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Growing as a software engineer (Changelog Interviews #422)

Gergely Orosz joined Adam for a conversation about his journey as a software engineer. Gergely recently stepped down from his role as Engineering Manager at Uber to pursue his next big thing. But, that next big thing isn't quite clear to him yet. So, in the meantime, he has been using this break to write a few books and blog more so he can share what he's learned along the way. He's also validating some startup ideas he has on platform engineering. His first book is available to read now — it’s called The Tech Resume Inside Out and offers a practical guide to writing a tech resume written by the people who do the resume screening. Both topics gave us quite a bit to talk about.

December 2, 2020

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The world's largest open library dataset (Practical AI #114)

Unsplash has released the world's largest open library dataset, which includes 2M+ high-quality Unsplash photos, 5M keywords, and over 250M searches. They have big ideas about how the dataset might be used by ML/AI folks, and there have already been some interesting applications. In this episode, Luke and Tim discuss why they released this data and what it take to maintain a dataset of this size.

December 1, 2020

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A casual conversation concerning causal inference (Practical AI #113)

Lucy D'Agostino McGowan, cohost of the Casual Inference Podcast and a professor at Wake Forest University, joins Daniel and Chris for a deep dive into causal inference. Referring to current events (e.g. misreporting of COVID-19 data in Georgia) as examples, they explore how we interact with, analyze, trust, and interpret data - addressing underlying assumptions, counterfactual frameworks, and unmeasured confounders (Chris's next Halloween costume).

November 24, 2020

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Balancing business and open source (Founders Talk #73)

Raj Dutt is the founder and CEO of Grafana Labs. Grafana has become the world's most popular open source technology used to compose observability dashboards (we use Grafana here at Changelog). Raj and team are 100% focused on building a sustainable business around open source. They have this "big tent" open source ecosystem philosophy that's driving every aspect of building their business around their open source, as well as other projects in the open source community. But, to understand the wisdom Raj is leading with today, we have to go back to where things got started. To do that we had to go back like Prince to 1999...

November 23, 2020

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The future of Mac (Changelog Interviews #421)

We have a BIG show for you today. We're talking about the future of the Mac. Coming off of Apple's "One more thing." event to launch the Apple M1 chip and M1 powered Macs, we have a two part show giving you the perspective of Apple as well as a Mac app developer on _the future of the Mac_. **Part 1 features Tim Triemstra from Apple.** Tim is the Product Marketing Manager for Developer Technologies. He's been at Apple for 15 years and the team he manages is responsible for developer tools and technologies including Xcode, Swift Playgrounds, the Swift language, and UNIX tools. **Part 2 features Ken Case from The Omni Group.** Ken is the Founder and CEO of The Omni Group and they're well known for their Omni Productivity Suite including OmniFocus, OmniPlan, OmniGraffle, and OmniOutliner – all of which are developed for iOS & Mac.

November 20, 2020

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Ionic and developer tooling (JS Party #153)

Nick, and Kball are joined by Mike Hartington to talk about Ionic, the state of web components, developer tooling, and more!

November 20, 2020

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When distributed systems Go wrong (Go Time #156)

Monitoring and debugging distributed systems is hard. In this episode, we catch up with Kelsey Hightower, Stevenson Jean-Pierre, and Carlisia Thompson to get their insights on how to approach these challenges and talk about the tools and practices that make complex distributed systems more observable.

November 19, 2020

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Building a deep learning workstation (Practical AI #112)

What's it like to try and build your own deep learning workstation? Is it worth it in terms of money, effort, and maintenance? Then once built, what's the best way to utilize it? Chris and Daniel dig into questions today as they talk about Daniel's recent workstation build. He built a workstation for his NLP and Speech work with two GPUs, and it has been serving him well (minus a few things he would change if he did it again).

November 17, 2020

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The Kollected Kode Vicious (Changelog Interviews #420)

We're joined by George Neville-Neil, aka Kode Vicious. Writing as Kode Vicious for ACMs Queue magazine, George Neville-Neil has spent the last 15+ years sharing incisive advice and fierce insights for everyone who codes, works with code, or works with coders. These columns have been among the most popular items published in ACMs Queue magazine and it was only a matter of time for a book to emerge from his work. His book, The Kollected Kode Vicious, is a compilation of the most popular items he's published over the years, plus a few extras you can only find in the book. We cover all the details in this episode.

November 13, 2020

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What would you remove from Go? (Go Time #155)

When we talk about improving a programming language, we often think about what features we would add. Things like generics in Go, async/away in JS, etc. In this episode we take a different approach and talk about what we would remove from Go to make it better.

November 12, 2020

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Killer developer tools for machine learning (Practical AI #111)

Weights & Biases is coming up with some awesome developer tools for AI practitioners! In this episode, Lukas Biewald describes how these tools were a direct result of pain points that he uncovered while working as an AI intern at OpenAI. He also shares his vision for the future of machine learning tooling and where he would like to see people level up tool-wise.

November 9, 2020

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Inside 2020's infrastructure for Changelog.com (Changelog Interviews #419)

We're talking with Gerhard Lazu, our resident SRE, ops, and infrastructure expert about the evolution of Changelog's infrastructure, what's new in 2020, and what we're planning for in 2021. The most notable change? We're now running on Linode Kubernetes Engine (LKE)! We even test the resilience of this new infrastructure by purposefully taking the site down. That's near the end, so don't miss it!

November 6, 2020

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Frontend Feud: HalfStack Edition (JS Party #151)

Frontend Feud returns! Emma heads up team Boooooleans 👻 and Nick captains the Whiteboard Interviews Millionaires. We played this game for our friends at HalfStack Conf and the full video of the session is on our YouTube channel too. Take the survey!

November 6, 2020

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Maintaining the massive success of Envoy (Changelog Interviews #418)

Today we welcome Matt Klein into our Maintainer Spotlight. Matt is the creator of Envoy, born inside of Lyft. It's an edge and service proxy designed for cloud-native applications. Envoy was unexpectedly popular, and completely changed the way Lyft considers what and how to open source. While Matt has had several opportunities to turn Envoy into a commercial open source company, he didn't. In today's conversation with Matt we learn why he choose a completely different path for the project.

October 30, 2020

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An ode to jQuery (JS Party #150)

We take up a listener request this week and have an honest conversation about jQuery. Then, it's time for something new! Our friends at Hot New Tech review tone.js for us. After that, it's Pro Tip Time!

October 30, 2020

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GitHub's Go-powered CLI (Go Time #153)

In this episode we discuss Mislav's experience building not one, but two Github CLIs - hub and gh. We dive into questions like, "What lead to the decision to completely rewrite the CLI in Go?", "How were you testing the CLI, especially during the transition?", and "What Go libraries are you using to build your CLI?"

October 29, 2020

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Reinforcement Learning for search (Practical AI #110)

Hamish from Sajari blows our mind with a great discussion about AI in search. In particular, he talks about Sajari's quest for performant AI implementations and extensive use of Reinforcement Learning (RL). We've been wanting to make this one happen for a while, and it was well worth the wait.

October 26, 2020

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What's so exciting about Postgres? (Changelog Interviews #417)

PostgreSQL aficionado Craig Kerstiens joins Jerod to talk about his (and our) favorite relational database. Craig details why Postgres is unique in the world of open source databases, which features are most exciting, the many things you can make Postgres do, and what the future might hold. Oh, and some awesome `psql` tips & tricks!

October 23, 2020

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Bringing it back to TypeScript (JS Party #149)

Ben Ilegbodu joins Divya, Suz, & Amal to talk about introducing TypeScript at Stitch Fix, why TypeScript and React work well together, building component libraries, and more.

October 23, 2020

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Podcasting platform Q&A (Backstage #15)

Marc Beinder is building a podcast hosting web application as a part of his senior project while at Lindenwood University. In this brief Backstage episode, Marc picks Jerod's brain about how we built our platform and challenges we ran into along the way.

October 21, 2020

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Shopify’s massive storefront rewrite (Changelog Interviews #416)

Maxime Vaillancourt joined us to talk about Shopify's massive storefront rewrite from a Ruby on Rails monolith to a completely new implementation written in Ruby. It's a fairly well known opinion that rewrites are "the single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make" and generally something "you should never do." But Maxime and the team at Shopify have proved successful in their efforts in this massive storefront rewrite and today's conversation covers all the details.

October 16, 2020

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Thank you, Dr. Bahmutov! (JS Party #148)

Gleb Bahmutov, PhD joins the show for a fun conversation around end-to-end testing. We get the skinny on Cypress, find out how it's structured as both an open source library and a SaaS business, tease apart the various types of tests you may (or may not) want to have, and share a lot of laughs along the way.

October 16, 2020

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Introducing your team to Go (Go Time #151)

Can't find a job working in Go? Perhaps introducing your current team to Go is the solution. In this episode we talk about how Go was introduced at different organizations, potential pitfalls that may sabotage your efforts, some advice on how to convince your team and CTO to use Go and more.

October 15, 2020

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Productionizing AI at LinkedIn (Practical AI #108)

Suju Rajan from LinkedIn joined us to talk about how they are operationalizing state-of-the-art AI at LinkedIn. She sheds light on how AI can and is being used in recruiting, and she weaves in some great explanations of how graph-structured data, personalization, and representation learning can be applied to LinkedIn's candidate search problem. Suju is passionate about helping people deal with machine learning technical debt, and that gives this episode a good dose of practicality.

October 13, 2020

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Spotify's open platform for shipping at scale (Changelog Interviews #415)

We're joined by Jim Haughwout (Head of Infrastructure and Operations) and Stefan Ålund (Principal Product Manager) from Spotify to talk about how they manage hundreds of teams producing code and shipping at scale. Thanks to their recently open sourced open platform for building developer portals called Backstage, Spotify is able to keep engineering squads connected and shipping high-quality code quickly — without compromising autonomy.

October 9, 2020

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Frontend Feud (JS Party #147)

Our much anticipated _Family Feud_ rip-off inspired game show is finally here! Emma was joined by Nick and special guest Abenezer Abebe to form the Hypertext Assassins. KBall captained (despite never seeing _Family Feud_ before) the DSL Destroyers with Mikeal and special guest Ali Spittel. Holler if you want MOAR Feud and check the outro for a chance to win some JS Party swag.

October 9, 2020

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Cloud Native Go (Go Time #150)

What is cloud native? In this episode Johnny and Aaron explain it to Mat and Jon. They then dive into questions like, "What problems does this solve?" and "Why was Go such a good fit for this space?"

October 8, 2020

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The team that fashioned Apollo 11 (Changelog Interviews)

We're helping Atlassian to promote Season 2 of Teamistry. If this is the first time you're hearing about this podcast, Teamistry is an original podcast from Atlassian that tells the stories of teams who work together in new and unexpected ways, to achieve remarkable things. Today, we're sharing a full-length episode from Season 1 which tells the story of the team that fashioned the Apollo 11 spacesuits. When Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon for the first time, we don't actually see his face. We see his moonsuit. That moonsuit — in effect — is Neil Armstrong; an inseparable part of this historic moment. While the spacesuit kept him alive to tell that story in his own words, what went unnoticed is the extraordinary team that stitched it together.

October 8, 2020

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Experimenting with Elixir Radar (Backstage #14)

We're joined by co-founder of Plataformatec and curator of the _excellent_ Elixir Radar newsletter, Hugo Baraúna. We talk Elixir podcasts, the start of a new chapter for Hugo, his experimentations with Elixir Radar, curating content, how to make money, stuff like that.

October 6, 2020

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R, Data Science, & Computational Biology (Practical AI #107)

We're partnering with the upcoming R Conference, because the R Conference is well... amazing! Tons of great AI content, and they were nice enough to connect us to Daniel Chen for this episode. He discusses data science in Computational Biology and his perspective on data science project organization.

October 6, 2020

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It's OK to self-care (Brain Science #31)

Most of us have heard how important "self-care" is and how important it can be for healthy living. But what exactly IS self-care? In this episode, not only do we define what self-care is, but we talk through the physical, emotional, and spiritual aspects of what's involved in self-care and why this can so often be misunderstood and challenging. While we might be familiar with this term, many may not consider how they can be deliberate around managing themselves by both reflecting on and engaging in activities that help support their brains and bodies. It isn't enough to simply know that self-care is important, rather discovering practical actions you can take to improve both how you feel and how you engage with the world.

October 1, 2020

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There's a lot to learn about teaching Go (Go Time #149)

In this episode we dive into teaching Go, asking questions like, "What techniques work well for teaching programming?", "What role does community play in education?", and "What are the best ways to improve at Go as a beginner/intermediate/senior dev?"

October 1, 2020

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Gitter’s big adventure (Changelog Interviews #414)

Gitter is exiting GitLab and entering the Matrix...ok, we couldn't help ourselves with that one. Today we're joined by Sid Sibrandij (CEO of GitLab) and Matthew Hodgson (technical co-founder of Matrix) to discuss the acquisition of Gitter. A little backstory to tee things up...back in 2017 GitLab announced the acquisition of Gitter to help push their idea of chatops within GitLab. As it turns out, the GitLab team saw a different path for Gitter as a core part of Matrix rather than a non-core project at GitLab. We talk through all the details in this episode with Matthew and Sid.

September 30, 2020

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I'm just so stressed (Brain Science #30)

Stress is something that we will inevitably encounter throughout our lives. It isn't all bad or maladaptive, but how we manage it can make a significant difference in our lives. The degree of stress we feel impacts how we show up in the world including both how we relate and how we do the work before us each day. In this episode, Mireille and Adam discuss the impact of stress on our systems including the role of different stress hormones on our immune system, cardiovascular system and our metabolism. Like many other conversations on previous episodes, we provide research relative to the value of relationships as having close connections helps us all combat the stress that loneliness can cause as well. When we utilize resources to support us as well as set limits on what we expose ourselves to and focus our attention to, we have the opportunity to better navigate the stresses of our lives.

September 25, 2020

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Double your testing trouble (JS Party #145)

Justin Searls from Test Double joins the party to talk about patterns he's identified that lead to failure, minimalism, and of course, testing!

September 25, 2020

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How open source saved htop (Changelog Interviews #413)

Today we welcome Hisham Muhammad into our Maintainer Spotlight. Hisham is the creator of htop - a well known cross-platform interactive process viewer. This conversation with Hisham covers the gamut of being an open source software maintainer. To set the stage, a new version of htop was announced, but not by Hisham -- it was a kind takeover of the project and needless to say Hisham was surprised, but ultimately relieved. Why? Well, that's what this episode it all about...

September 24, 2020

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The one with Brad Fitzpatrick (Go Time #148)

Brad Fitzpatrick returns to the show (last heard on episode 44) to field a mixed bag of questions from Johnny, Mat, and the live listeners. How'd he get in to programming? What languages did he use before Go? What's he up to now that he's not working on the Go language? And of course... does he have any unpopular opinions he'd like to share? 😏

September 24, 2020

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Changelog++ launch thoughts (Backstage #13)

Adam and Jerod take a moment to review the soft launch of Changelog++ and feedback received from members and the community. We talk through some of the feedback we've received, how some folks still want the ads, updated thoughts on extended and bonus content, hiccups and lessons learned, the "Working in Public" winners, and where we go from here.

September 21, 2020

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Learning about (Deep) Learning (Practical AI #106)

In anticipation of the upcoming NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference (GTC), Will Ramey joins Daniel and Chris to talk about education for artificial intelligence practitioners, and specifically the role that the NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute plays in the industry. Will's insights from long experience are shaping how we all stay on top of AI, so don't miss this 'must learn' episode.

September 21, 2020

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The Builder Pattern (for your career) (JS Party #144)

The panelists discuss their thoughts on career progression while sharing some of their own history. They also talk about important considerations to think about when deciding where to go next, and share useful resources.

September 18, 2020

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When AI goes wrong (Practical AI #105)

So, you trained a great AI model and deployed it in your app? It's smooth sailing from there right? Well, not in most people's experience. Sometimes things goes wrong, and you need to know how to respond to a real life AI incident. In this episode, Andrew and Patrick from BNH.ai join us to discuss an AI incident response plan along with some general discussion of debugging models, discrimination, privacy, and security.

September 14, 2020

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Estimating systems with napkin math (Changelog Interviews #412)

We're joined by Simon Eskildsen, Principal Engineer at Shopify, talking about how he uses a concept called napkin math where you use first-principle thinking to estimate systems without writing any code. By the end of the show we were estimating pretty much everything using napkin math.

September 11, 2020

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Let's replace your kidney with React (JS Party #143)

Ahmad Nassri returns to the party for a deep, nuanced discussion around the thoughts he shared in a recent blog post called Solving Solved Problems. We hear about the common issue Ahmad's seen at software shops of all sizes, learn the anatomy of the total cost of software ownership, and debate what to build and what to buy.

September 11, 2020

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Hits of the Summer (Go Time #146)

This episode is different than what you're used to. We've been clipping highlights of the show for awhile now to share on Twitter and YouTube. A side effect of that effort is a bunch of awesome clips just sitting on Jerod's hard drive collecting digital dust. So, here's a beta test of a "best of" style clips show covering the summer months. Let us know if you like it!

September 10, 2020

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Dealing with conflict (Brain Science #28)

Conflict is a part of everyday life. If you are connected to other humans, conflict will eventually occur. But what exactly is conflict? Where does it begin? How can it be resolved? In this episode, Mireille and Adam dive deep into those details to examine the framework of conflict end-to-end, to hopefully equip us with the tactics and skills we need to better navigate and resolve the conflict we encounter in our lives.

September 9, 2020

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Speech tech and Common Voice at Mozilla (Practical AI #104)

Many people are excited about creating usable speech technology. However, most of the audio data used by large companies isn’t available to the majority of people, and that data is often biased in terms of language, accent, and gender. Jenny, Josh, and Remy from Mozilla join us to discuss how Mozilla is building an open-source voice database that anyone can use to make innovative apps for devices and the web (Common Voice). They also discuss efforts through Mozilla fellowship program to develop speech tech for African languages and understand bias in data sets.

September 9, 2020

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Inside GitHub's Arctic Code Vault (Changelog Interviews #411)

Earlier this year on February 2nd, 2020 Jon Evans and his team of archivists took a snapshot of all active public repositories on GitHub and sent it to a decommissioned coal mine in the Svalbard archipelago where it will be stored for the next 1,000 years. On this episode, Jon chats with Jerod all about the GitHub Archive Program and how they're preserving open source software for future generations.

September 4, 2020

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Horse JS speaks! (JS Party #142)

We kick off with some exciting TypeScript news, follow that with some exciting JavaScript news, then finish off with an exciting interview. Key word: **EXCITING**

September 4, 2020

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Content is QUEEN 👑 (JS Party #141)

In this episode, we dive into the role of communication as a developer, how clarity is driving impact and how to self publish as an independent writer. Join us, as we chat with Stephanie Morillo author of The Developers Guide to Content Creation about how to write better as developer and how writing can take you from good developer to great.

August 28, 2020

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Building desktop apps with Go + web tech (Go Time #144)

Building desktop applications is tricky. Every OS has its own set of tools, and you often need to learn a new language for each. In this episode we talk with Wails creator Lea Anthony about how the build tool enables developers to create desktop apps using Go and their normal JS frontend (React, Vue, Anguluar, or whatever you want).

August 27, 2020

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Bringing beauty to the world of code sharing (Changelog Interviews #410)

Carbon is an open source web app that helps you create and share beautiful images of your source code. Whether you've used Carbon personally or not, odds are you've seen its dent on the universe of social code sharing. Mike Fix has been maintaining Carbon for a few years and he's embraced the project as an opportunity to experiment and practice working in public. On this Maintainer Spotlight episode, we chat with Mike about building Carbon, growing its community, sustainability models, and why he loves the world of open source.

August 26, 2020

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Hidden Door and so much more (Practical AI #102)

Hilary Mason is building a new way for kids and families to create stories with AI. It's called Hidden Door, and in her first interview since founding it, Hilary reveals to Chris and Daniel what the experience will be like for kids. It's the first Practical AI episode in which some of the questions came from Chris's 8yo daughter Athena. Hilary also shares her insights into various topics, like how to build data science communities during the COVID-19 Pandemic, reasons why data science goes wrong, and how to build great data-based products. Don't miss this episode packed with hard-won wisdom!

August 24, 2020

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Celebrating Practical AI turning 100!! 🎉 (Changelog Interviews #409)

We're so excited to see Chris and Daniel take this show to 100 episodes, and that's exactly why we're rebroadcasting Practical AI #100 here on The Changelog. They've had so many great guests and discussions about everything from AGI to GPUs to AI for good. In this episode, we circle back to the beginning when Jerod and I joined the first episode to help kick off the podcast. We discuss how our perspectives have changed over time, what it has been like to host an AI podcast, and what the future of AI might look like. (GIVEAWAY!)

August 21, 2020

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What does it mean to be Indistractible? (Brain Science #27)

Distractions will always exist -- managing them is our responsibility. We often talk about the need for new information in order to change the old patterns of our brain. One of the best ways we can do this is through reading good books. In this episode, Mireille and Adam discuss the highlights of Nir Eyal's book, Indistractible -- how to control your attention and choose your life. In his book, Nir highlights this clear connection between people's distraction and its relationship to psychological discomfort, otherwise known as pain. He says, "all behaviors, whether they tend toward traction or distraction are prompted by triggers, internal or external. When we learn how to recognize these "triggers," there is opportunity for change. And changing in the direction that you desire, as based on what you value, is key to having the life you want to live.

August 17, 2020

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Best practices for Node developers (JS Party #139)

Node.js development began a bit like the Wild West, but over time idioms, anti-patterns, and best practices have emerged. Yoni Goldberg's Node Best Practices repo on GitHub collects, documents, and explains the best practices for Node developers. On this episode, Yoni joins us to discuss.

August 14, 2020

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Working in Public (Changelog Interviews #408)

Nadia Eghbal is back and this time she's talking with us about her new book _Working in Public_. If you're an old school listener you might remember the podcast we produced with Nadia and Mikeal Rogers called Request for Commits. If you weren't listening then, or can't remember...don't worry...the back catalog of Request for Commits is still online and subscribe-able via all the podcast ways. That podcast is still getting listens to this very day! Obviously we go way back with Nadia...and having a chance to now talk with her through all the details of her new book _Working in Public_, this was a milestone for this show and Jerod and I. We talked through the reasons she wrote the book in the first place, Nadia's thoughts on the future of the internet and the connection of creators to the platforms they build their followings on, and we also talk about the health of projects and communities and the challenges we face internet-at-large as well as right here in our backyard in the open source community.

August 12, 2020

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Practical AI turns 100!!! 🎉 (Practical AI #100)

We made it to 100 episodes of Practical AI! It has been a privilege to have had so many great guests and discussions about everything from AGI to GPUs to AI for good. In this episode, we circle back to the beginning when Jerod and Adam from The Changelog helped us kick off the podcast. We discuss how our perspectives have changed over time, what it has been like to host an AI podcast, and what the future of AI might look like. (GIVEAWAY!)

August 11, 2020

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Designing and building HEY (Changelog Interviews #407)

We're talking about designing and building HEY with Jonas Downey, the lead designer behind HEY. In their words, “Email sucked for years, but not anymore.” We were super interested in how they went about solving the problems with email, so we invited Jonas on to share all the details and a behind-the-scenes look at the making of HEY.

August 7, 2020

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{"encoding":"json"} (Go Time #141)

JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is used all over the web as a text-based way of transmitting data. In this episode, we explore Go's encoding/json package, and others with Daniel Marti.

August 6, 2020

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It all begins with empathy (Brain Science #26)

Have you heard the phrase, "Put yourself in their shoes?" In this episode, the conversation focuses on the "HOW" and why it all begins with empathy. Empathy is the key that enables access to another person's perspective and emotional state. It is also a fundamental aspect of building and sustaining relationships with others. The fascinating thing is that there are 3 types of empathy: cognitive, social, and empathic concern. Plus there's a counterpart component called compassion that moves us to take action.

August 6, 2020

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Why we're launching Changelog++ (Backstage #12)

We first launched a membership back in 2013... before they were cool! 😆 Now we're back with a brand new edition. It's called Changelog++ and we hope you love it. This episode of Backstage is a tell-all about the program. Why we think the timing is right, what we hope it can become, how we're experimenting with ideas to make it great, and what you can do to get involved.

August 5, 2020

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Attack of the C̶l̶o̶n̶e̶s̶ Text! (Practical AI #99)

Come hang with the bad boys of natural language processing (NLP)! Jack Morris joins Daniel and Chris to talk about TextAttack, a Python framework for adversarial attacks, data augmentation, and model training in NLP. TextAttack will improve your understanding of your NLP models, so come prepared to rumble with your own adversarial attacks!

August 3, 2020

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Slow and steady wins (Founders Talk #72)

Jeff Sheldon is the founder and creator of Ugmonk. Jeff is a designer by trade, and an entrepreneur by accident. I been following Jeff’s journey for the better part of Ugmonk’s existence. I’m also a customer. Jeff and I hold several similar values near and dear to our hearts. In addition to my appreciation for Jeff’s product design abilities, and how he leads his business, I also appreciate Jeff's awareness and focus on the long hard path.

August 3, 2020

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Making Windows Terminal awesome (Changelog Interviews #406)

Kayla Cinnamon, Program Manager at Microsoft for Windows Terminal, Console, Command Line, and Cascadia Code joined us to talk about the release of Windows Terminal 1.0 and the new Windows command-line experience. We talk about everything that went into rethinking the command line experience on Windows, the UX and UI design behind it all, the learnings of working in open source, and what's to come for the Windows command line experience.

July 31, 2020

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Migrating to ES Modules (JS Party #137)

Mikeal and Chris welcome (back) special guest Fred K. Schott, who you may recall from our episode on Pika. This time, we're talking ESM: what it is, what's new about it, why it's the future, writing libraries with it, and much more.

July 31, 2020

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The latest on Generics (Go Time #140)

Robert and Ian join us to talk about the latest updates on generics in Go. What type of feedback are they looking for as developers get their hands on tools designed to experiment with generics and Go? What was the deal with the featherweight Go paper that also discussed generics? Why can't we use angle brackets for generics?

July 30, 2020

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🤗 All things transformers with Hugging Face (Practical AI #98)

Sash Rush, of Cornell Tech and Hugging Face, catches us up on all the things happening with Hugging Face and transformers. Last time we had Clem from Hugging Face on the show (episode 35), their transformers library wasn't even a thing yet. Oh how things have changed! This time Sasha tells us all about Hugging Face's open source NLP work, gives us an intro to the key components of transformers, and shares his perspective on the future of AI research conferences.

July 27, 2020

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It’s OK to make money from your open source (Changelog Interviews #405)

Adam loves a good dark theme and supporting a fellow creator, and Hedy Li finished the episode we did with Nikita Prokopov covering FiraCode and reached out saying Zeno Rocha's work on Dracula deserved the same credit. _We agreed._ So we linked up with Zeno about his passion for open source, how he's changed his mind on making money with open source, his big release of Dracula Pro and the future of Dracula, and of course his new book -- 14 Habits of Highly Productive Developers. Check for a link in the show notes for details on how to get your hands on Zeno's book for free through our giveaway.

July 22, 2020

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The science behind caffeine (Brain Science #25)

Today's episode features _our very first guest_. We're joined by Danielle Rath, a notable expert and product developer in the caffeine and energy drink industry. Danielle is the founder of GreenEyedGuide Research and Consulting where she shares science-based information about energy drinks and caffeine, and helps people and companies where fatigue and caffeine use are prevalent. In this lengthly episode, we talk through all aspects of the science behind caffeine — its chemical structure and half-life, where and how it's being used, the good, bad, and the ugly, as well as practical advice for everyday consumption. If you consume caffeine of any sort, this is a _must listen_ episode.

July 17, 2020

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Where the Prolog version of Vue died (JS Party #135)

An amalgam of interest on this week's episode starting with a peek at what's finally coming in Vue 3. We talk about the process of change in the Vue ecosystem and what interesting features are coming either very soon or not for a while depending on how you view time right now. Then, the panelists share what they've learned recently, and finish off with shout outs to the projects, ideas, and people we're appreciative of.

July 17, 2020

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Your first week with Go (Go Time #138)

Your first week with a new programming language can be tricky. In this episode Jon is joined by Jacquie and DaShaun to talk about their first week with Go. What was their primary focus? What resources did they leverage? What made it stick, and what didn't?

July 16, 2020

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Laws for hackers to live by (Changelog Interviews #403)

Dave Kerr joins Jerod to discuss the various laws, theories, principles, and patterns that we developers find useful in our work and life. We unpack Hanlon's Razor, Gall's Law, Murphy's Law, Kernighan's Law, and too many others to list here.

July 16, 2020

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What's next for José Valim and Elixir? (Changelog Interviews #402)

We're joined again by José Valim talking about the recent acquihire of Plataformatec and what that means for the Elixir language, as well as José. We also talk about Dashbit a new 3 person company he helped form from work done while at Plataformatec to help startups and enterprises adopt and run Elixir in production. Lastly we talk about a new idea José has called Bytepack that aims to help developers package and deliver software products to developers and enterprises.

July 10, 2020

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Focusing in on PostgreSQL (Go Time #137)

Choosing a database is hard. They each have their pros and cons, and without much experience it is hard to determine which is the best fit for your project. In this episode Johan Brandhorst joins us to talk about Postgres. When is it a good fit? How well does it scale? What libraries exist in Go for using Postgres?

July 9, 2020

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From acquisition to full conviction (Founders Talk #71)

Guy Podjarny is the Founder of Snyk, a security platform that empowers software-driven businesses to develop fast and stay secure. Prior to Snyk, Guy founded Blaze which was acquired by Akamai and became CTO. We talked through the topic of acquisition — the sale, the merge, the learnings, and why Guy might not be planning for Snyk to be acquired anytime soon. We started the conversation with Snyk's recent raise of $150 million dollars.

July 3, 2020

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The intersection of coding and fonts (Changelog Interviews #401)

A listener request led us to Nikita Prokopov and FiraCode, and we're sure glad they did. When we think of open source software, fonts aren't usually high on the list of things that need maintaining. That's not true when your font also supports hundreds of programming ligatures like FiraCode does. Nikita has his hands full!

July 3, 2020

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Blitz.js puts React on Rails (JS Party #133)

Blitz.js creator Brandon Bayer joins Jerod to dive deep into the foundational principles of this fullstack React framework. We talk about its inspiration (Ruby on Rails), its differentiation (a “no-API” data layer), and its aspirations (built-in auth, plugins, recipes, and more).

July 3, 2020

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Cognitive distortions (Brain Science #24)

How reflective are you with the thoughts you think? In this episode, Mireille and Adam talk through a few more cognitive distortions. These "distortions" are general tendencies or patterns of thinking that are false or inaccurate, which also have the potential to cause psychological damage. Generally speaking, people develop cognitive distortions as a way of coping with adverse life events. The more prolonged and severe those adverse events are, the more likely it is that one or more cognitive distortions will form. By recognizing these patterns in our thoughts and possibly how, when, or why we're prone to use them, like many things, we create the opportunity to change them.

July 3, 2020

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Go in production at Pace.dev (Go Time #136)

Building a new app in Go can involve a lot of technical decisions. How will your code be structured? How will you handle background jobs? What will your deploy process look like? In this episode we will walk through the decisions made while building the public release of Pace.dev.

July 2, 2020

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Big updates in Safari 14 (Changelog Interviews #400)

We're joined by Ronak Shah and Beth Dakin from the Safari team at Apple about their announcements at WWDC20 and the release of Safari 14. We talk about Safari WebExtensions, Face ID and Touch ID coming to the web, Safari's plans to advance the web platform, and it all comes down to their focus on privacy, power, and performance.

June 29, 2020

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Operationalizing ML/AI with MemSQL (Practical AI #94)

A lot of effort is put into the training of AI models, but, for those of us that actually want to run AI models in production, performance and scaling quickly become blockers. Nikita from MemSQL joins us to talk about how people are integrating ML/AI inference at scale into existing SQL-based workflows. He also touches on how model features and raw files can be managed and integrated with distributed databases.

June 29, 2020

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Feross takes us to security school (JS Party #132)

Did you know Feross taught Web Security at Stanford last Fall? On this episode, Divya and Nick enroll in his security school to learn about XSS, CSP, ambient authority, and a whole lot more.

June 26, 2020

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We have regrets (Go Time #135)

Leaning from mistakes is key to progressing. In this episode Ben, Aaron, Kris, and Jon discuss some of our mistakes - like spending too much time designing a feature that isn't that important, or using channels excessively when first learning Go - and how we learned from them.

June 25, 2020

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Shipping work that matters (Changelog Interviews #399)

We're revisiting Shape Up and product development thoughts with Ryan Singer, Head of Product Strategy at Basecamp. Last August we talked with Ryan when he first launched his book Shape Up and now we're back to see how Shape Up is shaping up — "How are teams using the wisdom in this book to actually ship work that matters? How does Shape Up work in new versus existing products?" We also talk about the concept of longitudinal thinking and the way it's impacting Ryan's designs, plus a grab bag of topics in the last segment.

June 25, 2020

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Roles to play in the AI dev workflow (Practical AI #93)

This full connected has it all: news, updates on AI/ML tooling, discussions about AI workflow, and learning resources. Chris and Daniel breakdown the various roles to be played in AI development including scoping out a solution, finding AI value, experimentation, and more technical engineering tasks. They also point out some good resources for exploring bias in your data/model and monitoring for fairness.

June 22, 2020

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Beginnings (Go Time #134)

Mat Ryer talks to a new full-time Go programmer, an intern at Google, and a high-school programmer about the tech world from their perspective.

June 19, 2020

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Evolving alongside JS (JS Party #131)

We take a listener request this week and discuss how we evolve alongside (or opt out of) the ever changing JavaScript syntax. Arrow functions and variable declarations take center stage, but a _wide_ range of new(ish) JS syntax and features are discussed. Then Feross shares his new app, Nick talks fiction books, and Jerod switches coding fonts.

June 19, 2020

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The ONE thing every dev should know (Changelog Interviews #398)

The incomparable Jessica Kerr drops by with a grab-bag of amazing topics. Understanding software systems, transferring knowledge between devs, building relationships, using VS Code _&_ Docker to code together, observability as a logical extension of TDD, and a whole lot more.

June 16, 2020

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The Neuroscience of touch (Brain Science #22)

How much do you focus on your sense of touch? Have you ever considered how or why this sense is so critical to our lives and how we manage ourselves? In this episode, Mireille and Adam discuss the neurophysiological underpinnings of our sense of touch and how our brains process these sensory experiences. According to David Linden, Ph.D., Professor of Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, "The sense of touch is intrinsically emotional." Not only is touch relevant to our emotional experience, but it is a foundational aspect of the development of our nervous system and it impacts how we manage stress and respond to pain. It isn't surprising then to consider that touch is also extremely relevant to our relationships as we are apt to feel more connected to those with whom we engage in touch.

June 13, 2020

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Leading GitLab to $100M ARR (Founders Talk #70)

Sid Sijbrandij is the Co-founder and CEO of GitLab — an all-remote company and complete DevOps platform. As a company, they have their eyes set on taking the company public to IPO and they're very outspoken about their culture, open handbook, and how they work as an all-remote company. We talk through where Sid came from, the early days of GitLab, why IPO vs a private sale (like GitHub), what it means to put "family and friends first, work second," how we should view work, and his biggest fear — the company failing.

June 9, 2020

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Creating GitLab’s remote playbook (Changelog Interviews #397)

We're talking about all things all-remote with Darren Murph, Head of Remote at GitLab. Darren is tasked with putting intentional thought and action into place to lead the largest all-remote company in the world. Yes, GitLab is 100% all-remote, as in, no offices...and they employee more than 1,200 people across 67 countries. They've been iterating and documenting how to work remotely for years. We cover Darren's personal story on remote work while he served as managing editor at Engadget, his thoughts on how "work" is evolving and ways to reframe and rethink about when you work, this idea of work life harmony, and the backstory and details of the playbook GitLab released free of charge to the world.

June 9, 2020

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Explaining AI explainability (Practical AI #91)

The CEO of Darwin AI, Sheldon Fernandez, joins Daniel to discuss generative synthesis and its connection to explainability. You might have heard of AutoML and meta-learning. Well, generative synthesis tackles similar problems from a different angle and results in compact, explainable networks. This episode is fascinating and very timely.

June 8, 2020

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JS Danger: HalfStack Edition (JS Party #129)

JS Danger is back! Suz, Emma, and Divya square off in our don't-call-it-jeopardy game show. Will Emma totally redeem herself? Are Divya's trivia skills as on point as her debate skills? Will Suz murder Jerod in a fit of terrible-question-inducing rage?! Listen and play along!

May 29, 2020

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The power of story (Brain Science #21)

Researchers have examined the power of story and discovered the way in which stories provide a framework that has the capacity to transcend language for universal understanding. According to Joe Lazauskas, "Stories illuminate the city of our mind...stories make us remember and they make us care." In this episode we dive deep into the power of story to explore the ways in which stories play a role in our emotions and in our relationships with others.

May 28, 2020

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The trouble with databases (Go Time #132)

Databases are tricky, especially at scale. In this episode Mat, Jaana, and Jon discuss different types of databases, the pros and cons of each, along with the many ways developers can have issues with databases. They also explore questions like, "Why are serial IDs problematic?" and "What alternatives are there if we aren't using serial IDs?" while at it.

May 28, 2020

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De-Google-ing your website analytics (Changelog Interviews #396)

Plausible creators Uku Täht and Marko Saric join the show to talk about their open source, privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics. We talk through the backstory of the project, why it's open source, the details behind a few viral blog posts Marko shared to bring in a ton of new interest to the project, why privacy matters in web analytics, how they prioritize building new features, the technical details behind their no cookie light-weight JavaScript approach, and their thoughts on a server-side option.

May 27, 2020

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We hear Dojo 7 is "better than React" (JS Party #128)

Nick and Jerod welcome Dojo's Matt Gadd to the show to catch us up on what's changed with the framework since episode #25, what's coming in version 7, and to defend Nick's comment that if you like React you just might like Dojo better.

May 22, 2020

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What's your backstory Adam? (Backstage #11)

We're bringing Brain Science backstage — Mireille puts on her interviewer hat for a deep dive into Adam's backstory. When and how did he get involved with podcasting? How did he get in to software development? When did he get his first shot at leadership? How did he learn about sales? Why is he so curious?

May 22, 2020

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On community and safety (Go Time #131)

Johnny and Jon are joined by Denise to talk about her role at GitHub and what the community and safety team does to help open source project creators and contributors, GoCon Canada and the role of organizing a conference, and more.

May 21, 2020

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Navigating perfectionism (Brain Science #20)

High expectations for performance in both life and work are common, but what do you do when you get stuck and you're not able to achieve the results you desire? In this episode, Mireille and Adam talk through the different aspects of perfectionism and ways in which is can be adaptive and helpful and other ways in which it poses additional challenges. What happens when we avoid the possibility of failure as opposed to simply having high standards for our performance? How can we begin to focus on healthy striving as opposed to reaching for perfection?

May 20, 2020

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