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 🎥 Here's why Polar's Birk Jernström thinks bug bounties are bad: https://youtu.be/NofPvZfz-lI 
 Jon Evans & @6bc9de98 think the current advancements in AI have plateaued again.

WDYT? https://youtu.be/V4-7eeFkZBk 
 🥂 New episode of Changelog & Friends!

On Sept 29th, Netflix shipped its final DVDs, marking the end of an era in physical media 😢

So, @6bc9de98 & @39c0fa73 invited our friend @e2d8748d to pour out a drink with us & lament the end of this golden age of access to the films we all love 💚

🎧 https://changelog.com/friends/16 
 Bruno is cool because it's an API explorer like Postman (et al), but it stores your collections directly in a folder on your filesystem, using a plain text markup language called 'Bru'

🔗 https://github.com/usebruno/bruno

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 🎉 New Changelog interview!

This week we’re joined by Daniel Thompson, co-founder of Tauri. It’s been a year since we last had Daniel on the show. He catches us up on all things Tauri:

✨ The release of Tauri 1.5
✨ The launch of CrabNebula
✨ The state of Electron vs Tauri, 
✨ The state of building UIs with Tauri
✨ Daniel’s idea of creating a web browser

#tauri #opensource #rustlang #startups

🎧 https://changelog.fm/560 
 From the physical layer all the way up to the application layer, Nagy gives us a glimpse of what happens "underneath" us when we use the internet, at least as far as the router.

🔗 https://deadlime.hu/en/2023/09/30/lost-in-the-network/ 
 nostr:npub1e6x6gcyqucldkrevaa7lx3uvgxlzxuwmxhw2t47g4trwlm5lx0kqzszd8d Oh please, PLEASE do anothe... 
 @d5920940 that’s awesome! 😎 
 Tiny RDM is a lightweight #Redis app for #Mac, #Windows & #Linux

(built with #golang on #wails)

🔗 https://github.com/tiny-craft/tiny-rdm

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 🗞 New episode of Changelog News!

🦀 InfluxDB drops #golang for #rustlang
🥧 RaspBerry Pi 5 is finally here
🐶 Bruno: a local-only #API explorer
🤪 @03ede1be: gokrazy is really cool
👨‍🎓 Matt Rickard’s lessons from debugging
🎙 hosted by @6bc9de98

🎧 https://changelog.com/news/64 
 nostr:npub1e6x6gcyqucldkrevaa7lx3uvgxlzxuwmxhw2t47g4trwlm5lx0kqzszd8d That fake definitions game ... 
 @c2df3100 awesome to hear, we’ll have to check out #WouldILieToYou! 
 The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode in 2023 (Still No Excuses!)

by Nikita Prokopov  https://tonsky.me/blog/unicode/ 
 nostr:npub1e6x6gcyqucldkrevaa7lx3uvgxlzxuwmxhw2t47g4trwlm5lx0kqzszd8d Could you make it available... 
 ✍️ @39c0fa73 comes up with the nerdiest twist ending ever 🤣

Would you read this plausible Sci-Fi book?

https://youtube.com/shorts/k2k3xLwRGmQ 
 What's your take on The Simpsons writers?!

A) Just long-time satirists
B) Actual time travelers
C) None of the above (do tell!)

https://youtube.com/shorts/WHfvdD249-U 
 🎧 New episode of Changelog & Friends!

@6bc9de98 gathers a group of friends (@39c0fa73, Amal Hussein, Taylor Troesh, @ce8aa877) for our first game show experiment! 🧪

This is a game of obscure jargon, fake definitions & expert tomfoolery 📘

💚 https://changelog.com/friends/15 
 🙌 New episode of The Changelog

Live from the hallway track of the final #StrangeLoop!

First up is @1af6ece3 — an engineering, business & education professor. AnnMarie’s keynote: “Playing with Engineering” 

We also hear from @a0ca5581, @e8c5896c & Taylor Troesh who shared their favorite moments over the years.

Finally, Pokey Rule tells us about his project: Cursorless –a spoken language for code editing.

🎧 https://changelog.fm/559 
 🗞 New episode of Changelog News!

⚡️ @77c04314 for local-first sync
🐉 @5e55ae2d on learning styles
🔝 @395d265c takes XML over YAML
👨‍🏫 Berkan Sasmaz defines and describes idempotency
🔎 HyperDX is an open source observability platform
🎙 hosted by @6bc9de98

🎧 https://changelog.com/news/63 
 🎉 New Changelog & Friends!

A hoy hoy! Our old friend @a84e820c from @d7200d92 does his best to bring up #TypeScript, #Vim & #Tmux as many times as possible while we: 

1️⃣ discuss a new batch of web browsers
2️⃣ justify why we like the ones we do
3️⃣ try to figure out what it’d take to disrupt Big Browser

This is a fun one!

🎧 https://changelog.com/friends/14 
 🙌 @b92dcc07 on how interoperability can save the open web

🔗 https://spectrum.ieee.org/doctorow-interoperability 
 > Postgres is the most popular database in the world. Should I be able to double-click a thing, install it, and have it always be running and not have to worry about “Is this particular PID in the right folder? Oh, wait, no, because of system integrity protection…”

🗣️ @9bf09410 talking user-hostile dev tools
🎥 https://youtu.be/3_SFsvOkI4w 
 An awesome list of Strange Loop attendees' most beloved talks ✨

🔗 https://changelog.com/posts/strange-loops-greatest-hits 
 Strange Loop's greatest hits
✏️ by @6bc9de98
👉 /news/V1zX 
 Spolsky: "All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky."

Battery makers: "Hold my beer"

https://cdn.changelog.social/media_attachments/files/111/069/033/203/524/242/original/ee0bb019e8129a21.jpeg 
 🎉 New Changelog interview!

Haroon Meer from @04f51fe8 joins @39c0fa73 & @6bc9de98 to walk us through a network getting compromised, what it takes to deploy a Canary on your network, how they maintain low false-positive numbers, their thoughts and principles on building their business (major wisdom shared!), and how a Canary helps surface network attacks in real time. 🚨

#infosec #hardware #startups #honeypot

🎧 https://changelog.fm/557 
 The “Test Pyramid” was created as a guide to integrate automated testing by organizing it into UI, Service & Unit buckets. 🪣

Since the time it was defined in 2012, the model seems to have fallen by the wayside. But is the Test Pyramid really dead? 🤔

✍️@leichteckig@vue.land for @8e973c37 

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2023/09/long-live-test-pyramid/ 
 Paste in a URL and get back an RSS feed for (almost) anything

🔗 https://rssfeedasap.com/ 
 🚢 New Changelog & Friends!

Author, journalist, travel writer & software engineer @268899a6  joins @6bc9de98 & @39c0fa73 to weigh in on the cultural history (and present-day sentiment) of AI doom. 🤖

Along the way, we talk plausible Sci-Fi, ultrasound drug delivery, the maybe-evolving laws of physics & even weirder stuff. 🙃

🎧 https://changelog.com/friends/13 
 What makes Leslie Lamport different from most computer scientists, in his own words: https://youtu.be/tcBAOU5C2dY 
 After a five year hiatus, jq is back! 

🙌 new GitHub org
🙌 new maintainers
🙌 new release (1.7)

https://github.com/jqlang/jq/releases/tag/jq-1.7 
 Psst! Don’t tell anyone, but @6bc9de98 connects to our production #Postgres server to monitor background jobs 🤫

https://youtube.com/shorts/WejLzyM2yso