Abhinav Asthana (founder of Postman) joined the show to talk about Postman, an ADE — API Development Environment — that began as open source and is now a full-fledged company that just announced a $50 million dollar Series B. We talk about why Postman has grown so successfully, APIs and their impact to core business factors, what it means to be an API Development Environment (ADE), and how they created one of the most popular API platforms and community.

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Have you built a portfolio? Are you proud of it?! Open a PR to this repo and let’s showcase your work! It’s always nice to see what other folks have put together to show off their stuff.

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SQL injection is a serious vulnerability, effectively allowing an attacker to run roughshod over your entire database. If you’re using Sequelize, drop everything (pun unintended) and get patched up. As a testament for Sequelize’s commitment to security and protecting their users as fast as possible, they promptly responded and released fixes in the 3.x and 5.x branches of the library, remediating the vulnerability and providing users with an upgrade path for SQL injection prevention.

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If you come from Node.js, you might find that a lot of things are very similar in Deno, here we show some features that Deno and Node.js have in common, it would be great for learning purpose.

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Fancy Zones is a window manager that is designed to make it easy to arrange and snap windows into efficient layouts for your workflow and also to restore these layouts quickly. Fancy Zones allows the user to define a set of window locations for a desktop that are drag targets for windows. When the user drags a window into a zone, the windows is resized and repositioned to fill that zone. I want this in my life. Anybody know of a similar tool for macOS?

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Just like caniuse.com, but for email! (The only thing worse than browser incompatibilities is email client incompatibilities)

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Mark you calendars: We have decided that January 1, 2020, will be the day that we sunset Python 2. That means that we will not improve it anymore after that day, even if someone finds a security problem in it. You should upgrade to Python 3 as soon as you can.

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KBall, Divya, Feross, and Jerod get together to discuss tips and tricks for communicating with other coders, project stakeholders, and users.

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This in-beta feature should be stolen by all browser DevTools teams. Such a great idea!

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A nice, quick read about resourceful engineering teams turning lemons into lemonade. It might be a stretch to call all of these bugs, but it’s worth stretching a little bit in this case. Did you know Gmail’s “unsend” feature never would’ve happened were it not for a performance bug?!

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Mat, Johnny, Jon, and special guest Ian Lance Taylor discuss generics in Go. What are generics and why are they useful? Why aren’t interfaces enough? How will the standard library change if generics are added to Go? How has the community contributed to generics? If generics are added, how will this negatively affect the language?

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A brief discussion of the most essential SEO tags followed by framework-based SEO considerations.

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Nintendo has been slowly bringing their iconic games and characters to mobile platforms. Maybe it’s time they consider the web platform? 😉

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Daytripper is a laser tripwire that can, upon triggering: Hide all your windows Lock your computer Execute a custom script to do whatever you want! Pick one up on Tindie.

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Yet another classic from the webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. ERROR: We’ve reached an unreachable state. Anything is possible. The limits were in our heads all along. Follow your dreams.

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I think all ORM users have a journey from ‘there should be a way to’ to ‘this is saving me so much work’ to ‘I have to reach into the vending machine to get my change out’. I see the value in ORMs, but I also see where Abe is coming from in this article. I think the sweet spot for an ORM is when you’re just getting started making apps and you want to minimize how many technologies you need to learn to get there. I certainly learned SQL over a slow, productive period while utilizing its features from the warm embrace of Active Record. Stick around to the end of the article where he reveals the anti-ORM he’s working on to solve some of these problems.

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This repo gained 3,100+ stars in the first day and topped the charts of Changelog Nightly! This is a list of questions which may be interesting to a tech job applicant. The points are not ordered and many may not apply to a given position, or work type. It was started as my personal list of questions, which grew over time to include both things I’d like to see more of and red flags which I’d like to avoid. I’ve also noticed how few questions were asked by people I interviewed and I think those were missed opportunities. PRs are welcome!

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We’re talking with Sherol Chen, a machine learning developer, about AI at Google and AutoML methods. Sherol explains how the various AI groups within Google work together and how AutoML fits into that puzzle. She also explains how to get started with AutoML step-by-step (this is “practical” AI after all).

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Works out of the box. No lousy documentation to read. No configuration file. No post-configuration. Run a single-line command on the server, a similar one on the client and you’re done. No firewall and routing rules to manually mess with. This looks like a nice alternative to the many vpn-as-a-service offerings out there if you’re up for hosting it yourself.

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Eileen Uchitelle shared the backstory of how they have GitHub running on Rails 6.0 just 1.5 weeks after its final release. 👏 As soon as we finished the Rails 5.2 upgrade last year, we started upgrading our application to Rails 6.0. Instead of waiting for the final release, we’d upgrade every week by pulling in the latest changes from Rails master and run all of our tests against that new version. This allowed us to find regressions quickly and early—often finding regressions in Rails master just hours after they were introduced. Upgrading weekly made it easy to find where these regressions were introduced since we were bisecting Rails with only a week’s worth of commits instead of more than a year of commits.

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Marty Cagan is certain to upset many people product-people with this article. Read at your own risk. This article is certain to upset many people. I’m sorry for that, but the degree of ongoing noise and confusion surrounding the role of product at tech companies is only getting worse. Moreover, I see the issues and problematic behaviors getting institutionalized in conference talks, training programs and so-called certification programs for product people. So while this article might be painful to read, if you’ve been frustrated with the contradictory and confusing messaging from people in the product world, if you bear with me here, I am hopeful that this will provide some much needed clarity. BTW, Marty and his book INSPIRED was talked about in this recent episode of The Changelog featuring Ryan Singer talking about Basecamp’s new book Shape Up.

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