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xbar puts anything in your macOS menu bar (Changelog Interviews #446) Jun 21, 2021

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On this episode we’re talking with our good friend Mat Ryer whom you may know from the Go Time podcast. Mat created an awesome open source tool for putting just about anything in your Mac’s toolbar. It was originally written in Objective-C, but it just got a big rewrite in Go and abig rename from BitBar to xbar.

If you don’t use a Mac don’t hit skip on this episode quite yet! There are lessons to be learned for anyone interested in hacking on tools to make your life better. Plus, with this rewrite Mat has positioned xbar to go cross-platform, which we talk about as well.

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Mat Ryer – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

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Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Funds for open source (Changelog Interviews #445) Jun 18, 2021

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This week we’re talking with Pia Mancini about the latest updates to the mission of Open Collective. Earlier this year Open Collective announced “Funds for Open Source.” The idea is simple, make it easy for companies to invest in open source, and they will. Also, since recording this episode, Pia and the team at Open Collective along with Gitcoin announced fundoss.org as part of Maintainer Week announcements. And right now, they have a matching fund of $75,000 dollars funding open source that you can support.

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Pia Mancini – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

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Introducing: Funds for Open Source
Airbnb on Open Collective
Indeed on Open Collective
Pia Mancini on Open Collective
Chrome’s Web Framework & Tools Performance Fund on Open Collective
Discover awesome collectives to support
fundoss.org - Open Source Collective partnered with GitCoin to launch FundOSS, a pilot matching campaign based on a democratic funding model.
The Changelog #392: Indeed’s FOSS Contributor Fund with Duane O’Brien
About Open Collective
Open Source Collective
Sustain

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Of spiders and monkeys (JS Party #180) Jun 18, 2021

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Yulia Startsev from Mozilla’s SpiderMonkey team joins Jerod & Feross to talk compilers, going back to get your Master’s, making decisions as a group, process of shepherding a feature through TC39, how Firefox actually works, and LavaMoats. Yes, LavaMoats.

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Square – Develop on the platform that sellers trust! Use API Explorer to interact with, test, or play with your applications in Square. You can build, view, and send HTTP requests that call Square APIs with API Explorer. Get started with Square, check out the API Explorer, or the API Explorer docs.

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Yulia Startsev – Twitter, GitHub
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Feross Aboukhadijeh – Twitter, GitHub, Website

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All about Porter (Go Time #184) Jun 17, 2021

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Porter lets you package your application artifacts, client tools, configuration and deployment logic together as a versioned bundle that you can distribute, and then install with a single command. Written entirely in Go, we speak to one of the creators about running an open source project, the importance of documentation, and more.

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Carolyn Van Slyck – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Mat Ryer – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Johnny Boursiquot – Twitter, GitHub, Website

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Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Gerhard & Ian — **Money flows rule everything (Ship It! #6)** Jun 17, 2021
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This week on Ship It! Gerhard talks with Ian Miell, author of Docker in Practice as well as Learn Git, Bash, and Terraform the Hard Way. They talk about being comfortable with the uncomfortable, focusing on the tech while keeping a holistic view of the business. Following the money flows is key. Ian explains this concept really well, and Gerhard feels fairly confident you will be better off if you pay attention. Let us know in the comments!

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Gerhard Lazu – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
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Learn Git, Bash, and Terraform the Hard Way

Docker in Practice, 2nd edition

How To Waste Hundreds of Millions on Your IT Transformation

When Should I Interrupt Someone?

**Follow-up** 📖If You Want To Transform IT, Start With Finance

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Multi-GPU training is hard (without PyTorch Lightning) (Practical AI #138) Jun 15, 2021

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William Falcon wants AI practitioners to spend more time on model development, and less time on engineering. PyTorch Lightning is a lightweight PyTorch wrapper for high-performance AI research that lets you train on multiple-GPUs, TPUs, CPUs and even in 16-bit precision without changing your code! In this episode, we dig deep into Lightning, how it works, and what it is enabling. William also discusses the Grid AI platform (built on top of PyTorch Lightning). This platform lets you seamlessly train 100s of Machine Learning models on the cloud from your laptop.

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Daniel Whitenack – Twitter, GitHub, Website

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Building on the TanStack (JS Party #179) Jun 11, 2021

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Tanner joins Nick to talk about his projects, react-query and react table, and discuss scratching your own itch in a maintainable way with open source.

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Nick Nisi – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website

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Using Go in unusual ways (Go Time #183) Jun 10, 2021

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This episode was recorded live from GopherCon Europe 2021!

Natalie & Mat host three amazing devs who gave talks that showcase using Go in unusual ways: Dr. Joakim Kennedy is tracking Go in malware, Mathilde Raynal is building quantum-resistant cryptography algorithms, and Preslav Rachev is creating digital art.

We hear from our speakers how they got into Go, how they made the choice to use Go for their unusual use case, and how it compares to other languages for their specific needs.

We also chat about conference talks, submissions and public speaking - how to start, good practices, and tips they collected along the way.

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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.
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