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TensorFlow in the cloud (Practical AI #79) Mar 02, 2020

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Craig Wiley, from Google Cloud, joins us to discuss various pieces of the TensorFlow ecosystem along with TensorFlow Enterprise. He sheds light on how enterprises are utilizing AI and supporting AI-driven applications in the Cloud. He also clarifies Google’s relationship to TensorFlow and explains how TensorFlow development is impacting Google Cloud Platform.

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

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Somebody somewhere is generating JS from Fortran (JS Party #116) Feb 28, 2020

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KBall interviews Brian Leroux in a wide-ranging discussion covering “Progressive Bundling” with native ES Modules, building infrastructure as code, and what the future of JamStack and serverless deployment might look like.

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Brian Leroux – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website
Kevin Ball – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

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Stop the presses (Go Time #119) Feb 27, 2020

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Newsletters play a unique role for developers. As the Go community continues to grow and mature, these newsletters provide a much-needed filter for the oft overwhelming stream of new articles, talks, and libraries produced by the community on a weekly basis.

In this episode Johnny, Jon, and Mat are joined by Peter Cooper of the Golang Weekly newsletter to discuss his role as a newsletter curator. We explore difficult topics that touch on ethics and responsibilities of a curator and of course, the impact Peter and his team have on shaping, at least in part, what many in the Go community get exposed to.

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Algorithms with Go – A free Go course where panelist Jon Calhoun teaches you how algorithms and data structures work, how to implement them in Go code, and where to practice at. Great for learning Go, learning about algorithms for the first time, or refreshing your algorithmic knowledge.
The Brave Browser – Browse the web up to 8x faster than Chrome and Safari, block ads and trackers by default, and reward your favorite creators with the built-in Basic Attention Token. Download Brave for free and give tipping a try right here on changelog.com.

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Peter Cooper – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Jon Calhoun – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Mat Ryer – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Johnny Boursiquot – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

Golang Weekly - The Go newsletter that Peter curates.
Awesome Newsletter #Go - A list of additional newsletters in the Go

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NLP for the world's 7000+ languages (Practical AI #78) Feb 24, 2020

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Expanding AI technology to the local languages of emerging markets presents huge challenges. Good data is scarce or non-existent. Users often have bandwidth or connectivity issues. Existing platforms target only a small number of high-resource languages.

Our own Daniel Whitenack (data scientist at SIL International) and Dan Jeffries (from Pachyderm) discuss how these and related problems will only be solved when AI technology and resources from industry are combined with linguistic expertise from those on the ground working with local language communities. They have illustrated this approach as they work on pushing voice technology into emerging markets.

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

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All the stale things (JS Party #115) Feb 21, 2020

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Divya leads a deep discussion with Jerod, KBall, and Nick on what’s stagnating in browsers. What has remained the same in browser tech over the last 20 years that remains a pain point in working with browsers? For example - Focus in browsers hasn’t changed much in 20 years. Why is that and how do we go about making all the stale things in browser tech better?

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Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Kevin Ball – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Nick Nisi – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

Segment 1: APIs that were not developed

[Proposal] Focus Traversal API
Input elements are still terrible; CSS appearance property
Container queries
Dates still suck, but they are being fixed
Luxon
Web Components (RIP?)
BUT Shadow DOM
Consistency of CSS Properties BUT Houdini
Button cursor — why do still have to do button { cursor: pointer; } ???
SVG amazing but still 2nd class citizen
Accessibility should be down in the browser

Segment 2: Hypothesizing

Why didn’t these APIs get anywhere?
What would’ve needed to happen for them to have progressed?
Browser wars; the move towards chromium

Segment 3: Shout-outs!!

(in order of appearance)

KBall: Rachel Andrew’s CSS Grid articles: Understanding CSS Grid: Creating A Grid Container and Understanding CSS Grid: Grid Lines
Jerod: Justine Haupt’s open source DIY rotary cell phone
Nick: Tatiana Mac’s talk titled How Privilege Defines Performance
Divya: Understanding the ECMAScript spec, part 1

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The developer's guide to content creation (Changelog Interviews #382) Feb 21, 2020

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Stephanie Morillo (content strategist and previously editor-in-chief of DigitalOcean and GitHub’s company blogs) wrote a book titled The Developer’s Guide to Content Creation — it’s a book for developers who want to consistently and confidently generate new ideas and publish high-quality technical content.

We talked with Stephanie about why developers should be writing and sharing their ideas, crafting a mission statement for your blog and thoughts on personal brand, her 4 step recipe for generating content ideas, as well as promotional and syndication strategies to consider for your developer blog.

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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
Square – The Square developer team just launched their new developer YouTube channel. Head to youtube.com/squaredev or search for “Square Developer” on YouTube to learn more and subscribe.
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:

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

Show Notes:

The Developer’s Guide to Content Creation
The book did well on Product Hunt with 356 upvotes
Writing a dev blog and need help? Schedule a 30 minute content session with Stephanie.
What Admiral Grace Hopper really meant when she said, “It’s easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission”

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Quack like a wha-? (Go Time #118) Feb 20, 2020

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Interfaces are everywhere in Go. The basic error type is an interface, writing with the fmt package means you are probably using an interface, and there are countless other instances where they pop up. In this episode Mark, Mat, Johnny, and Jon discuss interfaces at length, exploring what they are, how they are using them in their own projects, as well as tips for how you can leverage them in your own code.

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The Brave Browser – Browse the web up to 8x faster than Chrome and Safari, block ads and trackers by default, and reward your favorite creators with the built-in Basic Attention Token. Download Brave for free and give tipping a try right here on changelog.com.
Algorithms with Go – A free Go course where panelist Jon Calhoun teaches you how algorithms and data structures work, how to implement them in Go code, and where to practice at. Great for learning Go, learning about algorithms for the first time, or refreshing your algorithmic knowledge.

Featuring:

Jon Calhoun – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Mat Ryer – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Johnny Boursiquot – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Mark Bates – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

Go Issue #20280 - An issue about a cancellable io.Copy
Cancellable io.Reader example - An example of how to use interface chaining to create a cancellable io.Reader.
io.TeeReader - A reader mentioned on the podcast that lets you write everything you read to an output.
io.MultiWriter - A writer mentioned on the podcast that lets you write to multiple outputs.
Buffalo plugins package - Interfaces and helper utilities for writing Buffalo’s Go plugins.
Buffalo plugin implementations - Current plugin implementations for Buffalo.

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Competing for attention (Brain Science #11) Feb 19, 2020

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Mireille and Adam discuss the mechanism of attention as an allocation of one’s resources. If we can think of attention as that of a lens, we can practice choosing what we give our attention to recognizing that multiple things, both externally and internally, routinely compete for our attention. Distraction can also be useful when we utilize it intentionally to manage the focus of our attention.

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

Show Notes:

Attention is the mechanism through which the brain focuses resources on some thing. If you can direct your attention, then you can direct where your brain puts its resources. You can think of attention similar to that of a camera lens. What lens and at what focal length are you using to focus with?

The Web 2.0 Show #43 w/ Kathy Sierra: Creating passionate users
Watch! Pay attention: you can change your brain by Kitty Chisholm at TEDxLondonBusinessSchool — where she says “It’s a very a competitive environment,” when it comes to attention.
Add this to your book shelf — Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
As well as Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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The dawn of sponsorware (Changelog Interviews #381) Feb 17, 2020

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Caleb Porzio is the creator & maintainer of Livewire, AlpineJS, and more. His latest open source endeavor was announced as “sponsorware”, which means it lived in a private repo (only available to Caleb’s GitHub Sponsors) until he hit a set sponsorship threshold, at which point it was open sourced.

On this episode, we talk through this sponsorware experiment in-depth. We learn how he dreamt it up, how it went (spoiler: very well), and how he had to change his mindset on 2 things in order to make sustainability possible.

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Caleb Porzio – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

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Real-time conversational insights from phone call data (Practical AI #77) Feb 17, 2020

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Daniel and Chris hang out with Mike McCourt from Invoca to learn about the natural language processing model architectures underlying Signal AI. Mike shares how they process conversational data, the challenges they have to overcome, and the types of insights that can be harvested.

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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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