Web Rush

Host(s):

• John Papa @John_Papa
• Ward Bell @WardBell
• Dan Wahlin @DanWahlin
• Craig Shoemaker @craigshoemaker

Guest:

• Mike Ryan @MikeRyanDev

Recording date: Nov 2, 2023

• AG Grid

• IdeaBlade

• What is Generative AI?
• Free Course on Generative AI for Beginners
• Generating Images (Skyboxes) with AI
• Few-Shot Prompting
• Prompt Engineering Techniques
• Temperature and Top_p Parameters
• Open AI Temperature Cheat Sheet
• Tiktoken
• What is Retrieval Augmented Generation?
• Hardcore History
• Adam Grant: “Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things”
• Dan Harris’s podcast with Adam Grant on this book
• Adam Grant’s bio

• 00:28 Welcome
• 01:01 Introducing Mike Ryan
• 02:17 Is AI over hyped?
• 07:47 Sponsor: Ag Grid
• 08:46 The illusion of AI can be easily broken
• 10:21 What AI is really good at
• 13:57 How do LLM produce the right summary?
• 24:42 Sponsor: IdeaBlade
• 25:40 Have you tried different LLMs?
• 27:47 Why do people need to run an LLM locally?
• 37:29 It's about testing and trust
• 39:32 How do you understand LLM's confidence in an answer
• 43:04 Final thoughts

Podcast editing on this episode done by Chris Enns of Lemon Productions.

Host(s):

• John Papa @John_Papa
• Ward Bell @WardBell

Guest:

• Alfredo Deza (@AlfredoDeza) / X

Recording date: Oct 26th, 2023

• AG Grid
• Narwhal Visit nx.dev to get the preeminent open-source toolkit for monorepo development, today.

• Alfredo Deza's personal site
• alfredodeza (Alfredo Deza)
• Alfredo Deza in the Olympics Alfredo Deza (high jumper)
• In Real Life with Alfredo Deza: Olympian, Author and Coach
• Training | Microsoft Learn
• How to Use the Ikigai Diagram to Find Fulfillment
• ikagai

• 00:27 Ward is ready for adventure
• 01:33 Introducing Alfredo Deza
• 08:50 Sponsor: Narwhal
• 09:31 What do you do with universities?
• 14:00 What should a computer science education have?
• 21:28 Why should a student consider computer science?
• 30:34 Can university be a networking opportunity?
• 33:32 Sponsor: Ag Grid
• 34:31 What does an employer think of a computer science degree?
• 39:09 Final thoughts

Podcast editing on this episode done by Chris Enns of Lemon Productions.

Host(s):

• John Papa @John_Papa
• Ward Bell @WardBell
• Dan Wahlin @DanWahlin

Guest:

• Anthony Bartolo @WirelessLife

Recording date: Oct 19, 2023

• AG Grid

• IdeaBlade

• Introduction to Generative AI
• Fundamentals of Generative AI
• Quickstart: Get started with Azure Machine Learning - Azure Machine Learning | Microsoft Learn
• Anthony on LinkedIn
• Rogers the Musical - YouTube
• Generative AI
• Terminator films predicted the future of AI - The Hollywood Reporter
• Meta Quest 3 release information
• Meta Quest 3 at Meta Store
• AI in Medicine - The New England Journal of Medicine
• NLP to SQL Exercise (and the caveats)
• Alexa Silver - YouTube

• 00:29 LinkedIn and YouTube in 2023
• 03:25 Introducing Anthony Bartolo
• 05:23 Why is it important to understand AI in 2023?
• 06:49 What does generative AI mean?
• 08:17 Sponsor: Ag Grid
• 09:18 What are the different ways AI works?
• 17:50 How do IoT devices make use of AI?
• 21:40 Sponsor: IdeaBlade
• 22:41 How do you decide when to put AI in?
• 32:59 What to consider when adopting AI
• 36:54 Final thoughts

Podcast editing on this episode done by Chris Enns of Lemon Productions.

Host(s):

• John Papa @John_Papa
• Ward Bell @WardBell
• Craig Shoemaker @craigshoemaker

Guest:

• No guest this episode

Recording date: Oct 12, 2023

• AG Grid

• Narwhal

  Visit nx.dev to get the preeminent open-source toolkit for monorepo development, today.

• Readable Code Ready for Readable Code? - John Papa - YouTube
• Total Addressable Market
• Advantages of Data-Driven Decision Making
• The Seven Pitfalls of data driven estimation
• Effort Estimations are Wishful Thinking
• Story points estimation
• Gilding the Lily
• Test Driven Development (TDD)
• Is TDD dead?
• Unit, End to End and Integration testing. What is the difference?
• The optimal way to optimize code

• 00:28 Welcome
• 01:44 Finding the thing that you love and getting to do it for the rest of your life
• 03:59 Data is important but so is context
• 10:24 Sponsor: Narwhal
• 10:59 Tshirt sizing or estimations
• 18:46 Sponsor: Ag Grid
• 19:51 Should we be testing?
• 26:48 Worrying more about tests than the feature
• 29:38 Does performance matter?
• 36:04 Final thoughts

Podcast editing on this episode done by Chris Enns of Lemon Productions.

Host(s):

• John Papa @John_Papa

Guests:

• Yoni Rapaport yoni-rapoport on Github
• Noam Honig Noam Honig on LinkedIn

Recording date: Oct 5, 2023

• AG Grid
• IdeaBlade

• Remult
• Remult GitHub Repo
• Remult tutorial - React
• Remult tutorial - Vue
• Remult tutorial - Angular
• Remult tutorial - Next.js
• Remult on Twitter
• Remult on YouTube
• Remult on Discord
• TypeScript
• Fastify
• Express
• Nuxt
• Next
• Nest
• React
• Angular
• SvelteKit
• T4 Templates
• Prisma
• What is an ORM
• Remult Article in InfoQ
• Vite.js
• Bun.js
• Deno
• Remult databases

• 00:28 Welcome
• 01:02 Guest introduction
• 02:57 What is Remult?
• 05:12 What are the guardrails for Remult?
• 07:37 Sponsor: Ag Grid
• 08:38 App size is relative
• 15:56 Defining entities in Remult
• 19:53 Does Remult play nice with other tooling?
• 27:37 Sponsor: IdeaBlade
• 28:38 Final thoughts

Podcast editing on this episode done by Chris Enns of Lemon Productions.

Host(s):

• John Papa @John_Papa
• Ward Bell @WardBell
• Dan Wahlin @DanWahlin
• Craig Shoemaker @craigshoemaker

Guest:

• No guest this episode

Recording date: Sep 28, 2023

• AG Grid

• Narwhal

  Visit nx.dev to get the preeminent open-source toolkit for monorepo development, today.

• RAG
• Semantic Kernel
• LangChain
• Hugging Face Models
• Claude AI
• Azure OpenAI service
• Azure OpenAI Bring Your Own Data
• TypeChat
• Katerina Skroumpelou sharing how she created an AI app to augment docs
• See chatGPT hear and speak
• ChatGPT conversation
• Video: Azure OpenAI BYOD - ChatGPT with Your Own Data
• 👍🏼Rag Doll by Aerosmith
• What's Your Vector, Victor?
• text-embedding-ada-002
• GPT embeddings models
• Your home for Microsoft Ignite

• 00:26 Welcome
• 01:22 Topic introduction
• 02:05 What's on our mind with AI these days?
• 02:59 What happens if you run a model locally?
• 07:13 Sponsor: Narwhal
• 07:48 What is fine tuning a model?
• 13:52 When AI has blown our minds
• 16:55 Sponsor: Ag Grid
• 17:55 Bring your own data BYOD
• 20:04 What is text embedding?
• 28:52 What is Typechat and where is it useful?

Podcast editing on this episode done by Chris Enns of Lemon Productions.

Host(s):

• John Papa @John_Papa
• Ward Bell @WardBell
• Dan Wahlin @DanWahlin
• Craig Shoemaker @craigshoemaker

Guest:

• Mike Ryan [@mikeryandev]](https://twitter.com/mikeryandev)

Recording date: Sep 21, 2023

• AG Grid

• IdeaBlade

• Polaris
• Site Reliability on Web Rush with Brian Love on episode 228
• Surviving Technical Debt with Mike Ryan on Web Rush episode 117
• Websites vs Web Apps
• Polaris on LinkedIn
• Firebase Performance
• Sentry
• Data Dog
• Google Analytics
• SendBeacon API
• Using Web Workers
• A closer look at the Beacon API
• New Relic
• Smokey Mountains Website

• 00:27 Welcome
• 00:52 Introducing Mike Ryan
• 03:16 What is site reliability UX?
• 06:28 Sponsor: Ag Grid
• 07:28 Why is reliability so important in a web app?
• 14:02 How can I prepare for site issues?
• 16:13 Where do you learn about tooling?
• 19:43 What do you do if the monitoring software goes down?
• 22:48 Sponsor: IdeaBlade
• 23:53 What about fault tolerance?
• 26:21 What are other uses for SendBeacon?
• 29:14 Why isn't there more conversations around this?
• 30:52 Who should be using user monitoring?
• 32:25 How easy is it to get started with Polaris?
• 34:04 Final thoughts

Podcast editing on this episode done by Chris Enns of Lemon Productions.

Host(s):

• John Papa @John_Papa
• Ward Bell @WardBell
• Dan Wahlin @DanWahlin
• Craig Shoemaker @craigshoemaker

Guest:

• Katerina Skroumpelou @psybercity

Recording date: Sep 14, 2023

• AG Grid

• Narwhal

  Visit nx.dev to get the preeminent open-source toolkit for monorepo development, today.

• Soul Train the Musical
• ChatGPT
• Nx Docs
• Link to Nx AI Assistant (Disclaimer: I did NOT build the UI (I am useless in UI stuff).)
• NxConf event
• Grounding LLMs
• Hallucination (artificial intelligence)
• AI & Vectors
• PostgreSQL
• What is RAG?
• Supabase
• Based on/inspired by: (we'll have our own blog post explaining our AI docs once they're out)
• Mastering temperature and Top P in Open AI
• SkyNet
• Text Blaze
• "The numeric representation of knowledge and logic—Two artificial intelligence applications in medical education" W. D. Hagamen 1986
• Ward's citation: "Medical applications of data-driven APL programs" 1975 (Note that the abstract had to explain what "data-driven" means even to a highly technical audience. That's where we were in those days.)

• 00:28 Welcome
• 03:54 Introducing Katerina
• 04:45 How did you get into AI?
• 05:45 Why AI assistant is important for documentation?
• 09:46 Sponsor: Ag Grid
• 10:51 How do you feel it's been going?
• 16:32 What approach did you end up using to train AI?
• 18:36 What are embeddings?
• 20:32 Sponsor: Narwhal
• 21:06 Acknowledging our AI knowledge
• 24:25 How AI answers a question
• 28:31 How did you decide how often to call the API?
• 32:41 What is Rag?
• 36:49 Final thoughts

Podcast editing on this episode done by Chris Enns of Lemon Productions.

Host(s):

• John Papa @John_Papa
• Dan Wahlin @DanWahlin
• Craig Shoemaker @craigshoemaker

Guest:

• Michael Hladky @Michael_Hladky

Recording date: Sep 7, 2023

• AG Grid

• IdeaBlade

• Push Based IO Company website
• Performance workshop
• Signals in angular keynote
• ngConf
• What is reactive programming?
• JavaScript Promises
• Signals in Angular as a new Rective Primitive
• Angular Signals docs
• RxJS
• Keyboard events
• RxAngular
• JavaScript Signals tutorial: implementing a signals library step by step
• Unlock the Power of Angular - Master Class: A Comprehensive 4-Day Workshop with Michael Hladky
• Signals 1-Pager Cheatsheet

• 00:28 Grooming with John
• 01:46 Guest introduction
• 03:15 What is reactivity?
• 04:55 What about promises?
• 07:52 Sponsor: Ag Grid
• 08:53 When is reactivity a good choice or not a good choice?
• 16:21 How do you tame the complexity in programming?
• 21:17 Sponsor: IdeaBlade
• 22:17 Why should people pay attention to reactivity?
• 28:10 Dan's cheat sheet for function calls

Podcast editing on this episode done by Chris Enns of Lemon Productions.

Recording date: Aug 31, 2023

Host:
John Papa @John_Papa

Guest:
Tom Preston-Werner @Mojombo

• AG Grid

• Narwhal

  Visit nx.dev to get the preeminent open-source toolkit for monorepo development, today.

• RedwoodJS on Web Rush with Anthony Campolo episode 119
• RedwoodJS
• TypeScript
• Next.js
• React.js
• Auth0
• Netlify and RedwoodJS
• Vercel and RedwoodJS
• Prisma and RedwoodJS
• GraphQL and RedwoodJS
• What is a meta-framework
• Tailwind with RedwoodJS
• Jest with RedwoodJS
• Storybook with RedwoodJS
• RedwoodJS and Vite
• Next Gen tooling with RedwoodJS with Vite and Vitest
• React server components
• RedwoodJS and react server components
• Public roadmap for RedwoodJS Bighorn Epoch
• Why would I choose RedwoodJS over Next.js
• Pino logging
• RedwoodJS startup fund
• Chatterbug
• RedwoodJS tutorial
• RedwoodJS on YouTube
• RedwoodJS Conference in September 2023

• 00:29 Welcome
• 00:43 Who is Tom Preston-Werner?
• 02:14 What is RedwoodJS?
• 09:21 Sponsor: Narwhal Nx
• 10:00 How do you evaluate new technology and integrate it into Redwood?
• 19:36 How does RedwoodJS go further than NextJS?
• 27:56 What is startups at scale?
• 37:00 Sponsor: Ag Grid
• 38:11 Maintainability of software
• 43:53 Final thoughts

Podcast editing on this episode done by Chris Enns of Lemon Productions.