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Matt Holt on CaddyServer, the ACME Protocol, TLS (Go Time #14) Aug 25, 2016

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This episode wins the contest for the most protocols discussed. Matt Holt joined the show to to talk about TLS, Let’s Encrypt, the ACME protocol, CaddyServer, and a host of other important information security issues.

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Interesting Go Projects and News

Free Software Friday

Brian - Python
Carlisia - Exercism good first patches
Matt - A QUIC protocol server implementation in pure Go: faster HTTPS communication
Erik - Mosh: the mobile shell, Wireshack Troubleshooting with Wireshark: Locate the Source of Performance Problems (book) , and TCP Dump

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Documentation and the Value of Non-Code Contributions (Request For Commits #5) Aug 25, 2016

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On today’s show Nadia and Mikeal are joined by Eric Holscher to discuss non-code contributions, how they are regarded in open source culture, their value, and how to incentivize this type of work. They also talked about how Read the Docs grew a documentation community, contribution guides, and why this work matters.

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Eric Holscher – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Nadia Eghbal – Twitter, GitHub
Mikeal Rogers – Twitter, GitHub

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GitHub's Electron (Changelog Interviews #216) Aug 19, 2016

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Zeke Sikelianos joined the show to talk about GitHub’s Electron project and the future of web folks making cross platform desktop apps. We talked about the web revolution around native vs web app, where Electron is heading, who’s using it, and how cool it is to enable folks like Guillermo Rauch to build HyperTerm.

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

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Building Communities (Request For Commits #4) Aug 18, 2016

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On today’s show Nadia and Mikeal are joined by Jan Lehnardt to discuss the value of building communities to reduce burden on maintainers and create sustainable projects, how communities help grow a project, and contributor models.

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Jan Lehnardt – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Nadia Eghbal – Twitter, GitHub
Mikeal Rogers – Twitter, GitHub

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Francesc Campoy on GopherCon and understanding nil (Go Time #13) Aug 18, 2016

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In our first show after GopherCon, we are joined by Francesc Campoy to chat about some of our GopherCon experience, understanding nil, and a great variety of interesting topics of interest to the Go community.

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Francesc Campoy – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Erik St. Martin – Twitter, GitHub
Carlisia Thompson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
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Interesting Go Projects and News

Free Software Friday

Brian - Docker
Carlisia - Tsuru is an extensible open source Platform as a Service
Francesc - Audio Editor
Erik - Environment switcher for the shell

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Best Practices Badge from Core Infrastructure Initiative (Changelog Interviews #215) Aug 12, 2016

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David A. Wheeler, from Core Infrastructure Initiative, joined the show to talk about the CII Best Practices Badge program.

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We talked about the purpose of the Best Practices Badge program from Core Infrastructure Initiative (a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project), how and why you should get certified, and the criteria of the best practices.

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Measuring Success in Open Source (Request For Commits #3) Aug 11, 2016

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On today’s show Nadia and Mikeal are joined by Andrew Nesbitt and Arfon Smith to talk about open source metrics, and how to interpret data around dependencies and usage. They talked about what we currently can, and can not measure in today’s open source ecosystem. They also talked about individual project metrics, how we can measure success, what maintainers should be paying attention to, and whether or not GitHub stars really matter.

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Andrew Nesbitt – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Arfon Smith – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Nadia Eghbal – Twitter, GitHub
Mikeal Rogers – Twitter, GitHub

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Andrew Nesbitt is the creator of Libraries.io, and Arfon Smith heads up open source data at GitHub. Andrew’s project, Libraries.io, helps people discover and track open source libraries, which was informed by his work on GitHub Explore. Arfon works to make GitHub data more accessible to the public. Previously, he worked on science initiatives at GitHub and elsewhere, including a popular citizen science platform called Zooniverse.

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Beyang Liu on Go at Sourcegraph and Writing Better Code (Go Time #12) Aug 10, 2016

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Beyang Liu from Sourcegraph joins the show to talk about Go at Sourcegraph and their code insight and language analysis tools for writing better code. We also get an understanding of what Sourcegraph is and the many ways to integrate it into your workflow.

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Equinox – Build, package and distribute self-updating Go apps to your customers. It’s perfect for CLI tools and on-premise Go software.

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Beyang Liu – Twitter, GitHub
Erik St. Martin – Twitter, GitHub
Carlisia Thompson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Brian Ketelsen – Twitter, GitHub

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Interesting Go Projects and News

Free Software Friday

Brian - GoKit
Erik - The Silver Searcher: A code-searching tool similar to ack, but faster
Beyang - Checkup: Mat Holt’s uptime monitoring tool

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Jessie Frazelle on Maintaining Open Source, Docker, dotfiles (Go Time #11) Aug 10, 2016

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Jessie Frazelle joins us this week to talk about being an open source maintainer, Docker’s pull request acceptance workflow, dotfiles, getting started with public speaking.

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Jessie Frazelle – Twitter, GitHub
Erik St. Martin – Twitter, GitHub
Carlisia Thompson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Brian Ketelsen – Twitter, GitHub

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Interesting Go Projects and News

Free Software Friday

Brian - jq: command line json tool
Carlisia - Go testing in the browser: goconvey
Jessie - A simple utility to safely retrieve arbitrary files and Michael Crosby’s world best gists
Erik - Ranger: console file manager with VI key bindings

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Libscore, Velocity.js, Hacking (Changelog Interviews #214) Aug 06, 2016

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Julian Shapiro, startup founder and developer, joined the show to talk about his story of entrepreneurship, open source, growth hacking, and more. Julian’s story is a story you don’t want to miss — plus he shares actionable advice on growing and marketing an open source project.

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