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As anyone who listens to the show regularly knows, I've always been fascinated by marketplaces.  How do we figure out what to charge for something, and how do we match buyers and sellers?  How does a company like Uber match drivers to riders so quickly?  Today we have Andrew Yates, Co-Founder & CEO at Promoted.ai, to talk about marketplaces and how to optimize for this two-sided problem.

00:00:15 Introduction

00:00:27 Introducing Andrew Yates

00:00:50 Andrew’s Programming Background

00:04:19 Andrew at Promoted.AI

00:08:17 What is a Marketplace?

00:17:45 Marketplace Rankings

00:22:50 Short-term vs Long-term Experience

00:24:43 Machine Learning and the Marketplace

00:34:57 Measurements

00:37:09 Promoted.AI Integration

00:38:31 How Promoted.AI Measures Success

00:41:14 Auction Theory

00:46:08 Experience with YCombinator

00:50:34 Promoted.AI as a Company

00:55:47 Farewells

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Andrew Yates, Co-Founder & CEO at Promoted.ai:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-yates-0217a985/
• Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/ayates_promoted

Promoted.ai:

• Website: https://www.promoted.ai/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/promoted-ai/

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00:00:15 Introduction

00:01:24 Gaming setups

00:12:25 News

• 00:12:27 I was wrong, CRDTs are the future
• 00:17:18 How we lost 54k Github stars
• 00:21:10 DALL-E
•  00:25:45 Inside the Longest Atlassian Outage of All Time

00:35:11: Sponsor

00:36:22 Book of the Show

• 00:36:38 Indie Boardgame Designers Podcast
• 00:37:24 The Laundry Files

00:40:35 Tool of the Show

• 00:40:39 Zapier
• 00:42:21 Earthly

00:46:46 Funding open-source projects

01:19:44 How to get funding for open-source projects

01:22:47 Farewells

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Media:

• The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2017)
• Class Action Park (2020)
• Indie Boardgame Designers Podcast: https://indieboardgamedesigners.com/
• GitHub Stars Won’t Pay Your Rent: https://medium.com/@kitze/github-stars-wont-pay-your-rent-8b348e12baed

News:

• I Was Wrong, CRDTs Are The Future: https://josephg.com/blog/crdts-are-the-future/
• How We Lost 54k GitHub Stars: https://httpie.io/blog/stardust
• DALL-E: https://openai.com/blog/dall-e/
• Inside the Longest Atlassian Outage of All Time: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/scoop-atlassian?s=r

Books:

• Indie Board Game Designers Podcast
• The Laundry Files: https://amzn.to/3kdWWQg

Tools:

• Zapier: https://zapier.com/
• N8n: https://n8n.io/
• Earthly: https://earthly.dev/

Adam Gordon Bell:

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/adamgordonbell
• Website: https://adamgordonbell.com/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamgordonbell/
• CoRecursive: https://corecursive.com/

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I've been a big fan of Brave Browser ever since attending a presentation from Brandon Eich back in 2017.  Brave was one of the first browsers to aggressively block the ability for websites to share information on your computer without your consent (i.e. third party cookies).  I'm so excited to sit down with Jimmy Secretan, VP of Ads and Premium Services of Brave, and talk about all things Brave, from the Browser to the other products to the way Brave takes privacy on the internet to a whole new level, while also empowering content creators and advertisers who depend on ads for income and to promote their businesses.

00:00:15 Introduction

00:00:44 Introducing Jimmy Secretan

00:01:10 How Brave started

00:09:33 Brave and internet advertising

00:21:13 Local machine learning

00:32:07 What is BAT (Brave Attention Tokens) 

00:42:59 Cross-platform data synchronization 

00:44:28 Chromium

00:50:22 Public and Private key encryption and authentication

00:54:27 Brave for Content Creators

00:59:03 Where is Brave now and what is its trajectory

01:05:40 Opportunities in Brave

01:13:10 Farewells

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Jimmy Secretan, VP of Ads and Premium Services:

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/jsecretan
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimmysecretan/

Brave:

• Website: https://brave.com/
• Brave Careers: https://brave.com/careers/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/brave
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/brave-software/

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"Hacking" is a word that evokes awe from the public, laughter from developers, and pure fear from technology leaders.  But what really is hacking?  What does trust really mean and how do we acquire and keep trust on the Internet?  It turns out that, while hacking is associated with computers, the methods behind it have been around since the dawn of time.  Today we have Ted Harrington from ISE to dive deep into hacking, all the way from the medieval times to today.

00:00:15 Intro

00:01:25 Introducing Ted Harrington

00:07:10 Ethical Hackers, Non-Ethical Hackers, and Productivity

00:11:58 Starting out in Ethical Hacking/Security

00:14:40 Imposter Syndrome

00:19:34 What is Hacking?

00:30:48 Is Hacking like magic?

00:38:14 Defense in Depth

00:42:04 Earning trust and The Departed movie (Spoiler alert)

00:59:52 DEF CON® Hacking Conference

01:02:46 Tips on how not to get hacked

01:10:08 ISE.io culture and opportunities

01:24:13 Farewells

 Resources mentioned in this episode:

  Companies:

    ISE (Independent Security Evaluators)

o    Website: https://www.ise.io/

o    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/independent-security-evaluators

o    Twitter: https://twitter.com/ISEsecurity

o    Facebook: https://facebook.com/ISE.infosec

People:

    Ted Harrington

o   Website: https://www.tedharrington.com/

o   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/securityted/

o   Twitter: https://twitter.com/SecurityTed

o   Book: https://www.amazon.com/Hackable-How-Application-Security-Right/dp/154451767X

Sponsor:

    MParticle

o   Website: https://www.mparticle.com/

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Brief Summary:

What is Web 3.0? Guest speaker Michelle Lee, Product Lead of Protocol Labs, shares how web 3.0 will revolutionize the Internet and bring trust back into the web.

00:00:25 Introduction

00:01:36 Michelle Lee’s career 

00:03:10 What is human-computer interaction?

00:04:55 The Google Sheets user experience

00:06:19 Google Checkout, user feedback, and emails

00:10:23 Code for America

00:13:47 The real power of Open Source

00:14:14 Web 3.0

00:23:04 IPFS network accessibility

00:26:14 How does IPFS handle bogus content?

00:38:56 Network storage costs

00:43:03 Privacy and identification on IPFS

00:45:23 Content moderation from the Web 3.0 perspective

00:49:48 Audius

00:54:20 Protocol Labs and IPFS

00:55:26 Working with Protocol Labs

01:05:00 Farewells

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Companies:

• Protocol Labs:
  • Website: https://protocol.ai/
  • Twitter: https://twitter.com/protocollabs
  • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/protocollabs/
  • Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/ProtocolLabs
  • Filecoin: https://filecoin.io/
  • Hackathons @ Protocol Labs: https://hackathons.filecoin.io/
  • Course Learning @ Protocol Labs: https://proto.school/
• Metamask:
  • https://metamask.io/
• Fleek:
  • Website: https://fleek.co/
  • Space Storage: https://fleek.co/storage/
• Estuary:
  • Website: https://estuary.tech/
• Audius:
  • Website: https://audius.co/

Social Media:

• Michelle Lee, Product at Protocol Labs
  • Twitter: https://twitter.com/mishmosh
  • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michellelee3

Sponsor:

• Rollbar
  • Website: https://rollbar.com/
  • Freebies: https://try.rollbar.com/pt/

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Summary:

What is WebAssembly? Guest speaker Kevin Hoffman, CTO of Cosmonic shares what WebAssembly is, why it exists, and what kind of things you can do with it.

Notes:

00:00:16 Introduction

00:00:52 Cosmonic during COVID

00:02:45 Kevin Hoffman’s career and Cosmonic’s begginings

00:12:39 WebAssembly integrations

00:16:20 What is WebAssembly?

00:27:30 The developer experience

00:30:30 WebAssembly, JSON, and other object interactions

00:36:35 Rollbar

00:41:08 Compiler linking

00:49:27 wasmCloud

00:54:21 Decoupling clouds

01:01:51 Cosmonic fostering wasmCloud/WebAssembly

01:03:28 Cosmonic as a company

01:09:33 Opportunities at Cosmonic

01:13:03 Farewells

Resources mentioned in this episode:
Companies:

• Cosmonic
• Website: https://cosmonic.com/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/cosmonic
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cosmonic-corp/

People:

• Kevin Hoffman, Chief Technology Officer at Cosmonic
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/KevinHoffman
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/%F0%9F%A6%80-kevin-hoffman-9252669/

Sponsor:

• Rollbar
• Website: https://rollbar.com/
• Freebies: https://try.rollbar.com/pt/

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Brief Summary:

Programming is difficult as it is, but imagine how difficult it was without all the current tools, compilers, synthesizers, etc. that we have today. Eran Yahav, Chief Technology Officer at Tabnine shares how AI is currently helping with code writing and how it could change in the future.

00:00:16 Introduction

00:00:51 Eran Yahav’s programming background

00:08:11 Balance between Human and the Machine

00:11:49 Static Analysis

00:29:42 Similarities in Programming Constructs

00:25:30 Average vs Tailored tooling

00:36:19 Machine Learning Quality Metrics 

00:38:27 Rollbar

00:40:19 Model Training vs Statistic Matching

00:50:19 Developers Interacting with their Code in the Future

01:00:18 Tabnine

01:08:17 Farewells

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Companies:

• Tabnine: 
  • Website: https://www.tabnine.com/
  • Twitter: https://twitter.com/Tabnine_
  • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tabnine/

Social Media:

• Eran Yahav, Chief Technology Officer at Tabnine
  • Twitter: https://twitter.com/yahave
  • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eranyahav/

Sponsor:

• Rollbar
  • Website: https://rollbar.com/
  • Freebies: https://try.rollbar.com/pt/

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Brief Summary:

Erez Berkner, CEO of Lumigo, talks about his company, going serverless, and why you should too. He shares his experience and tips regarding serverless computing and its ever-growing opportunities in modern computing.

00:00:16 Introduction

00:01:43 Introducing Erez Berkner

00:06:27 The start of Lumigo

00:10:42 What is Serverless

00:20:10 Challenges with going serverless

00:39:53 Securing Lambdas

00:46:50 Lumigo and breadcrumbs 

00:55:46 How to get started with Lumigo

• 00:57:06 Lumigo and databases
• 00:58:20 Lumigo pricing

01:00:28 Lumigo as a company

01:06:30 Contacting Lumigo

01:11:01 Farewells

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Companies:

• Lumigo: https://lumigo.io/
• Lumigo Free Trial: https://platform.lumigo.io/auth/signup

Socials:

• Erez Berkner:
  • Twitter: https://twitter.com/erezberkner
  • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erezbe/

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Object Caching Systems

Many people have heard the names "redis" or "memcached" but fewer people know what these tools are good for or why we need them so badly.  In this show, Patrick and I explain why caching is so important and how these systems work under the hood.

Intro topic: 
Public database & cache services (Planetscale & Upstash)

News/Links:

• Log4J Vulnerability
  • https://jfrog.com/blog/log4shell-0-day-vulnerability-all-you-need-to-know/
  • https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2021/12/11/guidance-for-preventing-detecting-and-hunting-for-cve-2021-44228-log4j-2-exploitation/
• Scan of the Month: Gameboys
  • https://scanofthemonth.com/game-boy-original/
• Hyrum’s Law
  • https://www.hyrumslaw.com/
• Make the Internet Yours Again With an Instant Mesh Network
  • https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10319-make-the-internet-yours-again-with-an-instant-mesh-network

Book of the Show

• Jason: AI 2041
  • https://amzn.to/3fOqnWQ
• Patrick: Dawnshard - Brandon Sanderson
  • https://amzn.to/3tFmuMi

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Tool of the Show

• Jason
  • Swagger: https://swagger.io/
• Patrick
  • ripgrep https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep

Topic: Object Caching Systems

• The need
  • Latency
  • In memory
  • Caching
• Disadvantages compared to DB
  • Size limits (memory)
  • Limited query support
  • Limited persistence options
  • Stale caches
• How it works
  • Key-value stores
  • Special operations for multi-get /multi-step
  • Expiry timers on each key
  • Hashing
• Examples
  • Redis
  • Memcached
  • DynamoDB
  • Google datastore
  • Firebase database

00:00:15 Introduction

00:00:54 New Year’s Resolutions

00:03:59 Saving money on cloud servers

00:17:20 Scan of the Month

00:20:14 Hyrum’s Law

00:25:30 Make the Internet Yours Again with an Instant Mesh Network 

00:31:45 Book of the Show 

00:31:56 AI 2041 

00:35:25 Don Shard

00:37:35 Tool of the Show

00:38:17 Swagger

00:59:10 ripgrep

0:45:31 Object Caching Systems

01:10:22 High Frequency Trading

01:14:07 Farewells

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In this holiday episode, Jason and Patrick answer questions from listeners. They also look back at the past year’s challenges and victories.

00:15:35 (Kevin)

What's been the biggest thing that pushed you to learn more during your career?
Was it taking a new job and moving somewhere, doing stuff in your spare time or something like a new hobby or anything else?

00:29:38 (Kevin)

Favorite city to live in or visit?

00:31:29 First Winner (James B.)

00:32:21 (Clever Clover/James)

Next biggest tech prediction.

00:36:28 (Paul) 

If we could standardize all the code there is out there to one particular language, which language would it be and why would it be Python?

00:40:40 Second Winner (Collin G.)

00:41:21 (Necrous)

If you could redo your career and education path, what would you change?

00:47:12 Third Winner (Matt I.)

00:47:48 (MQNC)

What is the dirtiest hackiest anti-pattern piece of code you ever wrote in full consciousness and even maybe enjoying the thrill and why was it the way to go?

00:54:36 (Leedle)

Thoughts on server side rendering React and NextJS?

00:57:00 Fourth Winner (Glenn S.)

00:57:25 (NC Plattipus)

The visual programming language, LabVIEW?

01:05:02 Fifth Winner (James F.)

01:05:53 (Gethan)

Future technology or big technologies, what about AR? 

01:10:18 (Gethan)

On the topic of getting a master's degree or classes, do you see a benefit of getting certifications? 

01:18:16 Sixth Winner (Don R.)

01:19:38

Predictions we made last 2020 and how they held up.

01:26:00

Farewells

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How do you stay focused when working on large projects that span many months?  In this duo episode, we talk about Project Planning techniques and trends!  We also cover solving personal data storage problems and building CNC machines & printers. 

00:00:15 Introduction

00:01:33 UML

00:05:22 Home NAS and other personal storage solutions

00:18:09 Homebrew CNC machine

00:29:37 Raft (Consensus Algorithm)

00:36:54 The Mathematics of 2048

00:45:44 Book of the Show

• 00:45:57 Manager Tools 
• 00:49:10 Make Magazine

00:57:50 Tool of the Show

• 00:57:51 Workflowy
• 00:59:10 GitHub Desktop

01:01:00 Project Planning

01:22:11 Farewells

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Tools:

• Workflowy: https://workflowy.com/b/
• Github Desktop: https://desktop.github.com/

Companies:

• Manager Tools: https://www.manager-tools.com/
• Make Magazine: https://makezine.com/

Other references: 

• QT Designer: https://www.qt.io/
• Shapeoko: https://carbide3d.com/shapeoko/
• Curves and Surfaces by Bartosz Ciechanowski: https://ciechanow.ski/curves-and-surfaces/
• Inkscape: https://inkscape.org/
• Raft: https://raft.github.io/

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When you ask Alexa or Google a question and it responds, how does that actually work?  Could we have  more in-depth conversations and what would that look like?  Today we dive into conversational AI with Joe Bradley and answer these questions and many more.

Thanks for supporting the show!

00:00:15 Introduction

00:01:24 Introducing Joe Bradley

00:04:44 How Joe got into Conversation AI

00:21:35 Zork and WordNet

00:27:48 Automatic Image Detection/Captioning

00:39:31 MuZero

00:45:27 Codex

00:50:15 GPT and businesses

00:55:16 Artificial General Intelligence

01:00:05 What is LivePerson

01:16:30 Working at LivePerson

01:21:18 Job opportunities in LivePerson

01:27:04 How to reach Joe

01:32:40 Farewells

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Companies:

• LivePerson: liveperson.com
• PyTorch: pytorch.org
• TensorFlow: tensorflow.com

What is "The Edge"?  The answer is that it means different things to different people, but it always involves lifting logic, data, and processing load off of your backend servers and onto other machines.  Sometimes those machines are spread out over many small datacenters, or sometimes they are in the hands of your customers.  In all cases, computing on the edge is a different paradigm that requires new ways of thinking about coding.  We're super lucky to have Jaxon on the show to share his experiences with edge computing and dive into this topic!!

00:00:23 Introduction

00:01:15 Introducing Jaxon Repp

00:01:42 What is HarperDB?

00:08:10 Edge Computing

00:10:06 What is the “Edge”

00:14:58 Jaxon’s history with Edge Computing and HarperDB

00:22:35 Edge Computing in everyday life

00:26:12 Tesla AI and data

00:28:09 Edge Computing in the oil industry

00:35:23 Docker containers

00:42:33 Databases

00:48:29 Data Conflicts

00:55:43 HarperDB for personal use

01:00:00 MeteorJS

01:02:29 Netflix, as an example

01:06:19 The speed of edge computing

01:08:43 HarperDB’s work environment and who is Harper?

01:10:30 The Great Debate

01:12:17 Career opportunities in HarperDB

01:18:56 Quantum computing

01:21:22 Reach HarperDB

01:23:53 Raspberry Pi and HarperDB home applications

01:27:20 Farewells

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Companies

• HarperDB https://harperdb.io/
• MeteorJS https://www.meteor.com/

Tools

• Raspberry Pi https://www.raspberrypi.org/
• Docker https://www.docker.com/

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00:00:24 Introduction
00:02:19 Edo's Background
00:08:20 What are Embeddings?
00:14:00 Self-Organizing Maps & how humans store data
00:22:27 The lifecycle of a machine learning system
00:34:40 The weirdness of high-dimensional spaces

00:42:20 How to manage a vector database

00:47:01 Pinecone the company

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The Art of Vacations

Taking a good vacation is as important as getting a good night's sleep (*very important*).  It may sound silly on its face, but planning a vacation and planning around your vacation is extremely important to ensure that you are in the right headspace the rest of the year.  This is especially true in the COVID era where many of us are working from home.  In this episode, we dive into why vacations are so important, how to plan a relaxing vacation, and how to make sure that your team is supported while you are out.

Intro topic: 
Virgin Galactic and Virgin Orbit and Blue Origin

News/Links:

• TextStyleBrush: Transfer of Text Aesthetics from a Single Example
  • https://deepai.org/publication/textstylebrush-transfer-of-text-aesthetics-from-a-single-example
• Berkshire Hathaway Stock Price integer overflow
  • https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/07/bug_warren_buffett_rollover_nasdaq/
• LineageOS
  • https://lineageos.org/
• Crafting Interpreters is now an actual book
  • https://craftinginterpreters.com/

Book of the Show

• Jason: How to lead in product management
  • https://amzn.to/2UcPzPK
• Patrick: Holy Sister (Book of the Ancestor #3) by Mark Lawrence
  • https://amzn.to/3fVZscn

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Tool of the Show

• Jason: 7 Billion Humans
• Patrick: Moss (Oculus VR, PC VR, PS VR)

Topic: Vacations

• Why
  • 7 types of rest https://ideas.ted.com/the-7-types-of-rest-that-every-person-needs/
  • Gives you energy for the next crunch
  • Stepping back provides perspective
  • Preparing the team for unexpected absences
• Why not
  • Can lose context
  • Missed opportunities
  • Slipped deadlines
• How to set up the perfect vacation
  • Handing off responsibility
  • Documenting code
  • Decide how much to work on vacation
• How to be on vacation
  • Pre-cation
  • Handling crises / unexpected events
  • Post-cation
• How to come back from vacation
  • Create email filters / smart folders
  • Skim new pull requests / scrum documents
  • Review chat logs 
• Types of vacations
  • 1-3 days: delay results
  • 1-2 weeks: Deputize
  • 3+ weeks: Replace

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You’ve seen the dancing Boston Dynamics dogs, Honda’s ASIMO greeting people at malls, and the half-court-shooting robot at the Olympics, among other awe-inspiring robot stories that nowadays are getting increasingly more common. But equally fascinating, especially for us programmers, is the amount of programming and structure needed to make sure these robots work as intended. In this episode, we talk with Abhay Venkatesh, Software Engineer at Anduril Industries, about Platforms for Robotics (PFRs), and the intricacies happening inside these mechanical wonders.

This episode touches on the following key topics and ideas:

00:00:24 Introduction

00:01:10 Introducing Abhay Venkatesh

00:03:00 What robotics is as a field or practice

00:07:18 Platform for Robotics (PFRs)

00:10:07 OODA loop

00:12:27 What makes up a Platform for Robotics?

00:14:17 Raspberry Pi 

00:15:30 Nvidia Tegra

00:17:17 Edge computing

00:19:29 Telemetry

00:22:06 Ad: SignalWire, a next-gen video collaboration platform

00:23:30 Real-time constraints and safety challenges

00:28:31 Formal verification and defensive programming

00:32:28 Operating systems in robotics

00:34:27 Nix and reproducible hermetic builds

00:37:52 Key aspects in robotics software development

00:41:14 Deployment

00:46:24 Simulation

00:48:51 Google testing pyramid 

00:52:01 Actuators

00:55:27 Future of PFRs

01:02:49 Farewells

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Companies

• Anduril Industries https://www.anduril.com/
• Nvidia https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/
• Boston Dynamics https://www.bostondynamics.com/

Tools

• Arduino https://www.arduino.cc/
• Raspberry Pi https://www.raspberrypi.org/
• Nvidia Tegra https://developer.nvidia.com/tegra-development
• NixOS https://nixos.org/
• Docker https://www.docker.com/
• Bazel https://bazel.build/

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Brief Summary:

Authentication has become a necessity in a digital world that’s ever-increasing in complexity. What can you do to arm yourself against the constant threat of data breaches and hacks? In this episode Jason sits down with Aviad Mizrachi, CTO and Co-Founder of Frontegg, to give us valuable insight into how Authentication works, and how these help you become more defensible against attacks.

This episode touches on the following key topics and ideas:

00:00:24 Introduction

00:01:10 Introducing Aviad Mizrachi

00:04:36 The login

00:06:32 The many intricacies of Authentication

00:10:25 How are passwords sent to servers?

00:11:26 Query param

00:16:59 Multi-factor authorization (MFA)

00:20:11 Time-based One-Time Password (TOTP)

00:28:05 Single Sign-on (SSO) Cross-site scripting

00:33:38 Ad: SignalWire, a next-gen video collaboration platform

00:35:03 Session tokens

00:36:36 Cross-site scripting (XSS)

00:39:24 JSON web tokens (JWTs)

00:41:24 Difference between session token and refresh token

00:49:33 More about Frontegg, Aviad’s company

00:54:14 SQL injection attack

00:56:11 Auditing and audit logs

00:59:42 Authentication in mobile apps

01:00:50 Frontegg hiring and intern opportunities

01:05:22 Frontegg product offerings

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Tools

• Frontegg https://frontegg.com/
• TypeScript https://www.typescriptlang.org/
• Angular https://angular.io/guide/architecture
• Microsoft Identity and Access Management https://www.microsoft.com/en-ww/security/business/identity-access-management
• Google Identity https://developers.google.com/identity
• Okta https://www.okta.com/

Articles:

• How Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's Account Was Hacked https://www.wired.com/story/jack-dorsey-twitter-hacked/

Our sponsor for this episode is SignalWire

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You can reach Aviad on:

LinkedIn | GitHub

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In this duo episode, Jason and Patrick introduce us to the world of hash maps, from buckets and hash functions, to differences between open and closed addressing, to minimal perfect hashes and locality sensitive hashing. A familiarity with hash maps is an oft-overlooked but highly sought-after skill, and it can be a valuable asset for those eyeing a career in programming.

Along with the main topic, Jason and Patrick also talk about some of their latest interests: books, gadgets, tools and games.

This episode touches on the following key topics and ideas:

00:01:27 Playing games with Oculus Quest: Acron, Racket: Nx, Gorn, Superhot 

00:11:05 News: “I Made a Water Computer” by Steve Mould

00:14:56 colinfurze

00:15:52 News: Comprehensive guide to Attention Mechanisms

00:21:53 News: Starship SN15

00:25:18 News: MailSync now Open source (GPL)

00:28:34 Jason’s Book of the Show: Elon Musk

00:32:04 Patrick’s Book of the Show: Ready Player Two

00:33:40 Jason’s Tool of the Show: Datadog

00:38:44 Patrick’s Tool of the Show: I Expect You to Die

00:40:30 Escape rooms

00:45:39 Sudoku

00:48:35 Hash maps: the promise and idea

00:50:59 Hash Functions

00:52:34 Examples of hash functions: Cryptographically Secure and Non-Crypto

01:01:05 Load Factors

01:03:43 Open vs Closed Addressing

01:15:10 Minimal Perfect Hash

01:16:25 salts

01:19:00 Locality Sensitive Hashing

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Tools

• Mailsync http://mailsync.sourceforge.net/
• Mailspring https://getmailspring.com/
• Datadog https://www.datadoghq.com/
• SHA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Hash_Algorithms
• MD5 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD5
• MurmurHash https://github.com/aappleby/smhashera
• xxHash https://cyan4973.github.io/xxHash/
• MapReduce https://www.ibm.com/analytics/hadoop/mapreduce

Books

• Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance 
• Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline

Gadgets

• Oculus Quest 2 https://www.oculus.com/quest-2/
• Oculus Link https://www.oculus.com/accessories/oculus-link/

Games

• Acron: Attack of the Squirrels! https://www.resolutiongames.com/acron
• Racket: Nx https://www.oculus.com/experiences/quest/2255408847836468
• Gorn https://www.oculus.com/experiences/quest/3349689215139117
• Superhot https://www.oculus.com/experiences/quest/1921533091289407
• I Expect You to Die https://www.oculus.com/experiences/quest/1987283631365460
• The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the WIld https://www.zelda.com/breath-of-the-wild/

Videos:

• I Made A Water Computer And It Actually Works https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxXaizglscw
• colinfurze YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/colinfurze

Articles:

• Comprehensive guide to Attention Mechanisms https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2019/11/comprehensive-guide-attention-mechanism-deep-learning/
• Starship SN15 https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-sn15-launch-landing-success
• MailSync is now Open Source (GPL) https://community.getmailspring.com/t/a-free-open-source-future-for-mailspring/484

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Ever wondered how route planning apps, well, plan routes? In this episode, we navigate through this fascinating topic, a field as data-driven and systemic as it is magical and compelling. 

Joining us is Parker Woodward, Route Expert and Marketing Director for Route4Me. We discuss how route planning works, the intricacies behind it, and how services like Route4Me perform complex balancing acts between machine learning and user-generated feedback.

This episode touches on the following key topics and ideas:

00:00:23 Introducing Parker

00:01:54 Becoming a Route Expert

00:04:22 Getting started through smaller startups

00:12:41 Leveraging technology for the greater good

00:14:36 The magic of route planning

00:23:30 Homomorphism and satisfiability

00:31:18 Geocoding

00:33:06 User-generated feedback

00:37:08 Importance of statistics knowledge

00:39:34 The degree of automation in route planning

00:42:54 Inverse decision-making

00:48:47 Operations Research

00:53:42 Dwarf Fortress

00:56:40 US vs European routes

00:57:51 What Route4Me does

01:05:38 Working at Route4Me

01:10:26 Route4Me API

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Tools

• Route4Me https://route4me.com
• Route4Me API https://route4me.io
• Waze https://www.waze.com
• Google Maps https://www.google.com/maps
• OpenStreetMap https://www.openstreetmap.org
• MapQuest https://www.mapquest.com
• DeepMind https://deepmind.com

Books

• Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

Games

• Dwarf Fortress http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/

Links

• Waymo https://waymo.com/
• Upwork https://www.upwork.com/

Reach out to Parker via email: parker@routeforme.com

Catch Parker on LinkedIn

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What makes for good documentation? In this episode, we dive into one of the most important yet overlooked facets of coding. With us are Omer Rosenbaum and Tim Post of Swimm.io. Swimm is an app that allows you to create docs coupled with your code, which are auto-synced and integrated into your workflow. It makes for much more efficient, elegant, and accessible documentation. 

Omer is the CTO of Swimm, and Tim is Principal Development Relations and User Advocate. They are the experts who will guide us through good code documentation practices and tools, as well as share some fascinating real-life examples and stories.

This episode touches on the following key topics and ideas:

00:01:20 Introducing Omer and Tim

00:03:28 Omer: learning tech while in the military

00:06:36 Israel Tech Challenge

00:08:32 Impostor Syndrome

00:12:15 Tim: the consulting career route

00:18:15 Stack Overflow elected moderator

00:20:59 ZFS and Btrfs 

00:22:49 What is good code documentation?

00:34:48 Documentation and remote work

00:36:99 Good practices

00:40:37 Code comments

00:45:20 How to write documentation

00:46:59 Signs of bad code documentation

00:48:05 Swimm overview

00:53:21 PyTorch documentation

00:54:45 PHP documentation

00:56:34 Swimm’s CLI tools

01:01:16 Code documentation horror stories

01:07:26 Swimm offers for open-source projects and enterprises

01:13:47 Working at Swimm

01:19:54 The value of remote work

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Tools

• Swimm https://swimm.io/
• ReiserFS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReiserFS
• PyTorch https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/index.html
• Electron https://www.electronjs.org/
• Git https://git-scm.com/
• Stack Overflow https://stackoverflow.com/

Catch Swimm on:

Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn

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