
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

Oct 30, 2013 • 1h 2min
Capistrano and Burnout
Adam and Andrew talk with Lee Hambley about some serious subjects such as Capistrano 3.0/2.0, open source burnout, various conversations around deploying, Ruby, respect, handing over the reigns and more. If you hack on open source or run an open source project, you should listen to this episode.
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Featuring:Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAndrew Thorp – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:
Lee Hambley
LeeHambley (LeeHambley) on Twitter
Time to hand over the reigns before Capistrano costs me my youth?
The Changelog Weekly - Issue #9
capistrano/capistrano on GitHub
RVM 2.0 - Fundraisers
[Book] Who Moved My Cheese?: An A-Mazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life
Say Hello To Harrow
Programmer Hero: Jamis Buck (jamis) on Twitter
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Oct 26, 2013 • 50min
Open Karma and Design Love for OSS
Adam and Andrew talk with Justine Arreche a Designer at Travis CI and Sebastian Gräßl a Freelance Developer. Together, they’re the creators of Open Karma, a tool to help bridge the gap between developers and designers in open source (they’re bringing some design love to OSS).
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Show Notes:
Open Karma : helping open source be more amazing
Open Karma (OpenKarmaDesign) on Twitter
OpenKarma (Open Karma) on GitHub
The Travis CI Blog: New UI Improvements on Travis CI
Justine Arreche (SaltineJustine) on Twitter
Sebastian Gräßl (bastilian) on Twitter
Hello, Justine.
Sebastian Gräßl
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Oct 16, 2013 • 56min
Exercism.io and Crowd-Sourced Code Reviews
Adam and Jerod talk with Katrina Owen about Exercism.io - an open source platform for crowd-sourced code reviews on daily practice problems. Practice problems are available in Ruby, Elixir, JavaScript, Python, Haskell, and Clojure, and other languages are in the pipeline.
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Featuring:Katrina Owen – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
#105: Ghost blogging platform with John O’Nolan - The Changelog
Hannah Wolfe (ErisDS) on Twitter
kytrinyx (Katrina Owen)
Katrina Owen (kytrinyx) on Twitter
Hacking Passion, or Who is Katrina Owen?
Therapeutic Refactoring by Katrina Owen - Cascadia Ruby Conf 2012
Katrina Owen on Ruby Rogues
kytrinyx/exercism.io
exercism.io
Introducing exercism.io
How to nitpick - exercism.io
kytrinyx/exercism
msgehard/go-exercism
Code Triage
The Changelog Weekly - Issue #9
The Changelog Weekly - Issue #8
Sandi Metz (Programming Hero)
Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby
Confident Ruby
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Oct 9, 2013 • 48min
Balanced Payments and Open Sourcing Everything
Andrew and Adam talk with Marshall Jones from Balanced Payments about all they do in open source, and how they approach being an open company that desires to release as much software as they can as open source.
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Featuring:Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAndrew Thorp – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:
Get paid to write tutorials for DigitalOcean
The Changelog #87: Sustaining open source and building an open company with Chad Whitacre
Balanced - Payments for Marketplaces
mjallday (Marshall Jones) on GitHub
balanced (Balanced) on GitHub
balanced/balanced-dashboard
balanced/billy
JSON API now has a MIME type - Changelog
Flask (A Python Microframework)
Make a Hangman client and get hired at Balanced Payments
Open Products - The Changelog
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Oct 5, 2013 • 42min
Semantic UI
Andrew and Adam talk with Jack Lukic about Semantic UI.
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Getting Started | Semantic UI
Myfav.es - Start Here
jlukic (Jack Lukic)
jlukic/Semantic-UI
Introduction | Semantic UI
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Sep 26, 2013 • 57min
Ghost Blogging Platform
Andrew and Adam talk with John O’Nolan about his open source blogging platform Ghost written in JavaScript (Node.js), and how he and his team are working hard to create this beautifully designed platform dedicated to one thing: Publishing.
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Featuring:Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAndrew Thorp – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:
Subscribe to Changelog Weekly
Ghost: Just a Blogging Platform
Ghost Blogging Platform Features
TryGhost (Ghost)
Ghost: Just a Blogging Platform by John O’Nolan — Kickstarter
The Ghost Blog
Get paid to write tutorials for DigitalOcean
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Sep 20, 2013 • 50min
Kickstarting Espruino
Andrew and Jerod talk with Gordon Williams about his hardware/software open source project called Espruino that’s currently raising funds on Kickstarter. Espruino is the world’s first JavaScript microcontroller for beginners or experts, now open source.
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Featuring:Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAndrew Thorp – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:
Subscribe to Changelog Weekly
Kickstarter - Espruino: JavaScript for Things by Gordon Williams
Espruino.com
Espruino - Tutorials
Espruino - YouTube
Gordon Williams (Espruino) on Twitter
Gordon Williams (gfwilliams) on GitHub
gfwilliams/EspruinoSerialTerminal
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Sep 13, 2013 • 1h 4min
GitLab and Open Source
Andrew and Adam talk with Sytse Sijbrandij, one of the Co-founders of GitLab, about building GitLab, sustaining open source, community management, and ways to handle a “road map” for your product or project.
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Featuring:Sid Sijbrandij – Website, LinkedIn, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAndrew Thorp – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:
Subscribe to Changelog Weekly
GitLab: Self Hosted Git Management Application
GitLab 6.0 released!
Announcing GitLab 6.0 Enterprise Edition
gitlabhq (gitlabhq)
sitaramc/gitolite
gitlabhq/gitlab-vagrant-vm
GitLab.com | Open Source Git Management Software
Programming Hero: Yehuda Katz
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Sep 6, 2013 • 54min
RVM and Ruby Version Managment
Adam Stacoviak and Jerod Santo talk with Michal Papis about the history and future of RVM, the plan for RVM 2.0, the complexities of managing your Ruby version, Ruby 2.0 and more.
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Subscribe to Changelog Weekly
Michal Papis (mpapis) on Twitter
mpapis (Michal Papis)
wayneeseguin/rvm
Issues · wayneeseguin/rvm
RVM: Ruby Version Manager
#rvm on freenode Web IRC
RVM 2.0 The Plan - Google Drive
RVM Autolibs: Automatic Dependency Handling and Ruby 2.0
The Changelog #64: Pow, Rails 3.1 Asset Pipeline, Cinco, CoffeeScript, and more with Sam Stephenson
The Changelog #66: RVM and BDSM with Wayne Seguin
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Aug 22, 2013 • 1h 3min
npm Origins and Node.js
Andrew and Adam talk with Isaac Schlueter about the origins of npm, building an asynchronous web with Node.js, and how to get paid to open source.
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isaacs (Isaac Z. Schlueter)
Foo Hack » Isaac Schlueter on Web Development
isaacs (izs) on Twitter
isaacs/npm
Install Node.js and NPM using Homebrew on OS X - Changelog
node.js
BOWER: A package manager for the web
Grunt: The JavaScript Task Runner
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!