The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

19 Sep 2025

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Carl George joins the show to talk about Texas Linux Fest, Omarchy, Linux desktop environments, conf...

17 Sep 2025

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Everything is changing. Adam is joined by his good friend Beyang Liu from Sourcegraph — this time,...

15 Sep 2025

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Zach Gates quantifies the value of automating things, Albania's new prime minister names an AI "mini...

08 Sep 2025

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Mike Judge breaks down why he doesn't believe the AI coding claims add up, the folks behind Cactoide...

03 Sep 2025

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Jim Remsik has lived on the bleeding edge (but also the heart's center) of the Ruby world for decade...

02 Sep 2025

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Dominik Meca is infuriated by Next.js, Josh Bressers explains why open source is just one person, Hu...

29 Aug 2025

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Arun Gupta, now a "free agent" after his surprise exit from Intel, joins us to discuss how he's deal...

27 Aug 2025

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Our friends at Cult.Repo launched their epic Python documentary on August 28th, 2025! To celebrate, ...

25 Aug 2025

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Elon Musk and xAI take on Microsoft, DHH ships version 2 of Omarchy (his love letter to Linux), Glyn...

22 Aug 2025

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Our Changelog & Friends proof-of-concept with Mat Ryer has been remastered! Now with full-length vid...

21 Aug 2025

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The epic show with Adam Jacob has been remastered! Now with full-length video on YouTube. Adam goes ...

18 Aug 2025

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Cursor has a big problem, Alireza Bashiri thinks plaintext beats todo apps, Manish built an offline ...

15 Aug 2025

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Bryan Cantrill returns in the wake of Oxide Computer Company's $100M Series B. Bryan tells us how he...

14 Aug 2025

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Dr. Ewelina Kurtys is leading the way in biocomputing at FinalSpark where she is working on the next...

11 Aug 2025

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Open source maintainers share their regrets, Thomas Dohmke steps down as GitHub CEO, James Kettle br...

08 Aug 2025

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Gerhard calls Kaizen 20, 'The One Where We Meet'. Rightfully so. It's also the one where we eat, hik...

06 Aug 2025

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We're LIVE at the historic Oriental Theater in Denver, CO with Nora Jones. Nora is the founder of Je...

04 Aug 2025

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Alex Kondov knows when you've been vibe coding. (He can smell it.) our friends at Charm release a Go...

01 Aug 2025

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Adam & Jerod (plus zero other randos) dig into Stack Overflow's 2025 developer survey results. We di...

31 Jul 2025

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Greg Osuri, Founder and CEO of Akash Network joins us to share the backstory in his testimony before...

28 Jul 2025

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Jono Alderson takes aim at SPAs thanks to modern CSS, copyparty turns almost any device into a file ...

25 Jul 2025

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Welcome back to #define, our game of obscure jargon, fake definitions, and expert tomfoolery. This t...

23 Jul 2025

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Sugu Sougoumarane, creator of Vitess, comes off sabbatical to bring Vitess to Postgres. We discuss w...

21 Jul 2025

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Przemysław Dębiak beat an advanced AI model from OpenAI in a 10-hour head-to-head coding marathon,...

18 Jul 2025

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Nick Nisi joins us to discuss all the Windsurf drama, his new agentic lifestyle, whether or not he's...

17 Jul 2025

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David Hsu from Retool joins Adam to discuss how he built Retool. From the pivot in YC, to building t...

14 Jul 2025

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Researchers in Japan achieve a world record in data transmission speeds, Robin Sloan explains how an...

Fri, 11 Jul

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Abi Noda from DX is back to share some cold, hard data on just how productive AI coding tools are ac...

Thu, 10 Jul 2025 12:15:00 +0000

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We talk with Don MacKinnon, Co-founder and CTO of Searchcraft—a lightspeed search engine built in ...

Mon, 07 Jul

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Justin Searls describes the "full-breadth developer" and why they'll win because AI, Cloudflare come...

Fri, 04 Jul

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Jeff Cayley joins Adam to talk about selling mountain bikes all over the planet and making some of t...

Wed, 02 Jul

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Thorsten Ball returned to Sourcegraph to work on Amp because he believes being able to talk to an al...

Mon, 30 Jun

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David Singleton says coding agents have crossed a chasm, Anton Zaides explains how SWEs should appro...

Fri, 27 Jun

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Our old friend Chris McCord, creator of Elixir's Phoenix framework, tells us all about his new remot...

Fri, 27 Jun

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Chris Anderson joins the show. You may recognize Chris from the early days of CouchDB and Couchbase....

Fri, 20 Jun

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Jerod tells Adam about how bad he hates the taste of Gin, sips on some Generative A Rye (on the rock...

Wed, 18 Jun

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Jerod is joined by Carson Gross, the creator of htmx –a small, zero-dependency JavaScript library ...

Mon, 16 Jun

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Lukas Mathis tells us to stop uploading our data to Google, Robert Vitonsky wants web devs to not gu...

Fri, 13 Jun

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Justin Searls joins Jerod in Apple's WWDC wake for hot takes about frosty UIs. We go (almost) point-...

Wed, 11 Jun

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Jerod chats with Richard Feldman about Roc – his fast, friendly, functional language inspired by R...

Mon, 09 Jun

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Diwank explains why you should never let AI writes your tests, Apple redesigns all of their software...

Fri, 06 Jun

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The ever-provocative Steve Yegge joins us fresh off a vibe coding bender so productive, he wrote a b...

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 12:30:00 +0000

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We're on location at Microsoft Build 2025 with Amanda Silver, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft'...

Mon, 02 Jun

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We're doing a live show in Denver this July, Danilo Alonso has seen the 'developer replacement' hype...

Sat, 31 May

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We bring you back to Microsoft Build 2025 to nerd out with Craig Loewen on Windows Subsystem for Lin...

Fri, 30 May

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We're joined by Andreas Møller, Co-founder of Nordcraft — the team behind Nordcraft Engine, a pow...

Tue, 27 May 2025 21:15:00 +0000

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The San Fransisco Standard published some sobering news for new graduates, the Forge team decided to...

Fri, 23 May

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We sit down with Scott Hanselman at Microsoft Build 2025 to discuss open sourcing all the things, co...

Fri, 23 May

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Preston Thorpe joins us from inside prison, where he awaits a hopeful release within the next 12 mon...

Mon, 19 May

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Microsoft finally opens the source of WSL, Paolo Scanferla describes an inherent trade-off in TypeSc...

Fri, 16 May

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Welcome back to #define, our game of obscure jargon, fake definitions, and expert tomfoolery. We've ...

Fri, 16 May

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Derek Collison — creator of NATS and Co-founder & CEO of Synadia — joins the show to dive into t...

Mon, 12 May

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Rasmus Holm takes a critical look at MCP, Stefan Judis shares a new term he learned from Scott Hanse...

Fri, 09 May

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Kaizen 19 has arrived! Gerhard has been laser-focused on making Jerod's pipe dream a reality by putt...

Wed, 07 May

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Nathan Sobo is back talking about the next big thing for Zed—agentic editing! You now have a full-...

Mon, 05 May

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The DOJ's beef with Google might spell doom for Mozilla, Clayton Ramsey makes a plea for not using C...

Fri, 02 May

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Our old friend, Zeno Rocha, returns to discuss email etiquette, the strange new world of AI SEO, the...

Thu, 01 May 2025 21:30:00 +0000

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Drew Wilson is back! It's been more than a decade since Adam and Drew have spoken and wow, Drew has ...

Mon, 28 Apr

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Zach Bellay tells us about the devil and the angel on his shoulders, Pete Koomen thinks today's AI a...

Fri, 25 Apr

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Join us on a journey to make believe worlds with our good friend Mat Ryer. The assignment; we each g...

Wed, 23 Apr

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Kendall Miller is a bubbly extrovert who sticks his fingers in a lot of pies. He advises tech compan...

Mon, 21 Apr

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We drop our fourth Changelog Beats album, Dex Horthy proposes the 12-factor AI agent, Thorsten Ball ...

Fri, 18 Apr

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Nick Nisi joins us to confess his AI subscription glut, drool over some cool new hardware gadgets, d...

Wed, 16 Apr

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Anthony Eden, Founder & CEO of DNSimple, joins the show to talk about the world of managed hosting f...

Mon, 14 Apr

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Google announces an open protocol for AI agent collaboration, Datastar is an Alpine.js / htmx love c...

Sat, 12 Apr

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Richard Moot joins us to discuss Changelog helping Square launch a developer pod and the excitement ...

Thu, 10 Apr 2025 22:00:00 +0000

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Stephan Ewen, Founder and CEO of Restate.dev joins the show to talk about the coming era of resilien...

Mon, 07 Apr

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Daniel Kokotajlo and the AI Futures Project lays out a potential scenario of superhuman AI's impact,...

Fri, 04 Apr

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Jerod turns Adam into Lego, a Walrus, and a Walrus in the style of Studio Ghibli...and so much more....

Wed, 02 Apr

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In July of 2020, Joran Dirk Greef stumbled into a fundamental limitation in the general-purpose data...

Mon, 31 Mar

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Theodore Morley wonders why tech workers so frequently point our wanderlust toward hands-on trades, ...

Fri, 28 Mar

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Long-time JS Party panelist Amal Hussein joins Jerod to catch up on her career path, to opine on the...

Wed, 26 Mar

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This week we're bringing you a remaster of our epic 2021interview with Lara Hogan -- author of Resil...

Mon, 24 Mar

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Steve Yegge's latest rant about the future of "coding", Ethan McCue shares some life altering Postgr...

Fri, 21 Mar

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Justin Searls from Breaking Change joins the show to discuss Apple's Intelligence blunder, the end o...

Thu, 20 Mar 2025 14:00:00 +0000

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Ilya Grigorik and his team at Shopify has been hard at work securing ecommerce checkouts from sophis...

Mon, 17 Mar

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Amelia Wattenberger bemoans the computer's great flattening, the Learnk8s team lets you manage your ...

Fri, 14 Mar

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Adam's friend on the frontend, John Long joins the show to explore his usage of AI, design tools and...

Wed, 12 Mar

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Beyang Liu, the CTO & Co-founder of Sourcegraph is back on the pod. Adam and Beyang go deep on the i...

Mon, 10 Mar

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Vibe coding is the new vibe, AI engineers are all taking about MCP, Tom Usher wants you to kill your...

Fri, 07 Mar

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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...

Fri, 07 Mar

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Antirez has returned to Redis! Yes, Salvatore Sanfilippo (aka Antirez), the creator of Redis has ret...

Mon, 03 Mar

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Allen Pike on the JavaScript ecosystem after a decade away, Lars Wirzenius was there at the birth of...

Fri, 28 Feb

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It's Kaizen 18! Can you believe it? We discuss the recent Fly.io outage, some little features we've ...

Thu, 27 Feb 2025 18:00:00 +0000

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Anurag Goel, Founder/CEO of Render, joins Adam to discuss what they're doing to solve cloud problems...

Mon, 24 Feb

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Kane Narraway thinks through the radical change AI tools have brought to the technical interview pro...

Fri, 21 Feb

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Jerod and Adam use Chris Kiehl's post on development topics he's changed his mind on (over the last ...

Wed, 19 Feb

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For the past year, David Crawshaw has intentionally sought ways to use LLMs while programming, in or...

Mon, 17 Feb

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Declan Chidlow proposes that AI is stifling tech adoption, Ariel Salminen shares 17 pieces of advice...

Fri, 14 Feb

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Fire up a REPL, grab your favorite Stephen King novel, and hold on to the seat of your pants! Jimmy ...

Thu, 13 Feb 2025 13:00:00 +0000

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Arun Gupta is back, this time with his latest book in hand titled "Fostering Open Source Culture" to...

Mon, 10 Feb

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Bill Maher excoriates the software industry for making our lives more difficult, two professors from...

Fri, 07 Feb

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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-p...

Wed, 05 Feb

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After 30+ years in the software industry, Bert Hubert has experienced a lot. He founded PowerDNS, pu...

Mon, 03 Feb

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Tim Sh tracked himself down through in-app ads, Sniffnet comfortably monitors your Internet traffic,...

Fri, 31 Jan

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Dan Moore from FusionAuth joins us for a wide-ranging discussion about modern auth strategies. We ta...

Thu, 30 Jan 2025 13:00:00 +0000

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Glauber Costa, co-founder and CEO of Turso, joins us to discuss libSQL, Limbo, and how they're rewri...

Mon, 27 Jan

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Xuan-Son Nguyen opened a low-level code PR written 99% by DeepSeek-R1, Adam Wathan announces the rel...

Fri, 24 Jan

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Kris Brandow & Matthew Sanabria from Fallthrough.fm join Jerod to discuss tools we're switching to, ...

Thu, 23 Jan 2025 14:00:00 +0000

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Ashley Jeffs shares his journey with Benthos, an open source stream processor that was acquired by R...