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Trials and tribulations of testing in Go (Go Time #174) Apr 08, 2021

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Testing can be hard, how to test, where to test, what is a good test? All questions that can be deceptively difficult to answer. In this episode we talk about the trials and tribulations of testing and why it can be argued to be especially difficult in Go.

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Jon Sabados – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Angelica Hill – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Kris Brandow – Twitter, GitHub
Mat Ryer – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

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Next-gen voice assistants (Practical AI #128) Apr 06, 2021

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Nikola Mrkšić, CEO & Co-Founder of PolyAI, takes Daniel and Chris on a deep dive into conversational AI, describing the underlying technologies, and teaching them about the next generation of voice assistants that will be capable of handling true human-level conversations. It’s an episode you’ll be talking about for a long time!

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

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-PolyAI
-The Science Behind PolyAI
-How Customer Service Voice Assistants Handle Different Languages and Accents
-PolyAI Maintains Lead Over IBM Watson Assistant and Other Popular Language Understanding Models
-PolyAI’s ConveRT Model Outperforms BERT and GPT-Based Models in Salesforce Research Evaluation
-Few-Shot Slot Labeling with ConVEx: The Most Accurate Value Extractor on The Market

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The future of the web is HTML over the wire (Changelog Interviews #435) Apr 05, 2021

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This week we’re joined by long-time web developer Matt Patterson. Earlier this year Matt wrote an evocative article for A List Apart called The Future of Web Software Is HTML-over-WebSockets. In this episode Matt sits down with Jerod to discuss, in-detail, why he believes the future of the web is server-rendered (again) and how Ruby on Rails is well positioned to bring that future to us today.

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Matt E. Patterson – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

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Restic has your backup (Changelog Interviews #434) Apr 02, 2021

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This week Alexander Neumann takes Jerod on a tour of Restic, the world-class backup solution that’s fast, secure, and cross-platform. We discuss why he created Restic in the first place, how (and why you should) you use it, some of its more interesting technical bits, lessons learned over the years building and maintaining a community, and more of course.

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Alexander Neumann – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

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Work environments & happiness (JS Party #169) Apr 02, 2021

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KBall, Amal, and Nick dive into key dimensions of what makes a developer work environment good – or bad. They discuss systemic factors, individual factors, what you can do about it, and a proposed scoring system for good work environments.

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Kevin Ball – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Amal Hussein – Twitter, GitHub
Nick Nisi – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website

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Releasing with (and without) GoReleaser (Go Time #173) Apr 01, 2021

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Carlos Alexandro Becker joins Mat, Natalie, & Johnny to discuss the ins and outs of releasing your Go code. Carlos created and maintains GoReleaser, a popular tool that helps you deliver your Go binaries as fast and easily as possible.

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Carlos Becker – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website
Mat Ryer – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Johnny Boursiquot – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Natalie Pistunovich – Twitter, GitHub

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Women in Data Science (WiDS) (Practical AI #127) Mar 30, 2021

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Chris has the privilege of talking with Stanford Professor Margot Gerritsen, who co-leads the Women in Data Science (WiDS) Worldwide Initiative. This is a conversation that everyone should listen to. Professor Gerritsen’s profound insights into how we can all help the women in our lives succeed - in data science and in life - is a ‘must listen’ episode for everyone, regardless of gender.

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Margot Gerritsen – Twitter, LinkedIn
Chris Benson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

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Books

“Mindset” by Carol S. Dweck

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Open source, not open contribution (Changelog Interviews #433) Mar 26, 2021

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This week we’re talking with Ben Johnson. Ben is known for his work on BoltDB, his work in open source, and as a freelance Go developer. Late January when Ben open sourced his newest project Litestream in the readme he shared how the project was open source, but not open for contribution. His reason was to protect his mental health and the long term viability of the project. On this episode we talk with Ben about what that means, his thoughts on mental health and burnout in open source, choosing a license, and the details behind Litestream - a standalone streaming replication tool for SQLite.

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

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The journey to massive scale and ultra-resilience (Founders Talk #75) Mar 26, 2021

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This week 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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Spencer Kimball – GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

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Spencer is a co-founder of GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) (but is no longer involved with the project)
Cockroach Labs
CockroachCloud - Build and scale fast with CockroachDB-as-a-service on AWS and Google Cloud.
How We’re Building a Business to Last
Cockroach Labs scores $160M Series E on $2B valuation

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Monad's Hook (JS Party #168) Mar 26, 2021

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In which Jerod, Nick, and KBall play the most preposterous round of “Explain it Like I’m 5” in human history. Then we dig in to Vite a little further than is advisable on a podcast. Finally, we talk about our Quiz Show app that powers JS Danger. You’re welcome!

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