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130: Ethical Hacking with Ted Harrington Mar 28, 2022

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"Hacking" is a word that evokes awe from the public, laughter from developers, and pure fear from technology leaders. But what really is hacking? What does trust really mean and how do we acquire and keep trust on the Internet? It turns out that, while hacking is associated with computers, the methods behind it have been around since the dawn of time. Today we have Ted Harrington from ISE to dive deep into hacking, all the way from the medieval times to today.

00:00:15 Intro

00:01:25 Introducing Ted Harrington

00:07:10 Ethical Hackers, Non-Ethical Hackers, and Productivity

00:11:58 Starting out in Ethical Hacking/Security

00:14:40 Imposter Syndrome

00:19:34 What is Hacking?

00:30:48 Is Hacking like magic?

00:38:14 Defense in Depth

00:42:04 Earning trust and The Departed movie (Spoiler alert)

00:59:52 DEF CON® Hacking Conference

01:02:46 Tips on how not to get hacked

01:10:08 ISE.io culture and opportunities

01:24:13 Farewells

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Companies:

ISE (Independent Security Evaluators)

o Website: https://www.ise.io/

o LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/independent-security-evaluators

o Twitter: https://twitter.com/ISEsecurity

o Facebook: https://facebook.com/ISE.infosec

People:

Ted Harrington

o Website: https://www.tedharrington.com/

o LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/securityted/

o Twitter: https://twitter.com/SecurityTed

o Book: https://www.amazon.com/Hackable-How-Application-Security-Right/dp/154451767X

Sponsor:

MParticle

o Website: https://www.mparticle.com/

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Episode 129 - Web3.0: Breaking free from the Client Server Model with Michelle Lee Mar 14, 2022

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Brief Summary:

What is Web 3.0? Guest speaker Michelle Lee, Product Lead of Protocol Labs, shares how web 3.0 will revolutionize the Internet and bring trust back into the web.

00:00:25 Introduction

00:01:36 Michelle Lee’s career

00:03:10 What is human-computer interaction?

00:04:55 The Google Sheets user experience

00:06:19 Google Checkout, user feedback, and emails

00:10:23 Code for America

00:13:47 The real power of Open Source

00:14:14 Web 3.0

00:23:04 IPFS network accessibility

00:26:14 How does IPFS handle bogus content?

00:38:56 Network storage costs

00:43:03 Privacy and identification on IPFS

00:45:23 Content moderation from the Web 3.0 perspective

00:49:48 Audius

00:54:20 Protocol Labs and IPFS

00:55:26 Working with Protocol Labs

01:05:00 Farewells

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Companies:

Protocol Labs:
- Website: https://protocol.ai/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/protocollabs
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/protocollabs/
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/ProtocolLabs
- Filecoin: https://filecoin.io/
- Hackathons @ Protocol Labs: https://hackathons.filecoin.io/
- Course Learning @ Protocol Labs: https://proto.school/
Metamask:
- https://metamask.io/
Fleek:
- Website: https://fleek.co/
- Space Storage: https://fleek.co/storage/
Estuary:
- Website: https://estuary.tech/
Audius:
- Website: https://audius.co/

Social Media:

Michelle Lee, Product at Protocol Labs
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/mishmosh
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michellelee3

Sponsor:

Rollbar
- Website: https://rollbar.com/
- Freebies: https://try.rollbar.com/pt/

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128: WebAssembly with Kevin Hoffman Feb 28, 2022

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Summary:

What is WebAssembly? Guest speaker Kevin Hoffman, CTO of Cosmonic shares what WebAssembly is, why it exists, and what kind of things you can do with it.

Notes:

00:00:16 Introduction

00:00:52 Cosmonic during COVID

00:02:45 Kevin Hoffman’s career and Cosmonic’s begginings

00:12:39 WebAssembly integrations

00:16:20 What is WebAssembly?

00:27:30 The developer experience

00:30:30 WebAssembly, JSON, and other object interactions

00:36:35 Rollbar

00:41:08 Compiler linking

00:49:27 wasmCloud

00:54:21 Decoupling clouds

01:01:51 Cosmonic fostering wasmCloud/WebAssembly

01:03:28 Cosmonic as a company

01:09:33 Opportunities at Cosmonic

01:13:03 Farewells

Resources mentioned in this episode:
Companies:

Cosmonic
Website: https://cosmonic.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/cosmonic
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cosmonic-corp/

People:

Kevin Hoffman, Chief Technology Officer at Cosmonic
Twitter: https://twitter.com/KevinHoffman
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/%F0%9F%A6%80-kevin-hoffman-9252669/

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127: AI for Code with Eran Yahav Feb 14, 2022

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Brief Summary:

Programming is difficult as it is, but imagine how difficult it was without all the current tools, compilers, synthesizers, etc. that we have today. Eran Yahav, Chief Technology Officer at Tabnine shares how AI is currently helping with code writing and how it could change in the future.

00:00:16 Introduction

00:00:51 Eran Yahav’s programming background

00:08:11 Balance between Human and the Machine

00:11:49 Static Analysis

00:29:42 Similarities in Programming Constructs

00:25:30 Average vs Tailored tooling

00:36:19 Machine Learning Quality Metrics

00:38:27 Rollbar

00:40:19 Model Training vs Statistic Matching

00:50:19 Developers Interacting with their Code in the Future

01:00:18 Tabnine

01:08:17 Farewells

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Companies:

Tabnine:
- Website: https://www.tabnine.com/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/Tabnine_
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tabnine/

Social Media:

Eran Yahav, Chief Technology Officer at Tabnine
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/yahave
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eranyahav/

Sponsor:

Rollbar
- Website: https://rollbar.com/
- Freebies: https://try.rollbar.com/pt/

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126 - Serverless Computing with Erez Berkner Jan 24, 2022

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Brief Summary:

Erez Berkner, CEO of Lumigo, talks about his company, going serverless, and why you should too. He shares his experience and tips regarding serverless computing and its ever-growing opportunities in modern computing.

00:00:16 Introduction

00:01:43 Introducing Erez Berkner

00:06:27 The start of Lumigo

00:10:42 What is Serverless

00:20:10 Challenges with going serverless

00:39:53 Securing Lambdas

00:46:50 Lumigo and breadcrumbs

00:55:46 How to get started with Lumigo

00:57:06 Lumigo and databases
00:58:20 Lumigo pricing

01:00:28 Lumigo as a company

01:06:30 Contacting Lumigo

01:11:01 Farewells

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Companies:

Lumigo: https://lumigo.io/
Lumigo Free Trial: https://platform.lumigo.io/auth/signup

Socials:

Erez Berkner:
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/erezberkner
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erezbe/

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125 - Object Caching Systems Jan 20, 2022

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Object Caching Systems

Many people have heard the names "redis" or "memcached" but fewer people know what these tools are good for or why we need them so badly. In this show, Patrick and I explain why caching is so important and how these systems work under the hood.

Intro topic:
Public database & cache services (Planetscale & Upstash)

News/Links:

Log4J Vulnerability
- https://jfrog.com/blog/log4shell-0-day-vulnerability-all-you-need-to-know/
- https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2021/12/11/guidance-for-preventing-detecting-and-hunting-for-cve-2021-44228-log4j-2-exploitation/
Scan of the Month: Gameboys
- https://scanofthemonth.com/game-boy-original/
Hyrum’s Law
- https://www.hyrumslaw.com/
Make the Internet Yours Again With an Instant Mesh Network
- https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10319-make-the-internet-yours-again-with-an-instant-mesh-network

Book of the Show

Jason: AI 2041
- https://amzn.to/3fOqnWQ
Patrick: Dawnshard - Brandon Sanderson
- https://amzn.to/3tFmuMi

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Tool of the Show

Jason
- Swagger: https://swagger.io/
Patrick
- ripgrep https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep

Topic: Object Caching Systems

The need
- Latency
- In memory
- Caching
Disadvantages compared to DB
- Size limits (memory)
- Limited query support
- Limited persistence options
- Stale caches
How it works
- Key-value stores
- Special operations for multi-get /multi-step
- Expiry timers on each key
- Hashing
Examples
- Redis
- Memcached
- DynamoDB
- Google datastore
- Firebase database

00:00:15 Introduction

00:00:54 New Year’s Resolutions

00:03:59 Saving money on cloud servers

00:17:20 Scan of the Month

00:20:14 Hyrum’s Law

00:25:30 Make the Internet Yours Again with an Instant Mesh Network

00:31:45 Book of the Show

00:31:56 AI 2041

00:35:25 Don Shard

00:37:35 Tool of the Show

00:38:17 Swagger

00:59:10 ripgrep

0:45:31 Object Caching Systems

01:10:22 High Frequency Trading

01:14:07 Farewells

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124 - Holiday Episode 2021! Jan 10, 2022

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In this holiday episode, Jason and Patrick answer questions from listeners. They also look back at the past year’s challenges and victories.

00:15:35 (Kevin)

What's been the biggest thing that pushed you to learn more during your career?
Was it taking a new job and moving somewhere, doing stuff in your spare time or something like a new hobby or anything else?

00:29:38 (Kevin)

Favorite city to live in or visit?

00:31:29 First Winner (James B.)

00:32:21 (Clever Clover/James)

Next biggest tech prediction.

00:36:28 (Paul)

If we could standardize all the code there is out there to one particular language, which language would it be and why would it be Python?

00:40:40 Second Winner (Collin G.)

00:41:21 (Necrous)

If you could redo your career and education path, what would you change?

00:47:12 Third Winner (Matt I.)

00:47:48 (MQNC)

What is the dirtiest hackiest anti-pattern piece of code you ever wrote in full consciousness and even maybe enjoying the thrill and why was it the way to go?

00:54:36 (Leedle)

Thoughts on server side rendering React and NextJS?

00:57:00 Fourth Winner (Glenn S.)

00:57:25 (NC Plattipus)

The visual programming language, LabVIEW?

01:05:02 Fifth Winner (James F.)

01:05:53 (Gethan)

Future technology or big technologies, what about AR?

01:10:18 (Gethan)

On the topic of getting a master's degree or classes, do you see a benefit of getting certifications?

01:18:16 Sixth Winner (Don R.)

01:19:38

Predictions we made last 2020 and how they held up.

01:26:00

Farewells

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123 - Project Planning Dec 15, 2021

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How do you stay focused when working on large projects that span many months? In this duo episode, we talk about Project Planning techniques and trends! We also cover solving personal data storage problems and building CNC machines & printers.

00:00:15 Introduction

00:01:33 UML

00:05:22 Home NAS and other personal storage solutions

00:18:09 Homebrew CNC machine

00:29:37 Raft (Consensus Algorithm)

00:36:54 The Mathematics of 2048

00:45:44 Book of the Show

00:45:57 Manager Tools
00:49:10 Make Magazine

00:57:50 Tool of the Show

00:57:51 Workflowy
00:59:10 GitHub Desktop

01:01:00 Project Planning

01:22:11 Farewells

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Tools:

Workflowy: https://workflowy.com/b/
Github Desktop: https://desktop.github.com/

Companies:

Manager Tools: https://www.manager-tools.com/
Make Magazine: https://makezine.com/

Other references:

QT Designer: https://www.qt.io/
Shapeoko: https://carbide3d.com/shapeoko/
Curves and Surfaces by Bartosz Ciechanowski: https://ciechanow.ski/curves-and-surfaces/
Inkscape: https://inkscape.org/
Raft: https://raft.github.io/

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122 - Building Conversational AI's with Joe Bradley Oct 25, 2021

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When you ask Alexa or Google a question and it responds, how does that actually work? Could we have more in-depth conversations and what would that look like? Today we dive into conversational AI with Joe Bradley and answer these questions and many more.

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00:00:15 Introduction

00:01:24 Introducing Joe Bradley

00:04:44 How Joe got into Conversation AI

00:21:35 Zork and WordNet

00:27:48 Automatic Image Detection/Captioning

00:39:31 MuZero

00:45:27 Codex

00:50:15 GPT and businesses

00:55:16 Artificial General Intelligence

01:00:05 What is LivePerson

01:16:30 Working at LivePerson

01:21:18 Job opportunities in LivePerson

01:27:04 How to reach Joe

01:32:40 Farewells

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Companies:

LivePerson: liveperson.com
PyTorch: pytorch.org
TensorFlow: tensorflow.com

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121 - Edge Computing with Jaxon Repp Oct 22, 2021

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What is "The Edge"? The answer is that it means different things to different people, but it always involves lifting logic, data, and processing load off of your backend servers and onto other machines. Sometimes those machines are spread out over many small datacenters, or sometimes they are in the hands of your customers. In all cases, computing on the edge is a different paradigm that requires new ways of thinking about coding. We're super lucky to have Jaxon on the show to share his experiences with edge computing and dive into this topic!!

00:00:23 Introduction

00:01:15 Introducing Jaxon Repp

00:01:42 What is HarperDB?

00:08:10 Edge Computing

00:10:06 What is the “Edge”

00:14:58 Jaxon’s history with Edge Computing and HarperDB

00:22:35 Edge Computing in everyday life

00:26:12 Tesla AI and data

00:28:09 Edge Computing in the oil industry

00:35:23 Docker containers

00:42:33 Databases

00:48:29 Data Conflicts