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Mar 30, 2020 • 2min
Welcome to The Changelog (Changelog Interviews)
The Changelog is deep discussions in & around the world of software… and it’s been going for over a decade.
We talk to hackers, like Chris Anderson from 3D Robotics… leaders, like Devon Zuegel from GitHub… and innovators, like Amal Hussein…
Welcome to The Changelog! Please listen to an episode from our catalog that interests you and subscribe today. We’d love to have you with us.
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Mar 30, 2020 • 50min
Mapping the intersection of AI and GIS (Practical AI #83)
Daniel Wilson and Rob Fletcher of ESRI hang with Chris and Daniel to chat about how AI powered modern geographic information systems (GIS) and location intelligence. They illuminate the various models used for GIS, spatial analysis, remote sensing, real-time visualization, and 3D analytics. You don’t want to miss the part about their work for the DoD’s Joint AI Center in humanitarian assistance / disaster relief.
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AI Classroom – An immersive, 3 day virtual training in AI with Practical AI co-host Daniel Whitenack
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.
Rollbar – We move fast and fix things because of Rollbar. Resolve errors in minutes. Deploy with confidence. Learn more at rollbar.com/changelog.
Featuring:Daniel Wilson – LinkedInRob Fletcher – LinkedInChris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XDaniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:
ESRI
ESRI - GeoAI Blog
ESRI - YouTube: ArcGIS & Artificial Intelligence (DoD JAIC)
Practical AI #72: How the U.S. military thinks about AI (DoD JAIC)
Books
“Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning” by Christopher M. Bishop
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Mar 27, 2020 • 59min
WFH!? (JS Party #120)
With most of us working from home for the first time (or for a long time), we thought it’d be a good idea to share our experiences and opinions on how to manage it. We discuss how to optimize your location, your schedule, your communications, and the rest of you life during these stressful times.
Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Rollbar – We move fast and fix things because of Rollbar. Resolve errors in minutes. Deploy with confidence. Learn more at rollbar.com/changelog.
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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:Suz Hinton – GitHub, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XNick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Bluesky, Mastodon, XKevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XShow Notes:
Listen to Go Time #123 on WFH
Chris Hiller’s pro tips for devs working from home
Jerod listens to musicforprogramming.net
and suggests the Noizio app for macOS
KBall goes for www.focusatwill.com
thgaskill in the chat suggests krisp.ai
Ever heard of brothel creepers. Brent in the chat has
For more on comms, listen to Remember, people are humans
Cal Newport’s work shutdown ritual
Suz recommends 3 books:
Deep Work by Cal Newport
How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell
Contact by Carl Sagan
Check out Humu’s remote nudges
Read Justin Searl’s Remote, but not alone
ESNEXT CONF is fully remote
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Mar 26, 2020 • 1h 11min
WFH (Go Time #123)
Working from home can be challenging, especially amid school closings and everything else caused by COVID-19. In this episode panelists Jon, Mat, Carmen, and Mark share advice and experiences they have accumulated over many years of working from home. They cover separating your work space from your personal space, signaling to your family that you are busy, ways to keep track of the time, and suggestions for getting some exercise in when you can.
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Algorithms with Go – A free Go course where panelist Jon Calhoun teaches you how algorithms and data structures work, how to implement them in Go code, and where to practice at. Great for learning Go, learning about algorithms for the first time, or refreshing your algorithmic knowledge.
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:Jon Calhoun – Website, GitHub, XMat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, XCarmen Andoh – GitHub, XMark Bates – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:WFH tips:
https://time.com/5801725/work-from-home-remote-tips/
https://remoteyear.com/blog/top-8-remote-work-tips
Other links:
Fatih Arslan’s advice to assume a smiley follows everything
tmate - a terminal sharing tool
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Mar 25, 2020 • 2min
Welcome to Practical AI (Practical AI)
Practical AI is a weekly podcast that’s marking artificial intelligence practical, productive, and accessible to everyone. If world of AI affects your daily life, this show is for you.
From the practitioner wanting to keep up with the latest tools & trends…
(clip from episode #68)
To the AI curious trying to understand the concepts at play and their implications on our lives…
(clip from episode #39)
Expert hosts Chris Benson and Daniel Whitenack are here to keep you fully-connected with the world of machine learning and data science.
Please listen to a recent episode that interests you and subscribe today. We’d love to have you as a listener!
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Mar 25, 2020 • 37min
Memory and learning (Brain Science #14)
Mireille and Adam discuss the process of forming memories, the various types of memory, anxieties, phobias, panic attacks, and how our attention and our memory relates to learning. Where you place your attention influences what you might remember. What you are able to remember influences how you feel, the choices you make, and your future outcomes.
Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Mireille Reece, PsyD – LinkedInAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:Questions to consider as you listen to this episode:
What is memory?
How does the process of forming memories work?
Types of memory?
How does this relate to learning?
What can I do differently given this understanding of memory?
Also listen to:
Brain Science #11: Competing for attention
Brain Science #12: Your choice is your superpower
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Mar 24, 2020 • 1h 10min
Prepare yourself for Quantum Computing (Changelog Interviews #387)
Johan Vos joined us to talk about his new book ‘Quantum Computing for Developers’ which is available to read right now as part of the Manning Early Access Program (MEAP). Listen near the end of the show to learn how you can get a free copy or check the show notes for details. We talked with Johan about the core principles of Quantum Computing, the hardware and software involved, the differences between quantum computing and classical computing, a little bit of physics, and what can we developers do today to prepare for the perhaps-not-so-distant future of Quantum Computing.
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Mux – If you’re trying to build video into your app, you’ll have to decide between building it yourself or using an out-of-the-box platform. Mux gives you the best of both worlds by doing for video what Stripe has done for payments. Mux simplifies all things video to an easy to use API. Get $50 in credit to play with at get.mux.com/changelog.
Retool – Retool makes it super simple to build back-office apps in hours, not days. The tool is is built by engineers, explicitly for engineers. Learn more and try it for free at retool.com/changelog
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:Johan Vos – GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:Comment on this episode for a chance to win a FREE copy of the eBook version of Quantum Computing for Developers. Tell us why you are interested in Quantum Computing and how this book might help you prepare for this new frontier in computation. Our 3 favorite comments will be selected 30 days from the date of publish for this episode.
ALSO be sure to use discount code podchangelog20 to save 40% on Manning’s entire catalog. Whether you want the print edition of Johan’s book or are interested in learning something else from their amazing library of books, we got the hook up. ✊
The book — Quantum Computing for Developers
Qubit on Wikipedia
Quantum superposition on Wikipedia
gluonhq/strange - Quantum Computing API for Java
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Mar 23, 2020 • 49min
Speech recognition to say it just right (Practical AI #82)
Catherine Breslin of Cobalt joins Daniel and Chris to do a deep dive on speech recognition. She also discusses how the technology is integrated into virtual assistants (like Alexa) and is used in other non-assistant contexts (like transcription and captioning). Along the way, she teaches us how to assemble a lexicon, acoustic model, and language model to bring speech recognition to life.
Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Linode – Our cloud of choice and the home of Changelog.com. Deploy a fast, efficient, native SSD cloud server for only $5/month. Get 4 months free using the code changelog2019 OR changelog2020. To learn more and get started head to linode.com/changelog.
AI Classroom – An immersive, 3 day virtual training in AI with Practical AI co-host Daniel Whitenack
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.
Rollbar – We move fast and fix things because of Rollbar. Resolve errors in minutes. Deploy with confidence. Learn more at rollbar.com/changelog.
Featuring:Catherine Breslin – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XChris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XDaniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:
Catherine Breslin - Google Scholar
Cobalt Speech and Language
Business Insider: The 100 coolest people in UK tech - Catherine Breslin
The Female Lead - Catherine Breslin
Silicon Republic: 15 architects building the data-driven future
Stylist: Meet the woman who teaches Amazon Alexa how to understand humans
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Mar 20, 2020 • 1h 22min
Redwood brings full-stack to the JAMstack (JS Party #119)
Tom Preston-Werner (co-founder of GitHub, board member at Netlify) joins the party and brings his new, opinionated, full-stack, serverless web app framework with him. Will Redwood help usher in the future Tom predicted back in 2018? We discuss that and a whole lot more on this must-listen episode.
Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Rollbar – We move fast and fix things because of Rollbar. Resolve errors in minutes. Deploy with confidence. Learn more at rollbar.com/changelog.
Linode – Our cloud of choice and the home of Changelog.com. Deploy a fast, efficient, native SSD cloud server for only $5/month. Get 4 months free using the code changelog2019 OR changelog2020. To learn more and get started head to linode.com/changelog.
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:Tom Preston-Werner – Website, GitHub, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XKevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XDivya – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XShow Notes:
RedwoodJS
Why Redwood
The Redwood Community
Prisma
Fauna
Amazon Aurora Serverless
yugabyteDB
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Mar 19, 2020 • 1h 8min
The Zen of Go (Go Time #122)
Dave Cheney talks to us about the Zen of Go (ten engineering values for writing simple, readable, maintainable Go code). What makes code good in Go? What guiding principles should we bear in mind when writing Go?
Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Linode – Our cloud of choice and the home of Changelog.com. Deploy a fast, efficient, native SSD cloud server for only $5/month. Get 4 months free using the code changelog2019 OR changelog2020. To learn more and get started head to linode.com/changelog.
Retool – Retool makes it super simple to build back-office apps in hours, not days. The tool is is built by engineers, explicitly for engineers. Learn more and try it for free at retool.com/changelog
Algorithms with Go – A free Go course where panelist Jon Calhoun teaches you how algorithms and data structures work, how to implement them in Go code, and where to practice at. Great for learning Go, learning about algorithms for the first time, or refreshing your algorithmic knowledge.
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:Dave Cheney – Website, GitHub, XMat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, XJohnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, XCarmen Andoh – GitHub, XShow Notes:
The Zen of Go
The Evolution of a Go Programmer
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!