Hyperswitch is like the adapter pattern for payments, Austin Henley writes about the future of programming by summarizing recent research papers, Thoughtworks published their 28th volume of their Tech Radar, the team at General Products reminds devs to scan our technical writing for words such as “easy”, “painless”, “straightforward”, “trivial”, “simple” and “just” & we finish with a lightning round of cool tools. View the newsletterJoin the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Postman – Build APIs together — More than 20 million developers use Postman for building and using APIs. Postman simplifies each step of the API lifecycle and streamlines collaboration so you can create better APIs—faster. Featuring:Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Adam Argyle joins Amelia and Nick to catch them up on all the goings on within the world of CSS colors. There are a lot more options than you’d expect if you haven’t been keeping up, and Adam’s here to help you avoid the “gray dead zone”! Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 4 minutes on this episode because they made 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 Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs. KBall Coaching – Free exploratory coaching sessions from JS Party co-host KBall! Click here to get started Changelog News – A podcast+newsletter combo that’s brief, entertaining & always on-point. Subscribe today. Featuring:Adam Argyle – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteNick Nisi – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteAmelia Wattenberger – Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteShow Notes: Adam’s site Color interpolation animation oklch() - CSS: Cascading Style Sheets | MDN The “Gray Dead Zone” of Gradients | CSS-Tricks - CSS-Tricks OKLCH Color Picker & Converter Wes Bos single color experiments on TikTok color-mix() - CSS: Cascading Style Sheets | MDN A Preview of 4 New CSS Color Features | CSS-Tricks - CSS-Tricks OKLCH in CSS: why we moved from RGB and HSL—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog CSS HD Gradients Gradient.style Discord High Definition CSS Color Guide - Chrome Developers Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Go conferences are not as diverse as we’d like them to be. There are initiatives in place to improve this situation. Among other roles, Ronna Steinberg is the Head of Diversity at GopherCon Europe. In this episode we’ll learn more about the goal, the process and the problems, and how can each one of us help make this better. Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 3 minutes on this episode because they made 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 Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs. Changelog News – A podcast+newsletter combo that’s brief, entertaining & always on-point. Subscribe today. Featuring:Ronna Steinberg – Twitter, GitHubKaylyn Gibilterra – Twitter, GitHubNatalie Pistunovich – Twitter, GitHubKris Brandow – Twitter, GitHubShow Notes:Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

This week Adam talks with Andy Klein from Backblaze about hard drive reliability at scale. Join the discussionChangelog++ members get a bonus 15 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today!Sponsors:DevCycle – Build better software with DevCycle. Feature flags, without the tech debt. DevCycle is a Feature Flag Management platform designed to help you build maintainable code at scale. Sentry – See the untested code causing errors - or whether it’s partially or fully covered - directly in your stack trace, so you can avoid similar errors from happening in the future. Use the code CHANGELOG and get the team plan free for three months. Postman – Build APIs together — More than 20 million developers use Postman for building and using APIs. Postman simplifies each step of the API lifecycle and streamlines collaboration so you can create better APIs—faster. Typesense – Lightning fast, globally distributed Search-as-a-Service that runs in memory. You literally can’t get any faster! Featuring:Andy Klein – Twitter, LinkedIn, WebsiteAdam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteShow Notes: Backblaze Drive Stats for 2022 10 Stories From 10 Years of Drive Stats Data Hard Drive Life Expectancy The SSD Edition: 2022 Drive Stats Review SSD 101: How Reliable are SSDs? Hard Drive Cost Per Gigabyte A Behind the Scenes Look at Our US East Data Center Sean Has a New Friend. His Name Is Guido. The Storage Pod Story: Innovation to Commodity We love 45Drives. If you need an intro to them, let us know. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

With all the LLM hype, it’s worth remembering that enterprise stakeholders want answers to “why” questions. Enter causal inference. Paul Hünermund has been doing research and writing on this topic for some time and joins us to introduce the topic. He also shares some relevant trends and some tips for getting started with methods including double machine learning, experimentation, difference-in-difference, and more. Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 3 minutes on this episode because they made 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 Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs. Changelog News – A podcast+newsletter combo that’s brief, entertaining & always on-point. Subscribe today. Featuring:Paul Hünermund – Twitter, LinkedIn, WebsiteChris Benson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteDaniel Whitenack – Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteShow Notes: How Can Causal Machine Learning Improve Business Decisions? Causal Inference is More than Fitting the Data Well Causal Data Science in Practice Causal Discovery DoWhy Github The Book of Why Causal Data Science Meeting Paul’s study on causal ML adoption in industry (incl. an overview of useful software packages in Table 3) Causal Data Science MOOC on Udemy Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

The dataset wars are heating up, Bark is a transformer-based text-to-audio model that can generate highly realistic, multilingual speech as well as other audio, Kent Beck needs to recalibrate after using ChatGPT, the team behind Stable Diffusion release a new open source language model & Mitchel Hashimoto weighs in on prompt engineering. View the newsletterJoin the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Sentry – Session Replay! Rewind and replay every step of the user’s journey before and after they encountered an issue. Eliminate the guesswork and get to the root cause of an issue, faster. Use the code CHANGELOG and get the team plan free for three months. Featuring:Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Feross and his team at Socket recently shipped a wrapper library for the ubiquitous npm package manager’s command-line interface that brings enhanced security when you need it most: before executing any code Bradly Farias lead this effort, so Jerod & Chris invited him on the show to learn all about it. Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 3 minutes on this episode because they made 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 Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs. Changelog News – A podcast+newsletter combo that’s brief, entertaining & always on-point. Subscribe today. KBall Coaching – Free exploratory coaching sessions from JS Party co-host KBall! Click here to get started Featuring:Bradley Meck Farias – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedInJerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedInFeross Aboukhadijeh – Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteChristopher Hiller – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteShow Notes: Introducing “safe npm” Source code on GitHub Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

This week Adam is joined by Alex Gallego, Founder & CEO at Redpanda Data, to share his builder journey to create the Redpanda streaming data platform. Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 6 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Sentry – Session Replay! Rewind and replay every step of the user’s journey before and after they encountered an issue. Eliminate the guesswork and get to the root cause of an issue, faster. Use the code CHANGELOG and get the team plan free for three months. Square – Develop on the platform that sellers trust. There is a massive opportunity for developers to support Square sellers by building apps for today’s business needs. Learn more at developer.squareup.com to dive into the docs, APIs, SDKs and to create your Square Developer account — tell them Changelog sent you. 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 Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs. Featuring:Alex Gallego – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteAdam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteShow Notes: Redpanda Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Large Language Model (LLM) capabilities have reached new heights and are nothing short of mind-blowing! However, with so many advancements happening at once, it can be overwhelming to keep up with all the latest developments. To help us navigate through this complex terrain, we’ve invited Raj - one of the most adept at explaining State-of-the-Art (SOTA) AI in practical terms - to join us on the podcast. Raj discusses several intriguing topics such as in-context learning, reasoning, LLM options, and related tooling. But that’s not all! We also hear from Raj about the rapidly growing data science and AI community on TikTok. 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 Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs. Featuring:Rajiv Shah – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteChris Benson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteDaniel Whitenack – Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteShow Notes: Solving AI Tasks with ChatGPT and its Friends in HuggingFace | GitHub Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior Wolfram ChatGPT Comparing LLMs LangChain Learn about LLMs: Emergence and reasoning in large language models (Jason Wei) Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence Learning Prompting Getting Started with Transformers: Transformers course (free) Tasks at Hugging Face Training your own LLM Models: Efficient Large Language Model training with LoRA and Hugging Face PEFT (Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning) Dolly blog post Illustrating Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

This week we’re joined by Zach Latta, the Founder of Hack Club. At 16, Zach tested out of high school and moved to SF to join Yo as their first engineer. After playing a key role at Yo, he founded Hack Club to help teen hackers start coding clubs around the world. Today, teen hackers can meet IRL, online, at a hackathon, or leverage Hack Club Bank a fiscal sponsor to create their own organization. Hack Club is the program Zach wished he had in high school. Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 10 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:DevCycle – Build better software with DevCycle. Feature flags, without the tech debt. DevCycle is a Feature Flag Management platform designed to help you build maintainable code at scale. Postman – Build APIs together — More than 20 million developers use Postman for building and using APIs. Postman simplifies each step of the API lifecycle and streamlines collaboration so you can create better APIs—faster. Rocky Linux – Enterprise Linux, the open source community way. Featuring:Zach Latta – Twitter, GitHubAdam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteJerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedInShow Notes: Invest in the future hacker generation hackclub.com Hack Club Bank hackclub/sprig Sprig - The game console where every player is a creator Meet the 18-year-old who left his job at ‘Yo’ to spread the joy of coding Founders Talk #81: The future of code search with Quinn Slack Changelog Interviews #369: Five years of freeCodeCamp with Quincy Larson SSH Tron The World’s Longest Hackathon: The Hacker Zephyr, July 2021 ToorCamp Thanks to the “How Do You Do, Fellow Kids?” meme for this title’s inspiration. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!