Intro topic: Electric Cars

News/Links:

• Snake Game in 101 Bytes in a QR Code
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/15ab4ct/my_qr_code_snake_game_is_now_only_101_bytes/
• Superconductor Rumors abound
  • https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/08/whats-going-on-with-the-reports-of-a-room-temperature-superconductor/
• OpenWorm
  • https://github.com/openworm/OpenWorm
• Creator of vim passes away
  • https://news.itsfoss.com/vim-creator-passed-away/
    
    

Book of the Show

• Patrick:
  • Little Book of Common Sense Investing by Jack Bogle https://amzn.to/43YqANR
• Jason: 
  • Mistborn Saga: https://amzn.to/3DJkUN8

Patreon Plug https://www.patreon.com/programmingthrowdown?ty=h

Tool of the Show

• Jason:
  • reMarkable https://remarkable.com/
• Patrick: 
  • Stellarium (iOS and Android)

Topic: Recursion

• What is it
  • Divide-And-Conquer
  • Fibonacci numbers
• How to (not) teach recursion
• Practical Applications
  • Graph operations
    • Tree retrieval, balancing
    • Graph Search
  • Spatial partitioning
• Pitfalls
  • Stack size
• How to solve problems with recursion
  • (1) Consider the base cases
  • (2) Build the recursive step
  • (3) Look for ways the recursion will not terminate and fix
  • (4) (rest are optional) Remove global contexts
  • (5) Add memoization
  • (6) Build solutions incrementally

00:00:22 Introductions

00:00:39 To hard mode or not to hard mode

00:08:58 No moats in Google

00:16:37 Stable Diffusion blows Jason’s mind

00:21:31 Putting beats together

00:23:38 GPT4All

00:27:44 White Sand

00:35:28 Fortuna

00:38:55 Patrick’s ‘dirty’ secret

00:47:20 Wordnet

00:53:56 Procedural generation

00:57:29 On tabletop RPGs

01:00:48 Inform

01:07:27 Farewells

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News/Links:

• Google: We have no moat and neither does OpenAI
  • https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-neither
• Stable Diffusion QR Codes
  • https://stable-diffusion-art.com/qr-code/ 
• Beginning to Make Music
  • https://learningmusic.ableton.com/
• GPT4All
  • https://gpt4all.io/index.html
• Wordnet:
  • https://wordnet.princeton.edu/
• Inform:
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inform

Book of the Show

• Patrick:
  • White Sand https://amzn.to/43CPMKA
• Jason: 
  • The Fortuna https://www.generativefiction.com/

Tool of the Show

• Jason:
  • Gatsby.js https://www.gatsbyjs.com/
• Patrick: 
  • Peglin https://store.steampowered.com/app/1296610/Peglin/ 

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00:01:28 Introductions

00:02:09 Hagay’s circuitous career journey

00:08:25 Building software for large factories

00:17:30 The reality of new technologies

00:28:10 AWS

00:29:33 Pytorch’s leapfrog advantage

00:37:24 MosaicML’s mission

00:39:29 Generative AI

00:44:39 Giant data models

00:57:00 Data access tips

01:10:31 MPT-7B

01:27:01 Careers in Mosaic

01:31:46 Farewells

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Links:

• Hagay Lupesko:
  • Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hagaylupesko/
  • Twitter: https://twitter.com/hagay_lupesko
  • Github: https://github.com/lupesko
• MosaicML:
  • Website: https://www.mosaicml.com/
  • Careers: https://www.mosaicml.com/careers
  • Twitter: https://twitter.com/MosaicML
  • Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mosaicml/
• Others:
  • Amp It Up (Amazon): https://www.amazon.com/Amp-Unlocking-Hypergrowth-Expectations-Intensity/dp/1119836115
  • Hugging Face Hub: https://huggingface.co/

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00:01:13 Steam Deck
00:11:22 Summoning Salt on Mario
00:16:49 100k stars
00:24:26 ChatGPT spam call
00:25:31 Build Your Own DB (from scratch)
00:29:50 DuckDB
00:35:07 Jason has an idea
00:37:58 Fighting Fantasy Classics
00:41:52 Patrick’s bread
00:47:52 Support the show
00:53:54 Awkward CRM emails
00:56:07 Rill
01:00:29 Position localization in detail
01:17:15 Common filter
01:25:22 Simultaneous localization
01:28:59 Farewells

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News/Links:

• The History of Super Mario Bros 3 100% World Records (Summoning Salt)
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EsFyogVvkw
• AutoGPT hits 100k stars
  • https://twitter.com/AlphaSignalAI/status/1649524105647906819
• Build Your Own Database from Scratch
  • https://build-your-own.org/database/
• Asking generative art AI to render mathematical theorems
  • https://twitter.com/TivadarDanka/status/1649721970886594561
• DuckDB:
  • https://duckdb.org/

Book of the Show:

• Jason: Fighting Fantasy Classics
  • https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tinmangames.ffhub&hl=en_US&gl=US
  • https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fighting-fantasy-classics/id1261201650
• Patrick: Evolutions in Bread: Artisan Pan Breads and Dutch-Oven Loaves at Home
  • https://amzn.to/44kW4iE

Tool of the Show:

• Jason: Jinja 
  • https://jinja.palletsprojects.com/en/3.1.x/
• Patrick: Rill 
  • https://www.rilldata.com/

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00:01:19 Introductions

00:01:48 Tanmai’s late start in programming

00:05:48 Plinko

00:13:06 Coursera

00:23:28 The question of API development

00:30:30 API layer functionality

00:34:58 How Hasura leverages JSON

00:39:08 GraphQL

00:42:49 Worse than an API call

00:49:15 The potential REST minefield

00:53:41 JSON Web Tokens

01:11:34 Scaling writes

01:15:17 Careers with Hasura

01:22:35 Farewells

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Links:

•  Tanmai Gopal:
  •  Website: https://hasura.io/blog/@tanmaig/
  •  Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanmaig/
  •  Twitter: https://twitter.com/tanmaigo
  •  Github: https://github.com/coco98
•  Hasura:
  •  Website: https://hasura.io/
  •  Careers: https://hasura.io/careers/
  •  Twitter: https://twitter.com/HasuraHQ
  •  Github: https://github.com/hasura
  •  Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hasura
•  Others:
  •  Good Strategy, Bad Strategy (Amazon): https://www.amazon.com/Good-Strategy-Bad-Strategy-audiobook/dp/B07R6XQ8YP
  •  Modern Application Development (IIT Madras, archived): https://archive.nptel.ac.in/courses/106/106/106106156/

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00:00:26 Introductions

00:00:40 Bill’s plethora of job titles

00:09:33 The excitement of learning a language

00:15:08 Mechanical keyboards

00:21:17 Bill’s advice on adapting

00:27:55 What a supply chain is

00:34:28 Castle analogies

00:40:55 Unpacking legalities

00:52:11 Log4J

00:54:41 What JFrog does

01:01:16 What can go wrong

01:08:08 Getting started in this space

01:14:15 Careers in JFrog

01:20:23 Farewells

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• Links:
  • Bill Manning:
    • Website: https://about.me/billmanning
    • Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/williammanning/
    • Twitter: https://twitter.com/williammanning
  • JFrog:
    • Website: https://jfrog.com/
    • Careers: https://join.jfrog.com/
    • Artifactory: https://jfrog.com/artifactory/
    • Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/jfrog-ltd/
  • Others:
    • Liquid Software: https://liquidsoftware.com/
    • SolarWinds hack incident: https://www.wired.com/story/the-untold-story-of-solarwinds-the-boldest-supply-chain-hack-ever/
    • Transitive dependencies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transitive_dependency

More Throwdown? Check out this prior episode:

• 153: ChatGPT: https://www.programmingthrowdown.com/2023/03/153-chatgpt.html

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00:01:31 Introductions

00:03:39 Craig’s early internet speed experience

00:07:46 An adventure towards Google

00:16:55 Project Seven

00:21:17 Mesos

00:26:42 The origin of Kubernetes

00:28:36 DS9’s influence on naming conventions

00:37:49 Getting more results with the same resources

00:47:13 IPv4

00:53:44 Craig’s thoughts on learning Kubernetes

01:06:59 Kubescape

01:18:12 Working at ARMO

01:23:16 Programming Throwdown on Youtube

01:23:55 Farewells

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• Links:
  • Craig Box:
    • Substack: https://substack.com/profile/107796914-craig-box
    • Github: https://github.com/craigbox
    • Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/crbnz/
    • Twitter: https://twitter.com/craigbox
  • ARMO:
    • Website: https://www.armosec.io/
    • Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/armosec/
  • Others:
    • The Project Seven origin story: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/from-google-to-the-world-the-kubernetes-origin-story
    • 7 of 9 on Memory Alpha: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Seven_of_Nine

More Throwdown? Check out this prior episode:

• E135: Kubernetes with Aran Khanna: https://www.programmingthrowdown.com/2022/06/135-kubernetes-with-aran-khanna.html

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News/Links:

• GPT4All & Stanford Alpaca
  • https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all
• Giant AI Experiments 6 month pause open letter
  • https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experiments/
• Will Smith Eating Spaghetti generated video
  • https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgw8ek/ai-will-smith-eating-spaghetti-hill-haunt-you-for-the-rest-of-your-life
• Robust image compression implementation from a NASA paper
  • https://github.com/TheRealOrange/icer_compression
• Dig This Vegas
  • https://digthisvegas.com/
• XKCD:
  • https://xkcd.com/208/
• AI Open Letter:
  • https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experiments/
• Godbolt:
  • https://godbolt.org/

Book of the Show:

• Jason: It Doesn’t Have To Be Crazy At Work
  • https://amzn.to/40PFgxH
• Patrick: Prince of Fools by Mark Lawrence
  • https://amzn.to/3lWVEO9

Tool of the Show:

• Jason: 
  • ReMarkable 2: https://remarkable.com/store/remarkable-2
• Patrick: 
  • Slay the Spire: https://store.steampowered.com/app/646570/Slay_the_Spire/

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00:01:16 Introductions

00:02:06 How physics led Saahil to programming

00:07:20 Getting started at Microsoft

00:13:39 Analyzing human text input

00:22:22 The exciting paradigm shift in search

00:29:02 Rationales for direction

00:33:40 Image generation models

00:39:55 Knowledge bases

00:45:12 FIFA

00:49:29 Understanding the query’s intent

00:51:18 Expectations

00:55:38 A need to stay connected to authority repositories

01:03:45 About working at You

01:08:18 Farewells

Resources mentioned in this episode:

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Links:

• Saahil Jain:
  • Website: http://saahiljain.me/
  • Email: saahil @ you.com
  • Github: https://github.com/saahil9jain/
  • Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saahiljain/
  • Twitter: https://twitter.com/saahil9jain
  • RadGraph: https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.14463
  • VisualCheXbert: https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.11467 
• You.Com:
  • Website: https://you.com/
  • Twitter: https://twitter.com/YouSearchEngine
  • Discord: https://discord.gg/f9jRFH5gHP 
• Others:
  • On Thorium: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElulEJruhRQ

More Throwdown? Check out these prior episodes:

• E143: The Evolution of Search with Marcus Eagan: https://www.programmingthrowdown.com/2022/09/143-evolution-of-search-with-marcus.html
• E94: Search at Etsy: https://www.programmingthrowdown.com/2019/10/episode-94-search-at-etsy.html

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00:01:05 Introductions

00:02:27 Jason’s pivotal Doctor Who regeneration

00:04:49 The power of dialog boxes

00:10:10 Python’s power

00:12:37 How disability discrimination can look

00:17:40 Making vs playing games

00:23:47 Jason’s POV on intention

00:28:04 Why Jason stayed with Python

00:40:11 Every language’s Thing

00:49:42 Duck typing

00:52:48 Global Interpreter Lock (GIL)

01:14:16 Dependencies

01:34:08 Finding Jason online

01:35:20 Farewells

Resources mentioned in this episode:

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Links:

• Jason C. McDonald:
  • Mastodon.Cloud: https://mastodon.cloud/@codemouse92
  • Website: https://codemouse92.com/
  • Github: https://github.com/CodeMouse92
  • BugHunters Café @ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bug-hunters-caf%C3%A9/id1556496590
• Rural Sourcing:
  • Website: https://www.ruralsourcing.com/
  • Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rural-sourcing/
• Book Recommendations:
  • Dead Simple Python (Jason C. McDonald): https://www.amazon.com/Dead-Simple-Python-Idiomatic-Programmers/dp/1718500920
  • Kill It With Fire (Marianne Bellotti): https://www.amazon.com/Kill-Fire-Manage-Computer-Systems/dp/1718501188
  • Dreaming In Code (Scott Rosenberg): https://www.amazon.com/Dreaming-Code-Programmers-Transcendent-Software/dp/1400082471
• Others:
  • Monty Python (troupe): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python
  • Monty Python (TV Show): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python%27s_Flying_Circus

More Python? Check out these prior episodes:

• E52: Scientific Python: https://www.programmingthrowdown.com/2016/03/episode-52-scientific-python.html
• E139: Scientific Python with Guido Imperiale: https://www.programmingthrowdown.com/2022/07/139-scientific-python-with-guido.html

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00:00:23 Introductions

00:02:01 Jason’s attic adventure

00:06:09 Comparing saws

00:10:57 Patrick’s surprisingly useful thing

00:12:21 SpaceX

00:17:31 Human motion diffusion model

00:20:47 37Signals

00:29:30 Polars

00:35:37 Books of the Show

00:46:11 Neon

00:50:33 Patrick’s player search

00:53:47 ChatGPT

01:17:12 The threat to Google

01:28:06 Jason and Patrick’s future prognostications

01:32:13 Farewells

Resources mentioned in this episode:

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News/Links:

• SpaceX Starship Static Test Fire Planned
  • https://www.cnet.com/science/space/spacex-prepping-for-first-full-test-fire-of-its-mega-starship-rocket/
• Human Motion Diffusion Model
  • https://guytevet.github.io/mdm-page/
• 37Signals Leaving the Cloud and Details Cloud Costs
  • https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1613508201953038337
• Polars: DataFrames in Rust
  • https://docs.rs/polars/latest/polars/index.html

Book of the Show:

• Jason: Build by Tony Fadell
  • https://amzn.to/3wpLnLW
• Patrick: Age of Myth by Michael Sullivan (Riyria)
  • https://amzn.to/3HlEsJ5

Tool of the Show:

• Jason: 
  • Neon: Serverless Postgres: https://neon.tech/
• Patrick: 
  • 7 Billion Humans (Steam): https://store.steampowered.com/app/792100/7_Billion_Humans/

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00:01:41 Introductions
00:02:34 Sam’s Github learning lesson
00:07:08 The day after
00:10:57 Getting started with databases
00:14:21 Schema change difficulties
00:19:47 Database transactions
00:31:15 Why data recovery matters
00:38:35 Planetscale
00:49:24 Greetings from the past
01:02:01 How Jason discovered Planetscale
01:06:53 Branching
01:14:00 The vision for Planetscale
01:18:12 The rationale behind Planetscale’s work setup
01:24:29 Careers at Planetscale
01:28:06 Amp It Up
01:33:10 Farewells

Resources mentioned in this episode:
Links:

• Sam Lambert:
  • Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/isamlambert/
• PlanetScale:
  • Website: https://planetscale.com/
  • Twitter: https://twitter.com/planetscaledata
  • Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/planetscale/
  • Github: https://github.com/planetscale
  • Careers: https://planetscale.com/careers
• Amp It Up (Amazon):
  • Paperback: https://www.amazon.com/Amp-Unlocking-Hypergrowth-Expectations-Intensity/dp/1119836115
  • Audiobook: https://www.amazon.com/Amp-Hypergrowth-Expectations-Increasing-Elevating/dp/B09QBRBKFB/

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00:00:59 Introductions

00:01:44 How Liran got started making websites

00:07:03 College advice for getting involved in real-world experience

00:12:51 Jumping into the unknown

00:15:22 ML engineering

00:20:50 The missing part in data science development

00:29:16 How to build skills in the ML space

00:37:01 A horror story

00:41:34 Model loading questions

00:47:36 Must-have skills in an ML resume

00:50:41 Deciding about data science

00:59:08 Rust

01:06:27 How Aporia contributes to the data science space

01:14:26 Working at Aporia

01:16:53 Farewells

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Links:

• Liran Hason:
  • Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hasuni/
• Aporia:
  • Website: https://www.aporia.com/
  • Twitter: https://twitter.com/aporiaai
  • Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/aporiaai/
  • Github: https://github.com/aporia-ai
• The Mom Test (Amazon):
  • Paperback: https://www.amazon.com/Mom-Test-customers-business-everyone/dp/1492180742
  • Audiobook: https://www.amazon.com/The-Mom-Test-Rob-Fitzpatrick-audiobook/dp/B07RJZKZ7F

References:

• Shadow Mode: https://christophergs.com/machine%20learning/2019/03/30/deploying-machine-learning-applications-in-shadow-mode/
• Blue-green deployment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue-green_deployment
• Coursera ML Specialization (Stanford): https://www.coursera.org/specializations/machine-learning-introduction
• Auto-retraining: https://neptune.ai/blog/retraining-model-during-deployment-continuous-training-continuous-testing

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00:00:56 Introductions

00:01:38 On’s first exposure to tech
00:06:04 Game development adventures
00:11:12 The difference between university and real-world experiences
00:17:43 A context switch question
00:24:41 Points of frustration
00:30:53 Build versus Buy complications
00:32:06 Code reviews
00:39:58 Quality of code
00:45:12 Using callouts for the right reasons
00:49:57 Code reviews can be too late sometimes
00:52:11 Using social interaction as pre-review orientation
00:57:03 How not to use code reviews
01:01:35 Where Wilco helps programmers learn
01:09:11 Working in Wilco
01:11:49 Farewells

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Links:

• On Freund:
  • Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/onfreund
• Wilco:
  • Website: https://www.trywilco.com/
  • Twitter: https://twitter.com/trywilco
    
    
  • Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/trywilco

 
References:

• Micro-Adventure:
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_Adventure

 
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00:00:39 Workflow engine definitions

00:01:40 Introductions

00:02:24 Sanjay’s 8th grade programming experience

00:05:28 Bioinformatics

00:10:29 The academics-vs-industry dilemma

00:16:52 Small company challenges

00:18:18 Correctly identifying when to scale

00:24:04 The solution Akasa provides

00:31:38 Workflow engines in detail

00:36:02 ETL frameworks

00:45:06 The intent of integration construction

00:47:13 Delivering a platform vs delivering a solution

00:50:04 Working within US medico-legal frameworks

00:53:28 Inadvertent uses of API calls

00:55:47 Working in Akasa

00:57:09 Interning in Akasa

00:58:35 Farewells

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Sanjay:

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/siddhantis
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanjaysiddhanti/

Akasa:

• Website: https://www.akasa.com
• Sanjay’s Q&A https://akasa.com/blog/10-questions-for-sanjay-siddhanti-director-of-engineering-at-akasa/
• Careers: https://akasa.com/careers/
• Interning: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/research-intern-ai-spring-summer-2023-at-akasa-3206403183/

References:

• Episode 33: Design Patterns:
  • https://www.programmingthrowdown.com/2014/05/episode-33-design-patterns.html
• The Mythical Man-Month:
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month

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Today we field questions from Programming Throwdown’s listeners about AI, machine learning, and more practical matters as developers in our annual holiday special!

00:00:24 Introductions

00:00:43 Programming Showdown merch

00:02:13 Paul S

00:03:28 Dealing with ergonomics

00:10:39 On AI coding assistant tools

00:16:43 Warren Y

00:20:24 Ben inquires about performance testing

00:27:39 Wild coding story

00:29:37 AI coding’s disruption potential

00:34:20 Jason’s Turing riddle

00:35:50 ChatGPT

00:43:59 Christian B

00:45:13 Collection-of-Letters asks on documentation

00:49:07 Zeh F

00:50:51 Coding books that weren’t that great

00:54:40 James K

00:57:32 Jeremy S wonders about ML

01:00:45 Virtual and live hangouts

01:02:09 A retrospective

01:07:49 Xu L

01:09:22 Showing off the shirts

01:11:31 Farewells

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Happy holidays from Programming Throwdown to everyone!

00:01:00 Introductions

00:01:29 When Max started Tea.XYZ

00:03:51 British plugs

00:08:10 Literally rolling out of bed to work

00:11:49 The value of meetups

00:13:14 Getting into open-source

00:23:00 Mandrake

00:25:02 Turning frustration into action

00:30:47 Deno

00:40:28 OSX’s relationship with Unix

00:55:33 Trying out Ruby

01:01:13 April Fools prank ideas

01:04:13 The cause of sleepless nights with Homebrew

01:14:41 What got Max inspired to do Tea

01:19:53 From startup to company

01:41:55 Farewells

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Links:

• Tea.XYZ:
  • Website: https://tea.xyz/
  • Twitter: https://twitter.com/teaxyz_
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tea.xyz/
  • Github: https://github.com/teaxyz
  • Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/teaxyz
  • Discord: https://discord.com/invite/KCZsXfJphn

References:

• 101 on Package Management:
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Package_manager
• Deno:
  • https://deno.land/

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00:00:45 Introductions

00:01:20 Yonatan’s beginnings

00:03:49 The simulation question

00:05:51 How physics led to quantum computing

00:14:56 Richard Feynman

00:16:44 On the irreversibility of normal computers

00:21:25 Logic gates

00:25:04 Qubits

00:30:11 An example of qubits

00:38:19 Why simulating a quantum computer matters

00:42:23 NP-complete problems

00:48:57 More people at a higher development level are needed

00:54:16 Quantum machines in the middle layer

01:02:56 Working at Quantum Machines

01:05:05 Farewells

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Links:

• Quantum Machines:
  • Website: https://www.quantum-machines.co/
  • Careers: https://www.quantum-machines.co/careers/
• Yonatan Cohen:
  • Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yonatan-cohen-10076b113/

References:

• Getting Started with Quantum Computing
  • https://builtin.com/software-engineering-perspectives/how-to-learn-quantum-computing

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00:01:03 Introductions

00:01:49 Mike’s Ruby journey

00:12:28 Evan’s own Ruby experience

00:18:20 The pickaxe book

00:20:34 Weird programming interests

00:25:11 MINASWAN

00:30:33 Language conferences

00:36:38 Wrong answers on StackOverflow

00:41:53 RubyCentral

00:44:50 In-depth examination of Ruby

00:47:57 How Shopify sticks to vanilla Rails

00:50:28 A tale of two developers

00:59:59 Bringing Ruby up to Python’s level

01:04:48 Shopify’s largest app monolith

01:11:12 Tuning the knobs

01:18:01 How not to learn the hard way

01:18:57 Opportunities at Shopify

01:29:14 Working with the RubyShield program

01:32:07 Rails for API servers

01:33:21 Mike and Evan’s advice for listeners

01:36:00 Farewells

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Links:

• RubyCentral:
  • Website: https://rubycentral.org/
  • RubyShield: https://rubycentral.org/ruby-shield
  • Twitter: https://twitter.com/rubycentralorg
• Shopify:
  • Website: https://www.shopify.com/
  • Careers: https://www.shopify.com/careers
  • Dev Degree Program: https://devdegree.ca/pages/program
• HashiCorp
  • Website: https://www.hashicorp.com/
  • Careers: https://www.hashicorp.com/jobs
• Mike Dalessio:
  • Website: http://mike.daless.io/
  • Twitter: https://twitter.com/flavorjones
• Evan Phoenix:
  • Website: https://github.com/evanphx
  • Twitter: https://twitter.com/evanphx
• RubyConf 2022 (Nov. 29 – Dec. 1, 2022):
  • Website: https://rubyconf.org/

Other Episodes:

• Episode 47: Ruby
  • Show Link: https://www.programmingthrowdown.com/2015/10/episode-47-ruby.html

References:

• “The Pickaxe Book” aka Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer’s Guide 2nd Edition:
  • Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Programming-Ruby-Pragmatic-Programmers-Second/dp/0974514055

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00:00:22 Introductions

00:01:28 Email & inbox organization is very important

00:07:28 The Douglas-Peucker algorithm

00:11:48 Starter project selection

00:17:01 Tic-Tac-Toe 

00:21:41 Artemis 1

00:26:25 Space slingshots

00:29:47 Flex Seal tape

00:32:38 The Meditations

00:37:58 Flour, Water, Salt, Yeast

00:40:55 Pythagorea

00:46:13 Google Keep

00:48:05 Visual-IF

00:50:49 Data insights

01:03:07 Self-supervised learning

01:10:26 A practical example of clustering

01:15:10 Word embedding

01:24:02 Farewells

Want to learn more? Check out these previous episodes:

• Episode 27: Artificial Intelligence Theory
  • https://www.programmingthrowdown.com/2013/05/episode-27-artificial-intelligence.html
• Episode 28: Applied Artificial Intelligence
  • https://www.programmingthrowdown.com/2013/06/episode-28-applied-artificial.html
• Episode 109: Digital Marketing with Kevin Urrutia
  • https://www.programmingthrowdown.com/2021/03/episode-109-digital-marketing-with.html
    
    

Resources mentioned in this episode:

News/Links:

• Simplify lines with the Douglas-Peucker Algorithm
  • https://ilya.puchka.me/douglas-peucker-algorithm/ 
• How to pick a starter project
  • https://amir.rachum.com/blog/2022/08/07/starter-project/
• Tic-Tac-Toe in a single call to printf()
  • https://github.com/carlini/printf-tac-toe 
• Artemis 1
  • https://www.nasa.gov/artemis-1/
• Visual-IF
  • https://www.visual-if.com/

Book of the Show:

• Jason’s Choice: “The Meditations” by Marcus Aurelius
  • https://amzn.to/3C3Kg7b
• Patrick’s Choice: “Flour, Water, Salt, Yeast” by Ken Forkish
  • https://amzn.to/3CqFwKa

Tool of the Show:

• Jason’s Choice: Pythagorea
  • Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hil_hk.pythagorea&hl=en&gl=US
    
    
  • iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pythagorea/id994864779
    
    
• Patrick’s Choice: Google Keep
  • https://keep.google.com/
    
    

References:

• Clustering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_analysis
• Autoencoding: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoencoder
• Contrastive Learning: https://towardsdatascience.com/understanding-contrastive-learning-d5b19fd96607
• Matrix Factorization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_factorization_(recommender_systems)
• Stochastic factorization: https://link.medium.com/ytuaUAYBjtb
• Deep Learning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_learning
  
  

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00:00:55 Introductions

00:01:38 Java frustrations 

00:09:37 Why a well-organized typing system is important

00:11:59 What Kotlin is

00:14:58 Obsidian 

00:20:13 Learning new things can be a prudent future investment

00:23:46 A pleasant coding experience

00:26:41 Co-routines in Kotlin

00:34:37 Where co-routines are best in app development

00:44:54 Thread balancing in practice

00:57:39 Kotlin’s integrated cancellation mechanism

01:05:10 Getting started with Kotlin

01:18:16 Farewells

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Marcin Moskala:

• Website: https://marcinmoskala.com/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/marcinmoskala
• KT Academy: https://kt.academy/

Kotlin Learning Resources

• Marcin on KT: https://kt.academy/user/marcinmoskala
• Kotlin Coroutines: https://leanpub.com/coroutines
• Effective Kotlin: https://leanpub.com/effectivekotlin
• Functional Kotlin (Early Access): https://leanpub.com/kotlin_functional
• More Kotlin Publications on Leanpub

Information Organization Tools

• WorkFlowy: https://workflowy.com/
• Obsidian: https://obsidian.md/
  
  

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00:00:34 Introductions

00:01:30 Marcus’s unusual origin story

00:05:10 Unsecured IoT devices

00:09:56 How security groupthink can compromise matters

00:12:48 The Target HVAC incident

00:17:32 Business challenges with home networks

00:21:51 Damerau-Levenshtein edit distance factor ≤ 2

00:23:58 How do people who do search talk about search

00:30:35 Inferring human intent before they intend it

00:46:13 Ben Horowitz

00:47:32 Seinfeld as an association exercise

00:52:27 What Marcus is doing at MongoDB

00:58:30 How MongoDB can help at any level

01:01:00 Working at MongoDB

01:08:14 Farewells

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Marcus Eagan:

• Website: https://marcussorealheis.medium.com
• The Future of Search Is Semantic & Lexical: https://marcussorealheis.medium.com/the-future-of-search-is-semantic-and-lexical-e55cc9973b63
• 13 Hard Things I Do To Be A Dope Product Manager: https://marcussorealheis.medium.com/13-hard-things-i-do-to-be-a-dope-database-product-manager-7064768505f8
• Github: https://github.com/MarcusSorealheis
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/marcusforpeace

MongoDB:

• Website: https://www.mongodb.com/
• Atlas: https://www.mongodb.com/cloud/atlas/register
• Careers: https://www.mongodb.com/careers

Others:

• Damerau-Levenshtein distance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damerau%E2%80%93Levenshtein_distance
• Lucene: https://lucene.apache.org/core/
• Target HVAC Incident (2014, Archive Link): https://archive.is/Wnwob 

Mergify:

• Website: https://mergify.com/

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00:01:00 Introductions

00:03:44 Hustling online at 11

00:08:08 From iOS to web-based development

00:10:20 How Douwe balanced school and work

00:12:05 Sid Sijbrandij

00:19:13 Why Twitter was integral in Douwe’s journey

00:21:01 What Meltano offers for data teams

00:22:01 Remote work

00:30:59 Gitlab’s data team and what they do

00:44:40 What tools do data engineers use

00:47:40 Singer

00:50:26 Game designer travails

00:58:59 Where data operations come in

01:05:12 Getting started with Meltano

01:12:00 Meltano as a company

01:22:09 Farewells

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Douwe Maan:

• Website: https://douwe.me/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/douwem
• GitLab: https://github.com/DouweM

Meltano:

• Website: https://meltano.com/
• Careers: https://boards.greenhouse.io/meltano
  
  

Singer:

• Website: https://www.singer.io/

Mergify:

• Website: https://mergify.com/
  
  

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00:04:47 Mojovision

00:06:07 Chips’ storied journey

00:11:06 Project Xanadu

00:18:45 Getting into Lucasfilm

00:31:31 Artificial Intelligence in games

00:39:48 GTA MP

01:00:10 How the game industry drives people

01:08:29 Agoric and its niche in the blockchain

01:20:12 Javascript’s securability

01:22:46 Working with Agoric

01:32:20 What skills Agoric’s team looks for

01:35:31 Chip’s parting thoughts

01:37:00 Farewells

Resources mentioned in this episode:
Chip Morningstar:

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/epopt

Agoric:

• Website: https://agoric.com/
• Careers: https://agoric.com/careers/

Habitat Chronicles:

• Website: http://habitatchronicles.com/

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00:01:51 How Ronak got started in programming

00:06:03 The first encounter with burnout

00:11:49 Double-edged benefits

00:17:23 Spoon theory

00:19:07 Why relationship clarity matters

00:25:11 A cold room story

00:30:59 Context switching’s relevance

00:35:45 QTorque’s solution to monitor cloud automation costs

00:39:19 Setting up lifetimes

00:42:17 Bom lists

00:49:19 How Quali helps with the challenges

00:54:40 What to do to actualize your true self

00:58:00 Farewells

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Ronak Rahman:

    Twitter: https://twitter.com/ofronak

Quali:

          Website: https://www.quali.com/
          Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/qualisystems/
          QTorque Free Tier: https://www.qtorque.io/pricing/
          Join QTorque: https://portal.qtorque.io/join

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00:02:22 The sluggish Python-based system that Guido revitalized

00:06:03 Meeting the challenge of adding necessary complexity to a project

00:11:59 Excel in banking

00:18:15 Guido’s shift into Coil

00:19:29 Scooby-Doo pajamas

00:20:21 What motivates people to come in to the office today

00:24:09 Pandas

00:35:35 Why human error can doom an Excel setup

00:39:29 BLAS

00:46:20 A million lines of data

00:51:43 How does Dask interact with Gambit

00:54:40 Where does Coil come in

00:59:34 The six-o-clock question

01:03:53 Dealing with matters of difficult decomposition

01:12:07 The Coil work experience

01:15:37 Why contributing is impressive

01:20:20 Coil’s product offering

01:21:19 Farewells

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Guido Imperiale:

• Github: https://github.com/crusaderky

Coiled:

• Website: https://coiled.io
• Careers: https://coiled.io/careers/
  
  

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00:00:49 IP v6

00:04:50 OSI

00:12:53 The IP v7 debate

00:20:18 The definition of an address’s scope

00:21:38 Why John feels DNS was a mistake

00:26:40 How IP mobility works

00:32:13 Bluetooth 

00:41:41 Where will Internet architecture go from here

00:49:49 Understanding the problem space

00:59:04 The angels in the details

01:00:53 Scientific thinking vs engineering thinking

01:04:01 Victorian architecture

01:06:11 John’s career advice

01:11:18 Garbage Can Model

01:14:38 How to make the most out of college today

01:27:05 Farewells

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Professor John D. Day:

• Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Day_(computer_scientist)
• Website: https://www.bu.edu/met/profile/john-day/
• Book: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/patterns-in-network/9780132252423/

Terminologies:

• CIDR: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classless_Inter-Domain_Routing
• OSI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model
• Connectionless Network Protocol: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connectionless-mode_Network_Service
• SIP (Session Initiation Protocol): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session_Initiation_Protocol
• Garbage can model: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_can_model

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00:01:28 COVID and the challenge of teaching

00:04:11 John’s academic and career path

00:08:14 LSI technology

00:12:13 Collaborative software development in the day

00:15:24 ARPANET’s early use

00:20:08 Atom bomb and weather simulations

00:26:55 The message-switching network 

00:34:57 Pouzin

00:38:00 Every register had a purpose

00:45:15 The Air Force in 1972

00:52:10 Low memory

00:59:14 Early problems with TCP

01:11:51 The separation of mechanism and policy

01:23:25 Farewells

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Professor John D. Day:

• Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Day_(computer_scientist)
• Website: https://www.bu.edu/met/profile/john-day/
• Book: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/patterns-in-network/9780132252423/

 Pouzin Society:

•  Website: https://pouzinsociety.org/
•  Twitter: https://twitter.com/pouzinsociety

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Decentralizing the future can often lead to missing out on genuine human communication. Daniel Liebeskind, Cofounder and CEO of Topia, talks about how they’re working to avoid that pitfall while building the foundation of a better online experience. Whether its his lessons from Burning Man, keeping the human spirit alive in today’s technological frontier, or how Topia fits in the future, Daniel has something for listeners.

00:01:34 Introduction

00:02:15 Daniel and early programming experience

00:07:51 How coding felt like sorcery

00:09:35 Skill trees

00:16:10 Second Life

00:19:56 Enhancing versus replacing real life experiences

00:26:28 A decentralized Metaverse

00:29:54 Web 2 versus Web 3 

00:34:15 /r/place

00:44:16 Why boom cycles are important for tech

00:46:03 Topia for consumers

00:52:47 Topia as a company

00:55:50 Opportunities at Topia

00:58:00 Topia.io

01:03:50 Farewells

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Daniel Liebeskind, Cofounder and CEO of Topia:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dliebeskind/
• Website: https://medium.com/@dliebeskind
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/dliebeskind

Topia:

• Website: https://topia.io/topia/careers
• LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/company/topia-io/

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00:01:03 Aran Khanna and his background

00:05:12 The Marauder’s Map that Facebook hated(Chrome Extension)

00:20:11 Why Google made Kubernetes

00:31:14 Horizontal and Vertical Auto-Scaling

00:35:54 Zencastr

00:39:53 How machines talk to each other

00:46:32 Sidecars

00:48:25 Resources to learn Kubernetes

00:52:59 Archera

00:59:31 Opportunities at Archera

01:01:08 Archera for End Users

01:02:30 Archera as a Company

01:05:46 Farewells

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Aran Khanna, Cofounder of Archera:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aran-khanna/
• Website: http://arankhanna.com/menu.html
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/arankhanna

Archera:

• Website: https://archera.ai/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/archera-ai/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/archeraai

Kubernetes:

• Website: https://kubernetes.io/
• Documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE77h7dmoQU

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How do you test changes to your web backend or database?  Many people have a "production" and one "development" database, but the development database can easily become broken by one engineer and thus unusable for the rest of the team.  Also, how would two engineers make changes in parallel to the development environment?  What if you could spin up hundreds or thousands of development databases as you need them? Today we have Benjie De Groot, Co-Founder and CEO of Shipyard to explain ephemeral environments and how virtual machines and containers have made massive improvements in devops!

00:00:15 Introduction

00:00:24 Introducing Benjie De Groot

00:01:26 Benjie’s Programming Background

00:06:34 How Shipyard started

00:09:17 Working in Startups vs. Tech Giants

00:19:28 The difference between Virtual Machines and Containers

00:26:17 Local Development Environment

00:40:27 What is a DevOps engineer and what does it entail?

00:45:42 Zencastr

00:50:12 Shipyard as a company

00:55:29 How Shipyard gets clients

01:06:48 Farewells

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Benjie De Groot, Co-Founder & CEO at Shipyard:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bueller/
• Podcast: https://www.heavybit.com/library/podcasts/the-kubelist-podcast/

Shipyard:

• Website: https://shipyard.build/
• Careers: https://shipyard.build/careers/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/shipyardbuild/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/shipyardbuild
• Community Website: https://ephemeralenvironments.io/
• GitHub: https://github.com/shipyard

Heavybit:

• Website: https://www.heavybit.com/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/heavybit/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/heavybit

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00:00:15 Introduction

00:00:27 Introducing Andrew Yates

00:00:50 Andrew’s Programming Background

00:04:19 Andrew at Promoted.AI

00:08:17 What is a Marketplace?

00:17:45 Marketplace Rankings

00:22:50 Short-term vs Long-term Experience

00:24:43 Machine Learning and the Marketplace

00:34:57 Measurements

00:37:09 Promoted.AI Integration

00:38:31 How Promoted.AI Measures Success

00:41:14 Auction Theory

00:46:08 Experience with YCombinator

00:50:34 Promoted.AI as a Company

00:55:47 Farewells

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Andrew Yates, Co-Founder & CEO at Promoted.ai:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-yates-0217a985/
• Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/ayates_promoted

Promoted.ai:

• Website: https://www.promoted.ai/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/promoted-ai/

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00:01:24 Gaming setups

00:12:25 News

• 00:12:27 I was wrong, CRDTs are the future
• 00:17:18 How we lost 54k Github stars
• 00:21:10 DALL-E
•  00:25:45 Inside the Longest Atlassian Outage of All Time

00:35:11: Sponsor

00:36:22 Book of the Show

• 00:36:38 Indie Boardgame Designers Podcast
• 00:37:24 The Laundry Files

00:40:35 Tool of the Show

• 00:40:39 Zapier
• 00:42:21 Earthly

00:46:46 Funding open-source projects

01:19:44 How to get funding for open-source projects

01:22:47 Farewells

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Media:

• The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2017)
• Class Action Park (2020)
• Indie Boardgame Designers Podcast: https://indieboardgamedesigners.com/
• GitHub Stars Won’t Pay Your Rent: https://medium.com/@kitze/github-stars-wont-pay-your-rent-8b348e12baed

News:

• I Was Wrong, CRDTs Are The Future: https://josephg.com/blog/crdts-are-the-future/
• How We Lost 54k GitHub Stars: https://httpie.io/blog/stardust
• DALL-E: https://openai.com/blog/dall-e/
• Inside the Longest Atlassian Outage of All Time: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/scoop-atlassian?s=r

Books:

• Indie Board Game Designers Podcast
• The Laundry Files: https://amzn.to/3kdWWQg

Tools:

• Zapier: https://zapier.com/
• N8n: https://n8n.io/
• Earthly: https://earthly.dev/

Adam Gordon Bell:

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/adamgordonbell
• Website: https://adamgordonbell.com/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamgordonbell/
• CoRecursive: https://corecursive.com/

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00:00:15 Introduction

00:00:44 Introducing Jimmy Secretan

00:01:10 How Brave started

00:09:33 Brave and internet advertising

00:21:13 Local machine learning

00:32:07 What is BAT (Brave Attention Tokens) 

00:42:59 Cross-platform data synchronization 

00:44:28 Chromium

00:50:22 Public and Private key encryption and authentication

00:54:27 Brave for Content Creators

00:59:03 Where is Brave now and what is its trajectory

01:05:40 Opportunities in Brave

01:13:10 Farewells

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Jimmy Secretan, VP of Ads and Premium Services:

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/jsecretan
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimmysecretan/

Brave:

• Website: https://brave.com/
• Brave Careers: https://brave.com/careers/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/brave
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/brave-software/

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00:00:15 Intro

00:01:25 Introducing Ted Harrington

00:07:10 Ethical Hackers, Non-Ethical Hackers, and Productivity

00:11:58 Starting out in Ethical Hacking/Security

00:14:40 Imposter Syndrome

00:19:34 What is Hacking?

00:30:48 Is Hacking like magic?

00:38:14 Defense in Depth

00:42:04 Earning trust and The Departed movie (Spoiler alert)

00:59:52 DEF CON® Hacking Conference

01:02:46 Tips on how not to get hacked

01:10:08 ISE.io culture and opportunities

01:24:13 Farewells

 Resources mentioned in this episode:

  Companies:

    ISE (Independent Security Evaluators)

o    Website: https://www.ise.io/

o    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/independent-security-evaluators

o    Twitter: https://twitter.com/ISEsecurity

o    Facebook: https://facebook.com/ISE.infosec

People:

    Ted Harrington

o   Website: https://www.tedharrington.com/

o   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/securityted/

o   Twitter: https://twitter.com/SecurityTed

o   Book: https://www.amazon.com/Hackable-How-Application-Security-Right/dp/154451767X

Sponsor:

    MParticle

o   Website: https://www.mparticle.com/

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What is Web 3.0? Guest speaker Michelle Lee, Product Lead of Protocol Labs, shares how web 3.0 will revolutionize the Internet and bring trust back into the web.

00:00:25 Introduction

00:01:36 Michelle Lee’s career 

00:03:10 What is human-computer interaction?

00:04:55 The Google Sheets user experience

00:06:19 Google Checkout, user feedback, and emails

00:10:23 Code for America

00:13:47 The real power of Open Source

00:14:14 Web 3.0

00:23:04 IPFS network accessibility

00:26:14 How does IPFS handle bogus content?

00:38:56 Network storage costs

00:43:03 Privacy and identification on IPFS

00:45:23 Content moderation from the Web 3.0 perspective

00:49:48 Audius

00:54:20 Protocol Labs and IPFS

00:55:26 Working with Protocol Labs

01:05:00 Farewells

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Companies:

• Protocol Labs:
  • Website: https://protocol.ai/
  • Twitter: https://twitter.com/protocollabs
  • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/protocollabs/
  • Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/ProtocolLabs
  • Filecoin: https://filecoin.io/
  • Hackathons @ Protocol Labs: https://hackathons.filecoin.io/
  • Course Learning @ Protocol Labs: https://proto.school/
• Metamask:
  • https://metamask.io/
• Fleek:
  • Website: https://fleek.co/
  • Space Storage: https://fleek.co/storage/
• Estuary:
  • Website: https://estuary.tech/
• Audius:
  • Website: https://audius.co/

Social Media:

• Michelle Lee, Product at Protocol Labs
  • Twitter: https://twitter.com/mishmosh
  • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michellelee3

Sponsor:

• Rollbar
  • Website: https://rollbar.com/
  • Freebies: https://try.rollbar.com/pt/

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What is WebAssembly? Guest speaker Kevin Hoffman, CTO of Cosmonic shares what WebAssembly is, why it exists, and what kind of things you can do with it.

Notes:

00:00:16 Introduction

00:00:52 Cosmonic during COVID

00:02:45 Kevin Hoffman’s career and Cosmonic’s begginings

00:12:39 WebAssembly integrations

00:16:20 What is WebAssembly?

00:27:30 The developer experience

00:30:30 WebAssembly, JSON, and other object interactions

00:36:35 Rollbar

00:41:08 Compiler linking

00:49:27 wasmCloud

00:54:21 Decoupling clouds

01:01:51 Cosmonic fostering wasmCloud/WebAssembly

01:03:28 Cosmonic as a company

01:09:33 Opportunities at Cosmonic

01:13:03 Farewells

Resources mentioned in this episode:
Companies:

• Cosmonic
• Website: https://cosmonic.com/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/cosmonic
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cosmonic-corp/

People:

• Kevin Hoffman, Chief Technology Officer at Cosmonic
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/KevinHoffman
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/%F0%9F%A6%80-kevin-hoffman-9252669/

Sponsor:

• Rollbar
• Website: https://rollbar.com/
• Freebies: https://try.rollbar.com/pt/

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Programming is difficult as it is, but imagine how difficult it was without all the current tools, compilers, synthesizers, etc. that we have today. Eran Yahav, Chief Technology Officer at Tabnine shares how AI is currently helping with code writing and how it could change in the future.

00:00:16 Introduction

00:00:51 Eran Yahav’s programming background

00:08:11 Balance between Human and the Machine

00:11:49 Static Analysis

00:29:42 Similarities in Programming Constructs

00:25:30 Average vs Tailored tooling

00:36:19 Machine Learning Quality Metrics 

00:38:27 Rollbar

00:40:19 Model Training vs Statistic Matching

00:50:19 Developers Interacting with their Code in the Future

01:00:18 Tabnine

01:08:17 Farewells

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Companies:

• Tabnine: 
  • Website: https://www.tabnine.com/
  • Twitter: https://twitter.com/Tabnine_
  • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tabnine/

Social Media:

• Eran Yahav, Chief Technology Officer at Tabnine
  • Twitter: https://twitter.com/yahave
  • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eranyahav/

Sponsor:

• Rollbar
  • Website: https://rollbar.com/
  • Freebies: https://try.rollbar.com/pt/

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Erez Berkner, CEO of Lumigo, talks about his company, going serverless, and why you should too. He shares his experience and tips regarding serverless computing and its ever-growing opportunities in modern computing.

00:00:16 Introduction

00:01:43 Introducing Erez Berkner

00:06:27 The start of Lumigo

00:10:42 What is Serverless

00:20:10 Challenges with going serverless

00:39:53 Securing Lambdas

00:46:50 Lumigo and breadcrumbs 

00:55:46 How to get started with Lumigo

• 00:57:06 Lumigo and databases
• 00:58:20 Lumigo pricing

01:00:28 Lumigo as a company

01:06:30 Contacting Lumigo

01:11:01 Farewells

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Companies:

• Lumigo: https://lumigo.io/
• Lumigo Free Trial: https://platform.lumigo.io/auth/signup

Socials:

• Erez Berkner:
  • Twitter: https://twitter.com/erezberkner
  • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erezbe/

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Object Caching Systems

Many people have heard the names "redis" or "memcached" but fewer people know what these tools are good for or why we need them so badly.  In this show, Patrick and I explain why caching is so important and how these systems work under the hood.

Intro topic: 
Public database & cache services (Planetscale & Upstash)

News/Links:

• Log4J Vulnerability
  • https://jfrog.com/blog/log4shell-0-day-vulnerability-all-you-need-to-know/
  • https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2021/12/11/guidance-for-preventing-detecting-and-hunting-for-cve-2021-44228-log4j-2-exploitation/
• Scan of the Month: Gameboys
  • https://scanofthemonth.com/game-boy-original/
• Hyrum’s Law
  • https://www.hyrumslaw.com/
• Make the Internet Yours Again With an Instant Mesh Network
  • https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10319-make-the-internet-yours-again-with-an-instant-mesh-network

Book of the Show

• Jason: AI 2041
  • https://amzn.to/3fOqnWQ
• Patrick: Dawnshard - Brandon Sanderson
  • https://amzn.to/3tFmuMi

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Tool of the Show

• Jason
  • Swagger: https://swagger.io/
• Patrick
  • ripgrep https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep

Topic: Object Caching Systems

• The need
  • Latency
  • In memory
  • Caching
• Disadvantages compared to DB
  • Size limits (memory)
  • Limited query support
  • Limited persistence options
  • Stale caches
• How it works
  • Key-value stores
  • Special operations for multi-get /multi-step
  • Expiry timers on each key
  • Hashing
• Examples
  • Redis
  • Memcached
  • DynamoDB
  • Google datastore
  • Firebase database

00:00:15 Introduction

00:00:54 New Year’s Resolutions

00:03:59 Saving money on cloud servers

00:17:20 Scan of the Month

00:20:14 Hyrum’s Law

00:25:30 Make the Internet Yours Again with an Instant Mesh Network 

00:31:45 Book of the Show 

00:31:56 AI 2041 

00:35:25 Don Shard

00:37:35 Tool of the Show

00:38:17 Swagger

00:59:10 ripgrep

0:45:31 Object Caching Systems

01:10:22 High Frequency Trading

01:14:07 Farewells

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00:15:35 (Kevin)

What's been the biggest thing that pushed you to learn more during your career?
Was it taking a new job and moving somewhere, doing stuff in your spare time or something like a new hobby or anything else?

00:29:38 (Kevin)

Favorite city to live in or visit?

00:31:29 First Winner (James B.)

00:32:21 (Clever Clover/James)

Next biggest tech prediction.

00:36:28 (Paul) 

If we could standardize all the code there is out there to one particular language, which language would it be and why would it be Python?

00:40:40 Second Winner (Collin G.)

00:41:21 (Necrous)

If you could redo your career and education path, what would you change?

00:47:12 Third Winner (Matt I.)

00:47:48 (MQNC)

What is the dirtiest hackiest anti-pattern piece of code you ever wrote in full consciousness and even maybe enjoying the thrill and why was it the way to go?

00:54:36 (Leedle)

Thoughts on server side rendering React and NextJS?

00:57:00 Fourth Winner (Glenn S.)

00:57:25 (NC Plattipus)

The visual programming language, LabVIEW?