Authorization on rails
Oso is authorization as a service. Check out the docs or explore use cases.Sam’s post “Why Authorization is Hard” covered what makes authorization challenging, some approaches to solving it, and their...
21 Feb 202319min
The only thing worse than building internal tools is maintaining them
Retool is a development platform that lets users—95% of whom are engineers—build internal tools quickly with a drag-and-drop interface.Read David’s account of how Retool won early sales deals in the c...
17 Feb 202319min
You don’t have to build a browser in JavaScript anymore
We talk about how Next is bringing image components, server components, and in-house analytics via split bee—and bundling them all together with Turbopack, powered by Rust, our Developer Survey most l...
14 Feb 202323min
Does your professor pass the Turing test? (Ep. 537)
Emery Berger, Professor of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, joins Ben for a conversation about the impact of AI on academia. As a young sci-fi fan, he w...
10 Feb 202316min
Engineering's hidden bottleneck: pull requests
With companies taking a long look at developer experience, it’s time to turn that attention on the humble pull request. The folks at LinearB took a look at a million PRs — four million review cycles i...
8 Feb 202325min
The AI that writes music from text
It’s not just you: We all need subtitles now.Google introduces MusicLM, a model that generates music from text. The examples are pretty-mind blowing and raise big questions about licensing and copyrig...
7 Feb 202320min
Why developer experience is the key to better software, straight from the OCTO’s mouth
John spent 25 years at Oracle before joining Google Cloud’s Office of the CTO (OCTO), a team that’s been called the company’s “secret weapon” in collaborating with major customers to solve their tech ...
3 Feb 202321min
What do the tech layoffs really tell us?
Naturally, tech layoffs are top-of-mind for many of us. Despite comparisons to the dot-com bubble, what we’re seeing right now is different. Here’s what the tech and media layoffs really tell us about...
31 Jan 202323min
