The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

Vibe coding is the new vibe, AI engineers are all taking about MCP, Tom Usher wants you to kill your algorithmic feeds, Curiositry shares his troubleshooting expertise, Nikola Ðuza thinks we should keep blogging for the LLMs & James Stanier answers the question, should managers still code?

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Our award-winning JS Party game show is back with a new name, a new channel, and the same ol’ survey-response-guessing fun! The JS Party crew join us to see who knows y’all best. Survey says!

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• More dev game shows!

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Antirez has returned to Redis! Yes, Salvatore Sanfilippo (aka Antirez), the creator of Redis has returned to Redis and he joined us to share the backstory on Redis, what’s going on with the tech and the company, the possible (likely) move back to open source via the AGPL license, the new possibilities of AI and vector embeddings in Redis, and some good ’ol LLM inference discussions.

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• Deep Seek on Ollama
• Claude Sonnet 3.7 is out!
• <antirez> - We are destroying software

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Allen Pike on the JavaScript ecosystem after a decade away, Lars Wirzenius was there at the birth of Linux, Piotr Migdał archives things in Markdown, Jacob Stopak is gamifying Git with Devlands & Juan Diego Rodríguez runs down how CSS functions (will) work.

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It’s Kaizen 18! Can you believe it? We discuss the recent Fly.io outage, some little features we’ve added since our last Kaizen, our new video-first production, and of course, catch up on all things Pipely! Oh, and Gerhard surprises us (once again). BAM!

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• Discussion #538: 🎧 Kaizen 18
• “Backslashes Are Trash”
• Pop!_OS by System76
• Pipely
• Samsung S95D
• Make it Work

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Anurag Goel, Founder/CEO of Render, joins Adam to discuss what they’re doing to solve cloud problems for application developers. They just raised $80M they don’t even need and they’re poised to solve boring problems like object storage, and less boring things like building for the AI era.

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• $80M to reimagine the cloud for the AI era
• Changelog Interviews #621: Building the developer cloud with Kurt Mackey (CEO of Fly)

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Kane Narraway thinks through the radical change AI tools have brought to the technical interview process, Rhys Kentish built an app that makes him touch grass, Microsoft announced their progress on quantum computing, Chris Horsley learns about software estimations by yak shaving a washing machine install & Andreas Gohr built StumbleUpon for the IndieWeb.

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Jerod and Adam use Chris Kiehl’s post on development topics he’s changed his mind on (over the last 10 years) as a proxy for discussion on dev things they HAVE and HAVE NOT changed their minds on.

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• Software development topics I’ve changed my mind on after 10 years in the industry
• File over app — Steph Ango
• ssh - How can I set customise settings for htop? - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
• The Cleanest Mac/PC Hybrid Desk Setup You’ve Seen by @Ludalx on YouTube
• Amy Hoy

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For the past year, David Crawshaw has intentionally sought ways to use LLMs while programming, in order to learn about them. He now regularly use LLMs while working and considers their benefits a net-positive on his productivity. David wrote down his experience, which we found both practical and insightful. Hopefully you will too!

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• How I program with LLMs
• sketch.dev
• merde.ai: ai-fixed merge conflicts
• How Tailscale’s free plan stays free

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Declan Chidlow proposes that AI is stifling tech adoption, Ariel Salminen shares 17 pieces of advice she’s learned about leading successful product teams, Benj Edwards tells the story of WikiTok, the React team sunsets Create React App & Ruben Schade says boring tech is mature, not old.

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Fire up a REPL, grab your favorite Stephen King novel, and hold on to the seat of your pants! Jimmy Miller returns to reveal why, at least for some of us, discovery coding is where it’s at.

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• That time Secret Service busted in Jimmy Miller’s door for hacking
• Blinkist
• Amazon.com: Tools Of Titans
• The best, worst codebase (Changelog Interviews #609)
• Discovery Coding
• Thinking outside the box of code (Changelog Interviews #552)

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Arun Gupta is back, this time with his latest book in hand titled “Fostering Open Source Culture” to share his wisdom and experiences of fostering open source culture. BTW you can use the code OSCULTURE20 to get 20% off (both print and e-book). Use this link and enjoy.

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Bill Maher excoriates the software industry for making our lives more difficult, two professors from the University of Washington put together a curriculum to help us manage life in the ChatGPT world, Daniel Delaney thinks deeply on chat as a dev tool UI, Benedict Evans explores our assumptions that computers be ‘correct’ & the Thoughtbot team writes up six cases when not to refactor.

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Techno Tim joins Adam to catch up on the state of Homelab for 2025, the state of AI at home and on-prem (AI Homelab) and where that’s heading, building a creator PC, choosing the parts for your build, GPU availability, Windows being user hostile, and why Tim is happy to be using Windows, Mac AND Linux.

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• Building My ULTIMATE Linux Workstation
• Homelab Services Tour 2025 - What am I Self-Hosting
• HomeLab Hardware Tour (Early 2025)
• Building a Low-Power, Fully Loaded Plex Server
• MacWhisper by GoodSnooze (Gumroad)
• Mel Robbins: Let Them Theory
• Changelog News - Everyone knows your location

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After 30+ years in the software industry, Bert Hubert has experienced a lot. He founded PowerDNS, published articles for places like IETF / IEEE, and built his own parliament monitoring system. That just scratches the surface.

Recently, Bert wrote about what it takes to build software for the long term. Let’s dig in.

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• Shifting Cyber Norms: Microsoft security POST-ing to you
• On Long Term Software Development
• Life Long Learning: Dealing With New Things
• Lawmakers use haka to protest in New Zealand’s parliament

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Tim Sh tracked himself down through in-app ads, Sniffnet comfortably monitors your Internet traffic, Cate Huston opines on what makes a good team, Victor Shepelev draws on 25 years of coding to share seven things he now knows & Grant Slatton tells you how to write a good design document.

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Dan Moore from FusionAuth joins us for a wide-ranging discussion about modern auth strategies. We talk magic links, OTP, MFA, passkeys, password managers & so much more.

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• Dear new developer (Changelog Interviews #572)
• N-Acetyl Cysteine (NAC): Uses and Risks
• Authentication & User Management Software - FusionAuth
• We Don’t Want Your Password
• Magic Links Have Rough Edges, but Passkeys Can Smooth Them Over
• Passkeys for a passwordless future (Changelog Interviews #544)
• Password Safe
• Microsoft’s new password manager works across Edge, Chrome, and mobile devices
• Building A Self-hostable Product

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• Passkeys: they’re not perfect but they’re getting better
• Passkey Adoption Doubles in 2024
• WebAuthn Explained

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Glauber Costa, co-founder and CEO of Turso, joins us to discuss libSQL, Limbo, and how they’re rewriting SQLite in Rust. We discuss their efforts with libSQL, the challenge of SQLite being in the public domain but not being open for contribution, their choice to rewrite everything with Limbo, how this all plays into the future of the Turso platform, how they test Limbo with Deterministic Simulation Testing (DST), and their plan to replace SQLite.

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• Introducing Limbo: A Complete Rewrite of SQLite in Rust
• Limbo on GitHub
• Antithesis
• SQLite Copyright
• Upcoming Changes to the Turso Platform and Roadmap
• My Story by pthorpe92.dev

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Xuan-Son Nguyen opened a low-level code PR written 99% by DeepSeek-R1, Adam Wathan announces the release of Tailwind CSS 4.0, Matheus Lima opens up the Computer Science history books to create list of influential papers, Namanyay Goel thinks AI is creating a generation of illiterate programmers & Russell Baylis shares what he’s learned about optimizing WFH lighting to reduce eye strain.

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Kris Brandow & Matthew Sanabria from Fallthrough.fm join Jerod to discuss tools we’re switching to, whether or not Go is still a great systems programming language choice, user-centric documentation, the need for archivists & more.

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• Fallthrough.fm
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• Tools Worth Changing To in 2025
• Helix
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• Replacing Git with Git featuring Scott Chacon
• Reddit comment
• The Seven-Action Documentation model

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Ashley Jeffs shares his journey with Benthos, an open source stream processor that was acquired by Redpanda. We talk about the evolution of data streaming technologies, the challenges he faced while growing the project, the decision to bootstrap versus seek venture capital, and what ultimately led to the acquisition. We discuss reactions to licensing changes, what it’s like to have your thing acquired, the challenging yet fulfilling nature of open source work, what’s next for Benthos, and what it takes to enjoy the journey.

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• Data streaming and Benthos with Mihai Todor & Ashley Jeffs (Go Time #192)
• Announcing Bento, the open source fork of the project formerly known as Benthos - WarpStream - Stream More, Manage Less
• warpstreamlabs/bento: Fancy stream processing made operationally mundane. This repository is a fork of the original project before the license was changed.
• Benthos | Benthos
• Redpanda Acquires Benthos to Deliver a Complete, End-to-End Streaming Data Platform
• redpanda-data/connect: Fancy stream processing made operationally mundane

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Benj Edwards wants to put the “personal” back in “personal computer”, the answer.ai folks took Devin for a month-long spin, Asaf Zamir explains why senior engineers can remain ICs and still have a fulfilling career, Fabrizio Ferri Benedetti rethinks documentation by putting user actions first & Tero Piirainen lays out his case for Nue, the standards first web framework.

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Jerod & Adam discuss Nvidia’s recently announced personal AI supercomputer, Waymo’s latest infinite loop, what’s involved in getting a “modern” terminal setup, and whether or not AI has gone mainstream… warts & all!

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• Min | A fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy
• Nvidia announces $3,000 personal AI supercomputer called Project Digits - The Verge
• We talked to the guy who was stuck in a Waymo robotaxi on a dizzying loop
• What’s involved in getting a “modern” terminal setup?
• Warp docs - Terminal features
• Connections Episode 1: The Trigger Effect : James Burke and Connections on Wikipedia
• chriskempson/base16: Not a theme, but a framework

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Elecia White, host of Embedded.fm and author of Making Embedded Systems, joins us to discuss all things embedded systems. We discuss programming non-computers, open source resources for embedded, self-driving cars, embedded system like the GoPro, Traeger smokers, and even birthday cards. According to Elecia, embedded is going everywhere.

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• Embedded.fm
• Making Embedded Systems: Patterns for Software Development (Amazon)
• Making Embedded Systems (ClasspertX)
• Wokwi
• MicroPython on GitHub
• Nordic Thingy:91 X – Prototyping cellular IoT and Wi-Fi locationing
• FreeRTOS
• Adafruit
• Kalman filter (Wikipedia)
• Chibitronics
• CrunchLabs
• FIRST Inspires
• Hackster.io
• Hackaday
• Instructables Circuits
• A Smart Lamp That Wakes You Up at the Optimal Time (Instructables)
• Open Source Hardware Summit (2025)
• CrowdSupply Teardown (Portland 2025)
• Hackaday SuperCon (2024)
• Hardwear.io
• Electronica

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Bloomberg reports on a concerning new trend in tech hiring, Sean Goedecke has a lot to say about large established codebases, Jacob Bartlett thinks Apple is ruining Swift’s original vision, Ahmed Khaleel built a cool tool for turning GitHub repos into interactive diagrams & Bridget Harris goes deep on the potential of crypto stablecoins to disrupt Visa and Mastercard’s duopoly.

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Mat Ryer is back! He plays the piano, we tell each other truths/lies, we pay homage to the 8” floppy disk, Mat accepts an open source medal, and so much more. It’s a real circus. MatGPT!

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• Floppy disk - Wikipedia
• stretchr/testify
• Piccadilly Circus - Wikipedia

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Rachel Plotnick joins us for the first show of 2025 to discuss her book “Power Button” and the research she did, and why we love/hate buttons so much. We also discuss her upcoming book “License to Spill” as well as the research she’s doing on energy drinks.

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• RachelPlotnick.com
• Touchscreens Are Out, and Tactile Controls Are Back.
• Power Button
• License To Spill

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M.G. Siegler goes way out on a limb with some BIG predictions of things that could happen this year, Simon Willison’s year-end roundup is a must-read and perhaps the only thing you have to read to get up-to-speed on the state of the LLM, Allen Pike describes a method for magic, Tom Critchlow thinks small databases are magic & James Stanier agrees with me about Parkinson’s Law and the usefulness of deadlines.

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Our 7th annual year-end wrap-up is here! We’re featuring 12 listener voicemails, dope Breakmaster Cylinder remixes & our favorite episodes of the year. Thanks for listening! 💚

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Many episodes were favorited more than once! We only list the first mention here…

AJ Kerrigan’s favs:

• We have a right to repair! with Kyle Wiens (Interviews #582)
• Building customizable ergonomic keyboards with Erez Zukerman (Interviews #608)
• Open source threaded team chat?! with Alya Abbott (Interviews #607)

Erno Voutilainen’s favs:

• Retirement is for suckers with Cameron Seay (Friends #36)
• #define: legendary with Thomas Eckert, Nick Nisi & Mat Ryer (Friends #47)
• Two tickets for Departure, please with Helena Zhang & Tobias Fried (Interviews #618)

Don Mackinnon’s favs:

• From Chef to System Initiative featuring Adam Jacob (Friends #55)
• Rails is having a moment (again) with DHH (Interviews #615)

Brett Cannon’s favs:

• From Sun to Oxide with Bryan Cantrill (Interviews #592)
• Free-threaded Python with Pablo & Łukasz (Interviews #611)
• Gradually gradually typing Elixir featuring José Valim (Friends #28)
• Linux distros with Jorge Castro (Ship It! #122)
• Let’s talk FreeBSD (finally) with Allan Jude (Interviews #574)
• The Oban Pros with Shannon & Parker Selbert (Friends #35)
• Why we need Ladybird with Andreas Kling & Chris Wanstrath (Interviews #604)
• Retired, not tired. with Kelsey Hightower (Interviews #595)

Nabeel Sulieman’s favs:

• The Moneyball approach with John Nunemaker (Interviews #612)
• Into the Bobiverse featuring Dennis E. Taylor (Interviews #603)

Rusty Nail’s favs:

• Lessons from 10k hours of programming (Remastered) with Matt Rickard (Interviews #613)
• “Founder Mode” at work when you’re not a founder (Go Time #332)
• The best, worst codebase with Jimmy Miller (Changelog Interviews #609)
• Bus factors & conspiracy theories (Friends #70)

Jamie Tanna’s favs:

• Yeeting stuff into public with Jamie Tanna (Friends #31)
• OpenAPI & API design with Jamie Tanna (Go Time #328)
• 1999: A Film Odyssey (Changelog++ 🔐) (Friends ++)
• Hack Club takes to the High Seas featuring Acon (Interviews #620)
• Gotta give to get back with Danny Thompson @ THAT (Interviews #617)

Jerod’s favs:

• We ain’t afraid of no Ghostty! with Mitchell Hashimoto (Interviews #622)
• Kaizen! NOT a pipe dream with Gerhard Lazu (Friends #50)
• You have how many open tabs?! featuring the hallway track at THAT (Friends #29)
• Future of [energy, content, food] featuring the hallway track at THAT (Friends #30)
• The man behind the Sandwich featuring Adam Lisagor (Interviews #601)
• Starbucks DVD peddlers with Emily Freeman & Justin Garrison (Friends #60)

Adam’s favs:

• In the beginning (of generative AI) with Joe Reis (Interviews #576)
• Shift left, seriously. with Deepak Prabhakara & Schalk Neethling (Interviews #575)

Also mentioned:

• Prime Digital Academy
• Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) - IMDb
• The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) - IMDb
• Jump Around - Wikipedia
• FreeBSD At 30: The History And Future Of The Most Popular BSD-Based OS

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Mitchell Hashimoto joins the show to discuss Ghostty, the newest terminal in town. Mitchell co-founded HashiCorp, took it all the way to IPO, exited in 2023—and now he’s working on a terminal emulator called Ghostty. Ghostty is set to 1.0 this month, so we sat down to talk through all the details.

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• First episode with Mitchell Hashimoto! Changelog Interviews #72: Vagrant and virtualized environments
• Ghostty 1.0 is Coming and more at Ghostty 👻.
• Zig - Zig is a general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal and reusable software.
• Warp
• Changelog & Friends #53: There’s a TUI for that
• Changelog Interviews #511: The terminal as a platform
• Changelog Interviews #555: Back to the terminal of the future
• Michael Flarup runs Pixel Resort and created the Ghostty icon

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This episodes diverges from our traditional fare. I’ve reviewed the 50 previous editions and picked (IMHO) the coolest code, best prose & my favorite podcast episode from each month!

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Gerhard is back for Kaizen 17! We discuss our CPU.fm changes in-depth, detail new Zulip / Neon integrations & put our Pipedream to the test. Oh, and a Gerhard surprise (of course)!

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• Discussion #525: 🎧 Kaizen 17
• iA Presenter
• A new era for the Changelog Podcast Universe (CPU.fm)
• #533: Enable team members to replace changelog_dev with a prod db dump
• #534: Enable team members to run dev with a Neon db branch
• Get started with 1Password CLI
• thechangelog/pipedream
• Namespace – Accelerate your developer workflow
• Hurl - Run and Test HTTP Requests
• vcr/vcr: Record and reply your test suite’s HTTP interactions
• pipely.tech

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Kurt Mackey is back for a deep dive into what it takes to build the developer cloud. Kurt joins Adam to discuss the alliance between companies and cloud, something Kurt refers to as the “Rebel Alliance,” cloud complexity vs usability, Fly’s future with Postgres and why they’ve waited, thoughts on Neon and Supabase (Kurt shares a hot take), and our CDN saga and plan to build a simple CDN on Fly called Pipely (still a Pipedream).

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• Founders Talk #80
• Tigris
• Upstash
• Supabase
• Neon
• Retool
• DHH shade on Fly
• Percona
• vantage.sh/cloud-cost-report
• Pipedream

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We’re making some big Changelog changes in 2025, the previously featured Stanford study on ghost engineers doesn’t live up to the hype, Git ingest is a simple service that turns any GitHub repository into a simple text ingest of its codebase, Simon Willison dishes out some hard-earned wisdom he acquired by working at Lanyrd / Eventbrite & Matheus Lima warns us about six mistakes that new managers make.

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Chris Coyier and Dave Rupert join Adam and Jerod for a ShopTalk & Friends conversation on the viability of the web, making content, ads to support that content, Codepen’s future plans, books, side quests, and social networks devaluing links.

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Big news - A new era for the Changelog Podcast Universe and CPU.fm launches in 2025.

• ShopTalk Show
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• Number Flow
• Dave’s bookshelf

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Jerod is joined by Hack Clubber Acon, who is fresh off the GitHub Universe stage and ready to tell us all about High Seas, a new initiative by Zach Latta and the Hack Club crew that’s incentivizing teens to build cool personal projects by giving away free stuff.

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• Leave us a voicemail for state of the “log”!
• How do you do, fellow Hack Clubbers? (Changelog Interviews #536)
• High Seas | Hack Club
• Apocalypse: Toronto’s zombified high school hackathon!
• Celeste
• Nitro Type | Competitive Typing Game | Race Your Friends
• Secret of Mana - Wikipedia

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Alex Russell answers the question, “If not React, then what?” Csaba Okrona identifies four core problems that create and reinforce knowledge silos, Rob Koch’s Markwhen is like Markdown for timelines, Jeff Geerling is quite impressed by Apple’s latest iteration on the Mac mini & Sylvain Kerkour took the time to draw a comparison of Amazon’s O.G. S3 service with Cloudflare’s R2 competitor.

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Nick Sweeting joins Adam and Jerod to talk about the importance of archiving digital content, his work on ArchiveBox to make it easier, the challenges faced by Archive.org and the Wayback Machine, and the need for both centralized and distributed archiving solutions.

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• WorkOS – AuthKit offers 1,000,000 monthly active users (MAU) free — The world’s best login box, powered by WorkOS + Radix. Learn more and get started at WorkOS.com and AuthKit.com

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• ArchiveBox
• ArchiveBox/abx-dl
• ArchiveBox/abx-pkg
• So you want to build a social network?
• The Internet Archive Loses Its Appeal of a Major Copyright Case
• Hachette v. Internet Archive | Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Fahrenheit 451 - Wikipedia
• Winamp Skin Museum
• Fiscal Sponsorship – Hack Club
• DigestBox

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Adam & Jerod hallway-track-it before our All Things Open interviews. We discuss the trend in rebooting old school vehicles, our likes & dislikes of EVs, the Hummer’s new crab walk, Tesla’s gambit & more (This episode is for Changelog++ ears only.)

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• Changelog++ (It’s better!)
• Scout Revival - YouTube
• “Push the Button” - YouTube
• Lidar - Wikipedia
• SUDDAR | Bobiverse Wiki
• Waymos make bad neighbors - YouTube

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Ben Affleck’s take on AI replacing actors, Stanford researcher (Yegor Denisov-Blanch) busts the ghost engineers, Electrobun takes a crack at Electron apps, April King opens up a cookies can of worms, John Arundel thinks many of us are making a career ending mistake & Typogram’s CodingFont.com is like Zoolander’s Walk Off but for coding fonts.

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Our friends Johannes Schickling & James Long join us to discuss the movement of local-first, its pros and cons, the tradeoffs, and the path to the warming waters of mostly local apps.

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• James’ local-first post
• Bear - Markdown Notes
• livestorejs · GitHub
• ElectricSQL | Postgres sync engine
• Overtone
• Zero Sync
• Automerge CRDT
• Jazz - Build local-first apps
• localfirst.fm
• Ink & Switch define “Local-first software”

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Today we’re joined by a dynamic duo, Helena Zhang & Tobias Fried, who team up on all sorts of digital passion projects. This includes the wildly popular Phosphor Icons plus their latest joint, Departure Mono, a monospaced pixel font with a lo-fi technical vibe… that both Adam & Jerod are pretty much in love with. We discuss their tastes & inspirations, how they collab, making money on passion projects like these, velvet ropes & so much more.

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Project sites

• Departure Mono
• Phosphor Icons

Fonts mentioned

• Iosevka
• Berkeley Mono
• Commit Mono
• IBM Plex
• Unifont

Other cool stuff

• A great library of old PC fonts
• Somebody made the game from Severance!

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Evan Doyle says AI makes tech debt more expensive, Hunter Ng researches the ghost job ad phenomenon, Gavin Anderegg analyzes Bluesky in light of its recent success, Martin Tournoij rants against best practices & Evan Schwartz tells us why he thinks binary vector embeddings are so cool.

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Adam & Jerod discuss the news! Our Merch sale, useful built-in macOS CLI utilities, the slow death of the hyperlink, systematically estimating a project’s bus factor, The Browser Company abandoning Arc, the Dead Internet theory & more!

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• Merch on sale!
• All Things Open AI Conference
• The Internet Archive is back as a read-only service after cyberattacks
• Useful built-in macOS command-line utilities
• The slow death of the hyperlink
• The github plugin my coworkers asked me not to write.
• The Bus Factor | MClare Blog
• A Novel Approach for Estimating Truck Factors
• Glass Onion (2022) - IMDb
• Knives Out (2019) - IMDb
• Arc is a dead browser walking (How-To Geek)
• Better version of the same story (via The Verge)
• You should go to conferences

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• IronCalc - Open-Source Spreadsheet Engine
• Why you’re bad at giving feedback

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• WP Engine Tracker
• wpenginetracker.com

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Changelog Merch is now on sale, IronCalc sets out to democratize spreadsheets, Grant Slatton writes about algorithms we develop software by, Mark Rainey gives respect to the ultimate in debugging, Gitpod is leaving Kubernetes & Johannes Kaufmann’s html-to-markdown converts entire websites into Markdown.

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We take you one last time back to the All Things Open 2024 hallway track to talk with some friends, new & old. We speak with Alex Kretzchmar about self-hosting. We speak with Israa Taha about self-confidence. We speak with Avindra Fernando & Adhithi Ravichandran about self-employment.

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• Self-hosted media server goodness (Changelog & Friends #44)
• Self-Hosted Show
• Nix & NixOS
• Self-Hosted 133: No Google October
• Perplexica is an AI-powered search engine
• Foo Camp - Wikipedia
• BarCamp - Wikipedia

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The hallway track at All Things Open 2024 — features Carl George, Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat for a discussion on the state of open source enterprise linux and RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux), Max Howell, creator of Homebrew and tea.xyz which offers rewards and recognition to open source maintainers, and Chad Whitacre, Head of Open Source at Sentry about the launch of Open Source Pledge and their plans to helps businesses and orgs to do the right thing and support open source.

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• RHEL
• AlmaLinux
• Rocky Linux
• tea.xyz
• opensourcepledge.com

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IEEE Spectrum reports on the return to physical buttons and dials, Microsoft released GenAIScript, iFixit’s Elizabeth Chamberlain announces a big Right to Repair win, Daniela Baron reimagines technical interviews & John O’Nolan, shares some thoughts on open source governance and how to create trust within technology, communities, and media

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We join the Whiskey Web and Whatnot podcast live from the hallway track at All Things Open 2024. Topics include: Chianti, content creation, open source, fake jobs, cancel culture, Silicon Valley (ding), frontend frustrations, the Roman empire & more.

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• Whiskey Web and Whatnot: Web Development, Neat
• Tenuta di Capraia Chianti Classico Riserva 2018

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(Includes expletives) David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH), creator of Ruby on Rails and co-owner of 37signals, joined the show to discuss this Rails moment and renewed excitement for Rails. We discuss hard opinions, developers being cooked too long in the JavaScript soup, finding developer joy, the pros and cons of the BDFL, the ongoing WordPress drama with WP Engine, and what’s to come in Rails 8.

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• Rails World 2024 Keynote - David Heinemeier Hansson
• What’s New in Ruby on Rails 8
• Rails is leaning hard into SQLite right now
• The Empowered Programmer (Justin Searls) - Rails World 2024
• Kamal - Deploy web apps anywhere
• LiteFS - Distributed SQLite
• Turso - libsql
• RubyGems.org
• Automattic is doing open source dirty
• Matt’s “Response to DHH”
• Capture less than you create
• My Freedom of Speech
• Open Source and Power with Matt Mullenweg (Rework podcast)
• Breaking Camp
• Our cloud-exit savings will now top ten million over five years

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Daniel Quinn weighs in on how to develop with Docker The Right Way, Mitchell Hashimoto says Ghostty will be publicly released this coming December, Kevin Li writes about the value of learning how to learn, The Browser Company moves on from Arc & the React Native team ships its new architecture.

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At the tail end of 2019, we got together with Quincy Larson to celebrate ten years of Changelog & five years of freeCodeCamp by recording back-to-back episodes on each other’s pods. Can you believe it’s now five years later and we’re all still here doing our thing?! Let’s learn what Quincy and the amazing community at freeCodeCamp have been up to!

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• Five years of freeCodeCamp (Changelog Interviews #369)
• Ten years of Changelog (Backstage #9)
• How to Learn to Code and Get a Developer Job [Full Book]
• Learn to Code RPG – A Visual Novel Video Game Where you Learn Computer Science Concepts
• podcast - freeCodeCamp.org

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Shay Banon, the creator of Elasticsearch, joins us to discuss pulling off a reverse rug pull. Yes, Elasticsearch is open source, again! We discuss the complexities surrounding open source licensing and what made Elastic change their license, the implications of trademark law, the personal and business impact of moving away from open source, and ultimately what made them hit rewind and return to open source.

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• Elasticsearch Is Open Source. Again!
• Changelog Interviews #429: Community perspectives on Elastic vs AWS
• Why we had to change Elastic licensing
• Changelog Interviews #578: What exactly is Open Source AI?
• Drafts of the Open Source AI Definition
• Llama.com
• “Llama the leading open source model family”

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Will Crichton wishes some naming conventions would die already, GitHub user brjsp noticed that Bitwarden’s new SDK dependency isn’t open source, Joaquim Rocha details his forking best practices, Sophie Koonin explains why you should go to conferences & Mike Hoye puts WordPress on SQLite.

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Zac Smith left his role leading Equinix Metal in June of 2023. Since then, he’s been thinking deeply about the present and potential future of data centers, OEMs, chip makers & more.

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• Building on global bare metal (Founders Talk #84)
• Whiplash (2014) - IMDb
• You’ll own nothing and be happy - Wikipedia
• From Sun to Oxide (Changelog Interviews #592)
• We have a right to repair! (Changelog Interviews #582)
• SSI Alliance
• Three Mile Island nuclear power plant will reopen for Microsoft
• Ethical Hacker Warns: Check Your Charger ASAP & What Happens After Clicking Adult Sites

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This week we’re going back in time to one of our top performing shows of all time where we talk with Matt Rickard about his blog post Reflections on 10,000 Hours of Programming. These reflections are about deliberately writing code for 10,000 hours. Most don’t apply to beginners. He was clear to mention that these reflections are purely about coding, not career advice or soft skills. If you count the reflections we cover on the show and be the first to comment the amount of reflections on this thread in Zulip, we’ll give you a coupon code to use for a 100% free t-shirt from the merch store. Good luck…

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• Heptagon of Configuration
• Linux Kernel Docs on commenting
• Ahmad Nassri on JS Party
• Todo or Die - Python Edition

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Nicholas Bloom finds WFH is powering a productivity boom, Matt Mullenweg has decided that WP Engine’s beatings will continue until morale improves, Levels.fyi has added a salary heat map, Gareth Edwards highlights just how fragile the Internet really is & Artem Zakirullin details how cognitive load is what really matters in software development.

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Go Time co-host, Johnny Boursiquot, joins Adam & Jerod to discuss not making the (first) cut, applying Founder Mode, being a cog (or not), realizing that companies are posting fake engineering jobs & the (maybe) imminent demise of the .io TLD.

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• “Founder Mode” at work when you’re not a founder (Go Time #332)
• I’m a cog.
• Ask HN: Who is pretending to be hiring?
• The Disappearance of an Internet Domain

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John Nunemaker joins us to share his new thesis for acquiring Rails based SaaS apps. He’s early days on his next big thing called Very Good Software and recently acquired Fireside, a podcast hosting service started by Dan Benjamin. This comes after many years since John’s acquisition of a lifetime of Speakerdeck to GitHub, which laid the foundation for these moves.

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• Acquiring Fireside
• Fireside.fm

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A bias against hyperlinking has developed on platforms, GitHub engineering continues to evolve Issues, Evan You announces VoidZero, some companies are only pretend hiring & Klaas van Schelven asks: does it scale (down)?

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Abi Noda, co-founder and CEO at DX, joins the show to talk through data shared from the Stack Overflow 2024 Developer Survey, why devs are really unhappy, and what they’re doing at DX to help orgs and teams to understand the metrics behind their developer’s happiness and productivity.

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• The One Number You Need to Increase ROI per Engineer (getdx.com)
• Measuring developer productivity with the DX Core 4 (getdx.com)
• @addyosmani - Good code is like a love letter
• Brian Reagan on pain

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Jerod is joined by the co-hosts of core.py , Pablo Galindo & Łukasz Langa, a podcast about Python internals by people who work on Python internals. Python 3.13 is right around the corner, which means the Global Interpeter Lock (GIL) is now experimentally optional! This is a huge deal as Python is finally free-threaded. There’s more to discuss, of course, so we get into all the gory details.

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• core.py
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• Free-threaded compatibility status tracking
• 🧵 Free-Threaded Wheels

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OpenFreeMap puts OpenStreetMap data on your website for free, Fatih Arslan builds a Dieter Rams inspired iPhone dock, Joseph Gentle thinks the Rust programming language feels like a first-gen product & the web dev community is debating the viability of Web Components once again.

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Nick Nisi joins Adam and Jerod to talk about Karaoke, ARC and the business model of web browsers, this WordPress drama, and an epic bonus for Changelog ++ subscribers.

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• Zulip with us!
• Enchanted iOS / macOS app
• Ollama
• Tuning a guitar with ChatGPT
• Arc CVE
• Pocket Casts iOS
• WP Engine is not WordPress
• WP Engine Cease and Desist (PDF)
• Automattic sends WP Engine its own cease-and-desist | TechCrunch
• WP Engine is banned from WordPress.org
• WP Engine is not WordPress
• Matt Talks About WordPress Situation
• These responses are like whoa

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Jerod is joined by Ryan Dahl to discuss his second take on leveling up JavaScript developers all around the world. Jerod asks Ryan why not try to fix or fork Node instead of starting fresh, how Deno (the open source project) can avoid the all too common rug pull (not cool) scenario, what’s new in Deno 2 & their pragmatic decision to support npm, they talk JSR, they talk Deno KV & SQLite, they even talk about Ryan’s open letter to Oracle in an attempt to free the unused “JavaScript” trademark from the giant’s clutches.

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• Node.js: The Documentary - YouTube
• From Node.js to Deno: How It All Began - YouTube
• 10 Things I Regret About Node.js - YouTube
• JSR: the JavaScript Registry
• rusty_v8: Rust bindings for the V8 JavaScript engine
• JavaScript™ (Dear Oracle)

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Mahmoud Mousa releases Sidekick, a tool for hosting side projects on a cheap VPS, Ryan Dahl, has had enough of Oracle bogarting “JavaScript” but not even using it, Thomas Rampelberg’s kty is a sweet terminal for Kubernetes, Redis users are considering alternatives after their relicense & a bunch of smart JS folks wrote up nine Node.js pillars.

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Gerhard Lazu joins us for Kaizen 16! Our Pipe Dream™️ is becoming a reality, our custom feeds are shipping, our deploys are rolling out faster & our tooling is getting just right.

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• Discussion #520: 🎧 Kaizen 16
• github.com/thechangelog/pipedream
• 🎬 Why we started building our single-purpose CDN for changelog.com
• Join us in Zulip
• Namespace – Accelerate your developer workflow
• Setup the app locally with just one command: just contribute #521

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Jimmy Miller talks to us about his experience with a legacy codebase at his first job as a programmer. The codebase was massive, with hundreds of thousands of lines of C# and Visual Basic, and a database with over 1,000 columns. Let’s just say Jimmy got into some stuff. There’s even a Gilfoyle involved. This episode is all about his adventures while working there.

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• Join our Zulip (It’s better than Slack)

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Scott Chacon writes up his insider take on GitHub’s success, Sentry wants other companies to take the Open Source Pledge, Benj Edwards used AI to reproduce his late father’s handwriting, Dave Kiss explains the current hype that PHP is getting & Taylor Otwell raises $57 million series A from Accel.

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Jerod & Adam share our Zulip first impressions, react to Elasticsearch going open source (again), discuss Christian Hollinger’s blog post on why he still self-hosts & answer a listener question: how do we produce podcasts?

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• Elasticsearch is Open Source, Again
• Elastic’s return to open source
• Why I still self host my servers (and what I’ve recently learned)
• Is Linux collapsing under its own weight? (Changelog News #111)
• We take requests!
• Grafana’s Big Tent
• Riverside: HD Podcast & Video Software
• Kaizen! Four PRs, one big feature (Ship It! #70)
• A guided tour through ID3 esoterica (Changelog Interviews #508)
• A Nick-level emergency (JS Party #333)

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Erez Zukerman shares the story of launching the ErgoDox EZ on Indiegogo (May 2015), what it takes to create customizable ergonomic keyboards, the benefits of split keyboards and custom key layouts, repairability and longevity, community engagement, and the attention to detail required in everything they create. We talk through their keyboard lineup, our personal experience with how we mouse and keyboard…we cover it all.

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• Changelog Interviews #582: We have a right to repair! with Kyle Wiens (iFixit)
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• ZSA.io
• DIY trackpad for the Voyager
• How to spray paint your keyboard
• ZSA cards
• Linus Tech Tips - Ergodox EZ Review
• Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic Keyboard
• Pagat.com - A website dedicated to cards and card games.
• Ergodox EZ on Indiegogo

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A Rust for Linux developer resigns amidst rising tension in the Linux community, Bret Victor shows off what he’s been working on for years, Rachel (by the bay) laments how useless “SRE” has become as a role, Doug Turnbull makes the case for hiring junior devs & Baldur Bjarnason says the LLM honeymoon phase is about to end.

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Emily Freeman joins the show alongside our Ship It co-host, Justin Garrison! We hear Emily’s burnout story & learn how she and Forrest Brazeal are putting tech-focused influencers on tap. But first: area code turf wars, bad movie reboots & buying used DVDs… at Starbucks?!

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• The Andromeda Strain
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We’re joined by Alya Abbott from Zulip, the open source, organized, threaded, team chat for distributed teams of all sizes. We talk about Zulip’s origins, how it’s open source, the way it’s led, no VC funding, what makes it different/better, how you can self-host it or use their cloud, moving to Zulip, contributing and being a part of the community…all the things.

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• chat.zulip.org
• Moving to Zulip
• zulip/zulip-terminal
• zulip/docker-zulip
• Flutter.dev

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The Cursor AI code editor raises $60 million, RedMonk’s Rachel Stephens tries to determine if rug pulls are worth it, Caleb Porzio details how he made $1 million on GitHub Sponsors, Elastic founder Shay Banon announces that Elasticsearch is open source (again) & Tomas Stropus writes about the art of finishing.

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What happens when you take two #define champs (Taylor Troesh, Thomas Eckert), a grizzled veteran (Adam Stacoviak), a british bard (Mat Ryer), a PhD (Carol Lee) & you pit them against each other in a game of fake tech definitions?! There’s only one way to find out…

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Ryan Worl, Co-founder and CTO at WarpStream, joins us to talk about the world of Kafka and data streaming and how WarpStream redesigned the idea of Kafka to run in modern cloud environments directly on top of object storage. Last year they posted a blog titled, “Kafka is dead, long live Kafka” that hit the top of Hacker News to put WarpStream on the map. We get the backstory on Kafka and why it’s so widely used, who created it and for what purpose, and the behind the scenes on all things WarpStream.

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• Apache Kafka - open-source distributed event streaming platform used by thousands of companies for high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration, and mission-critical applications.
• Current 2024
• Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka
• Bobby Brown - My Prerogative

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Waymo cars make bad neighbors, Leonardo Creed pulls together wisdom from Linus Torvalds & the Art of Unix Programming to conclude what good programmers worry about, Max Schmitt makes the argument that toast notifications create a bad user experience, ChartDB is a web-based database diagramming editor, Simon Tatham makes a list of code review anti-patterns & scientists confirm that ‘flow state’ is very much a thing.

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Adam & Jerod catch up with our ol’ friend, Suz Hinton! It’s been a couple years since Suz was a regular on JS Party. Since then, she moved back to Australia, earned a degree in cyber security & won a fidget spinner from the NSA… but that’s not all!

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• Suz on Changelog pods
• Suz on freeCodeCamp pod
• Suz Live coding: OSCON edition
• Lego Cooking - YouTube
• New Kids On The Block - Hangin’ Tough - YouTube
• NSA Codebreaker Challenge

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Flavors of Ship It on The Changelog — if you’re not subscribed to Ship It yet, do so at shipit.show or by searching for “Ship it” wherever you listen to podcasts. Every week Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash explore everything that happens after git push — and today’s flavors include running infrastructure in space, managing millions of machines at Meta, and what it takes to control your 3D printer with OctoPrint.

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• Anita Zhang – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Gina Häußge – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon
• Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

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This episode is from these original episodes of Ship it:

• Ship It! #92: Shipping in SPAAAACCEEE with Andrew Guenther from Orbital Sidekick
• Ship It! #102: Managing Meta’s millions of machines with Anita Zhang from Meta
• Ship It! #107: 3D printed infrastructure with Gina Häußge from OctoPrint

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Chris Stjernlöf got nerd-sniped and ended up writing down his practices of reliable software design, Ben Visness has had enough with the npm community’s propensity to pull in micro-libraries to suit every need, “Stay SaaSy” makes three metaphors for problem solving categories, Troy Hunt takes us inside the “3 billion people” National Public Data breach & Dasel is one data tool to rule them all.

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You won’t believe the bizarre secrets Jordan Eldredge found investigating corrupt Winamp skins (#7 will shock you)! You also won’t believe how long we can wax nostalgic about the era of Napster, Aladdin & Pearl Jam.

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• Webamp.org
• The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins
• Mainlining Nostalgia: Making the Winamp Skin Museum
• The Winamp Skin Museum is powered by an sqlite3 database
• Winamp Skin Museum
• AC/DC - Back In Black (Official 4K Video) - YouTube
• Tom Waits - “Alice” - YouTube
• A 1979 Tom Waits interview : r/OldSchoolCool
• Led Zeppelin - Black Dog (Official Audio) - YouTube
• Led Zeppelin IV - Wikipedia
• Jain - Makeba (Official Video) - YouTube
• One Jump Ahead - YouTube
• Justin Frankel - Wikipedia
• All Apologies - YouTube

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Andreas Kling and Chris Wanstrath have joined forces to form a non-profit called Ladybird Browser Initiative to manage the newly forked Ladybird browser. We discuss what it’s going to take to get to alpha, the why behind Ladybird, avoiding incentives other than those of the users, their plans for incremental adoption of Swift as the successor language over C++, and of course what they hope Ladybird can achieve as a truly independent open source browser that’s for the people.

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• Ladybird announcement (from Chris Wanstrath)
• Ladybird.org
• Ladybird Browser (on GitHub)
• The Changelog #10: All things GitHub with Chris Wanstrath
• Changelog Interviews #554: The serenity of building your own OS with Andreas Kling
• Swift.org
• Crafting Interpreters by Robert Nystrom (book)
• Click (2006) Official Trailer (from Adam Sandler)
• Plug: Void.dev
• Plug: Andreas Kling on YouTube
• Plug: Cozy lofi from Katalin Kult (ghost whiskers)

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Jimmy Miller tells us about the best, worst codebase he’s ever seen, The Phylum Research Team follows up on the great npm garbage patch, Zach Leatherman logs his findings on sneaky serverless costs, David Cain wants you to go on quests instead of goals & Ashley Janssen gives us szeven rules for effective meeting culture.

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Database aficionado, Ben Johnson, joins Jerod to answer the age ol’ question: which database should you use? Answering that isn’t always easy, which means it’s time to play the “It Depends” jingle & weigh (some of) the options.

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• Jepsen - Consistency Models
• LiteFS
• litestream
• rqlite
• BoltDB, InfluxDB, Key-Value Databases with Ben Johnson (Changelog Interviews #170)

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Dennis E. Taylor joins the show to take us “Into the Bobiverse” and other books he’s written. Dennis shares the backstory on how he went from programmer to author/writer and creator of Audible’s Best Science Fiction Book of 2016, his process for iterating and developing the story as he writes, plans for a Bobiverse movie, and what’s next in book 5 coming out in September 2024.

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• dennisetaylor.org
• We Are Legion (We Are Bob) - on Audible
• Not Till We Are Lost - on Audible
• Feedback - on Audible
• Xprize - Deep Tech + Quantum
• Self-replicating spacecraft on Wikipedia
• Hard science fiction on Wikipedia
• Dennis E. Taylor on Wikipedia

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The latest Stack Overflow Developer Survey has some concerning results, Joeri Sebrechts helps you do plain vanilla web dev, MIT’s “missing semester” course looks pretty amazing, a dive into the fascinating history of CSV & a tool to get request analytics from the nginx access logs.

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Adam Jacob goes solo with Adam for an epic pod into his journey to get to System Initiative. From SysAdmin at 8 years old, to discovering Linux and working for Mom-and-pop ISPs, to open source changing his life and starting Opscode and building Chef. Buckle up. This is a different flavor of “Friends” for you. Enjoy.

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• System Initiative
• Ximian
• Any Given Sunday speech
• I’ll Devour You! (I shall look forward to the fight)
• RIP Ezra Zygmuntowicz

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Joseph Jacks (JJ) is back! We discuss the latest in COSS funding, his thesis for investing in commercial open source companies, the various rug pulls happening out there in open source licensing, and Zuck/Meta’s generosity releasing Llama 3.1 as “open source.”

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• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

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• OSS Capital
• Changelog Interviews #320: Venture capital meets commercial OSS
• Mark Zuckerberg on Llama 3.1, Open Source, AI Agents, Safety, and more
• Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s AI Era
• Open Source AI Is the Path Forward
• Just realized that I’ve led 37 rounds of funding at incorporation where OSS Capital was the first investor on the cap table…
• Silicon Valley! Jian Yang’s New Pied Piper scene

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The Switzerland federal government requires releasing its software as open source, Google decides not to deprecate third-party cookies, Mark Zuckerberg says “open source” AI is the path forward, GitHub allows anyone access to deleted / private repository data & Tailscale wants to build a New Internet.

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Robert Ross joins us in CrowdStrike’s wake to dissect the largest outage in the history of information technology… and what it means for the future of the (software) world.

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• Inside the 78 minutes that took down millions of Windows machines
• How the CrowdStrike outage unfolded — a timeline
• Nick Burns, Your Company’s Computer Guy
• Real men test in production… The truth about the CrowdStrike disaster
• No More Blue Fridays
• House committee calls on CrowdStrike CEO to testify on global outage
• CrowdStrike CEO called to testify to Congress over cybersecurity’s firm role in global tech outage
• Beyond the Headlines: The Unsung Art of Software Outage Management

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Adam Lisagor (Sandwich Video founder) takes us behind the Sandwich to share his insights into the importance of storytelling in the tech industry, the value of helping Founders communicate their stories effectively, the details behind his new AI company, and the apps he’s making for Apple Vision Pro at Sandwich Vision.

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• Sandwich (Video)
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Brendan Gregg details how eBPF can help us have no more blue Fridays, Misty De Meo thinks GitHub is starting to feel like legacy software, Gavin D. Howard does not want Rust to be used for everything, The Notion team published a deep dive into how they used the WASM version of SQLite to improve browser performance & Gregor Ojstersek writes up how to build good relationships inside and outside your engineering teams.

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Nick Janetakis is back and this time we’re talking about TUIs (text-based user interfaces) — some we’ve tried and some we plan to try. All are collected from Justin Garrison’s Awesome TUIs repo on GitHub. This episode is “AI free.”

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• Justin Garrison’s awesome-tuis repo
• aristocratos/bashtop - Linux/OSX/FreeBSD resource monitor
• aristocratos/btop - A monitor of resources
• “Getting started with tmux” on YouTube
• Changelog Interviews #511: The terminal as a platform (with Will McGugan)
• LazyDocker - manage everything Docker
• Superfile - fancy and modern terminal file manager
• Ranger - VIM-inspired filemanager
• Elia - TUI for interacting with large language models
• Atuin - Making your shell magical
• Warp - the terminal reimagined

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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.