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Play Podcast (mp3): Download (Duration: 48:22 — 33.3MB) A lot of companies have attempted convergence but none have approached it like Maru OS. We speak to the founder of the project about its major …

Show/Hide Transcript XOXO Fest happened, fighting in the Fediverse, and new microsub clients bloom. It’s the audio edition for This Week in the IndieWeb for September 1st - 7th, 2018. You can find all …

Show/Hide Transcript Two weeks late but better than never! Pronoun buttons, a class on IndieWeb, and a Google takeover of the web. It’s the audio edition for This Week in the IndieWeb for September …

Show/Hide Transcript Another late one but a great one. Mastodon adds rel-me, geocaching with WordPress, and Path ends their incredible journey. It’s the audio edition for This Week in the IndieWeb for …

Listen to a summary of all the sessions at IndieWebCamp Berlin 2018! Session notes: https://indieweb.org/2018/Berlin/Sessions Narration by Marty McGuire Edited by Aaron Parecki This is a repost of …

The nature of software projects is changing. Projects are using a wider variety of cloud providers and SaaS tools. Projects are being broken up into more git repositories, and the code in those repositories are being deployed into small microservices. With the increased number of tools, repositories, and deployment targets, it can become difficult to

Play Podcast (mp3): Download (Duration: 55:59 — 38.5MB) Librem 5 shipping when? Todd from Purism joins us to answer that question, as well as what’s going on with the dev kits. Plus KDE, Red Hat …

Melanie Ensign is the Security + Privacy Communications Lead for Uber and has worked with DEF CON, and Facebook. She and Scott talk about security and privacy on today's internet. Where is the happy medium between user experience, expectation, and real security? How do we leap the uncanny valley of privacy?

Julia Evans has been making comics and zines for years. You've likely learned "How to be a wizard programmer" from one of Julia's comics. She's a software developer at Stripe in her day job and on this episode she talks to Scott about how to effectively teach and learn computer concepts.

Play Podcast (mp3): Download (Duration: 27:05 — 18.7MB) Exciting Pine64 devices, no Pi 4 this year, good gaming and firmware news, and more.   News Pine64 to Launch $79 Linux Tablet, $199 PineBook Pro …

Play Podcast (mp3): Download (Duration: 45:05 — 31.0MB) A new year dawns so we make some predictions for the months to come. Plus we look back at last year’s predictions, and have a look at what’s …

Play Podcast (mp3): Download (Duration: 46:09 — 31.7MB) Are you better off with the elasticity of public clouds like AWS, or should you avoid lock-in by running servers on premises? Guess what Félim …

Play Podcast (mp3): Download (Duration: 46:09 — 31.7MB) Are you better off with the elasticity of public clouds like AWS, or should you avoid lock-in by running servers on premises? Guess what Félim …

In this episode, we talk about our goals for 2018 and then set some for 2019.   My new book - The Path to Freedom: Starting a Business for the Reluctant Entrepreneur - is OUT NOW from Amazon as a paperback or Kindle ebook. https://geni.us/thepathtofreedom...

In this episode, we talk to our first guest on the show, Jessica White, about running non-profit side hustles likes community user-group events and sponsor supported software developer conferences.   My new book - The Path to Freedom: Starting a Business f...

Free as in Freedom is a bi-weekly oggcast about legal, policy and other issues in Free, Libre and Open Source Software

We’re on location at Microsoft Build 2018 talking with Julia White, Corporate Vice President at Microsoft — a 17 year Microsoft veteran. We talked with Julia about her take on this “new Microsoft”, Satya Nadella’s first appearance as CEO when they revealed the first glimpse of Microsoft’s cloud offering which started w...

In this pilot episode, Steve and Kevin will introduce themselves and their businesses and discuss what it felt like to finally quit their day jobs.   My new book - The Path to Freedom: Starting a Business for the Reluctant Entrepreneur - is OUT NOW from Am...

In this episode, Steve and Kevin talk about the hardware, software, and services they use to run their businesses.   My new book - The Path to Freedom: Starting a Business for the Reluctant Entrepreneur - is OUT NOW from Amazon as a paperback or Kindle ebo...

Play Podcast (mp3): Download (Duration: 49:34 — 34.1MB) Good stuff from Nextcloud, KDE, and fedora, politics in the kernel dev camp, a debate about contributing to FOSS, and more.   News Nextcloud 14 …

Full Stack Developers Wes Bos and Scott Tolinski dive deep into web development topics, explaining how they work and talking about their own experiences. They cover from JavaScript frameworks like React, to the latest advancements in CSS to simplifying web tooling.

This year’s DevOps Report, as always, great. The new sections on culture and a peek at finance are dandy. We discuss it.

TIBCO was started in the 90’s with a popular message bus product that was widely used by finance companies, logistics providers, and other systems with high throughput. As TIBCO grew in popularity, the company expanded into other areas through products it developed in-house as well as through acquisitions. One acquisition was Jaspersoft, a business intelligence

Engineers can build applications faster by using tools that abstract away infrastructure. Major cloud providers offer this tooling in the form of functions-as-a-service, as well as managed services such as Google BigQuery or Azure Container Instances. The term “serverless” refers to these functions-as-a-service and the managed services–because when you use these tools, you are not

Play Podcast (mp3): Download (Duration: 44:35 — 30.7MB) It’s been a busy couple of weeks in the world of Linux and FOSS news including an upgraded KDE Neon, Ubuntu and Fedora betas going head to head, …

In this episode, Stephen and Kevin talk about how feasible the 4-hour workweek is them.   My new book - The Path to Freedom: Starting a Business for the Reluctant Entrepreneur - is OUT NOW from Amazon as a paperback or Kindle ebook. https://geni.us/thepat...

We have some fun with our names, get ahead of ourselves during Survey Says, and vet Michael's tip on-air as we take a deep dive into comparing some popular Git workflows and when should we use which.

Shopify runs more than 600,000 small business websites. When Shopify was figuring out how to scale, the engineering teams did not have a standard workflow for how to deploy and manage services. Some teams used AWS, some teams used Heroku, some teams used other infrastructure providers. To manage all those stores effectively, Shopify has built

Play Podcast (mp3): Download (Duration: 45:03 — 31.0MB) Yet more great stuff from KDE, more Windows games for Steam, and more in the news, and an interview about how to contribute to open source. …

Laura Frank Tacho is the Director of Engineering at CloudBees and has been working with Docker almost since its inception. She shares her experiences in running teams that constantly rely on and deploy containers at scale. How have containers changed effectively everything and where are we heading?

Web developer Katie Fenn joins us to look at how remote working is structured across the team bringing npm to the world. We discuss what you need to be a successful remote worker and what employers need to provide for great remote working experiences.

Play Podcast (mp3): Download (Duration: 1:01:35 — 42.4MB) With Félim and Will absent, Alan Pope joins us to discuss the news, and an interview with Wes Mason about npm and modern software distribution …

We talk with Ben Halpern the founder and webmaster of dev.to — a community for developers to talk about software. Last Wednesday they open sourced the codebase of the dev.to platform, so we wanted to talk through all the details with Ben. We talked through the backstory, how Ben realized this could become a business, h...

Play Podcast (mp3): Download (Duration: 49:03 — 33.7MB) Google has been fined $5BN by the EU but before that we have a packed news section including KDE, Python, more crypto miners, the Librem 5, and …

Play Podcast (mp3): Download (Duration: 44:46 — 30.8MB) Some good and some bad news, Free Software vs Open Source, how to put smaller FOSS events together, and more.   News SUSE acquired Gentoo’s …

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Play Podcast (mp3): Download (Duration: 56:32 — 38.9MB) It’s been a while since we recorded a proper episode with all four of us so we catch up on the news that we have missed and then cover what’s …

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Play Podcast (mp3): Download (Duration: 43:18 — 29.8MB) We find out how Ubuntu Touch is coming along after a year of independence from Canonical, but first we look at the news which includes great …

Containers have improved deployments and resource utilization. Kubernetes created a platform to manage those containers and orchestrate them into distributed applications. In today’s episode, we explore tools that improve the workflow of the application developer who is working with Kubernetes, including Helm, Draft, and Brigade. Helm is a package manager for Kubernetes, which allows users