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Researchers have examined the power of story and discovered the way in which stories provide a framework that has the capacity to transcend language for universal understanding. According to Joe Lazauskas, "Stories illuminate the city of our mind...stories make us remember and they make us care." In this episode we dive deep into the power of story to explore the ways in which stories play a role in our emotions and in our relationships with others.

Databases are tricky, especially at scale. In this episode Mat, Jaana, and Jon discuss different types of databases, the pros and cons of each, along with the many ways developers can have issues with databases. They also explore questions like, "Why are serial IDs problematic?" and "What alternatives are there if we aren't using serial IDs?" while at it.

Plausible creators Uku Täht and Marko Saric join the show to talk about their open source, privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics. We talk through the backstory of the project, why it's open source, the details behind a few viral blog posts Marko shared to bring in a ton of new interest to the project, why privacy matters in web analytics, how they prioritize building new features, the technical details behind their no cookie light-weight JavaScript approach, and their thoughts on a server-side option.

On the heels of NVIDIA's latest announcements, Daniel and Chris explore how the new NVIDIA Ampere architecture evolves the high-performance computing (HPC) landscape for artificial intelligence. After investigating the new specifications of the NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU, Chris and Daniel turn their attention to the data center with the NVIDIA DGX A100, and then finish their journey at "the edge" with the NVIDIA EGX A100 and the NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX.

We're bringing Brain Science backstage — Mireille puts on her interviewer hat for a deep dive into Adam's backstory. When and how did he get involved with podcasting? How did he get in to software development? When did he get his first shot at leadership? How did he learn about sales? Why is he so curious?

Nick and Jerod welcome Dojo's Matt Gadd to the show to catch us up on what's changed with the framework since episode #25, what's coming in version 7, and to defend Nick's comment that if you like React you just might like Dojo better.

Johnny and Jon are joined by Denise to talk about her role at GitHub and what the community and safety team does to help open source project creators and contributors, GoCon Canada and the role of organizing a conference, and more.

High expectations for performance in both life and work are common, but what do you do when you get stuck and you're not able to achieve the results you desire? In this episode, Mireille and Adam talk through the different aspects of perfectionism and ways in which is can be adaptive and helpful and other ways in which it poses additional challenges. What happens when we avoid the possibility of failure as opposed to simply having high standards for our performance? How can we begin to focus on healthy striving as opposed to reaching for perfection?

Jason Warner (CTO at GitHub) joined the show to talk with us about the backstory of how he helped to lead GitHub to a $7.5 billion acquisition by Microsoft. Specifically how they trusted their gut not just the data, and how they understood the value they were bringing to market. We also talk about Jason's focus on "horizon 3" for GitHub, and his thoughts on remote work and how they're leading GitHub engineering today.

Long-time listener (and YouTube aficionado) Owen Bickford joins Jerod backstage to discuss his recent contribution to Changelog's Elixir/Phoenix-based open source platform.

Divya and Nick welcome Deno's Kit Kelly to the show to celebrate the highly-anticipated new JavaScript/TypeScript runtime's big 1.0 release. This is a wide-ranging discussion about all things Deno. We discuss why they're using Rust, how they're rewriting parts of the TypeScript compiler, their take on package management, what adoption looks like, their code of conduct, and more.

Distributed systems are hard. Building a distributed messaging system for these systems to communicate is even harder. In this episode, we unpack some of the challenges of building distributed messaging systems (like NATS), including how Go makes that easy and/or hard as applicable.

In this episode, Mireille and Adam talk through the challenge of problem solving. It's all to common to utilize the "try harder" approach when things aren't working out the way you'd like. While that kind of effort is valuable, this approach is often wrought with further frustration, wasted time and less than desirable results. This episode offers you an alternative perspective and ways that you can practice getting unstuck and utilize more of the resources of your unconscious mind.

Saul Pwanson is the creator and maintainer of VisiData, a terminal interface for exploring and arranging tabular data. On this Maintainer Spotlight episode, Saul joins Jerod for a wide-ranging discussion on crossword puzzles, biographs, and Saul's open source gift to the world. Thanks to AJ for the suggestion!

Chandler McCann tells Daniel and Chris about how DataRobot engaged in a project to develop sustainable water solutions with the Global Water Challenge (GWC). They analyzed over 500,000 data points to predict future water point breaks. This enabled African governments to make data-driven decisions related to budgeting, preventative maintenance, and policy in order to promote and protect people’s access to safe water for drinking and washing. From this effort sprang DataRobot's larger AI for Good initiative.

The role of a father plays a pivotal role in a child's life. Ian Bernstein is a former Founder of Sphero and is now the Founder and Head of Product of Misty Robotics — they're building the first programmable robot for the home and business. It's called Misty II. The journey of building Misty II started when Ian was 5 years old and his dad bought him an Apple IIe.

Node 14, Vue's Vite, and `is-promise` are in the news. We've got some working from home tips and unpopular opinions to share. And... shout outs!

In this episode, Mireille and Adam discuss the importance of building resiliency and how we can build skills to navigate unexpected and unwanted adversities. Fundamentally, we are designed to adapt out of a place of survival. Given that, we have to learn how to manage our fear while building awareness of the perceptions we have so that we can learn how to be both flexible and calm. Not surprising, we also talk about the way in which our relationships with others help us buffer the challenges better so that we are able to remain calmer and henceforth, see the opportunities within the obstacles.

Put on your dark hoodie, turn all the lights off, and join the author of Black Hat Go as we explore the darker side of Go.

Gatsby creator Kyle Mathews joins Jerod fresh off the launch of incremental builds to tell the story of this feature that's 3 years in the making. We talk about Kyle's vision for Gatsby, why incremental builds took so long, why it's not part of the open source tool, how he makes decisions between Cloud and open source features, and more.