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webpack (Changelog Interviews #233) Dec 17, 2016

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Sean Larkin joined the show to talk about Webpack, how fast open sources moves, how fast Webpack is moving, the core team, the formation, joining JS Foundation, the problem it’s solving, the bleeding edge features, sustainability, Sean and team’s efforts to build the community, their work on Open Collective, and more.

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

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Sean Larkin – Twitter, GitHub
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

Webpack homepage
Webpack docs
Webpack on Medium
Webpack on GitHub
Donate to Webpack on Open Collective
“The first time you demo #webpack for a friend 😅” – @Changelog
SurviveJS
Read Sustaining Webpack for the Future — Part 1 and Part 2
“Tobias Koppers (sokra, the creator of webpack) has made my life as a developer so much better. So I gave him 💰💰💰💰 – sokra.github.io” — @kentcdodds

Webpack team members mentioned by Sean.

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Blockchain and Hyperledger (Spotlight #4) Dec 16, 2016

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In this episode of Spotlight recorded at All Things Open 2016, Adam talked with Anna Derbakova from IBM after her jam packed talk on Blockchain and Hyperledger about the fundamentals of blockchain, how this technology is revolutionizing finance, banking, IoT, supply chains, manufacturing, and any other applications out there that can benefit from a “smart contract”, The Hyperledger Project, and the exciting opportunities that exist in the future for blockchains.

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Anna Derbakova – Twitter, GitHub
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

IBM Blockchain - Quickly run a blockchain network in a secure Cloud environment. Spin up a blockchain network on a private, virtualized environment; create and secure digital assets in test applications to trade over a permissioned network.
Hyperledger Fabric Basics — This tutorial was presented as part of Anna’s presentation at All Things Open 2016. Her presentation was focused on blockchain applications, and specifically, getting started with building an application with Hyperledger Fabric.
View the slides from Anna’s talk — Blockchain for Business on Hyperledger
Hyperledger — an open source collaborative effort under the Linux Foundation created to advance cross-industry blockchain technologies. It is a global collaboration including leaders in finance, banking, IoT, supply chain, manufacturing and technology.
The Hyperledger Project on GitHub
Fabric core
Hyperledger Fabric Client SDK for Node.js
Join Hyperledger Project on Slack
IBM Bluemix
The Changelog #222: Ethereum and Cryptocurrency with Gavin Wood

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The Go Compiler and Go 1.8 (Go Time #27) Dec 15, 2016

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Keith Randall from the Go team joined the show to talk about why a new compiler, what we gain from SSA, what’s next for the compiler, Go 1.8, and the goals/plans for Go 1.9.

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StackImpact – StackImpact is all about profiling and monitoring for Go. Laser focus on the performance of your Go applications.
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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Keith Randall – GitHub, Website
Bill Kennedy – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Carlisia Thompson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Erik St. Martin – Twitter, GitHub

Show Notes:

1.8 Beta — get it while it’s hot!
Inside the Map Implementation - from Keith Randall and GopherCon 2016
GothamGo videos are on YouTube
How Do They Do It: Timers in Go — Contributed by Alexander Morozov & Vyacheslav Bakhmutov
Contributing to the Go project — Contributed by Matt Layher
GoLab — The Italian conference on Go, Jan 20-21
Dominik Honnef’s — An incomplete list of tools from the Go tool chain

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Erik — Arduino maker community
Carlisia — json incremental digger from simeji
Keith — Delve
Bill — go-hep and gonum - Go-based software for the High Energy Physics community

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Teaching and Learning Go (Go Time #26) Dec 14, 2016

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Todd McLeod joined the show to talk about teaching and learning Go, his work as an Instructor at Fresno City College, Udemy and on YouTube.

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Minio – Minio is an Amazon S3 compatible object storage server built for cloud application developers and devops. It’s also open source!
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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Todd McLeod – Twitter, GitHub
Carlisia Thompson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Brian Ketelsen – Twitter, GitHub
Bill Kennedy – Twitter, GitHub, Website

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Free Software Friday

Brian - Microsoft, Rich Turner and the whole WSL team for replacing the three computers on my desk with one Surface Book
Carlisia - All the Go meetups out there

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Homebrew and Swift (Changelog Interviews #232) Dec 09, 2016

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Max Howell, famous for creating Homebrew, joined the show to talk about his start in software and open source, the tweet that was heard around the world when he interviewed with Google and didn’t get accepted, the creation of Homebrew, the naming process, as well as the difficulty letting go. We also talked about his passion for the Swift programming language, and his work on Swift Package Manager while at Apple.

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Max Howell – Twitter, GitHub
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

Max was on The Changelog #35 way back in September, 2010
Max’s latest open source project PromiseKit
The BBC Micro was the first computer Max used
Amarok - a powerful music player for Linux, Unix and Windows
qt - cross-platform development
Last.fm - bring together your favourite music services
Scrobble
“The foundation of the modern world is developer tools.”
The Changelog #223: Homebrew and Package Management with Mike McQuaid
The tweet heard aroud the world with 6,825+ retweets — “Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (Homebrew), but you can’t invert a binary tree on a whiteboard so f**k off.”
Swift Package Manager
BBC BASIC programming language
QBasic (Quick Beginners All purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is an IDE and interpreter for a variety of the BASIC programming language
Max’s new thing — mixmsg lets you make mixtapes with friends directly in iMessage.
Max’s new project — Growler is planned for Homebrew, but he was hush hush about what it will do

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Exercism and 99 Bottles of OOP (Spotlight #2) Dec 09, 2016

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Welcome to the first Spotlight series recorded at OSCON London 2016. Jerod talked with Katrina Owen, an accomplished speaker, creator of the excellent coding practice and feedback site, Exercism.io, and the co-author of 99 Bottles of OOP. Have you ever heard the story of how Katrina went from anonymous developer to sharing a byline with Sandi Metz? She shared all the details during this face-to-face chat.

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Katrina Owen – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

The Changelog #225: 99 Practical Bottles of OOP with Sandi Metz - Adam and Jerod talk with Sandi Metz about her beginnings on the mainframe, her 30+ years of programming experience, the ins and outs of OOP, her book Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby (aka POODR), as well as her latest book 99 Bottles of OOP which she co-authored with Katrina Owen. We also covered a few listener submitted questions at the end.
The Changelog #202: 23 Years of Ruby with Matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto) - Adam and Jerod talk with Matz, the creator of the Ruby programming language, about where he began as a programmer, the origins of Ruby, its history and future, Ruby 3.0, concurrency and parallelism, Streem, Erlang, Elixir, and more.
Exercism — Level up your programming skills
Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby (POODR) - is a programmers tale written by Sandi Metz, explaining object-oriented design (OOD) using realistic, understandable examples. POODR is a practical, readable introduction to how OOD can lower your costs and improve your applications.
about how to write object-oriented code.
99 Bottles of OOP - a book by Sandi Metz and Katrina Owen written as a practical guide to writing cost-effective, maintainable, and pleasing object-oriented code.
Therapeutic Refactoring - a story about taking complicated, untested code and changing it in small, safe steps to make it easier to understand. It walks through the step-by-step process of adding characterization tests, as well as working through a classic refactoring, “Replace Method with Method Object”.

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Welcome to Spotlight (Spotlight #1) Dec 09, 2016

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Adam and Jerod discuss the details of this new podcast; what’s coming up, what you can expect in future episodes, and how you can invite Spotlight to a conference or community event near you. Email us – editors@changelog.com.

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

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Listen to the first episode — Spotlight #2: OSCON London 2016 - Katrina Owen
Seriously, email us at editors@changelog.com. We’d love to talk about producing a podcast series around your conference or community event.
We’re not in iTunes just yet (it takes about a week to get approved), but you can subscribe to Master in iTunes or your favorite podcast app.
Subscribe using our RSS feed — changelog.com/spotlight/feed

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HTTP/2 in Node.js Core (Changelog Interviews #231) Dec 06, 2016

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In this special episode recorded at Node Interactive 2016 in Austin, TX 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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James Snell – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

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This episode is a preview of our upcoming “Future of Node.js” series recorded at Node Interactive 2016 in Austin, TX. The series is produced in partnership with Node.js Foundation and sponsored by IBM. We’ll be releasing the full series soon on our new podcast “Spotlight”. If you haven’t subscribed to Changelog Master yet, which includes all the podcasts we produce, now would be a good time to do so. You can also subscribe to Changelog Weekly where we announce all the new things we’re up to.

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
Checkout Spotlight, our new show around big announcements, conferences, the hallway track, behind the scenes — meaningful conversations with real people in the community.

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