Changelog Interviews

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Changelog Interviews episodes

November 21, 2017The History of GNOME, Mono, and Xamarin
We talked with Miguel de Icaza last week at Microsoft Connect(); in New York City. Miguel gave us the backstory on how he’s been competing with Microsoft for most of his developer career, and he shares the history of GNOME, Mono, and Xamarin — and what led him to now work at Microsoft.
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Featuring:
Miguel de Icaza – Website, GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Miguel is the creator of Gnome (a desktop environment for GNU/Linux), Mono (a cross platform open source .NET framework), and Xamarin (a platform to build iOS, Android, Mac, and Windows apps in C# and .NET) which was acquired by Microsoft in February 2016.
GNOME
The GNU Operating System and the Free Software Movement
Mono
Xamarin
Microsoft Connect();
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50 min
November 18, 2017Faktory and the future of background jobs
Mike Perham is back for his 4th appearance to talk about his new project Faktory, a new background job system that’s aiming to bring the best practices developed over the last five years in Sidekiq to every programming language. We catch up with Mike on the continued success and model of Sidekiq, the future of background jobs, his thoughts on RocksDB in Faktory vs BoltDB, Redis, or SQLite, how he plans to support Sidekiq for the next 10 years, and his thoughts on Faktory being a SaaS option in the future.
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Featuring:
Mike Perham – Website, GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
The Future of Background Jobs
Introducing Faktory
contribsys/faktory
Faktory installation
BoltDB vs. RocksDB
RocksDB - a persistent key-value store
The Changelog #92: Sidekiq and Ruby with Mike Perham
The Changelog #130: Inspeqtor and OSS Products with Mike Perham
The Changelog #159: Sustaining Open Source Software with Mike Perham
The Changelog #170: BoltDB, InfluxDB, and Key-Value Databases with Ben Johnson
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1 hr 19 min
November 10, 2017Data Science at OSCON
We went back into the archives to conversations we had around data science at OSCON 2017. We talked with Vida Williams (Data Scientist) and Michelle Casbon (Director of Data Science at Qordoba) about the social impact of open data, personal data and transparency, privacy, the big data problem of public surveillance, electronic fingerprinting, the rift between data scientists and computer scientists, natural language processing, machine learning, and more.
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GoCD – GoCD is an on-premise open source continuous delivery server created by ThoughtWorks that lets you automate and streamline your build-test-release cycle for reliable, continuous delivery of your product.
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Featuring:
Vida Williams – Website, GitHub, X
Michelle Casbon – GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Citizen Data by Vida Williams at TEDxRVA
Qordoba - Localization Software for Global Brands
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38 min
November 10, 2017Functional CSS and Tachyons
Adam Morse joined the show to talk about Functional CSS and his project Tachyons - a CSS Toolkit that lets you quickly build and design new UI without writing CSS. We talk about Scalable CSS, the difference between “Atomic”, “OOCSS”, “BEM” and others, semantic class names, and where we go from here.
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DigitalOcean – Get DigitalOcean Spaces free for 2 months. Securely store and deliver any amount of data with the same simplicity you’ve come to expect from us. Instantaneously create a cost-effective, reliable storage space using our drag-and-drop UI or API.
GoCD – GoCD is an on-premise open source continuous delivery server created by ThoughtWorks that lets you automate and streamline your build-test-release cycle for reliable, continuous delivery of your product.
Toptal – Hire the top 3% of freelance software developers, designers, and finance experts. Email [email protected] for a personal introduction.
Featuring:
Adam Morse – Website, GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Scalable CSS
tachyons-css/tachyons on GitHub
TACHYONS - CSS Toolkit
Compositor: Tools & Services for Designers, Developers, & Creatives
CSS Stats + check out Changelog.com’s stats here
Wilson Miner - When We Build
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1 hr 12 min
November 08, 2017My roadmap to become a blockchain engineer
Preethi Kasireddy, a self-employed blockchain and smart contract Engineer, joined the show to talk about why she left the best job in the world at Andreessen Horowitz on the deal team, how she got entrepreneurship envy, the roadmap she laid out in 2015 and where she’s at today as an engineer, her excitement for blockchain-based technologies, and why blockchains don’t scale.
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Toptal – Hire the top 3% of freelance software developers, designers, and finance experts. Email [email protected] for a personal introduction.
Featuring:
Preethi Kasireddy – Website, GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Why I left the best job in the world
Blockchains don’t scale. Not today, at least. But there’s hope.
Preethi Kasireddy on Medium
Ask Preethi on YouTube
Between the Wires and what is Between the Wires?
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1 hr 5 min
November 04, 2017Rails as a day job, Diesel on the side
Sean Griffin joins the show to talk about doing Rails full-time, his love of Rust. and his project Diesel - a safe, extensible ORM and query builder for Rust. We discuss Sean’s path to working full-time on Rails, what he works on specifically, why Rust, why Diesel, and how much of Diesel’s design and featureset is a product of his experience with ActiveRecord and Rails.
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Toptal – Hire the top 3% of freelance software developers, designers, and finance experts. Email [email protected] for a personal introduction.
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Featuring:
Sean Griffin – GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Ruby on Rails - a web-application framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.
activerecord on GitHub
Rust - a systems programming language that runs blazingly fast, prevents segfaults, and guarantees thread safety.
diesel on GitHub
Diesel website and docs
RustConf
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1 hr 17 min
November 03, 2017Bisq, the decentralized Bitcoin exchange
Chris Beams joins the show to talk about Bisq, the P2P decentralized Bitcoin exchange and open-source desktop application that allows you to buy and sell bitcoins in exchange for national currencies, or alternative crypto currencies. We get some background on the issues faced by crypto exchanges like CoinBase, and the now defunkt Mt. Gox. We discuss whether or not Bitcoin is a censorship resistant payment system and what it means to have anonymous transaction currency options. Bisq also has an interesting white paper about its own DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization) to support its contributors and we discuss that in detail at the end of the episode.
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GoCD – GoCD is an on-premise open source continuous delivery server created by ThoughtWorks that lets you automate and streamline your build-test-release cycle for reliable, continuous delivery of your product.
Featuring:
Chris Beams – Website, GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Bisq - the P2P Decentralized Bitcoin Exchange
bisq-network/exchange
The Bisq DAO or read the source docs here and you can read the compensation requests here
Bitcoin - Open source P2P money
Ethereum Project
CoinBase
Mt. Gox
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1 hr 51 min
October 31, 2017Operação Serenata de Amor (Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Government Corruption 😱)
Eduardo Cuducos joined the show to talk about Operação Serenata de Amor an Artificial Intelligence and Data Science project that aims to inform the general public about government corruption and spending. We talked about how this artificial intelligence project analyzes claims for reimbursement from congresspeople to determine illegal probability, how it monitors government spending, the technology behind it, and how other governments might be able to follow this model.
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CircleCI – CircleCI is a continuous integration and delivery platform that helps software teams rapidly release code with confidence by automating the build, test, and deploy process. Checkout the recently launched CircleCI 2.0!
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Featuring:
Eduardo Cuducos – Website, GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Special thanks to Fabio Rehm for making us aware of this project!
Operação Serenata de Amor
Help fund the future of Operação Serenata de Amor
datasciencebr/serenata-de-amor: 🕵 Artificial Intelligence for social control of public administration
datasciencebr/rosie: 🤖 Python application responsible for Serenata de Amor’s intelligence
Irio (Irio Musskopf) on GitHub the founder of Operação Serenata de Amor
Data Science Brigade
Rosie (@RosieDaSerenata) on Twitter
Google Search for “toblerone”
Mona Sahlin
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1 hr 4 min
October 28, 2017Functional Programming
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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Featuring:
Eric Normand – GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Learn Functional Programming on your schedule
Can I do FP in my language? (dev.to)
Functional programming (Wikipedia)
Lambda Calculus (Wikipedia)
Maxima and Minima (Wikipedia)
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1 hr
October 17, 2017The Future of RethinkDB
Mike Glukhovsky joined the show to talk about the future of RethinkDB. Mike was a co-founder of RethinkDB along-side Slava Akhmechet. RethinkDB shutdown a year ago officially on October 5, 2016 — and today we’re talking through all the details with Mike. The shutdown, getting purchased by the CNCF, relicensing, buying back their IP and source code, community and governance, and some specific features that Mike and the rest of the community are excited about.
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Linode – Our cloud server of choice. Get one of the fastest, most efficient SSD cloud servers for only $5/mo. Use the code changelog2017 to get 4 months free!
Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com.
Featuring:
Mike Glukhovsky – GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
RethinkDB
The Changelog #114 (with Slava Akhmechet)
The Changelog #181 (with Slava Akhmechet)
Proposal: Modifier functions · Issue #5813 · rethinkdb/rethinkdb
The ReQL query language
RethinkDB joins The Linux Foundation
RethinkDB Documentation
RethinkDB is shutting down
Contribute to RethinkDB
From Slava Akhmechet on why RethinkDB failed
Announcing RethinkDB 2.3.6: the first release under community governance
CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation) Members
The liberation of RethinkDB
Apache License, Version 2.0
AGPL
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1 hr 11 min

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