The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

Hackety Hack and _why (Interview)

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Steve Klabnik joined the show to talk about learning to program with Hackety Hack and why the lucky stiff.

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Featuring:

  • Steve Klabnik – Website, GitHub, X
  • Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
  • Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

  • Steve Klabnik, maintainer of Hackety Hack, newest contributor to The Changelog
  • Hackety Hack will teach you the absolute basics of programming from the ground up.
  • _why, creator of Hackety Hack. Help keep his memory alive.
  • Abbott and Costello’s classic “Who’s on first?”
  • Yakety Yak is a song written, produced, and arranged by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller for The Coasters and released on Atlantic Records in 1958
  • Shoes is a tiny graphical app kit for ruby
  • GTK is a highly usable, feature rich toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces which boasts cross platform compatibility and an easy to use API.
  • MacRuby is an implementation of Ruby 1.9 directly on top of Mac OS X core technologies such as the Objective-C runtime and garbage collector, the LLVM compiler infrastructure and the Foundation and ICU frameworks.
  • The Shoebox is a gallery of Shoes apps.
  • Mad props to Heroku, Sinatra, and MongoMapper for handling a LifeHacker traffic spike
  • Ruby is a great language to teach programming
  • _why’s Poignant Guide to Ruby
  • ChunkFive is a nice bold free and open source typeface
  • Steve is intrigued by projects like cool.io and node.js and the evented style of programming.

    • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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