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Issue 296: MCP in the CRM

Are you ready to get your acronyms on? On the podcast, we've got two talks that tackle three terse terms. First up, double your acronymic pleasure as Ryan chats with Karen Ng of Hubspot about implementing an MCP server for a CRM. Next up, look Ma, no head! Ryan welcomes Sebastian Gierlinger to discuss where a headless CMS fits into a componentized and service-oriented world. If you want to learn more about those acronyms, check out those pods. XX If you want to learn some other stuff, we've got you there. Heck, all you collegiate types can learn a lot from our site resources, including new coding challenges (but only if you want some extra credit). For funzies, learn what happens to material sciences once energy constraints aren't an issue. If computer history is more your thing, learn about the order of punctuation within ASCII (another acronym). XX On top of all that, we have a meadow of juicy links for grazing. Need a way to prank your IT department? Is AI making the world look WEIRD? Could open-source be used for good? One click gets you the answers below.

Issue 295: AI vs. Gen Z

AI has changed a lot in the software engineering world. On our Leaders of Code podcast, Peter O’Connor, our Director of Platform Engineering, talks with Ryan J. Salva, Senior Director of Product at Google, Developer Experiences about how AI is changing dev teams and experiences. On the blog, we explore how AI has changed the software engineer pathway for Gen Z. And on the podcast, we talk to Geraint North, AI and developer platforms fellow at Arm, about how AI is changing their chip designs for mobile. XX There's also a lot of changes happening in how we communicate on and with the internet. We're adapting to this new reality by adding a chat interface to our public knowledge base—hear from the folks who built it. Some websites are communicating how they should be compensated for AI access using licenses. One questioner wonders how they can prevent players from communicating outside of the game. XX But variety is the spice of life, and the rest of this newsletter gets spicy. Is brute force better than an efficient solution with overhead? What's dampening the humanoid robot hype (besides terminators, of course)? And what happens when you let songs mate?

Issue 294: Class is back in session with Prof. Stack

You must have hit 88mph in your DeLorean, because this week we're taking you back. And by "back" we mean back to school. Whether you or someone in your life is learning to code, we've got everything you'll need for back to school ready for you on the blog. We aren't sending you back alone though. Our very own Stack Overflow developers are joining you, and they have plenty of tips and tricks to share for student developers. Plus, we asked Jeffrey van Gogh from the Kotlin Foundation to go back in time on the pod to tell us all about the evolution of the Kotlin language and how it goes beyond just Android. XX Great Scott! Those aren't the only blasts from the past we have for you this issue. From the web, we have a look back on original home computers and ye olde robots from history. Claude Code is getting in on the nostalgia too—we have a story on resurrecting old QIC-80 tapes using AI. But don't get too trusting of AI, now. We've got a question from the gaming site on double-crossing quest givers. Learn from them and you might keep yourself from getting Ex Machina'd. Speaking of fighting AI overlords, we've also got a story from the web on how one tech writer is "poisoning the well" of his article data. XX Alright, get into the DeLorean, it's time to go back to the future...or at least the present. Once you get those 1.21 gigawatts of lightning on yourself, be sure to check out our pod episode with Kylan Gibbs from Inworld on implementing AI for consumer goods like gaming. Plus, there's no time like the present to ponder the existence of free will, if cats would be our natural predators if we were five-inches tall, and if a working clock that is occasionally wrong is really the opposite of a broken clock, metaphorically speaking. We've got the answers for you, here and now, down in the links below.

Issue 293: Write the code you want to see in the world

This week, we're talking a lot about open-source, and remembering what MJ said—if you want to make the world a better place, take a look at some open-source code and make that...CHANGE! We've got two open-source founders on the pod this week. We're joined by the creator of Svelte, Rich Harris, to talk about web frameworks and their dirty little secrets. Plus, the creator of NumPy and SciPy, Travis Oliphant, also sat down with us to chat about the development of Python as a data science tool. And if these two convos don't have you itching to join in on the open-source fun, we have a story from the web about the millions of one-person open-source projects in the world that will surely light a fire under you. XX And we're looking to be the change we want to see, too. On the blog, we shared how we're making a better future for our communities with part one of how we moved our public sites to the cloud. And for a little inspiration, we've also got a pod episode with Darko Mesaroš, Principal Developer Advocate at AWS, about the history of technologies and breakthroughs that made software development more powerful. And if you're a leader thinking about making that change on your teams, we've got a blog about the power of continuous learning at work. XX Looking for more? We've got everything you could want, like stories from the web about German Strings and uncertainty, or questions on metaphysics and orange sharks. Links are all down below.

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