It's been four years since Jason Snell left his job at Macworld and started his own site Six Colors. In that time, Jason is back to what he loves: creating. He talks about the diversity of his work day, finding the right mix of revenue streams, and taking a break when you need one.

Andrew Vanderburg of UT Austin and Christ Shallue of Google Brain join us to talk about their deep learning collaboration, which involved searching through a crazy amount of space imagery to find new planets.

Kball and Feross talk with Shelley Vohr and Jeremy Apthorp about what Electron is, why to use it, and what comes next for the platform.

Floor Drees: 6 maintainers of high profile Ruby projects share their thoughts on maintaining and contributing to open source software with ROSS conf Amsterdam. We transcribed the bestest bits from the video interviews. Learn from Katrina Owen of Exercism, Michal Papis of RVM, Hongli Lai of Passenger, and more.

This ~13 minute documentary hits the sweet spot of quality and duration. José is the focus, but it features other notable members of the community as well. Every language/ecosystem should have one of these made.

We were just discussing this on a recent episode, and now it's a reality!? I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from being BDFL, and you all will be on your own. After all that's eventually going to happen regardless -- there's still that bus lurking around the corner, and I'm not getting younger... (I'll spare you the list of medical issues.) He will not appoint a successor. What happens next?! Not even Guido knows: So what are you all going to do? Create a democracy? Anarchy? A dictatorship? A federation? Grab some 🍿 because this is gonna get interesting!

KBall combined his learnings while working on Zurb's Foundation with some original research to curate this massive list of CSS resources. Topics are arranged in an order that makes sense for learning from scratch. So if you're brand new to CSS, you should be able to start at the top and work downwards, gradually increasing your understanding. Bookmark this and share it with a friend. 💯

In this special episode of The Changelog we’re sharing a full-length episode of our newly launched podcast called Practical AI — covering AI, Machine Learning, and Data Science. In this episode Mat Ryer and David Hernandez joined Daniel and Chris to talk about MachineBox, building a company around AI, and democratizing AI.

Cheat.sh is a curl based cheat sheet, with cheat sheets for over 50 languages, 1,000 Unix/Linux commands, and the ability to search StackOverflow that promises to remain fast (responses in 100ms).

This is Segment's story from monorepo to microservies back to monorepo — "from 100s of problem children to 1 superstar child." Software Engineer Alexandra Noonan writes on the Segment Engineering blog: As time went on, we added over 50 new destinations, and that meant 50 new repos. To ease the burden of developing and maintaining these codebases, we created shared libraries to make common transforms and functionality ... Over time, the great benefit we once had of reduced customization between each destination codebase started to reverse. Eventually, all of them were using different versions of these shared libraries. The woes of operational overhead with each expansion into more microservices. The number of destinations continued to grow rapidly, with the team adding three destinations per month on average, which meant more repos, more queues, and more services. With our microservice architecture, our operational overhead increased linearly with each added destination. Therefore, we decided to take a step back and rethink the entire pipeline. One of the original motivations for separating each destination codebase into its own repo was to isolate test failures. However, it turned out this was a false advantage. With destinations separated into their own repos, there was little motivation to clean up failing tests. I'd love to dig into this story more on The Changelog with the team behind this transition back to a monolith and discuss the deeper details of their lessons learned.

NuSTER can be used as a RESTful NoSQL cache server, using HTTP POST/GET/DELETE to set/get/delete Key/Value object. It can be used as an internal NoSQL cache sits between your application and database like Memcached or Redis as well as a user facing NoSQL cache that sits between end user and your application. It supports headers, cookies, so you can store per-user data to same endpoint.

This article is heavy on advantages and light on disadvantages, but maybe that reflects reality? I've never used Django myself, but it looks like a mature and much beloved web framework.

Away from Keyboard is a new show from Changelog that talks to creative professionals about how they do what they do, where they started, and how they deal with the things that make us all humans. As exciting as our work can sometimes be, we all face burnout, a lack of motivation, mental and physical health issues, and more. While these are topics that can be difficult to talk about, our experiences shape who we are and teach us so many things. AFK is a show that explores the human side of creative work.

Lynx, eat your heart out. Browsh renders anything that a modern browser can; HTML5, CSS3, JS, video and even WebGL. Run it as a TTY client or a browser client with an emphasis on reducing bandwidth costs and increasing browsing speed. I have to admit, our podcasts page looks pretty tight all pixelated like that.

The overall purpose of Neofetch is to be used in screen-shots of your system. Neofetch shows the information other people want to see. There are other tools available for proper system statistic/diagnostics. Supports almost 150 different operating systems, so odds are it has you covered. Check my results below. Pretty decent uptime for a laptop, no?

Now you can easily drag and drop your code tabs thanks to the new grid editor layout — complete with horizontal and vertical layout editing. Check the June 2018 release notes for more details.

Benjamin Bouvier, Compiler Engineer at Mozilla, writes about speeding up calls from JS to Wasm in Firefox. If we want more WebAssembly (wasm) adoption, there shouldn't be a big costly barrier between the two universes. That is, calls from one world to the other should be fast. For a very long time, calls from JS to asm.js/WebAssembly have been quite slow in Firefox. In fact, we didn't optimize them at all. He goes on to say... Starting with Firefox 60, the JIT compiler makes no distinctions between calling a JavaScript function or a WebAssembly function, meaning it uses the same call optimizations for both kinds of function. Benjamin continues through several more bugs mentioned on the Bugzilla bug board with fixes to speed up calls from JS to Wasm in Firefox.

Nice visualization where the nodes are programming languages and the edges are compilers. Here's an example showing JavaScript as the compile target 👇

Vim in your browser! Compiled from the C code and emscripten and binaryen

Matthew Carroll and Andrew Burt of Immuta talked with Daniel and Chris about data management for AI, how data regulation will impact AI, and schooled them on the finer points of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

When Mikael Cho started Unsplash from its small beginning as a Tumblr blog and side project, he had no idea it would have such a huge impact and ultimately disrupt the photography industry. In this episode, Mikael shares the backstory of Unsplash, how it got started, keeping things focused, levers of growth, flipping the marketing funnel, turning free into a business, raising $7.25 million to build a new economy for photography, and the impact of an API.