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Jul 15, 2016 • 1h 20min
Open Source at Facebook (Interview)
James Pearce, Head of Open Source at Facebook, joined the show to talk about that very subject — open source at Facebook, his path to software development, why he’s the person to lead open source at Facebook, their view on open source, their culture of open source, how they choose what to open source, and more importantly — how they focus on, support, and nurture the community.
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Featuring:James Pearce – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
Facebook on GitHub
Facebook Open Source
Facebook Engineering Blog
React - Facebook’s JavaScript library for building user interfaces
HipHop VM (HHVM) - Facebook’s virtual machine designed for executing programs written in PHP
Hack - Facebook’s programming language for HHVM
Facebook’s top 5 open source projects of 2015
React Native: A year in review
Dive into React Native performance
Open sourcing ReDex: Making Android apps smaller and faster
Building and managing iOS model objects with Remodel
Automatic memory leak detection on iOS
The Changelog #196: TiddlyWiki with Jeremy Ruston
MK14 (Microcomputer Kit 14)
Nuclide - Facebook’s unified developer experience for web and mobile development IDE, built as a single package on top of Atom to provide hackability and the support of an active community.
Buck - Facebook’s high-performance build tool
a16z Podcast: When Humanity Meets A.I.
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Jul 9, 2016 • 1h 14min
ngrok and Go (Interview)
Alan Shreve, creator of the beloved ngrok, joined the show to talk about ngrok — what it is, why it exists, why he wrote it in Go, and ultimately why 1.0 is open source but 2.0 is not.
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Featuring:Alan Shreve – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
Alan Shreve (@inconshreveable) on Twitter
inconshreveable.com (Alan’s personal website)
ngrok Homepage
What’s new in ngrok 2.0?
Equinox: Package & Distribute Your Go Apps
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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!
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Featuring:Arfon Smith – Website, GitHub, XFelipe Hoffa – GitHub, XWill Curran – WebsiteAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow 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
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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.
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Featuring:José Valim – Website, GitHub, XChris McCord – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow 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
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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.
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Featuring:Dustin Kirkland – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow 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
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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.
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Featuring:Parham Doustdar – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow 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
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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.
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Featuring:Pieter Hintjens – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow 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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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!
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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.
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Featuring:Yukihiro Matsumoto – GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow 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
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