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Jun 23, 2023 • 1h 31min
There's a whole PEP about that (Changelog & Friends #5)
Brett Cannon (our unofficial ambassador to the Python community) is here to help alleviate our pip install anxiety. Along the way, we ask him about Python 4, removing the GIL, what he thinks about Chris Lattner’s Mojo project, Rust in the Python world & way more (of course).
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Typesense – Lightning fast, globally distributed Search-as-a-Service that runs in memory. You literally can’t get any faster!
Featuring:Brett Cannon – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
In response to the Changelog #526
Raku
Perl Mongers
pipx
Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe
Mojo.🔥
Why Mojo
Astral
RustPython: A Python Interpreter written in Rust
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Jun 22, 2023 • 1h 1min
Is print debugging good enough? (JS Party #281)
Let’s debate debugging techniques! Do you print debug or dive deep into debugging tools? KBall & Jerod argue that print statements are all you need while Amal & guest Eric Clemmons take the other side. Who will win and why will it be Jerod? 😉
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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:Eric Clemmons – GitHub, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XKevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XAmal Hussein – GitHub, XShow Notes:
patch-package
replay.io
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Jun 22, 2023 • 1h 28min
Rebuilding DevOps from the ground up (Changelog Interviews #545)
This week we’re joined by Adam Jacob and we’re talking about his mission at System Initiative to rebuild DevOps. They are out of stealth mode and ready to show off their transformative new power tool that reimagines what’s possible from DevOps. It’s an intelligent automation platform that allows DevOps teams to build detailed interactive simulations of their infrastructure and use them to rapidly update their production environments.
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Changelog News – A podcast+newsletter combo that’s brief, entertaining & always on-point. Subscribe today.
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Featuring:Adam Jacob – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
System Initiative
System Initiative launch demo
What if Infrastructure as Code never existed, by Adam Jacob
10+ deploys per day at Flickr
Changelog Interviews #353: The war for the soul of open source
Changelog Interviews #460: The business model of open source
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Jun 21, 2023 • 1h 14min
Neurodiverse gophers (Go Time #281)
Kaylyn Gibilterra returns as Natalie & the gang take our diversity conversation one step further. This time we’re talking about neurodiversity as it relates to being a developer, a manager, a conference participant & more.
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Featuring:Kaylyn Gibilterra – GitHub, XNatalie Pistunovich – GitHub, XKris Brandow – GitHub, XJohnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Jun 21, 2023 • 47min
From ML to AI to Generative AI (Practical AI #228)
Chris and Daniel take a step back to look at how generative AI fits into the wider landscape of ML/AI and data science. They talk through the differences in how one approaches “traditional” supervised learning and how practitioners are approaching generative AI based solutions (such as those using Midjourney or GPT family models). Finally, they talk through the risk and compliance implications of generative AI, which was in the news this week in the EU.
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Featuring:Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XDaniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:
NYT Article: “Europeans Take a Major Step Toward Regulating A.I.”
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Jun 19, 2023 • 7min
An open platform for LLMs, speed matters, imaginary problems, Val Town & how to finish your projects (Changelog News #49)
An open platform for operating LLMs in production, working quickly is more important than it seems, imaginary problems are the root of bad software, Val Town is a social website to write and run code & Aaron Francis’ guide to finishing your projects.
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Featuring:Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Jun 16, 2023 • 1h 40min
"Mat Depends" (Changelog & Friends #4)
Mat Ryer is back and he’s brought with him 10 tips to be a 10x developer (like he is). After that, we try a new segment we’re calling “Tool Time” (and try out a few jingles for it along the way). Finally, it’s time to review our previous unpopular opinions and put some new ones into the world for your (dis)agreeing pleasure. Join us for an automagical time!
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Typesense – Lightning fast, globally distributed Search-as-a-Service that runs in memory. You literally can’t get any faster!
Featuring:Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
How ‘Back to the Future 2’ Tricked You Into Thinking Crispin Glover Returned
Mat on The Changelog #526
The Synergistic Interplay between Vitamins D and K for Bone and Cardiovascular Health
Introducing Wood Milk: Aubrey Plaza’s Newest Product #drinkwoodmilk - YouTube
golangci-lint
credo for Elixir
1Password
ntfy.sh
Queen Latifah - U.N.I.T.Y. - YouTube
NextDNS
NextDNS wiki on UnifiOS
I Made a Tiny Touch ID Button for Mac!
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Jun 15, 2023 • 53min
It's all part of the process (JS Party #280)
The panel dives into all of the supporting structures that we build around writing code, what works in different environments, and good and bad practices they have seen. From PR etiquette to CI/CD to how to write a ticket, they look at them from an open source perspective, an enterprise perspective, and everything in between.
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Typesense – Lightning fast, globally distributed Search-as-a-Service that runs in memory. You literally can’t get any faster!
Featuring:Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XAmal Hussein – GitHub, XChristopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
Graphite
Reviewable
The way to fully automated releases in open source projects
Feature Toggles (aka Feature Flags)
LaunchDarkly
Split.io
Minimum Reproducible Example
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Jun 15, 2023 • 1h 11min
Passkeys for a passwordless future (Changelog Interviews #544)
This week we’re talking about Passkeys with Anna Pobletts, Head of Passwordless, at 1Password. Will Passkeys enable a passwordless future? Time will tell. Anna shares the what, the why, how, and the when on Passkeys.
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Featuring:Anna Pobletts – LinkedInAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
Passkeys: the future of authentication in 1Password
Passage by 1Password
Passkeys Overview (Apple Developer)
Supporting Passkeys (Apple Developer)
passkeys.directory
passkeys.dev
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Jun 14, 2023 • 60min
AI trends: a Latent Space crossover (Practical AI #227)
Daniel had the chance to sit down with @swyx and Alessio from the Latent Space pod in SF to talk about current AI trends and to highlight some key learnings from past episodes. The discussion covers open access LLMs, smol models, model controls, prompt engineering, and LLMOps. This mashup is magical. Don’t miss it!
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Typesense – Lightning fast, globally distributed Search-as-a-Service that runs in memory. You literally can’t get any faster!
Featuring:Shawn Wang – Website, GitHub, XAlessio Fanelli – Website, GitHub, XDaniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:
Latent Space podcast
Featured Latent Space episodes:
Benchmarks
Reza Shabani
MosaicML and MPT
Segment Anything
Mike Conover
Featured Practical AI episodes:
From notebooks to Netflix scale with Metaflow
Capabilities of LLMs 🤯
ML at small organizations
Prediction Guard
Data Dan
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