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May 30, 2017 • 1h 14min
JAMstack, Netlify CMS, and 10x-ing Smashing Magazine (Interview)
Matt Biilman and Chris Bach joined the show to talk about JAMstack, Netlify CMS, how open source drives standards, and 10x-ing the speed of Smashing Magazine.
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Featuring:Matt Biilmann – Website, GitHub, XChris Bach – Website, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
JAMstack (JavaScript, APIs, and Markup) is a new way of building websites and apps that delivers better performance, higher security, lower cost of scaling, and a better developer experience.
Netlify CMS is an open-source CMS built with JAMstack principles designed around a fully Git workflow.
Smashing Magazine just got 10x faster
Meet The Next Smashing Magazine
Why Static Site Generators Are The Next Big Thing
next.smashingmagazine.com
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May 21, 2017 • 1h 11min
The Backstory of Kubernetes (Interview)
Tim Hockin and Aparna Sinha joined the show to talk about the backstory of Kubernetes inside Google, how Tim and others got it funded, the infrastructure of Kubernetes, and how they’ve been able to succeed by focusing on the community.
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Featuring:Tim Hockin – Website, GitHub, XAparna Sinha – GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
kubernetes.io
Large-scale cluster management at Google with Borg
Kubernetes The Hard Way
Go Time #20: Kubernetes, Containers, and Go with Kelsey Hightower
Bringing Pokémon GO to life on Google Cloud
Google Cloud Platform
Kubernetes on Wikipedia
kubernetes/minikube
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May 4, 2017 • 10min
BONUS - Sustain Open Source Software (Interview)
Justin Dorfman joined us for a special BONUS episode of The Changelog to share some details about Sustain Conference with you. It’s a one day conversation for Open Source Software sustainers at GitHub HQ (SF) on June 19, 2017. No keynotes, expo halls or talks. Only discussions about how to get more resources to support digital infrastructure. Plus, we’ll be there.
Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Justin Dorfman – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
Sustain Conference
Sponsor Sustain
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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.
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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 – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow 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
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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
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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 – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow 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
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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 – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow 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
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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 – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow 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!

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 – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow 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!

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 – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
This.Media
@EmberSherpa
Contributor Days
ng-cruise
Ember CLI
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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 – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow 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
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