The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

Brian Ketelsen and Erik St. Martin, the organizers of GopherCon, joined the show to talk about what it takes to create and run a conference like GopherCon, the size of the event, the speaking track, after-parties, hack day, workshops, and more. We also covered their focus on diversity with their Diversity Scholarship Support Fund that anyone can support, even those who don’t plan to attend, as well as their child care options to ensure even those with children have the opportunity to attend. 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. Featuring:Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:Changelog will be at GopherCon 2015! Yes, we’re taking The Changelog and Changelog Films on the road to cover GopherCon 2015 so make sure you say hi when you see us. Erik St. Martin (@erikstmartin) | Twitter erikstmartin (Erik St. Martin) Brian Ketelsen (@bketelsen) | Twitter bketelsen (Brian Ketelsen) Gophercon 2015 Gophercon 2015 - Sponsors GopherCon Kickoff Party - Denver Gophers Meetup (Tuesday, July 7, 2015) Gophercon 2015 - After Party The Changelog’s 2015 Conference Scene · Issue #129 · thechangelog/ping Beyond Code - Season 1 Teaser Changelog Weekly Go in Action Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Scott Hammond, the CEO of Joyent, joined the show to talk about the history of Node, Joyent’s interest in Node, how they’ve handled the stewardship of Node over the years, their support of io.js joining Node Foundation, the convergence of the code bases for a stronger more inclusive Node community. At the tail end of the show, just when you think it’s over, keep listening because we got Scott back on the call to discuss the news that came this week of the io.js TC voting to join Node Foundation. 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. DigitalOcean – Use the code CHANGELOG to get a $10 hosting credit when you create a new DigitalOcean account Featuring:Scott Hammond – Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:Joyent has been the core sponsor and steward of Node.js since its beginning. @Scott_Hammond on Twitter Joyent.com Joyent on GitHub @mikeal - “io.js TC just voted to join the Node Foundation.” io.js TC Meeting 2015-05-13 io.js TC Meeting 2015-05-13 Issue on GitHub merge vs rebase ontop of io.js (GitHub Issue #6) Node.js Advisory Board Growing Up - io.js needs a foundation joyent/node iojs/io.js node.js & io.js convergence repo - jasnell/node.js-convergence The Node.js Foundation benefits all Node.js and io.js leaders are building an open, neutral Node.js Foundation to support the future of the platform Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Our guests this week are 2015’s RUBY HEROES! Big show today, lots of great Ruby talk with these heroes, great insights from this past year of Ruby, 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. Toptal – Join Toptal and work with awesome people from anywhere in the world. Freelance with companies like Airbnb, Artsy & IDEO. Code School – Learn to program by doing with hands-on courses. Sign up for Code School at only $19/month. That’s $10 off per month! Featuring:Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:And here are this year’s Ruby Heroes: Eileen Uchitelle - @eileencodes Jeremy Evans - @jeremyevans0 Nobuyoshi Nakada - @n0kada Sam Saffron - @samsaffron Sarah Mei - @sarahmei Zachary Scott - @_zzak Ruby Hero Awards Ruby Heroes Awards Video nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada) eileencodes (Eileen M. Uchitelle) sarahmei (Sarah Mei) zzak (Zachary Scott) jeremyevans (Jeremy Evans) SamSaffron (Sam) hone (Terence Lee) Gregg (Gregg Pollack) mruby ko1 (Koichi Sasada) Opal: Ruby to Javascript Compiler Roda: Routing Tree Web Framework Toolkit seattlerb/minitest discourse/discourse_docker Ruby Together Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Daniel Stenberg, creator and maintainer of curl and libcurl for 17 years, talks about the origins of curl, why he remains dedicated to it, version control systems used, licensing, and more.

This is a bonus clip from the after call with Daniel Stenberg for episode #153. Daniel shared the details of a “magic feature” in cURL that’s been there for over 6 years. It’s a feature he feels most people don’t know exists. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Daniel Stenberg – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:To start using this “magic feature”, create a .curlrc dotfile in your root with the following settings to set the -O flag by default on all URLs fetched using cURL. # Default to -O --remote-name-all Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Anders Hejlsberg and Jonathan Turner from the TypeScript team at Microsoft joined the show to talk about TypeScript, a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript from Microsoft. We cover Microsoft’s acceptance and support of open source, why they open sourced TypeScript, the language design, adoption, how to get started, and the future of the language. 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. DigitalOcean – Use the code CHANGELOG to get a $10 hosting credit when you create a new DigitalOcean account Featuring:Anders Hejlsberg – GitHub, XJonathan Turner – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:Anders is the language architect and Jonathan is the Program Manager for TypeScript. Roadmap · Microsoft/TypeScript Wiki Microsoft/TypeScript Welcome to TypeScript Follow Jonathan Turner on Twitter Follow Anders Hejlsberg on Twitter Delphi (programming language) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Turbo Pascal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Handbook - Welcome to TypeScript Microsoft/TypeScript-Sublime-Plugin palantir/eclipse-typescript atom-typescript borisyankov/DefinitelyTyped Home | DefinitelyTyped TypeScript/spec.md at master · Microsoft/TypeScript Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs (Prentice-Hall Series in Automatic Computation): Niklaus Wirth: 9780130224187: Amazon.com: Books Niklaus Wirth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Architectural Overview · Microsoft/TypeScript Wiki The Changelog #134: Open Sourcing .NET Core with the Microsoft .NET team The Changelog #148: The State of Go in 2015 with Andrew Gerrand The Changelog #151: Rust with Steve Klabnik and Yehuda Katz Monaca Gerrit Code Review Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Steve Klabnik and Yehuda Katz joined the show to talk about the Rust Programming Language, a systems programming language from Mozilla Research. We covered memory safety without garbage collection, security, the Rust 1.0 Beta, getting started with Rust, and we even hypothesize about the future of the Rust. 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. DigitalOcean – Use the code CHANGELOG to get a $10 hosting credit when you create a new DigitalOcean account Featuring:Steve Klabnik – Website, GitHub, XYehuda Katz – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:Steve and Yehuda are core team members of Rust. Steve Klabnik Yehuda Katz Steve Klabnik comments on “Rust 1.0.0 beta is here!” on Reddit Rust Means Never Having to Close a Socket The Rust Programming Language The Rust Programming Language on Reddit Style Guidelines Cargo, Rust’s Package Manager Zinc: An experimental attempt to write an ARM stack that would be similar to CMSIS or mbed in capabilities but would show rust’s best safety features applied to embedded development. Skylight Is the six-week release cycle too frequent? - Proposals - Ember.JS Yehuda Katz on Twitter: “Just posted a long set of thoughts on the 6-week-release-cycle discussion we’ve been having on the Ember Discourse” Let’s Talk About Rust by Yehuda Katz - Confreaks TV The Rust Book Rust by Example Rust for Rubyists Rust Users Forum Rust Development Forum (Internals) Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Zach Supalla joined the show to talk about Spark - a complete, open source, full stack solution for creating amazing internet connected things. We talk about making connected hardware easier, using Kickstarter to fund hardware projects, and Amazon’s new Dash Button. Zach also gave us a crash course on how to get started with making your own hardware. 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. DigitalOcean – Use the code CHANGELOG to get a $10 hosting credit when you create a new DigitalOcean account Featuring:Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:Spark is fully open source on GitHub from hardware to software and Zach goes deep in this episode to school us on everything we need to know. “Building an open source business is challenging because you’re giving away a lot of what you do. So the question is, how do you build a viable business that way?” - Zach Supalla @ 23:22 Follow Zach Supalla on Twitter Spark | Open source IoT toolkit Spark Socket WarKitteh - Spark Projects Kickstarter - Spark Electron: Cellular dev kit with a global data plan by Spark IO rwaldron/johnny-five Amazon Dash Button The Changelog #147: Elixir and Phoenix with Chris McCord Atom: free and open source for everyone The Changelog #104: Kickstarting Espruino with Gordon Williams Spark Docs | Javascript SDK spark/sparkjs spark/spark-cli spark/spark-dev Hardware design uses open source too! · Issue #104 · thechangelog/ping OSH Park Prototype to Production Hacking the Xbox: An Introduction to Reverse Engineering Novena Laptop Andrew (bunnie) Huang Metalsmith WarSting: A Wi-Fi scanning sword for Hobbits Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Christopher “vjeux” Chedeau and Spencer Ahrens joined the show to talk about React, React Native, Flux, Relay, and GraphQL. They also announce on this show that React Native is now open source on GitHub. 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. DigitalOcean – Use the code CHANGELOG to get a $10 hosting credit when you create a new DigitalOcean account Featuring:Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:Christopher Chedeau and Spencer Ahrens are software engineers on the React team at Facebook. “Now there’s one unified development experience… You learn Javascript, you learn React, and you learn some of these stylesheet concepts, and that travels with you to whatever platform you’re working on.” - Spencer Ahrens @ 24:33 Christopher Chedeau Spencer Ahrens facebook/react React - a JavaScript library for building user interfaces React Tutorial facebook/react-native Flux - Application Architecture for Building User Interfaces React blog - Introducing Relay and GraphQL React.js Conf 2015 - YouTube Building The Facebook News Feed With Relay React Native (Site and Newsletter) JSX Specification Flexbox AsyncDisplayKit F8 2015 Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Andrew Gerrand joined the show to talk about the state of Go in 2015, how Go compares to other concurrent languages, why people choose Go over other languages, the C to Go toolchain conversion, and what’s coming in version 1.5 and 1.6 of Go. 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. DigitalOcean – Use the code CHANGELOG to get a $10 hosting credit when you create a new DigitalOcean account Featuring:Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:Andrew works on the Go Programming Language at Google. “The reasons why I choose Go (and I think why other people choose go) are a lot to do with programmer joy… the overriding sentiment amongst Go users is that Go just gets out of your way and lets you write code.” - Andrew Gerrand @ 18:32 Andrew’s slides for The State of Go in 2015 Andrew Gerrand (@enneff) | Twitter Andrew Gerrand on Github The Changelog #100: Go programming with Rob Pike and Andrew Gerrand The Changelog #3: Google’s Go Programming Language golang/go on GitHub Facebook, Mercurial or Git? - The Changelog FOSDEM Conf OSCON Go + HTTP/2 Cool Math Games Gerrit Go Kit Go and the Modern Enterprise - Peter Bourgon - London Go Gathering 2015 Beats, Rye & Types Podcast Go Programming Playlist - Youtube KievII - GUI Javascript library for web audio applications developers Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!