Changelog Interviews

Ilya Grigorik joined the show to talk about GitHub Archive, logging and archiving GitHub's public event data, and how he uses Google BigQuery to make querying that data accessible to everyone.

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.

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.

BIG news! This is the episode where we discuss Adam going fulltime on The Changelog.

Rob Eisenberg joined the show to talk about why he left the AngularJS team, how the community responded, the allure of working for Google and getting paid to work on open source full time, why someone might choose Aurelia over other frameworks, and more.

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.

Alex Polvi, CEO of CoreOS, joined the show to talk about their new open source product rkt, their App Container Spec, and CoreOS - the container only server OS focused on securing the internet.

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.

Adam and Jerod talk with Hong Lai, one of the co-founders of Phusion. His company recently got a lot of attention for their upcoming version of Phusion Passenger, which they decided to call Ruby Raptor in a clever marketing play to get people excited about Passenger again. It worked, and we invited Hongli on the show to talk about Passenger/Ruby Raptor, the challenges of marketing open source, and how to get the internet excited about your next version.

Adam and Jerod close out the year and give thanks to everyone who helps support The Changelog -- community members, listeners, readers, sponsors, as well as our various partners. We also discuss top topics from 2014, Changelog Weekly and how we use Trello as a CMS, contributing to the topics we cover through our Ping repo on GitHub, and what's to come in 2015.

Adam and Jerod talk with the members of the .NET Core team at Microsoft about Microsoft's motivation for open sourcing the base class libraries of .NET, open source vs source open, the true goal of open sourcing .NET Core, and this new Microsoft we've been seeing.

Adam and Jerod talk with Curtis "Ovid" Poe about how he got started with Perl, what Perl is really good at, why he doesn't expect everyone to love Perl, why Perl doesn't get no respect, the difference between Perl 5 and Perl 6, and why the Perl community doesn't like marketing.

Adam and Jerod talk with David Kaneda about Buckets (a simple, open source CMS built on Node.js), how he's building Buckets, what competing with Wordpress and Drupal is like, the process of working with people on Assembly, and more.

Adam and Jerod talk with Tom Dale and Yehuda Katz about the road to Ember 2.0 and the complete front-end stack it is today.

Adam and Jerod talk with Mike Perham about his new project Inspeqtor and his approach to better application infrastructure monitoring.

Adam and Jerod talk with Sara Golemon about her work at Facebook, The PHP Language Specification, and making PHP awesome.

Adam and Jerod talk with Justin Searls about Lineman.js, building for the web with JavaScript, and his abstract "The Social Coding Contract."

Adam and Jerod talk with Olivier Lacan about keeping a `CHANGELOG` and his passion for keeping a human facing, readable history, for software projects.

Adam and Jerod talk with Craig Muth about his project Xiki, the current Kickstarter he has to raise funds so he can work on it full time, and reimagining the shell.

Parker Moore joined the show to talk with Adam about blogging for hackers with Jekyll and GitHub Pages.

Adam and Jerod talk with Tim Caswell about getting started in open source, exploring new frontiers, and his latest project Tedit -- a development platform that makes programming JavaScript easy and more accessible.

Adam and Jerod talk with Chad Whitacre the Founder of Gittip to talk about what's new this year for Gittip and the directions they are taking things.

Adam and Jerod talk to Anika Lindtner and Floor Drees about Rails Girls Summer of Code, Travis Foundation, fundraising, supporting open source through grants, and ways the community is showing their support of diversity in tech.

Adam and Andrew talk with Lars Bak and Seth Ladd from Google about Dart, a new language and platform started by Google for scalable web app engineering.

Adam and Andrew talked to Postmodern about his open source projects chruby, ruby-install, chgems, ronin, and more.

Andrew talks with the fellas behind MEAN.js, Amos Haviv and Roie Cohen. MEAN.js is a full-stack JavaScript solution using MongoDB, Express, AngularJS, and Node.

Adam and John talk about Sass, The Sass Way, Middleman, and open publishing on GitHub.

Jeremy Saenz joined the show to talk about Go, Martini, Gophercasts, and more.

Eran Hammer joined the show to talk about Node.js and Black Friday at Walmart.

Andrew talks with Jonathan Rudenberg and Jeff Lindsay about their hard work and updates on Flynn, their open source PaaS.

Slava Akhmechet, co-founder and CEO of RethinkDB, joined the show to talk with Andrew about RethinkDB - the open-source database for the realtime web.

Isaac Schlueter and Charlie Robbins joined the show to talk about the "crashyness" of npm recently and the community fundraiser they are starting to ask the community to support npm and to keep it running. Isaac is the creator of npm and a maintainer of Node.js. Charlie is the co-founder and CEO of Nodejitsu.

Adam and Andrew talk with Jonathan Smiley and Mark Hayes from ZURB about Foundation 5, front-end frameworks, and Ink — their new email framework project.

Andrew and Adam talk with Caolan McMahon from Hoodie to talk about very fast web development where you can build complete web apps in days, without having to worry about backends, databases or servers (with Hoodie). We discuss noBackend and the idea behind offline first.

Adam and Andrew talk with Lee Hambley about some serious subjects such as Capistrano 3.0/2.0, open source burnout, various conversations around deploying, Ruby, respect, handing over the reigns and more. If you hack on open source or run an open source project, you should listen to this episode.

Adam and Andrew talk with Justine Arreche a Designer at Travis CI and Sebastian Gräßl a Freelance Developer. Together, they're the creators of Open Karma, a tool to help bridge the gap between developers and designers in open source (they're bringing some design love to OSS).

Adam and Jerod talk with Katrina Owen about Exercism.io - an open source platform for crowd-sourced code reviews on daily practice problems. Practice problems are available in Ruby, Elixir, JavaScript, Python, Haskell, and Clojure, and other languages are in the pipeline.

Andrew and Adam talk with Marshall Jones from Balanced Payments about all they do in open source, and how they approach being an open company that desires to release as much software as they can as open source.

Andrew and Adam talk with Jack Lukic about Semantic UI.

Andrew and Adam talk with John O'Nolan about his open source blogging platform Ghost written in JavaScript (Node.js), and how he and his team are working hard to create this beautifully designed platform dedicated to one thing: Publishing.

Andrew and Jerod talk with Gordon Williams about his hardware/software open source project called Espruino that's currently raising funds on Kickstarter. Espruino is the world's first JavaScript microcontroller for beginners or experts, now open source.

Andrew and Adam talk with Sytse Sijbrandij, one of the Co-founders of GitLab, about building GitLab, sustaining open source, community management, and ways to handle a "road map" for your product or project.

Adam Stacoviak and Jerod Santo talk with Michal Papis about the history and future of RVM, the plan for RVM 2.0, the complexities of managing your Ruby version, Ruby 2.0 and more.

Andrew and Adam talk with Isaac Schlueter about the origins of npm, building an asynchronous web with Node.js, and how to get paid to open source.

This episode is part of our remastered greatest hits collection and features Rob Pike and Andrew Gerrand talking about the history and latest updates to the Go programming language.

Adam Stacoviak and Andrew Thorp talk with Jeff Lindsay and Jonathan Rudenberg about Flynn, open source, PaaS and more.

Adam Stacoviak, Andrew Thorp and Kenneth Reitz talk with Mattt Thompson, Mobile Lead at Heroku, about his many contributions to open source.

Adam Stacoviak and Andrew Thorp talk with Drew Blas of Chargify about API wrappers, Ruby, open source, and more.

Adam Stacoviak and guest co-host Tim Smith talk with Jesse Wolgamott about learning Ruby, his course and mentorship Ruby off Rails, and more!

Adam Stacoviak and Andrew Thorp talk with Michal Migurski (CTO) and Ezra Spier (Fellow) about civic hacking at Code for America, technical sustainability in government, skill gap for more modern software in government, open city data and more.