Category: 3-SometimeTechTalk

Mike Schroepfer is Meta's former chief technology officer and currently a senior fellow at the company. He joins Big Technology Podcast for a look back at his time as CTO: What went well? What could've been better? What changes would he have made in retrospect? Listen for an episode about the challenges of enabling massive scale, both from a technical and societal standpoint.

Douwe Maan started programming when he was 9 years old, and grew up with his Dad pushing Linux on him over Windows. He was raised in the Netherlands, outside of Amsterdam. How he recharges outside of technology is traveling to new places. Prior to his current venture, he joined, as employee number 10, for Gitlab. The company is the largest all remote company, which allowed for him to be a digital nomad, which roundabout, led him to meet his wife, get married, and live in Mexico City.

Since 2018, there was a team inside of Gitlab working on a project to bring the same principles and methodologies from software development, into designing and maintaining data architecture. By that time, Douwe was craving the early stage startup feel. Through some changes in Gitlab, he was tasked to lead the team of reviving the project, which eventually led to it becoming its own thing.

This is the creation story of Meltano.

Sponsors

• Immediate
• Orbit
• Postmark
• Stytch
• Verb Data
• Webapp.io

Links

• Website: https://meltano.com/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/douwem/
• https://douwe.me/

Our Sponsors:
* Check out Vanta: https://vanta.com/CODESTORY


Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donations

Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Topics covered in this episode:

• auto-py-to-exe
• 8 surprising ways how to use Jupyter Notebook
• piptrends
• Is it a class or a function? It's a callable!
• Extras
• Joke

See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/287

The first step in quantum computing? Quantum internet: a network capable of sending quantum information between far-distant computing machines (as in, one on Earth and one on Mars). Still have questions?

In case it’s been a while since your last physics course: Schrödinger’s cat.

Retool’s 2022 State of Engineering Time reveals how software engineers spend their time, what they want to do more (and less) of, and the most frustrating and satisfying parts of their jobs.

A great resource from GitHub for folks working on open-source projects: Why creating a popular OSS library is a marathon, not a sprint.

Cassidy recommends Centered again—the app that helps you stay in your flow state.

Congrats to Ceora on her new role at Auth0!

Topics covered in this episode:

• The Python GIL: Past, Present, and Future
• Announcing the PyOxy Python Runner
• The unreasonable effectiveness of f-strings and re.VERBOSE
• PyCharm PR Management
• Extras
• Joke

See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/286

Links from the show:

• fix options · laravel/framework@a54f481 · GitHub
• Cross-domain cookie leakage · Advisory · guzzle/guzzle · GitHub
• Bees Are Officially a Type of Fish, California Judges Say

This episode of PHPUgly was sponsored by:

• Honeybadger.io - https://www.honeybadger.io/

PHPUgly streams the recording of this podcast live. Typically every Thursday night around 9 PM PT. Come and join us, and subscribe to our Youtube Channel, Twitch, or Periscope. Also, be sure to check out our Patreon Page.

Twitter Account https://twitter.com/phpugly

Host:

• Eric Van Johnson
• John Congdon
• Tom Rideout

Streams:

• Youtube Channel
• Twitch
• Periscope

Powered by Restream

Patreon Page

PHPUgly Anthem by Harry Mack / Harry Mack Youtube Channel

Thanks to all of our Patreon Sponsors:

Honeybadger ** This weeks Sponsor **

ButteryCrumpet
Shawn
David Q
Ken F
Tony L
Frank W
Jeff K
Shelby C
S Ferguson
Boštjan O
Matt L
Dmitri G
Knut E B
Marcus
MikePageDev
Rodrigo C
Billy
Darryl H
Mike W
Holly S
Peter A
Ben R
Luciano N
Elgimbo
Wayne
Kevin Y
Alex B
Clayton S
Kenrick B
R. C. S.
ahinkle
Enno R
Sevi
Maciej P
Jeroen F
Ronny M N
Charlton
F'n Steve
Robert
Thorsten
Emily
Joe F
Andrew W
ulrick
John C
James H
Eric M
Laravel Magazine
Ed G
Jackson W
Ririe

The Web3 crime of the century? Seth Green’s Bored Ape NFT is kidnapped by dastardly phishing scammers, kiboshing the TV series Green was developing around the Bored Ape character. Read more.

Ceora served as a resident emcee at this year’s Remix Conf. She and Cassidy offer advice for developers who want to give talks or host conferences. 

In tech industry news: Broadcom acquires VMWare for $61 billion, one of the largest tech acquisitions in history.

Today in tech recs: Matt recommends Logitech’s MX Mechanical keyboard; Adam recommends roadmap.sh, a community dedicated to creating roadmaps, guides, and other resources to guide developers as they start their careers or upskill along the way.

Today’s Lifeboat badge goes to user munk for their answer to Python path as a string.

Erik Brynjolfsson is the director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab and professor at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI. He joins Big Technology Podcast for a discussion of why our fears that artificial intelligence would take human jobs haven't yet come to fruition. We also cover how humans and AI can work together and how AI is changing work already. Stay tuned for the second half where we discuss the latest on robotic process automation and address why we're working at all in the age of machines.

Check out Prof. Brynjolfsson's paper: The Turing Trap: The Promise & Peril of Human-Like Artificial Intelligence