Adam adds a twist to our YepNope format this week. Instead of 2v2, it’s 1v1v1 with Mikeal reppin’ team Yep, Divya on team Nope, and Feross sitting in the middle on team It Depends. You don’t want to miss this excellent debate/discussion all about JS tooling complexity.  Many packages New frameworks built all the time Config hell. Webpack

Modern JS tooling is too complicated. Yep? Nope? (JS Party #89)

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Ryan Carniato joins Amal  Nick to discuss Solid with a major focus on Signals, which are the cornerstone of reactivity in Solid.

A Solid primer on Signals (JS Party #320)

First there was Mamba… now there is Jamba from AI21. This is a model that combines the best non-transformer goodness of Mamba with good ‘ol attention layers. This results in a highly performant and efficient model that AI21 has open sourced! We hear all about it (along with a variety of other LLM things) from AI21’s co-founder Yoav.

Mamba  Jamba (Practical AI #266)

This week we’re joined by Louis Pilfold, the creator of the Gleam programming language. For the uninitiated, Gleam is a functional programming language for building type-safe systems that compiles to Erlang and JavaScript and it’s written in Rust. We discuss the inspiration and development of Gleam, how it compares to other languages, where it shines, the overwhelming amount of support Louis is getting through GitHub sponsors, what’s next for Gleam and their near-term plans for a language server.

Run Gleam run (Changelog Interviews #588)

The 3 Musketeers return! Filippo Valsorda, Roland Shoemaker  Nicola Murino continue their deep-dive conversation with Natalie about Go’s crypto libraries. Also listen to Part 1 and Part 2!

What's new in Go's cryptography libraries: Part 3 (Go Time #313)

Forrest Brazeal is concerned about the open source threat from within, Vicki Boykis explains why Redis is forked, John O’Nolan and the Ghost team plan to federate over ActivityPub, Llama 3 is now available for “businesses of all sizes”  nolen writes up questions to ask when you don’t want to work.

Modern JS tooling is too complicated. Yep? Nope? (JS Party #89)

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