Latest Change log Podcast Episodes

Apple's Fall 2018 Mac/iPad event

Spotlight - October 30, 2018 20:13 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Adam, Jerod, and Tim get together to put a spotlight on Apple’s October 30th Mac/iPad event from a developer’s perspective. They cover the specs of the new MacBook Air and the viability of having it as a development machine, the new Mac Mini in the ever popular Space Gray, and whether or not Tim ...

Our reactions to Microsoft buying GitHub

Spotlight - June 05, 2018 11:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Hear insights and reactions from Adam Stacoviak and Jerod Santo as they break down the news of Microsoft’s acquisition of GitHub — from speculation to confirmation — including commentary from members of the developer community by way of Twitter and Slack.

Node at Microsoft, ChakraCore, and VM Neutrality

Spotlight - April 12, 2017 19:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
In this episode of The Future of Node series recorded at Node Interactive 2016 Adam talked with Gaurav Seth (Lead Program Manager of Chakra & TypeScript) and Arunesh Chandra (Program Manager of ChakraCore) about the backstory of Node at Microsoft, their polite fork of Node to introduce the commun...

Node.js Backstory and Future

Spotlight - March 01, 2017 17:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
In this episode of The Future of Node series recorded at Node Interactive 2016 Adam talked with Mikeal Rogers about the backstory of Node over the past few years to get to where we are today. We talked about io.js (the fork of Node), what’s happened in the community and the code since that time f...

Node, IoT, and Robotics

Spotlight - February 17, 2017 02:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
In this episode of The Future of Node series recorded at Node Interactive 2016 Adam talked with Rachel White, Technical Evangelist at Microsoft, about Node, IoT, robotics. We talked about making robots, inspiring developers to try new things, having fun as a developer, letting go of imposter synd...

How China does Node

Spotlight - February 17, 2017 00:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
In this episode of The Future of Node series recorded at Node Interactive 2016 Adam talked with Shiya Luo about how China does Node, translations of documentation and books from English to Chinese, and the Great Firewall of China (a censorship and surveillance project of the Chinese government) w...

The State of HTTP/2 in Node

Spotlight - February 16, 2017 18:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
In this episode of The Future of Node series recorded at Node Interactive 2016 Adam talked with James Snell (IBM Technical Lead for Node and member of Node’s TSC and CTC) about the work he’s doing on Node’s implementation of http2, the state of http2 in Node, what this new spec has to offer, and ...

Conversational Development and Controversy

Spotlight - January 30, 2017 17:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
In this episode of Spotlight recorded at OSCON London 2016, Jerod talked with Sid Sijbrandij (CEO of GitLab) who was recently on The Changelog discussing GitLab’s Master Plan and a new style of development they call “Conversational Development”, to talk about how they’re executing on that plan. W...

Focused on a Safe and Inclusive Node Community

Spotlight - January 24, 2017 21:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
In this episode of The Future of Node series recorded at Node Interactive 2016 Adam talked with Tracy Hinds, the Education Community Manager for the Node.js Foundation about the efforts being made towards a safer, inclusive community and their events, open source documentation and tooling for con...

Keeping Node Core Small

Spotlight - January 11, 2017 19:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
In this episode of The Future of Node series recorded at Node Interactive 2016 Adam talked with Sam Roberts (Node Runtimes at IBM) and Thomas Watson (Node.js Lead at Opbeat) about “Small Core” and keeping Node Core small, what to put in, what to take out, how to deprecate and everything in-between.

GitHub Product & GraphQL

Spotlight - December 19, 2016 20:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
In this episode of Spotlight recorded at OSCON London 2016, Jerod talked with Coby Chapple, a product designer at GitHub (since 2012), about projects, transactional code reviews, and GraphQL. Coby drops a lot of knowledge bombs in this interview. You don’t want to miss this episode.

Blockchain and Hyperledger

Spotlight - December 16, 2016 23:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
In this episode of Spotlight recorded at All Things Open 2016, Adam talked with Anna Derbakova from IBM after her jam packed talk on Blockchain and Hyperledger about the fundamentals of blockchain, how this technology is revolutionizing finance, banking, IoT, supply chains, manufacturing, and any...

The JS Foundation

Spotlight - December 15, 2016 23:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
In this episode of Spotlight recorded at OSCON London 2016, Jerod talked with Kris Borchers about the launch of the JS Foundation right after their big announcement to learn about this new foundation and its mission for the JavaScript community and open source.

Exercism and 99 Bottles of OOP

Spotlight - December 09, 2016 16:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Welcome to the first Spotlight series recorded at OSCON London 2016. Jerod talked with Katrina Owen, an accomplished speaker, creator of the excellent coding practice and feedback site, Exercism.io, and the co-author of 99 Bottles of OOP. Have you ever heard the story of how Katrina went from ano...

Welcome to Spotlight

Spotlight - December 09, 2016 15:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Adam and Jerod discuss the details of this new podcast; what’s coming up, what you can expect in future episodes, and how you can invite Spotlight to a conference or community event near you. Email us – [email protected].