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Security on the web, Node async/await, AR.js (JS Party #1) Mar 03, 2017

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In this first episode of JS Party, Mikeal Rogers, Alex Sexton, and Rachel White discuss security on the web and how SHA-1 is broken, Node.js v7.6 and async/await, and this week’s featured project AR.js.

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Featuring:

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

Show Notes:

The topics covered in today’s show:

Security on the web
SHA-1 is broken
Node.js v7.6 gets async/await

Featured Project — AR.js.

Stop using SHA-1
The effects of SHA-1 on Git
Multiformats
Multihash and JS Multihash
Observatory by Mozilla - a project designed to help developers, system administrators, and security professionals configure their sites safely and securely
The PCI Security Standards Council - a global forum for the ongoing development, enhancement, storage, dissemination and implementation of security standards for account data protection.
Node.js v7.6 gets async/await
Experimenting with async/await
co - Generator based control flow goodness for nodejs and the browser, using promises, letting you write non-blocking code in a nicer way.
AR.js

Picks from the panel

Mikeal:

regl - Declarative stateless rendering for WebG
bits.coop

Alex:

Observatory by Mozilla

Rachel:

How Computers Read Pixels (Drawing on Canvas) — Mariko Kosaka

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Dependency Management, Semver, Community Consensus (Go Time #36) Mar 02, 2017

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Sam Boyer joined the show to talk about dependency management, building community consensus, and other interesting Go projects and news.

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Toptal – Scale your team and hire from the top 3% of developers and designers with Toptal. Email adam@changelog.com for a personal introduction.
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sam boyer – Twitter, GitHub
Erik St. Martin – Twitter, GitHub
Carlisia Thompson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Brian Ketelsen – Twitter, GitHub

Show Notes:

Go Dependency Tool (dep)

Dep

GPS

Gophers, please tag your releases

Working with Semantic Versions

The Saga of Go Dependency Management

dep 101

Interesting Go Projects and News

Part 2: How Sourcegraph scales with the Language Server Protocol

Fuzzing as a first class citizen

Go 1.9 optimizations for allocations in interfaces

HTTPLab (Wuzz alternative)

Syscall Fuzzer

Distributed Storage

Distributed Networking

Upspin from Rob & Andrew

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 - jitsi jitsi
Erik - helm
Carlisia - gcli

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Node.js Backstory and Future (Spotlight #12) Mar 01, 2017

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In this episode of The Future of Node series recorded at Node Interactive 2016 Adam talked with Mikeal Rogers about the backstory of Node over the past few years to get to where we are today. We talked about io.js (the fork of Node), what’s happened in the community and the code since that time frame, how The Node.js Foundation has helped to solidify the foundation on which the Node ecosystem is being built on, initiatives and focuses in the near future, and more.

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IBM – Use IBM API Connect to manage your entire API lifecycle from creation to management.
StrongLoop – StrongLoop’s LoopBack is a highly-extensible, open-source Node.js framework you can use to create dynamic end-to-end REST APIs with little or no coding.
Node.js Foundation – The Node.js Foundation’s mission is to enable widespread adoption and help accelerate development of Node.js and other related modules through an open governance model that encourages participation, technical contribution, and a framework for long term stewardship by an ecosystem invested in Node.js’ success.

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Mikeal Rogers – Twitter, GitHub
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

The Future of Node Spotlight series was produced in partnership with The Linux Foundation, the Node.js Foundation, and sponsored by IBM and StrongLoop. It was recorded at Node Interactive 2016 in Austin, TX.

The Changelog #139: The Rise of io.js with Mikeal Rogers
The Changelog #155: The Future of Node.js with Scott Hammond
JS Party: Meet Mikeal Rogers - Panelist of JS Party
Rich Trott on GitHub
Spotlight #7: Focused on a Safe and Inclusive Node Community with Tracy Hinds at Node.js Interactive 2016
Working Toward a Safer, Inclusive Event: Node.js Interactive North America by Tracy Hinds, education community manager of the Node.js Foundation
Node.js API (NAPI) - Node with PoC ABI stable API for native modules. The goal of this project is to provide a stable Node API for native module developers. NAPI aims to provide ABI compatibility guarantees across different Node versions and also across different Node VMs – allowing NAPI enabled native modules to just work across different versions and flavors of Node.js without recompilations.

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The Story of Atom (Changelog Interviews #241) Feb 24, 2017

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Nathan Sobo, founding member of the Atom editor team at GitHub, joined the show take us all the way back to the beginning of Atom to learn where it came from, the founding team, the problem it solves, on through to shipping 1.0 and beyond.

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Featuring:

Nathan Sobo – Twitter, GitHub
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

Lambda the Ultimate
Chris Wanstrath
Corey Johnson
Github Atom’s Code-Editor Nerds Take Over Their Universe
Atom on Libraries.io
Treetop on Libraries.io
The super early version of Atom was built on Ace Editor
Atom: free and open source for everyone
Atom homepage
@atomeditor on Twitter
Atom on GitHub
Atom Flight Manual – Documentation for Atom, generated by nanoc, hosted by GitHub Pages
Atom Blog
Atom Forum
The Changelog #216: Electron and Cross Platform Desktop Apps with Zeke Sikelianos

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Meet Rachel White (JS Party) Feb 24, 2017

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In this show we meet Rachel White, front-end engineer, Tech Evangelist on the DX team at Microsoft, and panelist on this show — JS Party. Rachel shares her fun attitude, her backstory, topics she’s excited to discuss, and who she hopes listens to this show.

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Rachel White – Twitter, GitHub
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

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Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Meet Alex Sexton (JS Party) Feb 24, 2017

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In this show we meet Alex Sexton, a front-end infrastructure engineer at Stripe, Modernizr core team member, and panelist on this show — JS Party. Alex shares his backstory, where he’s coming from, topics he’s excited to discuss, and more.

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Alex Sexton – 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!

Meet Mikeal Rogers (JS Party) Feb 24, 2017

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In this show we meet Mikeal Rogers, Community Manager for The Node.js Foundation, host of Request For Commits, and panelist on this show — JS Party. Mikeal shares his backstory, where he’s coming from, topics he’s excited to discuss, and how you (the listener) can get involved and play a role in this show each week as we celebrate JS and the web platform.

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Mikeal Rogers – Twitter, GitHub
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

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Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Honeycomb, Complex Systems, Saving Sanity (Go Time #35) Feb 23, 2017

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Charity Majors joined the show to talk about debugging complex systems, using go to save one’s sanity, hiring smart people who can learn, and collectively working to make “on-call” life not miserable.

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Toptal – Scale your team and hire from the top 3% of developers and designers with Toptal. Email adam@changelog.com for a personal introduction.
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Charity Majors – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Erik St. Martin – Twitter, GitHub
Carlisia Thompson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Brian Ketelsen – Twitter, GitHub

Show Notes:

Honeycomb :: Powerful, Exploratory Learning with Richer Data

go package libhoney (it’s the APM of the future!)

How We Moved Our API From Ruby to Go and Saved Our Sanity

CHARITY.WTF

Database Reliability Engineering book

Interesting Go Projects and News

Charity wants to give big shout outs (shouts out?) to Naitik Shah and Matt Silverlock!

Go 1.8 is released

Implementing a Debugger: The Fundamentals

Building a Go Debugger

Gobot - 1.2 Released

Pixterm - Draw images in your ANSI terminal with true color

1.8 Release Parties Everywhere

Change to Go CoC

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 - Eclipse Che
Erik - Kube-Lego
Carlisia - Visual Studio Code

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Feedbin and RSS resurgence (Changelog Interviews #240) Feb 21, 2017

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Ben Ubois, the creator of Feedbin (a simple, good-looking online RSS reader) joined the show to talk about the indie web and developers, how RSS usage has changed over the years – particularly since Google Reader shutdown. We also talked about RSS vs the social web that we’re in now and the idea of an RSS resurgence and taking back control over the content we choose to subscribe to.

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