all of this came together at the perfect time in history to give Harry a chance to catch lightning in a bottle.
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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.
Mux – Mux has done for video what Stripe has done for payments If you’re trying to build video into your app, you’ll have to decide between building it yourself or using an out-of-the-box platform. Mux simplifies all things video to an easy to use API. Get $50 in credit to play with at get.mux.com/changelog.
Pluralsight – Stay home. Skill up. For free. Pluralsight is totally free for the entire month of April! With over 7,000 courses from experts in software development, security, cloud and data there’s never been a better time to skill up. Learn more and get started at pluralsight.com/changelog
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:
Harry Stevens – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Why outbreaks like coronavirus spread exponentially, and how to “flatten the curve” ~ discuss
COVID-19 (2019-nCoV) real time dashboard ~ full view
‘Contagion’ is one of the most popular thrillers on iTunes because of the coronavirus outbreak. Here’s how the film compares to reality.
D3.js
RStudio
The Doctor Who Helped Defeat Smallpox Explains What’s Coming - Epidemiologist Larry Brilliant, who warned of pandemic in 2006, says we can beat the novel coronavirus—but first, we need lots more testing.
Deadliest Enemy by Michael Osterholm and Mark Olshaker — Our War Against Killer Germs
Michael Osterholm on Joe Rogan Experience #1439
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 7 min
April 07, 2020Securing the web with Let's Encrypt
We’re talking with Josh Aas, the Executive Director of the Internet Security Research Group, which is the legal entity behind the Let’s Encrypt certificate authority. In June of 2017, Let’s Encrypt celebrated 100 Million certificates issued. Now, just about 2.5 years later, that number has grown to 1 Billion and 200 Million websites served. We talk with Josh about his journey and what it’s taken to build and grow Let’s Encrypt to enable a secure by default internet for everyone.
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Mux – Mux has done for video what Stripe has done for payments If you’re trying to build video into your app, you’ll have to decide between building it yourself or using an out-of-the-box platform. Mux simplifies all things video to an easy to use API. Get $50 in credit to play with at get.mux.com/changelog.
Pluralsight – Stay home. Skill up. For free. Pluralsight is totally free for the entire month of April! With over 7,000 courses from experts in software development, security, cloud and data there’s never been a better time to skill up. Learn more and get started at pluralsight.com/changelog
Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com.
Featuring:
Josh Aas – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Let’s Encrypt Has Issued a Billion Certificates
Milestone: 100 Million Certificates Issued
Sponsors and donors of Let’s Encrypt
Internet Security Research Group
The Changelog #243: Let’s Encrypt the Web with Jacob Hoffman-Andrews
I’m a cog - Adam’s thoughts on cog mentality
Border Gateway Protocol
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 21 min
March 31, 2020The 10x developer myth
In late 2019, Bill Nichols, a senior member of the technical staff at Carnegie Mellon University with the Software Engineering Institute published his study on “the 10x developer myth.” On this show we talk with Bill about all the details of his research. Is the 10x developer a myth? Let’s find out.
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Mux – If you’re trying to build video into your app, you’ll have to decide between building it yourself or using an out-of-the-box platform. Mux gives you the best of both worlds by doing for video what Stripe has done for payments. Mux simplifies all things video to an easy to use API. Get $50 in credit to play with at get.mux.com/changelog.
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:
William Nichols – X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
The End to the Myth of Individual Programmer Productivity
Software Engineering Institute - Carnegie Mellon University
The Personal Software Process (PSP)
Team Software Process (TSP)
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 18 min

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