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Adam Stacoviak, Nate Peretic & Jay Fanelli after Founders Talk #33. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Nate Peretic – Website, XJay Fanelli – Website, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Nate Peretic & Jay Fanelli, the Founders of Full Stop and United Pixelworkers join Adam to talk about plotting and planning to leave old jobs, being outspoken and opinionated, having a core set of principles and not deviating from them, reaching out to people they admired (regardless of popularity) and their side project that has turned into something that could eclipse their entire client revenue in 2012. Also, check out After Dark for an extended chat with Nate and Jay. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Nate Peretic – Website, XJay Fanelli – Website, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: After Founders Talk #33 Full Stop Full Disclosure United Pixelworkers The economics of making and selling t-shirts Success by Design The Withering Away of Flash A modest proposal (A List Apart) Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Adam and Wynn caught up with Micah Rich from The League of Moveable type to talk about open source typography. 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, XWynn Netherland – GitHub, XShow Notes: Micah Rich, from The League of Movable Type. Caroline Hadilaksono, co-founder of The League. League Gothic, one of Caroline’s popular faces is Wynn’s favorite. Several of League fonts are available on TypeKit. Dave Crossland, designer of Cantarell. Chunk was created by Meredith Mandel. The League fonts are forkable on GitHub. FontForge is an outline font editor that lets you create your own postscript, truetype, opentype, and more. Glyphs is a professional font editor for Mac OS X. Wynn’s slide decks make use of League Gothic and Hand of Sean. Lettering.js gives you more control over kerning on the web. The Manifesto lays out the vision for The League. Haley Fiege contributed Sniglet. Barry Schwartz has contributed several fonts. Want to help Micah introduce typographers to git? Get in touch. Wynn asks about vertical rhythm, which Compass makes easier. Lettercase is a social font manager. Adam uses FontExplorer X but wishes it did more. Micah on Dribbble. Lettercase is powered by Sinatra, Warden, and Grape. Hoefler & Co. are Micah’s heroes in typography design. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Nathan Ryan, the Co-founder of Proxart joins Adam to talk about what to do when you’re bored in Santa Clarita, team development, keeping everyone motivated and on track, and his globalized local focus on art and how artists relate to, react to, and change their environment. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Nathan Ryan – Website, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Proxart Santa Clarita, California Nathan on Dribbble Be the Voice of Your City on Proxart! PM8 Proxart Network Proxart at Self-Sabotage screening Self-Sabotage Film Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Wynn sat down with Brian Hogan and Josh Clayton to talk about tmux, dotfiles, and the joys of text mode. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Wynn Netherland – GitHub, XShow Notes: Brian Hogan speaker, trainer, and author of _Tmux: Productive, Mouse Free development, out now from PragProg. Josh Clayton is a developer at Thoughtbot. Factory Girl - fixture replacement for Ruby. tmux is a terminal multiplexer similar to GNU screen. tmuxinator helps you manage tmux sessions. taskpaper.vim - Vim interface for Taskpaper. Josh’s dotfiles are extensive. A patch to reattach to user namespace in tmux. Palette lets you write Vim color schemes with Ruby Evergreen - Run Jasmine JavaScript unit tests, integrate them into Ruby applications The latest iTerm2 ships with tmux integration. tslime.vim is a simple vim script to send portion of text from a vim buffer to a running tmux session. vim-turbux - Ruby testing with tmux. Justin Smestad turned Wynn onto tmux for pair programming. Derick Bailey from Watch Me Code. pair.io gives you a one-button, collaboration-friendly dev environment for your GitHub repo. Jesse Dearing is the unnamed “DevOps guy” at Pure Charity. Thoughtbot has a company-wide dotfiles repo. Josh rolls his own Vim setup with Tim Pope’s pathogen. Brian uses TTYtter, is a terminal-based Twitter client, Wynn uses Earthquake. Josh likes irrsi for IRC. Brian likes Alpine over mutt for mail. Search GitHub for “tmux.conf.” Zach Holman says dotfiles are meant to be forked. Zach’s own dotfiles. Yan Pritzker’s dotfiles are opinionated. Josh says that if you don’t think your dotfiles are the best out there, you’re doing it wrong. (29:55) Joe Ferris at Thoughtbot inspired Josh’s dotfiles. Brian and Josh say Janus and oh-my-zsh are great to get started, but you need to understand your dotfiles. Wynn uses this shell function to list colors to put into his tmux config. Dotshare is web site to share dotfile configs plus screenshots. Pianobar is text-based command line interface for Pandora. Wynn uses shell.fm for Last.fm. Be sure and check out the Tmux Crash Course. NEW: Humans Present: tmux a Thoughtbot Workshop. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Kyle Bragger, the Founder of Forrst joins Adam to talk about how everything got started for him, how he met Gary Vaynerchuk - which ultimately led Gary and his brother Aj to provide the initial angel funding that helped Kyle work full-time on Forrst. Kyle also shares lots of knowledge on product design, his focus on community and what it means to say no and focus. Be sure to also stay tuned to his great advice at the end of the show. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Kyle Bragger – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: kyle.io Forrst Kyle on Facto Tinyproj Mike on Forrst The Forrst Podcast Forrst on AngelList Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Wynn caught up with Mitchell Hashimoto from the Vagrant project to talk about virtualized environments, DevOps, and more. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Mitchell Hashimoto – Website, GitHub, XWynn Netherland – GitHub, XShow Notes: We’re now @TheChangelog on Twitter. Mitchell Hashimoto from Vagrant. Vagrant is a tool for building and distributing virtualized development environments by providing automated creation and provisioning of virtual machines using Oracle’s VirtualBox. Vagrant is currently a Ruby gem. Mitchell uses Vagrant to test his Chef cookbooks, featured in Episode 0.3.8. Travis CI uses Vagrant extensively. Show Travis some love, tell ‘em to come on The Changelog. Mitchell just returned from FOSDEM. John Bender has helped out Mitchell with Vagrant. VeeWee: the tool to easily build vagrant base boxes or KVM, VirtualBox, and Fusion images. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Peter Cooper, the Founder of Cooper Press joins Adam to talk about all the stops along the way on his path to where he is today. Peter shares an immense amount of knowledge on tech publishing, what he’s learned about marketing, email newsletters done right, setting and accomplishing goals, as well as some very good advice at the very end. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Peter Cooper – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: O’Reilly Fluent Conference Cooper Press Peter Cooper What I’ve Earned (And Learned) From Writing “Beginning Ruby” HTML5 Weekly JavaScript Weekly Ruby Weekly LaunchBit Buffer Peter Cooper on 43 Things Self Promotion for Geeks Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Francisco Dao, the Founder of 50 Kings (an invitation-only, private community of thinkers and doers) joins Adam to talk about the importance of building relationships, doing only what interests you, entrepreneurship, all sorts of “insider” knowledge around the tech event planning space and more. If you’ve been dying to get invited or referred to 50 Kings, this show will give you all you need to know. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Francisco Dao – Website, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: 50 Kings Elon Musk David Hornick The Lobby Conference Foo Camp Tech stars plan City Slickers-style cattle drive Killer Attitude 53 Rules of Unstoppable Confidence Tech community, are we MTV or TED? Internet innovators: Beware the big bubble of small ideas A Post-Mortem for Plancast SAP Will Buy SuccessFactors For $3.4 Billion Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Andrew Wilkinson, the Founder of MetaLab (an interface design studio) joins Adam to talk about how he started as a one-man band and learned to delegate to succeed. Andrew started MetaLab in 2006 and quickly built the company into a multi-million dollar interface design and products company with over 30 employees. Andrew shares his thoughts on happiness, some crucial advice from his father, Steve Jobs, good design, developing products, leading a team to success and even a teaser to something super secret. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Andrew Wilkinson – Website, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: http://metalabdesign.com/ http://www.getflow.com/ http://www.getballpark.com/ http://pixelunion.net/ http://everyday-app.com/ http://www.tumblr.com/theme/979 http://metalabdesign.com/zappos/ http://www.netmagazine.com/opinions/rock-star-myth http://blog.metalabdesign.com/post/11368711562/going-up-in-the-office-to-keep-us-in-check http://www.amazon.com/Flow-Psychology-Experience-Mihaly-Csikszentmihalyi/dp/0061339202 Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!