After José’s announcement yesterday I just had to get my hands a little dirty and kick the tires.

This had me (literally) lol-ing and thinking about Kelsey Hightower. Viewer beware: there is an NSFW moment near the end. Put on some headphones if you have to, because it’s worth every effort.

Jam session! I sat down (metaphorically) with Phoenix’s new LiveView feature to see if I can integrate it into our admin to provide a Google Docs-esque experience for podcast co-hosts.

This is my first long-form video where I work toward a goal with no clue how to actually get there. Please let me know if you dig this style in general and/or if you have any advice on the particulars.

Following up on our awesome episode of The Changelog with Algo creator Dan Guido, I thought I’d kick the tires on this Ansible-based, self-hosted VPN solution to see what it’s like to actually set it up and configure my phone to use it. This is my first video of this kind. I’d love to know what you think! How can I do this better? Do you want moar like this? Keep my day job? What?!

Deno (the new JS/TS runtime from Node creator Ryan Dahl) is nearing its 1.0 release, so it’s getting a first (or second) look by many curious devs out there.

Mat Ryer created this fun Go Time promo at JavaScript’s expense. Should Johnny use Go or TypeScript? 😉

This video from Kevin Hale (YC Partner) is in my “watch later” list on YouTube. Add it to your list too if you desire to build successful working relationships with your cofounders.

The video of Feross’s talk “What I Learned from WebTorrent” from the Data Terra Nemo conference was just released.

In the talk, Feross shares behind-the-scenes details about how WebTorrent was built, he reflects on hard-won lessons, and shares advice for other projects in the P2P and decentralized web space.

JS Party listeners will find a familiar guest voice on this episode from the Google Webmasters channel.

Starring Lee Byron, Dan Schafer and Nick Schrock (co-creators of GraphQL) and other big names from the community [the documentary] explores the story of why and how GraphQL came to be and the impact it’s having on big tech companies worldwide.

Michael Malis at !!Con 2019:

Writing SQL can be hard. SQL code is a bizarre combination of yelling and relational algebra. How can we make writing SQL easier? By embedding our own programming language in our SQL queries of course! In this talk, we’ll take a look at how you use a combination of various Postgres features to build a programming language out of SQL.

Nick Janetakis (whose voice you recently heard on Backstage #4) walks through 3 different open source code bases, including ours. This is a somewhat lengthy video (37:13), but Nick has nicely timestamped it out in the first YouTube comment. 👍

On Practical AI #41, Adam Berenzweig gave a sweeping history of human-computer interaction (HCI) and a glimpse into what the future might hold.

Just wow. Quixel has just showed us what the future of video games could look like.

Introducing Rebirth, a real-time cinematic produced by Quixel, harnessing the power of Unreal Engine and real-world scans from the Megascans Icelandic collection. With photorealistic results rivaling traditional offline renderers, Rebirth represents a new way of crafting computer graphics.

4 minutes and 8 seconds of pure entertainment. If you watch this and don’t bust a gut, I’m sorry to report that you have no soul. 😆 (h/t Mathieu Isabel who shared this in response to our viral tweet from yesterday)

JS Party panelist, Feross Aboukhadijeh:

In the days of Geocities and Angelfire, a quirky HTML tag called ⟨bgsound⟩ enabled sound files to play in the background of webpages. Usually, these files were in the MIDI format. What a glorious era that was! Sadly, ⟨bgsound⟩ has been removed from browsers and MIDI is obscure and hard to play back. In this talk, we’ll bring MIDI and ⟨bgsound⟩ back from the dead using WebAssembly, Emscripten, Web Audio, and Web Components. When we’re finished, you’ll be able to give your webpages the 90’s treatment in a modern, standards-compliant way!

This is slightly off-topic from my usual loggings, but it’s just so freakin’ hacker that I had to share it with you. He calls himself, Hand Solo. Watch to the end to see him playing electronic music with his nubbin’. 🤯

This is a short 15 minute talk from Henry Zhu at All Things Open, who just announced their photos and videos from their 2018 conference. In this talk Henry asks:

When we think about open source, we think about code. Is it more than that?

What do you think? What is open source to you?

HaskellRank is a YouTube series where we solve a couple of simple programming problems but in Haskell. It’s an on-going experiment where I’m trying to teach Haskell through constalty showing different examples instead of giving a well structured material.

Queue this up for your long holiday weekend. Hack the planet!!!

I heard about this video while listening to this week’s episode of Practical AI*. The video also cover the best desktop system, best DIY system, and best cloud options.

*(We’re testing out a tick-tock model for that show where it alternates between an interview style and a ‘news/resources’ style. Let us know if you like it)

We talk about Imposter Syndrome a lot around these parts, but a related phenomenon that gets less attention is a cognitive bias in which people with lesser abilities tend to rate themselves as more proficient than they are.

Node is a massive success, but that doesn’t mean Ryan doesn’t regret decisions he (and others) made along the way. This talk is super candid and refreshing. During the last 10 minutes or so, he reveals he’s been working on a follow-up project (Deno, which I logged last week) that aims to wipe those regrets away.

If you haven’t yet, you should watch this. It’s 8 minutes long and packed with insights from Sataya himself on why Microsoft bought GitHub.

We are all in on open source and that’s what really brings us together with GitHub — and we’re going to operate as an open platform for any language, any framework, whether it’s the cloud or on the client.

Nat Friedman, who’s going to be the CEO of GitHub post close, came to Microsoft from Xamarin — he’s someone who’s a veteran of open source and he’s going to lead the company.

We’re going to operate GitHub as an open platform, and most developers are going to judge us by our recent actions and our actions going forward — and we will have to earn the trust everyday. We’re very committed to it.

At the core, Microsoft is a developer tools company. This is something that comes very natural to us. Earning the trust of our customers by our actions everyday is what we live by.

The most important thing is that it’s not just about Azure. We welcome every cloud provider to integrate with GitHub in order to be able to reach the GitHub community — and give GitHub members a choice of any cloud, as well as any client, mobile platform, or IoT platform.

I’m relatively familiar with Machine Learning at this point, but I had never heard of Reinforcement Learning until I watched this excellent talk by Kaleo Ha’o at ML4ALL.

I knew it was going to be good as soon as he laid out this comparison: if Machine Learning is teaching computers by example, then Reinforcement Learning is teaching computers by experience. Fascinating stuff!