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Apr 29, 2022 • 51min
Nick's big rewrite (JS Party #223)
Nick rewrote our JS Danger game board app from Dojo to React for his talk at React Global Online Summit about componentizing application state with React and XState.
On this episode Jerod, KBall, and Feross chat with Nick about the entire process and what he learned along the way. Oh, we also play an epic round of Pro Tip Time!
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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 changelog.com/square to dive into the docs, APIs, SDKs and to create your Square Developer account — tell them Changelog sent you.
Featuring:Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XNick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, XKevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XFeross Aboukhadijeh – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:
Nick’s talk at React Global Online Summit
Our Quiz Game repo on GitHub
JS Party #191 on XState
Don’t check in broken code
Conventional Comments
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Elon Musk is buying Twitter. I’m buying JavaScript.
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Apr 28, 2022 • 58min
Analyzing static analysis (Go Time #227)
Matan Peled from Technion University joins Natalie & Mat to discuss his PhD research on meta programming and static analyzers. How does Go’s measure up? What would Matan’s look like if he built one? All that and more!
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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 changelog.com/square to dive into the docs, APIs, SDKs and to create your Square Developer account — tell them Changelog sent you.
Chronosphere – Chronosphere is the observability platform for cloud-native teams operating at scale. When it comes to observability, teams need a reliable, scalable, and efficient solution so they can know about issues well before their customers do. Teams choose Chronosphere to help them move faster than the competition. Learn more and get a demo at chronosphere.io.
Flatfile – Data import is broken. We fixed it. Flatfile’s powerful out-of-the-box solution takes the data import burden off your shoulders, freeing you to solve bigger business problems and build products that people love.
Featuring:Matan Peled – GitHub, LinkedIn, XNatalie Pistunovich – GitHub, XMat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, XShow Notes:
Static program analysis
Rice’s theorem
Halting problem
What is meta-programming
Codex paper (GitHub Copilot)
TabNine
Taint checking
staticcheck.io
Points-to analysis
what rr does
Debugging a flaky Go test with Mozilla rr
Reflections on Trusting Trust
Book recommendation: Gödel, Escher, Bach
Small-Step Live Programming by Example
Shout At: Go West conf (CFP)
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Apr 27, 2022 • 1h 8min
Kaizen! We are flying ✈️ (Ship It! #50)
This is our 5th Kaizen where we talk about the next improvement to changelog.com: we are now running on Fly.io and our PostgreSQL is managed. This is a migration that many were curious about, including Simmy de Klerk, the person that requested this episode.
After migrating all our media files to AWS S3 (check episode 40), we thought that this part was going to be easy. Plan met reality. Pull request 407 has all the details.
We want to emphasise the type of partner relationships that we seek at Changelog & why they are important to us, as well as to our listeners. Honeycomb & Fly embody the principles that we care about, and Gerhard thinks that we are currently missing a Kubernetes partner.
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FireHydrant – The reliability platform for every developer. Incidents impact everyone, not just SREs. FireHydrant gives teams the tools to maintain service catalogs, respond to incidents, communicate through status pages, and learn with retrospectives. Small teams up to 10 people can get started for free with all FireHydrant features included. No credit card required to sign up. Learn more at firehydrant.io
Chronosphere – Chronosphere is the observability platform for cloud-native teams operating at scale. When it comes to observability, teams need a reliable, scalable, and efficient solution so they can know about issues well before their customers do. Teams choose Chronosphere to help them move faster than the competition. Learn more and get a demo at chronosphere.io.
OpenZiti by NetFoundry – Programmable network overlay and associated edge components for application-embedded, zero-trust networking. Check it out at netfoundry.io/changelog
Featuring:Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XGerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XShow Notes:
PR #407 - ✈️ Migrate changelog.com to Fly.io ✈️
changelog.com March 2022 - Requests & Bytes served
changelog.com April INCOMPLETE 2022 - Requests & Bytes served
changelog.com March 2022 - Miss latency 95pc
changelog.com April INCOMPLETE 2022 - Miss latency 95pc
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Apr 26, 2022 • 1h 15min
Warp wants to be the terminal of the future (Changelog Interviews #487)
Today we’re talking with Zach Lloyd, founder of Warp — the terminal being re-imagined for the 21st century and beyond. Warp is a blazingly fast, rust-based terminal that’s being designed from the ground up to work like a modern app. We get into all the details — why now is the right time to re-invent the terminal, where they got started, the business they aim to build around Warp, what it’s going to take to gain adoption and grow, but more importantly — what’s Warp like today to get developers excited and give it a try.
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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 changelog.com/square to dive into the docs, APIs, SDKs and to create your Square Developer account — tell them Changelog sent you.
FireHydrant – The reliability platform for every developer. Incidents impact everyone, not just SREs. FireHydrant gives teams the tools to maintain service catalogs, respond to incidents, communicate through status pages, and learn with retrospectives. Small teams up to 10 people can get started for free with all FireHydrant features included. No credit card required to sign up. Learn more at firehydrant.io
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Featuring:Zach Lloyd – GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
Warp.dev
Warp on Product Hunt
Warp on Hacker News
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Apr 26, 2022 • 46min
MLOps is NOT Real (Practical AI #176)
We all hear a lot about MLOps these days, but where does MLOps end and DevOps begin? Our friend Luis from OctoML joins us in this episode to discuss treating AI/ML models as regular software components (once they are trained and ready for deployment). We get into topics including optimization on various kinds of hardware and deployment of models at the edge.
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Featuring:Luis Ceze – LinkedIn, XChris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XDaniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:
OctoML
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Apr 22, 2022 • 1h 16min
Practical ways to solve hard problems (Changelog Interviews #486)
Frank Krueger joined us to talk about solving hard problems. Earlier this year he wrote a blog post titled “Practical Guide to Solving Hard Problems,” and a lot of what he had to say really resonated with us. The premise is simple — if you have to write some code that you’re just not sure how to write…what do you do? What are the practical steps that you can take when you’re feeling stumped? Today’s show goes deep on that subject…practical ways to solve hard problems and ship your best work.
Frank has his own podcast called Merge Conflict — check it out at mergeconflict.fm.
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InfluxData – The time series platform for building and operating time series applications — InfluxDB empowers developers to build IoT, analytics, and monitoring software. It’s purpose-built to handle massive volumes and countless sources of time-stamped data produced by sensors, applications, and infrastructure. Learn more at influxdata.com/changelog
WorkOS – A platform that gives developers a set of building blocks for quickly adding enterprise-ready features to their application. Add Single Sign-On (Okta, Azure, Google, Microsoft OAuth), sync users from any SCIM directory, HRIS integration, audit trails (SIEM), free magic link sign-in. WorkOS is designed for developers and offers a single, elegant interface that abstracts dozens of enterprise integrations. Learn more and get started at WorkOS.com
Retool – The low-code platform for developers to build internal tools — Some of the best teams out there trust Retool…Brex, Coinbase, Plaid, Doordash, LegalGenius, Amazon, Allbirds, Peloton, and so many more – the developers at these teams trust Retool as the platform to build their internal tools. Try it free at retool.com/changelog
Featuring:Frank Krueger – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
Practical Guide to Solving Hard Problems
Frank’s app iCircuit
Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools
Merge Conflict
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Apr 22, 2022 • 1h 7min
The Type Annotations proposal (JS Party #222)
Daniel Rosenwasser and Ryan Cavanaugh from the TypeScript team at Microsoft join Nick and Boneskull to catch us up on the latest happening with the TypeScript project, including what’s exciting in the new 4.7 beta release. Then, we dive deep into the new, TC-39 stage 1 Type Annotations proposal, what it is, and what it means for the future of a not really typed JavaScript!
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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 changelog.com/square to dive into the docs, APIs, SDKs and to create your Square Developer account — tell them Changelog sent you.
Sourcegraph – Move fast, even in big codebases. Sourcegraph is universal code search for every developer and team. Easily search across all the code that matters to you and your organization: find example code, explore and read code, debug issues, and more. Head to info.sourcegraph.com/changelog and click the button “Try Sourcegraph now” to get started.
Featuring:Daniel Rosenwasser – GitHub, XRyan Cavanaugh – GitHub, XNick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, XChristopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
TypeScript 4.7 beta announcement
Type Annotations proposal (Stage 1)
Type checking JavaScript files
Understanding the TypeScript compiler
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Apr 21, 2022 • 60min
Instrumentation for gophers (Go Time #226)
Björn Rabenstein & Bartlomiej Płotka join Mat & Johnny to discuss observability, monitoring and instrumentation for gophers.
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Chronosphere – Chronosphere is the observability platform for cloud-native teams operating at scale. When it comes to observability, teams need a reliable, scalable, and efficient solution so they can know about issues well before their customers do. Teams choose Chronosphere to help them move faster than the competition. Learn more and get a demo at chronosphere.io.
FireHydrant – The reliability platform for every developer. Incidents impact everyone, not just SREs. FireHydrant gives teams the tools to maintain service catalogs, respond to incidents, communicate through status pages, and learn with retrospectives. Try FireHydrant free for 14 days at firehydrant.io
Flatfile – Data import is broken. We fixed it. Flatfile’s powerful out-of-the-box solution takes the data import burden off your shoulders, freeing you to solve bigger business problems and build products that people love.
Featuring:Björn Rabenstein – GitHubBartlomiej Płotka – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XMat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, XJohnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:
Prometheus
Go’s client library for Prometheus
Björn’s talk at Gophercon UK
Open Telemetry
Grafana’s Big Tent
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Apr 20, 2022 • 1h 2min
Improving an eCommerce fulfilment platform (Ship It! #49)
Alex Sims, a Senior Software Engineer at James & James, an eCommerce fulfilment company, reached out to us about the Kaizen story of the third-party logistics (3PL) platform that he has been involved with for several years now.
The system delivered 16 millions of orders in 10 years, and 4.5 million in the last year alone. All the numbers are going up, and there is only so much that a single PHP monolith deployed as VM images can handle. So how do you even start thinking about the architectural improvements, and inspire everyone involved to move towards better?
We encourage you to look at the architectural diagrams in the show notes, especially the 10 year roadmap, and ask Alex for a blog post follow-up. While today’s episode was a good conversation starter, there is a lot that we did not have time to cover.
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OpenZiti by NetFoundry – Programmable network overlay and associated edge components for application-embedded, zero-trust networking. Check it out at netfoundry.io/changelog
Chronosphere – Chronosphere is the observability platform for cloud-native teams operating at scale. When it comes to observability, teams need a reliable, scalable, and efficient solution so they can know about issues well before their customers do. Teams choose Chronosphere to help them move faster than the competition. Learn more and get a demo at chronosphere.io.
Featuring:Alex Sims – LinkedIn, XGerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XShow Notes:
James & James - eCommerce Fulfilment Services
☝️ First improvement to the ecommerce fulfilment system ☝️
☝️ The 10 year roadmap that Alex imagines ☝️
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Apr 19, 2022 • 51min
🌍 AI in Africa - Agriculture (Practical AI #175)
In the fourth “AI in Africa” spotlight episode, we welcome Leonida Mutuku and Godliver Owomugisha, two experts in applying advanced technology in agriculture. We had a great discussion about ending poverty, hunger, and inequality in Africa via AI innovation. The discussion touches on open data, relevant models, ethics, and more.
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Featuring:Leo Mutuku – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XGodliver Owomugisha – GitHub, LinkedIn, XChris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XDaniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, XJoyce Nabende – XShow Notes:
Godliver’s Google Scholar page
Godliver’s academic homepage
Local Development Research Institute (LDRI)
CropSpec
Open for Good Alliance
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!