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How can you get your kids into coding? We asked an 8-year-old app builder.
Ben welcomes Ricky Robinett, VP of Developer Relations and Community at Cloudflare, and his eight-year-old daughter Fay for a chat about how AI tools are helping new developers get started and how to encourage your kids to try coding.
Published on: October 29, 2024 | Source:
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Chrisβ Corner: Interesting CSS Explanations
Letβs do CSS stuff this week. Why not β kinda my thing. Did you know Alvaro Montoro has a whole site of comics on the subject of CSS? There is a lot of satire in there, which I really enjoy. So they changed CSS nesting a bit. I heard that the usage of it was [β¦]
Published on: October 28, 2024 | Source:Tragedy of the (data) commons
Ben chats with Shayne Longpre and Robert Mahari of the Data Provenance Initiative about what GenAI means for the data commons. They discuss the decline of public datasets, the complexities of fair use in AI training, the challenges researchers face in accessing data, potential applications for synthetic data, and the evolving legal landscape surrounding AI and copyright.
Published on: October 25, 2024 | Source:Attacking browser extensions
Learn about browser extension security and secure your extensions with the help of CodeQL. The post Attacking browser extensions appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Published on: October 24, 2024 | Source:Cybersecurity spotlight on bug bounty researcher @adrianoapj
As we wrap up Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the GitHub Bug Bounty team is excited to feature another spotlight on a talented security researcher who participates in the GitHub Security Bug Bounty Programβ@adrianoapj! The post Cybersecurity spotlight on bug bounty researcher @adrianoapj appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Published on: October 24, 2024 | Source:Diversity, inclusion, and belonging at GitHub in 2024
From advancing ethical AI practices to expanding open source learning for developers in Africa, discover how weβve fostered diversity, inclusion, and belonging this year. The post Diversity, inclusion, and belonging at GitHub in 2024 appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Published on: October 23, 2024 | Source:How to improve the developer experience in todayβs ecommerce world
We walk through the process of designing an SDK that makes it easy for developers to integrate new technology into their e-commerce stack and is flexible enough to serve the needs of small businesses and large enterprises.
Published on: October 23, 2024 | Source:Enterprise 2024.7: Empower your subject matter experts to contribute
This release introduces Subject Matter Expert (SME) Auto-Assign to the Stack Overflow for Teams experience so expert knowledge is automatically captured, verified, and distributed to users.
Published on: October 23, 2024 | Source:CEO Update: Building trust in AI is key to a thriving knowledge ecosystem
The internet and its business models are changing. Stack Overflow has been at the forefront, helping to shape the future of the web.
Published on: October 22, 2024 | Source:The new pair programming: an AI agent that cleans your code as you write
Ben welcomes Sonar CEO Tariq Shaukat for a conversation about AI coding toolsβ potential to boost developer productivityβand how to balance those potential gains against code quality and security concerns. They talk about Sonarβs origins as an open-source code quality tool, the excellent reasons to embrace a βclean as you codeβ philosophy, and how to determine where AI coding tools can be helpful and where they canβt...
Published on: October 22, 2024 | Source:Chrisβ Corner: If This Then Splat
I love the little typographic thing where if youβre reading a block of text that is in italics, that when an italic word is needed within that, it is unitalicized (like that). Iβve seen that expressed in CSS like: Thatβs probably smart to have, but not all italics are necessarily within an tag. You [β¦]
Published on: October 21, 2024 | Source:Securing the open source supply chain: The essential role of CVEs
Vulnerability data has grown in volume and complexity over the past decade, but open source and programs like the Github Security Lab have helped supply chain security keep pace. The post Securing the open source supply chain: The essential role of CVEs appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Published on: October 21, 2024 | Source:How API security is evolving for the GenAI era
Ben Popper chats with Keith Babo, Head of Product at Solo.io, about how the API security landscape is changing in the era of GenAI. They talk through the role of governance in AI, the importance of data protection, and the role API gateways play in enhancing security and functionality. Keith shares his insights on retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems, protecting PII, and the necessity of human-in-the-loop AI...
Published on: October 18, 2024 | Source:GitHub for Nonprofits: Drive social impact one commit at a time
Now, itβs easier than ever for nonprofits to receive GitHub product discounts. The post GitHub for Nonprofits: Drive social impact one commit at a time appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Published on: October 17, 2024 | Source:Brain Drain: David vs Goliath
There are worries that GenAI systems may run out of fresh data as they scale. Synthetic data is an option, but using AI-generated data to train AI can degrade the model's performance. There may be a better solution. Can data quality overcome a loss of data quantity?
Published on: October 17, 2024 | Source:The team behind Unity 6 explains the new features aimed at helping developers
On todayβs sponsored episode, we chat with Ryan Ellis and Martin Best about the developer-centric features built into Unity 6, the latest release of the well-known game engine. The pair explains how Unity 6 was built to help developers enhance graphics, add multiplayer, and easily port games to an audience on the mobile web.
Published on: October 16, 2024 | Source:Chrisβ Corner: There is a Turtle at the Bottom
If you were in charge of the curriculum at a college teaching web development, would you ensure the curriculum was regularly updated with bleeding edge technology? Or would you establish a slower moving curriculum with tried and true technologies? Thatβs tough. You canβt just flip a coin. It may be impractical to re-invent the curriculum [β¦]
Published on: October 14, 2024 | Source:What launching rockets taught this CTO about hardware observability
Austin Spiegel, CTO and co-founder of Sift, tells Ben and Ryan about his journey from studying film to working at SpaceX to founding Sift.
Published on: October 14, 2024 | Source:Is this the real life? Training autonomous cars with simulations
Ben Popper interviews Vladislav Voroninski, CEO of Helm.ai, about unsupervised learning and the future of AI in autonomous driving. They discuss GenAIβs role in bridging the gap between simulation and reality, the challenges of scaling autonomous driving systems, the commercial potential of partial autonomy, and why software is emerging as a key differentiator in vehicle sales. Vlad spotlights the value of multimodal...
Published on: October 11, 2024 | Source:Rust is evolving from system-level language to UI and frontend development
Ben and Ryan chat with Daniela Miao, cofounder and CTO of Momento, a real-time data platform, about real-time observability, the challenges of multi-tenancy in databases and caching, the use of WebAssembly in UI development, and the benefits of Rust.
Published on: October 08, 2024 | Source:Chris Corner: View Transition Performance
I was mystified the other day about why some navigational View Transitions werenβt working for me. It was just a demo thing, so it wasnβt a big deal, not to mention this API is Chrome-only and just a progressive enhancement anyway. But I did learn why! The way I understand it now is that navigation [β¦]
Published on: October 07, 2024 | Source:Meet the AI-native developers who build software through prompt engineering
Crystal Xu, chief of staff at FSH Tech, explains how she works with GenAI systems like ChatGPT, Cursor, and Replit to build software through prompt engineering.
Published on: October 04, 2024 | Source:Community Products Roadmap Update, October 2024
We explore how our platform is evolving to support a new framework and business model, knowledge-as-a-service, and how we will incorporate this with our ongoing investment in our community.
Published on: October 03, 2024 | Source:A developer works to balance the data center boom with his climate change battle
On todayβs episode we chat with David Mytton, CEO of Arcjet and co-founder of Console.dev. We discuss his early work in cloud monitoring, his passion for the environment, and his love for sharing great developer tools.
Published on: October 01, 2024 | Source:Chrisβ Corner: Web Combinements
A little bit ago David Darnes made a web component that youβd chuck HTML, CSS, and JS inside of and it would show the code and give you an βOpen in CodePenβ button. Thatβs enabled by our Prefill API. Miriam Suzanne has played with web components making an that is like a replacement [β¦]
Published on: September 30, 2024 | Source:Ongoing community data protection
Socially responsible use of community data needs to be mutually beneficial: the more potential partners are willing to contribute to community development, the more access to community content they receive.
Published on: September 30, 2024 | Source:Attribution as the foundation of developer trust
The entire AI ecosystem is at risk without trust.
Published on: September 30, 2024 | Source:Knowledge-as-a-service: The future of community business models
The internet is changing once again: it is becoming more fragmented as the separation between sources of knowledge and how users interact with that knowledge grows.
Published on: September 30, 2024 | Source:The changing state of the Internet and related business models
If youβre weary of reading about the latest chatbot innovations and the nine ways AI will change your daily life next year, this series of posts may be for you.
Published on: September 30, 2024 | Source:Deedy Das: from coding at Meta, to search at Google, to investing with Anthropic
We chat with Deedy Das, a Principal at Menlo Ventures, who began his career as a software engineer at Facebook and Google. He then dipped a toe in the startup world, spending time at the company now know as Glean. More recently he started a career as a venture capitalist, investing in AI and Infra out of the Anthology Fund, a partnership between Menlo Ventures and Anthropic.
Published on: September 27, 2024 | Source:Masked self-attention: How LLMs learn relationships between tokens
Masked self-attention is the key building block that allows LLMs to learn rich relationships and patterns between the words of a sentence. Letβs build it together from scratch.
Published on: September 26, 2024 | Source:Chrisβ Corner: It DOM Matter
βRegardless of where it is in the DOM.β Thatβs a phrase that goes through my mind in regard to a number of new CSS features and itβs so cool. I certainly spent most of my formative HTML & CSSinβ years being very careful about where things needed to go in the DOM specifically because CSS [β¦]
Published on: September 23, 2024 | Source:Where developers feel AI coding tools are workingβand where theyβre missing the mark
How are developers actually using GenAI-powered coding tools now that some of the initial hype has faded?
Published on: September 23, 2024 | Source:He sold his first company for billions. Now heβs building a better developer experience.
Founder and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal tells Ben, Cassidy, and Eira about the developer challenges he aims to solve with his new venture, Harness, an AI-driven software development platform meant to take the pain out of DevOps. Jyoti shares his journey as a founder, his perspective on the venture capital landscape, and his reasons behind his decision to raise debt capital for Harness.
Published on: September 23, 2024 | Source:Detecting errors in AI-generated code
Ben chats with Gias Uddin, an assistant professor at York University in Toronto, where he teaches software engineering, data science, and machine learning. His research focuses on designing intelligent tools for testing, debugging, and summarizing software and AI systems. He recently published a paper about detecting errors in code generated by LLMs. Gias and Ben discuss the concept of hallucinations in AI-generated...
Published on: September 20, 2024 | Source: