This week Jonathan Bennett and Katherine Druckman chat with Steve Seguin about VDO.Ninja and Social Stream Ninja, tools for doing live WebRTC video calls, recording audio and video, wrangling comments on a bunch of platforms, and more!
Continue reading “FLOSS Weekly Episode 787: VDO Ninja — It’s A Little Bit Hacky”
This week Jonathan Bennett and Rob Campbell chat with Brodie Robertson about Linux, Wayland, YouTube, Microsoft’s Windows Recall and more. Is Linux ready for new users? Is Recall going to kick off a migration? All this and more!
Continue reading “FLOSS Weekly Episode 786: What Easy Install Script?”
This week Jonathan Bennett chats with Dennis and Goran about EEZ, the series of projects that started with an Open Source programmable power supply, continued with the BB3 modular test bench tool, and continues with EEZ Studio, a GUI design tool for embedded devices.
Continue reading “FLOSS Weekly Episode 785: Designing GUIs And Building Instruments With EEZ”
This week Jonathan Bennett and Dan Lynch talk with François Proulx about Poutine, the Open Source security scanner for build pipeline vulnerabilities. This class of vulnerability isn’t as well known as it should be, and threatens to steal secrets, or even allow for supply chain attacks in FLOSS software.
Poutine does a scan over an organization or individual repository, looking specifically for pipeline issues. It runs on both GitHub and GitLab, with more to come!
Continue reading “FLOSS Weekly Episode 784: I’ll Buy You A Poutine”
This week Jonathan Bennett and Rob Campbell talk with Gareth Coleman and Hamish Cunningham! It’s all about the Unphone, an open source handset sporting an ESP32, color touchscreen, and LoRa radio. It’s open hardware, and used in a 3rd year university course to teach comp sci majors about hardware and embedded development.
Continue reading “FLOSS Weekly Episode 783: Teaching Embedded With The Unphone”
This week Jonathan Bennett and David Ruggles chat with Rak Siva and Steve Demchuck to talk about Nitric! That’s the Infrastructure from Code framework that makes it easy to use a cloud back-end in your code, using any of multiple providers, in multiple programming languages.
The group chatted about the role and form of good documentation, as well as whether a Contributor License Agreement is ever appropriate, and what a good CLA would actually look like. Don’t miss it!
Continue reading “FLOSS Weekly Episode 782: Nitric — In Search Of The Right Knob”
This week Jonathan Bennett and Doc Searls sit down with Mathias Buus Madsen and Paolo Ardoino of Holepunch, to talk about the Pear Runtime and the Keet serverless peer-to-peer platform. What happens when you take the technology built for BitTorrent, and apply it to a messaging app? What else does that allow you to do? And what’s the secret to keeping the service running even after the servers go down?
Continue reading “FLOSS Weekly Episode 781: Resistant To The Wrath Of God”
