Infosec & OpenTelemetry (Ship It! #128)
Maybe Jira for your kids' chores is a good idea... Probably not.
Nov 01, 2024•1 hr 9 min
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Rails is having a moment (again) (Changelog Interviews #615)
(Includes expletives) David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH), creator of Ruby on Rails and co-owner of 37signals, joined the show to discuss this Rails moment and renewed excitement for Rails. We discuss hard opinions, developers being cooked too long in the JavaScript soup, finding developer joy, the pros and cons of the BDFL, the ongoing WordPress drama with WP Engine, and what's to come in Rails 8.
Oct 31, 2024•2 hr 2 min
Kind of a big deal (JS Party #344)
Jerod & the gang play "Twenty" Questions to get to know Amy, review the big Svelte 5 release, discuss commercial open source & get Nick's report from SquiggleConf!
Oct 31, 2024•1 hr
The path towards trustworthy AI (Practical AI #293)
Elham Tabassi, the Chief AI Advisor at the U.S. National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST), joins Chris for an enlightening discussion about the path towards trustworthy AI. Together they explore NIST's 'AI Risk Management Framework' (AI RMF) within the context of the White House's 'Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence'.
Oct 29, 2024•52 min
Developing with Docker (the right way) (Changelog News #118)
Daniel Quinn weighs in on how to develop with Docker The Right Way, Mitchell Hashimoto says Ghostty will be publicly released this coming December, Kevin Li writes about the value of learning how to learn, The Browser Company moves on from Arc & the React Native team ships its new architecture.
Oct 28, 2024•7 min
Your customer is Amazon.com (Ship It! #127)
From switching ISPs to migrating Amazon off Oracle, Pete Naylor knows which database to use.
Oct 25, 2024•1 hr 15 min
Ten years of freeCodeCamp (Changelog & Friends #67)
At the tail end of 2019, we got together with Quincy Larson to celebrate ten years of Changelog & five years of freeCodeCamp by recording back-to-back episodes on each other's pods. Can you believe it's now five years later and we're all still here doing our thing?! Let's learn what Quincy and the amazing community at freeCodeCamp have been up to!
Oct 25, 2024•1 hr 43 min
Big data is dead, analytics is alive (Practical AI #292)
We are on the other side of "big data" hype, but what is the future of analytics and how does AI fit in? Till and Adithya from MotherDuck join us to discuss why DuckDB is taking the analytics and AI world by storm. We dive into what makes DuckDB, a free, in-process SQL OLAP database management system, unique including its ability to execute lighting fast analytics queries against a variety of data sources, even on your laptop! Along the way we dig into the intersections with AI, such as text-to-...
Oct 24, 2024•50 min
Elasticsearch is open source, again (Changelog Interviews #614)
Shay Banon, the creator of Elasticsearch, joins us to discuss pulling off a reverse rug pull. Yes, Elasticsearch is open source, again! We discuss the complexities surrounding open source licensing and what made Elastic change their license, the implications of trademark law, the personal and business impact of moving away from open source, and ultimately what made them hit rewind and return to open source.
Oct 24, 2024•1 hr 24 min
AI for Observability (Go Time #335)
Yasir Ekinci joins Johnny & Mat to talk about how virtually every Observability vendor is rushing to add Generative AI capabilities to their products and what that entails from both a development and usability perspective.
Oct 23, 2024•1 hr 9 min
Naming conventions that need to die (Changelog News #117)
Will Crichton wishes some naming conventions would die already, GitHub user brjsp noticed that Bitwarden's new SDK dependency isn't open source, Joaquim Rocha details his forking best practices, Sophie Koonin explains why you should go to conferences & Mike Hoye puts WordPress on SQLite.
Oct 21, 2024•9 min
You'll rent chips and be happy (Changelog & Friends #66)
Zac Smith left his role leading Equinix Metal in June of 2023. Since then, he's been thinking deeply about the present and potential future of data centers, OEMs, chip makers & more.
Oct 18, 2024•1 hr 38 min
Kubernetes is an anti-platform (Ship It! #126)
Adam Jacob remains optimistic about the future for infrastructure and is building new ideas to make it better.
Oct 18, 2024•1 hr 36 min
Lessons from 10k hours of programming (remastered) (Changelog Interviews #613)
This week we're going back in time to one of our top performing shows of all time where we talk with Matt Rickard about his blog post Reflections on 10,000 Hours of Programming. These reflections are about deliberately writing code for 10,000 hours. Most don't apply to beginners. He was clear to mention that these reflections are purely about coding, not career advice or soft skills. If you count the reflections we cover on the show and be the first to comment the amount of reflections on this t...
Oct 17, 2024•1 hr 23 min
Digging through Jerod Santo’s tool box (JS Party #343)
KBall interviews Jerod about the tools he uses in development, podcasting & business. We start with text editors & terminal tools, move to podcast recording & editing tools, discuss the open source podcasting platform Jerod built in Elixir, then finish with tools to run a small business & our approaches to genAI. Oh, and you don't want to miss Jerod's Big Confession!
Oct 17, 2024•59 min
Practical workflow orchestration (Practical AI #291)
Workflow orchestration has always been a pain for data scientists, but this is exacerbated in these AI hype days by agentic workflows executing arbitrary (not pre-defined) workflows with a variety of failure modes. Adam from Prefect joins us to talk through their open source Python library for orchestration and visibility into python-based pipelines. Along the way, he introduces us to things like Marvin, their AI engineering framework, and ControlFlow, their agent workflow system.
Oct 15, 2024•58 min
Working from home is powering productivity (Changelog News #116)
Nicholas Bloom finds WFH is powering a productivity boom, Matt Mullenweg has decided that WP Engine's beatings will continue until morale improves, Levels.fyi has added a salary heat map, Gareth Edwards highlights just how fragile the Internet really is & Artem Zakirullin details how cognitive load is what really matters in software development.
Oct 14, 2024•8 min
The indispensable cog (Changelog & Friends #65)
Go Time co-host, Johnny Boursiquot, joins Adam & Jerod to discuss not making the (first) cut, applying Founder Mode, being a cog (or not), realizing that companies are posting fake engineering jobs & the (maybe) imminent demise of the .io TLD.
Oct 11, 2024•1 hr 23 min
TIME to get SERIESous about databases (Ship It! #125)
Lili Cosic's experience at different companies & communities has given her insights into what's important & when to adapt to learn new (or old) things.
Oct 11, 2024•54 min
The Moneyball approach (Changelog Interviews #612)
John Nunemaker joins us to share his new thesis for acquiring Rails based SaaS apps. He's early days on his next big thing called Very Good Software and recently acquired Fireside, a podcast hosting service started by Dan Benjamin. This comes after many years since John's acquisition of a lifetime of Speakerdeck to GitHub, which laid the foundation for these moves.
Oct 10, 2024•1 hr 47 min
A great horse to bet on (JS Party #342)
Jerod & KBall discuss a trio of goings on in/around the web dev world: Evan You's new startup, Matt Mullenweg's WordPress mess & Ryan Carniato's WebComponents debate.
Oct 10, 2024•1 hr 2 min
Unpop roundup! 2022 (Go Time #334)
The last time we did a roundup of our unpopular opinion polls, it was November of 2021! That's too long ago, so today we fix that bug. Join Go Time producer, Jerod Santo, as he ranks & reviews the most (un)popular opinions of 2022.
Oct 09, 2024•38 min
Towards high-quality (maybe synthetic) datasets (Practical AI #290)
As Argilla puts it: "Data quality is what makes or breaks AI." However, what exactly does this mean and how can AI team probably collaborate with domain experts towards improved data quality? David Berenstein & Ben Burtenshaw, who are building Argilla & Distilabel at Hugging Face, join us to dig into these topics along with synthetic data generation & AI-generated labeling / feedback.
Oct 09, 2024•57 min
The slow death of the hyperlink (Changelog News #115)
A bias against hyperlinking has developed on platforms, GitHub engineering continues to evolve Issues, Evan You announces VoidZero, some companies are only pretend hiring & Klaas van Schelven asks: does it scale (down)?
Oct 07, 2024•9 min
You suck at programming (Ship It! #124)
Dave Eddy has learned systems programming the traditional way with books and man pages. Now he's sharing what he's learned, starting with bash.
Oct 04, 2024•1 hr 3 min
Developer (un)happiness (Changelog & Friends #64)
Abi Noda, co-founder and CEO at DX, joins the show to talk through data shared from the Stack Overflow 2024 Developer Survey, why devs are really unhappy, and what they're doing at DX to help orgs and teams to understand the metrics behind their developer's happiness and productivity.
Oct 04, 2024•1 hr 46 min
Create interactive tutorials the easy way (JS Party #341)
Tomek Sułkowski from TutorialKit joins Jerod to tell him all about the open source toolkit for creating awesome, interactive tutorials without having to code up the hard parts.
Oct 03, 2024•51 min
Russ Cox on passing the torch (Go Time #333)
In this episode, we will be talking to Russ Cox, who joined the Go team at Google in 2008 and has been the Go project tech lead since 2012, about stepping back & handing over the reins to Austin Clements, who will also join us! We also have Cherry Mui, who is stepping into Austin's previous role as tech lead of the “Go core”.
Oct 03, 2024•1 hr 9 min
Understanding what's possible, doable & scalable (Practical AI #289)
We are constantly hearing about disillusionment as it relates to AI. Some of that is probably valid, but Mike Lewis, an AI architect from Cincinnati, has proven that he can consistently get LLM and GenAI apps to the point of real enterprise value (even with the Big Cos of the world). In this episode, Mike joins us to share some stories from the AI trenches & highlight what it takes (practically) to show what is possible, doable & scalable with AI.
Oct 03, 2024•1 hr 2 min
Free-threaded Python (Changelog Interviews #611)
Jerod is joined by the co-hosts of core.py , Pablo Galindo & Łukasz Langa, a podcast about Python internals by people who work on Python internals. Python 3.13 is right around the corner, which means the Global Interpeter Lock (GIL) is now experimentally optional! This is a huge deal as Python is finally free-threaded. There's more to discuss, of course, so we get into all the gory details.
Oct 02, 2024•1 hr 27 min
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