The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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webpack (Interview) Dec 17, 2016

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Sean Larkin joined the show to talk about Webpack, how fast open sources moves, how fast Webpack is moving, the core team, the formation, joining JS Foundation, the problem it’s solving, the bleeding edge features, sustainability, Sean and team’s efforts to build the community, their work on Open Collective, and more.

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Webpack homepage
Webpack docs
Webpack on Medium
Webpack on GitHub
Donate to Webpack on Open Collective
“The first time you demo #webpack for a friend 😅” – @Changelog
SurviveJS
Read Sustaining Webpack for the Future — Part 1 and Part 2
“Tobias Koppers (sokra, the creator of webpack) has made my life as a developer so much better. So I gave him 💰💰💰💰 – sokra.github.io” — @kentcdodds

Webpack team members mentioned by Sean.

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Homebrew and Swift (Interview) Dec 09, 2016

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Max Howell, famous for creating Homebrew, joined the show to talk about his start in software and open source, the tweet that was heard around the world when he interviewed with Google and didn’t get accepted, the creation of Homebrew, the naming process, as well as the difficulty letting go. We also talked about his passion for the Swift programming language, and his work on Swift Package Manager while at Apple.

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

Show Notes:

Max was on The Changelog #35 way back in September, 2010
Max’s latest open source project PromiseKit
The BBC Micro was the first computer Max used
Amarok - a powerful music player for Linux, Unix and Windows
qt - cross-platform development
Last.fm - bring together your favourite music services
Scrobble
“The foundation of the modern world is developer tools.”
The Changelog #223: Homebrew and Package Management with Mike McQuaid
The tweet heard aroud the world with 6,825+ retweets — “Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (Homebrew), but you can’t invert a binary tree on a whiteboard so f**k off.”
Swift Package Manager
BBC BASIC programming language
QBasic (Quick Beginners All purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is an IDE and interpreter for a variety of the BASIC programming language
Max’s new thing — mixmsg lets you make mixtapes with friends directly in iMessage.
Max’s new project — Growler is planned for Homebrew, but he was hush hush about what it will do

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HTTP/2 in Node.js Core (Interview) Dec 06, 2016

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In this special episode recorded at Node Interactive 2016 in Austin, TX Adam talked with James Snell (IBM Technical Lead for Node and member of Node’s TSC and CTC) about the work he’s doing on Node’s implementation of http2, the state of http2 in Node, what this new spec has to offer, and what the Node community can expect from this new protocol.

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

Show Notes:

This episode is a preview of our upcoming “Future of Node.js” series recorded at Node Interactive 2016 in Austin, TX. The series is produced in partnership with Node.js Foundation and sponsored by IBM. We’ll be releasing the full series soon on our new podcast “Spotlight”. If you haven’t subscribed to Changelog Master yet, which includes all the podcasts we produce, now would be a good time to do so. You can also subscribe to Changelog Weekly where we announce all the new things we’re up to.

Checkout the http2 repo James is working on
Watch the talk James gave at Node Interactive — Implementing HTTP/2 for Node.js Core by James Snell
Watch all the talks from Node Interactive
Checkout Spotlight, our new show around big announcements, conferences, the hallway track, behind the scenes — meaningful conversations with real people in the community.

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18F and OSS in the U.S. Federal Government (Interview) Nov 25, 2016

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From 18F — Hillary Hartley and Aidan Feldman joined the show to talk about how 18F is changing the way the federal government builds and buys digital services.

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The Presidential Innovation Fellows (PIF) program brings the innovation economy into government, by pairing talented, diverse technologists and innovators with top civil-servants and change-makers within the federal government.
The White House’s Presidential Innovation Fellows program on Twitter
The Changelog #157: Building Bridges with Sarah Allen
The CC0 1.0 license - “Additionally, we waive copyright and related rights in the work worldwide through the CC0 1.0 Universal public domain dedication.”
cloud.gov - The Government Innovation platform by government developers, for government developers.
analytics.usa.gov on GitHub
18F on GitHub
The System for Award Management (SAM) - certification for working as a vendor for the U.S. government
FedRAMP Ready Products
The Washington Post - Why a federal high-tech start-up is a money loser
Tom VanAntwerp on Medium - 18F is Hardly a Waste of Money
Join one of 18F’s Slack rooms
code.gov is the next milestone in federal open source code
Micro-purchase
Micro-purchase stats page
18F Guides
18F Open Source Style Guide

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Python, Django, and Channels (Interview) Nov 25, 2016

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Django core contributor Andrew Godwin joins the show to tell us all about Python and Django. If you’ve ever wondered why people love Python, what Django’s virtues are as a web framework, or how Django Channels measure up to Phoenix’s Channels and Rails’ Action Cable, this is the show for you. Also: Andrew’s take on funding and sustaining open source efforts.

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

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This episode started on Ping
Django creators: Jacob Kaplan-Moss, Simon Willison
Python love: The Zen of Python
Python love: Great Docs – Requests as example
Jerod suggests RFC #5: Read/Write the Docs with Eric Holscher
Virtues: The Django admin site
Virtues: GeoDjango
Wikipedia has a list of well-known sites using Django
Andrew’s baby: Django Channels
Getting started with Django
Django South - consistent, easy-to-use and database-agnostic migrations for Django applications.
If sustainability is interesting to you, check out Request for Commits

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Servo and Rust (Interview) Nov 18, 2016

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Jack Moffitt joined the show to talk about Servo, an experimental web browser layout engine. We talked about what the Servo project aims to achieve, six areas of performance, and what makes Rust a good fit for this effort.

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Mad science, WebTorrent, WebRTC (Interview) Nov 11, 2016

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Feross Aboukhadijeh joined the show this week to talk with us about his backstory, passive income, WebTorrent, WebRTC, Electron and the ins and outs of packaging apps for all platforms.

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Node.js Interactive – Node.js Interactive is a conference for the Node community focused on education and community building. Use the code CNGJS16 to get 15% off registration.

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

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JavaScript Standard Style Guide
Study Notes is Feross’s passive income maker that enables him to work on open source and other stuff he’s interested in
FreeTheFlash - Hilarious media entertainment brought to you by FreeTheFlash Entertainment
Webmaster World
WebTorrent - A streaming torrent client for the web browser and the desktop
WebTorrent Desktop is the desktop Torrent client built with Electron
WebTorrent Desktop on GitHub
Instant.io
The Changelog #216 - Electron and Cross Platform Desktop Apps with Zeke Sikelianos
Mojibar - Emoji searcher but as a menubar app built with Electron

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99 Practical Bottles of OOP (Interview) Oct 28, 2016

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Sandi Metz joined the show to talk about her beginnings on a mainframe, her 30+ years of programming experience, the ins and outs of OOP, her book Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby (aka POODR), as well as her latest book 99 Bottles of OOP which she co-authored with Katrina Owen. We also covered a few listener submitted questions at the end.

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Sandi’s first book — Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby (aka POODR)
99 Bottles of OOP by Sandi Metz
Katrina Owen co-authored 99 Bottles with Sandi
Check out Understanding Computation — From Simple Machines to Impossible Programs by Tom Stuart — use the code PCBW to save 40% on a print book, or 50% on an ebook from O’Reilly
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software from the GangOfFour — Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides

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.NET Core and Microsoft's Shift to Open Source (Interview) Oct 21, 2016

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Bertrand Le Roy joined the show to talk about all things .NET Core, their recent 1.0 release, where it’s going, the open source around it, and Microsoft’s shift towards more open source.

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Bertrand Le Roy – Website, GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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Special thanks to Brett Morrison for helping us put this show together by introducing us to Bertrand 👏

The Changelog #134: Open Sourcing .NET Core with the Microsoft .NET Team
The Changelog #76: .NET, NuGet, and Open Source with Phil Haack
Changelog Weekly Issue #123
.NET Core on GitHub
.NET Core contributors graph
.NET Core docs
Is Microsoft the biggest OSS contributor? by Francesc Campoy
Check out Bertrand’s podcast On .NET — YouTube / Channel 9
Satya Nadella the CEO of Microsoft
Orchard CMS - a free, open source, community-focused Content Management System built on the ASP.NET MVC platform.
Scott Guthrie - lives in Seattle and builds products for Microsoft
dot.net - this is the home of .NET. Powerful Open Source Cross Platform Development.
Rich Lander announced .NET Core 1.0 on June 27, 2016
Go here to get started with .NET Core
Adam finds out there are many facets to Visual Studio — Visual Studio IDE and Visual Studio Code which is open source
Mono - Cross platform, open source .NET framework
The Week in .NET - Bertrand’s weekly email for the .NET community
NuGet - the package manager for the Microsoft development platform including .NET
.NET Command Line Interface - the command line (CLI) tools used for building .NET Core apps and libraries through your development flow (compiling, NuGet package management, running, testing, …)
GitHub Issue #210 - Roslyn and C# on The Changelog ping repo.
Getting started with C#
Getting started with F#