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OSCON 2019 anthology (Changelog Interviews #358) Aug 23, 2019

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We’re on the expo hall floor of OSCON 2019 talking with Eric Holscher, Ali Spittel, and Hong Phuc Dang. First up, we talk to Eric about his work at Write the Docs, ethical advertising, and the Pac-Man rule at conferences. Second, we talk with Ali about her passion for teaching developers, her passion for writing, and her new found love for podcasting. Last, we talk with Hong about her work at FOSSASIA, the disconnect between America and Asia in open source, and several of the cool open source projects they have on GitHub.

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Eric Holscher – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Ali Spittel – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Hong Phuc Dang – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

Special thanks to our friends at O’Reilly Media and OSCON for making our trip to Portland possible.

Eric:

Ali:

Hong:

FOSSASIA

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We're designed for relationship (Brain Science #2) Aug 21, 2019

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Mireille and Adam explore the importance of relationships and the concept of attachment. We often think of ourselves as individuals, but our lives are spent embedded within the context of social relationships. These relationships influence and shape our brains, which deeply influences who we are.

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

Show Notes:

We’re designed to be attached to others. Mammalian brains care about their connections.

What’s the difference between a lizard or a turtle and a dog or a bat? Dogs and bats feed their young with milk and invest in their oversight until they’re mature and capable enough to manage their own lives.

We often think of ourselves as individuals, but our lives are spent embedded within the context of social relationships. These relationships influence and shape our brains, which deeply influences who we are. Research shows that relationships can reactivate neuroplastic processes and actually alter the structures and biochemistry of the brain (Neuroscience of human relationships). Individual brains do not exist in nature. Without mutually stimulating interactions, people and neurons wither and die.

Early nurturing of the prefrontal cortex through relationships has us to think well of ourselves, trust others, regulate emotions, maintain positive expectations, and utilize emotional intelligence in a moment-to-moment problem solving (Cozolino). Research shows that right brains tend to develop more in the first years of life. This helps us be more flexible and learn how to adapt — it really is survival of the fittest.

Mind Field from Vsauce

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Is modern JS tooling too complicated? (JS Party #89) Aug 16, 2019

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Adam adds a twist to our YepNope format this week. Instead of 2v2, it’s 1v1v1 with Mikeal reppin’ team Yep, Divya on team Nope, and Feross sitting in the middle on team It Depends. You don’t want to miss this excellent debate/discussion all about JS tooling complexity.

Many packages
New frameworks built all the time
Config hell. Webpack

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Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Feross Aboukhadijeh – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Divya – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Mikeal Rogers – Twitter, GitHub

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Shaping, betting, and building (Changelog Interviews #357) Aug 16, 2019

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Ryan Singer, head of Product Strategy at Basecamp, joined the show to talk about their newest book — Shape Up: Stop running in circles and ship work that matters. It’s written by Ryan himself and you can read it right now for free online at Basecamp.com/shapeup.

We talked about the back story of the book, how the methodology for Shape Up developed from within at Basecamp, the principles and methodologies of Shape Up, how teams of varying sizes can implement Shape Up. Ryan even shared a special invitation to our listeners near the end of the show to his live and in-person Shape Up workshop on August 28th in Detroit, Michigan.

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Ryan Singer – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

Shape Up
Foreword by Jason Fried
Principles of shaping
Example pitches — “How we do it in Basecamp”
Bets, Not Backlogs
How to Begin to Shape Up
Summary of the Shape Up method
Shape Up glossary
Ryan’s tweet about the Shape Up workshop
If you have questions — email shapeup@basecamp.com
Getting Real
All of Basecamp’s books

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Serving deep learning models with RedisAI (Practical AI #53) Aug 12, 2019

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Redis is a an open source, in-memory data structure store, widely used as a database, cache and message broker. It now also support tensor data types and deep learning models via the RedisAI module. Why did they build this module? Who is or should be using it? We discuss this and much more with Pieter Cailliau.

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

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Droppin' insider logic bombs (JS Party #88) Aug 09, 2019

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Jerod, Feross, and Nick discuss the latest npm security fiasco, opine on the strengths and weaknesses of spreadsheets, explain CORS like they’re 5 (sorta), and give shout outs to deserving purveyors of fine software.

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Featuring:

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

Show Notes:

Story of the week

The episode’s namesake, Insider Logic Bombs
The story on dude who outsourced his job to Chine
Nick and Jerod have both been using Notion lately
‘No way to prevent this’ is satire, y’all
The purescript/npm incident explained

ELI5

Nick mentioned gifsockets, which might be the best hack of all time
You’ll have to google the Hassehloffian Recursion yourself…
If Feross’ explanation of the Zoom hack failed you, here’s a good one
Read up on DNS rebinding for an upcoming ELI5 segment

Shout outs

Jerod shouts out hpdang and FOSS Asia
Feross shouts out Kyle Drake of neocities.org
Nick shouts out coc.nvim

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Structuring your Go apps (Go Time #94) Aug 09, 2019

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Jon, Mat, Johnny, and special guest Cory LaNou discuss the ins and outs of structuring Go programs. Why is app structure so important? Why is it hard to structure Go apps? What happens if we get it wrong? Why do we confuse folder structures with application design? How should a new Go app be structured?

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Cory LaNou – Twitter
Johnny Boursiquot – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Jon Calhoun – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Mat Ryer – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

How do you structure your Go apps by Kat Zien at GopherCon 2018
Standard Package Layout from Ben Johnson
How I write Go HTTP services
Go back to basics with MVC This is a followup to a previous Go Time from Chris James about MVC
SOLID Go Design from Dave Cheney

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Observability is for your unknown unknowns (Changelog Interviews #356) Aug 07, 2019

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Christine Yen (co-founder and CEO of Honeycomb) joined the show to talk about her upcoming talk at Strange Loop titled “Observability: Superpowers for Developers.” We talk practically about observability and how it delivers on these superpowers. We also cover the biggest hurdles to observability, the cultural shifts needed in teams to implement observability, and even the gains the entire organization can enjoy when you deliver high-quality code and you’re able to respond to system failure with resilience.

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Strange Loop – A conference for software developers in St. Louis, MO. covering programming languages, databases, distributed systems, security, machine learning, creativity, and more! Sep 12-14, 2019 / Oct 1-3, 2020 / Sep 30-Oct 2, 2021

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Christine Yen – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

“testing is for known knowns, monitoring is for known unknowns, observability is for unknown unknowns” – Jez Humble

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The fundamentals of being human (Brain Science #1) Aug 06, 2019

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In this inaugural episode, Mireille and Adam explore what it means to be human at the most basic level. Our goal is to explore the inner-workings of the human brain to better understand our humanity. What are we capable of? What are the common experiences of life we all share? We start by asking the question, “what are the fundamentals of being human?”

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

Show Notes:

Designed to feel

As humans, we are fundamentally designed to feel. Feelings aren’t facts but they are feedback. When we can consider our feelings in conjunction with other data, we’re apt to make wiser decisions. Whether our feelings or they don’t, they’re still feedback.

We have a complex brain, a mind, and relationships (brainstem: the Reptile brain + limbic system: the mammalian brain and the neocortex: the Human brain.
We have emotions.
We are energy-based beings (electrical current makes us tick). Neurons that fire together, wire together.
a. Where attention, energy flows—we feed whatever it is we focus on. Happiness/changes in how feel can be modified in part by what we choose to focus on. Example - getting a job.
b. Dan Siegel says it like this “Where attention goes, neuro firing flows, and neuro connections grow.”

Designed to connect

As humans, we are fundamentally designed to connect and be connected with others. When we don’t have a community wherein we can be our authentic selves, we’re apt to struggle more than we would without them.

Is connection or touch with other humans required?
Attachment is 100% learned - it is not genetically determined. That brings hope because we can modify our relationship as we, too, change.

We all struggle

As humans, we do not get the option to opt out the struggle. We may not be able to pick our struggles, but, nonetheless we all struggle.

Adam says “Admit the struggle. Identify the lie. Seek the truth.”

As it relates to coping, the value of naming our struggles is so important. It involves more aspects of the brain when we put words to our struggles so that we’re better able to cope.

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