Changelog Interviews

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Changelog Interviews episodes

October 13, 2017The Kotlin Programming Language
Dmitry Jemerov joined the show to talk about Kotlin - a language created by JetBrains that’s designed to be an industrial-strength object-oriented language, and a “better language” than Java. We asked Dmitry “Why invent a new language?”, talked through Google announcing official Android support, covered some of Kotlin’s characteristics, Kotlin vs Swift, and more.
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Featuring:
Dmitry Jemerov – Website, GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Kotlin Programming Language
Kotlin Community
KotlinConf
JetBrains Gogland - Up and Coming Go IDE
On the Rise of Kotlin
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
54 min
October 06, 2017Automating GitHub with Probot
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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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!
Featuring:
Brandon Keepers – GitHub, X
Bex Warner – Website, GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Probot
GitHub Apps docs
Web UI Discussion #262
Probot best practices
GitHub Marketplace
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 11 min
September 22, 2017Conversations about sustaining open source
This episode features conversations from Sustain 2017 at GitHub HQ with Richard Littauer, Karthik Ram, Andrea Goulet, and Scott Ford. Sustain was a one day conversation for open source software sustainers to share stories, resources, and ways forward to sustain open source.
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Hired – Get hired. It’s free — in fact, they pay you to get hired. Our listeners get a double hiring bonus of $600.
Bugsnag – Mission control for software quality! Monitor website or mobile app errors that impact your customers. Our listeners can try all the features free for 60 days ($118 value).
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:
Richard Littauer – Website, GitHub, X
Karthik Ram – Website, GitHub, X
Andrea Goulet – Website, GitHub, X
Scott Ford – Website, GitHub, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
sustainoss.org (inspired by maintainerati.org)
maintainer.io - Scale Open Source Maintenance
rOpenSci - Open Tools for Open Science
Corgibytes
Legacy Code Rocks! (you should listen to this podcast)
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
56 min
September 08, 2017Community, Building Remote-first Teams, and Web Performance Inclusivity
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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Hired – Get hired. It’s free — in fact, they pay you to get hired. Our listeners get a double hiring bonus of $600.
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.
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.
Featuring:
Karolina Szczur – Website, GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Houston Flood Relief Fund - JJ Watt’s fundraiser for Victims of Hurricane Harvey
Bayou City Relief - Helping Houston Get Home
About Karolina Szczur
Building remote-first teams
How to write a successful conference proposal
CSSConf and JSConf Australia Diversity Report
A guide to empathetic hiring processes
Your tech job posting is broken. Here’s how to fix it.
Lighthouse from Google
ElectronConf Seattle 2017
Calibre - Web performance monitoring
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 28 min
August 11, 2017Building an artificial Pancreas with Elixir and Nerves
We talked with Tim Mecklem about building an artificial Pancreas with Elixir and Nerves to help those with Type 1 Diabetes who want to “loop” — a process which involves monitoring glucose levels, predicting where a person’s glucose levels are heading, then delivering insulin based on that prediction. Tim is a Developer at Gaslight in Cincinnati where he builds software solutions with Ruby and Elixir, and he’s a member of the Nerves Core team.
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ElixirConf 2017 – September 5-8 in Bellevue, WA - Our listeners get an exclusive $40 discount! Get face time with core developers of Elixir, Phoenix, Ecto, Nerves and more. Learn from over 40 speakers and keynotes about how top companies and developers are getting performance gains from Elixir and surpassing their competition. There is no better place to discuss, collaborate and socialize with other Elixir professionals and enthusiasts.
Datadog – Cloud-Scale Monitoring — Monitoring that tracks your dynamic infrastructure and applications. Plus next-generation APM. Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize end-to-end application performance. Start your free trial, install the agent, and get a free t-shirt!
Bugsnag – Mission control for software quality! Monitor website or mobile app errors that impact your customers. Our listeners can try all the features free for 60 days ($118 value).
Featuring:
Tim Mecklem – Website, GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Building an Artificial Pancreas with Elixir and Nerves at ElixirConf 2017
Listen to why Karen Sandler can’t hack her heart
Gaslight - Ruby on Rails, iOS, and JavaScript Consultants out of Cincinnati, OH
OpenAPS.org - #WeAreNotWaiting to reduce the burden of Type 1 diabetes
OpenAPS Reference Design
OpenAPS on GitHub
The open reference implementation of the OpenAPS reference design
The Nerves Project
Nightscout - #WeAreNotWaiting
Tim’s Elixir Library
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 6 min
August 04, 2017You are not Google/Amazon/LinkedIn
If you find yourself chasing shiny objects and squirrels all time, you should 💯 listen to this episode featuring Ozan Onay (President of Bradfield School of Computer Science) where we discuss his recent blog post entitled You Are Not Google which was the #1 link in Changelog Weekly - Issue #159. This show is full of wisdom and advice for every developer out there.
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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.
Datadog – Cloud-Scale Monitoring — Monitoring that tracks your dynamic infrastructure and applications. Plus next-generation APM. Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize end-to-end application performance. Start your free trial, install the agent, and get a free t-shirt!
Bugsnag – Mission control for software quality! Monitor website or mobile app errors that impact your customers. Our listeners can try all the features free for 60 days ($118 value).
Featuring:
Oz Onay – Website, GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Before we get to the show note links, here are some notable quotes from this episode and Oz’s post.
Software engineers go crazy for the most ridiculous things. We like to think that we’re hyper-rational, but when we have to choose a technology, we end up in a kind of frenzy — bouncing from one person’s Hacker News comment to another’s blog post until, in a stupor, we float helplessly toward the brightest light and lay prone in front of it, oblivious to what we were looking for in the first place. This is not how rational people make decisions…
Writing code isn’t really about writing. Thinking is the thing that we do. Eventually that gets translated into running code.
This is a counter-force against the marketing machine of high opinion technologies.
As of 2016, Stack Exchange served 200 million requests per day, backed by just four SQL servers: a primary for Stack Overflow, a primary for everything else, and two replicas.
You Are Not Google
Changelog Weekly - Issue #159
Bradfield School of Computer Science
Cutting through to what matters
How to teach yourself computer science
Teach Yourself Computer Science
Learn how computers work
Learn every language
Google Search for ‘postgres paper’
The Implementation of Postgres (paper)
The Design of Postgres (paper)
@loveapaper on Twitter
All Things Open
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
50 min
July 28, 2017ANTHOLOGY — The Future of Open Source at OSCON 2017
This is an anthology episode from OSCON 2017 featuring awesome conversations with Kelsey Hightower (OSCON Co-Chair and Developer Advocate at Google Cloud Platform), Safia Abdalla (Open Source Developer and Creator of Zarf), and Mike McQuaid and Nadia Eghbal (GitHub Open Source Programs).
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ElixirConf 2017 – September 5-8 in Bellevue, WA - Our listeners get an exclusive $40 discount! Get face time with core developers of Elixir, Phoenix, Ecto, Nerves and more. Learn from over 40 speakers and keynotes about how top companies and developers are getting performance gains from Elixir and surpassing their competition. There is no better place to discuss, collaborate and socialize with other Elixir professionals and enthusiasts.
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!
Datadog – Cloud-Scale Monitoring — Monitoring that tracks your dynamic infrastructure and applications. Plus next-generation APM. Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize end-to-end application performance. Start your free trial, install the agent, and get a free t-shirt!
Hired – Get hired. It’s free — in fact, they pay you to get hired. Our listeners get a double hiring bonus of $600.
Featuring:
Kelsey Hightower – GitHub, X
Safia Abdalla – Website, GitHub, X
Nadia Eghbal – GitHub, X
Mike McQuaid – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Kelsey Hightower
Kelsey Hightower is an OSCON Co-Chair and Developer Advocate (Google Cloud Platform) — We talked about being a co-chair, why he does live demos, and his motivations towards open source.
When you say you’re successful, I guarantee when you look around it’s because someone is celebrating your victories.
Check out DevOps Days Austin 2017 on YouTube
The tweets mentioned from Kelsey that were seen as “controversial by some in the community” started with this tweet, then this tweet, and finally this tweet.
“I don’t write code for free. I write code for freedom.”
“Best birthday gift ever!” thanks to Brian Ketelsen
Safia Abdalla
Safia Abdalla is an open source developer and creator of Zarf — We talked about being a command-line junkie and her talk on the intersection of business and open source.
Zarf - an online platform that allows writers to sell subscription content to their readers.
captainsafia/legit
captainsafia/goopshttps
captainsafia/commentator
captainsafia/checklist
Brief
captainsafia/giddy
captainsafia/fony
Open Source at Facebook with James Pearce (Facebook)
Mike McQuaid and Nadia Eghbal
Mike McQuaid and Nadia Eghbal work at GitHub in Open Source Programs — We talked about GitHub’s Open Source Alley at OSCON and how they are working to better support open source maintainers and their communities.
dear-github/dear-github
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
57 min
July 21, 201710 years of RabbitMQ
We are thrilled to produce this show to honor RabbitMQ’s 10th anniversary. Karl Nilsson and Michael Klishin joined the show to talk through 10 years of RabbitMQ — one of the most widely deployed open source message brokers with more than 35,000 production deployments worldwide.
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ElixirConf 2017 – September 5-8 in Bellevue, WA - Our listeners get an exclusive $40 discount! Get face time with core developers of Elixir, Phoenix, Ecto, Nerves and more. Learn from over 40 speakers and keynotes about how top companies and developers are getting performance gains from Elixir and surpassing their competition. There is no better place to discuss, collaborate and socialize with other Elixir professionals and enthusiasts.
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!
Hired – Get hired. It’s free — in fact, they pay you to get hired. Our listeners get a double hiring bonus of $600.
Sentry – Get 30 days free when you sign up with the code changelog. Error reporting and notifications for JavaScript apps and the rest of your stack. Start tracking errors for free. Support for React, Angular, Ember, Vue, Backbone, and Node frameworks like Express and Koa.
Featuring:
Karl Nilsson – GitHub, X
Michael Klishin – GitHub, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
RabbitMQ Server on GitHub
How Elixir Compiles/Executes Code
RabbitMQ Architecture Overview
The Changelog #205: A Protocol For Dying with Pieter Hintjens
The Changelog #242: The Burden of Open Source with James Long
The Changelog #246: First-time Contributors and Maintainer Balance with Kent C. Dodds
The Changelog #248: Open Source Lessons Learned with Zeno Rocha
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 14 min
July 14, 2017The power of wikis, the problem with social networks, the promise of AI
Evan Prodromou has been involved in open source since the mid ‘90s. His open source travel guide – Wikitravel – grew up alongside Wikipedia and the web itself. In this episode, we hear Evan’s history, try to solve open social networking once and for all, and learn how sprinkling a little artificial intelligence on to our products can yield big wins without having to shoot the moon.
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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!
Toptal – Easily scale your team — hire the top freelance software developers, designers, and finance experts with Toptal. Email [email protected] for a personal introduction.
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.
Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform.
Featuring:
Evan Prodromou – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
The Power of Wikis
Wikitravel
MediaWiki
Wikivoyage
Wikihow
Wikimedia Foundation
The Problem with Social Networks
Social Web Working Group
Pump.io
Identica
GNU Social
Tent.io
Micro.blog
JSON Feed
The Promise of A.I.
Fuzzy.ai
AlphaGo
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 27 min
July 07, 2017Ubuntu Snaps and Bash on Windows Server
We talked with Dustin Kirkland (Head of Ubuntu Product and Strategy at Canonical) at OSCON about 12.04’s end of life, the death of the Ubuntu phone, Snaps and snapd, and Bash on Ubuntu on Windows Server. This is the second installment of our mini-series from the expo hall floor of OSCON 2017. Special thanks to our friends at O’Reilly for inviting us to OSCON.
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Sentry – Get 30 days free when you sign up with the code changelog. Error reporting and notifications for JavaScript apps and the rest of your stack. Start tracking errors for free. Support for React, Angular, Ember, Vue, Backbone, and Node frameworks like Express and Koa.
Toptal – Easily scale your team — hire the top freelance software developers, designers, and finance experts with Toptal. Email [email protected] for a personal introduction.
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.
OSCON – O’Reilly’s Open Source Convention combines the experience of the open source community with ideas and strategies for using open source tools and technologies. There’s no event quite like OSCON! When registration opens — save 20% on most passes by using the code CHANGELOG20 when you register.
Featuring:
Dustin Kirkland – Website, GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) reaches End of Life on April 28 2017
Snaps - universal Linux packages
Growing Ubuntu for cloud and IoT, rather than phone and convergence
Ubuntu Unity is dead: Desktop will switch back to GNOME next year
The Changelog #207: Ubuntu Everywhere with Dustin Kirkland
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
32 min

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