Changelog Interviews

Andrew Cantino joined the show to talk with Jerod about Huginn, a system for building agents that perform automated tasks for you online. They can read the web, watch for events, and take actions on your behalf. Think of it as a hackable Yahoo! Pipes plus IFTTT on your own server. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Codeship Jet – Check out Jet, Codeship’s Tool for Docker! Signup for their free webinar on April 28th on managing testing environments with Docker and Codeship Jet. Pulse – Realtime cloud and infrastructure monitoring with visualization and alerting so you can monitor your blind spots. DigitalOcean Block Storage – Introducing block storage: attach highly available and expandable storage to your Droplets, on demand. Coming Summer 2016. Use our code CHANGELOG to get a $10 hosting credit when you create a new account. Featuring:Andrew Cantino – Website, GitHub, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Huginn on GitHub IFTTT Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Chris Allen and Julie Moronuki joined the show to talk about Haskell, their book “Haskell Programming”, learning to program, their book writing process, and more. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Toptal – Join the best, or hire the best engineers and designers! Email Adam (adam@changelog.com) for a personal introduction to our friends at Toptal. Linode Professional Services – Let Linode’s Professional Services team be your Sysadmin. Use promo code changelog20 for a $20 credit! Opbeat for Node.js – Opbeat has opened up support for Node.js Application Performance Monitoring and they’re accepting beta signups right now! Pulse – Realtime cloud and infrastructure monitoring with visualization and alerting so you can monitor your blind spots. Featuring:Chris Allen – Website, GitHub, XJulie Moronuki – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: zmanian (Zaki Manian) Podcast suggestion: Chris Allen and Julie Moronuki’s Haskell Book · Issue #384 · thechangelog/ping How to Learn Haskell in Less Than 5 Years Modeling Data in Haskell for Beginners Haskell Programming Book SuperGinBaby | All of my systems come to naught. Haskell Stack Mega-Tutorial Yuri the trainer who trains - YouTube bitemyapp/learnhaskell: Learn Haskell An introduction to LaTeX ML (programming language) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Haskell (programming language) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Purescript · Issue #392 · thechangelog/ping Hour of Code | Khan Academy Argumatronic - Teaching a 10-year-old Haskell: Day One Rudolf Carnap - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Armadillidiidae - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Grace Hopper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Simon Peyton Jones - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Haskell Language Home - The Haskell Tool Stack Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Matt Mullenweg, the creator of WordPress and the CEO of Automattic, joined the show to talk about the past, present, and future of WordPress. We talked about the role of JavaScript for WordPress, their new REST API, Calypso, and more. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:DigitalOcean Block Storage – Use the code CHANGELOG to get a $10 hosting credit when you create a new DigitalOcean account 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. Pulse – Realtime cloud and infrastructure monitoring with visualization and alerting so you can monitor your blind spots. Featuring:Matt Mullenweg – Website, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Dance to Calypso Introducing the New WordPress.com Automattic The Story Behind the New WordPress.com State of the Word 2015 Simplenote The Year Without Pants by Scott Berkun Beautiful Code The Pragmatic Programmer Steve Krug - Advanced Common Sense Dave Winer - Scripting News Joel Spolsky on Software Scott Berkun George Orwell - Politics and the English Language (1946) Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Jeremy Ruston joined the show to talk about TiddlyWiki — a unique non-linear notebook for capturing, organizing, and sharing complex information. It’s written in JavaScript and sports a custom fake DOM. We talked to Jeremy about his nearly 40 year career in programming, Hackability as a human right, Tiddlers — the atomic unit of data in TiddlyWiki and so much more. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Toptal – Join the best, or hire the best engineers and designers! Email Adam (adam@changelog.com) for a personal introduction to our friends at Toptal. Linode – Get one of the fastest, most efficient SSD cloud servers for only $10/mo. Use promo code changelog20 for $20 credit! Pulse – Realtime cloud and infrastructure monitoring with visualization and alerting so you can monitor your blind spots. Featuring:Jeremy Ruston – GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: TiddlyWiki · Issue #248 · thechangelog/ping TiddlyWiki — a non-linear personal web notebook TiddlyWiki on GitHub MK14 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Hackability as a Human Right — Jermolene TalkyTalky Wuthering Bytes - 26th September to 2nd October 2015 Tiddlywinks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Quincy Larson is the creator of an open source community called freeCodeCamp. We talked with Quincy about “the secret to getting good at coding”, their curriculum that spans a solid year (totaling 2,080 hours) of deliberate coding practice, plans for financial sustainability of the project, and the people behind it on the leading/teaching side and the camper side. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Codeship's Docker Platform – Join this free webinar from Codeship — Co-founders Florian Motlik and Manuel Weiss will discuss their new Continuous Integration and Delivery Platform with Native Docker support DigitalOcean Block Storage – Use the code CHANGELOG to get a $10 hosting credit when you create a new DigitalOcean account Opbeat for Node.js – Build faster Node.js apps. Instantly pinpoint performance issues, and optimize your code. Install in minutes. Pulse – Realtime cloud and infrastructure monitoring with visualization and alerting so you can monitor your blind spots. Featuring:Quincy Larson – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes: Subscribe to Changelog Nightly Subscribe to Changelog Weekly Quincy Larson on Medium freeCodeCamp Santa Barbara Hackerspace GitHub’s All Time Top Repositories Why Software Is Eating The World by Marc Andreessen Sebastian Thrun on Wikipedia Daphne Koller on Wikipedia Andrew Ng on Wikipedia Jimmy Wales on Wikipedia Agency (sociology) on Wikipedia LoopBack MEAN.IO - MongoDB, Express, Angularjs Node.js powered fullstack web framework Free Code Camp’s First Month - Medium Learn to Code by Coding - Medium lichess.org • Free Online Chess Opportunity cost #165: Everyone’s Welcome Here (Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots Podcast) 5 Coding Podcasts to Enlighten your Commute - Medium Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

José Valim joined the show to talk about Elixir. We learned about the early days of José’s start as a programmer. José took us back to the beginning of Elixir and shared why Erlang got him so excited, we broke down features of the language, we talked about functional programming, concurrency, developing for multi-core systems, we talked about the Elixir community, the future of Phoenix, Ecto, and more. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Toptal – Join the best or hire the best engineers and designers! Email Adam (adam@changelog.com) to get a personal introduction to get started with Toptal. Rollbar – Put errors in their place! Full-stack error tracking for all apps in any language. Members can get $200 in credit. Linode – Our cloud server of choice! We host everything we do on Linode servers. Use the code changelog20 to get 2 months free! Pulse – Realtime cloud and infrastructure monitoring with visualization and alerting so you can monitor your blind spots. Featuring:José Valim – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: José Valim (@josevalim) on Twitter José Valim (@josevalim) on GitHub Elixir Plataformatec #147: Elixir and Phoenix with Chris McCord - The Changelog Elixir v1.2 and Ecto v1.1 · Issue #339 · thechangelog/ping Ruby on Rails plataformatec/devise: Flexible authentication solution for Rails with Warden. Erlang Programming Language jashkenas (Jeremy Ashkenas) jashkenas/coffeescript: Unfancy JavaScript A Week with Elixir - Joe Armstrong says, “this is good shit.” José Valim at Strange Loop 2012 - Elixir: Modern Programming for the Erlang VM Programming Ruby “The Pickaxe” by Dave Thomas, Chad Fowler, and Andy Hunt #191: Elm and Functional Programming with Richard Feldman - The Changelog elixir-lang/ecto - Elixir The Pragmatic Bookshelf “Productive |> Reliable |> Fast” by Chris McCord, Bruce Tate, and José Valim The Pragmatic Bookshelf “Productive |> Reliable |> Fast” 1.4 by Chris McCord, Bruce Tate, and José Valim Introduction - Elixir Hero: Guy L. Steele, Jr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Elixir Radar: the weekly email newsletter about Elixir - Plataformatec Exception tracking and logging from Elixir to Rollbar (elixir-addicts/rollbax) Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Nadia Eghbal joined the show to discuss a HUGE topic that’s near and dear to our heart – funding open source! We discussed what it takes to fund open source software development, Nadia’s current investigative journalism efforts around funding open source (funded by the Ford Foundation), venture-backed open source projects, what it means for an open source project to be in good shape, some potential solutions to provide better long-term support for open source, and we tried to determine how much the open source of the world might be worth. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Toptal – Join the best or hire the best engineers and designers! Email Adam (adam@changelog.com) to get a personal introduction to get started with Toptal. Linode – Our cloud server of choice! We host everything we do on Linode servers. Use the code changelog20 to get 2 months free! Opbeat for Node.js – Build faster Node.js apps. Instantly pinpoint performance issues, and optimize your code. Install in minutes. Featuring:Nadia Eghbal – GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Nadia Eghbal - Homepage Nadia Eghbal (@nayafia) on Twitter Nadia Eghbal on Medium Subscribe to Building Better Software Updates How I Stumbled Upon The Internet’s Biggest Blind Spot — Medium Open source was worth at least $143M of Instagram’s $1B acquisition — Medium Open source infrastructure: the Q&A — Medium What if Facebook were a nonprofit? GreatSchools - Public and Private School Ratings, Reviews and Parent Community 500 Startups Slack Raises $80 Million Fund to Support Platform Strategy - Digits - WSJ Ruby Together fundingoss.com Ford Foundation Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Ary Borenszweig and Juan Wajnerman, the folks behind Crystal, joined the show to talk about the goals of the language, how it’s the best of both worlds between Ruby and C, why if it’s so close to and inspired by Ruby why not just give their time/effort to Ruby instead, the new compiler, and we also discussed what’s left before Crystal can go 1.0. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Toptal – Join the best or hire the best engineers and designers! Email Adam (adam@changelog.com) to get a personal introduction to get started with Toptal. Linode – Our cloud server of choice! We host everything we do on Linode servers. Use the code changelog20 to get 2 months free! Featuring:Ary Borenszweig – Website, GitHub, XJuan Wajnerman – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Changelog Weekly - Issue #32 Manas Technology Solutions (manas.com.ar) Crystal Homepage Codcore/amethyst Hacker News search for “crystal-lang” The Future of Crystal Compile & Run Code in Crystal (play.crystal-lang.org) manastech/crystal asterite/crystal Initial commit with lexer, parser, ast and visitor · manastech/crystal@220bb8c Initial commit · asterite/crystal@50db229 Support Crystal Language on Bountysource Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Richard Feldman from NoRedInk joined the show to talk about Elm and Functional Programming. Elm labeled itself “the best of functional programming in your browser” and boasts “no runtime exceptions.” We talked about the language, whether or not it’s really faster than React, JavaScript fatigue, and the best ways to get started with Elm. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Codeship – If it works with Docker, it works with Codeship Jet. DigitalOcean Block Storage – Use the code CHANGELOG to get a $10 hosting credit when you create a new DigitalOcean account Opbeat for AngularJS – Performance monitoring for AngularJS. Instantly pinpoint performance issues, and optimize your code. Install in minutes. Featuring:Richard Feldman – GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Richard Feldman on Twitter Evan Czaplicki on GitHub mwForum Elm Style Guide Elm Syntax Elm From JavaScript Elm Docs [Podcast Suggestion] Evan Czaplicki - designer, developer of ELM lang · Issue #281 · thechangelog/ping Prezi - We’re excited to announce that Evan Czaplicki… NoRedInk makes learning grammar fun and easy #187: Redux, React, and Functional JavaScript with Dan Abramov - The Changelog NoRedInk/elm-rails elm-rails 3.0.0 (99+) Elm Discuss - Google Groups Join Elm on Slack! Building a Live-Validated Signup Form in Elm — NoRedInk Tech Elm Packages Join the Changelog community for $20/yr! Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

MacLane Wilkison and Michael Egorov, the creators of ZeroDB, joined the show to talk about ZeroDB — an end-to-end encrypted database (protocol), why it’s open source, how it’s different than other encryption techniques, performance for running encrypted queries, and an interesting topic called Proxy re-encryption. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Codeship – If it works with Docker, it works with Codeship Jet. Toptal – Join the best or hire the best engineers and designers! Email Adam (adam@changelog.com) to get a personal introduction to get started with Toptal. DigitalOcean – Use the code CHANGELOG to get a $10 hosting credit when you create a new DigitalOcean account Featuring:Michael Egorov – GitHubMacLane Wilkison – GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Michael Egorov on GitHub MacLane Wilkison on Twitter @ZeroDB_ congrats on the launch! ZeroDB Homepage ZeroDB on GitHub ZeroDB on AngelList FinTech Innovation Lab London ZeroDB Tutorial MacLane Wilkison Explains ZeroDB ZODB - a native object database for Python Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!