Alle afleveringen
701 afleveringen, van nieuw naar oud
-
Work from home SUPERCUT
22 april 2020 · 1 uur 12 min
Today we're featuring conversations from different perspectives on working from home from our JS Party, Go Time, and Brain Science podcasts here on Changelog.com. Because, hey...if you didn't know we have 6 active podcasts in our portfolio of shows. Head to changelog.com/podcasts to collect them all! Lees meer
-
Visualizing the spread of Coronavirus
13 april 2020 · 1 uur 7 min
Harry Stevens is a Graphics Reporter at The Washington Post and the author of "Why outbreaks like coronavirus spread exponentially, and how to 'flatten the curve'" — the most popular post in The Washington Post's online history. Lees meer
We cover the necessary details of this global pandemic, the journalist, coding, and design skills required to be a graphics reporter, the backstory on visualizing this outbreak, why Harry chooses R over Python, advice for aspiring graphics reporters, and how all of this came together at the perfect time in history to give Harry a chance to catch lightning in a bottle.
-
Securing the web with Let's Encrypt
7 april 2020 · 1 uur 20 min
We're talking with Josh Aas, the Executive Director of the Internet Security Research Group, which is the legal entity behind the Let's Encrypt certificate authority. In June of 2017, Let’s Encrypt celebrated 100 Million certificates issued. Now, just about 2.5 years later, that number has grown to 1 Billion and 200 Million websites served. We talk with Josh about his journey and what it's taken to build and grow Let's Encrypt to enable a secure by default internet for everyone. Lees meer
-
The 10x developer myth
31 maart 2020 · 1 uur 17 min
In late 2019, Bill Nichols, a senior member of the technical staff at Carnegie Mellon University with the Software Engineering Institute published his study on "the 10x developer myth." On this show we talk with Bill about all the details of his research. Is the 10x developer a myth? Let's find out. Lees meer
-
Welcome to The Changelog
30 maart 2020 · 2 min
The Changelog is deep discussions in & around the world of software... and it's been going for over a decade. Lees meer
We talk to hackers, like Chris Anderson from 3D Robotics... leaders, like Devon Zuegel) from GitHub... and innovators, like Amal Hussein...
Welcome to The Changelog! Please listen to an episode from our catalog that interests you and subscribe today. We'd love to have you with us.
-
Prepare yourself for Quantum Computing
24 maart 2020 · 1 uur 10 min
Johan Vos joined us to talk about his new book 'Quantum Computing for Developers' which is available to read right now as part of the Manning Early Access Program (MEAP). Listen near the end of the show to learn how you can get a free copy or check the show notes for details. We talked with Johan about the core principles of Quantum Computing, the hardware and software involved, the differences between quantum computing and classical computing, a little bit of physics, and what can we developers do today to prepare for the perhaps-not-so-distant future of Quantum Computing. Lees meer
-
Engineer to manager and back again
18 maart 2020 · 1 uur 22 min
Lauren Tan joined us to talk about her blog post titled "Does it spark joy?" In this post Lauren shared the news of her resignation as an engineering manager at Netflix to return to being a software engineer. We examine the career trajectory of a software engineer and the seemingly inevitable draw to management for continued career growth. The idea of understanding "What are you optimizing for?" and whether or not what you're doing _truly_ brings you joy. Lees meer
-
Pushing webpack forward
13 maart 2020 · 49 min
We sit down with Tobias Koppers of webpack fame to talk about his life as a full-time maintainer of one of the most highly used (4 million+ dependent repos!) and influential tools in all of the web. Lees meer
Things we ask Tobias include: how he got here, how he pays himself, has he ever gotten a raise, what his typical day is like, how he decides _what_ to work on, if he pays attention to the competition, and if he's ever suffered from burnout.
-
Altair 8800 and the dawn of a revolution
11 maart 2020 · 33 min
We partnered with Red Hat to promote Season 4 of Command Line Heroes — a podcast about the people who transform technology from the command line up. Season 4 is all about hardware that changed the game. We’re featuring episode 3 from season 4 — called "Personal Computers: The Altair 8800 and the Dawn of a Revolution." This is the story of personal computers and the revolution that took place in the PC era. Lees meer
Learn more and subscribe at redhat.com/commandlineheroes.
-
Enter the Matrix
9 maart 2020 · 1 uur 33 min
Matthew Hodgson (technical co-founder) joined us to talk about Matrix - an open source project and open standard for secure, decentralized, real-time communication. It's open source, it's decentralized, it's end-to-end-encrypted, and it's also self-sovereign. Matrix also provides a bridge feature to bridge existing platforms and communication silos into a global open matrix of communication. A recent big win for Matrix was Mozilla's announcement of switching off its IRC network that it had been using for 22 years and now uses Matrix instead. Lees meer
-
From open core to open source
2 maart 2020 · 1 uur 10 min
Frank Karlitschek joined us to talk about Nextcloud - a self-hosted free & open source community-driven productivity platform that's safe home for all your data. We talk about how Nextcloud was forked from ownCloud, successful ways to run community-driven open source projects, open core vs open source, aligned incentives, and the challenges Nextcloud is facing to increase adoption and grow. Lees meer
-
The developer's guide to content creation
21 februari 2020 · 1 uur 25 min
Stephanie Morillo (content strategist and previously editor-in-chief of DigitalOcean and GitHub's company blogs) wrote a book titled The Developer's Guide to Content Creation — it's a book for developers who want to consistently and confidently generate new ideas and publish high-quality technical content. Lees meer
We talked with Stephanie about why developers should be writing and sharing their ideas, crafting a mission statement for your blog and thoughts on personal brand, her 4 step recipe for generating content ideas, as well as promotional and syndication strategies to consider for your developer blog.
-
The dawn of sponsorware
17 februari 2020 · 1 uur 3 min
Caleb Porzio is the creator & maintainer of Livewire, AlpineJS, and more. His latest open source endeavor was announced as "sponsorware", which means it lived in a private repo (only available to Caleb's GitHub Sponsors) until he hit a set sponsorship threshold, at which point it was open sourced. Lees meer
On this episode, we talk through this sponsorware experiment in-depth. We learn how he dreamt it up, how it went (spoiler: very well), and how he had to change his mindset on 2 things in order to make sustainability possible.
-
Productionising real-world ML data pipelines
14 februari 2020 · 49 min
Yetunde Dada from QuantumBlack joins Jerod for a deep dive on Kedro, a workflow tool that helps structure reproducible, scaleable, deployable, robust, and versioned data pipelines. They discuss what Kedro's all about and how it's "changing the landscape of data pipelines in Python", the ins/outs of open sourcing Kedro, and how they found early success by sweating the details. Finally, Jerod asks Yetunde about her passion project: a virtual reality film which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in January. Lees meer
-
Good tech debt
6 februari 2020 · 1 uur
Jon Thornton (Engineering Manager at Squarespace) joined the show to talk about tech debt by way of his post to the Squarespace engineering blog titled "3 Kinds of Good Tech Debt". We talked through the concept of "good tech debt," how to leverage it, how to manage it, who's in charge of it, how it's similar to ways we leverage financial debt, and how Squarespace uses tech debt to drive product development. Lees meer
-
The soul of an old machine
4 februari 2020 · 30 min
We partnered with Red Hat to promote Season 4 of Command Line Heroes — a podcast about the people who transform technology from the command line up. Season 4 is all about hardware that changed the game. We’re featuring episode 1 from season 4 — called "Minicomputers: The soul of an old machine." This is the story of Minicomputers and how they paved the way for the personal computers that could fit in a bag and, eventually, the phones in our pockets. Lees meer
Learn more and subscribe at redhat.com/commandlineheroes.
-
Open source meets climate science
31 januari 2020 · 1 uur 7 min
Anders Damsgaard is a climate science researcher working on cryosphere processes at the Department of Geophysics at Stanford University. He joined the show to talk with us about the intersection of open source and climate science. Specifically, we discuss a set of shell tools he created called The Scholarref Tools which allow you to perform most of the tasks required to gather the references needed during the writing phase of an academic paper. We also discuss climate science, physics, self hosting Git, and why Anders isn't present on any "social" networks. Lees meer
-
Intro to Rust programming
24 januari 2020 · 45 min
We teamed up with some friends of ours at Heroku to promote the Code-ish podcast so we're sharing a full-length episode right here in The Changelog’s feed. This episode features Chris Castle with special guests Carol Nichols and Jake Goulding talking about the strengths of the Rust programming language. Lees meer
Learn more and subscribe at heroku.com/podcasts/codeish.
-
Meet Algo, your personal VPN in the cloud
20 januari 2020 · 55 min
The commercial VPN industry is a minefield to navigate and many open source solutions are a pain to use or ill-suited for the task. Algo VPN, on the other hand, is a self-hosted personal VPN designed for ease of deployment and security. It uses the securest industry standards, builds on rock-solid solutions like WireGuard and Ansible, and runs on an ever-growing list of cloud hosting providers. Lees meer
On this episode Dan Guido –CEO of security firm Trail of Bits and Algo's creator– joins Jerod to discuss the project in depth.
-
State of the “log” 2019
14 januari 2020 · 1 uur
Welcome to 2020 — on this year’s “State of the ‘log’” episode Jerod and I look back at our favorite moments from 2019 and forward to 2020 and beyond. We talk through our most popular episodes, our personal favorites, our 10-year anniversary, the excitement we have for Brain Science our newest podcast, it's for the curious! And we also look forward to plans we have for 2020 and the decade to come... Lees meer
-
Gerhard goes to KubeCon (part 2)
27 december 2019 · 2 uur 20 min
Gerhard is back for part two of our interviews at KubeCon 2019. Join him as he goes deep on Prometheus with Björn Rabenstein, Ben Kochie, and Frederic Branczyk... Grafana with Tom Wilkie and Ed Welch... and Crossplane with Jared Watts, Marques Johansson, and Dan Mangum. Lees meer
Don't miss part one with Bryan Liles, Priyanka Sharma, Natasha Woods, & Alexis Richardson.
-
Gerhard goes to KubeCon (part 1)
18 december 2019 · 1 uur 25 min
Changelog's resident infrastructure expert Gerhard Lazu is on location at KubeCon 2019. This is part one of a two-part series from the world's largest open source conference. In this episode you'll hear from event co-chair Bryan Liles, Priyanka Sharma and Natasha Woods from GitLab, and Alexis Richardson from Weaveworks. Lees meer
Stay tuned for part two's deep dives in to Prometheus, Grafana, and Crossplane.
-
Trending up GitHub's developer charts
14 december 2019 · 45 min
In this episode we’re shining our maintainer spotlight on Ovilia. Hailing from Shanghai, China, Ovilia is an up-and-coming developer who contributes to Apache ECharts, maintains Polyvia, which does very cool low-poly image and video processing, and has a sweet personal website, too. Lees meer
This episode with Ovilia continues our maintainer spotlight series where we dig deep into the life of an open source software maintainer. We’re producing this series in partnership with Tidelift. Huge thanks to Tidelift for making this series possible.
-
Building an open source excavation robot for NASA
11 december 2019 · 1 uur 7 min
Ronald Marrero is a software developer working on NASA's Artemis program, which aims at landing the first woman and next man on the Moon by 2024. How Ron got here is a fascinating story, starting at UCF and winding its way through the Florida Space Institute, working with NASA's Swamp Works team, and building an open source excavation robot. Lees meer
On this episode Ron tells us how it all went down and shares what he learned along the way.
-
Re-licensing Sentry
8 december 2019 · 1 uur 19 min
David Cramer joined the show to talk about the recent license change of Sentry to the Business Source License from a BSD 3-clause license. We talk about the details that triggered this change, the specifics of the BSL license and its required parameters, the threat to commercial open source products like Sentry, his concerns for the "open core" model, and what the future of open source might look like in light of protections-oriented source-available licenses like the BSL becoming more common. Lees meer
-
The making of GitHub Sponsors
1 december 2019 · 1 uur 26 min
Devon Zuegel is an Open Source Product Manager at GitHub. She's also one of the key people responsible for making GitHub Sponsors a thing. We talk with Devon about how she came to GitHub to develop GitHub Sponsors, the months of research she did to learn how to best solve the sustainability problem of open source, why GitHub is now addressing this issue, the various ways and models of addressing maintainers' financial needs, and Devon also shared what's in store for the future of GitHub Sponsors. Lees meer
-
Five years of freeCodeCamp
15 november 2019 · 1 uur 32 min
Today we have a very special show for you – we're talking with Quincy Larson the founder of freeCodeCamp as part of a two-part companion podcast series where we each celebrate our 5 and 10 year anniversaries. This year marks 5 years for freeCodeCamp and 10 years for us here at Changelog. So make sure you check out the freeCodeCamp podcast next week when Quincy ships our episode to their feed. But, on today's episode we catch up with Quincy on all things freeCodeCamp. Lees meer
-
Finding collaborators for open source
10 november 2019 · 1 uur 9 min
Jeff Meyerson, host of Software Engineering Daily, and the founder of FindCollabs (a place to find collaborators for open source software) joined the show to talk about living in San Francisco, his thoughts on podcasting and where the medium is heading, getting through large scale market changes. We talk at length about his new project FindCollabs, the difficulty of reliably finding people to collaborate with, the importance of reputation and ratings systems, and his invite to this audience to check out what he’s doing and get involved. Lees meer
-
Back to Agile's basics
31 oktober 2019 · 1 uur 20 min
Robert C. Martin, aka Uncle Bob, joined the show to talk about the practices of Agile. Bob has written a series of books in order to pass down the wisdom he's gained over his 50 year software career — books like Clean Architecture, Clean Code, The Clean Coder, The Software Craftsman, and finally Clean Agile — which is the focus of today's discussion. We cover the origins of his “Uncle Bob” nickname, the Agile Manifesto, why Agile is best suited for developing software, how it applies today, communication patterns for teams, co-location vs distributed, and more importantly Bob shares his "why" for writing this book. Lees meer
-
Pioneering open source drones and robocars
18 oktober 2019 · 52 min
Chris Anderson, former Editor-in-Chief of WIRED and a true pioneer in the world of drones, joined the show to talk about his hobby gone wrong, how he started 3D Robotics, DIY Drones, and Dronecode. We also talked about his newest passion, DIY Robocars. Lees meer
-
Let's talk Elixir!
9 oktober 2019 · 40 min
Jerod is joined by Chris and Desmond (co-hosts of the ElixirTalk podcast) to catch up on what's moving and shaking in the Elixir and Phoenix communities. We discuss what's attractive about Elixir, what it means to have the language finalized, why folks are so excited by Phoenix LiveView, the ambitious new Lumen project that's bringing Elixir to WebAssembly, and more. Lees meer
-
Maintainer spotlight! Valeri Karpov
2 oktober 2019 · 43 min
In this episode we’re shining our maintainer spotlight on Valeri Karpov. Val has been the solo maintainer of Mongoose since 2014. This episode with Val continues our maintainer spotlight series where we dig deep into the life of an open source software maintainer. We’re producing this series in partnership with Tidelift. Huge thanks to Tidelift for making this series possible. Lees meer
-
Nushell for the GitHub era
27 september 2019 · 1 uur 33 min
Jonathan Turner, Andrés Robalino, and Yehuda Katz joined the show to talk about Nushell, or just Nu for short. It’s a modern shell for the GitHub era. It’s written in Rust, and it has the backing of some of the greatest minds in open source. We talk through what it is, how it works and cool things you can do with it, why Rust, ideas for the future, and ways for the community to get involved and contribute. Lees meer
-
Machine powered refactoring with AST's
19 september 2019 · 1 uur 4 min
Amal Hussein (Engineering Manager at npm) joined the show to talk about AST’s — aka, abstract syntax trees. Amal is giving a talk at All Things Open on the subject so we asked her to give us an early preview. She’s on a mission to democratize the knowledge and usage of AST’s to push legacy code and the web forward. Lees meer
-
Generative engineering cultures
17 september 2019 · 1 uur 17 min
Dave Kaplan (Head of Software Engineering at Policygenius) joined the show to talk about Generative Engineering Cultures and how they have become the goal of industry-aware tech teams. We talk through the topology of organizational cultures ranging from pathological, to bureaucratic, to generative, the importance of management buy-in (from the top down) on leading a generative culture, the ability to contribute original value which is deeply rooted in the concept of aligned autonomy. We also covered the 6 core skills required for us to be empowered in our teams. Lees meer
-
Modern software is built on APIs
6 september 2019 · 1 uur 8 min
Abhinav Asthana (founder of Postman) joined the show to talk about Postman, an ADE — API Development Environment — that began as open source and is now a full-fledged company that just announced a $50 million dollar Series B. We talk about why Postman has grown so successfully, APIs and their impact to core business factors, what it means to be an API Development Environment (ADE), and how they created one of the most popular API platforms and community. Lees meer
-
Maintainer spotlight! Feross Aboukhadijeh
29 augustus 2019 · 1 uur 4 min
In this episode we’re shining our maintainer spotlight on Feross Aboukhadijeh. Feross is the creator and maintainer of 100's of open source projects which have been downloaded 100's of million of times each month — projects like StandardJS, BitMidi, and WebTorrent to name a few. This episode with Feross continues our maintainer spotlight series where we dig deep into the life of an open source software maintainer. We’re producing this series in partnership with Tidelift. Huge thanks to Tidelift for making this series possible. Lees meer
-
OSCON 2019 anthology
23 augustus 2019 · 1 uur 20 min
We're on the expo hall floor of OSCON 2019 talking with Eric Holscher, Ali Spittel, and Hong Phuc Dang. First up, we talk to Eric about his work at Write the Docs, ethical advertising, and the Pac-Man rule at conferences. Second, we talk with Ali about her passion for teaching developers, her passion for writing, and her new found love for podcasting. Last, we talk with Hong about her work at FOSSASIA, the disconnect between America and Asia in open source, and several of the cool open source projects they have on GitHub. Lees meer
-
Shaping, betting, and building
16 augustus 2019 · 1 uur 29 min
Ryan Singer, head of Product Strategy at Basecamp, joined the show to talk about their newest book — Shape Up: Stop running in circles and ship work that matters. It's written by Ryan himself and you can read it right now for free online at Basecamp.com/shapeup. Lees meer
We talked about the back story of the book, how the methodology for Shape Up developed from within at Basecamp, the principles and methodologies of Shape Up, how teams of varying sizes can implement Shape Up. Ryan even shared a special invitation to our listeners near the end of the show to his live and in-person Shape Up workshop on August 28th in Detroit, Michigan.
-
Observability is for your unknown unknowns
7 augustus 2019 · 1 uur 6 min
Christine Yen (co-founder and CEO of Honeycomb) joined the show to talk about her upcoming talk at Strange Loop titled “Observability: Superpowers for Developers.” We talk practically about observability and how it delivers on these superpowers. We also cover the biggest hurdles to observability, the cultural shifts needed in teams to implement observability, and even the gains the entire organization can enjoy when you deliver high-quality code and you’re able to respond to system failure with resilience. Lees meer
-
Federating JavaScript's language commons with Entropic
2 augustus 2019 · 1 uur 5 min
We're joined by C J Silverio, aka ceejbot on Twitter, aka 2nd hire and former CTO at npm Inc. We talk with Ceej about her recent JS Conf EU talk titled “The Economies of Open Source” where she laid our her concerns with the JavaScript language commons being owned by venture capitalists. Currently the JavaScript language commons is controlled by the npm registery, and as you may know, npm is a VC backed for profit start up. Of course we also talk with Ceej about the bomb she dropped, Entropic, at the end of that talk — a federated package registry for JavaScript C J hopes will unseat npm and free the JavaScript language commons. Lees meer
-
Go is eating the world of software
25 juli 2019 · 55 min
We're joined by Ron Evans at OSCON on the expo hall floor talking about Go and how it's eating the world of software. Specifically we're talking about TinyGo and what they're doing to bring the Go programming language to micro-controllers and modern web browsers. According to Ron Evans, "embedded systems and Go are the most exciting things happening right now." Lees meer
-
The war for the soul of open source
16 juli 2019 · 1 uur 31 min
Adam Jacob (co-founder and board member of Chef) joins the show to talk about the keynote he’s giving at OSCON this week. The keynote is titled "The war for the soul of open source." We talked about what made open source great in the first place, what went wrong, the pitfalls of open core models, licensing, and more. Lees meer
By the way, we’re at OSCON this week so if you make your way to the expo hall, make sure you come by our booth and say hi.
-
Learning the BASICs
16 juli 2019 · 26 min
We partnered with Red Hat to promote Season 3 of Command Line Heroes — an original podcast from Red Hat, hosted by Saron Yitbarek, about the people who transform technology from the command line up. It's an awesome show and we’re huge fans of Saron and the team behind the podcast, so we wanted to share it with you. Lees meer
Learn more and subscribe at redhat.com/commandlineheroes.
-
The Pragmatic Programmers
11 juli 2019 · 1 uur 19 min
Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt, best known as the authors of The Pragmatic Programmer and founders of The Pragmatic Bookshelf, joined the show today to talk about the 20th anniversary edition of The Pragmatic Programmer. This is a beloved book to software developers all over the world, so we wanted to catch up with Andy and Dave to talk about how this book came to be, some of the wisdom shared in its contents, as well as the impact it's had on the world of software. Lees meer
Also, the beta book is now "fully content complete" and is going to production. If you decide to pick up the ebook, you'll get a coupon for 50% off the hardcover when it comes out this fall.
-
Python's Tale
2 juli 2019 · 29 min
We partnered with Red Hat to promote Season 3 of Command Line Heroes — an original podcast from Red Hat, hosted by Saron Yitbarek, about the people who transform technology from the command line up. It's an awesome show and we’re huge fans of Saron and the team behind the podcast, so we wanted to share it with you. Lees meer
Learn more and subscribe at redhat.com/commandlineheroes.
-
Maintainer spotlight! Ned Batchelder
28 juni 2019 · 51 min
In this episode we’re shinning our maintainer spotlight on Ned Batchelder. Ned is one of the lucky ones out there that gets to double-dip — his day job is working on open source at edX, working on the Open edX community team. Ned is also a “single maintainer” of coverage.py - a tool for measuring code coverage of Python programs. This episode with Ned kicks off the first of many in our maintainer spotlight series where we dig deep into the life of an open source software maintainer. We’re producing this series in partnership with Tidelift. Huge thanks to Tidelift for making this series possible. Lees meer
-
Boldly going where no data tools have gone before
19 juni 2019 · 1 uur 14 min
Computer Scientist Yaw Anokwa joins the show to tell us how Open Data Kit is enabling data collection efforts around the world. From monitoring rainforests to observing elections to tracking outbreaks, ODK has done it all. We hear its origin story, ruminate on why it's been so successful, learn how the software works, and even answer the question, "are people really using it in space?!" All that and more... Lees meer
-
The state of CSS in 2019
14 juni 2019 · 1 uur 17 min
We’re talking with Sacha Greif to discuss the State of CSS survey and results. CSS is evolving faster than ever. And, coming off the heels of their annual State of JavaScript survey, they've decided to take on the world of styles and selectors to help identify the latests patterns and trends in CSS. Lees meer
We talk through the history and motivations of this survey, the methodology of their data collection, the tooling involved to build and run the survey, and of course we dig deep into the survey results and talk through the insights we found most interesting.
-
Python's new governance and core team
6 juni 2019 · 1 uur 11 min
We’re talking with Brett Cannon for a behind the scenes look at Guido stepping down as Python’s BDFL (Benevolent dictator for life) and the process they had to go through to establish a new governance model, the various proposed PEPs to establish this new direction, the winning PEP, and what the future holds for Python. Lees meer