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17 Years of curl (Interview) May 01, 2015

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Daniel Stenberg joined the show to talk about curl and libcurl and how he has spent at least 2 hours every day for the past 17 years working on and maintaining curl. That’s over 13k hours! We covered the origins of curl, how he chooses projects to work on, why he has remained so dedicated to curl all these years, the various version control systems curl has used, licensing, and more.

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

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We talk through the past 17 years of this staple tool to the community and hear what Daniel has learned on his journey.

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BONUS — Magic cURL Feature (Interview) Apr 30, 2015

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This is a bonus clip from the after call with Daniel Stenberg for episode #153. Daniel shared the details of a “magic feature” in cURL that’s been there for over 6 years. It’s a feature he feels most people don’t know exists.

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

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To start using this “magic feature”, create a .curlrc dotfile in your root with the following settings to set the -O flag by default on all URLs fetched using cURL.

# Default to -O
--remote-name-all

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TypeScript and open source at Microsoft (Interview) Apr 24, 2015

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Anders Hejlsberg and Jonathan Turner from the TypeScript team at Microsoft joined the show to talk about TypeScript, a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript from Microsoft. We cover Microsoft’s acceptance and support of open source, why they open sourced TypeScript, the language design, adoption, how to get started, and the future of the language.

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Anders Hejlsberg – GitHub, X
Jonathan Turner – Website, GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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Anders is the language architect and Jonathan is the Program Manager for TypeScript.

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The Rust Programming Language (Interview) Apr 11, 2015

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Steve Klabnik and Yehuda Katz joined the show to talk about the Rust Programming Language, a systems programming language from Mozilla Research. We covered memory safety without garbage collection, security, the Rust 1.0 Beta, getting started with Rust, and we even hypothesize about the future of the Rust.

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Steve Klabnik – Website, GitHub, X
Yehuda Katz – Website, GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

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Steve and Yehuda are core team members of Rust.

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Internet Connected Things Using Spark (Interview) Apr 04, 2015

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Zach Supalla joined the show to talk about Spark - a complete, open source, full stack solution for creating amazing internet connected things. We talk about making connected hardware easier, using Kickstarter to fund hardware projects, and Amazon’s new Dash Button. Zach also gave us a crash course on how to get started with making your own hardware.

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

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Spark is fully open source on GitHub from hardware to software and Zach goes deep in this episode to school us on everything we need to know.

“Building an open source business is challenging because you’re giving away a lot of what you do. So the question is, how do you build a viable business that way?” - Zach Supalla @ 23:22

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React, React Native, Flux, Relay, GraphQL (Interview) Mar 27, 2015

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Christopher “vjeux” Chedeau and Spencer Ahrens joined the show to talk about React, React Native, Flux, Relay, and GraphQL. They also announce on this show that React Native is now open source on GitHub.

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

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Christopher Chedeau and Spencer Ahrens are software engineers on the React team at Facebook.

“Now there’s one unified development experience… You learn Javascript, you learn React, and you learn some of these stylesheet concepts, and that travels with you to whatever platform you’re working on.” - Spencer Ahrens @ 24:33

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The State of Go in 2015 (Interview) Mar 25, 2015

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Andrew Gerrand joined the show to talk about the state of Go in 2015, how Go compares to other concurrent languages, why people choose Go over other languages, the C to Go toolchain conversion, and what’s coming in version 1.5 and 1.6 of Go.

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Andrew works on the Go Programming Language at Google.

“The reasons why I choose Go (and I think why other people choose go) are a lot to do with programmer joy… the overriding sentiment amongst Go users is that Go just gets out of your way and lets you write code.” - Andrew Gerrand @ 18:32

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Elixir and Phoenix (Interview) Mar 20, 2015

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Chris McCord joined the show to take us on a deep dive into the Phoenix web framework and Elixir. We covered the similarities between Ruby and Erlang, getting started with Elixir, and deploying Phoenix. He also shared his plans for the 1.0 release and the future of Phoenix.

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Postico – A Modern PostgreSQL Client for the Mac.

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Chris McCord – Website, GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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Chris McCord is the creator of the Phoenix web framework.

“Jose said it best… When he first looked into Erlang, he loved everything he saw, but hated everything he didn’t see. That’s how Elixir came about; filling in the gaps, building off all the things he loved.” - Chris McCord

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Mind the Gender Parity Gap (Interview) Mar 13, 2015

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Sarah Mei joined the show to talk through a recent article she authored titled “Mind the Gap” and why we’re missing our best chance for gender parity. We discussed our innate subconscious assumptions and prejudices towards one another, how we alienate women from the developer communities, and what we can do to step across this gap and make a conscious effort to combat those assumptions.

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Sarah shares stories about her work in trying to bring more diversity into the coding community, the credibility gap, what she’s learned from starting RailsBridge, how to reduce bias while searching for employees and conference speakers, and more.

Sarah is also the Founder of RailsBridge, the Director of Ruby Central, and a Chief Consultant at DevMynd.

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10+ Years of Rails (Interview) Mar 06, 2015

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David Heinemeier Hansson, aka DHH joined the show to talk through the past, present, and future of Ruby on Rails — the most beloved web application framework in the Ruby community.

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Ruby on Rails has influenced many frameworks over the years, and David shares with us a candid look at 10+ Years of Ruby on Rails.

David shares stories about why he started Ruby on Rails, and explains why programmers should market their projects. He discussed his early work on Rails, some of the early early contributors to Rails, how the success of Basecamp helped Rails succeed (and vice versa), the io.js & Node.js complications, his thoughts on getting paid for working on open source, and so much more.

“If programming is going to be the thing I spend my time on, it damn well better be awesome. I need to have a good time.” - DHH @ 9:42

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