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Nov 29, 2024 · 53 min
Clones, commerce & campaigns (Practical AI #297)
Chris and Daniel dive into what Trump’s impending second term could mean for AI companies, model developers, and regulators, unpacking the potential shifts in policy and innovation. Next, they discuss the latest models, like Qwen, that blur the performance gap between open and closed systems. Finally, they explore new AI tools for meeting clones and AI-driven commerce, sparking a conversation about the balance between digital convenience and fostering genuine human connections. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 8 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: WorkOS – AuthKit offers 1,000,000 monthly active users (MAU) free — The world’s best login box, powered by WorkOS + Radix. Learn more and get started at WorkOS.com and AuthKit.com Notion – Notion is a place where any team can write, plan, organize, and rediscover the joy of play. It’s a workspace designed not just for making progress, but getting inspired. Notion is for everyone — whether you’re a Fortune 500 company or freelance designer, starting a new startup or a student juggling classes and clubs. Retool – The low-code platform for developers to build internal tools — Some of the best teams out there trust Retool…Brex, Coinbase, Plaid, Doordash, LegalGenius, Amazon, Allbirds, Peloton, and so many more – the developers at these teams trust Retool as the platform to build their internal tools. Try it free at retool.com/changelog Featuring: Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X Show Notes: New Models Qwen2.5 Alibaba’s Qwen AI Model Qwen2.5 Turbo Reads Ten Novels in One Minute DeepSeek DeepSeek API Docs Update FLUX Black Forest Labs’ FLUX.1-dev on Hugging Face OuteTTS OuteTTS 0.1 - 350M Blog OuteTTS 0.2 - 500M Blog Smol TTS Update on LinkedIn SmolLVM SmolLVM Updates on LinkedIn What Donald Trump’s Win Means for AI Practical AI Podcast: Episode 244 GetPickle.ai Docling Docling Paper on arXiv Docling GitHub Repository Red Hat Blog on Docling LinkedIn Post on PDF Table Extraction Hugging Face Blog on Observers SDK AI and Commerce Stripe Blog: Adding Payments to Agentic Workflows LinkedIn Announcement: Payments Integration SDK Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Nov 29, 2024 · 1 hr 17 min
WYSIWYG (JS Party #348)
At React Summit in New York, KBall & Nick sat down with Kent C. Dodds & Theo Browne for two fascinating conversations. Both of them showed us the whole gamut of their personalities! Kent shared his insights on effective teaching methodologies and the future of developer education, while diving deep into React and the Remix/React Router ecosystem, and closing on an appeal for kindness int he world. Then Theo took us behind the scenes of his developer-focused content creation, from streaming to the origins of the T3 stack, and how his online persona (including T3!) is “just him”. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 5 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: WorkOS – AuthKit offers 1,000,000 monthly active users (MAU) free — The world’s best login box, powered by WorkOS + Radix. Learn more and get started at WorkOS.com and AuthKit.com Jam.dev – One click bug reports developers love — Never explain another bug report again. Jam auto-captures all the info engineers need to debug and repro. Featuring: Kent C. Dodds – Website, GitHub, X Theo Browne – GitHub, LinkedIn, X Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Bluesky, Mastodon, X Show Notes: React Summit Epic Web Remix React Router T3 Stack Cursor Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Nov 29, 2024 · 1 hr 7 min
Public safety Kubernetes (Ship It! #132)
Marc Boorshtein from Tremolo Security joins Justin & Autumn to talk all about running Kubernetes in the public sector. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 8 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: System Initiative – The future of DevOps automation (is here!) — System Initiative is an intuitive, powerful, collaborative replacement for Infrastructure as Code (IaC). The free tier is awesome (no credit card required) and you can get started in 3 clicks. Retool – The low-code platform for developers to build internal tools — Some of the best teams out there trust Retool…Brex, Coinbase, Plaid, Doordash, LegalGenius, Amazon, Allbirds, Peloton, and so many more – the developers at these teams trust Retool as the platform to build their internal tools. Try it free at retool.com/changelog Timescale – Purpose-built performance for AI Build RAG, search, and AI agents on the cloud and with PostgreSQL and purpose-built extensions for AI: pgvector, pgvectorscale, and pgai. Featuring: Marc Boorshtein – GitHub, LinkedIn, X Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X Show Notes: Kubernetes Authentication and Namespace as a Service Kubernetes Authentication and SSO Introduction - External Secrets Operator Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Nov 27, 2024 · 1 hr 37 min
Let's archive the web (Changelog Interviews #619)
Nick Sweeting joins Adam and Jerod to talk about the importance of archiving digital content, his work on ArchiveBox to make it easier, the challenges faced by Archive.org and the Wayback Machine, and the need for both centralized and distributed archiving solutions. Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 5 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today! Sponsors: Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps close to your users — global Anycast load-balancing, zero-configuration private networking, hardware isolation, and instant WireGuard VPN connections. Push-button deployments that scale to thousands of instances. Check out the speedrun to get started in minutes. Timescale – Purpose-built performance for AI Build RAG, search, and AI agents on the cloud and with PostgreSQL and purpose-built extensions for AI: pgvector, pgvectorscale, and pgai. Wix Studio – Wix Sudio is for devs who build websites, sell apps, go headless, or manage clients. Integrate, extend and write custom scripts in a VS code-based IDE. Leverage zero set up dev, test and production environments. Ship faster with an AI code assistant. And work with Wix headless API’s on any tech stack. WorkOS – AuthKit offers 1,000,000 monthly active users (MAU) free — The world’s best login box, powered by WorkOS + Radix. Learn more and get started at WorkOS.com and AuthKit.com Featuring: Nick Sweeting – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: ArchiveBox ArchiveBox/abx-dl ArchiveBox/abx-pkg So you want to build a social network? The Internet Archive Loses Its Appeal of a Major Copyright Case Hachette v. Internet Archive | Electronic Frontier Foundation Fahrenheit 451 - Wikipedia Winamp Skin Museum Fiscal Sponsorship – Hack Club DigestBox Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Nov 27, 2024 · 5 min
Waymos make bad neighbors (Changelog++ 🔐) (Changelog & Friends)
Adam & Jerod hallway-track-it before our All Things Open interviews. We discuss the trend in rebooting old school vehicles, our likes & dislikes of EVs, the Hummer’s new crab walk, Tesla’s gambit & more (This episode is for Changelog++ ears only.) Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 34 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today! Sponsors: Changelog++ – You love our content and you want to take it to the next level by showing your support. We’ll take you closer to the metal with extended episodes, make the ads disappear & more. It’s better! Let’s do this Featuring: Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: Changelog++ (It’s better!) Scout Revival - YouTube “Push the Button” - YouTube Lidar - Wikipedia SUDDAR | Bobiverse Wiki Waymos make bad neighbors - YouTube Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Nov 25, 2024 · 8 min
Busting the ghost engineers (0.1x-ers) (Changelog News #122)
Ben Affleck’s take on AI replacing actors, Stanford researcher (Yegor Denisov-Blanch) busts the ghost engineers, Electrobun takes a crack at Electron apps, April King opens up a cookies can of worms, John Arundel thinks many of us are making a career ending mistake & Typogram’s CodingFont.com is like Zoolander’s Walk Off but for coding fonts. View the newsletter Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 1 minute on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps close to your users — global Anycast load-balancing, zero-configuration private networking, hardware isolation, and instant WireGuard VPN connections. Push-button deployments that scale to thousands of instances. Check out the speedrun to get started in minutes. Featuring: Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Nov 22, 2024 · 1 hr 33 min
Local-first, y/n? (Changelog & Friends #71)
Our friends Johannes Schickling & James Long join us to discuss the movement of local-first, its pros and cons, the tradeoffs, and the path to the warming waters of mostly local apps. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 11 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps close to your users — global Anycast load-balancing, zero-configuration private networking, hardware isolation, and instant WireGuard VPN connections. Push-button deployments that scale to thousands of instances. Check out the speedrun to get started in minutes. Timescale – Purpose-built performance for AI Build RAG, search, and AI agents on the cloud and with PostgreSQL and purpose-built extensions for AI: pgvector, pgvectorscale, and pgai. Eight Sleep – Up to $600 off Pod 4 Ultra — Go to eightsleep.com/changelog and use the code CHANGELOG. You can try it for free for 30 days - but we’re confident you will not want to return it (we love ours). Once you experience AI-optimized sleep, you’ll wonder how you ever slept without it. Currently shipping to: United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Europe, and Australia. WorkOS – AuthKit offers 1,000,000 monthly active users (MAU) free — The world’s best login box, powered by WorkOS + Radix. Learn more and get started at WorkOS.com and AuthKit.com Featuring: Johannes Schickling – GitHub, X James Long – Website, GitHub, X Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: James’ local-first post Bear - Markdown Notes livestorejs · GitHub ElectricSQL | Postgres sync engine Overtone Zero Sync Automerge CRDT Jazz - Build local-first apps localfirst.fm Ink & Switch define “Local-first software” Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Nov 22, 2024 · 53 min
Abstractions and implementations (Ship It! #131)
Hazel Weakly joins Justin and Autumn to talk about when to build abstractions and how to implement them. They also share experiences from tech conferences, and delve into the importance of building community and psychological safety in tech environments. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 9 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Sentry – Code breaks, fix it faster. Use the code CHANGELOG when you sign up to get $100 off the team plan. Don’t just observe. Take action. Sentry is the only app monitoring platform built for developers that gets to the root cause for every issue. 100,000+ growing teams use sentry to find problems fast. Timescale – Purpose-built performance for AI Build RAG, search, and AI agents on the cloud and with PostgreSQL and purpose-built extensions for AI: pgvector, pgvectorscale, and pgai. Retool – The low-code platform for developers to build internal tools — Some of the best teams out there trust Retool…Brex, Coinbase, Plaid, Doordash, LegalGenius, Amazon, Allbirds, Peloton, and so many more – the developers at these teams trust Retool as the platform to build their internal tools. Try it free at retool.com/changelog Featuring: Hazel Weakly – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X Show Notes: Interview Hazel on Bluesky Home baked abstractions, store bought implementations Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Nov 21, 2024 · 38 min
Unpop roundup! 2023 (Go Time #338)
Go Time producer, Jerod Santo, ranks & reviews the most (un)popular opinions of 2023. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 9 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps close to your users — global Anycast load-balancing, zero-configuration private networking, hardware isolation, and instant WireGuard VPN connections. Push-button deployments that scale to thousands of instances. Check out the speedrun to get started in minutes. Timescale – Purpose-built performance for AI Build RAG, search, and AI agents on the cloud and with PostgreSQL and purpose-built extensions for AI: pgvector, pgvectorscale, and pgai. JetBrains – Sign up for the free “Mastering Go with GoLand” course and receive a complimentary 1-year GoLand subscription at bytesizego.com/goland Featuring: Carson Gross – GitHub, X Chris James – GitHub, X Lea Anthony – GitHub, X Ole Bulbuk – Website, GitHub, X Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X Natalie Pistunovich – GitHub, X Ian Lopshire – GitHub, X Andy Walker – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X Juan Andrés Guerrero-Saade – Website, X Kaylyn Gibilterra – GitHub, X Joe Davidson – GitHub, X Matthew Boyle – Website, GitHub, X David Wickes – GitHub, X Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: Is htmx the way to Go? (Go Time #266) Cross-platform graphical user interfaces (Go Time #271) Long-term code maintenance (Go Time #264) Experiences from GopherCon 2023 (Go Time #293) What’s new in Go’s cryptography libraries: Part 2 (Go Time #298) The solo gopher (Go Time #283) HallwayConf! A new style of conference (Go Time #276) Hacking with Go: Part 4 (Go Time #270) Diversity at conferences (Go Time #274) Go templating using Templ (Go Time #291) Domain-driven design with Go (Go Time #273) Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Nov 21, 2024 · 1 hr 4 min
Nine pillars of great Node apps (JS Party #347)
Recently, four pillars of the JavaScript community (James Snell, Natalia Venditto, Michael Dawson & Matteo Collina) teamed up to create a resource that lays out nine principles for doing Node.js right in enterprise environments. On this episode, Natalia & Matteo join Jerod to discuss all nine. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 6 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Notion – Notion is a place where any team can write, plan, organize, and rediscover the joy of play. It’s a workspace designed not just for making progress, but getting inspired. Notion is for everyone — whether you’re a Fortune 500 company or freelance designer, starting a new startup or a student juggling classes and clubs. WorkOS – A platform that gives developers a set of building blocks for quickly adding enterprise-ready features to their application. Add Single Sign-On (Okta, Azure, Google, Microsoft OAuth), sync users from any SCIM directory, HRIS integration, audit trails (SIEM), free magic link sign-in. WorkOS is designed for developers and offers a single, elegant interface that abstracts dozens of enterprise integrations. Learn more and get started at WorkOS.com Jam.dev – One click bug reports developers love — Never explain another bug report again. Jam auto-captures all the info engineers need to debug and repro. Featuring: Natalia Venditto – GitHub, LinkedIn, X Matteo Collina – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: Nine Node Pillars close-with-grace TypeSpec Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Nov 20, 2024 · 1 hr 47 min
Two tickets for Departure, please (Changelog Interviews #618)
Today we’re joined by a dynamic duo, Helena Zhang & Tobias Fried, who team up on all sorts of digital passion projects. This includes the wildly popular Phosphor Icons plus their latest joint, Departure Mono, a monospaced pixel font with a lo-fi technical vibe… that both Adam & Jerod are pretty much in love with. We discuss their tastes & inspirations, how they collab, making money on passion projects like these, velvet ropes & so much more. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 10 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps close to your users — global Anycast load-balancing, zero-configuration private networking, hardware isolation, and instant WireGuard VPN connections. Push-button deployments that scale to thousands of instances. Check out the speedrun to get started in minutes. Timescale – Purpose-built performance for AI Build RAG, search, and AI agents on the cloud and with PostgreSQL and purpose-built extensions for AI: pgvector, pgvectorscale, and pgai. Wix Studio – Wix Sudio is for devs who build websites, sell apps, go headless, or manage clients. Integrate, extend and write custom scripts in a VS code-based IDE. Leverage zero set up dev, test and production environments. Ship faster with an AI code assistant. And work with Wix headless API’s on any tech stack. WorkOS – A platform that gives developers a set of building blocks for quickly adding enterprise-ready features to their application. Add Single Sign-On (Okta, Azure, Google, Microsoft OAuth), sync users from any SCIM directory, HRIS integration, audit trails (SIEM), free magic link sign-in. WorkOS is designed for developers and offers a single, elegant interface that abstracts dozens of enterprise integrations. Learn more and get started at WorkOS.com Featuring: Helena Zhang – LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Tobias Fried – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: Project sites Departure Mono Phosphor Icons Fonts mentioned Iosevka Berkeley Mono Commit Mono IBM Plex Unifont Other cool stuff A great library of old PC fonts Somebody made the game from Severance! Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Nov 19, 2024 · 52 min
scikit-learn & data science you own (Practical AI #296)
We are at GenAI saturation, so let’s talk about scikit-learn, a long time favorite for data scientists building classifiers, time series analyzers, dimensionality reducers, and more! Scikit-learn is deployed across industry and driving a significant portion of the “AI” that is actually in production. :probabl is a new kind of company that is stewarding this project along with a variety of other open source projects. Yann Lechelle and Guillaume Lemaitre share some of the vision behind the company and talk about the future of scikit-learn! Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 9 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Timescale – Purpose-built performance for AI Build RAG, search, and AI agents on the cloud and with PostgreSQL and purpose-built extensions for AI: pgvector, pgvectorscale, and pgai. WorkOS – A platform that gives developers a set of building blocks for quickly adding enterprise-ready features to their application. Add Single Sign-On (Okta, Azure, Google, Microsoft OAuth), sync users from any SCIM directory, HRIS integration, audit trails (SIEM), free magic link sign-in. WorkOS is designed for developers and offers a single, elegant interface that abstracts dozens of enterprise integrations. Learn more and get started at WorkOS.com Shopify – Sign up for a $1/month trial period at shopify.com/practicalai Featuring: Yann Lechelle – LinkedIn Guillaume Lemaitre – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X Show Notes: :probabl. TechCrunch: Probabl is a new AI company built around popular library scikit-learn scikit-learn Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Nov 18, 2024 · 8 min
AI makes tech debt more expensive (Changelog News #121)
Evan Doyle says AI makes tech debt more expensive, Hunter Ng researches the ghost job ad phenomenon, Gavin Anderegg analyzes Bluesky in light of its recent success, Martin Tournoij rants against best practices & Evan Schwartz tells us why he thinks binary vector embeddings are so cool. View the newsletter Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Sentry – Code breaks, fix it faster. Use the code CHANGELOG when you sign up to get $100 off the team plan. Don’t just observe. Take action. Sentry is the only app monitoring platform built for developers that gets to the root cause for every issue. 100,000+ growing teams use sentry to find problems fast. Featuring: Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Nov 15, 2024 · 1 hr 18 min
Bus factors & conspiracy theories (Changelog & Friends #70)
Adam & Jerod discuss the news! Our Merch sale, useful built-in macOS CLI utilities, the slow death of the hyperlink, systematically estimating a project’s bus factor, The Browser Company abandoning Arc, the Dead Internet theory & more! Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 8 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today! Sponsors: Sentry – Code breaks, fix it faster. Use the code CHANGELOG when you sign up to get $100 off the team plan. Don’t just observe. Take action. Sentry is the only app monitoring platform built for developers that gets to the root cause for every issue. 100,000+ growing teams use sentry to find problems fast. Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps close to your users — global Anycast load-balancing, zero-configuration private networking, hardware isolation, and instant WireGuard VPN connections. Push-button deployments that scale to thousands of instances. Check out the speedrun to get started in minutes. Eight Sleep – Up to $600 off Pod 4 Ultra — Go to eightsleep.com/changelog and use the code CHANGELOG. You can try it for free for 30 days - but we’re confident you will not want to return it (we love ours). Once you experience AI-optimized sleep, you’ll wonder how you ever slept without it. Currently shipping to: United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Europe, and Australia. AssemblyAI – Turn voice data into summaries with AssemblyAI’s leading Speech AI models. Built by AI experts, their Speech AI models include accurate speech-to-text for voice data (such as calls, virtual meetings, and podcasts), speaker detection, sentiment analysis, chapter detection, PII redaction, and more. Featuring: Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: Merch on sale! All Things Open AI Conference The Internet Archive is back as a read-only service after cyberattacks Useful built-in macOS command-line utilities The slow death of the hyperlink The github plugin my coworkers asked me not to write. The Bus Factor | MClare Blog A Novel Approach for Estimating Truck Factors Glass Onion (2022) - IMDb Knives Out (2019) - IMDb Arc is a dead browser walking (How-To Geek) Better version of the same story (via The Verge) You should go to conferences Links we didn’t get to IronCalc - Open-Source Spreadsheet Engine Why you’re bad at giving feedback Links discussed during BONUS++ WP Engine Tracker wpenginetracker.com Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Nov 15, 2024 · 1 hr 10 min
Hosting Hachyderm (Ship It! #130)
Preston Doster joins the show to tell us what it takes to run a Mastodon server with 55,000 accounts and 11,000 monthly active users. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 10 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Sentry – Code breaks, fix it faster. Use the code CHANGELOG when you sign up to get $100 off the team plan. Don’t just observe. Take action. Sentry is the only app monitoring platform built for developers that gets to the root cause for every issue. 100,000+ growing teams use sentry to find problems fast. System Initiative – The future of DevOps automation (is here!) — System Initiative is an intuitive, powerful, collaborative replacement for Infrastructure as Code (IaC). The free tier is awesome (no credit card required) and you can get started in 3 clicks. Timescale – Purpose-built performance for AI Build RAG, search, and AI agents on the cloud and with PostgreSQL and purpose-built extensions for AI: pgvector, pgvectorscale, and pgai. Featuring: Preston Doster – GitHub, Mastodon Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X Show Notes: Interview Hachyderm Public grafana dashboard One correction about the cost to run Hachyderm. Preston said it’s about $600/mo and after the interview emailed me to let me know it’s closer to $1000/mo Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Nov 14, 2024 · 46 min
Gotta give to get back (Changelog Interviews #617)
We’re on the main stage at THAT Conference with Danny Thompson. He has an amazing story and journey into tech. Thanks to our friends at Cloudflare for helping us get to THAT Conference earlier this year to enable this conversation. Special thanks to Nick Nisi and Clark Sell for coming in clutch and getting us the audio to ship this show! Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 9 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Sentry – Code breaks, fix it faster. Don’t just observe. Take action. Sentry is the only app monitoring platform built for developers that gets to the root cause for every issue. 100,000+ growing teams use sentry to find problems fast. Use the code CHANGELOG when you sign up to get $100 OFF the team plan. Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps close to your users — global Anycast load-balancing, zero-configuration private networking, hardware isolation, and instant WireGuard VPN connections. Push-button deployments that scale to thousands of instances. Check out the speedrun to get started in minutes. AssemblyAI – Turn voice data into summaries with AssemblyAI’s leading Speech AI models. Built by AI experts, their Speech AI models include accurate speech-to-text for voice data (such as calls, virtual meetings, and podcasts), speaker detection, sentiment analysis, chapter detection, PII redaction, and more. Featuring: Danny Thompson – GitHub, LinkedIn, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Nov 14, 2024 · 1 hr 14 min
It's all about documentation (JS Party #346)
Carmen Huidobro joins Amy, KBall & Nick on the show to talk about her work, the importance of writing docs, and her upcoming conference talk at React Summit US! Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 5 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps close to your users — global Anycast load-balancing, zero-configuration private networking, hardware isolation, and instant WireGuard VPN connections. Push-button deployments that scale to thousands of instances. Check out the speedrun to get started in minutes. Jam.dev – One click bug reports developers love — Never explain another bug report again. Jam auto-captures all the info engineers need to debug and repro. Featuring: Carmen Huidobro – Website, GitHub, X Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Bluesky, Mastodon, X Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X Amy Dutton – GitHub, X Show Notes: Divio Docs for Developers Intuitive Tooling Martin Fowler - if it hurts, do it often Declutter your JavaScript & TypeScript projects | Knip React Summit F*cking Block Syntax Bad Website Club The Annoying Site Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Nov 13, 2024 · 50 min
Creating tested, reliable AI applications (Practical AI #295)
It can be frustrating to get an AI application working amazingly well 80% of the time and failing miserably the other 20%. How can you close the gap and create something that you rely on? Chris and Daniel talk through this process, behavior testing, and the flow from prototype to production in this episode. They also talk a bit about the apparent slow down in the release of frontier models. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 10 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps close to your users — global Anycast load-balancing, zero-configuration private networking, hardware isolation, and instant WireGuard VPN connections. Push-button deployments that scale to thousands of instances. Check out the speedrun to get started in minutes. Timescale – Purpose-built performance for AI Build RAG, search, and AI agents on the cloud and with PostgreSQL and purpose-built extensions for AI: pgvector, pgvectorscale, and pgai. Eight Sleep – Up to $600 off Pod 4 Ultra Go to eightsleep.com/changelog and use the code CHANGELOG. You can try it for free for 30 days - but we’re confident you will not want to return it (we love ours). Once you experience AI-optimized sleep, you’ll wonder how you ever slept without it. Currently shipping to: United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Europe, and Australia. Featuring: Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X Show Notes: MLOps Community “Agents in Production” event Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Nov 12, 2024 · 57 min
Crawl, walk & run your way to usable CLIs in Go (Go Time #337)
With the number of libraries available to Go developers these days, you’d think building a CLI app was now a trivial matter. But like many things in software development, it depends. In this episode, we explore the challenges that arose during one team’s journey towards a production-ready CLI. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 9 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps close to your users — global Anycast load-balancing, zero-configuration private networking, hardware isolation, and instant WireGuard VPN connections. Push-button deployments that scale to thousands of instances. Check out the speedrun to get started in minutes. JetBrains – Sign up for the free “Mastering Go with GoLand” course and receive a complimentary 1-year GoLand subscription at bytesizego.com/goland Retool – The low-code platform for developers to build internal tools — Some of the best teams out there trust Retool…Brex, Coinbase, Plaid, Doordash, LegalGenius, Amazon, Allbirds, Peloton, and so many more – the developers at these teams trust Retool as the platform to build their internal tools. Try it free at retool.com/changelog Featuring: Wesley Beary – GitHub, LinkedIn, X Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X Show Notes: How Anchor developed a CLI and the tools that helped along the way. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Nov 11, 2024 · 9 min
The democratization of spreadsheets (Changelog News #120)
Changelog Merch is now on sale, IronCalc sets out to democratize spreadsheets, Grant Slatton writes about algorithms we develop software by, Mark Rainey gives respect to the ultimate in debugging, Gitpod is leaving Kubernetes & Johannes Kaufmann’s html-to-markdown converts entire websites into Markdown. View the newsletter Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 2 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps close to your users — global Anycast load-balancing, zero-configuration private networking, hardware isolation, and instant WireGuard VPN connections. Push-button deployments that scale to thousands of instances. Check out the speedrun to get started in minutes. Featuring: Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X