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Nov 16, 2013 • 1h 6min
ZURB Foundation 5 and Front-End Frameworks (Interview)
Adam and Andrew talk with Jonathan Smiley and Mark Hayes from ZURB about Foundation 5, front-end frameworks, and Ink — their new email framework project.
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Featuring:Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAndrew Thorp – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:
How this show got kicked off — @bryanzmijewski tweeted @adamstac Hey, Adam, thought you might want to know about Foundation 5
Foundation 5 is coming soon
ZURB Foundation turns 4.0
Foundation: The Most Advanced Responsive Front-end Framework from ZURB
#70: Foundation and other Zurb goodies - The Changelog
Jonathan Smiley (smiley) on Twitter
Prebrowsing | High Performance Web Sites
The Changelog Weekly - Issue #13
ftlabs/fastclick
Ink: A Responsive Email Framework from ZURB
Paul Irish
Blog - JakeArchibald.com
Jake Archibald (jaffathecake) on Twitter
Ryan Bates (rbates) on Twitter
#417 Foundation - RailsCasts
#106: Semantic UI with Jack Lukic - The Changelog
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Nov 9, 2013 • 53min
Hoodie, noBackend, Offline-First (Interview)
Andrew and Adam talk with Caolan McMahon from Hoodie to talk about very fast web development where you can build complete web apps in days, without having to worry about backends, databases or servers (with Hoodie). We discuss noBackend and the idea behind offline first.
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Featuring:Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAndrew Thorp – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:
Caolan McMahon (caolan) on GitHub
Caolan McMahon (caolan) on Twitter
Hoodie.ie
hood.ie (hoodiehq) on Twitter
Alex Feyerke and Caolan McMahon - LXJS 2013 - Hoodie - YouTube
Rethinking Web Development: noBackend & Offline First by Jan Lehnardt
Changelog Weekly - Issue #9
The Changelog #54: CouchBase, Erlang, and Mergers with J Chris Anderson
The Changelog #18: NoSQL Smackdown!
hoodiehq/generator-hoodie
LAUNCH Hackathon
Sponsor Hoodie
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Oct 30, 2013 • 1h 2min
Capistrano and Burnout (Interview)
Adam and Andrew talk with Lee Hambley about some serious subjects such as Capistrano 3.0/2.0, open source burnout, various conversations around deploying, Ruby, respect, handing over the reigns and more. If you hack on open source or run an open source project, you should listen to this episode.
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Featuring:Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAndrew Thorp – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:
Lee Hambley
LeeHambley (LeeHambley) on Twitter
Time to hand over the reigns before Capistrano costs me my youth?
The Changelog Weekly - Issue #9
capistrano/capistrano on GitHub
RVM 2.0 - Fundraisers
[Book] Who Moved My Cheese?: An A-Mazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life
Say Hello To Harrow
Programmer Hero: Jamis Buck (jamis) on Twitter
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Oct 26, 2013 • 50min
Open Karma and Design Love for OSS (Interview)
Adam and Andrew talk with Justine Arreche a Designer at Travis CI and Sebastian Gräßl a Freelance Developer. Together, they’re the creators of Open Karma, a tool to help bridge the gap between developers and designers in open source (they’re bringing some design love to OSS).
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Show Notes:
Open Karma : helping open source be more amazing
Open Karma (OpenKarmaDesign) on Twitter
OpenKarma (Open Karma) on GitHub
The Travis CI Blog: New UI Improvements on Travis CI
Justine Arreche (SaltineJustine) on Twitter
Sebastian Gräßl (bastilian) on Twitter
Hello, Justine.
Sebastian Gräßl
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Oct 16, 2013 • 56min
Exercism.io and Crowd-Sourced Code Reviews (Interview)
Adam and Jerod talk with Katrina Owen about Exercism.io - an open source platform for crowd-sourced code reviews on daily practice problems. Practice problems are available in Ruby, Elixir, JavaScript, Python, Haskell, and Clojure, and other languages are in the pipeline.
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Featuring:Katrina Owen – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
#105: Ghost blogging platform with John O’Nolan - The Changelog
Hannah Wolfe (ErisDS) on Twitter
kytrinyx (Katrina Owen)
Katrina Owen (kytrinyx) on Twitter
Hacking Passion, or Who is Katrina Owen?
Therapeutic Refactoring by Katrina Owen - Cascadia Ruby Conf 2012
Katrina Owen on Ruby Rogues
kytrinyx/exercism.io
exercism.io
Introducing exercism.io
How to nitpick - exercism.io
kytrinyx/exercism
msgehard/go-exercism
Code Triage
The Changelog Weekly - Issue #9
The Changelog Weekly - Issue #8
Sandi Metz (Programming Hero)
Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby
Confident Ruby
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Oct 9, 2013 • 48min
Balanced Payments and Open Sourcing Everything (Interview)
Andrew and Adam talk with Marshall Jones from Balanced Payments about all they do in open source, and how they approach being an open company that desires to release as much software as they can as open source.
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Featuring:Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAndrew Thorp – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:
Get paid to write tutorials for DigitalOcean
The Changelog #87: Sustaining open source and building an open company with Chad Whitacre
Balanced - Payments for Marketplaces
mjallday (Marshall Jones) on GitHub
balanced (Balanced) on GitHub
balanced/balanced-dashboard
balanced/billy
JSON API now has a MIME type - Changelog
Flask (A Python Microframework)
Make a Hangman client and get hired at Balanced Payments
Open Products - The Changelog
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Oct 5, 2013 • 42min
Semantic UI (Interview)
Andrew and Adam talk with Jack Lukic about Semantic UI.
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Getting Started | Semantic UI
Myfav.es - Start Here
jlukic (Jack Lukic)
jlukic/Semantic-UI
Introduction | Semantic UI
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Sep 26, 2013 • 57min
Ghost Blogging Platform (Interview)
Andrew and Adam talk with John O’Nolan about his open source blogging platform Ghost written in JavaScript (Node.js), and how he and his team are working hard to create this beautifully designed platform dedicated to one thing: Publishing.
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Featuring:Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAndrew Thorp – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:
Subscribe to Changelog Weekly
Ghost: Just a Blogging Platform
Ghost Blogging Platform Features
TryGhost (Ghost)
Ghost: Just a Blogging Platform by John O’Nolan — Kickstarter
The Ghost Blog
Get paid to write tutorials for DigitalOcean
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Sep 20, 2013 • 50min
Kickstarting Espruino (Interview)
Andrew and Jerod talk with Gordon Williams about his hardware/software open source project called Espruino that’s currently raising funds on Kickstarter. Espruino is the world’s first JavaScript microcontroller for beginners or experts, now open source.
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Featuring:Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAndrew Thorp – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:
Subscribe to Changelog Weekly
Kickstarter - Espruino: JavaScript for Things by Gordon Williams
Espruino.com
Espruino - Tutorials
Espruino - YouTube
Gordon Williams (Espruino) on Twitter
Gordon Williams (gfwilliams) on GitHub
gfwilliams/EspruinoSerialTerminal
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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Sep 13, 2013 • 1h 4min
GitLab and Open Source (Interview)
Sytse Sijbrandij, Co-founder of GitLab, dives into the evolution of GitLab since its 2011 launch as a pivotal open-source project management tool. He shares insights on the recently launched GitLab 6.0, emphasizing the role of community feedback in shaping new features. The conversation also tackles the complexities of managing open-source contributions and the delicate balance between community engagement and commercial sustainability. Sytse's vision underscores the importance of flexibility in development, fostering innovation and adapting to user needs.