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Gophers Say! GopherCon EU Athens 2024 (Go Time #303)

February 14, 2024 28:47 28.15 MB Downloads: 0

Our award winning worthy survey game show is back, this time Mat Ryer hosts it live on stage at GopherCon EU Athens 2024! Join in & play along as we see which team can better guess what these GopherCon gophers had to say!

We can dance if we want to... (Changelog News #81)

February 12, 2024 08:31 8.62 MB Downloads: 0

Changelog Beats drops a new Dance Party album, Will McGugan’s new Toolong (tl) terminal app, Mitchell Baker is out as Mozilla CEO, Microsoft’s Jordi Adoumie announces sudo for Windows, Tatu Ylonen tells the tale of how they got SSH to be port 22 & Jack Lindamood gives an “Endorse” or “Regret” rating for ~50 different services, tools & processes he used over the 4 years he led infrastructure at a startup.

Future of [energy, content, food] (Changelog & Friends #30)

February 09, 2024 2:28:43 142.93 MB Downloads: 0

We’re taking you back to the hallway track at THAT Conference where we have 3 MORE fun conversations: one with Samuel Goff about the future of energy, one with YouTuber Jess Chan about the future of content creation & one with Vanessa Villa / Noah Jenkins about ag tech & the future of food.

Taking on Goliath (Changelog Interviews #577)

February 08, 2024 1:53:10 108.81 MB Downloads: 0

This week on The Changelog we’re talking with Nadia Odunayo, founder of StoryGraph. Nadia started out as a one woman dev and product team — she’s had to adjust and maneuver along way to becoming the Amazon-free alternative to Goodreads. We talk about the importance of customer research, the iterative nature of customer research and what it takes to synthesize and analyze the findings to guide product development, the technical challenges and learnings she faced while building StoryGraph, for example at several points they’ve faced challenges in handling an influx of users and had to re-architect the system. We also talk about the business model of StoryGraph and how they generate revenue through Plus subscriptions, and partnerships with publishers for book giveaways.

React Server Components 🧐 (JS Party #311)

February 08, 2024 2:07:15 122.62 MB Downloads: 0

The week Amal & guest co-host Eric Clemmons talk to Dan Abramov all about React Server Components. We learn about why they were created, what problems they solve & how they work to improve application performance. We also dive into the rollout and current support status, the origin story, the community response & walk through the 10+ years of React history which have forever shifted the world of web development.

What's new in Go 1.22 (Go Time #302)

February 07, 2024 1:03:56 61.89 MB Downloads: 0

Our “what’s new in Go” correspondent, Carlana Johnson, joins Johnny & Ian to discuss what’s new with the latest iteration of Go in version 1.22.

Data synthesis for SOTA LLMs (Practical AI #255)

February 06, 2024 46:41 45.34 MB Downloads: 0

Nous Research has been pumping out some of the best open access LLMs using SOTA data synthesis techniques. Their Hermes family of models is incredibly popular! In this episode, Karan from Nous talks about the origins of Nous as a distributed collective of LLM researchers. We also get into fine-tuning strategies and why data synthesis works so well.

The promise of hackable software (Changelog News #80)

February 05, 2024 08:48 8.62 MB Downloads: 0

Geoffrey Litt thinks browser extensions are underrated, Adolfo Ochagavía on being a generalist in a specialist’s world, Jack Garbus praises the Arch Wiki, Terence Eden tries to rebuild FourSquare for ActivityPub using OpenStreetMap & Sebastien Dubois teaches us how to connect ideas together.

You have how many open tabs?! (Changelog & Friends #29)

February 04, 2024 1:33:18 89.8 MB Downloads: 0

We’re taking you to the hallway track at THAT Conference in Austin TX, where we have 3 fun conversations: one with our old friend Nick Nisi from JS Party, one with our new(ish) friend Amy Dutton from CompressedFM (who has been a guest on JS Party of late) & one with our brand new friend / long-time listener Andres Pineda from the Dominican Republic.

In the beginning (of generative AI) (Changelog Interviews #576)

February 02, 2024 1:24:58 81.74 MB Downloads: 0

This week on The Changelog we’re talking with Joe Reis about data engineering and the beginning of generative AI. We discuss, phone hacking via frequency, the role of a data engineer, this AI hype cycle we’re in, build vs buy, the disconnect between data analysts and the business, ethical considerations around AI-generated content, and more. We also discuss the tension between AI and traditional engineering, as well as the inevitability of AI integration into pretty much everything.

Angular Signals (JS Party #310)

February 01, 2024 1:06:46 64.56 MB Downloads: 0

KBall & Amal interview Alex & Pavel from the Angular Signals team. They cover the history, how the Angular team decided to move to signals, what the new mental model looks like, migration path & even dive into community integrations and future roadmap.

Go Capture the Flag! 🚩 (Go Time #301)

January 31, 2024 58:56 57.08 MB Downloads: 0

Angellica is joined by Neil S Primmer & Benji Vesterby to share their experience organizing “Capture the Flag” at GopherCon 2023. CTF events involve teams vying for supremacy as they strive to gather digital flags (presented as strings) and successfully submit them to the competition organizers. In essence, it’s a thrilling “scavenger hunt for nerds.” Join us as we unravel the intricacies and excitement of this unique gaming experience!

Large Action Models (LAMs) & Rabbits 🐇 (Practical AI #254)

January 30, 2024 48:15 46.51 MB Downloads: 0

Recently the release of the rabbit r1 device resulted in huge interest in both the device and “Large Action Models” (or LAMs). What is an LAM? Is this something new? Did these models come out of nowhere, or are they related to other things we are already using? Chris and Daniel dig into LAMs in this episode and discuss neuro-symbolic AI, AI tool usage, multimodal models, and more.

$100k for indie game devs (Changelog News #79)

January 29, 2024 08:51 8.67 MB Downloads: 0

The Rune team announces $100k in open source grants for indie game devs, the Zed code editor is now open source, the Ollama team releases Python & JavaScript libraries, Max Bernstein tells the story of Scrapscript & Pooya Parsa writes up some notes from a tired maintainer.

Gradually gradually typing Elixir (Changelog & Friends #28)

January 27, 2024 1:41:40 97.77 MB Downloads: 0

Our old friend José Valim & his team have been hard at work adding gradual typing to Elixir. They’re only 1-3% of the way there, but a lot of progress has been made. So, we invited him back on the show for a deep-dive on why, how & when Elixir will be gradually typed.

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