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Why we 💚 Vim (Changelog Interviews #450) Jul 21, 2021

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On this special edition of The Changelog, we tell Vim’s story from the mouths of its users. Julia Evans, Drew Neil, Suz Hinton, and Gary Bernhardt join Jerod Santo for a deep and wide-ranging discussion about “the best text editor that anyone ever wrote.”

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Featuring:

Julia Evans – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website
Drew Neil – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Suz Hinton – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub
Gary Bernhardt – Twitter, GitHub
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

Companion “Vim with me” videos

Vim configs

Links from Julia

vimwiki
basic.vim from The Ultimate vimrc

Links from Drew

Links from Suz

Links from Gary

Learning Vim

Extras

Changelog Community (join us in #vimparty)
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Towards stability and robustness (Practical AI #141) Jul 20, 2021

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9 out of 10 AI projects don’t end up creating value in production. Why? At least partly because these projects utilize unstable models and drifting data. In this episode, Roey from BeyondMinds gives us some insights on how to filter garbage input, detect risky output, and generally develop more robust AI systems.

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Roey Mechrez – Twitter, LinkedIn
Chris Benson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Daniel Whitenack – Twitter, GitHub, Website

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The story behind Inter (Changelog Interviews #449) Jul 19, 2021

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This week we’re talking to Rasmus Andersson about his journey as a software creator. We talk about the work he’s doing right now on Playbit, a computing environment which encourages playful learning, building, and sharing of software. We also talk about his work on the Inter typeface, as well as the reasons why this font family needed to be free and open source.

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Sentry – Sentry shipped their SDK for Next.js. Now in your Next.js apps, you can capture errors, measure performance, manage releases, configure suspect commits, and automatically upload sourcemaps to view unminified JavaScript and TypeScript with zero(-ish) configuration. Use the code PARTYTIME and get the team plan free for three months.
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Rasmus Andersson – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

Playbit - a computing environment which encourages playful learning, building & sharing of software.
The Inter typeface family + the project page on Rasmus’s site
Rasmus’s projects
shop.rsms.me
The Roboto family of fonts
InterFace from Dalton Maag
What notable logos are set in Helvetica or Helvetica Neue?

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Much ado before coding (JS Party #184) Jul 16, 2021

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The panel discusses all the things that have to happen before you write a lick of code. Then, for Story of the Week: Dan Abramov thinks npm audit is broken by design. We also have thoughts. Lots of ’em.

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Sentry – Sentry shipped their SDK for Next.js. Now in your Next.js apps, you can capture errors, measure performance, manage releases, configure suspect commits, and automatically upload sourcemaps to view unminified JavaScript and TypeScript with zero(-ish) configuration. Use the code PARTYTIME and get the team plan free for three months.
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Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Amal Hussein – Twitter, GitHub
Christopher Hiller – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website

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SIV and the V2+ issue (Go Time #188) Jul 15, 2021

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Go modules brought about quite a few changes to the Go ecosystem. One of those changes is semantic import versioning (SIV), which has a fairly pronounced effect on how libraries are identified. In this episode we are joined by Tim Heckman and Peter Bourgon to discuss some of the downsides to these changes and how it has lead to what a subset of the Go community refers to as the “v2+ problem.”

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Peter Bourgon – Twitter, GitHub
Tim Heckman – Twitter, GitHub
Jon Calhoun – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Kris Brandow – Twitter, GitHub

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Gerhard, Jerod & Adam — **Kaizen! The day half the internet went down (Ship It! #10)** Jul 15, 2021
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Kaizen means “change for the better”, continuous improvement in this context. Failure is essential to learning, but how do we learn as a team? The simplest thing is to regularly dedicate time for taking a step back, talking about what works & what doesn’t, maybe writing some of it down, and eventually deciding what we should improve next. I intend to make every 10th Ship It! episode a Kaizen one.

This is the first one when we talk with Adam and Jerod about the things that we want to improve in our setup over the next few months. We talk about how the June Fastly outage affected changelog.com, how we responded that day, and what we could do better. We discuss multi-cloud, multi-CDN, and the next sensible and obvious improvements for our app. Let us know via Slack or Twitter what learnings are valuable to you so that we can produce the best content for you.

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Featuring:
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Gerhard Lazu – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Show Notes:

What does Kaizen mean? (Wikipedia)

Fastly 8th of June outage took offline The Guardian, CNN, New York Times, BBC and Changelog. Slack, Amazon, Stackoverflow and many others were also affected

This is how it all started

@danhett becomes famous on Twitter because of this tweet

WIRED: What really went down when the internet went down

BLOOMBERG: What Is Fastly and Why a Slew of Websites Went Offline

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From symbols to AI pair programmers 💻 (Practical AI #140) Jul 13, 2021

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How did we get from symbolic AI to deep learning models that help you write code (i.e., GitHub and OpenAI’s new Copilot)? That’s what Chris and Daniel discuss in this episode about the history and future of deep learning (with some help from an article recently published in ACM and written by the luminaries of deep learning).

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Chris Benson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Daniel Whitenack – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

Books

“Human-in-the-Loop Machine Learning” by Robert (Munro) Monarch (use podpracticalAI19 for 40% off)
“A Thousand Brains” by Jeff Hawkins

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From disrupting the cloud to IPO (Founders Talk #76) Jul 12, 2021

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This week Adam is joined by Mitch Wainer, previously CMO at DigitalOcean and a member of the founding team. They talk about his journey as an entrepreneur and marketer, the early days at DigitalOcean, and everything that went into disrupting the cloud with blazing fast SSDs. Back in March (2021), DigitalOcean started trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) — this obviously earned Mitch and many others a very large payday. They also talk about the work Mitch is doing now with Welcome and Sponsored.

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Mitch Wainer – Twitter
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

This Week in Startups #425: From caller to cofounder: how Mitch Wainer raised $37.2m from Andreessen Horowitz
DigitalOcean OR do.co/changelog if you want to use a link DigitalOcean no longer pays us to promote
DigitalOcean becomes a public company
DigitalOcean IPO
Welcome Homes (or, just Welcome)
Sponsored

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**What is good release engineering? (Ship It! #9)** Jul 10, 2021
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This week we talk with Jean-Sébastien Pedron, RabbitMQ and FreeBSD contributor, about the importance of good release engineering for core infrastructure. Both Jean-Sébastien and I have been part of the Core RabbitMQ team for many years now. We have built some of the biggest CI/CD pipelines (check the show notes for one example), wrote and shipped some great code together, while breaking and fixing many things in the process.

We have been wrestling with today’s topic since 2016. Jean-Sébastien has some great FreeBSD stories to share, as well as an interesting perspective on shipping graphic card drivers. Oh, and by the way, it’s probably our fault why your remote car key stopped working that afternoon. It will all make sense after you listen to this episode.

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Teleport – Teleport Access Plane lets you access any computing resource anywhere. Engineers and security teams can unify access to SSH servers, Kubernetes clusters, web applications, and databases across all environments. Try Teleport today in the cloud, self-hosted, or open source at goteleport.com

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LaunchDarkly – **Ship fast. Rest easy.** Deploy code at any time, even if a feature isn’t ready to be released to your users. Wrap code in feature flags to get the safety to test new features and infrastructure in prod without impacting the wrong end users.

Featuring:
Jean-Sébastien Pedron – GitHub
Gerhard Lazu – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Show Notes:

FreeBSD release engineering

Netflix and FreeBSD: Using open source to deliver streaming video

List of products based on FreeBSD

Darktable

Mesa

Erlang hot code reloading:

Appup cookbook

Target system principles

RabbitMQ v3.8 CI/CD pipeline in 2020 - each square is either a test suite, build or publish step

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Gerhard & Jean-Sébastien — **What is good release engineering? (Ship It! #9)** Jul 10, 2021
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This week we talk with Jean-Sébastien Pedron, RabbitMQ and FreeBSD contributor, about the importance of good release engineering for core infrastructure. Both Jean-Sébastien and I have been part of the Core RabbitMQ team for many years now. We have built some of the biggest CI/CD pipelines (check the show notes for one example), wrote and shipped some great code together, while breaking and fixing many things in the process.

We have been wrestling with today’s topic since 2016. Jean-Sébastien has some great FreeBSD stories to share, as well as an interesting perspective on shipping graphic card drivers. Oh, and by the way, it’s probably our fault why your remote car key stopped working that afternoon. It will all make sense after you listen to this episode.

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Fly – Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs.

Teleport – Teleport Access Plane lets you access any computing resource anywhere. Engineers and security teams can unify access to SSH servers, Kubernetes clusters, web applications, and databases across all environments. Try Teleport today in the cloud, self-hosted, or open source at goteleport.com

Linode – **Get $100 in free credit to get started on Linode** – Linode is our cloud of choice and the home of Changelog.com. Head to linode.com/changelog OR text CHANGELOG to 474747 to get instant access to that $100 in free credit.

LaunchDarkly – **Ship fast. Rest easy.** Deploy code at any time, even if a feature isn’t ready to be released to your users. Wrap code in feature flags to get the safety to test new features and infrastructure in prod without impacting the wrong end users.

Featuring:
Jean-Sébastien Pedron – GitHub
Gerhard Lazu – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Show Notes:

FreeBSD release engineering

Netflix and FreeBSD: Using open source to deliver streaming video

List of products based on FreeBSD

Darktable

Mesa

Erlang hot code reloading:

Appup cookbook

Target system principles

RabbitMQ v3.8 CI/CD pipeline in 2020 - each square is either a test suite, build or publish step

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Massive scale and ultra-resilience (Changelog Interviews #448) Jul 09, 2021

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This week we’re sharing a recent episode from Founders Talk that we continuously hear about from listeners. Listen and subscribe to Founders Talk at founderstalk.fm and anywhere you listen to podcasts.

On Founders Talk #75 — Adam talks with Spencer Kimball, CEO and Co-founder of Cockroach Labs — makers of CockroachDB an open source cloud-native distributed SQL database. Cockroach Labs recently raised $160 million dollars on a $2 billion dollar valuation. In this episode, Spencer shares his journey in open source, startups and entrepreneurship, and what they’re doing to build CockroachCloud to meet the needs of applications that require massive scale and ultra-resilience.

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Retool – Retool is a low-code platform built specifically for developers that makes it fast and easy to build internal tools. Instead of building internal tools from scratch, the world’s best teams, from startups to Fortune 500s, are using Retool to power their internal apps. Learn more and try it for free at retool.com/changelog
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