The Diff: A Podcast from Meta Open Source

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The Diff: A Podcast from Meta Open Source

Hosted by Joel Marcey, a staff developer advocate on the Meta Open Source team, The Diff showcases the program, the projects and the people that drives the team's mission of building community through open source technology.

  1. 06/07/2023

    Episode 17: Chatting Velox and Accelerating Data Management with Masha Basmanova

    In this episode of The Diff podcast, host Philip Bell talks to Meta Software Engineer Masha Basmanova about Velox, an open source unified execution engine aimed at accelerating data management systems.

    30 min

  2. 12/01/2022

    Episode 16: Building Intuitive Interactions in VR: Interaction SDK and Presence Platform

    In this episode of The Diff podcast, host Navyata Bawa talks to Interaction SDK Software Engineer Danny Yaroslavski about how to add immersive VR interactions using Interaction SDK. They talk about how the First Hand showcase app and the Interaction SDK samples app let developers have hands-on experience with hand features, the challenges that come with creating a seamless user experience and how pose and gesture detection tools work together.

    28 min

  3. 09/14/2022

    Episode 15: Building Multiplayer Virtual Reality Applications in Unity with Zac Drake

    In this episode of The Diff podcast, host Navyata Bawa chats with Zac Drake, a software engineer on the VR Developer Environment Engineering team about the VR Platform SDK Multiplayer features, highlighting how the SharedSpaces app makes them easy to use out of the box in Unity. Zac explains some of the challenges that can arise when developing multiplayer VR applications. We discuss how developers can account for things like latency, as well as other best practices, recommended resources and learning materials to help you start building multiplayer VR experiences.

    38 min

  4. 07/19/2022

    Episode 14: Building Multiplayer Virtual Reality Applications in Unreal with Eric Le Saux

    In this episode of The Diff podcast, host Navyata Bawa chats with VR Developer Environment Software Engineer Eric Le Saux about the SharedSpaces sample and how it demonstrates the Platform SDK Multiplayer features. Eric dives deep into the challenges and objectives of the sample and the choices his team made to create an app that demonstrates the Multiplayer features in an easy to use way. We discuss use cases that developers should keep in mind when designing multiplayer VR applications, best practices, recommended resources and learning material to help you create your own multiplayer VR experiences.

    57 min

  5. 06/21/2022

    Episode 13: From Linux to React Native with Nicola Corti

    In this installment of The Diff podcast, host Dmitry Vinnik and Meta Software Developer Nicola Corti chat about how Nicola gained an interest in mobile development through Linux. They also discuss how open source plays an important role in Nicola’s career, what React Native is and how Kotlin is being used in the open source project’s build code. At the end, listeners get the scoop on Nicola’s podcast, The Developers’ Bakery.

    43 min

  6. 04/13/2022

    Episode 12: Talking about All Things React with Rachel Nabors

    In this installment of The Diff podcast, your host Dmitry Vinnik and Meta Documentation Engineer Rachel Nabors discuss their experience getting into front-end development, their work in the React ecosystem and explores how virtual conferences have opened the door for the open source community.

    47 min

  7. 02/15/2022

    Episode 11: Talking Mobile Open Source with Pascal Hartig

    In this installment of The Diff podcast, host Dmitry Vinnik and Software Engineer Pascal Hartig discuss Pascal’s open source journey at Meta. Initially, Pascal worked on Litho, a declarative UI framework for Android, but lately, he's primarily focused on supporting a project called Flipper, an extensible mobile app debugger. Throughout this interview, Pascal and Dmitry talk about the importance of building a welcoming community and give several tips on how to get started in open source. ------- Episode Links ------- Meta Tech Podcast Meta Open Source project Flipper - Website Meta Open Source project Litho - Website “Contributing to Open Source for the first time” by Cami Williams  ------- Social Accounts ------- Dmitry's Twitter Pascal's Twitter Meta Open Source Twitter Meta Open Source Facebook Page Meta Open Source Website Meta Open Source LinkedIn Page

    44 min

  8. 12/07/2021

    Episode 10: Talking Open Source with Paul O'Shannessy

    Welcome to the 10th episode of The Diff audio podcast, and the first episode of The Diff video series. In this episode, join your host Joel Marcey as he chats with Meta Open Source Program Engineering Manager Paul O'Shannessy about all the innovation he's played a part in during his decade in open source. Stay tuned for the rapid-fire question section where the two cover such controversial topics as pineapple on pizza and Star Trek vs. Star Wars. Meta Open Source Meta Open Source YouTube Channel Meta Open Source Twitter Account

    39 min
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Hosted by Joel Marcey, a staff developer advocate on the Meta Open Source team, The Diff showcases the program, the projects and the people that drives the team's mission of building community through open source technology.

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