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Engineering management (for the rest of us) (Interview) 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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Syncthing, Thunderbird, Baseline & vector databases (News) 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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How companies are sponsoring OSS (Interview) 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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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 (News) 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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Livebook's big launch week (Interview) May 03, 2023

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José Valim joins Jerod to talk all about what’s new in Livebook – the Elixir-based interactive code notebook he’s been working on the last few years.

José made a big bet when he decided to bring machine learning to Elixir. That bet is now paying off with amazing new capabilities such as building and deploying a Whisper-based chat app to Hugging Face in just 15 minutes.

José demoed that and much more during Livebook’s first-ever launch week. Let’s get into it.

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Launch Week

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Hyperswitch, the future of programming, Thoughtworks' latest tech radar & your docs aren't "simple" (News) May 01, 2023

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Hyperswitch is like the adapter pattern for payments, Austin Henley writes about the future of programming by summarizing recent research papers, Thoughtworks published their 28th volume of their Tech Radar, the team at General Products reminds devs to scan our technical writing for words such as “easy”, “painless”, “straightforward”, “trivial”, “simple” and “just” & we finish with a lightning round of cool tools.

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Hard drive reliability at scale (Interview) Apr 26, 2023

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This week Adam talks with Andy Klein from Backblaze about hard drive reliability at scale.

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Sentry – See the untested code causing errors - or whether it’s partially or fully covered - directly in your stack trace, so you can avoid similar errors from happening in the future. Use the code CHANGELOG and get the team plan free for three months.
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.
Typesense – Lightning fast, globally distributed Search-as-a-Service that runs in memory. You literally can’t get any faster!

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We love 45Drives. If you need an intro to them, let us know.

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Dataset wars, Bark, Kent Beck needs to recalibrate, StableLM & blind prompting is not prompt engineering (News) Apr 24, 2023

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The dataset wars are heating up, Bark is a transformer-based text-to-audio model that can generate highly realistic, multilingual speech as well as other audio, Kent Beck needs to recalibrate after using ChatGPT, the team behind Stable Diffusion release a new open source language model & Mitchel Hashimoto weighs in on prompt engineering.

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How do you do, fellow Hack Clubbers? (Interview) Apr 19, 2023

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This week we’re joined by Zach Latta, the Founder of Hack Club. At 16, Zach tested out of high school and moved to SF to join Yo as their first engineer. After playing a key role at Yo, he founded Hack Club to help teen hackers start coding clubs around the world. Today, teen hackers can meet IRL, online, at a hackathon, or leverage Hack Club Bank a fiscal sponsor to create their own organization. Hack Club is the program Zach wished he had in high school.

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Invest in the future hacker generation
hackclub.com
Hack Club Bank
hackclub/sprig
Sprig - The game console where every player is a creator
Meet the 18-year-old who left his job at ‘Yo’ to spread the joy of coding
Founders Talk #81: The future of code search with Quinn Slack
Changelog Interviews #369: Five years of freeCodeCamp
with Quincy Larson
SSH Tron
The World’s Longest Hackathon: The Hacker Zephyr, July 2021
ToorCamp

Thanks to the “How Do You Do, Fellow Kids?” meme for this title’s inspiration.

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Free Dolly, GitHub Accelerator's cohort, improving Tailscale via Apple’s open source & what the heck are passkeys?! (News) Apr 17, 2023

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Kara Deloss announces GitHub Accelerator’s 2023 cohort, Databricks releases the first open source, instruction-following LLM, fine-tuned on a human-generated instruction dataset licensed for research and commercial use, Mihai Parparita writes how he improved Tailscale thanks to Apple’s open source & Neal Fennimore asks and answers the question: Passkeys: what the heck and why?!

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