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Leading GitHub to a $7.5 billion acquisition (Changelog Interviews #395) May 18, 2020

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Jason Warner (CTO at GitHub) joined the show to talk with us about the backstory of how he helped to lead GitHub to a $7.5 billion acquisition by Microsoft. Specifically how they trusted their gut not just the data, and how they understood the value they were bringing to market. We also talk about Jason’s focus on “horizon 3” for GitHub, and his thoughts on remote work and how they’re leading GitHub engineering today.

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Jason Warner – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

GitHub’s CTO on architecting engineering teams that scale
Current stats – 40M+ developers with 100M+ repos
Go back in time to hear our reactions to Microsoft buying GitHub - “The news is true. Microsoft is acquiring GitHub.”
The Changelog #331: GitHub Actions is the next big thing with Kyle Daigle

Jason’s book recommendations:

Atomic Habits by James Clear
Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
Team of Teams by Gen. Stanley McChrystal
The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
High Output Management by Andrew Grove

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YouTube made me do it (Backstage #10) May 18, 2020

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Long-time listener (and YouTube aficionado) Owen Bickford joins Jerod backstage to discuss his recent contribution to Changelog’s Elixir/Phoenix-based open source platform.

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Owen Bickford – Twitter, GitHub
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

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A visit to Deno Land (JS Party #127) May 15, 2020

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Divya and Nick welcome Deno’s Kit Kelly to the show to celebrate the highly-anticipated new JavaScript/TypeScript runtime’s big 1.0 release.

This is a wide-ranging discussion about all things Deno. We discuss why they’re using Rust, how they’re rewriting parts of the TypeScript compiler, their take on package management, what adoption looks like, their code of conduct, and more.

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Featuring:

Kitson Kelly – Twitter, GitHub
Divya – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Nick Nisi – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website

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Challenges of distributed messaging systems (Go Time #130) May 14, 2020

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Distributed systems are hard. Building a distributed messaging system for these systems to communicate is even harder. In this episode, we unpack some of the challenges of building distributed messaging systems (like NATS), including how Go makes that easy and/or hard as applicable.

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Featuring:

Derek Collison – Twitter, GitHub
Johnny Boursiquot – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Mat Ryer – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Jon Calhoun – Twitter, GitHub, Website

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Step away to get unstuck (Brain Science #19) May 14, 2020

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In this episode, Mireille and Adam talk through the challenge of problem solving. It’s all to common to utilize the “try harder” approach when things aren’t working out the way you’d like. While that kind of effort is valuable, this approach is often wrought with further frustration, wasted time and less than desirable results. This episode offers you an alternative perspective and ways that you can practice getting unstuck and utilize more of the resources of your unconscious mind.

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Mireille Reece, PsyD – LinkedIn
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

A neuroscience approach to innovative thinking and problem solving - this covers the research and study from Corinne Canter and Dr Trisha Stratford
Freud and the Unconscious Mind
Brainwave Basics
The Pomodoro Technique created by Francesco Cirillo

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VisiData is like duct tape for your data (Changelog Interviews #394) May 12, 2020

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Saul Pwanson is the creator and maintainer of VisiData, a terminal interface for exploring and arranging tabular data. On this Maintainer Spotlight episode, Saul joins Jerod for a wide-ranging discussion on crossword puzzles, biographs, and Saul’s open source gift to the world. Thanks to AJ for the suggestion!

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Saul Pwanson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

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AI for Good: clean water access in Africa (Practical AI #89) May 11, 2020

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Chandler McCann tells Daniel and Chris about how DataRobot engaged in a project to develop sustainable water solutions with the Global Water Challenge (GWC). They analyzed over 500,000 data points to predict future water point breaks. This enabled African governments to make data-driven decisions related to budgeting, preventative maintenance, and policy in order to promote and protect people’s access to safe water for drinking and washing. From this effort sprang DataRobot’s larger AI for Good initiative.

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Featuring:

Chandler McCann – LinkedIn
Chris Benson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Daniel Whitenack – Twitter, GitHub, Website

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Building a real programmable robot (Founders Talk #69) May 08, 2020

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The role of a father plays a pivotal role in a child’s life. Ian Bernstein is a former Founder of Sphero and is now the Founder and Head of Product of Misty Robotics — they’re building the first programmable robot for the home and business. It’s called Misty II. The journey of building Misty II started when Ian was 5 years old and his dad bought him an Apple IIe.

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Brain Science – For the curious! Brain Science is our new podcast exploring the inner-workings of the human brain to understand behavior change, habit formation, mental health, and being human. It’s Brain Science applied — not just how does the brain work, but how do we apply what we know about the brain to transform our lives.
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Featuring:

Ian Bernstein – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

Sphero
Misty Robotics
The Changelog #354: Go is eating the world of software — Ron Evans is betting big on TinyGo at OSCON 2019
I’m a cog.
Give Away Your Legos

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What I’m gonna share here is really mediocre (JS Party #126) May 08, 2020

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Node 14, Vue’s Vite, and is-promise are in the news. We’ve got some working from home tips and unpopular opinions to share. And… shout outs! 👏

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Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Divya – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Nick Nisi – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website
Christopher Hiller – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

Join us at HalfStack Online on May 22nd!

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Building resiliency (Brain Science #18) May 08, 2020

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In this episode, Mireille and Adam discuss the importance of building resiliency and how we can build skills to navigate unexpected and unwanted adversities. Fundamentally, we are designed to adapt out of a place of survival. Given that, we have to learn how to manage our fear while building awareness of the perceptions we have so that we can learn how to be both flexible and calm. Not surprising, we also talk about the way in which our relationships with others help us buffer the challenges better so that we are able to remain calmer and henceforth, see the opportunities within the obstacles.

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