Dev Podcasts: 2018-11-04 to 2018-11-11

Major Trends: Web Development, JavaScript, Computer Science, Health/Lifestyle

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Development Progress

What's changed this week? Truthfully, not much.

I went ahead and set up the domain name devpodcasts.app. Ultimately, I still think a nicely refactored version of the functionality belongs in qit but thanks to Netlify's free hosting I figure there isn't a compelling reason not to leave the proof-of-concept up as it's own thing as well. It's free, fast, and gives me something to experiment with so...why not?

I added Chart.js, but it really doesn't add much value to the site so I'll probably be removing it soon.

Finally, onto the hard part. I took a stab at running the podcast descriptions through Azure's Text Analytics but it didn't do very well with technical terms. I also read up on a few machine learning classification algorithms but there is some required training and it sounds like ~10,000 records is probably not enough data to work with anyway.

So, what can I do?

I'm planning on attempting to classify some number of episodes myself. I'll read through the descriptions and come up with relevant tags myself. After that, perhaps I can loop through the tags and attempt to match other episodes automatically. The downside to this approach is that I'll only be able to find episodes that mention those tag terms in their title or description. It's not a great approach, but maybe I'll figure something better out along the way.

¯_(ツ)_/¯

This week's episodes (with my manual attempt at tagging)

Dev Podcasts: 2018-11-04 to 2018-11-11

https://devpodcasts.app/episodes/for-week/20181104-20181111/

Episode Name	Tags	Show
BxJS Weekly Ep. 36 - Nov 10, 2018 (javascript news podcast)	Web Development, JavaScript	BxJS Weekly
Come play in the CodeSandbox (JS Party #51)	Web Development, CodeSandbox, JavaScript	Changelog
There and back again (Dgraph's tale) (The Changelog #322)	DGraph, Graph Databases, Licensing	Changelog
TLA+ with Leslie Lamport	TLA+, Computer Science	Software Engineering Daily
Make Programming Principles More Useful with These 3 New Angles	Best Practices	Developer Tea
Creating a Python 3 Culture at Facebook	Python, Culture	Talk Python To Me
Tricking Computers Into Doing Things	CMS, Ruby, Rails, Best Practices	The Bike Shed
Learning C++ with Devon Labrie	C++	CppCast
Upgrading GitHub and improving Rails with Eileen Uchitelle	Web Development, Ruby, Rails, Github	Hanselminutes
Computer Vision with Peter Kontschieder	Mapillary, Computer Vision, Computer Science, 3D Modeling	Software Engineering Daily
Building for the Cloud using Pulumi with Luke Hoban	Azure, Cloud, Best Practices	.NET Rocks!
Stress, canvas, and jam	Canvas, JAMStack, JavaScript, Web Development	HTTP 203
332: Before Coder	ASP.NET, Microsoft	Coder Radio
This Week in Linux	Open-Source	FLOSS Weekly (MP3)
Tyler McMullen on Content Delivery Networks (CDNs)	Web Development, Content Delivery Networks	Software Engineering Radio
Live at JAMstack_conf	Web Development, JAMStack, JavaScript	Syntax.fm
Stupid Mountain	Career Management	Design Details
Jérémie Bonal	Ruby, Rails	Ruby Rogues
MAS 059: Bonnie Brennan	Web Development,Javascript, Angular	Adventures in Angular
Computer Architecture with Dave Patterson	Computer Science, Hardware	Software Engineering Daily
Could We All Be Right? Event vs. Construct Theories	Best Practices	Developer Tea
Ultimate Nirvana	Security, Python, Stalkerware	Application Security Weekly
Ben Orenstein - How to Build an App in a Week	Web Development, JavaScript, Side Projects, Business	Full Stack Radio
Tales From a DevOps Transformation	DevOps, Cloud	The Cloudcast
"Too many Brians at the (hash)table"	Computer Science	Base.cs Podcast
#198: Shaw	Hiring, Culture	CodePen
Jr. Dev Self Care, Part 2	Health, Lifestyle	Junior Developer Toolbox
November 6, 2018	Web Development, Vue, JavaScript	The Official Vue News
Surrounded by Dads	Culture	Sprint UX
How to Come up with Coding Projects to Build	Web Development, Side Projects, Python	Learn to Code With Me
It’s Supposed To Hurt, Get Outside of Your Comfort Zone to Master Your Craft with Christopher Buecheler	Web Development, Best Practices, JavaScript	JavaScript Jabber
NgRx Tips & Tricks with Adrian Fâciu	Web Development, Best Practices, Angular, JavaScript	Adventures in Angular
Ruby Performance Profiling with Dan Mayer	Performance, Ruby, Rails	Ruby Rogues
Vue CLI UI and Devtools with Guillaume Chau	Web Development, Vue, JavaScript	Views on Vue
OSS Capital with Joseph Jacks	Open-Source	Software Engineering Daily
3 Rules for Designing Lasting Habits	Health, Lifestyle	Developer Tea
Web Performance Tools in 2018 with Benjamin Howarth	Web Development, Performance	.NET Rocks!
Getting into data science and AI (Practical AI #19)	Data Science	Changelog
How to Think Like a Front-End Developer with Ben Frain	Web Development, Front-End Development	ShopTalk
Favorite Programming Books	Best Practices, Books	The 6 Figure Developer Podcast
Hasty Treat - Stumped! 03	Web Development, JavaScript	Syntax.fm
Opaque Result Types	Computer Science, Swift, IOS	Swift Unwrapped
Commons Clause with Kevin Wang	Open-Source	Software Engineering Daily
Exit Points - Where Productivity Turns Into Procrastination	Health, Lifestyle	Developer Tea
Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence - Part 2	Data Science	The Cynical Developer
122: Today's Lecture... Debug Symbols	Debugging	Merge Conflict
ProGuard with Jeb Ware	ProGuard, Open-Source	Front End Happy Hour

Comments

[Ghost]

How can I help?

[Joe Zack]

Have an idea for how to automatically "tag" episodes based on their content?

For example, as a human, I know that episodes about "Kubernetes" are also probably about "DevOps". However, I would like to be able to come up with an algorithm to figure stuff like this out for me.

I am data science illiterate, but I feel like there has to be somebody out there that has solved this problem before...and much more elegantly than I am planning :)