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  • Mar 6, 2024 · 42 min

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

    While everyone is super hyped about generative AI, computer vision researchers have been working in the background on significant advancements in deep learning architectures. YOLOv9 was just released with some noteworthy advancements relevant to parameter efficient models. In this episode, Chris and Daniel dig into the details and also discuss advancements in parameter efficient LLMs, such as Microsofts 1-Bit LLMs and Qualcomm’s new AI Hub. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 3 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Changelog News – A podcast+newsletter combo that’s brief, entertaining & always on-point. Subscribe today. 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. Sentry – Launch week! New features and products all week long (so get comfy)! Tune in to Sentry’s YouTube and Discord daily at 9am PT to hear the latest scoop. Too busy? No problem - enter your email address to receive all the announcements (and win swag along the way). Use the code CHANGELOG when you sign up to get $100 OFF the team plan. Typesense – Lightning fast, globally distributed Search-as-a-Service that runs in memory. You literally can’t get any faster! Featuring: Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X Show Notes: YOLOv9: Yolov9: Learning What You Want to Learn Using Programmable Gradient Information Yolov9 Object Detection with Programmable Gradient Information (PGI) and Generalized Efficient Yolov9: A Comprehensive Guide and Custom Dataset Fine-Tuning YOLOv9 SOTA Machine Learning Object Detection Model YOLOv9 Unleashing the Power of YOLOv9 YOLOv9 with NNCF and OpenVINO ArXiv:2402.13616 Parameter efficient LLMs: Hugging Face Paper page, 1-Bit LLMs ArXiv paper: “The Era of 1-bit LLMs: All Large Language Models are in 1.58 Bits” Qualcomm AI Hub Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

  • Mar 5, 2024 · 1 hr 16 min

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

    We’re all thinking about it and wondering if our job is safe from AI. Maybe. Maybe not. In this episode Johnny Boursiquot is joined some industry veterans who have been through multiple innovation cycles to share their insights and advice on this subject. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 2 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Changelog News – A podcast+newsletter combo that’s brief, entertaining & always on-point. Subscribe today. 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. Sentry – Launch week! New features and products all week long (so get comfy)! Tune in to Sentry’s YouTube and Discord daily at 9am PT to hear the latest scoop. Too busy? No problem - enter your email address to receive all the announcements (and win swag along the way). Use the code CHANGELOG when you sign up to get $100 OFF the team plan. Typesense – Lightning fast, globally distributed Search-as-a-Service that runs in memory. You literally can’t get any faster! Featuring: Kent Quirk – GitHub, Mastodon, X Sharon DiOrio – X Steven Pyle – LinkedIn Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X Show Notes: Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

  • Mar 4, 2024 · 8 min

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

    Apple backs off killing web apps (but the fight continues), Luka Kladaric writes about how to ship quality software in hostile environments, Deno’s new package registry is an npm superset, Martin Fowler on the value of periodic face-to-face & Eugene Ghanizadeh wants us to get more decentralized than the Fediverse. Leave us nice words! 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 – Launch week! New features and products all week long (so get comfy)! Tune in to Sentry’s YouTube and Discord daily at 9am PT to hear the latest scoop. Too busy? No problem - enter your email address to receive all the announcements (and win swag along the way). Use the code CHANGELOG when you sign up to get $100 OFF the team plan. Featuring: Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

  • Mar 1, 2024 · 1 hr 6 min

    Hybrid infrastructure load balancing (Ship It! #93)

    Wanny Morellato & Deepak Mohandas from Kong join Justin & Autumn to discuss building, testing & running a load balancer that can run anywhere. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 5 minutes on this episode because they made 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 Changelog News – A podcast+newsletter combo that’s brief, entertaining & always on-point. Subscribe today. 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: Wanny Morellato – GitHub, LinkedIn, X Deepak Mohandas – LinkedIn Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X Show Notes: Infrastructure regrets and endorsements after 4 years Reddit signing deal with AI company This Week I Learned (TWIL): Conventional Commits Threat model cookbook Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

  • Mar 1, 2024 · 1 hr 31 min

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

    The Zed text editor has come a long way since Nathan Sobo came on the show last year to tell us about this follow-up to Atom. Zed is open source now, has the underpinnings of collaboration built in, is beginning its journey toward full extensibility, is coming to Linux soon & shows serious promise if Nathan’s team can mix their secret sauce just right. Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 47 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today! Sponsors: Tailscale – Adam loves Tailscale! Tailscale is programmable networking software that’s private and secure by default. It’s the easiest way to connect devices and services to each other, wherever they are. Secure, remote access to production, databases, servers, kubernetes, and more. Try Tailscale for free for up to 100 devices and 3 users at changelog.com/tailscale, no credit card required. Sentry – Launch week! New features and products all week long (so get comfy)! Tune in to Sentry’s YouTube and Discord daily at 9am PT to hear the latest scoop. Too busy? No problem - enter your email address to receive all the announcements (and win swag along the way). Use the code CHANGELOG when you sign up to get $100 OFF the team plan. Factor – 50% off Factor ready-made meals! Pick your ready-made meals, choose from 35+ fresh, never-frozen meals and 55+ add-ons, every week. Gourmet chefs prepare your meals, so you can enjoy more of your time to focus! Heat, eat & enjoy — No prep. No mess. Factor meals arrive ready to heat and eat in 2 minutes. Learn more at factormeals.com/changelog50 Featuring: Nathan Sobo – GitHub, X Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: Zed.dev Goodbye Atom. Hello Zed. (The Changelog #531) Introducing Channels for Collaboration Zed is now open source User themes now in Preview Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

  • Feb 29, 2024 · 56 min

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

    Nick delves into the intricacies of technical book writing with authors Adrienne Braganza Tacke and Dylan Hildenbrand. We talk about the process of working with a publisher, coming up with an outline, actually writing the book, and everything that comes after the book is finished. 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 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. Changelog News – A podcast+newsletter combo that’s brief, entertaining & always on-point. Subscribe today. Featuring: Adrienne Braganza Tacke – GitHub, LinkedIn, X Dylan Hildenbrand – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Bluesky, Mastodon, X Show Notes: Adrienne’s books Looks Good to Me: Constructive Code Reviews Coding for Kids: Python: Learn to Code with 50 Awesome Games and Activities Dylan’s book SvelteKit Up and Running Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

  • Feb 28, 2024 · 1 hr 18 min

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

    This week Adam is joined by Quinn Slack, CEO of Sourcegraph for a “2 years later” catch up from his last appearance on Founders Talk. This conversation is a real glimpse into what it takes to be CEO of Sourcegraph in an era when code intelligence is shifting more and more into the AI realm, how they’ve been driving towards this for years, the subtle human leveling up we’re all experiencing, the direction of Sourcegraph as a result — and Quinn also shares his order of operations when it comes to understanding the daily state of their growth. Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 9 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today! Sponsors: CrabNebula Cloud – CrabNebula Cloud is here! Distribute Tauri apps and Electron apps with best in class updater. At the heart of CrabNebula Cloud is a purpose-built CDN ready for global scale, and secure updates as a first-class citizen. Learn more at crabnebula.dev/cloud Tailscale – Adam loves Tailscale! Tailscale is programmable networking software that’s private and secure by default. It’s the easiest way to connect devices and services to each other, wherever they are. Secure, remote access to production, databases, servers, kubernetes, and more. Try Tailscale for free for up to 100 devices and 3 users at changelog.com/tailscale, no credit card required. imgproxy – imgproxy is open source an optimizes images for the web on the fly. It makes websites and apps blazing fast while saving storage and SaaS costs. It uses the world’s fastest image processing library under the hood — libvips. It is screaming fast and has a tiny memory footprint. 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: Quinn Slack – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: Sourcegraph.com Cody from Sourcegraph Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

  • Feb 28, 2024 · 39 min

    Dance Party (Changelog Interviews)

    Listen to our newest album called Dance Party as a podcast! This is an EPIC bundle of BMC bangers. We double dog dare you to listen and try NOT to dance 🕺 Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Breakmaster Cylinder – Website, X Show Notes: Buy on Apple Music Buy on Bandcamp Stream on Spotify Stream on Apple Music Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

  • Feb 28, 2024 · 43 min

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

    Recently, we briefly mentioned the concept of “Activation Hacking” in the episode with Karan from Nous Research. In this fully connected episode, Chris and Daniel dive into the details of this model control mechanism, also called “representation engineering”. Of course, they also take time to discuss the new Sora model from OpenAI. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 4 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. Visit Neo4j.com/developer to get started. Changelog News – A podcast+newsletter combo that’s brief, entertaining & always on-point. Subscribe today. 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: Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X Show Notes: Data synthesis for SOTA LLMs with Karan Malhotra from Nous Research (Practical AI #255) Article: Representation Engineering Mistral-7B an Acid Trip OpenAI Sora Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

  • Feb 27, 2024 · 58 min

    Creating art & visualizations with Go (Go Time #305)

    Angelica is joined by the wonderful Anthony Starks to discuss creative coding to create art & visualizations with Go. Anthony is an independent developer/designer interested in data visualization, generative art, building tools & combining art + code. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 5 minutes on this episode because they made 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 Changelog News – A podcast+newsletter combo that’s brief, entertaining & always on-point. Subscribe today. 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: Anthony Starks – GitHub, LinkedIn, X Angelica Hill – GitHub, LinkedIn, X Show Notes: GENUARY Anthony’s Speaker Deck Du Bois Visualization Challenge: 2024 decksh: a little language for presentations, visualizations, and information displays W. E. B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America African American Photographs Assembled for 1900 Paris Exposition dchart: dchart makes charts using deck markup Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

  • Feb 26, 2024 · 6 min

    Natural Language Programming (Changelog News #83)

    GPTScript is a new scripting language to automate your interactions with LLMs, Adam Wiggins conducts a retrospective on Muse, Nikita Prokopov surveyed a bunch of popular websites to see how much JS they loaded on their pages, Pages CMS is a no-hassle CMS for GitHub pages & Jim Nielsen writes about the subversive hyperlink. View the newsletter Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make 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. Visit Neo4j.com/developer to get started. Featuring: Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

  • Feb 23, 2024 · 1 hr 55 min

    Brewing up something for work (Changelog & Friends #32)

    Mike McQuaid, maintainer of Homebrew, and now CTO at Workbrew joins us to discuss open tabs, social media spam and distractions, TikTok’s addictive nature, Apple Vision Pro and its potential future, the maintenance of software, the swing back to old school web development, the value of telemetry in open source projects, Mike’s ongoing involvement in Homebrew and what they’re working on at Workbrew, Homebrew’s relationship with Apple, the importance of developer experience, and sooo much more. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 9 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Sentry – Launch week! New features and products all week long (so get comfy)! Tune in to Sentry’s YouTube and Discord daily at 9am PT to hear the latest scoop. Too busy? No problem - enter your email address to receive all the announcements (and win swag along the way). Use the code CHANGELOG when you sign up to get $100 OFF the team plan. imgproxy – imgproxy is open source an optimizes images for the web on the fly. It makes websites and apps blazing fast while saving storage and SaaS costs. It uses the world’s fastest image processing library under the hood — libvips. It is screaming fast and has a tiny memory footprint. 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: Mike McQuaid – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: Spam attack on Twitter/X rival Mastodon highlights ‘fediverse’ vulnerabilities brew.sh Workbrew.com Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

  • Feb 23, 2024 · 1 hr 8 min

    Shipping in SPAAAACCEEE (Ship It! #92)

    What do you do when your infrastructure runs 1000 miles away and you only have access every 90 minutes? Find out from Andrew Guenther from Orbital Sidekick. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 9 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Synadia – Join the NATS community for RethinkConn 2024 Sentry – Launch week! New features and products all week long (so get comfy)! Tune in to Sentry’s YouTube and Discord daily at 9am PT to hear the latest scoop. Too busy? No problem - enter your email address to receive all the announcements (and win swag along the way). 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 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: Andrew Guenther – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X Show Notes: Moving away from AWS CDK $25 million deep fake heist Orbital Side Kick (OSK) Dog Doggo NASA open source library Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

  • Feb 22, 2024 · 1 hr 13 min

    Who's that girl? It's Jess! (JS Party #313)

    Apple kills EU web apps, Amazon launches a JS runtime optimized for serverless workloads & we play a game of 20 (15) questions to welcome Jessica Sachs to the party! Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 4 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today! Sponsors: Vercel – Zero configuration for over 35 frameworks Vercel is the Frontend Cloud makes it easy for any team to deploy their apps. Today, you can get a 14-day free trial of Vercel Pro, or get a customized Enterprise demo from their team. Visit vercel.com/changelogpod to get started. PowerSync – Don’t build your own sync layer! PowerSync enables an offline-first architecture to make your application real-time and reactive. PowerSync is framework agnostic with open source client SDKs and plugs into your existing database, backend, and application to give you an offline-first/local-first architecture without having to build your own sync layer. 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: Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Amal Hussein – GitHub, X Christopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X Jessica Sachs – Website, GitHub, X Show Notes: Take the OWA survey ASAP! It’s Official, Apple Kills Web Apps in the EU Arc from The Browser Company LLRT: Amazon’s new JS runtime QuickJS Introducing Tempo • A new date library for JS/TS Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

  • Feb 21, 2024 · 1 hr 12 min

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

    Today we speak with Ellie Huxtable, the creator of a magical open source tool for syncing, searching & backing up your shell history. Along the way we learn all about the sync service, why she likes Rust, the branding / marketing of the project, how she quit her job to work on it full time, the business model & so much more. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 13 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Sentry – Launch week! New features and products all week long (so get comfy)! Tune in to Sentry’s YouTube and Discord daily at 9am PT to hear the latest scoop. Too busy? No problem - enter your email address to receive all the announcements (and win swag along the way). Use the code CHANGELOG when you sign up to get $100 OFF the team plan. Synadia – Take NATS to the next level via a global, multi-cloud, multi-geo and extensible service, fully managed by Synadia. They take care of all the infrastructure, management, monitoring, and maintenance for you so you can focus on building exceptional distributed applications. imgproxy – imgproxy is open source an optimizes images for the web on the fly. It makes websites and apps blazing fast while saving storage and SaaS costs. It uses the world’s fastest image processing library under the hood — libvips. It is screaming fast and has a tiny memory footprint. 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: Ellie Huxtable – Website, Mastodon, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: Atuin Efficient Linux at the CLI with Daniel J. Barrett (Changelog Interviews #547) Here’s how to quickly navigate your shell’s history of commands RVM and Ruby Version Managment with Michal Papis (Changelog Interviews #102) thoughtbot/rcm: rc file (dotfile) management ivaaaan/smug: Session manager and task runner for tmux RVM Wayne Seguin RVM and BDSM (Changelog Interviews #66) Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

  • Feb 20, 2024 · 1 hr

    Foundations of Go performance (Go Time #304)

    In the first of a multi-part series, Ian & Johnny are joined by Miriah Peterson & Bryan Boreham to peel back the first layer of the things that matter when it comes to the performance of your Go programs. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: 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: Miriah Peterson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X Bryan Boreham – X Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X Ian Lopshire – GitHub, X Show Notes: The return of Ship it! Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

  • Feb 20, 2024 · 52 min

    Leading the charge on AI in National Security (Practical AI #257)

    Chris & Daniel explore AI in national security with Lt. General Jack Shanahan (USAF, Ret.). The conversation reflects Jack’s unique background as the only senior U.S. military officer responsible for standing up and leading two organizations in the United States Department of Defense (DoD) dedicated to fielding artificial intelligence capabilities: Project Maven and the DoD Joint AI Center (JAIC). Together, Jack, Daniel & Chris dive into the fascinating details of Jack’s recent written testimony to the U.S. Senate’s AI Insight Forum on National Security, in which he provides the U.S. government with thoughtful guidance on how to achieve the best path forward with artificial intelligence. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 4 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Shopify – Sign up for a $1/month trial period at shopify.com/practicalai 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: Jack Shanahan – LinkedIn Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X Show Notes: Gen AI Master class Written Testimony of Lieutenant General John (Jack) N.T. Shanahan (USAF, Ret.) AI Insight Forum: National Security Software Defined Warfare: Architecting the DOD’s Transition to the Digital Age Artificial Intelligence and Geopolitics:vHitching the Disruptive Technology Cart to the Geopolitics Horse | LinkedIn Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) | Wikipedia Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

  • Feb 19, 2024 · 7 min

    Quantum computing gets a reality check (Changelog News #82)

    Ship It is back! IEEE Spectrum writes about quantum computing’s reality check, Maxim Dounin announces freenginx, Nadia Asparouhova goes deep on AI & the “effective accelerationism” movement, Angie Byron helps first time open source contributors avoid common pitfalls & Miroslav Nikolov writes up his advice for high-risk refactoring. View the newsletter Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make 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. Visit Neo4j.com/developer to get started. Featuring: Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

  • Feb 17, 2024 · 1 hr 29 min

    Yeeting stuff into public (Changelog & Friends #31)

    Jamie Tanna (who has a website) joins us to discuss the indie web, living with ADHD, sharing his salary history with the world & building DMD – a dynamite open source tool to help you better understand the use of dependencies across your org. Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 16 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today! Sponsors: Vercel – Zero configuration for over 35 frameworks Vercel is the Frontend Cloud makes it easy for any team to deploy their apps. Today, you can get a 14-day free trial of Vercel Pro, or get a customized Enterprise demo from their team. Visit vercel.com/changelogpod to get started. Synadia – Take NATS to the next level via a global, multi-cloud, multi-geo and extensible service, fully managed by Synadia. They take care of all the infrastructure, management, monitoring, and maintenance for you so you can focus on building exceptional distributed applications. 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: Jamie Tanna – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: Jamie’s first Changelog pod: Request For Commits #4) One year in the indieweb Blogumentation Why I Have a Website and You Should Too did you know jamie has a website My Salary History Memento (film) - Wikipedia DMD Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

  • Feb 16, 2024 · 1 hr 17 min

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

    This week we’re joined by Stefano Maffulli, the Executive Director of the Open Source Initiative (OSI). They are responsible for representing the idea and the definition of open source globally. Stefano shares the challenges they face as a US-based non-profit with a global impact. We discuss the work Stefano and the OSI are doing to define Open Source AI, and why we need an accepted and shared definition. Of course we also talk about the potential impact if a poorly defined Open Source AI emerges from all their efforts. Note: Stefano was under the weather for this conversation, but powered through because of how important this topic is. Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 4 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today! Sponsors: Vercel – Zero configuration for over 35 frameworks Vercel is the Frontend Cloud makes it easy for any team to deploy their apps. Today, you can get a 14-day free trial of Vercel Pro, or get a customized Enterprise demo from their team. Visit vercel.com/changelogpod to get started. Synadia – Take NATS to the next level via a global, multi-cloud, multi-geo and extensible service, fully managed by Synadia. They take care of all the infrastructure, management, monitoring, and maintenance for you so you can focus on building exceptional distributed applications. CIQ / Rocky Linux – CIQ is Rocky Linux’s founding support partner. They support the free, stable, and secure Linux distro called Rocky Linux. 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: Stefano Maffulli – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: Open Source Initiative (OSI) Discuss the “Open Source AI Definition” A new draft of the Open Source AI Definition: v.0.0.5 is available for comments The Open Source AI Definition Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!