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The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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Jun 29, 2016 • 1h 24min

GitHub and Google on Public Datasets & Google BigQuery (Interview)

Arfon Smith from GitHub, and Felipe Hoffa & Will Curran from Google joined the show to talk about BigQuery — the big picture behind Google Cloud’s push to host public datasets, the collaboration between the two companies to expand GitHub’s public dataset, adding query capabilities that have never been possible before, example queries, and more! 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! Full Stack Fest 2016 – Early Bird tickets available until July 15. Use the code THECHANGELOG after July 15 to save 75 EUR (before taxes). Featuring:Arfon Smith – Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteFelipe Hoffa – Twitter, GitHubWill Curran – WebsiteAdam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteJerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedInShow Notes:This show was produced in collaboration with GitHub and Google to announce the big expansion to GitHub’s public dataset on BigQuery. The Changelog #144: GitHub Archive and Changelog Nightly with Ilya Grigorik GitHub announcement Google Cloud Blog announcement Google Open Source Blog announcement Felipe Hoffa - GitHub on BigQuery: Analyze all the code GitHub public dataset — This 3TB+ dataset comprises the largest released source of GitHub activity to date. It contains a full snapshot of the content of more than 2.8 million open source GitHub repositories including more than 145 million unique commits, over 2 billion different file paths, and the contents of the latest revision for 163 million files, all of which are searchable with regular expressions. NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day Weather Data USA Name Data Google BigQuery Gist: BigQuery Examples from Arfon Smith Shawn Pearce (Google) - the unsung hero at Google who did all the hard work getting the data pipeline working for this new dataset Email bq-public-data@google.com to talk with Will and BigQuery’s public dataset team Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
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Jun 22, 2016 • 1h 38min

Ecto 2 and Phoenix Presence (Interview)

José Valim and Chris McCord joined the show to talk all about how they’re advancing the “state of the art” in the Elixir community with their release of Ecto 2.0 and Phoenix 1.2. We also share our journey with Elixir at The Changelog, find out what makes Phoenix’s new Presence feature so special, and even find time for Chris to field a few of our support requests. 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! 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. Codeship – If it works with Docker, it works with Codeship – use the code THECHANGELOGPODCAST2016 to get 20% off any plan for 3 months Featuring:José Valim – Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteChris McCord – Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteAdam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteJerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedInShow Notes: The Changelog #147: Elixir and Phoenix with Chris McCord The Changelog #194: Elixir with José Valim What makes Phoenix Presence special ElixirConf EU Elm The Phoenix Web Framework DockYard - Web and Mobile User Experience Consultancy Chris McCord – Phoenix 1.2 and Beyond (video) Relisa on GitHub Exrm on GitHub Edeliver on GitHub Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
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Jun 18, 2016 • 1h 21min

Ubuntu Everywhere (Interview)

Dustin Kirkland joined the show to talk about Ubuntu — the most widely used flavor of Linux. We talked about the rise of Ubuntu, Ubuntu being everywhere, their collaboration with Microsoft to bring Bash to Windows, and what we can expect from the future of this Linux distro. 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! 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. Blinksale – Simple invoicing for freelancers! Unlimited invoicing. One plan. One price. Unlimited everything. Get in, get paid, & get back to what you love. Featuring:Dustin Kirkland – Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteAdam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteJerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedInShow Notes: Ubuntu on Windows – The Ubuntu Userspace for Windows Developers Changelog Weekly - Issue #99 TimeBasedReleases - Ubuntu Wiki MUD - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ReleasePlanning/TimeBased - GNOME Wiki! Snappy Ubuntu Core | Cloud | Ubuntu Canonical | The company behind Ubuntu Mark Shuttleworth Ubuntu partners Launchpad Microsoft Azure: Cloud Computing Platform & Services Windows Subsystem for Linux Overview | Windows Subsystem for Linux Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
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Jun 11, 2016 • 1h 10min

The advantages of being a blind programmer (Interview)

Parham Doustdar is a blind programmer and joined the show to talk about the advantages he has being a blind programmer, the tools he uses, why he had to quit school, and carving your own path. Note: We couldn’t stop using visual words when talking with Parham — even he couldn’t help himself. So you’ll get to hear us all laugh at ourselves near the end. 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. 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. Linode – Our cloud server of choice! This is what we built our new CMS on. Use the code changelog20 to get 2 months free! Featuring:Parham Doustdar – Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteAdam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteJerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedInShow Notes: Interviewing a good backend developer (without sight) · Issue #437 · thechangelog/ping MUD - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia An Autobiography of a Blind Programmer – Parham Doustdar’s Blog The Tools of a Blind Programmer – Parham Doustdar’s Blog The Advantages of Being a Blind Programmer – Parham Doustdar’s Blog Eclipse desktop & web IDEs Aphantasia: “how it feels to be blind in the mind” Hero: Uncle Bob Hero: Uncle Bob Martin (@unclebobmartin) on Twitter Docker - Build, Ship, and Run Any App, Anywhere Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
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Jun 4, 2016 • 1h 57min

A protocol for dying (Interview)

Since airing this show, Pieter passed away due to his battle with a metastasis of bile duct cancer in both lungs. But rather than listen to this show with sadness, listen with a happy heart and let’s celebrate Pieter’s life, and what he has accomplished. Thank you Pieter from the bottom of our hearts for your time on this show and for all that you are. You are loved by us my friend. This show will forever be a very special show for us. Pieter Hintjens is the creator of ZeroMQ and The Collective Code Construction Contract (C4), a writer of many books and protocols, as well as a developer with decades of building software and communities – he’s someone who’s given so much, and continues to give - even up until the time he is planning for his death. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com. Linode – Our cloud server of choice. Deploy a fast, efficient, native SSD cloud server for only $5/month. Get 4 months free using the code changelog2018. Start your server - head to linode.com/changelog Rollbar – We catch our errors before our users do because of Rollbar. Resolve errors in minutes, and deploy your code with confidence. Learn more at rollbar.com/changelog. Featuring:Pieter Hintjens – Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteAdam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteJerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedInShow Notes: A Protocol for Dying Donate to make Pieter’s childrens’ lives easier, when he’s not there any more Planned Death Building Online Communities Books by Pieter Hintjens ZeroMQ Homepage The ZeroMQ project on GitHub Doron Somech, Pieter’s successor ZeroMQ: Modern & Fast Networking Stack by Ilya Grigorik ZeroMQ - Get The Software ZeroMQ Language Bindings ZeroMQ - Solve a Problem ZeroMQ - The Guide C4 - The Collective Code Construction Contract (C4) Changelog Weekly #12 Changelog Weekly #72 Changelog Weekly #73 Changelog Weekly #83 OpenWrt The Changelog #203: Jewelbots and Getting Kids Coding With Sara Chipps and George Stocker Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
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May 21, 2016 • 1h 14min

IPFS (InterPlanetary File System) (Interview)

Juan Benet joined the show to talk about IPFS (InterPlanetary File System), a peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol to make the web faster, safer, and more open — addressed by content and identities. We talked about what it is, how it works, how it can be used, and how it just might save the future of the web. 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 – Our cloud server of choice! This is what we built our new CMS on. Use the code changelog20 to get 2 months free! Featuring:Juan Benet – Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteAdam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteJerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedInShow Notes: IPFS is a new peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol. IPFS Alpha Demo - YouTube Ralph Merkle’s Home Page EverythingStays - Immutable & Distributed NodeJS Modules With IPFS Self-certifying File System - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Conflict-free replicated data type - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia OpenBazaar Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
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May 14, 2016 • 1h 4min

Jewelbots and Getting Kids Coding (Interview)

Sara Chipps, the creator of Jewelbots, and George Stocker, the VP of Engineering at Jewelbots joined the show to talk about connected wearables for kids, keeping UX simple, building a business on open source, and influencing young girls through the possibilities of coding. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Sara Chipps – Twitter, WebsiteGeorge Stocker – TwitterAdam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteJerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedInShow Notes: Jewelbots - The friendship-bracelet for the Smartphone era - Friendship bracelets for the Smartphone Era (social networking, make games and custom friend animations by writing code and uploading it to their Jewelbots, transfer secret messages) Jewelbots on GitHub GitHub page for JewelBots! Girl Develop It Study material, courses on Web Concepts, HTML, CSS, ANGULAR.JS, Javascript, PHP and more Girl Develop It on GitHub GitHub page for Girl Develop It! Firebug - Developer Tools for FireFox! ngCordova ngCordova is obsolete, please move to Ionic Native!! Ionic Native on GitHub. Documentation for Ionic Native. Ionic: Advanced HTML5 Hybrid Mobile App Framework - Offical Website. Miguel de Icaza on Wikipedia - Wikipedia page of Miguel de Icaza! Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
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May 7, 2016 • 1h 23min

23 years of Ruby (Interview)

Big show! Matz, creator of the Ruby programming language, joined the show to discuss where he began as a programmer, the origins of Ruby, its history and future, Ruby 3.0, concurrency and parallelism, Streem, Erlang, Elixir, and more. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Ruby on Rails Jobs – Choose from a constant stream of top Ruby on Rails jobs while staying flexible as a freelancer. 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. Full Stack Fest CFP – They have 16 speaker slots open. Talks are 40 minutes long, including Q&A. Featuring:Yukihiro Matsumoto – Twitter, GitHubAdam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteJerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedInShow Notes: Yukihiro Matsumoto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ruby Programming Language Ruby (programming language) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia matz/streem: prototype of stream based programming language Pascal (programming language) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Lisp (programming language) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Smalltalk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia mruby/mruby: Lightweight Ruby Larry Wall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Alan Kay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John McCarthy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ruby Issue Tracking System Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
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Apr 30, 2016 • 1h 19min

Why SQLite succeeded as a database (Interview)

Richard Hipp, the creator of SQLite, discusses the history and success of the database, its development funding, and why it is the most widely deployed engine in the world.
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Apr 19, 2016 • 1h 30min

JavaScript and Robots (Interview)

Raquel Vélez, aka Rockbot, joined the show to talk about where she came from, how she got into programming with JavaScript, her passion for robots and mechanical engineering, the culture of npm, 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! Full Stack Fest 2016 – Barcelona, Sept 5-9 2016 – Full Stack Fest is a week­long full-stack development conference with a focus on solving current problems with new & inspiring perspectives. It aims to push new, interesting ideas to the whole technology stack, delivered by some of the brightest minds in our industry. Featuring:Raquel Vélez – Twitter, WebsiteAdam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteJerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedInShow Notes: Google Search “You can’t be it if you can’t see it” Beyond Code with Amanda Shih Reactive Podcast rockbot/vektor Smart Latinas Get The Party Started JavaScript Robotics: Building NodeBots with Johnny-Five, Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and BeagleBone squishy circuits - Google Search Donovan Buck (@dtex) on Twitter #187: Redux, React, and Functional JavaScript with Dan Abramov #149: React.js, React Native, Flux, Relay, and GraphQL with Facebook #113: Scale npm with Isaac Schlueter and Charlie Robbins npm camp Rockbot | Music For Business. Jukebox App for Customers. Colleen Bot (@CJBot) on Twitter Nicole Sullivan (@stubbornella) on Twitter React - A JavaScript library for building user interfaces Feross on GitHub Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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