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Failing to build a billion-dollar company (Founders Talk #66) Jun 14, 2019

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Sahil Lavingia is the founder and CEO of Gumroad, a platform for creators to sell the things they make. Since 2011 Gumroad has sent over $200 million dollars to creators. That’s a big number. Sahil’s ambitions lead him to believe that Gumroad would become a billion-dollar company, have hundreds of employees, and eventually IPO. That didn’t happen.

We talk through Sahil’s journey with Gumroad, why it failed to meet his goals, the path he’s on today and the things he now values…but to understand why Gumroad didn’t live up to his expectations, we really have to understand the backstory of Gumroad.

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Gumroad.com
Sahil’s Medium post titled “Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company”
From Bubble to Bubble on Medium
Jack Dorsey’s 11 biohacks

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The art of execution (Go Time #89) Jun 12, 2019

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Panelists Mat Ryer, Johnny Boursiquot, Jon Calhoun, and guest panelist Egon Elbre discuss what they build, why, and how they do it. Everybody has their own unique process for getting things done, so today we’re going to learn about them. Too often processes get in the way and slow things down. How do we look for signs of those slow downs? How do we create a space where people are free to discuss their thoughts and struggles?

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Johnny Boursiquot – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Jon Calhoun – Twitter, GitHub, Website

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GANs, RL, and transfer learning oh my! (Practical AI #47) Jun 11, 2019

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Daniel and Chris explore three potentially confusing topics - generative adversarial networks (GANs), deep reinforcement learning (DRL), and transfer learning. Are these types of neural network architectures? Are they something different? How are they used? Well, If you have ever wondered how AI can be creative, wished you understood how robots get their smarts, or were impressed at how some AI practitioners conquer big challenges quickly, then this is your episode!

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SUBSCRIBE ~> Brain Science — For the curious! We’re exploring the inner-workings of the human brain to understand behavior change, habit formation, mental health, and being human.

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Spicy fonts and static sites 🌶️ (JS Party #79) Jun 10, 2019

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Zach Leatherman joins the party with Divya and Nick to talk about fonts and static site generators! Zach shares his knowledge about font loading, what can go wrong, and how we can avoid issues. Then we discuss Zach’s newest project, Eleventy, a simple static site generator, and the panelists share things they are excited about.

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Fonts and font loading

Eleventy

Eleventy - a simpler static site generator
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Who’s using 11ty?
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- v8.dev
- CERN
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Go 💚 open source (Go Time #88) Jun 07, 2019

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Panelists Mark Bates, Johnny Boursiquot, and Carmen Andoh discuss Go and open source — what is it, the value in contributing, what it means to be a maintainer, best practices, and the recent blog post from Chris Siebenmann titled “Go is Google’s language, not ours.”

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Carmen Andoh – Twitter, GitHub

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Python's new governance and core team (Changelog Interviews #348) Jun 06, 2019

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We’re talking with Brett Cannon for a behind the scenes look at Guido stepping down as Python’s BDFL (Benevolent dictator for life) and the process they had to go through to establish a new governance model, the various proposed PEPs to establish this new direction, the winning PEP, and what the future holds for Python.

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Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

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An update on Python’s governance
Python Enhancement Proposals (PEPs)
Condorcet Internet Voting Service
PEP 8000 - Python language governance proposal overview
PEP 8001
PEP 8002
PEP 8011
PEP 8016 (winning PEP)
Python governance vote (December 2018) results
One of Jerod’s favorite episodes of The Changelog in 2018 ~> The Changelog #318: A call for kindness in open source with Brett Cannon

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The Pro Stand costs more than my first car (Backstage #5) Jun 04, 2019

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Jerod, Adam, and Nick get together mere minutes after Apple’s 2019 WWDC keynote to talk about all the news and announcements. Will we be buying the new Mac Pro? What about that drool-worthy 6k retina display? Will iOS’s dark mode deliver where Mojave’s hasn’t? Expect all that and at least 2 bad puns in this episode of Backstage.

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

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Visualizing and understanding RNNs (Practical AI #46) Jun 04, 2019

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Andreas Madsen, a freelance ML/AI engineer and Distill.pub author, joins us to discuss his work visualizing neural networks and recurrent neural units. Andreas discusses various neural unites, RNNs in general, and the “why” of neural network visualization. He also gives us his perspective on ML/AI freelancing and moving from web development to AI research.

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

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Books

“Programming Collective Intelligence” by Toby Segaran

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Developer strengths and weaknesses 🏋️‍♂️ (JS Party #78) May 31, 2019

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Jerod, Suz, Divya, and Kball share their thoughts, opinions, and advice on developer strengths and weaknesses — compromise, communication, tool mastery, deep dives into dev history, and mentorship/sponsorship.

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Gauge – Low maintenance test automation! Gauge is free and open source test automation framework that takes the pain out of acceptance testing. Less code, less maintenance, more acceptance testing. Gauge is a free and open source test automation framework that takes the pain out of acceptance testing. Gauge tests are in Markdown which makes writing and maintaining tests easier.
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Suz Hinton – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub
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Kevin Ball – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

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What are you optimizing for? (Founders Talk #65) May 31, 2019

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Saron Yitbarek is the founder and CEO of CodeNewbie — one of the most supportive community of programmers and people learning to code. Saron hosts the CodeNewbie podcast, Command Line Heroes from Red Hat, and she’s also the creator of Codeland Conference taking place on July 22 this year in New York City. We talk through getting started, lessons learned, mental health, developing and running a conference…but our conversation begins with a pivotal question asked of Saron…“What are you optimizing for?”

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GitPrime – Download GitPrime’s 20 Patterns book, a field guide to help engineering managers recognize achievement, spot bottlenecks, and debug development processes with data.
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Saron Yitbarek – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

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In the latter part of the show, Adam mentioned to Saron that we will buy five “Pay it forward” tickets to Codeland, so that we here at Changelog can help support 5 people to attend the conference who otherwise could not afford to attend. Learn more about “Pay it forward” tickets to Codeland.

Also, listen to the end of the show for a special preview of our newest podcast BRAIN SCIENCE!!

The one question that will change your life
Codeland Conference
Learn more about “Pay it forward” tickets to Codeland
CodeNewbie.org
CodeNewbie podcast
Command Line Heroes
The Changelog #176: CROSSOVER — CodeNewbie and Community with Saron Yitbarek
Our newest podcast ~> BRAIN SCIENCE!!
[Book] Essentialism - The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

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