Changelog & Friends

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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• Gerhard Lazu – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

• Discussion #511: 🎧 Kaizen 15 - changelog.com/friends/50
• Navel gazing on Wikipedia
• Omphaloskepsis on #define: game theory, dude
• Pull Request #510: News redesign
• Pull Request #517: 29 reasons to subscribe to Changelog News
• Pull Request #513: Remove # from episode numbers in commit messages
• Pull Request #516: Trace GitHub Actions Workflows
  • Support for HTTPS tracing protocol
  • corentinmusard/otel-cicd-action
• worldpagespeed.fly.dev
• pipedream.changelog.com
  • 🎬 Let’s build a CDN

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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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• Socket – Secure your supply chain and ship with confidence. Install the GitHub app, book a demo or learn more
• Neon – Fleets of Postgres! Enterprises use Neon to operate hundreds of thousands of Postgres databases: Automated, instant provisioning of the world’s most popular database.
• Sentry – Code breaks, fix it faster. Don’t just observe. Take action. Sentry is the only app monitoring platform built for developers that gets to the root cause for every issue. 90,000+ growing teams use sentry to find problems fast. Use the code CHANGELOG when you sign up to get $100 OFF the team plan.

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• Daniel Stenberg – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

• curl turns 26 today
• My BDFL guiding principles
• The I in LLM stands for intelligence
• tiny-curl
• Verified curl
• How to verify a curl release
• github.com/curl/trurl

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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.

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• 1Password – Build securely with 1Password - 1Password simplifies how you securely use, manage, and integrate developer credentials. Manage SSH keys and sign Git commits. Access secrets stored in 1Password. Automate administrative tasks. Integrate with third-party tools. Also, check out our INFRASTRUCTURE.md file for more details on how we do secrets with 1Password.
• Cronitor – Cronitor helps you understand your cron jobs. Capture the status, metrics, and output from every cron job and background process. Name and organize each job, and ensure the right people are alerted when something goes wrong.

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• Justin Searls – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

• Justin’s podcast: Breaking Change
• Apple WWDC 2024: the 13 biggest announcements
• macOS Sequoia Preview
• Compare iPhone models
• RCS on Wikipedia
• Rug pull, not cool! (Changelog & Friends #40)
• Sandwich’s Theater app (Adam Lisagor)
• Steve Jobs QA - WWDC 1997
• Asahi Linux

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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.)

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• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

• Changelog++ (It’s better!)

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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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• Cronitor – Cronitor helps you understand your cron jobs. Capture the status, metrics, and output from every cron job and background process. Name and organize each job, and ensure the right people are alerted when something goes wrong.
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• Neon – The fully managed serverless Postgres with a generous free tier. Neon separates storage and compute to offer autoscaling, branching, and bottomless storage.

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• Thomas Eckert – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Nick Nisi – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Mat Ryer – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

• github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei
• devy.page

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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)!

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• Neon – The fully managed serverless Postgres with a generous free tier. Neon separates storage and compute to offer autoscaling, branching, and bottomless storage.
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• Luis Villa – Mastodon, Twitter, LinkedIn, Website
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

• Upstream 2024 | A celebration of open source
• ANTHOLOGY — The way of open source (Changelog Interviews #563)
• On self driving, Waymo is playing chess while Tesla plays checkers

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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!

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• Neon – The fully managed serverless Postgres with a generous free tier. We separate storage and compute to offer autoscaling, branching, and bottomless storage.

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• Shaundai Person – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

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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.

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• Alex Kretzschmar – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

• blog.ktz.me
• linuxserver.io
• perfectmediaserver.com
• ZFS is resource efficient.
• selfhosted.show
• The Best Media Server CPU… in the world.
• A Cheap No-Frills OPNsense box
• mergerfs
• The beginning of linuxserver.io
• jimsalterjrs/sanoid
• Jellyfin
• Plex
• Restic
• Auto-Restic

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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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• Tailscale – Adam loves Tailscale! Tailscale is programmable networking software that’s private and secure by default. It’s the easiest way to connect devices and services to each other, wherever they are. Secure, remote access to production, databases, servers, kubernetes, and more. Try Tailscale for free for up to 100 devices and 3 users at changelog.com/tailscale, no credit card required.
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• Coda – Your all-in-one collaborative workspace. Coda brings teams and tools together for a more organized work day.

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• Annie Sexton – Twitter, LinkedIn, Website
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

• Git your reset on (Changelog Interviews #480)
• I’m rebuilding my notes app, Typist, and here’s why
• Ben Gillin on Instagram
• How to talk to LLMs | Storybot demo - YouTube
• AI video post-processing in the cloud | Sieve + Daily - YouTube

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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.

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• Ron Evans – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

• Book: A City on Mars
• Bio-Dome - Wikipedia
• Zeno’s paradoxes
• TinyGo on Hackaday
• ggerganov/llama.cpp: LLM inference in C/C++
• What exactly is Open Source AI? with Stefano Maffulli
• On the dangers of stochastic parrots | The Alan Turing Institute
• 2053: A Go Odyssey (Go Time #235)
• Getting started with TinyGo
• Looking back at Go from 2053 with Ron Evans - YouTube
• The Hybrid Group
• Ali Spagnola - YouTube
• GopherCon 2024 - Register Now
• FOSDEM 2024 - Home

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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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• Adam Jacob – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

• IBM to Acquire HashiCorp, Inc.
• Matt Asay on OpenTofu
• System Initiative

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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.

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• Cloudflare – Read the Developer Week 2024 wrap-up or tune into Developer Week on Cloudflare TV.
• FireHydrant – The alerting and on-call tool designed for humans, not systems. Signals puts teams at the center, giving you ultimate control over rules, policies, and schedules. No need to configure your services or do wonky work-arounds. Signals filters out the noise, alerting you only on what matters. Manage coverage requests and on-call notifications effortlessly within Slack. But here’s the game-changer…Signals natively integrates with FireHydrant’s full incident management suite, so as soon as you’re alerted you can seamlessly kickoff and manage your entire incident inside a single platform. Learn more or switch today at firehydrant.com/signals
• CrabNebula Cloud – CrabNebula Cloud is here! Distribute Tauri apps and Electron apps with best in class updater. At the heart of CrabNebula Cloud is a purpose-built CDN ready for global scale, and secure updates as a first-class citizen. Learn more at crabnebula.dev/cloud
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• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

• Our Response to Hashicorp’s Cease and Desist Letter
• Redis is forked
• Boston Dynamics’ new humanoid moves like no robot you’ve ever seen
• Vision Pro was a better deal than my Mac Studio
• From Vim to Zed
• It’s getting hard to use and recommend Firefox, I’m afraid for the free web
• Leading and building Raycast (Changelog Interviews #587)
• Beeper is joining Automattic
• Texts.com
• Pidgin, the universal chat client
• MarkdownDown
• Turndown
• Playroom - Build Multiplayer Games in Minutes

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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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• FireHydrant – The alerting and on-call tool designed for humans, not systems. Signals puts teams at the center, giving you ultimate control over rules, policies, and schedules. No need to configure your services or do wonky work-arounds. Signals filters out the noise, alerting you only on what matters. Manage coverage requests and on-call notifications effortlessly within Slack. But here’s the game-changer…Signals natively integrates with FireHydrant’s full incident management suite, so as soon as you’re alerted you can seamlessly kickoff and manage your entire incident inside a single platform. Learn more or switch today at firehydrant.com/signals
• Tailscale – Adam loves Tailscale! Tailscale is programmable networking software that’s private and secure by default. It’s the easiest way to connect devices and services to each other, wherever they are. Secure, remote access to production, databases, servers, kubernetes, and more. Try Tailscale for free for up to 100 devices and 3 users at changelog.com/tailscale, no credit card required.
• Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs.

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• Breakmaster Cylinder – Twitter, Website
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

• Dance Party

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Thisis 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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• Cloudflare – Cloudflare’s Developer Week is happening April 1-5, 2024. Also you can hang with Adam and the rest of the folks at Cloudflare at the Cloudflare offices in Austin, TX on Wednesday, April 3rd at 5:30pm — register here.
• FireHydrant – The alerting and on-call tool designed for humans, not systems. Signals puts teams at the center, giving you ultimate control over rules, policies, and schedules. No need to configure your services or do wonky work-arounds. Signals filters out the noise, alerting you only on what matters. Manage coverage requests and on-call notifications effortlessly within Slack. But here’s the game-changer…Signals natively integrates with FireHydrant’s full incident management suite, so as soon as you’re alerted you can seamlessly kickoff and manage your entire incident inside a single platform. Learn more or switch today at firehydrant.com/signals
• Synadia – Take NATS to the next level via a global, multi-cloud, multi-geo and extensible service, fully managed by Synadia. They take care of all the infrastructure, management, monitoring, and maintenance for you so you can focus on building exceptional distributed applications.
• Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs.

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• Gerhard Lazu – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

• Discussion #499: 🎧 Kaizen 14 - changelog.com/friends/38
• bunny.net - The Content Delivery platform that truly Hops!
• bunny.changelog.com
• Hyperping | Uptime monitoring with public status pages
• Issue #486: CDN cache misses increased 7x after Oct. 8, 2023
• Pull Request #492: Migrate Postgres to Neon.tech
• ankane/pghero: A performance dashboard for Postgres
• Pull Request #507: Deploy PgHero & connect to Neon.tech Postgres
• Pull Request #508: Enable changelog.com devs to create prod db forks with a single command
• Tigris | Globally Distributed S3-Compatible Object Storage
• video.gerhard.io
• pod.gerhard.io

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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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• FireHydrant – The alerting and on-call tool designed for humans, not systems. Signals puts teams at the center, giving you ultimate control over rules, policies, and schedules. No need to configure your services or do wonky work-arounds. Signals filters out the noise, alerting you only on what matters. Manage coverage requests and on-call notifications effortlessly within Slack. But here’s the game-changer…Signals natively integrates with FireHydrant’s full incident management suite, so as soon as you’re alerted you can seamlessly kickoff and manage your entire incident inside a single platform. Learn more or switch today at firehydrant.com/signals
• Cloudflare – Cloudflare’s Developer Week is happening April 1-5, 2024. Also you can hang with Adam and the rest of the folks at Cloudflare at the Cloudflare offices in Austin, TX on Wednesday, April 3rd at 5:30pm — register here.
• Synadia – Take NATS to the next level via a global, multi-cloud, multi-geo and extensible service, fully managed by Synadia. They take care of all the infrastructure, management, monitoring, and maintenance for you so you can focus on building exceptional distributed applications.
• Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs.

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• Adolfo Ochagavía – GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

• More “It Depends” episodes
• The undercover generalist

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THE Cameron Seay joins us once again! This time we learn more about his life/history, hear all about the boot camps he runs, discuss recent advancements in AI / quantum computing and how they might affect the tech labor market & more!

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• FireHydrant – The alerting and on-call tool designed for humans, not systems. Signals puts teams at the center, giving you ultimate control over rules, policies, and schedules. No need to configure your services or do wonky work-arounds. Signals filters out the noise, alerting you only on what matters. Manage coverage requests and on-call notifications effortlessly within Slack. But here’s the game-changer…Signals natively integrates with FireHydrant’s full incident management suite, so as soon as you’re alerted you can seamlessly kickoff and manage your entire incident inside a single platform. Learn more or switch today at firehydrant.com/signals
• Tailscale – Adam loves Tailscale! Tailscale is programmable networking software that’s private and secure by default. It’s the easiest way to connect devices and services to each other, wherever they are. Secure, remote access to production, databases, servers, kubernetes, and more. Try Tailscale for free for up to 100 devices and 3 users at changelog.com/tailscale, no credit card required.
• Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs.

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• Cameron Seay – Twitter, LinkedIn
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

• Vygotsky’s Sociocultural Theory Of Cognitive Development

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Today you get Sorentwo for the price of one! We are joined by Shannon & Parker Selbert, both halves of the mom-and-pop software shop behind Oban, the robust job processing library that’s been delivering our emails & processing our audio for years.

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• FireHydrant – The alerting and on-call tool designed for humans, not systems. Signals puts teams at the center, giving you ultimate control over rules, policies, and schedules. No need to configure your services or do wonky work-arounds. Signals filters out the noise, alerting you only on what matters. Manage coverage requests and on-call notifications effortlessly within Slack. But here’s the game-changer…Signals natively integrates with FireHydrant’s full incident management suite, so as soon as you’re alerted you can seamlessly kickoff and manage your entire incident inside a single platform. Learn more or switch today at firehydrant.com/signals
• CrabNebula Cloud – CrabNebula Cloud is here! Distribute Tauri apps and Electron apps with best in class updater. At the heart of CrabNebula Cloud is a purpose-built CDN ready for global scale, and secure updates as a first-class citizen. Learn more at crabnebula.dev/cloud
• Tailscale – Adam loves Tailscale! Tailscale is programmable networking software that’s private and secure by default. It’s the easiest way to connect devices and services to each other, wherever they are. Secure, remote access to production, databases, servers, kubernetes, and more. Try Tailscale for free for up to 100 devices and 3 users at changelog.com/tailscale, no credit card required.

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• Shannon Selbert – GitHub, Website
• Parker Selbert – Twitter, GitHub
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

• The Oban Pro featuring Parker Selbert (Backstage #23)
• Robust Job Processing· Oban Pro
• Elixir and Phoenix with Chris McCord (Changelog Interviews #147)
• github.com/thechangelog/changelog.com
• Hatchet
• Have an Enemy | Getting Real
• Mojito island is a mirage – Signal v. Noise
• Attack of the Canaries! with Haroon Meer from Thinkst (Changelog Interviews #557)
• Cronitor
• Buzzsprout

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Adam is joined by Robert Ross, Founder and CEO of FireHydrant — they discuss Bourbon, sniffing arms, better software, leading a successful startup, scaling teams, building vs acquiring, and Adam even gets Robert to commit to watching Silicon Valley!!

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• firehydrant.com

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The Zed text editor has come a long way since Nathan Sobo came on the show last year to tell us about this follow-up to Atom. Zed is open source now, has the underpinnings of collaboration built in, is beginning its journey toward full extensibility, is coming to Linux soon & shows serious promise if Nathan’s team can mix their secret sauce just right.

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• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

• Zed.dev
• Goodbye Atom. Hello Zed. (The Changelog #531)
• Introducing Channels for Collaboration
• Zed is now open source
• User themes now in Preview

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Mike McQuaid, maintainer of Homebrew, and now CTO at Workbrew joins us to discuss open tabs, social media spam and distractions, TikTok’s addictive nature, Apple Vision Pro and its potential future, the maintenance of software, the swing back to old school web development, the value of telemetry in open source projects, Mike’s ongoing involvement in Homebrew and what they’re working on at Workbrew, Homebrew’s relationship with Apple, the importance of developer experience, and sooo much more.

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• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

• Spam attack on Twitter/X rival Mastodon highlights ‘fediverse’ vulnerabilities
• brew.sh
• Workbrew.com

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Jamie Tanna (who has a website) joins us to discuss the indie web, living with ADHD, sharing his salary history with the world & building DMD – a dynamite open source tool to help you better understand the use of dependencies across your org.

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• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

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• Jamie’s first Changelog pod: Request For Commits #4)
• One year in the indieweb
• Blogumentation
• Why I Have a Website and You Should Too
• did you know jamie has a website
• My Salary History
• Memento (film) - Wikipedia
• DMD

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We’re taking you back to the hallway track at THAT Conference where we have 3 MORE fun conversations: one with Samuel Goff about the future of energy, one with YouTuber Jess Chan about the future of content creation & one with Vanessa Villa / Noah Jenkins about ag tech & the future of food.

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• Read Write Own – Read, Write, Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet—a new book from entrepreneur and investor Chris Dixon—explores one possible solution to the internet’s authenticity problem: Blockchains. From AI that tracks its source material to generative programs that compensate—rather than cannibalize—creators. It’s a call to action for a more open, transparent, and democratic internet. One that opens the black box of AI, tracks the origins we see online, and much more. Order your copy of Read, Write, Own today at readwriteown.com
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• Samuel Goff – Twitter, LinkedIn
• Jess Chan – Twitter, Website
• Vanessa Villa – Twitter, LinkedIn
• Noah Jenkins – Twitter, LinkedIn, Website
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

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• Changelog Beats! Dance Party
• coder-coder

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We’re taking you to the hallway track at THAT Conference in Austin TX, where we have 3 fun conversations: one with our old friend Nick Nisi from JS Party, one with our new(ish) friend Amy Dutton from CompressedFM (who has been a guest on JS Party of late) & one with our brand new friend / long-time listener Andres Pineda from the Dominican Republic.

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• Read Write Own – Read, Write, Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet—a new book from entrepreneur and investor Chris Dixon—explores one possible solution to the internet’s authenticity problem: Blockchains. From AI that tracks its source material to generative programs that compensate—rather than cannibalize—creators. It’s a call to action for a more open, transparent, and democratic internet. One that opens the black box of AI, tracks the origins we see online, and much more. Order your copy of Read, Write, Own today at readwriteown.com
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• Andres Pineda – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Nick Nisi – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

• CompressFM
• Pinedax on Twitter

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Our old friend José Valim & his team have been hard at work adding gradual typing to Elixir. They’re only 1-3% of the way there, but a lot of progress has been made. So, we invited him back on the show for a deep-dive on why, how & when Elixir will be gradually typed.

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• Read Write Own – Read, Write, Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet—a new book from entrepreneur and investor Chris Dixon—explores one possible solution to the internet’s authenticity problem: Blockchains. From AI that tracks its source material to generative programs that compensate—rather than cannibalize—creators. It’s a call to action for a more open, transparent, and democratic internet. One that opens the black box of AI, tracks the origins we see online, and much more. Order your copy of Read, Write, Own today at readwriteown.com

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• José Valim – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

• José’s previous appearances
• José’s viral tweet
• Dialyzer
• Hare aims to be a 100 year language

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Techno Tim is back with Adam to discuss the state of homelab in 2024 and the trends happening within homelab tech. They discuss homelab environments providing a safe place for experimentation and learning, network improvement as a gateway to homelab, trends in network connection speeds, to Unifi or not, storage trends, ZFS configurations, TrueNAS, cameras, home automation, connectivity, routers, pfSense, and more.

Umm, should we make these conversations between Adam and Tim more frequent?

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• Read Write Own – Read, Write, Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet—a new book from entrepreneur and investor Chris Dixon—explores one possible solution to the internet’s authenticity problem: Blockchains. From AI that tracks its source material to generative programs that compensate—rather than cannibalize—creators. It’s a call to action for a more open, transparent, and democratic internet. One that opens the black box of AI, tracks the origins we see online, and much more. Order your copy of Read, Write, Own today at readwriteown.com
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• Techno Tim – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

• Ubiquiti and Unifi
• Cisco Meraki
• pfSense
• TrueNAS
• Proxmox
• Intel Core i9-13900K
• Plex
• Home Assistant
• OCuLink Interface
• OpenZFS
• Changelog & Friends #7: Dear Red Hat… (w/ Jeff Geerling)
• (Byte My Bits) Intel 13th Gen + Unraid + Plex = OMG4K!

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• Byte My Bits
• Crosstalk Solutions
• Tom Lawrence (Lawrence Systems)

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It’s our 13th Kaizen episode! We’re back from KubeCon, we’re making goals for the year, we’re migrating to Neon & we’re weighing the pros/cons of building our own custom CDN.

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• Gerhard Lazu – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

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• 📄 Kaizen 13
• Migrate Postgres to Neon.tech by gerhard · Pull Request #492
• CDN cache misses increased 7x · Issue #486
• 🎥 TGI RabbitMQ
• Neon.tech
• Supabase Postgres · Fly Docs
• Vercel Postgres
• KeyCDN - Content delivery made easy

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What happens when you take four grizzled #define veterans and throw an Emma Bostian into the mix? Find out on this episode because our award-worthy game of fake definitions is back and this time it’s even better!

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• Lars Wikman – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Taylor Troesh – GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
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• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

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• Join Changelog++ for bonus rounds!
• I hereby pardon all junior engineers
• wigwam.directory

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Jerod is back with another “It Depends” episode! This time he’s joined by Kris Brandow from Go Time and they’re talking all things API design. What makes a good API? Is GraphQL a solid choice? Why do we do REST wrong? And WTF does HATEOAS mean, anyway?

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• Kris Brandow – Twitter, GitHub

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• PHP: a fractal of bad design
• PostGraphile Instant GraphQL API
• HATEOAS
  The Tech Behind the New Grooveshark
• OpenAPI Spec
• HTTP Specifications
• Roy Fielding Dissertation on REST
• Mike Amundsen

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Gergely Orosz is back for our annual year-end update on the tech market, writ large. How is hiring? Has AI really changed the game? What about that OpenAI fiasco?

We also talk in-depth about Gergely’s self-published book, The Software Engineer’s Guidebook, which has been four years in the making.

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• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

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• The Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter
• The Software Engineer’s Guidebook
• Anthropic

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Jerod goes one-on-one with our old friend Justin Searls! We talk build vs buy decisions, dependency selection & how Justin has implemented POSSE (Post On Site Syndicate Elsewhere) in response to the stratification of social networks.

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• Justin Searls – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

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• Lineman.js and JavaScript apps with Justin Searls (Changelog Interviews #128)
• Must have 10 years experience with Lineman.js: Why the right tools fail for the wrong reasons
• Justin’s favorite newsletter
• Changelog Nightly source code
• indieweb.org/POSSE
• POSSE on justin.searls.co

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Mat Ryer returns with his guitar, an unpopular opinion & his favorite internet virus.

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• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

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• S100 Pbzzbaf Ebnq, Fhvg 7-701, Qevccvat Fcevatf, GK 78620
• ILOVEYOU - Wikipedia
• Samy (computer worm) - Wikipedia
• MySpace Worm Explanation
• The Net (1995) - IMDb
• Renfield (2023) - IMDb
• The Rock (1996) - IMDb
• Adaptation. (2002) - IMDb

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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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• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

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Our Albums

• Next Level: Buy on Apple Music or Bandcamp. Stream on Spotify or Apple Music.
• Theme Songs: Buy on Apple Music or Bandcamp. Stream on Spotify or Apple Music.

Notes from the show

• Watermelon Sugar X Seaside
• The Song Michael Jackson ‘Stole’ From Hall & Oates
• Sia - Elastic Heart feat. Shia LaBeouf & Maddie Ziegler (Official Video)
• Halt and Catch Fire Theme
• Pole Position Theme Song (Cover)
• Osmo Coding Jam
• Let’s Rescore Mad Max: Fury Road
• Ballroom Blitz (Wayne’s World)
• Bohemian Rhapsody (Wayne’s World)
• Jay_cee: Castlevania NES Speedrun in 10:45 (WR)

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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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• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

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• NextDNS - The new firewall for the modern Internet
• pfSense® - World’s Most Trusted Open Source Firewall
• Gertrude | Mac Internet Filter, Parental Controls and Activity Monitoring
• Tailscale · Best VPN Service for Secure Networks
• Vapor
• hummingbird: Lightweight, flexible HTTP server framework written in Swift

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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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• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

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• Subscribe to Human Skills
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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.

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• Changelog Neural Search by Duarte O.Carmo
• Fastly URL purge

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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.

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• Netflix Mails Its Final DVD to Customers, Marking the End of an Era - IGN
• Netflix Prepares to Send Its Final Red Envelope - The New York Times
• Netflix’s Qwikster Debacle | MIT Technology Review
• The Ultimate Movie Platform - Kaleidescape
• Matt Damon on Hot Ones

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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.

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• Underjord
• Game Show - a podcast from The Incomparable

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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.

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• Digging through Nick Nisi’s tool box (JS Party #278)
• Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome | Ars Technica
• Arc from The Browser Company
• Sizzy — The browser for web developers
• Polypane, The browser for ambitious web developers
• Orion Browser
• Vivaldi Browser | Powerful, Personal and Private web browser
• The Ladybird browser project
• Horse Browser
• Web Browser Quiche on the App Store
• Nyxt browser: The hacker’s browser
• Opera browser goes free with version 5.0 launch • The Register
• Nick’s vim + tmux video
• Vim with Me playlist
• Our viral short on Instagram Reels
• Gabe Kangas on Mastodon
• Rich Harris on JS Party

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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.

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• Exadelic on Amazon
• Inside GitHub’s Arctic Code Vault
• A Study: Ancient Egyptians used sound waves in building pyramids
• Extropia’s Children Redux - by Jon Evans
• The Only Way to Deal With the Threat From AI? Shut It Down | Time
• Nick Jones
• Dennis E. Taylor

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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.

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• “Waterfall” doesn’t mean what you think it means
• Kris’s Go Time take on the tech debt analogy

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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!

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• Justin’s post
• Justin’s monthly newsletter
• Justin’s Ruby Kaigi coverage
• Justin’s previous Changelog appearances
• Test Double
• nodenv
• Destroy All Software
• Louisville’s AI Schoolbus Route fiasco

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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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• All Kaizen episodes
• Kaizen 11 Discussion on GitHub
• Oban Pro
• Apps V2
• Changelog Nightly
• status.changelog.com
• Changelog Community Slack

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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.

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• Ubiquiti / Unifi
• Proxmox
• Ubuntu
• Rocky Linux
• 45drives - Storinator AV15
• Docker
• Portainer
• Kubernetes
• Plex
• Pi-Hole
• Tailscale
• ZFS (OpenZFS)
• Changelog Interviews #475: Making the ZFS file system (with Matt Ahrens)
• Protectli
• Sysracks
• Rackstuds
• ASUS ProArt Z790

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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.

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• Crate tui
• On the Metal with Jeff Rothschild
• Oxide specs
• The Changelog #496: Oxide builds servers (as they should be)

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Red Hat’s decision to lock down RHEL sources behind a subscription paywall was met with much ire and opened opportunity for Oracle to get a smack in and SUSE to announce a fork with $10 million behind it.

Few RHEL community members have been as publicly irate as Jeff Geerling, so we invited him on the show to discuss.

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• Jeff: Dear Red Hat: Are you dumb?
• Jeff: Removing official support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Jeff: I’m done with Red Hat (Enterprise Linux)
• The rise of Rocky Linux with Greg Kurtzer
• Oracle coverage on Changelog News
• Debian is cool
• TechCrunch: Why SUSE is forking Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Adam Jacob’s tweet
• Red Hat’s June 21st blog post
• Red Hat’s June 26th blog post
• Oracle’s epic press release
• Mike McGrath’s post clarifying use of the term ‘freeloaders’
• Mike McGrath posting about ‘bad-faith action’
• An analysis of the GPL issues with RHEL Business Model
• SUSE’s fork press release
• Rocky Linux’s response
• The problem with Rocky Linux and free beer | LinkedIn
• AlmaLinux’s response
• Huge Open Source Drama - YouTube
• LTX 2023

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On Monday, Kelsey Hightower announced his retirement from Google. On Tuesday, he sat down with us to discuss why, how & what’s next.

Along the way, Kelsey teaches us how not to suck at work, analyzes his magical demos, fights off the haters (again) & opines on System Initiative, Dagger & 37Signals moving off the cloud.

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• “Today I’m announcing my retirement from Google.”
• Not Everyone Can Be Kelsey Hightower - Greg Poirier - YouTube
• Rebuilding DevOps from the ground up with Adam Jacob
• Why we’re leaving the cloud
• We have left the cloud
• MRSK — Deploy web apps anywhere
• Two decades as a solo indie Mac dev with Jesse Grosjean
• btop on GitHub
• Dagger

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Brett Cannon (our unofficial ambassador to the Python community) is here to help alleviate our pip install anxiety. Along the way, we ask him about Python 4, removing the GIL, what he thinks about Chris Lattner’s Mojo project, Rust in the Python world & way more (of course).

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• In response to the Changelog #526
• Raku
• Perl Mongers
• pipx
• Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe
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• Why Mojo
• Astral
• RustPython: A Python Interpreter written in Rust

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Mat Ryer is back and he’s brought with him 10 tips to be a 10x developer (like he is). After that, we try a new segment we’re calling “Tool Time” (and try out a few jingles for it along the way). Finally, it’s time to review our previous unpopular opinions and put some new ones into the world for your (dis)agreeing pleasure. Join us for an automagical time!

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• How ‘Back to the Future 2’ Tricked You Into Thinking Crispin Glover Returned
• Mat on The Changelog #526
• The Synergistic Interplay between Vitamins D and K for Bone and Cardiovascular Health
• Introducing Wood Milk: Aubrey Plaza’s Newest Product #drinkwoodmilk - YouTube
• golangci-lint
• credo for Elixir
• 1Password
• ntfy.sh
• Queen Latifah - U.N.I.T.Y. - YouTube
• NextDNS
• NextDNS wiki on UnifiOS
• I Made a Tiny Touch ID Button for Mac!

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Homebrew project leader Mike McQuaid joins us to weigh in on Apple’s big Vision Pro announcement. We also hit on our favorite (and least favorite) non-AR things from the WWDC 2023 keynote.

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• Apple’s official Vision Pro page
• Sarah Dietschy: I Tried the Apple Vision Pro 👀
• The Verge: Apple Vision Pro first look
• Valve Index
• WWDC Highlights
• Apple sure kicked Meta’s butt today, right?
• CmdrTaco on the iPod
• Day One
• Aaron Levie’s tweet

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Gerhard is back! Today we continue our Kaizen tradition by getting together (for the 10th time) with one of our oldest friends to talk all about the continuous improvements we’re making to Changelog’s platform and podcasts.

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• Kaizen episodes
• Gource
• Gerhard’s Ansible blog post from 2014 (!)
• changelog.com on GitHub
• GitHub discussion changelog.com#452
• Ken Kost’s merged contribution
• Jerod wants a WiFi BaseStation XG
• Gerhard recommends Mikrotik

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What if your favorite conference’s hallway track continued year round? That’s the vibe we’re trying to capture with Changelog & Friends, a new Friday talk show from your friends at Changelog. In this intro episode, Adam & Jerod talk all about our new MWF plan for The Changelog , discuss what this Friends flavor is all about, and have a lot of fun along the way.

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• Monday: Changelog News
• Wednesday: Changelog Interviews
• Friday: Changelog & Friends

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