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Functional CSS and Tachyons (Interview) Nov 10, 2017

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Adam Morse joined the show to talk about Functional CSS and his project Tachyons - a CSS Toolkit that lets you quickly build and design new UI without writing CSS. We talk about Scalable CSS, the difference between “Atomic”, “OOCSS”, “BEM” and others, semantic class names, and where we go from here.

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Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

My roadmap to become a blockchain engineer (Interview) Nov 08, 2017

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Preethi Kasireddy, a self-employed blockchain and smart contract Engineer, joined the show to talk about why she left the best job in the world at Andreessen Horowitz on the deal team, how she got entrepreneurship envy, the roadmap she laid out in 2015 and where she’s at today as an engineer, her excitement for blockchain-based technologies, and why blockchains don’t scale.

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

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Rails as a day job, Diesel on the side (Interview) Nov 04, 2017

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Sean Griffin joins the show to talk about doing Rails full-time, his love of Rust. and his project Diesel - a safe, extensible ORM and query builder for Rust. We discuss Sean’s path to working full-time on Rails, what he works on specifically, why Rust, why Diesel, and how much of Diesel’s design and featureset is a product of his experience with ActiveRecord and Rails.

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Ruby on Rails - a web-application framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.
activerecord on GitHub
Rust - a systems programming language that runs blazingly fast, prevents segfaults, and guarantees thread safety.
diesel on GitHub
Diesel website and docs
RustConf

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Bisq, the decentralized Bitcoin exchange (Interview) Nov 03, 2017

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Chris Beams joins the show to talk about Bisq, the P2P decentralized Bitcoin exchange and open-source desktop application that allows you to buy and sell bitcoins in exchange for national currencies, or alternative crypto currencies. We get some background on the issues faced by crypto exchanges like CoinBase, and the now defunkt Mt. Gox. We discuss whether or not Bitcoin is a censorship resistant payment system and what it means to have anonymous transaction currency options. Bisq also has an interesting white paper about its own DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization) to support its contributors and we discuss that in detail at the end of the episode.

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

Show Notes:

Bisq - the P2P Decentralized Bitcoin Exchange
bisq-network/exchange
The Bisq DAO or read the source docs here and you can read the compensation requests here
Bitcoin - Open source P2P money
Ethereum Project
CoinBase
Mt. Gox

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Operação Serenata de Amor (Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Government Corruption 😱) (Interview) Oct 31, 2017

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Eduardo Cuducos joined the show to talk about Operação Serenata de Amor an Artificial Intelligence and Data Science project that aims to inform the general public about government corruption and spending. We talked about how this artificial intelligence project analyzes claims for reimbursement from congresspeople to determine illegal probability, how it monitors government spending, the technology behind it, and how other governments might be able to follow this model.

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

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Functional Programming (Interview) Oct 28, 2017

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Eric Normand joined the show to talk about Functional Programming. We talked about FP vs OOP vs Imperative, why FP is popular again, the advantages and disadvantages of Functional Programming, and teaching Functional Programming concepts.

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Eric Normand – GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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Show Notes:

Learn Functional Programming on your schedule
Can I do FP in my language? (dev.to)
Functional programming (Wikipedia)
Lambda Calculus (Wikipedia)
Maxima and Minima (Wikipedia)

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The Future of RethinkDB (Interview) Oct 17, 2017

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Mike Glukhovsky joined the show to talk about the future of RethinkDB. Mike was a co-founder of RethinkDB along-side Slava Akhmechet. RethinkDB shutdown a year ago officially on October 5, 2016 — and today we’re talking through all the details with Mike. The shutdown, getting purchased by the CNCF, relicensing, buying back their IP and source code, community and governance, and some specific features that Mike and the rest of the community are excited about.

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The Kotlin Programming Language (Interview) Oct 13, 2017

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Dmitry Jemerov joined the show to talk about Kotlin - a language created by JetBrains that’s designed to be an industrial-strength object-oriented language, and a “better language” than Java. We asked Dmitry “Why invent a new language?”, talked through Google announcing official Android support, covered some of Kotlin’s characteristics, Kotlin vs Swift, and more.

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Kotlin Programming Language
Kotlin Community
KotlinConf
JetBrains Gogland - Up and Coming Go IDE
On the Rise of Kotlin

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Automating GitHub with Probot (Interview) Oct 06, 2017

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We talk with Brandon Keepers and Bex Warner about GitHub’s Probot — GitHub Apps to automate and improve your workflows. You can use pre-built apps or easily build and share your own.

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Bex Warner – Website, GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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Conversations about sustaining open source (Interview) Sep 22, 2017

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This episode features conversations from Sustain 2017 at GitHub HQ with Richard Littauer, Karthik Ram, Andrea Goulet, and Scott Ford. Sustain was a one day conversation for open source software sustainers to share stories, resources, and ways forward to sustain open source.

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