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Busting the ghost engineers (0.1x-ers) (Changelog News #122) Nov 25, 2024

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Ben Affleck’s take on AI replacing actors, Stanford researcher (Yegor Denisov-Blanch) busts the ghost engineers, Electrobun takes a crack at Electron apps, April King opens up a cookies can of worms, John Arundel thinks many of us are making a career ending mistake & Typogram’s CodingFont.com is like Zoolander’s Walk Off but for coding fonts.

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Local-first, y/n? (Changelog & Friends #71) Nov 22, 2024

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Our friends Johannes Schickling & James Long join us to discuss the movement of local-first, its pros and cons, the tradeoffs, and the path to the warming waters of mostly local apps.

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Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Abstractions and implementations (Ship It! #131) Nov 22, 2024

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Hazel Weakly joins Justin and Autumn to talk about when to build abstractions and how to implement them. They also share experiences from tech conferences, and delve into the importance of building community and psychological safety in tech environments.

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Hazel Weakly – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

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Interview

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Unpop roundup! 2023 (Go Time #338) Nov 21, 2024

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Go Time producer, Jerod Santo, ranks & reviews the most (un)popular opinions of 2023.

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Juan Andrés Guerrero-Saade – Website, X
Kaylyn Gibilterra – GitHub, X
Joe Davidson – GitHub, X
Matthew Boyle – Website, GitHub, X
David Wickes – GitHub, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

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Nine pillars of great Node apps (JS Party #347) Nov 21, 2024

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Recently, four pillars of the JavaScript community (James Snell, Natalia Venditto, Michael Dawson & Matteo Collina) teamed up to create a resource that lays out nine principles for doing Node.js right in enterprise environments. On this episode, Natalia & Matteo join Jerod to discuss all nine.

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Two tickets for Departure, please (Changelog Interviews #618) Nov 20, 2024

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Today we’re joined by a dynamic duo, Helena Zhang & Tobias Fried, who team up on all sorts of digital passion projects. This includes the wildly popular Phosphor Icons plus their latest joint, Departure Mono, a monospaced pixel font with a lo-fi technical vibe… that both Adam & Jerod are pretty much in love with. We discuss their tastes & inspirations, how they collab, making money on passion projects like these, velvet ropes & so much more.

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scikit-learn & data science you own (Practical AI #296) Nov 19, 2024

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We are at GenAI saturation, so let’s talk about scikit-learn, a long time favorite for data scientists building classifiers, time series analyzers, dimensionality reducers, and more! Scikit-learn is deployed across industry and driving a significant portion of the “AI” that is actually in production. :probabl is a new kind of company that is stewarding this project along with a variety of other open source projects. Yann Lechelle and Guillaume Lemaitre share some of the vision behind the company and talk about the future of scikit-learn!

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AI makes tech debt more expensive (Changelog News #121) Nov 18, 2024

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Evan Doyle says AI makes tech debt more expensive, Hunter Ng researches the ghost job ad phenomenon, Gavin Anderegg analyzes Bluesky in light of its recent success, Martin Tournoij rants against best practices & Evan Schwartz tells us why he thinks binary vector embeddings are so cool.

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Bus factors & conspiracy theories (Changelog & Friends #70) Nov 15, 2024

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Adam & Jerod discuss the news! Our Merch sale, useful built-in macOS CLI utilities, the slow death of the hyperlink, systematically estimating a project’s bus factor, The Browser Company abandoning Arc, the Dead Internet theory & more!

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Hosting Hachyderm (Ship It! #130) Nov 15, 2024

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Preston Doster joins the show to tell us what it takes to run a Mastodon server with 55,000 accounts and 11,000 monthly active users.

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Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

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Interview

One correction about the cost to run Hachyderm. Preston said it’s about $600/mo and after the interview emailed me to let me know it’s closer to $1000/mo

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