You can connect with Lenny Primak at Flow Logix , X , LinkedIn , Github , or Mastodon . Got questions about Java ? Check out the site. Apache Groovy is a Java programming language. Virtual Threads reduce the effort put into writing and maintaining code as well as observing high-throughput concurrent applications. Apache Shiro is an open-source security framework that can do authentication, authorization, cryptography, and session management. Jakarta EE , or Jakarta Enterprise Edition, is a suite...
Jul 19, 2024•26 min•Ep. 720
LlamaIndex is a data framework for building LLM applications. Check out the open-source framework or get started with the developer community, LlamaHub . Looking for a deeper understanding of RAG? Start with our guide . Wondering how to import `SimpleDirectoryReader` from LlamaIndex? This question has you covered. Jerry Chen is a partner at Greylock . Connect with him on LinkedIn . Read Jerry Liu’s posts on the LlamaIndex blog or connect with him on LinkedIn ....
Jul 16, 2024•34 min•Ep. 719
Learn more about Staging Ground on our blog or in the help center . Find Kyle on LinkedIn , GitHub , and Twitter . Spevacus is a full stack developer and Stack Overflow moderator. They’re a participant in Charcoal , a user-run group that fights spam and rude/abusive content across the Stack Exchange network....
Jul 12, 2024•40 min•Ep. 718
Stack Overflow and Elastic are collaborating to improve the search experience using vector search and generative AI. Learn more about the new AI features for Stack Overflow for Teams, including Enhanced Search . Learn more about the Elastic platform, including vector search . Developers can start building here . Connect with Paul , Steffi , and Gregor on LinkedIn. Stack Overflow user chepner won a Lifeboat badge for answering How do I use __repr__ with multiple arguments? ....
Jul 09, 2024•26 min•Ep. 717
Carol is an applied clinical and intervention scientist: she develops and tests cognitive, behavioral, and social interventions that activate key mechanisms to elicit change. Learn more about understanding and mitigating code review anxiety (the full version of her article is here ). You can also check out the code review anxiety workbook . Pluralsight’s Developer Success Lab is a team of scientists studying how developers work, learn, and innovate. Explore more of Carol’s work on code review an...
Jul 05, 2024•24 min•Ep. 716
Still thinking about developer happiness and productivity? Read Eira’s article about the real 10x developers among us. Connect with Ben Borra through his website or LinkedIn . Asked and answered: Stack Overflow user Jian earned a Great Question badge with How do I close a frozen SSH session? ....
Jul 02, 2024•20 min•Ep. 715
Before Medplum, Reshma founded and exited two startups in the healthcare space – MedXT (managing medical images online acquired by Box) and Droplet (at-home diagnostics company acquired by Ro). Reshma has a B.S. in computer science and a Masters of Engineering from MIT. You can learn more about Medplum here and check out their Github, which has over 1,200 stars, here . You can learn more about Khilnani on her website , GitHub , and on LinkedIn . Congrats to Stack Overflow user Kvam for earning a...
Jun 28, 2024•25 min•Ep. 714
Cassidy reflect on her time as a CTO of a startup and how the shifting environment for funding has created new pressures and incentives for founders, developers, and venture capitalists. Ben tries to get a bead on a new Moore’s law for the GenAI era: when will we start to see diminishing returns and fewer step factor jumps? Ben and Cassidy remember the time they made a viral joke of a keyboard ! Ryan sees how things goes in cycles. A Stack Overflow job board is back ! And what do we make of the ...
Jun 25, 2024•24 min•Ep. 713
How would all this work in practice? Of course, any metric you set out can easily become a target that developers look to game. With Snapshot Reviews, the goal is to get a high level overview of a software team’s total activity and then use AI to measure the complexity of the tasks and output. If a pull request attached to a Jira ticket is evaluated as simple by the system, for example, and a programmer takes weeks to finish it, then their productivity would be scored poorly. If a coder pushes c...
Jun 21, 2024•29 min•Ep. 712
RelationalAI’s first big partner is Snowflake , meaning customers can now start using their data with GenAI without worrying about the privacy, security, and governance hassle that would come with porting their data to a new cloud provider. The company promises it can also add metadata and a knowledge graph to existing data without pushing it through an ETL pipeline. You can learn more about the company’s services here . You can catch up with Cassie on LinkedIn . Congrats to Stack Overflow user ...
Jun 18, 2024•26 min•Ep. 711
Palmer says that a huge percentage of today’s top websites, including apps like ChartGPT, Perplexity, and Claude, were built with Vercel’s Next.JS. For the second goal, you can see what Vercel is up to with its v0 project , which lets developers use text prompts and images to generate code. Third, the Vercel AI SDK, which aims to to help developers build conversational, streaming, and chat user interfaces in JavaScript and TypeScript. You can learn more here . If you want to catch Jared posting ...
Jun 14, 2024•35 min•Ep. 710
You can learn more about these three features on our Overflow AI site . If you want to connect with Tiago, you can find him on LinkedIn . The same goes for Alexa . A shoutout to Stack Overflow user Mahozad for earning a LifeBoat badge with their answer to the question: How can I add Jetpack Compose & xml in the same activity?...
Jun 11, 2024•21 min•Ep. 709
You can learn more about Squire AI here Connect with Patel on his LinkedIn Congrats to Bharath Pabba for earning a Great Question badge and helping 129,000 people with a similar question by asking: How to disable source maps for React JS Application?
Jun 07, 2024•25 min•Ep. 708
You can find Narayan on LinkedIn . Learn more about SnapLogic here . Congrats to our user of the week, Ethan Heilman, for earning a Great Question badge by showing some curiosity and asking: How do I deal with garbage collection logs in Java? This question has been viewed over 175,000 times and helped lots of folks gain some new knowledge :)...
Jun 04, 2024•28 min•Ep. 707
You can find Shestakofsky on his website or check him out on X . Grab a copy of his new book: Behind the Startup: How Venture Capital Shapes Work, Innovation, and Inequality . As he writes on his website, the book: Draws on 19 months of participant-observation research to examine how investors’ demand for rapid growth created organizational problems that managers solved by combining high-tech systems with low-wage human labor. The book shows how the burdens imposed on startups by venture capital...
May 31, 2024•28 min•Ep. 706
Temporal is an open-source implementation of durable execution, a development paradigm that preserves complete application state so that upon host or software failure it can seamlessly migrate execution to another machine. Learn how it works or dive into the docs . Temporal’s SaaS offering is Temporal Cloud . Replay is a three-day conference focused on durable execution. Replay 2024 is September 18-20 in Seattle, Washington, USA. Get your early bird tickets or submit a talk proposal! Connect wit...
May 28, 2024•22 min•Ep. 705
Robin is the author of a practical handbook for Selenium test automation . Connect with Robin on LinkedIn , Twitter , or via his website . Shoutout to user2651084 , who earned a Great Question badge by asking How do I reset the Jupyter/IPython input prompt numbering? ....
May 24, 2024•21 min•Ep. 704
Galileo is an end-to-end platform for GenAI evaluation, experimentation, and observability. Learn more by exploring their docs . Galileo’s Hallucination Index is a ranking and evaluation framework for LLM hallucinations (it includes a blooper reel). Connect with Vikram on LinkedIn . Stack Overflow user Petr Janeček won a Lifeboat badge for answering Null array to empty list , a question that’s helped more than 47,000 other curious folks. Are you a software developer? Take Stack Overflow’s annual...
May 21, 2024•33 min•Ep. 703
OverflowAI is a GenAI-powered add-on for Stack Overflow for Teams that does the heavy lifting of discovering and distilling information into a coherent answer. It encompasses three modules: Enhanced Search, an upgraded search experience; Stack Overflow for Visual Studio Code, an IDE extension; and Auto-Answer App for Slack, which automates access to essential team knowledge. Read about why OverflowAI is a big step toward integrating GenAI offerings into knowledge communities and dig into what’s ...
May 17, 2024•32 min•Ep. 702
Al Sweigert is the author of Automate the Boring Stuff with Python and many other books about programming. You can read them all for free here . His scroll art project introduces beginners to programming by letting them turn loops and print() into animated ASCII art. Al joined us from a retreat at the Brooklyn, NY-based Recurse Center , which offers free, self-directed retreats for programmers. Learn how to apply here . PyCon US 2024 is May 15-23, 2024, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Connect with ...
May 14, 2024•25 min•Ep. 701
Read Eira’s two-part series about developers with ADHD here and here . Chris recommends that devs with ADHD employ a “second brain” to help them track and remember information. Read Eira’s article on what second brains reveal about how we work. A few years back Chris joined us to talk about the most lightweight web “framework” around: VanillaJS. Listen to the episode . Chris offers classes and workshops for front-end developers , plus daily advice for developers with ADHD . Connect with Chris th...
May 10, 2024•29 min•Ep. 700
Kong is a cloud-native API gateway. Find them on GitHub . We last spoke with Marco in 2023. inf Connect with Marco on LinkedIn . Congrats to Famous Question badge winner mjbradford7 on How to re-render one component from another in React ....
May 07, 2024•26 min•Ep. 699
If you’ve been laid off or you’re just sweating the possibility, here’s what to do . Check out the results of our last job market survey. Connect with Patrick on LinkedIn . Shoutout to stevenkucera , who earned a Stellar Question badge with How do I create a global, mutable singleton? ....
May 03, 2024•23 min•Ep. 698
In a narrow vote, the US Federal Trade Commission banned almost all noncompete agreements , a staple of the tech industry for years. Learn how a 2017 tax law is haunting startups in 2024 . Finnish hacker Aleksanteri Kivimäki exposed tens of thousands of confidential psychiatric records and tried to extort payment directly from the affected patients. Read more about it here or here . It happened: President Biden signed the TikTok “ban,” setting a deadline for the platform’s parent company, China-...
Apr 30, 2024•19 min•Ep. 697
SQLite is the most used database engine in the world. Stop by the forum or explore the docs . Devs have pledged to support SQLite through the year 2050 . The developer with a team of three, all of them himself at different points in time, was Tarn Adams of Dwarf Fortress fame. On Stack Overflow, 1.2 million people have found the answer to How can I list the tables in a SQLite database file that was opened with ATTACH? ....
Apr 26, 2024•29 min•Ep. 696
Meta’s open-source Llama 3 model puts Meta’s AI assistant head-to-head with ChatGPT . Stability AI laid off 10% of its workforce, the first major AI foundation model to reduce its workforce since the advent of generative AI. Is the dot-com bubble a cautionary tale for AI enthusiasts? Listen to the episode of Marketplace from NPR. Do LLMs support Wittgenstein’s position that “meaning is use”? That depends whether you’re talking pre or post Tractatus , of course. TikTok wouldn’t lie to you: you re...
Apr 23, 2024•25 min•Ep. 695
Why can’t configuration be made simple ? Apple is making it easier for users to repair their iPhones with used parts . Texas is swapping human graders for AI . Automattic (owner of WordPress) is acquiring Beeper for $125M . Silicon Valley or not, San Francisco’s train system still uses floppy disks . But don’t worry, an upgrade is coming—in 2030. Shoutout to Bite code , who earned a Stellar Question badge with How do I change the URI (URL) for a remote Git repository? ....
Apr 19, 2024•17 min•Ep. 694
Get started with MongoDB Atlas on Google Cloud today. Read more from the MongoDB DevRel team at the MongoDB Developer Center . Learn more about Google’s Gemini models . Shout out to thitemple for their Lifeboat -worthy answer to In TypeScript, how do I declare a function that returns a string type array? ....
Apr 17, 2024•42 min•Ep. 693
Connect with Michael on LinkedIn . Shoutout to user1083266 , who earned a Stellar Question badge with How to store image in SQLite database .
Apr 16, 2024•33 min•Ep. 692
ICYMI: A backdoor in XZ, a popular open-source compression utility, highlights the risks of relying on open-source software maintained by small teams. Read more about the cyberattack here . Apple’s new LLM, Ferret , could help Siri understand the user interfaces of mobile displays, potentially expanding the capabilities of Apple’s digital assistant. Shoutout to Stack Overflow user cheese1756 , who earned a Great Question badge by asking How do I ensure that whitespace is preserved in Markdown? ....
Apr 12, 2024•19 min•Ep. 691
