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Retired, not tired. (Changelog Interviews #595)
June 12, 2024 15:20 - 1 hour - 85.7 MBKelsey 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.
How things get done on the Go Team (Go Time #318)
June 12, 2024 14:45 - 1 hour - 58.4 MBAngelica 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.
Apple finally gets Siri-ous (Changelog News #98)
June 10, 2024 19:45 - 7 minutes - 7.8 MBApple 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.
3D printed infrastructure (Ship It! #107)
June 07, 2024 19:00 - 1 hour - 56.8 MBGina 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.
#define: legendary (Changelog & Friends #47)
June 07, 2024 17:45 - 1 hour - 103 MBWhat 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!
Should web development need a build step? (JS Party #326)
June 06, 2024 16:00 - 1 hour - 61.4 MBWe’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!
Microsoft is all-in on AI: Part 2 (Changelog Interviews #594)
June 05, 2024 12:30 - 2 hours - 153 MBMark 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.
Rise of the AI PC & local LLMs (Practical AI #272)
June 04, 2024 18:45 - 35 minutes - 32.8 MBWe’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.
Yet another open source rug pull (Changelog News #97)
June 03, 2024 19:45 - 9 minutes - 9.12 MBA 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).
Is it too late to opt out of AI? (Changelog & Friends #46)
May 31, 2024 20:30 - 1 hour - 90.9 MBTech 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)!
Is Wasm the new Java? (Ship It! #106)
May 31, 2024 16:00 - 1 hour - 60.2 MBDanielle 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.
11ty goes fully independent (JS Party #325)
May 30, 2024 21:10 - 1 hour - 69.3 MB11ty 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.
Microsoft is all-in on AI: Part 1 (Changelog Interviews #593)
May 30, 2024 12:30 - 1 hour - 59 MBScott 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.
Your ultimate guide to mastering Go (Go Time #317)
May 29, 2024 20:30 - 1 hour - 58.1 MBAngelica 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.
AI in the U.S. Congress (Practical AI #271)
May 29, 2024 14:30 - 40 minutes - 37.6 MBAt 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 y...
Why you shouldn't use AI to write your tests (Changelog News #96)
May 28, 2024 19:45 - 8 minutes - 8.34 MBSwizec’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.
It's a long & windy road (Changelog & Friends #45)
May 24, 2024 19:30 - 1 hour - 61.2 MBWe 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!
Tars all the way down (Ship It! #105)
May 24, 2024 17:00 - 1 hour - 77.2 MBJon “gzip enthusiast” Johnson joins us for a history lesson on compression & how it impacts everything from containers to Alpine.
Big Gulps, huh? (JS Party #324)
May 23, 2024 21:15 - 57 minutes - 53.1 MBJerod & 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.
Migrating from PHP to Go (Go Time #316)
May 22, 2024 22:00 - 59 minutes - 55.1 MBBased on their experience in Curve and Cloudflare, Matthew Boyle & Chris Shepherd share their experience migrating from PHP to Go.
From Sun to Oxide (Changelog Interviews #592)
May 22, 2024 12:30 - 2 hours - 140 MBBryan 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.
First impressions of GPT-4o (Practical AI #270)
May 22, 2024 00:30 - 43 minutes - 40 MBDaniel & 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.
Kyle explains "Legacy Software" to the aliens (Changelog News #95)
May 20, 2024 16:45 - 6 minutes - 6.39 MBTaylor 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.
FROM guests SELECT Andrew (Ship It! #104)
May 18, 2024 11:45 - 1 hour - 58.8 MBAndrew Atkinson joins Autumn & Justin to tell them why folks should (and are) picking PostgreSQL as their database in 2024 and how to scale it.
Self-hosted media server goodness (Changelog & Friends #44)
May 17, 2024 20:30 - 1 hour - 94.8 MBAlex 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.
3D web game dev jam! (JS Party #323)
May 16, 2024 13:30 - 50 minutes - 46.9 MBTwo-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
Building the Patreon for developers (Changelog Interviews #591)
May 15, 2024 19:30 - 1 hour - 97.8 MBBirk 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.
Full-stack approach for effective AI agents (Practical AI #269)
May 15, 2024 14:00 - 47 minutes - 43.3 MBThere’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.
Avoiding the soft delete anti-pattern (Changelog News #94)
May 13, 2024 19:45 - 7 minutes - 6.77 MBTim 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.
How WebMD ran in the year 2000 (Ship It! #103)
May 10, 2024 21:30 - 1 hour - 79.3 MBAll 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.
Motivated by play (Changelog & Friends #43)
May 10, 2024 18:00 - 1 hour - 89.4 MBAnnie 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.
From Shoelace to Web Awesome (JS Party #322)
May 09, 2024 22:45 - 1 hour - 62.6 MBShoelace 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.
Autonomous fighter jets?! (Practical AI #268)
May 08, 2024 19:00 - 41 minutes - 37.9 MBYep, 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.
What if Google lays off the Go team? (Go Time #315)
May 08, 2024 14:45 - 1 hour - 67.1 MBIn 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.
Good timing makes great products (Changelog Interviews #590)
May 08, 2024 12:30 - 1 hour - 73 MBPaul 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 technologi...
Why your framework doesn't matter (Changelog News #93)
May 06, 2024 19:15 - 8 minutes - 7.54 MBBahaa 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.
Managing Meta's millions of machines (Ship It! #102)
May 04, 2024 15:45 - 1 hour - 57.9 MBAnita 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.
The Wu-Tang way (Changelog & Friends #42)
May 03, 2024 18:30 - 1 hour - 97.3 MBOur 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.
SSR web components for all (JS Party #321)
May 02, 2024 15:20 - 57 minutes - 53.3 MBBrian 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.
Castro leans into indie (Changelog Interviews #589)
May 01, 2024 12:30 - 56 minutes - 51.7 MBThis 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.
Go workshops that work (Go Time #314)
April 30, 2024 21:30 - 1 hour - 79.6 MBWhat 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?
Private, open source chat UIs (Practical AI #267)
April 30, 2024 20:45 - 38 minutes - 35.4 MBWe 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).
Good ideas in computer science (Changelog News #92)
April 29, 2024 19:15 - 8 minutes - 7.89 MBDaniel 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.
Let's go back to AOL chat rooms (Ship It! #101)
April 27, 2024 22:00 - 1 hour - 66.7 MBIn 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.
The ol' hot & juicy (Changelog & Friends #41)
April 26, 2024 17:45 - 1 hour - 94.1 MBFrequent 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.
A Solid primer on Signals (JS Party #320)
April 25, 2024 19:15 - 1 hour - 81.4 MBRyan Carniato joins Amal & Nick to discuss Solid with a major focus on Signals, which are the cornerstone of reactivity in Solid.
Mamba & Jamba (Practical AI #266)
April 24, 2024 15:45 - 41 minutes - 38 MBFirst 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.
Run Gleam run (Changelog Interviews #588)
April 24, 2024 12:30 - 1 hour - 69.5 MBThis 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 ser...
What's new in Go's cryptography libraries: Part 3 (Go Time #313)
April 23, 2024 20:30 - 1 hour - 62.7 MBThe 3 Musketeers return! Filippo Valsorda, Roland Shoemaker & Nicola Murino continue their deep-dive conversation with Natalie about Go’s crypto libraries. Also listen to Part 1 and Part 2!
The threat to open source comes from within (Changelog News #91)
April 22, 2024 19:45 - 9 minutes - 9.31 MBForrest 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.