Post details
This week we talk about all of the bad things we've done while making software. The good, the bad, ... oh wait, it compiles, never mind.

This week we talk about all of the bad things we've done while making software. The good, the bad, ... oh wait, it compiles, never mind.
It's time to go down the rabbit hole of networking to investigate the ins and outs of Transport Layer Security (TLS) and how it impacts your apps.
NextCloud founder joins to discuss the remote version checking of private NextCloud instances & the security problems facing all OSS projects. Plus much more!
I will be attending
Play Podcast (mp3): Download (Duration: 38:22 — 26.4MB) In this special episode, Joe, Ikey and Jesse discuss the bombshell that Ubuntu is abandoning Unity in favour of GNOME for its next LTS and has …
Play Podcast (mp3): Download (Duration: 1:20:51 — 55.7MB) Netflix on Linux, phishing with https, licensing, password managers, Android convergence, the inside story of Nextcloud scanning and more on …
Danny Boyle (director, Slumdog Millionaire, Trainspotting) talks to Chris about avoiding spoilers in movies, the artistic aspect of all his films and making Trainspotting ... – Listen to Danny Boyle by ID10T with Chris Hardwick instantly on your tablet, phone or browser - no downloads needed.
Play Podcast (mp3): Download (Duration: 1:04:05 — 44.2MB) Jesse is back but this time Félim is in his sick bed so it’s a 3 man show yet again. Some heated debates about Nextcloud’s actions, Ubuntu …
Download We are sponsored by audible! http://www.audibletrial.com/programmingthrowdown We are on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/progr...
Ron Evans joined the show to talk about Gobot, writing software for hardware, and open source software’s role in improving the human condition.
I will be attending
Jacob Hoffman-Andrews, Senior Staff Technologist at the EFF and the lead developer of Let’s Encrypt, joined the show to talk about the history of SSL, the start of Let’s Encrypt, why it’s important to encrypt the web and what happens if we don’t, Certbot, and the impact Let’s Encrypt has had on securing the web.
I will be attending
I will be attending
Why You Should Use GitLab.com (13 mins read).
A discussion about the reasons that I would greatly recommend the GitLab.com platform for all your Git hosting, opposed to its competitors.
I will be attending
Is your data ready for a complete disaster? We discuss why you should care about backing up your data and how to easily get started.
Seth Vargo, the Director of Technical Advocacy at HashiCorp, joined the show to talk about managing secrets with their open source product called Vault which lets you centrally secure, store, and tightly control access to secrets across distributed infrastructure and applications. We talked about Seth’s back story into...
I will be attending
I will be attending
Play Podcast (mp3): Download (Duration: 1:14:22 — 51.4MB) New Linux hardware, a profane rant about the FSF, the Chrome OS desktop Linux question, exciting Solus news and loads more on LNL 02. News …
Explore the largest community of artists, bands, podcasters and creators of music & audio
Felienne is always learning. In exploring her PhD dissertation and her public speaking experience it's clear that she has no intent on stopping! Most recently she's been exploring a large corpus of Scratch programs looking for Code Smells. How do children learn how to code, and when they do, does their code "smell?" Is there something we can do when teaching to promote cleaner, more maintainable code?
Lee Atchison spent seven years at Amazon working in retail, software distribution, and Amazon Web Services. He then moved to New Relic, where he has spent four years scaling the company’s internal architecture. From his decade of experience at fast growing web technology companies, Lee has written the book Architecting for Scale, from O’Reilly. As
This week LTS has a new meaning as we reflect on a couple of weeks with Ubuntu 16.04 & why we’re dumping it. We pick up the mood with some exclusive LinuxFest Northwest clips, projects updates & another clip that was never meant to air.
Download News New TLDs http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/06/blog-lol-foo-google-amazon-dominate-global-tld-applications/ The ana...
Free as in Freedom is a bi-weekly oggcast about legal, policy and other issues in Free, Libre and Open Source Software
Download We are sponsored by audible! http://www.audibletrial.com/programmingthrowdown We are on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/progr...
What is Infrastructuralism and how can it help you think differently about software and large problems? Scott sits down with Everett Harper, CEO of Truss. They talk about how applying some old ideas in new ways helped them fix healthcare.gov.
We first interviewed Paul Stovell a few years back when he started a micro-ISV he was calling "Octopus Deploy." Now it's a fully formed and successful company whose flagship product Octopus Deploy is used all over. Damian Brady joins Scott and explains why deployment is more subtle then you think.
What happens if you fail to update your Arch home server for 2 years? Chris finds out the hard way. Plus big Firefox news, a Pirate Kodi update & the Lenovo egg
How do you pick the best Linux distribution for you? Plus Canonical says they're taking a stand against unofficial Ubuntu images, a Mycroft update & much more!
The Linux kernel of many popular operating system distributions contains 200-500 million lines of code. The average user never touches many of the libraries that are contained in these operating system distributions. For example, if you spin up a virtual machine on a cloud service provider, the virtual machine will have a USB driver. This
You may know Amir from his #1 AppStore Game "A Dark Room." Amir is a programmer who has learned (and continues to learn) multiple programming languages. Is being a polyglot programmer a good idea for all programmers? Which languages should you start with?
I will be attending
Package once, run anywhere. But are we finally about to nail it? Plus why you're going to want to wait on that systemd upgrade, funding projects with a rocky past, the big thing about Mycroft no one is talking about & we try out Mycroft on the desktop.
Time for more DevOps fun as we learn about the Twelve-Factor app. We dive into the next three chapters: port binding, concurrency, and disposability.
Resurrecting dinosaurs, what could possibly go wrong? (12 mins read).
How containerised apps (AppImage, Snappy and Flatpak) could eat our users.
Preparing a Technical Workshop - A Checklist (4 mins read).
What you need to remember to ask the organisers and what to consider in order to ensure your workshop goes smoothly.