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Practical AI Practical AI #294

AI is changing the cybersecurity threat landscape

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2024-11-05T19:40:00Z #ai +3 šŸŽ§ 26,541

This week, Chris is joined by Gregory Richardson, Vice President and Global Advisory CISO at BlackBerry, and Ismael Valenzuela, Vice President of Threat Research & Intelligence at BlackBerry. They address how AI is changing the threat landscape, why human defenders remain a key part of our cyber defenses, and the explain the AI standoff between cyber threat actors and cyber defenders.

Changelog News Changelog News #119

Tactile controls are back in vogue

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2024-11-04T20:15:00Z šŸŽ§ 21,274

IEEE Spectrum reports on the return to physical buttons and dials, Microsoft released GenAIScript, iFixitā€™s Elizabeth Chamberlain announces a big Right to Repair win, Daniela Baron reimagines technical interviews & John Oā€™Nolan, shares some thoughts on open source governance and how to create trust within technology, communities, and media

Changelog Interviews Changelog Interviews #615

Rails is having a moment (again)

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2024-10-31T20:45:00Z #rails +3 šŸŽ§ 23,484

(Includes expletives) David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH), creator of Ruby on Rails and co-owner of 37signals, joined the show to discuss this Rails moment and renewed excitement for Rails. We discuss hard opinions, developers being cooked too long in the JavaScript soup, finding developer joy, the pros and cons of the BDFL, the ongoing WordPress drama with WP Engine, and whatā€™s to come in Rails 8.

Practical AI Practical AI #293

The path towards trustworthy AI

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2024-10-29T19:00:00Z #ai +2 šŸŽ§ 26,038

Elham Tabassi, the Chief AI Advisor at the U.S. National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST), joins Chris for an enlightening discussion about the path towards trustworthy AI. Together they explore NISTā€™s ā€˜AI Risk Management Frameworkā€™ (AI RMF) within the context of the White Houseā€™s ā€˜Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligenceā€™.

Changelog News Changelog News #118

Developing with Docker (the right way)

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2024-10-28T11:00:00Z šŸŽ§ 22,625

Daniel Quinn weighs in on how to develop with Docker The Right Way, Mitchell Hashimoto says Ghostty will be publicly released this coming December, Kevin Li writes about the value of learning how to learn, The Browser Company moves on from Arc & the React Native team ships its new architecture.

Practical AI Practical AI #292

Big data is dead, analytics is alive

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2024-10-24T15:30:00Z #ai +1 šŸŽ§ 27,320

We are on the other side of ā€œbig dataā€ hype, but what is the future of analytics and how does AI fit in? Till and Adithya from MotherDuck join us to discuss why DuckDB is taking the analytics and AI world by storm. We dive into what makes DuckDB, a free, in-process SQL OLAP database management system, unique including its ability to execute lighting fast analytics queries against a variety of data sources, even on your laptop! Along the way we dig into the intersections with AI, such as text-to-sql, vector search, and AI-driven SQL query correction.

Changelog Interviews Changelog Interviews #614

Elasticsearch is open source, again

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2024-10-24T15:00:00Z #startups +2 šŸŽ§ 20,648

Shay Banon, the creator of Elasticsearch, joins us to discuss pulling off a reverse rug pull. Yes, Elasticsearch is open source, again! We discuss the complexities surrounding open source licensing and what made Elastic change their license, the implications of trademark law, the personal and business impact of moving away from open source, and ultimately what made them hit rewind and return to open source.

Go Time Go Time #335

AI for Observability

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2024-10-23T14:00:00Z #go +1
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Yasir Ekinci joins Johnny & Mat to talk about how virtually every Observability vendor is rushing to add Generative AI capabilities to their products and what that entails from both a development and usability perspective.

Changelog News Changelog News #117

Naming conventions that need to die

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2024-10-21T19:15:00Z šŸŽ§ 22,052

Will Crichton wishes some naming conventions would die already, GitHub user brjsp noticed that Bitwardenā€™s new SDK dependency isnā€™t open source, Joaquim Rocha details his forking best practices, Sophie Koonin explains why you should go to conferences & Mike Hoye puts WordPress on SQLite.

Changelog Interviews Changelog Interviews #613

Lessons from 10k hours of programming (Remastered)

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2024-10-17T21:00:00Z #practices +1 šŸŽ§ 21,297

This week weā€™re going back in time to one of our top performing shows of all time where we talk with Matt Rickard about his blog post Reflections on 10,000 Hours of Programming. These reflections are about deliberately writing code for 10,000 hours. Most donā€™t apply to beginners. He was clear to mention that these reflections are purely about coding, not career advice or soft skills. If you count the reflections we cover on the show and be the first to comment the amount of reflections on this thread in Zulip, weā€™ll give you a coupon code to use for a 100% free t-shirt from the merch store. Good luckā€¦

JS Party JS Party #343

Digging through Jerod Santoā€™s tool box

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2024-10-17T17:00:00Z #javascript +1 šŸŽ§ 12,927

KBall interviews Jerod about the tools he uses in development, podcasting & business. We start with text editors & terminal tools, move to podcast recording & editing tools, discuss the open source podcasting platform Jerod built in Elixir, then finish with tools to run a small business & our approaches to genAI. Oh, and you donā€™t want to miss Jerodā€™s Big Confession!

Practical AI Practical AI #291

Practical workflow orchestration

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2024-10-15T20:00:00Z #ai +1 šŸŽ§ 29,724

Workflow orchestration has always been a pain for data scientists, but this is exacerbated in these AI hype days by agentic workflows executing arbitrary (not pre-defined) workflows with a variety of failure modes. Adam from Prefect joins us to talk through their open source Python library for orchestration and visibility into python-based pipelines. Along the way, he introduces us to things like Marvin, their AI engineering framework, and ControlFlow, their agent workflow system.

Changelog News Changelog News #116

Working from home is powering productivity

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2024-10-14T19:30:00Z šŸŽ§ 22,958

Nicholas Bloom finds WFH is powering a productivity boom, Matt Mullenweg has decided that WP Engineā€™s beatings will continue until morale improves, Levels.fyi has added a salary heat map, Gareth Edwards highlights just how fragile the Internet really is & Artem Zakirullin details how cognitive load is what really matters in software development.

Changelog Interviews Changelog Interviews #612

The Moneyball approach

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2024-10-10T17:15:00Z #startups +1 šŸŽ§ 23,819

John Nunemaker joins us to share his new thesis for acquiring Rails based SaaS apps. Heā€™s early days on his next big thing called Very Good Software and recently acquired Fireside, a podcast hosting service started by Dan Benjamin. This comes after many years since Johnā€™s acquisition of a lifetime of Speakerdeck to GitHub, which laid the foundation for these moves.

Practical AI Practical AI #290

Towards high-quality (maybe synthetic) datasets

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2024-10-09T13:30:00Z #ai +1 šŸŽ§ 27,918

As Argilla puts it: ā€œData quality is what makes or breaks AI.ā€ However, what exactly does this mean and how can AI team probably collaborate with domain experts towards improved data quality? David Berenstein & Ben Burtenshaw, who are building Argilla & Distilabel at Hugging Face, join us to dig into these topics along with synthetic data generation & AI-generated labeling / feedback.

Changelog & Friends Changelog & Friends #64

Developer (un)happiness

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2024-10-04T19:00:00Z #culture šŸŽ§ 24,482

Abi Noda, co-founder and CEO at DX, joins the show to talk through data shared from the Stack Overflow 2024 Developer Survey, why devs are really unhappy, and what theyā€™re doing at DX to help orgs and teams to understand the metrics behind their developerā€™s happiness and productivity.

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