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
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
Podcast 273: Chris Anderson on drones, driverless cars, and creating communities around code
How did a community of online hobbyist create the code that is now being utilized by the Department of Defense?
Ben Popper
Director of Content
Can one person run an open source project alone?
No matter how well-intentioned and free wheeling a project is, at some point, to succeed at scale, decisions need to be made and conflicts need to be resolved. But is a project managed best by a single person with the final say or through building consensus with a committee of several people?
Getting started with contributing to open source
It can be intimidating to start contributing to an open source project. But with a little research and planning, you can be a valuable part of your favorite open source software.
Podcast 238: Mayor of Open Source town
The software industry has become a kinder, more welcoming place. Has it finally left a certain kind of leadership behind?
Ben Popper
Director of Content
The most successful developers share more than they take
After interviewing several developers, a pattern started to become clear: great developers share a lot. This takes different forms for different people, but is very often a blog. But for many top developers, their sharing mindset came before their success, and was the direct cause of it, not the result of it.
