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54: Cute Puppy Syndrome (feat. Jacob Thornton)

Episode Summary

Today we sat down with Jacob Thornton, co-founder of Bootstrap and previously an engineer at Twitter and Medium. Jacob tells us all about his magical experience with Snoop Dogg, the history of CSS and the free software movement.

Episode Notes

Today we sat down with Jacob Thornton, co-founder of Bootstrap and previously an engineer at Twitter and Medium. Jacob tells us all about his magical experience with Snoop Dogg, the history of CSS and the free software movement.

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Jacob on the Web:

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Website
• Bootstrap
• Medium

Show Notes:

4:00 - Introductions and Snoop Dogg

• Snoop Dogg at Twitter

11:00 - Free software

• Richard Stallman
• Free Software Foundation
• The Cathedral and the Bazaar
• What Is Open Source & Why Do I Feel So Guilty?
• byfat.xxx
• Dave Gamache

23:00 - Bootstrap

• Bootstrap
• Mark Otto
• Bootstrap 4 Alpha

33:00 - CSS

• Cascading Shit Show
• Bootstrap Themes
• Autoprefixer
• Medium’s CSS is actually pretty f***ing good
• Nicolas Gallagher
• Beautiful Javascript
• Sass
• Less
• PostCSS
• React
• TJ Holowaychuk
• Farewell Node.js