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We met up with Wojciech Zaremba at the O’Reilly AI conference in SF. He took some time to talk to us about some of his recent research related to reinforcement learning and robots. We also discussed AI safety and the hype around OpenAI. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors: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 catch our errors before our users do because of Rollbar. Resolve errors in minutes, and deploy your code with confidence. Learn more at rollbar.com/changelog. Linode – Our cloud server of choice. Deploy a fast, efficient, native SSD cloud server for only $5/month. Get 4 months free using the code changelog2018. Start your server - head to linode.com/changelog Featuring:Wojciech Zaremba – Website, GitHub, XDaniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes: Woj’s talk at O’Reilly AI OpenAI OpenAI blog The Dota playing team of AIs from OpenAI Microsoft Tay Chatbot Reinforcement learning Wikipedia Berkeley course CS294-112 on Reinforcement learning. Includes pdf notes and YouTube videos of the lectures. Books “Deep Learning” by Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio and Aaron Courville “Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction” by Richard S. Sutton and Andrew G. Barto Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Suz, Nick, and KBall are joined by special guest Aimee Knight to talk about CSS, how it’s often trivialized and how that in turn affects the people who write it, what CSS in JS is, and how to get started with it. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Gauge – Low maintenance test automation! Gauge is free and open source test automation framework that takes the pain out of acceptance testing. Rollbar – We catch our errors before our users do because of Rollbar. Resolve errors in minutes, and deploy your code with confidence. Learn more at rollbar.com/changelog. Vettery – Vettery helps you scale your teams by connecting you with highly qualified tech, sales & finance candidates. Download their tech salary report for 2018 with insights from tech hiring activity in New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Washington D.C. Download at vettery.com/changelog. DigitalOcean – DigitalOcean is simplicity at scale. Whether your business is running one virtual machine or ten thousand, DigitalOcean gets out of your way so your team can build, deploy, and scale faster and more efficiently. New accounts get $100 in credit to use in your first 60 days. Featuring:Aimee Knight – Website, GitHub, XSuz Hinton – GitHub, Mastodon, XNick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Bluesky, Mastodon, XKevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XShow Notes: CSS dismissal is about exclusion, not technology 9 CSS in JS Libraries You Should Know in 2018 – Bits and Pieces CSS Blocks Houdini: Maybe The Most Exciting Development In CSS You’ve Never Heard Of — Smashing Magazine Is Houdini Ready Yet? Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Almost eight years ago, Suz Hinton made one of the biggest decisions of her life: move away from her home in Melbourne, Australia and move to the United States. After amicably breaking up with her boyfriend, another decision lied ahead: would she stay? Suz talks to me about culture shock, the hoops she had to jump through to get her visa, her parents, and dealing with burnout. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Linode – Our cloud server of choice. Deploy a fast, efficient, native SSD cloud server for only $5/month. Get 4 months free using the code changelog2018. Start your server - 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. Rollbar – We catch our errors before our users do because of Rollbar. Resolve errors in minutes, and deploy your code with confidence. Learn more at rollbar.com/changelog. Featuring:Suz Hinton – GitHub, Mastodon, XTim Smith – GitHub, XShow Notes: The world’s most liveable cities in 2018 | CNN Travel TAFE NSW - Wikipedia noopkat - Twitch John Resig Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

In this special rebroadcast of JS Party, Jerod and Suz talk with John Resig about how he’s using GraphQL at Khan Academy, some of the mistakes and successes using GraphQL, John’s feelings on jQuery, and community Q&A. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Vettery – Vettery helps you scale your teams by connecting you with highly qualified tech, sales & finance candidates. Download their tech salary report for 2018 with insights from tech hiring activity in New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Washington D.C. Download at vettery.com/founderstalk. Raygun – Unblock your biggest app performance bottlenecks with Raygun APM. Smarter application performance monitoring (APM) that lets you understand and take action on software issues affecting your customers. Linode – Our cloud server of choice. Deploy a fast, efficient, native SSD cloud server for only $5/month. Get 4 months free using the code changelog2018. Start your server - head to linode.com/changelog Rollbar – We catch our errors before our users do because of Rollbar. Resolve errors in minutes, and deploy your code with confidence. Learn more at rollbar.com/changelog. Featuring:John Resig – Website, GitHub, XSuz Hinton – GitHub, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: John’s intro to the GraphQL Guide - Introduction by John Resig, author of GraphQL Guide Get the GraphQL Guide (beta) - Link to the Ebook & Training information on GraphQL, with a free tshirt for full edition Ebook readers The Changelog #255: Why is GraphQL so cool? - Link to the GraphQL Podcast The Changelog #297: Prisma and the GraphQL data layer - Link to the Prisma and GraphQL Data Layer Listen to the original episode Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Donald Fischer and the team at Tidelift are on a mission of making open source work better — for everyone. To pay the maintainers of open source software they are putting a new spin on a highly successful business model that’s a win-win for the maintainers as well as the software teams using the software. In this episode we dig into that backstory and Donald’s journey. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Rollbar – We catch our errors before our users do because of Rollbar. Resolve errors in minutes, and deploy your code with confidence. Learn more at rollbar.com/changelog. Hired – Salary and benefits upfront? Yes please. Our listeners get a double hiring bonus of $600! Or, refer a friend and get a check for $1,337 when they accept a job. On Hired companies send you offers with salary, benefits, and even equity upfront. You are in full control of the process. Learn more at hired.com/changelog. Algolia – Our search partner. Algolia’s full suite search APIs enable teams to develop unique search and discovery experiences across all platforms and devices. We’re using Algolia to power our site search here at Changelog.com. Get started for free and learn more at algolia.com. Linode – Our cloud server of choice. Deploy a fast, efficient, native SSD cloud server for only $5/month. Get 4 months free using the code changelog2018. Start your server - head to linode.com/changelog Featuring:Donald Fischer – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: There’s over $1M to pay open source maintainers on Tidelift It’s time to pay the maintainers! Tidelift Is React’s development “supported” by Facebook? That depends. Havoc Pennington Jeremy Katz Luis Villa Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Suz, Jerod, Nick and KBall talk about cringeworthy mistakes and failures they (and the community!) have experienced with JavaScript. They also give advice to themselves as if they were just starting out today in the JavaScript industry. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Gauge – Low maintenance test automation! Gauge is free and open source test automation framework that takes the pain out of acceptance testing. Rollbar – We catch our errors before our users do because of Rollbar. Resolve errors in minutes, and deploy your code with confidence. Learn more at rollbar.com/changelog. NativeScript – NativeScript is an open source framework for building truly native mobile apps for iOS and Android using JavaScript and TypeScript with frameworks like Angular and Vue. Learn more at nativescript.org/jsparty. 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: JavaScript 30 — Build 30 things with vanilla JS in 30 days with 30 tutorials Learn to Code and Help Nonprofits | freeCodeCamp Learning Web Development in 2018 Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

We talked with Eugen Rochko, the creator of Mastodon, about where Mastodon came from the problem it aimed to solve. How it’s not exactly Twitter alternative, although that’s its known claim to fame. Why it’s probably not going anywhere. The ins-and-outs of federation, getting started, running an instance, why you would want to — cool stuff you’ve never considered could be built on top of Mastodon. And finally, the story behind naming posted content a “toot”. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Hired – Companies apply to you, not the other way around. It’s simple, you control the interview process. Plus, with each offer get salary, benefits and equity upfront. Create a free profile at hired.com/changelog. Linode – Our cloud server of choice. Deploy a fast, efficient, native SSD cloud server for only $5/month. Get 4 months free using the code changelog2018. Start your server - head to linode.com/changelog GoCD – GoCD is an on-premise open source continuous delivery server created by ThoughtWorks that lets you automate and streamline your build-test-release cycle for reliable, continuous delivery of your product. Featuring:Eugen Rochko – GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: ActivityPub tootsuite/documentation Giving social networking back to you - The Mastodon Project Gargron is creating Mastodon | Patreon documentation/Development-guide.md at master · tootsuite/documentation Masto.host - Fully Managed Mastodon Hosting Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

An amazing panel of AI innovators joined us at the O’Reilly AI conference to answer the most pressing AI questions from Quora. We also discussed trends in the industry and some exciting new advances in FPGA hardware. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:DigitalOcean – DigitalOcean is simplicity at scale. Whether your business is running one virtual machine or ten thousand, DigitalOcean gets out of your way so your team can build, deploy, and scale faster and more efficiently. New accounts get $100 in credit to use in your first 60 days. Rollbar – We catch our errors before our users do because of Rollbar. Resolve errors in minutes, and deploy your code with confidence. Learn more at rollbar.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. Linode – Our cloud server of choice. Deploy a fast, efficient, native SSD cloud server for only $5/month. Get 4 months free using the code changelog2018. Start your server - head to linode.com/changelog Featuring:Wes Jensen – WebsitePeter Ma – WebsiteDavid Ojika – XVinay Rao – Website, XOsamah Mohammed Ali – WebsiteDaniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes: Intel AI Academy Intel DevCloud Movidius Neural Compute Stick Cloud AutoML Google’s AutoML: Cutting Through the Hype MLPerf OpenVino, OpenCV SDK Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

David Cramer dropped out of high school AND college, but that didn’t stop him. He ended up teaching himself programming and eventually landed his first job as the webmaster of a World of Warcraft community website. What a beginning… We talked through “the rough slog” period of Sentry and how David powered through to traction and enough profit for him and his partner to go full time, raise three rounds of funding, and take on New Relic. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Linode – Our cloud server of choice. Deploy a fast, efficient, native SSD cloud server for only $5/month. Get 4 months free using the code changelog2018. Start your server - head to linode.com/changelog Vettery – Vettery helps you scale your teams by connecting you with highly qualified tech, sales & finance candidates. Download their tech salary report for 2018 with insights from tech hiring activity in New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Washington D.C. Download at vettery.com/founderstalk. Algolia – Our search partner. Algolia’s full suite search APIs enable teams to develop unique search and discovery experiences across all platforms and devices. We’re using Algolia to power our site search here at Changelog.com. Get started for free and learn more at algolia.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. Featuring:David Cramer – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Sentry.io Sentry on crunchbase.com Sentry raises $16M Series B from NEA and Accel to help developers squash bugs more quickly Real-time crash reporting tool Sentry grabs $9 million from NEA & Accel Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Here’s a bonus segment from episode #57 of Founders Talk with David Cramer, co-founder and CEO of Sentry. Check the feed for the full length episode (later today). We talked about sales in the full length episode, but this BONUS segment is a completely isolated conversation that’s not included in the full length episode — so don’t gloss over this thinking it’s just a teaser. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:David Cramer – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:I’m thinking about doing short series focused on founders building their sales teams to grow and handle the demands a startup requires. If you have any feedback you’d like to share about the idea, or if you know someone with a sales team story to tell — get in touch, email me at adam@changelog.com. Founders Talk #57: From dropout to CEO of Sentry and taking on New Relic with David Cramer Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!