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Is it too late to opt out of AI? (Changelog & Friends #46) May 31, 2024

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Tech lawyer Luis Villa returns to answer our most pressing questions: what’s up with all these new content deals? How did Google think it was a good idea to ship AI Summaries in its current state? Is it too late to opt out of AI? We also discuss AI in Hollywood (spoilers!), positive things we’re seeing (or hoping for) & Upstream 2024 (June 5th)!

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Is Wasm the new Java? (Ship It! #106) May 31, 2024

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Danielle Lancashire is here to tell us how Fermyon cloud is built on top of nomad and EC2 and how they put it in a box with Kubernetes and WebAssembly.

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WTA: What The Acronym

ASM - Assembly
WASM - WebAssembly. Came from asm.js from Mozilla
AOT - ahead of time compilation
JIT - just in time compilation
WASI - WebAssembly system interface. Types: io, clocks, random, filesystem, sockets, cli, http
WIT - WebAssembly Interface Type
Wasmer - by wasmer company
WAPM - WebAssembly Package Manager
Wasmtime - Bytecode alliance (amazon, cisco, arm, docker, intel microsoft)

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11ty goes fully independent (JS Party #325) May 30, 2024

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11ty creator Zach Leatherman is taking the open source site generator fully independent in 2024 and he’s back on the pod to tell us why, how & what we all can do to help.

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Microsoft is all-in on AI: Part 1 (Changelog Interviews #593) May 30, 2024

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Scott Guthrie joins the show this week from Microsoft Build 2024 to discuss Microsoft being all-in on AI. From Copilot, to Azure AI and Prompty, to their developer first focus, leading GitHub, VS Code being the long bet that paid off, to the future of a doctor’s bedside manner assisted with AI. Microsoft is all-in on AI and Build 2024’s discussions and announcements proves it.

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microsoft/prompty

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Your ultimate guide to mastering Go (Go Time #317) May 29, 2024

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Angelica is joined by Samantha Coyle to talk about her newly published textbook: Go Programming - From Beginner to Professional. This book serves as a go-to guide to master Go for real-world software dev success covering fundamentals to advanced topics.

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Go Programming - From Beginner to Professional

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AI in the U.S. Congress (Practical AI #271) May 29, 2024

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At the age of 72, U.S. Representative Don Beyer of Virginia enrolled at GMU to pursue a Master’s degree in C.S. with a concentration in Machine Learning.

Rep. Beyer is Vice Chair of the bipartisan Artificial Intelligence Caucus & Vice Chair of the NDC’s AI Working Group. He is the author of the AI Foundation Model Transparency Act & a lead cosponsor of the CREATE AI Act, the Federal Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Act & the Artificial Intelligence Environmental Impacts Act.

We hope you tune into this inspiring, nonpartisan conversation with Rep. Beyer about his decision to dive into the deep end of the AI pool & his leadership in bringing that expertise to Capitol Hill.

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Why you shouldn't use AI to write your tests (Changelog News #96) May 28, 2024

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Swizec’s article on not using AI to writes tests, LlamaFs is a self-organizing file system with Llama 3, a Pew Research analysis confirmed that the internet is full of broken links, Sam Rose built a spectacular interactive study of queueing strategies & Jordan Cutler shares a real-life experience of him writing clear/readable code… and it backfiring.

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It's a long & windy road (Changelog & Friends #45) May 24, 2024

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We kick off our Microsoft Build 2024 “coverage” in this free-wheelin’ conversation with our friend, Shaundai Person! We’re talking Netflix infra, we’re talking sales, we’re talking real-world AI usage, we’re talking career choices…. What’s a good next step? Listen in!

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Tars all the way down (Ship It! #105) May 24, 2024

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Jon “gzip enthusiast” Johnson joins us for a history lesson on compression & how it impacts everything from containers to Alpine.

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Claude Shannon

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Big Gulps, huh? (JS Party #324) May 23, 2024

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Jerod & KBall discuss what’s new in the world of web development: the State of HTML survey results, Node 22, React Compiler, React 19 Beta, vlt.sh & the Gulp (!) Developer Survey.

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