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All things text mode (Interview) Apr 04, 2019

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We’re talking all things text mode with Lucas da Costa — we logged his post “How I’m still not using GUIs in 2019” a guide focused on making the terminal your IDE. We talked through his Terminal starter pack which includes: neovim, tmux, iterm2, and zsh by way of oh-my-zsh, his rules for learning vim, the awesomeness of CLI’s, and the pros and cons of graphical and plain text editors.

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Lucas Fernandes da Costa – Website, GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

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Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Why smart engineers write bad code (Interview) Mar 29, 2019

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We’re talking with Adam Barr, a 23 year Microsoft veteran, about his book “The problem with software,” sub-titled “Why smart engineers write bad code.” We examine that very idea, the gap between industry and academia, and more importantly what we can do to get a better feedback loop going between them.

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Raygun – The Raygun platform let’s you see a complete picture of your software health in one place by monitoring every part of your software stack in one tool. Bring your whole team together and break down the walls between your monitoring tools. Do it all in one fully integrated platform. Learn more at raygun.com/platform.
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Adam Barr – X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

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Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Funding OSS with Mozilla Open Source Support awards (Interview) Mar 13, 2019

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We’re talking with Mehan Jayasuriya program officer at Mozilla about MOSS — the Mozilla Open Source Support (MOSS) program which recognizes, celebrates, and supports open source projects. Earlier this year we caught the “MOSS 2018 Year in Review” blog post — this post highlighted many of their efforts in 2018 so we reached out to talk through the history, goals, and impact of this very generous project.

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GitPrime – Download GitPrime’s 20 Patterns book, a field guide to help engineering managers recognize achievement, spot bottlenecks, and debug development processes with data.
Raygun – The Raygun platform let’s you see a complete picture of your software health in one place by monitoring every part of your software stack in one tool. Bring your whole team together and break down the walls between your monitoring tools. Do it all in one fully integrated platform. Learn more at raygun.com/platform.
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Mehan Jayasuriya – Website, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

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Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Homebrew! Part Deux (Interview) Mar 06, 2019

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We’re talking with Mike McQuaid about Homebew 2.0.0, supporting Linux and Windows 10, the backstory and details surrounding the security issue they had in 2018, their new governance model, Mike’s new role, the core team meeting in-person at FOSDEM this year, and what’s coming next for Homebrew.

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GitPrime – Download GitPrime’s 20 Patterns book, a field guide to help engineering managers recognize achievement, spot bottlenecks, and debug development processes with data.
Raygun – Unblock your biggest app performance bottlenecks with Raygun APM. Smarter application performance monitoring (APM) that lets you understand and take action on software issues affecting your customers.
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Mike McQuaid – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

Homebrew on HackerOne
brew.sh
Donate Homebrew on Patreon
Here’s how Eric Holmes gained commit access to Homebrew in 30 minutes
adamstac/laptop
thoughtbot/laptop
MikeMcQuaid/strap - Bootstrap your macOS development system
Homebrew governance
Homebrew formulae analytics
“This is why people don’t contribute to your open source project” —Mike McQuaid
Hot Shots! Part Deux - starring Charlie Sheen

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Containerizing compute driven workloads with Singularity (Interview) Feb 28, 2019

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We’re talking with Greg Kurtzer, the founder of CentOS, Warewulf, and most recently Singularity — an open source container platform designed to be simple, fast, and secure. Singularity is optimized for enterprise and high-performance computing workloads. What’s interesting is how Singularity allows untrusted users to run untrusted containers in a trusted way. We cover the backstory, Singularity Pro and how they’re not holding the open source community version hostage, as well as how Singularity is being used to containerize and support workflows in artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, and more.

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Raygun – Unblock your biggest app performance bottlenecks with Raygun APM. Smarter application performance monitoring (APM) that lets you understand and take action on software issues affecting your customers.
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.

Featuring:

Gregory M. Kurtzer – Website, GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

Sylabs.io
Sylabs Cloud
Special thanks to Jacob Chappell (phpHavok) and Andre Marcelo-Tanner (kzap) for kicking things off on Ping
Now Live: Singularity 3.0!
sylabs/singularity
Open Containers Initiative
Founders Talk #61: Isaac Schlueter on building npm and hiring a CEO

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Enabling open code for science at NumFOCUS (Interview) Feb 22, 2019

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We’re talking with Gina Helfrich the Communications Director for NumFOCUS about their story and history, the impact of open code on science, the difference between sponsored and affiliated projects, corporate backing, the back story of their education and events program PyData, and the struggles of storytelling and fundraising.

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Linode – Our cloud server of choice. Deploy a fast, efficient, native SSD cloud server for only $5/month. Get 4 months free using the code changelog2018. Start your server - head to linode.com/changelog
Clubhouse – The first project management platform for software development that brings everyone on every team together to build better products. Get an extra two months free - head to clubhouse.io/changelog
Raygun – Unblock your biggest app performance bottlenecks with Raygun APM. Smarter application performance monitoring (APM) that lets you understand and take action on software issues affecting your customers.
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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Gina Helfrich – X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

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Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

With great power comes great responsibility (Interview) Feb 15, 2019

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Adam and Jerod are joined by JS Party panelist Nick Nisi and #causeascene advocate Kim Crayton for a deep discussion on ethics in the technology industry at-large and our roles as software developers. If you’ve never heard Kim describe what life is like online for underrepresented and marginalized folks, you have to listen to this show!

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GitPrime – Ship faster because you know more. Not because you’re rushing. GitPrime helps software teams accelerate their velocity and release products faster by turning historical git data into easy to understand insights and reports.
Rollbar – We move fast and fix things because of Rollbar. Resolve errors in minutes. Deploy with confidence. Learn more at rollbar.com/changelog.
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Kim Crayton – Website, GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Bluesky, Mastodon, X

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We start by asking the question: should we npm-uninstall-facebook.com?
Jerod and Nick first met Kim at NEJS Conf 2017
Kim also keynoted Node+JS Interactive 2017
Kim’s podcast discusses these topics often
The #causeascene movement being lead by Kim
Read Kim’s article on QZ about defining diversity & inclusion terms
Here’s coverage of bots mimicking female/black voices on NBC, Wired, and NYTimes

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Tactical design advice for developers (Interview) Feb 06, 2019

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Adam talks with Erik Kennedy about tactical design advice for developers. Erik is a self-taught UI designer and brings a wealth of practical advice for those seeking to advance their design skills and learn more about user interface design. We cover his seven rules for creating gorgeous UI, the fundamentals of user interface design — color, typography, layout, and process. We also talk about his course Learn UI Design and how it’s the ultimate on-ramp for upcoming UI designers.

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GitPrime – Ship faster because you know more. Not because you’re rushing. GitPrime helps software teams accelerate their velocity and release products faster by turning historical git data into easy to understand insights and reports.
Rollbar – We move fast and fix things because of Rollbar. Resolve errors in minutes. Deploy with confidence. Learn more at rollbar.com/changelog.
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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Erik Kennedy – Website, GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

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Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

A UI framework without the framework (Interview) Jan 30, 2019

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Jerod and Adam talked with Rich Harris –a JavaScript Journalist on The New York Times Investigations team– about his magical disappearing UI framework called Svelte. We compare and contrast Svelte to React, how the framework is embedded in a component, build time vs. run time, scoping CSS to components, and CSS in JavaScript. Rich also shares where Svelte v3 is heading and the details on Sapper, a framework for building extremely high-performance progressive web apps, powered by Svelte.

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DigitalOcean – The simplest cloud platform for developers and teams Whether you’re running one virtual machine or ten thousand, makes managing your infrastructure too easy. New accounts get $100 in credit to use in your first 60 days.
GitPrime – Ship faster because you know more. Not because you’re rushing. GitPrime helps software teams accelerate their velocity and release products faster by turning historical git data into easy to understand insights and reports.
Rollbar – We move fast and fix things because of Rollbar. Resolve errors in minutes. Deploy with confidence. Learn more at rollbar.com/changelog.
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.

Featuring:

Rich Harris – GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

Thanks to Kevin McGee for suggesting this interview on Ping
The Great Divide by Chris Coyier
Frameworks without the framework; why didn’t we think of this sooner?
Rich’s spectacular work on display in a piece for The New York Times on Twitter bots
Watch Rich’s talk at JSConf EU 2018, “Computer, build me an app”
Svelte website
Follow Svelte on Twitter

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GitHub Actions is the next big thing (Interview) Jan 23, 2019

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Adam and Jerod talk to Kyle Daigle, the Director of Ecosystem Engineering at GitHub. They talk about GitHub Actions, the new automation platform announced at GitHub Universe this past October 2018. GitHub Actions is the next big thing coming out of GitHub with the promise of powerful workflows to supercharge your repos and GitHub experience. Build your container apps, publish packages to registries, or automate welcoming new users to your open source projects — with access to interact with the full GitHub API and any other public APIs, Actions seem to have limitless possibilities.

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GitPrime – GitPrime helps software teams accelerate their velocity and release products faster by turning historical git data into easy to understand insights and reports. Ship faster because you know more. Not because you’re rushing.
Rollbar – We catch our errors before our users do because of Rollbar. Resolve errors in minutes, and deploy your code with confidence. Learn more at rollbar.com/changelog.
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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