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Soft deletion, obscure data structures, driving away your best engineers, a blog platform for hackers & moar RSS (Changelog News #5) Jul 25, 2022

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Brandur thinks soft deletion probably isn’t worth it, the orange website delivers a high quality discussion on data structures, Podge O’Brien drops satirical management advice, team pico delivers prose.sh, Mat Ryer shares his thoughts on estimations & Matt Rickard’s thoughts on RSS have us thinking about it as well.

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From WeWork to upskilling at Wilco (Changelog Interviews #498) Jul 24, 2022

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This week we’re joined by On Freund, former VP of Engineering at WeWork and now co-founder & CEO of Wilco. WeWork you may have heard of, but Wilco maybe not (yet).

We get into the details behind the tech and scaling of WeWork, comparisons of the fictional series on Apple TV+ called WeCrashed and how much of that is true. Then we move on to Wilco which is what has On’s full attention right now. Wilco has the potential to be the next big thing for developers to acquire new skills. Wilco aims to be the ultimate simulator to gain new skills on a real-life tech stack. If you want to skip ahead, you can request access at trywilco.com/changelog — they are moving our listeners to the top of the waiting list.

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Frontend Feud: ShopTalk vs CSS Podcast (JS Party #235) Jul 22, 2022

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What’s this? A Frontend Feud! The ShopTalk guys return to defend their championship over Syntax against new contenders: Una and Adam from The CSS Podcast!

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Chris Coyier – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Dave Rupert – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Una Kravets – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website
Adam Argyle – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Amelia Wattenberger – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Nick Nisi – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website

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Watch the video on our YouTube channel
Shout out to Una’s Twitter!
Shout out to OneWheel!
Shout out to ShopTalk Show!
Shout out to The CSS Podcast!
Shout out to JS Party?

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Go for beginners ♻️ (Go Time #239) Jul 21, 2022

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How do beginners learn Go? This episode is meant to engage both non-Go users that listen to sister podcasts here on Changelog, or any Go-curious programmers out there, as well as encourage those that have started to learn Go and want to level up beyond the basics. On this episode we’re aiming to answer questions about how to learn Go, identify resources that are available, and where you can go to continue your learning journey.

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FireHydrant – The reliability platform for every developer. Incidents impact everyone, not just SREs. FireHydrant gives teams the tools to maintain service catalogs, respond to incidents, communicate through status pages, and learn with retrospectives. Small teams up to 10 people can get started for free with all FireHydrant features included. No credit card required to sign up. Learn more at firehydrant.io
Akuity – Akuity is a new platform (founded by Argo co-creators) that brings fully-managed Argo CD and enterprise services to the cloud or on premise. They’re inviting our listeners to join the closed beta at akuity.io/changelog. The platform is a versatile Kubernetes operator for handling cluster deployments the GitOps way. Deploy your apps instantly and monitor their state — get minimum overhead, maximum impact, and enterprise readiness from day one.
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Carmen Andoh – Twitter, GitHub
Ashley Willis – Twitter, GitHub
Jon Calhoun – Twitter, GitHub, Website

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A gentle Introduction to Golang for Beginners
CLI for Beginners
Gophercises
Lambda School was mentioned + Austen Allred (CEO & co-founder of Lambda School) was on Founders Talk recently
Turing — a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that operates almost entirely on student tuition
“programming today is more about knowing of libraries (pkgs) and gluing them together”
Richard Feynman on Wikipedia
Julia Evans’ zines
JS Party #60: You might want to read up on PAW Patrol
JustForFunc
First timers only
Your first PR
#golang-newbies on Gopher Slack
On-the-Job Programming Language Learning Survey for Developers
Learn Go with Tests

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Gerhard & Gary — **Operational simplicity is a gift to you (Ship It! #62)** Jul 20, 2022
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Gerhard’s transition to a senior engineer started 10 years ago, when he embraced the vim mindset, functional core & imperative shell, and was inspired to seek simplicity in his code & infrastructure. Most of it can be traced back to one person: Gary Bernhardt, the creator of Execute Program, Destroy all Software and the now famous Wat idea.

Few stick around long enough to understand the long-term impact of their decisions on production systems. Even fewer are able to talk about them as well as Gary does.

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🎧 Why we 💚 Vim - changelog.fm/450

Execute Program - Learn it. Code it. Remember it.

Destroy all Software - Everyday programming tools built from scratch

🎬 Wat talk - A lightning talk by Gary Bernhardt from CodeMash 2012

Gary tweets June 1, 2022
I just needed a small new feature to finish the task I was doing. It took 3 minutes to write the code, then 9 minutes for CI and deploy, so it was live in production 12 minutes after I realized I needed it. Can’t imagine working any other way.

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DALL-E is one giant leap for raccoons! 🔭 (Practical AI #185) Jul 19, 2022

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In this Fully-Connected episode, Daniel and Chris explore DALL-E 2, the amazing new model from Open AI that generates incredibly detailed novel images from text captions for a wide range of concepts expressible in natural language. Along the way, they acknowledge that some folks in the larger AI community are suggesting that sophisticated models may be approaching sentience, but together they pour cold water on that notion. But they can’t seem to get away from DALL-E’s images of raccoons in space, and of course, who would want to?

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

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Adam's Revel Rascal (2022) — **Building the best mountain bikes in the world (Founders Talk #93)** Jul 19, 2022
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This week Adam is taking the show off the beaten path to speak with Adam Miller, the founder and CEO of Revel Bikes. Yes that’s right, this episode features a founder of a bike brand, not a tech brand.

Adam Miller’s journey to create Revel Bikes is paved with many ups and many downs, a failed partnership, super scrappy weeks and months traveling the world to find the best manufacturing partners, the latest innovations in suspension tech and modern geometry to hit the mountain biking scene, a strong team that’s been with him every step of the way (many of which are as close as family), and truly some of the best premium bikes available on the market today.

BTW, Adam (host) is an owner of a Revel bike — he has a T1000 colorway Rascal that he’s ridden on downhill trails, all-day epics, and everything in-between. If you enjoy this episode, please us know in the comments.

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Revel Bikes + about Revel Bikes

Revel Bikes - HQ Tour & Behind The Brand

First Ride: Revel’s Rail Enduro Bike is an Impressive Debut

Revel Bikes CBF Suspension - EXPLAINED!

Revel Rail29 - The New Long Travel 29er From Revel Bikes

Adam's Revel Rascal (circa 2022)

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Spicy designs, more open source opinions, privacy-focused services, the real cost of context switching & jqq (Changelog News #4) Jul 18, 2022

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Anthony Hobday has 37 ways to spice up your designs, James Bennett has opinions on open source and PyPi security, Alicia Sykes compiled some awesome security/privacy options, ContextKeeper layouts out the real price of context switching, and Nick Nisi tells us all about jqq. Bam! Bam! Bam!

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Build tiny multi-platform apps with Tauri and web tech (Changelog Interviews #497) Jul 15, 2022

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This week we’re talking with Daniel Thompson about Tauri and their journey to their recent 1.0 release. Tauri is often compared to Electron - it’s a toolkit that lets you build software for all major desktop operating systems using web technologies. It was built for the security-focused, privacy-respecting, and environmentally-conscious software engineering community. The core libraries are written in Rust and the UI layer can be written using virtually any frontend framework. We get into all the details, why Rust, how the project was formed, their resistance (thus far) to venture capital, their full commitment to the freedom virtues of open source, and all the technical bits you need to know to consider it for your next multi-platform project.

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Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
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Deno's Fresh new web framework (JS Party #234) Jul 15, 2022

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Deno team member Luca Casonato joins Jerod & Feross to tell us about Fresh – a next generation web framework, built for speed, reliability, and simplicity.

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