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With me looking to get back to a bit more public speaking, I've revamped my talks site so it's a little easier to see the previous talks I've done, as well as moving content from my site to the talks site.

Deffo still needs work, but it's better than what was there before šŸ˜…

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Reposted Jacky AlcinƩ (@jalcine@todon.eu)
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Attached: 1 image Okay now I really need to block Google and Microsoft from anything I touch. It's been clear that this AI stuff is moving like a virus, but it's not like any disclosures are even given for this. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2023/ai-chatbot-learning/#lookup-table

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Listened to Examining capitalism's chokepoints with Cory Doctorow (Changelog Interviews #535)
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This week we’re talking with Cory Doctorow (this episode contains explicit language) about his newest book Chokepoint Capitalism, which he co-autored with Rebecca Giblin. Chokepoint Capitalism is about how big tech and big content have captured creative labor markets and the ways we can win them back. We talk about cho...

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Bookmarked Jamie Tanna (or why I decided to resume writing)
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I'll resume writing about technology and software engineering, inspired by Jamie Tanna's blog I came across recently. This is my blog: https://manuelschmidt.net. Subscribe through your favorite feed reader, or follow me on social media.

Thank you very much Manuel, this was lovely to read and hear šŸ’œ I look forward to seeing how your blog evolves over the years!

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Listened to JSON vs XML - CoRecursive Podcast by Adam Gordon Bell 
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Today's guest is Douglas Crockford. He's sharing the story of JSON, his discovery of JavaScript's good parts, and his approach to finding a simple way to build software. Also, his battles against XML, against complexity, his battles to say that there's a better way to build software. This is foundational stuff for the web, and Doug is an iconoclast. […]

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To anyone following me on Twitter, with the Twitter API dying imminently, you'll no longer be seeing posts or interactions from me. In some cases I may manually post replies, but expect my account to be read-only going forwards. You can find me on the Fediverse at @www.jvt.me which has a richer set of posts from my site's feed, too šŸ‘‹šŸ½

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Listened to Stuart Langridge (@sil) is a true wonder of the world, off-topic is default setting! by Tech: Off-topic
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Mike (⁠⁠https://twitter.com/ukmadlz⁠⁠ https://mastodon.social/@ukmadlz) and co-host Jim (https://twitter.com/secondej https://phpc.social/@SecondeJ) gather for the first time in a while and are joined by Stuart Langridge (https://twitter.com/sil https://mastodon.social/@sil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Langridge). The usual variety of social tech chat goes truly off the rails to the point where it's more teachable moments than tech discussion. But some of what we cover is: Elon is against Chat GPT 4+ https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/pause-ai-development-open-letter-warning/ Don't deploy on Friday horseshit is BACK https://twitter.com/allenholub/status/1637111242610610182?t=EBkSZzQ6-zVpZ0I5lC4s4g&s=19 Dilbert Twitter outage two weeks ago was because they fired everyone with access to mint certs https://izzodlaw.com/@IzzoD/110001516908481048 You can't avoid politics in tech sometimes https://twitter.com/AlyssaM_InfoSec/status/1637383087020548096 The topics list was a lot longer, and this is all we got to. I think we hit a new level of off-topic with this episode, so enjoy.

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Listened to Turso: Globally Replicated SQLite with Glauber Costa
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Distributed databases are necessary for storing and managing data across multiple nodes in a network. They provide scalability, fault tolerance, improved performance, and cost savings. By distributing data across nodes, they allow for efficient processing of large amounts of data and redundancy against failures. They can also be used to store data across multiple locations

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Listened to Platform Engineering with Luca Galante
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The increasing complexity of modern cloud-native architectures has led to the emergence Platform Engineering. This practice involves the development and upkeep of an integrated product, known as an ā€œInternal Developer Platform,ā€ which serves as a flexible and supported abstraction layer between application developers and the underlying technologies. Luca Galante leads Product at Humanitec and he

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Listened to Being a Teenager in 2023 with Zenzo Hanselman by Scott Hanselman 
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This week it's Scott and Zenzo Hanselman: a father-son tech talk. He chats with his son Zenzo, a curious and creative teenager, about the latest trends and topics in technology. From AI to VR, from gaming to social media, from coding to culture, Scott and Zenzo will explore the world of tech from their different perspectives and experiences.