The six dumbest ideas in computer security (News)
15 Jul 2024
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Marcus J. Ranum's 2005 post on dumb ideas in computer security still holds up, Barry Jones argues wh...
Last DevRel standing (Friends)
12 Jul 2024
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Shawn "swyx" Wang is back to talk with us about the state of DevRel according to ZIRP (the Zero Inte...
It all starts with Postgres (Interview)
11 Jul 2024
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Paul Copplestone, CEO of Supabase (the meme-lord himself), joins the show to take us on the journey ...
Programming advice for my younger self (News)
08 Jul 2024
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Marcus Buffett writes his younger self programming advice, Swyx asks and answers whether or not DevR...
A different kind of rug pull (Friends)
05 Jul 2024
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Adam & Jerod discuss the news! But first, we discuss how you can keep up with the software world (go...
Code review anxiety (Interview)
03 Jul 2024
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Carol Lee (Clinical Scientist) shares her research on code review anxiety. We dive deep into her rec...
The scariest chart in all of software (News)
01 Jul 2024
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Software developer jobs are trending down, the creator of dotenv creates a better dotenv, the Chrome...
Kaizen! NOT a pipe dream (Friends)
28 Jun 2024
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Welcome to Kaizen 15! We go deep on the big Changelog News redesign, give shout outs to folks who've...
MAJOR.SEMVER.PATCH (Interview)
26 Jun 2024
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Predrag Gruevski and Chris Krycho joined the show to talk about SemVer. We explore the challenges an...
Please let this be Peak LLM (News)
24 Jun 2024
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Søren Fuglede Jørgensen builds a font thats also an LLM, Hugo Landau writes about the demise of th...
Where DOESN’T curl run (Friends)
21 Jun 2024
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Daniel Stenberg shares his guiding principles for BDFL'ing curl, gives us his perspective on the sta...
Securing GitHub (Interview)
19 Jun 2024
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Jacob DePriest, VP and Deputy Chief Security Officer at GitHub, joins the show this week to talk abo...
The onset of "Senior Engineer Fatigue" (News)
17 Jun 2024
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Luminousmen writes about Senior Engineer Fatigue, Microsoft rethinks its AI-based Recall feature, Mi...
Putting the Apple in AI (Friends)
14 Jun 2024
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Justin Searls joins us for hot takes on Apple's 2024 WWDC keynote. Apple Intelligence stole the show...
1999: A Film Odyssey (Changelog++ 🔐) (Friends)
13 Jun 2024
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Adam & Jerod hallway-track-it between Microsoft Build interviews. Was 1999 the best year in film his...
Retired, not tired. (Interview)
12 Jun 2024
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Kelsey Hightower is back to share more of his wisdom. This time it's one year after his retirement f...
Apple finally gets Siri-ous (News)
10 Jun 2024
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Apple announces its "new" style of AI, piku gives you "git push" deployment on your own servers, Dab...
#define: legendary (Friends)
07 Jun 2024
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What happens when you take three #define newbs (Thomas Eckert, Nick Nisi, Mat Ryer) & pit them again...
Microsoft is all-in on AI: Part 2 (Interview)
05 Jun 2024
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Mark Russinovich, Eric Boyd & Neha Batra join us to discuss the state of AI for Microsoft and OpenAI...
Yet another open source rug pull (News)
03 Jun 2024
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A popular open source iOS authenticator app goes rogue under new ownership, Andreas Kling steps back...
Is it too late to opt out of AI? (Friends)
31 May 2024
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Tech lawyer Luis Villa returns to answer our most pressing questions: what's up with all these new c...
Microsoft is all-in on AI: Part 1 (Interview)
30 May 2024
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Scott Guthrie joins the show this week from Microsoft Build 2024 to discuss Microsoft being all-in o...
Why you shouldn't use AI to write your tests (News)
28 May 2024
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Swizec's article on not using AI to writes tests, LlamaFs is a self-organizing file system with Llam...
It's a long & windy road (Friends)
24 May 2024
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We kick off our Microsoft Build 2024 "coverage" in this free-wheelin' conversation with our friend, ...
From Sun to Oxide (Interview)
22 May 2024
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Bryan Cantrill, Co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company, joins Adam to share his journey from S...
Kyle explains "Legacy Software" to the aliens (News)
20 May 2024
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Taylor Troesh writes Kyle explaining "Legacy Software" to the aliens, Vitaly Friedman addresses why ...
Self-hosted media server goodness (Friends)
17 May 2024
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Alex Kretzschmar joins Adam to discuss their experiences with building the "perfect media server" an...
Building the Patreon for developers (Interview)
15 May 2024
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Birk Jernström from Polar joins the show to tell us all about the creator platform for developers: ...
Avoiding the soft delete anti-pattern (News)
13 May 2024
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Tim Fisken explains the problem with soft deletion, a simple measure of software dependency freshnes...
Motivated by play (Friends)
10 May 2024
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Annie Sexton has been on quite a journey since she was last on the show back in early '22. On this e...
Good timing makes great products (Interview)
08 May 2024
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Paul Orlando is back to talk about his book titled "Why Now?" You may remember Paul from his last ap...
Why your framework doesn't matter (News)
06 May 2024
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Bahaa Zidan says your web framework doesn't matter, DHH writes about magic machines, Dylan Huang rev...
The Wu-Tang way (Friends)
03 May 2024
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Our friend Ron Evans is a technologist for hire, an open source developer, an author, a speaker, an ...
Castro leans into indie (Interview)
01 May 2024
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This week we're joined by Dustin Bluck to discuss his acquisition of the well known (and beloved) Ca...
Good ideas in computer science (News)
29 Apr 2024
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Daniel Hooper lists out all the good ideas in computer science, Jeff Geerling declares 2024 the year...
The ol' hot & juicy (Friends)
26 Apr 2024
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Frequent guest (and *almost* real-life-friend) Adam Jacob returns to share his spicy takes on all th...
Run Gleam run (Interview)
24 Apr 2024
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This week we're joined by Louis Pilfold, the creator of the Gleam programming language. For the unin...
The threat to open source comes from within (News)
22 Apr 2024
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Forrest Brazeal is concerned about the open source threat from within, Vicki Boykis explains why Red...
Rug pull, not cool! (Friends)
19 Apr 2024
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If Changelog News had an extended edition, this might be it! Jerod & Adam discuss Hashicorp's Cease ...
Leading and building Raycast (Interview)
17 Apr 2024
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This week Adam is joined by Thomas Paul Mann, Co-founder and CEO of Raycast, to discuss being produc...
Devin's Upwork "side hustle" exposed (News)
15 Apr 2024
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YouTuber "Internet of Bugs" breaks down why AI "software engineer" Devin is no Upwork hero, Redka is...
More BMC goodness (Friends)
13 Apr 2024
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Our beat freak in residence returns, this time to discuss the shiny new Dance Party album! We decons...
Replacing Git with Git (Interview)
12 Apr 2024
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This week we're talking to Scott Chacon, one of the co-founders of GitHub, to discuss the history an...
HashiCorp strikes back (News)
08 Apr 2024
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HashiCorp sends OpenTofu a nasty-gram in the wake of Matt Asay's infringement claims, Polar is like ...
Kaizen! There goes my PgHero (Friends)
05 Apr 2024
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This is our 14th Kaizen episode! Gerhard put some CDNs to the test, we've taken our next step with P...
Getting to Resend (Interview)
04 Apr 2024
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This week Adam is joined by Zeno Rocha — the creator of the beloved Dracula theme and Co-founder a...
Who in the world is Jia Tan? (News)
01 Apr 2024
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The big story right now is the recently uncovered backdoor in _liblzma_ (aka _XZ_) – a relatively ...
The undercover generalist (Friends)
29 Mar 2024
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Which is smarter: specializing in a particular tech or becoming more of a generalist? It depends! Wh...
We're flipping the script (Interview)
27 Mar 2024
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Script flipped! Today we're sharing two interviews of us on Other People's Podcasts (OPP): Kathrine ...
Another one bites the dust (News)
25 Mar 2024
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Redis' re-licensing prompts forks like Drew DeVault's Redict, Matthew Miller thinks we need more com...
Retirement is for suckers (Friends)
23 Mar 2024
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THE Cameron Seay joins us once again! This time we learn more about his life/history, hear all about...
It's a TrueNAS world (Interview)
22 Mar 2024
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This week Adam talks with Kris Moore, Senior Vice President of Engineering at iXsystems, about all t...
No Maintenance Intended (News)
18 Mar 2024
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A new badge for open source projects that won't be getting any maintenance, everything Chip Huyen le...
The Oban Pros (Friends)
15 Mar 2024
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Today you get Sorentwo for the price of one! We are joined by Shannon & Parker Selbert, both halves ...
We have a right to repair! (Interview)
15 Mar 2024
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This week Adam went solo — talking to Kyle Wiens, Founder and CEO at iFixit, about all things Righ...
Puter is the internet OS (News)
11 Mar 2024
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Puter puts an entire operating system in your web browser, the kapa.ai team write down how to struct...
Bourbon and better software (Friends)
08 Mar 2024
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Adam is joined by Robert Ross, Founder and CEO of FireHydrant — they discuss Bourbon, sniffing arm...
It's not always DNS (Interview)
08 Mar 2024
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This week we're talking about DNS with Paul Vixie — Paul is well known for his contributions to DN...
Apple backs off killing EU web apps (News)
04 Mar 2024
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Apple backs off killing web apps (but the fight continues), Luka Kladaric writes about how to ship q...
Zed's secret sauce (Friends)
01 Mar 2024
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The Zed text editor has come a long way since Nathan Sobo came on the show last year to tell us abou...
Leading in the era of AI code intelligence (Interview)
28 Feb 2024
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This week Adam is joined by Quinn Slack, CEO of Sourcegraph for a "2 years later" catch up from his ...
Dance Party (Interview)
28 Feb 2024
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Listen to our newest album called Dance Party as a podcast! This is an EPIC bundle of BMC bangers. W...
Natural Language Programming (News)
26 Feb 2024
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GPTScript is a new scripting language to automate your interactions with LLMs, Adam Wiggins conducts...
Brewing up something for work (Friends)
23 Feb 2024
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Mike McQuaid, maintainer of Homebrew, and now CTO at Workbrew joins us to discuss open tabs, social ...
Making shell history magical with Atuin (Interview)
21 Feb 2024
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Today we speak with Ellie Huxtable, the creator of a magical open source tool for syncing, searching...
Quantum computing gets a reality check (News)
19 Feb 2024
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Ship It is back! IEEE Spectrum writes about quantum computing's reality check, Maxim Dounin announce...
Yeeting stuff into public (Friends)
17 Feb 2024
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Jamie Tanna (who has a website) joins us to discuss the indie web, living with ADHD, sharing his sal...
What exactly is Open Source AI? (Interview)
16 Feb 2024
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This week we're joined by Stefano Maffulli, the Executive Director of the Open Source Initiative (OS...
We can dance if we want to... (News)
12 Feb 2024
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Changelog Beats drops a new Dance Party album, Will McGugan's new Toolong (`tl`) terminal app, Mitch...
Future of [energy, content, food] (Friends)
09 Feb 2024
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We're taking you back to the hallway track at THAT Conference where we have 3 MORE fun conversations...
Taking on Goliath (Interview)
08 Feb 2024
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This week on The Changelog we're talking with Nadia Odunayo, founder of StoryGraph. Nadia started ou...
The promise of hackable software (News)
05 Feb 2024
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Geoffrey Litt thinks browser extensions are underrated, Adolfo Ochagavía on being a generalist in a...
You have how many open tabs?! (Friends)
04 Feb 2024
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We're taking you to the hallway track at THAT Conference in Austin TX, where we have 3 fun conversat...
In the beginning (of generative AI) (Interview)
02 Feb 2024
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This week on The Changelog we're talking with Joe Reis about data engineering and the beginning of g...
$100k for indie game devs (News)
29 Jan 2024
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The Rune team announces $100k in open source grants for indie game devs, the Zed code editor is now ...
Gradually gradually typing Elixir (Friends)
27 Jan 2024
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Our old friend José Valim & his team have been hard at work adding gradual typing to Elixir. They'r...
Shift left, seriously. (Interview)
26 Jan 2024
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This week we're going deep on security and what it takes to shift left, seriously. Adam is joined by...
GitHub Actions as a time-sharing supercomputer (News)
22 Jan 2024
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Alex Ellis' new actions-batch project uses GitHub Actions as a time-sharing supercomputer, DevDocs.i...
The state of homelab tech (2024) (Friends)
19 Jan 2024
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Techno Tim is back with Adam to discuss the state of homelab in 2024 and the trends happening within...
Let's talk FreeBSD (finally) (Interview)
17 Jan 2024
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This week we're joined by FreeBSD & OpenZFS developer, Allan Jude, to learn all about FreeBSD. Allan...
A plea for lean software (News)
15 Jan 2024
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Niklaus Wirth makes his plea for lean software, PocketBase puts your entire backend in 1 file, Vanna...
Kaizen! Should we build a CDN? (Friends)
12 Jan 2024
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It's our 13th Kaizen episode! We're back from KubeCon, we're making goals for the year, we're migrat...
Amazon's silent sacking (Interview)
11 Jan 2024
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Justin Garrison joins us to talk about Amazon's silent sacking, from his perspective. He should know...
The I in LLM stands for intelligence (News)
08 Jan 2024
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Daniel Stenberg is frustrated with the state of AI tooling for finding security bugs, Brian Birtles ...
Dear new developer (Interview)
04 Jan 2024
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Hello 2024! We're kicking off the year with Dan Moore, author of ‘Letters to a New Developer’ —...
State of the "log" 2023 (Interview)
20 Dec 2023
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Our 6th annual year-end wrap-up episode! This time we're featuring 12 (yes, 12!) listener voice mail...
The code, prose & pods that shaped 2023 (News)
18 Dec 2023
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This episodes diverges from our traditional fare. I've reviewed the 50 previous editions and picked ...
#define: game theory, dude (Friends)
17 Dec 2023
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What happens when you take four grizzled #define veterans and throw an Emma Bostian into the mix? Fi...
ANTHOLOGY — The technical bits (Interview)
15 Dec 2023
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This week we’re taking you to the hallway track of All Things Open 2023 in Raleigh, NC. Today’s ...
Open source LLMs are catching up (News)
11 Dec 2023
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A group of researchers set out to test claims that its open source rivals had achieved parity (or ev...
HATEOAS corpus (Friends)
08 Dec 2023
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Jerod is back with another "It Depends" episode! This time he's joined by Kris Brandow from Go Time ...
Hare aims to be a 100 year language (Interview)
06 Dec 2023
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This week on The Changelog we're joined by Drew DeVault, talking about the Hare programming language...
Leaked GPT prompts & Firefox on the brink (News)
04 Dec 2023
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ChatGPT's new GPTs feature leak their prompts, Firefox's share of the browser market will soon drop ...
The state of the 2023 tech market (Friends)
01 Dec 2023
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Gergely Orosz is back for our annual year-end update on the tech market, writ large. How is hiring? ...
Gleaming the KubeCon (Interview)
30 Nov 2023
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This week we're gleaming the KubeCon. Ok, some people say CubeCon, while others say KubeCon...we tal...
Was Jamstack a zero interest rate phenomenon? (News)
27 Nov 2023
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Zach Leatherman on the tension and future of the Jamstack community, Chenxin Li helps you avoid 13 b...
Bringing Dev Mode to Figma (Interview)
22 Nov 2023
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This week on we're joined by Emil Sjölander from Figma — talking about bringing Dev Mode to Figma...
Watching OpenAI unravel in real-time (News)
20 Nov 2023
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The internet watches OpenAI unravel in real-time, tldraw has a new experiment going with GPT-4 Visio...
It dependencies (Friends)
17 Nov 2023
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Jerod goes one-on-one with our old friend Justin Searls! We talk build vs buy decisions, dependency ...
All the places Swift will go (Interview)
16 Nov 2023
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This week we're talking about Swift with Ben Cohen, the Swift Team Manager at Apple. We caught up wi...