The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Episodes
Gitcoin: sustaining open source with cryptocurrency (Interview)
26 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We're joined by Kevin Owocki, the founder of Gitcoin. Gitcoin is a platform to monetize or incentivize work in open source software. We talked about h...
Building a secure Operating System (Redox OS) with Rust (Interview)
19 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We talked with Jeremy Soller, the BDFL of Redox OS, a Unix-like Operating System written in Rust, aiming to bring the innovations of Rust to a modern ...
Secure Messaging for Everyone with Wire (Interview)
15 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We talk with Alan Duric, Co-founder and CEO of Wire, an open source end-to-end encrypted instant messaging app for voice and video calls. In 2005 Alan...
Blockchains and Databases at OSCON (Interview)
14 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We went back into the archives to conversations we had around blockchains and databases at OSCON 2017. We talked with Monty Widenius, creator of Maria...
The Story of Visual Studio Code (Interview)
05 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We're back in NYC at Microsoft Connect(); talking about the backstory of Visual Studio Code with Julia Liuson (Corporate Vice President of Visual Stud...
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (Interview)
29 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Dan Kohn, Executive Director of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, joined the show to talk about what it means to be Cloud Native, the ins and out...
The History of GNOME, Mono, and Xamarin (Interview)
21 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We talked with Miguel de Icaza last week at Microsoft Connect(); in New York City. Miguel gave us the backstory on how he's been competing with Micros...
Faktory and the future of background jobs (Interview)
18 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Mike Perham is back for his 4th appearance to talk about his new project Faktory, a new background job system that's aiming to bring the best practice...
Data Science at OSCON (Interview)
10 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We went back into the archives to conversations we had around data science at OSCON 2017. We talked with Vida Williams (Data Scientist) and Michelle C...
Functional CSS and Tachyons (Interview)
10 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Adam Morse joined the show to talk about Functional CSS and his project Tachyons - a CSS Toolkit that lets you quickly build and design new UI without...
My roadmap to become a blockchain engineer (Interview)
08 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Preethi Kasireddy, a self-employed blockchain and smart contract Engineer, joined the show to talk about why she left the best job in the world at And...
Rails as a day job, Diesel on the side (Interview)
04 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Sean Griffin joins the show to talk about doing Rails full-time, his love of Rust. and his project Diesel - a safe, extensible ORM and query builder f...
Bisq, the decentralized Bitcoin exchange (Interview)
03 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Beams joins the show to talk about Bisq, the P2P decentralized Bitcoin exchange and open-source desktop application that allows you to buy and s...
Operação Serenata de Amor (Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Government Corruption 😱) (Interview)
31 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Eduardo Cuducos joined the show to talk about Operação Serenata de Amor an Artificial Intelligence and Data Science project that aims to inform the ...
Functional Programming (Interview)
28 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Normand joined the show to talk about Functional Programming. We talked about FP vs OOP vs Imperative, why FP is popular again, the advantages an...
The Future of RethinkDB (Interview)
17 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Mike Glukhovsky joined the show to talk about the future of RethinkDB. Mike was a co-founder of RethinkDB along-side Slava Akhmechet. RethinkDB shutdo...
The Kotlin Programming Language (Interview)
13 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Dmitry Jemerov joined the show to talk about Kotlin - a language created by JetBrains that's designed to be an industrial-strength object-oriented lan...
Automating GitHub with Probot (Interview)
06 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We talk with Brandon Keepers and Bex Warner about GitHub's Probot — GitHub Apps to automate and improve your workflows. You can use pre-built apps o...
Conversations about sustaining open source (Interview)
22 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features conversations from Sustain 2017 at GitHub HQ with Richard Littauer, Karthik Ram, Andrea Goulet, and Scott Ford. Sustain was a on...
Community, Building Remote-first Teams, and Web Performance Inclusivity (Interview)
08 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Karolina Szczur joined the show to talk about community building, building remote-first teams, the hiring process in tech, product development, and th...
Building an artificial Pancreas with Elixir and Nerves (Interview)
11 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We talked with Tim Mecklem about building an artificial Pancreas with Elixir and Nerves to help those with Type 1 Diabetes who want to "loop" — a pr...
You are not Google/Amazon/LinkedIn (Interview)
04 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
If you find yourself chasing shiny objects and squirrels all time, you should 💯 listen to this episode featuring Ozan Onay (President of Bradfield ...
ANTHOLOGY — The Future of Open Source at OSCON 2017 (Interview)
28 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This is an anthology episode from OSCON 2017 featuring awesome conversations with Kelsey Hightower (OSCON Co-Chair and Developer Advocate at Google Cl...
10 years of RabbitMQ (Interview)
21 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We are thrilled to produce this show to honor RabbitMQ’s 10th anniversary. Karl Nilsson and Michael Klishin joined the show to talk through 10 years...
The power of wikis, the problem with social networks, the promise of AI (Interview)
14 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Evan Prodromou has been involved in open source since the mid '90s. His open source travel guide – Wikitravel – grew up alongside Wikipedia and th...
Ubuntu Snaps and Bash on Windows Server (Interview)
07 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We talked with Dustin Kirkland (Head of Ubuntu Product and Strategy at Canonical) at OSCON about 12.04's end of life, the death of the Ubuntu phone, S...
Why is GraphQL so cool? (Interview)
30 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Johannes Schickling (Founder of Graphcool) joined the show to talk about GraphQL — an application layer query language from Facebook. We talked abou...
Deploying Changelog.com (Interview)
23 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week we take you behind the scenes of the new infrastructure for Changelog.com and talk with Gerhard Lazu. We relaunched the new brand and site f...
The serverless revolution (Interview)
16 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We talked with Pam Selle at OSCON about the serverless revolution happening for JavaScript developers. This episode kicks off our mini-series from the...
GitHub's Open Source Survey (2017) (Interview)
09 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
On Friday, June 2, 2017 – GitHub announced the details of their Open Source Survey – an open data set on the open source community for researchers...
JAMstack, Netlify CMS, and 10x-ing Smashing Magazine (Interview)
30 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Matt Biilman and Chris Bach joined the show to talk about JAMstack, Netlify CMS, how open source drives standards, and 10x-ing the speed of Smashing M...
The Backstory of Kubernetes (Interview)
21 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Tim Hockin and Aparna Sinha joined the show to talk about the backstory of Kubernetes inside Google, how Tim and others got it funded, the infrastruct...
BONUS - Sustain Open Source Software (Interview)
04 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Justin Dorfman joined us for a special BONUS episode of The Changelog to share some details about Sustain Conference with you. It's a one day conversa...
Open source at Microsoft, inclusion, diversity, and OSCON (Interview)
28 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Scott Hanselman joined today's show produced in partnership with our friends at OSCON. Scott is a Program Chair of OSCON, host of the podcast Hanselmi...
Open source lessons learned (Interview)
28 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Zeno Rocha, Principal Developer Advocate at Liferay, joined the show to talk about DevRel, his open source work (clipboard.js, Dracula Theme, jQuery B...
Firefox Debugger and DevTools (Interview)
17 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Laster joined the show to talk about Firefox Debugger and DevTools. We talked about the backstory of Firefox, Firebug, the new Debugger.html, wh...
First-time contributors and maintainer balance (Interview)
10 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Kent C. Dodds joined the show to talk about guiding and supporting first time contributors to open source. We talked about the many ways to be first-t...
Open Source at Google (Interview)
28 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Will Norris (Engineering Manager at Google's Open Source office) joined the show to talk about their new release of the Google Open Source website as ...
Learning JavaScript and Bringing People Together (Interview)
25 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Tracy Lee joined the show to talk about bringing people together, helping people, and making an impact. We covered learning JavaScript, the ins and ou...
Let's Encrypt the web (Interview)
18 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Jacob Hoffman-Andrews, Senior Staff Technologist at the EFF and the lead developer of Let's Encrypt, joined the show to talk about the history of SSL,...
The burden of open source (Interview)
09 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
James Long joined the show to talk about his recent post, "Why I'm Frequently Absent from Open Source". He shared several points in his blog post that...
The Story of Atom (Interview)
24 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Nathan Sobo, founding member of the Atom editor team at GitHub, joined the show take us all the way back to the beginning of Atom to learn where it ca...
Feedbin and RSS resurgence (Interview)
21 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Ben Ubois, the creator of Feedbin (a simple, good-looking online RSS reader) joined the show to talk about the indie web and developers, how RSS usage...
Managing Secrets Using Vault (Interview)
17 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Seth Vargo, the Director of Technical Advocacy at HashiCorp, joined the show to talk about managing secrets with their open source product called Vaul...
ANTHOLOGY – Hacker stories from OSCON and All Things Open (Interview)
10 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Karen Sandler, Rachel Nabors, and Jono Bacon joined the show by way of some great conversations at OSCON in London, UK and All Things Open in Raleigh,...
Reproducible builds and secure software (Interview)
03 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Lamb joined the show to talk about his project Reproducible Builds — which is funded by The Linux Foundation's Core Infrastructure Initiative....
GunDB, Venture Backed and Decentralized (Interview)
27 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Nadal joined the show to talk about his hacker story and his venture backed open source datastore project called GunDB — a realtime, decentrali...
ANTHOLOGY – Hacker Stories From OSCON, All Things Open, and Node Interactive (Interview)
13 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this anthology episode we're featuring three awesome hacker stories from OSCON, All Things Open, and Node Interactive — Giovanni Caligaris about ...
Open Collective and funding open source (Interview)
09 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Pia Mancini joined the show to talk about Open Collective, her background and where she came from, her passion to upgrade democracy, funding and susta...
webpack (Interview)
17 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Sean Larkin joined the show to talk about Webpack, how fast open sources moves, how fast Webpack is moving, the core team, the formation, joining JS F...
Homebrew and Swift (Interview)
09 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Max Howell, famous for creating Homebrew, joined the show to talk about his start in software and open source, the tweet that was heard around the wor...
HTTP/2 in Node.js Core (Interview)
06 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In this special episode recorded at Node Interactive 2016 in Austin, TX Adam talked with James Snell (IBM Technical Lead for Node and member of Node's...
18F and OSS in the U.S. Federal Government (Interview)
25 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
From 18F — Hillary Hartley and Aidan Feldman joined the show to talk about how 18F is changing the way the federal government builds and buys digita...
Python, Django, and Channels (Interview)
25 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Django core contributor Andrew Godwin joins the show to tell us all about Python and Django. If you've ever wondered why people love Python, what Djan...
Servo and Rust (Interview)
18 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Jack Moffitt joined the show to talk about Servo, an experimental web browser layout engine. We talked about what the Servo project aims to achieve, s...
Mad science, WebTorrent, WebRTC (Interview)
11 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Feross Aboukhadijeh joined the show this week to talk with us about his backstory, passive income, WebTorrent, WebRTC, Electron and the ins and outs o...
The Road to Font Awesome 5 (Interview)
04 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Dave Gandy joined the show to talk about the history of Font Awesome, what's to come in Font Awesome 5 and their Kickstarter to fund Font Awesome 5 Pr...
99 Practical Bottles of OOP (Interview)
28 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Sandi Metz joined the show to talk about her beginnings on a mainframe, her 30+ years of programming experience, the ins and outs of OOP, her book Pra...
.NET Core and Microsoft's Shift to Open Source (Interview)
21 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Bertrand Le Roy joined the show to talk about all things .NET Core, their recent 1.0 release, where it's going, the open source around it, and Microso...
Homebrew and package management (Interview)
07 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Mike McQuaid joined us to catch us up on the latest in Homebrew and the recent 1.0.0 release. We talked about no more `/usr/local` — Homebrew moves ...
Ethereum and Cryptocurrency (Interview)
30 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Gavin Wood joined the show to talk about Ethereum, Cryptocurrency, The DAO, Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), what could you build with Ethereum, and th...
How we got here (Interview)
23 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Cory is a science fiction author, activist, journalist, co-editor of Boing Boing and the author of many books. We talked to Cory about open source, th...
GitLab's Master Plan (Interview)
16 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Sid Sijbrandij, CEO of GitLab, joined the show to talk about their recent unveiling of the GitLab Master Plan, $20 Million secured in a Series B fundi...
TensorFlow and Deep Learning (Interview)
09 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Eli Bixby, Developer Programs Engineer at Google, joined the show to talk to talk about TensorFlow, machine learning and deep learning, why Google ope...
Elm and Functional Programming (Interview)
02 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Evan Czaplicki, creator of Elm, and Richard Feldman of NoRedInk joined the show to talk deeper about Elm, the pains of CSS it solves, scaling the Elm ...
Sourcegraph the 'Google for Code' (Interview)
26 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Beyang Liu, the CTO and co-founder of Sourcegraph, joined the show to talk about the backstory of Sourcegraph, how it works, how they're aiming to be ...
GitHub's Electron (Interview)
19 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Zeke Sikelianos joined the show to talk about GitHub's Electron project and the future of web folks making cross platform desktop apps. We talked abou...
Best Practices Badge from Core Infrastructure Initiative (Interview)
12 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
David A. Wheeler, from Core Infrastructure Initiative, joined the show to talk about the CII Best Practices Badge program.
Libscore, Velocity.js, Hacking (Interview)
06 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Julian Shapiro, startup founder and developer, joined the show to talk about his story of entrepreneurship, open source, growth hacking, and more. Jul...
ZEIT, HyperTerm, now (Interview)
30 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Guillermo Rauch joined the show to talk with Adam about how he got into programming, how that lead him to what he's doing now at ZEIT, the design of H...
SiteSpeed.io and Performance (Interview)
23 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Hedenskog joined the show to talk about SiteSpeed.io and web performance. We covered where it came from, where it's going, and more importantly,...
Open Source at Facebook (Interview)
15 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
James Pearce, Head of Open Source at Facebook, joined the show to talk about that very subject — open source at Facebook, his path to software devel...
ngrok and Go (Interview)
09 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Alan Shreve, creator of the beloved ngrok, joined the show to talk about ngrok — what it is, why it exists, why he wrote it in Go, and ultimately wh...
GitHub and Google on Public Datasets & Google BigQuery (Interview)
29 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Arfon Smith from GitHub, and Felipe Hoffa & Will Curran from Google joined the show to talk about BigQuery — the big picture behind Google Cloud's p...
Ecto 2 and Phoenix Presence (Interview)
22 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
José Valim and Chris McCord joined the show to talk all about how they're advancing the "state of the art" in the Elixir community with their release...
Ubuntu Everywhere (Interview)
18 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Dustin Kirkland joined the show to talk about Ubuntu — the most widely used flavor of Linux. We talked about the rise of Ubuntu, Ubuntu being everyw...
The advantages of being a blind programmer (Interview)
11 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Parham Doustdar is a blind programmer and joined the show to talk about the advantages he has being a blind programmer, the tools he uses, why he had ...
A protocol for dying (Interview)
04 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Since airing this show, Pieter passed away due to his battle with a metastasis of bile duct cancer in both lungs. But rather than listen to this show ...
IPFS (InterPlanetary File System) (Interview)
21 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Juan Benet joined the show to talk about IPFS (InterPlanetary File System), a peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol to make the web faster, safer, and more...
Jewelbots and Getting Kids Coding (Interview)
14 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Sara Chipps, the creator of Jewelbots, and George Stocker, the VP of Engineering at Jewelbots joined the show to talk about connected wearables for ki...
23 years of Ruby (Interview)
07 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Big show! Matz, creator of the Ruby programming language, joined the show to discuss where he began as a programmer, the origins of Ruby, its history...
Why SQLite succeeded as a database (Interview)
30 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is part of our remastered greatest hits collection and features Richard Hipp, the creator of SQLite, talking with us about its history, w...
JavaScript and Robots (Interview)
19 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Raquel Vélez, aka Rockbot, joined the show to talk about where she came from, how she got into programming with JavaScript, her passion for robots an...
Your Huginn Agents Are Standing By (Interview)
15 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Cantino joined the show to talk with Jerod about Huginn, a system for building agents that perform automated tasks for you online. They can rea...
Haskell Programming (Interview)
26 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Allen and Julie Moronuki joined the show to talk about Haskell, their book "Haskell Programming", learning to program, their book writing proces...
The future of WordPress and Calypso (Interview)
04 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Matt Mullenweg, the creator of WordPress and the CEO of Automattic, joined the show to talk about the past, present, and future of WordPress. We talke...
TiddlyWiki (Interview)
27 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Jeremy Ruston joined the show to talk about TiddlyWiki — a unique non-linear notebook for capturing, organizing, and sharing complex information. It...
freeCodeCamp (Interview)
12 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Quincy Larson is the creator of an open source community called freeCodeCamp. We talked with Quincy about "the secret to getting good at coding", thei...
Elixir and the Future of Phoenix (Interview)
09 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
José Valim joined the show to talk about Elixir. We learned about the early days of José's start as a programmer. José took us back to the beginnin...
Funding open source (Interview)
30 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Nadia Eghbal joined the show to discuss a HUGE topic that's near and dear to our heart -- funding open source! We discussed what it takes to fund open...
Crystal: Fast as C, Slick as Ruby (Interview)
29 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Ary Borenszweig and Juan Wajnerman, the folks behind Crystal, joined the show to talk about the goals of the language, how it's the best of both world...
Elm and Functional Programming (Interview)
16 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Feldman from NoRedInk joined the show to talk about Elm and Functional Programming. Elm labeled itself "the best of functional programming in ...
ZeroDB (Interview)
08 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
MacLane Wilkison and Michael Egorov, the creators of ZeroDB, joined the show to talk about ZeroDB — an end-to-end encrypted database (protocol), why...
JSON API and API Design (Interview)
01 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Yehuda Katz joined the show to talk about JSON.API — where the spec came from, who's involved, compliance, API design, the future, and more. We also...
DOUBLEHEADER — 24 Pull Requests and Libraries.io + Flynn (Interview)
25 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
We have a special doubleheader holiday show for you. Andrew Nesbitt joined the show to talk about 24 Pull Requests and Libraries.io, and Jonathan Rude...
Redux, React, and Functional JavaScript (Interview)
18 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Dan Abramov, creator of Redux, joined the show to talk about his path to becoming a programmer, his introduction to open source, React, JavaScript, fu...
Building the Ultimate Hacking Keyboard (Interview)
11 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
László Monda (aka Lotsy) joined the show to talk about a keyboard for hackers — the Ultimate Hacking Keyboard. We discussed the features, the hard...
Kong, APIs, Microservices (Interview)
05 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Ahmad Nassri from Mashape joined the show to talk about Kong, an open-source management layer for APIs and Microservices.
Discussing Vue.js and Personal Projects (Interview)
28 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
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...
The Offline First Revolution and Speech Recognition (Interview)
21 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
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...