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Christopher Hiller joined Nadia and Mikeal to discuss the ups and downs of maintaining Mocha - a JavaScript test framework that runs on Node.js and in the browser. Discussions included maintaining a popular project, getting funding, the challenges of having money, raising the profile of a project, focusing on the needs of a community, and managing burnout. Join the discussionChangelog++ 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 to get hired. Our listeners get a double hiring bonus of $600. Bugsnag – Mission control for software quality! Monitor website or mobile app errors that impact your customers. Our listeners can try all the features free for 60 days ($118 value). Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Featuring:Christopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, XNadia Eghbal – GitHub, XMikeal Rogers – GitHub, XShow Notes: Mocha - the fun, simple, flexible JavaScript test framework mochajs/mocha on GitHub Mocha on GitHub Mocha on Open Collective Mocha on npm Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Eduardo Cuducos joined the show to talk about Operação Serenata de Amor an Artificial Intelligence and Data Science project that aims to inform the general public about government corruption and spending. We talked about how this artificial intelligence project analyzes claims for reimbursement from congresspeople to determine illegal probability, how it monitors government spending, the technology behind it, and how other governments might be able to follow this model. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Bugsnag – Mission control for software quality! Monitor website or mobile app errors that impact your customers. Our listeners can try all the features free for 60 days ($118 value). 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! CircleCI – CircleCI is a continuous integration and delivery platform that helps software teams rapidly release code with confidence by automating the build, test, and deploy process. Checkout the recently launched CircleCI 2.0! Toptal – Hire the top 3% of freelance software developers, designers, and finance experts. Email adam@changelog.com for a personal introduction. Featuring:Eduardo Cuducos – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Special thanks to Fabio Rehm for making us aware of this project! Operação Serenata de Amor Help fund the future of Operação Serenata de Amor datasciencebr/serenata-de-amor: 🕵 Artificial Intelligence for social control of public administration datasciencebr/rosie: 🤖 Python application responsible for Serenata de Amor’s intelligence Irio (Irio Musskopf) on GitHub the founder of Operação Serenata de Amor Data Science Brigade Rosie (@RosieDaSerenata) on Twitter Google Search for “toblerone” Mona Sahlin Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Eric Normand joined the show to talk about Functional Programming. We talked about FP vs OOP vs Imperative, why FP is popular again, the advantages and disadvantages of Functional Programming, and teaching Functional Programming concepts. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:CircleCI – CircleCI is a continuous integration and delivery platform that helps software teams rapidly release code with confidence by automating the build, test, and deploy process. Checkout the recently launched CircleCI 2.0! DigitalOcean – Get DigitalOcean Spaces free for 2 months. Securely store and deliver any amount of data with the same simplicity you’ve come to expect from us. Instantaneously create a cost-effective, reliable storage space using our drag-and-drop UI or API. Toptal – Hire the top 3% of freelance software developers, designers, and finance experts. Email adam@changelog.com for a personal introduction. Featuring:Eric Normand – GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Learn Functional Programming on your schedule Can I do FP in my language? (dev.to) Functional programming (Wikipedia) Lambda Calculus (Wikipedia) Maxima and Minima (Wikipedia) Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Ryan Bigg joined the show to talk about his open source work on the documentation of Ruby on Rails, fund raising, crowd sourcing, departure, handing off, not quitting, making the right decision, getting paid, sustaining, and more. Join the discussionChangelog++ 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 to get hired. Our listeners get a double hiring bonus of $600. Bugsnag – Mission control for software quality! Monitor website or mobile app errors that impact your customers. Our listeners can try all the features free for 60 days ($118 value). Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Featuring:Ryan Bigg – Website, GitHub, XNadia Eghbal – GitHub, XMikeal Rogers – GitHub, XShow Notes: The Asset Pipeline Guide Ryan Bigg on _theInitialCommit Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Mike Glukhovsky joined the show to talk about the future of RethinkDB. Mike was a co-founder of RethinkDB along-side Slava Akhmechet. RethinkDB shutdown a year ago officially on October 5, 2016 — and today we’re talking through all the details with Mike. The shutdown, getting purchased by the CNCF, relicensing, buying back their IP and source code, community and governance, and some specific features that Mike and the rest of the community are excited about. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:CircleCI – CircleCI is a continuous integration and delivery platform that helps software teams rapidly release code with confidence by automating the build, test, and deploy process. Checkout the recently launched CircleCI 2.0! Bugsnag – Mission control for software quality! Monitor website or mobile app errors that impact your customers. Our listeners can try all the features free for 60 days ($118 value). 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! Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com. Featuring:Mike Glukhovsky – GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: RethinkDB The Changelog #114 (with Slava Akhmechet) The Changelog #181 (with Slava Akhmechet) Proposal: Modifier functions · Issue #5813 · rethinkdb/rethinkdb The ReQL query language RethinkDB joins The Linux Foundation RethinkDB Documentation RethinkDB is shutting down Contribute to RethinkDB From Slava Akhmechet on why RethinkDB failed Announcing RethinkDB 2.3.6: the first release under community governance CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation) Members The liberation of RethinkDB Apache License, Version 2.0 AGPL Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Dmitry Jemerov joined the show to talk about Kotlin - a language created by JetBrains that’s designed to be an industrial-strength object-oriented language, and a “better language” than Java. We asked Dmitry “Why invent a new language?”, talked through Google announcing official Android support, covered some of Kotlin’s characteristics, Kotlin vs Swift, and more. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Hired – Get hired. It’s free — in fact, they pay you to get hired. Our listeners get a double hiring bonus of $600. DigitalOcean – Get DigitalOcean Spaces free for 2 months. Securely store and deliver any amount of data with the same simplicity you’ve come to expect from us. Instantaneously create a cost-effective, reliable storage space using our drag-and-drop UI or API. CircleCI – CircleCI is a continuous integration and delivery platform that helps software teams rapidly release code with confidence by automating the build, test, and deploy process. Checkout the recently launched CircleCI 2.0! Featuring:Dmitry Jemerov – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Kotlin Programming Language Kotlin Community KotlinConf JetBrains Gogland - Up and Coming Go IDE On the Rise of Kotlin Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

We talk with Brandon Keepers and Bex Warner about GitHub’s Probot — GitHub Apps to automate and improve your workflows. You can use pre-built apps or easily build and share your own. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Bugsnag – Mission control for software quality! Monitor website or mobile app errors that impact your customers. Our listeners can try all the features free for 60 days ($118 value). CircleCI – CircleCI is a continuous integration and delivery platform that helps software teams rapidly release code with confidence by automating the build, test, and deploy process. Checkout the recently launched CircleCI 2.0! Featuring:Brandon Keepers – GitHub, XBex Warner – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Probot GitHub Apps docs Web UI Discussion #262 Probot best practices GitHub Marketplace Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

This episode features conversations from Sustain 2017 at GitHub HQ with Richard Littauer, Karthik Ram, Andrea Goulet, and Scott Ford. Sustain was a one day conversation for open source software sustainers to share stories, resources, and ways forward to sustain open source. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Hired – Get hired. It’s free — in fact, they pay you to get hired. Our listeners get a double hiring bonus of $600. Bugsnag – Mission control for software quality! Monitor website or mobile app errors that impact your customers. Our listeners can try all the features free for 60 days ($118 value). CircleCI – CircleCI is a continuous integration and delivery platform that helps software teams rapidly release code with confidence by automating the build, test, and deploy process. Checkout the recently launched CircleCI 2.0! 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! Featuring:Richard Littauer – Website, GitHub, XKarthik Ram – Website, GitHub, XAndrea Goulet – Website, GitHub, XScott Ford – Website, GitHub, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: sustainoss.org (inspired by maintainerati.org) maintainer.io - Scale Open Source Maintenance rOpenSci - Open Tools for Open Science Corgibytes Legacy Code Rocks! (you should listen to this podcast) Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Cindy Sridharan joined the show to talk about development and operations as a generalist, leveling up as an engineer (while still providing business value), challenging the status-quo, and other interesting Go projects and news. Join the discussionChangelog++ 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! Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Featuring:Cindy Sridharan – XErik St. Martin – GitHub, XCarlisia Campos – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, XBrian Ketelsen – GitHub, XShow Notes:Monitoring and Observability Small Functions considered Harmful Everyone is not Ops Cindy Sridharan on Medium Interesting Go Projects and News Community Outreach Working Group Go 1.9 out of RC Running Go on Low Memory Devices realize Shell completions in Go Go Assembly by Example DARE (Data At Rest Encryption) Optimizing web servers for high throughput and low latency Free Software Friday! Each week on the show we give a shout out to an open source project or community (or maintainer) that’s made an impact in our day to day developer lives. Brian - Minio Cindy - Envoy Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Karolina Szczur joined the show to talk about community building, building remote-first teams, the hiring process in tech, product development, and the inclusivity factor of web performance. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Hired – Get hired. It’s free — in fact, they pay you to get hired. Our listeners get a double hiring bonus of $600. 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. 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! Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Featuring:Karolina Szczur – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Houston Flood Relief Fund - JJ Watt’s fundraiser for Victims of Hurricane Harvey Bayou City Relief - Helping Houston Get Home About Karolina Szczur Building remote-first teams How to write a successful conference proposal CSSConf and JSConf Australia Diversity Report A guide to empathetic hiring processes Your tech job posting is broken. Here’s how to fix it. Lighthouse from Google ElectronConf Seattle 2017 Calibre - Web performance monitoring Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!