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Apr 20, 2021 • 53min
Data science for intuitive user experiences (Practical AI #130)
Nhung Ho joins Daniel and Chris to discuss how data science creates insights into financial operations and economic conditions. They delve into topics ranging from predictive forecasting to aid small businesses, to learning about the economic fallout from the COVID-19 Pandemic.
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Featuring:Nhung Ho – Website, LinkedIn, XChris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XDaniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:
Intuit Website
Intuit Blog | Nhung Ho, Director of Data Science
Intuit Blog | How AI Can Help Build Resiliency for Small Businesses in a Global Economic Crisis
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Apr 20, 2021 • 56min
Into the Nix ecosystem (Changelog Interviews #437)
This week we’re talking about Nix with Domen Kožar. The Nix ecosystem is a DevOps toolkit that takes a unique approach to package management and system configuration. Nix helps you make reproducible, declarative, and reliable systems. Domen is writing the Nix ecosystem guide at nix.dev and today he takes us on a deep dive on all things Nix.
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Featuring:Domen Kožar – GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
NixOS.org
Nix Manual
Nix Pills
Nix shorts - A collection of short notes about Nix, down to what is immediately needed for users.
nix.dev - The Nix ecosystem guide
NixOS Weekly newsletter
The Changelog #237: Reproducible builds and secure software with Chris Lamb
NixOS on ARM - for example, if you want to try it out on a Raspberry Pi
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Apr 16, 2021 • 47min
Let us know in the comments (Backstage #16)
Jerod and Adam share their thoughts on Clubhouse, Twitter Spaces, et al, then discuss the value and weight of hosting commentary onsite vs on Twitter, Slack, etc. Let us know what you think in the comments.
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two kinds of dumb
Cornell Law School on 230
EFF on 230
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Apr 16, 2021 • 1h 9min
Less JavaScript more htmx (JS Party #171)
Jerod & Feross learn all about htmx (a pragmatic approach to web frontends) and _hyperscript (an experimental scripting language inspired by HyperTalk) with special guest Carson from Big Sky Software. Thanks to Rajasegar Chandran for requesting this episode!
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Featuring:Carson Gross – GitHub, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XFeross Aboukhadijeh – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:
What the web could be (in 2021 and beyond)
The future of the web is HTML over the wire
htmx
Active Search example
Extensions reference
Locality of behavior
_hyperscript
HyperTalk
Event-driven Control Flow
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Apr 15, 2021 • 1h 24min
The ultimate guide to crafting your GopherCon proposal (Go Time #175)
The Call for Proposals for GopherCon 2021 is open from Monday, April 5th to Sunday, April 25th. Kris Brandow, an experienced GopherCon speaker, has published a series of guides to assist Gophers as they craft their proposals and think about submitting.
In this episode Kris reads through his guide, discussing the four parts with a GopherCon newbie, Angelica Hill, who spoke for the first time at GopherCon last year, and is a first time CFP reviewer this year.
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Featuring:Kris Brandow – GitHub, XAngelica Hill – GitHub, LinkedIn, XShow Notes:
Storytelling On Stage series
Storytelling On Stage: The Basics starts at 4:29
Storytelling On Stage: Storytelling starts at 33:48
Storytelling On Stage: Advice starts at 52:26
Storytelling On Stage: Proposal Writing for Procrastinators (not yet published) starts at 1:04:53
GopherCon CFP
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Apr 13, 2021 • 44min
Going full bore with Graphcore! (Practical AI #129)
Dave Lacey takes Daniel and Chris on a journey that connects the user interfaces that we already know - TensorFlow and PyTorch - with the layers that connect to the underlying hardware. Along the way, we learn about Poplar Graph Framework Software. If you are the type of practitioner who values ‘under the hood’ knowledge, then this is the episode for you.
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Featuring:Dave Lacey – GitHub, LinkedIn, XChris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XDaniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:
Graphcore
Poplar Graph Framework Software
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Apr 12, 2021 • 1h 18min
Curl is a full-time job (and turns 23) (Changelog Interviews #436)
This week we’re talking with Daniel Stenberg about 23 years of curl. Daniel shares how curl came to be, what drives and motivates him, maintaining a good cadence of an open source product, what to expect from http3, how many billions of users curl has, and Daniel also shares some funny stories like the “Spotify and Instagram hacking ring.”
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Featuring:Daniel Stenberg – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
The Changelog #153: 17 Years of curl with Daniel Stenberg
The Changelog: BONUS — Magic cURL Feature
The Changelog #299: Curl turns 20, HTTP/2, QUIC with Daniel Stenberg
HTTPie
Half of curl’s vulnerabilities are C mistakes
curl is C
Rust in curl with Hyper
“I will slaughter you”
curl Commercial Support
Everything curl: –libcurl
The Changelog #389: Securing the web with Let’s Encrypt featuring Josh Aas
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Apr 9, 2021 • 54min
Headlines? More like HeadLIES! (JS Party #170)
Jerod and Nick discuss the big Deno news, play a ridiculous new game in honor of April Fool’s Day, then give shout outs to some awesome software projects we love.
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Featuring:Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XNick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Bluesky, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
Announcing the Deno Company
HackMD
Keyboard Maestro
Reading the ECMAScript standard literally changed my life. Like most people
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Apr 8, 2021 • 1h 13min
Trials and tribulations of testing in Go (Go Time #174)
Testing can be hard, how to test, where to test, what is a good test? All questions that can be deceptively difficult to answer. In this episode we talk about the trials and tribulations of testing and why it can be argued to be especially difficult in Go.
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Featuring:Jon Sabados – Website, GitHub, XAngelica Hill – GitHub, LinkedIn, XKris Brandow – GitHub, XMat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, XShow Notes:
dig - a reflection based dependency injection toolkit for Go
is - Mat Ryer’s lightweight testing mini-framework for Go
testing - from the Standard Library
Learn Go with Tests
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Apr 6, 2021 • 51min
Next-gen voice assistants (Practical AI #128)
Nikola Mrkšić, CEO & Co-Founder of PolyAI, takes Daniel and Chris on a deep dive into conversational AI, describing the underlying technologies, and teaching them about the next generation of voice assistants that will be capable of handling true human-level conversations. It’s an episode you’ll be talking about for a long time!
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Featuring:Nikola Mrkšić – GitHub, XChris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XDaniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:-PolyAI
-The Science Behind PolyAI
-How Customer Service Voice Assistants Handle Different Languages and Accents
-PolyAI Maintains Lead Over IBM Watson Assistant and Other Popular Language Understanding Models
-PolyAI’s ConveRT Model Outperforms BERT and GPT-Based Models in Salesforce Research Evaluation
-Few-Shot Slot Labeling with ConVEx: The Most Accurate Value Extractor on The Market
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