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In case you missed it, last week we published two great shows. Ashley Jeff's Ongoing from Open Source to Acquired. One listener called it very funny and a great guest choice plus interesting story. And of course we had a Fallout boy, I mean...

In case you missed it, last week we published two great shows. Ashley Jeff's Ongoing from Open Source to Acquired. One listener called it very funny and a great guest choice plus interesting story. And of course we had a Fallout boy, I mean...

Fall Through Boys, Chris Brando, and Matthew Sanabria joining me on ChangeLoginFriends to discuss tools for switching to, whether or not Go is still a great systems programming language choice, user-centric documentation, the need for archivists, and more.

Fall Through Boys, Chris Brando, and Matthew Sanabria joining me on ChangeLoginFriends to discuss tools for switching to, whether or not Go is still a great systems programming language choice, user-centric documentation, the need for archivists, and more.

Find those in your feed and look forward to this week when we are joined on Wednesday by Globber Costa to talk about Limbo, a complete rewrite of SQLite in Rust, and on Friday by Dan Moore for an It Depends style conversation on modern auth technology. strategies. Have a great week. Leave us a five-star review if you dig the show, and I'll talk to you again real soon.

Find those in your feed and look forward to this week when we are joined on Wednesday by Globber Costa to talk about Limbo, a complete rewrite of SQLite in Rust, and on Friday by Dan Moore for an It Depends style conversation on modern auth technology. strategies. Have a great week. Leave us a five-star review if you dig the show, and I'll talk to you again real soon.

What up, nerds? I'm Jared, and this is ChangeLog News for the week of Monday, January 20th, 2025. Have you ever heard of Coyote Time? No, not your annual Coyote Ugly rewatch party. Coyote Time is an affordance in video game design where the game intentionally waits a brief period after you run off the side of a platform before it plummets you to your imminent demise.

What up, nerds? I'm Jared, and this is ChangeLog News for the week of Monday, January 20th, 2025. Have you ever heard of Coyote Time? No, not your annual Coyote Ugly rewatch party. Coyote Time is an affordance in video game design where the game intentionally waits a brief period after you run off the side of a platform before it plummets you to your imminent demise.

It's named after the wily coyote cartoons and it's apparently been making me feel better at video games than I actually am for the entirety of my life. Ignorance, as they say, is bliss. Okay, let's get into this week's news. It's time to make computing personal again.

It's named after the wily coyote cartoons and it's apparently been making me feel better at video games than I actually am for the entirety of my life. Ignorance, as they say, is bliss. Okay, let's get into this week's news. It's time to make computing personal again.

Benj Edwards deftly describes how surveillance capitalism and DRM turned home tech from friend to foe by asking a litany of rhetorical questions about the past. What percentage of your income had to go towards annual software subscriptions on a 20th century Windows PC? Which part of this TV set kept track of everything you watched and then secretly sold the data to advertisers?

Benj Edwards deftly describes how surveillance capitalism and DRM turned home tech from friend to foe by asking a litany of rhetorical questions about the past. What percentage of your income had to go towards annual software subscriptions on a 20th century Windows PC? Which part of this TV set kept track of everything you watched and then secretly sold the data to advertisers?

Which part of Windows 95 fed you ads without your consent and kept track of everything you did remotely so Microsoft could keep stats on it? Which part of Amazon.com in 2000 tried to get you to buy millions of no-name counterfeit and dangerous goods propped up by stealth advertising and fake reviews?

Which part of Windows 95 fed you ads without your consent and kept track of everything you did remotely so Microsoft could keep stats on it? Which part of Amazon.com in 2000 tried to get you to buy millions of no-name counterfeit and dangerous goods propped up by stealth advertising and fake reviews?

Which part of Google in the 1990s and early 2000s blanketed its results with deceptive ads or made you add Reddit to every search to get good results that weren't overwhelmed by SEO-seeking filler content? When you say it like that, Benj... He continues, quote, End quote.

Which part of Google in the 1990s and early 2000s blanketed its results with deceptive ads or made you add Reddit to every search to get good results that weren't overwhelmed by SEO-seeking filler content? When you say it like that, Benj... He continues, quote, End quote.

Benj has a few ideas on what we can do individually to push this idea forward, but he believes it will take collective action to make meaningful changes. Whether through purposeful reform or the eventual collapse of digital strip mining, I believe the personal computer will eventually rise again along with our chance to reclaim control of our digital lives. Thoughts on a month with Devin.

Benj has a few ideas on what we can do individually to push this idea forward, but he believes it will take collective action to make meaningful changes. Whether through purposeful reform or the eventual collapse of digital strip mining, I believe the personal computer will eventually rise again along with our chance to reclaim control of our digital lives. Thoughts on a month with Devin.