Bass: the beat drop after Concourse

Ship It! Cloud, SRE, Platform Engineering

Our today’s guest spent 4 days building a feature for his side project so that we could ship it together on Ship It!, while recording. The feature is called rave mode, and the context is Bass, an interpreted functional scripting language written in Go, riffing on the ideas of Kernel & Clojure. When the local build runs, you can now press r to synchronise the beats of your currently playing Spotify track with the build output. For a demo, see bass v0.9.0 release.

Please welcome Alex Suraci, a.k.a. vito, the creator of Concourse CI and Bass.

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This episode is dedicated to the late John Shutt, the creator of Kernel.

Your ideas continue in Bass.

Thank you for getting them out into the world.

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Featuring:

• Alex Suraci – Website, GitHub, X
• Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

• Concourse CI
• See shipit.show/9 notes for the RabbitMQ v3.8 CI/CD pipeline from 2020
• Concourse core roadmap: towards v10 - written by Alex 3 years ago
• 🎬 Getting Started with Concourse CI - Dr. Nic Williams, Stark & Wayne - October 2016
• Faux-O talk - Gary Bernhardt
• The Kernel Programming Language
• Bass bassics
• The bass shipit file that ships Bass
• bass v0.9.0 release - the one that we shipped while recording this episode
• booklit.page - a tool for building static websites from semantic documents
• Package repository size/freshness map

Gerhard & Alex shipping bass v0.9.0

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

פרקים

1. Welcome (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Sourcegraph (00:01:18)

https://info.sourcegraph.com/changelog

3. Intro (00:04:22)

4. The ONLY Concourse view (00:08:57)

5. The design (00:10:06)

6. Biggest early challenge at Concourse (00:11:15)

7. To work on Concourse (00:15:52)

8. Bass (00:17:10)

9. What's better than declarative? (00:19:15)

10. Commands (00:22:00)

11. Multiple themes?? (00:24:19)

12. What's a thunk? (00:26:15)

13. Space invaders (00:26:48)

14. Sponsor: Sentry (00:32:23)

https://sentry.io/demo/sandbox/

15. Run time compiler (00:33:16)

16. Where does it all run? (00:35:10)

17. Github runner (00:38:31)

18. The Ship It file (00:40:25)

19. Rave mode (00:44:40)

20. Sponsor: Retool (00:55:20)

https://retool.com/changelog

21. Sponsor: Akuity (00:56:12)

https://akuity.io/changelog

22. Let's ship it (00:58:21)

23. Should caching be close? (01:08:43)

24. Conway's game of life (01:12:20)

25. What did you enjoy the most? (01:14:02)

26. Nix and Bass (01:16:24)

27. 0.1.2 (01:17:53)

28. Wrap up (01:28:04)

29. Outro (01:30:29)