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Jon Crawford / Storenvy (Founders Talk #34) Apr 03, 2012

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Jon Crawford, the Founder of Storenvy joins Adam to talk about how everything began for Storenvy, his road from Kansas to Austin, TX to SF, how he got kicked out of Y Combinator the same week he was accepted then raised $1.5M for Storenvy, and how he’s living the startup dream! Also, listen to After Founders Talk #34 for an extended chat with Jon.

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Solarized color scheme — **Solarized and Linux on the Desktop (Changelog Interviews #77)** Mar 30, 2012
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Wynn sat down with Ethan Schoonover, creator of Solarized to talk about the science and design behind the wildly popular color scheme as well as his love for Arch Linux.

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Ethan Schoonover is a freelance designer, creator of Solarized.

Solarized is a sixteen color palette (eight monotones, eight accent colors) designed for use with terminal and gui applications.

Vimscript can be intimidating for noobs.

The Solarized palette aims to maximize sixteen colors, providing contrast on both dark and light backgrounds

Ethan works in the CIELAB:

A Lab color space is a color-opponent space with dimension L for lightness and a and b for the color-opponent dimensions, based on nonlinearly compressed CIE XYZ color space coordinates.

**Achievement unlocked**: First guest to mention *fovea centralis* on the show.

“This fellow Wright” is W. David Wright, who experimented with color perception in 1930s.

Ethan works out of the LAB space, mapping to other color spaces as tools require.

Solarized looks great in a number of fonts as well as syntaxes.

Wynn asks if Sass should support LAB.

Terminus is Ethan’s favorite fixed with font, but also likes Letter Gothic Mono.

Wynn’s litmus test for fixed fonts is the dashrocket alignment.

Micah Rich, founder of The League of Movable Type was on Episode 0.7.4.

Arch Linux is Ethan’s favorite Linux distro.

xmonad is a dynamically tiling X11 window manager that is written and configured in Haskell.

The tmux reference on the Arch wiki is most helpful. Check out Episode 0.7.3 for more on tmux.

TotalTerminal from the talented Antonin Hildebrand.

`brew tap` makes it easy to tap a new Homebrew formula repository from GitHub, or list existing taps.

Freshmeat.net is now freecode.com.

GIMP is no Photoshop replacement.

Haskell is an advanced, purely-functional programming language.

XMonad.Prompt.Input is similar to Quicksilver.

Karthik’s terminal convinced Wynn to give Solarized a go.

Wynn figured out how to do ‘transparent’ colors in the tmux status bar.

TaskWarrior is Ethan’s todo manager, which is saying something since he created Kinkless GTD.

Drew Neil, creator of Vimcasts, featured on Episode 0.5.6.

Dr. Nic Williams, on Episode #50.

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.NET, NuGet, Open Source (Changelog Interviews #76) Mar 16, 2012

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Wynn caught up with Phil Haack to talk about NuGet and growing the .NET open source community at GitHub.

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Phil Haack, GitHubber, Microsoft alumnus, .NET open source guy.
NuGet is a Visual Studio extension that makes it easy to install and update third-party libraries and tools in Visual Studio.
log4net is often an open source trojan horse in the proprietary enterprise.
NuGet features a command line interface and also integrates with SharpDevelop.
Wynn asks what impact the names .NET and C# have had on SEO and adoption of Microsoft technology.
C# is the #11 most popular language on GitHub.
Tiobe places C# as #3 overall.
Line endings in Git are everyone’s problem.
GitHub may or may not be working on (GitHub for Windows®)™.
Phil likes SignalR, an async signaling library for .NET to help build real-time, multi-user interactive web applications.
Jabbr is a chat client showcase for SignalR.
NancyFx is a lightweight, low-ceremony, framework for building HTTP based services on .NET and Mono.
OWIN defines a standard interface between .NET web servers and web applications, much like Rack for Ruby.
Sammy.js was also Rat Pack-inspired.
Phil thinks LINQ and Reactive Extensions (Rx) are some innovations in .NET that should influence the broader community.
The await keyword in C# 5 will accelerate async adoption in .NET.
Wynn <3’s Hubot and especially likes the Dude and Mustachify scripts.
David Fowler, developer on the ASP.NET team and who works on NuGet and SignalR inspires Phil.

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Travis CI, Scaling Apps, Riak (Changelog Interviews #75) Mar 06, 2012

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Wynn caught up with Josh Kalderimis and Mathias Meyer from Travis CI to talk about hosted CI in the sky, scaling apps, and a little Riak.

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Travis CI a hosted continuous integration service for the open source community.
Josh Kalderimis is a core Travis CI team member, Rails contributor, gem developer, and general serial coder.
Mathias Meyer, hacker on Travis, author of the Riak Handbook.
Travis now provides first class support for Python and Perl.
Travis also supports several versions of Ruby including Ruby ~~hid~~HEAD.
[8:15] Mathias lays out the case for Travis vs. Jenkins, namely a streamlined user interface.
Travis runs almost exclusively on Heroku.
AMQP powers the message queues in Travis.
Keep an eye on Travis listener.
The GitHub service hook makes setting up your open source project on Travis a breeze.
If you’re a Travis user, show some love to keep the features coming.
GitHubber Rick Olson worked on some API features to help Travis more deeply integrate with GitHub.
Private repo support, aka Travis Pro™ is on its way. If you want to get in on the beta, donate to the project.
Donate $500, get an hour of pairing with Aaron Patterson, Yehuda Katz, José Valim, Jon Leighton, or other Ruby pro.
Mathias previously worked at Basho and The Riak Handbook is a collection of what he learned there.
José Valim is Josh’s programming hero for his code and community building.
Mathias is playing with Kestrel and Zookeeper.
Josh and Mathias like Celluloid.
Mike Perham’s Sidekiq has caught Josh and Mathias’ eye.

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After Founders Talk #33 (Founders Talk) Mar 02, 2012

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Adam Stacoviak, Nate Peretic & Jay Fanelli after Founders Talk #33.

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Nate & Jay / United Pixelworkers (Founders Talk #33) Mar 02, 2012

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Nate Peretic & Jay Fanelli, the Founders of Full Stop and United Pixelworkers join Adam to talk about plotting and planning to leave old jobs, being outspoken and opinionated, having a core set of principles and not deviating from them, reaching out to people they admired (regardless of popularity) and their side project that has turned into something that could eclipse their entire client revenue in 2012. Also, check out After Dark for an extended chat with Nate and Jay.

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The League of Moveable Type (Changelog Interviews #74) Feb 23, 2012

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Adam and Wynn caught up with Micah Rich from The League of Moveable type to talk about open source typography.

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Micah Rich, from The League of Movable Type.
Caroline Hadilaksono, co-founder of The League.
League Gothic, one of Caroline’s popular faces is Wynn’s favorite.
Several of League fonts are available on TypeKit.
Dave Crossland, designer of Cantarell.
Chunk was created by Meredith Mandel.
The League fonts are forkable on GitHub.
FontForge is an outline font editor that lets you create your own postscript, truetype, opentype, and more.
Glyphs is a professional font editor for Mac OS X.
Wynn’s slide decks make use of League Gothic and Hand of Sean.
Lettering.js gives you more control over kerning on the web.
The Manifesto lays out the vision for The League.
Haley Fiege contributed Sniglet.
Barry Schwartz has contributed several fonts.
Want to help Micah introduce typographers to git? Get in touch.
Wynn asks about vertical rhythm, which Compass makes easier.
Lettercase is a social font manager.
Adam uses FontExplorer X but wishes it did more.
Micah on Dribbble.
Lettercase is powered by Sinatra, Warden, and Grape.
Hoefler & Co. are Micah’s heroes in typography design.

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Nathan Ryan / Proxart (Founders Talk #32) Feb 21, 2012

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Nathan Ryan, the Co-founder of Proxart joins Adam to talk about what to do when you’re bored in Santa Clarita, team development, keeping everyone motivated and on track, and his globalized local focus on art and how artists relate to, react to, and change their environment.

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tmux, dotfiles, and Text Mode (Changelog Interviews #73) Feb 17, 2012

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Wynn sat down with Brian Hogan and Josh Clayton to talk about tmux, dotfiles, and the joys of text mode.

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Brian Hogan speaker, trainer, and author of _Tmux: Productive, Mouse Free development, out now from PragProg.
Josh Clayton is a developer at Thoughtbot.
Factory Girl - fixture replacement for Ruby.
tmux is a terminal multiplexer similar to GNU screen.
tmuxinator helps you manage tmux sessions.
taskpaper.vim - Vim interface for Taskpaper.
Josh’s dotfiles are extensive.
A patch to reattach to user namespace in tmux.
Palette lets you write Vim color schemes with Ruby
Evergreen - Run Jasmine JavaScript unit tests, integrate them into Ruby applications
The latest iTerm2 ships with tmux integration.
tslime.vim is a simple vim script to send portion of text from a vim buffer to a running tmux session.
vim-turbux - Ruby testing with tmux.
Justin Smestad turned Wynn onto tmux for pair programming.
Derick Bailey from Watch Me Code.
pair.io gives you a one-button, collaboration-friendly dev environment for your GitHub repo.
Jesse Dearing is the unnamed “DevOps guy” at Pure Charity.
Thoughtbot has a company-wide dotfiles repo.
Josh rolls his own Vim setup with Tim Pope’s pathogen.
Brian uses TTYtter, is a terminal-based Twitter client, Wynn uses Earthquake.
Josh likes irrsi for IRC.
Brian likes Alpine over mutt for mail.
Search GitHub for “tmux.conf.”
Zach Holman says dotfiles are meant to be forked.
Zach’s own dotfiles.
Yan Pritzker’s dotfiles are opinionated.
Josh says that if you don’t think your dotfiles are the best out there, you’re doing it wrong. (29:55)
Joe Ferris at Thoughtbot inspired Josh’s dotfiles.
Brian and Josh say Janus and oh-my-zsh are great to get started, but you need to understand your dotfiles.
Wynn uses this shell function to list colors to put into his tmux config.
Dotshare is web site to share dotfile configs plus screenshots.
Pianobar is text-based command line interface for Pandora.
Wynn uses shell.fm for Last.fm.
Be sure and check out the Tmux Crash Course.

NEW: Humans Present: tmux a Thoughtbot Workshop.

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Kyle Bragger / Forrst (Founders Talk #31) Feb 10, 2012

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Kyle Bragger, the Founder of Forrst joins Adam to talk about how everything got started for him, how he met Gary Vaynerchuk - which ultimately led Gary and his brother Aj to provide the initial angel funding that helped Kyle work full-time on Forrst. Kyle also shares lots of knowledge on product design, his focus on community and what it means to say no and focus. Be sure to also stay tuned to his great advice at the end of the show.

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