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Trending up GitHub's developer charts (Changelog Interviews #373) Dec 14, 2019

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In this episode we’re shining our maintainer spotlight on Ovilia. Hailing from Shanghai, China, Ovilia is an up-and-coming developer who contributes to Apache ECharts, maintains Polyvia, which does very cool low-poly image and video processing, and has a sweet personal website, too.

This episode with Ovilia continues our maintainer spotlight series where we dig deep into the life of an open source software maintainer. We’re producing this series in partnership with Tidelift. Huge thanks to Tidelift for making this series possible.

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Ovilia – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

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Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Mikeal schools us on ES Modules (JS Party #106) Dec 13, 2019

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ES Modules are unflagged in Node 13. What does this mean? Can we use them yet? We chat with Mikeal, our resident expert, and find out.

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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.

Featuring:

Nick Nisi – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website
Kevin Ball – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Divya – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Mikeal Rogers – Twitter, GitHub

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Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Building an open source excavation robot for NASA (Changelog Interviews #372) Dec 11, 2019

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Ronald Marrero is a software developer working on NASA’s Artemis program, which aims at landing the first woman and next man on the Moon by 2024. How Ron got here is a fascinating story, starting at UCF and winding its way through the Florida Space Institute, working with NASA’s Swamp Works team, and building an open source excavation robot.

On this episode Ron tells us how it all went down and shares what he learned along the way.

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GitPrime – GitPrime helps software teams accelerate their velocity and release products faster by turning historical git data into easy to understand insights and reports. Ship faster because you know more. Not because you’re rushing. Learn more at gitprime.com/changelog.
Beginning Machine Learning with TensorFlow.js – Get an introduction to the world of Machine Learning with Javascript and TensorFlow.js. This is a three-week course covering an introduction to Machine Learning models, tensors, and the TensorFlow.js framework. Use the code CHANGELOG to get $100 till the end of 2019.
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Featuring:

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

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Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Concurrency, parallelism, and async design (Go Time #109) Dec 10, 2019

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Go was designed with concurrency in mind. That’s why we have language primitives like goroutines, channels, wait groups, and mutexes. They’re very powerful when used correctly, but they can be very complicated if used unwisely.

Roberto Clapis joins the team once again to drop async wisdom in your ears. Don’t worry, we do it in serial. 😉

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Featuring:

Roberto Clapis – Twitter, GitHub
Jaana Dogan – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Mat Ryer – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Johnny Boursiquot – Twitter, GitHub, Website

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Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Modern NLP with spaCy (Practical AI #68) Dec 09, 2019

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SpaCy is awesome for NLP! It’s easy to use, has widespread adoption, is open source, and integrates the latest language models. Ines Montani and Matthew Honnibal (core developers of spaCy and co-founders of Explosion) join us to discuss the history of the project, its capabilities, and the latest trends in NLP. We also dig into the practicalities of taking NLP workflows to production. You don’t want to miss this episode!

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Ines Montani – Twitter, GitHub
Matthew Honnibal – Twitter, GitHub
Chris Benson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Daniel Whitenack – Twitter, GitHub, Website

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Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Re-licensing Sentry (Changelog Interviews #371) Dec 08, 2019

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David Cramer joined the show to talk about the recent license change of Sentry to the Business Source License from a BSD 3-clause license. We talk about the details that triggered this change, the specifics of the BSL license and its required parameters, the threat to commercial open source products like Sentry, his concerns for the “open core” model, and what the future of open source might look like in light of protections-oriented source-available licenses like the BSL becoming more common.

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Beginning Machine Learning with TensorFlow.js – Get an introduction to the world of Machine Learning with Javascript and TensorFlow.js. This is a three-week course covering an introduction to Machine Learning models, tensors, and the TensorFlow.js framework. Use the code CHANGELOG to get $100 till the end of 2019.
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.

Featuring:

David Cramer – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

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Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Modernizing Etsy’s codebase with React (JS Party #105) Dec 06, 2019

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KBall connects with Katie Sylor-Miller to talk about migrating OhShitGit to the JAMStack, migrating legacy codebases to modern front-end technologies, and design systems.

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Katie Sylor-Miller – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Kevin Ball – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

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Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Making GANs practical (Practical AI #67) Dec 02, 2019

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GANs are at the center of AI hype. However, they are also starting to be extremely practical and be used to develop solutions to real problems. Jakub Langr and Vladimir Bok join us for a deep dive into GANs and their application. We discuss the basics of GANs, their various flavors, and open research problems.

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Featuring:

Jakub Langr – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Vladimir Bok – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Chris Benson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Daniel Whitenack – Twitter, GitHub, Website

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Books

“GANs in Action” by Jakub Langr and Vladimir Bok

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The making of GitHub Sponsors (Changelog Interviews #370) Dec 01, 2019

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Devon Zuegel is an Open Source Product Manager at GitHub. She’s also one of the key people responsible for making GitHub Sponsors a thing. We talk with Devon about how she came to GitHub to develop GitHub Sponsors, the months of research she did to learn how to best solve the sustainability problem of open source, why GitHub is now addressing this issue, the various ways and models of addressing maintainers’ financial needs, and Devon also shared what’s in store for the future of GitHub Sponsors.

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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.

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

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Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Mentor-ship 🛳️ (JS Party #104) Nov 29, 2019

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This week we chatted with Kahlil Lechelt about mentorship. What types of mentorships are there, what makes a successful mentorship, and where can you find a mentor?

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