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Just on the rocks (Changelog & Friends #98)
Jerod tells Adam about how bad he hates the taste of Gin, sips on some Generative A Rye (on the rocks), they open the comments section for a bit, and then land the plane talking about being alone, naked, and afraid.
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The CEO of htmx likes codin' dirty (Changelog Interviews #646)
Jerod is joined by Carson Gross, the creator of htmx –a small, zero-dependency JavaScript library that he says, “completes HTML as a hypertext”. Carson built it because he’s big on hypermedia, he even wrote a book called Hypermedia Systems. Carson has a lot of strong opinions weakly held that we dive into in this conversation.
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- </> htmx - high power tools for html
- Why Gumroad Didn’t Choose htmx
- Codin’ Dirty
- Vendoring
- Hypermedia Systems
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Stop uploading your data to Google (Changelog News #149)
Lukas Mathis tells us to stop uploading our data to Google, Robert Vitonsky wants web devs to not guess his language using his IP, Tom from GameTorch reminds us that software talent is gold right now, Austin Parker from Honeycomb describes how LLMs are upending the observability industry, and Vitess co-creator, Sugu Sougoumarane, joins Supabase to lead their Multigres effort to bring Vitess to Postgres.
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Saltiness about frostiness (Changelog & Friends #97)
Justin Searls joins Jerod in Apple’s WWDC wake for hot takes about frosty UIs. We go (almost) point-by-point through the keynote, dissecting and reacting along the way. Concentricity!
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- Apple WWDC 2025 Keynote
These 4 Code Snippets won WWDC - Apple to Let iPhone Users Watch Videos on CarPlay Screen While Parked
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The Roc programming language (Changelog Interviews #645)
Jerod chats with Richard Feldman about Roc – his fast, friendly, functional language inspired by Richard’s love of Elm. Roc takes many of Elm’s ideas beyond the frontend and introduces some great ideas of its own. Get ready to learn about static dispatch, platforms vs applications, opportunistic mutation, purity inference, and a whole lot more.
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Never. Let. AI. Write. Your. Tests. (Changelog News #148)
Diwank explains why you should never let AI writes your tests, Apple redesigns all of their software platforms, AI has brought about the rise of judgement over technical skills, Peter Steinberger says Claude Code is now his computer, and the curious case of Memvid.
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Adventures in babysitting coding agents (Changelog & Friends #96)
The ever-provocative Steve Yegge joins us fresh off a vibe coding bender so productive, he wrote a book on the topic alongside award-winning author Gene Kim. Steve tells us why he believes the IDE is dead, why babysitting AI agents is more fun than coding, when vibe coding might take over the enterprise, how software devs should approach coding agents, and what it all means for society.
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We're all Builders now (Changelog Interviews #644)
We’re on location at Microsoft Build 2025 with Amanda Silver, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft’s Developer Division. Amanda leads product, design, user research, and engineering systems for some of the tools you use every day. We discuss the latest AI announcements from Microsoft at Build 2025, how AI is reshaping development tools, what’s next for VS Code, TypeScript, GitHub’s evolution, and even emerging editors like Windsurf that are forking the VS Code ecosystem.
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The 'developer replacement' hype cycle (Changelog News #147)
We’re doing a live show in Denver this July, Danilo Alonso has seen the ‘developer replacement’ hype cycle many times, Dan Sinker says we’re in the Who Cares Era, Cap looks like a solid alternative to typical CAPTCHA solutions, Michael Flarup on the return of texture, depth, and expressiveness in UI & Kan is an open source alternative to Trello.
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wsl.exe -- cat hello.cs (Changelog & Friends #95)
We bring you back to Microsoft Build 2025 to nerd out with Craig Loewen on Windows Subsystem for Linux and Mads Torgersen on leading the design of C#.
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The Web Development Engine (Changelog Interviews #643)
We’re joined by Andreas Møller, Co-founder of Nordcraft — the team behind Nordcraft Engine, a powerful new platform designed to give web developers what gaming developers have had for years. Andreas shares what inspired them to build Nordcraft Engine, why they believe the web is overdue for a shift in how we approach designing and building for the web, ee explore how the platform works, how you can get started, and what’s next for Nordcraft.
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Entry-level tech jobs are getting wiped out (Changelog News #146)
The San Fransisco Standard published some sobering news for new graduates, the Forge team decided to put an AI agent in your shell, Fernando Borretti says you can choose tools that make you happy, Jujutsu’s flexibility and safety changed Nathan Witmer’s approach to version control, Anil Dash is as excited about MCP as almost everyone else is & Alex Kladov shares two rules of thumb around pushing “ifs” up and “fors” down.
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Dull, dirty or dangerous (Changelog & Friends #94)
We sit down with Scott Hanselman at Microsoft Build 2025 to discuss open sourcing all the things, cool stuff Windows can do, where we want (and don’t want) AI to fit into our lives, building arcade cabinets, and so much more.
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Refactored in prison (Changelog Interviews #642)
Preston Thorpe joins us from inside prison, where he awaits a hopeful release within the next 12 months. His journey has been anything but easy—marked by hardship and uncertainty. But over the past few years, Preston has undergone a profound transformation. He’s refactored not just his skills, but his identity. Today, he proudly calls himself a software engineer and an open source contributor. In this episode, Preston shares his story of redemption, resilience, and what comes next.
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- Preston Thorpe - My Story
- Preston Thorpe - About
- GitHub – PThorpe92
- Unlocked Labs
- exa – Replacement for ls
- eza – Modern replacement for exa
- micro – Terminal-based text editor
- The Stanford Prison Experiment
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Windows Subsystem for Linux is open source (Changelog News #145)
Microsoft finally opens the source of WSL, Paolo Scanferla describes an inherent trade-off in TypeScript’s type system, Alberto Fortin is taking a step back from heavy LLM use while coding, a pseudonymous hacker spent two weeks coding from their Android phone, and NLWeb might become the HTML of the open agentic web.
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#define: I'm going pants (Changelog & Friends #93)
Welcome back to #define, our game of obscure jargon, fake definitions, and expert tomfoolery. We’ve gathered some awesome friends, new and old, to see who has the best vocabulary and who can trick the everyone else into thinking that they do.
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NATS and the CNCF kerfuffle (Changelog Interviews #641)
Derek Collison — creator of NATS and Co-founder & CEO of Synadia — joins the show to dive into the origins, design, and evolution of NATS, a high-performance, open-source messaging system built for modern cloud-native systems and part of the CNCF. Derek shares the story behind NATS, what makes it unique, and unpacks the recent tensions between Synadia and the CNCF over the future of the project.
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- NATS.io
- Protecting NATS and the integrity of open source: CNCF’s commitment to the community
- CNCF and Synadia Align on Securing the Future of the NATS.io Project
- Synadia and the NATS project
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A critical look at MCP (Changelog News #144)
Rasmus Holm takes a critical look at MCP, Stefan Judis shares a new term he learned from Scott Hanselman, Raf beautifully describes the curse of knowing how, Void is an open source Cursor alternative & React Jam is back for its 6th online game jam.
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Kaizen! Tip of the Pipely (Changelog & Friends #92)
Kaizen 19 has arrived! Gerhard has been laser-focused on making Jerod’s pipe dream a reality by putting all of his efforts into Pipely. Has it been a big waste of time or has this epic side quest morphed into a main quest?!
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- Discussion #544: 🎧 Kaizen 19
- httpstat: curl statistics made simple
- Making DNSimple with Anthony Eden
- Our Slack is dead. Long live Zulip!
- flyradar: Manage your Fly.io resources in style
- oha: HTTP load generator, inspired by rakyll/hey
- Testing Varnish with varnishtest
- Hurl - Run and Test HTTP Requests
- Varnish Software Enterprise
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Building Zed's agentic editing (Changelog Interviews #640)
Nathan Sobo is back talking about the next big thing for Zed—agentic editing! You now have a full-blown AI-native editor to play with. Collaborate with agents at 120fps in a natively multiplayer IDE.
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Firefox could be doomed (Changelog News #143)
The DOJ’s beef with Google might spell doom for Mozilla, Clayton Ramsey makes a plea for not using ChatGPT for writing, Tim Cook loses a big gamble, Brandon Reinhart migrates his game dev away from Rust and Bevy, and Ibrahim Diallo throws zip bombs at malicious bots.
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When life gives you LLMs... (Changelog & Friends #91)
Our old friend, Zeno Rocha, returns to discuss email etiquette, the strange new world of AI SEO, the coming LLM enshittification, and SLATE Auto – the just-announced $20k modular EV truck.
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- Getting to Resend (Changelog Interviews #585)
- When life gives you Lemons 🍋 U make Billions 💸
- Can I email… Support tables for HTML and CSS in emails
- Email Marketing Platform | Litmus
- Profound | Optimize Your Brand’s Visibility in AI Search
- AI Product Rankings
- SLATE Auto
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Chasing that next BIG thing (Changelog Interviews #639)
Drew Wilson is back! It’s been more than a decade since Adam and Drew have spoken and wow, Drew has been busy. He built Plasso and got acquired by GoDaddy. He built a bank called Letter which didn’t work out…and now he’s Head of Design at Clerk and back to chasing that next big thing.
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I just want to code (Changelog News #142)
Zach Bellay tells us about the devil and the angel on his shoulders, Pete Koomen thinks today’s AI apps are like horseless carriages, Hyperwood is an open source system for crafting furniture from simple wooden slats, Scott Antipa agrees with YAGNI but adds YAGRI & Antony Henao debunks three common myths that get engineers stuck.
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Hello, Matworld! (Changelog & Friends #90)
Join us on a journey to make believe worlds with our good friend Mat Ryer. The assignment; we each get to make up a new world where we invent a new gadget and declare a new rule. This episode is sure to delight loyal fans and especially those who enjoy Mat Ryer on the show and a good/bad song or two.
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Make sales not features (Changelog Interviews #638)
Kendall Miller is a bubbly extrovert who sticks his fingers in a lot of pies. He advises tech companies like FusionAuth, positions tech products like Civo & Tensorlake, organizes tech networks like CTO Lunches, and even sells whiskey & gin to tech people like us via his Friday Deployment Spirits brand. Kendall has learned a lot since he first entered the industry and he’s eager to share what he knows, and who he knows, with the world.
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Fresh beats for endless flow state (Changelog News #141)
We drop our fourth Changelog Beats album, Dex Horthy proposes the 12-factor AI agent, Thorsten Ball takes us step-by-step through building a coding agent, Zachary Huang builds an LLM framework in 100 lines of code & Philip Laine’s Spegel project gets unknowingly forked by Microsoft.
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Vibing into the vibe (Changelog & Friends #89)
Nick Nisi joins us to confess his AI subscription glut, drool over some cool new hardware gadgets, discuss why the TypeScript team chose Go for their new compiler, opine on the React team’s complicated relationship with Vercel, suggest people try Astro, update us on his browser habits, and more.
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- Gitingest
- Raycast
- Maccy
- BUSY Bar
- Flipper Zero
- The Casio Secret Sender
- Game Genie - Wikipedia
- Why Go? · microsoft/typescript-go
- Astro
- Framer
- Eleventy
- Use long flags when scripting
- ZEN browser
- Apple’s Acquisition of Pixelmator is Complete
- The Dysfunctional Developer
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Making DNSimple (Changelog Interviews #637)
Anthony Eden, Founder & CEO of DNSimple, joins the show to talk about the world of managed hosting for DNS and more.
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Google's new protocol has AI agents talkin' (Changelog News #140)
Google announces an open protocol for AI agent collaboration, Datastar is an Alpine.js / htmx love child, Matthias Endler documents things he finds common in the best programmers, turns out Linus Torvalds built Git in 10 days & Zev is a CLI that helps you remember (or discover) terminal commands using natural language.
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Proud pod parents (Changelog & Friends #88)
Richard Moot joins us to discuss Changelog helping Square launch a developer pod and the excitement around MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers. What might it foretell about the future of human/robot relations?
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- The Square Developer Podcast
- Rhea Lana on Scaling a Pop-Up Business to 120 Franchises
- The Bottom Line
- Square Developer on YouTube
- Fireside Chat with Jack Dorsey & Adam Stacoviak
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The era of durable execution (Changelog Interviews #636)
Stephan Ewen, Founder and CEO of Restate.dev joins the show to talk about the coming era of resilient apps, the meaning of and what it takes to achieve idempotency, this world of stateful durable execution functions, and when it makes sense to reach for this tech.
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The AI 2027 scenario (Changelog News #139)
Daniel Kokotajlo and the AI Futures Project lays out a potential scenario of superhuman AI’s impact, Liam ERD generates beautiful, interactive ER diagrams from your database, Mozilla takes on Gmail with “Thundermail”, algernon explains why grepping remains terrible & Vitor M. de Sousa Pereira rans on the insanity of being a software engineer.
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Turn him into a walrus (Changelog & Friends #87)
Jerod turns Adam into Lego, a Walrus, and a Walrus in the style of Studio Ghibli…and so much more. This is a good one to watch on YouTube.
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- Introducing 4o Image Generation | OpenAI
- Lynyrd Skynyrd – That Smell Lyrics
- Show HN: I vibecoded a 35k LoC recipe app
- Recipe Ninja
- Revisit / Catch-Up Episodes
- Haml, Sass, Compass (Changelog #1)
- The Go Programming Language with Rob Pike (Changelog #3)
- Document Cloud and Underscore.js with Jeremy Ashkenas (Changelog #5)
- 10gen and MongoDB (Changelog #7)
- Interview or an ad?
- I Accidentally Became A Meme: Disaster Girl
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The 1000x faster financial database (Changelog Interviews #635)
In July of 2020, Joran Dirk Greef stumbled into a fundamental limitation in the general-purpose database design for transaction processing. This sent him on a path that ended with TigerBeetle, a redesigned distributed database for financial transactions that yielded three orders of magnitude faster OLTP performance over the usual (general-purpose) suspects.
On this episode, Joran joins Jerod to explain how TigerBeetle got so fast, to defend its resilience and durability claims as a new market entrant, and to stake his claim at the intersection of open source and business. Oh, plus the age old question: Why Zig?
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The idealization of farming by tech (Changelog News #138)
Theodore Morley wonders why tech workers so frequently point our wanderlust toward hands-on trades, Eduardo Bouças explains why he’s lost confidence in Vercel’s handling of Next.js, “xan” is a command line tool that can be used to process CSV files directly from the shell, Pawel Brodzinski takes us back to Kanban’s roots & Sergey Tselovalnikov weighs in on vibe coding.
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Of agents & agency (Changelog & Friends #86)
Long-time JS Party panelist Amal Hussein joins Jerod to catch up on her career path, to opine on the viability agentic coding, to feel all the feelings that AI brings out of us as developers, and to share something new in her life that changes everything.
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Leading leaders who lead engineers (remastered) (Changelog Interviews #634)
This week we’re bringing you a remaster of our epic 2021interview with Lara Hogan – author of Resilient Management and management coach / trainer for the tech industry.
The majority of our conversation focuses on the four primary hats leaders and managers end up wearing; mentoring, coaching, sponsoring, and delivering feedback. We also talk about knowing when you’re ready to lead, empathy and compassion, and learning to lead.
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- An excerpt from Resilient Management on A List Apart
- Paloma Medina
- Core Needs: BICEPS
- Lara’s book
- The Manager’s Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change
- Your brain on progress – Increment
- Voltron!
- I’m a cog
- The Changelog #342: From zero to thought leader in 6 months with Emma Bostian
- Lara Hogan on mentorship and sponsorship
- What does sponsorship look like?
- Linchpin from Seth Godin
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Revenge of the junior developer (Changelog News #137)
Steve Yegge’s latest rant about the future of “coding”, Ethan McCue shares some life altering Postgres patterns, Hillel Wayne makes the case for Verification-First Development, Gerd Zellweger experienced lots of pain setting up GitHub Actions & Cascii is a web-based ASCII diagram builder.
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Here's my Siri theory (Changelog & Friends #85)
Justin Searls from Breaking Change joins the show to discuss Apple’s Intelligence blunder, the end of the good times in the tech industry, and POSSE Party, his in-progress product that lets “any dummy with a website enjoy a life of algorithm-free luxury.”
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- Daring Fireball: Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino
- Michael Tsai - Blog - Rotten
- The nervous Craig Federighi’s “Back to the Mac” presentation for Apple
- This Vision Pro strap is totally globular!
- The good times in tech are over
- You’re invited to my POSSE party!
- Vision Pro Creator Taking Over Siri After Apple Intelligence Setbacks
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Securing ecommerce: "It's complicated" (Changelog Interviews #633)
Ilya Grigorik and his team at Shopify has been hard at work securing ecommerce checkouts from sophisticated news attacks (such as digital skimming) and he’s here to share all the technical intricacies and far-reaching implications of this work.
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- PCI Compliance: What Is It and Everything Retailers Need to Know
- PCIv4: SRI gaps and opportunities - Google Docs
- Shopify/remote-dom
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Our interfaces have lost their senses (Changelog News #136)
Amelia Wattenberger bemoans the computer’s great flattening, the Learnk8s team lets you manage your cluster from a spreadsheet, Jan Swist gets a surprising response from Cursor, the French and German governments team up for an open source Notion alternative & XPipe lets you access your entire server infrastructure from your local desktop.
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Friends on the frontend (Changelog & Friends #84)
Adam’s friend on the frontend, John Long joins the show to explore his usage of AI, design tools and the stack he prefers. We talk Next.js vs Rails, maintaining open source, building websites with Framer, their mutual love for Figma, and more.
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Reaching industrial economies of scale (Changelog Interviews #632)
Beyang Liu, the CTO & Co-founder of Sourcegraph is back on the pod. Adam and Beyang go deep on the idea of “industrializing software development” using AI agents, using AI in general, using code generation. So much is happening in and around AI and Sourcegraph continues to innovate again and again. From their editor assistant called Cody, to Code Search, to AI agents, to Batch Changes, they’re really helping software teams to industrialize the process, the inner and the outer loop, of being a software developer on high performance teams with large codebases.
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Everyone is talking about MCP (Changelog News #135)
Vibe coding is the new vibe, AI engineers are all taking about MCP, Tom Usher wants you to kill your algorithmic feeds, Curiositry shares his troubleshooting expertise, Nikola Ðuza thinks we should keep blogging for the LLMs & James Stanier answers the question, should managers still code?
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Friendly Feud: JS Party Edition (Changelog & Friends #83)
Our award-winning JS Party game show is back with a new name, a new channel, and the same ol’ survey-response-guessing fun! The JS Party crew join us to see who knows y’all best. Survey says!
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Antirez returns to Redis! (Changelog Interviews #631)
Antirez has returned to Redis! Yes, Salvatore Sanfilippo (aka Antirez), the creator of Redis has returned to Redis and he joined us to share the backstory on Redis, what’s going on with the tech and the company, the possible (likely) move back to open source via the AGPL license, the new possibilities of AI and vector embeddings in Redis, and some good ’ol LLM inference discussions.
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JavaScript fatigue strikes back (Changelog News #134)
Allen Pike on the JavaScript ecosystem after a decade away, Lars Wirzenius was there at the birth of Linux, Piotr Migdał archives things in Markdown, Jacob Stopak is gamifying Git with Devlands & Juan Diego Rodríguez runs down how CSS functions (will) work.
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Kaizen! Pipely goes BAM (Changelog & Friends #82)
It’s Kaizen 18! Can you believe it? We discuss the recent Fly.io outage, some little features we’ve added since our last Kaizen, our new video-first production, and of course, catch up on all things Pipely! Oh, and Gerhard surprises us (once again). BAM!
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Building for application developers (Changelog Interviews #630)
Anurag Goel, Founder/CEO of Render, joins Adam to discuss what they’re doing to solve cloud problems for application developers. They just raised $80M they don’t even need and they’re poised to solve boring problems like object storage, and less boring things like building for the AI era.
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- Changelog Interviews #621: Building the developer cloud with Kurt Mackey (CEO of Fly)
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AI killed the tech interview. Now what? (Changelog News #133)
Kane Narraway thinks through the radical change AI tools have brought to the technical interview process, Rhys Kentish built an app that makes him touch grass, Microsoft announced their progress on quantum computing, Chris Horsley learns about software estimations by yak shaving a washing machine install & Andreas Gohr built StumbleUpon for the IndieWeb.
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GenAI hot takes and bad use cases (Practical AI #304)
It seems like all we hear about are the great use cases for GenAI, but where should you NOT be using the technology? On this episode Chris and Daniel share their hot takes and bad use cases. Some may surprise you!
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Change my mind (Changelog & Friends #81)
Jerod and Adam use Chris Kiehl’s post on development topics he’s changed his mind on (over the last 10 years) as a proxy for discussion on dev things they HAVE and HAVE NOT changed their minds on.
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- File over app — Steph Ango
- ssh - How can I set customise settings for htop? - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
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- Amy Hoy
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Programming with LLMs (Changelog Interviews #629)
For the past year, David Crawshaw has intentionally sought ways to use LLMs while programming, in order to learn about them. He now regularly use LLMs while working and considers their benefits a net-positive on his productivity. David wrote down his experience, which we found both practical and insightful. Hopefully you will too!
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- sketch.dev
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AI is stifling tech adoption (Changelog News #132)
Declan Chidlow proposes that AI is stifling tech adoption, Ariel Salminen shares 17 pieces of advice she’s learned about leading successful product teams, Benj Edwards tells the story of WikiTok, the React team sunsets Create React App & Ruben Schade says boring tech is mature, not old.
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Discovering discovery coding (Changelog & Friends #80)
Fire up a REPL, grab your favorite Stephen King novel, and hold on to the seat of your pants! Jimmy Miller returns to reveal why, at least for some of us, discovery coding is where it’s at.
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- Blinkist
- Amazon.com: Tools Of Titans
- The best, worst codebase (Changelog Interviews #609)
- Discovery Coding
- Thinking outside the box of code (Changelog Interviews #552)
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Tool calling and agents (Practical AI #303)
It seems like everyone is uses the term “agent” differently these days. In this episode, Chris and Daniel dig into the details of tool calling and its connection to agents. They help clarify how LLMs can “talk to” and “interact with” other systems like databases, APIs, web apps, etc. Along the way they share related learning resources.
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One last party (JS Party #350)
Jerod is joined by KBall, Nick & Amy to throw one last JS Party! We review last year’s predictions, discuss the state of the web dev world, opine on coding AIs (of course) & divulge what comes next for the JS Party crew. Thank you for partying with us all these years! 💚
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Fostering open source culture (Changelog Interviews #628)
Arun Gupta is back, this time with his latest book in hand titled “Fostering Open Source Culture” to share his wisdom and experiences of fostering open source culture. BTW you can use the code OSCULTURE20 to get 20% off (both print and e-book). Use this link and enjoy.
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Tech is supposed to make our lives easier (Changelog News #131)
Bill Maher excoriates the software industry for making our lives more difficult, two professors from the University of Washington put together a curriculum to help us manage life in the ChatGPT world, Daniel Delaney thinks deeply on chat as a dev tool UI, Benedict Evans explores our assumptions that computers be ‘correct’ & the Thoughtbot team writes up six cases when not to refactor.
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The state of homelab tech (2025) (Changelog & Friends #79)
Techno Tim joins Adam to catch up on the state of Homelab for 2025, the state of AI at home and on-prem (AI Homelab) and where that’s heading, building a creator PC, choosing the parts for your build, GPU availability, Windows being user hostile, and why Tim is happy to be using Windows, Mac AND Linux.
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- MacWhisper by GoodSnooze (Gumroad)
- Mel Robbins: Let Them Theory
- Changelog News - Everyone knows your location
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Build software that lasts! (Changelog Interviews #627)
After 30+ years in the software industry, Bert Hubert has experienced a lot. He founded PowerDNS, published articles for places like IETF / IEEE, and built his own parliament monitoring system. That just scratches the surface.
Recently, Bert wrote about what it takes to build software for the long term. Let’s dig in.
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- On Long Term Software Development
- Life Long Learning: Dealing With New Things
- Lawmakers use haka to protest in New Zealand’s parliament
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Everyone knows your location (Changelog News #130)
Tim Sh tracked himself down through in-app ads, Sniffnet comfortably monitors your Internet traffic, Cate Huston opines on what makes a good team, Victor Shepelev draws on 25 years of coding to share seven things he now knows & Grant Slatton tells you how to write a good design document.
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Over the top auth strategies (Changelog & Friends #78)
Dan Moore from FusionAuth joins us for a wide-ranging discussion about modern auth strategies. We talk magic links, OTP, MFA, passkeys, password managers & so much more.
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- N-Acetyl Cysteine (NAC): Uses and Risks
- Authentication & User Management Software - FusionAuth
- We Don’t Want Your Password
- Magic Links Have Rough Edges, but Passkeys Can Smooth Them Over
- Passkeys for a passwordless future (Changelog Interviews #544)
- Password Safe
- Microsoft’s new password manager works across Edge, Chrome, and mobile devices
- Building A Self-hostable Product
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- Passkeys: they’re not perfect but they’re getting better
- Passkey Adoption Doubles in 2024
- WebAuthn Explained
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Deep-dive into DeepSeek (Practical AI #302)
There is crazy hype and a lot of confusion related to DeepSeek’s latest model DeepSeek R1. The products provided by DeepSeek (their version of a ChatGPT-like app) has exploded in popularity. However, ties to China have raised privacy and geopolitical concerns. In this episode, Chris and Daniel cut through the hype to talk about the model, privacy implications, running DeepSeek models securely, and what this signals for open models in 2025.
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Turso is rewriting SQLite in Rust (Changelog Interviews #626)
Glauber Costa, co-founder and CEO of Turso, joins us to discuss libSQL, Limbo, and how they’re rewriting SQLite in Rust. We discuss their efforts with libSQL, the challenge of SQLite being in the public domain but not being open for contribution, their choice to rewrite everything with Limbo, how this all plays into the future of the Turso platform, how they test Limbo with Deterministic Simulation Testing (DST), and their plan to replace SQLite.
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- Limbo on GitHub
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DeepSeek-R1's epic pull request (Changelog News #129)
Xuan-Son Nguyen opened a low-level code PR written 99% by DeepSeek-R1, Adam Wathan announces the release of Tailwind CSS 4.0, Matheus Lima opens up the Computer Science history books to create list of influential papers, Namanyay Goel thinks AI is creating a generation of illiterate programmers & Russell Baylis shares what he’s learned about optimizing WFH lighting to reduce eye strain.
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Fallthrough & Friends (Changelog & Friends #77)
Kris Brandow & Matthew Sanabria from Fallthrough.fm join Jerod to discuss tools we’re switching to, whether or not Go is still a great systems programming language choice, user-centric documentation, the need for archivists & more.
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Video generation with realistic motion (Practical AI #301)
We seem to be experiencing a surge of video generation tools, models, and applications. However, video generation models generally struggle with some basic physics, like realistic walking motion. This leaves some generated videos lacking true motion with disappointing, simplistic panning camera views. Genmo is focused on the motion side of video generation and has released some of the best open models. Paras joins us to discuss video generation and their journey at Genmo.
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From open source to acquired (Changelog Interviews #625)
Ashley Jeffs shares his journey with Benthos, an open source stream processor that was acquired by Redpanda. We talk about the evolution of data streaming technologies, the challenges he faced while growing the project, the decision to bootstrap versus seek venture capital, and what ultimately led to the acquisition. We discuss reactions to licensing changes, what it’s like to have your thing acquired, the challenging yet fulfilling nature of open source work, what’s next for Benthos, and what it takes to enjoy the journey.
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- Announcing Bento, the open source fork of the project formerly known as Benthos - WarpStream - Stream More, Manage Less
- warpstreamlabs/bento: Fancy stream processing made operationally mundane. This repository is a fork of the original project before the license was changed.
- Benthos | Benthos
- Redpanda Acquires Benthos to Deliver a Complete, End-to-End Streaming Data Platform
- redpanda-data/connect: Fancy stream processing made operationally mundane
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Make computing personal again (Changelog News #128)
Benj Edwards wants to put the “personal” back in “personal computer”, the answer.ai folks took Devin for a month-long spin, Asaf Zamir explains why senior engineers can remain ICs and still have a fulfilling career, Fabrizio Ferri Benedetti rethinks documentation by putting user actions first & Tero Piirainen lays out his case for Nue, the standards first web framework.
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Other people's robots (Changelog & Friends #76)
Jerod & Adam discuss Nvidia’s recently announced personal AI supercomputer, Waymo’s latest infinite loop, what’s involved in getting a “modern” terminal setup, and whether or not AI has gone mainstream… warts & all!
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The world of embedded systems (Changelog Interviews #624)
Elecia White, host of Embedded.fm and author of Making Embedded Systems, joins us to discuss all things embedded systems. We discuss programming non-computers, open source resources for embedded, self-driving cars, embedded system like the GoPro, Traeger smokers, and even birthday cards. According to Elecia, embedded is going everywhere.
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- Embedded.fm
- Making Embedded Systems: Patterns for Software Development (Amazon)
- Making Embedded Systems (ClasspertX)
- Wokwi
- MicroPython on GitHub
- Nordic Thingy:91 X – Prototyping cellular IoT and Wi-Fi locationing
- FreeRTOS
- Adafruit
- Kalman filter (Wikipedia)
- Chibitronics
- CrunchLabs
- FIRST Inspires
- Hackster.io
- Hackaday
- Instructables Circuits
- A Smart Lamp That Wakes You Up at the Optimal Time (Instructables)
- Open Source Hardware Summit (2025)
- CrowdSupply Teardown (Portland 2025)
- Hackaday SuperCon (2024)
- Hardwear.io
- Electronica
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The new $30,000 side hustle (Changelog News #127)
Bloomberg reports on a concerning new trend in tech hiring, Sean Goedecke has a lot to say about large established codebases, Jacob Bartlett thinks Apple is ruining Swift’s original vision, Ahmed Khaleel built a cool tool for turning GitHub repos into interactive diagrams & Bridget Harris goes deep on the potential of crypto stablecoins to disrupt Visa and Mastercard’s duopoly.
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It's a peccadillo circus (Changelog & Friends #75)
Mat Ryer is back! He plays the piano, we tell each other truths/lies, we pay homage to the 8” floppy disk, Mat accepts an open source medal, and so much more. It’s a real circus. MatGPT!
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The power of the button (Changelog Interviews #623)
Rachel Plotnick joins us for the first show of 2025 to discuss her book “Power Button” and the research she did, and why we love/hate buttons so much. We also discuss her upcoming book “License to Spill” as well as the research she’s doing on energy drinks.
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- Touchscreens Are Out, and Tactile Controls Are Back.
- Power Button
- License To Spill
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10 big predictions for 2025 (Changelog News #126)
M.G. Siegler goes way out on a limb with some BIG predictions of things that could happen this year, Simon Willison’s year-end roundup is a must-read and perhaps the only thing you have to read to get up-to-speed on the state of the LLM, Allen Pike describes a method for magic, Tom Critchlow thinks small databases are magic & James Stanier agrees with me about Parkinson’s Law and the usefulness of deadlines.
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State of the "log" 2024 (Changelog & Friends #74)
Our 7th annual year-end wrap-up is here! We’re featuring 12 listener voicemails, dope Breakmaster Cylinder remixes & our favorite episodes of the year. Thanks for listening! 💚
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Many episodes were favorited more than once! We only list the first mention here…
AJ Kerrigan’s favs:
- We have a right to repair! with Kyle Wiens (Interviews #582)
- Building customizable ergonomic keyboards with Erez Zukerman (Interviews #608)
- Open source threaded team chat?! with Alya Abbott (Interviews #607)
Erno Voutilainen’s favs:
- Retirement is for suckers with Cameron Seay (Friends #36)
- #define: legendary with Thomas Eckert, Nick Nisi & Mat Ryer (Friends #47)
- Two tickets for Departure, please with Helena Zhang & Tobias Fried (Interviews #618)
Don Mackinnon’s favs:
- From Chef to System Initiative featuring Adam Jacob (Friends #55)
- Rails is having a moment (again) with DHH (Interviews #615)
Brett Cannon’s favs:
- From Sun to Oxide with Bryan Cantrill (Interviews #592)
- Free-threaded Python with Pablo & Łukasz (Interviews #611)
- Gradually gradually typing Elixir featuring José Valim (Friends #28)
- Linux distros with Jorge Castro (Ship It! #122)
- Let’s talk FreeBSD (finally) with Allan Jude (Interviews #574)
- The Oban Pros with Shannon & Parker Selbert (Friends #35)
- Why we need Ladybird with Andreas Kling & Chris Wanstrath (Interviews #604)
- Retired, not tired. with Kelsey Hightower (Interviews #595)
Nabeel Sulieman’s favs:
- The Moneyball approach with John Nunemaker (Interviews #612)
- Into the Bobiverse featuring Dennis E. Taylor (Interviews #603)
Rusty Nail’s favs:
- Lessons from 10k hours of programming (Remastered) with Matt Rickard (Interviews #613)
- “Founder Mode” at work when you’re not a founder (Go Time #332)
- The best, worst codebase with Jimmy Miller (Changelog Interviews #609)
- Bus factors & conspiracy theories (Friends #70)
Jamie Tanna’s favs:
- Yeeting stuff into public with Jamie Tanna (Friends #31)
- OpenAPI & API design with Jamie Tanna (Go Time #328)
- 1999: A Film Odyssey (Changelog++ 🔐) (Friends ++)
- Hack Club takes to the High Seas featuring Acon (Interviews #620)
- Gotta give to get back with Danny Thompson @ THAT (Interviews #617)
Jerod’s favs:
- We ain’t afraid of no Ghostty! with Mitchell Hashimoto (Interviews #622)
- Kaizen! NOT a pipe dream with Gerhard Lazu (Friends #50)
- You have how many open tabs?! featuring the hallway track at THAT (Friends #29)
- Future of [energy, content, food] featuring the hallway track at THAT (Friends #30)
- The man behind the Sandwich featuring Adam Lisagor (Interviews #601)
- Starbucks DVD peddlers with Emily Freeman & Justin Garrison (Friends #60)
Adam’s favs:
- In the beginning (of generative AI) with Joe Reis (Interviews #576)
- Shift left, seriously. with Deepak Prabhakara & Schalk Neethling (Interviews #575)
Also mentioned:
- Prime Digital Academy
- Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) - IMDb
- The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) - IMDb
- Jump Around - Wikipedia
- FreeBSD At 30: The History And Future Of The Most Popular BSD-Based OS
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Shipped It! (Ship It! #135)
Justin & Autumn get together one last time for a retro: favorite episodes, lessons learned, biggest surprises & what’s next.
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- Fork Around And Find Out
- Shipping in SPAAAACCEEE (Ship It! #92)
- How WebMD ran in the year 2000 (Ship It! #103)
- 5000 Walmart stores in 2 months (Ship It! #115)
- Forging Minecraft’s scripting API (JS Party #334)
- Building Rawkode Academy (Ship It! #121)
- The Zookeeper of jujutsu (Ship It! #116)
- How to build a Nushell (Ship It! #109)
- Tars all the way down (Ship It! #105)
- 3D printed infrastructure (Ship It! #107)
- Managing Meta’s millions of machines (Ship It! #102)
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Mozart to Megadeath at CHRP (Practical AI #300)
Daniel and Chris groove with Jeff Smith, Founder and CEO at CHRP.ai. Jeff describes how CHRP anonymously analyzes emotional wellness data, derived from employees’ music preferences, giving HR leaders actionable insights to improve productivity, retention, and overall morale. By monitoring key trends and identifying shifts in emotional health across teams, CHRP.ai enables proactive decisions to ensure employees feel supported and engaged.
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We ain't afraid of no Ghostty! (Changelog Interviews #622)
Mitchell Hashimoto joins the show to discuss Ghostty, the newest terminal in town. Mitchell co-founded HashiCorp, took it all the way to IPO, exited in 2023—and now he’s working on a terminal emulator called Ghostty. Ghostty is set to 1.0 this month, so we sat down to talk through all the details.
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- First episode with Mitchell Hashimoto! Changelog Interviews #72: Vagrant and virtualized environments
- Ghostty 1.0 is Coming and more at Ghostty 👻.
- Zig - Zig is a general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal and reusable software.
- Warp
- Changelog & Friends #53: There’s a TUI for that
- Changelog Interviews #511: The terminal as a platform
- Changelog Interviews #555: Back to the terminal of the future
- Michael Flarup runs Pixel Resort and created the Ghostty icon
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That's Go Time! (Go Time #340)
Mat gathers the entire cast (sans Natalie, sadly) alongside our producer, Jerod Santo, for one last Go Time. That’s right, this is Go Time’s finale episode. After eight years and 340 episodes, we are going out on top. Join us one last time, you won’t regret it!
We share our feelings, reminisce on the good times, list some of our favorite moments & share a few opinions, which may (or may not) be unpopular. 😉
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Episodes mentioned
- Neurodiverse gophers (Go Time #281)
- Gophers Say What!? (Go Time #200)
- Who owns our code? (Go Time #252)
- Who owns our code? Part 2 (Go Time #263)
- Mat’s GopherCon EU diary with (Go Time #250)
- Maintenance podcast episodes
- 2053: A Go Odyssey with Ron Evans (Go Time #235)
- The Wu-Tang way with Ron Evans (Changelog & Friends #42)
- The se7en deadly sins of Go (Go Time #294)
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The code, prose & pods that shaped 2024 (Changelog News #125)
This episodes diverges from our traditional fare. I’ve reviewed the 50 previous editions and picked (IMHO) the coolest code, best prose & my favorite podcast episode from each month!
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AI IRL at Honeycomb (Ship It! #134)
Phillip Carter, Principal PM at Honeycomb, joins Justin & Autumn to discuss his work at Microsoft & Honeycomb, building AI infrastructure & more.
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Kaizen! Three wise men? (Changelog & Friends #73)
Gerhard is back for Kaizen 17! We discuss our CPU.fm changes in-depth, detail new Zulip / Neon integrations & put our Pipedream to the test. Oh, and a Gerhard surprise (of course)!
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- Discussion #525: 🎧 Kaizen 17
- iA Presenter
- A new era for the Changelog Podcast Universe (CPU.fm)
- #533: Enable team members to replace changelog_dev with a prod db dump
- #534: Enable team members to run dev with a Neon db branch
- Get started with 1Password CLI
- thechangelog/pipedream
- Namespace – Accelerate your developer workflow
- Hurl - Run and Test HTTP Requests
- vcr/vcr: Record and reply your test suite’s HTTP interactions
- pipely.tech
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Building the developer cloud (Changelog Interviews #621)
Kurt Mackey is back for a deep dive into what it takes to build the developer cloud. Kurt joins Adam to discuss the alliance between companies and cloud, something Kurt refers to as the “Rebel Alliance,” cloud complexity vs usability, Fly’s future with Postgres and why they’ve waited, thoughts on Neon and Supabase (Kurt shares a hot take), and our CDN saga and plan to build a simple CDN on Fly called Pipely (still a Pipedream).
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- Founders Talk #80
- Tigris
- Upstash
- Supabase
- Neon
- Retool
- DHH shade on Fly
- Percona
- vantage.sh/cloud-cost-report
- Pipedream
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Sidekick is an AI Shopify expert (Practical AI #299)
Today, Chris explores Shopify Magic and other AI offerings with Mike Tamir, Distinguished ML Engineer and Head of Machine Learning, and Matt Colyer, Director of Product Management for Sidekick. They talk about how Shopify uses generative AI and LLMs to enhance their products, and they take a deeper dive into Sidekick, a first-of-its-kind, AI-enabled commerce assistant that understands a merchant’s business (products, orders, customers) and has been trained to know all about Shopify.
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Pitching Go in 2025 (Go Time #339)
With so many great programming languages having emerged in the last decade, many of them purpose-built, when and where does Go still make sense and how do you make the case for it at work?
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A new era for the Changelog Podcast Universe (Changelog News #124)
We’re making some big Changelog changes in 2025, the previously featured Stanford study on ghost engineers doesn’t live up to the hype, Git ingest is a simple service that turns any GitHub repository into a simple text ingest of its codebase, Simon Willison dishes out some hard-earned wisdom he acquired by working at Lanyrd / Eventbrite & Matheus Lima warns us about six mistakes that new managers make.
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ShopTalk & Friends (Changelog & Friends #72)
Chris Coyier and Dave Rupert join Adam and Jerod for a ShopTalk & Friends conversation on the viability of the web, making content, ads to support that content, Codepen’s future plans, books, side quests, and social networks devaluing links.
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CI/CDagger (Ship It! #133)
Gerhard Lazu joins the show to discuss how Ship It! started and why you might want a general purpose language for your CI/CD.
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React: then & now (JS Party #349)
Back at React Summit in New York, KBall & Nick sat down with Tom Occhino & Shruti Kapoor for more fascinating conversations.
Tom Occhino, a key figure in React’s history at Facebook (now Meta), reveals the origin story of React, which began when an ads engineer presented a revolutionary approach to web UI rendering. The discussion extends to React’s evolution through Next.js.
Then, Shruti Kapoor breaks down React 19’s major features, including React Server Components (RSC), the new compiler implementation, and enhanced APIs that promise to streamline development workflows.
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Hack Club takes to the High Seas (Changelog Interviews #620)
Jerod is joined by Hack Clubber Acon, who is fresh off the GitHub Universe stage and ready to tell us all about High Seas, a new initiative by Zach Latta and the Hack Club crew that’s incentivizing teens to build cool personal projects by giving away free stuff.
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- How do you do, fellow Hack Clubbers? (Changelog Interviews #536)
- High Seas | Hack Club
- Apocalypse: Toronto’s zombified high school hackathon!
- Celeste
- Nitro Type | Competitive Typing Game | Race Your Friends
- Secret of Mana - Wikipedia
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Full-duplex, real-time dialogue with Kyutai (Practical AI #298)
Kyutai, an open science research lab, made headlines over the summer when they released their real-time speech-to-speech AI assistant (beating OpenAI to market with their teased GPT-driven speech-to-speech functionality). Alex from Kyutai joins us in this episode to discuss the research lab, their recent Moshi models, and what might be coming next from the lab. Along the way we discuss small models and the AI ecosystem in France.
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If not React, then what? (Changelog News #123)
Alex Russell answers the question, “If not React, then what?” Csaba Okrona identifies four core problems that create and reinforce knowledge silos, Rob Koch’s Markwhen is like Markdown for timelines, Jeff Geerling is quite impressed by Apple’s latest iteration on the Mac mini & Sylvain Kerkour took the time to draw a comparison of Amazon’s O.G. S3 service with Cloudflare’s R2 competitor.
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Clones, commerce & campaigns (Practical AI #297)
Chris and Daniel dive into what Trump’s impending second term could mean for AI companies, model developers, and regulators, unpacking the potential shifts in policy and innovation. Next, they discuss the latest models, like Qwen, that blur the performance gap between open and closed systems. Finally, they explore new AI tools for meeting clones and AI-driven commerce, sparking a conversation about the balance between digital convenience and fostering genuine human connections.
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WYSIWYG (JS Party #348)
At React Summit in New York, KBall & Nick sat down with Kent C. Dodds & Theo Browne for two fascinating conversations. Both of them showed us the whole gamut of their personalities!
Kent shared his insights on effective teaching methodologies and the future of developer education, while diving deep into React and the Remix/React Router ecosystem, and closing on an appeal for kindness int he world.
Then Theo took us behind the scenes of his developer-focused content creation, from streaming to the origins of the T3 stack, and how his online persona (including T3!) is “just him”.
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Public safety Kubernetes (Ship It! #132)
Marc Boorshtein from Tremolo Security joins Justin & Autumn to talk all about running Kubernetes in the public sector.
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Let's archive the web (Changelog Interviews #619)
Nick Sweeting joins Adam and Jerod to talk about the importance of archiving digital content, his work on ArchiveBox to make it easier, the challenges faced by Archive.org and the Wayback Machine, and the need for both centralized and distributed archiving solutions.
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- ArchiveBox
- ArchiveBox/abx-dl
- ArchiveBox/abx-pkg
- So you want to build a social network?
- The Internet Archive Loses Its Appeal of a Major Copyright Case
- Hachette v. Internet Archive | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Fahrenheit 451 - Wikipedia
- Winamp Skin Museum
- Fiscal Sponsorship – Hack Club
- DigestBox
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Waymos make bad neighbors (Changelog++ 🔐) (Changelog & Friends)
Adam & Jerod hallway-track-it before our All Things Open interviews. We discuss the trend in rebooting old school vehicles, our likes & dislikes of EVs, the Hummer’s new crab walk, Tesla’s gambit & more (This episode is for Changelog++ ears only.)
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Busting the ghost engineers (0.1x-ers) (Changelog News #122)
Ben Affleck’s take on AI replacing actors, Stanford researcher (Yegor Denisov-Blanch) busts the ghost engineers, Electrobun takes a crack at Electron apps, April King opens up a cookies can of worms, John Arundel thinks many of us are making a career ending mistake & Typogram’s CodingFont.com is like Zoolander’s Walk Off but for coding fonts.
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Local-first, y/n? (Changelog & Friends #71)
Our friends Johannes Schickling & James Long join us to discuss the movement of local-first, its pros and cons, the tradeoffs, and the path to the warming waters of mostly local apps.
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- James’ local-first post
- Bear - Markdown Notes
- livestorejs · GitHub
- ElectricSQL | Postgres sync engine
- Overtone
- Zero Sync
- Automerge CRDT
- Jazz - Build local-first apps
- localfirst.fm
- Ink & Switch define “Local-first software”
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Abstractions and implementations (Ship It! #131)
Hazel Weakly joins Justin and Autumn to talk about when to build abstractions and how to implement them. They also share experiences from tech conferences, and delve into the importance of building community and psychological safety in tech environments.
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Unpop roundup! 2023 (Go Time #338)
Go Time producer, Jerod Santo, ranks & reviews the most (un)popular opinions of 2023.
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- Is htmx the way to Go? (Go Time #266)
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- Long-term code maintenance (Go Time #264)
- Experiences from GopherCon 2023 (Go Time #293)
- What’s new in Go’s cryptography libraries: Part 2 (Go Time #298)
- The solo gopher (Go Time #283)
- HallwayConf! A new style of conference (Go Time #276)
- Hacking with Go: Part 4 (Go Time #270)
- Diversity at conferences (Go Time #274)
- Go templating using Templ (Go Time #291)
- Domain-driven design with Go (Go Time #273)
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Nine pillars of great Node apps (JS Party #347)
Recently, four pillars of the JavaScript community (James Snell, Natalia Venditto, Michael Dawson & Matteo Collina) teamed up to create a resource that lays out nine principles for doing Node.js right in enterprise environments. On this episode, Natalia & Matteo join Jerod to discuss all nine.
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Two tickets for Departure, please (Changelog Interviews #618)
Today we’re joined by a dynamic duo, Helena Zhang & Tobias Fried, who team up on all sorts of digital passion projects. This includes the wildly popular Phosphor Icons plus their latest joint, Departure Mono, a monospaced pixel font with a lo-fi technical vibe… that both Adam & Jerod are pretty much in love with. We discuss their tastes & inspirations, how they collab, making money on passion projects like these, velvet ropes & so much more.
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scikit-learn & data science you own (Practical AI #296)
We are at GenAI saturation, so let’s talk about scikit-learn, a long time favorite for data scientists building classifiers, time series analyzers, dimensionality reducers, and more! Scikit-learn is deployed across industry and driving a significant portion of the “AI” that is actually in production. :probabl is a new kind of company that is stewarding this project along with a variety of other open source projects. Yann Lechelle and Guillaume Lemaitre share some of the vision behind the company and talk about the future of scikit-learn!
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AI makes tech debt more expensive (Changelog News #121)
Evan Doyle says AI makes tech debt more expensive, Hunter Ng researches the ghost job ad phenomenon, Gavin Anderegg analyzes Bluesky in light of its recent success, Martin Tournoij rants against best practices & Evan Schwartz tells us why he thinks binary vector embeddings are so cool.
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Bus factors & conspiracy theories (Changelog & Friends #70)
Adam & Jerod discuss the news! Our Merch sale, useful built-in macOS CLI utilities, the slow death of the hyperlink, systematically estimating a project’s bus factor, The Browser Company abandoning Arc, the Dead Internet theory & more!
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- All Things Open AI Conference
- The Internet Archive is back as a read-only service after cyberattacks
- Useful built-in macOS command-line utilities
- The slow death of the hyperlink
- The github plugin my coworkers asked me not to write.
- The Bus Factor | MClare Blog
- A Novel Approach for Estimating Truck Factors
- Glass Onion (2022) - IMDb
- Knives Out (2019) - IMDb
- Arc is a dead browser walking (How-To Geek)
- Better version of the same story (via The Verge)
- You should go to conferences
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Hosting Hachyderm (Ship It! #130)
Preston Doster joins the show to tell us what it takes to run a Mastodon server with 55,000 accounts and 11,000 monthly active users.
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Gotta give to get back (Changelog Interviews #617)
We’re on the main stage at THAT Conference with Danny Thompson. He has an amazing story and journey into tech. Thanks to our friends at Cloudflare for helping us get to THAT Conference earlier this year to enable this conversation.
Special thanks to Nick Nisi and Clark Sell for coming in clutch and getting us the audio to ship this show!
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It's all about documentation (JS Party #346)
Carmen Huidobro joins Amy, KBall & Nick on the show to talk about her work, the importance of writing docs, and her upcoming conference talk at React Summit US!
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- Martin Fowler - if it hurts, do it often
- Declutter your JavaScript & TypeScript projects | Knip
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- Bad Website Club
- The Annoying Site
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Creating tested, reliable AI applications (Practical AI #295)
It can be frustrating to get an AI application working amazingly well 80% of the time and failing miserably the other 20%. How can you close the gap and create something that you rely on? Chris and Daniel talk through this process, behavior testing, and the flow from prototype to production in this episode. They also talk a bit about the apparent slow down in the release of frontier models.
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Crawl, walk & run your way to usable CLIs in Go (Go Time #337)
With the number of libraries available to Go developers these days, you’d think building a CLI app was now a trivial matter. But like many things in software development, it depends. In this episode, we explore the challenges that arose during one team’s journey towards a production-ready CLI.
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The democratization of spreadsheets (Changelog News #120)
Changelog Merch is now on sale, IronCalc sets out to democratize spreadsheets, Grant Slatton writes about algorithms we develop software by, Mark Rainey gives respect to the ultimate in debugging, Gitpod is leaving Kubernetes & Johannes Kaufmann’s html-to-markdown converts entire websites into Markdown.
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ANTHOLOGY – Self-hosted, self-confident & self-employed (Changelog & Friends #69)
We take you one last time back to the All Things Open 2024 hallway track to talk with some friends, new & old. We speak with Alex Kretzchmar about self-hosting. We speak with Israa Taha about self-confidence. We speak with Avindra Fernando & Adhithi Ravichandran about self-employment.
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- Self-Hosted Show
- Nix & NixOS
- Self-Hosted 133: No Google October
- Perplexica is an AI-powered search engine
- Foo Camp - Wikipedia
- BarCamp - Wikipedia
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News & whitepapers (Ship It! #129)
No interview this week! Instead, Justin & Autumn sit down to talk about what they’ve been learning recently.
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- Why techies leave Big Tech
- Urgent need for bias mitigation in LLMs
- AI police reports
- Apple’s LLM whitepaper
- Platform Strategy book
- Bluesky whitepaper
- Ghostty
- The death of product management
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How Vercel thinks about Next.js (JS Party #345)
Vercel CPO, Tom Occhino, joins Jerod for a one-on-one covering React & Next’s past, present & future. We discuss the birth of React, Tom’s move to Vercel, deploying Next apps to non-Vercel hosts, React as the next jQuery, the viability of Web Components, Vercel customers getting surprise bills & so much more.
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- React, React Native, Flux, Relay, GraphQL (Changelog Interviews #149)
- Next.js Conf by Vercel
- v0 by Vercel
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ANTHOLOGY — Packages, pledges & protocols (Changelog Interviews #616)
The hallway track at All Things Open 2024 — features Carl George, Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat for a discussion on the state of open source enterprise linux and RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux), Max Howell, creator of Homebrew and tea.xyz which offers rewards and recognition to open source maintainers, and Chad Whitacre, Head of Open Source at Sentry about the launch of Open Source Pledge and their plans to helps businesses and orgs to do the right thing and support open source.
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Writing a shell in Go (Go Time #336)
Writing a shell is rarely the kind of project you take on lightly. In this episode, Johnny is joined by Qi Xiao to explore how to go about such a feat in Go.
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AI is changing the cybersecurity threat landscape (Practical AI #294)
This week, Chris is joined by Gregory Richardson, Vice President and Global Advisory CISO at BlackBerry, and Ismael Valenzuela, Vice President of Threat Research & Intelligence at BlackBerry. They address how AI is changing the threat landscape, why human defenders remain a key part of our cyber defenses, and the explain the AI standoff between cyber threat actors and cyber defenders.
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Tactile controls are back in vogue (Changelog News #119)
IEEE Spectrum reports on the return to physical buttons and dials, Microsoft released GenAIScript, iFixit’s Elizabeth Chamberlain announces a big Right to Repair win, Daniela Baron reimagines technical interviews & John O’Nolan, shares some thoughts on open source governance and how to create trust within technology, communities, and media
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Wine Web and a whole lot of Whatnot (Changelog & Friends #68)
We join the Whiskey Web and Whatnot podcast live from the hallway track at All Things Open 2024. Topics include: Chianti, content creation, open source, fake jobs, cancel culture, Silicon Valley (ding), frontend frustrations, the Roman empire & more.
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Infosec & OpenTelemetry (Ship It! #128)
Maybe Jira for your kids’ chores is a good idea… Probably not.
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Rails is having a moment (again) (Changelog Interviews #615)
(Includes expletives) David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH), creator of Ruby on Rails and co-owner of 37signals, joined the show to discuss this Rails moment and renewed excitement for Rails. We discuss hard opinions, developers being cooked too long in the JavaScript soup, finding developer joy, the pros and cons of the BDFL, the ongoing WordPress drama with WP Engine, and what’s to come in Rails 8.
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- Rails World 2024 Keynote - David Heinemeier Hansson
- What’s New in Ruby on Rails 8
- Rails is leaning hard into SQLite right now
- The Empowered Programmer (Justin Searls) - Rails World 2024
- Kamal - Deploy web apps anywhere
- LiteFS - Distributed SQLite
- Turso - libsql
- RubyGems.org
- Automattic is doing open source dirty
- Matt’s “Response to DHH”
- Capture less than you create
- My Freedom of Speech
- Open Source and Power with Matt Mullenweg (Rework podcast)
- Breaking Camp
- Our cloud-exit savings will now top ten million over five years
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Kind of a big deal (JS Party #344)
Jerod & the gang play “Twenty” Questions to get to know Amy, review the big Svelte 5 release, discuss commercial open source & get Nick’s report from SquiggleConf!
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The path towards trustworthy AI (Practical AI #293)
Elham Tabassi, the Chief AI Advisor at the U.S. National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST), joins Chris for an enlightening discussion about the path towards trustworthy AI. Together they explore NIST’s ‘AI Risk Management Framework’ (AI RMF) within the context of the White House’s ‘Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence’.
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Developing with Docker (the right way) (Changelog News #118)
Daniel Quinn weighs in on how to develop with Docker The Right Way, Mitchell Hashimoto says Ghostty will be publicly released this coming December, Kevin Li writes about the value of learning how to learn, The Browser Company moves on from Arc & the React Native team ships its new architecture.
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Your customer is Amazon.com (Ship It! #127)
From switching ISPs to migrating Amazon off Oracle, Pete Naylor knows which database to use.
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Ten years of freeCodeCamp (Changelog & Friends #67)
At the tail end of 2019, we got together with Quincy Larson to celebrate ten years of Changelog & five years of freeCodeCamp by recording back-to-back episodes on each other’s pods. Can you believe it’s now five years later and we’re all still here doing our thing?! Let’s learn what Quincy and the amazing community at freeCodeCamp have been up to!
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- Five years of freeCodeCamp (Changelog Interviews #369)
- Ten years of Changelog (Backstage #9)
- How to Learn to Code and Get a Developer Job [Full Book]
- Learn to Code RPG – A Visual Novel Video Game Where you Learn Computer Science Concepts
- podcast - freeCodeCamp.org
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Big data is dead, analytics is alive (Practical AI #292)
We are on the other side of “big data” hype, but what is the future of analytics and how does AI fit in? Till and Adithya from MotherDuck join us to discuss why DuckDB is taking the analytics and AI world by storm. We dive into what makes DuckDB, a free, in-process SQL OLAP database management system, unique including its ability to execute lighting fast analytics queries against a variety of data sources, even on your laptop! Along the way we dig into the intersections with AI, such as text-to-sql, vector search, and AI-driven SQL query correction.
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Elasticsearch is open source, again (Changelog Interviews #614)
Shay Banon, the creator of Elasticsearch, joins us to discuss pulling off a reverse rug pull. Yes, Elasticsearch is open source, again! We discuss the complexities surrounding open source licensing and what made Elastic change their license, the implications of trademark law, the personal and business impact of moving away from open source, and ultimately what made them hit rewind and return to open source.
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- Changelog Interviews #429: Community perspectives on Elastic vs AWS
- Why we had to change Elastic licensing
- Changelog Interviews #578: What exactly is Open Source AI?
- Drafts of the Open Source AI Definition
- Llama.com
- “Llama the leading open source model family”
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AI for Observability (Go Time #335)
Yasir Ekinci joins Johnny & Mat to talk about how virtually every Observability vendor is rushing to add Generative AI capabilities to their products and what that entails from both a development and usability perspective.
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Naming conventions that need to die (Changelog News #117)
Will Crichton wishes some naming conventions would die already, GitHub user brjsp noticed that Bitwarden’s new SDK dependency isn’t open source, Joaquim Rocha details his forking best practices, Sophie Koonin explains why you should go to conferences & Mike Hoye puts WordPress on SQLite.
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You'll rent chips and be happy (Changelog & Friends #66)
Zac Smith left his role leading Equinix Metal in June of 2023. Since then, he’s been thinking deeply about the present and potential future of data centers, OEMs, chip makers & more.
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- Building on global bare metal (Founders Talk #84)
- Whiplash (2014) - IMDb
- You’ll own nothing and be happy - Wikipedia
- From Sun to Oxide (Changelog Interviews #592)
- We have a right to repair! (Changelog Interviews #582)
- SSI Alliance
- Three Mile Island nuclear power plant will reopen for Microsoft
- Ethical Hacker Warns: Check Your Charger ASAP & What Happens After Clicking Adult Sites
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Kubernetes is an anti-platform (Ship It! #126)
Adam Jacob remains optimistic about the future for infrastructure and is building new ideas to make it better.
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Lessons from 10k hours of programming (remastered) (Changelog Interviews #613)
This week we’re going back in time to one of our top performing shows of all time where we talk with Matt Rickard about his blog post Reflections on 10,000 Hours of Programming. These reflections are about deliberately writing code for 10,000 hours. Most don’t apply to beginners. He was clear to mention that these reflections are purely about coding, not career advice or soft skills. If you count the reflections we cover on the show and be the first to comment the amount of reflections on this thread in Zulip, we’ll give you a coupon code to use for a 100% free t-shirt from the merch store. Good luck…
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- Heptagon of Configuration
- Linux Kernel Docs on commenting
- Ahmad Nassri on JS Party
- Todo or Die - Python Edition
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Digging through Jerod Santo’s tool box (JS Party #343)
KBall interviews Jerod about the tools he uses in development, podcasting & business. We start with text editors & terminal tools, move to podcast recording & editing tools, discuss the open source podcasting platform Jerod built in Elixir, then finish with tools to run a small business & our approaches to genAI. Oh, and you don’t want to miss Jerod’s Big Confession!
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- Transistor
- Harvest
- Freshbooks
- Gusto
- Ollama
- Enchanted
- Cursor
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Practical workflow orchestration (Practical AI #291)
Workflow orchestration has always been a pain for data scientists, but this is exacerbated in these AI hype days by agentic workflows executing arbitrary (not pre-defined) workflows with a variety of failure modes. Adam from Prefect joins us to talk through their open source Python library for orchestration and visibility into python-based pipelines. Along the way, he introduces us to things like Marvin, their AI engineering framework, and ControlFlow, their agent workflow system.
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Working from home is powering productivity (Changelog News #116)
Nicholas Bloom finds WFH is powering a productivity boom, Matt Mullenweg has decided that WP Engine’s beatings will continue until morale improves, Levels.fyi has added a salary heat map, Gareth Edwards highlights just how fragile the Internet really is & Artem Zakirullin details how cognitive load is what really matters in software development.
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The indispensable cog (Changelog & Friends #65)
Go Time co-host, Johnny Boursiquot, joins Adam & Jerod to discuss not making the (first) cut, applying Founder Mode, being a cog (or not), realizing that companies are posting fake engineering jobs & the (maybe) imminent demise of the .io TLD.
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- 300 multiple choices (Go Time #300)
- Learn Go with Johnny
- “Founder Mode” at work when you’re not a founder (Go Time #332)
- I’m a cog.
- Ask HN: Who is pretending to be hiring?
- The Disappearance of an Internet Domain
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TIME to get SERIESous about databases (Ship It! #125)
Lili Cosic’s experience at different companies & communities has given her insights into what’s important & when to adapt to learn new (or old) things.
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The Moneyball approach (Changelog Interviews #612)
John Nunemaker joins us to share his new thesis for acquiring Rails based SaaS apps. He’s early days on his next big thing called Very Good Software and recently acquired Fireside, a podcast hosting service started by Dan Benjamin. This comes after many years since John’s acquisition of a lifetime of Speakerdeck to GitHub, which laid the foundation for these moves.
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A great horse to bet on (JS Party #342)
Jerod & KBall discuss a trio of goings on in/around the web dev world: Evan You’s new startup, Matt Mullenweg’s WordPress mess & Ryan Carniato’s WebComponents debate.
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Unpop roundup! 2022 (Go Time #334)
The last time we did a roundup of our unpopular opinion polls, it was November of 2021!
That’s too long ago, so today we fix that bug. Join Go Time producer, Jerod Santo, as he ranks & reviews the most (un)popular opinions of 2022.
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- The other features in Go 1.18 (Go Time #217)
- Going with GraphQL (Go Time #218)
- Bob Logblaw Log Blog (Go Time #220)
- Mastering Go (Go Time #221)
- How can we prevent legacy from creeping in? (Go Time #223)
- Answering questions for the Go-curious (Go Time #224)
- What’s new in Go 1.19 (Go Time #240)
- Avoiding bloat (Go Time #246)
- Stay agile out there (Go Time #247)
- Hacking with Go: Part 2 (Go Time #251)
- Debugging Go (Go Time #255)
- How Pinterest delivers software at scale (Go Time #257)
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Towards high-quality (maybe synthetic) datasets (Practical AI #290)
As Argilla puts it: “Data quality is what makes or breaks AI.” However, what exactly does this mean and how can AI team probably collaborate with domain experts towards improved data quality? David Berenstein & Ben Burtenshaw, who are building Argilla & Distilabel at Hugging Face, join us to dig into these topics along with synthetic data generation & AI-generated labeling / feedback.
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The slow death of the hyperlink (Changelog News #115)
A bias against hyperlinking has developed on platforms, GitHub engineering continues to evolve Issues, Evan You announces VoidZero, some companies are only pretend hiring & Klaas van Schelven asks: does it scale (down)?
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You suck at programming (Ship It! #124)
Dave Eddy has learned systems programming the traditional way with books and man pages. Now he’s sharing what he’s learned, starting with bash.
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Developer (un)happiness (Changelog & Friends #64)
Abi Noda, co-founder and CEO at DX, joins the show to talk through data shared from the Stack Overflow 2024 Developer Survey, why devs are really unhappy, and what they’re doing at DX to help orgs and teams to understand the metrics behind their developer’s happiness and productivity.
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- Abi leads DX - The developer intelligence platform
- Stack Overflow 2024 Developer Survey
- Insights from the 2024 Developer Survey
- Changelog.com News 106
- 80% of developers are unhappy. The problem is not AI, nor is coding (shiftmag.dev)
- The One Number You Need to Increase ROI per Engineer (getdx.com)
- Measuring developer productivity with the DX Core 4 (getdx.com)
- @addyosmani - Good code is like a love letter
- Brian Reagan on pain
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Create interactive tutorials the easy way (JS Party #341)
Tomek Sułkowski from TutorialKit joins Jerod to tell him all about the open source toolkit for creating awesome, interactive tutorials without having to code up the hard parts.
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- Running Node natively in the browser with Eric Simons from StackBlitz
- TutorialKit
- TutorialKit on GitHub
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Russ Cox on passing the torch (Go Time #333)
In this episode, we will be talking to Russ Cox, who joined the Go team at Google in 2008 and has been the Go project tech lead since 2012, about stepping back & handing over the reins to Austin Clements, who will also join us! We also have Cherry Mui, who is stepping into Austin’s previous role as tech lead of the “Go core”.
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- Golang Weekly
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- Go Bridge
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- Austin’s Github
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Understanding what's possible, doable & scalable (Practical AI #289)
We are constantly hearing about disillusionment as it relates to AI. Some of that is probably valid, but Mike Lewis, an AI architect from Cincinnati, has proven that he can consistently get LLM and GenAI apps to the point of real enterprise value (even with the Big Cos of the world). In this episode, Mike joins us to share some stories from the AI trenches & highlight what it takes (practically) to show what is possible, doable & scalable with AI.
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Free-threaded Python (Changelog Interviews #611)
Jerod is joined by the co-hosts of core.py , Pablo Galindo & Łukasz Langa, a podcast about Python internals by people who work on Python internals. Python 3.13 is right around the corner, which means the Global Interpeter Lock (GIL) is now experimentally optional! This is a huge deal as Python is finally free-threaded. There’s more to discuss, of course, so we get into all the gory details.
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- What’s New In Python 3.13
- Free-threaded compatibility status tracking
- 🧵 Free-Threaded Wheels
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Display custom maps on your website for free (Changelog News #114)
OpenFreeMap puts OpenStreetMap data on your website for free, Fatih Arslan builds a Dieter Rams inspired iPhone dock, Joseph Gentle thinks the Rust programming language feels like a first-gen product & the web dev community is debating the viability of Web Components once again.
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The wrong place to slap a person (Changelog & Friends #63)
Nick Nisi joins Adam and Jerod to talk about Karaoke, ARC and the business model of web browsers, this WordPress drama, and an epic bonus for Changelog ++ subscribers.
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- Enchanted iOS / macOS app
- Ollama
- Tuning a guitar with ChatGPT
- Arc CVE
- Pocket Casts iOS
- WP Engine is not WordPress
- WP Engine Cease and Desist (PDF)
- Automattic sends WP Engine its own cease-and-desist | TechCrunch
- WP Engine is banned from WordPress.org
- WP Engine is not WordPress
- Matt Talks About WordPress Situation
- These responses are like whoa
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A learning mindset, starting with COBOL (Ship It! #123)
The ability to learn on the job has been a critical skill for David Beale throughout his career. Is the job market not allowing that anymore?
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Leveling up JavaScript with Deno 2 (JS Party #340)
Jerod is joined by Ryan Dahl to discuss his second take on leveling up JavaScript developers all around the world. Jerod asks Ryan why not try to fix or fork Node instead of starting fresh, how Deno (the open source project) can avoid the all too common rug pull (not cool) scenario, what’s new in Deno 2 & their pragmatic decision to support npm, they talk JSR, they talk Deno KV & SQLite, they even talk about Ryan’s open letter to Oracle in an attempt to free the unused “JavaScript” trademark from the giant’s clutches.
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- From Node.js to Deno: How It All Began - YouTube
- 10 Things I Regret About Node.js - YouTube
- JSR: the JavaScript Registry
- rusty_v8: Rust bindings for the V8 JavaScript engine
- JavaScript™ (Dear Oracle)
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Leveling up JavaScript with Deno 2 (Changelog Interviews #610)
Jerod is joined by Ryan Dahl to discuss his second take on leveling up JavaScript developers all around the world. Jerod asks Ryan why not try to fix or fork Node instead of starting fresh, how Deno (the open source project) can avoid the all too common rug pull (not cool) scenario, what’s new in Deno 2 & their pragmatic decision to support npm, they talk JSR, they talk Deno KV & SQLite, they even talk about Ryan’s open letter to Oracle in an attempt to free the unused “JavaScript” trademark from the giant’s clutches.
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- From Node.js to Deno: How It All Began - YouTube
- 10 Things I Regret About Node.js - YouTube
- JSR: the JavaScript Registry
- rusty_v8: Rust bindings for the V8 JavaScript engine
- JavaScript™ (Dear Oracle)
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GraphRAG (beyond the hype) (Practical AI #288)
Seems like we are hearing a lot about GraphRAG these days, but there are lots of questions: what is it, is it hype, what is practical? One of our all time favorite podcast friends, Prashanth Rao, joins us to dig into this topic beyond the hype. Prashanth gives us a bit of background and practical use cases for GraphRAG and graph data.
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- Kùzu: A highly scalable, extremely fast, easy-to-use embeddable, open source graph database: GitHub repo
- The goals and vision of Kùzu: Blog post
- Kùzu YouTube channel
- Graph RAG strategies with Kùzu: GitHub repo
- Prashanth Rao’s blog: thedataquarry.com
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"Founder Mode" at work when you're not a founder (Go Time #332)
Tech twitter (“tech X”?) is abuzz with Paul Graham’s Founder Mode essay. How does that affect you or come into play when you’re not a founder? Does it matter at all to you, your projects & your code?
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Imagine Fly.io on your own VPS (Changelog News #113)
Mahmoud Mousa releases Sidekick, a tool for hosting side projects on a cheap VPS, Ryan Dahl, has had enough of Oracle bogarting “JavaScript” but not even using it, Thomas Rampelberg’s kty is a sweet terminal for Kubernetes, Redis users are considering alternatives after their relicense & a bunch of smart JS folks wrote up nine Node.js pillars.
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Kaizen! Just do it (Changelog & Friends #62)
Gerhard Lazu joins us for Kaizen 16! Our Pipe Dream™️ is becoming a reality, our custom feeds are shipping, our deploys are rolling out faster & our tooling is getting just right.
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- github.com/thechangelog/pipedream
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- Join us in Zulip
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- Setup the app locally with just one command: just contribute #521
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Linux distros (Ship It! #122)
uBlue is trying to build the world’s best Linux experience for developers and gamers. Jorge Castro joins Justin & Autumn to tell us how it’s going.
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It's all about the squiggles (JS Party #339)
Nick is joined by Josh Goldberg & Dimitri Mitropoulos to discuss SquiggleConf, a new conference focused on web dev tooling. We explore the motivations behind creating a conference dedicated to developer tools, the challenges of organizing both conferences and local meetups, and strategies for building engaged tech communities.
We also discuss the importance of developer tooling, the pandemic’s impact on tech events, and share insights on encouraging new speakers and creating inclusive environments & more!
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- ESLint
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- Mocha
- Learning TypeScript book
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- Boston TS Club
- NebraskaJS
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- React
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- Go programming language
- TypeScript
- New England Aquarium conference venue
- Squiggle Conf Discord
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The best, worst codebase (Changelog Interviews #609)
Jimmy Miller talks to us about his experience with a legacy codebase at his first job as a programmer. The codebase was massive, with hundreds of thousands of lines of C# and Visual Basic, and a database with over 1,000 columns. Let’s just say Jimmy got into some stuff. There’s even a Gilfoyle involved. This episode is all about his adventures while working there.
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How I lost my (old) job to AI (Go Time #331)
In this follow-up to episode #306, “How soon until AI takes my job?”, the gang of (grumpy?) veteran software engineers candidly chat about how their day to day is changing in the midst of improving AI tooling & hype.
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Pausing to think about scikit-learn & OpenAI o1 (Practical AI #287)
Recently the company stewarding the open source library scikit-learn announced their seed funding. Also, OpenAI released “o1” with new behavior in which it pauses to “think” about complex tasks. Chris and Daniel take some time to do their own thinking about o1 and the contrast to the scikit-learn ecosystem, which has the goal to promote “data science that you own.”
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- OpenAI o1 announcement
- Purdue Data4Good competition
- MLOps Community homepage and Slack workspace
- Latent Space homepage and Discord server
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Why GitHub actually won (Changelog News #112)
Scott Chacon writes up his insider take on GitHub’s success, Sentry wants other companies to take the Open Source Pledge, Benj Edwards used AI to reproduce his late father’s handwriting, Dave Kiss explains the current hype that PHP is getting & Taylor Otwell raises $57 million series A from Accel.
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Building Rawkode Academy (Ship It! #121)
David Flanagan created a successful YouTube channel but knew to take things to the next level he’d need to own more of the stack.
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Reverse rug pull, so cool? (Changelog & Friends #61)
Jerod & Adam share our Zulip first impressions, react to Elasticsearch going open source (again), discuss Christian Hollinger’s blog post on why he still self-hosts & answer a listener question: how do we produce podcasts?
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- Is Linux collapsing under its own weight? (Changelog News #111)
- We take requests!
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- Kaizen! Four PRs, one big feature (Ship It! #70)
- A guided tour through ID3 esoterica (Changelog Interviews #508)
- A Nick-level emergency (JS Party #333)
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Undirected hyper arrows (JS Party #338)
Chris Shank has been on sabbatical since January, so he’s had a lot of time to think deeply about the web platform. On this episode, Jerod & KBall pick Chris’ brain to answer questions like, what does a post-component paradigm look like? What would it look like if the browser had primitives for building spatial canvases? How can we make it easier to make “folk interfaces” on the web?
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Building customizable ergonomic keyboards (Changelog Interviews #608)
Erez Zukerman shares the story of launching the ErgoDox EZ on Indiegogo (May 2015), what it takes to create customizable ergonomic keyboards, the benefits of split keyboards and custom key layouts, repairability and longevity, community engagement, and the attention to detail required in everything they create. We talk through their keyboard lineup, our personal experience with how we mouse and keyboard…we cover it all.
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- ErgoDox EZ
- Changelog Interviews #582: We have a right to repair! with Kyle Wiens (iFixit)
- FairPhone
- ZSA.io
- DIY trackpad for the Voyager
- How to spray paint your keyboard
- ZSA cards
- Linus Tech Tips - Ergodox EZ Review
- Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic Keyboard
- Pagat.com - A website dedicated to cards and card games.
- Ergodox EZ on Indiegogo
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Cybersecurity in the GenAI age (Practical AI #286)
Dinis Cruz drops by to chat about cybersecurity for generative AI and large language models. In addition to discussing The Cyber Boardroom, Dinis also delves into cybersecurity efforts at OWASP and that organization’s Top 10 for LLMs and Generative AI Apps.
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Home automation with Go (Go Time #330)
Join Johnny as he dives into the world of home automation with Ricardo Gerardi & Mike Riley, two tinkerers who’ve taken the plunge with Go. We explore the challenges (and the fun) they encounter along the way. If you’re interested in automating your home (or working with micro controllers) come learn how to get started!
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- Automate your home with Go from Pragmatic Publishers
- Powerful Command-Line Applications in Go from Pragmatic Publishers
- TinyGo - A Go Compiler For Small Places
- Gitea - Private, Fast, Reliable DevOps Platform
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Is Linux collapsing under its own weight? (Changelog News #111)
A Rust for Linux developer resigns amidst rising tension in the Linux community, Bret Victor shows off what he’s been working on for years, Rachel (by the bay) laments how useless “SRE” has become as a role, Doug Turnbull makes the case for hiring junior devs & Baldur Bjarnason says the LLM honeymoon phase is about to end.
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Starbucks DVD peddlers (Changelog & Friends #60)
Emily Freeman joins the show alongside our Ship It co-host, Justin Garrison! We hear Emily’s burnout story & learn how she and Forrest Brazeal are putting tech-focused influencers on tap. But first: area code turf wars, bad movie reboots & buying used DVDs… at Starbucks?!
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- The Andromeda Strain
- Song Encoder: Forrest Brazeal
- freeman + forrest
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Learning & teaching networking & AI (Ship It! #120)
Du’An Lightfoot, dev advocate at AWS, joins Justin & Autumn to discuss networking, a knowledge gap people many people have. You can ignore the things you don’t understand or you can invest time to learn it.
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Don’t ever use these TypeScript features (JS Party #337)
Jerod, Nick & Chris discuss a next-gen JavaScript bundler, Node getting even tighter with TypeScript, the top programming languages according to IEEE Spectrum, Chris’ feelings on Node’s built-in test runner & more!
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- Announcing Rspack 1.0
- Node.js — Node v22.7.0 (Current)
- Top Programming Languages 2024
- MoonScript, a language that compiles to Lua
- TypeScriptToLua
- Home - Satisfactory Game
- Nest ’dem loops featuring NESTED LOOPS
- Song Encoder: $STDOUT
- The TC39 song
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Open source threaded team chat?! (Changelog Interviews #607)
We’re joined by Alya Abbott from Zulip, the open source, organized, threaded, team chat for distributed teams of all sizes. We talk about Zulip’s origins, how it’s open source, the way it’s led, no VC funding, what makes it different/better, how you can self-host it or use their cloud, moving to Zulip, contributing and being a part of the community…all the things.
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- Zulip - the open source, organized, threaded, team chat for distributed teams of all sizes
- chat.zulip.org
- Moving to Zulip
- zulip/zulip-terminal
- zulip/docker-zulip
- Flutter.dev
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AI is more than GenAI (Practical AI #285)
GenAI is often what people think of when someone mentions AI. However, AI is much more. In this episode, Daniel breaks down a history of developments in data science, machine learning, AI, and GenAI in this episode to give listeners a better mental model. Don’t miss this one if you are wanting to understand the AI ecosystem holistically and how models, embeddings, data, prompts, etc. all fit together.
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Cursor wants to write all the world's code (Changelog News #110)
The Cursor AI code editor raises $60 million, RedMonk’s Rachel Stephens tries to determine if rug pulls are worth it, Caleb Porzio details how he made $1 million on GitHub Sponsors, Elastic founder Shay Banon announces that Elasticsearch is open source (again) & Tomas Stropus writes about the art of finishing.
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The diagram IS the code (Ship It! #119)
What if your infrastructure diagram was responsible for the actual infrastructure?! John Watson & Scott Prutton from System Initiative join Justin & Autumn to discuss.
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#define: piggyback (Changelog & Friends #59)
What happens when you take two #define champs (Taylor Troesh, Thomas Eckert), a grizzled veteran (Adam Stacoviak), a british bard (Mat Ryer), a PhD (Carol Lee) & you pit them against each other in a game of fake tech definitions?! There’s only one way to find out…
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Metrics Driven Development (Practical AI #284)
How do you systematically measure, optimize, and improve the performance of LLM applications (like those powered by RAG or tool use)? Ragas is an open source effort that has been trying to answer this question comprehensively, and they are promoting a “Metrics Driven Development” approach. Shahul from Ragas joins us to discuss Ragas in this episode, and we dig into specific metrics, the difference between benchmarking models and evaluating LLM apps, generating synthetic test data and more.
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Reinventing Kafka on object storage (Changelog Interviews #606)
Ryan Worl, Co-founder and CTO at WarpStream, joins us to talk about the world of Kafka and data streaming and how WarpStream redesigned the idea of Kafka to run in modern cloud environments directly on top of object storage. Last year they posted a blog titled, “Kafka is dead, long live Kafka” that hit the top of Hacker News to put WarpStream on the map. We get the backstory on Kafka and why it’s so widely used, who created it and for what purpose, and the behind the scenes on all things WarpStream.
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- Kafka is dead, long live Kafka
- Apache Kafka - open-source distributed event streaming platform used by thousands of companies for high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration, and mission-critical applications.
- Current 2024
- Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka
- Bobby Brown - My Prerogative
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When 3rd party JavaScript attacks (JS Party #336)
Simon Wijckmans from c/side joins Jerod & Nick to discuss the Pollyfill attack in detail. What does it mean for web developers & client-side security going forward?
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The community of gophers (Go Time #329)
On this episode, Angelica is joined by Go community leaders from around the world: meetup organizers from Guadalajara, St. Louis, New York & Go Bridge Atlanta. Together, they explore the ins & outs of organizing meetups, the benefits of attending, the Go Developer Network (GDN) & the current state of the Go Meetup community.
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- Go Developers
- Platform Engineering New York
- NJ Code & Coffee
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- Golang Guadalajara
- GoBridge
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- MO Reliability
- CNCF Saint Louis
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What good programmers worry about (Changelog News #109)
Waymo cars make bad neighbors, Leonardo Creed pulls together wisdom from Linus Torvalds & the Art of Unix Programming to conclude what good programmers worry about, Max Schmitt makes the argument that toast notifications create a bad user experience, ChartDB is a web-based database diagramming editor, Simon Tatham makes a list of code review anti-patterns & scientists confirm that ‘flow state’ is very much a thing.
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The great escape room (Changelog & Friends #58)
Adam & Jerod catch up with our ol’ friend, Suz Hinton! It’s been a couple years since Suz was a regular on JS Party. Since then, she moved back to Australia, earned a degree in cyber security & won a fidget spinner from the NSA… but that’s not all!
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- Suz on freeCodeCamp pod
- Suz Live coding: OSCON edition
- Lego Cooking - YouTube
- New Kids On The Block - Hangin’ Tough - YouTube
- NSA Codebreaker Challenge
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MySQL performance (Ship It! #118)
Silvia Botros joins Justin & Autumn for a phenomenal conversation about databases, her career path & the ins/outs of writing High Performance MySQL.
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There be a11y dragons (JS Party #335)
Eric Bailey joins Jerod to discuss everything Dungeons & Dragons taught him about writing alt text, building accessible websites, Primer, the problem with a11y overlays & more.
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- How we’re building more inclusive and accessible components at GitHub
- Primer
- Data table | Primer
- axe: Accessibility Testing Tools and Software
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- HeadingsMap - Chrome Web Store
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- Overlay Fact Sheet
- Midnight Lizard - color schemes for all websites
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Threat modeling LLM apps (Practical AI #283)
If you have questions at the intersection of Cybersecurity and AI, you need to know Donato at WithSecure! Donato has been threat modeling AI applications and seriously applying those models in his day-to-day work. He joins us in this episode to discuss his LLM application security canvas, prompt injections, alignment, and more.
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- LLM Security Chronicles Playlist on YouTube
- Should you let ChatGPT control your browser?
- When your AI assistant has an evil twin
- Pliny the Liberator - jailbreak guru
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Flavors of Ship It! (Changelog Interviews #605)
Flavors of Ship It on The Changelog — if you’re not subscribed to Ship It yet, do so at shipit.show or by searching for “Ship it” wherever you listen to podcasts. Every week Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash explore everything that happens after git push — and today’s flavors include running infrastructure in space, managing millions of machines at Meta, and what it takes to control your 3D printer with OctoPrint.
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This episode is from these original episodes of Ship it:
- Ship It! #92: Shipping in SPAAAACCEEE with Andrew Guenther from Orbital Sidekick
- Ship It! #102: Managing Meta’s millions of machines with Anita Zhang from Meta
- Ship It! #107: 3D printed infrastructure with Gina Häußge from OctoPrint
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⚡ Lightning Talk life ⚡ (Go Time #327)
This episode focuses on the art of delivering concise Lightning Talks, a popular format at conferences worldwide where speakers present in a short timeframe. Joined by some of this year’s GopherCon Lightning Talkers, we’ll discuss their experiences, challenges & tips for effective communication within a limited time.
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Practices of reliable software design (Changelog News #108)
Chris Stjernlöf got nerd-sniped and ended up writing down his practices of reliable software design, Ben Visness has had enough with the npm community’s propensity to pull in micro-libraries to suit every need, “Stay SaaSy” makes three metaphors for problem solving categories, Troy Hunt takes us inside the “3 billion people” National Public Data breach & Dasel is one data tool to rule them all.
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The Winamp era (Changelog & Friends #57)
You won’t believe the bizarre secrets Jordan Eldredge found investigating corrupt Winamp skins (#7 will shock you)! You also won’t believe how long we can wax nostalgic about the era of Napster, Aladdin & Pearl Jam.
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- The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins
- Mainlining Nostalgia: Making the Winamp Skin Museum
- The Winamp Skin Museum is powered by an sqlite3 database
- Winamp Skin Museum
- AC/DC - Back In Black (Official 4K Video) - YouTube
- Tom Waits - “Alice” - YouTube
- A 1979 Tom Waits interview : r/OldSchoolCool
- Led Zeppelin - Black Dog (Official Audio) - YouTube
- Led Zeppelin IV - Wikipedia
- Jain - Makeba (Official Video) - YouTube
- One Jump Ahead - YouTube
- Justin Frankel - Wikipedia
- All Apologies - YouTube
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Cloud-centric security logging (Ship It! #117)
Justin & Autumn are joined by Steven Wu from Scanner. Scanner built logging infrastructure focused on security teams and occasional querying. We dive deep into how architectural decisions affect your business.
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Forging Minecraft's scripting API (JS Party #334)
Raphael Landaverde & Jake Shirley work on Minecraft full-time. How cool is that?! On this episode, they join Jerod to tell us all about the web tech that drives Minecraft’s scripting infrastructure, how they incrementally change a massive / always-moving target, the best / worst parts of the job & much more.
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- Jake on Discord: DarkNavi
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Why we need Ladybird (Changelog Interviews #604)
Andreas Kling and Chris Wanstrath have joined forces to form a non-profit called Ladybird Browser Initiative to manage the newly forked Ladybird browser. We discuss what it’s going to take to get to alpha, the why behind Ladybird, avoiding incentives other than those of the users, their plans for incremental adoption of Swift as the successor language over C++, and of course what they hope Ladybird can achieve as a truly independent open source browser that’s for the people.
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- Ladybird announcement (from Chris Wanstrath)
- Ladybird.org
- Ladybird Browser (on GitHub)
- The Changelog #10: All things GitHub with Chris Wanstrath
- Changelog Interviews #554: The serenity of building your own OS with Andreas Kling
- Swift.org
- Crafting Interpreters by Robert Nystrom (book)
- Click (2006) Official Trailer (from Adam Sandler)
- Plug: Void.dev
- Plug: Andreas Kling on YouTube
- Plug: Cozy lofi from Katalin Kult (ghost whiskers)
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Only as good as the data (Practical AI #282)
You might have heard that “AI is only as good as the data.” What does that mean and what data are we talking about? Chris and Daniel dig into that topic in the episode exploring the categories of data that you might encounter working in AI (for training, testing, fine-tuning, benchmarks, etc.). They also discuss the latest developments in AI regulation with the EU’s AI Act coming into force.
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Big shoes to fill (Go Time #326)
Kris, Angelica & Johnny react to the recently announced Go team changes, discuss the finding that 80% of developers surveyed by Stack Overflow are unhappy & disagree about the concept of tech debt (but agree that something’s gotta give).
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- 80% of professional programmers are unhappy (Changelog News #106)
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The best, worst codebase (Changelog News #107)
Jimmy Miller tells us about the best, worst codebase he’s ever seen, The Phylum Research Team follows up on the great npm garbage patch, Zach Leatherman logs his findings on sneaky serverless costs, David Cain wants you to go on quests instead of goals & Ashley Janssen gives us szeven rules for effective meeting culture.
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The Zookeeper of jujutsu (Ship It! #116)
Tim Banks joins Justin and Autumn — there’s nothing quite like being punched in the face by Zookeeper or being taken down by a “hot” shard.
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Picking a database should be simple (Changelog & Friends #56)
Database aficionado, Ben Johnson, joins Jerod to answer the age ol’ question: which database should you use? Answering that isn’t always easy, which means it’s time to play the “It Depends” jingle & weigh (some of) the options.
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- BoltDB, InfluxDB, Key-Value Databases with Ben Johnson (Changelog Interviews #170)
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OpenAPI & API design (Go Time #328)
We’re talking OpenAPI this week! Kris & Johnny are joined by Jamie Tanna, one of the maintainers of oapi-codegen, to discuss OpenAPI, API design philosophies, versioning, and open source maintenance and sustainability. In addition to the usual laughs and unpopular opinions, this week’s episode includes a Changelog++ section that you don’t want to miss.
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- oapi-codegen is moving to its own org
- Creating a more sustainable model for oapi-codegen in the future
- I’m Now A Full-time Profession Open Source Maintainer
- Does the tech industry thrive on free work?
- Jamie’s GitHub Sponsors Profile
- How do you represent a JSON field in Go that could be absent, null or have a value?
- APIs as infrastructure: future-proofing Stripe with versioning
- Common Haus
- Workflow
- Introduction to OpenRewrite
- OpenAPI Changes
- quobix.com
- pb33f.io
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Into the Bobiverse (Changelog Interviews #603)
Dennis E. Taylor joins the show to take us “Into the Bobiverse” and other books he’s written. Dennis shares the backstory on how he went from programmer to author/writer and creator of Audible’s Best Science Fiction Book of 2016, his process for iterating and developing the story as he writes, plans for a Bobiverse movie, and what’s next in book 5 coming out in September 2024.
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- Xprize - Deep Tech + Quantum
- Self-replicating spacecraft on Wikipedia
- Hard science fiction on Wikipedia
- Dennis E. Taylor on Wikipedia
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Gaudi processors & Intel's AI portfolio (Practical AI #281)
There is an increasing desire for and effort towards GPU alternatives for AI workloads and an ability to run GenAI models on CPUs. Ben and Greg from Intel join us in this episode to help us understand Intel’s strategy as it related to AI along with related projects, hardware, and developer communities. We dig into Intel’s Gaudi processors, open source collaborations with Hugging Face, and AI on CPU/Xeon processors.
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- Intel’s AI & Machine Learning Ecosystem Developer Resources
- Intel® Tiber™ Developer Cloud
- Intel Gaudi AI Processors
- Optimum Habana
- Overview of AI tools from Intel
- OpenVINO
- Case Study: Prediction Guard De-Risks LLM Applications at Scale
- How Prediction Guard Delivers Trustworthy AI on Intel® Gaudi® 2 AI Accelerators
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80% of professional programmers are unhappy (Changelog News #106)
The latest Stack Overflow Developer Survey has some concerning results, Joeri Sebrechts helps you do plain vanilla web dev, MIT’s “missing semester” course looks pretty amazing, a dive into the fascinating history of CSV & a tool to get request analytics from the nginx access logs.
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From Chef to System Initiative (Changelog & Friends #55)
Adam Jacob goes solo with Adam for an epic pod into his journey to get to System Initiative. From SysAdmin at 8 years old, to discovering Linux and working for Mom-and-pop ISPs, to open source changing his life and starting Opscode and building Chef. Buckle up. This is a different flavor of “Friends” for you. Enjoy.
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5000 Walmart stores in 2 months (Ship It! #115)
Deploying new applications can be tough. Deploying configuration management safely at scale with stores around the world is different. Martin Jackson joins us to discuss.
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A Nick-level emergency (JS Party #333)
Node.js makes big TypeScript & SQLite moves, ECMAScript 2024 adds some niceties to the language (but not the ones you’re probably excited for) & we review the State of React 2023 results. Emergency?! Nick!
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I’d rather be TypeScripting
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- Node.js adds a built-in SQLite module
- util.styleText(format, text)
- What’s New for JavaScript Developers in ECMAScript 2024
- Promise.withResolvers made it in “speedrun” style
- es-toolkit
- State of React 2023 results
- websim.ai
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Broccoli AI at its best 🥦 (Practical AI #280)
We discussed “🥦 Broccoli AI” a couple weeks ago, which is the kind of AI that is actually good/healthy for a real world business. Bengsoon Chuah, a data scientist working in the energy sector, joins us to discuss developing and deploying NLP pipelines in that environment. We talk about good/healthy ways of introducing AI in a company that uses on-prem infrastructure, has few data science professionals, and operates in high risk environments.
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Open is the way (Changelog Interviews #602)
Joseph Jacks (JJ) is back! We discuss the latest in COSS funding, his thesis for investing in commercial open source companies, the various rug pulls happening out there in open source licensing, and Zuck/Meta’s generosity releasing Llama 3.1 as “open source.”
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- OSS Capital
- Changelog Interviews #320: Venture capital meets commercial OSS
- Mark Zuckerberg on Llama 3.1, Open Source, AI Agents, Safety, and more
- Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s AI Era
- Open Source AI Is the Path Forward
- Just realized that I’ve led 37 rounds of funding at incorporation where OSS Capital was the first investor on the cap table…
- Silicon Valley! Jian Yang’s New Pied Piper scene
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What's new in Go 1.23 (Go Time #325)
We check out the upcoming 1.23 release for new language features and improvements, including iterator functions and supporting packages.
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The Swiss government goes open source (Changelog News #105)
The Switzerland federal government requires releasing its software as open source, Google decides not to deprecate third-party cookies, Mark Zuckerberg says “open source” AI is the path forward, GitHub allows anyone access to deleted / private repository data & Tailscale wants to build a New Internet.
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Deploying on a Friday (Ship It! #114)
Michael Gat joins us for a look back on mainframes & why sometimes deploying on a Friday IS the right thing to do.
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The BSOD CrowdStrikes back (Changelog & Friends #54)
Robert Ross joins us in CrowdStrike’s wake to dissect the largest outage in the history of information technology… and what it means for the future of the (software) world.
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- Inside the 78 minutes that took down millions of Windows machines
- How the CrowdStrike outage unfolded — a timeline
- Nick Burns, Your Company’s Computer Guy
- Real men test in production… The truth about the CrowdStrike disaster
- No More Blue Fridays
- House committee calls on CrowdStrike CEO to testify on global outage
- CrowdStrike CEO called to testify to Congress over cybersecurity’s firm role in global tech outage
- Beyond the Headlines: The Unsung Art of Software Outage Management
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Going flat with ESLint (JS Party #332)
Josh Goldberg joins Nick & Chris to discuss the latest updates from ESLint, typescript-eslint & the new flat config format. They also discuss creating reusable configs & project generators before pivoting to talk about a new conference focused on developer tooling. Finally, Chris & Josh talk about the past, present & future of Mocha.
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- Announcing typescript-eslint v8 Beta
- dprint
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- create-typescript-app
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The man behind the Sandwich (Changelog Interviews #601)
Adam Lisagor (Sandwich Video founder) takes us behind the Sandwich to share his insights into the importance of storytelling in the tech industry, the value of helping Founders communicate their stories effectively, the details behind his new AI company, and the apps he’s making for Apple Vision Pro at Sandwich Vision.
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- Sandwich Vision - Television and Theater apps for Apple Vision Pro
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Hyperventilating over the Gartner AI Hype Cycle (Practical AI #279)
This week Daniel & Chris hang with repeat guest and good friend Demetrios Brinkmann of the MLOps Community. Together they review, debate, and poke fun at the 2024 Gartner Hype Cycle chart for Artificial Intelligence. You are invited to join them in this light-hearted fun conversation about the state of hype in artificial intelligence.
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Aha moments reading Go's source: Part 2 (Go Time #324)
Jesús Espino from Mattermost tells Natalie all about (the final four of) his 10 “aha moments” he had reading the Go source code. Don’t miss Part 1!
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Southwest flies high over CrowdStrike outage (Changelog News #104)
Brendan Gregg details how eBPF can help us have no more blue Fridays, Misty De Meo thinks GitHub is starting to feel like legacy software, Gavin D. Howard does not want Rust to be used for everything, The Notion team published a deep dive into how they used the WASM version of SQLite to improve browser performance & Gregor Ojstersek writes up how to build good relationships inside and outside your engineering teams.
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There’s a TUI for that (Changelog & Friends #53)
Nick Janetakis is back and this time we’re talking about TUIs (text-based user interfaces) — some we’ve tried and some we plan to try. All are collected from Justin Garrison’s Awesome TUIs repo on GitHub. This episode is “AI free.”
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- aristocratos/bashtop - Linux/OSX/FreeBSD resource monitor
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- Changelog Interviews #511: The terminal as a platform (with Will McGugan)
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- Elia - TUI for interacting with large language models
- Atuin - Making your shell magical
- Warp - the terminal reimagined
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GitLab's infrastructure (Ship It! #113)
GitLab has changed a lot over the past 8 years and so has Abubakar. Starting in the help desk he’s seen a lot and takes us through GitLab’s and his progression.
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Building LLM agents in JS (JS Party #331)
KBall and returning guest Tejas Kumar dive into the topic of building LLM agents using JavaScript. What they are, how they can be useful (including how Tejas used home-built agents to double his podcasting productivity) & how to get started building and running your own agents, even all on your own device with local models.
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Aha moments reading Go's source: Part 1 (Go Time #323)
Jesús Espino from Mattermost tells Natalie all about (the first six of) his 10 “aha moments” he had reading the Go source code. Part 2 (with the rest of his aha moments) coming soon!
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The first real-time voice assistant (Practical AI #278)
In the midst of the demos & discussion about OpenAI’s GPT-4o voice assistant, Kyutai swooped in to release the first real-time AI voice assistant model and a pretty slick demo (Moshi). Chris & Daniel discuss what this more open approach to a voice assistant might catalyze. They also discuss recent changes to Gartner’s ranking of GenAI on their hype cycle.
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What even is the modern data stack (Changelog Interviews #600)
Benn Stancil’s weekly Substack on data and technology provides a fascinating perspective on the modern data stack & the industry building it. On this episode, Benn joins Jerod to dissect a few of his essays, discuss opportunities he sees during this slowdown & explain why he thinks maybe we should disband the analytics team.
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The six dumbest ideas in computer security (Changelog News #103)
Marcus J. Ranum’s 2005 post on dumb ideas in computer security still holds up, Barry Jones argues why story points are useless, Posting is an HTTP client as a TUI, Varnish ceator Poul-Henning Kamp (phk) reflects on ten years of working on the HTTP cache & es-tookit is a major upgrade to Lodash.
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Last DevRel standing (Changelog & Friends #52)
Shawn “swyx” Wang is back to talk with us about the state of DevRel according to ZIRP (the Zero Interest Rate Phenomenon), the data that backs up the rise and fall of job openings, whether or not DevRel is dead or dying, speculation of the near-term arrival of AGI, AI Engineering as the last job standing, the innovation from Cognition with Devin as well as their mis-steps during Devin’s launch, and what’s to come in the next innovation round of AI.
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- Changelog Interviews #594: Microsoft is all-in on AI: Part 2 (with Mark Russinovich, Eric Boyd & Neha Batra)
- The Rise of the AI Engineer
- AI News
- von Neumann probes (Self-replicating spacecraft)
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Spilling the git tea (Ship It! #112)
Git was designed to be distributed but there is a lot of gravity around GitHub. What does the model look like for a business that encourages you to run your own git server and what does the backend for gitea.com look like?
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It all starts with Postgres (Changelog Interviews #599)
Paul Copplestone, CEO of Supabase (the meme-lord himself), joins the show to take us on the journey of Supabase leading Postgres for life, and how it all starts with Postgres as the base-layer substrate for the entire Supabase platform. They’re laser focused on the drive ahead, not the rear-view mirror.
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- Oriole joins Supabase
- We are moving to General Availability (April 2024)
- Changelog #476: Supabase is all in on Postgres
- How to Run Supabase Locally
- Supabase local development
- Changelog #590: Good timing makes great products
- Fly Postgres, managed by Supabase
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The Ember take on recent hot topics (JS Party #330)
KBall takes another dive into recent hot topics around reactivity and build systems, this time with three members of the Ember core team. They also talk about some of the reasons why the Ember community has been so long lived, how thinking about upgradeability leads to universality, and how features first built specifically for frameworks make their way into the language specification or universal libraries.
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Vectoring in on Pinecone (Practical AI #277)
Daniel & Chris explore the advantages of vector databases with Roie Schwaber-Cohen of Pinecone. Roie starts with a very lucid explanation of why you need a vector database in your machine learning pipeline, and then goes on to discuss Pinecone’s vector database, designed to facilitate efficient storage, retrieval, and management of vector data.
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How Mat writes HTTP services in Go (Go Time #322)
Mat Ryer has been writing HTTP services in Go for more than 13 years. Needless to say, he’s learned a lot along the way. Today, Johnny & Ian sit down with Mat to ask him all about it.
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Programming advice for my younger self (Changelog News #102)
Marcus Buffett writes his younger self programming advice, Swyx asks and answers whether or not DevRel is dead, the Ghost team opens up their ActivityPub server, Pongo is like MongoDB but on Postgres, Jack Kelly is funding Ladybird because he can’t fund Firefox & Hyrum’s Law.
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What happened to open source (Ship It! #111)
Gareth Greenaway from the Salt project joins us for a trip down memory lane with configuration management and why open source projects have changed over the past decade.
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A different kind of rug pull (Changelog & Friends #51)
Adam & Jerod discuss the news! But first, we discuss how you can keep up with the software world (good question, Tyler Boyd!) On the docket: Developer job postings trend, the Ladybird Browser Initiative, the Polyfill.js supply chain attack & is the future self-hosted?
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A standard library for JavaScript (JS Party #329)
Philipp Burckhardt, Athan Reines & the team behind stdlib.io believe in a future in which the web is a preferred environment for numerical computation. They’ve been working toward building that future for over a decade. Thanks to listener, Brian Zelip, Jerod sits down with Philipp to learn all about this excellent effort: where it’s been & where it’s headed.
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Dependencies are dangerous (Go Time #321)
Dependencies! We need them, but how do we use them effectively and safely? In this week’s episode Kris is joined by Ian and Johnny to discuss the polyfill.io supply chain attack, the history of dependency management and usage in Go, and the Go Proverb that “a little copying is better than a little dependency”. Of course, we wrap up the episode with some Unpopular Opinions!
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Code review anxiety (Changelog Interviews #598)
Carol Lee (Clinical Scientist) shares her research on code review anxiety. We dive deep into her recent research paper “Understanding and Effectively Mitigating Code Review Anxiety”. We get into all the nooks and crannies of this topic — common code review myths, strategies for coping, the need for awareness and self-reflection, the value of exposure and practice to build confidence, the importance of team dynamics, respect, empathy, and connection, and more. This show is jam-packed with goodies for everyone…and we even give a nod to the work we did on our podcast Brain Science.
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- Code Review Anxiety Workbook
- Developer Success Lab (or also)
- Brain Science
- Margin: Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial, and Time Reserves to Overloaded Lives
- Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
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Stanford's AI Index Report 2024 (Practical AI #276)
We’ve had representatives from Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) on the show in the past, but we were super excited to talk through their 2024 AI Index Report after such a crazy year in AI! Nestor from HAI joins us in this episode to talk about some of the main takeaways including how AI makes workers more productive, the US is increasing regulations sharply, and industry continues to dominate frontier AI research.
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The scariest chart in all of software (Changelog News #101)
Software developer jobs are trending down, the creator of dotenv creates a better dotenv, the Chrome team puts Gemini Nano AI model right inside your browser, a pollyfill.js supply chain attack hits 100k+ sites & Steph Ango asks, “What can we remove?”
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The Kubernetes of Lambda (Ship It! #110)
Bailey Hayes & Taylor Thomas from Cosmonic join the show for a look at WebAssembly Standard Interfaces (WASI) and trade-offs for portable interfaces.
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Kaizen! NOT a pipe dream (Changelog & Friends #50)
Welcome to Kaizen 15! We go deep on the big Changelog News redesign, give shout outs to folks who’ve helped us along the way & Gerhard takes us on his journey to turn Jerod’s pipe dream into a reality!
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- Discussion #511: 🎧 Kaizen 15 - changelog.com/friends/50
- Navel gazing on Wikipedia
- Omphaloskepsis on #define: game theory, dude
- Pull Request #510: News redesign
- Pull Request #517: 29 reasons to subscribe to Changelog News
- Pull Request #513: Remove # from episode numbers in commit messages
- Pull Request #516: Trace GitHub Actions Workflows
- worldpagespeed.fly.dev
- pipedream.changelog.com
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React Native the Expo way (JS Party #328)
Jerod sits down with React Native aficionado, Simon Grimm, to catch up on everyone’s favorite native app platform & learn about Expo, which Simon thinks is the way forward for devs building with React Native.
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- React Native
- Expo
- Galaxies.dev
- Simon’s YouTube channel
- Tamagui — React Native + Web UI kit
- facebook/react-strict-dom
- Evan Bacon
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MAJOR.SEMVER.PATCH (Changelog Interviews #597)
Predrag Gruevski and Chris Krycho joined the show to talk about SemVer. We explore the challenges and the advantages of semantic versioning (aka SemVer), the need for improving the tooling around SemVer, where semantic versioning really shines and where it’s needed, Types and SemVer, whether or not there’s a better way, and why it’s not as simple as just opting out.
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- cargo-semver-checks
- Hyrum’s Law
- unison-lang.org
- TrueNAS SCALE
- React Versioning Policy
- Ubuntu version history
- semver-ts.org - Semantic Versioning for TypeScript Types
- The Wi-Fi only works when it’s raining
- April Cools
- obi1kenobi/trustfall
- How to Query Almost Everything (with Trustfall) - 10min tech talk
- More than 1 in 6 of the top Rust libraries has broken SemVer by accident
- How cargo-semver-checks works & why it’s important
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Apple Intelligence & Advanced RAG (Practical AI #275)
Daniel & Chris engage in an impromptu discussion of the state of AI in the enterprise. Then they dive into the recent Apple Intelligence announcement to explore its implications. Finally, Daniel leads a deep dive into a new topic - Advanced RAG - covering everything you need to know to be practical & productive.
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- Apple Intelligence
- Introducing Apple Intelligence, the personal intelligence system that puts powerful generative models at the core of iPhone, iPad, and Mac
- The top AI features Apple announced at WWDC 2024
- Hybrid Search: Combining BM25 and Semantic Search for Better Results with Langchain
- Advanced RAG: Precise Zero-Shot Dense Retrieval with HyDE
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Gophers Say! GopherCon EU Berlin 2024 (Go Time #320)
Our award winning worthy survey game show is back, this time Mat Ryer hosts it live on stage at GopherCon EU Berlin 2024! Join in & play along as we see which team can better guess what these GopherCon gophers had to say!
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- Paula Babbicola – GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
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Please let this be Peak LLM (Changelog News #100)
Søren Fuglede Jørgensen builds a font thats also an LLM, Hugo Landau writes about the demise of the mildly dynamic website, SQL Studio is the simplest little database explorer ever, Mathew Duggan reviews GitHub Copilot Workspace & Stephan Schmidt lays out the case against mocking + what to do instead.
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Where DOESN’T curl run (Changelog & Friends #49)
Daniel Stenberg shares his guiding principles for BDFL’ing curl, gives us his perspective on the state of the internet, talks financial independence, ensuring curl won’t be the next XZ & more!
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- curl turns 26 today
- My BDFL guiding principles
- The I in LLM stands for intelligence
- tiny-curl
- Verified curl
- How to verify a curl release
- github.com/curl/trurl
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How to build a Nushell (Ship It! #109)
Devyn Cairns & Jakub Žádník join Justin & Autumn to talk about building a new kind of cross-platform shell that provides easy extensions with traditional command compatibility. That’s no easy feat!
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What the distro
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Polypane-demonium (JS Party #327)
Polypane purveyor Kilian Valkhof joins Nick & Jerod to tell us all about his efforts building a web browser just for web development. We cover it all: from the business concerns, to the technical details, to his excellent choice not to use TypeScript! We even sneak in a feature request that already made its way into this excellent dev tool for ambitious web developers.
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- What do we want from a web browser?(Friends #14)
- You have how many open tabs?! (Friends #29)
- Core web vitals
- Polypane
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Securing GitHub (Changelog Interviews #596)
Jacob DePriest, VP and Deputy Chief Security Officer at GitHub, joins the show this week to talk about securing GitHub. From Artifact Attestations, profile hardening, preventing XZ-like attacks, GitHub Advanced Security, code scanning, improving Dependabot, and more.
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- Where does your software (really) come from?
- Keeping secrets out of public repositories
- GitHub Advanced Security
- Dependabot
- Introducing Artifact Attestations–now in public beta
- Software Bill of Materials (SBOM)
- 😶🌫️ Who in the world is Jia Tan?!
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The perplexities of information retrieval (Practical AI #274)
Daniel & Chris sit down with Denis Yarats, Co-founder & CTO at Perplexity, to discuss Perplexity’s sophisticated AI-driven answer engine. Denis outlines some of the deficiencies in search engines, and how Perplexity’s approach to information retrieval improves on traditional search engine systems, with a focus on accuracy and validation of the information provided.
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Is Go evolving in the wrong direction? (Go Time #319)
This week we’re catching up on the news! Kris is joined by Ian to discuss some of the recent news from around the Go community. Listen in to hear whether the co-hosts believe there’s software that shouldn’t be written in Go, their thoughts on if Go is evolving in the right direction & whether common nouns make good package names.
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- The myth of Go garbage collection hindering “real-time” software?
- The long-overdue problem coming for some people in Go 1.23
- Don’t name packages common nouns
- Alternatives to Makefiles written in Go
- Go evolves in the wrong direction
- Teaching Concurrency
- Go: Don’t name packages common nouns
- Computation and State Machines
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The onset of "Senior Engineer Fatigue" (Changelog News #99)
Luminousmen writes about Senior Engineer Fatigue, Microsoft rethinks its AI-based Recall feature, Mike Hoye gives a big shout out to the “diff” program, Thom Holwerda covers ChromeOS’ quiet switch to Android Linux subsystems & Mihail Eric tells the inside story on how Alexa dropped the ball on being the top conversational system on Earth.
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Putting the Apple in AI (Changelog & Friends #48)
Justin Searls joins us for hot takes on Apple’s 2024 WWDC keynote. Apple Intelligence stole the show, but did it steal our hearts? Oh, and we learn all about Justin’s Vision Pro Life and how he hopes/expects Apple’s latest device to improve in future iterations.
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- Justin’s podcast: Breaking Change
- Apple WWDC 2024: the 13 biggest announcements
- macOS Sequoia Preview
- Compare iPhone models
- RCS on Wikipedia
- Rug pull, not cool! (Changelog & Friends #40)
- Sandwich’s Theater app (Adam Lisagor)
- Steve Jobs QA - WWDC 1997
- Asahi Linux
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The infrastructure behind a PaaS (Ship It! #108)
Render founder/CEO Anurag Goel joins us for a look behind their platform. An application native hosting option that hides the lower levels still requires a LOT of infrastructure.
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How things break
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Using edge models to find sensitive data (Practical AI #273)
We’ve all heard about breaches of privacy and leaks of private health information (PHI). For healthcare providers and those storing this data, knowing where all the sensitive data is stored is non-trivial. Ramin, from Tausight, joins us to discuss how they have deploy edge AI models to help company search through billions of records for PHI.
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1999: A Film Odyssey (Changelog++ 🔐) (Changelog & Friends)
Adam & Jerod hallway-track-it between Microsoft Build interviews. Was 1999 the best year in film history? Was 2004 the worst? Have you heard the full story behind Blues Traveler’s “Hook”? Are you still reading this? Go listen! (This episode is for Changelog++ ears only.)
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Retired, not tired. (Changelog Interviews #595)
Kelsey Hightower is back to share more of his wisdom. This time it’s one year after his retirement from Google. But guess what? He might be “retired,” but he’s not tired. In this episode Kelsey shares what drives him, what he fears, and how he thinks through his life choices and parenting. This is a good one.
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- “I’m retired, not tired.”
- Changelog & Friends #6: Even the best rides come to an end
- Run:ai
- Brondell Bidet
- From Sleeping in His Car to Distinguished Engineer at Google (Kelsey Hightower)
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How things get done on the Go Team (Go Time #318)
Angelica is joined by Cameron Balahan, Sameer Ajmani & Russ Cox from the Go Team at Google to talk about how things get done on the Go Team, how do they decide what to improve and then how do they go about improving it. We also discuss how they decide what to work when & what the future of Go might look like.
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- go.dev
- Issue Tracker
- Proposing Changes to Go
- GopherCon 2022: Russ Cox - Compatibility: How Go Programs Keep Working
- John Ousterhout - Open Decision Making
- GothamGo 2016 Codebase Refactoring (with help from Go) by Russ Cox
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Apple finally gets Siri-ous (Changelog News #98)
Apple announces its “new” style of AI, piku gives you “git push” deployment on your own servers, Dabo Chen rebuilds nanoGPT in a spreadsheet, Mark Seemann thinks you’ll regret using natural keys in your database design & Glyph Lefkowitz describes his grand unified theory of the AI hype cycle.
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3D printed infrastructure (Ship It! #107)
Gina Häußge is here to tell us about the infra behind the OctoPrint project, which tests and releases new versions that work on multiple different printers and gets deployed hundreds of thousands of times.
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3D or K8
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#define: legendary (Changelog & Friends #47)
What happens when you take three #define newbs (Thomas Eckert, Nick Nisi, Mat Ryer) & pit them against the grizzled vet, Adam? Find out on this episode because our award-worthy game of fake definitions is back & this time it’s even more legendary!
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Should web development need a build step? (JS Party #326)
We’re back with another spicy YepNope debate! This time, Nick & regular guest Eric Clemmons are arguing that web development should need a build step, while KBall & special guest Amy Dutton argue that we really shouldn’t. Of course, the stance each panelist is taking is assigned ahead of time. Is that how they really feel? Tune in to find out!
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Microsoft is all-in on AI: Part 2 (Changelog Interviews #594)
Mark Russinovich, Eric Boyd & Neha Batra join us to discuss the state of AI for Microsoft and OpenAI at Microsoft Build 2024. It’s safe to say that Microsoft is all-in on AI.
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Rise of the AI PC & local LLMs (Practical AI #272)
We’ve seen a rise in interest recently and a number of major announcements related to local LLMs and AI PCs. NVIDIA, Apple, and Intel are getting into this along with models like the Phi family from Microsoft. In this episode, we dig into local AI tooling, frameworks, and optimizations to help you navigate this AI niche, and we talk about how this might impact AI adoption in the longer term.
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- Ollama
- LM Studio
- llama.cpp
- OpenVINO
- MLPerf client working group
- Article - 5 top small language models
- GPTQ article
- Article - Which quantization method is right for you
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Yet another open source rug pull (Changelog News #97)
A popular open source iOS authenticator app goes rogue under new ownership, Andreas Kling steps back from SerenityOS & forks Ladybird, Vhyrro takes a thought-provoking try at a “static effect system”, Matt Bessey is over GraphQL & Marc-Andre Giroux still likes GraphQL sometimes (in the right context).
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Is it too late to opt out of AI? (Changelog & Friends #46)
Tech lawyer Luis Villa returns to answer our most pressing questions: what’s up with all these new content deals? How did Google think it was a good idea to ship AI Summaries in its current state? Is it too late to opt out of AI? We also discuss AI in Hollywood (spoilers!), positive things we’re seeing (or hoping for) & Upstream 2024 (June 5th)!
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- Upstream 2024 | A celebration of open source
- ANTHOLOGY — The way of open source (Changelog Interviews #563)
- On self driving, Waymo is playing chess while Tesla plays checkers
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Is Wasm the new Java? (Ship It! #106)
Danielle Lancashire is here to tell us how Fermyon cloud is built on top of nomad and EC2 and how they put it in a box with Kubernetes and WebAssembly.
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WTA: What The Acronym
- ASM - Assembly
- WASM - WebAssembly. Came from asm.js from Mozilla
- AOT - ahead of time compilation
- JIT - just in time compilation
- WASI - WebAssembly system interface. Types: io, clocks, random, filesystem, sockets, cli, http
- WIT - WebAssembly Interface Type
- Wasmer - by wasmer company
- WAPM - WebAssembly Package Manager
- Wasmtime - Bytecode alliance (amazon, cisco, arm, docker, intel microsoft)
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11ty goes fully independent (JS Party #325)
11ty creator Zach Leatherman is taking the open source site generator fully independent in 2024 and he’s back on the pod to tell us why, how & what we all can do to help.
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- An Organizer’s Retrospective on the 11ty Conference
- xkcd: Dependency
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Microsoft is all-in on AI: Part 1 (Changelog Interviews #593)
Scott Guthrie joins the show this week from Microsoft Build 2024 to discuss Microsoft being all-in on AI. From Copilot, to Azure AI and Prompty, to their developer first focus, leading GitHub, VS Code being the long bet that paid off, to the future of a doctor’s bedside manner assisted with AI. Microsoft is all-in on AI and Build 2024’s discussions and announcements proves it.
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Your ultimate guide to mastering Go (Go Time #317)
Angelica is joined by Samantha Coyle to talk about her newly published textbook: Go Programming - From Beginner to Professional. This book serves as a go-to guide to master Go for real-world software dev success covering fundamentals to advanced topics.
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AI in the U.S. Congress (Practical AI #271)
At the age of 72, U.S. Representative Don Beyer of Virginia enrolled at GMU to pursue a Master’s degree in C.S. with a concentration in Machine Learning.
Rep. Beyer is Vice Chair of the bipartisan Artificial Intelligence Caucus & Vice Chair of the NDC’s AI Working Group. He is the author of the AI Foundation Model Transparency Act & a lead cosponsor of the CREATE AI Act, the Federal Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Act & the Artificial Intelligence Environmental Impacts Act.
We hope you tune into this inspiring, nonpartisan conversation with Rep. Beyer about his decision to dive into the deep end of the AI pool & his leadership in bringing that expertise to Capitol Hill.
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- U.S. Representative Don Beyer
- Congressman Don Beyer, Mason student and lifelong learner
- Beyer Statement On President Biden’s AI Executive Order
- Beyer Appointed To Bipartisan Task Force On Artificial Intelligence
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Why you shouldn't use AI to write your tests (Changelog News #96)
Swizec’s article on not using AI to writes tests, LlamaFs is a self-organizing file system with Llama 3, a Pew Research analysis confirmed that the internet is full of broken links, Sam Rose built a spectacular interactive study of queueing strategies & Jordan Cutler shares a real-life experience of him writing clear/readable code… and it backfiring.
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It's a long & windy road (Changelog & Friends #45)
We kick off our Microsoft Build 2024 “coverage” in this free-wheelin’ conversation with our friend, Shaundai Person! We’re talking Netflix infra, we’re talking sales, we’re talking real-world AI usage, we’re talking career choices…. What’s a good next step? Listen in!
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Tars all the way down (Ship It! #105)
Jon “gzip enthusiast” Johnson joins us for a history lesson on compression & how it impacts everything from containers to Alpine.
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- RFC 1951
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Big Gulps, huh? (JS Party #324)
Jerod & KBall discuss what’s new in the world of web development: the State of HTML survey results, Node 22, React Compiler, React 19 Beta, vlt.sh & the Gulp (!) Developer Survey.
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- State of HTML results
- CanIEmail
- MJML
- Node 22 released
- React Compiler now open source (more info)
- React 19 Beta
- vlt
- Gulp Developer Survey
- Grunt
- nalgeon/redka: Redis re-implemented with SQLite
- AI in Production conference
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Migrating from PHP to Go (Go Time #316)
Based on their experience in Curve and Cloudflare, Matthew Boyle & Chris Shepherd share their experience migrating from PHP to Go.
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From Sun to Oxide (Changelog Interviews #592)
Bryan Cantrill, Co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company, joins Adam to share his journey from Sun to Oxide – from Sun and Fishworks, to DTrace, to ZFS, to Joyent and Node.js, and now working to build on-prem cloud servers as they should be at Oxide.
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- Shouting in the Datacenter
- Efficiency you can hear
- Joyent
- Changelog Interviews #475: Making the ZFS file system with Matt Ahrens, co-founder of the ZFS project
- Oxide
- Oxide Principles
- Oxideo Docs: Hypervisor and Storage
- Changelog Interviews #155: The Future of Node.js with Scott Hammond
- TJ Holowaychuk’s Farewell Node.js
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First impressions of GPT-4o (Practical AI #270)
Daniel & Chris share their first impressions of OpenAI’s newest LLM: GPT-4o and Daniel tries to bring the model into the conversation with humorously mixed results. Together, they explore the implications of Omni’s new feature set - the speed, the voice interface, and the new multimodal capabilities.
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- Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That’s a Good Thing)
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Kyle explains "Legacy Software" to the aliens (Changelog News #95)
Taylor Troesh writes Kyle explaining “Legacy Software” to the aliens, Vitaly Friedman addresses why so many designers feel misunderstood and under appreciated in business contexts, Oracle dumps Terraform for OpenTofu & hackers discover how to reprogram NES Tetris from within the game.
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FROM guests SELECT Andrew (Ship It! #104)
Andrew Atkinson joins Autumn & Justin to tell them why folks should (and are) picking PostgreSQL as their database in 2024 and how to scale it.
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Self-hosted media server goodness (Changelog & Friends #44)
Alex Kretzschmar joins Adam to discuss their experiences with building the “perfect media server” and all the hardware and software involved to make it happen — LinuxServer.io, PerfectMediaServer.com, Plex, Jellyfin, ZFS, mergerfs, TrueNAS, Docker Compose and so much more in this episode.
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- A Cheap No-Frills OPNsense box
- mergerfs
- The beginning of linuxserver.io
- jimsalterjrs/sanoid
- Jellyfin
- Plex
- Restic
- Auto-Restic
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3D web game dev jam! (JS Party #323)
Two-time React Jammer, Brian Breiholz, joins Jerod & Nick to discuss building 3D games in the browser! We hear of his game jam trials & tribulations, the in-progress game engine he’s building, the dream game he’s been building for a long time & more
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Building the Patreon for developers (Changelog Interviews #591)
Birk Jernström from Polar joins the show to tell us all about the creator platform for developers: why he built it, how it works, why it works how it works, what’s in store for the future & we even give Birk some super deep UX feedback on the funding flow.
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- Polar
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- SerenityOS issues on Polar
- SerenityOS on GitHub
- David Hewitt on Polar
- GitHub Sponsors
- Open Collective
- Vagrant and Virtualized Environments with Mitchell Hashimoto (Changelog Interviews #72)
- The serenity of building your own OS with Andreas Kling (Changelog Interviews #554)
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Full-stack approach for effective AI agents (Practical AI #269)
There’s a lot of hype about AI agents right now, but developing robust agents isn’t yet a reality in general. Imbue is leading the way towards more robust agents by taking a full-stack approach; from hardware innovations through to user interface. In this episode, Josh, Imbue’s CTO, tell us more about their approach and some of what they have learned along the way.
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- Imbue paper on the stepwise nature of self-supervised learning
- A paper on initialization/feature learning co-authored by Jamie Simon, a member of Imbue’s technical team
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Avoiding the soft delete anti-pattern (Changelog News #94)
Tim Fisken explains the problem with soft deletion, a simple measure of software dependency freshness is proposed, a deep-dive on sound design in software, a web app with over 80 handy developer tools built in & Luke Plant reminds us that programming mantras are proverbs, not laws.
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How WebMD ran in the year 2000 (Ship It! #103)
All of the health anxiety of early internet adopters traced back to WebMD’s self diagnosis. Some sysadmin’s on-call nightmares came from a different part of the site.
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Motivated by play (Changelog & Friends #43)
Annie Sexton has been on quite a journey since she was last on the show back in early ‘22. On this episode, Annie takes us on that journey, shares her new-found perspective & tells us about how she’s approaching her side project this time around.
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- Git your reset on (Changelog Interviews #480)
- I’m rebuilding my notes app, Typist, and here’s why
- Ben Gillin on Instagram
- How to talk to LLMs | Storybot demo - YouTube
- AI video post-processing in the cloud | Sieve + Daily - YouTube
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From Shoelace to Web Awesome (JS Party #322)
Shoelace creator Cory LaViska joins Amal & Jess to tell them all about the forward-thinking library of web components that just joined the Font Awesome family to create Web Awesome.
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Autonomous fighter jets?! (Practical AI #268)
Yep, you heard that right. Autonomous fighter jets are in the news. Chris and Daniel discuss a modified F-16 known as the X-62A VISTA and autonomous vehicles/ systems more generally. They also comment on the Linux Foundation’s new Open Platform for Enterprise AI.
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What if Google lays off the Go team? (Go Time #315)
In this week’s episode we’re talking about the news! In this laugh-filled episode, Kris is joined by Ian & Johnny to discuss the future of Go, both the Go team itself and iterations of packages within the standard library; Microsoft creating a Go blog & a Go fork; and SQLite and Go.
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Good timing makes great products (Changelog Interviews #590)
Paul Orlando is back to talk about his book titled “Why Now?” You may remember Paul from his last appearance (a fan favorite) talking with Jerod about complex systems & second-order effects. Paul’s book, “Why Now?” explores the concept of timing and the importance of understanding the ‘why now’ in business and product development. We discuss timing examples from the book that were either too early or too late (such as the first video phone and car phones), the need to consider both technological advancements and user demand when assessing timing, the significance of timing in the success of companies like Apple and the launch of the iPhone, Uber and Heroku, and more. Also, join our Slack community for a chance to get a signed copy of Paul’s book.
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- StartupsUnplugged.com
- Unintended Consequences (Systems, complexity, second-order effects)
- Changelog #474: Complex systems & second-order effects
- Catching up with Yahoo’s Fire Eagle geolocation service
- The Web 2.0 Show #46 - Fire Eagle
- The Conjoined Triangles of Success
- The confidential YouTube Investment Memo by Sequoia you were never meant to see
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Why your framework doesn't matter (Changelog News #93)
Bahaa Zidan says your web framework doesn’t matter, DHH writes about magic machines, Dylan Huang reviews thousands of opinions on HTMX, Tim Ottinger says programming is thinking & Tim Spann says small language models (SLM) for the win.
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Managing Meta's millions of machines (Ship It! #102)
Anita Zhang is here to tell us how Meta manages millions of bare metal Linux hosts and containers. We also discuss the Twine white paper and how AI is changing their requirements.
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- Twine: A Unified Cluster Management System for Shared Infrastructure
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- Attention is all you need
- Probabilistic Inference in Language Models via Twisted Sequential Monte Carlo
- Causally Abstracted Multi-armed Bandits
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The Wu-Tang way (Changelog & Friends #42)
Our friend Ron Evans is a technologist for hire, an open source developer, an author, a speaker, an iconoclast, and one of our favorite people in tech. This conversation with Ron goes everywhere: from high-altitude weather balloons, to life on Mars, to Zeno’s paradox applied to ML, to what open source devs should learn from the Wu-Tang Clan & more.
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- Book: A City on Mars
- Bio-Dome - Wikipedia
- Zeno’s paradoxes
- TinyGo on Hackaday
- ggerganov/llama.cpp: LLM inference in C/C++
- What exactly is Open Source AI? with Stefano Maffulli
- On the dangers of stochastic parrots | The Alan Turing Institute
- 2053: A Go Odyssey (Go Time #235)
- Getting started with TinyGo
- Looking back at Go from 2053 with Ron Evans - YouTube
- The Hybrid Group
- Ali Spagnola - YouTube
- GopherCon 2024 - Register Now
- FOSDEM 2024 - Home
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SSR web components for all (JS Party #321)
Brian LeRoux joins Jerod to share how the Enhance team are bringing server side rendered web components to everyone. With Enhance WASM, you author components in friendly, standards based syntax and reuse them across multiple languages, frameworks & servers.
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Castro leans into indie (Changelog Interviews #589)
This week we’re joined by Dustin Bluck to discuss his acquisition of the well known (and beloved) Castro podcast app to take it indie-focused once again. As previous users of Castro, we were excited to dig into the details behind this popular podcast client to see what’s next, how the deal was done, a peek into the code, and where exactly this indie and creator focused podcast app can go.
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- Podcast app Castro now owned by indie developer Bluck Apps
- I am the owner of Castro Podcasts. Ask me anything!
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Go workshops that work (Go Time #314)
What makes a good, bad, and truly great workshop? How do you put together a Go workshop that works, and how do you get the most out of workshops you attend?
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Private, open source chat UIs (Practical AI #267)
We recently gathered some Practical AI listeners for a live webinar with Danny from LibreChat to discuss the future of private, open source chat UIs. During the discussion we hear about the motivations behind LibreChat, why enterprise users are hosting their own chat UIs, and how Danny (and the LibreChat community) is creating amazing features (like RAG and plugins).
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Good ideas in computer science (Changelog News #92)
Daniel Hooper lists out all the good ideas in computer science, Jeff Geerling declares 2024 the year corporate open source dies, Jared Turner says all kinds of works-in-progress are waste, Daroc Alden covers the leadership crisis in the Nix community & John Hawthorn explains why Ruby may be faster than you think.
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Let's go back to AOL chat rooms (Ship It! #101)
In this episode Justin and Autumn are joined by Mandi Walls to take you back to a time before the cloud. Before Kubernetes. When a/s/l was common and servers were made of metal. Back to the days of AOL to discuss how chat rooms worked.
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The ol' hot & juicy (Changelog & Friends #41)
Frequent guest (and almost real-life-friend) Adam Jacob returns to share his spicy takes on all the recent “open source meets business” drama. We also take some time to catch up on the state of his open source-based business, System Initiative.
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A Solid primer on Signals (JS Party #320)
Ryan Carniato joins Amal & Nick to discuss Solid with a major focus on Signals, which are the cornerstone of reactivity in Solid.
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Mamba & Jamba (Practical AI #266)
First there was Mamba… now there is Jamba from AI21. This is a model that combines the best non-transformer goodness of Mamba with good ‘ol attention layers. This results in a highly performant and efficient model that AI21 has open sourced! We hear all about it (along with a variety of other LLM things) from AI21’s co-founder Yoav.
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Run Gleam run (Changelog Interviews #588)
This week we’re joined by Louis Pilfold, the creator of the Gleam programming language. For the uninitiated, Gleam is a functional programming language for building type-safe systems that compiles to Erlang and JavaScript and it’s written in Rust. We discuss the inspiration and development of Gleam, how it compares to other languages, where it shines, the overwhelming amount of support Louis is getting through GitHub sponsors, what’s next for Gleam and their near-term plans for a language server.
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What's new in Go's cryptography libraries: Part 3 (Go Time #313)
The 3 Musketeers return! Filippo Valsorda, Roland Shoemaker & Nicola Murino continue their deep-dive conversation with Natalie about Go’s crypto libraries.
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- What’s new in Go’s cryptography libraries: Part 1
- What’s new in Go’s cryptography libraries: Part 2
- ssh: add AlgorithmNegotiationError
- ssh: validate key type in SSH_MSG_USERAUTH_PK_OK response
- BoGo
- Project Wycheproof
- The Password Game
- Filippo’s open source maintenance policy
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The threat to open source comes from within (Changelog News #91)
Forrest Brazeal is concerned about the open source threat from within, Vicki Boykis explains why Redis is forked, John O’Nolan and the Ghost team plan to federate over ActivityPub, Llama 3 is now available for “businesses of all sizes” & nolen writes up questions to ask when you don’t want to work.
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Rug pull, not cool! (Changelog & Friends #40)
If Changelog News had an extended edition, this might be it! Jerod & Adam discuss Hashicorp’s Cease and Desist letter, Redis getting forked, Boston Dymanics’ scary cool new robot, Justin Searls’ extensive use of the Apple Vision Pro, Thorston Ball moving from Vim to Zed, Firefox becoming hard to use, Beeper joining Automattic & more.
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- Our Response to Hashicorp’s Cease and Desist Letter
- Redis is forked
- Boston Dynamics’ new humanoid moves like no robot you’ve ever seen
- Vision Pro was a better deal than my Mac Studio
- From Vim to Zed
- It’s getting hard to use and recommend Firefox, I’m afraid for the free web
- Leading and building Raycast (Changelog Interviews #587)
- Beeper is joining Automattic
- Texts.com
- Pidgin, the universal chat client
- MarkdownDown
- Turndown
- Playroom - Build Multiplayer Games in Minutes
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Bluesky apps (Ship It! #100)
Paul Frazee joins the show to tell us all about how Bluesky builds, tests, and deploys mobile and web applications from the same code base.
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- Twitter’s clumsy pivot to x.com is a gift to phishers
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The boring JavaScript stack (JS Party #319)
Kelvin Omereshone is here to get you excited about boring, reliable tech. He believes a combination of Sails, Inertia, Tailwind & your frontend rendering library of choice are a great combo for building web apps. Tune in to find out why.
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- Sails.js
- Screencasts for the modern Sails developer
- Hagfish - Where creators do invoices
- Inertia
- Sailsconf
- The Boring JavaScript Stack (keynote)
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Local cert management for mere mortals (Go Time #312)
In this episode, Ben Burkert & Chris Stolt join Johhny to explore the ups & downs of trying to get secure local development environments set up, why it’s hard & what you can do about it.
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Leading and building Raycast (Changelog Interviews #587)
This week Adam is joined by Thomas Paul Mann, Co-founder and CEO of Raycast, to discuss being productive on a Mac, going beyond their free tier, the extensions built by the community, the Raycast Store, how they’re executing on Raycast AI chat which aims to be a single interface to many LLMs. Raycast has gone beyond being an extendable launcher – they’ve gone full-on productivity mode with access to AI paving the way of their future.
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- Sentry – Code breaks, fix it faster. Don’t just observe. Take action. Sentry is the only app monitoring platform built for developers that gets to the root cause for every issue. 90,000+ growing teams use sentry to find problems fast. Use the code
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Udio & the age of multi-modal AI (Practical AI #265)
2024 promises to be the year of multi-modal AI, and we are already seeing some amazing things. In this “fully connected” episode, Chris and Daniel explore the new Udio product/service for generating music. Then they dig into the differences between recent multi-modal efforts and more “traditional” ways of combining data modalities.
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Devin's Upwork "side hustle" exposed (Changelog News #90)
YouTuber “Internet of Bugs” breaks down why AI “software engineer” Devin is no Upwork hero, Redka is Anton Zhiyanov’s attempt to reimplement Redis with SQLite, OpenTofu issues its response to Hashicorp’s Cease and Desist letter, Brian LeRoux introduces Enhance WASM & PumpkinOS is not your average PalmOS emulator.
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More BMC goodness (Changelog & Friends #39)
Our beat freak in residence returns, this time to discuss the shiny new Dance Party album! We deconstruct its nostalgic mix, break down some of our favorite tracks & even learn that BMC is writing a mysterious book…
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From Kubernetes to Nix (Ship It! #99)
Why would you want to switch your developer environments from containers to nix? Ádám from LastPass has a few reasons.
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Replacing Git with Git (Changelog Interviews #586)
This week we’re talking to Scott Chacon, one of the co-founders of GitHub, to discuss the history and future of Git and Scott’s new project Git Butler, a branch manager tool that’s aiming to improve the developer experience of Git using Git. We also touch on the contentious topic of open source licensing and the challenges of defining “Open Source”, FSL vs GPL, and more.
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Off to see the Wiz (JS Party #318)
How does Google build Search? What about YouTube and Google Drive? We rely on Chrome’s Lighthouse scores when optimizing our websites, but what does Google prioritize? Recently the Angular and Wiz teams announced their intention to responsibly merge their internal frontend framework, Wiz, with Angular to bring some of Wiz’s best ideas to Angular. We’re chatting with Minko from Angular and Jatin from the Wiz team to learn about how Wiz has been used in Google historically, what it’s good at, and why it’s worth bringing some of its ideas to Angular.
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- Angular and Wiz Are Better Together
- Deferrable Views
- JSParty 312 - Angular Moves fast without breaking things
- JSAction
- JSParty 237 - Qwik is a new kind of web framework
- HTTP Archive
- Angular primitives directory
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RAG continues to rise (Practical AI #264)
Daniel & Chris delight in conversation with “the funniest guy in AI”, Demetrios Brinkmann. Together they explore the results of the MLOps Community’s latest survey. They also preview the upcoming AI Quality Conference.
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- RAG failover talk from Jerry Lui
- Prompt Templates the Song
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Ship software, not code (Go Time #311)
Natalie is joined by Carlos Becker (a Brazil-based software developer who maintains GoReleaser and other OSS software) to discuss how GOOS and GOARCH spark joy.
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HashiCorp strikes back (Changelog News #89)
HashiCorp sends OpenTofu a nasty-gram in the wake of Matt Asay’s infringement claims, Polar is like Patreon but for software creators, a Common Corpus of LLM data is released on HuggingFace & Loki is an open source tool for fact verification.
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Deploying projects vs products (Ship It! #98)
Verónica López, Kubernetes SIG Release tech lead & distributed systems engineer, joins Justin & Autumn to share her experiences deploying services at scale.
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All the releases of the rainbow 🌈
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- Feature flagging/Dark launch
- A/B testing
- Database migrations
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Kaizen! There goes my PgHero (Changelog & Friends #38)
This is our 14th Kaizen episode! Gerhard put some CDNs to the test, we’ve taken our next step with Postgres on Neon & Jerod pushed 55 commits (but 0 PRs)!
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- Discussion #499: 🎧 Kaizen 14 - changelog.com/friends/38
- bunny.net - The Content Delivery platform that truly Hops!
- bunny.changelog.com
- Hyperping | Uptime monitoring with public status pages
- Issue #486: CDN cache misses increased 7x after Oct. 8, 2023
- Pull Request #492: Migrate Postgres to Neon.tech
- ankane/pghero: A performance dashboard for Postgres
- Pull Request #507: Deploy PgHero & connect to Neon.tech Postgres
- Pull Request #508: Enable changelog.com devs to create prod db forks with a single command
- Tigris | Globally Distributed S3-Compatible Object Storage
- video.gerhard.io
- pod.gerhard.io
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Getting to Resend (Changelog Interviews #585)
This week Adam is joined by Zeno Rocha — the creator of the beloved Dracula theme and Co-founder and CEO of Resend. They discuss his personal journey and the challenges of balancing work and family life, how becoming a parent has given him new perspectives and influenced his decision to start his own company, the role of citizenship and immigration in his journey, how he prepared for the Y Combinator interview, meeting Paul Graham, the challenges of sending email, and the future of Resend and the possibility of a Series A round.
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The magic of a trace (Go Time #310)
Felix Geisendörfer & Michael Knyszek join Natalie to discuss Go execution traces: why they’re awesome, common use cases, how they’ve gotten better of late & more.
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Should kids still learn to code? (Practical AI #263)
In this fully connected episode, Daniel & Chris discuss NVIDIA GTC keynote comments from CEO Jensen Huang about teaching kids to code. Then they dive into the notion of “community” in the AI world, before discussing challenges in the adoption of generative AI by non-technical people. They finish by addressing the evolving balance between generative AI interfaces and search engines.
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- 5 Forces That Will Drive the Adoption of GenAI | Harvard Business Review
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Who in the world is Jia Tan? (Changelog News #88)
The big story right now is the recently uncovered backdoor in liblzma (aka XZ) – a relatively obscure compression library that happens to be a dependency of OpenSSH.
This incident is noteworthy for so many reasons: the exploit itself, how it was deployed, how it was found, what it says about our industry & how the community reacted. Let’s dig in!
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The undercover generalist (Changelog & Friends #37)
Which is smarter: specializing in a particular tech or becoming more of a generalist? It depends! Which is why Jerod invited “undercover generalist” Adolfo Ochagavía on our “It Depends” series to weigh the pros & cons of each path.
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SoCal Linux Expo (Ship It! #97)
Justin & Autumn take you with them to the 2024 SoCal Linux Expo where they asked six fellow attendees about their favorite open source projects and their least favorite commands.
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- Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
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13% of the time, Devin works every time (JS Party #317)
Jerod, KBall & Nick discuss the latest news: Devin, Astro DB, The JavaScript Registry, Tailwind 4 & Angular merging with Wiz. Oh, and a surprise mini-game of HeadLIES!
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- Astro DB
- JSR - the JavaScript Registry
- Tailwind 4
- Angular merging with Wiz
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We're flipping the script (Changelog Interviews #584)
Script flipped! Today we’re sharing two interviews of us on Other People’s Podcasts (OPP): Kathrine Druckman from the Open at Intel podcast invited us on the show at KubeCon NA in November and Den Delimarsky hosted Jerod on The Work Item podcast in February.
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Debugging (Go Time #309)
In this episode Matt, Bill & Jon discuss various debugging techniques for use in both production and development. Bill explains why he doesn’t like his developers to use the debugger and how he prefers to only use techniques available in production. Matt expresses a few counterpoints based on his different experiences, and then the group goes over some techniques for debugging in production.
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AI vs software devs (Practical AI #262)
Daniel and Chris are out this week, so we’re bringing you conversations all about AI’s complicated relationship to software developers from other Changelog pods: JS Party, Go Time & The Changelog.
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- Go Time #306
- Changelog & Friends #28
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Another one bites the dust (Changelog News #87)
Redis’ re-licensing prompts forks like Drew DeVault’s Redict, Matthew Miller thinks we need more community built software, Paul Gross makes the case that DuckDB is the new jq, Anton Zhiyanov shares how he makes a living as a developer despite being “pretty dumb” & Baldur Bjarnason chimes in on the state of the web developer job market.
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Productivity engineering at Netflix (Ship It! #96)
What’s the difference between productivity engineering and platform engineering? How can you continue to re-platform with a moving target? On this episode, we’re joined by Andy Glover, who spent ten years productivity engineering at Netflix, to discuss.
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WTA: What the Acronym?
- K8s - Kubernetes numeronym
- O11y - Observability
- I18n - internationalization
- A11y - accessibility
- Y2k - millennial tech problem
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Retirement is for suckers (Changelog & Friends #36)
THE Cameron Seay joins us once again! This time we learn more about his life/history, hear all about the boot camps he runs, discuss recent advancements in AI / quantum computing and how they might affect the tech labor market & more!
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It's a TrueNAS world (Changelog Interviews #583)
This week Adam talks with Kris Moore, Senior Vice President of Engineering at iXsystems, about all things TrueNAS. They discuss the history of TrueNAS starting from its origins as a FreeBSD project, TrueNAS Core being in maintenance mode, the momentum and innovation happening in TrueNAS Scale, the evolution of the TrueNAS user interface, managing ZFS compatibility in TrueNAS, the business model of iXsystems and their commitment to the open-source community, and of course what’s to come in the upcoming Dragonfish release of TrueNAS Scale.
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- Changelog Interviews – #574: Let’s talk FreeBSD (finally) with Allan Jude
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Questions from a new Go developer (Go Time #308)
In this episode we answer any/all questions from a new Go developer. Features, best practices, quirks of the language… it’s all on the table for discussion.
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Prompting the future (Practical AI #261)
Daniel & Chris explore the state of the art in prompt engineering with Jared Zoneraich, the founder of PromptLayer. PromptLayer is the first platform built specifically for prompt engineering. It can visually manage prompts, evaluate models, log LLM requests, search usage history, and help your organization collaborate as a team. Jared provides expert guidance in how to be implement prompt engineering, but also illustrates how we got here, and where we’re likely to go next.
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No Maintenance Intended (Changelog News #86)
A new badge for open source projects that won’t be getting any maintenance, everything Chip Huyen learned from looking at 900 open source AI tools, CNBC writes up tech’s renewed layoff trend, Teable is a Postgres-Airtable fusion & Target announces an open source fund.
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Containers on a diet (Ship It! #95)
Kyle Quest joins the show to tell Autumn & Justin all about the evolution of DockerSlim & minimal container images. Why are small container images important? What are different strategies to make containers smaller? Let’s find out!
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The Oban Pros (Changelog & Friends #35)
Today you get Sorentwo for the price of one! We are joined by Shannon & Parker Selbert, both halves of the mom-and-pop software shop behind Oban, the robust job processing library that’s been delivering our emails & processing our audio for years.
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- The Oban Pro featuring Parker Selbert (Backstage #23)
- Robust Job Processing· Oban Pro
- Elixir and Phoenix with Chris McCord (Changelog Interviews #147)
- github.com/thechangelog/changelog.com
- Hatchet
- Have an Enemy | Getting Real
- Mojito island is a mirage – Signal v. Noise
- Attack of the Canaries! with Haroon Meer from Thinkst (Changelog Interviews #557)
- Cronitor
- Buzzsprout
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We have a right to repair! (Changelog Interviews #582)
This week Adam went solo — talking to Kyle Wiens, Founder and CEO at iFixit, about all things Right to Repair. They discussed the latest win here in the US with Oregon passing an electronics Right to Repair law to allow owners the right to get their stuff fixed anywhere as well as limit the anti-repair practices of parts pairing. They also discussed the history of the DMCA, the challenges posed by Section 1201, the challenges of recycling products with glued-in batteries, the need for producer responsibility, the future of repairability, repair scoring systems to inform consumers, and so much more. Did you know that iFixit funds its advocacy work through the sale of its tools and parts? So cool.
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- Oregon Just Struck a Blow to Parts Pairing and Won a Decade of Repair Support
- Repair.org
- E-Reuse Conference
- iFixit.com
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Advocating for the future of the open web (JS Party #316)
Alex & James Moore, founding members of the Open Web Advocacy (OWA), join Amal to talk about the critical work the OWA has been doing to ensure users have browser choice and that web apps can be first-class citizens on mobile devices. We learn about how an ad-hoc group of software engineers worked with regulators, legislators & policymakers to help drive some of the most impactful legislation curbing anti-competitive behaviors on the web for tech giants such as Apple, Google & Microsoft via the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA).
Tune in for this deeply important & timely discussion as we also unpack recent events with Apple and their DMA (un)compliance, and how the OWA helped successfully organize thousands of web developers from around the world to hold ground for a free & open web.
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- Open Web Advocacy
- Open Web Advocacy Open Letter (signed by 1000s to protest the 17.4 breaking changes for web apps on iOS)
- Open Web Advocacy Walled Gardens Report
- European Union Digital Markets Act (DMA) - EUR-Lex
- Article 5: Obligations for gatekeepers - EUR-Lex (from the DMA)
- The Verge: European Union Commission Digital Markets Act
- Blog: The Digital Markets Act is in Force - What Happens Now?
- Blog: Apple Backs Off Killing Web Apps
- Blog: It’s Official: Apple Kills Web Apps
- Blog: Apple on Course to Break All Web Apps in EU within 20 Days
- Blog: Did Apple Just Break Web Apps in iOS17.4 Beta (EU)?
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Jumping into an existing codebase (Go Time #307)
Jumping into a codebase you’re unfamiliar with can be challenging. Are there better & worse ways to go about it? In this episode, Ian gathers a panel (Johnny, Kris & Jon) to discuss the ins & outs of familiarizing yourself with an existing codebase.
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Generating the future of art & entertainment (Practical AI #260)
Runway is an applied AI research company shaping the next era of art, entertainment & human creativity. Chris sat down with Runway co-founder / CTO, Anastasis Germanidis, to discuss their rise and how it’s defining the future of the creative landscape with its text & image to video models. We hope you find Anastasis’s founder story as inspiring as Chris did.
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Puter is the internet OS (Changelog News #85)
Puter puts an entire operating system in your web browser, the kapa.ai team write down how to structure your docs for LLMs, Daytona is an open source Codespaces alternative, Gleam v1.0 has been released & Rolldown is a JavaScript bundler written in Rust.
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Scoring your project’s security (Ship It! #94)
Autumn and Justin are joined by Chris Swan to discuss tech industry trends like AI and sustainability, gamifying the software development process and motivating devs to write more secure code, OpenSSF Scorecards and how they offer a way to measure and improve the security and compliance of GitHub repos, the scoring system, and the security posture of a repository.
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Links of the week
- List of 2024 leap day bugs
- Prescription orders delayed as US pharmacies grapple with “nation-state” cyber attack
Person, place, thing, || null
- Linux - person (Linus Torvalds)
- git - person (Linus Torvalds)
- Kubernetes - thing (helmsman)
- Algorithms - person (Al-Khwarizmi, Persian mathmetition)
- Trojan Horse - place (Troy)
- Bluetooth - person (Harold Bluetooth, Denmark king)
- Hadoop - thing (kids elephant toy)
- Venn diagram - person (John Venn)
- MySQL - person (My Widenius)
- Debian - person (Deb and Ian)
- Neon - Greek neon meaning new
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Bourbon and better software (Changelog & Friends #34)
Adam is joined by Robert Ross, Founder and CEO of FireHydrant — they discuss Bourbon, sniffing arms, better software, leading a successful startup, scaling teams, building vs acquiring, and Adam even gets Robert to commit to watching Silicon Valley!!
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It's not always DNS (Changelog Interviews #581)
This week we’re talking about DNS with Paul Vixie — Paul is well known for his contributions to DNS and agrees with Adam on having a “love/hate relationship with DNS.” We discuss the limitations of current DNS technologies and the need for revisions to support future internet scale, the challenges in doing that. Paul shares insights on the future of the internet and how he’d reinvent DNS if given the opportunity. We even discuss the cultural idiom “It’s always DNS,” and the shift to using DNS resolvers like OpenDNS, Google’s 8.8.8.8 and Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1. Buckle up, this is a good one.
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Getting a pulse on your Core Web Vitals 🩺 (JS Party #315)
This week, Amal and Nick are joined by Rick Viscomi and Annie Sullivan from the Chrome team to dive into Core Web Vitals, a set of performance metrics geared towards helping developers surface web page quality signals that are key to delivering great user experiences.
We deconstruct the different vitals and learn how they are helpful, as well as introduce the newest vital to hit the scene, Interaction to Next Paint (INP). Join us for a fun and nerdtastic discussion as we dive into the humbling universe of web performance!
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- Web performance resources
- Why speed matters
- Core Web Vitals docs
- Interaction to Next Paint (INP)
- Largest Contentful Paint (LCP)
- Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS)
- Measuring Core Web Vitals in the field
- web-vitals.js library
- Web Vitals Chrome extension
- PageSpeed Insights
- Chrome UX Report
- Core Web Vitals Tech Report
- In The Loop by Jake Archibald (🔥🔥🔥 Event Loop Talk referenced on show)
- Scheduler API Polyfill
- Scheduler.yield API Origin Trial
- Speedcurve - Web performance monitoring
- WebPageTest - Website performance and optimization test
- WPO stats - Case studies and experiments demonstrating the impact of web performance optimization (WPO)
- Partytown - Run 3rd Party Scripts from a Web Worker
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YOLOv9: Computer vision is alive and well (Practical AI #259)
While everyone is super hyped about generative AI, computer vision researchers have been working in the background on significant advancements in deep learning architectures. YOLOv9 was just released with some noteworthy advancements relevant to parameter efficient models. In this episode, Chris and Daniel dig into the details and also discuss advancements in parameter efficient LLMs, such as Microsofts 1-Bit LLMs and Qualcomm’s new AI Hub.
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YOLOv9:
- Yolov9: Learning What You Want to Learn Using Programmable Gradient Information
- Yolov9 Object Detection with Programmable Gradient Information (PGI) and Generalized Efficient
- Yolov9: A Comprehensive Guide and Custom Dataset Fine-Tuning
- YOLOv9 SOTA Machine Learning Object Detection Model
- YOLOv9
- Unleashing the Power of YOLOv9
- YOLOv9 with NNCF and OpenVINO
- ArXiv:2402.13616
Parameter efficient LLMs:
- Hugging Face Paper page, 1-Bit LLMs
- ArXiv paper: “The Era of 1-bit LLMs: All Large Language Models are in 1.58 Bits”
- Qualcomm AI Hub
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How long until I lose my job to AI? (Go Time #306)
We’re all thinking about it and wondering if our job is safe from AI. Maybe. Maybe not. In this episode Johnny Boursiquot is joined some industry veterans who have been through multiple innovation cycles to share their insights and advice on this subject.
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Apple backs off killing EU web apps (Changelog News #84)
Apple backs off killing web apps (but the fight continues), Luka Kladaric writes about how to ship quality software in hostile environments, Deno’s new package registry is an npm superset, Martin Fowler on the value of periodic face-to-face & Eugene Ghanizadeh wants us to get more decentralized than the Fediverse. Leave us nice words!
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Hybrid infrastructure load balancing (Ship It! #93)
Wanny Morellato & Deepak Mohandas from Kong join Justin & Autumn to discuss building, testing & running a load balancer that can run anywhere.
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Zed's secret sauce (Changelog & Friends #33)
The Zed text editor has come a long way since Nathan Sobo came on the show last year to tell us about this follow-up to Atom. Zed is open source now, has the underpinnings of collaboration built in, is beginning its journey toward full extensibility, is coming to Linux soon & shows serious promise if Nathan’s team can mix their secret sauce just right.
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- Zed.dev
- Goodbye Atom. Hello Zed. (The Changelog #531)
- Introducing Channels for Collaboration
- Zed is now open source
- User themes now in Preview
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Take a look, it's in a book (JS Party #314)
Nick delves into the intricacies of technical book writing with authors Adrienne Braganza Tacke and Dylan Hildenbrand. We talk about the process of working with a publisher, coming up with an outline, actually writing the book, and everything that comes after the book is finished.
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- Dylan’s book
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Leading in the era of AI code intelligence (Changelog Interviews #580)
This week Adam is joined by Quinn Slack, CEO of Sourcegraph for a “2 years later” catch up from his last appearance on Founders Talk. This conversation is a real glimpse into what it takes to be CEO of Sourcegraph in an era when code intelligence is shifting more and more into the AI realm, how they’ve been driving towards this for years, the subtle human leveling up we’re all experiencing, the direction of Sourcegraph as a result — and Quinn also shares his order of operations when it comes to understanding the daily state of their growth.
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Dance Party (Changelog Interviews)
Listen to our newest album called Dance Party as a podcast! This is an EPIC bundle of BMC bangers. We double dog dare you to listen and try NOT to dance 🕺
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Representation Engineering (Activation Hacking) (Practical AI #258)
Recently, we briefly mentioned the concept of “Activation Hacking” in the episode with Karan from Nous Research. In this fully connected episode, Chris and Daniel dive into the details of this model control mechanism, also called “representation engineering”. Of course, they also take time to discuss the new Sora model from OpenAI.
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Creating art & visualizations with Go (Go Time #305)
Angelica is joined by the wonderful Anthony Starks to discuss creative coding to create art & visualizations with Go. Anthony is an independent developer/designer interested in data visualization, generative art, building tools & combining art + code.
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- Anthony’s Speaker Deck
- Du Bois Visualization Challenge: 2024
- decksh: a little language for presentations, visualizations, and information displays
- W. E. B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America
- African American Photographs Assembled for 1900 Paris Exposition
- dchart: dchart makes charts using deck markup
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Natural Language Programming (Changelog News #83)
GPTScript is a new scripting language to automate your interactions with LLMs, Adam Wiggins conducts a retrospective on Muse, Nikita Prokopov surveyed a bunch of popular websites to see how much JS they loaded on their pages, Pages CMS is a no-hassle CMS for GitHub pages & Jim Nielsen writes about the subversive hyperlink.
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Brewing up something for work (Changelog & Friends #32)
Mike McQuaid, maintainer of Homebrew, and now CTO at Workbrew joins us to discuss open tabs, social media spam and distractions, TikTok’s addictive nature, Apple Vision Pro and its potential future, the maintenance of software, the swing back to old school web development, the value of telemetry in open source projects, Mike’s ongoing involvement in Homebrew and what they’re working on at Workbrew, Homebrew’s relationship with Apple, the importance of developer experience, and sooo much more.
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Shipping in SPAAAACCEEE (Ship It! #92)
What do you do when your infrastructure runs 1000 miles away and you only have access every 90 minutes? Find out from Andrew Guenther from Orbital Sidekick.
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- Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
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- Moving away from AWS CDK
- $25 million deep fake heist
- Orbital Side Kick (OSK)
- Dog
- Doggo
- NASA open source library
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Who's that girl? It's Jess! (JS Party #313)
Apple kills EU web apps, Amazon launches a JS runtime optimized for serverless workloads & we play a game of 20 (15) questions to welcome Jessica Sachs to the party!
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- Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
- Christopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Jessica Sachs – Website, GitHub, X
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- Take the OWA survey ASAP!
- It’s Official, Apple Kills Web Apps in the EU
- Arc from The Browser Company
- LLRT: Amazon’s new JS runtime
- QuickJS
- Introducing Tempo • A new date library for JS/TS
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Making shell history magical with Atuin (Changelog Interviews #579)
Today we speak with Ellie Huxtable, the creator of a magical open source tool for syncing, searching & backing up your shell history. Along the way we learn all about the sync service, why she likes Rust, the branding / marketing of the project, how she quit her job to work on it full time, the business model & so much more.
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CHANGELOGwhen you sign up to get $100 OFF the team plan. - Synadia – Take NATS to the next level via a global, multi-cloud, multi-geo and extensible service, fully managed by Synadia. They take care of all the infrastructure, management, monitoring, and maintenance for you so you can focus on building exceptional distributed applications.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- Atuin
- Efficient Linux at the CLI with Daniel J. Barrett (Changelog Interviews #547)
- Here’s how to quickly navigate your shell’s history of commands
- RVM and Ruby Version Managment with Michal Papis (Changelog Interviews #102)
- thoughtbot/rcm: rc file (dotfile) management
- ivaaaan/smug: Session manager and task runner for tmux
- RVM
- Wayne Seguin
- RVM and BDSM (Changelog Interviews #66)
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Foundations of Go performance (Go Time #304)
In the first of a multi-part series, Ian & Johnny are joined by Miriah Peterson & Bryan Boreham to peel back the first layer of the things that matter when it comes to the performance of your Go programs.
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Leading the charge on AI in National Security (Practical AI #257)
Chris & Daniel explore AI in national security with Lt. General Jack Shanahan (USAF, Ret.). The conversation reflects Jack’s unique background as the only senior U.S. military officer responsible for standing up and leading two organizations in the United States Department of Defense (DoD) dedicated to fielding artificial intelligence capabilities: Project Maven and the DoD Joint AI Center (JAIC).
Together, Jack, Daniel & Chris dive into the fascinating details of Jack’s recent written testimony to the U.S. Senate’s AI Insight Forum on National Security, in which he provides the U.S. government with thoughtful guidance on how to achieve the best path forward with artificial intelligence.
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- Jack Shanahan – LinkedIn
- Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- Gen AI Master class
- Written Testimony of Lieutenant General John (Jack) N.T. Shanahan (USAF, Ret.) AI Insight Forum: National Security
- Software Defined Warfare: Architecting the DOD’s Transition to the Digital Age
- Artificial Intelligence and Geopolitics:vHitching the Disruptive Technology Cart to the Geopolitics Horse | LinkedIn
- Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) | Wikipedia
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Quantum computing gets a reality check (Changelog News #82)
Ship It is back! IEEE Spectrum writes about quantum computing’s reality check, Maxim Dounin announces freenginx, Nadia Asparouhova goes deep on AI & the “effective accelerationism” movement, Angie Byron helps first time open source contributors avoid common pitfalls & Miroslav Nikolov writes up his advice for high-risk refactoring.
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Yeeting stuff into public (Changelog & Friends #31)
Jamie Tanna (who has a website) joins us to discuss the indie web, living with ADHD, sharing his salary history with the world & building DMD – a dynamite open source tool to help you better understand the use of dependencies across your org.
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- Jamie’s first Changelog pod: Request For Commits #4)
- One year in the indieweb
- Blogumentation
- Why I Have a Website and You Should Too
- did you know jamie has a website
- My Salary History
- Memento (film) - Wikipedia
- DMD
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What exactly is Open Source AI? (Changelog Interviews #578)
This week we’re joined by Stefano Maffulli, the Executive Director of the Open Source Initiative (OSI). They are responsible for representing the idea and the definition of open source globally. Stefano shares the challenges they face as a US-based non-profit with a global impact. We discuss the work Stefano and the OSI are doing to define Open Source AI, and why we need an accepted and shared definition. Of course we also talk about the potential impact if a poorly defined Open Source AI emerges from all their efforts.
Note: Stefano was under the weather for this conversation, but powered through because of how important this topic is.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- Open Source Initiative (OSI)
- Discuss the “Open Source AI Definition”
- A new draft of the Open Source AI Definition: v.0.0.5 is available for comments
- The Open Source AI Definition
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Building containers without Docker (Ship It! #91)
We’re back! Jason Hall joins the show to tell Justin & Autumn all about how Chainguard builds hundreds of containers without a single Dockerfile.
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Angular moves fast without breaking things (JS Party #312)
KBall & Amal dive deep with the “Dazzle of Zebras” (possible future band name), Angular team members Jessica Janiuk & Mark “Techson” Thompson. Along with an absolute riot of puns, they cover topics such as Angular’s new deferrable views feature, how the Angular core team handles change, and lessons learned from the AngularJS-Angular 2 debacle that allow Angular to now move fast without breaking things.
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Gemini vs OpenAI (Practical AI #256)
Google has been releasing a ton of new GenAI functionality under the name “Gemini”, and they’ve officially rebranded Bard as Gemini. We take some time to talk through Gemini compared with offerings from OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere, etc.
We also discuss the recent FCC decision to ban the use of AI voices in robocalls and what the decision might mean for government involvement in AI in 2024.
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- FCC decision on AI voices
- FCC Bans AI Voices in Unsolicited Robocalls
- Prompt Engineering Guide
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Gophers Say! GopherCon EU Athens 2024 (Go Time #303)
Our award winning worthy survey game show is back, this time Mat Ryer hosts it live on stage at GopherCon EU Athens 2024! Join in & play along as we see which team can better guess what these GopherCon gophers had to say!
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- Llewellyn Strydom – LinkedIn
- Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
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We can dance if we want to... (Changelog News #81)
Changelog Beats drops a new Dance Party album, Will McGugan’s new Toolong (tl) terminal app, Mitchell Baker is out as Mozilla CEO, Microsoft’s Jordi Adoumie announces sudo for Windows, Tatu Ylonen tells the tale of how they got SSH to be port 22 & Jack Lindamood gives an “Endorse” or “Regret” rating for ~50 different services, tools & processes he used over the 4 years he led infrastructure at a startup.
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Future of [energy, content, food] (Changelog & Friends #30)
We’re taking you back to the hallway track at THAT Conference where we have 3 MORE fun conversations: one with Samuel Goff about the future of energy, one with YouTuber Jess Chan about the future of content creation & one with Vanessa Villa / Noah Jenkins about ag tech & the future of food.
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- Read Write Own – Read, Write, Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet—a new book from entrepreneur and investor Chris Dixon—explores one possible solution to the internet’s authenticity problem: Blockchains. From AI that tracks its source material to generative programs that compensate—rather than cannibalize—creators. It’s a call to action for a more open, transparent, and democratic internet. One that opens the black box of AI, tracks the origins we see online, and much more. Order your copy of Read, Write, Own today at readwriteown.com
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Taking on Goliath (Changelog Interviews #577)
This week on The Changelog we’re talking with Nadia Odunayo, founder of StoryGraph. Nadia started out as a one woman dev and product team — she’s had to adjust and maneuver along way to becoming the Amazon-free alternative to Goodreads.
We talk about the importance of customer research, the iterative nature of customer research and what it takes to synthesize and analyze the findings to guide product development, the technical challenges and learnings she faced while building StoryGraph, for example at several points they’ve faced challenges in handling an influx of users and had to re-architect the system. We also talk about the business model of StoryGraph and how they generate revenue through Plus subscriptions, and partnerships with publishers for book giveaways.
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- CIQ / Rocky Linux – CIQ is Rocky Linux’s founding support partner. They support the free, stable, and secure Linux distro called Rocky Linux.
- Read Write Own – Read, Write, Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet—a new book from entrepreneur and investor Chris Dixon—explores one possible solution to the internet’s authenticity problem: Blockchains. From AI that tracks its source material to generative programs that compensate—rather than cannibalize—creators. It’s a call to action for a more open, transparent, and democratic internet. One that opens the black box of AI, tracks the origins we see online, and much more. Order your copy of Read, Write, Own today at readwriteown.com
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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React Server Components 🧐 (JS Party #311)
The week Amal & guest co-host Eric Clemmons talk to Dan Abramov all about React Server Components. We learn about why they were created, what problems they solve & how they work to improve application performance. We also dive into the rollout and current support status, the origin story, the community response & walk through the 10+ years of React history which have forever shifted the world of web development.
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- Changelog Beats! Dance Party
- Making Sense of React Server Components
- How Next.js is delivering React’s vision for the future
- Simplifying Server Components
- React Server Components with Aurora Walberg
- “React from Another Dimension” by Dan Abramov at #RemixConf 2023 (YouTube)
- Data Fetching with React Server Components
- RFC: React Server Components (Github)
- Next.js 13: Server Components (docs)
- “Data Fetching with React Server Components” initial 2020 vision (YouTube)
- JavaScript Fatigue
- Click to Component (Github)
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What's new in Go 1.22 (Go Time #302)
Our “what’s new in Go” correspondent, Carlana Johnson, joins Johnny & Ian to discuss what’s new with the latest iteration of Go in version 1.22.
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- Go 1.22 Release Notes
- What’s New in Go 1.22: reflect.TypeFor
- What’s New in Go 1.22: slices.Concat
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Data synthesis for SOTA LLMs (Practical AI #255)
Nous Research has been pumping out some of the best open access LLMs using SOTA data synthesis techniques. Their Hermes family of models is incredibly popular! In this episode, Karan from Nous talks about the origins of Nous as a distributed collective of LLM researchers. We also get into fine-tuning strategies and why data synthesis works so well.
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The promise of hackable software (Changelog News #80)
Geoffrey Litt thinks browser extensions are underrated, Adolfo Ochagavía on being a generalist in a specialist’s world, Jack Garbus praises the Arch Wiki, Terence Eden tries to rebuild FourSquare for ActivityPub using OpenStreetMap & Sebastien Dubois teaches us how to connect ideas together.
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You have how many open tabs?! (Changelog & Friends #29)
We’re taking you to the hallway track at THAT Conference in Austin TX, where we have 3 fun conversations: one with our old friend Nick Nisi from JS Party, one with our new(ish) friend Amy Dutton from CompressedFM (who has been a guest on JS Party of late) & one with our brand new friend / long-time listener Andres Pineda from the Dominican Republic.
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In the beginning (of generative AI) (Changelog Interviews #576)
This week on The Changelog we’re talking with Joe Reis about data engineering and the beginning of generative AI. We discuss phone hacking via frequency, the role of a data engineer, this AI hype cycle we’re in, build vs buy, the disconnect between data analysts and the business, ethical considerations around AI-generated content, and more. We also discuss the tension between AI and traditional engineering, as well as the inevitability of AI integration into pretty much everything.
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Angular Signals (JS Party #310)
KBall & Amal interview Alex & Pavel from the Angular Signals team. They cover the history, how the Angular team decided to move to signals, what the new mental model looks like, migration path & even dive into community integrations and future roadmap.
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- Zone.js
- A Solid option for building UIs
- RxJS
- Angular RFCs
- Angular Signals RFC
- Reactivity project
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Go Capture the Flag! 🚩 (Go Time #301)
Angelica is joined by Neil S Primmer & Benji Vesterby to share their experience organizing “Capture the Flag” at GopherCon 2023. CTF events involve teams vying for supremacy as they strive to gather digital flags (presented as strings) and successfully submit them to the competition organizers. In essence, it’s a thrilling “scavenger hunt for nerds.” Join us as we unravel the intricacies and excitement of this unique gaming experience!
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Large Action Models (LAMs) & Rabbits 🐇 (Practical AI #254)
Recently the release of the rabbit r1 device resulted in huge interest in both the device and “Large Action Models” (or LAMs). What is an LAM? Is this something new? Did these models come out of nowhere, or are they related to other things we are already using? Chris and Daniel dig into LAMs in this episode and discuss neuro-symbolic AI, AI tool usage, multimodal models, and more.
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$100k for indie game devs (Changelog News #79)
The Rune team announces $100k in open source grants for indie game devs, the Zed code editor is now open source, the Ollama team releases Python & JavaScript libraries, Max Bernstein tells the story of Scrapscript & Pooya Parsa writes up some notes from a tired maintainer.
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Gradually gradually typing Elixir (Changelog & Friends #28)
Our old friend José Valim & his team have been hard at work adding gradual typing to Elixir. They’re only 1-3% of the way there, but a lot of progress has been made. So, we invited him back on the show for a deep-dive on why, how & when Elixir will be gradually typed.
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Shift left, seriously. (Changelog Interviews #575)
This week we’re going deep on security and what it takes to shift left, seriously. Adam is joined by Justin Garrison (co-host of Ship It), plus two members of the BoxyHQ team — Deepak Prabhakara, Co-founder & CEO and Schalk Neethling, Community Manager and DevRel as well as fellow Changelog Slack member.
We discuss how to shift left, the role of the developer and the burden of security, the importance of tooling, the difference between authentication and authorization, and a mindset change for when security takes place — it’s a matter of “when” not “who.”
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- BoxyHQ.com
- SAML Jackson - Enterprise SSO made simple
- Enterprise SaaS Starter Kit
- MVSP (Minimum Viable Secure Product
- Minimum Viable Secure Product (MVSP) checklist
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From sales to engineering (JS Party #309)
Shaundai Person joins Jerod & Nick for a fascinating discussion of her transition from a sales position to Senior Software Engineer at Netflix. Along the way, we discuss sales as a superpower, how to build confidence in yourself & even sneak a little TypeScript talk in there because you know who…
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Collaboration & evaluation for LLM apps (Practical AI #253)
Small changes in prompts can create large changes in the output behavior of generative AI models. Add to that the confusion around proper evaluation of LLM applications, and you have a recipe for confusion and frustration. Raza and the Humanloop team have been diving into these problems, and, in this episode, Raza helps us understand how non-technical prompt engineers can productively collaborate with technical software engineers while building AI-driven apps.
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300 multiple choices (Go Time #300)
Over the past 8 years, Go Time has published 300 episodes! In this episode, the panel discusses which ones they loved the most, some current stuff that’s in the works, what struggles the podcast has had & what we’re planning for the future.
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- 7 deadly sins
- What’s New In Go episodes
- Ian’s favorite episodes
- Episodes where we talk to experts that deeply care
- Who owns our code?
- Biology and Go
- What’s new in Go cryptopgrahy
- Kris’ favorite episodes
- Maintenance mini series
- Episodes about software engineering in general and the Go community
- Angelica’s favorite episodes
- Maintenance mini series episodes
- Event driven architectures
- Go deep dive episodes
- Episodes that are about Go and tech but are also apply outside of tech
- Ian’s recommendations
- Who owns our code? episodes
- Jon’s recommendations
- Depends on the person
- Usually episodes around the new to Go topic
- Johnny’s recommendations
- Doesn’t relisten to episode he’s on
- Start with the last one
- Kris’ recommendations
- Recent episode
- Angelica’s recommendations
- Episode around Go and simplicity
- Angelica’s first episode
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GitHub Actions as a time-sharing supercomputer (Changelog News #78)
Alex Ellis’ new actions-batch project uses GitHub Actions as a time-sharing supercomputer, DevDocs.io combines multiple API documentations in a fast, organized, and searchable interface, Jarred Sumner announces Bun’s very own JavaScript shell, Shoelace is a forward-thinking library of web components & Martin Heinz writes an awesome guide to building an indoor air quality monitoring system with Prometheus, Grafana & a CO2 sensor.
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A pre-party to a feud (Changelog++ 🔐) (JS Party)
Jerod, Adam Argyle & the CompressedFM crew hang out prior to their Fronted Feud battle! They discuss CSS as a programming language, Apple’s walled garden, how nobody is on the same social media sites anymore, how to choose tech, the community’s sentiment shift on GraphQL & a whole bunch more. (This episode is for Changelog++ ears only.)
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The state of homelab tech (2024) (Changelog & Friends #27)
Techno Tim is back with Adam to discuss the state of homelab in 2024 and the trends happening within homelab tech. They discuss homelab environments providing a safe place for experimentation and learning, network improvement as a gateway to homelab, trends in network connection speeds, to Unifi or not, storage trends, ZFS configurations, TrueNAS, cameras, home automation, connectivity, routers, pfSense, and more.
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- Cisco Meraki
- pfSense
- TrueNAS
- Proxmox
- Intel Core i9-13900K
- Plex
- Home Assistant
- OCuLink Interface
- OpenZFS
- Changelog & Friends #7: Dear Red Hat… (w/ Jeff Geerling)
- (Byte My Bits) Intel 13th Gen + Unraid + Plex = OMG4K!
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Frontend Feud: CSS Podcast vs CompressedFM (JS Party #308)
Una & Adam from The CSS Podcast defend their Frontend Feud title against challengers James & Brad from CompressedFM. Let’s get it on!
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Let's talk FreeBSD (finally) (Changelog Interviews #574)
This week we’re joined by FreeBSD & OpenZFS developer, Allan Jude, to learn all about FreeBSD. Allan gives us a brief history of BSD, tells us why it’s his operating system of choice, compares it to Linux, explains the various BSDs out there & answers every curious question we have about this powerful (yet underrepresented) Unix-based operating system.
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- Rocky Linux – From Flops and Threads - Episode #4: Ask Me Anything (AMA) with OpenELA — OpenELA will provide sources necessary for downstreams compatible with RHEL to exist, with initial focus on RHEL versions EL8, EL9 and possibly EL7. The project is committed to ensuring the continued availability of OpenELA sources to the community indefinitely. By welcoming other organizations and community members to join and contribute actively, OpenELA seeks to build a robust, community-driven standard that ensures impartiality and equilibrium in the EL ecosystem.
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- The FreeBSD Project
- FreeBSD on Wikipedia
- Repology, the packaging hub
- Allan’s podcast: 2.5 Admins
- FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS (Amazon)
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Advent of GenAI Hackathon recap (Practical AI #252)
Recently, Intel’s Liftoff program for startups and Prediction Guard hosted the first ever “Advent of GenAI” hackathon. 2,000 people from all around the world participated in Generate AI related challenges over 7 days. In this episode, we discuss the hackathon, some of the creative solutions, the idea behind it, and more.
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All about Kafka (Go Time #299)
In this episode Matt joins Kris & Jon to discuss Kafka. During their discussion they cover topics like what problems Kafka helps solve, when a company should start considering Kafka, how throwing tech like Kafka at a problem won’t fix everything if there are underlying issues, complexities of using Kafka, managing payload schemas, and more.
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- Matt’s Blog Post About Kafka at Cloudflare
- Sarama library
- Matt’s Golang Insiders Twitter Community
- Kubernetes the Hard Way
- Incident Monolith Blog Post
- Encore
- Memphis
- CRDT
- Designing Data-Intensive Applications
- Buf (mentioned by Matt)
- Prototool
- grpc.io
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A plea for lean software (Changelog News #77)
Niklaus Wirth makes his plea for lean software, PocketBase puts your entire backend in 1 file, Vanna is a Python RAG framework for accurate text-to-SQL generation, Henrik Karlsson wants you to think more about what to focus on & Calvin Wankhede shares how he built a fully offline smart home (and you should too).
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Kaizen! Should we build a CDN? (Changelog & Friends #26)
It’s our 13th Kaizen episode! We’re back from KubeCon, we’re making goals for the year, we’re migrating to Neon & we’re weighing the pros/cons of building our own custom CDN.
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- 📄 Kaizen 13
- Migrate Postgres to Neon.tech by gerhard · Pull Request #492
- CDN cache misses increased 7x · Issue #486
- 🎥 TGI RabbitMQ
- Neon.tech
- Supabase Postgres · Fly Docs
- Vercel Postgres
- KeyCDN - Content delivery made easy
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htmx: a new old way to build the web (JS Party #307)
Carson Gross (creator of htmx) & Alex Russell (Mr. Web Platform 3000) join Amal for an EPIC discussion on web architectures, the evolution of rendering patterns & the advantages of hypermedia and htmx. We dive deep on why modern web app best practices are falling short & explore how htmx gives devs an HTML-first approach to use tech that’s over 20 years old.
Tune in to learn a new way to do something old, so you can simplify your code & use JavaScript when/where it’s uniquely able to shine ✨
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- htmx site and docs
- EPIC htmx Twitter
- Hypermedia Wikipedia
- Hypermedia Systems - A free digital book from Carson Gross, Adam Stepinski, and Deniz Aksimsek
- Hypermedia Reintroduction (from Hypermedia Systems book)
- Infrequently - Alex Russell’s EPIC blog
- The Market for Lemons
- Performance Inequality Series from Alex Russell
- Netflix Web Performance Case Study (refactoring the Netflix login to vanilla html, js and css)
- Roy Fielding’s Dissertation on REST
- REST APIs Must Be Hypertext-Driven
- HATEOAS Wikipedia
- Open Web Advocacy Group
- Open UI Group
- The Website vs Web App Dichotomy Doesn’t Exist
- As We May Type
- More Capable Form Controls
- Fun Hacks for Faster Content
- Google jsaction lib on Github
- Intercooler.js (Carson’s precursor to htmx)
Previous Changelog interviews with Carson Gross on htmx:
The Market for Lemons - Diagram on Session & Interaction Depth vs Application Architectures (referenced in our podcast discussion)
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Amazon's silent sacking (Changelog Interviews #573)
Justin Garrison joins us to talk about Amazon’s silent sacking, from his perspective. He should know. He works there. Well, as of yesterday he quit. We discuss how the cloud and Kubernetes have transformed the way software is developed and deployed, the impact silent layoffs have on employees and their careers, speaking out about workplace issues (the right way), how changes in organizational structure can lead to gaps in expertise and responsibility which can lead to potential outages and slower response times.
By the way, we officially let the cat off out of the bag in this episode. Justin has joined the ranks here at Changelog and is taking over as the host of Ship It! Expect new episodes soon.
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AI predictions for 2024 (Practical AI #251)
We scoured the internet to find all the AI related predictions for 2024 (at least from people that might know what they are talking about), and, in this episode, we talk about some of the common themes. We also take a moment to look back at 2023 commenting with some distance on a crazy AI year.
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The I in LLM stands for intelligence (Changelog News #76)
Daniel Stenberg is frustrated with the state of AI tooling for finding security bugs, Brian Birtles is surprised by weird things engineers believe about web dev, Feross Aboukhadijeh details the fallout from a nasty npm prank, Rob Pike shares what he thinks they got right and wrong with Go & Gavin Howard writes up why he believes “all code is tech debt” is all wrong.
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New Year's Party 🎊 (JS Party #306)
It’s our 5th annual New Year’s party! Jerod & the gang review our predictions from last year, discuss what’s trending in the web world, make a few predictions for 2024 & even set some new resolutions for this year.
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- Christopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
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- Last year’s New Year’s party
- Twitter thread highlighting collaboration between NodeJS and Bun maintainers on finding and improving a node performance bottleneck
- Joyee Cheung (Node contributor and TSC member) sharing her updates on the node performance issue highlighted above
- Direct link to GH issue thread on the suggested node perf improvement
- Smoot - Wikipedia
- JS Party Survey Github Collaboration Repo (content coming soon)
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Dear new developer (Changelog Interviews #572)
Hello 2024! We’re kicking off the year with Dan Moore, author of ‘Letters to a New Developer’ — a blog series of letters of what Dan wished he had known when starting his developer career. We discuss the value of online communities for new developers, the importance of communication skills, and the need to stay relevant in a rapidly changing industry. Dan shares his best advice for new developers, including the importance of saying no, leaving code better than you found it, and the value of skill stacking. So much wisdom and advice in this episode!
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- Letters to a New Developer - What I wish I had known when starting my development career
- Letters to a New Developer (the book)
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State of the "log" 2023 (Changelog Interviews #571)
Our 6th annual year-end wrap-up episode! This time we’re featuring 12 (yes, 12!) listener voice mails, our favorite episodes of the year & some insanely cool Breakmaster Cylinder beats made just for this occasion. Thanks for listening! 💚
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Arthur Maltson’s favs:
- Friends #11: An aberrant generation of programmers with Justin Searls & Landon Gray
- Interviews #551: DX on DX with Abi Noda
- Interviews #453: Leading leaders who lead engineers with Lara Hogan
Hal’s favs:
- Interviews #524: Mainframes are still a big thing with Cameron Seay
- Interviews #545: Rebuilding DevOps from the ground up with Adam Jacob
- Friends #20: Beat freak in residence with BMC
- Changelog News
Rory O’Connor’s favs:
Brett Cannon’s favs:
- Interviews #565: Pushing back on unconstrained capitalism with Cory Doctorow
- Interviews #558: Open source is at a crossroads with Steve O’Grady
- Interviews #549: Storytime with Steve Yegge
- Interviews #537: Hard drive reliability at scale with Andy Klein
- Special: Next Level
- Interviews #553: 30 years of Debian with Jonathan Carter
- Interviews #533: A new path to full-time open source with Filippo Valsorda
- Interviews #524: Mainframes are still a big thing with Cameron Seay
- Interviews #523: Just Postgres with Craig Kerstiens
Jarvis Yang’s favs:
Jamie Curnow’s favs:
- Interviews #540: Engineering management (for the rest of us) with Sarah Drasner
- Interviews #527: What it takes to scale engineering with Rachel Potvin
- Friends #16: The beginning of the end of physical media with Christina Warren
- Changelog Beats!
AJ Kerrigan’s favs:
- Interviews #553: 30 years of Debian with Jonathan Carter
- Interviews #547: Efficient Linux at the CLI with Danil J. Barrett
- Friends #15: #define: a game of fake definitions
- JS Party #299: Tech by Choice with Valerie Phoenix
- Friends #20: Beat freak in residence with BMC
Alex’s favs:
- Friends #23: The state of the 2023 tech market with Gergely Orosz
- Interviews #535: Examining capitalism’s chokepoints with Cory Doctorow
- Interviews #565: Pushing back on unconstrained capitalism with Cory Doctorow
- Interviews #534: LLMs break the internet with Simon Willison
Schalk Neethling’s favs:
- Friends #11: An aberrant generation of programmers with Justin Searls & Landon Gray
- JS Party #288: Refined thinking with Jim Nielsen
- Friends #12: You call it tech debt I call it malpractice with Kris Brandow
- Go Time #291: Go templating using Templ
- Friends #18: Human skills to pay the bills with KBall
- JS Party #299: Tech by Choice with Valerie Phoenix
- Cory Doctorow on restoring the dream of tech workers - YouTube
- Matteo Collina on how he believes AWS fooled devs & sabotaged the industry (to make more money) - YouTube
- Unpopular opinion! We’ll move from streaming back to owning content - YouTube
Tillman Jex’s favs:
- Interviews #549: Storytime with Steve Yegge
- Interviews #565: Pushing back on unconstrained capitalism with Cory Doctorow
- Friends #7: Dear Red Hat… with Jeff Geerling
Jamie Tanna’s favs:
Adam’s favs:
- Friends #17: Kaizen! Slightly more instant
- Interviews #557: Attack of the Canaries! with Haroon Meer from Thinkst
Jerod’s favs:
- Interviews #526: Git with your friends featuring Mat Ryer
- Interviews #532: Bringing Whisper and LLaMA to the masses with Georgi Gerganov
Also mentioned:
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What's next in JavaScript (a TC39 update) (JS Party #305)
Daniel Ehrenberg (software engineer at Bloomberg, web standards author / champion & VP of ECMA International) joins us to discuss new features that have landed in JavaScript and to preview what’s cooking in various standards bodies across the web platform.
We cover a wide array (get it?) of topics from improvements to built-ins such as Promises, Maps & Sets, as well as new primitives like Records, Tuples & Temporal. We round out this epic discussion with a look at cross-project standardization efforts like WinterCG, open source sustainability & how Bloomberg’s open source program gives back in important projects in the web ecosystem.
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- Christopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
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Correction: Near the end, Dan misspoke when said the Bloomberg FOSS Fund was done in partnership with Bloomberg Philanthropies. It was actually done together with Bloomberg’s Corporate Philanthropy team.
- TC39’s Active Proposals (Stage 1, 2, 3)
- TC39’s Finished Proposals (Stage 4)
- TC39 Website
- ECMA262 - Webview of the latest published specification of ECMAScript (aka JavaScript)
- ECMA262 GitHub Repo
- WinterCG
- CycloneDX
- W3C Web Performance Working Group
- Iterator Helpers Proposal
- Record and Tuple Proposal
- Temporal Proposal
- Temporal Polyfills
- Decorators Proposal
- Set Methods Proposal
- Type Annotations Proposal
- Module Expressions Proposal
- Array Grouping Proposal
- Promise with Resolvers Proposal
- Error Cause Proposal
- Test262 Github Repo
- Source Map Spec Proposal
- TC39-T4 - a new TC39 task group to standard source maps
- TC53 - ECMAScript modules for embedded systems
- Perf.Now Conference
- Node Conf EU Conference
- Dan’s talk on Async Context at this year’s Node Conf EU
- Igalia
- Bocoup
- Sentry’s blog post on recent funding of their OSS dependencies
- Bloomberg’s Terminal
- Bloomberg Open Source Program Office (OSPO) Launches FOSS Contributor Fund
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Open source, on-disk vector search with LanceDB (Practical AI #250)
Prashanth Rao mentioned LanceDB as a stand out amongst the many vector DB options in episode #234. Now, Chang She (co-founder and CEO of LanceDB) joins us to talk through the specifics of their open source, on-disk, embedded vector search offering. We talk about how their unique columnar database structure enables serverless deployments and drastic savings (without performance hits) at scale. This one is super practical, so don’t miss it!
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- Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
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The code, prose & pods that shaped 2023 (Changelog News #75)
This episodes diverges from our traditional fare. I’ve reviewed the 50 previous editions and picked (IMHO) the coolest code, best prose & my favorite podcast episode from each month!
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#define: game theory, dude (Changelog & Friends #25)
What happens when you take four grizzled #define veterans and throw an Emma Bostian into the mix? Find out on this episode because our award-worthy game of fake definitions is back and this time it’s even better!
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- Lars Wikman – Website, GitHub, X
- Taylor Troesh – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn
- Emma Bostian – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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ANTHOLOGY — The technical bits (Changelog Interviews #570)
This week we’re taking you to the hallway track of All Things Open 2023 in Raleigh, NC. Today’s episode features: Heikki Linnakangas (Co-founder of Neon and Postgres hacker), Robert Aboukhalil (Bioinformatics software engineer) working on bringing desktop apps to the web with Wasm, and Scott Ford who loves taking a codebase from brown to green at Corgibytes.
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- Robert Aboukhalil – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Scott Ford – Website, GitHub, X
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What's new in Go's cryptography libraries: Part 2 (Go Time #298)
Filippo Valsorda & Roland Shoemaker from the Go Team return & bring Nicola Murino with them to continue catching us up on what’s new in Go’s crypto libraries.
This is everything we didn’t cover + deep dives from Part 1!
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- Filippo Valsorda – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Roland Shoemaker – Website, GitHub, X
- Nicola Murino – GitHub
- Natalie Pistunovich – GitHub, X
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- What’s new in Go’s cryptography libraries: Part 1
- NIST
- FIPS
- Diffie–Hellman key exchange
- FIPS standard 140
- github.com/quic-go/quic-go
- tip.golang.org/src/crypto/tls/quic.go
- pkg.go.dev/crypto/x509
- MultiAlgorithmSigner
- OpenSSH format keys
- Kerberos edge case, use the correct token from the client
- defer channel window adjustment
- Improved test cases (removed t.Fatal calls from goroutines), added test against SSH CLI
- Agent compatibility
- github.com/drakkan/sftpgo
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The state of open source AI (Practical AI #249)
The new open source AI book from PremAI starts with “As a data scientist/ML engineer/developer with a 9 to 5 job, it’s difficult to keep track of all the innovations.” We couldn’t agree more, and we are so happy that this week’s guest Casper (among other contributors) have created this resource for practitioners.
During the episode, we cover the key categories to think about as you try to navigate the open source AI ecosystem, and Casper gives his thoughts on fine-tuning, vector DBs & more.
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- Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
State of Open Source AI Book - 2023 Edition
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Open source LLMs are catching up (Changelog News #74)
A group of researchers set out to test claims that its open source rivals had achieved parity (or even better) with ChatGPT on certain tasks, Richard Hipp and his team have rewritten SQLite’s text-based JSON functions, Ratatui is a Rust crate for cooking up TUIs, Morris Brodersen built a complex app in vanilla JS as a case study & Headscale is Kristoffer Dalby’s open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server.
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HATEOAS corpus (Changelog & Friends #24)
Jerod is back with another “It Depends” episode! This time he’s joined by Kris Brandow from Go Time and they’re talking all things API design. What makes a good API? Is GraphQL a solid choice? Why do we do REST wrong? And WTF does HATEOAS mean, anyway?
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- PHP: a fractal of bad design
- PostGraphile Instant GraphQL API
- HATEOAS
The Tech Behind the New Grooveshark - OpenAPI Spec
- HTTP Specifications
- Roy Fielding Dissertation on REST
- Mike Amundsen
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From WebGL to WebGPU (JS Party #304)
Gregg Tavares (author of WebGL/WebGPU Fundamentals) joins Jerod & Amal to give us a tour of these low-level technologies that are pushing the web forward into the world of video games, machine learning & other exciting rich applications.
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- WebGL Fundamentals
- WebGPU Fundamentals
- WebGPU - Wikipedia
- “webgpu” | Can I use…
- Download the latest indie games - itch.io
- PlayCanvas WebGL Game Engine
- PICO-8 Fantasy Console
- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A Novel
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Hare aims to be a 100 year language (Changelog Interviews #569)
This week on The Changelog we’re joined by Drew DeVault, talking about the Hare programming language. From the website, Hare is a systems programming language designed to be simple, stable, and robust. When we asked Drew why he created it, he said “[because] I wanted it to exist, and it did not exist.” Wise words.
We discuss Hare (of course), why he’s so passionate about all things open source, the state of the language, fostering a culture that values stability, and oddly enough — what it takes to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
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- sourcehut - the hacker’s forge!
- Drew on SourceHut
- The Hare programming language
- Himitsu
- SourceHut’s 2022 Financial report
- Can I be on your podcast
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Suspicion machines ⚙️ (Practical AI #248)
In this enlightening episode, we delve deeper than the usual buzz surrounding AI’s perils, focusing instead on the tangible problems emerging from the use of machine learning algorithms across Europe. We explore “suspicion machines” — systems that assign scores to welfare program participants, estimating their likelihood of committing fraud. Join us as Justin and Gabriel share insights from their thorough investigation, which involved gaining access to one of these models and meticulously analyzing its behavior.
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Leaked GPT prompts & Firefox on the brink (Changelog News #73)
ChatGPT’s new GPTs feature leak their prompts, Firefox’s share of the browser market will soon drop below 2%, Robin Berjon tries to formalize a name for those who can’t be named, Amy Lai tells the tale of the weirdest bug she’s ever seen & Facundo Olano trumps the “code is read more than written” cliche with his own: “code is run more than read.”
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The state of the 2023 tech market (Changelog & Friends #23)
Gergely Orosz is back for our annual year-end update on the tech market, writ large. How is hiring? Has AI really changed the game? What about that OpenAI fiasco?
We also talk in-depth about Gergely’s self-published book, The Software Engineer’s Guidebook, which has been four years in the making.
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Gleaming the KubeCon (Changelog Interviews #568)
This week we’re gleaming the KubeCon. Ok, some people say CubeCon, while others say KubeCon…we talk with Solomon Hykes about all things Dagger, Tammer Saleh and James McShane about going beyond cloud native with SuperOrbital, and Steve Francis and Spencer Smith about the state of Talos Linux and what they’re working on at Sidero Labs.
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- Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
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Art of the state machine (JS Party #303)
Amal, Nick & special guest Laura Kalbeg geek out over the remarkable growth and evolution of the XState project and its team in recent years. Laura also tells everyone about Stately.ai, a SaaS platform that uses AI to create seamless state management solutions compatible with various tools like XState, Redux & zustand.
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- Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
- Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
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- XState JS Party debut w/ David “Piano” - X’ gon State it to ya (#191)
- Stately
- XState
- Jump straight into the Stately editor - via state.new (fancy!)
- Laura’s talk where she demoed state machines and the outputted state machine
- All the public machines that folks have made using Stately (must be logged in)
- An intro to state machines and statecharts (with puppies!)
- Laura’s awesome book via Book Apart - Accessibility for Everyone
- NodeConf EU
- NodeConf EU talks from 2023 (workshops were live only)
- The amazing NodeConf EU venue we were ooo’ing and aaah’ing about 😍
- Laura’s NodeConf Talk
- Accessibility for Everyone
- Migrate to XState 5
- Actor Model
- Model-based testing
- Playwright
- Stately Discord
- Redux Toolkit
- zustand
And here’s the state chart for the JS Danger game!
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The OpenAI debacle (a retrospective) (Practical AI #247)
Daniel & Chris conduct a retrospective analysis of the recent OpenAI debacle in which CEO Sam Altman was sacked by the OpenAI board, only to return days later with a new supportive board. The events and people involved are discussed from start to finish along with the potential impact of these events on the AI industry.
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- OpenAI | Wikipedia
- How OpenAI’s origins explain the Sam Altman drama
- OpenAI chaos: A timeline of firings, interim CEOs, re-hirings and other twists
- OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster, sources say
- Everyone’s talking about OpenAI’s Q*. Here’s what you need to know about the mysterious project.
- It is Time to Profit off of the OpenAI Drama
- Yann LeCun | LinkedIn
- Advent of GenAI Hackathon
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Was Jamstack a zero interest rate phenomenon? (Changelog News #72)
Zach Leatherman on the tension and future of the Jamstack community, Chenxin Li helps you avoid 13 bad practices in data visualization, Laravel Pulse is coming real soon, Max Chernyak develops a new way to accomplish long term refactors & Spencer Baugh makes the case for more libraries and less services in our software stacks.
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What's new in CSS land (JS Party #302)
Una Kravets, web platform ambassador & lead of the Google Chrome UI Developer Relations Team, joins Amal & Nick to take them CSS to school as they start this podcast in CSS kindergarten and end it with a Level-Up CSS Diploma. (LUCD?)
We explore all the amazing features which have recently landed in CSS — enabling super-charged user experiences with no JavaScript. Don’t forgot to check out all the epic links & demos in the show notes — and hold on to your butts, kids, this one is a ride!
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- What’s new in CSS UI 2023 (the blog post we referenced on the show)
- CSS Podcast - UNA and Adam’s AMAZZZZZZING Podcast - 🙌🏾❤️ Like and Subscribe ❤️🙌🏾
- Igalia
- Bocoup
- Follow Lea Verou and Chris Lilley for CSS Leveling up
- Releasing Color.js: A library that takes color seriously (Lea’s blog post)
- Releasing Color.js (Chris’ blog post)
- Contrast Ratio (a helpful tool to help find the right contract ratios)
- High Definition CSS Color Guide
- What is a color space?
- New color spaces!
- Proposal for “open-stylable” Shadow Roots (aka breaking shadow DOM encapsulation
- CSS Nesting
- Can I Use
- MDN Baseline - a unified view of stable web features
- What are Origin Trials?
- Origin Trials available via Chrome
- Origin Trials available via FireFox
- Origin Trials available via Edge
- “Accessibly blueberry muffin analogy” - Baking Accessibility In (Talk from Cordelia McGee-Tubb)
- “Accessibility is Delicious” - great blog post referencing Cordelia’s talk
- Trigonometric functions in CSS
- nth of syntax
- nth-of-child & nth-of-last-child Codepen demo
- Scoped CSS
- Scoped CSS Codepen demo
- Cascade Layers
- Cascade Layers Codepen demo
- Una’s wonderful YouTube video explaining CSS Cascade Layers
- Popover API
- Anchor positioning
- Scroll driven animations
- Scroll driven animations demo site (scroll-driven-animations.style)
- Container Queries
- Style Queries
- Linear Easing Function MDN
- Create complex animation curves in CSS with the linear() easing function
- Linear Easing Generator (a tool via Jake Archibald)
- View Transitions API
- View Transitions Guide
- View Transitions support in Svelte
- View Transitions support in Astro
- :has() API
- web.dev- Guidance to build modern web experiences that work on any browser
- developer.chrome.com - Simplifying the web to help you build, grow and innovate
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Bringing Dev Mode to Figma (Changelog Interviews #567)
This week on we’re joined by Emil Sjölander from Figma — talking about bringing Dev Mode to Figma. Dev Mode is their new workspace in Figma that’s designed to bring developers and design to the same tool.
The question they’re trying to answer is “How do you create a home for developers in a design tool?” We go way back to Emil’s startup that was acquired by Figma called Visly, how we iterated to here from 20 years ago (think PSD > HTML days), what they did to build Dev Mode, what they’re doing around codegen, the popularity of design systems, and what it takes to go from zero to Dev Mode.
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Generating product imagery at Shopify (Practical AI #246)
Shopify recently released a Hugging Face space demonstrating very impressive results for replacing background scenes in product imagery. In this episode, we hear the backstory technical details about this work from Shopify’s Russ Maschmeyer. Along the way we discuss how to come up with clever AI solutions (without training your own model).
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Watching OpenAI unravel in real-time (Changelog News #71)
The internet watches OpenAI unravel in real-time, tldraw has a new experiment going with GPT-4 Vision that turns mockups into code, Tony Ennis makes the case for HTML First, James Somers writes a “eulogy” to coding for The New Yorker & Laurence Tratt describes and details four kinds of optimisation.
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It dependencies (Changelog & Friends #22)
Jerod goes one-on-one with our old friend Justin Searls! We talk build vs buy decisions, dependency selection & how Justin has implemented POSSE (Post On Site Syndicate Elsewhere) in response to the stratification of social networks.
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- Lineman.js and JavaScript apps with Justin Searls (Changelog Interviews #128)
- Must have 10 years experience with Lineman.js: Why the right tools fail for the wrong reasons
- Justin’s favorite newsletter
- Changelog Nightly source code
- indieweb.org/POSSE
- POSSE on justin.searls.co
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All the places Swift will go (Changelog Interviews #566)
This week we’re talking about Swift with Ben Cohen, the Swift Team Manager at Apple. We caught up with Ben while at KubeCon last week. Ben takes us into the world of Swift, from Apple Native apps on iOS and macOS, to the Swift Server Workgroup for developing and deploying server side applications, to the Swift extension for VS Code, Swift as a safe C/C++ successor language, Swift on Linux and Windows, and of course what The Browser Company’s Arc browser is doing to bring Arc to Windows.
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- Swift is available for macOS, Windows, and Linux
- The Browser Company (who are bringing their Arc browser, written in Swift, to Windows) recently open sourced their bindings for WinRT
- The Swift on Server Working Group
- Swift extension for VS Code (if Xcode isn’t your thing)
- NSA recently published a report urging people to move off of C and C++:
- John McCall (who chairs the Language Steering Group) at CppNow recently
- The goals for Swift 6
- Miguel de Icaza proposing using Swift in the Godot game engine
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Building something new (JS Party #301)
Amal & Nick are joined by Saron Yitbarek (developer, podcaster, community leader & serial entrepreneur) to catch up and discuss her latest project: Not A Designer
We discuss all the ins & outs of tech entrepreneurship & the challenges of building something new in today’s saturated market. Tune in for a behind-the-scenes look at how she does it & get a sneak peek on what’s possibly next! (Spoiler Alert: we brain stormed it here)
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- Changelog Merch (re-stocked)
- Not A Designer
- Code Newbie
- Code Newbie Podcast
- Base CS Podcast (via Code Newbie)
- Command Line Heroes Podcast (via RedHat)
- CodeLand Conf
- Forem (now parent company of Dev.to)
- Beehiiv - the newsletter platform built for growth
- Substack - a new economic growth for culture
- ConvertKit - the creator marketing platform
- Y Combinator
- Baz Luhrmann - Everybody’s Free To Wear Sunscreen (aka Amal’s “favorite song”)
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Event-driven systems & architecture (Go Time #297)
Event-driven systems may not be the go-to solution for everyone because of the challenges they can add. While the system reacting to events published in other parts of the system seem elegant, some of the complexities they bring can be challenging. However, they do offer durability, autonomy & flexibility.
In this episode, we’ll define event-driven architecture, discuss the problems it solves, challenges it poses & potential solutions.
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- Angelica Hill – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
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- Temporal
- NServiceBus
- MassTransit
- Transactional Outbox Pattern
- Choreography vs orchestration
- Event sourcing
- CQRS
- Messaging Channels
- Cloud-based workflow solutions
- Go specific microservices orchestration tools, frameworks, and libraries:
- Software Architecture as a Set of Architectural Design Decisions
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AI trailblazers putting people first (Practical AI #245)
According to Solana Larsen: “Too often, it feels like we have lost control of the internet to the interests of Big Tech, Big Data — and now Big AI.” In the latest season of Mozilla’s IRL podcast (edited by Solana), a number of stories are featured to highlight the trailblazers who are reclaiming power over AI to put people first. We discuss some of those stories along with the issues that they surface.
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Share your terminal with anyone on the web (Changelog News #70)
sshx lets you share your terminal with anyone on a multiplayer infinite canvas, Herbert Lui writes three things about your competitors, Anton Medvedev’s fx is a terminal JSON viewer & processor, Danny Castonguay shares advice on attending large conferences & Jeremy Pinto’s experimental RAGTheDocs project is working toward an exciting reality.
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Backslashes are trash (Changelog & Friends #21)
Mat Ryer returns with his guitar, an unpopular opinion & his favorite internet virus.
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- S100 Pbzzbaf Ebnq, Fhvg 7-701, Qevccvat Fcevatf, GK 78620
- ILOVEYOU - Wikipedia
- Samy (computer worm) - Wikipedia
- MySpace Worm Explanation
- The Net (1995) - IMDb
- Renfield (2023) - IMDb
- The Rock (1996) - IMDb
- Adaptation. (2002) - IMDb
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Pushing back on unconstrained capitalism (Changelog Interviews #565)
This week we’re talking with Cory Doctorow (this episode contains explicit language) about how we can get back to that “new good internet.” Cory’s new book The Internet Con offers a lens to this conversation about disenshittifying the internet through anti-trust laws, limits on corporate tweaking, regulating unconstrained capitalism, and all the ways enshittification is enabled. Cory also shares his experience recording his own audio book under the direction of Gabrielle de Cuir at Skyboat Media, and what’s to come from his next Science Fiction book The Lost Cause.
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- The Internet Con
- libro.fm
- The Lost Cause
- Cory’s talk at DEF CON 31
- Changelog Interviews #535: Examining capitalism’s chokepoints
- Skyboat Media
- The History of the Standard Oil Company by Ida M. Tarbell
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Best of the fest! Volume 2 (JS Party #300)
JS Party listeners and panelists celebrate great moments from the last 100 episodes! You’ll hear from 14 of our favorite humans (and 1 horse) across 11 episodes. Here’s to our first 300 episodes and the next 300 as well. 🥂
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- Josh Collinsworth – Website, GitHub, X
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- Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Christopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
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- The future of React with Dan Abramov & Joe Savona (JS Party #267)
- Is print debugging good enough? (JS Party #281)
- This is going to be Lit 🔥 with Justin Fagnani (JS Party #284)
- The spicy React debate show 🌶️ (JS Party #244)
- Digging through Nick Nisi’s tool box (JS Party #278)
- Spicy fonts and static sites 🌶️ with Zach Leatherman (JS Party #79)
- Type War (what is it good for?) with Rich Harris (JS Party #292)
- Recreating Node.js from scratch featuring Erick Wendel (JS Party #268)
- Making web art the hard way with Alex Miller aka SPACEFILLER (JS Party #275)
- Reports of Node’s death are greatly exaggerated with Matteo Collina & James Snell (JS Party #294)
- We ask a lawyer about GitHub Copilot with Luis Villa from Tidelift (JS Party #188)
- Web development’s lost decade with Alex Russell (JS Party #263)
- p5.js - a JavaScript library for creative coding
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Principles of simplicity (Go Time #296)
Rob Pike says, “Simplicity is the art of hiding complexity.” If that’s true, what is simplicity in the context of writing software in Go? Is it even something we should strive for? Can software be too simple? Ian & Kris discuss with return guest sam boyer.
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- Rob Pike - Simplicity is Complicated
- The Infinite Game - Simon Sinek
- “Simple Made Easy” - Rich Hickey (2011)
- “You can’t get snakes from chicken eggs”
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Government regulation of AI has arrived (Practical AI #244)
On Monday, October 30, 2023, the U.S. White House issued its Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence. Two days later, a policy paper was issued by the U.K. government entitled The Bletchley Declaration by Countries Attending the AI Safety Summit, 1-2 November 2023. It was signed by 29 countries, including the United States and China, the global leaders in AI research.
In this Fully Connected episode, Daniel and Chris parse the details and highlight key takeaways from these documents, especially the extensive and detailed executive order, which has the force of law in the United States.
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- Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence
- FACT SHEET: President Biden Issues Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence
- The Bletchley Declaration by Countries Attending the AI Safety Summit, 1-2 November 2023
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How to write a good comment (Changelog News #69)
David Hugh-Jones has a lot to say about what makes a good comment, Hugging Face released a distilled variant of Whisper for speech recognition, The New Stack reports on C++ creator Bjarne Stroustrup’s plan for bringing safety to the language, Jeff Sandberg declares that CSS is fun again & Jose M. Gilgado praises the beauty of finished software.
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Beat freak in residence (Changelog & Friends #20)
We’re joined this week by the beat freak in residence himself, the mysterious Breakmaster Cylinder. Listen along as we talk about how we make our beats, what inspires us for our music, and some behind the scenes on our latest albums.
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Our Albums
- Next Level: Buy on Apple Music or Bandcamp. Stream on Spotify or Apple Music.
- Theme Songs: Buy on Apple Music or Bandcamp. Stream on Spotify or Apple Music.
Notes from the show
- Watermelon Sugar X Seaside
- The Song Michael Jackson ‘Stole’ From Hall & Oates
- Sia - Elastic Heart feat. Shia LaBeouf & Maddie Ziegler (Official Video)
- Halt and Catch Fire Theme
- Pole Position Theme Song (Cover)
- Osmo Coding Jam
- Let’s Rescore Mad Max: Fury Road
- Ballroom Blitz (Wayne’s World)
- Bohemian Rhapsody (Wayne’s World)
- Jay_cee: Castlevania NES Speedrun in 10:45 (WR)
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Helping people enter, stay & thrive in tech (JS Party #299)
Valerie Phoenix from Tech By Choice joins Amal & Kball to tell them all about her non-profit that’s passionate about helping people interested in technology, no matter their experience level.
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Observing the power of APIs (Changelog Interviews #564)
Jean Yang’s research on programming languages at Carnegie Mellon led her to realize that APIs are the layer that makes or breaks quality software systems. Unfortunately, developers are underserved by tools for dealing with, securing & understanding APIs.
That realization led her to found Akita Software, which led her to join Postman by way of acquisition. That move, at least in part, also led her to join us on this very podcast. We think you’re going to enjoy this interview, we sure did.
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- Modern software is built on APIs featuring Abhinav Asthana (Changelog Interviews #360)
- Why Aren’t There More Programming Languages Startups?
- Building for the “99% Developers”
- Postman Live Insights: automatically discover, monitor, and add APIs
- Zapier | Automation that moves you forward
- Flows | Postman API Platform
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What's new in Go's cryptography libraries: Part 1 (Go Time #295)
Filippo Valsorda & Roland Shoemaker from the Go Team sit down with Natalie to catch us up on what’s new in Go’s crypto libraries. No, not that crypto… good ol’ cryptography! Don’t miss Part 2!
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- Natalie Pistunovich – GitHub, X
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Self-hosting & scaling models (Practical AI #243)
We’re excited to have Tuhin join us on the show once again to talk about self-hosting open access models. Tuhin’s company Baseten specializes in model deployment and monitoring at any scale, and it was a privilege to talk with him about the trends he is seeing in both tooling and usage of open access models. We were able to touch on the common use cases for integrating self-hosted models and how the boom in generative AI has influenced that ecosystem.
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What will React come up with Next? (Changelog News #68)
The hubbub of the web dev world right now is Next.js’ integration of React Server Components, Kent C. Dodds writes up why he doesn’t use Next, Lee Robinson responds with why he does, the NixOS team hits a milestone in their reproducible builds effort & OpenSign is an open source alternative to DocuSign.
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Protecting screen time (Changelog & Friends #19)
Jared Henderson joins us to discuss the state of the art in software parental controls and how we protect our children and lock down our home networks from the constant onslaught of malicious and unwanted content.
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- NextDNS - The new firewall for the modern Internet
- pfSense® - World’s Most Trusted Open Source Firewall
- Gertrude | Mac Internet Filter, Parental Controls and Activity Monitoring
- Tailscale · Best VPN Service for Secure Networks
- Vapor
- hummingbird: Lightweight, flexible HTTP server framework written in Swift
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ANTHOLOGY — The way of open source (Changelog Interviews #563)
This week we’re taking you to the hallway track of All Things Open 2023 in Raleigh, NC. Today’s episode features: Matthew Sanabria (former Engineer at HashiCorp working on Terraform Enterprise), Nithya Ruff (Chief Open Source Officer and Head of the Open Source Program Office at Amazon) & Jordan Harband (Open Source Maintainer-at-large with dependencies in most JavaScript apps out there.
There has been many changes this year in open source, and each of these perspectives lends insight into challenging and changing waters happening right now in open source.
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- OpenTofu
- Dagger
- System Initiative
- Jordan Harband on GitHub Sponsors
- 📸 Jordan’s GitHub contributor city
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I wanna React Jam it with you (JS Party #298)
The 2nd ever React Jam is on and poppin’, so Jerod & Nick invited the previous winners to the pod to tell us all about the 10 day online game jam. Turns out React and video games are like peanut butter and jelly, after all!
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- React Jam
- React Jam Summer 2023 winners
- Chop Chop game
- The Rune platform
- [Inspiration: Pipe Dream game](https://classicreload.com/win3x-pipe-dream-1991.html_
- The Phaser game framework
- Their Brave MMO game
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The se7en deadly sins of Go (Go Time #294)
John Gregory’s GopherCon talk “7 Deadly Gopher Sins” is the ostensible basis of this spooky Go Time episode, but with Mat Ryer at the helm… the only thing to expect is the unexpected. And failed jokes. Expect lots of failed jokes.
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Deep learning in Rust with Burn 🔥 (Practical AI #242)
It seems like everyone is interested in Rust these days. Even the most popular Python linter, Ruff, isn’t written in Python! It’s written in Rust. But what is the state of training or inferencing deep learning models in Rust? In this episode, we are joined by Nathaniel Simard, the creator burn. We discuss Rust in general, the need to have support for AI in multiple languages, and the current state of doing “AI things” in Rust.
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burn-rs: This library strives to serve as a comprehensive deep learning framework, offering exceptional flexibility and written in Rust.
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Next Level (Changelog Interviews)
Listen to our Next Level album as a podcast! We grew up in the days of the Nintendo Entertainment System and the Sega Genesis. It’s no surprise that so many of our tracks are inspired by the 8-bit and 16-bit music of our youth. From Castlevania to Contra, Sonic the Hedgehog, and many more — we were inspired by all the nostalgic soundtracks from the games that got us here, to give our pods one-of-a-kind vibes. If you’ve been head nodding to our beats during our shows and you’ve been wishing for a way to listen outside of our pods, then this release will be an absolute delight.
It’s dangerous to go alone! Take this on your next coding adventure or deep work session…
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Introducing Changelog Beats (Changelog News #67)
Changelog drops full-length musical albums in collaboration with Breakmaster Cylinder, Justin Searls on why the right tools fail for the wrong reasons, The Unix Sheikh says we have too many level of abstractions, Adam at PiCockpit compares the newly-announced Raspberry Pi 5 to the competition & Jorge Medina assures us that we’re not lacking creativity, we’re just overwhelmed by content.
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Human skills to pay the bills (Changelog & Friends #18)
Long time friend KBall makes his “first” appearance on The Changelog by way of Changelog & Friends. You likely know Kevin from his panelist position on JS Party. Today he’s sharing his passion for coaching and developing human skills.
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Pushing ntfy to the next level (Changelog Interviews #562)
This week Jerod goes solo with Philipp Heckel, creator of ntfy, to discuss this simple HTTP-based service that lets you send notifications to your phone or desktop via scripts from any computer. They discuss why he built it, how he built it, and what his plans are for the future of this beloved side hustle.
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AI's impact on developers (Practical AI #241)
Chris & Daniel are out this week, so we’re bringing you a panel discussion from All Things Open 2023 moderated by Jerod Santo (Practical AI producer and co-host of The Changelog) and featuring keynoters Emily Freeman and James Q Quick.
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Use Effect (not useEffect) (JS Party #297)
Prisma founder Johannes Schickling has been using the Effect library for the last couple years. Today he joins Jerod & Nick to tell us all about this very interesting tool for building robust apps in TypeScript.
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LMMS are the new LLMs (Changelog News #66)
Chip Huyen documents the shifting sand of large data models, Herman Õunapuu reviews the Zimaboard, Bryan Braun shares 4 of his most recent VSCode configuration discoveries & Swizec Teller wrote a great summary of the inaugural AI Engineer Summit.
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Kaizen! Slightly more instant (Changelog & Friends #17)
Gerhard joins us for the 12th Kaizen and this time talk about what we DIDN’T do. We were holding S3 wrong, we put some cash back in our pockets, we enabled HTTP/3, Brotli compression, and Fastly websockets, we improved our SLOs, we improved Changelog Nightly, and we’re going to KubeCon 2023 in Chicago.
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- 👕 Kaizen T-Shirt
- 🗒️ Kaizen 12
- Changelog Neural Search by Duarte O.Carmo
- Fastly URL purge
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Party on PartyKit (JS Party #296)
With a name like PartyKit, you know we just had to get its founder and CEO Sunil Pai on the show! PartyKit is an open source tool that simplifies creating collaborative, multiplayer applications. Join us to learn all about it and the journey of Sunil and his team!
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- Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
- Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Christopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
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- PartyKit
- PartyKit source code
- PartyKit pre-seed funding internal announcement
- PartyKit Tech Crunch pre-seed funding announcement
- TLDraw - a collaborative digital whiteboard
- TLDraw source code
- CRDTs - Conflict-free replicated data
- Yjs - A CRDT framework with a powerful abstraction of shared data
- Vite conf
- PartyKit at Vite Conf
- Cloudflare Durable Objects
- Cloudflare CDN
- XState - is a state management and orchestration solution for JavaScript and TypeScript apps
- Stately - a visualization platform for XState machines
- Drifting in Space
- Live Blocks
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Coming to asciinema near you (Changelog Interviews #561)
This week we’re joined by Marcin Kulik to talk about his project asciinema. You’ve likely seen this out there in the wild — asciinema lets you record and share your terminal sessions in full fidelity. Forget screen recording apps that offer blurry video. asciinema provides a lightweight, text-based approach to terminal recording with lots of possibilities. Marcin shares the backstory on this project, where he’d like to take it, who’s supporting him along the way, and we even included 11 minutes of bonus content for Changelog ++ subscribers.
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Experiences from GopherCon 2023 (Go Time #293)
The 10th GopherCon took place the last week of September and it was a blast. In this episode, we’re talking about our experiences at the conference from several different viewpoints. Angelica as a conference organizer, Johnny as an emcee and workshop instructor, Kaylyn as a speaker, and Kris as a regular attendee.
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RTO vs WFH & the case for strong static typing (Changelog News #65)
Jacob Kaplan-Moss’ recommendations for remote vs colocated teams, Duarte Carmo created a neural search engine from Changelog transcripts, Tom Hacohen says strong static typing is a hill he’s willing to die on, Orhun Parmaksız created a CLI that makes your keyboard sound like a typewriter & Luke Plant spits hard truths about simplicity.
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The beginning of the end of physical media (Changelog & Friends #16)
On September 29th, Netflix shipped its final DVDs, marking the end of an era in physical media. So, we invited our friend Christina Warren (aka film_girl) from GitHub to pour out a drink with us and lament the end of this golden age of access to the films we all love.
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- Netflix Mails Its Final DVD to Customers, Marking the End of an Era - IGN
- Netflix Prepares to Send Its Final Red Envelope - The New York Times
- Netflix’s Qwikster Debacle | MIT Technology Review
- The Ultimate Movie Platform - Kaleidescape
- Matt Damon on Hot Ones
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Reflecting on Bun's big launch (JS Party #295)
Fresh off Bun’s big 1.0 launch, Jarred Sumner goes one-on-one with Jerod to discuss the all-in-one JavaScript runtime that’s captured the interest of many. We get into it all: what problem he’s solving, how it’s so fast, why no Windows support, answering the critics, the (not real) beef between Bun and Node, how the VC-backed startup will sustain & more.
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- Bun — A fast all-in-one JavaScript runtime
- Why Bun is going to “be the biggest problem” for Deno
- Bun hype. How we learned nothing from Yarn
- Bun Careers
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Tauri’s next big move (Changelog Interviews #560)
This week we’re joined by Daniel Thompson, Co-founder and Core Member of Tauri. It’s been a year since we last had Daniel on the show. He catches us up on all things Tauri, their continued efforts towards Tauri 1.5 (which just released), the launch of CrabNebula and how they’re the people pushing the Tauri ecosystem forward and building on top of it, the state of Electron vs Tauri, and UI with Tauri. He even surprises us with his idea of creating a web browser.
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Generative models: exploration to deployment (Practical AI #240)
What is the model lifecycle like for experimenting with and then deploying generative AI models? Although there are some similarities, this lifecycle differs somewhat from previous data science practices in that models are typically not trained from scratch (or even fine-tuned). Chris and Daniel give a high level overview in this effort and discuss model optimization and serving.
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- BigDL
- Article: Making LLMs even more accessible with bitsandbytes, 4-bit quantization and QLoRA
- Previous episode: Running large models on CPUs
- Baseten’s Truss
- Seldon
- Hugging Face’s TGI
- Intel Gaudi 2
- Intel TDX
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InfluxDB drops Go for Rust but gokrazy is really cool (Changelog News #64)
InfluxDB finishes a multi-year rewrite in Rust, the Raspberry Pi 5 will be on sale by the end of the month, the Bruno team builds an open source API explorer that’s local-first and will never have a cloud, Xe Iaso thinks gokrazy is really cool & Matt Rickard shares lessons from years of debugging.
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#define: a game of fake definitions (Changelog & Friends #15)
Jerod gathers a group of friends for our first game show experiment here on Changelog & Friends! This is a game of obscure jargon, fake definitions & expert tomfoolery. Our contestants checked their imposter syndrome at the door, because they either know what these words mean or they fake it ’til they make their peers think they do.
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Reports of Node's death are greatly exaggerated (JS Party #294)
Amal, KBall & Chris convene a “semi-emergency” pod to discuss the recent (deserved) hype over Bun and what it all means for Node’s community, maintainers & users.
They’re joined by Node Technical Steering Committee members Matteo Collina & James Snell who are here to dispel Bun antagonism rumors, discuss the pros & cons of each runtime, explain how Node continues to thrive & even announce a VERY big upcoming feature!
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- Matteo’s tweet on Jarred Summer’s obsession with performance optimizations
- Bun’s claim to being a “drop in-replacement for Node.js”
- Platformatic 1.0 release annoucement
- AWS lambda quatas
- Node TODO - your guide to getting started with Node.js Core development
- Node.js’s new built-in test runner
- Node.js project governance
- Matteos recent newsletter which Amal magically connected with in the future - “My thoughts on Bun and other Adventures”
- fastify - “Fast and low overhead web framework, for Node.js”
- OpenJS foundation
- Soon to be released PR for adding the new WebSocket lib to Node Core
- Node.js supported binaries
- Node.js github issue #19308 “Adding Websocket support to core” which is 5+ years old and coincidentally closed on the day this podcast was released
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Vibes from Strange Loop (Changelog Interviews #559)
This week we’re taking you to the hallway track of the final Strange Loop conference. First up is AnnMarie Thomas — an engineering, business, and education professor. AnnMarie gave one of the opening keynotes titled “Playing with Engineering.” We also caught up with many first-time and multi-time attendees who shared their favorite moments from Strange Loop over the years. You’ll hear from Richard Feldman, Colin Dean, and Taylor Troesh. Last up we talk with Pokey Rule. He gave a talk about his project called Cursorless which is a spoken language for structural code editing.
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- Richard Feldman – GitHub, X
- Taylor Troesh – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn
- Colin Dean – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Pokey Rule – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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Also, a huge thanks to Alex Miller (the organizer of Strange Loop) for being so kind to us and getting us there for the final Strange Loop. It was quite the experience.
AnnMarie
Richard Feldman
Colin Dean
Taylor Troesch
Pokey Rule
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Zero Trust & Go (Go Time #292)
Michael Quiqley from NetFoundry joins Natalie to discuss Zero Trust concepts, why they are important for secure systems & how to implement them in Go.
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- Ngrok
- OpenZiti and zrok
- QUIC and [quic-go](https://github.com/quic-go/quic-go : http alternative
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- Transwarp/Dilithium - better than tcp (in some cases)
- OpenZiti Test Kitchen Repos
- Open Source LLM: Karen The Editor
- FabLab
- zrok SDK “pastebin” example: A buffer for moving buffers between machines
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The missing sync layer for modern apps (Changelog News #63)
ElectricSQL is a project that offers a local-first sync layer for web and mobile apps, Ned Batchelder writes about the myth of the myth of “learning styles”, Carl Johnson thinks XML is better than YAML, Berkan Sasmaz defines and describes “idempotency” & HyperDX is an open source alternative Datadog or New Relic.
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Web dev security school (JS Party #293)
This week, we’re joined by Ron Perris, a Security Engineer at Reddit and software security enthusiast. Together, we dive into best practices and common pitfalls, covering topics from dangerous URLs to JSON injection attacks. Tune in for an educational conversation, and don’t forget to bring your notebooks!
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- 10 React Security Best Practices Cheatsheet (by Ron Perris & Liran Tal)
- ZAP - the worlds most widely used web app scanner
- Loco Moco Security Conference in Hawai’i
- Node.js Ecosystem Security Working Group
- Node.js Security Bug Reporting
- Node.js Hacker One Page
- Node.js Third Party Labs Hacker One Page (now disabled)
- Python’s Advocate Library - for making secure HTTP requests on behalf of a third party
- DOMPurify - DOM-only, super-fast, uber-tolerant XSS sanitizer for HTML, MathML and SVG
- ESLint Security Plugin
- Content Security Policy
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Automate all the UIs! (Practical AI #239)
Dominik Klotz from askui joins Daniel and Chris to discuss the automation of UI, and how AI empowers them to automate any use case on any operating system. Along the way, the trio explore various approaches and the integration of generative AI, large language models, and computer vision.
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Open source is at a crossroads (Changelog Interviews #558)
This week we’re joined by Steve O’Grady, Principal Analyst & Co-founder at RedMonk. The topic today is the definition of open source, the constant pressure on the true definition of the term, and the seemingly small but vocal minority that aim to protect that definition. In Steve’s post Why Open Source Matters, he says “open source is at a crossroads” and there are some seeking to break the definition of open source to one that is more permissive to their desires, and they are closer than ever to achieving that goal. Today’s conversation goes deep on this subject.
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- Why Open Source Matters
- You can FINALLY use JSHint for evil with Mike Pennisi
- Introducing Infrastructure Manager powered by Terraform - cloud.coogle.com
- Luis Villa’s Open(ish) Machine Learning News newsletter
- Open Source Initiative - donate
- Deep Dive: AI Webinar Series
- Stefano Maffulli, Executive Director of OSI since 2021
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Death by a thousand microservices (Changelog News #62)
Andrei Taranchenko says the software industry is learning once again that complexity kills, Casey Muratori outlines a long list of Unity alternatives, Filip Szkandera builds a functioning (macro) processor for RISC-V & Matt Basta tells the tale of the time he built a web-based Excel clone inside Uber only to have it discarded a week later.
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What do we want from a web browser? (Changelog & Friends #14)
A hoy hoy! Our old friend Nick Nisi does his best to bring up TypeScript, Vim & Tmux as many times as possible while we discuss a new batch of web browsers, justify why we like the ones we do & try to figure out what it’d take to disrupt the status quo of Big Browser.
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- Digging through Nick Nisi’s tool box (JS Party #278)
- Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome | Ars Technica
- Arc from The Browser Company
- Sizzy — The browser for web developers
- Polypane, The browser for ambitious web developers
- Orion Browser
- Vivaldi Browser | Powerful, Personal and Private web browser
- The Ladybird browser project
- Horse Browser
- Web Browser Quiche on the App Store
- Nyxt browser: The hacker’s browser
- Opera browser goes free with version 5.0 launch • The Register
- Nick’s vim + tmux video
- Vim with Me playlist
- Our viral short on Instagram Reels
- Gabe Kangas on Mastodon
- Rich Harris on JS Party
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Type War (what is it good for?) (JS Party #292)
Love it or hate it, TypeScript is here to stay for the foreseeable future. But, what happens when widely adopted packages go completely Type free or remove TypeScript in favor of JS with type annotations? Join us to unpack these recent events with Rich Harris, creator of Svelte, as he walks us through the nuanced decision his team made for the Svelte project, and ofc, lots of laughs along the way.
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- News article from May 2023 when Svelte switched from TS to JSDoc type annotations
- DHH’s blog post “Open Source Hooliganism and the TypeScript Meltdown”
- DHH’s tweet announcing Turbo’s removal of TS
- Rich’s quote tweet of DHH Turbo announcement
- JSDoc docs
- Official TS docs highlighting support for JS Doc type annotations
- ECMA proposal for Type Annotations
- Principles of Writing Consistent, Idiomatic JavaScript
Alternate Episode Titles
- Type me a river
- To type or not to type
- Someone is typing in the community…
- Different types (or not) for different gripes
- The script schism
- Web Dev D Day
- Going off (Type)Script
- Losing the (Type)Script
- While typing(scripting) it
- Not my type
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Attack of the Canaries! (Changelog Interviews #557)
This week we’re joined by Haroon Meer from Thinkst — the makers of Canary and Canary Tokens. Haroon walks us through a network getting compromised, what it takes to deploy a Canary on your network, how they maintain low false-positive numbers, their thoughts and principles on building their business (major wisdom shared!), and how a Canary helps surface network attacks in real time.
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Go templating using Templ (Go Time #291)
Go’s known for it’s fantastic standard library, but there are some places where the libraries can be challenging to use. The html/template package is one of those places. So what alternatives do we have? On today’s episode we’re talking about Templ, an HTML templating language for Go that has great developer tooling. Co-hosts Kris Brandow and Jon Calhoun are joined by Adrian Hesketh, the creator of Templ, and Joe Davidson, one of the maintainers on the project.
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Bun 1.0 is here & Mojo is ready for download (Changelog News #61)
Bun 1.0 is out of the oven, Mojo is now available for local download, Vince Lwt asked 60+ LLMs a set of 20 questions & published the answers, Textual Web turns TUIs in to web applications & James Haydon dives deep to discover the bug that the UK air traffic control meltdown.
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Doomed to discuss AI (Changelog & Friends #13)
Author, journalist, travel writer & software engineer Jon Evans joins us to weigh in on the cultural history (and present-day sentiment) of AI doom. Along the way, we talk plausible Sci-Fi, ultrasound drug delivery, the maybe-evolving laws of physics & even weirder stuff.
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- Inside GitHub’s Arctic Code Vault
- A Study: Ancient Egyptians used sound waves in building pyramids
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- The Only Way to Deal With the Threat From AI? Shut It Down | Time
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- Dennis E. Taylor
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A view to a transitions API (JS Party #291)
Jerod & the gang discuss the news (Astro 3.0, Vercel + Astro, Python in Excel) then play eight crazy rounds of HeadLIES! Headline or headLIE? You decide…
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Prototyping with Go (Go Time #290)
V Körbes returns to talk prototyping with Natalie, Johnny & Kris. Is Go good for prototyping? What makes a language prototypable, anyway? How does space radiation fit in to all this? Tune in and ride along to find out!
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OpenTF for an open Terraform (Changelog Interviews #556)
This week we’re talking about the launch of OpenTF and what it’s going to take to successfully fork HashiCorp’s Terraform. We’re joined by Josh Padnick to discuss what exactly happened, how HashiCorp’s license change changes things, who has been impacted by this change, and ultimately what they are doing about it.
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- opentffoundation/opentf
- Kelsey Hightower on HashiCorp CEO Dave McJannet’s use of the word “malicious” on Oxide & Friends
- Terragrunt
- Terraform’s license
We were going to link to the video where HashiCorp CEO Dave McJannet’s used the word “malicious” in regards to their strategy and actions towards the open source community, but it has been taken down. This was the link to the video with a timestamp jumping to the part in question - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59rEiAyYEVk&t=920s
This tweet/post from Bryan Cantrill brought this to the community’s attention.
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Fine-tuning vs RAG (Practical AI #238)
In this episode we welcome back our good friend Demetrios from the MLOps Community to discuss fine-tuning vs. retrieval augmented generation. Along the way, we also chat about OpenAI Enterprise, results from the MLOps Community LLM survey, and the orchestration and evaluation of generative AI workloads.
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A portrait of the best worst programmer (Changelog News #60)
Dan North tells the tale of Tim, the worst programmer he’s worked with (who also is a heck of a programmer), Kevin Lin declares that OpenTelemetry delivers on its promise for open observability, Justin Garrison details Terraform vs GitOps vs System Initiative, Inc. writes how Apple beats burnout & Aline Lerner’s advice on how (not) to sabotage your salary negotiations before you even start.
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You call it tech debt I call it malpractice (Changelog & Friends #12)
Go Time panelist (and semi-professional unpopular opinion maker) Kris Brandow joins us to discuss his deep-dive on the waterfall paper, his dislike of the “tech debt” analogy, why documentation matters so much & how everything is a distributed system.
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Modernizing packages to ESM (JS Party #290)
Mark Erikson (web dev professor/historian, OSS Maintainer & engineer at Replay) joins us to talk about the shift from CommonJS to ESM. We discuss the history of module patterns in JS and the grueling effort to push the world’s biggest developer ecosystem forward. Get ready to go to school kids, this one’s deep!
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- Modern Guide to Packaging a JS Library
- Guide for shipping ESM and CJS in one Package
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Back to the terminal of the future (Changelog Interviews #555)
This week on The Changelog Adam is joined by Zach Lloyd, Founder & CEO of Warp. We talked with Zach last year about what it takes to build the terminal of the future, and today Adam catches up with Zach to see where they are at on that mission. They talk about the business model of Warp, how they measure success, reaching product/market fit, building features developers love, integrating AI, and the pros and cons of going open source (again).
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What's new in Go 1.21 (Go Time #289)
Our “what’s new in Go” correspondent Carl Johnson joins Johnny & Kris yet again to discuss what’s new with the latest iteration of Go in version 1.21.
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Automating code optimization with LLMs (Practical AI #237)
You might have heard a lot about code generation tools using AI, but could LLMs and generative AI make our existing code better? In this episode, we sit down with Mike from TurinTech to hear about practical code optimizations using AI “translation” of slow to fast code. We learn about their process for accomplishing this task along with impressive results when automated code optimization is run on existing open source projects.
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OpenTF sticks a fork in Terraform (Changelog News #59)
OpenTF announces they’re forking Terraform and joining the Linux Foundation, Meta gets in the LLM-for-codegen game with Code Llama, Matt Mullenweg announces WordPress.com’s new 100-year plan, Paul Gichuki from Thinkst learns that default behaviors stick (and so do examples) & Marco Otte-Witte makes his case for Rust on the web.
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Ten years of TypeScript bliss (JS Party #289)
Nick celebrates a decade of writing everyone’s favorite language with guest Josh Goldberg, who contributes to TypeScript, maintains typescript-eslint, and is an all-around great person! Jerod is also here to join the celebration, but let’s keep that a secret from him!
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- Learning TypeScript - Josh’s book
- Deno
- Bun
- |> pipeline operator
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The serenity of building your own OS (Changelog Interviews #554)
This week we’re talking to Andreas Kling about SerenityOS and Ladybird. Andreas started SerenityOS as a means of therapy. It’s self-described as a love letter to “‘90s user interfaces with a custom Unix-like core.” Andreas previously worked at Nokia and later at Apple on the WebKit team, so he had an itch to do something along the lines of a browser, and that’s where Ladybird came from. We get into the details of compilers, OSs, browsers, web specifications, and the love of making software.
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The new AI app stack (Practical AI #236)
Recently a16z released a diagram showing the “Emerging Architectures for LLM Applications.” In this episode, we expand on things covered in that diagram to a more general mental model for the new AI app stack. We cover a variety of things from model “middleware” for caching and control to app orchestration.
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All your CAPTCHAs are belong to bots (Changelog News #58)
New research shows that CAPTCHAs are now utterly useless, hundreds of concerned technologists signed the OpenTF Manifesto to keep Terraform open source forever, Josh Collinsworth writes down all the things you forgot (or never knew) because of React, Mike Seidle shared some quick-but-powerful advice on building new software features & Erlend Sogge Heggen urges new open source projects to join the Fediverse (by way of Mastodon).
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An aberrant generation of programmers (Changelog & Friends #11)
Our friend Justin Searls recently published a widely-read essay on enthusiast programmers, inter-generational conflict & what we do with this information. That seemed like a good conversation starter, so we grabbed Justin and Landon Gray to discuss. Let’s talk!
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- Louisville’s AI Schoolbus Route fiasco
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Refined thinking (JS Party #288)
Jim (Hyphen) Nielsen joins Jerod & Nick for a fun conversation about language-level toll roads, when (and how) to quit, the stratification of social networking & the state of the world in publishing your thoughts on the internet.
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30 years of Debian (Changelog Interviews #553)
This week we’re talking with Jonathan Carter who’s on his fourth term as Debian Project Lead (DPL) and we’re talking about 30 years of Debian!
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- Debian project leaders
- About Debian
- debconf.org
- PinePhone
- Software in the Public Interest (SPI)
- Changelog Interviews #237: Reproducible builds and secure software
- hackclub.com
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The relicensings will continue until morale improves (Changelog News #57)
HashiCorp adopts a Business Source license, Matt Rickard hypothesizes why Tailwind CSS won, WarpStream sets out to make a Kafka-compatible offering directly on S3, Vadim Kravcenko publishes an excellent guide for managing difficult software engineers & Russ Cox gives an update on Go 2.
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Kaizen! S3 R2 B2 D2 (Changelog & Friends #10)
Gerhard joins us for the 11th Kaizen and this one might contain the most improvements ever. We’re on Fly Apps V2, we’ve moved from S3 to R2 & we have a status page now, just to name a few.
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A deep dive into Go's stack (Go Time #288)
A technical dive into how the Go stack works and why we as programmers should care.
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Take me to Val Town (JS Party #287)
Val Town is a shiny, new social programming environment to write, run, deploy and share code. Steve Krouse –Val Town creator– joins Jerod & Amal to tell us all about it.
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Thinking outside the box of code (Changelog Interviews #552)
Leslie Lamport is a computer scientist & mathematician who won ACM’s Turing Award in 2013 for his fundamental contributions to the theory and practice of distributed and concurrent systems. He also created LaTeX and TLA+, a high-level language for “writing down the ideas that go into the program before you do any coding.”
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Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights (Practical AI #235)
In this Fully Connected episode, Daniel and Chris kick it off by noting that Stability AI released their SDXL 1.0 LLM! They discuss its virtues, and then dive into a discussion regarding how the United States, European Union, and other entities are approaching governance of AI through new laws and legal frameworks. In particular, they review the White House’s approach, noting the potential for unexpected consequences.
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The open source licensing war is over? (Changelog News #56)
Matt Asay thinks the open source licensing war is over, LangUI is an open source Tailwind component library for your AI chat app, Ivan Kuleshov modded a Mac mini to run via PoE, Apple joins Pixar and others in the Alliance for OpenUSD & John D. Cook says sometimes you shouldn’t pick the best tool for the job.
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DX on DX (Changelog Interviews #551)
This week Adam is joined by Abi Noda, founder and CEO of DX to talk about DX AKA DevEx (or the long-form Developer Experience). Since the dawn of software development there has been this push to understand what makes software teams efficient, but more importantly what does it take to understand developer productivity? That’s what Abi has been focused on for the better part of the last 8 years of his career. He started a company called Pull Panda that was acquired by GitHub, spent a few years there on this problem before going out on his own to start DX which helps startups to the fortune 500 companies gather real insights that leads to real improvement.
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- Changelog Interviews #527: What it takes to scale engineering (with Rachel Potvin)
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An intimate conversation about careers (JS Party #286)
KBall and Amal go deep on careers. They share their career journeys, talk through learnings and mishaps that happened along the way, and break down key factors to understand about big role transitions like “Senior->Staff” as well as “Engineer->Manager”.
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Building world-class developer experiences (Go Time #287)
Today we’re talking with Alice Merrick & Andy Walker about building a world-class developer experience. You know it when you see it, things just feel right. But it’s more than just a pleasant UI or lipstick on a pig (which is a saying), it really matters.
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Vector databases (beyond the hype) (Practical AI #234)
There’s so much talk (and hype) these days about vector databases. We thought it would be timely and practical to have someone on the show that has been hands on with the various options and actually tried to build applications leveraging vector search. Prashanth Rao is a real practitioner that has spent and huge amount of time exploring the expanding set of vector database offerings. After introducing vector database and giving us a mental model of how they fit in with other datastores, Prashanth digs into the trade offs as related to indices, hosting options, embedding vs. query optimization, and more.
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Something interesting is going on at Stack Overflow (Changelog News #55)
The fall of Stack Overflow, researches dig up some new (and potentially unavoidable) LLM attacks, Google proposes a new API that Ron Amadeo calls a DRM gatekeeper for the web, the Python Steering Council affirms PEP 703 & Lucas McGregor writes why no one wants to talk to your chatbot.
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Homelab nerds, unite! (Changelog & Friends #9)
Ok Homelabbers, it’s time to unite! Join Adam and his new friend Techno Tim for 1.5 hours of homelab goodness. From networking and WiFi, virtualizing Ubuntu running Docker containers, to Home Assistant and automation, building a Kubernetes cluster, to gutting a perfectly good machine just to build exactly what you need to run the ultimate Plex server — that’s what homelab is about. Let’s do this.
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- Proxmox
- Ubuntu
- Rocky Linux
- 45drives - Storinator AV15
- Docker
- Portainer
- Kubernetes
- Plex
- Pi-Hole
- Tailscale
- ZFS (OpenZFS)
- Changelog Interviews #475: Making the ZFS file system (with Matt Ahrens)
- Protectli
- Sysracks
- Rackstuds
- ASUS ProArt Z790
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From Docker to Dagger (Changelog Interviews #550)
This week we’re joined by Solomon Hykes, the creator of Docker. Now he’s back with his next big thing called Dagger — CI/CD as code that runs anywhere. We’re users of Dagger so check out our codebase if you want to see how it works. On today’s show Solomon takes us back to the days of Docker, what it was like on that 10 year journey, his transition from Docker to Dagger, Dagger’s community-led growth model, their focus on open source and community, how it works, and even a cameo from Kelsey Hightower to explain how Dagger works.
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Frontend Feud: CSS Pod vs Whiskey Web and Whatnot (JS Party #285)
Una & Adam from The CSS Podcast defend their Frontend Feud title against challengers Chuck & Robbie from Whiskey Web and Whatnot. Let’s get it on!
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So do we like Generics or not? (Go Time #286)
So, do we like generics or not? Some people feared they’d be the end of the language. Others were very hopeful, and had clear use cases, and were thrilled about the feature coming to the language. It was also often touted as the reason a lot of people didn’t adopt Go. So what do we think now? Mat and Kris are joined by Roger Peppe and Bryan Boreham to discuss the state of Generics in Go.
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- Roger’s proposal on type assertions
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- Mat’s mini testing framework
- Dishwasher video
- Dishwasher video v2
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There's a new Llama in town (Practical AI #233)
It was an amazing week in AI news. Among other things, there is a new NeRF and a new Llama in town!!! Zip-NeRF can create some amazing 3D scenes based on 2D images, and Llama 2 from Meta promises to change the LLM landscape. Chris and Daniel dive into these and they compare some of the recently released OpenAI functionality to Anthropic’s Claude 2.
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Supabase quietly went public (Changelog News #54)
Our friends at Supabase quietly went public today, Redpoint’s InfraRed 100 report is out, Twitter is now X, GitHub’s Copilot Chat now in public preview (for businesses) & Oxide has homelab plans (in 2050).
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Bringing the cloud on prem (Changelog & Friends #8)
Adam was out when Bryan made his podcast debut here on The Changelog, so we had to get him back on the show along with his co-founder and CEO Steve Tuck to discuss Silicon Valley (the TV show), all things Oxide, homelab possibilities, bringing the power of the cloud on prem, and more.
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Storytime with Steve Yegge (Changelog Interviews #549)
This week it’s storytime with Steve Yegge! Steve came out of retirement to join Sourcegraph as Head of Engineering. Their next frontier is Cody, their AI coding assistant that answers code questions and writes code for you by reading your entire codebase and the code graph. But, we really spent a lot of time talking with Steve about his time at Amazon, Google, and Grab. Ok, it’s storytime!
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- Cody is Cheating
- A good day with Jeff
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- Why I left Google to join Grab
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This is going to be Lit 🔥 (JS Party #284)
Justin Fagnani joins us this week to talk about Lit, a library that helps you build web components. With 17% of pageviews in Chrome registering use of web components, Lit has gained widespread adoption across a variety of companies looking to create reusable components which leverage the power and interoperability of the web platform. Tune in to learn about what makes this tiny library so incredibly lit!
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- Lit docs & examples
- Throwback Lit html episode on the Web Platform Podcast with Amal
- Polymer Library - Lit’s predecessor
- Custom Elements
- Shadow DOM
- Templates and Slots
- JS Tagged Template Literals
- Lit Element base class
- Amal’s singing about “dangerously set innerHTML”
- Proposal for Scoped Custom Element Global Registries
- Proposal for declarative Shadow DOM
- Proposal for Template Instantiation
- Proposal for DOM Parts
- Proposal for “open-stylable” Shadow Roots
- Proposal for JavaScript Decorators
- Lit labs packages
- Google’s Wireit - updates your npm scripts to make them smarter
- Justin’s npm cli RFC for adding Googe’s Wireit script runner to npm
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The tools we love (Go Time #285)
The Go ecosystem has a hoard of tools and editors for Gophers to choose from and it can be difficult to find ones that are a good fit for each individual. In this episode, we discuss what tools and editors we’re using, the ones we wish existed, how we go about finding new ones, and why we sometimes choose to write our own tools.
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- Where we find tools
- r/sysadmin
- r/programming
- Golang Weekly Newsletter
- Watching screencasts and live streams
- Collaboration
- Equipment
- Assorted Reading
- Videos
- Editors
- Shell Scripting
- Terminal Emulators
- Build Tools
- Documentation Tools
- Terminal Multiplexers
- Application Launchers
- Knowledge Tools
- Miscellaneous Tools
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Legal consequences of generated content (Practical AI #232)
As a technologist, coder, and lawyer, few people are better equipped to discuss the legal and practical consequences of generative AI than Damien Riehl. He demonstrated this a couple years ago by generating, writing to disk, and then releasing every possible musical melody. Damien joins us to answer our many questions about generated content, copyright, dataset licensing/usage, and the future of knowledge work.
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- Talk - Legal and Practical Consequences of Generative AI (LLMs like GPT, Bart, PaLM, LLaMA, Alpaca, Codex)
- Talk - Why All Melodies Should Be Free for Musicians to Use | Damien Riehl | TED
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Magical shell history & why engineers should focus on writing (Changelog News #53)
Ellie Huxtable’s Atuin makes your shell history magical, Dmitry Kudryavtsev writes why he thinks engineers should focus on writing, LazyVim promises to transform your Neovim setup into a full-fleged IDE, Geoff Graham shares with Smashing Magazine how he writes CSS in 2023 & Brad Fitzpatrick collects a public list of bad issue track behaviors.
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Dear Red Hat... (Changelog & Friends #7)
Red Hat’s decision to lock down RHEL sources behind a subscription paywall was met with much ire and opened opportunity for Oracle to get a smack in and SUSE to announce a fork with $10 million behind it.
Few RHEL community members have been as publicly irate as Jeff Geerling, so we invited him on the show to discuss.
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- Jeff: Dear Red Hat: Are you dumb?
- Jeff: Removing official support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Jeff: I’m done with Red Hat (Enterprise Linux)
- The rise of Rocky Linux with Greg Kurtzer
- Oracle coverage on Changelog News
- Debian is cool
- TechCrunch: Why SUSE is forking Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Adam Jacob’s tweet
- Red Hat’s June 21st blog post
- Red Hat’s June 26th blog post
- Oracle’s epic press release
- Mike McGrath’s post clarifying use of the term ‘freeloaders’
- Mike McGrath posting about ‘bad-faith action’
- An analysis of the GPL issues with RHEL Business Model
- SUSE’s fork press release
- Rocky Linux’s response
- The problem with Rocky Linux and free beer | LinkedIn
- AlmaLinux’s response
- Huge Open Source Drama - YouTube
- LTX 2023
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Fundamentals all the way down (JS Party #283)
Austin Gil returns to JS Party, bringing a fresh perspective on the fundamentals of file uploads. Brace for an insightful session as we navigate the complexities of this key JavaScript topic together, much like a dedicated coach drilling the fundamentals into his team!
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- JS Party #243
- File Upload
- Angular
- React
- Solid
- Austin’s blog post series on file uploads
- 200 MDN
- Austin Gil on file uploads
- Amazon S3
- Akamai
- Cloudflare R2
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Types will win in the end (Changelog Interviews #548)
This week we’re talking about type checking with Jake Zimmerman. Jake is one of the leads at Stripe working on Sorbet — an open source project that does Type checking in Ruby and runs over Stripe’s entire Ruby codebase. As of May of 2022 Stripe’s codebase was over 15 million lines of code spread across 150,000 files. If you think you have a bigger Ruby codebase, Jake is down to go byte-for-byte to see who wins. Jake shares tons of wisdom and more importantly he shares why he thinks types will win in the end.
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A developer's toolkit for SOTA AI (Practical AI #231)
Chris sat down with Varun Mohan and Anshul Ramachandran, CEO / Cofounder and Lead of Enterprise and Partnership at Codeium, respectively. They discussed how to streamline and enable modern development in generative AI and large language models (LLMs). Their new tool, Codeium, was born out of the insights they gleaned from their work in GPU software and solutions development, particularly with respect to generative AI, large language models, and supporting infrastructure. Codeium is a free AI-powered toolkit for developers, with in-house models and infrastructure - not another API wrapper.
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Gophers Say! GopherCon EU 2023 (Go Time #284)
Our award winning worthy survey game show is back, this time Mat Ryer hosts it live on stage at GopherCon Europe 2023!
Elena Grahovac joins forces with Björn Rabenstein to battle it out with Alice Merrick & Mohammed S. Al Sahaf. Let’s see who can better guess what the GopherCon Europe gophers had to say!
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Oracle smacks IBM over RHEL (Changelog News #52)
Oracle smacks IBM for their handling of RHEL, the folks at The Dam share a Slack clone in 5 lines of Bash, Justin Jaffray writes up 13 ways to think about joins, llama.cpp learns web chat thanks to a contribution by Tobi Lütke & Meta is willing to pay 3 engineers to remove Python’s GIL.
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The massive bug at the heart of npm (JS Party #282)
Darcy Clarke, former GitHub Staff Engineering Manager and founder of vlt, joins us to discuss a major bug in the npm ecosystem that he recently disclosed. We cover the bug’s timeline, nuances, and impact, all while setting some important context on npm packages, clients, and registries. Tune in to learn how to protect your codebase and gain a deeper understanding of this crucial part of the JavaScript ecosystem.
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- Darcy / vlt’s blog post on this massive npm bug
- Feross / Socket’s follow-up blog post in this issue
- Refactor Conf - Darcy & Feross will be speaking in July
- Verdaccio (not to be mistaken with Versace) - an open source npm registry proxy
- Github layoffs for engineering team in India
- Bug filled July 28th, 2022 related to binding.gyp and triaged on October 22nd, 2022
- Darcy’s original test POC from Nov 2nd, 2022
- Darcy’s POC from March 8th, 2023 which was used in the HackerOne report to Github
- Legacy docs for npm publish params
- Tool for checking packages for manifest mismatches
- Great resource for security acronyms
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Cambrian explosion of generative models (Practical AI #230)
In this Fully Connected episode, Daniel and Chris explore recent highlights from the current model proliferation wave sweeping the world - including Stable Diffusion XL, OpenChat, Zeroscope XL, and Salesforce XGen. They note the rapid rise of open models, and speculate that just as in open source software, open models will dominate the future. Such rapid advancement creates its own problems though, so they finish by itemizing concerns such as cybersecurity, workflow productivity, and impact on human culture.
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Efficient Linux at the CLI (Changelog Interviews #547)
This week we’re talking to Daniel J. Barrett, author of Efficient Linux at the Command Line as well as many other books. Daniel has a PhD and has been teaching and writing about Linux for more than 30 years (almost 40!). So we invited Dan to join us on the show to talk about efficient ways to use Linux. He teaches us about combining commands, re-running commands, $CDPATH hacks, and more.
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The solo gopher (Go Time #283)
Many Gophers build projects as a team of one. Sometimes these are side projects, other times they are projects used by millions of people but who are still maintained by a single individual. In this episode, the panel discusses techniques for developing and maintaining Go projects as a solo developer.
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Streak redemption, vectors are the new JSON, CommonJS is hurting JavaScript & the rise of the AI Engineer (Changelog News #51)
Lukas Mathis writes about streak redemption, Jonathan Katz thinks vectors are the new JSON, Andy Jiang says CommonJS is hurting JavaScript & Swyx on the rise of the AI Engineer.
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Even the best rides come to an end (Changelog & Friends #6)
On Monday, Kelsey Hightower announced his retirement from Google. On Tuesday, he sat down with us to discuss why, how & what’s next.
Along the way, Kelsey teaches us how not to suck at work, analyzes his magical demos, fights off the haters (again) & opines on System Initiative, Dagger & 37Signals moving off the cloud.
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- Not Everyone Can Be Kelsey Hightower - Greg Poirier - YouTube
- Rebuilding DevOps from the ground up with Adam Jacob
- Why we’re leaving the cloud
- We have left the cloud
- MRSK — Deploy web apps anywhere
- Two decades as a solo indie Mac dev with Jesse Grosjean
- btop on GitHub
- Dagger
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K8s vs serverless for distributed systems (Go Time #282)
Listener Joe Davidson recently tweeted: “I’d really be interested in an episode debating Kubernetes vs serverless functions for distributed systems. As someone working a lot with serverless to create large scale systems, for me the complexity in Kubernetes doesn’t seem worth it, especially when onboarding new people. But I’d like to see it from the other perspectives. I could be missing something.”
So we invited Joe on the show alongside Abdel Sghiouar and Srdjan Petrovic to discuss!
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- Service Weaver
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- Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized world
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- Azure Container Apps
- Kelsey Hightower’s Tweet on k8s becoming an operating system for the cloud
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Don't make things worse! (Changelog Interviews #546)
Taylor Troesh joins Jerod to discuss a bevy of software development topics: yak shaves, dependency selection, -10x engineers, IKEA-oriented development, his new content-addressable programming language & much more along the way.
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- Scrapscript
- The Mother of All Demos - Wikipedia
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- The art of destroying software (Greg Young) - YouTube
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Automated cartography using AI (Practical AI #229)
Your feed might be dominated by LLMs these days, but there are some amazing things happening in computer vision that you shouldn’t ignore! In this episode, we bring you one of those amazing stories from Gabriel Ortiz, who is working with the government of Cantabria in Spain to automate cartography and apply AI to geospatial analysis. We hear about how AI tooling fits into the GIS workflow, and Gabriel shares some of his recent work (including work that can identify individual people, invasive plant species, building and more from aerial survey data).
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- Automated cartography (integration of different models: buildings, roads, vegetation)
- Detecting and tracking the expansion of forests (period 1957-2020) using both legacy and modern imagery
- Tracking invader species
- Tracking urban growth with AI
- Spatial behavior in beaches using AI
- Inference with SAM (Meta’s Segment Anything Model) over urban areas/viewer.html?webmap=4af373c294e24394ae25e4acadab71cc
- SuperResolution on aerial or satellite imagery
- More of the work of Gabriel and his team can be seen here and also on his LinkedIn profile
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AI poisoned its own well, libraries to UnsuckJS, we need more Richard Stallman & ChatGPT package hallucination (Changelog News #50)
Tracy Durnell thinks AI has already poisoned its own well, Adam Hill’s microsite catalogs everything you need to UnsuckJS, Lionel Dricot thinks we need more Richard Stallman, not less & the Vulcan team proves you can’t trust ChatGPT’s package recommendations.
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There's a whole PEP about that (Changelog & Friends #5)
Brett Cannon (our unofficial ambassador to the Python community) is here to help alleviate our pip install anxiety. Along the way, we ask him about Python 4, removing the GIL, what he thinks about Chris Lattner’s Mojo project, Rust in the Python world & way more (of course).
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Is print debugging good enough? (JS Party #281)
Let’s debate debugging techniques! Do you print debug or dive deep into debugging tools? KBall & Jerod argue that print statements are all you need while Amal & guest Eric Clemmons take the other side. Who will win and why will it be Jerod? 😉
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Rebuilding DevOps from the ground up (Changelog Interviews #545)
This week we’re joined by Adam Jacob and we’re talking about his mission at System Initiative to rebuild DevOps. They are out of stealth mode and ready to show off their transformative new power tool that reimagines what’s possible from DevOps. It’s an intelligent automation platform that allows DevOps teams to build detailed interactive simulations of their infrastructure and use them to rapidly update their production environments.
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- System Initiative launch demo
- What if Infrastructure as Code never existed, by Adam Jacob
- 10+ deploys per day at Flickr
- Changelog Interviews #353: The war for the soul of open source
- Changelog Interviews #460: The business model of open source
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Neurodiverse gophers (Go Time #281)
Kaylyn Gibilterra returns as Natalie & the gang take our diversity conversation one step further. This time we’re talking about neurodiversity as it relates to being a developer, a manager, a conference participant & more.
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From ML to AI to Generative AI (Practical AI #228)
Chris and Daniel take a step back to look at how generative AI fits into the wider landscape of ML/AI and data science. They talk through the differences in how one approaches “traditional” supervised learning and how practitioners are approaching generative AI based solutions (such as those using Midjourney or GPT family models). Finally, they talk through the risk and compliance implications of generative AI, which was in the news this week in the EU.
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An open platform for LLMs, speed matters, imaginary problems, Val Town & how to finish your projects (Changelog News #49)
An open platform for operating LLMs in production, working quickly is more important than it seems, imaginary problems are the root of bad software, Val Town is a social website to write and run code & Aaron Francis’ guide to finishing your projects.
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"Mat Depends" (Changelog & Friends #4)
Mat Ryer is back and he’s brought with him 10 tips to be a 10x developer (like he is). After that, we try a new segment we’re calling “Tool Time” (and try out a few jingles for it along the way). Finally, it’s time to review our previous unpopular opinions and put some new ones into the world for your (dis)agreeing pleasure. Join us for an automagical time!
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- How ‘Back to the Future 2’ Tricked You Into Thinking Crispin Glover Returned
- Mat on The Changelog #526
- The Synergistic Interplay between Vitamins D and K for Bone and Cardiovascular Health
- Introducing Wood Milk: Aubrey Plaza’s Newest Product #drinkwoodmilk - YouTube
- golangci-lint
- credo for Elixir
- 1Password
- ntfy.sh
- Queen Latifah - U.N.I.T.Y. - YouTube
- NextDNS
- NextDNS wiki on UnifiOS
- I Made a Tiny Touch ID Button for Mac!
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It's all part of the process (JS Party #280)
The panel dives into all of the supporting structures that we build around writing code, what works in different environments, and good and bad practices they have seen. From PR etiquette to CI/CD to how to write a ticket, they look at them from an open source perspective, an enterprise perspective, and everything in between.
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- Graphite
- Reviewable
- The way to fully automated releases in open source projects
- Feature Toggles (aka Feature Flags)
- LaunchDarkly
- Split.io
- Minimum Reproducible Example
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Passkeys for a passwordless future (Changelog Interviews #544)
This week we’re talking about Passkeys with Anna Pobletts, Head of Passwordless, at 1Password. Will Passkeys enable a passwordless future? Time will tell. Anna shares the what, the why, how, and the when on Passkeys.
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- Passkeys: the future of authentication in 1Password
- Passage by 1Password
- Passkeys Overview (Apple Developer)
- Supporting Passkeys (Apple Developer)
- passkeys.directory
- passkeys.dev
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AI trends: a Latent Space crossover (Practical AI #227)
Daniel had the chance to sit down with @swyx and Alessio from the Latent Space pod in SF to talk about current AI trends and to highlight some key learnings from past episodes. The discussion covers open access LLMs, smol models, model controls, prompt engineering, and LLMOps. This mashup is magical. Don’t miss it!
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- Latent Space podcast
- Featured Latent Space episodes:
- Featured Practical AI episodes:
- Prediction Guard
- Data Dan
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Wait for it... (Go Time #280)
Our guests helped create a ML pipeline that enabled image processing and automated image comparisons, enabling healthcare use cases through their series of microservices that automatically detect, manage, and process images received from OEM equipment.
In this episode they will chat through the challenges and how they overcame them, focusing specifically on the wait strategy for their ML Pipeline Healthcare Solution microservices. We’ll also touch on how improvements were made to an open source Go package as part of this project.
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- wait-for-it - bash script version
- wait-for-it - go implementation
- Sam’s blog on experience using wait-for-it go implementation
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Reddit goes dark, Lemmy lights up, OpenObserve, some blogging myths & Jefro on Automotive Linux (Changelog News #48)
Reddit goes dark as subreddits protest, Lemmy lights up as disillusioned redditors turn to the fediverse, OpenObserve is a cloud native observability platform, Julia Evans dispels some myths about blogging & Red Hat’s Jeffrey “Jefro” Osier-Mixon tells Adam and Jerod all about Automotive Linux at Open Source Summit NA.
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Reactions to Apple’s new vision (Changelog & Friends #3)
Homebrew project leader Mike McQuaid joins us to weigh in on Apple’s big Vision Pro announcement. We also hit on our favorite (and least favorite) non-AR things from the WWDC 2023 keynote.
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- Apple’s official Vision Pro page
- Sarah Dietschy: I Tried the Apple Vision Pro 👀
- The Verge: Apple Vision Pro first look
- Valve Index
- WWDC Highlights
- Apple sure kicked Meta’s butt today, right?
- CmdrTaco on the iPod
- Day One
- Aaron Levie’s tweet
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ANTHOLOGY — It's a Cloud Native world (Changelog Interviews #543)
This is our last week of hallway track coverage at The Linux Foundation’s Open Source Summit North America 2023 in Vancouver, Canada. Today’s anthology episode features: Jeffrey Sica (Developer Experience & Programs @ CNCF), Eddie Zaneski (Kubernetes SIG CLI), Yaron Schneider (Co-creator of Dapr and Founder and CTO at Diagrid).
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- Eddie Zaneski – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Yaron Schneider – GitHub, X
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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Part 2
Part 3
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Million ways to render (JS Party #279)
Million.js is a JavaScript library that helps render large datasets in the browser efficiently using a virtual DOM and custom diffing algorithm. Aiden and Tobi join Nick to talk about what it does, it’s goals, and where it’s going.
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Accidentally building SOTA AI (Practical AI #226)
Lately.AI has been working for years on content generation systems that capture your unique “voice” and are tailored to your unique audience. At first, they didn’t know that they were going to build an AI system, but now they have a state-of-the-art generative platform that provides much more than “prompting” out of thin air. Lately.AI’s CEO Kate explain their journey, her perspective on generative AI in marketing, and much more in this episode!
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Of prompts and engineers (Go Time #279)
Tips, tricks, best practices and philosophical AI debates abound when OpenAI ambassador Bram Adams joins Natalie, Johnny & Mat to discuss prompt engineering.
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- Stenography
- RLHF
- Phind
- Karpathy building a kind of Jarvis
- Ship of Theseus
- microsoft/guidance
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Starlight, Knuth asks ChatGPT, Stack Overflow mods strike, Reddit API pricing revolt & open source AI has a new champ (Changelog News #47)
The Astro team releases a new documentation builder, legendary computer scientist Donald Knuth plays with ChatGPT, over 500 volunteer mods have signed an open letter to Stack Overflow Inc, Reddit faces a revolt due to their new API pricing & the Technology Innovation Institute release Falcon, a new open source LLM that’s topping Hugging Face’s leaderboard.
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Refocusing Docker on developer-first and growth (Founders Talk #97)
This week Adam is joined by Scott Johnston, CEO of Docker. Scott shares his journey to the CEO role, how he’s leading the company to not only grow revenue, but to also invest in developer facing features, their shift from a enterprise sales focus to a PLG driven model, and we even talk about Docker Desktop, the competition it faces, and the struggle they face when considering making it open source.
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- OrbStack
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Kaizen! The best pipeline ever™ (Changelog & Friends #2)
Gerhard is back! Today we continue our Kaizen tradition by getting together (for the 10th time) with one of our oldest friends to talk all about the continuous improvements we’re making to Changelog’s platform and podcasts.
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- Kaizen episodes
- Gource
- Gerhard’s Ansible blog post from 2014 (!)
- changelog.com on GitHub
- GitHub discussion changelog.com#452
- Ken Kost’s merged contribution
- Jerod wants a WiFi BaseStation XG
- Gerhard recommends Mikrotik
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Digging through Nick Nisi’s tool box (JS Party #278)
KBall interviews Nick Nisi about the Pandora’s box that is his tooling/developer setup. Starting at the lowest layer of the terminal emulator he uses, they move upwards into command line tools, into Tmux (terminals within terminals!), his epic NeoVim configuration, and finally into the tools he uses for notekeeping and productivity.
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- Kitty
- WezTerm
- Nerd Fonts
- RipGrep
- fzf
- Zoxide
- tmux
- Neovim
- Lua
- Lazy.nvim
- Telescope.nvim
- Zettelkasten
- Obsidian
- Yabai
- Raycast
- Omnifocus
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ANTHOLOGY — Maintaining maintainers (Changelog Interviews #542)
This week on The Changelog we’re continuing our Maintainer Month series by taking to you back to the hallway track of The Linux Foundation’s Open Source Summit North America 2023 in Vancouver, Canada. Today’s anthology episode features: Stormy Peters (VP of Communities at GitHub), Dr. Dawn Foster (Director of Open Source Community Strategy at VMware), and Angie Byron (Drupal Core Product Manager and Community Director at Aiven).
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- Angie Byron – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- GitHub Sponsors
- GitHub Accelerator
- CHAOSS
- Changelog Interviews #321: Drupal is a pretty big deal
- Drupal
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The files & folders of Go projects (Go Time #278)
Return guests Ben Johnson & Chris James join Mat & Kris to talk about the files and folders of your Go projects, big and small. Does the holy grail exist, of the perfect structure to rule them all? Or are we doomed to be figuring this out for the rest of our lives?
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Controlled and compliant AI applications (Practical AI #225)
You can’t build robust systems with inconsistent, unstructured text output from LLMs. Moreover, LLM integrations scare corporate lawyers, finance departments, and security professionals due to hallucinations, cost, lack of compliance (e.g., HIPAA), leaked IP/PII, and “injection” vulnerabilities.
In this episode, Chris interviews Daniel about his new company called Prediction Guard, which addresses these issues. They discuss some practical methodologies for getting consistent, structured output from compliant AI systems. These systems, driven by open access models and various kinds of LLM wrappers, can help you delight customers AND navigate the increasing restrictions on “GPT” models.
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An API store for LLMs, DeviceScript, Nyxt: the hacker's browser, expectations debt & there's still no silver bullet (Changelog News #46)
The Gorilla team is building an API store for LLMs, DeviceScript is Microsoft’s new TypeScript programming environment for microcontrollers, Nyxt is a hackable browser written in Lisp, Morgan Housel writes about expectations debt & I issue a gentle reminder to my fellow software engineers: there’s still no silver bullet.
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Introducing Changelog & Friends (Changelog & Friends #1)
What if your favorite conference’s hallway track continued year round? That’s the vibe we’re trying to capture with Changelog & Friends, a new Friday talk show from your friends at Changelog. In this intro episode, Adam & Jerod talk all about our new MWF plan for The Changelog , discuss what this Friends flavor is all about, and have a lot of fun along the way.
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Exciting! Exciting? !Exciting (JS Party #277)
Nick is excited to explain CVA to us like we’re five (then again like we’re 41).
KBall is excited to share details of his new stack (for the new app he’s building).
Jerod is excited to share some recent news items (but he’s the only one).
And finally, we’re all excited to debate TypeScript vs JSDoc comments!
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- Class Variance Authority
- KBall’s new stack
- Bun’s new bundler
- MDN’s new Baseline
- JavaScript’s new frontend framework: VanJS
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ANTHOLOGY — Open source AI (Changelog Interviews #541)
This week on The Changelog we’re taking you to the hallway track of The Linux Foundation’s Open Source Summit North America 2023 in Vancouver, Canada. Today’s anthology episode features: Beyang Liu (Co-founder and CTO at Sourcegraph), Denny Lee (Developer Advocate at Databricks), and Stella Biderman (Executive Director and Head of Research at EleutherAI).
Special thanks to our friends at GitHub for sponsoring us to attend this conference as part of Maintainer Month.
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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The common denominator for these conversations is open source AI.
Beyang Liu and his team at Sourcegraph are focused on enabling more developers to understand code and their approach to a completely open source, model agnostic, coding assistant called Cody has significant interest from us.
Denny Lee and the team at Databricks recently released Dolly 2.0, the first open source, instruction-following LLM, that has been fine-tuned on a human-generated instruction dataset and is licensed for research and commercial use. They want to be the platform of choice the future of AI development.
Stella Biderman gave the keynote address on generative AI at the conference and works at the base layer doing open source research, model training, and AI ethics. Stella trained the EleutherAI pythia model family that Databricks’ used to create Dolly - 2.0.
- Cody from Sourcegraph - Read, write, and understand code 10x faster with AI. Cody answers code questions and writes code for you by reading your entire codebase and the code graph.
- Free Dolly: Introducing the World’s First Truly Open Instruction-Tuned LLM
- EleutherAI - Empowering Open Source Artificial Intelligence Research
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How to ace that talk (Go Time #277)
Now that you’ve aced that CFP, the gang is back to share our best tips & tricks to help you give your best conference talk ever.
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- xkcd #2501
- Phind: AI search engine for devs
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Data augmentation with LlamaIndex (Practical AI #224)
Large Language Models (LLMs) continue to amaze us with their capabilities. However, the utilization of LLMs in production AI applications requires the integration of private data. Join us as we have a captivating conversation with Jerry Liu from LlamaIndex, where he provides valuable insights into the process of data ingestion, indexing, and query specifically tailored for LLM applications. Delving into the topic, we uncover different query patterns and venture beyond the realm of vector databases.
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Trogon, StableStudio, life after Apple, Google's problematic new TLDs & how to discuss programming languages (Changelog News #45)
Will McGugan’s Trogon auto-generates friendly TUIs for your CLI apps, Stability AI’s official open source variant of DreamStudio, John Calhoun writes about life after 26 years programming at Apple, Google’s news TLDs could be a boon to scammers & Pablo Meier documents a way to discuss programming languages.
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The ORMazing show (JS Party #276)
Nick & KBall sit down with the brilliant Stephen Haberman to discuss all things ORMs! 💻🔍
From the advantages and disadvantages of ORMs in general, to delving into the intricacies of his innovative project Joist, which brings a fresh, idiomatic, ActiveRecord-esque approach to TypeScript. 🚀
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- TypeScript: Documentation - Mapped Types
- Hello from Joist | Joist
- TypeORM - Amazing ORM for TypeScript and JavaScript (ES7, ES6, ES5). Supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, SQLite, MS SQL Server, Oracle, WebSQL databases. Works in NodeJS, Browser, Ionic, Cordova and Electron platforms.
- Active Record Basics — Ruby on Rails Guides
- graphql/dataloader: DataLoader is a generic utility to be used as part of your application’s data fetching layer to provide a consistent API over various backends and reduce requests to those backends via batching and caching.
- facebook/Haxl: A Haskell library that simplifies access to remote data, such as databases or web-based services.
- Working with Entity Manager | MikroORM
- Object-Relational Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Science
- kysely-org/kysely: A type-safe typescript SQL query builder
- Validation Rules | Joist
- Derived Fields | Joist
- The Streaming Database | Materialize
- PostgreSQL: The world’s most advanced open source database
- PostgreSQL: Documentation: 15: 41.3. Materialized Views
- Joist Slack
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Engineering management (for the rest of us) (Changelog Interviews #540)
This week Sarah Drasner joins us to talk about her book Engineering Management for the Rest of Us and her experience leading engineering at Zillow, Microsoft, Netlify, and now Google.
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- sarahdrasnerdesign.com
- Sarah Drasner on CSS Tricks
- Book: Engineering Management for the Rest of Us
- The Peter principle
- Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations
- Dr. Nicole Forsgren
- The Engineer/Manager Pendulum
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Creating instruction tuned models (Practical AI #223)
At the recent ODSC East conference, Daniel got a chance to sit down with Erin Mikail Staples to discuss the process of gathering human feedback and creating an instruction tuned Large Language Models (LLM). They also chatted about the importance of open data and practical tooling for data annotation and fine-tuning. Do you want to create your own custom generative AI models? This is the episode for you!
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Syncthing, Thunderbird, Baseline & vector databases (Changelog News #44)
Thunderbird is thriving on small donations, Syncthing is a super-cool continuous file sync program, LLMs are so hot right now and they’re making vectors hot by proxy & MDN defines a Baseline for stable web features.
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Making web art the hard way (JS Party #275)
Developer slash artist Alex Miller joins Jerod & Amelia to discuss the challenge he faced after deciding to eschew fancy frameworks and libraries in favor of vanilla JS to build an interactive essay called Grid World for the html review.
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- Myst
- The html Review
- Grid World
- Daniel Shiffman
- Drawing Lines is Hard
- Algorithmically generated goods by SPACEFILLER
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HallwayConf! A new style of conference (Go Time #276)
Conferences are an integral part of the Go community, but the experience of conferences has remained the same even as the value propositions change. In this episode we discuss what conferences generally provide, how value propositions have changed, and what changes conference organizers could make to realign their conference experience to a new set of value propositions.
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The last mile of AI app development (Practical AI #222)
There are a ton of problems around building LLM apps in production and the last mile of that problem. Travis Fischer, builder of open AI projects like @ChatGPTBot, joins us to talk through these problems (and how to overcome them). He helps us understand the hierarchy of complexity from simple prompting to augmentation, agents, and fine-tuning. Along the way we discuss the frontend developer community that is rapidly adopting AI technology via Typescript (not Python).
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How companies are sponsoring OSS (Changelog Interviews #539)
This week we’re celebrating Maintainer Month along with our friends at GitHub. Open source runs the world, but who runs open source? Maintainers. Open source maintainers are behind the software we use everyday, but they don’t always have the community or support they need. That’s why we’re celebrating open source maintainers during the month of May. Today’s conversation features Alyssa Wright (Bloomberg), Chad Whitacre (Sentry), and Duane O’Brien (Creator of the FOSS Contributor Fund and framework). We get into all the details, the why, the hows, and the struggles involved for companies to support open source.
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We’re at Open Source Summit North America 2022 this week. If you’re there, come see us at the Maintainer Month booth in the expo area.
- FOSS Funders (fossfunders.com) - Working together to fund open source.
- Maintainer Month
- Bloomberg Launches FOSS Fund to Support Free and Open Source Projects
- Bloomberg Corporate Philanthropy
- Hire My Team
- Changelog Interviews #392: Indeed’s FOSS Contributor Fund with Duane O’Brien
- Sovereign Tech Fund
- Changelog Interviews #490: Schneier on security for tomorrow’s software
- Investing in Open Source: The FOSS Contributor Fund by Duane O’Brien, Mandy Grover
- Changelog Interviews #515: ANTHOLOGY — Advocating for and supporting open source
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Mojo might be huge, chatbots aren't it, big tech lacks an AI moat & monoliths are not dinosaurs (Changelog News #43)
Jeremy Howard thinks Mojo might be the biggest programming language advance in decades, Amelia Wattenberger is not impressed by AI chatbots, a leaked Google memo admits big tech has no AI moats & Werner Vogels reminds us that monoliths are not dinosaurs.
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Selling to Enterprise (Founders Talk #96)
This week Adam is joined by Michael Grinich, Founder & CEO at WorkOS. Michael shares his journey to build WorkOS, what it takes to cross the Enterprise Chasm, and how he’s building his sales organization for growth.
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- Ironclad
- WorkOS: Enterprise’s Great Equalizer
- WorkOS raises $80m in Series B financing, acquires Modulz
- WorkOS raises $15M to build “Stripe for enterprise-ready features”
- WorkOS careers
- Resend
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SST and OpenNext (JS Party #274)
Dax Raad joins KBall and Nick to chat about SST, a framework that makes it easier to build full-stack applications on AWS. We chat about how the project got started and its goals. Then we discuss OpenNext, an open source, framework-agnostic server less adapter for Next.js.
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Go + Wasm (Go Time #275)
The DevCycle team joins Jon & Kris for a deep conversation on WebAssembly (Wasm) and Go! After a high-level discussion of what Wasm is all about, we learn how they’re using it in production in cool and interesting ways. We finish up with a spicy unpop segment featuring buzzwords like “ChatGPT”, “LLM”, “NFT” and “AGI”
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Livebook's big launch week (Changelog Interviews #538)
José Valim joins Jerod to talk all about what’s new in Livebook – the Elixir-based interactive code notebook he’s been working on the last few years.
José made a big bet when he decided to bring machine learning to Elixir. That bet is now paying off with amazing new capabilities such as building and deploying a Whisper-based chat app to Hugging Face in just 15 minutes.
José demoed that and much more during Livebook’s first-ever launch week. Let’s get into it.
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Launch Week
- Day 1: Deploy notebooks as apps & quality-of-life upgrades
- Day 2: Distributed² Machine Learning notebooks with Elixir and Livebook
- Day 3: Hubs and secret management
- Day 4: Build and deploy a Whisper chat app to Hugging Face in 15 minutes
- Day 5: Data wrangling in Elixir with Explorer, the power of Rust, the elegance of R
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Large models on CPUs (Practical AI #221)
Model sizes are crazy these days with billions and billions of parameters. As Mark Kurtz explains in this episode, this makes inference slow and expensive despite the fact that up to 90%+ of the parameters don’t influence the outputs at all.
Mark helps us understand all of the practicalities and progress that is being made in model optimization and CPU inference, including the increasing opportunities to run LLMs and other Generative AI models on commodity hardware.
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- Neural Magic
- SparseML
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- Neural Magic Scales up MLPerf™ Inference v3.0 Performance With Demonstrated Power Efficiency; No GPUs Needed
- Deploy Optimized Hugging Face Models With DeepSparse and SparseZoo
- SparseGPT: Remove 100 Billion Parameters for Free
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Hyperswitch, the future of programming, Thoughtworks' latest tech radar & your docs aren't "simple" (Changelog News #42)
Hyperswitch is like the adapter pattern for payments, Austin Henley writes about the future of programming by summarizing recent research papers, Thoughtworks published their 28th volume of their Tech Radar, the team at General Products reminds devs to scan our technical writing for words such as “easy”, “painless”, “straightforward”, “trivial”, “simple” and “just” & we finish with a lightning round of cool tools.
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CSS Color Party 🎉 (JS Party #273)
Adam Argyle joins Amelia and Nick to catch them up on all the goings on within the world of CSS colors. There are a lot more options than you’d expect if you haven’t been keeping up, and Adam’s here to help you avoid the “gray dead zone”!
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- Adam’s site
- Color interpolation animation
- oklch() - CSS: Cascading Style Sheets | MDN
- The “Gray Dead Zone” of Gradients | CSS-Tricks - CSS-Tricks
- OKLCH Color Picker & Converter
- Wes Bos single color experiments on TikTok
- color-mix() - CSS: Cascading Style Sheets | MDN
- A Preview of 4 New CSS Color Features | CSS-Tricks - CSS-Tricks
- OKLCH in CSS: why we moved from RGB and HSL—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog
- CSS HD Gradients
- Gradient.style Discord
- High Definition CSS Color Guide - Chrome Developers
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Diversity at conferences (Go Time #274)
Go conferences are not as diverse as we’d like them to be. There are initiatives in place to improve this situation. Among other roles, Ronna Steinberg is the Head of Diversity at GopherCon Europe. In this episode we’ll learn more about the goal, the process and the problems, and how can each one of us help make this better.
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Hard drive reliability at scale (Changelog Interviews #537)
This week Adam talks with Andy Klein from Backblaze about hard drive reliability at scale.
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Causal inference (Practical AI #220)
With all the LLM hype, it’s worth remembering that enterprise stakeholders want answers to “why” questions. Enter causal inference. Paul Hünermund has been doing research and writing on this topic for some time and joins us to introduce the topic. He also shares some relevant trends and some tips for getting started with methods including double machine learning, experimentation, difference-in-difference, and more.
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- Causal Inference is More than Fitting the Data Well
- Causal Data Science in Practice
- Causal Discovery
- DoWhy Github
- The Book of Why
- Causal Data Science Meeting
- Paul’s study on causal ML adoption in industry (incl. an overview of useful software packages in Table 3)
- Causal Data Science MOOC on Udemy
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Dataset wars, Bark, Kent Beck needs to recalibrate, StableLM & blind prompting is not prompt engineering (Changelog News #41)
The dataset wars are heating up, Bark is a transformer-based text-to-audio model that can generate highly realistic, multilingual speech as well as other audio, Kent Beck needs to recalibrate after using ChatGPT, the team behind Stable Diffusion release a new open source language model & Mitchel Hashimoto weighs in on prompt engineering.
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Making "safe npm" (JS Party #272)
Feross and his team at Socket recently shipped a wrapper library for the ubiquitous npm package manager’s command-line interface that brings enhanced security when you need it most: before executing any code
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Builder journey to streaming data platform (Founders Talk #95)
This week Adam is joined by Alex Gallego, Founder & CEO at Redpanda Data, to share his builder journey to create the Redpanda streaming data platform.
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Capabilities of LLMs 🤯 (Practical AI #219)
Large Language Model (LLM) capabilities have reached new heights and are nothing short of mind-blowing! However, with so many advancements happening at once, it can be overwhelming to keep up with all the latest developments. To help us navigate through this complex terrain, we’ve invited Raj - one of the most adept at explaining State-of-the-Art (SOTA) AI in practical terms - to join us on the podcast.
Raj discusses several intriguing topics such as in-context learning, reasoning, LLM options, and related tooling. But that’s not all! We also hear from Raj about the rapidly growing data science and AI community on TikTok.
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- Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior
- Wolfram ChatGPT
- Comparing LLMs
- LangChain
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- Dolly blog post
- Illustrating Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
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How do you do, fellow Hack Clubbers? (Changelog Interviews #536)
This week we’re joined by Zach Latta, the Founder of Hack Club. At 16, Zach tested out of high school and moved to SF to join Yo as their first engineer. After playing a key role at Yo, he founded Hack Club to help teen hackers start coding clubs around the world. Today, teen hackers can meet IRL, online, at a hackathon, or leverage Hack Club Bank a fiscal sponsor to create their own organization. Hack Club is the program Zach wished he had in high school.
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- Invest in the future hacker generation
- hackclub.com
- Hack Club Bank
- hackclub/sprig
- Sprig - The game console where every player is a creator
- Meet the 18-year-old who left his job at ‘Yo’ to spread the joy of coding
- Founders Talk #81: The future of code search with Quinn Slack
- Changelog Interviews #369: Five years of freeCodeCamp
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- The World’s Longest Hackathon: The Hacker Zephyr, July 2021
- ToorCamp
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Free Dolly, GitHub Accelerator's cohort, improving Tailscale via Apple’s open source & what the heck are passkeys?! (Changelog News #40)
Kara Deloss announces GitHub Accelerator’s 2023 cohort, Databricks releases the first open source, instruction-following LLM, fine-tuned on a human-generated instruction dataset licensed for research and commercial use, Mihai Parparita writes how he improved Tailscale thanks to Apple’s open source & Neal Fennimore asks and answers the question: Passkeys: what the heck and why?!
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I'd like to add you to my professional network (JS Party #271)
The panel dives into a topic that makes most software developers cringe: Professional networking. Starting with a definition - what does it even mean? - they go into hacks they’ve found for getting more comfortable with networking, building your network in person or online, and then using your network to find new job opportunities or consulting work.
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Examining capitalism's chokepoints (Changelog Interviews #535)
This week we’re talking with Cory Doctorow (this episode contains explicit language) about his newest book Chokepoint Capitalism, which he co-autored with Rebecca Giblin. Chokepoint Capitalism is about how big tech and big content have captured creative labor markets and the ways we can win them back. We talk about chokepoints creating chickenized reverse-centaurs, paying for your robot boss (think Uber, Doordash, Amazon Drivers), the chickenization that’s climbing the priviledge gradient from the most blue collar workers to the middle-class. There are chokepoints in open source, AI generative art, interoperability, music, film, and media. To quote Cory, “We’re all fighting the same fight.”
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- Gig Work Is the Opposite of Steampunk
- TikTok’s Enshittification
- Rural towns and poor urban neighborhoods are being devoured by dollar stores
- What is Chokepoint Capitalism?
- Revenge of the Chickenized Reverse-Centaurs
- Cory on Twitter explaining “chickenization “
- Red Team Blues: Another audiobook that Amazon won’t sell
- The Memex Method
- Changelog Interviews #221: How we got here with Cory Doctorow
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Domain-driven design with Go (Go Time #273)
Matthew Boyle, the author of Domain-Driven Design with Golang, sits down with Jon & Mat to talk about (you guessed it!) DDD with Go.
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Computer scientists as rogue art historians (Practical AI #218)
What can art historians and computer scientists learn from one another? Actually, a lot! Amanda Wasielewski joins us to talk about how she discovered that computer scientists working on computer vision were actually acting like rogue art historians and how art historians have found machine learning to be a valuable tool for research, fraud detection, and cataloguing. We also discuss the rise of generative AI and how we this technology might cause us to ask new questions like: “What makes a photograph a photograph?”
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Ken Thompson's keynote, Tabby, The LLama Effect, Codeberg & facing the inevitable (Changelog News #39)
Ken Thompson’s 75-year-project is a jukebox for the ages, Tabby is a self-hosted AI coding assistant, Codeberg is a collaboration platform and Git hosting for open source software, content and projects, TheSequence explains The LLama Effect & Paul Orlando writes about Ghosts, Guilds and Generative AI.
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LLMs break the internet (Changelog Interviews #534)
This week we’re talking about LLMs with Simon Willison. We can not avoid this topic. Last time it was Stable Diffusion breaking the internet. This time it’s LLMs breaking the internet. Large Language Models, ChatGPT, Bard, Claude, Bing, GitHub Copilot X, Cody…we cover it all.
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- Cerebras-GPT: A Family of Open, Compute-efficient, Large Language Models
- I lost everything that made me love my job through Midjourney over night.
- ChatGPT plugins
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- Houston AI
- Unreal Engine 5.2 - Next-Gen Graphics Tech Demo (State of Unreal 2023)
- Apple’s secret M1 coprocessor
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Nick & KBall's "Coffee Talk" (JS Party #270)
Grab a comfy seat and a hot cup of joe, because it’s time for some coffee talk with Nick & KBall! Special guest Thomas Eckert joins the party and brings a bunch of questions for us to discuss.
Who wins in a fist fight: Tailwind CSS people or “real” CSS people? Is Agile overrated? What’s the longest bug you’ve ever chased? How about some underrated libraries/packages that people should know about? And more!
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The biggest job interview of GPT-4's life (Go Time #272)
Mat & Johnny interview everyone’s favorite LLM (Natalie with a special hat on) to see if it’d make a good hire as a Go dev. Also, Mat tries to turn it into his very own creepy robot by asking personal questions about his co-hosts. Things get weird. In a good way?
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- GopherCon 2019: Mat Ryer - How I Write HTTP Web Services after Eight Years
- Sam Altman: OpenAI CEO on GPT-4, ChatGPT, and the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #367
- How Do You Do Fellow Kids? | 30 Rock
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Accelerated data science with a Kaggle grandmaster (Practical AI #217)
Daniel and Chris explore the intersection of Kaggle and real-world data science in this illuminating conversation with Christof Henkel, Senior Deep Learning Data Scientist at NVIDIA and Kaggle Grandmaster. Christof offers a very lucid explanation into how participation in Kaggle can positively impact a data scientist’s skill and career aspirations. He also shared some of his insights and approach to maximizing AI productivity uses GPU-accelerated tools like RAPIDS and DALI.
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Twitter's open algorithm, Auto-GPT, LLMs as "calculators for words", SudoLang & stochastic parrots (Changelog News #38)
Twitter publishes (some of) its recommendation algorithm, Toran Bruce Richards puts GPT-4 on autopilot, Simon Willison shares a good way for us to think about LLMs, Eric Elliot creates a powerful pseudocode programming language for LLMs & I define and demystify the term “stochastic parrot”.
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See you later, humans! (JS Party #269)
Jerod & the gang catch you up on what’s new and poppin’ in the web development world. We go deep on GitHub Copilot X and the latest AI advancements, take a bathroom break while Nick talks about TypeScript 5 & continue the debate about the future of React.
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Cross-platform graphical user interfaces (Go Time #271)
We’re joined by the creators of Wails and Fyne to dig into writing Go code for different architectures and operating systems.
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A new path to full-time open source (Changelog Interviews #533)
After years of working for Google on the Go Team, Filippo Valsorda quit last year to experiment with more sustainable paths for open source maintainers. Good news, it worked! Filippo is now a full-time open source maintainer and he joins Jerod on this episode to tell everyone exactly how he’s making the equivalent to his total compensation package at Google in open source.
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- Lemonade Stand
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Explainable AI that is accessible for all humans (Practical AI #216)
We are seeing an explosion of AI apps that are (at their core) a thin UI on top of calls to OpenAI generative models. What risks are associated with this sort of approach to AI integration, and is explainability and accountability something that can be achieved in chat-based assistants?
Beth Rudden of Bast.ai has been thinking about this topic for some time and has developed an ontological approach to creating conversational AI. We hear more about that approach and related work in this episode.
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GitHub Copilot X, Chatbot UI, ChatGPT plugins, defining juice for software dev, Logto, Basaran & llama-cli (Changelog News #37)
GitHub announces Copilot X, Mckay Wrigley created an open source ChatGPT UI buit with Next.js, TypeScripe & Tailwind CSS, OpenAI is also launching a ChatGPT plugin initiative, Brad Woods writes about juice in software development, Logto is an open source alternative to Auth0, Basaran is an open source alternative to the OpenAI text completion API & llama-cli is a straightforward Go CLI interface for llama.cpp.
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Recreating Node.js from scratch (JS Party #268)
Node core committer Erick Wendel joins Jerod & KBall to talk us through how he created his own JS runtime using V8, Libuv & more. Along the way we learn from his learnings, wrap our heads around the differences between Node, Bun & Deno, and talk about creating awesome content for developers… whether they like it or not!
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- Holla! BeJS CONF Use code
JSPARTYTIMEfor 30% off - 🎥 Creating your own JavaScript Runtime using V8, Libuv and more
- ECMAScript 2023 Language Specification
- LibUV
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Develop a high-performance mindset (Brain Science #34)
In this episode Adam and Mireille discuss what it takes to develop a high performance mindset. Your mindset is the mental framework that influences your actions, your decisions, and your overall approach to life. Discover how to nurture a growth-oriented and positive mindset, fostering resilience, adaptability, and a commitment to self-improvement. This episode is a must-listen for anyone looking to optimize their mental framework and cultivate a growth-oriented mindset to achieve success in their personal and professional lives.
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Hacking with Go: Part 4 (Go Time #270)
Our “Hacking with Go” series continues! This time Natalie & Johnny are joined by Ivan Kwiatkowski & Juan Andrés Guerrero-Saade and the conversation is we’re focused around generics and AI.
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- Hacking with Go: Part 2
- Hacking with Go: Part 3
- GPT-4 announcement
- Felix former colleague of Ivan
- The JS left padding fiasco
- Rust crates
- Ivan’s reverse engineering tool
- JAGS’ colleague experience with the go decoder
- Ruby based offensive security framework
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Bringing Whisper and LLaMA to the masses (Changelog Interviews #532)
This week we’re talking with Georgi Gerganov about his work on Whisper.cpp and llama.cpp. Georgi first crossed our radar with whisper.cpp, his port of OpenAI’s Whisper model in C and C++. Whisper is a speech recognition model enabling audio transcription and translation. Something we’re paying close attention to here at Changelog, for obvious reasons. Between the invite and the show’s recording, he had a new hit project on his hands: llama.cpp. This is a port of Facebook’s LLaMA model in C and C++. Whisper.cpp made a splash, but llama.cpp is growing in GitHub stars faster than Stable Diffusion did, which was a rocket ship itself.
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- Introducing LLaMA: A foundational, 65-billion-parameter large language model
- facebookresearch/llama
- Ludacris Llama Llama Red Pajama Freestyle
- The Changelog #506: Stable Diffusion breaks the internet with Simon Willison
- Large language models are having their Stable Diffusion moment
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Self-hosting in 2023, no more Alpine Linux, type constraints in 65 lines of SQL, Initial V, Minimal Gallery, the legacy of Visual Basic, tracking fake GitHub stars & Mastodon's 10M (Changelog News #36)
Michal Warda on self-hosting in 2023, Martin Heinz will never use Alpine Linux again, Oliver Rice at Supabase creates type constraints in Postgres with just 65 lines of SQL, Aaron Patterson converted a BMW shifter into a Bluetooth keyboard that can control Vim, Piet Terheyden has been curating beautiful & functional websites daily since 2013, Ryan Lucas put together a history of Visual Basic, turns out it’s easy for an open source project to buy fake GitHub stars & Mastodon hit 10 million accounts.
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The future of React (JS Party #267)
Dan Abramov & Joe Savona from the React Team join Jerod & Nick for a wide-ranging discussion about React’s place in the frontend ecosystem. We cover everything from React competing with React, their responses to SPA fatigue and recent criticisms, to Server Components and the future of the framework.
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- React’s blog to get updates
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The bits of Go we avoid (and why) (Go Time #269)
The panel discuss the parts of Go they never use. Do they avoid them because of pain in the past? Were they overused? Did they always end up getting refactoring out? Is there a preferred alternative?
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- The Merovius - Dynamic variables
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AI search at You.com (Practical AI #215)
Neural search and chat-based search are all the rage right now. However, You.com has been innovating in these topics long before ChatGPT. In this episode, Bryan McCann from You.com shares insights related to our mental model of Large Language Model (LLM) interactions and practical tips related to integrating LLMs into production systems.
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Goodbye Atom. Hello Zed. (Changelog Interviews #531)
This week we’re talking with Nathan Sobo about his next big thing. Nathan is known for his work on the Atom editor while at GitHub. But his work wasn’t finished when he left, so…he started Zed, a high-performance multiplayer editor that’s engineered for performance. And today, Nathan talks us through all the details.
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- zed.dev
- Zed raises $10M for a code editor built for collaboration
- The Changelog #241: The Story of Atom with Nathan Sobo
- GitHub officially says farewell to Atom
- Founders Talk #7: Henk Rogers / The Tetris Company
- Prioritize enablers and blockers - linear.app
- Zed’s language support
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Dalai, InputOutput.dev, Wik, Rspack, Doodle, Marqo & iLLA (Changelog News #35)
Dalai is the simplest way to run LLaMA on your local machine, simple web tools that just work without annoying you, Wik is a tool to view wikipedia pages from your terminal, Rspack is a fast, Rust-based web bundler, Doodle is a pure Kotlin UI framework, Marqo is tensor search for humans & iLLA is an open source alternative to Retool.
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Creating magical software (Founders Talk #94)
This week Adam is joined by Jori Lallo, Co-founder of Linear, to talk about creating magical software and building high-quality software teams.
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Celebrating Eleventy 2.0 🎉 (JS Party #266)
Zach Leatherman returns to the show to discuss his progress over the last year since going full-time on Eleventy, including Eleventy 2.0, the release of WebC, and the state of static site generators.
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- is-land
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This will blow your docs off (Go Time #268)
In a world where most documentation sucks, large language models write better than humans, and people won’t be bothered to type full sentences with actual punctuation.
Two men… against all odds… join an award-worthy podcast… hosted by a coin-operated, singing code monkey (?)… to convince the developer world they’re doing it ALL wrong.
Grab your code-generator and heat up that cold cup of coffee on your desk. Because this episode of Go Time is about to blow your docs off!
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- a.k.a. “Doc, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels”
- a.k.a. “Doc-a Schoen”
- a.k.a. “Like Doc-work”
- a.k.a. “Pull Your Docs Up”
- a.k.a. “What’s Up, Docs?”
- a.k.a. “A Doc-work Orange”
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Chasing the 9s (Changelog Interviews #530)
This week Adam talks with Marcin Kurc about chasing the 9s. Marcin is the Co-founder and CEO of Nobl9 where they build tools for managing service level objectives, aka SLOs. We also talk about service level agreements (SLAs), service level indicators (SLIs), error budgets, and monitoring, and how it all comes together to help teams align on goals, improve customer satisfaction, manage risks, increase transparency, and of course, a favorite around here…continuous improvement. Kaizen! This is an awesome deep dive into the world of chasing those 9s, and how teams are levering SLOs to earn the trust of their customers as well showcase transparency.
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End-to-end cloud compute for AI/ML (Practical AI #214)
We’ve all experienced pain moving from local development, to testing, and then on to production. This cycle can be long and tedious, especially as AI models and datasets are integrated. Modal is trying to make this loop of development as seamless as possible for AI practitioners, and their platform is pretty incredible!
Erik from Modal joins us in this episode to help us understand how we can run or deploy machine learning models, massively parallel compute jobs, task queues, web apps, and much more, without our own infrastructure.
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New OpenAI APIs, self-hosting all the things, the Dart Frog project, curl's NuGet story & Hacker Stations (Changelog News #34)
Reorx lists awesome apps & tools using the new ChatGPT API, Ernie Smith ranks self-hosted app alternatives, Very Good Ventures brings Dart to the server, Daniel Stenberg tells curl’s NuGet story & Hacker Stations showcases tech workspace setups from all over the world.
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Tauri brings Rust to the JS Party (JS Party #265)
KBall and Nick interview one of the leaders of the Tauri project about this next generation app bundling toolkit: the security, size, and performance features that make it special (and dare we say, better than Electron?), and what’s coming next.
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Kaizen! Embracing change 🌟 (Ship It! #90)
This is our 9th Kaizen with Adam & Jerod. We start today’s conversation with the most important thing: embracing change. For Gerhard, this means putting Ship It on hold after this episode. It also means making more time to experiment, maybe try a few of those small bets that we recently talked about with Daniel. Kaizen will continue, we are thinking on the Changelog. Stick around to hear the rest.
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You’re just a devcontainer.json away (Changelog Interviews #529)
This week we’re joined by Brigit Murtaugh, Product Manager on the Visual Studio Code team at Microsoft, and we’re talking about Development Containers and the Dev Container spec. Ever since we talked with Cory Wilkerson about Coding in the cloud with Codespaces we’ve wanted to get the Changelog.com codebase setup with a dev environment in the cloud to more easily support contributions. After getting a drive-by contribution from Chris Eggert to add a Dev Container spec to our codebase, we got curious and reached out to Brigit and asked her to come on the show to give us all the details.
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- Dev containers templates and on GitHub
- Dev containers CLI
- PR #437 (from Chris Eggert): Add GitHub Codespaces support - https://containers.dev 👀
- Beginner’s Series to: Dev Containers
- The Changelog #459: Coding in the cloud with Codespaces with Cory Wilkerson
- The Changelog #277: The Story of Visual Studio Code
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Success (and failure) in prompting (Practical AI #213)
With the recent proliferation of generative AI models (from OpenAI, co:here, Anthropic, etc.), practitioners are racing to come up with best practices around prompting, grounding, and control of outputs.
Chris and Daniel take a deep dive into the kinds of behavior we are seeing with this latest wave of models (both good and bad) and what leads to that behavior. They also dig into some prompting and integration tips.
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Generative AI model behavior in the news:
- Microsoft’s AI chatbot is going off the rails
- A Conversation With Bing’s Chatbot Left Me Deeply Unsettled
- Sydney’s gaslighting
- ChatGPT political bias
- Stable Diffusion amplification of stereotypes
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- co:here prompt engineering guide
- Prompt engineering overview from Elvis Savaria
- 10 Amazing Resources For Prompt Engineering, ChatGPT, and GPT-3
- Image generation prompt engineering guides: see here and here
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Stack Overflow's architecture, Lobsters' killer libraries, Linux is ready for modern Macs, what to expect from your framework & GoatCounter web analytics (Changelog News #33)
Sahn Lam details Stack Overflow’s monolith/on-prem architecture, Hillel Wayne asks the Lobsters community for killer libraries, Linux 6.2 is ready to run on M1 Macs thanks to Asahi Linux, Johan Halse writes up what to expect from your web framework & Eli Bendersky on using GoatCounter for blog analytics.
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Into the Fediverse (Changelog Interviews #528)
This week Evan Prodromou is back to take us deeper into the Fediverse. As many of us reconsider our relationship with Twitter, Mastodon has been by-and-large the target of migration. They helped to popularize the idea of a federated universe of community-owned, decentralized, social networks. And, at the heart of it all is ActivityPub. ActivityPub is a decentralized social networking protocol published by the W3C. It is co-authored by Evan as well as; Christine Lemmer-Webber, Jessica Tallon, Erin Shepherd, and Amy Guy. Today, Evan shares the details behind this protocol and where the Fediverse might be heading.
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- PeerTube
- Twitter says it’s intentionally blocking apps like Tweetbot
- Changelog.social
- Mastodon Roadmap
- The Changelog #257 with Evan Prodromou
- Medium embraces Mastodon
- Cosocial
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Frontend Feud: CSS Podcast vs @keyframers (JS Party #264)
Una & Adam from The CSS Podcast defend their Frontend Feud title against challengers David & Shaw from the keyframers. Let’s get it on!
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Applied NLP solutions & AI education (Practical AI #212)
We’re super excited to welcome Jay Alammar to the show. Jay is a well-known AI educator, applied NLP practitioner at co:here, and author of the popular blog, “The Illustrated Transformer.” In this episode, he shares his ideas on creating applied NLP solutions, working with large language models, and creating educational resources for state-of-the-art AI.
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- Jay’s popular blog (with posts including “The Illustrated Transformer”)
- co:here
- Topically sandbox - topic modeling
- co:here’s prompt engineering guide
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Sidney Bing, Elk for Mastodon, writing an engineering strategy, what's next for core-js & cool tool lightning round (Changelog News #32)
Simon Willison rounds up the goings on around Microsoft’s new GPT-powered Bing search, The Vue/Vite team build a nimble web client for Mastodon, Will Larson writes about writing an engineering strategy, Denis Pushkarev seeks support to maintain core-js & I share a lightning round of cool tools I’ve found and used recently. ⚡️
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What it takes to scale engineering (Changelog Interviews #527)
This week we’re talking to Rachel Potvin, former VP of Engineering at GitHub about what it takes to scale engineering. Rachel says it’s a game-changer when engineering scales beyond 100 people. So we asked to her to share everything she has learned in her career of leading and scaling engineering.
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- Rachel’s 2016 paper on Google’s developer infrastructure
- Harvard Business Review on Psychological Safety
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Web development's lost decade (JS Party #263)
Amal sits down for a one-on-one with Alex Russell, Microsoft Partner on the Edge team, and former Web Standards Tech Lead for Chrome, whose recent post, The Market for Lemons, stirred up a BIG conversation in the web development community.
Have we really lost a decade in potential progress? What happened? Where do we go from here?
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- The Market for Lemons
- The case for frameworks - a rebuttal post by Laurie Voss
- A visual for session depth & frequency - a potential rubric for app architecture
- How Browsers Work
- How to build a Browser in Python
- Life of a Pixel
- WebPageTest
- The Mobile Performance Inequality Gap, 2021
- Alex’s Blog post on Performance Baseline’s
- Principal Agent Problem
- Alex’s talk on Progressive Enhancement @ Chrome Dev Summit
- React just released experimental support for web
- Chromium University
- Vincent Scheib - tweets lots of cool things
- Summertime Afternoon - a fun little WebGL app which sparks joy
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What's new in Go 1.20 (Go Time #267)
Our “what’s new in Go” correspondent Carl Johnson joins Mat & Johnny to discuss… what’s new in Go 1.20, of course! What’d you expect, an episode about Rust?! That’s preposterous…
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- GopherCon Europe 2023 CFP
- GopherCon UK 2023
- Shout AT: London Gophers
- Ron Evans on 2053: A Go Odyssey
- What’s New in Go 1.20, Part I: Language Changes
- What’s New in Go 1.20, Part II: Major Standard Library Changes
- What’s New in Go 1.20, Part III: Minor Standard Library Changes
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Rust efficiencies at AWS scale (Ship It! #89)
Tim McNamara is known as New Zealand’s Rust guy. He is the author of Rust in Action, and also a Senior Software Engineer at AWS, where he helps other builders with all things Rust.
The main reason why Gerhard is intrigued by Rust is the incredible resource frugality. Fewer CPUs means less energy used, which is good for the planet, and good for the monthly bill. This becomes most noticeable at Amazon’s scale, when S3, Lambda, CloudFront and other services start adding Rust components.
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- 📝 Why Discord is Switching from Go to Rust
- 🎬 Rust is interesting, but does it really make sense for me? - AWS re:Invent 2022 - Tim McNamara
- 📝 Optimizing 700 CPUs Away With Rust - Alan Ning, SRE at Tenable.io
- 📊 Lambda Cold Starts analysis by maxday
- 📝 Sustainability with Rust - AWS Open Source Blog
- 📝 How automated reasoning helps Amazon S3 innovate at scale - S3 ShardStore Rust
- Rust on AWS
- Rust Nation 2023
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Serverless GPUs (Practical AI #211)
We’ve been hearing about “serverless” CPUs for some time, but it’s taken a while to get to serverless GPUs. In this episode, Erik from Banana explains why its taken so long, and he helps us understand how these new workflows are unlocking state-of-the-art AI for application developers. Forget about servers, but don’t forget to listen to this one!
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Banana - Scale your machine learning inference and training on serverless GPUs.
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Load testing a $4 VPS, TOML for .env files, counting unique visitors sans cookies, the Arc browser & a love letter to Deno (Changelog News #31)
Alice Girard Guittard finds out how much she could you really get out of a $4 VPS, Brett Cannon wonders if using TOML for .env files is a good idea, Nic Mulvaney details how they count unique visitors to a website without using cookies, UIDS, or fingerprinting, after a few months, Chris Coyier is still using the Arc browser & Alex Kladov pens a love letter to Deno.
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Git with your friends (Changelog Interviews #526)
This week we invited our friend Mat Ryer to join us for some good conversation about some Git tooling that’s been on our radar. You may know Mat from Go Time and also Grafana’s Big Tent, which we help to produce. We speculate, we discuss, we laugh, and Mat even breaks into song a few times. It’s good fun.
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- Git Heat Map
- Git Sim
- git-bug
- GitUI
- Git Branchless
- Jerod’s pick - GitX
- Mat’s pick - ReviewPad
- How did Git get its name?
- MacStadium
- Beyond Code Season 1: Keep Ruby Weird 2014
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Generative AI for devs (JS Party #262)
The panel dives into the current hot topic that is Generative AI. They start by defining it (a surprisingly difficult topic), then go into experiences they’ve had, how to get started working with it as a developer, and where they think it will and will not be useful in the near future.
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- Chat GPT
- Dall-e-2
- Hugging Face
- GPTZero
- OpenAI API
- Houston (Astro docs AI)
- Someone is wrong on the internet
- Coded Bias
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Is htmx the way to Go? (Go Time #266)
A quick look at the history of building web apps, followed by a discussion of htmx and how it compares to both modern and traditional ways of building.
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- htmx.org
- htmx examples
- A book about building web apps with htmx
- The Grug Brained Developer
- Templating in Learn Go with Tests
- The first 18 HTML tags
- The 1995 HTML 2.0 spec for the FORM element
- The Ajax paper
- GopherCon talk mentioned by Dave
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MLOps is alive and well (Practical AI #210)
Worlds are colliding! This week we join forces with the hosts of the MLOps.Community podcast to discuss all things machine learning operations. We talk about how the recent explosion of foundation models and generative models is influencing the world of MLOps, and we discuss related tooling, workflows, perceptions, etc.
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OpenAI's new text classifier, teach yourself CS, programming philosophies are about state, you might not need Lodash & overrated scalability (Changelog News #30)
OpenAI’s working on an AI classifier trained to distinguish between AI-written and human-written text, Oz Nova and Myles Byrne created a guide to teach yourself computer science, Charles Genschwap recently realized that all the various programming philosophies can be boiled down into a simple statement about how to work with state, you probably don’t need Lodash or Underscore anymore & Waseem Daher thinks scalability is overrated.
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Qwik has just the right amount of magic (JS Party #261)
A deep dive into Qwik, how it makes your apps fast by default, and the carefully calibrated amount of “magic” that makes it uniquely powerful.
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How to ace that CFP (Go Time #265)
It’s “Call For Papers” (CFP) season in Go land, so we gathered some seriously experienced conference organizers to help YOUR submission be the best ever.
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- Anna-Katharina’s talk at GopherCon EU 2022
- GopherCon UK CFP
- GopherCon CFP
- GopherCon EU CFPCfp Gophercon europe https://www.papercall.io/gceu23
- The Inigo Montoya Story structure
- Bill Gates commencement speech
- Chips definition lawsuit
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Treat ideas like cattle, not pets (Ship It! #88)
In our ops & infra world, we learn to optimise for redundancy, for mean time to recovery and for graceful degradation. We instinctively recognise single points of failure, and try to mitigate the risks associated with them.
For some years now, Daniel Vassallo has been doing the same, but in the context of life & work. Daniel talks about the role of randomness, about learning from small wins & about optimising for a lifestyle that matches your true preferences. Apparently, ideas too should be treated like cattle, not pets.
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- Small Bets
- The Good Parts of AWS
- Only Intrinsic Motivation Lasts
- 🎧 Mastering the Lifestyle-First Approach
- 🎬 Building a Portfolio of Small Bets with Daniel Vassallo - The Bootstrapped Founder #166
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3D assets & simulation at NVIDIA (Practical AI #209)
What’s the current reality and practical implications of using 3D environments for simulation and synthetic data creation? In this episode, we cut right through the hype of the Metaverse, Multiverse, Omniverse, and all the “verses” to understand how 3D assets and tooling are actually helping AI developers develop industrial robots, autonomous vehicles, and more. Beau Perschall is at the center of these innovations in his work with NVIDIA, and there is no one better to help us explore the topic!
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- NVIDIA’s Omniverse
- Beau’s GTC 2023 session around how to build simulation-ready USD 3D assets
- Tech blog around Omniverse and SimReady assets
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Data tool belts, Build Your Own Redis, the giscus comments system, prompt engineering shouldn't exist & ALPACA (Changelog News #29)
Jeremia Kimelman takes stock of his “data tool belt”, Build Your Own Redis with C/C++ is ready to read, giscus is a comments system powered by GitHub Discussions, Matt Rickard says prompt engineering shouldn’t be a thing and won’t be a thing in the future & Kolja Lubitz’s ALPACA is engine for building adventure games and interactive comics.
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Mainframes are still a big thing (Changelog Interviews #524)
This week we’re talking about mainframes with Cameron Seay, Adjunct Professor at East Carolina University and a member of the Governing Board of the Open Mainframe Project. If you’ve been curious about mainframes, this show will be a great guide.
Cameron explains exactly what a mainframe is and how it’s different from the cloud. We talk COBOL and the state of education and opportunities around that language. We cover the state-of-the-art in mainframe land, System Z, Linux on mainframes, and more.
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Long-term code maintenance (Go Time #264)
Ole Bulbuk & Sandor Szücs join Natalie to discuss the ins & outs of long-term code maintenance. What does it take to maintain a codebase for a decade or more? How do you plan for that? What about inheriting a codebase for the long term? Oh, and (how) can AI help?
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- Ship of Theseus
- GoTime Episode with Ole on the Berlin transition to Go
- GoTime Episode with Bill Kennedy on TDD
- OS projects mentioned by Ssandor
- Omega
- BDD - Behaviour Driven Development
- OS projects mentioned by Ole Bulbuk
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Why we switched to serverless containers (Ship It! #87)
Last September, at the 🇨🇭 Swiss Cloud Native Day, Florian Forster, co-founder & CEO of ZITADEL, talked about why they switched to serverless containers. ZITADEL has a really interesting workload that is both CPU intensive and latency sensitive. On top of this, their users are global, and traffic is bursty. Florian talks about how they evaluated AWS, GCP & Azure before they settled on the platform that met their requirements.
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- 🔬 Self-host ZITADEL on Knative
- 🐙 github.com/zitadel/zitadel
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GPU dev environments that just work (Practical AI #208)
Creating and sharing reproducible development environments for AI experiments and production systems is a huge pain. You have all sorts of weird dependencies, and then you have to deal with GPUs and NVIDIA drivers on top of all that! brev.dev is attempting to mitigate this pain and create delightful GPU dev environments. Now that sounds practical!
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What's new in Astro 2 (JS Party #260)
Fred K. Schott joins the party again to discuss all the new and fun changes in Astro 2. Nick and KBall dig in on what’s new, what’s exciting, and what to expect from the framework built around content.
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- Astro
- Introducing Astro 2
- JS Party - Build faster websites with Astro 1.0
- Astro Islands
- React Server Components
- React
usehook - Content collections
- Upgrade to Astro v2
- Astro server-side rendering
- Astro migration guide
- Language Server Protocol
- Astro language tools
- Zod
- SolidJS
- Jotai
- TanStack Query
- State of JS 2022
- JS Party on the State of JS Survey
- Fred’s thread on the State of JS survey
- Vite
- Partytown
- Astro on OpenCollective
- Astro on StackBlitz
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Prioritizing tech debt, UI components to copy/paste, learnings from 20 years in software, git-sim & jqjq (Changelog News #28)
Max Countryman wrote up a framework for prioritizing tech debt, shadcn builds a copy/paste-able UI component library in public, Justin Etheredge shares 20 things he’s learned in his 20 years as a software engineer, Jacob Stopak’s git-sim lets you easily visualize git operations without affecting your repo & Mattias Wadman implemented jq in jq.
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Just Postgres (Changelog Interviews #523)
This week we’re talking about by Postgres with Craig Kerstiens, Chief Product Officer at Crunchy Data, and a well known ambassador for Postgres. Just Postgres. That’s what this week’s show is about.
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- Crunchy Data
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- The Changelog #510: Taking Postgres serverless with Nikita Shamgunov from Neon
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How do you define joy? (JS Party #259)
Jerod & the gang analyze the State of JS 2022 survey results, play a wicked game of HeadLIES & share some Pro Tips to help you live your best dev life.
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- The 2022 State of JS survey
- Amazon is now accepting your applications for its home surveillance drone
- ProseLint
- mason.nvim
- Store app state in the url
- Graphite
- Graphite on The Changelog
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Human scale deployments (Ship It! #86)
Lars is big on Elixir. Think apps that scale really well, tend to be monolithic, and have one of the most mature deployment models: self-contained releases & built-in hot code reloading. In episode 7, Gerhard talked to Lars about “Why Kubernetes”. There is a follow-up YouTube stream that showed how to automate deploys for an Elixir app using K3s & ArgoCD.
More than a year later, how does Lars think about running applications in production? What does simple & straightforward mean to him? Gerhard’s favourite: what is “human scale deployments”?
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- 🎬 k3s & ArgoCD with Elixir
- 📝 Deploying with K3s & ArgoCD
- 📝 Fundamentals & deployment
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Who owns our code? Part 2 (Go Time #263)
Tech lawyer Luis Villa returns to Go Time to school us once again on the intellectual property concerns of software creators in this crazy day we live in. This time around, we’re focusing on the implications of Large Language Models, code generation, and crazy stuff like that.
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- Who owns our code? Part 1
- Monkey selfie copyright dispute
- Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works
- OpenAi
- Luis Villa’s newsletter
- Big Code
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Machine learning at small organizations (Practical AI #207)
Why is ML is so poorly adopted in small organizations (hint: it’s not because they don’t have enough data)? In this episode, Kirsten Lum from Storytellers shares the patterns she has seen in small orgs that lead to a successful ML practice. We discuss how the job of a ML Engineer/Data Scientist is different in that environment and how end-to-end project management is key to adoption.
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Premium PCB cheat sheets, a disappearing AWS dev, HyperSwitch, Servo is back at it & Cloudflare Wildebeest (Changelog News #27)
WestArtFactory’s premium PCB cheat sheets, Maxime Topolov tells of a disappearing AWS dev, Juspay Technologies releases HyperSwitch for payment processing, Servo gets new funding for 2023 & Cloudflare’s open source Wildebeest.
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The principles of data-oriented programming (Changelog Interviews #522)
Jerod is joined by Yehonathan Sharvit, author of Data-Oriented Programming, to discuss the virtues of treating data as a first-class citizen in our applications and the four principles that make it possible.
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The rise & fall of JS frameworks (JS Party #258)
KBall and Chris dive into the current JavaScript trends towards smaller frameworks, compiled JavaScript, and why Chris believes “this time is different” with regards to developers caring about network speed and reducing JS sent over the wire.
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- Qwik is a new kind of web framework
- Chris’s resource list
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How Go helped save HealthCare.gov ♻️ (Go Time #262)
Paul Smith (from “Obama’s Trauma Team”) tells us the tale of how Go played a big role in the rescuing and rebuilding of the HealthCare.gov website. Along the way we learn what the original team did wrong, how the rescue team kept it afloat during huge traffic spikes, and what they’ve done since to rebuild it to serve the people’s needs.
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- Paul’s company Ad Hoc is hiring
- Obama’s Trauma Team
- Paul on MSNBC talking about the rescue
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The hard parts of platform engineering (Ship It! #85)
Marcos Nils has been into platform engineering for the best part of the last decade. He helped architect & build developer platforms using VMs & OpenStack, containers with Docker, and even Kubernetes. He did this at startups with 10 people, as well as large, publicly traded companies with 1000+ software engineers.
Today we talk with Marcos about the hard parts of platform engineering.
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ChatGPT goes prime time! (Practical AI #206)
Daniel and Chris do a deep dive into OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which is the first LLM to enjoy direct mass adoption by folks outside the AI world. They discuss how it works, its effect on the world, ramifications of its adoption, and what we may expect in the future as these types of models continue to evolve.
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A simpler alternative to deleted_at, rules of thumb for better software, faking it until you automate it, the only civilized way to read online & AI and the big five (Changelog News #26)
Brandur Leach’s easy, alternative soft deletion strategy, Lane Wagner’s zen of proverbs, Nicolas Carlo says fake it until you can automate it, Felix A. Crux thinks feeds are the only civilized way to read online & Ben Thompson analyzes AI and the big five tech companies.
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Don't sleep on Ruby & Rails (Changelog Interviews #521)
Welcome to 2023 — we’re kicking off the year talking to Justin Searls about the state of web development and why he just might write a “You Might Not Need React” post. He’s been so productive using Turbo and Stimulus (and tailwind) in Rails 7 that we had to talk about the state of Rails development today and a bunch of other fun topics around building for the web in 2023.
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- Shaking my head big time at The Changelog #509
- What excites you about Ruby on Rails in 2022?
- The Changelog #509
- Ship It #44
- Debugging Ruby with VS Code
Searls says:
For liner notes purposes, @hsbt and @ko1 have indeed both contributed to ruby.debug but it was clearly Koichi’s baby.
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New Year's Party 🪩 (JS Party #257)
It’s our 4th annual New Year’s party! Jerod & the gang review our (failed) resolutions from last year, discuss what’s trending in the web world, make a few predictions of our own & even set some new (probably failed) resolutions for this year.
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A special New Year's fireside chat (Go Time #261)
Mat and the gang ring in the new year by gathering around a make believe fireplace and discussing what they’re excited about in 2023, their new years resolutions & a little bit of Go talk, too. But only a little.
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Bare metal meets Talos Linux (the K8s OS) (Ship It! #84)
Welcome to 2023! A new year is the perfect time to start with a fresh perspective. Given a few bare metal hosts with fast, local storage, how would you run your workloads on them? Would you cluster them for redundancy? What operating system would you choose?
Steve Francis, CEO at Sidero Labs and Andrew Rynhard, CTO at Sidero Labs join us today to talk about running Talos Linux on bare metal.
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- 🎬 Hack Sesh: K8s@Home Edition - April, 2022
- 🎬 DevOps Toolkit - Talos: Linux Designed For Kubernetes - March, 2022
- 🎬 Sidero Metal Webinar - January, 2022
- 🎬 I am Installing Talos OS (Sidero) at Home - October, 2021
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NLP research by & for local communities (Practical AI #205)
While at EMNLP 2022, Daniel got a chance to sit down with an amazing group of researchers creating NLP technology that actually works for their local language communities. Just Zwennicker (Universiteit van Amsterdam) discusses his work on a machine translation system for Sranan Tongo, a creole language that is spoken in Suriname. Andiswa Bukula (SADiLaR), Rooweither Mabuya (SADiLaR), and Bonaventure Dossou (Lanfrica, Mila) discuss their work with Masakhane to strengthen and spur NLP research in African languages, for Africans, by Africans.
The group emphasized the need for more linguistically diverse NLP systems that work in scenarios of data scarcity, non-Latin scripts, rich morphology, etc. You don’t want to miss this one!
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- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
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EMNLP 2022 papers from the guests:
- Towards a general purpose machine translation system for Sranantongo
- MasakhaNER 2.0: Africa-centric Transfer Learning for Named Entity Recognition
- AfroLM: A Self-Active Learning-based Multilingual Pretrained Language Model for 23 African Languages
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Clipboard, unbundling tools for thought, microfeed, prepare to be productive & a look inside Matrix (Changelog News #25)
Jackson Huff’s clipboard powertool for the command line, Fernando Borretti thinks tools for thought should be unbundled, Listen Notes helps you run a microfeed on Cloudflare, Martin Rue says to be productive, be prepared & Paul Sawers takes TechCrunch readers inside Matrix and features its recent adoption wins.
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State of the "log" 2022 (Changelog Interviews #520)
Our 5th annual year-end wrap-up episode! Sit back, relax, pour a glass of your favorite beverage and join us for listener voice mails, our favorite episodes, some must-listens, and of course the top 5 most listened to episodes of the year. Thanks for listening! 💚
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Listener favs:
- Go Time #250: Mat’s GopherCon EU diary
- Ship It! #44: Fundamentals with Kelsey Hightower
- The Changelog #454: The return of Richard Hipp
- Backstage #18: Tenet with heavy spoilers
- Backstage #23: The Oban Pro with Parker Selbert
- The Changelog #464: This insane tech hiring market with Gergely Orosz
- The Changelog #516: This !insane tech hiring market with Gergely Orosz
- The Changelog #480: Git your reset on with Annie Sexton
- The Changelog #494: Lessons from 5 years of startup code audits with Ken Kantzer
Jerod’s favs:
- The Changelog #474: Complex systems & second-order effects with Paul Orlando
- The Changelog #477: Song Encoder: Forrest Brazeal
- The Changelog #506: Stable Diffusion breaks the internet with Simon Willison
Adam’s favs:
- The Changelog #486: Practical ways to solve hard problems with Frank Krueger
- The Changelog #502: Fireside chat with Jack Dorsey from the main stage at Square Unboxed 2022
Both our favs:
- The Changelog #513: The story of Heroku with Adam Wiggins
- The Changelog #484: Wisdom from 50+ years in software with Brian Kernighan
Adam’s must-listens:
- The Changelog #515: Advocating for and supporting open source at ATO ’22
- The Changelog #508: A guided tour through ID3 esoterica with Lars Wikman
- The Changelog #500: The legacy of CSS-Tricks with Chris Coyier
Jerod’s must-listens:
- Ship It! #62: Operational simplicity is a gift to you with Gary Bernhardt
- JS Party #244: The spicy React debate show 🌶️
- Go Time #256: gRPC & protocol buffers with Akshay Shah
Most popular episodes of 2022:
- ONE MORE thing every dev should know with Jessica Kerr
- Wisdom from 50+ years in software with Brian Kernighan
- Securing the open source supply chain with Feross from Socket
- Principles for hiring engineers with Jacob Kaplan-Moss
- Making the command line glamorous with Toby Padilla from Charm
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Your brain on burnout (Brain Science #33)
We’re back! This is from our “lost episodes” — This is your brain…and this is your brain on burnout, any questions? OK, but seriously, burnout effects everyone, even if they/you don’t admit it. Burnout is a state of physical, emotional, and mental exhaustion caused by prolonged stress. It can affect ANYONE, but it is especially common among high-performers who push themselves to the limit. In this episode, we dive into the latest research on burnout and its effects on the brain, as well as offer practical advice for preventing and managing burnout. If you’re heading into 2023 feeling overwhelmed and drained, this episode is for you.
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- Burnout and the Brain
- Alexandra Michel, MPH on Twitter
- Are you headed towards burnout?
- Simple Burnout Triage
- Brain Science #30: I’m just so stressed
- Recovering from burnout
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GPT has entered the chat (Changelog Interviews #519)
To wrap up the year we’re talking about what’s breaking the internet, again. Yes, we’re talking about ChatGPT and we’re joined by our good friend Shawn “swyx” Wang. Between his writings on L-Space Diaries and his AI notes repo on GitHub, we had a lot to cover around the world of AI and what might be coming in 2023.
Also, we have one more show coming out before the end of the year — our 5th annual “State of the log” episode where Adam and Jerod look back at the year and talk through their favorite episodes of the year and feature voices from the community. So, stay tuned for that next week.
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- AI Notes
- Why “Prompt Engineering” and “Generative AI” are overhyped
- Multiverse, not Metaverse
- The Particle/Wave Duality Theory of Knowledge
- OpenRAIL: Towards open and responsible AI licensing frameworks
- Open-ish from Luis Villa
- ChatGPT for Google
- The Myth of The Infrastructure Phase
ChatGPT examples in the wild
- Debugging code
- TypeScript answer is wrong
- Fix code and explain fix
- dynamic programming
- Translating/refactoring Wasplang DSL
- AWS IAM policies
- Code that combines multiple cloud services
- Solving a code problem
- Explain computer networks homework
- Rewriting code from elixir to PHP
- Turning ChatGPT into an interpreter for a custom language, and then generating code and executing it, and solving Advent of Code correctly
- Including getting #1 place
- “I haven’t done a single google search or consulted any external documentation to do it and I was able to progress faster than I have ever did before when learning a new thing.”
- Build holy grail website and followup with framework, copy, repsonsiveness
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Big news in Deno Land (JS Party #256)
Deno creator Ryan Dahl goes one-on-one with Jerod to discuss their new npm support, why he’s so excited about JavaScript containers, Deno Deploy’s present & future, what he thinks about alternative runtimes like Bun, WinterCG, how Wasm fits into the story & more!
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- Ryan on The Changelog #443
- Deno 1.28 announcement
- JavaScript ShadowRealms
- JavaScript Containers
- WinterCG
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Making Go more efficient (Go Time #260)
Mat invites Bartłomiej Płotka, Kemal Akkoyun & Christian Simon to discuss how to make Go code more efficient through modern observability practices.
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- Kemal Akkoyun – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Christian Simon – X
- Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
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- Bartek’s “Efficient Go” Book
- Vitess Benchmark
- Tools for Monitoring Applications Logs
- Prometheus library for Go
- Profiling Go Programs
- pprof tool (also available in
go tool pprof) - pkg.go.dev/net/http/pprof
- pkg.go.dev/runtime/pprof
- Building a Go Profiler using Go
- Liz Rice on eBPF
- Arena proposal
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🎄 Planning for failure to ship faster 🎁 (Ship It! #83)
Eight months ago, in 🎧 episode 49, Alex Sims (Solutions Architect & Senior Software Engineer at James & James) shared with us his ambition to help migrate a monolithic PHP app running on AWS EC2 to a more modern architecture. The idea was some serverless, some EKS, and many incremental improvements.
So how did all of this work out in practice? How did the improved system cope with the Black Friday peak, as well as all the following Christmas orders? Thank you Alex for sharing with us your Ship It! inspired Kaizen story. It’s a wonderful Christmas present! 🎄🎁
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SOTA machine translation at Unbabel (Practical AI #204)
José and Ricardo joined Daniel at EMNLP 2022 to discuss state-of-the-art machine translation, the WMT shared tasks, and quality estimation. Among other things, they talk about Unbabel’s innovations in quality estimation including COMET, a neural framework for training multilingual machine translation (MT) evaluation models.
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tRPC, a bug tracker embedded in git, awesome ChatGPT prompts, half-baked cloud dev envs & Whisper.cpp (Changelog News #24)
tRPC helps you move fast and break nothing, Michael Muré embeds a bug tracker in git, Fatih Kadir Akın curates some awesome ChatGPT prompts, Mike Nikles thinks dev environments in the cloud are a half-baked solution & Georgi Gerganov ports OpenAI’s Whisper model to a lightweight, portable C/C++ program.
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Coming home to GitHub (Changelog Interviews #518)
This week we’re joined by Christina Warren, Senior Developer Advocate at GitHub, and a true tech and pop culture connoisseur. From her days at Mashable covering the intersections of entertainment and technology, to Gizmodo, to Microsoft, and now her current role at GitHub we talk with Christina about her journey from journalist to developer, and the latest happenings coming out of GitHub Universe.
BTW, we’re planning to get Christina on Backstage in the new year to talk about Plex, MakeMKV, and all things that go into hosting your own media server. Drop a commment on this episode with a +1 if you want to see that happen.
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- Overtired
- Rocket
- Mona Sans & Hubot Sans
- The Changelog #493: What even is a DevRel?
- The Changelog #459: Coding in the cloud with Codespaces
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Learning CSS in 2023 (JS Party #255)
KBall interviews CSS instructor & YouTuber extraordinaire Kevin Powell in a wide ranging discussion about CSS and how to learn it - what to start with, what to ignore, and various topics in between.
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- Take the State of JS survey!
- Kevin Powell website
- Kevin’s Youtube Channel
- Flexbox Froggy
- Flexbox Zombies
- Grid Garden
- Grid Critters
- Designing Intrinsic Layouts
- CSS Stats
- MJML (for emails)
- Utopia.fyi
- CSS-Tricks
- Smashing Magazine
- Josh Comeau
- ModernCSS
- SmolCSS
- I am not a fan of what React has done to the web, but it’s VERY nice
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Hacking with Go: Part 3 (Go Time #259)
Ivan Kwiatkowski joins Natalie once again for a follow-up episode to Hacking with Go: Part 2. This time we’ll get Ivan’s perspective on the way Go’s security features are designed and used, from the user/hacker perspective. And of course we will also talk about how AI fits into all this…
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- Hacking with Go: Part 1
- Hacking with Go: Part 2
- Pascal (programming language)
- Hacking tool: IDA Pro
- Hacking tool: Ghidra
- Stowaway – Multi-hop Proxy Tool for pentesters
- Ivan’s video on reversing a Go malware
- “Stylometry” - recognizing author by code style, talk from the CCC 2014
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Red Hat's approach to SRE (Ship It! #82)
Narayanan Raghavan leads the global SRE organization that runs Red Hat managed cloud services including OpenShift Dedicated, Azure Red Hat Openshift, Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS, and Red Hat OpenShift Data Science among others across the three major cloud providers: AWS, GCP & Azure. We start with a high-level discussion about DevOps, SRE & platform engineering, and then we dig into SRE specifics, including what it takes to safely roll out updates across many tens of thousands of OpenShift clusters.
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- 💡 Red Hat’s approach to site reliability engineering (SRE)
- 🎬 Kubernetes vs. OpenShift
- 🎬 Hands-on demo of Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated
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AI competitions & cloud resources (Practical AI #203)
In this special episode, we interview some of the sponsors and teams from a recent case competition organized by Purdue University, Microsoft, INFORMS, and SIL International. 170+ teams from across the US and Canada participated in the competition, which challenged students to create AI-driven systems to caption images in three languages (Thai, Kyrgyz, and Hausa).
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- Purdue University’s Krannert School of Business
- Master the basics of Azure: AI Fundamentals
- Azure Architecture Center
- SIL International
- The bloom-captioning dataset
Books
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Building a VM inside ChatGPT, Advent of Code 2022, webdev Liam Neeson, Fedifinder & BDougie (Changelog News #23)
Jonas Degrave builds a virtual machine inside ChatGPT, Advent of Code 2022 is in full swing, Mat Ryer impersonates Liam Neeson as web developer, Luca Hammer’s Fedifinder project helps you join the Fediverse & we chat with Brian (BDougie) Douglas about Open Sauced at All Things Open 2022.
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ANTHOLOGY - Wasm, efficient code review & the industrial metaverse (Changelog Interviews #517)
This week we’re back at All Things Open 2022 covering the hallway track. Up first is Shivay Lamba and he’s schooling us on all things server-side WASM. It’s the new hotness. After that, we talk with Yishai Beeri, CTO of LinearB about the world of code review, PR queues, AI developers, and making human developers more efficient, and happier. And last, we talk with Guy Martin from NVIDIA about what’s going on in the Industrial Metaverse. He shares details about an open source project developed by Pixar called Universal Scene Description (USD) and what they’re doing with NVIDIA Omniverse.
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- Guy Martin – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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Project Fugu 🐡 (JS Party #254)
Thomas Steiner (Web Developer Advocate at Google) joins Amal & Nick to talk about Project Fugu – an effort to close gaps in the web’s capabilities enabling new classes of applications to run on the web.
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- Web Capabilities (Project Fugu :blowfish:)
- New capabilities status - Chrome Developers
- Fugu API Tracker
- Web Incubator Community Group (WICG)
- Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG)
- World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
- Getting started with Chrome’s origin trials - Chrome Developers
- Chrome Origin Trials
- Firefox Origin Trials
- Fugu API Tracker
- Fugu App Showcase
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To TDD or not to TDD (Go Time #258)
That is the question. Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous test coverage, or to take arms against a sea of bugs…
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- Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
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- The tweet that started it all
- 📘 Learn Go with Tests
- The Test Pyramid
- Internet Protocol Suite
- 🐘 techhub.social
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Let's deploy straight to production! (Ship It! #81)
In today’s episode, we have the pleasure of two guests: Whitney Lee, Staff Technical Advocate at VMware, the one behind the ⚡️ Enlightning episodes, and Mauricio Salatino, which you already know from 🎧 shipit.show/41 on Continuous Delivery for Kubernetes.
The two of them gave the most amazing KubeCon NA Keynote last month: What a RUSH! Let’s Deploy Straight to Production!
So how do we create an Internal Development Platform that enables anyone on the team to deploy straight to production with the confidence that everything will just work?
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- Whitney Lee – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
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- 🎬 What a RUSH! Let’s Deploy Straight to Production! + 🗺 SLIDES + 🐙 CODE - KubeCon NA 2022 Keynote
- ⚡️ Enlightning - learn cloud concepts with Whitney & her lightboard - every Tuesday at 11am ET
- 📃 Building platforms on top of Kubernetes: vcluster and Crossplane - Mauricio Salatino - August 2022
- 📖 Continuous Delivery for Kubernetes
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Copilot lawsuits & Galactica "science" (Practical AI #202)
There are some big AI-related controversies swirling, and it’s time we talk about them. A lawsuit has been filed against GitHub, Microsoft, and OpenAI related to Copilot code suggestions, and many people have been disturbed by the output of Meta AI’s Galactica model. Does Copilot violate open source licenses? Does Galactica output dangerous science-related content? In this episode, we dive into the controversies and risks, and we discuss the benefits of these technologies.
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Related to Copilot:
Related to Galactica:
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Free Heroku EOL, Stable Diffusion 2.0, Twitter SRE explains why it stays up, Git Notes & Joel Lord (Changelog News #22)
Heroku’s free plans officially reach EOL, Swyx explains the mixed reaction to Stable Diffusion 2.0, a real Twitter SRE explains how it continues to stay up even with ~80% gone, Tyler Cipriani tells us about one of Git’s coolest, most unloved features & we chat with Joel Lord about brewing beer with IoT & JavaSCript at All Things Open 2022.
Oh, and help make this year’s state of the “log” episode awesome by lending your voice!
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This !insane tech hiring market (Changelog Interviews #516)
This week we’re back talking to Gergely Orosz — this time not quite about the insane tech hiring market, but more so the flip side, the 180, the not so good tech hiring market, the layoff market and what you can expect. There’s a lot of FUD out there, so hopefully this show gives you a lens into what’s really going on, and what to really expect. Maybe more so, how to keep your job or find a new job. We come to this topic with great compassion and great understanding, so please…there is a community here for you. There’s a lot of people in our Slack. Call it your home, it’s free to join and everyone is welcome.
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- The Changelog #464: This insane tech hiring market
- PragmaticEngineer.com
- Wired.com: Despite Big Layoffs, Tech Workers Are Still in Demand
- Layoffs.fyi
- Adyen
- Fast.co
- Which one of these will be the biggest “unicorn” failure ever?
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All about Playwright (JS Party #253)
Debbie O’Brien –Senior Program Manager at Microsoft– joins Amal & Nick for a deep-dive on Playwright, an automation library for cross-browser end-to-end testing. Along the way, we learn why Microsoft decided to fork Puppeteer, Playwright’s unique value proposition, cool features like auto-waiting & the trace viewer, how it compares to Cypress & a lot more.
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- Sentry – Working code means happy customers. That’s exactly why teams choose Sentry. From error tracking to performance monitoring, Sentry helps teams see what actually matters, resolve problems quicker, and learn continuously about their applications - from the frontend to the backend. Use the code
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- Mallorca
- playwright.dev
- Playwright on GitHub
- Nuxt
- puppeteer
- Selenium
- Playwright test for VSCode
- Getting started - VS Code
- Testing Library
- Playwright on YouTube
- What’s new in Playwright 1.27
- Test Generator
- CI GitHub Actions
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How Pinterest delivers software at scale (Go Time #257)
Nishant Roy, Engineering Manager at Pinterest Ads, joins Johnny & Jon to detail how they’ve managed to continue shipping quality software from startup through hypergrowth all the way to IPO. Prepare to learn a lot about Pinterest’s integration and deployment pipeline, observability stack, Go-based services and more.
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Kaizen! 24 improvements & a lot more (Ship It! #80)
For our last 2022 Kaizen episode, we went all out:
- 💪 @jerod outdid himself in the number of improvements shipped between Kaizens
- 🕺 A few of our listeners contributed → prompted us to create a new contributing guide
- 🗺 We now have a new infrastructure diagram
All of this, and a whole lot more, is captured as GitHub discussion 🐙 changelog.com#433. If you want to see everything that we improved, that is a great companion to this episode.
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All episode notes are in GitHub discussion changelog.com#433. Feel free to add your thoughts / questions!
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Kindle as a smart device, Changelog on Mastodon, GPT-3 up in your CLI, no arch better than bad arch & Mish Manners (Changelog News #21)
Matt Healy says your next smart device is a $30 Kindle, Changelog sets up an instance as Mastodon takes off, Anurag Bhagsain puts OpenAI’s GPT-3 in your CLI, Kirill Rogovoy argues that no architecture is better than bad architecture & we talk to Mish Manners at All Things Open 2022.
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ANTHOLOGY — Advocating for and supporting open source (Changelog Interviews #515)
This week we’re taking you to the hallway track of All Things Open 2022 in Raleigh, NC. Let’s set the stage, here’s what we like do when we go to conferences — we setup our podcast studio at our booth where all the other vendors are and we talk to everyone we can. We give out t-shirts, stickers, pins, high fives…and it’s a blast.
Today’s anthology episode from ATO features: Arun Gupta (VP and GM of Open Ecosystem Initiatives at Intel), long-time friend Chad Whitacre (Head of Open Source at Sentry), and Ricardo Sueiras (Principal Advocate in Open Source at AWS).
The common denominator for each of these conversations is advocating for and supporting open source. Special thanks to Todd Lewis and team for inviting us to come back to ATO. We enjoyed meeting long time fans and new ones too.
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Chad Whitacre
- The Changelog #87: Sustaining Open Source and Building an Open Company
- The Changelog #123: Gittip and Open Companies
Ricardo Sueiras
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Gremlins in the water (JS Party #252)
KBall and Boneskull dive deep with Paloma Oliveira on the cultural and social consequences of open source software, explore her background in arts and government-supported open source, and discuss practical approaches to change the culture of open source towards more sustainability.
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Developer Experience Infrastructure (DXI) (Ship It! #79)
In your company, who designs the end-to-end developer experience? From design to implementation, what is the developer experience that you actually ship? Even though the average developer wastes almost half of their working hours because of bad DX, many of us don’t even know what that means, or how to improve it.
Kenneth Auchenberg is working at Stripe, building economic infrastructure for the internet. Gerhard found his perspective on Developer Experience Infrastructure (DXI) refreshingly simple, as well as very useful.
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- The tweet that started this episode
- 📝 Developer Experience Infrastructure (DXI)
- The Radiating Circles of DX Architecture - How to design an end to end developer journey - Shawn “swyx” Wang
Developer Experience is the new hot thing, and we now see many existing teams re-labeled as Dev Experience. What does DX really mean, and what is the relationship between developer relations, advocacy, DX, and product teams?
@auchenberg Twitter 🧵
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gRPC & protocol buffers (Go Time #256)
On a previous episode of Go Time we discussed binary bloat, and how the Go protocol buffer implementation is a big offender. In this episode we dive into the history of protocol buffers and gRPC, then we discuss how the protocol and the implementation can vary and lead to things like binary bloat.
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- Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
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- Where Akshay works
- Buf’s gRPC implementation
- bufbuild/connect-go
- bufbuild/connect-web
- Google’s Protocol Buffers overview
- gRPC docs
- Google’s grpc-go
- gRPC benchmarks
- gRPC spec
- hand-write a gRPC handler in 7m
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Protecting us with the Database of Evil (Practical AI #201)
Online platforms and their users are susceptible to a barrage of threats – from disinformation to extremism to terror. Daniel and Chris chat with Matar Haller, VP of Data at ActiveFence, a leader in identifying online harm – is using a combination of AI technology and leading subject matter experts to provide Trust & Safety teams with precise, real-time data, in-depth intelligence, and automated tools to protect users and ensure safe online experiences.
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- Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
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Tracking layoffs, tech worker demand still high, ntfy, devenv, Markdoc & Mike Bifulco (Changelog News #20)
Roger Lee has been tracking all tech layoffs since COVID-19, Amanda Hoover says tech worker demand is still high, ntfy helps you send push notifications for free, devenv lets you share development environments without containers, Markdoc scales from personal blogs to massive documentation sites & we talk with Mike Bifulco at All Things Open 2022.
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Beyond Heroku to Muse (Changelog Interviews #514)
This week we’re back for part 2 with Adam Wiggins — going beyond Heroku and the story of Muse (listen to part 1). After a six-year adrenaline high on Heroku, Adam needed time to recover and refill the creative well. So, he moved to Berlin, did some gig work with companies…dabbled in investing and advising. But he wasn’t satisfied. Adam likes to build things.
Ultimately, he was just waiting for the right time to reconnect with James Lindenbaum and Orion Henry — the same fellas he created Heroku with. Eventually they founded Ink & Switch, an independent research lab which led to innovations that made Muse possible. Muse is a tool for deep work and thinking on iPad and Mac. Today’s show is all about that journey and the details in-between.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- (Part 1) The Changelog #513: The story of Heroku with Adam Wiggins
- My journey into the Berlin startup scene
- Making computers better
- Museapp.com
- Ink & Switch
- Adam’s Heroku values.md
- Muse principles
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A very !important lesson (JS Party #251)
Estelle Weyl has been building the web since 1999 and documenting it since 2007. Today she joins Amal for a loooong and deeeep conversation about new and !important features of CSS & HTML. Sit down, strap in, and prepare to be schooled!
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- Estelle’s CSS slides
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- MDN: Cascade
- MDN: Cascade Layers
- MDN: Specificity
- MDN: important
- Merry-Go-Round
- Specificity with Fish
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Debugging Go (Go Time #255)
Natalie & Ian welcome Liran Haimovitch & Tiago Queiroz to the show for a discussion focused on debugging Go programs. They cover good & bad debugging practices, the difficulty of debugging in the cloud, the value of errors logs & metrics, the practice of debugging in production (or not) & much more!
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- Ian Lopshire – GitHub, X
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The system that runs Norway's welfare payments 🇳🇴 (Ship It! #78)
In today’s episode we have the pleasure of Audun Fauchald Strand, Principal Software Engineer at NAV.no, Norway’s Labour & Welfare Administration. We will be talking about NAIS.io, the application platform that runs on-prem, as well as on the public cloud.
Imagine hundreds of developers shipping on an average day 300 changes into a system which processes $100,000,000 worth of transactions on a quiet week. If you think this is hard, consider the context: a government institution which must comply with all laws & regulations.
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- NAIS.io - Application platform and DevEx toolbox for teams digitalizing NAV.no
- 🗂 docs.nais.io - references, step-by-step guides & some good YAML
- 📊 NAV.no deployment stats, 2009 - 2022
- 🗺 NAV Teknisk retning (technical direction)
- Being NAIS at a distance - How we work in a hybrid world
- Do we need an internal technology platform? - The case for platforms at NAV
- Changing Service Mesh - How we swapped Istio with Linkerd with hardly any downtime
- NAIS @ GitHub
- 📃 How to Optimize for Fast Flow Using Alignment and Autonomy
- 🐦 Do you know what’s cool? Keeping your #kubernetes clusters secure.
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Hybrid computing with quantum processors (Practical AI #200)
It’s been a while since we’ve touched on quantum computing. It’s time for an update! This week we talk with Yonatan from Quantum Machines about real progress being made in the practical construction of hybrid computing centers with a mix of classical processors, GPUs, and quantum processors. Quantum Machines is building both hardware and software to help control, program, and integrate quantum processors within a hybrid computing environment.
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- Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
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Useful Vim commands, bad first ideas, PETS config manager, Kaizen shirts for sale & infinite canvas tools (Changelog News #19)
Colin Bartlett’s 50 useful Vim commands, Jeremey Utley on why your first ideas aren’t always the best, Emanuele Rocca’s pets configuration management project, our Kaizen shirts are now on sale & Arun Venkatesen makes a microsite for infinite canvas tools.
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The story of Heroku (Changelog Interviews #513)
This week on The Changelog we’re joined by Adam Wiggins, co-founder and former CTO of Heroku, for an exclusive trip down Heroku memory lane. Adam and Jerod are both tremendous fans of Heroku and believe (to this day) they represent the apex in developer experience for delivering code to production.
We talk through the beginnings of Heroku, the v1 most people have forgotten about, the era of web hosting back in 2008-2010, the serendipity of Silicon Vally in those days, pitching to Y Combinator, the makings of git push heroku, the Heroku style and name, the sale of Heroku to Salesforce, potential regrets — and we tee up part 2 coming next week with Adam going beyond Heroku and the story of Muse.
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- Heroku.com
- Heroku Lifts Ruby on Rails Development into the Cloud
- Post-exit: What on earth is Heroku co-founder Adam Wiggins doing in Europe? (spoiler: not vacationing)
- My journey into the Berlin startup scene
- Heroku on Crunchbase
- Adam Wiggins’ Heroku values
- End of a chapter: My Heroku departure message
- Making computers better
- The Twelve-factor App
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Making sense of production (JS Party #250)
Maggie Johnson-Pint from Stanza sits down with Amal & Divya for a deep-dive in to the production side of the development world. If you’re at all curious (and/or intimidated) by terms like Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Service Level Objective (SLO), OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, and the like… this episode’s for you!
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- Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
- Divya – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
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- Stanza
- OpenTelemetry
- 📘 Site Reliability Engineering
- 📘 The Site Reliability Workbook
- web components has egg on its face because the zeitgeist
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Go in medicine & biology (Go Time #254)
Today we’re talking about uses for Go in the medical industry. Tim Stiles develops and maintains a Go package for synthetic biology and molecular biology called Poly. It has broad applications for biotech R&D, but also has very direct applications to medicine.
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- Poly on GitHub
- The algorithm of the professor used by 23and me and others
- Central Dogma of DNA of biology
- The Three-Body Problem
- AlphaFold
- Gitpod
- Foldit
- Go library for Huggingface
- SurrealDB
- Booth’s Least Rotation Go Implementation and wiki
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Seven shipping principles (Ship It! #77)
15 years ago, Gerhard discovered magic in the form of Ruby on Rails. It was intuitive and it just worked. That is the context in which Gerhard fell in love with infrastructure and operations.
Today, for special episode 77, we start at Seven Shipping Principles, and, in the true spirit of Ship It, we’ll see what happens next.
Our guest is David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Ruby on Rails, co-founder of Basecamp & HEY, and a lot more - check out dhh.dk.
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- 📝 Seven Shipping Principles
- 📝 Why we’re leaving the cloud
- DHH @ Le Mans 2022
- Basecamp Next’s caching hardware - Jan. 2012 - 864GB of RAM - $12k in 2012
- Gerhard’s favourite signals from the new 37signals.com
- Email’s new heyday
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The practicalities of releasing models (Practical AI #199)
Recently Chris and Daniel briefly discussed the Open RAIL-M licensing and model releases on Hugging Face. In this episode, Daniel follows up on this topic based on some recent practical experience. Also included is a discussion about graph neural networks, message passing, and tweaking synthesized voices!
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- Graph Neural Network courses from Zak Jost
- Coqui voice studio
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Linux mythbusting & retro gaming (Changelog Interviews #512)
This week we’re doing some Linux mythbusting and talking retro gaming with Jay LaCroix from Learn Linux TV. This is a preview of what’s to come from our trip to All Things Open next week. By the way, make sure you come and check us out at booth 60. We’ll be recording podcasts, shaking hands, giving out t-shirts and stickers…and speaking of gaming, you can go head-to-head with us on Mario Kart or Rocket League on the Nintendo Switch. We’re giving that Switch away to a lucky winner at the conference, but you have to play to win. If you’re there, make sure you come see us because we want to see you.
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Tiny CSS Projects (JS Party #249)
Nick & Amelia welcome the co-authors of Tiny CSS Projects to discuss their awesome new (and still in-progress) Manning book all about CSS!
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- Michael Gearon –
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- Amelia Wattenberger – Website, GitHub, X
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- Join the JS Party community to win a free ebook!
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Spooky stories to scare devs 👻 (Go Time #253)
Mat Ryer gathers a gang of ghouls and ghosts to tell spooky developer stories! Join us to hear tales of Mat’s $1k nightmare, Dee’s infinite loop of horror, Natalie’s haunted time as a junior dev & many, many more.
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- Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Kris Brandow – GitHub, X
- Natalie Pistunovich – GitHub, X
- Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
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Container base images with glibc & musl (Ship It! #76)
In today’s episode, we talk about distroless, ko, apko, melange, musl and glibc. The context is Wolfi OS, a community Linux OS designed for the container and cloud-native era. If you are looking for the lightest possible container base image with 0 CVEs and both glibc and musl support, Wolfi OS & the related chainguard-images are worth checking out.
Ariadne Conill is an Alpine Linux TSC member & Software Engineer at Chainguard.
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- Ariadne’s Twitter thread that kick-started this episode
- Wolfi OS - a stripped-down distro designed for the cloud-native era
- Minimal Container images from Chainguard
- ko - build and deploy Go applications on Kubernetes
- apko Overview - build OCI images using APK directly
- melange - build APKs from source code
- musl libc
- glibc - GNU C library
- “We discovered a bug in our repository management service”
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AI adoption in large, well-established companies (Practical AI #198)
This panel discussion was recorded at a recent event hosted by a company, Aryballe, that we previously featured on the podcast (#120). We got a chance to discuss the AI-driven technology transforming the order/fragrance industries, and we went down the rabbit hole discussing how this technology is being adopted at large, well-established companies.
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Sonic search, building software like an SRE, leaving the cloud, an HTTP crash course & breaking up with CSS-in-JS (Changelog News #18)
Valerian Saliou’s Sonic search backend, Brandon Willett on how to build software like an SRE, DHH on why they’re leaving the cloud, Amos’ HTTP crash course nobody asked for & Sam Magura tells why he and the Spot team are breaking up with CSS-in-JS.
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The terminal as a platform (Changelog Interviews #511)
This week we’re talking with Will McGugan about using the terminal to not just build software, but also to deliver software. Will is a few months into his journey of building Textualize, a company he started around his open source projects Textual and Rich. When combined Textual and Rich give you a Python framework to build beautiful full-featured TUIs for the Terminal. We talk with Will about his big idea of the terminal as a platform, how he got here from first principles, what it takes to build Textual apps and whether or not they can replace not so good web admins, building, launching, and distributing Textual apps, why Python was his choiice of language, the big picture and business model behind Textualize, and why he’s building this as open source and in public.
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- Textualize.io
- Textualize is Hiring!
- Textualize/textual
- Projects using Textual
- Textualize/rich
- Projects using Rich
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Fake legs till you make legs (JS Party #248)
What do Story of the Week, HeadLIES & Pro Tip Time have in common? They’re all games we play on this seriously ridiculous episode of JS Party!
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- Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
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Story of the Week
- The Future of the Web is on the Edge
- Brave blocking annoying and privacy-harming cookie consent banners
- Linear’s website temporarily replaced with a Figma file
HeadLIES
- Apple’s Mixed Reality Headset to Offer Iris Scanning for Payments, Logging In
- The US department of Veteran Affairs postpones rollout of electronic health record systems, developed by Oracle under a $50B contact, until 2030
- Heroku reverses course, plans to reintroduce free plans after facing community backlash
- Decentraland’s reported to have only has 38 Daily Active Users in their $1.3B Ecosystem
- Meta Avatar Legs Demo ‘Created By Motion Capture’, Not Live VR
Pro Tip Time
- Nick: How I use git worktrees
- Jerod: Get a Pi-hole!
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Who owns our code? (Go Time #252)
In this episode, we’re joined by tech Lawyer Luis Villa to explore the question, who owns code? The company, the engineer, the team? What about when you’re using AI, Machine learning, GitHub Copilot… is that still your code?
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- Natalie Pistunovich – GitHub, X
- Kris Brandow – GitHub, X
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- Tidelift
- Luis’s new newsletter!
- NYTimes review of Dennis Duncan’s “Index, A History of the”
- The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works
- Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc.
- Why Andy Warhol’s ‘Prince Series,’ the Subject of a Long-Term Copyright Dispute, Should Be Considered Fair Use After All
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How vex.dev runs on AWS, Fly.io & GCP (Ship It! #75)
Few genuinely need a multi-cloud setup. There is plenty of advice out there which mostly boils down to don’t do it, you will be worse off. Vex.dev is a startup that provides APIs for video and audio streaming. The hard part is real-time combined with massive scale - think hundreds of thousands of concurrent connections. They achieve this by using a combination of Fly.io, AWS and GCP. Jason Carter, founder of Vex Communications, is joining us today to talk about the multi-cloud setup that vex.dev runs.
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- vex.dev - Stream your meeting, or your moon landing 💥 Demo
- WebRTC
- HLS - HTTP Live Streaming
- Typescript SDK for working with the Vex API
- 🎬 When to Choose Rust for Your Cloud Native App - Tim McNamara - #swisscnd 2022
- Postgres WASM
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Should we get down with OP3? (Backstage #25)
The Open Podcast Prefix Project is a free and open source podcast prefix analytics service committed to open data and listener privacy. This hits close to home for us in a couple ways, so we invited the project’s creator, John Spurlock, Backstage to learn more about it.
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Data for All (Practical AI #197)
People are starting to wake up to the fact that they have control and ownership over their data, and governments are moving quickly to legislate these rights. John K. Thompson has written a new book on the topic that is a must read! We talk about the new book in this episode along with how practitioners should be thinking about data exchanges, privacy, trust, and synthetic data.
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- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
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Books
- “Data for All” by John K. Thompson
- John’s other books:
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Harmonai revisited, lessons learned from public salary, Open Core Ventures, Stripe is Paypal in 2010 & Helix (Changelog News #17)
We revisit our Harmonai story from last week, Jamie Tanna reviews posting his salary history publicly, Sid Sijbrandij’s new (open core) venture fund, Zed Shaw thinks Stripe is like Paypal in 2010 & Helix is a new Rust-based terminal.
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Docusaurus 2 is a pretty big deal (JS Party #247)
Docusaurus maintainer Sébastien Lorber joins Jerod & Amal for a deep-dive on everybody’s favorite documentation generator. It’s back with a big 2.0 release, boasts some big users, and has a big set of new features such as document versioning, a plugin architecture, and more.
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Taking Postgres serverless (Changelog Interviews #510)
This week we’re talking about serverless Postgres! We’re joined by Nikita Shamgunov, co-founder and CEO of Neon. With Neon, truly serverless PostgreSQL is finally here. Neon isn’t Postgres compatible…it actually is Postgres! Neon is also open source under the Apache License 2.0.
We talk about what a cloud native serverless Postgres looks like, why developers want Postgres and why of the top 5 databases only Postgres is growing (according to DB-Engines Ranking), we talk about how they separated storage and compute to offer autoscaling, branching, and bottomless storage, we also talk about their focus on DX — where they’re getting it right and where they need to improve. Neon is invite only as of the recording and release of this episode, but near the end of the show Nikita shares a few ways to get an invite and early access.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- neon.tech
- Neon doubles funding to $54M
- DB-Engines Ranking
- datafold.com
- The Changelog #476: Supabase is all in on Postgres
- The Changelog #461: Fauna is rethinking the database
- Practical AI #94: Operationalizing ML/AI with MemSQL
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Hacking with Go: Part 2 (Go Time #251)
We’re once again exploring hacking in Go from the eyes of security researchers. This time, Natalie & Ian are joined by Ivan Kwiatkowski (a.k.a. Justice Rage)!
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- 🎧 Hacking with Go: Part 1
- Reversing in action: Golang malware used in the SolarWinds attack
- Stowaway
- Brute Ratel
- Reverse Engineering for Beginners
- Practical Malware Analysis
- Turing Complete on Steam
- The Zachtronics Puzzle Pack on Steam
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Vorsprung durch Technik (Ship It! #74)
I don’t think that you can imagine just how excited Gerhard was to find out that Audi, his favourite car company, has a Kubernetes competence centre. We have Sebastian Kister joining us today to tell us why people, followed by tech make the process.
The right thing to focus on is the genuine smiles that people give in response to something we do or say. That is an important SLI & SLO for reducing friction between silos.
How does this impact the flow of artefacts into production systems that design & build cars?
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- 🎬 Container Days - September 2022: A culture beyond SLA and T&C - Sebastian Kister, Audi
- 📄 How Audi provides developer self-service - April 2022
- 🎬 NGINX Sprint 2.0 - Nov. 2021: Audi Harnesses the Full Potential of Kubernetes with NGINX App Protect
- Celebrating 50 years of “Vorsprung durch Technik”
- Audi Digitalization
- 🚙 Audi Films: An Avant Story
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What's up, DocQuery? (Practical AI #196)
Chris sits down with Ankur Goyal to talk about DocQuery, Impira’s new open source ML model. DocQuery lets you ask questions about semi-structured data (like invoices) and unstructured documents (like contracts) using Large Language Models (LLMs). Ankur illustrates many of the ways DocQuery can help people tame documents, and references Chris’s real life tasks as a non-profit director to demonstrate that DocQuery is indeed practical AI.
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Forking SQLite, generative AI for music, saying no to sprints, awesome diagramming tools & state machine facts (Changelog News #16)
The libSQL community is forking SQLite, StabilityAI announces Haromai and Dance Diffusion, Robin Rendle doesn’t believe in sprints, Shubham Garg curates some awesome diagramming tools & Chris Pressey writes up some must-read facts about state machines.
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A new batch of web frameworks emerge! (Changelog Interviews #509)
This week we’re talking fresh, faster, and new web frameworks by way of JS Party. Yes, today’s show is a web framework sampler because a new batch of web frameworks have emerged. There’s always something new happening in the front-end world and JS Party does an amazing job of keeping us up to date. So…what’s fresh, faster, and new?
The first segment of the show focuses on Deno’s Fresh new web framework. Luca Casonato joins Jerod & Feross to talk about Fresh – a next generation web framework, built for speed, reliability, and simplicity.
In segment two, AngularJS creator Miško Hevery joins Jerod and KBall to talk about Qwik. He says Qwik is a fundamental rethinking of how a web application should work. And he’s attempting to convince Jerod & KBall that the implications of that are BIG.
In the last segment, Amal talks with Fred Schott about Astro 1.0. They go deep on how Astro is built to pull content from anywhere and serve it fast with their next-gen island architecture.
Plus there’s an 8 minute bonus for our ++ subscribers (changelog.com/++). Fred Schott explains Astro Islands and how Astro extracts your UI into smaller, isolated components on the page, and the unused JavaScript gets replaced with lightweight HTML — leading to faster loads and time-to-interactive.
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- Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
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7 pounds of news in a 5 pound bag (JS Party #246)
Hang with Jerod, Nick & KBall while we discuss what’s new & noteworthy in the web world. Cloudflare Turnstile, Linkify 4.0, TC39 updates, the Figma acquisition, Penpot, pay transparency, and more! We might even discuss TypeScript if Nick gets his way…
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- Nick finished a transition to Vite
- Jerod shipped chapters support
- KBall shipped…
- Cloudflare announces Turnstile
- Updates from the 92nd TC39 meeting
- Linkify v4.0
- Figma acquisition
- Penpot SVG-based figma alternative?
- California pay transparency law
- TypeScript 4.9 beta
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Mat's GopherCon EU diary (Go Time #250)
Join Mat Ryer on his journey to Berlin for GopherCon EU 2022. Along the way he chats with Egon Elbre, Ale Kennedy, Ole Bulbuk, Christian Haas, Bill Kennedy & Ron Evans. Danke!
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- Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
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A modern bank infrastructure (Ship It! #73)
Matias Pan is a Staff Software Engineer at Lemon Cash, a crypto startup based in Argentina. Lemon infrastructure runs digital wallets & physical cards, which technically makes them a bank. How does Matias & his team think about enabling developers get code from their workstations into production? Remember, we are talking about a bank - a bad deploy is a big deal. And when a bad database migration goes out, what happens then?
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- 📄 Deploying services at Lemon - May 2022
- Matias’ follow-up post: How services are provisioned, deployed and operated at Lemon Cash - October 2022
- Early inspiration: Let a 1000 flowers bloom. Then rip 999 of them out by the roots. - September 2015
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Hacktoberfest is ON, DiffusionBee is 1.0, Dracula UI is out, GitX is undead, Prerender is off AWS & we'll be at ATO! (Changelog News #15)
Digital Ocean kicks off Hacktoberfest 2022, Divam Gupta releases DiffusionBee 1.0 with “Image To Image” support, Zeno Rocha open sources Dracula UI for React, GitX gets brought back from the brink & Prerender.io engineers save a bundle by moving off AWS.
Oh, and join us at All Things Open in early November!
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A guided tour through ID3 esoterica (Changelog Interviews #508)
This week we turn the mics on ourselves, kind of. Lars Wikman joins the show to give us a guided tour through ID3 esoterica and the shiny new open source Elixir library he developed for us. We talk about what ID3 is, its many versions, what it aims to be and what it could have been, how our library project got started, all the unique features and failed dreams of the ID3v2 spec, how ID3v2 and Podcasting 2.0 are solving the problem differently, and how all of this maps back to us giving you (our listeners) a better experience while listening to our shows.
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- A new chapter for Changelog podcasts (our shows have chapters baked in now, whoop whoop!)
- thechangelog/id3vx
- Id3vx – a library for parsing and encoding ID3 tags
- Ship It! #70: Kaizen! Four PRs, one big feature
- Folyo
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Launching Platformatic DB 🚀 (JS Party #245)
Patformatic co-founders Matteo Collina & Luca Maraschi join Amal & Chris to discuss their just-announced (and we mean just announced) open source database tool: Platformatic DB!
It’s a daemon that can turn any PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, or SQLite database into a REST and GraphQL endpoint. What makes it special is that it allows massive customization thanks to the flexibility of Fastify plugins.
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- Luca Maraschi – GitHub, X
- Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
- Christopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
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- 🎧 JS Party #197: Fastify served with a refreshing Pino 🍷
- Our first Open Source tool: Platformatic DB
- Platformatic on GitHub
- @databases
- Adventures in Nodeland
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Functional programming with generics? (Go Time #249)
We did an episode on functional programming in Go with Aaron Schlesinger back in 2019… But that was before generics were a thing. Let’s revisit the topic and discuss the pros and cons now that we have generics. What’s changed? What hasn’t?
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Klustered & Rawkode Academy (Ship It! #72)
One of our listeners, Andrew Welker, suggested that we talk about Klustered, so a few hours before David Flanagan was about to do his workshop at Container Days, we recorded this episode. We talked about all the weird and wonderful Kubernetes debugging sessions on Klustered, a YouTube playlist with 43 videos and counting.
We then talked about Rawkode Academy, and we finished with conferences. Good thing we did, because David almost forgot about KubeHuddle, the conference that he is co-organising next week. Gerhard is looking forward to talking at it! No, seriously, check it out at kubehuddle.com.
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- 🎬 Klustered
- 🎬 Rawkode Live: Hands-on introduction to acorn.io
- 🎬 Rawkode Live: Hands-on introduction to DockerSlim
- 🎬 Rawkode Live: Hands-on introduction to apko & melange
- 🎬 Rawkode Academy: Introduction to BGP - Limitless: Global Reach with BGP
- github.com/RawkodeAcademy/courses
- KubeHuddle - Oct. 3-4, 2022 - 🏴 Scotland’s first Kubernetes conference
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Production data labeling workflows (Practical AI #195)
It’s one thing to gather some labels for your data. It’s another thing to integrate data labeling into your workflows and infrastructure in a scalable, secure, and useful way. Mark from Xelex joins us to talk through some of what he has learned after helping companies scale their data annotation efforts. We get into workflow management, labeling instructions, team dynamics, and quality assessment. This is a super practical episode!
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Firefox supports blockers, NATS is great, Uber's MFA fatigue, OAuth2 drawn in cute shapes & an aging programmer (Changelog News #14)
Mozilla says Firefox will continue to support current content blockers, Nabeel Sulieman thinks NATS is great and recommends you check it out, InfoQ breaks down Uber’s recent security breach, Klemen Sever explained OAuth2 by drawing cute shapes & Jorge Manrubia reflects back as an aging programmer.
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Product development structures as systems (Changelog Interviews #507)
This week we’re talking about product development structures as systems with Lucas da Costa. The last time we had Lucas on the show he was living the text-mode only life, and now we’re more than 3 years later, Lucas has doubled down on all things text mode. Today’s conversation with Lucas maps several ideas he’s shared recently on his blog. We talk about deadlines being pointless, trajectory vs roadmap and the downfall of long-term planning, the practices of daily stand-ups and what to do instead, measuring queues not cycle time, and probably the most controversial of them all — actually talking to your customers. Have you heard? It’s this newly disruptive Agile framework that seems to be working well.
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- Useful engineering metrics and why velocity is not one of them
- How finishing what you start makes teams more productive and predictable
- How high capacity utilisation hurts a team’s performance
- How and why exploiting uncertainty makes products more profitable
- Why tall hierarchies slow organizations down and how to fix them
- Talking to your customers: a disruptive Agile framework
- Why your daily stand-ups don’t work and how to fix them
- Why long-term plans don’t work and how to fix them
- “Planning Is Guessing” at Startup School by David Heinemeier Hansson
- Actionable Agile Metrics for Predictability
- The Changelog #488: Mob programming deep dive (with Woody Zuill)
- The Changelog #340: All things text mode (with Lucas da Costa)
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The spicy React debate show 🌶️ (JS Party #244)
We’re back with another spicy YepNope debate! This time, Amelia and KBall are arguing that there’s real value to (continue) using React in 2022, while Amal and special guest (and author of the post which stemmed the whole debate) Josh Collinsworth argue that React’s time leading innovation has passed. Of course, the stance each panelist is taking is assigned ahead of time. Is that how they really feel? Tune in and find out!
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- Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
- Amelia Wattenberger – Website, GitHub, X
- Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
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- The self-fulfilling prophecy of React
- React
- Svelte
- Vue
- Angular
- Nick’s spicy initial take on React at JS Conf 2013
- Svelte Summit
- 🐴 RxJS. lol. Not a lot to back it up, but okay.
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Engineering interview tips & tricks (Go Time #248)
In this episode, we will be exploring interviewing as a Software Engineer. Tips, tricks, and gotchas, as well as potentially some interviewing horror stories and red flags to avoid at all costs. We’re joined by Emma Draper, Engineering Manager at the New York Times based in Arizona, and Kate Jonas, goes by Jonas, Technical Enablement Manager at Datadog based in Denver.
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- Angelica Hill – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
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Modern Software Engineering (Ship It! #71)
Dave Farley, co-author of Continuous Delivery, is back to talk about his latest book, Modern Software Engineering, a Top 3 Software Engineering best seller on Amazon UK this September. Shipping good software starts with you giving yourself permission to do a good job. It continues with a healthy curiosity, admitting that you don’t know, and running many experiments, safely, without blowing everything up. And then there is scope creep…
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- Gerhard’s review for Modern Software Engineering - it even has a picture!
- 🎧 Ship It #5 - The foundations of Continuous Delivery
- 🎬 Tips for Building Successful Platform Teams
- 🎬 The REAL Reason Cyberpunk 2077 software failed
- 🎬 How a Quantum Computer Works
- 🎬 The Difference Between DevOps and Continuous Delivery
- 🎬 Is DevOps Good Or Bad?
- 👕 Qwertee.com - Dave buys his quirky t-shirts here
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Evaluating models without test data (Practical AI #194)
WeightWatcher, created by Charles Martin, is an open source diagnostic tool for analyzing Neural Networks without training or even test data! Charles joins us in this episode to discuss the tool and how it fills certain gaps in current model evaluation workflows. Along the way, we discuss statistical methods from physics and a variety of practical ways to modify your training runs.
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- Charles Martin – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
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- WeightWatcher
- Talk from the Silicon Valley ACM meetup
- A deep dive into the theory behind WeightWatcher (a talk from ENS)
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Ladybird, how QR codes work, GitUI, software vs systems & Stable Diffusion ported to Tensorflow (Changelog News #13)
Andreas Kling’s new cross-platform browser project, Dan Hollick’s nerdy deep-dive on QR code tech, Stephan Dilly’s Rust-based terminal UI for Git, Miłosz Piechocki’s opinion on junior vs senior engineers & Divam Gupta’s Tensorflow port of Stable Diffusion.
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Stable Diffusion breaks the internet (Changelog Interviews #506)
This week on The Changelog we’re talking about Stable Diffusion, DALL-E, and the impact of AI generated art. We invited our good friend Simon Willison on the show today because he wrote a very thorough blog post titled, “Stable Diffusion is a really big deal.”
You may know Simon from his extensive contributions to open source software. Simon is a co-creator of the Django Web framework (which we don’t talk about at all on this show), he’s the creator of Datasette, a multi-tool for exploring and publishing data (which we do talk about on this show)…most of all Simon is a very insightful thinker, which he puts on display here on this episode. We talk from all the angles of this topic, the technical, the innovation, the future and possibilities, the ethical and the moral – we get into it all. The question is, will this era be known as the initial push back to the machine?
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- Simon Willison on Wikipedia
- Stable Diffusion is a really big deal
- Exploring 12 Million of the 2.3 Billion Images Used to Train Stable Diffusion’s Image Generator
- Exploring the training data behind Stable Diffusion
- Stability.ai
- Greg Rutkowsk on ArtStation and on Twitter
- Stable Diffusion Launch Announcement
- Stable Diffusion Public Release
- The full text of the CreativeML Open RAIL-M license
- Prompt injection attacks against GPT-3
- Twitter thread about the ethics of the Stable Diffusion release from Joshua Achiam who works on AI safety at OpenAI
- Lexica.art - that really good search engine for 10m+ Stable Diffusion images and prompts
- Simon’s Twitter thread about Stable Diffusion - I keep on adding new things to this as they happen, the thread has been running for a few weeks now
- 4.2 Gigabytes, or: How to Draw Anything - a great post that talks through the process involved in getting good results out of Stable Diffusion using image2image and multiple round-trips through the model
- This tweet from Simon has a animated GIF of the Stable Diffusion Discord scrolling by during the 1.5 model preview
- Textual Inversion also see this thread on Twitter
- This tweet talks about the Stable Diffusion concepts library, using Textual Inversion
- This tweet has great examples of Textual Inversion in action
- Simon’s Datasette Cloud preview - Check it out and signup
- Compressing images with Stable Diffusion
- “neuromancer” on Lexica
- Online Art Communities Begin Banning AI-Generated Images
- The Changelog #296: Burnout, open source, Datasette
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Smile! HTML can access your camera (JS Party #243)
Austin Gil joins the show and KBall continues an old email correspondence about the JS community and growth. Then, the gang plays a round of TIL where Austin shares his learnings about the HTML capture attribute. Finally, Austin shares what it’s like to have a blog post blow up.
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- Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
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- TIL: You can access a user’s camera with just HTML
- HN Link
- Video Explainer
- Obsidian
- Obsidian Sample Plugin
- OODA Loop
- Function Call podcast
- Submit to Changelog News
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Stay agile out there (Go Time #247)
Inbal Cohen, Product expert and Agile evangelist, joins Natalie & Angelica for a conversation about all things Agile. Inbal lays out some agile tips for Go devs, discusses if and how remote work changes things, describes some downsides of the methodology, and more.
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Kaizen! Four PRs, one big feature (Ship It! #70)
In today’s Kaizen episode, we talk about shipping Adam’s Christmas present: chapter support for all Changelog episodes that we now publish. This feature was hard because there are many subtle differences in how the ID3 spec is implemented. Of course, once the PR shipped, there were other issues to solve, including an upgrade the world kind of scenario. Since Lars Wikman did all the heavy ID3 lifting, he joins us in this episode.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Lars Wikman – Website, GitHub, X
- Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
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- What is ID3 in the context of MP3?
- PR #417 - ID3vx-based episode tagging
- id3vx - Elixir library for parsing and encoding ID3 tags
- PR #423 - Upgrade Elixir from 1.12 to 1.13 (and all the other things)
- The failing CircleCI build that resulted in removing the integration
- erlang/otp issue #6241
- PR #421 - What to do if the Wireguard tunnel stops working in GHA
- PR #418 - Notify Slack when a deploy succeeds
- GitHub SSH commit verification now supported - thanks Marcos Nils!
- Signing Git Commits with SSH Keys
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Stable Diffusion (Practical AI #193)
The new stable diffusion model is everywhere! Of course you can use this model to quickly and easily create amazing, dream-like images to post on twitter, reddit, discord, etc., but this technology is also poised to be used in very pragmatic ways across industry. In this episode, Chris and Daniel take a deep dive into all things stable diffusion. They discuss the motivations for the work, the model architecture, and the differences between this model and other related releases (e.g., DALL·E 2).
(Image from stability.ai)
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- Announcement blog post
- Stable diffusion paper
- Blog post about the model from Marc Päpper
- Stable Diffusion on Hugging Face
- Hugging Face Diffusers library
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Quality is systemic, React is a self-fulfilling prophecy, Difftastic, Devbox & the shortest URLs on the web (Changelog News #12)
Jacob Kaplan-Moss writes up a hot take on software quality, Wilfred Hughes creates the diff tool he’s always wanted, Josh Collinsworth thinks React is only great at being popular, Jetpack’s Devbox project looks pretty cool & James Williams sets out to find the shortest URLs on the internet. Oh, and chapters are here!
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Typesense is truly open source search (Changelog Interviews #505)
This week we’re joined by Jason Bosco, co-founder and CEO of Typesense — the open source Algolia alternative and the easier to use ElasticSearch alternative. For years we’ve used Algolia as our search engine, so we come to this conversation with skin in the game and the scars to prove it. Jason shared how he and his co-founder got started on Typesense, why and how they are “all in” on open source, the options and the paths developers can take to add search to their project, how Typesense compares to ElasticSearch and Algolia, he walks us through getting started, the story of Typesense Cloud, and why they have resisted Venture Capital.
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- InfluxData – All of the open source software InfluxData creates is either MIT-licensed or Apache2-licensed. These are very permissive licenses. But why are they all for permissive licenses? Paul Dix shares his thoughts on the spirit of open source and why freedom, evolution, and impact drive them to license InfluxData’s open source software as permissively possible. Learn more at influxdata.com/changelog
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- Jason Bosco – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Typesense on the iconic Nasdaq billboard in Times Square
- typesense.org
- typesense/typesense
- Typesense Cloud pricing
- Typesense on HN
- Why Upgrade to GPLv3
- Airbyte
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Seth Godin is the new Mark Twain (JS Party #242)
Jerod, KBall & Nick “Holla!” at React India, share what we’re excited about these days, and then take up a KBall topic that goes off the rails but manages to climb back on them, power through, and end up in a good place.
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
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Holla!
I’m Excited About $X
KBall’s Topic
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Avoiding bloat (Go Time #246)
Egon Elbre and Roger Peppe join Mat for a conversation all about bloat (and how to avoid it). Expect talk of code bloat, binary bloat, feature bloat, and an even-more-bloated-than-usual unpopular opinion segment.
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The cloud native ecosystem (Ship It! #69)
Maybe it’s the Californian sun. Or perhaps it’s the time spent at Disney Studios, the home of the best stories. One thing is for sure: Taylor Dolezal is one of the happiest cloud native people that Gerhard knows.
As a former Lead SRE for Disney Studios, Taylor has significant hands-on experience running cloud native technologies in a large company. After a few years as a HashiCorp Developer Advocate, Taylor is now Head of End User Ecosystem at CNCF. In his current role, he is helping enable cloud native success for end-users like Boeing, Mercedes Benz & many others.
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- Flatfile – Data import is broken. We fixed it. Flatfile’s powerful out-of-the-box solution takes the data import burden off your shoulders, freeing you to solve bigger business problems and build products that people love.
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- 🎬 KubeCon CloudNativeCon EU 2022 Keynote
- This episode started with a tweet
- Phippy as far as the eye can see! 👀 🦒
- KubeCon CloudNativeCon EU 2022 - Transparency Report
- Take the 2022 Cloud Native Survey
- A recap from OSS Summit North America 2022
- 🎬 Navigating an Infinite Landscape - Taylor Dolezal - PlatformCon 2022
- ArgoCon 2022 - September 19 - 21, 2022
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Licensing & automating creativity (Practical AI #192)
AI is increasingly being applied in creative and artistic ways, especially with recent tools integrating models like Stable Diffusion. This is making some artists mad. How should we be thinking about these trends more generally, and how can we as practitioners release and license models anticipating human impacts? We explore this along with other topics (like AI models detecting swimming pools 😊) in this fully connected episode.
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Automation and creativity
- Goodbye, humans: Call centers ‘could save $80b’ switching to AI
- DALL-E can now use AI to extend images as a human artist might
-An AI-Generated Artwork Won First Place at a State Fair Fine Arts Competition, and Artists Are Pissed
Nation states and AI
- Undeclared pools in France uncovered by AI technology
- France reveals hidden swimming pools with AI, taxes them
- Nvidia says U.S. government allows A.I. chip development in China
- Foreign Affairs: Spirals of Delusion - How AI Distorts Decision-Making and Makes Dictators More Dangerous
Resources
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Python's :=, email falsehoods, no more self-hosting & Leon (Changelog News #11)
Martin Heinz thinks you should be using Python’s walrus operator, you probably believe some falsehoods about email, Carlos Fenollosa threw in the towel after self-hosting his email for 23 years & Leon is an open source personal assistant that can live on your server.
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Building actually maintainable software ♻️ (Changelog Interviews #504)
This week we’re sharing the most popular episode of Go Time from last year — Go Time #196. We believe this episode was the most popular because it’s all about building actually maintainable software and what goes into that. Kris Brandow is joined by Johnny Boursiquot, Ian Lopshire, and Sam Boyer. There’s lots of hot takes, disagreements, and unpopular opinions.
This is part two of a three part mini-series led by Kris on maintenance. Make sure you check out Go Time #195 and Go Time #202 to continue the series.
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- sam boyer – GitHub, X
- Ian Lopshire – GitHub, X
- Kris Brandow – GitHub, X
- Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- Go Time #195
- Go Time #202
- Uber’s Go Style Guide
- Why smart engineers write bad code
- Rant about “performant”
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The doctor is in (again) (JS Party #241)
Dr. Gleb Bahmutov returns to the party for a wide-ranging discussion on open source, end-to-end testing, Cypress, and more. Amal, Divya & Chris host.
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- Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
- Christopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Divya – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Show Notes:
- Gleb on JS Party #148
- Mark Erikson on TypeScript
- Gleb’s YouTube channel
- BlazeMeter University
- Cypress Tips - 15% off in Sept. with code
JSPARTY15 - The Web Platform Podcast
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Inside GopherCon (Go Time #245)
Ever wondered how GopherCon came to be, and how it’s put together every year. In this show we will be chatted with Erik St. Martin, who has been there from the start about how GopherCon came to be, how this year’s conference came together, as well as why events like GopherCon as so great!
We are joined by Erik St. Martin, GopherCon Organizer and Co-Author Go in Action.
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- Square – Develop on the platform that sellers trust. There is a massive opportunity for developers to support Square sellers by building apps for today’s business needs. Learn more at changelog.com/square to dive into the docs, APIs, SDKs and to create your Square Developer account — tell them Changelog sent you.
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- Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
- Angelica Hill – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
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Behind the scenes at Microsoft Azure (Ship It! #68)
Most of you already know what it’s like to work in a startup or a small company. A few of you have been asking us for conversations with engineers that work for big companies, the kind that run everything from big title games to banking, and even critical national infrastructure.
In today’s episode, we talk to Ganeshkumar, a Software Engineer in the Azure Kubernetes Service team, who works on Node Lifecycle and Kubernetes Versioning, and Brendan, Kubernetes project co-founder and engineering Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Azure OSS and Cloud-native Compute. We talk about what it’s like to work for Microsoft, how mentoring works in practice, and what Kubernetes, Omega, & Borg have to do with it all.
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- Brendan Burns – GitHub, X
- Ganeshkumar Ashokavardhanan – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Show Notes:
- 📄 Borg, Omega, and Kubernetes - March, 2016
- 🎬 How to use GitOps with Microsoft Azure - Brendan Burns - July, 2021
- 🎬 Kubernetes: The Documentary - Part 1 - January, 2022
- Event Grid on Kubernetes with Azure Arc
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Privacy in the age of AI (Practical AI #191)
In this Fully-Connected episode, Daniel and Chris discuss concerns of privacy in the face of ever-improving AI / ML technologies. Evaluating AI’s impact on privacy from various angles, they note that ethical AI practitioners and data scientists have an enormous burden, given that much of the general population may not understand the implications of the data privacy decisions of everyday life.
This intentionally thought-provoking conversation advocates consideration and action from each listener when it comes to evaluating how their own activities either protect or violate the privacy of those whom they impact.
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- Google’s Responsible AI Practices - Privacy
- What is Data De-identification and Why is It Important?
- Hugging Face - Stable Diffusion Demo
- floret: lightweight, robust word vectors
- Using oneAPI with Intel® FPGAs Workshop
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Qalculate is awesome, Restic adds compression, CS teachers coping with Copilot & Heroku's next non-free chapter (Changelog News #10)
Qalculate has a command-line interface, Michael Eischer adds compression to Restic, Emery Berger warns his fellow CS professors about Copilot, and Heroku GM Bob Wise details Heroku’s next chapter (which excludes free accounts).
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Building Reflect at sea (Changelog Interviews #503)
This week we’re talking with Alex MacCaw — he’s well known for his work as founder and CEO of Clearbit. In May of 2021, Alex shared a personal update with the world on his blog. After much reflection, he decided to step down as CEO of Clearbit to go back to his roots. In his words, “I love the early stages of company building. Hacking together code, setting up the Stripe account, getting the first customer. That’s my jam.”
We talk with Alex about this portion of his journey at Clearbit, the Catamaran he bought in South Africa and then sailed across the Atlantic Ocean, and the new thing he’s building called Reflect that let’s you keep track of your notes, books, and meetings.
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- Alex MacCaw – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- A personal update
- Alex’s first appearance on The Changelog
- reflect.app
- Clearbit
- Earl Grey Capital
- Google - “Catamaran”
- The Manager’s Handbook
- Ross Moser
- Beginning of Infinity
- Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies
- remirror/remirror
- Replicache
- Mimestream
- The Changelog #455: Building software for yourself with Linus Lee
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Bringing the vibe (JS Party #240)
Tejas Kumar joins Jerod & KBall for a wide-ranging convo about React Suspense, human skills, and the four pillars of impact for web engineers. We also discuss the news in “Story of the Week” and give a few quick shout outs to a must-read book and a great new publishing platform for lead devs.
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- Tejas Kumar – GitHub, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Show Notes:
- 🎬 Deconstructing React
- Pillars of Impact for Web Engineers
- Xata, the friendly serverless database
- 🎧 JS on WebAssembly
- 🎧 The magic of monorepos
Story of the Week
- Big Changes Ahead for Deno
- Container Queries Shipping in Chrome M105
- Helping the Environment by Saving Two Centuries of Compute Time
Shout Outs!
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The art of the PR: Part 2 (Go Time #244)
In this episode, we’ll be further exploring PRs. Check out The art of the PR: Part 1 if you haven’t yet. What is it that makes a PR a good PR? How do you consider PRs in an open source repo? How do you vet contributions from people who aren’t a part of the repository? How does giving feedback and encouragement fit in to the PR process? We’ll be debating the details, and trying to help our fellow gophers perfect the art of the PR. We are joined by the awesome Anderson Queiroz, hosted by Natalie Pistunovich & Angelica Hill.
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All your network are belong to eBPF (Ship It! #67)
A few weeks ago, Jerod spoke with Liz Rice about the power of eBPF on The Changelog. Today, we have the pleasure of both Liz Rice, Chief Open Source Office at Isovalent & Thomas Graf, CTO & co-founder at Isovalent, the creators of Cilium.
Around 2014, Facebook achieved a 10x performance improvement by replacing their traditional load balancers with eBPF. In 2017, every single packet that went to Facebook was processed by eBPF. Nowadays, every Android phone is using it. Truth be told, if it’s network-related and it matters, eBPF is most likely a part of it.
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- Liz Rice – Website, GitHub, X
- Thomas Graf – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Show Notes:
- eBPF.io
- 📘 What is eBPF? - written by Liz Rice, free to download
- 📕 Security Observability with eBPF - written by Natália Réka Ivánkó and Jed Salazar, free to download
- 🎬 A Guided Tour of Cilium Service Mesh - Liz Rice, Isovalent - KubeCon 2022 EU
- 🎬 eCHO Episode 51: Life of a Packet with Cilium - Duffie Cooley
- Learn more about Cilium and eBPF from the technology experts
- ✨ Twinkly - Liz’s wall neon
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Practical, positive uses for deep fakes (Practical AI #190)
Differentiating between what is real versus what is fake on the internet can be challenging. Historically, AI deepfakes have only added to the confusion and chaos, but when labeled and intended for good, deepfakes can be extremely helpful. But with all of the misinformation surrounding deepfakes, it can be hard to see the benefits they bring. Lior Hakim, CTO at Hour One, joins Chris and Daniel to shed some light on the practical uses of deepfakes. He addresses the AI technology behind deepfakes, how to make positive use of deep fakes such as breaking down communications barriers, and shares how Hour One specializes in the development of virtual humans for use in professional video communications.
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- Lior Hakim – Website, LinkedIn
- Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
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SSH tips and tricks, retro Apple UIs, iOS Privacy and TikTok, Marta & Tauri vs Electron (Changelog News #9)
Carlos Alexandro Becker shared some SSH tips, Sakun Acharige (a Comp Sci student + visual design enthusiast) created System.css, Felix Krause built a browser app that shows the JavaScript commands being executed by iOS app in-app browers, Yan Zhulanow decided to create Marta, and Lőrik Levente did a comparrison between Tauri & Electron using a real world application he’s building called Authme.
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Fireside chat with Jack Dorsey ♻️ (Changelog Interviews #502)
This week we’re re-broadcasting a very special episode of Founders Talk. Adam was invited by our friends at Square to host a fireside chat with Jack Dorsey as the featured finale of their annual developer conference called Square Unboxed. Jack is one of the most prolific CEOs out there. He’s a hacker turned CEO, often working at the very edge of what’s to come. He’s focused on what the future has to offer and an innovator at scale. He’s also a Bitcoin maximalist and has positioned himself and Block long on Bitcoin.
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- Jack Dorsey on Lex Fridman (#91)
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Tech job interview support group (JS Party #239)
Struggling through the tech job interview process? We feel you! On this episode, Amal, Nick & Amelia get together to discuss the various ways the interview process disappoints, share their own interview stories, and suggest ways we can improve the process for everyone.
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- 🎧 JS Party #238: Build faster websites with Astro 1.0
- 🎧 The Changelog #479: Principles for hiring engineers
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The art of the PR: Part 1 (Go Time #243)
In this episode, we will be exploring PRs. What makes a good PR? How do you give the best PR review? Is there such thing as too small, or big of a PR? We’ll be debating the details, and trying to help our fellow gophers perfect the art of the PR. We are joined by three wonderful guests Jeff Hernandez, Sarah Duncan, and Natasha Dykes. Hosted by Angelica Hill & Natalie Pistunovich.
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Do the right thing. Do what works. Be kind. (Ship It! #66)
Why are the right values important for a company that changed the way the world builds software? How does pair programming help scale & maintain the company culture? What is it like to grow a company to 3000 employees over 30 years?
Today we have the privilege of Rob Mee, former CEO of Pivotal, the real home of Cloud Foundry and Concourse CI. Rob is now the CEO of Geometer.io, an incubator where Elixir is behind many great ideas executed well, including the US COVID response programme.
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- BBC News: The firm that starts work at 9.06am
- Cloud Foundry
- Concourse CI
- Pivotal IPO - 2018
- 🎧 Ship It! #9 - the one where we talk about the RabbitMQ Concourse CI pipeline
- 🎬 Panel discussion around startups, venture capital in the Erlang Ecosystem - Code BEAM America 2021
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CMU's AI pilot lands in the news 🗞 (Practical AI #189)
Daniel and Chris cover the AI news of the day in this wide-ranging discussion. They start with Truss from Baseten while addressing how to categorize AI infrastructure and tools. Then they move on to transformers (again!), and somehow arrive at an AI pilot model from CMU that can navigate crowded airspace (much to Chris’s delight).
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- Truss on GitHub
- CMU: AI Pilot Can Navigate Crowded Airspace
- Embarrassingly Parallel Training of Expert Language Models
- Toucan: Learn español without even trying
- 3D Vision with Transformers: A Survey
- Sphere: Natural Language Processing with Transformers
- SkyJack on GitHub
- NVIDIA AI Demos
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Stand-up advice, Redis explained, big changes for Deno, DevDash & Minimum Viable Python (Changelog News #8)
Lucas F. Costa on why your daily stand-ups don’t work and host to fix them, Mahdi Yusuf deeply explains Redis, the Deno team announces some big changes coming, DevDash is a highly configurable terminal dashboard for developers and creators & Brett Cannon determines what is a Minimum Viable Python (MVPy).
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The power of eBPF (Changelog Interviews #501)
eBPF is a revolutionary kernel technology that has lit the cloud native world on fire. If you’re going to have one person explain the excitement, that person would be Liz Rice. Liz is the COSO at Isovalent, creators of the open source Cilium project and pioneers of eBPF tech.
On this episode Liz tells Jerod all about the power of eBPF, where it came from, what kind of new applications its enabling, and who is building the next generation of networking, security, and observability tools with it.
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- eBPF’s website
- Brendan Gregg’s eBPF-based tracing tools
- Cilium’s website
- BPF Compiler Collection (BCC)
- Meta’s Katran project
- Cloudflare’s packet filtering
- Parca continuous profiling
- Cilium’s Hubble
- Netflix’s Falco project
- Cilum’s Tetragon project
- eBPF Summit 2022
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Build faster websites with Astro 1.0 (JS Party #238)
Astro 1.0 just dropped so Amal got its creator, Fred K. Schott, on the pod for the full rundown. They go deep on how Astro is built to pull content from anywhere and serve it fast with their next-gen island architecture.
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The pain of dependency management (Go Time #242)
Baruch Sadogursky (Chief Sticker Officer at JFrog) joins Natalie & Johnny to lament the current state of dependency management in Go and other languages. They discuss the problems dependency managers face, possible technical mitigations like SBOMs, people problems that will never be solved by tech, and take questions from listeners in the #gotimefm channel of Gophers Slack.
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- PGP Keys
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Two thumbs up for the Cool Wall (Ship It! #65)
Tammer Saleh, founder of Super Orbital, a tiny team of exceptional Kubernetes engineers and teachers, is joining us today to talk about what is cool in the Cloud Native world. Yes, it’s the same Tammer that we had the pleasure of on shipit.show/31 - Is Kubernetes a platform?
In today’s episode, we also cover two great blog posts:
- Zero to GitOps: Terraform and the AWS EKS Blueprints project by Sean Kane
- Hunting Down an Intermittent Failure in Cilium by James McShane
We wrap up with ✨ The Cool Wall of Cloud Native ✨
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- Hunting Down an Intermittent Failure in Cilium by James McShane
- Top Gear Fan Wiki: The Cool Wall
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AlphaFold is revolutionizing biology (Practical AI #188)
AlphaFold is an AI system developed by DeepMind that predicts a protein’s 3D structure from its amino acid sequence. It regularly achieves accuracy competitive with experiment, and is accelerating research in nearly every field of biology. Daniel and Chris delve into protein folding, and explore the implications of this revolutionary and hugely impactful application of AI.
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- AlphaFold
- AlphaFold reveals the structure of the protein universe
- AlphaFold: Timeline of a breakthrough
- AlphaFold Protein Structure Database
- GitHub: deepmind / alphafold
- Oxford Protein Informatics Group: AlphaFold 2 is here: what’s behind the structure prediction miracle
- Nature: How AlphaFold can realize AI’s full potential in structural biology
- Nature: ‘The entire protein universe’: AI predicts shape of nearly every known protein
- Nature: Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
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Chapters, PiBox, using one big server, oncall compensation, being swamped is normal, Tabler & Gum (Changelog News #7)
We add episode chapters to the website, KubeSail sells a PiBox, Nima Badizadegan wants you to use one big server, Gergeloy Orosz details oncall compensation across the software industry, Greg Kogan isn’t impressed with how swamped you are at work, a dashboard template built on Bootstrap & Charm releases a CLI tool for shell scripts.
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The legacy of CSS-Tricks (Changelog Interviews #500)
Episode 500!!! And it has been a journey! Nearly 13 years ago we started this podcast and as of today (this episode) we’ve officially shipped our 500th episode. As a companion to this episode, Jerod and Adam shipped a special Backstage episode where they reflect on 500 episodes. And…not only has it been a journey for us, but it’s also been a journey for our good friend Chris Coyier and CSS-Tricks — which he grew from his personal blog to a massively popular contributor driven model, complete with an editor-in-chief, a wide array of influential contributors, and advertisers to help fund the way. The news, of course, is that CSS-Tricks was recently acquired by DigitalOcean in March of 2022. We get into all the details of this deal, his journey, and the legacy of CSS-Tricks.
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- Backstage #24: Reflecting on 500 episodes
- CSS-Tricks is joining DigitalOcean!
- CSS-Tricks joins DigitalOcean, expanding our commitment to community
- CSS-Tricks Design History
- Geoff Graham
- ShopTalk Show.com/
- Codepen Challenges
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Qwik is a new kind of web framework (JS Party #237)
AngularJS creator Miško Hevery has a new web framework he wants to tell us about, but he’s not pitching just another framework, but with different DX. He says that Qwik is a fundamental rethinking of how a web application should work. And he’s here to convince Jerod & KBall that the implications of that are BIG.
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Reflecting on 500 episodes (Backstage #24)
This is Adam and Jerod’s pre-show call before hooking up with Chris Coyier to record episode 500 of The Changelog. We’ve been doing these off and on for awhile now. We hang out for 30ish minutes before the show begins and ship that conversation as a bonus for our Changelog++ members.
We’re doing this one different. You don’t hit a round number like this very often. So, here it is. A standalone Backstage episode. Thanks for listening and here’s to the next 500! 🥂
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Bass: the beat drop after Concourse (Ship It! #64)
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.
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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- 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
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Gophers Say! GopherCon EU Edition (Go Time #241)
Our award winning worthy survey game show is back, this time Mat Ryer hosts it live on stage at GopherCon Europe 2022!
Go Time’s Natalie Pistunovich joins forces with Ronna Steinberg & Robert Burke to battle it out with V Körbes, Tamir Bahar & Konrad Richie. Let’s see who can better guess what the GopherCon Europe gophers had to say!
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- Ronna Steinberg – GitHub, X
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- V Körbes – Website, GitHub, X
- Tamir Bahar – GitHub, X
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- Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
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AI IRL & Mozilla's Internet Health Report (Practical AI #187)
Every year Mozilla releases an Internet Health Report that combines research and stories exploring what it means for the internet to be healthy. This year’s report is focused on AI. In this episode, Solana and Bridget from Mozilla join us to discuss the power dynamics of AI and the current state of AI worldwide. They highlight concerning trends in the application of this transformational technology along with positive signs of change.
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OkSo, Markdown generator speeds, Egr Mgr framework, Crockford says retire JS & messy code not required (Changelog News #6)
Oleksii Trekhleb has a new drawing app, Zach Leatherman did some markdown generator speed tests, Jorge Fioranelli built a framework for Engineering Managers, Crockford got interviewed on Evrone & Daniel Sieger wrote up his clean coding advice.
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Long live RSS! (Changelog Interviews #499)
This week we’re joined again by Ben Ubois and we’re talking about RSS. Yes, RSS…the tech that never seems to die and yet so many of us rely on it daily. Ben is the creator of Feedbin, which is self-described as “a nice place to read on the web.” Ben is also the maker of a new app on iOS for people who like podcasts. It’s called Airshow and you can download it at airshow.fm. Ben catches us up on the state of Feedbin, we discuss the nine lives of RSS and its foundational utility for the indie web, the possibilities and short-comings of RSS, we get deep in the weeds on the Podcast 2.0 spec and the work being done on <podcast:chapters>, and Ben also shares the details on his new app called Airshow.
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- Ben Ubois – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- feedbin.com
- The Changelog #240: Feedbin and RSS resurgence with Ben Ubois
- Matt Rickard - Thoughts on RSS (source)
- podcastindex.org
- listennotes.com
- Canonical MAAS
- airshow.fm
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The magic of monorepos (JS Party #236)
KBall and Juri dive deep into monorepos, their benefits and gotchas, and how Nx helps you improve the performance and maintainability of a monorepo setup.
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- NX
- NX Github
- Monorepo.tools
- ESLint and TypeScript
- Taming Code Organization with Module Boundaries in Nx
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What's new in Go 1.19 (Go Time #240)
Go 1.18 was a major release where we saw the introduction of generics into the language as well as other notables such as fuzzing and workspaces. With Go 1.19 slated to come out next month, one has to wonder what’s next. Are we in store to be blown away by new and major features like we saw in 1.18? Not exactly but there are still lots of improvements to be on the lookout for.
Joining Mat & Johnny to touch on some of the most interesting ones is Carl Johnson, himself a contributor to the 1.19 release.
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- Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
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KubeVelo 2022 (Ship It! #63)
We know that many of you listen to this podcast while running 🏃♀️ or cycling 🚴♂️ Hey Dan!
How many of you cycled to a conference? Gerhard knows a single person that cycled 764 miles for 8 days straight from Switzerland to Spain for this year’s KubeCon EU. His name is Johann Gyger, a CNCF ambassador & a cloud consultant at Peak Scale. Johann is a cloud engineer at heart that is all in on sustainability. He is the main reason why Gerhard is super excited to talk about electric cars & Dagger at the Swiss Cloud Native Day this September.
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- Akuity – Akuity is a new platform (founded by Argo co-creators) that brings fully-managed Argo CD and enterprise services to the cloud or on premise. They’re inviting our listeners to join the closed beta at akuity.io/changelog. The platform is a versatile Kubernetes operator for handling cluster deployments the GitOps way. Deploy your apps instantly and monitor their state — get minimum overhead, maximum impact, and enterprise readiness from day one.
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- Swiss Cloud Native Day 2022 speakers
- 🎬 Swiss Cloud Native Day 2021
- 🎬 Gurten, Bern - Swiss Cloud Native Day location
- The best bits from KubeCon EU 2022
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The geopolitics of artificial intelligence (Practical AI #186)
In this Fully-Connected episode, Chris and Daniel explore the geopolitics, economics, and power-brokering of artificial intelligence. What does control of AI mean for nations, corporations, and universities? What does control or access to AI mean for conflict and autonomy? The world is changing rapidly, and the rate of change is accelerating. Daniel and Chris look behind the curtain in the halls of power.
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- The Geopolitics Of Artificial Intelligence
- Geopolitical implications of AI and digital surveillance adoption
- Artificial intelligence is already upending geopolitics
- Huge “foundation models” are turbo-charging AI progress
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Soft deletion, obscure data structures, driving away your best engineers, a blog platform for hackers & moar RSS (Changelog News #5)
Brandur thinks soft deletion probably isn’t worth it, the orange website delivers a high quality discussion on data structures, Podge O’Brien drops satirical management advice, team pico delivers prose.sh, Mat Ryer shares his thoughts on estimations & Matt Rickard’s thoughts on RSS have us thinking about it as well.
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From WeWork to upskilling at Wilco (Changelog Interviews #498)
This week we’re joined by On Freund, former VP of Engineering at WeWork and now co-founder & CEO of Wilco. WeWork you may have heard of, but Wilco maybe not (yet).
We get into the details behind the tech and scaling of WeWork, comparisons of the fictional series on Apple TV+ called WeCrashed and how much of that is true. Then we move on to Wilco which is what has On’s full attention right now. Wilco has the potential to be the next big thing for developers to acquire new skills. Wilco aims to be the ultimate simulator to gain new skills on a real-life tech stack. If you want to skip ahead, you can request access at trywilco.com/changelog — they are moving our listeners to the top of the waiting list.
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- On Freund – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- Wilco
- Wilco “Hello world”
- Wilco gamifies your path through your software engineering career
- Wilco on Product Hunt
- WeWork
- WeCrashed on Wikepedia
- The History of WeWork.com: From Wordpress to John Quincy Adams
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Frontend Feud: ShopTalk vs CSS Podcast (JS Party #235)
What’s this? A Frontend Feud! The ShopTalk guys return to defend their championship over Syntax against new contenders: Una and Adam from The CSS Podcast!
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- Chris Coyier – Website, GitHub, X
- Dave Rupert – Website, GitHub, X
- Una Kravets – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Adam Argyle – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Amelia Wattenberger – Website, GitHub, X
- Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
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- Watch the video on our YouTube channel
- Shout out to Una’s Twitter!
- Shout out to OneWheel!
- Shout out to ShopTalk Show!
- Shout out to The CSS Podcast!
- Shout out to JS Party?
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Go for beginners ♻️ (Go Time #239)
How do beginners learn Go? This episode is meant to engage both non-Go users that listen to sister podcasts here on Changelog, or any Go-curious programmers out there, as well as encourage those that have started to learn Go and want to level up beyond the basics. On this episode we’re aiming to answer questions about how to learn Go, identify resources that are available, and where you can go to continue your learning journey.
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- David Valentine – Website
- Carmen Andoh – GitHub, X
- Ashley Willis – GitHub, X
- Jon Calhoun – Website, GitHub, X
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- A gentle Introduction to Golang for Beginners
- CLI for Beginners
- Gophercises
- Lambda School was mentioned + Austen Allred (CEO & co-founder of Lambda School) was on Founders Talk recently
- Turing — a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that operates almost entirely on student tuition
- “programming today is more about knowing of libraries (pkgs) and gluing them together”
- Richard Feynman on Wikipedia
- Julia Evans’ zines
- JS Party #60: You might want to read up on PAW Patrol
- JustForFunc
- First timers only
- Your first PR
- #golang-newbies on Gopher Slack
- On-the-Job Programming Language Learning Survey for Developers
- Learn Go with Tests
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Operational simplicity is a gift to you (Ship It! #62)
Gerhard’s transition to a senior engineer started 10 years ago, when he embraced the vim mindset, functional core & imperative shell, and was inspired to seek simplicity in his code & infrastructure. Most of it can be traced back to one person: Gary Bernhardt, the creator of Execute Program, Destroy all Software and the now famous Wat idea.
Few stick around long enough to understand the long-term impact of their decisions on production systems. Even fewer are able to talk about them as well as Gary does.
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- 🎧 Why we 💚 Vim - changelog.fm/450
- Execute Program - Learn it. Code it. Remember it.
- Destroy all Software - Everyday programming tools built from scratch
- 🎬 Wat talk - A lightning talk by Gary Bernhardt from CodeMash 2012
Gary tweets June 1, 2022
I just needed a small new feature to finish the task I was doing. It took 3 minutes to write the code, then 9 minutes for CI and deploy, so it was live in production 12 minutes after I realized I needed it. Can’t imagine working any other way.
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DALL-E is one giant leap for raccoons! 🔭 (Practical AI #185)
In this Fully-Connected episode, Daniel and Chris explore DALL-E 2, the amazing new model from Open AI that generates incredibly detailed novel images from text captions for a wide range of concepts expressible in natural language. Along the way, they acknowledge that some folks in the larger AI community are suggesting that sophisticated models may be approaching sentience, but together they pour cold water on that notion. But they can’t seem to get away from DALL-E’s images of raccoons in space, and of course, who would want to?
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- DALL·E: Creating Images from Text
- How DALL-E 2 Actually Works
- Google - Raccoons in Space!
- On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜
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Building the best mountain bikes in the world (Founders Talk #93)
This week Adam is taking the show off the beaten path to speak with Adam Miller, the founder and CEO of Revel Bikes. Yes that’s right, this episode features a founder of a bike brand, not a tech brand.
Adam Miller’s journey to create Revel Bikes is paved with many ups and many downs, a failed partnership, super scrappy weeks and months traveling the world to find the best manufacturing partners, the latest innovations in suspension tech and modern geometry to hit the mountain biking scene, a strong team that’s been with him every step of the way (many of which are as close as family), and truly some of the best premium bikes available on the market today.
BTW, Adam (host) is an owner of a Revel bike — he has a T1000 colorway Rascal that he’s ridden on downhill trails, all-day epics, and everything in-between. If you enjoy this episode, please us know in the comments.
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- Revel Bikes - HQ Tour & Behind The Brand
- First Ride: Revel’s Rail Enduro Bike is an Impressive Debut
- Revel Bikes CBF Suspension - EXPLAINED!
- Revel Rail29 - The New Long Travel 29er From Revel Bikes
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Spicy designs, more open source opinions, privacy-focused services, the real cost of context switching & jqq (Changelog News #4)
Anthony Hobday has 37 ways to spice up your designs, James Bennett has opinions on open source and PyPi security, Alicia Sykes compiled some awesome security/privacy options, ContextKeeper layouts out the real price of context switching, and Nick Nisi tells us all about jqq. Bam! Bam! Bam!
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Build tiny multi-platform apps with Tauri and web tech (Changelog Interviews #497)
This week we’re talking with Daniel Thompson about Tauri and their journey to their recent 1.0 release. Tauri is often compared to Electron - it’s a toolkit that lets you build software for all major desktop operating systems using web technologies. It was built for the security-focused, privacy-respecting, and environmentally-conscious software engineering community. The core libraries are written in Rust and the UI layer can be written using virtually any frontend framework. We get into all the details, why Rust, how the project was formed, their resistance (thus far) to venture capital, their full commitment to the freedom virtues of open source, and all the technical bits you need to know to consider it for your next multi-platform project.
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- Daniel Thompson – GitHub, LinkedIn
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- tauri.app
- Tauri 1.0 Release
- Tauri prerequisites
- Tauri SOCIAL_CONTRACT.md
- Awesome Tauri
- The Changelog #470: Returning to GitHub to lead Sponsors with Jessica Lord
- rust-lang/rustlings
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Deno's Fresh new web framework (JS Party #234)
Deno team member Luca Casonato joins Jerod & Feross to tell us about Fresh – a next generation web framework, built for speed, reliability, and simplicity.
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- Feross Aboukhadijeh – Website, GitHub, X
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Enabling a world where all software is reliable (Founders Talk #92)
This week Adam is joined by Robert Ross founder and CEO of FireHydrant — the glue layer between your tech stack and your teams to mitigate and resolve incidents at scale.
Robert shares his journey to become a software engineer, his time at DigitalOcean, this idea of incident management as a platform and how he shifted his focus from creating courses on incident management to recognizing the value of the software he was creating for the course — what is now known as FireHydrant. We also talk through his first experience in raising capital, what happens when the bar is raised on the reliability of the world’s software, and why their mantra is “Hire great people, who build, sell and market a great product, and you’ll have a great company.”
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Might Go actually be OOP? (Go Time #238)
A conversation with Ronna Steinberg, who was an OOP developer for many years, and now is a Go Google Developer Expert. Ronna has been thinking about Go and OOP for awhile, asking herself whether or not Go is an object oriented programming language. Tune in to find out her answer and hear some of the options gophers have for object oriented design.
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The ops & infra behind Transistor.fm (Ship It! #61)
Today we talk with two lovely folks from Transistor.fm: Jason Pearl, Senior Software Developer & Jon Buda, co-founder. Gerhard was curious to find out about their setup & how did it change with the launch of the new podcast website builder. After all, you have been hearing us talk about our setup for years, so it was high-time to challenge some assumptions and learn how another team is solving similar problems.
TL;DL: keeping it simple is at the root of smooth operations & stable systems.
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- Transistor.fm launches Free Podcast Website Builder on Product Hunt
- Jason joins Transistor.fm
- CloudFlare R2
- Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
- 🎧 Build your SaaS E135: What’s it really like to work at Transistor?
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Cloning voices with Coqui (Practical AI #184)
Coqui is a speech technology startup that making huge waves in terms of their contributions to open source speech technology, open access models and data, and compelling voice cloning functionality. Josh Meyer from Coqui joins us in this episode to discuss cloning voices that have emotion, fostering open source, and how creators are using AI tech.
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- Josh Meyer – GitHub, X
- Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- Coqui
- BibleTTS - Data and models for African langauges
- Coqui TTS Hugging Face Space
- Coqui on Github
- Joshua’s previous Practical AI episode about Common Voice
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Bun, K8s is a red flag, "critical" open source packages, Rustlings & FP jargon in simple terms (Changelog News #3)
Jarred Sumner’s Bun comes out of the oven, Jeremy Brown doesn’t want you prematurely optimizing, Armin Ronacher’s not excited about his “critical” Python package, Daniel Thompson from Tauri thinks you should check out Rustlings, and we draw a straight line between Functional Programming jargon and boujee Gen Z slang.
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Oxide builds servers (as they should be) (Changelog Interviews #496)
Today we have a special treat: Bryan Cantrill, co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer! You may know Bryan from his work on DTrace. He worked at Sun for many years, then Oracle, and finally Joyent before starting Oxide.
We dig deep into their company’s mission/principles/values, hear how it it all started with a VC’s blank check that turned out to be anything but, and learn how Oxide’s integrated approach to hardware & software sets them up to compete with the established players by building servers as they should be.
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Show Notes:
- Oxide Computer
- Pierre Lamond
- Brendan Gregg shouting in the datacenter
- On Hubris and Humility: developing an OS for robustness in Rust
- Oxide on My Wrist: Hubris on PineTime was the best worst idea
- Omicron: Oxide control plane
- Oxide on Twitter
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Accidentally testable (JS Party #233)
OSS developer Jessica Sachs joins Jerod & Kball to discuss re-launching and maintaining Faker.js after it was abandoned last January, Component Driven Development & Neopets!
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- Open source developer corrupts his own files, impacting millions
- 🎧 JS Party #210: What’s in your package.json?
- Component Driven User Interfaces
- The Neopets HTML Guide
- Histoire - A new way to write stories
- Svelte Summit 2022
- 🎧 JS Party #148: Thank you, Dr. Bahmutav!
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Kaizen! Post-migration cleanup (Ship It! #60)
In our 6th Kaizen, we talk with Jerod about all the things that we cleaned up after migrating changelog.com from a managed Kubernetes to Fly.io. We deleted the K8s cluster and moved wildcard cert management to Fastly & all our vanity domain certs to Fly.io. We migrated the Docker Engine that our GitHub Actions is using - PR #416 has all the details. We did a few other things in preparation for our secrets plan. Thank you Maikel Vlasman, James Harr, Adrian Mester, Omri Gabay & Owen Valentine for kicking it off in our Slack #shipit channel.
Gerhard’s favourite improvement: the new shipit.show domain.
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- PR #416 - Deploy & use Docker Engine running on Fly.io
- Jerod does some more Kaizen-driven development: 404 & 500 fix 💪 try shipit.show/1234
- shipit.show/60 👈 works for any published episode
- shipit.show/request 💬 request an episode
- Argo CD Vault Plugin 👍 thanks Adrian Mester
- 1Password/vault-plugin-secrets-onepassword 👍 thanks Owen Valentine
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Go tooling ♻️ (Go Time #237)
We’re talking about the tools we use every day help us to be productive! This show will be a great introduction for those new to Go tooling, with some discussion around what we think of them after using some of them for many years.
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- Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
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- GolangCI-Lint — “5x faster than gometalinter”
- vim-go
- How can I track tool dependencies for a module?
- go/packages
- Golint — a linter for Go source code
- conprof — Continuous profiling
- func Walk
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DevTool platform types, things to know about databases, starting with commas, Lobsters turns 10 & Upptime (Changelog News #2)
We’re listening! This week’s experimental, super-brief Monday edition of “The Changelog” has the following new features: It’s longer, there’s no background music during the stories, and it includes stories previously not featured in the newsletter.
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Actual(ly) opening up (Changelog Interviews #495)
Adam and Jerod are joined once again by James Long. He was on the podcast five years ago discussing the surprise success of Prettier, an opinionated code formatter that’s still in use to this day. This time around we’re going deep on Actual, his personal finance system James built as a business for over 4 years before recently opening it up and making it 100% free.
Has James given up on the business? Or will this move Actual(ly) breathe new life into a piece of software that’s used and beloved by many? Tune in to find out.
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Actual’s website
- Actual’s Discord
- Actual on GitHub
- Open-sourcing Actual
- You Need a Budget
- Dave Ramsey’s EveryDollar
- The Broken Window Theory
- Absurd SQL on GitHub
- Tauri
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Sophisticated Cornhole (JS Party #232)
Jerod, Nick & Ali partake in a few rounds of Story of the Week, TIL, and I’m Excited about $X. Oh, and is TypeScript the new Java? Nick responds and emotes all over the place! 😆
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- Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Ali Spittel – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
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Story of the Week
- Deno raises $21m
- GitHub Copilot pricing announced
- Amazon Codewhisperer
- Brave Search Goggles
- RIP Atom
- hello, Zed
Today I Learned
I’m Excited About $X
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Thoughts on velocity (Go Time #236)
A deep discussion on that tension between development speed and software quality. What is velocity? How does it differ from speed? How do we measure it? How do we optimize it?
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- LaunchDarkly – Fundamentally change how you deliver software. Innovate faster, deploy fearlessly, and make each release a masterpiece.
- Akuity – Akuity is a new platform (founded by Argo co-creators) that brings fully-managed Argo CD and enterprise services to the cloud or on premise. They’re inviting our listeners to join the closed beta at akuity.io/changelog. The platform is a versatile Kubernetes operator for handling cluster deployments the GitOps way. Deploy your apps instantly and monitor their state — get minimum overhead, maximum impact, and enterprise readiness from day one.
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- Natalie Pistunovich – GitHub, X
- Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
- Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
- How to Use the Fibonacci Scale in Agile Estimation
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Postgres vs SQLite with Litestream (Ship It! #59)
Ben Johnson, the creator of Litestream, joined Fly.io a few weeks after we migrated changelog.com - episode 50 has all the details. That was pure coincidence. What was not a coincidence, is Gerhard jumping at the opportunity to talk to Ben about Postgres vs SQLite with Litestream.
The prospect of running a cluster of our app instances spread across all regions, with local SQLite & Litestream replication, is mind boggling. Let’s find out from Ben what will it take to get there. Thanks Kürt for kicking off this dream.
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SHIPITand get the team plan free for three months. - FireHydrant – The reliability platform for every developer. Incidents impact everyone, not just SREs. FireHydrant gives teams the tools to maintain service catalogs, respond to incidents, communicate through status pages, and learn with retrospectives. Small teams up to 10 people can get started for free with all FireHydrant features included. No credit card required to sign up. Learn more at firehydrant.io
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- Akuity – Akuity is a new platform (founded by Argo co-creators) that brings fully-managed Argo CD and enterprise services to the cloud or on premise. They’re inviting our listeners to join the closed beta at akuity.io/changelog. The platform is a versatile Kubernetes operator for handling cluster deployments the GitOps way. Deploy your apps instantly and monitor their state — get minimum overhead, maximum impact, and enterprise readiness from day one.
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Show Notes:
🆕 FOLLOW-UP: Live read replicas update in GitHub issue comment
- How this episode started
- I’m All-In on Server-Side SQLite
- Getting Started with Litestream
- github.com/benbjohnson/litestream
- litestream.io repository
- The Secret Lives of Data - Raft
- 🎧 Replicating SQLite using Litestream with Ben Johnson - ThinkingElixir #101 - May, 2022
- 🎧 Open source, not open contribution - Changelog #433 - March, 2021
- Datasette - An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data
- How Litestream Eliminated My Database Server for $0.03/month - April, 2021
- Picoshare - A minimalist, easy-to-host service for sharing images and other files
- Picoshare deploy to Fly.io
- Fly Machines: An API for Fast-booting VMs
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AI's role in reprogramming immunity (Practical AI #183)
Drausin Wulsin, Director of ML at Immunai, joins Daniel & Chris to talk about the role of AI in immunotherapy, and why it is proving to be the foremost approach in fighting cancer, autoimmune disease, and infectious diseases.
The large amount of high dimensional biological data that is available today, combined with advanced machine learning techniques, creates unique opportunities to push the boundaries of what is possible in biology.
To that end, Immunai has built the largest immune database called AMICA that contains tens of millions of cells. The company uses cutting-edge transfer learning techniques to transfer knowledge across different cell types, studies, and even species.
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- Drausin Wulsin – LinkedIn
- Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
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Markwhen, Tauri 1.0, SLCs & imposters (Changelog News #1)
We’re experimenting with something new: a super-brief Monday edition of “The Changelog” to help start your week off right and keep you up with the fast-moving software world.
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Ahoy hoy, JSNation & React Summit! (JS Party #231)
Nick went to Amsterdam for JSNation & React Summit 2022 and he joins Jerod to report on all the goodness! He also sits down with two special guests involved with the confs to talk Jest Preview and GraphQL Cache
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- Hung Nguyen – Website, GitHub, X
- Raman Lally – GitHub, X
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- Nick’s Tweet thread
- Yulia Startsev on JS Party #180
- Hung on Twitter
- Jest Preview
- Jest Preview on GitHub
- OS Awards
- Raman’s talk at React Summit
- Apollo Client
- React Query
- GraphQL Tag
- GraphQL Code Generator
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Lessons from 5 years of startup code audits (Changelog Interviews #494)
Adam and Jerod are joined by Ken Kantzer, co-founder of PKC Security. Ken and his team performed upwards of 20 code audits on well-funded startups. Now that it’s 7 or 8 years later, he wrote up 16 surprising observations and things he learned looking back at the experience. We gotta discuss ’em all!
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CHANGELOGand get the team plan free for three months. - InfluxData – The time series platform for building and operating time series applications — InfluxDB empowers developers to build IoT, analytics, and monitoring software. It’s purpose-built to handle massive volumes and countless sources of time-stamped data produced by sensors, applications, and infrastructure. Learn more at influxdata.com/changelog
- Honeycomb – Guess less, know more. When production is running slow, it’s hard to know where problems originate: is it your application code, users, or the underlying systems? With Honeycomb you get a fast, unified, and clear understanding of the one thing driving your business: production. Join the swarm and try Honeycomb free today at honeycomb.io/changelog
- Sourcegraph – Transform your code into a queryable database to create customizable visual dashboards in seconds. Sourcegraph recently launched Code Insights — now you can track what really matters to you and your team in your codebase. See how other teams are using this awesome feature at about.sourcegraph.com/code-insights
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- Ken Kantzer – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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2053: A Go Odyssey (Go Time #235)
The year is 2053. The tabs-vs-spaces wars are long over. Ron Evans is the only Go programmer still alive on Earth. All he does is maintain old Go code. It’s terrible! He must find a way to warn his fellow gophers before it’s too late. Good thing he finally got that PDQ transmission system working…
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- FireHydrant – The reliability platform for every developer. Incidents impact everyone, not just SREs. FireHydrant gives teams the tools to maintain service catalogs, respond to incidents, communicate through status pages, and learn with retrospectives. Small teams up to 10 people can get started for free with all FireHydrant features included. No credit card required to sign up. Learn more at firehydrant.io
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- Ron Evans – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Natalie Pistunovich – GitHub, X
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How to keep a secret (Ship It! #58)
Rob Barnes (a.k.a. Devops Rob) and Rosemary Wang (author of Infrastructure as Code - Patterns & Practices) are joining us today to talk about infrastructure secrets.
What do Rosemary and Rob think about committing encrypted secrets into a repository? How do they suggest that we improve on storing secrets in LastPass? And if we were to choose HashiCorp Vault, what do we need to know?
Thank you Thomas Eckert for the intro. Thank you Nabeel Sulieman (ep. 46) & Kelsey Hightower (ep. 44) for your gentle nudges towards improving our infra secrets management.
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Featuring:
- Rosemary Wang – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Rob Barnes – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Show Notes:
- Bitnami Sealed Secrets
ageCLI- Mozilla SOPS
- Experimental LastPass provider for Kubernetes Secrets Store
- HashiCorp Vault
- 📖 Infrastructure as Code, Patterns and Practices - Rosemary Wang, July 2022
- 🎬 Cloud Identity with HashiCorp Vault - Rob Barnes, DevOps Exchange London, March 2022
- 🎬 Developing a Secrets Engine for HashiCorp Vault - Rosemary Wang, August 2021
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Machine learning in your database (Practical AI #182)
While scaling up machine learning at Instacart, Montana Low and Lev Kokotov discovered just how much you can do with the Postgres database. They are building on that work with PostgresML, an extension to the database that lets you train and deploy models to make online predictions using only SQL. This is super practical discussion that you don’t want to miss!
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- Montana Low – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Lev Kokotov – GitHub, LinkedIn
- Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
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What even is a DevRel? (Changelog Interviews #493)
This week Lee Robinson joins us to talk about his journey as a DevRel. We talk about what it means to be a DevRel, what orgs they fall under, how he runs his team at Vercel, Lee’s three pillars of DevRel: education, community, and product, we compare the old days of DevRel vs now, and of course what makes a DevRel a good DevRel.
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- Lee Robinson – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
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What do oranges & flame graphs have in common? (Ship It! #57)
Today we are talking with Frederic Branczyk, founder of Polar Signals & Prometheus maintainer. You may remember Frederic from episode 33 when we introduced Parca.dev.
This time, we talk about a database built for observability: FrostDB, formerly known as ArcticDB. eBPF generates a lot of high cardinality data, which requires a new approach to writing, persisting & then reading back this state.
TL;DR FrostDB is sub zero cool & well worthy of its name.
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Show Notes:
- ⚠️ Naming is hard: ArcticDB is now FrostDB (+updates!)
- Introducing ArcticDB: A database for Observability
- Profiling Next.js apps with Parca
- Michal Kuratczyk helped us figure out what we were doing wrong with Erlang perf maps
- David Ansari: Improving RabbitMQ Performance with Flame Graphs
- Kemal Akkoyun: Fantastic Symbols and Where to Find Them Part 1 & Part 2
- Matthias Loibl: pyrra - Making SLOs with Prometheus manageable, accessible, and easy to use for everyone!
- Tyler Neely: 🎬 Modern database engineering with io_uring - FOSDEM 2020
- Achille Roussel: Go library to read/write Parquet files - segmentio/parquet-go
- Julia Evans: How to spy on a Ruby program
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ESLint and TypeScript (JS Party #230)
Josh Goldberg joins Nick, Chris & a very nasally-sounding KBall for a fun conversation around TypeScript ESLint. They discuss why we need ESLint when we have TypeScript, some useful rules in typescript-eslint, how it works, and a few hot takes along the way!
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- Josh Goldberg – GitHub, X
- Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Christopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
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Observability in the wild: strategies that work (Go Time #234)
This week we’re featuring an episode of Grafana’s Big Tent! LEGO Group principal engineer Nayana Shetty swaps observability survival stories (to drill or not to drill?) with hosts Mat Ryer and Matt Toback. The trio also reveals new and different observability strategies that have been successful and effective in their organizations.
Plus: Nayana shares how she built her successful observability career brick by brick.
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- FireHydrant – The reliability platform for every developer. Incidents impact everyone, not just SREs. FireHydrant gives teams the tools to maintain service catalogs, respond to incidents, communicate through status pages, and learn with retrospectives. Small teams up to 10 people can get started for free with all FireHydrant features included. No credit card required to sign up. Learn more at firehydrant.io
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- Akuity – Akuity is a new platform (founded by Argo co-creators) that brings fully-managed Argo CD and enterprise services to the cloud or on premise. They’re inviting our listeners to join the closed beta at akuity.io/changelog. The platform is a versatile Kubernetes operator for handling cluster deployments the GitOps way. Deploy your apps instantly and monitor their state — get minimum overhead, maximum impact, and enterprise readiness from day one.
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- Nayana Shetty – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Matt Toback – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Show Notes:
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Digital humans & detecting emotions (Practical AI #181)
Could we create a digital human that processes data in a variety of modalities and detects emotions? Well, that’s exactly what NTT DATA Services is trying to do, and, in this episode, Theresa Kushner joins us to talk about their motivations, use cases, current systems, progress, and related ethical issues.
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Digital Humans videos:
Virtual Learning Buddy teaching kids to read:
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Two decades as a solo indie Mac dev (Changelog Interviews #492)
This week Jesse Grosjean joins us to talk about his career as a solo indie Mac dev. Since 2004 Jesse has been building Mac apps under the company name Hog Bay Software producing hits such as WriteRoom, Taskpaper, and now Bike. We talk through the evolution of his apps, how he considers new features and improvements, why he chose and continues to choose the Mac platform, his business model and pricing for his apps, and what it takes to build his business around macOS and the driving force of the App Store.
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- Jesse Grosjean – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Editor’s note: Technically Jesse has been doing Hog Bay Software for 18 years (since 2004). We rounded up to 20 years (2 decades) for the title’s sake.
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WTF, JS? (JS Party #229)
KBall, Ali & Nick explore a new type of segment: “WTFJS” talking about wild and wooly “it’s not a bug it’s a feature” examples in the JavaScript language. They also dive into code maintainability, and end by discussing the whiplash shift in the tech industry from “hottest market for engineers in history” to “oh noes everything is stopping!”
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- Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Ali Spittel – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Show Notes:
- www.jsfuck.com
- Cross Browser Crazy
- 0.30000000000000004.com/
- Sandi Metz’s rules for developers
- Interview with Michael Chan on DRY
- Code Owners on Github
- YC “plan for the worst” memo
- Sequoia “Adapting To Endure” deck
- layoffs.fyi
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Going through the news (Go Time #233)
We’re trying something new this week: discussing the news! Natalie, Kris & Ian weigh in on GopherCon’s move to Chicago, Google DDoSing SourceHut, reflections on Go’s success, and a new/old proposal for anonymous function syntax.
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- Akuity – Akuity is a new platform (founded by Argo co-creators) that brings fully-managed Argo CD and enterprise services to the cloud or on premise. They’re inviting our listeners to join the closed beta at akuity.io/changelog. The platform is a versatile Kubernetes operator for handling cluster deployments the GitOps way. Deploy your apps instantly and monitor their state — get minimum overhead, maximum impact, and enterprise readiness from day one.
- Flatfile – Data import is broken. We fixed it. Flatfile’s powerful out-of-the-box solution takes the data import burden off your shoulders, freeing you to solve bigger business problems and build products that people love.
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Show Notes:
- GopherCon to be held in Chicago on October 6th-8th
- Google has been DDoSing SourceHut for over a year
- Go’s 5 creators reflect on the language’s success in ACM
- proposal: Go 2: Lightweight anonymous function syntax
- The Trevor Project
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DevOps teams with shared responsibilities (Ship It! #56)
Today we are talking with Maikel Vlasman, technical lead for a large Dutch machine construction company, and a cloud engineer by heart. We cover self-updating GitLab & ArgoCD, Maikel’s thinking behind dev environment setup and a Kubernetes workshop that he is preparing for his team. The goal is to function as a true DevOps team with shared responsibilities.
This conversation started as a thread in our community Slack - link in the show notes. Thank you Maikel for being a long-time Changelog listener and for reaching out to us - we enjoyed telling this story.
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- Raygun – Never miss another mission-critical issue again — Raygun Alerting is now available for Crash Reporting and Real User Monitoring, to make sure you are quickly notified of the errors, crashes, and front-end performance issues that matter most to you and your business. Set thresholds for your alert based on an increase in error count, a spike in load time, or new issues introduced in the latest deployment. Start your free 14-day trial at Raygun.com
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Show Notes:
- 2 months ago, Maikel reached out via our Slack
- 🎬 Introduction to Docker - the video that introduced Maikel to cloud engineering
- Terraform Argo CD - set up Argo CD in K8s & then maintain everything (including Argo CD) using Argo CD GitOps pull functionality
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Generalist models & Iceman's voice (Practical AI #180)
In this “fully connected” episode of the podcast, we catch up on some recent developments in the AI world, including a new model from DeepMind called Gato. This generalist model can play video games, caption images, respond to chat messages, control robot arms, and much more. We also discuss the use of AI in the entertainment industry (e.g., in new Top Gun movie).
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DeepMind’s Gato:
Iceman’s voice in Top Gun:
Responsible AI review processes: From a developer’s point of view
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Fireside chat with Jack Dorsey (Founders Talk #91)
Adam was invited by our friends at Square to interview Jack Dorsey as part of their annual developer conference called Square Unboxed. Jack Dorsey is one of the most prolific CEOs out there — he’s a hacker turned CEO and is often working at the very edge of what’s to come (at scale). Jack is focused on what the future has to offer, he’s considered an innovator by many. He’s also a Bitcoin maximalist and has positioned himself and Block long on Bitcoin.
What you’re about to hear is the fireside chat Adam had with Jack at Square Unboxed 2022. Jack and Adam discuss the vision Square has for the developer platform and why it’s so central to the company’s strategy.
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Show Notes:
- Block.xyz
- Square Unboxed 2022
- Square Unboxed 2022’s replay on YouTube
- Square Unboxed 2022’s recap blog post
- Jack Dorsey on Lex Fridman (#91)
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Live from Remix Conf! (JS Party #228)
Ali & Divya recorded seven (!) awesome conversations all about Remix and the web ecosystem live on-stage at the first-ever Remix Conf after-party!
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- Kent C. Dodds – Website, GitHub, X
- Henri Helvetica – X
- Arisa Fukuzaki – GitHub, X
- Anthony Frehner – GitHub, X
- Emily Kauffman – GitHub, X
- Aaron Saunders – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Michael Jackson – Website, GitHub, X
- Divya – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Ali Spittel – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
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The myth of incremental progress (Go Time #232)
During a conversation in the #gotime channel of Gopher Slack, Jerod mentioned that some people paint with a blank canvas while others paint by numbers. In this 8th episode of the maintenance series, we’re talking about maintaining our knowledge. With Jerod’s analogy and a little help from a Leslie Lamport interview, our panel discusses the myth of incremental progress.
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- Square – Develop on the platform that sellers trust. There is a massive opportunity for developers to support Square sellers by building apps for today’s business needs. Learn more at changelog.com/square to dive into the docs, APIs, SDKs and to create your Square Developer account — tell them Changelog sent you.
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- Flatfile – Data import is broken. We fixed it. Flatfile’s powerful out-of-the-box solution takes the data import burden off your shoulders, freeing you to solve bigger business problems and build products that people love.
Featuring:
- Kris Brandow – GitHub, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
- Ian Lopshire – GitHub, X
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Optimising sociotechnical systems (Ship It! #55)
Today we are talking how to optimise sociotechnical systems with Ben Ford, founder & CEO of Mission Control. The correct order is: people, process & technology. The tools are important, and we talk about specific ones in the second half of this episode, but there are rules and principles that govern how people interact, and we need to start there.
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- Raygun – Never miss another mission-critical issue again — Raygun Alerting is now available for Crash Reporting and Real User Monitoring, to make sure you are quickly notified of the errors, crashes, and front-end performance issues that matter most to you and your business. Set thresholds for your alert based on an increase in error count, a spike in load time, or new issues introduced in the latest deployment. Start your free 14-day trial at Raygun.com
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Show Notes:
- 🎧 Ship It! #4 OODA for operational excellence
- 🎬 The Paradox of Control - NATO C2COE C2 Webinar 2021 - Ben Ford
- Mission ctrl - Organisation engineering as a service
- Strapi - Next.js Corporate Starter
- Appsmith - Open source framework to build internal tools
- Metabase - Business Intelligence
- Cube.dev - Open Source Headless Business Intelligence
- Causal.app - Business Planning Platform
- The Orbit Model
- Orbit - Community Growth Platform
- n8n.io - Workflow Automation Platform
- Hasura - Instant GraphQL on all your data
- Railway.app - Bring your code, we’ll handle the rest.
- Notion - One workspace. Every team.
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🤗 The AI community building the future (Practical AI #179)
Hugging Face is increasingly becomes the “hub” of AI innovation. In this episode, Merve Noyan joins us to dive into this hub in more detail. We discuss automation around model cards, reproducibility, and the new community features. If you are wanting to engage with the wider AI community, this is the show for you!
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- Merve Noyan – GitHub, X
- Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
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JS logging & error handling (JS Party #227)
Nick and Chris welcome back Mik and Bret to discuss logging and error handling in Node and JavaScript and the subtleties and intricacies that extend far beyond console.log!
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- Bret Comnes – Website, GitHub, X
- Mikola Lysenko – GitHub, X
- Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Christopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- JS Party #219 - Making moves on supply chain security
- FullStory
- pino
- grafana
- DataDog RUM
- React Suspense: Async Rendering in React
- Matomo
- Abort Signal
- Semaphore
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Stacked diffs for fast-moving code review (Changelog Interviews #491)
This week we’re peeking into the future again — this time we’re looking at the future of modern code review and workflows around pull requests. Jerod and Adam were joined by two of the co-founders of Graphite — Tomas Reimers and Greg Foster.
Graphite is an open-source CLI and code review dashboard built for engineers who want to write and review smaller pull requests, stay unblocked, and ship faster. We cover all the details – how they got started, how this product emerged from another idea they were working on, the state of adoption, why stacking changes is the way of the future, how it’s just Git under the hood, and what they’re doing with the $20M in funding they just got from a16z.
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Featuring:
- Tomas Reimers – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Greg Foster – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- The Mom Test
- Phabricator
- Graphite demo video
- graphite.dev
- docs.graphite.dev
- Graphite jobs
- $20m funding from a16z
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Berlin's transition to Go (Go Time #231)
The Berlin tech ecosystem was all about PHP/Python for a long time. In the recent years it became a tech hub and an early adopter of Go. In this conversation we’ll see how this reflects in the 10+ years old Go meetup, with the meetup organizing team.
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- Chronosphere – Chronosphere is the observability platform for cloud-native teams operating at scale. When it comes to observability, teams need a reliable, scalable, and efficient solution so they can know about issues well before their customers do. Teams choose Chronosphere to help them move faster than the competition. Learn more and get a demo at chronosphere.io.
- Honeycomb – Guess less, know more. When production is running slow, it’s hard to know where problems originate: is it your application code, users, or the underlying systems? With Honeycomb you get a fast, unified, and clear understanding of the one thing driving your business: production. Join the swarm and try Honeycomb free today at honeycomb.io/changelog
- Akuity – Akuity is a new platform (founded by Argo co-creators) that brings fully-managed Argo CD and enterprise services to the cloud or on premise. They’re inviting our listeners to join the closed beta at akuity.io/changelog. The platform is a versatile Kubernetes operator for handling cluster deployments the GitOps way. Deploy your apps instantly and monitor their state — get minimum overhead, maximum impact, and enterprise readiness from day one.
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Knative, Sigstore & swag (KubeCon EU 2022) (Ship It! #54)
This is the post-KubeCon CloudNativeCon EU 2022 week. Gerhard is talking to Matt Moore, founder & CTO of Chainguard about all things Knative and Sigstore.
The most important topic is swag, because none has better stickers than Chainguard.
The other topic is the equivalent of Let’s Encrypt for securing software.
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- Raygun – Never miss another mission-critical issue again — Raygun Alerting is now available for Crash Reporting and Real User Monitoring, to make sure you are quickly notified of the errors, crashes, and front-end performance issues that matter most to you and your business. Set thresholds for your alert based on an increase in error count, a spike in load time, or new issues introduced in the latest deployment. Start your free 14-day trial at Raygun.com
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- Chronosphere – Chronosphere is the observability platform for cloud-native teams operating at scale. When it comes to observability, teams need a reliable, scalable, and efficient solution so they can know about issues well before their customers do. Teams choose Chronosphere to help them move faster than the competition. Learn more and get a demo at chronosphere.io.
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Schneier on security for tomorrow’s software (Changelog Interviews #490)
This week we’re talking with Bruce Schneier — cryptographer, computer security professional, privacy specialist, and writer (of many books). He calls himself a “public-interest technologist”, a term he coined himself, and works at the intersection of security, technology, and people.
Bruce has been writing about security issues on his blog since 2004, his monthly newsletter has been going since 1998, he’s a fellow and lecturer at Harvard’s Kennedy School, a board member of the EFF, and the Chief of Security Architecture at Inrupt. Long story short, Bruce has credentials to back up his opinions and on today’s show we dig into the state of cyber-security, security and privacy best practices, his thoughts on Bitcoin (and other crypto-currencies), Tim Berners-Lee’s Solid project, and of course we asked Bruce to share his advice for today’s developers building the software systems of tomorrow.
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CHANGELOGand get the team plan free for three months. - FireHydrant – The reliability platform for every developer. Incidents impact everyone, not just SREs. FireHydrant gives teams the tools to maintain service catalogs, respond to incidents, communicate through status pages, and learn with retrospectives. Small teams up to 10 people can get started for free with all FireHydrant features included. No credit card required to sign up. Learn more at firehydrant.io
- Sourcegraph – Transform your code into a queryable database to create customizable visual dashboards in seconds. Sourcegraph recently launched Code Insights — now you can track what really matters to you and your team in your codebase. See how other teams are using this awesome feature at about.sourcegraph.com/code-insights
Featuring:
- Bruce Schneier – Website, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Schneier on Security
- Public-Interest Technology Resources - maintained by Bruce Schneier
- WannaCry, Petya, NotPetya: how ransomware hit the big time in 2017
- The Tinder Swindler (official trailer)
- Trust No One: The Hunt for the Crypto King (official trailer)
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Securing K8s releases (KubeCon EU 2022) (Ship It! #53)
Today we are at KubeCon CloudNativeCon EU 2022, talking to Adolfo García Veytia about securing Kubernetes releases. Adolfo is a Staff Software Engineer at Chainguard, and one of the technical leads for SIG release, meaning that he helps ship Kubernetes. You most likely know him as Puerco, and have seen first-hand his passion for securing software via SBOMs, cosign and SLSA. Puerco’s love for bikes and Chainguard are a great match 🚴♂️
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- Sentry – Working code means happy customers. That’s exactly why teams choose Sentry. From error tracking to performance monitoring, Sentry helps teams see what actually matters, resolve problems quicker, and learn continuously about their applications - from the frontend to the backend. Use the code
SHIPITand get the team plan free for three months. - Chronosphere – Chronosphere is the observability platform for cloud-native teams operating at scale. When it comes to observability, teams need a reliable, scalable, and efficient solution so they can know about issues well before their customers do. Teams choose Chronosphere to help them move faster than the competition. Learn more and get a demo at chronosphere.io.
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Show Notes:
- KCCNCEU 2022: Make the Secure Kubernetes Supply Chain Work for You - Adolfo García Veytia, Chainguard
- KCCNCEU 2022: Releasing Kubernetes Less Often and More Secure - The SIG Release Update - Adolfo García Veytia & Carlos Panato, Chainguard; Sascha Grunert, Red Hat; Stephen Augustus, Cisco
- Kubernetes signals massive adoption of Sigstore for protecting open source ecosystem
- kubectl plugin for signing Kubernetes manifest YAML files with sigstore
- CLI utility to generate SPDX-compliant Bill of Materials manifests
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The third year of the third age of JS (JS Party #226)
In 2020, Shawn (swyx) Wang wrote:
Every 10 years there is a changing of the guard in JavaScript. I think we have just started a period of accelerated change that could in thge future be regarded as the Third Age of JavaScript.
We’re now in year three of this third age and Swyx joins us to look back at what he missed, look around at what’s happening today, and look forward at what might be coming next.
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Featuring:
- Shawn Wang – Website, GitHub, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Reactathon
- swyx’s talk at Reactathon
- The Third Age of JavaScript
- Lydia Hallie’s talk on rendering patterns
- analytics.usa.gov
- The Birth and Death of JavaScript
- The Rise of WebAssembly (Infoworld)
- Ryan Dahl on JavaScript containers
- swyx on The Changelog #467
- The other thing I like about esbuild is that it’s a static Go binary, so I feel more confident that I’ll be able to get it to work in the future than with tool written in Javascript, just because I understand the Javascript ecosystem
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Revisiting Caddy (Go Time #230)
Matt Holt & Mohammed S. Al Sahaf sit down with Natalie & Jon to discuss every gopher’s favorite open source web server with automatic HTTPS!
In addition to laying out what Caddy is and why it’s interesting, we dive deep into how you can (and why you might want to) extend Caddy as a result of its modular architecture.
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- Akuity – Akuity is a new platform (founded by Argo co-creators) that brings fully-managed Argo CD and enterprise services to the cloud or on premise. They’re inviting our listeners to join the closed beta at akuity.io/changelog. The platform is a versatile Kubernetes operator for handling cluster deployments the GitOps way. Deploy your apps instantly and monitor their state — get minimum overhead, maximum impact, and enterprise readiness from day one.
- Square – Develop on the platform that sellers trust. There is a massive opportunity for developers to support Square sellers by building apps for today’s business needs. Learn more at changelog.com/square to dive into the docs, APIs, SDKs and to create your Square Developer account — tell them Changelog sent you.
- Retool – The low-code platform for developers to build internal tools — Some of the best teams out there trust Retool…Brex, Coinbase, Plaid, Doordash, LegalGenius, Amazon, Allbirds, Peloton, and so many more – the developers at these teams trust Retool as the platform to build their internal tools. Try it free at retool.com/changelog
Featuring:
- Matt Holt – Website, GitHub, X
- Mohammed S. Al Sahaf – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Natalie Pistunovich – GitHub, X
- Jon Calhoun – Website, GitHub, X
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From GitHub TV to Rewatch (Founders Talk #90)
Connor Sears, founder and CEO of Rewatch, joins Adam to share the journey of creating Rewatch. What began inside of GitHub to help them thrive and connect is now available to every product team on the planet. Rewatch lets teams save, manage, and search all their video content so they can collaborate async and with greater flexibility. We talk about where the tool’s inspiration came from (spoiler alert, inside GitHub it was called GitHub TV which you’ll hear during the show), how teams leverage video to reduce the constraints of communication, how Connor and his co-founder knew they had product-fit and how they grew the team and product, and of course the flip side of that — we talk about some of Connor’s failures along the way, and knowing when it’s the right time to take a big swing.
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- Video keeps your team connected and inspired
- Rewatch raises $20M in Series A funding
- Zoom fatigue no more: Rewatch raises $20M to index, transcribe and store enterprise video content
- Investing in Rewatch
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Active learning & endangered languages (Practical AI #178)
Don’t all AI methods need a bunch of data to work? How could AI help document and revitalize endangered languages with “human-in-the-loop” or “active learning” methods? Sarah Moeller from the University of Florida joins us to discuss those and other related questions. She also shares many of her personal experiences working with languages in low resource settings.
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- Sarah Moeller – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn
- Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
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Run your home on a Raspberry Pi (Changelog Interviews #489)
This week we’re joined by Mike Riley and we’re talking about his book Portable Python Projects (Running your home on a Raspberry Pi). We breakdown the details of the latest Raspberry Pi hardware, various automation ideas from the book, why Mike prefers Python for scripting on a Raspberry Pi, and of course why the Raspberry Pi makes sense for home labs concerned about data security.
Use the code PYPROJECTS to get a 35% discount on the book. That code is valid for approximately 60 days after the episode’s publish date.
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- FireHydrant – The reliability platform for every developer. Incidents impact everyone, not just SREs. FireHydrant gives teams the tools to maintain service catalogs, respond to incidents, communicate through status pages, and learn with retrospectives. Small teams up to 10 people can get started for free with all FireHydrant features included. No credit card required to sign up. Learn more at firehydrant.io
- Retool – The low-code platform for developers to build internal tools — Some of the best teams out there trust Retool…Brex, Coinbase, Plaid, Doordash, LegalGenius, Amazon, Allbirds, Peloton, and so many more – the developers at these teams trust Retool as the platform to build their internal tools. Try it free at retool.com/changelog
- Sourcegraph – Move fast, even in big codebases. Sourcegraph is universal code search for every developer and team. Easily search across all the code that matters to you and your organization: find example code, explore and read code, debug issues, and more. Head to info.sourcegraph.com/changelog and click the button “Try Sourcegraph now” to get started.
Featuring:
- Mike Riley – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- mikeriley.com
- Portable Python Projects (Running your home on a Raspberry Pi)
- Manjaro
- Pi-hole
- Raspberry Pi hardware
- Jeff Geerling
- Raspberry Pi PCIe Devices
- Techno Tim
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A JS framework for startups: Redwood goes 1.0 (JS Party #225)
KBall interviews TPW about the 1.0 release of Redwood - what it provides, why they’ve repositioned as a “JavaScript framework optimized for startups”, and what’s coming next.
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- Vercel – Vercel combines the best developer experience with an obsessive focus on end-user performance. Our platform enables frontend teams to do their best work. Unlock a better frontend workflow today.
- Sourcegraph – Move fast, even in big codebases. Sourcegraph is universal code search for every developer and team. Easily search across all the code that matters to you and your organization: find example code, explore and read code, debug issues, and more. Head to info.sourcegraph.com/changelog and click the button “Try Sourcegraph now” to get started.
- Raygun – Never miss another mission-critical issue again — Raygun Alerting is now available for Crash Reporting and Real User Monitoring, to make sure you are quickly notified of the errors, crashes, and front-end performance issues that matter most to you and your business. Set thresholds for your alert based on an increase in error count, a spike in load time, or new issues introduced in the latest deployment. Start your free 14-day trial at Raygun.com
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- JSParty #119: Redwood brings full-stack to the JAMstack
- Render
- Redwood 1.0 release
- Qwik
- Gitpod
- Redwood Startup fund
- Preston-Werner Ventures
- GraphCDN
- GraphQL Yoga
- RedwoodJS Tutorial
- RedwoodJS Discord
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What to do when projects get big and messy (Go Time #229)
Another entry in the maintenance series! Throughout the series we’ve discussed building versus buying, building actually maintainable software, maintaining ourselves, open source maintenance, legacy code, and most recently Go project structure. In this 7th installment of the series, we continue narrowing our focus by talking about what to do when projects get big and messy.
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- Kris Brandow – GitHub, X
- Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
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Priyanka's Happy Hour (KubeCon EU 2022) (Ship It! #52)
Today we talk to Priyanka Sharma (E.D. at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation) about all things KubeCon Europe 2022. We start with Gerhard’s favourite subject - Priyanka’s Happy Hour - and then we switch focus to the conference.
For many, this will be the first in-person KubeCon since 2019. As for Gerhard, he is not sure that he remember how airports work. If he succeeds, he looks forward to meeting some of you in Valencia. If not, send help.
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SHIPITand get the team plan free for three months. - FireHydrant – The reliability platform for every developer. Incidents impact everyone, not just SREs. FireHydrant gives teams the tools to maintain service catalogs, respond to incidents, communicate through status pages, and learn with retrospectives. Small teams up to 10 people can get started for free with all FireHydrant features included. No credit card required to sign up. Learn more at firehydrant.io
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Show Notes:
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022:
- Schedule
- Register - in-person or virtually
- Health + Safety
- Vaccines + Masks for Safe In-Person Events
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Leading GitLab to IPO (Founders Talk #89)
This week Sid Sijbrandij, Co-founder and CEO of GitLab, is back talking with Adam about all the details of their massive IPO last October 2021. To set the stage, this episode was recorded on Feb 1, 2022. During the show Adam mentioned they IPO’d at a $13B market cap, but they actually ended their opening day at approximately $15B. That’s a massive win for open source, GitLab, Sid, and the rest of the team. For loyal listeners you know we’ve had Sid on this show before, so of course we had to get him back on the show post-IPO to get all the details of this new journey.
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Sid’s appearances on Changelog.com podcasts (in reverse chronological order)
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Mob programming deep dive (Changelog Interviews #488)
We’re talking with Woody Zuill today about all things Mob Programming. Woody leads Mob Programming workshops, he’s a speaker on agile related topics, and coaches and guides orgs interested in creating an environment where people can do their best work. We talk through it all and we even get some amazing advice from Woody’s dad. We define what Mob Programming is and why it’s so effective. Is it a rigid process or can teams flex to make it work for them? How to introduce mob programming to a team. What kind of groundwork is necessary? And of course, are mob programming’s virtues diminished by remote teams in virtual-only settings?
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PARTYTIMEand get the team plan free for three months. - MongoDB – An integrated suite of cloud database and services — They have a FREE forever tier, so you can prove to yourself and to your team that they have everything you need. Check it out today at mongodb.com/changelog
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Featuring:
- Woody Zuill – X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
“More work can be done faster by having less people working at any given time.” - Woody Zuill
- Jessica Kerr on episode #483
- MobProgramming.org
- Mob Programming for Introverts
- Remote Mob Programming
- The Mob Mentality Podcast
- An Intro To Mob Programming
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Were SPAs a big mistake? (JS Party #224)
Let the debate begin (again)! This time we’re arguing whether or not single-page apps were a big mistake. This premise was inspired by Chris Ferdinandi’s SPAs were a mistake post.
Divya & Nick represent Team Yep and KBall goes solo on Team Nope. Jerod, as per our usual arrangement, is on Team Winner.
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Previous YepNope debates:
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- Is modern JS tooling too complicated?
- Should we rebrand JavaScript?
- Are web apps fundamentally different than web sites?
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Go and PHP sitting in a tree... (Go Time #228)
Can Go help you write faster PHP apps? In this episode, we explore the unusual pairing of Go and PHP that led to the RoadRunner project, a high-performance PHP application server, load-balancer, and process manager that is all written in Go.
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Making an open source Stripe for time (Founders Talk #88)
This week Peer Richelsen, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Cal.com, joins the show to talk about building the “Stripe for Time” — with a grand mission to connect a billion people by 2031 through calendar scheduling. Cal has grown from an open-source side project to one of the fastest-growing commercial open source companies. We get into all the details — what it means to be an open source Calendly alternative, how they quantify connecting a Billion people by 2031, where there’s room for innovation in the scheduling space, and why being community first is part of their secret sauce.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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Cal.com Series A and v1.5
Cal.com open dashboard
Cal.com is an open startup
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From Kubernetes to PaaS - now what? (Ship It! #51)
Today we talk to Mark Ericksen about all the things that we could be doing on the new platform - this is a follow-up to episode 50.
Mark specialises in Elixir, he hosts the Thinking Elixir podcast, and he also helps make Fly.io the best place to run Phoenix apps, such as changelog.com. In the interest of holding our new platform right, we thought that it would be a great idea to talk to someone that does this all day, every day, for many years now.
We touch up on how to run database migrations safely, and how to upgrade our application config to the latest Phoenix version. We also talked about some of the more advanced platform features that we may want to start leveraging, like the multi-region PostgreSQL.
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- Safe Ecto Migrations
- Generate project template file diffs - including Phoenix configs
- Kürt’s recommended way of exporting PostgreSQL db backups
- Multi-region PostgreSQL
- LiveBeats: Building a Social Music App With Phoenix LiveView
- 🎬 Deploy Elixir and Phoenix globally on Fly.io in five minutes
- 🎧 Thinking Elixir #93 - Preventing Service Abuse with Michael Lubas
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Learning the language of life (Practical AI #177)
AI is discovering new drugs. Sound like science fiction? Not at Absci! Sean and Joshua join us to discuss their AI-driven pipeline for drug discovery. We discuss the tech along with how it might change how we think about healthcare at the most fundamental level.
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- View Absci’s AI Lead Scientist Joshua Meier’s presentation at NVIDIA GTC 2022
- Learn more about Absci’s machine learning breakthroughs presented at GTC
- Learn more about Absci AI Research (AAIR) Lab
- View career opportunities at Absci
- Absci AI drug discovery technology
- Watch the Truist AI Symposium Podcast to get help demystifying the use of AI in drug discovery
- Absci website
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Nick's big rewrite (JS Party #223)
Nick rewrote our JS Danger game board app from Dojo to React for his talk at React Global Online Summit about componentizing application state with React and XState.
On this episode Jerod, KBall, and Feross chat with Nick about the entire process and what he learned along the way. Oh, we also play an epic round of Pro Tip Time!
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- Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Feross Aboukhadijeh – Website, GitHub, X
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- Nick’s talk at React Global Online Summit
- Our Quiz Game repo on GitHub
- JS Party #191 on XState
- Don’t check in broken code
- Conventional Comments
- Everything Everywhere All at Once
- Elon Musk is buying Twitter. I’m buying JavaScript.
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Analyzing static analysis (Go Time #227)
Matan Peled from Technion University joins Natalie & Mat to discuss his PhD research on meta programming and static analyzers. How does Go’s measure up? What would Matan’s look like if he built one? All that and more!
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- Natalie Pistunovich – GitHub, X
- Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
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- Static program analysis
- Rice’s theorem
- Halting problem
- What is meta-programming
- Codex paper (GitHub Copilot)
- TabNine
- Taint checking
- staticcheck.io
- Points-to analysis
- what rr does
- Debugging a flaky Go test with Mozilla rr
- Reflections on Trusting Trust
- Book recommendation: Gödel, Escher, Bach
- Small-Step Live Programming by Example
- Shout At: Go West conf (CFP)
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Kaizen! We are flying ✈️ (Ship It! #50)
This is our 5th Kaizen where we talk about the next improvement to changelog.com: we are now running on Fly.io and our PostgreSQL is managed. This is a migration that many were curious about, including Simmy de Klerk, the person that requested this episode.
After migrating all our media files to AWS S3 (check episode 40), we thought that this part was going to be easy. Plan met reality. Pull request 407 has all the details.
We want to emphasise the type of partner relationships that we seek at Changelog & why they are important to us, as well as to our listeners. Honeycomb & Fly embody the principles that we care about, and Gerhard thinks that we are currently missing a Kubernetes partner.
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
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Warp wants to be the terminal of the future (Changelog Interviews #487)
Today we’re talking with Zach Lloyd, founder of Warp — the terminal being re-imagined for the 21st century and beyond. Warp is a blazingly fast, rust-based terminal that’s being designed from the ground up to work like a modern app. We get into all the details — why now is the right time to re-invent the terminal, where they got started, the business they aim to build around Warp, what it’s going to take to gain adoption and grow, but more importantly — what’s Warp like today to get developers excited and give it a try.
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MLOps is NOT Real (Practical AI #176)
We all hear a lot about MLOps these days, but where does MLOps end and DevOps begin? Our friend Luis from OctoML joins us in this episode to discuss treating AI/ML models as regular software components (once they are trained and ready for deployment). We get into topics including optimization on various kinds of hardware and deployment of models at the edge.
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Practical ways to solve hard problems (Changelog Interviews #486)
Frank Krueger joined us to talk about solving hard problems. Earlier this year he wrote a blog post titled “Practical Guide to Solving Hard Problems,” and a lot of what he had to say really resonated with us. The premise is simple — if you have to write some code that you’re just not sure how to write…what do you do? What are the practical steps that you can take when you’re feeling stumped? Today’s show goes deep on that subject…practical ways to solve hard problems and ship your best work.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- Practical Guide to Solving Hard Problems
- Frank’s app iCircuit
- Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools
- Merge Conflict
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The Type Annotations proposal (JS Party #222)
Daniel Rosenwasser and Ryan Cavanaugh from the TypeScript team at Microsoft join Nick and Boneskull to catch us up on the latest happening with the TypeScript project, including what’s exciting in the new 4.7 beta release. Then, we dive deep into the new, TC-39 stage 1 Type Annotations proposal, what it is, and what it means for the future of a not really typed JavaScript!
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- TypeScript 4.7 beta announcement
- Type Annotations proposal (Stage 1)
- Type checking JavaScript files
- Understanding the TypeScript compiler
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Instrumentation for gophers (Go Time #226)
Björn Rabenstein & Bartlomiej Płotka join Mat & Johnny to discuss observability, monitoring and instrumentation for gophers.
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- Björn Rabenstein – GitHub
- Bartlomiej Płotka – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- Prometheus
- Go’s client library for Prometheus
- Björn’s talk at Gophercon UK
- Open Telemetry
- Grafana’s Big Tent
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Improving an eCommerce fulfilment platform (Ship It! #49)
Alex Sims, a Senior Software Engineer at James & James, an eCommerce fulfilment company, reached out to us about the Kaizen story of the third-party logistics (3PL) platform that he has been involved with for several years now.
The system delivered 16 millions of orders in 10 years, and 4.5 million in the last year alone. All the numbers are going up, and there is only so much that a single PHP monolith deployed as VM images can handle. So how do you even start thinking about the architectural improvements, and inspire everyone involved to move towards better?
We encourage you to look at the architectural diagrams in the show notes, especially the 10 year roadmap, and ask Alex for a blog post follow-up. While today’s episode was a good conversation starter, there is a lot that we did not have time to cover.
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🌍 AI in Africa - Agriculture (Practical AI #175)
In the fourth “AI in Africa” spotlight episode, we welcome Leonida Mutuku and Godliver Owomugisha, two experts in applying advanced technology in agriculture. We had a great discussion about ending poverty, hunger, and inequality in Africa via AI innovation. The discussion touches on open data, relevant models, ethics, and more.
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- Godliver’s Google Scholar page
- Godliver’s academic homepage
- Local Development Research Institute (LDRI)
- CropSpec
- Open for Good Alliance
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The Oban Pro (Backstage #23)
We’ve been using Parker Selbert’s Oban library for years and he even helped us hold it right by improving our open source implementation!
So, Jerod invited him Backstage to discuss the library, how we’re using it, Parker’s plan to make it financially sustainable, his “freedom number” of Oban Pro subscribers, and a bunch of other random stuff along the way. Let’s go!
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- Get Oban Web+Pro
- Parker’s Oban PR on our repo
- We discuss on Ship It! #20 (Kaizen!)
- Plausible Analytics is also open source
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Postgres.js (JS Party #221)
Rasmus Porsager created Postgres.js –the fastest full-featured PostgreSQL client for Node.js and Deno. Today he joins Jerod for a deep-dive on Postgres, why he created this open source library, and how you can use it to build pg-backed JavaScript applications.
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Go code organization best practices (Go Time #225)
We often have code that’s similar between projects and we find ourselves copying that code around. In this episode we discuss what to do with this common code, how to organize it, and what code qualifies as this common code.
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This is JS Party! (JS Party)
JS Party is a weekly celebration of JavaScript and the web so fun is at the heart of every episode.
We play games like Frontend Feud… (clip from episode #192)
Discuss and analyze the news… (clip from episode #213)
Explain technical concepts to each other like we’re 5… (clip from episode #195)
Debate hot topics like should websites work without JS? (clip from episode #87)
Interiew amazing devs like Rich Harris and Una Kravets… (clip from episode #167)
This is JS Party! Listen and subscribe today.
We’d love to have you with us. 💚
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- Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Amelia Wattenberger – Website, GitHub, X
- Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Divya – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
- Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, X
- Feross Aboukhadijeh – Website, GitHub, X
- Christopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Ali Spittel – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
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Launching Dagger (Ship It! #48)
In this episode we talk about launching Dagger with all four founders: Andrea, Eric, Sam & Solomon.
While you may remember Sam & Solomon from episode 23, this time we assembled all four superheroes in this story and went deeper, covering nearly three years of refinements, the launch, as well as the world-class team & community that is coming together to solve the next problem of shipping software. Container images and Kubernetes are great steps in the right direction, but now it’s time for the next leap into the future.
You can use Dagger to run your CI/CD pipelines locally, without needing to commit and push. You can also use Dagger as a Makefile alternative, which resonates with Gerhard, but go further and your perspective on documentation & automation may start shifting.
Gerhard believes that this is the Docker moment of CI/CD.
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- Sam Alba – GitHub, X
- Solomon Hykes – GitHub, X
- Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Show Notes:
- 🎧 Ship It #23: A universal deployment engine
- 📰 Public launch announcement
- 💬 Dagger launch discussion on Hacker News
- ✨ dagger.io: A portable devkit for CI/CD pipelines
- 🐙 dagger/dagger on GitHub
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The story of Vitess (Changelog Interviews #485)
This week we’re joined by Deepthi Sigireddi, Vitess Maintainer and engineer at PlanetScale — of course we’re talking about all things Vitess. We talk about its origin inside YouTube, how Vitess handles sharding, Deepthi’s journey to Vitess maintainer, when you should begin using it, and how it fits into cloud native infra.
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- FireHydrant – The reliability platform for every developer. Incidents impact everyone, not just SREs. FireHydrant gives teams the tools to maintain service catalogs, respond to incidents, communicate through status pages, and learn with retrospectives. Try FireHydrant free for 14 days at firehydrant.io
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- vitess.io
- Vitess Architecture
- github.com/vitessio/vitess
- Vitess Benchmarks (Are we fast yet?)
- New in MySQL 8.0
- CNCF Graduation Criteria v1.3
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The Docker Swarm story (Ship It! #47)
This episode was requested by Tyler Smith who feels that he may not need Kubernetes just yet. Tyler has a few questions about Docker & Docker Swarm, so Andrea Luzzardi, former Docker Swarm Lead, joins us today to answer them.
We talk about Docker Swarm beginnings, some of the challenges that it faced, and what Andrea’s recommendation is for Tyler’s journey with Docker Swarm.
After dedicating four years of his professional career to Docker Swarm, Andrea is the best person that Gerhard knows to talk about this subject. And guess what, the same thing happened now as it did at KubeCon 2015: Sam pointed to Andrea. It will all make sense in the first five minutes. This one is going to be fun!
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- Scale Testing Docker Swarm to 30,000 Containers (and 1,000 nodes) - November 2015
- 🎬 Docker Swarm and Kubernetes, KubeCon NA 2015
- 🎬 Docker Orchestration, Cloud Field Day 2016
- Speakerdeck: Heart of the SwarmKit: Topology Management, July 2016
- From Docker to Docker Swarm: The new changelog.com setup for 2019
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Headlines and HeadLIES! (JS Party #220)
KBall and Jerod digest and disect recent JS community news (React 18, Redwood 1.0, MDN Plus) then sit down for yet another game of HeadLIES! Can KBall fare better than Nick Nisi did last April Fools?!
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- Square – Develop on the platform that sellers trust. There is a massive opportunity for developers to support Square sellers by building apps for today’s business needs. Learn more at changelog.com/square to dive into the docs, APIs, SDKs and to create your Square Developer account — tell them Changelog sent you.
- Sentry – Working code means happy customers. That’s exactly why teams choose Sentry. From error tracking to performance monitoring, Sentry helps teams see what actually matters, resolve problems quicker, and learn continuously about their applications - from the frontend to the backend. Use the code
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Headlines
HeadLIES
- Man says he hacked airline website to find lost luggage
- Blockchain.com Raises New Funding at $14 Billion Valuation
- Leaked Apple memo describes the company’s plan to go fully remote by 2025
- Woman arrested for car theft drove another stolen car to court appearance: Dublin police
- First patient to communicate via brain implant asks to hear Radiohead album
- Exxon is mining bitcoin in North Dakota as part of its plan to slash emissions
- Research shows TikTok tic videos contribute to a rise in cases of girls with tics
- Mark Zuckerberg says it’s ‘reasonable’ that the metaverse isn’t a place but a feeling
- Google Search’s new ‘highly suspect’ label helps you question the source of a story
- As Docker gains momentum, it hauls in $105M Series C on $2B valuation
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Answering questions for the Go-curious (Go Time #224)
Has Go caught your interest, but you just haven’t had the time/opportunity to really dig into it? Are you relatively productive in your current language/ecosystem but wonder if the grass truly is greener on Go’s side of the fence? If so, this episode’s for you!
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- Retool – The low-code platform for developers to build internal tools — Some of the best teams out there trust Retool…Brex, Coinbase, Plaid, Doordash, LegalGenius, Amazon, Allbirds, Peloton, and so many more – the developers at these teams trust Retool as the platform to build their internal tools. Try it free at retool.com/changelog
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Quick, beautiful web UIs for ML apps (Practical AI #174)
Abubakar Abid joins Daniel and Chris for a tour of Gradio and tells them about the project joining Hugging Face. What’s Gradio? The fastest way to demo your machine learning model with a friendly web interface, allowing non-technical users to access, use, and give feedback on models.
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Helping Grafana set up their Big Tent (Backstage #22)
For the first time ever, we’re producing somebody else’s podcast! Our friends at Grafana asked us to help them launch a show for the observability community. It’s called Big Tent and on this episode we are backstage with Tom Wilkie, Mat Ryer, & Matt Toback talking through what they’re up to and why we’re helping out.
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- Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Matt Toback – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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Making moves on supply chain security (JS Party #219)
Feross has been working on something big. He joins Chris and Nick, along with guests Bret Comnes and Mik Lysenko to discuss Socket, what it is, and its focus on the security of the JavaScript supply chain.
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- 0 FPS
- Changelog #482 - Securing the open source supply chain
- Socket
- React on Socket
- npm audit
- Lighthouse
- peacenotwar supply chain attack
- If you’re writing your first npm package: I highly recommend keeping it
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How can we prevent legacy from creeping in? (Go Time #223)
In this episode we will discuss what it’s like to work with legacy code. How you work with it, how to avoid issues arising due to it, as well as when a greenfield rewrite is the best path forward. Hosted by Angelica Hill, joined by some wonderful guests: Dominic St-Pierre, Jeff Hernandez, Misha Avrekh, and Jon Sabados.
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- Jon Sabados – Website, GitHub, X
- Jeff Hernandez – GitHub
- Misha Avrekh – GitHub
- Dominic St-Pierre – Website, X
- Angelica Hill – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Kris Brandow – GitHub, X
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A simpler alternative to cert-manager (Ship It! #46)
Nabeel Sulieman, Senior Software Engineer at Vercel, talks about KCert, a simpler alternative to cert-manager that he built. Gerhard tried it out, and he thinks that Nabeel is onto something. If you want to see the video that they recorded, ping us on Twitter or Slack.
We love this story, especially the long-term approach of working on something that one truly believes in, and the only reason is because it’s fun. The world needs more people like Nabeel, and we hope that this episode inspires you to go all out, and do just that.
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- Sep 2020: cert-manager issue #3238 that kicked the KCert idea off
- Oct 2020: Kubernetes SSL certs the “Hard Way”
- Feb 2021: KCert in practice after a few months
- Mar 2021: KCert is ready for broader usage
- Feb 2022: KCert v1.0
- KCert today
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Wisdom from 50+ years in software (Changelog Interviews #484)
Today we have a special treat. A conversation with Brian Kernighan! Brian’s been in the software game since the beginning of Unix. Yes, he was there at Bell Labs when it all began. And he is still at it today, writing books and teaching the next generation at Princeton.
This is an epic and wide ranging conversation. You’ll hear about the birth of Unix, Ken Thompson’s unique skillset, why Brian thinks C has stood the test of time, his thoughts on modern languages like Go and Rust, what’s changed in 50 years of software, what makes platforms like Unix and the web so powerful, his take as a professor on the trend of programmers skipping the university track, and so much more.
Seriously, this is a must-listen.
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- Brian Kernighan – Website
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Brian’s Wikipedia
- PDP-7 on Wikipedia
- Understanding the Digital World: What You Need to Know about Computers, the Internet, Privacy, and Security
- The C Programming Language
- UNIX: A History and a Memoir
- The Go Programming Language
- The Mythical Man-Month
- Dick Hamming’s You and Your Research
- Brian on Lex Fridman’s podcast
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It's been a BIG week in AI news 🗞 (Practical AI #173)
This last week has been a big week for AI news. BigScience is training a huge language model (while the world watches), and NVIDIA announced their latest “Hopper” GPUs. Chris and Daniel discuss these and other topics on this fully connected episode!
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BigScience Language Model Training
H100 from NVIDIA
- [White paper](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/h100/
https://cf-store.widencdn.net/nvdam/8/4/a/84ae26c1-6774-4083-a41d-4f3d82a6a449.pdf) - Omniverse platform
- Earth-2 Supercomputer
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Web development for beginners (JS Party #218)
Jen Looper from Web Dev for Beginners and Front-end Foxes joins Jerod and Ali to discuss the exciting (but also intimidating) prospect of getting in to web development in 2022! Where should you start? What technologies should you focus on? Is it better to go all-in on a framework or stick with the fundamentals? Stuff like that!
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Making the command line glamorous (Go Time #222)
This week we’re bringing The Changelog to Go Time — we had an awesome conversation with Toby Padilla, Co-Founder at Charm where they’re building tools to make the command line glamorous. Toby and the team at Charm have gone “all in” on Go — all of Charm is written in Go. They moved to Go from other languages, saying “Go is the answer to building these type of tools.” And even on this episode Toby says “I love Rust, it’s really cool, it’s a super-exciting language, but I jumped ship. I wanna be more productive, I wanna use all the fun toys, and so I started doing Go.” Clearly this episode will be in good company here on Go Time.
We talk about the state of the art, the next big thing happening on the command line and in ssh-land. They have an array of open source tooling to build great apps for the terminal and Charm Cloud to power a new generation of CLI apps. We talk through all their tooling, where things are headed for CLI apps, the focus and attention of their team, and what’s to come in bringing glamor to the command line.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- charm.sh
- Charm Cloud
- kitty - The fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal emulator
- betaworks: build better
- Julie Zhang on Twitter
Glamour projects
Wish projects
Bubble Tea projects
- achannarasappa/ticker
- maaslalani/slides
- mergestat/mergestat
- minio/mc
- supabase/cli
- antonmedv/llama
- dlvhdr/gh-prs
- tendermint/starport
- mathaou/termdbms
- mvisonneau/gitlab-ci-pipelines-exporter
- oz/tz
- trashhalo/imgcat
- maaslalani/gambit
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Swiss Quality Assurance (Ship It! #45)
Pia Wiedermayer, Lead QA at Zühlke, is talking with Gerhard today about software quality. If the name sounds familiar, check out episode 28. Thank you Romano for the introduction 👋🏻
Do you remember the last time that you used an app, whether it was in the browser or on your mobile, and everything just worked? What about that intuitive feel, snappiness and you achieving the task that you intended to without feeling that you are fighting tech? Experiences like those take a lot of effort across multiple disciplines. They are designed, built and maintained over long periods of time. It all starts with people like Pia that really care about quality. It’s so much more than just automated testing…
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- 🎬 Hey DevOps, you’re killing my job!
- Waterfall Testing to Agile QA - Successfully Transforming a Bank’s Setup - EuroStar 2022, 7-10 June
- Alice in Agile Land – a tester’s story
- How to get rid of the new QA
- Boundary Value Analysis & Equivalence Partitioning Testing
- 🎬 Pia Wiedermayer, Quality Passionista, YouTube channel
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"Foundation" models (Practical AI #172)
The term “foundation” model has been around since about the middle of last year when a research group at Stanford published the comprehensive report On the Opportunities and Risks of Foundation Models. The naming of these models created some strong reactions, both good and bad. In this episode, Chris and Daniel dive into the ideas behind the report.
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- Report: “On the Opportunities and Risks of Foundation Models”
- Follow up Blog post: “Reflections on Foundation Models”
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Going full-time on Eleventy (JS Party #217)
Zach Leatherman recently announced he will now be working on Eleventy – his simpler static site generator – while continuing to work at Netlify. What makes Eleventy special? How’d he convince Netlify to let him do this? What does this mean for the project’s future? How many questions in a row can we type into this textarea? Tune in to find out!
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Mastering Go (Go Time #221)
What does it take to master a programming language like Go? Joining us is the author of Mastering Go to help us answer that very question and to discuss the third edition of the book.
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Fundamentals (Ship It! #44)
Today’s conversation with Kelsey Hightower showed Gerhard what he was missing in his quest for automation and Kubernetes. The fundamentals that Kelsey shares will most certainly help you level up your game.
This is a follow-up to the last 45 seconds of the Kubernetes documentary.
Oh, and we finally cleared where we should run our changelog.com PostgreSQL database 🙂
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The 45 seconds that started this conversation
- 🎬 Kubernetes: The Documentary - Part 1
- 🎬 Kubernetes: The Documentary - Part 2
- 🎬 Kubernetes The Easy Way! - KubeCon NA 2017
- 🎬 Kelsey, Kubernetes, and GitOps - GitHub Universe 2020
- 🎬 Kelsey Hightower’s Best Live Demo Yet - Cloud Next ’18
- 🎬 The future of Kubernetes - The DEVOPS Conference 2022
- Google Cloud Run
- kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way
@lawik follow-up: Fundamentals & Deployment
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Clothing AI in a data fabric (Practical AI #171)
What happens when your data operations grow to Internet-scale? How do thousands or millions of data producers and consumers efficiently, effectively, and productively interact with each other? How are varying formats, protocols, security levels, performance criteria, and use-case specific characteristics meshed into one unified data fabric? Chris and Daniel explore these questions in this illuminating and Fully-Connected discussion that brings this new data technology into the light.
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- Go.Dev - a great programming language for data fabric development
Books
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ONE MORE thing every dev should know (Changelog Interviews #483)
The incomparable Jessica Kerr is back with another grab-bag of amazing topics. We talk about her journey to Honeycomb, devs getting satisfaction from the code they write, why step one for her is “get that new project into production” and step two is observe it, her angst for the context switching around pull requests, some awesome book recommendations, how game theory and design can translate to how we skill up and level up our teams, and so much more.
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- The ONE thing every dev should know (and other words of wisdom) with Jessica Kerr
- Graceful.Dev - the successor to Ruby Tapas
- Games: Agency As Art
- Trespassing on Einstein’s Lawn
- Shigeru Miyamoto on Wikipedia
- Better coordination, or better software?
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Enabling performance-centric engineering orgs (JS Party #216)
This week Amal and Nick are joined by Dan Shappir, a Performance Tech Lead at Next Insurance, to learn about enabling a performance-first mindset within your engineering org.
Dan recently left his 7+ year tenure leading performance at Wix where he and his team improved, and monitored the speed of millions of websites around the world.
Join us to learn how he lead a cultural transformation that propelled Wix sites to be faster than most other React apps in the wild - including ones built with frameworks like Next.js.
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- Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study) | Smashing Magazine
- Tweet showing metrics in the wild with Wix leading the pack
- JS Party show with Paul Bakaus from Google | For a more dope web! #174
- Core Web Vitals Report
- Core Web Vitals
- Real-user monitoring (RUM)
- Facebook’s JS Optimizer - Prepack (now deprecated)
- w3c Web Performance Working Group
- Performance API | Native web API
- High Performance Browser Networking | An O’Reilly book by Ilya Grigorik (free web verision)
- Wix - A Free Website Builder
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Bob Logblaw Log Blog (Go Time #220)
Ed Welch joins Mat and Jon to discuss logging. They explore the different options for logging in Go, and discuss what data is worth including. Everything from log levels, formats, non-structured vs structured logs, along with common gotchas and good practices when dealing with logs at scale.
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- The logfmt style is a popular option for structured logging
- Ed heads up the Loki open-source project
- Not to be confused with the Bob Lablaw Law Blog
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Rails Active Deployment (Ship It! #43)
In this week’s episode Cameron Dutro, a software engineer at GitHub, Ship It listener and someone with an extraordinary attention to detail, joins us to talk about Kuby, a convention-over-configuration approach to deploying Rails apps.
The question that we will be trying to answer is what happened to Rails Active Deployment. The path to that promise land is paved with good intentions, but it’s complicated.
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- getkuby/kuby-core
- getkuby/kube-dsl
- 🎧 The Ruby on Rails Podcast #339 kuby & Rails Deployments with Cameron Dutro
- github.com/gerhard/deliver
- deliver - LRUG, March 2013
- github.com/edeliver/edeliver
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Creating a culture of innovation (Practical AI #170)
Daniel and Chris talk with Lukas Egger, Head of Innovation Office and Strategic Projects at SAP Business Process Intelligence. Lukas describes what it takes to bring a culture of innovation into an organization, and how to infuse product development with that innovation culture. He also offers suggestions for how to mitigate challenges and blockers.
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- SAP BPI
- Pioneers, Settlers, Town Planners
- More with LeSS
- The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization
- Kaizen | Wikipedia
- Stratechery
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Kubernetes in Kubernetes (Ship It! #42)
This week we have the pleasure of Rich Burroughs, Senior Developer Advocate at Loft Labs and host of the Kube Cuddle podcast.
We talk about multitenancy in Kubernetes and how to run Kubernetes in Kubernetes with vcluster. If you are using KiND, you will find this episode interesting, and maybe even helpful.
We also talk about the role that Kelsey Hightower played in Rich joining the CNCF ecosystem. The key take-away is that people make all the difference.
ADHD is something that Rich thinks about often. Gerhard was curious about the difference between ADHD and burnout, as well as this Twitter thread on re-reading sent emails.
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- 🎙 Kelsey Hightower on Kube Cuddle
- 🎙 Dave Fogle and Kris Nova on Kube Cuddle
- What is vcluster?
- github.com/loft-sh/vcluster
- 🎬 Beyond Namespaces: Virtual Clusters - Lukas Gentele, Loft Labs - KubeCon NA 2021
- 🎬 Hands-on introduction to vcluster - Rakwode Live
- Twitter thread on re-reading sent emails
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Remix helps bridge the network chasm (JS Party #215)
Kent and our panelists dive deep on the hottest new React framework: Remix. What it does today, what makes it special, how it lured Kent away from a lucrative independent teaching career, and what’s coming up next.
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- Fly.io
- JSParty #119 Redwood brings full-stack to the JAMstack
- Remix Quickstart
- Remix Deep Dive
- Remix Discord
- React Server Components and Remix
- A better idea would be to replace / improve the fetch spec
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Why immutable databases? (Go Time #219)
Let’s talk about the concept of immutable databases, the problems they target, and why you’d want to build one in Go.
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Securing the open source supply chain (Changelog Interviews #482)
This week we’re joined by the “mad scientist” himself, Feross Aboukhadijeh…and we’re talking about the launch of Socket — the next big thing in the fight to secure and protect the open source supply chain.
While working on the frontlines of open source, Feross and team have witnessed firsthand how supply chain attacks have swept across the software community and have damaged the trust in open source. Socket turns the problem of securing open source software on its head, and asks…“What if we assume all open source may be malicious?” So, they built a system that proactively detects indicators of compromised open source packages and brings awareness to teams in real-time. We cover the whys, the hows, and what’s next for this ambitious and very much needed project.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- Socket.dev
- socket.dev/npm/issue
- socket.dev/npm/lists/removed
- socket.dev/npm/package/left-pad
- socket.dev/npm/package/umbrellajs
- socket.dev/npm/package/airbnb-fejax
- Dev corrupts NPM libs ‘colors’ and ‘faker’ breaking thousands of apps
- Popular ‘coa’ NPM library hijacked to steal user passwords
- Popular NPM package UA-Parser-JS poisoned with cryptomining, password-stealing malware
- Vulnerabilities in NPM allowed threat actors to publish new version of any package
- cve.org
- browserslist.dev
- The Changelog #227: Mad science, WebTorrent, WebRTC with Feross Aboukhadijeh
- The Changelog #326: The insider perspective on the event-stream compromise with Dominic Tarr
- JS Party #185: Into the Wormhole with Feross Aboukhadijeh
- JS Party #210: What’s in your package.json? with Tobie Langel
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Deploying models (to tractors 🚜) (Practical AI #169)
Alon from Greeneye and Moses from ClearML blew us away when they said that they are training 1000’s of models a year that get deployed to Kubernetes clusters on tractors. Yes… we said tractors, as in farming! This is a super cool discussion about MLOps solutions at scale for interesting use cases in agriculture.
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Making the command line glamorous (Changelog Interviews #481)
This week we’re talking to Toby Padilla, Co-Founder at Charm — where they build tools to make the command line glamorous. We talk about the state of the art, the next big thing happening on the command line and in ssh-land. They have an array of open source tooling to build great apps for the terminal and Charm Cloud to power a new generation of CLI apps. We talk through all their tooling, where things are headed for CLI apps, the focus and attention of their team, and what’s to come in bringing glamor to the command line.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- charm.sh
- Charm Cloud
- kitty - The fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal emulator
- betaworks: build better
- Julie Zhang on Twitter
Glamour projects
Wish projects
Bubble Tea projects
- achannarasappa/ticker
- maaslalani/slides
- mergestat/mergestat
- minio/mc
- supabase/cli
- antonmedv/llama
- dlvhdr/gh-prs
- tendermint/starport
- mathaou/termdbms
- mvisonneau/gitlab-ci-pipelines-exporter
- oz/tz
- trashhalo/imgcat
- maaslalani/gambit
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Vitest && Slidev (JS Party #214)
Anthony Fu && Matias “Patak” Capeletto from the Vite core team join Jerod && Nick to discuss Vitest – a blazing fast unit-test framework powered by Vite, && Slidev – presentation slides for developers.
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Going with GraphQL (Go Time #218)
Mark Sandstrom and Ben Kraft join Jon and Mat to talk about GraphQL. What exactly is it this query language everyone has been talking about? How does it work? What Go libraries are out there, and where should you get started?
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- Ben Kraft – Website, GitHub, X
- Jon Calhoun – Website, GitHub, X
- Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
Show Notes:
- Resources to learn GraphQL
- GitHub GraphQL API
- genqlient - Khan Academy’s open source GraphQL client library
- graphql - Another GraphQL client library written in Go
- gqlgen - A codegen tool for creating Go GraphQL servers
- graphql-go-tools - A toolkit for building GraphQL proxies, gateways, caches, etc
- gqlparser - A GraphQL parser, written to mirror the graphql-js reference implementation as closely while remaining idiomatic and easy to use.
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Continuous Delivery for Kubernetes (Ship It! #41)
In today’s episode, Gerhard is talking to Mauricio Salatino (@salaboy) about the Continuous Delivery for Kubernetes book that he is currently writing.
Mauricio is a Staff Engineer at VMware where he spends most of his time contributing to Knative, an open source platform for running serverless workloads on Kubernetes. Gerhard & Mauricio spent a few months in 2021 working on Knative Eventing, and they both appreciate shipping great software continuously. Mauricio helped ship Knative 1.0.
The from-monolith-to-k8s application used throughout this book has been a few years in the making. It doubles-up as a workshop-style guide for rearchitecting a Java monolith to a Cloud Native architecture running in Kubernetes.
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- 🎁 Join #shipit in our community Slack for a chance to win a free ebook copy!
- github.com/salaboy/from-monolith-to-k8s/salaboy/
- Knative OSS Diaries - week #29
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Playing it close to the Vest (JS Party #213)
Holla! This week we’re playing Story of the Week and Today I Learned before turning our focus to Vest – a very cool validations framework created by Evyatar Alush.
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- Amelia Wattenberger – Website, GitHub, X
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Holla!
Story of the Week
Ali
KBall
- Gergely Orosz tweet about remote hiring
- The Trimodal Nature of Software Engineering Salaries in the Netherlands and Europe
Amelia
- Serving fonts from Google Fonts CDN violates GDPR
- AlphaCode is in the top 54% in programming competitions
Jerod
Today I Learned
Ali
Amelia
- CSS Cascade Layers: Article by Bramus Van Damme
- Feature Rollout
Jerod
KBall
Project Focus
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The *other* features in Go 1.18 (Go Time #217)
On this episode, Michael Matloob and Daniel Martí pinky promise not to talk about Go 1.18’s two big features (fuzzing and generics). Instead, we’re focusing in on the other cool stuff that’s new!
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- Daniel’s gofumpt library
- proposal: runtime: GC pacer redesign (#44167)
- bytes, strings: add Cut (#46336)
- net/netip: add new IP address package, use in net (#46518)
- cmd/gofmt: format files in parallel, similar to ‘go fmt’ (#43566)
- cmd/go: stamp git/vcs current HEAD hash/commit hash/dirty bit in binaries (#37475)
- cmd/go: factor version reading into debug/buildinfo (#39301)
- all: add GOAMD64 environment variable (#45453)
- text/template: add break and continue support (#20531)
- text/template: make and/or operators short-circuit evaluation (#31103)
- cmd/go: add a workspace mode (#45713)
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Kaizen! New beginnings (Ship It! #40)
We finally did it! All our static files are served from AWS S3. This is the most significant improvement to our app’s architecture in years, and now we have unlocked the next level: multi-cloud. We talk about that at length, and how it fits in our 2022 setup. The TL;DR is that changelog.com will fly, both literally and figuratively.
We also address Steve’s comment that he left on our previous Kaizen episode - thanks Steve!
Towards the end, we talk about Gerhard’s new beginnings at Dagger, where he gets to work with a world-class team and build the next-gen CI/CD. That’s right, Gerhard is now walking the Ship It talk all day, every day. If you want to watch him code live, you can do so every Thursday, in our weekly community session.
Kaizen!
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- 🎧 Jerod tells our Elixir story on Beam Radio
- PR #400 - Move assets to S3
- PR #399 - 🎁 Auto-restoring K8s clusters for our 2022 setup
- PR #395 - 🎁 CI/CD Lego set -Dagger for our 2022 CI/CD
- Wireguard connects our GitHub Actions & Gerhard’s local dev to a remote Docker Engine running on Linux
- 🔈 Ship It #33 - Merry Shipmas!
- 🎧 Ship It #22 - It’s crazy and impossible - my guiding principles for finding a new team
- 🎙 Founders Talk #86 - Bringing observability superpowers to all - we have a lot in common with Honeycomb
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One algorithm to rule them all? (Practical AI #168)
From MIT researchers who have an AI system that rapidly predicts how two proteins will attach, to Facebook’s first high-performance self-supervised algorithm that works for speech, vision, and text, Daniel and Chris survey the AI landscape for notable milestones in the application of AI in industry and research.
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- DeepMind says its new AI coding engine is as good as an average human programmer
- Artificial intelligence system rapidly predicts how two proteins will attach
- Seeing Theory
Books
- “The Art of Doing Science and Engineering” by Richard W. Hamming
- “Patterns, Predictions, and Actions” by Moritz Hardt and Benjamin Recht
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Git your reset on (Changelog Interviews #480)
This week we’re joined by Annie Sexton, UX Engineer at Render, to talk about her blog post titled Git Organized: A Better Git Flow that made the internet explode when she suggested using reset instead of rebase for a better git flow. On this show we talk about the git flow she suggests and why, how this flow works for her when she’s hacking on the Render codebase (and when she uses it), the good and the bad of Git, and we also talked about the cognitive load of Git commits as you work.
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- Git Organized: A Better Git Flow
- I wrote a thing (on Twitter)
- A User’s Guide to the Brain - by John J. Ratey, M.D.
- How to Squash Commits in Git
- Move assets to S3 #400
- What is executive function?
- Dopamine
- Norepinephrine
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Building an investment platform for everyone (Founders Talk #87)
This week Adam is joined by Joe Percoco — the Co-CEO of Titan, a premier investment manager for everyone. Titan is an investment company, a media, and a tech company, all rolled into one. Mid last year, they closed a $58 million Series B round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) at a $450 million valuation. They currently have $750 million in assets managed and more than 35,000 clients.
Why should Titan exist? In Joe’s words, “Wall Street ignores everyday investors, and caters only to the ultra wealthy. This divide doesn’t sit well with us. So, we built Titan.” On today’s show Joe shares the journey, the why’s, the how’s, and the sequencing it might take to get to a $1 trillion of assets managed.
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Adam’s referral link to Titan (because he’s a client)
- Investing in Titan
- Titan Strategies
- Titan Research
- Titan Articles
- It’s time to buy the crypto dip
- Fintech App Titan Adds Actively Managed Crypto Basket
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Long-time listener, first-time code contributor (Backstage #21)
Simey de Klerk recenty dove head-first into our transcripts repo and coded up a super-cool feature that’s been on Jerod’s wishlist for awhile now. So, of course, we invited him Backstage to tell the tale!
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- The issue: A GitHub Action to auto-improve transcripts
- The post: Auto-improved transcripts with GitHub Actions
- The script: format.js
- Our survey-game repo
- Eric Normand talks FP with us
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Haunted codebases & complex ops (Ship It! #39)
This week we are talking to Robin Morero, the person behind fabled.se, a DevOps consultancy from Gothenburg, Sweden. Their motto is “move faster and prosper”, which Gerhard prefers to the initial “move fast and break things”.
Fabled works with startups primarily, and after 26 years, Robin has a few interesting insights to share. What do you think, are haunted codebases real? At what point do pull requests become harmful? What about k3s running on KVM as a simple starting point for production? If this reminds you of #7, and the follow-up YouTube stream with Lars, it’s no coincidence.
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- k0s - a single binary k8s with zero host dependencies
- Open Application Model
- Ship / Show / Ask - A modern branching strategy
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A deep-dive on Vite (JS Party #212)
Amal and Nick load up on coffee for a not-so-vite (lame joke!) conversation with Evan You all about Vite – a batteries included next-generation frontend tooling library. Vite continues to push the ecosystem forward with even stronger defaults, super speedy local development workflows, and a highly extensible universal plugin API. Need we say more?!
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- Vite
- Node SSR | Code source for Vite’s Rich Harris inspired in memory node module graph
- Webpack Hardsource Plugin | Inspiration & spec author for Webpack 4’s Perf improvements
- SWC (Speedy Web Compiler)
- ESBuild
- vite plugin legacy
- Rust
- Go
- Parcel
- Jest
- Vitest
- Partytown
- Rollup
- Svelte
- SvelteKit
- hydrogen
- Snowpack
- Astro
- Vite SSR
- es-module-lexer
- MagicString (Rust)
- Recent JS Party episode on Svelte with Rich Harris
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Building and using APIs with Go (Go Time #216)
Natalie and Johnny are joined by the co-founders of APIToolkit for a deep-dive on the topic. We discuss building them, maintaining them, how can we all be better users, and much more along the way.
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🌍 AI in Africa - Voice & language tools (Practical AI #167)
In the third of the “AI in Africa” spotlight episodes, we welcome Kathleen Siminyu, who is building Kiswahili voice tools at Mozilla. We had a great discussion with Kathleen about creating more diverse voice and language datasets, involving local language communities in NLP work, and expanding grassroots ML/AI efforts across Africa.
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Principles for hiring engineers (Changelog Interviews #479)
This week we’re joined by Jacob Kaplan-Moss and we’re talking about his extensive writing on work sample tests. These tests are an exercise, a simulation, or a small slice of real day-to-day work that candidates will perform as part of their job. Over the years, as an engineering leader, Jacob has become a practicing expert in effectively hiring engineers — today he shares a wealth of knowledge on the subject.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- Series: Work Sample Tests
- Work Sample Tests: A Framework for Good Work Sample Tests: Eight Rules for Fair Tests
- Work Sample Tests: Wrap Up and Q&A
- The Changelog #474: Complex systems & second-order effects with Paul Orlando
- A New Morality of Attainment (Goodhart’s Law)
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Learning from incidents (Changelog Interviews #478)
This week we’re joined by Nora Jones, founder and CEO at Jeli where they help teams gain insight and learnings from incidents. Back in December Nora shared here thoughts in a Changelog post titled “Incident” shouldn’t be a four-letter word - which got a lot of attention from our readers. Today we’re talking with Nora about all things incidents — the learning and growth they represent for teams, why teams should focus on learning from incidents in the first place, their Howie guide to post‑incident investigations, why the next emerging role is an Incident Analyst, and she also shares a few book recommendations which we’ve linked up in the show notes.
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- “Incident” shouldn’t be a four-letter word
- Howie: The Post-Incident Guide
- About Chesley B. “Sully” Sullenberger, III
- Minding the Weather (How Expert Forecasters Think)
- Seeing What Others Don’t: The Remarkable Ways We Gain Insights
- Community: Learning from Incidents
in Software - The Changelog #462: Learning-focused engineering with Brittany Dionigi
- Costa Concordia disaster
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A Solid option for building UIs (JS Party #211)
Ryan Carniato joins Jerod, Amelia, and Nick to discuss SolidjS – a declarative, efficient, and flexible JavaScript library for building user interfaces.
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- Holla! JSConf Mexico (On YouTube)
- SolidJS website
- JS Framework Benchmark
- Isomorphic UI Benchmark
- Ryan Florence Tweet
- Solid Start meta-framework
- MarkoJS
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Go for the bananas (Ship It! #38)
Gunnar Holwerda (Engineering Manager) and Tom Pansino (DevOps Team Lead) share with us a few stories about how the teams at opensesame.com manage AWS operational complexity. The first link in the episode show notes are the slides that Tom & Gunnar prepared for this conversation. Check them out as you hear us speak about the Inverse Conway Manoeuvre, and why you should always go for the bananas.
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- Tom Pansino – GitHub, LinkedIn
- Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
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- 🗂Account Bootstrap Intro and Setup
- 🗞AWS Account structure patterns
- 📄AWS Docs about multi account structure
- 📚Key Concepts from Team Topologies
- Terraform VPC module that we were able to augment and leverage to deliver VPCs to all of our teams
- 📄Communication barriers in organizations and creating effective communication APIs
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MLOps in Go (Go Time #215)
MLOps is an increasingly popular topic that is no longer just a subset of DevOps. Go is a great choice for infrastructure. What role does Go play in MLOps?
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Exploring deep reinforcement learning (Practical AI #166)
In addition to being a Developer Advocate at Hugging Face, Thomas Simonini is building next-gen AI in games that can talk and have smart interactions with the player using Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) and Natural Language Processing (NLP). He also created a Deep Reinforcement Learning course that takes a DRL beginner to from zero to hero. Natalie and Chris explore what’s involved, and what the implications are, with a focus on the development path of the new AI data scientist.
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Song Encoder: Forrest Brazeal (Changelog Interviews #477)
Welcome to Song Encoder, a special series of The Changelog podcast featuring people who create at the intersection of software and music. This episode features Pwnie Award-winning songwriter Forrest Brazeal.
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- 168 AWS Services in 2 minutes
- The Ransomware Song
- That Sinking Feeling (The #HugOps Song)
- Serverless v Containers
- Look At You Now (The Google Cloud Song)
- Kingston Trio-Merry Minuet
- Big Tech ((It’s Probably Fine))
- The AWS Elastic Load Balancer Yodel Rag
- Song Encoder: $STDOUT
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What's in your package.json? (JS Party #210)
Tobie Langel, Open source strategist and Principal at UnlockOpen, joins Chris, Feross, and Amal to discuss recent widespread incidents affecting the JavaScript community (and breaking CI builds) around the globe. Two widely used npm libraries were self-sabotaged by their single maintainer, yet again, highlighting the many gaps in our OSS supply chain security, sustainability and overall practices. We explore all these topics and solution on what our ecosystem needs to be more resilient to these types of attacks in the future.
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- Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
- Feross Aboukhadijeh – Website, GitHub, X
- Christopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Open source developer corrupts widely-used libraries, affecting tons of projects - The Verge
- Tobie’s tweet thread on this self-sabotage
- Tobie’s talk on OSS Sustainability
- Working in Public | A book by Nadia Eghbal
- Four types of OSS projects mentioned in Nadia’s book
- Renovate | A Dependency Management Bot
- Dependabot | Another OSS Dependency Bot
- Sustain OSS | A space for conversations about sustaining open source
- Tidelift
- SBOM - Software Bill of Materials (official US Government Site & Docs)
- Software Bill of Materials’ — Not just good for security, good for business | The Hill
- Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity
- Tidelift’s SBOM generation service
- Popular NPM package UA-Parser-JS poisoned with cryptomining, password-stealing malware | The Daily Swig
- Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure / Ford Foundation
- Socket (Security project that Feross is working on)
- Does open source need its own Priority of Constituencies?
- Unlock Open
- who accused me of co-founding npm
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Bringing observability superpowers to all (Founders Talk #86)
This week Adam is joined by Christine Yen, co-founder and CEO of Honeycomb. Christine and Adam recorded this show late last year, just after their Series C funding round. They talk about the superpower of observability for developers, how she and Charity Majors got to the place to found Honeycomb, the state of their platform today, what exactly observability is, and their goals for the future of Honeycomb.
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- The Changelog #356: Observability is for your unknown unknowns with Christine Yen
- 2020: The Year Bee-hind Us
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Migrations without migraines (Go Time #214)
One of the most common questions we receive at Go Time is how to handle schema migrations in Go. In this episode Jon is joined by Mike Fridman and Vojtech Vitek, maintainers of the popular schema migration tool pressly/goose, to discuss techniques, tools, and tips for handling schema migrations.
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Building fully declarative systems with Nix (Ship It! #37)
Vincent Ambo –the person behind nixery.dev, tvl.fyi, and a former Google engineer– shares his take on monorepos, Nix, and fully declarative systems without any Flux, Argo or Kubernetes.
While the tooling is impressive, it’s the principles behind it that captivated Gerhard’s imagination. Vincent has a rather interesting take on the monorepository idea, including one change - one version - one deploy. There are a lot of interesting links in the show notes, including all the code that Vincent uses to manage infrastructure.
As a result of this conversation, Gerhard is running Nix on one of his Macs, and also started experimenting with his first NixOS production instance.
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- Nixery - just-in-time container images via the Nix package manager
- Nixery: Improved Layering Design
- Nix, The One Pager - (more or less) one page introduction to Nix, the language
- NixOS - Reproducible builds and deployments
- Tvix: We are rewriting Nix
- Feature Request: Bring nix builds to buildkit
- buildGo - an alternative Nix build system for Go
- The Virus Lounge - TVL - build systems and monorepo socialising in the year of the pandemic
- TVL Code Reviews
- TVL Monorepo - Gerrit
- Just One Single History - JOSH - combines the advantages of monorepos with those of multirepos
- 🗂One Minute Presubmits - Eric Burnett, Google - London Build Meetup 2019
- Trustix: Solving trust in binary distribution and software builds
- Trustix: Distributed trust and reproducibility tracking for binary caches
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The world needs an AI superhero (Practical AI #165)
From drug discovery at the Quebec AI Institute to improving capabilities with low-resourced languages at the Masakhane Research Foundation and Google AI, Bonaventure Dossou looks for opportunities to use his expertise in natural language processing to improve the world - and especially to help his homeland in the Benin Republic in Africa.
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- Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Natalie Pistunovich – GitHub, X
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- Bonaventure Dossou | Instagram
- 2020 — ongoing: My Year of Fame and how I joined the world of Research
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Supabase is all in on Postgres (Changelog Interviews #476)
This week Paul Copplestone, CEO of Supabase joined us to catch us up on the next big thing happening in the world of Postgres. Supabase might be best known as “the open source Firebase alternative,” a tagline they might be reluctant to maintain. But from Adam’s perspective, he’s never been more excited about what they’re bringing to market for Postgres fans. In the last year, Supabase has gone from 0 to more than 80,000 databases on their platform — and they’re still in beta…and it’s open source. Hopefully today’s show sheds some light on why everyone is talking about Supabase.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Supabase
- Supabase docs
- supabase/supabase
- Supabase Realtime
- Tweet: Total databases on the Supabase platform
- Tweet: In 2021 Supabase grew…
- The Changelog #461: Fauna is rethinking the database with Evan Weaver
- postgresql.org
- Firebase
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What Cloudflare is up to (JS Party #209)
Cloudflare has a lot more to offer than merely DDoS protection and CDN services. On this episode, Jon Kuperman joins Amal & Jerod to talk through many of their cool new things like Workers, KV, Durable Objects, and R2 Storage. Thanks to listener Matt Mannucci for requesting this episode!
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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Keep on-call simple (Ship It! #36)
Gerhard loves simple ideas executed well, which is why he is excited to be speaking today with Ildar Iskhakov & Matvey Kukuy about their startup Amixr, a.k.a. Grafana OnCall.
Ildar & Matvey started with a simple idea and a simple stack - Django, Celery, RabbitMQ & MySQL - all running on Kubernetes. Because they kept their main thing their main thing, and kept improving it every day for a couple of years, now your on-call can be simple too.
This is another Big Tent philosophy story with a Black Swan moment towards the end.
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- Ildar Iskhakov – GitHub, LinkedIn
- Matvey Kukuy – GitHub, LinkedIn
- Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
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- Announcing Grafana OnCall
- Amixr, Matvey’s & Ildar’s startup that joined the Grafana family
- Wikipedia - The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
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AI-driven development in Go (Go Time #213)
Alexey Palazhchenko joins Natalie to discuss the implications of GitHub’s Copilot on code generation. Go’s design lends itself nicely to computer generated authoring: thanks to go fmt, there’s already only one Go style. This means AI-generated code will be consistent and seamless. Its focus on simplicity & readability make it tailor made for this new approach to software creation. Where might this take us?
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Democratizing ML for speech (Practical AI #164)
You might know about MLPerf, a benchmark from MLCommons that measures how fast systems can train models to a target quality metric. However, MLCommons is working on so much more! David Kanter joins us in this episode to discuss two new speech datasets that are democratizing machine learning for speech via data scale and language/speaker diversity.
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- Press Release about MLCommons datasets: MLCommons™ Association Unveils Open Datasets and Tools to Drive Democratization of Machine Learning
- NeurIPS Papers:
- Gradient article: New Datasets to Democratize Speech Recognition Technology
- Blog posts for more insight:
- Downloads:
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Making the ZFS file system (Changelog Interviews #475)
This week Matt Ahrens joins Adam to talk about ZFS. Matt co-founded the ZFS project at Sun Microsystems in 2001. And 20 years later Adam picked up ZFS for use in his home lab and loved it. So, he reached out to Matt and invited him on the show. They cover the origins of the file system, its journey from proprietary to open source, architecture choices like copy-on-write, the ins and outs of creating and managing ZFS, RAID-Z and RAID-Z expansion, and Matt even shares plans for ZFS in the cloud with ZFS object store.
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- State of OpenZFS 2021 by Matt Ahrens
- ZFS RAIDZ stripe width, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love RAIDZ
- ZFS fans, rejoice—RAIDz expansion will be a thing very soon
- Common Development and Distribution License 1.0
- Linus Torvalds: Avoid Oracle’s ZFS kernel code on Linux until ‘litigious’ Larry signs off
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Making the last database you’ll ever need (Founders Talk #85)
This week Adam is joined by Sam Lambert, CEO of PlanetScale. Now that PlanetScale is in general availability, Adam had to get Sam on the show to talk about the behind the scenes of building this database platform, how this is the last database you’ll ever need and what that means for developers, why serverless, its open source underpinnings with Vitess, and a preview of what’s to come.
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- planetscale.com
- PlanetScale raises $50M Series C as its enterprise database service hits general availability
- PlanetScale raises $30M Series B for its database service
- Announcing PlanetScale: The database for developers.
- Sam Lambert Appointed New CEO of PlanetScale
- PlanetScale is now generally available
- PlanetScale’s Changelog
- Bring your data to PlanetScale
- Introducing PlanetScale Managed Cloud
- PlanetScale documentation + source on GitHub
- Vitess + source on GitHub
- Vitess on CNCF
- Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces Vitess Graduation
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Temporal is like React for the backend (JS Party #208)
Swyx is known for learning in public, and he joins the party to teach Ali and Nick about what he’s been working on with Temporal IO, what it is, and why he’s excited about it. We also talk about his role as Director of Developer Experience, including what developer experience is, how to do it, and what goals to set.
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- Changelog 467: Connecting the dots in public
- Temporal
- Sidekiq
- React
- Netlify functions
- Serverless
- Jamstack
- The All Powerful Front End Developer - Chris Coyier
- RabbitMQ
- Guillermo Rauch on Twitter
- React Suspense
- React Server Components
- AWS SQS
- Collision Installation
- JavaScript Temporal Proposal
- Temporal TypeScript API
- Swyx thread on Temporal
- The Web is the only modern programming platform
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How I found my lost network packets (Ship It! #35)
Today Gerhard shares the entire story behind his lost packets. He is talking with Drew Marshall, director at Trunk Networks and No One Internet, a Cloud Services Provider & ISP based in Sussex, UK.
Gerhard’s Vodafone ISP gateway was losing packets, and recording some of the previous episodes used to be challenging as his internet connection would cut out up to 10 seconds at a time, multiple times per recording session. He was convinced that his Unifi Dream Machine Pro was not the issue. Drew helped Gerhard realise that it actually was. Not only has Gerhard’s DNS latency improved by 3x, but he can now fail-over between two WAN connections. And because nothing beats a real-world experiment, you can guess what is coming in this episode 😉
You will find latency & packet loss graphs, speed test runs, and a few other interestings in the show notes. We hope that they inspire you to setup a better home network. Most importantly, may you find your humble & brilliant Drew.
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- Gerhard’s issue with ISP gateway timeouts
- Vodafone UK Community: Periodic 100% packet loss
- Fair Internet Report: Trunk Networks
- nefilim/pinger - simple network latency and packet loss monitor using Grafana and Prometheus
- Grafana dashboard: Internet-QoS.json
- MikroTik 5009UG text config export
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Go beyond work (Go Time #212)
Our final installment from GopherCon 2021 is an awesome panel conversation led by Natalie & Angelica with guests Linus Lee, Daniela Patruzalek, and Sebastian Spank. All three of these gophers are using Go in cool and interesting ways outside of traditional work projects.
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- Daniela Petruzalek – GitHub, X
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- Natalie Pistunovich – GitHub, X
- Angelica Hill – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
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- Linus: When Toy Languages Grow Up
- Daniela: Pac-Man from Scratch
- Sebastian: 3D Printing Gophers with Go
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Eliminate AI failures (Practical AI #163)
We have all seen how AI models fail, sometimes in spectacular ways. Yaron Singer joins us in this episode to discuss model vulnerabilities and automatic prevention of bad outcomes. By separating concerns and creating a “firewall” around your AI models, it’s possible to secure your AI workflows and prevent model failure.
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Complex systems & second-order effects (Changelog Interviews #474)
Paul Orlando joins Jerod to talk through some unintended consequences that occur when systems operate at scale. We discuss Goodhart’s Law, The Cobra Effect, how to design incentive systems, dependency management decisions, the risks of autonomous vehicles, and much more along the way.
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- The Unintended Consequences blog
- A New Morality of Attainment (Goodhart’s Law)
- The Cobra Effect Redesigned (Examples & Antidotes)
- The Cobra Effect (Part 2)
- Uncertainty Saves Lives – the Peltzman Effect
- Garmin Hack and Dependence
- Autonomous Vehicles and Scaling Risk
- A Pattern Language
- Growth Units: Learn to Calculate Customer Acquisition Cost
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New Year's Party! 🍾 (JS Party #207)
It’s our 3rd annual New Year’s party! We welcome a new panelist, review our (failed) resolutions from last year, discuss what’s trending in the web world, and even set some new (failed) resolutions for this year.
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- Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Divya – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Christopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
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Gophers Say! GopherCon Edition (Go Time #211)
Our award winning ready survey game show is back, this time live from GopherCon 2021!
Go Time panelists Natalie & Jon join forces with Go Team members Steve Francia, Katie Hockman, Julie Qui, and Rob Findley to battle it out and see who can better guess what the GopherCon gophers had to say!
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Where is the cloud native App Store? (Ship It! #34)
In our first 2022 episode, Alexis Richardson, co-founder and CEO of Weaveworks, is talking to Gerhard about going fully remote, what a great team looks like, and GitOps. While you may have heard of GitOps, now is a good time to check out opengitops.dev.
The most interesting part of today’s conversation is the missing cloud native App Store. While Apple revolutionised the world with the App Store and the iPhone, we don’t yet have something similar for cloud native apps. You may be thinking “But what about OperatorHub?”, or all the Helm registries out there? The registry fragmentation, operator deprecations and lack of curation are not what people have in mind when they think App Store. But there is more to it, so let’s hear how Alexis thinks about this.
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- What is GitOps?
- What is OpenGitOps?
- 🎬 Creating the Enterprise App Store - GitOpsCon NA 2021 Keynote
- 🎬 GitOps Maturity Model - GitOps Days 2021
- How to get robust GitOps? The U.S. Department of Defense uses Flux and Helm
- Notes on GitOps potential role in compliance
- 🎬 A Multi-Cluster, Multi-Cloud Infrastructure with GitOps at CERN - Ricardo Rocha, CERN
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🌍 AI in Africa - Radiant Earth (Practical AI #162)
In the second of the “AI in Africa” spotlight episodes, we welcome guests from Radiant Earth to talk about machine learning for earth observation. They give us a glimpse into their amazing data and tooling for working with satellite imagery, and they talk about use cases including crop identification and tropical storm wind speed estimation.
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- Radiant Earth
- ML for Earth Observation online course
- “Spot the crop” challenge
- Open for Good Alliance
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The funny bits from 2021 (Go Time)
Here’s a little bonus episode before we get back to your regularly scheduled Go Time. We’re calling it the funny bits. It’s a compilation of times we cracked up making the show for y’all. If you dig it, holler at Jerod. If you don’t, email Mat Ryer.
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- Kat Zień – Website, GitHub, X
- V Körbes – Website, GitHub, X
- Daniel Martí – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Roberto Clapis – GitHub, X
- Carl Johnson – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
- André Eriksson – Website, GitHub, X
- Carolyn Van Slyck – Website, GitHub, X
- Katie Hockman – GitHub, X
- Jay Conrod – Website, GitHub, X
- Teiva Harsanyi – Website, GitHub, X
- sam boyer – GitHub, X
- Carlisia Campos – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Ian Lopshire – GitHub, X
- Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
- Mark Bates – Website, GitHub, X
- Angelica Hill – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Kris Brandow – GitHub, X
- Natalie Pistunovich – GitHub, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- #161: Go Panic!
- #166: Indecent (language) Proposals: Part 1
- #168: Indecent (language) Proposals: Part 2
- #171: go:embed
- #173: Releasing with (and without) GoReleaser
- #180: Are frameworks getting an Encore?
- #184: All about Porter
- #187: Fuzzing in the standard library
- #190: How to make mistakes in Go
- #196: Building actually maintainable software
- #200: Gophers Say What?!
- #202: Maintaining ourselves
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🎄 Merry Shipmas 🎁 (Ship It! #33)
Merry Shipmas! This is our special Christmas episode which sums up two months of very early mornings and a few late nights. After many twists and turns, stuff which didn’t work out, as well as pleasant surprises, this is what we ended up with:
- 🎁 PR #395 - CI/CD Lego set with Guillaume de Rouville & Joel Longtine
- 🎁 PR #396 - Continuous CPU profiling with Frederic Branczyk
- 🎁 PR #399 - Auto-restoring Kubernetes clusters with Dan Mangum & Muvaffak Onuş
While we initially intended to have five Christmas presents in total, only three got delivered in time. We planned, worked hard and eventually shipped the best we could just in time for this special Christmas episode. Our hope is that the latest additions to our changelog.com GitHub repository will help you just as much as they will help our 2022 setup.
🎄Merry Shipmas everyone! 🎄
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- 🎁 PR #395: CI/CD Lego set
- 🎁 PR #396: Continuous CPU profiling
- 🎁 PR #399: Auto-restoring Kubernetes clusters
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State of the "log" 2021 (Changelog Interviews #473)
Our 4th annual year-end wrap-up episode! We don’t naval gaze often, but when we do… we make sure you get your money’s worth. Reflections, most popular episodes, our favs, and new this year: listener voice mails. Thanks for listening! 💚
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The Changelog’s most popular episodes of 2021:
- Why we love Vim
- Modern Unix tools with Nick Janetakis
- OAuth, “It’s complicated.” with Aaron Parecki
- Why Neovim? with TJ DeVries
Jerod’s personal favorites of 2021:
- Community perspectives on Elastic vs AWS
- Exploring Deno Land with Ryan Dahl
- Why we love Vim
- Lessons from 10k hours with Matt Rickard
- Song Encoder: $STDOUT
Adam’s personal favorites of 2021:
- We ask a lawyer about GitHub Copilot
- Exploring Deno Land with Ryan Dahl
- Leading a non-profit unicorn with Quincy Larson
- Let’s mint some NFTs with Mikeal Rogers
- Every commit is a gift with Brett Cannon
- Shopify’s vision for the future of commerce with Ilya Grigorik
- Oh my! Zsh with Robby Russell
- The business model of open source with Adam Jacob
Other links mentioned:
- Ship It! 1
- Ship It! 15
- Changelog Merch
- Tim Caswell on Twitter
- Dumb & Dumber: And Totally redeem yourself!
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AI-assisted development is here to stay (Changelog Interviews #472)
We’re joined by Eran Yahav — talking about AI assistants for developers. Eran has been working on this problem for more than a decade. We talk about his path to now and how the idea for Tabnine came to life, this AI revolution taking place and the role it will play in developer productivity, and we talk about the elephant in the room - how Tabnine compares to GitHub Copilot, and what they’re doing to make Tabnine the AI assistant for every developer regardless of the IDE or editor you choose.
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Frontend Feud: React Advanced Edition (JS Party #206)
Jerod, Nick, and a node_modules-worthy collection of JS friends played an intense game of Frontend Feud at React Advanced London’s after-party back in October. Today, you get to play along with us!
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- Colby Fayock – Website, GitHub, X
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Crossing the platform gap (Ship It! #32)
In 2014 Gerhard joined CloudCredo, a startup co-founded by Colin Humphreys, Paula Kennedy & Chris Hedley. They stuck together through two acquisitions: Pivotal & VMware. This year, Colin, Paula & Chris co-founded Syntasso, the Platform-as-a-Product startup.
Today they all get together to talk about about what it takes to build a platform team, why Team Topologies is a good conversation starter and why a curated blend of off-the-shelf, composed, and self-created services are required in any organisation operating at scale.
Your hunch is right, all of them used to share the same Pivotal London office with Tammer Saleh, our guest from episode 31. Chris used to win all table tennis matches without even breaking a sweat, and today Gerhard gets his comeback. Touché!
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Show Notes:
- Crossing the Platform Gap
- 🎬 Crossing the Platform Gap - DevOps Enterprise Summit US 2021 (requires free account to watch)
- Kratix is a framework for building Platform-as-a-Product
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Mat asks the Go Team anything (Go Time #210)
You had questions, the Go Team had answers! Topics covered include generics (of course), governance (of course), Go 2, text editors, GitHub Copilot, garbage collection, and more.
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OpenAI and Hugging Face tooling (Practical AI #161)
The time has come! OpenAI’s API is now available with no waitlist. Chris and Daniel dig into the API and playground during this episode, and they also discuss some of the latest tool from Hugging Face (including new reinforcement learning environments). Finally, Daniel gives an update on how he is building out infrastructure for a new AI team.
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- Me, Myself, and AI – A podcast on artificial intelligence and business produced by MIT Sloan Management Review and Boston Consulting Group. Each episode, Sam Ransbotham and Sheervin Khodabandeh talk to AI leaders from organizations like Nasdaq, Spotify, Starbucks, and IKEA. Me, Myself, and AI is available wherever you get your podcasts. Just search Me, Myself, and AI.
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Show Notes:
- OpenAI’s API Now Available with No Waitlist
- Hugging Face SnowballFight beta
- Hugging Face Data Measurements Tool
- Pandas Tutor
- ClearML
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So much Sveltey goodness (JS Party #205)
Rich Harris joins Amal & Amelia for a Svelte deep-dive! What’s it all about? Why might you pick it over React and friends? What up with SvelteKit? Rich is working on it full-time now?! Will even more questions be answered?
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- Raygun – Never miss another mission-critical issue again — Raygun Alerting is now available for Crash Reporting and Real User Monitoring, to make sure you are quickly notified of the errors, crashes, and front-end performance issues that matter most to you and your business. Set thresholds for your alert based on an increase in error count, a spike in load time, or new issues introduced in the latest deployment. Start your free 14-day trial at Raygun.com
- Fastly – Compute@Edge free for 3 months — plus up to $100k a month in credit for an additional 6 months. Fastly’s Edge cloud network and modern approach to serverless computing allows you to deploy and run complex logic at the edge with unparalleled security and blazing fast computational speed. Head to fastly.com/podcast to take advantage of this limited time promotion!
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Coding Go in the blind (Go Time #209)
In this episode Dominic speaks with Jon about his experience transitioning to using a screen reader and learning to code without his vision. They discuss how some of the tooling works, things other developers can do to make their code more accessible for blind teammates, and more.
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Is Kubernetes a platform? (Ship It! #31)
Tammer Saleh, founder of SuperOrbital and former VP of Engineering at Pivotal, is joining Gerhard to talk about table tennis, remote work, and challenges that teams have with K8s.
Some years ago, both Tammer & Gerhard used to work in the same London office on CloudFoundry, and nowadays they are both into Kubernetes. Tammer and the SuperOrbital team are deeply experienced in this topic, and they help teams at companies like Bloomberg, Shopify, and federal U.S. agencies tackle hard Kubernetes and DevOps problems through engineering and training.
Why do companies need Kubernetes in the first place? Which are the right reasons for choosing it? Is Kubernetes a platform? Gerhard’s favourite: we are doing Kubernetes wrong, but it works better than when we were doing it right, so what’s up with that? This last one was a lot of fun, and we left the entire minute of laughter in at your request. Enjoy!
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SHIPITand get the team plan free for three months. - Equinix Metal – If you want the choice and control of hardware…with low overhead…and the developer experience of the cloud – you need to check out Equinix Metal. Deploy in minutes across 18 global locations, from Silicon Valley to Sydney. Visit metal.equinix.com/justaddmetal and receive $100 credit to play.
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Show Notes:
- Comparing The Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes Vision of DevOps
- Evaluating Kubernetes Behavior during Resource Exhaustion
- AWS Nitro Enclaves on EKS
- A Modern Cloud Vocabulary: Declarative (vs Imperative), Convergence, Idempotence & Immutability
- UNIX Programming by Example:
runit
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Deeply human stories (Changelog Interviews #471)
Today we’re bringing our appearance on DevDiscuss right here to The Changelog. Jerod and I guested their launch episode for Season 7 to talk about deeply human stories we’ve covered over the years on this podcast. For long-time listners this will be a trip down memory lane and for recent subscibers this will be a guided tour on some of our most impactful episodes. Special thanks to Ben Halpern and Christina Gorton for hosting us. Check out their show at dev.to/devdiscuss
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- LaunchDarkly – Fundamentally change how you deliver software. Innovate faster, deploy fearlessly, and make each release a masterpiece.
- Teleport – Securely access any computing resource anywhere. Engineers and security teams can unify access to SSH servers, Kubernetes clusters, web applications, and databases across all environments. Try Teleport today in the cloud, self-hosted, or open source at goteleport.com
- Square – Develop on the platform that sellers trust. There is a massive opportunity for developers to support Square sellers by building apps for today’s business needs. Learn more at developer.squareup.com to dive into the docs, APIs, SDKs and to create your Square Developer account — tell them Changelog sent you.
Featuring:
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Ben Halpern – GitHub, X
- Christina Gorton – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Show Notes:
- Five years of freeCodeCamp with Quincy Larson
- Oh my! Zsh. with Robby Russell
- A Protocol for Dying with Pieter Hintjens
- Leading Leaders Who Lead Engineers with Lara Hogan
- Every Commit is a Gift
- Open Sourcing the DEV Community with Ben Halpern
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Friendly federated learning 🌼 (Practical AI #160)
This episode is a follow up to our recent Fully Connected show discussing federated learning. In that previous discussion, we mentioned Flower (a “friendly” federated learning framework). Well, one of the creators of Flower, Daniel Beutel, agreed to join us on the show to discuss the project (and federated learning more broadly)! The result is a really interesting and motivating discussion of ML, privacy, distributed training, and open source AI.
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- Daniel Beutel – GitHub, X
- Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
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JavaScript will kill you in the Apocalypse (JS Party #204)
Salma Alam-Naylor joins us this week to share her thesis that JavaScript is best in moderation, and is a liability when creating performant, resilient, and accessible web applications. Salma says we’re drunk on JavaScript, and it’s time we learn how to leverage this powerful web primitive to enhance our web experiences, alongside HTML and CSS, instead of purely relying on JavaScript to completely run the show.
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- Salma Alam-Naylor – Website, GitHub, Bluesky
- Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
- Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Show Notes:
- How to Prevent the Collapse of Society by Building an Accessible Web - slides to Salma’s talk
- man, javascript is just… pure
- Revenue Lost When a Retail Website is Inaccessible
- Axe Devtools - site & docs
- Axe Devtools Chromium Browser Extension
- Wave Evaluation Tool
- Wave Evaluation Tool Chromium Extension
- Lighthouse Devtools
- Colour Contrast Checker
- Google’s Core Web Vitals
- Google Core Web Vitals Used in Search Ranking 2021
- Aliexpress - one of the worlds most popular sites with less than great a11y
- AsyncJS Meetup
- AsyncJS Community Site
- Web AIM Survey 1 million page survey
- Salma’s Twitch Stream!
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Help make state of the "log" 2021 extra special! (Changelog Interviews)
We’re prepping for our 4th annual state of the “log” episode where we look back at the year, discuss some of our favorite episodes as well as the most popular ones, and talk a bit about what we have in the works for 2022 and beyond.
We thought it’d be awesome to include some listener voices on the show! So, please share your favorite Changelog guests, topics, or a-ha moments you’ve had over the last year.
If you get your message included in the episode, we’ll send you a free t-shirt.
It doesn’t have to be super produced. Just pop open your Voice Memos app on your phone
or use QuickTime or Audacity on your laptop. Tell us what’s on your mind.
Then upload your audio to ~> changelog.fm/sotl
We’re recording the episode next week, so don’t sleep on the opportunity. We’d love to hear from you!
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Technology as a force for good (Practical AI)
Here’s a bonus episode this week from our friends behind Me, Myself, and AI — a podcast on artificial intelligence and business, and produced by MIT Sloan Management Review and Boston Consulting Group. We partnered with them to help promote their awesome podcast.
We hand picked this full-length episode to share with you because of its focus on using technology as a force for good, something we’re very passionate about. This episode features, Paula Goldman, Chief Ethical and Humane Use Officer at Salesforce, and the conversation touches on some interesting topics around the role tech companies play in society at large.
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Subscribe to Me, Myself, and AI on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Google Podcasts.
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Our first decade with Go (Go Time #208)
We’ve talked several times about getting started with Go. But Go is already 12 years old! Let’s talk about how it all started, and hear about it from the people who were there from the beginning.
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- Miki Tebeka – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Roger Peppe – GitHub, X
- Natalie Pistunovich – GitHub, X
- Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- The free lunch is over
- The C10K problem
- Selenium and Go’s bindings
- t.Parallel()
- Python’s asyncio
- Go Community Code of Conduct
- Roger talking about the acme editor in Dev Tool Time
- Miki was trying Clojure and Erlang before settling on Go
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Returning to GitHub to lead Sponsors (Changelog Interviews #470)
Today we’re joined by Jessica Lord, talking about the origins of Electron and her boomerang back to GitHub to lead GitHub Sponsors. We cover the early days of Electron before Electron was Electron, how she advocated to turn it into a product and make it a framework, how it’s used today, why she boomeranged back to GitHub to lead Sponsors, what’s next in funding open source creators, and we attempt to answer the question “what happens to open source once it’s funded?”
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- InfluxData – InfluxDB empowers developers to build IoT, analytics, and monitoring software. It’s purpose-built to handle massive volumes and countless sources of time-stamped data produced by sensors, applications, and infrastructure. Learn about the wide range of use cases of InfluxDB at influxdata.com/changelog
- LaunchDarkly – Fundamentally change how you deliver software. Innovate faster, deploy fearlessly, and make each release a masterpiece.
- Teleport – Securely access any computing resource anywhere. Engineers and security teams can unify access to SSH servers, Kubernetes clusters, web applications, and databases across all environments. Try Teleport today in the cloud, self-hosted, or open source at goteleport.com
- Square – Develop on the platform that sellers trust. There is a massive opportunity for developers to support Square sellers by building apps for today’s business needs. Learn more at developer.squareup.com to dive into the docs, APIs, SDKs and to create your Square Developer account — tell them Changelog sent you.
Featuring:
- Jessica Lord – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- GitHub Sponsors
- GitHub Sponsors docs
- GitHub Sponsors is now out of beta in 30 countries
- changelog.com/search?q=GitHub+Sponsors
- Sponsor Mat Ryer
- Sponsor curl
- I just hit $100,000/yr on GitHub Sponsors 🎉
- We Just Gave $154,999.89 to Open Source Maintainers
- Datasette Desktop
- The Changelog #216: GitHub’s Electron with Zeke Sikelianos
- The Changelog #241: The Story of Atom with Nathan Sobo
- The Changelog #370: The making of GitHub Sponsors with Devon Zuegel
- The Changelog #381: The dawn of sponsorware with Caleb Porzio
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Kaizen! Are we holding it wrong? (Ship It! #30)
This is our third Kaizen episode in which Adam, Jerod & Gerhard talk about GitOps the wrong way, ask questions with Honeycomb and realise that they must be holding the CDN wrong, and the effort that has been going into moving all changelog.com static files from regular volumes to an S3-like object store. If you like a good yak shake, listening to this one is a lot more fun than doing it.
Gerhard is most excited about the Ship It Christmas gifts that we have been preparing for you. While GitHub Codespaces is not going to be part of the upcoming Christmas special episode, today’s talk covers why investing in a Codespaces integration is worth it.
Changelog #459 and Backstage #20 are related to this topic.
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- Equinix Metal – If you want the choice and control of hardware…with low overhead…and the developer experience of the cloud – you need to check out Equinix Metal. Deploy in minutes across 18 global locations, from Silicon Valley to Sydney. Visit metal.equinix.com/justaddmetal and receive $100 credit to play.
Featuring:
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Show Notes:
- What is GitOps?
- Fastly log streaming to Honeycomb
- Honeycomb Kubernetes Starter Pack
- newsletter links-proxy encodes special urls - issue #394
- Changelog #459
- Backstage #20
- GitPod - Always ready to code
- GitHub Codespaces - Blazing fast cloud developer environments
- SPOILER: shipit-christmas-gifts
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AI-generated code with OpenAI Codex (Practical AI #159)
Recently, GitHub released Copilot, which is an amazing AI pair programmer powered by OpenAI’s Codex model. In this episode, Natalie Pistunovich tells us all about Codex and helps us understand where it fits in our development workflow. We also discuss MLOps and how AI is influencing software engineering more generally.
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- iMerit ML DataOps Summit – A FREE virtual event on December 2nd, 2021! iMerit is excited to gather 1000+ senior leaders at the forefront of deploying data solutions that power machine learning and artificial intelligence. Learn more and register to attend at imerit.net/dataops
- Fastly – Compute@Edge free for 3 months — plus up to $100k a month in credit for an additional 6 months. Fastly’s Edge cloud network and modern approach to serverless computing allows you to deploy and run complex logic at the edge with unparalleled security and blazing fast computational speed. Head to fastly.com/podcast to take advantage of this limited time promotion!
Featuring:
- Natalie Pistunovich – GitHub, X
- Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- GitHub Copilot
- OpenAI Codex Beta
- Previous GopherCon Workshop: Infrastructure for a Fraud Detection ML Application
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From engineering to product (JS Party #203)
Liana Leahy tells Amal and KBall all about her journey from software engineer to product manager. Along the way we learn what a PM does, how to be great at it, how to know if it’s for you, why the role is in such demand these days, and much more. - It’s UNIX, I know this!
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- Raygun – Never miss another mission-critical issue again — Raygun Alerting is now available for Crash Reporting and Real User Monitoring, to make sure you are quickly notified of the errors, crashes, and front-end performance issues that matter most to you and your business. Set thresholds for your alert based on an increase in error count, a spike in load time, or new issues introduced in the latest deployment. Start your free 14-day trial at Raygun.com
- Fastly – Compute@Edge free for 3 months — plus up to $100k a month in credit for an additional 6 months. Fastly’s Edge cloud network and modern approach to serverless computing allows you to deploy and run complex logic at the edge with unparalleled security and blazing fast computational speed. Head to fastly.com/podcast to take advantage of this limited time promotion!
Featuring:
- Liana Leahy – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
- Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Show Notes:
Amal’s tweet on normalizing tech as a job vs passion
Liana’s blog post on being the “Glue”
Slides from “Being Glue” Talk
HBR article on What it Takes to Be a Great Product Manager
The Rise of Product Management on Business School Campuses
Amal’s alternative MBA of choice - MIT’s SDM Degree
Liana singing live at Rails Conf 2014 - Let Me Code
Liana JS Party Inspired Song - It’s UNIX, I know this!
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Maintenance in the open (Go Time #207)
Open Source and other source available projects have been a huge driver of progress in our industry, but building and maintaining an open source project is about a lot more than just writing the initial code and putting together a good README. On this episode of the maintenance mini-series, we’ll be discussing open source and the maintenance required to keep it going.
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- Incident.io – Create, manage, and resolve incidents directly in Slack. Use the
/incidentcommand to create and manage incidents. This command lets you share updates, assign roles, set important links and more – all without ever leaving the incident channel. Each incident gets their own Slack channel plus a high-res dashboard at incident.io with the entire timeline from report to resolution. Learn more and sign up for free at incident.io — no credit card required. - Equinix Metal – If you want the choice and control of hardware…with low overhead…and the developer experience of the cloud – you need to check out Equinix Metal. Deploy in minutes across 18 global locations, from Silicon Valley to Sydney. Visit metal.equinix.com/justaddmetal and receive $100 credit to play.
- Fastly – Compute@Edge free for 3 months — plus up to $100k a month in credit for an additional 6 months. Fastly’s Edge cloud network and modern approach to serverless computing allows you to deploy and run complex logic at the edge with unparalleled security and blazing fast computational speed. Head to fastly.com/podcast to take advantage of this limited time promotion!
Featuring:
- Aaron Schlesinger – Website, GitHub, X
- sam boyer – GitHub, X
- Kris Brandow – GitHub, X
- Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- Steven Wittens’ Essay
- The Cue Language
- Scuemata
- Go Time Live at GopherCon - Session 1, Session 2, Session 3
- RIP Mitch Hedberg
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Building on global bare metal (Founders Talk #84)
This week Adam is joined by Zac Smith, Co-Founder of Packet and now running Equinix Metal. They talk about the early days of the internet infrastructure space, the beginnings of Packet, the “why” of bare metal, transitioning Packet from startup to global company overnight when they were acquired by Equinix, and how all this for Zac is 20 years in the making.
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- PlanetScale – PlanetScale is the only serverless database platform you can start in an instant and scale indefinitely with unlimited connections. Never think about database servers again. Everything you want to control is available through the beautifully designed PlanetScale CLI. Learn more and start your database in seconds at planetscale.com
- Fastly – Compute@Edge free for 3 months — plus up to $100k a month in credit for an additional 6 months. Fastly’s Edge cloud network and modern approach to serverless computing allows you to deploy and run complex logic at the edge with unparalleled security and blazing fast computational speed. Head to fastly.com/podcast to take advantage of this limited time promotion!
- Gitpod – Spin up fresh, ephemeral automated dev environments, in the cloud, in seconds. Their free tier is open to every developer with a GitLab, GitHub, and/or Bitbucket account. Learn more at gitpod.io
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Show Notes:
- Equinix Completes Acquisition of Bare Metal Leader Packet
- Equinix.com - We power the world’s digital leaders
- Founders Talk #73: Balancing business and open source with Raj Dutt, Founder & CEO of Grafana Labs
- The Linux Foundation Hosts Open19 to Accelerate Data Center and Edge Hardware Innovation
- Alex Polvi
- Power usage effectiveness (PUE)
- Ask Your Developer by Jeff Lawson
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New Mac day! (Backstage #20)
We upgraded to the new MacBook Pro M1 Max and decided to share our first impressions of the new hardware, how we migrate data and settings from our old machines (or don’t), which apps were “instant installs” for each of us, which apps we’re trying to live without, and how we get our new machines set up for work and play. Nerd out with us!
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Find the infrastructure advantage (Ship It! #29)
Zac Smith, managing director Equinix Metal, is sharing how Equinix Metal runs the best hardware and networking in the industry, why pairing magical software with the right hardware is the future, and what Open19 means for sustainability in the data centre. Think modular components that slot in (including CPUs), liquid cooling that converts heat into energy, and a few other solutions that minimise the impact on the environment.
But first, Zac tells us about the transition from Packet to Equinix Metal, his reasons for doing what he does, as well as the things that he is really passionate about, such as the most efficient data centres in the world and building for the love of it.
This is a great follow-up to episode 18 because it goes deeper into the reasons that make Gerhard excited about the work that Equinix Metal is doing. This conversation with Zac puts it all into perspective.
By the way, did you know that Equinix stands for Equality in the Internet Exchange?
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- Fly.io – Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs.
- Incident.io – Create, manage, and resolve incidents directly in Slack. Use the
/incidentcommand to create and manage incidents. This command lets you share updates, assign roles, set important links and more – all without ever leaving the incident channel. Each incident gets their own Slack channel plus a high-res dashboard at incident.io with the entire timeline from report to resolution. Learn more and sign up for free at incident.io — no credit card required. - Raygun – Never miss another mission-critical issue again — Raygun Alerting is now available for Crash Reporting and Real User Monitoring, to make sure you are quickly notified of the errors, crashes, and front-end performance issues that matter most to you and your business. Set thresholds for your alert based on an increase in error count, a spike in load time, or new issues introduced in the latest deployment. Start your free 14-day trial at Raygun.com
- Equinix Metal – If you want the choice and control of hardware…with low overhead…and the developer experience of the cloud – you need to check out Equinix Metal. Deploy in minutes across 18 global locations, from Silicon Valley to Sydney. Visit metal.equinix.com/justaddmetal and receive $100 credit to play.
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Show Notes:
- Open 19 - Open Hardware for The Rest of Us
- 🎧 Ship It! #18: Bare metal meets Kubernetes
- Equinix Metal’s 2021 Swings and Misses
- The Liquid Cooling Imperative
- Why It’s Harder to Get a Server Into Sydney than a Satellite Into Space?
- Five Predictions for Hardware in 2021
- Tinkerbell - Provision and manage bare metal, anywhere
- 🎬 Proximity User Conference
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Zero-shot multitask learning (Practical AI #158)
In this Fully-Connected episode, Daniel and Chris ponder whether in-person AI conferences are on the verge of making a post-pandemic comeback. Then on to BigScience from Hugging Face, a year-long research workshop on large multilingual models and datasets. Specifically they dive into the T0, a series of natural language processing (NLP) AI models specifically trained for researching zero-shot multitask learning. Daniel provides a brief tour of the possible with the T0 family. They finish up with a couple of new learning resources.
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Show Notes:
- InfoQ: BigScience Research Workshop Releases AI Language Model T0
- Hugging Face: bigscience / T0pp
- Multitask Prompted Training Enables Zero-Shot Task Generalization
- IEEE Specturm: How Deep Learning Works
- 5 Deep Learning Activation Functions You Need to Know
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Shopify's vision for the future of commerce (Changelog Interviews #469)
Today we’re joined by Ilya Grigorik to talk about Shopify’s developer preview release of Hydrogen and the preview release of Oxygen which is in early access preview with select merchants on Shopify. Hydrogen is their React framework for dynamic, contextual, and personalized e-commerce. And Oxygen is Shopify’s hosted V8 JavaScript worker runtime that leverages all of their platform with the hope of scaling millions of storefronts. We cover what developers can expect from the Hydrogen framework, Shopify’s big bet on React Server Components, the future of Shopify at scale with Hydrogen powered by Oxygen, and a world where merchants never have to think about the complexities of scaling infrastructure.
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Featuring:
- Ilya Grigorik – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Ilya’s Twitter thread
- Meet Hydrogen: A React Framework For Dynamic, Contextual And Personalized E-Commerce
- Hydrogen > new
- Shopify/hydrogen
- Changelog Search > “Ilya Grigorik”
- Changelog Merch
- Kids Anthem
- React Server Components Explained
- Building Blocks of High Performance Hydrogen-powered Storefronts
- The Changelog #416: Shopify’s massive storefront rewrite with Maxime Vaillancourt
- JS Party #178: Running Node natively in the browser with Eric Simons from StackBlitz
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Sophie is the bomb diggity (JS Party #202)
This week we are joined by Sophie Alpert, Head of Engineering at Humu, and former lead of the React Core team, to discuss her experience on being a very early adopter, contributor, and eventually maintainer of React. In her 4+ years on the Core team, she went from supporting a new niche OSS UI library to supporting a project used by millions of developers around the world. Join us to hear about this epic journey, as well as Sophie’s thought’s on some common critiques and misconceptions of React.
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Featuring:
- Sophie Alpert – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
- Divya – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Show Notes:
- Frameworks Panel (Chrome Dev Summit 2017)
- New React Beta Site
- Creact React App Site & Docs
- ReactJS StackOverflow
- Humu
- Humu is hiring! See open roles
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Eventually consistent (managing data at scale) (Go Time #206)
Tiago Mendes joins Mat, Jon, and Johnny to discuss eventual consistency and strategies for changing data at scale.
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- Tiago Mendes – X
- Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
- Jon Calhoun – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- The Saga pattern
- Eventual consistency
- Two-phase commit protocol
- Caitie McCaffrey’s Applying the Saga Pattern talk
- The tiago package
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What does good DevOps look like? (Ship It! #28)
This week Gerhard is chatting with Romano Roth, Head of DevOps at Zühlke, a company founded by Gerhard Zühlke in 1968. Nowadays they help companies all over the world build, ship and run anything from factory robots, to AI assistants in complex regulatory environments, and even medical devices that perform autonomous robotic surgery.
When Romano is not leading a team of 30 software engineers that specialise in operations, infrastructure and cloud, he is one of the organisers of DevOps Days Zürich, and also the DevOps Meetup group, which is how Gerhard and Romano met in 2019.
Having started his career as a .Net developer back in 2002, Romano had his fair share of dev and ops challenges, and he always enjoys seeing real business value delivered continuously in an automated way. In recent years, Romano’s perspective broadened, and now he sees DevOps realities across many companies. If you are curious about what good DevOps looks like, and what are the real challenges, then Romano has some good insights for you.
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- FireHydrant – The reliability platform for teams of all sizes. With FireHydrant, teams achieve reliability at scale by enabling speed and consistency from a service deployment to an unexpected outage. Try FireHydrant free for 14 days at firehydrant.io
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Show Notes:
- 🎟Make Your System Observable - BETA
- DevOpsDays Zürich 2021 - 🎬Videos & 📸Pictures
- DevOpsDays Zürich 2022
- 🎬 What are the top DevOps trends in 2021?
- 🎬 Participatory Budgeting Financing in the 21st Century
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1Password is all in on its web stack (Changelog Interviews #468)
This week we’re bringing JS Party to The Changelog — Mitch and Andrew from the 1Password team talk with Amal and Nick about the company’s transition to Electron and web technologies, and how the company utilized its existing web stack to shape the future of its desktop experience.
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Featuring:
- Mitchell Cohen – GitHub, X
- Andrew Beyer – GitHub, X
- Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- 1Password 8: The Story So Far
- w3c community group for web extensions
- 1Password Security Design
- GopherJS
- React
- Svelte
- Electron
- Rust
- Neon (rust in Electron)
- RFCs for JMAP?
- 1Password Careers Page (they are hiring!)
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
The inside story on React’s all new docs (JS Party #201)
Rachel Nabors –beloved educator, animator, & documentation engineer at Meta– joins Amal and Amelia for a first look at the brand new React docs!
This massive overhaul to the React website (which supports 2 million+ developers around the world) was no easy feat! We dive into all the behind the scenes coordination, as well as the goals, wins, and intended outcomes of this new way of approaching educational content and API reference material for open source projects.
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Featuring:
- Rachel Nabors – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
- Amelia Wattenberger – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- New React Beta Docs Site
- Code Sandbox API
- Overreacted - Dan Abramov’s Blog
- GitHub discussion and feedback for new blog
- What’s the difference between a rounded square and a squircle?
- ReactiFlux Discord Community
- Mark Erikson aka Aceamake - Beloved React community educator
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Honoring Veterans Day and #VetsWhoCode (Backstage #19)
We’re “doing it live” with Jerome Hardaway, a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft and the Executive Director of Vets Who Code — a veteran-led and operated 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that focuses on training veterans, active duty military, and military spouses in software development and open source with the goal of starting careers in the technology industry.
This is a lengthly conversation in and around Jerome’s story, the Vets Who Code mission and impact, the experience of being in the United States Military, and the opportunity and potential of 1.5x’ing one of the most elite group of people on the planet.
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Show Notes:
- Donate to #VetsWhoCode
- Listen to the #VetsWhoCode podcast
- Waking Up On the Appalachian Trail: A Story of War, Brotherhood, and the Pursuit of Truth
- N. B. Hankes
- Veteran Artist Residencies
- Terminal Lance
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
OpenTelemetry in your CI/CD (Ship It! #27)
In this episode, Gerhard is joined by Cyrille Le Clerc, Product Manager Lead on Observability at Elastic, and Oleg Nenashev, Principal Engineer at CloudBees.
It all started with Oleg’s tweet back in July, in which he was promoting Akihiro Kiuchi’s work on Jenkins monitoring with OpenTelemetry. This was done in the context of Google’s Summer of Code - a link to Akihiro’s demo is in the show notes.
As you may remember from episode 20, instrumenting our changelog.com pipeline is on Gerhard’s mind, and this conversation helped him clarify a few things. If you are thinking of instrumenting your CI/CD pipeline with OpenTelemetry, this episode is for you.
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- Fastly – Compute@Edge free for 3 months — plus up to $100k a month in credit for an additional 6 months. Fastly’s Edge cloud network and modern approach to serverless computing allows you to deploy and run complex logic at the edge with unparalleled security and blazing fast computational speed. Head to fastly.com/podcast to take advantage of this limited time promotion!
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Featuring:
- Cyrille Le Clerc – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Oleg Nenashev – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Show Notes:
- Oleg’s tweet that started this discussion
- 🎬 CDF GSoC 2021 - Jenkins Remote Monitoring - Akihiro Kiuchi
- The ecosystem of CI / CD tools that integrates in #OpenTelemetry - Cyrille
- OpenTelemetry command-line tool for sending events from shell scripts & similar environments
- 🎬 Tracing Your Jenkins Pipelines With OpenTelemetry and Jaeger
- 🎬 Embracing Observability in Jenkins with OpenTelemetry - Cyrille Le Clerc, September 2021
- DevOps World 2021 - watch all sessions on-demand
- Jenkinsfile Runner roadmap - Discussion
- jenkinsci/opentelemetry-plugin
- The OpenTelemetry Maven Extension
- Ansible OpenTelemetry Plugin
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Hacking with Go: Part 1 (Go Time #205)
Natalie and Mat explore hacking in Go from the eyes of 2 security researchers. Joakim Kennedy and JAGS have both used Go for hacking: writing malware, hardware hacking, reverse engineering Go code, and more.
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/incidentcommand to create and manage incidents. This command lets you share updates, assign roles, set important links and more – all without ever leaving the incident channel. Each incident gets their own Slack channel plus a high-res dashboard at incident.io with the entire timeline from report to resolution. Learn more and sign up for free at incident.io — no credit card required. - Honeycomb – Guess less, know more. When production is running slow, it’s hard to know where problems originate: is it your application code, users, or the underlying systems? With Honeycomb you get a fast, unified, and clear understanding of the one thing driving your business: production. Join the swarm and try Honeycomb free today at honeycomb.io/changelog
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- Joakim Kennedy – Website, GitHub, X
- Juan Andrés Guerrero-Saade – Website, X
- Natalie Pistunovich – GitHub, X
- Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
Show Notes:
- 🎧 Hacking with Go: Part 2
- AlphaGolang
- Sunburst, part of the SolarWinds attack report 1 report 2
- Flareon challenge?
- Malware using IPFS
- Ninja jobs - security jobs portal
- Go Reverse Engineering Tool Kit has both a library and a CLI tool to analyze Go binaries
- Zebrocy, malware written in soooo many languages
- “High profile ransomware written in Go”
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Analyzing the 2021 AI Index Report (Practical AI #157)
Each year we discuss the latest insights from the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), and this year is no different. Daniel and Chris delve into key findings and discuss in this Fully-Connected episode. They also check out a study called ‘Delphi: Towards Machine Ethics and Norms’, about how to integrate ethics and morals into AI models.
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Show Notes:
- The AI Index Report: Measuring Trends in Artificial Intelligence
- IEEE Spectrum: 15 Graphs You Need to See to Understand AI in 2021
- Delphi: Towards Machine Ethics and Norms
- IEEE Spectrum: Machines Learn Good From Commonsense Norm Bank
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Making the Web. Faster. (Founders Talk #83)
Today Adam is joined by Guillermo Rauch, founder and CEO of Vercel. They talk about building the platform that’s making the web faster and lets front-enders do their best work, his framework for leading as a CEO, what’s next for Next.js and Next.js Live, and how everything for Vercel is built on “Develop. Preview. Ship.”
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changelog@render.comfor a personal introduction and to ask questions about the Render platform. - Auth0 – The for developers, by developers identity platform built for the cloud era that secures billions of logins every year. Security, compliance, and industry standards are always up-to-date, plus devs are free to provide the login options their users want with the security their application demands. Make login Auth0’s problem. Not yours. Learn more at Auth0.com
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Show Notes:
- Vercel
- Making the Web. Faster.
- Next for Vercel
- We’ve re-branded as Vercel
- Next.js Live
- The Changelog #213: ZEIT, HyperTerm, now with Guillermo Rauch, founder of ZEIT
- The Changelog #426: What the web could be (in 2021 and beyond) with Guillermo Rauch & Amal Hussein
- Hack Club
- Lex Fridman Podcast: Garry Kasparov: Chess, Deep Blue, AI, and Putin
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Connecting the dots in public (Changelog Interviews #467)
Today we’re joined by Shawn “swyx” Wang, also known as just “swyx” — and we’re talking about his interesting path to becoming a software developer, what it means to “learn in public” and how he’s been able to leverage that process to not only level up his skills and knowlege, but to also rapidly advance his career. We cover Swyx’s recent writing on the light and dark side of the API economy — something he calls “living above or below the API,” his thoughts on Cloudflare eating the cloud by playing Go instead of Chess, and we also talk about the work he’s doing at Temporal and how’s taking his frontend skills to the backend.
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- LaunchDarkly / TrajectoryConf – Software powers the world. LaunchDarkly empowers all teams to deliver and control their software. DevOps and feature management are reimagining how we build and release new products. On November 9th and 10th, LaunchDarkly is hosting Trajectory Conference 2021 — a two-day event for software innovators who want to break orbit, not systems. Trajectory is a fully-virtual conference that focuses on the technology, people, and processes that continuously deliver better user experiences and more powerful software. Register for free at trajectoryconf.com
Featuring:
- Shawn Wang – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Learn in Public
- The Light and Dark Side of the API Economy
- Eating the Cloud from Outside In
- The Coding Career Handboox (this link includes an embedded coupon code for 30% off)
- Cloud Operating Systems and Reconstituting the Monolith
- No Zero Days: My Path from Javascript Newbie to Full Stack Developer at Age 30
- freeCodeCamp.org
- #Doccies (we’re planning to do something around this soon, stay tuned in 2022)
- Cloud Distros and the Deployment Age of the Cloud
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Best of the fest! Volume 1 (JS Party #200)
JS Party listeners and panelists celebrate our favorite moments from the past 100 episodes! You’ll hear from over 20 of your favorite voices across 14 episodes. We also share some behind-the-scenes and read/hear from listeners! Here’s to the last 200 episodes, and the next 200 as well. 🥂
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- Sentry – Working code means happy customers. That’s exactly why teams choose Sentry. From error tracking to performance monitoring, Sentry helps teams see what actually matters, resolve problems quicker, and learn continuously about their applications - from the frontend to the backend. Use the code
SHIPITand get the team plan free for three months. - Square – Develop on the platform that sellers trust. There is a massive opportunity for developers to support Square sellers by building apps for today’s business needs. Learn more at developer.squareup.com to dive into the docs, APIs, SDKs and to create your Square Developer account — tell them Changelog sent you.
Featuring:
- Eric Normand – GitHub, X
- Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Emma Bostian – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Christopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Jake Dohm – GitHub, X
- Scott Tolinski – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Kent C. Dodds – Website, GitHub, X
- Suz Hinton – GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
- Divya – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Ben Ilegbodu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Ahmad Nassri – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Chris Coyier – Website, GitHub, X
- Geoff Graham – Website, X
- Miriam Suzanne – Website, X
- Sarah Drasner – Website, GitHub, X
- Amelia Wattenberger – Website, GitHub, X
- Feross Aboukhadijeh – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Wathan – GitHub, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- JS is an occasionally functional language
- Do you want JavaScript again or more JavaScript?
- JS “Danger” Party
- Monad’s Hook
- Getting Hooked on React
- What I’m gonna share here is really mediocre
- WFH?!
- We really needed new jingles
- Amal joins the party 🎉
- Bringing it back to TypeScript
- Let’s replace your kidney with React
- JS Danger: CSS-Tricks Edition
- When (and how) to say NO
- The Tailwind beneath my wings
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Discussing Go's annual developer survey (Go Time #204)
Each year a group of user researchers and the Go team get together and create a survey for the Go community. The results of the survey are analyzed and turned into a report made available to everyone in the Go community. In this episode we sit down with Alice Merrick and Todd Kulesza to discuss the survey, how it’s made, and some of the interesting results from this year’s survey.
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Gerhard at KubeCon NA 2021: Part 2 (Ship It! #26)
In the second set of interviews from KubeCon North America 2021, Gerhard and Liz Rice talk about eBPF superpowers - Cilium + Hubble - and what’s it like to work with Duffie Cooley.
Jared Watts shares the story behind Crossplane reaching incubating status, and Dan Mangum tells us what it was like to be at this KubeCon in person. Dan’s new COO role (read Click Ops Officer) comes up.
David Ansari from VMware speaks about his first KubeCon experience both as an attendee and as a speaker. The RabbitMQ Deep Dive talk that he gave will be a nice surprise if you watch it - link in the show notes.
Dan Lorenc brings his unique perspective on supply chain security, and tells us about the new company that he co-founded, Chainguard. How to secure container images gets covered, as well as one of the easter eggs that Scott Nichols put in chainguard.dev.
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- Jared Watts – GitHub, X
- Dan Mangum – Website, GitHub, X
- David Ansari – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Dan Lorenc – Website, GitHub, X
- Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
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Liz Rice, Cilium
- 🎬 Cloud Native Superpowers with eBPF - Liz Rice, Isovalent - KCNA 2021
- The Beginner’s Guide to eBPF Programming for Networking
- CNI Benchmark: Understanding Cilium Network Performance - May 2021
- 🎙 GoTime #201 - eBPF and Go
- ebpf.io
- Cilium joins CNCF as an incubating project
Jared Watts & Dan Mangum, Crossplane
- 🎬 Registries After Dark - Daniel Mangum, Upbound & Jon Johnson, Google - KCNA 2021
- Upbound at KubeCon NA 2021
- SIG-Running met at 6:30AM at KubeCon
- Crossplane is now a CNCF Incubating project
David Ansari, first KubeCon talk
Dan Lorenc, Chainguard
- 🎬 Sigstore: How We Started, Where We Are, Where We are Headed - Bob Callaway & Dan Lorenc - KCNA 2021
- sigstore - A new standard for signing, verifying and protecting software
- Chainguard - Applying Zero-Trust principles to supply chain security
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Photonic computing for AI acceleration (Practical AI #156)
There are a lot of people trying to innovate in the area of specialized AI hardware, but most of them are doing it with traditional transistors. Lightmatter is doing something totally different. They’re building photonic computers that are more power efficient and faster for AI inference. Nick Harris joins us in this episode to bring us up to speed on all the details.
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Ship less JavaScript, closer to the user (JS Party #199)
KBall catches up with Chris Ferdinandi about the trends in modern web development towards smaller libraries, pre-compilation, and applications at the edge.
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- JSParty 80: JavaScript is the CO2 of the web
- Preact
- petite-vue
- SolidJS
- Svelte
- Hugo
- Eleventy
- Rich Harris on transitional apps
- JSParty 55: The future of the web is npm, but maybe not JavaScript
- Astro
- Jason Lengstorff on Astro and Next
- Native Interactive Components
- HTML Sanitizer API
- Details and summary elements
- JSParty 183: JS on Wasm
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Song Encoder: $STDOUT (Changelog Interviews #466)
Welcome to Song Encoder, a special series of The Changelog podcast featuring people who create at the intersection of software and music. This episode features $STDOUT and contains explicit language.
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Listen to $STDOUT
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- Hell.js
- Language Flamewars
- Meetings
- Tech Lead
- Over Engineering
- Opinions
- Interviews
- Estimates
- 3AM in San Fransisco
- Remote Life
- Integrations
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Just about managing (Go Time #203)
Ashley Willis and Ela Krief join Natalie to discuss the ins and outs of management. They discuss what makes a good manager, common mistakes managers make, how to communicate effectively, dealing with conflict, and much more.
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Journey to CEO, again (Founders Talk #82)
Today Adam is joined by Evan Kaplan, CEO of InfluxData. Evan’s journey to become the CEO was not by way of founder, in this company. Evan has founded several companies in the past, and he’s been in a CEO position for more than 22 years. But InfluxData was founded by Paul Dix, and Paul knew years ago that his role (best role?) was to lead the technical and product direction of the company, which lead him to Evan. Today we share that story as well as a glimpse into operating the business that built the defacto platform for building time series applications with deep roots in open source.
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- My Journey to InfluxData
- The Changelog #429: Community perspectives on Elastic vs AWS - a deep dive on the business of open source
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Help make episode 200 extra special! (JS Party)
We’re putting together a special highlight reel for our 200th episode! Share your favorite moments, guests, topics, and/or episodes from the past 100 shows. Every listener who gets their voice or text message included in the episode gets a free JS Party t-shirt!
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Gerhard at KubeCon NA 2021: Part 1 (Ship It! #25)
This is Gerhard’s first set of interviews from KubeCon North America 2021.
William Morgan shares with us some of the finer Linkerd details, such as the underlying security theme, why native Kubernetes objects are preferable to more CRDs, and the joy of meeting team members in person.
Frederic Branczyk speaks about Parca, a new continuous system profiling tool that uses eBPF to help you understand what is happening on your hosts.
Andrew Rynhard gives us a great Talos OS and Kubespan perspective, and shares some really good follow-up videos on these topics.
The last conversation is with David Flanagan - you know him as Rawkode - about new beginnings. It’s only been less than two months since we’ve had him in episode 18, and he kept really busy. Caleb, his 3 weeks old baby boy, was the youngest attendee at this conference, and some talks made him sleepy, so good job everyone.
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- Frederic Branczyk – Website, GitHub, X
- Andrew Rynhard – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- David Flanagan – Website, GitHub, X
- Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Show Notes:
William Morgan, Linkerd
- Overview and State of Linkerd - KubeCon EU 2021
- Announcing Linkerd 2.11: Policy, gRPC retries, performance improvements, and more!
- A Kubernetes engineer’s guide to mTLS - Mutual authentication for fun and profit
- Linkerd production runbook
- Linkerd Community Guide to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2021
Frederic Branczyk, Parca
- What Does the Future Hold for Observability? - Tom Wilkie & Frederic Branczyk - KubeCon EU 2019
- parca.dev - start profiling in seconds - Introducing Parca
- Frederic’s new coffee machine, one of his secrets for shipping new Parca features quickly
- Polar Signals Careers - a careers page to use for inspiration
- On Building Company Culture
Andrew Rynhard, Talos OS
- Talos is a modern OS for Kubernetes
- 🎬 COSI: The Common Operating System Interface - Steven Borrelli & Andrew Rynhard - KubeCon EU 2021
- 🎬 Playing with KubeSpan at home - Andrey Smirnov - Setting up KubeSpan on Talos 0.13 for a hybrid home cluster: QEMU VMs, Raspberry Pi 4 and AWS Graviton instances
- 🎬 Managing bare-metal Kubernetes with Sidero
David Flanagan, new beginnings
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Eureka moments with natural language processing (Practical AI #155)
When is the last time you had a eureka moment? Chris had a chat with Nicholas Mohnacky, CEO and Cofounder of bundleIQ, where they use natural language processing algorithms like GPT-3 to connect your Google GSuite with other personal data sources to find deeper connections, go beyond the obvious, and create eureka moments.
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Oh my! Zsh. (Changelog Interviews #465)
Robby Russell is back on The Changelog after more than 10 years to catch us up on all things Oh My Zsh — a delightful, open source, community-driven framework for managing your Zshell configuration. It comes bundled with plugins, themes, and can be easily customized and contributed to, because hey, that’s how open source works. In this episode Robby gives us a glimpse into the passion and the struggle of being an open source software maintainer.
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- The Changelog #61: Oh My Zsh with Robby Russell
- Oh My Zsh
- ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/pulls on GitHub
- d’Oh My Zsh
- colorize plugin
- Planet Argon
- maintainable.fm
- Oh My Zsh merch
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The decentralized future (JS Party #198)
Nader Dabit shares his motivation and experience on recently transitioning to focus on technologies and communities that support the decentralized internet. In this hot topics discussion, we cover all the buzz words you’ve likely heard over the past year. We have honest and nuanced conversations about the world of Ethereum, Cryptocurrencies, NFTs, DAOs, and Web3. Hype or hit? You’ll have to tune in to find out.
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- What is Web3
- The New Creator Economy – DAOs, Community Ownership, and Cryptoeconomics
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- How to Get into Ethereum | Crypto | Web3 As A Developer
- OpenSea - the world’s first and largest NFT marketplace
- Friends with Benefits DAO
- Developer DAO
- How to join Developer DAO
- RxJS. Please don’t
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Maintaining ourselves (Go Time #202)
With the constant demands of work and life we often don’t take much time to ensure that we’re maintaining ourselves. In this third episode of the maintenance series, Kris is joined by co-host Natalie, along with Ian Lopshire to discuss the ways in which we can maintain ourselves in this busy and chaotic world.
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The future of code search (Founders Talk #81)
Today Adam is joined by Quinn Slack, CEO of Sourcegraph. He’s been tracking Sourcegraph for years now and knew one day they would hit Unicorn status, and that happened this year. They’re just off a massive $125M Series D funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz at a $2.625B valuation to bring code search to every developer. The future of code search has never been more clear and we’re excited to share today’s show with you.
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- Announcing Sourcegraph’s Series D
- The future of code search
- sourcegraph/sourcegraph on GitHub
- Sourcegraph quick install
- Sourcegraph handbook
- OpenGrok
- Why I love code (and how I started coding)
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Connecting your daily work to intent & vision (Ship It! #24)
This week Gerhard is talking with Arnaud Porterie, founder of EchoesHQ, a new utility that measures and communicates engineering activity.
They start by re-creating the 60 seconds Y Combinator pitch, and then shift focus to what it was like to get EchoesHQ off the ground. Next, they tackle something which is always on Gerhard’s mind: Why is it important to connect our daily engineering activity to intent?
Before EchoesHQ, Arnaud used to run the core team and the open source project at Docker, and combined with other engineering leadership roles that he held for over a decade, he kept encountering misalignment that was preventing organisations from making meaningful progress. Let’s hear why EchoesHQ might just be a great way of addressing this.
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- EchoesHQ in one tweet: Photo 2
- Echoes HQ on Product Hunt
- The ticketing conundrum
- Here’s some lesser-known products we use on a daily basis at @Echoes_HQ which deserve a shoutout
- I turned 0x26 yesterday and I cannot wait to build this
- How Docker broke in half
- 🎬 Start with why - How great leaders inspire action | Simon Sinek | TEDxPugetSound 2009
- 🎸 Pink Floyd - Echoes (Remastered)
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This insane tech hiring market (Changelog Interviews #464)
This week we’re joined by Gergely Orosz and we’re talking about the insane tech hiring market we’re in right now. Gergely was on the show a year ago talking about growing as a software engineer and his book The Tech Resume Inside Out. Now he’s laser focused on Substack with actionable advice for engineering managers and engineers, with a focus on big tech and high-growth startups. On today’s show we dig into his recent coverage of “the perfect storm” that’s causing this insane tech hiring market.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- blog.pragmaticengineer.com
- The Perfect Storm Causing an Insane Tech Hiring Market
- The FB engineering manager interview process
- What are ways you can prepare for a software engineering or engineering manager promotion ahead of time?
- The Web 2.0 Show #63: Twilio - Telephony in the Cloud
- Jeff Lawson and his book Ask Your Developer
- Chris Herd on Twitter — “Every time a competitor mentions return to office our recruiters reach out to their people. We’ve hired 15+ of their engineers in the last 2 months.”
- The Changelog #422: Growing as a software engineer with Gergely Orosz
- Anonymous job search with Djinni.co
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🌍 AI in Africa - Makerere AI Lab (Practical AI #154)
This is the first episode in a special series we are calling the “Spotlight on AI in Africa”. To kick things off, Joyce and Mutembesa from Makerere University’s AI Lab join us to talk about their amazing work in computer vision, natural language processing, and data collection. Their lab seeks out problems that matter in African communities, pairs those problems with appropriate data/tools, and works with the end users to ensure that solutions create real value.
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- Joyce Nabende – X
- Mutembesa – X
- Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- Makerere AI Lab
- Makerere AI Lab - projects
- Open for Good Alliance
- International Development Research Centre - Canada
- FAIR Forward – Artificial Intelligence for All - GIZ
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Fastify served with a refreshing Pino 🍷 (JS Party #197)
Matteo Collina, Ph.D takes us to school on all things Node, Fastify, and Pino. We start with his journey into the Node community, how he got started in open source, and his experience as a member of Node’s Technical Steering Committee (TSC). We then nerd out about middleware architecture, data structures and logs (yes, logs), and of course, we dive into what makes Fastify so darn fast and how Pino was the precursor project.
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- Matteo Collina – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
- Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Pino
- Fastify
- JS Party 103 - You’re probably using streams
- Hiring at Nearform
- Maven
- npm
- koa
- Find my way - router
- NestJS and Fastify
- Adventures in Nodeland newsletter
- Deno
- 10 things I regret about Node.js
- Node Todo
- NodeConf Remote - October 18-21, 2021
- Avvio
// Require the framework and instantiate it
const fastify = require('fastify')({ logger: true })
// Declare a route
fastify.get('/', (request, reply) => { reply.send({ hello: 'world' }) })
// Run the server!
fastify.listen(3000, (err) => { if (err) { fastify.log.error(err) process.exit(1) } })
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eBPF and Go (Go Time #201)
eBPF (7 years old) is a sandbox that can run code inside the linux kernel. It started as a technology to build firewalls, and has evolved over time to include a range of new features.
The panel discuss the origins of eBPF and how it works, as well as dig into some real-world use cases. While eBPF programs themselves aren’t written in Go (more like C), we will hear about how you can communicate with eBPF programs from your Go code.
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- Grant Seltzer Richman – Website, GitHub, X
- Derek Parker – GitHub, X
- Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- Learn more about eBPF on ebpf.io
- Email thread on eBPF’s 7th Birthday
- Package libbpfgo - libbpfgo is a Go library for Linux’s eBPF project (Apache License 2.0)
- Tracee: Runtime Security and Forensics using eBPF - A project discussed in this episode (Apache License 2.0)
- Liz Rice’s talks on eBPF
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A universal deployment engine (Ship It! #23)
In today’s episode, Gerhard is talking to Sam Alba, Docker’s first employee, and Solomon Hykes, the Docker co-founder. Together with Andrea Luzzardi, they are the creators of Dagger, a universal deployment engine that trades YAML for CUE, and uses Buildkit as the runtime.
Why? Because we should stop rewriting the same application deployment logic in scripts, makefiles or continuous delivery configuration. That’s right, this is the YAML vaccine that we have all been waiting for.
Gerhard believes that one day, Dagger will become just as meaningful for application delivery, as Docker is today for application code.
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- Dagger docs - request early access via dagger.io
- Introducing Buildkit - 2017 - Tõnis Tiigi
- Learn about CUE’s theoretical basis and what makes it different
- 🎙 CUE: Configuration superpowers for everyone | GoTime #163
- 🎬 Hands-on Introduction to Dagger | Rawkode Live
- 🎙The Return of Docker/Dagger’s Solomon Hykes | POPCAST #75
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Federated Learning 📱 (Practical AI #153)
Federated learning is increasingly practical for machine learning developers because of the challenges we face with model and data privacy. In this fully connected episode, Chris and Daniel dive into the topic and dissect the ideas behind federated learning, practicalities of implementing decentralized training, and current uses of the technique.
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Learning:
Frameworks/ open source projects:
Example uses of Federated Learning:
- Federated Learning for Mobile Keyboard Prediction
- Your voice & audio data stays private while Google Assistant improves
- Facebook is rebuilding its ads to know a lot less about you
- Federated learning for predicting clinical outcomes in patients with COVID-19
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Lessons from 10k hours of programming (Changelog Interviews #463)
Today we’re talking to Matt Rickard about his blog post, Reflections on 10,000 Hours of Programming. Matt was clear to mention that these reflections are purely about coding, not career advice or other soft skills. These reflections are just about deliberately writing code for 10,000 hours, which also correlates with the number of hours needed to master a skill.
If you count the reflections we cover on the show and be the first to comment on this episode, we’ll get in touch and send you a coupon code to use for a 100% free t-shirt in the merch store. Good luck…
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- Matt Rickard – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Reflections on 10,000 Hours of Programming
- Heptagon of Configuration
- Linux Kernel Docs on commenting
- Ahmad Nassri on JS Party
- Todo or Die - Python Edition
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Building GraphQL backends with NestJS (JS Party #196)
Doug Martin joins Nick to talk to us about building GraphQL backends in TypeScript with NestJS and his project, nestjs-query. We talk about what NestJS is and its built-in support for GraphQL and REST, and then dive into how NestJS-query extends it to generate code for you.
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Gophers Say What!? (Go Time #200)
We’re celebrating our 200th episode with a crazy game of Gophers Say! Mat Ryer hosts two epic teams including Go Time OGs Carlisia, Erik, and Brian!
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/incidentcommand to create and manage incidents. This command lets you share updates, assign roles, set important links and more – all without ever leaving the incident channel. Each incident gets their own Slack channel plus a high-res dashboard at incident.io with the entire timeline from report to resolution. Learn more and sign up for free at incident.io — no credit card required. - Equinix Metal – If you want the choice and control of hardware…with low overhead…and the developer experience of the cloud – you need to check out Equinix Metal. Deploy in minutes across 18 global locations, from Silicon Valley to Sydney. Visit metal.equinix.com/justaddmetal and receive $100 credit to play.
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- Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
- Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X
- Mark Bates – Website, GitHub, X
- Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
- Natalie Pistunovich – GitHub, X
- Kris Brandow – GitHub, X
- Angelica Hill – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
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It's crazy and impossible (Ship It! #22)
Today we have a very special episode, where Gerhard gets to share his favourite learnings from Steve Jobs. If it wasn’t for his determination to build a better personal computer, Gerhard would have most likely continued with a career in physics.
We know what you’re thinking: it’s crazy and impossible to interview Steve Jobs, but on his 10th memorial anniversary, Gerhard was determined to combine the things that Steve said with his passion for computers, automation, and infrastructure.
Live your life and ship your best stuff because there’s nothing like the present.
Thank you, Steve.
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- Apple - Remembering Steve
- MIT - 100 Years of the Quantum
- University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington State
- Mac OS 9
- iMac G3
- ENIAC - Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer
- “Bicycle for the Mind” - Medium blog post by Steven Sinofsky
- Understanding the GitHub flow
- Start with why - How great leaders inspire action, Simon Sinek, TEDxPugetSound
- Ship It! #16 - Optimize for smoothness not speed with Justin Searls
- Slow is Smooth and Smooth is Fast - Medium blog post by Michael Fisher
- The Mythical Man-Month
- kelseyhightower/nocode
- Changelog #459 - Coding in the cloud with Codespaces with Cory Wilkerson
- NeXTSTEP
- Eliyahu M. Goldratt, 1947 - 2011
- Steven C. Wheelwright
- Jony Ive
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The mathematics of machine learning (Practical AI #152)
Tivadar Danka is an educator and content creator in the machine learning space, and he is writing a book to help practitioners go from high school mathematics to mathematics of neural networks. His explanations are lucid and easy to understand. You have never had such a fun and interesting conversation about calculus, linear algebra, and probability theory before!
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- Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
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Books
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Learning-focused engineering (Changelog Interviews #462)
This week we’re joined by Brittany Dionigi, Director of Platform Engineering at Articulate, and we’re talking about how organizations can take a more intentional approach to supporting the growth of their engineers through learning-focused engineering.
Brittany has been a software engineer for more than 10 years, and learned formal educational and classroom-based learning strategies as a Technical Lead & Senior Instructor at Turing School of Software & Design. We talk through a ton of great topics; getting mentorship right, common coaching opportunities, classroom-based learning strategies like backwards planning, and ways to identify and maximize the learning opportunities for teams and org.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Camille Fournier (Camille Forn-yay) - An incomplete list of skills senior engineers need
- Katrina Owens - Cultivating Instinct
- Note-taking and the decision to externalize memory
- Guide to Medical Education in the Teaching Hospital - lots of good things about how they integrate learning into their day-to-day business operations
- Science of Learning Concepts for Teachers (Project Illuminated)
- Culturally Responsive Teaching - A 50-State Survey of Teaching Standards
- What is Project Based Learning (PBL)?
- A powerful way to improve learning and memory
- Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon
- Jeli - dedicated incident analysis platform
- Turing School of Software and Design
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Do you know the muffin fairy? (JS Party #195)
Muffin fairies, thumb wars, and fruit transit can only mean one thing: Explain it Like I’m 5! We’re also covering the news, discussing the effects of remote work, and agreeing it’s OK to ignore the frontend dev scene for awhile.
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- Amelia Wattenberger – Website, GitHub, X
- Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Christopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
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- The effects of remote work on collaboration among information workers
- How Slack Changed Apple’s Employee Culture
- Get your head checked
- CSS container units
- I completely ignored the front end development scene for 6 months. It was fine
- Safari 15 Beta Release Notes
- LeadDev conference on Staff+
- Go Time’s 200th episode live show
- Don’t be the last kid on your block to get Firebase JS SDK 9.0.0! Don’t be
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Go on hardware: TinyGo in the wild (Go Time #199)
In this episode, we will be exploring the tiny world of Go and Hardware. We are joined by three gophers, Vladimir Vivien, Tobias Theel, and Ron Evans, who will be discussing the use of Linux API (V4L2) to control video hardware and capture image data in realtime, programming Bluetooth devices, working on WiFi communication using an Arduino Nano 33 IoT NINA chip, and much more.
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- Vladimir Vivien – GitHub, X
- Tobias Theel – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Natalie Pistunovich – GitHub, X
- Angelica Hill – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
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- TinyGo’s website
- Video for Linux API
- cgo Go Package
- GDN Event: Tiny Go Technology and Hardware
- Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol RFC
- Astro Playground
- Suborbital Website
- WebAssembly for Proxies (ABI specification)
- WebAssembly for Proxies (Go SDK)
- Vecty (Front-end of Go Gitbhub)
- WASM-4 Website
- xship (A shoot’em up built with tinygo for the pygamer)
- Learning Go by Example: Create a Game Boy Advance (GBA) game in Go
- Learning Go Programming by Vladimir Vivien
- Creative DIY Microcontroller Projects with TinyGo and WebAssembly: A practical guide to building embedded applications for low-powered devices, IoT, and home automation by Tobias Theel
- The eigenvector of “Why we moved from language X to language Y” by Erik Bernhardsson
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Learning from incidents (Ship It! #21)
Things go wrong all the time. We all make mistakes. And that is okay. What is not okay, is to think that it won’t happen, or that there will be someone else around when it does. In that moment, it doesn’t matter who wrote that module, package or microservice. But there is a better way to think about this, and there is an approach that makes people actually look forward to incidents.
It all starts with thinking of incidents as opportunities to learn, and then share those learnings with everyone, so that you can all improve. In this episode, Gerhard is joined by Stephen Whitworth and Chris Evans, incident.io co-founders, and former Staff Engineers at Monzo.
They get it, we get it, and now you can get it too.
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- Chris Evans – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Stephen Whitworth – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Show Notes:
- Linear - The issue tracking tool you’ll enjoy using
- Loom - Record quick videos of your screen and cam
- incident.io - Product Roadmap
- CircleCI - Continuous Integration and Delivery
- Heroku - Cloud Application Platfrom
- Incidents are for everyone - Stephen’s favourite blog post
- Learning from incidents - Formula 1 - Chris’ favourite blog post
- Why more incidents is no bad thing - Gerhard’s favourite blog post
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Balancing human intelligence with AI (Practical AI #151)
Polarity Mapping is a framework to “help problems be solved in a realistic and multidimensional manner” (see here for more info). In this week’s fully connected episode, Chris and Daniel use this framework to help them discuss how an organization can strike a good balance between human intelligence and AI. AI can’t solve everything and humans need to be in-the-loop with many AI solutions.
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- Polarity Mapping
- Barry Johnson’s paper “Reflections A Perspective on Paradox and Its Application to Modern Management”
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Fauna is rethinking the database (Changelog Interviews #461)
This week we’re talking with Evan Weaver about Fauna — the database for a new generation of applications. Fauna is a transactional database delivered as a secure and scalable cloud API with native GraphQL. It’s the first implementation of its kind based on the Calvin paper as opposed to Spanner. We cover Evan’s history leading up to Fauna, deep details on the Calvin algorithm, the CAP theorem for databases, what it means for Fauna to be temporal native, applications well suited for Fauna, and what’s to come in the near future.
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changelog21. Learn more and register for free at influxdays.com - LaunchDarkly – Ship fast. Rest easy. Deploy code at any time, even if a feature isn’t ready to be released to your users. Wrap code in feature flags to get the safety to test new features and infrastructure in prod without impacting the wrong end users.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Spanner vs. Calvin: Distributed Consistency at Scale
- Trust Fauna
- Fauna pricing
- Fauna on GitHub
- CAP theorem
- What is a Relational Database Management System?
- Fauna on Crunchbase
- Fauna on Changelog.com
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Kaizen! Five incidents later (Ship It! #20)
This is our second Kaizen episode, where Adam, Jerod & Gerhard talk about changelog.com improvements since episode 10. OK, so Gerhard deleted the DNS API token. Not only did he take the time to understand how that happened, so that he could actually learn from his mistake, but now we have a system in place so that we can share learnings from incidents. By the way, these are publicly available in our #incidents Slack channel.
A great & unexpected thing that happened since we recorded this episode, is Jerod fixing 99% of all the errors that were happening in prod. The top error was the broken Twitter auth - sorry Matt - which was a result of us upgrading to OTP 24 a few months back. Episode 3 show notes include a YouTube stream which captures it all.
We wrap up this episode by each of us sharing the improvements that we would like to do until our next Kaizen. You heard it from Adam first: Ship It Driven Development
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Featuring:
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Show Notes:
- changelog.com PR#378
- Oban: Robust job processing for Elixir
- changelog.slack.com #incidents
- Incident.io: Our incidents platform
- DNSimple: Our DNS provider
- Fastly: Our content delivery network
- Linode - Connectivity Issue - US-East (Newark)
- Linode - Service Issue - Linode Kubernetes Engine
- Linode Global Infrastructure
- Sentry: Our error tracking
- Jerod: This is what happens when @gerhardlazu…
- Founderstalk #80: Iterating to globally distributed apps and databases
- 🎬 Firecracker VMs on Metal, Oh My! - Kurt Mackey, March 2021
- 🎬 Live Debugging the Changelog’s Production Kubernetes | Rawkode Live, September 2021
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1Password is all in on its web stack (JS Party #194)
Mitch and Andrew from the 1Password team talk with Amal and Nick about the company’s transition to Electron and web technologies, and how the company utilized its existing web stack to shape the future of its desktop experience.
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- Andrew Beyer – GitHub, X
- Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- 1Password 8: The Story So Far
- wc3 community group for web extensions
- 1Password Security Design
- GopherJS
- React
- Svelte
- Electron
- Rust
- Neon (rust in Electron)
- RFCs for JMAP?
- 1Password Careers Page (they are hiring!)
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The little known team that keeps Go going (Go Time #198)
Ever wonder how new features get added to the go command? Or where tools like gopls come from? Well, there’s an open team that handles just those things.
Just like the programming language itself, many of the tools that Go engineers use everyday are discussed and developed in the open. In this episode we’ll talk about this team, how it started, where it’s going, and how you can get involved.
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Featuring:
- Daniel Martí – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Paul Jolly – Website, GitHub, X
- Marwan Sulaiman – GitHub, X
- Ian Cottrell – LinkedIn
- Kris Brandow – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Join us and some old friends LIVE to celebrate episode #200!
- Go Tools Working Group Wiki
- Shared Google Calendar for Tools Working Group monthly meetings
- #tools group on Gopher Slack
- Golang-tools mailing list
- Our episode on SIV and the V2+ problem
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From notebooks to Netflix scale with Metaflow (Practical AI #150)
As you start developing an AI/ML based solution, you quickly figure out that you need to run workflows. Not only that, you might need to run those workflows across various kinds of infrastructure (including GPUs) at scale. Ville Tuulos developed Metaflow while working at Netflix to help data scientists scale their work. In this episode, Ville tells us a bit more about Metaflow, his new book on data science infrastructure, and his approach to helping scale ML/AI work.
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The business model of open source (Changelog Interviews #460)
This week we’re joined by Adam Jacob, CEO of System Initiative and Co-Founder of Chef, about open source business models and the model he thinks is the right one to choose, his graceful exit from Chef and some of the details behind Chef’s acquisition in 2020 for $220 million…in cash, and how his perspective on open source has or has not changed as a result. Adam also shared as much stealth mode details as he could about System Initiative.
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Featuring:
- Adam Jacob – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Read this Twitter thread from Adam Jacob
- The Changelog #353: The war for the soul of open source featuring Adam Jacob
- The Changelog #429: Community perspectives on Elastic vs AWS (a deep dive on the business of open source)
- Progress Announces Acquisition of Chef
- Chef co-founder and CTO Adam Jacob stepping down, will remain on board of directors
- Tailwind CSS
- Why We’re Relicensing CockroachDB
- Founders Talk #75: The journey to massive scale and ultra-resilience
featuring Spencer Kimball, CEO & Co-founder of Cockroach Labs - System Initiative
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Puddin' together cool data-driven essays (JS Party #193)
Russel Goldenberg & Caitlyn Ralph from The Pudding join Amelia & Nick to talk about how they create data-driven, interactive articles, how the team works on both The Pudding’s data journalism articles and Polygraph’s client work. We also dive into how the team works with contractors and how the company manages itself using a Holocratic method.
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Real-world implications of shipping many times a day (Ship It! #19)
This week Emile Vauge, founder & CEO of Traefik, joins Gerhard to share a story that started as a solution to a 2000 microservices challenge, the real-world implications of shipping many times a day for years, and the difficulties of sustaining an inclusive and healthy open-source community while building a product company.
Working every day on keeping the open-source community in sync with the core team was an important lesson. The second learning was around big changes between major versions.
The journey from Travis CI to Circle CI, then to Semaphore CI and eventually GitHub Actions is an interesting one. The automation tools inspired by the Mymirca ant colony is a fascinating idea, executed well. There is more to discover in the episode.
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- Traefik documentation & build GitHub Actions workflows
- mixtus creates PRs with documentation changes
- structor creates multiple versions of a Mkdocs documentation
- The Mymirca colony
- Announcing Traefik Proxy 2.5
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Books that teach Go (Go Time #197)
Natalie sits down with Go book authors Bill Kennedy & Sau Sheong Chang to discuss the ins and outs of writing (and reading) books about Go!
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Trends in data labeling (Practical AI #149)
Any AI play that lacks an underlying data strategy is doomed to fail, and a big part of any data strategy is labeling. Michael, from Label Studio, joins us in this episode to discuss how the industry’s perception of data labeling is shifting. We cover open source tooling, validating labels, and integrating ML/AI models in the labeling loop.
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- Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
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Coding in the cloud with Codespaces (Changelog Interviews #459)
On this special edition of The Changelog, we’re talking with Cory Wilkerson, Senior Director of Engineering at GitHub, about GitHub Codespaces. For years now, the possibility of coding in the cloud seemed so close, yet so far away for a number of reasons. According to Cory, the raw ingredients to make coding in the cloud a reality have been there for years. The challenge has really been how the industry thinks, and we are now at a place where the skepticism in cloud based workflows is “non-existent.”
After 15 months in preview, GitHub not only announced the availability of Codespaces for Teams and Enterprise — they also showcased their internal adoption, with 600 of their 1,000 engineers using it daily to develop GitHub.com.
On this episode, Cory shares the full backstory of that journey and a peek into the future where we’re all coding in the cloud.
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Featuring:
- Cory Wilkerson – GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- GitHub’s Engineering Team has moved to Codespaces
- Cory’s companion Twitter thread to his blog post
- Codespaces marketing page
- Kelsey Hightower on Twitter — “Back in the day we wrote code on our own computers.”
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Frontend Feud: ShopTalk vs Syntax (JS Party #192)
Your favorite web dev podcasts join forces for a super collab that’ll knock you frontend off! Amelia joins Chris Coyier and Dave Rupert from ShopTalk Show while Divya teams up with Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski from Syntax. Let the FEUDing begin!
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- Dave Rupert – Website, GitHub, X
- Wes Bos – Website, GitHub, X
- Scott Tolinski – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Amelia Wattenberger – Website, GitHub, X
- Divya – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
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- The Feud At The Seventh Mountain
- Amelia’s repo visualizer
- CSS-Tricks
- freeCodeCamp
- Wes Bos’ courses
- Changelog Merch
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Bare metal meets Kubernetes (Ship It! #18)
In this episode, Gerhard talks to David and Marques from Equinix Metal about the importance of bare metal for steady workloads. Terraform, Kubernetes and Tinkerbell come up, as does Crossplane - this conversation is a partial follow-up to episode 15.
David Flanagan, a.k.a. Rawkode, needs no introduction. Some of you may remember Marques Johansson from The new changelog.com setup for 2019. Marques was behind the Linode Terraforming that we used at the time, and our infrastructure was simpler because of it!
This is not just a great conversation about bare metal and Kubernetes, there is also a Rawkode Live following up: Live Debugging Changelog’s Production Kubernetes 🙌🏻
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- Marques Johansson – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Show Notes:
- David’s tweet that made this episode happen
- This is how Gerhard met Marques
- Oops, We Forgot to Build a Managed Kubernetes Service!
- Tinkerbell - Provision and manage bare metal, anywhere
- Equinix Metal Crossplane provider and Terraform provider
- Kubernetes Cluster API
- Fly.io: The 5-hour CDN
- 🎬 Firecracker VMs on Metal, Oh My! - Kurt Mackey, March 2021
- 🎬 Klustered #11 - Kris Nova & Thomas Strömberg
#7 Why Kubernetes? was mentioned, as well as the follow-up YouTube stream with Lars Wikman.
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Building actually maintainable software (Go Time #196)
Building software is difficult and time consuming, but the maintenance of software is where we spend the majority of our time. In this episode, Ian and sam join Johnny and Kris to discuss how to build actually maintainable software, the features of Go that make it good for writing maintainable software, and different ways that we might define the term “maintenance”.
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- LaunchDarkly – Ship fast. Rest easy. Deploy code at any time, even if a feature isn’t ready to be released to your users. Wrap code in feature flags to get the safety to test new features and infrastructure in prod without impacting the wrong end users.
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- sam boyer – GitHub, X
- Ian Lopshire – GitHub, X
- Kris Brandow – GitHub, X
- Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
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We ask a lawyer about GitHub Copilot (Changelog Interviews #458)
This week we’re bringing JS Party to The Changelog — Nick Nisi and Christopher Hiller had an awesome conversation with Luis Villa, co-founder and General Counsel at Tidelift. They discuss GitHub Copilot and the implications of an AI pair programmer and fair use from a legal perspective.
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- Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Christopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- GitHub Copilot
- OpenAI
- Google v. Oracle
- GNU General Public License
- Fair use
- Lotus v. Borland
- Transformative Use
- Authors Guild v. Google
- Ethical Open Source Movement
- Eleuther AI
- W3C Web Machine Learning Working Group
- Does free software benefit from ML models being derived works of training data?
- Cassidy Plays with GitHub Copilot
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Stellar inference speed via AutoNAS (Practical AI #148)
Yonatan Geifman of Deci makes Daniel and Chris buckle up, and takes them on a tour of the ideas behind his amazing new inference platform. It enables AI developers to build, optimize, and deploy blazing-fast deep learning models on any hardware. Don’t blink or you’ll miss it!
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- Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- Deci
- An Introduction to the Inference Stack and Inference Acceleration Techniques
- Deci and Intel Collaborate to Optimize Deep Learning Inference on Intel’s CPUs
- DeciNets: A New Efficient Frontier for Computer Vision Models
- White paper
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Iterating to globally distributed apps and databases (Founders Talk #80)
Today Adam is joined by Kurt Mackey, co-founder and CEO of Fly.io — a platform for running full stack apps and databases close to users. This conversation with Kurt talks through his journey as a developer and entrepreneur, fundraising, getting into Y Combinator (twice), and how they’ve iterated on the Fly platform since 2017 to get to where they are right now.
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X gon' State it to ya (JS Party #191)
Amal, KBall, and Nick welcome David Khourshid to the show to talk about his project, XState. XState brings state management to a new level using finite state machines and is compatible with your stack. We talk about how the idea came to fruition, its practical uses, and where it’s going.
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- Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
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Let's Ship It! (Ship It!)
I’m Gerhard Lazu, host of Ship It! A show with weekly episodes about getting your best ideas into the world and seeing what happens. We talk about code, ops, infrastructure, and the people that make it happen.
Like Charity Majors from Honeycomb… clip from episode #11
And Dave Farley, one of the founders of Continuous Delivery… clip from episode #5
We even experiment on our own open source podcasting platform so that you can see how we implement specific tools and services within changelog.com.
What works and what fails… clip from episode #10
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To build, or to buy, that is the question (Go Time #195)
To build or to buy, that’s a constant question we ask ourselves as software engineers. In this episode we dig into the nuance of these options and the space between them with an eye toward both the building of software and its eventual maintenance.
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Docs are not optional (Ship It! #17)
On this week’s episode, Gerhard is joined by Kathy Korevec, former Senior Director of Product at GitHub, and now Vercel’s Head of Product. Docs play an essential role in GitHub Actions, and Gerhard’s experience has proven that. Building, testing, and shipping code with GitHub Actions works better because of their excellent docs. However, the docs that Kathy pictures are not what you are imagining. She explains it best in her post, Maybe it’s time we re-think docs, which is what started this whole conversation.
The bottom line is, just as you wouldn’t ship untested code, shipping code without documentation is not optional. Today’s conversation with Kathy explains why.
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- Maybe it’s time we re-think docs
- Kathy’s Philosophy
- Chasing challenges to ship developer solutions
- Reading list for product people
- Leadership CI
- GitHub Docs repository
- GitHub Repo Sync
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Anaconda + Pyston and more (Practical AI #147)
In this episode, Peter Wang from Anaconda joins us again to go over their latest “State of Data Science” survey. The updated results include some insights related to data science work during COVID along with other topics including AutoML and model bias. Peter also tells us a bit about the exciting new partnership between Anaconda and Pyston (a fork of the standard CPython interpreter which has been extensively enhanced to improve the execution performance of most Python programs).
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- Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
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- Anaconda’s State of Data Science
- Pyston Team Joins Anaconda to Expand Open-Source Project Development
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Why Neovim? (Changelog Interviews #457)
This week Neovim core maintainer TJ DeVries joins Jerod and guest co-host Nick Nisi (from JS Party) to follow-up on our Vim episode with a conversation dedicated to Neovim. TJ tells us why Neovim was created in the first place, how it differs from Vim, why Lua is awesome for configuration and plugins, what LSPs are all about, the cool tech inside tree-sitter, and how he’s writing his own fuzzy file finder for Neovim called Telescope.
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
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- Our Vim episode
- neovim.io
- Twilight on Changelog News
- tree-sitter
- nvim-lspconfig
- Nick’s dotfiles
- nvim-ts-context-commentstring
- LuaSnip
- telescope.nvim
- TJ’s Twitch stream
- Nick Nisi on TJ’s YouTube channel - Neovim Builtin LSP Tutorial: Customizing Renames w/ Nick Nisi
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Tenet with heavy spoilers (Backstage #18)
After months of talking about and planning this episode, we decided near the very end to invite Paul from Heavy Spoilers to join us for a deep, spoiler filled, discussion on the movie Tenet, which was directed by Christopher Nolan and released September 2020. If you’re a fan of Tenet, you’ll love this episode.
Warning: This episode literally includes heavy spoilers. So come back after you’ve watched the film, or proceed if that doesn’t bother you.
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- Brett Cannon – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Official TENET film website
- Heavy Spoilers on YouTube
- Visual explanation of inversion
- Backstage #7: The John Wick trilogy (prepare for war)
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Replacing Sass at Shopify (JS Party #190)
Alex Page & Sam Rose from Shopify’s Polaris team join Jerod & Divya to discuss their open research into finding and selecting a viable alternative for Sass at the company. Six solutions enter, but which one will walk away with the 🌹?
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- Sam Rose – Website, GitHub, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Divya – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
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- GitHub Issue on replacing Sass
- Polaris Solutions Matrix
- Tailwind
- CSS Modules
- Stitches
- vanilla-extract
- Design Systems Newsletter
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Don't forget about memory management (Go Time #194)
Bryan Boreham (Grafana Labs) and Jordan Lewis (Cockroach Labs) join Mat and Jon to talk about memory management in Go. We learn about the heap, the stack, and the garbage collector. There are also some absolute gems of wisdom scattered throughout this episode, don’t miss it.
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Local meet-up shout-at
Miriah Peterson (captainnobody1 on Twitter) says hello on behalf of the Utah Go User Group, as well as Women Who Go Utah.
Some things mentioned on the show
- Statsviz gives you an instant live visualization of your Go application runtime statistics (GC, MemStats, etc.) in the browser
sync.Poolhelps you reduce allocations by keeping objects around when they might otherwise be garbage collected- From the Go blog: The Journey of Go’s Garbage Collector
Viewcore
The viewcore tool is a command-line tool for exploring the state of a Go process that has dumped core.
Jordan says:
It’s complicated because it still doesn’t work out of the box, you need my branch which isn’t merged:
- https://github.com/jordanlewis/debug/tree/fix-bugs… (my branch)
- https://github.com/golang/debug/tree/master/cmd/viewcore… (the upstream)
- https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/debug/+/321736… (the CL that isn’t merged yet)
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The acquisition of a lifetime (Founders Talk #79)
On today’s show Adam is joined by John Nunemaker (an old friend). For some of you listening you might remember John’s appearance on The Changelog #11, which was basically forever ago. Or his company Ordered List — they made Gauges, Harmony, and Speaker Deck which was quite popular in its time — so much so that they attracted the attention of Chris Wanstrath, one of the co-founders of GitHub to acquire Ordered List. The rest as they say is history. Today, John and I go back through that history to see what it was like to be acquired by GitHub and how that single choice has forever changed his life.
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- How to build an app, get acquired by GitHub, buy an app back from GitHub and then sell it again
- Speaker Deck
- Fewer & Faster
- Box Out Sports
- Flipper Cloud
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Optimize for smoothness not speed (Ship It! #16)
This week Gerhard is joined by Justin Searls, Test Double co-founder and CTO. Also a 🐞 magnet. They talk about how to deal with the pressure of shipping faster, why you should optimize for smoothness not speed, and why focusing on consistency is key. Understanding the real why behind what you do is also important. There’s a lot more to it, as its a nuanced and complex discussion, and well worth your time.
Expect a decade of learnings compressed into one hour, as well as disagreements on some ops and infrastructure topics — all good fun. In the show notes, you will find Gerhard’s favorite conference talks Justin gave a few years back.
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⭐️ Justin is giving the keynote at this year’s Reliable Web Summit. The topic is why distrust is at the heart of a lot of the issues we discussed and how to build trust as an individual, small team, and organization. ⭐️
- It all started with this Tweet
- 5 for 5000: Find your Leading Indicators
- 🎬 The Selfish Programmer
- 🎬 Running a business, demystified
- 🎬 How to program
- The most impressive Olympic event I’ve seen out of Tokyo so far
Justin Searls: If you’re a programmer and you’re happy with the work you’re doing, you’re growing in the ways you want, and you feel pushed to do your best work as opposed to work the most hours, congratulations! That’s all too rare.
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Exploring a new AI lexicon (Practical AI #146)
We’re back with another Fully Connected episode – Daniel and Chris dive into a series of articles called ‘A New AI Lexicon’ that collectively explore alternate narratives, positionalities, and understandings to the better known and widely circulated ways of talking about AI. The fun begins early as they discuss and debate ‘An Electric Brain’ with strong opinions, and consider viewpoints that aren’t always popular.
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- A New AI Lexicon
- A New AI Lexicon: An Electric Brain
- A New AI Lexicon: Function Creep
- A New AI Lexicon: Smart
- A New AI Lexicon: Artificial Identity Cataracts
- A New AI Lexicon: Imbrication
Books
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OAuth, "It's complicated." (Changelog Interviews #456)
Today we’re joined by Aaron Parecki, co-founder of IndieWebCamp and maintainer of OAuth.net, for a deep dive on the state of OAuth 2.0 and what’s next in OAuth 2.1. We cover the complications of OAuth, RFCs like Proof Key for Code Exchange, also known as PKCE, OAuth for browser-based apps, and next generation specs like the Grant Negotiation and Authorization Protocol, also known as GNAP. The conversation begins with how Aaron experiements with the IndieWeb as a showcase of what’s possible.
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- IndieWeb.org
- IndieWeb Chat
- It’s Time for OAuth 2.1
- OAuth 2.0
- OAuth 2.0 Simplified
- GNAP Core Protocol
- oktadev.events
- GNAP (Grant Negotiation and Authorization Protocol)
- PKCE (Proof Key for Code Exchange)
- Books about OAuth 2.0
- OAuth 2.0 Playground
- The Nuts and Bolts of OAuth 2.0
- Okta Developer Day - Auth for All - Virtual Event: August 24, 2021
- Okta Developer Day Labs - August 25, 2021
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Building software for yourself (Changelog Interviews #455)
Today we’re talking to Linus Lee about the practice of building software for yourself. Linus has several side projects we could talk about, but today’s show is focused on Linus’ dynamically typed functional programming language called Ink that he used to write his full text personal search engine called Monocle.
Linus is focused on writing software that solves his own needs, all of which is open source, to help him learn more deeply and organize the knowledge of his life.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Monocle
- Ink
- Building your own programming language
- Crafting Interpreters
- Thorsten Ball on creating a programming language (Go Time 28)
- GopherCon 2021: Linus Lee - When Toy Languages Grow Up
- Monocle search for Taylor Swift
- Linus’s Taylor Swift tweet
- Apollo
- Purple Cow
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Automate all the things with Node.js (JS Party #189)
Ahmad Awais joins Amal, Amelia, and Jerod to discuss scripting, automation, and building CLIs with Node! We hear Ahmad’s back story, learn the ABC’s of mastering Node automation tooling, and share automation wins from all of our lives (and Twitter too).
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- Ahmad Awais – Website, GitHub, X
- Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
- Amelia Wattenberger – Website, GitHub, X
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Show Notes:
- Ahmad’s Node CLI course
- The Coronavirus CLI
- create-node-cli repo
- cli-meow-help
- cli-welcome
- Google’s ZX project
- Fig’s CLI package
- Amelia’s code structure visualization
- Amal on The Changelog #362
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Richard Hipp returns (Changelog Interviews #454)
This week, Richard Hipp returns to catch us up on all things SQLite, his single file webserver written in C called Althttpd, and Fossil – the source code manager he wrote and uses to manage SQLite development instead of Git.
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Featuring:
- Richard Hipp – Website, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- The Changelog #201:Why SQLite succeeded as a database
- SQLite
- Althttpd
- Fossil SCM
- Bedrock
- DuckDB
- AskGit
- Chisel
- Pkchr
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Caddy V2 (Go Time #193)
Matt Holt joins Jon Calhoun to discuss Caddy, its history, and the process of creating a v2 of the popular web server. In the episode they discuss some of the challenges encountered while building the v2, reasons for doing a major rewrite, and more.
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Assemble all your infrastructure (Ship It! #15)
In this episode, Gerhard follows up on The Changelog #375, which is the last time that he spoke Crossplane with Dan and Jared. Many things changed since then, such as abstractions and compositions, as well as using Crossplane to build platforms, which were mostly ideas.
Fast forward 18 months, 2k changes, as well as a major version, and Crossplane is now an easy choice - some would say the best choice - for platform teams to declare what infrastructure means to them. You can now use Crossplane to define your infrastructure abstractions across multiple vendors, including AWS, GCP & Equinix Metal. The crazy ideas from 2019 are now bold and within reach. Gerhard also has an idea for the changelog.com 2022 setup. Listen to what Jared & Dan think, and then let us know your thoughts too.
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Show Notes:
- Changelog #375
- Why Crossplane is so Exciting
- Crossplane vs Terraform
- 🎬 Day 2 Operations on Crossplane - Dan Mangum, July 2021
- 🎬 How to Build Your Own PaaS from the Cloud Native Landscape - Jared Watts, May 2021
- 🎬 Crossplane Community Day Keynote - Kelsey Hightower, May 2020
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NLP to help pregnant mothers in Kenya (Practical AI #145)
In Kenya, 33% of maternal deaths are caused by delays in seeking care, and 55% of maternal deaths are caused by delays in action or inadequate care by providers. Jacaranda Health is employing NLP and dialogue system techniques to help mothers experience childbirth safely and with respect and to help newborns get a safe start in life. Jay and Sathy from Jacaranda join us in this episode to discuss how they are using AI to prioritize incoming SMS messages from mothers and help them get the care they need.
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AIfor $25 in developer credit. - Changelog++ – You love our content and you want to take it to the next level by showing your support. We’ll take you closer to the metal with no ads, extended episodes, outtakes, bonus content, a deep discount in our merch store (soon), and more to come. Let’s do this!
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Show Notes:
- Jacaranda Health video
- Jacaranda Health article
- Jacaranda Health website
- How AI helps mothers in Kenya get the care they need, faster (article)
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We ask a lawyer about GitHub Copilot (JS Party #188)
Luis Villa of Tidelift joins the show to discuss GitHub Copilot and the implications of an AI pair programmer from a legal perspective.
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- Micro – Micro is reimagining the cloud for the next generation of developers. It’s a developer friendly platform to explore, search, and use simpler APIs for everyday consumption all in one place. They’re in early development building out the first set of APIs, and they’re looking for feedback from developers. Signup and get $5 in free credits.
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Featuring:
- Luis Villa – Website, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Christopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- GitHub Copilot
- OpenAI
- Google v. Oracle
- GNU General Public License
- Fair use
- Lotus v. Borland
- Transformative Use
- Authors Guild v. Google
- Ethical Open Source Movement
- Eleuther AI
- W3C Web Machine Learning Working Group
- Does free software benefit from ML models being derived works of training data?
- Cassidy Plays with GitHub Copilot
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Leading Auth0 to a $6.5 billion acquisition (Founders Talk #78)
This week Adam is joined by Eugenio Pace, co-founder and CEO of Auth0. Auth0 is a for developers, by developers identity, access, security, and authentication platform built for the cloud that secures billions of logins every year. Mid 2020 they raised $120 million at a $1.92 billion valuation after being told no several times. Then, earlier this year in March they announced they were being acquired by Okta for $6.5 billion, in a bold and future-thinking all stock deal. This episode is full of wisdom, inspiration, and tactical advice that Eugenio has used to build Auth0.
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Show Notes:
- Okta Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Auth0
- Okta Completes Acquisition of Auth0
- Building Company Culture for Scale
- Auth0 CEO Eugenio Pace on the $6.5 billion deal with Okta and his advice for entrepreneurs
- Three Practices For Tranquility
- Eugenio on infinite game mindset and leadership
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Data streaming and Benthos (Go Time #192)
Mihai and Ashley join Jon to discuss data streaming. What is it, why is it being used, and common mistakes developers make when setting up. They also discuss some of the tools in the ecosystem, including Benthos, a tool created by Ashley Jeff’s to make the plumbing part of data streaming easier to get right.
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- LaunchDarkly – Ship fast. Rest easy. Deploy code at any time, even if a feature isn’t ready to be released to your users. Wrap code in feature flags to get the safety to test new features and infrastructure in prod without impacting the wrong end users.
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Show Notes:
- Benthos - a data streaming tool created by guest Ashley Jeff’s.
- Materialize - a tool for making data streams with sql queries.
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Cloud-native chaos engineering (Ship It! #14)
In today’s episode, Gerhard is joined by Uma, CEO and co-founder of ChaosNative, as well as Karthik, CTO and also a ChaosNative co-founder. They talk Chaos Engineering and Litmus.
Chaos Engineering is not just for super SREs. It is not meant to prevent outages. And, it is not just about hardware. Chaos Engineering is about testing how reliable your systems are. It’s meant to show you how things fail, including when other dependent systems fail - think cascading failures. This is a good way to discover inconvenient truths about that beautiful code that you wrote. Everything fails, and great insights are to be found when it does.
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SHIPITand get the team plan free for three months. - Teleport – Teleport Access Plane lets you access any computing resource anywhere. Engineers and security teams can unify access to SSH servers, Kubernetes clusters, web applications, and databases across all environments. Try Teleport today in the cloud, self-hosted, or open source at goteleport.com
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Featuring:
- Uma Mukkara – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Karthik Satchitanand – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Show Notes:
- Defining Chaos Engineering & Its Principles - 7 mins read
- Principles of Cloud Native Chaos Engineering - 10 mins read
- Litmus - Chaos Engineering for your Kubernetes
- 🎬 SLOconf: Benchmarking SLOs using Chaos Engineering - Uma Mukkara
- 🎬 Putting Chaos into CD to Increase App Resiliency - Juergen Etzlstorfer & Karthik Satchitanand
- Chaos Carnival 2021
- 🎬 ChaosCarnival Day 1 Keynote - Adrian Cockcroft
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Leading leaders who lead engineers (Changelog Interviews #453)
This week we’re joined by Lara Hogan – author of Resilient Management and management coach & trainer for the tech industry. Lara led engineering teams at Kickstarter and Etsy before she, and Deepa Subramaniam stepped away from their deep roots in the tech industry to start Wherewithall – a consultancy that helps level up managers and emerging leaders.
The majority of our conversation focuses on the four primary hats leaders and managers end up wearing; mentoring, coaching, sponsoring, and delivering feedback. We also talk about knowing when you’re ready to lead, empathy and compassion, and learning to lead.
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THECHANGELOGand get the team plan free for three months. - LaunchDarkly – Ship fast. Rest easy. Deploy code at any time, even if a feature isn’t ready to be released to your users. Wrap code in feature flags to get the safety to test new features and infrastructure in prod without impacting the wrong end users.
Featuring:
- Lara Hogan – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- An excerpt from Resilient Management on A List Apart
- Paloma Medina
- Core Needs: BICEPS
- Lara’s book
- The Manager’s Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change
- Your brain on progress – Increment
- Voltron!
- I’m a cog
- The Changelog #342: From zero to thought leader in 6 months with Emma Bostian
- Lara Hogan on mentorship and sponsorship
- What does sponsorship look like?
- Linchpin from Seth Godin
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SLICED - will you make the (data science) cut? (Practical AI #144)
SLICED is like the TV Show Chopped but for data science. Competitors get a never-before-seen dataset and two-hours to code a solution to a prediction challenge. Meg and Nick, the SLICED show hosts, join us in this episode to discuss how the show is creating much needed data science community. They give us a behind the scenes look at all the datasets, memes, contestants, scores, and chat of SLICED.
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Featuring:
- Meg Risdal – Website, LinkedIn, X
- Nick Wan – X
- Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Be sure to tune in to the SLICED semifinals August 10th and the SLICED championships August 17th!
SLICED links:
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From open source to commercially viable (Founders Talk #77)
This week Adam is joined by Asim Aslam, the founder of Micro - a new cloud platform entirely focused on the developer experience of consuming and publishing public APIs. Asim’s journey spans many years of open source work on Micro. His sole focus right now, is evolving that work into a commercially viable business. This episode is jam-packed with stories of great timing, grit, resilence, success and failure, and, of course, lessons learned.
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Show Notes:
- Micro (the platform)
- Micro APIs - Programmable building blocks for everyday use
- Go Micro - a framework for distributed systems development
- Asim and his team build Distributed to demonstrate what Micro is capable of (check it out on Product Hunt)
- OCS 2020 Breakout: Asim Aslam
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When (and how) to say NO (JS Party #187)
On this episode, we make our big Frontend Feud announcement, welcome Amelia to the party, then share a metric crap ton of productivity tips & tricks: scripting, pomodoro, retaining your dev flow, and more!
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- Micro – Micro is reimagining the cloud for the next generation of developers. It’s a developer friendly platform to explore, search, and use simpler APIs for everyday consumption all in one place. They’re in early development building out the first set of APIs, and they’re looking for feedback from developers. Signup and get $5 in free credits.
- Sentry – Working code means happy customers. That’s exactly why teams choose Sentry. From error tracking to performance monitoring, Sentry helps teams see what actually matters, resolve problems quicker, and learn continuously about their applications - from the frontend to the backend. Use the code
SHIPITand get the team plan free for three months.
Featuring:
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Amelia Wattenberger – Website, GitHub, X
- Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- Amelia on JS Party #113
- ShopTalk vs Syntax live stream
- Take the Frontend Feud survey!
- The Gap by Ira Glass
- Deno Compiler
- FZF
- tmux floating windows
- Why we 💚 Vim on The Changelog
- Three way to retain your dev flow
- Hell Yeah or No
- Urgency Importance Matrix
- Tommy Boy
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Opening up the opinion box (Go Time #191)
Mat Ryer and Jerod Santo sit down to review and discuss the MOST and LEAST unpopular “unpopular opinions” since we started keeping track of such things. Also Generics.
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- LaunchDarkly – Ship fast. Rest easy. Deploy code at any time, even if a feature isn’t ready to be released to your users. Wrap code in feature flags to get the safety to test new features and infrastructure in prod without impacting the wrong end users.
- Equinix Metal – If you want the choice and control of hardware…with low overhead…and the developer experience of the cloud – you need to check out Equinix Metal. Deploy in minutes across 18 global locations, from Silicon Valley to Sydney. Visit metal.equinix.com/justaddmetal and receive $100 credit to play.
Featuring:
- Grant Seltzer Richman – Website, GitHub, X
- Steve High – GitHub, X
- Jon Sabados – Website, GitHub, X
- Jay Conrod – Website, GitHub, X
- Ian Lopshire – GitHub, X
- Preslav Rachev – GitHub, X
- Mark Bates – Website, GitHub, X
- Marcel van Lohuizen – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Carolyn Van Slyck – Website, GitHub, X
- Mislav Marohnić – Website, GitHub, X
- Kris Brandow – GitHub, X
- Natalie Pistunovich – GitHub, X
- Michael Knyszek – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Bill Kennedy – Website, GitHub, X
- Ramiro Berrelleza – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Daniel Martí – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X
- Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
MOST unpopular
- Baseball is the most exciting sport in the world (Grant Steltzer on episode #159)
- Using
erras an error variable make code hard to read (Steve High on episode #179) - Chocolate is nasty (Jon Sabados on episode #174)
- JS Party is better than Go Time (Jerod Santo (of course) on episode #154)
- Copy/paste with formatting should be default (Jay Conrod on episode #187)
Runners up
- On episode #167 Ian Lopshire said he thinks futures have a place in Go
- On episode #183 Preslav Rachev said that Go needs more magic
- On episode #171 Mark Bates confessed he doesn’t particularly like bacon
LEAST unpopular
- Inheritance and complexity in configuration languages (Marcel van Lohuizen on episode #163)
- Disadvantages can become advantages as the world changes (Kris Brandow on episode #157)
- The Go community lacks great GraphQL clients (Mislav Marohnić on episode #153)
- Bad feedback better than no feedback from new users (Carolyn Van Slyck on episode #184)
- Successful devs are stubborn (83% pop) (Jerod Santo on episode #167)
Runners up
- On episode #173 Natalie Pistunovich said if you have a decently paying job and aren’t in a minority/diversity group… don’t apply for diversity scholarships
- On episode #167 Kris Brandow said we try to make software engineering look too easy
- On episode #165 Michael Knyszek said Go’s garbage collector doesn’t need to become generational
Generic Opinions
- Not having Generics is good for Go (Ramiro Berrelleza on episode #177)
- We don’t need Generics in Go (Brian Ketelsen on episode #170)
- Investing so much into Generics is a mistake (Daniel Marti on episode #155)
Other thinks mentioned
- Mat’s GraphQL client
- Mislav on Git being too hard
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Kaizen! The day half the internet went down (Changelog Interviews #452)
This week we’re sharing a special episode of our new podcast called Ship It. This episode is our Kaizen-style episode where we point our lens inward to Changelog.com to see what we should improve next. The plan is do this episode style every 10 episodes.
Gerhard, Adam, and Jerod talk about the things that we want to improve in our setup over the next few months. We talk about how the June Fastly outage affected changelog.com, how we responded that day, and what we could do better. We discuss multi-cloud, multi-CDN, and the next sensible and obvious improvements for our app.
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- LaunchDarkly – Ship fast. Rest easy. Deploy code at any time, even if a feature isn’t ready to be released to your users. Wrap code in feature flags to get the safety to test new features and infrastructure in prod without impacting the wrong end users.
- Sentry – Working code means happy customers. That’s exactly why teams choose Sentry. From error tracking to performance monitoring, Sentry helps teams see what actually matters, resolve problems quicker, and learn continuously about their applications - from the frontend to the backend. Use the code
SHIPITand get the team plan free for three months. - Grafana Cloud – Our dashboard of choice Grafana is the open and composable observability and data visualization platform. Visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources like Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Postgres and many more.
Featuring:
- Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- What does Kaizen mean? (Wikipedia)
- Fastly 8th of June outage took offline The Guardian, CNN, New York Times, BBC and Changelog. Slack, Amazon, Stackoverflow and many others were also affected
- This is how it all started
- @danhett becomes famous on Twitter because of this tweet
- WIRED: What really went down when the internet went down
- BLOOMBERG: What Is Fastly and Why a Slew of Websites Went Offline
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A monorepo of serverless microservices (Ship It! #13)
In this episode, Gerhard talks to his Skyhook Adventure friends: Alan Cooney, Saul Cullen & Wycliffe Maina. They are the ones that introduced Gerhard to the world of serverless in the context of Amazon Web Services. Gerhard shared his experience with remote work, how to ship software with confidence and consistency, and what to look for in infrastructure as code.
At the heart of Skyhook Adventure are adventure trips, and 2020 was not a good one for this business. As you can already tell, code and infrastructure was not the biggest challenge for this team. Having said that, serverless, microservices, a monorepo and the event-based architecture played a big part in successfully navigating the challenges.
This is a story about what happens when a good team allows itself to be guided by solid experience and keeps doing the right thing, long-term. It’s fun, real, and it applies to many.
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Featuring:
- Alan Cooney – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn
- Saul Cullen – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Wycliffe Maina – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Show Notes:
- Skyhook Adventure - the end-result that this team ships many times per day
- 📚Welcome to the Experience Economy (the book that @saulgcullen mentioned)
The skyhookadventure.com 2021 setup:
- AWS Lambda - serverless functions
- AWS Event Bridge - serverless events
- AWS DynamoDB - serverless document based database
- AWS CDK - infrastructure as code
- Vercel - server-side rendered frontend hosting
- GitHub - version control
- GitHub Actions - continuous delivery
- Split - feature flags
- Drip - email marketing
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AI is creating never before heard sounds! 🎵 (Practical AI #143)
AI is being used to transform the most personal instrument we have, our voice, into something that can be “played.” This is fascinating in and of itself, but Yotam Mann from Never Before Heard Sounds is doing so much more! In this episode, he describes how he is using neural nets to process audio in real time for musicians and how AI is poised to change the music industry forever.
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Show Notes:
- Never Before Heard Sounds
- Yotam’s personal website
- Holly+
- Real Time Hardware for Audio Processing
- gan.style
- Onsets and Frames (Piano Transcription)
- DDSP: Differentiable Digital Signal Processing
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Modern Unix tools (Changelog Interviews #451)
This week we’re talking with Nick Janetakis about modern unix tools, and the various commands, tooling, and ways we use the commmand line. Do you Bash or Zsh? Do you use cat or bat? What about man vs tldr? Today’s show is a deep dive into unix tools you know and love, or should know and maybe love.
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- Modern alternatives to Unix commands
- Modern Unix
- bat
- fzf
- mcfly
- envsubst from GNU gettext; envsubst in Go
- https://uses.tech
- NanoVMs let you run your apps faster and safer with Unikernels
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Getting hooked on React (JS Party #186)
This week we talk with Kent C. Dodds, one of the greatest React teachers in the industry, all about React! Why choose React over another framework? What are the hardest parts about learning React? You’ll find out this week!
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- Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
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- Epic React
- React docs
- Getting Closure on React Hooks by Swyx
- Common Mistakes With React Testing Library
- Soft Skills Podcast
- Why React Hooks
- JSParty Building on the TanStack
- React Testing Library
- The Beginner’s Guide to React on Egghead.io
- The Beginner’s Guide to React v2 on Egghead.io
- React Error Boundary
- My State Management Mistake
- Remix
- Remix Docs
- React Query
- Aha Programming
- Cher Scarlet
- When to Break Up a Component Into Multiple Components
- Tanner Linsley
- React Router
- Ryan Florence
- Michael Jackson
- React Helmet
- Chantastic React Podcast + Kent
- I think y’all know what side I’m on
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Grafana’s "Big Tent" idea (Ship It! #12)
Gerhard talks to Tom Wilkie, VP of Product for Grafana Labs. They talk about Loki, Tempo, and how can Grafana Cloud offer such a generous free tier. The solution is in the Cortex architecture, which was used in Loki and in Tempo too. Yes, Tom is the Cortex co-author. We recommend that you listen to this episode in combination with episodes 3 and 11. That’s the best way to get a more complete picture of the topics that we discuss today.
Lastly, would you like to watch Gerhard & Tom pair-up and build Grafana dashboards like pros? Tom has this really interesting approach that Gerhard would like to learn too. We can either have a live YouTube stream, or record and then publish the video. Let us know your preference via our Changelog Slack, or just plain Twitter.
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- Cortex
- Loki
- Tempo
- grafana-agent
- Grafana Cloud
- Grafana & Prometheus unified alerting
- What Does the Future Hold for Observability? Kubecon EU 2019 Keynote
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How to make mistakes in Go (Go Time #190)
The panel are joined by Teiva Harsanyi, author of 100 Go Mistakes, to talk about how best to make mistakes when writing Go.
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- Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Mark Bates – Website, GitHub, X
- Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
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- Get the book: 100 Go Mistakes - How to avoid them
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Building a data team (Practical AI #142)
Inspired by a recent article from Erik Bernhardsson titled “Building a data team at a mid-stage startup: a short story”, Chris and Daniel discuss all things AI/data team building. They share some stories from their experiences kick starting AI efforts at various organizations and weight the pro and cons of things like centralized data management, prototype development, and a focus on engineering skills.
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Into the Wormhole (JS Party #185)
Feross is back with a brand new web app for us to pick apart! Wormhole is the fastest way to send files on the internet and we want to know why he built it, how it works, and what crazy hacks he invented along the way.
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- Wormhole
- Wormhole Security
- Why some developers are avoiding app store headaches by going web-only
- Wormhole encrypted file transfer app reboots Firefox Send after Mozilla fled
- SocketDev/wormhole-crypto
- Socket.dev
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Honeycomb's secret to high-performing teams (Ship It! #11)
Gerhard talks with Charity Majors, ops engineer and accidental startup founder at honeycomb.io about high-performing teams, why “15 minutes or bust,” and how we should start using Honeycomb in our own monolithic Phoenix app that runs changelog.com. There is just one step, and it’s actually really simple!
They also talk about how Honeycomb uses Honeycomb to learn about Honeycomb, which is one of Gerhard’s favorite questions. As for key take-aways, deploying straight into production is really important, but not as important as optimising for humans - which are not replaceable cogs, that learn and share their learnings continuously. That is the secret to making things easy and happy for everyone.
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- 📚 Observability Engineering (Early Release) - Free download
- 🎬 The State of Observability 2021: Mature Teams Ship Better Code Faster and You Can Too
- What is Observability?
- Define SLOs
- Kubernetes is complicated
- rubygems.org Fastly logs in Honeycomb
- RDS Performance Degradation – Postmortem 2018
- o11ycon 2021 videos
- hnycon 2021 keynote
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Do devs need a product manager? (Go Time #189)
What is a Product Manager, and do Engineers need them? In this episode, we will be discussing what a Product Manager does, what makes a good Product Manager, and debating if engineering teams truly need them, with some tech companies going without them. We are joined by Gaëlle Sharma, Senior Technical Product Manager, at the New York Times, leading the Identity group.
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Why we 💚 Vim (Changelog Interviews #450)
On this special edition of The Changelog, we tell Vim’s story from the mouths of its users. Julia Evans, Drew Neil, Suz Hinton, and Gary Bernhardt join Jerod Santo for a deep and wide-ranging discussion about “the best text editor that anyone ever wrote.”
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Companion “Vim with me” videos
Vim configs
Links from Julia
Links from Drew
Links from Suz
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Learning Vim
Extras
- Changelog Community (join us in #vimparty)
- Changelog++
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Towards stability and robustness (Practical AI #141)
9 out of 10 AI projects don’t end up creating value in production. Why? At least partly because these projects utilize unstable models and drifting data. In this episode, Roey from BeyondMinds gives us some insights on how to filter garbage input, detect risky output, and generally develop more robust AI systems.
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The story behind Inter (Changelog Interviews #449)
This week we’re talking to Rasmus Andersson about his journey as a software creator. We talk about the work he’s doing right now on Playbit, a computing environment which encourages playful learning, building, and sharing of software. We also talk about his work on the Inter typeface, as well as the reasons why this font family needed to be free and open source.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- Playbit - a computing environment which encourages playful learning, building & sharing of software.
- The Inter typeface family + the project page on Rasmus’s site
- Rasmus’s projects
- shop.rsms.me
- The Roboto family of fonts
- InterFace from Dalton Maag
- What notable logos are set in Helvetica or Helvetica Neue?
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Much ado before coding (JS Party #184)
The panel discusses all the things that have to happen before you write a lick of code. Then, for Story of the Week: Dan Abramov thinks npm audit is broken by design. We also have thoughts. Lots of ’em.
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SIV and the V2+ issue (Go Time #188)
Go modules brought about quite a few changes to the Go ecosystem. One of those changes is semantic import versioning (SIV), which has a fairly pronounced effect on how libraries are identified. In this episode we are joined by Tim Heckman and Peter Bourgon to discuss some of the downsides to these changes and how it has lead to what a subset of the Go community refers to as the “v2+ problem.”
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- proposal: optional SIV
- Go Modules Wiki
- Go Modules Cheat Sheet
- Quote about Go by Rob Pike mentioned on the show
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Kaizen! The day half the internet went down (Ship It! #10)
Kaizen means “change for the better”, continuous improvement in this context. Failure is essential to learning, but how do we learn as a team? The simplest thing is to regularly dedicate time for taking a step back, talking about what works & what doesn’t, maybe writing some of it down, and eventually deciding what we should improve next. I intend to make every 10th Ship It! episode a Kaizen one.
This is the first one when we talk with Adam and Jerod about the things that we want to improve in our setup over the next few months. We talk about how the June Fastly outage affected changelog.com, how we responded that day, and what we could do better. We discuss multi-cloud, multi-CDN, and the next sensible and obvious improvements for our app. Let us know via Slack or Twitter what learnings are valuable to you so that we can produce the best content for you.
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- What does Kaizen mean? (Wikipedia)
- Fastly 8th of June outage took offline The Guardian, CNN, New York Times, BBC and Changelog. Slack, Amazon, Stackoverflow and many others were also affected
- This is how it all started
- @danhett becomes famous on Twitter because of this tweet
- WIRED: What really went down when the internet went down
- BLOOMBERG: What Is Fastly and Why a Slew of Websites Went Offline
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From symbols to AI pair programmers 💻 (Practical AI #140)
How did we get from symbolic AI to deep learning models that help you write code (i.e., GitHub and OpenAI’s new Copilot)? That’s what Chris and Daniel discuss in this episode about the history and future of deep learning (with some help from an article recently published in ACM and written by the luminaries of deep learning).
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Books
- “Human-in-the-Loop Machine Learning” by Robert (Munro) Monarch (use podpracticalAI19 for 40% off)
- “A Thousand Brains” by Jeff Hawkins
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From disrupting the cloud to IPO (Founders Talk #76)
This week Adam is joined by Mitch Wainer, previously CMO at DigitalOcean and a member of the founding team. They talk about his journey as an entrepreneur and marketer, the early days at DigitalOcean, and everything that went into disrupting the cloud with blazing fast SSDs. Back in March (2021), DigitalOcean started trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) — this obviously earned Mitch and many others a very large payday. They also talk about the work Mitch is doing now with Welcome and Sponsored.
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Show Notes:
- This Week in Startups #425: From caller to cofounder: how Mitch Wainer raised $37.2m from Andreessen Horowitz
- DigitalOcean OR do.co/changelog if you want to use a link DigitalOcean no longer pays us to promote
- DigitalOcean becomes a public company
- DigitalOcean IPO
- Welcome Homes (or, just Welcome)
- Sponsored
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What is good release engineering? (Ship It! #9)
This week we talk with Jean-Sébastien Pedron, RabbitMQ and FreeBSD contributor, about the importance of good release engineering for core infrastructure. Both Jean-Sébastien and I have been part of the Core RabbitMQ team for many years now. We have built some of the biggest CI/CD pipelines (check the show notes for one example), wrote and shipped some great code together, while breaking and fixing many things in the process.
We have been wrestling with today’s topic since 2016. Jean-Sébastien has some great FreeBSD stories to share, as well as an interesting perspective on shipping graphic card drivers. Oh, and by the way, it’s probably our fault why your remote car key stopped working that afternoon. It will all make sense after you listen to this episode.
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Featuring:
Show Notes:
- FreeBSD release engineering
- Netflix and FreeBSD: Using open source to deliver streaming video
- List of products based on FreeBSD
- Darktable
- Mesa
- Erlang hot code reloading:
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Massive scale and ultra-resilience (Changelog Interviews #448)
This week we’re sharing a recent episode from Founders Talk that we continuously hear about from listeners. Listen and subscribe to Founders Talk at founderstalk.fm and anywhere you listen to podcasts.
On Founders Talk #75 — Adam talks with Spencer Kimball, CEO and Co-founder of Cockroach Labs — makers of CockroachDB an open source cloud-native distributed SQL database. Cockroach Labs recently raised $160 million dollars on a $2 billion dollar valuation. In this episode, Spencer shares his journey in open source, startups and entrepreneurship, and what they’re doing to build CockroachCloud to meet the needs of applications that require massive scale and ultra-resilience.
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- Retool – Retool is a low-code platform built specifically for developers that makes it fast and easy to build internal tools. Instead of building internal tools from scratch, the world’s best teams, from startups to Fortune 500s, are using Retool to power their internal apps. Learn more and try it for free at retool.com/changelog
- Sentry – Build better software, faster with Sentry’s application monitoring platform. Diagnose, fix, and optimize the performance of your code. Cut your time on error resolution from hours to minutes. Use the code
THECHANGELOGand get the team plan free for three months. - Grafana Cloud – Our dashboard of choice Grafana is the open and composable observability and data visualization platform. Visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources like Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Postgres and many more.
Featuring:
Show Notes:
- Spencer is a co-founder of GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) (but is no longer involved with the project)
- Cockroach Labs
- CockroachCloud - Build and scale fast with CockroachDB-as-a-service on AWS and Google Cloud.
- How We’re Building a Business to Last
- Cockroach Labs scores $160M Series E on $2B valuation
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JS on Wasm (JS Party #183)
KBall and Nick Nisi sit down with Nick Fitzgerald to learn about running JavaScript on WebAssembly. They talk about almost instantaneous startup, running interpreted languages at the edge, and take a deep dive into the weeds of how Wasm based modules will change the future of application development.
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- Nick Fitzgerald – Website, X
- Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Oxidizing Source Maps with Rust and WebAssembly
- Making JavaScript Run Fast on WebAssembly
- Wizer
- Talk: Hit the Ground Running: Wasm Snapshots for Fast Startup
- Ableton
- Wasmtime
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Fuzzing in the standard library (Go Time #187)
Fuzzing is coming to the standard library. We speak to Katie Hockman and Jay Conrod who were part of the team responsible for designing and implementing it. We dig into the details, hear some best practices, where fuzzing can help your code, and learn more about how it works.
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- LaunchDarkly – Ship fast. Rest easy. Deploy code at any time, even if a feature isn’t ready to be released to your users. Wrap code in feature flags to get the safety to test new features and infrastructure in prod without impacting the wrong end users.
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Featuring:
- Katie Hockman – GitHub, X
- Jay Conrod – Website, GitHub, X
- Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- The Fuzzing beta announcement
- Our Fuzzing discussion last year
- The design proposal
- Hot Fuzz movie 🐣
- List of bugs fuzzing has found
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The foundations of Continuous Delivery (Changelog Interviews #447)
This week we’re sharing one of the most popular episodes from our new podcast Ship It. Ship It launched in May and now has 8 episodes in the feed to enjoy…it’s hosted by Gerhard Lazu, our SRE here at Changelog.
In this episode, Gerhard talks with Dave Farley, co-author of Continuous Delivery and the inventor of the Deployment Pipeline. Today, most of us ship code the way we do because 25 years ago, Dave cared enough to drive the change that we now call CI/CD. He is one of the great software engineers: opinionated, perseverant & focused since the heydays of the internet. Dave continues inspiring and teaching us all via his newly launched YouTube channel, courses, and recent books. The apprentice finally meets the master 🙇♂️🙇♀️
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- LaunchDarkly – Ship fast. Rest easy. Deploy code at any time, even if a feature isn’t ready to be released to your users. Wrap code in feature flags to get the safety to test new features and infrastructure in prod without impacting the wrong end users.
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Featuring:
Show Notes:
- Continuous Delivery, the YouTube Channel (new video every Wednesday)
- Continuous Delivery, the course
- Continuous Delivery, the staple book
- Continuous Delivery Pipelines, the new book
- Dave Farley’s blog
- TDD Quiz
- Dave Farley on Twitter
Gerhard’s favourite CD videos, in order of preference:
- SpaceX and Software Engineering | How To Learn
- How To Build Quality Software Fast
- Why CI is BETTER Than Feature Branching
- What’s Wrong With The State Of DevOps?
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The Elder.js Guide to the Galaxy (JS Party #182)
Nick Reese joins the party to tell us all about Elder.js, his opinionated static site generator and web framework built with SEO in mind. Elder.js was purpose-built with large, content-heavy websites in mind and already serves in many production capacities. We discuss imposter syndrome, the startup/product mindset, Svelte’s virtues, and much more.
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Featuring:
- Nick Reese – Website, GitHub, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- The Elder.js website
- The docs
- Production site: ElderGuide.com
- Production site: FindEnergy.com
- Islands Architecture
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Pop quiz time! 😱 (Go Time #186)
Learning Go with code pop quizzes is a fun way to zoom in on different language features. People are looking forward to pop quizzes on Twitter and in conferences, and they also learn from that. Let’s chat about pop quizzes!
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Featuring:
- Dave Cheney – Website, GitHub, X
- Miki Tebeka – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Natalie Pistunovich – GitHub, X
- Jon Calhoun – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- TennTenn’s hardest quiz
- Book: Java Puzzlers
- Miki’s “Brain Teasers in Go” book (with a foreword by Dave Cheney)
- Choose boring tech
- Reddit CTO: Stick to Boring Tech when Building Your Startup
- Julia Evans
- Light reading on Go’s specs
- Strings in Go
- Unicode in Go
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Cloud Native fundamentals (Ship It! #8)
Why Cloud Native? What are the guiding principles that you should keep in mind as you are choosing a project from the Cloud Native Landscape? How do you build & ship an app in a Cloud Native way? Katie Gamanji, Ecosystem Advocate @ CNCF and former cloud engineer for American Express, Condé Nast and Microsoft, joins Gerhard to cover these topics in the context of the Cloud Native Fundamentals course that she developed. 15,000 students have already enrolled, and the initial feedback has been great. Tune in if you want to know why you should too, how to do it and when the course will become available for free.
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changelog@render.comfor a personal introduction and to ask questions about the Render platform. - LaunchDarkly – Ship fast. Rest easy. Deploy code at any time, even if a feature isn’t ready to be released to your users. Wrap code in feature flags to get the safety to test new features and infrastructure in prod without impacting the wrong end users.
- Cockroach Labs – Scale fast, survive anything, thrive everywhere! CockroachDB is most highly evolved database on the planet. Build and scale fast with CockroachCloud (CockroachDB hosted as a service) where a team of world-class SREs maintains and manages your database infrastructure, so you can focus less on ops and more on code. Get started for free their 30-day trial or try their forever-free tier. Learn more at cockroachlabs.com/changelog.
- Grafana Cloud – Our dashboard of choice Grafana is the open and composable observability and data visualization platform. Visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources like Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Postgres and many more.
Featuring:
Show Notes:
- How this episode started
- Cloud Native Application Architecture - Course Syllabus
- 15k students enrolled
- KubeCon and CloudNativeCon North America 2021 registrations are open
- ArgoCD is the continuous deployment system mentioned in our conversation
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Testing testing 1 2 3 (JS Party #181)
This week we chat with Angie Jones about all things testing. We’ll cover unit testing, visual testing, end-to-end testing, and more!
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- Angie Jones – Website, GitHub, X
- Emma Bostian – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
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- Test Automation University
- Mocha
- Chai Assertion Library
- Which tests Should I Automate talk by Angie
- Selenium WebDriver
- Cypress
- React Testing Library
- Jest
- Enzyme
- Kent C. Dodds
- Atomic Habits
- JUnit
- Supertest
- Nock
- Cucumber
- do you want to start a youtube channel together called javascript
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Giving TDD a Go (Go Time #185)
We discuss how Test Driven Development (TDD) can help you write better code, and build better software. Packed with tips and tricks, gotchas and best practices, the panel explore the subject and share their real-world experiences.
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- Riya Dattani – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- David Wickes – GitHub, X
- Chris James – GitHub, X
- Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
Show Notes:
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Why Kubernetes? (Ship It! #7)
This week on Ship It! Gerhard talks with Lars Wikman (independent Elixir/BEAM software consultant) why sometimes a monolith running on a single host with continuous backups and a built-in self-restore capability is everything that a small team of developers needs. That’s right, no Kubernetes or microservices. After 2 years of running changelog.com, a Phoenix monolith, on Kubernetes, what do I think? Join our discuss and find out!
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changelog@render.comfor a personal introduction and to ask questions about the Render platform. - Teleport – Teleport Access Plane lets you access any computing resource anywhere. Engineers and security teams can unify access to SSH servers, Kubernetes clusters, web applications, and databases across all environments. Try Teleport today in the cloud, self-hosted, or open source at goteleport.com
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Featuring:
Show Notes:
- 🎬Follow-up YouTube stream
- Post-mortem: 10 years in the vertical: Part 1
- Beam Bloggers Webring
- Litestream - Continuously stream SQLite changes to an object store
- Teaching Elixir & other videos
- Live stream - PromEx w. Alex Koutmos
- Regular Programming, conversations about software development and programming
- BEAM Radio - Stories and conversations around Elixir, Erlang and the BEAM ecosystem
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Vector databases for machine learning (Practical AI #139)
Pinecone is the first vector database for machine learning. Edo Liberty explains to Chris how vector similarity search works, and its advantages over traditional database approaches for machine learning. It enables one to search through billions of vector embeddings for similar matches, in milliseconds, and Pinecone is a managed service that puts this capability at the fingertips of machine learning practitioners.
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- Snowplow Analytics – The behavioral data management platform powering your data journey. Capture and process high-quality behavioral data from all your platforms and products and deliver that data to your cloud destination of choice. Get started and experience Snowplow data for yourself at snowplowanalytics.com
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Featuring:
Show Notes:
- Pinecone | Website
- Pinecone | Twitter
- Pinecone | LinkedIn
- TheNextPlatform - It’s Time to Start Paying Attention to Vector Databases
- TheNewStack - Pinecone: A Vector Database for Machine Learning Applications
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xbar puts anything in your macOS menu bar (Changelog Interviews #446)
On this episode we’re talking with our good friend Mat Ryer whom you may know from the Go Time podcast. Mat created an awesome open source tool for putting just about anything in your Mac’s toolbar. It was originally written in Objective-C, but it just got a big rewrite in Go and abig rename from BitBar to xbar.
If you don’t use a Mac don’t hit skip on this episode quite yet! There are lessons to be learned for anyone interested in hacking on tools to make your life better. Plus, with this rewrite Mat has positioned xbar to go cross-platform, which we talk about as well.
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- LaunchDarkly – Ship fast. Rest easy. Deploy code at any time, even if a feature isn’t ready to be released to your users. Wrap code in feature flags to get the safety to test new features and infrastructure in prod without impacting the wrong end users.
- Square – Develop on the platform that sellers trust! Use API Explorer to interact with, test, or play with your applications in Square. You can build, view, and send HTTP requests that call Square APIs with API Explorer. Get started with Square, check out the API Explorer, or the API Explorer docs.
Featuring:
- Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- The Changelog #3 - Rob Pike
- xbar’s website
- What happens when your old open-source project unexpectedly gets to the top of Hacker News?
- Go Time #154 - Where Jerod shares his unpopular opinion
- Go Time #144 - Building desktop apps with Go + web tech
- Wails.app
- Become a sponsor to Mat Ryer
- xbar on GitHub
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Funds for open source (Changelog Interviews #445)
This week we’re talking with Pia Mancini about the latest updates to the mission of Open Collective. Earlier this year Open Collective announced “Funds for Open Source.” The idea is simple, make it easy for companies to invest in open source, and they will. Also, since recording this episode, Pia and the team at Open Collective along with Gitcoin announced fundoss.org as part of Maintainer Week announcements. And right now, they have a matching fund of $75,000 dollars funding open source that you can support.
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- Square – Develop on the platform that sellers trust! Use API Explorer to interact with, test, or play with your applications in Square. You can build, view, and send HTTP requests that call Square APIs with API Explorer. Get started with Square, check out the API Explorer, or the API Explorer docs.
- Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com.
Featuring:
- Pia Mancini – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Introducing: Funds for Open Source
- Airbnb on Open Collective
- Indeed on Open Collective
- Pia Mancini on Open Collective
- Chrome’s Web Framework & Tools Performance Fund on Open Collective
- Discover awesome collectives to support
- fundoss.org - Open Source Collective partnered with GitCoin to launch FundOSS, a pilot matching campaign based on a democratic funding model.
- The Changelog #392: Indeed’s FOSS Contributor Fund with Duane O’Brien
- About Open Collective
- Open Source Collective
- Sustain
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Of spiders and monkeys (JS Party #180)
Yulia Startsev from Mozilla’s SpiderMonkey team joins Jerod & Feross to talk compilers, going back to get your Master’s, making decisions as a group, process of shepherding a feature through TC39, how Firefox actually works, and LavaMoats. Yes, LavaMoats.
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- SpiderMonkey’s website
- The Monkey posters
- TC39 Discourse
- Argumentation theory
- TC39 Realms Proposal
- LavaMoat
- Compartments proposal
- Yulia’s Twitch stream
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All about Porter (Go Time #184)
Porter lets you package your application artifacts, client tools, configuration and deployment logic together as a versioned bundle that you can distribute, and then install with a single command. Written entirely in Go, we speak to one of the creators about running an open source project, the importance of documentation, and more.
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- Carolyn Van Slyck – Website, GitHub, X
- Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
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Money flows rule everything (Ship It! #6)
This week on Ship It! Gerhard talks with Ian Miell, author of Docker in Practice as well as Learn Git, Bash, and Terraform the Hard Way. They talk about being comfortable with the uncomfortable, focusing on the tech while keeping a holistic view of the business. Following the money flows is key. Ian explains this concept really well, and Gerhard feels fairly confident you will be better off if you pay attention. Let us know in the comments!
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Show Notes:
- Learn Git, Bash, and Terraform the Hard Way
- Docker in Practice, 2nd edition
- How To Waste Hundreds of Millions on Your IT Transformation
- When Should I Interrupt Someone?
Follow-up 📖If You Want To Transform IT, Start With Finance
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Multi-GPU training is hard (without PyTorch Lightning) (Practical AI #138)
William Falcon wants AI practitioners to spend more time on model development, and less time on engineering. PyTorch Lightning is a lightweight PyTorch wrapper for high-performance AI research that lets you train on multiple-GPUs, TPUs, CPUs and even in 16-bit precision without changing your code! In this episode, we dig deep into Lightning, how it works, and what it is enabling. William also discusses the Grid AI platform (built on top of PyTorch Lightning). This platform lets you seamlessly train 100s of Machine Learning models on the cloud from your laptop.
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- William Falcon – Website, GitHub, X
- Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- PyTorch Lightning | Website
- PyTorch Lightning | Twitter
- PyTorch Lightning | LinkedIn
- PyTorch Lightning | GitHub
- Grid.ai | Website
- Grid.ai | Twitter
- Grid.ai | LinkedIn
- Grid AI, From the Makers of PyTorch Lightning, Emerges From Stealth With $18.6m Series A to Close the Gap Between AI Research and Production
- Grid AI raises $18.6M Series A to help AI researchers and engineers bring their models to production
- Grid.ai Launches Platform to Train Machine Learning Models in the Cloud
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Building on the TanStack (JS Party #179)
Tanner joins Nick to talk about his projects, react-query and react table, and discuss scratching your own itch in a maintainable way with open source.
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- Dominik Dorfmeister
- Kent C. Dodds
- Shawn @Swyx Wang
- react-query
- react-table
- react-charts
- Headless UI
- dgrid
- Remix
- Tanner Linsley on GitHub Sponsors
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Using Go in unusual ways (Go Time #183)
This episode was recorded live from GopherCon Europe 2021!
Natalie & Mat host three amazing devs who gave talks that showcase using Go in unusual ways: Dr. Joakim Kennedy is tracking Go in malware, Mathilde Raynal is building quantum-resistant cryptography algorithms, and Preslav Rachev is creating digital art.
We hear from our speakers how they got into Go, how they made the choice to use Go for their unusual use case, and how it compares to other languages for their specific needs.
We also chat about conference talks, submissions and public speaking - how to start, good practices, and tips they collected along the way.
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- Joakim Kennedy – Website, GitHub, X
- Mathilde Raynal – GitHub
- Preslav Rachev – GitHub, X
- Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Natalie Pistunovich – GitHub, X
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Every commit is a gift (Changelog Interviews #444)
Maintainer Week is finally here and we’re excited to make this an annual thing! If Maintainer Week is new to you, check out episode #442 with Josh Simmons and Kara Sowles.
Today we’re talking Brett Cannon. Brett is Dev Manager of the Python Extension for VS Code, Python Steering Council Member, and core team member for Python. He recently shared a blog post The social contract of open source, so we invited Brett to join us for Maintainer Week to discuss this topic in detail.
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- Brett Cannon – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- The social contract of open source
- github/maintainerweek
- Upstream
- Global Maintainer Summit also accessible via maintainerds.com
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The foundations of Continuous Delivery (Ship It! #5)
This week on Ship It! Gerhard talks with Dave Farley, co-author of Continuous Delivery and the inventor of the Deployment Pipeline. Today, most of us ship code the way we do because 25 years ago, Dave cared enough to drive the change that we now call CI/CD. He is one of the great software engineers: opinionated, perseverant & focused since the heydays of the internet. Dave continues inspiring and teaching us all via his newly launched YouTube channel, courses and recent books. The apprentice finally meets the master 🙇♂️🙇♀️
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Show Notes:
- Continuous Delivery, the YouTube Channel (new video every Wednesday)
- Continuous Delivery, the course
- Continuous Delivery, the staple book
- Continuous Delivery Pipelines, the new book
- Dave Farley’s blog
- TDD Quiz
- Dave Farley on Twitter
Gerhard’s favourite CD videos, in order of preference:
- SpaceX and Software Engineering | How To Learn
- How To Build Quality Software Fast
- Why CI is BETTER Than Feature Branching
- What’s Wrong With The State Of DevOps?
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Consuming podcasts like PB&J (Backstage #17)
Adam and Jerod sit down to answer a listener question (Hi, Alex! 👋) about how we podcast. Not how we create podcasts, but how we consume podcasts. Along the way we share an update on our comments feature, discuss the Apple Podcasts rollout debacle (and how it affected us launching Ship It!), and give a few personal recommendations of podcasts we’re listening to.
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- ICYMI: Backstage #16 on comments removal
- Jerod uses Overcast
- Adam uses Castro
- Is it a lemon? Apple’s botched podcasts rollout
- Marco Arment on Apple’s developer relations
- The Podcast Index
Podcast recommends!
- Ship It!
- Decoder
- Full of Sith
- The Way I Heard It
- /Filmcast
- The All-in Podcast
- EconTalk
- Monday Morning Podcast
- Blue’s Clues & You
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Learning to learn deep learning 📖 (Practical AI #137)
Chris and Daniel sit down to chat about some exciting new AI developments including wav2vec-u (an unsupervised speech recognition model) and meta-learning (a new book about “How To Learn Deep Learning And Thrive In The Digital World”). Along the way they discuss engineering skills for AI developers and strategies for launching AI initiatives in established companies.
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- High-performance speech recognition with no supervision at all
- deeplearning.ai MLOps course
- GitHub MLOps resources
Books
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Exploring Deno Land 🦕 (Changelog Interviews #443)
This week we’re joined by Ryan Dahl, Node.js creator, and now the creator of Deno - a simple, modern and secure runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript that uses V8 and is built in Rust.
We talk with Ryan about the massive success of Node and how it impacted his life, and how he eventually created Deno and what he’s doing differently this time around. We also talk about The Deno Company and what’s in store for Deno Deploy.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- 10 Things I Regret About Node.js - Ryan Dahl @ JSConf EU 2019
- deno.land
- deno.land/manual
- Announcing the Deno Company
- The Changelog #155: The Future of Node.js with Scott Hammond
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Running Node natively in the browser (JS Party #178)
Eric Simons and the StackBlitz team recently announced WebContainers which let you run Node.js natively in your browser! This has BIG implications and leaves us with many BIG questions like: how did they do it, why did they do it, and where does it go from here? Tune in! Keyword: BIG
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Christopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
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Go Battlesnake Go! (Go Time #182)
In the past decade a variety of games have emerged where players need to create an AI to play the game rather than play the game directly. In this episode we speak with the creator of one of those games - Battlesnake. Brad Van Vugt joins us to talk about building a game engine using Go, making programming games easier for beginners to get started with, the long term vision for games like Battlesnake, and more.
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- Jon Calhoun – Website, GitHub, X
- Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
Show Notes:
- Battlesnake - Sign up and try out Battlesnake
- Battlesnake in Action - A few quick 1v1 games between one of Brad and Jon’s Battlesnakes
- 2019 Battlesnake Finals - The crazy unexpected win of the 2019 championship
- Board Generator - A Battlesnake board generator created by a community member.
- Battlesnake Rules Engine - The game rules engine that is written in Go.
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OODA for operational excellence (Ship It! #4)
This week on Ship It! Gerhard talks with Ben Ford, former Royal Marine and founder of Commando Development, about the OODA loop (observe, orient, decide, act). Shipping is just a small part of it. The OODA loop that you know is probably the wrong one. We explore Mission & Command, Situational Awareness and a few other practices that will help you deal with complexity as you code and ship. As a former Royal Marine Commando, Ben learned these skills the hard way, and then refined them over many years as a software engineer. Check out the diagrams in the show notes - they are a work of art and precision.
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- Algorithms for Leadership
- Ben’s OODA YouTube playlist
- Team of Teams
- One Mission
- Extreme Ownership
- Turn the Ship Around
- Red Teaming
- The Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence
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The fastest way to build ML-powered apps (Practical AI #136)
Tuhin Srivastava tells Daniel and Chris why BaseTen is the application development toolkit for data scientists. BaseTen’s goal is to make it simple to serve machine learning models, write custom business logic around them, and expose those through API endpoints without configuring any infrastructure.
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- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
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Maintainer week! (Changelog Interviews #442)
This week is all about Maintainer Week — it’s a week long event starting June 7th for open source maintainers to gather, share, and be celebrated. We’re joined by Josh Simmons (Ecosystem Strategy Lead at Tidelift & President of Open Source Initiative) and Kara Sowles (Senior Open Source Program Manager at GitHub). Of course we love open source maintainers, that’s why we’re so excited about Maintainer Week and making it an annual thing. Today we talk through all the details of this event, what we can expect for this year and the years to come.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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Stay tuned for details on our “Thank a maintainer” t-shirt giveaway.
- github/maintainerweek
- Upstream
- Global Maintainer Summit also accessible via maintainerds.com
- Sustain
- Octoverse
- gather.town
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Let's talk rendering patterns (JS Party #177)
Brian LeRoux has been building the web long enough to see many ways we produce HTML come in and go out of fashion. On this episode, he joins Amal & Nick to discuss the past, present, and potential future of rendering patterns on the web. SSR, ISR, & DSR (oh my!)
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- Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
- Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
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- Global Accessibility Awareness Day
- Serverless Framework
- How to create an OpenJS Architect serverless app with TypeScript
- Hotwire
- Fred Schott’s Astro demo
- Astro
- The JS Drama. It’s rare
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Elixir observability using PromEx (Ship It! #3)
This week on Ship It! Gerhard talks with Alex Koutmos about Elixir observability using PromEx. Why do we need to understand how our setup behaves? What is PromEx and where does PromEx fit in changelog.com?
Bonus! Tune in to our LIVE Friday evening deploy 😱 of Erlang 24 for changelog.com. Check the show notes for a link on YouTube. 🍿
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- Grafana Agent
- Alex’s hex.pm packages
- My.Thoughts v1
- Beam Radio
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Shipping KubeCon EU 2021 (Ship It! #2)
This week on Ship It! Gerhard is joined by Constance Caramanolis, Principal Engineer at Splunk and former maintainer of Envoy Proxy, and Stephen Augustus, Head of Open Source at Cisco & self-proclaimed Caesar of Systems. Constance and Stephen are the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon co-chairs. Join us to find out what happens before and after KubeCon gets shipped.
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- Constance Caramanolis – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Stephen Augustus – X
- Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
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Introducing Ship It! (Ship It! #1)
Welcome to Ship It! This is a new show from Changelog about shipping software - and all the details, challenges, and problems that surface. Changelog SRE Gerhard Lazu is taking us on a journey into the world of shipping code, infrastructure, ops, and the people making it happen.
Shipping is near and dear to every developers’ heart. We do it every day. It’s the essential first step. You have to ship it to share your ideas with the world. New episodes ship weekly.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Show Notes:
- The Changelog #441: Inside 2021’s infrastructure for Changelog.com
- The Changelog #419: Inside 2020’s infrastructure for Changelog.com
- The Changelog #344: Inside 2019’s infrastructure for Changelog.com
- The Changelog #254: Deploying Changelog.com
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Building for Ethereum in Go (Go Time #181)
In this episode, we will talk about building for Blockchain in Go. We are joined by two of the co-founders of Prysmatic Labs (a company behind the upgrades to the Ethereum network). Raul Jordan and Preston Van Loon tell Angelica how they started the company, as well as what it’s like to build technical infrastructure for the Ethereum blockchain using Go.
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- Preston Van Loon – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Angelica Hill – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Show Notes:
- Go implementation of Ethereum proof of stake
- Prysmatic Labs
- Official Go implementation of the Ethereum protocol
- Eth2 Mainnet Incident Retrospective
- Ethereum.org
- Ardan Labs
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Elixir meets machine learning (Practical AI #135)
Today we’re sharing a special crossover episode from The Changelog podcast here on Practical AI. Recently, Daniel Whitenack joined Jerod Santo to talk with José Valim, Elixir creator, about Numerical Elixir. This is José’s newest project that’s bringing Elixir into the world of machine learning. They discuss why José chose this as his next direction, the team’s layered approach, influences and collaborators on this effort, and their awesome collaborative notebook that’s built on Phoenix LiveView.
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- José Valim – Website, GitHub, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- Nx (Numerical Elixir) is now publicly available
- Axon
- Livebook
- Jax
- Livebook demo on YouTube
- Erlang Ecosystem Foundation
Books
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Inside 2021's infrastructure for Changelog.com (Changelog Interviews #441)
This week we’re talking about the latest infrastructure updates we’ve made for 2021. We’re joined by Gerhard Lazu, our resident SRE here at Changelog, talking about the improvements we’ve made to 10x our speed and be 100% available. We also mention the new podcast we’ve launched, hosted by Gerhard. Stick around the last half of the show for more details.
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- Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Subscribe to Ship It our new podcast about shipping code to production and seeing what happens next. We talk about code, ops, infrastructure, observability…and the people that make it happen.
- The Changelog #419: Inside 2020’s infrastructure for Changelog.com
- The Changelog #344: Inside the 2019 infrastructure for Changelog.com
- The Changelog #254: Deploying Changelog.com
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CSS! Everyone's favorite programming language (JS Party #176)
This week Emma and Adam are joined by Una Kravets to discuss difficult parts of CSS.
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- Emma Bostian – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- The CSS Podcast
- Toolsday
- Atomic Habits by James Clear
- Tailwind CSS
- Bootstrap
- Adam Argyle
- Open UI
- Inverted Triangle CSS
- CSS The Definitive Guide by Eric Meyer
- 10 modern layouts in 1 line of CSS by Una
- Grid Garden
- Flexbox Froggy
- CSS Tricks Grid Guide
- CSS Tricks Flexbox Guide
- Container Queries
- Learn CSS by Una’s team
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Are frameworks getting an Encore? (Go Time #180)
Tools and frameworks that aim to boost developer productivity are always worth a closer look, but we don’t often consider the trade-offs for whichever we settle on. In this episode, we discuss the questions one should be asking when evaluating developer productivity tools and frameworks in the Go ecosystem in particular.
Joining us to discuss is André Eriksson, the creator of Encore, a backend framework that aims to make development and deployment as productive as it can be.
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- André Eriksson – Website, GitHub, X
- Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Natalie Pistunovich – GitHub, X
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Apache TVM and OctoML (Practical AI #134)
90% of AI / ML applications never make it to market, because fine tuning models for maximum performance across disparate ML software solutions and hardware backends requires a ton of manual labor and is cost-prohibitive. Luis Ceze and his team created Apache TVM at the University of Washington, then left founded OctoML to bring the project to market.
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- Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
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Open source goes to Mars 🚀 (Changelog Interviews #440)
This week we’re talking about open source on Mars. Martin Woodward (Senior Director of Developer Relations at GitHub) joins us to talk about the new Mars badge GitHub introduced. This collaboration between GitHub and NASA confirmed nearly 12,000 people contributed code, documentation, graphic design, and more to the open source software that made Ingenuity’s launch possible. Today’s show is a celebration of this human achievement and the impact of open source on space exploration as we know it.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Open source goes to Mars 🚀
- Open Source on Mars: Community powers NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter
- The Mars Helicopter, Ingenuity
- nasa/fprime
- The .NET Foundation
- James Webb Space Telescope
- Maintainer Week
- The Changelog #436: Curl is a full-time job (and turns 23) with Daniel Stenberg
- The Changelog #411: Inside GitHub’s Arctic Code Vault
- The Changelog #370: The making of GitHub Sponsors with Devon Zuegel
- GitHub Skyline
- dear-github/dear-github
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This is ReScript (JS Party #175)
Ever wanted a language like JavaScript, but without the warts, with a great type system, and with a lean build toolchain that doesn’t waste your time?
Patrick Ecker from the ReScript Association sits down with Jerod and Feross to tell us all about this “JavaScript-like language you have been waiting for”.
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Feross Aboukhadijeh – Website, GitHub, X
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Event-driven systems (Go Time #179)
In this episode we talk with Daniel and Steve about their experience with event-driven systems and shed some light on what they are and who they might be for. We explore topics like the complexity of setting up an event-driven system, the need to embrace eventual consistency, useful tools for building event-driven systems, and more.
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- Daniel Selans – Website, GitHub, X
- Steve High – GitHub, X
- Jon Calhoun – Website, GitHub, X
- Kris Brandow – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- Batch - Daniel’s company, which is a platform for working with message busses and event-driven systems.
- RabbitMQ - An event/message bus tool.
- MQTT - Another event/message bus option that is very simple.
- etcd - A fast key/value store. Daniel talks about using it as a cache in the episode.
- Plumber CLI - A tool written by Batch to help work with any message bus
- Event Sourcing - Martin Fowler’s article on event sourcing.
- CUE - An encoding tool mentioned in the episode.
- Code blocks example from Steve - In the show Steve mentions code blocks helping readability. This is an example of this.
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25 years of speech technology innovation (Practical AI #133)
To say that Jeff Adams is a trailblazer when it comes to speech technology is an understatement. Along with many other notable accomplishments, his team at Amazon developed the Echo, Dash, and Fire TV changing our perception of how we could interact with devices in our home. Jeff now leads Cobalt Speech and Language, and he was kind enough to join us for a discussion about human computer interaction, multimodal AI tasks, the history of language modeling, and AI for social good.
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- Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- Cobalt Speech and Language
- Building Blocks of Speech Technology
- Article: “BYU students, creator of Alexa develop software to preserve Cambodian stories”
- Previous episode with Catherine Breslin (previously with Cobalt)
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Elixir meets machine learning (Changelog Interviews #439)
This week Elixir creator José Valim joins Jerod and Practical AI’s Daniel Whitenack to discuss Numerical Elixir, his new project that’s bringing Elixir into the world of machine learning. We discuss why José chose this as his next direction, the team’s layered approach, influences and collaborators on this effort, and their awesome collaborative notebook project that’s built on Phoenix LiveView.
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Featuring:
- José Valim – Website, GitHub, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- Nx (Numerical Elixir) is now publicly available
- Axon
- Livebook
- Jax
- Livebook demo on YouTube
- Erlang Ecosystem Foundation
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For a more dope web! (JS Party #174)
Paul Bakaus from Google Web Creators joins Amal, Nick, & Jerod to talk about this new initiative to promote, educate, and equip people to create on the web.
Along the way we discuss Web Stories, AMP, RSS, Google Reader, and more, of course. Join us: for a more dope web!
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- Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Web Stories on Google
- French company that is using Stories on their site
- Web Stories for WordPress
- Make Stories
- Newsroom AI
- AMP Story Player
- Web Creators on:
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What makes wonderful workshops? (Go Time #178)
Perspectives from both the workshop leaders perspective, as well as the workshop participants. What are some top tips, things to watch out for, and ways to innovate and keep your participants engaged, especially in the remote world we are now living in.
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Generating "hunches" using smart home data 🏠 (Practical AI #132)
Smart home data is complicated. There are all kinds of devices, and they are in many different combinations, geographies, configurations, etc. This complicated data situation is further exacerbated during a pandemic when time series data seems to be filled with anomalies. Evan Welbourne joins us to discuss how Amazon is synthesizing this disparate data into functionality for the next generation of smart homes. He discusses the challenges of working with smart home technology, and he describes how they developed their latest feature called “hunches.”
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- Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- Video about hunches
- Amazon’s Alexa can now act on its own hunches to turn off lights and more
- What Are Alexa Hunches?
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Blasting off with Apollo 🚀 (JS Party #173)
KBall, Amal, and Feross are joined by special guest Jenn Creighton to talk about all things Apollo. How does Apollo fit into the GraphQL ecosystem, what’s the next big thing, and when would you choose to use it?
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- Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
- Feross Aboukhadijeh – Website, GitHub, X
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- Single Threaded podcast by Jenn Creighton
- Apollo
- GraphQL Fragments
- Apollo Federation
- GraphQL Foundation
- hey JS buds, i know lots of you have had some “moments”
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Building startups with Go (Go Time #177)
Startups are all about iterating quickly, building MVPs, and finding that elusive product market fit, so how does Go fit into that picture? Is Go a good choice for startups, or is it exclusively for the larger corporations? In this episode Jon is joined by four startup founders to learn about their experience building a startup with Go.
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- Simon White – LinkedIn, X
- Josh Curl – X
- Wojciech Adam Koszek – Website, X
- Jon Calhoun – Website, GitHub, X
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- Segmed - W. Adam Koszek’s startup with a focus on high-quality, anonymous medical data.
- Rebank - Simon White’s startup that aims to automate your business banking.
- Okteto - Ramiro Berrelleza’s startup that provides a Kubernetes development platform to improve developer productivity.
- Hightouch - Josh Curl’s startup that syncs customer data across the tools your business uses.
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Mapping the world (Practical AI #131)
Ro Gupta from CARMERA teaches Daniel and Chris all about road intelligence. CARMERA maintains the maps that move the world, from HD maps for automated driving to consumer maps for human navigation.
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- CARMERA
- The Mapping Hierarchy of Needs
- Mapping Change When It Matters Most
- CARMERA and Toyota Demonstrate Further Progress on Urban and Highway Mapping in Japan and the US
- The Mapping Singularity Is Near
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Let's mint some NFTs (Changelog Interviews #438)
This week we’re talking about NFTs — that’s right, non-fungible tokens and we’re joined by Mikeal Rogers, who’s leading all things InterPlanetary Linked Data at Protocol Labs. We go down the NFT rabbit hole on a very technical level and we come out the other side with clarity and a compelling use of NFTs.
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- Non-fungible token
- NFTs on SNL
- NFTs, explained
- Palm, A New NFT Ecosystem and Studio for Creators
- Filecoin - A decentralized storage network for humanity’s most important information
- Heart Shaped Me from Carly Chaikin
- NFT.storage
- Magic Link
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Sweet setups for easier dev (JS Party #172)
The gang talks about thier favorite software and hardware as developers. Brian Douglas joins to share his unique and open GitHub Actions flow.
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Software
- Macvim
- Vim
- VSCode
- Neovim
- coc.nvim
- Fortran
- Nick’s Dotfiles
- tmux
- GitHub Codespaces
- Docker
- Personalize Codespaces for your account
- VSCode Live Share
- iTerm2
- Base16
- Kitty
- vim-devicons
Productivity Software
- Roam Research
- Zettelkasten
- Calendly
- Obsidian
- Jamstack Radio
- Dropbox Paper
- Notion
- Brian’s Github
- Github Actions
- GitHub GraphQL API
- OneGraph
- Relay
- OmniFocus
- GTD
Hardware
- Spectacle
- Moom
- LG 38UC99-W
- Easy Window Resize - Chrome Extension
- RDM
- Elgato HD60
- OBS Studio
- Apple Magic Keyboard
- Keychron K3
- Magicforce Mechanical Keyboard
- Aplpe Magic Mouse
- Magic Trackpad
- Kettlebells
- Canon EOS M200 Camera
- Sigma 16 Lens
- Aazon Basics Premium Single Monitor Stand
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TCP & UDP (Go Time #176)
The internet wouldn’t exist as we know it if it weren’t for TCP and UDP, yet many developers don’t quite understand the technology powering the web. In this episode we talk with Adam Woodbeck, author of Network Programming with Go, to learn about TCP and UDP; what they are, how they work, and how one can experiment with tools like Wireshark and Go to learn more.
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- Jon Calhoun – Website, GitHub, X
- Kris Brandow – GitHub, X
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- Network Programming with Go - Adam’s book that goes into even more details about TCP, UDP, coding examples in Go, and more on network programming.
- net package - Go’s net package is a great place to start if you want to write code using TCP or UDP directly.
- net.Conn interface - The
net.Conninterface is mentioned on the episode and is worth checking out inside the net package. - Wireshark - A great tool for examining internet traffic on your computer and learning more about TCP and UDP.
- google/gopacket - A package by Google for packet decoding.
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Data science for intuitive user experiences (Practical AI #130)
Nhung Ho joins Daniel and Chris to discuss how data science creates insights into financial operations and economic conditions. They delve into topics ranging from predictive forecasting to aid small businesses, to learning about the economic fallout from the COVID-19 Pandemic.
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Show Notes:
- Intuit Website
- Intuit Blog | Nhung Ho, Director of Data Science
- Intuit Blog | How AI Can Help Build Resiliency for Small Businesses in a Global Economic Crisis
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Into the Nix ecosystem (Changelog Interviews #437)
This week we’re talking about Nix with Domen Kožar. The Nix ecosystem is a DevOps toolkit that takes a unique approach to package management and system configuration. Nix helps you make reproducible, declarative, and reliable systems. Domen is writing the Nix ecosystem guide at nix.dev and today he takes us on a deep dive on all things Nix.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- NixOS.org
- Nix Manual
- Nix Pills
- Nix shorts - A collection of short notes about Nix, down to what is immediately needed for users.
- nix.dev - The Nix ecosystem guide
- NixOS Weekly newsletter
- The Changelog #237: Reproducible builds and secure software with Chris Lamb
- NixOS on ARM - for example, if you want to try it out on a Raspberry Pi
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Let us know in the comments (Backstage #16)
Jerod and Adam share their thoughts on Clubhouse, Twitter Spaces, et al, then discuss the value and weight of hosting commentary onsite vs on Twitter, Slack, etc. Let us know what you think in the comments.
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Less JavaScript more htmx (JS Party #171)
Jerod & Feross learn all about htmx (a pragmatic approach to web frontends) and _hyperscript (an experimental scripting language inspired by HyperTalk) with special guest Carson from Big Sky Software. Thanks to Rajasegar Chandran for requesting this episode!
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- Feross Aboukhadijeh – Website, GitHub, X
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- What the web could be (in 2021 and beyond)
- The future of the web is HTML over the wire
- htmx
- Active Search example
- Extensions reference
- Locality of behavior
- _hyperscript
- HyperTalk
- Event-driven Control Flow
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The ultimate guide to crafting your GopherCon proposal (Go Time #175)
The Call for Proposals for GopherCon 2021 is open from Monday, April 5th to Sunday, April 25th. Kris Brandow, an experienced GopherCon speaker, has published a series of guides to assist Gophers as they craft their proposals and think about submitting.
In this episode Kris reads through his guide, discussing the four parts with a GopherCon newbie, Angelica Hill, who spoke for the first time at GopherCon last year, and is a first time CFP reviewer this year.
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- Storytelling On Stage series
- Storytelling On Stage: The Basics starts at 4:29
- Storytelling On Stage: Storytelling starts at 33:48
- Storytelling On Stage: Advice starts at 52:26
- Storytelling On Stage: Proposal Writing for Procrastinators (not yet published) starts at 1:04:53
- GopherCon CFP
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Going full bore with Graphcore! (Practical AI #129)
Dave Lacey takes Daniel and Chris on a journey that connects the user interfaces that we already know - TensorFlow and PyTorch - with the layers that connect to the underlying hardware. Along the way, we learn about Poplar Graph Framework Software. If you are the type of practitioner who values ‘under the hood’ knowledge, then this is the episode for you.
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Curl is a full-time job (and turns 23) (Changelog Interviews #436)
This week we’re talking with Daniel Stenberg about 23 years of curl. Daniel shares how curl came to be, what drives and motivates him, maintaining a good cadence of an open source product, what to expect from http3, how many billions of users curl has, and Daniel also shares some funny stories like the “Spotify and Instagram hacking ring.”
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- The Changelog #153: 17 Years of curl with Daniel Stenberg
- The Changelog: BONUS — Magic cURL Feature
- The Changelog #299: Curl turns 20, HTTP/2, QUIC with Daniel Stenberg
- HTTPie
- Half of curl’s vulnerabilities are C mistakes
- curl is C
- Rust in curl with Hyper
- “I will slaughter you”
- curl Commercial Support
- Everything curl: –libcurl
- The Changelog #389: Securing the web with Let’s Encrypt featuring Josh Aas
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Headlines? More like HeadLIES! (JS Party #170)
Jerod and Nick discuss the big Deno news, play a ridiculous new game in honor of April Fool’s Day, then give shout outs to some awesome software projects we love.
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- Announcing the Deno Company
- HackMD
- Keyboard Maestro
- Reading the ECMAScript standard literally changed my life. Like most people
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Trials and tribulations of testing in Go (Go Time #174)
Testing can be hard, how to test, where to test, what is a good test? All questions that can be deceptively difficult to answer. In this episode we talk about the trials and tribulations of testing and why it can be argued to be especially difficult in Go.
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- Kris Brandow – GitHub, X
- Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
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- dig - a reflection based dependency injection toolkit for Go
- is - Mat Ryer’s lightweight testing mini-framework for Go
- testing - from the Standard Library
- Learn Go with Tests
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Next-gen voice assistants (Practical AI #128)
Nikola Mrkšić, CEO & Co-Founder of PolyAI, takes Daniel and Chris on a deep dive into conversational AI, describing the underlying technologies, and teaching them about the next generation of voice assistants that will be capable of handling true human-level conversations. It’s an episode you’ll be talking about for a long time!
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-PolyAI
-The Science Behind PolyAI
-How Customer Service Voice Assistants Handle Different Languages and Accents
-PolyAI Maintains Lead Over IBM Watson Assistant and Other Popular Language Understanding Models
-PolyAI’s ConveRT Model Outperforms BERT and GPT-Based Models in Salesforce Research Evaluation
-Few-Shot Slot Labeling with ConVEx: The Most Accurate Value Extractor on The Market
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The future of the web is HTML over the wire (Changelog Interviews #435)
This week we’re joined by long-time web developer Matt Patterson. Earlier this year Matt wrote an evocative article for A List Apart called The Future of Web Software Is HTML-over-WebSockets. In this episode Matt sits down with Jerod to discuss, in-detail, why he believes the future of the web is server-rendered (again) and how Ruby on Rails is well positioned to bring that future to us today.
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- The Future of Web Software Is HTML-over-WebSockets
- StimulusReflex
- Hotwire
- ChaosMage
- M.E. Patterson on Amazon
- Matt works at SkillsEngine
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Restic has your backup (Changelog Interviews #434)
This week Alexander Neumann takes Jerod on a tour of Restic, the world-class backup solution that’s fast, secure, and cross-platform. We discuss why he created Restic in the first place, how (and why you should) you use it, some of its more interesting technical bits, lessons learned over the years building and maintaining a community, and more of course.
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Work environments & happiness (JS Party #169)
KBall, Amal, and Nick dive into key dimensions of what makes a developer work environment good – or bad. They discuss systemic factors, individual factors, what you can do about it, and a proposed scoring system for good work environments.
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- The Dispassionate Developer
- How to Stop Saying Yes When You Want to Say No
- Transcript: Ezra Klein Interviews Cal Newport
- A World Without Email
- Developer Happiness Index
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Releasing with (and without) GoReleaser (Go Time #173)
Carlos Alexandro Becker joins Mat, Natalie, & Johnny to discuss the ins and outs of releasing your Go code. Carlos created and maintains GoReleaser, a popular tool that helps you deliver your Go binaries as fast and easily as possible.
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- Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
- Natalie Pistunovich – GitHub, X
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Women in Data Science (WiDS) (Practical AI #127)
Chris has the privilege of talking with Stanford Professor Margot Gerritsen, who co-leads the Women in Data Science (WiDS) Worldwide Initiative. This is a conversation that everyone should listen to. Professor Gerritsen’s profound insights into how we can all help the women in our lives succeed - in data science and in life - is a ‘must listen’ episode for everyone, regardless of gender.
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Open source, not open contribution (Changelog Interviews #433)
This week we’re talking with Ben Johnson. Ben is known for his work on BoltDB, his work in open source, and as a freelance Go developer. Late January when Ben open sourced his newest project Litestream in the readme he shared how the project was open source, but not open for contribution. His reason was to protect his mental health and the long term viability of the project. On this episode we talk with Ben about what that means, his thoughts on mental health and burnout in open source, choosing a license, and the details behind Litestream - a standalone streaming replication tool for SQLite.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- Go Beyond
- Open source, but closed to contributions
- Litestream.io & benbjohnson/litestream
- Litestream getting started
- The Changelog #201: Why SQLite succeeded as a database with Richard Hipp, creator of SQLite
- SQLite copyright
- SQLite - Professional Support & Extension Products
- boltdb/bolt
- Kubernetes Failure Stories
- The Changelog #170: BoltDB, InfluxDB, Key-Value Databases with Ben Johnson
- Cockroach Labs
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The journey to massive scale and ultra-resilience (Founders Talk #75)
This week Adam talks with Spencer Kimball, CEO and Co-founder of Cockroach Labs — makers of CockroachDB an open source cloud-native distributed SQL database. Cockroach Labs recently raised $160 million dollars on a $2 billion dollar valuation. In this episode, Spencer shares his journey in open source, startups and entrepreneurship, and what they’re doing to build CockroachCloud to meet the needs of applications that require massive scale and ultra-resilience.
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- Spencer is a co-founder of GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) (but is no longer involved with the project)
- Cockroach Labs
- CockroachCloud - Build and scale fast with CockroachDB-as-a-service on AWS and Google Cloud.
- How We’re Building a Business to Last
- Cockroach Labs scores $160M Series E on $2B valuation
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Monad's Hook (JS Party #168)
In which Jerod, Nick, and KBall play the most preposterous round of “Explain it Like I’m 5” in human history. Then we dig in to Vite a little further than is advisable on a podcast. Finally, we talk about our Quiz Show app that powers JS Danger. You’re welcome!
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Design philosophy (Go Time #172)
In this insight-filled episode, Bill Kennedy joins Johnny and Kris to discuss best practices around the design of software in Go. Bill talks through scenarios, lessons learned, and pitfalls to avoid in both architecture and coding of Go projects.
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Many of the design philosophies discussed during the show are encapsulated in this repo.
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Big breaches (and how to avoid them) (Changelog Interviews #432)
This week we’re talking about big security breaches with Neil Daswani, renowned security expert, best-selling author, and Co-Director of Stanford University’s Advanced CyberSecurity Program. His book, Big Breaches: Cybersecurity Lessons for Everyone helped to guide this conversation. We cover the six common key causes (aka vectors) that lead to breaches, which of these causes are exploited most often, recent breaches such as the Equifax breach (2017), the Capital One breach (2019), and the more recent Solarwinds breach (2020).
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- Big Breaches: Cybersecurity Lessons for Everyone on Amazon
- Equifax data breach FAQ: What happened, who was affected, what was the impact?
- Capital One fined $80 million for 2019 hack of 100 million credit card applications
- What you need to know about the biggest hack of the US government in years
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Recommender systems and high-frequency trading (Practical AI #126)
David Sweet, author of “Tuning Up: From A/B testing to Bayesian optimization”, introduces Dan and Chris to system tuning, and takes them from A/B testing to response surface methodology, contextual bandit, and finally bayesian optimization. Along the way, we get fascinating insights into recommender systems and high-frequency trading!
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- Tuning Up | GitHub
- Manning 40% discount code: podpracticalAI19
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10 a11y mistakes to avoid (JS Party #167)
Spotify’s Tryggvi Gylfason joins Emma & Nick to discuss common accessibility mistakes and tips for avoiding them!
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- Ten Usability Heuristics
- Jen Simmon’s CSS Media Query Code Snippet
- CSS Remedy
- UI Traps
- Intentionally Bad User Interfaces
- Visually hide an element with CSS
- Udacity Web Accessibility course
- Inclusive Components by Heydon Pickering
- On Demand Live Region
- 🔥🔥🔥 JavaScript tip: hahahahha
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go:embed (Go Time #171)
Carl (Director of Technology for Spotlight PA) and Wayne (Principal Engineer at GoDaddy) join Mat and Mark to talk about the new go:embed feature in Go 1.16. They discuss how and when to use it, common gotchas to watch out for, and some rather meaty unpopular opinions thrown in for good measure.
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- Wayne Ashley Berry – Website, GitHub, X
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- Mark Bates – Website, GitHub, X
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- Read the official reference documentation on golang.org
- Carl also wrote about How to Use //go:embed
- And learn more about its design in this Draft design video with Russ Cox
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Leading a non-profit unicorn (Changelog Interviews #431)
This week we’re talking about the future of freeCodeCamp with Quincy Larson and what it’s taken to build it into the non-profit unicorn that it is. They’re expanding their Python section into a full-blown data science curriculum and they’ve launched a $150,000 fundraiser to make it happen with 100% dollar-for-dollar matching up to the first $150,000 thanks to Darrell Silver.
As you may know, we’re big fans of Quincy and the work being done at freeCodeCamp, so if you want to back their efforts as well, learn more and donate.
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- We’re Building a Data Science Curriculum with Advanced Mathematics and Machine Learning
- Why I’m donating $150k to freeCodeCamp to help fund their advanced math & machine learning curriculum
- freeCodeCamp in 2020 (and other year-end facts)
- The Changelog #369: Five years of freeCodeCamp with Quincy Larson
- The Best Tech Podcasts for Software Developers in 2021
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JS Danger: CSS-Tricks Edition (JS Party #166)
The wonderful folks behind CSS-Tricks (maybe you’ve heard of it?) face off in our much beloved don’t-call-it-jeopardy game show. Can you out smart our intrepid contestants?
Play along while you listen (or watch). It’s JS Danger time, y’all!
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- Sarah Drasner – Website, GitHub, X
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Past episodes of JS Danger:
- JS Danger: CSS-Tricks Edition (video)
- JS “Danger” Party
- JS Danger: HalfStack Edition
- JS Danger: OpenJS World Edition (video)
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Talkin' 'bout code generation (Go Time #170)
O.G. Brian Ketelsen joins the panel to discuss code generation; programs that write programs. They also discuss IDLs, DSLs, overusing language features, generics, and more.
Also Brian plays his guitar. 🤘
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- Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Jon Calhoun – Website, GitHub, X
- Kris Brandow – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
The panel dig deep on code generation in Go. Touching on the new go:embed feature in Go 1.16.
They also discuss IDLs (interface description language) and DSLs (domain specific languages) and the part they play in code generation.
Brian talks about how we’re all guilty of overusing language features, like channels (see Go channels are bad and you should feel bad for an example).
The panel refers to https://litestream.io/ at one point, as an example of a closed-open-source project, and you can read more about on the Litestream GitHub page.
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Deep learning technology for drug discovery (Practical AI #125)
Our Slack community wanted to hear about AI-driven drug discovery, and we listened. Abraham Heifets from Atomwise joins us for a fascinating deep dive into the intersection of deep learning models and molecule binding. He describes how these methods work and how they are beginning to help create drugs for “undruggable” diseases!
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- Atomwise
- Atomwise Receives a $2.3M Grant to Develop New Therapies for Drug Resistant Malaria and Tuberculosis
- Atomwise Partners with Global Research Teams to Pursue Broad-Spectrum Treatments Against COVID-19 and Future Coronavirus Outbreaks
- World robotic soccer
- Philadelphia chromosome
- Alphafold
- Canavan disease example:
- AtomNet: A Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Bioactivity Prediction in Structure-based Drug Discovery
- [“Memorizing yesterday’s stock price” example](Most Ligand-Based Classification Benchmarks Reward Memorization Rather than Generalization)
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Who let the docs out? (JS Party #165)
The week we talk about the new Open Web Docs initiative and the future of MDN.
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- Will Bamberg –
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- Introducing Open Web Docs
- Open Web Docs on GitHub
- browser-compat-data
- Can I Use
- mdn on GitHub
- Open Web Docs OpenCollective
- Open Web Docs on Twitter
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Go at Clever (Go Time #169)
In this episode we explore how Clever started using Go. What technologies did Clever start with, how did they transition to Go, and what were the motivations behind those changes? We then explore some of the OS tech written by the team at Clever.
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- wag - a tool for generating Go web APIs using a subset of Swagger v2.
- sphinx - http rate limiting tool.
- leakybucket - leaky bucket implemented in Go.
- microplane - CLI used to make git changes across multiple repos.
- optimus - a library used to concurrently manipulate collections of data.
- reposync
- gitbot
- Mo Repos, Mo Problems? How We Make Changes Across Many Git Repositories - a writeup by Nathan about how Clever uses the microplane CLI.
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Green AI 🌲 (Practical AI #124)
Empirical analysis from Roy Schwartz (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and Jesse Dodge (AI2) suggests the AI research community has paid relatively little attention to computational efficiency. A focus on accuracy rather than efficiency increases the carbon footprint of AI research and increases research inequality. In this episode, Jesse and Roy advocate for increased research activity in Green AI (AI research that is more environmentally friendly and inclusive). They highlight success stories and help us understand the practicalities of making our workflows more efficient.
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- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
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- Green AI article in the communications of the ACM
- Training a single AI model can emit as much carbon as five cars in their lifetimes
- Fine-Tuning Pretrained Language Models: Weight Initializations, Data Orders, and Early Stopping
- Parameter-Efficient Transfer Learning for NLP
- Reproducibility at EMNLP 2020
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Darklang Diaries (Changelog Interviews #430)
This week Jerod is joined by Paul Biggar the creator of Dark, a new way to build serverless backends. Paul shares all the details about this all-in-one language, editor, and infrastructure, why he decided to make Dark in the first place, his view on programming language design, the advantages Dark has as an integrated solution, and also why it’s source available, but NOT open source.
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Special thanks to Jon Stodle for requesting this episode.
- Dark’s website
- Dark on GitHub
- Structured Procrastination
- Why Dark didn’t choose Rust
- Leaving OCaml
- Dark’s new backend will be in F#
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We really needed new jingles (JS Party #164)
Go Time’s Mat Ryer joins Jerod, KBall, and Nick to play Story of the Week, Today I Learned, Unpopular Opinions, and Shout Outs!
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Story of the Week
- Faster JavaScript calls in V8
- Blitz.js
- Blitz on JS Party
- Citibank just got a $500 million lesson in the importance of UI design
TIL
Shout Outs
Miscellany
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Indecent (language) Proposals: Part 2 (Go Time #168)
This is the second part of a discussion about Go language proposals that may or may not make it into the language. Listen to part one as well!
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The proposals discussed in this episode are:
- 20733 - Redefine range loop variables in each iteration
- 12854 - Type inferred composite literals
- 35304 - Anonymous struct literals
- 21496 - Even narrower: permit type elision in nested composite literals
- 6386 - Constants of arbitrary types
- 27975 - Immutable type qualifier
- 29036 - Make imported symbols predictable
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Intensely focused on building a software company (Founders Talk #74)
This week Adam talks with John-Daniel Trask, co-founder & CEO of Raygun. Raygun is an award-winning application monitoring company founded by John-Daniel Trask (better known as JD) and Jeremy Boyd in Wellington, New Zealand. They have revenues in the 8 digits annually, and have done it with very little funding (~1.7M USD). Today’s conversation with JD shares a ton of wisdom. Listen twice and take notes.
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- Raygun.com
- The Microsoft Way: The Real Story Of How The Company Outsmarts Its Competition
- Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
- The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
- The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
- Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
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Low code, no code, accelerated code, & failing code (Practical AI #123)
In this Fully-Connected episode, Chris and Daniel discuss low code / no code development, GPU jargon, plus more data leakage issues. They also share some really cool new learning opportunities for leveling up your AI/ML game!
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- Follow up content from Rajiv Shah:
- Lambda Lab’s GPU benchmarks
- Machine Learning in Microsoft Excel
- Deep Learning at the Speed of Light
- MLCommons and MLCube:
- Learning Resources:
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JS is an occasionally functional language (JS Party #163)
Eric Normand (long-time FP advocate and author of Grokking Simplicity) joins Jerod and KBall for a deep conversation about Functional Programming in JavaScript. Eric teaches us what FP is all about, details the functional side of JS, and reviews the good/bad/ugly of React.
Oh, and join us in the #jsparty channel of our community slack where we’re giving away three FREE e-book copies of Eric’s new book! 🎁
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- Listen to Eric on The Changelog back in 2017
- Order Grokking Simplicity today (Use code podjsparty20 for 40% off!)
- Join #jsparty in our community slack for your chance at 1 of 3 free e-books!
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The art of reading the docs (Go Time #167)
Documentation. You can treat it as a dictionary or reference manual that you look up things in when you get stuck during your day-to-day work OR (and this is where things get interesting) you can immerse yourself in a subject, domain, or technology by deeply and purposefully consuming its manuals cover-to-cover to develop expertise, not just passing familiarity.
In this episode we pull in perspectives and anecdotes from beginners and veterans alike to understand the impact of RTFM deeply. Also Sweet Filepath O’ Mine?!?!
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You could win Mark Bates’ Raspberry Pi 400! Thanks to Eric Miller for requesting this episode! You, too, can request episodes right here.
- The career-changing art of reading the docs by @forrestbrazeal
- Daniele Procida’s talk on documentation during PyCon Australia 2017
- Accompanying doc
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Community perspectives on Elastic vs AWS (Changelog Interviews #429)
This week we’re talking about the recent falling out between Elastic and AWS around the relicensing of Elasticsearch and Kibana. Like many in the community, we have been watching this very closely.
Here’s the tldr for context. On January 21st, Elastic posted a blog post sharing their concerns with Amazon/AWS misleading and confusing the community, saying “They have been doing things that we think are just NOT OK since 2015 and it has only gotten worse.” This lead them to relicense Elasticsearch and Kibana with a dual license, a proprietary license and the Sever Side Public License (SSPL). AWS responded two days later stating that they are “stepping up for a truly open source Elasticsearch,” and shared their plans to create and maintain forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana based on the latest ALv2-licensed codebases.
There’s a ton of detail and nuance beneath the surface, so we invited a handful of folks on the show to share their perspective. On today’s show you’ll hear from: Adam Jacob (co-founder and board member of Chef), Heather Meeker (open-source lawyer and the author of the SSPL license), Manish Jain (founder and CTO at Dgraph Labs), Paul Dix (co-founder and CTO at InfluxDB), VM (Vicky) Brasseur (open source & free software business strategist), and Markus Stenqvist (everyday web dev from Sweden).
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- Markus –
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Amazon: NOT OK - why we had to change Elastic licensing
- Stepping up for a truly open source Elasticsearch
- The SSPL is Not an Open Source License
- MongoDB transitions to Server Side Public License (SSPL) for MongoDB Community Server
- Elastic Changes Licences for Elasticsearch and Kibana: AWS Forks Both
- Truly Doubling Down on Open Source
- Read the Open Source Definition OR the annotated version of the Open Source Definition
- Keeping Open Source Open – Open Distro for Elasticsearch
- The Commons Clause
- Initial thoughts on MongoDB’s new Server Side Public License
- SSPL Re-Takes the Stage in 2021
- Server Side Public License (SSPL)
- SSPL approval process on the OSI mailing list
- February 2019 License-Review Summary
- Dgraph
- InfluxDB
- The Changelog #353: The war for the soul of open source with Adam Jacob
- The Changelog #424: You can FINALLY use JSHint for evil with Mike Pennisi
- The Changelog #371: Re-licensing Sentry with David Cramer
- The Changelog #322: There and back again (Dgraph’s tale) with Manish Jain
Adam Jacob
Adam Jacob is the co-founder and board member of Chef and talked with us back in July 2019 on The Changelog #353 about “The war for the soul of open source,” and the title of the episode could not have been more prophetic.
We pulled a segment from that episode where we talk about business models and how they correlate to open source business models, and how from Adam’s perspective…the AWS’s, the Azure’s and the Google Clouds of the world provide a humongous marketing funnel for open source businesses like Mongo and Elastic.
At the time of this conversation with Adam, Elastic was worth 1.5 Billion dollars and “killing it.”
Heather Meeker
Heather Meeker is a well respected open-source lawyer and specialist in open source software licensing and strategy. She wrote the book Open Source for Business which serves as a practical guide to open source software licensing. She is also well known for her work on the Commons Claus license which gained a lot of attention with the dust up it caused when Redis Labs’ transitioned their modules to use the license. Side note here, Redis Labs’ has since transitioned away from the Apache2 plus Commons Clause licensing due to undesired confusion in favor of the Redis Source Available License (RSAL) — which we might cover in a future episode as we chase this saga of not-quite-open source yet permissive licensing for commercial open source companies.
The whole reason for this conversation with Heather is because she’s the open-source lawyer who wrote The Server Side Public License (SSPL). We wanted to understand the design and intention of the license.
- SSPL Re-Takes the Stage in 2021
- In this Tweet, Heather Meeker said “Congratulations to Elastic on its new license!”
Manish Jain
Manish Jain is the founder and CTO at Dgraph Labs. We talked with Manish a little over two years ago on episode #322 about their challenges with licensing and re-licensing Dgraph — so, we thought it would fitting to get him on this episode.
Paul Dix
Paul Dix is the co-founder and CTO at InfluxData and shared his perspective on running an open source business, how InfluxData is innovating their commercial offering while having a permissive MIT licensed version of InfluxDB. Paul also shares his thoughts on the stand off between Elastic and AWS and why he’s long on Mongo and short on Elastic.
Paul shared a few links to Twitter threads he started:
- https://twitter.com/pauldix/status/1352604892754542594
- https://twitter.com/pauldix/status/1352615503366381570
- https://twitter.com/pauldix/status/1352727425717825536
VM (Vicky) Brasseur
VM (Vicky) Brasseur has been in free and open source software for 30 years and has been working with startups and enterprises doing open source & free software business strategy for quite a while now. We used Vicky’s post titled “Elasticsearch and Kibana are now business risks” as a reference on this situation. We even quoted her post a few times in our conversation on this episode with with Heather Meeker.
Markus Stenqvist
Markus Stenqvist self-describes as “a normal everyday web developer from Sweden.”
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The AI doc will see you now (Practical AI #122)
Elad Walach of Aidoc joins Chris to talk about the use of AI for medical imaging interpretation. Starting with the world’s largest annotated training data set of medical images, Aidoc is the radiologist’s best friend, helping the doctor to interpret imagery faster, more accurately, and improving the imaging workflow along the way. Elad’s vision for the transformative future of AI in medicine clearly soothes Chris’s concern about managing his aging body in the years to come. ;-)
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Are web apps fundamentally different than web sites? (JS Party #162)
Our debate format returns! Divya & Feross take the “Nope” side while Amal & Nick represent the “Yep”s. Whose side will you take?
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Previous episodes of YepNope:
- Should websites work without JS?
- Is modern JS tooling too complicated?
- Should we rebrand JavaScript?
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Indecent (language) Proposals: Part 1 (Go Time #166)
In this episode, we discuss some proposed changes to Go covering a range of subjects, from magical interfaces, to enhancing range loops, make and new with inferred types, lazy values, and more. We also talk a lot about ints, so get this episode in your ears.
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You could win Mark Bates’ Raspberry Pi 400!
The proposals we discuss are:
- 21670 - Have functions auto-implement interfaces with only a single method of that same signature
- 43557 - Function values as iterators
- 34515 - Extended type inference for make and new
- 37739 - Lazy values
- 19623 - Arbitrary precision ints
- 30613 - Checked integer types
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Istanbul (not Constantinople) (JS Party #161)
Benjamin Coe joins Amal and Divya to discuss his wide-ranging open source projects, test coverage with Istanbul, and the future of testing in JavaScript.
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When Go programs end (Go Time #165)
Michael Knyszek from the Go team joins us to talk about what happens when a program ends. How are file handles cleaned up? When are deferred functions run, and when are they skipped entirely? Is there a way to terminate all running goroutines? Tune in to learn the answers to these questions and more!
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- Jon Calhoun – Website, GitHub, X
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- Make Ctrl+C Cancel the context.Context - An article by Mat Ryer discussing how to capture
ctrl+cand cancel a context. - NotifyContext proposal - Our very own Mark Bates made the proposal for NotifyContext!
- NotifyContext - docs for the
NotifyContextfunctionality added in Go - 12 Factor
- Graceful shutdown in Go http server - an article discussing grateful shutdowns with Go HTTP servers.
- kill linux man page -
killis a linux command mentioned on the show - os/signal - docs for the
os/signalpackage in Go.
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Cooking up synthetic data with Gretel (Practical AI #121)
John Myers of Gretel puts on his apron and rolls up his sleeves to show Dan and Chris how to cook up some synthetic data for automated data labeling, differential privacy, and other purposes. His military and intelligence community background give him an interesting perspective that piqued the interest of our intrepid hosts.
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- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
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- Gretel | Website
- Gretel | LinkedIn
- Gretel | Twitter
- Gretel | Slack
- Gretel Synthetics | GitHub
- Gretel Blueprints | GitHub
- Gretel | Improving massively imbalanced datasets in machine learning with synthetic data
- Gretel | Deep dive on generating synthetic data for Healthcare
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Open source civilization (Changelog Interviews #428)
This week we’re talking about open source industrial machines. We’re joined by Marcin Jakubowski from Open Source Ecology where they’re developing open source industrial machines that can be made for a fraction of commercial costs, and they’re sharing their designs online for free. The goal is to create an efficient open source economy that increases innovation through open collaboration. We talk about what it takes to build a civilization from scratch, the Open Building Institute and their Eco-Building Toolkit, the right to repair movement, DIY maker culture, and how Marcin plans to build 10,000 micro factories worldwide where anyone can come and make.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Special thanks to Josh Fong for requesting this episode back in July 2020.
- Marcin’s TED Talk
- OpenSourceEcology.org
- Open Building Institute Kickstarter
- From this post on Vice/Motherboard — Kyle Schwarting is a farmer by trade, and a hacker by necessity. His farm, about 20 minutes outside the city limits of Lincoln, Nebraska, is full of tractors and agricultural equipment, which he picks up in various states of repair from fellow farmers, fixes up, and resells. “I would say what I’m doing is hacking,” Schwarting tells me, gesturing to a Windows laptop and a USB-to-tractor cable he Frankensteined himself.
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Breaking down the State of CSS/JS (JS Party #160)
KBall hangs with Nick and Jerod to analyze and discuss the trends of the web world according to the latest State of CSS and State of JS survey results.
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Segment 1
Segment 2
- Why do people complain so much about CSS?
- Episode on tailwind
- Object-fit
- Material UI
- BEM
- CSS Custom Properties as state
- Houdini
Segment 3
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Why writing is important (Go Time #164)
In this episode we talk about various types of writing and how we as Go developers can learn from them. Whether it is planning and preparing to write, communicating with team members, or making our code clearer for future developers to read through style guides.
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- Angelica Hill – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
- Kris Brandow – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- How language shapes the way we think | Lera Boroditsky
- The Zen of Go - Article by Dave Cheney about how idiomatic Go code
- diagrams.net (formerly draw.io) - A tool mentioned by Johnny
- WebSequenceDiagrams.com - A tool mentioned by Johnny
-GopherCon 2019: Kris Brandow - The Gopher’s Manual of Style - Effective Go
- Go Code Review Comments - Common code review comments for Go code
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The nose knows (Practical AI #120)
Daniel and Chris sniff out the secret ingredients for collecting, displaying, and analyzing odor data with Terri Jordan and Yanis Caritu of Aryballe. It certainly smells like a good time, so join them for this scent-illating episode!
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- Yanis Caritu – LinkedIn
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- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
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- Aryballe
- Aryballe | Twitter
- Aryballe Hardware Solutions
- Aryballe Software & Data Platform
- How Machine Learning in Digital Olfaction Works
- Readying Odor Data For Reproduction Using Machine Learning
- Aryballe raises $7.9 million for odor-detecting AI sensors
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The rise of Rocky Linux (Changelog Interviews #427)
This week we’re talking with Gregory Kurtzer about Rocky Linux. Greg is the founder of the CentOS project, which recently shifted its strategy and has the Linux community scrambling. Rocky Linux aims to continue where the CentOS project left off — to provide a free and open source community-driven enterprise grade Linux operating system. We discuss the history of the CentOS project, how it fell under Red Hat’s control, the recent shift in Red Hat’s strategy with CentOS, and how Rocky Linux is designed to be 100% bug-for-bug compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Regarding the name “Rocky Linux” - The new project’s name is a tribute to CentOS co-founder Rocky McGaugh. “He is no longer with us, so as a H/T to him, who never got to see the success that CentOS came to be, I introduce to you… Rocky Linux,” said Kurtzer.
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Roadmaps to becoming a web developer in 2021 (JS Party #159)
Kamran Ahmed, creator of Developer Roadmaps, joins Jerod to talk through his 2021 roadmaps to becoming a web developer.
We cover why Kamran created these resources, who they’re for, how to interpret them, and then take a stroll down the paths to becoming a frontend and backend developer.
Which path are you on in 2021?
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- Developer Roadmap website
- Developer Roadmap on GitHub
- The Frontend Roadmap image
- The Backend Roadmap image
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CUE: Configuration superpowers for everyone (Go Time #163)
On this episode we learn how to Configure, Unify, and Execute things. What’s CUE all about? Well, it’s an open source language with a rich set of APIs and tooling for defining, generating, and validating all kinds of data: configuration, APIs, database schemas, code, … you name it.
Now that we’ve copy/pasted the project’s description… let’s dig in and learn how we can use CUE to make our Go programs better!
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- Paul Jolly – Website, GitHub, X
- Roger Peppe – GitHub, X
- Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
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Accelerating ML innovation at MLCommons (Practical AI #119)
MLCommons launched in December 2020 as an open engineering consortium that seeks to accelerate machine learning innovation and broaden access to this critical technology for the public good. David Kanter, the executive director of MLCommons, joins us to discuss the launch and the ambitions of the organization.
In particular we discuss the three pillars of the organization: Benchmarks and Metrics (e.g. MLPerf), Datasets and Models (e.g. People’s Speech), and Best Practices (e.g. MLCube).
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- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- Learn more about People’s Speech
- Get involved with the People’s Speech project
- MLCube GitHub, including several different examples
- MLCube Mailing list
- MLPerf Training Benchmarks
- MLPerf Training HPC Benchmarks
- MLPerf Inference Datacenter Benchmarks
- MLPerf Inference Edge Benchmarks
- MLPerf Inference Mobile Benchmarks
- MLCommons on Twitter
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Waldo's My Roommate? (JS Party #158)
Preact creator Jason Miller joins Jerod and Nick to discuss WMR– the tiny all-in-one development tool for modern web apps.
We ask Jason what “modern web app” means, how WMR fits in to the JS tooling landscape, why the Preact team created it in the first place, and dig into all it has to offer. Where’s My Roomba?
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- Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
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We're talkin' CI/CD (Go Time #162)
Continuous integration and continuous delivery are both terms we have heard, but what do they really mean? What does CI/CD look like when done well? What are some pitfalls we might want to avoid? In this episode Jérôme and Marko, authors of the book “CI/CD with Docker and Kubernetes” join us to share their thoughts.
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- Jérôme Petazzoni – GitHub, X
- Jon Calhoun – Website, GitHub, X
- Kris Brandow – GitHub, X
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- CI/CD with Docker and Kubernetes - A free book about CI/CD written by Jérôme & Marko
- Sysbox - A tool mentioned by Jérôme on the show
- Tilt - A tool mentioned on the show
- Semaphore - The SaaS CI company that Mark is the co-founder of.
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What the web could be (in 2021 and beyond) (Changelog Interviews #426)
Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch and JS Party panelist Amal Hussein join Jerod to discuss the state of the web platform! We opine on why it’s so important and unique, where it stands today, what modern web development looks like, and where the whole thing is headed in 2021 and beyond.
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- Guillermo on The Changelog #213
- Guillermo on JS Party #122
- Web Vitals
- Next.js
- Nuxt.js
- SvelteKit
- Temporal
- AssemblyKit
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The $1 trillion dollar ML model 💵 (Practical AI #118)
American Express is running what is perhaps the largest commercial ML model in the world; a model that automates over 8 billion decisions, ingests data from over $1T in transactions, and generates decisions in mere milliseconds or less globally. Madhurima Khandelwal, head of AMEX AI Labs, joins us for a fascinating discussion about scaling research and building robust and ethical AI-driven financial applications.
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New Year's Party 🥳 (JS Party #157)
KBall, Amal, Chris, Divya, Jerod, and Emma discuss 2020: the good, the bad, and the ugly. Then they change direction and discuss their 2021 resolutions and wishes!
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- Divya – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
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- JS Party Vue episode #1
- JS Party Vue episode #2
- Emma’s onboarding blog post
- Remote: Office Not Required book
- Rework book
- Accelerate: Building & Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations book
- It Doesn’t Have To Be Crazy At Work book
- KBall dancing at All Things Open
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Go Panic! (Go Time #161)
Mat Ryer hosts our don’t-call-it-jeopardy game show live at GopherCon! Kat Zień, Mark Bates, and L Körbes put their Go knowledge to the test! Can you outwit our intrepid contestants?
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- V Körbes – Website, GitHub, X
- Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
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State of the “log” 2020 (Changelog Interviews #425)
It’s the end of 2020 and on this year’s “State of the log” episode Adam and Jerod carry on the tradition of looking back at our favorite moments of the year – we talk through our most popular episodes, our personal favorites and must listen episodes, top posts from Changelog Posts, and what we have in the works for 2021 and beyond.
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The Changelog’s most popular episodes of 2020:
- Good tech debt featuring Jon Thornton
- The ONE thing every dev should know with Jessica Kerr
- The 10x developer myth with William Nichols
- What’s so exciting about Postgres with Craig Kerstiens
- Meet Algo, your personal VPN in the cloud featuring Dan Guido
Jerod’s personal favorites of 2020:
- Laws for hackers to live by with Dave Kerr
- Engineer to manager and back again with Lauren Tan
- Must listen: The developer’s guide to content creation with Stephanie Morillo
Adam’s personal favorites of 2020:
- Designing and building HEY with Jonas Downey
- It’s OK to make money from your open source with Zeno Rocha
- Must listen: Securing the web with Josh Aas, Shipping work that matters with Ryan Singer, Leading GitHub to a $7.5 billion acquisition with Jason Warner
Top Changelog posts of 2020:
- Monoliths are the future (Kelsey Hightower)
- Slaying Changelog’s compilation beast (Owen Bickford)
- Git is simply too hard (Mislav Marohnic)
- There’s a good reason why experienced devs say “it depends” so often (Jerod Santo)
Other links mentioned:
- Backstage #10: YouTube made me do it with Owen Bickford
- The Changelog #362: Machine powered refactoring with AST’s featuring Amal Hussein
- The Changelog #420: The Kollected Kode Vicious with George Neville-Neil
- Founders Talk #60: Leading data-driven software teams and products
featuring Travis Kimmel - Let’s set up a free, personal VPN in the cloud with Algo VPN
- 4 sources of endless content ideas 💡 by Stephanie Morillo
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Getting in the Flow with Snorkel AI (Practical AI #117)
Braden Hancock joins Chris to discuss Snorkel Flow and the Snorkel open source project. With Flow, users programmatically label, build, and augment training data to drive a radically faster, more flexible, and higher quality end-to-end AI development and deployment process.
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- Snorkel AI
- Snorkel OSS
- Snorkel Blog
- Snorkel AI | Twitter
- Snorkel AI | LinkedIn
- Snorkel Best of VLDB paper
- Snorkel Drybell collaboration with Google
Jerod recommends
- Getting Waymo into autonomous driving (Drago Anguelov)
- Building the world’s most popular data science platform (Peter Wang)
- Achieving provably beneficial, human-compatible AI (Stuart Russell)
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You can FINALLY use JSHint for evil (Changelog Interviews #424)
Today we welcome Mike Pennisi into our Maintainer Spotlight. This is a special flavor of The Changelog where we go deep into a maintainer’s story. Mike is the maintainer of JSHint which, since its creation in 2011, was encumbered by a license that made it very hard for legally-conscious teams to use the project. The license was the widely-used MIT Expat license, but it included one additional clause: “The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil.” Because of this clause, many teams could not use JSHint.
Today’s episode with Mike covers the full gamut of JSHint’s journey and how non-free licensing can poison the well of free software.
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- You May Finally Use JSHint for Evil
- 2020 Relicensing
- JSHint: Watching the Ship Sink
- JSHint: Dug In
- JSHint: Asking Nicely
- JSHint: Wrestling it Free
- Karen Sandler from the FSC on The Changelog
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A hot cup of Mocha ☕ (JS Party #156)
Amal and Divya turn our spotlight inward and interview our very own Christopher “Boneskull” Hiller about maintaining Mocha.js. Mocha has been a mainstay in the JavaScript testing community for ten (!) years now! They discuss the secret to Mocha’s success, what it’s like to maintain it, and how to make maintainers (and users) happy!
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Jerod recommends
- The Builder Pattern (for your career)
- Let’s replace your kidney with React
- What’s new and what’s Next.js
- Lesser known things browsers can do in 2020
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Go in other spoken languages (Go Time #160)
L Körbes– creator of Aprenda Go– joins our panel of gophers to discuss teaching and learning Go in non-English languages. Along the way: Mat reveals his origin story, Kris explains why all idioms are garbage, and Natalie gives conference tips.
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Engaging with governments on AI for good (Practical AI #116)
At this year’s Government & Public Sector R Conference (or R|Gov) our very own Daniel Whitenack moderated a panel on how AI practitioners can engage with governments on AI for good projects. That discussion is being republished in this episode for all our listeners to enjoy!
The panelists were Danya Murali from Arcadia Power and Emily Martinez from the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Danya and Emily gave some great perspectives on sources of government data, ethical uses of data, and privacy.
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The Government & Public Sector R Conference, or R|Gov for short, is returning in Fall of 2021 and the R Conference New York is returning in 2021 as well and you can learn more at rstats.ai, twitter.com/rstatsnyc and twitter.com/rstatsdc.
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Coding without your hands (Changelog Interviews #423)
What do you do when you make a living typing on a keyboard, but you can no longer do that for more than a few minutes at a time? Switch careers?! Not Josh Comeau. He decided to learn from others who have come before him and develop his own solution for coding without his hands. Spoiler Alert: he uses weird noises and some fancy eye tracking tech.
On this episode Josh tells us all about the fascinating system he developed, how it changed his perspective on work & life, and where he’s going from here. Plus we mix in some CSS & JS chat along the way.
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- Jerod on his RSI battle
- The Mindbody Prescription
- Talon Software
- CSS for JavaScript Developers
- Tobii Eye Tracker 5
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The Tailwind beneath my wings (JS Party #155)
Tailwind CSS creator Adam Wathan joins Jerod, Nick, & Feross for an in-depth discussion of his trending utility-first CSS framework. We cover why everyone complains about CSS, how Tailwind began and how it gained popularity, how developers use with Tailwind and integrate it into their workflows, and how Adam has managed to build a business around the project. Thanks, Bette Midler!
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What to expect when you’re NOT expecting (Go Time #159)
Mat Ryer hosts a spectacular panel with expert debuggers Derek Parker, Grant Seltzer Richman, and Hana Kim from the Go Team. Let’s face it, even the best-intended code doesn’t always do what you want it to. What’s a Gopher to do? Listen to this, that’s what!
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From research to product at Azure AI (Practical AI #115)
Bharat Sandhu, Director of Azure AI and Mixed Reality at Microsoft, joins Chris and Daniel to talk about how Microsoft is making AI accessible and productive for users, and how AI solutions can address real world challenges that customers face. He also shares Microsoft’s research-to-product process, along with the advances they have made in computer vision, image captioning, and how researchers were able to make AI that can describe images as well as people do.
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- What’s that? Microsoft’s latest breakthrough, now in Azure AI, describes images as well as people do
- From search to translation, AI research is improving Microsoft products
- Azure AI: Build mission-critical AI apps with new Cognitive Services capabilities
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How to design a great API (JS Party #154)
Suz, Amal, and Chris join Jerod to discuss what APIs are all about, share some APIs they admire, and lay out principles and practices we can all use in our APIs.
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Special thanks to Thomas Eckert for requesting this episode (and sending in that awesome audio clip reading the request)! You can request episodes too, right here on our episode request form.
- Stripe’s latest Increment Magazine is focused on the topic of APIs! 🙌🏻
- This Increment article in particular is a great commentary on how APIs need to change to support future computer software
- An ode to jQuery
- GraphQL Bacon
- Azure Cognitive Services
- Twilio
- Scratch
- SOLID
- What up, docs
- Chesterton’s Fence
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The engineer who changed the game (Go Time)
Today we’re sharing a full-length episode of Command Line Heroes from Season 6 for you to check out. We hand picked this episode for you to listen to.
Many of us grew up playing cartridge-based games. But there’s few who know the story behind how those cartridges came to be. And even fewer who know the story of the man behind them: Jerry Lawson. Before Jerry, a gaming console could only play one game. Jerry quite literally changed the game. This episode shares Jerry’s story of inventing the cartridge-based system for gaming consoles.
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We’re working with Command Line Heroes to promote Season 6. Command Line Heroes is a podcast that tells the epic true tales of developers, programmers, hackers, geeks, and open source rebels who are revolutionizing the technology landscape. It’s an awesome show and we’re huge fans of Saron and the team behind the podcast, so we wanted to share it with you.
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Play with Go (Go Time #158)
Play with Go is a set of hands-on, interactive tutorials for learning the tools used while programming in Go. In this episode we are joined by its creators, Paul Jolly and Marcos Nils, as we learn more about what motivated the creation of the project, what technology it was built on, and how you can help contribute additional guides to help your fellow gophers!
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- Carmen Andoh – GitHub, X
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- Play with Go - The live site running Play with Go
- Play with Go on Github - The open source repository and source code.
- Play with Go on Twitter
- Play with Docker - The project that Play with Go was based on.
- play-with-go/preguide - A validation tool used in Play with Go.
- CUE - Syntax language similar to JSON used in Play with Go. Built with Go.
- Using Go Modules - A blog article mentioned in the show as having issues due to repositories changing.
- Gitea - An open source, self-hosted Git service used in Play with Go.
- gio - A Go GUI library mentioned in the show.
- Jonathan Leibiusky - Helped create Play with Docker.
- SIV is Unsound - An article mentioned during the unpopular opinion segment about semantic versioning.
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Growing as a software engineer (Changelog Interviews #422)
Gergely Orosz joined Adam for a conversation about his journey as a software engineer. Gergely recently stepped down from his role as Engineering Manager at Uber to pursue his next big thing. But, that next big thing isn’t quite clear to him yet. So, in the meantime, he has been using this break to write a few books and blog more so he can share what he’s learned along the way. He’s also validating some startup ideas he has on platform engineering. His first book is available to read now — it’s called The Tech Resume Inside Out and offers a practical guide to writing a tech resume written by the people who do the resume screening. Both topics gave us quite a bit to talk about.
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- Gergely’s tweet about the pod we did with Spotify about Backstage
- Gergely’s blog
- Book #1: The Tech Resume Inside Out
- Book #2: The Software Engineer’s Guidebook
- My Unforgettable Uber Ride
- Gergely’s Indie Hackers post: 14 days, $14K in sales, 1,000 customers and what worked for me
- Things I’ve learned transitioning from engineer to engineering manager
- The Changelog #415: Spotify’s open platform for shipping at scale
with Jim Haughwout and Stefan Ålund - Spotify’s open platform for building developer portals
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The world's largest open library dataset (Practical AI #114)
Unsplash has released the world’s largest open library dataset, which includes 2M+ high-quality Unsplash photos, 5M keywords, and over 250M searches. They have big ideas about how the dataset might be used by ML/AI folks, and there have already been some interesting applications. In this episode, Luke and Tim discuss why they released this data and what it take to maintain a dataset of this size.
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The secret life of gophers (Go Time #157)
Join Mat Ryer for a fun conversation with Kris Brandow, Angelica Hill, and Natalie Pistunovich about how these Gophers get work/life done in this crazy world! Expect to learn about work environment must-haves, communication tips & tricks, developer tool recommendations, and much more!
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A casual conversation concerning causal inference (Practical AI #113)
Lucy D’Agostino McGowan, cohost of the Casual Inference Podcast and a professor at Wake Forest University, joins Daniel and Chris for a deep dive into causal inference. Referring to current events (e.g. misreporting of COVID-19 data in Georgia) as examples, they explore how we interact with, analyze, trust, and interpret data - addressing underlying assumptions, counterfactual frameworks, and unmeasured confounders (Chris’s next Halloween costume).
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- Casual Inference Podcast
- Casual Inference Podcast | Twitter
- Communicating Complex Statistics (video)
- Communicating Complex Statistics (slides)
Practical AI is a “Media Sponsor” of the R Conference | Government & Public Sector, where Lucy D’Agostino McGowan is giving the talk with Malcolm Barrett called “Causal Inference in R”, as well as a workshop with the same title.
This will be the first ever R Conference focused on data science work in government, defense, and the public sector.
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Balancing business and open source (Founders Talk #73)
Raj Dutt is the founder and CEO of Grafana Labs. Grafana has become the world’s most popular open source technology used to compose observability dashboards (we use Grafana here at Changelog). Raj and team are 100% focused on building a sustainable business around open source. They have this “big tent” open source ecosystem philosophy that’s driving every aspect of building their business around their open source, as well as other projects in the open source community. But, to understand the wisdom Raj is leading with today, we have to go back to where things got started. To do that we had to go back like Prince to 1999…
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- What $24 million means for our open source community
- Grafana Labs raises $50 million to accelerate R&D investments in open source logs, metrics and composable observability
- Grafana Cloud is a fully managed observability platform for your applications and infrastructure. Metrics, logs, and dashboards at scale.
- Grafana Enterprise includes access to enterprise plugins that take your existing data sources and allow you to drop them right into Grafana.
- Grafana Metrics Enterprise is a scalable, self-hosted Prometheus service that is seamless to use, simple to operate/maintain, and supported by Grafana Labs.
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The future of Mac (Changelog Interviews #421)
We have a BIG show for you today. We’re talking about the future of the Mac. Coming off of Apple’s “One more thing.” event to launch the Apple M1 chip and M1 powered Macs, we have a two part show giving you the perspective of Apple as well as a Mac app developer on the future of the Mac.
Part 1 features Tim Triemstra from Apple. Tim is the Product Marketing Manager for Developer Technologies. He’s been at Apple for 15 years and the team he manages is responsible for developer tools and technologies including Xcode, Swift Playgrounds, the Swift language, and UNIX tools.
Part 2 features Ken Case from The Omni Group. Ken is the Founder and CEO of The Omni Group and they’re well known for their Omni Productivity Suite including OmniFocus, OmniPlan, OmniGraffle, and OmniOutliner – all of which are developed for iOS & Mac.
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- Ken Case – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- Apple’s “One more thing” event
- Apple’s M1 chip
- macOS Big Sur
- Rene Ritchie - M1 Benchmarks & Experience — MacBook Pro, Air, Mac mini!
- The Omni Group
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Ionic and developer tooling (JS Party #153)
Nick, and Kball are joined by Mike Hartington to talk about Ionic, the state of web components, developer tooling, and more!
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- Ionic Framework
- Bootstrap
- Web Components v0
- Web Components v1
- Stencil
- Svelte
- React
- Vue
- Cordova
- PhoneGap
- capacitor
- nvim-typescript
- Lua
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When distributed systems Go wrong (Go Time #156)
Monitoring and debugging distributed systems is hard. In this episode, we catch up with Kelsey Hightower, Stevenson Jean-Pierre, and Carlisia Thompson to get their insights on how to approach these challenges and talk about the tools and practices that make complex distributed systems more observable.
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- Stevenson Jean-Pierre – GitHub, X
- Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
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Projects mentioned in this episode include Pixie and Velero.
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Building a deep learning workstation (Practical AI #112)
What’s it like to try and build your own deep learning workstation? Is it worth it in terms of money, effort, and maintenance? Then once built, what’s the best way to utilize it? Chris and Daniel dig into questions today as they talk about Daniel’s recent workstation build. He built a workstation for his NLP and Speech work with two GPUs, and it has been serving him well (minus a few things he would change if he did it again).
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Daniel’s workstation components:
- CPU - AMD YD292XA8AFWOF Ryzen Threadripper 2920X
- CPU cooler - Noctua NH-U12S TR4-SP3, Premium-Grade CPU Cooler for AMD sTRX4/TR4/SP3
- Motherboard - GIGABYTE X399 AORUS PRO
- Memory - Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x 2 packs), total 64GB
- Storage 1 - Samsung (MZ-V7S1T0B/AM) 970 EVO Plus SSD 1TB
- GPU 1 - RTX 2080 Ti
- GPU 2 - Titan RTX
- Case - Lian Li PC-O11AIR
- Power Supply - Rosewill Hercules
- Case fan(s) - Coolmaster 8mm
Daniel’s NUC 9 Extreme machine
References:
- How to build the perfect Deep Learning Computer and save thousands of dollars
- Curtis Northcut’s blog posts
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The Kollected Kode Vicious (Changelog Interviews #420)
We’re joined by George Neville-Neil, aka Kode Vicious. Writing as Kode Vicious for ACMs Queue magazine, George Neville-Neil has spent the last 15+ years sharing incisive advice and fierce insights for everyone who codes, works with code, or works with coders. These columns have been among the most popular items published in ACMs Queue magazine and it was only a matter of time for a book to emerge from his work. His book, The Kollected Kode Vicious, is a compilation of the most popular items he’s published over the years, plus a few extras you can only find in the book. We cover all the details in this episode.
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Automate the pain away with DivOps (JS Party #152)
What the what is DivOps?! That’s the question Jonathan Creamer is here to answer. In so doing, we cover the past, present, and future of frontend tooling.
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- Announcing DivOps
- Survey/discussion for divops naming?
- Bolt
- Rush
- Snowpack
- AST Explorer.net
- Github Codeowners
- Link to Ben’s show
- Kent C Dodds – avoid hasty abstractions
- David Neal
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What would you remove from Go? (Go Time #155)
When we talk about improving a programming language, we often think about what features we would add. Things like generics in Go, async/away in JS, etc. In this episode we take a different approach and talk about what we would remove from Go to make it better.
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- Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
- Jon Calhoun – Website, GitHub, X
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- Things in Go I Never Use (Mat at Gotham Go)
- Label Breaks in Go
- Go tips and tricks: almost everything about imports
- When Should I Use One Liner if…else Statements in Go?
- The container/list package
- Understanding init in Go
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Killer developer tools for machine learning (Practical AI #111)
Weights & Biases is coming up with some awesome developer tools for AI practitioners! In this episode, Lukas Biewald describes how these tools were a direct result of pain points that he uncovered while working as an AI intern at OpenAI. He also shares his vision for the future of machine learning tooling and where he would like to see people level up tool-wise.
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- Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
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Inside 2020's infrastructure for Changelog.com (Changelog Interviews #419)
We’re talking with Gerhard Lazu, our resident SRE, ops, and infrastructure expert about the evolution of Changelog’s infrastructure, what’s new in 2020, and what we’re planning for in 2021. The most notable change? We’re now running on Linode Kubernetes Engine (LKE)! We even test the resilience of this new infrastructure by purposefully taking the site down. That’s near the end, so don’t miss it!
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Read Gerhard’s post covering all the details for Changelog’s 2020 and beyond infrastructure.
- The Changelog #254: Deploying Changelog.com with Gerhard Lazu
- The new Changelog.com setup for 2019
- Inside the 2019 infrastructure for Changelog.com
- grafana.changelog.com - Compute Resources / Workload in Grafana
- Join Linode Green Light to get early access and test new Linode products before they hit the market, provide valuable feedback to influence product direction, and become part of a community of developers helping us build the cloud that works for you.
- fluxcd/flux
- Introducing Flux
- Check out Fernand Galiana and K9s
- Bitwarden
- Grafana Labs
- Keel
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Frontend Feud: HalfStack Edition (JS Party #151)
Frontend Feud returns! Emma heads up team Boooooleans 👻 and Nick captains the Whiteboard Interviews Millionaires. We played this game for our friends at HalfStack Conf and the full video of the session is on our YouTube channel too. Take the survey!
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How Go helped save HealthCare.gov (Go Time #154)
Paul Smith (from “Obama’s Trauma Team”) tells us the tale of how Go played a big role in the rescuing and rebuilding of the HealthCare.gov website. Along the way we learn what the original team did wrong, how the rescue team kept it afloat during huge traffic spikes, and what they’ve done since to rebuild it to serve the people’s needs.
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- HealthCare.gov
- Paul’s company Ad Hoc is hiring
- Obama’s Trauma Team
- Paul on MSNBC talking about the rescue
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Maintaining the massive success of Envoy (Changelog Interviews #418)
Today we welcome Matt Klein into our Maintainer Spotlight. Matt is the creator of Envoy, born inside of Lyft. It’s an edge and service proxy designed for cloud-native applications. Envoy was unexpectedly popular, and completely changed the way Lyft considers what and how to open source. While Matt has had several opportunities to turn Envoy into a commercial open source company, he didn’t. In today’s conversation with Matt we learn why he choose a completely different path for the project.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- “4 years ago Envoy became OSS”
- Optimizing impact: why I will not start an Envoy platform company
- The (broken) economics of OSS
- #envoycon2020
- CNCF graduated project
- envoyproxy.io
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An ode to jQuery (JS Party #150)
We take up a listener request this week and have an honest conversation about jQuery. Then, it’s time for something new! Our friends at Hot New Tech review tone.js for us. After that, it’s Pro Tip Time!
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jQuery convo
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Pro Tip Time
- Responsively
- Flexbox Froggy
- GitHub Refined
- GitHub CLI
- Go Time covers GitHub CLI
- Bash Guide for Beginners
- Ali Spittel’s tweet about brace expansion
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GitHub's Go-powered CLI (Go Time #153)
In this episode we discuss Mislav’s experience building not one, but two Github CLIs - hub and gh. We dive into questions like, “What lead to the decision to completely rewrite the CLI in Go?”, “How were you testing the CLI, especially during the transition?”, and “What Go libraries are you using to build your CLI?”
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- Jon Calhoun – Website, GitHub, X
- Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- The Official Github CLI repo on Github
- The Official Github CLI website
- hub, the original Github CLI - This is the project that eventually lead to the creation of the CLI linked above.
- The past and the future of hub - Mislav wrote an article talking about his experience building hub and some of the challenges.
- Kubectl CLI - Another CLI that was examined when determining how to build the Github CLI and what libraries to consider.
- Github CLI’s go.mod file - Github’s go.mod file has all of the third party libraries they use in the CLI. Useful for anyone starting with a new CLI.
- Git command line tool - The original
hubCLI wrappedgit. - More GitHub-focused podcasts on Changelog.com
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The practice of being present (Brain Science #32)
We’re joined by Elisha Goldstein, PhD - one of the world’s preeminent mindfulness teachers, a clinical psychologist, founder of the Mindful Living Collective and, creator of the six-month breakthrough program - A Course in Mindful Living. If you’ve ever used the Calm app, you might be familiar with his voice as he walks you through mindfulness practices to help calm negative emotions and anxious thoughts. He has extensive expertise in mindfulness based stress reduction (MBSR) and today he’s sharing his wealth of knowledge using mindfulness to naturally reduce anxiety and be more present and aware in our lives.
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- Mireille Reece, PsyD – LinkedIn
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- elishagoldstein.com
- The Center for Mindful Living
- The Mindful Living Collective
- 21 days to relieve anxiety naturally
- What’s the difference between mindfulness and meditation?
- Calm - Find your calm. Sleep more. Stress less. Live better.
What Is the Negativity Bias? The negative bias is our tendency not only to register negative stimuli more readily but also to dwell on these events. Also known as positive-negative asymmetry, this negativity bias means that we feel the sting of a rebuke more powerfully than we feel the joy of praise. This psychological phenomenon explains why bad first impressions can be so difficult to overcome and why past traumas can have such long lingering effects. In almost any interaction, we are more likely to notice negative things and later remember them more vividly.
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Reinforcement Learning for search (Practical AI #110)
Hamish from Sajari blows our mind with a great discussion about AI in search. In particular, he talks about Sajari’s quest for performant AI implementations and extensive use of Reinforcement Learning (RL). We’ve been wanting to make this one happen for a while, and it was well worth the wait.
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- Sajari
- Blog post: “Reinforcement Learning Assisted Search Ranking”
- Blog post: “Query Understanding 101”
- Blog post: “The Inevitable Collision of Search and AI Tech”
- Special offer from Sajari for Changelog listeners
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What's so exciting about Postgres? (Changelog Interviews #417)
PostgreSQL aficionado Craig Kerstiens joins Jerod to talk about his (and our) favorite relational database. Craig details why Postgres is unique in the world of open source databases, which features are most exciting, the many things you can make Postgres do, and what the future might hold. Oh, and some awesome psql tips & tricks!
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- Looking Back at Postgres
- Customizing My Postgres Shell
- ZomboDB
- Postgres Weekly
- Planet PostgreSQL
- pgsql-hackers mailing list
- pgsql-novice mailing list
- PostgreSQL IRC info
- Building a recommendation engine inside Postgres with Python and Pandas
- Craig’s twitter thread of building it
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Bringing it back to TypeScript (JS Party #149)
Ben Ilegbodu joins Divya, Suz, & Amal to talk about introducing TypeScript at Stitch Fix, why TypeScript and React work well together, building component libraries, and more.
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#GoVirCon (Go Time #152)
With Gophercon rapidly approaching, we go behind the scenes to find out what it takes to deliver the world’s largest Go conference.
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Podcasting platform Q&A (Backstage #15)
Marc Beinder is building a podcast hosting web application as a part of his senior project while at Lindenwood University. In this brief Backstage episode, Marc picks Jerod’s brain about how we built our platform and challenges we ran into along the way.
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When data leakage turns into a flood of trouble (Practical AI #109)
Rajiv Shah teaches Daniel and Chris about data leakage, and its major impact upon machine learning models. It’s the kind of topic that we don’t often think about, but which can ruin our results. Raj discusses how to use activation maps and image embedding to find leakage, so that leaking information in our test set does not find its way into our training set.
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Shopify’s massive storefront rewrite (Changelog Interviews #416)
Maxime Vaillancourt joined us to talk about Shopify’s massive storefront rewrite from a Ruby on Rails monolith to a completely new implementation written in Ruby. It’s a fairly well known opinion that rewrites are “the single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make” and generally something “you should never do.” But Maxime and the team at Shopify have proved successful in their efforts in this massive storefront rewrite and today’s conversation covers all the details.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- How Shopify Reduced Storefront Response Times with a Rewrite
- Shopify rewrites away from their Rails monolith
- Things You Should Never Do, Part I
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Thank you, Dr. Bahmutov! (JS Party #148)
Gleb Bahmutov, PhD joins the show for a fun conversation around end-to-end testing. We get the skinny on Cypress, find out how it’s structured as both an open source library and a SaaS business, tease apart the various types of tests you may (or may not) want to have, and share a lot of laughs along the way.
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Christopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- General Cypress docs for everyone
- Cypress component testing
- More Cypress component testing
- Cypress current and future work
- Component Driven User Interfaces
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Introducing your team to Go (Go Time #151)
Can’t find a job working in Go? Perhaps introducing your current team to Go is the solution. In this episode we talk about how Go was introduced at different organizations, potential pitfalls that may sabotage your efforts, some advice on how to convince your team and CTO to use Go and more.
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- Learn Go with Tests by Chris James
- Go By Example
- Go Jobs posted on Twitter - A Twitter account mentioned in the Gophers Slack during the episode.
- Inception (movie) - Mat jokes referring to the movie briefly.
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Productionizing AI at LinkedIn (Practical AI #108)
Suju Rajan from LinkedIn joined us to talk about how they are operationalizing state-of-the-art AI at LinkedIn. She sheds light on how AI can and is being used in recruiting, and she weaves in some great explanations of how graph-structured data, personalization, and representation learning can be applied to LinkedIn’s candidate search problem. Suju is passionate about helping people deal with machine learning technical debt, and that gives this episode a good dose of practicality.
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- Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
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- The AI behind LinkedIn’s recruiter search
- TensorFlow Extended (TFX)
- Paper: “Hidden Technical Debt in Machine Learning Systems”
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Spotify's open platform for shipping at scale (Changelog Interviews #415)
We’re joined by Jim Haughwout (Head of Infrastructure and Operations) and Stefan Ålund (Principal Product Manager) from Spotify to talk about how they manage hundreds of teams producing code and shipping at scale. Thanks to their recently open sourced open platform for building developer portals called Backstage, Spotify is able to keep engineering squads connected and shipping high-quality code quickly — without compromising autonomy.
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- Stefan Ålund – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- spotify/backstage
- What the Heck is Backstage Anyway?
- Backstage has been accepted into the CNCF Sandbox
- Backstage on CNCF landscape
- MkDocs - Project documentation with Markdown
- Gary Niemen on how Spotify is solving internal technical documentation
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Frontend Feud (JS Party #147)
Our much anticipated Family Feud rip-off inspired game show is finally here! Emma was joined by Nick and special guest Abenezer Abebe to form the Hypertext Assassins. KBall captained (despite never seeing Family Feud before) the DSL Destroyers with Mikeal and special guest Ali Spittel.
Holler if you want MOAR Feud and check the outro for a chance to win some JS Party swag.
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- Abenezer Abebe – X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Emma Bostian – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, X
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Cloud Native Go (Go Time #150)
What is cloud native? In this episode Johnny and Aaron explain it to Mat and Jon. They then dive into questions like, “What problems does this solve?” and “Why was Go such a good fit for this space?”
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- Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
- Jon Calhoun – Website, GitHub, X
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The team that fashioned Apollo 11 (Changelog Interviews)
We’re helping Atlassian to promote Season 2 of Teamistry. If this is the first time you’re hearing about this podcast, Teamistry is an original podcast from Atlassian that tells the stories of teams who work together in new and unexpected ways, to achieve remarkable things. Today, we’re sharing a full-length episode from Season 1 which tells the story of the team that fashioned the Apollo 11 spacesuits.
When Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon for the first time, we don’t actually see his face. We see his moonsuit. That moonsuit — in effect — is Neil Armstrong; an inseparable part of this historic moment. While the spacesuit kept him alive to tell that story in his own words, what went unnoticed is the extraordinary team that stitched it together.
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Teamistry is the chemistry of unsung teams that achieve the impossible Season two begins September 21st. New episodes every other Monday. Teamistry is hosted by award-winning documentary and feature film director Gabriela Cowperthwaite.
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In the final episode of Season 1 of Teamistry, host Gabriela Cowperthwaite shines a light on the team of seamstresses and engineers whose meticulous craftwork, creativity, and dedication helped us realize the dream of putting a man on the moon. In this episode, Joanne Thompson and Jean Wilson — two of last surviving seamstresses who worked on the Apollo 11 moonsuits — talk about the intricate seams, needlework, and personal sacrifices that went into outfitting Neil Armstrong. We hear from Homer Reihm, one of the engineers who worked with the seamstresses, and Bill Ayrey, former historian at ILC Dover and Nicholas de Monchaux, author of ‘Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo’, who take us through the pivotal moments of this monumental task. Also, Janet Ferl, the current design engineering manager at ILC Dover, tells us how the legacy of dedication and teamwork on the Apollo 11 moonsuit continues to inspire the company today.
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Experimenting with Elixir Radar (Backstage #14)
We’re joined by co-founder of Plataformatec and curator of the excellent Elixir Radar newsletter, Hugo Baraúna. We talk Elixir podcasts, the start of a new chapter for Hugo, his experimentations with Elixir Radar, curating content, how to make money, stuff like that.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Elixir Radar
- Elixir Talk on The Changelog
- José Valim on The Changelog
- Caleb Porzio on Maintainer Spotlight
- Livewire
- It’s OK to make money from your open source
- The Truth Is Paywalled But The Lies Are Free
- Benedict Evans’ newsletter
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R, Data Science, & Computational Biology (Practical AI #107)
We’re partnering with the upcoming R Conference, because the R Conference is well… amazing! Tons of great AI content, and they were nice enough to connect us to Daniel Chen for this episode. He discusses data science in Computational Biology and his perspective on data science project organization.
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- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
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R Conference:
- Website
- Twitter: @rstatsdc
- Tickets
- Discount code PRACTICALAI20 is good for 20% off every ticket type, including the conference & all workshops
Links relevant to the show:
- William Stafford Noble 2009 - A Quick Guide to Organizing Computational Biology Projects
- Greg Wilson, et al. 2014: “Best Practices for Scientific Computing”
- Greg Wilson, et al. 2017: “Good enough practices in scientific computing”
- Jenny Bryan’s code smells: link 1 and link2
- Jenny Bryan on naming things
- JD Long’s talk at rstudio::conf this year about being empathetic
- python’s version of pyprojroot
- “Be kind: all else is details”. – Greg Wilson, Teaching Teach Together – The Rules
Books
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Redux is definitely NOT dead (JS Party #146)
Redux maintainer Mark Erikson joins Jerod and Amal for an in-depth conversation around the React community’s fav state management solution. We learn how Mark came to be maintainer of Redux, why and how Redux Toolkit came about, when to go with Redux vs other options, and much more.
ALSO: prop drilling, the grep factor, & lasagna mode (oh my)
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
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- Redux Toolkit
- Reactiflux
- How to be helpful online
- Immer
- The Tao of Redux, Part 1
- The Tao of Redux, Part 2
- Redux Essentials
- A (Mostly) Complete Guide to React Rendering
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It's OK to self-care (Brain Science #31)
Most of us have heard how important “self-care” is and how important it can be for healthy living. But what exactly IS self-care? In this episode, not only do we define what self-care is, but we talk through the physical, emotional, and spiritual aspects of what’s involved in self-care and why this can so often be misunderstood and challenging. While we might be familiar with this term, many may not consider how they can be deliberate around managing themselves by both reflecting on and engaging in activities that help support their brains and bodies. It isn’t enough to simply know that self-care is important, rather discovering practical actions you can take to improve both how you feel and how you engage with the world.
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- Brain Science #27: What does it mean to be Indistractible?
- What is self care?
- 12 Ways to Take Better Care of Yourself
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There's a lot to learn about teaching Go (Go Time #149)
In this episode we dive into teaching Go, asking questions like, “What techniques work well for teaching programming?”, “What role does community play in education?”, and “What are the best ways to improve at Go as a beginner/intermediate/senior dev?”
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- Jon Calhoun – Website, GitHub, X
- Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
- Mark Bates – Website, GitHub, X
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Gitter’s big adventure (Changelog Interviews #414)
Gitter is exiting GitLab and entering the Matrix…ok, we couldn’t help ourselves with that one. Today we’re joined by Sid Sibrandij (CEO of GitLab) and Matthew Hodgson (technical co-founder of Matrix) to discuss the acquisition of Gitter. A little backstory to tee things up…back in 2017 GitLab announced the acquisition of Gitter to help push their idea of chatops within GitLab. As it turns out, the GitLab team saw a different path for Gitter as a core part of Matrix rather than a non-core project at GitLab. We talk through all the details in this episode with Matthew and Sid.
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- Welcoming Gitter to Matrix!
- Gitter - Where developers come to talk
- Element - All-in-one secure chat app for teams, friends and organisations
- Matrix - An open network for secure, decentralized communication
- Gitter is joining the GitLab team (March 15, 2017)
- The Changelog #384: Enter the Matrix
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I'm just so stressed (Brain Science #30)
Stress is something that we will inevitably encounter throughout our lives. It isn’t all bad or maladaptive, but how we manage it can make a significant difference in our lives. The degree of stress we feel impacts how we show up in the world including both how we relate and how we do the work before us each day.
In this episode, Mireille and Adam discuss the impact of stress on our systems including the role of different stress hormones on our immune system, cardiovascular system and our metabolism. Like many other conversations on previous episodes, we provide research relative to the value of relationships as having close connections helps us all combat the stress that loneliness can cause as well. When we utilize resources to support us as well as set limits on what we expose ourselves to and focus our attention to, we have the opportunity to better navigate the stresses of our lives.
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- Stressed or stressed out: What is the difference?
- ‘Allostatic Load’ Is the Psychological Reason for Our Pandemic Brain Fog
- Loneliness and Social Isolation as Risk Factors for Mortality: A Meta-Analytic Review
- The Happiness Lab #10: Good Screens and Bad Screens
- Covid-19 Tips for remote work
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Double your testing trouble (JS Party #145)
Justin Searls from Test Double joins the party to talk about patterns he’s identified that lead to failure, minimalism, and of course, testing!
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Help us play Frontend Feud (and enter to win a free t-shirt) by taking the survey!
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How open source saved htop (Changelog Interviews #413)
Today we welcome Hisham Muhammad into our Maintainer Spotlight. Hisham is the creator of htop - a well known cross-platform interactive process viewer. This conversation with Hisham covers the gamut of being an open source software maintainer. To set the stage, a new version of htop was announced, but not by Hisham – it was a kind takeover of the project and needless to say Hisham was surprised, but ultimately relieved. Why? Well, that’s what this episode it all about…
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- Hisham Muhammad – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Issue #992 - Is this project maintained?
- What’s new in htop version 3.0.2
- htop.dev
- LuaRocks - The package manager for Lua modules
The HTTP 413 Payload Too Large response status code indicates that the request entity is larger than limits defined by server; the server might close the connection or return a Retry-After header field.
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The one with Brad Fitzpatrick (Go Time #148)
Brad Fitzpatrick returns to the show (last heard on episode 44) to field a mixed bag of questions from Johnny, Mat, and the live listeners. How’d he get in to programming? What languages did he use before Go? What’s he up to now that he’s not working on the Go language? And of course… does he have any unpopular opinions he’d like to share? 😏
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- Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
- Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
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Changelog++ launch thoughts (Backstage #13)
Adam and Jerod take a moment to review the soft launch of Changelog++ and feedback received from members and the community. We talk through some of the feedback we’ve received, how some folks still want the ads, updated thoughts on extended and bonus content, hiccups and lessons learned, the “Working in Public” winners, and where we go from here.
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Learning about (Deep) Learning (Practical AI #106)
In anticipation of the upcoming NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference (GTC), Will Ramey joins Daniel and Chris to talk about education for artificial intelligence practitioners, and specifically the role that the NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute plays in the industry. Will’s insights from long experience are shaping how we all stay on top of AI, so don’t miss this ‘must learn’ episode.
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- Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference, October 5-9, 2020
- 20% off for our listeners! Use code CMINFDW20 by 9/25 for additional 20% off
- NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute
- NVIDIA to Acquire Arm for $40 Billion
- NVIDIA Ampere Architecture
- GeForce RTX 30 Series Graphics Cards
- Practical AI Episode #15: Artificial intelligence at NVIDIA with Chief Scientist Bill Dally
- Practical AI Episode #36: Growing up to become a world-class AI expert
with Anima Anandkumar of NVIDIA and CalTech - Practical AI Episode #90: Fully-Connected with Chris and Daniel - Exploring NVIDIA’s Ampere & the A100 GPU
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The Builder Pattern (for your career) (JS Party #144)
The panelists discuss their thoughts on career progression while sharing some of their own history. They also talk about important considerations to think about when deciding where to go next, and share useful resources.
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- Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
- Divya – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
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- Navigating Software Engineering Career Paths
- How to Create Career Paths at a Small Startup
- Career Ladders
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Community Q&A (Go Time #147)
A community Q&A special. You asked the questions, and we discussed them live on air. A few example questions include “When is it okay to use init?”, “When should we use constructors?”, and “How should Go code be structured?”
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- Roberto Clapis – GitHub, X
- Peter Bourgon – GitHub, X
- Jon Calhoun – Website, GitHub, X
- Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
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Clarity and expectation (Brain Science #29)
When you lack clarity or have uncertainty for a direction or goal, it’s going to be difficult to succeed in your actions. Today Mireille and Adam discuss the topic of clear communication and expectation, two of the most important ingredients of success. How do we create better clarity? Like so many things — clarity begins with awareness, and awareness of yourself. You have to know what you want and what you value in life. We must assume 100% responsibility for creating our own clarity in our lives. After all, “if you don’t have clarity, you are operating from assumption.”
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- Why developing clarity is the #1 habit of highly effective leaders
- 11 Ways to Gain Clarity
- Books by Brendon Burchard
- Always Challenge Your Never - because there is joy and freedom in knowing your true potential
- 10 Strategies for Absolute Clarity
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When AI goes wrong (Practical AI #105)
So, you trained a great AI model and deployed it in your app? It’s smooth sailing from there right? Well, not in most people’s experience. Sometimes things goes wrong, and you need to know how to respond to a real life AI incident. In this episode, Andrew and Patrick from BNH.ai join us to discuss an AI incident response plan along with some general discussion of debugging models, discrimination, privacy, and security.
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- Patrick Hall – GitHub, X
- Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- AI Incident Response Checklist and other BNH.ai resources
- “New Law Firm Tackles AI Liability” (article about BNH.ai)
- In the realm of paper tigers – exploring the failings of AI ethics guidelines
- Debugging Machine Learning Models workshop
- Why you should care about debugging machine learning models
- Strategies for model debugging
- FTC: Using Artificial Intelligence and Algorithms
- SR 11-7: Guidance on Model Risk Management
- Apple Goldman case
- California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)
- Previous episode: Data management, regulation, the future of AI
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Estimating systems with napkin math (Changelog Interviews #412)
We’re joined by Simon Eskildsen, Principal Engineer at Shopify, talking about how he uses a concept called napkin math where you use first-principle thinking to estimate systems without writing any code. By the end of the show we were estimating pretty much everything using napkin math.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Napkin Math on GitHub (PRs welcome)
- Napkin Math newsletter
- zk - Zettelkasten on the command-line
- How to Make Yourself Into a Learning Machine
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Let's replace your kidney with React (JS Party #143)
Ahmad Nassri returns to the party for a deep, nuanced discussion around the thoughts he shared in a recent blog post called Solving Solved Problems. We hear about the common issue Ahmad’s seen at software shops of all sizes, learn the anatomy of the total cost of software ownership, and debate what to build and what to buy.
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- Solving Solved Problems
- JS Party #107 - Modular software architecture
- The Changelog #185 – Kong, APIs, Microservices
- Indigo Ag
- The Changelog #362 – Machine powered refactoring with AST’s
- Kyle Simpson @getify - Tyranny of complexity
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Hits of the Summer (Go Time #146)
This episode is different than what you’re used to. We’ve been clipping highlights of the show for awhile now to share on Twitter and YouTube. A side effect of that effort is a bunch of awesome clips just sitting on Jerod’s hard drive collecting digital dust. So, here’s a beta test of a “best of” style clips show covering the summer months. Let us know if you like it!
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- Ben Johnson – Website, GitHub, X
- Kris Brandow – GitHub, X
- Aaron Schlesinger – Website, GitHub, X
- David Hernandez – GitHub, X
- Johan Brandhorst – Website, GitHub, X
- Boyan Soubachov – GitHub, LinkedIn
- Ian Lance Taylor – Website, GitHub, X
- Robert Griesemer – GitHub, X
- Daniel Martí – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Shubheksha Jalan – Website, GitHub, X
- Francesc Campoy – Website, GitHub, X
- Isobel Redelmeier – X
- Jon Calhoun – Website, GitHub, X
- Jaana Dogan – Website, GitHub, X
- Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Carmen Andoh – GitHub, X
- Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
- Mark Bates – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- #132 – The trouble with databases
- #135 – We have regrets
- #136 – Go in production at Pace.dev
- #137 – Focusing in on PostgreSQL
- #138 – Your first week with Go
- #139 – The future of Testify
- #140 – The latest on Generics
- #141 – {“encoding”:“json”}
- #142 – All about that infra(structure)
- #143 – context.Context
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Dealing with conflict (Brain Science #28)
Conflict is a part of everyday life. If you are connected to other humans, conflict will eventually occur. But what exactly is conflict? Where does it begin? How can it be resolved? In this episode, Mireille and Adam dive deep into those details to examine the framework of conflict end-to-end, to hopefully equip us with the tactics and skills we need to better navigate and resolve the conflict we encounter in our lives.
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- Intrapersonal Conflict Vs Interpersonal Conflict
- Understanding Conflict - Meaning and Phases of Conflict
- The Neurobiology of ‘We’, How Relationships, the Mind, and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are - by Daniel J. Siegel
- 14 Conflict Resolution Skills to Use with Your Team and Your Customers
- What is Conflict Resolution, and How Does It Work?
- What’s Your Conflict Management Style?
- Conflict Resolution: Definition, Process, Skills, Examples
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Speech tech and Common Voice at Mozilla (Practical AI #104)
Many people are excited about creating usable speech technology. However, most of the audio data used by large companies isn’t available to the majority of people, and that data is often biased in terms of language, accent, and gender. Jenny, Josh, and Remy from Mozilla join us to discuss how Mozilla is building an open-source voice database that anyone can use to make innovative apps for devices and the web (Common Voice). They also discuss efforts through Mozilla fellowship program to develop speech tech for African languages and understand bias in data sets.
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- Jenny Zhang – Website, X
- Remy Muhire – GitHub, X
- Josh Meyer – GitHub, X
- Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- Mozilla Common Voice
- Announcement of Josh and Remy’s fellowship work on speech tech for African languages
- Artie Bias Corpus
- Readings on Demographic Bias in ASR:
- Common Voice LREC Paper
- Common Voice + DeepSpeech collaborators for Low-resource languages:
- “under-sampled majority” is a quote from Joy Boulamwini (see this article)
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Inside GitHub's Arctic Code Vault (Changelog Interviews #411)
Earlier this year on February 2nd, 2020 Jon Evans and his team of archivists took a snapshot of all active public repositories on GitHub and sent it to a decommissioned coal mine in the Svalbard archipelago where it will be stored for the next 1,000 years.
On this episode, Jon chats with Jerod all about the GitHub Archive Program and how they’re preserving open source software for future generations.
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- The GitHub Archive program
- The journey of the world’s open source code to the Arctic
- GitHub Arctic Code Vault: Tech Tree
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Horse JS speaks! (JS Party #142)
We kick off with some exciting TypeScript news, follow that with some exciting JavaScript news, then finish off with an exciting interview. Key word: EXCITING
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- Horse JS – X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Divya – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Show Notes:
- TypeScript 4.0 released
- AST Explorer
- meta-typing
- Airbnb’s ts-migrate
- Codemods: Refactoring JavaScript using JavaScript
- The Js13k Competition
- Elder.js
- Cheat sheet! Formatting JS Numbers
- Cheat sheet! Formatting JS Dates and Times
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Füźžįñg (Go Time #145)
A deep dive on Fuzzing and a close look at the official Fuzzing proposal for Go.
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- Katie Hockman – GitHub, X
- Roberto Clapis – GitHub, X
- Filippo Valsorda – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
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Getting Waymo into autonomous driving (Practical AI #103)
Waymo’s mission is to make it safe and easy for people and things to get where they’re going.
After describing the state of the industry, Drago Anguelov - Principal Scientist and Head of Research at Waymo - takes us on a deep dive into the world of AI-powered autonomous driving. Starting with Waymo’s approach to autonomous driving, Drago then delights Daniel and Chris with a tour of the algorithmic tools in the autonomy toolbox.
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- Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- Dragomir Anguelov - Google Scholar
- Drago Anguelov – Machine Learning for Autonomous Driving at Scale
- Waymo
- Waymo - Twitter
- Waymo - LinkedIn
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Content is QUEEN 👑 (JS Party #141)
In this episode, we dive into the role of communication as a developer, how clarity is driving impact and how to self publish as an independent writer. Join us, as we chat with Stephanie Morillo author of The Developers Guide to Content Creation about how to write better as developer and how writing can take you from good developer to great.
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Building desktop apps with Go + web tech (Go Time #144)
Building desktop applications is tricky. Every OS has its own set of tools, and you often need to learn a new language for each. In this episode we talk with Wails creator Lea Anthony about how the build tool enables developers to create desktop apps using Go and their normal JS frontend (React, Vue, Anguluar, or whatever you want).
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- Wails Homepage
- Webview Project
- Tutorial of Wails by Alex Pliutau
- Wally Keyboard
- Travis McLane - Contributor mentioned on the show
- goreleaser - Tool mentioned on the show
- go:draft proposal to add embed
- Flag of Wales
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Bringing beauty to the world of code sharing (Changelog Interviews #410)
Carbon is an open source web app that helps you create and share beautiful images of your source code. Whether you’ve used Carbon personally or not, odds are you’ve seen its dent on the universe of social code sharing. Mike Fix has been maintaining Carbon for a few years and he’s embraced the project as an opportunity to experiment and practice working in public.
On this Maintainer Spotlight episode, we chat with Mike about building Carbon, growing its community, sustainability models, and why he loves the world of open source.
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- Mike Fix – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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Hidden Door and so much more (Practical AI #102)
Hilary Mason is building a new way for kids and families to create stories with AI. It’s called Hidden Door, and in her first interview since founding it, Hilary reveals to Chris and Daniel what the experience will be like for kids. It’s the first Practical AI episode in which some of the questions came from Chris’s 8yo daughter Athena.
Hilary also shares her insights into various topics, like how to build data science communities during the COVID-19 Pandemic, reasons why data science goes wrong, and how to build great data-based products. Don’t miss this episode packed with hard-won wisdom!
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- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
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What's happening in TC39 land (JS Party #140)
KBall MCs as Jordan tells us about exciting JavaScript updates that are on the way, Amal takes us all to school digging into the details, and Emma makes a surprise on-air proposal.
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- Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
- Emma Bostian – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
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Segment 1
Segment 2
- Object.values and Object.entries
- Error.isError proposal
- JavaScript Realms
- globalThis proposal
- Sindre Sorhus
- Berenstain vs Berenstein controversy
- globalThis naming constraints doc
- #SmooshGate FAQ
Segment 3
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Celebrating Practical AI turning 100!! 🎉 (Changelog Interviews #409)
We’re so excited to see Chris and Daniel take this show to 100 episodes, and that’s exactly why we’re rebroadcasting Practical AI #100 here on The Changelog. They’ve had so many great guests and discussions about everything from AGI to GPUs to AI for good. In this episode, we circle back to the beginning when Jerod and I joined the first episode to help kick off the podcast. We discuss how our perspectives have changed over time, what it has been like to host an AI podcast, and what the future of AI might look like. (GIVEAWAY!)
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Show Notes:
Enter to win some amazing AI hardware bundles!
Episodes mentioned on the show:
- MLOps and tracking experiments with Allegro AI
- Explaining AI explainability (Darwin AI)
- Practical AI Ethics
- Model inspection and interpretation at Seldon
- Attack of the C̶l̶o̶n̶e̶s̶ Text!
- 🤗 All things transformers with Hugging Face
- Achieving provably beneficial, human-compatible AI
- AI for Good: clean water access in Africa
- Exploring the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset
- Artificial intelligence at NVIDIA
- Growing up to become a world-class AI expert
- Helping African farmers with TensorFlow
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context.Context (Go Time #143)
Francesc Campoy and Isobel Redelmeier joins the panel to discuss Go’s context package including real-world insights into its use and misuse.
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- Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Jaana Dogan – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- Just For Func: #9 - The Context Package - Francesc’s YouTube channel & his episode on the context package
- context.WithValue example of avoiding key collision
- Context Keys in Go - Mat Ryer’s article expanding on this
- Context is for Cancelation - Dave Cheney’s argument that context is for cancellation
- Context isn’t for Cancelation - Dave Cheney’s argument that context isn’t for cancellation
- Make Ctrl+C cancel the context.Context - Mat Ryer’s technique for triggering a graceful cascade of shutdown across your program
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What does it mean to be Indistractible? (Brain Science #27)
Distractions will always exist – managing them is our responsibility. We often talk about the need for new information in order to change the old patterns of our brain. One of the best ways we can do this is through reading good books. In this episode, Mireille and Adam discuss the highlights of Nir Eyal’s book, Indistractible – how to control your attention and choose your life. In his book, Nir highlights this clear connection between people’s distraction and its relationship to psychological discomfort, otherwise known as pain. He says, “all behaviors, whether they tend toward traction or distraction are prompted by triggers, internal or external. When we learn how to recognize these “triggers,” there is opportunity for change. And changing in the direction that you desire, as based on what you value, is key to having the life you want to live.
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- Nir Eyal’s website
- Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life
- How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life — Nir Eyal @ RSA Events
- Check out The Boring Conference
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Building the world's most popular data science platform (Practical AI #101)
Everyone working in data science and AI knows about Anaconda and has probably “conda” installed something. But how did Anaconda get started and what are they working on now? Peter Wang, CEO of Anaconda and creator of PyData and popular packages like Bokeh and DataShader, joins us to discuss that and much more. Peter gives some great insights on the Python AI ecosystem and very practical advice for scaling up your data science operation.
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Best practices for Node developers (JS Party #139)
Node.js development began a bit like the Wild West, but over time idioms, anti-patterns, and best practices have emerged. Yoni Goldberg’s Node Best Practices repo on GitHub collects, documents, and explains the best practices for Node developers. On this episode, Yoni joins us to discuss.
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- Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
- Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
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- Node Best Practices on GitHub
- Amal’s npm unpublish blog post
- The tweet about dependabot joke
- Dominic Tarr on The Changelog
- We discuss event-stream on JS Party #54
- npm blog post on event-stream
- We discuss dependency selection on JS Party #56
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All about that infra(structure) (Go Time #142)
Infra, Devops, Systems Engineer, SRE, and the list goes on and on. What do these terms mean? Why does every job listing for the same role seem to entail different responsibiliities? Why is it important for developers to be familiar with the infrastructure their code is running on? Tune in to gain some insights into all of this and more!
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- Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Jaana Dogan – Website, GitHub, X
- Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- Enter to win Practical AI hardware!
- Junior Engineers Are Features, Not Bugs - A talk from SRE CON discussing the benefits of hiring junior engineers for infra roles.
- The baseds series - A series of articles related to distributed systems.
- hi@shubheksha.com - Get in touch with our guest, Shubheksha
- Oxford study on job discrimination
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Working in Public (Changelog Interviews #408)
Nadia Eghbal is back and this time she’s talking with us about her new book Working in Public. If you’re an old school listener you might remember the podcast we produced with Nadia and Mikeal Rogers called Request for Commits. If you weren’t listening then, or can’t remember…don’t worry…the back catalog of Request for Commits is still online and subscribe-able via all the podcast ways. That podcast is still getting listens to this very day!
Obviously we go way back with Nadia…and having a chance to now talk with her through all the details of her new book Working in Public, this was a milestone for this show and Jerod and I. We talked through the reasons she wrote the book in the first place, Nadia’s thoughts on the future of the internet and the connection of creators to the platforms they build their followings on, and we also talk about the health of projects and communities and the challenges we face internet-at-large as well as right here in our backyard in the open source community.
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- Join Changelog++ to directly support us, make the ads disappear, AND for a chance to win a signed copy of Nadia’s book
- The Changelog #193: Funding open source with Nadia Eghbal
- Sindre Sorhus
- Nadia’s post on Substack about Working in Public
- Buy Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software on Amazon
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Practical AI turns 100!!! 🎉 (Practical AI #100)
We made it to 100 episodes of Practical AI! It has been a privilege to have had so many great guests and discussions about everything from AGI to GPUs to AI for good. In this episode, we circle back to the beginning when Jerod and Adam from The Changelog helped us kick off the podcast. We discuss how our perspectives have changed over time, what it has been like to host an AI podcast, and what the future of AI might look like. (GIVEAWAY!)
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
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Episodes mentioned on the show:
- MLOps and tracking experiments with Allegro AI
- Explaining AI explainability (Darwin AI)
- Practical AI Ethics
- Model inspection and interpretation at Seldon
- Attack of the C̶l̶o̶n̶e̶s̶ Text!
- 🤗 All things transformers with Hugging Face
- Achieving provably beneficial, human-compatible AI
- AI for Good: clean water access in Africa
- Exploring the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset
- Artificial intelligence at NVIDIA
- Growing up to become a world-class AI expert
- Helping African farmers with TensorFlow
Books
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Designing and building HEY (Changelog Interviews #407)
We’re talking about designing and building HEY with Jonas Downey, the lead designer behind HEY. In their words, “Email sucked for years, but not anymore.” We were super interested in how they went about solving the problems with email, so we invited Jonas on to share all the details and a behind-the-scenes look at the making of HEY.
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- HEY.com - Email at its best, new from Basecamp
- The Changelog #399: Shipping work that matters - revisiting Shape Up & product development with Ryan Singer
- The Changelog #357: Shaping, betting, and building - featuring Ryan Singer on how Basecamp does product development
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Amal joins the party 🎉 (JS Party #138)
The gang officially welcomes Amal Hussein as a panelist! After that it’s Pro Tip Time, then we finish up by attempting to demistify CSS Sweeper and the Space Toggle Trick.
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Divya – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
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Welcoming Amal
Pro Tip Time
- Presentify
- Vidrio
- Snap camera
- Boss turns herself into a potato
- Godot Engine
- Aseprite for pixel art
- Jenn Schiffer’s pixel art
- Console.trace
- Copy object in console
- Copy network responses
- More on the overall Dev Console Utilities API’s
- https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle (and Spectacle)
- Gifox
Demystifying CSS Sweeper
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{"encoding":"json"} (Go Time #141)
JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is used all over the web as a text-based way of transmitting data. In this episode, we explore Go’s encoding/json package, and others with Daniel Marti.
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- Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
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- Building a high performance JSON parser - paper by Dave Cheney about writing a JSON parser.
- encoding/json - json package in the standard library
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It all begins with empathy (Brain Science #26)
Have you heard the phrase, “Put yourself in their shoes?” In this episode, the conversation focuses on the “HOW” and why it all begins with empathy. Empathy is the key that enables access to another person’s perspective and emotional state. It is also a fundamental aspect of building and sustaining relationships with others. The fascinating thing is that there are 3 types of empathy: cognitive, social, and empathic concern. Plus there’s a counterpart component called compassion that moves us to take action.
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- Brené Brown on Empathy vs. Sympathy
- Three Kinds of Empathy: Cognitive, Emotional, Compassionate by Daniel Goleman
- A Look in the Mirror Neuron: Empathy and Addiction
- Brain Science #6: Respect, empathy, and compassion ~ living and being beside others
- How to build a generative engineering culture
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Why we're launching Changelog++ (Backstage #12)
We first launched a membership back in 2013… before they were cool! 😆 Now we’re back with a brand new edition. It’s called Changelog++ and we hope you love it. This episode of Backstage is a tell-all about the program. Why we think the timing is right, what we hope it can become, how we’re experimenting with ideas to make it great, and what you can do to get involved.
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- Sign up for Changelog++ (if you’re into it)
- Our Plausible Analytics episode that Jerod referenced
- Learn more about Supercast
- Adam’s interview with Andrew Wilkinson of MetaLab
- Andrew’s VC fund: Tiny
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Attack of the C̶l̶o̶n̶e̶s̶ Text! (Practical AI #99)
Come hang with the bad boys of natural language processing (NLP)! Jack Morris joins Daniel and Chris to talk about TextAttack, a Python framework for adversarial attacks, data augmentation, and model training in NLP. TextAttack will improve your understanding of your NLP models, so come prepared to rumble with your own adversarial attacks!
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Slow and steady wins (Founders Talk #72)
Jeff Sheldon is the founder and creator of Ugmonk. Jeff is a designer by trade, and an entrepreneur by accident. I been following Jeff’s journey for the better part of Ugmonk’s existence. I’m also a customer. Jeff and I hold several similar values near and dear to our hearts. In addition to my appreciation for Jeff’s product design abilities, and how he leads his business, I also appreciate Jeff’s awareness and focus on the long hard path.
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- ugmonk.com
- Analog on Kickstarter ~> Analog: The simplest productivity system
- Gather on Kickstarter ~> Gather: The minimal, modular organizer that cuts clutter
- “Slow and steady wins”
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Making Windows Terminal awesome (Changelog Interviews #406)
Kayla Cinnamon, Program Manager at Microsoft for Windows Terminal, Console, Command Line, and Cascadia Code joined us to talk about the release of Windows Terminal 1.0 and the new Windows command-line experience. We talk about everything that went into rethinking the command line experience on Windows, the UX and UI design behind it all, the learnings of working in open source, and what’s to come for the Windows command line experience.
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- microsoft/terminal
- Windows Terminal 1.0
- Windows Terminal Preview 1.1 Release
- microsoft/cascadia-code
- Launch video: The new Windows Terminal
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Migrating to ES Modules (JS Party #137)
Mikeal and Chris welcome (back) special guest Fred K. Schott, who you may recall from our episode on Pika. This time, we’re talking ESM: what it is, what’s new about it, why it’s the future, writing libraries with it, and much more.
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- Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, X
- Christopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
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The latest on Generics (Go Time #140)
Robert and Ian join us to talk about the latest updates on generics in Go. What type of feedback are they looking for as developers get their hands on tools designed to experiment with generics and Go? What was the deal with the featherweight Go paper that also discussed generics? Why can’t we use angle brackets for generics?
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- Ian Lance Taylor – Website, GitHub, X
- Carmen Andoh – GitHub, X
- Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
- Jon Calhoun – Website, GitHub, X
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- Generics Draft Design
- Featherweight Go Paper
- Featherweight Go Discussion on Youtube
- Issue where generics are proposed on Github
- Proposing Changes to Go (instructions)
- Robert’s message to golang-nuts on syntax - this is where an example of why angle brackets are problematic is provided.
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🤗 All things transformers with Hugging Face (Practical AI #98)
Sash Rush, of Cornell Tech and Hugging Face, catches us up on all the things happening with Hugging Face and transformers. Last time we had Clem from Hugging Face on the show (episode 35), their transformers library wasn’t even a thing yet. Oh how things have changed! This time Sasha tells us all about Hugging Face’s open source NLP work, gives us an intro to the key components of transformers, and shares his perspective on the future of AI research conferences.
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- Hugging Face
- Transformers library
- Tokenizers library
- NLP (data and evaluation metrics) library
- Previous Practical AI episode with Hugging Face
- TechCrunch announcement about Hugging Face’s recent fundraising
- The annotated transformer
- 2000+ models in Hugging Face’s model hub
- Attention is all you need paper
- Mini Conf tools
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Deep in the WebRTC deep end (JS Party #136)
Jerod assembles a team of WebRTC experts (Suz, Feross, Mikeal) for a deep, deep dive on this practically-ubiquitous yet still-complicated web API.
We review its history, share really cool applications using the tech, provide an excellent primer on what you need to know about it, and details some production gotchas. ALSO we celebrate how Feross single-handedly “upgraded the internet”! 🙌
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- Can I use?
- 3D Streaming Toolkit
- PeerTube
- WebRTC on HTML 5 Rocks
- WebRTC samples
- Quick introduction to WebRTC
- Simple Peer
- libp2p
- torrent-mount
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The future of Testify (Go Time #139)
The panel discuss testing frameworks in Go. After a brief overview of the concepts involved, we discuss how testing frameworks can make our lives easier, and why some people still choose to avoid them. Mat Ryer and Mark Bates chat with Boyan Soubachov about the future of the Testify project.
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It’s OK to make money from your open source (Changelog Interviews #405)
Adam loves a good dark theme and supporting a fellow creator, and Hedy Li finished the episode we did with Nikita Prokopov covering FiraCode and reached out saying Zeno Rocha’s work on Dracula deserved the same credit. We agreed. So we linked up with Zeno about his passion for open source, how he’s changed his mind on making money with open source, his big release of Dracula Pro and the future of Dracula, and of course his new book – 14 Habits of Highly Productive Developers. Check for a link in the show notes for details on how to get your hands on Zeno’s book for free through our giveaway.
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- The open source Dracula Theme
- Dracula PRO - a color scheme and UI theme tailored for programming. Made for terminal emulators, code editors, and syntax highlighters. Designed to be aesthetically pleasing while keeping you focused.
- Book: 14 Habits of Highly Productive Developers
- Kindle Direct Publishing
- The Changelog #398: The ONE thing every dev should know and other words of wisdom from Jessica Kerr
- The Changelog #399: Shipping work that matters ~ revisiting Shape Up & product development with Ryan Singer
- The Changelog #248: Open source lessons learned with Zeno Rocha
- The Changelog #77: Solarized and Linux on the Desktop with Ethan Schoonover
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MLOps and tracking experiments with Allegro AI (Practical AI #97)
DevOps for deep learning is well… different. You need to track both data and code, and you need to run multiple different versions of your code for long periods of time on accelerated hardware. Allegro AI is helping data scientists manage these workflows with their open source MLOps solution called Trains. Nir Bar-Lev, Allegro’s CEO, joins us to discuss their approach to MLOps and how to make deep learning development more robust.
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The science behind caffeine (Brain Science #25)
Today’s episode features our very first guest. We’re joined by Danielle Rath, a notable expert and product developer in the caffeine and energy drink industry. Danielle is the founder of GreenEyedGuide Research and Consulting where she shares science-based information about energy drinks and caffeine, and helps people and companies where fatigue and caffeine use are prevalent. In this lengthly episode, we talk through all aspects of the science behind caffeine — its chemical structure and half-life, where and how it’s being used, the good, bad, and the ugly, as well as practical advice for everyday consumption. If you consume caffeine of any sort, this is a must listen episode.
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- Mireille Reece, PsyD – LinkedIn
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- GreenEyedGuide Research and Consulting
- Follow Danielle on Instagram where she answers questions about caffeine & managing fatigue in the workplace
- Fatigue Management Workshops from Danielle and GreenEyedGuide on the secret to managing fatigue in the workplace
- How to drink caffeine strategically with the 5 Levels of Fatigue
- How good (or bad) is your favorite energy drink?
- Book: Are You a Monster or a Rock Star? - Danielle’s ultimate guide to energy drinks
- Book: How to Get Sh*t Done When You Feel Like Sh*t - Danielle’s book on the secrets of caffeine, motivation, and productivity for the sleep-deprived and overwhelmed
- Best energy drinks for the night shift
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Where the Prolog version of Vue died (JS Party #135)
An amalgam of interest on this week’s episode starting with a peek at what’s finally coming in Vue 3. We talk about the process of change in the Vue ecosystem and what interesting features are coming either very soon or not for a while depending on how you view time right now. Then, the panelists share what they’ve learned recently, and finish off with shout outs to the projects, ideas, and people we’re appreciative of.
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- Divya – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
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- Christopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
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- Vue 3: Mid 2020 status update
- Vue 3 Roundup
- Import another gitconfig
- JavaScript method definitions
- Style editing for CSS-in-JS frameworks
- Vue single file components updates
- Use Speedlify to continuously measure site performance
- Peter Müller on GitHub
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Your first week with Go (Go Time #138)
Your first week with a new programming language can be tricky. In this episode Jon is joined by Jacquie and DaShaun to talk about their first week with Go. What was their primary focus? What resources did they leverage? What made it stick, and what didn’t?
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- Parti Corgi Discord
- Go Patterns
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Laws for hackers to live by (Changelog Interviews #403)
Dave Kerr joins Jerod to discuss the various laws, theories, principles, and patterns that we developers find useful in our work and life. We unpack Hanlon’s Razor, Gall’s Law, Murphy’s Law, Kernighan’s Law, and too many others to list here.
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Practical AI Ethics (Practical AI #96)
The multidisciplinary field of AI Ethics is brand new, and is currently being pioneered by a relatively small number of leading AI organizations and academic institutions around the world. AI Ethics focuses on ensuring that unexpected outcomes from AI technology implementations occur as rarely as possible. Daniel and Chris discuss strategies for how to arrive at AI ethical principles suitable for your own organization, and what is involved in implementing those strategies in the real world. Tune in for a practical AI primer on AI Ethics!
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- Practical AI episode 85: Achieving provably beneficial, human-compatible AI
- Google - Responsible AI Practices
- Microsoft - Responsible AI
- U.S. Department of Defense - Ethical Principles for Artificial Intelligence
- OECD Principles on AI
- Cambridge - The Role and Limits of Principles in AI Ethics: Towards a Focus on Tensions
- Nature - Principles alone cannot guarantee ethical AI
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What's next for José Valim and Elixir? (Changelog Interviews #402)
We’re joined again by José Valim talking about the recent acquihire of Plataformatec and what that means for the Elixir language, as well as José. We also talk about Dashbit a new 3 person company he helped form from work done while at Plataformatec to help startups and enterprises adopt and run Elixir in production. Lastly we talk about a new idea José has called Bytepack that aims to help developers package and deliver software products to developers and enterprises.
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"GraphQL is the bacon that'll make everything better" (JS Party #134)
KBall, Jerod, and Nick Nisi dive into GraphQL – what it can do, what the challenges are, and how it differs from REST – all with a generous helping of metaphor about buffets, restaurants, and of course bacon.
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- Intro to GraphQL
- What is REST
- Github GraphQL API
- GraphQL Schema and Types
- Apollo Codegen
- Nest.js GraphQL
- Hypermedia Driven RESTful APIs
Segment 2:
- Securing your GraphQL api against malicious queries
- GraphQL REST Proxy
- Directives are underrated
- Swagger
Segment 3:
- Github API Mutations
- Apollo Error Handling
- 200 OK! Error Handling in GraphQL
- How to GraphQL
- Introduction to GraphQL
- GraphQL and Gatsby
- GraphQL Fragments
- Relay
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Focusing in on PostgreSQL (Go Time #137)
Choosing a database is hard. They each have their pros and cons, and without much experience it is hard to determine which is the best fit for your project. In this episode Johan Brandhorst joins us to talk about Postgres. When is it a good fit? How well does it scale? What libraries exist in Go for using Postgres?
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- Ingres - the project that Postgres evolved from.
- jackc/pgx - Go Postgres library mentioned on the show.
- lib/pq - Go Postgres library mentioned on the show.
- Masterminds/squirrel - SQL query builder mentioned by Johan as his unpopular opinion.
- ory/dockertest - A tool for running tests with docker containers; useful for spinning up Postgres instances for testing.
Panelist Jon Calhoun also wrote two blog posts covering topics mentioned on the show:
Special guest Johan Brandhorst gave a talk about Postgres and Go at GopherCon EU:
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The ins and outs of open source for AI (Practical AI #95)
Daniel and Chris get you Fully-Connected with open source software for artificial intelligence.
In addition to defining what open source is, they discuss where to find open source tools and data, and how you can contribute back to the open source AI community.
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From acquisition to full conviction (Founders Talk #71)
Guy Podjarny is the Founder of Snyk, a security platform that empowers software-driven businesses to develop fast and stay secure. Prior to Snyk, Guy founded Blaze which was acquired by Akamai and became CTO. We talked through the topic of acquisition — the sale, the merge, the learnings, and why Guy might not be planning for Snyk to be acquired anytime soon. We started the conversation with Snyk’s recent raise of $150 million dollars.
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- Scaling security through DevSecOps & dev-first security
- Scaling developer-first security
- Snyk pricing
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The intersection of coding and fonts (Changelog Interviews #401)
A listener request led us to Nikita Prokopov and FiraCode, and we’re sure glad they did. When we think of open source software, fonts aren’t usually high on the list of things that need maintaining. That’s not true when your font also supports hundreds of programming ligatures like FiraCode does. Nikita has his hands full!
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- FiraCode on Changelog News
- FiraCode on GitHub
- FiraSans on GitHub
- FiraCode on Twitter
- Nikita on Patreon
- Glyphs
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Blitz.js puts React on Rails (JS Party #133)
Blitz.js creator Brandon Bayer joins Jerod to dive deep into the foundational principles of this fullstack React framework. We talk about its inspiration (Ruby on Rails), its differentiation (a “no-API” data layer), and its aspirations (built-in auth, plugins, recipes, and more).
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Cognitive distortions (Brain Science #24)
How reflective are you with the thoughts you think? In this episode, Mireille and Adam talk through a few more cognitive distortions. These “distortions” are general tendencies or patterns of thinking that are false or inaccurate, which also have the potential to cause psychological damage. Generally speaking, people develop cognitive distortions as a way of coping with adverse life events. The more prolonged and severe those adverse events are, the more likely it is that one or more cognitive distortions will form. By recognizing these patterns in our thoughts and possibly how, when, or why we’re prone to use them, like many things, we create the opportunity to change them.
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- 50 Common Cognitive Distortions
- What is the underlying cause of cognitive distortions?
- Facts or Opinions?
- What Are Cognitive Distortions and How Can You Change These Thinking Patterns?
- Cognitive Distortions: When Your Brain Lies to You
- Brain Science #7: What are you thinking?
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Go in production at Pace.dev (Go Time #136)
Building a new app in Go can involve a lot of technical decisions. How will your code be structured? How will you handle background jobs? What will your deploy process look like? In this episode we will walk through the decisions made while building the public release of Pace.dev.
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- David Hernandez – GitHub, X
- Jon Calhoun – Website, GitHub, X
- Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
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- Pace.dev
- Oto
- Firestore
- Google App Engine
- Operations (formerly Stackdriverf)
- Pace.dev talk on JS Party
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Big updates in Safari 14 (Changelog Interviews #400)
We’re joined by Ronak Shah and Beth Dakin from the Safari team at Apple about their announcements at WWDC20 and the release of Safari 14. We talk about Safari WebExtensions, Face ID and Touch ID coming to the web, Safari’s plans to advance the web platform, and it all comes down to their focus on privacy, power, and performance.
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- Ronak Shah – LinkedIn
- Beth Dakin – LinkedIn, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- Safari
- Safari Technology Preview
- WWDC20
- WWDC20 - What’s new for web developers
- WWDC20 - Meet Safari Web Extensions
- WWDC20 - Meet Face ID and Touch ID for the web
- JavaScript APIs for WebExtensions
- Welcoming Safari to the WebExtensions Community
- Browser Market Share Worldwide
- WebKit - Web Inspector Reference
- Follow WebKit on Twitter to keep up
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Operationalizing ML/AI with MemSQL (Practical AI #94)
A lot of effort is put into the training of AI models, but, for those of us that actually want to run AI models in production, performance and scaling quickly become blockers. Nikita from MemSQL joins us to talk about how people are integrating ML/AI inference at scale into existing SQL-based workflows. He also touches on how model features and raw files can be managed and integrated with distributed databases.
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- MemSQL
- MemSQL’s ML/AI capabilities
- MemSQL’s recent AI/ML e-book
- Contact tracing case study with MemSQL and True Digital
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Feross takes us to security school (JS Party #132)
Did you know Feross taught Web Security at Stanford last Fall? On this episode, Divya and Nick enroll in his security school to learn about XSS, CSP, ambient authority, and a whole lot more.
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- Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Divya – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
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- JS Danger: OpenJS World Edition on YouTube
- CS 253 Web Security - YouTube Playlist
- CS 253 Course Website
- CSP
- Darknet Diaries on Samy
- Krebs on Security
- Clickjacking
- CSP Is Dead, Long Live CSP! On the Insecurity of Whitelists and the Future of Content Security Policy
- Reining in the Web with Content Security Policy
- Cross-Site Request Forgery Prevention Cheat Sheet
- Same-origin policy
- Cross-Site Request Forgery is dead!
- Incrementally Better Cookies
- SameSite cookies explained
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We have regrets (Go Time #135)
Leaning from mistakes is key to progressing. In this episode Ben, Aaron, Kris, and Jon discuss some of our mistakes - like spending too much time designing a feature that isn’t that important, or using channels excessively when first learning Go - and how we learned from them.
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- Ben Johnson – Website, GitHub, X
- Aaron Schlesinger – Website, GitHub, X
- Jon Calhoun – Website, GitHub, X
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Shipping work that matters (Changelog Interviews #399)
We’re revisiting Shape Up and product development thoughts with Ryan Singer, Head of Product Strategy at Basecamp. Last August we talked with Ryan when he first launched his book Shape Up and now we’re back to see how Shape Up is shaping up — “How are teams using the wisdom in this book to actually ship work that matters? How does Shape Up work in new versus existing products?” We also talk about the concept of longitudinal thinking and the way it’s impacting Ryan’s designs, plus a grab bag of topics in the last segment.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- The Changelog #357: Shaping, betting, and building
- Ryan’s new hobby podcast called Synthetic A Priori
- Shape Up (book site)
- “Good design requires thinking longitudinally.”
- New versus existing products
- Taguchi methods on Wikipedia
- Salt. Fat. Acid. Heat. - If you can master these four elements, you can master the kitchen.
- EconTalk podcast
- The End of Average: How We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness
- Dr Ole Peters
- Time for a Change: Introducing irreversible time in economics by Dr Ole Peters
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Roles to play in the AI dev workflow (Practical AI #93)
This full connected has it all: news, updates on AI/ML tooling, discussions about AI workflow, and learning resources. Chris and Daniel breakdown the various roles to be played in AI development including scoping out a solution, finding AI value, experimentation, and more technical engineering tasks. They also point out some good resources for exploring bias in your data/model and monitoring for fairness.
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Streamlit:
GPU acceleration in Windows Subsystem for Linux
Fairness and bias:
- Google’s explanation of bias in their ML crash course
- IBM fairness 360
- Google’s responsible AI practices
- Driven Data’s Deon project
- Previous Practical AI episode about bias in AI and hiring
- US Department of Defense Ethical principles for AI
Chris’s personal, COVID-related blog post
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Beginnings (Go Time #134)
Mat Ryer talks to a new full-time Go programmer, an intern at Google, and a high-school programmer about the tech world from their perspective.
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- Benjamin Bryant – LinkedIn
- Shaquille Que – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
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What does the Go community look like from those at various beginnings in their early careers. Benjamin Bryant has recently become a full-time Go programmer and shares insights valuable to those more senior as well as those more junior. Shaquille Que recorded this episode during his very first day as an intern at Google; we learn a little about his story. Aditya Prerepa is a very proactive high-school programmer who has already started learning code to build solutions to real world problems. If you know somebody starting out in tech, why not send them this episode?
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Evolving alongside JS (JS Party #131)
We take a listener request this week and discuss how we evolve alongside (or opt out of) the ever changing JavaScript syntax. Arrow functions and variable declarations take center stage, but a wide range of new(ish) JS syntax and features are discussed.
Then Feross shares his new app, Nick talks fiction books, and Jerod switches coding fonts.
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- Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
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- A re-introduction to JavaScript
- common-tags
- Virus Cafe
- Chakra UI on JS Party
- Arc of a Scythe by Neal Shusterman
- FiraCode
= You can install fonts with homebrew?!
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Your brain can change (Brain Science #23)
You are not what you’ve been dealt. You might have heard in your life that you’ve inherited bad genes or even good genes, and from that you conclude that you’re doomed or blessed. In some cases there’s a margin of truth to that. However, the role of genes, Epigentics, and Neuroplasticity tell a different story. It’s a story of hope and opportunity for change.
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- Dr Sarah McKay - an Oxford University-educated neuroscientist
- What are DNA and Genes?
- What are Proteins?
- Basics of neural transmission
- What is Epigenetics?
- BDNF gene - brain-derived neurotrophic factor
- What is neuroplasticity and how does it work?
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The ONE thing every dev should know (Changelog Interviews #398)
The incomparable Jessica Kerr drops by with a grab-bag of amazing topics. Understanding software systems, transferring knowledge between devs, building relationships, using VS Code & Docker to code together, observability as a logical extension of TDD, and a whole lot more.
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- Symmathecist (n) - A quick definition, without the narrative
- newsletter.jessitron.com
- Listen to Jessica (and others) elsewhere on Arrested DevOps and Greater Than Code
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The long road to AGI (Practical AI #92)
Daniel and Chris go beyond the current state of the art in deep learning to explore the next evolutions in artificial intelligence. From Yoshua Bengio’s NeurIPS keynote, which urges us forward towards System 2 deep learning, to DARPA’s vision of a 3rd Wave of AI, Chris and Daniel investigate the incremental steps between today’s AI and possible future manifestations of artificial general intelligence (AGI).
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- Yoshua Bengio | From System 1 Deep Learning to System 2 Deep Learning | NeurIPS 2019 (video)
- Yoshua Bengio | From System 1 Deep Learning to System 2 Deep Learning | NeurIPS 2019 (slides)
- Yoshua Bengio | Wikipedia
- A DARPA Perspective on Artificial Intelligence
- DARPA | Wikipedia
- U.S. Department of Defense Directive 3000.09: Autonomy in Weapon Systems
Books
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The Neuroscience of touch (Brain Science #22)
How much do you focus on your sense of touch? Have you ever considered how or why this sense is so critical to our lives and how we manage ourselves? In this episode, Mireille and Adam discuss the neurophysiological underpinnings of our sense of touch and how our brains process these sensory experiences. According to David Linden, Ph.D., Professor of Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, “The sense of touch is intrinsically emotional.”
Not only is touch relevant to our emotional experience, but it is a foundational aspect of the development of our nervous system and it impacts how we manage stress and respond to pain. It isn’t surprising then to consider that touch is also extremely relevant to our relationships as we are apt to feel more connected to those with whom we engage in touch.
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- The Power of Touch
- Harlow’s Classic Studies Revealed the Importance of Maternal Contact
- Touch: The Science of Hand, Heart, and Mind (book)
- The Neuroscience of Touch and Pain
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Betting on Svelte for pace.dev (JS Party #130)
We often try new frameworks and tools in side projects or throwaway contexts, but you don’t learn that much about a thing until you use it to build something real. That’s why we have Mat Ryer and David Hernandez joining us to share their experience of using Svelte while building their new startup, Pace.dev.
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- Mat and David talk MachineBox on Practical AI
- Their open source Go tool: oto
- The blog post about their Svelte Grouper component
- Pace.dev is now in public beta
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Reflection and meta programming (Go Time #133)
Mat, Jon, and Jaana discuss reflection and meta programming. How do other languages use reflection, and how does that differ from Go’s approach? What libraries are using reflection well? What are some examples of bad times to use reflect? What alternative approaches exist? And what are those weird struct tags I keep seeing in Go code?
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- Jon Calhoun – Website, GitHub, X
- Jaana Dogan – Website, GitHub, X
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- Laws of Reflection - From the Go blog
- Oto - Library by Mat using AST to generate code
- form - Jon’s form library that uses reflect
- form’s without reflect - An example from Jon of creating forms without reflect
- Language Server Protocol - Created by Microsoft to make it easier to create autocompletion for different editors
- A new Go API for Protocol Buffers - A writeup of changes in protobuf to allow for a type of reflection
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Leading GitLab to $100M ARR (Founders Talk #70)
Sid Sijbrandij is the Co-founder and CEO of GitLab — an all-remote company and complete DevOps platform. As a company, they have their eyes set on taking the company public to IPO and they’re very outspoken about their culture, open handbook, and how they work as an all-remote company. We talk through where Sid came from, the early days of GitLab, why IPO vs a private sale (like GitHub), what it means to put “family and friends first, work second,” how we should view work, and his biggest fear — the company failing.
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- GitLab More Than Doubles Valuation To $2.75 Billion Ahead Of Planned 2020 IPO
- Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Useful
- The importance of a handbook-first approach to documentation
- GitLab values
- GitLab’s biggest risks
- GitLab maturity
- Family and friends first, work second
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Creating GitLab’s remote playbook (Changelog Interviews #397)
We’re talking about all things all-remote with Darren Murph, Head of Remote at GitLab. Darren is tasked with putting intentional thought and action into place to lead the largest all-remote company in the world. Yes, GitLab is 100% all-remote, as in, no offices…and they employee more than 1,200 people across 67 countries. They’ve been iterating and documenting how to work remotely for years. We cover Darren’s personal story on remote work while he served as managing editor at Engadget, his thoughts on how “work” is evolving and ways to reframe and rethink about when you work, this idea of work life harmony, and the backstory and details of the playbook GitLab released free of charge to the world.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- GitLab’s Remote Playbook
- GitLab Values - “No ego” is among the values detailed on this page
- GitLab’s team handbook
- Our long-term vision for remote work
- Family and friends first, work second
- Encouraging a culture of written communication
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Explaining AI explainability (Practical AI #91)
The CEO of Darwin AI, Sheldon Fernandez, joins Daniel to discuss generative synthesis and its connection to explainability. You might have heard of AutoML and meta-learning. Well, generative synthesis tackles similar problems from a different angle and results in compact, explainable networks. This episode is fascinating and very timely.
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- Darwin AI
- FermiNets - a paper that introduces the idea of generative synthesis.
- COVID-Net - Darwin AI’s COVID-related computer vision model.
- NLP highlights podcast episode on Behavioral Testing - behavioral tests
- Sheldon’s explainability primer on medium
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JS Danger: HalfStack Edition (JS Party #129)
JS Danger is back! Suz, Emma, and Divya square off in our don’t-call-it-jeopardy game show. Will Emma totally redeem herself? Are Divya’s trivia skills as on point as her debate skills? Will Suz murder Jerod in a fit of terrible-question-inducing rage?! Listen and play along!
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- Suz Hinton – GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Emma Bostian – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Divya – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
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- Watch the raw/uncut video on our YouTube channel.
- Support Stefan Kleim and JS.org on PayPal.
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The power of story (Brain Science #21)
Researchers have examined the power of story and discovered the way in which stories provide a framework that has the capacity to transcend language for universal understanding. According to Joe Lazauskas, “Stories illuminate the city of our mind…stories make us remember and they make us care.” In this episode we dive deep into the power of story to explore the ways in which stories play a role in our emotions and in our relationships with others.
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Stories are designed to take you on a journey; a journey you’re more likely to remember and relate with as you are apt to examine ways in which you can see yourself in the story. While our biases can interfere with our understanding of others, stories have the power to circumvent the challenges these pose and allows the opportunity for changes in our attitudes and henceforth our responses. When we’re able to see ourselves in others’ stories, we make others more relatable, and therefore easier to live with and work alongside.
- Listen to Adam’s backstory
- Me Before You (2016) (this is the movie Adam couldn’t remember)
- The Neuroscience of Storytelling (CCO Podcast)
- How Stories Change the Brain
- Something universal occurs in the brain when it processes stories, regardless of language
- How Narratives Can Improve Intergroup Attitudes
- The mind’s mirror - A new type of neuron–called a mirror neuron–could help explain how we learn through mimicry and why we empathize with others.
- What’s So Special about Mirror Neurons?
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The trouble with databases (Go Time #132)
Databases are tricky, especially at scale. In this episode Mat, Jaana, and Jon discuss different types of databases, the pros and cons of each, along with the many ways developers can have issues with databases. They also explore questions like, “Why are serial IDs problematic?” and “What alternatives are there if we aren’t using serial IDs?” while at it.
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- Things I Wished More Developers Knew About Databases
- Spanner
- Firestore
- MySQL
- Book: Designing Data-Intensive Applications
- International Collegiate Programming Contest
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De-Google-ing your website analytics (Changelog Interviews #396)
Plausible creators Uku Täht and Marko Saric join the show to talk about their open source, privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics. We talk through the backstory of the project, why it’s open source, the details behind a few viral blog posts Marko shared to bring in a ton of new interest to the project, why privacy matters in web analytics, how they prioritize building new features, the technical details behind their no cookie light-weight JavaScript approach, and their thoughts on a server-side option.
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- Plausible - a lightweight, open source, privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics
- Why you should stop using Google Analytics on your website
- How one blog post changed the traction for my startup
- Will removing Google Analytics from a site hurt search engine rankings?
- Blogging statistics and trends you should know in 2020
- How to de-Google-ify your site to make it faster and visitor friendly
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Exploring NVIDIA's Ampere & the A100 GPU (Practical AI #90)
On the heels of NVIDIA’s latest announcements, Daniel and Chris explore how the new NVIDIA Ampere architecture evolves the high-performance computing (HPC) landscape for artificial intelligence. After investigating the new specifications of the NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU, Chris and Daniel turn their attention to the data center with the NVIDIA DGX A100, and then finish their journey at “the edge” with the NVIDIA EGX A100 and the NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX.
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- NVIDIA Ampere Architecture In-Depth
- NVIDIA DGX A100
- NVIDIA EGX A100
- NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX
- Practical AI – Episode #56 – Worlds are colliding - AI and HPC
- Practical AI – Episode #15 – Artificial intelligence at NVIDIA
Learning Resources
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We hear Dojo 7 is "better than React" (JS Party #128)
Nick and Jerod welcome Dojo’s Matt Gadd to the show to catch us up on what’s changed with the framework since episode #25, what’s coming in version 7, and to defend Nick’s comment that if you like React you just might like Dojo better.
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What's your backstory Adam? (Backstage #11)
We’re bringing Brain Science backstage — Mireille puts on her interviewer hat for a deep dive into Adam’s backstory. When and how did he get involved with podcasting? How did he get in to software development? When did he get his first shot at leadership? How did he learn about sales? Why is he so curious?
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- The Web 2.0 Show
- Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love by Marty Cagan
- The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development by Donald G. Reinertsen
- Take Charge Product Management: Take Charge of Your Product Management Development by Greg Geracie
- Herding Tigers: Business, Software and the Art of War by Danny Blitz
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On community and safety (Go Time #131)
Johnny and Jon are joined by Denise to talk about her role at GitHub and what the community and safety team does to help open source project creators and contributors, GoCon Canada and the role of organizing a conference, and more.
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- Jon Calhoun – Website, GitHub, X
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- Concourse CI - CI tool that Denise mentioned working on.
- Ginkgo - BDD testing library mentioned in the show
- Testify - Go testing library mentioned in the show
- cmp - Go comparison library mentioned in the show.
- Let’s Sketch Tech - Workshops Denise is involved in for learning to sketch technical subjects.
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Navigating perfectionism (Brain Science #20)
High expectations for performance in both life and work are common, but what do you do when you get stuck and you’re not able to achieve the results you desire? In this episode, Mireille and Adam talk through the different aspects of perfectionism and ways in which is can be adaptive and helpful and other ways in which it poses additional challenges. What happens when we avoid the possibility of failure as opposed to simply having high standards for our performance? How can we begin to focus on healthy striving as opposed to reaching for perfection?
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- What is perfectionism?
- 4 destructive traits of perfectionism, from Dr. Brené Brown
- Frost Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale (FMPS)
- Perfectionism, Health, and Well-Being (book)
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Leading GitHub to a $7.5 billion acquisition (Changelog Interviews #395)
Jason Warner (CTO at GitHub) joined the show to talk with us about the backstory of how he helped to lead GitHub to a $7.5 billion acquisition by Microsoft. Specifically how they trusted their gut not just the data, and how they understood the value they were bringing to market. We also talk about Jason’s focus on “horizon 3” for GitHub, and his thoughts on remote work and how they’re leading GitHub engineering today.
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- GitHub’s CTO on architecting engineering teams that scale
- Current stats – 40M+ developers with 100M+ repos
- Go back in time to hear our reactions to Microsoft buying GitHub - “The news is true. Microsoft is acquiring GitHub.”
- The Changelog #331: GitHub Actions is the next big thing with Kyle Daigle
Jason’s book recommendations:
- Atomic Habits by James Clear
- Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
- Team of Teams by Gen. Stanley McChrystal
The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz - High Output Management by Andrew Grove
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YouTube made me do it (Backstage #10)
Long-time listener (and YouTube aficionado) Owen Bickford joins Jerod backstage to discuss his recent contribution to Changelog’s Elixir/Phoenix-based open source platform.
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- Owen’s initial GitHub Issue
- The merged Pull Request
- Slaying Changelog’s compilation beast
- Should we do a video on property-based testing?
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A visit to Deno Land (JS Party #127)
Divya and Nick welcome Deno’s Kit Kelly to the show to celebrate the highly-anticipated new JavaScript/TypeScript runtime’s big 1.0 release.
This is a wide-ranging discussion about all things Deno. We discuss why they’re using Rust, how they’re rewriting parts of the TypeScript compiler, their take on package management, what adoption looks like, their code of conduct, and more.
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Challenges of distributed messaging systems (Go Time #130)
Distributed systems are hard. Building a distributed messaging system for these systems to communicate is even harder. In this episode, we unpack some of the challenges of building distributed messaging systems (like NATS), including how Go makes that easy and/or hard as applicable.
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Step away to get unstuck (Brain Science #19)
In this episode, Mireille and Adam talk through the challenge of problem solving. It’s all to common to utilize the “try harder” approach when things aren’t working out the way you’d like. While that kind of effort is valuable, this approach is often wrought with further frustration, wasted time and less than desirable results. This episode offers you an alternative perspective and ways that you can practice getting unstuck and utilize more of the resources of your unconscious mind.
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- A neuroscience approach to innovative thinking and problem solving - this covers the research and study from Corinne Canter and Dr Trisha Stratford
- Freud and the Unconscious Mind
- Brainwave Basics
- The Pomodoro Technique created by Francesco Cirillo
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VisiData is like duct tape for your data (Changelog Interviews #394)
Saul Pwanson is the creator and maintainer of VisiData, a terminal interface for exploring and arranging tabular data. On this Maintainer Spotlight episode, Saul joins Jerod for a wide-ranging discussion on crossword puzzles, biographs, and Saul’s open source gift to the world. Thanks to AJ for the suggestion!
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- VisiData
- VisiData on GitHub
- A Plagiarism Scandal Is Unfolding In The Crossword World
- Saul’s biograph
- the biograph tool on GitHub
- Support Saul on Patreon
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AI for Good: clean water access in Africa (Practical AI #89)
Chandler McCann tells Daniel and Chris about how DataRobot engaged in a project to develop sustainable water solutions with the Global Water Challenge (GWC). They analyzed over 500,000 data points to predict future water point breaks. This enabled African governments to make data-driven decisions related to budgeting, preventative maintenance, and policy in order to promote and protect people’s access to safe water for drinking and washing. From this effort sprang DataRobot’s larger AI for Good initiative.
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- Worldwide Water Access: Tapping into a Well of Data
- AI for Good with DataRobot: Saving the World One Use Case at a Time
- AI for Good: Powered by DataRobot
- DataRobot
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Building a real programmable robot (Founders Talk #69)
The role of a father plays a pivotal role in a child’s life. Ian Bernstein is a former Founder of Sphero and is now the Founder and Head of Product of Misty Robotics — they’re building the first programmable robot for the home and business. It’s called Misty II. The journey of building Misty II started when Ian was 5 years old and his dad bought him an Apple IIe.
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- The Changelog #354: Go is eating the world of software — Ron Evans is betting big on TinyGo at OSCON 2019
- I’m a cog.
- Give Away Your Legos
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What I’m gonna share here is really mediocre (JS Party #126)
Node 14, Vue’s Vite, and is-promise are in the news. We’ve got some working from home tips and unpopular opinions to share. And… shout outs! 👏
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- Experimental no-bundle dev server for Vue SFCs
- Node v14.0.0 (Current)
- is-promise post-mortem
- Westworld Soundtracks
- brain.fm
- PRO TIPS for devs working at home
- Wes Todd
- Keynote Audiogram
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Building resiliency (Brain Science #18)
In this episode, Mireille and Adam discuss the importance of building resiliency and how we can build skills to navigate unexpected and unwanted adversities. Fundamentally, we are designed to adapt out of a place of survival. Given that, we have to learn how to manage our fear while building awareness of the perceptions we have so that we can learn how to be both flexible and calm. Not surprising, we also talk about the way in which our relationships with others help us buffer the challenges better so that we are able to remain calmer and henceforth, see the opportunities within the obstacles.
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- Building your resilience on American Psychological Association
- 10 Traits of Emotionally Resilient People
- 25 Ways to Boost Resilience
- How resilient are you? (Resiliency quiz)
CORRECTION!! The phrase in Batman Begins is “Why do we fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves up.” You can watch it here and again here.
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Black Hat Go (Go Time #129)
Put on your dark hoodie, turn all the lights off, and join the author of Black Hat Go as we explore the darker side of Go.
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Use promo code GOTIME for 30% off Black Hat Go through May 15th.
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Gatsby's long road to incremental builds (Changelog Interviews #393)
Gatsby creator Kyle Mathews joins Jerod fresh off the launch of incremental builds to tell the story of this feature that’s 3 years in the making. We talk about Kyle’s vision for Gatsby, why incremental builds took so long, why it’s not part of the open source tool, how he makes decisions between Cloud and open source features, and more.
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- The Great GatsbyJS (The Changelog #306)
- Introducing Incremental Builds in Gatsby Cloud
- Experimental Page Build Optimizations for Incremental Data Changes
- Announcing Gatsby Recipes
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Ask us anything (about AI) (Practical AI #88)
Daniel and Chris get you Fully-Connected with AI questions from listeners and online forums:
- What do you think is the next big thing?
- What are CNNs?
- How does one start developing an AI-enabled business solution?
- What tools do you use every day?
- What will AI replace?
- And more…
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These buttons look like buttons (JS Party #125)
This week Feross and Emma chat with Segun Adebayo about Chakra UI, a modular React component library that’s changing the game for design systems and app development.
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- Next.js
- Sketch
- Deep Work by Cal Newport
- Styled System
- Design tokens
- ARIA
- And You Thought Buttons Were Easy by Nathan Curtis
- W3C
- Accessibility in JavaScript Applications by Marcy Sutton
- React Spring tutorial by Scott Tolinski
- TypeScript
- Career Lyft
- React Training by Ryan Florence
- Tailwind CSS
- Styled Components
- Emotion
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Indeed's FOSS Contributor Fund (Changelog Interviews #392)
Duane O’Brien (head of open source at Indeed) joined the show to talk about their FOSS Contributor Fund and FOSS Responders. He’s super passionate about open source, and through his role at Indeed Duane was able to implement this fund and open source it as a framework for other companies to use. We talk through all the details of the program, its impact and influence, as well as ways companies can use the framework in their organization. We also talk about FOSS Responders an initiative to support open source that has been negatively impacted by COVID-19.
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- The FOSS Contributor Fund: Six Months In
- FOSS Contributor Fund - Framework
- Sentry on ‘Funding Open Source’
- FOSS Responders on Open Collective
- FOSS Responders - Virtual Funding Event (Friday - May 22, 2020)
- Sustaining FOSS projects by democratizing the sponsorship process
- fossresponders.com
- Open Source 101
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Immediate mode GUIs (Go Time #128)
Mat, Johnny and Jon are joined by Elias, creator of Gio, to discuss GUIs. Specifically, we explore the pros and cons of immediate vs retained mode and explore some examples of each, as well how some frameworks like React are attempting to bring the benefits of immediate mode to a retained mode world (the DOM).
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- Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
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- Gio
- Immediate mode
- Retained mode - The opposite of Immediate mode.
- Scatter - Federated chat client built with Gio using email for messaging.
- Egon Elbre - Egon designed the Gio logo.
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Reinforcement learning for chip design (Practical AI #87)
Daniel and Chris have a fascinating discussion with Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini from Google Brain about the use of reinforcement learning for chip floor planning - or placement - in which many new designs are generated, and then evaluated, to find an optimal component layout. Anna and Azalia also describe the use of graph convolutional neural networks in their approach.
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- Their research paper
- Google Brain
- Google is using AI to design chips that will accelerate AI | MIT Technology Review
- Practical AI episode #47: GANs, RL, and transfer learning oh my!
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We got confs on lockdown (JS Party #124)
Emma, Divya, and Suz are joined by Quincy Larson from freeCodeCamp where they chat about virtual conferences. Are they better than in-person conferences? What are the differences? Let’s find out!
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- Divya – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
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- Free Code Camp
- Lockdown Conf
- NG-Conf
- Perf Matters
- Live Coders Conf
- Concatenate Conf
- Hashnode
- Base Rebels
- Monster Cat
- The Big Mac Index
- Egghead.io
- JS Party I Do, We Do, You Do with Jason Lengsdorf
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WebRTC in Go (Go Time #127)
The gang discusses WebRTC with Sean DuBois, creator of the Pion project and author of a pure Go WebRTC implementation. What exactly is WebRTC? Why is it so popular for video chatting? How does it work under the hood, and how does it compare with other real-time communication options?
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- Jon Calhoun – Website, GitHub, X
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Start with gratitude (Brain Science #17)
It’s been said that happy people are thankful, but maybe it’s the other way around. Thankful people are happy. In this episode we discuss the value of and the way that practicing gratitude can improve your overall outlook and mental health. Mireille and Adam talk through some of the underlying neuropsychological aspects of this habit including the key brain structures and neurotransmitters that are affected by practicing this routinely. This is one show that will pay–over and over again–that is, if you’re willing to put the knowledge into practice. Just how “happy” do you want to feel?
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- Counting Blessings Versus Burdens: An Experimental Investigation of Gratitude and Subjective Well-Being in Daily Life
- Positive thinking opens your eyes to more opportunities
- Gratitude and your brain
- The Neural Basis of Human Social Values: Evidence from Functional MRI
- The Science of Gratitude
- The Cultivation of Pure Altruism via Gratitude: A Functional MRI Study of Change with Gratitude Practice
- The Grateful Brain - The neuroscience of giving thanks
- Try gratitude journaling
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Work from home SUPERCUT (Changelog Interviews #391)
Today we’re featuring conversations from different perspectives on working from home from our JS Party, Go Time, and Brain Science podcasts here on Changelog.com. Because, hey…if you didn’t know we have 6 active podcasts in our portfolio of shows. Head to changelog.com/podcasts to collect them all!
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- Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Mark Bates – Website, GitHub, X
- Carmen Andoh – GitHub, X
- Jon Calhoun – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Mireille Reece, PsyD – LinkedIn
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Exploring the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (Practical AI #86)
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Daniel and Chris have a timely conversation with Lucy Lu Wang of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence about COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19). She relates how CORD-19 was created and organized, and how researchers around the world are currently using the data to answer important COVID-19 questions that will help the world through this ongoing crisis.
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- Lucy Lu Wang - Google Scholar
- Kaggle: COVID-19 Open Research Dataset Challenge (CORD-19)
- CORD-19 Explorer
- Semantic Scholar | CORD-19
- Allen Institute for AI
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Developing a mental framework (Brain Science #16)
The quality of your thinking depends on your mental framework. To become a better thinker you need to have an understanding of this mental framework and how you view the world. But, what exactly is a mental framework? How have we all been programmed throughout our lives? In what ways have you been programed that you like, don’t like, or want to change? Join us as we explore and examine the key components of developing a mental framework.
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- Classical conditioning
- That Discomfort You’re Feeling Is Grief
- The Danger of Absolute Thinking Is Absolutely Clear
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JS "Danger" Party (JS Party #123)
Our Jeopardy-style (but don’t call it Jeopardy) game is back! This time Jerod plays the part of Alex Trabeck and Emma tries her hand at contestant-ing. Can Scott Tolinski from the Syntax podcast hang with Emma and Nick? Listen and play along!
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- Play the game yourself: round 1
- Play the game yourself: round 2
- All market share stats via StatCounter
- About Flock
- About Opera
- A random gist with the shortest valid HTML
- Gary Bernhardt’s wat
- Sindre Sorhus
- WebGPU on Can I Use?
- Prefetch on Can I Use?
- WebP on Can I Use?
- SVG Favicon on Can I Use?
- About Knockout.js
- Johnn-Five
- Blitz.js
- npm’s most depended on packages
- PouchDB (not CouchDB)
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The monolith vs microservices debate (Go Time #126)
What is a microservice, and what is a monolith? What differentiates them? When is a good time for your team to start considering the transition from monolith to microservice? And does using microservices mean you can’t use a monorepo?
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- Jaana Dogan – Website, GitHub, X
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- Jsonnet - A data templating language for app and tool developers.
- Monzo - Where Matt works with 1600+ microservices.
- Grafana Labs - Where Tom works.
- Prometheus - Open Source monitoring software Tom contributes to.
Community events
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Visualizing the spread of Coronavirus (Changelog Interviews #390)
Harry Stevens is a Graphics Reporter at The Washington Post and the author of “Why outbreaks like coronavirus spread exponentially, and how to ‘flatten the curve’” — the most popular post in The Washington Post’s online history.
We cover the necessary details of this global pandemic, the journalist, coding, and design skills required to be a graphics reporter, the backstory on visualizing this outbreak, why Harry chooses R over Python, advice for aspiring graphics reporters, and how all of this came together at the perfect time in history to give Harry a chance to catch lightning in a bottle.
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- Why outbreaks like coronavirus spread exponentially, and how to “flatten the curve” ~ discuss
- COVID-19 (2019-nCoV) real time dashboard ~ full view
- ‘Contagion’ is one of the most popular thrillers on iTunes because of the coronavirus outbreak. Here’s how the film compares to reality.
- D3.js
- RStudio
- The Doctor Who Helped Defeat Smallpox Explains What’s Coming - Epidemiologist Larry Brilliant, who warned of pandemic in 2006, says we can beat the novel coronavirus—but first, we need lots more testing.
- Deadliest Enemy by Michael Osterholm and Mark Olshaker — Our War Against Killer Germs
- Michael Osterholm on Joe Rogan Experience #1439
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Achieving provably beneficial, human-compatible AI (Practical AI #85)
AI legend Stuart Russell, the Berkeley professor who leads the Center for Human-Compatible AI, joins Chris to share his insights into the future of artificial intelligence. Stuart is the author of Human Compatible, and the upcoming 4th edition of his perennial classic Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, which is widely regarded as the standard text on AI. After exposing the shortcomings inherent in deep learning, Stuart goes on to propose a new practitioner approach to creating AI that avoids harmful unintended consequences, and offers a path forward towards a future in which humans can safely rely of provably beneficial AI.
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- Stuart Russell’s TED Speaker profile
- Center for Human-Compatible AI
- Stuart Russell on how to make AI ‘human-compatible’
- AI could be a disaster for humanity. A top computer scientist thinks he has the solution.
- Leading AI Luminary Has An Idea To Ensure Humans Remain In Control
Books
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What's new and what's Next.js (JS Party #122)
Divya and Jerod welcome ZEIT founder Guillermo Rauch to the show for a deep discussion on the state of JAMstack, what’s new & exciting with Next.js, and some big picture analysis of where the industry is heading.
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Organizing for the community (Go Time #125)
What does it take to organize a community event? How do you ensure it is diverse? What does diversity even mean? Tune in to learn directly from organizers of some of the most diverse Go meetups (Gophercon EU and Go Bridge).
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Working from home (Brain Science #15)
Given all of the recent changes and adjustments many individuals have made to working remotely, Mireille and Adam discuss some of the relevant aspects of working from home. How do you develop habits that work for you to be the most productive? Which factors make a difference to be successful in navigating challenges that emerge and how can you develop ways of staying socially connected while being physically distant?
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- search?q=Remote
- Does Money Really Affect Motivation? A Review of the Research
- What Most Remote Companies Don’t Tell You About Remote Work - Isolation, anxiety, and depression in the remote workplace and what we’re doing about it
- Forget Work-Life Balance. Work-Life Blending Is the Key to Happiness - Work-life balance isn’t real, but you can have a thriving career and time for yourself
- Drive by Daniel Pink
- Physical Distancing
- The Doctor Who Helped Defeat Smallpox Explains What’s Coming
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Securing the web with Let's Encrypt (Changelog Interviews #389)
We’re talking with Josh Aas, the Executive Director of the Internet Security Research Group, which is the legal entity behind the Let’s Encrypt certificate authority. In June of 2017, Let’s Encrypt celebrated 100 Million certificates issued. Now, just about 2.5 years later, that number has grown to 1 Billion and 200 Million websites served. We talk with Josh about his journey and what it’s taken to build and grow Let’s Encrypt to enable a secure by default internet for everyone.
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- Let’s Encrypt Has Issued a Billion Certificates
- Milestone: 100 Million Certificates Issued
- Sponsors and donors of Let’s Encrypt
- Internet Security Research Group
- The Changelog #243: Let’s Encrypt the Web with Jacob Hoffman-Andrews
- I’m a cog - Adam’s thoughts on cog mentality
- Border Gateway Protocol
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COVID-19 Q&A and CORD-19 (Practical AI #84)
So many AI developers are coming up with creative, useful COVID-19 applications during this time of crisis. Among those are Timo from Deepset-AI and Tony from Intel. They are working on a question answering system for pandemic-related questions called COVID-QA. In this episode, they describe the system, related annotation of the CORD-19 data set, and ways that you can contribute!
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- Tony Reina – GitHub, LinkedIn
- Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
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- COVID-QA
- CORD-19
- Episode featuring SpaCy
- Sentence transformers
- Episode on BERT
- German BERT from Deepset-AI
- Hugging Face Transformers
- Haystack from Deepset-AI
- Deepmind molecular structure with RL project
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What even is a micro frontend? (JS Party #121)
Jerod and KBall are joined by Micro Frontends in Action author Michael Geers to discuss (you guessed it) micro frontend architecture. We ask: what is the concept? How is it similar/different to micro services? Who is it best fitted for? How do you put it in practice? And much more.
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
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- KBall’s Microfrontends: the good, the bad, and the ugly
- The Book: Micro Frontends in Action
- micro-frontends.org
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Enterprise Go? (Go Time #124)
Bryan Liles joins Johnny and Mat for a wide-ranging discussion that starts with the question: what even is enterprise Go?
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The 10x developer myth (Changelog Interviews #388)
In late 2019, Bill Nichols, a senior member of the technical staff at Carnegie Mellon University with the Software Engineering Institute published his study on “the 10x developer myth.” On this show we talk with Bill about all the details of his research. Is the 10x developer a myth? Let’s find out.
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- The End to the Myth of Individual Programmer Productivity
- Software Engineering Institute - Carnegie Mellon University
- The Personal Software Process (PSP)
- Team Software Process (TSP)
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Welcome to The Changelog (Changelog Interviews)
The Changelog is deep discussions in & around the world of software… and it’s been going for over a decade.
We talk to hackers, like Chris Anderson from 3D Robotics… leaders, like Devon Zuegel from GitHub… and innovators, like Amal Hussein…
Welcome to The Changelog! Please listen to an episode from our catalog that interests you and subscribe today. We’d love to have you with us.
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Mapping the intersection of AI and GIS (Practical AI #83)
Daniel Wilson and Rob Fletcher of ESRI hang with Chris and Daniel to chat about how AI powered modern geographic information systems (GIS) and location intelligence. They illuminate the various models used for GIS, spatial analysis, remote sensing, real-time visualization, and 3D analytics. You don’t want to miss the part about their work for the DoD’s Joint AI Center in humanitarian assistance / disaster relief.
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- ESRI
- ESRI - GeoAI Blog
- ESRI - YouTube: ArcGIS & Artificial Intelligence (DoD JAIC)
- Practical AI #72: How the U.S. military thinks about AI (DoD JAIC)
Books
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WFH!? (JS Party #120)
With most of us working from home for the first time (or for a long time), we thought it’d be a good idea to share our experiences and opinions on how to manage it. We discuss how to optimize your location, your schedule, your communications, and the rest of you life during these stressful times.
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- Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
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- Listen to Go Time #123 on WFH
- Chris Hiller’s pro tips for devs working from home
- Jerod listens to musicforprogramming.net
- and suggests the Noizio app for macOS
- KBall goes for www.focusatwill.com
- thgaskill in the chat suggests krisp.ai
- Ever heard of brothel creepers. Brent in the chat has
- For more on comms, listen to Remember, people are humans
- Cal Newport’s work shutdown ritual
- Suz recommends 3 books:
- Deep Work by Cal Newport
- How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell
- Contact by Carl Sagan
- Check out Humu’s remote nudges
- Read Justin Searl’s Remote, but not alone
- ESNEXT CONF is fully remote
- Need help? Get Help Today
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WFH (Go Time #123)
Working from home can be challenging, especially amid school closings and everything else caused by COVID-19. In this episode panelists Jon, Mat, Carmen, and Mark share advice and experiences they have accumulated over many years of working from home. They cover separating your work space from your personal space, signaling to your family that you are busy, ways to keep track of the time, and suggestions for getting some exercise in when you can.
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- Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Carmen Andoh – GitHub, X
- Mark Bates – Website, GitHub, X
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WFH tips:
- https://time.com/5801725/work-from-home-remote-tips/
- https://remoteyear.com/blog/top-8-remote-work-tips
Other links:
- Fatih Arslan’s advice to assume a smiley follows everything
- tmate - a terminal sharing tool
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Welcome to Practical AI (Practical AI)
Practical AI is a weekly podcast that’s marking artificial intelligence practical, productive, and accessible to everyone. If world of AI affects your daily life, this show is for you.
From the practitioner wanting to keep up with the latest tools & trends…
(clip from episode #68)
To the AI curious trying to understand the concepts at play and their implications on our lives…
(clip from episode #39)
Expert hosts Chris Benson and Daniel Whitenack are here to keep you fully-connected with the world of machine learning and data science.
Please listen to a recent episode that interests you and subscribe today. We’d love to have you as a listener!
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Memory and learning (Brain Science #14)
Mireille and Adam discuss the process of forming memories, the various types of memory, anxieties, phobias, panic attacks, and how our attention and our memory relates to learning. Where you place your attention influences what you might remember. What you are able to remember influences how you feel, the choices you make, and your future outcomes.
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Questions to consider as you listen to this episode:
- What is memory?
- How does the process of forming memories work?
- Types of memory?
- How does this relate to learning?
- What can I do differently given this understanding of memory?
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Prepare yourself for Quantum Computing (Changelog Interviews #387)
Johan Vos joined us to talk about his new book ‘Quantum Computing for Developers’ which is available to read right now as part of the Manning Early Access Program (MEAP). Listen near the end of the show to learn how you can get a free copy or check the show notes for details. We talked with Johan about the core principles of Quantum Computing, the hardware and software involved, the differences between quantum computing and classical computing, a little bit of physics, and what can we developers do today to prepare for the perhaps-not-so-distant future of Quantum Computing.
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Comment on this episode for a chance to win a FREE copy of the eBook version of Quantum Computing for Developers. Tell us why you are interested in Quantum Computing and how this book might help you prepare for this new frontier in computation. Our 3 favorite comments will be selected 30 days from the date of publish for this episode.
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- The book — Quantum Computing for Developers
- Qubit on Wikipedia
- Quantum superposition on Wikipedia
- gluonhq/strange - Quantum Computing API for Java
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Speech recognition to say it just right (Practical AI #82)
Catherine Breslin of Cobalt joins Daniel and Chris to do a deep dive on speech recognition. She also discusses how the technology is integrated into virtual assistants (like Alexa) and is used in other non-assistant contexts (like transcription and captioning). Along the way, she teaches us how to assemble a lexicon, acoustic model, and language model to bring speech recognition to life.
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- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
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- Catherine Breslin - Google Scholar
- Cobalt Speech and Language
- Business Insider: The 100 coolest people in UK tech - Catherine Breslin
- The Female Lead - Catherine Breslin
- Silicon Republic: 15 architects building the data-driven future
- Stylist: Meet the woman who teaches Amazon Alexa how to understand humans
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Redwood brings full-stack to the JAMstack (JS Party #119)
Tom Preston-Werner (co-founder of GitHub, board member at Netlify) joins the party and brings his new, opinionated, full-stack, serverless web app framework with him. Will Redwood help usher in the future Tom predicted back in 2018? We discuss that and a whole lot more on this must-listen episode.
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- Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Divya – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
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The Zen of Go (Go Time #122)
Dave Cheney talks to us about the Zen of Go (ten engineering values for writing simple, readable, maintainable Go code). What makes code good in Go? What guiding principles should we bear in mind when writing Go?
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Engineer to manager and back again (Changelog Interviews #386)
Lauren Tan joined us to talk about her blog post titled “Does it spark joy?” In this post Lauren shared the news of her resignation as an engineering manager at Netflix to return to being a software engineer. We examine the career trajectory of a software engineer and the seemingly inevitable draw to management for continued career growth. The idea of understanding “What are you optimizing for?” and whether or not what you’re doing truly brings you joy.
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- Does It Spark Joy?
- Go Fast and Break Things: The Difference Between Reversible and Irreversible Decisions
- WHAT AM I GOING TO DO WITH MY LIFE???
- The Engineer/Manager Pendulum
- The Regret Minimization Framework: How Jeff Bezos Made Decisions
- How to quit your job spectacularly well
- Stay Uncomfortable. Stay Hungry.
- The one question that will change your life
- Steve Jobs on connecting the dots
- thepricegeek.com
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It is Go Time! (Go Time)
This is THE podcast for diverse discussions from around the Go community.
Go Time’s panel hosts special guests like Kelsey Hightower… (clip from episode #114)
picks the brains of the Go team at Google… (clip from episode #100)
shares their expertise from years in the industry (clip from episode #102)
and has an absolute laugh riot along the way… (clip from episode #110)
It is Go Time! Please listen to a recent episode that interests you and subscribe today. We’d love to have you with us.
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- Jon Calhoun – Website, GitHub, X
- Jaana Dogan – Website, GitHub, X
- Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Carmen Andoh – GitHub, X
- Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
- Ashley Willis – GitHub, X
- Mark Bates – Website, GitHub, X
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Brace for turbulence (Brain Science #13)
In the wake of the coronavirus outbreak being declared a global pandemic and a national emergency here in the United States as well as many other countries around the world, it would be extremely difficult to have a serious conversation here on Brain Science that’s not colored by today’s very serious events. Mireille and Adam discuss the anxiety, fear, and panic that many may be facing. How do we navigate the unseeable unknown? How should we respond to change and the state of the world we are now living in?
Don’t panic. Prepare for change. Be adaptable. Be resilient.
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- ‘Brace for turbulence,’ Coronavirus is the black swan of 2020
- COVID-19 (2019-nCoV) real time dashboard
- Coronavirus and the remote work experiment no one asked for
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Building a career in Data Science (Practical AI #81)
Emily Robinson, co-author of the book Build a Career in Data Science, gives us the inside scoop about optimizing the data science job search. From creating one’s resume, cover letter, and portfolio to knowing how to recognize the right job at a fair compensation rate.
Emily’s expert guidance takes us from the beginning of the process to conclusion, including being successful during your early days in that fantastic new data science position.
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Comment on the episode page for a chance to win a FREE copy of the eBook! Tell us why you are interested in Data Science and how this book might help you achieve your goals. Our 3 favorite comments will be selected on April 13th!
Books
- “Build a Career in Data Science” by Emily Robinson and Jacqueline Nolis
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- “Cracking the Coding Interview” by Gayle Laakmann McDowell
- “Designing Your New Work Life” by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans
- “Designing Your Life” by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans
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Pushing webpack forward (Changelog Interviews #385)
We sit down with Tobias Koppers of webpack fame to talk about his life as a full-time maintainer of one of the most highly used (4 million+ dependent repos!) and influential tools in all of the web.
Things we ask Tobias include: how he got here, how he pays himself, has he ever gotten a raise, what his typical day is like, how he decides what to work on, if he pays attention to the competition, and if he’s ever suffered from burnout.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- webpack with Sean Larkin (The Changelog #233)
- webpack’s homepage
- webpack on Open Collective
- webpack on GitHub
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"I do, we do, you do" (JS Party #118)
This week we’re talking about building technical courses! From video courses to written courses, we’ll give you our tips for building an effective and memorable course.
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- Jason Lengstorf – Website, GitHub, X
- Emma Bostian – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
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Find Jason
- Learn With Jason
- Egghead.io
- How I Cut My Work Hours In Half And Somehow Managed To Get More Done conference talk
Cool people we mentioned
- Wes Bos
- Scott Tolinski
- Angie Jones
- Sarah Drasner
- Kyle Shevlin
- Dave Ceddia
- Tyler McGinnis
- Bianca Gandolfo
- Brian Holt
- Chris Biscardi
- Ali Spittel
- Kent Dodds
Courses we love
- Introduction To Gatsby by Jason Lengsdorf
- KBall’s Skillshare course on SVG
- Test Automation University
- Data Structures & Algorithms in JavaScript by Kyle Shevlin
Books
Miscellaneous
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Pow! Pow! Power tools! (Go Time #121)
Johnny and John welcome Thorsten Ball back to the show. This time we’re talking power tools! Editors, operating systems, containers, cloud providers, databases, and more. You name it, we probably talk about.
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- Algorithms with Go – A free Go course where panelist Jon Calhoun teaches you how algorithms and data structures work, how to implement them in Go code, and where to practice at. Great for learning Go, learning about algorithms for the first time, or refreshing your algorithmic knowledge.
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- Thorsten Ball – Website, GitHub, X
- Jon Calhoun – Website, GitHub, X
- Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- How much do we bend to the will of our tools?
- vim - A terminal-based text editor.
- tmux - A terminal multiplexer.
- postgres.app - A postgres server for macOS.
- psql - The default PostgreSQL CLI, configurable via
~/.psqlrc. - pgcli - CLI for postgres.
- jq - Command line JSON parsing tool.
- bolt db - A key value store written in Go.
- bleve - A text indexing library for go
- ngrok - A useful tool for exposing localhost apps to the web for testing things like webhooks.
- Paw - A tool for testing APIs on a Mac.
- Postman - Another tool for testings APIs, but works on all OSes.
- modd - A tool for reloading code and running tests when it changes.
- gotest - A tool for running Go tests with color output.
- Github CLI - Github’s official CLI tool.
- Getting Things Done - A time management method.
- Trello - A task management platform.
- Things - A todo app for macOS.
- Todoist - A cross-platform todo app.
- Notion - A cross-platform todo app.
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Altair 8800 and the dawn of a revolution (Changelog Interviews)
We partnered with Red Hat to promote Season 4 of Command Line Heroes — a podcast about the people who transform technology from the command line up. Season 4 is all about hardware that changed the game. We’re featuring episode 3 from season 4 — called “Personal Computers: The Altair 8800 and the Dawn of a Revolution.” This is the story of personal computers and the revolution that took place in the PC era.
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The Altair 8800 is why we have computers in most homes today. It was initially designed for hobbyists. But a few visionaries saw massive potential in this strange little machine—and worked hard to make others see it too. What they created led to so much more than anyone could have ever imagined.
Forrest Mims tells us how his co-founder, Ed Roberts, planned to save their struggling electronics company. His idea? A microcomputer made for hobbyists. That computer led to a fateful phone call from Bill Gates and Paul Allen. Dan Sokol and Lee Felsenstein recall the unveiling of the Altair 8800 at the Homebrew Computer Club, and how it sparked Steve Wozniak’s eureka moment for the Apple I. We then hear from John Markoff about an infamous software heist that set the stage for the debate about whether code should be proprietary. And finally, Limor Fried reflects on how this story continues to influence today’s open source hardware movement.
- First Invite to the Homebrew Computer Club by Fred Moore
- The Altair story; early days at MITS by Forrest M. Mims III
- WIRED article on the Altair by Randy Alfred
- Video: Demo of the Altair by Don Russ
- PC Mag article on Altair by Michael J. Miller
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Enter the Matrix (Changelog Interviews #384)
Matthew Hodgson (technical co-founder) joined us to talk about Matrix - an open source project and open standard for secure, decentralized, real-time communication. It’s open source, it’s decentralized, it’s end-to-end-encrypted, and it’s also self-sovereign. Matrix also provides a bridge feature to bridge existing platforms and communication silos into a global open matrix of communication. A recent big win for Matrix was Mozilla’s announcement of switching off its IRC network that it had been using for 22 years and now uses Matrix instead.
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- Matrix.org
- Matrix spec
- Matrix on GitHub
- Welcoming Mozilla to Matrix!
- Synchronous Messaging at Mozilla (the decision post)
- Check out this link and discussion on HN about “candidates for Mozilla’s IRC successor”
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What exactly is "data science" these days? (Practical AI #80)
Matt Brems from General Assembly joins us to explain what “data science” actually means these days and how that has changed over time. He also gives us some insight into how people are going about data science education, how AI fits into the data science workflow, and how to differentiate yourself career-wise.
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Show Notes:
- General Assembly
- Betavector
- Previous episode: Exposing the deception of DeepFakes
- Data Science Venn diagram
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Catching up with Gatsby (JS Party #117)
Dustin Schau joins the party to talk about the state of Gatsby and the changes and improvements to it in the last year. We talk about what Gatsby delivers to the front end and how it does it quickly with improvements to the build system. Dustin also fields our questions and talks about Gatsby Cloud and where things are going.
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- JS Party #71: Wow, Gatsby is a mashup on steroids
- Gatsby 2019 recap
- Announcing Gatsby builds and reports
- The cost of client-side rehydration
- The cost of JavaScript in 2019
- Why Gatsby is better with JavaScript
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Your choice is your superpower (Brain Science #12)
Mireille and Adam discuss the power of choice as it relates to our locus of control, decision making, and the changes we want to make in our lives. Emotions play a role in decision making as do our values and the perceived payout. When we are aware of the choices we make, we have the capacity to change them and henceforth, the direction of our lives, and the way we feel.
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- Who Moved my Cheese?
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman — this review on NY Times was interesting to read
- The riddle of experience vs. memory by Daniel Kahneman from the TED Conference
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On the verge of new AI possibilities (Go Time #120)
In this episode Jaana and Mat are joined by Daniel and Miriah to dive into AI in Go. Why has python historically had a bigger foothold in the AI scene? Is machine learning in Go growing? What libraries and tools are out there for someone looking to get started with AI? And where do you start if you don’t have enough data for your own models?
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- Miriah Peterson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Jaana Dogan – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- The Practical AI podcast - Our sister podcast with Daniel Whitenack and Chris Benson
- Gopher’s Slack #data-science - This channel is a great place to ask questions and get started with AI in Go.
- Go Num Libraries - Large family of libraries for statistics, etc. Great for AI.
- Gorgonia - Library that helps facilitate machine learning in Go.
- Awesome Machine Learning - The Go section of this repo is helpful for finding other AI and ML libraries in Go.
- Gopher Data - A hub for users and developers of Go data process, analytics, etc.
- spaCy and thinc - Python Deep Learning tools that introduced type checking, suggesting this is a valuable thing in ML.
- Google Cloud AutoML - Google’s machine learning models, which can be a good starting point for many orgs.
- Azure Machine Learning - Microsoft’s machine learning tooling and offering. Also a great place for many orgs to start.
- Packyderm - Data science platform with an open source offering.
- Go West Conference - A Go conference in Utah that our guest Miriah helps organize.
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This is JS Party! (JS Party)
We are a party-themed podcast, so FUN is at the heart of every episode. One way we keep things fun is by mixing it up and trying new things.
We play games like JS Jeopardy… (clip from episode #112)
debate hot topics like should websites work without JS… (clip from episode #87)
discuss and analyze the news… (clip from episode #94)
share wisdom we’ve collected over the years… (clip from episode #106)
interview amazing devs like John Resig and Amelia Wattenberger… and a whole lot more.
Oh, and did I mention we record the show live? You can be part of the hijinx each and every Thursday at changelog.com/live.
This is JS Party! Please listen to a recent episode that piques your interest and subscribe today. We’d love to have you with us.
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- Suz Hinton – GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Feross Aboukhadijeh – Website, GitHub, X
- Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Emma Bostian – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Divya – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, X
- Christopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
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From open core to open source (Changelog Interviews #383)
Frank Karlitschek joined us to talk about Nextcloud - a self-hosted free & open source community-driven productivity platform that’s safe home for all your data. We talk about how Nextcloud was forked from ownCloud, successful ways to run community-driven open source projects, open core vs open source, aligned incentives, and the challenges Nextcloud is facing to increase adoption and grow.
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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Special thanks to André Jaenisch and AJ Jordan for suggesting this show and topic!
- Nextcloud
- Nextcloud community on GitHub
- Frank Karlitschek’s talk at FOSDEM — Why I forked my own project and my own company (ownCloud to Nextcloud)
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TensorFlow in the cloud (Practical AI #79)
Craig Wiley, from Google Cloud, joins us to discuss various pieces of the TensorFlow ecosystem along with TensorFlow Enterprise. He sheds light on how enterprises are utilizing AI and supporting AI-driven applications in the Cloud. He also clarifies Google’s relationship to TensorFlow and explains how TensorFlow development is impacting Google Cloud Platform.
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- Google’s “Rules of ML”
- Tensorflow
- TensorFlow Hub
- Unity
- TensorFlow enterprise
- Google’s ML crash course
- 10 week Kaggle course
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Somebody somewhere is generating JS from Fortran (JS Party #116)
KBall interviews Brian Leroux in a wide-ranging discussion covering “Progressive Bundling” with native ES Modules, building infrastructure as code, and what the future of JamStack and serverless deployment might look like.
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Stop the presses (Go Time #119)
Newsletters play a unique role for developers. As the Go community continues to grow and mature, these newsletters provide a much-needed filter for the oft overwhelming stream of new articles, talks, and libraries produced by the community on a weekly basis.
In this episode Johnny, Jon, and Mat are joined by Peter Cooper of the Golang Weekly newsletter to discuss his role as a newsletter curator. We explore difficult topics that touch on ethics and responsibilities of a curator and of course, the impact Peter and his team have on shaping, at least in part, what many in the Go community get exposed to.
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- Jon Calhoun – Website, GitHub, X
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- Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
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- Golang Weekly - The Go newsletter that Peter curates.
- Awesome Newsletter #Go - A list of additional newsletters in the Go
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NLP for the world's 7000+ languages (Practical AI #78)
Expanding AI technology to the local languages of emerging markets presents huge challenges. Good data is scarce or non-existent. Users often have bandwidth or connectivity issues. Existing platforms target only a small number of high-resource languages.
Our own Daniel Whitenack (data scientist at SIL International) and Dan Jeffries (from Pachyderm) discuss how these and related problems will only be solved when AI technology and resources from industry are combined with linguistic expertise from those on the ground working with local language communities. They have illustrated this approach as they work on pushing voice technology into emerging markets.
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- Dan Jeffries – LinkedIn, X
- Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- The world’s languages
- Ethnologue
- TTS for Singlish
- SIL International
- Pachyderm
- Previous episode - Pachyderm’s Kubernetes-based infrastructure for AI
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All the stale things (JS Party #115)
Divya leads a deep discussion with Jerod, KBall, and Nick on what’s stagnating in browsers. What has remained the same in browser tech over the last 20 years that remains a pain point in working with browsers? For example - Focus in browsers hasn’t changed much in 20 years. Why is that and how do we go about making all the stale things in browser tech better?
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Segment 1: APIs that were not developed
- [Proposal] Focus Traversal API
- Input elements are still terrible; CSS appearance property
- Container queries
- Dates still suck, but they are being fixed
- Luxon
- Web Components (RIP?)
- BUT Shadow DOM
- Consistency of CSS Properties BUT Houdini
- Button cursor — why do still have to do
button { cursor: pointer; }??? - SVG amazing but still 2nd class citizen
- Accessibility should be down in the browser
Segment 2: Hypothesizing
- Why didn’t these APIs get anywhere?
- What would’ve needed to happen for them to have progressed?
- Browser wars; the move towards chromium
Segment 3: Shout-outs!!
(in order of appearance)
- KBall: Rachel Andrew’s CSS Grid articles: Understanding CSS Grid: Creating A Grid Container and Understanding CSS Grid: Grid Lines
- Jerod: Justine Haupt’s open source DIY rotary cell phone
- Nick: Tatiana Mac’s talk titled How Privilege Defines Performance
- Divya: Understanding the ECMAScript spec, part 1
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The developer's guide to content creation (Changelog Interviews #382)
Stephanie Morillo (content strategist and previously editor-in-chief of DigitalOcean and GitHub’s company blogs) wrote a book titled The Developer’s Guide to Content Creation — it’s a book for developers who want to consistently and confidently generate new ideas and publish high-quality technical content.
We talked with Stephanie about why developers should be writing and sharing their ideas, crafting a mission statement for your blog and thoughts on personal brand, her 4 step recipe for generating content ideas, as well as promotional and syndication strategies to consider for your developer blog.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- The Developer’s Guide to Content Creation
- The book did well on Product Hunt with 356 upvotes
- Writing a dev blog and need help? Schedule a 30 minute content session with Stephanie.
- What Admiral Grace Hopper really meant when she said, “It’s easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission”
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Quack like a wha-? (Go Time #118)
Interfaces are everywhere in Go. The basic error type is an interface, writing with the fmt package means you are probably using an interface, and there are countless other instances where they pop up. In this episode Mark, Mat, Johnny, and Jon discuss interfaces at length, exploring what they are, how they are using them in their own projects, as well as tips for how you can leverage them in your own code.
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- Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
- Mark Bates – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- Go Issue #20280 - An issue about a cancellable
io.Copy - Cancellable io.Reader example - An example of how to use interface chaining to create a cancellable
io.Reader. - io.TeeReader - A reader mentioned on the podcast that lets you write everything you read to an output.
- io.MultiWriter - A writer mentioned on the podcast that lets you write to multiple outputs.
- Buffalo plugins package - Interfaces and helper utilities for writing Buffalo’s Go plugins.
- Buffalo plugin implementations - Current plugin implementations for Buffalo.
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Competing for attention (Brain Science #11)
Mireille and Adam discuss the mechanism of attention as an allocation of one’s resources. If we can think of attention as that of a lens, we can practice choosing what we give our attention to recognizing that multiple things, both externally and internally, routinely compete for our attention. Distraction can also be useful when we utilize it intentionally to manage the focus of our attention.
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Attention is the mechanism through which the brain focuses resources on some thing. If you can direct your attention, then you can direct where your brain puts its resources. You can think of attention similar to that of a camera lens. What lens and at what focal length are you using to focus with?
- The Web 2.0 Show #43 w/ Kathy Sierra: Creating passionate users
- Watch! Pay attention: you can change your brain by Kitty Chisholm at TEDxLondonBusinessSchool — where she says “It’s a very a competitive environment,” when it comes to attention.
- Add this to your book shelf — Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- As well as Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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The dawn of sponsorware (Changelog Interviews #381)
Caleb Porzio is the creator & maintainer of Livewire, AlpineJS, and more. His latest open source endeavor was announced as “sponsorware”, which means it lived in a private repo (only available to Caleb’s GitHub Sponsors) until he hit a set sponsorship threshold, at which point it was open sourced.
On this episode, we talk through this sponsorware experiment in-depth. We learn how he dreamt it up, how it went (spoiler: very well), and how he had to change his mindset on 2 things in order to make sustainability possible.
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Real-time conversational insights from phone call data (Practical AI #77)
Daniel and Chris hang out with Mike McCourt from Invoca to learn about the natural language processing model architectures underlying Signal AI. Mike shares how they process conversational data, the challenges they have to overcome, and the types of insights that can be harvested.
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- Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- Mike McCourt | Invoca Employee Spotlight
- Invoca
- Signal AI
- Zipf’s law
- Meet the Data Scientists Behind Invoca’s Conversational Analytics Algorithms
-Invoca raises $56 million to apply AI and analytics to voice calls
-Invoca’s Signal Discovery uses machine learning to conduct conversational analysis on inbound calls
-Invoca - What Will You Discover?
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Productionising real-world ML data pipelines (Changelog Interviews #380)
Yetunde Dada from QuantumBlack joins Jerod for a deep dive on Kedro, a workflow tool that helps structure reproducible, scaleable, deployable, robust, and versioned data pipelines. They discuss what Kedro’s all about and how it’s “changing the landscape of data pipelines in Python”, the ins/outs of open sourcing Kedro, and how they found early success by sweating the details. Finally, Jerod asks Yetunde about her passion project: a virtual reality film which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in January.
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- Kedro on GitHub
- Kedro’s documentation
- Cookiecutter
- CausalNex on GitHub
- Atomu at Sundance
- QuantumBlack is hiring
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Octane moves Ember to an HTML-first approach (JS Party #114)
KBall and Nick dive deep with Chris Manson and Jen Weber from the Ember core team. They talk about Ember.js: What it is, why it’s different, what’s new in the Ember Octane release, and what’s exciting in the future of the project.
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Segment 1: About Ember
Segment 2: Ember Octane
- Octane is Here
- Ember Guides: Testing Components
- Ember Guides: Template Lifecycle DOM and Modifiers
- Ember Guides: Autotracking In Depth
- Ember Guides: The Ember Tutorial
Segment 3: Future of Ember
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Telemetry and the art of measuring what matters (Go Time #117)
Telemetry is tricky to get started with. What metrics should you be tracking? Which metrics are important? Will they help you predict and avoid potential issues? When is a good time to start? Should you put it off until later? In this episode we discuss some common metrics to collect, how to get started with telemetry, and more with guest Dave Blakey of Snapt.
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- Algorithms with Go – A free Go course where panelist Jon Calhoun teaches you how algorithms and data structures work, how to implement them in Go code, and where to practice at. Great for learning Go, learning about algorithms for the first time, or refreshing your algorithmic knowledge.
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- Dave Blakey – LinkedIn, X
- Jon Calhoun – Website, GitHub, X
- Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
- Jaana Dogan – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- OpenTelemetry - Telemetry software that is the merger of OpenCensus and OpenTracing
- Nova - ADC software created by Dave’s company
- statsd - Open source stats aggregator used often in telemetry collection
- Prometheus - Monitoring system for metrics
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GraphQL's benefits and costs (JS Party)
We teamed up with some friends of ours at Heroku to promote the Code-ish podcast so we’re sharing a full-length episode right here in the JS Party feed. This episode features Owen Ou, who is joined by Tanmai Gopal (CEO of Hasura) talking about the pros and cons of using GraphQL in your application. Learn more and subscribe at heroku.com/podcasts/codeish.
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GraphQL is a querying language with the aim of increasing the productivity of frontend and backend developers. It can make working with React easier, be used as an API for third-party clients, and allow for feature-rich applications to request precisely the data they need. Like any part of your stack, GraphQL isn’t a panacea. The language is still being developed, and has some limitations.
- graphql.org is where you can learn all about GraphQL
- Awesome GraphQL provides a list of GraphQL tools
- learn.hasura.io offers GraphQL tutorials
Check the show notes and transcript for more details.
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AI-powered scientific exploration and discovery (Practical AI #76)
Daniel and Chris explore Semantic Scholar with Doug Raymond of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence. Semantic Scholar is an AI-backed search engine that uses machine learning, natural language processing, and machine vision to surface relevant information from scientific papers.
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- Douglas Raymond – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
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- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
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- Semantic Scholar
- Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
- ELMo
- SciBERT: A Pretrained Language Model for Scientific Text
- Semantic Scholar API
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Fullstack D3 (JS Party #113)
The State of JS 2019 survey left many in awe of the beautifully rendered line graph created by Amelia Wattenberger. So we’ve brought her on JS Party to discuss how she built it!
We’ll chat about all things D3, a JavaScript library for creating data visualizations, and even learn a bit about the CSS cascade.
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- CSS Cascade by Amelia
- State of JS overview survey
- Star Wars CSS Specificity Wars
- D3 website
- The Fullstack D3 book
- React Spring
- Pudding.cool
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Unusual uses for Go: GUIs (Go Time #116)
Johnny and Jon are joined by Andy Williams to talk about some of the unusual ways developers are using Go. In this particular episode they deep dive into building GUIs and discuss all of the challenges imposed by trying to build a UI that is both cross platform and functional. How do you create buttons that work on both mobile and a desktop app? Should you even be designing both apps at the same time? Tune in to find out!
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- Algorithms with Go – A free Go course where panelist Jon Calhoun teaches you how algorithms and data structures work, how to implement them in Go code, and where to practice at. Great for learning Go, learning about algorithms for the first time, or refreshing your algorithmic knowledge.
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- Jon Calhoun – Website, GitHub, X
- Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
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- Enlightenment Window Manager - Window manager mentioned on the show
- Shiny Go Bindings - A way to access Shiny with Go
- Qt Go Bindings - A way to interact with Qt in Go
- andlabs UI - GUI library in Go
- Fyne - GUI library in Go
- Wails - GUI library in Go using Vue.js
- Awesome Go - List of Go projects with a GUI section
- Hands on GUI Application Development in Go - Andrew’s book on GUI development
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Good tech debt (Changelog Interviews #379)
Jon Thornton (Engineering Manager at Squarespace) joined the show to talk about tech debt by way of his post to the Squarespace engineering blog titled “3 Kinds of Good Tech Debt”. We talked through the concept of “good tech debt,” how to leverage it, how to manage it, who’s in charge of it, how it’s similar to ways we leverage financial debt, and how Squarespace uses tech debt to drive product development.
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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3 Kinds of Good Tech Debt ~> discuss
“Tech debt” is a dirty word in the software engineering world. It’s often said with an air of regret; a past mistake that will eventually need to be atoned for with refactoring.
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Shame on you (Brain Science #10)
Mireille and Adam discuss shame as an emotional and experiential construct. We dive into the neural structures involved in processing this emotion as well as the factors and implications of our experience of shame. Shame is a natural response to the threat of vulnerability and perception of oneself as defective or inherently “not enough.”
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What is shame?
Brené Brown, leading researcher on shame, vulnerability and connection — ”Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It’s the fear that we’re not good enough.”
The “hustle” of not enough
Shame is the response to threat. It is a stress response. Think of Shame as the inner critic. The one who berates and belittles you out of this place of fear of inadequacy or inherent flaw.
Shame vs. guilt
- Shame = I AM bad/marred/irreparably flawed.
- Guilt = I DID something bad.
Guilt is rooted in a behavior you did whereas shame is all encompassing, fundamentally who you are as defective or inadequate.
Behavioral response
Shame prompts hiding. Because when we feel ashamed, we don’t want to expose ourselves to others. If we “feel” or believe ourselves to be marred, it makes sense that we would be apt to hide.
From an evolutionary perspective - Shame is a signal that you aren’t part of the tribe, which would’ve been threatening or dangerous.
Is the culture of today conditioning us to feel dis-content more often?
“I stopped trying to keep up with the Jones’ because I realized that when I wake up someone moved the line.”
Examine what you are optimizing for as opposed to applying the “one-size-fits-all” approach.
How do I manage shame more adaptively?
- Identify the emotion. What is the perceived threat that I’m reacting to?
- Identify your tribe. Who can I connect with? Who’s part of my tribe?
- What is my system for soothing? I need to upload new soothing/calming data.
It all comes back to being grounded in knowing what you’re optimizing for and recognizing that being who we are — being human, always involves vulnerability so we have to practice showing up.
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The soul of an old machine (Changelog Interviews)
We partnered with Red Hat to promote Season 4 of Command Line Heroes — a podcast about the people who transform technology from the command line up. Season 4 is all about hardware that changed the game. We’re featuring episode 1 from season 4 — called “Minicomputers: The soul of an old machine.” This is the story of Minicomputers and how they paved the way for the personal computers that could fit in a bag and, eventually, the phones in our pockets.
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They don’t fit in your pocket. But in their day, minicomputers were an order of magnitude smaller than the room-sized mainframes that preceded them. And they paved the way for the personal computers that could fit in a bag and, eventually, the phones in your pocket.
16-bit minicomputers changed the world of IT in the 1970s. They gave companies the opportunity for each engineer to have their own machines. But it wasn’t quite enough, not until the arrival of 32-bit versions.
Carl Alsing and Jim Guyer recount their work at Data General to create a revolutionary new 32-bit machine. But their now legendary work was done in secret. Codenamed “Eagle,” their machine was designed to compete with one being built by another team in their own company. These engineers recall the corporate politics and intrigue required to keep the project going—and how they turned restrictions into advantages. Neal Firth discusses life on an exciting-but-demanding project. One where the heroes worked together because they wanted to, without expectations of awards or fame. And all three discuss how this story was immortalized in the non-fiction engineering classic, The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder.
- The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
- The New Golden Age of Building with Soul by Jessie Frazelle
- The Minicomputers of the 70s by Georg Wittenburg
- Rise and Fall of Minicomputers by Gordon Bell
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Insights from the AI Index 2019 Annual Report (Practical AI #75)
Daniel and Chris do a deep dive into The AI Index 2019 Annual Report, which provides unbiased rigorously-vetted data that one can use “to develop intuitions about the complex field of AI”. Analyzing everything from R&D and technical advancements to education, the economy, and societal considerations, Chris and Daniel lay out this comprehensive report’s key insights about artificial intelligence.
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Open source meets climate science (Changelog Interviews #378)
Anders Damsgaard is a climate science researcher working on cryosphere processes at the Department of Geophysics at Stanford University. He joined the show to talk with us about the intersection of open source and climate science. Specifically, we discuss a set of shell tools he created called The Scholarref Tools which allow you to perform most of the tasks required to gather the references needed during the writing phase of an academic paper. We also discuss climate science, physics, self hosting Git, and why Anders isn’t present on any “social” networks.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- adamsgaard.dk
- The Scholarref Tools
- Why I deleted my GitHub account
- Anders Damsgaard’s photography
- stagit - Static git web viewer
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Do you want JavaScript again or more JavaScript? (JS Party #112)
It’s a new year which means companies are hiring and developers are interviewing. So we thought it would be fun to host a fun game of technical Jeopardy.
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- Emma Bostian – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Christopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
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Here are some of the topics we covered which might be useful to know in a technical interview! You should never have to define any of these things but knowing their concepts and how they work will help you land a job!
CSS
- Flexbox Froggy
- Flexbox Defense
- Polypane App
- Media queries
- Keyframes
- Specificity
- Selectors
- Pseudo classes / elements
- Pre-processors
- Combinators
HTML
- Aside
- DOCTYPE
- Meta tag
- iFrame
- Canvas
The Web
- HTTPS
- Cache
- Cookies
- TCP/IP
JavaScript
- Const, let, var
- Scope / hoisting
- Undefined, null
- Protoypes / the prototype chain
- Promises
- Higher-order functions
- Callback functions
- Closures
- Map
- Set
- Event bubbling / delegation
- Functional programming
- Strict mode
- Prevent default
- Type of / instance of
Miscellaneous
- Stack overflow
- WAI-ARIA & accessibility
- XSS attacks / security breaches
- SEO
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Grokking Go.dev (Go Time #115)
Carmen, Mat, and Jon are joined by Steve Francia and Julie Qiu to discuss the new Go.dev website. What was the motivation behind it? What technology was used to build it? How are they working to make package discovery better? And what resources are there to help you convince your manager to use Go on that upcoming project?
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- Algorithms with Go – A free Go course where panelist Jon Calhoun teaches you how algorithms and data structures work, how to implement them in Go code, and where to practice at. Great for learning Go, learning about algorithms for the first time, or refreshing your algorithmic knowledge.
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- Julie Qiu – GitHub, X
- Steve Francia – GitHub, X
- Carmen Andoh – GitHub, X
- Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Jon Calhoun – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- go.dev - A new hub for Go devs created by the Go team
- pkg.go.dev - The package discovery portion of Go.dev
- “Imported By” example - An example of a package and its imports on Go.dev
- go-discovery-feedback@google.com - Feedback email address
- go-licenses - A tool to check go package licenses
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Testing ML systems (Practical AI #74)
Production ML systems include more than just the model. In these complicated systems, how do you ensure quality over time, especially when you are constantly updating your infrastructure, data and models? Tania Allard joins us to discuss the ins and outs of testing ML systems. Among other things, she presents a simple formula that helps you score your progress towards a robust system and identify problem areas.
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- Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
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- “What’s your ML score” talk
- “Jupyter Notebooks: Friends or Foes?” talk
- Joel Grus’s episode: “AI code that facilitates good science”
- Papermill
- nbdev
- nbval
Books
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Becoming an accidental founder (Founders Talk #68)
Mike McDerment is the founder and CEO of FreshBooks. Believe it or not, Mike became a founder by accident. Like many of us, Mike had an itch that he just had to scratch. One thing led to another and soon enough FreshBooks became a key tool in the belt of many freelancers and agencies looking for an easy way to send invoices and get paid quickly online. We talk through the early days of FreshBooks and how things came to be, why they created a secret competitor to iterate on a bold idea for the future of FreshBooks, and we also cover what keeps Mike excited.
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- We use FreshBooks
- The Web 2.0 Show #66 - Freshbooks / Mike McDerment
- Why You Should Become Your Own Competitor
- Starting Over: How FreshBooks Reinvented Its Online Accounting Service On The Fly
- 7 Ways I’ve Almost Killed FreshBooks
Listen to Brain Science #9: One small act of kindness
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Intro to Rust programming (Changelog Interviews)
We teamed up with some friends of ours at Heroku to promote the Code-ish podcast so we’re sharing a full-length episode right here in The Changelog’s feed. This episode features Chris Castle with special guests Carol Nichols and Jake Goulding talking about the strengths of the Rust programming language.
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- Jake Goulding – Website, GitHub, X
- Chris Castle – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Rust is a type-safe, concurrent, and memory efficient language from Mozilla. Developers from various backgrounds are turning towards it more as a means of quickly writing performant and functional code for browsers, cryptocurrencies, operating systems, CLIs, and–oh yeah, embedded devices. Carol Nichols and Jake Goulding are Rust instructors and enthusiasts, and they join Chris Castle to talk about Rust’s underlying strengths as an ideal blend of simpler languages, like Ruby, with more memory conscious ones, like C.
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Lesser known things browsers can do in 2020 (JS Party #111)
Did you know you can make a device vibrate via a webpage? Neither did we until we popped open Luigi De Rosa’s super cool repo that collects many of the lesser known things browsers can do in 2020.
On this episode we hang out on his list and discuss which APIs were surprises to us, which we think are the most useful, which we wish would die in a fire (sorta), and what you might get if you mash up a few of these APIs.
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- Divya – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Show Notes:
- Tweet at @luruke and thank him for this repo
- This is the repo, btw
- Nick Nisi wants you to try the Web Coffee API
- We all think the Web Share API is neat
- Read about the SMS Receiver API
- More on the Web Payments API
- Should we do an episode on A-Frame?
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One small act of kindness (Brain Science #9)
Mireille and Adam dig deeper into empathy as a construct. What key brain structures are involved? How can we better understand empathy to be able to better navigate ourselves and our relationships with others both at home and in the workplace?
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Daniel Siegel, MD, in his book Aware notes 5 Aspects of Empathy:
- Emotional Resonance: Feeling another person’s feelings.
- Perspective Taking: Seeing through the eyes of another.
- Cognitive Understanding: Imagining the mental experiences of another and their meaning.
- Empathic Concern: Caring about the well-being of another. *This is the gateway for compassion.
- Empathic Joy: Feeling happy about another’s happiness or success.
Empathy: In face-to-face interactions, communication has a multi-modal nature involving the processing of visual facial cues (such as the speaker’s facial expression), the tone of the voice (i.e., affective prosody) and the choice of words (i.e., semantics).
**Empathy involves a working model of another person in the mind’s eye.
Brain structures involved:
- Pre-frontal cortex: Involved in perspective taking. Executive function.
- Anterior Cingulate Cortex: The anterior cingulate cortex is sometimes divided into four regions, each of which seem to underpin a separate function (see Bush, Luu, & Posner, 2000).
- Mirror neurons: a brain cell that reacts both when a particular action is performed and when it is only observed. These are activated in the process of empathy.
In particular, the Anterior Cingulate Cortex includes:
- The anterior region, which is involved in executive function
- The dorsal region, which is involved in cognitive processes
- The ventral region, which is involved in emotional regulation
- The posterior region, which is involved in evaluative processes (e.g., Bush, Vogt, Holmes, Dale, Greve, Jenike et al., 2002)
Claus Lamm, PhD, University of Vienna, investigates the processes that regulate firsthand pain and those that cause empathy for pain through numerous studies on the influence of painkillers. According to Lamm, research “suggests that empathy for pain is grounded in representing others’ pain within one’s own pain systems.”
The Role of Facial Expression in Empathy: The value of “looking at” the face of another to provide another data point to understand where they are emotionally.
How might you build your empathy skills? Consider EMPATHY as an acronym: (adapted from Harvard psychiatrist, Helen Riess, MD)
E: Eye contact
M: Muscles of facial expression
P: Posture. What is the person’s body language?
A: Affect/Emotion.
T: Tone of voice. Affective prosody.
H: Hearing the whole person.
Y: Your response. Emotions are contagious.
Getting practical - What can I do differently in order to cultivate empathy?
- Mindfulness as training for increased compassion and empathy.
- Practice responding with empathy outside of the live event: after an actual incident, reflect on what or how you could’ve responded differently that would’ve helped you “see” the other person more effectively or changed the interaction between you?
- Build your internal file of empathy from a conceptual level so that you have a bigger, broader frame of reference for others.
- Give back. Volunteering as practicing loving-kindness; giving to others’ without expectation of return.
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Cloudy with a chance of Kelsey Hightower (Go Time #114)
In this episode, we’re joined by Kelsey Hightower to discuss the evolution of cloud infrastructure management, the role Kubernetes and its API play in it, and how we, as developers and operators, should be adapting to these changes.
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Meet Algo, your personal VPN in the cloud (Changelog Interviews #377)
The commercial VPN industry is a minefield to navigate and many open source solutions are a pain to use or ill-suited for the task. Algo VPN, on the other hand, is a self-hosted personal VPN designed for ease of deployment and security. It uses the securest industry standards, builds on rock-solid solutions like WireGuard and Ansible, and runs on an ever-growing list of cloud hosting providers.
On this episode Dan Guido –CEO of security firm Trail of Bits and Algo’s creator– joins Jerod to discuss the project in depth.
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- About Trail of Bits
- Meet Algo, the VPN that works
- Algo on GitHub
- Most VPN Services are Terrible
- An Analysis of the Privacy and Security Risks of Android VPN Permission-enabled Apps (PDF)
- 101 VPN products run by just 23 companies
- Every “free” VPN
- No one is going to risk jail for your $5/mo
- A story of the entire VPN industry, in 4 acts. Starring NordVPN.
- WireCutter’s review of the best VPN service for 2019
- WireGuard
- Getting 2FA Right in 2019
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AI-driven automation in manufacturing (Practical AI #73)
One of the things people most associate with AI is automation, but how is AI actually shaping automation in manufacturing? Costas Boulis from Bright Machines joins us to talk about how they are using AI in various manufacturing processes and in their “microfactories.” He also discusses the unique challenges of developing AI models based on manufacturing data.
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- Bright Machines’ Microfactories
- Digital twins
- Other relevant Practical AI episodes:
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Your code might be gross for a reason (JS Party #110)
KBall, Divya, Mikeal, and Feross dig deep into refactoring. When to do it, best practices, things to watch out for, and the difference between a refactor and a rewrite. We then close out with some key pro tips.
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Refactoring
Protips
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Go at Heroku (Go Time)
We teamed up with some friends of ours at Heroku to promote the Code-ish podcast so we’re sharing a full-length episode right here in the Go Time feed. This episode features Johnny Boursiquot (Go Time panelist) on the mic with guests Edward Muller and Rishabh Wason talking about Go at Heroku.
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State of the “log” 2019 (Changelog Interviews #376)
Welcome to 2020 — on this year’s “State of the ‘log’” episode Jerod and I look back at our favorite moments from 2019 and forward to 2020 and beyond. We talk through our most popular episodes, our personal favorites, our 10-year anniversary, the excitement we have for Brain Science our newest podcast, it’s for the curious! And we also look forward to plans we have for 2020 and the decade to come…
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We shipped 46 episodes of The Changelog this year (47 last year) and 200 across our entire catalog.
Most popular episodes of 2019:
- #331: GitHub Actions is the next big thing with Kyle Daigle
- #339: Why smart engineers write bad code with Adam Barr
- #352: The Pragmatic Programmers
- #354: Go is eating the world of software with Ron Evans
- #367: Back to Agile’s basics with Bob Martin
Jerod’s favorites:
- #366: Pioneering open source drones and robocars
- #370: The making of GitHub Sponsors
- #353: The war for the soul of open source
Adam’s favorites:
- #361: Generative engineering cultures with David Kaplan
- #357: Shaping, betting, and building with Ryan Singer
- Backstage #7: The John Wick trilogy
Listener todo’s:
- Go Time is back (as of April 2019) and hit their 100th episode — you should subscribe and listen
- We launched a new podcast called Brain Science — listen and subscribe
- Help us celebrate 10 years of Changelog
- Keep up with all our shows by subscribing to Master (this is the only way to get Backstage)
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Go at Cloudflare (Go Time #113)
Jaana, Jon, and Mat are joined by John Graham-Cumming, the CTO of Cloudflare, to discuss Go at Cloudflare along with John’s unique involvement in Gordon Brown’s apology to Alan Turing. How did Cloudflare get started with Go? What problems do they use Go for and when to they turn to other languages? And how exactly did John’s petition for an apology to Turing get so popular?
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- John’s Gophercon Talk
- Plan 9
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- Leap Second Bug
- Apology to Turing story
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The mechanics of goal setting (Brain Science #8)
Mireille and Adam discuss goal setting and the different types of goals we set. We reflect on how can you set goals that work for you and measure them. We also talk about how you go about building the behaviors that align with your identity and resistance we face when we do this. We also share our 2020 goal for Brain Science. This is a must-listen episode to get a grounded perspective in planning your goals for this year and decade.
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Goal setting — are you ready for the new year/new you?
The Marshmallow Test (Carol Dweck, Ph.D.) — The role of delayed gratification in growth mindset and why self-control is the engine of success.
3 types of goals
- Outcome - Outcome goals are very often binary and involve winning, for example, wanting to win a gold medal or wanting to be the largest company in your sector. Whilst outcome goals are hugely motivating, they are not under your control as they are affected by how others perform and/or other external forces.
- Performance - A performance goal is a performance standard that you are trying to achieve. These are the performance standards you set for yourself to achieve if you are going to build towards your outcome goal. Over time, performance goals build upon one another to help you achieve your outcome goal.
- Process - Process goals support performance goals by giving you something to focus on as you work towards your performance goals. Process goals are completely under your control. They are the small things you should focus on or do to eventually achieve your performance goals.
The Kaizen Way - “itty bitty” steps to move you in the direction of the goal you want to achieve.
Areas of life for goal setting: vocational, relational, personal, financial, health, etc.
“SMART” Goals
- Specific
2. Measurable
3. Achievable
4. Realistic
5. Time Bound
How committed am I? If I’m optimizing in one way, it will invariably affect other aspects of my life. Therefore, have I considered the implications of this goal in my life?
The Role of Identity in the goal setting process. Are my goals aligned with my identity?
Accountability and Goal Setting
The American Society of Training and Development (ASTD) study on accountability found that you have a 65% of completing a goal if you commit to someone. And if you have a specific accountability appointment with a person you’ve committed, you will increase your chance of success by up to 95%.
The WILL and the WAY
There’s a lot of research around this at the Social and Affective lab at the University of Oregon. Will and Way –– “The will refers to the motivational and affective processes that drive goal pursuit such as approach motives, and the way refers to the suite of cognitive capacities and abilities that enable goal pursuit such as inhibitory control. Neither part is sufficient on its own; both are necessary for effective self-regulation.” (https://sanlab.uoregon.edu/research/)
Inhibitory control is a major part of goal achievement. I have to be able to “inhibit” my desire/drive for another behavior and replace it with the more adaptive or desirable one.
Our goal for 2020?
The goal for Brain Science in 2020 is to ship WEEKLY episodes (YEAH!). Can you help us achieve our goals? Give us feedback. Join us in Slack to share YOUR circumstances or challenges so we can work with you to help you hack it! Or get in touch on Twitter via @Changelog or @BrainScienceFM.
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How the U.S. military thinks about AI (Practical AI #72)
Chris and Daniel talk with Greg Allen, Chief of Strategy and Communications at the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC). The mission of the JAIC is “to seize upon the transformative potential of artificial intelligence technology for the benefit of America’s national security… The JAIC is the official focal point of the DoD AI Strategy.” So if you want to understand how the U.S. military thinks about artificial intelligence, then this is the episode for you!
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- U.S. Department of Defense Joint Artificial Intelligence Center
- Summary of the 2018 Department of Defense Artificial Intelligence Strategy
- Fact Sheet: 2018 DoD Artificial Intelligence Strategy
- White House AI Website
- Practical AI – Episode #47 - GANs, RL, and transfer learning oh my!
- AlphaGo
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency - DARPA
- Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity - IARPA
- Law of War
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These talks are all quite attractive (JS Party #109)
At Node+JS Interactive… the talks are all quite attractive. From transpilation dread… to awesome worker threads. This conf is surely impactive!
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- Transform a Country through Code
- Oh No! The Robots Have Taken Over!
- A Crash Course On Worker Threads
- A Chat with the Node.js Technical Steering Committee
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defer GoTime() (Go Time #112)
Mat, Carmen, and Jon are joined by Dan Scales to talk about Mat’s favorite keyword in Go - defer. Where did the defer statement come from? What problems can it solve? How has it shaped how we write Go code? How are other languages solving similar problems? And what exactly was changed in Go 1.14 to improve the performance of defer?
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- RAII - the C++ like equivalent to Go’s defer
- Go’s recover builtin
- Compiler changes for lighter defers in 1.14
- Complete defer changeset
- Builders
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2019's AI top 5 (Practical AI #71)
Wow, 2019 was an amazing year for AI! In this fully connected episode, Chris and Daniel discuss their list of top 5 notable AI things from 2019. They also discuss the “state of AI” at the end of 2019, and they make some predictions for 2020.
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- Google search and BERT
- Better Language Models and Their Implications
- Write with Transformer
- Hugging Face Transformers
- Hugging Face receives 15M in funding
- Solving Rubik’s Cube with a Robot Hand
- Training a single AI model can emit as much carbon as five cars in their lifetimes
Other relevant Practical AI episodes:
- Robot hands and Rubik’s cubes
- BERT: one NLP model to rule them all
- OpenAI’s new “dangerous” GPT-2 language model
- Social AI with Hugging Face
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New Year's Party! 🎉 (JS Party #108)
Jerod, Divya, Chris, KBall, & Nick ring in the new year with our 2020 predictions, wish lists, & resolutions. Will Chrome’s browser market share decrease? Will Svelte (or a Svelte-alike) continue to trend? Will Jerod finally write some TypeScript?! Listen along and let us know your thoughts on the matters.
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Predictions
- TabNine uses deep learning to help you write code faster
- The Native File System API
- 7 insights from the State of JS 2019
- The State of JS on TypeScript
Wish lists
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What are you thinking? (Brain Science #7)
Mireille and Adam discuss the role of our thoughts, how they run our lives, and how they make us feel. We talk through alternative ways to think, the power we hold in starving our habitual neural networks, and the ways our thoughts help us to be our best selves. How aware are you of the quality of the soil of your mind?
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Thoughts and the thinker – How do our thoughts affect how we do ourselves and live our lives?
The Role of Attention or Awareness: If we aren’t considerate or reflective of our thoughts, we ignore the environment in which we grow.
Maladaptive thoughts: Aaron Beck – 10 Cognitive Distortions
- Catastrophic Thinking: Imagining the worst case scenario.
Context and gratitude as alternative options.
Thoughts affect feelings and feelings affect thinking.
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All or nothing thinking: Thinking in binary or absolutes modes. This type of thinking perpetuates more cognitive rigidity and lends to feeling hopeless.
Reframing strategies – Use specifics in lieu of the generalities or extremes.
Building skills in new lanes…moving from expert to novice when you move the skill or knowledge into a new area or relationship. -
Don’t SHOULD on yourself! Creating an external construct and imposing and applying it to oneself. These are within the context of your own internal self-talk and personal expectations.
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Mental Filters: Focusing on one aspect or detail of a situation and obsessing over it.
Reframe – What else can you focus on…put on a different lens to see your world.
It isn’t just about NOT doing these things, it’s about being intentional and reflective around the thoughts we think and putting forth effort in the direction that you want to go.
Use the “Best Friend” test. Would you say to your best friend what you say to yourself?
Resources: Shawn Achor, author of The Happiness Advantage
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Gerhard goes to KubeCon (part 2) (Changelog Interviews #375)
Gerhard is back for part two of our interviews at KubeCon 2019. Join him as he goes deep on Prometheus with Björn Rabenstein, Ben Kochie, and Frederic Branczyk… Grafana with Tom Wilkie and Ed Welch… and Crossplane with Jared Watts, Marques Johansson, and Dan Mangum.
Don’t miss part one with Bryan Liles, Priyanka Sharma, Natasha Woods, & Alexis Richardson.
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- Ben Kochie – GitHub
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- Tom Wilkie – GitHub, X
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- Jared Watts – GitHub, X
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- Dan Mangum – Website, GitHub, X
- Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
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See also: Gerhard goes to KubeCon (part 1)
Prometheus
Grafana
Crossplane
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Bugs are in the air (Go Time #111)
Guests are catching the bug, so we decided to spend this episode talking about bugs! How do you find and fix your bugs? Do you sketch things out, whip out the debugger, or something else?
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AI for search at Etsy (Practical AI #70)
We have all used web and product search technologies for quite some time, but how do they actually work and how is AI impacting search? Andrew Stanton from Etsy joins us to dive into AI-based search methods and to talk about neuroevolution. He also gives us an introduction to Rust for production ML/AI and explains how that community is developing.
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Show Notes:
- Yahoo learning to rank challenge
- NEAT approach to neuroevolution
- OpenAI evolutionary strategies for Atari
- Rust
- PyO3, Rust binding for the Python interpreter
- Buzzsaw: A System for High Speed Feature Engineering
- LinkedIn at KDD
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Modular software architecture (JS Party #107)
Jerod and Divya welcome npm CTO Ahmad Nassri to discuss modular architecture. What it is, why it matters, and how you can achieve it. Ahmad has been thinking deeply about this topic lately and we have a very fruitful discussion that should have takeaways for developers of all experience levels.
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- Listen to Ahmad’s epic backstory on The Changelog #185
- Read Ahmad’s slide deck on modern patterns in modular architecture
- Check out Framer
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Gerhard goes to KubeCon (part 1) (Changelog Interviews #374)
Changelog’s resident infrastructure expert Gerhard Lazu is on location at KubeCon 2019. This is part one of a two-part series from the world’s largest open source conference. In this episode you’ll hear from event co-chair Bryan Liles, Priyanka Sharma and Natasha Woods from GitLab, and Alexis Richardson from Weaveworks.
Stay tuned for part two’s deep dives in to Prometheus, Grafana, and Crossplane.
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- Priyanka Sharma – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Natasha Woods – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Alexis Richardson – GitHub, X
- Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
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See also: Gerhard goes to KubeCon (part 2)
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The fireside edition 🔥 (Go Time #110)
Grab a hot beverage and a warm blanket because it’s time for a fireside chat with the Go Time panel! We discuss many topics of interest: what we’d build if we had 2 weeks to build anything in Go, the things about Go that “grind our gears”, our ideal work environments, and advice we’d give ourselves if we were starting our career all over again.
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- Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
- Jon Calhoun – Website, GitHub, X
- Jaana Dogan – Website, GitHub, X
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Escaping the "dark ages" of AI infrastructure (Practical AI #69)
Evan Sparks, from Determined AI, helps us understand why many are still stuck in the “dark ages” of AI infrastructure. He then discusses how we can build better systems by leveraging things like fault tolerant training and AutoML. Finally, Evan explains his optimistic outlook on AI’s economic and environmental health impact.
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- Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
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- Determined AI
- Previous episode on Alpha pilot
- Blog post - AI Leadership And The Positive Impacts On Economy, Privacy, Environmental Health
- Blog post - Announcing the future of AI infrastructure
- Apache Spark
- MLlib
- Antique Candle Co.
- Joel Grus on AI code that facilitates good science
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Trending up GitHub's developer charts (Changelog Interviews #373)
In this episode we’re shining our maintainer spotlight on Ovilia. Hailing from Shanghai, China, Ovilia is an up-and-coming developer who contributes to Apache ECharts, maintains Polyvia, which does very cool low-poly image and video processing, and has a sweet personal website, too.
This episode with Ovilia continues our maintainer spotlight series where we dig deep into the life of an open source software maintainer. We’re producing this series in partnership with Tidelift. Huge thanks to Tidelift for making this series possible.
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Mikeal schools us on ES Modules (JS Party #106)
ES Modules are unflagged in Node 13. What does this mean? Can we use them yet? We chat with Mikeal, our resident expert, and find out.
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Building an open source excavation robot for NASA (Changelog Interviews #372)
Ronald Marrero is a software developer working on NASA’s Artemis program, which aims at landing the first woman and next man on the Moon by 2024. How Ron got here is a fascinating story, starting at UCF and winding its way through the Florida Space Institute, working with NASA’s Swamp Works team, and building an open source excavation robot.
On this episode Ron tells us how it all went down and shares what he learned along the way.
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- Introducing the EZ-RASSOR
- EZ-RASSOR on GitHub
- ROS.org
- What I learned working with NASA on a robotics project
- NASA Artemis program
- The Space Robotics Challenge
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Concurrency, parallelism, and async design (Go Time #109)
Go was designed with concurrency in mind. That’s why we have language primitives like goroutines, channels, wait groups, and mutexes. They’re very powerful when used correctly, but they can be very complicated if used unwisely.
Roberto Clapis joins the team once again to drop async wisdom in your ears. Don’t worry, we do it in serial. 😉
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- Jaana Dogan – Website, GitHub, X
- Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
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Modern NLP with spaCy (Practical AI #68)
SpaCy is awesome for NLP! It’s easy to use, has widespread adoption, is open source, and integrates the latest language models. Ines Montani and Matthew Honnibal (core developers of spaCy and co-founders of Explosion) join us to discuss the history of the project, its capabilities, and the latest trends in NLP. We also dig into the practicalities of taking NLP workflows to production. You don’t want to miss this episode!
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Re-licensing Sentry (Changelog Interviews #371)
David Cramer joined the show to talk about the recent license change of Sentry to the Business Source License from a BSD 3-clause license. We talk about the details that triggered this change, the specifics of the BSL license and its required parameters, the threat to commercial open source products like Sentry, his concerns for the “open core” model, and what the future of open source might look like in light of protections-oriented source-available licenses like the BSL becoming more common.
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- Re-licensing Sentry + Hacker News comments
- Re-licensing Sentry - FAQ & Discussion
- https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/commit/ca8674c533a0dffc48a177554479bb85fa05891b
- Why We’re Relicensing CockroachDB
- Bruce Perns on the Business Source License
- Business Source License 1.1
- Adopting and Developing BSL Software
- The Changelog #278: Blockchains and Databases at OSCON with Monty Widenius, Brian Behlendorf, and Tague Griffith
- Adam Jacob on The Changelog
- OSI licenses
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Modernizing Etsy’s codebase with React (JS Party #105)
KBall connects with Katie Sylor-Miller to talk about migrating OhShitGit to the JAMStack, migrating legacy codebases to modern front-end technologies, and design systems.
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Making GANs practical (Practical AI #67)
GANs are at the center of AI hype. However, they are also starting to be extremely practical and be used to develop solutions to real problems. Jakub Langr and Vladimir Bok join us for a deep dive into GANs and their application. We discuss the basics of GANs, their various flavors, and open research problems.
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Books
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The making of GitHub Sponsors (Changelog Interviews #370)
Devon Zuegel is an Open Source Product Manager at GitHub. She’s also one of the key people responsible for making GitHub Sponsors a thing. We talk with Devon about how she came to GitHub to develop GitHub Sponsors, the months of research she did to learn how to best solve the sustainability problem of open source, why GitHub is now addressing this issue, the various ways and models of addressing maintainers’ financial needs, and Devon also shared what’s in store for the future of GitHub Sponsors.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- Feross Aboukhadijeh on GitHub
- Sponsor your favorite open source contributors directly on GitHub
- GitHub Universe 2019 TL;DR
- Daniel Stenberg on GitHub
- curl/curl on GitHub
- curl’s FUNDING.yml
- Become a sponsor to curl
- GitHub Explore
- Open Collective
- BackYourStack
- CodeFund
- Hope in Source
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Mentor-ship 🛳️ (JS Party #104)
This week we chatted with Kahlil Lechelt about mentorship. What types of mentorships are there, what makes a successful mentorship, and where can you find a mentor?
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- Emma Bostian – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- Paul Irish 10 Things I Learned from the jQuery Source
- Addy Osmani
- Wes Bos
- Coding Coach
- Coding Coach Guidelines
- Chakra UI
- React Spring
- Level Up Tutorials
- Lottie
- MoScoW Method
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Respect, empathy, and compassion (Brain Science #6)
Mireille and Adam discuss empathy, respect, and compassion and the role each of these interpersonal constructs play in strengthening our relationships, both personally and professionally. What exactly is empathy, respect, and compassion? What are key indicator lights to be aware of when any of them are lacking or off-kilter? We also discuss Dr. John Gottman’s research on “The Four Horsemen” in relationships.
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Respect, empathy, and compassion as multiple parts of a system:
- We need understanding or respect for others. Respect means I don’t have to have experienced what someone else has in order for it to be true.
- We use empathy to “see” things from another’s perspective, not my perspective of their perspective.
- Compassion as “suffering with” others – holding the awareness of another’s experience and coming alongside them. This results in action not simply knowledge.
INQUIRE about others’ experience – instead of telling someone how they should feel or think YOU can ask questions to improve the clarity of YOUR understanding of THEIR experience. This is a way in which we can “build” our skill in terms of having empathy for others. Seek to understand, not judge.
Have REGARD for others’ experiences – this is evidence of respect. It is easy to use ourselves to make sense of what we don’t know; therefore, we need to learn how to consider the direction of the “lens” we use.
Collaboration as a key component of respect and empathy. How do we make sense of others’ perspectives or experiences?
Challenges with feedback from others:
- Invalidation ==> telling someone that they shouldn’t feel or think what they do, in fact, think or feel.
- We are apt to struggle with an undercurrent of distrust in one’s self when we get feedback like this from others.
Indicator lights of having difficulty giving respect, empathy, or compassion with ourselves and others.
- Arguing or poor communication
- Depression (cognitive rigidity)
- Guilt as reflection of giving something I don’t have to give or not giving someone what they want
- Anxiety (chaos)
We can acquire and cultivate the skills of respect, empathy, and compassion. We don’t improve any skill we don’t practice. How can we do things differently relationally?
- Create clear expectations for ourselves and others. Use clarity to help manage these differently
- Co-operate with others
Dr. John Gottman’s 4 horsemen in (marital/couple) relationships:
- Criticism - negative judgments in absolute terms
- Defensiveness - avoiding responsibility or blaming others
- Contempt - a fundamental sense of disrespect, ridicule or disgust. Name calling – erodes the fabric of a relationship. (ex. mean-spirited sarcasm or eye rolling) **This is the most problematic in a relationship.
- Stonewalling - putting a wall between you and your partner
Being able to identify the Four Horsemen in your conflict discussions is a necessary first step to eliminating them, but this knowledge is not enough. To drive away destructive communication and conflict patterns, you must replace them with healthy, productive ones.
Fortunately, each horseman has a proven positive behavior that will counteract negativity.
This infographic highlights some of Dr. John Gottman’s most notable research findings on marriage and couple relationships.
What’s a good action plan for change? Self-awareness is key place to start.
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Graph databases (Go Time #108)
Mat, Johnny, and Jaana are joined by Francesc Campoy to talk about Graph databases. We ask all the important questions — What are graph databases (and why do we need them)? What advantages do they have over relational databases? Are graph databases better at answering questions you didn’t anticipate? How is data structured? How do queries work? What problems are they good at solving? What problems are they not suitable for? And…since we had Francesc on the hot seat, we asked him about Just for Func and when it’s coming back.
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- Badger: A fast key-value store written purely in Go
- Just For Func
- Neo4j Graph DB
- GraphQL
- Ristretto
- Dgraph
- Dgraph Graph DB
- FOSDEM
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Build custom ML tools with Streamlit (Practical AI #66)
Streamlit recently burst onto the scene with their intuitive, open source solution for building custom ML/AI tools. It allows data scientists and ML engineers to rapidly build internal or external UIs without spending time on frontend development. In this episode, Adrien Treuille joins us to discuss ML/AI app development in general and Streamlit. We talk about the practicalities of working with Streamlit along with its seemingly instant adoption by AI2, Stripe, Stitch Fix, Uber, and Twitter.
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Compilers and interpreters (Go Time #107)
Thorsten Ball and Tim Raymond join Mat Ryer and Mark Bates to talk about compilers and interpreters. What are the roles of compilers and interpreters? What do they do? The how and why of writing a compiler in Go. We also talk about Thorsten’s books “Writing an Interpreter in Go” and “Writing a Compiler in Go.”
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- Mark Bates – Website, GitHub, X
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You're probably using streams (JS Party #103)
This week we chat with Matteo Collina, Technical Director at NearForm and member of the Node.js Technical Steering Committee, about his upcoming Node+JS Interactive talk on Node Streams. We talk about their creation before any standards and how they are one of the bedrock APIs used throughout the Node ecosystem. We also talk about WHATWG streams and some of their key differences, and how streams have gotten easier to work with thanks to the addition of async iterators and generators to the language.
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- Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
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Catch us and Matteo at Node+JS interactive 2019!
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Ten years of Changelog 🎉 (Backstage #9)
On this special re-broadcast of the freeCodeCamp podcast, Quincy Larson (freeCodeCamp’s founder) interviewed Adam and Jerod in the ultimate Backstage episode to celebrate a decade of conversations, news, and community here at Changelog. Yes, this month we turn 10 years old! We go deep into our origin stories, our history as a company, becoming and being a leader, the backstory of our branding, our music from Breakmaster Cylinder, and where we might be heading in the future.
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- We’re celebrating a decade of conversations, news, and community here at Changelog
- Adam goes fulltime
- We have 7 active podcasts
- We also celebrated 5 years of freeCodeCamp on The Changelog with Quincy
- Go back and listen to The Changelog #195, Quincy’s first appearance here on The Changelog
- You should listen and subscribe to the freeCodeCamp podcast
- Become a supporter of freeCodeCamp
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Managing our mental health (Brain Science #5)
Mireille and Adam discuss key aspects of mental health and what it looks like to manage our own mental well-being. What are the key ingredients to managing it? How do our relationships and boundaries impact it? Are sleep, food, and activity really that important? We talk through these questions and more to better understand mental health and the ways in which we contribute to our well being.
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Mental health is a system issue — if one aspect isn’t working well, it impacts the system as a whole. Similar to that of a symphony, we, as individuals, work better when we acknowledge and allow all of our systems to work together. When key ingredients that contribute to our mental health are depreciated, we can expect that other aspects of our lives will be influenced as well. Mental health is variable. Just like our physical health, the knowledge base we have is always in flux. We never stop managing our mental health just like we don’t stop managing our money, health, relationships, etc. Remembering that there are always “knowns” and “unknowns” when we talk about health will help us better apply what we know about these things to us as individuals.
Key ingredients for mental health
Below are some key ingredients that impact our mental health.
Managing our physical body
Sleep, food, and activity are critical — as are the rhythms of each of these.
- Sleep - at least 7 hours; 8 is better
- Food - this is variable for all bodies. Food is fuel and without food (fat, protein, carbohydrates and fiber) our bodies don’t “move” in the same way
- Activity - We need to exercise. We need to move around. Movement helps to “discharge” the negative and input the positive. It’s an exchange base.
Relationships and boundaries
As we’ve discussed previously, we fare better when we’ve got good social relationships and boundaries too. Boundaries involve consideration of our resources and the allocation involved in these. What are you committed to in terms of work responsibilities, home, relationships and relational demands, and stressors in general?
- Constraints are a good thing
- Boundaries provide clarity in terms of the expectations between you and others
- These are particularly helpful for kids and teenagers
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Intelligent systems and knowledge graphs (Practical AI #65)
There’s a lot of hype about knowledge graphs and AI-methods for building or using them, but what exactly is a knowledge graph? How is it different from a database or other data store? How can I build my own knowledge graph? James Fletcher from Grakn Labs helps us understand knowledge graphs in general and some practical steps towards creating your own. He also discusses graph neural networks and the future of graph-augmented methods.
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- GraphSAGE
- Prologue
- Graph Nets (TensorFlow)
- Grakn KGLIB
- Grakn example projects and tutorials
- Grakn Blog
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Five years of freeCodeCamp (Changelog Interviews #369)
Today we have a very special show for you – we’re talking with Quincy Larson the founder of freeCodeCamp as part of a two-part companion podcast series where we each celebrate our 5 and 10 year anniversaries. This year marks 5 years for freeCodeCamp and 10 years for us here at Changelog. So make sure you check out the freeCodeCamp podcast next week when Quincy ships our episode to their feed. But, on today’s episode we catch up with Quincy on all things freeCodeCamp.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- Go back and listen to The Changelog #195, Quincy’s first appearance here on The Changelog
- The Future of freeCodeCamp.org - Lessons From 5 Years of Teaching the World to Code
- The Future of the freeCodeCamp Forum
- WeWork is Desperately Squeezing Cash Out of Meetup.com by Taxing 225,000 Communities
- Every donation you’ve ever made to freeCodeCamp is now tax deductible
- Check out the freeCodeCamp podcast
- freeCodeCamp Chapter - a self-hosted event management tool for nonprofits
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Component libraries, style guides, design systems... OH MY (JS Party #102)
Design systems are taking the tech industry by storm, but what exactly are they? Do you even need one? This week we’re talking all things design systems. We’ll chat about component libraries and style guides, companies who are building design systems, and more!
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- Who are design systems for?
- Invision DSM
- Storybook
- Pattern Lab
- Visbug is like dev tools for designers
- Bootstrap
- Zurb Foundation
- Mailchimp Content
- Material Design
- Space in design systems
- Framer
- Abstract
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To GraphQL or not to GraphQL? (Backstage #8)
Go Time panelist Mat Ryer joins Jerod to talk through the pros and cons of GraphQL vs REST for a future Changelog API. There’s also a fair bit of language chat around Go and JavaScript, a section on Machine Learning, and some inside baseball on where Go Time is heading.
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- If you like Mat’s accent, put Go Time in your ears
- Mat previously talked about MachineBox on Practical AI
- The graph databases Go Time is #108 (broken link until the episode airs)
- Jerod referred to PostGraphQL, which is now called PostGraphile (and cool, despite it not being for us)
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Code editors and language servers (Go Time #106)
In this episode we talk with Ramya Rao about code editors and language servers. We share our thoughts on which editor we use, why we use it, and why we’d switch. We also discuss what a language server is and why it matters in connecting editors and the languages they support. We also dive into various ways to be effective with VS Code including shortcuts, plugins, and more.
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- Jon Calhoun – Website, GitHub, X
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- Go Time #49: Adventures in VS Code with Ramya Rao
- gopls - language server for Go
- Go modules support in VS Code - How to enable gopls in vscode.
- margo - Something like
goplsthat was created for Sublime Text’s implementation. Mentioned on the show. - VS Code
- vim
- emacs
- GoLand
- Notepad - Mat’s preferred editor
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Robot hands solving Rubik's cubes (Practical AI #64)
Everyone is talking about it. OpenAI trained a pair of neural nets that enable a robot hand to solve a Rubik’s cube. That is super dope! The results have also generated a lot of commentary and controversy, mainly related to the way in which the results were represented on OpenAI’s blog. We dig into all of this in on today’s Fully Connected episode, and we point you to a few places where you can learn more about reinforcement learning.
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- OpenAI’s result of solving a Rubik’s Cube with a robotic hand:
- Example push back on Twitter
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Finding collaborators for open source (Changelog Interviews #368)
Jeff Meyerson, host of Software Engineering Daily, and the founder of FindCollabs (a place to find collaborators for open source software) joined the show to talk about living in San Francisco, his thoughts on podcasting and where the medium is heading, getting through large scale market changes. We talk at length about his new project FindCollabs, the difficulty of reliably finding people to collaborate with, the importance of reputation and ratings systems, and his invite to this audience to check out what he’s doing and get involved.
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Should we rebrand JavaScript? (JS Party #101)
We’re back with another #YepNope episode, this time debating whether or not JavaScript needs to be rebranded. This premise was inspired by Kieran Potts’ article of the same name. Divya/Jerod represent Team Yep and Chris/KBall represent Team Nope. Nick, as always, represents Team Type Script 😜
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- Should We Rebrand JavaScript?
- A YouTube video of Sesame Street’s YipYips
- The JavaScript community logo
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Open source data labeling tools (Practical AI #63)
What’s the most practical of practical AI things? Data labeling of course! It’s also one of the most time consuming and error prone processes that we deal with in AI development. Michael Malyuk of Heartex and Label Studio joins us to discuss various data labeling challenges and open source tooling to help us overcome those challenges.
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Books
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11 awesome lightning chats ⚡️ (JS Party #100)
What you’re about to hear is a series of lightning chats recorded live from All Things Open 2019. How’s this for topic diversity? 👇
A/B testing, finding your tribe, dancing, TikTok, what is happening with front-ends becoming full-stacks, Code the Dream, OSI approved licenses, breaking in to tech, a11y, hiring juniors, whiteboard interviews, better interview practices, JPGs, coding bootcamps, tech re-entry programs, and more.
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- Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
- Matt Broberg – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Crystal Williams-Brown – GitHub, X
- Danese Cooper – Website, GitHub, X
- Mo Hampton – GitHub, X
- Maria Lamardo – GitHub, X
- Eva Howe – X
- Vanessa Alvarez – GitHub, X
- Clinton Dreisbach – GitHub, X
- Henri Helvetica – X
- Jill Burns – LinkedIn
- Jannaee Sick – Website, GitHub, X
- Emma Bostian – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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Kubernetes and Cloud Native (Go Time #105)
Johnny and Mat are joined by Kris Nova and Joe Beda to talk about Kubernetes and Cloud Native. They discuss the rise of “Cloud Native” applications as facilitated by Kubernetes, good places to use Kubernetes, the challenges faced running such a big open source project, Kubernetes’ extensibility, and how Kubernetes fits into the larger Cloud Native world.
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Back to Agile's basics (Changelog Interviews #367)
Robert C. Martin, aka Uncle Bob, joined the show to talk about the practices of Agile. Bob has written a series of books in order to pass down the wisdom he’s gained over his 50 year software career — books like Clean Architecture, Clean Code, The Clean Coder, The Software Craftsman, and finally Clean Agile — which is the focus of today’s discussion. We cover the origins of his “Uncle Bob” nickname, the Agile Manifesto, why Agile is best suited for developing software, how it applies today, communication patterns for teams, co-location vs distributed, and more importantly Bob shares his “why” for writing this book.
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It's time to talk time series (Practical AI #62)
Times series data is everywhere! I mean, seriously, try to think of some data that isn’t a time series. You have stock prices and weather data, which are the classics, but you also have a time series of images on your phone, time series log data coming off of your servers, and much more. In this episode, Anais from InfluxData helps us understand the range of methods and problems related to time series data. She also gives her perspective on when statistical methods might perform better than neural nets or at least be a more reasonable choice.
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There’s no server more secure than one that doesn’t exist (JS Party #99)
KBall catches up with Phil Hawksworth of Netlify at JAMStackConfSF to dive deep into JAMStack, what it’s about, where the ecosystem is going, and what is still hard.
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- JAMStack
- Videos from JAMStackConfSF
- Modern Web Development on the JAMstack (book)
- Netlify Redirects/Rewrites
- Gatsby progress towards incremental builds
- Sample project doing content sharing using Netlify caching
- Netlify Build Plugins
- Netlify CMS
- Forestry CMS
- Netlify deploy previews
- ZEIT Now
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Building search tools in Go (Go Time #104)
Johnny is joined by Marty Schoch, creator of the full-text search and indexing engine Bleve, to talk about the art and science of building capable search tools in Go. You get a mix of deep technical considerations as well as some of the challenges around running a popular open source project.
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Coping skills and strategies (Brain Science #4)
Mireille and Adam discuss coping skills and strategies to use when managing the emotions and struggles of everyday life. We talk through some common ways people manage their emotions, strategies for emotional coping, as well as problem solving coping.
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We discussed the concept of SMART goals — they are specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and based on a specific time frame.
We discussed the concept of HALT. Are you hungry, angry, lonely or tired? If so, coping will invariably be different, regardless of your age.
We also discussed several examples of emotional coping strategies:
- Name it to tame it
- Grounding - Our senses are real-time, so orienting yourself to what you can see, smell, taste, touch, or hear will give you a realistic view of your circumstances and environment.
- Deep breathing
- Meditation - Check out Rick Hanson, Ph.D.
- Visualization
- Ice — Allow a small ice cube to melt in your hand. It’s a distraction and a file for tolerating the “wave” of emotion.
- Music — Listening to music or singing (various parts of the brain are involved).
- Front-loading — Doing things in a certain way to conserve energy to allocate to other things.
- Graduated exposure vs. Flooding
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AI in the browser (Practical AI #61)
We’ve mentioned ML/AI in the browser and in JS a bunch on this show, but we haven’t done a deep dive on the subject… until now! Victor Dibia helps us understand why people are interested in porting models to the browser and how people are using the functionality. We discuss TensorFlow.js and some applications built using TensorFlow.js
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And... the website is down 😱 (JS Party #98)
Jerod, Divya, & Suz get together to discuss top-level await, the JS13kGames winner, Liran Tal’s is-website-vulnerable, Vue 3’s source code, and Facebook’s take on AR/VR/XR. Plus 3 awesome pro tips you don’t want to miss!
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- Suz Hinton – GitHub, Mastodon, X
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New & Noteworthy
- The JS13kGames winners have been announced
- top-level await lands in V8, Myles Borins with a great write-up on the feature
- Liran Tal’s CLI for checking if a website has known security vulnerabilities in its JS libs
- Vue 3 (vue-next) source code now available
- Facebook VR/AR lifelike avatars
Pro Tip Time
Did you know?
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Pioneering open source drones and robocars (Changelog Interviews #366)
Chris Anderson, former Editor-in-Chief of WIRED and a true pioneer in the world of drones, joined the show to talk about his hobby gone wrong, how he started 3D Robotics, DIY Drones, and Dronecode. We also talked about his newest passion, DIY Robocars.
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- 3DR
- The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More by Chris Anderson
- DIY Drones
- Dronecode
- DIY Robocars
- Donkey Car
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All about caching (Go Time #103)
Manish Jain and Karl McGuire of Dgraph join Johnny and Jon to discuss caching in Go. What are caches, hit rates, admission policies, and why do they matter? How can you get started using a cache in your applications?
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Featuring:
- Manish R Jain – Website, GitHub, X
- Karl McGuire – GitHub, X
- Jon Calhoun – Website, GitHub, X
- Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- ristretto - a high performance open source Go cache
- caffeine - a high performance caching library for Java that was part inspiration for ristretto.
- TinyLFU - a paper discussing a highly efficient cache admission policy adopted in many modern high performance caches
- BP-Wrapper - a paper discussing a way to improve lock contention for caches and databases
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Blacklisted facial recognition and surveillance companies (Practical AI #60)
The United States has blacklisted several Chinese AI companies working in facial recognition and surveillance. Why? What are these companies doing exactly, and how does this fit into the international politics of AI? We dig into these questions and attempt to do some live fact finding in this episode.
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- 1 million ethnic Uyghurs in China have been held in “re-education camps”
- Surge in Chinese research related to surveillance of Muslim minorities
- US AI Blacklist summary article from MIT Technology Review
- Hikvision
- iFlytek
- Megvii
- Yitu
Learning resources:
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The John Wick trilogy (Backstage #7)
In a world where an ex-hit-man named John Wick comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that killed his dog and stole his car — three die-hard fans (Adam, Jerod, and Brett) spend nearly 2 hours discussing the John Wick trilogy and then some.
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- Brett Cannon – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Keanu Reeves
- John Wick (2014)
- John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)
- John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum (2019)
- John Wick: Chapter 4 (2021) 😱
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The wonderful thing about Tiggers (JS Party #97)
KBall, Jerod, and Divya dig deep into how we learn. We look into how to choose what to learn, techniques for learning, and a set of respective resources.
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Show Notes:
Segment 1
Segment 2
Segment 3
- Frontend Masters
- Eggheadio
- thinkster
- Maximilian Schwarzmüller
- Kent C Dodds
- Brendon Burchard
- Tony Robbins
- SpeakWriteListen
- FreeCodeCamp
- Hacktoberfest
- JSParty #86
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Let's talk Elixir! (Changelog Interviews #365)
Jerod is joined by Chris and Desmond (co-hosts of the ElixirTalk podcast) to catch up on what’s moving and shaking in the Elixir and Phoenix communities. We discuss what’s attractive about Elixir, what it means to have the language finalized, why folks are so excited by Phoenix LiveView, the ambitious new Lumen project that’s bringing Elixir to WebAssembly, and more.
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KCNACHANGELOG19Feel free to use the Convince Your Boss letter in part or in full so you can your team can attend. - CrossBrowserTesting – The ONLY all-in-one testing platform that can run automated, visual, and manual UI tests – on thousands of real desktops and mobile browsers.
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Show Notes:
- InfoQ’s latest programming language trends report lists Elixir for first time
- Jerod talk about Elixir and changelog.com on Full Stack Radio
- Phoenix LiveView
- Phoenix Phrenzy
- The Lumen project on GitHub
- Elixir Forum is pretty great
- EMPEX LA is Feb 8, 2020
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On application design (Go Time #102)
Mat is joined by Peter Bourgon, Kat Zień, and Ben Johnson to talk about application design in Go — principles, trade-offs, common mistakes, patterns, and the things you should consider when it comes to application design.
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Featuring:
- Peter Bourgon – GitHub, X
- Ben Johnson – Website, GitHub, X
- Kat Zień – Website, GitHub, X
- Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
Show Notes:
- Standard Package Layout
- Context matters on how you lay out your project
- We need an
it dependsGopher in Gopher slack - Standard Go Project Layout ~> golang-standards/project-layout
- xkcd on Standards
- Latency numbers every programmer should know
- Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend.
- Modern software over-engineering mistakes
- Rethinking classical concurrency patterns by Bryan C. Mills @ GopherCon 2018
- Microservices in Go by Matt Heath @ GOTO 2016
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Flying high with AI drone racing at AlphaPilot (Practical AI #59)
Chris and Daniel talk with Keith Lynn, AlphaPilot Program Manager at Lockheed Martin. AlphaPilot is an open innovation challenge, developing artificial intelligence for high-speed racing drones, created through a partnership between Lockheed Martin and The Drone Racing League (DRL).
AlphaPilot challenged university teams from around the world to design AI capable of flying a drone without any human intervention or navigational pre-programming. Autonomous drones will race head-to-head through complex, three-dimensional tracks in DRL’s new Artificial Intelligence Robotic Racing (AIRR) Circuit. The winning team could win up to $2 million in prizes.
Keith shares the incredible story of how AlphaPilot got started, just prior to its debut race in Orlando, which will be broadcast on NBC Sports.
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Featuring:
- Keith Lynn – LinkedIn
- Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- AlphaPilot
- AlphaPilot – Lockheed Martin AI Drone Racing Innovation Challenge
- Lockheed Martin and Drone Racing League Announce 2019 AlphaPilot Teams
- Look ma, no hands: UCF arena to host fast-flying, autonomous drone racing in October
- Lockheed Martin
- Lockheed Martin - Wikipedia
- The Drone Racing League
- The Drone Racing League - Wikipedia
- Lockheed Martin - Twitter
- The Drone Racing League - Twitter
- NVIDIA - Twitter
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Performant Node desktop apps with NodeGui (JS Party #96)
What if you could have an Electron-like app framework without the Chromium dependency and resulting performance woes? Well, now you can. NodeGui is a Qt5-powered, cross-platform, native app GUI framework for JavaScript with CSS-like styling. In this episode, Jerod and Nick sit down with Atul –author of NodeGUI and NodeGUI React– to learn about this exciting framework. We ask him a zillion and one questions about it.
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- Atul R – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Wear your helmet while biking, friends
- Announcing NodeGUI
- NodeGui on GitHub
- NodeGui-React on GitHub
- Stop limiting your open source library’s potential
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Security for Gophers (Go Time #101)
Mat, Filippo, Johan, and Roberto discuss security in Go. Does Go make it easy to secure your code? What common mistakes are Gophers making? What is fuzzing? How can attackers abuse your code if you use the default http mux?
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Featuring:
- Filippo Valsorda – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Johan Brandhorst – Website, GitHub, X
- Roberto Clapis – GitHub, X
- Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
Show Notes:
- Go Playground example #1 - this demonstrates the sql safety pattern that Roberto mentions in the episode.
- Go Playground example #2 - this demonstrates the stringer pattern mentioned by Roberto to avoid printing passwords out in logs.
- go-fuzz package - a package for generating random inputs for your code.
- So you want to expose Go on the Internet - although this needs updating, it was written by Filippo to help others tackle the challenge of securely exposing Go services to the internet.
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Maintainer spotlight! Valeri Karpov (Changelog Interviews #364)
In this episode we’re shining our maintainer spotlight on Valeri Karpov. Val has been the solo maintainer of Mongoose since 2014. This episode with Val continues our maintainer spotlight series where we dig deep into the life of an open source software maintainer. We’re producing this series in partnership with Tidelift. Huge thanks to Tidelift for making this series possible.
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Show Notes:
Tools Val uses
People Val respects
Val’s ebooks
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Win a FREE 🎟️ to All Things Open 2019! (JS Party)
A brief announcement about the upcoming All Things Open conference in Raleigh, NC. What we’ll be doing there, why you should join us, and how to win a FREE 🎟️ to the event.
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“I want a free pass to @AllThingsOpen because…”
- All Things Open 2019
- Register here with code
Changelog20 - Emma’s talks
- Jerod’s Svelte talk
- JS Party Live
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AI in the majority world and model distillation (Practical AI #58)
Chris and Daniel take some time to cover recent trends in AI and some noteworthy publications. In particular, they discuss the increasing AI momentum in the majority world (Africa, Asia, South and Central America and the Caribbean), and they dig into Hugging Face’s recent model distillation results.
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AI in the majority world:
- NeurIPS publications by country
- “Best” universities according to the Times Higher Education
- ICLR in Ethiopia
- Google AI offices:
- Deep Learning Indaba
- Southeast Asia Machine Learning School
- Facebook’s AI for India summit
- AI Singapore
- Indonesia AI research center
Artificial intelligence probes dark matter in the universe
Three People-Centered Design Principles for Deep Learning
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Nushell for the GitHub era (Changelog Interviews #363)
Jonathan Turner, Andrés Robalino, and Yehuda Katz joined the show to talk about Nushell, or just Nu for short. It’s a modern shell for the GitHub era. It’s written in Rust, and it has the backing of some of the greatest minds in open source. We talk through what it is, how it works and cool things you can do with it, why Rust, ideas for the future, and ways for the community to get involved and contribute.
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- TeamCity by JetBrains – Build and release your software faster with TeamCity — a self-hosted continuous integration and delivery server developed by JetBrains. TeamCity is super-smart at running incremental builds, reusing artifacts, and building only what needs to be built, which can save over 30% of the daily build time. Learn more at teamcity.com/changelog.
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- Jonathan Turner – Website, GitHub, X
- Andrés N. Robalino – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Yehuda Katz – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Nushell homepage
- The Nu book
- nushell/nushell on GitHub
- Nushell’s Discord
- Follow @nu_shell and check out This week in Nu
- The thing that’s missing from your MVP
- How not to die by Paul Graham
Code examples discussed on the show:
curl api.github.com | from-json | get current_user_url
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Visual programming with hardware and Node-RED (JS Party #95)
Special guest Nick O’Leary joins us this episode to chat about the Node-RED project, how it started, and the fascinating uses cases for it out in the wild. We go into some of the technical challenges behind designing easy to use interfaces for hardware, and ask Nick what the future of Node-RED looks like.
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- Suz Hinton – GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Christopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Node-RED
Node-RED org on Github (they’re looking for contributors!)
Arduino pubsub client written by Nick O’Leary
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Humans and habits (Brain Science #3)
Mireille and Adam explore the habit loop, the role of environment as a cue, behavior change, the role of dopamine, willpower as a finite resource, and the impact of social influences on habits.
As with any change, we need to collect data. Instead of trying to change a habit right away, treat yourself like a scientist in a data gathering stage and experiment with different rewards to better understand your habit loops. Making and breaking a habit is different for everyone.
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Key takeaways:
- Take stock of your resources
- Look at the context of your own life
- How does this benefit myself and my team/my board?
- Accountability — who’s on your team?
Links:
Book recommendations:
- The Power of Habit
- Atomic Habits
- Essentialism - The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown (Adam’s favorite chapter is “Protect the asset”)
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The influence of open source on AI development (Practical AI #57)
The All Things Open conference is happening soon, and we snagged one of their speakers to discuss open source and AI. Samuel Taylor talks about the essential role that open source is playing in AI development and research, and he gives us some tips on choosing AI-related side projects.
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- Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
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Tweet and mention @Changelog or @PracticalAIFM for a chance to win 1 of 5 free passes to the conference!
“I want a free pass to @AllThingsOpen because…”
- All Things Open
- Samuel’s All Things Open talk description
- Episode #17 - Fighting bias in hiring
- Jupyter
- Pandas
- Scikit-learn
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Creating the Go programming language (Go Time #100)
Carmen and Jon talk with Rob Pike and Robert Griesemer (the creators of Go) about its origins, growth, influence, and future. This an epic episode that dives deep into the history and details of the how’s and why’s of Go, and the choices they’ve made along the way in creating this awesome programing language.
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- Robert Griesemer – GitHub, X
- Carmen Andoh – GitHub, X
- Jon Calhoun – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
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Hiring and nurturing junior developers (Go Time #99)
Johnny, Carmen, Jon, and returning guest Stevenson Jean-Pierre talk about hiring engineers with a focus on junior roles. Why do we keep running into these ridiculous job listings that nobody could ever live up to? What benefits do junior developers bring to the team? Why don’t teams put more focus on developing junior engineers? What can we do better?
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Featuring:
- Stevenson Jean-Pierre – GitHub, X
- Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
- Carmen Andoh – GitHub, X
- Jon Calhoun – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- Why Women Don’t Apply for Jobs Unless They’re 100% Qualified - a look into why women and POC will apply to fewer job listings.
- Career Development at Gitlab - an example of a company doing a better job with their career dev framework.
- 100 Days of Code - a way to help make yourself more accountable while improving as a junior developer
- Engineer vs Programmer - a talk about the differences between an engineer and a programmer
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Ohhh! Caching!! (JS Party #94)
The gang gets together to catch you up on what’s new & noteworthy in the community. Then we share a few things we’ve learned recently in our first-ever “Today I Learned” segment. Finally, we wrap it up with things we’re excited about.
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Featuring:
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Suz Hinton – GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Divya – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
New & Noteworthy
- Caniuse and MDN teaming up on compatibility data
- At long last, Mario comes to HTML
- Google chimes in on TypeScript 3.5
- Firefox DevTools adds Inactive CSS overlay
Today I Learned
- Don’t use navigator.getUserMedia
- Do use mediaDevices.getUserMedia
- Suz’ PR to get tests passing
- jest-axe / axe-core
- PKCE is pronounced “pixie”
I’m excited about X
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Machine powered refactoring with AST's (Changelog Interviews #362)
Amal Hussein (Engineering Manager at npm) joined the show to talk about AST’s — aka, abstract syntax trees. Amal is giving a talk at All Things Open on the subject so we asked her to give us an early preview. She’s on a mission to democratize the knowledge and usage of AST’s to push legacy code and the web forward.
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- TeamCity by JetBrains – Build and release your software faster with TeamCity — a self-hosted continuous integration and delivery server developed by JetBrains. TeamCity is super-smart at running incremental builds, reusing artifacts, and building only what needs to be built, which can save over 30% of the daily build time. Learn more at teamcity.com/changelog.
Featuring:
- Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
We’ll be at All Things Open! We’re hosting a LIVE JS Party on stage and Jerod Santo is giving a talk on using Svelte for a radical new approach to building user interfaces. And as a special thanks from the team behind All Things Open, we’re giving away 5 free passes to the conference. All you have to do tweet “I want a free pass to All Things Open because…” and state your reason and copy @Changelog and @AllThingsOpen in the tweet.
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- Amal’s talk at All Things Open — Machine powered refactoring: leverage AST’s to push your legacy code (& the web) forward
- AllThingsOpen.org
- AST Explorer
- StranglerFigApplication
- Abstract syntax tree on Wikipedia
- The Web Platform podcast
- Jscodeshift
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Worlds are colliding - AI and HPC (Practical AI #56)
In this very special fully-connected episode of Practical AI, Daniel interviews Chris. They discuss High Performance Computing (HPC) and how it is colliding with the world of AI. Chris explains how HPC differs from cloud/on-prem infrastructure, and he highlights some of the challenges of an HPC-based AI strategy.
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Generative engineering cultures (Changelog Interviews #361)
Dave Kaplan (Head of Software Engineering at Policygenius) joined the show to talk about Generative Engineering Cultures and how they have become the goal of industry-aware tech teams. We talk through the topology of organizational cultures ranging from pathological, to bureaucratic, to generative, the importance of management buy-in (from the top down) on leading a generative culture, the ability to contribute original value which is deeply rooted in the concept of aligned autonomy. We also covered the 6 core skills required for us to be empowered in our teams.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- How to build a generative engineering culture
- Policygenius.com
- Revisiting Agile Guilds: Charter Guilds
- Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
- Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
- Inspired: How To Create Products Customers Love
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Remember, people are human (JS Party #93)
KBall, Divya, Feross, and Jerod get together to discuss tips and tricks for communicating with other coders, project stakeholders, and users.
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- Divya – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Feross Aboukhadijeh – Website, GitHub, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Segment 1
- Sarah Drasner’s talk on Code Comments
- Kyle Simpson (getify) “Code is for Humans”
- Vue.js docs
- Redux documentation
- Github issue and pull request templates
Segment 2
Segment 3
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Generics in Go (Go Time #98)
Mat, Johnny, Jon, and special guest Ian Lance Taylor discuss generics in Go. What are generics and why are they useful? Why aren’t interfaces enough? How will the standard library change if generics are added to Go? How has the community contributed to generics? If generics are added, how will this negatively affect the language?
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- Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
- Jon Calhoun – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Contracts proposal from Ian Lance Taylor and Robert Griesemer
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AutoML and AI at Google (Practical AI #55)
We’re talking with Sherol Chen, a machine learning developer, about AI at Google and AutoML methods. Sherol explains how the various AI groups within Google work together and how AutoML fits into that puzzle. She also explains how to get started with AutoML step-by-step (this is “practical” AI after all).
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- Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
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The conference scene ✨ (JS Party #92)
This episode is all about conferences and there is a lot to talk about! Why even go? What makes a conference worth it? How can you get the most of the experience? Is speaking worth all the effort? How can you make your talk amazing? How can you get your talk selected? We chime in on all of these questions plus more.
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Featuring:
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- Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, X
- Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Show Notes:
- The fake TED Talk Talk
- Free developer conferences for everyone, streamed on Twitch
- A free conference for Nigerian developers)
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Modern software is built on APIs (Changelog Interviews #360)
Abhinav Asthana (founder of Postman) joined the show to talk about Postman, an ADE — API Development Environment — that began as open source and is now a full-fledged company that just announced a $50 million dollar Series B. We talk about why Postman has grown so successfully, APIs and their impact to core business factors, what it means to be an API Development Environment (ADE), and how they created one of the most popular API platforms and community.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Postman
- Postman announces $50 million in Series B
- postmanlabs/newman - a command-line collection runner for Postman
- Postman API network
- POST/CON 2019 - Postman user conference
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LIVE from Gophercon UK (Go Time #97)
LIVE from LondonGophers as part of GopherCon UK! Mat Ryer, and Mark Bates were joined by Liz Rice, Kat Zień, Gautam Rege to talk about the magic in Go’s standard library. Huge thanks to the organizers of LondonGophers and GopherCon UK for making this possible.
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- Kat Zień – Website, GitHub, X
- Gautam Rege – Website, GitHub, X
- Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Mark Bates – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- LondonGophers
- Gophercon UK
- Go compiler intrinsics
- r/golang ~> The init function
- Watch this on YouTube
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Serverless and Go (Go Time #96)
Johnny, Mat, Jaana, and special guest Stevenson Jean-Pierre discuss serverless in a Go world. What is serverless, what use cases is serverless good for, what are the trade offs, and how do you program with Go differently in the context of serverless?
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Featuring:
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- Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
- Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Jaana Dogan – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- Kubeless - The Kubernetes native serverless framework
- Knative - Building blocks that simplify how you deploy and run functions atop Kubernetes and Istio. On any cloud.
- This tweet from Kelsey Hightower - “In less than 15 minutes I was able to open a new @zeithq account, install the Now cli, create a Go function, link it to GitHub, deploy it, and hit it with curl. 🤯 If this is the direction general compute is headed, count me in.”
- This tweet from Ian Molee - “Watch me code, deploy, and exercise a “serverless” Go function in about a minute, using @zeithq zero-config. In 2-3 years remember @jessfraz told us about #configless in 2019!”
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Semver would be great if nobody ever shipped bugs (JS Party #91)
With the jumping off point of KBall’s question: “What are best practices for organizing a Node project?” Mikeal and Feross drop an incredible amount of wisdom about Node, organizing using modules, release management, deployment approaches, how to adopt change, and more.
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Featuring:
- Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, X
- Feross Aboukhadijeh – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Segment 1
- Substack on tiny modules
- Github Actions
- Mikeal’s merge-release github action
- Feross’s npm publish scripts to do releases really quickly
- Mikeal’s github action for npx
- Mikeal’s github action for bundle size
Segment 2
- Bitmidi.com repo
- Zeit Now
- Zeit Now CLI
- Arc
- Zeit deployment
- Netlify deployment
- Now Desktop
- Content addressable storage
Segment 3
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Maintainer spotlight! Feross Aboukhadijeh (Changelog Interviews #359)
In this episode we’re shining our maintainer spotlight on Feross Aboukhadijeh. Feross is the creator and maintainer of 100’s of open source projects which have been downloaded 100’s of million of times each month — projects like StandardJS, BitMidi, and WebTorrent to name a few. This episode with Feross continues our maintainer spotlight series where we dig deep into the life of an open source software maintainer. We’re producing this series in partnership with Tidelift. Huge thanks to Tidelift for making this series possible.
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Featuring:
- Feross Aboukhadijeh – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- JavaScript Standard Style
- BitMidi
- WebTorrent
- patreon.com/feross
- feross.org/thanks
- patreon.com/evanyou
- Burnout in the tech industry (and why we need to talk about it)
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The infrastructure effect: COBOL and Go (Go Time)
We partnered with Red Hat to promote Season 3 of Command Line Heroes — an original podcast from Red Hat, hosted by Saron Yitbarek of CodeNewbie, about the people who transform technology from the command line up. It’s an awesome show and we’re huge fans of Saron and the team behind the podcast, so we wanted to share it with you.
Learn more and subscribe at redhat.com/commandlineheroes.
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Featuring:
- Chris Short – Website, GitHub, X
- Ritika Trikha – LinkedIn, X
- Carmen Andoh – GitHub, X
- Kelsey Hightower – GitHub, X
- Saron Yitbarek – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Check the show notes and transcript for more details.
Languages used for IT infrastructure don’t have expiration dates. COBOL’s been around for 60 years—and isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. We maintain billions of lines of classic code for mainframes. But we’re also building new infrastructures for the cloud in languages like Go.
COBOL was a giant leap for computers to make industries more efficient. Chris Short describes how learning COBOL was seen as a safe long-term bet. Sixty years later, there are billions of lines of COBOL code that can’t easily be replaced—and few specialists who know the language. Ritika Trikha explains that something must change: Either more people must learn COBOL, or the industries that rely on it have to update their codebase. Both choices are difficult. But the future isn’t being written in COBOL. Today’s IT infrastructure is built in the cloud—and a lot of it is written in Go. Carmen Hernández Andoh shares how Go’s designers wanted a language more suited for the cloud. And Kelsey Hightower points out that languages are typically hyper-focused for one task. But they’re increasingly open and flexible.
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On being humAIn (Practical AI #54)
David Yakobovitch joins the show to talk about the evolution of data science tools and techniques, the work he’s doing to teach these things at Galvanize, what his HumAIn Podcast is all about, and more.
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- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Books
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You fought in the framework wars? (JS Party #90)
KBall, Divya, and Chris talk about what’s going on in all the big frontend frameworks, share some pro tips, and shout out awesome people and things in the community.
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- Divya – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Christopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Segment 1 - The Framework Wars
- Vue RFC Repo
- Vue3 Functions API RFC
- Vue3 Composition API RFC (latest version of functions api)
- Ember Release model
- React v16.8: The One With Hooks
- React v16.9.0 and the Roadmap Update
- Algebraic Effects for the Rest of Us
- Svelte
- All you need to know about Ivy, The new Angular engine!
- Svelte Sapper
Segment 2 - Pro Tips
- Type Checking JavaScript Files
- JSDoc
- Daniel Rosenwasser
- JavaScript programming in VSCode
- How (and why!) to keep your Git commit history clean
- JSParty #77 where Divya, KBall, Nick, and Jerod talk about git histories and squashing
- Vue2 Functions API plugin
Segment 3 - Shoutouts
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OSCON 2019 anthology (Changelog Interviews #358)
We’re on the expo hall floor of OSCON 2019 talking with Eric Holscher, Ali Spittel, and Hong Phuc Dang. First up, we talk to Eric about his work at Write the Docs, ethical advertising, and the Pac-Man rule at conferences. Second, we talk with Ali about her passion for teaching developers, her passion for writing, and her new found love for podcasting. Last, we talk with Hong about her work at FOSSASIA, the disconnect between America and Asia in open source, and several of the cool open source projects they have on GitHub.
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Featuring:
- Eric Holscher – Website, GitHub, X
- Ali Spittel – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Hong Phuc Dang – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Special thanks to our friends at O’Reilly Media and OSCON for making our trip to Portland possible.
Eric:
- Write the Docs
- Request For Commits #5: Documentation and the value of non-code contributions with Eric Holscher
- The Pac-Man Rule at Conferences
- Ethical Advertising
- CodeFund
Ali:
Hong:
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We're designed for relationship (Brain Science #2)
Mireille and Adam explore the importance of relationships and the concept of attachment. We often think of ourselves as individuals, but our lives are spent embedded within the context of social relationships. These relationships influence and shape our brains, which deeply influences who we are.
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Show Notes:
We’re designed to be attached to others. Mammalian brains care about their connections.
What’s the difference between a lizard or a turtle and a dog or a bat? Dogs and bats feed their young with milk and invest in their oversight until they’re mature and capable enough to manage their own lives.
We often think of ourselves as individuals, but our lives are spent embedded within the context of social relationships. These relationships influence and shape our brains, which deeply influences who we are. Research shows that relationships can reactivate neuroplastic processes and actually alter the structures and biochemistry of the brain (Neuroscience of human relationships). Individual brains do not exist in nature. Without mutually stimulating interactions, people and neurons wither and die.
Early nurturing of the prefrontal cortex through relationships has us to think well of ourselves, trust others, regulate emotions, maintain positive expectations, and utilize emotional intelligence in a moment-to-moment problem solving (Cozolino). Research shows that right brains tend to develop more in the first years of life. This helps us be more flexible and learn how to adapt — it really is survival of the fittest.
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The importance of representation (Go Time #95)
Hot off the heels of GopherCon 2019 — Johnny Boursiquot, Jon Calhoun, and special guests Jamal Yusuf, and Yingrong Zhao recap the conference and the importance of representation in the Go community.
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Featuring:
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- Yingrong Zhao – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
- Jon Calhoun – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- Live blogs from Sourcegraph
- GopherCon highlights from Mickael Remond
- Thinking about the Go Proposal Process
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Is modern JS tooling too complicated? (JS Party #89)
Adam adds a twist to our YepNope format this week. Instead of 2v2, it’s 1v1v1 with Mikeal reppin’ team Yep, Divya on team Nope, and Feross sitting in the middle on team It Depends. You don’t want to miss this excellent debate/discussion all about JS tooling complexity.
Many packages
New frameworks built all the time
Config hell. Webpack
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Shaping, betting, and building (Changelog Interviews #357)
Ryan Singer, head of Product Strategy at Basecamp, joined the show to talk about their newest book — Shape Up: Stop running in circles and ship work that matters. It’s written by Ryan himself and you can read it right now for free online at Basecamp.com/shapeup.
We talked about the back story of the book, how the methodology for Shape Up developed from within at Basecamp, the principles and methodologies of Shape Up, how teams of varying sizes can implement Shape Up. Ryan even shared a special invitation to our listeners near the end of the show to his live and in-person Shape Up workshop on August 28th in Detroit, Michigan.
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- Shape Up
- Foreword by Jason Fried
- Principles of shaping
- Example pitches — “How we do it in Basecamp”
- Bets, Not Backlogs
- How to Begin to Shape Up
- Summary of the Shape Up method
- Shape Up glossary
- Ryan’s tweet about the Shape Up workshop
- If you have questions — email shapeup@basecamp.com
- Getting Real
- All of Basecamp’s books
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Serving deep learning models with RedisAI (Practical AI #53)
Redis is a an open source, in-memory data structure store, widely used as a database, cache and message broker. It now also support tensor data types and deep learning models via the RedisAI module. Why did they build this module? Who is or should be using it? We discuss this and much more with Pieter Cailliau.
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Droppin' insider logic bombs (JS Party #88)
Jerod, Feross, and Nick discuss the latest npm security fiasco, opine on the strengths and weaknesses of spreadsheets, explain CORS like they’re 5 (sorta), and give shout outs to deserving purveyors of fine software.
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Story of the week
- The episode’s namesake, Insider Logic Bombs
- The story on dude who outsourced his job to Chine
- Nick and Jerod have both been using Notion lately
- ‘No way to prevent this’ is satire, y’all
- The purescript/npm incident explained
ELI5
- Nick mentioned gifsockets, which might be the best hack of all time
- You’ll have to google the Hassehloffian Recursion yourself…
- If Feross’ explanation of the Zoom hack failed you, here’s a good one
- Read up on DNS rebinding for an upcoming ELI5 segment
Shout outs
- Jerod shouts out hpdang and FOSS Asia
- Feross shouts out Kyle Drake of neocities.org
- Nick shouts out coc.nvim
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Structuring your Go apps (Go Time #94)
Jon, Mat, Johnny, and special guest Cory LaNou discuss the ins and outs of structuring Go programs. Why is app structure so important? Why is it hard to structure Go apps? What happens if we get it wrong? Why do we confuse folder structures with application design? How should a new Go app be structured?
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- How do you structure your Go apps by Kat Zien at GopherCon 2018
- Standard Package Layout from Ben Johnson
- How I write Go HTTP services
- Go back to basics with MVC This is a followup to a previous Go Time from Chris James about MVC
- SOLID Go Design from Dave Cheney
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Observability is for your unknown unknowns (Changelog Interviews #356)
Christine Yen (co-founder and CEO of Honeycomb) joined the show to talk about her upcoming talk at Strange Loop titled “Observability: Superpowers for Developers.” We talk practically about observability and how it delivers on these superpowers. We also cover the biggest hurdles to observability, the cultural shifts needed in teams to implement observability, and even the gains the entire organization can enjoy when you deliver high-quality code and you’re able to respond to system failure with resilience.
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“testing is for known knowns, monitoring is for known unknowns, observability is for unknown unknowns” – Jez Humble
- Check out Strange Loops’ impressive lineup of speakers this year
- Observability: Superpowers for Developers
- Framework for an observability maturity model
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The fundamentals of being human (Brain Science #1)
In this inaugural episode, Mireille and Adam explore what it means to be human at the most basic level. Our goal is to explore the inner-workings of the human brain to better understand our humanity. What are we capable of? What are the common experiences of life we all share? We start by asking the question, “what are the fundamentals of being human?”
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Designed to feel
As humans, we are fundamentally designed to feel. Feelings aren’t facts but they are feedback. When we can consider our feelings in conjunction with other data, we’re apt to make wiser decisions. Whether our feelings or they don’t, they’re still feedback.
- We have a complex brain, a mind, and relationships (brainstem: the Reptile brain + limbic system: the mammalian brain and the neocortex: the Human brain.
- We have emotions.
- We are energy-based beings (electrical current makes us tick). Neurons that fire together, wire together.
a. Where attention, energy flows—we feed whatever it is we focus on. Happiness/changes in how feel can be modified in part by what we choose to focus on. Example - getting a job.
b. Dan Siegel says it like this “Where attention goes, neuro firing flows, and neuro connections grow.”
Designed to connect
As humans, we are fundamentally designed to connect and be connected with others. When we don’t have a community wherein we can be our authentic selves, we’re apt to struggle more than we would without them.
- Is connection or touch with other humans required?
- Attachment is 100% learned - it is not genetically determined. That brings hope because we can modify our relationship as we, too, change.
We all struggle
As humans, we do not get the option to opt out the struggle. We may not be able to pick our struggles, but, nonetheless we all struggle.
Adam says “Admit the struggle. Identify the lie. Seek the truth.”
As it relates to coping, the value of naming our struggles is so important. It involves more aspects of the brain when we put words to our struggles so that we’re better able to cope.
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If you've never been to GopherCon... (Go Time #93)
Jon, Mark, Johnny, and special guest Jamal Yusuf discuss what to expect when attending a conference like GopherCon. What should you be doing before you attend GopherCon? What should you bring to the conference? What shouldn’t you bring? What are the training sessions about? What about the hacking sessions and talking with the Go team? What if you don’t know anyone?
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Should websites work without JS? (JS Party #87)
We’re trying a brand new segment called YepNope, wherein your intrepid panelists engage in a lively debate around a premise. In this debate, Feross and KBall argue that websites should work without requiring JS and Divya and Chris say, “Nah!”
Please let us know if you like this style episode! We had fun recording it, but that doesn’t matter much if y’all don’t enjoy listening to it.
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Federating JavaScript's language commons with Entropic (Changelog Interviews #355)
We’re joined by C J Silverio, aka ceejbot on Twitter, aka 2nd hire and former CTO at npm Inc. We talk with Ceej about her recent JS Conf EU talk titled “The Economies of Open Source” where she laid our her concerns with the JavaScript language commons being owned by venture capitalists. Currently the JavaScript language commons is controlled by the npm registery, and as you may know, npm is a VC backed for profit start up. Of course we also talk with Ceej about the bomb she dropped, Entropic, at the end of that talk — a federated package registry for JavaScript C J hopes will unseat npm and free the JavaScript language commons.
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- The Economies of Open Source
- entropic.dev
- npm, Inc. has a new CEO (Bryan Bogensberger)
- JS Party #82: LIVE from NodeConf Colombia featuring Kat Marchán, Anna Henningsen, Ruben Bridgewater & James Snell — We’re linking to the transcript to point out what Kat Marchán said at NodeConf Colombia
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AI-driven studies of the ancient world and good GANs (Practical AI #52)
Chris and Daniel take the opportunity to catch up on some recent AI news. Among other things, they discuss the increasing impact of AI on studies of the ancient world and “good” uses of GANs. They also provide some more learning resources to help you level up your AI and machine learning game.
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AI is impacting studies of the ancient world:
- Machine learning has been used to automatically translate long-lost languages:
- Machine learning is about to revolutionize the study of ancient games:
- Others studies:
The AI technique that could imbue machines with the ability to reason
A new way to use the AI behind deepfakes could improve cancer diagnosis:
AIs are playing more games:
- DeepMind AI is secretly lurking on the public StarCraft II 1v1 ladder
- An unbeatable poker bot offers glimpses of video game AI’s future
Relevant learning resources:
- NumPy implementations of a bunch of models (from scratch):
- Great new-ish NLP courses:
- Google Cloud - Deep Learning Containers
Books
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How to get into OSS (JS Party #86)
KBall and Nick sync up with Node.js core contributor Ujjwal Sharma to dive deep into how to get into the world of open source software.
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Stories on getting involved
- Node.js
- Google Summer of Code
- Ruby on Rails
- Public Lab
- Tierney
- Anna
- v8
- TC39
- Electron
- ZURB
- ZURB Foundation
- Prototype
- Scriptaculous
- jQuery
- Dojo
- dgrid
- CodeSandbox
- TypeDoc
- Intern Testing Framework
How to get involved
- Node.js Code + Learn
- Node.js Mentorship Program
- Ember
- Ember help wanted page
- Vue Vixens
- Vue Core Team
- Rust
How to level up
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Creating JavaScript (JS Party)
We partnered with Red Hat to promote Season 3 of Command Line Heroes — an original podcast from Red Hat, hosted by Saron Yitbarek of CodeNewbie, about the people who transform technology from the command line up. It’s an awesome show and we’re huge fans of Saron and the team behind the podcast, so we wanted to share it with you.
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- Charles Severance – Website, GitHub, X
- Michael Clayton – Website, X
- Klint Finley – Website, X
- Saron Yitbarek – Website, GitHub, X
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Check the show notes and transcript for more details.
A mission to set the course of the world wide web in its early days. 10 days to get it done. The result? An indispensable language that changed everything.
JavaScript was the underdog that won against all odds. Clive Thompson recounts the browser wars and how much the fallout influenced the future of the internet. Charles Severance explains how JavaScript went from a last-minute moonshot to the default web development language. Michael Clayton confesses he, like many others, underestimated JavaScript. And Klint Finley describes a gloomy internet without it.
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Building PizzaQL at the age of 16 (JS Party #85)
Jerod, Mikeal, and Feross welcome Antoni Kepinski to the show to discuss his open source pizza ordering management web app. We talk about learning programming at a young age, how overwhelming web development can be these days, how Antoni decided which technologies to use, and more. This is a super fun conversation with many insights and takeaways for developers at every stage of their career.
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Dwayne Johnson’s movies are actually really educational (Backstage #6)
Come hang with Adam and Jerod at OSCON’s expo hall. Normally here is where we list off the topics of the conversation, but we’ll shoot it straight with you. We didn’t have any topics. We talk about blockchain and serverless, but not insightfully. This is just us hanging out, being nerds, and making each other laugh. If you’re in to that, you’ll be in to this.
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- Who’s Dick Tracy?
- Educational film: Rampage
- CRISPR
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Go is eating the world of software (Changelog Interviews #354)
We’re joined by Ron Evans at OSCON on the expo hall floor talking about Go and how it’s eating the world of software. Specifically we’re talking about TinyGo and what they’re doing to bring the Go programming language to micro-controllers and modern web browsers. According to Ron Evans, “embedded systems and Go are the most exciting things happening right now.”
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Go is eating the world of software (Go Time)
It’s The Changelog in the Go Time feed! Adam Stacoviak and Jerod Santo met up with Ron Evans at OSCON on the expo hall floor to talk about Go and how it’s eating the world of software. Specifically they talked about TinyGo and what they’re doing to bring the Go programming language to micro-controllers and modern web browsers. According to Ron Evans, “embedded systems and Go are the most exciting things happening right now.”
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AI code that facilitates good science (Practical AI #51)
We’re talking with Joel Grus, author of Data Science from Scratch, 2nd Edition, senior research engineer at the Allen Institute for AI (AI2), and maintainer of AllenNLP. We discussed Joel’s book, which has become a personal favorite of the hosts, and why he decided to approach data science and AI “from scratch.” Joel also gives us a glimpse into AI2, an introduction to AllenNLP, and some tips for writing good research code. This episode is packed full of reproducible AI goodness!
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- AllenNLP
- AllenNLP demo website
- Writing Code for NLP Research
- I don’t like Notebooks
- Joel’s website
- Adversarial learning podcast
Books
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The war for the soul of open source (Changelog Interviews #353)
Adam Jacob (co-founder and board member of Chef) joins the show to talk about the keynote he’s giving at OSCON this week. The keynote is titled “The war for the soul of open source.” We talked about what made open source great in the first place, what went wrong, the pitfalls of open core models, licensing, and more.
By the way, we’re at OSCON this week so if you make your way to the expo hall, make sure you come by our booth and say hi.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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You can now watch Adam’s OSCON keynote on his YouTube channel.
- “The war for the soul of open source”
- Chef
- Goodbye Open Core — Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish
- “So happy that @chef is now a 100% open source company. They are done being open core, and I have to say, I’m stoked about it. It aligns the company with its core values in a way that is so much more elegant and understandable.”
- 996 License
- Utility monster on Wikipedia
- Why we’re relicensing CockroachDB
- Redis will remain BSD licensed
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Learning the BASICs (Changelog Interviews)
We partnered with Red Hat to promote Season 3 of Command Line Heroes — an original podcast from Red Hat, hosted by Saron Yitbarek, about the people who transform technology from the command line up. It’s an awesome show and we’re huge fans of Saron and the team behind the podcast, so we wanted to share it with you.
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- Tom Cormen – Website, X
- Denise Dumas – LinkedIn
- Avi Flombaum – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Femi Owolade-Coombes – Website, X
- Saron Yitbarek – Website, GitHub, X
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Becoming a programmer used to require a PhD and having access to some serious hardware. Then, in 1965, a couple of engineers had a radical idea: make it easier for people to get started.
Beginner languages, like BASIC, burst the doors to coding wide open. Tom Cormen and Denise Dumas recall how BASIC changed everything. Avi Flombaum and Saron share tips on picking a first language in this new era of software development. And we hear from Femi Owolade-Coombes and Robyn Bergeron about how the next generation of coders are getting their start with video games.
Beginner languages give everyone an opportunity to get their foot in the door. And that helps the industry as a whole.
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Web development in Go (Go Time #92)
Mat Ryer, Mark Bates, Johnny Boursiquot, and Aaron Schlesinger discuss web development in Go. Go is great at writing server technology, but how good is it for web development? We’ll talk about HTTP, templating, the front-end, Wasm, and we even discuss Buffalo with its creator, Mark Bates.
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- Mark Bates – Website, GitHub, X
- Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
- Aaron Schlesinger – Website, GitHub, X
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- Getting started with Goa
- package dom
- Vugu: A modern UI library for Go+WebAssembly (experimental)
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React + WebAssembly = ❤️ (JS Party #84)
KBall catches up with Florian Rival about bring a C++ based game engine to the web by compiling to WebAssembly and creating a React-based frontend.
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- GDevelop
- emscripten
- Rust
- AssemblyScript
- Electron
- React Native
- TypeScript
- Flow
- Squoosh.app
- C++ Standard Library
- Gatsby
- VSCode
- Storybook
- Create React App
- webpack-merge
- Babel Macros
- Native Web Apps: React and WebAssembly to Rewrite Native Apps (video)
- Native Web Apps: React and WebAssembly to Rewrite Native Apps (slides)
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The Pragmatic Programmers (Changelog Interviews #352)
Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt, best known as the authors of The Pragmatic Programmer and founders of The Pragmatic Bookshelf, joined the show today to talk about the 20th anniversary edition of The Pragmatic Programmer. This is a beloved book to software developers all over the world, so we wanted to catch up with Andy and Dave to talk about how this book came to be, some of the wisdom shared in its contents, as well as the impact it’s had on the world of software.
Also, the beta book is now “fully content complete” and is going to production. If you decide to pick up the ebook, you’ll get a coupon for 50% off the hardcover when it comes out this fall.
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- Dave Thomas – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- The Pragmatic Programmer - 20th Anniversary Edition
- Agile Manifesto
- The humble programmer
- Considered harmful
- Edsger Dijkstra
- PDPjs, a PDP-11 Emulator
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if err != nil (Go Time #91)
Mat and Carmen along with guest panelists Dave Cheney, Peter Bourgon, and Marcel van Lohuizen discuss errors in Go, including the new try proposal. Many questions get answered…What do we think about how errors work in Go? How is it different from other languages/approaches? What do/don’t we like? What don’t we like? How do we handle errors these days? What’s going on with the try proposal?
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- Peter Bourgon – GitHub, X
- Marcel van Lohuizen – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Carmen Andoh – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- An Open Letter To The Go Team About Try plus a response from Russ Cox on Twitter.
- Functional programming and Go
- Next steps toward Go 2
- Errors are values
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An honest conversation about burnout (JS Party #83)
Suz, Feross, and Emma have an honest conversation about burnout. They ask questions like — How do developers deal with burnout? What is burnout? What are examples of burnout in open source? Plus they close the show by sharing tips for avoiding burnout and also how to manage burnout if/when it happens.
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Mastering the art of quitting (Founders Talk #67)
Lynne Tye is the founder of Key Values, a platform where developers find engineering teams that share their values. To be more precise, Lynne is a solo-founder. She’s also a team of one. Lynne’s path to becoming a founder was anything but typical. She had plans to follow in her parent’s and sister’s footsteps to go into academia, and got two years into pursuing her PhD in Neuroscience before she made one of the best choices in her life — she quit. Lynne has mastered the art of quitting, at the right time of course, and she’s used that art as her secret weapon in her quest to become a founder.
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- Key Values
- Indie Hackers #086: How to Build a Life You Love by Quitting Everything Else with Lynne Tye of Key Values
- forbes.com - Meet The Solo Female Founder Who Helps Engineers Find Their Dream Jobs
- The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick) - Seth Godin
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Go tooling (Go Time #90)
We’re talking about the tools we use every day help us to be productive! This show will be a great introduction for those new to Go tooling, with some discussion around what we think of them after using some of them for many years.
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- Jaana Dogan – Website, GitHub, X
- Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
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- GolangCI-Lint — “5x faster than gometalinter”
- vim-go
- How can I track tool dependencies for a module?
- go/packages
- Golint — a linter for Go source code
- conprof — Continuous profiling
- func Walk
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Celebrating episode 50 and the neural net! (Practical AI #50)
Woo hoo! As we celebrate reaching episode 50, we come full circle to discuss the basics of neural networks. If you are just jumping into AI, then this is a great primer discussion with which to take that leap.
Our commitment to making artificial intelligence practical, productive, and accessible to everyone has never been stronger, so we invite you to join us for the next 50 episodes!
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Learn more about neural networks with the following learning resources.
Books
- “Deep Learning” by Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, and Aaron Courville
- “Data Science from Scratch” by Joel Grus
- There are literally too many others to name…
Online Courses
- fast.ai MOOC
- Deep Learning course by Google on Udacity (free)
- Practical Machine Learning with TensorFlow 2.0 Alpha (free Udacity course)
- deeplearning.ai Deep Learning Specialization
- Introduction to TensorFlow for Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning (free Coursera course for TensorFlow 2)
- Intro to TensorFlow for Deep Learning by TensorFlow (free Udacity course for TensorFlow 2)
Websites
- Microsoft AI School
- TensorFlow 2 Docs
- Amazon Machine Learning Training
- PyTorch
- Facebook AI
- Google AI
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Python's Tale (Changelog Interviews)
We partnered with Red Hat to promote Season 3 of Command Line Heroes — an original podcast from Red Hat, hosted by Saron Yitbarek, about the people who transform technology from the command line up. It’s an awesome show and we’re huge fans of Saron and the team behind the podcast, so we wanted to share it with you.
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- Emily Morehouse – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Michael Kennedy – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Diane Mueller – Website, GitHub, X
- Saron Yitbarek – Website, GitHub, X
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A benevolent dictator for life steps down and changes the course of the Python language forever. Guido van Rossum’s “Transfer of Power” memo brings attention to the way programming languages evolve.
In this episode, Emily Morehouse makes the connection between Python’s technical extensibility and its inclusive community. Michael Kennedy explains how Python is both easy to learn and powerful enough to build YouTube and Instagram. And Diane Mueller highlights how the Python community took the lead on so many inclusive practices that are spreading in tech—including the rise of community-led decision-making.
Sometimes, a benevolent dictator can get a language started. But Python shows it’s communities that make languages thrive.
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LIVE from NodeConf Colombia (JS Party #82)
KBall MC’d a live show at NodeConf Colombia with a panel of 4 experts from the Node community — Kat Marchán, Anna Henningsen, Ruben Bridgewater, and James Snell. It was a great discussion about the future of Node.js and the Node.js ecosystem.
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- Anna Henningsen – GitHub, X
- Ruben Bridgewater – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- James Snell – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Show Notes:
- Faster async functions and promises
- Zero Cost Async Stack Traces
- Worker Threads in Node.js
- Node.js multithreading: What are Worker Threads and why do they matter?
- Tink - Next Generation Package Management
- WASM
- WASI
- Lua
- BOB streams
- Cloudflare workers
- ECMAScript Modules in Node
- ECMAScript modules in Node.js: the new plan
- QUIC
- Rust
- Deno
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Maintainer spotlight! Ned Batchelder (Changelog Interviews #351)
In this episode we’re shinning our maintainer spotlight on Ned Batchelder. Ned is one of the lucky ones out there that gets to double-dip — his day job is working on open source at edX, working on the Open edX community team. Ned is also a “single maintainer” of coverage.py - a tool for measuring code coverage of Python programs. This episode with Ned kicks off the first of many in our maintainer spotlight series where we dig deep into the life of an open source software maintainer. We’re producing this series in partnership with Tidelift. Huge thanks to Tidelift for making this series possible.
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- edX
- Open edX
- Coverage.py - Code coverage measurement for Python
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Exposing the deception of DeepFakes (Practical AI #49)
This week we bend reality to expose the deceptions of deepfake videos. We talk about what they are, why they are so dangerous, and what you can do to detect and resist their insidious influence. In a political environment rife with distrust, disinformation, and conspiracy theories, deepfakes are being weaponized and proliferated as the latest form of state-sponsored information warfare. Join us for an episode scarier than your favorite horror movie, because this AI bogeyman is real!
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- The Dark Knight’s Tale (DeepFake)
- Official PyTorch Implementation of StarGAN - CVPR 2018
- Few-Shot Adversarial Learning of Realistic Neural Talking Head Models (YouTube)
- Few-Shot Adversarial Learning of Realistic Neural Talking Head Models (PDF)
- MelNet: A Generative Model for Audio in the Frequency Domain
- Text-based Editing of Talking-head Video
- Better Language Models and Their Implications (GPT-2)
- Fake-porn videos are being weaponized to harass and humiliate women: ‘Everybody is a potential target’
- The National Security Challenges of Artificial Intelligence, Manipulated Media, and
“Deepfakes” – 13 June 2019 - Student with access to TPU credits reproduced GPT2-1.5B and plan to release model
- Papers With Code: fake+detection
- In Ictu Oculi: Exposing AI Generated Fake Face Videos by Detecting Eye Blinking
- A Retrospective Analysis of the Fake News Challenge Stance Detection Task
- Deepfake debunking tool may protect presidential candidates. For now. Sometimes
- The Era of Fake Videos is Here
- S.3805 - Malicious Deep Fake Prohibition Act of 2018
- Practical AI episode #47 - GANs, RL, and transfer learning oh my!
- Synthetic Realities: Deep Learning for Detecting AudioVisual Fakes
- Machine Learning for fake news detection: theory and practice
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The story of Konami-JS (JS Party #81)
Jerod and Divya are joined by George Mandis to learn all about his “frivolous” JavaScript library that’s helped countless websites implement the beloved cheat code. Ten years later and still actively maintained, Konami-JS has stood the test of time and produced some epic stories along the way (you’ll love hearing how George broke Marvel.com).
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Divya – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Show Notes:
- Brush up on your Contra knowledge
- Here’s the Konami-JS repo on GitHub
- Try it for yourself on huffpost.com
- here’s the issue we discuss regarding
keyCode - Party Parrot as a Service
- Also the OG: Cult of the Party Parrot
- confetti-js (might break your computer)
- Check out vaporJS
- And its security-focused successor: Semicolon.js
- cloud-to-butt went mainstream
- thanos-js might be the greatest package of all times
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Boldly going where no data tools have gone before (Changelog Interviews #350)
Computer Scientist Yaw Anokwa joins the show to tell us how Open Data Kit is enabling data collection efforts around the world. From monitoring rainforests to observing elections to tracking outbreaks, ODK has done it all. We hear its origin story, ruminate on why it’s been so successful, learn how the software works, and even answer the question, “are people really using it in space?!” All that and more…
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- Yaw Anokwa – GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Hat tip to Brett Neese for the show idea
- Here’s the Singularity episode Jerod referenced
- University of Washington has a great backgrounder on Yaw and ODK
- Open Data Kit’s website is where to dive in
- Or check out the source on GitHub
- Nafundi – the company behind the project
Videos of ODK in action
- evaluating global health programs
- forest monitoring from the ground to the cloud
- mapping flood risk in Tanzania
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Model inspection and interpretation at Seldon (Practical AI #48)
Interpreting complicated models is a hot topic. How can we trust and manage AI models that we can’t explain? In this episode, Janis Klaise, a data scientist with Seldon, joins us to talk about model interpretation and Seldon’s new open source project called Alibi. Janis also gives some of his thoughts on production ML/AI and how Seldon addresses related problems.
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- Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
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Books
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JavaScript is the CO2 of the web (JS Party #80)
KBall, Divya, and Nick get together with Chris Ferdinandi to talk about vanilla JavaScript, best resources for learning, and our favorite vanilla JavaScript tips, tricks and APIs.
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- Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Divya – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
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Segment 1:
- Artifact conference
- The split - article on JS for server
- When is vanilla JS vanilla
- Svelte
- The “Developer Experience” Bait and Switch
Segment 2:
- Eloquent JavaScript
- Wes Bos
- Brad Frost
- Jeremy Keith
- Sara Soueidan
- Article on knowing what to focus on
Segment 3:
- Array Reduce
- Polyfill.io
- Eric Elliot
- James Sinclair
- You Don’t Know JS
- Learning JavaScript Design Patterns
- Programming as Translation
- URLSearchParams
- FormData
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The state of CSS in 2019 (Changelog Interviews #349)
We’re talking with Sacha Greif to discuss the State of CSS survey and results. CSS is evolving faster than ever. And, coming off the heels of their annual State of JavaScript survey, they’ve decided to take on the world of styles and selectors to help identify the latests patterns and trends in CSS.
We talk through the history and motivations of this survey, the methodology of their data collection, the tooling involved to build and run the survey, and of course we dig deep into the survey results and talk through the insights we found most interesting.
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- State of CSS survey and the results for 2019
- State of JavaScript
- State of JavaScript on GitHub
- JS Party #54: trust.js but verify (malware, opaque surveys, and console.log debugging) and Sacha’s response “Mainly, that it wasn’t clear who exactly took the survey, how they found the survey, and whether that population sample was representative of the overall JavaScript ecosystem.”
- The Changelog #91: Discover Meteor.js with Sacha Greif
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Failing to build a billion-dollar company (Founders Talk #66)
Sahil Lavingia is the founder and CEO of Gumroad, a platform for creators to sell the things they make. Since 2011 Gumroad has sent over $200 million dollars to creators. That’s a big number. Sahil’s ambitions lead him to believe that Gumroad would become a billion-dollar company, have hundreds of employees, and eventually IPO. That didn’t happen.
We talk through Sahil’s journey with Gumroad, why it failed to meet his goals, the path he’s on today and the things he now values…but to understand why Gumroad didn’t live up to his expectations, we really have to understand the backstory of Gumroad.
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- Gumroad.com
- Sahil’s Medium post titled “Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company”
- From Bubble to Bubble on Medium
- Jack Dorsey’s 11 biohacks
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The art of execution (Go Time #89)
Panelists Mat Ryer, Johnny Boursiquot, Jon Calhoun, and guest panelist Egon Elbre discuss what they build, why, and how they do it. Everybody has their own unique process for getting things done, so today we’re going to learn about them. Too often processes get in the way and slow things down. How do we look for signs of those slow downs? How do we create a space where people are free to discuss their thoughts and struggles?
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GANs, RL, and transfer learning oh my! (Practical AI #47)
Daniel and Chris explore three potentially confusing topics - generative adversarial networks (GANs), deep reinforcement learning (DRL), and transfer learning. Are these types of neural network architectures? Are they something different? How are they used? Well, If you have ever wondered how AI can be creative, wished you understood how robots get their smarts, or were impressed at how some AI practitioners conquer big challenges quickly, then this is your episode!
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SUBSCRIBE ~> Brain Science — For the curious! We’re exploring the inner-workings of the human brain to understand behavior change, habit formation, mental health, and being human.
- RL (Reinforcement learning)
- GANs (Generative Adversarial Networks)
- Transfer learning
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Spicy fonts and static sites 🌶️ (JS Party #79)
Zach Leatherman joins the party with Divya and Nick to talk about fonts and static site generators! Zach shares his knowledge about font loading, what can go wrong, and how we can avoid issues. Then we discuss Zach’s newest project, Eleventy, a simple static site generator, and the panelists share things they are excited about.
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Fonts and font loading
- The Mitt Romney Web Font Problem
- Google Fonts
- Glyphhanger
- The Scoville Scale of web font loading opinions
Eleventy
- Eleventy - a simpler static site generator
- GitHub Actions
- Who’s using 11ty?
- Support Eleventy
What we’re excited about
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Go 💚 open source (Go Time #88)
Panelists Mark Bates, Johnny Boursiquot, and Carmen Andoh discuss Go and open source — what is it, the value in contributing, what it means to be a maintainer, best practices, and the recent blog post from Chris Siebenmann titled “Go is Google’s language, not ours.”
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- Changelog News 💚
- Five best practices in open source: internal collaboration
- How to ~> Kubernetes Pull Request
- Go Code Review Comments
- Best Practices for Maintainers
- 20 useful tools for open-source maintainers
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Python's new governance and core team (Changelog Interviews #348)
We’re talking with Brett Cannon for a behind the scenes look at Guido stepping down as Python’s BDFL (Benevolent dictator for life) and the process they had to go through to establish a new governance model, the various proposed PEPs to establish this new direction, the winning PEP, and what the future holds for Python.
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- An update on Python’s governance
- Python Enhancement Proposals (PEPs)
- Condorcet Internet Voting Service
- PEP 8000 - Python language governance proposal overview
- PEP 8001
- PEP 8002
- PEP 8011
- PEP 8016 (winning PEP)
- Python governance vote (December 2018) results
- One of Jerod’s favorite episodes of The Changelog in 2018 ~> The Changelog #318: A call for kindness in open source with Brett Cannon
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The Pro Stand costs more than my first car (Backstage #5)
Jerod, Adam, and Nick get together mere minutes after Apple’s 2019 WWDC keynote to talk about all the news and announcements. Will we be buying the new Mac Pro? What about that drool-worthy 6k retina display? Will iOS’s dark mode deliver where Mojave’s hasn’t? Expect all that and at least 2 bad puns in this episode of Backstage.
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- Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
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Visualizing and understanding RNNs (Practical AI #46)
Andreas Madsen, a freelance ML/AI engineer and Distill.pub author, joins us to discuss his work visualizing neural networks and recurrent neural units. Andreas discusses various neural unites, RNNs in general, and the “why” of neural network visualization. He also gives us his perspective on ML/AI freelancing and moving from web development to AI research.
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- Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
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Books
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Developer strengths and weaknesses 🏋️♂️ (JS Party #78)
Jerod, Suz, Divya, and Kball share their thoughts, opinions, and advice on developer strengths and weaknesses — compromise, communication, tool mastery, deep dives into dev history, and mentorship/sponsorship.
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- Nick Nisi
- Brad Fults
- Sarah Drasner
- Anders Hejlsberg
- Sara Soueidan
- Toastmasters
- Thank You For Arguing
- Don’t Make Me Think
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What are you optimizing for? (Founders Talk #65)
Saron Yitbarek is the founder and CEO of CodeNewbie — one of the most supportive community of programmers and people learning to code. Saron hosts the CodeNewbie podcast, Command Line Heroes from Red Hat, and she’s also the creator of Codeland Conference taking place on July 22 this year in New York City. We talk through getting started, lessons learned, mental health, developing and running a conference…but our conversation begins with a pivotal question asked of Saron…“What are you optimizing for?”
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In the latter part of the show, Adam mentioned to Saron that we will buy five “Pay it forward” tickets to Codeland, so that we here at Changelog can help support 5 people to attend the conference who otherwise could not afford to attend. Learn more about “Pay it forward” tickets to Codeland.
Also, listen to the end of the show for a special preview of our newest podcast BRAIN SCIENCE!!
- The one question that will change your life
- Codeland Conference
- Learn more about “Pay it forward” tickets to Codeland
- CodeNewbie.org
- CodeNewbie podcast
- Command Line Heroes
- The Changelog #176: CROSSOVER — CodeNewbie and Community with Saron Yitbarek
- Our newest podcast ~> BRAIN SCIENCE!!
- [Book] Essentialism - The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
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Functional programming? (Go Time #87)
Panelists Mat Ryer and Johnny Boursiquot are joined by guest panelist Aaron Schlesinger to ask/answer questions like; What is functional programming? Can you do functional programming in Go? Can we apply any learnings from functional programming languages as we write Go code today?
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- Functional Programming in Go With dcode
- go-functional/dcode - Decode JSON with Functional Decoders
- go-functional/functy - Functional builders for vecty elements
- [Talk] Functional Programming in Go - Aaron Schlesinger @ GopherCon 2017
- Interesting reading about Erlang, functional programming and concurrency - by Joe Armstrong
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How to get plugged into the AI community (Practical AI #45)
Chris and Daniel take you on a tour of local and global AI events, and discuss how to get the most out of your experiences. From access to experts to developing new industry relationships, learn how to get your foot in the door and make connections that help you grow as an AI practitioner.
Then drawing from their own wealth of experience as speakers, they dive into what it takes to give a memorable world-class talk that your audience will love. They break down how to select the topic, write the abstract, put the presentation together, and deliver the narrative with impact!
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- Local Meetups - Great for first steps, local help and relationship building, job connections, involvement in local projects, etc. Mostly free!
- PyData
- TensorFlow
- PyTorch
- Deep Learning
- etc.
- Large industry conferences - Great to see what some of the larger companies and innovative startups are doing with AI, application and infra focused, etc. Expensive.
- Smaller, topical events or events focused on particular tools - Great if you are heavily invested in particular tech or a topic like NLP. In general you have to look around quite a bit to find these.
- TensorFlow dev summit
- Spacy IRL
- PyTorch developers conference
- AllenNLP Summit
- Applied Artificial Intelligence Conference
- DataSciConhttps://datascicon.tech/
- Etc.
- Research conferences - Meant to be an outlet for original research. Great to see how research orgs/institutions are pushing the boundaries and doing groundbreaking things. Hard to get into and very academic.
Some conference talks from the Practical AI hosts:
- Chris Benson’s upcoming talk at LiveWorx 2019 in Boston on Wednesday, June 12, 2019: Artificial Intelligence Strategy: Digital Transformation Through Deep Learning
- Examples of previous AI talks by Chris Benson
- Building GPU-Accelerated Workflows with TensorFlow and Kubernetes
- Fully Reproducible ML Deployment with Spark, Pachyderm, and MLeap
Join the community — it’s free! Connect with us in the #practicalai Slack channel. The community is here for you as a place to below, to bounce ideas around, or to get feedback on a conference to attend or talk you’d like to give.
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It’s just JavaScript®️ (JS Party #77)
Jerod, Kball, Divya, and Nick share their initial impressions of GitHub’s recently announced package registry, what JS skills are trending in job listings, and shout outs!
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GitHub’s package registry
- Our “coverage” of GitHub’s Friday afternoon announcement
- GitHub’s official package registry feature page
- Remember when we had Jeff Lembeck on JS Party?
- Something strange is going on at npm
- Nobody Predicted Microsoft 😬
- FizzBuzzEnterpriseEdition
JS job trends
- Game of Frameworks: JavaScript trends of 2019
- Engineering & design progression maps: progression.fyi
- KBall’s megatrends post
Shout outs
- Stefan Kaltenegger
- Ryan Singer
- Halfstack Conf
- NEJS Conf
- All Things Open
- Quokka.js
- Blotter.js
- The Recurse Center
- Rene Rubalcava
- Learn Dojo
- Vim Fugitive (tpope!)
- Go Time is back!
- Hardware hacking with TinyGo and Gopherbot
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Creating and selling multiplayer online games (Changelog Interviews #347)
We’re talking with Victor Zhou about the explosion of the .io game genre. We talked through all the details around building and running one of these games, the details behind Victor’s super popular game called Generals — which he eventually sold, and we also covered the economics behind creating and selling one of these games.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
When Agar.io came out in 2015, it inspired a new .io game genre that has since exploded in popularity. I experienced the rise of .io games firsthand: I’ve built and sold 2 .io games in the past 3 years.
- How to build a multiplayer (.io) web game - part 1
- How to build a multiplayer (.io) web game - part 2
- Generals
- How I Became a Programmer - My unlikely origin story
- iogames.space
- agar.io
- slither.io
- diep.io
- “kingz.io” was discussed but no longer has a web presence
- Socket.io plays a crucial role in .io games
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Building a hardware/software product company (Founders Talk #64)
Colin Billings is the founder and CEO of Orro where they’ve built the first truly intelligent home lighting system. It knows when you’re in the room, and adjusts the lights automatically for you. But Colin’s path to starting this company wasn’t a straight line. Like most innovative products, Orro has an interesting beginning — after-all, they’re going up against the giants.
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Go modules and the Athens project (Go Time #86)
Panelists Mat Ryer and Carmen Andoh are joined by guest panelists Marwan Sulaiman and Aaron Schlesinger to discuss Go modules and the Athens project.
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- Carmen Andoh – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- Here’s the computer Marwan talked about
- Marwan attended App Academy
- gomods/athens on GitHub
- Athens download protocol
- Go modules
- Check out #athens in Gopher Slack
- Maintaining module requirements
- Go module services
- Using Go Modules
- The Go Modules Proxy Documentation
- Checking Go Package API Compatibility
- twitchtv/twirp - simple RPC framework with protobuf service definitions
- A nibble is half of a byte 💫
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AI adoption in the enterprise (Practical AI #44)
At the recent O’Reilly AI Conference in New York City, Chris met up with O’Reilly Chief Data Scientist Ben Lorica, the Program Chair for Strata Data, the AI Conference, and TensorFlow World.
O’Reilly’s ‘AI Adoption in the Enterprise’ report had just been released, so naturally Ben and Chris wanted to do a deep dive into enterprise AI adoption to discuss strategy, execution, and implications.
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- O’Reilly’s AI Adoption in the Enterprise: How Companies Are Planning and Prioritizing AI Projects in Practice
- O’Reilly AI Conference 2019 | NYC
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Off the grid social networking with Manyverse (Changelog Interviews #346)
We’re talking with Andre Staltz, creator of Manyverse — a social network off the grid. It’s open source and free in every sense of the word. We talked through the backstory, how a user’s network gets formed, how data is stored and shared, why off-grid is so important to Andre, and what type of user uses an “off-the-grid” social network.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Manyverse - A social network off the grid. Scuttlebutt for mobile.
- Manyverse roadmap
- Early days in the Manyverse
- Manyverse bluetooth sync
- Scuttlebutt.nz
- Manyverse on Open Collective
- Cycle.js - A functional and reactive JavaScript framework for predictable code
- The Changelog #326: The insider perspective on the event-stream compromise with Dominic Tarr
- License Zero - gainful open software development
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You don’t have to dress up (JS Party #76)
KBall, Emma, and Chris explain some things to each other like we’re five, bring stories of the week, and share some sweet pro tips.
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- Christopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
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ELI5
- Node.js Streams: Everything you need to know
- Creating duplex streams with Node.js
- Lego Ninjago
- CSS Specificity: Things You Should Know
Stories of the Week
- Microsoft is building Internet Explorer into its new Chromium Edge
- Why, How, and When to Use Semantic HTML and ARIA
- Creating CLIs with Ink, React and a bit of magic
Pro Tips
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Go for beginners (Go Time #85)
How do beginners learn Go? This episode is meant to engage both non-Go users that listen to sister podcasts here on Changelog, or any Go-curious programmers out there, as well as encourage those that have started to learn Go and want to level up beyond the basics. On this episode we’re aiming to answer questions about how to learn Go, identify resources that are available, and where you can go to continue your learning journey.
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- Jon Calhoun – Website, GitHub, X
- Carmen Andoh – GitHub, X
- Ashley Willis – GitHub, X
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- A gentle Introduction to Golang for Beginners <~ this special link drops the cost of the course to $9.99 US (thanks David!!)
- CLI for Beginners
- Gophercises
- Lambda School was mentioned + Austen Allred (CEO & co-founder of Lambda School) was on Founders Talk recently
- Turing — a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that operates almost entirely on student tuition
- “programming today is more about knowing of libraries (pkgs) and gluing them together”
- Richard Feynman on Wikipedia
- Julia Evans’ zines
- JS Party #60: You might want to read up on PAW Patrol
- JustForFunc
- First timers only
- Your first PR
- #golang-newbies on Gopher Slack
- On-the-Job Programming Language Learning Survey for Developers
- Learn Go with Tests
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When AI meets quantum mechanics (Practical AI #43)
Can AI help quantum physicists? Can quantum physicists help the AI community? The answers are yes and yes! Dr. Shohini Ghose from Wilfrid Laurier University and Marcus Edwards from the University of Waterloo join us to discuss ML/AI’s impact on physics and quantum computing potential for ML/AI.
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- Marcus Edwards – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- Quantum Emulation project (email marcus@quantumemulation.com/)
- Efforts to use Quantum Computing to accelerate ML/AI:
- Xanadu: a dedicated ML platform for quantum computers
- OpenQASM
- Rigetti
- Quantum open source foundation
- TED talk from Dr. Ghose
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LIVE at ReactJS Girls (JS Party #75)
Emma Wedekind MC’d a live show at ReactJS Girls with a panel of 3 amazing women — Eve Porcello, Marcy Sutton, and Kate Beard. It was a great discussion covering the biggest challenges they’ve faced, how no matter who you are imposter syndrome occurs and never really goes away, ways to support and encourage under-represented groups and people to get into tech, and how to choose a topic when writing a talk.
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- Eve Porcello – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Kate Beard – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Emma Bostian – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Show Notes:
- Huge thanks to ReactJS Girls Conference for allowing us to crash their conference and throw a JS Party
- Want us to throw a JS Party at your conference? Send an email to editors@changelog.com to get in touch.
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Quirk and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) (Changelog Interviews #345)
We’re talking with Evan Conrad — for most of Evan’s life he has suffered from severe panic attacks, often twice per week. Eventually he stumbled upon a therapy method called Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT for short, and saw positive results. This led him to create Quirk, an open source iOS app which allows its users to practice one of the most common formats of CBT.
On the show we mentioned a new podcast we’re launching called Brain Science — it’s hosted by Adam Stacoviak and Mireille Reece, a Doctor of Clinical Psychology. Brain Science is a podcast for the curious that explores the inner-workings of the human brain to understand behavior change, habit formation, mental health, and the human condition. It’s Brain Science applied — not just how does the brain work, but how do we apply what we know about the brain to better our lives. Stay tuned after the show for a special preview of Brain Science.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- Get in touch with Evan via email at ejc@quirk.fyi
- quirk.fyi
- Quirk is FOSS (Free Open Source Software)
- On the topic of Game Juice, read Squeezing more juice out of your game design!
- Book: Feeling Good
- Flaque/quirk
- Flaque/quirk/../TRANSLATIONS.md
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Developers want to develop things (Backstage #4)
Nick Janetakis joins Jerod backstage to talk shop. We discuss how Nick is using the Changelog.com source code as a guide to build his video course platform, coding practices we’ve developed over the years, how to balance between shipping features and creating content, newsletters as the new social network, how Nick makes his videos, and a whole lot more.
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- Nick gets a mention in The Changelog #344
- Check out Nick’s courses on Docker and Flask
- We’re both riding the Phoenix
- Jeff Atwood wrote about The Rule of Three
- This is Nick’s blog post that Jerod was looking at during the discussion
- Nadia Eghbal on the perks of patronage
- Hacker Newsletter saved Jerod from checking HN every 15 minutes
- Read all about Nick’s recording (and other) tools right here
- Synergy! (coming to The Changelog real soon)
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Hardware hacking with TinyGo and Gopherbot (Go Time #84)
Mat Ryer hosts our first one-on-one interview-style episode with special guest Ron Evans. Mat asks Ron to teach us about Go in IoT, hardware hacking at Gophercon, TinyGo, and Gopherbot.
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Win a Gopherbot!
To take part in the giveaway to win your very own Gopherbot, all you have to do is send a tweet to @GoTimeFM plus any of the following — review the podcast on Apple Podcasts, socialize your favorite episode on Twitter, or recommend the show to a friend. Details for each are below.
Tweet: To be entered you MUST tweet us @GoTimeFM in addition to either a review of the podcast on Apple Podcasts, socialize your favorite episode on Twitter, or recommend the show to a friend. Here’s the tweet we’re looking for — I listen to @GoTimeFM and I learned #golang because... — Ron will pick his favorite reason and we’ll announce the winner in a few weeks.
Review: Write a review on Apple Podcasts (5-stars plz). Email a screenshot of the review plus a link to your tweet to gotime@changelog.com with subject “Gopherbot me!” as proof of entry.
Socialize: Share an episode you’ve enjoyed on social media. Email a link to your tweet/post plus a link to your tweet to gotime@changelog.com with subject “Gopherbot me!” as proof of entry.
Recommend: Personally recommend the show to a friend/colleague via email. BCC gotime@changelog.com with subject “You should listen to the Go Time podcast!” and include this link https://changelog.com/gotime somewhere in the body of your email.
- TinyGo
- Gopherbot - Robotic Gopher plushie that you can code.
- Gophercon in San Diego - where Ron will host the hardware hacking day with Gobots, and other flying objects.
- Adafruit - company making tiny chips.
- LLVM from GO Perspective - blogpost by Ayke van Laëthem.
- Tiny Go and Webassembly
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When in doubt, log an issue (JS Party #74)
Nick and Mikeal catch up with Henry Zhu, the maintainer of Babel and host of the Maintainers Anonymous and Hope in Source podcasts. We discuss his path to open source maintainer-ship. We also chat about best practices for interacting with maintainers, while remembering that people are behind open source, and we talk self-care and avoiding burnout, culminating in a self-care repo being created to gather and discuss tips to care for yourself.
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- Maintainers Anonymous
- The GitHub Revolution: Why We’re All in Open Source Now
- Open Collective
- Introducing draft pull requests
- Atomic Habits by James Clear
- Mikeal’s self-care repository
- Henry’s Patreon
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TensorFlow Dev Summit 2019 (Practical AI #42)
This week Daniel and Chris discuss the announcements made recently at TensorFlow Dev Summit 2019. They kick it off with the alpha release of TensorFlow 2.0, which features eager execution and an improved user experience through Keras, which has been integrated into TensorFlow itself. They round out the list with TensorFlow Datasets, TensorFlow Addons, TensorFlow Extended (TFX), and the upcoming inaugural O’Reilly TensorFlow World conference.
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- TensorFlow Dev Summit 2019
- TensorFlow 2.0 alpha release
- TensorFlow Datasets
- TensorFlow Extended (TFX)
- TensorFlow Addons
- O’Reilly TensorFlow World conference
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Inside 2019's infrastructure for Changelog.com (Changelog Interviews #344)
We’re talking with Gerhard Lazu, our resident ops and infrastructure expert, about the setup we’ve rolled out for 2019. Late 2016 we relaunched Changelog.com as a new Phoenix/Elixir application and that included a brand new infrastructure and deployment process. 2019’s infrastructure update includes Linode, CoreOS, Docker, CircleCI, Rollbar, Fastly, Netdata, and more — and we talk through all the details on this show.
This show is also an open invite to you and the rest of the community to join us in Slack and learn and contribute to Changelog.com. Head to changelog.com/community to get started.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- The Changelog #254: Deploying Changelog.com with Gerhard Lazu
- The new Changelog.com setup for 2019
- This is our Makefile
- Here’s the update_service_continuously file we talked about on the show
- Linode Kubernetes
- View our stats at netdata.changelog.com
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It's time to talk about testing (Go Time #83)
Is testing an art or a science? What and when should we test? What’s the point of testing and can it go too far? We explore all this and more in this jam-packed episode on testing.
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- Jaana Dogan – Website, GitHub, X
- Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
- Jon Calhoun – Website, GitHub, X
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- The “Golden files” concept from Mitchell Hashimoto’s great 2017 GopherCon testing talk (12:18, if time code does not work properly) — Mitchell Hashimoto at GopherCon 2017 — Advanced Testing with Go
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CTRL-labs lets you control machines with your mind (Practical AI #41)
No, this isn’t science fiction! CTRL-labs is using neural signals and AI to build neural interfaces. Adam Berenzweig, from CTRL-labs R&D, joins us to explain how this works and how they have made it practical.
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- Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
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- O’Reilly AI keynote from CTRL-labs
- CTRL-labs website
- CTRL-kit
- TED talk “The real reason for brains”
- IBM healthcare Practical AI episode
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Fresh voices! (JS Party #73)
Jerod welcomes new panelists Emma Wedekind and Divya Sasidharan to the party! We get to know these two amazing ladies and then open up the conversation to talk about what’s on their mind. Divya broaches the nuanced topics of keeping up with the fast pace of the developer world while maintaining balance and Emma wants to talk books.
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- Emma Bostian – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Divya – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Show Notes:
- Listen to this episode of The Changelog for more on Emma’s writing and mentoring efforts
- The Heroines of JavaScript Trading Cards feature 3 of our panelists 🙌
Books!
- Atomic Habits by James Clear
- Start with Why by Simon Sinek
- Malcom Gladwell’s Outliers
- Refactoring UI by Adam Wathan & Steve Schoger
- Blinkist is not a sponsor… yet! 😜
- Or you can just learn How To Talk About Books You Haven’t Read
- The Mythical Man-Month is a classic
- As is The Pragmatic Programmer
- The You Don’t Know JS book series
- Professional JavaScript for Web Developers by Nicholas Zakas
- Here’s Code Complete in PDF format
- Learning JavaScript Design Patterns by Addy Osmani
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Running functions anywhere with OpenFaaS (Changelog Interviews #343)
We’re talking with Alex Ellis, the founder of OpenFaaS — serverless functions made simple for Docker and Kubernetes. We talked about the backstory and details of OpenFaaS, “the curious case of serverless on Kubernetes,” the landscape of open source serverless platforms, how Alex is leading and building this community, getting involved, and maintainership vs leadership.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- OpenFaaS — serverless functions made simple for Docker and Kubernetes
- You can donate to support the ongoing development and independence of OpenFaaS
- Announcing the OpenFaaS function store
- OpenFaaS #TeamServerless on LinkedIn
- The Changelog #253: The serverless revolution with Pam Selle
- JS Party #49: Serverless? We don’t need no stinkin’ SERVERS with special guest Jeremy Daly
- The curious case of serverless on Kubernetes
- The Changelog #329: Perspectives on Kubernetes and successful cloud platforms with Brendan Burns
- (BOOK) - Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business
- Inlets – expose your local endpoints to the internet
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Hiring and job interviews (Go Time #82)
Panelists Mat Ryer, Ashley McNamara, Johnny Boursiquot, and Carmen Andoh discuss the process of getting hired, hiring, and job interviews. If people are the most important part of a team, how do we pick who we work with? What’s the process like? How can it better?
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- Ashley Willis – GitHub, X
- Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
- Carmen Andoh – GitHub, X
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Deep Reinforcement Learning (Practical AI #40)
While attending the NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference in Silicon Valley, Chris met up with Adam Stooke, a speaker and PhD student at UC Berkeley who is doing groundbreaking work in large-scale deep reinforcement learning and robotics. Adam took Chris on a tour of deep reinforcement learning - explaining what it is, how it works, and why it’s one of the hottest technologies in artificial intelligence!
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- NVIDIA GTC: Doing More with More: Recent Achievements in Large-Scale Deep Reinforcement Learning
- Accelerated Methods for Deep Reinforcement Learning
- Accelerated Methods for Deep Reinforcement Learning - code
- OpenAI Five - Dota 2
- AlphaStar: Mastering the Real-Time Strategy Game StarCraft II
- NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship
- Crunchbase
- The Hertz Foundation
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LIVE from React Amsterdam (JS Party #72)
KBall MC’d a live show at React Amsterdam with a panel of 5 amazing React experts — Kitze, Michel Weststrate, Mike Grabowski, Vladimir Novick, and Andrey Okonetchnikov. It was a great discussion of state management solutions and the future of state management in the front-end.
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- Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
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- Special thanks to React Amsterdam — the biggest React conference worldwide!
- MobX
- Hooks
- GraphQL
- Talk: State Management in the GraphQL Era
- Observables in MobX
- The Curious Case of MobX State Tree
- Aven Cloud Framework
- Logux
- Xamarin
- Flutter
- Hasura.io
- React Native Community
- Vladimir’s YouTube channel with bootcamps
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Zero up-front costs for a CS education (Founders Talk #63)
What would be the impact on the world if a Computer Science education was available to you completely free of charge until you get a job in that field paying $50,000 or more? That’s the question that drives Austen Allred and the team behind Lambda School. Lambda School is a revolutionary new school that invests in its students and they completely align their interests with their students. Seems like a novel idea, right? But Austen’s path to Silicon Valley was where things began for him, so that’s where we’ll start today’s conversation.
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- Lambda School
- Lambda School is giving an $18,000 stipend to select students
- No Tuition, but You Pay a Percentage of Your Income (if You Find a Job) - The New York Times
- How Much Is Your Education Worth? Depends How Much You Make - Bloomberg
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From zero to thought leader in 6 months (Changelog Interviews #342)
We’re talking with Emma Bostian about going from zero to thought leader in 6 months. We talk about the nuances of UX including the differences between an UX Designer and a UX Engineer, we touch on “the great divide”, and we talk about Coding Coach — the open source project and community that Emma and others are building to connect software developers and mentors all over the world.
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- emmawedekind.com
- Emma Wedekind on dev.to
- How I Gained 27,000 Twitter Followers In 6 Months
- My Journey Into Software Engineering
- 5 Books Which Will Improve Your Career
- Book —The Culture Map
- Coding Coach — a free, open-source platform which aims to connect software developers and mentors all over the world.
- mentors.codingcoach.io
- Coding Coach on Patreon
- Coding-Coach/coding-coach
- Coding-Coach/find-a-mentor
- LogMeIn
- The Changelog #333: Tactical design advice for developers featuring Erik Kennedy
- Lara Hogan on mentorship and sponsorship
- JS Party #61: How great the (front end) divide with Nick, Suz, and KBall
- JS Party #67: The great divide reprise featuring Chris Coyier
Questions from the community and Twitter
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- @shreeshbhat — twitter.com/shreeshbhat/status/1115973319352827906
- @donnacamos88 —twitter.com/donnacamos88/status/1116061580851056640
- @LashaKrikheli — twitter.com/LashaKrikheli/status/1116051141492654081
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All about APIs! (Go Time #81)
Panelists Mat Ryer, Johnny Boursiquot, Jaana B. Dogan, and Mark Bates discuss how humans build machine to machine integrations via APIs — the good, the bad, and the ugly — and how to give yourself the best chance of success.
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Making the world a better place at the AI for Good Foundation (Practical AI #39)
Longtime listeners know that we’re always advocating for ‘AI for good’, but this week we have taken it to a whole new level. We had the privilege of chatting with James Hodson, Director of the AI for Good Foundation, about ways they have used artificial intelligence to positively-impact the world - from food production to climate change. James inspired us to find our own ways to use AI for good, and we challenge our listeners to get out there and do some good!
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- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
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- AI For Good Foundation
- AI For Good Foundation Video Lectures
- KDD Earth Day
- “Fragile Earth” Workshop
- Discounted Membership for Practical AI Podcast Listeners!
- AI Experts: Moving forward with AI likely a series of small steps, not giant leaps
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Wow, Gatsby is a mashup on steroids (JS Party #71)
KBall and Jason geek out on the ins and outs of Gatsby. They talked through the fundamentals of working with Gatsby, the development process, and look into the future of Gatsby.
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About Gatsby
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- Using Headless Wordpress
- Sanity.io
- Gatsby Starter Library
- Using the Gatsby GraphQL Playground
- The Content Mesh
- Apollo Server
Fundamentals of working with Gatsby
Gatsby Development Process
- Function Composition
- Introducing Gatsby Themes
- Progressive Disclosure of Complexity
- Yarn Workspaces
- Yarn Link
- Lerna
Future of Gatsby
- Build Performance Example
- Multi-core Builds
- Changelog Episode: The Great GatsbyJS
- Gatsby Preview
- Reach Router
- Hasura
- AWS Appsync
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Wasmer is taking WebAssembly beyond the browser (Changelog Interviews #341)
We’re talking with Syrus Akbary about WebAssembly and Wasmer — a standalone just in time WebAssembly runtime aiming to be fully compatible with Emscripten, Rust, and Go. We talked about taking WebAssembly beyond the browser, universal binaries, what’s an ABI?, running WebAssembly from any language, and what a world might look like with platform independent universal binaries powered by WebAssembly.
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- Wasmer — Universal binaries powered by WebAssembly (Wasm)
- Stop limiting your open source library’s potential
- Running WebAssembly from any language
- Running WebAssembly 100x faster 🔥
- Standardizing WASI: A system interface to run WebAssembly outside the web
- WASI - The WebAssembly System Interface
- wasmerio/wasmer
- appcypher/awesome-wasm-langs
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Go 2 and the future of Go (Go Time #80)
We’re back! Panelists Mat Ryer, Johnny Boursiquot, Jaana B. Dogan, and Mark Bates discuss Go 2, the future of Go, what they like and don’t like, and what they would add or remove.
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- Jaana Dogan – Website, GitHub, X
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- Go 2, here we come!
- Go 2018 survey
- New error proposal
- GopherCon 2017: Russ Cox - The Future of Go
- Dave Cheney’s The Past, Present and Future of Go slides
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GIPHY's celebrity detector (Practical AI #38)
GIPHY’s head of R&D, Nick Hasty, joins us to discuss their recently released celebrity detector project. He gives us all of the details about that project, but he also tells us about GIPHY’s origins, AI in general at GIPHY, and more!
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- Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- Blog post about the celeb detector project
- GIPHY Enters the Open Source Community with Celebrity Detector (readwrite article)
- MTCNN method used in the celebrity detector project
- GitHub repo
- Demo page
- 3D projection of celeb face embeddings
- Complete list of all celebs in the model
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Refactoring script soup (JS Party #70)
KBall, Nick, and Chris dig into the various dimensions along which projects vary, dig into testing and best practices, and share a number of lessons learned from legacy projects.
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- 12 Signs You’re Working in a Feature Factory
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- Reddit discussion on developing mission critical software
- Survivorship Bias
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All things text mode (Changelog Interviews #340)
We’re talking all things text mode with Lucas da Costa — we logged his post “How I’m still not using GUIs in 2019” a guide focused on making the terminal your IDE. We talked through his Terminal starter pack which includes: neovim, tmux, iterm2, and zsh by way of oh-my-zsh, his rules for learning vim, the awesomeness of CLI’s, and the pros and cons of graphical and plain text editors.
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- How I’m still not using GUIs in 2019: A guide to the terminal — discuss on Changelog News
- In Praise of Plain Text
- lucasfcosta/dotfiles
- Neovim
- tmux/tmux
- iTerm2
- robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh
- tmuxinator/tmuxinator
- ohmybash/oh-my-bash
- webpro/awesome-dotfiles
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The landscape of AI infrastructure (Practical AI #37)
Being that this is “practical” AI, we decided that it would be good to take time to discuss various aspects of AI infrastructure. In this full-connected episode, we discuss our personal/local infrastructure along with trends in AI, including infra for training, serving, and data management.
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Our locally installed stuff:
Where we see AI workflows running:
- AWS
- GCP
- Azure
- Kubernetes and KubeFlow
- On-prem workstations:
Experimentation / model development:
- JupyterLab
- Google Colaboratory
- AWS SageMaker
- Data Science platforms:
Pipelining and automation:
Serving:
Monitoring/visibility:
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Bundle because you want to, not because you need to (JS Party #69)
Jerod and Nick are joined by Fred K. Schott – the main brain behind Pika. What’s that, you ask? An effort to make modern JavaScript more accessible by making it easier to find, publish, install, and use modern packages on npm.
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- pikapkg.com is your one-stop shop for all things Pika
- Can I use ES Modules?
- Fred’s click-baity (but high quality) intro – A Future Without Webpack
- The now-famous five.js package on npm
- Also check out @pika/pack
- There’s an rfc to integrate @pika/pack into npm
five.guys(); // '🍔'
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Why smart engineers write bad code (Changelog Interviews #339)
We’re talking with Adam Barr, a 23 year Microsoft veteran, about his book “The problem with software,” sub-titled “Why smart engineers write bad code.” We examine that very idea, the gap between industry and academia, and more importantly what we can do to get a better feedback loop going between them.
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- The Problem with Software on The MIT Press
- Lambda School
- Bradfield School of Computer Science
- Law of Demeter
- Strange Loop
- Association for Computing Machinery
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Hey, is that Burt Reynolds? (Backstage #3)
Our hottest of hot takes right after Apple’s March 25th special event. We discuss the tough questions: Do people care about privacy? Will we subscribe to Apple News+? How much will Apple Arcade cost? Is Visa cooler than MasterCard? Are there any takeaways for developers? Is that Burt Reynolds?!
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- We didn’t talk about this, but the opening film was pretty cool
- Watch the keynote for yourself on Apple’s Events page
- More info on Amazon Prime’s super cool X-Ray feature
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Growing up to become a world-class AI expert (Practical AI #36)
While at the NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference 2019 in Silicon Valley, Chris enjoyed an inspiring conversation with Anima Anandkumar. Clearly a role model - not only for women - but for anyone in the world of AI, Anima relayed how her lifelong passion for mathematics and engineering started when she was only 3 years old in India, and ultimately led to her pioneering deep learning research at Amazon Web Services, CalTech, and NVIDIA.
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- Anima Anandkumar on Wikipedia
- NVIDIA GTC Speaker
- NVIDIA GTC Presentation: Role of Tensors in Machine Learning
- NVIDIA GTC Presentation: Infusing Physics into Deep Learning Algorithms with Applications to Stable Landing of Drones
- CalTech CMS TensorLab
- Google Scholar
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What kind of moisture sensors do you use? (JS Party #68)
We discuss the news (built-in modules, OpenJSFoundation, Lambda School stipends), chat about the internet of JS things, and finish up with one of our favorite segments: shout outs!
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- Suz Hinton – GitHub, Mastodon, X
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Show Notes:
News Roundup
- Philip Walton KV storage and built-in modules
- TC39’s proposal for a JavaScript standard library.
- The OpenJSFoundation is official
- This was first discussed on JS Party #48
- Lambda School is giving $18k in stipends to select students
- Co-founder Austen Allfred’s tweet with the options diagram
- Austen will be interviewed on Founders Talk soon
The internet of JS things
- Suz is working on making her plants chirp
- Speaking of, check out Chirp
- For more of the backstory listen to this episode from OSCON
- She uses KiCad to design her PCBS
- Here’s the YouTube channel which was the most helpful when learning KiCad
- Nick built a Raspberry Pi powered photoboot for a wedding
Shouts outs!
- Suz is stoked about GitHub Actions and has a blog post upcoming
- Listen to GitHub Actions is the next big thing while you wait for beta access
- Nick gives a shout to GitHub’s Suggested Changes feature
- Chris would like to thank Jory Burson for all the awesome she’s doing
- Jerod shouts out Turbolinks, Tmuxinator, and tree
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The great divide reprise (JS Party #67)
Chris Coyier joins Suz and Jerod to continue the discussion on The Great Divide in front-end-land. We also use this as an opportunity to gush on how much CSS-Tricks has done for the community, get Chris’ perspective on the history of the website, and finish up by sharing some amazing Pens on CodePen.io.
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Show Notes:
- Read The Great Divide on CSS-Tricks
- For more discussion, listen to our previous show on the topic
- If you liked this, you will probably like listening to Shop Talk
- Suz suggests anything by Ana Tudor or Sarah Drasner on CodePen
- Chris mentioned A CSS Approach to Trap Focus Inside of an Element
- Jerod got nostalgic with Nintendo Pens 1, 2, and 3
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Social AI with Hugging Face (Practical AI #35)
Clément Delangue, the co-founder & CEO of Hugging Face, joined us to discuss fun, social, and conversational AI. Clem explained why social AI is important, what products they are building (social AIs who learn to chit-chat, talk sassy and trades selfies with you), and how this intersects with the latest research in AI for natural language. He also shared his vision for how AI for natural language with develop over the next few years.
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- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- Hugging Face
- Voice Boloss
- Transformer model episodes:
- Hugging Face’s Pytorch pre-trained model repo
- Rasa
- Lyrebird
- Allen Institute for AI
- AllenNLP
- OpenAI
- Fast.ai
- Betaworks Synthetic camp
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Funding OSS with Mozilla Open Source Support awards (Changelog Interviews #338)
We’re talking with Mehan Jayasuriya program officer at Mozilla about MOSS — the Mozilla Open Source Support (MOSS) program which recognizes, celebrates, and supports open source projects. Earlier this year we caught the “MOSS 2018 Year in Review” blog post — this post highlighted many of their efforts in 2018 so we reached out to talk through the history, goals, and impact of this very generous project.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Mozilla Open Source Support (MOSS) awards program
- MOSS 2018 year in review
- Mitchell Baker on Wikipedia + Mitchell Baker on Twitter
- Mozilla Foundation
- Apply for a MOSS award
- Open source inclusion basic checklist for open source projects on mozilla/diversity
- In Memoriam: Gervase Markham
- The Changelog #335: Enabling open code for science at NumFOCUS
- MozFest
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The White House Executive Order on AI (Practical AI #34)
The White House recently published an “Executive Order on Maintaining American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence.” In this fully connected episode, we discuss the executive order in general and criticism from the AI community. We also draw some comparisons between this US executive order and other national strategies for leadership in AI.
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Relevant learning resources:
- AI for Everyone
- Intel AI list of Ethics toolkits
- Government data
References / notes:
- The White House Executive Order
- 4 Experts Respond to Trump’s Executive Order on AI
- Trump’s executive order on AI, explained
- Trump to launch artificial intelligence initiative, but many details lacking (Science)
- National AI strategies overview (Medium article)
- China Is Leading in Artificial Intelligence–and American Businesses Should Take Note
- China plans to be a world leader in Artificial Intelligence by 2030
- Global AI talent Report
- SUMMARY OF THE 2018 DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE STRATEGY: Harnessing AI to Advance Our Security and Prosperity
- Artificial Intelligence Is Now a Pentagon Priority. Will Silicon Valley Help?
- DOD Takes Strategic Approach to Artificial Intelligence
Books
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Mastering the art of conference-driven development (JS Party #66)
KBall and Suz interview Ashi Krishnan, visual poet and senior software engineer at GitHub. Topics include how Ashi got into programming, her upcoming talk at React Amsterdam, code bootcamps, and developer tools.
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- Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Suz Hinton – GitHub, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- GitHub VSCode Extension
- GitHub Unity Extension
- GitHub’s GraphQL API
- Rakshasa
- React Amsterdam
- React Amsterdam’s open source awards
- WebGL
- Commodore64 Emulator
- Fullstack Academy
- Promises
- Async/Await
- Metaprogramming
- An Overview of JavaScript Testing in 2019
- BrowserStack
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Homebrew! Part Deux (Changelog Interviews #337)
We’re talking with Mike McQuaid about Homebew 2.0.0, supporting Linux and Windows 10, the backstory and details surrounding the security issue they had in 2018, their new governance model, Mike’s new role, the core team meeting in-person at FOSDEM this year, and what’s coming next for Homebrew.
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Homebrew on HackerOne
- brew.sh
- Donate Homebrew on Patreon
- Here’s how Eric Holmes gained commit access to Homebrew in 30 minutes
- adamstac/laptop
- thoughtbot/laptop
- MikeMcQuaid/strap - Bootstrap your macOS development system
- Homebrew governance
- Homebrew formulae analytics
- “This is why people don’t contribute to your open source project” —Mike McQuaid
- Hot Shots! Part Deux - starring Charlie Sheen
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Building rapid UI with utility-first CSS (JS Party #65)
Panelist Jerod Santo and first-time panelist Adam Stacoviak talk with Adam Wathan of Full Stack Radio fame about his CSS utility library called Tailwind CSS that’s growing in popularity to rapidly build custom user interfaces.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Tailwind CSS - A utility-first CSS framework for rapidly building custom user interfaces.
- Adam’s post “Going Full-Time on Tailwind CSS”
- Adam’s post “CSS Utility Classes and ‘Separation of Concerns’”
- Full Stack Radio
- Sass control directives: @if, @for, @each and @while
- Post CSS
- CSS Stats ~> Tailwind CSS
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Staving off disaster through AI safety research (Practical AI #33)
While covering Applied Machine Learning Days in Switzerland, Chris met El Mahdi El Mhamdi by chance, and was fascinated with his work doing AI safety research at EPFL. El Mahdi agreed to come on the show to share his research into the vulnerabilities in machine learning that bad actors can take advantage of. We cover everything from poisoned data sets and hacked machines to AI-generated propaganda and fake news, so grab your James Bond 007 kit from Q Branch, and join us for this important conversation on the dark side of artificial intelligence.
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- El Mahdi El Mhamdi on LinkedIn
- Google Scholar
- Personal blog
- World Health Organization | Ten threats to global health in 2019
- AggregaThor
- The Hidden Vulnerability of Distributed Learning in Byzantium
- Machine Learning with Adversaries: Byzantine Tolerant Gradient Descent
- Asynchronous Byzantine Machine Learning (the case of SGD)
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Containerizing compute driven workloads with Singularity (Changelog Interviews #336)
We’re talking with Greg Kurtzer, the founder of CentOS, Warewulf, and most recently Singularity — an open source container platform designed to be simple, fast, and secure. Singularity is optimized for enterprise and high-performance computing workloads. What’s interesting is how Singularity allows untrusted users to run untrusted containers in a trusted way. We cover the backstory, Singularity Pro and how they’re not holding the open source community version hostage, as well as how Singularity is being used to containerize and support workflows in artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, and more.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Sylabs.io
- Sylabs Cloud
- Special thanks to Jacob Chappell (phpHavok) and Andre Marcelo-Tanner (kzap) for kicking things off on Ping
- Now Live: Singularity 3.0!
- sylabs/singularity
- Open Containers Initiative
- Founders Talk #61: Isaac Schlueter on building npm and hiring a CEO
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OpenAI's new "dangerous" GPT-2 language model (Practical AI #32)
This week we discuss GPT-2, a new transformer-based language model from OpenAI that has everyone talking. It’s capable of generating incredibly realistic text, and the AI community has lots of concerns about potential malicious applications. We help you understand GPT-2 and we discuss ethical concerns, responsible release of AI research, and resources that we have found useful in learning about language models.
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- Jay Alammar “Illustrated” blog articles:
- Machine Learning Explained blog:
References/notes:
- GPT-2 blog post from OpenAI
- GPT-2 Paper
- GPT-2 GitHub Repo
- GPT-2 PyTorch implementation
- Episode 22 of Practical AI about BERT
- OpenAI’s GPT-2: the model, the hype, and the controversy (towardsdatascience)
- The AI Text Generator That’s Too Dangerous to Make Public (Wired)
- Transformer paper
- Preparing for malicious uses of AI (OpenAI blog)
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TensorFlow.js and Machine Learning in JavaScript (JS Party #64)
Panelists Suz Hinton and Nick Nisi discuss TensorFlow.js and Machine Learning in JavaScript with special guest Paige Bailey, TensorFlow mom and developer Advocate for Google AI.
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- Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- TensorFlow.js
- Google AI
ml5.js - Friendly Machine Learning for the Web - Machine Learning Glossary
- TensorFlow tutorials
- Tero Parviainen on CodePen
- tfjs-layers - High-level machine learning model API
- tfjs-models - Pre-trained TensorFlow.js models
- tfma-slicing-metrics-browser.gif 📷
- TensorFlow Model Analysis (TFMA) - a library for evaluating TensorFlow models
- What-If Tool - Building effective machine learning systems means asking a lot of questions. It’s not enough to train a model and walk away. Instead, good practitioners act as detectives, probing to understand their model better.
- EthicalMachineLearning.ipynb
- TensorBoard: Visualizing Learning
- TensorBoard: Graph Visualization
- People + AI Research (PAIR) - Human-centered research and design to make AI partnerships productive, enjoyable, and fair.
- Distill - Clear explanations of machine learning
- Book: Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech
- Book: Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
- A new course to teach people about fairness in machine learning
- List of cognitive biases
- CleverHans - a Python library to benchmark machine learning systems’ vulnerability to adversarial examples
- CleverHans paper
- Breaking linear classifiers on ImageNet
- CV Dazzle - explores how fashion can be used as camouflage from face-detection technology, the first step in automated face recognition
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Enabling open code for science at NumFOCUS (Changelog Interviews #335)
We’re talking with Gina Helfrich the Communications Director for NumFOCUS about their story and history, the impact of open code on science, the difference between sponsored and affiliated projects, corporate backing, the back story of their education and events program PyData, and the struggles of storytelling and fundraising.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Special thanks to Bryan W. Weber for suggesting this episode
- NumFOCUS — Open Code • Better Science
- NumFOCUS — Sponsored projects
- NumFOCUS — Affiliated projects
- We talked Spack on Request for Commits #13 with Todd Gamblin
- We talked rOpenSci on The Changelog #263 with Karthik Ram
- PyData.org
- Digitizing images of the Sun from the 1970s with SunPy Maps
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AI for social good at Intel (Practical AI #31)
While at Applied Machine Learning Days in Lausanne, Switzerland, Chris had an inspiring conversation with Anna Bethke, Head of AI for Social Good at Intel. Anna reveals how she started the AI for Social Good program at Intel, and goes on to share the positive impact this program has had - from stopping animal poachers, to helping the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. Through this AI for Social Good program, Intel clearly demonstrates how a for-profit business can effectively use AI to make the world a better place for us all.
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- AI for Social Good at Intel
- National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
- Data for Democracy
- Data Kind
- Delta Analytics
- Driven Data
- Partnership on AI
- Tech Jobs for Good
- Applied Machine Learning Days
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With great power comes great responsibility (Changelog Interviews #334)
Adam and Jerod are joined by JS Party panelist Nick Nisi and #causeascene advocate Kim Crayton for a deep discussion on ethics in the technology industry at-large and our roles as software developers. If you’ve never heard Kim describe what life is like online for underrepresented and marginalized folks, you have to listen to this show!
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- We start by asking the question: should we npm-uninstall-facebook.com?
- Jerod and Nick first met Kim at NEJS Conf 2017
- Kim also keynoted Node+JS Interactive 2017
- Kim’s podcast discusses these topics often
- The #causeascene movement being lead by Kim
- Read Kim’s article on QZ about defining diversity & inclusion terms
- Here’s coverage of bots mimicking female/black voices on NBC, Wired, and NYTimes
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LIVE from JSConf Hawai'i (JS Party #63)
KBall picks the brains of 4 of the speakers at JSConf Hawai’i to investigate the future of JavaScript and Web Development.
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- Shawn Wang – Website, GitHub, X
- Lin Clark – Website, GitHub, X
- Till Schneidereit – Website, GitHub, X
- Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Show Notes:
JavaScript language
- Pattern Matching (thin arrow operator)
- Pipeline Operator
- JavaScript language proposal stages
- Binary AST
- Typed Objects Proposal
WebAssembly
- W3C Process
- WebAssembly security model
- Calls between JavaScript and WebAssembly are finally fast 🎉 (blog post)
- Walt | Alternative Syntax for WebAssembly
- AssemblyScript
Other References
What the Panelists are Excited About
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GirlsCoding.org empowers young women to embrace computer science (Practical AI #30)
Chris sat down with Marta Martinez-Cámara and Miranda Kreković to learn how GirlsCoding.org is inspiring 9–16-year-old girls to learn about computer science. The site is successfully empowering young women to recognize computer science as a valid career choice through hands-on workshops, role models, and by smashing prevalent gender stereotypes. This is an episode that you’ll want to listen to with your daughter!
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- Miranda Kreković – Website
- Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Show Notes:
- GirlsCoding.org
- GirlsCoding.org on Twitter
- GirlsCoding.org on LinkedIn
- GirlsCoding on Facebook
- GirlsCoding.org at Applied Machine Learning Days
- Applied Machine Learning Days
- École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
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From voice devices to mobile, you just can't escape JS (JS Party #62)
KBall and Nick catch up with Nara Kaspergen and Jen Looper for a pair of conversations covering Voice UI Devices, using NativeScript for mobile development, and Jen’s work with Vue Vixens helping make the Vue.js community welcoming to women and non-binary people.
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- Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
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Nara Kaspergen
Voice UI Devices
SDKs and Tooling
Other Concepts
Jen Looper
- NativeScript
- NativeScript-Vue
- Vue Vixens
- NativeScript slack signup
- NativeScript core components
- NativeScript Market
- Dojo
- TypeScript
- Chris Fritz
- Dart
- Vim in WebAssembly
- Article: The “Developer Experience” Bait-and-Switch
- Case studies on icon design
- Info on the Node + JS Foundation Merger
- Progress
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Tactical design advice for developers (Changelog Interviews #333)
Adam talks with Erik Kennedy about tactical design advice for developers. Erik is a self-taught UI designer and brings a wealth of practical advice for those seeking to advance their design skills and learn more about user interface design. We cover his seven rules for creating gorgeous UI, the fundamentals of user interface design — color, typography, layout, and process. We also talk about his course Learn UI Design and how it’s the ultimate on-ramp for upcoming UI designers.
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- Learn UI Design
- Erik’s color generator that Jerod logged about
- 7 Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI
- 7 Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI — Part 2
- 3 Pro Tips on Alignment
- Learn UI Design Blog
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How Microsoft is using AI to help the Earth (Practical AI #29)
Chris caught up with Jennifer Marsman, Principal Engineer on the AI for Earth team at Microsoft, right before her speech at Applied Machine Learning Days 2019 in Lausanne, Switzerland. She relayed how the team came into being, what they do, and some of the good deeds they have done for Mother Earth. They are giving away $50 million (US) in grants over five years! It was another excellent example of AI for good!
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- Jennifer Marsman’s blog
- AI for Earth
- Project Premonition (mosquitos/genomics)
- FarmBeats (agriculture)
- Wildbook (recognizing individual animals) #1
- Wildbook (recognizing individual animals) #2
- Repository of data sets
- Microsoft Green Twitter
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How great the (front end) divide (JS Party #61)
Panelists Nick Nisi, Suz Hinton, and Kevin Ball chat about the perceived Great Divide in front end development, why 2019 is the year of TypeScript, and shout outs to inspirational members of the community.
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- Suz Hinton – GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Show Notes:
- The Great Divide
- Jest moving to TypeScript
- Yarns Future - v2 and beyond
- Porting 30K lines of code from Flow to TypeScript
- TypeScript support in Tink
- Monica Dinculescu on Twitter
- Magenta
- Tenori-off
- Magic Sketchpad
- Dan Abramov on Twitter
- Overreacted
- Rachel Andrew on Twitter
- Rachel Andrew’s author profile on Smashing Magazine
- Grid by Example
- Jen Simmons on Twitter
- Jen’s YouTube channel: Layout Land
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Laura Gaetano doesn't want to be a manager (Away from Keyboard #12)
Laura Gaetano was born in Italy, and by my count has lived in at least four different countries. Her multicultural upbringing has had a huge impact on her life. In fact, she currently works at the Travis Foundation with a focus on diversity and inclusion.
We talk about her upbringing, her troubles with art school, the work she’s doing now, and changes that may be on the horizon.
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- A big thank you to Abi Prado, who did the narration for this episode since my voice is gone (and who knows if it will ever return).
- Travis Foundation
- If you or someone you know would make a great guest for this show, send us an email at: afk@changelog.com.
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A UI framework without the framework (Changelog Interviews #332)
Jerod and Adam talked with Rich Harris –a JavaScript Journalist on The New York Times Investigations team– about his magical disappearing UI framework called Svelte. We compare and contrast Svelte to React, how the framework is embedded in a component, build time vs. run time, scoping CSS to components, and CSS in JavaScript. Rich also shares where Svelte v3 is heading and the details on Sapper, a framework for building extremely high-performance progressive web apps, powered by Svelte.
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Featuring:
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Thanks to Kevin McGee for suggesting this interview on Ping
- The Great Divide by Chris Coyier
- Frameworks without the framework; why didn’t we think of this sooner?
- Rich’s spectacular work on display in a piece for The New York Times on Twitter bots
- Watch Rich’s talk at JSConf EU 2018, “Computer, build me an app”
- Svelte website
- Follow Svelte on Twitter
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New year’s resolution: dive into deep learning! (Practical AI #28)
Fully Connected – a series where Chris and Daniel keep you up to date with everything that’s happening in the AI community.
If you’re anything like us, your New Year’s resolutions probably included an AI section, so this week we explore some of the learning resources available for artificial intelligence and deep learning. Where you go with it depends upon what you want to achieve, so we discuss academic versus industry career paths, and try to set you on the Practical AI path that will help you level up.
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Courses
- Amazon Machine Learning with AWS
- Google Machine Learning Crash Course with TensorFlow APIs
- Microsoft Professional Program for Artificial Intelligence
- Coursera / deeplearning.ai
- NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute
- Google, Amazon, Microsoft: How do their free machine-learning courses compare?
- Stanford Machine Learning Videos on YouTube
Books
- “Deep Learning” by Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, and Aaron Courville
- “Natural Language Processing with PyTorch” by Delip Rao and Brian McMahan
- “Machine Learning With Go” by Daniel Whitenack and Janani Selvaraj
(Daniel is too humble to put his own book in this list, so Chris inserted it above without Daniel’s knowledge - because it’s a damn fine book!)
Hybrid resources
Machine learning with TensorFlow crash course
Intro to deep learning with PyTorch
Spinning Up in Deep RL
Meetups
PyData
Atlanta Deep Learning Meetup
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Isaac Schlueter on building npm and hiring a CEO (Founders Talk #61)
With JavaScript in every corner of software development and npm in every corner right along with it, the rise of npm can be drawn as a hockey stick up and to the right with Isaac Schlueter at the top grinning ear to ear. After reading their recent announcement to hire a CEO, I knew it was time to talk one-on-one with Isaac about building npm and the journey of hiring his successor.
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- npm, Inc. has a new CEO, Bryan Bogensberger
- npm for enterprises
- npm for orgs
- npm’s about page
- npm/cli on GitHub
- npm audit
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You might want to read up on PAW Patrol (JS Party #60)
Your 3 intrepid hosts try to explain JS concepts (bind/apply, thunks, and ReasonML) to each other as if we’re five year olds. Hilarity and/or confusion ensues. During Pro Tip Time, Suz tells a story of woe, KBall motivates himself, and Jerod tries to keep you in the flow. Finally, we point our project spotlight at Fly CDN and talk edge applications and IoT.
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- Suz Hinton – GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Show Notes:
Explaining things like we’re 5
- Here it is: PAW Patrol
- Because KBall uses them to describe bind and apply
- Did Suz’ explanation of thunks leave you wanting? GOTO
- You could listen to Jerod, or just read this page about Reason
- Should we do a show with some folks from the Reason team?
Pro Tip Time
- What is the purpose of /etc/hosts? Read all about it
- Jerod mentioned Paul Graham’s essay on Maker Schedule, Manager Schedule
- You can also read Jerod’s tips on dev.to
Project Spotlight
- Fly CDN - a CDN just for developers
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GitHub Actions is the next big thing (Changelog Interviews #331)
Adam and Jerod talk to Kyle Daigle, the Director of Ecosystem Engineering at GitHub. They talk about GitHub Actions, the new automation platform announced at GitHub Universe this past October 2018. GitHub Actions is the next big thing coming out of GitHub with the promise of powerful workflows to supercharge your repos and GitHub experience. Build your container apps, publish packages to registries, or automate welcoming new users to your open source projects — with access to interact with the full GitHub API and any other public APIs, Actions seem to have limitless possibilities.
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Featuring:
- Kyle Daigle – Website, GitHub, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Learn more information about GitHub Actions
- Read this post by Jessie Frazelle on how a GitHub action works
- Marketplace of GitHub actions (only available to people in the public beta for now)
- Pull Reminders helps you remember to review code and get pull requests merged.
- Future of Software: Developers at the center of the universe
- This org has repos of different GitHub actions for many situations
- Adam logged Sarah Drasner’s list of awesome GitHub actions
- Article from GitLab about the importance of continous integration
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IBM's AI for detecting neurological state (Practical AI #27)
Ajay Royyuru and Guillermo Cecchi from IBM Healthcare join Chris and Daniel to discuss the emerging field of computational psychiatry. They talk about how researchers at IBM are applying AI to measure mental and neurological health based on speech, and they give us their perspectives on things like bias in healthcare data, AI augmentation for doctors, and encodings of language structure.
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- Ajay Royyuru – Website
- Guillermo Cecchi –
- Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- IBM 5 in 5: With AI, our words will be a window into our mental health
- Predicting Cognitive Impairments with a Mobile Application
- Automated analysis of recent-onset and prodromal schizophrenia
- Prediction of psychosis across protocols and risk cohorts using automated language analysis
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Our thoughts and experiences with SSGs (JS Party #59)
The JS Party crew discuss static site generators, our experiences with them, and what the future might hold for this ever-evolving technology.
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- Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Christopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- 11ty static site generator
- How We Used Gatsby.js to Build a Blazing Fast E-Commerce Site
- Vuepress
- Both the nteract Website and nteract Play were made with Next.js
- Siteleaf is a CMS that works with Jekyll
- Panini on GitHub
- The Building Blocks site was made with Panini
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Adam Clark wants to be independently wealthy (Away from Keyboard #11)
Adam Clark and I met back in 2013. We started a podcasting company together (which we both left), he shut down his consulting business to move to California and work for Apple, and now he’s back in Tennessee. Last year he launched a new business, Podcast Royale, a company he says will afford him more freedom to do whatever he wants to do.
He talks to me about growing up in a cult, losing his father, marriage, and how being a parent gives him a purpose in life.
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- Adam’s company, Podcast Royale
- I can’t remember the particular episode of Today Explained that I referenced in the show, but it’s a fantastic podcast you should subscribe to.
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source{d} turns code into actionable insights (Changelog Interviews #330)
Adam caught up with Francesc Campoy at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2018 in Seattle, WA to talk about the work he’s doing at source{d} to apply Machine Learning to source code, and turn that codebase into actionable insights. It’s a movement they’re driving called Machine Learning on Code. They talked through their open source products, how they work, what types of insights can be gained, and they also talked through the code analysis Francesc did on the Kubernetes code base. This is as close as you get to the bleeding edge and we’re very interested to see where this goes.
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2018 in review and bold predictions for 2019 (Practical AI #26)
Fully Connected – a series where Chris and Daniel keep you up to date with everything that’s happening in the AI community.
This week we look back at 2018 - from the GDPR and the Cambridge Analytica scandal, to advances in natural language processing and new open source tools. Then we offer our predications for what we expect in the year ahead, touching on just about everything in the world of AI.
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2018 in Review
- Focus on more challenging ML problems
- Semi-supervised learning
- Domain adaptation
- Generative models
- Reinforcement learning
- NLP
- ELMO
- BERT
- Fear about AI
- GDPR, trust and privacy
- Cambridge analytica
- Facial recognition
- Tons of open sourced tooling, models
Predictions for 2019
- Focus on trust and transparency
- Bias
- Regulation
- GDPR and transparency, interpretability
- What will other countries do regarding regulation?
- AI for good
- Better voice and conversational results
- AI assistants
- Voice interfaces
- NLP advances
- More focus on product development, less on research
- Deep learning will explode in production product / service development
- Computer vision, NLP, speech recognition will be table stakes
- Increased accessibility of DL to software engineers / developers
- More testing/tooling
- Better training for data scientists
- Better integrations and infrastructure
- AutoML
- Organizational / Cultural Shifts
- New roles for data-based leadership - CDO, CAIO, etc.,
- Strategy - AI becoming first-class concern
- Competitive Analysis - AI and data assessments mandatory
- Fragmentation into distinct subfields - AI, analytics, data science, prognostics
- A changing relationship between humans and automation
- AI + robotics - first steps
- Pervasive AI + IoT - first steps
- The importance of creative expertise for humans
- How to school your child today to prep for tomorrow
- Narrowly-scoped, highly-specific job functions at most risk
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Real JavaScript, not too much, stage three and above (JS Party #58)
KBall and Nick meet up with Jory Burson and Amal Hussein at Node+JS Interactive. Together we open up the black box of the JavaScript standards process, talk about how to get involved, and then dig into the use of ASTs to transform and analyze JavaScript.
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- Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
- Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Standards & Opening the Black Box
- TC39 on GitHub
- Myles Borins
- Daniel Ehrenberg
- Maggie Pint
- TC39 proposals
- The TC39 Process
- How to join ECMA
- Jory’s talk on Standardizing JavaScript
On the distribution of stakeholders
On testing the JavaScript spec with JavaScript
On the Boundaries of the Spec
ASTs
- Amal’s talk on ASTs for Refactoring
- Esprima
- Babel parser
- Acorn
- Dojo upgrade tool (using ASTs)
- Awesome AST
Other
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Perspectives on Kubernetes and successful cloud platforms (Changelog Interviews #329)
Adam caught up with Brendan Burns (co-creator of Kubernetes and Partner Architect at Microsoft Azure) at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2018 in Seattle, WA to talk about the state of Kubernetes, the importance of community, building healthy cloud platforms, and the future of cloud infrastructure.
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- The Commons Clause
- Brendan’s talk at KubeCon — !go, Interacting with and Extending Kubernetes in a Polyglot World
- Read The Illustrated Children’s Guide to Kubernetes — Here’s a link to a pdf version of it
- Metaparticle is a standard library for cloud native applications on Kubernetes.
- cncf/artwork — CNCF related logos and artwork
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Leading data-driven software teams and products (Founders Talk #60)
For the final show of 2018 I’m talking with Travis Kimmel, the CEO of GitPrime. Travis has spent years as an engineering manager. Travis’s mission at GitPrime is to bring crystal clear visibility into the software development process and bridge the communication gap between engineering and stakeholders. This communication gap is often an ongoing plague in product development lifecycle. We talked through focus, tech debt, leading teams, predictability, and more.
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- Check out GitPrime
- Subscribe to Engineering Impact, GitPrime’s weekly newsletter
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Jumping off the Edge into Chromium (JS Party #57)
Nick, KBall, and Chris respond to follow up on the State of JavaScript survey, discuss Chromium, Edge, and the future of the web, and reminisce about the past year in the final JS Party of 2018!
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Show Notes:
State of JavaScript survey follow up
- Sacha Grief responds to our previous discussion on the State of JS survey
- JS Party: 52 - Original discussion on the survey
- Changelog: 252 - GitHub’s Open Source Survey
Jumping off the Edge into Chromium
- It’s official. The future of Microsoft Edge is Chromium
- They’re also dropping ChakraCore in favor of V8.
JavaScript in 2018 and Beyond
- TypeScript is 🔥🔥🔥
- Vue 3.0 and TypeScript
- JS Party is back!
- Dojo 2 released!
- npm: This year in JavaScript
- Project Gutenberg from WordPress
- The rise of VSCode
- Netflix: Our learnings from adopting GraphQL
- Deno - JavaScript and TypeScript outside the browser
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Maria Boland Ploessl found her home in technology (Away from Keyboard #10)
In our last episode of the year, I talk with Maria Boland Ploessl. Maria’s path to technology has been interesting to say the least. A Saint Paul native, she studied Spanish and Latin American studies in college. In 2016, after living in a few different cities (even a year-long stint in Brazil), she moved back to Minnesota. Now, she’s the Executive Director of Minnestar, a non-profit organization with the aim of supporting and growing Minnesota’s tech community.
Maria talks to me about what Minnestar does, the work they’re doing to bring more people of underrepresented groups into tech, married life and how she’s grown from it, and parenthood.
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- Maria and her husband welcomed baby William Otis in early December
- She’s the Executive Director for Minnestar
- Minnestar puts on quite a few events, two of them being Minnebar and Minnedemo
- I actually did a talk on CSS Grid at Minnebar 2017
- Twin Cities Startup Week
- The 5 Love Languages
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State of the "log" 2018 (Changelog Interviews #328)
On this year’s “State of the ‘log’” episode we’re going behind the scenes to look back at 2018 as we prepare for 2019 and onward. We talk through our most popular episodes, most controversial episodes, and even some of our personal favorites. We also catch you up on some company level updates here at Changelog Media. We hired Tim Smith earlier this year as our Senior Producer, we retired Request for Commits, started some new shows…
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Before we officially head into the year end I wanted to take a moment to thank you for your time and attention, it means the world to us. We work very hard to produce this podcast and we do it for you, the listeners — so thank you. Please be safe over the holiday break. Enjoy your time with family, friends, and loved ones. We’ll see you again in 2019!
Most popular episodes
- #291 – Winamp2 JS with Jordan Eldredge
- #288 – Live coding open source on Twitch with Suz Hinton
- #295 – Scaling all the things at Slack with Julia Grace
- #298 – The beginnings of Microsoft Azure with Julia White
- #297 and #314 on GraphQL
Most controversial
- #300 – Corporate interests in open source and dev culture with Zed Shaw
- Throwback to #205 – A protocol for dying with Pieter Hintjens
Staff favorites
New shows!
- You can listen to Backstage on the web or subscribe via Master
- You are subscribed to Master, right? 😉
- Listen to the new and improved JS Party
- Founders Talk is back in a big way!
- Tim Smith’s Away from Keyboard is a must-listen
- Maybe start with episode #4?
- We didn’t talk too much about Practical AI, but it’s rad too
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Finding success with AI in the enterprise (Practical AI #25)
Susan Etlinger, an Industry Analyst at Altimeter, a Prophet company, joins us to discuss The AI Maturity Playbook: Five Pillars of Enterprise Success. This playbook covers trends affecting AI, and offers a maturity model that practitioners can use within their own organizations - addressing everything from strategy and product development, to culture and ethics.
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- Machine Learning for fair decisions
- Bias examples - programmer, black male
- Increasing Trust in AI Services through Supplier’s Declarations of Conformity
- Introducing AI Fairness 360
- The AI Maturity Playbook: Five Pillars of Enterprise Success
- AI Now - Algorithmic Impact Assessments: A Practical Framework for Public Agency Accountability
- Amazon’s Facial Recognition Wrongly Identifies 28 Lawmakers, A.C.L.U. Says
- General Data Protection Regulation
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We're dependent. See? (JS Party #56)
KBall, Chris, Nick, and Safia discuss how they keep a healthy relationship with dependencies in their codebase. Listen to learn how they decide when to use third-party dependencies, how they verify and validate dependencies, and how to support the ecosystem of open source libraries.
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Show Notes:
- FOSSA is an open source dependency management tool.
- This package will analyze the licenses of the node.js modules in your project.
- Tidelift is a way for software teams to support open source projects.
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Untangle your GitHub notifications with Octobox (Changelog Interviews #327)
Jerod is joined by Andrew Nesbitt and Ben Nickolls to talk Octobox, their open source web app that helps you manage your GitHub notifications. They discuss how Octobox came to be, why open source maintainers love it, the experiments they’re doing with pricing and business models, and how Octobox can continue to thrive despite GitHub’s renewed interest in improving notifications.
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- Command Line Heroes – A new podcast about the epic true tales of the developers, hackers, and open source rebels revolutionizing the tech landscape from the command line up. Presented by Red Hat.
Featuring:
- Andrew Nesbitt – Website, GitHub, X
- Benjamin Nickolls – GitHub, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Andrew was a guest on The Changelog #188 and Request For Commits #3
- The two met at a 24 Pull Requests event
- They’ve been working on Libraries.io for the last couple of years
- When it comes to clipboard managers, Andrew recommends Alfred
- For all things Octobox, start right here
- Or jump straight to its GitHub repo
- Find Octobox on GitHub Marketplace
- Or support the community on Open Collective
- Their Roadmap is also open source
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So you have an AI model, now what? (Practical AI #24)
Fully Connected – a series where Chris and Daniel keep you up to date with everything that’s happening in the AI community.
This week we discuss all things inference, which involves utilizing an already trained AI model and integrating it into the software stack. First, we focus on some new hardware from Amazon for inference and NVIDIA’s open sourcing of TensorRT for GPU-optimized inference. Then we talk about performing inference at the edge and in the browser with things like the recently announced ONNX JS.
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News:
- NVIDIA’s open sourcing of TensorRT
- Amazon launches a machine learning chip
- The recently announced ONNX JS project
- Snapdragon Neural Processing Engine SDK
Learning resources:
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The future of the web is npm, but maybe not JavaScript (JS Party #55)
In this special episode of JS Party, KBall and Nick are on location at Node + JS Interactive in Vancouver. They talks with Laurie Voss, co-founder and COO of npm Inc. They chat about his talk, “npm and the Future of JavaScript”, JavaScript frameworks, and how the definition of “the fundamentals of the web” is constantly changing.
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- Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Laurie’s Talk:
- npm and the Future of JavaScript slides
- npm and the Future of JavaScript recording from NEJS
- Methodology of Survey blog post
React Everywhere
Other References
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Jeremy Fuksa is a unicorn (Away from Keyboard #9)
Jeremy Fuksa has had a rough few years. After deciding to go out on his own, his third year in business was filled with anxiety. Going back to working a full-time job may sound like a failure to some, but Jeremy doesn’t look at it that way.
He talks to me about his unique skill set, dealing with anxiety and depression, and how his recent experience has taught him some great lessons.
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- Listen to Jeremy and Paul’s podcast, Uncle Weepy’s Depression Dungeon
- If you or someone you know would be a great guest for this show, send an email to afk@changelog.com
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The insider perspective on the event-stream compromise (Changelog Interviews #326)
Adam and Jerod talk with Dominic Tarr, creator of event-stream, the IO library that made recent news as the latest malicious package in the npm registry. event-stream was turned malware, designed to target a very specific development environment and harvest account details and private keys from Bitcoin accounts.
They talk through Dominic’s backstory as a prolific contributor to open source, his stance on this package, his work in open source, the sequence of events around the hack, how we can and should handle maintainer-ship of open source infrastructure over the full life-cycle of the code’s usefulness, and what some best practices are for moving forward from this kind of attack.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- The issue that kicked off everything
- We covered the incident on Changelog News
- Here’s Dominic’s statement that we reference repeatedly
- Felix Krause had some on-point commentary on Twitter
- TideLift says event-stream gets 2 million downloads per week
- SwiftOnSecurity also chimed in on Twitter
- Learn more about Project Xanadu
- We discussed Reproducible Builds with Chris Lamb back in the day
- Also check out A call for kindness in open source with Brett Cannon
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Pachyderm's Kubernetes-based infrastructure for AI (Practical AI #23)
Joe Doliner (JD) joined the show to talk about productionizing ML/AI with Pachyderm, an open source data science platform built on Kubernetes (k8s). We talked through the origins of Pachyderm, challenges associated with creating infrastructure for machine learning, and data and model versioning/provenance. He also walked us through a process for going from a Jupyter notebook to a production data pipeline.
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- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
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How $3.8M in seed funding started Gatsby as an open source company (Founders Talk #59)
Kyle Mathews is the founder and CEO of Gatsby, a new company he’s building around an open source project of the same name. Gatsby as a project describes itself as a flexible modern website framework and blazing fast static site generator for React.js. At the macro level — Kyle’s career has been focused on a better way to build and ship websites. It seems he’s done just that with Gatsby’s launch in late May 2015…since then he’s taken on a co-founder and a seed round of $3.8M to form Gatsby Inc.
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trust.js but verify (JS Party #54)
KBall, Jerod, and Nick break down some recent events in the JavaScript world. Take a dive into the recent event-stream malware attack, breaking down the State of JavaScript 2018 survey, and sharing pro tips to make your life better.
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- Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
The event-stream incident
- FallingSnow’s initial issue that made it public
- npm yanked the package and reported on the attack
- Listen to Dominic Tarr discuss it on The Changelog (broken link until 2018-12-5)
- Could this be a copy-cat of this Hackernoon article from earlier this year?
The State of JS survey
- Check out the survey (and rad website) right here
- KBall recommends Mel Summer’s talk from EmberFest 2018
Pro Tips
- Jerod cites Eugen Kiss’s Lean Testing post (More commentary here)
- Nick recommends some handy git aliases from Cory Frang
- KBall’s tip is a
.clone()of Nick’s debugging trip from episode 46
Never forgot to trust.js but verify. 😉
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A good open source password manager? Inconceivable! (Changelog Interviews #325)
Perry Mitchell joined the show to talk about the importance of password management and his project Buttercup — an open source password manager built around strong encryption and security standards, a beautifully simple interface, and freely available on all major platforms. We talked through encryption, security concerns, building for multiple platforms, Electron and React Native pros and woes, and their future plans to release a hosted sync and team service to sustain and grow Buttercup into a business that’s built around its open source.
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Featuring:
- Perry Mitchell – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Buttercup
- Have I Been Pwned: Check if your email has been compromised in a data breach
- Key derivation function on Wikipedia
- Sallar Kaboli on GitHub
- Buttercup Roadmap
- Why I love password managers on Changelog News
- reproducible-builds.org
- The Changelog #237: Reproducible Builds and Secure Software with Chris Lamb
- ownCloud - The leading OpenSource Cloud Collaboration Platform
- Nextcloud
- KeePass Password Safe
- Open Source Password Management Solutions
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BERT: one NLP model to rule them all (Practical AI #22)
Fully Connected – a series where Chris and Daniel keep you up to date with everything that’s happening in the AI community.
This week we discuss BERT, a new method of pre-training language representations from Google for natural language processing (NLP) tasks. Then we tackle Facebook’s Horizon, the first open source reinforcement learning platform for large-scale products and services. We also address synthetic data, and suggest a few learning resources.
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News/Discussion:
- Is artificial intelligence set to become art’s next medium?
- BERT (a new method for obtaining rich contextual language representations during pre-training):
- Horizon: The first open source reinforcement learning platform for large-scale products and services
- Does Synthetic Data Hold The Secret To Artificial Intelligence?
- AI Experts: Moving forward with AI likely a series of small steps, not giant leaps
Learning resources:
Books
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VisBug is like DevTools for designers (JS Party #53)
Google UX Engineer Adam Argyle joins Jerod and KBall to share all the details on VisBug, his just-released Chrome Extension that “makes any webpage feel like an artboard.” Adam is passionate about doing for designers what Firebug (and later DevTools) did for developers. In this episode, he shares that passion and how it’s driven him to create and open source VisBug.
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Show Notes:
- VisBug was demoed live on-stage at ChromeDevSummit
- It is open source on GitHub
- You can install the Chrome Extension right here
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Tidelift's mission is to pay open source maintainers (Changelog Interviews #324)
In this special crossover episode of Founders Talk, Adam talks with Donald Fischer. Donald Fischer and the team at Tidelift are on a mission of making open source work better — for everyone. To pay the maintainers of open source software they are putting a new spin on a highly successful business model that’s a win-win for the maintainers as well as the software teams using the software. In this episode we dig into that backstory and Donald’s journey.
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- There’s over $1M to pay open source maintainers on Tidelift
- It’s time to pay the maintainers!
- Tidelift
- Is React’s development “supported” by Facebook? That depends.
- Havoc Pennington
- Jeremy Katz
- Luis Villa
Listen to the original episode.
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New episodes coming in December! (Away from Keyboard)
There hasn’t been a new episode in a few weeks so I wanted to give you a small update. We’ll be back with new episodes on December 4th.
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UBER and Intel’s Machine Learning platforms (Practical AI #21)
We recently met up with Cormac Brick (Intel) and Mike Del Balso (Uber) at O’Reilly AI in SF. As the director of machine intelligence in Intel’s Movidius group, Cormac is an expert in porting deep learning models to all sorts of embedded devices (cameras, robots, drones, etc.). He helped us understand some of the techniques for developing portable networks to maximize performance on different compute architectures.
In our discussion with Mike, we talked about the ins and outs of Michelangelo, Uber’s machine learning platform, which he manages. He also described why it was necessary for Uber to build out a machine learning platform and some of the new features they are exploring.
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Nest 'dem loops (JS Party #52)
NESTED LOOPS is a JavaScript band that combines music and video with web tech to perform live at JSConf. In this episode, Jerod and Suz are joined by Jan Monschke and Kahlil Lechelt, which comprise 2/3 of the group.
After sampling one of their tracks, we hear the story of how they got the band together, the journey of building a tech stack for their first live performance, and how that stack was then rewritten to be “good” for their second performance. Suz is at awe with the technologies at play. Jerod wonders if there’s room in the world for musicians directly targeting JavaScript devs. A good time is had by all.
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- Jan Monschke – Website, GitHub, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Suz Hinton – GitHub, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Listen to NESTED LOOPS on SoundCloud
- But seriously, you want to see these performances for yourself: 2015, 2017, 2018
- People Got Mad JavaScript is the track we sampled on the show
- Jan met Kahlil after watching this YouTube video
- The bits and bobs they build to pull this together are all open source
- The style was inspired by Mark Ronson’s Ted Talk
- Kahlil wrote it all up on Medium awhile back
- They also did a talk at JSConf about the technical details
- You can support the band by buying their merch
- Check out Loop Drop for live electronic music performance
- Jan suggests Ableton for getting started making music
- Also Web Audio School for making music on the web
- Looking for some community? There’s a Web Audio Slack
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The road to Brave 1.0 and BAT (Changelog Interviews #323)
This week Adam and Jerod talk with Brian Bondy, Co-founder and CTO of Brave. They talked through the beginnings of Brave and how BAT (Basic Attention Token) could be driving the future of how we offer funding and tips to our favorite websites and content creators. Of course, they go deep into the historical and the technical details of the Brave browser and their march to Brave 1.0. The last segment of the show covers how BAT works, how it’s being used, and also their interesting spin on an ad model that respects the user’s privacy.
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Brave Browser
- Browser.html, an experimental Servo browser in HTML
- Muon, a fork of the Electron framework
- Request For Commits #11: Funding the Web with Brendan Eich
- Tracking Protection in Firefox For Privacy and Performance
- StatCounter Global Stats, Browser Market Share Worldwide
- BAT (Basic Attention Token)
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Analyzing AI's impact on society through art and film (Practical AI #20)
Brett Gaylor joins Chris and Daniel to chat about the recently announced winners of Mozilla’s creative media awards, which focuses on exposing the impact of AI on society. These winners include a film that responds to the audience (via AI recognized emotions) and an interesting chatbot called Wanda.
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- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- Winners of the Creative Media Awards
- Do not track movie
- The Science behind Cambridge Analytica
- Mozilla manifesto
- Machine bias article from ProPublica
- Practical AI episode from Lindsey Zuloaga about bias
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Come play in the CodeSandbox (JS Party #51)
In this episode, Nick talks with Ives van Hoorne about his project CodeSandbox. They chat about Ives deciding to work on it full-time, how CodeSandbox is built, some of its best features, and what lies ahead.
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- CodeSandbox: Online Code Editor Tailored for Web Application Development
- What’s Unique About CodeSandbox – Ives van Hoorne
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There and back again (Dgraph's tale) (Changelog Interviews #322)
This week we talk with Manish Jain about Dgraph, graph databases, and licensing and re-licensing woes. Manish is the creator and founder Dgraph and we talked through all the details. We covered what a graph database is, the uses of a graph database, and how and when to choose a graph database over a relational database. We also talked through the hard subject of licensing/re-licensing. In this case, Dgraph has had to change their license a few times to maintain their focus on adoption while respecting the core ideas around what open source really means to developers.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Open Source Licensing & Relicensing · Issue #833 · thechangelog/ping
- Dgraph — A Distributed, Fast Graph Database
- Stack Exchange Data Dump : Stack Exchange, Inc.
- Google Inc. Acquires Metaweb Technologies Inc. | Inc.com
- Official Google Blog: Deeper understanding with Metaweb
- Switching Dgraph to a Liberal License - Dgraph Blog
- The History of the LICENSE.md file of Dgraph
- Commons Clause License
- The Open Source Definition | Open Source Initiative
- It’s not okay to pretend your software is open source | Drew DeVault’s Blog
- flickrfs - Virtual Filesystem for Flickr
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Getting into data science and AI (Practical AI #19)
Himani Agrawal joins Daniel and Chris to talk about how she got into data science and artificial intelligence, and offers advice to others getting into these fields. She goes on to describe the role of artificial intelligence and machine learning within AT&T and telecom in general.
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- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
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What up, docs? 🥕 (JS Party #50)
Safia, Nick, Jerod, and Chris get together to talk about documentation. Documentation is essential in our work but it can be difficult to get buy-in. The crew talks about how you can get others to care about it in your organization, tools that make documentation easier, and some examples of companies doing it right.
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- Safia Abdalla – Website, GitHub, X
- Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Christopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- @kahliltweets on Twitter
- Safia loves the React Styleguidist
- Read about Literate Programming on Wikipedia
- Jeremy Ashkenas’ Literate CoffeeScript
- Docco is a tool for literate programming
- Stripe’s API docs are 👌
- So are Twilio’s
- Nick likes Chai’s docs
- Jerod mentions UmbrellaJS, everyone is impressed
- Dash is 💣 for macOS docs
- Maybe Velocity is just as cool for Windows?
- In terms of guides, check out Ruby on Rails and GitHub’s Open Source Guides
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Drupal is a pretty big deal (Changelog Interviews #321)
Adam and Jerod talk with Angie Byron, a core contributor and staple of the Drupal community. We haven’t covered Drupal really (sorry about that), but the call with Angie was inspiring! From the background, to the tech, the usage of the software, the communication at all levels of the community — Drupal is doing something SO RIGHT, and we’re happy to celebrate with them as they march on to the “Framlication” beat of their own drum.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Dries Buytaert started Drupal in 2001
- PHP Nuke used to be the bee’s knees (but not really)
- 2004: The scream that doomed Howard Dean
- Acquia employs Angie and other Drupal folks
- DrupalCon 2019 is in Seattle April 8-12
- Gabe Sullice is working on the API first initiative
- webchick on Drupal.org
- Differences between full and provisional core committers | Drupal.org
- Drupal core maintainers | Drupal.org
- Planet Drupal | Drupal.org
- News | Drupal.org
- API-First Initiative | Drupal.org
- Drupal Association | Drupal.org
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AIs that look human and create portraits of humans (Practical AI #18)
In this new and updates show, Daniel and Chris discuss, among other things, efforts to use AI in art and efforts to make AI interfaces look human. They also discuss some learning resources related to neural nets, AI fairness, and reinforcement learning.
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News from Daniel:
- AI portrait up for auction
- Graph ML related things:
- CSV conf
News from Chris:
- Magic Leap’s new AI assistant looks alarmingly human
- MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing
- Deep-learning algorithm identifies dense tissue in mammograms
Learning resources:
- Neural network playground
- IBM AI Fairness 360
- Towards Data Science
- Artificial Intelligence: What’s The Difference Between Deep Learning And Reinforcement Learning?
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Apple's Fall 2018 Mac/iPad event (Spotlight #15)
Adam, Jerod, and Tim get together to put a spotlight on Apple’s October 30th Mac/iPad event from a developer’s perspective. They cover the specs of the new MacBook Air and the viability of having it as a development machine, the new Mac Mini in the ever popular Space Gray, and whether or not Tim will be able to stop pulling his hair out to find an affordable, yet powerful desktop machine with it, and the gorgeous new iPad Pro.
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Tim Smith – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- Password Manager for Families, Businesses, Teams | 1Password
- MacBook Air - Apple
- Mac mini - Apple
- iPad Pro - Apple
- What are SO-DIMMS?
- Blackmagic eGPU - Apple
- MacStadium | Apple Mac Infrastructure & Private Clouds
- Nintendo Switch
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Serverless? We don’t need no stinkin’ SERVERS (JS Party #49)
Disclaimer: no servers were harmed in the taping of this show. We hosted a special discussion with Jeremy Daly, Kevin Ball, Nick Nisi, and Christopher Hiller on the ideas around serverless, managed services, Functions as a Service (FaaS), micro-services, nano-services, all-the-services!
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- Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
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- The Changelog #312: Segment’s transition back to a monorepo with Alexandra Noonan and Calvin French-Owen
- “The strangler pattern”
- ServerlessConf
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Venture capital meets commercial OSS (Changelog Interviews #320)
Joseph Jacks, the Founder and General Partner of OSS Capital joined the show to share his plans for funding the future generation of commercial open source software based companies. This is a growing landscape of $100M+ revenue companies ~13 years in the making that’s just now getting serious early attention and institutional backing — and we talk through many of those details with Joseph.
We cover the whys and hows, why OSS now, deep details around licensing implications, and we speculate the types of open source software that makes sense for the types of investing Joseph and other plan to do.
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- The Changelog #310 — Open sourcing the DEV community
with Ben Halpern - Request for Commits #9 — Open source and licensing with Heather Meeker
- OSS Capital
- The $100M+ revenue commercial open source software company index
- Commons Clause License
- Open Core - Definition, examples, and tradeoffs
- FOSSA
- GNU AGPL (Affero General Public License)
- Mozilla Public License
Version 2.0 - Storj
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Fighting bias in AI (and in hiring) (Practical AI #17)
Lindsey Zuloaga joins us to discuss bias in hiring, bias in AI, and how we can fight bias in hiring with AI. Lindsey tells us about her experiences fighting bias at HireVue, where she is director of data science, and she gives some practical advice to AI practitioners about fairness in models and data.
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- Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- Compas recidivism model
- HireVue
- IBM fairness 360
- Attacking discrimination with smarter machine learning
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LIVE from Node + JS Interactive (JS Party #48)
KBall, Nick, and Suz MC’d a live show at Node + JS Interactive in Vancouver with Tierney Cyren (Node Foundation) and Dave Methvin (JS Foundation) to discuss the proposed merger between the JS Foundation and the Node Foundation. What’s happening with the merger? What does this merger mean for everyday JavaScript developers and the ecosystem?
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- Dave Methvin – Website, GitHub, X
- Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Suz Hinton – GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- JS Foundation
- Node Foundation
- Node Foundation & JS Foundation Merger Announcement
- TC39
- JS Foundation Contributor License Agreement
History of conflict on Node side
Other References
- graceful-fs
- Workers in Node
- node-serialport
- nodebots
- require.js (AMD loader)
- Node TSC
- Node CommComm
- Sarah Novotny
- Todd Moore
- What is a BDFL
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Keepin' up with Elm (Changelog Interviews #319)
Jerod invites Richard Feldman back on the show to catch up on all things Elm. Did you hear? NoRedInk finally had a production runtime error, the community grew quite a bit (from ‘obscure’ to just ‘niche’), and Elm 0.19 added some killer new features around asset optimization.
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- The Changelog #218 was Elm’s first appearance
- NoRedInk still employs Richard and Evan
- The Python Paradox by Paul Graham
- Small Assets without the Headache in Elm 0.19
- Elm in Action
- Elm courses on Frontend Masters
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BONUS – Sustain Summit 2018 (Changelog Interviews)
In this special bonus call, Adam and Jerod talk with Allen “Gunner” Gunn about the Sustain Summit. They talk about what it is, the kind of conversations that happen there, issues the open source community are facing right now, and how Sustain stands out from traditional “unconferences.”
Sustain 2017 was a big hit, and this year’s event should be even better. Join us!
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- Sustain Summit 2018 | A one-day event for Open Source sustainers
- Sustain 2017 Report
- The Changelog #237: Reproducible Builds and Secure Software with Chris Lamb
- The Changelog BONUS - Sustain Open Source Software with Justin Dorfman
- Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure / Ford Foundation
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PyTorch 1.0 vs TensorFlow 2.0 (Practical AI #16)
Chris and Daniel are back together in another news/updates show. They discuss PyTorch v1.0, some disturbing uses of AI for tracking social credit, and learning resources to get you started with machine learning.
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- Introducing PyTorch across Google cloud
- VentureBeat article about PyTorch v1.0
- Google’s general recommended practices for AI
- Deep learning made easier with transfer learning
- Decision tree visualization
- Anatomy of an AI system
- It’s hacktoberfest!
- Conference calls:
News from Chris:
- TensorFlow RoadMap, TensorFlow 2
- Leave No Dark Corner
- The 5 Steps To Build A Business’s Deep Learning Workflow
- The Pentagon is investing $2 billion into artificial intelligence
- Google Dataset Search
- What do you get when you mix sugar water, 3D printing and deep learning?
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Gettin' Plexy wit it (Backstage #2)
Adam, Jerod, and Tim get together to talk about Plex! Plex is a media server which allows you to store your movies, TV shows, music, photos, etc. Turns out, you can actually use it together with an antenna to watch live TV and DVR content. They chat about what has Adam so excited, the pros and cons (or as Adam said, “trade-offs”), and how to get started.
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- Tim Smith – GitHub, X
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- Media Server | Plex allows you to stream video smarter.
- Pioneer BDR-XD05B 6x Slim Portable USB 3.0 BD/DVD/CD BDR-XD05B
- Plex’s DVR now lets you skip the commercials… by removing them for you | TechCrunch
- Live TV Streaming | Watch TV now free with Plex DVR
- FAQ - Plex Cloud | Plex Support
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The nitty gritty on BitMidi (JS Party #47)
Where does Feross get all those wonderful toys? He builds them with JavaScript, of course! BitMidi – a website for listening to your favorite MIDI files – is his latest creation. In this episode, Jerod “sits down” with Feross to learn all about it.
How do MIDIs even work? Why won’t they play on the web anymore? Can WASM save the day (hint: yes)? How does Feross get so many eyeballs on his creations? Is Preact awesome for building sites like this? What’s the future of BitMidi look like? Don’t ask us, listen to the episode!
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- The Changelog #227: Mad Science, WebTorrent, WebRTC with Feross Aboukhadijeh
- Popular MIDIs — BitMidi
- Announcing BitMidi » Feross.org
- feross/bitmidi.com: 🎹 Listen to free MIDI songs, download the best MIDI files, and share the best MIDIs on the web
- Chrome User Experience Report
- PageSpeed Insights
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A call for kindness in open source (Changelog Interviews #318)
Adam and Jerod talk to Brett Cannon, core contributor to Python and a fantastic representative of the Python community. They talked through various details surrounding a talk and blog post he wrote titled “Setting expectations for open source participation” and covered questions like: What is the the purpose of open source? How do you sustain open source? And what’s the goal?
They even talked through typical scenarios in open source and how kindness and recognizing that there’s a human on the other end of every action can really go a long way.
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- Setting expectations for open source participation
- Benjamin Bertrand on Twitter: “Very good talk from @brettsky about interaction in open source: https://t.co/yJYfjTYPzZ I’m sure that would make an excellent @changelog episode!”
- The Changelog #300: Corporate interests in open source and dev culture with Zed Shaw
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Eryn O'Neil isn't afraid to speak her mind (Away from Keyboard #8)
Eryn O’Neil grew up in the southwestern suburbs of Chicago. When it came time for college, it was easy for her to move a few states over and go to college in a small town in Iowa. She now lives in Minneapolis, and after years of being self-employed, she just finished a months-long journey to find her next job.
Eryn talks to me about being the first female engineering manager at her new company, what excites her about technology, the hurdles of married life, and staying healthy in a demanding industry.
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Artificial intelligence at NVIDIA (Practical AI #15)
NVIDIA Chief Scientist Bill Dally joins Daniel Whitenack and Chris Benson for an in-depth conversation about ‘everything AI’ at NVIDIA. As the leader of NVIDIA Research, Bill schools us on GPUs, and then goes on to address everything from AI-enabled robots and self-driving vehicles, to new AI research innovations in algorithm development and model architectures. This episode is so packed with information, you may want to listen to it multiple times.
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- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
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- NVIDIA Research
- NVIDIA Deep Learning Accelerator (NVDLA)
- CUDA
- AI-Powered Self-Driving Cars
- Progressive GANs
- Optical Flow and Deep Learning
- TensorRT
- Deep Learning Super Sampling
- NVIDIA DGX2
- NVSwitch and NVLink
- NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute
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Fantastic bugs and how to squash them (JS Party #46)
Safia, Suz, KBall and Nick get together to talk about bugs! Not those pesky things you’re scared to squash because they might suddenly jump on you — this is all about JavaScript bugs; how you prevent some of the common ones, what tools you can use to reduce bugs in your code, and a panel group therapy session where they discuss the most difficult bug they’ve had to fix.
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- Suz Hinton – GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
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Topics covered in today’s show:
- Most common JavaScript bugs
- Hardest JavaScript bugs tackled by the hosts
- Tools to reduce the number of bugs in your code
Links mentioned in the show:
- Top 10 JavaScript errors from 1000+ projects (and how to avoid them)
- TypeScript
- A Year of Other’s Bugs: the sad state of error handling (by Brittany Storoz)
- Flow
- Nuxt
- Angular
- Zone.js
- Visual Studio Code
- w0rp/ale: Asynchronous linting/fixing for Vim and Language Server Protocol (LSP) integration
- Code Lauren
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#Hacktoberfest isn’t just about a free shirt (Changelog Interviews #317)
#Hacktoberfest is a once per year event in the month of October celebrating open source. For many it’s an on ramp to open source, PRs galore for maintainers, and t-shirts for those who submit 5 or more pull requests. In the end, however, it’s about the awareness of open source and its significance to the greater good to humanity as we know it.
Adam and Jerod talk with Daniel Zaltsman, Dev Rel Manager at DigitalOcean and key leader of Hacktoberfest to cover the backstory, where this project began, its impact on open source, how it has had to scale each year by many orders of magnitude, and of course we cover how you can play your part in #Hacktoberfest and give back to open source.
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- We’re joining Hacktoberfest 2018 | Microsoft + Open Source
- Request For Commits with Nadia Eghbal and Mikeal Rogers
- 24 Pull Requests
- Hacktoberfest 2018 - DigitalOcean
- Hacktoberfest 2018 - Events
- Hacktoberfest 2018 - Event Kit
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OpenAI, reinforcement learning, robots, safety (Practical AI #14)
We met up with Wojciech Zaremba at the O’Reilly AI conference in SF. He took some time to talk to us about some of his recent research related to reinforcement learning and robots. We also discussed AI safety and the hype around OpenAI.
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- OpenAI
- OpenAI blog
- The Dota playing team of AIs from OpenAI
- Microsoft Tay Chatbot
- Reinforcement learning Wikipedia
- Berkeley course CS294-112 on Reinforcement learning. Includes pdf notes and YouTube videos of the lectures.
Books
- “Deep Learning” by Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio and Aaron Courville
- “Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction” by Richard S. Sutton and Andrew G. Barto
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The CSS expertise kerfuffle (JS Party #45)
Suz, Nick, and KBall are joined by special guest Aimee Knight to talk about CSS, how it’s often trivialized and how that in turn affects the people who write it, what CSS in JS is, and how to get started with it.
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- CSS dismissal is about exclusion, not technology
- 9 CSS in JS Libraries You Should Know in 2018 – Bits and Pieces
- CSS Blocks
- Houdini: Maybe The Most Exciting Development In CSS You’ve Never Heard Of — Smashing Magazine
- Is Houdini Ready Yet?
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Suz Hinton says find your allies (Away from Keyboard #7)
Almost eight years ago, Suz Hinton made one of the biggest decisions of her life: move away from her home in Melbourne, Australia and move to the United States. After amicably breaking up with her boyfriend, another decision lied ahead: would she stay?
Suz talks to me about culture shock, the hoops she had to jump through to get her visa, her parents, and dealing with burnout.
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- The world’s most liveable cities in 2018 | CNN Travel
- TAFE NSW - Wikipedia
- noopkat - Twitch
- John Resig
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REST easy, GraphQL is here (Changelog Interviews #316)
In this special rebroadcast of JS Party, Jerod and Suz talk with John Resig about how he’s using GraphQL at Khan Academy, some of the mistakes and successes using GraphQL, John’s feelings on jQuery, and community Q&A.
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- John’s intro to the GraphQL Guide - Introduction by John Resig, author of GraphQL Guide
- Get the GraphQL Guide (beta) - Link to the Ebook & Training information on GraphQL, with a free tshirt for full edition Ebook readers
- The Changelog #255: Why is GraphQL so cool? - Link to the GraphQL Podcast
- The Changelog #297: Prisma and the GraphQL data layer - Link to the Prisma and GraphQL Data Layer
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Tidelift's mission is to pay open source maintainers (Founders Talk #58)
Donald Fischer and the team at Tidelift are on a mission of making open source work better — for everyone. To pay the maintainers of open source software they are putting a new spin on a highly successful business model that’s a win-win for the maintainers as well as the software teams using the software. In this episode we dig into that backstory and Donald’s journey.
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- There’s over $1M to pay open source maintainers on Tidelift
- It’s time to pay the maintainers!
- Tidelift
- Is React’s development “supported” by Facebook? That depends.
- Havoc Pennington
- Jeremy Katz
- Luis Villa
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Stories of personal JavaScript failures (JS Party #44)
Suz, Jerod, Nick and KBall talk about cringeworthy mistakes and failures they (and the community!) have experienced with JavaScript. They also give advice to themselves as if they were just starting out today in the JavaScript industry.
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- JavaScript 30 — Build 30 things with vanilla JS in 30 days with 30 tutorials
- Learn to Code and Help Nonprofits | freeCodeCamp
- Learning Web Development in 2018
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Join the federation?! Mastodon awaits... (Changelog Interviews #315)
We talked with Eugen Rochko, the creator of Mastodon, about where Mastodon came from the problem it aimed to solve. How it’s not exactly Twitter alternative, although that’s its known claim to fame. Why it’s probably not going anywhere. The ins-and-outs of federation, getting started, running an instance, why you would want to — cool stuff you’ve never considered could be built on top of Mastodon. And finally, the story behind naming posted content a “toot”.
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- ActivityPub
- tootsuite/documentation
- Giving social networking back to you - The Mastodon Project
- Gargron is creating Mastodon | Patreon
- documentation/Development-guide.md at master · tootsuite/documentation
- Masto.host - Fully Managed Mastodon Hosting
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Answering recent AI questions from Quora (Practical AI #13)
An amazing panel of AI innovators joined us at the O’Reilly AI conference to answer the most pressing AI questions from Quora. We also discussed trends in the industry and some exciting new advances in FPGA hardware.
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- Wes Jensen – Website
- Peter Ma – Website
- David Ojika – X
- Vinay Rao – Website, X
- Osamah Mohammed Ali – Website
- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- Intel AI Academy
- Intel DevCloud
- Movidius Neural Compute Stick
- Cloud AutoML
- Google’s AutoML: Cutting Through the Hype
- MLPerf
- OpenVino, OpenCV SDK
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From dropout to CEO of Sentry and taking on New Relic (Founders Talk #57)
David Cramer dropped out of high school AND college, but that didn’t stop him. He ended up teaching himself programming and eventually landed his first job as the webmaster of a World of Warcraft community website. What a beginning… We talked through “the rough slog” period of Sentry and how David powered through to traction and enough profit for him and his partner to go full time, raise three rounds of funding, and take on New Relic.
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- Sentry.io
- Sentry on crunchbase.com
- Sentry raises $16M Series B from NEA and Accel to help developers squash bugs more quickly
- Real-time crash reporting tool Sentry grabs $9 million from NEA & Accel
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BONUS: Growing a successful sales team at Sentry (Founders Talk)
Here’s a bonus segment from episode #57 of Founders Talk with David Cramer, co-founder and CEO of Sentry. Check the feed for the full length episode (later today). We talked about sales in the full length episode, but this BONUS segment is a completely isolated conversation that’s not included in the full length episode — so don’t gloss over this thinking it’s just a teaser.
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I’m thinking about doing short series focused on founders building their sales teams to grow and handle the demands a startup requires. If you have any feedback you’d like to share about the idea, or if you know someone with a sales team story to tell — get in touch, email me at adam@changelog.com.
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Interviews from JSConf (JS Party #43)
KBall interviews with Michael Chan, Juan Pablo Buriticá and Julián David Duque, and Tim Doherty at JSConf.US. Conversations about the importance of DRY code, the metaphors we use for software, JavaScript communities across Latin America, how to advocate for modern tech stacks in large companies, and fostering mentorship.
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- Rollbar – We catch our errors before our users do because of Rollbar. Resolve errors in minutes, and deploy your code with confidence. Learn more at rollbar.com/changelog.
- NativeScript – NativeScript is an open source framework for building truly native mobile apps for iOS and Android using JavaScript and TypeScript with frameworks like Angular and Vue. Learn more at nativescript.org/jsparty.
- Algolia – Our search partner. Algolia’s full suite search APIs enable teams to develop unique search and discovery experiences across all platforms and devices. We’re using Algolia to power our site search here at Changelog.com. Get started for free and learn more at algolia.com.
Featuring:
- Michael Chan – Website, GitHub, X
- Juan Pablo Buritica – GitHub, X
- Julian Duque – Website, GitHub, X
- Tim Doherty – Website, GitHub, X
- Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Show Notes:
Michael Chan (Chantastic)
- React Podcast
- ‘Hot Garbage, Clean Code Is Dead’ recording from React Rally
- Sandi Metz on Churn vs Complexity
- Ice Cube and his real name
Juan and Julián
Tim Doherty
- Generators
- Proxies
- JavaScript: Prototype vs Class
- Innovation Debt
- npm audit
- npm outdated
- Dependabot
- Santa Barbara JavaScript Meetup
- ‘ES6 In Practice’ slides
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Kubernetes brings all the Cloud Natives to the yard (Changelog Interviews #314)
We talk with Dan Kohn, the Executive Director of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation to catch up with all things cloud native, the CNCF, and the world of Kubernetes.
Dan updated us on the growth KubeCon / CloudNativeCon, the state of Cloud Native and where innovation is happening, serverless being on the rise, and Kubernetes dominating the enterprise.
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- GoCD – GoCD is an on-premise open source continuous delivery server created by ThoughtWorks that lets you automate and streamline your build-test-release cycle for reliable, continuous delivery of your product.
Featuring:
- Dan Kohn – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Cloud Native Computing Foundation
- CNCF Survey: Use of Cloud Native Technologies in Production Has Grown Over 200%
- Cloud Native Computing Foundation Receives $9 Million Cloud Credit Grant from Google Cloud to Fund Kubernetes Development, Empower Community
- Cloud Native Computing Foundation Welcomes 38 New Members at Open Source Summit North America
- Software Conformance - Cloud Native Computing Foundation
- GitHub - cncf/landscape - Static Cloud Native Landscapes and Interactive Landscape that filters and sorts hundreds of cloud native projects and products, and shows details including GitHub stars, funding or market cap, first and last commits, contributor counts, headquarters location, and recent tweets.
- CNCF Cloud Native Interactive Landscape
- K8s DevStats
- KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2018
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Decentralizing the web with Beaker (JS Party #42)
Feross talks with Mathias Buus and Paul Frazee about the decentralized web, why the average person should care about decentralization of the web, the Beaker browser, Dat and the differences and similarities to BitTorrent, and how Paul and Mathias first got involved in this work.
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Mahdi Yusuf knows being healthy is a constant struggle (Away from Keyboard #6)
Mahdi Yusuf worked a startup in his twenties and wasn’t worried too much about his health. When he quit that job, he decided to take better care of himself and lost fifty pounds. Now, he’s the CTO of Gyroscope, a startup that aims to be the operating system for the human body, but ever since joining, has gained weight back.
Mahdi talks to me about how Gyroscope is trying to help people understand their bodies better, growing up with a love for computers, and trying to be healthy with a busy life.
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The first cloud native programming language (Changelog Interviews #313)
Jerod talked with Paul Fremantle, the CTO and Co-Founder of WSO2, about their new programming language, Ballerina — a cloud-native language which aims to make it easier to write microservices that integrate APIs. They talked about the creation of the language and how it was inspired by so many technologies, cloud native features like built-in container support, serverless-friendly, observability, and how it works with, or without, a service mesh — just to name a few.
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- GoCD – GoCD is an on-premise open source continuous delivery server created by ThoughtWorks that lets you automate and streamline your build-test-release cycle for reliable, continuous delivery of your product.
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Show Notes:
- Ballerina.io - Landing page of Ballerina.io : Cloud Native Programming Language
- Ballerina’s philosophy - Ballerina.io design philosophy which incorporates fundamental concepts of distributed system integration into the language
- Ballerina Central - Ballerina.io Central code repository of reusable code packages
- Coverage on The New Stack - Article on Ballerina in The New Stack
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AI in healthcare, synthesizing dance moves, hardware acceleration (Practical AI #12)
Chris and Daniel discuss new advances in AI research (including a creepy dancing video), how AI is creating opportunity for new chip startups, and uses of deep learning in healthcare. They also share some great learning resources, including one of Chris’s favorite online courses.
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News/Updates:
- New seq2seq architecture without explicit encoder/decoder
- Dancing video synthesis
- O’Reilly AI SF
- How AI is decommoditizing the chip industry
- Johns Hopkins researchers use deep learning to combat pancreatic cancer
- Artificial intelligence system designs drugs from scratch
Learning Resources:
Books
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Applying the magic of compilers to the frontend (JS Party #41)
KBall and Chad Hietala meet up at JSConf and talk about compilers for the frontend, Ember’s binary opcodes, webassembly, and the future of performance optimization for the web.
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Performance gains from compilers in JavaScript:
Glimmer
- The Glimmer Binary Experience
- The Glimmer VM: Boots Fast and Stays Fast
- Experiments porting Glimmer VM pieces to WASM
The performance costs of parse/compile:
Precompilation:
Moving sourcemaps to webassembly:
A11Y:
Opportunities for Angular, Vue, etc
Ember
- The Brutal Lifecycle of JavaScript Frameworks
- Github Stars !== Usage: React is still blowing Vue and Angular Away
- issue: Latest version of angular-cli shows ember-cli help
- #dadt (Dojo already did that)
- Ember RFCs
Other Linkedin Projects:
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Justin Dorfman’s passion is advocating for developers (Away from Keyboard #5)
After a very difficult 2014 that put Justin Dorfman in the hospital, he vowed to never go back. Justin has Bipolar I disorder, so coming to terms with his limitations and the sacrifices he needs to make to stay healthy hasn’t been easy. He talks to me about his early BMX dreams, his transition from engineering to marketing, and the stigma around mental health.
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Segment's transition back to a monorepo (Changelog Interviews #312)
Adam and Jerod talk with two members of Segment’s engineering team: Co-founder and CTO, Calvin French-Owen, as well as Software Engineer, Alex Noonan, about their journey from monorepo to microservices back to monorepo. 100s of problem children to 1 superstar child.
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- Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com.
Featuring:
- Alexandra Noonan – GitHub
- Calvin French-Owen – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Segment says goodbye microservices
- Goodbye Microservices: From 100s of problem children to 1 superstar · Segment Blog
- Centrifuge: a reliable system for delivering billions of events per day · Segment Blog
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Eric Berry is funding open source with CodeFund (Founders Talk #56)
Eric Berry started Code Sponsor a year ago because of his passion for finding ways to sustain and fund open source developers. He ultimately had to shutdown due to potential legal issues with GitHub, but was given new life as CodeFund when he went to work for ConsenSys and Gitcoin. We talked through the backstory of this idea, why he’s so passionate about funding open source, ethical advertising, being unapologetically focused on your mission, the value of honesty and openness, and the future direction of CodeFund.
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- CodeFund
- What I’ve learned over the past year funding open source
- The CPC Illusion
- gitcoinco/codefund
- Code Sponsor + Gitcoin = OSS Sustainability
- Why Funding Open Source is Hard
- React Table
- Material UI
- nayafia/lemonade-stand
- Codesandbox
- Nuxt.js
- Sustain Summit 2018
- Open Collective
- Founders Talk #52: Pia Mancini is now CEO and growing Open Collective
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Robot Perception and Mask R-CNN (Practical AI #11)
Chris DeBellis, a lead AI data scientist at Honeywell, helps us understand what Mask R-CNN is and why it’s useful for robot perception. We also explore how this method compares with other convolutional neural network approaches and how you can get started with Mask R-CNN.
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Featuring:
- Chris DeBellis – Website
- Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- Matterport R-CNN
- Mask R-CNN paper
- COCO dataset
- Stanford CNN course
- Stanford Deep Learning course
- Facebook’s Detectron
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LIVE from JSConf! (JS Party #40)
In this special episode of JS Party at JS Conf in Carlsbad, Nick, Suz, Feross, and KBall talk about crazy JavaScript combinations, tips to get started speaking, being committed to diversity as a conference organizer, and much more.
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- Gauge – Low maintenance test automation! Gauge is free and open source test automation framework that takes the pain out of acceptance testing.
Featuring:
- Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Suz Hinton – GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Feross Aboukhadijeh – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Links for JavaScript Connections
VR, Browser Extensions, and Home Automation
- VR
- Building AR/VR with Javascript and HTML – Hacker Noon
- Browser Extensions
- Home Automation
- Virtual Desktop for VR
Cryptocurrency Mining and GraphQL
Mocha and D3
WebUSB and Webtorrents
- WebUSB
- Webtorrents
- Previous JSParty episode covering WebUSB and Webtorrents
- BitTorrent for build distribution
JavaScript Conferences and Community
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Istio service mesh and microservices (Changelog Interviews #311)
Adam and Jerod talk with Jason McGee, VP and CTO of IBM Cloud Platform about Istio — an open platform that provides a uniform way to connect, secure, control, and observe microservices. They cover what service mesh is, why its suddenly so interesting, who’s involved in Istio, their involvement with the CNCF, getting started, and what’s next for Istio.
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- Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com.
Featuring:
- Jason McGee – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Istio / About Istio
- The Istio service mesh hits version 1.0 – TechCrunch
- The History of the Service Mesh - The New Stack
- GitHub - cncf/landscape: Cloud Native Landscape
- Envoy Proxy
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Open source tools, AI for Dota, and enterprise ML adoption (Practical AI #10)
This week, Daniel and Chris talk about playing Dota at OpenAI, O’Reilly’s machine learning survey, AI-oriented open source (Julia, AutoKeras, Netron, PyTorch), robotics, and even the impact AI strategy has on corporate and national interests. Don’t miss it!
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Show Notes:
- The State of Machine Learning Adoption in the Enterprise
- AutoKeras: The Killer of Google’s AutoML
- Netron NN visualizer
- What’s the Purpose of Companies in the Age of AI?
- Julia 1.0
- AI Nationalism
- OpenAI and Dota
- PyTorch Tutorials
- How to Get Started in Machine Learning and Robotics
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Experimenting with some new ideas 🔬 (JS Party #39)
Jerod, Nick, KBall, and Chris pre-party for JSConf by testing out some brand new segment ideas: Story of the Week, What the WHAT… WG, and Protip Time. What do you think of these segments? Like ’em? Love ’em? Not sure why we even? Please let us know!
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Christopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Story of the Week
- ndb
- Babel 7.0 RC 1
- The Cost of JavaScript in 2018
- Securing Web Sites Made Them Less Accessible
- Vue CLI 3.0
What the WHAT… WG
- HTML or HTML5? Who Controls HTML?
- Standards WHATWG works on
- Lazy loading images and iframes
- Add autocapitalize attribute (merged and deployed) (added to MDN)
Protip Time
paste {
pbpaste > ${1}
}
copy {
cat ${1} | pbcopy
}
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Side hustle to $35M ARR at Zapier (Founders Talk #55)
Bryan Helmig, Wade Foster, and Mike Knoop started Zapier in 2011 as a side hustle. They ultimately applied to Y Combinator, twice. And this year they hit $35 Million dollars in annual revenue. I talked with Bryan Helmig (CTO) through the backstory of starting this company, being 100% distributed, the flexibility as well as the constraints of being remote-only, how they reached product market fit, growth, scaling their teams, and how they bring everyone together for company wide retreats.
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Open sourcing the DEV community (Changelog Interviews #310)
We talk with Ben Halpern the founder and webmaster of dev.to — a community for developers to talk about software. Last Wednesday they open sourced the codebase of the dev.to platform, so we wanted to talk through all the details with Ben. We talked through the backstory, how Ben realized this could become a business, how the team was formed, their motivations for open sourcing it and why they didn’t open source it from the start, the technical stack, and their vision for the future of the site.
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- thepracticaldev/dev.to
- dev.to roadmap
- O RLY Cover Generator
- Saron from Codenewbie
- Making dev.to insanely fast
- RailsConf talk on making dev.to fast
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Behavioral economics and AI-driven decision making (Practical AI #9)
Mike Bugembe teaches us how to build a culture of data-driven decision making within a company, leverage behavioral economics, and identify high value use cases for AI.
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Jeff Robbins is an actual rockstar [rebroadcast] (Changelog Interviews)
On this special bonus episode of The Changelog, we’re playing the latest episode of Away from Keyboard with Jeff Robbins. While some dream of having a successful career, Jeff Robbins has already had several. Once the lead singer and guitarist for Orbit, Jeff has worked on some of the most famous Drupal websites. He talks to Tim about his early interest in computers, starting Lullabot, and adjusting to life after leaving the company he built and ran.
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REST easy, GraphQL is here (JS Party #38)
Jerod and Suz talk with John Resig about how he’s using GraphQL at Khan Academy, some of the mistakes and successes using GraphQL, John’s feelings on jQuery, and community Q&A.
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- Get the GraphQL Guide (beta)
- The Changelog #255: Why is GraphQL so cool?
- The Changelog #297: Prisma and the GraphQL data layer
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Jeff Robbins is an actual rockstar (Away from Keyboard #4)
While some dream of having a successful career, Jeff Robbins has already had several. Once the lead singer and guitarist for Orbit, Jeff has worked on some of the most famous Drupal websites. He talks to me about his early interest in computers, starting Lullabot, and adjusting to life after leaving the company he built and ran.
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Rebuilding Exercism from the ground up (Changelog Interviews #309)
Adam and Jerod invite back Katrina Owen after years away focusing on Exercism—a 100% free platform for code practice and mentorship with over 2500 exercises and 48 different language tracks. They talk to Katrina about how the platform has changed, the direction it’s taken, the backstory on the recently launched version 2, and how she plans to turn Exercism into a sustainable business. Also, what happens if that doesn’t work?!
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- About the new site
- The Exercism core team
- exercism on Github
- The Changelog #108: Exercism.io and Crowd-Sourced Code Reviews with Katrina Owen
- Go Time #19: Programming Practices, Exercism, Open Source with Katrina Owen, creator of Exercism
- Spotlight #2: Exercism and 99 Bottles of OOP with Katrina Owen at OSCON London 2016
- audreylim (Audrey Lim)
- Audrey Lim’s website
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Eye tracking, Henry Kissinger on AI, Vim (Practical AI #8)
Chris and Daniel help us wade through the week’s AI news, including open ML challenges from Intel and National Geographic, Henry Kissinger’s views on AI, and a model that can detect personality based on eye movements. They also point out some useful resources to learn more about pandas, the vim editor, and AI algorithms.
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- Intel - AI Interplanetary challenge
- App that lets Alexa read sign language
- The mythos of model interpretability
- Artificial Intelligence Can Predict Your Personality By Simply Tracking Your Eyes
- Think You Know How Disruptive Artificial Intelligence Is? Think Again.
- How the Enlightenment Ends
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- Mastering vim quickly
- An introduction to Gradient Descent Algorithm
- Introducing capsule networks
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npm is made of people. PEOPLE! (JS Party #37)
Jerod, Nick, and Chris talk with Jeff Lembeck about his tweets, the people behind npm, the need for empathy, and things they’re excited about.
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- Jeff’s Twitter Thread
- Nick is excited about TypeScript 3.0
- Chris is excited about mkdirp PR in node by Ben Coe
- Mark Reeder is excited about Fusion.js
- Jerod is excited about podcast subscriber counts
- Jeff is excited about Discourse
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Ashley Baxter is excited about… insurance? (Away from Keyboard #3)
Thirteen years ago, Ashley Baxter inherited the family insurance business when her Dad passed away. Even though she’s a talented photographer, and built a successful photography business, the insurance industry kept calling her name. Ashley talks about what excites her about insurance, the challenges of running a business, and how burnout forced her to focus.
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- Girl With A Camera | Pictographs of Ashley Baxter’s life.
- Ashley Baxter - YouTube
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Biases in AI, helping veterans get jobs in software, open science (Changelog Interviews #308)
Adam and Jerod are on location at OSCON and talk with Camille Eddy about recognizing biases in AI, Jerome Hardaway about the work he’s doing to prepare veterans for jobs in software, and Abby Cobunoc Mayes about the work she’s doing at Mozilla for open science.
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Understanding the landscape of AI techniques (Practical AI #7)
Jared Lander, the organizer of NYHackR and general data science guru, joined us to talk about the landscape of AI techniques, how deep learning fits into that landscape, and why you might consider using R for ML/AI.
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- “Applied Predictive Modeling” by Max Kuhn and Kjell Johnson
- “Deep Learning with R” by Francois Chollet and J. J. Allaire
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Behind the party with Suz at OSCON (JS Party)
Adam and Jerod catch up with Suz about her presentation at OSCON, some cool stuff she’s doing at her house, and more.
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A11y is your ally (JS Party #36)
Suz, Safia, and Kball get together to talk about accessibility; what does it mean, why should we care, and what tools and resources can we use to better educate ourselves, and improve our work.
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- Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
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- Easy Accessibility Testing with aXe
- aXe Future Tools
- a11y | Join us on Slack!
- tota11y – an accessibility visualization toolkit
- GitHub - reactjs/react-a11y: Identifies accessibility issues in your React.js elements
- Ember A11y · GitHub
- Lighthouse | Tools for Web Developers | Google Developers
- Introducing the Accessibility Inspector in the Firefox Developer Tools › Marco’s Accessibility Blog
- Firefox 61 – Quantum of Solstice – Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog
- How to make videos accessible | Adelphi Digital Consulting Group
- Writing Automated Tests for Accessibility
- The A11Y Project
- A11ycasts with Rob Dodson - YouTube
- Accessibility Wins, curated by Marcy Sutton
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Live at OSCON 2018 (Backstage #1)
Adam, Jerod, and Tim sit down to talk at OSCON 2018 about their favorite parts of the conference, meeting new people, seeing old friends, and telling people about all the new things happening at Changelog.
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Away at OSCON (Away from Keyboard)
Hello everyone! No new episode this week, since I was away at OSCON last week in Portland. We had a fantastic time.
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AWS Amplify and cloud-enabled apps (Changelog Interviews #307)
We talk with Nader Dabit, Developer Advocate for Amazon Web Services, about the role of DevRel and what’s involved in this “dream job”, frontend and mobile developers using AWS Amplify to build cloud-enabled applications, how GraphQL, React, and others fit in, and the direction of React Native.
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- React Native Training - Professional Private and Classroom React Native Training
- GitHub - aws-amplify/amplify-js: A declarative JavaScript library for application development using cloud services.
- AWS Mobile
- GitHub - dabit3/awesome-aws-amplify: Curated list of AWS Amplify Resources
- AWS Amplify Quick Start
- Building AI Enabled GraphQL Applications – Open GraphQL – Medium
- Introducing the AWS Amplify GraphQL Client – Hacker Noon
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Government use of facial recognition and AI at Google (Practical AI #6)
In this episode, Chris and Daniel discuss the latest news, including an article about Google’s AI principles, and they highlight some useful resources to help you level up.
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- ACLU calls for a moratorium on government use of facial recognition technologies – TechCrunch
- Doing good data science - O’Reilly Media
- An Overview of National AI Strategies – Politics + AI – Medium
- Meet CIMON, the 1st Robot with Artificial Intelligence to Fly in Space
- AI at Google: our principles
- Foundations of Machine Learning
- Machine Learning Crash Course | Google Developers
- Best Laptop for Machine Learning - YouTube
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Justin Jackson finds focus [rebroadcast] (JS Party #35)
In this special episode of JS Party, we’re sharing a full-length episode of our new show, Away from Keyboard. This show explores the human side of creative work. In this episode, Tim talks with Justin Jackson about his parents, dealing with depression, and a new business he’s co-founded.
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- EP03: Tim Smith Of The East Wing Podcast - Podcast Champion (podcast)
- 2017 year in review
- Build Your SaaS
- Transistor | Professional podcast hosting and analytics
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Justin Jackson finds focus (Away from Keyboard #2)
I first heard of Justin Jackson about six years ago. Back then, he was consulting full-time for a company with the dream of going independent. Fast forward to 2018, and after building a successful business, he’s now embarking on a new adventure. Justin talks about his parents, dealing with depression, and a new business he’s co-founded.
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The Great GatsbyJS (Changelog Interviews #306)
From open source project to a $3.8 million dollar seed round to transform Gatsby.js into a full-blown startup that’s building what’s becoming the defacto modern web frontend. In this episode, we talk with Jason Lengstorf about this blazing-fast static site generator, its building blocks and how they all fit together, the future of web development on the JAMstack (JavaScript + APIs), the importance of site performance, site rebuilds, getting started, and how they’re focused on building an awesome product and an awesome community.
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- GatsbyJS raised a $3.8M seed round and is now a startup
- GatsbyJS.org
- GatsbyJS Integrations
- JAMStack on The Changelog #251
- Firefox 61 with Accessibility Inspector
- Gatsby Showcase
- Learning how to code with Gatsby
- Workshop.me - Live Technical Training
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Detecting planets with deep learning (Practical AI #5)
Andrew Vanderburg of UT Austin and Christ Shallue of Google Brain join us to talk about their deep learning collaboration, which involved searching through a crazy amount of space imagery to find new planets.
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- Google AI Blog: Open Sourcing the Hunt for Exoplanets
- Artificial Intelligence, NASA Data Used to Discover Exoplanet | NASA
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JavaScript eating the world, desktop edition (JS Party #34)
Kball and Feross talk with Shelley Vohr and Jeremy Apthorp about what Electron is, why to use it, and what comes next for the platform.
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- Electron memory usage compared to other cross-platform frameworks | rory is ok
- Put your Electron app on a diet with Electrino – DailyJS – Medium
- How To Make Your Electron App Sexy - DC
- Overall speed of electron based products · Issue #5672 · electron/electron
- The npm Blog — JavaScript Usage by Industry
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Putting AI in a box at MachineBox [rebroadcast] (Changelog Interviews #305)
In this special episode of The Changelog we’re sharing a full-length episode of our newly launched podcast called Practical AI — covering AI, Machine Learning, and Data Science. In this episode Mat Ryer and David Hernandez joined Daniel and Chris to talk about MachineBox, building a company around AI, and democratizing AI.
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- Practical AI #2: Putting AI in a box at MachineBox with Mat Ryer and David Hernandez
- Practical AI with Chris Benson and Daniel Whitenack
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Jason Snell is his own HR person (Away from Keyboard #1)
It’s been four years since Jason Snell left his job at Macworld and started his own site Six Colors. In that time, Jason is back to what he loves: creating. He talks about the diversity of his work day, finding the right mix of revenue streams, and taking a break when you need one.
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- Six Colors: Apple, technology, and other stuff from Jason Snell and Friends
- The Incomparable - Smart, funny pop culture podcasts
- Free Agents - Jason is no longer a co-host of this show, but the archives are full of awesome Jason-ness
- Liftoff
- Upgrade
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Welcome to Away from Keyboard (Away from Keyboard #0)
Away from Keyboard is a new show from Changelog that talks to creative professionals about how they do what they do, where they started, and how they deal with the things that make us all humans. As exciting as our work can sometimes be, we all face burnout, a lack of motivation, mental and physical health issues, and more. While these are topics that can be difficult to talk about, our experiences shape who we are and teach us so many things. AFK is a show that explores the human side of creative work.
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Data management, regulation, the future of AI (Practical AI #4)
Matthew Carroll and Andrew Burt of Immuta talked with Daniel and Chris about data management for AI, how data regulation will impact AI, and schooled them on the finer points of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
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- Introducing the world’s first data management platform for data science. - Immuta
- General Data Protection Regulation - Wikipedia
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From side project to $7.25M for Unsplash (Founders Talk #54)
When Mikael Cho started Unsplash from its small beginning as a Tumblr blog and side project, he had no idea it would have such a huge impact and ultimately disrupt the photography industry. In this episode, Mikael shares the backstory of Unsplash, how it got started, keeping things focused, levers of growth, flipping the marketing funnel, turning free into a business, raising $7.25 million to build a new economy for photography, and the impact of an API.
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- unsplash.com
- crew.co (a Dribbble thing)
- We just sold Crew to Dribbble
- How side projects saved our startup
- We just raised $7.25 million for Unsplash to build a new economy around photography.
- OST Invests in Unsplash — to Create the new Currency for Photography — $OST @Unsplash
- The future of photography and Unsplash
- The Unsplash API is now open & free
- The official Unsplash API
- Mikael’s Twitter thread on ‘Flipping the funnel’
- Ben Chestnut (CEO and Co-founder of MailChimp) — ‘Why I hate funnels’
- Zack Arias’s thoughts on Unsplash
- Zack Arias’s interview with Mikael Cho on Unsplash
- Mikael’s profile on Unsplash
- Tag stuff on Unsplash
- Unsplash Store
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Enough string to hang yourself (JS Party #33)
Jerod, Nick, and KBall shake off their July 4th malaise by diving deep in to ES6 Proxies, wondering how best to share components across projects, and giving their younger selves advice. Also: shout outs!
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- Brendan Eich’s 2010 talk: Proxies are Awesome!
- ES6 in Action: How To Use Proxies
- Proxy object on MDN
- Bit Share and build with code components
- Bit demo video
- Ping us with show ideas and feedback
- Nick’s shout outs: nvim-typescript, pettier, CodeSandbox
- Kevin’s shout outs: Tracy Lee, Jen Looper, ramda
- Jerod’s shout outs: Postico, Tmuxinator
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The impact of AI at Microsoft (Changelog Interviews #304)
We’re on location at Microsoft Build 2018 talking with Corey Sanders and Steve Guggenheimer — two Microsoft veterans focused on artificial intelligence and cloud computing. We talked about the direction and convergence of AI, ethics, cloud computing, and how the day to day lives of developers will change because of the advancements in AI.
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- Microsoft Build 2018
- Microsoft AI
- Azure Compute
- The Future Computed: Artificial Intelligence and its role in society
- Corey Sanders on the Azure blog
- OpenAI
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Helping African farmers with TensorFlow (Practical AI #3)
Amanda Ramcharan, Latifa Mrisho, and Peter McCloskey joined Daniel and Chris to talk about how Penn State University are collaborating to help African farmers increase their yields via a TensorFlow powered mobile app.
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- Assessing a mobile-based deep learning model for plant disease surveillance
- Penn State-developed plant-disease app recognized by Google
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Putting AI in a box at MachineBox (Practical AI #2)
Mat Ryer and David Hernandez joined Daniel and Chris to talk about MachineBox, building a company around AI, and democratizing AI.
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Books
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Meet your Practical AI hosts (Practical AI #1)
In this inaugural episode of Practical AI — Adam Stacoviak and Jerod Santo sit down with Daniel Whitenack and Chris Benson to discuss their experiences in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Data Science and what they hope to accomplish as hosts of this podcast.
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- Symbolic artificial intelligence
- Deep learning
- Machine learning
- NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC) - the premier AI and deep learning event from NVIDIA.
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WASM is AWSM (JS Party #32)
Kevin Ball and Suz Hinton talk with Jay Phelps about WebAssembly; what it is, how to use it, and how some are using it already.
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- WebAssembly Demystified
- Can I use… WASM
- Making WebAssembly even faster: Firefox’s new streaming and tiering compiler – Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog
- GopherJS vs WebAssembly for Go - DEV Community 👩💻👨💻
- WebAssembly cut Figma’s load time by 3x – Figma Design
- Screamin’ Speed with WebAssembly – Hacker Noon
- JavaScript to Rust and Back Again: A wasm-bindgen Tale – Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog
- raphamorim/wasm-and-rust: WebAssembly and Rust: A Web Love Story
- Hello wasm-pack! – Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog
- all: WebAssembly (“wasm”) support · Issue #18892 · golang/go
- Guide for C/C++ developers - WebAssembly
- Compiling a New C/C++ Module to WebAssembly - WebAssembly | MDN
- rust-native-wasm-loader - npm
- cpp-loader - npm
- WebAssembly Studio
- DenisKolodin/yew: Rust framework for building client web apps
- Initial stab at porting
asm/stack.tsto Rust by alexcrichton · Pull Request #752 · glimmerjs/glimmer-vm - Draco 3D Graphics Compression
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Starting over from zero (Founders Talk #53)
Danielle Morrill joined the show to talk about how she’s starting over from zero after the recent acquisition of Mattermark to FullContact where she held the role of CEO and co-founder who walked away with “zero dollars and a job”. We talked through the details of the company, the acquisition process, the deal — which she brokered herself — as well as her outlook on the startup grind and silicon valley today, and what she’s planning to do next.
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- The Web 2.0 Show #63: Twilio - Telephony in the Cloud
- Mattermark to shut down after selling to FullContact
- Mattermark wasn’t a pivot
- Book: Who Moved My Cheese
- We talked through this Twitter thread from Ryan Caldbeck
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Programmable infrastructure (Changelog Interviews #303)
Jerod Santo is riding solo talking with Kurt Mackey, co-founder of Fly. He talked to him about his work at Ars Technica, his prediction on tabs being a fad, and Kurt being a founding member of MongoHQ, which was later renamed to Compose and acquired by IBM. Jerod also talked to him about lighthouse scores, performance, and an interesting program Fly is instituting to compensate open source project maintainers.
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- Kurt’s author profile on Ars
- fly.io
- fly on GitHub
- flygit is like rawgit on fly
- JS Party #26 – 🎊 TS Party! 🎊
- JS Party #29 – Node’s survey, Ry’s regrets, Microsoft’s GitHub
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GraphQL, when to use JavaScript, JS robotics (JS Party #31)
KBall and Tim are on location at Fluent/Velocity and had the chance to talk with Brian Douglas about GraphQL and GitHub’s recent changes, Aimee Knight about knowing when to use JavaScript over CSS, and Bryan Hughes about his start and robotics with JavaScript.
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- Aimee Knight – Website, GitHub, X
- Bryan Hughes – Website, GitHub, X
- Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
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- GraphQL | A query language for your API
- 👋 Hello, GitHub | @natfriedman
- JavaScript Jabber Archive | Devchat.tv
- Johnny-Five: The JavaScript Robotics & IoT Platform
- TypeScript - JavaScript that scales.
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Computer Science without a computer (Changelog Interviews #302)
Adam Stacoviak and Jerod Santo talk with Tim Bell, the founder and creator of CS Unplugged, a collection of free teaching material that teaches computer science through engaging games and puzzles. They talk to him about where this program came from him, the need for computer science in today’s K-12 education programs, how CS Unplugged fits in, and how you can get involved.
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Show Notes:
- CS Unplugged
- University of Canterbury Computer Science Education Research
- Tim Bell - Academic Staff - People - Computer Science and Software Engineering - University of Canterbury - New Zealand
- Tim Bell (computer scientist) - Wikipedia
- Modems Unplugged - Computer Science Unplugged
- Data Representation - Computer Science Field Guide
- uccser/cs-unplugged: CS Unplugged is a collection of free teaching material that teaches Computer Science through engaging games and puzzles that use cards, string, crayons and lots of running around.
- uccser/cs-field-guide: An online interactive resource/textbook for high school students learning about computer science.
- Three ways to get started with computer science and computational thinking
- Topics - CS Unplugged
- Computer Science Education Research Group | University of Canterbury
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Do what every developer does: blame other people (JS Party #30)
Nick Nisi, Suz Hinton, and Jerod Santo talk about their debugging methods, the cool things that JavaScript can do but isn’t talked about much, and their opinions on Git history.
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Uniquify an array
let foo = [1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 5];
foo = [...new Set(foo)];
Destructuring assignment using regular expressions
const [, year, month, day ] = '2018-06-14'.match(/^(\d{1,4})-(\d{1,2})-(\d{1,2})$/)
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Growing Open Collective (Founders Talk #52)
Pia Mancini joined the show for the first episode back from a nearly 5 year hiatus. We talked about her work at DemocracyEarth, being a mother, her new role as CEO of Open Collective, their focus, supporting ad-hoc community formation all around the world, their revenue and growth plans, and their path to sustainability.
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- My new role at Open Collective!
- Team update
- The Changelog #234: Open Collective and Funding Open Source with Pia Mancini
- Sustain OSS
- .NET Foundation
- GatsbyJS raised a $3.8M seed round and is now a startup
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🔥 Founders Talk is back! (Founders Talk)
It’s been just shy of 5 years since I’ve published a new episode to this podcast. The break was planned actually. Long story short, I had to focus. If you want to hear the slightly longer explanation, you should listen.
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Listen to Founders Talk #52: Growing Open Collective with Pia Mancini
I’m so excited to bring this show back! It’s been too long and I truly miss these conversations. If you’d like to suggest someone to be on the show, get in touch.
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Python at Microsoft (Changelog Interviews #301)
We talked with Steve Dower and Dan Taylor at Microsoft Build 2018 about the history of Python at Microsoft, the origination of IronPython, Python Tools for Visual Studio, flying under the radar to add support Python, fighting from within to support open source, and more.
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Topics
- 2:22 – The history of Python at Microsoft
- 3:15 – The origination of IronPython
- 4:05 – Python tools for Visual Studio
- 7:54 – What Microsoft is doing with Python
- 10:22 – Why Python is good for people new to programming
- 12:20 – Pythonic
- 13:52 – PEP 8
- 15:47 – Black
- 18:16 – Pylint
- 21:41 – CPython
- 26:01 – Opensource at Microsoft
- 28:29 – The future of Python
- 33:55 – The latest in Python
Links
- IronPython
- Python Visual Studio
- Python Visual Studio Code extension
- Black – the uncompromising Python code formatter
- Pylint
- CPython
- Jupyter Notebooks
- Visual Studio Team Services
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Node's survey, Ry's regrets, Microsoft's GitHub (JS Party #29)
Big week! KBall, Nick, and JBall (nooch) dive deep in to the 2018 Node.js user survey results. What does it all mean?! They also review Ryan Dahl’s “10” regrets about Node and sound off on Microsoft’s assimilatio… err… acquisition of GitHub.
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- Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- 2018 Node.js User Survey Report (web)
- 2018 Node.js User Survey Report (pdf)
- Third Annual Node.js User Survey Data Now Available
- 2018 Node.js User Survey Report Shows Continued Rapid Growth
- Node by Numbers 2017 — NodeSource
- 10 Things I Regret About Node.js - Ryan Dahl - JSConf EU 2018
- ry/deno: A secure TypeScript runtime on V8
- Spotlight #14: Our reactions to Microsoft buying GitHub
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Corporate interests in open source and dev culture (Changelog Interviews #300)
Zed Shaw – creator of Mongrel, Learn Python the Hard Way, and more – joined the show to talk through a recent Twitter thread from Zed where he shared his thoughts on open source, making money in open source, corporate interests and involvement, developer culture, and more.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- PDF copy of Zed’s Twitter thread (because he’s testing his Twitter account as being private)
- The original Twitter thread
- The Changelog #34: Mongrel2 and High Performance Web Sites with Zed Shaw
- Learn Code the Hard Way
- Embrace, extend, and extinguish - Wikipedia
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Coming to React with Sara Vieira (The React Podcast #12)
Sara Vieira is easily one of the most entertaining people we’ve ever had on this show. She has been working with React over the past few years and has recently been traveling around Europe and giving free workshops on React in London and at React Finland.
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- Michael Jackson – Website, GitHub, X
- Michael Chan – Website, GitHub, X
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Our reactions to Microsoft buying GitHub (Spotlight #14)
Hear insights and reactions from Adam Stacoviak and Jerod Santo as they break down the news of Microsoft’s acquisition of GitHub — from speculation to confirmation — including commentary from members of the developer community by way of Twitter and Slack.
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- Will Microsoft buy GitHub?
- Microsoft has been talking about buying GitHub, a startup at the center of the software world last valued at $2 billion
- A bright future for GitHub
- Microsoft to acquire GitHub for $7.5 billion
- Microsoft is buying GitHub for $7.5 billion
- 👋 Hello, GitHub
- Here’s the issue we posted to share our list of podcast episodes covering of the dramatic shift of Microsoft over the years.
- Congratulations GitHub on the acquisition by Microsoft
- Winners and Losers on YouTube
- The Four
- Scott Galloway (@profgalloway) on Twitter
- @masukomi’s tweet
- @dorkitude’s tweet
- @mjackson’s tweet
- @migueldeicaza’s tweet
- @kellabyte’s tweet
- @jasonfried’s tweet
- @dhh’s tweet
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ML in JS... well... yes? (JS Party #28)
Suz Hinton, Jerod Santo, Kevin Ball, and Christopher Hiller talk about machine learning, the ethics surrounding it, why you would use JavaScript with it, and much more.
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- ML4ALL - A machine learning conference for the rest of us.
- Machine Learning, Art and JavaScript - Amy Cheng - ML4ALL 2018 - YouTube
- Deep Dream Generator
- Humming Bird on Fire
- Hello tensorflow – Monica Dinculescu
- Oaths, pledges and manifestos: a master list of ethical tech values
- Practical AI with Chris Benson and Daniel Whitenack
- Jump or Not to Jump: Solving Flappy Bird with Deep Reinforcement Learning - Kaleo Ha’o - ML4ALL 2018
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Curl turns 20, HTTP/2, QUIC (Changelog Interviews #299)
Daniel Stenberg joined the show to talk about 20 years of curl, what’s new with http2, and the backstory of QUIC - a new transport designed by Jim Roskind at Google which offers reduced latency compared to that of TCP+TLS+HTTP/2.
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- Daniel Stenberg on Twitter: “Twenty years of maintaining open source, and all I ever got… “
- Everything curl - Book
- Copy as curl
- Web transport, today and tomorrow
- QUIC
- QUIC Homepage
- What is the difference between TPC and UDP?
- IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force
- The annual curl user survey is up. Please donate a few minutes and answer some questions!
- curl survey 2017 – analysis | daniel.haxx.se
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Inside React with Sophie Alpert (The React Podcast #11)
Sophie Alpert is a core contributor to React and is currently the engineering manager for the React team at Facebook. She has been contributing to React for over 3 years now, making her first contributions while she was working as an engineer at Khan Academy.
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- Michael Jackson – Website, GitHub, X
- Michael Chan – Website, GitHub, X
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A tooling extravaganza! (JS Party #27)
Kevin Ball, Alex Sexton, Nick Nisi, and Christopher Hiller talk all things tooling. Build tooling, linting, formatting, IDEs, and a small tangent on Vim.
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- Babel · The compiler for writing next generation JavaScript
- babel online compiler - test babel online!
- webpack - website
- GitHub for webpack - GitHub for webpack
- gulp.js
- Grunt: The JavaScript Task Runner- website
- GitHub for Grunt -GitHub for Grunt
- Broccoli.js - The asset pipeline for ambitious applications - website
- ESLint - Pluggable JavaScript linter
- Atom - official website
- GitHub for Atom - Atom on GitHub
- Visual Studio Code - Code Editing. Redefined - website
- Home - Neovim - website
- GitHub for Neovim - Neovim on GitHub
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The beginnings of Microsoft Azure (Changelog Interviews #298)
We’re on location at Microsoft Build 2018 talking with Julia White, Corporate Vice President at Microsoft — a 17 year Microsoft veteran. We talked with Julia about her take on this “new Microsoft”, Satya Nadella’s first appearance as CEO when they revealed the first glimpse of Microsoft’s cloud offering which started with Office, the beginnings of Microsoft Azure, Azure as the world’s computer, and how every company is becoming a software company.
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- Microsoft Build 2018
- Standing out from the crowd is an awesome profile of Julia on Microsoft Story Labs
- Microsoft has turned a spotlight onto one of its coolest execs, Office GM Julia White
- Microsoft Azure
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Codesandbox with Ives van Hoorne (The React Podcast #10)
Ives van Hoorne is the creator of Codesandbox; an online code editor written completely in React. Although Codesandbox is written in React, it can be used to build applications for any front-end framework.
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🎊 TS Party! 🎊 (JS Party #26)
Jerod Santo, Nick Nisi, and Christopher Hiller talk about what TypeScript is and why we should care, who’s using TypeScript, and thoughts on developer titles.
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- Embrace, extend, and extinguish - Wikipedia
- The Changelog #152: TypeScript and Open Source at Microsoft with Anders Hejlsberg and Jonathan Turner
- AtScript - Wikipedia
- Jaume Sanchez Elias on Twitter: “JavaScript is like the parent that lets you do all kind of goofy mildly dangerous things like tumbling in bouncy castles, and even joins in the fun TypeScript is like the parent that gives you a stern look and says that they’re not angry, just disappointed”
- Jerod Santo on Twitter: “Please stop trying to distinguish between these terms (developer, programmer, engineer, etc.). It’s arbitrary, divisive, and not at all useful…”
- Trek Glowacki on Twitter: “Since our industry seems hell bent on giving people “Senior” titles who are in the first decade of their career, I’d like to propose we introduce a new layer of Elder Software Engineer, for people in the 11-20 years range, and Ancient Software Engineering for those 21+”
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Prisma and the GraphQL data layer (Changelog Interviews #297)
Johannes Schickling, co-founder and CEO of Prisma, joined the show to catch us up on all things GraphQL — the tech, the possibilities, the community, how Prisma turns your database into a GraphQL API, their new business direction, Prisma Cloud, open source vs enterprise, and the upcoming GraphQL Europe in Berlin on June 15th.
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- The Changelog #255: Why is GraphQL so cool? with Johannes Schickling
- Prisma raises $4.5M to build the GraphQL data layer for all databases
- Prisma | Open-Source GraphQL ORM for GraphQL Servers
- prismagraphql/prisma: ⚡️ Prisma turns your database into a realtime GraphQL API
- Quickstart | Prisma Docs
- GraphQL Radio
- GraphQL Europe 2018
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Emotion with Kye Hohenberger (The React Podcast #9)
Kye Hohenberger is the author of the Emotion JavaScript library, a popular choice among React developers who prefer using CSS-in-JS to traditional CSS stylesheets. In this episode we discuss his work on Emotion including where he got the initial inspiration for the project and his motivation for creating it. We also discuss the future of the project and what may be in store for the future of CSS-in-JS.
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Dojo 2.0 (JS Party #25)
Suz Hinton, Alex Sexton, and Nick Nisi talk with Dylan Schiemann about Dojo 2.0, managing an open source project, web standards, and more.
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- Suz Hinton – GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Alex Sexton – Website, GitHub, X
- Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Dojo
- Addy Osmani on Twitter: “@dojo @dylans This is true of most things in the JavaScript community at this point…”
- dojo-codesandbox-template - CodeSandbox
- CLA - JS Foundation
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Burnout, open source, Datasette (Changelog Interviews #296)
Adam is on location at ZEIT Day talking with Jessica Rose about burnout, Henry Zhu about his passions and pursuit of open source, and Simon Willison about data and his passion for interesting datasets in the world.
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- Henry Zhu – Website, GitHub, X
- Simon Willison – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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Jessica Rose
Henry Zhu
- Henry Zhu: In Pursuit of Open Source at ZEIT Day 2018
- Henry Zhu on Patreon
- Babel on Open Collective
- The React Podcast #4: Babel and open source sustainability
- RFC #18: Maintaining a Popular Project and Sponsored Time
Simon Willison
- Simon Willison: Datasette and Datasette Publish at ZEIT Day 2018
- Datasette on GitHub
- Posts tagged with Datasette on simonwillison.net
- Datasette: instantly create and publish an API for your SQLite databases
- Simon was super impressed and very interested in our open source podcast transcripts
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React Perf Devtool with Nitin Tulswani (The React Podcast #8)
Nitin Tulswani is a prolific developer and the creator of react-perf-devtool, a library that helps with profiling the performance of your React components since react-addons-perf was deprecated in React 16. In this episode we discuss Nitin’s approach to writing code and the motivation behind several of his open source projects.
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New Go branding strategy (Go Time #79)
Steve Francia joined the show and told us EVERYTHING about Go’s new branding strategy (and don’t worry, the gopher isn’t going anywhere!)
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- Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
- Carlisia Campos – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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Interesting Go Projects and News
- Rat - Compose shell commands to build terminal applications
- gVisor - Container Runtime Sandbox
- Open-sourcing gVisor, a sandboxed container runtime
- Using SVGo, A Go Language Library for SVG Generation
- Bounds Check Elimination In Go
- Go Compiler intro
- ian molee on Twitter: “This clip of @deadprogram endangering @markbates’ wellbeing with an out of control robot…”
Free Software Friday!
Each week on the show we give a shout out to an open source project or community (or maintainer) that’s made an impact in our day to day developer lives.
- Erik - Julia Evans’ Bite Size Linux
- Steve - Anthony Starks
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Cool, depending on your definition of cool (JS Party #24)
Feross Aboukhadijeh, Suz Hinton, Nick Nisi, and Alex Sexton get weird this week talking about their favorite old and weird HTML tags, web APIs that do or don’t require permission, and their favorite weird websites.
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- Suz Hinton – GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Alex Sexton – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
<map><dl>: The Description List element<wbr><applet>: The Embed Java Applet element- Albino Blacksheep
- Newgrounds.com — Everything, By Everyone
- Everybody! Everybody!
- David Firth 🆙 (@DAVID_FIRTH) | Twitter
- Salad Fingers
- ::iLL WiLL PreSS:: HOME OF NEUROTICALLY YOURS, 4Y-RECORDS & MORE.
- :: procatinator ::
- ytmnd - you’re the man now dog!
- The Million Dollar Homepage - Own a piece of internet history!
- HELICOPTER GAME - Play the famous Helicopter Game
- The End of the World
- The Best Page In The Universe.
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Scaling all the things at Slack (Changelog Interviews #295)
Julia Grace joined the show to talk bout about scaling all the things at Slack. Julia is currently the Senior Director of Infrastructure Engineering at Slack, and has been their since 2015 — so she’s seen Slack during its hyper-growth. We talked about Slack’s growth and scale challenges, scaling engineering teams, the responsibilities and challenges of being a manager, communicating up and communicating down, quality of service and reliability, and what it takes to build high performing leadership teams.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- The Changelog #129: The PHP language specification with Sara Golemon
- Julia’s upcoming talk at Velocity - Scaling yourself during hyper-growth
- Use the discount code CHANGELOG to save 20% off Gold, Silver, and Bronze passes
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Hacking drones with Go (Go Time #78)
Ron Evans joined the show and talked with us about GoCV, Gobot, using Go to control drones, and other interesting projects and news.
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- Carlisia Campos – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- Gobot
- Periph
- GoCV
- emgo
- Go Time #37 - Gobot, Hardware, and Gatekeeping with Ron Evans
- The Changelog #177 - Cylon.js, Gobot, Artoo, and IoT
- emgo
Interesting Go Projects and News
- The NEW Improved Go Branding 😍😍
- qor
- run - Really nice alternative to the new errgroup package - small api, easy to use and understand
- Anko - Scriptable interpreter that is embeddable by Yasuhiro Matsumoto (mattn)
- Francesc Campoy - The Robustness of Go (Slides)
GopherCon speaker selections have started, first round of announcements coming SOON!
Free Software Friday!
Each week on the show we give a shout out to an open source project or community (or maintainer) that’s made an impact in our day to day developer lives.
- Erik - Jeff Hodges
- Brian - Yasuhiro Matsumoto
- Ron - Steve Francia between Hugo and Cobra… I mean wow.
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The state of Node security (JS Party #23)
Suz Hinton, Christopher Hiller, and Jerod Santo talk with Adam Baldwin about his company being acquired by NPM, the security of Node, best practices, and more.
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- Christopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- npm Acquires ^Lift Security and the Node Security Platform
- The Node.js Project Introduces Latest Release Line: Node.js 10.x
- Announcing npm@6
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BONUS – Go and WebAssembly (Wasm) (Go Time)
This is a bonus segment in the after show of Go Time #77 with Russ Cox where we talk briefly about WebAssembly (Wasm) support in Go, and how that plays into Go being used as a web language.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
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- The Changelog #294: Code Cartoons, Rust, and WebAssembly with Lin Clark
- Go Time #77
- GitHub issue #18892: WebAssembly (“wasm”) support
- WebAssembly architecture for Go
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Code Cartoons, Rust, WebAssembly (Changelog Interviews #294)
Lin Clark joined the show to talk about Code Cartoons, her work at Mozilla in the emerging technologies group, Rust, Servo, and WebAssembly (aka Wasm), the Rust community’s big goal in 2018 for Rust to become a web language (thanks in part to Wasm), passing objects between Rust and JavaScript, Rust libraries depending on JavaScript packages and vice versa, Wasm ES Modules, and Lin’s upcoming keynote at Fluent on the parallel future of the browser.
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- Lin Clark – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Code Cartoons
- A cartoon guide to Flux
- Lin Clark – Mozilla Hacks
- Code Cartoons – Mozilla Hacks
- Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby
- WebAssembly
- Making WebAssembly better for Rust & for all languages
- Come Join the Rust and WebAssembly Working Group!
- WebAssembly Studio
- Hello wasm-pack!
- Fluent
- Lin’s talk at Fluent — The parallel future of the browser
- Agenda for the 64th meeting of Ecma TC39
- The Changelog #228: Servo and Rust with Jack Moffitt
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React and Electron with James Long (The React Podcast #7)
James Long is a prolific blogger and the author of several open source libraries including Prettier. He has recently started developing Actual, a budgeting app built in React and Electron. In this episode we talk about James’ approach to business, as well as take a peek behind the scenes at how he works with React.
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- Michael Jackson – Website, GitHub, X
- Jed Watson – Website, GitHub, X
- Michael Chan – Website, GitHub, X
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Dependencies and the future of Go (Go Time #77)
Russ Cox joins us this week to talk about how Russ got involved with Go, Vgo, error handling, updates on Go 2.0, more.
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- Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
- Carlisia Campos – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- Toward Go 2
- Go += Package Versioning
- Plan 9 from User Space
- Emgo: Bare metal Go (language for programming embedded systems)
- ARM Cortex-M
- Go on very small hardware (Part 2)
- Go (golang) Jupyter Notebook kernel and an interactive REPL
- Netflix/titus
- Netflix/titus-executor
- Netflix/titus-control-plane
- Automatically request certificates for Kubernetes Ingress resources from Let’s Encrypt
- Resources for New Speakers
- Go version of Plan9 Acme Editor
- A Tour of the Acme Editor
- GopherConBR 2018
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PWAs to eat the world. Or maybe not. News at 11! (JS Party #22)
Jerod Santo, Safia Abdalla, Nick Nisi, and Kevin Ball talk about progressive web apps. What are they, what do they do, what are some practical ways of using them, and more.
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- Safia Abdalla – Website, GitHub, X
- Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Show Notes:
- Progressive Web App Checklist
- Yoav Weiss on Twitter: “Pinterest saw their new PWA leading to core business metrics which beat their previous web experience, as well as their native app!!… https://t.co/sZ8crXB80T”
- A Pinterest Progressive Web App Performance Case Study
- Welcoming progressive web apps to Microsoft Edge and Windows 10
- PWAs on Safari?!
- Zarf
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Ember four years later (Changelog Interviews #293)
Chad Hietala joined the show to talk with us about the long history of Ember.js, how he first got involved, his work at LinkedIn and his work as an Ember Core team member, how the Ember team communicates expectations from release to release, their well documented RFC process, ES Classes in Ember, Glimmer, and where Ember is being used today.
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- Chad Hietala – GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Status Board
- Decorators
- RFC Process
- ES Classes in Ember - Glimmer VM Architecture Part 1
- Glimmer VM Architecture Part 2
- Compiling to Binary
- JavaScript Modules API
- The Project I mentioned that I worked on
- Ember Packages RFC
- EmberConf 2018 Keynote - Talks about Ember 3.0 roadmap
- Glimmer
- The Changelog #131 — The Road to Ember 2.0 with Tom Dale and Yehuda Katz
- The Changelog #165 — Betting the Company on Elixir and Ember with Brian Cardarella
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Building a distributed index with Go (Go Time #76)
Matt Jaffee joined the show and talked with us about Pilosa, building distributed index with Go, and other interesting projects and news.
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- Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
- Carlisia Campos – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Pilosa - Insanely Fast Queries on Really Big Data
https://github.com/pilosa/pilosa
Supercharge Azure Cosmos DB with Pilosa
Interesting Go Projects and News
Go on very small hardware (Part 1)
cu – idiomatic interface to the CUDA Driver API
gotop – A terminal based graphical activity monitor inspired by gtop and vtop
dqlite – Distributed SQLite for Go applications
Free Software Friday
Erik - Michal Derkacz
Carlisia - Mastering io Pipes on JustForFunc
Brian - All Contributors
Matt - Liz Rice
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Oh, the places JS will go (JS Party #21)
Jerod Santo, Suz Hinton, Feross Aboukhadijeh, and Kevin Ball talk about awesome things being done with JavaScript like WebUSB, WebTorrent, and DSLs.
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Featuring:
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Suz Hinton – GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Feross Aboukhadijeh – Website, GitHub, X
- Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Show Notes:
- Exploring the Linguistics Behind Regular Expressions
- JavaScript Hardware with Noopkat!
- Phaser - A fun, free and fast 2D game framework for making HTML5 games for desktop and mobile web browsers, supporting Canvas and WebGL rendering
- Developing Games with React, Redux, and SVG - Part 1
- Craig Spence - Fantastic ASTs and where to find them
- Getting Started with WebRTC
- WebTorrent - Streaming browser torrent client
- WebUSB API
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Elasticsearch and doubling down on "open" (Changelog Interviews #292)
Philipp Krenn joined the show to talk with us about Elasticsearch, the problem it solves, where it came from, and where it’s at today. We discussed the query language, what it can be compared to, whether or not it’s a database replacement or a database complement, Elasticsearch vs Elastic the company.
We also talked about the details behind Elastic’s plan of “doubling down on open” to open up X-Pack, which is open code paid add-on features to Elasticsearch. We discussed the implications of this on their business model, and what changes will take place at the code and license level on GitHub.
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Podcast topic: Elasticsearch
- Elasticsearch - RESTful, Distributed Search & Analytics
- Elasticsearch on GitHub
- Doubling down on open
- Elastic License
- We’re opening X-Pack
- Doubling Down on Open: Shay Banon on Opening the Code of X-Pack
- Go Time #48: Restic and backups (done right)
- Handling Relationships - Elasticsearch docs
- Theory Behind Relevance Scoring - Elasticsearch docs
- Papertrail
- Google Summer of Code
- Third party CSS is not safe
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Async React with Andrew Clark (The React Podcast #6)
Andrew Clark is a developer on the React core team at Facebook who has been working on asynchronous rendering. In this episode we do a deep dive on some of the decisions behind the implementation of async mode in React 16 as well as talk about how applications can benefit from using it.
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- Preview of Async Features in React 16
- react-basic - core concepts of React
- Update on Async Rendering in React
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JS Party is back! 🎉 (JS Party #20)
The party is back! In this episode, we talk about what we love about JS, Tabler and admin UI’s, and shoutouts to some of our favorite projects and people.
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Featuring:
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Safia Abdalla – Website, GitHub, X
- Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Christopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Request For Commits #15: Maintaining a Popular Project and Managing Burnout
- The Web Log of Safia Abdalla
- buunguyen/octotree: Code tree for GitHub
- Octobox
- Dark GitHub style
- GitHub Dark as a userscript
- Userscripts to add functionality to GitHub
- Reactivesearch
Shout outs
- Jack Lukic the creator of Semantic UI (Jerod)
- Alexandru Maier, the awesome human behind all of our transcripts (Jerod)
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GoLand IDE and managing Gopher Slack (Go Time #75)
Florin Pățan joined the show and talked with us about GoLand, the pros and cons of using an IDE, his thoughts on the Go community, and managing Gopher Slack.
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- Carlisia Campos – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- GoLand - Capable and Ergonomic Go IDE by JetBrains
- Join Gophers on Slack! + the CoC
- Spotlight #10: How China Does Node with Shiya Luo
- dep - Go dependency management tool
- Atom
- Visual Studio Code
- Tower - Git client for Mac and Windows
- Magit! - A Git Porcelain inside Emacs
- rc file (dotfile) management
- Golang - 2017 Survey Results
- Dark GitHub style is Adam’s free software Friday pick
- Dark theme for Slack
- Delve is Florian’s free software Friday pick
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Winamp2 JS (Changelog Interviews #291)
Jordan Eldredge joined the show to talk with us about Winamp2-js — a reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and Javascript. For many of our listeners, talking about Winamp may bring to mind some extreme nostalgia about the internet of the past … and it’s certainly that way for Jerod and I. Jordan started this project in 2014 and it’s what ultimately got the attention of some folks at Facebook, where he now works on Nuclide.
We shared stories about Winamp back in the day, actually listening to music as an mp3, the technical hurdles and learning Jordan has experienced, skinning it, playlists, making it a frontend for Spotify – which is so ironic to actually say. Also, Jerod has been hacking it via livestream on Twitch to add it as an alternate audio player on Changelog.com.
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Featuring:
- Jordan Eldredge – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Follow us on Twitch
- Winamp2-js
- A reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and Javascript
- Winamp hardware device mockup
- Winamp’s woes: How the greatest MP3 player undid itself
- Butterchurn visualizer
- Nuclide - A single package on top of Atom to provide hackability and the support of an active community.
- UrlMe.me - Make memes anywhere you can type a URL
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Finite State Machines with David Khourshid (The React Podcast #5)
In this episode Michael Jackson talks with David Khourshid about State Machines. David is a developer on the Visual Studio Live Share team at Microsoft. Recently, he’s been exploring methods of using finite state machines together with React to create predictable flows through applications that are easy to follow and test.
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That's it. This is the finale! (Changelog Interviews #290)
We’re rebroadcasting the finale episode of the beloved Request For Commits. But don’t worry, The Changelog will be back with new episodes next week. In this finale episode of Request For Commits, we regroup to discuss the podcast from its start to its finish, lessons learned, community impact, and where the conversations around open source sustainability are taking place, now and in the future. It’s the end of Request For Commits, but the conversations we’ve had will continue on The Changelog. We also have some guest-host appearances for Nadia and Mikeal planned in the near future on this podcast. So, stay tuned.
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Featuring:
- Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, X
- Nadia Eghbal – GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Request For Commits has been respectfully retired
- Listen and subscribe to The Changelog
- The Changelog #193: Funding and Sustaining Open Source with Nadia Eghbal
- The Changelog #252 GitHub’s Open Source Survey (2017) with Frannie Zlotnick & Nadia Eghbal
- Subscribe to Nadia’s infrequent newsletter
- How I Stumbled Upon The Internet’s Biggest Blind Spot
- Open source was worth at least $143M of Instagram’s $1B acquisition
- Open source infrastructure Q&A
- What if Facebook were a nonprofit?
- Sustain - a one day conversation for open source software sustainers
- Maintainerati
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Babel and open source sustainability with Henry Zhu (The React Podcast #4)
In this episode Michael Jackson talks with Henry Zhu, maintainer of the hugely popular Babel project, about open source sustainability and what’s coming next for the Babel project.
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- Babel is a JavaScript compiler
- Support the development of Babel on Henry’s Patreon page
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Gophercises and creating content for Gophers (Go Time #74)
Jon Calhoun joined the show and talked with us about Gophercises, experiencing the joy of building cool things, creating content for Gophers, and other interesting projects and news.
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- Carlisia Campos – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Jon kite boarding, compliments of Calhoun Photography
Interesting Go Projects and News
Zerolog (allocation free JSON logging)
A Proposal for Package Versioning in Go
Free Software Friday!
Each week on the show we give a shout out to an open source project or community (or maintainer) that’s made an impact in our day to day developer lives.
Brian - GitPitch
Andrei - OpenTracing + govet
Brian - Luke Smith (who is awesome, check out mutt-wizard)
Jon - slate (cool window manager for macOS)
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Automated dependency updates (Changelog Interviews #289)
Rhys Arkins joined the show to talk about automating dependency updates using Renovate. Renovate is an open source tool to keep source code dependencies up-to-date using automated Pull Requests. We talked about who’s using it, the languages and environments that are supported, self-hosted vs SaaS and how that plays into supporting this open source, auto-merging, being a GitHub App and in the GitHub Marketplace, and building this as a business on someone else’s platform.
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Featuring:
- Rhys Arkins – GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- renovateapp.com - Automated dependency updates. Flexible, so you don’t need to be.
- renovateapp/renovate
- Install Renovate on GitHub
- Renovate on GitHub Marketplace
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CockroachDB and distributed databases in Go (Go Time #73)
Andrei Matei joined the show and talked with us about CockroachDB (and why it’s easier to use than any RDBMS), distributed databases with Go, tracing, and other interesting projects and news.
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Interesting Go Projects and News
- Agones
- Introducing Agones: Open-source, multiplayer, dedicated game-server hosting built on Kubernetes
- memviz
- gorush
- Saloon – Go Forums
Free Software Friday!
Each week on the show we give a shout out to an open source project or community (or maintainer) that’s made an impact in our day to day developer lives.
Brian - GitPitch
Andrei - OpenTracing + govet
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Learning and teaching Go (Go Time #72)
Bill Kennedy joined the show and talked with Carlisia about learning Go, teaching Go (which is something we’ll do at some point or another), making good presentations, and other interesting projects and news.
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Golang UK Conference 2016 - Dave Cheney - SOLID Go Design
Is Go An Object Oriented Language?
These articles will explain how to organize your Go packages:
- Style guideline for Go packages
- Standard Package Layout
- Go best practices, six years in - Repository Structures
- Design Philosophy On Packaging
CppCon 2014: Mike Acton “Data-Oriented Design and C++
dotGo 2016 - Damian Gryski - Slices: Performance through cache-friendliness
Dave Cheney - How to write a successful conference proposal
Women Who Go to Gophercon Denver 2018
How working at GitLab has changed my view on work and life
Learn to create web apps using Go (affiliate link)
Interesting Go Projects and News
“If boring repetitive things aren’t automated, a manager gets hired” – Niranjan Paranjape
Free Software Friday!
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Bill - dep (shout out to Sam Boyer)
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Go is for everyone (Go Time #71)
Carmen Andoh joined the show and talked with us about inclusivity, the 2017 Go Developer Survey, visualizing abstractions, and other interesting projects and news.
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- Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
- Carlisia Campos – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Interesting Go Projects and News
Go Packages we developed for our games
Free Software Friday!
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Brian - jwt-go
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Finale, thank you! (Request For Commits #20)
In this finale episode of Request For Commits – we regroup to discuss how we got here, lessons learned, community impact, and where the conversations around open source sustainability are taking place now and in the future. This might be the end of this podcast, but the conversation will continue on The Changelog. You should subscribe if you’re not already.
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- Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Listen and subscribe to The Changelog
- The Changelog #193: Funding and Sustaining Open Source with Nadia Eghbal
- The Changelog #252 GitHub’s Open Source Survey (2017) with Frannie Zlotnick & Nadia Eghbal
- Subscribe to Nadia’s infrequent newsletter
- How I Stumbled Upon The Internet’s Biggest Blind Spot
- Open source was worth at least $143M of Instagram’s $1B acquisition
- Open source infrastructure Q&A
- What if Facebook were a nonprofit?
- Sustain - a one day conversation for open source software sustainers
- Maintainerati
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From Russia with love (Go Time #70)
Leo Kalneus joined the show and talked with us about GopherCon Russia and the Go community in Russia. We also debunked a few myths about Siberia and of course talked about interesting Go projects and news.
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- Leonid Kalneus – Website, GitHub, X
- Carlisia Campos – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
- Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Interesting Go Projects and News
Roundtable with #Golang Stars:: Building Predictability into Your Pipeline
New vgo posts by Russ Cox:
Ribs (Russian x-ray records)
GetContact (phone number search)
Words of Heard (Find a date with someone who uses the same password as you)
Free Software Friday!
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Erik - go-git
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Live coding open source on Twitch (Changelog Interviews #288)
Suz Hinton joined the show to talk about live coding open source on Twitch. We talk about how she got interested in Twitch, her goals and aspirations for live streaming, the work she’s doing in open source, Twitch for open source, how you and others can get started — and maybe some other fun stuff we have in the works at Changelog.
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Featuring:
- Suz Hinton – GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Lessons from my first year of live coding on Twitch
- A guide to streaming and finding success on Twitch
- Suz’s hardware list
- Suz on Twitch (noopkat)
- Changelog on Twitch
- Open Broadcaster Software
- Awesome developer streams
- NOP on Wikipedia
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Truffle framework and decentralized Ethereum apps (Changelog Interviews #287)
Tim Coulter joined the show to talk about Truffle — a development environment, testing framework, and asset pipeline for Ethereum. We talked with Tim about how he got into Ethereum and dapp development, Solidity vs JavaScript, smart contract testing, EthPM which is like npm but for Ethereum, Why decentralization? Why dapps? Basically, why rebuild the internet? And last but not least - who’s using Truffle and what have they built with it?
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Featuring:
- Tim Coulter – GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- ConsenSys Labs
- Truffle Suite - Your Ethereum Swiss Army Knife
- Docs: Choosing an Ethereum client
- Truffle Boxes - helpful boilerplates that allow you to focus on what makes your dapp unique
- Truffle tutorials
- Truffle stats dashboard
- Ganache - Quickly fire up a personal Ethereum blockchain which you can use to run tests, execute commands, and inspect state while controlling how the chain operates.
- ethpm (Ethereum Package Management)
- Drizzle: Reactive Ethereum data for front-ends
- ConsenSys on Gitter
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Golang Flow, FaaS, and Buffalo (Go Time #69)
Brian Scott joined the show and talked with us about Golang Flow, contributing to open source, functions as a service, building for the web with Buffalo, and other interesting projects and news.
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- Brian Scott – Website, GitHub, X
- Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
- Carlisia Campos – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Go support for AWS Lambda (YES!!)
OpenFaaS - Serverless Functions Made Simple for Docker & Kubernetes
Interesting Go Projects and News
Vgo - 5 Part series by Russ Cox:
- https://research.swtch.com/vgo
- https://research.swtch.com/vgo-intro
- https://research.swtch.com/vgo-tour
- https://research.swtch.com/vgo-import
- https://research.swtch.com/vgo-mvs
- https://research.swtch.com/vgo-repro
Using Go as a scripting language in Linux
gitleaks - Searches full repo history for secrets and keys
Pixel - A hand-crafted 2D game library in Go
Roundtable with #Golang Stars - Building Predictability into Your Pipeline
Free Software Friday!
Each week on the show, we give a shout out to an open source project or community (or maintainer) that’s made an impact in our day to day developer lives.
Erik - Russ Cox, Sam Boyer, and everyone trying to solve the dependency management problem (you’re doing a great job!)
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JavaScript sprinkles in Basecamp turned Stimulus (Changelog Interviews #286)
David Heinemeier Hansson joined the show to share the story of how JavaScript sprinkles in Basecamp evolved into a full-fledged framework called Stimulus. We talked about ins and outs of Basecamp as it is today, Ruby, JavaScript and David’s somewhat new found love for that language. How they open source because they can. And David’s new YouTube series called “On Writing Software Well”.
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Stimulus homepage and the source on GitHub
- Stimulus 1.0
- Turbolinks
- Watch the proposition of Turbolinks if you haven’t yet
- David’s thoughts on the majestic monolith
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SPECIAL — Ask us anything! (pt. 2) (Go Time #68)
This is another special “Ask Us Anything” episode where we answer more questions submitted by the community. We covered A LOT of ground, including the hardest things we’ve ever written in Go, how the community can drive adoption, what we’d change about Go, and our favorite: “what do gophers eat?”
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Show Notes:
Pop now supports associations!
By the time you read this go 1.10 will be released
tview - Rich interactive widgets for terminal-based UIs written in Go (very very cool)
Bill Kennedy - The Behavior of Channels
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The Future of React with Dan Abramov (The React Podcast #3)
In this episode Michael Jackson talks with Dan Abramov, author of Redux and create-react-app, about the responsibility that comes with being an influential voice for React, how future versions of React will leverage requestIdleCallback to schedule work, and the possibility of a future API for React that makes it easier to do async work.
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- Beyond React 16 by Dan Abramov at JSConf Iceland
- requestIdleCallback API
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We couldn’t afford an Oculus so we built one (Changelog Interviews #285)
Max Coutté joined the show to share his journey of learning the math and programming required to build an open source Oculus headset for $100. Max is 16 and lives in a small village in France. And one day he and his friends decided to built an Oculus headset because they couldn’t afford one. This show takes you through Max’s journey, how his teacher (aka Sensei) made all the difference, and how the chief architect at Oculus, Atman Binstock, advised him to make it all open source.
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- Maxime Coutté – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
“I’m 16, I’m all alone in France, and I just want to recreate a virtual world like they have in my favorite animes.” – Max Coutté
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Supporting the Go community (Go Time #67)
Cassandra Salisbury (the Go core team’s newest member) joined Carlisia (who’s hosting all by herself) to talk about getting to know the Go community around the world, organizing meetups, empowering leaders, and what’s in store for the future.
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“If your work with a community is ever done, it’s because the community is no longer active.” – Cassandra Salisbury
Companies currently using Go throughout the world
Community Outreach Working Group
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Razzle, After.js, and Formik with Jared Palmer (The React Podcast #2)
In this episode Michael Jackson talks with Jared Palmer about Razzle, After.js, Formik, several other open source libraries from Jared, as well as Typescript and the implications of the upcoming async APIs in React.
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- Razzle - Create server-rendered universal JavaScript applications with no configuration ✨
- after.js - If Next.js and React Router had a baby…
- Formik - Build forms in React, without the tears 😭
- Reason ML
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Moore's Law and High Performance Computing (Changelog Interviews #284)
Todd Gamblin, a computer scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, joined us to talk about Moore’s Law, his work at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the components of a micro-chip, and High Performance Computing.
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Show Notes:
- The Changelog #267: Functional Programming with Eric Normand
- If you’re a fan of Request For Commits, you can hear Todd on episode #13
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - High Performance Computing
- Dennard scaling
- Brain Chip - a brain-inspired computer by IBM
- What is NIF (National Ignition Facility)?
- Spack - flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers
- Slurm Workload Manager
- Lustre file system - open-source, parallel file system for HPC simulation environments
- Enterprise Linux
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Performance, fuzzing & magic (Go Time #66)
Damian Gryski joined the show and talked with us about perfbook, performance profiling, reading white papers for fun, fuzzing, and other interesting projects and news.
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- Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
- Carlisia Campos – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
go-perfbook - Thoughts on performance
Interesting Go Projects and News
Metaparticle now has a go library
Fransec Campoy - Why Are There Nil Channels in Go?
Free Software Friday!
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Damian - Andrew Bonventre - @andybons on Twitter and GitHub
Brian - Keith Rarick - KR Pretty
Also Brian - Richard Musiol - @neelance
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Devhints - TL;DR for Developer Documentation (Changelog Interviews #283)
Rico Sta. Cruz joined us to talk about his project Devhints (cheatsheets for developers). There are more than 365 cheatsheets you can contribute to and it’s open source. We talked about the design, technical implementation, community, alternate interfaces like the command line. We also talked about RSJS, RSCSS, and Docpress.
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Featuring:
- Rico Sta. Cruz – GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
“You have to sell what it is you’re building in your documentation. It’s not just describing what it is and how to use it. It’s about telling interesting stories.” - Rico Sta. Cruz
- Thanks to kzap for suggesting this show
- Devhints reminds us of cheat from @defunkt
- We talked about rsjs and rscss
- Huge thanks to @chris48s and everyone else for their contributions and support of our transcripts
- Docpress
- Building a Modern Web UI by Rico Sta. Cruz at CSSConf.Asia 2014
- The modular future of CSS by Rico Sta. Cruz at Manila.js
- RSCSS: Writing CSS without losing your sanity
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GopherCon Brazil & Genetics (Go Time #65)
Vitor De Mario joined the show and talked with us about hacking genetics with Go, GopherCon Brazil, machine learning, and other interesting projects and news.
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- Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
- Carlisia Campos – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Interesting Go Projects and News
Twirp (rpc competitor for grpc, http/1.1 ok)
Physically Based Renderer (PBR)
Free Software Friday!
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Erik - OpenFaaS
Carlisia - envconfig and goconfig
Brian - Bootstrap 4
Vitor - Carlos Becker, creator of GoReleaser
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The impact and future of Kubernetes (Changelog Interviews #282)
From KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2017 — Brendan Burns (Kubernetes co-founder) and Gabe Monroy (creator of Deis) joined the show to talk about the origin, impact, and future of Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure.
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- Gabe Monroy – GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
“If Kubernetes let’s you not think about your machines, I think in many cases people don’t even want to have machines, this move towards serverless containers and the orchestration of serverless containers is the next really important part of what we’re doing.” — Brendan Burns, co-founder of Kubernetes
- Kubernetes
- Deis
- Follow @KubeCon_ on Twitter for updates on the conference
- Go Time #63: Changelog Takeover – K8s and Virtual Kubelet
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InfluxDB & IoT Data (Go Time #64)
Paul Dix joined the show and talked with us about InfluxDB, building a company with OSS, improving the language, and other interesting projects and news.
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- Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
- Carlisia Campos – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
IFQL - the new Influx query language and engine
Announcing IFQL – A New Query Language and Engine for InfluxDB
The Open Source Business Model is Under Siege
InfluxDB Now Supports Prometheus Remote Read & Write Natively
Interesting Go Projects and News
Grumble - automatic cli & shell tool
OpenFaaS - Serverless Functions Made Simple
Pouch - An Efficient Container Engine
Fireworq - A lightweight, high-performance job queue system
Understand Go pointers in less than 800 words or your money back
Pixel - A hand-crafted 2D game library in Go
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Carlisia - go-multierror
Brian - LXRunOffline
Paul - Apache Arrow and Apache Arrow and the “10 Things I Hate About pandas”
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React Native for web with Nicolas Gallagher (The React Podcast #1)
Welcome to the inaugural episode of The React Podcast. In this episode Michael Jackson talks with Nicolas Gallagher about his project React Native for Web, the React Native API, how Twitter’s new mobile website is powered by React Native for Web, and more.
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- React Native for Web
- React Native for Web is used by — Twitter,
Major League Soccer,
Flipkart, Playstation, Uber, The
Times, React Native’s
documentation - React Native - Components and APIs
- Twitter Lite, React Native, and Progressive Web Apps by Nicolas Gallagher at ReactRally
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Gitcoin: sustaining open source with cryptocurrency (Changelog Interviews #281)
We’re joined by Kevin Owocki, the founder of Gitcoin. Gitcoin is a platform to monetize or incentivize work in open source software. We talked about how Gitcoin sits at the intersection of sustaining open source and cryptocurrencies, their history and roadmap, their decision to leverage the brand name of Git, bug bounties, funded issues, web3, MetaMask, and the future of Gitcoin and how open source benefits.
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Gitcoin
- Gitcoin Explorer
- Gitcoin Joins ConsenSys
- Code Sponsor joins Gitcoin
- MetaMask
- Truffle
- Web 3: A platform for decentralized apps
- ERC20 Token Standard
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Design, software, and open source (Request For Commits #19)
Lauren McCarthy joined Nadia and Mikeal to discuss her work on p5.js, contributions and culture, her before and after take on open source, her path to becoming a maintainer, how p5.js gets new contributors, how they keep them around, and why design isn’t better represented in open source.
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Maintaining a popular project and sponsored time (Request For Commits #18)
Henry Zhu joined Nadia and Mikeal to discuss his work on Babel, how he became and accidental maintainer, why he thinks maintainers aren’t special, paid open source work, the Babel brand, and building community.
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Building a secure Operating System (Redox OS) with Rust (Changelog Interviews #280)
We talked with Jeremy Soller, the BDFL of Redox OS, a Unix-like Operating System written in Rust, aiming to bring the innovations of Rust to a modern microkernel and full set of applications. In this episode we talk about; OS design principals, Jeremy’s goals for Redox, why is Rust, the Micro-kernel, the Filesystem, how Linux isn’t secure enough, how he’s funding this his development, and a coding style in Rust called Safe Rust.
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Featuring:
- Jeremy Soller – GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- redox-os.org
- Redox book
- Redox Patreon
- Redox news
- Redox on GitHub
- Send an email to info@redox-os.org to get involved in the Redox community
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Experiments and the Economics of Open Source (Request For Commits #17)
Daniel Bachhuber joined Nadia and Mikeal to discuss his work on wp-cli, the economics, origins, staying productive as a maintainer, fund raising, and the state of wp-cli today.
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Changelog Takeover — K8s and Virtual Kubelet (Go Time #63)
Adam and Jerod jumped in as hosts for an experiment in quantum podcasting, letting Erik and Brian play guests to talk about Virtual Kubelet, building OSS at Microsoft, BBQ (of course), and other interesting projects and news.
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- Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Virtual Kubelet (an Introduction)
Interesting Go Projects and News
Free Software Friday!
Each week on the show we give a shout out to an open source project or community (or maintainer) that’s made an impact in our day to day developer lives.
Erik - Metaparticle
Brian - Terminus
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Secure Messaging for Everyone with Wire (Changelog Interviews #279)
We talk with Alan Duric, Co-founder and CEO of Wire, an open source end-to-end encrypted instant messaging app for voice and video calls. In 2005 Alan co-founded Camino Networks which was later acquired by Skype, and his involvement with internet based voice communications goes back 20 years. We talk about the early days of Skype, why Wire is open source, the importance of encryption, the importance of secure messaging, their polyglot ways, and how they plan to stand apart from other apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal and more.
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Featuring:
- Alan Duric – X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Wire - Secure Messenger
- Wire - Security
- Wire - Developers
- Wire on Twitter
- Wire on GitHub
- Wire on Medium
- Janus Friis - Co-founder of Kazaa and Skype
- Skype Acquires Sonorit and Camino Networks
- Internet Low Bitrate Codec (iLBC)
- iLBC Freeware
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Blockchains and Databases at OSCON (Changelog Interviews #278)
We went back into the archives to conversations we had around blockchains and databases at OSCON 2017. We talked with Monty Widenius, creator of MariaDB the open source forever fork MySQL, Brian Behlendorf, Executive Director of Hyperledger, the open source collaborative effort hosted by The Linux Foundation to advance blockchain technologies, and Tague Griffith, Head of Developer Advocacy at Redis Labs, the home of open source Redis and commercial provider of Redis Enterprise.
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Featuring:
- Monty Widenius – Website, GitHub, X
- Brian Behlendorf – Website, GitHub, X
- Tague Griffith – GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Michael “Monty” Widenius on Wikipedia
- MariaDB
- Getting started with MariaDB for developers
- Business Source License 1.1
- Business Source License - FAQ
- Projects using BSL 1.1
- Adopting and Developing BSL Software
- Redis Labs
- The Changelog #45: Redis In-Memory Data Store with Salvatore “antirez” Sanfilippo
- Redis Open Source
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The Story of Visual Studio Code (Changelog Interviews #277)
We’re back in NYC at Microsoft Connect(); talking about the backstory of Visual Studio Code with Julia Liuson (Corporate Vice President of Visual Studio), Chris Dias (Principal Program Manager of Visual Studio and .NET), and PJ Meyer (Product Manager).
We talk about the beginnings of the Visual Studio product line, how Microsoft missed the internet, how the community is judging Microsoft and looking at them with a very old lense, how Visual Studio Code evolved from lessons learned with their cloud based editor called Monaco, how they had to radically change to reach developers beyond Windows, and how this open source project is thriving.
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Featuring:
- Julia Liuson – Website
- Chris Dias – Website, GitHub, X
- PJ Meyer – GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Julia Liuson on Wikipedia
- Visual Studio Code
- Visual Studio
- Visual Studio Code on GitHub
- GitHub CEO Talks About How Microsoft and Apple Are Changing
- The State of the Octoverse 2017
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Building Blocks (Go Time #62)
Jeff Lindsay joined the show to talk about workflow automation, designing apis, and building the society we want to live in…plus a surprise special announcement!
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Featuring:
- Jeff Lindsay – GitHub, X
- Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
- Carlisia Campos – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
ssh - Easy SSH servers in Golang
Writing a 9P server from scratch
Free Software Friday!
Each week on the show we give a shout out to an open source project or community (or maintainer) that’s made an impact in our day to day developer lives.
Erik - Prometheus Operator
Carlisia - GreaterCommons - Learn to Code
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (Changelog Interviews #276)
Dan Kohn, Executive Director of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, joined the show to talk about what it means to be Cloud Native, the ins and outs of Dan’s role to the foundation, how they make money to sustain things, membership, the support they give to open source projects, the home they’ve given to Kubernetes, Prometheus and many other projects that have become the de facto projects to build cloud native applications on.
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Featuring:
- Dan Kohn – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
We’ll be at the upcoming KubeCon + CloudNativeCon so if you’re going to be there make sure you’re on the lookout for a Changelog tee and say hi.
- The Future of RethinkDB (on Hacker News) with commentary from Dan
- The Linux Foundation
- Cloud Native Computing Foundation
- Cloud Native Computing Foundation - Hosted Projects
- Cloud Native Computing Foundation - Membership
- Cloud Native Computing Foundation - Members
- Cloud Native Computing Foundation - End Users
- Cloud Native Computing Foundation (“CNCF”) Charter
- Certified Kubernetes Conformance Program
- KubeCon + CloudNativeCon
- Kubernetes Training
- edX - Introduction to Kubernetes
- The Changelog #215: Best Practices Badge from Core Infrastructure Initiative with David A. Wheeler
- The Changelog #250: The Backstory of Kubernetes with Tim Hockin and Aparna Sinha
- Replacing x86 firmware with Linux and Go - shared on Hacker News by dankohn1
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Loggregator, gRPC, Diodes (Go Time #61)
Jason Keene and Andrew Poydence joined the show to talk about Loggregator, scaling with Go at Pivotal, Diodes, and other interesting Go projects and news.
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Featuring:
- Jason Keene – GitHub, X
- Andrew Poydence – GitHub
- Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
- Carlisia Campos – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
go-diodes - Example of isolating empty interfaces
Interesting Go Projects and News
GoTTY - Share your terminal as a web application
G.E.R.T - Golang Embedded Run-Time
Matcha - Mobile Apps in Go
Docker Engine Utility for NVIDIA GPUs
Free Software Friday!
Each week on the show we give a shout out to an open source project or community (or maintainer) that’s made an impact in our day to day developer lives.
Erik - dep
Carlisia - Francesc Campoy
Brian - present tool
Jason - go-bpf
Andrew - Concourse CI
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Open Source History, Foundations, Sustainability (Request For Commits #16)
Danese Cooper joined Nadia and Mikeal to discuss the history of open source, how the term became a thing via Tim O’Reilly, feeling empowered as an open source contributor, companies’ relationship to open source, foundations and their role (or not) in governance and sustainability.
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Featuring:
Show Notes:
- Tim O’Reilly: Official Bio
- Free Software Foundation - working together for free software
- OSCON
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The History of GNOME, Mono, and Xamarin (Changelog Interviews #275)
We talked with Miguel de Icaza last week at Microsoft Connect(); in New York City. Miguel gave us the backstory on how he’s been competing with Microsoft for most of his developer career, and he shares the history of GNOME, Mono, and Xamarin — and what led him to now work at Microsoft.
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- GitLab – Take GitLab’s 2018 Global Developer Survey. The survey takes around 15 minutes on average to complete. Topics include developer satisfaction, open source technology, workflow & collaboration, CI/CD practices, and developer tools preferences.
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Featuring:
- Miguel de Icaza – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Miguel is the creator of Gnome (a desktop environment for GNU/Linux), Mono (a cross platform open source .NET framework), and Xamarin (a platform to build iOS, Android, Mac, and Windows apps in C# and .NET) which was acquired by Microsoft in February 2016.
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Faktory and the future of background jobs (Changelog Interviews #274)
Mike Perham is back for his 4th appearance to talk about his new project Faktory, a new background job system that’s aiming to bring the best practices developed over the last five years in Sidekiq to every programming language. We catch up with Mike on the continued success and model of Sidekiq, the future of background jobs, his thoughts on RocksDB in Faktory vs BoltDB, Redis, or SQLite, how he plans to support Sidekiq for the next 10 years, and his thoughts on Faktory being a SaaS option in the future.
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changelog2017to get 4 months free! - Toptal – Hire the top 3% of freelance software developers, designers, and finance experts. Email
adam@changelog.comfor a personal introduction. - GoCD – GoCD is an on-premise open source continuous delivery server created by ThoughtWorks that lets you automate and streamline your build-test-release cycle for reliable, continuous delivery of your product.
Featuring:
- Mike Perham – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- The Future of Background Jobs
- Introducing Faktory
- contribsys/faktory
- Faktory installation
- BoltDB vs. RocksDB
- RocksDB - a persistent key-value store
- The Changelog #92: Sidekiq and Ruby with Mike Perham
- The Changelog #130: Inspeqtor and OSS Products with Mike Perham
- The Changelog #159: Sustaining Open Source Software with Mike Perham
- The Changelog #170: BoltDB, InfluxDB, and Key-Value Databases with Ben Johnson
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Why WADL When You Can Swagger? (Go Time #60)
Ivan Porto Carrero joined the show to talk about generating documentation (with Swagger), pks, kubo, and other interesting Go projects and news.
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Featuring:
- Ivan Porto Carrero – Website, GitHub, X
- Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
- Carlisia Campos – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
openapi specification object model
Interesting Go Projects and News
Go 1.9.2 released
“These releases include fixes to the compiler, linker, runtime, documentation, go command, and the crypto/x509, database/sql, log, and net/smtp packages. They include a fix to a bug introduced in Go 1.9.1 and Go 1.8.4 that broke “go get” of non-Git repositories under certain conditions.”
Factory (by Mike Perham, Sidekiq author)
GRV - Git view on command line
Dep 0.3.2 - support for importing from additional dependency management tools (gvt, gb), various other fixes and improvements
Automated testing for swagger api
Free Software Friday!
Each week on the show we give a shout out to an open source project or community (or maintainer) that’s made an impact in our day to day developer lives.
Erik - Gonum Numerical Packages
Carlisia - Bill Kennedy
Brian - Francesc Campoy
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Improved Improved Improved (i3) (Go Time #59)
Michael Stapelberg joined the show to talk about window management, open sourcing infrastructure, error handling, and other interesting Go projects and news.
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Featuring:
- Michael Stapelberg – Website, GitHub, X
- Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
- Carlisia Campos – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Why Go is my favorite programming language
Interesting Go Projects and News
Space Gophers macOS Screen Saver
The 7 stages of becoming a Go programmer
Building a Neural Net from Scratch in Go
Free Software Friday!
Each week on the show we give a shout out to an open source project or community (or maintainer) that’s made an impact in our day to day developer lives.
Erik - Alacritty
Brian - Ashley McNamara
Michael - Magit
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Data Science at OSCON (Changelog Interviews #273)
We went back into the archives to conversations we had around data science at OSCON 2017. We talked with Vida Williams (Data Scientist) and Michelle Casbon (Director of Data Science at Qordoba) about the social impact of open data, personal data and transparency, privacy, the big data problem of public surveillance, electronic fingerprinting, the rift between data scientists and computer scientists, natural language processing, machine learning, and more.
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Featuring:
- Vida Williams – Website, GitHub, X
- Michelle Casbon – GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Citizen Data by Vida Williams at TEDxRVA
- Qordoba - Localization Software for Global Brands
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Functional CSS and Tachyons (Changelog Interviews #272)
Adam Morse joined the show to talk about Functional CSS and his project Tachyons - a CSS Toolkit that lets you quickly build and design new UI without writing CSS. We talk about Scalable CSS, the difference between “Atomic”, “OOCSS”, “BEM” and others, semantic class names, and where we go from here.
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Featuring:
- Adam Morse – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Scalable CSS
- tachyons-css/tachyons on GitHub
- TACHYONS - CSS Toolkit
- Compositor: Tools & Services for Designers, Developers, & Creatives
- CSS Stats + check out Changelog.com’s stats here
- Wilson Miner - When We Build
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
My roadmap to become a blockchain engineer (Changelog Interviews #271)
Preethi Kasireddy, a self-employed blockchain and smart contract Engineer, joined the show to talk about why she left the best job in the world at Andreessen Horowitz on the deal team, how she got entrepreneurship envy, the roadmap she laid out in 2015 and where she’s at today as an engineer, her excitement for blockchain-based technologies, and why blockchains don’t scale.
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Featuring:
- Preethi Kasireddy – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Why I left the best job in the world
- Blockchains don’t scale. Not today, at least. But there’s hope.
- Preethi Kasireddy on Medium
- Ask Preethi on YouTube
- Between the Wires and what is Between the Wires?
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Rails as a day job, Diesel on the side (Changelog Interviews #270)
Sean Griffin joins the show to talk about doing Rails full-time, his love of Rust. and his project Diesel - a safe, extensible ORM and query builder for Rust. We discuss Sean’s path to working full-time on Rails, what he works on specifically, why Rust, why Diesel, and how much of Diesel’s design and featureset is a product of his experience with ActiveRecord and Rails.
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- Toptal – Hire the top 3% of freelance software developers, designers, and finance experts. Email
adam@changelog.comfor a personal introduction. - Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform.
Featuring:
- Sean Griffin – GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Ruby on Rails - a web-application framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.
- activerecord on GitHub
- Rust - a systems programming language that runs blazingly fast, prevents segfaults, and guarantees thread safety.
- diesel on GitHub
- Diesel website and docs
- RustConf
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Full-time Open Source (Go Time #58)
Dmitri Shuralyov joined the show to talk about being a full time contributor to open source, developing developer tools, and other interesting Go projects and news.
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Featuring:
- Dmitri Shuralyov – Website, GitHub, X
- Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
- Carlisia Campos – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Kebabcase - Self-hosted Go package with a vanity import path
graphql - Go client for GraphQL
Vecty: A frontend toolkit for GopherJS
Lua 5.3 VM and compiler written in Go
Interesting Go Projects and News
Skylark - Python lite written in Go for Bazel & More
Go 1.9.1 and 1.8.4 released for security patches
Video: Tyler Treat, Strangeloop - So You Wanna Go Fast?
Free Software Friday!
Each week on the show we give a shout out to an open source project or community (or maintainer) that’s made an impact in our day to day developer lives.
Carlisia - Testable Go Examples
Dmitri - GopherCI by Bradley Falzon (and Glenn Lewis who helps maintain go-github)
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Bisq, the decentralized Bitcoin exchange (Changelog Interviews #269)
Chris Beams joins the show to talk about Bisq, the P2P decentralized Bitcoin exchange and open-source desktop application that allows you to buy and sell bitcoins in exchange for national currencies, or alternative crypto currencies. We get some background on the issues faced by crypto exchanges like CoinBase, and the now defunkt Mt. Gox. We discuss whether or not Bitcoin is a censorship resistant payment system and what it means to have anonymous transaction currency options. Bisq also has an interesting white paper about its own DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization) to support its contributors and we discuss that in detail at the end of the episode.
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adam@changelog.comfor a personal introduction. - GoCD – GoCD is an on-premise open source continuous delivery server created by ThoughtWorks that lets you automate and streamline your build-test-release cycle for reliable, continuous delivery of your product.
Featuring:
- Chris Beams – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Bisq - the P2P Decentralized Bitcoin Exchange
- bisq-network/exchange
- The Bisq DAO or read the source docs here and you can read the compensation requests here
- Bitcoin - Open source P2P money
- Ethereum Project
- CoinBase
- Mt. Gox
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Maintaining a Popular Project and Managing Burnout (Request For Commits #15)
Christopher Hiller joined Nadia and Mikeal to discuss the ups and downs of maintaining Mocha - a JavaScript test framework that runs on Node.js and in the browser. Discussions included maintaining a popular project, getting funding, the challenges of having money, raising the profile of a project, focusing on the needs of a community, and managing burnout.
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Featuring:
Show Notes:
- Mocha - the fun, simple, flexible JavaScript test framework
- mochajs/mocha on GitHub
- Mocha on GitHub
- Mocha on Open Collective
- Mocha on npm
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Operação Serenata de Amor (Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Government Corruption 😱) (Changelog Interviews #268)
Eduardo Cuducos joined the show to talk about Operação Serenata de Amor an Artificial Intelligence and Data Science project that aims to inform the general public about government corruption and spending. We talked about how this artificial intelligence project analyzes claims for reimbursement from congresspeople to determine illegal probability, how it monitors government spending, the technology behind it, and how other governments might be able to follow this model.
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Show Notes:
- Special thanks to Fabio Rehm for making us aware of this project!
- Operação Serenata de Amor
- Help fund the future of Operação Serenata de Amor
- datasciencebr/serenata-de-amor: 🕵 Artificial Intelligence for social control of public administration
- datasciencebr/rosie: 🤖 Python application responsible for Serenata de Amor’s intelligence
- Irio (Irio Musskopf) on GitHub the founder of Operação Serenata de Amor
- Data Science Brigade
- Rosie (@RosieDaSerenata) on Twitter
- Google Search for “toblerone”
- Mona Sahlin
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Functional Programming (Changelog Interviews #267)
Eric Normand joined the show to talk about Functional Programming. We talked about FP vs OOP vs Imperative, why FP is popular again, the advantages and disadvantages of Functional Programming, and teaching Functional Programming concepts.
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Learn Functional Programming on your schedule
- Can I do FP in my language? (dev.to)
- Functional programming (Wikipedia)
- Lambda Calculus (Wikipedia)
- Maxima and Minima (Wikipedia)
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Documentation and Quitting Open Source (Request For Commits #14)
Ryan Bigg joined the show to talk about his open source work on the documentation of Ruby on Rails, fund raising, crowd sourcing, departure, handing off, not quitting, making the right decision, getting paid, sustaining, and more.
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The Future of RethinkDB (Changelog Interviews #266)
Mike Glukhovsky joined the show to talk about the future of RethinkDB. Mike was a co-founder of RethinkDB along-side Slava Akhmechet. RethinkDB shutdown a year ago officially on October 5, 2016 — and today we’re talking through all the details with Mike. The shutdown, getting purchased by the CNCF, relicensing, buying back their IP and source code, community and governance, and some specific features that Mike and the rest of the community are excited about.
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- RethinkDB
- The Changelog #114 (with Slava Akhmechet)
- The Changelog #181 (with Slava Akhmechet)
- Proposal: Modifier functions · Issue #5813 · rethinkdb/rethinkdb
- The ReQL query language
- RethinkDB joins The Linux Foundation
- RethinkDB Documentation
- RethinkDB is shutting down
- Contribute to RethinkDB
- From Slava Akhmechet on why RethinkDB failed
- Announcing RethinkDB 2.3.6: the first release under community governance
- CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation) Members
- The liberation of RethinkDB
- Apache License, Version 2.0
- AGPL
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The Kotlin Programming Language (Changelog Interviews #265)
Dmitry Jemerov joined the show to talk about Kotlin - a language created by JetBrains that’s designed to be an industrial-strength object-oriented language, and a “better language” than Java. We asked Dmitry “Why invent a new language?”, talked through Google announcing official Android support, covered some of Kotlin’s characteristics, Kotlin vs Swift, and more.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Kotlin Programming Language
- Kotlin Community
- KotlinConf
- JetBrains Gogland - Up and Coming Go IDE
- On the Rise of Kotlin
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Automating GitHub with Probot (Changelog Interviews #264)
We talk with Brandon Keepers and Bex Warner about GitHub’s Probot — GitHub Apps to automate and improve your workflows. You can use pre-built apps or easily build and share your own.
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- Bex Warner – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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Conversations about sustaining open source (Changelog Interviews #263)
This episode features conversations from Sustain 2017 at GitHub HQ with Richard Littauer, Karthik Ram, Andrea Goulet, and Scott Ford. Sustain was a one day conversation for open source software sustainers to share stories, resources, and ways forward to sustain open source.
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- Karthik Ram – Website, GitHub, X
- Andrea Goulet – Website, GitHub, X
- Scott Ford – Website, GitHub, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- sustainoss.org (inspired by maintainerati.org)
- maintainer.io - Scale Open Source Maintenance
- rOpenSci - Open Tools for Open Science
- Corgibytes
- Legacy Code Rocks! (you should listen to this podcast)
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Presenting a Pragmatic Perspective (Go Time #57)
Cindy Sridharan joined the show to talk about development and operations as a generalist, leveling up as an engineer (while still providing business value), challenging the status-quo, and other interesting Go projects and news.
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- Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
- Carlisia Campos – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Small Functions considered Harmful
Interesting Go Projects and News
Community Outreach Working Group
Running Go on Low Memory Devices
DARE (Data At Rest Encryption)
Optimizing web servers for high throughput and low latency
Free Software Friday!
Each week on the show we give a shout out to an open source project or community (or maintainer) that’s made an impact in our day to day developer lives.
Brian - Minio
Cindy - Envoy
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Community, Building Remote-first Teams, and Web Performance Inclusivity (Changelog Interviews #262)
Karolina Szczur joined the show to talk about community building, building remote-first teams, the hiring process in tech, product development, and the inclusivity factor of web performance.
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Show Notes:
- Houston Flood Relief Fund - JJ Watt’s fundraiser for Victims of Hurricane Harvey
- Bayou City Relief - Helping Houston Get Home
- About Karolina Szczur
- Building remote-first teams
- How to write a successful conference proposal
- CSSConf and JSConf Australia Diversity Report
- A guide to empathetic hiring processes
- Your tech job posting is broken. Here’s how to fix it.
- Lighthouse from Google
- ElectronConf Seattle 2017
- Calibre - Web performance monitoring
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Container Security and Demystifying Complexity (Go Time #56)
Liz Rice joined the show to talk about containers, cloud security, making complex concepts easier to understand, and other interesting Go projects and news.
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- Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
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Show Notes:
kube-bench - CIS Security Benchmark implementation for Kubernetes
manifesto - Manage container metadata alongside (but separate from) the container image
Interesting Go Projects and News
jaeger - Open Tracing in and for Go (and others)
expanderr - expands the Go Call Expression under your cursor to check errors (emacs only for now)
Free Software Friday!
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Erik - Azeria (related: Introduction to ARM Assembly Basics)
Brian - Unison
Liz - Istio
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Dep, Cross-platform, and Getting Started (Go Time #55)
Carolyn Van Slyck joined the show to talk about dependency management, upping your cross-platform game, getting into Go, and other interesting Go projects and news.
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Show Notes:
GopherCon 2016: Carolyn Van Slyck - Grow your users from an unlikely source: Windows Developers
Interesting Go Projects and News
RustGo: Calling Rust from Go with Near-zero Overhead
Go 1.9 Release Candidate 2 is released
Free Software Friday!
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Brian - Cobra
Carolyn - Safia Abdalla
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Go at Walmart (and Scale) (Go Time #54)
Chase Adams joined the show to talk about working on distributed systems with distributed teams, giving people opportunities to learn and grow, and other interesting Go projects and news.
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Show Notes:
Volvo Trucks - The Epic Split feat. Van Damme
Chuck Norris - Epic Christmas Split between Two Planes
Interesting Go Projects and News
go-tracing (swiss company, got Go training from Mark Bates)
Transcripts available for our podcast! Awesome work by Changelog crew!
Free Software Friday!
Each week on the show we give a shout out to an open source project or community (or maintainer) that’s made an impact in our day to day developer lives.
Erik - Jesse Frazelle - Am I Contained?
Brian - iTerm2 by George Nachman
Carlisia - All the women in tech who persevere!
Chase - GitLab, Org mode, Ramya, Dominik, and Fatih
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Web Audio API and TypeScript is Turing Complete (JS Party #19)
Alex Sexton, Rachel White, and Myles Borins talk about the Web Audio API and how TypeScript is “Turing Complete”.
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- Web Audio API - W3C Editor’s Draft 10 August 2017
- TypeScripts Type System is Turing Complete - GitHub Issues
- StackBlitz — Online VS Code IDE for Angular & React
- How is JavaScript used within the Spotify desktop application? - Quora
- Inversion (meteorology)
- The Automagic Music Maker
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2017 Node.js User Survey and Beaker Browser (JS Party #18)
Mikeal Rogers, Alex Sexton, and Paul Frazee talk about the 2017 Node.js user survey and Beaker Browser - an experimental peer-to-peer web browser that uses the Dat protocol to host sites from a user’s device.
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Node.js Emerging as the Universal Development Framework for a Diversity of Applications - Hackernoon
- 2017 Node.js User Survey (PDF)
- Globalize - A JavaScript library for internationalization and localization that leverages the official Unicode CLDR JSON data
- Beaker Browser - Rethink the Web browser
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AMA — BasicAttentionToken, Robotics, IDE's and Stuff (JS Party #17)
This is an AMA show with live questions from the #jsparty Slack channel. We cover everything from BasicAttentionToken, Robotics, Microsoft, IDE’s, and other fun stuff.
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- Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, X
- Rachel White – GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- BasicAttentionToken - A new token to value user attention on the internet.
- Basic Attention Token (BAT)
- $35 Million in 30 Seconds: Token Sale for Internet Browser Brave Sells Out
- Go Time #49: Adventures in VS Code with Ramya Rao
- Request For Commits #11: Funding the Web with Brendan Eich
- Johnny-Five: The JavaScript Robotics & IoT Platform
- Version Lens - Visual Studio Marketplace
- Dracula (also discussed on The Changelog #248) - a dark theme for Atom, Alfred, Brackets, Emacs, iTerm, Mintty, Notepad++, Slack, Sequel Pro, Sublime Text, Telegram, Textmate, Terminal.app, Ulysses, Vim, Visual Studio Code, Wox, Xcode, and Zsh
- Buy Surface Laptop
- On the Rise of Kotlin
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GopherCon 2017: A Retrospective (Go Time #53)
After taking some time to recover, the gang rehashes all the greatest talks and favorite moments from this year’s GopherCon. Much love to the Go community and all the souls who worked tirelessly to make this conference happen.
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Show Notes:
GopherCon 2017 videos playlist
Links to all the slides and videos, separated by talk
GopherCon 2017 Lightning talks playlist
GopherCon Singapore 2017 videos
And remember: if you need an invite to the Gophers Slack channel, go to invite.slack.golangbridge.org
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Building an artificial Pancreas with Elixir and Nerves (Changelog Interviews #261)
We talked with Tim Mecklem about building an artificial Pancreas with Elixir and Nerves to help those with Type 1 Diabetes who want to “loop” — a process which involves monitoring glucose levels, predicting where a person’s glucose levels are heading, then delivering insulin based on that prediction. Tim is a Developer at Gaslight in Cincinnati where he builds software solutions with Ruby and Elixir, and he’s a member of the Nerves Core team.
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Building an Artificial Pancreas with Elixir and Nerves at ElixirConf 2017
- Listen to why Karen Sandler can’t hack her heart
- Gaslight - Ruby on Rails, iOS, and JavaScript Consultants out of Cincinnati, OH
- OpenAPS.org - #WeAreNotWaiting to reduce the burden of Type 1 diabetes
- OpenAPS Reference Design
- OpenAPS on GitHub
- The open reference implementation of the OpenAPS reference design
- The Nerves Project
- Nightscout - #WeAreNotWaiting
- Tim’s Elixir Library
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All About The Go Compiler (Go Time #52)
David Chase joined the show for a technical Q & A on compilers and what makes Go’s compiler different from the rest (and of course, other interesting Go projects and news)
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- Ashley Willis – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
dr2blog (David’s blog)
Interesting Go Projects and News
Go’s work-stealing scheduler (great article on the scheduler from JBD)
New book - Concurrency in Go by Katherine Cox-Buday
Free Software Friday!
Each week on the show we give a shout out to an open source project or community (or maintainer) that’s made an impact in our day to day developer lives.
Ashley - Brian & Erik (for managing GopherCon, which was awesome)
Carlisia - JBD! (https://rakyll.org/archive/, GoTime Episode #22)
Brian - Dave Cheney
Dave - The MacPorts Project
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You are not Google/Amazon/LinkedIn (Changelog Interviews #260)
If you find yourself chasing shiny objects and squirrels all time, you should 💯 listen to this episode featuring Ozan Onay (President of Bradfield School of Computer Science) where we discuss his recent blog post entitled You Are Not Google which was the #1 link in Changelog Weekly - Issue #159. This show is full of wisdom and advice for every developer out there.
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Featuring:
- Oz Onay – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Before we get to the show note links, here are some notable quotes from this episode and Oz’s post.
Software engineers go crazy for the most ridiculous things. We like to think that we’re hyper-rational, but when we have to choose a technology, we end up in a kind of frenzy — bouncing from one person’s Hacker News comment to another’s blog post until, in a stupor, we float helplessly toward the brightest light and lay prone in front of it, oblivious to what we were looking for in the first place. This is not how rational people make decisions…
Writing code isn’t really about writing. Thinking is the thing that we do. Eventually that gets translated into running code.
This is a counter-force against the marketing machine of high opinion technologies.
As of 2016, Stack Exchange served 200 million requests per day, backed by just four SQL servers: a primary for Stack Overflow, a primary for everything else, and two replicas.
- You Are Not Google
- Changelog Weekly - Issue #159
- Bradfield School of Computer Science
- Cutting through to what matters
- How to teach yourself computer science
- Teach Yourself Computer Science
- Learn how computers work
- Learn every language
- Google Search for ‘postgres paper’
- The Implementation of Postgres (paper)
- The Design of Postgres (paper)
- @loveapaper on Twitter
- All Things Open
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ANTHOLOGY — The Future of Open Source at OSCON 2017 (Changelog Interviews #259)
This is an anthology episode from OSCON 2017 featuring awesome conversations with Kelsey Hightower (OSCON Co-Chair and Developer Advocate at Google Cloud Platform), Safia Abdalla (Open Source Developer and Creator of Zarf), and Mike McQuaid and Nadia Eghbal (GitHub Open Source Programs).
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Featuring:
- Kelsey Hightower – GitHub, X
- Safia Abdalla – Website, GitHub, X
- Nadia Eghbal – GitHub, X
- Mike McQuaid – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Kelsey Hightower
Kelsey Hightower is an OSCON Co-Chair and Developer Advocate (Google Cloud Platform) — We talked about being a co-chair, why he does live demos, and his motivations towards open source.
When you say you’re successful, I guarantee when you look around it’s because someone is celebrating your victories.
- Check out DevOps Days Austin 2017 on YouTube
- The tweets mentioned from Kelsey that were seen as “controversial by some in the community” started with this tweet, then this tweet, and finally this tweet.
- “I don’t write code for free. I write code for freedom.”
- “Best birthday gift ever!” thanks to Brian Ketelsen
Safia Abdalla
Safia Abdalla is an open source developer and creator of Zarf — We talked about being a command-line junkie and her talk on the intersection of business and open source.
- Zarf - an online platform that allows writers to sell subscription content to their readers.
- captainsafia/legit
- captainsafia/goopshttps
- captainsafia/commentator
- captainsafia/checklist
- Brief
- captainsafia/giddy
- captainsafia/fony
- Open Source at Facebook with James Pearce (Facebook)
Mike McQuaid and Nadia Eghbal
Mike McQuaid and Nadia Eghbal work at GitHub in Open Source Programs — We talked about GitHub’s Open Source Alley at OSCON and how they are working to better support open source maintainers and their communities.
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ES Modules and ESM Loader (JS Party #16)
Mikeal Rogers, Alex Sexton, and John-David Dalton talk about ES Modules history and current status, and JDD’s ESM loader.
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10 years of RabbitMQ (Changelog Interviews #258)
We are thrilled to produce this show to honor RabbitMQ’s 10th anniversary. Karl Nilsson and Michael Klishin joined the show to talk through 10 years of RabbitMQ — one of the most widely deployed open source message brokers with more than 35,000 production deployments worldwide.
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- RabbitMQ Server on GitHub
- How Elixir Compiles/Executes Code
- RabbitMQ Architecture Overview
- The Changelog #205: A Protocol For Dying with Pieter Hintjens
- The Changelog #242: The Burden of Open Source with James Long
- The Changelog #246: First-time Contributors and Maintainer Balance with Kent C. Dodds
- The Changelog #248: Open Source Lessons Learned with Zeno Rocha
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Infosec research and app security (Go Time #51)
Aaron Hnatiw joined the show to talk about being a security researcher, teaching application security with Go, and a deep dive on how engineers and developers can get started with infosec. Plus: white hat, black hat, red team, blue team…Aaron sorts it all out for us.
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- Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
- Carlisia Campos – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Aaron blessed us with a veritable slew of links to help Go developers level up their security game:
Race-The-Web (Also check out the accompanying practice site)
Go-fuzz (Check out their trophies section)
OWASP Top 10: (Counterpoint - Vulnerabilities beyond the OWASP Top 10)
SSRF as a Service: Mitigating a Design-Level Software Security Vulnerability
Interesting Go Projects and News
Fencing off Go Applied - A Practical Look at a Go Research Paper
Free Software Friday!
Each week on the show we give a shout out to an open source project or community (or maintainer) that’s made an impact in our day to day developer lives.
Erik - K8GUARD (The guardian angel for Kubernetes)
Carlisia - Goman
Brian - WSLtty
Aaron - Visual Studio Code (with the Go plugin, of course)
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The power of wikis, the problem with social networks, the promise of AI (Changelog Interviews #257)
Evan Prodromou has been involved in open source since the mid ‘90s. His open source travel guide – Wikitravel – grew up alongside Wikipedia and the web itself. In this episode, we hear Evan’s history, try to solve open social networking once and for all, and learn how sprinkling a little artificial intelligence on to our products can yield big wins without having to shoot the moon.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
The Power of Wikis
The Problem with Social Networks
The Promise of A.I.
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Open source and supercomputers (Spack) (Request For Commits #13)
Todd Gamblin – a computer scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Lab – tells Nadia and Mikeal all about bringing open source to his peers in the national labs. They discuss what it’s like to open source a project inside the government, how Todd found contributors for Spack, why he got involved with NumFOCUS, and much more.
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- LLNL’s Website
- LLNL on GitHub
- Spack
- Exascale
- NumFOCUS
- Livermore Computing
- DOE National Laboratories
- ASC program
- LDRD
- SBIR
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Async control flow and threats to the open web (JS Party #15)
Mikeal Rogers, Alex Sexton, and Kyle Simpson talk about Async Control Flow and Threats to the Open Web, plus our project of the week Blake2b-WASM.
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- Chapter 4: Async Flow Control from You Don’t Know JS: ES6 & Beyond by Kyle Simpson
- Javascript Async Control Flow
- The Hidden Power of ES6 Generators: Observable Async Flow Control
- Fluent Conference
- mafintosh/blake2b-wasm
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Ubuntu Snaps and Bash on Windows Server (Changelog Interviews #256)
We talked with Dustin Kirkland (Head of Ubuntu Product and Strategy at Canonical) at OSCON about 12.04’s end of life, the death of the Ubuntu phone, Snaps and snapd, and Bash on Ubuntu on Windows Server. This is the second installment of our mini-series from the expo hall floor of OSCON 2017. Special thanks to our friends at O’Reilly for inviting us to OSCON.
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Featuring:
- Dustin Kirkland – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) reaches End of Life on April 28 2017
- Snaps - universal Linux packages
- Growing Ubuntu for cloud and IoT, rather than phone and convergence
- Ubuntu Unity is dead: Desktop will switch back to GNOME next year
- The Changelog #207: Ubuntu Everywhere with Dustin Kirkland
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Bringing Kubernetes to Azure (Go Time #50)
Kris Nova joined the show to talk about developer empathy, running K8s on Azure, Kops, Draft, editors, containerizing odd things…and what it’s like to play a keytar.
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- Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
- Carlisia Campos – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Interesting Go Projects and News
- Gotham Go CFP Open
- GopherCon China videos (most in Chinese)
- https://github.com/kshvmdn/fsql
- Go-vim 1.13
- goplay.space - Go playground frontend written in gopherjs/vecty - super cool!
Free Software Friday!
Each week on the show we give a shout out to an open source project or community (or maintainer) that’s made an impact in our day to day developer lives.
- Erik - CNI-Genie
- Brian - Florin Patan (@dlsniper everywhere)
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Why is GraphQL so cool? (Changelog Interviews #255)
Johannes Schickling (Founder of Graphcool) joined the show to talk about GraphQL — an application layer query language from Facebook. We talked about what it is, where it makes sense to use it, its role in serverless architectures, getting docs for free via Schemas and Types, and the community that’s rallying around this new way to think about APIs.
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- Johannes Schickling – GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Learn GraphQLHow to GraphQL- Learn Apollo
- Learn Relay
- GraphQL Playground
- GraphQL.org
- Facebook’s announcement post for GraphQL
- Graphcool - Serverless GraphQL Backend - Developer platform for building serverless graphql backends
- Graphcool hit #1 on HackerNews when it launched
- GraphQL Radio - a podcast covering all things GraphQL
- GraphQL-Europe - Europe’s first GraphQL conference
- Reinventing Authorization: GraphQL Permission Queries
- Serverless GraphQL Backend architecture
- Why GraphQL is the future
- Facebook’s original draft RFC specification for GraphQL
From The GitHub GraphQL API post on the GitHub Engineering blog:
The REST API is responsible for over 60% of the requests made to our database tier. This is partly because, by its nature, hypermedia navigation requires a client to repeatedly communicate with a server so that it can get all the information it needs. Our responses were bloated and filled with all sorts of
*_urlhints in the JSON responses to help people continue to navigate through the API to get what they needed. Despite all the information we provided, we heard from integrators that our REST API also wasn’t very flexible. It sometimes required two or three separate calls to assemble a complete view of a resource. It seemed like our responses simultaneously sent too much data and didn’t include data that consumers needed.
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Inside Node 8, Glitch, Building a Community Around Education (JS Party #14)
Mikeal Rogers, Alex Sexton, and Jessica Lord talk with James Snell (Node.js TSC Director) about the release of Node.js version 8. Then, in the second half of the show, we discuss Glitch and their new “raise your hand” feature and building a community around education. Our project of the week is Tad!
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- Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, X
- Alex Sexton – Website, GitHub, X
- Jessica Lord – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Node v8.0.0
- Node v8.0.0 (Current)
- What’s New in Node 8
- Node.js 8: Big Improvements for the Debugging and Native Module Ecosystem
- Upgrading from Node 6 to Node 8: a real-world performance comparison
- Node.js 8: The First Week
Glitch - “raise your hand” feature
Project of the Week
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Deploying Changelog.com (Changelog Interviews #254)
This week we take you behind the scenes of the new infrastructure for Changelog.com and talk with Gerhard Lazu. We relaunched the new brand and site for Changelog on Phoenix/Elixir in October of 2016 and we needed a better way to reliably host and deploy the site. That’s where Gerhard came in. We cover all the details and decisions in this show.
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- Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Gerhard guest blogged for us about Ansible and Docker way back in the day (Feb 21, 2014)
- Jerod found edeliver which was based on deliver a pure bash deployment tool with customisable strategies
- Gerhard gave a talk about the process
- ci.changelog.com
- thechangelog/changelog.com
- thechangelog/infrastructure
- Pivotal Tracker
- Concourse CI
- LastPass
- Ansible
- Docker
- Moby Project: Advancing the Containerization Movement
- Also ~> check out this tweet from Solomon Hykes
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The serverless revolution (Changelog Interviews #253)
We talked with Pam Selle at OSCON about the serverless revolution happening for JavaScript developers. This episode kicks off our mini-series from the Expo Hall floor at OSCON 2017.
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- Pam Selle – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Pam is the Software Engineering Lead at IOpipe, a high fidelity metrics and monitoring service which allows you to see inside Amazon Lambda functions for better insights into the daily operations and development of serverless applications.
- The serverless revolution for JavaScript developers at OSCON 2017 by Pam Selle
- Serverless Framework
- Turing-incomplete
- The Changelog #173: CROSSOVER — Turing-Incomplete with Pam Selle, Jearvon Dharrie, and Justin Campbell
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Crowdfunding Open Source (Vue.js) (Request For Commits #12)
Evan You joined the show to talk about his work on Vue.js. We learn how Evan found users and got Vue.js off the ground, the details behind their crowdfunding on Patreon, whether or not crowdfunding is a viable method of sustaining open source, finding balance in life and work, and plans for funding beyond the Patreon campaign.
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Season 2 has begun! Evan You is the creator of Vue, a popular progressive JavaScript framework. He works on Vue full time with the funding from its Patreon campaign. He previously worked at Google and Meteor.
- Vue.js - The progressive JavaScript framework
- VueConf - The first official Vue.js conference in the world!
- Vue.js on Patreon
- Babel - Use next generation JavaScript, today.
- Henry Zhu - Stay tuned to hear from Henry later on in season 2
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Adventures in VS Code (Go Time #49)
Ramya Achutha Rao joined the show to talk about all the things that make VS Code a great editor for writing Go, getting help from the community, plus other interesting Go projects and news.
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- Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
- Carlisia Campos – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Visual Studio Code (latest version notes)
Interesting Go Projects and News
Draft: Streamlined Kubernetes Development
Higher Performance Go with Go Assembly from FOSDEM
Justforfunc episode “a Text to Speech server with gRPC and Kubernetes”
“…people can change. And if you do it right, you get to watch it happen.” “I bled to get here. I have the scars to prove it.”
Free Software Friday!
Each week on the show we give a shout out to an open source project or community (or maintainer) that’s made an impact in our day to day developer lives.
Carlisia - JBD (see also: Go Time #22 w/ JBD)
Johnny - q - Quick and dirty debugging output for tired Go programmers
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Inside the Release of npm@5 and Sheetsee (JS Party #13)
Mikeal Rogers, Rachel White, and Alex Sexton talk with Rebecca Turner and Kat Marchán about npm@5 and Jessica Lord about Sheetsee.
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- Rebecca Turner – Website, GitHub, X
- Kat Marchán – GitHub, X
- Jessica Lord – Website, GitHub, X
- Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, X
- Rachel White – GitHub, X
- Alex Sexton – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
npm@5
- npm v5.0.0
- cacache - a Node.js library for managing local key and content address caches. It’s really fast.
Sheetsee
- Sheetsee - a client-side library for connecting Google Spreadsheets to a website and visualizing the information in tables and maps.
- Sheetsee on Glitch - a sample Sheetsee site with data backup
Picks!
- chaosbot/chaos - a social coding experiment that updates its own code democratically.
- babel/babili - ES6+ aware minifier based on the Babel toolchain.
- zeit/pkg - package your Node.js project into an executabl
- Medieval Fantasy City Generator
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GitHub's Open Source Survey (2017) (Changelog Interviews #252)
On Friday, June 2, 2017 – GitHub announced the details of their Open Source Survey – an open data set on the open source community for researchers and the curious. Frannie Zlotnick, Nadia Eghbal, and Mikeal Rogers joined the show to talk through the backstory and key insights of this open data project which sheds light on the broader open source community’s attitudes, experiences, and backgrounds of those who use, build, and maintain open source software.
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- Microsoft Azure OpenDev – a live one-day virtual conference on June 21, 2017 focused on showcasing open source technologies on Azure. See what’s possible with open source in the cloud. Learn how you can build containerized microservices and improve your open source DevOps pipeline. Participate in Q&A sessions, and get hands-on experience with open source technologies on Azure.
Featuring:
- Nadia Eghbal – GitHub, X
- Frannie Zlotnick – GitHub
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- opensourcesurvey.org
- github/open-source-survey
- GitHub Blog: Announcing an open data set on the open source community
- Spotlight #10: How China Does Node with Shiya Luo at Node.js Interactive 2016
- Oh, and here’s that Wired article Mikeal mentioned
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Restic and backups (done right) (Go Time #48)
Alexander Neumann joined the show to talk about using Go to write backup software, solving tough problems like deduplication, scratching your own itch, and other interesting Go projects and news.
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- Ashley Willis – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Chunker - Implementation of Content Defined Chunking (CDC) in Go
Interesting Go Projects and News
“…people can change. And if you do it right, you get to watch it happen.” | “I bled to get here. I have the scars to prove it.”
Free Software Friday!
Each week on the show we give a shout out to an open source project or community (or maintainer) that’s made an impact in our day to day developer lives.
Ashley - Kelsey Hightower
Erik - Brendan Gregg
Brian - barista (i3 status bar written in Go!)
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Using ES6/7, create-react-app, and Electron! (JS Party #12)
Mikeal Rogers, Rachel White, and Alex Sexton discuss how they’re using ES6/7 with and without a compiler, updates to create-react-app, and the beloved Electron.
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Topics
- Using new JavaScript language features in ES6 and ES7 with and without a compiler
- Updates to create-react-app
- Electron - Build cross platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
Picks
- Webpack 2 (Alex Sexton)
- Immutable data structures for functional JS by Anjana Vakil at JSConf EU 2017 (Rachel White)
- (Book) Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution (Mikeal Rogers)
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JAMstack, Netlify CMS, and 10x-ing Smashing Magazine (Changelog Interviews #251)
Matt Biilman and Chris Bach joined the show to talk about JAMstack, Netlify CMS, how open source drives standards, and 10x-ing the speed of Smashing Magazine.
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Featuring:
- Matt Biilmann – Website, GitHub, X
- Chris Bach – Website, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- JAMstack (JavaScript, APIs, and Markup) is a new way of building websites and apps that delivers better performance, higher security, lower cost of scaling, and a better developer experience.
- Netlify CMS is an open-source CMS built with JAMstack principles designed around a fully Git workflow.
- Smashing Magazine just got 10x faster
- Meet The Next Smashing Magazine
- Why Static Site Generators Are The Next Big Thing
- next.smashingmagazine.com
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Web Standards, ECMAScript Modules in Browsers, and Learning JS (JS Party #11)
Wes Bos and Mike Taylor joined Alex Sexton this week to talk about Web Standards stuff, compileTo CSS libraries, ECMAScript Modules in Browsers, and Learning JS.
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Show Notes:
- ECMAScript Modules in Browsers
- Wes Bos tutorials
- Interface Lovers
- Prettier
- Node.js V8 –inspector Manager
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Docker, Moby, Containers (Go Time #47)
Solomon Hykes joined the show to talk about all things Docker, Moby Project, and what makes Go a good fit for container management.
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Featuring:
- Solomon Hykes – GitHub, X
- Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
- Carlisia Campos – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Changelog #89 - Docker and Linux Containers
with Solomon Hykes
Video: The future of Linux Containers
The @moby Project in a nutshell: inside and outside.
A new upstream project to break up Docker into independent components #32691
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The Backstory of Kubernetes (Changelog Interviews #250)
Tim Hockin and Aparna Sinha joined the show to talk about the backstory of Kubernetes inside Google, how Tim and others got it funded, the infrastructure of Kubernetes, and how they’ve been able to succeed by focusing on the community.
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- Tim Hockin – Website, GitHub, X
- Aparna Sinha – GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- kubernetes.io
- Large-scale cluster management at Google with Borg
- Kubernetes The Hard Way
- Go Time #20: Kubernetes, Containers, and Go with Kelsey Hightower
- Bringing Pokémon GO to life on Google Cloud
- Google Cloud Platform
- Kubernetes on Wikipedia
- kubernetes/minikube
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Periph.io, Drivers, Hardware (Go Time #46)
Marc-Antoine Ruel joined the show for a deep dive on controlling hardware, writing drivers with Go, and other interesting Go projects and news.
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Featuring:
- Marc-Antoine Ruel – GitHub, X
- Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
- Carlisia Campos – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
wi (right after vi)
Free Software Friday!
Each week on the show we give a shout out to an open source project or community (or maintainer) that’s made an impact in our day to day developer lives.
Erik - hecate (The Hex Editor From Hell!)
Carlisia - docopt-go
Brian - wxGo
Marc-Antoine - shiny
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BONUS - Sustain Open Source Software (Changelog Interviews)
Justin Dorfman joined us for a special BONUS episode of The Changelog to share some details about Sustain Conference with you. It’s a one day conversation for Open Source Software sustainers at GitHub HQ (SF) on June 19, 2017. No keynotes, expo halls or talks. Only discussions about how to get more resources to support digital infrastructure. Plus, we’ll be there.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
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SPECIAL — Ask Us Anything! (Go Time #45)
This is a special “Ask Us Anything” episode where we answered questions submitted by the community — covering everything from impostor syndrome and the future of Go, to the music we listen to to get in a groove, and barbecue (of course).
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- Carlisia Campos – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Remote control by telnet (Do not attempt this at home)
Fergulator (NES emulator, written in Go)
@garyvee: the last scene of 8 Mile
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yayQuery Reunion! (JS Party #10)
In this special episode, it’s a yayQuery podcast reunion. Alex Sexton, Paul Irish, Rebecca Murphey, and Adam Sontag are back for a takeover episode here on JS Party where they catch up on the latest happenings in JavaScript, share JavaScript predictions, thoughts on TypeScript, React, PWAs, and more.
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adam@changelog.comfor a personal introduction. - Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com.
Featuring:
- Alex Sexton – Website, GitHub, X
- Paul Irish – Website, GitHub, X
- Rebecca Murphey – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Sontag – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
** If we missed any links let us know.
- yayQuery podcast
- Buy the yayQuery soundtrack on Bandcamp
- Lighthouse — an open-source, automated tool for improving the quality of web pages. You can run it against any page on the web. It has audits for performance, accessibility, progressive web apps, and more.
- Getting Started with Redux by Dan Abramov
- You Might Not Need Redux by Dan Abramov
- W3Fools
- The Most Explosive Modal on the Web
- Progressive Web Apps Training
- Webpack: It’s Not Magic
Picks
- The Manager’s Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change by Camille Fournier (Rebecca Murphey)
Paul Irish shared this image as his pick.
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Open source at Microsoft, inclusion, diversity, and OSCON (Changelog Interviews #249)
Scott Hanselman joined today’s show produced in partnership with our friends at OSCON. Scott is a Program Chair of OSCON, host of the podcast Hanselminutes, and advocate for open source inside of Microsoft and the Azure Cloud team. We talked about the oldest software he wrote that’s still in production, the shift inside Microsoft to open source and why, as well as ways to make inclusion and diversity a priority in your communities.
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Featuring:
- Scott Hanselman – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Use our code changeloghallpass to get a FREE Expo Hall Pass to OSCON. This will get you access to the hallway track, the exhibitors, and a bunch of other fun stuff.
Adam and Jerod will be there at booth 231, so make sure you stop by. We’ll have some tees and stickers to give away, but they are in limited supply and reserved for members of Changelog Community, which is free to join — so go sign up.
- Scott’s podcast ~> Hanselminutes
- keysleft.com
- Join the Changelog Community (it’s free)
- BabySmash
- Codeland Conference
Related shows you should listen to:
- Spotlight #13: Node at Microsoft, ChakraCore, and VM Neutrality with Gaurav Seth and Arunesh Chandra
- The Changelog #134: Open Sourcing .NET Core with the Microsoft .NET team
- The Changelog #152: TypeScript and Open Source at Microsoft with Anders Hejlsberg and Jonathan Turner
- The Changelog #176: CROSSOVER — CodeNewbie and Community with Saron Yitbarek
- The Changelog #224: .NET Core and Microsoft’s Shift to Open Source with Bertrand Le Roy
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Open source lessons learned (Changelog Interviews #248)
Zeno Rocha, Principal Developer Advocate at Liferay, joined the show to talk about DevRel, his open source work (clipboard.js, Dracula Theme, jQuery Boilerplate, Browser Diet, et al), and his passion for teaching and giving talks at conferences. Zeno also shared some really interesting stories about his first contributions to open source, how that played out, and the lessons learned along the way.
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- GoCD – GoCD is an on-premise open source continuous delivery server created by ThoughtWorks that lets you automate and streamline your build-test-release cycle for reliable, continuous delivery of your product.
Featuring:
Show Notes:
Special thanks to Justin Dorfman for helping connect us to Zeno Rocha for this episode — BTW check out SustainOSS.org, a one day conversation on June 19, 2017 about sustaining open source. We’ll be there!
- DevRelSummit
- Liferay
- clipboard.js
- Issue #56: OT: How did the repo get 5000 stars in a few days?
- jQuery Boilerplate
- Issue #10: Everything is wrong, so deleted all of it, this way you can start over and do it right.
- Browser Diet - The definitive front-end performance guide.
- Dracula Theme
- DevSpace - Stay up to date with what’s happening now on GitHub
- The Changelog #246: First-time Contributors and Maintainer Balance
with Kent C. Dodds - Reminder on how you spend your time
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Go4 and Contributing to Go (Go Time #44)
Brad Fitzpatrick joined the show to talk about becoming the face of open source Go, getting the community involved in bug triage, the potential future of Go, and other interesting Go projects and news.
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- Toptal – Hire the best freelance developers and designers with Toptal. Email
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Featuring:
- Brad Fitzpatrick – Website, GitHub, X
- Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
- Carlisia Campos – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- Go4
- Gardening
- Go Contribution Guide
- GopherCon 2016 - Lightning Talk: Brad Fitzpatrick
- Camlistore
- Grumpy: Go running Python
- proposal: generic programming facilities
- DNS library in Go
- Package mem
- #goreviews
Interesting Go Projects and News
- Shoutout to Dave Brophy (author of jennifer and several other cool Go tools) for sending us a shoutout from the French Alps!
- periph
- myitcv.io/react - now with more code gen and preact support too! (From Paul Jolly)
- Reddit - Is Go 2 actually happening? If so, when will development start?
Free Software Friday!
Each week on the show we give a shoutout to an open source project or community (or maintainer) that’s made an impact in our day to day developer lives.
- Carlisia - changelog.com
- Brian - Buffalo
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P2P Web, WebRTC, WebTorrent, IPFS, and React VR (JS Party #9)
Mikeal Rogers, Alex Sexton, and Rachel White discuss the P2P web — including WebRTC, WebTorrent, and IPFS. They also get into React and React VR and the project of the week, PouchDB.
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Show Notes:
The P2P Web
- WebRTC
- WebTorrent
- IPFS
- The Changelog #160: Ampersand.js, SPAs, and WebRTC with Henrik Joreteg
- The Changelog #227: Mad Science, WebTorrent, & WebRTC with Feross Aboukhadijeh
React VR
- React VR - Build VR websites and interactive 360 experiences with React
PouchDB
- PouchDB - the JavaScript Database that Syncs!
Picks!
- Rachel: tiny-care-terminal - a little dashboard that tries to take care of you when you’re using your terminal
- Alex: pwmetrics - Progressive web metrics at your fingertipz
- Mikeal: Request For Commits - Season 2 is coming soon!
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Good Documentation, Non-blocking UI Rendering, Node Community Updates (JS Party #8)
Tracy Hinds, Alex Sexton, and Rachel White discuss good documentation, API docs, playbooks, Non-blocking UI Rendering, ember-concurrency, React Fiber and updates from Tracy on the Node.js Foundation and Node community.
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Featuring:
Show Notes:
Docs! What makes good documentation?
-
Where are you sending your community if the docs aren’t good (hint: you don’t get to decide then)?
-
How to’s, getting started, API docs, playbooks
-
Request For Commits #5: Documentation and the Value of Non-Code Contributions with Eric Holscher
-
Spotlight #7: Focused on a Safe and Inclusive Node Community with Tracy Hinds
Non-blocking UI Rendering
- Fastboot/isomorphic rendering
- ember-concurrency
- React Fiber
Node.js Community
Picks!
- Alex: Prettier
- Rachel: increment.com
- Tracy: …
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Getting Better, Mentoring, Drawing Gophers (Go Time #43)
Ashley McNamara joined the show to talk about sharing developer experiences, seeking help from the community, getting people excited about STEM, and other interesting Go projects and news.
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- Toptal – Hire the best freelance developers and designers with Toptal. Email
adam@changelog.comfor a personal introduction. - Datadog – Datadog brings you visibility into every part of your infrastructure, plus APM that integrates deeply with Go libraries for monitoring your applications’ performance. With support for Gin, Gorilla Mux, and gRPC, and more on the way, you can get fine-grained performance metrics from your Golang apps with minimal instrumentation. Start your free trial, install the agent, and get a free t-shirt!
Featuring:
- Ashley Willis – GitHub, X
- Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
- Carlisia Campos – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Introduction to Programming - Curated list of resources for budding developers
Verizon #weneedmore | Anthem :30
Interesting Go Projects and News
Ruby-like language written in Go
Træfik, a modern reverse proxy < Gophercon sponsors too!
Introducing the Developer Experience Working Group
Caddy launch date 4/20 + cute stickers for order
Free Software Friday!
Each week on the show we give a shout out to an open source project or community (or maintainer) that’s made an impact in our day to day developer lives.
Erik - Grafana + InfluxDB + Telegraf + Mosquitto
Carlisia - ✨ All Contributors ✨
Brian - Gobot, Ron Evans for the win…and also Erik
Ashley - Hugo 0.20 Released: Custom Output Formats!
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Firefox Debugger and DevTools (Changelog Interviews #247)
Jason Laster joined the show to talk about Firefox Debugger and DevTools. We talked about the backstory of Firefox, Firebug, the new Debugger.html, why React and Redux made a good fit to develop Debugger as a standalone application, community efforts, and getting started.
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adam@changelog.comfor a personal introduction. - GoCD – GoCD is an on-premise open source continuous delivery server created by ThoughtWorks that lets you automate and streamline your build-test-release cycle for reliable, continuous delivery of your product.
Featuring:
- Jason Laster – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- The Recurse Center
- A quick history of Firefox DevTools
- Firebug
- Web Developer (Add-on)
- 3D view
- Issue #544 - James Long and Jason Laster of the mozilla debugger.html project - thanks Bryan Clark
- Firefox Developer Tools
- WebIDE
- XUL Tutorial
- Firefox Debugger
- debugger.html Homepage and readme
- Firefox DevTools on GitHub
- GDB: The GNU Project Debugger
- Reactide - the first dedicated IDE for React web application development
- The Changelog #242: The Burden of Open Source with James Long
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VM Neutrality in Node (N-API), Learning JavaScript, Mastodon (JS Party #7)
Mikeal Rogers, Alex Sexton, and Rachel White discuss VM Neutrality in Node.js, learning JavaScript, and Mastodon - the open source friendly alternative to Twitter, et al.
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Show Notes:
VM Neutrality in Node.js
- Node.js API (N-API)
- GeoIP-lite - A native NodeJS API for the GeoLite data
- Go Time #37: Gobot, Hardware, and Gatekeeping with Ron Evans
- Realtime Conf Soundtrack
Learning JavaScript
- javaScript 30 from Wes Bos — a 30 day Vanilla JavaScript coding challenge
- The Changelog #244: Learning JavaScript and Bringing People Together with Tracy Lee
- JavaScript basics
- JS Assessment - a test-driven approach to assessing JS skills
- Creating cheats for games to get into programming
Project of the Week
- Mastodon
- Mastodon instance for JavaScripters from Nolan Lawson
- Mastodon instances
- Mastodon guidelines
Picks!
- Rachel: - Nolan Lawson’s Mastodon
- Alex: Keybase
- Mikeal: WebTorrent and The Changelog #227: Mad Science, WebTorrent, & WebRTC with Feross Aboukhadijeh
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Race detection, firmware, production-grade Go (Go Time #42)
Kavya Joshi joined the show to talk about shipping production-grade Go, writing firmware with Go, making complex technical concepts accessible, and other interesting Go projects and news.
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changelog2017to get 4 months free! - Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform.
- Backtrace – Reduce your time to resolution. Go beyond stacktraces and logs. Get to the root cause quickly with deep application introspection at your fingertips.
- Datadog – Cloud-Scale Monitoring — Monitoring that tracks your dynamic infrastructure and applications. Plus next-generation APM. Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize end-to-end application performance. Start your free trial, install the agent, and Datadog will send you a free Datadog t-shirt!
Featuring:
- Kavya Joshi – X
- Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
- Carlisia Campos – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
How to ship production-grade Go
You can hear Blake re-tell that story here
GopherCon 2016: Ivan Danyliuk - Visualizing Concurrency in Go
Interesting Go Projects and News
The hidden #pragmas of Go by Dave Cheney
Videos from GopherCon India 2017
Using the Go language to guide development design decisions
New JustForFunc Using Context package
Free Software Friday!
Each week on the show we give a shout out to an open source project or community (or maintainer) that’s made an impact in our day to day developer lives.
Erik - GNU ARM Eclipse
Carlisia - goreporter
Kavya - gopherjs
Johnny - Robomongo (cross-platform mongodb manager, open source and free)
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Node at Microsoft, ChakraCore, and VM Neutrality (Spotlight #13)
In this episode of The Future of Node series recorded at Node Interactive 2016 Adam talked with Gaurav Seth (Lead Program Manager of Chakra & TypeScript) and Arunesh Chandra (Program Manager of ChakraCore) about the backstory of Node at Microsoft, their polite fork of Node to introduce the community to ChakraCore (the high-performance JavaScript engine that powers Microsoft Edge), why Microsoft is so interested in Node, the future of Chakra and ChakraCore, VM neutrality, and more.
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- StrongLoop – StrongLoop’s LoopBack is a highly-extensible, open-source Node.js framework you can use to create dynamic end-to-end REST APIs with little or no coding.
Featuring:
- Gaurav Seth – GitHub, X
- Arunesh Chandra – GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
The Future of Node Spotlight series was produced in partnership with The Linux Foundation, the Node.js Foundation, and sponsored by IBM and StrongLoop. It was recorded at Node Interactive 2016 in Austin, TX.
- The Future of Node is in Microsoft’s Fork
- Microsoft/ChakraCore
- Diagnostic Tracing and Time Travel Debugging with Node-ChakraCore
- Node.js API (N-API)
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Web Components and WTF is Shadow DOM? (JS Party #6)
Mikeal Rogers, Alex Sexton, and Rachel White discuss Web Components and questions like — “WTF is Shadow DOM?” and “Are custom elements ready?” We also discuss the JavaScript conference scene as well as attending, speaking and organizing conferences. Plus, the project of the week — p5.js.
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Featuring:
Show Notes:
Web Components and WTF is Shadow DOM?
In part 1 of the show we talked about Web Components and we discussed questions like — “WTF is Shadow DOM?” and “Are custom elements ready?”
- Shadow DOM v1: Self-Contained Web Components by Eric Bidelman — Engineer @ Google working on Lighthouse, Web Components, Chrome, and the web
Conferences: Attending, Speaking, and Organizing
In part 2 of the show we talked about attending, speaking and organizing conferences.
Project of the Week
Picks!
- Mikeal - Slideless
- Alex - Mike West ~ @mikewest + Web App Sec mailing list
- Rachel - Sarah Drasner and her new book SVG Animations: From Common UX Implementations to Complex Responsive Animation
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First-time contributors and maintainer balance (Changelog Interviews #246)
Kent C. Dodds joined the show to talk about guiding and supporting first time contributors to open source. We talked about the many ways to be first-timer friendly, how to contribute to open source, the burden and balance of a maintainer, and a few of the projects Kent maintains, including his latest project at PayPal called Glamourous.
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changelog. Error reporting and notifications for JavaScript apps and the rest of your stack. Start tracking errors for free. Support for React, Angular, Ember, Vue, Backbone, and Node frameworks like Express and Koa. - Toptal – Hire the best freelance developers and designers with Toptal. Email
adam@changelog.comfor a personal introduction. - GoCD – GoCD is an on-premise open source continuous delivery server created by ThoughtWorks that lets you automate and streamline your build-test-release cycle for reliable, continuous delivery of your product.
Featuring:
- Kent C. Dodds – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- First Timers Only
- firsttimersonly.com + GitHub repo
- all-contributors - ✨ Recognize all contributors, not just the ones who push code ✨
- all-contributors-cli
- [egghead.io] - How to Contribute to an Open Source Project on GitHub
- Changelog.com on GitHub
- Thanks to Marco Vito Moscaritolo for this PR
- Thanks to Christian Franco for this PR
- stack-overflow-copy-paste - Utility functions copy/pasted (and modified slightly) from Stack Overflow
- Managing an Open Source Project - a talk from Kent C. Dodds
- The Changelog #242: The Burden of Open Source
with James Long - Why I’m Frequently Absent from Open Source by James Long
- Healthy Open Source by Mikeal Rogers
- Learning to Quit
- Glamorous! Blog post + GitHub repo
- Make a Pull Request
Adam Stacoviak in Bosnia and Herzegovina on a peacekeeping mission with the United States Army in 2000.
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Distributed Messaging and Network Clients (Go Time #41)
Wally Quevedo joined the show to talk processing millions of messages per second with Go, writing network clients, performance at scale, and other interesting Go projects and news.
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- Backtrace – Reduce your time to resolution. Go beyond stacktraces and logs. Get to the root cause quickly with deep application introspection at your fingertips.
- Ultimate Go – Ardan Labs offers some of the best training classes for Go, Web and Data Science. They offer two and three full day intensive courses that literally takes any developer, even at different experience levels, to a whole new level. Get in touch and tell them you heard about their classes on Go Time!
Featuring:
- Waldemar Quevedo – GitHub, X
- Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
- Carlisia Campos – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Interesting Go Projects and News
Golang UK CFP Open (closes April 30)
Gophercon workshops announced, available for sale
MacOs 10.12.4 / Xcode 8.3 breaks some apps
Go entity relationship graphs with graphviz
Free Software Friday!
Each week on the show we give a shout out to an open source project or community (or maintainer) that’s made an impact in our day to day developer lives.
Brian - go-micro
Erik - kubernetes.io
Wally - ghr
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JavaScript in Latin America (JS Party #5)
Mikeal Rogers, Alex Sexton, and special guest Juan Pablo Buritica discuss all things JavaScript in Latin America. The conferences, the communities, the meetups, JavaScript tooling, and more.
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Featuring:
Show Notes:
- Hacking your Front-End Apps by Alex Sexton at JSConf Colombia
- Check out JSConf Colombia + their CFP is now open
- Ask Juan Pablo Buritica about his Empanada Fund
Project
Picks
- Alex - CSS Grid — Check out the Complete Guide to CSS Grid at CSS Tricks, Grid by Example a collection of usage examples for the CSS Grid Layout specification, Learning CSS Grid Layout by Rachel Andrew, and Learn CSS Grid by Jen Simmons
- Mikeal - Google Chrome will no longer trust Symantec certificates, 30% of the web will need to switch Certificate Authorities and Attacking the Windows NVIDIA Driver
- Juan - Next.js and The Changelog #213: ZEIT, HyperTerm, and now with Guillermo Rauch
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Game Development and Rebuilding Microservices (Go Time #40)
Luna Duclos joined the show to talk about rebuilding a microservice infrastructure with Go, game development, and other interesting Go projects and news.
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- Toptal – Scale your team and hire from the top 3% of developers and designers with Toptal. Email
adam@changelog.comfor a personal introduction. - Ultimate Go – Ardan Labs offers some of the best training classes for Go, Web and Data Science. They offer two and three full day intensive courses that literally takes any developer, even at different experience levels, to a whole new level. Get in touch and tell them you heard about their classes on Go Time!
Featuring:
- Luna Duclos – GitHub, X
- Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
- Carlisia Campos – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Kubernetes Certificate Manager
Interesting Go Projects and News
apd: An Arbitrary-Precision Decimal Package for Go
Free Software Friday!
Each week on the show we give a shout out to an open source project or community (or maintainer) that’s made an impact in our day to day developer lives.
Brian - Webpack
Erik - Helm
Luna - goa
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Open Source at Google (Changelog Interviews #245)
Will Norris (Engineering Manager at Google’s Open Source office) joined the show to talk about their new release of the Google Open Source website as well as the release of Google’s internal documentation on how they do open source. Nearly 70 pages of documentation have been made public under creative commons license for the world to use. We talked about the backstory of Google’s Open Source office, their philosophy on OSS, their involvement in the TODO group, and much more.
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- Rollbar – Put errors in their place!
npm install --save rollbarfor error tracking in your Node.js apps. - GoCD – GoCD is an on-premise open source continuous delivery server created by ThoughtWorks that lets you automate and streamline your build-test-release cycle for reliable, continuous delivery of your product.
Featuring:
- Will Norris – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- A New Home for Google Open Source
- Google Open Source - Bringing better technology to the world by promoting open source.
- Google Open Source docs
- TODO - Talk openly, develop openly
- GitHub now lets its workers keep the IP when they use company resources for personal projects
- Chris DiBona
- Check out the Project Metadata project Will mentioned during the show
- The Changelog #211: Open Source at Facebook with James Pearce
- Google on GitHub
- David Recordon on Changelog.com
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Learning JavaScript and Bringing People Together (Changelog Interviews #244)
Tracy Lee joined the show to talk about bringing people together, helping people, and making an impact. We covered learning JavaScript, the ins and outs of her road to get to where she’s at today, hitting burnout and sleeping for two weeks, breaking into the JavaScript community, and the fun cruise, workshops, and conferences she’s working on for the JavaScript community.
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- Datadog – Cloud-Scale Monitoring — Monitoring that tracks your dynamic infrastructure and applications. Plus next-generation APM. Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize end-to-end application performance. Start your free trial, install the agent, and Datadog will send you a free Datadog t-shirt!
Featuring:
- Tracy Lee – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Splice, Audio, Compassion (Go Time #39)
Matt Aimonetti joined the show to talk about using go to solve tough audio problems, making go for everyone, empowering people with software, and other interesting Go projects and news.
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Featuring:
- Matt Aimonetti – Website, GitHub, X
- Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
- Carlisia Campos – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Splice (Music creation made simple)
I found compassion & hope… in prison
Interesting Go Projects and News
Experimental RC Blimp Autopilot Test Flight #2
CoreOS’s rkt and Docker’s containerd jointly donated to CNCF
Free Software Friday!
Each week on the show we give a shout out to an open source project or community (or maintainer) that’s made an impact in our day to day developer lives.
Brian - Gitlab
Erik - React
Matt - Ramya Rao
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PWAs (Progressive Web Apps), Service Workers, Time, Glitch (JS Party #4)
Mikeal Rogers, Alex Sexton, and Rachel White discuss PWAs (Progressive Web Apps), Service Workers, and Time in JavaScript. Jenn Schiffer also joined the show to talk about Glitch, our project of the week.
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Featuring:
- Jenn Schiffer – GitHub, X
- Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, X
- Rachel White – GitHub, X
- Alex Sexton – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Prep notes for this show: https://github.com/thechangelog/jsparty/blob/master/shows/2017-03-17.md
If you haven’t yet, join the community and Slack with us in real time in the #jsparty channel during the show. Head to https://changelog.com/community
PWAs (Progressive Web Apps)
Progressive Web Apps - https://developers.google.com/web/progressive-web-apps/
PWA Builder - http://preview.pwabuilder.com/
PWA Directory (a directory of Progressive Web Apps) - https://pwa-directory.appspot.com/
Essential Reading List for Getting Started With Service Workers
Time
Talking with Jenn Schiffer about Glitch
- Glitch
- Glitch For Your API - From zero to working code in one minute
- Best Buy Remix API
Picks
- Mikeal Rogers: ild Fermentation
- Rachel White: Hiring Without Whiteboards - Companies that don’t have a broken hiring process
- Jenn Schiffer: Greek Yogurt, this tweet, and jQuery 3.2.0
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Let's Encrypt the web (Changelog Interviews #243)
Jacob Hoffman-Andrews, Senior Staff Technologist at the EFF and the lead developer of Let’s Encrypt, joined the show to talk about the history of SSL, the start of Let’s Encrypt, why it’s important to encrypt the web and what happens if we don’t, Certbot, and the impact Let’s Encrypt has had on securing the web.
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Featuring:
- Jacob Hoffman-Andrews – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Jacob Hoffman-Andrews on EFF.org
- Search Changelog.com for “http/2” and “http2”
- The Changelog #161: The HTTP/2 Spec with Ilya Grigorik
- Boulder: An ACME-based CA (written in Go)
- Automatic Certificate Management Environment (ACME)
- Certbot (previously the Let’s Encrypt Client) - EFF’s tool to obtain certs from Let’s Encrypt, and (optionally) auto-enable HTTPS on your server. It can also act as a client for any other CA that uses the ACME protocol.
- Certbot’s Interactive Guide is rad
- The Crypto Wars: Governments Working to Undermine Encryption
- Root certificate trust store
- Online Certificate Status Protocol
- Jacob talked about using
.wellknownin the root of projects - Go Time #14: CaddyServer, the ACME Protocol, and TLS with Matt Holt
- [Wired] Google’s Chrome Hackers Are About to Upend Your Idea of Web Security
- Let’s Encrypt Stats
- Donate to Let’s Encrypt and/or Sponsor Let’s Encrypt
- Wanna pitch in? Check for “help wanted” tags on their repos…
- What It Costs to Run Let’s Encrypt
BONUS - From Jacob Hoffman-Andrews ~> How Not To Get Phished
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JavaScript Fatigue, AMP, Paths.js (JS Party #3)
Mikeal Rogers, Alex Sexton, and Rachel White discuss JavaScript Fatigue, Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP), and the project of the week Paths.js
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Featuring:
Show Notes:
Join the community to Slack with us about this show and the topics we cover. You can also suggest topics and guest panelist at our GitHub repo. Follow us on Twitter ~> we’re @JSPartyFM
JS Fatigue
- What is JavaScript Fatigue
- The deep roots of JavaScript Fatigue
- @substack thinks you’re overcomplicating it
- Is “Start with React” a viable solution?
- Tools for Radicals by Justin Falcone
AMP
- Overview
- AMP Promises faster load times
- The problem with AMP
- Criticism: AMP and the Web
- Pros and Cons
- Bug in AMP inflates traffic metrics
- How to get past AMP to a regular site
Project of the Week
Picks
- Rachel: tracery
- Mikeal: Lemonade Stand
- Alex: Intl.js
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Go Developer Survey (Go Time #38)
Steve Francia joined the show to talk about the results of the 2016 Go Developer Survey and other interesting Go projects and news.
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- Backtrace – Reduce your time to resolution. Go beyond stacktraces and logs. Get to the root cause quickly with deep application introspection at your fingertips.
- Ultimate Go – Ardan Labs offers some of the best training classes for Go, Web and Data Science. They offer two and three full day intensive courses that literally takes any developer, even at different experience levels, to a whole new level. Get in touch and tell them you heard about their classes on Go Time!
Featuring:
- Steve Francia – GitHub, X
- Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
- Carlisia Campos – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
The Go Developer Survey - https://blog.golang.org/survey2016-results
- Almost all users of (89%) are using it for work, great testament to the growth of the language.
- Heavy adoption from dynamic languages.
- Most wanted improvements, generics (surprise!), and package versioning/dependency management (in the works).
- Concern about finding developers, how do you feel about the pool of developers?
- Vim / VSCode seem to be the top pics for editor.
- When asked what libraries are still missing, the most common request by far was a library for writing GUIs. Another popular topic was requests around data processing, analytics, and numerical and scientific computing.
- 55% of respondents expressed interest in contributing in some way to the Go community and projects. Unfortunately, relatively few agreed that they felt welcome to do so (3.3:1) and even fewer felt that the process was clear (1.3:1)
- Cobra / Viper / Hugo
Interesting Go Projects and News
Free Software Friday!
Each week on the show we give a shout out to an open source project or community that’s made an impact in our day to day developer lives.
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Web Assembly, Higher Education with JavaScript, JS Standards (JS Party #2)
Mikeal Rogers, Alex Sexton, and Rachel White discuss all the details around Web Assembly, and the effects of higher education and JavaScript, and JS Standards.
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Featuring:
Show Notes:
The topics covered in today’s show:
- Web Assembly and higher education with JavaScript, and JS Standards
- Project(s) of the Week: Lesser known JS standards — Abstract Blob Store, Abstract Chunk Store
- Web Assembly is ready.
- What kind of impact will it have on the ecosystem?
- Brendan is worried vendors will mess this up
- Cartoon intro to Web Assembly
- Getting Started with Web Assembly in Node.js
- Stanford is Migrating from Java to JavaScript
Project(s) of the Week
- Lesser Known JS Standards
- Abstract Blob Store
- Abstract Chunk Store
Picks
- Mikeal: Offline Camp, JSConf EU, csv,conf, and OpenVis Conf
- Alex: flow-typed
- Rachel: Data Sketches
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Gobot, Hardware, Gatekeeping (Go Time #37)
Ron Evans joined the show to talk about Gobot, writing software for hardware, and open source software’s role in improving the human condition.
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- Backtrace – Reduce your time to resolution. Go beyond stacktraces and logs. Get to the root cause quickly with deep application introspection at your fingertips.
- Ultimate Go – Ardan Labs offers some of the best training classes for Go, Web and Data Science. They offer two and three full day intensive courses that literally takes any developer, even at different experience levels, to a whole new level. Get in touch and tell them you heard about their classes on Go Time!
Featuring:
- Ron Evans – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
- Carlisia Campos – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Hardware related things:
What we need for Golang to really provide the best IOT/robotics development tools:
Great Bluetooth LE support
Great OpenCV support
Golang on RTOS like Zephyr, MBED
Shared set of low level hardware interfaces
Why Open Source?
Let’s discuss the philosophy of open source. Is the purpose of OSS just to “save money”, or perhaps there is something else to it…
Interesting Go Projects and News
Proposal: Standard Logger Interface
GopherCon Speakers Announced!! (how could we forget that??)
Free Software Friday!
Each week on the show we give a shout out to an open source project or community that’s made an impact in our day to day developer lives.
- Brian - g.. (exclude vendor from go commands)
- Erik - gobuster
- Carlisia - Just for Func
- Ron - NATS
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The burden of open source (Changelog Interviews #242)
James Long joined the show to talk about his recent post, “Why I’m Frequently Absent from Open Source”. He shared several points in his blog post that struck a chord with us, so we invited him on the show to talk through the gritty details and peel back the layers of open source — the people involved, sustainability, the responsibility, the guilt, and the balance it takes to keep it all together.
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Featuring:
Show Notes:
James recently left Mozilla and shortly after he launched an open source project called Prettier - an opinionated JavaScript formatter. It was a great success.
Needless to say, James experienced that overwhelming feeling many indie open source developers feel when faced with all the work required to maintain a successful open source project — the issues, feature requests, PRs, extra time required, and all the communication can really be a burden, especially when you have a full-time contracting gig and a family. His blog post was a response to this feeling as well as a love letter to his wife.
- Why I’m Frequently Absent From Open Source
- Prettier
- gamedev.net
- Scheme
- James’ advice for getting away from your monitor is to make pizza. If you plan to take his advice, he recommends that you check out The Pizza Book by Aaron Quint and Michael R. Bernstein.
BONUS LINK (from James) — Watch Hammock Driven Development by Rich Hickey
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Security on the web, Node async/await, AR.js (JS Party #1)
In this first episode of JS Party, Mikeal Rogers, Alex Sexton, and Rachel White discuss security on the web and how SHA-1 is broken, Node.js v7.6 and async/await, and this week’s featured project AR.js.
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Featuring:
Show Notes:
The topics covered in today’s show:
- Security on the web
- SHA-1 is broken
- Node.js v7.6 gets async/await
Featured Project — AR.js.
- Stop using SHA-1
- The effects of SHA-1 on Git
- Multiformats
- Multihash and JS Multihash
- Observatory by Mozilla - a project designed to help developers, system administrators, and security professionals configure their sites safely and securely
- The PCI Security Standards Council - a global forum for the ongoing development, enhancement, storage, dissemination and implementation of security standards for account data protection.
- Node.js v7.6 gets async/await
- Experimenting with async/await
- co - Generator based control flow goodness for nodejs and the browser, using promises, letting you write non-blocking code in a nicer way.
- AR.js
Picks from the panel
Mikeal:
Alex:
Rachel:
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Dependency Management, Semver, Community Consensus (Go Time #36)
Sam Boyer joined the show to talk about dependency management, building community consensus, and other interesting Go projects and news.
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Featuring:
- sam boyer – GitHub, X
- Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
- Carlisia Campos – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Gophers, please tag your releases
Working with Semantic Versions
The Saga of Go Dependency Management
Interesting Go Projects and News
Part 2: How Sourcegraph scales with the Language Server Protocol
Fuzzing as a first class citizen
Go 1.9 optimizations for allocations in interfaces
HTTPLab (Wuzz alternative)
Upspin from Rob & Andrew
Free Software Friday!
Each week on the show we give a shout out to an open source project or community that’s made an impact in our day to day developer lives.
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Node.js Backstory and Future (Spotlight #12)
In this episode of The Future of Node series recorded at Node Interactive 2016 Adam talked with Mikeal Rogers about the backstory of Node over the past few years to get to where we are today. We talked about io.js (the fork of Node), what’s happened in the community and the code since that time frame, how The Node.js Foundation has helped to solidify the foundation on which the Node ecosystem is being built on, initiatives and focuses in the near future, and more.
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- Node.js Foundation – The Node.js Foundation’s mission is to enable widespread adoption and help accelerate development of Node.js and other related modules through an open governance model that encourages participation, technical contribution, and a framework for long term stewardship by an ecosystem invested in Node.js’ success.
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Show Notes:
The Future of Node Spotlight series was produced in partnership with The Linux Foundation, the Node.js Foundation, and sponsored by IBM and StrongLoop. It was recorded at Node Interactive 2016 in Austin, TX.
- The Changelog #139: The Rise of io.js with Mikeal Rogers
- The Changelog #155: The Future of Node.js with Scott Hammond
- JS Party: Meet Mikeal Rogers - Panelist of JS Party
- Rich Trott on GitHub
- Spotlight #7: Focused on a Safe and Inclusive Node Community with Tracy Hinds at Node.js Interactive 2016
- Working Toward a Safer, Inclusive Event: Node.js Interactive North America by Tracy Hinds, education community manager of the Node.js Foundation
- Node.js API (NAPI) - Node with PoC ABI stable API for native modules. The goal of this project is to provide a stable Node API for native module developers. NAPI aims to provide ABI compatibility guarantees across different Node versions and also across different Node VMs – allowing NAPI enabled native modules to just work across different versions and flavors of Node.js without recompilations.
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The Story of Atom (Changelog Interviews #241)
Nathan Sobo, founding member of the Atom editor team at GitHub, joined the show take us all the way back to the beginning of Atom to learn where it came from, the founding team, the problem it solves, on through to shipping 1.0 and beyond.
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- Nathan Sobo – GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Lambda the Ultimate
- Chris Wanstrath
- Corey Johnson
- Github Atom’s Code-Editor Nerds Take Over Their Universe
- Atom on Libraries.io
- Treetop on Libraries.io
- The super early version of Atom was built on Ace Editor
- Atom: free and open source for everyone
- Atom homepage
- @atomeditor on Twitter
- Atom on GitHub
- Atom Flight Manual – Documentation for Atom, generated by nanoc, hosted by GitHub Pages
- Atom Blog
- Atom Forum
- The Changelog #216: Electron and Cross Platform Desktop Apps with Zeke Sikelianos
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Meet Rachel White (JS Party)
In this show we meet Rachel White, front-end engineer, Tech Evangelist on the DX team at Microsoft, and panelist on this show — JS Party. Rachel shares her fun attitude, her backstory, topics she’s excited to discuss, and who she hopes listens to this show.
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- Rachel White – GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Spotlight #11: Node, IoT, and RoboticS with Rachel White at Node.js Interactive 2016
- robokitty
- BuzzFeed: Everything You Need To Know About Japan’s Amazing Photo Booths
- Web Bos and his courses — React for Beginners and JavaScript 30
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Meet Alex Sexton (JS Party)
In this show we meet Alex Sexton, a front-end infrastructure engineer at Stripe, Modernizr core team member, and panelist on this show — JS Party. Alex shares his backstory, where he’s coming from, topics he’s excited to discuss, and more.
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- Alex Sexton – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
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Meet Mikeal Rogers (JS Party)
In this show we meet Mikeal Rogers, Community Manager for The Node.js Foundation, host of Request For Commits, and panelist on this show — JS Party. Mikeal shares his backstory, where he’s coming from, topics he’s excited to discuss, and how you (the listener) can get involved and play a role in this show each week as we celebrate JS and the web platform.
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- Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- The Changelog #139: The Rise of io.js with Mikeal Rogers
- The Changelog #155: The Future of Node.js with Scott Hammond
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Honeycomb, Complex Systems, Saving Sanity (Go Time #35)
Charity Majors joined the show to talk about debugging complex systems, using go to save one’s sanity, hiring smart people who can learn, and collectively working to make “on-call” life not miserable.
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- Charity Majors – Website, GitHub, X
- Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
- Carlisia Campos – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Honeycomb :: Powerful, Exploratory Learning with Richer Data
go package libhoney (it’s the APM of the future!)
How We Moved Our API From Ruby to Go and Saved Our Sanity
Database Reliability Engineering book
Interesting Go Projects and News
Charity wants to give big shout outs (shouts out?) to Naitik Shah and Matt Silverlock!
Implementing a Debugger: The Fundamentals
Pixterm - Draw images in your ANSI terminal with true color
1.8 Release Parties Everywhere
Free Software Friday!
Each week on the show we give a shout out to an open source project or community that’s made an impact in our day to day developer lives.
- Brian - Eclipse Che
- Erik - Kube-Lego
- Carlisia - Visual Studio Code
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Feedbin and RSS resurgence (Changelog Interviews #240)
Ben Ubois, the creator of Feedbin (a simple, good-looking online RSS reader) joined the show to talk about the indie web and developers, how RSS usage has changed over the years – particularly since Google Reader shutdown. We also talked about RSS vs the social web that we’re in now and the idea of an RSS resurgence and taking back control over the content we choose to subscribe to.
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- Ben Ubois – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
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Managing Secrets Using Vault (Changelog Interviews #239)
Seth Vargo, the Director of Technical Advocacy at HashiCorp, joined the show to talk about managing secrets with their open source product called Vault which lets you centrally secure, store, and tightly control access to secrets across distributed infrastructure and applications. We talked about Seth’s back story into open source, use cases, what problem it solves, key features like Data Encryption, why they choose to write it in Go, and how they build tooling around the open core model.
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Show Notes:
JS Party goes live February 24 at Noon PT / 3pm ET.
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- Carnegie Mellon University
- CustomInk
- Thanks to @DerfOh (Fredrick) for submitting issue #605 to suggest this topic
- Vault by HashiCorp
- Vault on GitHub
- Vault docs
- Terraform
- The Tao of HashiCorp is the foundation that guides HashiCorp’s vision, roadmap, and product design.
- HashiCorp Releases
- Shamir’s Secret Sharing
- HashiConf
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Node, IoT, and Robotics (Spotlight #11)
In this episode of The Future of Node series recorded at Node Interactive 2016 Adam talked with Rachel White, Technical Evangelist at Microsoft, about Node, IoT, robotics. We talked about making robots, inspiring developers to try new things, having fun as a developer, letting go of imposter syndrome, RFID implants, and making stuff for fun outside of our day to day jobs.
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- Node.js Foundation – The Node.js Foundation’s mission is to enable widespread adoption and help accelerate development of Node.js and other related modules through an open governance model that encourages participation, technical contribution, and a framework for long term stewardship by an ecosystem invested in Node.js’ success.
Featuring:
Show Notes:
This “The Future of Node” Spotlight series was produced in partnership with The Linux Foundation, the Node.js Foundation, and sponsored by IBM and StrongLoop. It was recorded at Node Interactive 2016 in Austin, TX.
- magicalncute - a very magical and cute twitter bot
- robokitty - a DIY cat (or dog or human) feeder powered by Node. Also check out imcool.online/robokitty.
- Arduino
- Johnny-Five - the JavaScript robotics & IoT platform
- Johnny-Five Inventor’s Kit
- Tessel
- David Lynch - Filmmaker
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How China does Node (Spotlight #10)
In this episode of The Future of Node series recorded at Node Interactive 2016 Adam talked with Shiya Luo about how China does Node, translations of documentation and books from English to Chinese, and the Great Firewall of China (a censorship and surveillance project of the Chinese government) which makes it very difficult for the people of China to interact with the rest of the web.
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- StrongLoop – StrongLoop’s LoopBack is a highly-extensible, open-source Node.js framework you can use to create dynamic end-to-end REST APIs with little or no coding.
- Node.js Foundation – The Node.js Foundation’s mission is to enable widespread adoption and help accelerate development of Node.js and other related modules through an open governance model that encourages participation, technical contribution, and a framework for long term stewardship by an ecosystem invested in Node.js’ success.
Featuring:
Show Notes:
This “The Future of Node” Spotlight series was produced in partnership with The Linux Foundation, the Node.js Foundation, and sponsored by IBM and StrongLoop. It was recorded at Node Interactive 2016 in Austin, TX.
- How China Does Node - Shiya Luo’s talk at Node.js Interactive 2016
- cnpm - npm client for China mirror of npm
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Pachyderm, Provenance, Data Lakes (Go Time #34)
Joe Doliner joined the show to talk about managing data lakes with Pachyderm, data containers, provenance, and other interesting Go projects and news.
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Featuring:
- Joe Doliner – Website, GitHub, X
- Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
- Carlisia Campos – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Putting the science back in data science
Provenance: the Missing Feature for Rigorous Data Science. Now in Pachyderm 1.1
xkcd: Who were you DenverCoder9? What did you see?!
Interesting Go Projects and News
GitLab.com Database Incident - 2017/01/31
Changelog Spotlight #8: Conversational Development and Controversy with Sid Sijbrandij
The State of Go - February 2017
Free Software Friday!
Each week on the show we give a shout out to an open source project or community that’s made an impact in our day to day developer lives.
- Brian - NATS
- Erik - hashcat
- Carlisia - Hashicorp Vault
- Joe - grpc
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The State of HTTP/2 in Node (Spotlight #9)
In this episode of The Future of Node series recorded at Node Interactive 2016 Adam talked with James Snell (IBM Technical Lead for Node and member of Node’s TSC and CTC) about the work he’s doing on Node’s implementation of http2, the state of http2 in Node, what this new spec has to offer, and what the Node community can expect from this new protocol.
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- Node.js Foundation – The Node.js Foundation’s mission is to enable widespread adoption and help accelerate development of Node.js and other related modules through an open governance model that encourages participation, technical contribution, and a framework for long term stewardship by an ecosystem invested in Node.js’ success.
Featuring:
Show Notes:
This “The Future of Node” Spotlight series was produced in partnership with The Linux Foundation, the Node.js Foundation, and sponsored by IBM and StrongLoop. It was recorded at Node Interactive 2016 in Austin, TX.
- Spotlight #6: “Small Core” – Keeping Node Core Small with Sam Roberts and Thomas Watson
- Checkout the http2 repo James is working on
- Watch the talk James gave at Node Interactive — Implementing HTTP/2 for Node.js Core by James Snell
- Watch all the talks from Node Interactive
- Subscribe to JS Party — Our new LIVE weekly show on JavaScript and the web platform with Mikeal Rogers, Alex Sexton, and Rachel White.
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ANTHOLOGY – Hacker stories from OSCON and All Things Open (Changelog Interviews #238)
Karen Sandler, Rachel Nabors, and Jono Bacon joined the show by way of some great conversations at OSCON in London, UK and All Things Open in Raleigh, NC. We talked about free software, web animation and motion in user interfaces, and how open source communities organize.
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- Karen Sandler – X
- Rachel Nabors – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Jono Bacon – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Karen Sandler
Karen Sandler is the the executive director of the Software Freedom Conservancy. She has a big heart, literally. Her heart condition requires a pacemaker, but she can’t access the source code that runs it. For this and other reasons, Karen is a passionate advocate for free software. In this interview, Jerod talks with Karen about her convictions, what she’s doing about them, and how this affects her personal life and the lives of those she loves.
“I literally want to hack my heart! But I can’t.” - Karen Sandler
- Software Freedom Conservancy — Become a supporter!
- Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- Is software freedom a social justice issue? - this is the talk that Karen Sandler gave at OSCON 2016
- IANAL (“I am not a lawyer”) — IAAL (“I am a lawyer”) and TINLA (“This is not legal advice”) also redirect to this page on Wikipedia
Rachel Nabors
Rachel Nabors is a motion design for the web and UI animations expert and she was at All Things Open as a keynote and featured speker. Adam talked to Rachel about discovering repeatable business models, the state of web animation and where we’re heading, the cognitive science behind motion in user interfaces, some great places to start adding motion and animation to your interfaces, and what we might expect to see with animation and motion in Microsoft Edge.
- The UI Animation Newsletter: weekly web animation resources & inspiration
- What is Vestibular Disorder?
- Follow Dan C. Wilson to learn more about motion paths and web animiation
- If you haven’t been, check out CSS Dev Conf
- Learn with Rachel — You can check out her courses here.
- Rachel’s Keynote at All Things Open
- Microsoft Edge
Jono Bacon
Jono Bacon is a consultant and leader in community management and strategy. Jono was at All Things Open as a keynote and featured speker. Adam talked with Jono about his talk “Building a Community Exoskeleton” and how open source communities break down into read and write — those with a common interst who get together to consume something (a read community), and those who get together because they want to build something together (a write community).
- The Art of Community (Jono’s book)
- Bad Voltage (Jono’s podcast)
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Gopherize.me, GitHub Stars, BitBar (Go Time #33)
Mat Ryer joined the show to talk about creating your own Gopher avatar with Gopherize.me, the importance of GitHub Stars, his project BitBar, and other interesting Go projects and news. Special thanks to Kelsey Hightower for guest hosting too!
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- Backtrace – Reduce your time to resolution. Go beyond stacktraces and logs. Get to the root cause quickly with deep application introspection at your fingertips.
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Featuring:
- Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
- Carlisia Campos – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Kelsey Hightower – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- Create your very own Gopher avatar with gopherize.me
- Buffalo from Mark Bates
- Beautiful Packages in Go
- We talked through the Go 1.8 release notes
- murlokswarm/app - Like Electron but in Go
- gdlv - Linux GUI for Delve
- Fission - A framework for serverless functions on Kubernetes
- Your First PR: Contributing to an Open Source Go Project
- Kelsey Hightower predicted the future! - “it’s Go Time!”
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Reproducible builds and secure software (Changelog Interviews #237)
Chris Lamb joined the show to talk about his project Reproducible Builds — which is funded by The Linux Foundation’s Core Infrastructure Initiative. We talked about the importance of having a verifiable path from source code to compiled binary, what this set of software development practices is all about, what it means to have Reproducible Builds, the challenges faced when implementing these development practices, and the inherent security you gain from them.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- This show began as an issue on GitHub
- The Linux Foundation’s Core Infrastructure Initiative Funds the Reproducible Builds Project
- Reproducible Builds
- apt-secure (Ubuntu)
- apt-secure (Debian)
- thread.com
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Hellogopher, whosthere? (Go Time #32)
Filippo Valsorda joined the show to talk about his project Hellogopher, whosthere (whoami.filippo.io), $GOPATH, TLS 1.3, Cloudflare’s secret reverse proxy, and more.
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- StackImpact – StackImpact is all about profiling and monitoring for Go. Laser focus on the performance of your Go applications.
- Ultimate Go – Ardan Labs offers some of the best training classes for Go, Web and Data Science. They offer two and three full day intensive courses that literally takes any developer, even at different experience levels, to a whole new level. Get in touch and tell them you heard about their classes on Go Time!
Featuring:
- Filippo Valsorda – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
- Carlisia Campos – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- hellogopher - “just clone and
make” - TLS 1.3 (TLS-tris)
- Exposing Go on the Internet
Interesting Go Projects and News
- gopherize.me (this is Brian’s fault!)
- chromedp - Package chromedp is a faster, simpler way to drive browsers in Go using the Chrome Debugging Protocol (for Chrome, Edge, Safari, etc) without external dependencies (ie, Selenium, PhantomJS, etc).
- nlp - General purpose any-lang Natural Language Processor that parses the data inside a text and returns a filled model
- dep - Go dependency tool
- Mate - Mate manages AWS Route53 and Google CloudDNS records for your Kubernetes services and ingresses
- Go code intelligence on Sourcegraph
- How to write Go code - This document demonstrates the development of a simple Go package and introduces the go tool, the standard way to fetch, build, and install Go packages and commands.
Free Software Friday
- Erik - ZIM - Zsh IMproved from Matt Hamilton
- Fillippo - go-tools - A collection of tools and libraries for working with Go code, including linters and static analysis from Dominik Honnef
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Conversational Development and Controversy (Spotlight #8)
In this episode of Spotlight recorded at OSCON London 2016, Jerod talked with Sid Sijbrandij (CEO of GitLab) who was recently on The Changelog discussing GitLab’s Master Plan and a new style of development they call “Conversational Development”, to talk about how they’re executing on that plan. We also discussed the recent controversy around GitLab and the removal (and subsequent reposting) of security research data. We enjoyed hearing how Sid turns everything in to an opportunity.
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Show Notes:
- The Changelog #220: GitLab’s Master Plan with Sid Sijbrandij
- GitLab Master Plan
- GitLab Master Plan - Live Event Recap
- GitLab Master Plan - YouTube
- Willem de Groot recently blogged about the research he did on online skimming — he published it to GitHub and they removed it without sending him a notice. Then he published it to GitLab and they did the same thing. Then GitLab changed their mind and reinstated it.
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GunDB, Venture Backed and Decentralized (Changelog Interviews #236)
Mark Nadal joined the show to talk about his hacker story and his venture backed open source datastore project called GunDB — a realtime, decentralized, offline-first, graph database engine. We talked about the details behind this database, how Mark secured funding, why yet another datastore, who’s using the database, how Mark plans to sustain this project through products and services, his thoughts on the RethinkDB postmortem and more.
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Featuring:
- Mark Nadal – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Thanks to Kevin McGee for suggesting this show on GitHub
- The Changelog #201: Why SQLite Succeeded as a Database
- GunDB Homepage
- GunDB on GitHub
- GunDB on Patreon
- GubDB todo app tutorial
- Neo4j
- Firebase
- BoostVC
- Tim Draper on angel.co
- DFJ
- Why RethinkDB Failed
- Comparisons of popular DBs (thanks Anzumana!)
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Go, Jocko, Kafka (Go Time #31)
Travis Jeffery joined the show to talk about Go, Jocko, Kafka, how Kafka’s storage internals work, and interesting Go projects and news.
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- Travis Jeffery – Website, GitHub, X
- Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
- Carlisia Campos – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- JOCKO — a Kafka implemented in Golang
- Building a Kafka that doesn’t depend on ZooKeeper
- How Kafka’s Storage Internals Work
- Kafka protocol guide
- A really interesting post by Russ Cox ~> My Go Resolutions for 2017
- Ponzu is a powerful and efficient open-source HTTP server framework and CMS. It provides automatic, free, and secure HTTP/2 over TLS (certificates obtained via Let’s Encrypt), a useful CMS and scaffolding to generate content editors, and a fast HTTP API on which to build modern applications.
- “SHENZHEN GO” (working title) - Experimental visual Go environment
- Ebiten - A simple SNES-style 2D game library in Go
- Subgraph OS is a desktop computing and communications platform that is designed to be resistant to network-borne exploit and malware attacks. It is also meant to be familiar and easy to use. Even in alpha, Subgraph OS looks and feels like a modern desktop operating system.
- Cherami: Uber Engineering’s Durable and Scalable Task Queue in Go
- Rust vs. Go + comments on Hacker News
- How to educate me about prejudice in the open-source community
- A great discussion in golang-dev this week ~> Standardization around logging and related concerns
Free Software Friday!
Each week on the show we give a shout out to an open source project or community that’s made an impact in our day to day developer lives.
- Brian - goa/gorma
- Erik - OpenOCD
- Carlisia - oklog - Prometheus for logs
- Travis - Salvatore Sanfilippo (aka antirez) + Redis
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Focused on a Safe and Inclusive Node Community (Spotlight #7)
In this episode of The Future of Node series recorded at Node Interactive 2016 Adam talked with Tracy Hinds, the Education Community Manager for the Node.js Foundation about the efforts being made towards a safer, inclusive community and their events, open source documentation and tooling for conferences, and everything in-between.
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- Node.js Foundation – The Node.js Foundation’s mission is to enable widespread adoption and help accelerate development of Node.js and other related modules through an open governance model that encourages participation, technical contribution, and a framework for long term stewardship by an ecosystem invested in Node.js’ success.
Featuring:
Show Notes:
This “The Future of Node” Spotlight series was produced in partnership with The Linux Foundation, the Node.js Foundation, and sponsored by IBM and StrongLoop. It was recorded at Node Interactive 2016 in Austin, TX.
- EmpireJS
- EmpireJS on GitHub
- EmpireNode - a yearly 100% community-run conference of the people, by the people, and for the people
- How to Conf
- Columbia Dev
- @colombia_dev on Twitter
- Check out Juan Pablo Buritica on GitHub and Twitter
- Working Toward a Safer, Inclusive Event: Node.js Interactive North America by Tracy Hinds, education community manager of the Node.js Foundation
- Node.js Live - A series of global events from the Node.js Foundation bringing together local Node.js developers around the world. Each event is different and tailored to the local community, varying in length and in some cases in partnership with local Node.js groups and users.
- NodeTogether was started by Ashley Williams as an initiative to improve the diversity of the Node community by bringing people of underrepresented groups together to learn Node.js.
- Resources and ways to get involved with Node.js
- Check out the 2016 Node.js User Survey for Q4 as well as the results of the previous 2016 Node.js User Survey, which also has an accompanying results PDF.
- Listen to The Changelog #235 to hear from Shiya Luo about how China does Node, translations of documentation and books from English to Chinese, and the Great Firewall of China.
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Discussing Imposter Syndrome (Go Time #30)
Johnny Boursiquot and Bill Kennedy joined the show with Erik and Carlisia to talk about a hard subject — Imposter Syndrome. Not often enough do we get to have open conversations about the eventual inadequacies we all face at some point in our career; some more often than others. You are !imposter.
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Featuring:
- Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
- Bill Kennedy – Website, GitHub, X
- Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
- Carlisia Campos – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
Show Notes:
- This episode is direct product of listening to our listeners
- Erik faced his biggest fear and gave this talk at KubeCon
- The Imposter’s Handbook by Rob Conery comes highly recommended
- Check out #speaking in Gopher Slack
Free Software Friday
- Erik - Polybar - A fast and easy-to-use status bar
- Carlisia - Play With Docker / play-with-docker.com gives you the experience of having a free Alpine Linux Virtual Machine in the cloud where you can build and run Docker containers and even create clusters with Docker features like Swarm Mode.)
- Bill - Pachyderm lets you store and analyze your data using containers. All things gonum
- Johnny - Spectacle allows you to organize your windows without using a mouse.
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ANTHOLOGY – Hacker Stories From OSCON, All Things Open, and Node Interactive (Changelog Interviews #235)
In this anthology episode we’re featuring three awesome hacker stories from OSCON, All Things Open, and Node Interactive — Giovanni Caligaris about how he brought LibreOffice to the people of Paraguay by translating it to their native tongue. Stu Keroff about the Linux user group he started for kids called The Asian Penguins. Shiya Luo about how China does Node, translations of documentation and books from English to Chinese, and the Great Firewall of China.
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Featuring:
- Giovanni Caligaris – X
- Stu Keroff – Website, X
- Shiya Luo – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
First, we talk with Giovanni Caligaris about how he brought LibreOffice to the people of Paraguay by translating it to their native tongue: Guaraní.
Second, we talk with Stu Keroff about the Linux user group he started for kids called The Asian Penguins in a school for Asian refugees where they learn to install, use, and configure Linux and open source software.
Last, we talk with Shiya Luo about how China does Node, translations of documentation and books from English to Chinese, and the Great Firewall of China (a censorship and surveillance project of the Chinese government) which makes it very difficult for the people of China to interact with the rest of the web.
- LibreOffice
- Asian Penguins
- Stu Keroff’s talk at ATO 2016 - Middle Schoolers, Linux, and the Digital Divide and the talk’s details on the ATO site.
- Shiya Luo’s talk at Node Interactive - How China Does Node
- cnpm - npm client for China mirror of npm
Thanks Breakmaster Cylinder!
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Go and Buffalo Live from Dunkin' Donuts (Go Time #29)
Mark Bates joined the show this week live from his local Dunkin’ Donuts to talk about Go and Buffalo — his Go web framework. Those who listened live said this was our best show yet. If you agree let us know in #gotimefm on Gopher Slack or say hi on Twitter.
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Featuring:
- Mark Bates – Website, GitHub, X
- Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
- Carlisia Campos – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Mark’s power went out at his home office so he did the show from his local Dunkin’ Donuts. Listen to the FULL raw uncut edition of this show (NSFW).
- Mark can’t talk about the secret because it’s now the big big secret — details coming soon
- Buffalo is “another” Go web framework
- gorilla/mux - A powerful URL router and dispatcher for golang
- Like all good software, Buffalo stands on the shoulders of giants
- You 👉 can run your own Go 1.8 release party
- Have you seen Google’s Grumpy? It’s “The best of Python running on the Go runtime” -Brian Ketelsen
- GoReleaser - Deliver Go binaries as fast and easily as possible
- Mutagen - Simple, cross-platform, continuous, bi-directional file synchronization
- Introducing Prism — an open source profiling tool for Go (from Geckoboard)
- Octotree - code tree for GitHub and GitLab. Mark Bates says “I can’t imagine using GitHub without it.”
Mark Bates at Dunkin’ Donuts
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Keeping Node Core Small (Spotlight #6)
In this episode of The Future of Node series recorded at Node Interactive 2016 Adam talked with Sam Roberts (Node Runtimes at IBM) and Thomas Watson (Node.js Lead at Opbeat) about “Small Core” and keeping Node Core small, what to put in, what to take out, how to deprecate and everything in-between.
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- Node.js Foundation – The Node.js Foundation’s mission is to enable widespread adoption and help accelerate development of Node.js and other related modules through an open governance model that encourages participation, technical contribution, and a framework for long term stewardship by an ecosystem invested in Node.js’ success.
Featuring:
- Sam Roberts – Website, GitHub, X
- Thomas Watson – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
This “The Future of Node” Spotlight series was produced in partnership with The Linux Foundation, the Node.js Foundation, and sponsored by IBM and StrongLoop. It was recorded at Node Interactive 2016 in Austin, TX.
- Node.js JavaScript runtime (aka Node Core) on GitHub
- Thanks to IBM and Dave Whiteley for having Sam to participate in this roundtable discussion
- Thanks to Opbeat for sending Thomas to Node Interactive and for all the other ways they support the community.
- If you’re interested in speaking or attending Node.js Interactive North America 2017 in in Vancouver, Canada this Fall, subscribe to the Node.js community newsletter
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Open Collective and funding open source (Changelog Interviews #234)
Pia Mancini joined the show to talk about Open Collective, her background and where she came from, her passion to upgrade democracy, funding and sustaining open source, what open collective is, how it works, how you can support your favorite open source communities, but more importably how you can take part and start your own collective.
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- Toptal – Scale your team and hire the top 3% of developers and designers at Toptal. Email Adam at
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Featuring:
- Pia Mancini – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Pia gave a talk at TEDGlobal 2014 on How to upgrade democracy for the Internet era (over a million views 😱)
- DemocracyOS
- Democracy Earth
- OpenCollective.com
- Open Collective — Open Source Collective
- Webpack on Open Collective
- 2016 on Open Collective, and what’s in the works for 2017!
- Open Collective Issues
- Support for paid events - Issue #177
- Together we crowdfunded a yearly budget of over $100,000 for Open Source
- Check out Gratipay and our past episode with Chad Whitacre.
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Creating a programming language (Go Time #28)
Thorsten Ball joined the show to talk about creating a programming language, writing an interpreter, why he wrote the book “Writing An Interpreter in Go”, how writing a language/interpreter will help you better understand other programming languages, building a computer from Nand to Tetris, and his thoughts on imposter syndrome.
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- StackImpact – StackImpact is all about profiling and monitoring for Go. Laser focus on the performance of your Go applications.
Featuring:
- Thorsten Ball – Website, GitHub, X
- Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
- Carlisia Campos – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- Writing An Interpreter In Go - In this book we will create a programming language together. We’ll start with 0 lines of code and end up with a fully working interpreter for the Monkey* programming language. Step by step. From tokens to output. All code shown and included. Fully tested.
- The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles
- From NAND to Tetris
- Go Advent 2016 blog series
- Damian Gryski is now a /r/golang moderator
- Take the 2016 Go User Survey — the goal is to create the best language for developing simple, reliable, scalable software. We are asking you to help by participating in a survey and if applicable, a company questionnaire.
- From Coursera — Build a Modern Computer from First Principles: From Nand to Tetris (Project-Centered Course)
- Ken Thompson - Reflections on Trusting Trust
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BONUS – Behind the Scenes of Season 1 and 2 (Request For Commits)
In this special episode of Request For Commits we close out the first season with a look behind the scenes of the show. We talked about how the show was formed, who’s involved and why, how we approach producing this show, our theme music, as well as our plans and timing for season 2.
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Featuring:
- Nadia Eghbal – GitHub, X
- Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
We will begin production of season 2 in Q1 of 2017 and release in Q2. Subscribe to the master feed to get all Changelog podcasts and Changelog Weekly so you don’t skip a beat.
- The theme music for RFC was created by Breakmaster Cylinder — Listen to it on Bandcamp
- The Changelog #193: Funding and Sustaining Open Source with Nadia Eghbal
- If you haven’t yet, read Karl Fogel’s book — Producing Open Source Software
- Open Source, Then and Now with Karl Fogel (author of Producing Open Source Software) — Part 1 and Part 2
- Grant Funding: What Happens When You Pay for Open Source Work? with Max Ogden, creator of Dat
- Funding the Web with Brendan Eich
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GitHub Product & GraphQL (Spotlight #5)
In this episode of Spotlight recorded at OSCON London 2016, Jerod talked with Coby Chapple, a product designer at GitHub (since 2012), about projects, transactional code reviews, and GraphQL. Coby drops a lot of knowledge bombs in this interview. You don’t want to miss this episode.
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- GitHub’s announcement from Universe about their new features — A whole new GitHub Universe: announcing new tools, forums, and features
- GitHub Projects docs
- GitHub’s GraphQL API docs
- GraphQL API explorer
- GitHub’s announcement of The GitHub GraphQL API
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webpack (Changelog Interviews #233)
Sean Larkin joined the show to talk about Webpack, how fast open sources moves, how fast Webpack is moving, the core team, the formation, joining JS Foundation, the problem it’s solving, the bleeding edge features, sustainability, Sean and team’s efforts to build the community, their work on Open Collective, and more.
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- Toptal – Scale your team and hire the top 3% of developers and designers at Toptal. Email Adam at
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npm install --save rollbarfor error tracking in your JavaScript apps.
Featuring:
- Sean Larkin – GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Webpack homepage
- Webpack docs
- Webpack on Medium
- Webpack on GitHub
- Donate to Webpack on Open Collective
- “The first time you demo #webpack for a friend 😅” – @Changelog
- SurviveJS
- Read Sustaining Webpack for the Future — Part 1 and Part 2
- “Tobias Koppers (sokra, the creator of webpack) has made my life as a developer so much better. So I gave him 💰💰💰💰 – sokra.github.io” — @kentcdodds
Webpack team members mentioned by Sean.
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Blockchain and Hyperledger (Spotlight #4)
In this episode of Spotlight recorded at All Things Open 2016, Adam talked with Anna Derbakova from IBM after her jam packed talk on Blockchain and Hyperledger about the fundamentals of blockchain, how this technology is revolutionizing finance, banking, IoT, supply chains, manufacturing, and any other applications out there that can benefit from a “smart contract”, The Hyperledger Project, and the exciting opportunities that exist in the future for blockchains.
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Show Notes:
- IBM Blockchain - Quickly run a blockchain network in a secure Cloud environment. Spin up a blockchain network on a private, virtualized environment; create and secure digital assets in test applications to trade over a permissioned network.
- Hyperledger Fabric Basics — This tutorial was presented as part of Anna’s presentation at All Things Open 2016. Her presentation was focused on blockchain applications, and specifically, getting started with building an application with Hyperledger Fabric.
- View the slides from Anna’s talk — Blockchain for Business on Hyperledger
- Hyperledger — an open source collaborative effort under the Linux Foundation created to advance cross-industry blockchain technologies. It is a global collaboration including leaders in finance, banking, IoT, supply chain, manufacturing and technology.
- The Hyperledger Project on GitHub
- Fabric core
- Hyperledger Fabric Client SDK for Node.js
- Join Hyperledger Project on Slack
- IBM Bluemix
- The Changelog #222: Ethereum and Cryptocurrency with Gavin Wood
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The JS Foundation (Spotlight #3)
In this episode of Spotlight recorded at OSCON London 2016, Jerod talked with Kris Borchers about the launch of the JS Foundation right after their big announcement to learn about this new foundation and its mission for the JavaScript community and open source.
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Show Notes:
- Kris is the Executive Director of The JS Foundation
- The JS Foundation
- Announcement: The Linux Foundation Unites JavaScript Community for Open Web Development
- “Come by the JS Foundation booth at #OSCON to chat about the next evolution of JavaScript”
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The Go Compiler and Go 1.8 (Go Time #27)
Keith Randall from the Go team joined the show to talk about why a new compiler, what we gain from SSA, what’s next for the compiler, Go 1.8, and the goals/plans for Go 1.9.
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Featuring:
- Keith Randall – Website, GitHub
- Bill Kennedy – Website, GitHub, X
- Carlisia Campos – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- 1.8 Beta — get it while it’s hot!
- Inside the Map Implementation - from Keith Randall and GopherCon 2016
- GothamGo videos are on YouTube
- How Do They Do It: Timers in Go — Contributed by Alexander Morozov & Vyacheslav Bakhmutov
- Contributing to the Go project — Contributed by Matt Layher
- GoLab — The Italian conference on Go, Jan 20-21
- Dominik Honnef’s — An incomplete list of tools from the Go tool chain
Free Software Friday
- Erik — Arduino maker community
- Carlisia — json incremental digger from simeji
- Keith — Delve
- Bill — go-hep and gonum - Go-based software for the High Energy Physics community
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Teaching and Learning Go (Go Time #26)
Todd McLeod joined the show to talk about teaching and learning Go, his work as an Instructor at Fresno City College, Udemy and on YouTube.
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- Minio – Minio is an Amazon S3 compatible object storage server built for cloud application developers and devops. It’s also open source!
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Featuring:
- Todd McLeod – GitHub, X
- Carlisia Campos – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X
- Bill Kennedy – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- Todd McLeod on YouTube
- Courses taught by Todd McLeod on Udemy
- Learnable Programming
- Go Web Programming Bootcamp
- The Gears of My Childhood
Free Software Friday
- Brian - Microsoft, Rich Turner and the whole WSL team for replacing the three computers on my desk with one Surface Book
- Carlisia - All the Go meetups out there
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Go Kit, Dependency Management, Microservices (Go Time #25)
Peter Bourgon joined the show to talk about Go kit, microservices, Go in the enterprise, dependency management, and writing Go packages.
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- Minio – Minio is an Amazon S3 compatible object storage server built for cloud application developers and devops. It’s also open source!
Featuring:
- Peter Bourgon – GitHub, X
- Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
- Carlisia Campos – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Scott Mansfield – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- The panel shared that time they all used Go Channels incorrectly
- Go kit is a distributed programming toolkit for building microservices in large organizations. We solve common problems in distributed systems, so you can focus on your business logic.
- Go best practices, six years in
- Go in the Modern Enterprise and Go Kit
- Peter mentioned So you want to write a package manager which is a DEEP article, estimated at 50 minutes to read
Free Software Friday
- Scott — zetcd lets you serve zookeeper with etcd
- Erik — Pelikan is Twitter’s unified cache backend
- Peter — The Platinum Searcher is a code search tool similar to
ackandthe_silver_searcher(ag). It supports multi platforms and multi encodings.
Go source code looks particularly good when displayed in Go fonts.
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Homebrew and Swift (Changelog Interviews #232)
Max Howell, famous for creating Homebrew, joined the show to talk about his start in software and open source, the tweet that was heard around the world when he interviewed with Google and didn’t get accepted, the creation of Homebrew, the naming process, as well as the difficulty letting go. We also talked about his passion for the Swift programming language, and his work on Swift Package Manager while at Apple.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Max was on The Changelog #35 way back in September, 2010
- Max’s latest open source project PromiseKit
- The BBC Micro was the first computer Max used
- Amarok - a powerful music player for Linux, Unix and Windows
- qt - cross-platform development
- Last.fm - bring together your favourite music services
- Scrobble
- “The foundation of the modern world is developer tools.”
- The Changelog #223: Homebrew and Package Management with Mike McQuaid
- The tweet heard aroud the world with 6,825+ retweets — “Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (Homebrew), but you can’t invert a binary tree on a whiteboard so f**k off.”
- Swift Package Manager
- BBC BASIC programming language
- QBasic (Quick Beginners All purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is an IDE and interpreter for a variety of the BASIC programming language
- Max’s new thing — mixmsg lets you make mixtapes with friends directly in iMessage.
- Max’s new project — Growler is planned for Homebrew, but he was hush hush about what it will do
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Exercism and 99 Bottles of OOP (Spotlight #2)
Welcome to the first Spotlight series recorded at OSCON London 2016. Jerod talked with Katrina Owen, an accomplished speaker, creator of the excellent coding practice and feedback site, Exercism.io, and the co-author of 99 Bottles of OOP. Have you ever heard the story of how Katrina went from anonymous developer to sharing a byline with Sandi Metz? She shared all the details during this face-to-face chat.
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- The Changelog #225: 99 Practical Bottles of OOP with Sandi Metz - Adam and Jerod talk with Sandi Metz about her beginnings on the mainframe, her 30+ years of programming experience, the ins and outs of OOP, her book Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby (aka POODR), as well as her latest book 99 Bottles of OOP which she co-authored with Katrina Owen. We also covered a few listener submitted questions at the end.
- The Changelog #202: 23 Years of Ruby with Matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto) - Adam and Jerod talk with Matz, the creator of the Ruby programming language, about where he began as a programmer, the origins of Ruby, its history and future, Ruby 3.0, concurrency and parallelism, Streem, Erlang, Elixir, and more.
- Exercism — Level up your programming skills
- Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby (POODR) - is a programmers tale written by Sandi Metz, explaining object-oriented design (OOD) using realistic, understandable examples. POODR is a practical, readable introduction to how OOD can lower your costs and improve your applications.
about how to write object-oriented code. - 99 Bottles of OOP - a book by Sandi Metz and Katrina Owen written as a practical guide to writing cost-effective, maintainable, and pleasing object-oriented code.
- Therapeutic Refactoring - a story about taking complicated, untested code and changing it in small, safe steps to make it easier to understand. It walks through the step-by-step process of adding characterization tests, as well as working through a classic refactoring, “Replace Method with Method Object”.
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Welcome to Spotlight (Spotlight #1)
Adam and Jerod discuss the details of this new podcast; what’s coming up, what you can expect in future episodes, and how you can invite Spotlight to a conference or community event near you. Email us – editors@changelog.com.
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- Listen to the first episode — Spotlight #2: OSCON London 2016 - Katrina Owen
- Seriously, email us at editors@changelog.com. We’d love to talk about producing a podcast series around your conference or community event.
- We’re not in iTunes just yet (it takes about a week to get approved), but you can subscribe to Master in iTunes or your favorite podcast app.
- Subscribe using our RSS feed — changelog.com/spotlight/feed
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HTTP/2 in Node.js Core (Changelog Interviews #231)
In this special episode recorded at Node Interactive 2016 in Austin, TX Adam talked with James Snell (IBM Technical Lead for Node and member of Node’s TSC and CTC) about the work he’s doing on Node’s implementation of http2, the state of http2 in Node, what this new spec has to offer, and what the Node community can expect from this new protocol.
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This episode is a preview of our upcoming “Future of Node.js” series recorded at Node Interactive 2016 in Austin, TX. The series is produced in partnership with Node.js Foundation and sponsored by IBM. We’ll be releasing the full series soon on our new podcast “Spotlight”. If you haven’t subscribed to Changelog Master yet, which includes all the podcasts we produce, now would be a good time to do so. You can also subscribe to Changelog Weekly where we announce all the new things we’re up to.
- Checkout the http2 repo James is working on
- Watch the talk James gave at Node Interactive — Implementing HTTP/2 for Node.js Core by James Snell
- Watch all the talks from Node Interactive
- Checkout Spotlight, our new show around big announcements, conferences, the hallway track, behind the scenes — meaningful conversations with real people in the community.
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18F and OSS in the U.S. Federal Government (Changelog Interviews #230)
From 18F — Hillary Hartley and Aidan Feldman joined the show to talk about how 18F is changing the way the federal government builds and buys digital services.
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- Hillary Hartley – GitHub, X
- Aidan Feldman – GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- The Presidential Innovation Fellows (PIF) program brings the innovation economy into government, by pairing talented, diverse technologists and innovators with top civil-servants and change-makers within the federal government.
- The White House’s Presidential Innovation Fellows program on Twitter
- The Changelog #157: Building Bridges with Sarah Allen
- The CC0 1.0 license - “Additionally, we waive copyright and related rights in the work worldwide through the CC0 1.0 Universal public domain dedication.”
- cloud.gov - The Government Innovation platform by government developers, for government developers.
- analytics.usa.gov on GitHub
- 18F on GitHub
- The System for Award Management (SAM) - certification for working as a vendor for the U.S. government
- FedRAMP Ready Products
- The Washington Post - Why a federal high-tech start-up is a money loser
- Tom VanAntwerp on Medium - 18F is Hardly a Waste of Money
- Join one of 18F’s Slack rooms
- code.gov is the next milestone in federal open source code
- Micro-purchase
- Micro-purchase stats page
- 18F Guides
- 18F Open Source Style Guide
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Python, Django, and Channels (Changelog Interviews #229)
Django core contributor Andrew Godwin joins the show to tell us all about Python and Django. If you’ve ever wondered why people love Python, what Django’s virtues are as a web framework, or how Django Channels measure up to Phoenix’s Channels and Rails’ Action Cable, this is the show for you. Also: Andrew’s take on funding and sustaining open source efforts.
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- Andrew Godwin – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- This episode started on Ping
- Django creators: Jacob Kaplan-Moss, Simon Willison
- Python love: The Zen of Python
- Python love: Great Docs – Requests as example
- Jerod suggests RFC #5: Read/Write the Docs with Eric Holscher
- Virtues: The Django admin site
- Virtues: GeoDjango
- Wikipedia has a list of well-known sites using Django
- Andrew’s baby: Django Channels
- Getting started with Django
- Django South - consistent, easy-to-use and database-agnostic migrations for Django applications.
- If sustainability is interesting to you, check out Request for Commits
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Funding the Web (Request For Commits #11)
Brendan Eich, founder of Brave and creator of JavaScript, joined the show to talk about the history of the web, how it has been funded, and the backstory on the early browser wars and emerging monetization models. We also talked about why big problems are hard to solve for the Internet and the tradeoffs between centralization and distribution.
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- Check out exploit kits like Angler Exploit Kit
- Brave
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Servo and Rust (Changelog Interviews #228)
Jack Moffitt joined the show to talk about Servo, an experimental web browser layout engine. We talked about what the Servo project aims to achieve, six areas of performance, and what makes Rust a good fit for this effort.
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Finding New Contributors (Request For Commits #10)
Charlotte Spencer joined the show to talk about making open source more approachable, Your First PR, helping people make their first open source contribution, attracting new contributors, and what projects can do to bring in, retain, and communicate with new people.
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Charlotte Spencer is a software developer who’s done a lot of notable work around making open source more approachable and is a core member of the Hoodie project.
- First Pull Request — What was the first pull request you sent on GitHub?
- Your First PR
- Making Your First Pull Request
- Open Open Source
- Hoodie
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Mad science, WebTorrent, WebRTC (Changelog Interviews #227)
Feross Aboukhadijeh joined the show this week to talk with us about his backstory, passive income, WebTorrent, WebRTC, Electron and the ins and outs of packaging apps for all platforms.
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- Feross Aboukhadijeh – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- JavaScript Standard Style Guide
- Study Notes is Feross’s passive income maker that enables him to work on open source and other stuff he’s interested in
- FreeTheFlash - Hilarious media entertainment brought to you by FreeTheFlash Entertainment
- Webmaster World
- WebTorrent - A streaming torrent client for the web browser and the desktop
- WebTorrent Desktop is the desktop Torrent client built with Electron
- WebTorrent Desktop on GitHub
- Instant.io
- The Changelog #216 - Electron and Cross Platform Desktop Apps with Zeke Sikelianos
- Mojibar - Emoji searcher but as a menubar app built with Electron
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Juju, Jujucharms, Gorram (Go Time #24)
Nate Finch joined the show this week to talk about Juju, Charms, maturing a project along side Go, Gorram, finding your happy path, and more.
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- Nate Finch – Website, GitHub, X
- Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
- Carlisia Campos – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
Show Notes:
- juju - is devops distilled
- jujucharms
- Gorram - It’s like go run for any go function
- Go Proverbs
- Vanity Imports with Hugo
Free Software Friday
- Erik: Container Network Interface - networking for Linux containers
- Carlisia: Kinetic - High-Performance AWS Kinesis Client for Go. An easier way to access kinesis shards and poll them etc, takes all that logic out and makes stuff easy.
Nate: Hugo - A Fast and Flexible Static Site Generator built with love in Go
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The Road to Font Awesome 5 (Changelog Interviews #226)
Dave Gandy joined the show to talk about the history of Font Awesome, what’s to come in Font Awesome 5 and their Kickstarter to fund Font Awesome 5 Pro, and how everything they’re doing is funneling back into the forever free and open source — Font Awesome Free.
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You can always add more sprinkles!
- Font Awesome
- Font Awesome on GitHub
- Font Awesome Issues on GitHub
- Support Font Awesome 5 on Kickstarter — make sure you watch that video too!
- Dave said the video he created for Font Awesome Black Tie should be an example of what not to do.
- Fort Awesome — Like Font Awesome. But Better. Build and manage icons and typefaces in a single place, then serve them with a single line of code.
- Rob Madole on Twitter
- Travis Chase on Twitter
- Brian Talbot on Twitter
- Videopixie — Find great videographers, directors, video editors, and animators to work with you on your project.
- Half Baked was the set for the Font Awesome video
- Knox Avenue did the production of the Font Awesome video
Below is the photo Dave mentioned when telling the story about the origins of the “Fort Awesome” name (listen at around 24:40).
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Open source and licensing (Request For Commits #9)
Heather Meeker joined the show to talk about open source licensing, why open source licenses are historically significant, how much developers really need to know, and how much developers think they know. We also talk about mixing commercial and open source licenses, and how lawyers keep up with an ever-changing landscape.
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Heather has spent over twenty years on legal matters related to open source, and has published several books on open source software licensing.
- Open Source for Business: A Practical Guide to Open Source Software Licensing
- Technology Licensing: A Practitioner’s Guide
- Checkout these useful links on Heather’s site about licenses and the legal side of open source
- O’Melveny & Myers
- Heather Meekers on O’Melveny & Myers
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Open Sourcing Chain's Developer Platform (Go Time #23)
Tess Rinearson joined the show to talk about Chain launching their open source developer platform, choosing an open source license, open sourcing Chain Core, and the future of this powerful blockchain written in Go.
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- Tess Rinearson – Website, GitHub, X
- Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
- Carlisia Campos – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- Chain Launches Open Source Developer Platform
- Chain Core on GitHub
- Chain Core docs
- Chain Protocol Whitepaper
- GNU Affero General Public License
- Choose an open source license
- Stochastic flame graph profiler for Go programs
- Visa’s Blockchain Bet Opens Up to Developers
- Tess on Medium
Interesting Go Projects and News
Free Software Friday
- Brian - The Go Tour and a shout out to Andrew Gerrand
- Erik - A command line tool to view namespaces and cgroups, useful for low-level container prodding
- Carlisia - Listing of open source projects that have issues labeled with Help Wanted
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99 Practical Bottles of OOP (Changelog Interviews #225)
Sandi Metz joined the show to talk about her beginnings on a mainframe, her 30+ years of programming experience, the ins and outs of OOP, her book Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby (aka POODR), as well as her latest book 99 Bottles of OOP which she co-authored with Katrina Owen. We also covered a few listener submitted questions at the end.
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- Sandi Metz – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Sandi’s first book — Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby (aka POODR)
- 99 Bottles of OOP by Sandi Metz
- Katrina Owen co-authored 99 Bottles with Sandi
- Check out Understanding Computation — From Simple Machines to Impossible Programs by Tom Stuart — use the code
PCBWto save 40% on a print book, or 50% on an ebook from O’Reilly - Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software from the GangOfFour — Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides
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Go work groups and hardware projects (Go Time #22)
Jaana B. Dogan joined the show to talk about hardware geekery, on-boarding people into Go, the state of the feedback loop with the Go team, and her initiative to create Go Work Groups.
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- Jaana Dogan – Website, GitHub, X
- Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
- Carlisia Campos – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Cory LaNou – X
Show Notes:
- Gopher Gala
- bobbleHat: A Go library to support Raspberry Pi HATs
- From NAND to Tetris
- Build a Modern Computer from First Principles: From Nand to Tetris (Coursera)
- GopherCon 2016: Katrina Owen - Mind the Gap (video)
- A Tour of Go
- Learn Java
- Rust Book
- Go Blog
- Kubernetes Special Interest Groups
Interesting Go Projects and News
Free Software Friday
- Cory - Shout out to the organizers of all local Go meetups. Specifically the organizers of Chicago Ultimate Golang (Varun) and Minneapolis Ultimate Golang (Eric, Jack, Nick, and Calvin) — each of whom put those cities back on track.
- Erik - Kubernetes Special Interest Groups
- Carlisia - Gophers Slack @gopher bot
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.NET Core and Microsoft's Shift to Open Source (Changelog Interviews #224)
Bertrand Le Roy joined the show to talk about all things .NET Core, their recent 1.0 release, where it’s going, the open source around it, and Microsoft’s shift towards more open source.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Special thanks to Brett Morrison for helping us put this show together by introducing us to Bertrand 👏
- The Changelog #134: Open Sourcing .NET Core with the Microsoft .NET Team
- The Changelog #76: .NET, NuGet, and Open Source with Phil Haack
Changelog Weekly Issue #123 - .NET Core on GitHub
- .NET Core contributors graph
- .NET Core docs
- Is Microsoft the biggest OSS contributor? by Francesc Campoy
- Check out Bertrand’s podcast On .NET — YouTube / Channel 9
- Satya Nadella the CEO of Microsoft
- Orchard CMS - a free, open source, community-focused Content Management System built on the ASP.NET MVC platform.
- Scott Guthrie - lives in Seattle and builds products for Microsoft
- dot.net - this is the home of .NET. Powerful Open Source Cross Platform Development.
- Rich Lander announced .NET Core 1.0 on June 27, 2016
- Go here to get started with .NET Core
- Adam finds out there are many facets to Visual Studio — Visual Studio IDE and Visual Studio Code which is open source
- Mono - Cross platform, open source .NET framework
- The Week in .NET - Bertrand’s weekly email for the .NET community
- NuGet - the package manager for the Microsoft development platform including .NET
- .NET Command Line Interface - the command line (CLI) tools used for building .NET Core apps and libraries through your development flow (compiling, NuGet package management, running, testing, …)
- GitHub Issue #210 - Roslyn and C# on The Changelog ping repo.
- Getting started with C#
- Getting started with F#
People to follow in the .NET community
- Miguel de Icaza (Mono, Gnome, Xamarin) - @migueldeicaza
- Scott Hanselman (ASP.NET) - @shanselman
- Mads Torgersen (C#) - @madstorgersen
- Dustin Campbell (VS Code C# extension) - @dcampbell
- Nick Craver (Stack Overflow, perf) - @nick_craver
- Rowan Miller (Entity Framework) - @rowanmiller
- Don Syme (F#) - @dsyme
- Ayende Rahien (RavenDB) - @ayende
- Rachel Reese (Jet.com, F#) - @rachelreese
- Jb Evain (Unity for VS, Cecil) - @jbevain
- Immo Landwerth (NetStandard) - @terrajobst
- Maoni Stephens (garbage collector) - @Maoni0
- Frank A. Krueger (Continuous C# F# IDE for iOS) - @paeclarum
- James Montemagno (Xamarin) - @jamesmontemagno
- Stacey Haffner (gaming) - @yecats131
- Sébastien Ros (Orchard CMS) - @sebastienros
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Building a startup on Go (Go Time #21)
Blake Mizerany joined the show to talk about coming to Go from Ruby, Go’s growth and adoption over the past 7 years, adopting external dependencies, building a startup on Go, and coding as CEO.
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- Blake Mizerany – GitHub, X
- Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
- Carlisia Campos – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Blake had to take off early from the show, so at around 20 minutes in Brian, Carlisia and Erik discuss the latest projects on their Go radar.
- Introducing Changelog 2.0
- Blake Mizerany at dotGo 2014 — Three fallacies of dependencies
- Cory LaNou’s Running a Go Meetup project
- go-conv - Conversions without using reflection across most built-in Go types through type assertion switches.
- gorram - It’s like go run for any go function
- SummitDB - In-memory NoSQL database with ACID transactions, Raft consensus, and Redis API
- From Matt Holt - JSON-to-Go converts JSON to Go struct
- From Matt Holt - curl-to-Go instantly converts curl commands to Go code
- Write React Components in Go
- go-qemu - Go packages to interact with QEMU using the QEMU Machine Protocol (QMP)
- myLG - an open source software utility which combines the functions of the different network probes in one network diagnostic tool.
- stability-badges - SVG badges for Go projects
- netstat - Find out who is listening on a specific port
- lsof - List of open files or open ports
- strace - It’s diagnostic, debugging and instructional userspace utility for Linux
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Open Source and Business (Request For Commits #8)
David Cramer (CEO of Sentry) and Isaac Schlueter (CEO of npm) joined the show to talk about building businesses in open source, why they decided to turn their side projects into full-time work, how they experimented with finding steady sources of revenue, raising venture capital, working with investors and with community, and different company approaches to developing open source projects.
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- Isaac Schlueter – Website, GitHub, X
- Nadia Eghbal – GitHub, X
- Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Sentry is a developer tool for detecting application errors, and npm is the default package manager for Node.js. Both started as open source projects, which David and Isaac have built into businesses.
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Kubernetes, Containers, Go (Go Time #20)
Kelsey Hightower joined the show to talk about the work he’s doing at Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Bringing Pokémon GO to life on Google Cloud, Kubernetes cluster federation, Containers, and of course Go.
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- Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
- Carlisia Campos – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- Kubernetes 1.4 — Making it easy to run on Kubernetes anywhere
- Kubernetes Certificate Manager — Manage Let’s Encrypt certificates for a Kubernetes cluster
- Get started with Kubernetes? Check out Kelsey’s Kubernetes The Hard Way tutorial
- From Luna Duclos — kube-cert-http - An adapter that lets Go’s net/http package fetch certificates from Kubernetes
- You should read this -> Bringing Pokémon GO to life on Google Cloud
- Hello Universe from Kelsey Hightower. What if applications could deploy themselves?
- Another awesome tutorial on Kubernetes from Kelsey Hightower — Kubernetes cluster federation tutorial
- Go Walkthrough from Ben Johnson - A series of walkthroughs to help you understand the Go standard library.
- Here’s an example of good k8s documentation
- This works pretty well for bootstrapping a cluster too with all the dashboards, metrics, etc
- Special Interest Groups (SIG) and Working Groups
- CoreOS rkt — a container engine for Linux designed to be composable, secure, and built on standards
- The Twelve-Factor App — a methodology for building software-as-a-service apps
- The Datacenter as a Computer by Urs Hölzle - An Introduction to the Design of Warehouse-Scale Machines, Second Edition
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Homebrew and package management (Changelog Interviews #223)
Mike McQuaid joined us to catch us up on the latest in Homebrew and the recent 1.0.0 release. We talked about no more /usr/local — Homebrew moves to /usr/local/Homebrew to keep /usr/local cleaner, auto-updates, the growth of the Homebrew community and how it has grown to almost 6000 unique contributors, and more.
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- Homebrew 1.0.0!
- The Changelog #35: Homebrew with Max Howell
- Homebrew — The missing package manager for macOS
- Homebrew on GitHub
- Homebrew/brew on GitHub
- Contributors to Homebrew/brew
- Homebrew Discourse
- Welcome – Gentoo Linux
- KDE - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Qt | Cross-platform software development for embedded & desktop
- Software Freedom Conservancy Welcomes Homebrew as a Member Project
- Linuxbrew
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Programming Practices, Exercism, Open Source (Go Time #19)
Katrina Owen joined the show to explore ideas about open source, code review, learning to program, becoming a savvy programmer, mentoring, projects she’s working on, and also her very prominent and amazing code learning tool Exercism.
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- Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
- Carlisia Campos – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Discussion
- RFC #4: Jan Lehnardt – Building Healthy Communities
- Exercism repo for Go exercises
- GopherCon 2016: Katrina Owen - Mind the Gap (video)
- Go Code Review Comments
- Effective Go
- Ruby Midwest 2013 Failure for Fun and Profit! by Kerri Miller (video)
- The GitHub GraphQL API
- GraphQL
- 3 Trivial Concurrency Exercises for the Confused Newbie Gopher (blog)
- Go in 5 Minutes Concurrency: Eating Tapas (video)
Interesting Go Projects and News
- Reproducing images with geometric primitives
- Sameer Ajmani wants to assemble university level courses in Go
- College level Courses in Go
- Better Go Playground Chrome Extension
- Todd McLeod, Faculty at Fresno College
- Build desktop applications in Go and HTML
- Brian Ketelsen’s online course Go—Beyond the Basics
- Andrew Gerrand’s Go Workbench idea
- BBQ PID controller written in Go for Raspberry PI
Free Software Friday
- Brian - Go programming language
- Carlisia - Exercism and Write behavioral tests in your editor. Get live results in your browser.
- Erik - Bosun: monitoring and alerting system by Stack Exchange
- Katrina - Hoodie: Software for building applications for the web and iOS
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Ethereum and Cryptocurrency (Changelog Interviews #222)
Gavin Wood joined the show to talk about Ethereum, Cryptocurrency, The DAO, Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), what could you build with Ethereum, and the future of digital currency. Gavin Wood is Founder of Ethereum, creator of the Solidity contract language, and Founder of Ethcore — the company that created Parity, an open source Ethereum client.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Fred Ehrsam’s article on Medium — Ethereum is the Forefront of Digital Currency piqued Jerod’s interest for this call
- Ethereum is a decentralized platform that runs smart contracts: applications that run exactly as programmed without any possibility of downtime, censorship, fraud or third party interference.
- Ethereum on GitHub
- Parity is a fast, light, and robust Ethereum implementation.
- Check out Parity on GitHub
- The DAO — Decentral Autonomous Organization
- Understanding The DAO Hack for Journalists
- Learn how to buy Ethereum on Coinbase
- Rent, sell or share anything - without middlemen with Slock.it
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How we got here (Changelog Interviews #221)
Cory is a science fiction author, activist, journalist, co-editor of Boing Boing and the author of many books. We talked to Cory about open source, the open web, internet freedom, his involvement with the EFF, where he began his career, the details he’ll be covering in his keynote at OSCON, and his thoughts on open source today and where developers should be focusing their efforts.
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com (Cory’s Literary Works)
- Boing Boing
- Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
- Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on GitHub
- How you got here: Cory Doctorow’s OSCON London Keynote
- Ulysses Pact on Wikipedia
- American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
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Go in 5 Minutes & design patterns (Go Time #18)
Aaron Schlesinger joined the show this week to talk about his Go in 5 Minutes series of screencasts, and design patterns in Go.
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Show Notes:
- Go in 5 Minutes
- Deis: Open Source Application Platform. For Public and Private Clouds.
- Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (Gang of Four book)
- Rob Pike - Another Golang at Language Design (video)
- Rob Pike Google I/O 2012 - Go Concurrency Patterns (video)
- GopherCon 2014 A Channel Compendium by John Graham-Cumming (video)
- GopherCon 2014 High Performance Systems in Go by Derek Collison (video)
- Svett Ralchev design pattern in Go (tutorials)
- Jason Buberel: Go Examples of Common Patterns
- Helm: The Kubernetes Package Manager
- Clean Code (book)
Interesting Go Projects and News
- Teleport: Modern SSH server for clusters and teams
- Vim-Go 1.9 released
- Steve Francia joins the Go language team
- Curated list of Go patterns and idioms
- dhcplb: Facebook’s implementation of a load balancer for DHCP
- GolangUK Conference 2016 videos
- Golang UK Conf. 2016 - Liz Rice - What is a container, really? Let’s write one in Go from scratch (video)
- vuls: Vulnerability scanner for Linux/FreeBSD, agentless
- Mig: Mozilla’s real-time digital forensics and investigation platform
- goviz: A visualization tool for golang project dependency
- Caddy webserver: The HTTP/2 web server with automatic HTTPS
- Lego: Let’s Encrypt client and ACME library written in Go
Free Software Friday
- Brian - BoltDB and WTF Dial: Data storage with BoltDB (blog)
- Carlisia - Api2Go: JSONAPI.org Implementation for Go
- Aaron - GPS: Go Packaging Solver
- Erik - CoreDNS: DNS service discovery for the cloud
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GitLab's Master Plan (Changelog Interviews #220)
Sid Sijbrandij, CEO of GitLab, joined the show to talk about their recent unveiling of the GitLab Master Plan, $20 Million secured in a Series B funding round, their idea of Conversational Development in this “post Agile world”, and their focus on the enterprise and on-premise Git hosting as the business model to sustain and build GitLab into something ‘modern software teams’ can rely upon.”
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- The Changelog #103: GitLab and open source with Sytse Sijbrandij
- The GitLab Master Plan - YouTube
- GitLab Live Event Recap | GitLab
- Applied physics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- operable/cog: Bringing the power of the command line to chat
- Introducing Cog
- Cog + ChatOps = Continuous DevOps
- Cycle Analytics (#847) · Issues · GitLab.org / GitLab Enterprise Edition · GitLab
- GitLab Team Handbook
- GitLab Strategy
- GitLab.com - Marketing Issues
- GitLab Master Plan on Hacker News (see comments)
- Include GitLab projects in Changelog Nightly · Issue #21
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Monorepos, Mentoring, Testing (Go Time #17)
Bryan Lyles joined the show to talk about career progression in tech and learning, the idea of a 10x developer, the practice of testing, and advantages and disadvantages of a monorepo.
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- Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
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- Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- Double Dutch (jump rope)
- Guitar Zero: The Science of Becoming Musical at Any Age
- GopherCon 2016: Katrina Owen - Mind the Gap (video)
- Jack Lindamood’s blog
- Ines Sombra
- Great example of an API client in Go: Digital Ocean API client
- Bryan’s TAFT talk about testing (2008)
- Bryan’s talk at Abstract Conference: Embracing your impending obsolescence (2016)
- Brian Ketelsen’s talk at Abstract Conference: Generate All The Things (2016)
- Bryan talk at LynuxCon, AppOps: A Concise Guide for Moving from Development to Production (2016)
- Bryan’s talk at Velocity: Under the covers: Capturing application errors, logs, and metrics (2016)
- Bryan’s keynoting at Codedaze Conference (2016)
- Bryan at Code Summit in Lisbon (2016)
- The Science of Swearing: A look into the human MIND and other less socially acceptable four-letter words
- Testify package for testing
- Gomega: “Ginkgo’s Preffered Matcher Library”
- GoConvey: “Write behavioral tests in your editor. Get live results in your browser.”
- Kubernetes as an example of tests for an application (as opposed to a library)
-Go in a Monorepo: cthulhu (blog) - Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository
- Taming Your Go Dependencies (blog)
- Go extension for Visual Studio editor
Free Software Friday
- Brian - pfSense is a free and open source firewall, router and more
- Erik - Ansible: a radically simple IT automation platform
- Bryan - Ben Johnson’s Go Walkthrough
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TensorFlow and Deep Learning (Changelog Interviews #219)
Eli Bixby, Developer Programs Engineer at Google, joined the show to talk to talk about TensorFlow, machine learning and deep learning, why Google open sourced it, and more.
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Show Notes:
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- TensorFlow - An Open Source Software Library for Machine Intelligence
- TensorFlow on GitHub
- Talk: Deep Learning With TensorFlow at OSCON London
- Workshop: Diving Into Machine Learning Through TensorFlow at OSCON London
- TensorFlow Tutorials
- TensorFlow Serving
- tensorflow/models
- Google Cloud Machine Learning at Scale on Google Cloud Platform
- SyntaxNet: The World’s Most Accurate Parser Goes Open Source
- Google Brain Team
- grpc
- Magenta
- tensorflow/magenta
- Keynote: How You Got Here by Cory Doctorow at OSCON London
- Google Cloud Platform Podcast - TensorFlow with Eli Bixby
- Machine Learning from Stanford University - Coursera
- Machine Learning Engineer Nanodegree - Udacity
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SOLID Go Design (Go Time #16)
Dave Cheney joined the show this week to discuss SOLID Go design, software design in Go, what it means to write “good Go code”, and error handling.
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Show Notes:
- YOW! West 2016 Dave Cheney - SOLID Go Design (video)
- Golang UK Conference 2016 - Dave Cheney - SOLID Go Design (video)
- Golang UK Conference 2016 - Dave Cheney - Seven ways to Profile Go Applications (video)
- Gang of Four (GoF) Design Patterns (wiki)
- Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship (book)
- The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master (book)
- RubyConf 2009 - SOLID Ruby by: Jim Weirich (video)
- Don’t just check errors, handle them gracefully
- GopherCon 2016: Dave Cheney - Don’t Just Check Errors Handle Them Gracefully (video)
- Mat Ryer’s blog post: Line of sight in code
- GopherCon 2016: Katrina Owen - Mind the Gap
Free Software Friday
- Brian - linux rsync!!
- Dave - pt: an ack alternative
- Carlisia - Sourcegraph
- Erik - Asciidoctor: A fast text processor & publishing toolchain
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Liberal Contribution and Governance Models (Request For Commits #7)
On today’s show Nadia and Mikeal talk with Rod Vagg, Chief Node Officer at NodeSource, about liberal contribution agreements and the underlying mechanics of liberal contribution management, how to level up casual contributors, how projects transition into a liberal contribution mindset and whether there is a place for BDFLs in the future of project governance.
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Elm and Functional Programming (Changelog Interviews #218)
Evan Czaplicki, creator of Elm, and Richard Feldman of NoRedInk joined the show to talk deeper about Elm, the pains of CSS it solves, scaling the Elm architecture, reusable components, and more.
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Show Notes:
- TI-83 series - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- The Changelog #191: Elm and Functional Programming with Richard Feldman
- Elm on GitHub
- elm changelog.md · elm-lang/elm-compiler
- elm - Upgrading to 0.17
- elm-lang.org
- elm examples
- NoRedInk
- How to Use Elm at Work
- Book: Elm in Action
- elm-conf 2016
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The Go Standard Library (Go Time #15)
Ben Johnson, creator of BoltDB, joined the show to talk about NoSQL vs. Sql databases, tradeoffs between the two, and choosing one over the other. We also talk about Ben’s Secret Lives of Data project, visualizing data structures, and go over his motivation and plans for his blog post series “Go Walkthrough” of the Go standard library.
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Show Notes:
- Bolt DB
- The Secret Lives of Data
- Ben’s Go Walkthrough blog series on Medium
- Go Walkthrough: encoding package
- Go Walkthrough: bytes + strings packages
- Go Walkthrough: io package
- Standard Package Layout
- Building WTF Dial
- Clean Code (book)
- The Pragmatic Programmer (bool)
- Column-oriented DBMS
- Bleve: full-text search and indexing for Go
- #boltdb channel on Gophers Slack
- omnominator
- VimGolf
Interesting Go Projects and News
- Noms: decentralized database based on ideas from Git
- upper.io/db.v2: Magic-free ORM-like package for Go
Free Software Friday
- Brian - Minikube: Run Kubernetes locally and Quilt: deploy and network containers
- Carlisia - Stow: symlink manager
- Ben - Kelsey Hightower
- Erik - Archtrike: An Arch Linux repository for security professionals and enthusiasts and Request for Commits
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Grant Funding: What Happens When You Pay for Open Source Work? (Request For Commits #6)
On today’s show Nadia and Mikeal talk with Max Ogden, creator of Dat, an open source, decentralized tool for distributing data sets. Max has also done a lot of work in the Node.js ecosystem, including helping start NodeSchool and publishing hundreds of modules to npm. He was also one of the first Code for America fellows.
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We talked about how he figured out grants were right for developing Dat, and how he managed to find his first funders. We also got into the mechanics of grant funding. Max shared what it’s like to work with grant funders, and how to build those early relationships if you’re looking for grants yourself.
- dat
- Knight Prototype Fund - Knight Foundation
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- Substance Consortium
- Submission to openscienceprize.org
- MozFest 2016
- NodeSchool
- U.S. Open Data
- The difference between 18F and USDS
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Sourcegraph the 'Google for Code' (Changelog Interviews #217)
Beyang Liu, the CTO and co-founder of Sourcegraph, joined the show to talk about the backstory of Sourcegraph, how it works, how they’re aiming to be the ‘Google for Code’, ideas around offline support for code search, how it’s licensed, and their new software license called Fair Source.
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Show Notes:
- Beyang on BeyondCode at GopherCon 2015
- Sourcegraph on GitHub
- Sourcegraph.com
- Sourcegraph for GitHub
- Checkup - A distributed, lock-free, self-hosted health checks and status pages
- Fair Source License
- Sourcegraph Aims to be the ‘Google for Code
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Matt Holt on CaddyServer, the ACME Protocol, TLS (Go Time #14)
This episode wins the contest for the most protocols discussed. Matt Holt joined the show to to talk about TLS, Let’s Encrypt, the ACME protocol, CaddyServer, and a host of other important information security issues.
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- Equinox – Build, package and distribute self-updating Go apps to your customers. It’s perfect for CLI tools and on-premise Go software.
Featuring:
- Matt Holt – Website, GitHub, X
- Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
- Carlisia Campos – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- CaddyServer
- Caddy 0.9 Released with All New Core (blog post)
- Papaparse: a CSV parser for the browser
- websocketd: Turn any program that uses STDIN/STDOUT into a WebSocket server. Like inetd, but for WebSockets.
- Let’s Encrypt: free SSL certificates
- PKI (wikipedia)
- Key concepts of information security: Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability, Non-repudiation
- Bulletproof TLS Newsletter
- ACME Protocole
- Extended Validation Certificate
- Manage TLS certificates automatically via LetsEncrypt.org
- Automated wrapper to add let’s encrypt support to go servers
Interesting Go Projects and News
- GopherCon Brasil sponsorship prospectus
- Hewlett Packard Go AST Scanner
- Static analysis tool for Go that protects against SQL injections
- Synchronization, error propagation, and Context cancelation for groups of goroutines working on subtasks of a common task
- Brad Fitzpatrick’s functest library
- Go wrapper for the .NET Core Runtime
- Fatih’s vim-go tutorial
- Keep track of upcoming vim-go features
Free Software Friday
- Brian - Python
- Carlisia - Exercism good first patches
- Matt - A QUIC protocol server implementation in pure Go: faster HTTPS communication
- Erik - Mosh: the mobile shell, Wireshack Troubleshooting with Wireshark: Locate the Source of Performance Problems (book) , and TCP Dump
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Documentation and the Value of Non-Code Contributions (Request For Commits #5)
On today’s show Nadia and Mikeal are joined by Eric Holscher to discuss non-code contributions, how they are regarded in open source culture, their value, and how to incentivize this type of work. They also talked about how Read the Docs grew a documentation community, contribution guides, and why this work matters.
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GitHub's Electron (Changelog Interviews #216)
Zeke Sikelianos joined the show to talk about GitHub’s Electron project and the future of web folks making cross platform desktop apps. We talked about the web revolution around native vs web app, where Electron is heading, who’s using it, and how cool it is to enable folks like Guillermo Rauch to build HyperTerm.
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- Zeke Sikelianos – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Electron
- Electron Docs
- Electron Issues – label:help-wanted
- Electron Issues – label:beginner
- Mojibar - Emoji searcher but as a menubar app
- browserify on npm
- Tonic + npm: browserify
- npms
- Fluid - Turn Your Favorite Web Apps into Real Mac Apps.
- GitHub Desktop - Simple collaboration from your desktop
- jiahaog/nativefier: Wrap any web page natively without even thinking, across Windows, OSX and Linux
- maxogden (=^._.^=)
- mafintosh (Mathias Buus)
- electron-userland
- Dat Project
- #213: ZEIT, HyperTerm, and now with Guillermo Rauch - Changelog
- Request For Commits - Changelog
- Subscribe to Changelog Nightly
- Subscribe to Changelog Weekly
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Building Communities (Request For Commits #4)
On today’s show Nadia and Mikeal are joined by Jan Lehnardt to discuss the value of building communities to reduce burden on maintainers and create sustainable projects, how communities help grow a project, and contributor models.
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Francesc Campoy on GopherCon and understanding nil (Go Time #13)
In our first show after GopherCon, we are joined by Francesc Campoy to chat about some of our GopherCon experience, understanding nil, and a great variety of interesting topics of interest to the Go community.
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- Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
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- Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- GopherCon talk: Understanding Nil (slides)
- Ivan Danyliuk’s GopherCon talk: Visualizing Concurrency in Go (slides)
- Concurrency tracer and visualizer for Go
- Notes from the vendoring discussion at GopherCon
- Katrina Owen’s GopherCon talk: Mind the Gap (blog post)
- Matt Aimonetti’s blog post: Go is for everyone
- Notes from the diversity discussion at GopherCon
- How to submit an issue for the Go Tour
- Renee French’s talk about the Gopher (slides)
- Donnie Berkholz’s GopherCon talk: Mining the Go Developer Community (slides)
- Keith Randall’s GopherCon talk: Inside the Map Implementation (slides)
- totessafe.io: Unsafe has never been more safe
- GoBridge Go Remote Meetup
- Why the Lucky Stiff
- Women Who Go
- GoBridge
- GoSF remote meetup July 20th (video)
- ngrok: Secure tunnels to localhost
- GopherCon Brasil, date correction: November 4 and 5
Interesting Go Projects and News
- buntdb: Fast, embeddable, in-memory key/value database for Go with custom indexing and geospatial support
- #clever-gopher
Free Software Friday
- Brian - Docker
- Carlisia - Tsuru is an extensible open source Platform as a Service
- Francesc - Audio Editor
- Erik - Environment switcher for the shell
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Best Practices Badge from Core Infrastructure Initiative (Changelog Interviews #215)
David A. Wheeler, from Core Infrastructure Initiative, joined the show to talk about the CII Best Practices Badge program.
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We talked about the purpose of the Best Practices Badge program from Core Infrastructure Initiative (a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project), how and why you should get certified, and the criteria of the best practices.
- [Show Suggstion] CII “Best Practices” badge · Issue #427 · thechangelog/ping
- linuxfoundation/cii-best-practices-badge
- CII Best Practices Badge - Rails App
- Core Infrastructure Initiative
- CII Best Practices Badge Criteria
- Get Your CII Best Practices Badge!
- Producing Open Source Software
- Curious Minds: History of Open Source & The Free Software Foundation - Part 1
- Curious Minds: History of Open Source & The Free Software Foundation - Part 2
- Shields.io
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Measuring Success in Open Source (Request For Commits #3)
On today’s show Nadia and Mikeal are joined by Andrew Nesbitt and Arfon Smith to talk about open source metrics, and how to interpret data around dependencies and usage. They talked about what we currently can, and can not measure in today’s open source ecosystem. They also talked about individual project metrics, how we can measure success, what maintainers should be paying attention to, and whether or not GitHub stars really matter.
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- Arfon Smith – Website, GitHub, X
- Nadia Eghbal – GitHub, X
- Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Andrew Nesbitt is the creator of Libraries.io, and Arfon Smith heads up open source data at GitHub. Andrew’s project, Libraries.io, helps people discover and track open source libraries, which was informed by his work on GitHub Explore. Arfon works to make GitHub data more accessible to the public. Previously, he worked on science initiatives at GitHub and elsewhere, including a popular citizen science platform called Zooniverse.
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Beyang Liu on Go at Sourcegraph and Writing Better Code (Go Time #12)
Beyang Liu from Sourcegraph joins the show to talk about Go at Sourcegraph and their code insight and language analysis tools for writing better code. We also get an understanding of what Sourcegraph is and the many ways to integrate it into your workflow.
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Featuring:
- Beyang Liu – GitHub, X
- Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
- Carlisia Campos – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- Sourcegraph
- @srcgraph
- Sourcegraph Youtube videos
- Sourcegraph SF meetup
- Sourcegraph Chrome extension
- Language analysis toolchains
- Code review with IDE powers (video)
- Code usage examples in your editor, as you type (blog post)
- Go Guru: editor-integrated tool for navigating Go code
- ngrok: Introspected tunnels to localhost
- Alan Shreve’s dotGo talk: Conceptualizing Large Software Systems (video)
- Brian will be at Abstractions.io talking about generating code
- Delve: Debugger for Go
- gen-mocks: mock generator
- gRPC to JSON proxy generator
Interesting Go Projects and News
- Go’s march to low-latency GC (Twitch’s blog post)
- Alan Donovan’s Gophercon talk about Go Guru
- John Leon’s Gophercon talk about Packet Capturing with Go
- Kubernetes 1.3 release notes
- Traefik: modern HTTP reverse proxy
- Glide: What’s New in 0.11.0 (blog post)
Free Software Friday
- Brian - GoKit
- Erik - The Silver Searcher: A code-searching tool similar to ack, but faster
- Beyang - Checkup: Mat Holt’s uptime monitoring tool
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Jessie Frazelle on Maintaining Open Source, Docker, dotfiles (Go Time #11)
Jessie Frazelle joins us this week to talk about being an open source maintainer, Docker’s pull request acceptance workflow, dotfiles, getting started with public speaking.
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- Equinox – Build, package and distribute self-updating Go apps to your customers. It’s perfect for CLI tools and on-premise Go software.
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- Jessie Frazelle – GitHub, X
- Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
- Carlisia Campos – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
- Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Interesting Go Projects and News
- GoBridge Talk Formula
- GoKit: A toolkit for microservices
- Francesc Campoy: Analyzing Go code with BigQuery (blog post)
- The complete guide to Go net/http timeouts (blog post)
- A pipeline-based CI system written in Go
- etcd3
- Changelog Weekly
- Changelog Nightly
Free Software Friday
- Brian - jq: command line json tool
- Carlisia - Go testing in the browser: goconvey
- Jessie - A simple utility to safely retrieve arbitrary files and Michael Crosby’s world best gists
- Erik - Ranger: console file manager with VI key bindings
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Libscore, Velocity.js, Hacking (Changelog Interviews #214)
Julian Shapiro, startup founder and developer, joined the show to talk about his story of entrepreneurship, open source, growth hacking, and more. Julian’s story is a story you don’t want to miss — plus he shares actionable advice on growing and marketing an open source project.
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Featuring:
- Julian Shapiro – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- [Guest Suggestion] Julian Shapiro / VelocityJS
- deleted.com
- Velocity.js.org
- Velocity.js on GitHub
- How to deal with startup competition
- Web Animation Using JavaScript by Julian Shapiro
- Introducing Libscore
- Libscore.com
- Libscore on GitHub
- Stripe Open-Source Retreat
- Thomas Davis on Twitter
- #63: CDNJS with Thomas Davis and Ryan Kirkman
- Jason Chen on Twitter
- Jesse Chase on Twitter
- Searching for Sugar Man (Movie recommendation from Julian)
- Man on Wire (Movie recommendation from Julian)
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Open Source, Then and Now (Part 2) (Request For Commits #2)
Nadia Eghbal and Mikeal Rogers kick off Season 1 of Request For Commits with a two part conversation with Karl Fogel — a software developer who has been active in open source since its inception.
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Karl served on the board of the Open Source Initiative, which coined the term “open source”, and helped write Subversion, a popular version control system that predates Git. Karl also wrote a popular book on managing open source projects called Producing Open Source Software. He’s currently a partner at Open Tech Strategies, a firm that helps major organizations use open source to achieve their goals.
- Read Karl Fogel’s book — Producing Open Source Software
- Make sure you start with part 1 with Karl Fogel where we kick off this conversation.
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Open Source, Then and Now (Part 1) (Request For Commits #1)
Nadia Eghbal and Mikeal Rogers kick off Season 1 of Request For Commits with a two part conversation with Karl Fogel — a software developer who has been active in open source since its inception.
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Karl served on the board of the Open Source Initiative, which coined the term “open source”, and helped write Subversion, a popular version control system that predates Git. Karl also wrote a popular book on managing open source projects called Producing Open Source Software. He’s currently a partner at Open Tech Strategies, a firm that helps major organizations use open source to achieve their goals.
- Read Karl Fogel’s book — Producing Open Source Software
- Listen to part 2 with Karl Fogel as we continue this conversation.
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State of Go Survey and Go at Heroku (Go Time #10)
Ed Muller from Heroku join us to discuss his State of Go survey, vendoring and versioning, the Heroku Go Buildpack, how they use Go at Heroku, and more.
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- Ed Muller – GitHub, X
- Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
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- Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- Go at Heroku
- GopherCon 2015 Videos (look for Ed)
- #vendor channel on Gophers Slack
- godep
- Gophers, please tag your releases
- SemVer
- Heroku Go Buildpack
- A consistent distributed data store
- State of Go Survey results presented at GopherCon 2016
Interesting Go Projects and News
- Sourcegraph editor
- EweyGewey is an OpenGL based GUI library written in Go
- Gob: An Experimental Pure Go Web Browser
- Gogs: a painless self-hosted Git service
- Setting Up a Personal Gogs Git Server
- go get for GitHub
- Heroku Go open source repositories
Free Software Friday
- Brian - git-branches: prints the commit behind/ahead counts for branches
- Carlisia - Pachyderm: store and analyze your data using containers
- Ed - Visual Studio Code
- Erik - Kafka (Kafka on Heroku)
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ZEIT, HyperTerm, now (Changelog Interviews #213)
Guillermo Rauch joined the show to talk with Adam about how he got into programming, how that lead him to what he’s doing now at ZEIT, the design of HyperTerm, and now.
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- ZEIT
- HyperTerm
- LearnBoost
- LearnBoost on GitHub
- Cloudup
- Pure UI by Guillermo Rauch
- ZEIT (@zeithq) on Twitter
- ZEIT on GitHub
- GitHub search for “hyperterm”
- zeit.world - Free Global DNS
- Hero: Leslie Lamport on Wikipedia
- React Storybook: Isolate your React UI Component development from the main app
- ZEIT.chat (Slack Channel)
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Scott Mansfield on Go at Netflix (Go Time #9)
Scott Mansfield joins us this week to talk about Go at Netflix, performance, latency and caching, Rend (their memcached proxy), chaos monkey, and more.
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- Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
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- Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- Rend - A memcached proxy that manages data chunking and L1/L2 caches
- Netlix chaos monkey Note: a new version in Go is imminent
- Rob Pike’s Google I/O 2012 - Go Concurrency Patterns (video)
- How to block Forever in Go
Interesting Go Projects and News
- GoKit tagged 0.1.0
- Go in the Modern Enterprise: Using gokit with Peter Bourgon (podcast)
- Updates to vim-go
- Updates to Hugo
- Francesc’s Go Tooling in Action
- Ed’s State of Go survey
- #vendor channel on Gophers Slack
- Beyond Code Season 3 (Gophercon 2015)
Free Software Friday
- Brian - Jess Frazelle’s dotfiles:0 to Awesome in one clone
- Carlisia - Network Programming with Go
- Scott - Go
- Erik - unix-like reverse engineering framework and commandline tools
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Asim Aslam on Micro, the Go Microservice Toolkit (Go Time #8)
Asim Aslam joined us to talk about Micro, a pluggable RPC based library which provides the fundamental building blocks for writing microservices in Go. We also discussed open source sustainability, microservices, and serverless architecture.
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Show Notes:
- Micro
- Blog post: “Writing microservices with Go Micro”
- Micro Slack
- What is Serverless Computing? (Quora)
- Serverless Framework - Build web, mobile and IoT applications with serverless architectures using AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, Google CloudFunctions & more!
- Apex - Servless architecture
- Source code behind IBM Bluemix OpenWhisk
Projects and News
- Go 1.7 Release Notes
- Subtests and Sub-benchmarks
- Go 1.7 Context
- Torus: distributed storage by CoreOS built for Kubernetes
- A distributed, serverless, configuration tool using AWS services by Tom Maiaroto
Free Software Friday
- Brian - CoreOS
- Carlisia - State Management for Go, inspired by Redux by Luis Vinicius Pacheco
- Asim: Postfix
- Erik - VLC
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Raphaël Simon on goa, the Framework for Building Microservices (Go Time #7)
A deep dive into goa, a design-based microservice framework with a DSL that generates idiomatic Go code for your APIs, swagger documentation, and tests helpers.
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Show Notes:
Raphael Simon Introduction
Discussion
- Swagger
- #goa on Gophers Slack
- Abstractions conference - discount code ($50 off): gotime
- Blog post: “goa: Untangling Microservices”
Interesting Go Projects and News
- CLI - A package for building command line app with go
- Great post by Scott Mansfield from Netflix
- A Project Brian’s been following for a long time – Shield
- Heka - Data collection and processing made easy
- Uber’s fast, structured, leveled logging in Go
Free Software Friday
- Brian - Bitly’s NSQ, A realtime distributed messaging platform and GopherCon 2014 Spray Some NSQ On It by Matt Reiferson (Video)
- Carlisia iTerm2 v2.9beta or above
- Raphael - rethinkdb - The open-source database
for the realtime web + All companies that let their employees develop open source projects. - Erik - RocksDB - embeddable persistent key-value store for fast storage
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SiteSpeed.io and Performance (Changelog Interviews #212)
Peter Hedenskog joined the show to talk about SiteSpeed.io and web performance. We covered where it came from, where it’s going, and more importantly, simple ways you can focus on your web performance.
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Featuring:
- Peter Hedenskog – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- [Podcast Suggestion] Peter Hedenskog of SiteSpeed.io · Issue #475
- Sitespeed.io - Analyze your website speed and performance
- sitespeed.io/HELP.md at master · sitespeedio/sitespeed.io
- sitespeedio/coach: Clear Eyes. Full Hearts. Can’t Lose.
- Wikimedia Foundation
- WebPagetest - Website Performance and Optimization Test
- Coach Panel - Chrome Web Store
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Open Source at Facebook (Changelog Interviews #211)
James Pearce, Head of Open Source at Facebook, joined the show to talk about that very subject — open source at Facebook, his path to software development, why he’s the person to lead open source at Facebook, their view on open source, their culture of open source, how they choose what to open source, and more importantly — how they focus on, support, and nurture the community.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Facebook on GitHub
- Facebook Open Source
- Facebook Engineering Blog
- React - Facebook’s JavaScript library for building user interfaces
- HipHop VM (HHVM) - Facebook’s virtual machine designed for executing programs written in PHP
- Hack - Facebook’s programming language for HHVM
- Facebook’s top 5 open source projects of 2015
- React Native: A year in review
- Dive into React Native performance
- Open sourcing ReDex: Making Android apps smaller and faster
- Building and managing iOS model objects with Remodel
- Automatic memory leak detection on iOS
- The Changelog #196: TiddlyWiki with Jeremy Ruston
- MK14 (Microcomputer Kit 14)
- Nuclide - Facebook’s unified developer experience for web and mobile development IDE, built as a single package on top of Atom to provide hackability and the support of an active community.
- Buck - Facebook’s high-performance build tool
- a16z Podcast: When Humanity Meets A.I.
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ngrok and Go (Changelog Interviews #210)
Alan Shreve, creator of the beloved ngrok, joined the show to talk about ngrok — what it is, why it exists, why he wrote it in Go, and ultimately why 1.0 is open source but 2.0 is not.
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- Alan Shreve – Website, GitHub, X
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Alan Shreve (@inconshreveable) on Twitter
- inconshreveable.com (Alan’s personal website)
- ngrok Homepage
- What’s new in ngrok 2.0?
- Equinox: Package & Distribute Your Go Apps
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GitHub and Google on Public Datasets & Google BigQuery (Changelog Interviews #209)
Arfon Smith from GitHub, and Felipe Hoffa & Will Curran from Google joined the show to talk about BigQuery — the big picture behind Google Cloud’s push to host public datasets, the collaboration between the two companies to expand GitHub’s public dataset, adding query capabilities that have never been possible before, example queries, and more!
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- Arfon Smith – Website, GitHub, X
- Felipe Hoffa – GitHub, X
- Will Curran – Website
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
This show was produced in collaboration with GitHub and Google to announce the big expansion to GitHub’s public dataset on BigQuery.
- The Changelog #144: GitHub Archive and Changelog Nightly with Ilya Grigorik
- GitHub announcement
- Google Cloud Blog announcement
- Google Open Source Blog announcement
- Felipe Hoffa - GitHub on BigQuery: Analyze all the code
- GitHub public dataset — This 3TB+ dataset comprises the largest released source of GitHub activity to date. It contains a full snapshot of the content of more than 2.8 million open source GitHub repositories including more than 145 million unique commits, over 2 billion different file paths, and the contents of the latest revision for 163 million files, all of which are searchable with regular expressions.
- NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day Weather Data
- USA Name Data
- Google BigQuery
- Gist: BigQuery Examples from Arfon Smith
- Shawn Pearce (Google) - the unsung hero at Google who did all the hard work getting the data pipeline working for this new dataset
- Email bq-public-data@google.com to talk with Will and BigQuery’s public dataset team
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Bill Kennedy on Mechanical Sympathy (Go Time #6)
A deep dive into the fascinating topic of mechanical sympathy with Bill Kennedy. We talk about that plus CPU caches, how object oriented programming is not oriented to be sympathetic to the hardware, and data-oriented design.
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Show Notes:
Discussion
- Mechanical Sympathy
- Martin Thompson on Mechanical Sympathy (video)
- Scott Meyers: Cpu Caches and Why You Care
- Mythbusting Modern Hardware to Gain ‘Mechanical Sympathy’ • Martin Thompson (video)
- Mike Acton “Data-Oriented Design (video)
- Data-Oriented Design (Or Why You Might Be Shooting Yourself in The Foot With OOP)
- Bill Kennedy GopherCon Hack Day Workshop: Connecting Microservices using NATS
Interesting Go Projects and News
- Manul - The madness vendoring utility for Go programs. Also, Dependencies & vendoring discussion on the golang-dev mailing list
- Pretty crazy tool that outputs statsd type events and measurements to Google Analytics. Cheap measurement
- Git submodules are probably not the answer
- Why your company shouldn’t use Git submodules
Free Software Friday
- Brian - Go Validator - Package of validators and sanitizers for strings, numerics, slices and structs
- Erik - HashiCorp
- Carlisia - go-plus - An Improved Go Experience For The Atom Editor
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Ecto 2 and Phoenix Presence (Changelog Interviews #208)
José Valim and Chris McCord joined the show to talk all about how they’re advancing the “state of the art” in the Elixir community with their release of Ecto 2.0 and Phoenix 1.2. We also share our journey with Elixir at The Changelog, find out what makes Phoenix’s new Presence feature so special, and even find time for Chris to field a few of our support requests.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- The Changelog #147: Elixir and Phoenix with Chris McCord
- The Changelog #194: Elixir with José Valim
- What makes Phoenix Presence special
- ElixirConf EU
- Elm
- The Phoenix Web Framework
- DockYard - Web and Mobile User Experience Consultancy
- Chris McCord – Phoenix 1.2 and Beyond (video)
- Relisa on GitHub
- Exrm on GitHub
- Edeliver on GitHub
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Sarah Adams on Test2Doc and Women Who Go (Go Time #5)
On this show we’re joined by Sarah Adams. We talk about creating safe spaces for women to get started in the Go community, about Women Who Go, and take a deep dive into her Test2Doc open source project.
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Show Notes:
Interesting Go Projects and News
- Go 1.7 toolchain improvements
- Context in 1.7
- Vendor Check - Check that all your Go dependencies are properly vendored
- Building the simplest Go static analysis tool
- Heka state
- GopherCon 2014 Data Snarfing with Go: Heka Good Time by Rob Miller (video)
- Go libhunt - curated list of Go libraries
- Minio Object Storage in Kubernetes
- Lime Text editor
- A pure Go implementation of Gil Tene’s HDR Histogram and “How NOT to Measure Latency” by Gil Tene (video)
- Brian’s GitHub search for interesting Go repos
Free Software Friday
- Brian - Docker
- Erik - Rofi - A window switcher, run dialog and dmenu replacement
- Carlisia - Remote Go Meetup and Sourcegraph Chrome Extension
- Sarah - API Blueprint Spec
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Ubuntu Everywhere (Changelog Interviews #207)
Dustin Kirkland joined the show to talk about Ubuntu — the most widely used flavor of Linux. We talked about the rise of Ubuntu, Ubuntu being everywhere, their collaboration with Microsoft to bring Bash to Windows, and what we can expect from the future of this Linux distro.
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Show Notes:
- Ubuntu on Windows – The Ubuntu Userspace for Windows Developers
- Changelog Weekly - Issue #99
- TimeBasedReleases - Ubuntu Wiki
- MUD - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- ReleasePlanning/TimeBased - GNOME Wiki!
- Snappy Ubuntu Core | Cloud | Ubuntu
- Canonical | The company behind Ubuntu
- Mark Shuttleworth
- Ubuntu partners
- Launchpad
- Microsoft Azure: Cloud Computing Platform & Services
- Windows Subsystem for Linux Overview | Windows Subsystem for Linux
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Go and Data Science (Go Time #4)
In this super informative show with Daniel Whitenack we discuss Go and data science. We talk about what data science really is, tools and projects for getting started with data science using Go, and what to expect from Daniel’s talk at GopherCon this year titled “Go for Data Science”.
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Show Notes:
- AlphaGo - a computer program developed by Google DeepMind to play the board game Go
- Big Data Uncovered: What Does A Data Scientist Really Do?
- Uber Argos - Identifying outages with data science
- Apache Spark
- Hadoop
- InfluxDB
- Pachyderm version controls all your data
- My laptop is faster than hadoop
- Golang libraries for data science
- BoltDB - An embedded key/value database for Go
- Gonum
- Gota - DataFrames and data wrangling in Go
Interesting Go Projects and News
- 1.7 freeze
- Peter Bourgon one year of Go’s best practice article
- Dave Chenney’s blog
- Gafka - Tons of Go tools for managing a Kafka cluster
- ChatOps - When communication matters
- The Micro Bot - ChatOps for microservices
- Unik (pronounced Unique) - can compile Go, Java, C/C++ apps into unikernels
Free Software Friday
- Brian - ngrok and Gophers slack #gopherjs channel
- Erik - neovim
- Carlisia - Jupyter Notebook and Daniel’s Go kernel for Jupyter, Gopher Notes
- Daniel - vim-go
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The advantages of being a blind programmer (Changelog Interviews #206)
Parham Doustdar is a blind programmer and joined the show to talk about the advantages he has being a blind programmer, the tools he uses, why he had to quit school, and carving your own path.
Note: We couldn’t stop using visual words when talking with Parham — even he couldn’t help himself. So you’ll get to hear us all laugh at ourselves near the end.
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Show Notes:
- Interviewing a good backend developer (without sight) · Issue #437 · thechangelog/ping
- MUD - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- An Autobiography of a Blind Programmer – Parham Doustdar’s Blog
- The Tools of a Blind Programmer – Parham Doustdar’s Blog
- The Advantages of Being a Blind Programmer – Parham Doustdar’s Blog
- Eclipse desktop & web IDEs
- Aphantasia: “how it feels to be blind in the mind”
- Hero: Uncle Bob
- Hero: Uncle Bob Martin (@unclebobmartin) on Twitter
- Docker - Build, Ship, and Run Any App, Anywhere
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Early Go Adoption (Go Time #3)
Travis Reeder joins the show today to talk about Iron.io, early Go adoption, how Iron.io helps with GoSF and other events for the Go community, the implications of containers at scale, and more.
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Interesting Go Projects and News
- Go compiler speed u
- Build your own static analysis tools:
- Great video on high performance Go by Bjorn Rabenstein
- Dave Cheney presentation: Writing High Performance Go
- Full Oauth2 server in go
- Rqlite: Some of my favorite things, distributed, databases, etcd, raft - replicated sqlite with an http interface
- Older but really awesome: peer-to-peer file synchronization - I use this between several computers, win, mac, linux to synchronize documents and even source code
Free Software Friday
- Brian - Polymer Bindings for GopherJS by Luna Duclos DUCLO
- Erik - fsnotify
- Carlisia - gocyclo
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A protocol for dying (Changelog Interviews #205)
Since airing this show, Pieter passed away due to his battle with a metastasis of bile duct cancer in both lungs. But rather than listen to this show with sadness, listen with a happy heart and let’s celebrate Pieter’s life, and what he has accomplished. Thank you Pieter from the bottom of our hearts for your time on this show and for all that you are. You are loved by us my friend. This show will forever be a very special show for us.
Pieter Hintjens is the creator of ZeroMQ and The Collective Code Construction Contract (C4), a writer of many books and protocols, as well as a developer with decades of building software and communities – he’s someone who’s given so much, and continues to give - even up until the time he is planning for his death.
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Show Notes:
- A Protocol for Dying
- Donate to make Pieter’s childrens’ lives easier, when he’s not there any more
- Planned Death
- Building Online Communities
- Books by Pieter Hintjens
- ZeroMQ Homepage
- The ZeroMQ project on GitHub
- Doron Somech, Pieter’s successor
- ZeroMQ: Modern & Fast Networking Stack by Ilya Grigorik
- ZeroMQ - Get The Software
- ZeroMQ Language Bindings
- ZeroMQ - Solve a Problem
- ZeroMQ - The Guide
- C4 - The Collective Code Construction Contract (C4)
- Changelog Weekly #12
- Changelog Weekly #72
- Changelog Weekly #73
- Changelog Weekly #83
- OpenWrt
- The Changelog #203: Jewelbots and Getting Kids Coding With Sara Chipps and George Stocker
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Go Community Discussions (Go Time #2)
Cory LaNou is our guest this week. He shared what it was like to start open source development after 13 years of programming behind closed doors, and what it was like to have one of his first contributions (a bug fix) be reviewed by Dave Cheney (a very prominent Go developer).
Cory helps to organize several local meetups and shared the details of his work in the community, as well as some inspiring tips for how to get involved.
We also discussed the need for domain knowledge to understand the code you’re reading, microservices and frameworks in Go, reasoning for breaking down an application, performance, and more.
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Show Notes:
Intro Cory
Using microservices
- grpc - A high performance, open source, general RPC framework that puts mobile and HTTP/2 first
- protobuf (Protocol Buffers) - Google’s data interchange format
- Go kit
Mid-show discussion
- Cory gave the closing keynote at Gophercon India 2016 on Community
- Camel all the things
- Do you want to be an open source developer?
- Git reflog for winning at git
- Cory’s list of OSS help wanted projects
- Gophers Slack and #reviews channel
- Go meetups around the world
Interesting Go Projects and News
- Go 1.6.2 Update (Minor update, biggest change is http2 in the net/http client)
- Dave Cheney’s GopherChina talk, Writing High Performance Go
- Micro framework
- Go GetDoc (needs Go 1.6)
Free Software Friday
- Brian - GopherJS
- Erik - Kubernetes
- Carlisia - Haxor News
- Cory https://github.com/fatih/vim-go
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IPFS (InterPlanetary File System) (Changelog Interviews #204)
Juan Benet joined the show to talk about IPFS (InterPlanetary File System), a peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol to make the web faster, safer, and more open — addressed by content and identities. We talked about what it is, how it works, how it can be used, and how it just might save the future of the web.
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Show Notes:
- IPFS is a new peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol.
- IPFS Alpha Demo - YouTube
- Ralph Merkle’s Home Page
- EverythingStays - Immutable & Distributed NodeJS Modules With IPFS
- Self-certifying File System - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Conflict-free replicated data type - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- OpenBazaar
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It's Go Time! (Go Time #1)
In this inaugural show Erik, Brian, and Carlisia kick things off by sharing some recent Go news that caught their attention, what to expect from this show, ways to get in touch, and more.
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Go 1.6.1 and 1.5.4 are released to address two security issues.
Visual Studio Code is downright pleasant for Go development. It won’t ever replace vim-go for me, but i’m impressed. via Brian Ketelsen
The Washington Post Engineering wrote a post titled Embrace Go – A modern programming language
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Jewelbots and Getting Kids Coding (Changelog Interviews #203)
Sara Chipps, the creator of Jewelbots, and George Stocker, the VP of Engineering at Jewelbots joined the show to talk about connected wearables for kids, keeping UX simple, building a business on open source, and influencing young girls through the possibilities of coding.
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Show Notes:
- Jewelbots - The friendship-bracelet for the Smartphone era - Friendship bracelets for the Smartphone Era (social networking, make games and custom friend animations by writing code and uploading it to their Jewelbots, transfer secret messages)
- Jewelbots on GitHub GitHub page for JewelBots!
- Girl Develop It Study material, courses on Web Concepts, HTML, CSS, ANGULAR.JS, Javascript, PHP and more
- Girl Develop It on GitHub GitHub page for Girl Develop It!
- Firebug - Developer Tools for FireFox!
- ngCordova ngCordova is obsolete, please move to Ionic Native!! Ionic Native on GitHub. Documentation for Ionic Native.
- Ionic: Advanced HTML5 Hybrid Mobile App Framework - Offical Website.
- Miguel de Icaza on Wikipedia - Wikipedia page of Miguel de Icaza!
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23 years of Ruby (Changelog Interviews #202)
Big show! Matz, creator of the Ruby programming language, joined the show to discuss where he began as a programmer, the origins of Ruby, its history and future, Ruby 3.0, concurrency and parallelism, Streem, Erlang, Elixir, and more.
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Show Notes:
- Yukihiro Matsumoto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Ruby Programming Language
- Ruby (programming language) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- matz/streem: prototype of stream based programming language
- Pascal (programming language) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Lisp (programming language) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Smalltalk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- mruby/mruby: Lightweight Ruby
- Larry Wall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Alan Kay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- John McCarthy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Ruby Issue Tracking System
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Why SQLite succeeded as a database (Changelog Interviews #201)
This episode is part of our remastered greatest hits collection and features Richard Hipp, the creator of SQLite, talking with us about its history, where it came from, why it has succeeded as a database, how its development has been sustainably funded, and the how and why of it being the most widely deployed database engine in the world.
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Show Notes:
- SQLite Home Page
- GDBM
- fopen(3) - Linux manual page
- Bruce Perens - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia who co-founded the Open Source Initiative (OSI)
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JavaScript and Robots (Changelog Interviews #200)
Raquel Vélez, aka Rockbot, joined the show to talk about where she came from, how she got into programming with JavaScript, her passion for robots and mechanical engineering, the culture of npm, and more.
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Show Notes:
- Google Search “You can’t be it if you can’t see it”
- Beyond Code with Amanda Shih
- Reactive Podcast
- rockbot/vektor
- Smart Latinas Get The Party Started
- JavaScript Robotics: Building NodeBots with Johnny-Five, Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and BeagleBone
- squishy circuits - Google Search
- Donovan Buck (@dtex) on Twitter
- #187: Redux, React, and Functional JavaScript with Dan Abramov
- #149: React.js, React Native, Flux, Relay, and GraphQL with Facebook
- #113: Scale npm with Isaac Schlueter and Charlie Robbins
- npm camp
- Rockbot | Music For Business. Jukebox App for Customers.
- Colleen Bot (@CJBot) on Twitter
- Nicole Sullivan (@stubbornella) on Twitter
- React - A JavaScript library for building user interfaces
- Feross on GitHub
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Your Huginn Agents Are Standing By (Changelog Interviews #199)
Andrew Cantino joined the show to talk with Jerod about Huginn, a system for building agents that perform automated tasks for you online. They can read the web, watch for events, and take actions on your behalf. Think of it as a hackable Yahoo! Pipes plus IFTTT on your own server.
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Haskell Programming (Changelog Interviews #198)
Chris Allen and Julie Moronuki joined the show to talk about Haskell, their book “Haskell Programming”, learning to program, their book writing process, and more.
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- Julie Moronuki – Website, GitHub, X
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- zmanian (Zaki Manian)
- Podcast suggestion: Chris Allen and Julie Moronuki’s Haskell Book · Issue #384 · thechangelog/ping
- How to Learn Haskell in Less Than 5 Years
- Modeling Data in Haskell for Beginners
- Haskell Programming Book
- SuperGinBaby | All of my systems come to naught.
- Haskell Stack Mega-Tutorial
- Yuri the trainer who trains - YouTube
- bitemyapp/learnhaskell: Learn Haskell
- An introduction to LaTeX
- ML (programming language) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Haskell (programming language) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Purescript · Issue #392 · thechangelog/ping
- Hour of Code | Khan Academy
- Argumatronic - Teaching a 10-year-old Haskell: Day One
- Rudolf Carnap - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Armadillidiidae - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Grace Hopper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Simon Peyton Jones - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Haskell Language
- Home - The Haskell Tool Stack
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The future of WordPress and Calypso (Changelog Interviews #197)
Matt Mullenweg, the creator of WordPress and the CEO of Automattic, joined the show to talk about the past, present, and future of WordPress. We talked about the role of JavaScript for WordPress, their new REST API, Calypso, and more.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Dance to Calypso
- Introducing the New WordPress.com
- Automattic
- The Story Behind the New WordPress.com
- State of the Word 2015
- Simplenote
- The Year Without Pants by Scott Berkun
- Beautiful Code
- The Pragmatic Programmer
- Steve Krug - Advanced Common Sense
- Dave Winer - Scripting News
- Joel Spolsky on Software
- Scott Berkun
- George Orwell - Politics and the English Language (1946)
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TiddlyWiki (Changelog Interviews #196)
Jeremy Ruston joined the show to talk about TiddlyWiki — a unique non-linear notebook for capturing, organizing, and sharing complex information. It’s written in JavaScript and sports a custom fake DOM. We talked to Jeremy about his nearly 40 year career in programming, Hackability as a human right, Tiddlers — the atomic unit of data in TiddlyWiki and so much more.
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- TiddlyWiki · Issue #248 · thechangelog/ping
- TiddlyWiki — a non-linear personal web notebook
- TiddlyWiki on GitHub
- MK14 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Hackability as a Human Right — Jermolene TalkyTalky
- Wuthering Bytes - 26th September to 2nd October 2015
- Tiddlywinks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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freeCodeCamp (Changelog Interviews #195)
Quincy Larson is the creator of an open source community called freeCodeCamp. We talked with Quincy about “the secret to getting good at coding”, their curriculum that spans a solid year (totaling 2,080 hours) of deliberate coding practice, plans for financial sustainability of the project, and the people behind it on the leading/teaching side and the camper side.
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- Quincy Larson on Medium
- freeCodeCamp
- Santa Barbara Hackerspace
- GitHub’s All Time Top Repositories
- Why Software Is Eating The World by Marc Andreessen
- Sebastian Thrun on Wikipedia
- Daphne Koller on Wikipedia
- Andrew Ng on Wikipedia
- Jimmy Wales on Wikipedia
- Agency (sociology) on Wikipedia
- LoopBack
- MEAN.IO - MongoDB, Express, Angularjs Node.js powered fullstack web framework
- Free Code Camp’s First Month - Medium
- Learn to Code by Coding - Medium
- lichess.org • Free Online Chess
- Opportunity cost
- #165: Everyone’s Welcome Here (Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots Podcast)
- 5 Coding Podcasts to Enlighten your Commute - Medium
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Elixir and the Future of Phoenix (Changelog Interviews #194)
José Valim joined the show to talk about Elixir. We learned about the early days of José’s start as a programmer. José took us back to the beginning of Elixir and shared why Erlang got him so excited, we broke down features of the language, we talked about functional programming, concurrency, developing for multi-core systems, we talked about the Elixir community, the future of Phoenix, Ecto, and more.
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- José Valim (@josevalim) on Twitter
- José Valim (@josevalim) on GitHub
- Elixir
- Plataformatec
- #147: Elixir and Phoenix with Chris McCord - The Changelog
- Elixir v1.2 and Ecto v1.1 · Issue #339 · thechangelog/ping
- Ruby on Rails
- plataformatec/devise: Flexible authentication solution for Rails with Warden.
- Erlang Programming Language
- jashkenas (Jeremy Ashkenas)
- jashkenas/coffeescript: Unfancy JavaScript
- A Week with Elixir - Joe Armstrong says, “this is good shit.”
- José Valim at Strange Loop 2012 - Elixir: Modern Programming for the Erlang VM
- Programming Ruby “The Pickaxe” by Dave Thomas, Chad Fowler, and Andy Hunt
- #191: Elm and Functional Programming with Richard Feldman - The Changelog
- elixir-lang/ecto - Elixir
- The Pragmatic Bookshelf “Productive |> Reliable |> Fast” by Chris McCord, Bruce Tate, and José Valim
- The Pragmatic Bookshelf “Productive |> Reliable |> Fast” 1.4 by Chris McCord, Bruce Tate, and José Valim
- Introduction - Elixir
- Hero: Guy L. Steele, Jr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Elixir Radar: the weekly email newsletter about Elixir - Plataformatec
- Exception tracking and logging from Elixir to Rollbar (elixir-addicts/rollbax)
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Funding open source (Changelog Interviews #193)
Nadia Eghbal joined the show to discuss a HUGE topic that’s near and dear to our heart – funding open source! We discussed what it takes to fund open source software development, Nadia’s current investigative journalism efforts around funding open source (funded by the Ford Foundation), venture-backed open source projects, what it means for an open source project to be in good shape, some potential solutions to provide better long-term support for open source, and we tried to determine how much the open source of the world might be worth.
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- Nadia Eghbal - Homepage
- Nadia Eghbal (@nayafia) on Twitter
- Nadia Eghbal on Medium
- Subscribe to Building Better Software Updates
- How I Stumbled Upon The Internet’s Biggest Blind Spot — Medium
- Open source was worth at least $143M of Instagram’s $1B acquisition — Medium
- Open source infrastructure: the Q&A — Medium
- What if Facebook were a nonprofit?
- GreatSchools - Public and Private School Ratings, Reviews and Parent Community
- 500 Startups
- Slack Raises $80 Million Fund to Support Platform Strategy - Digits - WSJ
- Ruby Together
- fundingoss.com
- Ford Foundation
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Crystal: Fast as C, Slick as Ruby (Changelog Interviews #192)
Ary Borenszweig and Juan Wajnerman, the folks behind Crystal, joined the show to talk about the goals of the language, how it’s the best of both worlds between Ruby and C, why if it’s so close to and inspired by Ruby why not just give their time/effort to Ruby instead, the new compiler, and we also discussed what’s left before Crystal can go 1.0.
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- Juan Wajnerman – Website, GitHub, X
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- Changelog Weekly - Issue #32
- Manas Technology Solutions (manas.com.ar)
- Crystal Homepage
- Codcore/amethyst
- Hacker News search for “crystal-lang”
- The Future of Crystal
- Compile & Run Code in Crystal (play.crystal-lang.org)
- manastech/crystal
- asterite/crystal
- Initial commit with lexer, parser, ast and visitor · manastech/crystal@220bb8c
- Initial commit · asterite/crystal@50db229
- Support Crystal Language on Bountysource
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Elm and Functional Programming (Changelog Interviews #191)
Richard Feldman from NoRedInk joined the show to talk about Elm and Functional Programming. Elm labeled itself “the best of functional programming in your browser” and boasts “no runtime exceptions.” We talked about the language, whether or not it’s really faster than React, JavaScript fatigue, and the best ways to get started with Elm.
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- Richard Feldman on Twitter
- Evan Czaplicki on GitHub
- mwForum
- Elm
- Style Guide
- Elm Syntax
- Elm From JavaScript
- Elm Docs
- [Podcast Suggestion] Evan Czaplicki - designer, developer of ELM lang · Issue #281 · thechangelog/ping
- Prezi - We’re excited to announce that Evan Czaplicki…
- NoRedInk makes learning grammar fun and easy
- #187: Redux, React, and Functional JavaScript with Dan Abramov - The Changelog
- NoRedInk/elm-rails
- elm-rails 3.0.0
- (99+) Elm Discuss - Google Groups
- Join Elm on Slack!
- Building a Live-Validated Signup Form in Elm — NoRedInk Tech
- Elm Packages
- Join the Changelog community for $20/yr!
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ZeroDB (Changelog Interviews #190)
MacLane Wilkison and Michael Egorov, the creators of ZeroDB, joined the show to talk about ZeroDB — an end-to-end encrypted database (protocol), why it’s open source, how it’s different than other encryption techniques, performance for running encrypted queries, and an interesting topic called Proxy re-encryption.
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- Michael Egorov on GitHub
- MacLane Wilkison on Twitter
- @ZeroDB_ congrats on the launch!
- ZeroDB Homepage
- ZeroDB on GitHub
- ZeroDB on AngelList
- FinTech Innovation Lab London
- ZeroDB Tutorial
- MacLane Wilkison Explains ZeroDB
- ZODB - a native object database for Python
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JSON API and API Design (Changelog Interviews #189)
Yehuda Katz joined the show to talk about JSON.API — where the spec came from, who’s involved, compliance, API design, the future, and more. We also finally got Yehuda on the show alone, so we were able to talk with him about his origins, how he got started as a programmer, and his thoughts on struggle vs aptitude.
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- asm.js - A low-level, extraordinarily optimizable subset of JavaScript
- JSON API — A specification for building APIs in JSON
- Rails: The Next Five Years by Yehuda Katz @ RailsConf 2012
- JSON API: Convention Driven API Design by Steve Klabnik @ APIdays Paris 2013
- New JSON API Specification Aims to Speed API Development
- Building a modern bridge between Ember 2.0 and Rails 5 with JSON API
- The Changelog #42: Rails 3.1 and SproutCore with Yehuda Katz
- The Changelog #56: Vim with Drew Neil, Tim Pope, and Yehuda Katz
- The Changelog #131: The Road to Ember 2.0 with Tom Dale and Yehuda Katz
- The Changelog #151: Rust with Steve Klabnik and Yehuda Katz
- Ember Data v1.13 Released
- Is Ember Fast Yet?
- The Future of the Client-Side Web by Yehuda Katz
- Thor Homepage
- The Law of Leaky Abstractions, by Joel Spolsky
- The NoTCP Manifesto
- A recent tweet stream from Yehuda about his origins…
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DOUBLEHEADER — 24 Pull Requests and Libraries.io + Flynn (Changelog Interviews #188)
We have a special doubleheader holiday show for you. Andrew Nesbitt joined the show to talk about 24 Pull Requests and Libraries.io, and Jonathan Rudenberg is back to catch us up on Flynn.
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- NodeCopter - Programming flying robots with node.js
- NodeCopter - Core
- CoderDojo
- 24pullrequests/24pullrequests
- 24 Pull Requests (@24PullRequests) on Twitter
- 24 Pull Requests / Homepage
- 24 Pull Requests / Sponsors
- 24 Pull Requests / Contributing
- 24 Ways - Web design and development articles and tutorials for advent
- Libraries - The Open Source Discovery Service
- Libraries.io on GitHub
- Libraries.io Support (GitHub Issues)
- howdyai/botkit
- codebar.io
- Despo Pentara (@despo) on Twitter
- Despo Pentara (@despo) on GitHub
- Flynn – The product that ops provides to developers
- The Changelog #99: Flynn, Tent, open source PaaSes and more with Jeff Lindsay and Jonathan Rudenberg
- The Changelog #115: Flynn Updates with Jonathan Rudenberg and Jeff Lindsay
- Deis | Your Paas. Your Rules.
- Dokku - The smallest PaaS implementation you’ve ever seen
- The Changelog #182: Metabase and Open Source Business Intelligence with Sameer Al-Sakran and Tom Robinson
- The Changelog 181: RethinkDB, Databases, and the Realtime Web With Slava Akhmechet
- The Changelog #180: Otto, Vagrant, and Automation with Mitchell Hashimoto
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Redux, React, and Functional JavaScript (Changelog Interviews #187)
Dan Abramov, creator of Redux, joined the show to talk about his path to becoming a programmer, his introduction to open source, React, JavaScript, functional programming in JavaScript, his thoughts on looking outside of your bubble to other ecosystems and borrowing/sharing what you can.
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- [Guest idea] Dan Abramov (Redux) · Issue #317 · thechangelog/ping
- Redux Homepage and Docs
- rackt/redux
- “We do not need another Flux framework. We have about 50,000 Flux frameworks.” – @rookieone on #BeyondCode
- Getting Started with Redux Course by Dan Abramov on Egghead.io
- Relay | A JavaScript framework for building data-driven React applications
- Flux | Application Architecture for Building User Interfaces
- By any means necessary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Dan Abramov - Live React: Hot Reloading with Time Travel at react-europe 2015 - YouTube
- acdlite/flummox
- omcljs/om
- David Nolen (@swannodette) on GitHub
- Elm
- Middleware | Redux
- Richard Feldman (@rtfeldman) on GitHub
- The Changelog #151: Rust with Steve Klabnik and Yehuda Katz
- Hero: Jordan Walke (@jordwalke) on Twitter
- Hero: Sebastian Markbåge (@sebmarkbage) on Twitter
- Hero: Steve Klabnik (@steveklabnik) on Twitter
- RLRT: Nice interview by @changelog about #rustlang - could give it a try in the following weeks :)
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Building the Ultimate Hacking Keyboard (Changelog Interviews #186)
László Monda (aka Lotsy) joined the show to talk about a keyboard for hackers — the Ultimate Hacking Keyboard. We discussed the features, the hardware design, the open source that powers it, and more.
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- UltimateHackingKeyboard/agent
- UltimateHackingKeyboard/firmware
- UltimateHackingKeyboard/ugl-kicad-libs
- UltimateHackingKeyboard/bootloader-left
- UltimateHackingKeyboard/bootloader-right
- From the Ground Up: How I Built the Developer’s Dream Keyboard
- Ultimate Hacking Keyboard’s campaign on Crowd Supply
- Ultimate Hacking Keyboard - Image Gallery
- KiCad EDA
- Hero: John Carmack
- Hero: Coding Horror (Jeff Atwood)
- Hero: Dean Camera (@abcminiuser) on Twitter
- Hero: Dean Camera’s “Four Walled Cubicle”
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Kong, APIs, Microservices (Changelog Interviews #185)
Ahmad Nassri from Mashape joined the show to talk about Kong, an open-source management layer for APIs and Microservices.
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- Kong
- Kong’s plugin gallery
- Justin Dorfman pinged us
- Mashape - Powering API Driven Software
- NginX adds JavaScript scripting
- Lua
- Cassandra
- Issue to add Postgres support to Kong
- Hero: Grace Hopper
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Discussing Vue.js and Personal Projects (Changelog Interviews #184)
Evan You joined the show to talk about Vue.js - his library for building web interfaces. We discussed what Vue.js offers, what makes it different, why developers should trust this project even if it’s “just a personal project” that’s not backed by an enterprise or a large team.
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- The Changelog #160: Ampersand.js, SPAs, and WebRTC with Henrik Joreteg
- The Changelog #149: React.js, React Native, Flux, Relay, and GraphQL with Facebook
- Creative Lab 5
- Vue.js Homepage
- Vue.js on GitHub
- Vue.js Examples
- Vue.js: a (re)introduction
- Changelog Weekly - Issue #24
- Issue Stats
- Nicholas Young on Twitter: “Listening to The @changelog’s episode on @metabase, and realizing I couldn’t build businesses without open source.
- vuejs/vue-hackernews
- Hero: Zach Lieberman (@zachlieberman) on Twitter
- Hero: Aaron Koblin
- Hero: TJ Holowaychuk (@tjholowaychuk) on Twitter
- omcljs/om
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The Offline First Revolution and Speech Recognition (Changelog Interviews #183)
Tal Ater joined the show to talk about the offline first revolution, the use of service workers, how UpUp is helping on that front, speech recognition, and annyang.
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- UpUp - The Offline First Library
- TalAter/UpUp
- annyang! Easily add speech recognition to your site
- TalAter/annyang
- Introduction to Service Workers on HTML5 Rocks
- The Open Sourcer
- Hero: Jake Archibald
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Metabase & open source Business Intelligence (Changelog Interviews #182)
Sameer Al-Sakran and Tom Robinson from Metabase joined the show to discuss Metabase - their open source tool that’s laying the foundation of their goals for open source business intelligence.
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- Harvest – Simple online time tracking software.
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- Metabase
- metabase/metabase
- Metabase Discussion
- Maslow’s hierarchy of needs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- 280 North, Inc. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Objective-J - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Cappuccino (application development framework) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- AWS | Amazon Redshift - Cloud Data Warehouse Solutions
- Justin Dorfman: @metabase looks awesome, can’t wait to try it out. How do you plan to sustain it? Will there be a pro version?
- Jeff Dean (computer scientist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- John Carmack - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- TensorFlow
- The Changelog #149: React.js, React Native, Flux, Relay, and GraphQL with Facebook
- The Changelog #171: Living Clojure, ClojureScript, and more with Carin Meier
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RethinkDB, Databases, the Realtime Web (Changelog Interviews #181)
Slava Akhmechet joined the show again to catch us up on RethinkDB and the awesome progress they’ve made to power the realtime web. We talked about innovation in databases, compared and contrasted to pub/sub, Pusher, NoSQL, and even The Next Big Thing™ in databases.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- The Changelog #114: RethinkDB with Slava Akhmechet
- Learn to code like it’s 1996
- How to pick startup ideas
- RethinkDB: the open-source database for the realtime web
- Support Facebook’s GraphQL · Issue #3711 · rethinkdb/rethinkdb
- Pusher | Leader In Realtime Technologies
- Build Realtime Apps & Take Websockets To The Next Level - PubNub
- Firebase - Build Extraordinary Apps
- NextGxDx | The Genetic Testing Resource.
- The world’s most wearable camera - Narrative
- Fidelity Investments - Retirement, Funds, and Online Trading
- An overview of C++14 language features
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Otto, Vagrant, Automation (Changelog Interviews #180)
Mitchell Hashimoto joined the show to talk about HashiCorp’s new tool - Otto, how it compares to and compliments Vagrant, Automation, and we even talked to Mitchell about his history with software development in the beginning of the show.
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- Backtrace – Reduce your time to resolution. Go beyond stacktraces and logs. Get to the root cause quickly with deep application introspection at your fingertips.
- Linode – Our cloud server of choice! We host everything we do on Linode servers. Use the code
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- HashiCorp
- The Changelog #72: Vagrant with Mitchell Hashimoto
- The Changelog #88: Vagrant, HashiCorp and Beyond with Mitchell Hashimoto
- A 25-Year-Old Coding Genius Was Making $500,000 A Year In College, And He Just Raised $10 Million For A Startup
- Otto - Development and Deployment Made Easy
- Otto Announcement
- Otto, The Successor to Vagrant
- Getting Started with Otto
- Otto vs. Vagrant
- Vagrant
- Vagrant + VMware
- The Changelog #163: Go in the Modern Enterprise Using gokit with Peter Bourgon
- HashiConf
- sysdig
- InfluxDB
- The Changelog #168: Prometheus and Service Monitoring with Julius Volz from SoundCloud
- The Changelog #170: BoltDB, InfluxDB and more with Ben Johnson
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Caddy HTTP/2 Web Server (Changelog Interviews #179)
Matt Holt and Sebastian Erhart joined the show to talk about Caddy the HTTP/2 web server written in Go. It’s time to serve the web like it’s 2015!
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- Sebastian Erhart – GitHub, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Caddy - The HTTP/2 Web Server Made for Humans
- Caddy on GitHub
- Experimental install script (some hate piping into bash, but others find it convenient)
- mholt/caddy
- Let’s Encrypt
- xenolf/lego on GitHub
- A technical look at the inside of Caddy (Go language)
- [Podcast Suggestion] Matt Holt - Caddy HTTP/2 Web Server
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OAuth 2.0, Oz, Node.js, Hapi.js (Changelog Interviews #178)
Eran Hammer joined the show to talk about updates to Hapi.js, Node.js, OAuth, and deep discussions about Oz – Eran’s replacement for OAuth 2.0.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- Sideway (@sideway) | Twitter
- hapi.js (@hapijs) | Twitter
- On Leaving Walmart | hueniverse
- hueniverse/oz
- oz/LICENSE at master · hueniverse/oz
- Auth to See the Wizard | hueniverse
- OAuth 2.0 and the Road to Hell | hueniverse
- RFC 5849 - The OAuth 1.0 Protocol
- RFC 6749 - The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework
- OAuth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- The Changelog #116: Node Black Friday at Walmart with Eran Hammer
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Cylon.js, Gobot, Artoo, IoT (Changelog Interviews #177)
Ron Evans, ringleader of The Hybrid Group and creator of a fleet of open source robot libraries, joined the show to talk about open source and robotics, Cylon.js, Gobot, Artoo, teaching, KidsRuby, his programming hero, and more.
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- Opbeat for AngularJS – Performance monitoring for AngularJS. Instantly pinpoint performance issues, and optimize your code. Install in minutes.
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- imgix – Real-time Image Processing. Resize, crop, and process images on the fly, simply by changing their URLs.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- The Changelog #150: Internet Connected Things Using Spark With Zach Supalla
- Particle (@particle) on Twitter
- Highway1 - The home for hardware entrepreneurs
- dmca/2014-10-05-tildeslash.md at master · github/dmca
- cjb/GitTorrent
- Parrot USA - Bebop Drone, Minidrones, Zik 2.0, Hands-free car kits, Automotive OEM
- DJI - The World Leader in Camera Drones/Quadcopters for Aerial Photography
- Artoo - Ruby framework for robotics, physical computing, and the Internet of Things
- Gobot - Golang framework for robotics, physical computing, and the Internet of Things
- Cylon.js - JavaScript framework for robotics, physical computing, and the Internet of Things using Node.js
- BB-8™ by Sphero – Sphero Store
- gigasquid/clj-drone
- Los Angeles & San Francisco JavaScript, Ruby on Rails, Cloud Computing, Internet of Things - The Hybrid Group
- CHARLIE GERARD
- Hero: Jim Weirich
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CROSSOVER — CodeNewbie and Community (Changelog Interviews #176)
Saron Yitbarek, creator of CodeNewbie and the CodeNewbie podcast, joined the show to talk about helping more people discover software development, embarrassing moments, lessons learned along the way, and more.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- CodeNewbie
- CodeNewbie Patreon
- About Saron
- Flatiron School
- Ruby Rogues
- Contently
- Hero - Katrina Owen (@kytrinyx) on Twitter
- The Changelog #108: Exercism.io with Katrina Owen
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OSCON and Open Source (Changelog Interviews #175)
Rachel Roumeliotis, the Strategic Content Director at O’Reilly Media, joined the show to talk about the history of OSCON, what you can expect from this year’s conference and the importance of open source software.
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- Open source won, so what’s next? - O’Reilly Radar
- Why Rust? - O’Reilly Media
- How to experience OSCON Amsterdam 2015 - O’Reilly Radar
- Better code is cheaper - O’Reilly Radar
- OSCON in Amsterdam - O’Reilly Conferences, 26 - 28, October 2015
- About: Open Source Convention - O’Reilly OSCON, July 20 - 24, 2015 in Portland, OR
- Hero: Guido van Rossum - Best known as the author of the Python programming language
- The Cloudcast
- Work With Us – O’Reilly Media
- The Changelog #163: Go in the Modern Enterprise Using gokit with Peter Bourgon
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Metasploit, InfoSec, Open Source (Changelog Interviews #174)
Trevor Rosen and James “Egypt” Lee joined the show to talk about Metasploit, a collaboration of the open source community and Rapid7 – its penetration testing software that helps you verify vulnerabilities and manage security assessments.
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- Trevor Rosen – Website, GitHub, X
- James "Egypt" Lee – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Rapid7
- GopherCon
- Metasploit Project - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- rapid7/metasploit-framework
- Mumble, the open source VoIP solution
- mumble-voip/mumble
- Kali Linux | Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking Linux Distribution
- gentilkiwi/mimikatz
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CROSSOVER — Turing-Incomplete (Changelog Interviews #173)
The entire crew behind Turing-Incomplete podcast joined the show to talk about the history and focus of their show, the ins and outs of technical podcasting, software industry trends, and more.
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- Sentry – An open source realtime error logging platform that gives you the insight you need into the errors that affect your customers.
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- Pam Selle – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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This “crossover” style show (where we invite other podcasters on) is new for us. Let us know if you’d like to hear more like this or if you prefer we stick to our bread and butter.
- Turing-Incomplete
- Pam Selle (@pamasaur) on Twitter
- Jearvon Dharrie (@jearvon) on Twitter
- Justin Campbell (@justincampbell) on Twitter
- Len Smith (@ignu) on Twitter
- Burn your résumé: Finding your next job as an engineer
- Simply Secure
- Learn to Program the World’s Most Bodacious Language with Clojure for the Brave and True
- Etherpad
- Qloudstat - Analytics & monitoring for access logs in Amazon S3
- Turing-Incomplete - Propositions as Types w/ Brian McKenna
- Turing-Incomplete - Umlauts are Metal with Kelsey Gilmore-Innis
- Turing-Incomplete - Mudit Ameta
- Turing-Incomplete - Raquel Vélez
- Turing-Incomplete - Origin Stories
- Turing-Incomplete - Corey Haines on Simple Design
- Turing-Incomplete - 2014 Retrospective
- Uncle Bob Martin (@unclebobmartin) on Twitter
- ReactiveX/RxJS
- Livecoding.tv - Watch Engineers code Products live.
- Changelog Weekly - Issue #68
- Clean Coder
- Call Recorder for Skype
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GitUp and the UX of Git (Changelog Interviews #172)
Pierre-Olivier Latour joined the show to talk about his history as a software developer - everything from creating Quartz Composer, working at Apple, to his new project GitUp and the user experience of Git.
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- Pierre-Olivier Latour
- Pierre-Olivier Latour | LinkedIn
- MARC (archive) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Minitel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- OpenGL - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Out of the picture: why the world’s best photo startup is going out of business | The Verge
- Everpix
- everpix/Everpix-Intelligence
- Photos - Google Photos
- swisspol (Pierre-Olivier Latour)
- swisspol/GCDWebServer
- GitUp
- git-up/GitUp
- libgit2/libgit2
- Changelog Nightly - 2015-08-19
- jayeb (Jason Eberle)
- The Changelog #124: Tedit, JS-Git, and Jack with Tim Caswell
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Clojure, ClojureScript, and Living Clojure (Changelog Interviews #171)
Carin Meier joined the show to talk about Clojure, ClojureScript, her book Living Clojure, all the fun things she loves about math, physics, and creating a programming language.
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- Carin Meier (@gigasquid) on GitHub
- Carin Meier (@gigasquid) on Twitter
- Living Clojure by Carin Meier
- Rich Hickey’s Greatest Hits - Changelog
- gigasquid/babar
- Amazon.com: The Martian: A Novel eBook: Andy Weir: Kindle Store
- Elephant 2000: A Programming Language Based on Speech Acts
- SuperMegaUltraGroovy
- (for-clojure)
- gigasquid/wonderland-clojure-katas
- pixie-lang/pixie
- Chris Liscio - Çingleton 2011 on Vimeo
- Parens of the Dead - Screencast series on zombie-themed games written with Clojure and ClojureScript
- Hero: Jim Weirich
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BoltDB, InfluxDB, Key-Value Databases (Changelog Interviews #170)
Ben Johnson joined the show to talk about BoltDB, InfluxDB, and several other key-value store databases out there and why he’s so passionate about developing open source software.
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Show Notes:
- Ben Johnson on Twitter
- Ben Johnson on GitHub
- BoltDB - Embedded key/value store
- LMDB - Key/value store BoltDB is based on
- LevelDB - Popular embedded key/value store from Google
- InfluxDB - Timeseries database written in Go that Ben works on
- Parquet - Columnar storage format that Ben is porting to Go
- The Secret Lives of Data
- [Hero] Ilya Grigorik on GitHub
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Middleman and Static Site Generators (Changelog Interviews #169)
Thomas Reynolds, the creator of Middleman, joined the show to talk about the history of static site generators, how he got into open-source, his love for Go, and what’s to come in Middleman v4.
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- Middleman: Hand-crafted frontend development
- staticmatic/staticmatic
- My Weird Ruby « Thomas Reynolds
- Middleman: Upgrading to v4
- hamstergem/hamster
- egonSchiele/contracts.ruby
- bhollis (Ben Hollis)
- karlfreeman (Karl Freeman)
- Arcovion (Eliott Appleford)
- People · Middleman
- Pixi.js - 2D webGL renderer with canvas fallback
- Reach any screen. API-first CMS for multi-device publishing - Contentful
- Netlify: The premium hosting service for modern static websites
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Prometheus and service monitoring (Changelog Interviews #168)
Julius Volz from SoundCloud joined the show to talk about Prometheus, an open-source service monitoring system written in Go.
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- Julius Volz (@juliusvolz) on Twitter
- Julius Volz (@juliusv) on GitHub
- Prometheus Homepage
- Prometheus on GitHub
- Prometheus Community
- Prometheus Google Group
- What is Prometheus?
- Monitoring at SoundCloud with Prometheus
- Push vs Pull for Monitoring | Big Data for Travel – Boxever
- Icinga | Open Source Monitoring
- Nagios - The Industry Standard in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
- The Changelog #167: Mesos and Mesosphere DCOS with Tobi Knaup
- The Changelog #163: Go in the Modern Enterprise Using gokit with Peter Bourgon
- Björn Rabenstein (@beorn7) on GitHub
- John Carmack (Wikipedia)
- Rob Pike (Wikipedia)
- Dmitry Vyukov (@dvyukov) on Twitter
- Changelog Community Membership (get access to our members only Slack room)
- Changelog Weekly
- Changelog Nightly
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Mesos and Mesosphere DCOS (Changelog Interviews #167)
Tobi Knaup, co-founder & CTO of Mesosphere joined the show to talk about the datacenter operating system, and all the open source around it.
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- Tobi Knaup (@superguenter) on Twitter
- Tobi Knaup (@guenter) on GitHub
- The Mesosphere Datacenter Operating System
- CoreOS is Linux for Massive Server Deployments
- mesos/chronos
- Kubernetes by Google
- Mesosphere
- Caffe | Deep Learning Framework
- Marc Andreessen
- Prometheus
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JavaScript in the Wild at NEJS Conf (Changelog Interviews #166)
Jerod Santo took off his host hat this show and joined Zach Leatherman, and Nick Nisi, his co-organizers of NEJS Conf to talk about JavaScript in the wild in Omaha, Nebraska.
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- Nick Nisi (@nicknisi) on Twitter
- Jerod Santo (@jerodsanto) on Twitter
- NEJS Conf
- Big Wheel Brigade
- Making NEJS Conf Inclusive and Accessible
- Hero: John Resig
- The Superbytes
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Betting the company on Elixir and Ember (Changelog Interviews #165)
Brian Cardarella joined the show to talk about the bet he’s placed on Elixir and Ember to be the focus of his company.
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- Brian Cardarella (@bcardarella) | Twitter
- Brian Cardarella on GitHub
- Elixir - A dynamic, functional language designed for building scalable and maintainable application
- DockYard - Web and Mobile User Experience Consultancy
- The New DockYard.com
- Ember.js - Ember.AutoLocation
- Robert Jackson (@rwjblue) | Twitter
- Ember.js - A framework for creating ambitious web applications.
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Semantic UI Returns (Changelog Interviews #164)
Jack Lukic is back again to talk about what’s new with Semantic UI, the progress he, 104 contributors, and hundreds of translators have made towards a front-end standard only rivaled by Twitter’s Bootstrap numbers. We discuss the why and the how of him dedicating everything he has to Semantic UI and the potential it brings.
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- Semantic UI
- Semantic-Org/Semantic-UI-Meteor
- Translating Semantic UI Docs · Semantic-Org/Semantic-UI Wiki
- Semantic-Org/Semantic-UI
- The Changelog #106: Semantic UI with Jack Lukic
- purifycss/purifycss
- Introducing Incremental DOM
- Bootstrap’s Homepage
- Matt-Esch/virtual-dom
- Semantic UI - Investors
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Go in the Modern Enterprise and Go Kit (Changelog Interviews #163)
Peter Bourgon joined the show to talk about building microservices using Go in the modern enterprise and his microservices toolkit Go kit.
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- Register for Gopher Slack and talk to Peter and other Gophers in Gopher Slack. Check out the #gotimefm channel and our Go Time podcast too.
- go-kit/kit
- Go kit: Go in the modern enterprise
- (21) Go kit - Google Groups
- Go and the Modern Enterprise - Peter Bourgon - London Go Gathering 2015 - YouTube
- Gophercon 2015
- Weaveworks • Weave - All you need to connect, observe and control your containers
- The Changelog #3: Google’s Go Programming Language
- weaveworks
- go-kit/kit
- kit/log at master · go-kit/kit
- kit/metrics at master · go-kit/kit
- kit/circuitbreaker at master · go-kit/kit
- kit/loadbalancer at master · go-kit/kit
- kit/ratelimit at master · go-kit/kit
- kit/tracing at master · go-kit/kit
- Dapper, a Large-Scale Distributed Systems Tracing Infrastructure
- Distributed Systems Tracing with Zipkin | Twitter Blogs
- twitter/zipkin
- Announcing Appdash, an open-source perf tracing suite - The Sourcegraph Blog
- Incubation Status Template - Apache Incubator
- kit/addsvc at master · go-kit/kit
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Octopress 3.0 (Changelog Interviews #162)
Brandon Mathis joined the show to tell us all about the much anticipated 3.0 release of Octopress - his Jekyll-based blogging framework for hackers. Octopress 3.0 is a complete rewrite and has been in the works for quite a while. We find out why Brandon decided to go for The Big Rewrite and what’s been taking so long (hint: it’s not because the dude’s been slackin’).
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- Brandon Mathis :: Design Enthusiast :: Blog
- Brandon Mathis on CodePen
- Octopress 3.0 is coming
- The Web 2.0 Show #45: GitHub
- David Lanham
- Octopress GitHub Org
- octopress/octopress
- octopress/genesis-theme
- The Changelog #17: Open Source publishing with Geoffrey Grosenbach, Brandon Mathis, and Tim Caswell
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The HTTP/2 Spec (Changelog Interviews #161)
Ilya Grigorik is back again — this time we’re talking about his true passion, internet plumbing, web performance, and the HTTP/2 spec. We cover everything around HTTP/2, the spec, HTTP/1 history, SPDY, binary framing layer, the semantics of HTTP/2, pipelining, multiplexing, header compression (HPACK), server push, TLS, “time to glass”, upgrading, adoption, support, and more.
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- Ilya Grigorik – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Ilya Grigorik (@igrigorik) on Twitter
- Ilya Grigorik on GitHub
- The Changelog #55: Goliath, Event Machine, and SPDY with Ilya Grigorik
- The Changelog #144: GitHub Archive and Changelog Nightly with Ilya GrigorikChangelog
- High Performance Browser Networking
- Chapter 12. HTTP/2 - High Performance Browser Networking
- HTTP/2 in one slide
- Application-Layer Protocol Negotiation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Is TLS Fast Yet?
- Implementations · http2/http2-spec Wiki
- h2o/h2o
- Nghttp2: HTTP/2 C Library - nghttp2.org
- Jetty - Servlet Engine and Http Server
- Website Performance Optimization Testing Course - Udacity
- SPDY: An experimental protocol for a faster web - The Chromium Projects
- Changelog Weekly - Issue #54
- Changelog Weekly - Issue #55
- Google’s Ilya Grigorik on HTTP 2.0
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Ampersand.js, SPAs, WebRTC (Changelog Interviews #160)
Henrik Joreteg joined the show to talk about Single Page Apps (SPAs), Ampersand.js, WebRTC, JavaScript coding styles, and more.
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Henrik Joreteg is a JavaScript Developer, the author of Human JavaScript, and the creator of Ampersand.js.
- Henrik Joreteg (@HenrikJoreteg) on Twitter
- Henrik Joreteg on GitHub
- &yet
- Read Human JavaScript for free online!
- Ampersand.js
- Intro to npm, Browserify & Modules
- Henrik’s “A Single Page Story” talk
- RealtimeConf 2015
- Subscribe to Changelog Weekly
- Did You Pick the Wrong Web Framework?!
- MonolithFirst
- feross/standard
- Backbone.js
- HenrikJoreteg/SimpleWebRTC
- WebRTC in the real world: STUN, TURN and signaling - HTML5 Rocks
- ORTC (Object RTC) | Object API for RTC – Mobile, Server, Web
- Otalk
- Loren Brichter (@lorenb) on Twitter
- Loren Brichter on GitHub
- TJ Holowaychuk on GitHub
- Feross Aboukhadijeh on GitHub
- Guillermo Rauch on GitHub
- React Native
- Surge - Static Web Publishing for Front-End Developers
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Sustaining Open Source Software (Changelog Interviews #159)
Mike Perham joined the show to talk about sustaining open source software, living a healthy life, how to treat one another, and more.
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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Mike Perham is a well known open source software developer and author of the beloved Sidekiq and Inspeqtor.
- Mike Perham (@mperham) on Twitter
- Mike Perham on Twitter “I would be happy to chat with podcasters or bloggers about sustainable OSS to raise more awareness of the subject.”
- Sidekiq - background processing for Ruby
- Inspeqtor - application infrastructure monitoring
- The Changelog #130: Inspeqtor and OSS Products with Mike Perham
- 410 Gone on Twitter: “You can find me on github, but other than that, no more. Sorry. If it’s not directly related to work, I’m done.”
- 410 Gone on Twitter: “I also feel the need to say that this has been a few years’ coming, if you’re just reading my TL, you probably don’t get it.”
- Daniel Stenberg (@bagder) on Twitter
- Burnout — Medium
- Medium search for “burnout”
- Hacker News search for “burnout”
- Rubber duck debugging - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Help Ian Warshak Climb Mt Kilimanjaro (GoFundMe)
- Buy a Changelog tee shirt for $20 (they’re super comfy)
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Building Bridges (Changelog Interviews #157)
Sarah Allen, cofounder of RailsBridge and Bridge Foundry, joined the show to talk about the incredible ability to make something with software, leading and teaching a community, teaching programming to kids, programming is a life skill, and more.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Beverly Nelson – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
In her day job, Sarah works with 18F to transform US Government digital services, and in her spare time works to diversify Ruby on Rails with RailsBridge, and Bridge Foundry.
We also have Beverly Nelson joining today’s show as a guest host.
- Sarah Allen (@ultrasaurus) on Twitter
- on being an ally - the evolving ultrasaurus
- the evolving ultrasaurus - Sarah Allen’s reflections on internet software and other topics
- The Changelog #146: Mind the Gender Parity Gap with Sarah Mei
- Git Resources for Visual Learners - The Changelog
- Photosynthesis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- ng-bridge/organizing
- Bridge Troll
- railsbridge/bridge_troll
- 18F/midas
- Midas
- ENIAC
- Kathleen “Kay” McNulty
- Betty Jean Jennings
- ENIAC Programmers Project
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Modern WordPress using Bedrock and Sage (Changelog Interviews #156)
Ben Word and Scott Walkinshaw joined the show to talk about a more modern WordPress stack, Bedrock and Sage, dependency management, WordPress deployment, smarter development setup with tools like Ansible and Vagrant, and more.
If you’re someone who wants to use WordPress in more modern ways, this show is for you.
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Ben and Scott run Roots, a team of folks who help you build better WordPress sites faster with Bedrock and Sage.
- Ben Word (@retlehs) on Twitter
- Ben Word (@retlehs) on GitHub
- Scott Walkinshaw (@swalkinshaw) on Twitter
- Scott Walkinshaw (@swalkinshaw) on GitHub
- Roots - Modern WordPress Development
- Sage - WordPress Starter Theme
- roots/sage
- Bedrock - Modern WordPress Stack
- roots/bedrock
- Composer - Dependency Manager for PHP
- Blueprint CSS (super old, but it’s where things began)
- roots/bedrock-ansible
- roots/roots-example-project.com
- [Screencast] Using Composer With WordPress
- Screencasts from Roots
- The Changelog #142: Laravel PHP Framework with Taylor Otwell
- Ansible - DevOps made simple
- Vagrant - Create and configure lightweight, reproducible, and portable development environments
- Varying-Vagrant-Vagrants/VVV
- BrowserSync - Time-saving synchronised browser testing
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GopherCon 2015 (Changelog Interviews #158)
Brian Ketelsen and Erik St. Martin, the organizers of GopherCon, joined the show to talk about what it takes to create and run a conference like GopherCon, the size of the event, the speaking track, after-parties, hack day, workshops, and more. We also covered their focus on diversity with their Diversity Scholarship Support Fund that anyone can support, even those who don’t plan to attend, as well as their child care options to ensure even those with children have the opportunity to attend.
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Changelog will be at GopherCon 2015! Yes, we’re taking The Changelog and Changelog Films on the road to cover GopherCon 2015 so make sure you say hi when you see us.
- Erik St. Martin (@erikstmartin) | Twitter
- erikstmartin (Erik St. Martin)
- Brian Ketelsen (@bketelsen) | Twitter
- bketelsen (Brian Ketelsen)
- Gophercon 2015
- Gophercon 2015 - Sponsors
- GopherCon Kickoff Party - Denver Gophers Meetup (Tuesday, July 7, 2015)
- Gophercon 2015 - After Party
- The Changelog’s 2015 Conference Scene · Issue #129 · thechangelog/ping
- Beyond Code - Season 1 Teaser
- Changelog Weekly
- Go in Action
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The Future of Node.js (Changelog Interviews #155)
Scott Hammond, the CEO of Joyent, joined the show to talk about the history of Node, Joyent’s interest in Node, how they’ve handled the stewardship of Node over the years, their support of io.js joining Node Foundation, the convergence of the code bases for a stronger more inclusive Node community.
At the tail end of the show, just when you think it’s over, keep listening because we got Scott back on the call to discuss the news that came this week of the io.js TC voting to join Node Foundation.
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Joyent has been the core sponsor and steward of Node.js since its beginning.
- @Scott_Hammond on Twitter
- Joyent.com
- Joyent on GitHub
- @mikeal - “io.js TC just voted to join the Node Foundation.”
- io.js TC Meeting 2015-05-13
- io.js TC Meeting 2015-05-13 Issue on GitHub
- merge vs rebase ontop of io.js (GitHub Issue #6)
- Node.js Advisory Board
- Growing Up - io.js needs a foundation
- joyent/node
- iojs/io.js
- node.js & io.js convergence repo - jasnell/node.js-convergence
- The Node.js Foundation benefits all
- Node.js and io.js leaders are building an open, neutral Node.js Foundation to support the future of the platform
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All Things Ruby with 2015's Ruby Heroes (Changelog Interviews #154)
Our guests this week are 2015’s RUBY HEROES! Big show today, lots of great Ruby talk with these heroes, great insights from this past year of Ruby, and more.
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And here are this year’s Ruby Heroes:
- Eileen Uchitelle - @eileencodes
- Jeremy Evans - @jeremyevans0
- Nobuyoshi Nakada - @n0kada
- Sam Saffron - @samsaffron
- Sarah Mei - @sarahmei
- Zachary Scott - @_zzak
- Ruby Hero Awards
- Ruby Heroes Awards Video
- nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)
- eileencodes (Eileen M. Uchitelle)
- sarahmei (Sarah Mei)
- zzak (Zachary Scott)
- jeremyevans (Jeremy Evans)
- SamSaffron (Sam)
- hone (Terence Lee)
- Gregg (Gregg Pollack)
- mruby
- ko1 (Koichi Sasada)
- Opal: Ruby to Javascript Compiler
- Roda: Routing Tree Web Framework Toolkit
- seattlerb/minitest
- discourse/discourse_docker
- Ruby Together
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17 Years of curl (Changelog Interviews #153)
Daniel Stenberg joined the show to talk about curl and libcurl and how he has spent at least 2 hours every day for the past 17 years working on and maintaining curl. That’s over 13k hours! We covered the origins of curl, how he chooses projects to work on, why he has remained so dedicated to curl all these years, the various version control systems curl has used, licensing, and more.
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
We talk through the past 17 years of this staple tool to the community and hear what Daniel has learned on his journey.
- Follow Daniel on Twitter
- daniel.haxx.se
- Daniel Stenberg on YouTube
- curl and libcurl
- curl on the NASDAQ tower
- curl, 17 years old today
- curl - Changes
- curl - Companies Using curl
- curl - Man page
- curl - THANKS
- Make a Donation to the curl Project
- The commit that started it all – bagder/curl
- Listen to the teaser for this episode to learn about a “magic feature” of curl that’s been there for over 6 years
- Richard Stallman’s Personal Page
- Richard Stallman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Linus Torvalds - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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BONUS — Magic cURL Feature (Changelog Interviews)
This is a bonus clip from the after call with Daniel Stenberg for episode #153. Daniel shared the details of a “magic feature” in cURL that’s been there for over 6 years. It’s a feature he feels most people don’t know exists.
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To start using this “magic feature”, create a .curlrc dotfile in your root with the following settings to set the -O flag by default on all URLs fetched using cURL.
# Default to -O
--remote-name-all
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TypeScript and open source at Microsoft (Changelog Interviews #152)
Anders Hejlsberg and Jonathan Turner from the TypeScript team at Microsoft joined the show to talk about TypeScript, a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript from Microsoft. We cover Microsoft’s acceptance and support of open source, why they open sourced TypeScript, the language design, adoption, how to get started, and the future of the language.
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- Jonathan Turner – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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Anders is the language architect and Jonathan is the Program Manager for TypeScript.
- Roadmap · Microsoft/TypeScript Wiki
- Microsoft/TypeScript
- Welcome to TypeScript
- Follow Jonathan Turner on Twitter
- Follow Anders Hejlsberg on Twitter
- Delphi (programming language) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Turbo Pascal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Handbook - Welcome to TypeScript
- Microsoft/TypeScript-Sublime-Plugin
- palantir/eclipse-typescript
- atom-typescript
- borisyankov/DefinitelyTyped
- Home | DefinitelyTyped
- TypeScript/spec.md at master · Microsoft/TypeScript
- Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs (Prentice-Hall Series in Automatic Computation): Niklaus Wirth: 9780130224187: Amazon.com: Books
- Niklaus Wirth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Architectural Overview · Microsoft/TypeScript Wiki
- The Changelog #134: Open Sourcing .NET Core with the Microsoft .NET team
- The Changelog #148: The State of Go in 2015 with Andrew Gerrand
- The Changelog #151: Rust with Steve Klabnik and Yehuda Katz
- Monaca
- Gerrit Code Review
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The Rust Programming Language (Changelog Interviews #151)
Steve Klabnik and Yehuda Katz joined the show to talk about the Rust Programming Language, a systems programming language from Mozilla Research. We covered memory safety without garbage collection, security, the Rust 1.0 Beta, getting started with Rust, and we even hypothesize about the future of the Rust.
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- Yehuda Katz – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Steve and Yehuda are core team members of Rust.
- Steve Klabnik
- Yehuda Katz
- Steve Klabnik comments on “Rust 1.0.0 beta is here!” on Reddit
- Rust Means Never Having to Close a Socket
- The Rust Programming Language
- The Rust Programming Language on Reddit
- Style Guidelines
- Cargo, Rust’s Package Manager
- Zinc: An experimental attempt to write an ARM stack that would be similar to CMSIS or mbed in capabilities but would show rust’s best safety features applied to embedded development.
- Skylight
- Is the six-week release cycle too frequent? - Proposals - Ember.JS
- Yehuda Katz on Twitter: “Just posted a long set of thoughts on the 6-week-release-cycle discussion we’ve been having on the Ember Discourse”
- Let’s Talk About Rust by Yehuda Katz - Confreaks TV
- The Rust Book
- Rust by Example
- Rust for Rubyists
- Rust Users Forum
- Rust Development Forum (Internals)
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Internet Connected Things Using Spark (Changelog Interviews #150)
Zach Supalla joined the show to talk about Spark - a complete, open source, full stack solution for creating amazing internet connected things. We talk about making connected hardware easier, using Kickstarter to fund hardware projects, and Amazon’s new Dash Button. Zach also gave us a crash course on how to get started with making your own hardware.
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Spark is fully open source on GitHub from hardware to software and Zach goes deep in this episode to school us on everything we need to know.
“Building an open source business is challenging because you’re giving away a lot of what you do. So the question is, how do you build a viable business that way?” - Zach Supalla @ 23:22
- Follow Zach Supalla on Twitter
- Spark | Open source IoT toolkit
- Spark Socket
- WarKitteh - Spark Projects
- Kickstarter - Spark Electron: Cellular dev kit with a global data plan by Spark IO
- rwaldron/johnny-five
- Amazon Dash Button
- The Changelog #147: Elixir and Phoenix with Chris McCord
- Atom: free and open source for everyone
- The Changelog #104: Kickstarting Espruino with Gordon Williams
- Spark Docs | Javascript SDK
- spark/sparkjs
- spark/spark-cli
- spark/spark-dev
- Hardware design uses open source too! · Issue #104 · thechangelog/ping
- OSH Park
- Prototype to Production
- Hacking the Xbox: An Introduction to Reverse Engineering
- Novena Laptop
- Andrew (bunnie) Huang
- Metalsmith
- WarSting: A Wi-Fi scanning sword for Hobbits
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React, React Native, Flux, Relay, GraphQL (Changelog Interviews #149)
Christopher “vjeux” Chedeau and Spencer Ahrens joined the show to talk about React, React Native, Flux, Relay, and GraphQL. They also announce on this show that React Native is now open source on GitHub.
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Christopher Chedeau and Spencer Ahrens are software engineers on the React team at Facebook.
“Now there’s one unified development experience… You learn Javascript, you learn React, and you learn some of these stylesheet concepts, and that travels with you to whatever platform you’re working on.” - Spencer Ahrens @ 24:33
- Christopher Chedeau
- Spencer Ahrens
- facebook/react
- React - a JavaScript library for building user interfaces
- React Tutorial
- facebook/react-native
- Flux - Application Architecture for Building User Interfaces
- React blog - Introducing Relay and GraphQL
- React.js Conf 2015 - YouTube
- Building The Facebook News Feed With Relay
- React Native (Site and Newsletter)
- JSX Specification
- Flexbox
- AsyncDisplayKit
- F8 2015
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The State of Go in 2015 (Changelog Interviews #148)
Andrew Gerrand joined the show to talk about the state of Go in 2015, how Go compares to other concurrent languages, why people choose Go over other languages, the C to Go toolchain conversion, and what’s coming in version 1.5 and 1.6 of Go.
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Andrew works on the Go Programming Language at Google.
“The reasons why I choose Go (and I think why other people choose go) are a lot to do with programmer joy… the overriding sentiment amongst Go users is that Go just gets out of your way and lets you write code.” - Andrew Gerrand @ 18:32
- Andrew’s slides for The State of Go in 2015
- Andrew Gerrand (@enneff) | Twitter
- Andrew Gerrand on Github
- The Changelog #100: Go programming with Rob Pike and Andrew Gerrand
- The Changelog #3: Google’s Go Programming Language
- golang/go on GitHub
- Facebook, Mercurial or Git? - The Changelog
- FOSDEM Conf
- OSCON
- Go + HTTP/2
- Cool Math Games
- Gerrit
- Go Kit
- Go and the Modern Enterprise - Peter Bourgon - London Go Gathering 2015
- Beats, Rye & Types Podcast
- Go Programming Playlist - Youtube
- KievII - GUI Javascript library for web audio applications developers
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Elixir and Phoenix (Changelog Interviews #147)
Chris McCord joined the show to take us on a deep dive into the Phoenix web framework and Elixir. We covered the similarities between Ruby and Erlang, getting started with Elixir, and deploying Phoenix. He also shared his plans for the 1.0 release and the future of Phoenix.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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Chris McCord is the creator of the Phoenix web framework.
“Jose said it best… When he first looked into Erlang, he loved everything he saw, but hated everything he didn’t see. That’s how Elixir came about; filling in the gaps, building off all the things he loved.” - Chris McCord
- Chris McCord
- Follow Chris on Twitter
- Chris McCord on Github
- Littlelines - Ruby on Rails Consulting, Development, and Web Design in Ohio
- Elixir
- Phoenix
- Community Member Benefits
- Elixir Sips | Learn Elixir With a Pro
- Confreaks TV | Elixir Conf 2014 - Rise of The Phoenix - Building an Elixir Web Framework
- phoenixframework/phoenix
- Phoenix 0.10 Screencast: Live-reload in Action
- Phoenix 0.10 Screencast: Asset Compilation, Live-reload, & Generators
- Getting Started with Phoenix · Phoenix
- Installing Elixir - Elixir
- What is OTP? It’s The Open Telecom Platform!
- Metaprogramming Elixir: Write Less Code, Get More Done (and Have Fun!)
- Elixir Conf EU
- Matsumoto
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Mind the Gender Parity Gap (Changelog Interviews #146)
Sarah Mei joined the show to talk through a recent article she authored titled “Mind the Gap” and why we’re missing our best chance for gender parity. We discussed our innate subconscious assumptions and prejudices towards one another, how we alienate women from the developer communities, and what we can do to step across this gap and make a conscious effort to combat those assumptions.
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Sarah shares stories about her work in trying to bring more diversity into the coding community, the credibility gap, what she’s learned from starting RailsBridge, how to reduce bias while searching for employees and conference speakers, and more.
Sarah is also the Founder of RailsBridge, the Director of Ruby Central, and a Chief Consultant at DevMynd.
- Sarah Mei (@sarahmei) - Twitter
- Sarah Mei (sarahmei) - GitHub
- Mind the Gap
- [Guest idea] Sarah Mei · Issue #150 · thechangelog/ping
- DevMynd Jobs (Working at DevMynd)
- RailsBridge
- RailsBridge Docs - Open Source Docs and Curriculum
- Bridge Foundry
- ClojureBridge
- MobileBridge
- Bridge Troll
- Ruby Central
- rubycentral/cfp-app
- A Huge List of Koans - Beverly Nelson
- Pairing with Junior Developers
- Institutional Barriers for Women of Color at Code Schools - Model View Culture
- Coding Like a Girl — Medium
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10+ Years of Rails (Changelog Interviews #145)
David Heinemeier Hansson, aka DHH joined the show to talk through the past, present, and future of Ruby on Rails — the most beloved web application framework in the Ruby community.
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- David Heinemeier Hansson – GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Ruby on Rails has influenced many frameworks over the years, and David shares with us a candid look at 10+ Years of Ruby on Rails.
David shares stories about why he started Ruby on Rails, and explains why programmers should market their projects. He discussed his early work on Rails, some of the early early contributors to Rails, how the success of Basecamp helped Rails succeed (and vice versa), the io.js & Node.js complications, his thoughts on getting paid for working on open source, and so much more.
“If programming is going to be the thing I spend my time on, it damn well better be awesome. I need to have a good time.” - DHH @ 9:42
- Ruby on Rails
- The ORIGINAL Ruby on Rails demo – Building a blog in 15 minutes with DHH
- REMOTE: The new book from 37signals
- REWORK: The new business book from 37signals.
- The Hottest Hacker on Earth | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
- RailsConf
- RubyConf
- Riding Rails: Rails 1.0: Party like it’s one oh oh!
- Riding Rails: Rails 2.0: It’s done!
- Riding Rails: Rails 3.0: It’s ready!
- Riding Rails: Rails 4.0: Final version released!
- The Road to Merb 1.0 with Ezra Zygmuntowicz
- DHH on Twitter: “More than 3800 people have contributed code to the core Rails framework”
- DHH on Twitter: “@codesoda @steveklabnik I’d rather you spend the $$ on having your people contribute to Rails on company time, if you want.”
- DHH on Twitter: “Rails is obligation-free software. See the MIT license. You can use it to make a trillion billion and not owe anyone royalties.”
- DHH on Twitter: “Flip side: Do not contribute patches to Rails under the false notion that users of the framework will then be indebted to reward you.”
- DHH on Twitter: “You don’t owe me anything to use Rails, and I don’t owe you anything for you using it.”
- DHH on Twitter: “@steveklabnik What’s your time horizon of sustainability? Rails has been rocking that model for 10+ years.”
- DHH on Twitter: “Congratulations to @shopify for deploying on Rails 4.1. Same app has been on Rails since 2005. 10 yrs later they’re an Ecommerce powerhouse.”
- DHH on Twitter: “Rails 5 will target Ruby 2.2+ exclusively, so we can rely on symbol GC and kwargs to cleanup a bunch of cruft. Ruby on Rails keeps moving!”
- DHH on Twitter: “After all these years, programming Ruby through TextMate to make Rails dance for the web remains one of my favorite activities in the world.”
- Ruby on Rails on Twitter: “2014 has seen 708 contributors get their patches accepted into Rails: http://t.co/18k1hh0vd7 — what a spectacular community effort!”
- DHH on Twitter: “@thomasfuchs @thijs Github is on 3.0 now. On the way to 4.x. 2.3 is five years old! Rails has lived as long again as it had at the time.”
- DHH on Twitter: “The original reality-compressed 15 minute Rails demo — including WUPS!”
- DHH on Twitter: “@gordo24 I think Rails has never been in a better position regarding code, community, and leadership. Broader and more engaged than ever.”
- DHH on Twitter: “Staggering collaborative effort on Rails. Almost 12,000 pull requests processed. Just 419 still open. Incredible.”
- DHH on Twitter: “Hard to comprehend how far Ruby and Rails have come since 2004 where I attended a 40-person RubyConf with just a few doing paid Ruby.”
- [Book] Punished by Rewards - by Alfie Kohn
- [Hero] Ward Cunningham
- [Hero] Dave Thomas
- [Hero] Martin Fowler
- Ruby Mailing Lists
- Kombucha
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GitHub Archive and Changelog Nightly (Changelog Interviews #144)
Ilya Grigorik joined the show to talk about GitHub Archive, logging and archiving GitHub’s public event data, and how he uses Google BigQuery to make querying that data accessible to everyone.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Ilya is a web performance engineer at Google where he works day and night making the web faster.
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- GitHub Archive
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- thechangelog/nightly - GitHub
- Google BigQuery - Fully Managed Big Data Analytics Service — Google Cloud Platform
- The Changelog #55: Goliath, Event Machine, and SPDY with Ilya Grigorik
- Ilya Grigorik - igvita.com
- Dremel (software) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- GitHut - Programming Languages and GitHub
- Email updates? · Issue #83 · igrigorik/githubarchive.org
- The Chromium Projects
- High Performance Browser Networking
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Front-end Developer Interview Questions (Changelog Interviews #143)
Darcy Clarke joined the show to talk about his repo on the HTML5 Boilerplate org on GitHub “Front-end Developer Interview Questions”. We discussed why the repo has been so successful, the challenges of translating a text document into multiple languages, managing contributions, the art of interviewing, how the expectations of front-end developers have evolved over time, and how to stay relevant in our fast moving industry.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Darcy is the creator of the Front-end Developer Interview Questions project on the H5BP org on GitHub – it’s “a list of helpful front-end related questions you can use to interview potential candidates, test yourself or completely ignore.”
At the end of the episode, we turned the tables on Darcy and asked him a few questions from the list.
“The goal is to try to have the (interview) question be more open ended, and hopefully it starts a discussion between the interviewer and interviewee.” - Darcy Clarke @ 12:28
“This document is like a high school english assignment, with over 100 group members, and they all have differing opinions, and there’s a ton of different subjects… It’s the worst kind of open source project.” - Darcy Clarke @ 22:56
- h5bp/Front-end-Developer-Interview-Questions
- darcyclarke (Darcy Clarke)
- darcyclarke/DSS
- Front-end Job Interview Questions | Darcy Clarke
- What I learned interviewing with Google | Wes Bos
- Join us on The Changelog (today?) · Issue #258 · h5bp/Front-end-Developer-Interview-Questions
- How io.js built a 146 person, 27 language localization effort… in one day. — Medium
- auduno/clmtrackr
- The Changelog #67: HTML5 Boilerplate, Modernizr, and more with Paul Irish
- Flipboard/react-canvas
- Paul Irish
- Wes Bos
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Laravel PHP Framework (Changelog Interviews #142)
Taylor Otwell, the creator of the Laravel PHP framework, joined the show for a deep dive into Laravel, why he doesn’t release without good documentation, building apps to test your own framework, writing an API for Lavarel Forge, and more.
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- Taylor Otwell
- Follow Taylor on Twitter
- Laravel
- Laravel - Docs
- Lavavel Elixir
- Laravel Forge
- Laravel Homestead
- Blade Templating
- Snappy
- Twig Parser
- Packagist
- Laracasts
- Laravel 5 Fundamentals
- Laracasts - Meet Composer
- adamgoose/forge-cli
- Composer | Dependency manager for PHP
- Jeffrey Way
- Dayle Rees
- Vagrant Press
- Statamic
- Laracon
- Laravel: From Apprentice To Artisan
- Dayle Rees (@daylerees)
- Just Park
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Going fulltime on The Changelog (Changelog Interviews #141)
BIG news! This is the episode where we discuss Adam going fulltime on The Changelog.
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For last two years, Adam has been rebuilding The Changelog from the ground up in his spare time, nights and weekends, and everywhere in between. As of this week, running The Changelog has become his full-time job.
Adam gave his two week notice to resign from his comfortable, enjoyable, job with Pure Charity to go full-time on this thing. Hopefully, one day we can look back on this episode and say this is where things began.
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Aurelia, Durandal, Leaving AngularJS (Changelog Interviews #140)
Rob Eisenberg joined the show to talk about why he left the AngularJS team, how the community responded, the allure of working for Google and getting paid to work on open source full time, why someone might choose Aurelia over other frameworks, and more.
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Rob is a former AngularJS team member, who left the AngularJS team to work on his own startup, Durandal Inc and their first open source product Aurelia, a next generation JavaScript client framework that supports ES6, WebComponents, Object.observe and more.
- Leaving Angular
- Introducing Aurelia Video
- [Guest idea] Rob Eisenberg, keeper of DurandalJS, an OSS JS project · Issue #96 · thechangelog/ping
- Home | Durandal
- Home | Aurelia
- Rob Eisenberg (@EisenbergEffect) | Twitter
- Rob Eisenberg | EisenbergEffect
- jspm.io - Frictionless Browser Package Management
- systemjs
- 6to5 Compiler
- 6to5 Name Suggestions
- Seth Godin: The Dip
- Eric Evans (@ericevans0) | Twitter
- Domain Driven Design
- Guy Bedford
- Rebecca Wirfs-Brock
- Uncle Bob Martin
- .NET Rocks!
- Herding Code Podcast
- Javascript Jabber
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The Rise of io.js (Changelog Interviews #139)
Mikeal Rogers joined the show to talk about io.js, a friendly fork of Node.js with an open governance model. We discussed why the io.js fork exists, why they choose open governance, the roadmap and future of io.js, supporting ES6, burnout while working in open source, and the steps you can take to get involved with the future of io.js and Node.js.
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- Mikeal Rogers on Github
- io.js - JavaScript I/O
- io.js - ES6 on io.js
- iojs/roadmap
- indutny (Fedor Indutny)
- Before the Drama | hueniverse
- Node Forward
- Node Conf
- nodeschool.io
- Oakland.js
- Node Conf One-Shot
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rkt, App Container Spec, CoreOS (Changelog Interviews #138)
Alex Polvi, CEO of CoreOS, joined the show to talk about their new open source product rkt, their App Container Spec, and CoreOS - the container only server OS focused on securing the internet.
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- Alex Polvi (@polvi) on Twitter
- Changelog Weekly - Issue #32
- CoreOS Calls Docker “Fundamentally Flawed,” Launches Its Own Container Runtime (TechCrunch)
- CoreOS.com - Linux for Massive Server Deployments
- Using docker with CoreOS
- CoreOS is building a container runtime, Rocket
- spec/SPEC.md at master · appc/spec
- Quay.io New Features
- Docker Blog: Initial Thoughts on the Rocket Announcement
- The Changelog #89: Docker, LXC and dotCloud with Solomon Hykes
- coreos/etcd
- Programming Hero: John Gilmore’s home page
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Better GitHub Issues with HuBoard (Changelog Interviews #137)
Adam and Jerod talk with Ryan built about HuBoard - a project management solution for teams and organizations using GitHub. He gives us an inside look at how he created HuBoard, how he made the transition from free service to paid users, the technical challenges of getting set up to handle enterprise, and more.
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How do you build a business on top of the Github API? What are the technical challenges of serving big enterprise with your SasS? What would you do if Github wanted to acquire your business? Ryan Rauh joins us today to answer these questions.
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- rauhryan (Ryan Rauh)
- Ryan Rauh (@rauhryan) | Twitter
- HuBoard - GitHub issues made awesome.
- rauhryan/huboard
- Contributor License Agreement
- HuBoard Enterprise
- Crushpath :: It’s time for new business.
- Charles Lowell (@cowboyd) | Twitter
- GitHub Enterprise - The best way to build and ship software
- Faye: Simple pub/sub messaging for the web
- Ember.js - A framework for creating ambitious web applications.
- The Changelog #131: The Road to Ember 2.0 with Tom Dale and Yehuda Katz
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- The Joe Rogan Experience Podcast
- The Frontside Podcast
- Ruby Rogues
- Javascript Jabber
- Herding Code Podcast
- Ruby 5 Podcast
- Ruby on Rails Podcast
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Phusion Passenger (aka Ruby Raptor) (Changelog Interviews #136)
Adam and Jerod talk with Hong Lai, one of the co-founders of Phusion. His company recently got a lot of attention for their upcoming version of Phusion Passenger, which they decided to call Ruby Raptor in a clever marketing play to get people excited about Passenger again. It worked, and we invited Hongli on the show to talk about Passenger/Ruby Raptor, the challenges of marketing open source, and how to get the internet excited about your next version.
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- Hongli Lai
- Follow Hongli on Twitter
- Follow Hongli on GitHub
- Phusion Passenger
- phusion/passenger
- Ruby Raptor - A radically new Ruby web server
- Raptor Turbo Caching
- Phusion Products
- Introducing Phusion Passenger 5 beta 1, codename “Raptor” - Phusion Corporate BlogPhusion Corporate Blog
- phusion/traveling-ruby
- The Changelog #34: Mongrel2, guitar, and more with Zed Shaw
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End of Year 2014 (Changelog Interviews #135)
Adam and Jerod close out the year and give thanks to everyone who helps support The Changelog – community members, listeners, readers, sponsors, as well as our various partners. We also discuss top topics from 2014, Changelog Weekly and how we use Trello as a CMS, contributing to the topics we cover through our Ping repo on GitHub, and what’s to come in 2015.
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- Changelog Community -Slack everyday with friends, Join the community!!
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- Changelog Weekly - Our editorialized take on what happened this week in open source and software development.
- Changelog Weekly Archive - editorialized take on this week in open source and software development.
- Changelog Weekly - Issue #29
- Changelog Weekly - Issue #30
- Changelog Weekly - Issue #31
- Changelog Weekly - Issue #32
- Changelog Weekly - Issue #33
- [Guest idea] Rob Eisenberg, keeper of DurandalJS, an OSS JS project · Issue #96 · thechangelog/ping
- Lets talk about Perl! · Issue #87 · thechangelog/ping
- Laravel: The PHP Framework for Web Artisans · Issue #31 · thechangelog/ping
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Open Sourcing .NET Core (Changelog Interviews #134)
Adam and Jerod talk with the members of the .NET Core team at Microsoft about Microsoft’s motivation for open sourcing the base class libraries of .NET, open source vs source open, the true goal of open sourcing .NET Core, and this new Microsoft we’ve been seeing.
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- Rich Lander on Twitter
- Immo Landwerth on Twitter
- Varun Gupta on Twitter
- .NET Core is Open Source - .NET Blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs
- Introducing .NET Core - .NET Blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs
- Microsoft on GitHub
- One Week of Open Source - .NET Blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs
- .NET Foundation - Welcome to the .NET Foundation
- .NET Foundation - .NET Foundation Projects
- .NET Foundation Forums
- A less terrible .NET project build with NuGet - You’ve Been Haacked
- winjs/winjs
- NuGet.org
- .NET on The Changelog! · Issue #128 · dotnet/corefx
- .NET Channel on Changelog
- #76: .NET, NuGet, and open source with Phil Haack - The Changelog
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All things Perl (Changelog Interviews #133)
Adam and Jerod talk with Curtis “Ovid” Poe about how he got started with Perl, what Perl is really good at, why he doesn’t expect everyone to love Perl, why Perl doesn’t get no respect, the difference between Perl 5 and Perl 6, and why the Perl community doesn’t like marketing.
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Curtis “Ovid” Poe - Twitter
- Ovid - GitHub
- Beginning Perl by Curtis Poe - Amazon.com
- Larry Wall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Lets talk about Perl! · Issue #87 · thechangelog/ping
- Learn Perl - learn.perl.org
- John Siracusa discusses Perl on Hypercritical | Philip Durbin [blogs.perl.org]
- John Siracusa’s Perl Page
- COBOL - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Booking.com dev blog
- Curtis Poe (Ovid) - Roles versus Inheritance - YouTube
- Ovid/Role-Basic
- Roles without Moose? | Ovid [blogs.perl.org]
- Is Perl 6 pointless, hopeless or just not done? | David Golden
- What is happening with Perl 6 and Larry Wall? : perl
- Role::Tiny - search.cpan.org
- Moose::Role - search.cpan.org
- miyagawa/cpanminus
- Catalyst | Perl MVC web application framework
- Damian Conway - Perl Best Practices
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Buckets CMS on Node.js (Changelog Interviews #132)
Adam and Jerod talk with David Kaneda about Buckets (a simple, open source CMS built on Node.js), how he’s building Buckets, what competing with Wordpress and Drupal is like, the process of working with people on Assembly, and more.
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- Buckets homepage
- asm-products/buckets - Official Repo
- The Vision for Buckets · asm-products/buckets
- Buckets org on GitHub
- Buckets on Assembly
- bucketsio/skeleton - a basic template for creating a new Buckets project (w/ Heroku support)
- Buckets branding & illustrations bounty on Assembly
- #30: Sencha Touch with David Kaneda - The Changelog
- Mongoose ODM v3.8.19
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The Road to Ember 2.0 (Changelog Interviews #131)
Adam and Jerod talk with Tom Dale and Yehuda Katz about the road to Ember 2.0 and the complete front-end stack it is today.
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- Tom Dale – Website, GitHub, X
- Yehuda Katz – Website, GitHub, X
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- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- tomdale (Tom Dale)
- wycats (Yehuda Katz)
- Tilde Inc.
- Ember.js - A framework for creating ambitious web applications.
- The Road to Ember 2.0 RFC (by tomdale - emberjs/rfcs)
- The Post-1.0 Release Cycle
- Skylight
- Heroku Dashboard
- discourse/discourse
- Matz - The Power and Philosophy of Ruby - OSCON 2003
- React - A Javascript Library for Building User Interfaces
- AngularJS - Superheroic JavaScript MVW Framework
- Yukihiro Matsumoto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Inspeqtor and OSS Products (Changelog Interviews #130)
Adam and Jerod talk with Mike Perham about his new project Inspeqtor and his approach to better application infrastructure monitoring.
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- Introducing Inspeqtor | Mike Perham
- mperham/inspeqtor
- lunchy: A friendly wrapper for OS X launchctl - The Changelog
- Earn a Sidekiq blackbelt by breaking a few boards - The Changelog
- The Changelog #92: Sidekiq, Ruby, and more with Mike Perham - The Changelog
- dalli: High performance memcached client for Ruby - The Changelog
- Inspeqtor - application infrastructure monitoring
- Sidekiq - background processing for Ruby
- The Path to Full-time Open Source | Mike Perham
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The PHP Language Specification (Changelog Interviews #129)
Adam and Jerod talk with Sara Golemon about her work at Facebook, The PHP Language Specification, and making PHP awesome.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Facebook’s HipHop leaves PHPers dancing - The Changelog
- HHVM
- php.standards: Specification live on git.php.net
- About CC0 — “No Rights Reserved” - Creative Commons
- php.internals: Re: PHP Language Specification
CC0 license - Announcing a specification for PHP « HHVM
- RexJaeschke (Rex Jaeschke)
- nikic (Nikita Popov)
- Extending and Embedding PHP: Sara Golemon: 9780672327049: Amazon.com: Books
- Hack
- PHP: rfc:abstract_syntax_tree
- PHP: rfc:switch.default.multiple
- sgolemon/libssh2
- @ffffux: Open Source Pro Tip: non-coding contributors are awesome…
- Facebook, Mercurial or Git? - The Changelog
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Lineman.js and JavaScript apps (Changelog Interviews #128)
Adam and Jerod talk with Justin Searls about Lineman.js, building for the web with JavaScript, and his abstract “The Social Coding Contract.”
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- searls (Justin Searls)
- Justin Searls (searls) on Twitter
- Test Double | Custom Software Development | Columbus Ohio
- Lineman - Build awesome web apps, easily.
- linemanjs/lineman - GitHub
- Yeoman - The web’s scaffolding tool for modern webapps
- the-social-coding-contract.md
- Jim Weirich - Wikipedia
- Ruby Rogues #151 - Jim Weirich Tribute
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Keep a CHANGELOG (Changelog Interviews #127)
Adam and Jerod talk with Olivier Lacan about keeping a CHANGELOG and his passion for keeping a human facing, readable history, for software projects.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- Olivier Lacan
- Keep a Changelog
- olivierlacan/keep-a-changelog
- @Changelog: On ‘Keeping a CHANGELOG’ …
- The standard CHANGELOG file for all open source projects
- Why not just use GitHub release notes?
- Isn’t a CHANGELOG about all changes not just important changes?
- Keep a changelog for each minor release?
- Aaron Swartz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Tim Berners-Lee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Lawrence Lessig - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Xiki and Reimagining the Shell (Changelog Interviews #126)
Adam and Jerod talk with Craig Muth about his project Xiki, the current Kickstarter he has to raise funds so he can work on it full time, and reimagining the shell.
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- Kickstarter – Xiki: The Command Revolution by Craig Muth
- Xiki - The Command Revolution - official website!!
- Xiki Screencasts - screencasts!
- xsh: Xikishell - official website!
- trogdoro/xiki on GitHub - xiki on GitHub
- Xiki on Gittip - xiki on Gittip
- Xiki: The Command Revolution by Craig Muth » Let’s get Heroku to back Xiki! — Kickstarter
- Memorize.com - Learn and Remember
- Ward Cunningham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Blogging for Hackers (Changelog Interviews #125)
Parker Moore joined the show to talk with Adam about blogging for hackers with Jekyll and GitHub Pages.
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- Jekyll • Simple, blog-aware, static sites
- News
- History
- Collections
- Add support for Sass and SCSS. by parkr · Pull Request #1932 · jekyll/jekyll
- Call me collections by parkr · Pull Request #2199 · jekyll/jekyll
- Pages | GitHub API
- Divshot - Static Web Hosting for Developers and Bootstrap Builder
- Prose · A Content Editor for GitHub
- Ben Balter » GitHubber, Gov 2.0 Evangelist, Aspiring Attorney
- Home — Parker J. Moore, Web developer, hobbyist photographer, R&B/Neo-soul singer, geek extraordinaire.
- parkr/blogsource
- The Strange Relationship the US Government has with Open-Source Software / parker’s stuff
- jekyll/jekyll-help
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Tedit, JS-Git, Jack (Changelog Interviews #124)
Adam and Jerod talk with Tim Caswell about getting started in open source, exploring new frontiers, and his latest project Tedit – a development platform that makes programming JavaScript easy and more accessible.
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- creationix - Gittip - Creationix on Gittip!!
- creationix/git-browser - git-browser on GitHub
- creationix/tedit-app - tedit-app on GitHub
- Tedit Live Demo - Live demo, YouTube link!
- Chrome Web Store - Git-Browser - Chrome Web Store - Git-Browser
- Chrome Web Store - Tedit Development Environment – Chrome Web Store - Tedit Development Environment
- Creationix Innovations - Official Website
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Gittip and Open Companies (Changelog Interviews #123)
Adam and Jerod talk with Chad Whitacre the Founder of Gittip to talk about what’s new this year for Gittip and the directions they are taking things.
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- The Changelog #87: Sustaining Open Source and Building an Open Company with Chad Whitacre
- whit537.org
- The Open Company Initiative
- whit537 - Gittip
- Gittip
- Building Gittip
- Building Gittip — Medium
- ashedryden - Gittip
- shanley - Gittip
- sudoroom - Gittip
- andyet - Gittip
- Building Gittip - Mission
- Turning Down TechCrunch — Building Gittip — Medium
- Bountysource
- Patreon: Support the creators you love
- Shields.io
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Rails Girls Summer of Code and Travis Foundation (Changelog Interviews #122)
Adam and Jerod talk to Anika Lindtner and Floor Drees about Rails Girls Summer of Code, Travis Foundation, fundraising, supporting open source through grants, and ways the community is showing their support of diversity in tech.
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- Anika Lindtner (langziehohr) on Twitter
- Floor Drees (FloorDrees) on Twitter
- Floor “How I feel about being ‘on’ The Changelog later today…” and here’s the original tweet
- Rails Girls
- Rails Girls Summer of Code
- Rails Girls SoC (RailsGirlsSoC) on Twitter
- The Travis CI Blog: Travis CI and Rails Girls Summer of Code
- Travis Foundation
- Travis Foundation - Grants
- Anynines · 100% European PaaS - Platform as a service hosting for developers
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Google's Dart Programming Language (Changelog Interviews #121)
Adam and Andrew talk with Lars Bak and Seth Ladd from Google about Dart, a new language and platform started by Google for scalable web app engineering.
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- Lars Bak (computer programmer)
- Seth Ladd
- Dart: Structured web apps for scalable web app engineering
- #dartlang · Issue #30 · thechangelog/ping
- Who Uses Dart?
- Dart - Pub Package Manager
- Try Dart - Getting Started
- Seth’s hero is Neil deGrasse Tyson and Astrophysicist and host of Star Talk
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Ruby Tooling, chruby, ruby-install, Security (Changelog Interviews #120)
Adam and Andrew talked to Postmodern about his open source projects chruby, ruby-install, chgems, ronin, and more.
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- Postmodern on Twitter - @postmodern_mod3
- postmodern/chruby
- postmodern/ruby-install
- postmodern/chgems
- You (yes, you!) should contribute to open source - The Changelog
- Ronin
- The Elegant Ruby Web Framework - Padrino Ruby Web Framework
- The “Postmodern” Ruby environment · Yousef Ourabi
- Moving From Rbenv to Chruby and Direnv - Linh M. Tran
- BashFAQ - Greg’s Wiki
- shunit2 - shUnit2 - xUnit based unit testing for Unix shell scripts - Google Project Hosting
- ruby-install/test at master · postmodern/ruby-install
- A generic Makefile for building/signing/install bash scripts
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MEAN.js & Full-Stack JavaScript (Changelog Interviews #119)
Andrew talks with the fellas behind MEAN.js, Amos Haviv and Roie Cohen. MEAN.js is a full-stack JavaScript solution using MongoDB, Express, AngularJS, and Node.
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- MEAN.JS - a full-stack JavaScript solution that helps you build fast, robust, and maintainable production web applications using MongoDB, Express, AngularJS, and Node.js. MEAN.JS will help you getting started and avoid useless grunt work and common pitfalls, while keeping your application organized.
- GitHub profile of Roie Cohen - co-founder of meanjs.org
- GitHub profile of Amos Haviv
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The Sass Way and Open Publishing (Changelog Interviews #118)
Adam and John talk about Sass, The Sass Way, Middleman, and open publishing on GitHub.
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- The Sass Way
- Here’s your chance to become a contributor to The Sass Way!
- Get your very own “The Sass Way” sticker for free! Tweet @TheSassWay for details.
- #52: Serve, RadiantCMS, Prototyping, and Design with John Long - The Changelog
- @SassWatch: I’ve joined forces with The Sass Way
- #17: Open Source publishing with Geoffrey Grosenbach, Brandon Mathis, and Tim Caswell - The Changelog
- Dribbble - The Sass Way Logo by John W. Long
- Dribbble - SassWatch Sighting! by John W. Long
- Middleman: Hand-crafted frontend development
- Ruby CMS - Nesta
- Serve - Delicious ERB, Haml + Sass
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Go, Martini, Gophercasts (Changelog Interviews #117)
Jeremy Saenz joined the show to talk about Go, Martini, Gophercasts, and more.
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- Jeremy Saenz (codegangsta) on Twitter
- codegangsta (Jeremy Saenz)
- #18: NoSQL Smackdown! (Hear Chris sing the CouchDB theme song)
- The Go Programming Language
- Announcing Martini: Classy Web Development in Go - Code Gangsta
- Martini - Classy web development in Go.
- codegangsta/martini-contrib
- codegangsta/envy
- GopherCasts
- On Go’s Web Application Ecosystem - The Changelog
- Go ahead, have an Angular Martini - The Changelog
- Flex Gangsta | Who Broke the Build?!
- Go Advent Day 11 - Build a Christmas List with Martini - The Gopher Academy Blog
- The Revel Web Framework for Go
- dl.google.com now served by Go - Google Groups
- Rob Pike
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Node Black Friday at Walmart (Changelog Interviews #116)
Eran Hammer joined the show to talk about Node.js and Black Friday at Walmart.
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- Eran Hammer (eranhammer) on Twitter
- Twitter / Search - #nodebf
- spumko/hapi
- Billion Dollar Question - Palo Alto - Developer Center - Joyent
- Node.js at Walmart: Going to production, debugging, monitoring - Developer Center - Joyent
- Twitter / eranhammer: 100% of Walmart US mobile traffic …
- Walmart Node.js Memory Leak - Blog - Joyent
- Walmart Node.js Memory Leak Part I - Developer Center - Joyent
- Walmart Node.js Memory Leak Part II - Developer Center - Joyent
- Walmart Node.js Memory Leak Part III - Developer Center - Joyent
- Node Summit 2013 Bedtime Story - Blog - Joyent
- Realtime Conference, the Imagination Platform « hueniverse
- #fuckoauth @realtimeconf « hueniverse
- Roberta Williams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Flynn Updates (Changelog Interviews #115)
Andrew talks with Jonathan Rudenberg and Jeff Lindsay about their hard work and updates on Flynn, their open source PaaS.
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- Flynn - Open source Platform as a Service (PaaS) powered by Docker
- flynn/flynn-spec
- Jonathan Rudenberg (titanous) on Twitter
- Jeff Lindsay (progrium) on Twitter
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RethinkDB (Changelog Interviews #114)
Slava Akhmechet, co-founder and CEO of RethinkDB, joined the show to talk with Andrew about RethinkDB - the open-source database for the realtime web.
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- Slava Akhmechet (sakhmechet) on Twitter
- RethinkDB: An open-source distributed database built with love
- rethinkdb/rethinkdb on GitHub
- John D. Carmack - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Keep npm Running (Changelog Interviews #113)
Isaac Schlueter and Charlie Robbins joined the show to talk about the “crashyness” of npm recently and the community fundraiser they are starting to ask the community to support npm and to keep it running. Isaac is the creator of npm and a maintainer of Node.js. Charlie is the co-founder and CEO of Nodejitsu.
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- You are npm. Keep it running. Keep it awesome.
- npm (npmjs) on Twitter
- Charlie Robbins (indexzero) on Twitter
- I Zimmitti S (izs) on Twitter
- #101: npm origins and Node.js with Isaac Schlueter - The Changelog
- Nodejitsu Open Source Hosting
- Go Enterprise with node.js and npm | Nodejitsu Inc.
- Nodejitsu | CrunchBase Profile
- Billion Dollar Question - Palo Alto - Developer Center - Joyent
- @svenlito: “As a Developer I want super fast npm” - Everyone, always.
- Trent Mick (trentmick) on Twitter
- trentm/node-dashdash
- #99: Flynn, Tent, open source PaaSes and more with Jeff Lindsay and Jonathan Rudenberg - The Changelog
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ZURB Foundation 5 and Front-End Frameworks (Changelog Interviews #112)
Adam and Andrew talk with Jonathan Smiley and Mark Hayes from ZURB about Foundation 5, front-end frameworks, and Ink — their new email framework project.
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- How this show got kicked off — @bryanzmijewski tweeted @adamstac Hey, Adam, thought you might want to know about Foundation 5
- Foundation 5 is coming soon
- ZURB Foundation turns 4.0
- Foundation: The Most Advanced Responsive Front-end Framework from ZURB
- #70: Foundation and other Zurb goodies - The Changelog
- Jonathan Smiley (smiley) on Twitter
- Prebrowsing | High Performance Web Sites
- The Changelog Weekly - Issue #13
- ftlabs/fastclick
- Ink: A Responsive Email Framework from ZURB
- Paul Irish
- Blog - JakeArchibald.com
- Jake Archibald (jaffathecake) on Twitter
- Ryan Bates (rbates) on Twitter
- #417 Foundation - RailsCasts
- #106: Semantic UI with Jack Lukic - The Changelog
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Hoodie, noBackend, Offline-First (Changelog Interviews #111)
Andrew and Adam talk with Caolan McMahon from Hoodie to talk about very fast web development where you can build complete web apps in days, without having to worry about backends, databases or servers (with Hoodie). We discuss noBackend and the idea behind offline first.
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- Caolan McMahon (caolan) on GitHub
- Caolan McMahon (caolan) on Twitter
- Hoodie.ie
- hood.ie (hoodiehq) on Twitter
- Alex Feyerke and Caolan McMahon - LXJS 2013 - Hoodie - YouTube
- Rethinking Web Development: noBackend & Offline First by Jan Lehnardt
- Changelog Weekly - Issue #9
- The Changelog #54: CouchBase, Erlang, and Mergers with J Chris Anderson
- The Changelog #18: NoSQL Smackdown!
- hoodiehq/generator-hoodie
- LAUNCH Hackathon
- Sponsor Hoodie
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Capistrano and Burnout (Changelog Interviews #110)
Adam and Andrew talk with Lee Hambley about some serious subjects such as Capistrano 3.0/2.0, open source burnout, various conversations around deploying, Ruby, respect, handing over the reigns and more. If you hack on open source or run an open source project, you should listen to this episode.
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- Lee Hambley
- LeeHambley (LeeHambley) on Twitter
- Time to hand over the reigns before Capistrano costs me my youth?
- The Changelog Weekly - Issue #9
- capistrano/capistrano on GitHub
- RVM 2.0 - Fundraisers
- [Book] Who Moved My Cheese?: An A-Mazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life
- Say Hello To Harrow
- Programmer Hero: Jamis Buck (jamis) on Twitter
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Open Karma and Design Love for OSS (Changelog Interviews #109)
Adam and Andrew talk with Justine Arreche a Designer at Travis CI and Sebastian Gräßl a Freelance Developer. Together, they’re the creators of Open Karma, a tool to help bridge the gap between developers and designers in open source (they’re bringing some design love to OSS).
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- Open Karma : helping open source be more amazing
- Open Karma (OpenKarmaDesign) on Twitter
- OpenKarma (Open Karma) on GitHub
- The Travis CI Blog: New UI Improvements on Travis CI
- Justine Arreche (SaltineJustine) on Twitter
- Sebastian Gräßl (bastilian) on Twitter
- Hello, Justine.
- Sebastian Gräßl
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Exercism.io and Crowd-Sourced Code Reviews (Changelog Interviews #108)
Adam and Jerod talk with Katrina Owen about Exercism.io - an open source platform for crowd-sourced code reviews on daily practice problems. Practice problems are available in Ruby, Elixir, JavaScript, Python, Haskell, and Clojure, and other languages are in the pipeline.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- #105: Ghost blogging platform with John O’Nolan - The Changelog
- Hannah Wolfe (ErisDS) on Twitter
- kytrinyx (Katrina Owen)
- Katrina Owen (kytrinyx) on Twitter
- Hacking Passion, or Who is Katrina Owen?
- Therapeutic Refactoring by Katrina Owen - Cascadia Ruby Conf 2012
- Katrina Owen on Ruby Rogues
- kytrinyx/exercism.io
- exercism.io
- Introducing exercism.io
- How to nitpick - exercism.io
- kytrinyx/exercism
- msgehard/go-exercism
- Code Triage
- The Changelog Weekly - Issue #9
- The Changelog Weekly - Issue #8
- Sandi Metz (Programming Hero)
- Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby
- Confident Ruby
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Balanced Payments and Open Sourcing Everything (Changelog Interviews #107)
Andrew and Adam talk with Marshall Jones from Balanced Payments about all they do in open source, and how they approach being an open company that desires to release as much software as they can as open source.
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- The Changelog #87: Sustaining open source and building an open company with Chad Whitacre
- Balanced - Payments for Marketplaces
- mjallday (Marshall Jones) on GitHub
- balanced (Balanced) on GitHub
- balanced/balanced-dashboard
- balanced/billy
- JSON API now has a MIME type - Changelog
- Flask (A Python Microframework)
- Make a Hangman client and get hired at Balanced Payments
- Open Products - The Changelog
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Semantic UI (Changelog Interviews #106)
Andrew and Adam talk with Jack Lukic about Semantic UI.
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- Getting Started | Semantic UI
- Myfav.es - Start Here
- jlukic (Jack Lukic)
- jlukic/Semantic-UI
- Introduction | Semantic UI
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Ghost Blogging Platform (Changelog Interviews #105)
Andrew and Adam talk with John O’Nolan about his open source blogging platform Ghost written in JavaScript (Node.js), and how he and his team are working hard to create this beautifully designed platform dedicated to one thing: Publishing.
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- Ghost: Just a Blogging Platform
- Ghost Blogging Platform Features
- TryGhost (Ghost)
- Ghost: Just a Blogging Platform by John O’Nolan — Kickstarter
- The Ghost Blog
- Get paid to write tutorials for DigitalOcean
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Kickstarting Espruino (Changelog Interviews #104)
Andrew and Jerod talk with Gordon Williams about his hardware/software open source project called Espruino that’s currently raising funds on Kickstarter. Espruino is the world’s first JavaScript microcontroller for beginners or experts, now open source.
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- Kickstarter - Espruino: JavaScript for Things by Gordon Williams
- Espruino.com
- Espruino - Tutorials
- Espruino - YouTube
- Gordon Williams (Espruino) on Twitter
- Gordon Williams (gfwilliams) on GitHub
- gfwilliams/EspruinoSerialTerminal
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GitLab and Open Source (Changelog Interviews #103)
Andrew and Adam talk with Sytse Sijbrandij, one of the Co-founders of GitLab, about building GitLab, sustaining open source, community management, and ways to handle a “road map” for your product or project.
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- Sid Sijbrandij – Website, LinkedIn, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Andrew Thorp – Website, GitHub, X
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- Subscribe to Changelog Weekly
- GitLab: Self Hosted Git Management Application
- GitLab 6.0 released!
- Announcing GitLab 6.0 Enterprise Edition
- gitlabhq (gitlabhq)
- sitaramc/gitolite
- gitlabhq/gitlab-vagrant-vm
- GitLab.com | Open Source Git Management Software
- Programming Hero: Yehuda Katz
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Sam Soffes / Onward (Founders Talk #51)
Could this be Sam’s final appearance on Founders Talk? Only time will tell. Sam says he’s moving onward. New things await. The future is bright and he’s wearing shades. Follow along.
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- #40: Sam Soffes / Seesaw - Part 3
- #39: Sam Soffes / Nothing Magical, Cheddar - Part 2
- #38: Sam Soffes / Nothing Magical, Cheddar - Part 1
- Onward — Sam Soffes
- Hire Sam Soffes
- About Sam Soffes
- Sam’s projects
- @ProSoffes - Sam’s hilarious parody Twitter account
- Roon — The easiest way to blog
- Everlapse
- Sam’s Fat
- soffes (Sam Soffes)
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RVM and Ruby Version Managment (Changelog Interviews #102)
Adam Stacoviak and Jerod Santo talk with Michal Papis about the history and future of RVM, the plan for RVM 2.0, the complexities of managing your Ruby version, Ruby 2.0 and more.
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- Michal Papis – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- Subscribe to Changelog Weekly
- Michal Papis (mpapis) on Twitter
- mpapis (Michal Papis)
- wayneeseguin/rvm
- Issues · wayneeseguin/rvm
- RVM: Ruby Version Manager
- #rvm on freenode Web IRC
- RVM 2.0 The Plan - Google Drive
- RVM Autolibs: Automatic Dependency Handling and Ruby 2.0
- The Changelog #64: Pow, Rails 3.1 Asset Pipeline, Cinco, CoffeeScript, and more with Sam Stephenson
- The Changelog #66: RVM and BDSM with Wayne Seguin
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npm Origins and Node.js (Changelog Interviews #101)
Andrew and Adam talk with Isaac Schlueter about the origins of npm, building an asynchronous web with Node.js, and how to get paid to open source.
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- Foo Hack » Isaac Schlueter on Web Development
- isaacs (izs) on Twitter
- isaacs/npm
- Install Node.js and NPM using Homebrew on OS X - Changelog
- node.js
- BOWER: A package manager for the web
- Grunt: The JavaScript Task Runner
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Chad Pytel / thoughtbot (Founders Talk #50)
Adam talks with Chad Pytel, founder of thoughtbot.
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- cpytel (Chad Pytel)
- We make web and mobile apps : thoughtbot
- thoughtbot Learn
- Community, open source ruby on rails development : thoughtbot
- About Us : thoughtbot
- giant robots smashing into other giant robots
- thoughtbot (thoughtbot, inc.)
- apprentice.io : thoughtbot
- Texas Instruments TI-99/4A - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Geoffrey Grosenbach / PeepCode, Part 2 (Founders Talk #49)
Adam talks with Geoffrey Grosenbach, founder of PeepCode and now the VP of Open Source at Pluralsight.
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- Contact Geoffrey
- Leveling Up | Free PeepCode Blog
- Pluralsight - Hardcore Developer Training
- Play by Play | PeepCode Screencasts
- PeepCode (peepcode) on Twitter
- 5by5 | Founders Talk #6: Amy Hoy and Thomas Fuchs / Slash7
- Rack: a Ruby Webserver Interface
- garybernhardt (Gary Bernhardt)
- Destroy All Software Screencasts
- Learn Python The Hard Way
- User Interface Design Tutorial | Ryan Singer | PeepCode Screencast
- Zed Shaw Tutorial | PeepCode Screencast
- Gary Bernhardt Ruby Tutorial | PeepCode Screencast
- Play by Play: Neven Mrgan | PeepCode Screencasts
- Papertrail
- Gary Bernhardt (garybernhardt) on Twitter
- Ecommerce Software, Online Store Builder, Website Store Hosting Solution- Free 14 day Trial by Shopify.
- Paula Lavalle
- Senior Visionary title
- Jeremy Powers cyclocross videos
- The Changelog Weekly
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Go Programming (Changelog Interviews #100)
This episode is part of our remastered greatest hits collection and features Rob Pike and Andrew Gerrand talking about the history and latest updates to the Go programming language.
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- Rob Pike (rob_pike) on Twitter
- Andrew Gerrand (enneff) on Twitter
- The Go Programming Language
- A Tour of Go
- Talks about Go
- Go packages
- The first Go program - The Go Blog
- The Go Programming Language Blog
- Getting Started - The Go Programming Language
- A conversation with the Go team - The Go Blog
- Go 1.1 is released - The Go Blog
- John D. Carmack - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- David Wheeler (computer scientist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Douglas McIlroy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Flynn, Tent, Open Source PaaS's (Changelog Interviews #99)
Adam Stacoviak and Andrew Thorp talk with Jeff Lindsay and Jonathan Rudenberg about Flynn, open source, PaaS and more.
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- Jonathan Rudenberg – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Andrew Thorp – Website, GitHub, X
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- Subscribe to Changelog Weekly
- The Changelog #89: Linux containers, Docker and dotCloud with Solomon Hykes
- Flynn Open source PaaS (Platform as a Service) powered by Docker
- flynn/flynn-spec
- Jonathan Rudenberg (titanous) on Twitter
- Jeff Lindsay (progrium) on Twitter
- Tent - the protocol for decentralized communication and evented data storage
- localtunnel: instantly show localhost to the rest of the world
- RequestBin — Collect, inspect and debug HTTP requests and webhooks
- Twitter / marek_jelen: @TheChangelog #Flynn #PaaS …
- progrium/dokku
- progrium/buildstep
- Bret Victor (worrydream) on Twitter
- The Changelog #3: Google’s Go Programming Language
- Rob Pike - ‘Concurrency Is Not Parallelism’ on Vimeo
- Rob Pike (rob_pike) on Twitter
- airscript/heroku-signup
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AFNetworking, Helios, iOS Development (Changelog Interviews #98)
Adam Stacoviak, Andrew Thorp and Kenneth Reitz talk with Mattt Thompson, Mobile Lead at Heroku, about his many contributions to open source.
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- Kenneth Reitz – GitHub, X
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- AFNetworking/AFNetworking
- AFNetworking - a delightful networking framework for iOS and OSX
- mattt (Mattt Thompson)
- Mattt Thompson (mattt) on Twitter
- Helios
- helios-framework/helios
- Postgres.app, an easier way to use PostgreSQL on Mac - Changelog
- Heroku Postgres
- Postgres.app | the easiest way to run PostgreSQL on the Mac
- Induction ? A Polyglot Database Client For Mac OS X
- Open Products - Changelog
- Rocket: a hybrid approach to real-time cloud applications
- why the lucky stiff - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Shaun Inman // Compendium
- NSHipster
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API Wrappers and Ruby (Changelog Interviews #97)
Adam Stacoviak and Andrew Thorp talk with Drew Blas of Chargify about API wrappers, Ruby, open source, and more.
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- Drew Blas - Explorer « The life and code of a passionate developer
- drewblas (Drew Blas) on GitHub
- drewblas (drewblas) on Twitter
- drewblas/consignment
- chargify (Chargify)
- chargify/chargify2
- chargify/doculab
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Kevin Delaney / Charity Hack (Founders Talk #48)
Adam talks with Kevin Delaney, the founder of Charity Hack - a simple concept that takes 5 amazing charities and the most talented people you can find to create innovative fundraising campaigns for those charities.
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- Kevin Delaney’s Blog
- charityhack2013
- Kevin Delaney (kevmagic) on Twitter
- Kevin Delaney’s Blog: What is Charity Hack?
- Relay For Life | Irish Cancer Society
- Kevin Delaney’s Blog: Charity Hack needs help.
- RelayForLife Ireland (RelayIreland) on Twitter
- Twitter / ajleon: Hey #misfits, @kevmagic is …
- Sir Joseph Rotblat: A Legacy of Peace (1908 – 2005) by David Krieger, September 1, 2005
- Manhattan Project - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Pure Charity
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Ruby off Rails (Changelog Interviews #96)
Adam Stacoviak and guest co-host Tim Smith talk with Jesse Wolgamott about learning Ruby, his course and mentorship Ruby off Rails, and more!
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- Ruby Off Rails | Online Ruby Course full of mentoring and collaboration.
- jwo (Jesse Wolgamott)
- Comal Productions | web. mobile. training. code
- Ruby Fiddle | Ruby Snippets in the Browser
- jwo/ruby-fiddle-web
- Houston July 26-27, 2013
- User Jesse Wolgamott - Stack Overflow
- RubyoffRails (Ruby Off Rails)
- Tender Lovemaking | tenderlovemaking.com
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Civic Hacking and Code for America (Changelog Interviews #95)
Adam Stacoviak and Andrew Thorp talk with Michal Migurski (CTO) and Ezra Spier (Fellow) about civic hacking at Code for America, technical sustainability in government, skill gap for more modern software in government, open city data and more.
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If you’re a developer, designer, researcher, data enthusiast, urban planner, or entrepreneur who wants to make a difference - Code for America’s 11-month program is your opportunity use your skills to give back to your community. Apply to be a Fellow!
- Code for America | A New Kind of Public Service
- Michal Migurski (michalmigurski) on Twitter
- Ezra Spier (ahhrrr) on Twitter
- Apply for a Fellowship. Deadline: July 31 | Code for America
- Code for America (codeforamerica) on Twitter
- Mayor Parker Announces Implementation of First City of Houston Hackathon Project
- The Changelog #65: Code for America with Erik Michaels-Ober and Max Ogden
- github.com/codeforamerica (Code For America)
- codeforamerica/honolulu_answers
- The City of Chicago is on Github - The Changelog
- codeforamerica/adopt-a-hydrant
- RailsBridge: Free Ruby on Rails workshops for women and their friends
- What is GTFS? - Transit — Google Developers
- Guido van Rossum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Tim Smith / The East Wing (Founders Talk #47)
Adam talks with Tim Smith, the creator of The East Wing, Tim Likes to Teach, Lustra and more. Tim is a master of the art of design and UX and loves hacking on front-end web codes.
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Sass, libsass, Haml (Changelog Interviews #94)
Adam Stacoviak and Andrew Thorp talk with Hampton Catlin about Sass, libsass, Haml, Tritium, Moovweb and more.
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- hcatlin/libsass
- Tritium from Moovweb, the web transformation platform
- Moovweb
- Sass - Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets
- The Sass Way
- The Sass Jerk - Articles
- Getting started with Sass and Compass - Beginner
- hcatlin (Hampton Catlin)
- hcatlin/sassc
- hcatlin/sassruby
- Nokogiri
- Tender Lovemaking | tenderlovemaking.com
- The Changelog #44: Ruby 1.9, Nokogiri, and tender lovemaking with Aaron Patterson
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Drew Strojny / Memberful (Founders Talk #46)
Adam talks with Drew Strojny the founder of The Theme Foundry and Memberful. Drew is back again to talk about his latest product, Memberful - a membership as a service site that lets you create a membership in minutes and start selling monthly or yearly subscriptions.
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- Drew Strojny - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Founders Talk #22: Drew Strojny / The Theme Foundry
- Jestro
- Memberful — Sell subscriptions online
- Dribbble - Memberful teaser by Drew Strojny
- The Theme Foundry
- Forge
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Sass, Bourbon, Product Design (Changelog Interviews #93)
Adam Stacoviak talks with Phil LaPier about Sass, Bourbon, Neat, sustaining open source, product design, and more.
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- Bourbon - A Sass Mixin Library
- thoughtbot/bourbon · GitHub
- Bourbon Neat
- thoughtbot/neat · GitHub
- We make web and mobile apps : thoughtbot
- thoughtbot Learn
- Hampton Catlin | Ruby, Haml, Wikipedia, iPhone Development
- Joel Oliveira (jayroh) on Twitter
- bourbon/app/assets/stylesheets/addons/_position.scss at master · thoughtbot/bourbon · GitHub
- thoughtbot Learn
- Vim Tutorial | PeepCode Screencast
- Bourbon: A set of vanilla Sass mixins that use SCSS syntax - The Changelog
- thoughtbot/cocaine · GitHub
- The Sass Jerk - Articles
- Bret Victor (worrydream) on Twitter
- Drew Wilson
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Dalton Caldwell / App.net - Part 2 (Founders Talk #45)
Adam talks with Dalton Caldwell the Founder of App.net. Since we barely scratched the surface of the planned conversation around what he’s doing with App.net in part 1, Dalton agreed to come back on the show for a part 2 to discuss the back story of App.net!
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This is my invite to you to sign up for a free App.net account! - Dalton Caldwell
- App.net Podcast | App.net
- Dear Mark Zuckerberg | Dalton Caldwell
- Announcing the App.net Developer Incentive Program | App.net
- Updates to the App.net Developer Incentive Program | App.net
- Home - App.net API Documentation
- Aaron Levie (levie) on Twitter
- Drew Houston (drewhouston) on Twitter
- appdotnet (App.net) on GitHub
- Podlove | Personal Media Development
- App.net Passport for iOS on the iTunes App Store
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Sidekiq and Ruby (Changelog Interviews #92)
Adam Stacoviak and Andrew Thorp talk with Mike Perham about sustaining open source, sidekiq, message processing with Ruby, and more.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Andrew Thorp – Website, GitHub, X
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- mperham (Mike Perham)
- mperham/sidekiq · GitHub
- mperham/dalli · GitHub
- mperham/lunchy · GitHub
- mperham/girl_friday · GitHub
- The Clymb
- Mike Perham (mperham) on Twitter
- Twitter / mperham: @andrewpthorp a def weakness …
- Mike’s programming hero: Tony Arcieri
- Celluloid: Actor-based Concurrent Objects for Ruby
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Robert Sha / CAPSULE + Minimalist (Founders Talk #44)
Adam talks with Robert Sha, the founder of CAPSULE and the maker of Minimalist - a super slim wallet for minimalists popularized by its successful project on Kickstarter.
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- Minimalist by CAPSULE - Kickstarter
- CAPSULE™ Minimalist™ - A Slim Leather Wallet Made for Cash
- Robert Sha (Gadgetomi) on Twitter
- CAPSULE (capsulewallets) on Twitter
- CAPSULE on Facebook
- capsulewallets on Instagram
- Cornell University
- Slim - The Thinnest Wallet Ever. by Supr Good Co. — Kickstarter
- Slim - The Thinnest Wallet Ever. by Supr Good Co. » Comments — Kickstarter
- Phil Knight - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Discover Meteor.js (Changelog Interviews #91)
Adam Stacoviak and Andrew Thorp talk with Sacha Greif about his new book Discover Meteor, Meteor.js, sustaining open source and more.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Andrew Thorp – Website, GitHub, X
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- SachaGreif.com
- Discover Meteor - Learn how to build real-time JavaScript web apps
- Telescope, an open-source social news app built with Meteor
- DiscoverMeteor/Microscope · GitHub
- Sidebar: The 5 best design links, every day
- 6 months with Meteor: Why the future of the web is real-time - Changelog
- Deploy Meteor apps to your own server with Meteor.sh - Changelog
- John Resig, Sacha’s programming hero and the maker of jQuery
- Dribbble is Sacha’s design hero
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Daniel Genser & Jamie Smyth / TypeEngine (Founders Talk #43)
Adam talks with Daniel Genser and Jamie Smyth, the makers of TypeEngine, to talk about their “beautifully simple” solution to publishing a magazine to Newsstand and the future and democratization of digital publishing.
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- Jamie Smyth – Website, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- TypeEngine (TypeEngine) on Twitter
- Daniel Genser (DanielGenser) on Twitter
- Jamie Smyth (JamieMSmyth) on Twitter
- TypeEngine (TypeEngine) on App.net
- Newsstand apps on the App Store
- “Did we just rip off Marco Arment and The Magazine?” – Marco.org
- The Magazine
- Calm down, Marco: micropublishing is about more than just The Magazine - PandoDaily
- TypeEngine for iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation), iPod touch (5th generation) and iPad on the iTunes App Store
- Subcompact Publishing by Craig Mod
- Bright Wall/Dark Room.
- I care if you listen - a blog about new classical music, art, and technology.
- Zine on Wikipedia
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Pair Programming and Ruby (Changelog Interviews #90)
Adam Stacoviak, Andrew Thorp, and Steve Klabnik talk about pair programming, distributed teams, workflows, Ruby and more with Avdi Grimm.
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- Steve Klabnik – Website, GitHub, X
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- Avdi Grimm (avdi) on Twitter
80% angel, 10% daemon, the rest is hard to explain. - Pair Program With Me
Pair widely. Pair often. Ready to broaden your pair-programming horizons, but need some help getting started? Here are some links to talks, guides, and tools for successfully pair-programming beyond your office. - Wide Teams | The blog for geographically dispersed organizations
Wide Teams is a blog and podcast about geographically dispersed teams, with an emphasis on software development teams. It covers all aspects of remote collaboration, including how to get started, interviews with active practitioners, tool reviews, and much more. - Ruby Rogues (podcast)
A great Podcast that Avdi is a part of covering all things Ruby. - Ruby Tapas | Short Screencasts of Gourmet Ruby
RubyTapas is for the busy Ruby or Rails developer who is ready to reach the next level of code mastery. Short screencasts twice a week will introduce you to a wide variety of intermediate to advanced Ruby concepts and techniques, as well as core Object-Oriented design principles. - PeepCode | Programming and Development Tutorial Screencasts for Web Developers and Alpha Geeks
The original Open Source video tutorials for professional web developers and designers. Since 2006, we’ve been your source for technical entertainment, education, and the best explanations around. - RailsCasts | Ruby on Rails Screencasts
RailsCasts is produced by Ryan Bates (rbates on Twitter and ryanb on GitHub). A free episode will be released on the first Monday of each month featuring tips and tricks with Ruby on Rails. - Exceptional Ruby: Master the art of handling failure in Ruby
Exceptional Ruby is an in-depth guide to exceptions and failure handling in Ruby. Over 100 pages of content and dozens of working examples cover everything from the mechanics of how exceptions work to how to design a robust failure management architecture for your app or library. Whether you are a Ruby novice or a seasoned veteran, Exceptional Ruby will help you write cleaner, more resilient Ruby code. - tmux | a terminal multiplexer
It lets you switch easily between several programs in one terminal, detach them (they keep running in the background) and reattach them to a different terminal. And do a lot more. - Pair with me! - Changelog
Some explanation of what “Pair With Me” is covered by Adam Stacoviak on Changelog! - Confident Code
A talk given by Avdi about code that tells a narrative. - Avdi Grimm | SpeakerRate
Past and Future talks given by Avdi – let the world know how awesome He is! - Steve Klabnik Hacking on RubyGems while listening to Ke$ha
A video of Steve writing some Ruby. Undeniably, Ke$ha is the best source of music when hacking on RubyGems. - Beverly Nelson (@bnlson) on Twitter
A developer @purecharity. Beverly works with Adam and Andrew in their day job. Passionate about teaching, she is involved in many ruby communities. - Ruby Friends on GitHub
Community starts with friendships! - Angela Harms (@angelaharms) on Twitter
Avdi’s Programming Hero. She loves Agile Development, Programming, Spirituality and ‘Unschooling.’
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Docker and Linux Containers (Changelog Interviews #89)
Adam Stacoviak and Andrew Thorp talk about Docker, linux containers, and dotCloud with Solomon Hykes - Founder & CEO of DotCloud and the creator of Docker.
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One home for all your apps. Deploy, manage and scale any web app. Build your ideal application stack by combining powerful cloud services. Go live and only pay for what you need. Live apps start at $4.32/month. - Solomon Hykes (solomonstre) on Twitter
Hacker & entrepreneur. We are automating the cloud at dotCloud.com. - Docker - the Linux container engine
Docker is an open-source engine which automates the deployment of applications as highly portable, self-sufficient containers which are independent of hardware, language, framework, packaging system and hosting provider. - The future of Linux Containers - YouTube
At PyCon Solomon Hykes shows docker to the public for the first time! - Fabrice Bellard - Wikipedia
Fabrice Bellard is a computer programmer who is best known as the creator of the FFmpeg and QEMU software projects. He has also developed a number of other programs, including the Tiny C Compiler.
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After Founders Talk #42 (Founders Talk)
Adam Stacoviak talks with Dalton Caldwell the Founder of App.net after Founders Talk #42.
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Dalton Caldwell / App.net - Part 1 (Founders Talk #42)
Adam talks with Dalton Caldwell the Founder of App.net. This is a hefty part 1, mainly focusing on the road traveled by Dalton to get to App.net. We barely scratched the surface of the planned conversation around what he’s doing with App.net. We end this call by teeing up the topic of discussion for part 2.
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- dalton on App.net
Founder/CEO App.net - Join App.net!
Sign up for App.net on their free tier plan. - DaltonCaldwell.com
This is my personal blog. Currently: CEO of App.net Previously: CEO of imeem - imeem | CrunchBase Profile
imeem was an online music service founded in 2003 by Dalton Caldwell that gives fans instant access to almost any song they want, for free. - Symbolic Systems - Stanford » Welcome!
The Symbolic Systems Program (SSP) at Stanford University focuses on computers and minds - Chirp (Chirp) on Twitter
Twitter’s Developer Conference, April 14 and 15, 2010. - What Twitter could have been | Dalton Caldwell
I remember when you could go to Twitter.com and see the global firehose on the front page…
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Vagrant and HashiCorp (Changelog Interviews #88)
Adam Stacoviak and Andrew Thorp talk with Mitchell Hashimoto, the creator of Vagrant and founder of HashiCorp.
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- New intro music! Tell us what you think on Twitter.
- We’re joined by Mitchell Hashimoto of Vagrant
- Mitchell joined us in a past episode, but has since formed HashiCorp to work on Vagrant full time.
- The Common Desk is a neat co-working space in Deep Ellum of Dallas, TX.
- Discourse is an open source discussion platform we covered in a previous episode
- SCaLE is a Linux Expo in Southern California.
- Disqus is a discussion platform to integrate comments into your website.
- Some of the original names of Vagrant were BoxCutter and Hobo.
- vagrant-lxc is an LXC provider for Vagrant.
- vagrant-joyent is a Joyent provider for Vagrant.
- vagrant-kvm is a KVM provider for Vagrant.
- Chef and Puppet are two products that help automate infrastructure.
- Vagrant is sponsored by Fastly, Kiip, SoftLayer and Typekit.
- Riak is an open source, distributed database by basho
- HashiCorp will be releasing a new project, Packer. Watch HashiCorp’s Website for updates.
- Hyper-V is Windows Virtualization that ships with Windows 8.
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Garrett Dimon / Sifter (Founders Talk #41)
Garrett Dimon the Founder of Sifter and writer of Starting + Sustaining joins Adam to share his history with becoming a founder and the wisdom he’s gained by bloodying his knuckles over the years with lessons learned.
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- Simple bug and issue tracking. | Sifter
- Bootstrapping a Software Product // Speaker Deck
- LessConf, making other conferences jealous since 2009
- Changelog | Sifter
- Support | Sifter
- Dribbble - Payment Processing Breakdown by Garrett Dimon
- Starting + Sustaining: A book and spreadsheet to help you launch and maintain a web application by Garrett Dimon
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Sustaining Open Source and Building an Open Company (Changelog Interviews #87)
Adam Stacoviak, Andrew Thorp and Kenneth Reitz talk with Chad Whitacre about sustaining open source through Gittip, building an open company and more.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Andrew Thorp – Website, GitHub, X
- Kenneth Reitz – GitHub, X
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- We’re joined by Chad Whitacre of gittip.com
- gittip.com allows you to send recurring gifts to people you want to support
- Chad is running gittip.com as an open company
- Pledgie is a way to raise funds online
- The MacArthur Genius Grant is a program that supports awesome people doing awesome things
- Balanced Payments is the payment provider behind gittip
- Stripe is another payment provider
- Watsi is crowd funding for changing the world for good
- Balanced has open sourced their dashboard
- A BDFL is a Benevolent Dictator for Life
- The Lean Startup is a book by Eric Ries
- Heroku gives on gittip.
- MaxCDN gives on gittip.
- Reddit is an open source project and is on github
- Share projects and links with us on our subreddit
- You can sign up for the gittip newsletter
- Medium is a new writing platform
- Kenneth loves this tweet from Chad on Twitter
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Discourse and Ruby (Changelog Interviews #86)
Adam Stacoviak, Andrew Thorp and Kenneth Reitz talk with Jeff Atwood about Discourse and more.
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- Jeff Atwood – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Andrew Thorp – Website, GitHub, X
- Kenneth Reitz – GitHub, X
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- Hack in style with your very own Changelog tee!
- We’re member supported!
- We’re joined by Jeff Atwood, from codinghorror.com and stackexchange.com
- Stack Overflow is a community Q&A platform.
- Discourse is an open source discussion platform.
- Wordpress is an open source CMS in PHP.
- Shapado is a Q&A platform in ruby.
- OSQA is an open source Q&A system.
- Reddit is an online community where users vote on content.
- Steve Yegge’s tour de babel is a language roundup from 2006.
- Why Ruby? is a blog post by Jeff about why he did Discourse in ruby.
- mono is an open source .NET development framework.
- Discourse as Your First Rails App is a blog post about setting up the Discourse development environment.
- ember is a JavaScript framework for ambitious web applications.
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We're back and we're LIVE! (Changelog Interviews #85)
Adam Stacoviak, Andrew Thorp, Steve Klabnik, Kenneth Reitz and Jerod Santo take the show live for the first time since August 8th, 2012.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Andrew Thorp – Website, GitHub, X
- Steve Klabnik – Website, GitHub, X
- Kenneth Reitz – GitHub, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- Hack in style with your very own Changelog tee!
- We are now member supported!
- Groovy on Grails is a Groovy Open Source web app framework for the JVM.
- Rust is a new open source language from Mozilla.
- pairprogramwith.me encourages diverse pair-programming.
- gittip is a way to give small weekly cash gifts to people you love and are inspired by.
- requests is HTTP for Humans in python.
- Postgres had a big security release not too long ago.
- Servo is a browser rendering engine written in Rust.
- Rust for Rubyists is a great book about Rust, by Steve Klabnik.
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Python! aims to be a guide for learning Python, by Kenneth Reitz.
- Git Gutter keeps your editor up to date with Git.
- Premailer is Pre-flight for HTML email in Ruby.
- docker is the Linux container runtime.
- juju helps you build entire environments in the cloud.
- discourse is a new Open Source discussion platform from Jeff Atwood.
- blackbox is a tool to help archive the internet.
- Philosophy in a time of software is a Google Group about Philosophy/Software.
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Sam Soffes / Seesaw - Part 3 (Founders Talk #40)
Sam Soffes the Founder of Nothing Magical and NOW the VP of Engineering at Seesaw joins Adam Stacoviak to share some of the most recent details and changes for him in the finale part 3 show.
Core take away? Embrace risk. Stay focused.
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- #51: Sam Soffes / Onward - Part 4
- #39: Sam Soffes / Nothing Magical, Cheddar - Part 2
- #38: Sam Soffes / Nothing Magical, Cheddar - Part 1
- #30: Chuck Longanecker - Great design can’t be hired, Follow your bliss (genius), Betterment, and early exit or build to $400k salary for life - The Industry
- Sam Soffes (soffes) on Twitter
- Seesaw (Seesaw) on Twitter
- Seesaw
- Reverse Minimalism
- Changes
- Apartment
- Expensive Parking Spots with Sam Soffes » The East Wing
- Staying Strong
- Having Less
- An Intimate Portrait Of Innovation, Risk, And Failure Through Hipstamatic’s Lens | Fast Company
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News Roundup (Changelog Interviews #84)
Andrew and Wynn run down the news from the last month.
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- Gitspective - Facebook style timeline for your GitHub feed
- Hammer.js - Easily add multi-touch to your websites
- TweetStream - Easily access the Twitter Streaming API
- t - Powerful command line interface for Twitter
- Sextant - view your Rails routes without waiting on Rake
- Episode 0.8.2 - Ruby Motion, MacRuby, and more with Laurent Sansonetti
- RubyMotion toolchain now open source
- Ruby Motion Samples - Write iPhone Apps in Ruby
- Formotion - Making iOS Forms insanely great with RubyMotion
- Eloy Duran, the creator of CocoaPods
- BubbleWrap - Cocoa wrappers and helpers for RubyMotion (Ruby for iOS) - Making Cocoa APIs more Ruby like, one API at a time.
- Cupertino - Mechanize the Apple Dev Center
- Grunt - a command line build tool for JavaScript
- Prose - A content editor for GitHub
- Jekyll - a blog-aware, static site generator in Ruby
- Octopress - a blogging framework for hackers.
- Nesta CMS - A Ruby CMS for developers and designers.
- Mousetrap.js - JavaScript Keyboard Shortcuts
- Sparrow, a Mac Mail Client, was recently acquired by Google
- TodoMVC - JavaScript Frameworks Galore!
- thoughtbot - a mobile and web application design and development firm.
- Don’t git-blame me, I was pairing
- Cheddar - Task made simple.
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After Founders Talk #39 (Founders Talk)
Adam and guest Sam Soffes the Founder of Nothing Magical and the maker of Cheddar after Founders Talk #39.
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Sam Soffes / Nothing Magical, Cheddar - Part 2 (Founders Talk #39)
Sam Soffes the Founder of Nothing Magical and the maker of Cheddar joins Adam Stacoviak to share more details about the rise of Cheddar, its revenue, metrics, numbers and more. Sam shares lessons learned, his dreams as well as his thoughts on those who build with only the hope of winning what he calls “the acquisition lottery” as their goal - plus so much more.
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- #40: Sam Soffes / Seesaw - Part 3
- #38: Sam Soffes / Nothing Magical, Cheddar - Part 1
- Listen to After Founders Talk #39 for another extended chat with Sam
- Developer & Designer
- Boredom & Change
- Hello Internet: Nexus 7
- Acquisitions
- Retiring at 25
- How To Learn
- Learn iOS
- What was the rationale for open sourcing Cheddar? - Cheddar (app) on Quora
- Cheddar (app) on Quora
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Cloud 9 IDE (Changelog Interviews #83)
Wynn caught up with Ruben and Matt from Cloud 9 to talk about what’s new with their IDE in the cloud.
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- Ruben Daniels is the CEO of Cloud9.
- Matt Pardee is a developer & evangelist for Cloud9.
- Tim Caswell was on a previous episode is an employee at Cloud9.
- Cloud9 is the README editor at GitHub.
- Ruben was on a previous episode of The Changelog talking about ajax.org.
- The Cloud9 IDE runs on a Node server.
- VFS is an open source virtual file system implementation for node.js.
- Sublime Text is a cross platform text editor.
- Ace is an open source code editor written in JavaScript.
- Heroku and JoyentCloud are cloud application platforms.
- Selenium is used for browser automation.
- Express is an open source node.js web framework.
- NPM is a package manager for node.js.
- Pastebin and gist are both ways to share snippets and pastes.
- Architect is an open source plugin system for node applications.
- treehugger is an open source JavaScript Abstract Syntax Tree library.
- Matt’s programming hero is Linus Torvalds.
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Sam Soffes / Nothing Magical, Cheddar - Part 1 (Founders Talk #38)
Sam Soffes the Founder of Nothing Magical and the maker of Cheddar joins Adam Stacoviak to share all the details of his wild ride as an indie software developer and designer. Sam has worked at Hipstamatic, built YouTube ripoffs, gotten offers from some of the most respected names in the business (some accepted and some turned down) all to circle back around to start Nothing Magical and build his own products. He shares the highs, the lows and all the things he’s learned along the way - plus so much more. And, check out “After Dark” for a short extended chat with Sam.
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- #51: Sam Soffes / Onward - Part 4
- #40: Sam Soffes / Seesaw - Part 3
- #39: Sam Soffes / Nothing Magical, Cheddar - Part 2
- SSToolkit
- Four Years
- GitHub - samsoffes (Sam Soffes)
- Chedder iOS - Open Source on GitHub
- GitHub - samsoffes/grater
- Hello Internet: Selling My Stuff
- Hello Internet on Vimeo
- Cheddar Lessons So Far
- Cheddar
- Shares App
- The Changelog - Episode 0.8.2 - Ruby Motion, MacRuby and more with Laurent Sansonetti
- Freshly Served: Cheddar App - Take your tasks everywhere - The Industry
- The Industry Radio Show #8: Adobe, HTML5Rocks, Dialoggs invites and making Cheddar
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After Founders Talk #37 (Founders Talk)
Adam and guest Sarah Hatter the founder of CoSupport after Founders Talk #37.
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Sarah Hatter / CoSupport - Part 2 (Founders Talk #37)
Sarah Hatter the Founder of CoSupport, joins Adam for part 2 of 2 to go back in time and dig deep into her history, we learn about “the early days” and how she got started, her passions for TV and her podcast TVBFF, the early days of blogging and “dramaville”, what inspires her, being a crafts-person, how she learned that “you don’t have to do anything you don’t want to do”, how TM meditation changed her life, as well as the challenges she’s faced as a female founder - plus so much more.
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- After Founders Talk #37
- TVBFF (podcast)
- User Conf - Oct 12th, 2012 in San Francisco (Fort Mason Center)
- Crush It! by Gary Vaynerchuk (book)
- Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh (book)
- hitenism — Hiten Shah’s Blog
- The Next Microsoft by minimally minimal
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After Founders Talk #36 (Founders Talk)
Adam and guest Sarah Hatter the founder of CoSupport after Founders Talk #36.
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Sarah Hatter / CoSupport - Part 1 (Founders Talk #36)
Sarah Hatter the Founder of CoSupport, joins Adam for part 1 of 2 to share her passion for great customer support for web products, being a woman in a man filled industry, her thoughts and history with potentially selling her company and getting aqui-hired, how Allan and Steven of LessEverything have become partners in CoSupport - plus so much more.
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- After Founders Talk #36
- CoSupport.us
- CoSupport - What Is CoSupport?
- UserConf - A customer service conference about delighting your customers
- TurboScan: quickly scan multipage documents into high-quality PDFs
- Penultimate for iPad
- Sarah Hatter talks at LessConf 2011
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Ruby Motion and MacRuby (Changelog Interviews #82)
Wynn and Sam caught up with Laurent Sansonetti to talk about MacRuby, RubyMotion, and more.
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- Tony Arcieri, creator of Celluloid.
- Celluloid is painless multithreaded programming for Ruby.
- Celluloid:IO provides evented I/O for Celluloid actors.
- DCell lets you build distributed Celluloid apps over 0MQ.
- Adam Keys, formerly of Gowalla, is now teammates with Tony at Living Social.
- Zed gave us the lowdown on 0MQ on 0.3.4.
- Reel aims to be a fast, non-blocking evented web server without a Rack API.
- Tony is aiming to get Reel working with Webmachine.
- Sean Cribbs talked Riak on a previous episode.
- Hubot is GitHub’s awesome Campfire bot.
- Travis uses Celluloid, as discussed on 0.7.5.
- Tony is shutting down LightRail since the release of Rails::API, from Santiago Pastorino.
- ActiveModel::Serializer aims to provide an object to encapsulate serialization of ActiveModel objects, including ActiveRecord objects.
- Wynn loves jbuilder despite its name.
- E is the secure distributed pure-object platform and p2p scripting language.
- Data, context and interaction is a paradigm used in computer software to program systems of communicating objects.
- Tahoe-LAFS is a Python-powered decentralized secure filesystem.
- Tony likes Clojure.
- Joe Armstrong and Robert Virding, creators of Erlang are Tony’s programming heroes.
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Celluloid and Concurrency (Changelog Interviews #81)
Wynn talked with Tony Arcieri, creator of Celluloid, about concurrency in Ruby and his thoughts on Erlang, Clojure, and design patterns.
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- Tony Arcieri, creator of Celluloid.
- Celluloid is painless multithreaded programming for Ruby.
- Celluloid:IO provides evented I/O for Celluloid actors.
- DCell lets you build distributed Celluloid apps over 0MQ.
- Adam Keys, formerly of Gowalla, is now teammates with Tony at Living Social.
- Zed gave us the lowdown on 0MQ on 0.3.4.
- Reel aims to be a fast, non-blocking evented web server without a Rack API.
- Tony is aiming to get Reel working with Webmachine.
- Sean Cribbs talked Riak on a previous episode.
- Hubot is GitHub’s awesome Campfire bot.
- Travis uses Celluloid, as discussed on 0.7.5.
- Tony is shutting down LightRail since the release of Rails::API, from Santiago Pastorino.
- ActiveModel::Serializer aims to provide an object to encapsulate serialization of ActiveModel objects, including ActiveRecord objects.
- Wynn loves jbuilder despite its name.
- E is the secure distributed pure-object platform and p2p scripting language.
- Data, context and interaction is a paradigm used in computer software to program systems of communicating objects.
- Tahoe-LAFS is a Python-powered decentralized secure filesystem.
- Tony likes Clojure.
- Joe Armstrong and Robert Virding, creators of Erlang are Tony’s programming heroes.
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Luvit and Lua Bindings for libuv (Changelog Interviews #80)
Wynn caught up with Tim Caswell to talk about Luvit, his new project that provides Lua bindings for libuv.
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- Adam recently married the lovely Heather.
- Tim Caswell is a long time friend of the show, creator of the How to Node blog.
- Lua is a powerful, fast, lightweight, embeddable scripting language.
- Luvit = Lua + libUV + jIT = pure awesomesauce.
- LuaJIT’s FFI library allows calling external C functions and using C data structures from pure Lua code.
- Luvit can take advantage of most Node libraries as long as they use non-blocking IO.
- Rackspace is using Luvit in production already, but without HTTP.
- Tim likes the callback style of coding that V8 promotes.
- Wynn asks where Node.js is on the Gartner hype cycle.
- Luvmonkey is a port of libuv bindings for SpiderMonkey.
- Tim fails to see the use case for AMD.
- Tim worked with Jeremy Ashkenas on CoffeeScript while at Document Cloud.
- Candor is a language inspired by javascript, but with less features and, therefore, less complexity. So no semicolons, no exceptions and simplified anonymous function syntax (dart-like).
- Tim has played with Go but likes Rust better.
- Tim is now working at Cloud9 and their cloud-based IDE.
- Surely Tim isn’t “the only JavaScript developer within a hundred miles of” Red Lick, TX.
- Nodebits is another Node.js blog.
- Bert Belder and Ben Noordhuis are the “libuv guys” at Cloud9.
- Boot2Gecko is “an early-stage project to expose all device capabilities such that infrastructure like phone dialers can be built with Web APIs.”
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Adhearsion, Telephony, XMPP (Changelog Interviews #79)
Wynn caught up with Ben Klang and Ben Langfeld of the Adhearsion project to talk about Adhearsion 2.0, the future of telephony apps, XMPP, and more.
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- Ben Klang Principal/Technology Strategist at Mojo Lingo, Project Lead for Adhearsion.
- Ben Langfeld developer at Mojo Lingo, member of Adhearsion core team.
- Adhearsion is an open source voice application framework.
- Rails developers will find some familiarity in Adhearsion’s controllers and routers.
- Adhearsion just released version 2.0.
- New in 2.0, Adhearsion supports multiple backends including Asterisk, PRISM, Tropo, and others.
- Tropo underwrites the development of Adhearsion and also provides features not available on Asterisk, such as high quality text-to-speech.
- IVR stands for Interactive Voice Response.
- Adhearsion plugins are simply gems that extend the Adhearsion DSL and are similar to Rails’ Railties.
- XMPP support has been extracted into a plugin.
- Adhearsion models voice applications as MVC.
- Planning is starting for the next Adhearsion Conf. Follow @AdhearsionConf for details.
- You can watch the AdhearsionConf videos.
- These well done videos were done by our friends Opus Video. We love their split screen presentation. Never miss the speaker or the slides.
- Video is still the frontier for telephony apps.
- Ben Langfeld loves XMPP and helps maintain the Blather library, written by Jeff Smick.
- XMPP pub-sub is hot right now, as employed by the likes of Superfeedr, the subject of Episdode 0.3.7.
- Punchblock “is a middleware library for telephony applications. Like Rack is to Rails and Sinatra, Punchblock provides a consistent API on top of several underlying third-party call control protocols.”
- Adhearsion uses Celluloid which makes Ruby “look and smell a bit like Erlang, but without the yuckiness.”
- Mike Perham, Tony Arcieri, and Charles Nutter inspire Ben and Ben.
Special thanks to Julius Francisco for helping to arrange this episode.
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After Founders Talk #35 (Founders Talk)
Adam Stacoviak and guest Steve Espinosa after Founders Talk #35.
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Steve Espinosa / AppStack (Founders Talk #35)
Steve Espinosa, the Founder of AppStack, joins Adam to tell his story of hustling his way to the top, gaining the trust and friendship of Jason Calacanis, Dave McClure, Eric Schmidt and the awesome team behind Google Ventures, what it means to focus and much more. This is a jam packed episode with tons of energy and lots to learn from Steve. Also, check out “After Dark” for an extended chat with Steve.
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- AppStack
- @stevemcstud
- @appstack
- Joel Beukelman on Dribbble
- Mobile Ad Optimization Startup AppStack Raises $1.5M From Eric Schmidt, Google Ventures And Others
- Google Mobile Ads
- PixelFish Finds A Local Deal In Backyard — Eric Schmidt’s Second Venture Exit In As Many Weeks
- Backyard
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CocoaPods and MacRuby (Changelog Interviews #78)
Wynn caught up with Eloy Durán, creator of CocoaPods to talk about the project, MacRuby, and his favorite Objective-C libraries.
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- Eloy Durán, Ruby developer and creator of CocoaPods.
- CocoaPods, “the best way to manage library dependencies in Objective-C projects.”
- CocoaPods uses a Podfile to specify project dependencies.
- Eloy aspires to achieve the same level of “Twitter hate” that Bundler enjoys.
- CocoaPods started on MacRuby but now is powered by MRI.
- Patches for feature requests are welcomed.
- CocoaPods specs live on GitHub, similar to the Homebrew model.
- The Passenger pane lets you configure Phusion Passenger on the Mac really easily.
- Eloy wants a Ruby lib that shows a proper unified diff for Array, Hash, String with color support.
- Listener Jonah Williams asks how the community can increase adoption.
- Objective-C is the #10 most popular language on GitHub.
- Eloy wrote a file browser for MacVim because he likes Vim but is a “gui guy.”
- If the latest Xcode has got you down, you might try AppCode.
- BlocksKit, the Objective-C block utilities you always wish you had.
- QuincyKit offers crash report managment for your iOS apps.
- JSONKit, a very high performance Objective-C JSON library.
- Wynn likes Test Flight but Eloy has switched to Hockey App.
- Laurent Sansonetti, lead developer of MacRuby is Eloy’s programming hero.
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After Founders Talk #34 (Founders Talk)
Adam Stacoviak and guest Jon Crawford of Storenvy after Founders Talk #34.
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Jon Crawford / Storenvy (Founders Talk #34)
Jon Crawford, the Founder of Storenvy joins Adam to talk about how everything began for Storenvy, his road from Kansas to Austin, TX to SF, how he got kicked out of Y Combinator the same week he was accepted then raised $1.5M for Storenvy, and how he’s living the startup dream! Also, listen to After Founders Talk #34 for an extended chat with Jon.
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- Storenvy Jobs
- @Storenvy
- @JonCrawford
- How I Got Kicked Out of Y Combinator and Then Raised $1.5M for My Startup
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Solarized and Linux on the Desktop (Changelog Interviews #77)
Wynn sat down with Ethan Schoonover, creator of Solarized to talk about the science and design behind the wildly popular color scheme as well as his love for Arch Linux.
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- Ethan Schoonover is a freelance designer, creator of Solarized.
- Solarized is a sixteen color palette (eight monotones, eight accent colors) designed for use with terminal and gui applications.
- Vimscript can be intimidating for noobs.
- The Solarized palette aims to maximize sixteen colors, providing contrast on both dark and light backgrounds
- Ethan works in the CIELAB:
A Lab color space is a color-opponent space with dimension L for lightness and a and b for the color-opponent dimensions, based on nonlinearly compressed CIE XYZ color space coordinates.
- Achievement unlocked: First guest to mention fovea centralis on the show.
- “This fellow Wright” is W. David Wright, who experimented with color perception in 1930s.
- Ethan works out of the LAB space, mapping to other color spaces as tools require.
- Solarized looks great in a number of fonts as well as syntaxes.
- Wynn asks if Sass should support LAB.
- Terminus is Ethan’s favorite fixed with font, but also likes Letter Gothic Mono.
- Wynn’s litmus test for fixed fonts is the dashrocket alignment.
- Micah Rich, founder of The League of Movable Type was on Episode 0.7.4.
- Arch Linux is Ethan’s favorite Linux distro.
- xmonad is a dynamically tiling X11 window manager that is written and configured in Haskell.
- The tmux reference on the Arch wiki is most helpful. Check out Episode 0.7.3 for more on tmux.
- TotalTerminal from the talented Antonin Hildebrand.
brew tapmakes it easy to tap a new Homebrew formula repository from GitHub, or list existing taps.- Freshmeat.net is now freecode.com.
- GIMP is no Photoshop replacement.
- Haskell is an advanced, purely-functional programming language.
- XMonad.Prompt.Input is similar to Quicksilver.
- Karthik’s terminal convinced Wynn to give Solarized a go.
- Wynn figured out how to do ‘transparent’ colors in the tmux status bar.
- TaskWarrior is Ethan’s todo manager, which is saying something since he created Kinkless GTD.
- Drew Neil, creator of Vimcasts, featured on Episode 0.5.6.
- Dr. Nic Williams, on Episode #50.
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.NET, NuGet, Open Source (Changelog Interviews #76)
Wynn caught up with Phil Haack to talk about NuGet and growing the .NET open source community at GitHub.
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- Phil Haack, GitHubber, Microsoft alumnus, .NET open source guy.
- NuGet is a Visual Studio extension that makes it easy to install and update third-party libraries and tools in Visual Studio.
- log4net is often an open source trojan horse in the proprietary enterprise.
- NuGet features a command line interface and also integrates with SharpDevelop.
- Wynn asks what impact the names .NET and C# have had on SEO and adoption of Microsoft technology.
- C# is the #11 most popular language on GitHub.
- Tiobe places C# as #3 overall.
- Line endings in Git are everyone’s problem.
- GitHub may or may not be working on (GitHub for Windows®)™.
- Phil likes SignalR, an async signaling library for .NET to help build real-time, multi-user interactive web applications.
- Jabbr is a chat client showcase for SignalR.
- NancyFx is a lightweight, low-ceremony, framework for building HTTP based services on .NET and Mono.
- OWIN defines a standard interface between .NET web servers and web applications, much like Rack for Ruby.
- Sammy.js was also Rat Pack-inspired.
- Phil thinks LINQ and Reactive Extensions (Rx) are some innovations in .NET that should influence the broader community.
- The
awaitkeyword in C# 5 will accelerate async adoption in .NET. - Wynn <3’s Hubot and especially likes the Dude and Mustachify scripts.
- David Fowler, developer on the ASP.NET team and who works on NuGet and SignalR inspires Phil.
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Travis CI, Scaling Apps, Riak (Changelog Interviews #75)
Wynn caught up with Josh Kalderimis and Mathias Meyer from Travis CI to talk about hosted CI in the sky, scaling apps, and a little Riak.
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- Travis CI a hosted continuous integration service for the open source community.
- Josh Kalderimis is a core Travis CI team member, Rails contributor, gem developer, and general serial coder.
- Mathias Meyer, hacker on Travis, author of the Riak Handbook.
- Travis now provides first class support for Python and Perl.
- Travis also supports several versions of Ruby including Ruby
hidHEAD. - [8:15] Mathias lays out the case for Travis vs. Jenkins, namely a streamlined user interface.
- Travis runs almost exclusively on Heroku.
- AMQP powers the message queues in Travis.
- Keep an eye on Travis listener.
- The GitHub service hook makes setting up your open source project on Travis a breeze.
- If you’re a Travis user, show some love to keep the features coming.
- GitHubber Rick Olson worked on some API features to help Travis more deeply integrate with GitHub.
- Private repo support, aka Travis Pro™ is on its way. If you want to get in on the beta, donate to the project.
- Donate $500, get an hour of pairing with Aaron Patterson, Yehuda Katz, José Valim, Jon Leighton, or other Ruby pro.
- Mathias previously worked at Basho and The Riak Handbook is a collection of what he learned there.
- José Valim is Josh’s programming hero for his code and community building.
- Mathias is playing with Kestrel and Zookeeper.
- Josh and Mathias like Celluloid.
- Mike Perham’s Sidekiq has caught Josh and Mathias’ eye.
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After Founders Talk #33 (Founders Talk)
Adam Stacoviak, Nate Peretic & Jay Fanelli after Founders Talk #33.
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Nate & Jay / United Pixelworkers (Founders Talk #33)
Nate Peretic & Jay Fanelli, the Founders of Full Stop and United Pixelworkers join Adam to talk about plotting and planning to leave old jobs, being outspoken and opinionated, having a core set of principles and not deviating from them, reaching out to people they admired (regardless of popularity) and their side project that has turned into something that could eclipse their entire client revenue in 2012. Also, check out After Dark for an extended chat with Nate and Jay.
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- After Founders Talk #33
- Full Stop
- Full Disclosure
- United Pixelworkers
- The economics of making and selling t-shirts
- Success by Design
- The Withering Away of Flash
- A modest proposal (A List Apart)
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The League of Moveable Type (Changelog Interviews #74)
Adam and Wynn caught up with Micah Rich from The League of Moveable type to talk about open source typography.
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- Micah Rich, from The League of Movable Type.
- Caroline Hadilaksono, co-founder of The League.
- League Gothic, one of Caroline’s popular faces is Wynn’s favorite.
- Several of League fonts are available on TypeKit.
- Dave Crossland, designer of Cantarell.
- Chunk was created by Meredith Mandel.
- The League fonts are forkable on GitHub.
- FontForge is an outline font editor that lets you create your own postscript, truetype, opentype, and more.
- Glyphs is a professional font editor for Mac OS X.
- Wynn’s slide decks make use of League Gothic and Hand of Sean.
- Lettering.js gives you more control over kerning on the web.
- The Manifesto lays out the vision for The League.
- Haley Fiege contributed Sniglet.
- Barry Schwartz has contributed several fonts.
- Want to help Micah introduce typographers to git? Get in touch.
- Wynn asks about vertical rhythm, which Compass makes easier.
- Lettercase is a social font manager.
- Adam uses FontExplorer X but wishes it did more.
- Micah on Dribbble.
- Lettercase is powered by Sinatra, Warden, and Grape.
- Hoefler & Co. are Micah’s heroes in typography design.
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Nathan Ryan / Proxart (Founders Talk #32)
Nathan Ryan, the Co-founder of Proxart joins Adam to talk about what to do when you’re bored in Santa Clarita, team development, keeping everyone motivated and on track, and his globalized local focus on art and how artists relate to, react to, and change their environment.
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- Proxart
- Santa Clarita, California
- Nathan on Dribbble
- Be the Voice of Your City on Proxart!
- PM8
- Proxart Network
- Proxart at Self-Sabotage screening
- Self-Sabotage Film
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tmux, dotfiles, and Text Mode (Changelog Interviews #73)
Wynn sat down with Brian Hogan and Josh Clayton to talk about tmux, dotfiles, and the joys of text mode.
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- Brian Hogan speaker, trainer, and author of _Tmux: Productive, Mouse Free development, out now from PragProg.
- Josh Clayton is a developer at Thoughtbot.
- Factory Girl - fixture replacement for Ruby.
- tmux is a terminal multiplexer similar to GNU screen.
- tmuxinator helps you manage tmux sessions.
- taskpaper.vim - Vim interface for Taskpaper.
- Josh’s dotfiles are extensive.
- A patch to reattach to user namespace in tmux.
- Palette lets you write Vim color schemes with Ruby
- Evergreen - Run Jasmine JavaScript unit tests, integrate them into Ruby applications
- The latest iTerm2 ships with tmux integration.
- tslime.vim is a simple vim script to send portion of text from a vim buffer to a running tmux session.
- vim-turbux - Ruby testing with tmux.
- Justin Smestad turned Wynn onto tmux for pair programming.
- Derick Bailey from Watch Me Code.
- pair.io gives you a one-button, collaboration-friendly dev environment for your GitHub repo.
- Jesse Dearing is the unnamed “DevOps guy” at Pure Charity.
- Thoughtbot has a company-wide dotfiles repo.
- Josh rolls his own Vim setup with Tim Pope’s pathogen.
- Brian uses TTYtter, is a terminal-based Twitter client, Wynn uses Earthquake.
- Josh likes irrsi for IRC.
- Brian likes Alpine over mutt for mail.
- Search GitHub for “tmux.conf.”
- Zach Holman says dotfiles are meant to be forked.
- Zach’s own dotfiles.
- Yan Pritzker’s dotfiles are opinionated.
- Josh says that if you don’t think your dotfiles are the best out there, you’re doing it wrong. (29:55)
- Joe Ferris at Thoughtbot inspired Josh’s dotfiles.
- Brian and Josh say Janus and oh-my-zsh are great to get started, but you need to understand your dotfiles.
- Wynn uses this shell function to list colors to put into his tmux config.
- Dotshare is web site to share dotfile configs plus screenshots.
- Pianobar is text-based command line interface for Pandora.
- Wynn uses shell.fm for Last.fm.
- Be sure and check out the Tmux Crash Course.
NEW: Humans Present: tmux a Thoughtbot Workshop.
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Kyle Bragger / Forrst (Founders Talk #31)
Kyle Bragger, the Founder of Forrst joins Adam to talk about how everything got started for him, how he met Gary Vaynerchuk - which ultimately led Gary and his brother Aj to provide the initial angel funding that helped Kyle work full-time on Forrst. Kyle also shares lots of knowledge on product design, his focus on community and what it means to say no and focus. Be sure to also stay tuned to his great advice at the end of the show.
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Vagrant and virtualized environments (Changelog Interviews #72)
Wynn caught up with Mitchell Hashimoto from the Vagrant project to talk about virtualized environments, DevOps, and more.
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- We’re now @TheChangelog on Twitter.
- Mitchell Hashimoto from Vagrant.
- Vagrant is a tool for building and distributing virtualized development environments by providing automated creation and provisioning of virtual machines using Oracle’s VirtualBox.
- Vagrant is currently a Ruby gem.
- Mitchell uses Vagrant to test his Chef cookbooks, featured in Episode 0.3.8.
- Travis CI uses Vagrant extensively.
- Show Travis some love, tell ‘em to come on The Changelog.
- Mitchell just returned from FOSDEM.
- John Bender has helped out Mitchell with Vagrant.
- VeeWee: the tool to easily build vagrant base boxes or KVM, VirtualBox, and Fusion images.
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Peter Cooper / Cooper Press (Founders Talk #30)
Peter Cooper, the Founder of Cooper Press joins Adam to talk about all the stops along the way on his path to where he is today. Peter shares an immense amount of knowledge on tech publishing, what he’s learned about marketing, email newsletters done right, setting and accomplishing goals, as well as some very good advice at the very end.
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- O’Reilly Fluent Conference
- Cooper Press
- Peter Cooper
- What I’ve Earned (And Learned) From Writing “Beginning Ruby”
- HTML5 Weekly
- JavaScript Weekly
- Ruby Weekly
- LaunchBit
- Buffer
- Peter Cooper on 43 Things
- Self Promotion for Geeks
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Francisco Dao / 50 Kings (Founders Talk #29)
Francisco Dao, the Founder of 50 Kings (an invitation-only, private community of thinkers and doers) joins Adam to talk about the importance of building relationships, doing only what interests you, entrepreneurship, all sorts of “insider” knowledge around the tech event planning space and more. If you’ve been dying to get invited or referred to 50 Kings, this show will give you all you need to know.
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- 50 Kings
- Elon Musk
- David Hornick
- The Lobby Conference
- Foo Camp
- Tech stars plan City Slickers-style cattle drive
- Killer Attitude 53 Rules of Unstoppable Confidence
- Tech community, are we MTV or TED?
- Internet innovators: Beware the big bubble of small ideas
- A Post-Mortem for Plancast
- SAP Will Buy SuccessFactors For $3.4 Billion
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Andrew Wilkinson / MetaLab (Founders Talk #28)
Andrew Wilkinson, the Founder of MetaLab (an interface design studio) joins Adam to talk about how he started as a one-man band and learned to delegate to succeed. Andrew started MetaLab in 2006 and quickly built the company into a multi-million dollar interface design and products company with over 30 employees. Andrew shares his thoughts on happiness, some crucial advice from his father, Steve Jobs, good design, developing products, leading a team to success and even a teaser to something super secret.
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- http://metalabdesign.com/
- http://www.getflow.com/
- http://www.getballpark.com/
- http://pixelunion.net/
- http://everyday-app.com/
- http://www.tumblr.com/theme/979
- http://metalabdesign.com/zappos/
- http://www.netmagazine.com/opinions/rock-star-myth
- http://blog.metalabdesign.com/post/11368711562/going-up-in-the-office-to-keep-us-in-check
- http://www.amazon.com/Flow-Psychology-Experience-Mihaly-Csikszentmihalyi/dp/0061339202
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Ryan Carson / Carsonified (Founders Talk #27)
Ryan Carson, the Founder of Carsonified and Treehouse, joins Adam to talk about all the details of starting his new venture, Treehouse.
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- http://carsonified.com/
- http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204903804577079022094984772.html
- Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist
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Spine and Client-Side MVC (Changelog Interviews #71)
Wynn caught up with Alex MacCaw to talk about Spine, CoffeeScript, writing books, and working at Twitter.
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- Alex MacCaw, O’Reilly writer and open source developer now working on the front-end for Twitter.
- Spine Lightweight MVC library for building JavaScript applications, inspired by Backbone.
- Spine is written in CoffeeScript
- Eco is Alex’s favorite client-side templating engine.
- Alex suggests trying to use the same templating engine server-side and client-side, perhaps with Mustache, is a pipe dream.
- Spine integrates with Rails out of the box.
- Hem is like Bundler but for Node.js.
- Juggernaut enables realtime server push with node.js, WebSockets and Comet
- Spine.app “Effortlessly generate Spine, CoffeeScript and Hem applications. Spine.App gives your applications structure, CommonJS modules, a development server and more.”
- Alex is working on The Little Book on CoffeeScript in printed form for O’Reilly.
- JavaScript Web Apps covers building client-side MVC apps in a framework agnostic way.
- Twitter is hiring! Got the chops? Get in touch.
- Jeremy Ashkenas is Alex’s programming hero.
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Bryan Zmijewski / ZURB (Founders Talk #26)
Bryan Zmijewski (Shme-yes-key), Founder and Chief Instigator of ZURB, joins Adam to talk about his path to starting ZURB, what sharing code and design patterns has done for their business, product, culture and team development, and what it takes to make awesome stuff on the web.
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- http://www.zurb.com/
- http://www.zurb.com/soapbox
- http://www.zurb.com/think
- http://www.notableapp.com/
- http://www.bounceapp.com/
- http://verifyapp.com/
- http://www.jigapp.com/
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Foundation and Other Zurb Goodies (Changelog Interviews #70)
Wynn caught up with Jonathan and Matt from Zurb to talk about Foundation, their HTML5 front end scaffold and many projects from the Zurb playground.
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- Jonathan Smiley - Design lead at Zurb
- Matt Kelly is a developer at Zurb
- The Zurb playground showcases many Zurb’s front end experiments.
- Zurb foundation is an easy to use, powerful, and flexible framework for building prototypes and production code on any kind of device.
- Bootstrap from Twitter bakes in more style opinions and currently does not target mobile devices.
- Zurb Foundation ships in Rails, Compass, two WordPress, and ASP.NET MVC flavors.
- Flickr Bomb is a more entertaining alternative to http://placehold.it
- Joyride is a fun way to do feature tours.
- Zurb buttons are super awesome.
- Orbit is a lightweight image slider for jQuery. The version bundled with Foundation supports responsive layouts.
- Reveal is an easy way to add great looking modals to web apps.
- Zurb also offers a set of free apps including Axe and Strike.
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Dan Martell / Clarity (Founders Talk #25)
Dan Martell, Co-Founder of Flowtown, joins Adam to talk about his road to success with Flowtown, getting acquired, how he met his Co-Founder Ethan Bloch on Twitter, angel investing and being an advisor, giving back to charity and customer development and how to get traction. Dan also shared something super secret (a new project) … as well as much, much more.
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- http://www.flowtown.com/blog/flowtown-has-been-acquired-by-demandforce
- http://maplebutter.com/
- http://timely.is/
- http://clarity.fm/
- http://www.siliconprairienews.com/2011/10/big-omaha-backstage-pass-dan-martell-work-on-something-bigger
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Dan Cederholm and Rich Thornett / Dribbble (Founders Talk #24)
The founders of Dribbble, Rich Thornett and Dan Cederholm, join Adam to talk about how Dribbble came to be, the 3rd edition of Bullet Proof Web Design, product development, new and existing features of Dribbble as well as focusing on revenue producing features … and much, much more.
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- Rich Thornett – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- http://dribbble.com/
- http://blog.dribbble.com/
- http://blog.dribbble.com/post/2828527653/to-infinity-and-beyond
- https://twitter.com/#!/dribbble
- http://www.meetup.com/dribbble/
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Spree and Ecommerce in Rails (Changelog Interviews #69)
Wynn sat down with Sean and Brian from Spree to talk about ecommerce in Rails, SpreeConf, and their recent $1.5M funding round.
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- Sean Schofield, Spree founder and CEO of Spree Commerce, Inc.
- Brian Quinn, long time Spree contributor and CTO of SpreeCommerce
- Spree (née RailsCart) is a Rails engine that provides an out-of-the box, customizable ecommerce platform.
- Spree fully integrates into the Rails 3.1 Asset pipeline
- Rails engines have accelerated Spree adoption
- Spree is built on actively maintained community projects including Devise, Kaminari, Paperclip, ResourceController, State Machine, and ActiveMerchant.
- Spree recently closed a $1.5M funding round
- SpreeConf is geared to both business and developer audiences
- Everybody loves Sticker Mule
- Shoedazzle and SecondLife run highly customized versions of Spree.
- Spree has a growing list of community extensions.
- RailsDog Radio is a great showcase of Spree functionality. Grab the source on GitHub
- If you actually need a satellite radio, check out TSS Radio.
- Spree will unbox a new demo installation on Heroku just for you.
- Deface allows you to customize HTML ERB views in a Rails application without editing the underlying view.
- Ryan Bigg, Ruby Hero and co-author of Rails 3 in Action has joined Spree as community manager.
- Like Changelog Episodes, Spree is not SemVer compliant.
- Sean wants to explore using RailsAdmin into Spree
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Vitaly Friedman / Smashing Magazine (Founders Talk #23)
Vitaly Friedman, Founder of Smashing Magazine, joins Adam to talk about the beginnings of Smashing Magazine, taking chances, not being copyable, experimenting to find what works, supporting the community, developing content, paying writers, developing publishing principles and philosophies and also shares a bit about what’s next on the horizon for him and his team.
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- http://www.smashingmagazine.com
- https://twitter.com/smashingmag
- https://twitter.com/vitalyf
- http://www.alvit.de/handbook
- http://www.alvit.de/blog
- http://www.alvit.de/vf
- http://www.alvit.de/vf/en/my-profile-curriculum-vitae-and-biography.html
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Drew Strojny / The Theme Foundry (Founders Talk #22)
Drew Strojny joins Adam to talk about his path in life, playing in the NFL, marrying your business partner, web design and pursuing the unknown, developing digital products and themes for WordPress and the 5by5 logo.
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- http://jestro.com/
- http://thethemefoundry.com/
- http://drewstrojny.com/
- http://forge.thethemefoundry.com/
- http://5by5.tv/dailyedition/27-changes
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Growl and Open Source in the App Store (Changelog Interviews #68)
Adam and Wynn caught up with Chris Forsythe, lead of the Growl project to talk about Growl, their App Store launch, and his work on Adium and Perian.
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- We recently launched The Sass Way so you can get your fix of all things Sass and Compass
- Chris Forsythe is the project lead for Growl.
- Growl is a popular notification system for Mac OS X.
- Growl is now in the App Store and on GitHub
- Chris was formerly the project manager for the Adium.
- Your $1.99 will help send Chris to his first WWDC.
- GrowlMail is now a separate project.
- Over two hundred applications support Growl notifications.
- Designers have created many visual Growl styles to make Growl look great.
- Wynn’s favorite is Hud from @Rogie.
- Growl now supports GNTP, allowing Linux and Windows notifications apps to share a common protocol.
- Wynn uses Growl for visual feedback for his test suite.
- Chris also is a founder of the Perian project, a free, open source QuickTime component that adds native support for many popular video formats.
- Chris says that the GPL prevents Perian from taking the App Store path.
- The OSI is a non-profit corporation with global scope formed to educate about and advocate for the benefits of open source and to build bridges among different constituencies in the open source community.
- Chris relates the impact Steve Jobs had on his open source work.
- Evan Schoenberg inspires Chris.
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Mark Jardine and Paul Haddad / Tapbots (Founders Talk #21)
Mark Jardine and Paul Haddad join Adam to talk about Tapbots, their side project turned business, designing and developing mobile applications on iOS, establishing and building trust and much more.
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- Tapbots.com
- Mark Jardine’s web site
- Mark Jardine on Twitter
- Mark’s Dribble page
- Vimeo Link
- Paul Haddad on Twitter
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Drew Wilson / Valio - Part 2 (Founders Talk #20)
Drew Wilson joins Adam again for part 2, to talk about his latest venture Advise.me, Valio Con, his ad network Yoggrt (sold) and some future products.
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- Valio Con 2011 | Talk Videos
- Advise.me
- Firerift.com
- Yoggrt / The Creative Ad Network
- Surfed.it | Coming soon.
- Pictos
- Dialoggs
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Drew Wilson / Valio - Part 1 (Founders Talk #19)
Drew Wilson joins Adam for part 1 to talk about his journey as an entrepreneur, the lows, the highs and the in-betweens. Drew talks with Adam about digital projects, how to chase your dreams and more.
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HTML5 Boilerplate and JavaScript (Changelog Interviews #67)
Adam and Wynn caught up with Paul Irish of Google’s Chrome developer relations team to talk about HTML5, JavaScript, CSS3, polyfills, and more.
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- Paul Irish - Chrome dev relations guy at Google.
- Dion Almaer - Host of Function Source, all around JavaScript, frontend expert.
- “HTML5 is a jewel that we need to cut into a weapon” - Dion /via Yehuda Katz
- Adam is in love with GitHub’s new editor powered by Cloud 9
- HTML5 Boilerplate contains a set of best practices to use as a starting point for new projects or pick what you need a la cart.
- Boilerplate now includes Normalize.css, a customisable CSS file that makes browsers render all elements more consistently and in line with modern standards.
- Normalize is a collaboration between Nicolas Gallagher and Jonathan Neal
- Modernizr is an open-source JavaScript library that helps you build the next generation of HTML5 and CSS3-powered websites, from Faruk Ate?, Paul, and Alex Sexton.
- rack-modernizr from Marshall Yount brings Modernizr to the server
- Paul coined the term FOUT - Flash Of Unstyled Text.
- HTML5 polyfills implant html5 functionality in browsers that don’t natively support them.
- Paul makes micro microapps for CSS3, text shadows, and HSL picking.
- Paul is a fan of Chris Coyer of CSS Tricks
- Need an idea for a weekend project, check out Paul’s Lazy Web Requests
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RVM and BDSM (Changelog Interviews #66)
Steve and Wynn caught up with Wayne Seguin to talk about his Ruby enVironment Manager and BDSM shell scripting framework projects.
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- Look us up at LSRC V next week.
- Madison Ruby Conference August 19-20, 2011 in Madison, WI.
- Wayne Seguin, developer at EngineYard, creator of RVM and BDSM.
- RVM is a command line tool which allows us to easily install, manage and work with multiple ruby environments from interpreters to sets of gems.
- BDSM aims to create a framework for maintaining and sharing server side scripts while exposing them through a consistent command line interface (CLI).
- Dr. Nic Williams, Wayne’s boss was on Episode 0.5.0
- Peter Cooper helped get the word out about RVM.
- Michal Papis has been giving Wayne a hand with RVM and BDSM.
- Ryan McGeary says “Vendor Everything” while Wayne says he vendors nothing and uses rvm gemsets in most cases.
- Bundler now plays nice with RVM.
- Using BDSM, you can create consistent service interfaces for everything in your stack.
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Code for America (Changelog Interviews #65)
Adam and Wynn caught up with Erik and Max, Fellows at Code for America to talk about civic-focused development and open source.
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- Apply now to be a 2012 Code for America Fellow - Deadline is July 31
- LSRC V is just around the corner
- Follow @TheSassWay for your Sass news
- Code for America enlists the talent of the web industry into public service to use their skills to solve core problems facing our communities.
- Erik Michaels-Ober is a Rubyist and Fellow at Code for America
- Max Ogden is also a Rubyist and Fellow at Code for America
- Erik is using (and improving) the LinkedIn Ruby gem
- Max loves Underscore.js from Jeremy Ashkenas
- Max’s GitHub page tells recruiters to get lost.
- Carl Malamud of Public.Resource.Org aims to make government information more accessible.
- The Sunlight Foundation, featured on Episode 0.1.3
- Code For America’s GitHub page features 120 projects.
- Rails Admin is Erik’s Rails 3 engine that provides an easy-to-use interface for managing your data
- Erik and Wynn met through John Nunemaker’s Twitter Gem
- Faraday is Rick Olson’s slick Rack-like HTTP client library.
- Mislav Marohni? helps maintain Faraday
- Want to create your own programming language like Jeremy Ashekenas? Read this book!
- Max is a fan of Request from Mikeal Rogers
- Erik is a fan of Sam Stephenson, featured in Episode 0.6.4
- Brian Ford, Evan Phoenix, make Rubinius rock.
- Steve Richert aka @LaserLemon helps out with the Twitter gem. Best username evar.
- TextMate users: be nice to your Vim friends.
- The opportunity for Civic Startups
- Fight for the User
- Literary Machines is a thirty year old book from Ted Nelson.
- Open211.org - The Redirectory Project is a free and open directory of social services and resources that anyone can contribute to.
- Test your Ruby projects against multiple Rubies with Travis
- Gemcutter powers RubyGems.org
- Substance.io is an HTML5-based document editor from Michael Aufreiter
- Be sure and follow Substack on GitHub.
- Apply now to be a 2012 Code for America Fellow - Deadline is July 31
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Pow, Rails 3.1 Asset Pipeline, CoffeeScript and More (Changelog Interviews #64)
Adam and Wynn caught up with Sam Stephenson from 37Signals to talk about his his many open source projects and developing Basecamp Mobile.
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- Nathan Smith, friend of the show, creator of 960.gs, Adapt, Formalize, and featured in Episode 0.3.2
- Sam Stephenson, programmer at 37signals, creator of massive amounts of open source.
- Pow is a zero-config Rack server for Mac OS X.
- Pow supports multiple rubies via RVM.
- Powder is a CLI for Pow.
- Prototype.js is a JavaScript Framework that aims to ease development of dynamic web applications.
- Sprockets is a Ruby library that preprocesses and concatenates JavaScript source files.
- Stitch stitches your CommonJS modules together for the browser
- ExecJS runs JavaScript code from Ruby.
- Josh Peek, Rubyist and GitHubber.
- Nack - Node.js adapter for Rack
- Sam loves CoffeeScript and hopes to never write JavaScript again.
- Sam debunks the FUD of debugging CoffeeScript. “Command-F is your friend.”
- Jeremy Ashkenas, creator of CoffeeScript ported his Underscore library as a demonstration.
- Sam weighs in on the micro framework movement and loves Zepto, Underscore, and Backbone.
- “We’re living in a WebKit world on mobile.”
- The goal of the Basecamp Mobile app was to “feel like a web app.”
- Basecamp Mobile was a team effort by Sam, Josh, and Jason Zimdars.
- “Responsive Web Design”, a term coined by Ethan Marcotte.
- Less Framework is an adaptive grid CSS framework for desktop and mobile.
- Cinco is the yet-to-be-released framework behind Basecamp Mobile built on Stitch, Backbone, CoffeeScript, and Zepto.
- Sprockets powers the new Rails 3.1 Asset Pipeline
- Jammit is an alternative to Sprockets.
- The Ruby Racer from Charles Lowell embeds the V8 Javascript Interpreter into Ruby
- The Git commit heard round the world.
- Baren generates images from Processing source.
- Jamie Dihiansan is the design talent behind the great Pow web site
- Pow uses docco for documentation.
- Rack-legacy allows you to serve up PHP from Pow.
- Be sure and snag Trevor Burnham’s excellent CoffeeScript book
- Josh and DHH are Sam’s programming heroes.
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CDNJS (Changelog Interviews #63)
Adam and Wynn caught up with the developers behind CDNJS, a community-powered CDN for JavaScript libraries.
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- CDNJS aims to make the web faster by putting more shared JavaScript on a content delivery network.
- We’re now part of the Fusion Network
- Catch up with us at The Big (D)esign Conference
- We’ll be at Lone Star Ruby Conference 2011
- Ryan Kirkman, Co-Founder of Protosal.
- Thomas Davis, Co-Founder of Protosal, also runs backbonetutorials.com
- Fork the GitHub project to get your script included
- A CDN helps serve assets from servers closer to the user.
- CloudFlare sponsors the project.
- Cached Commons has some of the same goals, but uses GitHub as a provider.
- CDNJS packages uses the same format as NPM
- The Google Library API hosts most of the major JavaScript frameworks.
- Microjs is a micro-site for micro-frameworks
- Protosal lets you generate proposals using templates and variables to save time.
- cdnjs-command is a Ruby gem command line helper for CDNJS.
- Backbone.js is a lightweight MVC framework for client-side JavaScript.
- Brunch A lightweight approach to building HTML5 applications with emphasis on elegance and simplicity.
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Matt Mickiewicz / 99 Designs (Founders Talk #18)
Matt Mickiewicz, Co-Founder of SitePoint, 99 Designs, and Flippa talks with Adam about becoming an entrepreneur at a young age, building marketplaces, finding talented people, and using community development and a forum as the spring board for 99 Designs and Flippa.
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- Matt Mickiewicz
- Matt Mickiewicz | LinkedIn
- SitePoint » Web Design, Web Development, Freelancing, Tech News and more
- SitePoint Forums: Resources, Design, HTML, CSS, PHP, ASP, MySQL and more for your web site.
- Logo Design, Web Design and More. Design Done Differently | 99designs.com
- Flippa: The #1 Marketplace for Buying and Selling Websites
- Accel Partners | CrunchBase Profile
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IronJS, F#, and .NET (Changelog Interviews #62)
Wynn caught up with Fredrik Holmström to talk about IronJS, F#, and open source in .NET.
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- IronJS A JavaScript implementation for .NET written in F#
- Fredrik Holmström, creator of IronJS
- F# is a succinct, expressive and efficient functional and object-oriented language for .NET which helps you write simple code to solve complex problems.
- “This JScript thing”
- Mono is an open source, cross-platform, implementation of C# and the CLR that is binary compatible with Microsoft.NET.
- IronJS continues in the tradition of IronPython and IronRuby
- IronJS implements EcmaScript 3 but is working towards EcmaScript 5 support
- Miguel de Icaza created Mono.
- Nuget is a free, open source developer focused package management system for .NET.
- Codeplex seems to be the place to find .NET open source
- GitHub is hosting more and more .NET projects
- C# and .NET are hard to Google
- Kayak is an asynchronous HTTP server written in C#
- Zed Shaw, featured on Episode 0.3.4
- Don Syme, architect behind F#
- “John” Gietzen has contributed to IronJS.
- Follow @IronJS on Twitter for updates.
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Niel Robertson / Trada (Founders Talk #17)
Niel Robertson, Founder and CEO of Trada, talks about crowd-sourcing, crowd mechanics, leveraging “the stealth mode”, raising 52 million dollars, community engagement, as well as thoughts on whether or not crowd-sourcing commoditizes freelance expertise.
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- Search Marketing, Crowdsourced by Experts.
- Blog | Trada
- Trada on Twitter
- Elaine Ellis (ElaineEllis) on Twitter
- Google Ventures — Home
- Crowd Mechanics - the emerging science of crowdsourcing | Trada
- The Stealth Mode: Trada’s Position on Staying Stealth | Trada
- Does Crowdsourcing Commoditize Freelance Expertise?: Online Collaboration «
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Oh My Zsh (Changelog Interviews #61)
Adam and Kenneth caught up with Robby Russell to talk about his community-driven zsh project.
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- Robby Russell – GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Kenneth Reitz – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- oh-my-zsh A community-driven framework for managing your zsh configuration.
- Robby Russell is Chief Evangelist at Planet Argon
- Derek Sivers from CD Baby
- Robby weighs in on the bash vs. zsh debate
- Bash vs Zsh debate? Google returns 175k results on the subject
- Themes are a big selling point for oh-my-zsh
- Kenneth love is right side prompt
- Adam loves hub
- oh-my-zsh is currently the eighth most forked project on GitHub.
- Follow @ohmyzsh on Twitter for updates
- Adam likes the update message.
- Robby tries to keep the pull requests under 100.
- Robby is looking for a few volunteers to help with pull requests and issue management
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Fog, the Ruby Cloud Services Library (Changelog Interviews #60)
Wynn sat down with Wesley Beary from Engine Yard to talk about the Fog project and the Cloud, live from Red Dirt Ruby Conf.
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- Wesley Beary aka @geemus
- The Fog project is the Ruby cloud services library
- By coincidence this interview was recorded the day the cloud went down
- Fog supports almost twenty providers for Storage, DNS, Compute, CDN
- Dr. Nic made us laugh on Episode 0.5.0
- Engine Yard pays Wesley to hack on Fog.
- AppCloud is a Ruby Platform as a Service from Engine Yard.
- You have to commit to the project to earn a slick Fog tee
- Excon grew out of Fog’s need for EXtended http(s) CONnections
- Wesley is dubious of ‘compliant APIs’
- OpenStack is backed by Rackspace and Nasa
- Wesley likes to play with Riak
- Red Dirt Ruby Conference videos will be released on May 22
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Avner Ronen / Boxee (Founders Talk #16)
Avner Ronen talks about his vision of the “Future of TV,” the role Boxee plays in today’s internet video/audio content on the big screen, the backlash of “big media” against Boxee and how they’ve changed their tune and much more.
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- Boxee - Watch Movies, TV Shows and clips from the Internet on your TV.
- Boxee - Buy a Boxee
- Boxee Raises $16.5 Million For Its Vision For The “Future Of TV”
- Boxee Outs The Boxee Box 1.1 Firmware, Revamped Browser And New On-Screen Controls Highlight The Update
- Roku Streaming Player | Watch Netflix, Hulu Plus, Amazon Instant Video, and MLB.TV on Roku Player
- PopBox.com
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Noah Kagan / App Sumo (Founders Talk #15)
Noah Kagan, Founder of App Sumo talks with Adam about his journey to success. Send an email to noah@appsumo.com for more details about something special for 5by5 listeners.
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Bill Boebel / Rackspace (Founders Talk #14)
Adam talks with Bill Boebel, VP Strategy/Corp Dev at Rackspace and Founder of Webmail.us about staying the course, keeping the team motivated during turbulent “cash strapped” times, getting acquired by Rackspace and staying on to continue building the company post-acquisition.
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RubyGems and RubyGems.org (Changelog Interviews #59)
Wynn sat down with Nick Quaranto at Red Dirt Ruby Conference to talk about Gemcutter, RubyGems.org, and how to get started creating your own Ruby gem.
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- Nick Quaranto, creator of Gemcutter which is now RubyGems.org
- Gemcutter is the Ruby community’s gem hosting service.
- Tom Preston-Warner, founder of GitHub
- RubyForge was the original spot to host your Ruby project.
- Peter Cooper, publisher of Ruby Inside and co-host of the Ruby Show.
- A gemspec is a manifest for a Ruby gem.
- Since a gemspec is saved as YAML, you can embed Ruby in it.
- Bundler manages a Ruby application’s dependencies through its entire life across many machines systematically and repeatably.
- Bundler 1.1 aims to speed up how gems are fetched.
- Jeweler and Hoe help you create, package, and release gems.
- Ryan Tomayko from GitHub tells us why “require ‘rubygems’” is wrong
- GitHub is no longer in the Gem building business.
- Erik Michaels-Ober uses the gem post install message to share resources with users.
- When not squashing Gemcutter bugs or applying patches, Nick likes to play with Redis and EventMachine.
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Twisted and Evented Programming in Python (Changelog Interviews #58)
Kenneth and Wynn caught up with Glyph Lefkowitz from Twisted to talk about the project and evented programming in Python.
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- Glyph Lefkowitz is creator of Twisted.
- Twisted is an event-driven networking engine written in Python.
- Twisted has its origin in the game Divmod Imaginary.
- Glyph says Twisted programming is easier than programming with gevent and eventlet.
- Twisted.web is the most popular package, but Twisted supports a wide range of other protocols in addtion to HTTP including NNTP, IMAP, SSH, IRC, FTP, and others.
- Twisted even supports IO Completion Ports on Windows.
- Twisted’s non-blocking approach makes it great for GUI programming via GTK+, wxPython, and more, even Pygame.
- Glyph expands on his blog post drawing distinctions between Tornado and Twisted.
- Benchmark nerds should check out speed.twistedmatrix.com.
- Dustin Sallings ported Tornado to Twisted’s low-level networking stack and eliminated over 1,200 lines of code.
- Twisted success stories include LucasFilm, HipChat, TweetDeck, Justin.tv, and more.
- Twisted also powers OpenStack, used by Nasa to run its cloud.
- Glyph is proud of his rock star sister Sara.
- Twisted tracks high scores for community involvement in 8-bit beauty.
- Free Changelog stickers for the first person to @reply us with Glyph’s real name.
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Chris Nagele / Wildbit (Founders Talk #13)
Adam talks with Chris Nagele, Founder of Wildbit about his 11 year journey of building Wildbit and ultimately some awesome web products like Beanstalk, Postmark, and Newsberry.
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Amplify.js, jQuery, CoffeeScript (Changelog Interviews #57)
Wynn caught up with Mike Hostetler and Scott González from AppendTo to talk about Amplify.js, jQuery, CoffeeScript, Microsoft, the web, and open source.
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- AppendTo offers training and consulting for jQuery.
- Amplify.js is a set of components designed to solve common web application problems with a simplistic API.
- Mike Hostetler is CEO at AppendTo.
- Scott González works on jQuery UI.
amplify.requestmakes building JavaScript API wrapper easier, providing hooks for mocking transport and payload transformation.amplify.storeis a wrapper for various persistent client-side storage systems and provides advanced features such as cache expiration.- Amplify’s PubSub system provides offers advanced options for handling custom events including priority.
- The AppendTo guys weigh in on the all-in-one vs. best-of-breed JavaScript framework debate.
- Wynn asks how Microsoft’s adoption of jQuery has led to its adoption.
- DamianEdwards worked to get jQuery UI packages for Nuget.
- Rails now includes CoffeeScript by default.
- Wynn loves
cake. - CommonJS aims to create a standard library for JavaScript.
- Keep an eye out for AppendTo’s new Learn site, a JavaScript 101 course for newcomers.
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Vim round table discussion (Changelog Interviews #56)
Wynn sat down with three Vim users and experts to talk about tips and tricks for using and pimping the popular text editor.
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- Drew Neil – Website, GitHub, X
- Yehuda Katz – Website, GitHub, X
- Tim Pope – GitHub, X
- Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- Vim seeks to provide the power of Unix’s Vi
- Drew Neil hosts VimCasts
- Tim Pope has created numerout Vim plugins
- Yehuda Katz from SproutCore, Rails, and jQuery fame.
- Dr. Nic says Vim is cutting edge 1960s tech.
- Janus Yehuda and Carl’s MacVim bundle
- Everyone that tried to convince Yehuda to try Vim were wrong.
- Vim is a modal interface
- Wynn laments that TextMate 2 is the new Duke Nukem
- NerdTree is a text-based treeview inside your vim
- Tim uses his vibrantink mod called vividchalk
- Yehuda wants to give Solarized Vim is cutting edge 1960s tech.
- Yehuda like visual block mode
- MacVim lets you use ?-S.
- Wynn asks how the world would be different if DHH had used Vim instead of TextMate for his famous Rails screencast.
- Tim likes
CTRL-X,CTRL-Eto bind an editor to the command line. - Yehuda says you should be using
ruby -einstead ofgrep - Drew loves
CTRL-R,CTRL-Win Vim. - “Matz is (under)rated.”
- Tim says we owe so much to Linus for Linux and Git.
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Goliath, Event Machine, SPDY (Changelog Interviews #55)
Wynn caught up with Ilya Grigorik, Founder and CTO of PostRank to talk about Goliath, async Ruby web development, and Google’s SPDY.
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- Look for Steve Klabnik at CodeConf.
- Ilya Grigorik founder and CTO of PostRank.
- PostRank taps into intelligence from the social web.
- igvita.com is Ilya’s awesome Ruby, performance, and big data blog.
- Goliath Goliath is an open source version of the non-blocking (asynchronous) Ruby web server framework powering PostRank.
- Thin glues together Mongrel parser, Event Machine, and Rack.
- Evidently we’ve discussed Node.js “at length” on this show.
- Goliath hides much of the complexity of its asynchronous architecture from the developer
- Goliath was designed for and has been benchmarked on MRI, JRuby and Rubinius
- PostRank heavily employs AMQP
- The PostRank APIs allow you to create applications that interact with the subscription management component of the PostRank website, as well as, create and retrieve story ratings and customized RSS feeds for your users.
- The Top Posts Widget lets you showcase the most important articles on your site, encouraging viewers to click on more articles and read what matters.
- A GitHub account and a blog are key differentiators for developers looking to get hired at PostRank.
- Ilya says “presentation is 50% of the actual deliverable”. Great READMEs are important.
- Ilya looks up to Brad Fitzpatrick of LiveJournal and Memcached fame.
- Ilya’s blog tagline: “A goal is a dream with a deadline.”
- Anybody still using GTD?
- Ilya isn’t beholden to any one editor but loves both Vim and TextMate.
- SPDY: (pronounced “SPeeDY”) An experimental protocol for a faster web. The usual HTTP GET and POST message formats remain the same; however, SPDY specifies a new framing format for encoding and transmitting the data over the wire.
- If you’re using Chrome, you may be using SPDY and not even know it.
- mod_spdy is an experimental proof-of-concept SPDY Apache module.
- ØMQ zeromq: socket library that acts as a concurrency framework as discussed on Episode 0.3.4.
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Erlang, CouchBase, Merging with Membase (Changelog Interviews #54)
Wynn sat down with Chris Anderson from CouchBase to talk about CouchDB, the merger with Membase, Erlang, and bringing NoSQL to PHPers.
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- Chris Anderson is a Couchbase cofounder, Mobile Architect, CouchDB committer, new dad
- The CouchDB music video (served up from CouchDB no less)
- Chris sings the official CouchDB theme song to kick off Episode 0.1.8
- Apache CouchDb is a distributed, fault-tolerant and schema-free document-oriented database accessible via a RESTful HTTP/JSON API.
- Damien Katz is the creator of CouchDB.
- CouchBase was formed from merging Membase and CouchOne
- Chris is one of the rare CFOs with a GitHub account
- CouchBase makes the case for NoSQL
- Membase Server currently uses Sqlite under the hood, but will be swapped out for Couch’s storage engine soon
- Mobile Couchbase runs on iOS and brings Couch to your mobile device
- CouchApps are JavaScript and HTML5 applications served directly from CouchDB.
- Zynga makers of Farmville use Membase
- The CouchApp toolkit is now maintained by Benoît Chesneau
- Aaron Miller led the charge to get Erlang on iOS, changing dynamic linking to static linking.
- SpiderMonkey was included iOS for CouchMobile and its JIT compiler made it preferable to V8 or Nitro for Couch tasks.
- GeoCouch adds geospatial features to CouchDB
- Chris outlines the distinctives for Couch’s incremental Map/Reduce
- Jason Smith in Thailand keeps the lights on for CouchBase hosting solutions
- Cloudant offers hosting for Couch in the cloud
- Wynn wants to see integration for CouchBase and Appcelerator Titanium
- Todd Anderson has a great tutorial on using jQuery mobile and CouchDB
- Damien Katz is Chris’ programming hero
- Chris says working with Jan Lehnardt is a blast
- Be sure and check out CouchDB - The Definitive Guide by Chris, Jan, and Noah
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Formalize and News Roundup "Design Edition" (Changelog Interviews #53)
Adam and Wynn were joined by Nathan Smith, creator of 960.gs to talk about his new project Formalize and the latest news on The Changelog.
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- Nathan Smith, front end dev, speaker, and author
- 960 Grid System is a versatile CSS grid framework
- Formalize teaches your forms some manners
- An exhaustive list of HTML5 cross-browser polyfills
- Formalize even comes with Sass support out of the box
- Compass’s CSS3 module is powerful
- Wynn
<3Mustache - Adam writes Sass but converts his stylesheets to SCSS for those who prefer it
- Haml means never looking for a missing
</div>ever again - The Changelog on Convore
- HSLPicker - Most excellent color picker for your enjoyment
- Fancy buttons makes your buttons fancy with CSS
- Octopress is a blogging framework for hackers
- Brandon was on Episode 0.1.7 on open source publishing
- Nesta CMS is our favorite Ruby CMS
- reveal: jQuery modal for HTML5 and data attributes
- Zurb’s CSS playground is awesome
- rawler: Crawl your website and find broken links with Ruby
- Inception explained in C code
- JavaScript version of the Inception code, demonstrating
console.group - BeerCamp 2011 site design is fun (scroll all the way down)
- compass-magick: Extend Sass with power of ImageMagick
- jQuery Mobile Alpha 3 released
- Nathan recently spoke at DrupalCon in Chicago on his jQuery desktop project
- Adam is tickled SourceForge runs Grid Coordinates
- The Open Government project demonstrates how the space is growing
- Stylus from LearnBoost brings Node.js-flavored CSS preprocessing
- Zeldman on designers who can’t code
- Adam loves the work of Mike Kus
- Wynn’s rant should be read as ten things you can do to spread the word about your open source project
- Wynn’s post actually spurred Nathan to create a homepage at Formalize.me
- Ryan Bates’ Railscasts are awesome
- Jenkins née Hudson almost became Alfred
- Nathan loves Alfred app
- Adam and Wynn are on Team Launchbar
- Nathan stumbled across a really neat way to target Firefox in CSS
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Serve, RadiantCMS, Design and Prototyping (Changelog Interviews #52)
Adam sat down with Designer/Developer John Long, creator of RadiantCMS about his new project Serve, design, and running a successful open source project.
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- John Long of Wiseheart design
- Serve is a rapid prototyping framework for web applications
- John created RadiantCMS, later extended by Sean Cribbs
- Radiant led John to a relationship with Pragmatic Programmers and formation of a Ruby Visual Identity team
- Serve is basically the Rails View layer, sans the Model and Controller.
- Serve’s makes it easier to use URLs that end in a
/instead of file extension - Serve’s view helper are Rails compatible
- Serve is Rack under the hood
- Acoustic is Django-inspired and aims to be between Sinatra and Rails
- “What Rails can learn from Django”
- Running a successful open source project can take over your life
- In the early days of Radiant, Subversion made it difficult to accept community contributions
- Git and GitHub has increased community participation
- Use Compass’s CSS3 module and save your sanity
- Compass can change your design workflow
- Fancy Buttons is a Compass plugin to easily create image-less buttons
- Grab the code for Adam’s nifty Serve bootstrap, which adds easy support for Haml, Sass, Compass, and more.
- Join the newly created Serve Users group
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MongoDB, NoSQL, Web Scale (Changelog Interviews #51)
Steve and Wynn sat down with Eliot Horowitz from 10gen to talk about MongoDB, the NoSQL landscape, and the fun of building at Web Scale.
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- Eliot Horowitz CTO and Co-Founder of 10gen
- Dwight Merriman CEO & Co-Founder at 10gen
- NoSQL is a loose term for Key Value Stores, Graph Databases, and Document Databases
- MongoDB still has a large roadmap ahead
- MongoDB was first featured on The Changelog over a year ago
- Single server durability tops the list of new additions in 1.8
- Replica sets are an elaboration on the existing master/slave replication, adding automatic failover and automatic recovery of member nodes
- Shutterfly and Foursquare boast some of the largest MongoDB implemenation
- MongoDB’s sharding enables horizontal scaling across multiple nodes.
- Mongo vs. Riak (and other Dynamo inspired stores)
- Full vs. eventual consistency
- Compound indexes
- Increment operations
- Be sure and check out our Riak interviews: Part 1 and Part 2
- Mongo vs. CouchDB
- Couch uses Map/Reduce views
- Couch has great master-master replication
- Couch runs on mobile
- Mongo’s sharding is closer to a relational database
- Mongo’s Geo features now support more precise, spherical geospatial indexing
- Mongo shines at
- User profiles
- CMS data
- Mongo enjoys wide language binding support
- Eliot and 10gen think the Web Scale meme is all in good fun
- BSON [bee · sahn], short for Binary JSON, is a binary-encoded serialization of JSON-like documents
- Our interview with Douglas Crockford on JSON
- MongoDB 2.0 will be focusing on concurrency, aggregation, online compaction, and TTL temporal collections
- Eliot likes Racket when he’s not slinging C.
- Linus Torvalds is one of Eliot’s heroes
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Ruby, Rails, the Cloud (Changelog Interviews #50)
Steve and Wynn caught up with Dr. Nic from Engine Yard to talk about the cloud, Jenkins, Ruby, and lowering the barrier of entry for learning Rails on Windows.
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- Catch up with us at Red Dirt Ruby Conf
- Steve will be at Codeconf
- Kenneth will be covering PyCon 2011
- Thanks for putting up with us for 50 episodes!
- Dr. Nic Williams is Developer Advocate at Engine Yard has a ton of open source projects
- Engine Yard uses Amazon AWS and Terremark
- Dr. Nic actively and aggressively abandons most of his 154 public repos and feels good about it due to Git and GitHub
- Steve maintains a couple of projects from _why
- Dr. Nic liked how Jamis Buck declared he abandoned Capistrano
- Dr. Nic prefers TextMate instead of “1960s technology”
- Steve likes Janus for Vim
- Steve asks about Redcar
- Engine Yard has partnered with Appcelerator for mobile app developers
- Dr. Nic helps maintain Rails Installer, the easiest way to get up and running with Ruby on Rails. For Windows. Mac and Linux coming soon.
- Luis Lavena and Charles Nutter are core to the Ruby community
- “If you have to put the shortcuts on a coffee mug!” - Dr. Nic on Vim
- Jeremy Ashkenas from DocumentCloud is a regular on The Changelog for projects like Docco, CloudCrowd, Underscore.js, CoffeeScript
- The Jenkins rename shows the power of the community to stick together
- Dr. Nic is sticking with Jenkins, but Travis is worth a look for Rubyists
- Someone send Dr. Nic an Octocat badge
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Eric Kuhn / Founders Card (Founders Talk #12)
Adam talks with Eric Kuhn, Founder of Founders Card about the ups and downs of building an online business during the era of the “dot com” bubble, managing hyper growth, getting listed and de-listed on the NASDAQ and building an exclusive benefits program, coined as “The Amex Black Card for the Entrepreneur”, exclusively aimed at Entrepreneurs and Founders. If you want an invite, get in touch with Adam.
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Git, Showoff, XBox Kinect (Changelog Interviews #49)
Kenneth and Wynn caught up with GitHubber Scott Chacon to talk about Git, distributed version control, and his quest to kill Word as a book authoring tool.
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- Scott Chacon, Git evangelist, GitHubber, author of ProGit
- rsync is a software application for Unix and Windows systems which synchronizes files and directories from one location to another while minimizing data transfer using delta encoding when appropriate.
- Perforce is a commercial, proprietary, centralized revision control system developed by Perforce Software, Inc.
- Git Internals, Scott’s PeepCode PDF
- Chris, Tom, PJ, founders of GitHub
- Continuous integration is one of Git’s strengths
- Surprisingly, Scott’s
.gitconfigisn’t pimped out - gitk The git GUI repository browser
- gitx Git GUI for OS X
- gitgui Unlike gitk, git gui focuses on commit generation and single file annotation and does not show project history.
- Why Git and not Mercurial?
- Mercurial bookmarks are references to commits that are automatically updated when new commits are made. If you do hg bookmark feature the feature bookmark refers to the current changeset.
- hg-git is the Hg-Git plugin for Mercurial, adding the ability to push to and pull from a Git server repository from Mercurial.
- BitBucket is to Hg as GitHub is to Git
- Scott says he had good intentions in comparing Git to other version control systems and was not lobbing stones at Mercurial
- Scott says distributed source control systems are key to helping the open source community thrive because it lets anyone commit and get involved
- The RubyGems.org 404 is amusing
- libgit2 is a portable, pure C implementation of the Git core methods provided as a re-entrant linkable library with a solid API, allowing you to write native speed custom Git applications in any language which supports C bindings.
- GitHub has continued the libgit2 Google Summer of Code effort, supporting Vicent Marti to continue the development
- Scott says that Git is basically a key value store and we should look at uses beyond version control
- Eclipse is moving to Git away from CVS
- Git Tower is a beautiful Git UI for the Mac
- Showoff is a Sinatra web app that reads simple configuration files for a presentation. It is sort of like a Keynote web app engine.
- Kinectaby, Ruby bindings for XBox Kinect
- Wynn is excited about Scott’s project Git Scribe for writing, feeling the pain of using Word for archaic book publisher workflows
- Jason J Williams’s tools have lessened the pain for Wynn in writing the upcoming Sass book for Manning
- Everybody that works at GitHub is Scott’s programming hero but Ryan Tomayko is one of the smartest developer’s Scott knows.
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Jenkins and Continous Integration (Changelog Interviews #48)
Kenneth and Wynn caught up with Kohsuke Kawaguchi and Andrew Bayer from the Jenkins project to talk about continuous integration, Java, and corporate backing drama.
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- CI Joe is GitHub’s continuous integration server
- Knowing is half the battle
- Jenkins née Hudson is the leading open-source continuous integration server. Built with Java, it provides over 300 plugins to support building and testing virtually any project.
- Kohsuke Kawaguchi is the creator of Jenkins
- Andrew Bayer is a Build Engineer at Cloudera
- Nearly 30K Jenkins installations worldwide
- Jenkins is written in Java but with its rich plugin system, you can run almost anything with it
- Jenkins supports Git, Mercurial, SVN, and even Visual SourceSafe
- Jenkins does more than running tests, it can also do parameterized deploys
- GitHub has fueled an explosion in Jenkins community growth
- Wynn asks why Java is only 6% of GitHub projects
- Funny cartoon on how language fanboys see one another
- Git and GitHub adoption actually sparked the name change and Oracle split
- The community voted 214-14 to rename
- Andy addresses how plugins will migrate to the new name. Thanks, Matthew J McCullough.
- At what point do projects look at a jQuery Foundation-style governance model?
- Hudson was the butler in Upstairs, Downstairs
- Alfred, the butler from Batman was a consideration, but conflicted with the Mac program
- James Clark is Kohsuke’s programming hero
- Kohsuke and Lisp’s Guy Steele are Andrew’s heroes
- MZ Scheme now Racket makes Kenneth’s head hurt
- Andrew recommends Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs from MIT
- As a build guy, Selenium gets Andrew excited
- Kohsuke is trying to hack the Airport Express to stream tunes from Linux
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Open Government and the Citizen Coder (Changelog Interviews #47)
Adam and Wynn caught up with Carl Tashian from Open Government to talk about OpenGovernment.org, OpenCongress.org, and the rise of the Citizen Coder.
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- Carl Tashian is Director of Technology at Open Government
- OpenGovernment: Empower individuals and organizations to track government at every level
- OpenCongress.org - open source Rails app to track the goings on in the US Congress
- Library of Congress THOMAS site is the source for federal legislative information
- OpenGovernment.org, a public resource for government transparency at the state, city, and local levels. Free and open-source.
- Open States API
- The Sunlight Foundation aims to make government transparent and accountable
- Wynn helped create TweetCongress.org winner of a SXSW 2009 Web award for activism, making use of Sunlight APIs
- Follow the money and connect the dots between bills, key votes, and campaign donations.
- Transparency Data is a central source for federal lobbying disclosure, federal grants and contracts, earmarks and federal and state campaign contributions, complete with it’s own API
- GovKit
- Luigi Montanez and Wynn wrote a wrapper for Transparency Data
- Fog, the Ruby cloud services library
- Carl worked at ZipCar prior to joining Open Government
- Syncing large datasets from different providers is a big challenge
- PostgreSQL and PostGIS power the backend of OpenGovernment
- GeoServer is an open source software server written in Java that allows users to share and edit geospatial data.
- MongoDB and Rack provide a fast way to track page views in the app
- Sunlight, Code for America, and Open Government - rise of the Citizen Coder?
- Oakland Crimespotting is a case study on developers having an impact on government
- DocumentCloud, featured in Episode 0.0.5
- Jammit, Industrial Strength Asset Packaging for Rails
- Pythonistas, why not help out by creating a scraper for your state?
- Kenneth and Wynn debate the best terminal font
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Rick Perreault / Unbounce (Founders Talk #11)
Adam talks with Rick Perreault, Co-Founder & CEO of Unbounce about entrepreneurship and solving your own pain, sticking to an MVP (Minimal Viable Product) launch strategy, becoming an authority by blogging/marketing before you launch, listening to customers and knowing when to take funding.
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- Landing Pages: Create, Publish & A/B Test Without I.T. | Unbounce
- Building a Minimum Viable Product – No Time For Edge Cases | Unbounce
- 101 Landing Page Optimization Tips | Unbounce
- CASE STUDY: Creating an eBook as a Lead Capture Prize | Unbounce
- HOW TO: Create a Landing Page Design Concept in 10 Minutes | Unbounce
- HOW TO: Use Twitter as a Knowledge Filter Using Social Breadcrumbs and Lists | Unbounce
- Founder Story #1, Rick Perreault, Unbounce on Vimeo
- Unbounce + Wufoo + MailChimp = Sexy Segmentation
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YUI 3, Node.js, JSLint, Douglas Crockford Code Reviews (Changelog Interviews #46)
Adam and Wynn caught up with Adam Moore and Satyen Desai from the YUI team to talk about YUI 3, Node.js, and working with Douglas Crockford.
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- YUI is the Yahoo! User Interface library, a collection of front end code goodies for JavaScript and CSS
- Follow the YUI Blog for the latest developments, such as the new 3.3.0 release
- Adam Moore and Satyen Desai are engineers on the YUI team.
- The Autocomplete widget provides a flexible, configurable, and accessible implementation of the AutoComplete design pattern.
- The DataTable widget renders columnar data into a highly customizable and fully accessible HTML table
- The Dial widget is an alternative to sliders
- The YUI Charts recently moved from Flash to JavaScript in YUI 3
- The Community developed the drag/move component
- YUI is on GitHub, fueling community involvement
- YUI Theater is a great source for JavaScript talks and all things YUI
- Douglas Crockford is the author of JSLint, the JSON spec, featured on Episode 0.2.6 from TXJS
- Nicholas C. Zakas aka @slicknet is the author of a number of JavaScript books
- Eric Miraglia is the Engineering Manager for the YUI team
- JSLint improves your JavaScript but will not spare your feelings
- Dave Glass - has a great talk about YUI + Node
- “I love async, but I can’t code like this”
- Many of the additional Node.js modules deal with parallel execution
- Adam suggests targeting features, not platform since features like touch will be on the desktop eventually.
- Satyen’s talk on YUI’s mobile strategy
- The module pattern in JavaScript
- The YUI Gallery lists discoverable components contributed by the community
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Ryan Holmes / HootSuite (Founders Talk #10)
Adam talks with Ryan Holmes, Founder of Hootsuite entrepreneurship, establishing and leveraging their relationship with Twitter, from “free” to “freemium” with a plan, and growing to well over 1 Million users in 2 years.
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Redis In-Memory Data Store (Changelog Interviews #45)
Wynn caught up with Salvatore Sanfilippo to talk about Redis, the super hot key value store.
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- VMware signs the paychecks for Salvatore and Pieter Noordhuis
- Redis is an open source, advanced key-value store and data structure server wherein keys can contain strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets
- Redis internals consist of ANSI C with an evented model
- Non-blocking replication has always been a Redis design goal
- Replication in Redis is async
- Salvatore’s Redis toolbox includes the Redis Ruby gem and Sinatra
- Chances are you can find a Redis library in your favorite language
- The C client is the only officially supported wrapper
- Salvatore thinks the NoSQL moniker isn’t perfect, focusing too much on performance, but it frames a discussion
- Redis Pub/Sub is perfect for real-time apps
- GitHub’s adoption of Redis in Resque helped fuel the growth of the project
- Redis users tend to use it as a database, as a messaging bus, or as a cache
- Salvatore thinks hosted solutions like Redis-to-Go need to add more value like more frequent backups and seamless upgrades.
- Blizzard uses an 8-node Redis install in serving avatars for WoW
- Justin Campbell asks will VMWare feature Redis in any upcoming projects?
- Ezra Zygmuntowicz and GitHub were among the first “few brave users”
- After a few months Salvatore noticed a dip in adoption , but he trusted his gut and stuck with it
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Maciej Ceglowski / Pinboard (Founders Talk #9)
Adam talks with Maciej Ceglowski, Founder of Pinboard about turning this side project into the next Delicious, handling a massive in-flux of Delicious users when they announced its “sunset”, keeping the technology and architecture simple and more.
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- Pinboard - antisocial bookmarking
- Pinboard (PinboardIN) on Twitter
- What The “Great Delicious Exodus” Looked Like For Pin-Sized Competitor Pinboard
- Pinboard’s Dead-Simple Bookmarking Service Is Still Going Strong
- Want To Give Pinboard A Try? You’ll Have To Pay $2.84
- Back To Basics: Ditch Delicious, Use Pinboard
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Ruby 1.9, Nokogiri, Tender Lovemaking (Changelog Interviews #44)
Wynn caught up with Aaron Patterson, aka @tenderlove, to talk about Ruby 1.9, Nokogiri, and muscle cars.
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- RubyCommitters.org lists all the folks who hack on the Ruby language
- Nokogiri is a library for parsing XML and HTML
- The origins of tenderlove, Aaron’s online persona
- Hot linking, check it and see. Got a page rank of a hundred and three., to the tune of Hot Blooded
- Mechanize adds an API to any website
- Being a Ruby committer is ‘alright’
- Yugui, release manager for Ruby 1.9
- The current state of rubycommitters.org reminds us of CSS Naked Day
- REXML is a pure Ruby XML processor
- MiniTest is Aaron’s favorite testing framework
- His favorite Ruby 1.9.2 feature is speed
- texticle is a wrapper around Postgress T-Search APIs
- Aaron will be keynoting at Red Dirt Ruby Conf
- FasterCSV from JEG2, one of the organizers for Red Dirt Ruby Conf.
- El Camino, IROC-Z, or Firebird with T-tops are Aaron’s top three dream cars
- For those who have never shaved a Yak and otherwise did not know it.
- Arel is at the heart of Rails 3 ActiveRecord improvements
- Debian’s Ruby maintainer says he’s out
- Ruby Kaigi, the C conference disguised as a Ruby conference
- In addition to Japanese, Aaron also speaks Scheme and Haskell
- Wynn ? CoffeeScript
- Aaron wants to pair program with Jim Weirich
- Wynn suggests Aaron capitalize on Tenderlovemaking by organizing promiscuous pair programming
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Hackety Hack and _why (Changelog Interviews #43)
Steve Klabnik joined the show to talk about learning to program with Hackety Hack and why the lucky stiff.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X
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- Steve Klabnik, maintainer of Hackety Hack, newest contributor to The Changelog
- Hackety Hack will teach you the absolute basics of programming from the ground up.
- _why, creator of Hackety Hack. Help keep his memory alive.
- Abbott and Costello’s classic “Who’s on first?”
- Yakety Yak is a song written, produced, and arranged by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller for The Coasters and released on Atlantic Records in 1958
- Shoes is a tiny graphical app kit for ruby
- GTK is a highly usable, feature rich toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces which boasts cross platform compatibility and an easy to use API.
- MacRuby is an implementation of Ruby 1.9 directly on top of Mac OS X core technologies such as the Objective-C runtime and garbage collector, the LLVM compiler infrastructure and the Foundation and ICU frameworks.
- The Shoebox is a gallery of Shoes apps.
- Mad props to Heroku, Sinatra, and MongoMapper for handling a LifeHacker traffic spike
- Ruby is a great language to teach programming
- _why’s Poignant Guide to Ruby
- ChunkFive is a nice bold free and open source typeface
- Steve is intrigued by projects like cool.io and node.js and the evented style of programming.
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Alex Hillman / Indy Hall (Founders Talk #8)
Adam talks with Alex Hillman, Co-Founder of Indy Hall and co-conspirator/creator of many things, about all things Coworking, people helping people, how to hustle, get unstuck and more. Alex also mentions something “super secret” that’s sure to please. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
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- Coworking Philadelphia - Independents Hall, a Coworking Community and Space
- dangerouslyawesome | Alex Hillman Writes Here
- The Coworking Book
- what’s next? unstick.me helps you find that thing you need to get going again.
- the cluetrain manifesto
- Caroline Collective
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Henk Rogers / The Tetris Company (Founders Talk #7)
Adam talks with Henk Rogers, Founder of The Tetris Company, Blue Planet Software and Blue Planet Foundation about the beginnings of and the evolution of Tetris, over-coming brick walls, social and mobile gaming, never giving up, changing the world, getting the planet off carbon-based fuels, ending war, creating a backup of Earth and the power of love!
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Amy Hoy and Thomas Fuchs / Slash7 (Founders Talk #6)
Adam talks with Amy Hoy and Thomas Fuchs, Founders of Slash7 about product development, profiting from Open Source, the key to happiness, living a Unicorn-Free lifestyle and how Amy and Thomas met and ultimately fell in love.
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- Thomas Fuchs – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- slash7 with Amy Hoy
- Unicornfree
- freckle: choose your plan
- twistori
- Charm Desk coming fall 2010 from the makers of Freckle
- KO Lists coming soon from the makers of Freckle
- mir.aculo.us JavaScript with Thomas Fuchs
- Cheerful
- Freelancember: 31 Days of Free Gifts for Freelancers
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Rails 3.1 and SproutCore (Changelog Interviews #42)
Adam and Wynn caught up with Yehuda Katz to talk about upcoming changes in Rails 3.1, SproutCore, and his growing list of open source projects.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- Wynn’s deck from ‘07 pays tribute to Yehuda
- Merb influenced and later merged with Rails
- SproutCore is an HTML5 application framework for building responsive, desktop-caliber apps in any modern web browser, without plugins.
- Carl Lerche is the other half of carlhuda
- Desktop MVC != Server MVC
- Handlebars.js is Yehuda’s optimization of Mustache.js
- Backbone.js is a lightweight MVC framework from DocumentCloud
- Bundler manages an application’s dependencies through its entire life across many machines systematically and repeatably.
- One of the biggest changes in Rails 3 is The Great Decoupling
- Railtie is the core of the Rails Framework and provides several hooks to extend Rails and/or modify the initialization process
- Asset handling is coming in Rails 3.1, meaning better support for Sass, Compass, and CoffeeScript
- Do you modify your Nginx setup?
- Yehuda prefers Sass and Compass to Less since the introduction of the SCSS syntax.
- Haml is the templating language of choice for sophisticated web devs.
- Yehuda likes JavaScript on the server but thinks evented frameworks like Node are more for edge cases than for the heart of the web.
- The Ruby Racer is a Ruby binding to V8 and is great for testing your JavaScripts without a browser
- Charles Lowell wrapped Handlebars.js as Handlebars.rb
- Yehuda loves CoffeeScript wants a runtime debugger before taking the plunge.
- libgit2 is a portable, pure C implementation of the Git core methods provided as a re-entrant linkable library with a solid API, allowing you to write native speed custom Git applications in any language which supports C bindings.
- Adam really loves Thor, a scripting framework that replaces rake and sake and is used by the new Rails 3 generators.
- There is no shortage of thor tasks from users on GitHub.
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Allan Branch and Steven Bristol / Less Everything (Founders Talk #5)
Adam talks with Allan Branch and Steven Bristol, Founders of Less Everything about how things got started, why they hate QuickBooks, what it takes to create a successful partnership and more.
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- Steven Bristol – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- Less Everything – Ruby on Rails Development – Web / UI Design
- Less Everything Blog
- Accounting Software | LessAccounting
- Time Tracking and Expense Tracking | Less Time Spent
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Ryan Carson / Carsonified (Founders Talk #4)
Adam talks with Ryan Carson, Founder of Carsonified about the “lessons learned” in creating their latest product, Think Vitamin Membership - the biggest being the need to rename the product and go through a re-branding process. In Q2 of 2011 Think Vitamin Membership will transition to the name “Level Up”, a better suited name and far more “tweetable”.
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- Think Vitamin - A blog for web designers and developers
- Learn Web Design! HTML 5 & CSS3 Video Tutorials & Training Resource
- Twitter - thinkvitamin
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Building Telephony Apps (Changelog Interviews #41)
Wynn caught up with Chris Matthieu of Voxeo Labs to talk about Phono, Tropo, Adhearsion, and building telephony apps with open source tools.
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- We’re excited to team up with GitHub Jobs! To have your job posting read on air, just check “Advertise this listing on The Changelog Podcast for an additional $100” when you post your job.
- Chris Matthieu founder of Teleku, now with Voxeo Labs, the company behind Tropo, Teleku, and Phono.
- Tropo’s GitHub projects
- Adhearsion uses Ruby to create voice-enabled applications on top of Asterisk
- Asterisk turns an ordinary computer into a communications server
- Phono, a jQuery plugin that lets you make phone calls right from your browser.
- Jay Phillips orginally created Adhearsion
- Jason Goecke VP of Innovation at Voxeo
- AGI protocol is at the core of Asterisk
- Wynn and Chris go way back with TAPI, MAPI, and SAPI
- Google Voice transcriptions gone bad
- The SIP protocol allows multimedia communication sessions such as voice and video calls over Internet Protocol
- The Jingle protocol extends XMPP and powers Google Talk
- Wynn asks how Tropo stacks up against Twilio
- Tropo does TTS in nine languages
- Tropo’s Scripting Environment supports Ruby, Python, PHP, Groovy, and Javascript
- Tropo’s REST API offers a more traditional API approach
- Facebook Telephone lets you call your Facebook friends via Phono.
- Twelephone, if Twitter is more your bag
- Michael Bleigh from Intridea makes Twitter apps easier for Rubyists
- Facebook’s OpenGraph API makes building Facebook apps much easier than previous APIs
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Riak Revisited (Changelog Interviews #40)
Wynn sat down with Andy Gross and Mark Phillips of Basho and John Nunemaker of Ordered List to talk about Riak, Riak Search, and moving an open source community to GitHub.
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- NoSQL smackdown, live from SXSW 2010.
- Are you web scale?
- Drop us a ping@thechangelog.com and let us know who you want to get on The Changelog
- Andy Gross VP of Engineering at Basho, the company behind Riak.
- Mark Phillips Community Manager at Basho AKA * @pharkmillups
- John Nunemaker of Ordered List and MongoMapper fame
- Riak is now available as a binary download
- Bitcask, the new backend for Riak
- Riak key value store, decentralized datastore from Basho Technologies
- Riak Search, full-text search engine based on Riak
- Riak buckets, container and keyspace for data stored in Riak
- Riak KVS buckets can be automatically searchable by installing the Search pre-commit hook
- Riak supports an Apache SOLR interface
- Sean Cribbs made some waves with Ripple
- Ruby, Python, Node.js are the biggest adopters of Riak
- Riak aims to scale both up and down. Adding a node adds a linear increase in throughput and storage capacity. 50 nodes run easily on a laptop.
- Riak nodes are truly decentralized, no node is special
- Riak compares to Cassandra and Voldemort
- Riak has built-in JavaScript map reduce but unlike Couch, it’s more an ad hoc approach.
- Andy explains Riak’s link walking or bucket-key-tag relationships between objects.
- Riak now has two interfaces, the original REST HTTP interface, and a new protocol buffers interface, a faster binary interface
- Eric Brewer, a Basho board member, and his cap theorem
- Bitcask is an append-only file format where the keys are stored in memory for ultra fast lookups.
- InnoStore, the original Riak backend
- John Muellerleile, author of the popular NoSQL cartoon about distributed map reduce in Erlang
- Apache Lucene query syntax a growing standard for search
- The move from BitBucket to GitHub was ultimately about community, not about DVCS
- The THANKS file lists many Riak community contributors
- Harmony - the MongoDB-powered hosted CMS from Ordered List
- Mozilla runs several Riak clusters to log data from their Test Pilot project
- Francisco Treacy uses Riak in WideScript, “an innovative app that helps you focus and interact with your texts — on your desktop, your couch or on the go.”
- Inagist recently moved from Cassandra to Riak
- Riak has partnered with Joyent and Node creator Ryan Dahl to create Riak SmartMachines
- Mark also is a fan of Redis
- Scala and Clojure have Andy excited, too.
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Scripty2, Zepto.js, Vapor.js (Changelog Interviews #39)
Wynn caught up with Thomas Fuchs to talk about script.aculo.us, Scripty2, Zepto.js and the future of Prototype.
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- The Magic Roundabout is crazy
- Wynn got his UK badge on Gowalla
- script.aculo.us JavaScript effects framework built on top of Prototype
- Prototype - JavaScript Framework that aims to ease development of dynamic web applications.
- Thomas is one of many talented RoR core team alumni
- Scripty2 - completely rewritten version of script.aculo.us
- RaphaelJS - JavaScript vector graphics library featured in Episode 0.2.5
- Johnson Page asks “What’s the future of Prototype.js?”
- Underscore.js utility library for jQuery, inspired by Prototype, featured in Episode 0.0.5
- Zepto.js minimalist inlinable framework for mobile WebKit browsers, with a jQuery-like chaining syntax
- EveryTimeZone.com - handy tool to pick a time to meet across time zones. A promotional site for Freckle, chock full of JavaScript best practices.
- Thomas’ blog post on approaches taken with EveryTimeZone.com
- Gury Chainable syntax wrapper for the
<canvas>element - Vapor.js “The only JS framework compatible with every browser.”
- MadRobby gives mad props to @janl, @hblank, @cramforce and other JSConf.eu organizers.
- FabJS - modular async framework for Node.js
- Chris Williams’ talk on PromoteJS, an effort The Changelog supports.
- Eyeballs.js - A lightweight MVC framework for building fast, tidy JavaScript web apps
- CoffeeScript, featured in Episode 0.2.9
- Amy Hoy, Thomas’ wife, product proponent, and usability diva.
- Freckle helps you manage your time
- JavaScript Performance Rocks - three books on ultimate web app performance
- Charm Desk - Thomas and Amy tackle customer support
- PeepCode’s Smashing into Vim with the soothing voice of Dan Benjamin
- Mensch and Meslo, the latest stops on Thomas’ journey to find the ultimate Terminal.app font
- Thomas likes to fly his AR.Drone around the office
- He’s also building the Lego Milennium Falcon
- SchnitzelConf a 1-day, full-contact conference in Vienna, Austria focusing on creating products, launching businesses, and charging real money.
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Lance Jones and Joanna Wiebe / Page 99 Test (Founders Talk #3)
Adam talks with Lance Jones and Joanna Wiebe, Founders of Page99Test.com. People in bookstores often read page 99 of a book to get a taste for the writing - to determine if they’d buy the book. Lance, Joanna and technical Co-Founder, Steven Luke took that time tested idea and have built a brand new platform for book enthusiasts, authors, agents and publishers to get excited about.
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- Lance Jones – Website, X
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- Page99Test
- Beyond Page 99
- Page 99 Test (page99test) on Twitter
- Facebook (5) | Page99Test.com
- Take the Page 99 Test - GalleyCat
- Putting the Page 99 test to the, er, test | Books | The Guardian
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Ted Roden / Fancy Hands (Founders Talk #2)
Adam talks with Ted Roden, Founder of Fancy Hands, a team of personal assistants in the cloud ready to work for you right now. For those of you who have an over flowing todo list, get back to focusing on what’s important and give Fancy Hands a try.
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- Fancy Hands: Virtual Assistants, Aardvark Style
- Fancy Hands Finds You an Assistant for $30 a Month … in the Cloud | Fast Company
- Everybody enjoys things @ enjoysthin.gs
- Blast - Your files at your fingertips! - Apparent Software
- Building the Realtime User Experience - O’Reilly Media
- Fancy Hands - 10 Most Common Requests
- Fancy Hands - Personal Assistants in the Cloud
- FoundersCard
- Google App Engine - Google Code
- Live Questions & Answers | ChaCha
- Aardvark
- Personal Assistant | Concierge Services | Virtual Personal Assistant - AskSunday 24/7 Personal Assistance
- Red Butler | Personal Assistant & Concierge Services | 888.BUTLER.2
- YourManInIndia
- Amazon Mechanical Turk - Welcome
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DevOps and Chef (Changelog Interviews #38)
Wynn sat down with Corey Donohoe from GitHub and Seth Chisamore from Opscode to talk about DevOps, Chef, agile infrastructure and innovation in the datacenter.
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Show Notes:
- Corey Donahoe aka @atmos, DevOps dude at GitHub
- Seth Chisamore aka @schisamo, evangelist at Opscode, makers of Chef
- Chef, an open source systems integration framework built to bring the benefits of configuration management to your entire infrastructure.
DevOps is defined as a set of processes, methods and systems for communication, collaboration and integration between departments for Development (Applications/Software Engineering), Technology Operations and Quality Assurance (QA)
- Puppet, an open source data center automation and configuration management framework.
- Cfengine, continuous datacenter automation and repair
- Knife, the Chef command line interface
- Chef Hosted platform is an instant hosted, highly scalabe Chef Server
- Chef solo lets you run Chef without a Chef server
- Chef was architected to be multi-tenant
- The Opscode Team members have impressive resumes.
- Chef includes impressive role-based authorities
- Cookbooks are like Rubygems for Chef
- Cinderella née Cider = apple + homebrew + chef + rvm
- Homebrew as the most forked project is GitHub’s stress test. Be sure to catch Max on Episode 0.3.5
- Wynn makes the case that the Swedish Chef be the face of the DevOps movement
- Silverline from Librato does complex systems management and monitoring
- EY or EngineYard, Corey’s former employer uses VMs in their architecture
- Simon Wardley’s OSCon keynote
- OpenStack is an effort to standardize the cloud
- DevOps version of the account that got Shatner back on TV
- DevOps Borat tweets from the datacenter
- Fog, Wesley Beary’s excellent Ruby abstraction layer for popular cloud providers
- Knife, donated by 37 Signals
- Wynn digs infinity_test to test against multiple versions of Ruby at the same time
- collectd, system statistics collection daemon
- Using Visage to graph collectd stats
- Sign up for the Opscode platform free beta
- Look up Seth as schisamo in #chef and #chef-hacking on IRC
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Geoffrey Grosenbach / PeepCode (Founders Talk #1)
Adam talks with Geoffrey Grosenbach about his quest for greatness as Senior Visionary in building PeepCode Screencasts. Complete with the signature voice that Geoff delivers, he walks us through the various aspects of building Peepcode from scratch, adhering to the Minimal Viable Product methodology (MVP), starting on “the cheap” and the reason he says “no” to DRM to reduce piracy on his digital products.
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PubSubHubBub and the Real-Time Web (Changelog Interviews #37)
Wynn chatted with Julien Genestoux (github/twitter) from Superfeedr about PubSubHubBub, XMPP, Websockets, and the real-time web.
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Show Notes:
- Superfeedr - pushes realtime data at scale using PubSubHubBub and XMPP.
- PubSubHubHub - simple, open, server-to-server web-hook-based pubsub (publish/subscribe) protocol as an extension to Atom and RSS.
- XMPP - Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) is an open technology for real-time communication and generalized routing of XML data.
- Discovery links in feeds
- Superfeeder has some big names among its publishers and subscribers
- Gowalla demo using websockets and Gowalla’s hub.
- Twitter’s streaming APIs
- Considerations for PubSubHubBub vs. XMPP
- Superfeedr’s GitHub profile
- EventMachine and Node.js are cool
- Julien loves Redis, Cassandra, MongoDB
- Superfeedr’s list of popular feeds, firehose of the blogosphere
- Redis’ as a pubsub store
- Chef from Opscode is serious cool for setting up servers
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Django Dash, Python, Ruby (Changelog Interviews #36)
Kenneth and Wynn caught up with Daniel, Christian, and Matt from Pragmatic Badger to talk about the Django Dash, Python, and Ruby.
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Show Notes:
- Daniel, Christian, and Matt from Pragmatic Badger host the Django Dash.
- Django Dash - you’ve got 48 hours to build a Django app. Go!
- Pyweek - Build a Python app in a week
- Rails Rumble - Ruby on Rails’ a own 48 hour web application development competition.
- The Dash rules
- Great Big Crane - 2010 Dash winner
- The Dash moved to distributed version control this year on GitHub & BitBucket
- Love for Pythons’ explicit imports and Python’s module system
- Twisted - an event-driven networking engine written in Python.
- Node.js - Evented I/O for V8 JavaScript.
- Eventlet - a concurrent networking library for Python that allows you to change how you run your code, not how you write it.
- EventMachine - fast, simple event-processing library for Ruby programs.
- Christian is using Compass and Sass in Django, but hates on Haml
- Forkinit - forkin’ brilliant! Share and fork your favorite recipes.
- Flask - Flask is a microframework for Python based on Werkzeug, Jinja 2 and good intentions.
- Web.py - a web framework for python that is as simple as it is powerful.
- Google’s AppEngine Run your Python web apps on Google’s infrastructure.
- Pypy - implemenation of the Python language focusing on speed, memory usage, and sandboxing.
- Rubinius - an implementation of the Ruby programming language. The Rubinius bytecode virtual machine is written in C++.
- Manoria - an MMO city-building and resource management game [Source]
- Server tail - a service which lets you quickly and easily see real time output of log files on your servers, with just a web browser. [Source]
- Read the docs - a place to create, host, and browse docs. [Source]
- GitHub made covering the event live much more fun
- PhoneGap - open source development framework for building cross-platform mobile apps using HTML and JavaScript.
- Leah Culver, who created Leafy Chat in last year’s Dash, talked about it in Episode 0.1.5
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Homebrew and OSX Package Management (Changelog Interviews #35)
Adam and Wynn caught up with Max Howell, creator of Homebrew to talk about package managment on OSX, beer, and scrobbling.
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- Max Howell – GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- Homebrew The awesome OSX package manager from Max Howell
- Last.fm - The world’s largest online music catalogue, powered by your scrobbles. Max’s former employer.
- Tweet Deck Desktop and mobile Twitter client
- ImageMagick - fabulous software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images which can be a pain to install on OSX.
- Amarok - is a free software music player for Linux and other varieties of Unix
- GitHub - where all the cool people put code
- Homebrew terms in the Homebrew Cookbook
- No
sudofor you and the dangers therein - MacPorts - an open-source community initiative to design an easy-to-use system for compiling, installing, and upgrading either command-line, X11 or Aqua based open-source software on the Mac OS X operating system
- Gentoo - highly optimized Linux distro
- Most forked projects on GitHub
- Max prefers British ales
- pengwynn is looking to get his hands on the Tatical Nuclear Penguin from Brewdog
- The Silicon roundabout gets its name due to the prominence of British web based companies
- Max created the Last.fm Scrobbler, proving open source can land you a job
- Transmission is beautiful on the Mac
- Glasses, This is the next generation of VLC for Mac also called Lunettes.
brew install sl, thensl— enjoy the ride!
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Mongrel2 and high performance web sites (Changelog Interviews #34)
Wynn caught up with Zed Shaw’s non-rockstar alter ego to talk about Mongrel2, high performance web sites, guitar, and software community ponzi schemes.
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- Mongrel2 - an application, language, and network architecture agnostic web server that focuses on web applications using modern browser technologies.
- Original mongrel
- _why an anonymous and prolific writer, cartoonist, musician, artist, and computer programmer notable for his work with Ruby
- Unicorn - Eric Wong’s mostly pure-Ruby HTTP backend
- Thin A fast and very simple Ruby web server
- 0MQ Fastest. Messaging. Ever.
- Node.js Evented I/O for V8 JavaScript.
- Nginix is a HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as a mail proxy server written by Igor Sysoev
- HAProxy The Reliable, High Performance TCP/HTTP Load Balancer
- Twisted an event-driven networking engine written in Python
- libevent Asynchronous event notification library
- EventMachine fast, simple event-processing library for Ruby programs
- Websockets - technology providing for bi-directional, full-duplex communications channel, featured in Episode 0.3.1
- SPDY - An experimental protocol for a faster web
- Fretwar The guitar competition and social time waster.
- LayerTennis from Coudal
- MP3 streaming demo in Mongrel2
- Librelist a free as in freedom mailing list site for open source projects.
- Dethklok, Pantera, Slayer, Metallica
- Wynn asks if Rails is still a ghetto
- Joyent
- Ajax.im an open-source, extensible, theme-able instant messaging framework.
- Qt Cross platform UI framework
- Awesome window manager is a highly configurable, next generation framework window manager for X
- Vimperator Vimperator is a Firefox browser extension with strong inspiration from the Vim text editor, with a mind towards faster and more efficient browsing.
- Screen screen manager with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation
- Reaper is a digital audio workstation: a complete multitrack audio and MIDI recording, editing, processing, mixing, and mastering environment.
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Node Knockout (Changelog Interviews #33)
Micheil and Wynn caught up with Gerad and Visnu from the Node Knockout to talk about the 48 hour Node.js development competition and its entries.
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Show Notes:
- Lone Star Ruby Conference - Texas’ regional Ruby conference in Austin
- Mike Perham - The awesome Rubyist whose name gives Wynn fits
- Node Knockout - The 48 hour Node.js coding competition
- Rails Rumble - Ruby’s own 48 hour coding bash
- Gerad - of Gerad & Visnu, the “data-y” and “product-y” guy
- Visnu - the “developer-y” and “designer-y” guy
- Fortnight Labs - the proper name for Gerad & Visnu, Inc.
- List of great Node Knockout Judges
- Joyent & Heroku are great places to host your Node.js apps.
- Express High performance, high class web development for Node.js
- Connect - high performance middleware framework for node featuring robust middleware for serving static files, advanced routing, cookie and session implementations, error handling and much more.
- npm is a package manager for node. You can use it to install and publish your node programs. It manages dependencies and does other cool stuff.
- Node Inspector is a web inspector based Node.js debugger
- Socket.io - Websockets toolkit covered in 0.3.1 and used in so many contest entries
- Go vote for your favorite entries!
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960.gs and CSS Grid Frameworks (Changelog Interviews #32)
Adam and Wynn caught up with Nathan Smith from 960 Grid System to talk about web development and CSS grid frameworks.
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- Nathan Smith – Website, GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- 960 Grid System - Nathan’s awesome CSS grid framework
- 960’s awesome templates help you plan your layouts
- Wynn’s new monitor setup is just plain obscene
- 960’s fluid support from Stephen Bau
- Episode 0.2.8 where John Resig talks about mobile web dev
- Episode 18 of the yayQuery podcast
- Wynn asks why Google’s AJAX API library doesn’t include the CSS frameworks
- Nathan and Wynn are fans of Jason Santa Maria’s layout-per-post blog
- For the non-soccer fans, a little background for Nathan’s midfielder analogy.
- We don’t need to link to Sass do we?
- Taco Town from SNL
- jQuery Cookbook, to which Nathan contributed lucky Chapter 13
- Nathan is a big Drupal fan
- Rebecca Murphey organizer of the awesome TXJS conference
- Textile vs. Markdown
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The WebSocket protocol (Changelog Interviews #31)
Wynn and Micheil sat down with Peter Griess from Yahoo Mail, Martyn Loughran from Pusher App, and Guillermo Rauch from Socket.IO to talk about Websockets.
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- WebSocket is a technology providing for bi-directional, full-duplex communications channels, over a single Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) socket, designed to be implemented in web browsers and web servers.
- Socket.IO provides a really simple API to leverage Sockets on the client side.
- Socket.IO Node.JS server - sockets for the rest of us (in Node.js)
- Pusher App Hosted HTML5 web sockets service
- Websocket-js A Flash fallback for browsers that do not support Websockets
- Long polling Traditional approach to emulating push for web apps
- HAProxy reliable, high performance TCP/HTTP load balancer
- True Story A collaborative planning tool for agile teams
- HTML5 Event Source A one-way websocket with limited browser support
- Node Websocket Server Micheil’s websocket server written in low-level node.js, should be 90-100% spec compatible.
- Hummingbird demo - a real time traffic visualizer
- MongoDB Awesome NoSQL database featured on Episode 0.0.7
- Redis an advanced key-value store. It is similar to memcached but the dataset is not volatile, and values can be strings, exactly like in memcached, but also lists, sets, and ordered sets.
- EM-Websocket EventMachine based WebSocket server from Ilya Grigorik
- Node.js YUI3 bindings YUI3 on the server?!
- Telehash - a new wire protocol from Jeremie Miller, the guy behind XMPP, for exchanging JSON in a real-time and fully decentralized manner, enabling applications to connect directly and participate as servers on the edge of the network.
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Sencha Touch (Changelog Interviews #30)
Wynn caught up with David Kaneda to talk about mobile web app development with Sencha Touch.
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- Sencha Touch - HTML5 mobile application framework
- WebKitBits - David’s Tumblr for the latest in WebKit news and tips
- jQTouch - jQuery plugin for mobile web development on the iPhone, iPod Touch, and other forward-thinking devices.
- Sass - Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets for your CSS, featured in Episode 0.0.1
- Outpost Basecamp in your pocket
- iUI - Perhaps the original JavaScript toolkit for creating iPhone web apps
- PPK - Web standards and browser guru.
- Compass - Turbocharges your Sass
- Sencha demos including GeoCongress which leverages the Sunlight Labs APIs featured in Episode 0.1.3
- YQL -
SELECT * FROM Interwebs
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CoffeeScript and JavaScript (Changelog Interviews #29)
Wynn and special guest host Micheil Smith sat down with Jeremy Ashkenas from DocumentCloud to chat about CoffeeScript, a cool language that compiles to JavaScript.
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- CoffeeScript - a cool language that compiles to JavaScript.
- DocumentCloud - an index of primary source documents and a tool for annotating, organizing and publishing them on the web.
- Haskell - an advanced purely functional programming language
- Everything in CoffeeScript is an expression
- Switch statements in CoffeeScript compile to if/else chains
- CoffeeScript has powerful comprehensions for Arrays, Objects, and Ranges
- Existential operator should look familiar to Rubyists
- Splats make JavaScript
argumentseven easier - ECMAScript 5.0 - the latest JavaScript standard
- ECMAScript Harmony
- CoffeeScript’s String Interpolation
- CoffeeScript’s Class/inheritance features
- Function binding - as President Clinton said “It depends on what your definition of ‘this’ is…” ;-)
- Jeremy loves working with
<canvas>to create Buddhabrot Fractals - Node.js finds its way into every episode!
- NPM is the new standard for Node Package Management
- JSLint cleans up your JavaScripts.
- Jade gives your JavaScript Haml envy from TJ Holowaychuk
- Lincoln Shire Poacher - RaphaelJS graphics from Chris Lloyd
- Underscore.js - featured in Episode 0.0.5
- Comet
- @CoffeeScript - Unofficial Twitter account
- Join us in #coffeescript on Freenode
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Mobile Web Development and jQuery (Changelog Interviews #28)
Adam and Wynn caught up with John Resig at TXJS and talked about mobile web development with jQuery and TestSwarm, a continuous integration project from Mozilla Labs.
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Show Notes:
- TestSwarm - Distributed continuous integration testing for JavaScript.
- Pro JavaScript Techniques John’s JavaScript book
- Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja John’s upcoming book of trade secrets
- WebKit - The rendering engine behind Safari, Chrome, and a growing number of mobile browsers
- PhoneGap - Bridges the gap between the web and native functions on the iPhone, Android, and Blackberry
- Fennec Firefox for mobile devices
- Opera Dragonfly - cross device, cross platform debugging environment for the Opera browser-debug JavaScript, inspect and edit CSS and the DOM
- jQTouch - jQuery plugin for mobile web development on the iPhone, iPod Touch
- iUI - create WebApps with an iPhone-like Look and Feel from Firebug creator Joe Hewitt
- TouchScroll JavaScript- and CSS?3-based scroller for devices using Webkit Touch (yes, that includes Android). It is meant to mimic “native” scrolling feeling and behavior as much as possible.
- Mustache.js - Minimal templating with {{mustaches}} in JavaScript
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Padrino Ruby Web Framework (Changelog Interviews #27)
Adam and Wynn caught up with Arthur Chiu and Nathan Esquenazi from Padrino, the Ruby web framework built on top of Sinatra.
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- Padrino - über modular web framework built on top Sinatra
- #padrino - Padrino’s IRC channel @ irc.freenode.net
- Ramaze - “Web framework for Rubyists”
- Mountable apps in Padrino
- Rack provides a minimal interface between webservers supporting Ruby and Ruby frameworks.
- CodeRack - Rack middleware directory
- OmniAuth - flexible authentication system utilizing Rack middleware.
- padrino-recipes Examples of forthcoming Padrino plugins based on Thor
- Sammy.js - Sinatra-inspired javascript framework built on top of jQuery. It’s RESTful Evented JavaScript. Featured in Episode 0.2.2
- NestaCMS lightweight Content Management System from Graham Ashton, suitable for running small web sites or blogs. Nesta is written in Ruby using the Sinatra web framework.
- Presto Wynn’s shameless port of Nesta to Padrino powering his own site
- Express - Sinatra-inspired high performance, high class web development for Node.js
- Bowline Create desktop applications with HTML+CSS
- MongoDB Powerfully simple NoSQL database, supported in Padrino via Mongoid or Mongomapper
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JSON and JavaScript (Changelog Interviews #26)
While at TXJS — Adam and Wynn caught up with Douglas Crockford, author of both JavaScript: The Good Parts and the JSON spec, and a global namespace unto himself.
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- JSON - (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange format, easy for humans to read and write.
- The JSON Saga - how JSON came about
- JSON.parse, JSON.stringify - Parse and and generate JSON in a standard way
- YAML - YAML Ain’t Markup Language
- Douglas says we should scrap HTML5 and start over and address XSS instead
- ECMAScript 5 - Version 5 of the international JavaScript standard
- JSONP - Current hack to do XSS with JSON
- The JSON logo
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RaphaëlJS and Running an Open Source Project (Changelog Interviews #25)
Wynn caught up with Dmitry Baranovskiy to talk about his project RaphaëlJS, running an open source project, and why living in Australia is better than living anywhere else in the world.
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- RaphaëlJS Dmitry’s JavaScript vector graphics library
- gRaphaël Charting library built on top of Raphaël
- TXJS —
var TXJS = JS + BBQ + you; - Dmitry Baranovskiy’s homepage
- SVG XML vocabulary for describing two-dimensional graphics.
- VML Microsoft-backed alternative to SVG
- Ext JS RIA JavaScript platform
- Raphael demos Wow!
- Node.js Lightning fast server-side JavaScript on top of Google V8
- Ryan Dahl Creator of Node.js
- Mustache.js Logic-less views in JS, based on Mustache from defunkt
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Tornado, Hip-hop, Three20 (Changelog Interviews #24)
Adam and Wynn caught up with David Recordon and other Facebook developers to talk about their wide range of open source projects including Tornado, Hip-Hop, and Three20 as well as OpenGraph and OAuth 2.0.
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Show Notes:
- David Recordon Open Source developer at Facebook, co-creator of OAuth
- Paul Bucheit Co-founder of FriendFeed, creator of Gmail
- Haiping Zhao Creator of Hip-Hop at Facebook
- Scott MacVicar Developer on Hip-hop at Facebook
- Owen Yamauchi - Three20 developer at facebook
- Joe Hewitt Original Three20 developer, creator of Firebug
- Tornado - Non-blocking web server built in Python
- epoll - the Linux magic at the heart of Tornado
- EventMachine Ruby approach to evented, asynchronous web
- Node.js - You do listen to this show, right?
- Hip-hop PHP - Pre-compile your PHP into lightning fast C++
- Three20 - iPhone framework extracted from Facebook’s iPhone app
- iPhone OS 4.0 Next version of Apple’s mobile operating system
- OpenGraph Enables web sites to become rich objects in social graphs
- OAuth2 New simpler mobile and desktop-friendly version of everybody’s favorite authentication method
- f8 Facebook’s developer conference
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The Ruby Racer (Changelog Interviews #23)
Wynn and Gregg Pollack did a special LIVE episode at Red Dirt Ruby Conf where they sat down with Charles Lowell to talk about embedding JavaScript engines in Ruby.
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- Gregg Pollack from Ruby5 co-hosted this episode!
- Red Dirt Ruby Conf - the awesome regional Ruby conference in OKC
- Charles Lowell from the FrontSide
- The Ruby Racer Embed the V8 Javascript Interpreter into Ruby
- The Ruby Rhino Embed the Mozilla Rhino Javascript interpreter into Ruby
- Mustache - logicless views from defunkt
- Mustache.js - Jan Lehnardt’s awesome port of Mustache
- Google V8 Google’s super fast JavaScript engine
- Glenn Vanderburg asks the question “Why send JSON over the wire and not HTML fragments”
- JSON templates Precursor to Mustache
- Underscore.js Also has some templating built into this utility JS framework
- Env.js A pure-JavaScript browser environment from John Resig
- Drunk and Retired Charles’ own podcast
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Sammy.js and Semantic Versioning (Changelog Interviews #22)
Adam and Wynn caught up with Aaron Quint, the brains behind Sammy.js, a neat JavaScript framework built on top on jQuery fashioned after Ruby’s Sinatra.
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- Texas Javascript Join us in Austin for this awesome JavaScript conference.
- Sammy.js JavaScript framework built on top on jQuery fashioned after Ruby’s Sinatra.
- Sammy’s routes really help organize your jQuery
- Sinatra A Ruby framework as classy as The Chairman himself.
- Sammy plugins Easily extend Sammy
- Mustache.js Minimal templating with {{mustaches}} in JavaScript from Jan, based on defunkt’s awesome Mustache project
- haml-js Port of Haml to JavaScript from Tim Caswell
- CouchDB document-oriented database that can be queried and indexed in a MapReduce fashion using JavaScript
- Couch apps Share your CouchDB codes
- Step control-flow the node.js way.
- Do simple async JavaScript library
- Makin’ Bacon Aaron’s slides from his JSConf talk
- Chris Williams JSConf organizer aka voodootikigod
- Chromium Google projects helping to superchare JavaScript
- LABjs aims to be an all-purpose, on-demand JavaScript loader, capable of loading any JavaScript resource, from any location, into any page, at any time.
- Fab a modular async web framework from Jed Schmidt for node.js
- Semantic versioning numbers and the way they change convey meaning about the underlying code and what has been modified from one version to the next.
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Tweets from Chirp, Twitter's Developer Conference (Changelog Interviews #21)
While in San Francisco for Chirp, Wynn caught up with Erik and John from 140Proof, Hayes Davis from CheapTweet, and Christie Koehler from Open Source Bridge about Twitter and open source development.
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- 140 Proof Ad platform for Twitter
- John Manoogian III and Erik Michaels-Ober from 140 Proof
- Racket Monitor your log files with auralization
- Merb admin Admin screens slice for Merb, upcoming for Rails 3
- Hayes Davis Austin Rubyist and all around nice guy
- CheapTweet Find deals and coupons on Twitter
- TweetReach How far did that tweet travel?
- Grackle Lightweight Ruby Twitter API wrapper with a nice syntax
- Open Source Bridge Nice sized open source conference in Portland in June
- Christie Koehler from Open Source Bridge
- ShopIgniter PHP-based ecommerce platform built on CodeIgniter
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Node.js and Server-Side JavaScript (Changelog Interviews #20)
Adam and Wynn caught up with Felix Geisendörfer to talk about Node.js, server-side JavaScript, and JSConf 2010.
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- NodeJS “First server-side JavaScript implementation you’d actually like to use”
- Ryan Dahl Creator of Node.js
- C64 The official home computer of the 80s
- CakePHP CakePHP enables PHP users at all levels to rapidly develop robust web applications.
- Ubuntu Upstart Daemonize your Node
- Google V8 Google’s open source JavaScript engine.
- ECMAScript International standardization of JavaScript family of languages
- WebSockets HTML5 protocol for two-way communication with a remote host
- Do from Tim Caswell simple async JavaScript library
- HowToNode.org Learn Node.js via an open blog featured on Episode 0.1.7
- Kiwi Node.js package management system inspired by RubyGems
- Express.js High performance, high class web development for Node.js with a Ruby flavor
- Fab Rack-esque framework for Node.js
- CommonJS aims to fill gaps by defining APIs in a standard library as rich as those in Python, Ruby, and Java
- jspec BDD for JavaScript
- Transloadit Because uploads and video encoding sucks
- JSConf 2010 Arrrrrrr you going to THE JavaScript conference?
- node-dirty NoSQL for the little man
- berlinjs JavaScript user group in Berlin
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Ruby, TextMate, Red Dirt Ruby Conf (Changelog Interviews #19)
While in OKC for OpenBeta4, Adam and Wynn sat down with James Edward Gray II and talked about his many Ruby gems, TextMate bundles, and his upcoming Ruby conference Red Dirt Ruby Conf this May.
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- RubyQuiz.com Challenge your Ruby fu, feel dumb, learn something, repeat.
- OpenBeta4 We were blown away by the startup community in OKC
- Red Dirt Ruby Conf Join us in OKC for this premier Ruby event
- FasterCSV De-facto CSV handling in Ruby, now built-in to 1.9
- Ruby Kaigi Awesome Ruby conference in Japan
- TextMate James’ favorite text editor
- Ruby bundle for TextMate
- #textmate TextMate IRC channel
- #thechangelog Drop in and share your latest open source projects
- Rack Rack provides a minimal interface between webservers supporting Ruby and Ruby frameworks.
- Rails 3.0 Active Record query interface
- LA Ruby Conf Ruby conference in L.A. just wrapped in February
- Redis - an advanced key-value store. It is similar to memcached but the dataset is not volatile, and values can be strings, exactly like in memcached, but also lists, sets, and ordered sets.
- OK.rb Now meeting at OKCCoCo
- Irma’s Burger Shack Best place to grab a burger in OKC. Hey, they’re on the Twitter
- Glenn Vanderburg One of James’ Ruby heroes
- Oklahoma Mixer James’ full featured and robust FFI interface to Tokyo Cabinet
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NoSQL Smackdown! (Changelog Interviews #18)
While at SXSW Interactive, Adam and Wynn got to attend the Data Cluster Meetup hosted by Rackspace and Infochimps. Things got a bit rowdy when the panel debated features of Cassandra, CouchDB, MongoDB and Amazon SimpleDB and started throwing dirt at everybody else’s favorite NoSQL databases.
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The participants:
- Stu Hood from Cassandra
- Jan Lehnardt from CouchDB
- Wynn Netherland from The Changelog, subbing for MongoDB
- Werner Vogels CTO at Amazon
Items mentioned in the discussion:
- Cassandra The Apache Cassandra Project brings together Dynamo’s fully distributed design and Bigtable’s ColumnFamily-based data model and powers some of the world’s largest sites.
- CouchDB Apache,CouchDB is a distributed, fault-tolerant and schema-free document-oriented database accessible via a RESTful HTTP/JSON API.
- MongoDB Combining the best features of document databases, key-value stores, and RDBMSes.
- Amazon SimpleDB a highly available, scalable, and flexible non-relational data store that offloads the work of database administration.
- Dynamo Dynamo is a highly available, proprietary key-value structured storage system that powers parts of Amazon Web Services.
- Amazon S3 Amazon S3 is storage for the Internet. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.
- Persevere Persevere helps you rapidly develop data-driven JavaScript-based rich internet applications.
- Redis Redis is an advanced key-value store. It is similar to memcached but the dataset is not volatile, and values can be strings, exactly like in memcached, but also lists, sets, and ordered sets.
- Neo4j Neo4j is a graph database. It is an embedded, disk-based, fully transactional Java persistence engine that stores data structured in graphs rather than in tables.
Special thanks to @jchris for the awesome CouchDB theme song!
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Open Source Publishing (Changelog Interviews #17)
Adam and Wynn caught up with Geoffrey Grosenbach, Brandon Mathis, and Tim Caswell to talk about publishing with open source tools, open blogging, and the back-to-the-future world of static site generators and database-less blogs.
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- Peepcode In-depth screencasts and tutorials
- Git Peepcode The best way to get up to speed with git
- About this Blog TopFunky’s blog stack
- Brandon’s Design blog
- Open Blogging Close to the source control metal blogging where article submissions are pull requests
- EdgeRails.info Fast-moving blog for Rails early adopters
- Octopress A blogging framework for hackers built on top of Jekyll, Compass, Sass, and Haml
- HowToNode.org Tim’s open blog for how to learn Node.js
- Node Blog The blogging engine behind HowToNode.org
- Nesta Neat dynamic blogging tool on top of Sinatra
- Webby Ruby tool for creating static web sites (or other text output)
- Blosxom PERL reminds us that none of these ideas are new
- RailsCamp “Imagine yourself and a posse of like-minded ruby hackers on a country retreat with zero internet for a weekend of fun.”
- Nanoc Awesome static site generator from Denis Defreyne that powers the upcoming Compass docs site
- haml-js Bringing Haml to JavaScript views
- RaphaelJS SVG graphs in JavaScript
- Fancy Buttons Brandon’s Compass plugin for making great looking buttons out of
<button>or<a>tags - node-dirty A key value store for node.js that is simple, fast & dirty.
- TXJS Join us in Austin for an awesome JavaScript conference
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Ajax.org frameworks (Changelog Interviews #16)
Adam and Wynn caught up with Ruben Daniels and Rik Arends from Ajax.org and talked about APF and O3, their frameworks for both browser and server based JavaScript applications.
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- Gowalla @ SXSW Check in and join the party
- RedDirt Ruby Conf Awesome new regional Ruby conference in Oklahoma City.
- Chirp Twitter’s API developers conference
- JSConf The conference for everyone’s favorite new retro language.
- Ajax.org Pure javascript application framework for creating real-time collaborative applications that run in the browser.
- O3 Collection of C++ components which are exposed through a JavaScript API
- Demo of Markup and JSON APIs
- Skinning Define a skin with XML
- Flex XML-based RIA framework from Adobe
- XAML Declarative UI XML format from Microsoft
- Google Gears Browser storage from Google, abandoned in favor for HTML5 features
- Node.js This must be your first episode of the show…
- Promises Control flow in Node
- Ajax.org’s GitHub’s page and other downloads
- CouchDB Erlang + JavaScript = NoSQL goodness
- CommonJS JavaScript standard library
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OAuth, Hurl.it, Baconfile (Changelog Interviews #15)
Adam and Wynn caught up with Leah Culver and talked about startups, APIs, and her open source work on OAuth, oEmbed, Hurl.it, Baconfile, and more.
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- OAuth An open protocol to allow secure API authorization in a simple and standard method from desktop and web applications.
- oEmbed oEmbed is a format for allowing an embedded representation of a URL on third party sites.
- 90210 One of Adam’s favorite TV shows from the 90s
- Beverly Hillbillies For the previous generation
- Boxee Open Source media on your TV or PC/Mac
- Hurl.it Test APIs from your browser
- Charles Proxy Monitor or proxy HTTP and SSL / HTTPS traffic between your machine and the Internet.
- Gowalla’s API explorer Neat way to test your Gowalla API calls
- Baconfile Share files simply on your own S3 account
- Chunky Baconfile Wynn’s wrapper for Baconfile, a naming tribute to _why
- Motion Community microblogging on the TypePad API written in Django.
- TypeKit Legally embed fonts from the largest foundries
- Node.js The streak continues!
- How to Node Learn Node.js open blog from Tim Caswell and Micheil Smith. And it’s pronounced Michael, sorry, mate.
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Riak, the New Erlang-based NoSQL Store (Changelog Interviews #14)
Adam and Wynn caught up with Andy Gross from Basho and Sean Cribbs, a freelance Ruby developer, to discuss Riak, the new Erlang-based NoSQL store and Ripple, Sean’s new Ruby wrapper for Riak.
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- Ripple New Ruby wrapper for Riak
- Link walking in Riak
- RadiantCMS Ruby-powered Content Management System
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Civic hacking (Changelog Interviews #13)
Adam and Wynn caught up with Luigi Montanez and Jeremy Carbaugh from Sunlight Labs and discussed their Python and Ruby projects, government transparency, and civic hacking - open source contributions as activism.
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- Real Time Congress - iPhone app for keeping tabs on Congress, built with Appcelerator Titanium
- Anthill - Django-powered community website project that runs SunlightLabs.com
- MediaSync - Django Toolkit to simplify the static media development and deployment.
- Sunlight Labs API - Congressional data served up for your next mashup.
- Underscore.js - The tie for jQuery’s tux
- Open Government Initiative - Every .gov web site now has to outline their transparency efforts
- Apps for America - Build a mashup, win some $$$
- Great American Hackathon - Meetup and hack to improve your government
- Open Government book from OReilly - Collaboration, Transparency, and Participation in Practice
- Tweet Congress - SXSW Web Award-winning congressional Twitter directory built on Sunlight Labs API
- Capitol Words - Amazing site and API analysis of what’s said on the floor of Congress
- Open Congress - Browse, read, discuss, and vote on legislation before Congress.
- Code for America - Connecting city governments and Web 2.0 talent.
- Some new gadget from Apple
- Chromium OS - Google’s new OS discussed on Episode 0.0.4
- SauceBrush - an attempt to build a python ETL library that doesn’t suck
- Homebrew - Package management for Mac as discussed on Episode 0.1.2
- Transparency Camp - THE unconference for government representatives, technologists, journalists, developers, NGOs, wonks and activists
- Los Angeles Ruby Conf - See Luigi and others speak Ruby in beautiful downtown Burbank
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Gordon is such a Showoff (Changelog Interviews #12)
Adam and Wynn continued chatting with John Nunemaker about recent featured projects on the blog — including Gordon, Showoff, jQuery Lint, JSpec, congomongo and more.
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- Friendly NoSQL in MySQL
- configliere - Simple Ruby configuration
- twitter-node - Node.js tweetstreaming
- Gordon - Pure JavaScript Flash replacement
- jQuery Lint - jQuery validator
- Showoff - Keynote killer?
- congomongo clojure <3 MongoDB
- Computer science in Javascript - JS as a teaching aide
- phpMoAdmin Mo’ admin for the money
- Momma’s got a FuseBox - and Daddy doesn’t sleep at night
- AppSalesGraph - measure your App store sales
- things-rb call Things.app from Ruby
- JSpec Get your Bee Dee Dee on in JavaScript
- FoursquareX Foursquare client for OS X
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Ordered List, RailsTips.org, and MongoMapper (Changelog Interviews #11)
John Nunemaker joined the show to talk about open source, improving your craft, building a business, and how MongoDB has changed his life.
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- John Nunemaker – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- John Nunemaker
- Ordered List
- John’s Ruby projects The Twitter gem, HTTParty, Crack, MongoMapper
- MongoHQ, shared MongoDB hosting
- The GitHub Fork Queue
- Harmony, the new CMS from Ordered List
- Moonshine
- Puppet
- Navvy
- Liquid Markup from Tobias Lütke of Shopify
- Redis
- Resque
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All things GitHub (Changelog Interviews #10)
Chris Wanstrath joined the show to talk about the past, present, and future of GitHub.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X
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Fix-me, Configliere, more Node.js (Changelog Interviews #9)
Marshall Culpepper Appcelerator is back and we go through the news together.
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Appcelerator's Titanium and Titanium Mobile (Changelog Interviews #8)
Marshall Culpepper joined the show to talk about Appcelerator’s Titanium Desktop and Titanium Mobile.
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10gen and MongoDB (Changelog Interviews #7)
Mike Dirolf joined the show to talk about how MongoDB came about, design decisions, and the future of this cool NoSQL server.
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The Weekly News (Changelog Interviews #6)
Friend of the show, Steven Bristol from LessEverything join us to discuss the latest in open source.
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- Steven Bristol
- LessEverything
- Erlang
- Javascript on the server
- Lighthouse
- Docsplit
- Rackamole
- whackamole
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Document Cloud and Underscore.js (Changelog Interviews #5)
Jeremy Ashkenas is the Lead Developer at DocumentCloud about their effort to revolutionize the way media organizations gather news. Jeremy discusses their open source projects CloudCrowd, Underscore.js, and JAMMIT that they’ve released along the way.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X
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We’re getting the hang of this. We’re pioneering Agile Podcasting!
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Chrome OS, Thor and ROaR (Changelog Interviews #4)
In this show we’re still trying to find our footing with this podcast stuff. Seriously, we get better at this.
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The Go Programming Language from Google (Changelog Interviews #3)
Rob Pike is a Principal Engineer at Google and Tech Lead for Google’s Go team. Rob is also a co-creator of the Go programming language. We talked with Rob about Go — Google’s new open source programing language!
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- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X
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The original Changelog Weekly (Changelog Interviews #2)
This goes WAAAAY back in the archive of The Changelog. So far back, that our audio was down-right horrible and you can tell we were nervous to even be recording. We were green and wet behind the ears when it came to producing a podcast (we had no clue).
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It’s the original Changelog Weekly! Wynn and Adam discuss JAMMIT, underscore, and more.
- JAMMIT - Rails plugin for asset packaging
- Underscore.js the bowtie for jQuery’s tux
- Google Go
- Firefox 3.6 beta 2
- Google Chrome OS
- creating “fancy buttons” with Compass and Sass
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Haml, Sass, Compass (Changelog Interviews #1)
Natalie Weizenbaum and Chris Eppstein joined the show today to discuss Haml, Sass, and Compass.
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