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Dan Moore, author of 'Letters to a New Developer', shares valuable advice for new developers including the importance of online communities, communication skills, and skill stacking. They discuss the value of mentors, saying no, and leaving code better than you found it. They also explore the importance of building relationships between managers and developers, different career options, and knowing when to leave a role. The chapter concludes with information about Dan's book and the relaunch of the 'Ship It' podcast.

Annual year-end wrap-up episode featuring 12 listener voicemails, favorite episodes of the year & insanely cool Breakmaster Cyilnder beats. Topics include the evolution of the podcast over 15 years, favorite episodes on mainframes and DevOps, passion and enthusiasm in coaching, challenges of creating an anthology episode, shoutouts to Minnesota software and tech community, reflections on past guests and topics, and gratitude for the year's content.

Daniel Ehrenberg, a software engineer at Bloomberg and VP of ECMA International, discusses new features in JavaScript such as Promises, Maps & Sets, Records, Tuples & Temporal. They also cover cross-project standardization efforts like WinterCG and open source sustainability.

Chang She, Co-founder and CEO of LanceDB, discusses their open source, on-disk, embedded vector search offering. They talk about the unique columnar database structure that enables serverless deployments and drastic savings without performance hits at scale. They also explore the potential applications and benefits of autonomous vehicles and edge computing technology, as well as exciting developments in the practical AI space.

In this episode, Jerod Santo takes a look back at the coolest code, best prose, and favorite episodes from each month of the year. They discuss topics such as AI development, chatbot limitations, Neon's serverless Postgres, notable codes, and memorable episodes like 'backslashes our trash' and 'Poundify Game Theory'.

Emma Bostian joins a group of veteran hosts to play a game of fake definitions. They discuss topics such as serverless Postgres, security concerns with open source dependencies, and a tool called Sock for security monitoring and configuring. The episode concludes with the announcement of the winner and gratitude for the sponsors.

Heikki Linnakangas, Robert Aboukhalil, and Scott Ford discuss Neon, bringing desktop apps to the web with WASM, the future of Postgres, innovative application monitoring, bioinformatics and web assembly, emulating BIOS, open source dependency security, bug fixing as a business, supply chain attacks, and looking ahead to the new year.

Filippo Valsorda, Roland Shoemaker, and Nicola Murino from the Go Team are back to catch us up on what's new in Go's crypto libraries. They discuss transitioning from pre-quantum to post-quantum cryptography, the performance impact of Chateree on common operations, implementing a new extension to the OpenSSH protocol, challenges in the SSH world, their unpopular opinions, and even their cooking abilities and kitchen setups.

Casper, contributor to the new open source AI book from PremAI, discusses key categories to navigate the open source AI ecosystem, including fine-tuning and vector DBs. The speakers explore AI models, language models, and the importance of framing topics in open source AI. They also encourage listeners to get involved in the open source AI community.

Researchers test open source language models and their success in achieving parity with chat GPT on certain tasks. SQLite's JSON functions are rewritten. Ratatui, a rust crate for TUIs, is introduced. A complex app built in vanilla JS is presented as a case study. Headscale is an open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server.