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Homebrew and package management (Interview) Oct 07, 2016

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Mike McQuaid joined us to catch us up on the latest in Homebrew and the recent 1.0.0 release. We talked about no more /usr/local — Homebrew moves to /usr/local/Homebrew to keep /usr/local cleaner, auto-updates, the growth of the Homebrew community and how it has grown to almost 6000 unique contributors, and more.

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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

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Ethereum and Cryptocurrency (Interview) Sep 30, 2016

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Gavin Wood joined the show to talk about Ethereum, Cryptocurrency, The DAO, Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), what could you build with Ethereum, and the future of digital currency. Gavin Wood is Founder of Ethereum, creator of the Solidity contract language, and Founder of Ethcore — the company that created Parity, an open source Ethereum client.

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Fred Ehrsam’s article on Medium — Ethereum is the Forefront of Digital Currency piqued Jerod’s interest for this call
Ethereum is a decentralized platform that runs smart contracts: applications that run exactly as programmed without any possibility of downtime, censorship, fraud or third party interference.
Ethereum on GitHub
Parity is a fast, light, and robust Ethereum implementation.
Check out Parity on GitHub
The DAO — Decentral Autonomous Organization
Understanding The DAO Hack for Journalists
Learn how to buy Ethereum on Coinbase
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How we got here (Interview) Sep 23, 2016

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Cory is a science fiction author, activist, journalist, co-editor of Boing Boing and the author of many books. We talked to Cory about open source, the open web, internet freedom, his involvement with the EFF, where he began his career, the details he’ll be covering in his keynote at OSCON, and his thoughts on open source today and where developers should be focusing their efforts.

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GitLab's Master Plan (Interview) Sep 16, 2016

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Sid Sijbrandij, CEO of GitLab, joined the show to talk about their recent unveiling of the GitLab Master Plan, $20 Million secured in a Series B funding round, their idea of Conversational Development in this “post Agile world”, and their focus on the enterprise and on-premise Git hosting as the business model to sustain and build GitLab into something ‘modern software teams’ can rely upon.”

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TensorFlow and Deep Learning (Interview) Sep 09, 2016

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Eli Bixby, Developer Programs Engineer at Google, joined the show to talk to talk about TensorFlow, machine learning and deep learning, why Google open sourced it, and more.

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Eli Bixby – GitHub
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Elm and Functional Programming (Interview) Sep 02, 2016

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Evan Czaplicki, creator of Elm, and Richard Feldman of NoRedInk joined the show to talk deeper about Elm, the pains of CSS it solves, scaling the Elm architecture, reusable components, and more.

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DataLayer – A one-day event in Seattle organized by Compose about optimizing the data layer to scale modern web and mobile apps. Use the code changelog to get 20% off your $99 ticket.

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Sourcegraph the 'Google for Code' (Interview) Aug 26, 2016

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Beyang Liu, the CTO and co-founder of Sourcegraph, joined the show to talk about the backstory of Sourcegraph, how it works, how they’re aiming to be the ‘Google for Code’, ideas around offline support for code search, how it’s licensed, and their new software license called Fair Source.

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GitHub's Electron (Interview) Aug 19, 2016

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Zeke Sikelianos joined the show to talk about GitHub’s Electron project and the future of web folks making cross platform desktop apps. We talked about the web revolution around native vs web app, where Electron is heading, who’s using it, and how cool it is to enable folks like Guillermo Rauch to build HyperTerm.

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Best Practices Badge from Core Infrastructure Initiative (Interview) Aug 12, 2016

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David A. Wheeler, from Core Infrastructure Initiative, joined the show to talk about the CII Best Practices Badge program.

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We talked about the purpose of the Best Practices Badge program from Core Infrastructure Initiative (a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project), how and why you should get certified, and the criteria of the best practices.

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Libscore, Velocity.js, Hacking (Interview) Aug 06, 2016

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Julian Shapiro, startup founder and developer, joined the show to talk about his story of entrepreneurship, open source, growth hacking, and more. Julian’s story is a story you don’t want to miss — plus he shares actionable advice on growing and marketing an open source project.

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