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Computer Science without a computer (Changelog Interviews #302) Jun 20, 2018

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Adam Stacoviak and Jerod Santo talk with Tim Bell, the founder and creator of CS Unplugged, a collection of free teaching material that teaches computer science through engaging games and puzzles. They talk to him about where this program came from him, the need for computer science in today’s K-12 education programs, how CS Unplugged fits in, and how you can get involved.

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Do what every developer does: blame other people (JS Party #30) Jun 19, 2018

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Nick Nisi, Suz Hinton, and Jerod Santo talk about their debugging methods, the cool things that JavaScript can do but isn’t talked about much, and their opinions on Git history.

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Suz Hinton – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

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visionmedia/debug

Uniquify an array

let foo = [1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 5];
foo = [...new Set(foo)];

Destructuring assignment using regular expressions

const [, year, month, day ] = '2018-06-14'.match(/^(\d{1,4})-(\d{1,2})-(\d{1,2})$/)

How (and why!) to keep your Git commit history clean | GitLab

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Growing Open Collective (Founders Talk #52) Jun 15, 2018

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Pia Mancini joined the show for the first episode back from a nearly 5 year hiatus. We talked about her work at DemocracyEarth, being a mother, her new role as CEO of Open Collective, their focus, supporting ad-hoc community formation all around the world, their revenue and growth plans, and their path to sustainability.

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🔥 Founders Talk is back! (Founders Talk) Jun 15, 2018

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It’s been just shy of 5 years since I’ve published a new episode to this podcast. The break was planned actually. Long story short, I had to focus. If you want to hear the slightly longer explanation, you should listen.

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Listen to Founders Talk #52: Growing Open Collective with Pia Mancini

I’m so excited to bring this show back! It’s been too long and I truly miss these conversations. If you’d like to suggest someone to be on the show, get in touch.

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Python at Microsoft (Changelog Interviews #301) Jun 13, 2018

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We talked with Steve Dower and Dan Taylor at Microsoft Build 2018 about the history of Python at Microsoft, the origination of IronPython, Python Tools for Visual Studio, flying under the radar to add support Python, fighting from within to support open source, and more.

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Dan Taylor – Twitter, GitHub
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

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Topics

2:22 – The history of Python at Microsoft
3:15 – The origination of IronPython
4:05 – Python tools for Visual Studio
7:54 – What Microsoft is doing with Python
10:22 – Why Python is good for people new to programming
12:20 – Pythonic
13:52 – PEP 8
15:47 – Black
18:16 – Pylint
21:41 – CPython
26:01 – Opensource at Microsoft
28:29 – The future of Python
33:55 – The latest in Python

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Node's survey, Ry's regrets, Microsoft's GitHub (JS Party #29) Jun 08, 2018

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Big week! KBall, Nick, and JBall (nooch) dive deep in to the 2018 Node.js user survey results. What does it all mean?! They also review Ryan Dahl’s “10” regrets about Node and sound off on Microsoft’s assimilatio… err… acquisition of GitHub.

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Kevin Ball – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Nick Nisi – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website
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Corporate interests in open source and dev culture (Changelog Interviews #300) Jun 06, 2018

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Zed Shaw – creator of Mongrel, Learn Python the Hard Way, and more – joined the show to talk through a recent Twitter thread from Zed where he shared his thoughts on open source, making money in open source, corporate interests and involvement, developer culture, and more.

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OSCON – O’Reilly’s Open Source Convention combines the experience of the open source community with ideas and strategies for using open source tools and technologies. There’s no event quite like OSCON! When registration opens — save 20% on most passes by using the code CHANGELOG when you register.
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Zed Shaw – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

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PDF copy of Zed’s Twitter thread (because he’s testing his Twitter account as being private)
The original Twitter thread
The Changelog #34: Mongrel2 and High Performance Web Sites with Zed Shaw
Learn Code the Hard Way
Embrace, extend, and extinguish - Wikipedia

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Coming to React with Sara Vieira (The React Podcast #12) Jun 05, 2018

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Sara Vieira is easily one of the most entertaining people we’ve ever had on this show. She has been working with React over the past few years and has recently been traveling around Europe and giving free workshops on React in London and at React Finland.

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Michael Jackson – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Michael Chan – Twitter, GitHub, Website

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Our reactions to Microsoft buying GitHub (Spotlight #14) Jun 05, 2018

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Hear insights and reactions from Adam Stacoviak and Jerod Santo as they break down the news of Microsoft’s acquisition of GitHub — from speculation to confirmation — including commentary from members of the developer community by way of Twitter and Slack.

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ML in JS... well... yes? (JS Party #28) Jun 01, 2018

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Suz Hinton, Jerod Santo, Kevin Ball, and Christopher Hiller talk about machine learning, the ethics surrounding it, why you would use JavaScript with it, and much more.

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