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To GraphQL or not to GraphQL? (Backstage #8) Nov 12, 2019

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Go Time panelist Mat Ryer joins Jerod to talk through the pros and cons of GraphQL vs REST for a future Changelog API. There’s also a fair bit of language chat around Go and JavaScript, a section on Machine Learning, and some inside baseball on where Go Time is heading.

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

Show Notes:

If you like Mat’s accent, put Go Time in your ears
Mat previously talked about MachineBox on Practical AI
The graph databases Go Time is #108 (broken link until the episode airs)
Jerod referred to PostGraphQL, which is now called PostGraphile (and cool, despite it not being for us)

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Code editors and language servers (Go Time #106) Nov 11, 2019

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In this episode we talk with Ramya Rao about code editors and language servers. We share our thoughts on which editor we use, why we use it, and why we’d switch. We also discuss what a language server is and why it matters in connecting editors and the languages they support. We also dive into various ways to be effective with VS Code including shortcuts, plugins, and more.

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Ramya Rao – Twitter, GitHub
Jon Calhoun – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Mat Ryer – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Johnny Boursiquot – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

Go Time #49: Adventures in VS Code with Ramya Rao
gopls - language server for Go
Go modules support in VS Code - How to enable gopls in vscode.
margo - Something like gopls that was created for Sublime Text’s implementation. Mentioned on the show.
VS Code
vim
emacs
GoLand
Notepad - Mat’s preferred editor

VS Code plugins mentioned/used by our panelists:

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**Robot hands solving Rubik's cubes (Practical AI #64)** Nov 11, 2019
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Everyone is talking about it. OpenAI trained a pair of neural nets that enable a robot hand to solve a Rubik’s cube. That is super dope! The results have also generated a lot of commentary and controversy, mainly related to the way in which the results were represented on OpenAI’s blog. We dig into all of this in on today’s Fully Connected episode, and we point you to a few places where you can learn more about reinforcement learning.

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Featuring:
Chris Benson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Daniel Whitenack – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Show Notes:

OpenAI’s result of solving a Rubik’s Cube with a robotic hand:

Blog post

Paper

Example push back on Twitter

Learning resources:

OpenAI Gym Tutorial

PyTorch RL Tutorial

Tensorflow RL Tutorials

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Finding collaborators for open source (Changelog Interviews #368) Nov 10, 2019

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Jeff Meyerson, host of Software Engineering Daily, and the founder of FindCollabs (a place to find collaborators for open source software) joined the show to talk about living in San Francisco, his thoughts on podcasting and where the medium is heading, getting through large scale market changes. We talk at length about his new project FindCollabs, the difficulty of reliably finding people to collaborate with, the importance of reputation and ratings systems, and his invite to this audience to check out what he’s doing and get involved.

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

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Should we rebrand JavaScript? (JS Party #101) Nov 08, 2019

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We’re back with another #YepNope episode, this time debating whether or not JavaScript needs to be rebranded. This premise was inspired by Kieran Potts’ article of the same name. Divya/Jerod represent Team Yep and Chris/KBall represent Team Nope. Nick, as always, represents Team Type Script 😜

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

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Open source data labeling tools (Practical AI #63) Nov 05, 2019

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What’s the most practical of practical AI things? Data labeling of course! It’s also one of the most time consuming and error prone processes that we deal with in AI development. Michael Malyuk of Heartex and Label Studio joins us to discuss various data labeling challenges and open source tooling to help us overcome those challenges.

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

Show Notes:

Books

“Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming” by Peter Norvig

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11 awesome lightning chats ⚡️ (JS Party #100) Nov 01, 2019

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What you’re about to hear is a series of lightning chats recorded live from All Things Open 2019. How’s this for topic diversity? 👇

A/B testing, finding your tribe, dancing, TikTok, what is happening with front-ends becoming full-stacks, Code the Dream, OSI approved licenses, breaking in to tech, a11y, hiring juniors, whiteboard interviews, better interview practices, JPGs, coding bootcamps, tech re-entry programs, and more.

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Amal Hussein – Twitter, GitHub
Matt Broberg – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Crystal Williams-Brown – Twitter, GitHub
Danese Cooper – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Mo Hampton – Twitter, GitHub
Maria Lamardo – Twitter, GitHub
Eva Howe – Twitter
Vanessa Alvarez – Twitter, GitHub
Clinton Dreisbach – Twitter, GitHub
Henri Helvetica – Twitter
Jill Burns – LinkedIn
Jannaee Sick – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Emma Bostian – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Kevin Ball – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

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Kubernetes and Cloud Native (Go Time #105) Nov 01, 2019

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Johnny and Mat are joined by Kris Nova and Joe Beda to talk about Kubernetes and Cloud Native. They discuss the rise of “Cloud Native” applications as facilitated by Kubernetes, good places to use Kubernetes, the challenges faced running such a big open source project, Kubernetes’ extensibility, and how Kubernetes fits into the larger Cloud Native world.

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Kris Nova – Twitter, GitHub
Joe Beda – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Mat Ryer – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Johnny Boursiquot – Twitter, GitHub, Website

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Back to Agile's basics (Changelog Interviews #367) Oct 31, 2019

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Robert C. Martin, aka Uncle Bob, joined the show to talk about the practices of Agile. Bob has written a series of books in order to pass down the wisdom he’s gained over his 50 year software career — books like Clean Architecture, Clean Code, The Clean Coder, The Software Craftsman, and finally Clean Agile — which is the focus of today’s discussion. We cover the origins of his “Uncle Bob” nickname, the Agile Manifesto, why Agile is best suited for developing software, how it applies today, communication patterns for teams, co-location vs distributed, and more importantly Bob shares his “why” for writing this book.

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