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Jul 25, 2015 • 1h 9min
JavaScript in the Wild at NEJS Conf (Interview)
Jerod Santo took off his host hat this show and joined Zach Leatherman, and Nick Nisi, his co-organizers of NEJS Conf to talk about JavaScript in the wild in Omaha, Nebraska.
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Featuring:Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
Zach Leatherman (@zachleat) on Twitter
Nick Nisi (@nicknisi) on Twitter
Jerod Santo (@jerodsanto) on Twitter
NEJS Conf
Big Wheel Brigade
Making NEJS Conf Inclusive and Accessible
Hero: John Resig
The Superbytes
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Jul 18, 2015 • 1h 4min
Betting the company on Elixir and Ember (Interview)
Brian Cardarella joined the show to talk about the bet he’s placed on Elixir and Ember to be the focus of his company.
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Featuring:Brian Cardarella – GitHub, XJerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
Brian Cardarella (@bcardarella) | Twitter
Brian Cardarella on GitHub
Elixir - A dynamic, functional language designed for building scalable and maintainable application
DockYard - Web and Mobile User Experience Consultancy
The New DockYard.com
Ember.js - Ember.AutoLocation
Robert Jackson (@rwjblue) | Twitter
Ember.js - A framework for creating ambitious web applications.
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Jul 11, 2015 • 1h 17min
Semantic UI Returns (Interview)
Jack Lukic is back again to talk about what’s new with Semantic UI, the progress he, 104 contributors, and hundreds of translators have made towards a front-end standard only rivaled by Twitter’s Bootstrap numbers. We discuss the why and the how of him dedicating everything he has to Semantic UI and the potential it brings.
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Featuring:Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
Semantic UI
Semantic-Org/Semantic-UI-Meteor
Translating Semantic UI Docs · Semantic-Org/Semantic-UI Wiki
Semantic-Org/Semantic-UI
The Changelog #106: Semantic UI with Jack Lukic
purifycss/purifycss
Introducing Incremental DOM
Bootstrap’s Homepage
Matt-Esch/virtual-dom
Semantic UI - Investors
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Jul 4, 2015 • 1h 21min
Go in the Modern Enterprise and Go Kit (Interview)
Peter Bourgon joined the show to talk about building microservices using Go in the modern enterprise and his microservices toolkit Go kit.
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Featuring:Peter Bourgon – GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
Register for Gopher Slack and talk to Peter and other Gophers in Gopher Slack. Check out the #gotimefm channel and our Go Time podcast too.
go-kit/kit
Go kit: Go in the modern enterprise
(21) Go kit - Google Groups
Go and the Modern Enterprise - Peter Bourgon - London Go Gathering 2015 - YouTube
Gophercon 2015
Weaveworks • Weave - All you need to connect, observe and control your containers
The Changelog #3: Google’s Go Programming Language
weaveworks
go-kit/kit
kit/log at master · go-kit/kit
kit/metrics at master · go-kit/kit
kit/circuitbreaker at master · go-kit/kit
kit/loadbalancer at master · go-kit/kit
kit/ratelimit at master · go-kit/kit
kit/tracing at master · go-kit/kit
Dapper, a Large-Scale Distributed Systems Tracing Infrastructure
Distributed Systems Tracing with Zipkin | Twitter Blogs
twitter/zipkin
Announcing Appdash, an open-source perf tracing suite - The Sourcegraph Blog
Incubation Status Template - Apache Incubator
kit/addsvc at master · go-kit/kit
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Jun 26, 2015 • 1h 19min
Octopress 3.0 (Interview)
Brandon Mathis joined the show to tell us all about the much anticipated 3.0 release of Octopress - his Jekyll-based blogging framework for hackers. Octopress 3.0 is a complete rewrite and has been in the works for quite a while. We find out why Brandon decided to go for The Big Rewrite and what’s been taking so long (hint: it’s not because the dude’s been slackin’).
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Featuring:Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
Brandon Mathis :: Design Enthusiast :: Blog
Brandon Mathis on CodePen
Octopress 3.0 is coming
The Web 2.0 Show #45: GitHub
David Lanham
Octopress GitHub Org
octopress/octopress
octopress/genesis-theme
The Changelog #17: Open Source publishing with Geoffrey Grosenbach, Brandon Mathis, and Tim Caswell
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Jun 19, 2015 • 1h 18min
The HTTP/2 Spec (Interview)
Ilya Grigorik is back again — this time we’re talking about his true passion, internet plumbing, web performance, and the HTTP/2 spec. We cover everything around HTTP/2, the spec, HTTP/1 history, SPDY, binary framing layer, the semantics of HTTP/2, pipelining, multiplexing, header compression (HPACK), server push, TLS, “time to glass”, upgrading, adoption, support, and more.
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Featuring:Ilya Grigorik – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
Ilya Grigorik (@igrigorik) on Twitter
Ilya Grigorik on GitHub
The Changelog #55: Goliath, Event Machine, and SPDY with Ilya Grigorik
The Changelog #144: GitHub Archive and Changelog Nightly with Ilya GrigorikChangelog
High Performance Browser Networking
Chapter 12. HTTP/2 - High Performance Browser Networking
HTTP/2 in one slide
Application-Layer Protocol Negotiation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Is TLS Fast Yet?
Implementations · http2/http2-spec Wiki
h2o/h2o
Nghttp2: HTTP/2 C Library - nghttp2.org
Jetty - Servlet Engine and Http Server
Website Performance Optimization Testing Course - Udacity
SPDY: An experimental protocol for a faster web - The Chromium Projects
Changelog Weekly - Issue #54
Changelog Weekly - Issue #55
Google’s Ilya Grigorik on HTTP 2.0
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Jun 13, 2015 • 1h 15min
Ampersand.js, SPAs, WebRTC (Interview)
Henrik Joreteg joined the show to talk about Single Page Apps (SPAs), Ampersand.js, WebRTC, JavaScript coding styles, and more.
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Featuring:Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:Henrik Joreteg is a JavaScript Developer, the author of Human JavaScript, and the creator of Ampersand.js.
Henrik Joreteg (@HenrikJoreteg) on Twitter
Henrik Joreteg on GitHub
&yet
Read Human JavaScript for free online!
Ampersand.js
Intro to npm, Browserify & Modules
Henrik’s “A Single Page Story” talk
RealtimeConf 2015
Subscribe to Changelog Weekly
Did You Pick the Wrong Web Framework?!
MonolithFirst
feross/standard
Backbone.js
HenrikJoreteg/SimpleWebRTC
WebRTC in the real world: STUN, TURN and signaling - HTML5 Rocks
ORTC (Object RTC) | Object API for RTC – Mobile, Server, Web
Otalk
Loren Brichter (@lorenb) on Twitter
Loren Brichter on GitHub
TJ Holowaychuk on GitHub
Feross Aboukhadijeh on GitHub
Guillermo Rauch on GitHub
React Native
Surge - Static Web Publishing for Front-End Developers
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Jun 5, 2015 • 1h 12min
Sustaining Open Source Software (Interview)
Mike Perham joined the show to talk about sustaining open source software, living a healthy life, how to treat one another, and more.
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Featuring:Mike Perham – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:Mike Perham is a well known open source software developer and author of the beloved Sidekiq and Inspeqtor.
Mike Perham (@mperham) on Twitter
Mike Perham on Twitter “I would be happy to chat with podcasters or bloggers about sustainable OSS to raise more awareness of the subject.”
Sidekiq - background processing for Ruby
Inspeqtor - application infrastructure monitoring
The Changelog #130: Inspeqtor and OSS Products with Mike Perham
410 Gone on Twitter: “You can find me on github, but other than that, no more. Sorry. If it’s not directly related to work, I’m done.”
410 Gone on Twitter: “I also feel the need to say that this has been a few years’ coming, if you’re just reading my TL, you probably don’t get it.”
Daniel Stenberg (@bagder) on Twitter
Burnout — Medium
Medium search for “burnout”
Hacker News search for “burnout”
Rubber duck debugging - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Help Ian Warshak Climb Mt Kilimanjaro (GoFundMe)
Buy a Changelog tee shirt for $20 (they’re super comfy)
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

May 29, 2015 • 1h 12min
Building Bridges (Interview)
Sarah Allen, cofounder of RailsBridge and Bridge Foundry, joined the show to talk about the incredible ability to make something with software, leading and teaching a community, teaching programming to kids, programming is a life skill, and more.
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Featuring:Sarah Allen – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XBeverly Nelson – GitHub, XShow Notes:In her day job, Sarah works with 18F to transform US Government digital services, and in her spare time works to diversify Ruby on Rails with RailsBridge, and Bridge Foundry.
We also have Beverly Nelson joining today’s show as a guest host.
Sarah Allen (@ultrasaurus) on Twitter
on being an ally - the evolving ultrasaurus
the evolving ultrasaurus - Sarah Allen’s reflections on internet software and other topics
The Changelog #146: Mind the Gender Parity Gap with Sarah Mei
Git Resources for Visual Learners - The Changelog
Photosynthesis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
ng-bridge/organizing
Bridge Troll
railsbridge/bridge_troll
18F/midas
Midas
ENIAC
Kathleen “Kay” McNulty
Betty Jean Jennings
ENIAC Programmers Project
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

May 22, 2015 • 1h 14min
Modern WordPress using Bedrock and Sage (Interview)
Ben Word and Scott Walkinshaw joined the show to talk about a more modern WordPress stack, Bedrock and Sage, dependency management, WordPress deployment, smarter development setup with tools like Ansible and Vagrant, and more.
If you’re someone who wants to use WordPress in more modern ways, this show is for you.
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Featuring:Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:Ben and Scott run Roots, a team of folks who help you build better WordPress sites faster with Bedrock and Sage.
Ben Word (@retlehs) on Twitter
Ben Word (@retlehs) on GitHub
Scott Walkinshaw (@swalkinshaw) on Twitter
Scott Walkinshaw (@swalkinshaw) on GitHub
Roots - Modern WordPress Development
Sage - WordPress Starter Theme
roots/sage
Bedrock - Modern WordPress Stack
roots/bedrock
Composer - Dependency Manager for PHP
Blueprint CSS (super old, but it’s where things began)
roots/bedrock-ansible
roots/roots-example-project.com
[Screencast] Using Composer With WordPress
Screencasts from Roots
The Changelog #142: Laravel PHP Framework with Taylor Otwell
Ansible - DevOps made simple
Vagrant - Create and configure lightweight, reproducible, and portable development environments
Varying-Vagrant-Vagrants/VVV
BrowserSync - Time-saving synchronised browser testing
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!


