Writing a shell is rarely the kind of project you take on lightly. In this episode, Johnny is joined by Qi Xiao to explore how to go about such a feat in Go.

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• Elvish shell

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This week, Chris is joined by Gregory Richardson, Vice President and Global Advisory CISO at BlackBerry, and Ismael Valenzuela, Vice President of Threat Research & Intelligence at BlackBerry. They address how AI is changing the threat landscape, why human defenders remain a key part of our cyber defenses, and the explain the AI standoff between cyber threat actors and cyber defenders.

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• The AI Standoff: Attackers vs. Defenders | Blackberry Blog
• Blackberry

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IEEE Spectrum reports on the return to physical buttons and dials, Microsoft released GenAIScript, iFixit’s Elizabeth Chamberlain announces a big Right to Repair win, Daniela Baron reimagines technical interviews & John O’Nolan, shares some thoughts on open source governance and how to create trust within technology, communities, and media

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We join the Whiskey Web and Whatnot podcast live from the hallway track at All Things Open 2024. Topics include: Chianti, content creation, open source, fake jobs, cancel culture, Silicon Valley (ding), frontend frustrations, the Roman empire & more.

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• Whiskey Web and Whatnot: Web Development, Neat
• Tenuta di Capraia Chianti Classico Riserva 2018

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Maybe Jira for your kids’ chores is a good idea… Probably not.

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• Deserted Island Devops

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(Includes expletives) David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH), creator of Ruby on Rails and co-owner of 37signals, joined the show to discuss this Rails moment and renewed excitement for Rails. We discuss hard opinions, developers being cooked too long in the JavaScript soup, finding developer joy, the pros and cons of the BDFL, the ongoing WordPress drama with WP Engine, and what’s to come in Rails 8.

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• Rails World 2024 Keynote - David Heinemeier Hansson
• new-in-ruby-on-rails-8.html">What’s New in Ruby on Rails 8
• Rails is leaning hard into SQLite right now
• The Empowered Programmer (Justin Searls) - Rails World 2024
• deploy.org">Kamal - Deploy web apps anywhere
• LiteFS - Distributed SQLite
• Turso - libsql
• RubyGems.org
• Automattic is doing open source dirty
• Matt’s “Response to DHH”
• Capture less than you create
• My Freedom of Speech
• Open Source and Power with Matt Mullenweg (Rework podcast)
• Breaking Camp
• Our cloud-exit savings will now top ten million over five years

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Jerod & the gang play “Twenty” Questions to get to know Amy, review the big Svelte 5 release, discuss commercial open source & get Nick’s report from SquiggleConf!

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Elham Tabassi, the Chief AI Advisor at the U.S. National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST), joins Chris for an enlightening discussion about the path towards trustworthy AI. Together they explore NIST’s ‘AI Risk Management Framework’ (AI RMF) within the context of the White House’s ‘Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence’.

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• Elham Tabassi | TIME 100 / AI
• NIST Trustworthy & Responsible AI Resource Center
• NIST AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF)
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• NIST AI RMF Development
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• NIST Risk Management Framework Aims to Improve Trustworthiness of Artificial Intelligence
• White House Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence

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Daniel Quinn weighs in on how to develop with Docker The Right Way, Mitchell Hashimoto says Ghostty will be publicly released this coming December, Kevin Li writes about the value of learning how to learn, The Browser Company moves on from Arc & the React Native team ships its new architecture.

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From switching ISPs to migrating Amazon off Oracle, Pete Naylor knows which database to use.

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