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Chip Huyen, an expert on large data models, talks about the shift from LLMs to LMMs, notable companies using LMMs, and the Zimaboard as a home server. Herman Õunapuu reviews the Zimaboard. Bryan Braun shares his recent VSCode configuration discoveries. Swizec Teller summarizes the AI Engineer Summit.

Jacob Kaplan-Moss’ recommendations for remote vs colocated teams, Duarte Carmo created a neural search engine from Changelog transcripts, Tom Hacohen says strong static typing is a hill he’s willing to die on, Orhun Parmaksız created a CLI that makes your keyboard sound like a typewriter & Luke Plant spits hard truths about simplicity. View the newsletterJoin the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Neo4j – NODES 2023 is coming in October! Featuring:Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

InfluxDB completes a major rewrite in Rust, Raspberry Pi 5 launch, an open source API explorer called Bruno, the cool features of gokrazy, and lessons on debugging from Matt Rickard.

The podcast discusses ElectricSQL as a sync layer for web and mobile apps. They debunk the myth of learning styles. They compare XML and YAML. They define and describe 'idempotency'. They also mention an open-source alternative to Datadog or New Relic.

Discussion on the dangers of complexity in the software industry, retroactive pricing change by Unity, and building an Excel clone for Uber. Also, the release of open source CPU schematics and a static search library called Page Find.

Bun 1.0 is released, Mojo is now available for local download, Vince Lwt conducted a survey with 60+ LLMs, Textual Web transforms TUIs into web applications, and James Haydon investigates the bug behind the UK air traffic control meltdown.

Dan North tells the tale of Tim, the worst programmer who is surprisingly a great programmer. OpenTelemetry delivers on its promise for open observability. Terraform vs GitOps vs System Initiative is compared. Apple's effective strategies to beat burnout. Aline Lerner's advice on how not to sabotage salary negotiations.

OpenTF announces they’re forking Terraform and joining the Linux Foundation, Meta gets in the LLM-for-codegen game with Code Llama, Matt Mullenweg announces WordPress.com’s new 100-year plan, Paul Gichuki from Thinkst learns that default behaviors stick (and so do examples) & Marco Otte-Witte makes his case for Rust on the web. View the newsletterJoin the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Sentry – Scheduled jobs are supposed to be predictable, but sometimes, predictable != reliable. Sentry Cron Monitoring (Beta) helps you monitor the uptime and performance of any scheduled or recurring job in Sentry. Learn more by attending this FREE webinar! Featuring:Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

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