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Sep 11, 2024 • 1h 14min

Episode 800: Champagning the Ladybird Browser

This week Jonathan and Aaron chat with Andreas Kling about the Ladybird, the new browser in development from the ground up. It was started as part of SerenityOS, and has since taken on a life of its own. How much of the web works on it? How many people are working on the project? And where's the download button? Listen to find out! - https://ladybird.org/ You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video version of the show on Youtube, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account! Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Sep 4, 2024 • 55min

Episode 799: Still Open Source at Percona

This week Jonathan chats with Lori Lorusso and Steve Hoffman, the Head of Community and SVP of engineering at Percona, the open source database experts. - https://www.percona.com/ You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video version of the show on Youtube, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account! Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Aug 28, 2024 • 1h 5min

Episode 798: Building the Rust Desktop with COSMIC

This week Jonathan and Rob chat with Carl Richell of System 76, about the COSMIC desktop, what's new at System76, and more! https://system76.com/cosmic You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video version of the show on Youtube, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account! Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Aug 21, 2024 • 1h 11min

Episode 797: Coreutils -- Don't rm -r Up the Tree

This week Jonathan Bennett and Dan Lynch chat with Pádraig Brady about Coreutils! It's been around since the 90s, and is still a healthy project under active development. And you've used these tools whether you realize it or not! - https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video version of the show on Youtube, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account! Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Aug 14, 2024 • 1h 16min

Episode 796: Homebrew, I'm More of a Whopper Guy

This week Jonathan Bennett and David Ruggles chat with John Britton and Mike McQuaid about Homebrew, the missing package manager for macOS, and Workbrew, the commercial offering built on top of it. We cover lots of territory, like why the naming scheme sounds like it was conceived during a pub visit, how Workbrew helps businesses actually use Homebrew, and why you might even want to run Homebrew on a Linux machine! You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video version of the show on Youtube, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account! Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Aug 7, 2024 • 1h 10min

Episode 795: Liferay, Now We're Thinking With Portals

This week Jonathan Bennett and Doc Searls chat with Olaf Kock and Dave Nebinger about Liferay! That's a Java project that started as an implementation of a web portal, and has turned into a very flexible platform for any sort of web application. How has this Open Source project turned into a very successful business? And how is it connected to most iconic children's educational show of all time? Listen to find out! You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video version of the show on Youtube, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account! Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Jul 31, 2024 • 59min

Episode 794: Release Them All with JReleaser

This week Jonathan Bennett and Katherine Druckman chat with Andres Almiray about JReleaser, the Java release automation tool that's for more than just Java, and more than just releases. What was the original inspiration for the tool? And how does JReleaser help avoid a string of commits trying to fix Github Actions? Listen to find out! You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video version of the show on Youtube, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account! Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Jul 24, 2024 • 1h 8min

Episode 793: Keeping an Eye on Things with Highlight.io

This week Jonathan Bennett and Aaron Newcomb chat with Jay Khatri, the co-founder of Highlight.io.  That's a web application monitoring tool that can help you troubleshoot performance problems, find bugs, and improve experiences for anything that runs in a browser or browser-like environment. Why did they opt to make this tool Open Source? What's the funding model? And what's the surprising challenge we tried to help Jay solve, live on the show? Listen to find out! You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video version of the show on Youtube, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account! Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Jul 17, 2024 • 1h 1min

Episode 792: Rust Coreutils

Sylvestre Ledru discusses rewriting core utilities in Rust with FLOSS Weekly hosts. Topics include security benefits, packaging challenges for Linux distros, dependency risks, contribution opportunities, and future enhancements like progress bars.
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Jul 10, 2024 • 1h 3min

Episode 791: It's All About Me

This week David Ruggles chats with Jonathan Bennett to get his origin story! What early core memory does Jonathan pin his lifelong computer hobby on? And how was a tense meeting instrumental to Jonathan's life outlook? You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, where the show records live each week, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account! Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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