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A simpler alternative to cert-manager (Ship It! #46) Mar 31, 2022

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Nabeel Sulieman, Senior Software Engineer at Vercel, talks about KCert, a simpler alternative to cert-manager that he built. Gerhard tried it out, and he thinks that Nabeel is onto something. If you want to see the video that they recorded, ping us on Twitter or Slack.

We love this story, especially the long-term approach of working on something that one truly believes in, and the only reason is because it’s fun. The world needs more people like Nabeel, and we hope that this episode inspires you to go all out, and do just that.

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Gerhard Lazu – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

Sep 2020: cert-manager issue #3238 that kicked the KCert idea off
Oct 2020: Kubernetes SSL certs the “Hard Way”
Feb 2021: KCert in practice after a few months
Mar 2021: KCert is ready for broader usage
Feb 2022: KCert v1.0
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Wisdom from 50+ years in software (Changelog Interviews #484) Mar 30, 2022

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Today we have a special treat. A conversation with Brian Kernighan! Brian’s been in the software game since the beginning of Unix. Yes, he was there at Bell Labs when it all began. And he is still at it today, writing books and teaching the next generation at Princeton.

This is an epic and wide ranging conversation. You’ll hear about the birth of Unix, Ken Thompson’s unique skillset, why Brian thinks C has stood the test of time, his thoughts on modern languages like Go and Rust, what’s changed in 50 years of software, what makes platforms like Unix and the web so powerful, his take as a professor on the trend of programmers skipping the university track, and so much more.

Seriously, this is a must-listen.

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It's been a BIG week in AI news 🗞 (Practical AI #173) Mar 29, 2022

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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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BigScience Language Model Training

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

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Web development for beginners (JS Party #218) Mar 25, 2022

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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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Making the command line glamorous (Go Time #222) Mar 25, 2022

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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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Show Notes:

Glamour projects

GitHub’s CLI

Wish projects

Wordle clone

Bubble Tea projects

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Pia & Gerhard — **Swiss Quality Assurance (Ship It! #45)** Mar 23, 2022
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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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🎬 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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Waterfall Testing to Agile QA - Successfully Transforming a Bank’s Setup - Eurostar 2022 - Pia Wiedermayer — **Swiss Quality Assurance (Ship It! #45)** Mar 23, 2022
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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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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 `SHIPIT` and get the team plan free for three months.

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Featuring:
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Gerhard Lazu – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Show 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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"Foundation" models (Practical AI #172) Mar 23, 2022

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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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Going full-time on Eleventy (JS Party #217) Mar 18, 2022

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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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Zach Leatherman – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Nick Nisi – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website

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Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Mastering Go (Go Time #221) Mar 17, 2022

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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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