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Functional Programming (Changelog Interviews #267) Oct 28, 2017

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Eric Normand joined the show to talk about Functional Programming. We talked about FP vs OOP vs Imperative, why FP is popular again, the advantages and disadvantages of Functional Programming, and teaching Functional Programming concepts.

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Featuring:

Eric Normand – Twitter, GitHub
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

Learn Functional Programming on your schedule
Can I do FP in my language? (dev.to)
Functional programming (Wikipedia)
Lambda Calculus (Wikipedia)
Maxima and Minima (Wikipedia)

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Documentation and Quitting Open Source (Request For Commits #14) Oct 20, 2017

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Ryan Bigg joined the show to talk about his open source work on the documentation of Ruby on Rails, fund raising, crowd sourcing, departure, handing off, not quitting, making the right decision, getting paid, sustaining, and more.

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Featuring:

Ryan Bigg – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Nadia Eghbal – Twitter, GitHub
Mikeal Rogers – Twitter, GitHub

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Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

The Future of RethinkDB (Changelog Interviews #266) Oct 17, 2017

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Mike Glukhovsky joined the show to talk about the future of RethinkDB. Mike was a co-founder of RethinkDB along-side Slava Akhmechet. RethinkDB shutdown a year ago officially on October 5, 2016 — and today we’re talking through all the details with Mike. The shutdown, getting purchased by the CNCF, relicensing, buying back their IP and source code, community and governance, and some specific features that Mike and the rest of the community are excited about.

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Featuring:

Mike Glukhovsky – Twitter, GitHub
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

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The Kotlin Programming Language (Changelog Interviews #265) Oct 13, 2017

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Dmitry Jemerov joined the show to talk about Kotlin - a language created by JetBrains that’s designed to be an industrial-strength object-oriented language, and a “better language” than Java. We asked Dmitry “Why invent a new language?”, talked through Google announcing official Android support, covered some of Kotlin’s characteristics, Kotlin vs Swift, and more.

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Dmitry Jemerov – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

Kotlin Programming Language
Kotlin Community
KotlinConf
JetBrains Gogland - Up and Coming Go IDE
On the Rise of Kotlin

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Automating GitHub with Probot (Changelog Interviews #264) Oct 06, 2017

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We talk with Brandon Keepers and Bex Warner about GitHub’s Probot — GitHub Apps to automate and improve your workflows. You can use pre-built apps or easily build and share your own.

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Brandon Keepers – Twitter, GitHub
Bex Warner – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

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Conversations about sustaining open source (Changelog Interviews #263) Sep 22, 2017

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This episode features conversations from Sustain 2017 at GitHub HQ with Richard Littauer, Karthik Ram, Andrea Goulet, and Scott Ford. Sustain was a one day conversation for open source software sustainers to share stories, resources, and ways forward to sustain open source.

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Hired – Get hired. It’s free — in fact, they pay you to get hired. Our listeners get a double hiring bonus of $600.
Bugsnag – Mission control for software quality! Monitor website or mobile app errors that impact your customers. Our listeners can try all the features free for 60 days ($118 value).
CircleCI – CircleCI is a continuous integration and delivery platform that helps software teams rapidly release code with confidence by automating the build, test, and deploy process. Checkout the recently launched CircleCI 2.0!
Linode – Our cloud server of choice. Get one of the fastest, most efficient SSD cloud servers for only $5/mo. Use the code changelog2017 to get 4 months free!

Featuring:

Richard Littauer – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Karthik Ram – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Andrea Goulet – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Scott Ford – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

sustainoss.org (inspired by maintainerati.org)
maintainer.io - Scale Open Source Maintenance
rOpenSci - Open Tools for Open Science
Corgibytes
Legacy Code Rocks! (you should listen to this podcast)

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Presenting a Pragmatic Perspective (Go Time #57) Sep 15, 2017

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Cindy Sridharan joined the show to talk about development and operations as a generalist, leveling up as an engineer (while still providing business value), challenging the status-quo, and other interesting Go projects and news.

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Cindy Sridharan – Twitter
Erik St. Martin – Twitter, GitHub
Carlisia Thompson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Brian Ketelsen – Twitter, GitHub

Show Notes:

Monitoring and Observability

Small Functions considered Harmful

Everyone is not Ops

Cindy Sridharan on Medium

Interesting Go Projects and News

Community Outreach Working Group

Go 1.9 out of RC

Running Go on Low Memory Devices

realize

Shell completions in Go

Go Assembly by Example

DARE (Data At Rest Encryption)

Optimizing web servers for high throughput and low latency

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.

Brian - Minio

Cindy - Envoy

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Community, Building Remote-first Teams, and Web Performance Inclusivity (Changelog Interviews #262) Sep 08, 2017

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Karolina Szczur joined the show to talk about community building, building remote-first teams, the hiring process in tech, product development, and the inclusivity factor of web performance.

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Hired – Get hired. It’s free — in fact, they pay you to get hired. Our listeners get a double hiring bonus of $600.
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.
Linode – Our cloud server of choice. Get one of the fastest, most efficient SSD cloud servers for only $5/mo. Use the code changelog2017 to get 4 months free!
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Karolina Szczur – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

Houston Flood Relief Fund - JJ Watt’s fundraiser for Victims of Hurricane Harvey
Bayou City Relief - Helping Houston Get Home

About Karolina Szczur
Building remote-first teams
How to write a successful conference proposal
CSSConf and JSConf Australia Diversity Report
A guide to empathetic hiring processes
Your tech job posting is broken. Here’s how to fix it.
Lighthouse from Google
ElectronConf Seattle 2017
Calibre - Web performance monitoring

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Container Security and Demystifying Complexity (Go Time #56) Sep 08, 2017

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Liz Rice joined the show to talk about containers, cloud security, making complex concepts easier to understand, and other interesting Go projects and news.

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Liz Rice – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Erik St. Martin – Twitter, GitHub
Carlisia Thompson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Brian Ketelsen – Twitter, GitHub

Show Notes:

kube-bench - CIS Security Benchmark implementation for Kubernetes

manifesto - Manage container metadata alongside (but separate from) the container image

Aqua Security

My first Alexa custom skill

Interesting Go Projects and News

powerline-go

jaeger - Open Tracing in and for Go (and others)

expanderr - expands the Go Call Expression under your cursor to check errors (emacs only for now)

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 - Azeria (related: Introduction to ARM Assembly Basics)

Brian - Unison

Liz - Istio

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Dep, Cross-platform, and Getting Started (Go Time #55) Aug 31, 2017

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Carolyn Van Slyck joined the show to talk about dependency management, upping your cross-platform game, getting into Go, and other interesting Go projects and news.

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Carolyn Van Slyck – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Erik St. Martin – Twitter, GitHub
Carlisia Thompson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Brian Ketelsen – Twitter, GitHub

Show Notes:

GopherCon 2016: Carolyn Van Slyck - Grow your users from an unlikely source: Windows Developers

Go dependency management tool

Interesting Go Projects and News

RustGo: Calling Rust from Go with Near-zero Overhead

Go 1.9 Release Candidate 2 is released

go-prompt

kube-prompt

GoWorld

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.

Brian - Cobra

Carolyn - Safia Abdalla

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!