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Chariot TechCast episodes

  • TechChat Tuesdays #46: Dev News and Kotlin Deep Dive

    This week, Ken Rimple and Sujan Kapadia cover various stories from the world of Dev News – before dedicating the rest of the show to a deep dive on Kotlin. They also answer a few questions from viewers!

    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 15th – 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
      • The oldest computer programs still in use.
      • Mozilla Developer Network – new look and feel, more usable.
      • JS to know for React.
      • On the other hand, you can do some cool things with CSS that you’d normally use JavaScript for.
      • Typescript 4.6 available as of 2/28.
      • A virtual reality gig for flies!
      • Where did the Microsoft backslash file separator come from?
      • Discussion
        • The remainder of the show is dedicated to a discussion about Kotlin.
        • Producer note: This episode took place on March 1st, 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 20 min
        • TechChat Tuesdays #45: How do we learn new things?

          As developers and engineers, how do we learn new things? On today’s TechChat, hosts Ken Rimple and Sujan Kapadia delve into some of their personal processes around learning new tech, and offer techniques and tools for staying curious and relevant.

          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 15th – 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
            • Developers have met the enemy – and it’s themselves.
            • What not to assert in React component tests.
            • Distribute your Java app as a native bundle.
            • CORS is not meant to secure an API endpoint.
            • PGA interchange format to enable interoperable FPGA tooling.
            • Running macOS in a VM on Apple Silicon Macs.
            • Discussion
              • The remainder of the show is dedicated to a discussion on continuous learning for developers.
              • Producer note: This episode took place on February 15th, 2022 at 11AM. 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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                58 min
              • TechChat Tuesdays #44 – Dev News Grab Bag

                Ken Rimple and Sujan Kapadia are back for another TechChat Tuesday! This week’s episode includes topics like Tesla UX, Wordle, and why you may not want to upgrade to OS X 12.2 just yet.

                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 15th – 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
                  • Can we talk here? Wordle bought by the NY Times.
                  • PwnKit – a bug lurking for 12 years on Linux has notable consequences.
                  • Writing a printer driver in Javascript.
                  • Raspberry Pi CM4.
                  • How to really learn how something works.
                  • Usability problems IRL.
                  • Tesla’s UX has a potentially dangerous flaw.
                  • Node.js, now with that added fetch() feeling.
                  • Don’t upgrade to OS X 12.2 until they’ve worked out the Bluetooth battery bugs.
                  • Big problem in NPM land again – one developer’s move causes lots of pain.
                  • Producer note: This episode took place on February 1st, 2022 at noon. 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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                    43 min
                  • TechChat Tuesdays #43: Dev News, SPA Patterns, and an Exclusive Interview with Kent C. Dodds

                    Ken Rimple and Sujan Kapadia are back with a brand new format! They cover dev news, advanced SPA patterns, and Ken shares an exclusive interview with Kent C. Dodds, the Director of Developer Experience at Remix.

                    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 15th – 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
                      • Non-native, cross-platform apps for the lose? Flutter failed to solve the biggest challenge for our cross-platform app
                      • What do you get with an NFT? This guy thinks it’s a scam
                      • “Woe unto you for using a Websocket.” Websockets aren’t easy, and polling is more stable and easier to scale and predict
                      • US surgeons transplant pig heart into a human patient. It’s open source, refactoring, and integration taken to a whole new level
                      • Kyoto University loses 77TB of supercomputer data
                      • The Life of a Bytecode Language – a bedtime story for developers
                      • Interview with Kent C. Dodds

                        Since we’ve been looking at Next.js so much, but are also seeing a lot of information about the newcomer, we figured we’d bring on Kent C. Dodds, friend and speaker at Philly ETE, well-known Angular, React, and JS expert, and now Remix Run employee, to discuss the framework in-depth.

                        • Kent’s website and blog
                        • About Remix
                        • Throwback! Kent’s talk from Philly ETE 2015
                        • Producer note: This episode took place on January 11, 2021 at noon. 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 31 min
                        • TechChat Tuesdays #42: Unreliability at Scale, Windows 11, and React 18

                          Rarely seen miscalculations now cropping up frequently at cloud hyperscale, and ‘React 18: A Summary in 12 Tweets.” Host Ken Rimple covers this week’s dev news.

                          Show Notes
                          • Choosing AWS Availability Zones, product insights, and a design thinking crash course: new content over at the Chariot Blog
                          • Introducing Windows 11
                          • “I’m totally screwed.” Western Digital My Book Live users wake up to find their data deleted
                          • React 18 is here! Updates from the React Status newsletter, and “React 18: A Summary in 12 Tweets” by Twitter user @ProvablyFlarnie
                          • Unreliability at scale: “the extraordinary levels of reliability needed in long-term digital preservation at scale”
                          • Today’s computer chips are so advanced, they’re more ‘mercurial’ than precise. Rarely seen miscalculations now cropping up frequently at cloud hyperscale
                          • Not much has changed, eh? Scaling relational SQL databases
                          • Wanna try to attack GraphQL? Try this defenseless app: the Damn Vulnerable GraphQL Application
                          • And lastly: we’re hiring here at Chariot. Check out our open positions, and consider applying today.
                          • Producer note: the livestream will be changed to a bi-weekly schedule of every other Tuesday over the summer. This episode took place on June 29, 2021 at noon. This is a recording. Subscribe to our YouTube channel and tune in every other Tuesday at noon EST to hang out with the TechCast crew.

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                            40 min
                          • TechChat Tuesdays #41: Tetris in ClojureScript, Terraform 1.0, and Slack hackers

                            Hosts Ken Rimple and Sujan Kapadia bring this week’s dev news to the table for discussion.

                            Show Notes
                            • A WWDC 2021 Roundup
                            • The state of Ohio sues Google, seeks to declare the internet company a public utility
                            • What the Fastly outage can teach us about writing error messages
                            • Terraform is 1.0!
                            • Building Tetris in ClojureScript
                            • Will AI replace the information worker?
                            • Some dystopian science fiction stuff: scientists propose ‘Neuro Rights’ to protect brains from future manipulation
                            • Right to Repair – New York Senate passes landmark new bill
                            • A lot of unpublicized ransomware attacks
                            • Social Engineering lives on: How hackers used Slack to break into EA Games
                            • Internet throwback time! Bits & Bytes and The Computer Chronicles
                            • Lastly: we’re hiring! Come work with our team of curious, talented, and passionate engineers. Apply today.
                            • Producer note: the livestream will be changed to a bi-weekly schedule of every other Tuesday over the summer. This episode took place on June 15, 2020 at noon. This is a recording.

                              Subscribe to our YouTube channel and tune in every other Tuesday at noon EST to hang out with the TechCast crew.

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                              36 min
                            • TechChat Tuesdays #40: Chip Shortages, SolarWinds Hackers, and a Google I/O Recap

                              Chariot’s Ken Rimple and Sujan Kapadia cover discuss selected dev news from the past week.

                              Show Notes
                              • From the Chariot side: good stuff, as usual, on the Chariot Solutions blog.
                              • Journal My Health, the new app launched by our CMO, Tracey Welson-Rossman, that shepherds health journaling into the digital realm for better patient outcomes. Read about how the Chariot team developed this product.
                              • We’re hiring here at Chariot Solutions! Browse our open positions, and consider joining our team.
                              • Raspberry Silicon update: RP2040 on sale now at $1
                              • Advanced Coding Challenges by Paul Kuruvilla – build your own Redis or Git
                              • SolarWinds hackers are at it again
                              • Intel says chip shortages could last years
                              • Outline – read and annotate websites without distractions
                              • The HTML5 button cheat sheet
                              • Sublime Text 4 is out, with an upcharge of $70 for existing users
                              • Voyager 1 detects a hum in interstellar space
                              • Google I/O 2021 recap
                              • Producer note: the livestream will be changed to a bi-weekly schedule of every other Tuesday over the summer. This episode took place on June 1, 2020 at noon. This is a recording. Subscribe to our YouTube channel and tune in every other Tuesday at noon EST to hang out with the TechCast crew.

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                                37 min
                              • TechChat Tuesdays #39: Scala 3, Pair Programming, and a Rekindled Windows/Apple Rivalry

                                Chariot’s Ken Rimple and Sujan Kapadia cover discuss selected dev news from the past week.

                                Show Notes
                                • Why do M1 Macs feel so fast?
                                • There a renewed Microsoft and Apple Rivalry over the Epic Games trial
                                • Scala 3 is here!
                                • Looks like a Chrome extension for Microsoft Authenticator wasn’t vetted properly
                                • Amazon’s Sidewalk mesh network is turned on by default… here’s how to turn it off
                                • A great series of Toptal articles on SQL indexes, explained. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.
                                • Google I/O starts today (and it’s free!)
                                • Pair Programming: “The mortifying ordeal of pairing all day.” (Please don’t come after us, Pivotal)
                                • Let’s talk about state machines
                                • Lastly: we’re hiring here at Chariot Solutions! Browse our open positions, and consider joining our team.
                                • This livestream took place on May 18, 2020 at noon. This is a recording. Subscribe to our YouTube channel and tune in every Tuesday at noon EST to hang out with the TechCast crew.

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                                  41 min
                                • TechChat Tuesdays #38: Apple’s ‘Spring Loaded’ Recap, and more!

                                  Ken Rimple and Sujan Kapadia cover Apple’s Spring Loaded Event from April 20th, and discuss some other timely dev news.

                                  Show Notes
                                  • OK, we’re really pushing it this week, but you’ve only got one week left to get your ticket for ETE 2021! It’s our best lineup yet, tickets are $89, the show is May 4-6, and it’s not too late to join in.
                                  • Onto some dev news! nbterm: Jupyter notebooks in the terminal
                                  • The first house to be 3D printed from raw earth
                                  • Zoom launches ‘Immersive View‘, and all we want to do is move to a cabin in the woods
                                  • The initial preview of GUI app support is now available for the Windows Subsystem for Linux
                                  • Releases: iOS 14.5, iPadOS 14.5, watchOS 7.4
                                  • Now onto Apple’s Spring Loaded Event: M1 for everything! When’s the iPhone getting it?
                                  • Dark horse: NVidia ARM buy is controversial and may or may not go through
                                  • One article says it’s all about ARM V9, and licensing to other chip manufacturers
                                  • Governments are concerned, as ARM is based in Britain, NVidia is US based
                                  • Lastly: we’re hiring here at Chariot Solutions! Browse our open positions, and consider joining our team.
                                  • This livestream took place on April 27, 2020 at noon. This is a recording. Subscribe to our YouTube channel and tune in every Tuesday at noon EST to hang out with the TechCast crew.

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                                    43 min
                                  • TechChat Tuesdays #37: OpenSearch, Rust News, and the “Rails of React”

                                    Show Notes
                                    • Get your tickets to Philly ETE 2021! Alan Kay, Kent Beck, Jessica Kerr, and more incredible speakers. The schedule is complete, and tickets are $89 for 3 days (May 4-6).
                                    • From the AWS Open Source blog: Introducing OpenSearch
                                    • The Developer Certificate of Origin is a great alternative to a CLA
                                    • Defining a new HTTP method: HTTP SEARCH
                                    • Rust for Windows, and the windows crate
                                    • Rust support moves into Android underpinnings
                                    • Pablo Bonilla Ataides’ undergraduate physics homework is picked up by Amazon Web Services Quantum
                                    • Online text to diagram tools
                                    • AWS’s Shane Miller to head the newly created Rust Foundation
                                    • Use console.log() like a pro
                                    • The race is on to be the “Rails of React”
                                    • This livestream took place on April 13, 2020 at noon. This is a recording. Subscribe to our YouTube channel and tune in every Tuesday at noon EST to hang out with the TechCast crew.

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                                      45 min

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                                    The Chariot TechCast is an interview show that covers emerging and important tends in the world of software development.