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Changelog Interviews Changelog Interviews #164

Semantic UI Returns

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2015-07-11T01:00:00Z #design 🎧 32,834

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.

Changelog Interviews Changelog Interviews #162

Octopress 3.0

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2015-06-26T13:30:00Z #ruby 🎧 30,549

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’).

Changelog Interviews Changelog Interviews #161

The HTTP/2 Spec

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2015-06-19T08:30:00Z 🎧 39,476

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.

Changelog Interviews Changelog Interviews #157

Building Bridges

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2015-05-29T09:00:00Z 🎧 27,090

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.

Changelog Interviews Changelog Interviews #156

Modern WordPress using Bedrock and Sage

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2015-05-22T08:30:00Z #php 🎧 29,989

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.

Changelog Interviews Changelog Interviews #158

GopherCon 2015

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2015-05-19T10:45:00Z #go 🎧 32,432

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.

Changelog Interviews Changelog Interviews #155

The Future of Node.js

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2015-05-16T02:00:00Z #javascript +1 🎧 35,496

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.

Changelog Interviews Changelog Interviews #153

17 Years of curl

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2015-05-01T07:00:00Z 🎧 36,132

Daniel Stenberg joined the show to talk about curl and libcurl and how he has spent at least 2 hours every day for the past 17 years working on and maintaining curl. That’s over 13k hours! We covered the origins of curl, how he chooses projects to work on, why he has remained so dedicated to curl all these years, the various version control systems curl has used, licensing, and more.

Changelog Interviews Changelog Interviews #152

TypeScript and open source at Microsoft

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2015-04-24T05:45:00Z #typescript +1 🎧 42,774

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.

Changelog Interviews Changelog Interviews #151

The Rust Programming Language

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2015-04-11T21:00:00Z #rust 🎧 52,936

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.

Changelog Interviews Changelog Interviews #150

Internet Connected Things Using Spark

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2015-04-04T03:00:00Z 🎧 33,623

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.

Changelog Interviews Changelog Interviews #148

The State of Go in 2015

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2015-03-25T10:30:00Z 🎧 37,025

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.

Changelog Interviews Changelog Interviews #147

Elixir and Phoenix

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2015-03-20T06:00:00Z #elixir +1 🎧 35,162

Chris McCord joined the show to take us on a deep dive into the Phoenix web framework and Elixir. We covered the similarities between Ruby and Erlang, getting started with Elixir, and deploying Phoenix. He also shared his plans for the 1.0 release and the future of Phoenix.

Changelog Interviews Changelog Interviews #146

Mind the Gender Parity Gap

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2015-03-13T09:45:00Z 🎧 29,699

Sarah Mei joined the show to talk through a recent article she authored titled “Mind the Gap” and why we’re missing our best chance for gender parity. We discussed our innate subconscious assumptions and prejudices towards one another, how we alienate women from the developer communities, and what we can do to step across this gap and make a conscious effort to combat those assumptions.

Changelog Interviews Changelog Interviews #143

Front-end Developer Interview Questions

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2015-02-21T02:15:00Z 🎧 50,425

Darcy Clarke joined the show to talk about his repo on the HTML5 Boilerplate org on GitHub “Front-end Developer Interview Questions”. We discussed why the repo has been so successful, the challenges of translating a text document into multiple languages, managing contributions, the art of interviewing, how the expectations of front-end developers have evolved over time, and how to stay relevant in our fast moving industry.

Changelog Interviews Changelog Interviews #142

Laravel PHP Framework

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2015-02-13T22:45:00Z 🎧 31,646

Taylor Otwell, the creator of the Laravel PHP framework, joined the show for a deep dive into Laravel, why he doesn’t release without good documentation, building apps to test your own framework, writing an API for Lavarel Forge, and more.

Changelog Interviews Changelog Interviews #139

The Rise of io.js

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2015-01-30T23:00:00Z #javascript +1 🎧 31,512

Mikeal Rogers joined the show to talk about io.js, a friendly fork of Node.js with an open governance model. We discussed why the io.js fork exists, why they choose open governance, the roadmap and future of io.js, supporting ES6, burnout while working in open source, and the steps you can take to get involved with the future of io.js and Node.js.

Changelog Interviews Changelog Interviews #137

Better GitHub Issues with HuBoard

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2015-01-16T21:30:00Z 🎧 26,836

Adam and Jerod talk with Ryan built about HuBoard - a project management solution for teams and organizations using GitHub. He gives us an inside look at how he created HuBoard, how he made the transition from free service to paid users, the technical challenges of getting set up to handle enterprise, and more.

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