Can InnerSource bring open source practices to closed corporate bureaucracies?
Open source won. Now, the OSS way of working is making inroads into new territories: the corporate engineering department.
Podcast 337: Saying goodbye to our co-host, Sara Chipps
Rest assured, we'll be connecting on LinkedIn in the near future.
Ben Popper
Director of Content
Podcast 335: Open source contributors helped a helicopter fly on Mars
You drop an open source contribution like a stone in a pond. The ripples may land somewhere you never imagined.
Ben Popper
Director of Content
Podcast 324: Talking apps, APIs, and open source with developers from Slack
We chat about Slack's open source SDKs, such as Bolt for Javascript, Python, and Java.
Ben Popper
Director of Content
Podcast 323: A director of engineering explains scaling from dozens of employees to thousands
We discuss data gravity and some much lighter topics.
Ben Popper
Director of Content
Sequencing your DNA with a USB dongle and open source code
It takes the most exquisite measurements you can imagine, recording the changes in current associated with different bits of DNA.
Ben Popper
Director of Content
Podcast 309: Can’t stop, won’t stop, GameStop
How many times have you explained the bittersweet nature of open source to your therapist?
Ben Popper
Director of Content
Open source has a funding problem
Relying on volunteers to maintain every open source project isn't long term sustainable. Funding open source projects could keep development moving, but would that funding be raised and who would pay for it?
Podcast 296: Adventures in Javascriptlandia
Yes, there was once a plan to acquire a private island, name it Javascriptlandia, and certify it as a nation state so that they could start giving out top level .js domains.
Ben Popper
Director of Content
The complexities—and rewards—of open sourcing corporate software products
Two engineers at Salesforce talk about how they decoupled a complex library from old spaghetti logic, then open sourced that library by creating a new internal process where none existed before.
Podcast 280: How should tech titans act when productizing tiny open source projects?
You don't get to pick and choose who turns your OS code into something commercial.
Ben Popper
Director of Content