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The serverless revolution (Changelog Interviews #253) Jun 16, 2017

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We talked with Pam Selle at OSCON about the serverless revolution happening for JavaScript developers. This episode kicks off our mini-series from the Expo Hall floor at OSCON 2017.

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Featuring:

Pam Selle – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

Pam is the Software Engineering Lead at IOpipe, a high fidelity metrics and monitoring service which allows you to see inside Amazon Lambda functions for better insights into the daily operations and development of serverless applications.

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Crowdfunding Open Source (Vue.js) (Request For Commits #12) Jun 15, 2017

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Evan You joined the show to talk about his work on Vue.js. We learn how Evan found users and got Vue.js off the ground, the details behind their crowdfunding on Patreon, whether or not crowdfunding is a viable method of sustaining open source, finding balance in life and work, and plans for funding beyond the Patreon campaign.

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Featuring:

Evan You – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Nadia Eghbal – Twitter, GitHub
Mikeal Rogers – Twitter, GitHub

Show Notes:

Season 2 has begun! Evan You is the creator of Vue, a popular progressive JavaScript framework. He works on Vue full time with the funding from its Patreon campaign. He previously worked at Google and Meteor.

Vue.js - The progressive JavaScript framework
VueConf - The first official Vue.js conference in the world!
Vue.js on Patreon
Babel - Use next generation JavaScript, today.
Henry Zhu - Stay tuned to hear from Henry later on in season 2

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Adventures in VS Code (Go Time #49) Jun 13, 2017

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Ramya Achutha Rao joined the show to talk about all the things that make VS Code a great editor for writing Go, getting help from the community, plus other interesting Go projects and news.

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Featuring:

Ramya Rao – Twitter, GitHub
Erik St. Martin – Twitter, GitHub
Carlisia Thompson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Johnny Boursiquot – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

Visual Studio Code (latest version notes)

Interesting Go Projects and News

Neovim GUI written in Go

Draft: Streamlined Kubernetes Development

GopherCon SG videos released

Gophercon Lightning Talks

Higher Performance Go with Go Assembly from FOSDEM

Justforfunc episode “a Text to Speech server with gRPC and Kubernetes”

“…people can change. And if you do it right, you get to watch it happen.” “I bled to get here. I have the scars to prove it.”

Kelsey Hightower’s very vulnerable keynote speech at DevOps Days Austin

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.

Carlisia - JBD (see also: Go Time #22 w/ JBD)

Johnny - q - Quick and dirty debugging output for tired Go programmers

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Inside the Release of npm@5 and Sheetsee (JS Party #13) Jun 13, 2017

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Mikeal Rogers, Rachel White, and Alex Sexton talk with Rebecca Turner and Kat Marchán about npm@5 and Jessica Lord about Sheetsee.

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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.
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Featuring:

Rebecca Turner – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Kat Marchán – Twitter, GitHub
Jessica Lord – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Mikeal Rogers – Twitter, GitHub
Rachel White – Twitter, GitHub
Alex Sexton – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

npm@5

npm v5.0.0
cacache - a Node.js library for managing local key and content address caches. It’s really fast.

Sheetsee

Sheetsee - a client-side library for connecting Google Spreadsheets to a website and visualizing the information in tables and maps.
Sheetsee on Glitch - a sample Sheetsee site with data backup

Picks!

chaosbot/chaos - a social coding experiment that updates its own code democratically.
babel/babili - ES6+ aware minifier based on the Babel toolchain.
zeit/pkg - package your Node.js project into an executabl
Medieval Fantasy City Generator

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GitHub's Open Source Survey (2017) (Changelog Interviews #252) Jun 09, 2017

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On Friday, June 2, 2017 – GitHub announced the details of their Open Source Survey – an open data set on the open source community for researchers and the curious. Frannie Zlotnick, Nadia Eghbal, and Mikeal Rogers joined the show to talk through the backstory and key insights of this open data project which sheds light on the broader open source community’s attitudes, experiences, and backgrounds of those who use, build, and maintain open source software.

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Toptal – Hire the top freelance software developers, designers, and finance experts with Toptal. Email adam@changelog.com for a personal introduction.
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.
Microsoft Azure OpenDev – a live one-day virtual conference on June 21, 2017 focused on showcasing open source technologies on Azure. See what’s possible with open source in the cloud. Learn how you can build containerized microservices and improve your open source DevOps pipeline. Participate in Q&A sessions, and get hands-on experience with open source technologies on Azure.

Featuring:

Nadia Eghbal – Twitter, GitHub
Frannie Zlotnick – GitHub
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Mikeal Rogers – Twitter, GitHub

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Restic and backups (done right) (Go Time #48) Jun 01, 2017

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Alexander Neumann joined the show to talk about using Go to write backup software, solving tough problems like deduplication, scratching your own itch, and other interesting Go projects and news.

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Featuring:

Alexander Neumann – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Erik St. Martin – Twitter, GitHub
Brian Ketelsen – Twitter, GitHub
Ashley Willis – Twitter, GitHub

Show Notes:

Restic - Backups done right!

Chunker - Implementation of Content Defined Chunking (CDC) in Go

Interesting Go Projects and News

GopherFest 2017 Videos

Go 1.8.3 released

Francesc - State of Go

“…people can change. And if you do it right, you get to watch it happen.” | “I bled to get here. I have the scars to prove it.”

Kelsey Hightower’s very vulnerable keynote speech at DevOps Days Austin

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.

Ashley - Kelsey Hightower

Erik - Brendan Gregg

Brian - barista (i3 status bar written in Go!)

Alex - rofi + rofi-pass

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Using ES6/7, create-react-app, and Electron! (JS Party #12) Jun 01, 2017

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Mikeal Rogers, Rachel White, and Alex Sexton discuss how they’re using ES6/7 with and without a compiler, updates to create-react-app, and the beloved Electron.

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Featuring:

Mikeal Rogers – Twitter, GitHub
Rachel White – Twitter, GitHub
Alex Sexton – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

Topics

Using new JavaScript language features in ES6 and ES7 with and without a compiler
Updates to create-react-app
Electron - Build cross platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS

Picks

Webpack 2 (Alex Sexton)
Immutable data structures for functional JS by Anjana Vakil at JSConf EU 2017 (Rachel White)
(Book) Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution (Mikeal Rogers)

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JAMstack, Netlify CMS, and 10x-ing Smashing Magazine (Changelog Interviews #251) May 30, 2017

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Matt Biilman and Chris Bach joined the show to talk about JAMstack, Netlify CMS, how open source drives standards, and 10x-ing the speed of Smashing Magazine.

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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.

Featuring:

Matt Biilmann – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Chris Bach – Twitter, Website
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

JAMstack (JavaScript, APIs, and Markup) is a new way of building websites and apps that delivers better performance, higher security, lower cost of scaling, and a better developer experience.
Netlify CMS is an open-source CMS built with JAMstack principles designed around a fully Git workflow.
Smashing Magazine just got 10x faster
Meet The Next Smashing Magazine
Why Static Site Generators Are The Next Big Thing
next.smashingmagazine.com

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Web Standards, ECMAScript Modules in Browsers, and Learning JS (JS Party #11) May 26, 2017

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Wes Bos and Mike Taylor joined Alex Sexton this week to talk about Web Standards stuff, compileTo CSS libraries, ECMAScript Modules in Browsers, and Learning JS.

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Wes Bos – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Mike Taylor – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Alex Sexton – Twitter, GitHub, Website

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Docker, Moby, Containers (Go Time #47) May 25, 2017

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Solomon Hykes joined the show to talk about all things Docker, Moby Project, and what makes Go a good fit for container management.

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