Changelog Interviews

Yehuda Katz joined the show to talk about JSON.API — where the spec came from, who’s involved, compliance, API design, the future, and more. We also finally got Yehuda on the show alone, so we were able to talk with him about his origins, how he got started as a programmer, and his thoughts on struggle vs aptitude. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Codeship – Download the FREE eBook “Why Containers and Docker are the Future” Toptal – Freelance as a Developer OR Designer with Toptal DigitalOcean – Use the code CHANGELOG to get a $10 hosting credit when you create a new DigitalOcean account Featuring:Yehuda Katz – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: asm.js - A low-level, extraordinarily optimizable subset of JavaScript JSON API — A specification for building APIs in JSON Rails: The Next Five Years by Yehuda Katz @ RailsConf 2012 JSON API: Convention Driven API Design by Steve Klabnik @ APIdays Paris 2013 New JSON API Specification Aims to Speed API Development Building a modern bridge between Ember 2.0 and Rails 5 with JSON API The Changelog #42: Rails 3.1 and SproutCore with Yehuda Katz The Changelog #56: Vim with Drew Neil, Tim Pope, and Yehuda Katz The Changelog #131: The Road to Ember 2.0 with Tom Dale and Yehuda Katz The Changelog #151: Rust with Steve Klabnik and Yehuda Katz Ember Data v1.13 Released Is Ember Fast Yet? The Future of the Client-Side Web by Yehuda Katz Thor Homepage The Law of Leaky Abstractions, by Joel Spolsky The NoTCP Manifesto A recent tweet stream from Yehuda about his origins… Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

We have a special doubleheader holiday show for you. Andrew Nesbitt joined the show to talk about 24 Pull Requests and Libraries.io, and Jonathan Rudenberg is back to catch us up on Flynn. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Codeship – Download the FREE eBook “Why Containers and Docker are the Future” Toptal – Freelance as a Developer OR Designer with Toptal DigitalOcean – Use the code CHANGELOG to get a $10 hosting credit when you create a new DigitalOcean account Harvest – Use the code CHANGELOG to save 50% on your first month Featuring:Andrew Nesbitt – Website, GitHub, XJonathan Rudenberg – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: NodeCopter - Programming flying robots with node.js NodeCopter - Core CoderDojo 24pullrequests/24pullrequests 24 Pull Requests (@24PullRequests) on Twitter 24 Pull Requests / Homepage 24 Pull Requests / Sponsors 24 Pull Requests / Contributing 24 Ways - Web design and development articles and tutorials for advent Libraries - The Open Source Discovery Service Libraries.io on GitHub Libraries.io Support (GitHub Issues) howdyai/botkit codebar.io Despo Pentara (@despo) on Twitter Despo Pentara (@despo) on GitHub Flynn – The product that ops provides to developers The Changelog #99: Flynn, Tent, open source PaaSes and more with Jeff Lindsay and Jonathan Rudenberg The Changelog #115: Flynn Updates with Jonathan Rudenberg and Jeff Lindsay Deis | Your Paas. Your Rules. Dokku - The smallest PaaS implementation you’ve ever seen The Changelog #182: Metabase and Open Source Business Intelligence with Sameer Al-Sakran and Tom Robinson The Changelog 181: RethinkDB, Databases, and the Realtime Web With Slava Akhmechet The Changelog #180: Otto, Vagrant, and Automation with Mitchell Hashimoto Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Dan Abramov, creator of Redux, joined the show to talk about his path to becoming a programmer, his introduction to open source, React, JavaScript, functional programming in JavaScript, his thoughts on looking outside of your bubble to other ecosystems and borrowing/sharing what you can. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Codeship – Download the FREE eBook “Why Containers and Docker are the Future” Toptal – Freelance as a Developer OR Designer with Toptal Braintree – Start accepting PayPal, Bitcoin, Venmo, Apple Pay, Android Pay, cards, and whatever’s next – all with a single integration. 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! Featuring:Dan Abramov – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: [Guest idea] Dan Abramov (Redux) · Issue #317 · thechangelog/ping Redux Homepage and Docs rackt/redux “We do not need another Flux framework. We have about 50,000 Flux frameworks.” – @rookieone on #BeyondCode Getting Started with Redux Course by Dan Abramov on Egghead.io Relay | A JavaScript framework for building data-driven React applications Flux | Application Architecture for Building User Interfaces By any means necessary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dan Abramov - Live React: Hot Reloading with Time Travel at react-europe 2015 - YouTube acdlite/flummox omcljs/om David Nolen (@swannodette) on GitHub Elm Middleware | Redux Richard Feldman (@rtfeldman) on GitHub The Changelog #151: Rust with Steve Klabnik and Yehuda Katz Hero: Jordan Walke (@jordwalke) on Twitter Hero: Sebastian Markbåge (@sebmarkbage) on Twitter Hero: Steve Klabnik (@steveklabnik) on Twitter RLRT: Nice interview by @changelog about #rustlang - could give it a try in the following weeks :) Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

László Monda (aka Lotsy) joined the show to talk about a keyboard for hackers — the Ultimate Hacking Keyboard. We discussed the features, the hardware design, the open source that powers it, and more. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Codeship – Download the FREE eBook “Why Containers and Docker are the Future” Toptal – Freelance as a Developer OR Designer with Toptal Harvest – Use the code CHANGELOG to save 50% on your first month 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! Featuring:László Monda – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Ultimate Hacking Keyboard org on GitHub UltimateHackingKeyboard/agent UltimateHackingKeyboard/firmware UltimateHackingKeyboard/ugl-kicad-libs UltimateHackingKeyboard/bootloader-left UltimateHackingKeyboard/bootloader-right From the Ground Up: How I Built the Developer’s Dream Keyboard Ultimate Hacking Keyboard’s campaign on Crowd Supply Ultimate Hacking Keyboard - Image Gallery KiCad EDA Hero: John Carmack Hero: Coding Horror (Jeff Atwood) Hero: Dean Camera (@abcminiuser) on Twitter Hero: Dean Camera’s “Four Walled Cubicle” Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Ahmad Nassri from Mashape joined the show to talk about Kong, an open-source management layer for APIs and Microservices. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Codeship – Download the FREE eBook “Why Containers and Docker are the Future” Braintree – Start accepting PayPal, Bitcoin, Venmo, Apple Pay, Android Pay, cards, and whatever’s next – all with a single integration. Harvest – Use the code CHANGELOG to save 50% on your first month DigitalOcean – Use the code CHANGELOG to get a $10 hosting credit when you create a new DigitalOcean account Featuring:Ahmad Nassri – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Ahmad’s life story blogged Kong Kong’s plugin gallery Justin Dorfman pinged us Mashape - Powering API Driven Software NginX adds JavaScript scripting Lua Cassandra Issue to add Postgres support to Kong Hero: Grace Hopper Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Evan You joined the show to talk about Vue.js - his library for building web interfaces. We discussed what Vue.js offers, what makes it different, why developers should trust this project even if it’s “just a personal project” that’s not backed by an enterprise or a large team. 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. Opbeat for Node.js – Build faster Node.js apps. Instantly pinpoint performance issues, and optimize your code. Install in minutes. Braintree – Start accepting PayPal, Bitcoin, Venmo, Apple Pay, Android Pay, cards, and whatever’s next – all with a single integration. DigitalOcean – Use the code CHANGELOG to get a $10 hosting credit when you create a new DigitalOcean account Featuring:Evan You – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: 2Advanced The Changelog #160: Ampersand.js, SPAs, and WebRTC with Henrik Joreteg The Changelog #149: React.js, React Native, Flux, Relay, and GraphQL with Facebook Creative Lab 5 Vue.js Homepage Vue.js on GitHub Vue.js Examples Vue.js: a (re)introduction Changelog Weekly - Issue #24 Issue Stats Nicholas Young on Twitter: “Listening to The @changelog’s episode on @metabase, and realizing I couldn’t build businesses without open source. vuejs/vue-hackernews Hero: Zach Lieberman (@zachlieberman) on Twitter Hero: Aaron Koblin Hero: TJ Holowaychuk (@tjholowaychuk) on Twitter omcljs/om Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Tal Ater joined the show to talk about the offline first revolution, the use of service workers, how UpUp is helping on that front, speech recognition, and annyang. 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 – Apply for a $5,000 STEM scholarship - Toptal supports aspiring female computer scientists, developers, and software engineers to achieve their goals via financial support and mentorship by top professional developers and designers. Braintree – Start accepting PayPal, Bitcoin, Venmo, Apple Pay, Android Pay, cards, and whatever’s next – all with a single integration. Opbeat for Node.js – Build faster Node.js apps. Instantly pinpoint performance issues, and optimize your code. Install in minutes. Featuring:Tal Ater – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: UpUp - The Offline First Library TalAter/UpUp annyang! Easily add speech recognition to your site TalAter/annyang Introduction to Service Workers on HTML5 Rocks The Open Sourcer Hero: Jake Archibald Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Sameer Al-Sakran and Tom Robinson from Metabase joined the show to discuss Metabase - their open source tool that’s laying the foundation of their goals for open source business intelligence. 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 – Apply for a $5,000 STEM scholarship - Toptal supports aspiring female computer scientists, developers, and software engineers to achieve their goals via financial support and mentorship by top professional developers and designers. Harvest – Simple online time tracking software. DigitalOcean – Use the code CHANGELOG to get a $10 hosting credit when you create a new DigitalOcean account Featuring:Sameer Al-Sakran – Website, GitHub, XTom Robinson – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Metabase metabase/metabase Metabase Discussion Maslow’s hierarchy of needs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 280 North, Inc. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Objective-J - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Cappuccino (application development framework) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia AWS | Amazon Redshift - Cloud Data Warehouse Solutions Justin Dorfman: @metabase looks awesome, can’t wait to try it out. How do you plan to sustain it? Will there be a pro version? Jeff Dean (computer scientist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John Carmack - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia TensorFlow The Changelog #149: React.js, React Native, Flux, Relay, and GraphQL with Facebook The Changelog #171: Living Clojure, ClojureScript, and more with Carin Meier Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Slava Akhmechet joined the show again to catch us up on RethinkDB and the awesome progress they’ve made to power the realtime web. We talked about innovation in databases, compared and contrasted to pub/sub, Pusher, NoSQL, and even The Next Big Thing™ in databases. 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. Braintree – Start accepting PayPal, Bitcoin, Venmo, Apple Pay, Android Pay, cards, and whatever’s next – all with a single integration. Harvest – Simple online time tracking software. DigitalOcean – Use the code CHANGELOG to get a $10 hosting credit when you create a new DigitalOcean account Featuring:Slava Akhmechet – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: The Changelog #114: RethinkDB with Slava Akhmechet Learn to code like it’s 1996 How to pick startup ideas RethinkDB: the open-source database for the realtime web Support Facebook’s GraphQL · Issue #3711 · rethinkdb/rethinkdb Pusher | Leader In Realtime Technologies Build Realtime Apps & Take Websockets To The Next Level - PubNub Firebase - Build Extraordinary Apps NextGxDx | The Genetic Testing Resource. The world’s most wearable camera - Narrative Fidelity Investments - Retirement, Funds, and Online Trading An overview of C++14 language features Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Mitchell Hashimoto joined the show to talk about HashiCorp’s new tool - Otto, how it compares to and compliments Vagrant, Automation, and we even talked to Mitchell about his history with software development in the beginning of the show. 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. Braintree – Start accepting PayPal, Bitcoin, Venmo, Apple Pay, Android Pay, cards, and whatever’s next – all with a single integration. Backtrace – Reduce your time to resolution. Go beyond stacktraces and logs. Get to the root cause quickly with deep application introspection at your fingertips. Linode – Our cloud server of choice! We host everything we do on Linode servers. Use the code gotime20 to get 2 months free! Featuring:Mitchell Hashimoto – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: HashiCorp The Changelog #72: Vagrant with Mitchell Hashimoto The Changelog #88: Vagrant, HashiCorp and Beyond with Mitchell Hashimoto A 25-Year-Old Coding Genius Was Making $500,000 A Year In College, And He Just Raised $10 Million For A Startup Otto - Development and Deployment Made Easy Otto Announcement Otto, The Successor to Vagrant Getting Started with Otto Otto vs. Vagrant Vagrant Vagrant + VMware The Changelog #163: Go in the Modern Enterprise Using gokit with Peter Bourgon HashiConf sysdig InfluxDB The Changelog #168: Prometheus and Service Monitoring with Julius Volz from SoundCloud The Changelog #170: BoltDB, InfluxDB and more with Ben Johnson Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!