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- TechChat Tuesdays #36: Django 3.2, TP Robots, and New Jersey?
While we’re down a co-conspirator this week (see you next week, Ken!), Sujan Kapadia and Becca Refford step up to share some of this week’s DevNews.
VideoShow Notes- Supreme Court rules in Google’s favor against Oracle, “fair use” of a copyrighted API
- Github updates their authentication token format. Reset your personal access tokens!
- Django 3.2 released, a long-term support (LTS) release
- Build your own web browser in 1,000 lines of Python
- From a smart toilet that monitors your stool, to a furry companion robot, here’s the weirdest new tech from CES 2021
- On the note of bizarre gadgets, we can’t forget Charmin’s ‘RollBot’, unveiled at CES 2020, which brings you a fresh roll of TP with a request sent from your smartphone
- We love some Mars news. Ingenuity is alive, it’s alive! Survives the first night on Mars
- The iconic SpaceJam website from 1996 was redesigned for a reboot, but a link to the old site was thankfully built into the new version. Rolling Stone wrote an incredible thinkpiece about the site, likening its design to “a cave painting from the early internet”
- Hack your Spotify: an open source Spotify client built with Angular 11, ng-zorro, and TailwindCSS
- AWS billing news: CloudWatch Metric Streams to capture usage and billing data for later analysis, and AWS announces CloudFormation support for budget actions
- Yahoo Answers shutting down May 4, 2021
- What the heck is Clubhouse? iOS app, drop-in audio chat (voice-only, no video), still invite-only, reportedly already has a $1 billion valuation(!)
- Soon you’ll have to go through NJ to get to NYC, even in Minecraft!
- Our friends at Cesium are working on an accurate model of the Earth, for the Unreal gaming engine
This livestream took place on April 6, 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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55 min - TechChat Tuesdays #35: Nivo, DALL-E and NPM Vulnerabilities
Ken Rimple and Sujan Kapadia bring a serious smorgasbord of topics to the livestream this week: spanning from machine learning doodles, data viz with Nivo, the OSI model, and more.
Show Notes- Get your tickets for ETE 2021, happening May 4-6, 2021. We’ve got Daniel Spiewak, Kent Beck, Jessica Kerr, Alan Kay, and more. Virtual again this year, but our content is as excellent as ever. Tickets are $89 each, but for a limited time, we’re offering a Buy 3, Get One Free deal! Go with the whole team! Take advantage of this value today.
- Celebrating 50 Years of Text Games, and The Hobbit (1982).
- Combining React and D3.js, and using Nivo for rich dataviz libraries built on top
- State of JS 2020 (and an excellent t-shirt)
- Ryan Dahl founds the Deno Company to improve Deno
- Generate images from a text description with DaLL-E
- Machine learning can detect your doodles – go ahead, give it a draw!
- The NPM ‘netmask’ package has a 9-year-old vulnerability
- “I made an eInk newspaper“
- Beware the appeal of ‘low code’ development
- Rails code library yanked
- Do you know the OSI model?
- ‘Incompetent developers’ blamed For New Zealand’s patient privacy breach of COVID-19 vaccine booking
- The Modern Java Platform, 2021 Edition by James Ward
- Stanford scientists reverse engineer the Moderna vaccina, and post the code on Github
This livestream took place on March 30, 2020 at noon. This is a recording. Subscribe to our YouTube channel and tune in every Tuesday at noon EST to hang out with Ken Rimple and Sujan Kapadia.
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57 min - TechChat Tuesdays #33: Rust, Rust-based Utilities, and Security with Jason Stelzer
Ken Rimple and Sujan Kapadia are joined by our newest colleague, Jason Stelzer, to talk Rust, Rust-based utilities, and security. It also turns out that Jason’s a natural at this – thanks for coming on the show, Jason!
Enjoy the conversation, don’t forget to like and subscribe to our Youtube channel, and join Ken and Sujan every Tuesday at noon.
Show Notes- Get your tickets for ETE 2021! We’ve got Daniel Spiewak, Tammy Bryant Butow, Jessica Kerr, Alan Kay, and more. Virtual again this year, but our content is as excellent as ever. Tickets are $89, a great value.
- Now, we get into Rust. Jason brings up a great talk by Bryan Cantrill, “Is It Time to Rewrite the Operating System in Rust?“
- Useful Rust command line utilities
- This Rust WebAssembly tutorial uses React + WebAssembly to recognize the pitch of a note in audio input using AudioWorklet.
- A hacker got my texts for $16. Maybe we need regulations of SMS?
- AT&T expands fiber to the home this year.
- Flutter reaches 2.0, and Toyota announces it will use Flutter for infotainment systems.
- Verkada security camera hack hits Tesla factories, hospitals, and prisons.
- Harvard’s CS50 Intro to Computer Science is online and free
- Deepfakes can be identified by looking into the reflections of its eyes
- Upgrade your GIT client! Malicious repositories can execute remote code during clone
That’s all for this week. See you next week at noon!
This livestream took place on March 16, 2020 at noon. This is a recording. Subscribe to our YouTube channel and tune in every Tuesday at noon EST to hang out with Ken Rimple and Sujan Kapadia.
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47 min - TechChat Tuesdays #32: Git for Data, and ASCIIDoctor Tooling with Ken
Ken and Sujan discuss Dolt (the “Git for Data”), geek out about Microsoft Mesh, and Ken does a deep dive on ASCIIDoctor tooling (hint: amazingly easy for whipping up painless presentations and documentation).
Show Notes- Get your ETE 2021 tickets for only $89: an incredible value for speakers like Alan Kay, Kent Beck, Daniel Spiewak, Jess Kerr, and more.
- Linux turns 30, and Chariot is hosting Nithya Ruff, chair of the Linux Foundation, to talk about open source. Registrations are open for this free event on March 18th.
- It’s Women’s History Month, and we curated a playlist of the amazing women who have spoken at Chariot and ETE over the years. Literal hours of content.
- Where am I? Use Wifi and machine learning to determine your location at home.
- Patch up, iOS and OS X users.
- Whoa: introducing Microsoft Mesh, which enables presence and shared experiences from anywhere – on any device – through mixed reality applications.
- NASA used Vue and other JS technologies to run it’s Open Mission Control Technologies platform.
- DoIt, Git for Data. Dolt is a SQL database that you can fork, clone, branch, merge, push and pull just like a git repository.
- Excel never dies
- Remembering Allan McDonald, who played a major role in the fatal launch of the space shuttle Challenger. He died Saturday in Ogden, Utah, at age 83, and was one of the people who tried to stop the launch and later exposed an apparent cover-up.
- Sync JIRA to Google Sheets, using Reshuffle
- This guy is really doing the most, and we’re here for his tinker-y spirit! Adding IoT to my Home Desk Office
- At 32:06 Ken does an ASCIIDoctor tutorial! Interested? His GitHub sample can be found here.
Thanks for joining, like and subscribe to our channel on YouTube, and see you next week!
This livestream took place on March 9, 2020 at noon. This is a recording. Subscribe to our YouTube channel and tune in every Tuesday at noon EST to hang out with Ken Rimple and Sujan Kapadia.
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52 min - TechChat Tuesdays #31: Python Turns 30, and Chrome 90 is on the horizon…
Python turns 30, Chrome 90 is on the horizon, and tech takes on its racist naming conventions. Ken Rimple and Sujan Kapadia discuss.
Show Notes- Get your ETE 2021 tickets for only $89: an incredible value for speakers like Alan Kay, Kent Beck, Daniel Spiewak, Jess Kerr, and more.
- Linux turns 30, and Chariot is hosting Nithya Ruff, chair of the Linux Foundation, to talk about open source. Registrations are open for this free event on March 18th.
- Leadership Strategies to Drive Innovation, Growth, and Resiliency – a free webinar featuring Chariot Solutions’ CMO, Tracey Welson-Rossman
- Great new 15 Minutes With, hosted by our CMO, Tracey Welson-Rossman. This one dives into Estee Lauder’s Virtual Try-On: their AR/VR solution that allows users to skip the physical store and try on their products at home. She interviews Sowmya Gottipati, VP of Global Brand Technology, about the iconic beauty brand’s innovation.
- It’s Women’s History Month, and we curated a playlist of the amazing women who have spoken at Chariot and ETE over the years. Literal hours of content.
- Microsoft Ignite is happening now, and it’s free!
- Credit Card payment system crashes. Another potential ISP problem?
- Anyone out there using the fish shell? If not, here’s a good tutorial.
- Like Linux, Python turns 30 too! Happy Birthday, Python.
- On a Python note, here’s the latest 2020 Python Developers Survey, done in partnership with JetBrains
- Tech takes on its racist terminology (think: Master and Slave)
- The Inclusive Naming Initiative, dedicated to moving this effort forward
- Chrome 90 is on the horizon…
- Domain hijackings – perl.com was hit recently. Here’s how they got it back.
- What’s new in Swift 5.4
- Jetpack Compose – Android’s modern toolkit for building native UI.
- …and some sample Compose apps.
- OpenStreetMaps just turned 100 million, but faces some hurdles. Here’s how you can help.
Thanks for joining, like and subscribe to our channel on YouTube, and see you next week!
This livestream took place on March 2, 2020 at noon. This is a recording. Subscribe to our YouTube channel and tune in every Tuesday at noon EST to hang out with Ken Rimple and Sujan Kapadia.
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41 min - TechChat Tuesdays #30: The Mars Landing, and more
Ken Rimple and Sujan Kapadia cover the Mars landing, software laws everyone loves to ignore, and powering your home by mining cryptocurrency.
Show Notes- Get your ETE 2021 tickets for only $89: an incredible value for speakers like Alan Kay, Kent Beck, Ada Rose Cannon, Jess Kerr, and more.
- Linux turns 30, and Chariot is hosting Nithya Ruff, chair of the Linux Foundation, to talk about open source. Registrations are open for this free event on March 18th.
- Leadership Strategies to Drive Innovation, Growth, and Resiliency – a free webinar featuring Chariot Solutions’ CMO, Tracey Welson-Rossman
- Great new post on the Chariot Blog, also by Tracey Welson-Rossman: Designing for Connectivity for Industrial IoT
- NY Attorney General ends Bitfinex and Tether trading in New York
- And how this person heats their home by mining crypto currencies
- QA Corner: How Amazon tests their website
- Free Windows 10 development VMS, a list compiled by Scott Hanselman
- Video and audio from the Mars Landing – insane.
- Linux on board the Mars Mission
- NASA’s Open Source projects
- 10 engineering laws everyone loves to ignore
- Composing functions in Java 15
Thanks for joining, like and subscribe to our channel on YouTube, and see you next week!
This livestream took place on February 23, 2020 at noon. This is a recording. Subscribe to our YouTube channel and tune in every Tuesday at noon EST to hang out with Ken Rimple and Sujan Kapadia.
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44 min - TechChat Tuesdays #29: Rust, Radical Candor, and more
Host Ken Rimple and Co-Host Sujan Kapadia bring this weeks’ dev news to the table: Rust, Radical Candor, virtual jam sessions, and more.
Show Notes- Get your ETE 2021 tickets for only $89: an incredible value for speakers like Alan Kay, Kent Beck, Ada Rose Cannon, Jess Kerr, and more.
- Linux turns 30, and Chariot is hosting Nithya Ruff, chair of the Linux Foundation, to talk about open source. Registrations are open for this free event on March 18th.
- Mac utility Homebrew finally gets native Apple Silicon and M1 support
- Accused Jersey murderer wins right to check source code of DNA testing kit used by police. This reminds Ken of the Annie Dookhan case.
- Virtually jam with strangers (who are less than 500 miles away)
- Stanford University opens their iOS/Swift curriculum
- How They SRE – A curated collection of publicly available resources on how technology and tech-savvy organizations around the world practice Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
- Rust forms its own foundation, and Mozilla gives it a warm welcome
- Speaking of Rust, another plug for ETE: here are some speakers we had on Rust from previous years, as the language was in its nascent. Carol Nichols’ talk, Rust: A Language for the Next 40 Years and Steve Klabnik’s Rust in Production
- Is it just an excuse for being a jerk, or is it legit? Ken talks about Radical Candor, a new framework for effective engineering management
- Beautify your CLI! Building Rich terminal dashboards
- Sujan waxes poetic about data partitioning and analyzes Spotify’s Wrapped 2020, the company’s largest Dataflow job to date
Thanks for joining, like and subscribe to our channel on YouTube, and see you next week!
This livestream took place on February 16, 2020 at noon. This is a recording. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to be notified of our next livestream – or bookmark this link and tune in every Tuesday at noon EST to hang out with Ken Rimple and Sujan Kapadia.
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44 min - TechChat Tuesdays #28: TensorFlow with Rich Freedman
Today Sujan takes the reins as host, and welcomes long-time Charioteer, Rich Freedman! Sujan and Rich cover dev news, then delve into machine learning, TensorFlow and TensorFlow Lite, and some Arduino work Rich has been doing recently.
Show Notes- Shameless ETE plug: Philly ETE Conference is back for 2021, and Alan Kay is our first keynote! Other notable speakers include Kent Beck, Jessica Kerr, David Nolen, and more. We’ll be virtual again this year – get your Early Bird tickets before February 15, 2020 for only $70.
- Google and Android join The Rust foundation. “For example, on Android, we’ve found that more than half of the security vulnerabilities we addressed in 2019 resulted from memory safety bugs.”
- Android barcode scanner infects millions of devices
- “I don’t want to do front end anymore”. This developer is hanging the towel on front-end development, citing the complexity of the whole stack, quit his job and is looking a full time backend job, and the comments on HackerNews are great. “Oh boy. I sympathise entirely with this post, but the story’s exactly the same on the backend.”
- Just when you thought Elon Musk couldn’t surprise you more… Tesla buys $1.5 billion of Bitcoin and says it will soon accept payments in Bitcoin.
- If you’re looking for a lightweight, fast API server in Python, check out this Toptal blog post on building high performing apps with FastAPI.
- Data structures and algorithms! Personally I’m not a fan of regurgitating them in coding interviews, but to be a great programmer, you need a solid understanding of them. If you’re looking for a great, free book on algorithms, check this one out by a University of Chicago professor.
- MIT is 3D fabricating fully functional drones using a laser cutter. Check out the video.
- Ubuntu switches to Google’s Flutter for it’s installer!
- Tensorflow: a free and open-source library for Machine Learning developed at Google and released in 2015. Mostly focused on training and inference of deep neural networks.
- TensorFlow Lite: released in 2017, and aimed specifically at mobile and embedded processors (i.e. relatively low-power). Available on Android, iOS, Linux (including Raspberry Pi), and on some embedded microcontrollers.
- Models are developed and trained on full TensorFlow, and then optimized and converted, using the TensorFlow Lite converter, to the format required by the TensorFlow Lite interpreter. The act of running a model through the interpreter is known as “inferencing.”
- TensorFlow Lite is now available for some microcontrollers via TensorFlow Lite for Microcontrollers. Also avaialble on Arm-Cortex-M Series processors, ESP32, as an Arduino library for some Arduino boards (notably the Arduino Nano 33), and on Mbed OS.
- Person Detection is a somewhat advanced, but standard example of TFLite. We worked to make it run with the relatively new Arduino Portenta H7, along with the Portenta Vision Shield.
- The Portenta H7 uses Mbed OS
- Breathtaking 10 Terapixel image of the night sky contains 1B galaxies. Now, go hunt for the number 42!
See you next week!
This livestream took place on February 9, 2020 at noon. This is a recording. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to be notified of our next livestream – or bookmark this link and tune in every Tuesday at noon EST to hang out with Ken Rimple and Sujan Kapadia.
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46 min - TechChat Tuesdays #27: This Week in Dev News
Time for another DevNews with Ken Rimple and Sujan Kapadia! This week’s news items include machine learning with K, Lambdas for Excel, NodeJS race conditions, and some controversy bubbling around certain Chromium features.
Show Notes- Philly ETE Conference is back for 2021, and Alan Kay is our first keynote! Other notable speakers include Kent Beck, Jessica Kerr, David Nolen, and more. We’ll be virtual again this year – get your Early Bird tickets before February 15, 2020 for only $70.
- Kicking off DevNews with last week’s major Verizon outage that cancelled our show on 1/26. We’ve never seen DownDetector look like that. Unlike lots of other vendors, Verizon is mum about it.
- On the sustainability front: Shell buys UK’s largest electric vehicle charging network.
- Very simple machine learning with K tutorial on Toptal using the nearest neighbor algorithm (instead of regression or neural networks). Based on scikit-learn, it ends with a simple React/Python Flask app to draw and recognize digits.
- Excel now has Lambda functions (and let statements), allowing functional programming, and more!
- The (small) list of ECMAScript 2021.
- Show and tell! Ken bought the Arduino challenger microcontroller from Raspberry Pi – The Pico. We had to laugh because the book is 3x the price of the unit.
- NodeJS Race conditions, a quick guide.
- Chromium features being removed to only exist in Chrome, Fedora Chromium maintainer asks to switch to FireFox.
This livestream took place on February 2, 2020 at noon. This is a recording. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to be notified of our next livestream – or bookmark this link and tune in every Tuesday at noon EST to hang out with Ken Rimple and Sujan Kapadia.
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30 min - TechChat Tuesdays #26: Android Development with Joe Berger
Ken Rimple and Sujan Kapadia are joined by a special guest, Joe Berger! Joe is an Android developer here at Chariot Solutions, and has been doing a lot of recent writing about React Native, native applications, and Flutter. On top of their typical dev news, Sujan, Ken and Joe chat about Joe’s two most recent blog posts on these topics.
Show Notes- Drumroll… Philly ETE Conference is back for 2021, and Alan Kay is our first keynote! We’ll be virtual again this year – get your Early Bird tickets before February 15, 2020 for only $70.
- Chariot is hiring! We’re looking for senior software engineers and senior iOS developers. Join our team!
- Raspberry PI, convolutional neural networks, and Legos!
- AWS is creating a new open source design system with React
- That XOR trick
- The worst pieces of code I’ve ever seen by Mehdi Zed, aka Je Suis Un Dev… some of the worst code, but some of the best reaction pics we’ve seen.
- Have some spare time? Why not build your own CNC router!
- Now, onto Joe’s blogs! React Native vs. Flutter vs. Native: An Ultimate Guide to Decision Makers
- And Android Background Processing: A Decision Guide
- Lastly, the Flutter docs
Thanks Joe for being on the show!
This livestream took place on January 19, 2020 at noon. This is a recording. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to be notified of our next livestream – or bookmark this link and tune in every Tuesday at noon EST to hang out with Ken Rimple and Sujan Kapadia.
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