The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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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Show Notes:

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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Show Notes:

• 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

Links we didn’t get to

• 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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We’re on the main stage at THAT Conference with Danny Thompson. He has an amazing story and journey into tech. Thanks to our friends at Cloudflare for helping us get to THAT Conference earlier this year to enable this conversation.

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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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• Reflections on 10,000 Hours of Programming
• 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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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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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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• 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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• freeman + forrest

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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 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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• 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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• The Winamp Skin Museum is powered by an sqlite3 database
• Winamp Skin Museum
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• A 1979 Tom Waits interview : r/OldSchoolCool
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• 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.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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• LiteFS
• litestream
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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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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.

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• Disband the analytics team
• A gambler’s guide to giving talks
• gilesbowkett/archaeopteryx

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Marcus J. Ranum’s 2005 post on dumb ideas in computer security still holds up, Barry Jones argues why story points are useless, Posting is an HTTP client as a TUI, Varnish ceator Poul-Henning Kamp (phk) reflects on ten years of working on the HTTP cache & es-tookit is a major upgrade to Lodash.

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Shawn “swyx” Wang is back to talk with us about the state of DevRel according to ZIRP (the Zero Interest Rate Phenomenon), the data that backs up the rise and fall of job openings, whether or not DevRel is dead or dying, speculation of the near-term arrival of AGI, AI Engineering as the last job standing, the innovation from Cognition with Devin as well as their mis-steps during Devin’s launch, and what’s to come in the next innovation round of AI.

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• DevRel’s Death as Zero Interest Rate Phenomenon
• Measuring Developer Relations
• pandas
• Jasper AI
• Writer.com
• harvey.ai
• Cognition.ai
• Anthropic
• Changelog Interviews #594: Microsoft is all-in on AI: Part 2 (with Mark Russinovich, Eric Boyd & Neha Batra)
• The Rise of the AI Engineer
• AI News
• von Neumann probes (Self-replicating spacecraft)

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Paul Copplestone, CEO of Supabase (the meme-lord himself), joins the show to take us on the journey of Supabase leading Postgres for life, and how it all starts with Postgres as the base-layer substrate for the entire Supabase platform. They’re laser focused on the drive ahead, not the rear-view mirror.

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• Supabase.com
• Changelog News #54: 🔥 Supabase quietly went public today
• “Build in a weekend, scale to millions”
• 29% of Y Combinator batch (W24) use Supabase
• Oriole joins Supabase
• We are moving to General Availability (April 2024)
• Changelog #476: Supabase is all in on Postgres
• How to Run Supabase Locally
• Supabase local development
• Changelog #590: Good timing makes great products
• Fly Postgres, managed by Supabase

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Marcus Buffett writes his younger self programming advice, Swyx asks and answers whether or not DevRel is dead, the Ghost team opens up their ActivityPub server, Pongo is like MongoDB but on Postgres, Jack Kelly is funding Ladybird because he can’t fund Firefox & Hyrum’s Law.

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Adam & Jerod discuss the news! But first, we discuss how you can keep up with the software world (good question, Tyler Boyd!) On the docket: Developer job postings trend, the Ladybird Browser Initiative, the Polyfill.js supply chain attack & is the future self-hosted?

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• Software Development Job Postings on Indeed in the United States
• Announcing the Ladybird Browser Initiative
• Chris Wanstrath’s announcement
• Polyfill supply chain attack hits 100K+ sites
• The future is self-hosted

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Carol Lee (Clinical Scientist) shares her research on code review anxiety. We dive deep into her recent research paper “Understanding and Effectively Mitigating Code Review Anxiety”. We get into all the nooks and crannies of this topic — common code review myths, strategies for coping, the need for awareness and self-reflection, the value of exposure and practice to build confidence, the importance of team dynamics, respect, empathy, and connection, and more. This show is jam-packed with goodies for everyone…and we even give a nod to the work we did on our podcast Brain Science.

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• Carol’s research paper Understanding and Effectively Mitigating Code Review Anxiety
• Code Review Anxiety Workbook
• Developer Success Lab (or also)
• Brain Science
• Margin: Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial, and Time Reserves to Overloaded Lives
• Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

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Software developer jobs are trending down, the creator of dotenv creates a better dotenv, the Chrome team puts Gemini Nano AI model right inside your browser, a pollyfill.js supply chain attack hits 100k+ sites & Steph Ango asks, “What can we remove?”

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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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• 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
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  • corentinmusard/otel-cicd-action
• worldpagespeed.fly.dev
• pipedream.changelog.com
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Predrag Gruevski and Chris Krycho joined the show to talk about SemVer. We explore the challenges and the advantages of semantic versioning (aka SemVer), the need for improving the tooling around SemVer, where semantic versioning really shines and where it’s needed, Types and SemVer, whether or not there’s a better way, and why it’s not as simple as just opting out.

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• unison-lang.org
• TrueNAS SCALE
• React Versioning Policy
• Ubuntu version history
• semver-ts.org - Semantic Versioning for TypeScript Types
• The Wi-Fi only works when it’s raining
• April Cools
• obi1kenobi/trustfall
• How to Query Almost Everything (with Trustfall) - 10min tech talk
• More than 1 in 6 of the top Rust libraries has broken SemVer by accident
• How cargo-semver-checks works & why it’s important

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Søren Fuglede Jørgensen builds a font thats also an LLM, Hugo Landau writes about the demise of the mildly dynamic website, SQL Studio is the simplest little database explorer ever, Mathew Duggan reviews GitHub Copilot Workspace & Stephan Schmidt lays out the case against mocking + what to do instead.

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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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• 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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Jacob DePriest, VP and Deputy Chief Security Officer at GitHub, joins the show this week to talk about securing GitHub. From Artifact Attestations, profile hardening, preventing XZ-like attacks, GitHub Advanced Security, code scanning, improving Dependabot, and more.

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• Where does your software (really) come from?
• Keeping secrets out of public repositories
• GitHub Advanced Security
• Dependabot
• Introducing Artifact Attestations–now in public beta
• Software Bill of Materials (SBOM)
• 😶‍🌫️ Who in the world is Jia Tan?!

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Luminousmen writes about Senior Engineer Fatigue, Microsoft rethinks its AI-based Recall feature, Mike Hoye gives a big shout out to the “diff” program, Thom Holwerda covers ChromeOS’ quiet switch to Android Linux subsystems & Mihail Eric tells the inside story on how Alexa dropped the ball on being the top conversational system on Earth.

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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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• Apple WWDC 2024: the 13 biggest announcements
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• 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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Kelsey Hightower is back to share more of his wisdom. This time it’s one year after his retirement from Google. But guess what? He might be “retired,” but he’s not tired. In this episode Kelsey shares what drives him, what he fears, and how he thinks through his life choices and parenting. This is a good one.

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• “I’m retired, not tired.”
• Changelog & Friends #6: Even the best rides come to an end
• Run:ai
• Brondell Bidet
• From Sleeping in His Car to Distinguished Engineer at Google (Kelsey Hightower)

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Apple announces its “new” style of AI, piku gives you “git push” deployment on your own servers, Dabo Chen rebuilds nanoGPT in a spreadsheet, Mark Seemann thinks you’ll regret using natural keys in your database design & Glyph Lefkowitz describes his grand unified theory of the AI hype cycle.

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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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Mark Russinovich, Eric Boyd & Neha Batra join us to discuss the state of AI for Microsoft and OpenAI at Microsoft Build 2024. It’s safe to say that Microsoft is all-in on AI.

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• Mark Russinovich, Author on Amazon

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A popular open source iOS authenticator app goes rogue under new ownership, Andreas Kling steps back from SerenityOS & forks Ladybird, Vhyrro takes a thought-provoking try at a “static effect system”, Matt Bessey is over GraphQL & Marc-Andre Giroux still likes GraphQL sometimes (in the right context).

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

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Scott Guthrie joins the show this week from Microsoft Build 2024 to discuss Microsoft being all-in on AI. From Copilot, to Azure AI and Prompty, to their developer first focus, leading GitHub, VS Code being the long bet that paid off, to the future of a doctor’s bedside manner assisted with AI. Microsoft is all-in on AI and Build 2024’s discussions and announcements proves it.

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Swizec’s article on not using AI to writes tests, LlamaFs is a self-organizing file system with Llama 3, a Pew Research analysis confirmed that the internet is full of broken links, Sam Rose built a spectacular interactive study of queueing strategies & Jordan Cutler shares a real-life experience of him writing clear/readable code… and it backfiring.

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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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Bryan Cantrill, Co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company, joins Adam to share his journey from Sun to Oxide – from Sun and Fishworks, to DTrace, to ZFS, to Joyent and Node.js, and now working to build on-prem cloud servers as they should be at Oxide.

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• Shouting in the Datacenter
• Efficiency you can hear
• Joyent
• Changelog Interviews #475: Making the ZFS file system with Matt Ahrens, co-founder of the ZFS project
• Oxide
• Oxide Principles
• Oxideo Docs: Hypervisor and Storage
• Changelog Interviews #155: The Future of Node.js with Scott Hammond
• TJ Holowaychuk’s Farewell Node.js

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Taylor Troesh writes Kyle explaining “Legacy Software” to the aliens, Vitaly Friedman addresses why so many designers feel misunderstood and under appreciated in business contexts, Oracle dumps Terraform for OpenTofu & hackers discover how to reprogram NES Tetris from within the game.

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• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

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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• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

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• 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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Birk Jernström from Polar joins the show to tell us all about the creator platform for developers: why he built it, how it works, why it works how it works, what’s in store for the future & we even give Birk some super deep UX feedback on the funding flow.

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• Polar
• SerenityOS on Polar
• SerenityOS issues on Polar
• SerenityOS on GitHub
• David Hewitt on Polar
• GitHub Sponsors
• Open Collective
• Vagrant and Virtualized Environments with Mitchell Hashimoto (Changelog Interviews #72)
• The serenity of building your own OS with Andreas Kling (Changelog Interviews #554)

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Tim Fisken explains the problem with soft deletion, a simple measure of software dependency freshness is proposed, a deep-dive on sound design in software, a web app with over 80 handy developer tools built in & Luke Plant reminds us that programming mantras are proverbs, not laws.

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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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• Coda – Your all-in-one collaborative workspace. Coda brings teams and tools together for a more organized work day.

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

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• 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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Paul Orlando is back to talk about his book titled “Why Now?” You may remember Paul from his last appearance (a fan favorite) talking with Jerod about complex systems & second-order effects. Paul’s book, “Why Now?” explores the concept of timing and the importance of understanding the ‘why now’ in business and product development. We discuss timing examples from the book that were either too early or too late (such as the first video phone and car phones), the need to consider both technological advancements and user demand when assessing timing, the significance of timing in the success of companies like Apple and the launch of the iPhone, Uber and Heroku, and more. Also, join our Slack community for a chance to get a signed copy of Paul’s book.

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

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• Why Now: How Good Timing Makes Great Products (by Paul Orlando)
• StartupsUnplugged.com
• Unintended Consequences (Systems, complexity, second-order effects)
• Changelog #474: Complex systems & second-order effects
• Catching up with Yahoo’s Fire Eagle geolocation service
• The Web 2.0 Show #46 - Fire Eagle
• The Conjoined Triangles of Success
• The confidential YouTube Investment Memo by Sequoia you were never meant to see

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Bahaa Zidan says your web framework doesn’t matter, DHH writes about magic machines, Dylan Huang reviews thousands of opinions on HTMX, Tim Ottinger says programming is thinking & Tim Spann says small language models (SLM) for the win.

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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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• 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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This week we’re joined by Dustin Bluck to discuss his acquisition of the well known (and beloved) Castro podcast app to take it indie-focused once again. As previous users of Castro, we were excited to dig into the details behind this popular podcast client to see what’s next, how the deal was done, a peek into the code, and where exactly this indie and creator focused podcast app can go.

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

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• A Fresh Start for Castro
• Podcast app Castro now owned by indie developer Bluck Apps
• I am the owner of Castro Podcasts. Ask me anything!

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Daniel Hooper lists out all the good ideas in computer science, Jeff Geerling declares 2024 the year corporate open source dies, Jared Turner says all kinds of works-in-progress are waste, Daroc Alden covers the leadership crisis in the Nix community & John Hawthorn explains why Ruby may be faster than you think.

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