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React Perf Devtool with Nitin Tulswani (The React Podcast #8) May 08, 2018

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Nitin Tulswani is a prolific developer and the creator of react-perf-devtool, a library that helps with profiling the performance of your React components since react-addons-perf was deprecated in React 16. In this episode we discuss Nitin’s approach to writing code and the motivation behind several of his open source projects.

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Nitin Tulswani – Twitter, GitHub
Michael Jackson – Twitter, GitHub, Website

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New Go branding strategy (Go Time #79) May 07, 2018

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Steve Francia joined the show and told us EVERYTHING about Go’s new branding strategy (and don’t worry, the gopher isn’t going anywhere!)

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Featuring:

Steve Francia – Twitter, GitHub
Erik St. Martin – Twitter, GitHub
Carlisia Thompson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

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Interesting Go Projects and News

Free Software Friday!

Each week on the show we give a shout out to an open source project or community (or maintainer) that’s made an impact in our day to day developer lives.

Erik - Julia Evans’ Bite Size Linux
Steve - Anthony Starks

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Cool, depending on your definition of cool (JS Party #24) May 07, 2018

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Feross Aboukhadijeh, Suz Hinton, Nick Nisi, and Alex Sexton get weird this week talking about their favorite old and weird HTML tags, web APIs that do or don’t require permission, and their favorite weird websites.

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Feross Aboukhadijeh – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Suz Hinton – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub
Nick Nisi – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website
Alex Sexton – Twitter, GitHub, Website

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Scaling all the things at Slack (Changelog Interviews #295) May 02, 2018

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Julia Grace joined the show to talk bout about scaling all the things at Slack. Julia is currently the Senior Director of Infrastructure Engineering at Slack, and has been their since 2015 — so she’s seen Slack during its hyper-growth. We talked about Slack’s growth and scale challenges, scaling engineering teams, the responsibilities and challenges of being a manager, communicating up and communicating down, quality of service and reliability, and what it takes to build high performing leadership teams.

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Featuring:

Julia Grace – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

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The Changelog #129: The PHP language specification with Sara Golemon
Julia’s upcoming talk at Velocity - Scaling yourself during hyper-growth
Use the discount code CHANGELOG to save 20% off Gold, Silver, and Bronze passes

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Hacking drones with Go (Go Time #78) Apr 30, 2018

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Ron Evans joined the show and talked with us about GoCV, Gobot, using Go to control drones, and other interesting projects and news.

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Airbrake – Airbrake is an exception reporting service, currently providing error monitoring for 50,000 applications with support for 18 programming languages.
ActiveState – ActiveState builds open source language distributions for Go, Python, Perl, Ruby and Tcl. More than 2 million developers & 97% of Fortune 1000 companies use ActiveState including Pepsico, Lockheed Martin & NASA. Check out activestate.com/gotime
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Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com.

Featuring:

Ron Evans – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website
Erik St. Martin – Twitter, GitHub
Carlisia Thompson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Brian Ketelsen – Twitter, GitHub

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Interesting Go Projects and News

The NEW Improved Go Branding 😍😍
qor
run - Really nice alternative to the new errgroup package - small api, easy to use and understand
Anko - Scriptable interpreter that is embeddable by Yasuhiro Matsumoto (mattn)
Francesc Campoy - The Robustness of Go (Slides)

GopherCon speaker selections have started, first round of announcements coming SOON!

GopherconBR opened their CFP this week

Free Software Friday!

Each week on the show we give a shout out to an open source project or community (or maintainer) that’s made an impact in our day to day developer lives.

Erik - Jeff Hodges
Brian - Yasuhiro Matsumoto
Ron - Steve Francia between Hugo and Cobra… I mean wow.

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The state of Node security (JS Party #23) Apr 30, 2018

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Suz Hinton, Christopher Hiller, and Jerod Santo talk with Adam Baldwin about his company being acquired by NPM, the security of Node, best practices, and more.

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Rollbar – Our error monitoring partner. Rollbar provides real-time error monitoring, alerting, and analytics to help us resolve production errors in minutes. To start resolving errors in minutes, and deploying with confidence - head to rollbar.com/changelog
O'Reilly Fluent Conference – Learn the latest JavaScript tools and methods. Build a better web. Deliver the best user experiences. Be part of what past attendees call “a great center for modern web development and disruption,” and “the best place to see the current state of the web.” Use discount code JSPARTY to save 20% on most passes. Location and dates: San Jose, California, June 11-14. Learn more - oreil.ly/2J4z8da
Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com.
Linode – Our cloud server of choice. Deploy a fast, efficient, native SSD cloud server for only $5/month. Get 4 months free using the code changelog2018. Start your server - head to linode.com/changelog

Featuring:

Adam Baldwin – Twitter, GitHub
Suz Hinton – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub
Christopher Hiller – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

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BONUS – Go and WebAssembly (Wasm) (Go Time) Apr 25, 2018

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This is a bonus segment in the after show of Go Time #77 with Russ Cox where we talk briefly about WebAssembly (Wasm) support in Go, and how that plays into Go being used as a web language.

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Featuring:

Russ Cox – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Erik St. Martin – Twitter, GitHub

Show Notes:

The Changelog #294: Code Cartoons, Rust, and WebAssembly with Lin Clark
Go Time #77
GitHub issue #18892: WebAssembly (“wasm”) support
WebAssembly architecture for Go

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Code Cartoons, Rust, WebAssembly (Changelog Interviews #294) Apr 25, 2018

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Lin Clark joined the show to talk about Code Cartoons, her work at Mozilla in the emerging technologies group, Rust, Servo, and WebAssembly (aka Wasm), the Rust community’s big goal in 2018 for Rust to become a web language (thanks in part to Wasm), passing objects between Rust and JavaScript, Rust libraries depending on JavaScript packages and vice versa, Wasm ES Modules, and Lin’s upcoming keynote at Fluent on the parallel future of the browser.

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GoCD – GoCD is an on-premise open source continuous delivery server created by ThoughtWorks that lets you automate and streamline your build-test-release cycle for reliable, continuous delivery of your product.
O'Reilly Fluent Conference – Learn the latest JavaScript tools and methods. Build a better web. Deliver the best user experiences. Use the discount code CHANGELOG to get 20% off Gold, Silver, and Bronze passes. Location and dates: San Jose, California, June 11-14. Learn more - oreil.ly/2J4z8da

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Lin Clark – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

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React and Electron with James Long (The React Podcast #7) Apr 24, 2018

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James Long is a prolific blogger and the author of several open source libraries including Prettier. He has recently started developing Actual, a budgeting app built in React and Electron. In this episode we talk about James’ approach to business, as well as take a peek behind the scenes at how he works with React.

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Rollbar – Our error monitoring partner. Rollbar provides real-time error monitoring, alerting, and analytics to help us resolve production errors in minutes. To start resolving errors in minutes, and deploying with confidence - head to rollbar.com/changelog
Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com.
Linode – Our cloud server of choice. Deploy a fast, efficient, native SSD cloud server for only $5/month. Get 4 months free using the code changelog2018. Start your server - head to linode.com/changelog

Featuring:

James Long – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Michael Jackson – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Jed Watson – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Michael Chan – Twitter, GitHub, Website

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Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Dependencies and the future of Go (Go Time #77) Apr 23, 2018

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Russ Cox joins us this week to talk about how Russ got involved with Go, Vgo, error handling, updates on Go 2.0, more.

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Linode – Our cloud server of choice. Deploy a fast, efficient, native SSD cloud server for only $5/month. Get 4 months free using the code changelog2018. Start your server - head to linode.com/changelog
Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com.