There will be bleeps (Friends)
Mike McQuaid and Justin Searls join Jerod in the wake of the RubyGems debacle to discuss what happened, what it says about money in open source, what sustainability really means for our community, making a career out of open source (or not), and more. Bleep!
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Justin Searls – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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Breaking Change podcast
Rubygems.org AWS Root Access Event
Ruby Central’s “security measures” leave front door wide open
nayafia/lemonade-stand
The transition of rubygems repository ownership
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Saltiness about frostiness (Friends)
Justin Searls joins Jerod in Apple’s WWDC wake for hot takes about frosty UIs. We go (almost) point-by-point through the keynote, dissecting and reacting along the way. Concentricity!
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Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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Apple WWDC 2025 Keynote
These 4 Code Snippets won WWDC
Apple to Let iPhone Users Watch Videos on CarPlay Screen While Parked
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Here's my Siri theory (Friends)
Justin Searls from Breaking Change joins the show to discuss Apple’s Intelligence blunder, the end of the good times in the tech industry, and POSSE Party, his in-progress product that lets “any dummy with a website enjoy a life of algorithm-free luxury.”
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Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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Breaking Change
Daring Fireball: Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino
Michael Tsai - Blog - Rotten
The nervous Craig Federighi’s “Back to the Mac” presentation for Apple
This Vision Pro strap is totally globular!
The good times in tech are over
You’re invited to my POSSE party!
Vision Pro Creator Taking Over Siri After Apple Intelligence Setbacks
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Putting the Apple in AI (Friends)
Justin Searls joins us for hot takes on Apple’s 2024 WWDC keynote. Apple Intelligence stole the show, but did it steal our hearts? Oh, and we learn all about Justin’s Vision Pro Life and how he hopes/expects Apple’s latest device to improve in future iterations.
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Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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Justin’s podcast: Breaking Change
Apple WWDC 2024: the 13 biggest announcements
macOS Sequoia Preview
Compare iPhone models
RCS on Wikipedia
Rug pull, not cool! (Changelog & Friends #40)
Sandwich’s Theater app (Adam Lisagor)
Steve Jobs QA - WWDC 1997
Asahi Linux
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It dependencies (Friends)
Jerod goes one-on-one with our old friend Justin Searls! We talk build vs buy decisions, dependency selection & how Justin has implemented POSSE (Post On Site Syndicate Elsewhere) in response to the stratification of social networks.
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Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Lineman.js and JavaScript apps with Justin Searls (Changelog Interviews #128)
Must have 10 years experience with Lineman.js: Why the right tools fail for the wrong reasons
Justin’s favorite newsletter
Changelog Nightly source code
indieweb.org/POSSE
POSSE on justin.searls.co
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An aberrant generation of programmers (Friends)
Our friend Justin Searls recently published a widely-read essay on enthusiast programmers, inter-generational conflict & what we do with this information. That seemed like a good conversation starter, so we grabbed Justin and Landon Gray to discuss. Let’s talk!
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Landon Gray – LinkedIn
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Justin’s post
Justin’s monthly newsletter
Justin’s Ruby Kaigi coverage
Justin’s previous Changelog appearances
Test Double
nodenv
Destroy All Software
Louisville’s AI Schoolbus Route fiasco
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Don't sleep on Ruby & Rails (Interview)
Welcome to 2023 — we’re kicking off the year talking to Justin Searls about the state of web development and why he just might write a “You Might Not Need React” post. He’s been so productive using Turbo and Stimulus (and tailwind) in Rails 7 that we had to talk about the state of Rails development today and a bunch of other fun topics around building for the web in 2023.
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Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
SO PRODUCTIVE in Rails 7
Shaking my head big time at The Changelog #509
What excites you about Ruby on Rails in 2022?
The Changelog #509
Ship It #44
Debugging Ruby with VS Code
Searls says:
For liner notes purposes, @hsbt and @ko1 have indeed both contributed to ruby.debug but it was clearly Koichi’s baby.
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Double your testing trouble
Justin Searls from Test Double joins the party to talk about patterns he’s identified that lead to failure, minimalism, and of course, testing!
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Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Suz Hinton – GitHub, Mastodon, X
Christopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
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Help us play Frontend Feud (and enter to win a free t-shirt) by taking the survey!
teenytest
Test Anything Protocol (TAP)
Tape
Jest
Mocha
Canary in the Goldmine
Test Double
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Lineman.js and JavaScript apps (Interview)
Adam and Jerod talk with Justin Searls about Lineman.js, building for the web with JavaScript, and his abstract “The Social Coding Contract.”
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Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
searls (Justin Searls)
Justin Searls (searls) on Twitter
Test Double | Custom Software Development | Columbus Ohio
Lineman - Build awesome web apps, easily.
linemanjs/lineman - GitHub
Yeoman - The web’s scaffolding tool for modern webapps
the-social-coding-contract.md
Jim Weirich - Wikipedia
Ruby Rogues #151 - Jim Weirich Tribute
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