The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Episodes
Hello, Matworld! (Friends)
25 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join us on a journey to make believe worlds with our good friend Mat Ryer. The assignment; we each get to make up a new world where we invent a new ga...
Make sales not features (Interview)
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kendall Miller is a bubbly extrovert who sticks his fingers in a lot of pies. He advises tech companies like FusionAuth, positions tech products like ...
Fresh beats for endless flow state (News)
21 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We drop our fourth Changelog Beats album, Dex Horthy proposes the 12-factor AI agent, Thorsten Ball takes us step-by-step through building a coding ag...
Vibing into the vibe (Friends)
18 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Nisi joins us to confess his AI subscription glut, drool over some cool new hardware gadgets, discuss why the TypeScript team chose Go for their ...
Making DNSimple (Interview)
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Anthony Eden, Founder & CEO of DNSimple, joins the show to talk about the world of managed hosting for DNS and more.
Google's new protocol has AI agents talkin' (News)
14 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Google announces an open protocol for AI agent collaboration, Datastar is an Alpine.js / htmx love child, Matthias Endler documents things he finds co...
Proud pod parents (Friends)
12 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Moot joins us to discuss Changelog helping Square launch a developer pod and the excitement around MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers. What ...
The era of durable execution (Interview)
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Stephan Ewen, Founder and CEO of Restate.dev joins the show to talk about the coming era of resilient apps, the meaning of and what it takes to achiev...
The AI 2027 scenario (News)
07 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel Kokotajlo and the AI Futures Project lays out a potential scenario of superhuman AI's impact, Liam ERD generates beautiful, interactive ER diag...
Turn him into a walrus (Friends)
04 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jerod turns Adam into Lego, a Walrus, and a Walrus in the style of Studio Ghibli...and so much more. This is a good one to watch on YouTube.
The 1000x faster financial database (Interview)
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In July of 2020, Joran Dirk Greef stumbled into a fundamental limitation in the general-purpose database design for transaction processing. This sent ...
The idealization of farming by tech (News)
31 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Theodore Morley wonders why tech workers so frequently point our wanderlust toward hands-on trades, Eduardo Bouças explains why he's lost confidence ...
Of agents & agency (Friends)
28 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Long-time JS Party panelist Amal Hussein joins Jerod to catch up on her career path, to opine on the viability agentic coding, to feel all the feeling...
Leading leaders who lead engineers (remastered) (Interview)
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're bringing you a remaster of our epic 2021interview with Lara Hogan -- author of Resilient Management and management coach / trainer for...
Revenge of the junior developer (News)
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Steve Yegge's latest rant about the future of "coding", Ethan McCue shares some life altering Postgres patterns, Hillel Wayne makes the case for Verif...
Here's my Siri theory (Friends)
21 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Justin Searls from Breaking Change joins the show to discuss Apple's Intelligence blunder, the end of the good times in the tech industry, and POSSE P...
Securing ecommerce: "It's complicated" (Interview)
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ilya Grigorik and his team at Shopify has been hard at work securing ecommerce checkouts from sophisticated news attacks (such as digital skimming) an...
Our interfaces have lost their senses (News)
17 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Amelia Wattenberger bemoans the computer's great flattening, the Learnk8s team lets you manage your cluster from a spreadsheet, Jan Swist gets a surpr...
Friends on the frontend (Friends)
14 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Adam's friend on the frontend, John Long joins the show to explore his usage of AI, design tools and the stack he prefers. We talk Next.js vs Rails, m...
Reaching industrial economies of scale (Interview)
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Beyang Liu, the CTO & Co-founder of Sourcegraph is back on the pod. Adam and Beyang go deep on the idea of "industrializing software development" usin...
Everyone is talking about MCP (News)
10 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Vibe coding is the new vibe, AI engineers are all taking about MCP, Tom Usher wants you to kill your algorithmic feeds, Curiositry shares his troubles...
Friendly Feud: JS Party Edition (Friends)
07 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Our award-winning JS Party game show is back with a new name, a new channel, and the same ol' survey-response-guessing fun! The JS Party crew join us ...
Antirez returns to Redis! (Interview)
07 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Antirez has returned to Redis! Yes, Salvatore Sanfilippo (aka Antirez), the creator of Redis has returned to Redis and he joined us to share the backs...
JavaScript fatigue strikes back (News)
03 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Allen Pike on the JavaScript ecosystem after a decade away, Lars Wirzenius was there at the birth of Linux, Piotr Migdał archives things in Markdown,...
Kaizen! Pipely goes BAM (Friends)
28 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It's Kaizen 18! Can you believe it? We discuss the recent Fly.io outage, some little features we've added since our last Kaizen, our new video-first p...
Building for application developers (Interview)
27 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Anurag Goel, Founder/CEO of Render, joins Adam to discuss what they're doing to solve cloud problems for application developers. They just raised $80M...
AI killed the tech interview. Now what? (News)
24 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kane Narraway thinks through the radical change AI tools have brought to the technical interview process, Rhys Kentish built an app that makes him tou...
Change my mind (Friends)
21 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jerod and Adam use Chris Kiehl's post on development topics he's changed his mind on (over the last 10 years) as a proxy for discussion on dev things ...
Programming with LLMs (Interview)
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For the past year, David Crawshaw has intentionally sought ways to use LLMs while programming, in order to learn about them. He now regularly use LLMs...
AI is stifling tech adoption (News)
17 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Declan Chidlow proposes that AI is stifling tech adoption, Ariel Salminen shares 17 pieces of advice she's learned about leading successful product te...
Discovering discovery coding (Friends)
14 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Fire up a REPL, grab your favorite Stephen King novel, and hold on to the seat of your pants! Jimmy Miller returns to reveal why, at least for some of...
Fostering open source culture (Interview)
13 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Arun Gupta is back, this time with his latest book in hand titled "Fostering Open Source Culture" to share his wisdom and experiences of fostering ope...
Tech is supposed to make our lives easier (News)
10 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Bill Maher excoriates the software industry for making our lives more difficult, two professors from the University of Washington put together a curri...
The state of homelab tech (2025) (Friends)
07 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Techno Tim joins Adam to catch up on the state of Homelab for 2025, the state of AI at home and on-prem (AI Homelab) and where that's heading, buildin...
Build software that lasts! (Interview)
05 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After 30+ years in the software industry, Bert Hubert has experienced a lot. He founded PowerDNS, published articles for places like IETF / IEEE, and ...
Everyone knows your location (News)
03 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tim Sh tracked himself down through in-app ads, Sniffnet comfortably monitors your Internet traffic, Cate Huston opines on what makes a good team, Vic...
Over the top auth strategies (Friends)
31 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dan Moore from FusionAuth joins us for a wide-ranging discussion about modern auth strategies. We talk magic links, OTP, MFA, passkeys, password manag...
Turso is rewriting SQLite in Rust (Interview)
30 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Glauber Costa, co-founder and CEO of Turso, joins us to discuss libSQL, Limbo, and how they're rewriting SQLite in Rust. We discuss their efforts with...
DeepSeek-R1's epic pull request (News)
27 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Xuan-Son Nguyen opened a low-level code PR written 99% by DeepSeek-R1, Adam Wathan announces the release of Tailwind CSS 4.0, Matheus Lima opens up th...
Fallthrough & Friends (Friends)
24 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kris Brandow & Matthew Sanabria from Fallthrough.fm join Jerod to discuss tools we're switching to, whether or not Go is still a great systems program...
From open source to acquired (Interview)
23 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ashley Jeffs shares his journey with Benthos, an open source stream processor that was acquired by Redpanda. We talk about the evolution of data strea...
Make computing personal again (News)
20 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Benj Edwards wants to put the "personal" back in "personal computer", the answer.ai folks took Devin for a month-long spin, Asaf Zamir explains why se...
Other people's robots (Friends)
17 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jerod & Adam discuss Nvidia's recently announced personal AI supercomputer, Waymo's latest infinite loop, what's involved in getting a "modern" termin...
The world of embedded systems (Interview)
15 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Elecia White, host of Embedded.fm and author of Making Embedded Systems, joins us to discuss all things embedded systems. We discuss programming non-c...
The new $30,000 side hustle (News)
13 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Bloomberg reports on a concerning new trend in tech hiring, Sean Goedecke has a lot to say about large established codebases, Jacob Bartlett thinks Ap...
It's a peccadillo circus (Friends)
10 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mat Ryer is back! He plays the piano, we tell each other truths/lies, we pay homage to the 8" floppy disk, Mat accepts an open source medal, and so mu...
The power of the button (Interview)
09 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rachel Plotnick joins us for the first show of 2025 to discuss her book "Power Button" and the research she did, and why we love/hate buttons so much....
10 big predictions for 2025 (News)
06 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
M.G. Siegler goes way out on a limb with some BIG predictions of things that could happen this year, Simon Willison's year-end roundup is a must-read ...
State of the "log" 2024 (Friends)
20 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our 7th annual year-end wrap-up is here! We're featuring 12 listener voicemails, dope Breakmaster Cylinder remixes & our favorite episodes of the year...
We ain't afraid of no Ghostty! (Interview)
18 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mitchell Hashimoto joins the show to discuss Ghostty, the newest terminal in town. Mitchell co-founded HashiCorp, took it all the way to IPO, exited i...
The code, prose & pods that shaped 2024 (News)
16 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episodes diverges from our traditional fare. I've reviewed the 50 previous editions and picked (IMHO) the coolest code, best prose & my favorite ...
Kaizen! Three wise men? (Friends)
13 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Gerhard is back for Kaizen 17! We discuss our CPU.fm changes in-depth, detail new Zulip / Neon integrations & put our Pipedream to the test. Oh, and a...
Building the developer cloud (Interview)
12 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kurt Mackey is back for a deep dive into what it takes to build the developer cloud. Kurt joins Adam to discuss the alliance between companies and clo...
A new era for the Changelog Podcast Universe (News)
09 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We're making some big Changelog changes in 2025, the previously featured Stanford study on ghost engineers doesn't live up to the hype, Git ingest is ...
ShopTalk & Friends (Friends)
06 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Coyier and Dave Rupert join Adam and Jerod for a ShopTalk & Friends conversation on the viability of the web, making content, ads to support tha...
Hack Club takes to the High Seas (Interview)
04 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jerod is joined by Hack Clubber Acon, who is fresh off the GitHub Universe stage and ready to tell us all about High Seas, a new initiative by Zach La...
If not React, then what? (News)
02 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Russell answers the question, "If not React, then what?" Csaba Okrona identifies four core problems that create and reinforce knowledge silos, Ro...
Let's archive the web (Interview)
27 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Sweeting joins Adam and Jerod to talk about the importance of archiving digital content, his work on ArchiveBox to make it easier, the challenges...
Waymos make bad neighbors (Changelog++ 🔐) (Friends)
27 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Adam & Jerod hallway-track-it before our All Things Open interviews. We discuss the trend in rebooting old school vehicles, our likes & dislikes of EV...
Busting the ghost engineers (0.1x-ers) (News)
25 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ben Affleck's take on AI replacing actors, Stanford researcher (Yegor Denisov-Blanch) busts the ghost engineers, Electrobun takes a crack at Electron ...
Local-first, y/n? (Friends)
22 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 war...
Two tickets for Departure, please (Interview)
20 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 popul...
AI makes tech debt more expensive (News)
18 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 r...
Bus factors & conspiracy theories (Friends)
15 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Adam & Jerod discuss the news! Our Merch sale, useful built-in macOS CLI utilities, the slow death of the hyperlink, systematically estimating a proje...
Gotta give to get back (Interview)
14 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
The democratization of spreadsheets (News)
11 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Changelog Merch is now on sale, IronCalc sets out to democratize spreadsheets, Grant Slatton writes about algorithms we develop software by, Mark Rain...
ANTHOLOGY – Self-hosted, self-confident & self-employed (Friends)
08 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 sel...
ANTHOLOGY — Packages, pledges & protocols (Interview)
06 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 sourc...
Tactile controls are back in vogue (News)
04 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
IEEE Spectrum reports on the return to physical buttons and dials, Microsoft released GenAIScript, iFixit's Elizabeth Chamberlain announces a big Righ...
Wine Web and a whole lot of Whatnot (Friends)
01 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We join the Whiskey Web and Whatnot podcast live from the hallway track at All Things Open 2024. Topics include: Chianti, content creation, open sourc...
Rails is having a moment (again) (Interview)
31 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
(Includes expletives) David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH), creator of Ruby on Rails and co-owner of 37signals, joined the show to discuss this Rails moment...
Developing with Docker (the right way) (News)
28 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel Quinn weighs in on how to develop with Docker The Right Way, Mitchell Hashimoto says Ghostty will be publicly released this coming December, Ke...
Ten years of freeCodeCamp (Friends)
25 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Elasticsearch is open source, again (Interview)
24 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Naming conventions that need to die (News)
21 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Will Crichton wishes some naming conventions would die already, GitHub user brjsp noticed that Bitwarden's new SDK dependency isn't open source, Joaqu...
You'll rent chips and be happy (Friends)
18 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ce...
Lessons from 10k hours of programming (remastered) (Interview)
17 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 1...
Working from home is powering productivity (News)
14 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nicholas Bloom finds WFH is powering a productivity boom, Matt Mullenweg has decided that WP Engine's beatings will continue until morale improves, Le...
The indispensable cog (Friends)
11 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
The Moneyball approach (Interview)
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 a...
The slow death of the hyperlink (News)
07 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A bias against hyperlinking has developed on platforms, GitHub engineering continues to evolve Issues, Evan You announces VoidZero, some companies are...
Developer (un)happiness (Friends)
04 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 unha...
Free-threaded Python (Interview)
02 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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. P...
Display custom maps on your website for free (News)
30 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
OpenFreeMap puts OpenStreetMap data on your website for free, Fatih Arslan builds a Dieter Rams inspired iPhone dock, Joseph Gentle thinks the Rust pr...
The wrong place to slap a person (Friends)
27 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 Changelo...
Leveling up JavaScript with Deno 2 (Interview)
26 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Imagine Fly.io on your own VPS (News)
23 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 e...
Kaizen! Just do it (Friends)
20 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 & o...
The best, worst codebase (Interview)
18 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 thou...
Why GitHub actually won (News)
16 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 repr...
Reverse rug pull, so cool? (Friends)
13 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jerod & Adam share our Zulip first impressions, react to Elasticsearch going open source (again), discuss Christian Hollinger's blog post on why he st...
Building customizable ergonomic keyboards (Interview)
12 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Erez Zukerman shares the story of launching the ErgoDox EZ on Indiegogo (May 2015), what it takes to create customizable ergonomic keyboards, the bene...
Is Linux collapsing under its own weight? (News)
09 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Starbucks DVD peddlers (Friends)
06 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 put...
Open source threaded team chat?! (Interview)
05 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 orig...
Cursor wants to write all the world's code (News)
03 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
#define: piggyback (Friends)
30 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when you take two #define champs (Taylor Troesh, Thomas Eckert), a grizzled veteran (Adam Stacoviak), a british bard (Mat Ryer), a PhD (C...
Reinventing Kafka on object storage (Interview)
29 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 Ka...
What good programmers worry about (News)
26 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Waymo cars make bad neighbors, Leonardo Creed pulls together wisdom from Linus Torvalds & the Art of Unix Programming to conclude what good programmer...
The great escape room (Friends)
23 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 Aus...