This issue I speak with Geoff Schmidt of Apollo about their GraphQL offerings. I also cover general AI, decades old technology bets, is it wise to remove WhatsApp, and much more.

Rebecca, Chris, and Jason are joined by Michael Hopwood to consider Romans painting swords, Egyptian detectives, and far flung journalists trying to find a story. Will the games we create be total nonsense, or race to the top of the hotness lists?

One of the most challenging and frustrating things about being a tech writer is managing screenshots in your product documentation. How many times have you needed to take complex screenshots of your product and meticulously marked them up with callouts only to be told that a field has changed and you need to do everything again? It’s so frustrating and demoralizing as a writer because it feels like wasted effort. What if there was a way to create screenshots that could withstand the rapid iterations of a product under development while still conveying valuable meaning to your readers. Today we’re joined by Anton Bollen from TechSmith who explains how we can do this using low-detail screenshots, aka simplified user interfaces, that let you focus your users’ attention on just the bits of the interface that matter.

I won’t repeat any famous phrases about how pictures equalling a quantity of words, I think we all understand the potential power of a good visual. Well considered images in documentation can help illustrate a concept, clarify a complex idea, or show a reader what they can expect from undertaking certain steps.

I speak with Stepan Veselovskyi, the CEO at Lviv IT Cluster about what’s been happening in the Ukraine tech and startup scene since my last visit. I also cover JetBrains, Google, WhatsApp, and… The Amiga.

Simplify app development by combining APIs, databases, and microservices into a single data graph that you can query with GraphQL.

I enter a world of endless possibilities, where you can do absolutely anything you can imagine…. What will I find?

This week, I speak with Amit Goel, Director of Product Management for Embedded AI Platforms at NVIDIA about the Jetson platform. I also cover the M1 (again), Discord, the Romans, and the Archers…  xx Chinch

What is the new Fuchsia OS from Google? I investigate what it is like to get started with and reach my own conclusions as to it’s intent.

What is the new Fuchsia OS from Google? I investigate what it is like to get started with and reach my own conclusions as to it’s intent.

Episode 10 - Isle of the Dying Moon (Pt 1) was streamed live on our Twitch channel at Twitch.tv/crittestdummies on November 29th. Check us out most Sundays at 6 PM CET for new episodes! You can find this adventure and more by Aaryan Balu on DMs Guild at https://bit.ly/3aOhGux He can also be found at @aravar27 on Twitter. Character art made by Lance @20sapodcast on Twitter. Game audio by Tabletop Audio. Thank you to Aaryan for letting us use their work, our players Chris, Enya, Patrick and Shane, and our DM Peter!

In this episode I cover the new Algolia integration with Netlify and look at the rapid growth of interest in their search solution. Also features news on Fuscia OS, taking Google offline, GPT-3, and much more!

The beautiful, fast, flexible, native Mac code editor from Panic.

If you want to build your applications and business on existing APIs and not reinvent all functionality yourself, how do you decide between the plethora of options available? This article helps you make that decision based on the developer experience (DX) you should expect from an API.

In this Solo Adventurer I play some solo D&D, with a dangerous expedition across Icewind Dale by Paul Bimler. This will be the final part!