The Change Mode Podcast

dotJS conference special, episode 1: In this episode of the Change Mode podcast, dotJS speaker, Jessica Sachs shares her unconventional journey from starting in manual QA at 16 to becoming a key figure in the open source community. She discusses her transition to programming, her pivotal role in maintaining Vue Test Utils, and her current work at HeroDevs. Offering insights on "making your own luc...

Summer Special. In Episode 6 of The Change Mode Podcast, host Chad Carlson sits down with Randy Fay , the lead maintainer of DDEV, to dive into the world of development environments, TRS-80 nostalgia, and the evolution of open-source communities. Randy takes us on a journey from his early days in programming to his pivotal role in creating DDEV—a tool that’s changing the game for web developers us...

Embark in an unconventional open source journey with Pol Dellaiera in episode 5 of the chmodcast. It all starts with saving every euro to buy his first computer as a kid… Then it goes to Drupal, Symfony, and now Nix, where Pol’s contributions as a maintainer with commits rights make the lives of PHP developers easier than ever. Package manager, operating system and even functional language: Nix do...

Dive into the world of hardened JavaScript, LavaMoat, and JavaScript security with Zbyszek “ZB” Tenerowicz ( @naugtur ) in episode 4 of Change Mode. From at-home HTML trial-and-error to building inclusive 3D gaming engines, ZB dives into his open-source journey and the incredible projects he continues to work on every day. Including a passion and dedication to organizing and public speaking at int...

Join DjangoGirls board members, Aisha Bello and Leona So , for this week’s episode of Change Mode as we celebrate 10 years of this incredible non-profit. Created to inspire women from all backgrounds to get interested in technology and enter the world of programming, Aisha and Leona share their journeys into open source and their roles in DjangoGirls today. Dive into how they built their own Pytho...

Episode 2 of Change Mode! Sit down with us as we chat with Lætitia Avrot , Practice Leader, Postgres and Security at EBD , Postgres Europe Treasurer , and founder of Postgres Women . Lætitia shares her journey in building such an impressive resume, her thoughts on why developers need to get better with databases, and provides insider insights on the Postgres community—including SQL norms, how to s...

WTFM : Write that funky manual with Ryan Weaver Our first-ever episode of the Change Mode podcast is kicking things off nicely with a wonderful guest from the Symfony core team, Ryan Weaver. The Symfony docs lead and SymfonyCasts writer keeping us all in check when it comes to Symfony development. Join us for this episode as Ryan shares how to get started in open source, his methods for creating a...