The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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Computer Science without a computer (Interview) Jun 20, 2018

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Adam Stacoviak and Jerod Santo talk with Tim Bell, the founder and creator of CS Unplugged, a collection of free teaching material that teaches computer science through engaging games and puzzles. They talk to him about where this program came from him, the need for computer science in today’s K-12 education programs, how CS Unplugged fits in, and how you can get involved.

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

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Python at Microsoft (Interview) Jun 13, 2018

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We talked with Steve Dower and Dan Taylor at Microsoft Build 2018 about the history of Python at Microsoft, the origination of IronPython, Python Tools for Visual Studio, flying under the radar to add support Python, fighting from within to support open source, and more.

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OSCON – O’Reilly’s Open Source Convention combines the experience of the open source community with ideas and strategies for using open source tools and technologies. There’s no event quite like OSCON! When registration opens — save 20% on most passes by using the code CHANGELOG when you register.

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Steve Dower – Website, GitHub, X
Dan Taylor – GitHub, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

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Topics

2:22 – The history of Python at Microsoft
3:15 – The origination of IronPython
4:05 – Python tools for Visual Studio
7:54 – What Microsoft is doing with Python
10:22 – Why Python is good for people new to programming
12:20 – Pythonic
13:52 – PEP 8
15:47 – Black
18:16 – Pylint
21:41 – CPython
26:01 – Opensource at Microsoft
28:29 – The future of Python
33:55 – The latest in Python

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Corporate interests in open source and dev culture (Interview) Jun 06, 2018

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Zed Shaw – creator of Mongrel, Learn Python the Hard Way, and more – joined the show to talk through a recent Twitter thread from Zed where he shared his thoughts on open source, making money in open source, corporate interests and involvement, developer culture, and more.

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OSCON – O’Reilly’s Open Source Convention combines the experience of the open source community with ideas and strategies for using open source tools and technologies. There’s no event quite like OSCON! When registration opens — save 20% on most passes by using the code CHANGELOG when you register.
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Zed Shaw – Website, GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

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PDF copy of Zed’s Twitter thread (because he’s testing his Twitter account as being private)
The original Twitter thread
The Changelog #34: Mongrel2 and High Performance Web Sites with Zed Shaw
Learn Code the Hard Way
Embrace, extend, and extinguish - Wikipedia

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Curl turns 20, HTTP/2, QUIC (Interview) May 31, 2018

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Daniel Stenberg joined the show to talk about 20 years of curl, what’s new with http2, and the backstory of QUIC - a new transport designed by Jim Roskind at Google which offers reduced latency compared to that of TCP+TLS+HTTP/2.

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OSCON – O’Reilly’s Open Source Convention combines the experience of the open source community with ideas and strategies for using open source tools and technologies. There’s no event quite like OSCON! When registration opens — save 20% on most passes by using the code CHANGELOG when you register.
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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Daniel Stenberg – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

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Daniel Stenberg on Twitter: “Twenty years of maintaining open source, and all I ever got… “
Everything curl - Book
Copy as curl
Web transport, today and tomorrow
QUIC
QUIC Homepage
What is the difference between TPC and UDP?
IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force
The annual curl user survey is up. Please donate a few minutes and answer some questions!
curl survey 2017 – analysis | daniel.haxx.se

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Prisma and the GraphQL data layer (Interview) May 16, 2018

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Johannes Schickling, co-founder and CEO of Prisma, joined the show to catch us up on all things GraphQL — the tech, the possibilities, the community, how Prisma turns your database into a GraphQL API, their new business direction, Prisma Cloud, open source vs enterprise, and the upcoming GraphQL Europe in Berlin on June 15th.

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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.
DigitalOcean – DigitalOcean is simplicity at scale. Whether your business is running one virtual machine or ten thousand, DigitalOcean gets out of your way so your team can build, deploy, and scale faster and more efficiently. New accounts get $100 in credit to use in your first 60 days.
GoCD – GoCD is an on-premise open source continuous delivery server created by ThoughtWorks that lets you automate and streamline your build-test-release cycle for reliable, continuous delivery of your product.
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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Johannes Schickling – GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

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Burnout, open source, Datasette (Interview) May 09, 2018

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Adam is on location at ZEIT Day talking with Jessica Rose about burnout, Henry Zhu about his passions and pursuit of open source, and Simon Willison about data and his passion for interesting datasets in the world.

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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
GoCD – GoCD is an on-premise open source continuous delivery server created by ThoughtWorks that lets you automate and streamline your build-test-release cycle for reliable, continuous delivery of your product.
ZEIT – ZEIT is on a mission to make cloud computing as easy and accessible as mobile computing. Special thanks to the team at ZEIT for inviting us to work with them on ZEIT Day. We’re honored to be involved.

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Jessica Rose – Website, GitHub, X
Henry Zhu – Website, GitHub, X
Simon Willison – Website, GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

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Jessica Rose

Henry Zhu

Simon Willison

Simon Willison: Datasette and Datasette Publish at ZEIT Day 2018
Datasette on GitHub
Posts tagged with Datasette on simonwillison.net
Datasette: instantly create and publish an API for your SQLite databases
Simon was super impressed and very interested in our open source podcast transcripts

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Scaling all the things at Slack (Interview) May 02, 2018

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Julia Grace joined the show to talk bout about scaling all the things at Slack. Julia is currently the Senior Director of Infrastructure Engineering at Slack, and has been their since 2015 — so she’s seen Slack during its hyper-growth. We talked about Slack’s growth and scale challenges, scaling engineering teams, the responsibilities and challenges of being a manager, communicating up and communicating down, quality of service and reliability, and what it takes to build high performing leadership teams.

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GoCD – GoCD is an on-premise open source continuous delivery server created by ThoughtWorks that lets you automate and streamline your build-test-release cycle for reliable, continuous delivery of your product.
O'Reilly Velocity Conference – Future-proof your systems and yourself. Learn about performance, monitoring and observability, scalability, serverless, security, and leadership. Use the discount code CHANGELOG to get 20% off Gold, Silver, and Bronze passes. Location and dates: San Jose, California, June 11-14. Learn more - oreil.ly/2J3gCBP

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Julia Grace – Website, GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

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The Changelog #129: The PHP language specification with Sara Golemon
Julia’s upcoming talk at Velocity - Scaling yourself during hyper-growth
Use the discount code CHANGELOG to save 20% off Gold, Silver, and Bronze passes

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Code Cartoons, Rust, WebAssembly (Interview) Apr 25, 2018

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Lin Clark joined the show to talk about Code Cartoons, her work at Mozilla in the emerging technologies group, Rust, Servo, and WebAssembly (aka Wasm), the Rust community’s big goal in 2018 for Rust to become a web language (thanks in part to Wasm), passing objects between Rust and JavaScript, Rust libraries depending on JavaScript packages and vice versa, Wasm ES Modules, and Lin’s upcoming keynote at Fluent on the parallel future of the browser.

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GoCD – GoCD is an on-premise open source continuous delivery server created by ThoughtWorks that lets you automate and streamline your build-test-release cycle for reliable, continuous delivery of your product.
O'Reilly Fluent Conference – Learn the latest JavaScript tools and methods. Build a better web. Deliver the best user experiences. Use the discount code CHANGELOG to get 20% off Gold, Silver, and Bronze passes. Location and dates: San Jose, California, June 11-14. Learn more - oreil.ly/2J4z8da

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Lin Clark – Website, GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

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Ember four years later (Interview) Apr 18, 2018

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Chad Hietala joined the show to talk with us about the long history of Ember.js, how he first got involved, his work at LinkedIn and his work as an Ember Core team member, how the Ember team communicates expectations from release to release, their well documented RFC process, ES Classes in Ember, Glimmer, and where Ember is being used today.

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GoCD – GoCD is an on-premise open source continuous delivery server created by ThoughtWorks that lets you automate and streamline your build-test-release cycle for reliable, continuous delivery of your product.
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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