
BONUS – Behind the Scenes of Season 1 and 2
12/22/16 • 48 min
In this special episode of Request For Commits we close out the first season with a look behind the scenes of the show. We talked about how the show was formed, who’s involved and why, how we approach producing this show, our theme music, as well as our plans and timing for season 2.
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Featuring:
- Nadia Eghbal – GitHub, X
- Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
We will begin production of season 2 in Q1 of 2017 and release in Q2. Subscribe to the master feed to get all Changelog podcasts and Changelog Weekly so you don’t skip a beat.
- The theme music for RFC was created by Breakmaster Cylinder — Listen to it on Bandcamp
- The Changelog #193: Funding and Sustaining Open Source with Nadia Eghbal
- If you haven’t yet, read Karl Fogel’s book — Producing Open Source Software
- Open Source, Then and Now with Karl Fogel (author of Producing Open Source Software) — Part 1 and Part 2
- Grant Funding: What Happens When You Pay for Open Source Work? with Max Ogden, creator of Dat
- Funding the Web with Brendan Eich
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
In this special episode of Request For Commits we close out the first season with a look behind the scenes of the show. We talked about how the show was formed, who’s involved and why, how we approach producing this show, our theme music, as well as our plans and timing for season 2.
Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!
Featuring:
- Nadia Eghbal – GitHub, X
- Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
We will begin production of season 2 in Q1 of 2017 and release in Q2. Subscribe to the master feed to get all Changelog podcasts and Changelog Weekly so you don’t skip a beat.
- The theme music for RFC was created by Breakmaster Cylinder — Listen to it on Bandcamp
- The Changelog #193: Funding and Sustaining Open Source with Nadia Eghbal
- If you haven’t yet, read Karl Fogel’s book — Producing Open Source Software
- Open Source, Then and Now with Karl Fogel (author of Producing Open Source Software) — Part 1 and Part 2
- Grant Funding: What Happens When You Pay for Open Source Work? with Max Ogden, creator of Dat
- Funding the Web with Brendan Eich
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Previous Episode

Funding the Web
Brendan Eich, founder of Brave and creator of JavaScript, joined the show to talk about the history of the web, how it has been funded, and the backstory on the early browser wars and emerging monetization models. We also talked about why big problems are hard to solve for the Internet and the tradeoffs between centralization and distribution.
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Sponsors:
- Toptal – Scale your team and hire the top 3% of developers and designers at Toptal. Email Adam at [email protected] for a personal introduction to Toptal.
- Minio – Minio is an Amazon S3 compatible object storage server built for cloud application developers and devops. It’s also open source!
Featuring:
Show Notes:
- Check out exploit kits like Angler Exploit Kit
- Brave
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Next Episode

Crowdfunding Open Source (Vue.js)
Evan You joined the show to talk about his work on Vue.js. We learn how Evan found users and got Vue.js off the ground, the details behind their crowdfunding on Patreon, whether or not crowdfunding is a viable method of sustaining open source, finding balance in life and work, and plans for funding beyond the Patreon campaign.
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Sponsors:
- Linode – Our cloud server of choice! Get one of the fastest, most efficient SSD cloud servers for only $5/mo. Use the code changelog2017 to get 4 months free!
- Hired – Get hired. It’s free — in fact, they pay you to get hired. Our listeners get a double hiring bonus of $600.
- Fastly – Our bandwidth partner! Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform.
Featuring:
Show Notes:
Season 2 has begun! Evan You is the creator of Vue, a popular progressive JavaScript framework. He works on Vue full time with the funding from its Patreon campaign. He previously worked at Google and Meteor.
- Vue.js - The progressive JavaScript framework
- VueConf - The first official Vue.js conference in the world!
- Vue.js on Patreon
- Babel - Use next generation JavaScript, today.
- Henry Zhu - Stay tuned to hear from Henry later on in season 2
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Request For Commits - BONUS – Behind the Scenes of Season 1 and 2
Transcript
Alright everyone, welcome to this special episode of Request for Commits. We wanted to close up the first season with a look behind the scenes of the show. We've got the entire party here - myself, Adam Stacoviak, editor in chief of Changelog, Jerod Santo, managing editor of Changelog, and also the hosts, Nadia Eghbal and Mikeal Rogers. Everyone say hello...
Nadia Eghbal:Hi!
Mikeal Rogers: <If you like this episode you’ll love
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