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Beginnings (Go Time #134) Jun 19, 2020

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Mat Ryer talks to a new full-time Go programmer, an intern at Google, and a high-school programmer about the tech world from their perspective.

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Aditya Prerepa – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Benjamin Bryant – LinkedIn
Shaquille Que – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Mat Ryer – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

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What does the Go community look like from those at various beginnings in their early careers. Benjamin Bryant has recently become a full-time Go programmer and shares insights valuable to those more senior as well as those more junior. Shaquille Que recorded this episode during his very first day as an intern at Google; we learn a little about his story. Aditya Prerepa is a very proactive high-school programmer who has already started learning code to build solutions to real world problems. If you know somebody starting out in tech, why not send them this episode?

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Evolving alongside JS (JS Party #131) Jun 19, 2020

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We take a listener request this week and discuss how we evolve alongside (or opt out of) the ever changing JavaScript syntax. Arrow functions and variable declarations take center stage, but a wide range of new(ish) JS syntax and features are discussed.

Then Feross shares his new app, Nick talks fiction books, and Jerod switches coding fonts.

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Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Feross Aboukhadijeh – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Nick Nisi – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website

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Your brain can change (Brain Science #23) Jun 17, 2020

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You are not what you’ve been dealt. You might have heard in your life that you’ve inherited bad genes or even good genes, and from that you conclude that you’re doomed or blessed. In some cases there’s a margin of truth to that. However, the role of genes, Epigentics, and Neuroplasticity tell a different story. It’s a story of hope and opportunity for change.

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

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Dr Sarah McKay - an Oxford University-educated neuroscientist
What are DNA and Genes?
What are Proteins?
Basics of neural transmission
What is Epigenetics?
BDNF gene - brain-derived neurotrophic factor
What is neuroplasticity and how does it work?

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The ONE thing every dev should know (Changelog Interviews #398) Jun 16, 2020

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The incomparable Jessica Kerr drops by with a grab-bag of amazing topics. Understanding software systems, transferring knowledge between devs, building relationships, using VS Code & Docker to code together, observability as a logical extension of TDD, and a whole lot more.

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Listen to Jessica (and others) elsewhere on Arrested DevOps and Greater Than Code

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The long road to AGI (Practical AI #92) Jun 15, 2020

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Daniel and Chris go beyond the current state of the art in deep learning to explore the next evolutions in artificial intelligence. From Yoshua Bengio’s NeurIPS keynote, which urges us forward towards System 2 deep learning, to DARPA’s vision of a 3rd Wave of AI, Chris and Daniel investigate the incremental steps between today’s AI and possible future manifestations of artificial general intelligence (AGI).

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

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Books

“Thinking, Fast and Slow” by Daniel Kahneman

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The Neuroscience of touch (Brain Science #22) Jun 13, 2020

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How much do you focus on your sense of touch? Have you ever considered how or why this sense is so critical to our lives and how we manage ourselves? In this episode, Mireille and Adam discuss the neurophysiological underpinnings of our sense of touch and how our brains process these sensory experiences. According to David Linden, Ph.D., Professor of Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, “The sense of touch is intrinsically emotional.”

Not only is touch relevant to our emotional experience, but it is a foundational aspect of the development of our nervous system and it impacts how we manage stress and respond to pain. It isn’t surprising then to consider that touch is also extremely relevant to our relationships as we are apt to feel more connected to those with whom we engage in touch.

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

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Betting on Svelte for pace.dev (JS Party #130) Jun 12, 2020

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We often try new frameworks and tools in side projects or throwaway contexts, but you don’t learn that much about a thing until you use it to build something real. That’s why we have Mat Ryer and David Hernandez joining us to share their experience of using Svelte while building their new startup, Pace.dev.

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Mat Ryer – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
David Hernandez – Twitter, GitHub
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

Mat and David talk MachineBox on Practical AI
Their open source Go tool: oto
The blog post about their Svelte Grouper component
Pace.dev is now in public beta

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Reflection and meta programming (Go Time #133) Jun 11, 2020

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Mat, Jon, and Jaana discuss reflection and meta programming. How do other languages use reflection, and how does that differ from Go’s approach? What libraries are using reflection well? What are some examples of bad times to use reflect? What alternative approaches exist? And what are those weird struct tags I keep seeing in Go code?

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Gophercises – Gophercises is a free course that will help you become more familiar with Go while developing your skills as a programmer. The course consists of 20 different mini-applications, packages, and tools that are each designed to teach you something unique about Go. Get started at gophercises.com/gotime
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Mat Ryer – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Jon Calhoun – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Jaana Dogan – Twitter, GitHub, Website

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Laws of Reflection - From the Go blog
Oto - Library by Mat using AST to generate code
form - Jon’s form library that uses reflect
form’s without reflect - An example from Jon of creating forms without reflect
Language Server Protocol - Created by Microsoft to make it easier to create autocompletion for different editors
A new Go API for Protocol Buffers - A writeup of changes in protobuf to allow for a type of reflection

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Leading GitLab to $100M ARR (Founders Talk #70) Jun 09, 2020

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Sid Sijbrandij is the Co-founder and CEO of GitLab — an all-remote company and complete DevOps platform. As a company, they have their eyes set on taking the company public to IPO and they’re very outspoken about their culture, open handbook, and how they work as an all-remote company. We talk through where Sid came from, the early days of GitLab, why IPO vs a private sale (like GitHub), what it means to put “family and friends first, work second,” how we should view work, and his biggest fear — the company failing.

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Brain Science – For the curious! Brain Science is our new podcast exploring the inner-workings of the human brain to understand behavior change, habit formation, mental health, and being human. It’s Brain Science applied — not just how does the brain work, but how do we apply what we know about the brain to transform our lives.
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Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

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Creating GitLab’s remote playbook (Changelog Interviews #397) Jun 09, 2020

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We’re talking about all things all-remote with Darren Murph, Head of Remote at GitLab. Darren is tasked with putting intentional thought and action into place to lead the largest all-remote company in the world. Yes, GitLab is 100% all-remote, as in, no offices…and they employee more than 1,200 people across 67 countries. They’ve been iterating and documenting how to work remotely for years. We cover Darren’s personal story on remote work while he served as managing editor at Engadget, his thoughts on how “work” is evolving and ways to reframe and rethink about when you work, this idea of work life harmony, and the backstory and details of the playbook GitLab released free of charge to the world.

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