Stories From a Music-Fueled Distributed Streaming Bender

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1. stories from a music-fueled distributed streaming bender PLAY

2. MUSIC

3. music keeps your RIGHT BRAIN happy LEFT BRAIN works while

   your

4. my company is a pretty musical company

5. None

6. WE BUILT an employee-driven, geographically-distributed, multi-client, HTML5-based, API-centric, bathroom- enabled,

   buzzword- embracing music server

7. THIS ISN’T AN AD i hate talks like that

8. THIS IS ABOUT building open source

9. THIS IS ABOUT improving your company

10. TODAY: what is play company side project culture doing open

    source real good structured experimentation stealing shit

11. @HOLMAN

12. None

13. we talkin’ about WHAT

14. PLAY a shared music server at github’s office GITHUB.COM/PLAY/PLAY

15. MAC MINI all of our music QUEUE songs, artists, albums,

    stars >

16. STEP ONE get a potentially empty office MARCH 2010

17. STEP TWO get some big speakers MAY 2010

18. STEP THREE get work done MAY 2010

19. MUSIC LEADS TO STORIES! LIKE...

20. WHEN OUR OFFICE GOT MISTAKEN FOR A NIGHTCLUB BECAUSE YOU

    CAN HEAR THE SPEAKERS THREE BLOCKS AWAY our neighbors hate us

21. WHEN NINE OF US GOT TO CALL MC HAMMER... how

    did we get fired up? by blasting hammertime in the office all morning. true story.

22. WHEN THE FIRE DEPARTMENT RUSHED TO THE OFFICE BECAUSE OUR

    SMOKE MACHINE WENT CRAZY... what were we playing? i don’t know but it must have been one hell of a song ARTIST’S RENDITION

23. WHEN THE FIRE DEPARTMENT RUSHED TO THE OFFICE BECAUSE OUR

    SMOKE MACHINE WENT CRAZY... we don’t try to use the smoke machine anymore ARTIST’S RENDITION

24. WHEN THE FIRE DEPARTMENT RUSHED TO THE OFFICE BECAUSE OUR

    SMOKE MACHINE WENT CRAZY... also, are these kids dead? ARTIST’S RENDITION

25. WHEN THE FIRE DEPARTMENT RUSHED TO THE OFFICE BECAUSE OUR

    SMOKE MACHINE WENT CRAZY... also this kid definitely set the place on fire ARTIST’S RENDITION

26. WHEN THE FIRE DEPARTMENT RUSHED TO THE OFFICE BECAUSE OUR

    SMOKE MACHINE WENT CRAZY... no seriously he was like, laughing last frame ARTIST’S RENDITION kid creeps me out

27. i was going somewhere with this, i forget

28. ANYWAY, MUSIC HAS BEEN A FUN PART OF GITHUB

29. WE’VE SINCE EXPANDED IT.

30. ⽄ ⽄ ̇ ̇ ⽄ ̇ APRIL 2012

31. WEB queuing and searching

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33. WEB BACKEND itunes, applescript, sinatra, redis, pusher

34. WEB FRONTEND coffeescript, mustache, scss, pusher, html5

35. API the web is just another client

36. SPEAKERS airport express, music everywhere >

37. 60’S ROOM >

38. ⽄ ̇ ̇

39. ⽄ ̇ POOL TABLE >

40. ⽄ ̇ SITUATION ROOM >

41. ⽄ ̇ MEN’S ROOM >

42. None

43. DON’T WANT MUSIC? - we have private, quiet offices, too

    - you have headphones - or just don’t go to work today

44. STREAMING music really everywhere

45. consume everywhere CLIENTS f

46. DISPLAYS f

47. hubot play daft punk hubot play next hubot volume 75

    hubot play something i’d like f HUBOT CLIENT hubot i like this song

48. f OS X CLIENT

49. f IPHONE CLIENT

50. f IPAD CLIENT

51. f WINDOWS CLIENT

52. f ANDROID CLIENT

53. LIVE DJ BOOTH dj! spin that shit ~

54. ~ LIVE DJ BOOTH

55. PAUSE PLAY DJ SWITCH STREAM TO CONTROLLER AUTO-RECORD DJ SET

    TIMESTAMP & LABEL SET IMPORT BACK INTO PLAY

56. MOST OF US HAVEN’T DJED BEFORE IT’S LIKE PROGRAMMING BUT

    FRESH AND NEW EVERYONE FEELS LIKE A GENIUS FOR MIXING “ALL MY FRIENDS” AND “WE ARE YOUR FRIENDS” FOR THE 462TH TIME guise it’s like two songs about friends whoaaa

57. ECOSYSTEM lots got built, lots to build

58. together, right now COME

59. PLAY builds culture

60. KEEP YOUR EMPLOYEES HAPPY

61. A SOURCE OF UNHAPPINESS? BEING EXCLUSIONARY

62. THIS IS ESPECIALLY DIFFICULT FOR REMOTE WORKERS

63. PLAY IS ONE WAY WE GET GITHUBBERS SHARING EXPERIENCES

64. PLAY HAS BEEN STREAMED: ON SAN FRANCISCO MUNI IN SOUTH

    AFRICA OVER MOBILE TETHERING IN VIRGINIA IN A CAR OVER BLUETOOTH IN JAPAN ON A HIGH-SPEED TRAIN

65. THIS IS HOW WE KNOW WHO LOVES GARTH BROOKS (scott)

66. THIS IS HOW WE KNOW WHO HATES GARTH BROOKS (everyone

    else)

67. THIS IS HOW WE SHARE COMMON EXPERIENCES

68. SHARED SIDE PROJECT build clients, learn new techniques, work with

    coworkers you wouldn’t normally work with

69. GITHUB SIDE PROJECTS we build things like play and hubot

    to keep everyone excited sometimes even “fun” work blows encourage a culture of building

70. FIND SOMETHING YOU CAN ALL HACK ON TOGETHER

71. collaborate and listen STOP

72. BUILD SOCIALLY that means be a good teammate

73. ZOMG TELL EVERYONE EVERYTHING README INLINE DOCUMENTATION CLEAN TESTS LONG-FORM

    DOCUMENTATION OPEN ISSUES

74. PLAY WAS DISCOVERED months before it shipped

75. USE GITHUB to find free slave labor open new issues

    add todos detail your plans

76. PEOPLE WILL SURPRISE YOU and build things you didn’t expect.

    it’s awesome.

77. CONTRIBUTORS helped shape play without being asked

78. detail your setup BUILD A KILLER README readme-driven development explain

    your plans

79. setup development fixtures BUILD A KILLER BOOTSTRAP install with a

    one-liner dependency management

80. say thanks, help them redirect BUILD A NON-KILLER ATTITUDE sometimes

    weird features happen don’t fret, don’t shoot down

81. EXPERIMENT

82. MAKE A PROJECT specifically to fuck around with new things

83. HERE’S WHAT ISN’T IN PLAY foundation backbone.js ember.js WE GAINED

    A LOT FROM TRYING A LOT macruby

84. GO OUT OF YOUR WAY TO TRY NEW TECHNIQUES

85. HERE’S WHAT’S NEW IN PLAY: WEB AS API CLIENT “twitter-style”

    all clients use the endpoints same as web more stable, more dogfooding

86. HERE’S WHAT’S NEW IN PLAY: COCOA/RUBY BRIDGES subscribe to itunes

    in cocoa push over pusher realtime clients (including web)

87. HERE’S WHAT’S NEW IN PLAY: LIVE DJ SETS applescript agains

    gets us around GUIs

88. HERE’S WHAT’S NEW IN PLAY: NATIVE OS TECHNIQUES data-first UI

    design on windows, mac ios/mac library sharing

89. WHEN THE WHOLE PURPOSE IS EXPERIMENTATION, YOU CAN TAKE RISKS

90. WHAT WERE RISKS THEN BECOME NORMAL PRACTICES AND YOU’RE BETTER

    OFF

91. STEAL shit

92. PLAY HAS LOTS OF MOVING PARTS

93. PLAY ( MAC MINI ) AIRFOIL NICECAST PUSHER > RESTROOMS

    > POOL TABLE f OS X CLIENT WINDOWS CLIENT IPHONE CLIENT c CONTROLLED BY CAMPFIRE ( CHAT ROOM ) IPAD CLIENT TV SCREENS ANDROID CLIENT > 60’S ROOM > DESKS ~ LIVE DJ BOOTH

94. GO LEVERAGE EXISTING THINGS

95. INTERNET STREAMING AIRPORT STREAMING MUSIC STATE nicecast airfoil itunes DJ

    SOFTWARE traktor

96. BUILDING ALL THAT OURSELVES WOULD HAVE SUCKED

97. PLAY 1.0 MANAGED PLAY STATE TURNS OUT, DIFFICULT PROBLEM reliability,

    simplicity PLAY-NEXT LETS ITUNES DJ HANDLE IT free itunes client browsing, remote.app, queueing redis, separate player process

98. GUIs ARE HORRIBLE TO MANAGE completely breaks the bootstrap goal

    they’re great until we can replace them BUT:

99. EMBRACE HACKY SOLUTIONS THEY’RE THE PINNACLE OF PROGRAMMING

100. PLAY

101. PLAY NOT WITH MY PROJECT, PLAY WITH YOUR PROJECT

102. PLAY EXPERIMENT COLLABORATE

103. PLAY GITHUB.COM/PLAY

104. THANKS

105. None

106. ZACH HOLMAN @HOLMAN