The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Episodes
Two decades as a solo indie Mac dev (Interview)
10 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week Jesse Grosjean joins us to talk about his career as a solo indie Mac dev. Since 2004 Jesse has been building Mac apps under the company name...
Stacked diffs for fast-moving code review (Interview)
27 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're peeking into the future again — this time we're looking at the future of modern code review and workflows around pull requests. Jero...
Schneier on security for tomorrow’s software (Interview)
20 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're talking with Bruce Schneier — cryptographer, computer security professional, privacy specialist, and writer (of many books). He call...
Run your home on a Raspberry Pi (Interview)
13 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're joined by Mike Riley and we're talking about his book Portable Python Projects (Running your home on a Raspberry Pi). We breakdown the...
Mob programming deep dive (Interview)
06 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We’re talking with Woody Zuill today about all things Mob Programming. Woody leads Mob Programming workshops, he’s a speaker on agile related topi...
Warp wants to be the terminal of the future (Interview)
26 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today we’re talking with Zach Lloyd, founder of Warp — the terminal being re-imagined for the 21st century and beyond. Warp is a blazingly fast, r...
Practical ways to solve hard problems (Interview)
22 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Frank Krueger joined us to talk about solving hard problems. Earlier this year he wrote a blog post titled "Practical Guide to Solving Hard Problems,"...
The story of Vitess (Interview)
12 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're joined by Deepthi Sigireddi, Vitess Maintainer and engineer at PlanetScale — of course we're talking about all things Vitess. We tal...
Wisdom from 50+ years in software (Interview)
30 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today we have a special treat. A conversation with Brian Kernighan! Brian's been in the software game since the beginning of Unix. Yes, he was there a...
ONE MORE thing every dev should know (Interview)
11 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The incomparable Jessica Kerr is back with another grab-bag of amazing topics. We talk about her journey to Honeycomb, devs getting satisfaction from ...
Securing the open source supply chain (Interview)
01 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're joined by the "mad scientist" himself, Feross Aboukhadijeh...and we're talking about the launch of Socket — the next big thing in th...
Making the command line glamorous (Interview)
26 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're talking to Toby Padilla, Co-Founder at Charm — where they build tools to make the command line glamorous. We talk about the state of...
Git your reset on (Interview)
15 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're joined by Annie Sexton, UX Engineer at Render, to talk about her blog post titled Git Organized: A Better Git Flow that made the inter...
Principles for hiring engineers (Interview)
08 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’re joined by Jacob Kaplan-Moss and we're talking about his extensive writing on work sample tests. These tests are an exercise, a simul...
Learning from incidents (Interview)
04 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're joined by Nora Jones, founder and CEO at Jeli where they help teams gain insight and learnings from incidents. Back in December Nora s...
Song Encoder: Forrest Brazeal (Interview)
31 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to _Song Encoder_, a special series of The Changelog podcast featuring people who create at the intersection of software and music. This episo...
Supabase is all in on Postgres (Interview)
25 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week Paul Copplestone, CEO of Supabase joined us to catch us up on the next big thing happening in the world of Postgres. Supabase might be best ...
Making the ZFS file system (Interview)
18 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week Matt Ahrens joins Adam to talk about ZFS. Matt co-founded the ZFS project at Sun Microsystems in 2001. And 20 years later Adam picked up ZFS...
Complex systems & second-order effects (Interview)
10 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Orlando joins Jerod to talk through some unintended consequences that occur when systems operate at scale. We discuss Goodhart's Law, The Cobra E...
State of the "log" 2021 (Interview)
20 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our 4th annual year-end wrap-up episode! We don't naval gaze often, but when we do... we make sure you get your money's worth. Reflections, most popul...
AI-assisted development is here to stay (Interview)
17 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We're joined by Eran Yahav — talking about AI assistants for developers. Eran has been working on this problem for more than a decade. We talk about...
Deeply human stories (Interview)
08 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today we're bringing our appearance on DevDiscuss right here to The Changelog. Jerod and I guested their launch episode for Season 7 to talk about dee...
Help make state of the "log" 2021 extra special! (Interview)
03 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We're prepping for our 4th annual state of the "log" episode where we look back at the year, discuss some of our favorite episodes as well as the most...
Returning to GitHub to lead Sponsors (Interview)
02 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today we're joined by Jessica Lord, talking about the origins of Electron and her boomerang back to GitHub to lead GitHub Sponsors. We cover the early...
Shopify's vision for the future of commerce (Interview)
19 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today we're joined by Ilya Grigorik to talk about Shopify's developer preview release of Hydrogen and the preview release of Oxygen which is in early ...
1Password is all in on its web stack (Interview)
12 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're bringing JS Party to The Changelog — Mitch and Andrew from the 1Password team talk with Amal and Nick about the company’s transiti...
Connecting the dots in public (Interview)
05 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today we're joined by Shawn "swyx" Wang, also known as just "swyx" — and we're talking about his interesting path to becoming a software developer, ...
Song Encoder: $STDOUT (Interview)
29 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to _Song Encoder_, a special series of The Changelog podcast featuring people who create at the intersection of software and music. This episo...
Oh my! Zsh. (Interview)
25 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Robby Russell is back on The Changelog after more than 10 years to catch us up on all things Oh My Zsh — a delightful, open source, community-driven...
This insane tech hiring market (Interview)
19 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're joined by Gergely Orosz and we’re talking about the insane tech hiring market we’re in right now. Gergely was on the show a year a...
Lessons from 10k hours of programming (Interview)
08 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today we're talking to Matt Rickard about his blog post, Reflections on 10,000 Hours of Programming. Matt was clear to mention that these reflections ...
Learning-focused engineering (Interview)
01 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're joined by Brittany Dionigi, Director of Platform Engineering at Articulate, and we're talking about how organizations can take a more ...
Fauna is rethinking the database (Interview)
24 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’re talking with Evan Weaver about Fauna — the database for a new generation of applications. Fauna is a transactional database delive...
The business model of open source (Interview)
17 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're joined by Adam Jacob, CEO of System Initiative and Co-Founder of Chef, about open source business models and the model he thinks is th...
Coding in the cloud with Codespaces (Interview)
11 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this special edition of The Changelog, we're talking with Cory Wilkerson, Senior Director of Engineering at GitHub, about GitHub Codespaces. For ye...
We ask a lawyer about GitHub Copilot (Interview)
08 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're bringing JS Party to The Changelog — Nick Nisi and Christopher Hiller had an awesome conversation with Luis Villa, co-founder and Ge...
Why Neovim? (Interview)
31 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week Neovim core maintainer TJ DeVries joins Jerod and guest co-host Nick Nisi (from JS Party) to follow-up on our Vim episode with a conversatio...
OAuth, "It's complicated." (Interview)
23 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today we're joined by Aaron Parecki, co-founder of IndieWebCamp and maintainer of OAuth.net, for a deep dive on the state of OAuth 2.0 and what's next...
Building software for yourself (Interview)
23 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today we're talking to Linus Lee about the practice of building software for yourself. Linus has several side projects we could talk about, but today'...
Richard Hipp returns (Interview)
19 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Richard Hipp returns to catch us up on all things SQLite, his single file webserver written in C called Althttpd, and Fossil -- the source ...
Leading leaders who lead engineers (Interview)
11 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're joined by Lara Hogan -- author of Resilient Management and management coach & trainer for the tech industry. Lara led engineering team...
Kaizen! The day half the internet went down (Interview)
05 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're sharing a special episode of our new podcast called Ship It. This episode is our Kaizen-style episode where we point our lens inward t...
Modern Unix tools (Interview)
31 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're talking with Nick Janetakis about modern unix tools, and the various commands, tooling, and ways we use the commmand line. Do you Bash...
Why we 💚 Vim (Interview)
21 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this special edition of The Changelog, we tell Vim's story from the mouths of its users. Julia Evans, Drew Neil, Suz Hinton, and Gary Bernhardt joi...
The story behind Inter (Interview)
19 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're talking to Rasmus Andersson about his journey as a software creator. We talk about the work he's doing right now on Playbit, a computi...
Massive scale and ultra-resilience (Interview)
09 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're sharing a recent episode from Founders Talk that we continuously hear about from listeners. Listen and subscribe to Founders Talk at f...
The foundations of Continuous Delivery (Interview)
02 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're sharing one of the most popular episodes from our new podcast Ship It. Ship It launched in May and now has 8 episodes in the feed to e...
xbar puts anything in your macOS menu bar (Interview)
21 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode we're talking with our good friend Mat Ryer whom you may know from the Go Time podcast. Mat created an awesome open source tool for pu...
Funds for open source (Interview)
18 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're talking with Pia Mancini about the latest updates to the mission of Open Collective. Earlier this year Open Collective announced "Fund...
Every commit is a gift (Interview)
10 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Maintainer Week is finally here and we're excited to make this an annual thing! If Maintainer Week is new to you, check out episode #442 with Josh Sim...
Exploring Deno Land 🦕 (Interview)
08 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're joined by Ryan Dahl, Node.js creator, and now the creator of Deno - a simple, modern and secure runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript ...
Maintainer week! (Interview)
28 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week is all about Maintainer Week — it's a week long event starting June 7th for open source maintainers to gather, share, and be celebrated. W...
Inside 2021's infrastructure for Changelog.com (Interview)
21 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're talking about the latest infrastructure updates we've made for 2021. We're joined by Gerhard Lazu, our resident SRE here at Changelog,...
Open source goes to Mars 🚀 (Interview)
14 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're talking about open source on Mars. Martin Woodward (Senior Director of Developer Relations at GitHub) joins us to talk about the new M...
Elixir meets machine learning (Interview)
07 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week Elixir creator José Valim joins Jerod and Practical AI's Daniel Whitenack to discuss Numerical Elixir, his new project that's bringing Elix...
Let's mint some NFTs (Interview)
27 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're talking about NFTs — that's right, non-fungible tokens and we're joined by Mikeal Rogers, who's leading all things InterPlanetary Li...
Into the Nix ecosystem (Interview)
20 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're talking about Nix with Domen Kožar. The Nix ecosystem is a DevOps toolkit that takes a unique approach to package management and syst...
Curl is a full-time job (and turns 23) (Interview)
12 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’re talking with Daniel Stenberg about 23 years of curl. Daniel shares how curl came to be, what drives and motivates him, maintaining a...
The future of the web is HTML over the wire (Interview)
05 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're joined by long-time web developer Matt Patterson. Earlier this year Matt wrote an evocative article for A List Apart called The Future...
Restic has your backup (Interview)
02 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week Alexander Neumann takes Jerod on a tour of Restic, the world-class backup solution that's fast, secure, and cross-platform. We discuss why h...
Open source, not open contribution (Interview)
26 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're talking with Ben Johnson. Ben is known for his work on BoltDB, his work in open source, and as a freelance Go developer. Late January ...
Big breaches (and how to avoid them) (Interview)
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're talking about big security breaches with Neil Daswani, renowned security expert, best-selling author, and Co-Director of Stanford Univ...
Leading a non-profit unicorn (Interview)
16 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're talking about the future of freeCodeCamp with Quincy Larson and what it's taken to build it into the non-profit unicorn that it is. Th...
Darklang Diaries (Interview)
26 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week Jerod is joined by Paul Biggar the creator of Dark, a new way to build serverless backends. Paul shares all the details about this all-in-on...
Community perspectives on Elastic vs AWS (Interview)
17 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're talking about the recent falling out between Elastic and AWS around the relicensing of Elasticsearch and Kibana. Like many in the comm...
Open source civilization (Interview)
29 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're talking about open source industrial machines. We're joined by Marcin Jakubowski from Open Source Ecology where they're developing ope...
The rise of Rocky Linux (Interview)
22 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're talking with Gregory Kurtzer about Rocky Linux. Greg is the founder of the CentOS project, which recently shifted its strategy and has...
What the web could be (in 2021 and beyond) (Interview)
12 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch and JS Party panelist Amal Hussein join Jerod to discuss the state of the web platform! We opine on why it's so important a...
State of the “log” 2020 (Interview)
21 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It's the end of 2020 and on this year’s "State of the log" episode Adam and Jerod carry on the tradition of looking back at our favorite moments of ...
You can FINALLY use JSHint for evil (Interview)
20 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today we welcome Mike Pennisi into our Maintainer Spotlight. This is a special flavor of The Changelog where we go deep into a maintainer's story. Mik...
Coding without your hands (Interview)
13 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What do you do when you make a living typing on a keyboard, but you can no longer do that for more than a few minutes at a time? Switch careers?! Not ...
Growing as a software engineer (Interview)
02 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Gergely Orosz joined Adam for a conversation about his journey as a software engineer. Gergely recently stepped down from his role as Engineering Mana...
The future of Mac (Interview)
20 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We have a BIG show for you today. We're talking about the future of the Mac. Coming off of Apple's "One more thing." event to launch the Apple M1 chip...
The Kollected Kode Vicious (Interview)
13 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We're joined by George Neville-Neil, aka Kode Vicious. Writing as Kode Vicious for ACMs Queue magazine, George Neville-Neil has spent the last 15+ yea...
Inside 2020's infrastructure for Changelog.com (Interview)
06 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We're talking with Gerhard Lazu, our resident SRE, ops, and infrastructure expert about the evolution of Changelog's infrastructure, what's new in 202...
Maintaining the massive success of Envoy (Interview)
30 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today we welcome Matt Klein into our Maintainer Spotlight. Matt is the creator of Envoy, born inside of Lyft. It's an edge and service proxy designed ...
What's so exciting about Postgres? (Interview)
23 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
PostgreSQL aficionado Craig Kerstiens joins Jerod to talk about his (and our) favorite relational database. Craig details why Postgres is unique in th...
Shopify’s massive storefront rewrite (Interview)
16 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Maxime Vaillancourt joined us to talk about Shopify's massive storefront rewrite from a Ruby on Rails monolith to a completely new implementation writ...
Spotify's open platform for shipping at scale (Interview)
09 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We're joined by Jim Haughwout (Head of Infrastructure and Operations) and Stefan Ålund (Principal Product Manager) from Spotify to talk about how the...
The team that fashioned Apollo 11 (Interview)
08 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We're helping Atlassian to promote Season 2 of Teamistry. If this is the first time you're hearing about this podcast, Teamistry is an original podcas...
Gitter’s big adventure (Interview)
30 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Gitter is exiting GitLab and entering the Matrix...ok, we couldn't help ourselves with that one. Today we're joined by Sid Sibrandij (CEO of GitLab) a...
How open source saved htop (Interview)
24 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today we welcome Hisham Muhammad into our Maintainer Spotlight. Hisham is the creator of htop - a well known cross-platform interactive process viewer...
Estimating systems with napkin math (Interview)
11 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We're joined by Simon Eskildsen, Principal Engineer at Shopify, talking about how he uses a concept called napkin math where you use first-principle t...
Inside GitHub's Arctic Code Vault (Interview)
04 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Earlier this year on February 2nd, 2020 Jon Evans and his team of archivists took a snapshot of all active public repositories on GitHub and sent it t...
Bringing beauty to the world of code sharing (Interview)
26 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Carbon is an open source web app that helps you create and share beautiful images of your source code. Whether you've used Carbon personally or not, o...
Celebrating Practical AI turning 100!! 🎉 (Interview)
21 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We're so excited to see Chris and Daniel take this show to 100 episodes, and that's exactly why we're rebroadcasting Practical AI #100 here on The Cha...
Working in Public (Interview)
12 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Nadia Eghbal is back and this time she's talking with us about her new book _Working in Public_. If you're an old school listener you might remember t...
Designing and building HEY (Interview)
07 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We're talking about designing and building HEY with Jonas Downey, the lead designer behind HEY. In their words, “Email sucked for years, but not any...
Making Windows Terminal awesome (Interview)
31 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kayla Cinnamon, Program Manager at Microsoft for Windows Terminal, Console, Command Line, and Cascadia Code joined us to talk about the release of Win...
It’s OK to make money from your open source (Interview)
22 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Adam loves a good dark theme and supporting a fellow creator, and Hedy Li finished the episode we did with Nikita Prokopov covering FiraCode and reach...
Laws for hackers to live by (Interview)
16 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dave Kerr joins Jerod to discuss the various laws, theories, principles, and patterns that we developers find useful in our work and life. We unpack H...
What's next for José Valim and Elixir? (Interview)
10 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We're joined again by José Valim talking about the recent acquihire of Plataformatec and what that means for the Elixir language, as well as José. W...
The intersection of coding and fonts (Interview)
03 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A listener request led us to Nikita Prokopov and FiraCode, and we're sure glad they did. When we think of open source software, fonts aren't usually h...
Big updates in Safari 14 (Interview)
29 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We're joined by Ronak Shah and Beth Dakin from the Safari team at Apple about their announcements at WWDC20 and the release of Safari 14. We talk abou...
Shipping work that matters (Interview)
25 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We're revisiting Shape Up and product development thoughts with Ryan Singer, Head of Product Strategy at Basecamp. Last August we talked with Ryan whe...
The ONE thing every dev should know (Interview)
16 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The incomparable Jessica Kerr drops by with a grab-bag of amazing topics. Understanding software systems, transferring knowledge between devs, buildin...
Creating GitLab’s remote playbook (Interview)
09 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We're talking about all things all-remote with Darren Murph, Head of Remote at GitLab. Darren is tasked with putting intentional thought and action in...
De-Google-ing your website analytics (Interview)
27 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Plausible creators Uku Täht and Marko Saric join the show to talk about their open source, privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics. We talk ...
Leading GitHub to a $7.5 billion acquisition (Interview)
18 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Warner (CTO at GitHub) joined the show to talk with us about the backstory of how he helped to lead GitHub to a $7.5 billion acquisition by Micr...
VisiData is like duct tape for your data (Interview)
12 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Saul Pwanson is the creator and maintainer of VisiData, a terminal interface for exploring and arranging tabular data. On this Maintainer Spotlight ep...