The Diff: A Podcast from Meta Open Source

Jun 07 2023 18 ep. 38 mins 171
The Diff: A Podcast from Meta Open Source artwork

Hosted by Joel Marcey, a staff developer advocate on the Meta Open Source team, The Diff showcases the program, the projects and the people that drives the team's mission of building community through open source technology.

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Episode 17: Chatting Velox and Accelerating Data Management with Masha Basmanova

Jun 07 2023 30 mins  
In this episode of The Diff podcast, host Philip Bell talks to Meta Software Engineer Masha Basmanova about Velox, an open source unified execution engine aimed at accelerating data management systems.

Episode 16: Building Intuitive Interactions in VR: Interaction SDK and Presence Platform

Dec 01 2022 28 mins  
In this episode of The Diff podcast, host Navyata Bawa talks to Interaction SDK Software Engineer Danny Yaroslavski about how to add immersive VR interactions using Interaction SDK. They talk about how the First Hand showcase app and the Interaction SDK samples app let developers have hands-on experience with hand features, the challenges that come with creating a seamless user exp

Episode 15: Building Multiplayer Virtual Reality Applications in Unity with Zac Drake

Sep 14 2022 37 mins  
In this episode of The Diff podcast, host Navyata Bawa chats with Zac Drake, a software engineer on the VR Developer Environment Engineering team about the VR Platform SDK Multiplayer features, highlighting how the SharedSpaces app makes them easy to use out of the box in Unity. Zac explains some of the challenges that can arise when developing multiplayer VR applications. We discu

Episode 14: Building Multiplayer Virtual Reality Applications in Unreal with Eric Le Saux

Jul 19 2022 56 mins  
In this episode of The Diff podcast, host Navyata Bawa chats with VR Developer Environment Software Engineer Eric Le Saux about the SharedSpaces sample and how it demonstrates the Platform SDK Multiplayer features. Eric dives deep into the challenges and objectives of the sample and the choices his team made to create an app that demonstrates the Multiplayer features in an easy to

Episode 13: From Linux to React Native with Nicola Corti

Jun 20 2022 43 mins  
In this installment of The Diff podcast, host Dmitry Vinnik and Meta Software Developer Nicola Corti chat about how Nicola gained an interest in mobile development through Linux. They also discuss how open source plays an important role in Nicola’s career, what React Native is and how Kotlin is being used in the open source project’s build code. At the end, listeners get the sc

Episode 12: Talking about All Things React with Rachel Nabors

Apr 13 2022 47 mins  
In this installment of The Diff podcast, your host Dmitry Vinnik and Meta Documentation Engineer Rachel Nabors discuss their experience getting into front-end development, their work in the React ecosystem and explores how virtual conferences have opened the door for the open source community.

Episode 11: Talking Mobile Open Source with Pascal Hartig

Feb 15 2022 44 mins  
In this installment of The Diff podcast, host Dmitry Vinnik and Software Engineer Pascal Hartig discuss Pascal’s open source journey at Meta. Initially, Pascal worked on Litho, a declarative UI framework for Android, but lately, he's primarily focused on supporting a project called Flipper, an extensible mobile app debugger. Throughout this interview, Pascal and Dmitry talk about

Episode 10: Talking Open Source with Paul O'Shannessy

Dec 07 2021 38 mins  
Welcome to the 10th episode of The Diff audio podcast, and the first episode of The Diff video series. In this episode, join your host Joel Marcey as he chats with Meta Open Source Program Engineering Manager Paul O'Shannessy about all the innovation he's played a part in during his decade in open source. Stay tuned for the rapid-fire question section where the two cover such contr

Episode 9: The Breeze Has Been Shot With Cami Williams

May 11 2020 56 mins  
On this episode of The Diff recorded Wednesday, May 6th 2020, Joel catches up with Cami Williams, a developer advocate and colleague on the Facebook open source team. Cami and Joel play, I ask question, you ask a question and we talked about some really interesting topics. Find out how Cami became popular on social media, our thoughts around diversity in the world of advocacy and t

Episode 8: Talking Libra With Eric Nakagawa

Nov 19 2019 63 mins  
On this episode of The Diff, Joel talks Libra with Eric Nakagawa. Libra's mission is to enable a simple global currency and financial infrastructure that powers billions of people. Eric is the head of open source for Calibra, who is building a wallet for Libra. Eric describes how Libra works, how validator nodes work, what parts of Libra are open sourced, the difference between Lib