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The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA (News)

28 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

#define: props to astronomer (Friends)

25 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

Bringing Vitess to Postgres (Interview)

23 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

Humanity has prevailed (for now!) (News)

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,...

Try harder. Ultrathink! (Friends)

18 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

Pivoting to Retool (Interview)

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...

An app can be a home-cooked meal (News)

14 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

Measuring the actual impact of AI coding (Friends)

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...

Lightspeed search built for devs (Interview)

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 ...

Full-breadth developers for the win (News)

Mon, 07 Jul

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

Selling mountain bikes all over the planet (Friends)

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...

Agent, take the wheel (Interview)

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...

Coding agents have crossed a chasm (News)

Mon, 30 Jun

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

Let's build something phoenix.new (Friends)

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...

When vibe coding goes viral (Interview)

Fri, 27 Jun

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

Just on the rocks (Friends)

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...

The CEO of htmx likes codin' dirty (Interview)

Wed, 18 Jun

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

Stop uploading your data to Google (News)

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...

Saltiness about frostiness (Friends)

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-...

The Roc programming language (Interview)

Wed, 11 Jun

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

Never. Let. AI. Write. Your. Tests. (News)

Mon, 09 Jun

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

Adventures in babysitting coding agents (Friends)

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...

We're all Builders now (Interview)

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'...

The 'developer replacement' hype cycle (News)

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...

wsl.exe -- cat hello.cs (Friends)

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...

The Web Development Engine (Interview)

Fri, 30 May

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

Entry-level tech jobs are getting wiped out (News)

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...

Dull, dirty or dangerous (Friends)

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...

Refactored in prison (Interview)

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...

Windows Subsystem for Linux is open source (News)

Mon, 19 May

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

#define: I'm going pants (Friends)

Fri, 16 May

Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset

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

NATS and the CNCF kerfuffle (Interview)

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...

A critical look at MCP (News)

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...

Kaizen! Tip of the Pipely (Friends)

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...

Building Zed's agentic editing (Interview)

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-...

Firefox could be doomed (News)

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...

When life gives you LLMs... (Friends)

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...

Chasing that next BIG thing (Interview)

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 ...

I just want to code (News)

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...

Hello, Matworld! (Friends)

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...

Make sales not features (Interview)

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...

Fresh beats for endless flow state (News)

Mon, 21 Apr

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

Vibing into the vibe (Friends)

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...

Making DNSimple (Interview)

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...

Google's new protocol has AI agents talkin' (News)

Mon, 14 Apr

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

Proud pod parents (Friends)

Sat, 12 Apr

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

The era of durable execution (Interview)

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...

The AI 2027 scenario (News)

Mon, 07 Apr

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

Turn him into a walrus (Friends)

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....

The 1000x faster financial database (Interview)

Wed, 02 Apr

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

The idealization of farming by tech (News)

Mon, 31 Mar

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

Of agents & agency (Friends)

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...

Leading leaders who lead engineers (remastered) (Interview)

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...

Revenge of the junior developer (News)

Mon, 24 Mar

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

Here's my Siri theory (Friends)

Fri, 21 Mar

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

Securing ecommerce: "It's complicated" (Interview)

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...

Our interfaces have lost their senses (News)

Mon, 17 Mar

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

Friends on the frontend (Friends)

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...

Reaching industrial economies of scale (Interview)

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...

Everyone is talking about MCP (News)

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...

Friendly Feud: JS Party Edition (Friends)

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...

Antirez returns to Redis! (Interview)

Fri, 07 Mar

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

JavaScript fatigue strikes back (News)

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...

Kaizen! Pipely goes BAM (Friends)

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 ...

Building for application developers (Interview)

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...

AI killed the tech interview. Now what? (News)

Mon, 24 Feb

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

Change my mind (Friends)

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 ...

Programming with LLMs (Interview)

Wed, 19 Feb

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

AI is stifling tech adoption (News)

Mon, 17 Feb

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

Discovering discovery coding (Friends)

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 ...

Fostering open source culture (Interview)

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...

Tech is supposed to make our lives easier (News)

Mon, 10 Feb

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

The state of homelab tech (2025) (Friends)

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...

Build software that lasts! (Interview)

Wed, 05 Feb

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

Everyone knows your location (News)

Mon, 03 Feb

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

Over the top auth strategies (Friends)

Fri, 31 Jan

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

Turso is rewriting SQLite in Rust (Interview)

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...

DeepSeek-R1's epic pull request (News)

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...

Fallthrough & Friends (Friends)

Fri, 24 Jan

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

From open source to acquired (Interview)

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...

Make computing personal again (News)

Mon, 20 Jan

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Benj Edwards wants to put the "personal" back in "personal computer", the answer.ai folks took Devin...

Other people's robots (Friends)

Fri, 17 Jan

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Jerod & Adam discuss Nvidia's recently announced personal AI supercomputer, Waymo's latest infinite ...

The world of embedded systems (Interview)

Wed, 15 Jan

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Elecia White, host of Embedded.fm and author of Making Embedded Systems, joins us to discuss all thi...

The new $30,000 side hustle (News)

Mon, 13 Jan

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Bloomberg reports on a concerning new trend in tech hiring, Sean Goedecke has a lot to say about lar...

It's a peccadillo circus (Friends)

Fri, 10 Jan

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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...

The power of the button (Interview)

Thu, 09 Jan 2025 00:30:00 +0000

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Rachel Plotnick joins us for the first show of 2025 to discuss her book "Power Button" and the resea...

10 big predictions for 2025 (News)

Mon, 06 Jan

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M.G. Siegler goes way out on a limb with some BIG predictions of things that could happen this year,...

State of the "log" 2024 (Friends)

Fri, 20 Dec

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Our 7th annual year-end wrap-up is here! We're featuring 12 listener voicemails, dope Breakmaster Cy...

We ain't afraid of no Ghostty! (Interview)

Wed, 18 Dec

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Mitchell Hashimoto joins the show to discuss Ghostty, the newest terminal in town. Mitchell co-found...

The code, prose & pods that shaped 2024 (News)

Mon, 16 Dec

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This episodes diverges from our traditional fare. I've reviewed the 50 previous editions and picked ...

Kaizen! Three wise men? (Friends)

Fri, 13 Dec

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Gerhard is back for Kaizen 17! We discuss our CPU.fm changes in-depth, detail new Zulip / Neon integ...

Building the developer cloud (Interview)

Thu, 12 Dec 2024 14:00:00 +0000

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Kurt Mackey is back for a deep dive into what it takes to build the developer cloud. Kurt joins Adam...

A new era for the Changelog Podcast Universe (News)

Mon, 09 Dec

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We're making some big Changelog changes in 2025, the previously featured Stanford study on ghost eng...

ShopTalk & Friends (Friends)

Fri, 06 Dec

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Chris Coyier and Dave Rupert join Adam and Jerod for a ShopTalk & Friends conversation on the viabil...

Hack Club takes to the High Seas (Interview)

Wed, 04 Dec

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Jerod is joined by Hack Clubber Acon, who is fresh off the GitHub Universe stage and ready to tell u...

If not React, then what? (News)

Mon, 02 Dec

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Alex Russell answers the question, "If not React, then what?" Csaba Okrona identifies four core prob...

Let's archive the web (Interview)

Wed, 27 Nov

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Nick Sweeting joins Adam and Jerod to talk about the importance of archiving digital content, his wo...

Waymos make bad neighbors (Changelog++ 🔐) (Friends)

Wed, 27 Nov

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Adam & Jerod hallway-track-it before our All Things Open interviews. We discuss the trend in rebooti...

Busting the ghost engineers (0.1x-ers) (News)

Mon, 25 Nov

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Ben Affleck's take on AI replacing actors, Stanford researcher (Yegor Denisov-Blanch) busts the ghos...

Local-first, y/n? (Friends)

Fri, 22 Nov

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Our friends Johannes Schickling & James Long join us to discuss the movement of local-first, its pro...