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Episode 128 of The ADHD Adults podcast covers the nine symptoms of inattentiveness in detail, giving examples of what they are. Alex reads the usual 'definitely real' correspondence. Alex get’s Welsh wrong, 'James has a diagnostic screening radiation' and Mrs ADHD thinks her glasses are too good for her eyes... Written by Alex Conner, Samantha Brown and James Brown.Produced by James Brown and JBHD Ltd.Social media contacts: @theadhdadultsMusic by Sessionz Subscribe for extra content Support the charity that the show raises money for

In memory of Software Engineering Daily Founder, Jeff Meyerson. 1988 – 2022

Go 1.21RC4 is out🪳 CVEsCVE-2023-29409 fixed in Go 1.20.7 & 1.19.12CVE-2023-3978 fixed in golang.org/x/net & golang.org/x/net/html v0.13.0CVE-2023-29407 & CVE-2023-29408 fixed in golang.org/x/image & golang/x/image/tiff v0.10.0🗳️ Go Developer Survey open until August 10🆕 gonew: Experimenting with...

This week Adam is joined by Abi Noda, founder and CEO of DX to talk about DX AKA DevEx (or the long-form Developer Experience). Since the dawn of software development there has been this push to understand what makes software teams efficient, but more importantly what does it take to understand developer productivity? ...

Choosing a database is hard. They each have their pros and cons, and without much experience it is hard to determine which is the best fit for your project. In this episode Johan Brandhorst joins us to talk about Postgres. When is it a good fit? How well does it scale? What libraries exist in Go for using Postgres?

APIs are ubiquitous and critical to building modern software, and developers must frequently develop custom APIs to streamline user access to their services. However, making an API that provides a great developer experience can be a time-consuming endeavor. As a result, API teams often leave the final mile of integration up to their users. Speakeasy

Monitoring and debugging distributed systems is hard. In this episode, we catch up with Kelsey Hightower, Stevenson Jean-Pierre, and Carlisia Thompson to get their insights on how to approach these challenges and talk about the tools and practices that make complex distributed systems more observable.

Today we’re talking with Alice Merrick & Andy Walker about building a world-class developer experience. You know it when you see it, things just feel right. But it’s more than just a pleasant UI or lipstick on a pig (which is a saying), it really matters.

Can’t find a job working in Go? Perhaps introducing your current team to Go is the solution. In this episode we talk about how Go was introduced at different organizations, potential pitfalls that may sabotage your efforts, some advice on how to convince your team and CTO to use Go and more.

Brad Fitzpatrick returns to the show (last heard on episode 44) to field a mixed bag of questions from Johnny, Mat, and the live listeners. How’d he get in to programming? What languages did he use before Go? What’s he up to now that he’s not working on the Go language? And of course… does he have any unpopular opinion...

For today’s episode, Asim takes on the situation of tech employees going through layoffs. In recent months, there have been many layoffs in the tech industry, and people are either flustered or placed at their lowest points going through this predicament. Asim takes on a guide that can help those who have been laid off and those who are trying to avoid the situation. [00:38] Introduction to Tech Layoffs [01:16] Tips for Laid Off and Recent Grads [01:20] Due to Downsizing [02:20] Understanding Your First Downturn [03:27] What Can We do? [03:34] Networking In the Field Of Interest [05:29] Seeking Part Time Roles [05:58] Structure and Discipline [06:35] Starting Your Own Company [07:12] Avoid Companies of People Who Complain [07:38] Habit of Reading [08:44] Summary Nowhere to Go But Up In the position of being laid off, employees would often over analyze why they were let go or what they will do after being released. It’s important to have a quick understanding of the situation. Taking a scan of what could have been done or what can be done. In the event that this does happen to an individual, the mindset of being resourceful on how else you can build your career will be an essential tool. In the field of tech, there are many opportunities out there. While it is still valid to let out how you feel in private, what’s important is that you know how to get back up on your feet and you make a plan on how to do it. Reading Materials So Good They Can’t Ignore You by Cal Newport Deep Work by Cal Newport Mindset by Carol Dweck

Una & Adam from The CSS Podcast defend their Frontend Feud title against challengers Chuck & Robbie from Whiskey Web and Whatnot. Let’s get it on!

In this episode we discuss: Repairing a Steam Deck Taking digital hoarding too far with Tube Archivist Creating a magical LAN using the Internet with ZeroTier Some pictures of the state inside Mark’s …

The CAP theorem, also known as Brewer’s theorem, is a fundamental principle in distributed systems that states that it is impossible to simultaneously achieve three desirable properties in a distributed data system: Consistency, Availability, and Partition tolerance. Eric Brewer is the VP of Infrastructure & Google Fellow at Google and he joins us today. This

This week we’re joined by Solomon Hykes, the creator of Docker. Now he’s back with his next big thing called Dagger — CI/CD as code that runs anywhere. We’re users of Dagger so check out our codebase if you want to see how it works. On today’s show Solomon takes us back to the days of Docker, what it was like on that 1...

Today we're joined by guest co-host, Adelina Simion! Adelina works at Form3, co-organizer of Women Who Go, London and London Gophers, and is the author of Test-Driven Development in Go.🛡️ Security updates coming August 1:Go 1.20.7 & 1.19.12golang.org/x/image/tiffgolang.org/x/net and...

Where is open source now and where is it going? The oversaturation of cryptocurrency scams and the community shift in the web3 movement. The data required for machine learning and the balance of rights of use. What do we make of the various states of open source and what comes next? Welcome to the first episode of Upstream podcast! In this week’s episode, Luis Villa chats with Molly White of Web3 is Going Just Great and Stefano Maffuli of the Open Source Initiative about the future of open source and beyond.Links:https://web3isgoinggreat.com/ https://deepdive.opensource.org/ https://opensource.org/ https://ethicalsource.dev/For more stories about open source, subscribe to the Upstream podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon, Google Podcasts, YouTube, RSS, or follow along on our website, www.tidelift.com.

Franchesca Ramsey is an comedian, writer, actor, producer, activist, and content creator. She's also a proud Union Member of both the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) and the Writers Guild of America (WGA). She sits down with Scott to talk about the importance of unions, what it means to be a "working actor" and what we can do as consumers of media to support the strike. What does it mean to be a scab? Will AI help or hinder a creative's ability to make living?

So, do we like generics or not? Some people feared they’d be the end of the language. Others were very hopeful, and had clear use cases, and were thrilled about the feature coming to the language. It was also often touted as the reason a lot of people didn’t adopt Go. So what do we think now? Mat and Kris are joined by...

Listen now (85 min) | Brought to you by Microsoft Clarity—See how people actually use your product | Eppo—Run reliable, impactful experiments | Eco—Your most rewarding app — Gustav Söderström is the Co-President and Chief Product and Technology Officer at Spotify. He is responsible for Spotify’s global product and technology strategy, overseeing the product, design, data, and engineering teams. Prior to Spotify, he founded 13th Lab, a startup that was later acquired by Facebook’s Oculus. He also served as the Director of Product and Business Development for Yahoo Mobile and founded Kenet Works, a company focused on community software for mobile phones, which was acquired by Yahoo in 2006. In today’s episode, we discuss:

This week it’s storytime with Steve Yegge! Steve came out of retirement to join Sourcegraph as Head of Engineering. Their next frontier is Cody, their AI coding assistant that answers code questions and writes code for you by reading your entire codebase and the code graph. But, we really spent a lot of time talking wi...

Adam was out when Bryan made his podcast debut here on The Changelog, so we had to get him back on the show along with his co-founder and CEO Steve Tuck to discuss Silicon Valley (the TV show), all things Oxide, homelab possibilities, bringing the power of the cloud on prem, and more.

Go 1.21RC3 released🎉 loopvar fix has been ACCEPTED! Likely to be included in 1.22Blog post: Coroutines for Go by Russ Cox🌐 net/http.serveMux routing improvements is now an official proposal0️⃣ New proposal: add an untyped zeroEcho 4.11.0 releasedJoin us on Slack at #cup-o-go on the Gophers Slack,...

Matt Boyle is an Engineering Manager for Cloudflare based out of London. His team's goal is to create tools that increase the productivity and efficiency of other engineers. He is the author of “Domain-Driven Design with Golang” and speaks about h...

Elasticsearch is the most established solution today to search and analyze large amounts of logs. However, it can be costly and complex to manage. Quickwit searches large amounts of append only cloud data like logs or ledgers in a fraction time with significantly less cost than Elasticsearch. In this episode, we interview Paul Masurel, one

The Go ecosystem has a hoard of tools and editors for Gophers to choose from and it can be difficult to find ones that are a good fit for each individual. In this episode, we discuss what tools and editors we’re using, the ones we wish existed, how we go about finding new ones, and why we sometimes choose to write our ...

As a technologist, coder, and lawyer, few people are better equipped to discuss the legal and practical consequences of generative AI than Damien Riehl. He demonstrated this a couple years ago by generating, writing to disk, and then releasing every possible musical melody. Damien joins us to answer our many questions ...

Full Stack Developers Wes Bos and Scott Tolinski dive deep into web development topics, explaining how they work and talking about their own experiences. They cover from JavaScript frameworks like React, to the latest advancements in CSS to simplifying web tooling.

Gregor discusses his role as a board member for the present policy of the Innovation Council Public Health, an NGO that developed digital tools to fight COVID-19.

Today, we meet Ben Dumke-von der Ehe, one of the early developers on the Stack Overflow team. He was on the front lines as the platform transformed how programmers worked. And he embodies the spirit of Stack Overflow: Its transparency, playfulness, and even some of its struggles to be as welcoming and friendly as it should be. But you'll see... […]

Dr. Cat Hicks, Director of Pluralsight Flow’s Developer Success Lab, joins Ben and Eira to talk about why ICs deserve recognition for their contributions to big projects (and how they can get it).

Ruth reveals her project on Mautic's sustainability & the impact of transparency & empowering leaders in the Mautic community. Josh talks about boosting developer efficiency & advocating fair compensation.

Red Hat’s decision to lock down RHEL sources behind a subscription paywall was met with much ire and opened opportunity for Oracle to get a smack in and SUSE to announce a fork with $10 million behind it. Few RHEL community members have been as publicly irate as Jeff Geerling, so we invited him on the show to discuss.

This week we’re talking about type checking with Jake Zimmerman. Jake is one of the leads at Stripe working on Sorbet — an open source project that does Type checking in Ruby and runs over Stripe’s entire Ruby codebase. As of May of 2022 Stripe’s codebase was over 15 million lines of code spread across 150,000 files. I...

Security fixes: Go 1.20.6 & 1.19.11 releasedConferences🇰🇷 GopherCon Korea, Seoul, August 5-6🇬🇧 GopherCon UK, London, August 16-18🇺🇸 GopherCon, San Diego, CA, USA, September 25-28🇮🇪 GopherCon Ireland, Dublin, November 2 (CFP ends July 14)🦍 Gorilla's Back!govulncheck v1.0.0 releasedBlog post:...

Mike and Phil chat with Roy Pereira from Unified.to, who are building a service that gives dev teams one API to use for integrating with external services. It's as ambitious as it sounds.

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Our award winning worthy survey game show is back, this time Mat Ryer hosts it live on stage at GopherCon Europe 2023! Elena Grahovac joins forces with Björn Rabenstein to battle it out with Alice Merrick & Mohammed S. Al Sahaf. Let’s see who can better guess what the GopherCon Europe gophers had to say!

 Raechel Lambert is the Co-Founder of a product marketing agency called Olivine which focuses on positioning, messaging and product launches to SAS companies. She has built many different projects and applications and has started focusing her time...

Listen to How to Quit Social Media with James Acaster (Live at Soho Theatre) from Nobody Panic. Comedian and Ghostbuster James Acaster tells Stevie and Tessa how to quit social media in about ten seconds before having a nice chat about Twitter in general. Don't expect a huge amount of tips but certainly expect a rollicking good laugh. Subscribe to the Nobody Panic Patreon at patreon.com/nobodypanicWant to support Nobody Panic? You can make a one-off donation at https://supporter.acast.com/nobodypanicRecorded by Soho Theatre and edited by Aniya Das for Plosive.Photos by Marco Vittur, jingle by David Dobson.

This week we’re talking to Daniel J. Barrett, author of Efficient Linux at the Command Line as well as many other books. Daniel has a PhD and has been teaching and writing about Linux for more than 30 years (almost 40!). So we invited Dan to join us on the show to talk about efficient ways to use Linux. He teaches us a...

Oracle smacks IBM for their handling of RHEL, the folks at The Dam share a Slack clone in 5 lines of Bash, Justin Jaffray writes up 13 ways to think about joins, llama.cpp learns web chat thanks to a contribution by Tobi Lütke & Meta is willing to pay 3 engineers to remove Python’s GIL.

Darcy Clarke, former GitHub Staff Engineering Manager and founder of vlt, joins us to discuss a major bug in the npm ecosystem that he recently disclosed. We cover the bug’s timeline, nuances, and impact, all while setting some important context on npm packages, clients, and registries. Tune in to learn how to protect ...

Sagar Batchu from Speakeasyapi.dev shares his insights on helping devs live the dream of building APIs that have world-class developer experience.

Go 1.21 coming soon🍕 New cmp, slices, and maps packages🪵 Structured loggingExecution tracer overhaul, targeted for Go 1.22Issue #60773Proposal docShould the Go project stop importing GitHub PRs?GitHub DiscussionReddit Discussion📻 Blog post: Podcasts for Go DevelopersWhere to find Go jobsGo Israel...

On Monday, Kelsey Hightower announced his retirement from Google. On Tuesday, he sat down with us to discuss why, how & what’s next. Along the way, Kelsey teaches us how not to suck at work, analyzes his magical demos, fights off the haters (again) & opines on System Initiative, Dagger & 37Signals moving of...

Many Gophers build projects as a team of one. Sometimes these are side projects, other times they are projects used by millions of people but who are still maintained by a single individual. In this episode, the panel discusses techniques for developing and maintaining Go projects as a solo developer.

Conferences:GopherCon AU CFP through July 31 Proposals:Accepted: Add generic database/sql.Null[T]Declined: Add YAML to stdlibLikely accept: Make GOPATH invincible Go 1.21 overview:Find the release notes hereGo 1.21 improves build speed by up to 6%, largely thanks to building the compiler itself...