GitHub Desktop with Brendan Forster
October 10, 2017
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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
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