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Jul 6, 2023 · 1 hr 22 min
Efficient Linux at the CLI (Interview)
This week we’re talking to Daniel J. Barrett, author of Efficient Linux at the Command Line as well as many other books. Daniel has a PhD and has been teaching and writing about Linux for more than 30 years (almost 40!). So we invited Dan to join us on the show to talk about efficient ways to use Linux. He teaches us about combining commands, re-running commands, $CDPATH hacks, and more. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 5 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Square – Develop on the platform that sellers trust. There is a massive opportunity for developers to support Square sellers by building apps for today’s business needs. Learn more at developer.squareup.com to dive into the docs, APIs, SDKs and to create your Square Developer account — tell them Changelog sent you. 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: Daniel J. Barrett – Website, LinkedIn, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: Efficient Linux at the Command Line Daniel’s books Dan on O’Reilly Cold Ice Cream & Hot Kisses Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
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Jul 3, 2023 · 6 min
Streak redemption, vectors are the new JSON, CommonJS is hurting JavaScript & the rise of the AI Engineer (News)
Lukas Mathis writes about streak redemption, Jonathan Katz thinks vectors are the new JSON, Andy Jiang says CommonJS is hurting JavaScript & Swyx on the rise of the AI Engineer. 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 – See the untested code causing errors - or whether it’s partially or fully covered - directly in your stack trace, so you can avoid similar errors from happening in the future. Use the code CHANGELOG and get the team plan free for three months. Featuring: Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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Jun 30, 2023 · 1 hr 28 min
Even the best rides come to an end (Friends)
On Monday, Kelsey Hightower announced his retirement from Google. On Tuesday, he sat down with us to discuss why, how & what’s next. Along the way, Kelsey teaches us how not to suck at work, analyzes his magical demos, fights off the haters (again) & opines on System Initiative, Dagger & 37Signals moving off the cloud. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 2 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com 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. Typesense – Lightning fast, globally distributed Search-as-a-Service that runs in memory. You literally can’t get any faster! Changelog News – A podcast+newsletter combo that’s brief, entertaining & always on-point. Subscribe today. Featuring: Kelsey Hightower – GitHub, X Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: “Today I’m announcing my retirement from Google.” Not Everyone Can Be Kelsey Hightower - Greg Poirier - YouTube Rebuilding DevOps from the ground up with Adam Jacob Why we’re leaving the cloud We have left the cloud MRSK — Deploy web apps anywhere Two decades as a solo indie Mac dev with Jesse Grosjean btop on GitHub Dagger Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
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Jun 28, 2023 · 1 hr 7 min
Don't make things worse! (Interview)
Taylor Troesh joins Jerod to discuss a bevy of software development topics: yak shaves, dependency selection, -10x engineers, IKEA-oriented development, his new content-addressable programming language & much more along the way. Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 4 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today! Sponsors: DevCycle – Build better software with DevCycle. Feature flags, without the tech debt. DevCycle is a Feature Flag Management platform designed to help you build maintainable code at scale. Drata – Put security and compliance on autopilot. Build trust with your customers and scale securely with Drata, the smartest way to achieve continuous framework compliance for SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR, and more. Changelog News – A podcast+newsletter combo that’s brief, entertaining & always on-point. Subscribe today. Featuring: Taylor Troesh – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: Taylor Town IKEA-Oriented Development 11 Ways to Shave a Yak How to be a -10x Engineer The Lindy Effect Crafting Interpreters The Unison language Scrapscript The Mother of All Demos - Wikipedia Opening Keynote: Greg Young - Stop Over-Engenering - YouTube The art of destroying software (Greg Young) - YouTube Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
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Jun 26, 2023 · 8 min
AI poisoned its own well, libraries to UnsuckJS, we need more Richard Stallman & ChatGPT package hallucination (News)
Tracy Durnell thinks AI has already poisoned its own well, Adam Hill’s microsite catalogs everything you need to UnsuckJS, Lionel Dricot thinks we need more Richard Stallman, not less & the Vulcan team proves you can’t trust ChatGPT’s package recommendations. 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 – See the untested code causing errors - or whether it’s partially or fully covered - directly in your stack trace, so you can avoid similar errors from happening in the future. Use the code CHANGELOG and get the team plan free for three months. Featuring: Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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Jun 23, 2023 · 1 hr 31 min
There's a whole PEP about that (Friends)
Brett Cannon (our unofficial ambassador to the Python community) is here to help alleviate our pip install anxiety. Along the way, we ask him about Python 4, removing the GIL, what he thinks about Chris Lattner’s Mojo project, Rust in the Python world & way more (of course). Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com 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. Typesense – Lightning fast, globally distributed Search-as-a-Service that runs in memory. You literally can’t get any faster! Featuring: Brett Cannon – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, Mastodon Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: In response to the Changelog #526 Raku Perl Mongers pipx Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe Mojo.🔥 Why Mojo Astral RustPython: A Python Interpreter written in Rust Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
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Jun 22, 2023 · 1 hr 27 min
Rebuilding DevOps from the ground up (Interview)
This week we’re joined by Adam Jacob and we’re talking about his mission at System Initiative to rebuild DevOps. They are out of stealth mode and ready to show off their transformative new power tool that reimagines what’s possible from DevOps. It’s an intelligent automation platform that allows DevOps teams to build detailed interactive simulations of their infrastructure and use them to rapidly update their production environments. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 6 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: DevCycle – Build better software with DevCycle. Feature flags, without the tech debt. DevCycle is a Feature Flag Management platform designed to help you build maintainable code at scale. Drata – Put security and compliance on autopilot. Build trust with your customers and scale securely with Drata, the smartest way to achieve continuous framework compliance for SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR, and more. Changelog News – A podcast+newsletter combo that’s brief, entertaining & always on-point. Subscribe today. Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com Featuring: Adam Jacob – Website, GitHub, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: System Initiative System Initiative launch demo What if Infrastructure as Code never existed, by Adam Jacob 10+ deploys per day at Flickr Changelog Interviews #353: The war for the soul of open source Changelog Interviews #460: The business model of open source Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
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Jun 19, 2023 · 7 min
An open platform for LLMs, speed matters, imaginary problems, Val Town & how to finish your projects (News)
An open platform for operating LLMs in production, working quickly is more important than it seems, imaginary problems are the root of bad software, Val Town is a social website to write and run code & Aaron Francis’ guide to finishing your projects. View the newsletter Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 1 minute on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: HasuraCon 2023 – Our friends at Hasura would like to invite you to HasuraCon on June 20th through the 22nd! Three days to learn, share, celebrate, and geek out on the future of Hasura and data APIs. And best of all, it’s 100% FREE and easily accessible online. Get all the details and register today hasura.io/hasuracon Featuring: Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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Jun 16, 2023 · 1 hr 40 min
"Mat Depends" (Friends)
Mat Ryer is back and he’s brought with him 10 tips to be a 10x developer (like he is). After that, we try a new segment we’re calling “Tool Time” (and try out a few jingles for it along the way). Finally, it’s time to review our previous unpopular opinions and put some new ones into the world for your (dis)agreeing pleasure. Join us for an automagical time! Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com 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. Typesense – Lightning fast, globally distributed Search-as-a-Service that runs in memory. You literally can’t get any faster! Featuring: Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: How ‘Back to the Future 2’ Tricked You Into Thinking Crispin Glover Returned Mat on The Changelog #526 The Synergistic Interplay between Vitamins D and K for Bone and Cardiovascular Health Introducing Wood Milk: Aubrey Plaza’s Newest Product #drinkwoodmilk - YouTube golangci-lint credo for Elixir 1Password ntfy.sh Queen Latifah - U.N.I.T.Y. - YouTube NextDNS NextDNS wiki on UnifiOS I Made a Tiny Touch ID Button for Mac! Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
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Jun 15, 2023 · 1 hr 10 min
Passkeys for a passwordless future (Interview)
This week we’re talking about Passkeys with Anna Pobletts, Head of Passwordless, at 1Password. Will Passkeys enable a passwordless future? Time will tell. Anna shares the what, the why, how, and the when on Passkeys. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 9 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Square – Develop on the platform that sellers trust. There is a massive opportunity for developers to support Square sellers by building apps for today’s business needs. Learn more at developer.squareup.com to dive into the docs, APIs, SDKs and to create your Square Developer account — tell them Changelog sent you. Drata – Put security and compliance on autopilot. Build trust with your customers and scale securely with Drata, the smartest way to achieve continuous framework compliance for SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR, and more. Raycast – Raycast is a blazingly fast, totally extendable launcher. It lets you complete tasks, calculate, share common links, and much more. Turn Pro to harness the power of AI, make Raycast your own with custom themes, keep your Macs in sync and more on the way. 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: Anna Pobletts – LinkedIn Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: Passkeys: the future of authentication in 1Password Passage by 1Password Passkeys Overview (Apple Developer) Supporting Passkeys (Apple Developer) passkeys.directory passkeys.dev Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
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Jun 12, 2023 · 28 min
Reddit goes dark, Lemmy lights up, OpenObserve, some blogging myths & Jefro on Automotive Linux (News)
Reddit goes dark as subreddits protest, Lemmy lights up as disillusioned redditors turn to the fediverse, OpenObserve is a cloud native observability platform, Julia Evans dispels some myths about blogging & Red Hat’s Jeffrey “Jefro” Osier-Mixon tells Adam and Jerod all about Automotive Linux at Open Source Summit NA. View the newsletter Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Speakeasy – Instantly create SDKs that make API integration easy for your users. Join the beta today. Featuring: Jefro – GitHub, LinkedIn, X Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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Jun 9, 2023 · 1 hr 23 min
Reactions to Apple’s new vision (Friends)
Homebrew project leader Mike McQuaid joins us to weigh in on Apple’s big Vision Pro announcement. We also hit on our favorite (and least favorite) non-AR things from the WWDC 2023 keynote. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 1 minute on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com 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++ – 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, and increment your audio quality with higher bitrate mp3s. Let’s do this! Featuring: Mike McQuaid – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: Apple’s official Vision Pro page Sarah Dietschy: I Tried the Apple Vision Pro 👀 The Verge: Apple Vision Pro first look Valve Index WWDC Highlights Apple sure kicked Meta’s butt today, right? CmdrTaco on the iPod Day One Aaron Levie’s tweet Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
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Jun 8, 2023 · 1 hr 21 min
ANTHOLOGY — It's a Cloud Native world (Interview)
This is our last week of hallway track coverage at The Linux Foundation’s Open Source Summit North America 2023 in Vancouver, Canada. Today’s anthology episode features: Jeffrey Sica (Developer Experience & Programs @ CNCF), Eddie Zaneski (Kubernetes SIG CLI), Yaron Schneider (Co-creator of Dapr and Founder and CTO at Diagrid). Special thanks to our friends at GitHub for sponsoring us to attend this conference as part of Maintainer Month. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 10 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Sentry – See the untested code causing errors - or whether it’s partially or fully covered - directly in your stack trace, so you can avoid similar errors from happening in the future. Use the code CHANGELOG and get the team plan free for three months. Raycast – Raycast is a blazingly fast, totally extendable launcher. It lets you complete tasks, calculate, share common links, and much more. Turn Pro to harness the power of AI, make Raycast your own with custom themes, keep your Macs in sync and more on the way. Changelog News – A podcast+newsletter combo that’s brief, entertaining & always on-point. Subscribe today. GitHub – Harnessed for productivity. Designed for collaboration. Celebrated for built-in security. Welcome to the platform developers love. Featuring: Jeffrey Sica – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Eddie Zaneski – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Yaron Schneider – GitHub, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: Part 1 Cloud Native Computing Foundation The Endowment effect Part 2 Kubernetes CLI Special Interest Group (SIG) Part 3 Dapr Dapr on cncf.io Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
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Jun 5, 2023 · 9 min
Starlight, Knuth asks ChatGPT, Stack Overflow mods strike, Reddit API pricing revolt & open source AI has a new champ (News)
The Astro team releases a new documentation builder, legendary computer scientist Donald Knuth plays with ChatGPT, over 500 volunteer mods have signed an open letter to Stack Overflow Inc, Reddit faces a revolt due to their new API pricing & the Technology Innovation Institute release Falcon, a new open source LLM that’s topping Hugging Face’s leaderboard. View the newsletter Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 1 minute on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: HasuraCon 2023 – Our friends at Hasura would like to invite you to HasuraCon on June 20th through the 22nd! Three days to learn, share, celebrate, and geek out on the future of Hasura and data APIs. And best of all, it’s 100% FREE and easily accessible online. Get all the details and register today hasura.io/hasuracon Featuring: Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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Jun 2, 2023 · 1 hr 20 min
Kaizen! The best pipeline ever™ (Friends)
Gerhard is back! Today we continue our Kaizen tradition by getting together (for the 10th time) with one of our oldest friends to talk all about the continuous improvements we’re making to Changelog’s platform and podcasts. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com 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. Typesense – Lightning fast, globally distributed Search-as-a-Service that runs in memory. You literally can’t get any faster! Featuring: Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: Kaizen episodes Gource Gerhard’s Ansible blog post from 2014 (!) changelog.com on GitHub GitHub discussion changelog.com#452 Ken Kost’s merged contribution Jerod wants a WiFi BaseStation XG Gerhard recommends Mikrotik Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
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May 31, 2023 · 1 hr 30 min
ANTHOLOGY — Maintaining maintainers (Interview)
This week on The Changelog we’re continuing our Maintainer Month series by taking to you back to the hallway track of The Linux Foundation’s Open Source Summit North America 2023 in Vancouver, Canada. Today’s anthology episode features: Stormy Peters (VP of Communities at GitHub), Dr. Dawn Foster (Director of Open Source Community Strategy at VMware), and Angie Byron (Drupal Core Product Manager and Community Director at Aiven). Special thanks to our friends at GitHub for sponsoring us to attend this conference as part of Maintainer Month. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 10 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: GitHub – Harnessed for productivity. Designed for collaboration. Celebrated for built-in security. Welcome to the platform developers love. Square – Develop on the platform that sellers trust. There is a massive opportunity for developers to support Square sellers by building apps for today’s business needs. Learn more at developer.squareup.com to dive into the docs, APIs, SDKs and to create your Square Developer account — tell them Changelog sent you. Sentry – See the untested code causing errors - or whether it’s partially or fully covered - directly in your stack trace, so you can avoid similar errors from happening in the future. Use the code CHANGELOG and get the team plan free for three months. Typesense – Lightning fast, globally distributed Search-as-a-Service that runs in memory. You literally can’t get any faster! Featuring: Stormy Peters – GitHub, LinkedIn, X Dr. Dawn Foster – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Angie Byron – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: GitHub Sponsors GitHub Accelerator CHAOSS Changelog Interviews #321: Drupal is a pretty big deal Drupal Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
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May 30, 2023 · 7 min
An API store for LLMs, DeviceScript, Nyxt: the hacker's browser, expectations debt & there's still no silver bullet (News)
The Gorilla team is building an API store for LLMs, DeviceScript is Microsoft’s new TypeScript programming environment for microcontrollers, Nyxt is a hackable browser written in Lisp, Morgan Housel writes about expectations debt & I issue a gentle reminder to my fellow software engineers: there’s still no silver bullet. View the newsletter Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Raycast – Raycast is a blazingly fast, totally extendable launcher. It lets you complete tasks, calculate, share common links, and much more. Turn Pro to harness the power of AI, make Raycast your own with custom themes, keep your Macs in sync and more on the way. Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com 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
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May 26, 2023 · 43 min
Introducing Changelog & Friends (Friends)
What if your favorite conference’s hallway track continued year round? That’s the vibe we’re trying to capture with Changelog & Friends, a new Friday talk show from your friends at Changelog. In this intro episode, Adam & Jerod talk all about our new MWF plan for The Changelog , discuss what this Friends flavor is all about, and have a lot of fun along the way. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com 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 Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: Monday: Changelog News Wednesday: Changelog Interviews Friday: Changelog & Friends Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
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May 24, 2023 · 1 hr 38 min
ANTHOLOGY — Open source AI (Interview)
This week on The Changelog we’re taking you to the hallway track of The Linux Foundation’s Open Source Summit North America 2023 in Vancouver, Canada. Today’s anthology episode features: Beyang Liu (Co-founder and CTO at Sourcegraph), Denny Lee (Developer Advocate at Databricks), and Stella Biderman (Executive Director and Head of Research at EleutherAI). Special thanks to our friends at GitHub for sponsoring us to attend this conference as part of Maintainer Month. Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 3 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today! Sponsors: DevCycle – Build better software with DevCycle. Feature flags, without the tech debt. DevCycle is a Feature Flag Management platform designed to help you build maintainable code at scale. Sentry – See the untested code causing errors - or whether it’s partially or fully covered - directly in your stack trace, so you can avoid similar errors from happening in the future. Use the code CHANGELOG and get the team plan free for three months. Rocky Linux – Enterprise Linux, the open source community way. Featuring: Beyang Liu – GitHub, X Denny Lee – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Stella Biderman – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: The common denominator for these conversations is open source AI. Beyang Liu and his team at Sourcegraph are focused on enabling more developers to understand code and their approach to a completely open source, model agnostic, coding assistant called Cody has significant interest from us. Denny Lee and the team at Databricks recently released Dolly 2.0, the first open source, instruction-following LLM, that has been fine-tuned on a human-generated instruction dataset and is licensed for research and commercial use. They want to be the platform of choice the future of AI development. Stella Biderman gave the keynote address on generative AI at the conference and works at the base layer doing open source research, model training, and AI ethics. Stella trained the EleutherAI pythia model family that Databricks’ used to create Dolly - 2.0. Cody from Sourcegraph - Read, write, and understand code 10x faster with AI. Cody answers code questions and writes code for you by reading your entire codebase and the code graph. Free Dolly: Introducing the World’s First Truly Open Instruction-Tuned LLM EleutherAI - Empowering Open Source Artificial Intelligence Research Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
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May 22, 2023 · 8 min
Trogon, StableStudio, life after Apple, Google's problematic new TLDs & how to discuss programming languages (News)
Will McGugan’s Trogon auto-generates friendly TUIs for your CLI apps, Stability AI’s official open source variant of DreamStudio, John Calhoun writes about life after 26 years programming at Apple, Google’s news TLDs could be a boon to scammers & Pablo Meier documents a way to discuss programming languages. 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 – See the untested code causing errors - or whether it’s partially or fully covered - directly in your stack trace, so you can avoid similar errors from happening in the future. Use the code CHANGELOG and get the team plan free for three months. Featuring: Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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