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Adam and Jerod discuss the details of this new podcast; what’s coming up, what you can expect in future episodes, and how you can invite Spotlight to a conference or community event near you. Email us – editors@changelog.com. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Listen to the first episode — Spotlight #2: OSCON London 2016 - Katrina Owen Seriously, email us at editors@changelog.com. We’d love to talk about producing a podcast series around your conference or community event. We’re not in iTunes just yet (it takes about a week to get approved), but you can subscribe to Master in iTunes or your favorite podcast app. Subscribe using our RSS feed — changelog.com/spotlight/feed Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

In this special episode recorded at Node Interactive 2016 in Austin, TX Adam talked with James Snell (IBM Technical Lead for Node and member of Node’s TSC and CTC) about the work he’s doing on Node’s implementation of http2, the state of http2 in Node, what this new spec has to offer, and what the Node community can expect from this new protocol. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Rollbar – Put errors in their place! npm install --save rollbar for error tracking in your Node.js apps. Hacker Paradise – Do you want to spend a month in South America, expenses paid, working on open source? We teamed up with Hacker Paradise to offer two Open Source Fellowships for a month on one of their upcoming trips to either Argentina or Peru. 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. Featuring:James Snell – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:This episode is a preview of our upcoming “Future of Node.js” series recorded at Node Interactive 2016 in Austin, TX. The series is produced in partnership with Node.js Foundation and sponsored by IBM. We’ll be releasing the full series soon on our new podcast “Spotlight”. If you haven’t subscribed to Changelog Master yet, which includes all the podcasts we produce, now would be a good time to do so. You can also subscribe to Changelog Weekly where we announce all the new things we’re up to. Checkout the http2 repo James is working on Watch the talk James gave at Node Interactive — Implementing HTTP/2 for Node.js Core by James Snell Watch all the talks from Node Interactive Checkout Spotlight, our new show around big announcements, conferences, the hallway track, behind the scenes — meaningful conversations with real people in the community. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

From 18F — Hillary Hartley and Aidan Feldman joined the show to talk about how 18F is changing the way the federal government builds and buys digital services. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Code School – Black Friday Special (November 21-28) — Save 49% on a 6-month plan, and 51% on a yearly plan. These are HUGE savings for a limited time only. Rollbar – Put errors in their place! Full-stack error tracking for all apps in any language. 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. Featuring:Hillary Hartley – GitHub, XAidan Feldman – GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: The Presidential Innovation Fellows (PIF) program brings the innovation economy into government, by pairing talented, diverse technologists and innovators with top civil-servants and change-makers within the federal government. The White House’s Presidential Innovation Fellows program on Twitter The Changelog #157: Building Bridges with Sarah Allen The CC0 1.0 license - “Additionally, we waive copyright and related rights in the work worldwide through the CC0 1.0 Universal public domain dedication.” cloud.gov - The Government Innovation platform by government developers, for government developers. analytics.usa.gov on GitHub 18F on GitHub The System for Award Management (SAM) - certification for working as a vendor for the U.S. government FedRAMP Ready Products The Washington Post - Why a federal high-tech start-up is a money loser Tom VanAntwerp on Medium - 18F is Hardly a Waste of Money Join one of 18F’s Slack rooms code.gov is the next milestone in federal open source code Micro-purchase Micro-purchase stats page 18F Guides 18F Open Source Style Guide Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Django core contributor Andrew Godwin joins the show to tell us all about Python and Django. If you’ve ever wondered why people love Python, what Django’s virtues are as a web framework, or how Django Channels measure up to Phoenix’s Channels and Rails’ Action Cable, this is the show for you. Also: Andrew’s take on funding and sustaining open source efforts. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Heap – Automate the annoying parts of user analytics. No more manual anything. Just insights. 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 the top 3% of developers and designers at Toptal. Email Adam at adam@changelog.com for a personal introduction to Toptal. Featuring:Andrew Godwin – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: This episode started on Ping Django creators: Jacob Kaplan-Moss, Simon Willison Python love: The Zen of Python Python love: Great Docs – Requests as example Jerod suggests RFC #5: Read/Write the Docs with Eric Holscher Virtues: The Django admin site Virtues: GeoDjango Wikipedia has a list of well-known sites using Django Andrew’s baby: Django Channels Getting started with Django Django South - consistent, easy-to-use and database-agnostic migrations for Django applications. If sustainability is interesting to you, check out Request for Commits Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Brendan Eich, founder of Brave and creator of JavaScript, joined the show to talk about the history of the web, how it has been funded, and the backstory on the early browser wars and emerging monetization models. We also talked about why big problems are hard to solve for the Internet and the tradeoffs between centralization and distribution. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Toptal – Scale your team and hire the top 3% of developers and designers at Toptal. Email Adam at adam@changelog.com for a personal introduction to Toptal. Minio – Minio is an Amazon S3 compatible object storage server built for cloud application developers and devops. It’s also open source! Featuring:Brendan Eich – Website, GitHub, XNadia Eghbal – GitHub, XMikeal Rogers – GitHub, XShow Notes: Check out exploit kits like Angler Exploit Kit Brave Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Jack Moffitt joined the show to talk about Servo, an experimental web browser layout engine. We talked about what the Servo project aims to achieve, six areas of performance, and what makes Rust a good fit for this effort. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Code School – Learn for free this weekend (November 18-20). All Code School courses and screencasts are FREE for everyone this weekend ONLY! Hacker Paradise – Do you want to spend a month in South America, expenses paid, working on open source? We teamed up with Hacker Paradise to offer two Open Source Fellowships for a month on one of their upcoming trips to either Argentina or Peru. 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. Featuring:Jack Moffitt – Website, GitHub, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Servo Website Servo on GitHub Jack Moffitt on Wikipedia Servo: Today & Tomorrow Slide Deck Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Charlotte Spencer joined the show to talk about making open source more approachable, Your First PR, helping people make their first open source contribution, attracting new contributors, and what projects can do to bring in, retain, and communicate with new people. 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 $10/mo. We host everything we do on Linode servers. Use the code rfc20 to get 2 months free! Toptal – Scale your team and hire the top 3% of developers and designers at Toptal. Email Adam at adam@changelog.com for a personal introduction to Toptal. Featuring:Charlotte Spencer – Website, GitHub, XNadia Eghbal – GitHub, XMikeal Rogers – GitHub, XShow Notes:Charlotte Spencer is a software developer who’s done a lot of notable work around making open source more approachable and is a core member of the Hoodie project. First Pull Request — What was the first pull request you sent on GitHub? Your First PR Making Your First Pull Request Open Open Source Hoodie Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Feross Aboukhadijeh joined the show this week to talk with us about his backstory, passive income, WebTorrent, WebRTC, Electron and the ins and outs of packaging apps for all platforms. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors: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 adam@changelog.com for a personal introduction to Toptal. 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. Node.js Interactive – Node.js Interactive is a conference for the Node community focused on education and community building. Use the code CNGJS16 to get 15% off registration. Featuring:Feross Aboukhadijeh – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: JavaScript Standard Style Guide Study Notes is Feross’s passive income maker that enables him to work on open source and other stuff he’s interested in FreeTheFlash - Hilarious media entertainment brought to you by FreeTheFlash Entertainment Webmaster World WebTorrent - A streaming torrent client for the web browser and the desktop WebTorrent Desktop is the desktop Torrent client built with Electron WebTorrent Desktop on GitHub Instant.io The Changelog #216 - Electron and Cross Platform Desktop Apps with Zeke Sikelianos Mojibar - Emoji searcher but as a menubar app built with Electron Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Nate Finch joined the show this week to talk about Juju, Charms, maturing a project along side Go, Gorram, finding your happy path, 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! Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. StackImpact – StackImpact is all about profiling and monitoring for Go. Laser focus on the performance of your Go applications. Code School – On Track With Go — Learn what makes Go a great fit for concurrent programs and how you can use it to leverage the power of modern computer architectures in this new course for those getting started with Go. Featuring:Nate Finch – Website, GitHub, XErik St. Martin – GitHub, XCarlisia Campos – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, XShow Notes: juju - is devops distilled jujucharms Gorram - It’s like go run for any go function Go Proverbs Vanity Imports with Hugo Free Software Friday Erik: Container Network Interface - networking for Linux containers Carlisia: Kinetic - High-Performance AWS Kinesis Client for Go. An easier way to access kinesis shards and poll them etc, takes all that logic out and makes stuff easy. Nate: Hugo - A Fast and Flexible Static Site Generator built with love in Go Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors: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. 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! Rollbar – Put errors in their place! Full-stack error tracking for all apps in any language. Featuring:Dave Gandy – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow 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!