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Jul 11, 2023 • 26min
Gophers Say! GopherCon EU 2023 (Go Time #284)
Our award winning worthy survey game show is back, this time Mat Ryer hosts it live on stage at GopherCon Europe 2023!
Elena Grahovac joins forces with Björn Rabenstein to battle it out with Alice Merrick & Mohammed S. Al Sahaf. Let’s see who can better guess what the GopherCon Europe gophers had to say!
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Featuring:Elena Grahovac – XBjörn Rabenstein – GitHubAlice Merrick – LinkedIn, XMohammed S. Al Sahaf – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XMat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, XShow Notes:Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Jul 10, 2023 • 8min
Oracle smacks IBM over RHEL (Changelog News #52)
Oracle smacks IBM for their handling of RHEL, the folks at The Dam share a Slack clone in 5 lines of Bash, Justin Jaffray writes up 13 ways to think about joins, llama.cpp learns web chat thanks to a contribution by Tobi Lütke & Meta is willing to pay 3 engineers to remove Python’s GIL.
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Featuring:Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Jul 7, 2023 • 1h 3min
The massive bug at the heart of npm (JS Party #282)
Darcy Clarke, former GitHub Staff Engineering Manager and founder of vlt, joins us to discuss a major bug in the npm ecosystem that he recently disclosed. We cover the bug’s timeline, nuances, and impact, all while setting some important context on npm packages, clients, and registries. Tune in to learn how to protect your codebase and gain a deeper understanding of this crucial part of the JavaScript ecosystem.
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Featuring:Darcy Clarke – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAmal Hussein – GitHub, XFeross Aboukhadijeh – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:
Darcy / vlt’s blog post on this massive npm bug
Feross / Socket’s follow-up blog post in this issue
Refactor Conf - Darcy & Feross will be speaking in July
Verdaccio (not to be mistaken with Versace) - an open source npm registry proxy
Github layoffs for engineering team in India
Bug filled July 28th, 2022 related to binding.gyp and triaged on October 22nd, 2022
Darcy’s original test POC from Nov 2nd, 2022
Darcy’s POC from March 8th, 2023 which was used in the HackerOne report to Github
Legacy docs for npm publish params
Tool for checking packages for manifest mismatches
Great resource for security acronyms
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Jul 6, 2023 • 42min
Cambrian explosion of generative models (Practical AI #230)
In this Fully Connected episode, Daniel and Chris explore recent highlights from the current model proliferation wave sweeping the world - including Stable Diffusion XL, OpenChat, Zeroscope XL, and Salesforce XGen. They note the rapid rise of open models, and speculate that just as in open source software, open models will dominate the future. Such rapid advancement creates its own problems though, so they finish by itemizing concerns such as cybersecurity, workflow productivity, and impact on human culture.
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Featuring:Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XDaniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:
Stable Diffusion XL 0.9
OpenChat
Zeroscope XL
Salesforce XGen
AI is Eating The World
LLM university
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Jul 6, 2023 • 1h 23min
Efficient Linux at the CLI (Changelog Interviews #547)
This week we’re talking to Daniel J. Barrett, author of Efficient Linux at the Command Line as well as many other books. Daniel has a PhD and has been teaching and writing about Linux for more than 30 years (almost 40!). So we invited Dan to join us on the show to talk about efficient ways to use Linux. He teaches us about combining commands, re-running commands, $CDPATH hacks, and more.
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Featuring:Daniel J. Barrett – Website, LinkedIn, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
Efficient Linux at the Command Line
Daniel’s books
Dan on O’Reilly
Cold Ice Cream & Hot Kisses
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Jul 5, 2023 • 57min
The solo gopher (Go Time #283)
Many Gophers build projects as a team of one. Sometimes these are side projects, other times they are projects used by millions of people but who are still maintained by a single individual. In this episode, the panel discusses techniques for developing and maintaining Go projects as a solo developer.
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Typesense – Lightning fast, globally distributed Search-as-a-Service that runs in memory. You literally can’t get any faster!
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Featuring:Ben Johnson – Website, GitHub, XKris Brandow – GitHub, XIan Lopshire – GitHub, XShow Notes:Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Jul 3, 2023 • 6min
Streak redemption, vectors are the new JSON, CommonJS is hurting JavaScript & the rise of the AI Engineer (Changelog News #51)
Lukas Mathis writes about streak redemption, Jonathan Katz thinks vectors are the new JSON, Andy Jiang says CommonJS is hurting JavaScript & Swyx on the rise of the AI Engineer.
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Featuring:Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Jun 30, 2023 • 1h 29min
Even the best rides come to an end (Changelog & Friends #6)
On Monday, Kelsey Hightower announced his retirement from Google. On Tuesday, he sat down with us to discuss why, how & what’s next.
Along the way, Kelsey teaches us how not to suck at work, analyzes his magical demos, fights off the haters (again) & opines on System Initiative, Dagger & 37Signals moving off the cloud.
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Featuring:Kelsey Hightower – GitHub, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
“Today I’m announcing my retirement from Google.”
Not Everyone Can Be Kelsey Hightower - Greg Poirier - YouTube
Rebuilding DevOps from the ground up with Adam Jacob
Why we’re leaving the cloud
We have left the cloud
MRSK — Deploy web apps anywhere
Two decades as a solo indie Mac dev with Jesse Grosjean
btop on GitHub
Dagger
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Jun 29, 2023 • 47min
K8s vs serverless for distributed systems (Go Time #282)
Listener Joe Davidson recently tweeted: “I’d really be interested in an episode debating Kubernetes vs serverless functions for distributed systems. As someone working a lot with serverless to create large scale systems, for me the complexity in Kubernetes doesn’t seem worth it, especially when onboarding new people. But I’d like to see it from the other perspectives. I could be missing something.”
So we invited Joe on the show alongside Abdel Sghiouar and Srdjan Petrovic to discuss!
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Featuring:Joe Davidson – GitHub, XAbdel Sghiouar – GitHub, LinkedIn, XSrdjan Petrovic – XNatalie Pistunovich – GitHub, XShow Notes:
Cncf landscape
Article: Shifting left is for suckers. Shift down instead
Service Weaver
Firebase
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized world
CloudRun
Knative
Fargate
Dapr
Azure Container Apps
Kelsey Hightower’s Tweet on k8s becoming an operating system for the cloud
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Jun 28, 2023 • 1h 7min
Don't make things worse! (Changelog Interviews #546)
Taylor Troesh joins Jerod to discuss a bevy of software development topics: yak shaves, dependency selection, -10x engineers, IKEA-oriented development, his new content-addressable programming language & much more along the way.
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Featuring:Taylor Troesh – Website, GitHub, LinkedInJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
Taylor Town
IKEA-Oriented Development
11 Ways to Shave a Yak
How to be a -10x Engineer
The Lindy Effect
Crafting Interpreters
The Unison language
Scrapscript
The Mother of All Demos - Wikipedia
Opening Keynote: Greg Young - Stop Over-Engenering - YouTube
The art of destroying software (Greg Young) - YouTube
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