Today's episode was inspired by a question on folks who postpone a merge for fear of being the one to resolve a conflict. Shout out to Candied Orange for the thoughtful answer.
Paul and Sara reminisce about the days before Git, when version control was very different from what it is today, and Paul accidentally left many a project in shambles. Do you remember the days of Subversion and CVS? 
Later, we dig into Sara's new adventure with Jupyter Notebooks. They are extremely useful for developers, but what would it take to make them a tool for any kind of knowledge worker? Default to a PowerPoint style, obviously.
Last but not least, we dig into the endless argument over the 10X developer, Reed Hastings' love for the 100X developer, and the true formula for attracting employees that will contribute their genius without wrecking the team.  Clive Thompson has a great piece on the myth, meritocracy, and messy reality of rockstar coders.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux may be the world’s largest open-source software business. You can dive into the docs here.
Created by IBM and Red Hat, InstructLab is an open-source project for enhancing LLMs. Learn more here or join the community on GitHub.
Connect with Scott on LinkedIn.
User AffluentOwl earned a Great Question badge by wondering How to force JavaScript to deep copy a string?.
From her early days coding on a TI-84 calculator, to working as an engineer at IBM, to pivoting over to her new role in DevRel, speaking, and community, Mrina has seen the world of coding from many angles.
You can follow her on Twitter here and on LinkedIn here.
You can learn more about CK editor here and TinyMCE here.
Congrats to Stack Overflow user NYI for earning a great question badge by asking:
How do I convert a bare git repository into a normal one (in-place)?
You can learn more about Kohsuke on his website.
You can read more about Jenkins here.
You can read more about Cloudbees here.
Shout to Mossmyr for contributing a question that's now part of our CI/CD Collective: Is there a way to call a Jenkins Shared Library method from another Jenkins Shared Library?
Pradeep talks about building at global scale and preparing for inevitable system failures. He talks about extra layers of security, including viewing your own VMs as untrustworthy. And he lays out where he thinks the world of cloud computing is headed as GenAI becomes a bigger piece of many company’s tech stack.
You can find Pradeep on LinkedIn. He also writes a blog and hosts a podcast over at Oracle First Principles.
Congrats to Stack Overflow user shantanu, who earned a Great Question badge for asking:
Which shell I am using in mac?
Over 100,000 people have benefited from your curiosity.
You can learn more about Austin on LinkedIn and check out a blog he wrote on building the SDK for Open Telemetry here.
You can find Austin at the CNCF Slack community, in the OTel SIG channel, or the client-side SIG channels. The calendar is public on opentelemetry.io. Embrace has its own Slack community to talk all things Embrace or all things mobile observability. You can join that by going to embrace.io as well.
Congrats to Stack Overflow user Cottentail for earning an Illuminator badge, awarded when a user edits and answers 500 questions, both actions within 12 hours.
For the last two years, Postgres has been the most popular database among respondents to our Annual Developer Survey.
Timescale is a startup working on an open-source PostgreSQEL stack for AI applications. You can follow the company on X and check out their work on GitHub.
You can learn more about Avthar on his website and on LinkedIn.
Congrats to Stack Overflow user Haymaker for earning a Great Question badge. They asked:
How Can I Override the Default SQLConnection Timeout
? Nearly 250,000 other people have been curious about this same question.
You can learn more about Geshan on his website or check him out on LinkedIn.
Geshan also shared the slide decks for a few of his talks on serverless and containers.
Congrats to Stack Overflow user Matthew Reed for earning a populist badge with his answer to the question: GitHub: How to do case sensitive search for the code in repository?
If you’ve never seen it, check out Ryan’s classic talk, 10 Things I Regret About Node.JS, which gives a great overview of the reasons he felt compelled to create Deno.
You can learn more about Ryan on Wikipedia, his website, and his Github page.
To learn more about Deno 2.0, listen to Ryan talk about it here and check out the project’s Github page here.
Congrats to Hugo G, who earned a Great Answer Badge for his input on the following question:
How can I declare and use Boolean variables in a shell script?
You can find Ilya on LinkedIn here.
You can listen to Ilya talk about Commerce Components here, a system he describes as a "modern way to approach your commerce architecture without reducing it to a (false) binary choice between microservices and monoliths."
As Ilya notes, “there are a lot of interesting implications for runtime and how we're solving it at Shopify. There is a direct bridge there to a performance conversation as well: moving untrusted scripts off the main thread, sandboxing UI extensions, and more.”
No badge winner today. Instead, user Kaizen has a question about Shopify that still needs an answer. Maybe you can help!
How to Activate Shopify Web Pixel Extension on Production Store?
Coalesce is a solution to transform data at scale.
You can find Satish on LinkedIn.
We previously spoke to Satish for a Q&A on the blog: AI is only as good as the data: Q&A with Satish Jayanthi of Coalesce
We previously covered metadata on the blog: Metadata, not data, is what drags your database down
Congrats to Lifeboat winner nwinkler for saving this question with a great answer: Docker run hello-world not working
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