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.
May 06, 2024•8 min
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.
May 04, 2024•1 hr 3 min
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.
May 03, 2024•1 hr 45 min
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.
May 02, 2024•58 min
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.
May 01, 2024•56 min
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?
Apr 30, 2024•1 hr 26 min
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).
Apr 30, 2024•38 min
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.
Apr 29, 2024•8 min
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.
Apr 27, 2024•1 hr 13 min
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.
Apr 26, 2024•1 hr 43 min
Ryan Carniato joins Amal & Nick to discuss Solid with a major focus on Signals, which are the cornerstone of reactivity in Solid.
Apr 25, 2024•1 hr 28 min
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.
Apr 24, 2024•41 min
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...
Apr 24, 2024•1 hr 16 min
The 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!
Apr 23, 2024•1 hr 8 min
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.
Apr 22, 2024•10 min
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.
Apr 19, 2024•1 hr 19 min
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.
Apr 19, 2024•1 hr 11 min
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.
Apr 18, 2024•45 min
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.
Apr 17, 2024•48 min
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.
Apr 17, 2024•2 hr 9 min
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.
Apr 16, 2024•39 min
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.
Apr 15, 2024•7 min
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...
Apr 13, 2024•1 hr 17 min
Why would you want to switch your developer environments from containers to nix? Ádám from LastPass has a few reasons.
Apr 13, 2024•1 hr 14 min
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.
Apr 12, 2024•1 hr 44 min
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, an...
Apr 11, 2024•55 min
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.
Apr 10, 2024•48 min
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.
Apr 09, 2024•44 min
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.
Apr 08, 2024•9 min
Verónica López, Kubernetes SIG Release tech lead & distributed systems engineer, joins Justin & Autumn to share her experiences deploying services at scale.
Apr 07, 2024•1 hr 14 min