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.

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.

If you're using EC2 and paying big bucks to do so, you owe it to yourself to check out AutoSpotting: Once installed and enabled by tagging existing on-demand AutoScaling groups, AutoSpotting gradually replaces their on-demand instances with spot instances that are usually much cheaper, at least as large and identically configured to the group's members, without changing the group configuration in any way. For your peace of mind, you can also keep running a configurable number of on-demand instances given as percentage or absolute number.

Tanya Janca's new live video show about “Sloppy DevOps” sounds like a lot of fun: A free online show dedicated to the art of implementing DevSecOps, includes free workshops, lessons and nerd-er-ific discussions!

GraphQL is based on a very simple HTTP transaction, which sends a request to an endpoint with query and variables. Many libraries require complex stacks to make that simple request. In any project you don't use React, Relay, you'll need a simpler client which manages your query and makes a simple request. Isomorphic, in case you were wondering, means it runs both on the client and the server.

The strong advantage of TensorFlow is it flexibility in designing highly modular models which can also be a disadvantage for beginners since a lot of the pieces must be considered together when creating the model. If you're interested in TensorFlow, but haven't dove in yet for one reason or another, this might be a good place to start.

Adam, Jerod, and Tim get together to talk about Plex! Plex is a media server which allows you to store your movies, TV shows, music, photos, etc. Turns out, you can actually use it together with an antenna to watch live TV and DVR content. They chat about what has Adam so excited, the pros and cons (or as Adam said, "trade-offs"), and how to get started.

Where does Feross get all those wonderful toys? He builds them with JavaScript, of course! BitMidi – a website for listening to your favorite MIDI files – is his latest creation. In this episode, Jerod “sits down” with Feross to learn all about it. How do MIDIs even work? Why won’t they play on the web anymore? Can WASM save the day (hint: yes)? How does Feross get so many eyeballs on his creations? Is Preact awesome for building sites like this? What’s the future of BitMidi look like? Don’t ask us, listen to the episode!

Kate Matsudaira provides 5 excellent strategies for pushing through: Even if you love your job, you don't always feel like doing it every day. There are so many factors that influence your ability to show up to work with enthusiasm and then work hard all day long. From gamification to calendaring, Kate has a lot of good advice in this piece. I even learned a new word, "precrastination", which I've been doing a lot of without even knowing it! 💪

If you've ever thought, "How do I do X in React", there is a good chance this website has an example of X for you to learn from. Data grids, forms, calendars, charts... you name it and this site probably has it.