The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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GitHub's Open Source Survey (2017) (Interview) Jun 09, 2017

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On Friday, June 2, 2017 – GitHub announced the details of their Open Source Survey – an open data set on the open source community for researchers and the curious. Frannie Zlotnick, Nadia Eghbal, and Mikeal Rogers joined the show to talk through the backstory and key insights of this open data project which sheds light on the broader open source community’s attitudes, experiences, and backgrounds of those who use, build, and maintain open source software.

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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.
Microsoft Azure OpenDev – a live one-day virtual conference on June 21, 2017 focused on showcasing open source technologies on Azure. See what’s possible with open source in the cloud. Learn how you can build containerized microservices and improve your open source DevOps pipeline. Participate in Q&A sessions, and get hands-on experience with open source technologies on Azure.

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Nadia Eghbal – GitHub, X
Frannie Zlotnick – GitHub
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, X

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JAMstack, Netlify CMS, and 10x-ing Smashing Magazine (Interview) May 30, 2017

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Matt Biilman and Chris Bach joined the show to talk about JAMstack, Netlify CMS, how open source drives standards, and 10x-ing the speed of Smashing Magazine.

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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.

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Matt Biilmann – Website, GitHub, X
Chris Bach – Website, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

JAMstack (JavaScript, APIs, and Markup) is a new way of building websites and apps that delivers better performance, higher security, lower cost of scaling, and a better developer experience.
Netlify CMS is an open-source CMS built with JAMstack principles designed around a fully Git workflow.
Smashing Magazine just got 10x faster
Meet The Next Smashing Magazine
Why Static Site Generators Are The Next Big Thing
next.smashingmagazine.com

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BONUS - Sustain Open Source Software (Interview) May 04, 2017

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Justin Dorfman joined us for a special BONUS episode of The Changelog to share some details about Sustain Conference with you. It’s a one day conversation for Open Source Software sustainers at GitHub HQ (SF) on June 19, 2017. No keynotes, expo halls or talks. Only discussions about how to get more resources to support digital infrastructure. Plus, we’ll be there.

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

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Open source at Microsoft, inclusion, diversity, and OSCON (Interview) Apr 28, 2017

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Scott Hanselman joined today’s show produced in partnership with our friends at OSCON. Scott is a Program Chair of OSCON, host of the podcast Hanselminutes, and advocate for open source inside of Microsoft and the Azure Cloud team. We talked about the oldest software he wrote that’s still in production, the shift inside Microsoft to open source and why, as well as ways to make inclusion and diversity a priority in your communities.

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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 CHANGELOG20 when you register.

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

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Use our code changeloghallpass to get a FREE Expo Hall Pass to OSCON. This will get you access to the hallway track, the exhibitors, and a bunch of other fun stuff.

Adam and Jerod will be there at booth 231, so make sure you stop by. We’ll have some tees and stickers to give away, but they are in limited supply and reserved for members of Changelog Community, which is free to join — so go sign up.

Scott’s podcast ~> Hanselminutes
keysleft.com
Join the Changelog Community (it’s free)
BabySmash
Codeland Conference

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Open source lessons learned (Interview) Apr 28, 2017

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Zeno Rocha, Principal Developer Advocate at Liferay, joined the show to talk about DevRel, his open source work (clipboard.js, Dracula Theme, jQuery Boilerplate, Browser Diet, et al), and his passion for teaching and giving talks at conferences. Zeno also shared some really interesting stories about his first contributions to open source, how that played out, and the lessons learned along the way.

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Toptal – Hire the best freelance developers and designers with Toptal. Email adam@changelog.com for a personal introduction.
Datadog – Cloud-Scale Monitoring — Monitoring that tracks your dynamic infrastructure and applications. Plus next-generation APM. Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize end-to-end application performance. Start your free trial, install the agent, and get a free t-shirt!
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.

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Zeno Rocha – Website, GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

Special thanks to Justin Dorfman for helping connect us to Zeno Rocha for this episode — BTW check out SustainOSS.org, a one day conversation on June 19, 2017 about sustaining open source. We’ll be there!

DevRelSummit
Liferay
clipboard.js
Issue #56: OT: How did the repo get 5000 stars in a few days?
jQuery Boilerplate
Issue #10: Everything is wrong, so deleted all of it, this way you can start over and do it right.
Browser Diet - The definitive front-end performance guide.
Dracula Theme
DevSpace - Stay up to date with what’s happening now on GitHub
The Changelog #246: First-time Contributors and Maintainer Balance
with Kent C. Dodds
Reminder on how you spend your time

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Firefox Debugger and DevTools (Interview) Apr 17, 2017

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Jason Laster joined the show to talk about Firefox Debugger and DevTools. We talked about the backstory of Firefox, Firebug, the new Debugger.html, why React and Redux made a good fit to develop Debugger as a standalone application, community efforts, and getting started.

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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.

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

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The Recurse Center
A quick history of Firefox DevTools
Firebug
Web Developer (Add-on)
3D view
Issue #544 - James Long and Jason Laster of the mozilla debugger.html project - thanks Bryan Clark
Firefox Developer Tools
WebIDE
XUL Tutorial
Firefox Debugger
debugger.html Homepage and readme
Firefox DevTools on GitHub
GDB: The GNU Project Debugger
Reactide - the first dedicated IDE for React web application development
The Changelog #242: The Burden of Open Source with James Long

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Open Source at Google (Interview) Mar 28, 2017

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Will Norris (Engineering Manager at Google’s Open Source office) joined the show to talk about their new release of the Google Open Source website as well as the release of Google’s internal documentation on how they do open source. Nearly 70 pages of documentation have been made public under creative commons license for the world to use. We talked about the backstory of Google’s Open Source office, their philosophy on OSS, their involvement in the TODO group, and much more.

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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.

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

Show Notes:

A New Home for Google Open Source
Google Open Source - Bringing better technology to the world by promoting open source.
Google Open Source docs
TODO - Talk openly, develop openly
GitHub now lets its workers keep the IP when they use company resources for personal projects
Chris DiBona
Check out the Project Metadata project Will mentioned during the show
The Changelog #211: Open Source at Facebook with James Pearce
Google on GitHub
David Recordon on Changelog.com

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Learning JavaScript and Bringing People Together (Interview) Mar 25, 2017

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Tracy Lee joined the show to talk about bringing people together, helping people, and making an impact. We covered learning JavaScript, the ins and outs of her road to get to where she’s at today, hitting burnout and sleeping for two weeks, breaking into the JavaScript community, and the fun cruise, workshops, and conferences she’s working on for the JavaScript community.

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Datadog – Cloud-Scale Monitoring — Monitoring that tracks your dynamic infrastructure and applications. Plus next-generation APM. Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize end-to-end application performance. Start your free trial, install the agent, and Datadog will send you a free Datadog t-shirt!

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