The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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...

Flavors of Ship It! (Interview)

21 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 liste...

Practices of reliable software design (News)

19 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Chris Stjernlöf got nerd-sniped and ended up writing down his practices of reliable software design, Ben Visness has had enough with the npm communit...

The Winamp era (Friends)

16 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Why we need Ladybird (Interview)

14 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Andreas Kling and Chris Wanstrath have joined forces to form a non-profit called Ladybird Browser Initiative to manage the newly forked Ladybird brows...

The best, worst codebase (News)

12 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 Leatherm...

Picking a database should be simple (Friends)

09 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Database aficionado, Ben Johnson, joins Jerod to answer the age ol' question: which database should you use? Answering that isn't always easy, which m...

Into the Bobiverse (Interview)

07 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 programm...

80% of professional programmers are unhappy (News)

05 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The latest Stack Overflow Developer Survey has some concerning results, Joeri Sebrechts helps you do plain vanilla web dev, MIT's "missing semester" c...

From Chef to System Initiative (Friends)

03 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 wo...

Open is the way (Interview)

31 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

The Swiss government goes open source (News)

29 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Switzerland federal government requires releasing its software as open source, Google decides not to deprecate third-party cookies, Mark Zuckerber...

The BSOD CrowdStrikes back (Friends)

26 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

The man behind the Sandwich (Interview)

24 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Adam Lisagor (Sandwich Video founder) takes us behind the Sandwich to share his insights into the importance of storytelling in the tech industry, the...

Southwest flies high over CrowdStrike outage (News)

22 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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. H...

There’s a TUI for that (Friends)

19 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 colle...

What even is the modern data stack (Interview)

17 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Benn Stancil's weekly Substack on data and technology provides a fascinating perspective on the modern data stack & the industry building it. On this ...

The six dumbest ideas in computer security (News)

15 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 cli...

Last DevRel standing (Friends)

12 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

It all starts with Postgres (Interview)

11 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Programming advice for my younger self (News)

08 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Marcus Buffett writes his younger self programming advice, Swyx asks and answers whether or not DevRel is dead, the Ghost team opens up their Activity...

A different kind of rug pull (Friends)

05 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Code review anxiety (Interview)

03 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Carol Lee (Clinical Scientist) shares her research on code review anxiety. We dive deep into her recent research paper "Understanding and Effectively ...

The scariest chart in all of software (News)

01 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Kaizen! NOT a pipe dream (Friends)

28 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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...

MAJOR.SEMVER.PATCH (Interview)

26 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Predrag Gruevski and Chris Krycho joined the show to talk about SemVer. We explore the challenges and the advantages of semantic versioning (aka SemVe...

Please let this be Peak LLM (News)

24 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 simple...

Where DOESN’T curl run (Friends)

21 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Daniel Stenberg shares his guiding principles for BDFL'ing curl, gives us his perspective on the state of the internet, talks financial independence, ...

Securing GitHub (Interview)

19 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Jacob DePriest, VP and Deputy Chief Security Officer at GitHub, joins the show this week to talk about securing GitHub. From Artifact Attestations, pr...

The onset of "Senior Engineer Fatigue" (News)

17 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Luminousmen writes about Senior Engineer Fatigue, Microsoft rethinks its AI-based Recall feature, Mike Hoye gives a big shout out to the "diff" progra...

Putting the Apple in AI (Friends)

14 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 al...

1999: A Film Odyssey (Changelog++ 🔐) (Friends)

13 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Retired, not tired. (Interview)

12 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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,"...

Apple finally gets Siri-ous (News)

10 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 See...

#define: legendary (Friends)

07 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 episod...

Microsoft is all-in on AI: Part 2 (Interview)

05 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 Mi...

Yet another open source rug pull (News)

03 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A popular open source iOS authenticator app goes rogue under new ownership, Andreas Kling steps back from SerenityOS & forks Ladybird, Vhyrro takes a ...

Is it too late to opt out of AI? (Friends)

31 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 i...

Microsoft is all-in on AI: Part 1 (Interview)

30 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 th...

Why you shouldn't use AI to write your tests (News)

28 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 in...

It's a long & windy road (Friends)

24 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We kick off our Microsoft Build 2024 "coverage" in this free-wheelin' conversation with our friend, Shaundai Person! We're talking Netflix infra, we'r...

From Sun to Oxide (Interview)

22 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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, ...

Kyle explains "Legacy Software" to the aliens (News)

20 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Taylor Troesh writes Kyle explaining "Legacy Software" to the aliens, Vitaly Friedman addresses why so many designers feel misunderstood and under app...

Self-hosted media server goodness (Friends)

17 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Alex Kretzschmar joins Adam to discuss their experiences with building the "perfect media server" and all the hardware and software involved to make i...

Building the Patreon for developers (Interview)

15 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Avoiding the soft delete anti-pattern (News)

13 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Tim Fisken explains the problem with soft deletion, a simple measure of software dependency freshness is proposed, a deep-dive on sound design in soft...

Motivated by play (Friends)

10 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Good timing makes great products (Interview)

08 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Why your framework doesn't matter (News)

06 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Bahaa Zidan says your web framework doesn't matter, DHH writes about magic machines, Dylan Huang reviews thousands of opinions on HTMX, Tim Ottinger s...

The Wu-Tang way (Friends)

03 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Castro leans into indie (Interview)

01 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 aga...

Good ideas in computer science (News)

29 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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...

The ol' hot & juicy (Friends)

26 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 al...

Run Gleam run (Interview)

24 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week we're joined by Louis Pilfold, the creator of the Gleam programming language. For the uninitiated, Gleam is a functional programming languag...

The threat to open source comes from within (News)

22 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Forrest Brazeal is concerned about the open source threat from within, Vicki Boykis explains why Redis is forked, John O'Nolan and the Ghost team plan...

Rug pull, not cool! (Friends)

19 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

If Changelog News had an extended edition, this might be it! Jerod & Adam discuss Hashicorp's Cease and Desist letter, Redis getting forked, Boston Dy...

Leading and building Raycast (Interview)

17 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week Adam is joined by Thomas Paul Mann, Co-founder and CEO of Raycast, to discuss being productive on a Mac, going beyond their free tier, the e...

Devin's Upwork "side hustle" exposed (News)

15 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

YouTuber "Internet of Bugs" breaks down why AI "software engineer" Devin is no Upwork hero, Redka is Anton Zhiyanov's attempt to reimplement Redis wit...

More BMC goodness (Friends)

13 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Our beat freak in residence returns, this time to discuss the shiny new Dance Party album! We deconstruct its nostalgic mix, break down some of our fa...

Replacing Git with Git (Interview)

12 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week we're talking to Scott Chacon, one of the co-founders of GitHub, to discuss the history and future of Git and Scott's new project Git Butler...

HashiCorp strikes back (News)

08 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

HashiCorp sends OpenTofu a nasty-gram in the wake of Matt Asay's infringement claims, Polar is like Patreon but for software creators, a Common Corpus...

Kaizen! There goes my PgHero (Friends)

05 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is our 14th Kaizen episode! Gerhard put some CDNs to the test, we've taken our next step with Postgres on Neon & Jerod pushed 55 commits (but 0 P...

Getting to Resend (Interview)

04 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week Adam is joined by Zeno Rocha — the creator of the beloved Dracula theme and Co-founder and CEO of Resend. They discuss his personal journe...

Who in the world is Jia Tan? (News)

01 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The big story right now is the recently uncovered backdoor in _liblzma_ (aka _XZ_) – a relatively obscure compression library that happens to be a d...

The undercover generalist (Friends)

29 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Which is smarter: specializing in a particular tech or becoming more of a generalist? It depends! Which is why Jerod invited "undercover generalist" A...

We're flipping the script (Interview)

27 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Script flipped! Today we're sharing two interviews of us on Other People's Podcasts (OPP): Kathrine Druckman from the Open at Intel podcast invited us...

Another one bites the dust (News)

25 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Redis' re-licensing prompts forks like Drew DeVault's Redict, Matthew Miller thinks we need more community built software, Paul Gross makes the case t...

Retirement is for suckers (Friends)

23 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

THE Cameron Seay joins us once again! This time we learn more about his life/history, hear all about the boot camps he runs, discuss recent advancemen...

It's a TrueNAS world (Interview)

22 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week Adam talks with Kris Moore, Senior Vice President of Engineering at iXsystems, about all things TrueNAS. They discuss the history of TrueNAS...

No Maintenance Intended (News)

18 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A new badge for open source projects that won't be getting any maintenance, everything Chip Huyen learned from looking at 900 open source AI tools, CN...

The Oban Pros (Friends)

15 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today you get Sorentwo for the price of one! We are joined by Shannon & Parker Selbert, both halves of the mom-and-pop software shop behind Oban, the ...

We have a right to repair! (Interview)

15 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week Adam went solo — talking to Kyle Wiens, Founder and CEO at iFixit, about all things Right to Repair. They discussed the latest win here in...

Puter is the internet OS (News)

11 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Puter puts an entire operating system in your web browser, the kapa.ai team write down how to structure your docs for LLMs, Daytona is an open source ...

Bourbon and better software (Friends)

08 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Adam is joined by Robert Ross, Founder and CEO of FireHydrant — they discuss Bourbon, sniffing arms, better software, leading a successful startup, ...

It's not always DNS (Interview)

08 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week we're talking about DNS with Paul Vixie — Paul is well known for his contributions to DNS and agrees with Adam on having a "love/hate rela...

Apple backs off killing EU web apps (News)

04 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Apple backs off killing web apps (but the fight continues), Luka Kladaric writes about how to ship quality software in hostile environments, Deno's ne...

Zed's secret sauce (Friends)

01 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Zed text editor has come a long way since Nathan Sobo came on the show last year to tell us about this follow-up to Atom. Zed is open source now, ...

Leading in the era of AI code intelligence (Interview)

28 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week Adam is joined by Quinn Slack, CEO of Sourcegraph for a "2 years later" catch up from his last appearance on Founders Talk. This conversatio...

Dance Party (Interview)

28 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Listen to our newest album called Dance Party as a podcast! This is an EPIC bundle of BMC bangers. We double dog dare you to listen and try NOT to dan...

Natural Language Programming (News)

26 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

GPTScript is a new scripting language to automate your interactions with LLMs, Adam Wiggins conducts a retrospective on Muse, Nikita Prokopov surveyed...

Brewing up something for work (Friends)

23 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Mike McQuaid, maintainer of Homebrew, and now CTO at Workbrew joins us to discuss open tabs, social media spam and distractions, TikTok's addictive na...