The Diff: A Podcast from Meta Open Source Meta Open Source Team

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.

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.

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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 

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Pascal's Twitter

Meta Open Source Twitter

Meta Open Source Facebook Page

Meta Open Source Website

Meta Open Source LinkedIn Page

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

On this episode of The Diff recorded Wednesday, May 6th 2020, Joel catches up with Cami Williams, a developer advocate and colleague on the Facebook open source team. Cami and Joel play, I ask question, you ask a question and we talked about some really interesting topics. Find out how Cami became popular on social media, our thoughts around diversity in the world of advocacy and technology, the one programming language to have if you are stranded on an island, and hear some admissions about reality TV shows. Also there is a big surprise at the end regarding the podcast itself.


Facebook Open Source
Facebook Open Source YouTube Channel
Facebook Twitter Account
Official Harry Potter House Quiz

On this episode of The Diff, Joel talks Libra with Eric Nakagawa. Libra's mission is to enable a simple global currency and financial infrastructure that powers billions of people. Eric is the head of open source for Calibra, who is building a wallet for Libra. Eric describes how Libra works, how validator nodes work, what parts of Libra are open sourced, the difference between Libra and Calibra, and much more.

Find out more, including the transcript at https://thediffpodcast.com/docs/episode-8

On this special episode of The Diff, Instagram software engineer Kathryn Middleton, and React Native engineering manager, Kevin Gozali, join Joel on our final live broadcast from the F8 2019 conference to discuss the current state of React and React Native. Learn why React Hooks is such a big deal, how React and React Native cooperate on roadmaps, and about some of the exciting new features for both. Also, we talk about the shift in focus for React Native on open source.



F8 class on React Hooks
F8 session on React, Relay, GraphQL
F8 session on React Native, ComponentKit, Litho