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The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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Apr 28, 2017 • 1h 1min

Open source at Microsoft, inclusion, diversity, and OSCON (Interview)

Scott Hanselman joined today’s show produced in partnership with our friends at OSCON. Scott is a Program Chair of OSCON, host of the podcast Hanselminutes, and advocate for open source inside of Microsoft and the Azure Cloud team. We talked about the oldest software he wrote that’s still in production, the shift inside Microsoft to open source and why, as well as ways to make inclusion and diversity a priority in your communities. 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! Get one of the fastest, most efficient SSD cloud servers for only $5/mo. Use the code changelog2017 to get 4 months free! Hired – Get hired. It’s free — in fact, they pay you to get hired. Our listeners get a double hiring bonus of $600. Datadog – Cloud-Scale Monitoring — Monitoring that tracks your dynamic infrastructure and applications. Plus next-generation APM. Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize end-to-end application performance. Start your free trial, install the agent, and get a free t-shirt! OSCON – O’Reilly’s Open Source Convention combines the experience of the open source community with ideas and strategies for using open source tools and technologies. There’s no event quite like OSCON! When registration opens — save 20% on most passes by using the code CHANGELOG20 when you register. Featuring:Scott Hanselman – Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteAdam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteJerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedInShow Notes:Use our code changeloghallpass to get a FREE Expo Hall Pass to OSCON. This will get you access to the hallway track, the exhibitors, and a bunch of other fun stuff. Adam and Jerod will be there at booth 231, so make sure you stop by. We’ll have some tees and stickers to give away, but they are in limited supply and reserved for members of Changelog Community, which is free to join — so go sign up. Scott’s podcast ~> Hanselminutes keysleft.com Join the Changelog Community (it’s free) BabySmash Codeland Conference Related shows you should listen to: Spotlight #13: Node at Microsoft, ChakraCore, and VM Neutrality with Gaurav Seth and Arunesh Chandra The Changelog #134: Open Sourcing .NET Core with the Microsoft .NET team The Changelog #152: TypeScript and Open Source at Microsoft with Anders Hejlsberg and Jonathan Turner The Changelog #176: CROSSOVER — CodeNewbie and Community with Saron Yitbarek The Changelog #224: .NET Core and Microsoft’s Shift to Open Source with Bertrand Le Roy Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
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Apr 28, 2017 • 1h 18min

Open source lessons learned (Interview)

Zeno Rocha, Principal Developer Advocate at Liferay, joined the show to talk about DevRel, his open source work (clipboard.js, Dracula Theme, jQuery Boilerplate, Browser Diet, et al), and his passion for teaching and giving talks at conferences. Zeno also shared some really interesting stories about his first contributions to open source, how that played out, and the lessons learned along the way. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Sentry – Get 30 days free when you sign up with the code changelog. Error reporting and notifications for JavaScript apps and the rest of your stack. Start tracking errors for free. Support for React, Angular, Ember, Vue, Backbone, and Node frameworks like Express and Koa. Toptal – Hire the best freelance developers and designers with Toptal. Email adam@changelog.com for a personal introduction. Datadog – Cloud-Scale Monitoring — Monitoring that tracks your dynamic infrastructure and applications. Plus next-generation APM. Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize end-to-end application performance. Start your free trial, install the agent, and get a free t-shirt! GoCD – GoCD is an on-premise open source continuous delivery server created by ThoughtWorks that lets you automate and streamline your build-test-release cycle for reliable, continuous delivery of your product. Featuring:Zeno Rocha – Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteAdam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteShow Notes:Special thanks to Justin Dorfman for helping connect us to Zeno Rocha for this episode — BTW check out SustainOSS.org, a one day conversation on June 19, 2017 about sustaining open source. We’ll be there! DevRelSummit Liferay clipboard.js Issue #56: OT: How did the repo get 5000 stars in a few days? jQuery Boilerplate Issue #10: Everything is wrong, so deleted all of it, this way you can start over and do it right. Browser Diet - The definitive front-end performance guide. Dracula Theme DevSpace - Stay up to date with what’s happening now on GitHub The Changelog #246: First-time Contributors and Maintainer Balance with Kent C. Dodds Reminder on how you spend your time Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
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Apr 17, 2017 • 1h 14min

Firefox Debugger and DevTools (Interview)

Jason Laster joined the show to talk about Firefox Debugger and DevTools. We talked about the backstory of Firefox, Firebug, the new Debugger.html, why React and Redux made a good fit to develop Debugger as a standalone application, community efforts, and getting started. 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! Get one of the fastest, most efficient SSD cloud servers for only $5/mo. Use the code changelog2017 to get 4 months free! Toptal – Hire the best freelance developers and designers with Toptal. Email adam@changelog.com for a personal introduction. GoCD – GoCD is an on-premise open source continuous delivery server created by ThoughtWorks that lets you automate and streamline your build-test-release cycle for reliable, continuous delivery of your product. Featuring:Jason Laster – Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteAdam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteJerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedInShow Notes: The Recurse Center A quick history of Firefox DevTools Firebug Web Developer (Add-on) 3D view Issue #544 - James Long and Jason Laster of the mozilla debugger.html project - thanks Bryan Clark Firefox Developer Tools WebIDE XUL Tutorial Firefox Debugger debugger.html Homepage and readme Firefox DevTools on GitHub GDB: The GNU Project Debugger Reactide - the first dedicated IDE for React web application development The Changelog #242: The Burden of Open Source with James Long Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
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Apr 10, 2017 • 1h 13min

First-time contributors and maintainer balance (Interview)

Kent C. Dodds joined the show to talk about guiding and supporting first time contributors to open source. We talked about the many ways to be first-timer friendly, how to contribute to open source, the burden and balance of a maintainer, and a few of the projects Kent maintains, including his latest project at PayPal called Glamourous. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Sentry – Get 30 days free when you sign up with the code changelog. Error reporting and notifications for JavaScript apps and the rest of your stack. Start tracking errors for free. Support for React, Angular, Ember, Vue, Backbone, and Node frameworks like Express and Koa. Toptal – Hire the best freelance developers and designers with Toptal. Email adam@changelog.com for a personal introduction. GoCD – GoCD is an on-premise open source continuous delivery server created by ThoughtWorks that lets you automate and streamline your build-test-release cycle for reliable, continuous delivery of your product. Featuring:Kent C. Dodds – Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteAdam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteJerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedInShow Notes: First Timers Only firsttimersonly.com + GitHub repo all-contributors - ✨ Recognize all contributors, not just the ones who push code ✨ all-contributors-cli [egghead.io] - How to Contribute to an Open Source Project on GitHub Changelog.com on GitHub Thanks to Marco Vito Moscaritolo for this PR Thanks to Christian Franco for this PR stack-overflow-copy-paste - Utility functions copy/pasted (and modified slightly) from Stack Overflow Managing an Open Source Project - a talk from Kent C. Dodds The Changelog #242: The Burden of Open Source with James Long Why I’m Frequently Absent from Open Source by James Long Healthy Open Source by Mikeal Rogers Learning to Quit Glamorous! Blog post + GitHub repo Make a Pull Request Adam Stacoviak in Bosnia and Herzegovina on a peacekeeping mission with the United States Army in 2000. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
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Mar 28, 2017 • 1h 14min

Open Source at Google (Interview)

Will Norris (Engineering Manager at Google’s Open Source office) joined the show to talk about their new release of the Google Open Source website as well as the release of Google’s internal documentation on how they do open source. Nearly 70 pages of documentation have been made public under creative commons license for the world to use. We talked about the backstory of Google’s Open Source office, their philosophy on OSS, their involvement in the TODO group, and much more. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Hired – Get hired. It’s free — in fact, they pay you to get hired. Our listeners get a double hiring bonus of $600. Rollbar – Put errors in their place! npm install --save rollbar for error tracking in your Node.js apps. GoCD – GoCD is an on-premise open source continuous delivery server created by ThoughtWorks that lets you automate and streamline your build-test-release cycle for reliable, continuous delivery of your product. Featuring:Will Norris – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteAdam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteJerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedInShow Notes: A New Home for Google Open Source Google Open Source - Bringing better technology to the world by promoting open source. Google Open Source docs TODO - Talk openly, develop openly GitHub now lets its workers keep the IP when they use company resources for personal projects Chris DiBona Check out the Project Metadata project Will mentioned during the show The Changelog #211: Open Source at Facebook with James Pearce Google on GitHub David Recordon on Changelog.com Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
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Mar 25, 2017 • 1h 7min

Learning JavaScript and Bringing People Together (Interview)

Tracy Lee joined the show to talk about bringing people together, helping people, and making an impact. We covered learning JavaScript, the ins and outs of her road to get to where she’s at today, hitting burnout and sleeping for two weeks, breaking into the JavaScript community, and the fun cruise, workshops, and conferences she’s working on for the JavaScript community. 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! npm install --save rollbar for error tracking in your Node.js apps. Hired – Get hired. It’s free — in fact, they pay you to get hired. Our listeners get a double hiring bonus of $2,000. Datadog – Cloud-Scale Monitoring — Monitoring that tracks your dynamic infrastructure and applications. Plus next-generation APM. Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize end-to-end application performance. Start your free trial, install the agent, and Datadog will send you a free Datadog t-shirt! Featuring:Tracy Lee – Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteAdam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteJerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedInShow Notes: This.Media @EmberSherpa Contributor Days ng-cruise Ember CLI Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
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Mar 18, 2017 • 1h 16min

Let's Encrypt the Web (Interview)

Jacob Hoffman-Andrews, Senior Staff Technologist at the EFF and the lead developer of Let’s Encrypt, joined the show to talk about the history of SSL, the start of Let’s Encrypt, why it’s important to encrypt the web and what happens if we don’t, Certbot, and the impact Let’s Encrypt has had on securing the web. 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! Get one of the fastest, most efficient SSD cloud servers for only $5/mo. Use the code changelog2017 to get 4 months free! Toptal – Scale your team and hire from the top 3% of developers and designers with Toptal. Email adam@changelog.com for a personal introduction. Rollbar – Put errors in their place! npm install --save rollbar for error tracking in your Node.js apps. Featuring:Jacob Hoffman-Andrews – Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteAdam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteJerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedInShow Notes: Jacob Hoffman-Andrews on EFF.org Search Changelog.com for “http/2” and “http2” The Changelog #161: The HTTP/2 Spec with Ilya Grigorik Boulder: An ACME-based CA (written in Go) Automatic Certificate Management Environment (ACME) Certbot (previously the Let’s Encrypt Client) - EFF’s tool to obtain certs from Let’s Encrypt, and (optionally) auto-enable HTTPS on your server. It can also act as a client for any other CA that uses the ACME protocol. Certbot’s Interactive Guide is rad The Crypto Wars: Governments Working to Undermine Encryption Root certificate trust store Online Certificate Status Protocol Jacob talked about using .wellknown in the root of projects Go Time #14: CaddyServer, the ACME Protocol, and TLS with Matt Holt [Wired] Google’s Chrome Hackers Are About to Upend Your Idea of Web Security Let’s Encrypt Stats Donate to Let’s Encrypt and/or Sponsor Let’s Encrypt Wanna pitch in? Check for “help wanted” tags on their repos… What It Costs to Run Let’s Encrypt BONUS - From Jacob Hoffman-Andrews ~> How Not To Get Phished Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
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Mar 9, 2017 • 1h 13min

The burden of open source (Interview)

James Long joined the show to talk about his recent post, “Why I’m Frequently Absent from Open Source”. He shared several points in his blog post that struck a chord with us, so we invited him on the show to talk through the gritty details and peel back the layers of open source — the people involved, sustainability, the responsibility, the guilt, and the balance it takes to keep it all together. 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! npm install --save rollbar for error tracking in your Node.js apps. Toptal – Scale your team and hire from the top 3% of developers and designers with Toptal. Email adam@changelog.com for a personal introduction. 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 30-days free on Compose Featuring:James Long – Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteAdam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteShow Notes:James recently left Mozilla and shortly after he launched an open source project called Prettier - an opinionated JavaScript formatter. It was a great success. Needless to say, James experienced that overwhelming feeling many indie open source developers feel when faced with all the work required to maintain a successful open source project — the issues, feature requests, PRs, extra time required, and all the communication can really be a burden, especially when you have a full-time contracting gig and a family. His blog post was a response to this feeling as well as a love letter to his wife. Why I’m Frequently Absent From Open Source Prettier gamedev.net Scheme James’ advice for getting away from your monitor is to make pizza. If you plan to take his advice, he recommends that you check out The Pizza Book by Aaron Quint and Michael R. Bernstein. BONUS LINK (from James) — Watch Hammock Driven Development by Rich Hickey Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
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Feb 24, 2017 • 1h 14min

The Story of Atom (Interview)

Nathan Sobo, founding member of the Atom editor team at GitHub, joined the show take us all the way back to the beginning of Atom to learn where it came from, the founding team, the problem it solves, on through to shipping 1.0 and beyond. 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! Get one of the fastest, most efficient SSD cloud servers for only $5/mo. Use the code changelog2017 to get 4 months free! Hired – Get hired. It’s free — in fact, they pay you when you get hired. Our listeners get a double hiring bonus of $2,000. 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:Nathan Sobo – Twitter, GitHubAdam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteJerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedInShow Notes: Lambda the Ultimate Chris Wanstrath Corey Johnson Github Atom’s Code-Editor Nerds Take Over Their Universe Atom on Libraries.io Treetop on Libraries.io The super early version of Atom was built on Ace Editor Atom: free and open source for everyone Atom homepage @atomeditor on Twitter Atom on GitHub Atom Flight Manual – Documentation for Atom, generated by nanoc, hosted by GitHub Pages Atom Blog Atom Forum The Changelog #216: Electron and Cross Platform Desktop Apps with Zeke Sikelianos Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
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Feb 21, 2017 • 1h 6min

Feedbin and RSS resurgence (Interview)

Ben Ubois, the creator of Feedbin (a simple, good-looking online RSS reader) joined the show to talk about the indie web and developers, how RSS usage has changed over the years – particularly since Google Reader shutdown. We also talked about RSS vs the social web that we’re in now and the idea of an RSS resurgence and taking back control over the content we choose to subscribe to. 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! Get one of the fastest, most efficient SSD cloud servers for only $5/mo. Use the code changelog2017 to get 4 months free! Hired – Get hired. It’s free — in fact, they pay you when you get hired. Our listeners get a double hiring bonus of $2,000. Featuring:Ben Ubois – Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteAdam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteJerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedInShow Notes: Feedbin Feedbin in GitHub Image Previews in Feedbin OpenCV Sentry Reeder Feedly Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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