Changelog Interviews

Changelog Interviews

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  • GopherCon 2015

    Brian Ketelsen and Erik St. Martin, the organizers of GopherCon, joined the show to talk about what it takes to create and run a conference like GopherCon, the size of the event, the speaking track, after-parties, hack day, workshops, and more. We also covered their focus on diversity with their Diversity Scholarship Support Fund that anyone can support, even those who don’t plan to attend, as well as their child care options to ensure even those with children have the opportunity to attend.

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    Featuring:

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

    Show Notes:

    Changelog will be at GopherCon 2015! Yes, we’re taking The Changelog and Changelog Films on the road to cover GopherCon 2015 so make sure you say hi when you see us.

    • Erik St. Martin (@erikstmartin) | Twitter
    • erikstmartin (Erik St. Martin)
    • Brian Ketelsen (@bketelsen) | Twitter
    • bketelsen (Brian Ketelsen)
    • Gophercon 2015
    • Gophercon 2015 - Sponsors
    • GopherCon Kickoff Party - Denver Gophers Meetup (Tuesday, July 7, 2015)
    • Gophercon 2015 - After Party
    • The Changelog’s 2015 Conference Scene · Issue #129 · thechangelog/ping
    • Beyond Code - Season 1 Teaser
    • Changelog Weekly
    • Go in Action
    • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

      44 min
    • The Future of Node.js

      Scott Hammond, the CEO of Joyent, joined the show to talk about the history of Node, Joyent’s interest in Node, how they’ve handled the stewardship of Node over the years, their support of io.js joining Node Foundation, the convergence of the code bases for a stronger more inclusive Node community.

      At the tail end of the show, just when you think it’s over, keep listening because we got Scott back on the call to discuss the news that came this week of the io.js TC voting to join Node Foundation.

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    • DigitalOcean – Use the code CHANGELOG to get a $10 hosting credit when you create a new DigitalOcean account
    • Featuring:

      • Scott Hammond –
      • Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

      Show Notes:

      Joyent has been the core sponsor and steward of Node.js since its beginning.

      • @Scott_Hammond on Twitter
      • Joyent.com
      • Joyent on GitHub
      • @mikeal - “io.js TC just voted to join the Node Foundation.”
      • io.js TC Meeting 2015-05-13
      • io.js TC Meeting 2015-05-13 Issue on GitHub
      • merge vs rebase ontop of io.js (GitHub Issue #6)
      • Node.js Advisory Board
      • Growing Up - io.js needs a foundation
      • joyent/node
      • iojs/io.js
      • node.js & io.js convergence repo - jasnell/node.js-convergence
      • The Node.js Foundation benefits all
      • Node.js and io.js leaders are building an open, neutral Node.js Foundation to support the future of the platform
      • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

        1 hr 23 min
      • All Things Ruby with 2015's Ruby Heroes

        Our guests this week are 2015’s RUBY HEROES! Big show today, lots of great Ruby talk with these heroes, great insights from this past year of Ruby, and more.

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      • Toptal – Join Toptal and work with awesome people from anywhere in the world. Freelance with companies like Airbnb, Artsy & IDEO.
      • 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:

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

        Show Notes:

        And here are this year’s Ruby Heroes:

        1. Eileen Uchitelle - @eileencodes
        2. Jeremy Evans - @jeremyevans0
        3. Nobuyoshi Nakada - @n0kada
        4. Sam Saffron - @samsaffron
        5. Sarah Mei - @sarahmei
        6. Zachary Scott - @_zzak
          • Ruby Hero Awards
          • Ruby Heroes Awards Video
          • nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)
          • eileencodes (Eileen M. Uchitelle)
          • sarahmei (Sarah Mei)
          • zzak (Zachary Scott)
          • jeremyevans (Jeremy Evans)
          • SamSaffron (Sam)
          • hone (Terence Lee)
          • Gregg (Gregg Pollack)
          • mruby
          • ko1 (Koichi Sasada)
          • Opal: Ruby to Javascript Compiler
          • Roda: Routing Tree Web Framework Toolkit
          • seattlerb/minitest
          • discourse/discourse_docker
          • Ruby Together
          • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

            1 hr 13 min
          • 17 Years of curl

            Daniel Stenberg joined the show to talk about curl and libcurl and how he has spent at least 2 hours every day for the past 17 years working on and maintaining curl. That’s over 13k hours! We covered the origins of curl, how he chooses projects to work on, why he has remained so dedicated to curl all these years, the various version control systems curl has used, licensing, and more.

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          • Featuring:

            • Daniel Stenberg – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
            • Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
            • Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

            Show Notes:

            We talk through the past 17 years of this staple tool to the community and hear what Daniel has learned on his journey.

            • Follow Daniel on Twitter
            • daniel.haxx.se
            • Daniel Stenberg on YouTube
            • curl and libcurl
            • curl on the NASDAQ tower
            • curl, 17 years old today
            • curl - Changes
            • curl - Companies Using curl
            • curl - Man page
            • curl - THANKS
            • Make a Donation to the curl Project
            • The commit that started it all – bagder/curl
            • Listen to the teaser for this episode to learn about a “magic feature” of curl that’s been there for over 6 years
            • Richard Stallman’s Personal Page
            • Richard Stallman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
            • Linus Torvalds - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
            • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

              1 hr 6 min
            • BONUS — Magic cURL Feature

              This is a bonus clip from the after call with Daniel Stenberg for episode #153. Daniel shared the details of a “magic feature” in cURL that’s been there for over 6 years. It’s a feature he feels most people don’t know exists.

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              Featuring:

              • Daniel Stenberg – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
              • Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
              • Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

              Show Notes:

              To start using this “magic feature”, create a .curlrc dotfile in your root with the following settings to set the -O flag by default on all URLs fetched using cURL.

              # Default to -O
              --remote-name-all

              Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

              3 min
            • TypeScript and open source at Microsoft

              Anders Hejlsberg and Jonathan Turner from the TypeScript team at Microsoft joined the show to talk about TypeScript, a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript from Microsoft. We cover Microsoft’s acceptance and support of open source, why they open sourced TypeScript, the language design, adoption, how to get started, and the future of the language.

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            • Toptal – Join Toptal and work with awesome people from anywhere in the world. Freelance with companies like Airbnb, Artsy & IDEO.
            • DigitalOcean – Use the code CHANGELOG to get a $10 hosting credit when you create a new DigitalOcean account
            • Featuring:

              • Anders Hejlsberg – GitHub, X
              • Jonathan Turner – Website, GitHub, X
              • Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
              • Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

              Show Notes:

              Anders is the language architect and Jonathan is the Program Manager for TypeScript.

              • Roadmap · Microsoft/TypeScript Wiki
              • Microsoft/TypeScript
              • Welcome to TypeScript
              • Follow Jonathan Turner on Twitter
              • Follow Anders Hejlsberg on Twitter
              • Delphi (programming language) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
              • Turbo Pascal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
              • Handbook - Welcome to TypeScript
              • Microsoft/TypeScript-Sublime-Plugin
              • palantir/eclipse-typescript
              • atom-typescript
              • borisyankov/DefinitelyTyped
              • Home | DefinitelyTyped
              • TypeScript/spec.md at master · Microsoft/TypeScript
              • Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs (Prentice-Hall Series in Automatic Computation): Niklaus Wirth: 9780130224187: Amazon.com: Books
              • Niklaus Wirth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
              • Architectural Overview · Microsoft/TypeScript Wiki
              • The Changelog #134: Open Sourcing .NET Core with the Microsoft .NET team
              • The Changelog #148: The State of Go in 2015 with Andrew Gerrand
              • The Changelog #151: Rust with Steve Klabnik and Yehuda Katz
              • Monaca
              • Gerrit Code Review
              • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

                1 hr 23 min
              • The Rust Programming Language

                Steve Klabnik and Yehuda Katz joined the show to talk about the Rust Programming Language, a systems programming language from Mozilla Research. We covered memory safety without garbage collection, security, the Rust 1.0 Beta, getting started with Rust, and we even hypothesize about the future of the Rust.

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              • Toptal – Join Toptal and work with awesome people from anywhere in the world. Freelance with companies like Airbnb, Artsy & IDEO.
              • DigitalOcean – Use the code CHANGELOG to get a $10 hosting credit when you create a new DigitalOcean account
              • Featuring:

                • Steve Klabnik – Website, GitHub, X
                • Yehuda Katz – Website, GitHub, X
                • Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
                • Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

                Show Notes:

                Steve and Yehuda are core team members of Rust.

                • Steve Klabnik
                • Yehuda Katz
                • Steve Klabnik comments on “Rust 1.0.0 beta is here!” on Reddit
                • Rust Means Never Having to Close a Socket
                • The Rust Programming Language
                • The Rust Programming Language on Reddit
                • Style Guidelines
                • Cargo, Rust’s Package Manager
                • Zinc: An experimental attempt to write an ARM stack that would be similar to CMSIS or mbed in capabilities but would show rust’s best safety features applied to embedded development.
                • Skylight
                • Is the six-week release cycle too frequent? - Proposals - Ember.JS
                • Yehuda Katz on Twitter: “Just posted a long set of thoughts on the 6-week-release-cycle discussion we’ve been having on the Ember Discourse”
                • Let’s Talk About Rust by Yehuda Katz - Confreaks TV
                • The Rust Book
                • Rust by Example
                • Rust for Rubyists
                • Rust Users Forum
                • Rust Development Forum (Internals)
                • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

                  1 hr 23 min
                • Internet Connected Things Using Spark

                  Zach Supalla joined the show to talk about Spark - a complete, open source, full stack solution for creating amazing internet connected things. We talk about making connected hardware easier, using Kickstarter to fund hardware projects, and Amazon’s new Dash Button. Zach also gave us a crash course on how to get started with making your own hardware.

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                • Toptal – Join Toptal and work with awesome people from anywhere in the world. Freelance with companies like Airbnb, Artsy & IDEO.
                • DigitalOcean – Use the code CHANGELOG to get a $10 hosting credit when you create a new DigitalOcean account
                • Featuring:

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

                  Show Notes:

                  Spark is fully open source on GitHub from hardware to software and Zach goes deep in this episode to school us on everything we need to know.

                  “Building an open source business is challenging because you’re giving away a lot of what you do. So the question is, how do you build a viable business that way?” - Zach Supalla @ 23:22

                  • Follow Zach Supalla on Twitter
                  • Spark | Open source IoT toolkit
                  • Spark Socket
                  • WarKitteh - Spark Projects
                  • Kickstarter - Spark Electron: Cellular dev kit with a global data plan by Spark IO
                  • rwaldron/johnny-five
                  • Amazon Dash Button
                  • The Changelog #147: Elixir and Phoenix with Chris McCord
                  • Atom: free and open source for everyone
                  • The Changelog #104: Kickstarting Espruino with Gordon Williams
                  • Spark Docs | Javascript SDK
                  • spark/sparkjs
                  • spark/spark-cli
                  • spark/spark-dev
                  • Hardware design uses open source too! · Issue #104 · thechangelog/ping
                  • OSH Park
                  • Prototype to Production
                  • Hacking the Xbox: An Introduction to Reverse Engineering
                  • Novena Laptop
                  • Andrew (bunnie) Huang
                  • Metalsmith
                  • WarSting: A Wi-Fi scanning sword for Hobbits
                  • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

                    1 hr 16 min
                  • React, React Native, Flux, Relay, GraphQL

                    Christopher “vjeux” Chedeau and Spencer Ahrens joined the show to talk about React, React Native, Flux, Relay, and GraphQL. They also announce on this show that React Native is now open source on GitHub.

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                  • DigitalOcean – Use the code CHANGELOG to get a $10 hosting credit when you create a new DigitalOcean account
                  • Featuring:

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

                    Show Notes:

                    Christopher Chedeau and Spencer Ahrens are software engineers on the React team at Facebook.

                    “Now there’s one unified development experience… You learn Javascript, you learn React, and you learn some of these stylesheet concepts, and that travels with you to whatever platform you’re working on.” - Spencer Ahrens @ 24:33

                    • Christopher Chedeau
                    • Spencer Ahrens
                    • facebook/react
                    • React - a JavaScript library for building user interfaces
                    • React Tutorial
                    • facebook/react-native
                    • Flux - Application Architecture for Building User Interfaces
                    • React blog - Introducing Relay and GraphQL
                    • React.js Conf 2015 - YouTube
                    • Building The Facebook News Feed With Relay
                    • React Native (Site and Newsletter)
                    • JSX Specification
                    • Flexbox
                    • AsyncDisplayKit
                    • F8 2015
                    • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

                      1 hr 1 min
                    • The State of Go in 2015

                      Andrew Gerrand joined the show to talk about the state of Go in 2015, how Go compares to other concurrent languages, why people choose Go over other languages, the C to Go toolchain conversion, and what’s coming in version 1.5 and 1.6 of Go.

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                    • DigitalOcean – Use the code CHANGELOG to get a $10 hosting credit when you create a new DigitalOcean account
                    • Featuring:

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

                      Show Notes:

                      Andrew works on the Go Programming Language at Google.

                      “The reasons why I choose Go (and I think why other people choose go) are a lot to do with programmer joy… the overriding sentiment amongst Go users is that Go just gets out of your way and lets you write code.” - Andrew Gerrand @ 18:32

                      • Andrew’s slides for The State of Go in 2015
                      • Andrew Gerrand (@enneff) | Twitter
                      • Andrew Gerrand on Github
                      • The Changelog #100: Go programming with Rob Pike and Andrew Gerrand
                      • The Changelog #3: Google’s Go Programming Language
                      • golang/go on GitHub
                      • Facebook, Mercurial or Git? - The Changelog
                      • FOSDEM Conf
                      • OSCON
                      • Go + HTTP/2
                      • Cool Math Games
                      • Gerrit
                      • Go Kit
                      • Go and the Modern Enterprise - Peter Bourgon - London Go Gathering 2015
                      • Beats, Rye & Types Podcast
                      • Go Programming Playlist - Youtube
                      • KievII - GUI Javascript library for web audio applications developers
                      • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

                        1 hr 24 min

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