Robert Ross joins us in CrowdStrike’s wake to dissect the largest outage in the history of information technology… and what it means for the future of the (software) world.

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• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
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Show Notes:

• Inside the 78 minutes that took down millions of Windows machines
• How the CrowdStrike outage unfolded — a timeline
• Nick Burns, Your Company’s Computer Guy
• Real men test in production… The truth about the CrowdStrike disaster
• No More Blue Fridays
• House committee calls on CrowdStrike CEO to testify on global outage
• CrowdStrike CEO called to testify to Congress over cybersecurity’s firm role in global tech outage
• Beyond the Headlines: The Unsung Art of Software Outage Management

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Adam Lisagor (Sandwich Video founder) takes us behind the Sandwich to share his insights into the importance of storytelling in the tech industry, the value of helping Founders communicate their stories effectively, the details behind his new AI company, and the apps he’s making for Apple Vision Pro at Sandwich Vision.

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• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

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• Sandwich (Video)
• useful.computer - The AI app/company Adam and Beamer are working on
• Sandwich Vision - Television and Theater apps for Apple Vision Pro

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Brendan Gregg details how eBPF can help us have no more blue Fridays, Misty De Meo thinks GitHub is starting to feel like legacy software, Gavin D. Howard does not want Rust to be used for everything, The Notion team published a deep dive into how they used the WASM version of SQLite to improve browser performance & Gregor Ojstersek writes up how to build good relationships inside and outside your engineering teams.

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Nick Janetakis is back and this time we’re talking about TUIs (text-based user interfaces) — some we’ve tried and some we plan to try. All are collected from Justin Garrison’s Awesome TUIs repo on GitHub. This episode is “AI free.”

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• Justin Garrison’s awesome-tuis repo
• aristocratos/bashtop - Linux/OSX/FreeBSD resource monitor
• aristocratos/btop - A monitor of resources
• “Getting started with tmux” on YouTube
• Changelog Interviews #511: The terminal as a platform (with Will McGugan)
• LazyDocker - manage everything Docker
• Superfile - fancy and modern terminal file manager
• Ranger - VIM-inspired filemanager
• Elia - TUI for interacting with large language models
• Atuin - Making your shell magical
• Warp - the terminal reimagined

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Benn Stancil’s weekly Substack on data and technology provides a fascinating perspective on the modern data stack & the industry building it. On this episode, Benn joins Jerod to dissect a few of his essays, discuss opportunities he sees during this slowdown & explain why he thinks maybe we should disband the analytics team.

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• Benn’s Substack
• It’s time to build
• github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core
• Disband the analytics team
• A gambler’s guide to giving talks
• gilesbowkett/archaeopteryx

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Marcus J. Ranum’s 2005 post on dumb ideas in computer security still holds up, Barry Jones argues why story points are useless, Posting is an HTTP client as a TUI, Varnish ceator Poul-Henning Kamp (phk) reflects on ten years of working on the HTTP cache & es-tookit is a major upgrade to Lodash.

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Shawn “swyx” Wang is back to talk with us about the state of DevRel according to ZIRP (the Zero Interest Rate Phenomenon), the data that backs up the rise and fall of job openings, whether or not DevRel is dead or dying, speculation of the near-term arrival of AGI, AI Engineering as the last job standing, the innovation from Cognition with Devin as well as their mis-steps during Devin’s launch, and what’s to come in the next innovation round of AI.

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• DevRel’s Death as Zero Interest Rate Phenomenon
• Measuring Developer Relations
• pandas
• Jasper AI
• Writer.com
• harvey.ai
• Cognition.ai
• Anthropic
• Changelog Interviews #594: Microsoft is all-in on AI: Part 2 (with Mark Russinovich, Eric Boyd & Neha Batra)
• The Rise of the AI Engineer
• AI News
• von Neumann probes (Self-replicating spacecraft)

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Paul Copplestone, CEO of Supabase (the meme-lord himself), joins the show to take us on the journey of Supabase leading Postgres for life, and how it all starts with Postgres as the base-layer substrate for the entire Supabase platform. They’re laser focused on the drive ahead, not the rear-view mirror.

Disclosure: Adam and Jerod are angel investors in Supabase.

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• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

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• Supabase.com
• Changelog News #54: 🔥 Supabase quietly went public today
• “Build in a weekend, scale to millions”
• 29% of Y Combinator batch (W24) use Supabase
• Oriole joins Supabase
• We are moving to General Availability (April 2024)
• Changelog #476: Supabase is all in on Postgres
• How to Run Supabase Locally
• Supabase local development
• Changelog #590: Good timing makes great products
• Fly Postgres, managed by Supabase

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Marcus Buffett writes his younger self programming advice, Swyx asks and answers whether or not DevRel is dead, the Ghost team opens up their ActivityPub server, Pongo is like MongoDB but on Postgres, Jack Kelly is funding Ladybird because he can’t fund Firefox & Hyrum’s Law.

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Adam & Jerod discuss the news! But first, we discuss how you can keep up with the software world (good question, Tyler Boyd!) On the docket: Developer job postings trend, the Ladybird Browser Initiative, the Polyfill.js supply chain attack & is the future self-hosted?

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• Software Development Job Postings on Indeed in the United States
• Announcing the Ladybird Browser Initiative
• Chris Wanstrath’s announcement
• Polyfill supply chain attack hits 100K+ sites
• The future is self-hosted

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Carol Lee (Clinical Scientist) shares her research on code review anxiety. We dive deep into her recent research paper “Understanding and Effectively Mitigating Code Review Anxiety”. We get into all the nooks and crannies of this topic — common code review myths, strategies for coping, the need for awareness and self-reflection, the value of exposure and practice to build confidence, the importance of team dynamics, respect, empathy, and connection, and more. This show is jam-packed with goodies for everyone…and we even give a nod to the work we did on our podcast Brain Science.

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• Carol’s research paper Understanding and Effectively Mitigating Code Review Anxiety
• Code Review Anxiety Workbook
• Developer Success Lab (or also)
• Brain Science
• Margin: Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial, and Time Reserves to Overloaded Lives
• Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

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