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The democratization of spreadsheets (News)
11 november 2024 · 9 min
Changelog Merch is now on sale, IronCalc sets out to democratize spreadsheets, Grant Slatton writes about algorithms we develop software by, Mark Rainey gives respect to the ultimate in debugging, Gitpod is leaving Kubernetes & Johannes Kaufmann’s html-to-markdown converts entire websites into Markdown. Lees meer
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ANTHOLOGY – Self-hosted, self-confident & self-employed (Friends)
8 november 2024 · 1 uur 27 min
We take you one last time back to the All Things Open 2024 hallway track to talk with some friends, new & old. We speak with Alex Kretzchmar about self-hosting. We speak with Israa Taha about self-confidence. We speak with Avindra Fernando & Adhithi Ravichandran about self-employment. Lees meer
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ANTHOLOGY — Packages, pledges & protocols (Interview)
6 november 2024 · 1 uur 46 min
The hallway track at All Things Open 2024 — features Carl George, Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat for a discussion on the state of open source enterprise linux and RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux), Max Howell, creator of Homebrew and tea.xyz which offers rewards and recognition to open source maintainers, and Chad Whitacre, Head of Open Source at Sentry about the launch of Open Source Pledge and their plans to helps businesses and orgs to do the right thing and support open source. Lees meer
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Tactile controls are back in vogue (News)
4 november 2024 · 9 min
IEEE Spectrum reports on the return to physical buttons and dials, Microsoft released GenAIScript, iFixit's Elizabeth Chamberlain announces a big Right to Repair win, Daniela Baron reimagines technical interviews & John O'Nolan, shares some thoughts on open source governance and how to create trust within technology, communities, and media Lees meer
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Wine Web and a whole lot of Whatnot (Friends)
1 november 2024 · 1 uur 13 min
We join the Whiskey Web and Whatnot podcast live from the hallway track at All Things Open 2024. Topics include: Chianti, content creation, open source, fake jobs, cancel culture, Silicon Valley (ding), frontend frustrations, the Roman empire & more.
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Rails is having a moment (again) (Interview)
31 oktober 2024 · 2 uur 2 min
(Includes expletives) David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH), creator of Ruby on Rails and co-owner of 37signals, joined the show to discuss this Rails moment and renewed excitement for Rails. We discuss hard opinions, developers being cooked too long in the JavaScript soup, finding developer joy, the pros and cons of the BDFL, the ongoing WordPress drama with WP Engine, and what's to come in Rails 8. Lees meer
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Developing with Docker (the right way) (News)
28 oktober 2024 · 7 min
Daniel Quinn weighs in on how to develop with Docker The Right Way, Mitchell Hashimoto says Ghostty will be publicly released this coming December, Kevin Li writes about the value of learning how to learn, The Browser Company moves on from Arc & the React Native team ships its new architecture. Lees meer
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Ten years of freeCodeCamp (Friends)
25 oktober 2024 · 1 uur 43 min
At the tail end of 2019, we got together with Quincy Larson to celebrate ten years of Changelog & five years of freeCodeCamp by recording back-to-back episodes on each other's pods. Can you believe it's now five years later and we're all still here doing our thing?! Let's learn what Quincy and the amazing community at freeCodeCamp have been up to! Lees meer
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Elasticsearch is open source, again (Interview)
24 oktober 2024 · 1 uur 24 min
Shay Banon, the creator of Elasticsearch, joins us to discuss pulling off a reverse rug pull. Yes, Elasticsearch is open source, again! We discuss the complexities surrounding open source licensing and what made Elastic change their license, the implications of trademark law, the personal and business impact of moving away from open source, and ultimately what made them hit rewind and return to open source. Lees meer
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Naming conventions that need to die (News)
21 oktober 2024 · 9 min
Will Crichton wishes some naming conventions would die already, GitHub user brjsp noticed that Bitwarden's new SDK dependency isn't open source, Joaquim Rocha details his forking best practices, Sophie Koonin explains why you should go to conferences & Mike Hoye puts WordPress on SQLite. Lees meer
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You'll rent chips and be happy (Friends)
18 oktober 2024 · 1 uur 38 min
Zac Smith left his role leading Equinix Metal in June of 2023. Since then, he's been thinking deeply about the present and potential future of data centers, OEMs, chip makers & more.
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Lessons from 10k hours of programming (remastered) (Interview)
17 oktober 2024 · 1 uur 23 min
This week we're going back in time to one of our top performing shows of all time where we talk with Matt Rickard about his blog post Reflections on 10,000 Hours of Programming. These reflections are about deliberately writing code for 10,000 hours. Most don't apply to beginners. He was clear to mention that these reflections are purely about coding, not career advice or soft skills. If you count the reflections we cover on the show and be the first to comment the amount of reflections on this thread in Zulip, we'll give you a coupon code to use for a 100% free t-shirt from the merch store. Good luck... Lees meer
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Working from home is powering productivity (News)
14 oktober 2024 · 8 min
Nicholas Bloom finds WFH is powering a productivity boom, Matt Mullenweg has decided that WP Engine's beatings will continue until morale improves, Levels.fyi has added a salary heat map, Gareth Edwards highlights just how fragile the Internet really is & Artem Zakirullin details how cognitive load is what really matters in software development. Lees meer
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The indispensable cog (Friends)
11 oktober 2024 · 1 uur 23 min
Go Time co-host, Johnny Boursiquot, joins Adam & Jerod to discuss not making the (first) cut, applying Founder Mode, being a cog (or not), realizing that companies are posting fake engineering jobs & the (maybe) imminent demise of the .io TLD.
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The Moneyball approach (Interview)
10 oktober 2024 · 1 uur 47 min
John Nunemaker joins us to share his new thesis for acquiring Rails based SaaS apps. He's early days on his next big thing called Very Good Software and recently acquired Fireside, a podcast hosting service started by Dan Benjamin. This comes after many years since John's acquisition of a lifetime of Speakerdeck to GitHub, which laid the foundation for these moves. Lees meer
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The slow death of the hyperlink (News)
7 oktober 2024 · 9 min
A bias against hyperlinking has developed on platforms, GitHub engineering continues to evolve Issues, Evan You announces VoidZero, some companies are only pretend hiring & Klaas van Schelven asks: does it scale (down)?
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Developer (un)happiness (Friends)
4 oktober 2024 · 1 uur 46 min
Abi Noda, co-founder and CEO at DX, joins the show to talk through data shared from the Stack Overflow 2024 Developer Survey, why devs are really unhappy, and what they're doing at DX to help orgs and teams to understand the metrics behind their developer's happiness and productivity. Lees meer
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Free-threaded Python (Interview)
2 oktober 2024 · 1 uur 27 min
Jerod is joined by the co-hosts of core.py , Pablo Galindo & Łukasz Langa, a podcast about Python internals by people who work on Python internals. Python 3.13 is right around the corner, which means the Global Interpeter Lock (GIL) is now experimentally optional! This is a huge deal as Python is finally free-threaded. There's more to discuss, of course, so we get into all the gory details. Lees meer
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Display custom maps on your website for free (News)
30 september 2024 · 10 min
OpenFreeMap puts OpenStreetMap data on your website for free, Fatih Arslan builds a Dieter Rams inspired iPhone dock, Joseph Gentle thinks the Rust programming language feels like a first-gen product & the web dev community is debating the viability of Web Components once again. Lees meer
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The wrong place to slap a person (Friends)
28 september 2024 · 1 uur 39 min
Nick Nisi joins Adam and Jerod to talk about Karaoke, ARC and the business model of web browsers, this WordPress drama, and an epic bonus for Changelog ++ subscribers.
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Leveling up JavaScript with Deno 2 (Interview)
26 september 2024 · 1 uur 15 min
Jerod is joined by Ryan Dahl to discuss his second take on leveling up JavaScript developers all around the world. Jerod asks Ryan why not try to fix or fork Node instead of starting fresh, how Deno (the open source project) can avoid the all too common rug pull (not cool) scenario, what's new in Deno 2 & their pragmatic decision to support npm, they talk JSR, they talk Deno KV & SQLite, they even talk about Ryan's open letter to Oracle in an attempt to free the unused "JavaScript" trademark from the giant's clutches. Lees meer
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Imagine Fly.io on your own VPS (News)
23 september 2024 · 8 min
Mahmoud Mousa releases Sidekick, a tool for hosting side projects on a cheap VPS, Ryan Dahl, has had enough of Oracle bogarting "JavaScript" but not even using it, Thomas Rampelberg's kty is a sweet terminal for Kubernetes, Redis users are considering alternatives after their relicense & a bunch of smart JS folks wrote up nine Node.js pillars. Lees meer
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Kaizen! Just do it (Friends)
20 september 2024 · 1 uur 33 min
Gerhard Lazu joins us for Kaizen 16! Our Pipe Dream™️ is becoming a reality, our custom feeds are shipping, our deploys are rolling out faster & our tooling is getting `just` right.
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The best, worst codebase (Interview)
18 september 2024 · 1 uur 24 min
Jimmy Miller talks to us about his experience with a legacy codebase at his first job as a programmer. The codebase was massive, with hundreds of thousands of lines of C# and Visual Basic, and a database with over 1,000 columns. Let's just say Jimmy got into some stuff. There's even a Gilfoyle involved. This episode is all about his adventures while working there. Lees meer
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Why GitHub actually won (News)
16 september 2024 · 8 min
Scott Chacon writes up his insider take on GitHub's success, Sentry wants other companies to take the Open Source Pledge, Benj Edwards used AI to reproduce his late father's handwriting, Dave Kiss explains the current hype that PHP is getting & Taylor Otwell raises $57 million series A from Accel. Lees meer
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Reverse rug pull, so cool? (Friends)
13 september 2024 · 1 uur 26 min
Jerod & Adam share our Zulip first impressions, react to Elasticsearch going open source (again), discuss Christian Hollinger's blog post on why he still self-hosts & answer a listener question: how do we produce podcasts?
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Building customizable ergonomic keyboards (Interview)
12 september 2024 · 1 uur 40 min
Erez Zukerman shares the story of launching the ErgoDox EZ on Indiegogo (May 2015), what it takes to create customizable ergonomic keyboards, the benefits of split keyboards and custom key layouts, repairability and longevity, community engagement, and the attention to detail required in everything they create. We talk through their keyboard lineup, our personal experience with how we mouse and keyboard...we cover it all. Lees meer
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Is Linux collapsing under its own weight? (News)
9 september 2024 · 10 min
A Rust for Linux developer resigns amidst rising tension in the Linux community, Bret Victor shows off what he's been working on for years, Rachel (by the bay) laments how useless "SRE" has become as a role, Doug Turnbull makes the case for hiring junior devs & Baldur Bjarnason says the LLM honeymoon phase is about to end. Lees meer
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Starbucks DVD peddlers (Friends)
6 september 2024 · 1 uur 18 min
Emily Freeman joins the show alongside our Ship It co-host, Justin Garrison! We hear Emily's burnout story & learn how she and Forrest Brazeal are putting tech-focused influencers on tap. But first: area code turf wars, bad movie reboots & buying used DVDs... at Starbucks?! Lees meer
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Open source threaded team chat?! (Interview)
5 september 2024 · 1 uur 32 min
We're joined by Alya Abbott from Zulip, the open source, organized, threaded, team chat for distributed teams of all sizes. We talk about Zulip's origins, how it's open source, the way it's led, no VC funding, what makes it different/better, how you can self-host it or use their cloud, moving to Zulip, contributing and being a part of the community...all the things. Lees meer
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Cursor wants to write all the world's code (News)
3 september 2024 · 10 min
The Cursor AI code editor raises $60 million, RedMonk's Rachel Stephens tries to determine if rug pulls are worth it, Caleb Porzio details how he made $1 million on GitHub Sponsors, Elastic founder Shay Banon announces that Elasticsearch is open source (again) & Tomas Stropus writes about the art of finishing. Lees meer
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#define: piggyback (Friends)
30 augustus 2024 · 1 uur 35 min
What happens when you take two #define champs (Taylor Troesh, Thomas Eckert), a grizzled veteran (Adam Stacoviak), a british bard (Mat Ryer), a PhD (Carol Lee) & you pit them against each other in a game of fake tech definitions?! There's only one way to find out... Lees meer
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Reinventing Kafka on object storage (Interview)
29 augustus 2024 · 1 uur 44 min
Ryan Worl, Co-founder and CTO at WarpStream, joins us to talk about the world of Kafka and data streaming and how WarpStream redesigned the idea of Kafka to run in modern cloud environments directly on top of object storage. Last year they posted a blog titled, "Kafka is dead, long live Kafka" that hit the top of Hacker News to put WarpStream on the map. We get the backstory on Kafka and why it's so widely used, who created it and for what purpose, and the behind the scenes on all things WarpStream. Lees meer
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What good programmers worry about (News)
26 augustus 2024 · 9 min
Waymo cars make bad neighbors, Leonardo Creed pulls together wisdom from Linus Torvalds & the Art of Unix Programming to conclude what good programmers worry about, Max Schmitt makes the argument that toast notifications create a bad user experience, ChartDB is a web-based database diagramming editor, Simon Tatham makes a list of code review anti-patterns & scientists confirm that 'flow state' is very much a thing. Lees meer
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The great escape room (Friends)
23 augustus 2024 · 1 uur 45 min
Adam & Jerod catch up with our ol' friend, Suz Hinton! It's been a couple years since Suz was a regular on JS Party. Since then, she moved back to Australia, earned a degree in cyber security & won a fidget spinner from the NSA... but that's not all!
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Flavors of Ship It! (Interview)
21 augustus 2024 · 2 uur 9 min
Flavors of Ship It on The Changelog — if you're not subscribed to Ship It yet, do so at shipit.show or by searching for "Ship it" wherever you listen to podcasts. Every week Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash explore everything that happens after `git push` — and today's flavors include running infrastructure in space, managing millions of machines at Meta, and what it takes to control your 3D printer with OctoPrint. Lees meer
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Practices of reliable software design (News)
19 augustus 2024 · 9 min
Chris Stjernlöf got nerd-sniped and ended up writing down his practices of reliable software design, Ben Visness has had enough with the npm community's propensity to pull in micro-libraries to suit every need, "Stay SaaSy" makes three metaphors for problem solving categories, Troy Hunt takes us inside the "3 billion people" National Public Data breach & Dasel is one data tool to rule them all. Lees meer
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The Winamp era (Friends)
16 augustus 2024 · 1 uur 40 min
You won't believe the bizarre secrets Jordan Eldredge found investigating corrupt Winamp skins (#7 will shock you)! You also won't believe how long we can wax nostalgic about the era of Napster, Aladdin & Pearl Jam.
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Why we need Ladybird (Interview)
14 augustus 2024 · 1 uur 43 min
Andreas Kling and Chris Wanstrath have joined forces to form a non-profit called Ladybird Browser Initiative to manage the newly forked Ladybird browser. We discuss what it's going to take to get to alpha, the why behind Ladybird, avoiding incentives other than those of the users, their plans for incremental adoption of Swift as the successor language over C++, and of course what they hope Ladybird can achieve as a truly independent open source browser that's for the people. Lees meer
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The best, worst codebase (News)
12 augustus 2024 · 8 min
Jimmy Miller tells us about the best, worst codebase he's ever seen, The Phylum Research Team follows up on the great npm garbage patch, Zach Leatherman logs his findings on sneaky serverless costs, David Cain wants you to go on quests instead of goals & Ashley Janssen gives us szeven rules for effective meeting culture. Lees meer
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Picking a database should be simple (Friends)
9 augustus 2024 · 1 uur 7 min
Database aficionado, Ben Johnson, joins Jerod to answer the age ol' question: which database should you use? Answering that isn't always easy, which means it's time to play the "It Depends" jingle & weigh (some of) the options.
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Into the Bobiverse (Interview)
7 augustus 2024 · 1 uur 31 min
Dennis E. Taylor joins the show to take us "Into the Bobiverse" and other books he's written. Dennis shares the backstory on how he went from programmer to author/writer and creator of Audible's Best Science Fiction Book of 2016, his process for iterating and developing the story as he writes, plans for a Bobiverse movie, and what's next in book 5 coming out in September 2024. Lees meer
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80% of professional programmers are unhappy (News)
5 augustus 2024 · 7 min
The latest Stack Overflow Developer Survey has some concerning results, Joeri Sebrechts helps you do plain vanilla web dev, MIT's "missing semester" course looks pretty amazing, a dive into the fascinating history of CSV & a tool to get request analytics from the nginx access logs. Lees meer
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From Chef to System Initiative (Friends)
3 augustus 2024 · 2 uur 19 min
Adam Jacob goes solo with Adam for an epic pod into his journey to get to System Initiative. From SysAdmin at 8 years old, to discovering Linux and working for Mom-and-pop ISPs, to open source changing his life and starting Opscode and building Chef. Buckle up. This is a different flavor of "Friends" for you. Enjoy. Lees meer
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Open is the way (Interview)
31 juli 2024 · 1 uur 49 min
Joseph Jacks (JJ) is back! We discuss the latest in COSS funding, his thesis for investing in commercial open source companies, the various rug pulls happening out there in open source licensing, and Zuck/Meta's generosity releasing Llama 3.1 as "open source." Lees meer
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The Swiss government goes open source (News)
29 juli 2024 · 7 min
The Switzerland federal government requires releasing its software as open source, Google decides not to deprecate third-party cookies, Mark Zuckerberg says "open source" AI is the path forward, GitHub allows anyone access to deleted / private repository data & Tailscale wants to build a New Internet. Lees meer
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The BSOD CrowdStrikes back (Friends)
26 juli 2024 · 1 uur 32 min
Robert Ross joins us in CrowdStrike's wake to dissect the largest outage in the history of information technology... and what it means for the future of the (software) world.
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The man behind the Sandwich (Interview)
24 juli 2024 · 1 uur 40 min
Adam Lisagor (Sandwich Video founder) takes us behind the Sandwich to share his insights into the importance of storytelling in the tech industry, the value of helping Founders communicate their stories effectively, the details behind his new AI company, and the apps he's making for Apple Vision Pro at Sandwich Vision. Lees meer
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Southwest flies high over CrowdStrike outage (News)
22 juli 2024 · 8 min
Brendan Gregg details how eBPF can help us have no more blue Fridays, Misty De Meo thinks GitHub is starting to feel like legacy software, Gavin D. Howard does not want Rust to be used for everything, The Notion team published a deep dive into how they used the WASM version of SQLite to improve browser performance & Gregor Ojstersek writes up how to build good relationships inside and outside your engineering teams. Lees meer
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There’s a TUI for that (Friends)
19 juli 2024 · 1 uur 53 min
Nick Janetakis is back and this time we're talking about TUIs (text-based user interfaces) — some we've tried and some we plan to try. All are collected from Justin Garrison's Awesome TUIs repo on GitHub. This episode is "AI free."