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TensorFlow.js and Machine Learning in JavaScript (JS Party #64)

Panelists Suz Hinton and Nick Nisi discuss TensorFlow.js and Machine Learning in JavaScript with special guest Paige Bailey, TensorFlow mom and developer Advocate for Google AI.

February 25, 2019

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Enabling open code for science at NumFOCUS (Changelog Interviews #335)

We’re talking with Gina Helfrich the Communications Director for NumFOCUS about their story and history, the impact of open code on science, the difference between sponsored and affiliated projects, corporate backing, the back story of their education and events program PyData, and the struggles of storytelling and fundraising.

February 22, 2019

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With great power comes great responsibility (Changelog Interviews #334)

Adam and Jerod are joined by JS Party panelist Nick Nisi and #causeascene advocate Kim Crayton for a deep discussion on ethics in the technology industry at-large and our roles as software developers. If you've never heard Kim describe what life is like online for underrepresented and marginalized folks, you _have to_ listen to this show!

February 15, 2019

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GirlsCoding.org empowers young women to embrace computer science (Practical AI #30)

Chris sat down with Marta Martinez-Cámara and Miranda Kreković to learn how GirlsCoding.org is inspiring 9–16-year-old girls to learn about computer science. The site is successfully empowering young women to recognize computer science as a valid career choice through hands-on workshops, role models, and by smashing prevalent gender stereotypes. This is an episode that you'll want to listen to with your daughter!

February 13, 2019

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Tactical design advice for developers (Changelog Interviews #333)

Adam talks with Erik Kennedy about tactical design advice for developers. Erik is a self-taught UI designer and brings a wealth of practical advice for those seeking to advance their design skills and learn more about user interface design. We cover his seven rules for creating gorgeous UI, the fundamentals of user interface design — color, typography, layout, and process. We also talk about his course Learn UI Design and how it’s the ultimate on-ramp for upcoming UI designers.

February 6, 2019

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Laura Gaetano doesn't want to be a manager (Away from Keyboard #12)

Laura Gaetano was born in Italy, and by my count has lived in at least four different countries. Her multicultural upbringing has had a huge impact on her life. In fact, she currently works at the Travis Foundation with a focus on diversity and inclusion. We talk about her upbringing, her troubles with art school, the work she's doing now, and changes that may be on the horizon.

January 31, 2019

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A UI framework without the framework (Changelog Interviews #332)

Jerod and Adam talked with Rich Harris –a JavaScript Journalist on The New York Times Investigations team– about his magical disappearing UI framework called Svelte. We compare and contrast Svelte to React, how the framework is embedded in a component, build time vs. run time, scoping CSS to components, and CSS in JavaScript. Rich also shares where Svelte v3 is heading and the details on Sapper, a framework for building extremely high-performance progressive web apps, powered by Svelte.

January 30, 2019

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New year’s resolution: dive into deep learning! (Practical AI #28)

***Fully Connected** – a series where Chris and Daniel keep you up to date with everything that’s happening in the AI community.* If you're anything like us, your New Year's resolutions probably included an AI section, so this week we explore some of the learning resources available for artificial intelligence and deep learning. Where you go with it depends upon what you want to achieve, so we discuss academic versus industry career paths, and try to set you on the Practical AI path that will help you level up.

January 28, 2019

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Isaac Schlueter on building npm and hiring a CEO (Founders Talk #61)

With JavaScript in every corner of software development and npm in every corner right along with it, the rise of npm can be drawn as a hockey stick up and to the right with Isaac Schlueter at the top grinning ear to ear. After reading their recent announcement to hire a CEO, I knew it was time to talk one-on-one with Isaac about building npm and the journey of hiring his successor.

January 25, 2019

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You might want to read up on PAW Patrol (JS Party #60)

Your 3 intrepid hosts try to explain JS concepts (bind/apply, thunks, and ReasonML) to each other as if we're five year olds. Hilarity and/or confusion ensues. During _Pro Tip Time_, Suz tells a story of woe, KBall motivates himself, and Jerod tries to keep you in the flow. Finally, we point our project spotlight at Fly CDN and talk edge applications and IoT.

January 25, 2019

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GitHub Actions is the next big thing (Changelog Interviews #331)

Adam and Jerod talk to Kyle Daigle, the Director of Ecosystem Engineering at GitHub. They talk about GitHub Actions, the new automation platform announced at GitHub Universe this past October 2018. GitHub Actions is the next big thing coming out of GitHub with the promise of powerful workflows to supercharge your repos and GitHub experience. Build your container apps, publish packages to registries, or automate welcoming new users to your open source projects — with access to interact with the full GitHub API and any other public APIs, Actions seem to have limitless possibilities.

January 23, 2019

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IBM's AI for detecting neurological state (Practical AI #27)

Ajay Royyuru and Guillermo Cecchi from IBM Healthcare join Chris and Daniel to discuss the emerging field of computational psychiatry. They talk about how researchers at IBM are applying AI to measure mental and neurological health based on speech, and they give us their perspectives on things like bias in healthcare data, AI augmentation for doctors, and encodings of language structure.

January 21, 2019

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Adam Clark wants to be independently wealthy (Away from Keyboard #11)

Adam Clark and I met back in 2013. We started a podcasting company together (which we both left), he shut down his consulting business to move to California and work for Apple, and now he's back in Tennessee. Last year he launched a new business, Podcast Royale, a company he says will afford him more freedom to do whatever he wants to do. He talks to me about growing up in a cult, losing his father, marriage, and how being a parent gives him a purpose in life.

January 17, 2019

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source{d} turns code into actionable insights (Changelog Interviews #330)

Adam caught up with Francesc Campoy at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2018 in Seattle, WA to talk about the work he's doing at source{d} to apply Machine Learning to source code, and turn that codebase into actionable insights. It's a movement they're driving called Machine Learning on Code. They talked through their open source products, how they work, what types of insights can be gained, and they also talked through the code analysis Francesc did on the Kubernetes code base. This is as close as you get to the bleeding edge and we're very interested to see where this goes.

January 16, 2019

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2018 in review and bold predictions for 2019 (Practical AI #26)

***Fully Connected** – a series where Chris and Daniel keep you up to date with everything that’s happening in the AI community.* This week we look back at 2018 - from the GDPR and the Cambridge Analytica scandal, to advances in natural language processing and new open source tools. Then we offer our predications for what we expect in the year ahead, touching on just about everything in the world of AI.

January 14, 2019

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Real JavaScript, not too much, stage three and above (JS Party #58)

KBall and Nick meet up with Jory Burson and Amal Hussein at Node+JS Interactive. Together we open up the black box of the JavaScript standards process, talk about how to get involved, and then dig into the use of ASTs to transform and analyze JavaScript.

January 11, 2019

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Perspectives on Kubernetes and successful cloud platforms (Changelog Interviews #329)

Adam caught up with Brendan Burns (co-creator of Kubernetes and Partner Architect at Microsoft Azure) at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2018 in Seattle, WA to talk about the state of Kubernetes, the importance of community, building healthy cloud platforms, and the future of cloud infrastructure.

January 9, 2019

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Leading data-driven software teams and products (Founders Talk #60)

For the final show of 2018 I’m talking with Travis Kimmel, the CEO of GitPrime. Travis has spent years as an engineering manager. Travis’s mission at GitPrime is to bring crystal clear visibility into the software development process and bridge the communication gap between engineering and stakeholders. This communication gap is often an ongoing plague in product development lifecycle. We talked through focus, tech debt, leading teams, predictability, and more.

December 21, 2018

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Maria Boland Ploessl found her home in technology (Away from Keyboard #10)

In our last episode of the year, I talk with Maria Boland Ploessl. Maria's path to technology has been interesting to say the least. A Saint Paul native, she studied Spanish and Latin American studies in college. In 2016, after living in a few different cities (even a year-long stint in Brazil), she moved back to Minnesota. Now, she's the Executive Director of Minnestar, a non-profit organization with the aim of supporting and growing Minnesota's tech community. Maria talks to me about what Minnestar does, the work they're doing to bring more people of underrepresented groups into tech, married life and how she's grown from it, and parenthood.

December 20, 2018

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State of the "log" 2018 (Changelog Interviews #328)

On this year's "State of the 'log'" episode we’re going behind the scenes to look back at 2018 as we prepare for 2019 and onward. We talk through our most popular episodes, most controversial episodes, and even some of our personal favorites. We also catch you up on some company level updates here at Changelog Media. We hired Tim Smith earlier this year as our Senior Producer, we retired Request for Commits, started some new shows...

December 19, 2018

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We're dependent. See? (JS Party #56)

KBall, Chris, Nick, and Safia discuss how they keep a healthy relationship with dependencies in their codebase. Listen to learn how they decide when to use third-party dependencies, how they verify and validate dependencies, and how to support the ecosystem of open source libraries.

December 14, 2018

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Untangle your GitHub notifications with Octobox (Changelog Interviews #327)

Jerod is joined by Andrew Nesbitt and Ben Nickolls to talk Octobox, their open source web app that helps you manage your GitHub notifications. They discuss how Octobox came to be, why open source maintainers love it, the experiments they're doing with pricing and business models, and how Octobox can continue to thrive despite GitHub's renewed interest in improving notifications.

December 13, 2018

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So you have an AI model, now what? (Practical AI #24)

***Fully Connected** – a series where Chris and Daniel keep you up to date with everything that’s happening in the AI community.* This week we discuss all things inference, which involves utilizing an already trained AI model and integrating it into the software stack. First, we focus on some new hardware from Amazon for inference and NVIDIA's open sourcing of TensorRT for GPU-optimized inference. Then we talk about performing inference at the edge and in the browser with things like the recently announced ONNX JS.

December 10, 2018

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The future of the web is npm, but maybe not JavaScript (JS Party #55)

In this special episode of JS Party, KBall and Nick are on location at Node + JS Interactive in Vancouver. They talks with Laurie Voss, co-founder and COO of npm Inc. They chat about his talk, "npm and the Future of JavaScript", JavaScript frameworks, and how the definition of "the fundamentals of the web" is constantly changing.

December 7, 2018

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Jeremy Fuksa is a unicorn (Away from Keyboard #9)

Jeremy Fuksa has had a rough few years. After deciding to go out on his own, his third year in business was filled with anxiety. Going back to working a full-time job may sound like a failure to some, but Jeremy doesn't look at it that way. He talks to me about his unique skill set, dealing with anxiety and depression, and how his recent experience has taught him some great lessons.

December 5, 2018

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The insider perspective on the event-stream compromise (Changelog Interviews #326)

Adam and Jerod talk with Dominic Tarr, creator of event-stream, the IO library that made recent news as the latest malicious package in the npm registry. event-stream was turned malware, designed to target a very specific development environment and harvest account details and private keys from Bitcoin accounts. They talk through Dominic’s backstory as a prolific contributor to open source, his stance on this package, his work in open source, the sequence of events around the hack, how we can and should handle maintainer-ship of open source infrastructure over the full life-cycle of the code’s usefulness, and what some best practices are for moving forward from this kind of attack.

December 5, 2018

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Pachyderm's Kubernetes-based infrastructure for AI (Practical AI #23)

Joe Doliner (JD) joined the show to talk about productionizing ML/AI with Pachyderm, an open source data science platform built on Kubernetes (k8s). We talked through the origins of Pachyderm, challenges associated with creating infrastructure for machine learning, and data and model versioning/provenance. He also walked us through a process for going from a Jupyter notebook to a production data pipeline.

December 3, 2018

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How $3.8M in seed funding started Gatsby as an open source company (Founders Talk #59)

Kyle Mathews is the founder and CEO of Gatsby, a new company he's building around an open source project of the same name. Gatsby as a project describes itself as a flexible modern website framework and blazing fast static site generator for React.js. At the macro level — Kyle's career has been focused on a better way to build and ship websites. It seems he's done just that with Gatsby's launch in late May 2015...since then he's taken on a co-founder and a seed round of $3.8M to form Gatsby Inc.

November 30, 2018

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A good open source password manager? Inconceivable! (Changelog Interviews #325)

Perry Mitchell joined the show to talk about the importance of password management and his project Buttercup — an open source password manager built around strong encryption and security standards, a beautifully simple interface, and freely available on all major platforms. We talked through encryption, security concerns, building for multiple platforms, Electron and React Native pros and woes, and their future plans to release a hosted sync and team service to sustain and grow Buttercup into a business that’s built around its open source.

November 28, 2018

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BERT: one NLP model to rule them all (Practical AI #22)

***Fully Connected** – a series where Chris and Daniel keep you up to date with everything that’s happening in the AI community.* This week we discuss BERT, a new method of pre-training language representations from Google for natural language processing (NLP) tasks. Then we tackle Facebook's Horizon, the first open source reinforcement learning platform for large-scale products and services. We also address synthetic data, and suggest a few learning resources.

November 27, 2018

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VisBug is like DevTools for designers (JS Party #53)

Google UX Engineer Adam Argyle joins Jerod and KBall to share all the details on VisBug, his just-released Chrome Extension that "makes any webpage feel like an artboard." Adam is passionate about doing for designers what Firebug (and later DevTools) did for developers. In this episode, he shares that passion and how it's driven him to create and open source VisBug.

November 23, 2018

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Tidelift's mission is to pay open source maintainers (Changelog Interviews #324)

In this special crossover episode of Founders Talk, Adam talks with Donald Fischer. Donald Fischer and the team at Tidelift are on a mission of making open source work better — for everyone. To pay the maintainers of open source software they are putting a new spin on a highly successful business model that’s a win-win for the maintainers as well as the software teams using the software. In this episode we dig into that backstory and Donald’s journey.

November 21, 2018

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New episodes coming in December! (Away from Keyboard)

There hasn't been a new episode in a few weeks so I wanted to give you a small update. We'll be back with new episodes on December 4th.

November 19, 2018

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UBER and Intel’s Machine Learning platforms (Practical AI #21)

We recently met up with Cormac Brick (Intel) and Mike Del Balso (Uber) at O'Reilly AI in SF. As the director of machine intelligence in Intel's Movidius group, Cormac is an expert in porting deep learning models to all sorts of embedded devices (cameras, robots, drones, etc.). He helped us understand some of the techniques for developing portable networks to maximize performance on different compute architectures. In our discussion with Mike, we talked about the ins and outs of Michelangelo, Uber's machine learning platform, which he manages. He also described why it was necessary for Uber to build out a machine learning platform and some of the new features they are exploring.

November 19, 2018

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Nest 'dem loops (JS Party #52)

NESTED LOOPS is a JavaScript band that combines music and video with web tech to perform live at JSConf. In this episode, Jerod and Suz are joined by Jan Monschke and Kahlil Lechelt, which comprise 2/3 of the group. After sampling one of their tracks, we hear the story of how they got the band together, the journey of building a tech stack for their first live performance, and how that stack was then rewritten to be "good" for their second performance. Suz is at awe with the technologies at play. Jerod wonders if there's room in the world for musicians directly targeting JavaScript devs. A good time is had by all.

November 16, 2018

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The road to Brave 1.0 and BAT (Changelog Interviews #323)

This week Adam and Jerod talk with Brian Bondy, Co-founder and CTO of Brave. They talked through the beginnings of Brave and how BAT (Basic Attention Token) could be driving the future of how we offer funding and tips to our favorite websites and content creators. Of course, they go deep into the historical and the technical details of the Brave browser and their march to Brave 1.0. The last segment of the show covers how BAT works, how it's being used, and also their interesting spin on an ad model that respects the user's privacy.

November 14, 2018

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Come play in the CodeSandbox (JS Party #51)

In this episode, Nick talks with Ives van Hoorne about his project CodeSandbox. They chat about Ives deciding to work on it full-time, how CodeSandbox is built, some of its best features, and what lies ahead.

November 9, 2018

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There and back again (Dgraph's tale) (Changelog Interviews #322)

This week we talk with Manish Jain about Dgraph, graph databases, and licensing and re-licensing woes. Manish is the creator and founder Dgraph and we talked through all the details. We covered what a graph database is, the uses of a graph database, and how and when to choose a graph database over a relational database. We also talked through the hard subject of licensing/re-licensing. In this case, Dgraph has had to change their license a few times to maintain their focus on adoption while respecting the core ideas around what open source really means to developers.

November 9, 2018

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Getting into data science and AI (Practical AI #19)

Himani Agrawal joins Daniel and Chris to talk about how she got into data science and artificial intelligence, and offers advice to others getting into these fields. She goes on to describe the role of artificial intelligence and machine learning within AT&T and telecom in general.

November 5, 2018

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What up, docs? 🥕 (JS Party #50)

Safia, Nick, Jerod, and Chris get together to talk about documentation. Documentation is *essential* in our work but it can be difficult to get buy-in. The crew talks about how you can get others to care about it in your organization, tools that make documentation easier, and some examples of companies doing it right.

November 2, 2018

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Drupal is a pretty big deal (Changelog Interviews #321)

Adam and Jerod talk with Angie Byron, a core contributor and staple of the Drupal community. We haven't covered Drupal really (sorry about that), but the call with Angie was inspiring! From the background, to the tech, the usage of the software, the communication at all levels of the community — Drupal is doing something SO RIGHT, and we’re happy to celebrate with them as they march on to the "Framlication" beat of their own drum.

October 31, 2018

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AIs that look human and create portraits of humans (Practical AI #18)

In this new and updates show, Daniel and Chris discuss, among other things, efforts to use AI in art and efforts to make AI interfaces look human. They also discuss some learning resources related to neural nets, AI fairness, and reinforcement learning.

October 31, 2018

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Serverless? We don’t need no stinkin’ SERVERS (JS Party #49)

Disclaimer: no servers were harmed in the taping of this show. We hosted a special discussion with Jeremy Daly, Kevin Ball, Nick Nisi, and Christopher Hiller on the ideas around serverless, managed services, Functions as a Service (FaaS), micro-services, nano-services, all-the-services!

October 26, 2018

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Venture capital meets commercial OSS (Changelog Interviews #320)

Joseph Jacks, the Founder and General Partner of OSS Capital joined the show to share his plans for funding the future generation of commercial open source software based companies. This is a growing landscape of $100M+ revenue companies ~13 years in the making that’s just now getting serious early attention and institutional backing — and we talk through many of those details with Joseph. We cover the whys and hows, why OSS now, deep details around licensing implications, and we speculate the types of open source software that makes sense for the types of investing Joseph and other plan to do.

October 25, 2018

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LIVE from Node + JS Interactive (JS Party #48)

KBall, Nick, and Suz MC'd a live show at Node + JS Interactive in Vancouver with Tierney Cyren (Node Foundation) and Dave Methvin (JS Foundation) to discuss the proposed merger between the JS Foundation and the Node Foundation. What's happening with the merger? What does this merger mean for everyday JavaScript developers and the ecosystem?

October 19, 2018

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Keepin' up with Elm (Changelog Interviews #319)

Jerod invites Richard Feldman back on the show to catch up on all things Elm. Did you hear? NoRedInk finally had a production runtime error, the community grew quite a bit (from 'obscure' to just 'niche'), and Elm 0.19 added some killer new features around asset optimization.

October 17, 2018

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BONUS – Sustain Summit 2018 (Changelog Interviews)

In this special bonus call, Adam and Jerod talk with Allen "Gunner" Gunn about the Sustain Summit. They talk about what it is, the kind of conversations that happen there, issues the open source community are facing right now, and how Sustain stands out from traditional "unconferences." Sustain 2017 was a big hit, and this year's event should be even better. Join us!

October 15, 2018

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PyTorch 1.0 vs TensorFlow 2.0 (Practical AI #16)

Chris and Daniel are back together in another news/updates show. They discuss PyTorch v1.0, some disturbing uses of AI for tracking social credit, and learning resources to get you started with machine learning.

October 15, 2018

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Gettin' Plexy wit it (Backstage #2)

Adam, Jerod, and Tim get together to talk about Plex! Plex is a media server which allows you to store your movies, TV shows, music, photos, etc. Turns out, you can actually use it together with an antenna to watch live TV and DVR content. They chat about what has Adam so excited, the pros and cons (or as Adam said, "trade-offs"), and how to get started.

October 12, 2018

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The nitty gritty on BitMidi (JS Party #47)

Where does Feross get all those wonderful toys? He builds them with JavaScript, of course! BitMidi – a website for listening to your favorite MIDI files – is his latest creation. In this episode, Jerod “sits down” with Feross to learn all about it. How do MIDIs even work? Why won’t they play on the web anymore? Can WASM save the day (hint: yes)? How does Feross get so many eyeballs on his creations? Is Preact awesome for building sites like this? What’s the future of BitMidi look like? Don’t ask us, listen to the episode!

October 12, 2018

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A call for kindness in open source (Changelog Interviews #318)

Adam and Jerod talk to Brett Cannon, core contributor to Python and a fantastic representative of the Python community. They talked through various details surrounding a talk and blog post he wrote titled "Setting expectations for open source participation" and covered questions like: What is the the purpose of open source? How do you sustain open source? And what's the goal? They even talked through typical scenarios in open source and how kindness and recognizing that there's a human on the other end of every action can really go a long way.

October 10, 2018

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Eryn O'Neil isn't afraid to speak her mind (Away from Keyboard #8)

Eryn O'Neil grew up in the southwestern suburbs of Chicago. When it came time for college, it was easy for her to move a few states over and go to college in a small town in Iowa. She now lives in Minneapolis, and after years of being self-employed, she just finished a months-long journey to find her next job. Eryn talks to me about being the first female engineering manager at her new company, what excites her about technology, the hurdles of married life, and staying healthy in a demanding industry.

October 10, 2018

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Artificial intelligence at NVIDIA (Practical AI #15)

NVIDIA Chief Scientist Bill Dally joins Daniel Whitenack and Chris Benson for an in-depth conversation about 'everything AI' at NVIDIA. As the leader of NVIDIA Research, Bill schools us on GPUs, and then goes on to address everything from AI-enabled robots and self-driving vehicles, to new AI research innovations in algorithm development and model architectures. This episode is so packed with information, you may want to listen to it multiple times.

October 8, 2018

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Fantastic bugs and how to squash them (JS Party #46)

Safia, Suz, KBall and Nick get together to talk about bugs! Not those pesky things you're scared to squash because they might suddenly jump on you — this is all about JavaScript bugs; how you prevent some of the common ones, what tools you can use to reduce bugs in your code, and a panel group therapy session where they discuss the most difficult bug they've had to fix.

October 5, 2018

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#Hacktoberfest isn’t just about a free shirt (Changelog Interviews #317)

#Hacktoberfest is a once per year event in the month of October celebrating open source. For many it's an on ramp to open source, PRs galore for maintainers, and t-shirts for those who submit 5 or more pull requests. In the end, however, it's about the awareness of open source and its significance to the greater good to humanity as we know it. Adam and Jerod talk with Daniel Zaltsman, Dev Rel Manager at DigitalOcean and key leader of Hacktoberfest to cover the backstory, where this project began, its impact on open source, how it has had to scale each year by many orders of magnitude, and of course we cover how you can play your part in #Hacktoberfest and give back to open source.

October 1, 2018

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OpenAI, reinforcement learning, robots, safety (Practical AI #14)

We met up with Wojciech Zaremba at the O'Reilly AI conference in SF. He took some time to talk to us about some of his recent research related to reinforcement learning and robots. We also discussed AI safety and the hype around OpenAI.

October 1, 2018

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The CSS expertise kerfuffle (JS Party #45)

Suz, Nick, and KBall are joined by special guest Aimee Knight to talk about CSS, how it's often trivialized and how that in turn affects the people who write it, what CSS in JS is, and how to get started with it.

September 28, 2018

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Suz Hinton says find your allies (Away from Keyboard #7)

Almost eight years ago, Suz Hinton made one of the biggest decisions of her life: move away from her home in Melbourne, Australia and move to the United States. After amicably breaking up with her boyfriend, another decision lied ahead: would she stay? Suz talks to me about culture shock, the hoops she had to jump through to get her visa, her parents, and dealing with burnout.

September 26, 2018

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REST easy, GraphQL is here (Changelog Interviews #316)

In this special rebroadcast of JS Party, Jerod and Suz talk with John Resig about how he's using GraphQL at Khan Academy, some of the mistakes and successes using GraphQL, John's feelings on jQuery, and community Q&A.

September 26, 2018

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Tidelift's mission is to pay open source maintainers (Founders Talk #58)

Donald Fischer and the team at Tidelift are on a mission of making open source work better — for everyone. To pay the maintainers of open source software they are putting a new spin on a highly successful business model that’s a win-win for the maintainers as well as the software teams using the software. In this episode we dig into that backstory and Donald’s journey.

September 21, 2018

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Stories of personal JavaScript failures (JS Party #44)

Suz, Jerod, Nick and KBall talk about cringeworthy mistakes and failures they (and the community!) have experienced with JavaScript. They also give advice to themselves as if they were just starting out today in the JavaScript industry.

September 21, 2018

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Join the federation?! Mastodon awaits... (Changelog Interviews #315)

We talked with Eugen Rochko, the creator of Mastodon, about where Mastodon came from the problem it aimed to solve. How it’s not exactly Twitter alternative, although that's its known claim to fame. Why it's probably not going anywhere. The ins-and-outs of federation, getting started, running an instance, why you would want to — cool stuff you’ve never considered could be built on top of Mastodon. And finally, the story behind naming posted content a “toot”.

September 19, 2018

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From dropout to CEO of Sentry and taking on New Relic (Founders Talk #57)

David Cramer dropped out of high school AND college, but that didn’t stop him. He ended up teaching himself programming and eventually landed his first job as the webmaster of a World of Warcraft community website. What a beginning… We talked through “the rough slog” period of Sentry and how David powered through to traction and enough profit for him and his partner to go full time, raise three rounds of funding, and take on New Relic.

September 16, 2018

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BONUS: Growing a successful sales team at Sentry (Founders Talk)

Here's a bonus segment from episode #57 of Founders Talk with David Cramer, co-founder and CEO of Sentry. Check the feed for the full length episode (later today). We talked about sales in the full length episode, but this BONUS segment is a completely isolated conversation that's not included in the full length episode — so don't gloss over this thinking it's just a teaser.

September 14, 2018

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Interviews from JSConf (JS Party #43)

KBall interviews with Michael Chan, Juan Pablo Buriticá and Julián David Duque, and Tim Doherty at JSConf.US. Conversations about the importance of DRY code, the metaphors we use for software, JavaScript communities across Latin America, how to advocate for modern tech stacks in large companies, and fostering mentorship.

September 14, 2018

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Kubernetes brings all the Cloud Natives to the yard (Changelog Interviews #314)

We talk with Dan Kohn, the Executive Director of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation to catch up with all things cloud native, the CNCF, and the world of Kubernetes. Dan updated us on the growth KubeCon / CloudNativeCon, the state of Cloud Native and where innovation is happening, serverless being on the rise, and Kubernetes dominating the enterprise.

September 12, 2018

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Decentralizing the web with Beaker (JS Party #42)

Feross talks with Mathias Buus and Paul Frazee about the decentralized web, why the average person should care about decentralization of the web, the Beaker browser, Dat and the differences and similarities to BitTorrent, and how Paul and Mathias first got involved in this work.

September 7, 2018

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Mahdi Yusuf knows being healthy is a constant struggle (Away from Keyboard #6)

Mahdi Yusuf worked a startup in his twenties and wasn't worried too much about his health. When he quit that job, he decided to take better care of himself and lost fifty pounds. Now, he's the CTO of Gyroscope, a startup that aims to be the operating system for the human body, but ever since joining, has gained weight back. Mahdi talks to me about how Gyroscope is trying to help people understand their bodies better, growing up with a love for computers, and trying to be healthy with a busy life.

September 6, 2018

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The first cloud native programming language (Changelog Interviews #313)

Jerod talked with Paul Fremantle, the CTO and Co-Founder of WSO2, about their new programming language, Ballerina — a cloud-native language which aims to make it easier to write microservices that integrate APIs. They talked about the creation of the language and how it was inspired by so many technologies, cloud native features like built-in container support, serverless-friendly, observability, and how it works with, or without, a service mesh — just to name a few.

September 5, 2018

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Applying the magic of compilers to the frontend (JS Party #41)

KBall and Chad Hietala meet up at JSConf and talk about compilers for the frontend, Ember's binary opcodes, webassembly, and the future of performance optimization for the web.

August 31, 2018

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Justin Dorfman’s passion is advocating for developers (Away from Keyboard #5)

After a very difficult 2014 that put Justin Dorfman in the hospital, he vowed to never go back. Justin has Bipolar I disorder, so coming to terms with his limitations and the sacrifices he needs to make to stay healthy hasn't been easy. He talks to me about his early BMX dreams, his transition from engineering to marketing, and the stigma around mental health.

August 29, 2018

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Segment's transition back to a monorepo (Changelog Interviews #312)

Adam and Jerod talk with two members of Segment’s engineering team: Co-founder and CTO, Calvin French-Owen, as well as Software Engineer, Alex Noonan, about their journey from monorepo to microservices back to monorepo. 100s of problem children to 1 superstar child.

August 29, 2018

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Eric Berry is funding open source with CodeFund (Founders Talk #56)

Eric Berry started Code Sponsor a year ago because of his passion for finding ways to sustain and fund open source developers. He ultimately had to shutdown due to potential legal issues with GitHub, but was given new life as CodeFund when he went to work for ConsenSys and Gitcoin. We talked through the backstory of this idea, why he's so passionate about funding open source, ethical advertising, being unapologetically focused on your mission, the value of honesty and openness, and the future direction of CodeFund.

August 28, 2018

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LIVE from JSConf! (JS Party #40)

In this special episode of JS Party at JS Conf in Carlsbad, Nick, Suz, Feross, and KBall talk about crazy JavaScript combinations, tips to get started speaking, being committed to diversity as a conference organizer, and much more.

August 24, 2018

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Istio service mesh and microservices (Changelog Interviews #311)

Adam and Jerod talk with Jason McGee, VP and CTO of IBM Cloud Platform about Istio — an open platform that provides a uniform way to connect, secure, control, and observe microservices. They cover what service mesh is, why its suddenly so interesting, who’s involved in Istio, their involvement with the CNCF, getting started, and what's next for Istio.

August 22, 2018

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Open source tools, AI for Dota, and enterprise ML adoption (Practical AI #10)

This week, Daniel and Chris talk about playing Dota at OpenAI, O'Reilly's machine learning survey, AI-oriented open source (Julia, AutoKeras, Netron, PyTorch), robotics, and even the impact AI strategy has on corporate and national interests. Don't miss it!

August 21, 2018

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Side hustle to $35M ARR at Zapier (Founders Talk #55)

Bryan Helmig, Wade Foster, and Mike Knoop started Zapier in 2011 as a side hustle. They ultimately applied to Y Combinator, twice. And this year they hit $35 Million dollars in annual revenue. I talked with Bryan Helmig (CTO) through the backstory of starting this company, being 100% distributed, the flexibility as well as the constraints of being remote-only, how they reached product market fit, growth, scaling their teams, and how they bring everyone together for company wide retreats.

August 17, 2018

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Open sourcing the DEV community (Changelog Interviews #310)

We talk with Ben Halpern the founder and webmaster of dev.to — a community for developers to talk about software. Last Wednesday they open sourced the codebase of the dev.to platform, so we wanted to talk through all the details with Ben. We talked through the backstory, how Ben realized this could become a business, how the team was formed, their motivations for open sourcing it and why they didn't open source it from the start, the technical stack, and their vision for the future of the site.

August 15, 2018

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Jeff Robbins is an actual rockstar [rebroadcast] (Changelog Interviews)

On this special bonus episode of The Changelog, we're playing the latest episode of Away from Keyboard with Jeff Robbins. While some dream of having a successful career, Jeff Robbins has already had several. Once the lead singer and guitarist for Orbit, Jeff has worked on some of the most famous Drupal websites. He talks to Tim about his early interest in computers, starting Lullabot, and adjusting to life after leaving the company he built and ran.

August 10, 2018

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REST easy, GraphQL is here (JS Party #38)

Jerod and Suz talk with John Resig about how he's using GraphQL at Khan Academy, some of the mistakes and successes using GraphQL, John's feelings on jQuery, and community Q&A.

August 10, 2018

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Jeff Robbins is an actual rockstar (Away from Keyboard #4)

While some dream of having a successful career, Jeff Robbins has already had several. Once the lead singer and guitarist for Orbit, Jeff has worked on some of the most famous Drupal websites. He talks to me about his early interest in computers, starting Lullabot, and adjusting to life after leaving the company he built and ran.

August 8, 2018

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Rebuilding Exercism from the ground up (Changelog Interviews #309)

Adam and Jerod invite back Katrina Owen after years away focusing on Exercism—a 100% free platform for code practice and mentorship with over 2500 exercises and 48 different language tracks. They talk to Katrina about how the platform has changed, the direction it's taken, the backstory on the recently launched version 2, and how she plans to turn Exercism into a sustainable business. Also, what happens if that doesn't work?!

August 8, 2018

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npm is made of people. PEOPLE! (JS Party #37)

Jerod, Nick, and Chris talk with Jeff Lembeck about his tweets, the people behind npm, the need for empathy, and things they're excited about.

August 3, 2018

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Ashley Baxter is excited about… insurance? (Away from Keyboard #3)

Thirteen years ago, Ashley Baxter inherited the family insurance business when her Dad passed away. Even though she's a talented photographer, and built a successful photography business, the insurance industry kept calling her name. Ashley talks about what excites her about insurance, the challenges of running a business, and how burnout forced her to focus.

August 1, 2018

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Biases in AI, helping veterans get jobs in software, open science (Changelog Interviews #308)

Adam and Jerod are on location at OSCON and talk with Camille Eddy about recognizing biases in AI, Jerome Hardaway about the work he’s doing to prepare veterans for jobs in software, and Abby Cobunoc Mayes about the work she’s doing at Mozilla for open science.

August 1, 2018

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Understanding the landscape of AI techniques (Practical AI #7)

Jared Lander, the organizer of NYHackR and general data science guru, joined us to talk about the landscape of AI techniques, how deep learning fits into that landscape, and why you might consider using R for ML/AI.

July 30, 2018

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A11y is your ally (JS Party #36)

Suz, Safia, and Kball get together to talk about accessibility; what does it mean, why should we care, and what tools and resources can we use to better educate ourselves, and improve our work.

July 27, 2018

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Live at OSCON 2018 (Backstage #1)

Adam, Jerod, and Tim sit down to talk at OSCON 2018 about their favorite parts of the conference, meeting new people, seeing old friends, and telling people about all the new things happening at Changelog.

July 27, 2018

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Away at OSCON (Away from Keyboard)

Hello everyone! No new episode this week, since I was away at OSCON last week in Portland. We had a fantastic time. The show will be back with new episodes next Wednesday!

July 25, 2018

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AWS Amplify and cloud-enabled apps (Changelog Interviews #307)

We talk with Nader Dabit, Developer Advocate for Amazon Web Services, about the role of DevRel and what's involved in this "dream job", frontend and mobile developers using AWS Amplify to build cloud-enabled applications, how GraphQL, React, and others fit in, and the direction of React Native.

July 25, 2018

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Government use of facial recognition and AI at Google (Practical AI #6)

In this episode, Chris and Daniel discuss the latest news, including an article about Google's AI principles, and they highlight some useful resources to help you level up.

July 23, 2018

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Justin Jackson finds focus [rebroadcast] (JS Party #35)

In this special episode of JS Party, we're sharing a full-length episode of our new show, Away from Keyboard. This show explores the human side of creative work. In this episode, Tim talks with Justin Jackson about his parents, dealing with depression, and a new business he's co-founded.

July 20, 2018

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Justin Jackson finds focus (Away from Keyboard #2)

I first heard of Justin Jackson about six years ago. Back then, he was consulting full-time for a company with the dream of going independent. Fast forward to 2018, and after building a successful business, he's now embarking on a new adventure. Justin talks about his parents, dealing with depression, and a new business he's co-founded.

July 18, 2018

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The Great GatsbyJS (Changelog Interviews #306)

From open source project to a $3.8 million dollar seed round to transform Gatsby.js into a full-blown startup that's building what's becoming the defacto modern web frontend. In this episode, we talk with Jason Lengstorf about this blazing-fast static site generator, its building blocks and how they all fit together, the future of web development on the JAMstack (JavaScript + APIs), the importance of site performance, site rebuilds, getting started, and how they're focused on building an awesome product and an awesome community.

July 18, 2018

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Detecting planets with deep learning (Practical AI #5)

Andrew Vanderburg of UT Austin and Christ Shallue of Google Brain join us to talk about their deep learning collaboration, which involved searching through a crazy amount of space imagery to find new planets.

July 16, 2018

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JavaScript eating the world, desktop edition (JS Party #34)

Kball and Feross talk with Shelley Vohr and Jeremy Apthorp about what Electron is, why to use it, and what comes next for the platform.

July 13, 2018

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Putting AI in a box at MachineBox [rebroadcast] (Changelog Interviews #305)

In this special episode of The Changelog we’re sharing a full-length episode of our newly launched podcast called Practical AI — covering AI, Machine Learning, and Data Science. In this episode Mat Ryer and David Hernandez joined Daniel and Chris to talk about MachineBox, building a company around AI, and democratizing AI.

July 11, 2018

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Jason Snell is his own HR person (Away from Keyboard #1)

It's been four years since Jason Snell left his job at *Macworld* and started his own site *Six Colors*. In that time, Jason is back to what he loves: creating. He talks about the diversity of his work day, finding the right mix of revenue streams, and taking a break when you need one.

July 11, 2018

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Welcome to Away from Keyboard (Away from Keyboard #0)

Away from Keyboard is a new show from Changelog that talks to creative professionals about how they do what they do, where they started, and how they deal with the things that make us all humans. As exciting as our work can sometimes be, we all face burnout, a lack of motivation, mental and physical health issues, and more. While these are topics that can be difficult to talk about, our experiences shape who we are and teach us so many things. AFK is a show that explores the human side of creative work.

July 10, 2018

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Data management, regulation, the future of AI (Practical AI #4)

Matthew Carroll and Andrew Burt of Immuta talked with Daniel and Chris about data management for AI, how data regulation will impact AI, and schooled them on the finer points of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

July 9, 2018

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