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Big announcements, conferences, the hallway track. We’re in the trenches having awesome conversations with real people from the community. This show features conversations from technology and software development events such as O’Reilly’s OSCON, All Things Open, Node Interactive (covering the Future of Node.js and JavaScript), and more. Hosts Adam Stacoviak and Jerod Santo talk to software engineers, keynote speakers, industry experts, and passionate attendees about open source, software industry trends, what it means to be a hacker, and much more.

  1. 10/30/2018

    Apple's Fall 2018 Mac/iPad event

    Adam, Jerod, and Tim get together to put a spotlight on Apple’s October 30th Mac/iPad event from a developer’s perspective. They cover the specs of the new MacBook Air and the viability of having it as a development machine, the new Mac Mini in the ever popular Space Gray, and whether or not Tim will be able to stop pulling his hair out to find an affordable, yet powerful desktop machine with it, and the gorgeous new iPad Pro.

    1h 34m

  2. 06/05/2018

    Our reactions to Microsoft buying GitHub

    Hear insights and reactions from Adam Stacoviak and Jerod Santo as they break down the news of Microsoft’s acquisition of GitHub — from speculation to confirmation — including commentary from members of the developer community by way of Twitter and Slack.

    38 min

  3. 04/12/2017

    Node at Microsoft, ChakraCore, and VM Neutrality

    In this episode of The Future of Node series recorded at Node Interactive 2016 Adam talked with Gaurav Seth (Lead Program Manager of Chakra & TypeScript) and Arunesh Chandra (Program Manager of ChakraCore) about the backstory of Node at Microsoft, their polite fork of Node to introduce the community to ChakraCore (the high-performance JavaScript engine that powers Microsoft Edge), why Microsoft is so interested in Node, the future of Chakra and ChakraCore, VM neutrality, and more.

    33 min

  4. 03/01/2017

    Node.js Backstory and Future

    In this episode of The Future of Node series recorded at Node Interactive 2016 Adam talked with Mikeal Rogers about the backstory of Node over the past few years to get to where we are today. We talked about io.js (the fork of Node), what’s happened in the community and the code since that time frame, how The Node.js Foundation has helped to solidify the foundation on which the Node ecosystem is being built on, initiatives and focuses in the near future, and more.

    51 min

  5. 02/17/2017

    Node, IoT, and Robotics

    In this episode of The Future of Node series recorded at Node Interactive 2016 Adam talked with Rachel White, Technical Evangelist at Microsoft, about Node, IoT, robotics. We talked about making robots, inspiring developers to try new things, having fun as a developer, letting go of imposter syndrome, RFID implants, and making stuff for fun outside of our day to day jobs.

    33 min

  6. 02/17/2017

    How China does Node

    In this episode of The Future of Node series recorded at Node Interactive 2016 Adam talked with Shiya Luo about how China does Node, translations of documentation and books from English to Chinese, and the Great Firewall of China (a censorship and surveillance project of the Chinese government) which makes it very difficult for the people of China to interact with the rest of the web.

    27 min

  7. 02/16/2017

    The State of HTTP/2 in Node

    In this episode of The Future of Node series recorded at Node Interactive 2016 Adam talked with James Snell (IBM Technical Lead for Node and member of Node’s TSC and CTC) about the work he’s doing on Node’s implementation of http2, the state of http2 in Node, what this new spec has to offer, and what the Node community can expect from this new protocol.

    37 min

  8. 01/30/2017

    Conversational Development and Controversy

    In this episode of Spotlight recorded at OSCON London 2016, Jerod talked with Sid Sijbrandij (CEO of GitLab) who was recently on The Changelog discussing GitLab’s Master Plan and a new style of development they call “Conversational Development”, to talk about how they’re executing on that plan. We also discussed the recent controversy around GitLab and the removal (and subsequent reposting) of security research data. We enjoyed hearing how Sid turns everything in to an opportunity.

    18 min
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Big announcements, conferences, the hallway track. We’re in the trenches having awesome conversations with real people from the community. This show features conversations from technology and software development events such as O’Reilly’s OSCON, All Things Open, Node Interactive (covering the Future of Node.js and JavaScript), and more. Hosts Adam Stacoviak and Jerod Santo talk to software engineers, keynote speakers, industry experts, and passionate attendees about open source, software industry trends, what it means to be a hacker, and much more.

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  • Creator
    Changelog Media
  • Years Active
    2016 - 2018
  • Episodes
    15
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © All rights reserved
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    Spotlight

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