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.
Jul 06, 2024•1 hr 12 min
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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?
Jul 05, 2024•1 hr 30 min
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.
Jul 04, 2024•51 min
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!
Jul 03, 2024•1 hr 4 min
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...
Jul 03, 2024•1 hr 12 min
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.
Jul 02, 2024•47 min
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?"
Jul 01, 2024•8 min
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.
Jun 29, 2024•1 hr 17 min
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!
Jun 28, 2024•1 hr 39 min
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.
Jun 27, 2024•58 min
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.
Jun 26, 2024•1 hr 32 min
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.
Jun 25, 2024•45 min
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!
Jun 25, 2024•41 min
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.
Jun 24, 2024•11 min
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!
Jun 21, 2024•1 hr 41 min
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!
Jun 21, 2024•1 hr 13 min
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.
Jun 20, 2024•1 hr 29 min
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.
Jun 19, 2024•1 hr 30 min
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.
Jun 19, 2024•46 min
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.
Jun 18, 2024•1 hr 14 min
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.
Jun 17, 2024•9 min
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.
Jun 14, 2024•2 hr 1 min
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.
Jun 14, 2024•1 hr 19 min
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.
Jun 13, 2024•39 min
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.)
Jun 13, 2024•5 min
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.
Jun 12, 2024•1 hr 33 min
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.
Jun 12, 2024•1 hr 3 min
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.
Jun 10, 2024•8 min
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.
Jun 07, 2024•1 hr 2 min
#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!
Jun 07, 2024•1 hr 52 min
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