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Tomasz is a general partner at Theory Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on early-stage software companies.
He coauthored the book Winning with Data, a deep dive into how big data has changed business best practices and organizational culture.
Find Tomasz’s writing here.
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In honor of Tomasz’s early career, we’re shouting out Johnny Hujol’s answer to What exactly is a container in J2EE and how does it help?.
Giamir is the tech lead for Stacks, Stack Overflow’s design system.
Svelte is a tool for building web apps. Delve into their docs or, if you’re brand-new to Svelte, start with this interactive tutorial.
More than 90,000 devs responded to our 2023 Developer Survey where Svelte was ranked the second-most admired web framework.
Connect with Giamir via his website or LinkedIn.
Today we’re shouting out a topical question asked by Félix Paradis, who (like 73,000 others) wanted to know How to pass parameters to on:click in Svelte?.
Alex and cofounder/CTO Paul Querna started ConductorOne because they saw that traditional identity governance (IGA) and privileged access management (PAM) needed to be rethought for cloud-forward companies.
Before he cofounded Conductor One, Alev Bovee was a senior director of product management for zero trust and security at Okta.
Read Ben’s article about how Computers are learning to decode the language of our minds.
Would you trade an iris scan for some crypto? Sure, what could go wrong?
Connect with Alex on LinkedIn.
Stack Overflow user Matthew Watson earned a Lifeboat badge for helping more than 32,000 people by answering Checking if an array is null or empty.
Find out why others have joined Shell.
Wondering what it’s like to be a developer at one of the world’s biggest energy companies? They’re hiring.
Behavior-driven development is a conceptual approach to software development that calls for collaboration and alignment between developers, testers, and domain experts.
One of the new technologies James and Tristan helped introduce at Shell is Kafka, an open-source distributed event streaming platform. Check out their docs here.
Engineering teams at Shell use Stack Overflow for Teams to capture and share information. Get started for free here.
Congratulations to David Snabel, winner of a Stellar Question badge for How do I see which version of Swift I’m using?.
At Netlify Compose 2023, Biilmann announced their new composable web platform.
This isn’t Netlify’s first rodeo—we talked to them for episodes 588 and 456.
You can find Matt Biilmann on X or LinkedIn (and perhaps elsewhere).
Today’s shoutout goes to Dick Lucas who asked a topical question, How to prevent Netlify from treating warnings as errors because process.env.CI = true?, viewed by over 84,000 people.
The company says v0 is intended to author the first draft of your site or app, then help you iterate quickly. It won't mean the end of junior web developers, says Lee, as a polished final draft still requires a human touch. And it's not a low code no code approach, as the system allows you to switch easily between the GenAI approach and the actual code.
You can learn more about v0 here and head over here to join the waitlist.
You can find Lee on LinkedIn or his website.
Congrats to Stack Overflow user Jonathon Reinhart, who earned a Lifeboat badge for answering the question: How can I import a static library in Python?
Listen to our previous episodes with Eliot here and here.
Viam is a software platform for building, monitoring, and managing data from smart machines, including industrial robots, autonomous vehicles, smart home appliances, and IoT devices. Get an overview of the Viam platform or dig into their docs.
Connect with Eliot on LinkedIn.
Three cheers for Stack Overflow user mattl, who won a Great Question badge with How to remove all contents of a directory using Golang?.
CodeWhisperer is an AI coding companion trained on Amazon and open-source code that gives you coding suggestions in real time.
In addition to being general manager for CodeWhisperer, Doug is also the GM for Amazon CodeGuru Security, which uses machine learning to detect security policy violations and vulnerabilities.
Connect with Doug on LinkedIn.
Asked and answered: user Manodnya B won a Lifeboat badge for answering Cannot find the Start Button under CodeWhisperer in AWS Toolkit.
Clockwise is a time orchestration platform that optimizes schedules to create more time in your day. Clockwise AI, their new GPT-powered scheduling assistant, is launching in beta. Join the waitlist here to get early access. (They’re also hiring!)
Ryan wrote a recent article about whether meetings are making developers less productive.
Cal Newport’s instant classic Deep Work is about learning to tune out distractions and focus on cognitively demanding tasks.
Speaking of classics, Paul Graham of Y Combinator wrote about maker’s vs. manager’s schedules back in 2009.
Connect with Matt on LinkedIn.
Kudos to Stack Overflow user Joe Caruso, who won a Great Question badge with Get current time in hours and minutes.
California is trying to transform how math is taught. How’s that going?
Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics for work that allows scientists to see how electrons move by mapping their positions in an atom. Learn more here and here.
As Ben says, speaking of things that are difficult to observe and don’t make a lot of sense, FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried is on trial for a historically huge amount of fraud. Follow the live trial blog from Wired or check out their explainer.
Starting next year, Unity is charging developer fees. We explore the back and forth as they try to find a solution that works for the company and the community.
Shoutout to user vasco, who earned a Lifeboat badge by answering How to test abstract class in Java with JUnit?.