Changelog Interviews

Changelog Interviews

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  • The Road to Font Awesome 5

    Dave Gandy joined the show to talk about the history of Font Awesome, what’s to come in Font Awesome 5 and their Kickstarter to fund Font Awesome 5 Pro, and how everything they’re doing is funneling back into the forever free and open source — Font Awesome Free.

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  • Featuring:

    • Dave Gandy – Website, GitHub, X
    • Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

    Show Notes:

    You can always add more sprinkles!

    • Font Awesome
    • Font Awesome on GitHub
    • Font Awesome Issues on GitHub
    • Support Font Awesome 5 on Kickstarter — make sure you watch that video too!
    • Dave said the video he created for Font Awesome Black Tie should be an example of what not to do.
    • Fort Awesome — Like Font Awesome. But Better. Build and manage icons and typefaces in a single place, then serve them with a single line of code.
    • Rob Madole on Twitter
    • Travis Chase on Twitter
    • Brian Talbot on Twitter
    • Videopixie — Find great videographers, directors, video editors, and animators to work with you on your project.
    • Half Baked was the set for the Font Awesome video
    • Knox Avenue did the production of the Font Awesome video
    • Below is the photo Dave mentioned when telling the story about the origins of the “Fort Awesome” name (listen at around 24:40).

      Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

      1 hr 16 min
    • 99 Practical Bottles of OOP

      Sandi Metz joined the show to talk about her beginnings on a mainframe, her 30+ years of programming experience, the ins and outs of OOP, her book Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby (aka POODR), as well as her latest book 99 Bottles of OOP which she co-authored with Katrina Owen. We also covered a few listener submitted questions at the end.

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    • Code School – Learn to program by doing with hands-on courses. Save $10 per month! Sign up for Code School for only $19 per month by using our special URL codeschool.com/changelog.
    • Featuring:

      • Sandi Metz – Website, GitHub, X
      • Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
      • Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

      Show Notes:

      • Sandi’s first book — Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby (aka POODR)
      • 99 Bottles of OOP by Sandi Metz
      • Katrina Owen co-authored 99 Bottles with Sandi
      • Check out Understanding Computation — From Simple Machines to Impossible Programs by Tom Stuart — use the code PCBW to save 40% on a print book, or 50% on an ebook from O’Reilly
      • Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software from the GangOfFour — Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides
      • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

        1 hr 27 min
      • .NET Core and Microsoft's Shift to Open Source

        Bertrand Le Roy joined the show to talk about all things .NET Core, their recent 1.0 release, where it’s going, the open source around it, and Microsoft’s shift towards more open source.

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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:

        • Bertrand Le Roy – Website, GitHub, X
        • Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
        • Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

        Show Notes:

        Special thanks to Brett Morrison for helping us put this show together by introducing us to Bertrand 👏

        • The Changelog #134: Open Sourcing .NET Core with the Microsoft .NET Team
        • The Changelog #76: .NET, NuGet, and Open Source with Phil Haack
        • Changelog Weekly Issue #123
        • .NET Core on GitHub
        • .NET Core contributors graph
        • .NET Core docs
        • Is Microsoft the biggest OSS contributor? by Francesc Campoy
        • Check out Bertrand’s podcast On .NET — YouTube / Channel 9
        • Satya Nadella the CEO of Microsoft
        • Orchard CMS - a free, open source, community-focused Content Management System built on the ASP.NET MVC platform.
        • Scott Guthrie - lives in Seattle and builds products for Microsoft
        • dot.net - this is the home of .NET. Powerful Open Source Cross Platform Development.
        • Rich Lander announced .NET Core 1.0 on June 27, 2016
        • Go here to get started with .NET Core
        • Adam finds out there are many facets to Visual Studio — Visual Studio IDE and Visual Studio Code which is open source
        • Mono - Cross platform, open source .NET framework
        • The Week in .NET - Bertrand’s weekly email for the .NET community
        • NuGet - the package manager for the Microsoft development platform including .NET
        • .NET Command Line Interface - the command line (CLI) tools used for building .NET Core apps and libraries through your development flow (compiling, NuGet package management, running, testing, …)
        • GitHub Issue #210 - Roslyn and C# on The Changelog ping repo.
        • Getting started with C#
        • Getting started with F#
        • People to follow in the .NET community
          • Miguel de Icaza (Mono, Gnome, Xamarin) - @migueldeicaza
          • Scott Hanselman (ASP.NET) - @shanselman
          • Mads Torgersen (C#) - @madstorgersen
          • Dustin Campbell (VS Code C# extension) - @dcampbell
          • Nick Craver (Stack Overflow, perf) - @nick_craver
          • Rowan Miller (Entity Framework) - @rowanmiller
          • Don Syme (F#) - @dsyme
          • Ayende Rahien (RavenDB) - @ayende
          • Rachel Reese (Jet.com, F#) - @rachelreese
          • Jb Evain (Unity for VS, Cecil) - @jbevain
          • Immo Landwerth (NetStandard) - @terrajobst
          • Maoni Stephens (garbage collector) - @Maoni0
          • Frank A. Krueger (Continuous C# F# IDE for iOS) - @paeclarum
          • James Montemagno (Xamarin) - @jamesmontemagno
          • Stacey Haffner (gaming) - @yecats131
          • Sébastien Ros (Orchard CMS) - @sebastienros
          • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

            1 hr 6 min
          • Homebrew and package management

            Mike McQuaid joined us to catch us up on the latest in Homebrew and the recent 1.0.0 release. We talked about no more /usr/local — Homebrew moves to /usr/local/Homebrew to keep /usr/local cleaner, auto-updates, the growth of the Homebrew community and how it has grown to almost 6000 unique contributors, and more.

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          • Toptal – Join the best, or hire the best engineers and designers! Email Adam ([email protected]) for a personal introduction to our friends at Toptal.
          • Linode – Our cloud server of choice! We host everything we do on Linode servers. Use the code changelog20 to get 2 months free!
          • Featuring:

            • Mike McQuaid – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
            • Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
            • Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

            Show Notes:

            • Homebrew 1.0.0!
            • The Changelog #35: Homebrew with Max Howell
            • Homebrew — The missing package manager for macOS
            • Homebrew on GitHub
            • Homebrew/brew on GitHub
            • Contributors to Homebrew/brew
            • Homebrew Discourse
            • Welcome – Gentoo Linux
            • KDE - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
            • Qt | Cross-platform software development for embedded & desktop
            • Software Freedom Conservancy Welcomes Homebrew as a Member Project
            • Linuxbrew
            • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

              1 hr 24 min
            • Ethereum and Cryptocurrency

              Gavin Wood joined the show to talk about Ethereum, Cryptocurrency, The DAO, Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), what could you build with Ethereum, and the future of digital currency. Gavin Wood is Founder of Ethereum, creator of the Solidity contract language, and Founder of Ethcore — the company that created Parity, an open source Ethereum client.

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              • Code School – Learn to program by doing with hands-on courses. Save $10 per month! Sign up for Code School for only $19 per month by using our special URL codeschool.com/changelog.
            • Rollbar – Put errors in their place! Full-stack error tracking for all apps in any language.
            • Featuring:

              • Gavin Wood – Website, GitHub, X
              • Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
              • Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

              Show Notes:

              • Fred Ehrsam’s article on Medium — Ethereum is the Forefront of Digital Currency piqued Jerod’s interest for this call
              • Ethereum is a decentralized platform that runs smart contracts: applications that run exactly as programmed without any possibility of downtime, censorship, fraud or third party interference.
              • Ethereum on GitHub
              • Parity is a fast, light, and robust Ethereum implementation.
              • Check out Parity on GitHub
              • The DAO — Decentral Autonomous Organization
              • Understanding The DAO Hack for Journalists
              • Learn how to buy Ethereum on Coinbase
              • Rent, sell or share anything - without middlemen with Slock.it
              • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

                1 hr 25 min
              • How we got here

                Cory is a science fiction author, activist, journalist, co-editor of Boing Boing and the author of many books. We talked to Cory about open source, the open web, internet freedom, his involvement with the EFF, where he began his career, the details he’ll be covering in his keynote at OSCON, and his thoughts on open source today and where developers should be focusing their 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.
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              • Featuring:

                • Cory Doctorow – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
                • Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
                • Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

                Show Notes:

                This episode was produced in partnership with O’Reilly Media and OSCON. Use the code changelog20 to get 20% off your registration.

                • Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com (Cory’s Literary Works)
                • Boing Boing
                • Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
                • Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on GitHub
                • How you got here: Cory Doctorow’s OSCON London Keynote
                • Ulysses Pact on Wikipedia
                • American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
                • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

                  1 hr 21 min
                • GitLab's Master Plan

                  Sid Sijbrandij, CEO of GitLab, joined the show to talk about their recent unveiling of the GitLab Master Plan, $20 Million secured in a Series B funding round, their idea of Conversational Development in this “post Agile world”, and their focus on the enterprise and on-premise Git hosting as the business model to sustain and build GitLab into something ‘modern software teams’ can rely upon.”

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                  • Linode – Our cloud server of choice! Get one of the fastest, most efficient SSD cloud servers for only $10/mo. We host everything we do on Linode servers. Use the code changelog20 to get 2 months free!
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                • Code School – Learn to program by doing with hands-on courses. Sign up for Code School at only $19/month. That’s $10 off per month!
                • Featuring:

                  • Sid Sijbrandij – Website, LinkedIn, X
                  • Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
                  • Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

                  Show Notes:

                  • The Changelog #103: GitLab and open source with Sytse Sijbrandij
                  • The GitLab Master Plan - YouTube
                  • GitLab Live Event Recap | GitLab
                  • Applied physics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
                  • operable/cog: Bringing the power of the command line to chat
                  • Introducing Cog
                  • Cog + ChatOps = Continuous DevOps
                  • Cycle Analytics (#847) · Issues · GitLab.org / GitLab Enterprise Edition · GitLab
                  • GitLab Team Handbook
                  • GitLab Strategy
                  • GitLab.com - Marketing Issues
                  • GitLab Master Plan on Hacker News (see comments)
                  • Include GitLab projects in Changelog Nightly · Issue #21
                  • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

                    1 hr 31 min
                  • TensorFlow and Deep Learning

                    Eli Bixby, Developer Programs Engineer at Google, joined the show to talk to talk about TensorFlow, machine learning and deep learning, why Google open sourced it, and more.

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                  • Linode – Our cloud server of choice! Get one of the fastest, most efficient SSD cloud servers for only $10/mo. We host everything we do on Linode servers. Use the code changelog20 to get 2 months free!
                  • DataLayer – A one-day event in Seattle organized by Compose about optimizing the data layer to scale modern web and mobile apps. Use the code changelog to get 20% off your $99 ticket.
                  • Featuring:

                    • Eli Bixby – GitHub
                    • Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
                    • Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

                    Show Notes:

                    This episode was produced in partnership with O’Reilly Media and OSCON. Use the code changelog20 to get 20% off your registration.

                    • TensorFlow - An Open Source Software Library for Machine Intelligence
                    • TensorFlow on GitHub
                    • Talk: Deep Learning With TensorFlow at OSCON London
                    • Workshop: Diving Into Machine Learning Through TensorFlow at OSCON London
                    • TensorFlow Tutorials
                    • TensorFlow Serving
                    • tensorflow/models
                    • Google Cloud Machine Learning at Scale on Google Cloud Platform
                    • SyntaxNet: The World’s Most Accurate Parser Goes Open Source
                    • Google Brain Team
                    • grpc
                    • Magenta
                    • tensorflow/magenta
                    • Keynote: How You Got Here by Cory Doctorow at OSCON London
                    • Google Cloud Platform Podcast - TensorFlow with Eli Bixby
                    • Machine Learning from Stanford University - Coursera
                    • Machine Learning Engineer Nanodegree - Udacity
                    • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

                      1 hr 6 min
                    • Elm and Functional Programming

                      Evan Czaplicki, creator of Elm, and Richard Feldman of NoRedInk joined the show to talk deeper about Elm, the pains of CSS it solves, scaling the Elm architecture, reusable components, and more.

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                      • Rollbar – Put errors in their place! Full-stack error tracking for all apps in any language.
                    • 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.
                    • DataLayer – A one-day event in Seattle organized by Compose about optimizing the data layer to scale modern web and mobile apps. Use the code changelog to get 20% off your $99 ticket.
                    • Featuring:

                      • Evan Czaplicki – Website, GitHub, X
                      • Richard Feldman – GitHub, X
                      • Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
                      • Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

                      Show Notes:

                      • TI-83 series - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
                      • The Changelog #191: Elm and Functional Programming with Richard Feldman
                      • Elm on GitHub
                      • elm changelog.md · elm-lang/elm-compiler
                      • elm - Upgrading to 0.17
                      • elm-lang.org
                      • elm examples
                      • NoRedInk
                      • How to Use Elm at Work
                      • Book: Elm in Action
                      • elm-conf 2016
                      • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

                        1 hr 28 min
                      • Sourcegraph the 'Google for Code'

                        Beyang Liu, the CTO and co-founder of Sourcegraph, joined the show to talk about the backstory of Sourcegraph, how it works, how they’re aiming to be the ‘Google for Code’, ideas around offline support for code search, how it’s licensed, and their new software license called Fair Source.

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                        Featuring:

                        • Beyang Liu – GitHub, X
                        • Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
                        • Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

                        Show Notes:

                        • Beyang on BeyondCode at GopherCon 2015
                        • Sourcegraph on GitHub
                        • Sourcegraph.com
                        • Sourcegraph for GitHub
                        • Checkup - A distributed, lock-free, self-hosted health checks and status pages
                        • Fair Source License
                        • Sourcegraph Aims to be the ‘Google for Code
                        • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

                          1 hr 31 min

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