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Open Source at Google (Changelog Interviews #245) Mar 28, 2017

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Will Norris (Engineering Manager at Google’s Open Source office) joined the show to talk about their new release of the Google Open Source website as well as the release of Google’s internal documentation on how they do open source. Nearly 70 pages of documentation have been made public under creative commons license for the world to use. We talked about the backstory of Google’s Open Source office, their philosophy on OSS, their involvement in the TODO group, and much more.

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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:

Will Norris – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

A New Home for Google Open Source
Google Open Source - Bringing better technology to the world by promoting open source.
Google Open Source docs
TODO - Talk openly, develop openly
GitHub now lets its workers keep the IP when they use company resources for personal projects
Chris DiBona
Check out the Project Metadata project Will mentioned during the show
The Changelog #211: Open Source at Facebook with James Pearce
Google on GitHub
David Recordon on Changelog.com

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Learning JavaScript and Bringing People Together (Changelog Interviews #244) Mar 25, 2017

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Tracy Lee joined the show to talk about bringing people together, helping people, and making an impact. We covered learning JavaScript, the ins and outs of her road to get to where she’s at today, hitting burnout and sleeping for two weeks, breaking into the JavaScript community, and the fun cruise, workshops, and conferences she’s working on for the JavaScript community.

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Datadog – Cloud-Scale Monitoring — Monitoring that tracks your dynamic infrastructure and applications. Plus next-generation APM. Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize end-to-end application performance. Start your free trial, install the agent, and Datadog will send you a free Datadog t-shirt!

Featuring:

Tracy Lee – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

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Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Splice, Audio, Compassion (Go Time #39) Mar 24, 2017

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Matt Aimonetti joined the show to talk about using go to solve tough audio problems, making go for everyone, empowering people with software, and other interesting Go projects and news.

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Featuring:

Matt Aimonetti – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Erik St. Martin – Twitter, GitHub
Carlisia Thompson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Brian Ketelsen – Twitter, GitHub

Show Notes:

Splice (Music creation made simple)

I found compassion & hope… in prison

Interesting Go Projects and News

gokrazy

Experimental RC Blimp Autopilot Test Flight #2

retool

CoreOS’s rkt and Docker’s containerd jointly donated to CNCF

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 - Gitlab

Erik - React

Matt - Ramya Rao

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PWAs (Progressive Web Apps), Service Workers, Time, Glitch (JS Party #4) Mar 24, 2017

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Mikeal Rogers, Alex Sexton, and Rachel White discuss PWAs (Progressive Web Apps), Service Workers, and Time in JavaScript. Jenn Schiffer also joined the show to talk about Glitch, our project of the week.

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Featuring:

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

Show Notes:

Prep notes for this show: https://github.com/thechangelog/jsparty/blob/master/shows/2017-03-17.md

If you haven’t yet, join the community and Slack with us in real time in the #jsparty channel during the show. Head to https://changelog.com/community

PWAs (Progressive Web Apps)

Progressive Web Apps - https://developers.google.com/web/progressive-web-apps/

PWA Builder - http://preview.pwabuilder.com/

PWA Directory (a directory of Progressive Web Apps) - https://pwa-directory.appspot.com/

Essential Reading List for Getting Started With Service Workers

Time

Talking with Jenn Schiffer about Glitch

Glitch
Glitch For Your API - From zero to working code in one minute
Best Buy Remix API

Picks

Mikeal Rogers: ild Fermentation
Rachel White: Hiring Without Whiteboards - Companies that don’t have a broken hiring process
Jenn Schiffer: Greek Yogurt, this tweet, and jQuery 3.2.0

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Let's Encrypt the Web (Changelog Interviews #243) Mar 18, 2017

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Jacob Hoffman-Andrews, Senior Staff Technologist at the EFF and the lead developer of Let’s Encrypt, joined the show to talk about the history of SSL, the start of Let’s Encrypt, why it’s important to encrypt the web and what happens if we don’t, Certbot, and the impact Let’s Encrypt has had on securing the web.

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Rollbar – Put errors in their place! npm install --save rollbar for error tracking in your Node.js apps.

Featuring:

Jacob Hoffman-Andrews – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

Jacob Hoffman-Andrews on EFF.org
Search Changelog.com for “http/2” and “http2”
The Changelog #161: The HTTP/2 Spec with Ilya Grigorik
Boulder: An ACME-based CA (written in Go)
Automatic Certificate Management Environment (ACME)
Certbot (previously the Let’s Encrypt Client) - EFF’s tool to obtain certs from Let’s Encrypt, and (optionally) auto-enable HTTPS on your server. It can also act as a client for any other CA that uses the ACME protocol.
Certbot’s Interactive Guide is rad
The Crypto Wars: Governments Working to Undermine Encryption
Root certificate trust store
Online Certificate Status Protocol
Jacob talked about using .wellknown in the root of projects
Go Time #14: CaddyServer, the ACME Protocol, and TLS with Matt Holt
[Wired] Google’s Chrome Hackers Are About to Upend Your Idea of Web Security
Let’s Encrypt Stats
Donate to Let’s Encrypt and/or Sponsor Let’s Encrypt
Wanna pitch in? Check for “help wanted” tags on their repos…
What It Costs to Run Let’s Encrypt

BONUS - From Jacob Hoffman-Andrews ~> How Not To Get Phished

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JavaScript Fatigue, AMP, Paths.js (JS Party #3) Mar 17, 2017

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Mikeal Rogers, Alex Sexton, and Rachel White discuss JavaScript Fatigue, Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP), and the project of the week Paths.js

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Featuring:

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

Show Notes:

Join the community to Slack with us about this show and the topics we cover. You can also suggest topics and guest panelist at our GitHub repo. Follow us on Twitter ~> we’re @JSPartyFM

JS Fatigue

AMP

Project of the Week

Paths.js

Picks

Rachel: tracery
Mikeal: Lemonade Stand
Alex: Intl.js

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Go Developer Survey (Go Time #38) Mar 16, 2017

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Steve Francia joined the show to talk about the results of the 2016 Go Developer Survey and other interesting Go projects and news.

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Backtrace – Reduce your time to resolution. Go beyond stacktraces and logs. Get to the root cause quickly with deep application introspection at your fingertips.
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Featuring:

Steve Francia – Twitter, GitHub
Erik St. Martin – Twitter, GitHub
Carlisia Thompson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Johnny Boursiquot – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

The Go Developer Survey - https://blog.golang.org/survey2016-results

Almost all users of (89%) are using it for work, great testament to the growth of the language.
Heavy adoption from dynamic languages.
Most wanted improvements, generics (surprise!), and package versioning/dependency management (in the works).
Concern about finding developers, how do you feel about the pool of developers?
Vim / VSCode seem to be the top pics for editor.
When asked what libraries are still missing, the most common request by far was a library for writing GUIs. Another popular topic was requests around data processing, analytics, and numerical and scientific computing.
55% of respondents expressed interest in contributing in some way to the Go community and projects. Unfortunately, relatively few agreed that they felt welcome to do so (3.3:1) and even fewer felt that the process was clear (1.3:1)
Cobra / Viper / Hugo

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 that’s made an impact in our day to day developer lives.

Erik - usql
Steve - vim-go

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Gobot, Hardware, Gatekeeping (Go Time #37) Mar 09, 2017

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Ron Evans joined the show to talk about Gobot, writing software for hardware, and open source software’s role in improving the human condition.

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Backtrace – Reduce your time to resolution. Go beyond stacktraces and logs. Get to the root cause quickly with deep application introspection at your fingertips.
Ultimate Go – Ardan Labs offers some of the best training classes for Go, Web and Data Science. They offer two and three full day intensive courses that literally takes any developer, even at different experience levels, to a whole new level. Get in touch and tell them you heard about their classes on Go Time!

Featuring:

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

Show Notes:

Gobot

Hardware related things:

@rakyll - go-hardware list

@maruel - gohci

@roylee17 - ble

@lazywei - go-opencv

Microbit tiny computer

What we need for Golang to really provide the best IOT/robotics development tools:

Great Bluetooth LE support

Great OpenCV support

Golang on RTOS like Zephyr, MBED

Shared set of low level hardware interfaces

Why Open Source?

Let’s discuss the philosophy of open source. Is the purpose of OSS just to “save money”, or perhaps there is something else to it…

Interesting Go Projects and News

Proposal: Standard Logger Interface

#golang logging library maintainers: It’s time we agreed on a common interface and converged so we don’t have so much mass confusion.

Package Oriented Design

Floppy Gopher

GDB GUI

GopherCon Speakers Announced!! (how could we forget that??)

Free Software Friday!

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

Brian - g.. (exclude vendor from go commands)
Erik - gobuster
Carlisia - Just for Func
Ron - NATS

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The burden of open source (Changelog Interviews #242) Mar 09, 2017

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James Long joined the show to talk about his recent post, “Why I’m Frequently Absent from Open Source”. He shared several points in his blog post that struck a chord with us, so we invited him on the show to talk through the gritty details and peel back the layers of open source — the people involved, sustainability, the responsibility, the guilt, and the balance it takes to keep it all together.

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Featuring:

James Long – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

James recently left Mozilla and shortly after he launched an open source project called Prettier - an opinionated JavaScript formatter. It was a great success.

Needless to say, James experienced that overwhelming feeling many indie open source developers feel when faced with all the work required to maintain a successful open source project — the issues, feature requests, PRs, extra time required, and all the communication can really be a burden, especially when you have a full-time contracting gig and a family. His blog post was a response to this feeling as well as a love letter to his wife.