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Jul 8, 2024 · 8 min
Programming advice for my younger self (Changelog News #102)
Marcus Buffett writes his younger self programming advice, Swyx asks and answers whether or not DevRel is dead, the Ghost team opens up their ActivityPub server, Pongo is like MongoDB but on Postgres, Jack Kelly is funding Ladybird because he can’t fund Firefox & Hyrum’s Law. View the newsletter Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 1 minute on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Neon – Fleets of Postgres! Enterprises use Neon to operate hundreds of thousands of Postgres databases: Automated, instant provisioning of the world’s most popular database. Featuring: Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jul 6, 2024 · 1 hr 11 min
What happened to open source (Ship It! #111)
Gareth Greenaway from the Salt project joins us for a trip down memory lane with configuration management and why open source projects have changed over the past decade. 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. 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. 90,000+ growing teams use sentry to find problems fast. Use the code CHANGELOG when you sign up to get $100 OFF the team plan. 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: Gareth Greenaway – GitHub, Mastodon Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X Show Notes: Interview Gareth Greenaway SCaLE Salt project Outro The serverless illusion Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Jul 5, 2024 · 1 hr 29 min
A different kind of rug pull (Changelog & Friends #51)
Adam & Jerod discuss the news! But first, we discuss how you can keep up with the software world (good question, Tyler Boyd!) On the docket: Developer job postings trend, the Ladybird Browser Initiative, the Polyfill.js supply chain attack & is the future self-hosted? Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 15 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. 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. 90,000+ growing teams use sentry to find problems fast. Use the code CHANGELOG when you sign up to get $100 OFF the team plan. 1Password – Build securely with 1Password - 1Password simplifies how you securely use, manage, and integrate developer credentials. Manage SSH keys and sign Git commits. Access secrets stored in 1Password. Automate administrative tasks. Integrate with third-party tools. Also, check out our INFRASTRUCTURE.md file for more details on how we do secrets with 1Password. Neon – Fleets of Postgres! Enterprises use Neon to operate hundreds of thousands of Postgres databases: Automated, instant provisioning of the world’s most popular database. Featuring: Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: Software Development Job Postings on Indeed in the United States Announcing the Ladybird Browser Initiative Chris Wanstrath’s announcement Polyfill supply chain attack hits 100K+ sites The future is self-hosted BONUS++ Doggo – CLI DNS client for humans Doggo on Socket Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Jul 4, 2024 · 51 min
A standard library for JavaScript (JS Party #329)
Philipp Burckhardt, Athan Reines & the team behind stdlib.io believe in a future in which the web is a preferred environment for numerical computation. They’ve been working toward building that future for over a decade. Thanks to listener, Brian Zelip, Jerod sits down with Philipp to learn all about this excellent effort: where it’s been & where it’s headed. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 5 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Speakeasy – Production-ready, Enterprise-resilient, best-in-class SDKs crafted in minutes. Speakeasy takes care of the entire SDK workflow to save you significant time, delivering SDKs to your customers in minutes with just a few clicks! Create your first SDK for free! Changelog News – A podcast+newsletter combo that’s brief, entertaining & always on-point. Subscribe today. Featuring: Philipp Burckhardt – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: stdlib.io stdlib on GitHub Take the Community Survey! Request an episode! Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Jul 3, 2024 · 1 hr 3 min
Dependencies are dangerous (Go Time #321)
Dependencies! We need them, but how do we use them effectively and safely? In this week’s episode Kris is joined by Ian and Johnny to discuss the polyfill.io supply chain attack, the history of dependency management and usage in Go, and the Go Proverb that “a little copying is better than a little dependency”. Of course, we wrap up the episode with some Unpopular Opinions! Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 5 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Speakeasy – Production-ready, Enterprise-resilient, best-in-class SDKs crafted in minutes. Speakeasy takes care of the entire SDK workflow to save you significant time, delivering SDKs to your customers in minutes with just a few clicks! Create your first SDK for free! Featuring: Kris Brandow – GitHub, X Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X Ian Lopshire – GitHub, X Show Notes: Polyfill.io supply chain attack hits 100,000+ websites — all you need to know How Go Mitigates Supply Chain Attacks Go Proverbs A little copying is better than a little dependency Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Jul 3, 2024 · 1 hr 12 min
Code review anxiety (Changelog Interviews #598)
Carol Lee (Clinical Scientist) shares her research on code review anxiety. We dive deep into her recent research paper “Understanding and Effectively Mitigating Code Review Anxiety”. We get into all the nooks and crannies of this topic — common code review myths, strategies for coping, the need for awareness and self-reflection, the value of exposure and practice to build confidence, the importance of team dynamics, respect, empathy, and connection, and more. This show is jam-packed with goodies for everyone…and we even give a nod to the work we did on our podcast Brain Science. Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 3 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. 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. 90,000+ growing teams use sentry to find problems fast. Use the code CHANGELOG when you sign up to get $100 OFF the team plan. 1Password – Build securely with 1Password - 1Password simplifies how you securely use, manage, and integrate developer credentials. Manage SSH keys and sign Git commits. Access secrets stored in 1Password. Automate administrative tasks. Integrate with third-party tools. Also, check out our INFRASTRUCTURE.md file for more details on how we do secrets with 1Password. ExpressVPN – Stop handing over your personal data to ISPs and other tech giants who mine your activity and sell off your information. Protect yourself with ExpressVPN. Go to ExpressVPN.com/changelog and get three (3) extra months free. Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs. Featuring: Carol Lee – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: Get in touch with Carol at carolslee29--at--gmail.com Carol’s research paper Understanding and Effectively Mitigating Code Review Anxiety Code Review Anxiety Workbook Developer Success Lab (or also) Brain Science Margin: Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial, and Time Reserves to Overloaded Lives Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Jul 2, 2024 · 47 min
Stanford's AI Index Report 2024 (Practical AI #276)
We’ve had representatives from Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) on the show in the past, but we were super excited to talk through their 2024 AI Index Report after such a crazy year in AI! Nestor from HAI joins us in this episode to talk about some of the main takeaways including how AI makes workers more productive, the US is increasing regulations sharply, and industry continues to dominate frontier AI research. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 3 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Plumb – Low-code AI pipeline builder that helps you build complex AI pipelines fast. Easily create AI pipelines using their node-based editor. Iterate and deploy faster and more reliably than coding by hand, without sacrificing control. Featuring: Nestor Maslej – LinkedIn, X Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X Show Notes: Stanford HAI 2024 AI Index Report Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Jul 1, 2024 · 7 min
The scariest chart in all of software (Changelog News #101)
Software developer jobs are trending down, the creator of dotenv creates a better dotenv, the Chrome team puts Gemini Nano AI model right inside your browser, a pollyfill.js supply chain attack hits 100k+ sites & Steph Ango asks, “What can we remove?” 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. 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. 90,000+ growing teams use sentry to find problems fast. Use the code CHANGELOG when you sign up to get $100 OFF the team plan. Featuring: Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jun 29, 2024 · 1 hr 16 min
The Kubernetes of Lambda (Ship It! #110)
Bailey Hayes & Taylor Thomas from Cosmonic join the show for a look at WebAssembly Standard Interfaces (WASI) and trade-offs for portable interfaces. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 12 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Neon – Fleets of Postgres! Enterprises use Neon to operate hundreds of thousands of Postgres databases: Automated, instant provisioning of the world’s most popular database. 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: Bailey Hayes – GitHub, LinkedIn, X Taylor Thomas – GitHub, X Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X Show Notes: WebAssembly Bytecode Alliance WebAssembly System Interface (WASI) wasmCloud Request For Comments (RFC) About RFCs Common network RFCs Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Jun 28, 2024 · 1 hr 39 min
Kaizen! NOT a pipe dream (Changelog & Friends #50)
Welcome to Kaizen 15! We go deep on the big Changelog News redesign, give shout outs to folks who’ve helped us along the way & Gerhard takes us on his journey to turn Jerod’s pipe dream into a reality! Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 7 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today! Sponsors: Cronitor – Cronitor helps you understand your cron jobs. Capture the status, metrics, and output from every cron job and background process. Name and organize each job, and ensure the right people are alerted when something goes wrong. 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 Neon – Fleets of Postgres! Enterprises use Neon to operate hundreds of thousands of Postgres databases: Automated, instant provisioning of the world’s most popular database. Featuring: Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: Discussion #511: 🎧 Kaizen 15 - changelog.com/friends/50 Navel gazing on Wikipedia Omphaloskepsis on #define: game theory, dude Pull Request #510: News redesign Pull Request #517: 29 reasons to subscribe to Changelog News Pull Request #513: Remove # from episode numbers in commit messages Pull Request #516: Trace GitHub Actions Workflows Support for HTTPS tracing protocol corentinmusard/otel-cicd-action worldpagespeed.fly.dev pipedream.changelog.com 🎬 Let’s build a CDN Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Jun 27, 2024 · 58 min
React Native the Expo way (JS Party #328)
Jerod sits down with React Native aficionado, Simon Grimm, to catch up on everyone’s favorite native app platform & learn about Expo, which Simon thinks is the way forward for devs building with React Native. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 10 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Socket – Secure your supply chain and ship with confidence. Install the GitHub app, book a demo or learn more Neon – Fleets of Postgres! Enterprises use Neon to operate hundreds of thousands of Postgres databases: Automated, instant provisioning of the world’s most popular database. Featuring: Simon Grimm – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: React Native Expo Galaxies.dev Simon’s YouTube channel Tamagui — React Native + Web UI kit facebook/react-strict-dom Evan Bacon Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Jun 26, 2024 · 1 hr 32 min
MAJOR.SEMVER.PATCH (Changelog Interviews #597)
Predrag Gruevski and Chris Krycho joined the show to talk about SemVer. We explore the challenges and the advantages of semantic versioning (aka SemVer), the need for improving the tooling around SemVer, where semantic versioning really shines and where it’s needed, Types and SemVer, whether or not there’s a better way, and why it’s not as simple as just opting out. Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 7 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today! Sponsors: Socket – Secure your supply chain and ship with confidence. Install the GitHub app, book a demo or learn more 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 ExpressVPN – Stop handing over your personal data to ISPs and other tech giants who mine your activity and sell off your information. Protect yourself with ExpressVPN. Go to ExpressVPN.com/changelog and get three (3) extra months free. Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs. Featuring: Predrag Gruevski – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X Chris Krycho – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: cargo-semver-checks Hyrum’s Law unison-lang.org TrueNAS SCALE React Versioning Policy Ubuntu version history semver-ts.org - Semantic Versioning for TypeScript Types The Wi-Fi only works when it’s raining April Cools obi1kenobi/trustfall How to Query Almost Everything (with Trustfall) - 10min tech talk More than 1 in 6 of the top Rust libraries has broken SemVer by accident How cargo-semver-checks works & why it’s important Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Jun 25, 2024 · 45 min
Apple Intelligence & Advanced RAG (Practical AI #275)
Daniel & Chris engage in an impromptu discussion of the state of AI in the enterprise. Then they dive into the recent Apple Intelligence announcement to explore its implications. Finally, Daniel leads a deep dive into a new topic - Advanced RAG - covering everything you need to know to be practical & productive. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 6 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Neo4j – Is your code getting dragged down by JOINs and long query times? The problem might be your database…Try simplifying the complex with graphs. Stop asking relational databases to do more than they were made for. Graphs work well for use cases with lots of data connections like supply chain, fraud detection, real-time analytics, and genAI. With Neo4j, you can code in your favorite programming language and against any driver. Plus, it’s easy to integrate into your tech stack. Plumb – Low-code AI pipeline builder that helps you build complex AI pipelines fast. Easily create AI pipelines using their node-based editor. Iterate and deploy faster and more reliably than coding by hand, without sacrificing control. Backblaze – Unlimited cloud backup for Macs, PCs, and businesses for just $99/year. Easily protect business data through a centrally managed admin. Protect all the data on your machines automatically. Easy to deploy across multiple workstations with various deployment options. Featuring: Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X Show Notes: Apple Intelligence Introducing Apple Intelligence, the personal intelligence system that puts powerful generative models at the core of iPhone, iPad, and Mac The top AI features Apple announced at WWDC 2024 Hybrid Search: Combining BM25 and Semantic Search for Better Results with Langchain Advanced RAG: Precise Zero-Shot Dense Retrieval with HyDE Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Jun 25, 2024 · 41 min
Gophers Say! GopherCon EU Berlin 2024 (Go Time #320)
Our award winning worthy survey game show is back, this time Mat Ryer hosts it live on stage at GopherCon EU Berlin 2024! Join in & play along as we see which team can better guess what these GopherCon gophers had to say! Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 6 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Speakeasy – Production-ready, Enterprise-resilient, best-in-class SDKs crafted in minutes. Speakeasy takes care of the entire SDK workflow to save you significant time, delivering SDKs to your customers in minutes with just a few clicks! Create your first SDK for free! Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs. Featuring: Cameron Balahan – X Chioma Onyekpere – GitHub, LinkedIn, X Ron Evans – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X Travis Cline – GitHub, X Paula Babbicola – GitHub, Mastodon, X Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X Show Notes: Moar dev game shows! Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Jun 24, 2024 · 10 min
Please let this be Peak LLM (Changelog News #100)
Søren Fuglede Jørgensen builds a font thats also an LLM, Hugo Landau writes about the demise of the mildly dynamic website, SQL Studio is the simplest little database explorer ever, Mathew Duggan reviews GitHub Copilot Workspace & Stephan Schmidt lays out the case against mocking + what to do instead. View the newsletter Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: FireHydrant – The alerting and on-call tool designed for humans, not systems. Signals puts teams at the center, giving you ultimate control over rules, policies, and schedules. No need to configure your services or do wonky work-arounds. Signals filters out the noise, alerting you only on what matters. Manage coverage requests and on-call notifications effortlessly within Slack. But here’s the game-changer…Signals natively integrates with FireHydrant’s full incident management suite, so as soon as you’re alerted you can seamlessly kickoff and manage your entire incident inside a single platform. Learn more or switch today at firehydrant.com/signals Featuring: Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jun 21, 2024 · 1 hr 41 min
Where DOESN’T curl run (Changelog & Friends #49)
Daniel Stenberg shares his guiding principles for BDFL’ing curl, gives us his perspective on the state of the internet, talks financial independence, ensuring curl won’t be the next XZ & more! Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 7 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today! Sponsors: Socket – Secure your supply chain and ship with confidence. Install the GitHub app, book a demo or learn more Neon – Fleets of Postgres! Enterprises use Neon to operate hundreds of thousands of Postgres databases: Automated, instant provisioning of the world’s most popular database. 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. 90,000+ growing teams use sentry to find problems fast. Use the code CHANGELOG when you sign up to get $100 OFF the team plan. Featuring: Daniel Stenberg – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: curl turns 26 today My BDFL guiding principles The I in LLM stands for intelligence tiny-curl Verified curl How to verify a curl release github.com/curl/trurl Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Jun 21, 2024 · 1 hr 13 min
How to build a Nushell (Ship It! #109)
Devyn Cairns & Jakub Žádník join Justin & Autumn to talk about building a new kind of cross-platform shell that provides easy extensions with traditional command compatibility. That’s no easy feat! Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 11 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. 90,000+ growing teams use sentry to find problems fast. Use the code CHANGELOG when you sign up to get $100 OFF the team plan. Neon – Fleets of Postgres! Enterprises use Neon to operate hundreds of thousands of Postgres databases: Automated, instant provisioning of the world’s most popular database. Featuring: Devyn Cairns – GitHub, X Jakub Žádník – GitHub, Mastodon Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X Show Notes: Intro Nu Shell iBook iPad cases What the distro Rhino Linux Diamond Linux-TT Pardus 4M Linux q4os Accessible Coconut Dragonfly BSD Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Jun 20, 2024 · 1 hr 29 min
Polypane-demonium (JS Party #327)
Polypane purveyor Kilian Valkhof joins Nick & Jerod to tell us all about his efforts building a web browser just for web development. We cover it all: from the business concerns, to the technical details, to his excellent choice not to use TypeScript! We even sneak in a feature request that already made its way into this excellent dev tool for ambitious web developers. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 10 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Socket – Secure your supply chain and ship with confidence. Install the GitHub app, book a demo or learn more Neon – Fleets of Postgres! Enterprises use Neon to operate hundreds of thousands of Postgres databases: Automated, instant provisioning of the world’s most popular database. Featuring: Kilian Valkhof – GitHub, LinkedIn, X Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Bluesky, Mastodon, X Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: What do we want from a web browser?(Friends #14) You have how many open tabs?! (Friends #29) Core web vitals Polypane Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Jun 19, 2024 · 1 hr 29 min
Securing GitHub (Changelog Interviews #596)
Jacob DePriest, VP and Deputy Chief Security Officer at GitHub, joins the show this week to talk about securing GitHub. From Artifact Attestations, profile hardening, preventing XZ-like attacks, GitHub Advanced Security, code scanning, improving Dependabot, and more. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 14 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Socket – Secure your supply chain and ship with confidence. Install the GitHub app, book a demo or learn more Neon – Fleets of Postgres! Enterprises use Neon to operate hundreds of thousands of Postgres databases: Automated, instant provisioning of the world’s most popular database. Cronitor – Cronitor helps you understand your cron jobs. Capture the status, metrics, and output from every cron job and background process. Name and organize each job, and ensure the right people are alerted when something goes wrong. Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs. Featuring: Jacob DePriest – GitHub, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: Where does your software (really) come from? Keeping secrets out of public repositories GitHub Advanced Security Dependabot Introducing Artifact Attestations–now in public beta Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) 😶‍🌫️ Who in the world is Jia Tan?! Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Jun 19, 2024 · 46 min
The perplexities of information retrieval (Practical AI #274)
Daniel & Chris sit down with Denis Yarats, Co-founder & CTO at Perplexity, to discuss Perplexity’s sophisticated AI-driven answer engine. Denis outlines some of the deficiencies in search engines, and how Perplexity’s approach to information retrieval improves on traditional search engine systems, with a focus on accuracy and validation of the information provided. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 6 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Neo4j – Is your code getting dragged down by JOINs and long query times? The problem might be your database…Try simplifying the complex with graphs. Stop asking relational databases to do more than they were made for. Graphs work well for use cases with lots of data connections like supply chain, fraud detection, real-time analytics, and genAI. With Neo4j, you can code in your favorite programming language and against any driver. Plus, it’s easy to integrate into your tech stack. Backblaze – Unlimited cloud backup for Macs, PCs, and businesses for just $99/year. Easily protect business data through a centrally managed admin. Protect all the data on your machines automatically. Easy to deploy across multiple workstations with various deployment options. NordVPN – Get NordVPN 2Y plan + 4 months extra at nordvpn.com/practicalai It’s risk-free with Nord’s 30-day money-back guarantee. Featuring: Denis Yarats – LinkedIn, X Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X Show Notes: Perplexity Perplexity | Blog Perplexity | Getting Started Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!