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Changelog Master FeedSO much to dig into (Changelog & Friends #104)Adam & Jerod (plus zero other randos) dig into Stack Overflow’s 2025 developer survey results. We discuss SO’s decline, the desire for younger devs to have real chats with real people, the rise of uv and more Python winning, why people are frustrated with AI, and more.
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2025-08-011h 23The Changelog: Software Development, Open SourceSO much to dig into (Friends)Adam & Jerod (plus zero other randos) dig into Stack Overflow’s 2025 developer survey results. We discuss SO’s decline, the desire for younger devs to have real chats with real people, the rise of uv and more Python winning, why people are frustrated with AI, and more.
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2025-08-011h 23Changelog & FriendsSO much to dig intoAdam & Jerod (plus zero other randos) dig into Stack Overflow’s 2025 developer survey results. We discuss SO’s decline, the desire for younger devs to have real chats with real people, the rise of uv and more Python winning, why people are frustrated with AI, and more.
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2025-08-011h 23
The Business of Open SourceGetting people to use the features you already have with Eric HolscherThis week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Eric Holscher, co-founder of Read the Docs. We had a really far-ranging conversation that included talking about why documentation is often so bad, why documentation should be a priority, but also Eric’s experience building Read the Docs and Write the Docs. This episode was interesting because it’s both about building an open source company and also about the importance documentation for software projects in general and open source projects. Some things we covered included: What is documentation? Is it...
2024-10-1645 min
Economie Update | BNRVeel vluchten Schiphol niet van belang voor Nederlandse economie Schiphol kan zo'n 30 procent van de vluchten schrappen, zonder dat de economie veel schade oploopt. Dat meldt Natuur & Milieu, na een onderzoek van wetenschappers Eric Pels en Paul Peeters. Veel vluchten zijn namelijk niet zo belangrijk voor de Nederlandse economie, omdat die vooral vol zitten met passagiers die overstappen. Fietsenfabrikant Babboe roept 22.000 bakfietsen terug. Dat is eenderde van de verkochte bakfietsen. Babboe zit al langer in de problemen, sinds zo'n anderhalve maand geleden bekend werd dat de frames regelmatig doormidden breken. De volledige top van Blokker is vertrokken. In de afgelopen maanden zijn algemeen directeur Jeanine Holscher, financieel directeur Allard V...
2024-04-0212 min
DDCAST - Was ist gut? Design, Kommunikation, ArchitekturDDCAST 157 - Kuno Prey "Neugier als Urquell"
Kuno Prey (*1958) ist Designer und Design-Professor. Nach seinem Studium an der Domus-Academy führte ihn seine angeborene Neugier dazu, gemeinsam mit der Industrie innovative Materialien und neue Technologien zu erforschen. Aus dieser Zusammenarbeit entstanden zahlreiche Produkte, durch die er internationale Anerkennung erhielt. Er wurde 1993 zum Professor für Produktgestaltung an der Fakultät Gestaltung der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar berufen. Nach der ersten intensiven Erfahrung in der Designvermittlung in Weimar zog es ihn 2002 in sein Heimatland Südtirol zurück. Dort gründete er an der Freien Universität Bozen die Fakultät für Design und Künste, die er bis 2010...
2023-08-1341 min
Django ChatRead The Docs - Eric HolscherEric’s personal wite@ ericholscher on TwitterRead the DocsWrite the DocsAd Funding at Read the Docs and What’s Next for Ethical AdvertisingDjangoCon Europe 2021: Dynamic static sites with Django & Sphinx by Carlton GibsonSupport the ShowThis podcast does not have any ads or sponsors. To support the show, please consider purchasing a book, signing up for Button, or reading the Django News newsletter.
2022-06-081h 01
Let's Talk DocsMike Jang
Sponsored by Document Write · EthicalAds · Sourcegraph
Panelists
Portia Burton | Eric Holscher
Guest
Mike Jang
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Let’s Talk Docs, a show where we explore the intersection of technical documentation, open source, and community. Today joining us is Mike Jang, who’s a Staff Technical Writer for Cobalt. To figure out what to write, Mike spends much of his time analyzing and testing new software. He has also written many technical books including multiple editions of RHCSA/RHCE Red Hat Linux...
2022-05-2234 min
Let's Talk DocsZachary Corleissen
Sponsored by Document Write · EthicalAds · Sourcegraph
Panelists
Portia Burton | Eric Holscher
Guest
Zachary Corleissen
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Let’s Talk Docs, a show where we explore the intersection of technical docs, open source, and community. Here at Let’s Talk Docs, we reach out to folks in the field who are elevating the craft of writing and maintaining docs. Today, joining us as our guest is Zach Corleissen, who’s currently a staff technical writer at Stripe, solving complex documentation challenges and serv...
2022-05-0838 min
Let's Talk DocsGoogle Season of Docs
Sponsored by Document Write · EthicalAds · Sourcegraph
Panelists
Portia Burton | Eric Holscher
Guest
Romina Vicente · Ivana Isadora Devcic · Erin McKean
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Let’s Talk Docs, a show where we explore the intersection of technical docs, open source, and community. Today, we’re going to talk about Google Season of Docs, everything that’s involved in it, and how you can apply to participate in this fascinating program. Not only do we have the Google Season of Docs team with us, but we als...
2022-04-2539 min
Let's Talk DocsAmy Burns
Sponsored by Document Write · EthicalAds · Sourcegraph
Panelists
Portia Burton | Eric Holscher
Guest
Amy Burns
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Let’s Talk Docs, a show where we explore the intersection of technical docs, open source, and community. Today, we have joining us as our guest, Amy Burns, who is the Senior Content Developer at Vercel. She’s here to talk about how she got into technical documentation, and she explains four job titles regarding writing and the differences between them. We also hear about...
2022-04-1833 min
Let's Talk DocsAisha Blake
Sponsored by Document Write · EthicalAds · Sourcegraph
Panelists
Portia Burton | Eric Holscher
Guest
Aisha Blake
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Let’s Talk Docs, a show where we explore the intersection of technical docs, open source, and community. Today, we have joining us Aisha Blake, Director of Developer Relations at Pluralsight, as well as a theater kid turned tech community leader, speaker, conference organizer, and teacher. Aisha explains how a Developer Relations Engineer is one flavor of a whole range of titles. She shares her...
2022-04-0138 min
Let's Talk DocsBeth Aitman
Sponsored by Document Write · EthicalAds · Sourcegraph
Panelists
Portia Burton | Eric Holscher
Guest
Beth Aitman
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Let’s Talk Docs, a show where we explore the intersection of technical docs, open source, and community. Today, we are so excited to have as our guest, Beth Aitman, who is a Senior Technical Writer at Google, where she works to improve the developer experience for Site Reliability Engineers, and she’s also the editor of the Write the Docs newsletter. Beth’s interest...
2022-03-2540 min
Let's Talk DocsSwapnil Ogale
Sponsored by Document Write · EthicalAds · Sourcegraph
Panelists
Portia Burton | Eric Holscher
Guest
Swapnil Ogale
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Let’s Talk Docs, the show where we talk about documentation, open source, tech, and the intersection of the three. Our special guest today is Swapnil Ogale, who has over 16 years of technical documentation experience across a range of industries in Australia and globally. Currently, he works as Redocly’s Technical Writer Advocate, pursuing his passion for writing, along with advocating for the docs-as-code approa...
2022-02-2736 min
Let's Talk DocsFabrizio Ferri-Benedetti
Sponsored by Document Write · EthicalAds · Sourcegraph
Panelists
Portia Burton | Eric Holscher
Guest
Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Let’s Talk Docs, the show where we talk about documentation, open source, tech, and the intersection of the three. Today, our special guest is Fabrizio Benedetti, who’s a Senior Staff Technical Writer at Splunk, and previously was a technical journalist and studied psychology. Fabrizio takes us through his journey of technical writing and shares some helpful tips if becoming a technical writer intere...
2022-02-2735 min
Let's Talk DocsTom Johnson
Sponsored by Document Write · EthicalAds · Sourcegraph
Panelists
Portia Burton | Eric Holscher
Guest
Tom Johnson
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Let’s Talk Docs, the show where we’ll talk about documentation, open source, tech, and the intersection of the three. Today, we’re talking to Tom Johnson, who’s a tech writer and has worked at both startups and big tech for the past 17 years. He has a blog called, I’d Rather be Writing, which he’ll tell us about, as well as an API doc...
2022-02-2438 min
Let's Talk DocsMegan Sullivan
Sponsored by Document Write · EthicalAds · Sourcegraph
Panelists
Portia Burton | Eric Holscher
Guest
Megan Sullivan
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Let’s Talk Docs! This is our first episode and we’re so happy you’re joining us. On this podcast, we’ll be sharing with you a new concept around documentation and sustainability. We’re going to talk about how you can leverage documentation, how you can leverage content to bring more people, more attention, and more funding to your products. We’ll talk to expert...
2022-02-2335 min
SustainBONUS - Sustain our Docs Pilot EpisodePanelists
Justin Dorfman
Guest
Portia Burton · Eric Holscher
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! Today, we have a bonus episode for you to listen to, and we’re calling it “Sustain Our Docs.” If you are looking for your place in open source, then you have found it. We’ll be sharing with you a new concept around documentation and sustainability and all that kind of cool stuff. We’re going to talk about how you can leverage documentation, how you can leverage content to bring more people, more attent...
2021-10-1126 min
SustainEpisode 66: Eric Holscher of Read The Docs, Write The Docs, and Ethical AdsPanelists
Eric Berry | Justin Dorfman | Alyssa Wright | Richard Littauer
Guest
Eric Holscher
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! On today’s episode, our special guest is Eric Holscher, cofounder of Read the Docs and Write the Docs. As part of his work with Read the Docs, he created a privacy-focused ad network called EthicalAds. Eric will tell us all about Read the Docs, Write the Docs, how EthicalAds started, and why the Ads work. We also discuss challenges since EthicalAds launched, how things have worked with ethical advertising in...
2021-02-0537 min
Write the Docs PodcastWTD Episode 29: Salary Survey results and WFH tips, with Eric HolscherIn this episode, we chat with Eric Holscher, co-founder of both Read the Docs and Write the Docs, about the recent Salary Survey that the WTD group conducted. This survey was launched in Fall 2019, and the results published were recently published. The salary survey covers details such as types of employment, job titles, roles, length of time in role, work location, annual salary, salary breakdowns by state, additional benefits, satisfaction, reasons for dissastisfaction, organization type, respondent demographics, and more. In addition to exploring the survey, we also chat about tips for working from home, especially given that both Eric and...
2020-04-1256 min
The Changelog: Software Development, Open SourceOSCON 2019 anthology (Interview)We’re on the expo hall floor of OSCON 2019 talking with Eric Holscher, Ali Spittel, and Hong Phuc Dang. First up, we talk to Eric about his work at Write the Docs, ethical advertising, and the Pac-Man rule at conferences. Second, we talk with Ali about her passion for teaching developers, her passion for writing, and her new found love for podcasting. Last, we talk with Hong about her work at FOSSASIA, the disconnect between America and Asia in open source, and several of the cool open source projects they have on GitHub.
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2019-08-231h 19Changelog InterviewsOSCON 2019 anthologyWe’re on the expo hall floor of OSCON 2019 talking with Eric Holscher, Ali Spittel, and Hong Phuc Dang. First up, we talk to Eric about his work at Write the Docs, ethical advertising, and the Pac-Man rule at conferences. Second, we talk with Ali about her passion for teaching developers, her passion for writing, and her new found love for podcasting. Last, we talk with Hong about her work at FOSSASIA, the disconnect between America and Asia in open source, and several of the cool open source projects they have on GitHub.
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2019-08-231h 19
The Bike Shed200: FOMO for Hallway Track (200th Episode!)On this very special Bike Shed, Steph and Chris celebrate reaching the 200th episode. They discuss the origins of the show and thank some of the wonderful folks who helped make it happen (thanks Derek, Sean, Amanda, Laila, and of course Thom!). They discuss Chris's recent trip to RailsConf and some strategies for making the most of conference attendance. Also, Steph's recent work hosting an intro to web development course. They wrap things up with a series of questions captured live from RailsConf at the community meetup covering career growth, naming, graphql, joy, and more.
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2019-05-2953 min
crediblycuriousEpisode 4 - sweave, knitr and rmarkdownNick and Saskia discuss sweave, knitr, rmarkdown, and notebooks. What are they? Why do they exist? How do they interact?
Shownotes:
Yihui Xie’s thesis: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/etd/13518/
Yihui Xie’s blog: https://yihui.name/en/
R Markdown: The Definitive Guide: https://bookdown.org/yihui/rmarkdown/
Grattan Institute Reports: https://grattan.edu.au/publications/reports/
Daring fireball by John Gruber: https://daringfireball.net/
Jonathan Gruber note on markdown discussed on: https://blog.codinghorror.com/standard-markdown-is-now-common-markdown/ - podcast link https://soundcloud.com/thetalkshow/ep-88-cat-pictures-side-1 - check out 1 hour 15 minutes
Eric Holscher’s “Why You Shouldn’t Use “Markdown” fo...
2018-09-141h 18
Indiedotes PodcastEric Holscher
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Show Notes: Eric Holscher attended a 48 hour hackathon hoping to have a fun weekend building something. That project, Read the Docs, now has seven millions developers on the platform each month and is his full time job."I'm wearing a pager, people are depending on me, it's something that's important to the community, so I need to invest more into it." Eric and I discussed how he settled on a business model, created ethical standards for advertising and why they avoided a subscription model. We also talked about how to build...
2018-01-2342 minIndiedotes PodcastEric HolscherAn upfront conversation about how he settled on a business model and developed ethical advertising standards.
2018-01-2342 minWrite the Docs PodcastWTD Episode 12: Founding ideas behind Write the DocsIn this episode, we chat with Eric Holscher (WTD cofounder) and Mikey Ariel (WTD Europe organizer) about the Write the Docs community itself, including origins, founding ideas, goals, challenges, trends, and roadmaps for the community. We dive specifically into idea of diversity of roles (and the term 'documentarian'), the way open source principles inform the community's core values, balancing individual freedom to contribute on one's own terms with the expectations of the WTD experience, and more.
2017-12-131h 02
JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web DevelopmentGood Documentation, Non-blocking UI Rendering, Node Community UpdatesTracy Hinds, Alex Sexton, and Rachel White discuss good documentation, API docs, playbooks, Non-blocking UI Rendering, ember-concurrency, React Fiber and updates from Tracy on the Node.js Foundation and Node community.
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2017-04-2353 min
The Not-Boring Tech WriterBest of 20162016 was a lovely year for The Not-Boring Tech Writer podcast. We had 10 episodes with 11 guests, covering a variety of topics that truly captured the theme of the podcast: how technical writers can break the stereotype that technical writing is a boring career.This episode includes my favorite segment from each of the 10 episodes. So if you hear a segment that interests you and haven’t dove into its episode – now is your chance.Thank you, listeners, for supporting The Not-Boring Tech Writer, and I look forward to bringing you more episodes in 2017.Show Note...
2017-01-0125 minChangelog InterviewsPython, Django, and ChannelsDjango core contributor Andrew Godwin joins the show to tell us all about Python and Django. If you’ve ever wondered why people love Python, what Django’s virtues are as a web framework, or how Django Channels measure up to Phoenix’s Channels and Rails’ Action Cable, this is the show for you. Also: Andrew’s take on funding and sustaining open source efforts.
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2016-11-251h 15The Changelog: Software Development, Open SourcePython, Django, and Channels (Interview)Django core contributor Andrew Godwin joins the show to tell us all about Python and Django. If you’ve ever wondered why people love Python, what Django’s virtues are as a web framework, or how Django Channels measure up to Phoenix’s Channels and Rails’ Action Cable, this is the show for you. Also: Andrew’s take on funding and sustaining open source efforts.
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2016-11-251h 15
Request For CommitsDocumentation and the Value of Non-Code ContributionsOn today’s show Nadia and Mikeal are joined by Eric Holscher to discuss non-code contributions, how they are regarded in open source culture, their value, and how to incentivize this type of work. They also talked about how Read the Docs grew a documentation community, contribution guides, and why this work matters.
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2016-08-251h 06
Import ThisEpisode 2: Eric Holscher, Open Source Community, Sustainability, and Tech TrendsIn the iTunes store! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/import-this/id829754832?mt=2Podcast RSS available here: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:82237854/sounds.rss Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2016-07-211h 26The Not-Boring Tech WriterSkill #7: Preparing for the Future of Tech CommAs the tech comm industry develops, technical writers must embrace a sobering truth: As Dr. Stan Dicks writes in Digital Literacy for Technical Communication, “Technical communicators who add value to their organizations do not merely write and edit documents.”So how do we prepare for the future of tech comm so we can ensure we’re adding value to our organizations?Preparing for the future is difficult without a compass – but fortunately – Ted Hudek, Senior Programming Writer at Microsoft, knows the way.In this episode, Ted shares his tips on how you can prepare fo...
2016-07-0929 minThe Not-Boring Tech WriterSkill #5: Getting Involved in a CommunityWe’ve all experienced the joy of community: colleagues mentor you; friends encourage you; strangers point you towards their favorite pizza shop downtown.For that moment, whether you had previous ties to each other or not, you feel that sense of community.And while every community is unique, one concept is constant: As urbanist Charles Montgomery defines it, “people gathering, talking, and helping one another everyday.”Eric Holscher (today’s podcast guest) and Troy Howard have captured that concept and created a community for us – the tech writers.The community: Write the Docs.
2016-05-2033 min
The Python Podcast.__init__Eric Holscher on Documentation and Read The DocsVisit our site to listen to past episodes, support the show, and sign up for our mailing list.
Summary
The first place we all go for learning about new libraries is the documentation. Lack of effective documentation can limit the adoption of an otherwise excellent project. In this episode we spoke with Eric Holscher, co-creator of Read The Docs, about why documentation is important and how we can all work to make it better.
Brief Introduction
Hello and welcome to Podcast.__init__, the podcast about Python and the people who make it...
2015-12-201h 05
GenErik37 Tyson Goes All NightWelcome local superstar Tyson Hölscher! https://soundcloud.com/dj-tysonofficial
Tyson: "This show starts off Techhouse heavy with some tunes I'm vibin' at the moment… then a revisit to a famous Ibiza track that gives me chills every time, 'Cafe Del Mar'. I then journey into some jackin and bigger prog with some more great Techhouse as the finale."
01. Audiojack - Stay Glued feat. Kevin Knapp (FCL Weemix)
02. Denney - Low Frequency (Original Mix)
03. Harry Romero - Get Get (Original Mix)
04. Luigi Rocca - Dogma (Original Mix)
05. Dario D'Attis - Little Higher (Ori...
2015-06-2658 min