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Apr 8, 2020 • 46min
Working from home (Brain Science #15)
Given all of the recent changes and adjustments many individuals have made to working remotely, Mireille and Adam discuss some of the relevant aspects of working from home. How do you develop habits that work for you to be the most productive? Which factors make a difference to be successful in navigating challenges that emerge and how can you develop ways of staying socially connected while being physically distant?
Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Mireille Reece, PsyD – LinkedInAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
search?q=Remote
Does Money Really Affect Motivation? A Review of the Research
What Most Remote Companies Don’t Tell You About Remote Work - Isolation, anxiety, and depression in the remote workplace and what we’re doing about it
Forget Work-Life Balance. Work-Life Blending Is the Key to Happiness - Work-life balance isn’t real, but you can have a thriving career and time for yourself
Drive by Daniel Pink
Physical Distancing
The Doctor Who Helped Defeat Smallpox Explains What’s Coming
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Apr 7, 2020 • 1h 20min
Securing the web with Let's Encrypt (Changelog Interviews #389)
We’re talking with Josh Aas, the Executive Director of the Internet Security Research Group, which is the legal entity behind the Let’s Encrypt certificate authority. In June of 2017, Let’s Encrypt celebrated 100 Million certificates issued. Now, just about 2.5 years later, that number has grown to 1 Billion and 200 Million websites served. We talk with Josh about his journey and what it’s taken to build and grow Let’s Encrypt to enable a secure by default internet for everyone.
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Mux – Mux has done for video what Stripe has done for payments If you’re trying to build video into your app, you’ll have to decide between building it yourself or using an out-of-the-box platform. Mux simplifies all things video to an easy to use API. Get $50 in credit to play with at get.mux.com/changelog.
Pluralsight – Stay home. Skill up. For free. Pluralsight is totally free for the entire month of April! With over 7,000 courses from experts in software development, security, cloud and data there’s never been a better time to skill up. Learn more and get started at pluralsight.com/changelog
Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com.
Featuring:Josh Aas – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
Let’s Encrypt Has Issued a Billion Certificates
Milestone: 100 Million Certificates Issued
Sponsors and donors of Let’s Encrypt
Internet Security Research Group
The Changelog #243: Let’s Encrypt the Web with Jacob Hoffman-Andrews
I’m a cog - Adam’s thoughts on cog mentality
Border Gateway Protocol
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Apr 6, 2020 • 54min
COVID-19 Q&A and CORD-19 (Practical AI #84)
So many AI developers are coming up with creative, useful COVID-19 applications during this time of crisis. Among those are Timo from Deepset-AI and Tony from Intel. They are working on a question answering system for pandemic-related questions called COVID-QA. In this episode, they describe the system, related annotation of the CORD-19 data set, and ways that you can contribute!
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AI Classroom – An immersive, 3 day virtual training in AI with Practical AI co-host Daniel Whitenack
Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com.
Featuring:Timo Möeller – GitHub, LinkedInTony Reina – GitHub, LinkedInChris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, XDaniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:
COVID-QA
CORD-19
Episode featuring SpaCy
Sentence transformers
Episode on BERT
German BERT from Deepset-AI
Hugging Face Transformers
Haystack from Deepset-AI
Deepmind molecular structure with RL project
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Apr 3, 2020 • 45min
What even is a micro frontend? (JS Party #121)
Jerod and KBall are joined by Micro Frontends in Action author Michael Geers to discuss (you guessed it) micro frontend architecture. We ask: what is the concept? How is it similar/different to micro services? Who is it best fitted for? How do you put it in practice? And much more.
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DigitalOcean – DigitalOcean’s developer cloud makes it simple to launch in the cloud and scale up as you grow. They have an intuitive control panel, predictable pricing, team accounts, worldwide availability with a 99.99% uptime SLA, and 24/7/365 world-class support to back that up. Get your $100 credit at do.co/changelog.
Pluralsight – Stay home. Skill up. Pluralsight is totally free for the entire month of April! With over 7,000 courses from experts in software development, security, cloud and data there’s never been a better time to skill up. Learn more and get started at pluralsight.com
Featuring:Michael Geers – Website, GitHub, XJerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XKevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XShow Notes:Comment on this episode for a chance to win a FREE copy of the eBook version of Micro Frontends in Action. Tell us what you think of micro frontends. Our 3 favorite comments will be selected 30 days from the date of publish for this episode.
ALSO be sure to use discount code podjsparty20 to save 40% on Manning’s entire catalog. Whether you want the print edition of Michael’s book or are interested in learning something else from their amazing library of books, we got the hook up. ✊
KBall’s Microfrontends: the good, the bad, and the ugly
The Book: Micro Frontends in Action
micro-frontends.org
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Apr 2, 2020 • 1h 1min
Enterprise Go? (Go Time #124)
Bryan Liles joins Johnny and Mat for a wide-ranging discussion that starts with the question: what even is enterprise Go?
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Retool – Retool makes it super simple to build back-office apps in hours, not days. The tool is is built by engineers, explicitly for engineers. Learn more and try it for free at retool.com/changelog
Pluralsight – Stay home. Skill up. Pluralsight is totally free for the entire month of April! With over 7,000 courses from experts in software development, security, cloud and data there’s never been a better time to skill up. Learn more and get started at pluralsight.com
Featuring:Bryan Liles – Website, GitHub, XJohnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, XMat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, XShow Notes:
Octant on GitHub
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Mar 31, 2020 • 1h 17min
The 10x developer myth (Changelog Interviews #388)
In late 2019, Bill Nichols, a senior member of the technical staff at Carnegie Mellon University with the Software Engineering Institute published his study on “the 10x developer myth.” On this show we talk with Bill about all the details of his research. Is the 10x developer a myth? Let’s find out.
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Mux – If you’re trying to build video into your app, you’ll have to decide between building it yourself or using an out-of-the-box platform. Mux gives you the best of both worlds by doing for video what Stripe has done for payments. Mux simplifies all things video to an easy to use API. Get $50 in credit to play with at get.mux.com/changelog.
Algolia – Our search partner. As the world is spending even more time online, search will be a critical lever for engaging your own users and customers. Algolia made their Pro Plan free to any developer or team working on a COVID-19-related, not-for-profit website or app.
Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com.
Featuring:William Nichols – XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
The End to the Myth of Individual Programmer Productivity
Software Engineering Institute - Carnegie Mellon University
The Personal Software Process (PSP)
Team Software Process (TSP)
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Mar 30, 2020 • 2min
Welcome to The Changelog (Changelog Interviews)
The Changelog is deep discussions in & around the world of software… and it’s been going for over a decade.
We talk to hackers, like Chris Anderson from 3D Robotics… leaders, like Devon Zuegel from GitHub… and innovators, like Amal Hussein…
Welcome to The Changelog! Please listen to an episode from our catalog that interests you and subscribe today. We’d love to have you with us.
Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Mar 30, 2020 • 50min
Mapping the intersection of AI and GIS (Practical AI #83)
Daniel Wilson and Rob Fletcher of ESRI hang with Chris and Daniel to chat about how AI powered modern geographic information systems (GIS) and location intelligence. They illuminate the various models used for GIS, spatial analysis, remote sensing, real-time visualization, and 3D analytics. You don’t want to miss the part about their work for the DoD’s Joint AI Center in humanitarian assistance / disaster relief.
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AI Classroom – An immersive, 3 day virtual training in AI with Practical AI co-host Daniel Whitenack
Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com.
Rollbar – We move fast and fix things because of Rollbar. Resolve errors in minutes. Deploy with confidence. Learn more at rollbar.com/changelog.
Featuring:Daniel Wilson – LinkedInRob Fletcher – LinkedInChris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, XDaniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:
ESRI
ESRI - GeoAI Blog
ESRI - YouTube: ArcGIS & Artificial Intelligence (DoD JAIC)
Practical AI #72: How the U.S. military thinks about AI (DoD JAIC)
Books
“Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning” by Christopher M. Bishop
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Mar 27, 2020 • 59min
WFH!? (JS Party #120)
With most of us working from home for the first time (or for a long time), we thought it’d be a good idea to share our experiences and opinions on how to manage it. We discuss how to optimize your location, your schedule, your communications, and the rest of you life during these stressful times.
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Featuring:Suz Hinton – GitHub, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XNick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Bluesky, Mastodon, XKevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XShow Notes:
Listen to Go Time #123 on WFH
Chris Hiller’s pro tips for devs working from home
Jerod listens to musicforprogramming.net
and suggests the Noizio app for macOS
KBall goes for www.focusatwill.com
thgaskill in the chat suggests krisp.ai
Ever heard of brothel creepers. Brent in the chat has
For more on comms, listen to Remember, people are humans
Cal Newport’s work shutdown ritual
Suz recommends 3 books:
Deep Work by Cal Newport
How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell
Contact by Carl Sagan
Check out Humu’s remote nudges
Read Justin Searl’s Remote, but not alone
ESNEXT CONF is fully remote
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Mar 26, 2020 • 1h 11min
WFH (Go Time #123)
Working from home can be challenging, especially amid school closings and everything else caused by COVID-19. In this episode panelists Jon, Mat, Carmen, and Mark share advice and experiences they have accumulated over many years of working from home. They cover separating your work space from your personal space, signaling to your family that you are busy, ways to keep track of the time, and suggestions for getting some exercise in when you can.
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Algorithms with Go – A free Go course where panelist Jon Calhoun teaches you how algorithms and data structures work, how to implement them in Go code, and where to practice at. Great for learning Go, learning about algorithms for the first time, or refreshing your algorithmic knowledge.
Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com.
Featuring:Jon Calhoun – Website, GitHub, XMat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, XCarmen Andoh – GitHub, XMark Bates – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:WFH tips:
https://time.com/5801725/work-from-home-remote-tips/
https://remoteyear.com/blog/top-8-remote-work-tips
Other links:
Fatih Arslan’s advice to assume a smiley follows everything
tmate - a terminal sharing tool
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