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YOLOv9: Computer vision is alive and well (Practical AI #259)

While everyone is super hyped about generative AI, computer vision researchers have been working in the background on significant advancements in deep learning architectures. YOLOv9 was just released with some noteworthy advancements relevant to parameter efficient models. In this episode, Chris and Daniel dig into the details and also discuss advancements in parameter efficient LLMs, such as Microsofts 1-Bit LLMs and Qualcomm's new AI Hub.

March 6, 2024

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How long until I lose my job to AI? (Go Time #306)

We're all thinking about it and wondering if our job is safe from AI. Maybe. Maybe not. In this episode Johnny Boursiquot is joined some industry veterans who have been through multiple innovation cycles to share their insights and advice on this subject.

March 5, 2024

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Apple backs off killing EU web apps (Changelog News #84)

Apple backs off killing web apps (but the fight continues), Luka Kladaric writes about how to ship quality software in hostile environments, Deno's new package registry is an npm superset, Martin Fowler on the value of periodic face-to-face & Eugene Ghanizadeh wants us to get more decentralized than the Fediverse. Leave us nice words!

March 4, 2024

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Zed's secret sauce (Changelog & Friends #33)

The Zed text editor has come a long way since Nathan Sobo came on the show last year to tell us about this follow-up to Atom. Zed is open source now, has the underpinnings of collaboration built in, is beginning its journey toward full extensibility, is coming to Linux soon & shows serious promise if Nathan's team can mix their secret sauce just right.

March 1, 2024

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Take a look, it's in a book (JS Party #314)

Nick delves into the intricacies of technical book writing with authors Adrienne Braganza Tacke and Dylan Hildenbrand. We talk about the process of working with a publisher, coming up with an outline, actually writing the book, and everything that comes after the book is finished.

February 29, 2024

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Leading in the era of AI code intelligence (Changelog Interviews #580)

This week Adam is joined by Quinn Slack, CEO of Sourcegraph for a "2 years later" catch up from his last appearance on Founders Talk. This conversation is a real glimpse into what it takes to be CEO of Sourcegraph in an era when code intelligence is shifting more and more into the AI realm, how they've been driving towards this for years, the subtle human leveling up we're all experiencing, the direction of Sourcegraph as a result — and Quinn also shares his order of operations when it comes to understanding the daily state of their growth.

February 28, 2024

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Dance Party (Changelog Interviews)

Listen to our newest album called Dance Party as a podcast! This is an EPIC bundle of BMC bangers. We double dog dare you to listen and try NOT to dance 🕺

February 28, 2024

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Representation Engineering (Activation Hacking) (Practical AI #258)

Recently, we briefly mentioned the concept of "Activation Hacking" in the episode with Karan from Nous Research. In this fully connected episode, Chris and Daniel dive into the details of this model control mechanism, also called "representation engineering". Of course, they also take time to discuss the new Sora model from OpenAI.

February 28, 2024

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Making shell history magical with Atuin (Changelog Interviews #579)

Today we speak with Ellie Huxtable, the creator of a magical open source tool for syncing, searching & backing up your shell history. Along the way we learn all about the sync service, why she likes Rust, the branding / marketing of the project, how she quit her job to work on it full time, the business model & so much more.

February 21, 2024

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Foundations of Go performance (Go Time #304)

In the first of a multi-part series, Ian & Johnny are joined by Miriah Peterson & Bryan Boreham to peel back the first layer of the things that matter when it comes to the performance of your Go programs.

February 20, 2024

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What exactly is Open Source AI? (Changelog Interviews #578)

This week we're joined by Stefano Maffulli, the Executive Director of the Open Source Initiative (OSI). They are responsible for representing the idea and the definition of open source globally. Stefano shares the challenges they face as a US-based non-profit with a global impact. We discuss the work Stefano and the OSI are doing to define Open Source AI, and why we need an accepted and shared definition. Of course we also talk about the potential impact if a poorly defined Open Source AI emerges from all their efforts. Note: Stefano was under the weather for this conversation, but powered through because of how important this topic is.

February 16, 2024

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Building containers without Docker (Ship It! #91)

We're back! Jason Hall joins the show to tell Justin & Autumn all about how Chainguard builds hundreds of containers without a single Dockerfile.

February 16, 2024

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Gemini vs OpenAI (Practical AI #256)

Google has been releasing a ton of new GenAI functionality under the name "Gemini", and they've officially rebranded Bard as Gemini. We take some time to talk through Gemini compared with offerings from OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere, etc. We also discuss the recent FCC decision to ban the use of AI voices in robocalls and what the decision might mean for government involvement in AI in 2024.

February 14, 2024

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Gophers Say! GopherCon EU Athens 2024 (Go Time #303)

Our award winning worthy survey game show is back, this time Mat Ryer hosts it live on stage at GopherCon EU Athens 2024! Join in & play along as we see which team can better guess what these GopherCon gophers had to say!

February 14, 2024

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React Server Components 🧐 (JS Party #311)

The week Amal & guest co-host Eric Clemmons talk to Dan Abramov all about React Server Components. We learn about why they were created, what problems they solve & how they work to improve application performance. We also dive into the rollout and current support status, the origin story, the community response & walk through the 10+ years of React history which have forever shifted the world of web development.

February 8, 2024

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Taking on Goliath (Changelog Interviews #577)

This week on The Changelog we're talking with Nadia Odunayo, founder of StoryGraph. Nadia started out as a one woman dev and product team — she's had to adjust and maneuver along way to becoming the Amazon-free alternative to Goodreads. We talk about the importance of customer research, the iterative nature of customer research and what it takes to synthesize and analyze the findings to guide product development, the technical challenges and learnings she faced while building StoryGraph, for example at several points they've faced challenges in handling an influx of users and had to re-architect the system. We also talk about the business model of StoryGraph and how they generate revenue through Plus subscriptions, and partnerships with publishers for book giveaways.

February 8, 2024

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Data synthesis for SOTA LLMs (Practical AI #255)

Nous Research has been pumping out some of the best open access LLMs using SOTA data synthesis techniques. Their Hermes family of models is incredibly popular! In this episode, Karan from Nous talks about the origins of Nous as a distributed collective of LLM researchers. We also get into fine-tuning strategies and why data synthesis works so well.

February 6, 2024

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You have how many open tabs?! (Changelog & Friends #29)

We're taking you to the hallway track at THAT Conference in Austin TX, where we have 3 fun conversations: one with our old friend Nick Nisi from JS Party, one with our new(ish) friend Amy Dutton from CompressedFM (who has been a guest on JS Party of late) & one with our brand new friend / long-time listener Andres Pineda from the Dominican Republic.

February 4, 2024

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In the beginning (of generative AI) (Changelog Interviews #576)

This week on The Changelog we're talking with Joe Reis about data engineering and the beginning of generative AI. We discuss phone hacking via frequency, the role of a data engineer, this AI hype cycle we're in, build vs buy, the disconnect between data analysts and the business, ethical considerations around AI-generated content, and more. We also discuss the tension between AI and traditional engineering, as well as the inevitability of AI integration into pretty much everything.

February 2, 2024

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Angular Signals (JS Party #310)

KBall & Amal interview Alex & Pavel from the Angular Signals team. They cover the history, how the Angular team decided to move to signals, what the new mental model looks like, migration path & even dive into community integrations and future roadmap.

February 1, 2024

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Large Action Models (LAMs) & Rabbits 🐇 (Practical AI #254)

Recently the release of the rabbit r1 device resulted in huge interest in both the device and "Large Action Models" (or LAMs). What is an LAM? Is this something new? Did these models come out of nowhere, or are they related to other things we are already using? Chris and Daniel dig into LAMs in this episode and discuss neuro-symbolic AI, AI tool usage, multimodal models, and more.

January 30, 2024

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Gradually gradually typing Elixir (Changelog & Friends #28)

Our old friend José Valim & his team have been hard at work adding gradual typing to Elixir. They're only 1-3% of the way there, but a lot of progress has been made. So, we invited him back on the show for a deep-dive on why, how & when Elixir will be gradually typed.

January 27, 2024

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Shift left, seriously. (Changelog Interviews #575)

This week we're going deep on security and what it takes to shift left, seriously. Adam is joined by Justin Garrison (co-host of Ship It), plus two members of the BoxyHQ team — Deepak Prabhakara, Co-founder & CEO and Schalk Neethling, Community Manager and DevRel as well as fellow Changelog Slack member. We discuss how to shift left, the role of the developer and the burden of security, the importance of tooling, the difference between authentication and authorization, and a mindset change for when security takes place — it's a matter of "when" not "who."

January 26, 2024

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From sales to engineering (JS Party #309)

Shaundai Person joins Jerod & Nick for a fascinating discussion of her transition from a sales position to Senior Software Engineer at Netflix. Along the way, we discuss sales as a superpower, how to build confidence in yourself & even sneak a little TypeScript talk in there because you know who...

January 25, 2024

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Collaboration & evaluation for LLM apps (Practical AI #253)

Small changes in prompts can create large changes in the output behavior of generative AI models. Add to that the confusion around proper evaluation of LLM applications, and you have a recipe for confusion and frustration. Raza and the Humanloop team have been diving into these problems, and, in this episode, Raza helps us understand how non-technical prompt engineers can productively collaborate with technical software engineers while building AI-driven apps.

January 23, 2024

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300 multiple choices (Go Time #300)

Over the past 8 years, Go Time has published 300 episodes! In this episode, the panel discusses which ones they loved the most, some current stuff that's in the works, what struggles the podcast has had & what we're planning for the future.

January 23, 2024

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A pre-party to a feud (Changelog++ 🔐) (JS Party)

Jerod, Adam Argyle & the CompressedFM crew hang out prior to their Fronted Feud battle! They discuss CSS as a programming language, Apple's walled garden, how nobody is on the same social media sites anymore, how to choose tech, the community's sentiment shift on GraphQL & a whole bunch more. (This episode is for Changelog++ ears only.)

January 20, 2024

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Frontend Feud: CSS Podcast vs CompressedFM (JS Party #308)

Una & Adam from The CSS Podcast defend their Frontend Feud title against challengers James & Brad from CompressedFM. Let’s get it on!

January 18, 2024

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Let's talk FreeBSD (finally) (Changelog Interviews #574)

This week we're joined by FreeBSD & OpenZFS developer, Allan Jude, to learn all about FreeBSD. Allan gives us a brief history of BSD, tells us why it's his operating system of choice, compares it to Linux, explains the various BSDs out there & answers every curious question we have about this powerful (yet underrepresented) Unix-based operating system.

January 17, 2024

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Advent of GenAI Hackathon recap (Practical AI #252)

Recently, Intel's Liftoff program for startups and Prediction Guard hosted the first ever "Advent of GenAI" hackathon. 2,000 people from all around the world participated in Generate AI related challenges over 7 days. In this episode, we discuss the hackathon, some of the creative solutions, the idea behind it, and more.

January 17, 2024

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All about Kafka (Go Time #299)

In this episode Matt joins Kris & Jon to discuss Kafka. During their discussion they cover topics like what problems Kafka helps solve, when a company should start considering Kafka, how throwing tech like Kafka at a problem won't fix everything if there are underlying issues, complexities of using Kafka, managing payload schemas, and more.

January 16, 2024

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Kaizen! Should we build a CDN? (Changelog & Friends #26)

It's our 13th Kaizen episode! We're back from KubeCon, we're making goals for the year, we're migrating to Neon & we're weighing the pros/cons of building our own custom CDN.

January 12, 2024

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htmx: a new old way to build the web (JS Party #307)

Carson Gross (creator of htmx) & Alex Russell (Mr. Web Platform 3000) join Amal for an EPIC discussion on web architectures, the evolution of rendering patterns & the advantages of hypermedia and htmx. We dive deep on why modern web app best practices are falling short & explore how htmx gives devs an HTML-first approach to use tech that’s over 20 years old. Tune in to learn a new way to do something old, so you can simplify your code & use JavaScript when/where it’s uniquely able to shine ✨

January 12, 2024

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Amazon's silent sacking (Changelog Interviews #573)

Justin Garrison joins us to talk about Amazon's silent sacking, from his perspective. He should know. He works there. Well, as of yesterday he quit. We discuss how the cloud and Kubernetes have transformed the way software is developed and deployed, the impact silent layoffs have on employees and their careers, speaking out about workplace issues (the right way), how changes in organizational structure can lead to gaps in expertise and responsibility which can lead to potential outages and slower response times. By the way, we officially let the cat off out of the bag in this episode. Justin has joined the ranks here at Changelog and is taking over as the host of Ship It! Expect new episodes soon.

January 11, 2024

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AI predictions for 2024 (Practical AI #251)

We scoured the internet to find all the AI related predictions for 2024 (at least from people that might know what they are talking about), and, in this episode, we talk about some of the common themes. We also take a moment to look back at 2023 commenting with some distance on a crazy AI year.

January 10, 2024

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Dear new developer (Changelog Interviews #572)

Hello 2024! We're kicking off the year with Dan Moore, author of ‘Letters to a New Developer’ — a blog series of letters of what Dan wished he had known when starting his developer career. We discuss the value of online communities for new developers, the importance of communication skills, and the need to stay relevant in a rapidly changing industry. Dan shares his best advice for new developers, including the importance of saying no, leaving code better than you found it, and the value of skill stacking. So much wisdom and advice in this episode!

January 4, 2024

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State of the "log" 2023 (Changelog Interviews #571)

Our 6th annual year-end wrap-up episode! This time we're featuring 12 (yes, 12!) listener voice mails, our favorite episodes of the year & some insanely cool Breakmaster Cylinder beats made just for this occasion. Thanks for listening! 💚

December 20, 2023

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What's next in JavaScript (a TC39 update) (JS Party #305)

Daniel Ehrenberg (software engineer at Bloomberg, web standards author / champion & VP of ECMA International) joins us to discuss new features that have landed in JavaScript and to preview what's cooking in various standards bodies across the web platform. We cover a wide array (get it?) of topics from improvements to built-ins such as Promises, Maps & Sets, as well as new primitives like Records, Tuples & Temporal. We round out this epic discussion with a look at cross-project standardization efforts like WinterCG, open source sustainability & how Bloomberg’s open source program gives back in important projects in the web ecosystem.

December 20, 2023

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Open source, on-disk vector search with LanceDB (Practical AI #250)

Prashanth Rao mentioned LanceDB as a stand out amongst the many vector DB options in episode #234. Now, Chang She (co-founder and CEO of LanceDB) joins us to talk through the specifics of their open source, on-disk, embedded vector search offering. We talk about how their unique columnar database structure enables serverless deployments and drastic savings (without performance hits) at scale. This one is super practical, so don't miss it!

December 19, 2023

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The code, prose & pods that shaped 2023 (Changelog News #75)

This episodes diverges from our traditional fare. I've reviewed the 50 previous editions and picked (IMHO) the coolest code, best prose & my favorite podcast episode from each month!

December 18, 2023

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#define: game theory, dude (Changelog & Friends #25)

What happens when you take four grizzled #define veterans and throw an Emma Bostian into the mix? Find out on this episode because our award-worthy game of fake definitions is back and this time it's even better!

December 17, 2023

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ANTHOLOGY — The technical bits (Changelog Interviews #570)

This week we’re taking you to the hallway track of All Things Open 2023 in Raleigh, NC. Today’s episode features: Heikki Linnakangas (Co-founder of Neon and Postgres hacker), Robert Aboukhalil (Bioinformatics software engineer) working on bringing desktop apps to the web with Wasm, and Scott Ford who loves taking a codebase from brown to green at Corgibytes.

December 15, 2023

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The state of open source AI (Practical AI #249)

The new open source AI book from PremAI starts with "As a data scientist/ML engineer/developer with a 9 to 5 job, it’s difficult to keep track of all the innovations." We couldn't agree more, and we are so happy that this week's guest Casper (among other contributors) have created this resource for practitioners. During the episode, we cover the key categories to think about as you try to navigate the open source AI ecosystem, and Casper gives his thoughts on fine-tuning, vector DBs & more.

December 12, 2023

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Open source LLMs are catching up (Changelog News #74)

A group of researchers set out to test claims that its open source rivals had achieved parity (or even better) with ChatGPT on certain tasks, Richard Hipp and his team have rewritten SQLite's text-based JSON functions, Ratatui is a Rust crate for cooking up TUIs, Morris Brodersen built a complex app in vanilla JS as a case study & Headscale is Kristoffer Dalby's open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server.

December 11, 2023

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HATEOAS corpus (Changelog & Friends #24)

Jerod is back with another "It Depends" episode! This time he's joined by Kris Brandow from Go Time and they're talking all things API design. What makes a good API? Is GraphQL a solid choice? Why do we do REST wrong? And WTF does HATEOAS mean, anyway?

December 8, 2023

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Hare aims to be a 100 year language (Changelog Interviews #569)

This week on The Changelog we're joined by Drew DeVault, talking about the Hare programming language. From the website, Hare is a systems programming language designed to be simple, stable, and robust. When we asked Drew why he created it, he said "[because] I wanted it to exist, and it did not exist." Wise words. We discuss Hare (of course), why he's so passionate about all things open source, the state of the language, fostering a culture that values stability, and oddly enough — what it takes to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

December 6, 2023

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Suspicion machines ⚙️ (Practical AI #248)

In this enlightening episode, we delve deeper than the usual buzz surrounding AI's perils, focusing instead on the tangible problems emerging from the use of machine learning algorithms across Europe. We explore "suspicion machines" — systems that assign scores to welfare program participants, estimating their likelihood of committing fraud. Join us as Justin and Gabriel share insights from their thorough investigation, which involved gaining access to one of these models and meticulously analyzing its behavior.

December 5, 2023

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The state of the 2023 tech market (Changelog & Friends #23)

Gergely Orosz is back for our annual year-end update on the tech market, writ large. How is hiring? Has AI really changed the game? What about that OpenAI fiasco? We also talk in-depth about Gergely's self-published book, The Software Engineer's Guidebook, which has been four years in the making.

December 1, 2023

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Gleaming the KubeCon (Changelog Interviews #568)

This week we're gleaming the KubeCon. Ok, some people say CubeCon, while others say KubeCon...we talk with Solomon Hykes about all things Dagger, Tammer Saleh and James McShane about going beyond cloud native with SuperOrbital, and Steve Francis and Spencer Smith about the state of Talos Linux and what they're working on at Sidero Labs.

November 30, 2023

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Art of the state machine (JS Party #303)

Amal, Nick & special guest Laura Kalbeg geek out over the remarkable growth and evolution of the XState project and its team in recent years. Laura also tells everyone about Stately.ai, a SaaS platform that uses AI to create seamless state management solutions compatible with various tools like XState, Redux & zustand.

November 30, 2023

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What's new in CSS land (JS Party #302)

Una Kravets, web platform ambassador & lead of the Google Chrome UI Developer Relations Team, joins Amal & Nick to take them CSS to school as they start this podcast in CSS kindergarten and end it with a Level-Up CSS Diploma. (LUCD?) We explore all the amazing features which have recently landed in CSS — enabling super-charged user experiences with no JavaScript. Don’t forgot to check out all the epic links & demos in the show notes — and hold on to your butts, kids, this one is a ride!

November 24, 2023

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Bringing Dev Mode to Figma (Changelog Interviews #567)

This week on we're joined by Emil Sjölander from Figma — talking about bringing Dev Mode to Figma. Dev Mode is their new workspace in Figma that's designed to bring developers and design to the same tool. The question they're trying to answer is "How do you create a home for developers in a design tool?" We go way back to Emil's startup that was acquired by Figma called Visly, how we iterated to here from 20 years ago (think PSD > HTML days), what they did to build Dev Mode, what they're doing around codegen, the popularity of design systems, and what it takes to go from zero to Dev Mode.

November 22, 2023

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Generating product imagery at Shopify (Practical AI #246)

Shopify recently released a Hugging Face space demonstrating very impressive results for replacing background scenes in product imagery. In this episode, we hear the backstory technical details about this work from Shopify's Russ Maschmeyer. Along the way we discuss how to come up with clever AI solutions (without training your own model).

November 21, 2023

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It dependencies (Changelog & Friends #22)

Jerod goes one-on-one with our old friend Justin Searls! We talk build vs buy decisions, dependency selection & how Justin has implemented POSSE (Post On Site Syndicate Elsewhere) in response to the stratification of social networks.

November 17, 2023

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All the places Swift will go (Changelog Interviews #566)

This week we're talking about Swift with Ben Cohen, the Swift Team Manager at Apple. We caught up with Ben while at KubeCon last week. Ben takes us into the world of Swift, from Apple Native apps on iOS and macOS, to the Swift Server Workgroup for developing and deploying server side applications, to the Swift extension for VS Code, Swift as a safe C/C++ successor language, Swift on Linux and Windows, and of course what The Browser Company's Arc browser is doing to bring Arc to Windows.

November 16, 2023

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Building something new (JS Party #301)

Amal & Nick are joined by Saron Yitbarek (developer, podcaster, community leader & serial entrepreneur) to catch up and discuss her latest project: Not A Designer We discuss all the ins & outs of tech entrepreneurship & the challenges of building something new in today’s saturated market. Tune in for a behind-the-scenes look at how she does it & get a sneak peek on what’s possibly next! (Spoiler Alert: we brain stormed it here)

November 16, 2023

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Event-driven systems & architecture (Go Time #297)

Event-driven systems may not be the go-to solution for everyone because of the challenges they can add. While the system reacting to events published in other parts of the system seem elegant, some of the complexities they bring can be challenging. However, they do offer durability, autonomy & flexibility. In this episode, we’ll define event-driven architecture, discuss the problems it solves, challenges it poses & potential solutions.

November 14, 2023

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AI trailblazers putting people first (Practical AI #245)

According to Solana Larsen: "Too often, it feels like we have lost control of the internet to the interests of Big Tech, Big Data — and now Big AI." In the latest season of Mozilla's IRL podcast (edited by Solana), a number of stories are featured to highlight the trailblazers who are reclaiming power over AI to put people first. We discuss some of those stories along with the issues that they surface.

November 14, 2023

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Pushing back on unconstrained capitalism (Changelog Interviews #565)

This week we’re talking with Cory Doctorow (this episode contains explicit language) about how we can get back to that "new good internet." Cory's new book The Internet Con offers a lens to this conversation about disenshittifying the internet through anti-trust laws, limits on corporate tweaking, regulating unconstrained capitalism, and all the ways enshittification is enabled. Cory also shares his experience recording his own audio book under the direction of Gabrielle de Cuir at Skyboat Media, and what's to come from his next Science Fiction book The Lost Cause.

November 10, 2023

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Best of the fest! Volume 2 (JS Party #300)

JS Party listeners and panelists celebrate great moments from the last 100 episodes! You'll hear from 14 of our favorite humans (and 1 horse) across 11 episodes. Here's to our first 300 episodes and the next 300 as well. 🥂

November 10, 2023

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Principles of simplicity (Go Time #296)

Rob Pike says, "Simplicity is the art of hiding complexity." If that's true, what is simplicity in the context of writing software in Go? Is it even something we should strive for? Can software be too simple? Ian & Kris discuss with return guest sam boyer.

November 8, 2023

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Government regulation of AI has arrived (Practical AI #244)

On Monday, October 30, 2023, the U.S. White House issued its Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence. Two days later, a policy paper was issued by the U.K. government entitled The Bletchley Declaration by Countries Attending the AI Safety Summit, 1-2 November 2023. It was signed by 29 countries, including the United States and China, the global leaders in AI research. In this Fully Connected episode, Daniel and Chris parse the details and highlight key takeaways from these documents, especially the extensive and detailed executive order, which has the force of law in the United States.

November 7, 2023

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Beat freak in residence (Changelog & Friends #20)

We're joined this week by the beat freak in residence himself, the mysterious Breakmaster Cylinder. Listen along as we talk about how we make our beats, what inspires us for our music, and some behind the scenes on our latest albums.

November 3, 2023

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Observing the power of APIs (Changelog Interviews #564)

Jean Yang's research on programming languages at Carnegie Mellon led her to realize that APIs are *the* layer that makes or breaks quality software systems. Unfortunately, developers are underserved by tools for dealing with, securing & understanding APIs. That realization led her to found Akita Software, which led her to join Postman by way of acquisition. That move, at least in part, also led her to join us on this very podcast. We think you're going to enjoy this interview, we sure did.

November 2, 2023

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Self-hosting & scaling models (Practical AI #243)

We're excited to have Tuhin join us on the show once again to talk about self-hosting open access models. Tuhin's company Baseten specializes in model deployment and monitoring at any scale, and it was a privilege to talk with him about the trends he is seeing in both tooling and usage of open access models. We were able to touch on the common use cases for integrating self-hosted models and how the boom in generative AI has influenced that ecosystem.

October 31, 2023

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ANTHOLOGY — The way of open source (Changelog Interviews #563)

This week we’re taking you to the hallway track of All Things Open 2023 in Raleigh, NC. Today’s episode features: Matthew Sanabria (former Engineer at HashiCorp working on Terraform Enterprise), Nithya Ruff (Chief Open Source Officer and Head of the Open Source Program Office at Amazon) & Jordan Harband (Open Source Maintainer-at-large with dependencies in most JavaScript apps out there. There has been many changes this year in open source, and each of these perspectives lends insight into challenging and changing waters happening right now in open source.

October 27, 2023

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The se7en deadly sins of Go (Go Time #294)

John Gregory's GopherCon talk "7 Deadly Gopher Sins" is the ostensible basis of this spooky Go Time episode, but with Mat Ryer at the helm... the only thing to expect is the unexpected. And failed jokes. Expect _lots_ of failed jokes.

October 25, 2023

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Deep learning in Rust with Burn 🔥 (Practical AI #242)

It seems like everyone is interested in Rust these days. Even the most popular Python linter, Ruff, isn't written in Python! It's written in Rust. But what is the state of training or inferencing deep learning models in Rust? In this episode, we are joined by Nathaniel Simard, the creator burn. We discuss Rust in general, the need to have support for AI in multiple languages, and the current state of doing "AI things" in Rust.

October 24, 2023

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Next Level (Changelog Interviews)

Listen to our Next Level album as a podcast! We grew up in the days of the Nintendo Entertainment System and the Sega Genesis. It's no surprise that so many of our tracks are inspired by the 8-bit and 16-bit music of our youth. From Castlevania to Contra, Sonic the Hedgehog, and many more — we were inspired by all the nostalgic soundtracks from the games that got us here, to give our pods one-of-a-kind vibes. If you've been head nodding to our beats during our shows and you've been wishing for a way to listen outside of our pods, then this release will be an absolute delight. It's dangerous to go alone! Take this on your next coding adventure or deep work session...

October 23, 2023

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Pushing ntfy to the next level (Changelog Interviews #562)

This week Jerod goes solo with Philipp Heckel, creator of ntfy, to discuss this simple HTTP-based service that lets you send notifications to your phone or desktop via scripts from any computer. They discuss why he built it, how he built it, and what his plans are for the future of this beloved side hustle.

October 20, 2023

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AI's impact on developers (Practical AI #241)

Chris & Daniel are out this week, so we're bringing you a panel discussion from All Things Open 2023 moderated by Jerod Santo (Practical AI producer and co-host of The Changelog) and featuring keynoters Emily Freeman and James Q Quick.

October 20, 2023

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Kaizen! Slightly more instant (Changelog & Friends #17)

Gerhard joins us for the 12th Kaizen and this time talk about what we DIDN'T do. We were holding S3 wrong, we put some cash back in our pockets, we enabled HTTP/3, Brotli compression, and Fastly websockets, we improved our SLOs, we improved Changelog Nightly, and we're going to KubeCon 2023 in Chicago.

October 13, 2023

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Party on PartyKit (JS Party #296)

With a name like PartyKit, you know we just had to get its founder and CEO Sunil Pai on the show! PartyKit is an open source tool that simplifies creating collaborative, multiplayer applications. Join us to learn all about it and the journey of Sunil and his team!

October 12, 2023

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Coming to asciinema near you (Changelog Interviews #561)

This week we're joined by Marcin Kulik to talk about his project asciinema. You've likely seen this out there in the wild — asciinema lets you record and share your terminal sessions in full fidelity. Forget screen recording apps that offer blurry video. asciinema provides a lightweight, text-based approach to terminal recording with lots of possibilities. Marcin shares the backstory on this project, where he'd like to take it, who's supporting him along the way, and we even included 11 minutes of bonus content for Changelog ++ subscribers.

October 11, 2023

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Experiences from GopherCon 2023 (Go Time #293)

The 10th GopherCon took place the last week of September and it was a blast. In this episode, we’re talking about our experiences at the conference from several different viewpoints. Angelica as a conference organizer, Johnny as an emcee and workshop instructor, Kaylyn as a speaker, and Kris as a regular attendee.

October 11, 2023

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Tauri’s next big move (Changelog Interviews #560)

This week we're joined by Daniel Thompson, Co-founder and Core Member of Tauri. It's been a year since we last had Daniel on the show. He catches us up on all things Tauri, their continued efforts towards Tauri 1.5 (which just released), the launch of CrabNebula and how they're the people pushing the Tauri ecosystem forward and building on top of it, the state of Electron vs Tauri, and UI with Tauri. He even surprises us with his idea of creating a web browser.

October 5, 2023

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#define: a game of fake definitions (Changelog & Friends #15)

Jerod gathers a group of friends for our first game show experiment here on Changelog & Friends! This is a game of obscure jargon, fake definitions & expert tomfoolery. Our contestants checked their imposter syndrome at the door, because they either know what these words mean or they fake it 'til they make their peers think they do.

September 29, 2023

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Vibes from Strange Loop (Changelog Interviews #559)

This week we're taking you to the hallway track of the final Strange Loop conference. First up is AnnMarie Thomas — an engineering, business, and education professor. AnnMarie gave one of the opening keynotes titled "Playing with Engineering." We also caught up with many first-time and multi-time attendees who shared their favorite moments from Strange Loop over the years. You'll hear from Richard Feldman, Colin Dean, and Taylor Troesh. Last up we talk with Pokey Rule. He gave a talk about his project called Cursorless which is a spoken language for structural code editing. Changelog++ subscribers get a super extended version of this episode which includes everything we recorded at Strange Loop. Become a Changelog++ subscriber

September 28, 2023

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Open source is at a crossroads (Changelog Interviews #558)

This week we're joined by Steve O'Grady, Principal Analyst & Co-founder at RedMonk. The topic today is the definition of open source, the constant pressure on the true definition of the term, and the seemingly small but vocal minority that aim to protect that definition. In Steve's post _Why Open Source Matters_, he says "open source is at a crossroads" and there are some seeking to break the definition of open source to one that is more permissive to their desires, and they are closer than ever to achieving that goal. Today's conversation goes deep on this subject.

September 20, 2023

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Attack of the Canaries! (Changelog Interviews #557)

This week we're joined by Haroon Meer from Thinkst — the makers of Canary and Canary Tokens. Haroon walks us through a network getting compromised, what it takes to deploy a Canary on your network, how they maintain low false-positive numbers, their thoughts and principles on building their business (major wisdom shared!), and how a Canary helps surface network attacks in real time.

September 13, 2023

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Go templating using Templ (Go Time #291)

Go's known for it's fantastic standard library, but there are some places where the libraries can be challenging to use. The `html/template` package is one of those places. So what alternatives do we have? On today's episode we're talking about Templ, an HTML templating language for Go that has great developer tooling. Co-hosts Kris Brandow and Jon Calhoun are joined by Adrian Hesketh, the creator of Templ, and Joe Davidson, one of the maintainers on the project.

September 13, 2023

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Doomed to discuss AI (Changelog & Friends #13)

Author, journalist, travel writer & software engineer Jon Evans joins us to weigh in on the cultural history (and present-day sentiment) of AI doom. Along the way, we talk plausible Sci-Fi, ultrasound drug delivery, the maybe-evolving laws of physics & even weirder stuff.

September 8, 2023

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Prototyping with Go (Go Time #290)

V Körbes returns to talk prototyping with Natalie, Johnny & Kris. Is Go good for prototyping? What makes a language prototypable, anyway? How does space radiation fit in to all this? Tune in and ride along to find out!

September 7, 2023

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OpenTF for an open Terraform (Changelog Interviews #556)

This week we're talking about the launch of OpenTF and what it's going to take to successfully fork HashiCorp's Terraform. We're joined by Josh Padnick to discuss what exactly happened, how HashiCorp's license change changes things, who has been impacted by this change, and ultimately what they are doing about it.

September 6, 2023

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Fine-tuning vs RAG (Practical AI #238)

In this episode we welcome back our good friend Demetrios from the MLOps Community to discuss fine-tuning vs. retrieval augmented generation. Along the way, we also chat about OpenAI Enterprise, results from the MLOps Community LLM survey, and the orchestration and evaluation of generative AI workloads.

September 6, 2023

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Modernizing packages to ESM (JS Party #290)

Mark Erikson (web dev professor/historian, OSS Maintainer & engineer at Replay) joins us to talk about the shift from CommonJS to ESM. We discuss the history of module patterns in JS and the grueling effort to push the world's biggest developer ecosystem forward. Get ready to go to school kids, this one's deep!

September 1, 2023

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Back to the terminal of the future (Changelog Interviews #555)

This week on The Changelog Adam is joined by Zach Lloyd, Founder & CEO of Warp. We talked with Zach last year about what it takes to build the terminal of the future, and today Adam catches up with Zach to see where they are at on that mission. They talk about the business model of Warp, how they measure success, reaching product/market fit, building features developers love, integrating AI, and the pros and cons of going open source (again).

August 30, 2023

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Automating code optimization with LLMs (Practical AI #237)

You might have heard a lot about code generation tools using AI, but could LLMs and generative AI make our existing code better? In this episode, we sit down with Mike from TurinTech to hear about practical code optimizations using AI "translation" of slow to fast code. We learn about their process for accomplishing this task along with impressive results when automated code optimization is run on existing open source projects.

August 29, 2023

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Ten years of TypeScript bliss (JS Party #289)

Nick celebrates a decade of writing everyone's favorite language with guest Josh Goldberg, who contributes to TypeScript, maintains typescript-eslint, and is an all-around great person! Jerod is also here to join the celebration, but let's keep that a secret from him!

August 24, 2023

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The serenity of building your own OS (Changelog Interviews #554)

This week we're talking to Andreas Kling about SerenityOS and Ladybird. Andreas started SerenityOS as a means of therapy. It's self-described as a love letter to "'90s user interfaces with a custom Unix-like core." Andreas previously worked at Nokia and later at Apple on the WebKit team, so he had an itch to do something along the lines of a browser, and that's where Ladybird came from. We get into the details of compilers, OSs, browsers, web specifications, and the love of making software.

August 24, 2023

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The new AI app stack (Practical AI #236)

Recently a16z released a diagram showing the "Emerging Architectures for LLM Applications." In this episode, we expand on things covered in that diagram to a more general mental model for the new AI app stack. We cover a variety of things from model "middleware" for caching and control to app orchestration.

August 23, 2023

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All your CAPTCHAs are belong to bots (Changelog News #58)

New research shows that CAPTCHAs are now utterly useless, hundreds of concerned technologists signed the OpenTF Manifesto to keep Terraform open source forever, Josh Collinsworth writes down all the things you forgot (or never knew) because of React, Mike Seidle shared some quick-but-powerful advice on building new software features & Erlend Sogge Heggen urges new open source projects to join the Fediverse (by way of Mastodon).

August 21, 2023

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An aberrant generation of programmers (Changelog & Friends #11)

Our friend Justin Searls recently published a widely-read essay on enthusiast programmers, inter-generational conflict & what we do with this information. That seemed like a good conversation starter, so we grabbed Justin and Landon Gray to discuss. Let's talk!

August 18, 2023

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30 years of Debian (Changelog Interviews #553)

This week we're talking with Jonathan Carter who's on his fourth term as Debian Project Lead (DPL) and we're talking about 30 years of Debian!

August 17, 2023

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Thinking outside the box of code (Changelog Interviews #552)

Leslie Lamport is a computer scientist & mathematician who won ACM's Turing Award in 2013 for his fundamental contributions to the theory and practice of distributed and concurrent systems. He also created LaTeX and TLA+, a high-level language for "writing down the ideas that go into the program before you do any coding."

August 9, 2023

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Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights (Practical AI #235)

In this Fully Connected episode, Daniel and Chris kick it off by noting that Stability AI released their SDXL 1.0 LLM! They discuss its virtues, and then dive into a discussion regarding how the United States, European Union, and other entities are approaching governance of AI through new laws and legal frameworks. In particular, they review the White House's approach, noting the potential for unexpected consequences.

August 9, 2023

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DX on DX (Changelog Interviews #551)

This week Adam is joined by Abi Noda, founder and CEO of DX to talk about DX AKA DevEx (or the long-form Developer Experience). Since the dawn of software development there has been this push to understand what makes software teams efficient, but more importantly what does it take to understand developer productivity? That's what Abi has been focused on for the better part of the last 8 years of his career. He started a company called Pull Panda that was acquired by GitHub, spent a few years there on this problem before going out on his own to start DX which helps startups to the fortune 500 companies gather real insights that leads to real improvement.

August 3, 2023

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An intimate conversation about careers (JS Party #286)

KBall and Amal go deep on careers. They share their career journeys, talk through learnings and mishaps that happened along the way, and break down key factors to understand about big role transitions like "Senior->Staff" as well as "Engineer->Manager".

August 3, 2023

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Building world-class developer experiences (Go Time #287)

Today we’re talking with Alice Merrick & Andy Walker about building a world-class developer experience. You know it when you see it, things just feel right. But it’s more than just a pleasant UI or lipstick on a pig (which is a saying), it really matters.

August 2, 2023

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Vector databases (beyond the hype) (Practical AI #234)

There's so much talk (and hype) these days about vector databases. We thought it would be timely and practical to have someone on the show that has been hands on with the various options and actually tried to build applications leveraging vector search. Prashanth Rao is a real practitioner that has spent and huge amount of time exploring the expanding set of vector database offerings. After introducing vector database and giving us a mental model of how they fit in with other datastores, Prashanth digs into the trade offs as related to indices, hosting options, embedding vs. query optimization, and more.

August 1, 2023

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