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GeekNights Mondays is the weekly sci/tech segment of GeekNights, featuring science, technology, computing, and more. We talk Linux, Windows, gadgets, you name it.
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Two old Linux/Unix/OpenSource guys talk about the past and future of *nix, Open Source and other Tech related things.
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TuxHome is a weekly podcast (usually released on Sunday or Monday) which provides reviews and announcements of the latest and greatest Linux and Unix operating systems, and Open Source applications to use with any operating system!
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New media, new rules
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Daily Tech News, Tips, Hacks and Geeky Related Topics
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Just some guys, talking about FOSS.
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The nixers community podcast tries to tackle subjects that rotate around the world of unix in a novel way, linking ideas into an interesting discussion, seeing the big picture. http://podcast.nixers.net/what
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Command Line TV is a video podcast to help you learn and master the Unix shell. Informally, ‘Unix’ refers to a family of operating systems that includes GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and FreeBSD. Operating a computer via the command line gives you tremendous power and flexibility, but it’s not easy to learn. We’re here to help! We start from the beginning, but also try to include some tips suitable for intermediate users. Each video is about 20 minutes long, and we aim to release a new episode every ...
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Sourcetunk will try to demystify the beautiful beast that is Open Source and show the listeners the more practical examples of Open Source and Free Software. It will discuss software for Linux, BSD, MacOSX and Microsoft Windows systems
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Stay up to date with the Go community in about 15 minutes per week
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Once you become aware that there is a dependable, secure, capable, and modern computer system that rivals all others in popularity and actual use, you will want to try the Linux operating system on your computer. Perhaps you've been using a member of the Unix/Linux family - Linux, Android, ChromeOS, BSD or even OSX - for quite a while. If so, you are likely looking for new ways to optimize your technology for the way you work. Going Linux is for computer users who just want to use Linux to g ...
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Ogg Vorbis audio versions of The Linux Action Show! A show that covers everything geeks care about in the computer industry. Get a solid dose of Linux, gadgets, news events and much more!
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The USENIX Invited Talks Podcast brings you industry leaders covering the latest in security, system administration, systems research, and more need-to-know technology topics. USENIX, The Advanced Computing Systems Association, has been the premier forum for presenting groundbreaking technology information for over 30 years. Check out excerpts from the luminary-led invited talks programs of past USENIX Conferences.
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Do you support Macs in an enterprise computing environment? Our goal is to bring the experience of a conference session to you by featuring knowledgeable and experience Mac system administrators as guests. We cover everything from client management and software deployment to AD integration, server management and more!
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Jaron Swab, a software engineer, shares tips around Linux, programming, and open source. So you can stay on top of your privacy, security, and productivity. Discover what it means to be a hacker from a self taught software engineer. You'll learn how to land a tech job, amp up your computer efficiency, and leave behind the walled gardens of big tech. Since 2005, Jaron has exercised his love for coding and taking technology into his own hands. It's Jaron and a microphone; a one on one approach ...
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Each episode of Discursive takes one idea — from open source to FinOps, from AI agents to cloud cost models — and unpacks it through the lens of decades spent building the web, scaling infrastructure, and writing about how technology actually evolves. Recorded in Seattle, Discursive is a ten-minute conversation about where software has been and where it’s heading — across cloud, FinOps, open source, AI, and the culture that connects them.
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Programacion Web, where amazing things happen. Cover art photo provided by Efe Kurnaz on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@efekurnaz
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Tech articles and blog posts, read aloud. More info: https://qmacro.org/blog/posts/2019/09/17/new-podcast-tech-aloud/
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The Zero Prime Podcast with Pete Soderling explores the early stories of top startups as seen through the eyes of their engineer-founders. In each episode we uncover insights on what it takes to start a company as an engineer in the words of the founders themselves. From the most cutting edge infrastructure companies to the newest trends in developer tooling, we introduce you to the engineer-founder personalities behind the up and coming software startups that you can’t afford to ignore.
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Cloud Out Loud is a weekly discussion forum for a variety of Ruby, open source and cloud related topics. Interesting conversations with passionate folks who dedicate their time and energy to advancing open source technology they believe in.
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Interesting, engaging, exciting, and thought-provoking stories from those in tech; because all of us have a story or two to tell.
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The Incredible Machine: When Corporate Theater Met the Dawn of Unix
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"The Incredible Machine" was Bell Labs' 1968 promotional masterpiece—complete with scientists in full suits, dramatic red lighting, and demonstrations of light pens drawing circuits on graphics displays. The film showcased computer-generated music and the iconic "Daisy Bell" performance that inspired HAL 9000 in "2001: A Space Odyssey." It was corp…
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An episode as short as the name of a unix command
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Go 1.25.3 and 1.24.9 released 🪲 Blog: How we found a bug in Go's arm64 compiler by Thea Heinen zsh support progress for sh 🇺🇸 Go meetup & live episode @ San Francisco 🌩️ Lightning round qjs, a CGO-Free, modern, secure JavaScript runtime for Go applications 📺 Kaizen, watch anime from the terminal ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★…
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🐞 Go 1.25.4 and 1.24.10 are released The Geomys Standard of Care 🛡️ Claude Code Can Debug Low-level Cryptography 🫚 go podcast() episode 64: Podman, the root-less alternative to Docker ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★By Jonathan Hall & Shay Nehmad
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Today's Tech News: Massive Credential Breach, Meta's Rust-Powered Type Checker, and the End of an Era
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Troy Hunt has processed the largest data breach corpus in Have I Been Pwned's history—nearly 2 billion unique email addresses and 1.3 billion passwords, with 625 million passwords never seen before. This isn't a single breach but rather credential stuffing data that criminals use to attempt logins across the internet. The scale is staggering: 32 mi…
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Developers, It's Time to Secure Your Workstations and Laptops
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Developer workstations have become treasure chests of credentials—API keys, database passwords, cloud tokens, SSH keys—essentially the keys to the kingdom. This episode examines why developers have become the softest target in the security landscape, with surveys showing 86% of developers don't prioritize security when writing code, and nearly one-…
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Git's Discontents: Examining the Cracks in Version Control's Crown
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Git fundamentally transformed software development, enabling the open-source explosion we've witnessed over the past two decades. But as we approach Git's 20th birthday, it's worth examining where this beloved tool shows its age. Today's main segment digs into three key areas of discontent: Git's well-documented struggles with massive monorepos (fo…
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Trusting the Autopilot: When AI Flies Better Than Humans
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Modern aviation has a counterintuitive rule: keep the autopilot engaged during turbulence. After analyzing millions of flights, Airbus found that pilots who disconnect autopilot often make things worse through overcorrection and startle response. The machine, monitoring 88+ parameters simultaneously, handles the chaos better than human instinct. Th…
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Meteors vs. Data Centers - Cloud Computing: Worst Case Scenarios
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The October 2025 AWS outage in us-east-1 was a 15-hour preview of life without the cloud. When a DNS resolution failure cascaded through DynamoDB, it didn't just take down websites – it disrupted daily life in unexpected ways. From Starbucks' mobile ordering to smart mattresses stuck at the wrong temperature, the outage revealed how deeply cloud in…
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The main segment explores a milestone for the web platform: the Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC) now runs entirely in modern browsers via WebAssembly (Wasm). Developers can write, compile, and run Haskell without any local setup, lowering the barrier to entry for education and experimentation. Wasm provides a portable, memory‑safe execution sandbox t…
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Wolf surfaces five fundamentals to becoming a better developer (that you probably didn’t even know you didn’t know)! This is a fiery one! Jim asks questions, and also questions Wolf's choices. Takeaways The problem comes first—ask more questions Start with the simplest thing that could reasonably work Measure before you optimize (but don’t be stupi…
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TORCHLIGHT, a research tool presented at USENIX Security 2025, discovered 29 zero-day exploits affecting 12.71 million IoT devices hidden on the Tor network by analyzing 26 terabytes of traffic over twelve months. These aren't just smart fridges—they're industrial controllers, security cameras, and network equipment controlling critical infrastruct…
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👻 Spooky integer printing and 🧛🏻 scary fast ring buffers
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New proposal: go vet check for using %q with integer types Blog: I'm Independently Verifying Go's Reproducible Builds by Andrew Ayer JetBrains' language promise index Reddit: Why I built a ~39M op/s, zero-allocation ring buffer for file watching Blog: A modern approach to preventing CSRF in Go ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★…
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DHH on Leaving the Cloud: When Private Infrastructure Makes Sense
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DHH's decision to move Basecamp and HEY out of the public cloud sparked intense debate in the tech community. Still, as someone who interviewed him back in 2008 (which ended with us literally running from Chicago police over a filming permit), I respect his position: real numbers and real success back his argument. For mature applications with pred…
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The Reality of Utilization Reports: Why FinOps Is More Complicated Than That
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In the main segment, Tim unpacks the deceptive nature of utilization reports that FinOps teams rely on to identify "waste" in infrastructure. While industry statistics show servers running at shockingly low utilization rates—often 12-50%—Tim argues that acting on these numbers without context is like "performing surgery with a chainsaw." He explore…
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In the main segment, we unpack “The Humble Programmer” (1972) and why it still reads like a briefing for 2025. Dijkstra’s claim that “programming will remain very difficult” lands squarely in the age of AI code generation: as tools remove circumstantial cumbersomeness, our ambitions expand and the problems get harder. We connect his call to “prepar…
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In the main segment, we challenge the rewrite-first mindset and make the case for durability, maintenance, and reuse as creative acts. Drawing from experience upgrading decades-old scientific code and from industry examples that outlive frameworks and fads, we explore the high cost of throwing software away and the value of architecture that separa…
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When Code Writes Code: The New Licensing Frontier
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Generative AI can now rebuild full software products in minutes — but can it do that legally? In this episode, we dive into the collision between AI-generated code and the fine print of software licenses. Tools like Cursor, Copilot, and ChatGPT are transforming how developers work, but they’re also testing the limits of what “independent developmen…
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In this episode, Tim O’Brien looks back at three decades of open source — from Unix labs in the 1990s to the chaotic Cambrian explosion of GitHub — and argues that we’re entering a new “Fork-It-and-Forget” era. Article this Episode Summarizes: https://medium.com/@tobrien/the-fork-it-and-forget-decade-dbb41008f961 Generative AI isn’t just coding; it…
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Sponsored by Forge, live from San Francisco, it's Cup o' Go!
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Thanks to Forge for sponsoring this episode! Find Forge at https://withforge.com/. They are HIRING! Find Forge's jobs page here: https://in-the-forge.notion.site/hiring-roles DRAFT RELEASE NOTES — Go 1.26 Coding Challenge #100 - BitTorrent Client The Evolution of Caching Libraries in Go This episode was recorded in front of a live studio audience, …
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Tonight on GeekNights, we discuss tech bubbles like the Dot-com bubble. Unrelatedly here's a video by Hank Green titled The State of the AI Industry is Freaking Me Out, and a video by Adam Conover titled Sora Proves the AI Bubble Is Going to Burst So Hard. In the news, nearly 7 million Americans marched in defense of democracy, Amazon AWS went down…
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13: Terminals: Talking to the machine
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Jim takes us on a walk down memory lane! Terminals have been around for a long time, probably much longer than you'd ever guess. Join us as we talk about the history of computer terminals and get a bit into how they work and how they've evolved into the amazing applications that we have today. Links https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleprinter https:/…
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Security releases 🍪 Go 1.25.2 and 1.24.8 with 10 security fixes 🌐 golang.org/x/net v0.45.0 with 2 security fixes Meetups @ Conferences 🇺🇸 San Fransisco, CA, USA — Oct 23 @ Forge 🇮🇱 Tel Aviv, Israel — Dec 10 @ Cato Networks 🇺🇸 GoWest @ Lehi, Utah USA — Oct 24 🧦 New swag in the Cup o' Go store! Proposals 👷🏿♀️ Accepted: go fix to apply fixes from mod…
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12: GPUs - Can I, Should I, and How?
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It's Wolf's turn this episode, and this one required research! GPUs obviously do tons of work. You see it every time you play a graphics intensive game. You know how crypto-miners are using them. You’ve heard AI companies using them for model building. You’ve got this hardware in your machine! Can you use it? Should you use it? Where even to start?…
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Conference videos 🇬🇧 GopherCon UK FyneConf Proposals 💧 Accepted: add new goroutine leak profile as a GOEXPERIMENT Full discussion of this feature in Episode 127 🪿 Added to minutes: add GOOS=noos bare metal support 🫣 Added to minutes: Add bytes.Buffer.Peek 👍 Added to minutes: Add must.Do Blog posts ✈️ Go blog: Flight Recorder in Go 1.25 by Carlos Am…
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Meetups and Conferences 🇺🇸 Go Meetup in San Francisco, Oct 23 @ Forge 🇺🇸 GoWest, Oct 24 @ Lehi, Utah USA 🇳🇬 GopherCon Africa, Oct 24 & 25 @ Lagos, Nigeria 🇷🇺 LetsGoConf followup post on Telegram Proposals ⚠️ Accepted: errors.AsType (As with type parameters) 💧 runtime/pprof,runtime: new goroutine leak profile New: direct reference to embedded fields…
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Tonight on GeekNights, we discuss fitness tech like heart rate monitors and Strava and Dance Dance Revolution. In the news, Tik Tok has a dubious deal to keep operating in the US and the regime has plans for the algorithm. Also go see Perfect Blue remastered while you can. And read The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. Related Links Forum Thre…
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Jim demonstrates more of his networking knowledge, though this episode still required a lot research. Wolf, of course, has questions. The internet has been around for more than 40 years in some form. It's outgrown its ability to handle all of the hosts but fortunately, there's a solution. IPv6 is mature and wide-spread and not only does it increase…
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🪖 Gab's Notes on this week's Go news and an interview with Matt Boyle of Ona and ByteSizeGo
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Thanks Gabriel Augendre for guest co-hosting this episode! Visit cupogo.dev for all the links. 🔬 A new experimental Go API for JSON 🧾 2025 Go Developer Survey 🥸 Test state, not interactions by Redowan 😴 Go team quiet week Sep 22–Sep 26 ⛓️💥 The Day the Linter Broke My Code Interview with Matt Boyle Find Matt on X Ona ByteSizeGo Functional options f…
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Going Linux #472 · New Users Guide to Github
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Welcome to the world of version control with Git and GitHub! We will walk you through the essential steps to get you started, from creating an account to making your first contribution to a project. This powerful combination of tools is fundamental for software development, but it's also incredibly useful for tracking changes in any set of files, f…
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E32: Lightning Strikes Twice: How Eldad Farkash Built Two Data Unicorns Back-to-Back
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On this episode of the Zero Prime podcast, tune in to our conversation with Eldad Farkash, Co-founder and Chairman of Firebolt. With over two decades in data architecture, Eldad spent 14 years as CTO of Sisense before building Firebolt into a next-generation data warehouse. Get a glimpse into Eldad’s approach as a rare founder who's built not just …
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👕 Clothe your naked gophers and returns, with this one weird episode THEY don't want you to know about!
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Go 1.25.1 and Go 1.24.7 are released 🇩🇪 GopherCon Europe: Berlin 2025 videos online ⏱️ Blog: Testing Time (and other asynchronicities) by Damien Neil Video: Testing Time (and other asynchronous code) 👖 gofumpt v0.9.0 released Video: Go's Naked Returns: Be afraid! 🗳️ Blog: Building Bulletproof Leader Election in Kubernetes Operators: A Deep Dive by …
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Tonight on GeekNights, we talk about specific mice. Mice we've used over the years, since the days of balls. In the news, Google dodges consequences in the US but not in the EU, Google is sued yet again for their advertising monopoly, and Google is looking to flood the phone lines of tiny businesses. Related Links Forum Thread Specific Mice Discord…
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Bill is hopping to a different distro (big surprise, right?)Non-Windows computer does not track is the best? Tuxedo, System76, Framework, Dell XPS Series, some Lenovo Thinkpads, Linux Certified, Entroware More emails on Accessibility, Problems with Linux Mint,a printer odyssey, pivot tables, Mint XFCE on an Acer Chromebook C720 ZHN, an unintended r…
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10: Command-Line Superpowers: Connecting Simple Tools for Complex Solutions
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Wolf hands you the keys to the old-world kingdom, which turn out to still be valuable, just much less used! Most programmers are comfortable in their IDE but still click through file managers and manually handle repetitive tasks outside of it. You might know basic command line navigation, maybe even write the occasional script, but you're missing t…
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🇲🇽 Café con Go, 🇨🇦 GopherCon, eh?, or 🌉 Goroutines on the Golden Gate?
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This episode is sponsored by Boldly Go! Need fractional Gophering work? Visit boldlygo.tech. For everything Cup o' Go, incl. swag, Patreon, past episodes, and more, please visit our website. GopherCon 2026 location poll GopherCon India GOMAXPROCS Course: "Introducing Command Line Applications in Go" SQLite benchmarks ★ Support this podcast on Patre…
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Tonight on GeekNights, we talk about the modern marvel that is video chat. In the news, Perplexity is using undeclared crawlers to scrape content, Samsung has a crazy Micro LED TV, real life ad block is possible, and Trump is forming the American SS. The next GeekNights Book Club book will be The Running Man, by Richard Backman, who you may know be…
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9: Looking at Data Types From Both Sides
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We talk about data types and their importance in software development. Modern dynamic languages hide type information from you but it's still there, under the hood. Statically-typed languages, on the other hand, bring types right out in front of you. What are the fundamental types and why are they important? What about user defined types and aggreg…
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🥩 Meatspace 🇺🇸 Going to GopherCon in NYC? Meet other Cup'o'Gophers there! 🇺🇸 Interested in a SF meetup? Fill out the poll 🇷🇺 Let's GoConf, Sept 12 @ Moscow, Russia GopherJS 1.19 with generics released Interview with Grant Nelson, Episode 53 Proposals Accepted: x/tools/go/analysis/structtag: stricter JSON tag checking Previous mention: Episode 117 N…
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Going Linux #470 · How to try Linux without affecting your current system Pt. 2
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Of course you could install Linux on a spare computer if you have one. OK, to many people the prospect of installing a new operating system can be daunting. You could also try running from a live USB drive. But fortunately, there are straightforward methods to explore what Linux has to offer directly from your Windows environment without altering y…
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Go 1.25 is released 🛠️ x/tools contains public packages that fail to build with Go 1.25.0 🧱 Building blocks for idiomatic Go pipelines by Anton Zhiyanov GopherCon USA, Aug 26-28 in New York 🌩️ Lightning Round outrig ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★By Jonathan Hall & Shay Nehmad
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Tonight on GeekNights, we discuss audio interfaces. Rym uses a PreSonus Studio 1810c to record GeekNights, and as his general purpose "sound card" in the studio. In the news, the CEO of GitHub steps down, you can consider Forgejo if that worries you, Reddit will block the Internet Archive, and Trump illegally forces the National Guard to deploy to …
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8: I’ve Been Using AI to Code for a Year. Here’s What I Learned
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Wolf has a lot to say about AI and coding! If you’re expecting AI to write entire programs for you while you sit back and watch, we're going to disappoint you right up front—that’s not what these tools do well, and chasing that fantasy will waste your time. But what if we told you there’s a tool that could help you interpret cryptic error messages,…
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The s in "golang" stands for security and an interview with George Adams from Microsoft
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Visit https://cupogo.dev/ for all things Cup o' Go! [security] Go 1.24.6 and Go 1.23.12 are released Microsoft build of Go Telemetry – Helping Us Build Better Tools Go Assembly Mutation Testing GitLab catches MongoDB Go module supply chain attack Break: Jonathan's streaming again on Twitch George Adams interview Microsoft devblogs ★ Support this po…
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E31: From Hype to ROI: How Dwarak Rajagopal of Snowflake Scales Enterprise AI
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In this episode we talk to Dwarak Rajagopal – VP of AI Engineering and AI Research at Snowflake. Hear from Dwarak as he traces his journey from optimizing AMD processors to building AI systems at Google and now revolutionizing enterprise AI at Snowflake – discussing the real-world challenges and opportunities for bringing AI to business application…
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