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All the places Swift will go (Interview)
16 november 2023 · 54 min
This week we're talking about Swift with Ben Cohen, the Swift Team Manager at Apple. We caught up with Ben while at KubeCon last week. Ben takes us into the world of Swift, from Apple Native apps on iOS and macOS, to the Swift Server Workgroup for developing and deploying server side applications, to the Swift extension for VS Code, Swift as a safe C/C++ successor language, Swift on Linux and Windows, and of course what The Browser Company's Arc browser is doing to bring Arc to Windows. Lees meer
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Share your terminal with anyone on the web (News)
13 november 2023 · 7 min
sshx lets you share your terminal with anyone on a multiplayer infinite canvas, Herbert Lui writes three things about your competitors, Anton Medvedev's fx is a terminal JSON viewer & processor, Danny Castonguay shares advice on attending large conferences & Jeremy Pinto's experimental RAGTheDocs project is working toward an exciting reality. Lees meer
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Backslashes are trash (Friends)
11 november 2023 · 1 uur 30 min
Mat Ryer returns with his guitar, an unpopular opinion & his favorite internet virus.
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Pushing back on unconstrained capitalism (Interview)
10 november 2023 · 1 uur 35 min
This week we’re talking with Cory Doctorow (this episode contains explicit language) about how we can get back to that "new good internet." Cory's new book The Internet Con offers a lens to this conversation about disenshittifying the internet through anti-trust laws, limits on corporate tweaking, regulating unconstrained capitalism, and all the ways enshittification is enabled. Cory also shares his experience recording his own audio book under the direction of Gabrielle de Cuir at Skyboat Media, and what's to come from his next Science Fiction book The Lost Cause. Lees meer
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How to write a good comment (News)
6 november 2023 · 8 min
David Hugh-Jones has a lot to say about what makes a good comment, Hugging Face released a distilled variant of Whisper for speech recognition, The New Stack reports on C++ creator Bjarne Stroustrup’s plan for bringing safety to the language, Jeff Sandberg declares that CSS is fun again & Jose M. Gilgado praises the beauty of finished software. Lees meer
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Beat freak in residence (Friends)
4 november 2023 · 1 uur 21 min
We're joined this week by the beat freak in residence himself, the mysterious Breakmaster Cylinder. Listen along as we talk about how we make our beats, what inspires us for our music, and some behind the scenes on our latest albums.
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Observing the power of APIs (Interview)
2 november 2023 · 1 uur 27 min
Jean Yang's research on programming languages at Carnegie Mellon led her to realize that APIs are *the* layer that makes or breaks quality software systems. Unfortunately, developers are underserved by tools for dealing with, securing & understanding APIs. Lees meer
That realization led her to found Akita Software, which led her to join Postman by way of acquisition. That move, at least in part, also led her to join us on this very podcast. We think you're going to enjoy this interview, we sure did.
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What will React come up with Next? (News)
30 oktober 2023 · 7 min
The hubbub of the web dev world right now is Next.js' integration of React Server Components, Kent C. Dodds writes up why he doesn't use Next, Lee Robinson responds with why he does, the NixOS team hits a milestone in their reproducible builds effort & OpenSign is an open source alternative to DocuSign. Lees meer
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Protecting screen time (Friends)
27 oktober 2023 · 1 uur 36 min
Jared Henderson joins us to discuss the state of the art in software parental controls and how we protect our children and lock down our home networks from the constant onslaught of malicious and unwanted content.
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ANTHOLOGY — The way of open source (Interview)
27 oktober 2023 · 1 uur 39 min
This week we’re taking you to the hallway track of All Things Open 2023 in Raleigh, NC. Today’s episode features: Matthew Sanabria (former Engineer at HashiCorp working on Terraform Enterprise), Nithya Ruff (Chief Open Source Officer and Head of the Open Source Program Office at Amazon) & Jordan Harband (Open Source Maintainer-at-large with dependencies in most JavaScript apps out there. Lees meer
There has been many changes this year in open source, and each of these perspectives lends insight into challenging and changing waters happening right now in open source.
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Next Level (Interview)
23 oktober 2023 · 42 min
Listen to our Next Level album as a podcast! We grew up in the days of the Nintendo Entertainment System and the Sega Genesis. It's no surprise that so many of our tracks are inspired by the 8-bit and 16-bit music of our youth. From Castlevania to Contra, Sonic the Hedgehog, and many more — we were inspired by all the nostalgic soundtracks from the games that got us here, to give our pods one-of-a-kind vibes. If you've been head nodding to our beats during our shows and you've been wishing for a way to listen outside of our pods, then this release will be an absolute delight. Lees meer
It's dangerous to go alone! Take this on your next coding adventure or deep work session...
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Introducing Changelog Beats (News)
23 oktober 2023 · 10 min
Changelog drops full-length musical albums in collaboration with Breakmaster Cylinder, Justin Searls on why the right tools fail for the wrong reasons, The Unix Sheikh says we have too many level of abstractions, Adam at PiCockpit compares the newly-announced Raspberry Pi 5 to the competition & Jorge Medina assures us that we're not lacking creativity, we're just overwhelmed by content. Lees meer
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Human skills to pay the bills (Friends)
20 oktober 2023 · 1 uur 25 min
Long time friend KBall makes his "first" appearance on The Changelog by way of Changelog & Friends. You likely know Kevin from his panelist position on JS Party. Today he's sharing his passion for coaching and developing human skills.
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Pushing ntfy to the next level (Interview)
20 oktober 2023 · 58 min
This week Jerod goes solo with Philipp Heckel, creator of ntfy, to discuss this simple HTTP-based service that lets you send notifications to your phone or desktop via scripts from any computer. They discuss why he built it, how he built it, and what his plans are for the future of this beloved side hustle. Lees meer
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LMMS are the new LLMs (News)
16 oktober 2023 · 6 min
Chip Huyen documents the shifting sand of large data models, Herman Õunapuu reviews the Zimaboard, Bryan Braun shares 4 of his most recent VSCode configuration discoveries & Swizec Teller wrote a great summary of the inaugural AI Engineer Summit.
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Kaizen! Slightly more instant (Friends)
13 oktober 2023 · 1 uur 23 min
Gerhard joins us for the 12th Kaizen and this time talk about what we DIDN'T do. We were holding S3 wrong, we put some cash back in our pockets, we enabled HTTP/3, Brotli compression, and Fastly websockets, we improved our SLOs, we improved Changelog Nightly, and we're going to KubeCon 2023 in Chicago. Lees meer
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Coming to asciinema near you (Interview)
11 oktober 2023 · 1 uur 23 min
This week we're joined by Marcin Kulik to talk about his project asciinema. You've likely seen this out there in the wild — asciinema lets you record and share your terminal sessions in full fidelity. Forget screen recording apps that offer blurry video. asciinema provides a lightweight, text-based approach to terminal recording with lots of possibilities. Marcin shares the backstory on this project, where he'd like to take it, who's supporting him along the way, and we even included 11 minutes of bonus content for Changelog ++ subscribers. Lees meer
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RTO vs WFH & the case for strong static typing (News)
9 oktober 2023 · 9 min
Jacob Kaplan-Moss' recommendations for remote vs colocated teams, Duarte Carmo created a neural search engine from Changelog transcripts, Tom Hacohen says strong static typing is a hill he's willing to die on, Orhun Parmaksız created a CLI that makes your keyboard sound like a typewriter & Luke Plant spits hard truths about simplicity. Lees meer
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The beginning of the end of physical media (Friends)
6 oktober 2023 · 1 uur 13 min
On September 29th, Netflix shipped its final DVDs, marking the end of an era in physical media. So, we invited our friend Christina Warren (aka film_girl) from GitHub to pour out a drink with us and lament the end of this golden age of access to the films we all love. Lees meer
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Tauri’s next big move (Interview)
5 oktober 2023 · 1 uur 12 min
This week we're joined by Daniel Thompson, Co-founder and Core Member of Tauri. It's been a year since we last had Daniel on the show. He catches us up on all things Tauri, their continued efforts towards Tauri 1.5 (which just released), the launch of CrabNebula and how they're the people pushing the Tauri ecosystem forward and building on top of it, the state of Electron vs Tauri, and UI with Tauri. He even surprises us with his idea of creating a web browser. Lees meer
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InfluxDB drops Go for Rust but gokrazy is really cool (News)
2 oktober 2023 · 8 min
InfluxDB finishes a multi-year rewrite in Rust, the Raspberry Pi 5 will be on sale by the end of the month, the Bruno team builds an open source API explorer that's local-first and will never have a cloud, Xe Iaso thinks gokrazy is really cool & Matt Rickard shares lessons from years of debugging. Lees meer
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#define: a game of fake definitions (Friends)
29 september 2023 · 1 uur 44 min
Jerod gathers a group of friends for our first game show experiment here on Changelog & Friends! This is a game of obscure jargon, fake definitions & expert tomfoolery. Our contestants checked their imposter syndrome at the door, because they either know what these words mean or they fake it 'til they make their peers think they do. Lees meer
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Vibes from Strange Loop (Interview)
28 september 2023 · 1 uur 15 min
This week we're taking you to the hallway track of the final Strange Loop conference. First up is AnnMarie Thomas — an engineering, business, and education professor. AnnMarie gave one of the opening keynotes titled "Playing with Engineering." We also caught up with many first-time and multi-time attendees who shared their favorite moments from Strange Loop over the years. You'll hear from Richard Feldman, Colin Dean, and Taylor Troesh. Last up we talk with Pokey Rule. He gave a talk about his project called Cursorless which is a spoken language for structural code editing. Lees meer
Changelog++ subscribers get a super extended version of this episode which includes everything we recorded at Strange Loop. Become a Changelog++ subscriber
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The missing sync layer for modern apps (News)
25 september 2023 · 8 min
ElectricSQL is a project that offers a local-first sync layer for web and mobile apps, Ned Batchelder writes about the myth of the myth of "learning styles", Carl Johnson thinks XML is better than YAML, Berkan Sasmaz defines and describes "idempotency" & HyperDX is an open source alternative Datadog or New Relic. Lees meer
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Open source is at a crossroads (Interview)
20 september 2023 · 1 uur 26 min
This week we're joined by Steve O'Grady, Principal Analyst & Co-founder at RedMonk. The topic today is the definition of open source, the constant pressure on the true definition of the term, and the seemingly small but vocal minority that aim to protect that definition. In Steve's post _Why Open Source Matters_, he says "open source is at a crossroads" and there are some seeking to break the definition of open source to one that is more permissive to their desires, and they are closer than ever to achieving that goal. Today's conversation goes deep on this subject. Lees meer
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Death by a thousand microservices (News)
18 september 2023 · 9 min
Andrei Taranchenko says the software industry is learning once again that complexity kills, Casey Muratori outlines a long list of Unity alternatives, Filip Szkandera builds a functioning (macro) processor for RISC-V & Matt Basta tells the tale of the time he built a web-based Excel clone inside Uber only to have it discarded a week later. Lees meer
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What do we want from a web browser? (Friends)
15 september 2023 · 1 uur 45 min
A hoy hoy! Our old friend Nick Nisi does his best to bring up TypeScript, Vim & Tmux as many times as possible while we discuss a new batch of web browsers, justify why we like the ones we do & try to figure out what it'd take to disrupt the status quo of Big Browser. Lees meer
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Attack of the Canaries! (Interview)
14 september 2023 · 1 uur 44 min
This week we're joined by Haroon Meer from Thinkst — the makers of Canary and Canary Tokens. Haroon walks us through a network getting compromised, what it takes to deploy a Canary on your network, how they maintain low false-positive numbers, their thoughts and principles on building their business (major wisdom shared!), and how a Canary helps surface network attacks in real time. Lees meer
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Bun 1.0 is here & Mojo is ready for download (News)
11 september 2023 · 9 min
Bun 1.0 is out of the oven, Mojo is now available for local download, Vince Lwt asked 60+ LLMs a set of 20 questions & published the answers, Textual Web turns TUIs in to web applications & James Haydon dives deep to discover the bug that the UK air traffic control meltdown. Lees meer
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Doomed to discuss AI (Friends)
8 september 2023 · 1 uur 23 min
Author, journalist, travel writer & software engineer Jon Evans joins us to weigh in on the cultural history (and present-day sentiment) of AI doom. Along the way, we talk plausible Sci-Fi, ultrasound drug delivery, the maybe-evolving laws of physics & even weirder stuff. Lees meer
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OpenTF for an open Terraform (Interview)
6 september 2023 · 1 uur 22 min
This week we're talking about the launch of OpenTF and what it's going to take to successfully fork HashiCorp's Terraform. We're joined by Josh Padnick to discuss what exactly happened, how HashiCorp's license change changes things, who has been impacted by this change, and ultimately what they are doing about it. Lees meer
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A portrait of the best worst programmer (News)
5 september 2023 · 8 min
Dan North tells the tale of Tim, the worst programmer he's worked with (who also is a heck of a programmer), Kevin Lin declares that OpenTelemetry delivers on its promise for open observability, Justin Garrison details Terraform vs GitOps vs System Initiative, Inc. writes how Apple beats burnout & Aline Lerner's advice on how (not) to sabotage your salary negotiations before you even start. Lees meer
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You call it tech debt I call it malpractice (Friends)
1 september 2023 · 1 uur 39 min
Go Time panelist (and semi-professional unpopular opinion maker) Kris Brandow joins us to discuss his deep-dive on the waterfall paper, his dislike of the "tech debt" analogy, why documentation matters so much & how everything is a distributed system. Lees meer
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Back to the terminal of the future (Interview)
30 augustus 2023 · 1 uur 50 min
This week on The Changelog Adam is joined by Zach Lloyd, Founder & CEO of Warp. We talked with Zach last year about what it takes to build the terminal of the future, and today Adam catches up with Zach to see where they are at on that mission. They talk about the business model of Warp, how they measure success, reaching product/market fit, building features developers love, integrating AI, and the pros and cons of going open source (again). Lees meer
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OpenTF sticks a fork in Terraform (News)
28 augustus 2023 · 8 min
OpenTF announces they're forking Terraform and joining the Linux Foundation, Meta gets in the LLM-for-codegen game with Code Llama, Matt Mullenweg announces WordPress.com's new 100-year plan, Paul Gichuki from Thinkst learns that default behaviors stick (and so do examples) & Marco Otte-Witte makes his case for Rust on the web. Lees meer
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The serenity of building your own OS (Interview)
24 augustus 2023 · 1 uur 23 min
This week we're talking to Andreas Kling about SerenityOS and Ladybird. Andreas started SerenityOS as a means of therapy. It's self-described as a love letter to "'90s user interfaces with a custom Unix-like core." Andreas previously worked at Nokia and later at Apple on the WebKit team, so he had an itch to do something along the lines of a browser, and that's where Ladybird came from. We get into the details of compilers, OSs, browsers, web specifications, and the love of making software. Lees meer
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All your CAPTCHAs are belong to bots (News)
21 augustus 2023 · 8 min
New research shows that CAPTCHAs are now utterly useless, hundreds of concerned technologists signed the OpenTF Manifesto to keep Terraform open source forever, Josh Collinsworth writes down all the things you forgot (or never knew) because of React, Mike Seidle shared some quick-but-powerful advice on building new software features & Erlend Sogge Heggen urges new open source projects to join the Fediverse (by way of Mastodon). Lees meer
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An aberrant generation of programmers (Friends)
18 augustus 2023 · 1 uur 22 min
Our friend Justin Searls recently published a widely-read essay on enthusiast programmers, inter-generational conflict & what we do with this information. That seemed like a good conversation starter, so we grabbed Justin and Landon Gray to discuss. Let's talk! Lees meer
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30 years of Debian (Interview)
17 augustus 2023 · 1 uur 31 min
This week we're talking with Jonathan Carter who's on his fourth term as Debian Project Lead (DPL) and we're talking about 30 years of Debian!
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The relicensings will continue until morale improves (News)
14 augustus 2023 · 8 min
HashiCorp adopts a Business Source license, Matt Rickard hypothesizes why Tailwind CSS won, WarpStream sets out to make a Kafka-compatible offering directly on S3, Vadim Kravcenko publishes an excellent guide for managing difficult software engineers & Russ Cox gives an update on Go 2. Lees meer
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Kaizen! S3 R2 B2 D2 (Friends)
11 augustus 2023 · 1 uur 19 min
Gerhard joins us for the 11th Kaizen and this one might contain the most improvements ever. We're on Fly Apps V2, we've moved from S3 to R2 & we have a status page now, just to name a few.
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Thinking outside the box of code (Interview)
9 augustus 2023 · 1 uur 8 min
Leslie Lamport is a computer scientist & mathematician who won ACM's Turing Award in 2013 for his fundamental contributions to the theory and practice of distributed and concurrent systems. He also created LaTeX and TLA+, a high-level language for "writing down the ideas that go into the program before you do any coding." Lees meer
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The open source licensing war is over? (News)
7 augustus 2023 · 8 min
Matt Asay thinks the open source licensing war is over, LangUI is an open source Tailwind component library for your AI chat app, Ivan Kuleshov modded a Mac mini to run via PoE, Apple joins Pixar and others in the Alliance for OpenUSD & John D. Cook says sometimes you shouldn't pick the best tool for the job. Lees meer
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DX on DX (Interview)
3 augustus 2023 · 1 uur 38 min
This week Adam is joined by Abi Noda, founder and CEO of DX to talk about DX AKA DevEx (or the long-form Developer Experience). Since the dawn of software development there has been this push to understand what makes software teams efficient, but more importantly what does it take to understand developer productivity? That's what Abi has been focused on for the better part of the last 8 years of his career. He started a company called Pull Panda that was acquired by GitHub, spent a few years there on this problem before going out on his own to start DX which helps startups to the fortune 500 companies gather real insights that leads to real improvement. Lees meer
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Something interesting is going on at Stack Overflow (News)
31 juli 2023 · 9 min
The fall of Stack Overflow, researches dig up some new (and potentially unavoidable) LLM attacks, Google proposes a new API that Ron Amadeo calls a DRM gatekeeper for the web, the Python Steering Council affirms PEP 703 & Lucas McGregor writes why no one wants to talk to your chatbot. Lees meer
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Homelab nerds, unite! (Friends)
28 juli 2023 · 1 uur 34 min
Ok Homelabbers, it's time to unite! Join Adam and his new friend Techno Tim for 1.5 hours of homelab goodness. From networking and WiFi, virtualizing Ubuntu running Docker containers, to Home Assistant and automation, building a Kubernetes cluster, to gutting a perfectly good machine just to build exactly what you need to run the ultimate Plex server — that's what homelab is about. Let's do this. Lees meer
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From Docker to Dagger (Interview)
28 juli 2023 · 1 uur 34 min
This week we're joined by Solomon Hykes, the creator of Docker. Now he's back with his next big thing called Dagger — CI/CD as code that runs anywhere. We're users of Dagger so check out our codebase if you want to see how it works. On today's show Solomon takes us back to the days of Docker, what it was like on that 10 year journey, his transition from Docker to Dagger, Dagger's community-led growth model, their focus on open source and community, how it works, and even a cameo from Kelsey Hightower to explain how Dagger works. Lees meer
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Supabase quietly went public (News)
24 juli 2023 · 10 min
Our friends at Supabase quietly went public today, Redpoint's InfraRed 100 report is out, Twitter is now X, GitHub's Copilot Chat now in public preview (for businesses) & Oxide has homelab plans (in 2050).
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Bringing the cloud on prem (Friends)
21 juli 2023 · 1 uur 37 min
Adam was out when Bryan made his podcast debut here on The Changelog, so we had to get him back on the show along with his co-founder and CEO Steve Tuck to discuss Silicon Valley (the TV show), all things Oxide, homelab possibilities, bringing the power of the cloud on prem, and more. Lees meer
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Storytime with Steve Yegge (Interview)
20 juli 2023 · 1 uur 43 min
This week it's storytime with Steve Yegge! Steve came out of retirement to join Sourcegraph as Head of Engineering. Their next frontier is Cody, their AI coding assistant that answers code questions and writes code for you by reading your entire codebase and the code graph. But, we really spent a lot of time talking with Steve about his time at Amazon, Google, and Grab. Ok, it's storytime! Lees meer