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Steve Espinosa, the Founder of AppStack, joins Adam to tell his story of hustling his way to the top, gaining the trust and friendship of Jason Calacanis, Dave McClure, Eric Schmidt and the awesome team behind Google Ventures, what it means to focus and much more. This is a jam packed episode with tons of energy and lots to learn from Steve. Also, check out “After Dark” for an extended chat with Steve. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Steve Espinosa – Website, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: After Founders Talk #35 AppStack @stevemcstud @appstack Joel Beukelman on Dribbble Mobile Ad Optimization Startup AppStack Raises $1.5M From Eric Schmidt, Google Ventures And Others Google Mobile Ads PixelFish Finds A Local Deal In Backyard — Eric Schmidt’s Second Venture Exit In As Many Weeks Backyard Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Wynn caught up with Eloy Durán, creator of CocoaPods to talk about the project, MacRuby, and his favorite Objective-C libraries. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Wynn Netherland – GitHub, XShow Notes: Eloy Durán, Ruby developer and creator of CocoaPods. CocoaPods, “the best way to manage library dependencies in Objective-C projects.” CocoaPods uses a Podfile to specify project dependencies. Eloy aspires to achieve the same level of “Twitter hate” that Bundler enjoys. CocoaPods started on MacRuby but now is powered by MRI. Patches for feature requests are welcomed. CocoaPods specs live on GitHub, similar to the Homebrew model. The Passenger pane lets you configure Phusion Passenger on the Mac really easily. Eloy wants a Ruby lib that shows a proper unified diff for Array, Hash, String with color support. Listener Jonah Williams asks how the community can increase adoption. Objective-C is the #10 most popular language on GitHub. Eloy wrote a file browser for MacVim because he likes Vim but is a “gui guy.” If the latest Xcode has got you down, you might try AppCode. BlocksKit, the Objective-C block utilities you always wish you had. QuincyKit offers crash report managment for your iOS apps. JSONKit, a very high performance Objective-C JSON library. Wynn likes Test Flight but Eloy has switched to Hockey App. Laurent Sansonetti, lead developer of MacRuby is Eloy’s programming hero. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Adam Stacoviak and guest Jon Crawford of Storenvy after Founders Talk #34. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Jon Crawford – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Jon Crawford, the Founder of Storenvy joins Adam to talk about how everything began for Storenvy, his road from Kansas to Austin, TX to SF, how he got kicked out of Y Combinator the same week he was accepted then raised $1.5M for Storenvy, and how he’s living the startup dream! Also, listen to After Founders Talk #34 for an extended chat with Jon. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Jon Crawford – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Storenvy Storenvy Jobs @Storenvy @JonCrawford How I Got Kicked Out of Y Combinator and Then Raised $1.5M for My Startup Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Wynn sat down with Ethan Schoonover, creator of Solarized to talk about the science and design behind the wildly popular color scheme as well as his love for Arch Linux. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Wynn Netherland – GitHub, XShow Notes: Ethan Schoonover is a freelance designer, creator of Solarized. Solarized is a sixteen color palette (eight monotones, eight accent colors) designed for use with terminal and gui applications. Vimscript can be intimidating for noobs. The Solarized palette aims to maximize sixteen colors, providing contrast on both dark and light backgrounds Ethan works in the CIELAB: A Lab color space is a color-opponent space with dimension L for lightness and a and b for the color-opponent dimensions, based on nonlinearly compressed CIE XYZ color space coordinates. Achievement unlocked: First guest to mention fovea centralis on the show. “This fellow Wright” is W. David Wright, who experimented with color perception in 1930s. Ethan works out of the LAB space, mapping to other color spaces as tools require. Solarized looks great in a number of fonts as well as syntaxes. Wynn asks if Sass should support LAB. Terminus is Ethan’s favorite fixed with font, but also likes Letter Gothic Mono. Wynn’s litmus test for fixed fonts is the dashrocket alignment. Micah Rich, founder of The League of Movable Type was on Episode 0.7.4. Arch Linux is Ethan’s favorite Linux distro. xmonad is a dynamically tiling X11 window manager that is written and configured in Haskell. The tmux reference on the Arch wiki is most helpful. Check out Episode 0.7.3 for more on tmux. TotalTerminal from the talented Antonin Hildebrand. brew tap makes it easy to tap a new Homebrew formula repository from GitHub, or list existing taps. Freshmeat.net is now freecode.com. GIMP is no Photoshop replacement. Haskell is an advanced, purely-functional programming language. XMonad.Prompt.Input is similar to Quicksilver. Karthik’s terminal convinced Wynn to give Solarized a go. Wynn figured out how to do ‘transparent’ colors in the tmux status bar. TaskWarrior is Ethan’s todo manager, which is saying something since he created Kinkless GTD. Drew Neil, creator of Vimcasts, featured on Episode 0.5.6. Dr. Nic Williams, on Episode #50. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Wynn caught up with Phil Haack to talk about NuGet and growing the .NET open source community at GitHub. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Wynn Netherland – GitHub, XShow Notes: Phil Haack, GitHubber, Microsoft alumnus, .NET open source guy. NuGet is a Visual Studio extension that makes it easy to install and update third-party libraries and tools in Visual Studio. log4net is often an open source trojan horse in the proprietary enterprise. NuGet features a command line interface and also integrates with SharpDevelop. Wynn asks what impact the names .NET and C# have had on SEO and adoption of Microsoft technology. C# is the #11 most popular language on GitHub. Tiobe places C# as #3 overall. Line endings in Git are everyone’s problem. GitHub may or may not be working on (GitHub for Windows®)™. Phil likes SignalR, an async signaling library for .NET to help build real-time, multi-user interactive web applications. Jabbr is a chat client showcase for SignalR. NancyFx is a lightweight, low-ceremony, framework for building HTTP based services on .NET and Mono. OWIN defines a standard interface between .NET web servers and web applications, much like Rack for Ruby. Sammy.js was also Rat Pack-inspired. Phil thinks LINQ and Reactive Extensions (Rx) are some innovations in .NET that should influence the broader community. The await keyword in C# 5 will accelerate async adoption in .NET. Wynn <3’s Hubot and especially likes the Dude and Mustachify scripts. David Fowler, developer on the ASP.NET team and who works on NuGet and SignalR inspires Phil. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Wynn caught up with Josh Kalderimis and Mathias Meyer from Travis CI to talk about hosted CI in the sky, scaling apps, and a little Riak. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Wynn Netherland – GitHub, XShow Notes: Travis CI a hosted continuous integration service for the open source community. Josh Kalderimis is a core Travis CI team member, Rails contributor, gem developer, and general serial coder. Mathias Meyer, hacker on Travis, author of the Riak Handbook. Travis now provides first class support for Python and Perl. Travis also supports several versions of Ruby including Ruby hidHEAD. [8:15] Mathias lays out the case for Travis vs. Jenkins, namely a streamlined user interface. Travis runs almost exclusively on Heroku. AMQP powers the message queues in Travis. Keep an eye on Travis listener. The GitHub service hook makes setting up your open source project on Travis a breeze. If you’re a Travis user, show some love to keep the features coming. GitHubber Rick Olson worked on some API features to help Travis more deeply integrate with GitHub. Private repo support, aka Travis Pro™ is on its way. If you want to get in on the beta, donate to the project. Donate $500, get an hour of pairing with Aaron Patterson, Yehuda Katz, José Valim, Jon Leighton, or other Ruby pro. Mathias previously worked at Basho and The Riak Handbook is a collection of what he learned there. José Valim is Josh’s programming hero for his code and community building. Mathias is playing with Kestrel and Zookeeper. Josh and Mathias like Celluloid. Mike Perham’s Sidekiq has caught Josh and Mathias’ eye. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Adam Stacoviak, Nate Peretic & Jay Fanelli after Founders Talk #33. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Nate Peretic – Website, XJay Fanelli – Website, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Nate Peretic & Jay Fanelli, the Founders of Full Stop and United Pixelworkers join Adam to talk about plotting and planning to leave old jobs, being outspoken and opinionated, having a core set of principles and not deviating from them, reaching out to people they admired (regardless of popularity) and their side project that has turned into something that could eclipse their entire client revenue in 2012. Also, check out After Dark for an extended chat with Nate and Jay. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Nate Peretic – Website, XJay Fanelli – Website, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: After Founders Talk #33 Full Stop Full Disclosure United Pixelworkers The economics of making and selling t-shirts Success by Design The Withering Away of Flash A modest proposal (A List Apart) Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Adam and Wynn caught up with Micah Rich from The League of Moveable type to talk about open source typography. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XWynn Netherland – GitHub, XShow Notes: Micah Rich, from The League of Movable Type. Caroline Hadilaksono, co-founder of The League. League Gothic, one of Caroline’s popular faces is Wynn’s favorite. Several of League fonts are available on TypeKit. Dave Crossland, designer of Cantarell. Chunk was created by Meredith Mandel. The League fonts are forkable on GitHub. FontForge is an outline font editor that lets you create your own postscript, truetype, opentype, and more. Glyphs is a professional font editor for Mac OS X. Wynn’s slide decks make use of League Gothic and Hand of Sean. Lettering.js gives you more control over kerning on the web. The Manifesto lays out the vision for The League. Haley Fiege contributed Sniglet. Barry Schwartz has contributed several fonts. Want to help Micah introduce typographers to git? Get in touch. Wynn asks about vertical rhythm, which Compass makes easier. Lettercase is a social font manager. Adam uses FontExplorer X but wishes it did more. Micah on Dribbble. Lettercase is powered by Sinatra, Warden, and Grape. Hoefler & Co. are Micah’s heroes in typography design. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!