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Node, IoT, and Robotics (Spotlight #11) Feb 17, 2017

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In this episode of The Future of Node series recorded at Node Interactive 2016 Adam talked with Rachel White, Technical Evangelist at Microsoft, about Node, IoT, robotics. We talked about making robots, inspiring developers to try new things, having fun as a developer, letting go of imposter syndrome, RFID implants, and making stuff for fun outside of our day to day jobs.

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

Show Notes:

This “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.

magicalncute - a very magical and cute twitter bot
robokitty - a DIY cat (or dog or human) feeder powered by Node. Also check out imcool.online/robokitty.
Arduino
Johnny-Five - the JavaScript robotics & IoT platform
Johnny-Five Inventor’s Kit
Tessel
David Lynch - Filmmaker

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How China does Node (Spotlight #10) Feb 17, 2017

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In this episode of The Future of Node series recorded at Node Interactive 2016 Adam talked with Shiya Luo about how China does Node, translations of documentation and books from English to Chinese, and the Great Firewall of China (a censorship and surveillance project of the Chinese government) which makes it very difficult for the people of China to interact with the rest of the web.

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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.

Featuring:

Shiya Luo – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

How China Does Node - Shiya Luo’s talk at Node.js Interactive 2016
cnpm - npm client for China mirror of npm

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Pachyderm, Provenance, Data Lakes (Go Time #34) Feb 16, 2017

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Joe Doliner joined the show to talk about managing data lakes with Pachyderm, data containers, provenance, and other interesting Go projects and news.

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Joe Doliner – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Erik St. Martin – Twitter, GitHub
Carlisia Thompson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Brian Ketelsen – Twitter, GitHub

Show Notes:

Pachyderm.io

Let’s build a modern Hadoop

Putting the science back in data science

Martin Fowler - DataLake

Wikipedia: Data Lake

Provenance: the Missing Feature for Rigorous Data Science. Now in Pachyderm 1.1

xkcd: Who were you DenverCoder9? What did you see?!

Pachyderm Users Slack Channel

Interesting Go Projects and News

GitLab.com Database Incident - 2017/01/31

Changelog Spotlight #8: Conversational Development and Controversy with Sid Sijbrandij

Wuzz (visual cURL)

Ozzo Validation

dep 101 - I Can Haz Downtime?

The State of Go - February 2017

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 - NATS
Erik - hashcat
Carlisia - Hashicorp Vault
Joe - grpc

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The State of HTTP/2 in Node (Spotlight #9) Feb 16, 2017

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In this episode of The Future of Node series recorded at Node Interactive 2016 Adam talked with James Snell (IBM Technical Lead for Node and member of Node’s TSC and CTC) about the work he’s doing on Node’s implementation of http2, the state of http2 in Node, what this new spec has to offer, and what the Node community can expect from this new protocol.

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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.

Featuring:

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

Show Notes:

Spotlight #6: “Small Core” – Keeping Node Core Small with Sam Roberts and Thomas Watson
Checkout the http2 repo James is working on
Watch the talk James gave at Node Interactive — Implementing HTTP/2 for Node.js Core by James Snell
Watch all the talks from Node Interactive
Subscribe to JS Party — Our new LIVE weekly show on JavaScript and the web platform with Mikeal Rogers, Alex Sexton, and Rachel White.

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ANTHOLOGY – Hacker stories from OSCON and All Things Open (Changelog Interviews #238) Feb 10, 2017

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Karen Sandler, Rachel Nabors, and Jono Bacon joined the show by way of some great conversations at OSCON in London, UK and All Things Open in Raleigh, NC. We talked about free software, web animation and motion in user interfaces, and how open source communities organize.

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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.

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Karen Sandler – Twitter
Rachel Nabors – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website
Jono Bacon – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

Karen Sandler

Karen Sandler is the the executive director of the Software Freedom Conservancy. She has a big heart, literally. Her heart condition requires a pacemaker, but she can’t access the source code that runs it. For this and other reasons, Karen is a passionate advocate for free software. In this interview, Jerod talks with Karen about her convictions, what she’s doing about them, and how this affects her personal life and the lives of those she loves.

“I literally want to hack my heart! But I can’t.” - Karen Sandler

Software Freedom Conservancy — Become a supporter!
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Is software freedom a social justice issue? - this is the talk that Karen Sandler gave at OSCON 2016
IANAL (“I am not a lawyer”) — IAAL (“I am a lawyer”) and TINLA (“This is not legal advice”) also redirect to this page on Wikipedia

Rachel Nabors

Rachel Nabors is a motion design for the web and UI animations expert and she was at All Things Open as a keynote and featured speker. Adam talked to Rachel about discovering repeatable business models, the state of web animation and where we’re heading, the cognitive science behind motion in user interfaces, some great places to start adding motion and animation to your interfaces, and what we might expect to see with animation and motion in Microsoft Edge.

The UI Animation Newsletter: weekly web animation resources & inspiration
What is Vestibular Disorder?
Follow Dan C. Wilson to learn more about motion paths and web animiation
If you haven’t been, check out CSS Dev Conf
Learn with Rachel — You can check out her courses here.
Rachel’s Keynote at All Things Open
Microsoft Edge

Jono Bacon

Jono Bacon is a consultant and leader in community management and strategy. Jono was at All Things Open as a keynote and featured speker. Adam talked with Jono about his talk “Building a Community Exoskeleton” and how open source communities break down into read and write — those with a common interst who get together to consume something (a read community), and those who get together because they want to build something together (a write community).

The Art of Community (Jono’s book)
Bad Voltage (Jono’s podcast)

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Gopherize.me, GitHub Stars, BitBar (Go Time #33) Feb 09, 2017

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Mat Ryer joined the show to talk about creating your own Gopher avatar with Gopherize.me, the importance of GitHub Stars, his project BitBar, and other interesting Go projects and news. Special thanks to Kelsey Hightower for guest hosting too!

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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!

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Mat Ryer – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Erik St. Martin – Twitter, GitHub
Carlisia Thompson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Kelsey Hightower – Twitter, GitHub

Show Notes:

Create your very own Gopher avatar with gopherize.me
Buffalo from Mark Bates
Beautiful Packages in Go
We talked through the Go 1.8 release notes
murlokswarm/app - Like Electron but in Go
gdlv - Linux GUI for Delve
Fission - A framework for serverless functions on Kubernetes
Your First PR: Contributing to an Open Source Go Project
Kelsey Hightower predicted the future! - “it’s Go Time!”

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Reproducible builds and secure software (Changelog Interviews #237) Feb 03, 2017

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Chris Lamb joined the show to talk about his project Reproducible Builds — which is funded by The Linux Foundation’s Core Infrastructure Initiative. We talked about the importance of having a verifiable path from source code to compiled binary, what this set of software development practices is all about, what it means to have Reproducible Builds, the challenges faced when implementing these development practices, and the inherent security you gain from them.

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Linode – Our cloud server of choice! Get one of the fastest, most efficient SSD cloud servers for only $10/mo. We host everything we do on Linode servers. Use the code changelog2017 to get 2 months free!

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Chris Lamb – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

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Hellogopher, whosthere? (Go Time #32) Feb 02, 2017

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Filippo Valsorda joined the show to talk about his project Hellogopher, whosthere (whoami.filippo.io), $GOPATH, TLS 1.3, Cloudflare’s secret reverse proxy, and more.

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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.
StackImpact – StackImpact is all about profiling and monitoring for Go. Laser focus on the performance of your Go applications.
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!

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Filippo Valsorda – 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

gopherize.me (this is Brian’s fault!)
chromedp - Package chromedp is a faster, simpler way to drive browsers in Go using the Chrome Debugging Protocol (for Chrome, Edge, Safari, etc) without external dependencies (ie, Selenium, PhantomJS, etc).
nlp - General purpose any-lang Natural Language Processor that parses the data inside a text and returns a filled model
dep - Go dependency tool
Mate - Mate manages AWS Route53 and Google CloudDNS records for your Kubernetes services and ingresses
Go code intelligence on Sourcegraph
How to write Go code - This document demonstrates the development of a simple Go package and introduces the go tool, the standard way to fetch, build, and install Go packages and commands.

Free Software Friday

Erik - ZIM - Zsh IMproved from Matt Hamilton
Fillippo - go-tools - A collection of tools and libraries for working with Go code, including linters and static analysis from Dominik Honnef

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Conversational Development and Controversy (Spotlight #8) Jan 30, 2017

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In this episode of Spotlight recorded at OSCON London 2016, Jerod talked with Sid Sijbrandij (CEO of GitLab) who was recently on The Changelog discussing GitLab’s Master Plan and a new style of development they call “Conversational Development”, to talk about how they’re executing on that plan. We also discussed the recent controversy around GitLab and the removal (and subsequent reposting) of security research data. We enjoyed hearing how Sid turns everything in to an opportunity.

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Featuring:

Sid Sijbrandij – Twitter, LinkedIn, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

The Changelog #220: GitLab’s Master Plan with Sid Sijbrandij
GitLab Master Plan
GitLab Master Plan - Live Event Recap
GitLab Master Plan - YouTube
Willem de Groot recently blogged about the research he did on online skimming — he published it to GitHub and they removed it without sending him a notice. Then he published it to GitLab and they did the same thing. Then GitLab changed their mind and reinstated it.

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GunDB, Venture Backed and Decentralized (Changelog Interviews #236) Jan 27, 2017

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Mark Nadal joined the show to talk about his hacker story and his venture backed open source datastore project called GunDB — a realtime, decentralized, offline-first, graph database engine. We talked about the details behind this database, how Mark secured funding, why yet another datastore, who’s using the database, how Mark plans to sustain this project through products and services, his thoughts on the RethinkDB postmortem and more.

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Linode – Our cloud server of choice! Get one of the fastest, most efficient SSD cloud servers for only $10/mo. We host everything we do on Linode servers. Use the code changelog2017 to get 2 months free!
Flatiron – Are you ready to take the first step to being full-time programmer? Enroll in the FREE Bootcamp Prep course from Flatiron. Free enrollment is offered to the first 500 students only. So if you’re considering enrollment, don’t waste any time. Use our special link when you enroll to get $500 off your first month’s tuition when you move on to a career or certificate course.

Featuring:

Mark Nadal – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

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