Best Simon Weis Podcasts (2024)

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No PhD Required: Restate with Stephan Ewen 32:34

11h ago32:34

32:34

Stephan Ewen (@StephanEwen) is the co-founder of Restate, the open-source workflow-as-code engine. Restate is lightweight, simple, and provides durable execution. Before Restate, Stephan co-created Apache Flink, the open-source stream processing framework. Lessons learned from Flink have heavily influenced the development of Restate, although Steph…

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#8 Simon Klobas - From Mining in Outback Australia to NoCode Entreprenuer 43:12

7h ago43:12

43:12

Send us a text In this episode of Unconventional Founders, Simon, a civil engineer turned entrepreneur, shares his journey from the mining industry to launching successful ventures in real estate and software. After facing challenges in his real estate business, Simon bootstrapped his current software company, BrickRoad. He discusses the benefits o…

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Garrett Archer: on the election data frontline in Arizona 24:36

3h ago24:36

24:36

Garrett Archer is the data analyst at ABC15 in Phoenix, Arizona, where he is a data storyteller and one of the foremost experts on Arizona's election system. As America votes, Garrett will be responsible for reporting the facts in one of the most tightly-fought US elections for decades. Find out how he approaches election data, what makes it differ…

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#7 Julie Bray Former Founder to NoCode Developer 31:04

4d ago31:04

31:04

Send us a text In this episode of Unconventional Founders, we sit down with Julie Bray, a seasoned entrepreneur and IT consultant, who shares her inspiring startup journey. Julie co-founded Connective, a company that initially focused on school communications before pivoting to become a robust employee messaging app. She dives deep into the challen…

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#6 Dave's Story: Why He Started Unconventional Founders 45:07

18d ago45:07

45:07

Send us a text In this episode of Unconventional Founders, Dave shares the inspiring story behind starting the podcast, delving into his passion for tech, AI, and entrepreneurship. Along with Kat, they explore how AI can enhance human capabilities rather than replace them, and why embracing technology pushes us to lean into our humanness. Dave refl…

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#5 Creating a Compelling Vision with Jian Wei Hoh: Lessons from Silicon Valley and Beyond 30:26

1M ago30:26

30:26

Send us a text In this episode of Unconventional Founder, host Dave sits down with Jian Wei Hoh, an innovative leader with over 15 years of experience across the globe. From Melbourne to Silicon Valley, Jian Wei has led groundbreaking projects at Uber and Ford Greenfield Labs and now spearheads EV Pro, an electric vehicle service company. Join us a…

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Sisi Wei: data stories at The Markup and CalMatters 29:10

2M ago29:10

29:10

Sisi Wei is the Chief Impact Officer at CalMatters & The Markup, based in New York. Sisi founded the DEI Coalition For Anti-Racist, Equitable, And Just Newsrooms and was the Assistant Managing Editor at ProPublica. She has also won the Gwen Ifill Award. Alberto chats with Sisi about her work and how she approaches telling stories with data. The⁠ ⁠⁠…

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AI and data journalism: the AP's Garance Burke 33:13

3M ago33:13

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Garance Burke is a global investigative reporter for the Associated Press, with a focus on reporting around Artificial Intelligence. She wrote the chapter of the AP style guide around reporting on AI and leads a team which works with data to tell stories every day. She joins Simon and Alberto to discuss the implications for data journalism. The⁠ ⁠⁠…

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#2 A Journey from X aka Twitter to NoCode Entrepreneur 22:41

3M ago22:41

22:41

Send us a text Enjoyed this episode? Don’t forget to subscribe and leave us a review! Connect with us on LinkedIn and Twitter for more insights and updates. Visit our website at www.lightningproduct.io for additional resources and episode transcripts.By David McManus

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How the Pulitzer Center does data journalism 27:23

4M ago27:23

27:23

How does the Pulitzer Center create such great data journalism? Alberto and Simon are joined by Doménica Montaño, the Center's program coordinator for environmental investigations. Working with terrific data journalists like director Gustavo Faleiros and Kuek Ser Kuang Keng, the team produces groundbreaking data work. Doménica explains what it take…

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Ground Control: Lunar with Eyal Solomon 27:17

4M ago27:17

27:17

Eyal Solomon (@EyalSolomo44643) is the CEO and co-founder of Lunar, an open-source platform which bills itself as the “first reverse API gateway.” Lunar allows engineering teams to monitor, manage, and optimize API consumption. According to Eyal, it’s very easy to integrate with APIs, but difficult to keep them maintained, and there was a clear nee…

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The Cool Grey City of Data: inside the San Francisco Chronicle's data team 49:17

5M ago49:17

49:17

Dan Kopf and Nami Sumida join Simon and Alberto to discuss how the SF Chronicle tells data stories, such as Sumida's recent exploration of the city's Japantown (sub required) and the WW2 internment that nearly destroyed it. The team discuss what makes the Bay Area such a rich source of data journalism and how the Chron approaches it each day. The⁠ …

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Metadata Management: DataHub with Shirshanka Das 36:56

5M ago36:56

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Shirshanka Das (@shirshanka) is the CTO of Acryl Data and founder of DataHub, which bills itself as the #1 open-source metadata platform. It enables data discovery, data observability and federated governance to help tame complex data ecosystems. Shirshanka first developed DataHub while at LinkedIn, but has grown it into an independent project with…

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Take Your Own Advice: vlcn with Matt Wonlaw 31:58

5M ago31:58

31:58

After his first child was born, Matt Wonlaw (@tantaman) imagined giving his son life advice. What kind of life did he want his kid to lead? At the time, he was working for Facebook, and he decided that his own life needed a change in direction. So Matt started vlcn, aka Vulcan Labs, a research company that develops open-source projects like CR-SQLi…

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Secret Sauce: Amplication with Yuval Hazaz 31:22

6M ago31:22

31:22

Amplication is an open-source development platform for scalable and secure Node.js applications. It allows engineers to skip writing boilerplate code and offers the flexibility to customize and add components. Amplification was created by Yuval Hazaz (@Yuvalhazaz1), a veteran developer who determined that low-code platforms save time but restrict f…

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To the Moon: OpenBB with Didier Lopes 39:41

6M ago39:41

39:41

OpenBB is an open-source investment research platform created by Didier Lopes (@didier_lopes). OpenBB grew out of a project called Gamestonk Terminal that Didier began working on shortly before the Gamestop short squeeze in January 2021. Today, OpenBB has evolved into an infrastructure platform that allows users to build extensions and access finan…

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Robust Observability: OpenTelemetry with Austin Parker 35:01

7M ago35:01

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OpenTelemetry is an open-source observability framework for collecting and managing telemetry data. OpenTelemetry has been more successful than expected, becoming the second fastest growing project in the CNCF. It allows for flexibility and avoids vendor lock-in, making it attractive to startups and large enterprises alike. On today’s show, Eric (@…

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#1 - Unlocking Creativity with NoCode: JJ Englert's Path from Filmmaker to Entrepreneur using Bubble.io 25:50

7M ago25:50

25:50

Send us a text Learn how a film director learn how to build his own software products using NoCode tools like Bubble.io. Learn about his triumphs and learnings across his journey of building his product. Enjoyed this episode? Don’t forget to subscribe and leave us a review! Connect with us on LinkedIn and Twitter for more insights and updates. Visi…

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#4 How Two Brothers Are Changing the Future of Healthcare - Mindset Health 30:37

7M ago30:37

30:37

Send us a text Enjoyed this episode? Don’t forget to subscribe and leave us a review! Connect with us on LinkedIn and Twitter for more insights and updates. Visit our website at www.lightningproduct.io for additional resources and episode transcripts.By Dave

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#3 Building Better Legal With NoCode 33:44

7M ago33:44

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Send us a text Enjoyed this episode? Don’t forget to subscribe and leave us a review! Connect with us on LinkedIn and Twitter for more insights and updates. Visit our website at www.lightningproduct.io for additional resources and episode transcripts.By David McManus

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Never Build Permissions Again: OPAL with Or Weis 37:15

7M ago37:15

37:15

OPAL is an open-source administration layer for Policy Engines such as Open Policy Agent (OPA). OPAL provides the necessary infrastructure to load policy and data into multiple policy engines, ensuring they have the information they need to make decisions. Today, we’re talking to Or Weis (@OrWeis), co-creator of OPAL and co-founder of Permit, the e…

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Oxygen Deprivation: FerretDB with Peter Farkas 33:55

8M ago33:55

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FerretDB enables users to run MongoDB applications on existing Postgres infrastructure. Peter Farkas (@FarkasP), co-founder and CEO of FerretDB, explains the need for an open source interface for document databases. Peter also discusses the licensing change of MongoDB and the uncertainty it created for users. He emphasizes the importance of open st…

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The Duke of SQLite: Litestream with Ben Johnson 34:14

8M ago34:14

34:14

Ben Johnson (@benbjohnson) is the creator of Litestream and LiteFS, two open-source disaster recovery solution for SQLite. Litestream is designed to provide continuous backups for SQLite databases by streaming incremental changes, allowing for easy data recovery in the event of a server crash. LiteFS, on the other hand, is built on LiteStream but u…

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Anna Brand: data journalism for CNN 26:57

9M ago26:57

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Anna Brand is the Managing Editor for Data and Graphics at CNN Digital. She chats with Simon and Alberto about building a data journalism team at the news outlet, explains how it works and what inspires her. The⁠ ⁠music this week⁠⁠, made with⁠ ⁠TwoTone⁠⁠, is based on the data behind this CNN Digital story about Halloween candy.…

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Rust Never Sleeps: Tonic with Lucio Franco 36:24

9M ago36:24

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Tonic is a native gRPC implementation in Rust that allows users to easily build gRPC servers and clients without extensive async experience. Tonic is part of the Tokio stack, which is a library that provides an asynchronous runtime for Rust and more tools to write async applications. Today, Lucio Franco (@lucio_d_franco) of Turso joins the podcast …

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The Social Miracle: rqlite with Philip O’Toole 43:02

9M ago43:02

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rqlite is a lightweight, distributed relational database built on Raft and SQLite. Founder Philip O’Toole (@general_order24) decided to combine these technologies while working at a startup years ago. The startup no longer exists, but rqlite is going strong. Today, Philip is an engineering manager at Google, while he continues to be the driving for…

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Holiday special: why data storytelling matters 44:11

9M ago44:11

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It’s a different kind of podcast this week: Simon and Alberto talk about Alberto’s latest book, The Art of Insight, why data journalism is still a dream job and our approaches to working with numbers to tell stories. Find out what books got us here - and what we care about most, when it comes to data storytelling. The ⁠music this week⁠, made with ⁠…

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"Hungary is a data journalism superpower" 33:02

10M ago33:02

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Attila Bátorfy is a data journalist operating in Viktor Orbán's Hungary, heading up ATLO and pioneering the field in the country as a teacher and practitioner. Find out why he believes Hungary is the country to watch for data storytelling. Music by ⁠TwoTone⁠, based on data about rising Hungary's falling population. You can hear the ⁠full (long) tra…

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Community Driven IaC: OpenTofu with Kuba Martin 33:11

11M ago33:11

33:11

Kuba Martin (@cube2222_2) is Software Engineering Team Lead at Spacelift and Interim Tech Lead of OpenTofu, the open-source fork of Terraform. Terraform is a declarative infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tool that recently switched to a source-available license. Spacelift and other companies that heavily relied on Terraform came together to fork it into…

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Data journalism at The Guardian 1:00:22

12M ago1:00:22

1:00:22

The Guardian's Pamela Duncan and Ashley Kirk join Simon to talk about how data journalism has changed since he was there, how the news organisation works today and what is coming next. Music by TwoTone, based on data from this story about rising surface temperatures. You can hear the full (long) track here.…

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Postgres for Everything: Tembo with Ry Walker 32:03

1y ago32:03

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Ry Walker (@rywalker) is the founder and CEO of Tembo, the Postgres developer platform for building any and every data service. To Ry, the full capabilities of Postgres appear underappreciated and underused for most users. Tembo is an attempt to harness the large ecosystem of Postgres extensions, and ultimately collapse the database sprawl of the m…

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Automation for Technical People: n8n with Jan Oberhauser 40:04

1y ago40:04

40:04

Jan Oberhauser (@JanOberhauser) is the founder and CEO of n8n, the free and source-available workflow automation tool for technical users. n8n's flexible architecture allows users to avoid the limitations of other automation tools, while also opening doors for complex automation scenarios. The project has garnered over 30,000 GitHub stars and a thr…

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Alan Smith: Inside the FT's data journalism operation 34:31

1y ago34:31

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Alan Smith is a rare breed: he leads the FT's team of data reporters and designers, but has a background in the stuffy world of official statistics as former head of digital content at the UK's Office for National Statistics. Alan is also author of How Charts Work, a handbook on designing with data using the FT's principles. He chats with Simon and…

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The Big Fork: libSQL with Glauber Costa 32:20

1y ago32:20

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Glauber Costa (@glcst) is the founder of Turso and the co-creator of libSQL, an open source, open contribution fork of the database engine library, SQLite. Most people believe that SQLite is open-source software, but it actually exists in the public domain and doesn’t accept external contributions. With their big fork, Glauber and his team have set…

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Rethinking the Workflow Problem: Windmill with Ruben Fiszel 26:49

1y ago26:49

26:49

Ruben Fiszel (@rubenfiszel) is the creator of Windmill, the open-source developer platform that lets users easily turn scripts into workflows and internal apps with auto-generated UIs. Windmill doesn’t force engineers to change their coding style or adopt a convoluted API, and its low-code design makes it accessible to non-technical users. Tune in …

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Vector Search for Humans: Marqo with Jesse Clark 34:17

1y ago34:17

34:17

Jesse Clark (@jn2clark) is a co-founder of Marqo, the end-to-end, multimodal vector search engine. Vector search has exploded along with the rise of generative AI models, so Marqo’s arrival has had excellent timing. The project has quickly grown to almost 3000 GitHub stars, despite being less than a year old. Jesse and his team weren’t exactly expe…

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The future of local watchdog journalism ft. Dean Baquet and Evan Smith 1:18:35

1+ y ago1:18:35

1:18:35

We're excited to bring you another special News Guest episode this month featuring former New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet and The Texas Tribune co-founder Evan Smith, who spoke at last year's Independent News Sustainability Summit about the future of local watchdog journalism — and how national newsrooms like the Times can support it. P…

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Data journalism in Kenya, with Eunice Magwambo 37:10

1+ y ago37:10

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This week we meet data journalist Eunice Magwambo, whose team has trained over 2,000 journalists in data journalism and visualisation and is part of a new movement of talented data reporters in the region. She talks about how data journalism in Africa is different, the appetite for data-led stories and the importance of sharing those visuals. You c…

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From Orchestration to Building Applications: Conductor with Jeu George 33:48

1+ y ago33:48

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Jeu George (@jeugeorge) is the co-creator of Conductor, the open-source application building platform. Conductor began as a workflow orchestrator and was originally developed at Netflix. Jeu also co-founded Orkes, a company which offers a cloud product based on Conductor. Tune in to find out how Conductor has evolved into an open-source, battle-tes…

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Reimagine newsroom culture and build more sustainable workplaces ft. Angilee Shah and Sisi Wei 53:07

1+ y ago53:07

53:07

We're excited to bring you a special News Guest episode this month featuring Charlottesville Tomorrow CEO and editor-in-chief Angilee Shah and The Markup editor-in-chief Sisi Wei, who spoke at last year's Independent News Sustainability Summit about how to reimagine newsroom culture and build more sustainable workplaces. P.S. Our next in-person eve…

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Opening Up Authentication: SuperTokens with Advait Ruia 29:35

1+ y ago29:35

29:35

Advait Ruia (@Advait_Ruia) is the co-founder of SuperTokens, the open-source user authentication and authorization framework. SuperTokens integrates natively into both your front-end client and your backend endpoint. This approach gives developers more control over the user experience and allows for custom workflows. Tune in to find out why SuperTo…

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Live from Perugia: Data Journalism in Small Newsrooms 51:53

1+ y ago51:53

51:53

Recorded live at the International Journalism Fesitival in Perugia, Italy on April 21, 2023. This panel brought together some great practitioners producing award-winning data journalism in small newsrooms and sometimes on their own. Moderated by Simon, the panel includes: Yvette Cabrera, Center for Public Integrity Miguel Angel Dobrich, Dobcast, Ur…

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Live from Perugia: The State of Data Journalism Today at the International Journalism Festival 53:40

1+ y ago53:40

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It's a different kind of episode! Live from the 2023 International Journalism Festival in Perugia, this session features co-host Simon plus the following great speakers: Tara Kelly, data editor at the European Journalism Centre Sondre Solstad is The Economist’s Senior Data Journalist Moderated by Lars Boering, director of the EJC The session looks …

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Open-Source Runtime Security: Falco with Loris Degioanni 33:36

1+ y ago33:36

33:36

Loris Degioanni (@lorisdegio) joins Eric Anderson (@ericmander) to chat about Falco, the open-source runtime security tool for modern cloud infrastructures. Loris is the founder and CTO of Sysdig, and co-creator of Wireshark, the legendary open-source packet analysis tool. Today, Loris talks about all these projects and more - tune in to learn abou…

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The Sigmas: inside the world's data journalism awards 31:20

1+ y ago31:20

31:20

How do you judge data journalism in 2023? The Sigma Data Journalism Awards is the only global award for the field and this episode sees Simon and Alberto chatting with Gina Chua, Aron Pilhofer, Kuek Ser Kuang Keng and Marianne Bouchart to discuss the state of data journalism today, the point of the awards and what's happening next. The music is bas…

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Decoupling Authorization: Cerbos with Emre Baran 29:02

1+ y ago29:02

29:02

Emre Baran (@emre) is the CEO and co-founder of Cerbos, the open-source authorization layer for implementing roles and permissions. Cerbos allows developers to decouple authorization logic from core code into its own centrally distributed component. Easier said than done, perhaps - but Cerbos is secure, intentionally simple to implement, and develo…

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Rani Molla: data for journalism 26:25

1+ y ago26:25

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Rani Molla is a senior correspondent at Vox Media, reporting for Recode on the intersection between work, technology and the future. She uses data to tell stories every day, whether it's about our return to the office (or lack of), the impacts of AI on our world or the rise of burnout. In the latest episode of the pod, we chat about how she uses da…

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Florence Nightingale and the history of dataviz 41:10

1+ y ago41:10

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RJ Andrews is the founder of data design studio Info We Trust and author of a new series of books delving into the deep history of of data visualisation and storytelling. In this episode of the pod, he talks about three significant parts of the history of data visuals: Florence Nightingale, Emma Willard and Étienne-Jules Marey. While Nightingale cr…

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Cosmonic and WebAssembly with Liam Randall and Bailey Hayes 37:17

1+ y ago37:17

37:17

Eric Anderson (@ericmander) has a conversation with Liam Randall (@Hectaman) and Bailey Hayes (@baihay) of Cosmonic, the platform-as-a-service environment for building cloud-native applications using WebAssembly. Bailey is also on the steering committee for the Bytecode Alliance, which stewards WebAssembly. In 2021, Cosmonic donated their WebAssemb…

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The science of dataviz, with Jen Christiansen 35:04

1+ y ago35:04

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Jen Christiansen is the author of Building Science Graphics (published by A K Peters/CRC Press) and a senior graphics editor at Scientific American. In this episode of the pod, she talks about her approach to visualising scientific stories and to graphics, based on her long career in the field. "For any scientist to have their work in the lab or in…

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