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Aug 26, 2016 • 1h 30min
Sourcegraph the 'Google for Code' (Interview)
Beyang Liu, the CTO and co-founder of Sourcegraph, joined the show to talk about the backstory of Sourcegraph, how it works, how they’re aiming to be the ‘Google for Code’, ideas around offline support for code search, how it’s licensed, and their new software license called Fair Source.
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Featuring:Beyang Liu – GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
Beyang on BeyondCode at GopherCon 2015
Sourcegraph on GitHub
Sourcegraph.com
Sourcegraph for GitHub
Checkup - A distributed, lock-free, self-hosted health checks and status pages
Fair Source License
Sourcegraph Aims to be the ‘Google for Code
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Aug 19, 2016 • 1h 25min
GitHub's Electron (Interview)
Zeke Sikelianos joined the show to talk about GitHub’s Electron project and the future of web folks making cross platform desktop apps. We talked about the web revolution around native vs web app, where Electron is heading, who’s using it, and how cool it is to enable folks like Guillermo Rauch to build HyperTerm.
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Electron
Electron Docs
Electron Issues – label:help-wanted
Electron Issues – label:beginner
Mojibar - Emoji searcher but as a menubar app
browserify on npm
Tonic + npm: browserify
npms
Fluid - Turn Your Favorite Web Apps into Real Mac Apps.
GitHub Desktop - Simple collaboration from your desktop
jiahaog/nativefier: Wrap any web page natively without even thinking, across Windows, OSX and Linux
maxogden (=^._.^=)
mafintosh (Mathias Buus)
electron-userland
Dat Project
#213: ZEIT, HyperTerm, and now with Guillermo Rauch - Changelog
Request For Commits - Changelog
Subscribe to Changelog Nightly
Subscribe to Changelog Weekly
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Aug 12, 2016 • 1h 8min
Best Practices Badge from Core Infrastructure Initiative (Interview)
David A. Wheeler, from Core Infrastructure Initiative, joined the show to talk about the CII Best Practices Badge program.
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Featuring:David A. Wheeler – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:We talked about the purpose of the Best Practices Badge program from Core Infrastructure Initiative (a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project), how and why you should get certified, and the criteria of the best practices.
[Show Suggstion] CII “Best Practices” badge · Issue #427 · thechangelog/ping
linuxfoundation/cii-best-practices-badge
CII Best Practices Badge - Rails App
Core Infrastructure Initiative
CII Best Practices Badge Criteria
Get Your CII Best Practices Badge!
Producing Open Source Software
Curious Minds: History of Open Source & The Free Software Foundation - Part 1
Curious Minds: History of Open Source & The Free Software Foundation - Part 2
Shields.io
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Aug 6, 2016 • 58min
Libscore, Velocity.js, Hacking (Interview)
Julian Shapiro, startup founder and developer, joined the show to talk about his story of entrepreneurship, open source, growth hacking, and more. Julian’s story is a story you don’t want to miss — plus he shares actionable advice on growing and marketing an open source project.
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Elixir Conf 2016 – Late pricing starts August 15, so get your tickets today and save money. ElixirConf is the largest worldwide gathering of Elixir developers. Join José Valim, Chris McCord, Sonny Scroggin, James Edward Gray, Bruce Tate, Eric Meadows-Jönnson, and many more.
Featuring:Julian Shapiro – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
[Guest Suggestion] Julian Shapiro / VelocityJS
deleted.com
Velocity.js.org
Velocity.js on GitHub
How to deal with startup competition
Web Animation Using JavaScript by Julian Shapiro
Introducing Libscore
Libscore.com
Libscore on GitHub
Stripe Open-Source Retreat
Thomas Davis on Twitter
#63: CDNJS with Thomas Davis and Ryan Kirkman
Jason Chen on Twitter
Jesse Chase on Twitter
Searching for Sugar Man (Movie recommendation from Julian)
Man on Wire (Movie recommendation from Julian)
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Jul 30, 2016 • 1h 41min
ZEIT, HyperTerm, now (Interview)
Guillermo Rauch joined the show to talk with Adam about how he got into programming, how that lead him to what he’s doing now at ZEIT, the design of HyperTerm, and now.
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Elixir Conf 2016 – We’re betting big on Elixir and this is THE conference to be at in the Elixir world. Join José Valim, Chris McCord, Sonny Scroggin, James Edward Gray, Bruce Tate, Eric Meadows-Jönnson, and many more for a vacation-style conference, with world-class training!
Featuring:Guillermo Rauch – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
ZEIT
HyperTerm
LearnBoost
LearnBoost on GitHub
Cloudup
Pure UI by Guillermo Rauch
ZEIT (@zeithq) on Twitter
ZEIT on GitHub
GitHub search for “hyperterm”
zeit.world - Free Global DNS
Hero: Leslie Lamport on Wikipedia
React Storybook: Isolate your React UI Component development from the main app
ZEIT.chat (Slack Channel)
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Jul 23, 2016 • 1h 11min
SiteSpeed.io and Performance (Interview)
Peter Hedenskog joined the show to talk about SiteSpeed.io and web performance. We covered where it came from, where it’s going, and more importantly, simple ways you can focus on your web performance.
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Featuring:Peter Hedenskog – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
[Podcast Suggestion] Peter Hedenskog of SiteSpeed.io · Issue #475
Sitespeed.io - Analyze your website speed and performance
sitespeed.io/HELP.md at master · sitespeedio/sitespeed.io
sitespeedio/coach: Clear Eyes. Full Hearts. Can’t Lose.
Wikimedia Foundation
WebPagetest - Website Performance and Optimization Test
Coach Panel - Chrome Web Store
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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 – Website, 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.
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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 – Website, 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 – Website, 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
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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 – Website, 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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