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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.
Gophers Say! GopherCon EU Athens 2024 (Go Time #303)
February 14, 2024 17:00 - 28 minutes - 26.8 MBOur 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!
We can dance if we want to... (Changelog News #81)
February 12, 2024 21:00 - 8 minutes - 8.23 MBChangelog 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.
Future of [energy, content, food] (Changelog & Friends #30)
February 09, 2024 20:00 - 2 hours - 136 MBWe’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.
Taking on Goliath (Changelog Interviews #577)
February 08, 2024 22:00 - 1 hour - 104 MBThis 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 ...
React Server Components 🧐 (JS Party #311)
February 08, 2024 22:00 - 2 hours - 117 MBThe 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.
What's new in Go 1.22 (Go Time #302)
February 07, 2024 16:00 - 1 hour - 59 MBOur “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.
Data synthesis for SOTA LLMs (Practical AI #255)
February 06, 2024 22:00 - 46 minutes - 43.2 MBNous 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.
The promise of hackable software (Changelog News #80)
February 05, 2024 21:00 - 8 minutes - 8.23 MBGeoffrey 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.
You have how many open tabs?! (Changelog & Friends #29)
February 04, 2024 22:25 - 1 hour - 85.6 MBWe’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.
In the beginning (of generative AI) (Changelog Interviews #576)
February 02, 2024 19:30 - 1 hour - 78 MBThis 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.
Angular Signals (JS Party #310)
February 01, 2024 17:45 - 1 hour - 61.6 MBKBall & 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.
Go Capture the Flag! 🚩 (Go Time #301)
January 31, 2024 16:30 - 58 minutes - 54.4 MBAngelica 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!
Large Action Models (LAMs) & Rabbits 🐇 (Practical AI #254)
January 30, 2024 21:00 - 48 minutes - 44.4 MBRecently 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.
$100k for indie game devs (Changelog News #79)
January 29, 2024 15:15 - 8 minutes - 8.27 MBThe 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.
Gradually gradually typing Elixir (Changelog & Friends #28)
January 27, 2024 15:30 - 1 hour - 93.2 MBOur 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.
Shift left, seriously. (Changelog Interviews #575)
January 26, 2024 17:00 - 1 hour - 81 MBThis 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 fo...
From sales to engineering (JS Party #309)
January 25, 2024 23:30 - 54 minutes - 50.5 MBShaundai 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…
Collaboration & evaluation for LLM apps (Practical AI #253)
January 23, 2024 22:30 - 46 minutes - 42.6 MBSmall 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.
300 multiple choices (Go Time #300)
January 23, 2024 21:30 - 1 hour - 102 MBOver 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.
GitHub Actions as a time-sharing supercomputer (Changelog News #78)
January 22, 2024 20:15 - 7 minutes - 6.92 MBAlex 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.
A pre-party to a feud (Changelog++ 🔐) (JS Party)
January 20, 2024 20:40 - 6 minutes - 6.11 MBJerod, 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.)
The state of homelab tech (2024) (Changelog & Friends #27)
January 19, 2024 21:00 - 1 hour - 96.6 MBTechno 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. Umm, should we make these conversations between Adam and Tim more frequent?
Frontend Feud: CSS Podcast vs CompressedFM (JS Party #308)
January 18, 2024 22:45 - 48 minutes - 45.1 MBUna & Adam from The CSS Podcast defend their Frontend Feud title against challengers James & Brad from CompressedFM. Let’s get it on!
Let's talk FreeBSD (finally) (Changelog Interviews #574)
January 17, 2024 22:30 - 1 hour - 76.8 MBThis 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.
Advent of GenAI Hackathon recap (Practical AI #252)
January 17, 2024 20:00 - 47 minutes - 44 MBRecently, 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.
All about Kafka (Go Time #299)
January 16, 2024 21:00 - 1 hour - 79 MBIn 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.
A plea for lean software (Changelog News #77)
January 15, 2024 21:30 - 7 minutes - 7.34 MBNiklaus 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).
Kaizen! Should we build a CDN? (Changelog & Friends #26)
January 12, 2024 21:00 - 1 hour - 84.5 MBIt’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.
htmx: a new old way to build the web (JS Party #307)
January 12, 2024 15:15 - 1 hour - 96.3 MBCarson 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 ✨
Amazon's silent sacking (Changelog Interviews #573)
January 11, 2024 21:00 - 1 hour - 74.3 MBJustin 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 sl...
AI predictions for 2024 (Practical AI #251)
January 10, 2024 19:30 - 45 minutes - 41.4 MBWe 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.
The I in LLM stands for intelligence (Changelog News #76)
January 08, 2024 20:30 - 8 minutes - 7.77 MBDaniel 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.
New Year's Party 🎊 (JS Party #306)
January 04, 2024 18:05 - 1 hour - 66.7 MBIt’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.