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Jan 17, 2023 • 50min
Machine learning at small organizations (Practical AI #207)
Why is ML is so poorly adopted in small organizations (hint: it’s not because they don’t have enough data)? In this episode, Kirsten Lum from Storytellers shares the patterns she has seen in small orgs that lead to a successful ML practice. We discuss how the job of a ML Engineer/Data Scientist is different in that environment and how end-to-end project management is key to adoption.
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Featuring:Kirsten Lum – LinkedIn, XChris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XDaniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:
storytellers.ai
Trello
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Jan 16, 2023 • 7min
Premium PCB cheat sheets, a disappearing AWS dev, HyperSwitch, Servo is back at it & Cloudflare Wildebeest (Changelog News #27)
WestArtFactory’s premium PCB cheat sheets, Maxime Topolov tells of a disappearing AWS dev, Juspay Technologies releases HyperSwitch for payment processing, Servo gets new funding for 2023 & Cloudflare’s open source Wildebeest.
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Jan 14, 2023 • 57min
The principles of data-oriented programming (Changelog Interviews #522)
Jerod is joined by Yehonathan Sharvit, author of Data-Oriented Programming, to discuss the virtues of treating data as a first-class citizen in our applications and the four principles that make it possible.
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Featuring:Yehonathan Sharvit – Website, GitHub, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
📘 Data-Oriented Programming
Principles of Data-Oriented Programming
The history of DOP
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Jan 13, 2023 • 52min
The rise & fall of JS frameworks (JS Party #258)
KBall and Chris dive into the current JavaScript trends towards smaller frameworks, compiled JavaScript, and why Chris believes “this time is different” with regards to developers caring about network speed and reducing JS sent over the wire.
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Featuring:Chris Ferdinandi – Website, XKevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XShow Notes:
The Transitional Web
Preact
Petite-Vue
SolidJS
Astro
The spicy React debate show 🌶️
HTMX
JavaScript is the CO2 of the web
Qwik is a new kind of web framework
Chris’s resource list
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Jan 12, 2023 • 59min
How Go helped save HealthCare.gov ♻️ (Go Time #262)
Paul Smith (from “Obama’s Trauma Team”) tells us the tale of how Go played a big role in the rescuing and rebuilding of the HealthCare.gov website. Along the way we learn what the original team did wrong, how the rescue team kept it afloat during huge traffic spikes, and what they’ve done since to rebuild it to serve the people’s needs.
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Featuring:Paul Smith – Website, XMat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, XJohnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
HealthCare.gov
Paul’s company Ad Hoc is hiring
Obama’s Trauma Team
Paul on MSNBC talking about the rescue
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Jan 11, 2023 • 1h 17min
The hard parts of platform engineering (Ship It! #85)
Marcos Nils has been into platform engineering for the best part of the last decade. He helped architect & build developer platforms using VMs & OpenStack, containers with Docker, and even Kubernetes. He did this at startups with 10 people, as well as large, publicly traded companies with 1000+ software engineers.
Today we talk with Marcos about the hard parts of platform engineering.
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Featuring:Marcos Nils – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XGerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XShow Notes:
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Jan 10, 2023 • 45min
ChatGPT goes prime time! (Practical AI #206)
Daniel and Chris do a deep dive into OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which is the first LLM to enjoy direct mass adoption by folks outside the AI world. They discuss how it works, its effect on the world, ramifications of its adoption, and what we may expect in the future as these types of models continue to evolve.
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ChatGPT
OpenAI Blog: ChatGPT
Illustrating Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF)
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Jan 9, 2023 • 8min
A simpler alternative to deleted_at, rules of thumb for better software, faking it until you automate it, the only civilized way to read online & AI and the big five (Changelog News #26)
Brandur Leach’s easy, alternative soft deletion strategy, Lane Wagner’s zen of proverbs, Nicolas Carlo says fake it until you can automate it, Felix A. Crux thinks feeds are the only civilized way to read online & Ben Thompson analyzes AI and the big five tech companies.
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Jan 6, 2023 • 1h 22min
Don't sleep on Ruby & Rails (Changelog Interviews #521)
Justin Searls, a web developer, discusses the state of web development and the use of Turbo and Stimulus in Rails 7. They explore the productivity in Rails 7, the future of Ruby on Rails, and the benefits of using Turbo and Stimulus. They also touch on the differences between React and Stimulus, trade-offs in software development, and the nostalgia and joy of Ruby.

Jan 6, 2023 • 1h 18min
New Year's Party 🪩 (JS Party #257)
It’s our 4th annual New Year’s party! Jerod & the gang review our (failed) resolutions from last year, discuss what’s trending in the web world, make a few predictions of our own & even set some new (probably failed) resolutions for this year.
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Featuring:Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XDivya – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XNick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, XKevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XFeross Aboukhadijeh – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:
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NUC (Next Unit Computing)
ConstitutionDAO
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