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Adam Stacoviak

Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Changelog

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822 episodes

Changelog Interviews Changelog Interviews #309

Rebuilding Exercism from the ground up

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2018-08-08T16:20:51Z #learn +2 🎧 20,976

Adam and Jerod invite back Katrina Owen after years away focusing on Exercism—a 100% free platform for code practice and mentorship with over 2500 exercises and 48 different language tracks. They talk to Katrina about how the platform has changed, the direction it’s taken, the backstory on the recently launched version 2, and how she plans to turn Exercism into a sustainable business. Also, what happens if that doesn’t work?!

Backstage Backstage #1

Live at OSCON 2018

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2018-07-27T11:00:00Z #oscon 🎧 1,907

Adam, Jerod, and Tim sit down to talk at OSCON 2018 about their favorite parts of the conference, meeting new people, seeing old friends, and telling people about all the new things happening at Changelog.

Changelog Interviews Changelog Interviews #306

The Great GatsbyJS

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2018-07-18T11:00:00Z #gatsby +2 🎧 23,866

From open source project to a $3.8 million dollar seed round to transform Gatsby.js into a full-blown startup that’s building what’s becoming the defacto modern web frontend. In this episode, we talk with Jason Lengstorf about this blazing-fast static site generator, its building blocks and how they all fit together, the future of web development on the JAMstack (JavaScript + APIs), the importance of site performance, site rebuilds, getting started, and how they’re focused on building an awesome product and an awesome community.

Founders Talk Founders Talk #54

From side project to $7.25M for Unsplash

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2018-07-06T19:00:00Z #startups 🎧 6,171

When Mikael Cho started Unsplash from its small beginning as a Tumblr blog and side project, he had no idea it would have such a huge impact and ultimately disrupt the photography industry. In this episode, Mikael shares the backstory of Unsplash, how it got started, keeping things focused, levers of growth, flipping the marketing funnel, turning free into a business, raising $7.25 million to build a new economy for photography, and the impact of an API.

Changelog Interviews Changelog Interviews #304

The impact of AI at Microsoft

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2018-07-04T11:00:00Z #ai +2 🎧 23,168

We’re on location at Microsoft Build 2018 talking with Corey Sanders and Steve Guggenheimer — two Microsoft veterans focused on artificial intelligence and cloud computing. We talked about the direction and convergence of AI, ethics, cloud computing, and how the day to day lives of developers will change because of the advancements in AI.

Founders Talk Founders Talk #53

Starting over from zero

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2018-06-28T17:00:00Z #startups 🎧 5,768

Danielle Morrill joined the show to talk about how she’s starting over from zero after the recent acquisition of Mattermark to FullContact where she held the role of CEO and co-founder who walked away with “zero dollars and a job”. We talked through the details of the company, the acquisition process, the deal — which she brokered herself — as well as her outlook on the startup grind and silicon valley today, and what she’s planning to do next.

Changelog Interviews Changelog Interviews #302

Computer Science without a computer

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2018-06-20T11:00:00Z 🎧 23,467

Adam Stacoviak and Jerod Santo talk with Tim Bell, the founder and creator of CS Unplugged, a collection of free teaching material that teaches computer science through engaging games and puzzles. They talk to him about where this program came from him, the need for computer science in today’s K-12 education programs, how CS Unplugged fits in, and how you can get involved.

Founders Talk Founders Talk #52

Growing Open Collective

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2018-06-15T11:05:00Z #startups +1 🎧 4,272

Pia Mancini joined the show for the first episode back from a nearly 5 year hiatus. We talked about her work at DemocracyEarth, being a mother, her new role as CEO of Open Collective, their focus, supporting ad-hoc community formation all around the world, their revenue and growth plans, and their path to sustainability.

Founders Talk Founders Talk

🔥 Founders Talk is back!

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2018-06-15T11:00:00Z 🎧 4,797

It’s been just shy of 5 years since I’ve published a new episode to this podcast. The break was planned actually. Long story short, I had to focus. If you want to hear the slightly longer explanation, you should listen.

Changelog Interviews Changelog Interviews #298

The beginnings of Microsoft Azure

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2018-05-23T15:05:00Z #microsoft +3 🎧 23,349

We’re on location at Microsoft Build 2018 talking with Julia White, Corporate Vice President at Microsoft — a 17 year Microsoft veteran. We talked with Julia about her take on this “new Microsoft”, Satya Nadella’s first appearance as CEO when they revealed the first glimpse of Microsoft’s cloud offering which started with Office, the beginnings of Microsoft Azure, Azure as the world’s computer, and how every company is becoming a software company.

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