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Adam Jacob remains optimistic about the future for infrastructure and is building new ideas to make it better.

In this episode, we will be talking to Russ Cox, who joined the Go team at Google in 2008 and has been the Go project tech lead since 2012, about stepping back & handing over the reins to Austin Clements, who will also join us! We also have Cherry Mui, who is stepping into Austin's previous role as tech lead of the “Go...

Happy Sukkot 🏕️! Find John & Shay at cupogo.dev, where you can find links to our Slack channel, Swag store, Patreon community, and the entire Cup o' Go episode archive.MeetupsGoUAE meetup, Oct 26Go LiepzigProposalsproposal: net/http: customize limit on number of 1xx responses (FInal Comment...

This week on the Business of Open Source, I spoke with David Höck, co-founder of Vendure. We talked about switching licenses from MIT to GPL, the ways that Vendure is different from it’s competitors and how architectural decisions can be a powerful differentiator for an open source...

Originally aired in December 2023: In this episode of the Mechanical Ink podcast, host Schalk Neethling speaks with guest Jordan Harband in a deep dive into the open-source world.

In this episode, CRob discusses the finer points of developer relations (DevRel) with Katherine Druckman, Open Source Evangelist at Intel and co-chair of the OpenSSF Marketing Advisory Council and DevRel Community. Katherine enjoys sharing her pas...

This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Eric Holscher, co-founder of Read the Docs. We had a really far-ranging conversation that included talking about why documentation is often so bad, why documentation should be a priority, but also Eric’s experience building Read the Docs and...

Listen to ‘Making friends was always IMPOSSIBLE’ - Parul Singh details late AuDHD diagnosis from ADHD Chatter. Parul Singh opens up about her late ADHD & autism diagnosis. It’s insightful, hilarious and very relatable. Thank you Parul for sharing your incredible story with us.00:00 Trailer02:48 When was your first memory of feeling like you might have ADHD?11:45 And since you were last on, you were diagnosed with Autism too, so the second part of the question. When was your first memory of feeling like you have autistic traits? 20:36 How do you find Autism manifests itself in your social and professional life? 24:16 We had Jay Beech on the show who also has AuDHD and he said that the ADHD brain and the Autism brain are like 2 siblings pulling each other by the hair and dragging each other across the room, is this true for you?25:53 Has this more recent diagnosis made a lot of sense of previous struggles you've had in the past?30:55 Since your diagnosis, have you found your tribe?33:25 Has your diagnosis made sense to those closest to you?36:26 How do you communicate the everyday struggles of being AuDHD to those around you, those people by which your relationship relies heavily on your strength to communicate things to them. i.e friends, family and partner? 44:47 ‘Pebbling’ explained 46:08 In general, do you find it hard to draw out empathy from a person who has a brain that just thinks in a totally different way?50:16 What part does "Stockholm Syndrome" play in this? And can you briefly explain what Stockholm syndrome is?53:00 How much of your AuDHD do you think might be caused by complex PTSD?56:46 The ADHD Item segment 01:00:19 The ADHD Agony Aunt segment (Washing Machine of Woes)01:02:31 What is the difference between a shutdown and a meltdown? And why might one occur over the other?01:11:35 How have you learnt to harness both your ADHD and Autism to become a successful individual? 01:13:32 Does your ADHD ever mask your Autism or vice versa?01:14:28 What is your relationship with alcohol like at the moment and how has that journey been over the years? 01:16:10 The Alien scenario01:18:41 Most impulsive thing 01:21:01 Signing the ‘thinks outside the box’ canvas Find Parul on Linkedin 👉 https://www.linkedin.com/in/parul-parallel-minds/This episode has been produced for entertainment purposes only and is in no way meant to be taken as medical advice or advice in any way.

This week, Parul Singh shares the story of how she won a legal case over an ex-employer for ADHD discrimination. Parul is a Recruitment Marketing Partner and Neurodiversity Advocate at xDesign, and an ex-tech recruiter. She was diagnosed with ADHD at aged 25 and uses her platform to awareness about neurodiversity in the workplace and in the recruitment process to build a more equitable future for neurodivergent people.  In order to make a bigger impact, she created a new role at xDesign, "Neurodiversity Advocate” in which she works closely with the People Team to lead the internal neurodiversity community. We all know how important it is to feel less alone. She also feeds into internal policies, processes and supports other neurodivergent employees at xDesign. As a woman of colour, she also puts a spotlight on intersectionality within Neurodiversity and the compounding impact that being from multiple minority groups has on barriers we face”  Topics: 00:00 What are your earliest ADHD memories 04:29 Unhealthy sources of dopamine 11:00 Misdiagnosed with depression + finally getting an ADHD diagnosis 18:47 Normalising ADHD in life + at work 22:38 How did you feel after your diagnosis? 28:52 Imposter syndrome 32:00 Winning a discrimination tribunal + Neurodiversity in business 38:13 What is disability discrimination? Find Parul on LinkedIn 👉 https://www.linkedin.com/in/theadhdtechrecruiter/ Here's the link to the ADHD/ND resources : https://theadhdtechrecruiter.notion.site/ADHD-Neurodiversity-Resources-1-0983dc5d52aa400d9225973d940b2287  Specific ones relating to this discussion:  👉 https://www.gmb.org.uk/sites/default/files/neurodiversity-law-guide.pdf  👉 https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/138118/Equality_Act_2010_-_Duty_on_employers_to_make_reasonable_adjustments_for....pdf  Subscribe and be the first to know about Live events 👉 https://bit.ly/3KawML7 Watch on YouTube 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_HZMBt0Fr8 Follow ADHD Chatter: LinkedIn 👉 https://bit.ly/3m1qm8Q Instagram 👉 https://bit.ly/3KuNXIr TikTok 👉 https://bit.ly/3ZxZNGd This episode has been produced for entertainment purposes only and is in no way meant to be taken as medical advice or advice in any way.

This was a fun and decidedly humbling conversation with Ben Johnson about SQLite, databases, Litestream, and LiteFS.Links:Ben on GitHubLitestreamLiteFS 

Shay Nehmad on how writing is the key to becoming a better engineer, how to do it, and more.Links:* Cup O' Go podcast* Code Complete book* Shay's blog* Obsidian and Logseq

News🧑‍🔧 Go 1.23.2 + 1.22.8 released, mostly backports of fixes ⏲️ High-Resolution Timers on Windows🌬️ New release for Air🔨 Interesting post about code shelf lifeInterview with WillemSite: https://www.willem.dev/Twitter: https://x.com/willemschotsLI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/willem-schots/

Today on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Chris Holmes, co-founder and CEO of Greymatter. Greymatter is deeply involved in the open source ecosystem and maintains the Go Envoy Control Plane, but Chris is adamant that it is not an open source company. We had a great discussion about why...

Go Time co-host, Johnny Boursiquot, joins Adam & Jerod to discuss not making the (first) cut, applying Founder Mode, being a cog (or not), realizing that companies are posting fake engineering jobs & the (maybe) imminent demise of the .io TLD.

Dave Eddy has learned systems programming the traditional way with books and man pages. Now he's sharing what he's learned, starting with bash.

John Nunemaker joins us to share his new thesis for acquiring Rails based SaaS apps. He's early days on his next big thing called Very Good Software and recently acquired Fireside, a podcast hosting service started by Dan Benjamin. This comes after many years since John's acquisition of a lifetime of Speakerdeck to Git...

The last time we did a roundup of our unpopular opinion polls, it was November of 2021! That's too long ago, so today we fix that bug. Join Go Time producer, Jerod Santo, as he ranks & reviews the most (un)popular opinions of 2022.

Abi Noda, co-founder and CEO at DX, joins the show to talk through data shared from the Stack Overflow 2024 Developer Survey, why devs are really unhappy, and what they're doing at DX to help orgs and teams to understand the metrics behind their developer's happiness and productivity.

Bekah graduated from the Flatiron School Software Engineering program in May of 2019 and since then has spent time as a frontend developer, started the Virtual Coffee developer community, spent time in DevRel and has continued to mom her four kids. She currently co-hosts the Virtual Coffee podcast, tries to work on her postpartum wellness OSS project, and lifts heavy things in her free time. You can follow Bekah on Social Media https://twitter.com/BekahHW https://bekahhw.github.io/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/bekah-hawrot-weigel https://github.com/BekahHW https://www.youtube.com/@bekahhw Also check out these links from Bekah https://virtualcoffee.io/ PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST - Spotify: http://isaacl.dev/podcast-spotify - Apple Podcasts: http://isaacl.dev/podcast-apple - Google Podcasts: http://isaacl.dev/podcast-google - RSS: http://isaacl.dev/podcast-rss You can check out more episodes of Coffee and Open Source on https://www.coffeeandopensource.com/​​ Coffee and Open Source is hosted by Isaac Levin (https://twitter.com/isaacrlevin)

Free and open source software is, or can be, a public good. But, VM Brasseur finds that for some, it may have gotten disconnected from its open culture roots. In this open source story, VM talks about motivations behind FOSS, how they have shifted, and how those who work in free and open source software can help recenter principles of openness.

This week on The Business of Open Source, I talked with Allard Buijze, the CTO and founder at AxonIQ. We talked a lot about the importance of open source for getting feedback on your product and validating your idea — or not. One of the things we talked about was how the beginning of AxonIQ was...

In this episode, CRob sits down with Sarah Evans, security research technologist at Dell and Lisa Bradley, senior director of product and application security at Dell. They dig into the challenges of implementing secure open software at a complex ...

Jenn Turner of Fastly and Glitch shares her journey from journalism to open source, navigating a technical field as a non-technical contributor, and some tips on maintaining work-life balance.

Jenn Turner of Fastly and Glitch shares her journey from journalism to open source, navigating a technical field as a non-technical contributor, and some tips on maintaining work-life balance.

Nick Nisi joins Adam and Jerod to talk about Karaoke, ARC and the business model of web browsers, this WordPress drama, and an epic bonus for Changelog ++ subscribers.

Simon is one of the best-known software engineers experimenting with LLMs to boost his own productivity: he’s been doing this for more than three years, blogging about it in the open.

Tech twitter ("tech X"?) is abuzz with Paul Graham's Founder Mode essay. How does that affect you or come into play when you're not a founder? Does it matter at all to you, your projects & your code?

Join us at Orca Security! New roles for Go Developers opened, hand in your CV (and tell 'em Shay sent you :) )Backend DeveloperRuntime Security ResearcherAgent DeveloperDevOps EngineerProposals🕸️ cmd/compile: relax wasm/wasm32 function import signature type constraints"Types" in the WASM spec🍗...

What happens when you take two #define champs (Taylor Troesh, Thomas Eckert), a grizzled veteran (Adam Stacoviak), a british bard (Mat Ryer), a PhD (Carol Lee) & you pit them against each other in a game of fake tech definitions?! There's only one way to find out...

Listen to Ep 258: Phil Dunster from Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster. Ted Lasso’s Jamie Tartt (doo-doo-da-doo-da-doo), Phil Dunster, introduces some new vocabulary to the Dream Restaurant this week. And don’t forget, tune in to Comic Relief. Phil Dunster stars in ‘Oklahoma! in Concert’ at London’s Theatre Royal Drury Lane on 19th and 20th August. Get tickets at oklahomaconcert.co.uk Follow Phil on Instagram and Twitter @phildunster Recorded and edited by Ben Williams for Plosive.Artwork by Paul Gilbey (photography and design).Follow Off Menu on Twitter and Instagram: @offmenuofficial.And go to our website www.offmenupodcast.co.uk for a list of restaurants recommended on the show.Watch Ed and James's YouTube series 'Just Puddings'. Watch here.

#103 Carolyn Stransky learning her way from journalist to developer and back

and talk about the 2024 Tidelift maintainer report. The report is pretty big and covers a ton of ground. We focus in a few of the statistics that should worry anyone who uses open source. We've known for a while developers are struggling, and the numbers back that up. This one feels like the old "we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas". Show Notes

What parts of the Spotify Squad Model were challenging, and advice for leadings considering adopting the model.

uBlue is trying to build the world's best Linux experience for developers and gamers. Jorge Castro joins Justin & Autumn to tell us how it's going.

Gerhard Lazu joins us for Kaizen 16! Our Pipe Dream™️ is becoming a reality, our custom feeds are shipping, our deploys are rolling out faster & our tooling is getting `just` right.

Lorenzo and Mirko of STF dive into the "Fellowship for Maintainers" program's goals to support solo maintainers, offer mentorship, and enhance global open-source sustainability.

Jimmy Miller talks to us about his experience with a legacy codebase at his first job as a programmer. The codebase was massive, with hundreds of thousands of lines of C# and Visual Basic, and a database with over 1,000 columns. Let's just say Jimmy got into some stuff. There's even a Gilfoyle involved. This episode is...

In this episode of the Mechanical Ink podcast, Schalk Neethling sits down with Daniel Beck, a documentation engineer writer based in Amsterdam.

In this follow-up to episode #306, "How soon until AI takes my job?", the gang of (grumpy?) veteran software engineers candidly chat about how their day to day is changing in the midst of improving AI tooling & hype.

Making sense of the technology, business, and politics of APIs that is impact all stages of our physical and digital worlds.

This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Robert Hodges, CEO of Altinity. This is a great example of an open source company that is built on top of an open source project, ClickHouse, that they did not create and still do not have direct control over. Altinity has created and...

This is the first actual edition of the API Evangelist Conversation podcast with my friend Pat Patterson, the Chief Technical Evangelist at Backblaze. Always enjoy learning from Pat as we dove into the meaning behind his title, as well as how Backblaze has standardized their API around the Amazon S3 storage API--essentially treating the API as the industry standard for storage.

We're joined by Alya Abbott from Zulip, the open source, organized, threaded, team chat for distributed teams of all sizes. We talk about Zulip's origins, how it's open source, the way it's led, no VC funding, what makes it different/better, how you can self-host it or use their cloud, moving to Zulip, contributing and...

In this episode, CRob chats with Omkhar Arasaratnam, who has served as the general manager of the OpenSSF and was co-host of What’s in the SOSS? As Omkhar moves on to the next chapter of his occupational journey, he reflects on his tenure with the...

David Flanagan created a successful YouTube channel but knew to take things to the next level he'd need to own more of the stack.

Proposals🗜️ Accepted: Add new compress/zstd packagePreviously discussed in Episode 31🧼 Accepted: runtime: add AddCleanup and deprecate SetFinalizerPreviously discussed in Episode 73🗜️ Accepted: refuse to generate and/or use RSA keys smaller than 1024 bits🇮🇱 GopherCon Israel 2024, thoughts byy...

Jerod & Adam share our Zulip first impressions, react to Elasticsearch going open source (again), discuss Christian Hollinger's blog post on why he still self-hosts & answer a listener question: how do we produce podcasts?