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The magic of a trace (Go Time #310)
April 03, 2024 18:15 - 49 minutes - 45.7 MBFelix 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.
Should kids still learn to code? (Practical AI #263)
April 02, 2024 20:00 - 39 minutes - 36.2 MBIn 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.
Who in the world is Jia Tan? (Changelog News #88)
April 01, 2024 19:45 - 9 minutes - 9.21 MBThe 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!
The undercover generalist (Changelog & Friends #37)
March 29, 2024 19:00 - 1 hour - 69 MBWhich 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.
SoCal Linux Expo (Ship It! #97)
March 29, 2024 13:30 - 32 minutes - 31 MBJustin & 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.
13% of the time, Devin works every time (JS Party #317)
March 28, 2024 16:30 - 1 hour - 61.1 MBJerod, 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!
We're flipping the script (Changelog Interviews #584)
March 27, 2024 22:00 - 1 hour - 70.6 MBScript 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.
Debugging (Go Time #309)
March 26, 2024 20:15 - 1 hour - 65.2 MBIn 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.
AI vs software devs (Practical AI #262)
March 26, 2024 19:30 - 57 minutes - 52.4 MBDaniel 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.
Another one bites the dust (Changelog News #87)
March 25, 2024 20:00 - 9 minutes - 8.52 MBRedis’ 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.
Productivity engineering at Netflix (Ship It! #96)
March 23, 2024 17:00 - 1 hour - 83.8 MBWhat’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.
Retirement is for suckers (Changelog & Friends #36)
March 23, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour - 77.6 MBTHE 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!
It's a TrueNAS world (Changelog Interviews #583)
March 22, 2024 13:00 - 1 hour - 89.9 MBThis 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...
Questions from a new Go developer (Go Time #308)
March 20, 2024 16:30 - 1 hour - 64.4 MBIn 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.
Prompting the future (Practical AI #261)
March 20, 2024 13:45 - 46 minutes - 42.4 MBDaniel & 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.
No Maintenance Intended (Changelog News #86)
March 18, 2024 20:00 - 8 minutes - 7.95 MBA 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.
Containers on a diet (Ship It! #95)
March 16, 2024 15:00 - 1 hour - 70.7 MBKyle 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!
The Oban Pros (Changelog & Friends #35)
March 15, 2024 21:00 - 1 hour - 88.2 MBToday 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.
We have a right to repair! (Changelog Interviews #582)
March 15, 2024 12:45 - 1 hour - 76.8 MBThis 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 produce...
Advocating for the future of the open web (JS Party #316)
March 14, 2024 21:00 - 2 hours - 113 MBAlex & 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 t...
Jumping into an existing codebase (Go Time #307)
March 12, 2024 20:45 - 1 hour - 80.4 MBJumping 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.
Generating the future of art & entertainment (Practical AI #260)
March 12, 2024 17:00 - 42 minutes - 38.8 MBRunway 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.
Puter is the internet OS (Changelog News #85)
March 11, 2024 19:20 - 9 minutes - 9.01 MBPuter 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.
Scoring your project’s security (Ship It! #94)
March 09, 2024 23:00 - 1 hour - 77.1 MBAutumn 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.
Bourbon and better software (Changelog & Friends #34)
March 08, 2024 18:30 - 1 hour - 75.2 MBAdam 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!!
It's not always DNS (Changelog Interviews #581)
March 08, 2024 16:00 - 1 hour - 85.7 MBThis 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...
Getting a pulse on your Core Web Vitals 🩺 (JS Party #315)
March 07, 2024 20:00 - 1 hour - 77.7 MBThis 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 humblin...
YOLOv9: Computer vision is alive and well (Practical AI #259)
March 06, 2024 17:00 - 42 minutes - 39.4 MBWhile 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.
How long until I lose my job to AI? (Go Time #306)
March 05, 2024 19:30 - 1 hour - 70.3 MBWe’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.
Apple backs off killing EU web apps (Changelog News #84)
March 04, 2024 18:00 - 8 minutes - 7.9 MBApple 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!
Hybrid infrastructure load balancing (Ship It! #93)
March 01, 2024 20:20 - 1 hour - 61.1 MBWanny Morellato & Deepak Mohandas from Kong join Justin & Autumn to discuss building, testing & running a load balancer that can run anywhere.
Zed's secret sauce (Changelog & Friends #33)
March 01, 2024 18:00 - 1 hour - 84.3 MBThe 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.
Take a look, it's in a book (JS Party #314)
February 29, 2024 17:30 - 56 minutes - 52.2 MBNick 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.
Leading in the era of AI code intelligence (Changelog Interviews #580)
February 28, 2024 22:00 - 1 hour - 72.1 MBThis 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 ...
Dance Party (Changelog Interviews)
February 28, 2024 15:20 - 39 minutes - 56.3 MBListen 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 🕺
Representation Engineering (Activation Hacking) (Practical AI #258)
February 28, 2024 15:00 - 43 minutes - 40.1 MBRecently, 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.
Creating art & visualizations with Go (Go Time #305)
February 27, 2024 21:10 - 58 minutes - 54.3 MBAngelica 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.
Natural Language Programming (Changelog News #83)
February 26, 2024 20:30 - 6 minutes - 6.43 MBGPTScript 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.
Brewing up something for work (Changelog & Friends #32)
February 23, 2024 17:30 - 1 hour - 106 MBMike 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.
Shipping in SPAAAACCEEE (Ship It! #92)
February 23, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour - 63.2 MBWhat 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.
Who's that girl? It's Jess! (JS Party #313)
February 22, 2024 16:00 - 1 hour - 67.3 MBApple 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!
Making shell history magical with Atuin (Changelog Interviews #579)
February 21, 2024 15:30 - 1 hour - 66.5 MBToday 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.
Foundations of Go performance (Go Time #304)
February 20, 2024 19:30 - 1 hour - 55.5 MBIn 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.
Leading the charge on AI in National Security (Practical AI #257)
February 20, 2024 15:15 - 52 minutes - 47.9 MBChris & 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 testi...
Quantum computing gets a reality check (Changelog News #82)
February 19, 2024 20:40 - 7 minutes - 7.05 MBShip 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.
Yeeting stuff into public (Changelog & Friends #31)
February 17, 2024 16:00 - 1 hour - 82.5 MBJamie 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.
What exactly is Open Source AI? (Changelog Interviews #578)
February 16, 2024 18:00 - 1 hour - 71 MBThis 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 eme...
Building containers without Docker (Ship It! #91)
February 16, 2024 16:40 - 57 minutes - 52.9 MBWe’re back! Jason Hall joins the show to tell Justin & Autumn all about how Chainguard builds hundreds of containers without a single Dockerfile.
Angular moves fast without breaking things (JS Party #312)
February 15, 2024 17:00 - 1 hour - 65.7 MBKBall & 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.
Gemini vs OpenAI (Practical AI #256)
February 14, 2024 20:00 - 43 minutes - 40 MBGoogle 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.