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Lauren Tan joined us to talk about her blog post titled “Does it spark joy?” In this post Lauren shared the news of her resignation as an engineering manager at Netflix to return to being a software engineer. We examine the career trajectory of a software engineer and the seemingly inevitable draw to management for continued career growth. The idea of understanding “What are you optimizing for?” and whether or not what you’re doing truly brings you joy. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:DigitalOcean – DigitalOcean’s developer cloud makes it simple to launch in the cloud and scale up as you grow. They have an intuitive control panel, predictable pricing, team accounts, worldwide availability with a 99.99% uptime SLA, and 24/7/365 world-class support to back that up. Get your $100 credit at do.co/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 Square – The Square developer team just launched their new developer YouTube channel. Head to youtube.com/squaredev or search for “Square Developer” on YouTube to learn more and subscribe. 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:Lauren Tan – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Does It Spark Joy? Go Fast and Break Things: The Difference Between Reversible and Irreversible Decisions WHAT AM I GOING TO DO WITH MY LIFE??? The Engineer/Manager Pendulum The Regret Minimization Framework: How Jeff Bezos Made Decisions How to quit your job spectacularly well Stay Uncomfortable. Stay Hungry. The one question that will change your life Steve Jobs on connecting the dots thepricegeek.com Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

This is THE podcast for diverse discussions from around the Go community. Go Time’s panel hosts special guests like Kelsey Hightower… (clip from episode #114) picks the brains of the Go team at Google… (clip from episode #100) shares their expertise from years in the industry (clip from episode #102) and has an absolute laugh riot along the way… (clip from episode #110) It is Go Time! Please listen to a recent episode that interests you and subscribe today. We’d love to have you with us. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Jon Calhoun – Website, GitHub, XJaana Dogan – Website, GitHub, XMat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, XCarmen Andoh – GitHub, XJohnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, XAshley Willis – GitHub, XMark Bates – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

In the wake of the coronavirus outbreak being declared a global pandemic and a national emergency here in the United States as well as many other countries around the world, it would be extremely difficult to have a serious conversation here on Brain Science that’s not colored by today’s very serious events. Mireille and Adam discuss the anxiety, fear, and panic that many may be facing. How do we navigate the unseeable unknown? How should we respond to change and the state of the world we are now living in? Don’t panic. Prepare for change. Be adaptable. Be resilient. 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: ‘Brace for turbulence,’ Coronavirus is the black swan of 2020 COVID-19 (2019-nCoV) real time dashboard Coronavirus and the remote work experiment no one asked for Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Emily Robinson, co-author of the book Build a Career in Data Science, gives us the inside scoop about optimizing the data science job search. From creating one’s resume, cover letter, and portfolio to knowing how to recognize the right job at a fair compensation rate. Emily’s expert guidance takes us from the beginning of the process to conclusion, including being successful during your early days in that fantastic new data science position. 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:Emily Robinson – GitHub, XChris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XDaniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:Comment on the episode page for a chance to win a FREE copy of the eBook! Tell us why you are interested in Data Science and how this book might help you achieve your goals. Our 3 favorite comments will be selected on April 13th! R Conference | New York City Books “Build a Career in Data Science” by Emily Robinson and Jacqueline Nolis Be sure to use discount code: podpracticalAI19 “Cracking the Coding Interview” by Gayle Laakmann McDowell “Designing Your New Work Life” by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans “Designing Your Life” by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

We sit down with Tobias Koppers of webpack fame to talk about his life as a full-time maintainer of one of the most highly used (4 million+ dependent repos!) and influential tools in all of the web. Things we ask Tobias include: how he got here, how he pays himself, has he ever gotten a raise, what his typical day is like, how he decides what to work on, if he pays attention to the competition, and if he’s ever suffered from burnout. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Tidelift – Tidelift is the first managed open source subscription that pays the maintainers of the exact open source projects you depend on while giving you the commercial support you’ve been looking for. Learn more at tidelift.com. Featuring:Tobias Koppers – GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: webpack with Sean Larkin (The Changelog #233) webpack’s homepage webpack on Open Collective webpack on GitHub Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

This week we’re talking about building technical courses! From video courses to written courses, we’ll give you our tips for building an effective and memorable course. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:DigitalOcean – DigitalOcean’s developer cloud makes it simple to launch in the cloud and scale up as you grow. They have an intuitive control panel, predictable pricing, team accounts, worldwide availability with a 99.99% uptime SLA, and 24/7/365 world-class support to back that up. Get your $100 credit at do.co/changelog. The Brave Browser – Browse the web up to 8x faster than Chrome and Safari, block ads and trackers by default, and reward your favorite creators with the built-in Basic Attention Token. Download Brave for free and give tipping a try right here on changelog.com. 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:Jason Lengstorf – Website, GitHub, XEmma Bostian – GitHub, LinkedIn, XKevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XShow Notes:Find Jason Learn With Jason Egghead.io How I Cut My Work Hours In Half And Somehow Managed To Get More Done conference talk Cool people we mentioned Wes Bos Scott Tolinski Angie Jones Sarah Drasner Kyle Shevlin Dave Ceddia Tyler McGinnis Bianca Gandolfo Brian Holt Chris Biscardi Ali Spittel Kent Dodds Courses we love Introduction To Gatsby by Jason Lengsdorf KBall’s Skillshare course on SVG Test Automation University Data Structures & Algorithms in JavaScript by Kyle Shevlin Books Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning Start With Why You Don’t Know JavaScript Miscellaneous Flexbox Froggy Which Beard Is This? Content creator Discord Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Johnny and John welcome Thorsten Ball back to the show. This time we’re talking power tools! Editors, operating systems, containers, cloud providers, databases, and more. You name it, we probably talk about. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:DigitalOcean – DigitalOcean’s developer cloud makes it simple to launch in the cloud and scale up as you grow. They have an intuitive control panel, predictable pricing, team accounts, worldwide availability with a 99.99% uptime SLA, and 24/7/365 world-class support to back that up. Get your $100 credit at do.co/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. Rollbar – We move fast and fix things because of Rollbar. Resolve errors in minutes. Deploy with confidence. Learn more at rollbar.com/changelog. Featuring:Thorsten Ball – Website, GitHub, XJon Calhoun – Website, GitHub, XJohnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes: How much do we bend to the will of our tools? vim - A terminal-based text editor. tmux - A terminal multiplexer. postgres.app - A postgres server for macOS. psql - The default PostgreSQL CLI, configurable via ~/.psqlrc. pgcli - CLI for postgres. jq - Command line JSON parsing tool. bolt db - A key value store written in Go. bleve - A text indexing library for go ngrok - A useful tool for exposing localhost apps to the web for testing things like webhooks. Paw - A tool for testing APIs on a Mac. Postman - Another tool for testings APIs, but works on all OSes. modd - A tool for reloading code and running tests when it changes. gotest - A tool for running Go tests with color output. Github CLI - Github’s official CLI tool. Getting Things Done - A time management method. Trello - A task management platform. Things - A todo app for macOS. Todoist - A cross-platform todo app. Notion - A cross-platform todo app. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

We partnered with Red Hat to promote Season 4 of Command Line Heroes — a podcast about the people who transform technology from the command line up. Season 4 is all about hardware that changed the game. We’re featuring episode 3 from season 4 — called “Personal Computers: The Altair 8800 and the Dawn of a Revolution.” This is the story of personal computers and the revolution that took place in the PC era. Learn more and subscribe at redhat.com/commandlineheroes. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Command Line Heroes – A podcast from Red Hat about the people who transform technology from the command line up. Head to redhat.com/commandlineheroes to learn more and subscribe. Featuring:Saron Yitbarek – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:The Altair 8800 is why we have computers in most homes today. It was initially designed for hobbyists. But a few visionaries saw massive potential in this strange little machine—and worked hard to make others see it too. What they created led to so much more than anyone could have ever imagined. Forrest Mims tells us how his co-founder, Ed Roberts, planned to save their struggling electronics company. His idea? A microcomputer made for hobbyists. That computer led to a fateful phone call from Bill Gates and Paul Allen. Dan Sokol and Lee Felsenstein recall the unveiling of the Altair 8800 at the Homebrew Computer Club, and how it sparked Steve Wozniak’s eureka moment for the Apple I. We then hear from John Markoff about an infamous software heist that set the stage for the debate about whether code should be proprietary. And finally, Limor Fried reflects on how this story continues to influence today’s open source hardware movement. First Invite to the Homebrew Computer Club by Fred Moore The Altair story; early days at MITS by Forrest M. Mims III WIRED article on the Altair by Randy Alfred Video: Demo of the Altair by Don Russ PC Mag article on Altair by Michael J. Miller Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Matthew Hodgson (technical co-founder) joined us to talk about Matrix - an open source project and open standard for secure, decentralized, real-time communication. It’s open source, it’s decentralized, it’s end-to-end-encrypted, and it’s also self-sovereign. Matrix also provides a bridge feature to bridge existing platforms and communication silos into a global open matrix of communication. A recent big win for Matrix was Mozilla’s announcement of switching off its IRC network that it had been using for 22 years and now uses Matrix instead. 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. Square – The Square developer team just launched their new developer YouTube channel. Head to youtube.com/squaredev or search for “Square Developer” on YouTube to learn more and subscribe. 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:Matthew Hodgson – GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Matrix.org Matrix spec Matrix on GitHub Welcoming Mozilla to Matrix! Synchronous Messaging at Mozilla (the decision post) Check out this link and discussion on HN about “candidates for Mozilla’s IRC successor” Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Matt Brems from General Assembly joins us to explain what “data science” actually means these days and how that has changed over time. He also gives us some insight into how people are going about data science education, how AI fits into the data science workflow, and how to differentiate yourself career-wise. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:DigitalOcean – DigitalOcean’s developer cloud makes it simple to launch in the cloud and scale up as you grow. They have an intuitive control panel, predictable pricing, team accounts, worldwide availability with a 99.99% uptime SLA, and 24/7/365 world-class support to back that up. Get your $100 credit at do.co/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. Rollbar – We move fast and fix things because of Rollbar. Resolve errors in minutes. Deploy with confidence. Learn more at rollbar.com/changelog. Featuring:Matt Brems – GitHub, XChris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XDaniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes: General Assembly Betavector Previous episode: Exposing the deception of DeepFakes Data Science Venn diagram Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!