
Changelog Interviews
Conversations with the hackers, leaders, and innovators of the software world. Adam Stacoviak and Jerod Santo face their imposter syndrome so you don’t have to. Expect in-depth interviews with the best and brightest in software engineering, open source & leadership. This is a polyglot podcast. All programming languages, platforms & communities are welcome.
Latest episodes

Sep 9, 2016 • 1h 5min
TensorFlow and Deep Learning
Eli Bixby, Developer Programs Engineer at Google, joined the show to talk to talk about TensorFlow, machine learning and deep learning, why Google open sourced it, and more.
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DataLayer – A one-day event in Seattle organized by Compose about optimizing the data layer to scale modern web and mobile apps. Use the code changelog to get 20% off your $99 ticket.
Featuring:Eli Bixby – GitHubAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:This episode was produced in partnership with O’Reilly Media and OSCON. Use the code changelog20 to get 20% off your registration.
TensorFlow - An Open Source Software Library for Machine Intelligence
TensorFlow on GitHub
Talk: Deep Learning With TensorFlow at OSCON London
Workshop: Diving Into Machine Learning Through TensorFlow at OSCON London
TensorFlow Tutorials
TensorFlow Serving
tensorflow/models
Google Cloud Machine Learning at Scale on Google Cloud Platform
SyntaxNet: The World’s Most Accurate Parser Goes Open Source
Google Brain Team
grpc
Magenta
tensorflow/magenta
Keynote: How You Got Here by Cory Doctorow at OSCON London
Google Cloud Platform Podcast - TensorFlow with Eli Bixby
Machine Learning from Stanford University - Coursera
Machine Learning Engineer Nanodegree - Udacity
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Sep 2, 2016 • 1h 28min
Elm and Functional Programming
Evan Czaplicki, creator of Elm, and Richard Feldman of NoRedInk joined the show to talk deeper about Elm, the pains of CSS it solves, scaling the Elm architecture, reusable components, and more.
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.
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DataLayer – A one-day event in Seattle organized by Compose about optimizing the data layer to scale modern web and mobile apps. Use the code changelog to get 20% off your $99 ticket.
Featuring:Evan Czaplicki – Website, GitHub, XRichard Feldman – GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
TI-83 series - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Changelog #191: Elm and Functional Programming with Richard Feldman
Elm on GitHub
elm changelog.md · elm-lang/elm-compiler
elm - Upgrading to 0.17
elm-lang.org
elm examples
NoRedInk
How to Use Elm at Work
Book: Elm in Action
elm-conf 2016
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Aug 26, 2016 • 1h 30min
Sourcegraph the 'Google for Code'
Beyang Liu, the CTO and co-founder of Sourcegraph, joined the show to talk about the backstory of Sourcegraph, how it works, how they’re aiming to be the ‘Google for Code’, ideas around offline support for code search, how it’s licensed, and their new software license called Fair Source.
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Featuring:Beyang Liu – GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
Beyang on BeyondCode at GopherCon 2015
Sourcegraph on GitHub
Sourcegraph.com
Sourcegraph for GitHub
Checkup - A distributed, lock-free, self-hosted health checks and status pages
Fair Source License
Sourcegraph Aims to be the ‘Google for Code
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Aug 19, 2016 • 1h 25min
GitHub's Electron
Zeke Sikelianos joined the show to talk about GitHub’s Electron project and the future of web folks making cross platform desktop apps. We talked about the web revolution around native vs web app, where Electron is heading, who’s using it, and how cool it is to enable folks like Guillermo Rauch to build HyperTerm.
Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Zeke Sikelianos – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
Electron
Electron Docs
Electron Issues – label:help-wanted
Electron Issues – label:beginner
Mojibar - Emoji searcher but as a menubar app
browserify on npm
Tonic + npm: browserify
npms
Fluid - Turn Your Favorite Web Apps into Real Mac Apps.
GitHub Desktop - Simple collaboration from your desktop
jiahaog/nativefier: Wrap any web page natively without even thinking, across Windows, OSX and Linux
maxogden (=^._.^=)
mafintosh (Mathias Buus)
electron-userland
Dat Project
#213: ZEIT, HyperTerm, and now with Guillermo Rauch - Changelog
Request For Commits - Changelog
Subscribe to Changelog Nightly
Subscribe to Changelog Weekly
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Aug 12, 2016 • 1h 8min
Best Practices Badge from Core Infrastructure Initiative
David A. Wheeler, from Core Infrastructure Initiative, joined the show to talk about the CII Best Practices Badge program.
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! This is what we built our new CMS on. Use the code changelog20 to get 2 months free!
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Featuring:David A. Wheeler – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:We talked about the purpose of the Best Practices Badge program from Core Infrastructure Initiative (a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project), how and why you should get certified, and the criteria of the best practices.
[Show Suggstion] CII “Best Practices” badge · Issue #427 · thechangelog/ping
linuxfoundation/cii-best-practices-badge
CII Best Practices Badge - Rails App
Core Infrastructure Initiative
CII Best Practices Badge Criteria
Get Your CII Best Practices Badge!
Producing Open Source Software
Curious Minds: History of Open Source & The Free Software Foundation - Part 1
Curious Minds: History of Open Source & The Free Software Foundation - Part 2
Shields.io
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Aug 6, 2016 • 58min
Libscore, Velocity.js, Hacking
Julian Shapiro, startup founder and developer, joined the show to talk about his story of entrepreneurship, open source, growth hacking, and more. Julian’s story is a story you don’t want to miss — plus he shares actionable advice on growing and marketing an open source project.
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Elixir Conf 2016 – Late pricing starts August 15, so get your tickets today and save money. ElixirConf is the largest worldwide gathering of Elixir developers. Join José Valim, Chris McCord, Sonny Scroggin, James Edward Gray, Bruce Tate, Eric Meadows-Jönnson, and many more.
Featuring:Julian Shapiro – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
[Guest Suggestion] Julian Shapiro / VelocityJS
deleted.com
Velocity.js.org
Velocity.js on GitHub
How to deal with startup competition
Web Animation Using JavaScript by Julian Shapiro
Introducing Libscore
Libscore.com
Libscore on GitHub
Stripe Open-Source Retreat
Thomas Davis on Twitter
#63: CDNJS with Thomas Davis and Ryan Kirkman
Jason Chen on Twitter
Jesse Chase on Twitter
Searching for Sugar Man (Movie recommendation from Julian)
Man on Wire (Movie recommendation from Julian)
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Jul 30, 2016 • 1h 41min
ZEIT, HyperTerm, now
Guillermo Rauch joined the show to talk with Adam about how he got into programming, how that lead him to what he’s doing now at ZEIT, the design of HyperTerm, and now.
Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Toptal – Take control of your career and join the best at Toptal. Email Adam at adam@changelog.com for a personal introduction to our friends at Toptal.
Linode – Our cloud server of choice! This is what we built our new CMS on. Use the code changelog20 to get 2 months free!
Elixir Conf 2016 – We’re betting big on Elixir and this is THE conference to be at in the Elixir world. Join José Valim, Chris McCord, Sonny Scroggin, James Edward Gray, Bruce Tate, Eric Meadows-Jönnson, and many more for a vacation-style conference, with world-class training!
Featuring:Guillermo Rauch – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
ZEIT
HyperTerm
LearnBoost
LearnBoost on GitHub
Cloudup
Pure UI by Guillermo Rauch
ZEIT (@zeithq) on Twitter
ZEIT on GitHub
GitHub search for “hyperterm”
zeit.world - Free Global DNS
Hero: Leslie Lamport on Wikipedia
React Storybook: Isolate your React UI Component development from the main app
ZEIT.chat (Slack Channel)
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Jul 23, 2016 • 1h 11min
SiteSpeed.io and Performance
Peter Hedenskog joined the show to talk about SiteSpeed.io and web performance. We covered where it came from, where it’s going, and more importantly, simple ways you can focus on your web performance.
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Featuring:Peter Hedenskog – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
[Podcast Suggestion] Peter Hedenskog of SiteSpeed.io · Issue #475
Sitespeed.io - Analyze your website speed and performance
sitespeed.io/HELP.md at master · sitespeedio/sitespeed.io
sitespeedio/coach: Clear Eyes. Full Hearts. Can’t Lose.
Wikimedia Foundation
WebPagetest - Website Performance and Optimization Test
Coach Panel - Chrome Web Store
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Jul 15, 2016 • 1h 20min
Open Source at Facebook
James Pearce, Head of Open Source at Facebook, joined the show to talk about that very subject — open source at Facebook, his path to software development, why he’s the person to lead open source at Facebook, their view on open source, their culture of open source, how they choose what to open source, and more importantly — how they focus on, support, and nurture the community.
Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Toptal – Take control of your career and join the best at Toptal. Email Adam at adam@changelog.com for a personal introduction to our friends at Toptal.
Linode – Our cloud server of choice! This is what we built our new CMS on. Use the code changelog20 to get 2 months free!
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:James Pearce – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
Facebook on GitHub
Facebook Open Source
Facebook Engineering Blog
React - Facebook’s JavaScript library for building user interfaces
HipHop VM (HHVM) - Facebook’s virtual machine designed for executing programs written in PHP
Hack - Facebook’s programming language for HHVM
Facebook’s top 5 open source projects of 2015
React Native: A year in review
Dive into React Native performance
Open sourcing ReDex: Making Android apps smaller and faster
Building and managing iOS model objects with Remodel
Automatic memory leak detection on iOS
The Changelog #196: TiddlyWiki with Jeremy Ruston
MK14 (Microcomputer Kit 14)
Nuclide - Facebook’s unified developer experience for web and mobile development IDE, built as a single package on top of Atom to provide hackability and the support of an active community.
Buck - Facebook’s high-performance build tool
a16z Podcast: When Humanity Meets A.I.
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Jul 9, 2016 • 1h 14min
ngrok and Go
Alan Shreve, creator of the beloved ngrok, joined the show to talk about ngrok — what it is, why it exists, why he wrote it in Go, and ultimately why 1.0 is open source but 2.0 is not.
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. Get the Bootstrap plan free for 90 days. That’s nearly 300,000 errors tracked totally free. Members can get an extra $200 in credit.
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Featuring:Alan Shreve – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
Alan Shreve (@inconshreveable) on Twitter
inconshreveable.com (Alan’s personal website)
ngrok Homepage
What’s new in ngrok 2.0?
Equinox: Package & Distribute Your Go Apps
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!