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Mar 29, 2022 • 41min
It's been a BIG week in AI news 🗞 (Practical AI #173)
This last week has been a big week for AI news. BigScience is training a huge language model (while the world watches), and NVIDIA announced their latest “Hopper” GPUs. Chris and Daniel discuss these and other topics on this fully connected episode!
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Featuring:Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XDaniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:BigScience Language Model Training
Model Details
Live model logs and training curves
H100 from NVIDIA
[White paper](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/h100/
https://cf-store.widencdn.net/nvdam/8/4/a/84ae26c1-6774-4083-a41d-4f3d82a6a449.pdf)
Omniverse platform
Earth-2 Supercomputer
Stanford’s AI Index 2022
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Mar 25, 2022 • 53min
Web development for beginners (JS Party #218)
Jen Looper from Web Dev for Beginners and Front-end Foxes joins Jerod and Ali to discuss the exciting (but also intimidating) prospect of getting in to web development in 2022! Where should you start? What technologies should you focus on? Is it better to go all-in on a framework or stick with the fundamentals? Stuff like that!
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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.
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Featuring:Jen Looper – Website, GitHub, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAli Spittel – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XShow Notes:
Web Dev for Beginners
Front-end Foxes
freeCodeCamp
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Mar 25, 2022 • 1h 30min
Making the command line glamorous (Go Time #222)
This week we’re bringing The Changelog to Go Time — we had an awesome conversation with Toby Padilla, Co-Founder at Charm where they’re building tools to make the command line glamorous. Toby and the team at Charm have gone “all in” on Go — all of Charm is written in Go. They moved to Go from other languages, saying “Go is the answer to building these type of tools.” And even on this episode Toby says “I love Rust, it’s really cool, it’s a super-exciting language, but I jumped ship. I wanna be more productive, I wanna use all the fun toys, and so I started doing Go.” Clearly this episode will be in good company here on Go Time.
We talk about the state of the art, the next big thing happening on the command line and in ssh-land. They have an array of open source tooling to build great apps for the terminal and Charm Cloud to power a new generation of CLI apps. We talk through all their tooling, where things are headed for CLI apps, the focus and attention of their team, and what’s to come in bringing glamor to the command line.
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Featuring:Toby Padilla – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
charm.sh
Charm Cloud
kitty - The fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal emulator
betaworks: build better
Julie Zhang on Twitter
Glamour projects
GitHub’s CLI
Wish projects
Wordle clone
Bubble Tea projects
achannarasappa/ticker
maaslalani/slides
mergestat/mergestat
minio/mc
supabase/cli
antonmedv/llama
dlvhdr/gh-prs
tendermint/starport
mathaou/termdbms
mvisonneau/gitlab-ci-pipelines-exporter
oz/tz
trashhalo/imgcat
maaslalani/gambit
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Mar 23, 2022 • 1h
Swiss Quality Assurance (Ship It! #45)
Pia Wiedermayer, Lead QA at Zühlke, is talking with Gerhard today about software quality. If the name sounds familiar, check out episode 28. Thank you Romano for the introduction 👋🏻
Do you remember the last time that you used an app, whether it was in the browser or on your mobile, and everything just worked? What about that intuitive feel, snappiness and you achieving the task that you intended to without feeling that you are fighting tech? Experiences like those take a lot of effort across multiple disciplines. They are designed, built and maintained over long periods of time. It all starts with people like Pia that really care about quality. It’s so much more than just automated testing…
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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
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Featuring:Pia Wiedermayer – Website, LinkedInGerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XShow Notes:
🎬 Hey DevOps, you’re killing my job!
Waterfall Testing to Agile QA - Successfully Transforming a Bank’s Setup - EuroStar 2022, 7-10 June
Alice in Agile Land – a tester’s story
How to get rid of the new QA
Boundary Value Analysis & Equivalence Partitioning Testing
🎬 Pia Wiedermayer, Quality Passionista, YouTube channel
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Mar 23, 2022 • 41min
"Foundation" models (Practical AI #172)
The term “foundation” model has been around since about the middle of last year when a research group at Stanford published the comprehensive report On the Opportunities and Risks of Foundation Models. The naming of these models created some strong reactions, both good and bad. In this episode, Chris and Daniel dive into the ideas behind the report.
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Changelog++ – You love our content and you want to take it to the next level by showing your support. We’ll take you closer to the metal with no ads, extended episodes, outtakes, bonus content, a deep discount in our merch store (soon), and more to come. Let’s do this!
Featuring:Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XDaniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:
Report: “On the Opportunities and Risks of Foundation Models”
Follow up Blog post: “Reflections on Foundation Models”
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Mar 18, 2022 • 58min
Going full-time on Eleventy (JS Party #217)
Zach Leatherman recently announced he will now be working on Eleventy – his simpler static site generator – while continuing to work at Netlify. What makes Eleventy special? How’d he convince Netlify to let him do this? What does this mean for the project’s future? How many questions in a row can we type into this textarea? Tune in to find out!
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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
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Featuring:Zach Leatherman – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XNick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Bluesky, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
Eleventy
Zach on JS Party #79
Who Pays for Web Frameworks?
11ty on Open Collective
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Mar 17, 2022 • 41min
Mastering Go (Go Time #221)
What does it take to master a programming language like Go? Joining us is the author of Mastering Go to help us answer that very question and to discuss the third edition of the book.
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Featuring:Mihalis Tsoukalos – XJohnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:
Mastering Go: Third Edition
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Mar 16, 2022 • 1h 8min
Fundamentals (Ship It! #44)
In this engaging discussion, Kelsey Hightower, a Kubernetes expert and cloud computing innovator, delves into the essentials of automation and database management on Kubernetes. He highlights the importance of understanding database complexities, advocating for managed services over self-hosting in critical environments. Kelsey also explores the future of container orchestration, emphasizing the rise of serverless solutions. Furthermore, he discusses the significance of mastering foundational concepts before diving into automation, ensuring developers are well-prepared for their tech journeys.

Mar 16, 2022 • 46min
Clothing AI in a data fabric (Practical AI #171)
What happens when your data operations grow to Internet-scale? How do thousands or millions of data producers and consumers efficiently, effectively, and productively interact with each other? How are varying formats, protocols, security levels, performance criteria, and use-case specific characteristics meshed into one unified data fabric? Chris and Daniel explore these questions in this illuminating and Fully-Connected discussion that brings this new data technology into the light.
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Featuring:Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XDaniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:Learning Resources
Go.Dev - a great programming language for data fabric development
Books
“Python Data Science Handbook” by Jake VanderPlas
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Mar 11, 2022 • 1h 14min
ONE MORE thing every dev should know (Changelog Interviews #483)
The incomparable Jessica Kerr is back with another grab-bag of amazing topics. We talk about her journey to Honeycomb, devs getting satisfaction from the code they write, why step one for her is “get that new project into production” and step two is observe it, her angst for the context switching around pull requests, some awesome book recommendations, how game theory and design can translate to how we skill up and level up our teams, and so much more.
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Sentry – Working code means happy customers. That’s exactly why teams choose Sentry. From error tracking to performance monitoring, Sentry helps teams see what actually matters, resolve problems quicker, and learn continuously about their applications - from the frontend to the backend. Use the code CHANGELOG and get the team plan free for three months.
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
MongoDB – An integrated suite of cloud database and services — They have a FREE forever tier, so you can prove to yourself and to your team that they have everything you need. Check it out today at mongodb.com/changelog
Featuring:Jessica Kerr – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
The ONE thing every dev should know (and other words of wisdom) with Jessica Kerr
Graceful.Dev - the successor to Ruby Tapas
Games: Agency As Art
Trespassing on Einstein’s Lawn
Shigeru Miyamoto on Wikipedia
Better coordination, or better software?
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