A solid pre-flight checklist by PG aficionado Craig Kerstiens. It covers all the essentials: backups, high-availability, logging, statement timeouts & connection pooling.

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After two years of work, Kirby Ferguson has combined his four part series into a single, hour-long video. I haven’t even watched it yet (it’s queued up), but I know this is absolutely deserving of an hour of your time this weekend.

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Jerod & the gang catch you up on what’s new and poppin’ in the web development world. We go deep on GitHub Copilot X and the latest AI advancements, take a bathroom break while Nick talks about TypeScript 5 & continue the debate about the future of React.

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• Amal Hussein – Twitter, GitHub
• Nick Nisi – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Kevin Ball – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

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• GitHub Copilot X
• Mozilla.ai
• Firefly Adobe GenAI
• TypeScript 5.0
• React.dev is now a thing

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(00:00) - It's party time, y'all
(01:03) - Welcome, friends
(01:47) - GitHub Copilot X
(05:21) - GPT-4 in your editor
(10:39) - GPT-4 in your docs & PRs
(14:24) - The other Copilot
(17:22) - Copilot all the things
(19:52) - See you later, humans!
(21:47) - Mozilla & AI for the rest of us
(24:15) - Where's Apple?
(26:44) - Adobe is doing cool stuff
(29:11) - Copilot in interviews?
(32:52) - Sponsor: Changelog++
(33:47) - Nick's beloved TypeScript 5.0
(36:05) - Unbreak Nick's heart
(37:20) - TypeScripters are vegan?!
(38:37) - TypeScript vs K8s adoption
(41:42) - Enom-nom-erators
(42:33) - A compelling argument
(44:03) - React.dev launches
(46:12) - Debating the future of React
(54:04) - The bigger problem of too much JS
(57:20) - Nuance wrt DX vs UX
(59:31) - The need to evaluate
(1:00:40) - Nick's beshoveled TypeScript
(1:01:30) - Nick tries to have the final word
(1:04:13) - KBall steals the final word
(1:06:26) - Amal gets the actual final word
(1:08:12) - Quick wrap up
(1:08:37) - Next up on the pod

Taxy uses GPT-4 to control your browser and perform repetitive actions on your behalf. Currently it allows you to define ad-hoc instructions. In the future it will also support saved and scheduled workflows.

Taxy’s current status is research preview. Many workflows fail or confuse the agent. If you’d like to hack on Taxy to make it better or test it on your own workflows, follow the instructions below to run it locally. If you’d like to know once it’s available for wider usage, you can sign up for our waitlist.

Ok that’s cool… 🤯

Here it is using Google Calendar with the prompt “Schedule standup tomorrow at 10am. Invite david@taxy.ai”

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Alex Schepanovski:

I always thought of 1+N as a thing that you just keep in your head, catch on code reviews or via performance regressions. This worked well for a long time, however, the less control we have over our SQL queries the more likely it will sneak through those guards…

I tumbled on a couple of 1+Ns while reading a project code for an unrelated reason and it got me thinking – do I ever want Django to do that lazy loading stuff? And the answer was never.

Turns out the implementation of this is quite easy. ~15 loc for the naive version and ~35 for a more robust version. Give it a try if you, like Alex, never want to allow a 1+N in your Django app again.

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We’re joined by the creators of Wails and Fyne to dig into writing Go code for different architectures and operating systems.

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• Andy Williams – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Mat Ryer – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Natalie Pistunovich – Twitter, GitHub

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• Wails
• Fyne
• Xbar
• Taskfile
• Go GUI developer survey

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(00:00) - It's Go Time!
(00:57) - Welcoming our guests
(02:53) - Gooey Team
(07:28) - Intro to Wails
(10:12) - Intro to Fyne
(15:43) - Lea's repo bands
(16:51) - Frontend code in Fyne
(19:05) - Frontend code in Wails
(20:30) - Building cross-platform tools
(28:36) - Will generics make things easier?
(32:42) - Sponsor: Changelog++
(33:37) - Things they'd do differently
(44:09) - Accounting for taste
(49:19) - The smallest possible API
(52:45) - It's time for Unpopular Opinions!
(53:28) - Anthony's unpop
(56:41) - Andy's unpop
(1:00:48) - Natalie's unpop
(1:02:44) - Mat's unpop
(1:05:16) - Gotta Go!
(1:07:01) - Outro (Changelog++ bonus)

This open letter by the Future of Life institute has been signed by 1380 people (so far) including notable technologists such as Steve Wozniak, Stuart Russell, Emad Mostaque (Stability AI) & Elon Musk.

Powerful AI systems should be developed only once we are confident that their effects will be positive and their risks will be manageable. This confidence must be well justified and increase with the magnitude of a system’s potential effects. OpenAI’s recent statement regarding artificial general intelligence, states that “At some point, it may be important to get independent review before starting to train future systems, and for the most advanced efforts to agree to limit the rate of growth of compute used for creating new models.” We agree. That point is now.

Therefore, we call on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4. This pause should be public and verifiable, and include all key actors. If such a pause cannot be enacted quickly, governments should step in and institute a moratorium.

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The team behind this took LLaMA and trained it on ~800k GPT-3.5-Turbo responses. The result is a sophisticated assistant you can easily run on your laptop by downloading a 4GB file and cloning the repo.

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k8sgpt is a tool for scanning your Kubernetes clusters, diagnosing and triaging issues in simple english. It has SRE experience codified into it’s analyzers and helps to pull out the most relevant information to enrich it with AI.

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After years of working for Google on the Go Team, Filippo Valsorda quit last year to experiment with more sustainable paths for open source maintainers. Good news, it worked! Filippo is now a full-time open source maintainer and he joins Jerod on this episode to tell everyone exactly how he’s making the equivalent to his total compensation package at Google in open source.

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• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

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• Filippo on Go Time talking fuzzing
• Filippo on Go Time talking security
• I’m now a full-time professional open source maintainer
• age file encryption
• mkcert
• yubikey-agent
• Lemonade Stand

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(00:00) - This week on The Changelog
(00:52) - Sponsor: Postman
(03:41) - Welcoming Filippo to the show
(06:45) - Filippo's open source projects
(16:30) - Corporate sponsorship doesn't scale
(19:36) - Experimenting with a new model
(23:28) - Benefiting both parties
(33:30) - Detailing the agreement terms
(37:23) - A success path that grows
(40:19) - Refining the sales pitch
(44:18) - Sponsor: Sentry
(46:24) - The most common objection
(53:16) - Proving the model over time
(54:49) - A place for punditry perhaps?
(57:29) - The best way to connect with Filippo
(59:33) - Name it to tame it
(1:01:37) - Wrapping up
(1:02:11) - Outro (join Changelog++!)

Design handoffs are inefficient and painful. They cause frustration, friction and a lot of back and forth. Can we avoid them altogether? Of course we can! Let’s see how to do just that.

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We are seeing an explosion of AI apps that are (at their core) a thin UI on top of calls to OpenAI generative models. What risks are associated with this sort of approach to AI integration, and is explainability and accountability something that can be achieved in chat-based assistants?

Beth Rudden of Bast.ai has been thinking about this topic for some time and has developed an ontological approach to creating conversational AI. We hear more about that approach and related work in this episode.

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• Beth Rudden – Twitter, LinkedIn
• Chris Benson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Daniel Whitenack – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

• Bast.ai

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Timestamps:

(00:00) - Welcome to Practical AI
(00:42) - Beth Rudden
(07:30) - Bringing in ontology
(16:27) - Don't infer consciousness
(22:18) - Dealing with bias
(25:59) - How to create access
(31:35) - Using AI responsibly
(38:31) - Implementing NLG to more modalities
(42:14) - Will AI make you learn better?
(44:19) - Wrap up
(44:50) - Outro

ALOHA stands for “A Low-cost Open-source Hardware System for Bimanual Teleoperation”, which is certainly a stretch in terms of acronym, but the project itself is so cool that I don’t think it really matters… Here’s the pitch:

Fine manipulation tasks, such as threading cable ties or slotting a battery, are notoriously difficult for robots because they require precision, careful coordination of contact forces, and closed-loop visual feedback. Performing these tasks typically requires high-end robots, accurate sensors, or careful calibration, which can be expensive and difficult to set up. Can learning enable low-cost and imprecise hardware to perform these fine manipulation tasks? We present a low-cost system that performs end-to-end imitation learning directly from real demonstrations, collected with a custom teleoperation interface.

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GitHub announces Copilot X, Mckay Wrigley created an open source ChatGPT UI buit with Next.js, TypeScripe & Tailwind CSS, OpenAI is also launching a ChatGPT plugin initiative, Brad Woods writes about juice in software development, Logto is an open source alternative to Auth0, Basaran is an open source alternative to the OpenAI text completion API & llama-cli is a straightforward Go CLI interface for llama.cpp.

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Featuring:

• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

• Brain Science
• GitHub Copilot X
• Chatbot UI
• ChatGPT Plugins
• Notes about Juice
• Logto
• Basaran
• llama-cli

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(00:00) - Intro
(00:14) - Brain Science
(00:56) - GitHub Copilot X
(01:36) - Chatbot UI
(02:55) - ChatGPT Plugins
(03:38) - Juice in software
(05:16) - Lightning Round!
(05:30) - Logto
(05:41) - Basaran
(06:00) - llama-cli
(06:15) - Outro

Dave Runje:

We were searching for something like FastAPI for Kafka-based service we were developing, but couldn’t find anything similar. So we shamelessly made one by reusing beloved paradigms from FastAPI and we shamelessly named it FastKafka.

The point was to set the expectations right - you get pretty much what you would expect: function decorators for consumers and producers with type hints specifying Pydantic classes for JSON encoding/decoding, automatic message routing to Kafka brokers and documentation generation.

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Alexander Lotvall:

It’s a typing app specifically for software developers. You type code snippets from real open source projects. It supports inviting your friends to a room and competing in real time against your friends, and you can get your result on the global leaderboard.

I like how it uses code snippets from popular projects. I don’t like how slow I am at writing Rust code! 🤣

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Node core committer Erick Wendel joins Jerod & KBall to talk us through how he created his own JS runtime using V8, Libuv & more. Along the way we learn from his learnings, wrap our heads around the differences between Node, Bun & Deno, and talk about creating awesome content for developers… whether they like it or not!

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• Erick Wendel – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Kevin Ball – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

• Holla! BeJS CONF Use code JSPARTYTIME for 30% off
• 🎥 Creating your own JavaScript Runtime using V8, Libuv and more
• ECMAScript 2023 Language Specification
• LibUV

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(00:00) - It's party time, y'all!
(01:03) - Welcoming Erick to the show
(03:19) - Holla! BeJS CONF
(05:20) - Erick's Node.js research
(08:59) - Powered by V8
(17:41) - Where libuv fits in
(21:25) - Competing runtimes
(30:55) - Sponsor: KBall Growth
(31:38) - First steps to recreate Node
(35:23) - Drawing clear lines around V8
(44:09) - Jerod breaks ChatGPT
(45:05) - Erick's curious about React Native
(47:04) - Persistence and video games
(49:20) - The content creator's dilemma
(51:58) - Erick's publishing formula
(54:30) - Erick's final words
(55:13) - KBall's final words
(56:45) - Jerod's final words
(57:25) - The wrap up
(58:57) - Next up on the pod

In this episode Adam and Mireille discuss what it takes to develop a high performance mindset. Your mindset is the mental framework that influences your actions, your decisions, and your overall approach to life. Discover how to nurture a growth-oriented and positive mindset, fostering resilience, adaptability, and a commitment to self-improvement. This episode is a must-listen for anyone looking to optimize their mental framework and cultivate a growth-oriented mindset to achieve success in their personal and professional lives.

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(00:00) - This is Brain Science
(00:48) - Start the show!
(03:49) - High-performance mindset
(06:18) - What's required?
(10:04) - Something over nothing
(11:06) - High-performance habits
(14:27) - When things are not clear
(19:29) - Sometimes pain is the indicator
(25:44) - Sponsor: Magic Mind
(30:28) - How does focus effect high-performance?
(37:52) - Resources for high-performance mindset
(39:56) - Setting expectations
(43:20) - Outro

Steve Yegge is very excited about LLMs and thinks the rest of us should be as well:

There is something legendary and historic happening in software engineering, right now as we speak, and yet most of you don’t realize at all how big it is.

LLMs aren’t just the biggest change since social, mobile, or cloud–they’re the biggest thing since the World Wide Web. And on the coding front, they’re the biggest thing since IDEs and Stack Overflow, and may well eclipse them both.

Steve’s been in the industry a long time. He worked at Amazon back when AWS was just a demo on some engineer’s laptop and he worked at Google when Kubernetes was just a demo on some engineer’s laptop.

The point: when Steve Yegge gets excited about something it probably means more than when most people get excited about something.

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Use ane_transformers as a reference PyTorch implementation if you are considering deploying your Transformer models on Apple devices with an A14 or newer and M1 or newer chip to achieve up to 10 times faster and 14 times lower peak memory consumption compared to baseline implementations.

We were just discussing Apple’s next AI move on yesterday’s JS Party live (ships to the feed next Friday). They’ve been the quietest tech giant since the GenAI movement kicked in to high gear. My guess: they’ll have a LOT to say at this June’s WWDC…

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