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Listened to Nicholas Zakas and ESLint by SustainOSS 
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Nicholas brings us on his journey sharing his story of becoming a developer, starting ESLint, and what he’s doing to make sure everybody in the ESLint community is able to benefit from the money they are bringing in.

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Listened to Open Source Metrics at Microsoft by CHAOSS Project 
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In this episode of CHAOSScast, host Dawn Foster has a compelling discussion with three guests from Microsoft’s Open Source Programs Office: Emma Irwin, James Siri, and Justin Gosses. The conversation includes how Microsoft measures the health of open source communities, their experiences with the CHAOSS Community, and the critical role of open source within the organization. Topics such as use of metrics, tackling security issues within scaling, and the future of metrics within the company were discussed. Also, they talk about the value of open source contributions within the business, the role of internal communities, and how they track and improve processes at Microsoft, emphasizing the importance of open source impact both externally and internally.

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Reposted Sam Whited (@sam@social.coop)
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Random thought I had earlier that I'd like to run by some #FLOSS software people or FLOSS lawyers: Could we start a "union" of FLOSS software developers that would support us legally and help us bargain for better terms when negotiating license exceptions, support contracts, etc.? 🧵

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Listened to How to run meetings that don't suck by The Debrief by incident.io
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In this interview, we chat with Lisa Karlin Curtis, Tech Lead at incident.io, about running meetings that, well, don't suck. In it, she gives actionable advice for running your own meetings, emphasizes why empathy in the workplace is important, reflects back on bad meetings she's run, and more. Read Lisa's blog post here: https://incident.io/blog/how-to-run-meetings-that-dont-suck

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Listened to A year in review—2023 at incident.io by The Debrief by incident.io
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What a year 2023 was at incident.io! While it's hard to summarize 365 days, a few things stand out: We launched a bunch of new products like Catalog and Status Pages. We hired a ton and we're now sitting at nearly 80 employees as of December 2023. We expanded into the U S opening up a brand new office just a few weeks ago. ...and there's still so much more ahead of us So as we close the curtain on 2023, we sat down with the three co-founders of incident.io to do a bit of reflection on the wild ride that was this year. In this episode you'll hear them discuss challenges, big wins, moments of growth, what's next for us, and most importantly, what the three co-founders like most about one another. Read our year-end blog post here: https://incident.io/blog/reflecting-on-a-momentous-2023

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Listened to Steve Krouse - val.town by devtools.fm
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This week we talk to Steve Krouse, the creator of Val.Town, a platform for writing TypeScript code in a browser and deployed instantly. Starting with Steve's with his first venture into teaching children to code we trace that line directly to the vision of Val.Town. Val.Town is a social network, app store, and collaborative place all in one. https://twitter.com/stevekrouse https://stevekrouse.com/ https://val.town https://futureofcoding.org/episodes/ Become a paid subscriber our patreon, spotify, or apple podcasts for the full episode. https://www.patreon.com/devtoolsfm https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/devtoolsfm/subscribe https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/devtools-fm/id1566647758

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Today I've been emailed by both Clever Cloud and Heroku around "your account hasn't been used in some time so we're gonna delete it" - coincidence, or is today their "clean up all the old accounts day"?

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Listened to Distribute Aid: The Open Source Path to Humanitarian Work - Kai Katschthaler, Taylor Fairbank by Schalk Neethling 
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In this episode of the Mechanical Ink podcast, host Schalk Neethling engaged in a profound conversation with Taylor Fairbank and Kai Katschthaler from Distribute Aid. They delved into the intersection of technology and humanitarian aid, emphasizing the importance of understanding ground-level needs over imposing tech solutions. Taylor narrated his transition from a tech background to co-founding Distribute Aid, influenced by his experiences in startups and the socio-political climate. Kai introduced the Open Source Explorers Program, highlighting its inclusive nature and role in integrating diverse skills into humanitarian projects. The discussion also touched upon the personal aspects of working in this field, including the impact of neurodiversity and gender identity on their experiences and perspectives.

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Listened to A pre-party to a feud (Changelog++ 🔐) with Adam Argyle, Amy Dutton, James Q Quick & Brad Garropy (JS Party)
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Jerod, Adam Argyle & the CompressedFM crew hang out prior to their Fronted Feud battle! They discuss CSS as a programming language, Apple’s walled garden, how nobody is on the same social media sites anymore, how to choose tech, the community’s sentiment shift on GraphQL & a whole bunch more. (This episode is f...

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Listened to The Duke of SQLite: Litestream with Ben Johnson by Contributor
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Ben Johnson (@benbjohnson) is the creator of Litestream and LiteFS, two open-source disaster recovery solution for SQLite. Litestream is designed to provide continuous backups for SQLite databases by streaming incremental changes, allowing for easy data recovery in the event of a server crash. LiteFS, on the other hand, is built on LiteStream but uses transactional control to focus on replication and high availability. Join us as Ben discusses the challenges and trade-offs of open source contributions and the future of databases. Contributor is looking for a community manager! If you want to know more, shoot us an email at eric@scalevp.com. Subscribe to Contributor on Substack for email notifications! In this episode we discuss: The history of how Ben got involved in SQLite development out of “spite” How Litestream “works on a fluke” Different use cases for Litestream vs LiteFS Why fully open contributions isn’t always Ben’s style The greater server-side SQLite landscape Links: Litestream LiteFS Fly.io BoltDB  People mentioned: Philip O’Toole (@general_order24) Other episodes: The Social Miracle: rqlite with Philip O’Toole The Big Fork: libSQL with Glauber Costa

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Listened to Brian Douglas - Open Sauced, GitHub by devtools.fm
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This week we're joined by Brian Douglas, founder of Open Sauced and former Head of DevRel at GitHub. We talk about his time at GitHub, where he worked on GitHub Actions, GitHub Discussions, and GitHub Copilot. We also talk about his new company, Open Sauced, which is a tool for developers and businesses to get insights into their open source projects. Will Open Sauced save social coding? Find out on this week's episode of DevTools FM! https://opensauced.pizza https://twitter.com/bdougieYO https://twitter.com/saucedopen https://app.opensauced.pizza/user/bdougie https://github.com/bdougie https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianldouglas/ Episode sponsored By Raycast (https://www.raycast.com/) Become a paid subscriber our patreon, spotify, or apple podcasts for the full episode. https://www.patreon.com/devtoolsfm https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/devtoolsfm/subscribe https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/devtools-fm/id1566647758 https://www.youtube.com/@devtoolsfm/membership Tooltips Andrew https://www.melt-ui.com/docs/introduction https://fleet.so/context Justin https://www.automa.site/ https://svelteflow.dev/ Brian https://posthog.com/ https://chat.openai.com/g/g-2LFEDLGgS-ferris-the-crab

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Listened to Feross Aboukhadijeh - Socket by devtools.fm
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This week we talk to the open source legend Feross Aboukhadijeh about his journey into open source, the challenges of open source funding, and his new company Socket.Socket is a tool that aims to make OSS security level up by providing a way to audit your dependencies for security vulnerabilities.They are able to detect much more complex vulnerabilities than the current tools on the market by using a combination of static analysis, dynamic analysis, and even some LLMs!Come get scared with us as we delve into the world of open source security. - https://feross.org/ - https://github.com/feross - https://twitter.com/feross - https://twitter.com/SocketSecurity - https://socket.dev/ Episode sponsored By Raycast (https://www.raycast.com/)Become a paid subscriber our patreon, spotify, or apple podcasts for the full episode. - https://www.patreon.com/devtoolsfm - https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/devtoolsfm/subscribe - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/devtools-fm/id1566647758 - https://www.youtube.com/@devtoolsfm/membership

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Reposted Amᵃᵖanda (@amapanda@en.osm.town)
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Ouch. A large OpenStreetMap group has been using a proprietary chat platform as a community space for ~10 yrs. Now they gotta pay a $80k/yr (or $10k??) for usage. 🤯😱😢 Slack (now Salesforce) now wants to charge @OpenStreetMapUS for all ~6k users on their server. 😢😢 Ouch. This sort of bait & switch is why open, community owned platforms (like this!) are vital! read more on the slack (while you still can??!): https://osmus.slack.com/archives/C029HV951/p1705438543546349 #OpenStreetMap #OSM #FreeSoftware #Cassandra

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Listened to Open Source Storytelling: Podcasting from Behind the Scenes | Open at Intel by PodBean Development 
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Amid the bustling atmosphere of KubeCon, podcast hosts Adam and Jarod share insights from their experiences podcasting for a technical audience. They also share their interests, among them software, business, and the lives of individuals involved in open source projects.  00:00 Introduction and KubeCon Experience00:22 Podcasting Journey and Evolution00:53 The Birth and Growth of a Podcast Network05:57 The Art of Podcasting and Engaging with Guests08:23 Excitement in the Open Source World20:43 The Impact and Future of Podcasting Resources: Podcasts for developers |> Changelog Guests: Jerod Santo co-hosts The Changelog, crashes JS Party, and takes out the trash (his old code) once in a while. Adam Stacoviak is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Changelog.

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Reposted Melonie (@qui_oui@mastodon.social)
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Recently I've seen a few people comment on the air quality readings inside large art galleries; the results were far better than on trains, in planes and airports, in movie theatres and so on, due to the need for conservation of the artwork. It's just so strange thinking about how we apparently care more about protecting art than we do about protecting our own lives.

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Reposted Hazel Weakly (@hazelweakly@hachyderm.io)
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The secret to software engineering is to focus all of your energy as a team (and a company) on learning how to share information between each other better. Build that understanding. Build that ability to uplift and teach each other. For fuck's sake, stop worrying about over engineering and worry about under understanding the problem. The over engineering goes away the second you start putting humans first and start prioritizing understanding over an artificial roadmap built without context