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Chariot TechCast episodes
- TechChat Tuesdays #56: The ‘cloudy layers’ of modern programming, context switching, and scaling Mastodon
The first TechChat of 2023! Hosts Ken Rimple and Sujan Kapadia are back with plenty of fresh links. Join them for a special ‘get off my lawn, kid’ episode where they talk about the cloudy layers of modern programming, the dangers of context switching, scaling Mastodon, and the latest tech releases.
Host Notes- Philly Emerging Tech is back for 2023! We’re back in-person, with a livestream ticket option as well. In-person seating is limited, so take advantage of our early bird pricing now. Check out the website for lineup, tickets, and more details.
- We’ve always got great content on the Chariot blog, written by our developers: it’s got over 20 years of tech reviews, tutorials, and more.
- And a reminder that you can watch full playlists of videos from all of our events, including Philly Emerging Tech 2022, on our YouTube channel. You know the drill: like and subscribe!
Show Notes- Here’s one by our own Keith Gregory, Using EventBridge Pipes to route CloudWatch Logs to Kinesis
- An excellent article by Vicki Boykis examining the cloudy layers of modern-day programming
- The real cost of context switching is much higher than we realize
- Dev environments in the cloud: a half-baked solution?
- Vite 4.0 is out, as is SWR 2.0
- Blue/Green deployments on RDS
- Is scaling Mastodon impossible?
Producer note: This episode took place on January 3, 2023. This is a recording. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to keep up with all our new tech content.
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56 min - Chariot TechChat #55: Right to repair, BYO password manager, and Next.js 13Host Notes
- We’ve always got great content on the Chariot blog, written by our developers: it’s got over 20 years of tech reviews, tutorials, and more.
- We’re hiring! If you’re a senior software engineer interested in working with bright, curious colleagues who love to share what they learn, consider joining our team. Open positions, benefits, and interview process can all be found here.
- We had a blast at our first Tech Training for Women event. If you missed the show, you can watch all the video content at this handy playlist.
Show Notes- America’s first-ever ‘right to repair’ bill is approved by New York’s legislature
- The fallacy of premature optimization
- Lucid dreamers can participate in two-way dialogue with waking world, says new study
- Deno 1.27 is here
- Shopify purchases Remix.run, and we all wonder what comes next
- The HoloKit X Headset advances hands-free AR on iPhones
- BYOPM (bring your own password manager)
- Dennard scaling is gone, Amdahl’s Law is reaching its limit, and Moore’s Law is becoming difficult and expensive to follow. Chip design shifts as fundamental laws run out of steam
- The Carrington Event, the most intense geomagnetic storm in recorded history… and never miss another geomagnetic storm with SpaceWeather.com
Producer note: This episode took place on November 1st, 2022. This is a recording. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to keep up with all our new tech content.
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45 min - Chariot TechChat #54: Virtual threads in Java, Steve Yegge, and the forgotten OS keeping NYC’s subway aliveFrom the Chariot Blog
- We’ve always got great content on the Chariot blog, written by our developers: it’s got over 20 years of tech reviews, tutorials, and more.
- We’re hiring! If you’re a senior software engineer interested in working with bright, curious colleagues who love to share what they learn, consider joining our team. Open positions, benefits, and interview process can all be found here.
- If you’re a self-identified woman looking to level up your dev skills, join us at our free, one-day conference: A Guided Tour of Full Stack. It’s not too late to register for the event on 10/18.
Dev News- Virtual Threads and thread per request in Java – what’s old is new again! We loved this extremely well-written post by Brian Goetz that goes into detail about virtual threads in Java.
- Stop storing your keys in source control! Toyota learns a tough lesson
- Functional Programming in Scala: Second Edition has been published (shout out to the author, our friend Michael Pilquist)
- Big changes to Akka licensing
- SourceGraph gets a new Head of Engineering, and it’s Steve Yegge emerging from retirement
- And, sidenote, one of Steve Yegge’s iconic blog posts we both love, “Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns“
- The forgotten OS keeping NYC’s subway system alive
- 7 cool HTML elements that nobody uses (OK, the meter one is pretty cool)
- JetBrains Fleet is FINALLY here
- Want cleaner code? Use the Rule of Six
Producer note: This episode took place on October 13th, 2022 at 11:30PM. This is a recording. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to keep up with all our new tech content.
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52 min - TechChat Tuesdays #53: Boycotting Wayland, and banishing the leap secondFrom the Chariot Blog
- We’ve always got great content on the Chariot blog, written by our developers: it’s got over 20 years of tech reviews, tutorials, and more.
- We’re celebrating our 20th anniversary here at Chariot. Check out this post written by our fearless leader and CEO, Mike Rappaport, on how Chariot’s unique approach has maintained success through 20 years of business.
- Is there an easier way to debug your serverless functions before you deploy? Chariot consultant Chris Birster shows you how to incorporate LocalStack and Serverless Offline into your workflow for easier debugging.
Dev News- Sujan and Ken agree, if you’re a dev, SQL is definitely worth learning. Here’s a tutorial that brings you past the basics.
- For developers using Linux these days, boycott Wayland (it breaks everything).
- Software, simplicity. Read Your code doesn’t have to be a mess by Daniel Sieger.
- A great presentation by Sujan that he delivered for Zip Code Wilmington, entitled Things I wish I had known before I started my first development job.
- VIM 9 is released
- The “benevolent dictator for life, who wrote most of Vim itself”, Bram Moolenaar.
- The dangers of Microsoft Pluton.
- Amazon releases AWS metrics from Amazon Prime day.
- Tech giants want to banish the leap second to stop internet crashes.
- Use GPT-3 to explain how code works.
Producer note: This episode took place on July 26th, 2022 at 12PM. This is a recording. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to be notified of our upcoming release of Philly ETE 2022 videos, and our forthcoming frontend development video series with Chariot consultant Drew DeCarme.
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45 min - TechChat Tuesdays #52: Remix Conf Recap
The boys are back in town! Host Ken Rimple and Chariot consultants Chris Birster and Drew DeCarme discuss their takeaways from the recent Remix Conf, which took place in Salt Lake City, Utah. Remix is a full stack web framework that lets you focus on the user interface and work back through web standards to deliver a fast, slick, and resilient user experience.
Show Notes- Critical updates to iOS, Mac, Chrome, and Windows
- All of the cool stuff at WWDC, like new Macbook Airs with M2 chips, new iOS, new OS X, more
- Developer burnout: what it is, what the symptoms are, how to alleviate it
- Major performance improvements in Python 3.11
Remix Conference Roundtable- Learn more about the Remix.run framework
- Check out the 2022 conference schedule
- Missed it? Watch a stream of the full show
- Remix stacks and flat routes
- Lightning fast disc golf application, built using Remix
Producer note: This episode took place on June 7th, 2022 at 12PM. This is a recording. Subscribe to our YouTube channel and tune in every other Tuesday at noon EST to hang out with the TechChat crew.
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46 min - TechChat Tuesdays #51: Ashley Williams, Rust Core Team Member & Founder of the Rust FoundationOverview
In this episode, we share an exclusive conversation with Ashley Williams. Ashley is a current member of the Rust Core team. She is the founder of the Rust Foundation and served as its first executive director. She has served as a leader or member of the Rust crates.io, infrastructure, and community teams, WebAssembly working group, and the RustBridge and Increasing Rust’s Reach programs.
Ashley has been the original author and lead maintainer of many popular developer tools in the Rust ecosystem, from Cloudflare’s wrangler, to wasm-pack, cargo-generate, and several others. Previously, Ashley was a leader of the Node.js Community Committee, founded the NodeTogether educational initiative, and served as the first Individual Membership Director of the Node.js Foundation (now OpenJS Foundation).
Ashley has worked at npm, Mozilla, and Cloudflare. Ashley studied Neuroscience and Philosophy and was originally a middle school science teacher in NYC.
Host Notes- Check out Ken’s free webinar on May 11th at 10AM ET: Next.js, Remix.run and Accelerating React Performance. In case you can’t make it in time, bookmark that page for the recording.
- ETE has concluded for 2022, but keep an eye on our YouTube channel for videos from the event coming late summer.
- Chariot Solutions is hiring! We offer a culture of flexibility and trust, a focus on continual learning, and health benefits 100% paid, for you and your family, with zero deductible. We’re committed to the well-being of our employees — so if you’re a senior-level software, mobile, or data engineer, consider joining our team. Remote positions are available as well!
- We’ve always got great content on the Chariot blog, written by our developers. Tech reviews, tutorials, and more. Check out the latest here.
Show Notes- Hackers are actively exploiting a huge Big-IP F5 router vulnerability (the vulnerability is further detailed here).
- GNOME patent troll stripped of patent rights
- Oracle already wins ‘crypto bug of the year‘ with Java digital signature bypass
- Java news Roundup from ETE friend Michael Redlich: JEPs for Projects Loom and Panama, JobRunr 5.1.0, Kotlin 1.7.0 Preview
- Quickly build snazzy looking data “apps” and dashboards via Python scripts using Streamlit
- Project Loom and virtual threads and the new Java concurrency model
Producer note: This episode took place on May 10th, 2022 at 12PM. This is a recording. Subscribe to our YouTube channel and tune in every other Tuesday at noon EST to hang out with the TechChat crew.
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1 hr 17 min - TechChat Tuesdays #50: ETE 2022 Keynote, Elizabeth Adams
It’s our 50th episode! We welcome an extraordinary guest, Elizabeth Adams! Elizabeth Adams was one of our keynote speakers at Philly ETE 2022 this year. She is the Global Chief AI Culture & Ethics Officer of Women in AI, and a Forbes “15 AI Ethics Leaders Showing The World The Way Of The Future.” Host Ken Rimple and Chariot’s CMO, Tracey Welson-Rossman, sit down for a conversation with Elizabeth to chat about her work and her keynote talk.
Host Notes- ETE has concluded for 2022, but keep an eye on our YouTube channel for videos from the event coming late summer.
- Chariot Solutions is hiring! We offer a culture of flexibility and trust, a focus on continual learning, and health benefits 100% paid, for you and your family, with zero deductible. We’re committed to the well-being of our employees — so if you’re a senior-level software, mobile, or data engineer, consider joining our team. Remote positions are available as well!
- We’ve always got great content on the Chariot blog, written by our developers. Tech reviews, tutorials, and more. Check out the latest here.
Dev News- AWS RDS Vulnerability.
- Kickstart your microservices architecture/Decomposing the monolith – event storming.
- How AWS Firecracker works.
- Flutter for Windows is announced.
Interview with Elizabeth Adams- The rest of this episode is an interview with ETE 2022 Keynote, Elizabeth Adams.
Producer note: This episode took place on April 12th, 2022 at 12PM. This is a recording. Subscribe to our YouTube channel and tune in every other Tuesday at noon EST to hang out with the TechChat crew.
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41 min - TechChat Tuesdays #49: An Interview with Linda Rising
This week on the TechChat we feature our interview with the incomparable Linda Rising, ETE speaker, and co-author of books including “Fearless Change” and “More Fearless Change”.
She lives in Nashville as a lecturer and independent consultant, and is credited as having played a major role in having “moved the pattern approach from design into corporate change.”
Read more and get tickets here.
Host Notes- ETE is back for 2022! We’re virtual again this year, but don’t miss another great roster of speakers and content.
- Enter Code TECHCHAT at checkout for $25 off your ticket!
- Chariot Solutions is hiring! We offer a culture of flexibility and trust, a focus on continual learning, and health benefits 100% paid, for you and your family, with zero deductible. We’re committed to the well-being of our employees — so if you’re a senior-level software, mobile, or data engineer, consider joining our team. Remote positions are available as well!
- We’ve always got great content on the Chariot blog, written by our developers. Tech reviews, tutorials, and more. Check out the latest here.
Dev News- Crouton.net is still up and running.
- React 18 is out.
- “SpringShell” vulnerability in the wild, review and patch your software.
- This vulnerability is in 3 VMWare Tanzu services.
- Researchers posit this will not be as exploitable in all cases as much as Log4Shell was…
- YABTTMBB (Yet another Battery Technology That Might Be Better)
- Pre-release Google Chrome Labs tool Forms Troubleshooter.
- The best hold music in the world.
- The creator of the hold music.
- Amber Case ETE 2021 Keynote.
Interview with Linda Rising- The rest of this episode is an interview with ETE 2022 Speaker Linda Rising.
- The discussion touches on the book, Thinking Fast and Slow, and her GOTO 2019 talk.
- Check out Linda’s ETE 2010 and ETE 2014 talks.
Producer note: This episode took place on April 4th, 2022 at 12PM. This is a recording. Subscribe to our YouTube channel and tune in every other Tuesday at noon EST to hang out with the TechChat crew.
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1 hr 15 min - TechChat Tuesdays #48: Carson Gross and HTMX
The Philly Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise conference (Philly ETE) is less than a month away, and in this episode, we’ve got an exclusive interview with one of our speakers: Carson Gross.
Carson Gross runs Big Sky Software, which finds hot, new trends and then does the opposite of that. Big Sky Software has produced HTMX, Hyperscript, Intercooler.js and many other open source tools. He also teaches Computer Science part time at Montana State University. His main interests are hypermedia, programming languages and general development philosophy. Don’t miss his talk at ETE this year: “A Return To Hypermedia: Solving Javascript Fatigue Using The Fundamental Architecture Of The Web”.
Read more and get tickets here.
Host Notes- ETE is back for 2022! We’re virtual again this year, but don’t miss another great roster of speakers and content. Early bird tickets are only $150 until March 31st- register now.
- Enter Code TECHCHAT at checkout for $25 off your ticket!
- Chariot Solutions is hiring! We offer a culture of flexibility and trust, a focus on continual learning, and health benefits 100% paid, for you and your family, with zero deductible. We’re committed to the well-being of our employees — so if you’re a senior-level software, mobile, or data engineer, consider joining our team. Remote positions are available as well!
- We’ve always got great content on the Chariot blog, written by our developers. Tech reviews, tutorials, and more. Check out the latest here.
Dev News- Zero Day Chrome update.
- Another great Rust-based command-line tool, Difftastic.
- Many more here.
- EU’s Digital Markets Act could ruin encrypted messaging and privacy.
- Beyond meeting transcripts – automated meeting summaries!
- SwiftUI based open source Mac OS native code editor.
Interview with Carson Gross- The rest of this episode is an interview with ETE 2022 Speaker Carson Gross.
Producer note: This episode took place on March 29th, 2022 at 12PM. This is a recording. Subscribe to our YouTube channel and tune in every other Tuesday at noon EST to hang out with the TechChat crew.
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50 min - TechChat Tuesdays #47: Dev News Ultra
This week, Ken Rimple and Sujan Kapadia drop in for some brief coverage of the last few weeks’ dev news! They also discuss helpful sites for developers, and the latest Apple event.
Host Notes- ETE is back for 2022! We’re virtual again this year, but don’t miss another great roster of speakers and content. Early bird tickets are only $150 until March 31st- register now.
- Chariot Solutions is hiring! We offer a culture of flexibility and trust, a focus on continual learning, and health benefits 100% paid, for you and your family, with zero deductible. We’re committed to the well-being of our employees — so if you’re a senior-level software, mobile, or data engineer, consider joining our team. Remote positions are available as well!
- We’ve always got great content on the Chariot blog, written by our developers. Tech reviews, tutorials, and more. Check out the latest here.
Dev News- ARM layoffs after failed NVIDIA merger.
- Google’s new sensor technology.
- “Potentially catastrophic” lithium battery fire.
Helpful Sites/Blogs- Discovering thousands of open databases on AWS.
- Run Pandas as fast as Spark.
- Javascript default exports aren’t always fun.
- Catalog of design patterns.
- Vim reference guide.
Apple Event- Tom’s guide provides an overview of their announcements.
- Mac OS X 12.3.
- Ken and Sujan discuss the M1 chip ultra.
Producer note: This episode took place on March 15th, 2022 at 12PM. This is a recording. Subscribe to our YouTube channel and tune in every other Tuesday at noon EST to hang out with the TechChat crew.
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The Chariot TechCast is an interview show that covers emerging and important tends in the world of software development.