Let's mint some NFTs (Interview)
This week we’re talking about NFTs — that’s right, non-fungible tokens and we’re joined by Mikeal Rogers, who’s leading all things InterPlanetary Linked Data at Protocol Labs. We go down the NFT rabbit hole on a very technical level and we come out the other side with clarity and a compelling use of NFTs.
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Featuring:
Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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Show Notes:
Non-fungible token
NFTs on SNL
NFTs, explained
Palm, A New NFT Ecosystem and Studio for Creators
Filecoin - A decentralized storage network for humanity’s most important information
Heart Shaped Me from Carly Chaikin
NFT.storage
Magic Link
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GitHub's Open Source Survey (2017) (Interview)
On Friday, June 2, 2017 – GitHub announced the details of their Open Source Survey – an open data set on the open source community for researchers and the curious. Frannie Zlotnick, Nadia Eghbal, and Mikeal Rogers joined the show to talk through the backstory and key insights of this open data project which sheds light on the broader open source community’s attitudes, experiences, and backgrounds of those who use, build, and maintain open source software.
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Nadia Eghbal – GitHub, X
Frannie Zlotnick – GitHub
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
opensourcesurvey.org
github/open-source-survey
GitHub Blog: Announcing an open data set on the open source community
Spotlight #10: How China Does Node with Shiya Luo at Node.js Interactive 2016
Oh, and here’s that Wired article Mikeal mentioned
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The Rise of io.js (Interview)
Mikeal Rogers joined the show to talk about io.js, a friendly fork of Node.js with an open governance model. We discussed why the io.js fork exists, why they choose open governance, the roadmap and future of io.js, supporting ES6, burnout while working in open source, and the steps you can take to get involved with the future of io.js and Node.js.
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Featuring:
Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Mikeal Rogers on Github
io.js - JavaScript I/O
io.js - ES6 on io.js
iojs/roadmap
indutny (Fedor Indutny)
Before the Drama | hueniverse
Node Forward
Node Conf
nodeschool.io
Oakland.js
Node Conf One-Shot
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