Forem: Josh Puetz

Sunsetting the Dev.to iOS App

Josh Puetz — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 21:34:56 +0000

2018 was a long time ago...like, a really long time ago.

This November marked the three year anniversary of @ben's announcement of the Dev.to iOS app:

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Despite his modesty, the first release of Dev.to on iOS was pretty great and just got better and better, thanks in no small part to impactful contributions from our community.

As all of you know, three years is lifetime in our field, and a lot has changed at DEV and Forem since 2018 (in fact, Forem didn't even formally exist three years ago!). Last summer, we introduced an iOS app for the entire Forem ecosystem (including Dev.to).

Today, we're announcing that we'll soon be discontinuing the Dev.to iOS app in favor of the Forem iOS app.

The Forem iOS app works not only with Dev.to, but with other Forems in the Forem network and includes modern mobile features like rich notifications. It's available on the Apple App Store right now. Your existing Dev.to login credentials work with it, so there's no better time to download it and jump in.

We believe that the Forem iOS app reflects the leaps and bounds we've made as a community since the DEV app was released in 2018 and hope you do, too!

Thank you for helping us get to this exciting place and cheers to a new and improved Forem iOS experience!

Questions, comments, feedback? Let team Forem know in the comments below.

DevNews Podcast — Season 4 Finale!

Josh Puetz — Thu, 03 Jun 2021 15:09:14 +0000

I can't believe the season finale of DevNews is already here 🥺

S4:E8 - An Elaborate Phishing Hack, Autonomous Lethal Drones, a Questionable m1 Security Flaw, and a Devnews Behind the Scenes

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For S4E8, @saronyitbarek and I flipped the script a bit to chat with our amazing producer, Levi Sharpe about what it's like to make our show.

True to form, we naturally focused on some of the latest and splashiest stories in developer news as well:

An elaborate fake movie phishing hack
A questionable M1 security flaw
The first autonomous lethal drone targeting humans (ummmmm... 😱)

You can (and should!) follow Levi here on DEV and Twitter at @levisharpe

You can follow DevNews to get episode notifications and listen right in your feed — or subscribe on your platform of choice! Plus, if you leave us a review, we'll send you a free pack of thank-you stickers. Details here.

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Thank you so much for listening to DevNews this season. See you soon for season 5 👋

Freenode’s Mass Resignations, NVIDIA’s Less Crypto-Friendly Cards, & more on DevNews!

Josh Puetz — Thu, 27 May 2021 17:03:32 +0000

A new episode of the DevNews podcast is here!

S4:E7 - Freenode’s Mass Resignations, NVIDIA’s Less Crypto-Friendly Chips, Twitter’s Crop Algorithm Investigation, and Remote Employers Excluding Colorado

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In this episode, @saronyitbarek and I covered...

Companies excluding the state of Colorado from remote opportunities due to the Equal Pay For Equal Work Act
NVIDIA making their graphics cards less desirable for cryptocurrency miners
Twitter’s report on its investigation into its cropping algorithm, which many people criticized as having a racial and gender bias.

Then, we chatted with James Eaton-Lee, former Staff Developer at Freenode, and current Chair of Libera Chat. James explained how Libera Chat was created in response to entrepreneur and Korea's Crown Prince, Andrew Lee, taking control of Freenode, which led to a mass resignation of many of its developers. Fascinating stuff!

Enjoy S4E7! Can you believe that next week's episode is our season finale? 😱

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@levisharpe for producing & mixing the show
Our season four sponsors, Scout APM and Rudderstack ❤️

Babel’s Money Challenges, What It's Like to Work on Rails, & more on DevNews!

Josh Puetz — Thu, 20 May 2021 18:44:47 +0000

@saronyitbarek and I are back for another week of developer news commentary 🗣

S4:E6 - Babel’s Money Challenges, What It's Like to Work on Rails, and Coinbase’s End to Salary Negotiations

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In this episode, you’ll hear about...

Cryptocurrency company CoinBase refusing to negotiate job offers
A blog post by the Babel core team titled, “Babel is used by millions, so why are we running out of money?” which created a bit of a Twitter storm.

Then, we spoke with Babel Core Maintainer, Nicolò Ribaudo, about paying for open source software and why the popular Javascript project is running out of money.

Finally, we spoke with Rails Core Contributor Richard Schneeman, about what it’s like to work on Rails in the aftermath of Basecamp co-founders Jason Fried and Rails creator David Heinemeier [High-Nemer] Hansson’s highly criticized blog post, which raised concerns about Rails' independence from its creator.

I hope you enjoy!

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@levisharpe for producing & mixing the show
Our season four sponsors, Scout APM and Rudderstack ❤️

Apple’s AirTag Security Concerns, a Deep Neural Network Hack, & more on DevNews!

Josh Puetz — Thu, 13 May 2021 18:37:33 +0000

@saronyitbarek and I are back for another episode of hot tech takes and developer news demystification...

S4:E5 - Apple’s AirTag Security Concerns, a Deep Neural Network Hack, an Oil Pipeline Cyber Attack, and a Shortage of Semiconductors

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In this episode, we cover...

Apple’s AirTag security concerns (the anti-stalking features you've heard about might not be cutting it)
A US oil pipeline cyberattack and shutdown (ransomware attacks affect all industries, unfortunately)
A shortage in semiconductors (semiconductors, MEGA short supplies)

We also chatted with Sanghyun Hong and Yigitcan Kaya — Ph.D. students in Computer Science at the University of Maryland College Park, and co-authors of a research paper about how hackers could make AI networks consume much more energy than they already do.

Thanks for tuning in!

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@levisharpe for producing & mixing the show
Our season four sponsors, Scout APM and Rudderstack ❤️

Video Game Studio Instability, Basecamp’s Mass Resignations, Apple’s Monopoly & more on DevNews!

Josh Puetz — Thu, 06 May 2021 17:24:59 +0000

There’s a lot of fascinating developer news this week! @saronyitbarek and I are here to break it down 👇

S4:E4 - Video Game Studio Instability, Basecamp’s Mass Resignations, Apple’s Monopoly, and Donald Trump’s Facebook

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In this episode, you’ll hear about...

The Facebook Oversight Board’s decisions about the (formerly) indefinite ban on Donald Trump’s account
The European Union ruling that Apple has an unfair advantage when it comes to the distribution of music streaming apps
The departure of many Basecamp employees following problematic statements made by the company’s co-founders

We also chatted with Jason Schreier, reporter at Bloomberg and the author of “Blood, Sweat, and Pixels” and now “Press Reset: Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry” — coming out next week! Our conversation centered around video game studio instability (something we definitely enjoy talking about frequently on the show).

Thanks for listening!

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@levisharpe for producing & mixing the show
Our season four sponsors, Scout APM and Rudderstack ❤️

Basecamp Backlash, Remote Work Increasing Harassment, Linux Kernel Submission Ban, & more on DevNews!

Josh Puetz — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 17:06:00 +0000

This week on the show, @saronyitbarek and I chatted about a dispiriting story that has major implications for the tech world...

S4:E3 - Basecamp Backlash, Remote Work Harassment, Linux Kernel Submission Ban, and Crypto Miners Killing Free CI

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I’m talking about the problematic blog post put out by Basecamp CEO and Co-Founder Jason Fried earlier this week. Whether you’ve read it or not, I think you’ll find the conversation about it between Saron and I interesting. If the post put a major damper on your week, I’m right there with you 😔

In this episode, we also covered the following stories...

A report put out by the non-profit, Project Include, about how remote work is leading to more gender and racial harassment at tech companies. McKensie Mack (founder & CEO of MMG and a co-author of the report) joined us on the show to discuss this.
The University of Minnesota security researchers who submitted security vulnerabilities to the Linux kernel to show flaws in the approval process, leading to a call for a ban on anything submitted by umn.edu emails. Hector Monsegur (Security Researcher and Former Blackhat Hacker) joined us for this topic.

Enjoy the episode!

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@levisharpe for producing & mixing the show
Our season four sponsors, Scout APM and Rudderstack ❤️

The Environmental Impact of Digital Currency, a Problematic Spotify Patent, & more on DevNews

Josh Puetz — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 18:44:00 +0000

Happy Earth Day from all of us at DEV! In this week's episode of the DevNews podcast, @saronyitbarek and I covered a story that is particularly relevant today...

S4:E2 - U.K. Central Bank Digital Currency, the Environmental Impact of Digital Currency, a Problematic Spotify Patent, and WordPress’ Google FLoC Block

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... The environmental impact of digital currency. For this story, we spoke with Tim Swanson (Founder and Director of Research at Post Oak Labs, Head of Market Intelligence at ClearMatics, and the author of the research paper, “Bitcoin & Other PoW* Coins Are An ESG** Nightmare”).

Saron and I also chatted about the following things...

WordPress blocking Google’s Federated Learning of Cohorts tracking technology
The Bank of England and HM Treasury creating a joint task force to explore the possibility of creating a central bank digital currency in the U.K
Isedua Oribhabor’s letter to Spotify on why the company should abandon their recent speech-recognition patent of a technology to detect emotion, gender, and age. Oribhador is a U.S. Policy Analyst at Access Now — and they joined us for this episode, too!

*POW = proof of work
**ESG = environmental, social, and governance

I hope you enjoy this episode! You should feel good about the fact that you saved some trees by listening to DevNews instead of buying the paper 😉 Enjoy the rest of your Earth Day!

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@levisharpe for producing & mixing the show
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Platforms as Utilities, Archiving Yahoo Answers, & more on DevNews

Josh Puetz — Fri, 16 Apr 2021 15:26:49 +0000

Get out from under that rock! DevNews Season 4 is here 🎉

S4:E1 - Platforms as Utilities, Archiving Yahoo Answers, and Companies Rescinding Accepted Offers

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Jokes aside, whether you intentionally live under a news rock (understandable, these days), or you’re glued to any headline you can get, keeping on top of developer news is helpful for your career.

If you’ve never listened to our show, DevNews is a podcast from the DEV Community that’s all about the most recent, developer-focused news stories you need to know about. Each week, @saronyitbarek and I dissect a few of the top headlines we’ve been thinking about with one goal -- to help keep you (and ourselves) informed.

In S4E1, we cover the following stories:

Companies rescinding job offers after they have been accepted
Justice Clarence Thomas arguing for categorizing some digital platforms as utilities (with guest Nikolas Guggenberger, Executive Director of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School)
Archive Team’s efforts to archive Yahoo Answers which is shutting down after 16 years (with guest Jason Scott, co-founder of Archive Team)

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@levisharpe for producing & mixing the show
Our season four sponsors, Scout APM and Rudderstack ❤️

Microsoft Mesh, Accusations of Sexism and Racism at Mailchimp, & more on DevNews

Josh Puetz — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 19:18:46 +0000

The season finale of DevDiscuss is here already 😢

S3:E8 - Microsoft Mesh, Accusations of Sexism and Racism at Mailchimp, France’s ‘Repairability Index,’ and Framework’s Modular Laptop

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Is it just me or did season three fly by faster than the 24-hour news cycle churns?

In S3E8, @saronyitbarek and I talked about a few stories that range from fascinating to upsetting. The common thread? You don’t want to miss them:

Microsoft Mesh — the next step in the company’s mission to bring mixed reality to the masses with HoloLens.
The French government requiring manufacturers to give a “repairability index” score to their products
A super-modular 13.5-inch laptop from the startup, Framework, that promises to be easy to disassemble, modify, and repair.
A very upsetting report in The Verge about rampant racism and sexism at MailChimp.

We also talked to not one, not two, but THREE guests about a few different developer news headlines...

Kerry Sheehan, US Policy Lead who chatted with us about the repairability index story
Kevin Purdy, Technology Journalist at iFixit who went in-depth with us about the Framework laptop
Jaime-Alexis Fowler, Founder and Executive Director of Empower Work, who talked about navigating workplace challenges like the one MailChimp employees are experiencing right now.

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Google’s Termination of Dr. Mitchell, Clubhouse Security, Low-Code Tools, & more on DevNews!

Josh Puetz — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 20:27:58 +0000

It's that time of the week again! DevNews time 🗞 ...

S3:E7 - Google’s Termination of Dr. Mitchell, Clubhouse Security, Australia’s News Publisher Law, and Low-Code Tools

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This week, @saronyitbarek and I looked into a handful of software-related headlines:

The termination of Dr. Margaret Mitchell, founder and lead of the Google Ethical AI team
Australia’s law requiring Google and Facebook to pay news publishers
Concerns over Clubhouse security

We also talked to a special guest about the large funding rounds low-code platforms have been receiving...

Rahat Chowdhury Co-Founder of Whimser. @rahat shared their thoughts on what low-code tools mean for developers, and where they might fit in our own development.

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@levisharpe for producing & mixing the show
Our season three sponsors, SendBird and Rudderstack ❤️

CD Projekt Red Hack, a Florida Water Supply Hack, & more on DevNews!

Josh Puetz — Thu, 18 Feb 2021 19:35:32 +0000

Another week another blast of developer news from the DevNewsroom...

S3:E6 - CD Projekt Red Hack, a Florida Water Supply Hack, and a Major ‘Dependency Confusion’ Hack

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This week, @saronyitbarek and I dove into the following stories:

Engineers unionizing with other workers at Medium
Epic’s Metahuman Creator, a hacker who broke into a water system in Florida
A security researcher who breached over 35 big tech companies leveraging something called dependency confusion.

Saron and I were also joined by a guest who spoke on a topic I think you'll find newsworthy...

Pierre Leclerc, co-founder of 6 Eyes Studio and game developer of the tactical RPG, Fell Seal who spoke on the recent hack of the game studio CD Projekt Red, and what one can realistically do with stolen video game source code 😱

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@levisharpe for producing & mixing the show
Our season three sponsors, SendBird and Rudderstack ❤️