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13% of the time, Devin works every time (JS Party #317)

March 28, 2024 1:06:15 12.58 MB ( 51.47 MB less) Downloads: 0

Jerod, KBall & Nick discuss the latest news: Devin, Astro DB, The JavaScript Registry, Tailwind 4 & Angular merging with Wiz. Oh, and a surprise mini-game of HeadLIES!

We're flipping the script (Changelog Interviews #584)

March 27, 2024 1:16:40 14.67 MB ( 59.36 MB less) Downloads: 0

Script flipped! Today we’re sharing two interviews of us on Other People’s Podcasts (OPP): Kathrine Druckman from the Open at Intel podcast invited us on the show at KubeCon NA in November and Den Delimarsky hosted Jerod on The Work Item podcast in February.

Debugging (Go Time #309)

March 26, 2024 1:10:44 13.19 MB ( 55.21 MB less) Downloads: 0

In this episode Matt, Bill & Jon discuss various debugging techniques for use in both production and development. Bill explains why he doesn’t like his developers to use the debugger and how he prefers to only use techniques available in production. Matt expresses a few counterpoints based on his different experiences, and then the group goes over some techniques for debugging in production.

AI vs software devs (Practical AI #262)

March 26, 2024 57:02 10.77 MB ( 44.17 MB less) Downloads: 0

Daniel and Chris are out this week, so we’re bringing you conversations all about AI’s complicated relationship to software developers from other Changelog pods: JS Party, Go Time & The Changelog.

Another one bites the dust (Changelog News #87)

March 25, 2024 09:07 1.73 MB ( 7.19 MB less) Downloads: 0

Redis’ re-licensing prompts forks like Drew DeVault’s Redict, Matthew Miller thinks we need more community built software, Paul Gross makes the case that DuckDB is the new jq, Anton Zhiyanov shares how he makes a living as a developer despite being “pretty dumb” & Baldur Bjarnason chimes in on the state of the web developer job market.

Productivity engineering at Netflix (Ship It! #96)

March 23, 2024 1:31:15 17.18 MB ( 70.66 MB less) Downloads: 0

What’s the difference between productivity engineering and platform engineering? How can you continue to re-platform with a moving target? On this episode, we’re joined by Andy Glover, who spent ten years productivity engineering at Netflix, to discuss.

Retirement is for suckers (Changelog & Friends #36)

March 23, 2024 1:24:38 16.45 MB ( 64.96 MB less) Downloads: 0

THE Cameron Seay joins us once again! This time we learn more about his life/history, hear all about the boot camps he runs, discuss recent advancements in AI / quantum computing and how they might affect the tech labor market & more!

It's a TrueNAS world (Changelog Interviews #583)

March 22, 2024 1:37:59 18.67 MB ( 75.55 MB less) Downloads: 0

This week Adam talks with Kris Moore, Senior Vice President of Engineering at iXsystems, about all things TrusNAS. They discuss the history of TrueNAS starting from its origins as a FreeBSD project, TrueNAS Core being in maintenance mode, the momentum and innovation happening in TrueNAS Scale, the evolution of the TrueNAS user interface, managing ZFS compatibility in TrueNAS, the business model of iX Systems and their commitment to the open-source community, and of course what’s to come in the upcoming Dragonfish release of TrueNAS Scale.

Questions from a new Go developer (Go Time #308)

March 20, 2024 1:09:45 13.13 MB ( 54.37 MB less) Downloads: 0

In this episode we answer any/all questions from a new Go developer. Features, best practices, quirks of the language… it’s all on the table for discussion.

Prompting the future (Practical AI #261)

March 20, 2024 46:01 8.78 MB ( 35.65 MB less) Downloads: 0

Daniel & Chris explore the state of the art in prompt engineering with Jared Zoneraich, the founder of PromptLayer. PromptLayer is the first platform built specifically for prompt engineering. It can visually manage prompts, evaluate models, log LLM requests, search usage history, and help your organization collaborate as a team. Jared provides expert guidance in how to be implement prompt engineering, but also illustrates how we got here, and where we’re likely to go next.

No Maintenance Intended (Changelog News #86)

March 18, 2024 08:02 1.51 MB ( 6.81 MB less) Downloads: 0

A new badge for open source projects that won’t be getting any maintenance, everything Chip Huyen learned from looking at 900 open source AI tools, CNBC writes up tech’s renewed layoff trend, Teable is a Postgres-Airtable fusion & Target announces an open source fund.

Containers on a diet (Ship It! #95)

March 16, 2024 1:16:43 14.48 MB ( 59.66 MB less) Downloads: 0

Kyle Quest joins the show to tell Autumn & Justin all about the evolution of DockerSlim & minimal container images. Why are small container images important? What are different strategies to make containers smaller? Let’s find out!

The Oban Pros (Changelog & Friends #35)

March 15, 2024 1:36:08 18.08 MB ( 74.42 MB less) Downloads: 0

Today you get Sorentwo for the price of one! We are joined by Shannon & Parker Selbert, both halves of the mom-and-pop software shop behind Oban, the robust job processing library that’s been delivering our emails & processing our audio for years.

We have a right to repair! (Changelog Interviews #582)

March 15, 2024 1:23:40 16.15 MB ( 64.33 MB less) Downloads: 0

This week Adam went solo — talking to Kyle Wiens, Founder and CEO at iFixit, about all things Right to Repair. They discussed the latest win here in the US with Oregon passing an electronics Right to Repair law to allow owners the right to get their stuff fixed anywhere as well as limit the anti-repair practices of parts pairing. They also discussed the history of the DMCA, the challenges posed by Section 1201, the challenges of recycling products with glued-in batteries, the need for producer responsibility, the future of repairability, repair scoring systems to inform consumers, and so much more. Did you know that iFixit funds its advocacy work through the sale of its tools and parts? So cool.

Advocating for the future of the open web (JS Party #316)

March 14, 2024 2:03:29 22.96 MB ( 96.02 MB less) Downloads: 0

Alex & James Moore, founding members of the Open Web Advocacy (OWA), join Amal to talk about the critical work the OWA has been doing to ensure users have browser choice and that web apps can be first-class citizens on mobile devices. We learn about how an ad-hoc group of software engineers worked with regulators, legislators & policymakers to help drive some of the most impactful legislation curbing anti-competitive behaviors on the web for tech giants such as Apple, Google & Microsoft via the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA). Tune in for this deeply important & timely discussion as we also unpack recent events with Apple and their DMA (un)compliance, and how the OWA helped successfully organize thousands of web developers from around the world to hold ground for a free & open web.