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Into the Fediverse (Changelog Interviews #528) Feb 24, 2023

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This week Evan Prodromou is back to take us deeper into the Fediverse. As many of us reconsider our relationship with Twitter, Mastodon has been by-and-large the target of migration. They helped to popularize the idea of a federated universe of community-owned, decentralized, social networks. And, at the heart of it all is ActivityPub. ActivityPub is a decentralized social networking protocol published by the W3C. It is co-authored by Evan as well as; Christine Lemmer-Webber, Jessica Tallon, Erin Shepherd, and Amy Guy. Today, Evan shares the details behind this protocol and where the Fediverse might be heading.

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Evan Prodromou – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website
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Frontend Feud: CSS Podcast vs @keyframers (JS Party #264) Feb 24, 2023

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Una & Adam from The CSS Podcast defend their Frontend Feud title against challengers David & Shaw from the keyframers. Let’s get it on!

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Una Kravets – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website
Adam Argyle – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website
David Khourshid – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Shaw – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

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Applied NLP solutions & AI education (Practical AI #212) Feb 22, 2023

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We’re super excited to welcome Jay Alammar to the show. Jay is a well-known AI educator, applied NLP practitioner at co:here, and author of the popular blog, “The Illustrated Transformer.” In this episode, he shares his ideas on creating applied NLP solutions, working with large language models, and creating educational resources for state-of-the-art AI.

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

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Sidney Bing, Elk for Mastodon, writing an engineering strategy, what's next for core-js & cool tool lightning round (Changelog News #32) Feb 20, 2023

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Simon Willison rounds up the goings on around Microsoft’s new GPT-powered Bing search, The Vue/Vite team build a nimble web client for Mastodon, Will Larson writes about writing an engineering strategy, Denis Pushkarev seeks support to maintain core-js & I share a lightning round of cool tools I’ve found and used recently. ⚡️

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Web development's lost decade (JS Party #263) Feb 17, 2023

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Amal sits down for a one-on-one with Alex Russell, Microsoft Partner on the Edge team, and former Web Standards Tech Lead for Chrome, whose recent post, The Market for Lemons, stirred up a BIG conversation in the web development community.

Have we really lost a decade in potential progress? What happened? Where do we go from here?

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Amal Hussein – Twitter, GitHub

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What it takes to scale engineering (Changelog Interviews #527) Feb 17, 2023

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This week we’re talking to Rachel Potvin, former VP of Engineering at GitHub about what it takes to scale engineering. Rachel says it’s a game-changer when engineering scales beyond 100 people. So we asked to her to share everything she has learned in her career of leading and scaling engineering.

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

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Rachel adores EngFlow (investor and advisor)
Rachel’s 2016 paper on Google’s developer infrastructure
Harvard Business Review on Psychological Safety

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What's new in Go 1.20 (Go Time #267) Feb 16, 2023

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Our “what’s new in Go” correspondent Carl Johnson joins Mat & Johnny to discuss… what’s new in Go 1.20, of course! What’d you expect, an episode about Rust?! That’s preposterous…

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Gerhard & Tim — **Rust efficiencies at AWS scale (Ship It! #89)** Feb 16, 2023
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Tim McNamara is known as New Zealand’s Rust guy. He is the author of Rust in Action, and also a Senior Software Engineer at AWS, where he helps other builders with all things Rust.

The main reason why Gerhard is intrigued by Rust is the incredible resource frugality. Fewer CPUs means less energy used, which is good for the planet, and good for the monthly bill. This becomes most noticeable at Amazon’s scale, when S3, Lambda, CloudFront and other services start adding Rust components.

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Gerhard Lazu – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
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📝 Why Discord is Switching from Go to Rust

🎬 Rust is interesting, but does it really make sense for me? - AWS re:Invent 2022 - Tim McNamara

📝 Optimizing 700 CPUs Away With Rust - Alan Ning, SRE at Tenable.io

📊 Lambda Cold Starts analysis by maxday

📝 Sustainability with Rust - AWS Open Source Blog

📝 How automated reasoning helps Amazon S3 innovate at scale - S3 ShardStore Rust

Rust on AWS

Rust Nation 2023

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Serverless GPUs (Practical AI #211) Feb 14, 2023

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We’ve been hearing about “serverless” CPUs for some time, but it’s taken a while to get to serverless GPUs. In this episode, Erik from Banana explains why its taken so long, and he helps us understand how these new workflows are unlocking state-of-the-art AI for application developers. Forget about servers, but don’t forget to listen to this one!

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

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Banana - Scale your machine learning inference and training on serverless GPUs.

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Load testing a $4 VPS, TOML for .env files, counting unique visitors sans cookies, the Arc browser & a love letter to Deno (Changelog News #31) Feb 13, 2023

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Alice Girard Guittard finds out how much she could you really get out of a $4 VPS, Brett Cannon wonders if using TOML for .env files is a good idea, Nic Mulvaney details how they count unique visitors to a website without using cookies, UIDS, or fingerprinting, after a few months, Chris Coyier is still using the Arc browser & Alex Kladov pens a love letter to Deno.

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