Description

In this episode, Martin and Edward talk with Brendan Forster about the new
and rewritten GitHub Desktop, avoiding the second-system syndrome and
building cross-platform Electron apps.

Brendan Forster is a Senior Engineer at GitHub, working with Git tooling and
assorted other open source projects.

Introducing the Podcast

• Martin's pull request to remove all the obscenities in libgit2
• Git Minutes

GitHub Desktop

• GitHub Desktop
• GitHub Desktop, the source code
• Building GitHub Desktop: How Four Native Developers Wrote an Electron App
• Octokit, the API for GitHub
• Dugite, the Node bindings for Git
• Squirrel
• Learning Git
• The GitHub GraphQL API
• Reactive Extensions