Jerod invites Richard Feldman back on the show to catch up on all things Elm. Did you hear? NoRedInk finally had a production runtime error, the community grew quite a bit (from 'obscure' to just 'niche'), and Elm 0.19 added some killer new features around asset optimization.

Lindsey Zuloaga joins us to discuss bias in hiring, bias in AI, and how we can fight bias in hiring with AI. Lindsey tells us about her experiences fighting bias at HireVue, where she is director of data science, and she gives some practical advice to AI practitioners about fairness in models and data.

Many languages like java and php share a concept of final entities. final entity is something that can not be changed. We did not have this feature in python. Until two events happened recently...

Let's talk about when it might be a good or bad idea to start using microservices. SPOILER ALERT: it's not the same for every project. Yes. This is what we're hearing as well. Break off a piece or part of your app that needs a different level of scale, language, or other to solve the problem better and make it a service.

In this special episode of JS Party at Node + JS Interactive in Vancouver, KBall, Nick and Suz explore the proposed merger between the JS Foundation and the Node Foundation. They pick the brains of special guests Tierney Cyren (Node Foundation) and Dave Methvin (JS Foundation) about what's happening with the merger, what it means for the ecosystem and for everyday JavaScript developers.

Use this tool to take our transcripts for offline reading: percollate pdf --output changelog-319.pdf https://changelog.com/podcast/318 (Support for epub and html outputs are planned, but not yet implemented.)

This is a must-read for any software engineer wondering how they can move up the ladder without falling pray to the Peter Principle. Career progress for programmers doesn't require giving up coding to become a manager. You can get more autonomy—and stronger negotiation leverage—by going from implementer, to problem solver, to problem finder.

I'm a looooong time rvm user, but I don't have a similar tool for my Elixir and Node installs. asdf looks like a potentially nice way to unify all of my language/runtime versioning under a single tool.

But…why? We’ve loved building Upcase, both as a business and as a way to share what we’ve learned with the community. But while we’d love to keep investing in Upcase and producing tons of new content, we’ve been moving in a different direction—back to our roots, in fact, as we focus on our core consulting business. So what to do with this learning platform we’ve poured our hearts and souls into? We ultimately decided the best option was to open Upcase up to the world and share all of the content, no subscription needed. As they say, if you truly love something, set it free. Focus is SOOO crucial and sometimes is overlooked for too long. Been there. Glad to see the wisdom of focus here being shared (freely) from Thoughtbot. We've always been huge fans of their leadership in the community.

Here's a new way of hosting server-side rendered single-page applications. Instead of paying for servers and doing the tedious work of keeping them safe and up-to-date, deploy your Nuxt.js app to AWS Lambda with Serverless instead. Follow the walkthrough, or jump straight to the code.

Finally, a better way to teach people what this is...

Little bits of appreciation can make big differences in maintainers' lives. Here's one way you can show appreciation that will take less than five minutes out of your day and just might make someone else's. 🙌

Ghost fans: bookmark this site for the next time you want a fresh coat of paint for your blog. 🎨

Today, we’re introducing future-forward features that further shape GitHub to better reflect how developers work. New to our platform, GitHub Actions and GitHub Connect advance development workflows and break down barriers between teams. We’re also releasing powerful new security tools with the GitHub Security Advisory API, new ways to learn across teams with GitHub Learning Lab for organizations, and more. Actions stole the show (are you signed up for the beta yet?), but there's a lot here. Stay tuned for more coverage/conversations as we have time to digest it all.

One of the tradeoffs of using a static site generator like Jekyll is not having scheduled posts. Sure you can add a date in the future, but static means exactly that, there’s no dynamic part to find and compare dates and times. Without complex hacks, I hadn’t found an easy way to do scheduled posts with Jekyll. That is, until now.

The AWS CDK is an infrastructure modeling framework that allows you to define your cloud resources using an imperative programming interface. The CDK is currently in developer preview. We look forward to community feedback and collaboration. If you're developing for AWS and using CloudFormation, and you feel that YAML and/or JSON templates are too restrictive, CDK will allow you to programmatically define your stack. CDK provides strong typed resources for Java, .Net, and TypeScript, as well as JavaScript support. You can even augment it by creating your own constructs and create your own DSL on top of CloudFormation!

A fully automatic, framework-independent, RESTful PHP router component used in Scrawler

Finally, an article that breaks Betteridge's law of headlines! Elixir is known for being a language made for building distributed applications that scale, are massively concurrent, and have self-healing properties. All of these adjectives paint Elixir in a grandiose light. And for good reasons! But is Elixir also a language that can be used for the more mundane tasks of this world like scripting? I think the answer is a definite yes. I've been writing Elixir for a few years now, but when it comes time to script something I still reach for Ruby. Case in point, our data import routines for changelog.com (which y'all know is an Elixir app) are written in Ruby. Why do I do this? Familiarity plays a big part. Also I find Ruby to be highly ergonomic for such tasks. Having said that, this article will make me consider trying Elixir for my next script.

When Apple open sourced Swift, it was only a matter of time before the server-side frameworks started rolling out. Perhaps that time is now? Amazon's entry is called Smoke, and InfoQ has the deets: Amazon Smoke framework is a new open-source light-weight server-side framework written in Swift and aimed to build REST-like or RPC-like services. Its architecture stresses ease of use and favours a pure-functional programming style for request handlers. Click through for some code snippets and to learn exactly how Smoke is built (hint: they're using SwiftNIO)

Adam and Jerod talk with Allen "Gunner" Gunn about Sustain Summit. What is it, the kind of conversations that happen there, issues the open source community is having right now, and how Sustain stands out from events called "unconferences."

Chris and Daniel are back together in another news/updates show. They discuss PyTorch v1.0, some disturbing uses of AI for tracking social credit, and learning resources to get you started with machine learning.