Category: 3-SometimeTechTalk

This week on the podcast, Eric, John, and Thomas talk about face tattoos (yeah you read that correctly), when do you open-source code, PHP 8.1, Livewire, and more...

Links from the show:

• PHP 8.1 is Getting Enumerations! | Colin O'Dell
• What's new in PHP 8.1 - stitcher.io
• Your GitHub story in 3D - GitHub Skyline
• To infinity and beyond: Linux and open-source goes to Mars | ZDNet
• Livewire Make Command can now Scaffold a Component Test | Laravel News

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• Eric Van Johnson
• John Congdon
• Tom Rideout

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If you’re a programmer working with npm, Sara has some basic advice on best practices that will keep your codebase safe.

Today’s discussion was inspired by a blog post from Michel Gorny which you can find here.

Need to simplify the address where people can send you bitcoins? Check out https://ens.domains/, which even offers .club for your TLD.

Thanks to Tagir Valeev for answering the question: How to Split odd and even numbers and sum of both in collection using Stream. You’re our lifeboat badge winner of the week.

Originally from Ghana, Richard Mensah was born into an IT family. From an early age, Richard was the one fixing all of the family tech problems. He could see the potential in technology, to help aid in solving the problems his community was experiencing in Ghana. He loves his country, but he also realized that the US has more resources for innovation than his home country.

He is a huge music fan - and is a guitar player and singer. He sees the correlation between tech and music, and describes them both as understanding the rules but being able to bend them in your own way to make a product, service, or song. He also loves to dance. In fact, he recently tried to learn Salsa, which he mentions didn't go super great.

Previously, he founded a few startups and one thing he found was it was hard to scale startups past early adopters. When he met his co-founder, they immediately saw a gap in connecting startups, startup ideas and those that are looking for interesting stories. They decided to build a better way to do this.

This is the creation story of EllisX.

Links

• Website: https://www.ellisx.com/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-okyere-mensah/

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Most people know the age-old adage, “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” I can still see my grandmother wagging her finger at me when I was younger as she said it. But what if it's not the book cover we’re judging, but the title? And what if it’s not a book we’re analyzing, but instead a security bug? The times have changed, and age-old adages don’t always translate well in the digital landscape. In this case, we’re using machine learning (ML) to identify and “judge” security bugs based solely on their titles. And, believe it or not, it works! (Sorry, Grandma!) 

Mayana Pereira, Data Scientist at Microsoft, joins hosts Nic Fillingham and Natalia Godyla to dig into the endeavors that are saving security experts’ time. Mayana explains how data science and security teams have come together to explore ways that ML can help software developers identify and classify security bugs more efficiently. A task that, without machine learning, has traditionally provided false positives or led developers to overlook misclassified critical security vulnerabilities. 

 

In This Episode, You Will Learn:

• How data science and ML can improve security protocols and identify and classify bugs for software developers 
• How to determine the appropriate amount of data needed to create an accurate ML training model 
• The techniques used to classify bugs based simply on their title 

 

Some Questions We Ask:

• What questions need to be asked in order to obtain the right data to train a security model? 
• How does Microsoft utilize the outputs of these data-driven security models?  
• What is AI for Good and how is it using AI to foster positive change in protecting children, data and privacy online? 

 

Resources: 

Microsoft Digital Defense Report

Article: “Identifying Security Bug Reports Based Solely on Report Titles and Noisy Data”

Mayana’s LinkedIn

Microsoft Security Blog

Nic’s LinkedIn

Natalia’s LinkedIn

Related:

Listen to: Afternoon Cyber Tea with Ann Johnson

Listen to: Security Unlocked: CISO Series with Bret Arsenault 

Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at microsoft.com/podcasts

Security Unlocked is produced by Microsoft and distributed as part of The CyberWire Network. 

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In 2011, Wael Ghonim created a Facebook page that sparked the overthrow of the Egyptian regime. Since then, the former Google marketing director has kept a close eye on social media's evolution, and has plenty to say about where it's gone wrong, and how it can get better. Ten years after Cairo residents painted "Facebook" on the walls after the revolution, Ghonim stops by Big Technology Podcast to revisit what happened and where we go from here.

Topics covered in this episode:

• boto type annotations
• How to have your code reviewer appreciate you
• REPODASH - Quality Metrics for Github repositories
• * Extra, extra, extra, extra, hear all about it*
• testcontainers-python
• The Python Ecosystem is relentlessly improving price-performance every day
• Extras
• Joke

See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/222

Brendan Falk is originally from Australia. Growing up, he was always into computers, sports, extra curricular activities - he was the kid who always had a side hustle going on. Once he got to college, he built a currency converting startup to help him pay his tuition fees... and he has been toying around with startup ideas ever since.

His partner, Matt Schrage, is from San Fran originally - and he confesses, that its hard to escape tech when you are from the area. He started coding as early a middle school, and hasn't stopped since. And outside of tech... he builds more tech! Tinkering with embedded hardware, robotics and mini-machines.

After applying to Y Combinator, they were invited to interview with the accelerator. During the interview, they decided to change from their original idea. After that, their YC partner advised them to pivot yet again... so change has been a regular occurrence for this team since the beginning. They realized that every time they went to get setup on a new project, they had to go through the same commands on the terminal, over and over again. Every time, they either forgot what they were, or encountered an issue with their environment that needed to be dug into. They thought, how can we solve the problem of making the terminal easier to use?

This is the creation story of Fig.

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Links

• Website: https://withfig.com/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendanfalk/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-schrage-957b6843/

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Blake has a PhD in physics from Yale and is the quantum platform lead. You can find him on Twitter here and read some of his recent writing here.

Robert is VP of IBM Quantum Ecosystem Development, IBM Research. He's the author of Dancing with Qubits  and has put together a great list of tutorial videos on his website.

No Lifeboat badge winner today, but if you're a fan of Schrödinger's cat, be sure to check out this question from our Quantum Computing Stack Exchange.