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- TechChat Tuesdays #25: This Week in Dev News
We made it to 2021! And started it all off with a major Slack outage! Ken Rimple and Becca (stepping in for Sujan) bring a slew of dev news to the table this week: some serious, some silly. We hope you enjoy, and join us every Tuesday at noon.
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 1, 2020 for only $70.
- Chariot is hiring! We’re looking for senior software engineers and senior iOS developers. Join our team!
- Ah, a new year begins. Slack starts 2021 with a major outage, and r/programming had some thoughts about it
- More cloud oopsies: GitHub blocks an entire company account when one employee visited Iran
- Outages in these major cloud services really make companies like Oxide start to look more attractive
- Electric cars rise to 54% market share in Norway
- Pour one out for your Neopets: Adobe Flash Player is dead as of December 31, 2020
- But -whew- the Space Jam site (Becca’s favorite internet relic) is still alive and well. This handy Twitter account, @SpaceJamCheck, does a status check on it daily too, very important
- Google terminates Android Things
- Is it Christmas?
- Our team has been busy writing good stuff on the Chariot Blog, as per usual
- Incredibly handy: Toptal’s definitive guide to Date/Time Manipulation
- Linus Torvalds rails at Intel
This livestream took place on January 5, 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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43 min - TechChat Tuesdays #24: This Week in Dev News
Host Ken Rimple, co-host Sujan Kapadia, and guest Keith Gregory bring a slew of dev news to the table this week: AWS Lambda, Ruby 3.0, M1 discussions, Apple store closures, and LISP getting hot again.
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 1, 2020 for only $70.
- Chariot is hiring! We’re looking for senior software engineers and senior iOS developers. Join our team!
- AWS Lambda is winning, but first it had to die.
- Why and how the M1 chips are so darn fast – an insanely good read, brought to our attention by another one of our consultants, Dan Boykis.
- Don’t panic re: Kubernetes and Docker…
- Snark patrol: Is ECS deprecated? Short answer: Nope.
- Typescript frustration for those who struggle with it.
- But wait! How about some serverless Typescript libraries?
- Ruby 3.0? RC1 is released.
- LISP is heating up again (again?)
- Apple temporarily closing a fifth of its stores due to COVID.
- Pushing the limits of the remote code execution vector VM you like to call your browser: Rust, WASM, WebAudio.
This livestream took place on December 22, 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. Producer note: we’re off next week. See you in 2021!
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57 min - TechChat Tuesdays #23: This Week in Dev News
Join host Ken Rimple and co-host Sujan Kapadia on this week’s TechChat Tuesday, where they bring a veritable smorgasbord of articles to the table. Docker, Maven, security breaches, spatial indexing with CockroachDB, and much more.
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 1, 2020 for only $70.
- Structuring Dockerfiles by GitHub user hexops and Tini, a “tiny but valid init for containers”
- Google service outage affecting Gmail, YouTube, Google Docs, and more Google services: authentication system failed due to internal storage quota related problem for all “services requiring users to log in.”
- Highly orchestrated “supply chain” attacks: privileged networking hardware, backdoors, “innocent” traffic, stealing signing certificates… scary stuff.
- CentOS is dead. Long live Rocky Linux?
- MIT Technology Review says: Facebook is now too powerful.
- The new Maven (speed) Daemon: super fast multi-core Maven daemon process for insanely quick builds.
- Spatial indexing: R-trees, quad-trees, horizontal scaling, Google S2, and PostGIS with CockroachDB.
- The future of cloud-native API Gateways
- It’s easy to get started with machine learning and make stuff happen – and here are some TinyML microcontrollers
- Shout out to Cesium and their Santa tracker!
- This is really cool too – Cesium is providing real 3D geospatial data to the Unreal gaming engine, working with Nvidia and Microsoft.
This livestream took place on December 15, 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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39 min - TechChat Tuesdays #22: AWS re:Invent Happenings
Join host Ken Rimple and co-host Sujan Kapadia on another AWS-themed adventure. On this episode, Ken and Sujan discuss all the news, tools, and announcements coming out of AWS’ 3-week event series, re:Invent.
Show Notes- Register for Ken’s free AWS webinar, Build a Cloud-Native Web App in 8 Weeks. The event is next week on December 9, 2020, from noon to 1PM EST.
- In fact, you can check out all of our AWS content on the Chariot Blog – tutorials, projects, instruction, reviews, and more. Our AWS Practice Lead, Keith Gregory, has some great articles there too.
- We’ve also got a handful of new 15 Minutes With videos, our interview series with tech/business folk across the region. There’s Rod Biresch’s developer-turned-product-manager interview with Pete Fleming, and an interview with Leslie Richards, General Manager at SEPTA, and how the public transit system relies extensively on data.
- 5 Questions To Ask When Building Your Data Plan by Tracey Welson-Rossman
- AI art is being created and it’s bizarre. Check out these portraits
- A single-post recap of all the new stuff over at AWS
- AWS bought a bunch of Mac Minis and now you can use them on AWS
- Deploy AWS Lambdas in Docker container images up to 10GB. This further blurs the lines between Containers and Lambdas as a choice
- EKS Distro: run the AWS EKS infrastructure anywhere (development maybe?)
- ECR Public – now a public repo for ECR images. And here’s the gallery.
- Now AWS Lambda billing granularity is at the 1ms level, instead of 100ms
- AWS introduces ECS Anywhere, and here’s a good CloudGuru article about it
- AWS released strong read-after-write consistency on S3
- Q – a natural language query for business analysis with QuickSight
- Proton – managing microservices in AWS with templates
- For our EMACS fans: EMACS Conference 2020 happened
- A fun experiment: input lag on computers 1997-2017
- Take THAT, Tesla fans
- And lastly, Chariot is a certified AWS Consulting Partner. If you’re interested in having our experienced cloud experts guide your AWS efforts, let’s start a conversation.
This livestream took place on December 8, 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.
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41 min - TechChat Tuesdays #21: Post-Mortem Review of the AWS Outage with Keith Gregory, AWS Practice Lead
Join Ken Rimple, Sujan Kapadia, and Keith Gregory (our AWS Practice Lead) on our livestream as we analyze last week’s AWS outage. We talk root causes, post-mortems, and what AWS architects can do to protect themselves against unexpected downtime.
Show Notes- Register for Ken’s free AWS webinar, Build a Cloud-Native Web App in 8 Weeks. The event is next week on December 9, 2020, from noon to 1PM EST.
- In fact, you can check out all of our AWS content on the Chariot Blog – tutorials, projects, instruction, reviews, and more. Keith has some great articles there too.
- And, we have to say it, like and subscribe to our YouTube channel!
- On the first day of Shell my true love gave to me / A list of files in the directory tree… 12 Days of Shell, a festive Shell challenge.
- A piece of dev news inspired by the Queen’s Gambit, sharpen up your chess your chess skills at chesstactics.org.
- Now, onto the AWS Outage: Keith gives his thoughts on the official post-mortems from Amazon. The first, on Kinesis Event in US-East-1, and the second, on the S3 Service disruption, also in US-East-1.
- Recommended Reading: Black Swan: the Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- A great panel with Keith on AWS war stories and lessons learned.
- And lastly, Chariot is a certified AWS Consulting Partner. If you’re interested in having our experienced cloud experts guide your AWS efforts, let’s start a conversation.
This livestream took place on December 1, 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.
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45 min - TechChat Tuesdays #20: From There To Here
We’ve come a long way. From Zilog to Motorola to Intel to AMD to systems with their own chipsets like the Apple M1. This week, we discuss how innovation looked 30 years ago, and how it looks now.
This week we’re joined by Sujan Kapadia, Director of Consulting, and Tom Purcell, a consultant here at Chariot who’s been doing software development since 1985. We’ll start with a discussion of archaic computers – i.e. the ones we learned on, and the fun old computers that just are, well, weird. Then we’ll discuss some of the newest innovations, specifically over at Apple where they’re focusing on their own silicon like the A14 and the M1 that are breaking benchmarks and changing the way we think of computer systems, and in some ways going back to more innovative and less “open” designs.
Show Notes- Register for our free AWS event, Build a Cloud-Native Web App in 8 Weeks. Sponsored by Chariot, hosted by Ken.
- As always, we recommend you check out the Chariot Blog, which is always brimming with solid dev articles written by our consultants.
- The latest 15 Minutes With featuring Rod Biresch, a mobile developer here at Chariot who found himself on the client side of a pet project.
- Dev news time! A story in parts…. GraphQL Java 16 is released….
- Ken checked out the GitHub Issues, and boy howdy….
- So GraphQL Java 16.1 is released *very* quickly.
- Onto some sad science news, the Arecibo telescope to be dismantled.
- Dinosaur tech share – the crew reminisces on their old computers.
- Now onwards to the Apple M1 review from Tom’s Hardware (our favorite). “Apple M1 Emulated Performance – Finally, we reach the biggest potential drawback for the M1: Since the Apple M1 uses a completely new architecture (at least new for Macs), it can’t natively run apps designed for x86 chips. Instead, it has to emulate them. Apple’s built a tool to let users easily do this, called Rosetta 2, but running apps through Rosetta 2 means they’re going to take a performance hit.”
- The Macbook Air with a 512GB SSD and 16 GB RAM. “I was still shocked when I saw its Geekbench 5 scores: It was faster than every other PC we’ve reviewed this year when it comes to single core performance.”
- And an Apple MacBook Pro 2020 M1 review from the Verge. “The easiest, best way to think about the new entry-level MacBook Pro is that it is a MacBook Air with a fan.”
- The Microsoft Surface Pro X – ARM gets more muscle.
- Lastly, the podcast Ken enjoys by Leo Laporte, MacBreak Weekly.
This livestream took place on November 24, 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.
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56 min - TechChat Tuesdays #19: Special Guest, Eric Snyder
Today we welcome Eric Snyder to the show, software architect here at Chariot, and Dev News veteran from days past. Eric, Ken and Sujan bring a whole slew of dev topics to the livestream today – from the youtube-dl controversy, to new features in Vue – and Eric talks about his recent projects using Go.
Show Notes- Apps from Apple on Big Sur bypass firewalls and VPNs… “this is terrible.”
- Macs couldn’t open apps without calling home after Big Sur release
- youtube-dl repository reinstated, with help from Github CEO Nat Friedman. From the article: “The source code for YouTube-dl, a tool you can use to download videos from YouTube, is back up on GitHub after the code repository took it down in October following a DMCA complaint from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Citing a letter from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (the EFF), GitHub says it ultimately found that the RIAA’s complaint didn’t have any merit.”
- Interesting post on Toptal on Vue 3 on-demand reactivity, with sample spreadsheet app demo, and live Vue 3 code sample on CodePen. Also: who’s using Vue in production? We’d love to hear from you. Tweet us @techcast.
- Kubernetes UIs for the rest of us: Headlamp released this week. Hackernews discussion mentions other ones, like Lens, which looks really good, and a VSCode plugin.
- Docker is working on updating Docker Desktop for Mac to work with new Apple M1 silicon and hypervisor (for those that don’t know, Docker runs its own VM on top of the Mac hypervisor framework).
This livestream took place on November 17, 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.
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44 min - TechChat Tuesdays #18: Dev News with Sujan Kapadia
Today we welcome Sujan Kapadia to the show, Director of Consulting here at Chariot Solutions, and Dev News veteran from days past. He and Ken bring a whole slew of dev topics to the livestream today, and we pilot a new feature section: Unpopular Tech Opinions. Tweet us yours @techcast, or drop us a comment on our next show on Tuesday at noon!
Show Notes- TypeScript 4.0: Microsoft’s announcement, Fernando Doglio’s Medium post about the features he’s most excited for, and a great podcast interview with Luke Hoban.
- Tesla’s full self-driving beta. Deep learning, sensor integration, and 4D data continuity and trajectory prediction. To see FSD beta videos, search on Twitter for #FSDbeta.
- Testing React Hooks: separating out purely functional web components in React and Vue, and adding “hooks” for things like managing context, state, side effects, and more.
- Hackity Hack! Develop audio applications, even control Ableton or other Digital Audio Workstation tools with the Neotrellis M4 DSP-based processor (uses Arduino or CircuitPython).
- How Go Helped Save Healthcare: “Exercise your path to production as early as possible, even if it’s hello world – DNS, hosting, CI/CD, auto-scaling, etc.. The higher the stakes, the bigger the audience, the simpler it should be, don’t be clever! Things break in a non-linear, catastrophic way.”
- Burning iron – a carbon-free fuel that you can also re-use (recycle the rust into iron again with renewable electricity), and the brewery that’s using this new method.
- The Virgin Hyperloop’s first trip – 500 meters in 15 seconds = 33.3 meters per second = 107 feet per second. Apparently will go 620 miles per second. Why does all the cool stuff have to happen in Cali?
- Introducing a new segment: Unpopular Tech Opinions. Tweet us yours at @techcast
This livestream took place on November 10, 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.
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54 min - TechChat Tuesdays #17: Dev News Grab Bag
Murder hornets, McDonald’s, and markdown. Ken and Becca deliver you another grab bag of dev news. Enjoy!
Show Notes- Catch the videos from our Java at 25 event, including our exclusive interview with Brian Goetz
- Peruse some more Java resources we’ve produced over the years (in-depth interviews with Rod Johnson, Maurice Naftalin, Adrian Moors, and more)
- React v17.0 – No New Features
- React gradual update demo on GitHub – a quick demonstration of how to gradually upgrade an app to a new version of React
- Remix.run, “giving you a sturdy foundation to build better websites”
- Remix Run Preview on YouTube – Michael Jackson walks through the core features (and Kent C. Dodds is stoked about it – see top comment)
- More build tools: Vite! And the accompanying article by Liam Hall, Getting started with Vite, a no bundler DEV environment for Vue.js
- React Test-driven Development – From User Stories to Production
- Render markdown on the CLI with Glow
- Some good news? Destroying murder hornets. And watch this dude purposely get stung by one (as a palate cleanser)
- Niche app alert: check to see if your local McDonald’s ice cream machine is broken with McBroken
- Spooky time! QR Codes for tombstones
- Skip the life story and get straight to the recipe with the Recipe Filter Chrome extension
- And lastly, Tom’s Blog (our fave) on the iPhone 12, and iPhone 12 mini
This livestream took place on October 27, 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.
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41 min - TechChat Tuesdays #16: UX, Developers, and Designers with Michael GeiseWe do a lot of deep tech dives on this show, but today, we're swinging it around to design! Ken hosts Michael Geise, Senior UX/Product Design Consultant here at Chariot, to cover design news, processes, patterns, and more.46 min
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