Month: January 2021

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The Stack Overflow Podcast - Our stack is HTML and CSS

The title of this week's episode comes from a Hacker News thread where Guillermo argued that the complexity of front end performance goes beyond simplifying your stack to bare web primitives.

You can find out more about Vercel, which  recently raised a $40 million round, on Guillermo's blog, where he details what the company has planned for the future.

You can find more info on Next.JS here. It's a very active tag on Stack Overflow with dozens of new questions a day.

Our lifeboat badge for this episode goes to paxdiablo for answering the question: What does .split() return if the string has no match?

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The Gist - What You Might Have Missed

On the Gist, Republicans use their voices to complain about not having a voice.

In the interview, Melissa Murray joins Mike to discuss what the articles of impeachment can teach us about constitutional law as we review the events of last week at the Capitol Building. Murray is a professor at NYU Law, co-host of Strict Scrutiny podcast, and a contributor on MSNBC.

In Remembrances of Things Trump: Goofy, Sleepy, Crazy...no those aren’t Snow White’s friends. They are Trump’s favorite nicknames. 

In the spiel, the Trump push for Lisa Montgomery’s execution in the final week of his tarnished presidency.

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Podcast production by Margaret Kelley, Cheyna Roth, and Jasmine Ellis.

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Suburban GOP Official: The Republican Brand Has Been Decimated In Illinois

Reset checks in with a local Republican leader to discuss the historic impeachment vote against President Trump and how that may impact the future of the GOP in Illinois.

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The Government Huddle with Brian Chidester - The One with the City of Toronto CTO

Lawrence Eta, Chief Technology Officer for the City of Toronto joins the show to discuss how his background as an immigrant has shaped the way he views citizen service delivery and made him a respected technology thought leader around the World. We also talk about how he supported the pivot of Canada’s largest city during the pandemic through technology, the key principles he aligns his technology decisions with and his initiative to make the internet a fundamental, essential utility service.

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Science In Action - Gravitational waves and black holes

After collecting data for more than twelve years the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) announced it may have detected new kinds of gravitational waves caused by colliding supermassive black holes. Professor Chiara Mingarelli of the University of Connecticut tells Roland Pease why this is such an exciting discovery.

Supermassive black holes are at the heart of galaxies and they are the engines of quasars, the brightest light sources in the heavens that can be seen across the expanse of the Universe. A team including Professor Xiaohui Fan of the University of Arizona has identified the oldest quasar in the universe. The SARS-CoV-2 virus looks much like bat coronaviruses, but the most likely route into humans involved some other infected animal. Roland talks to Dr Dalan Bailey of The Pirbright Institute about how he has been looking for possible intermediaries.

A new study that looks into the genetics of twins and their families in Iceland shows that identical twins aren’t really identical. Kari Stefansson of the Icelandic genome company, DeCode, explains that the differences can appear when the twins are at the embryonic stage.

(Image: Representative illustration of the Earth embedded in space-time which is deformed by the background gravitational waves and its effects on radio signals coming from observed pulsars. Credit: Tonia Klein / NANOGrav)

Presenter: Roland Pease Producer: Deborah Cohen

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - BREAKDOWN: The Definitive Breakdown of All Bitcoin FUD, With Dan Held

From “backed by nothing” to “China mining control,” a complete look at the best response to every category of bitcoin FUD out there.

This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io.

On today’s episode of The Breakdown, NLW is joined by Dan Held, growth lead at Kraken and a serial bitcoin entrepreneur. 

As the market heats up, so, too, does the number of articles and tweets spreading FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt). Some of the FUD is new, much of it is old and all of it deserves a response. 

Dan and NLW break down 15 categories of FUD, including:

  • Bitcoin is for criminals
  • Bitcoin is backed by nothing/has no intrinsic value
  • Tether manipulation
  • Energy consumption
  • Government bans 
  • And more! 


Which are the most legitimate? Which are easily dismissed? Tune in to find out.


Find our guest online:

Twitter: @danheld

Website: danheld.com

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Cato Daily Podcast - Social Media Reaction to the Attack on the Capitol

Twitter banned President Trump after he used the platform to help spin up a crowd just before last week's deadly Capitol attack. That should seem like an easy call. But what about similar bans on some Trump supporters? The removal of accounts on various platforms appeared to be fairly widespread. Will Duffield and Matthew Feeney comment.

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Cato Daily Podcast - Social Media Reacts to the Attack at the Capitol

Twitter banned President Trump after he used the platform to help spin up a crowd just before last week's deadly Capitol attack. That should seem like an easy call. But what about similar bans on some Trump supporters? The removal of accounts on various platforms appeared to be fairly widespread. Will Duffield and Matthew Feeney comment.

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Cato Daily Podcast - Social Media Reacts to the Attack at the Capitol

Twitter banned President Trump after he used the platform to help spin up a crowd just before last week's deadly Capitol attack. That should seem like an easy call. But what about similar bans on some Trump supporters? The removal of accounts on various platforms appeared to be fairly widespread. Will Duffield and Matthew Feeney comment.

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