Stack Snacks

Explore the latest in tech each week with host John Siwicki on the Stack Snacks podcast. This snack-sized audio experience makes cutting-edge AI, product design, and development digestible. Get a peek behind the curtain at innovators like OpenAI, AWS, Google, and more. Learn how emerging technologies like AI chatbots, generative diffusion models, and advanced neural networks are transforming industries. Whether you're a tech enthusiast, developer, designer, or entrepreneur, the Stack Snacks podcast demystifies complex concepts with clear examples and engaging storytelling. Discover practical insights you can apply to build a future-forward skillset, business, and career. Short on time? Stack Snacks serves up bite-sized episodes under 15 minutes so you can stay informed on what matters in tech. Tune in to fuel your curiosity and get an edge as technologies continue to evolve faster than ever.

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This Week's AI Snack: Facebook's MusicGen, ClipDrop by Stability AI & More

Welcome back, everyone, to our latest deep dive into some of the most interesting technology and design tools out there. Without further ado, let's delve straight in. Music Gen: A Novel Music Creation Tool Our first highlight is an impressive demo from Music Gen, a creation of Facebook's research group. Similar to Google's LLM, Music Gen facilitates music creation with a unique twist - the ability to condition melodies. Despite a few connection hitches during our demo, it eventually lived up to ...

Jun 11, 2023•14 min

Bard Updates, Plugin Discoveries, and AudioPen

Welcome back to another exciting installment with me, John Siwicki. This week, we have an eclectic mix of fascinating things that caught our attention. Let's dive straight in! First up, we have some intriguing updates from Bard. A couple of days ago, Bard started incorporating location information into their searches, promising a leap towards more localized search results. However, it's important to note that Bard still labels this feature as an experiment. In a test search, we asked Bard to fin...

Jun 04, 2023•12 min

AI Snack: Generative Fill

We kick things off by dissecting Microsoft's latest innovation, Windows Co-Pilot. We delve into its range of functionalities, such as interacting with system settings, summarizing PDFs, and initiating Spotify playlists. Listen in as we shed light on its potential capabilities and anticipated impact on user experience. Then, we turn our attention to Adobe's newest beta update for Photoshop - the Generative Fill. Accompany us through a detailed walkthrough of this revolutionary feature, which util...

May 30, 2023•7 min

AI Snack: GPT iOS App, Google's Music LM and Replicate's Image Playground"

Links: https://openai.com/blog/introducing-the-chatgpt-app-for-ios https://aitestkitchen.withgoogle.com/experiments/music-lm https://zoo.replicate.dev/?id=a-comic-book-panel-of-ocean-waves-pixel-art-by-salvador-dali-lpe55wlg Transcript: Hello, everyone. Welcome back to the show. I'm John Siwicki, and I appreciate you joining us on our weekly AI roundup. Today, we're going to explore three intriguing developments. A few of these are quite entertaining as well. Let's begin with something recent: t...

May 21, 2023•5 min

AI Updates Roundup: Boston Dynamics Integrates ChatGPT and ChatGPT Rolls Out New Settings and Features

* Boston Dynamics and ChatGPT Integration : Boston Dynamics has integrated ChatGPT into its robots. There's a two-minute video showing their team interacting with a ChatGPT-integrated robot that is definitely worth watching. * ChatGPT Updates : ChatGPT has released new settings. You can now export your data and turn off data collection in the settings. There are also some visual changes they've made. Furthermore, updates have been rolled out to their plugins, including the browsing plugin that n...

May 01, 2023•4 min

This Week In AI: Bard And Dilemmas

In this episode, we dive into some fascinating discoveries, intriguing discussions, and thought-provoking dilemmas surrounding the world of artificial intelligence and the digital future. We start by discussing the latest substantial update to Google's Bard AI, which now boasts impressive coding capabilities and seamless integration with Google Collab and Google Sheets. Next, we contemplate an insightful tweet by Marie Haynes, an SEO expert, that speculates the possibility of a radical shift in ...

Apr 24, 2023•7 min

Google's AI Race: Redefining Personal Assistance

In this episode, we g into the exciting world of artificial intelligence, focusing on Google's upcoming AI features and their new project. We examine the challenges Google faces in the competitive AI landscape, especially following the lackluster performance of "Bard," and how it stacks up against ChatGPT. Furthermore, we discuss Google's unique opportunity to leverage its extensive suite of services—like Google Calendar and Google My Business—to develop a groundbreaking personal assistant that ...

Apr 22, 2023•3 min

Poe and Generative Agents

In this episode, we dive into the fascinating world of Poe.com user bots, interactive simulacra of human behavior, and the AI accountability policy request for comment. Join us as we discuss the implications of these technologies and policy initiatives on society, privacy, and the future of artificial intelligence. Show Notes: Poe.com User Bots * Discussion of Adam D'Angelo's tweet: https://twitter.com/adamdangelo/status/1644435126343077888?s=12&t=4DFLsyWB2nlmdJs1ZUkj1A Generative Agents: In...

Apr 13, 2023•4 min

5 Snacks

Links Mentioned In The Show https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2022/04/designing-better-breadcrumbs/ https://a11yphant.com/ https://blog.openreplay.com/build-a-lightweight-web-component-with-lit-js https://stackdiary.com/centering-in-css/ https://www.builder.io/blog/the-ultimate-guide-to-optimizing-javascript-for-quick-page-loads --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stacksnacks/support This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers o...

May 02, 2022•7 min

Cloudflare Zaraz

This week Cloudflare rolled out of a beta of a Google Tag Manager alternative Cloudflare Zaraz. https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-cloudflare-bought-zaraz/ https://www.stack-snacks.com/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stacksnacks/support This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.stack-snacks.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. I...

Dec 12, 2021•5 min

1 Click Jam and Learning CSS Grid Again

A recap of our latest newsletter on stack-snacks.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stacksnacks/support This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.stack-snacks.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.stack-snacks.com/subscribe...

Feb 14, 2021•2 min

Core Web Vitals

We walk through Google's new page speed metrics and how to measure them. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stacksnacks/support This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.stack-snacks.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.stack-snacks.co...

Jul 23, 2020•4 min

Google Guarantee

Google started test paid Google my Business profiles --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stacksnacks/support This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.stack-snacks.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.stack-snacks.com/subscribe...

Jul 23, 2020•2 min

Lighthouse 6.0

Updates to look out for in Googles Lighthouse tooling. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stacksnacks/support This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.stack-snacks.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.stack-snacks.com/subscribe...

Jul 22, 2020•4 min

Glitch

On today's, show we look at Glitch. Glitch is a community where you can create, share and remix some web projects. The unique thing about Glitch is it allows more than just HTML/CSS/JS you can build node apps in the browser. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stacksnacks/support This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.stack-snacks.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for mor...

Jul 08, 2018•5 min

Webtasks

On todays show we look at serverless functions and one service that is going to help you write and deploy those quicker. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stacksnacks/support This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.stack-snacks.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get acc...

Jul 08, 2018•3 min

The Goals

Our goal for this show to showcase tools and products that are going to help all of us get better and grow as developers and designers. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stacksnacks/support This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.stack-snacks.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscri...

Jul 08, 2018•1 min

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