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Dec 11, 2015 • 1h 41min
Building the Ultimate Hacking Keyboard (Interview)
László Monda (aka Lotsy) joined the show to talk about a keyboard for hackers — the Ultimate Hacking Keyboard. We discussed the features, the hardware design, the open source that powers it, and more.
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Toptal – Freelance as a Developer OR Designer with Toptal
Harvest – Use the code CHANGELOG to save 50% on your first month
Linode – Our cloud server of choice! Get one of the fastest, most efficient SSD cloud servers for only $10/mo. We host everything we do on Linode servers. Use the code changelog20 to get 2 months free!
Featuring:László Monda – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
Ultimate Hacking Keyboard org on GitHub
UltimateHackingKeyboard/agent
UltimateHackingKeyboard/firmware
UltimateHackingKeyboard/ugl-kicad-libs
UltimateHackingKeyboard/bootloader-left
UltimateHackingKeyboard/bootloader-right
From the Ground Up: How I Built the Developer’s Dream Keyboard
Ultimate Hacking Keyboard’s campaign on Crowd Supply
Ultimate Hacking Keyboard - Image Gallery
KiCad EDA
Hero: John Carmack
Hero: Coding Horror (Jeff Atwood)
Hero: Dean Camera (@abcminiuser) on Twitter
Hero: Dean Camera’s “Four Walled Cubicle”
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Dec 5, 2015 • 1h 27min
Kong, APIs, Microservices (Interview)
Ahmad Nassri from Mashape joined the show to talk about Kong, an open-source management layer for APIs and Microservices.
Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Codeship – Download the FREE eBook “Why Containers and Docker are the Future”
Braintree – Start accepting PayPal, Bitcoin, Venmo, Apple Pay, Android Pay, cards, and whatever’s next – all with a single integration.
Harvest – Use the code CHANGELOG to save 50% on your first month
DigitalOcean – Use the code CHANGELOG to get a $10 hosting credit when you create a new DigitalOcean account
Featuring:Ahmad Nassri – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XJerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
Ahmad’s life story blogged
Kong
Kong’s plugin gallery
Justin Dorfman pinged us
Mashape - Powering API Driven Software
NginX adds JavaScript scripting
Lua
Cassandra
Issue to add Postgres support to Kong
Hero: Grace Hopper
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Nov 28, 2015 • 1h 22min
Discussing Vue.js and Personal Projects (Interview)
Evan You joined the show to talk about Vue.js - his library for building web interfaces. We discussed what Vue.js offers, what makes it different, why developers should trust this project even if it’s “just a personal project” that’s not backed by an enterprise or a large team.
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Opbeat for Node.js – Build faster Node.js apps. Instantly pinpoint performance issues, and optimize your code. Install in minutes.
Braintree – Start accepting PayPal, Bitcoin, Venmo, Apple Pay, Android Pay, cards, and whatever’s next – all with a single integration.
DigitalOcean – Use the code CHANGELOG to get a $10 hosting credit when you create a new DigitalOcean account
Featuring:Evan You – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
2Advanced
The Changelog #160: Ampersand.js, SPAs, and WebRTC with Henrik Joreteg
The Changelog #149: React.js, React Native, Flux, Relay, and GraphQL with Facebook
Creative Lab 5
Vue.js Homepage
Vue.js on GitHub
Vue.js Examples
Vue.js: a (re)introduction
Changelog Weekly - Issue #24
Issue Stats
Nicholas Young on Twitter: “Listening to The @changelog’s episode on @metabase, and realizing I couldn’t build businesses without open source.
vuejs/vue-hackernews
Hero: Zach Lieberman (@zachlieberman) on Twitter
Hero: Aaron Koblin
Hero: TJ Holowaychuk (@tjholowaychuk) on Twitter
omcljs/om
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Nov 21, 2015 • 1h 28min
The Offline First Revolution and Speech Recognition (Interview)
Tal Ater joined the show to talk about the offline first revolution, the use of service workers, how UpUp is helping on that front, speech recognition, and annyang.
Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Codeship – If it works with Docker, it works with Codeship Jet.
Toptal – Apply for a $5,000 STEM scholarship - Toptal supports aspiring female computer scientists, developers, and software engineers to achieve their goals via financial support and mentorship by top professional developers and designers.
Braintree – Start accepting PayPal, Bitcoin, Venmo, Apple Pay, Android Pay, cards, and whatever’s next – all with a single integration.
Opbeat for Node.js – Build faster Node.js apps. Instantly pinpoint performance issues, and optimize your code. Install in minutes.
Featuring:Tal Ater – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
UpUp - The Offline First Library
TalAter/UpUp
annyang! Easily add speech recognition to your site
TalAter/annyang
Introduction to Service Workers on HTML5 Rocks
The Open Sourcer
Hero: Jake Archibald
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Nov 14, 2015 • 1h 18min
Metabase & open source Business Intelligence (Interview)
Sameer Al-Sakran and Tom Robinson from Metabase joined the show to discuss Metabase - their open source tool that’s laying the foundation of their goals for open source business intelligence.
Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Codeship – If it works with Docker, it works with Codeship Jet.
Toptal – Apply for a $5,000 STEM scholarship - Toptal supports aspiring female computer scientists, developers, and software engineers to achieve their goals via financial support and mentorship by top professional developers and designers.
Harvest – Simple online time tracking software.
DigitalOcean – Use the code CHANGELOG to get a $10 hosting credit when you create a new DigitalOcean account
Featuring:Sameer Al-Sakran – Website, GitHub, XTom Robinson – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
Metabase
metabase/metabase
Metabase Discussion
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
280 North, Inc. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Objective-J - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cappuccino (application development framework) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
AWS | Amazon Redshift - Cloud Data Warehouse Solutions
Justin Dorfman: @metabase looks awesome, can’t wait to try it out. How do you plan to sustain it? Will there be a pro version?
Jeff Dean (computer scientist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Carmack - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
TensorFlow
The Changelog #149: React.js, React Native, Flux, Relay, and GraphQL with Facebook
The Changelog #171: Living Clojure, ClojureScript, and more with Carin Meier
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Nov 7, 2015 • 1h 22min
RethinkDB, Databases, the Realtime Web (Interview)
Slava Akhmechet joined the show again to catch us up on RethinkDB and the awesome progress they’ve made to power the realtime web. We talked about innovation in databases, compared and contrasted to pub/sub, Pusher, NoSQL, and even The Next Big Thing™ in databases.
Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Codeship – If it works with Docker, it works with Codeship Jet.
Braintree – Start accepting PayPal, Bitcoin, Venmo, Apple Pay, Android Pay, cards, and whatever’s next – all with a single integration.
Harvest – Simple online time tracking software.
DigitalOcean – Use the code CHANGELOG to get a $10 hosting credit when you create a new DigitalOcean account
Featuring:Slava Akhmechet – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
The Changelog #114: RethinkDB with Slava Akhmechet
Learn to code like it’s 1996
How to pick startup ideas
RethinkDB: the open-source database for the realtime web
Support Facebook’s GraphQL · Issue #3711 · rethinkdb/rethinkdb
Pusher | Leader In Realtime Technologies
Build Realtime Apps & Take Websockets To The Next Level - PubNub
Firebase - Build Extraordinary Apps
NextGxDx | The Genetic Testing Resource.
The world’s most wearable camera - Narrative
Fidelity Investments - Retirement, Funds, and Online Trading
An overview of C++14 language features
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Nov 4, 2015 • 1h 25min
Otto, Vagrant, Automation (Interview)
Mitchell Hashimoto joined the show to talk about HashiCorp’s new tool - Otto, how it compares to and compliments Vagrant, Automation, and we even talked to Mitchell about his history with software development in the beginning of the show.
Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Codeship – If it works with Docker, it works with Codeship Jet.
Braintree – Start accepting PayPal, Bitcoin, Venmo, Apple Pay, Android Pay, cards, and whatever’s next – all with a single integration.
Backtrace – Reduce your time to resolution. Go beyond stacktraces and logs. Get to the root cause quickly with deep application introspection at your fingertips.
Linode – Our cloud server of choice! We host everything we do on Linode servers. Use the code gotime20 to get 2 months free!
Featuring:Mitchell Hashimoto – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
HashiCorp
The Changelog #72: Vagrant with Mitchell Hashimoto
The Changelog #88: Vagrant, HashiCorp and Beyond with Mitchell Hashimoto
A 25-Year-Old Coding Genius Was Making $500,000 A Year In College, And He Just Raised $10 Million For A Startup
Otto - Development and Deployment Made Easy
Otto Announcement
Otto, The Successor to Vagrant
Getting Started with Otto
Otto vs. Vagrant
Vagrant
Vagrant + VMware
The Changelog #163: Go in the Modern Enterprise Using gokit with Peter Bourgon
HashiConf
sysdig
InfluxDB
The Changelog #168: Prometheus and Service Monitoring with Julius Volz from SoundCloud
The Changelog #170: BoltDB, InfluxDB and more with Ben Johnson
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Oct 31, 2015 • 1h 16min
Caddy HTTP/2 Web Server (Interview)
Matt Holt and Sebastian Erhart joined the show to talk about Caddy the HTTP/2 web server written in Go. It’s time to serve the web like it’s 2015!
Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Codeship – If it works with Docker, it works with Codeship Jet.
Toptal – Join Toptal and work with awesome people from anywhere in the world. Freelance with companies like Airbnb, Artsy & IDEO.
imgix – Real-time Image Processing. Resize, crop, and process images on the fly, simply by changing their URLs.
Linode – Our cloud server of choice! We host everything we do on Linode servers. Use the code gotime20 to get 2 months free!
Featuring:Matt Holt – Website, GitHub, XSebastian Erhart – GitHub, XJerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
Caddy - The HTTP/2 Web Server Made for Humans
Caddy on GitHub
Experimental install script (some hate piping into bash, but others find it convenient)
mholt/caddy
Let’s Encrypt
xenolf/lego on GitHub
A technical look at the inside of Caddy (Go language)
[Podcast Suggestion] Matt Holt - Caddy HTTP/2 Web Server
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Oct 20, 2015 • 1h 50min
OAuth 2.0, Oz, Node.js, Hapi.js (Interview)
Eran Hammer joined the show to talk about updates to Hapi.js, Node.js, OAuth, and deep discussions about Oz – Eran’s replacement for OAuth 2.0.
Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Codeship – If it works with Docker, it works with Codeship Jet.
Toptal – Join Toptal and work with awesome people from anywhere in the world. Freelance with companies like Airbnb, Artsy & IDEO.
Casper – Casper mattresses are awesome! Use code CHANGELOG at checkout to get $50 towards your mattress.
imgix – Real-time Image Processing. Resize, crop, and process images on the fly, simply by changing their URLs.
Featuring:Eran Hammer – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
Sideway (@sideway) | Twitter
hapi.js (@hapijs) | Twitter
On Leaving Walmart | hueniverse
hueniverse/oz
oz/LICENSE at master · hueniverse/oz
Auth to See the Wizard | hueniverse
OAuth 2.0 and the Road to Hell | hueniverse
RFC 5849 - The OAuth 1.0 Protocol
RFC 6749 - The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework
OAuth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Changelog #116: Node Black Friday at Walmart with Eran Hammer
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Oct 10, 2015 • 1h 33min
Cylon.js, Gobot, Artoo, IoT (Interview)
Ron Evans, ringleader of The Hybrid Group and creator of a fleet of open source robot libraries, joined the show to talk about open source and robotics, Cylon.js, Gobot, Artoo, teaching, KidsRuby, his programming hero, and more.
Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Codeship – If it works with Docker, it works with Codeship Jet.
Opbeat for AngularJS – Performance monitoring for AngularJS. Instantly pinpoint performance issues, and optimize your code. Install in minutes.
Harvest – Simple online time tracking software.
imgix – Real-time Image Processing. Resize, crop, and process images on the fly, simply by changing their URLs.
Featuring:Ron Evans – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
The Changelog #150: Internet Connected Things Using Spark With Zach Supalla
Particle (@particle) on Twitter
Highway1 - The home for hardware entrepreneurs
dmca/2014-10-05-tildeslash.md at master · github/dmca
cjb/GitTorrent
Parrot USA - Bebop Drone, Minidrones, Zik 2.0, Hands-free car kits, Automotive OEM
DJI - The World Leader in Camera Drones/Quadcopters for Aerial Photography
Artoo - Ruby framework for robotics, physical computing, and the Internet of Things
Gobot - Golang framework for robotics, physical computing, and the Internet of Things
Cylon.js - JavaScript framework for robotics, physical computing, and the Internet of Things using Node.js
BB-8™ by Sphero – Sphero Store
gigasquid/clj-drone
Los Angeles & San Francisco JavaScript, Ruby on Rails, Cloud Computing, Internet of Things - The Hybrid Group
CHARLIE GERARD
Hero: Jim Weirich
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!


