The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

Python at Microsoft (Interview)

13 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

We talked with Steve Dower and Dan Taylor at Microsoft Build 2018 about the history of Python at Microsoft, the origination of IronPython, Python Tool...

Corporate interests in open source and dev culture (Interview)

06 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Zed Shaw – creator of Mongrel, Learn Python the Hard Way, and more – joined the show to talk through a recent Twitter thread from Zed where he sha...

Curl turns 20, HTTP/2, QUIC (Interview)

31 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Daniel Stenberg joined the show to talk about 20 years of curl, what’s new with http2, and the backstory of QUIC - a new transport designed by Jim R...

The beginnings of Microsoft Azure (Interview)

23 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

We're on location at Microsoft Build 2018 talking with Julia White, Corporate Vice President at Microsoft — a 17 year Microsoft veteran. We talked w...

Prisma and the GraphQL data layer (Interview)

16 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Johannes Schickling, co-founder and CEO of Prisma, joined the show to catch us up on all things GraphQL — the tech, the possibilities, the community...

Burnout, open source, Datasette (Interview)

09 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Adam is on location at ZEIT Day talking with Jessica Rose about burnout, Henry Zhu about his passions and pursuit of open source, and Simon Willison a...

Scaling all the things at Slack (Interview)

02 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Julia Grace joined the show to talk bout about scaling all the things at Slack. Julia is currently the Senior Director of Infrastructure Engineering a...

Code Cartoons, Rust, WebAssembly (Interview)

25 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Lin Clark joined the show to talk about Code Cartoons, her work at Mozilla in the emerging technologies group, Rust, Servo, and WebAssembly (aka Wasm)...

Ember four years later (Interview)

18 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Chad Hietala joined the show to talk with us about the long history of Ember.js, how he first got involved, his work at LinkedIn and his work as an Em...

Elasticsearch and doubling down on "open" (Interview)

11 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Philipp Krenn joined the show to talk with us about Elasticsearch, the problem it solves, where it came from, and where it's at today. We discussed th...

Winamp2 JS (Interview)

06 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Jordan Eldredge joined the show to talk with us about Winamp2-js — a reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and Javascript. For many of our listene...

That's it. This is the finale! (Interview)

30 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

We're rebroadcasting the finale episode of the beloved Request For Commits. But don't worry, The Changelog will be back with new episodes next week. I...

Automated dependency updates (Interview)

23 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Rhys Arkins joined the show to talk about automating dependency updates using Renovate. Renovate is an open source tool to keep source code dependenci...

Live coding open source on Twitch (Interview)

16 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Suz Hinton joined the show to talk about live coding open source on Twitch. We talk about how she got interested in Twitch, her goals and aspirations ...

Truffle framework and decentralized Ethereum apps (Interview)

13 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Tim Coulter joined the show to talk about Truffle — a development environment, testing framework, and asset pipeline for Ethereum. We talked with Ti...

JavaScript sprinkles in Basecamp turned Stimulus (Interview)

06 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

David Heinemeier Hansson joined the show to share the story of how JavaScript sprinkles in Basecamp evolved into a full-fledged framework called Stimu...

We couldn’t afford an Oculus so we built one (Interview)

23 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Max Coutté joined the show to share his journey of learning the math and programming required to build an open source Oculus headset for $100. Max is...

Moore's Law and High Performance Computing (Interview)

16 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Todd Gamblin, a computer scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, joined us to talk about Moore’s Law, his work at Lawrence Livermore Na...

Devhints - TL;DR for Developer Documentation (Interview)

09 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Rico Sta. Cruz joined us to talk about his project Devhints (cheatsheets for developers). There are more than 365 cheatsheets you can contribute to an...

The impact and future of Kubernetes (Interview)

02 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

From KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2017 — Brendan Burns (Kubernetes co-founder) and Gabe Monroy (creator of Deis) joined the show to talk about the origi...

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...