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Undirected hyper arrows (JS Party #338) Sep 12, 2024

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Chris Shank has been on sabbatical since January, so he’s had a lot of time to think deeply about the web platform. On this episode, Jerod & KBall pick Chris’ brain to answer questions like, what does a post-component paradigm look like? What would it look like if the browser had primitives for building spatial canvases? How can we make it easier to make “folk interfaces” on the web?

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

Building customizable ergonomic keyboards (Changelog Interviews #608) Sep 12, 2024

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Erez Zukerman shares the story of launching the ErgoDox EZ on Indiegogo (May 2015), what it takes to create customizable ergonomic keyboards, the benefits of split keyboards and custom key layouts, repairability and longevity, community engagement, and the attention to detail required in everything they create. We talk through their keyboard lineup, our personal experience with how we mouse and keyboard…we cover it all.

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Erez Zukerman – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

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ErgoDox EZ
Changelog Interviews #582: We have a right to repair! with Kyle Wiens (iFixit)
FairPhone
ZSA.io
DIY trackpad for the Voyager
How to spray paint your keyboard
ZSA cards
Linus Tech Tips - Ergodox EZ Review
Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic Keyboard
Pagat.com - A website dedicated to cards and card games.
Ergodox EZ on Indiegogo

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Cybersecurity in the GenAI age (Practical AI #286) Sep 11, 2024

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Dinis Cruz drops by to chat about cybersecurity for generative AI and large language models. In addition to discussing The Cyber Boardroom, Dinis also delves into cybersecurity efforts at OWASP and that organization’s Top 10 for LLMs and Generative AI Apps.

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

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Home automation with Go (Go Time #330) Sep 10, 2024

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Join Johnny as he dives into the world of home automation with Ricardo Gerardi & Mike Riley, two tinkerers who’ve taken the plunge with Go. We explore the challenges (and the fun) they encounter along the way. If you’re interested in automating your home (or working with micro controllers) come learn how to get started!

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Johnny Boursiquot – Twitter, GitHub, Website

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Automate your home with Go from Pragmatic Publishers
Powerful Command-Line Applications in Go from Pragmatic Publishers
TinyGo - A Go Compiler For Small Places
Gitea - Private, Fast, Reliable DevOps Platform

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Is Linux collapsing under its own weight? (Changelog News #111) Sep 09, 2024

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A Rust for Linux developer resigns amidst rising tension in the Linux community, Bret Victor shows off what he’s been working on for years, Rachel (by the bay) laments how useless “SRE” has become as a role, Doug Turnbull makes the case for hiring junior devs & Baldur Bjarnason says the LLM honeymoon phase is about to end.

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Starbucks DVD peddlers (Changelog & Friends #60) Sep 06, 2024

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Emily Freeman joins the show alongside our Ship It co-host, Justin Garrison! We hear Emily’s burnout story & learn how she and Forrest Brazeal are putting tech-focused influencers on tap. But first: area code turf wars, bad movie reboots & buying used DVDs… at Starbucks?!

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

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Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Learning & teaching networking & AI (Ship It! #120) Sep 06, 2024

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Du’An Lightfoot, dev advocate at AWS, joins Justin & Autumn to discuss networking, a knowledge gap people many people have. You can ignore the things you don’t understand or you can invest time to learn it.

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Autumn Nash – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

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Interview

Llama 3 white paper

The Llama 3 Herd of Models

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Don’t ever use these TypeScript features (JS Party #337) Sep 05, 2024

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Jerod, Nick & Chris discuss a next-gen JavaScript bundler, Node getting even tighter with TypeScript, the top programming languages according to IEEE Spectrum, Chris’ feelings on Node’s built-in test runner & more!

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

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Open source threaded team chat?! (Changelog Interviews #607) Sep 05, 2024

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We’re joined by Alya Abbott from Zulip, the open source, organized, threaded, team chat for distributed teams of all sizes. We talk about Zulip’s origins, how it’s open source, the way it’s led, no VC funding, what makes it different/better, how you can self-host it or use their cloud, moving to Zulip, contributing and being a part of the community…all the things.

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

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Zulip - the open source, organized, threaded, team chat for distributed teams of all sizes
chat.zulip.org
Moving to Zulip
zulip/zulip-terminal
zulip/docker-zulip
Flutter.dev

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AI is more than GenAI (Practical AI #285) Sep 05, 2024

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GenAI is often what people think of when someone mentions AI. However, AI is much more. In this episode, Daniel breaks down a history of developments in data science, machine learning, AI, and GenAI in this episode to give listeners a better mental model. Don’t miss this one if you are wanting to understand the AI ecosystem holistically and how models, embeddings, data, prompts, etc. all fit together.

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