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Community Q&A (Go Time #147) Sep 17, 2020

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A community Q&A special. You asked the questions, and we discussed them live on air. A few example questions include “When is it okay to use init?”, “When should we use constructors?”, and “How should Go code be structured?”

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Pixie – Pixie gives you a magical API to get instant debug data. The best part is this doesn’t involve changing code, there are no manual UIs, and this all lives inside Kubernetes. Pixie lives inside of your platform, harvests all the data that you need, and exposes a bunch of interfaces that you can ping to get the data you need. It’s a programmable edge intelligence platform which captures metrics, traces, logs and events, without any code changes.
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Featuring:

Roberto Clapis – Twitter, GitHub
Peter Bourgon – Twitter, GitHub
Jon Calhoun – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Mat Ryer – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

Reddit Q&A Thread

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Clarity and expectation (Brain Science #29) Sep 17, 2020

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When you lack clarity or have uncertainty for a direction or goal, it’s going to be difficult to succeed in your actions. Today Mireille and Adam discuss the topic of clear communication and expectation, two of the most important ingredients of success. How do we create better clarity? Like so many things — clarity begins with awareness, and awareness of yourself. You have to know what you want and what you value in life. We must assume 100% responsibility for creating our own clarity in our lives. After all, “if you don’t have clarity, you are operating from assumption.”

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Featuring:

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

Show Notes:

Why developing clarity is the #1 habit of highly effective leaders
11 Ways to Gain Clarity
Books by Brendon Burchard
Always Challenge Your Never - because there is joy and freedom in knowing your true potential
10 Strategies for Absolute Clarity

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When AI goes wrong (Practical AI #105) Sep 14, 2020

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So, you trained a great AI model and deployed it in your app? It’s smooth sailing from there right? Well, not in most people’s experience. Sometimes things goes wrong, and you need to know how to respond to a real life AI incident. In this episode, Andrew and Patrick from BNH.ai join us to discuss an AI incident response plan along with some general discussion of debugging models, discrimination, privacy, and security.

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Featuring:

Andrew Burt – Twitter, Website
Patrick Hall – Twitter, GitHub
Chris Benson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Daniel Whitenack – Twitter, GitHub, Website

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Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Estimating systems with napkin math (Changelog Interviews #412) Sep 11, 2020

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We’re joined by Simon Eskildsen, Principal Engineer at Shopify, talking about how he uses a concept called napkin math where you use first-principle thinking to estimate systems without writing any code. By the end of the show we were estimating pretty much everything using napkin math.

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Retool – Retool makes it super simple to build back-office apps in hours, not days. The tool is is built by engineers, explicitly for engineers. Learn more and try it for free at retool.com/changelog
Pixie – Pixie gives you a magical API to get instant debug data. The best part is this doesn’t involve changing code, there are no manual UIs, and this all lives inside Kubernetes. Pixie lives inside of your platform, harvests all the data that you need, and exposes a bunch of interfaces that you can ping to get the data you need. It’s a programmable edge intelligence platform which captures metrics, traces, logs and events, without any code changes.
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Featuring:

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

Show Notes:

Napkin Math on GitHub (PRs welcome)
Napkin Math newsletter
zk - Zettelkasten on the command-line
How to Make Yourself Into a Learning Machine

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Let's replace your kidney with React (JS Party #143) Sep 11, 2020

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Ahmad Nassri returns to the party for a deep, nuanced discussion around the thoughts he shared in a recent blog post called Solving Solved Problems. We hear about the common issue Ahmad’s seen at software shops of all sizes, learn the anatomy of the total cost of software ownership, and debate what to build and what to buy.

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Featuring:

Ahmad Nassri – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Amal Hussein – Twitter, GitHub

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Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Hits of the Summer (Go Time #146) Sep 10, 2020

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This episode is different than what you’re used to. We’ve been clipping highlights of the show for awhile now to share on Twitter and YouTube. A side effect of that effort is a bunch of awesome clips just sitting on Jerod’s hard drive collecting digital dust. So, here’s a beta test of a “best of” style clips show covering the summer months. Let us know if you like it!

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Retool – Retool makes it super simple to build back-office apps in hours, not days. The tool is is built by engineers, explicitly for engineers. Learn more and try it for free at retool.com/changelog
Pixie – Pixie gives you a magical API to get instant debug data. The best part is this doesn’t involve changing code, there are no manual UIs, and this all lives inside Kubernetes. Pixie lives inside of your platform, harvests all the data that you need, and exposes a bunch of interfaces that you can ping to get the data you need. It’s a programmable edge intelligence platform which captures metrics, traces, logs and events, without any code changes.

Featuring:

Ben Johnson – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Kris Brandow – Twitter, GitHub
Aaron Schlesinger – Twitter, GitHub, Website
David Hernandez – Twitter, GitHub
Johan Brandhorst – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Boyan Soubachov – GitHub, LinkedIn
Ian Lance Taylor – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Robert Griesemer – Twitter, GitHub
Daniel Martí – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Shubheksha Jalan – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Francesc Campoy – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Isobel Redelmeier – Twitter
Jon Calhoun – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Jaana Dogan – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Mat Ryer – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Carmen Andoh – Twitter, GitHub
Johnny Boursiquot – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Mark Bates – Twitter, GitHub, Website

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Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Dealing with conflict (Brain Science #28) Sep 09, 2020

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Conflict is a part of everyday life. If you are connected to other humans, conflict will eventually occur. But what exactly is conflict? Where does it begin? How can it be resolved? In this episode, Mireille and Adam dive deep into those details to examine the framework of conflict end-to-end, to hopefully equip us with the tactics and skills we need to better navigate and resolve the conflict we encounter in our lives.

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Featuring:

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

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Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Speech tech and Common Voice at Mozilla (Practical AI #104) Sep 09, 2020

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Many people are excited about creating usable speech technology. However, most of the audio data used by large companies isn’t available to the majority of people, and that data is often biased in terms of language, accent, and gender. Jenny, Josh, and Remy from Mozilla join us to discuss how Mozilla is building an open-source voice database that anyone can use to make innovative apps for devices and the web (Common Voice). They also discuss efforts through Mozilla fellowship program to develop speech tech for African languages and understand bias in data sets.

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Rollbar – We move fast and fix things because of Rollbar. Resolve errors in minutes. Deploy with confidence. Learn more at rollbar.com/changelog.

Featuring:

Jenny Zhang – Twitter, Website
Remy Muhire – Twitter, GitHub
Josh Meyer – Twitter, GitHub
Chris Benson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Daniel Whitenack – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

Mozilla Common Voice
Announcement of Josh and Remy’s fellowship work on speech tech for African languages
Artie Bias Corpus
Readings on Demographic Bias in ASR:
Common Voice LREC Paper
Common Voice + DeepSpeech collaborators for Low-resource languages:
“under-sampled majority” is a quote from Joy Boulamwini (see this article)

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Inside GitHub's Arctic Code Vault (Changelog Interviews #411) Sep 04, 2020

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Earlier this year on February 2nd, 2020 Jon Evans and his team of archivists took a snapshot of all active public repositories on GitHub and sent it to a decommissioned coal mine in the Svalbard archipelago where it will be stored for the next 1,000 years.

On this episode, Jon chats with Jerod all about the GitHub Archive Program and how they’re preserving open source software for future generations.

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DigitalOcean – DigitalOcean’s developer cloud makes it simple to launch in the cloud and scale up as you grow. They have an intuitive control panel, predictable pricing, team accounts, worldwide availability with a 99.99% uptime SLA, and 24/7/365 world-class support to back that up. Get your $100 credit at do.co/changelog.
Retool – Retool makes it super simple to build back-office apps in hours, not days. The tool is is built by engineers, explicitly for engineers. Learn more and try it for free at retool.com/changelog
Pixie – Pixie gives you a magical API to get instant debug data. The best part is this doesn’t involve changing code, there are no manual UIs, and this all lives inside Kubernetes. Pixie lives inside of your platform, harvests all the data that you need, and exposes a bunch of interfaces that you can ping to get the data you need. It’s a programmable edge intelligence platform which captures metrics, traces, logs and events, without any code changes.
Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com.

Featuring:

Jon Evans – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

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Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Horse JS speaks! (JS Party #142) Sep 04, 2020

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We kick off with some exciting TypeScript news, follow that with some exciting JavaScript news, then finish off with an exciting interview. Key word: EXCITING

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Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com.