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Let's talk Elixir! (Changelog Interviews #365) Oct 09, 2019

Show notes

Jerod is joined by Chris and Desmond (co-hosts of the ElixirTalk podcast) to catch up on what’s moving and shaking in the Elixir and Phoenix communities. We discuss what’s attractive about Elixir, what it means to have the language finalized, why folks are so excited by Phoenix LiveView, the ambitious new Lumen project that’s bringing Elixir to WebAssembly, and more.

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Featuring:

Chris Bell – Twitter, GitHub
Desmond Bowe – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

On application design (Go Time #102) Oct 09, 2019

Show notes

Mat is joined by Peter Bourgon, Kat Zień, and Ben Johnson to talk about application design in Go — principles, trade-offs, common mistakes, patterns, and the things you should consider when it comes to application design.

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TeamCity by JetBrains – Build and release your software faster with TeamCity — a self-hosted continuous integration and delivery server developed by JetBrains. TeamCity is super-smart at running incremental builds, reusing artifacts, and building only what needs to be built, which can save over 30% of the daily build time. Learn more at teamcity.com/gotime.
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Featuring:

Peter Bourgon – Twitter, GitHub
Ben Johnson – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Kat Zień – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Mat Ryer – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

Standard Package Layout
Context matters on how you lay out your project
We need an it depends Gopher in Gopher slack
Standard Go Project Layout ~> golang-standards/project-layout
xkcd on Standards
Latency numbers every programmer should know
Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend.
Modern software over-engineering mistakes
Rethinking classical concurrency patterns by Bryan C. Mills @ GopherCon 2018
Microservices in Go by Matt Heath @ GOTO 2016

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Flying high with AI drone racing at AlphaPilot (Practical AI #59) Oct 07, 2019

Show notes

Chris and Daniel talk with Keith Lynn, AlphaPilot Program Manager at Lockheed Martin. AlphaPilot is an open innovation challenge, developing artificial intelligence for high-speed racing drones, created through a partnership between Lockheed Martin and The Drone Racing League (DRL).

AlphaPilot challenged university teams from around the world to design AI capable of flying a drone without any human intervention or navigational pre-programming. Autonomous drones will race head-to-head through complex, three-dimensional tracks in DRL’s new Artificial Intelligence Robotic Racing (AIRR) Circuit. The winning team could win up to $2 million in prizes.

Keith shares the incredible story of how AlphaPilot got started, just prior to its debut race in Orlando, which will be broadcast on NBC Sports.

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Featuring:

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

Show Notes:

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Performant Node desktop apps with NodeGui (JS Party #96) Oct 04, 2019

Show notes

What if you could have an Electron-like app framework without the Chromium dependency and resulting performance woes? Well, now you can. NodeGui is a Qt5-powered, cross-platform, native app GUI framework for JavaScript with CSS-like styling. In this episode, Jerod and Nick sit down with Atul –author of NodeGUI and NodeGUI React– to learn about this exciting framework. We ask him a zillion and one questions about it.

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All Things Open – Exploring open source, open tech, and the open web in the enterprise. Raleigh, NC — October 13-15, 2019

Featuring:

Atul R – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Nick Nisi – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Security for Gophers (Go Time #101) Oct 03, 2019

Show notes

Mat, Filippo, Johan, and Roberto discuss security in Go. Does Go make it easy to secure your code? What common mistakes are Gophers making? What is fuzzing? How can attackers abuse your code if you use the default http mux?

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TeamCity by JetBrains – Build and release your software faster with TeamCity — a self-hosted continuous integration and delivery server developed by JetBrains. TeamCity is super-smart at running incremental builds, reusing artifacts, and building only what needs to be built, which can save over 30% of the daily build time. Learn more at teamcity.com/gotime.
Linode – Our cloud server of choice. Deploy a fast, efficient, native SSD cloud server for only $5/month. Get 4 months free using the code changelog2019. Start your server - head to linode.com/changelog.
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:

Filippo Valsorda – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website
Johan Brandhorst – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Roberto Clapis – Twitter, GitHub
Mat Ryer – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

Go Playground example #1 - this demonstrates the sql safety pattern that Roberto mentions in the episode.
Go Playground example #2 - this demonstrates the stringer pattern mentioned by Roberto to avoid printing passwords out in logs.
go-fuzz package - a package for generating random inputs for your code.
So you want to expose Go on the Internet - although this needs updating, it was written by Filippo to help others tackle the challenge of securely exposing Go services to the internet.

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Maintainer spotlight! Valeri Karpov (Changelog Interviews #364) Oct 02, 2019

Show notes

In this episode we’re shining our maintainer spotlight on Valeri Karpov. Val has been the solo maintainer of Mongoose since 2014. This episode with Val 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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Featuring:

Valeri Karpov – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

Tools Val uses

People Val respects

Val’s ebooks

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Win a FREE 🎟️ to All Things Open 2019! (JS Party) Sep 30, 2019

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A brief announcement about the upcoming All Things Open conference in Raleigh, NC. What we’ll be doing there, why you should join us, and how to win a FREE 🎟️ to the event.

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Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

Tweet and mention @Changelog or @JSPartyFM for a chance to win 1 of 5 free passes to the conference!

“I want a free pass to @AllThingsOpen because…”

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

AI in the majority world and model distillation (Practical AI #58) Sep 30, 2019

Show notes

Chris and Daniel take some time to cover recent trends in AI and some noteworthy publications. In particular, they discuss the increasing AI momentum in the majority world (Africa, Asia, South and Central America and the Caribbean), and they dig into Hugging Face’s recent model distillation results.

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All Things Open – Exploring open source, open tech, and the open web in the enterprise. Raleigh, NC — October 13-15, 2019
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:

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

Show Notes:

AI in the majority world:

Artificial intelligence probes dark matter in the universe

DistilBERT from Hugging Face

Three People-Centered Design Principles for Deep Learning

Papers with code

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

**Nushell for the GitHub era (Changelog Interviews #363)** Sep 27, 2019
Show notes

Jonathan Turner, Andrés Robalino, and Yehuda Katz joined the show to talk about Nushell, or just Nu for short. It’s a modern shell for the GitHub era. It’s written in Rust, and it has the backing of some of the greatest minds in open source. We talk through what it is, how it works and cool things you can do with it, why Rust, ideas for the future, and ways for the community to get involved and contribute.

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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:
Jonathan Turner – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Andrés N. Robalino – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Yehuda Katz – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Show Notes:

Nushell homepage

The Nu book

nushell/nushell on GitHub

Nushell’s Discord

Follow @nu_shell and check out This week in Nu

The thing that’s missing from your MVP

How not to die by Paul Graham

Code examples discussed on the show:

`curl api.github.com | from-json | get current_user_url`

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Visual programming with hardware and Node-RED (JS Party #95) Sep 27, 2019

Show notes

Special guest Nick O’Leary joins us this episode to chat about the Node-RED project, how it started, and the fascinating uses cases for it out in the wild. We go into some of the technical challenges behind designing easy to use interfaces for hardware, and ask Nick what the future of Node-RED looks like.

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