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Share your terminal with anyone on the web (Changelog News #70) Nov 13, 2023

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sshx lets you share your terminal with anyone on a multiplayer infinite canvas, Herbert Lui writes three things about your competitors, Anton Medvedev’s fx is a terminal JSON viewer & processor, Danny Castonguay shares advice on attending large conferences & Jeremy Pinto’s experimental RAGTheDocs project is working toward an exciting reality.

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Backslashes are trash (Changelog & Friends #21) Nov 11, 2023

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Mat Ryer returns with his guitar, an unpopular opinion & his favorite internet virus.

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ILOVEYOU - Wikipedia
Samy (computer worm) - Wikipedia
MySpace Worm Explanation
The Net (1995) - IMDb
Renfield (2023) - IMDb
The Rock (1996) - IMDb
Adaptation. (2002) - IMDb

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Pushing back on unconstrained capitalism (Changelog Interviews #565) Nov 10, 2023

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This week we’re talking with Cory Doctorow (this episode contains explicit language) about how we can get back to that “new good internet.” Cory’s new book The Internet Con offers a lens to this conversation about disenshittifying the internet through anti-trust laws, limits on corporate tweaking, regulating unconstrained capitalism, and all the ways enshittification is enabled. Cory also shares his experience recording his own audio book under the direction of Gabrielle de Cuir at Skyboat Media, and what’s to come from his next Science Fiction book The Lost Cause.

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Best of the fest! Volume 2 (JS Party #300) Nov 10, 2023

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JS Party listeners and panelists celebrate great moments from the last 100 episodes! You’ll hear from 14 of our favorite humans (and 1 horse) across 11 episodes. Here’s to our first 300 episodes and the next 300 as well. 🥂

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Horse JS – Twitter
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Jarvis Yang – GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Justin Fagnani – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Josh Collinsworth – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Brian Zelip – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Rich Harris – Twitter, GitHub
Erick Wendel – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Alex Miller – Mastodon, Twitter
Jonathan Creamer – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Amal Hussein – Twitter, GitHub
Nick Nisi – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website
Kevin Ball – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Christopher Hiller – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website

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Principles of simplicity (Go Time #296) Nov 08, 2023

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Rob Pike says, “Simplicity is the art of hiding complexity.” If that’s true, what is simplicity in the context of writing software in Go? Is it even something we should strive for? Can software be too simple? Ian & Kris discuss with return guest sam boyer.

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Government regulation of AI has arrived (Practical AI #244) Nov 07, 2023

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On Monday, October 30, 2023, the U.S. White House issued its Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence. Two days later, a policy paper was issued by the U.K. government entitled The Bletchley Declaration by Countries Attending the AI Safety Summit, 1-2 November 2023. It was signed by 29 countries, including the United States and China, the global leaders in AI research.

In this Fully Connected episode, Daniel and Chris parse the details and highlight key takeaways from these documents, especially the extensive and detailed executive order, which has the force of law in the United States.

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How to write a good comment (Changelog News #69) Nov 06, 2023

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David Hugh-Jones has a lot to say about what makes a good comment, Hugging Face released a distilled variant of Whisper for speech recognition, The New Stack reports on C++ creator Bjarne Stroustrup’s plan for bringing safety to the language, Jeff Sandberg declares that CSS is fun again & Jose M. Gilgado praises the beauty of finished software.

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Beat freak in residence (Changelog & Friends #20) Nov 03, 2023

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We’re joined this week by the beat freak in residence himself, the mysterious Breakmaster Cylinder. Listen along as we talk about how we make our beats, what inspires us for our music, and some behind the scenes on our latest albums.

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Our Albums

Next Level: Buy on Apple Music or Bandcamp. Stream on Spotify or Apple Music.
Theme Songs: Buy on Apple Music or Bandcamp. Stream on Spotify or Apple Music.

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Helping people enter, stay & thrive in tech (JS Party #299) Nov 03, 2023

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Valerie Phoenix from Tech By Choice joins Amal & Kball to tell them all about her non-profit that’s passionate about helping people interested in technology, no matter their experience level.

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Amal Hussein – Twitter, GitHub
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Tech By Choice

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Observing the power of APIs (Changelog Interviews #564) Nov 02, 2023

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Jean Yang’s research on programming languages at Carnegie Mellon led her to realize that APIs are the layer that makes or breaks quality software systems. Unfortunately, developers are underserved by tools for dealing with, securing & understanding APIs.

That realization led her to found Akita Software, which led her to join Postman by way of acquisition. That move, at least in part, also led her to join us on this very podcast. We think you’re going to enjoy this interview, we sure did.

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