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What even is the modern data stack (Interview)
17 juli 2024 · 1 uur 12 min
Benn Stancil's weekly Substack on data and technology provides a fascinating perspective on the modern data stack & the industry building it. On this episode, Benn joins Jerod to dissect a few of his essays, discuss opportunities he sees during this slowdown & explain why he thinks maybe we should disband the analytics team. Lees meer
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The six dumbest ideas in computer security (News)
15 juli 2024 · 8 min
Marcus J. Ranum's 2005 post on dumb ideas in computer security still holds up, Barry Jones argues why story points are useless, Posting is an HTTP client as a TUI, Varnish ceator Poul-Henning Kamp (_phk_) reflects on ten years of working on the HTTP cache & es-tookit is a major upgrade to Lodash. Lees meer
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Last DevRel standing (Friends)
12 juli 2024 · 1 uur 33 min
Shawn "swyx" Wang is back to talk with us about the state of DevRel according to ZIRP (the Zero Interest Rate Phenomenon), the data that backs up the rise and fall of job openings, whether or not DevRel is dead or dying, speculation of the near-term arrival of AGI, AI Engineering as the last job standing, the innovation from Cognition with Devin as well as their mis-steps during Devin's launch, and what's to come in the next innovation round of AI. Lees meer
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It all starts with Postgres (Interview)
11 juli 2024 · 1 uur 35 min
Paul Copplestone, CEO of Supabase (the meme-lord himself), joins the show to take us on the journey of Supabase leading Postgres for life, and how it all starts with Postgres as the base-layer substrate for the entire Supabase platform. They're laser focused on the drive ahead, not the rear-view mirror. Lees meer
Disclosure: Adam and Jerod are angel investors in Supabase.
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Programming advice for my younger self (News)
8 juli 2024 · 9 min
Marcus Buffett writes his younger self programming advice, Swyx asks and answers whether or not DevRel is dead, the Ghost team opens up their ActivityPub server, Pongo is like MongoDB but on Postgres, Jack Kelly is funding Ladybird because he can't fund Firefox & Hyrum's Law. Lees meer
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A different kind of rug pull (Friends)
5 juli 2024 · 1 uur 30 min
Adam & Jerod discuss the news! But first, we discuss how you can keep up with the software world (good question, Tyler Boyd!) On the docket: Developer job postings trend, the Ladybird Browser Initiative, the Polyfill.js supply chain attack & is the future self-hosted? Lees meer
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Code review anxiety (Interview)
3 juli 2024 · 1 uur 12 min
Carol Lee (Clinical Scientist) shares her research on code review anxiety. We dive deep into her recent research paper "Understanding and Effectively Mitigating Code Review Anxiety". We get into all the nooks and crannies of this topic — common code review myths, strategies for coping, the need for awareness and self-reflection, the value of exposure and practice to build confidence, the importance of team dynamics, respect, empathy, and connection, and more. This show is jam-packed with goodies for everyone...and we even give a nod to the work we did on our podcast Brain Science. Lees meer
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The scariest chart in all of software (News)
1 juli 2024 · 8 min
Software developer jobs are trending down, the creator of dotenv creates a better dotenv, the Chrome team puts Gemini Nano AI model right inside your browser, a pollyfill.js supply chain attack hits 100k+ sites & Steph Ango asks, "What can we remove?" Lees meer
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Kaizen! NOT a pipe dream (Friends)
28 juni 2024 · 1 uur 39 min
Welcome to Kaizen 15! We go deep on the big Changelog News redesign, give shout outs to folks who've helped us along the way & Gerhard takes us on his journey to turn Jerod's pipe dream into a reality!
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MAJOR.SEMVER.PATCH (Interview)
26 juni 2024 · 1 uur 32 min
Predrag Gruevski and Chris Krycho joined the show to talk about SemVer. We explore the challenges and the advantages of semantic versioning (aka SemVer), the need for improving the tooling around SemVer, where semantic versioning really shines and where it's needed, Types and SemVer, whether or not there's a better way, and why it's not as simple as just opting out. Lees meer
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Please let this be Peak LLM (News)
24 juni 2024 · 11 min
Søren Fuglede Jørgensen builds a font thats also an LLM, Hugo Landau writes about the demise of the mildly dynamic website, SQL Studio is the simplest little database explorer ever, Mathew Duggan reviews GitHub Copilot Workspace & Stephan Schmidt lays out the case against mocking + what to do instead. Lees meer
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Where DOESN’T curl run (Friends)
21 juni 2024 · 1 uur 41 min
Daniel Stenberg shares his guiding principles for BDFL'ing curl, gives us his perspective on the state of the internet, talks financial independence, ensuring curl won't be the next XZ & more!
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Securing GitHub (Interview)
19 juni 2024 · 1 uur 30 min
Jacob DePriest, VP and Deputy Chief Security Officer at GitHub, joins the show this week to talk about securing GitHub. From Artifact Attestations, profile hardening, preventing XZ-like attacks, GitHub Advanced Security, code scanning, improving Dependabot, and more. Lees meer
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The onset of "Senior Engineer Fatigue" (News)
17 juni 2024 · 9 min
Luminousmen writes about Senior Engineer Fatigue, Microsoft rethinks its AI-based Recall feature, Mike Hoye gives a big shout out to the "diff" program, Thom Holwerda covers ChromeOS' quiet switch to Android Linux subsystems & Mihail Eric tells the inside story on how Alexa dropped the ball on being the top conversational system on Earth. Lees meer
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Putting the Apple in AI (Friends)
14 juni 2024 · 2 uur 1 min
Justin Searls joins us for hot takes on Apple's 2024 WWDC keynote. Apple Intelligence stole the show, but did it steal our hearts? Oh, and we learn all about Justin's Vision Pro Life and how he hopes/expects Apple's latest device to improve in future iterations. Lees meer
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1999: A Film Odyssey (Changelog++ 🔐) (Friends)
13 juni 2024 · 5 min
Adam & Jerod hallway-track-it between Microsoft Build interviews. Was 1999 the best year in film history? Was 2004 the worst? Have you heard the full story behind Blues Traveler's "Hook"? Are you still reading this? Go listen! (This episode is for Changelog++ ears only.) Lees meer
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Retired, not tired. (Interview)
12 juni 2024 · 1 uur 33 min
Kelsey Hightower is back to share more of his wisdom. This time it's one year after his retirement from Google. But guess what? He might be "retired," but he's not tired. In this episode Kelsey shares what drives him, what he fears, and how he thinks through his life choices and parenting. This is a good one. Lees meer
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Apple finally gets Siri-ous (News)
10 juni 2024 · 8 min
Apple announces its "new" style of AI, piku gives you "git push" deployment on your own servers, Dabo Chen rebuilds nanoGPT in a spreadsheet, Mark Seemann thinks you'll regret using natural keys in your database design & Glyph Lefkowitz describes his grand unified theory of the AI hype cycle. Lees meer
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#define: legendary (Friends)
7 juni 2024 · 1 uur 52 min
What happens when you take three #define newbs (Thomas Eckert, Nick Nisi, Mat Ryer) & pit them against the grizzled vet, Adam? Find out on this episode because our award-worthy game of fake definitions is back & this time it’s even more legendary!
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Microsoft is all-in on AI: Part 2 (Interview)
5 juni 2024 · 2 uur 47 min
Mark Russinovich, Eric Boyd & Neha Batra join us to discuss the state of AI for Microsoft and OpenAI at Microsoft Build 2024. It's safe to say that Microsoft is all-in on AI.
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Yet another open source rug pull (News)
3 juni 2024 · 10 min
A popular open source iOS authenticator app goes rogue under new ownership, Andreas Kling steps back from SerenityOS & forks Ladybird, Vhyrro takes a thought-provoking try at a "static effect system", Matt Bessey is over GraphQL & Marc-Andre Giroux still likes GraphQL sometimes (in the right context). Lees meer
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Is it too late to opt out of AI? (Friends)
31 mei 2024 · 1 uur 39 min
Tech lawyer Luis Villa returns to answer our most pressing questions: what's up with all these new content deals? How did Google think it was a good idea to ship AI Summaries in its current state? Is it too late to opt out of AI? We also discuss AI in Hollywood (spoilers!), positive things we're seeing (or hoping for) & Upstream 2024 (June 5th)! Lees meer
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Microsoft is all-in on AI: Part 1 (Interview)
30 mei 2024 · 1 uur 4 min
Scott Guthrie joins the show this week from Microsoft Build 2024 to discuss Microsoft being all-in on AI. From Copilot, to Azure AI and Prompty, to their developer first focus, leading GitHub, VS Code being the long bet that paid off, to the future of a doctor's bedside manner assisted with AI. Microsoft is all-in on AI and Build 2024's discussions and announcements proves it. Lees meer
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Why you shouldn't use AI to write your tests (News)
28 mei 2024 · 9 min
Swizec's article on not using AI to writes tests, LlamaFs is a self-organizing file system with Llama 3, a Pew Research analysis confirmed that the internet is full of broken links, Sam Rose built a spectacular interactive study of queueing strategies & Jordan Cutler shares a real-life experience of him writing clear/readable code... and it backfiring. Lees meer
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It's a long & windy road (Friends)
24 mei 2024 · 1 uur 7 min
We kick off our Microsoft Build 2024 "coverage" in this free-wheelin' conversation with our friend, Shaundai Person! We're talking Netflix infra, we're talking sales, we're talking real-world AI usage, we're talking career choices.... What's a good next step? Listen in! Lees meer
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From Sun to Oxide (Interview)
22 mei 2024 · 2 uur 33 min
Bryan Cantrill, Co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company, joins Adam to share his journey from Sun to Oxide -- from Sun and Fishworks, to DTrace, to ZFS, to Joyent and Node.js, and now working to build on-prem cloud servers as they should be at Oxide. Lees meer
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Kyle explains "Legacy Software" to the aliens (News)
20 mei 2024 · 7 min
Taylor Troesh writes Kyle explaining "Legacy Software" to the aliens, Vitaly Friedman addresses why so many designers feel misunderstood and under appreciated in business contexts, Oracle dumps Terraform for OpenTofu & hackers discover how to reprogram NES Tetris from within the game. Lees meer
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Self-hosted media server goodness (Friends)
17 mei 2024 · 1 uur 43 min
Alex Kretzschmar joins Adam to discuss their experiences with building the "perfect media server" and all the hardware and software involved to make it happen — LinuxServer.io, PerfectMediaServer.com, Plex, Jellyfin, ZFS, mergerfs, TrueNAS, Docker Compose and so much more in this episode. Lees meer
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Building the Patreon for developers (Interview)
15 mei 2024 · 1 uur 47 min
Birk Jernström from Polar joins the show to tell us all about the creator platform for developers: why he built it, how it works, why it works how it works, what's in store for the future & we even give Birk some super deep UX feedback on the funding flow. Lees meer
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Avoiding the soft delete anti-pattern (News)
13 mei 2024 · 7 min
Tim Fisken explains the problem with soft deletion, a simple measure of software dependency freshness is proposed, a deep-dive on sound design in software, a web app with over 80 handy developer tools built in & Luke Plant reminds us that programming mantras are proverbs, not laws. Lees meer
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Motivated by play (Friends)
10 mei 2024 · 1 uur 37 min
Annie Sexton has been on quite a journey since she was last on the show back in early '22. On this episode, Annie takes us on that journey, shares her new-found perspective & tells us about how she's approaching her side project this time around.
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Good timing makes great products (Interview)
8 mei 2024 · 1 uur 20 min
Paul Orlando is back to talk about his book titled "Why Now?" You may remember Paul from his last appearance (a fan favorite) talking with Jerod about complex systems & second-order effects. Paul's book, "Why Now?" explores the concept of timing and the importance of understanding the 'why now' in business and product development. We discuss timing examples from the book that were either too early or too late (such as the first video phone and car phones), the need to consider both technological advancements and user demand when assessing timing, the significance of timing in the success of companies like Apple and the launch of the iPhone, Uber and Heroku, and more. Also, join our Slack community for a chance to get a signed copy of Paul's book. Lees meer
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Why your framework doesn't matter (News)
6 mei 2024 · 8 min
Bahaa Zidan says your web framework doesn't matter, DHH writes about magic machines, Dylan Huang reviews thousands of opinions on HTMX, Tim Ottinger says programming is thinking & Tim Spann says small language models (SLM) for the win.
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The Wu-Tang way (Friends)
3 mei 2024 · 1 uur 45 min
Our friend Ron Evans is a technologist for hire, an open source developer, an author, a speaker, an iconoclast, and one of our favorite people in tech. This conversation with Ron goes everywhere: from high-altitude weather balloons, to life on Mars, to Zeno's paradox applied to ML, to what open source devs should learn from the Wu-Tang Clan & more. Lees meer
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Castro leans into indie (Interview)
1 mei 2024 · 56 min
This week we're joined by Dustin Bluck to discuss his acquisition of the well known (and beloved) Castro podcast app to take it indie-focused once again. As previous users of Castro, we were excited to dig into the details behind this popular podcast client to see what's next, how the deal was done, a peek into the code, and where exactly this indie and creator focused podcast app can go. Lees meer
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Good ideas in computer science (News)
29 april 2024 · 8 min
Daniel Hooper lists out all the good ideas in computer science, Jeff Geerling declares 2024 the year corporate open source dies, Jared Turner says all kinds of works-in-progress are waste, Daroc Alden covers the leadership crisis in the Nix community & John Hawthorn explains why Ruby may be faster than you think. Lees meer
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The ol' hot & juicy (Friends)
26 april 2024 · 1 uur 43 min
Frequent guest (and *almost* real-life-friend) Adam Jacob returns to share his spicy takes on all the recent "open source meets business" drama. We also take some time to catch up on the state of his open source-based business, System Initiative.
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Run Gleam run (Interview)
24 april 2024 · 1 uur 16 min
This week we're joined by Louis Pilfold, the creator of the Gleam programming language. For the uninitiated, Gleam is a functional programming language for building type-safe systems that compiles to Erlang and JavaScript and it's written in Rust. We discuss the inspiration and development of Gleam, how it compares to other languages, where it shines, the overwhelming amount of support Louis is getting through GitHub sponsors, what's next for Gleam and their near-term plans for a language server. Lees meer
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The threat to open source comes from within (News)
22 april 2024 · 10 min
Forrest Brazeal is concerned about the open source threat from within, Vicki Boykis explains why Redis is forked, John O'Nolan and the Ghost team plan to federate over ActivityPub, Llama 3 is now available for "businesses of all sizes" & nolen writes up questions to ask when you don’t want to work. Lees meer
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Rug pull, not cool! (Friends)
19 april 2024 · 1 uur 19 min
If Changelog News had an extended edition, this might be it! Jerod & Adam discuss Hashicorp's Cease and Desist letter, Redis getting forked, Boston Dymanics' scary cool new robot, Justin Searls' extensive use of the Apple Vision Pro, Thorston Ball moving from Vim to Zed, Firefox becoming hard to use, Beeper joining Automattic & more. Lees meer
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Leading and building Raycast (Interview)
17 april 2024 · 2 uur 9 min
This week Adam is joined by Thomas Paul Mann, Co-founder and CEO of Raycast, to discuss being productive on a Mac, going beyond their free tier, the extensions built by the community, the Raycast Store, how they're executing on Raycast AI chat which aims to be a single interface to many LLMs. Raycast has gone beyond being an extendable launcher -- they've gone full-on productivity mode with access to AI paving the way of their future. Lees meer
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Devin's Upwork "side hustle" exposed (News)
15 april 2024 · 7 min
YouTuber "Internet of Bugs" breaks down why AI "software engineer" Devin is no Upwork hero, Redka is Anton Zhiyanov's attempt to reimplement Redis with SQLite, OpenTofu issues its response to Hashicorp's Cease and Desist letter, Brian LeRoux introduces Enhance WASM & PumpkinOS is not your average PalmOS emulator. Lees meer
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More BMC goodness (Friends)
13 april 2024 · 1 uur 17 min
Our beat freak in residence returns, this time to discuss the shiny new Dance Party album! We deconstruct its nostalgic mix, break down some of our favorite tracks & even learn that BMC is writing a mysterious book...
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Replacing Git with Git (Interview)
12 april 2024 · 1 uur 44 min
This week we're talking to Scott Chacon, one of the co-founders of GitHub, to discuss the history and future of Git and Scott's new project Git Butler, a branch manager tool that's aiming to improve the developer experience of Git using Git. We also touch on the contentious topic of open source licensing and the challenges of defining "Open Source", FSL vs GPL, and more. Lees meer
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HashiCorp strikes back (News)
8 april 2024 · 9 min
HashiCorp sends OpenTofu a nasty-gram in the wake of Matt Asay's infringement claims, Polar is like Patreon but for software creators, a Common Corpus of LLM data is released on HuggingFace & Loki is an open source tool for fact verification.
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Kaizen! There goes my PgHero (Friends)
5 april 2024 · 1 uur 23 min
This is our 14th Kaizen episode! Gerhard put some CDNs to the test, we've taken our next step with Postgres on Neon & Jerod pushed 55 commits (but 0 PRs)!
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Getting to Resend (Interview)
4 april 2024 · 1 uur 35 min
This week Adam is joined by Zeno Rocha — the creator of the beloved Dracula theme and Co-founder and CEO of Resend. They discuss his personal journey and the challenges of balancing work and family life, how becoming a parent has given him new perspectives and influenced his decision to start his own company, the role of citizenship and immigration in his journey, how he prepared for the Y Combinator interview, meeting Paul Graham, the challenges of sending email, and the future of Resend and the possibility of a Series A round. Lees meer
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Who in the world is Jia Tan? (News)
1 april 2024 · 10 min
The big story right now is the recently uncovered backdoor in _liblzma_ (aka _XZ_) – a relatively obscure compression library that happens to be a dependency of OpenSSH. Lees meer
This incident is noteworthy for so many reasons: the exploit itself, how it was deployed, how it was found, what it says about our industry & how the community reacted. Let's dig in!
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The undercover generalist (Friends)
29 maart 2024 · 1 uur 15 min
Which is smarter: specializing in a particular tech or becoming more of a generalist? It depends! Which is why Jerod invited "undercover generalist" Adolfo Ochagavía on our "It Depends" series to weigh the pros & cons of each path.
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We're flipping the script (Interview)
27 maart 2024 · 1 uur 17 min
Script flipped! Today we're sharing two interviews of us on Other People's Podcasts (OPP): Kathrine Druckman from the Open at Intel podcast invited us on the show at KubeCon NA in November and Den Delimarsky hosted Jerod on The Work Item podcast in February. Lees meer