Every commit is a gift (Interview)
Thu, 10 Jun 2021 11:00:00 +0000
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Maintainer Week is finally here and we're excited to make this an annual thing! If Maintainer Week i...
Exploring Deno Land 🦕 (Interview)
Tue, 08 Jun 2021 12:00:00 +0000
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This week we're joined by Ryan Dahl, Node.js creator, and now the creator of Deno - a simple, modern...
Maintainer week! (Interview)
Fri, 28 May
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This week is all about Maintainer Week — it's a week long event starting June 7th for open source ...
Inside 2021's infrastructure for Changelog.com (Interview)
Fri, 21 May
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This week we're talking about the latest infrastructure updates we've made for 2021. We're joined by...
Open source goes to Mars 🚀 (Interview)
Fri, 14 May
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This week we're talking about open source on Mars. Martin Woodward (Senior Director of Developer Rel...
Elixir meets machine learning (Interview)
Fri, 07 May
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This week Elixir creator José Valim joins Jerod and Practical AI's Daniel Whitenack to discuss Nume...
Let's mint some NFTs (Interview)
Tue, 27 Apr 2021 11:00:00 +0000
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This week we're talking about NFTs — that's right, non-fungible tokens and we're joined by Mikeal ...
Into the Nix ecosystem (Interview)
Tue, 20 Apr 2021 11:00:00 +0000
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This week we're talking about Nix with Domen Kožar. The Nix ecosystem is a DevOps toolkit that take...
Curl is a full-time job (and turns 23) (Interview)
Mon, 12 Apr
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This week we’re talking with Daniel Stenberg about 23 years of curl. Daniel shares how curl came t...
The future of the web is HTML over the wire (Interview)
Mon, 05 Apr
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This week we're joined by long-time web developer Matt Patterson. Earlier this year Matt wrote an ev...
Restic has your backup (Interview)
Fri, 02 Apr
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This week Alexander Neumann takes Jerod on a tour of Restic, the world-class backup solution that's ...
Open source, not open contribution (Interview)
Fri, 26 Mar
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This week we're talking with Ben Johnson. Ben is known for his work on BoltDB, his work in open sour...
Big breaches (and how to avoid them) (Interview)
Wed, 24 Mar
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This week we're talking about big security breaches with Neil Daswani, renowned security expert, bes...
Leading a non-profit unicorn (Interview)
Tue, 16 Mar 2021 15:00:00 +0000
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This week we're talking about the future of freeCodeCamp with Quincy Larson and what it's taken to b...
Darklang Diaries (Interview)
Fri, 26 Feb
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This week Jerod is joined by Paul Biggar the creator of Dark, a new way to build serverless backends...
Community perspectives on Elastic vs AWS (Interview)
Wed, 17 Feb
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This week we're talking about the recent falling out between Elastic and AWS around the relicensing ...
Open source civilization (Interview)
Fri, 29 Jan
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This week we're talking about open source industrial machines. We're joined by Marcin Jakubowski fro...
The rise of Rocky Linux (Interview)
Fri, 22 Jan
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This week we're talking with Gregory Kurtzer about Rocky Linux. Greg is the founder of the CentOS pr...
What the web could be (in 2021 and beyond) (Interview)
Tue, 12 Jan 2021 18:00:00 +0000
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Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch and JS Party panelist Amal Hussein join Jerod to discuss the state of the...
State of the “log” 2020 (Interview)
Mon, 21 Dec
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It's the end of 2020 and on this year’s "State of the log" episode Adam and Jerod carry on the tra...
You can FINALLY use JSHint for evil (Interview)
Sun, 20 Dec
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Today we welcome Mike Pennisi into our Maintainer Spotlight. This is a special flavor of The Changel...
Coding without your hands (Interview)
Sun, 13 Dec
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What do you do when you make a living typing on a keyboard, but you can no longer do that for more t...
Growing as a software engineer (Interview)
Wed, 02 Dec
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Gergely Orosz joined Adam for a conversation about his journey as a software engineer. Gergely recen...
The future of Mac (Interview)
Fri, 20 Nov
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We have a BIG show for you today. We're talking about the future of the Mac. Coming off of Apple's "...
The Kollected Kode Vicious (Interview)
Fri, 13 Nov
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We're joined by George Neville-Neil, aka Kode Vicious. Writing as Kode Vicious for ACMs Queue magazi...
Inside 2020's infrastructure for Changelog.com (Interview)
Fri, 06 Nov
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We're talking with Gerhard Lazu, our resident SRE, ops, and infrastructure expert about the evolutio...
Maintaining the massive success of Envoy (Interview)
Fri, 30 Oct
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Today we welcome Matt Klein into our Maintainer Spotlight. Matt is the creator of Envoy, born inside...
What's so exciting about Postgres? (Interview)
Fri, 23 Oct
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PostgreSQL aficionado Craig Kerstiens joins Jerod to talk about his (and our) favorite relational da...
Shopify’s massive storefront rewrite (Interview)
Fri, 16 Oct
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Maxime Vaillancourt joined us to talk about Shopify's massive storefront rewrite from a Ruby on Rail...
Spotify's open platform for shipping at scale (Interview)
Fri, 09 Oct
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We're joined by Jim Haughwout (Head of Infrastructure and Operations) and Stefan Ålund (Principal P...
The team that fashioned Apollo 11 (Interview)
Thu, 08 Oct 2020 11:00:00 +0000
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We're helping Atlassian to promote Season 2 of Teamistry. If this is the first time you're hearing a...
Gitter’s big adventure (Interview)
Wed, 30 Sep
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Gitter is exiting GitLab and entering the Matrix...ok, we couldn't help ourselves with that one. Tod...
How open source saved htop (Interview)
Thu, 24 Sep 2020 20:00:00 +0000
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Today we welcome Hisham Muhammad into our Maintainer Spotlight. Hisham is the creator of htop - a we...
Estimating systems with napkin math (Interview)
Fri, 11 Sep
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We're joined by Simon Eskildsen, Principal Engineer at Shopify, talking about how he uses a concept ...
Inside GitHub's Arctic Code Vault (Interview)
Fri, 04 Sep
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Earlier this year on February 2nd, 2020 Jon Evans and his team of archivists took a snapshot of all ...
Bringing beauty to the world of code sharing (Interview)
Wed, 26 Aug
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Carbon is an open source web app that helps you create and share beautiful images of your source cod...
Celebrating Practical AI turning 100!! 🎉 (Interview)
Fri, 21 Aug
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We're so excited to see Chris and Daniel take this show to 100 episodes, and that's exactly why we'r...
Working in Public (Interview)
Wed, 12 Aug
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Nadia Eghbal is back and this time she's talking with us about her new book _Working in Public_. If ...
Designing and building HEY (Interview)
Fri, 07 Aug
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We're talking about designing and building HEY with Jonas Downey, the lead designer behind HEY. In t...
Making Windows Terminal awesome (Interview)
Fri, 31 Jul
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Kayla Cinnamon, Program Manager at Microsoft for Windows Terminal, Console, Command Line, and Cascad...
It’s OK to make money from your open source (Interview)
Wed, 22 Jul
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Adam loves a good dark theme and supporting a fellow creator, and Hedy Li finished the episode we di...
Laws for hackers to live by (Interview)
Thu, 16 Jul 2020 11:00:00 +0000
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Dave Kerr joins Jerod to discuss the various laws, theories, principles, and patterns that we develo...
What's next for José Valim and Elixir? (Interview)
Fri, 10 Jul
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We're joined again by José Valim talking about the recent acquihire of Plataformatec and what that ...
The intersection of coding and fonts (Interview)
Fri, 03 Jul
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A listener request led us to Nikita Prokopov and FiraCode, and we're sure glad they did. When we thi...
Big updates in Safari 14 (Interview)
Mon, 29 Jun
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We're joined by Ronak Shah and Beth Dakin from the Safari team at Apple about their announcements at...
Shipping work that matters (Interview)
Thu, 25 Jun 2020 11:00:00 +0000
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We're revisiting Shape Up and product development thoughts with Ryan Singer, Head of Product Strateg...
The ONE thing every dev should know (Interview)
Tue, 16 Jun 2020 18:00:00 +0000
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The incomparable Jessica Kerr drops by with a grab-bag of amazing topics. Understanding software sys...
Creating GitLab’s remote playbook (Interview)
Tue, 09 Jun 2020 11:00:00 +0000
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We're talking about all things all-remote with Darren Murph, Head of Remote at GitLab. Darren is tas...
De-Google-ing your website analytics (Interview)
Wed, 27 May
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Plausible creators Uku Täht and Marko Saric join the show to talk about their open source, privacy-...
Leading GitHub to a $7.5 billion acquisition (Interview)
Mon, 18 May
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Jason Warner (CTO at GitHub) joined the show to talk with us about the backstory of how he helped to...
VisiData is like duct tape for your data (Interview)
Tue, 12 May 2020 17:00:00 +0000
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Saul Pwanson is the creator and maintainer of VisiData, a terminal interface for exploring and arran...
Gatsby's long road to incremental builds (Interview)
Wed, 06 May
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Gatsby creator Kyle Mathews joins Jerod fresh off the launch of incremental builds to tell the story...
Indeed's FOSS Contributor Fund (Interview)
Thu, 30 Apr 2020 21:00:00 +0000
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Duane O'Brien (head of open source at Indeed) joined the show to talk about their FOSS Contributor F...
Work from home SUPERCUT (Interview)
Wed, 22 Apr
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Today we're featuring conversations from different perspectives on working from home from our JS Par...
Visualizing the spread of Coronavirus (Interview)
Mon, 13 Apr
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Harry Stevens is a Graphics Reporter at The Washington Post and the author of "Why outbreaks like co...
Securing the web with Let's Encrypt (Interview)
Tue, 07 Apr 2020 20:00:00 +0000
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We're talking with Josh Aas, the Executive Director of the Internet Security Research Group, which i...
The 10x developer myth (Interview)
Tue, 31 Mar 2020 21:00:00 +0000
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In late 2019, Bill Nichols, a senior member of the technical staff at Carnegie Mellon University wit...
Welcome to The Changelog (Interview)
Mon, 30 Mar
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The Changelog is deep discussions in & around the world of software... and it's been going for over ...
Prepare yourself for Quantum Computing (Interview)
Tue, 24 Mar 2020 19:00:00 +0000
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Johan Vos joined us to talk about his new book 'Quantum Computing for Developers' which is available...
Engineer to manager and back again (Interview)
Wed, 18 Mar
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Lauren Tan joined us to talk about her blog post titled "Does it spark joy?" In this post Lauren sha...
Pushing webpack forward (Interview)
Fri, 13 Mar
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We sit down with Tobias Koppers of webpack fame to talk about his life as a full-time maintainer of ...
Altair 8800 and the dawn of a revolution (Interview)
Wed, 11 Mar
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We partnered with Red Hat to promote Season 4 of Command Line Heroes — a podcast about the people ...
Enter the Matrix (Interview)
Mon, 09 Mar
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Matthew Hodgson (technical co-founder) joined us to talk about Matrix - an open source project and o...
From open core to open source (Interview)
Mon, 02 Mar
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Frank Karlitschek joined us to talk about Nextcloud - a self-hosted free & open source community-dri...
The developer's guide to content creation (Interview)
Fri, 21 Feb
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Stephanie Morillo (content strategist and previously editor-in-chief of DigitalOcean and GitHub's co...
The dawn of sponsorware (Interview)
Mon, 17 Feb
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Caleb Porzio is the creator & maintainer of Livewire, AlpineJS, and more. His latest open source end...
Productionising real-world ML data pipelines (Interview)
Fri, 14 Feb
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Yetunde Dada from QuantumBlack joins Jerod for a deep dive on Kedro, a workflow tool that helps stru...
Good tech debt (Interview)
Thu, 06 Feb 2020 12:00:00 +0000
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Jon Thornton (Engineering Manager at Squarespace) joined the show to talk about tech debt by way of ...
The soul of an old machine (Interview)
Tue, 04 Feb 2020 12:00:00 +0000
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We partnered with Red Hat to promote Season 4 of Command Line Heroes — a podcast about the people ...
Open source meets climate science (Interview)
Fri, 31 Jan
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Anders Damsgaard is a climate science researcher working on cryosphere processes at the Department o...
Intro to Rust programming (Interview)
Fri, 24 Jan
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We teamed up with some friends of ours at Heroku to promote the Code-ish podcast so we're sharing a ...
Meet Algo, your personal VPN in the cloud (Interview)
Mon, 20 Jan
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The commercial VPN industry is a minefield to navigate and many open source solutions are a pain to ...
State of the “log” 2019 (Interview)
Tue, 14 Jan 2020 22:30:00 +0000
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Welcome to 2020 — on this year’s “State of the ‘log’” episode Jerod and I look back at o...
Gerhard goes to KubeCon (part 2) (Interview)
Fri, 27 Dec
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Gerhard is back for part two of our interviews at KubeCon 2019. Join him as he goes deep on Promethe...
Gerhard goes to KubeCon (part 1) (Interview)
Wed, 18 Dec
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Changelog's resident infrastructure expert Gerhard Lazu is on location at KubeCon 2019. This is part...
Trending up GitHub's developer charts (Interview)
Sat, 14 Dec
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In this episode we’re shining our maintainer spotlight on Ovilia. Hailing from Shanghai, China, Ov...
Building an open source excavation robot for NASA (Interview)
Wed, 11 Dec
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Ronald Marrero is a software developer working on NASA's Artemis program, which aims at landing the ...
Re-licensing Sentry (Interview)
Sun, 08 Dec
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David Cramer joined the show to talk about the recent license change of Sentry to the Business Sourc...
The making of GitHub Sponsors (Interview)
Sun, 01 Dec
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Devon Zuegel is an Open Source Product Manager at GitHub. She's also one of the key people responsib...
Five years of freeCodeCamp (Interview)
Fri, 15 Nov
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Today we have a very special show for you – we're talking with Quincy Larson the founder of freeCo...
Finding collaborators for open source (Interview)
Sun, 10 Nov
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Jeff Meyerson, host of Software Engineering Daily, and the founder of FindCollabs (a place to find c...
Back to Agile's basics (Interview)
Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:00:00 +0000
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Robert C. Martin, aka Uncle Bob, joined the show to talk about the practices of Agile. Bob has writt...
Pioneering open source drones and robocars (Interview)
Fri, 18 Oct
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Chris Anderson, former Editor-in-Chief of WIRED and a true pioneer in the world of drones, joined th...
Let's talk Elixir! (Interview)
Wed, 09 Oct
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Jerod is joined by Chris and Desmond (co-hosts of the ElixirTalk podcast) to catch up on what's mov...
Maintainer spotlight! Valeri Karpov (Interview)
Wed, 02 Oct
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In this episode we’re shining our maintainer spotlight on Valeri Karpov. Val has been the solo mai...
Nushell for the GitHub era (Interview)
Fri, 27 Sep
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Jonathan Turner, Andrés Robalino, and Yehuda Katz joined the show to talk about Nushell, or just Nu...
Machine powered refactoring with AST's (Interview)
Thu, 19 Sep 2019 11:00:00 +0000
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Amal Hussein (Engineering Manager at npm) joined the show to talk about AST’s — aka, abstract sy...
Generative engineering cultures (Interview)
Tue, 17 Sep 2019 11:00:00 +0000
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Dave Kaplan (Head of Software Engineering at Policygenius) joined the show to talk about Generative ...
Modern software is built on APIs (Interview)
Fri, 06 Sep
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Abhinav Asthana (founder of Postman) joined the show to talk about Postman, an ADE — API Developme...
Maintainer spotlight! Feross Aboukhadijeh (Interview)
Thu, 29 Aug 2019 20:00:00 +0000
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In this episode we’re shining our maintainer spotlight on Feross Aboukhadijeh. Feross is the creat...
OSCON 2019 anthology (Interview)
Fri, 23 Aug
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We're on the expo hall floor of OSCON 2019 talking with Eric Holscher, Ali Spittel, and Hong Phuc Da...
Shaping, betting, and building (Interview)
Fri, 16 Aug
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Ryan Singer, head of Product Strategy at Basecamp, joined the show to talk about their newest book —...
Observability is for your unknown unknowns (Interview)
Wed, 07 Aug
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Christine Yen (co-founder and CEO of Honeycomb) joined the show to talk about her upcoming talk at S...
Federating JavaScript's language commons with Entropic (Interview)
Fri, 02 Aug
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We're joined by C J Silverio, aka ceejbot on Twitter, aka 2nd hire and former CTO at npm Inc. We tal...
Go is eating the world of software (Interview)
Thu, 25 Jul 2019 17:00:00 +0000
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We're joined by Ron Evans at OSCON on the expo hall floor talking about Go and how it's eating the w...
The war for the soul of open source (Interview)
Tue, 16 Jul 2019 11:05:00 +0000
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Adam Jacob (co-founder and board member of Chef) joins the show to talk about the keynote he’s giv...
Learning the BASICs (Interview)
Tue, 16 Jul 2019 11:05:00 +0000
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We partnered with Red Hat to promote Season 3 of Command Line Heroes — an original podcast from Re...
The Pragmatic Programmers (Interview)
Thu, 11 Jul 2019 11:00:00 +0000
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Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt, best known as the authors of The Pragmatic Programmer and founders of The...
Python's Tale (Interview)
Tue, 02 Jul 2019 11:00:00 +0000
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We partnered with Red Hat to promote Season 3 of Command Line Heroes — an original podcast from Re...
Maintainer spotlight! Ned Batchelder (Interview)
Fri, 28 Jun
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In this episode we’re shinning our maintainer spotlight on Ned Batchelder. Ned is one of the lucky...