Author: Loïc Houssier, Eira May, Ben Matthews

Node.js® is an open-source JavaScript runtime environment.

Deno is an open-source JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly runtime. Explore the quick start or check out Deno by example, a collection of annotated examples of how to use Deno.

JSR is an open-source package registry for JavaScript and TypeScript.

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Shoutout to Stack Overflow user Squadrons, who earned a Great Question badge by asking for a Pure javascript method to wrap content in a div.

Chapters:

00:00: Introduction and Background

01:08: Creating Node.js

05:00: JavaScript on the Server Side

07:23: Impact of Node.js

09:18: Edge Function System

12:13: Protecting Against Malicious Use

16:02: JSR: Alternative to NPM

31:01: JSR and its Stage

34:20: Future of JavaScript

36:19: Closing and Shoutouts

AI shops are now releasing LLMs optimized for RAG. 

Turn a repo into a prompt for a long-context LLM.

Perplexity AI is an AI-powered search and discovery tool.

Good news for developers: Apple will not remove progressive web app support on iOS in the EU.

Basil Bourque earned a Lifeboat badge by explaining How to get full name of month from date in Java 8 while formatting.

Stack Overflow has teamed up with Google Cloud to develop an API—Overflow API—to give Gemini, Google’s AI model, access to Stack Overflow knowledge communities. 

Learn how Ryan’s team is working toward socially responsible AI.

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Stack Overflow user verygoodsoftwarenotvirus earned a Great Question badge by asking something at least 87,000 people have also wondered: How can I get all keys from a JSON column in Postgres?.

Check out Maxime’s three-part LLM course. 

Part 1 “covers essential knowledge about mathematics, Python, and neural networks.

Part 2 “focuses on building the best possible LLMs using the latest techniques."

Part 3 “focuses on creating LLM-based applications and deploying them.” 

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Nikhil Wagh earned a Lifeboat badge by explaining how to Efficiently compare two sets in Python.

Intuit shares more about their generative AI operating system (GenOS) in this Medium blog. 

If you want to try out generative AI in MailChimp, sign up here. 

Learn more about Intuit technology here.

Many thanks (and a Lifeboat badge) to Dherik for dropping an answer on cURL: how can I return 0 if status is 200?

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Build GenAI applications faster and cheaper with a vector database like Pinecone.

New to retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and other GenAI topics? Our guide is a good place to start.

Learn more about RAG and Pinecone.

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Pinecone is a vector database that lets companies build GenAI applications faster for less cost.

Read our primer on retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) or explore RAG and Pinecone.

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If you need a handy guide to what’s what in the AI space, check out Stack Overflow’s Industry Guide to AI.

SPONSORED BY INTEL

 

Ryan and Ben chat with Raymond Lo, AI software evangelist at Intel, about the AI PC, the software that powers AI breakthroughs, and optimizing hardware and software in unison to improve generative AI performance. Bonus: what’s the difference between a GPU optimized for graphics and a VPU or NPU optimized for AI?

 

Episode notes

 

If you’re interested in trying any of the demos that Raymond talked about, check out Intel’s OpenVINO notebooks.

 

Learn more about Intel’s Edge AI resources here.

 

Raymond previously wrote about enhancing image and video resolution using OpenVINO.

 

You can reach out to Raymond Lo on LinkedIn.

 

Congrats to Lifeboat badge winner, Andrey Korneyev, for saving the question, How can I delete specific nodes from an XElement?

Sema’s AI code monitor helps companies manage the risks and capture the benefits of AI in the software development lifecycle. Learn how it works here.

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Erstwhile podcast cohost Cassidy Williams is the CTO of Contenda. 

Shoutout to Stack Overflow user Jim, who earned a Stellar Question badge with Docker cannot start on Windows, a question (well, more of a statement) that’s helped 1.1 million people and counting.

Discussions are now taking place across all tags on Stack Overflow. Check out this one about why people keep proclaiming the death of PHP or this one on whether Jenkins is still the dominant player in the CI/CD space.

What would happen if you suddenly lost consciousness? The Philosophy Stack Exchange has thoughts.

Did knights wear glasses? Historical records don’t really answer this question, but the History Stack Exchange does.

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