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Building the world's most popular data science platform (Practical AI #101) Aug 17, 2020

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Everyone working in data science and AI knows about Anaconda and has probably “conda” installed something. But how did Anaconda get started and what are they working on now? Peter Wang, CEO of Anaconda and creator of PyData and popular packages like Bokeh and DataShader, joins us to discuss that and much more. Peter gives some great insights on the Python AI ecosystem and very practical advice for scaling up your data science operation.

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Chris Benson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
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Best practices for Node developers (JS Party #139) Aug 14, 2020

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Node.js development began a bit like the Wild West, but over time idioms, anti-patterns, and best practices have emerged. Yoni Goldberg’s Node Best Practices repo on GitHub collects, documents, and explains the best practices for Node developers. On this episode, Yoni joins us to discuss.

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Yoni Goldberg – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Amal Hussein – Twitter, GitHub
Nick Nisi – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website

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All about that infra(structure) (Go Time #142) Aug 13, 2020

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Infra, Devops, Systems Engineer, SRE, and the list goes on and on. What do these terms mean? Why does every job listing for the same role seem to entail different responsibiliities? Why is it important for developers to be familiar with the infrastructure their code is running on? Tune in to gain some insights into all of this and more!

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Shubheksha Jalan – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Mat Ryer – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Jaana Dogan – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Johnny Boursiquot – Twitter, GitHub, Website

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Enter to win Practical AI hardware!
Junior Engineers Are Features, Not Bugs - A talk from SRE CON discussing the benefits of hiring junior engineers for infra roles.
The baseds series - A series of articles related to distributed systems.
hi@shubheksha.com - Get in touch with our guest, Shubheksha
Oxford study on job discrimination

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Working in Public (Changelog Interviews #408) Aug 12, 2020

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Nadia Eghbal is back and this time she’s talking with us about her new book Working in Public. If you’re an old school listener you might remember the podcast we produced with Nadia and Mikeal Rogers called Request for Commits. If you weren’t listening then, or can’t remember…don’t worry…the back catalog of Request for Commits is still online and subscribe-able via all the podcast ways. That podcast is still getting listens to this very day!

Obviously we go way back with Nadia…and having a chance to now talk with her through all the details of her new book Working in Public, this was a milestone for this show and Jerod and I. We talked through the reasons she wrote the book in the first place, Nadia’s thoughts on the future of the internet and the connection of creators to the platforms they build their followings on, and we also talk about the health of projects and communities and the challenges we face internet-at-large as well as right here in our backyard in the open source community.

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

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Join Changelog++ to directly support us, make the ads disappear, AND for a chance to win a signed copy of Nadia’s book
The Changelog #193: Funding open source with Nadia Eghbal
Sindre Sorhus
Nadia’s post on Substack about Working in Public
Buy Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software on Amazon

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Practical AI turns 100!!! 🎉 (Practical AI #100) Aug 11, 2020

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We made it to 100 episodes of Practical AI! It has been a privilege to have had so many great guests and discussions about everything from AGI to GPUs to AI for good. In this episode, we circle back to the beginning when Jerod and Adam from The Changelog helped us kick off the podcast. We discuss how our perspectives have changed over time, what it has been like to host an AI podcast, and what the future of AI might look like. (GIVEAWAY!)

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Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Chris Benson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Daniel Whitenack – Twitter, GitHub, Website

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Episodes mentioned on the show:

Books

“Interpretable Machine Learning” by Christoph Molnar

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Designing and building HEY (Changelog Interviews #407) Aug 07, 2020

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We’re talking about designing and building HEY with Jonas Downey, the lead designer behind HEY. In their words, “Email sucked for years, but not anymore.” We were super interested in how they went about solving the problems with email, so we invited Jonas on to share all the details and a behind-the-scenes look at the making of HEY.

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

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HEY.com - Email at its best, new from Basecamp
The Changelog #399: Shipping work that matters - revisiting Shape Up & product development with Ryan Singer
The Changelog #357: Shaping, betting, and building - featuring Ryan Singer on how Basecamp does product development

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Nick loves Tom Holland — **Amal joins the party 🎉 (JS Party #138)** Aug 07, 2020
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The gang officially welcomes Amal Hussein as a panelist! After that it’s *Pro Tip Time*, then we finish up by attempting to demistify CSS Sweeper and the Space Toggle Trick.

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Amal Hussein – Twitter, GitHub
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Nick Nisi – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website
Divya – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
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Welcoming Amal

Amal talks ASTs on The Changelog

Amal on JS Party #58

Amal on JS Party #100

Pro Tip Time

Presentify

Vidrio

Snap camera

Boss turns herself into a potato

Godot Engine

Aseprite for pixel art

Jenn Schiffer’s pixel art

Console.trace

Copy object in console

Copy network responses

More on the overall Dev Console Utilities API’s

https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle (and Spectacle)

Gifox

Demystifying CSS Sweeper

CSS Sweeper

The Space Toggle Trick

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{"encoding":"json"} (Go Time #141) Aug 06, 2020

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JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is used all over the web as a text-based way of transmitting data. In this episode, we explore Go’s encoding/json package, and others with Daniel Marti.

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Mat Ryer – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Johnny Boursiquot – Twitter, GitHub, Website

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Building a high performance JSON parser - paper by Dave Cheney about writing a JSON parser.
encoding/json - json package in the standard library

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It all begins with empathy (Brain Science #26) Aug 06, 2020

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Have you heard the phrase, “Put yourself in their shoes?” In this episode, the conversation focuses on the “HOW” and why it all begins with empathy. Empathy is the key that enables access to another person’s perspective and emotional state. It is also a fundamental aspect of building and sustaining relationships with others. The fascinating thing is that there are 3 types of empathy: cognitive, social, and empathic concern. Plus there’s a counterpart component called compassion that moves us to take action.

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

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Why we're launching Changelog++ (Backstage #12) Aug 05, 2020

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We first launched a membership back in 2013… before they were cool! 😆 Now we’re back with a brand new edition. It’s called Changelog++ and we hope you love it. This episode of Backstage is a tell-all about the program. Why we think the timing is right, what we hope it can become, how we’re experimenting with ideas to make it great, and what you can do to get involved.

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