Changelog Interviews

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Changelog Interviews episodes

January 27, 2017GunDB, Venture Backed and Decentralized
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 secured funding, why yet another datastore, who’s using the database, how Mark plans to sustain this project through products and services, his thoughts on the RethinkDB postmortem and more.
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Featuring:
Mark Nadal – Website, GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Thanks to Kevin McGee for suggesting this show on GitHub
The Changelog #201: Why SQLite Succeeded as a Database
GunDB Homepage
GunDB on GitHub
GunDB on Patreon
GubDB todo app tutorial
Neo4j
Firebase
BoostVC
Tim Draper on angel.co
DFJ
Why RethinkDB Failed
Comparisons of popular DBs (thanks Anzumana!)
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1 hr 7 min
January 13, 2017ANTHOLOGY – Hacker Stories From OSCON, All Things Open, and Node Interactive
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 Keroff about the Linux user group he started for kids called The Asian Penguins. Shiya Luo about how China does Node, translations of documentation and books from English to Chinese, and the Great Firewall of China.
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Node.js Interactive – Node.js Interactive is a conference for the Node community focused on education and community building. Use the code CNGJS16 to get 15% off registration.
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Featuring:
Giovanni Caligaris – X
Stu Keroff – Website, X
Shiya Luo – Website, GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
First, we talk with Giovanni Caligaris about how he brought LibreOffice to the people of Paraguay by translating it to their native tongue: Guaraní.
Second, we talk with Stu Keroff about the Linux user group he started for kids called The Asian Penguins in a school for Asian refugees where they learn to install, use, and configure Linux and open source software.
Last, we talk with Shiya Luo about how China does Node, translations of documentation and books from English to Chinese, and the Great Firewall of China (a censorship and surveillance project of the Chinese government) which makes it very difficult for the people of China to interact with the rest of the web.
LibreOffice
Asian Penguins
Stu Keroff’s talk at ATO 2016 - Middle Schoolers, Linux, and the Digital Divide and the talk’s details on the ATO site.
Shiya Luo’s talk at Node Interactive - How China Does Node
cnpm - npm client for China mirror of npm
Thanks Breakmaster Cylinder!
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 13 min
January 09, 2017Open Collective and funding open source
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 source communities, but more importably how you can take part and start your own collective.
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Featuring:
Pia Mancini – Website, GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Pia gave a talk at TEDGlobal 2014 on How to upgrade democracy for the Internet era (over a million views 😱)
DemocracyOS
Democracy Earth
OpenCollective.com
Open Collective — Open Source Collective
Webpack on Open Collective
2016 on Open Collective, and what’s in the works for 2017!
Open Collective Issues
Support for paid events - Issue #177
Together we crowdfunded a yearly budget of over $100,000 for Open Source
Check out Gratipay and our past episode with Chad Whitacre.
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1 hr 22 min
December 17, 2016webpack
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 efforts to build the community, their work on Open Collective, and more.
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Featuring:
Sean Larkin – GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Webpack homepage
Webpack docs
Webpack on Medium
Webpack on GitHub
Donate to Webpack on Open Collective
“The first time you demo #webpack for a friend 😅” – @Changelog
SurviveJS
Read Sustaining Webpack for the Future — Part 1 and Part 2
“Tobias Koppers (sokra, the creator of webpack) has made my life as a developer so much better. So I gave him 💰💰💰💰 – sokra.github.io” — @kentcdodds
Webpack team members mentioned by Sean.
Tobias Koppers
Juho Vepsäläinen
Kees Kluskens
Johannes Ewald
Pavithra Kodmad
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1 hr 21 min
December 09, 2016Homebrew and Swift
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 process, as well as the difficulty letting go. We also talked about his passion for the Swift programming language, and his work on Swift Package Manager while at Apple.
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Featuring:
Max Howell – GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Max was on The Changelog #35 way back in September, 2010
Max’s latest open source project PromiseKit
The BBC Micro was the first computer Max used
Amarok - a powerful music player for Linux, Unix and Windows
qt - cross-platform development
Last.fm - bring together your favourite music services
Scrobble
“The foundation of the modern world is developer tools.”
The Changelog #223: Homebrew and Package Management with Mike McQuaid
The tweet heard aroud the world with 6,825+ retweets — “Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (Homebrew), but you can’t invert a binary tree on a whiteboard so f**k off.”
Swift Package Manager
BBC BASIC programming language
QBasic (Quick Beginners All purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is an IDE and interpreter for a variety of the BASIC programming language
Max’s new thing — mixmsg lets you make mixtapes with friends directly in iMessage.
Max’s new project — Growler is planned for Homebrew, but he was hush hush about what it will do
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1 hr 24 min
December 06, 2016HTTP/2 in Node.js Core
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 Node, what this new spec has to offer, and what the Node community can expect from this new protocol.
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Featuring:
James Snell – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
This episode is a preview of our upcoming “Future of Node.js” series recorded at Node Interactive 2016 in Austin, TX. The series is produced in partnership with Node.js Foundation and sponsored by IBM. We’ll be releasing the full series soon on our new podcast “Spotlight”. If you haven’t subscribed to Changelog Master yet, which includes all the podcasts we produce, now would be a good time to do so. You can also subscribe to Changelog Weekly where we announce all the new things we’re up to.
Checkout the http2 repo James is working on
Watch the talk James gave at Node Interactive — Implementing HTTP/2 for Node.js Core by James Snell
Watch all the talks from Node Interactive
Checkout Spotlight, our new show around big announcements, conferences, the hallway track, behind the scenes — meaningful conversations with real people in the community.
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41 min
November 25, 201618F and OSS in the U.S. Federal Government
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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Featuring:
Hillary Hartley – GitHub, X
Aidan Feldman – GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
The Presidential Innovation Fellows (PIF) program brings the innovation economy into government, by pairing talented, diverse technologists and innovators with top civil-servants and change-makers within the federal government.
The White House’s Presidential Innovation Fellows program on Twitter
The Changelog #157: Building Bridges with Sarah Allen
The CC0 1.0 license - “Additionally, we waive copyright and related rights in the work worldwide through the CC0 1.0 Universal public domain dedication.”
cloud.gov - The Government Innovation platform by government developers, for government developers.
analytics.usa.gov on GitHub
18F on GitHub
The System for Award Management (SAM) - certification for working as a vendor for the U.S. government
FedRAMP Ready Products
The Washington Post - Why a federal high-tech start-up is a money loser
Tom VanAntwerp on Medium - 18F is Hardly a Waste of Money
Join one of 18F’s Slack rooms
code.gov is the next milestone in federal open source code
Micro-purchase
Micro-purchase stats page
18F Guides
18F Open Source Style Guide
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1 hr 19 min
November 25, 2016Python, Django, and Channels
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 Rails’ Action Cable, this is the show for you. Also: Andrew’s take on funding and sustaining open source efforts.
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Toptal – Scale your team and hire the top 3% of developers and designers at Toptal. Email Adam at [email protected] for a personal introduction to Toptal.
Featuring:
Andrew Godwin – Website, GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
This episode started on Ping
Django creators: Jacob Kaplan-Moss, Simon Willison
Python love: The Zen of Python
Python love: Great Docs – Requests as example
Jerod suggests RFC #5: Read/Write the Docs with Eric Holscher
Virtues: The Django admin site
Virtues: GeoDjango
Wikipedia has a list of well-known sites using Django
Andrew’s baby: Django Channels
Getting started with Django
Django South - consistent, easy-to-use and database-agnostic migrations for Django applications.
If sustainability is interesting to you, check out Request for Commits
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1 hr 16 min
November 18, 2016Servo and Rust
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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Hacker Paradise – Do you want to spend a month in South America, expenses paid, working on open source? We teamed up with Hacker Paradise to offer two Open Source Fellowships for a month on one of their upcoming trips to either Argentina or Peru.
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:
Jack Moffitt – Website, GitHub, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Servo Website
Servo on GitHub
Jack Moffitt on Wikipedia
Servo: Today & Tomorrow Slide Deck
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1 hr 18 min
November 11, 2016Mad science, WebTorrent, WebRTC
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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Toptal – Scale your team and hire the top 3% of developers and designers at Toptal. Email Adam at [email protected] for a personal introduction to Toptal.
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.
Node.js Interactive – Node.js Interactive is a conference for the Node community focused on education and community building. Use the code CNGJS16 to get 15% off registration.
Featuring:
Feross Aboukhadijeh – Website, GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
JavaScript Standard Style Guide
Study Notes is Feross’s passive income maker that enables him to work on open source and other stuff he’s interested in
FreeTheFlash - Hilarious media entertainment brought to you by FreeTheFlash Entertainment
Webmaster World
WebTorrent - A streaming torrent client for the web browser and the desktop
WebTorrent Desktop is the desktop Torrent client built with Electron
WebTorrent Desktop on GitHub
Instant.io
The Changelog #216 - Electron and Cross Platform Desktop Apps with Zeke Sikelianos
Mojibar - Emoji searcher but as a menubar app built with Electron
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1 hr 22 min

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Conversations with the hackers, leaders, and innovators of the software world. Adam Stacoviak brings you in-depth interviews with the best and brightest in software engineering, open source &…