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An ode to jQuery (JS Party #150) Oct 30, 2020

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We take up a listener request this week and have an honest conversation about jQuery. Then, it’s time for something new! Our friends at Hot New Tech review tone.js for us. After that, it’s Pro Tip Time!

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jQuery convo

Hot New Tech

Pro Tip Time

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GitHub's Go-powered CLI (Go Time #153) Oct 29, 2020

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In this episode we discuss Mislav’s experience building not one, but two Github CLIs - hub and gh. We dive into questions like, “What lead to the decision to completely rewrite the CLI in Go?”, “How were you testing the CLI, especially during the transition?”, and “What Go libraries are you using to build your CLI?”

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Mislav Marohnić – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Jon Calhoun – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Johnny Boursiquot – Twitter, GitHub, Website

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The Official Github CLI repo on Github
The Official Github CLI website
hub, the original Github CLI - This is the project that eventually lead to the creation of the CLI linked above.
The past and the future of hub - Mislav wrote an article talking about his experience building hub and some of the challenges.
Kubectl CLI - Another CLI that was examined when determining how to build the Github CLI and what libraries to consider.
Github CLI’s go.mod file - Github’s go.mod file has all of the third party libraries they use in the CLI. Useful for anyone starting with a new CLI.
Git command line tool - The original hub CLI wrapped git.
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The practice of being present (Brain Science #32) Oct 28, 2020

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We’re joined by Elisha Goldstein, PhD - one of the world’s preeminent mindfulness teachers, a clinical psychologist, founder of the Mindful Living Collective and, creator of the six-month breakthrough program - A Course in Mindful Living. If you’ve ever used the Calm app, you might be familiar with his voice as he walks you through mindfulness practices to help calm negative emotions and anxious thoughts. He has extensive expertise in mindfulness based stress reduction (MBSR) and today he’s sharing his wealth of knowledge using mindfulness to naturally reduce anxiety and be more present and aware in our lives.

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Elisha Goldstein, PhD – Twitter, LinkedIn, Website
Mireille Reece, PsyD – LinkedIn
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

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elishagoldstein.com
The Center for Mindful Living
The Mindful Living Collective
21 days to relieve anxiety naturally
What’s the difference between mindfulness and meditation?
Calm - Find your calm. Sleep more. Stress less. Live better.

What Is the Negativity Bias? The negative bias is our tendency not only to register negative stimuli more readily but also to dwell on these events. Also known as positive-negative asymmetry, this negativity bias means that we feel the sting of a rebuke more powerfully than we feel the joy of praise. This psychological phenomenon explains why bad first impressions can be so difficult to overcome and why past traumas can have such long lingering effects. In almost any interaction, we are more likely to notice negative things and later remember them more vividly.

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Reinforcement Learning for search (Practical AI #110) Oct 26, 2020

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Hamish from Sajari blows our mind with a great discussion about AI in search. In particular, he talks about Sajari’s quest for performant AI implementations and extensive use of Reinforcement Learning (RL). We’ve been wanting to make this one happen for a while, and it was well worth the wait.

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

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What's so exciting about Postgres? (Changelog Interviews #417) Oct 23, 2020

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PostgreSQL aficionado Craig Kerstiens joins Jerod to talk about his (and our) favorite relational database. Craig details why Postgres is unique in the world of open source databases, which features are most exciting, the many things you can make Postgres do, and what the future might hold. Oh, and some awesome psql tips & tricks!

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Bringing it back to TypeScript (JS Party #149) Oct 23, 2020

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Ben Ilegbodu joins Divya, Suz, & Amal to talk about introducing TypeScript at Stitch Fix, why TypeScript and React work well together, building component libraries, and more.

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Divya – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Suz Hinton – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub
Amal Hussein – Twitter, GitHub

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#GoVirCon (Go Time #152) Oct 22, 2020

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With Gophercon rapidly approaching, we go behind the scenes to find out what it takes to deliver the world’s largest Go conference.

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Mark Bates – Twitter, GitHub, Website

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Podcasting platform Q&A (Backstage #15) Oct 21, 2020

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Marc Beinder is building a podcast hosting web application as a part of his senior project while at Lindenwood University. In this brief Backstage episode, Marc picks Jerod’s brain about how we built our platform and challenges we ran into along the way.

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Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

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When data leakage turns into a flood of trouble (Practical AI #109) Oct 20, 2020

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Rajiv Shah teaches Daniel and Chris about data leakage, and its major impact upon machine learning models. It’s the kind of topic that we don’t often think about, but which can ruin our results. Raj discusses how to use activation maps and image embedding to find leakage, so that leaking information in our test set does not find its way into our training set.

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Daniel Whitenack – Twitter, GitHub, Website

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Shopify’s massive storefront rewrite (Changelog Interviews #416) Oct 16, 2020

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Maxime Vaillancourt joined us to talk about Shopify’s massive storefront rewrite from a Ruby on Rails monolith to a completely new implementation written in Ruby. It’s a fairly well known opinion that rewrites are “the single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make” and generally something “you should never do.” But Maxime and the team at Shopify have proved successful in their efforts in this massive storefront rewrite and today’s conversation covers all the details.

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