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Aha moments reading Go's source: Part 2 (Go Time #324) Jul 24, 2024

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Jesús Espino from Mattermost tells Natalie all about (the final four of) his 10 “aha moments” he had reading the Go source code. Don’t miss Part 1!

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Southwest flies high over CrowdStrike outage (Changelog News #104) Jul 22, 2024

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Brendan Gregg details how eBPF can help us have no more blue Fridays, Misty De Meo thinks GitHub is starting to feel like legacy software, Gavin D. Howard does not want Rust to be used for everything, The Notion team published a deep dive into how they used the WASM version of SQLite to improve browser performance & Gregor Ojstersek writes up how to build good relationships inside and outside your engineering teams.

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There’s a TUI for that (Changelog & Friends #53) Jul 19, 2024

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Nick Janetakis is back and this time we’re talking about TUIs (text-based user interfaces) — some we’ve tried and some we plan to try. All are collected from Justin Garrison’s Awesome TUIs repo on GitHub. This episode is “AI free.”

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Justin Garrison’s awesome-tuis repo
aristocratos/bashtop - Linux/OSX/FreeBSD resource monitor
aristocratos/btop - A monitor of resources
“Getting started with tmux” on YouTube
Changelog Interviews #511: The terminal as a platform (with Will McGugan)
LazyDocker - manage everything Docker
Superfile - fancy and modern terminal file manager
Ranger - VIM-inspired filemanager
Elia - TUI for interacting with large language models
Atuin - Making your shell magical
Warp - the terminal reimagined

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GitLab's infrastructure (Ship It! #113) Jul 19, 2024

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GitLab has changed a lot over the past 8 years and so has Abubakar. Starting in the help desk he’s seen a lot and takes us through GitLab’s and his progression.

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Interview

Gitlab’s helm chart

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Building LLM agents in JS (JS Party #331) Jul 18, 2024

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KBall and returning guest Tejas Kumar dive into the topic of building LLM agents using JavaScript. What they are, how they can be useful (including how Tejas used home-built agents to double his podcasting productivity) & how to get started building and running your own agents, even all on your own device with local models.

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Aha moments reading Go's source: Part 1 (Go Time #323) Jul 18, 2024

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Jesús Espino from Mattermost tells Natalie all about (the first six of) his 10 “aha moments” he had reading the Go source code. Part 2 (with the rest of his aha moments) coming soon!

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The first real-time voice assistant (Practical AI #278) Jul 18, 2024

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In the midst of the demos & discussion about OpenAI’s GPT-4o voice assistant, Kyutai swooped in to release the first real-time AI voice assistant model and a pretty slick demo (Moshi). Chris & Daniel discuss what this more open approach to a voice assistant might catalyze. They also discuss recent changes to Gartner’s ranking of GenAI on their hype cycle.

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What even is the modern data stack (Changelog Interviews #600) Jul 17, 2024

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Benn Stancil’s weekly Substack on data and technology provides a fascinating perspective on the modern data stack & the industry building it. On this episode, Benn joins Jerod to dissect a few of his essays, discuss opportunities he sees during this slowdown & explain why he thinks maybe we should disband the analytics team.

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The six dumbest ideas in computer security (Changelog News #103) Jul 15, 2024

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Marcus J. Ranum’s 2005 post on dumb ideas in computer security still holds up, Barry Jones argues why story points are useless, Posting is an HTTP client as a TUI, Varnish ceator Poul-Henning Kamp (phk) reflects on ten years of working on the HTTP cache & es-tookit is a major upgrade to Lodash.

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Last DevRel standing (Changelog & Friends #52) Jul 12, 2024

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Shawn “swyx” Wang is back to talk with us about the state of DevRel according to ZIRP (the Zero Interest Rate Phenomenon), the data that backs up the rise and fall of job openings, whether or not DevRel is dead or dying, speculation of the near-term arrival of AGI, AI Engineering as the last job standing, the innovation from Cognition with Devin as well as their mis-steps during Devin’s launch, and what’s to come in the next innovation round of AI.

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