The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source episodes

March 18, 2017Let's Encrypt the web (Interview)
Jacob Hoffman-Andrews, Senior Staff Technologist at the EFF and the lead developer of Let’s Encrypt, joined the show to talk about the history of SSL, the start of Let’s Encrypt, why it’s important to encrypt the web and what happens if we don’t, Certbot, and the impact Let’s Encrypt has had on securing the web.
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Featuring:
Jacob Hoffman-Andrews – Website, GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Jacob Hoffman-Andrews on EFF.org
Search Changelog.com for “http/2” and “http2”
The Changelog #161: The HTTP/2 Spec with Ilya Grigorik
Boulder: An ACME-based CA (written in Go)
Automatic Certificate Management Environment (ACME)
Certbot (previously the Let’s Encrypt Client) - EFF’s tool to obtain certs from Let’s Encrypt, and (optionally) auto-enable HTTPS on your server. It can also act as a client for any other CA that uses the ACME protocol.
Certbot’s Interactive Guide is rad
The Crypto Wars: Governments Working to Undermine Encryption
Root certificate trust store
Online Certificate Status Protocol
Jacob talked about using .wellknown in the root of projects
Go Time #14: CaddyServer, the ACME Protocol, and TLS with Matt Holt
[Wired] Google’s Chrome Hackers Are About to Upend Your Idea of Web Security
Let’s Encrypt Stats
Donate to Let’s Encrypt and/or Sponsor Let’s Encrypt
Wanna pitch in? Check for “help wanted” tags on their repos…
What It Costs to Run Let’s Encrypt
BONUS - From Jacob Hoffman-Andrews ~> How Not To Get Phished
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 17 min
March 18, 2017 Let's Encrypt the Web
Jacob Hoffman-Andrews, Senior Staff Technologist at the EFF and the lead developer of Let’s Encrypt, joined the show to talk about the history of SSL, the start of Let’s Encrypt, why it’s important to encrypt the web and what happens if we don’t, Certbot, and the impact Let’s Encrypt has had on securing the web.
1 hr 17 min
March 09, 2017The burden of open source (Interview)
James Long joined the show to talk about his recent post, “Why I’m Frequently Absent from Open Source”. He shared several points in his blog post that struck a chord with us, so we invited him on the show to talk through the gritty details and peel back the layers of open source — the people involved, sustainability, the responsibility, the guilt, and the balance it takes to keep it all together.
Join the discussion
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Rollbar – Put errors in their place! npm install --save rollbar for error tracking in your Node.js apps.
Toptal – Scale your team and hire from the top 3% of developers and designers with Toptal. Email [email protected] for a personal introduction.
Compose – Production ready, cloud hosted databases. Pick your flavor - MongoDB, Elasticsearch, RethinkDB, Redis, Postgres, etcd, or RabbitMQ. When you’re ready to sign up use our special URL compose.com/changelog to get 30-days free on Compose
Featuring:
James Long – Website, GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
James recently left Mozilla and shortly after he launched an open source project called Prettier - an opinionated JavaScript formatter. It was a great success.
Needless to say, James experienced that overwhelming feeling many indie open source developers feel when faced with all the work required to maintain a successful open source project — the issues, feature requests, PRs, extra time required, and all the communication can really be a burden, especially when you have a full-time contracting gig and a family. His blog post was a response to this feeling as well as a love letter to his wife.
Why I’m Frequently Absent From Open Source
Prettier
gamedev.net
Scheme
James’ advice for getting away from your monitor is to make pizza. If you plan to take his advice, he recommends that you check out The Pizza Book by Aaron Quint and Michael R. Bernstein.
BONUS LINK (from James) — Watch Hammock Driven Development by Rich Hickey
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 14 min
March 09, 2017 The Burden of Open Source
James Long joined the show to talk about his recent post, “Why I’m Frequently Absent from Open Source”. He shared several points in his blog post that struck a chord with us, so we invited him on the show to talk through the gritty details and peel back the layers of open source — the people involved, sustainability, the responsibility, the guilt, and the balance it takes to keep it all together.
1 hr 14 min
February 24, 2017The Story of Atom (Interview)
Nathan Sobo, founding member of the Atom editor team at GitHub, joined the show take us all the way back to the beginning of Atom to learn where it came from, the founding team, the problem it solves, on through to shipping 1.0 and beyond.
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Sponsors:
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!
Hired – Get hired. It’s free — in fact, they pay you when you get hired. Our listeners get a double hiring bonus of $2,000.
Compose – Production ready, cloud hosted databases. Pick your flavor - MongoDB, Elasticsearch, RethinkDB, Redis, Postgres, etcd, or RabbitMQ. When you’re ready to sign up use our special URL compose.com/changelog to get 60-days free on Compose
Featuring:
Nathan Sobo – GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Lambda the Ultimate
Chris Wanstrath
Corey Johnson
Github Atom’s Code-Editor Nerds Take Over Their Universe
Atom on Libraries.io
Treetop on Libraries.io
The super early version of Atom was built on Ace Editor
Atom: free and open source for everyone
Atom homepage
@atomeditor on Twitter
Atom on GitHub
Atom Flight Manual – Documentation for Atom, generated by nanoc, hosted by GitHub Pages
Atom Blog
Atom Forum
The Changelog #216: Electron and Cross Platform Desktop Apps with Zeke Sikelianos
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 14 min
February 24, 2017 The Story of Atom
Nathan Sobo, founding member of the Atom editor team at GitHub, joined the show take us all the way back to the beginning of Atom to learn where it came from, the founding team, the problem it solves, on through to shipping 1.0 and beyond.
1 hr 14 min
February 21, 2017Feedbin and RSS resurgence (Interview)
Ben Ubois, the creator of Feedbin (a simple, good-looking online RSS reader) joined the show to talk about the indie web and developers, how RSS usage has changed over the years – particularly since Google Reader shutdown. We also talked about RSS vs the social web that we’re in now and the idea of an RSS resurgence and taking back control over the content we choose to subscribe to.
Join the discussion
Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!
Sponsors:
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!
Hired – Get hired. It’s free — in fact, they pay you when you get hired. Our listeners get a double hiring bonus of $2,000.
Featuring:
Ben Ubois – Website, GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Feedbin
Feedbin in GitHub
Image Previews in Feedbin
OpenCV
Sentry
Reeder
Feedly
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 6 min
February 21, 2017 Feedbin and RSS Resurgence
Ben Ubois, the creator of Feedbin (a simple, good-looking online RSS reader) joined the show to talk about the indie web and developers, how RSS usage has changed over the years – particularly since Google Reader shutdown. We also talked about RSS vs the social web that we’re in now and the idea of an RSS resurgence and taking back control over the content we choose to subscribe to.
1 hr 6 min
February 17, 2017Managing Secrets Using Vault (Interview)
Seth Vargo, the Director of Technical Advocacy at HashiCorp, joined the show to talk about managing secrets with their open source product called Vault which lets you centrally secure, store, and tightly control access to secrets across distributed infrastructure and applications. We talked about Seth’s back story into open source, use cases, what problem it solves, key features like Data Encryption, why they choose to write it in Go, and how they build tooling around the open core model.
Join the discussion
Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!
Sponsors:
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.
Toptal – Scale your team and hire from the top 3% of developers and designers with Toptal. Email [email protected] for a personal introduction.
Featuring:
Seth Vargo – Website, GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
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Carnegie Mellon University
CustomInk
Thanks to @DerfOh (Fredrick) for submitting issue #605 to suggest this topic
Vault by HashiCorp
Vault on GitHub
Vault docs
Terraform
The Tao of HashiCorp is the foundation that guides HashiCorp’s vision, roadmap, and product design.
HashiCorp Releases
Shamir’s Secret Sharing
HashiConf
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 14 min
February 17, 2017 Managing Secrets Using Vault
Seth Vargo, the Director of Technical Advocacy at HashiCorp, joined the show to talk about managing secrets with their open source product called Vault which lets you centrally secure, store, and tightly control access to secrets across distributed infrastructure and applications. We talked about Seth’s back story into open source, use cases, what problem it solves, key features like Data Encryption, why they choose to write it in Go, and how they build tooling around the open core model.
1 hr 14 min