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Engineering management (for the rest of us) (Changelog Interviews #540) May 17, 2023

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This week Sarah Drasner joins us to talk about her book Engineering Management for the Rest of Us and her experience leading engineering at Zillow, Microsoft, Netlify, and now Google.

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

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Creating instruction tuned models (Practical AI #223) May 16, 2023

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At the recent ODSC East conference, Daniel got a chance to sit down with Erin Mikail Staples to discuss the process of gathering human feedback and creating an instruction tuned Large Language Models (LLM). They also chatted about the importance of open data and practical tooling for data annotation and fine-tuning. Do you want to create your own custom generative AI models? This is the episode for you!

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Typesense – Lightning fast, globally distributed Search-as-a-Service that runs in memory. You literally can’t get any faster!

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Erin Mikail Staples – Mastodon, Twitter
Daniel Whitenack – Twitter, GitHub, Website

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Syncthing, Thunderbird, Baseline & vector databases (Changelog News #44) May 15, 2023

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Thunderbird is thriving on small donations, Syncthing is a super-cool continuous file sync program, LLMs are so hot right now and they’re making vectors hot by proxy & MDN defines a Baseline for stable web features.

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Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Making web art the hard way (JS Party #275) May 12, 2023

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Developer slash artist Alex Miller joins Jerod & Amelia to discuss the challenge he faced after deciding to eschew fancy frameworks and libraries in favor of vanilla JS to build an interactive essay called Grid World for the html review.

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Alex Miller – Mastodon, Twitter
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
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HallwayConf! A new style of conference (Go Time #276) May 12, 2023

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Conferences are an integral part of the Go community, but the experience of conferences has remained the same even as the value propositions change. In this episode we discuss what conferences generally provide, how value propositions have changed, and what changes conference organizers could make to realign their conference experience to a new set of value propositions.

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Andy Walker – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Kris Brandow – Twitter, GitHub
Angelica Hill – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Ian Lopshire – Twitter, GitHub

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The last mile of AI app development (Practical AI #222) May 11, 2023

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There are a ton of problems around building LLM apps in production and the last mile of that problem. Travis Fischer, builder of open AI projects like @ChatGPTBot, joins us to talk through these problems (and how to overcome them). He helps us understand the hierarchy of complexity from simple prompting to augmentation, agents, and fine-tuning. Along the way we discuss the frontend developer community that is rapidly adopting AI technology via Typescript (not Python).

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Travis Fischer – Twitter, GitHub
Chris Benson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Daniel Whitenack – Twitter, GitHub, Website

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How companies are sponsoring OSS (Changelog Interviews #539) May 10, 2023

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This week we’re celebrating Maintainer Month along with our friends at GitHub. Open source runs the world, but who runs open source? Maintainers. Open source maintainers are behind the software we use everyday, but they don’t always have the community or support they need. That’s why we’re celebrating open source maintainers during the month of May. Today’s conversation features Alyssa Wright (Bloomberg), Chad Whitacre (Sentry), and Duane O’Brien (Creator of the FOSS Contributor Fund and framework). We get into all the details, the why, the hows, and the struggles involved for companies to support open source.

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DevCycle – Build better software with DevCycle. Feature flags, without the tech debt. DevCycle is a Feature Flag Management platform designed to help you build maintainable code at scale.
Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs.

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Chad Whitacre – Twitter, GitHub
Alyssa Wright – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

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We’re at Open Source Summit North America 2022 this week. If you’re there, come see us at the Maintainer Month booth in the expo area.

FOSS Funders (fossfunders.com) - Working together to fund open source.
Maintainer Month
Bloomberg Launches FOSS Fund to Support Free and Open Source Projects
Bloomberg Corporate Philanthropy
Hire My Team
Changelog Interviews #392: Indeed’s FOSS Contributor Fund with Duane O’Brien
Sovereign Tech Fund
Changelog Interviews #490: Schneier on security for tomorrow’s software
Investing in Open Source: The FOSS Contributor Fund by Duane O’Brien, Mandy Grover
Changelog Interviews #515: ANTHOLOGY — Advocating for and supporting open source

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Mojo might be huge, chatbots aren't it, big tech lacks an AI moat & monoliths are not dinosaurs (Changelog News #43) May 08, 2023

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Jeremy Howard thinks Mojo might be the biggest programming language advance in decades, Amelia Wattenberger is not impressed by AI chatbots, a leaked Google memo admits big tech has no AI moats & Werner Vogels reminds us that monoliths are not dinosaurs.

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Selling to Enterprise (Founders Talk #96) May 05, 2023

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This week Adam is joined by Michael Grinich, Founder & CEO at WorkOS. Michael shares his journey to build WorkOS, what it takes to cross the Enterprise Chasm, and how he’s building his sales organization for growth.

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Postman – Build APIs together — More than 20 million developers use Postman for building and using APIs. Postman simplifies each step of the API lifecycle and streamlines collaboration so you can create better APIs—faster.
DevCycle – Build better software with DevCycle. Feature flags, without the tech debt. DevCycle is a Feature Flag Management platform designed to help you build maintainable code at scale.
Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com

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Michael Grinich – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

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SST and OpenNext (JS Party #274) May 05, 2023

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Dax Raad joins KBall and Nick to chat about SST, a framework that makes it easier to build full-stack applications on AWS. We chat about how the project got started and its goals. Then we discuss OpenNext, an open source, framework-agnostic server less adapter for Next.js.

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KBall Coaching – Free exploratory coaching sessions from JS Party co-host KBall! Click here to get started
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Dax Raad – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Nick Nisi – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website
Kevin Ball – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

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