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Magical shell history & why engineers should focus on writing (News)
17 juli 2023 · 7 min
Ellie Huxtable's Atuin makes your shell history magical, Dmitry Kudryavtsev writes why he thinks engineers should focus on writing, LazyVim promises to transform your Neovim setup into a full-fleged IDE, Geoff Graham shares with Smashing Magazine how he writes CSS in 2023 & Brad Fitzpatrick collects a public list of bad issue track behaviors. Lees meer
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Dear Red Hat... (Friends)
14 juli 2023 · 1 uur 15 min
Red Hat's decision to lock down RHEL sources behind a subscription paywall was met with much ire and opened opportunity for Oracle to get a smack in and SUSE to announce a fork with $10 million behind it. Lees meer
Few RHEL community members have been as publicly irate as Jeff Geerling, so we invited him on the show to discuss.
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Types will win in the end (Interview)
13 juli 2023 · 1 uur 5 min
This week we're talking about type checking with Jake Zimmerman. Jake is one of the leads at Stripe working on Sorbet — an open source project that does Type checking in Ruby and runs over Stripe's entire Ruby codebase. As of May of 2022 Stripe's codebase was over 15 million lines of code spread across 150,000 files. If you think you have a bigger Ruby codebase, Jake is down to go byte-for-byte to see who wins. Jake shares tons of wisdom and more importantly he shares why he thinks types will win in the end. Lees meer
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Oracle smacks IBM over RHEL (News)
10 juli 2023 · 8 min
Oracle smacks IBM for their handling of RHEL, the folks at The Dam share a Slack clone in 5 lines of Bash, Justin Jaffray writes up 13 ways to think about joins, llama.cpp learns web chat thanks to a contribution by Tobi Lütke & Meta is willing to pay 3 engineers to remove Python's GIL. Lees meer
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Efficient Linux at the CLI (Interview)
6 juli 2023 · 1 uur 23 min
This week we're talking to Daniel J. Barrett, author of Efficient Linux at the Command Line as well as many other books. Daniel has a PhD and has been teaching and writing about Linux for more than 30 years (almost 40!). So we invited Dan to join us on the show to talk about efficient ways to use Linux. He teaches us about combining commands, re-running commands, $CDPATH hacks, and more. Lees meer
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Streak redemption, vectors are the new JSON, CommonJS is hurting JavaScript & the rise of the AI Engineer (News)
3 juli 2023 · 6 min
Lukas Mathis writes about streak redemption, Jonathan Katz thinks vectors are the new JSON, Andy Jiang says CommonJS is hurting JavaScript & Swyx on the rise of the AI Engineer.
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Even the best rides come to an end (Friends)
30 juni 2023 · 1 uur 29 min
On Monday, Kelsey Hightower announced his retirement from Google. On Tuesday, he sat down with us to discuss why, how & what's next. Lees meer
Along the way, Kelsey teaches us how not to suck at work, analyzes his magical demos, fights off the haters (again) & opines on System Initiative, Dagger & 37Signals moving off the cloud.
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Don't make things worse! (Interview)
28 juni 2023 · 1 uur 7 min
Taylor Troesh joins Jerod to discuss a bevy of software development topics: yak shaves, dependency selection, -10x engineers, IKEA-oriented development, his new content-addressable programming language & much more along the way.
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AI poisoned its own well, libraries to UnsuckJS, we need more Richard Stallman & ChatGPT package hallucination (News)
26 juni 2023 · 8 min
Tracy Durnell thinks AI has already poisoned its own well, Adam Hill's microsite catalogs everything you need to UnsuckJS, Lionel Dricot thinks we need more Richard Stallman, not less & the Vulcan team proves you can't trust ChatGPT's package recommendations. Lees meer
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There's a whole PEP about that (Friends)
23 juni 2023 · 1 uur 31 min
Brett Cannon (our unofficial ambassador to the Python community) is here to help alleviate our pip install anxiety. Along the way, we ask him about Python 4, removing the GIL, what he thinks about Chris Lattner's Mojo project, Rust in the Python world & way more (of course). Lees meer
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Rebuilding DevOps from the ground up (Interview)
22 juni 2023 · 1 uur 28 min
This week we're joined by Adam Jacob and we're talking about his mission at System Initiative to rebuild DevOps. They are out of stealth mode and ready to show off their transformative new power tool that reimagines what's possible from DevOps. It's an intelligent automation platform that allows DevOps teams to build detailed interactive simulations of their infrastructure and use them to rapidly update their production environments. Lees meer
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An open platform for LLMs, speed matters, imaginary problems, Val Town & how to finish your projects (News)
19 juni 2023 · 7 min
An open platform for operating LLMs in production, working quickly is more important than it seems, imaginary problems are the root of bad software, Val Town is a social website to write and run code & Aaron Francis' guide to finishing your projects.
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"Mat Depends" (Friends)
16 juni 2023 · 1 uur 40 min
Mat Ryer is back and he's brought with him 10 tips to be a 10x developer (like he is). After that, we try a new segment we're calling "Tool Time" (and try out a few jingles for it along the way). Finally, it's time to review our previous unpopular opinions and put some new ones into the world for your (dis)agreeing pleasure. Join us for an automagical time! Lees meer
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Passkeys for a passwordless future (Interview)
15 juni 2023 · 1 uur 11 min
This week we're talking about Passkeys with Anna Pobletts, Head of Passwordless, at 1Password. Will Passkeys enable a passwordless future? Time will tell. Anna shares the what, the why, how, and the when on Passkeys.
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Reddit goes dark, Lemmy lights up, OpenObserve, some blogging myths & Jefro on Automotive Linux (News)
12 juni 2023 · 29 min
Reddit goes dark as subreddits protest, Lemmy lights up as disillusioned redditors turn to the fediverse, OpenObserve is a cloud native observability platform, Julia Evans dispels some myths about blogging & Red Hat's Jeffrey “Jefro” Osier-Mixon tells Adam and Jerod all about Automotive Linux at Open Source Summit NA. Lees meer
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Reactions to Apple’s new vision (Friends)
9 juni 2023 · 1 uur 23 min
Homebrew project leader Mike McQuaid joins us to weigh in on Apple's big Vision Pro announcement. We also hit on our favorite (and least favorite) non-AR things from the WWDC 2023 keynote.
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ANTHOLOGY — It's a Cloud Native world (Interview)
8 juni 2023 · 1 uur 22 min
This is our last week of hallway track coverage at The Linux Foundation's Open Source Summit North America 2023 in Vancouver, Canada. Today’s anthology episode features: Jeffrey Sica (Developer Experience & Programs @ CNCF), Eddie Zaneski (Kubernetes SIG CLI), Yaron Schneider (Co-creator of Dapr and Founder and CTO at Diagrid). Lees meer
Special thanks to our friends at GitHub for sponsoring us to attend this conference as part of Maintainer Month.
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Starlight, Knuth asks ChatGPT, Stack Overflow mods strike, Reddit API pricing revolt & open source AI has a new champ (News)
5 juni 2023 · 10 min
The Astro team releases a new documentation builder, legendary computer scientist Donald Knuth plays with ChatGPT, over 500 volunteer mods have signed an open letter to Stack Overflow Inc, Reddit faces a revolt due to their new API pricing & the Technology Innovation Institute release Falcon, a new open source LLM that's topping Hugging Face's leaderboard. Lees meer
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Kaizen! The best pipeline ever™ (Friends)
2 juni 2023 · 1 uur 20 min
Gerhard is back! Today we continue our Kaizen tradition by getting together (for the 10th time) with one of our oldest friends to talk all about the continuous improvements we're making to Changelog's platform and podcasts.
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ANTHOLOGY — Maintaining maintainers (Interview)
31 mei 2023 · 1 uur 30 min
This week on The Changelog we're continuing our Maintainer Month series by taking to you back to the hallway track of The Linux Foundation's Open Source Summit North America 2023 in Vancouver, Canada. Today’s anthology episode features: Stormy Peters (VP of Communities at GitHub), Dr. Dawn Foster (Director of Open Source Community Strategy at VMware), and Angie Byron (Drupal Core Product Manager and Community Director at Aiven). Lees meer
Special thanks to our friends at GitHub for sponsoring us to attend this conference as part of Maintainer Month.
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An API store for LLMs, DeviceScript, Nyxt: the hacker's browser, expectations debt & there's still no silver bullet (News)
30 mei 2023 · 8 min
The Gorilla team is building an API store for LLMs, DeviceScript is Microsoft's new TypeScript programming environment for microcontrollers, Nyxt is a hackable browser written in Lisp, Morgan Housel writes about expectations debt & I issue a gentle reminder to my fellow software engineers: there's still no silver bullet. Lees meer
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Introducing Changelog & Friends (Friends)
26 mei 2023 · 43 min
What if your favorite conference's hallway track continued year round? That's the vibe we're trying to capture with Changelog & Friends, a new Friday talk show from your friends at Changelog. In this intro episode, Adam & Jerod talk all about our new MWF plan for The Changelog , discuss what this Friends flavor is all about, and have a lot of fun along the way. Lees meer
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ANTHOLOGY — Open source AI (Interview)
24 mei 2023 · 1 uur 38 min
This week on The Changelog we're taking you to the hallway track of The Linux Foundation's Open Source Summit North America 2023 in Vancouver, Canada. Today’s anthology episode features: Beyang Liu (Co-founder and CTO at Sourcegraph), Denny Lee (Developer Advocate at Databricks), and Stella Biderman (Executive Director and Head of Research at EleutherAI). Lees meer
Special thanks to our friends at GitHub for sponsoring us to attend this conference as part of Maintainer Month.
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Trogon, StableStudio, life after Apple, Google's problematic new TLDs & how to discuss programming languages (News)
22 mei 2023 · 8 min
Will McGugan's Trogon auto-generates friendly TUIs for your CLI apps, Stability AI's official open source variant of DreamStudio, John Calhoun writes about life after 26 years programming at Apple, Google's news TLDs could be a boon to scammers & Pablo Meier documents a way to discuss programming languages. Lees meer
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Engineering management (for the rest of us) (Interview)
17 mei 2023 · 1 uur 21 min
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)
15 mei 2023 · 6 min
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)
10 mei 2023 · 1 uur 10 min
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. Lees meer
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Mojo might be huge, chatbots aren't it, big tech lacks an AI moat & monoliths are not dinosaurs (News)
8 mei 2023 · 9 min
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. Lees meer
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Livebook's big launch week (Interview)
3 mei 2023 · 1 uur 23 min
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. Lees meer
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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Hyperswitch, the future of programming, Thoughtworks' latest tech radar & your docs aren't "simple" (News)
1 mei 2023 · 7 min
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. Lees meer
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Hard drive reliability at scale (Interview)
26 april 2023 · 1 uur 41 min
This week Adam talks with Andy Klein from Backblaze about hard drive reliability at scale.
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Dataset wars, Bark, Kent Beck needs to recalibrate, StableLM & blind prompting is not prompt engineering (News)
24 april 2023 · 8 min
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. Lees meer
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How do you do, fellow Hack Clubbers? (Interview)
19 april 2023 · 1 uur 33 min
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. Lees meer
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Free Dolly, GitHub Accelerator's cohort, improving Tailscale via Apple’s open source & what the heck are passkeys?! (News)
17 april 2023 · 9 min
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?! Lees meer
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Examining capitalism's chokepoints (Interview)
14 april 2023 · 1 uur 28 min
This week we're talking with Cory Doctorow (this episode contains explicit language) about his newest book Chokepoint Capitalism, which he co-autored with Rebecca Giblin. Chokepoint Capitalism is about how big tech and big content have captured creative labor markets and the ways we can win them back. We talk about chokepoints creating chickenized reverse-centaurs, paying for your robot boss (think Uber, Doordash, Amazon Drivers), the chickenization that's climbing the priviledge gradient from the most blue collar workers to the middle-class. There are chokepoints in open source, AI generative art, interoperability, music, film, and media. To quote Cory, "We're all fighting the same fight." Lees meer
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Ken Thompson's keynote, Tabby, The LLama Effect, Codeberg & facing the inevitable (News)
10 april 2023 · 8 min
Ken Thompson's 75-year-project is a jukebox for the ages, Tabby is a self-hosted AI coding assistant, Codeberg is a collaboration platform and Git hosting for open source software, content and projects, TheSequence explains The LLama Effect & Paul Orlando writes about Ghosts, Guilds and Generative AI. Lees meer
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LLMs break the internet (Interview)
7 april 2023 · 1 uur 43 min
This week we're talking about LLMs with Simon Willison. We can not avoid this topic. Last time it was Stable Diffusion breaking the internet. This time it's LLMs breaking the internet. Large Language Models, ChatGPT, Bard, Claude, Bing, GitHub Copilot X, Cody...we cover it all. Lees meer
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Twitter's open algorithm, Auto-GPT, LLMs as "calculators for words", SudoLang & stochastic parrots (News)
3 april 2023 · 8 min
Twitter publishes (some of) its recommendation algorithm, Toran Bruce Richards puts GPT-4 on autopilot, Simon Willison shares a good way for us to think about LLMs, Eric Elliot creates a powerful pseudocode programming language for LLMs & I define and demystify the term "stochastic parrot". Lees meer
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A new path to full-time open source (Interview)
29 maart 2023 · 1 uur 4 min
After years of working for Google on the Go Team, Filippo Valsorda quit last year to experiment with more sustainable paths for open source maintainers. Good news, it worked! Filippo is now a full-time open source maintainer and he joins Jerod on this episode to tell everyone _exactly_ how he's making the equivalent to his total compensation package at Google in open source. Lees meer
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GitHub Copilot X, Chatbot UI, ChatGPT plugins, defining juice for software dev, Logto, Basaran & llama-cli (News)
27 maart 2023 · 7 min
GitHub announces Copilot X, Mckay Wrigley created an open source ChatGPT UI buit with Next.js, TypeScripe & Tailwind CSS, OpenAI is also launching a ChatGPT plugin initiative, Brad Woods writes about juice in software development, Logto is an open source alternative to Auth0, Basaran is an open source alternative to the OpenAI text completion API & llama-cli is a straightforward Go CLI interface for llama.cpp. Lees meer
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Bringing Whisper and LLaMA to the masses (Interview)
22 maart 2023 · 1 uur 12 min
This week we're talking with Georgi Gerganov about his work on Whisper.cpp and llama.cpp. Georgi first crossed our radar with whisper.cpp, his port of OpenAI’s Whisper model in C and C++. Whisper is a speech recognition model enabling audio transcription and translation. Something we're paying close attention to here at Changelog, for obvious reasons. Between the invite and the show's recording, he had a new hit project on his hands: llama.cpp. This is a port of Facebook’s LLaMA model in C and C++. Whisper.cpp made a splash, but llama.cpp is growing in GitHub stars faster than Stable Diffusion did, which was a rocket ship itself. Lees meer
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Self-hosting in 2023, no more Alpine Linux, type constraints in 65 lines of SQL, Initial V, Minimal Gallery, the legacy of Visual Basic, tracking fake GitHub stars & Mastodon's 10M (News)
20 maart 2023 · 5 min
Michal Warda on self-hosting in 2023, Martin Heinz will never use Alpine Linux again, Oliver Rice at Supabase creates type constraints in Postgres with just 65 lines of SQL, Aaron Patterson converted a BMW shifter into a Bluetooth keyboard that can control Vim, Piet Terheyden has been curating beautiful & functional websites daily since 2013, Ryan Lucas put together a history of Visual Basic, turns out it's easy for an open source project to buy fake GitHub stars & Mastodon hit 10 million accounts. Lees meer
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Goodbye Atom. Hello Zed. (Interview)
15 maart 2023 · 1 uur 28 min
This week we're talking with Nathan Sobo about his next big thing. Nathan is known for his work on the Atom editor while at GitHub. But his work wasn't finished when he left, so...he started Zed, a high-performance multiplayer editor that's engineered for performance. And today, Nathan talks us through all the details. Lees meer
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Dalai, InputOutput.dev, Wik, Rspack, Doodle, Marqo & iLLA (News)
13 maart 2023 · 7 min
Dalai is the simplest way to run LLaMA on your local machine, simple web tools that just work without annoying you, Wik is a tool to view wikipedia pages from your terminal, Rspack is a fast, Rust-based web bundler, Doodle is a pure Kotlin UI framework, Marqo is tensor search for humans & iLLA is an open source alternative to Retool. Lees meer
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Chasing the 9s (Interview)
9 maart 2023 · 55 min
This week Adam talks with Marcin Kurc about chasing the 9s. Marcin is the Co-founder and CEO of Nobl9 where they build tools for managing service level objectives, aka SLOs. We also talk about service level agreements (SLAs), service level indicators (SLIs), error budgets, and monitoring, and how it all comes together to help teams align on goals, improve customer satisfaction, manage risks, increase transparency, and of course, a favorite around here...continuous improvement. Kaizen! This is an awesome deep dive into the world of chasing those 9s, and how teams are levering SLOs to earn the trust of their customers as well showcase transparency. Lees meer
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New OpenAI APIs, self-hosting all the things, the Dart Frog project, curl's NuGet story & Hacker Stations (News)
6 maart 2023 · 7 min
Reorx lists awesome apps & tools using the new ChatGPT API, Ernie Smith ranks self-hosted app alternatives, Very Good Ventures brings Dart to the server, Daniel Stenberg tells curl's NuGet story & Hacker Stations showcases tech workspace setups from all over the world. Lees meer
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You’re just a devcontainer.json away (Interview)
1 maart 2023 · 1 uur 10 min
This week we're joined by Brigit Murtaugh, Product Manager on the Visual Studio Code team at Microsoft, and we're talking about Development Containers and the Dev Container spec. Ever since we talked with Cory Wilkerson about Coding in the cloud with Codespaces we've wanted to get the Changelog.com codebase setup with a dev environment in the cloud to more easily support contributions. After getting a drive-by contribution from Chris Eggert to add a Dev Container spec to our codebase, we got curious and reached out to Brigit and asked her to come on the show to give us all the details. Lees meer
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Stack Overflow's architecture, Lobsters' killer libraries, Linux is ready for modern Macs, what to expect from your framework & GoatCounter web analytics (News)
27 februari 2023 · 7 min
Sahn Lam details Stack Overflow's monolith/on-prem architecture, Hillel Wayne asks the Lobsters community for killer libraries, Linux 6.2 is ready to run on M1 Macs thanks to Asahi Linux, Johan Halse writes up what to expect from your web framework & Eli Bendersky on using GoatCounter for blog analytics. Lees meer
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Into the Fediverse (Interview)
24 februari 2023 · 1 uur 18 min
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. Lees meer
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Sidney Bing, Elk for Mastodon, writing an engineering strategy, what's next for core-js & cool tool lightning round (News)
20 februari 2023 · 9 min
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. ⚡️ Lees meer