The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

Gatsby's long road to incremental builds (Interview)

06 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Gatsby creator Kyle Mathews joins Jerod fresh off the launch of incremental builds to tell the story of this feature that's 3 years in the making. We ...

Indeed's FOSS Contributor Fund (Interview)

30 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Duane O'Brien (head of open source at Indeed) joined the show to talk about their FOSS Contributor Fund and FOSS Responders. He's super passionate abo...

Work from home SUPERCUT (Interview)

22 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Today we're featuring conversations from different perspectives on working from home from our JS Party, Go Time, and Brain Science podcasts here on Ch...

Visualizing the spread of Coronavirus (Interview)

13 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Harry Stevens is a Graphics Reporter at The Washington Post and the author of "Why outbreaks like coronavirus spread exponentially, and how to 'flatte...

Securing the web with Let's Encrypt (Interview)

07 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We're talking with Josh Aas, the Executive Director of the Internet Security Research Group, which is the legal entity behind the Let's Encrypt certif...

The 10x developer myth (Interview)

31 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In late 2019, Bill Nichols, a senior member of the technical staff at Carnegie Mellon University with the Software Engineering Institute published his...

Welcome to The Changelog (Interview)

30 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The Changelog is deep discussions in & around the world of software... and it's been going for over a decade. We talk to hackers, like Chris Anders...

Prepare yourself for Quantum Computing (Interview)

24 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Johan Vos joined us to talk about his new book 'Quantum Computing for Developers' which is available to read right now as part of the Manning Early Ac...

Engineer to manager and back again (Interview)

18 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Lauren Tan joined us to talk about her blog post titled "Does it spark joy?" In this post Lauren shared the news of her resignation as an engineering ...

Pushing webpack forward (Interview)

13 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We sit down with Tobias Koppers of webpack fame to talk about his life as a full-time maintainer of one of the most highly used (4 million+ dependent ...

Altair 8800 and the dawn of a revolution (Interview)

11 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We partnered with Red Hat to promote Season 4 of Command Line Heroes — a podcast about the people who transform technology from the command line up....

Enter the Matrix (Interview)

09 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Matthew Hodgson (technical co-founder) joined us to talk about Matrix - an open source project and open standard for secure, decentralized, real-time ...

From open core to open source (Interview)

02 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Frank Karlitschek joined us to talk about Nextcloud - a self-hosted free & open source community-driven productivity platform that's safe home for all...

The developer's guide to content creation (Interview)

21 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Stephanie Morillo (content strategist and previously editor-in-chief of DigitalOcean and GitHub's company blogs) wrote a book titled The Developer's G...

The dawn of sponsorware (Interview)

17 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Caleb Porzio is the creator & maintainer of Livewire, AlpineJS, and more. His latest open source endeavor was announced as "sponsorware", which means ...

Productionising real-world ML data pipelines (Interview)

14 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Yetunde Dada from QuantumBlack joins Jerod for a deep dive on Kedro, a workflow tool that helps structure reproducible, scaleable, deployable, robust,...

Good tech debt (Interview)

06 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jon Thornton (Engineering Manager at Squarespace) joined the show to talk about tech debt by way of his post to the Squarespace engineering blog title...

The soul of an old machine (Interview)

04 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We partnered with Red Hat to promote Season 4 of Command Line Heroes — a podcast about the people who transform technology from the command line up....

Open source meets climate science (Interview)

31 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Anders Damsgaard is a climate science researcher working on cryosphere processes at the Department of Geophysics at Stanford University. He joined the...

Intro to Rust programming (Interview)

24 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We teamed up with some friends of ours at Heroku to promote the Code-ish podcast so we're sharing a full-length episode right here in The Changelog’...

Meet Algo, your personal VPN in the cloud (Interview)

20 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The commercial VPN industry is a minefield to navigate and many open source solutions are a pain to use or ill-suited for the task. Algo VPN, on the o...

State of the “log” 2019 (Interview)

14 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to 2020 — on this year’s “State of the ‘log’” episode Jerod and I look back at our favorite moments from 2019 and forward to 2020 ...

Gerhard goes to KubeCon (part 2) (Interview)

27 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Gerhard is back for part two of our interviews at KubeCon 2019. Join him as he goes deep on Prometheus with Björn Rabenstein, Ben Kochie, and Frederi...

Gerhard goes to KubeCon (part 1) (Interview)

18 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Changelog's resident infrastructure expert Gerhard Lazu is on location at KubeCon 2019. This is part one of a two-part series from the world's largest...

Trending up GitHub's developer charts (Interview)

14 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode we’re shining our maintainer spotlight on Ovilia. Hailing from Shanghai, China, Ovilia is an up-and-coming developer who contributes...

Building an open source excavation robot for NASA (Interview)

11 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Ronald Marrero is a software developer working on NASA's Artemis program, which aims at landing the first woman and next man on the Moon by 2024. How ...

Re-licensing Sentry (Interview)

08 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

David Cramer joined the show to talk about the recent license change of Sentry to the Business Source License from a BSD 3-clause license. We talk abo...

The making of GitHub Sponsors (Interview)

01 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Devon Zuegel is an Open Source Product Manager at GitHub. She's also one of the key people responsible for making GitHub Sponsors a thing. We talk wit...

Five years of freeCodeCamp (Interview)

15 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Today we have a very special show for you – we're talking with Quincy Larson the founder of freeCodeCamp as part of a two-part companion podcast ser...

Finding collaborators for open source (Interview)

10 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Jeff Meyerson, host of Software Engineering Daily, and the founder of FindCollabs (a place to find collaborators for open source software) joined the ...

Back to Agile's basics (Interview)

31 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Robert C. Martin, aka Uncle Bob, joined the show to talk about the practices of Agile. Bob has written a series of books in order to pass down the wis...

Pioneering open source drones and robocars (Interview)

18 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Chris Anderson, former Editor-in-Chief of WIRED and a true pioneer in the world of drones, joined the show to talk about his hobby gone wrong, how he ...

Let's talk Elixir! (Interview)

09 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Jerod is joined by Chris and Desmond (co-hosts of the ElixirTalk podcast) to catch up on what's moving and shaking in the Elixir and Phoenix communit...

Maintainer spotlight! Valeri Karpov (Interview)

02 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode we’re shining our maintainer spotlight on Valeri Karpov. Val has been the solo maintainer of Mongoose since 2014. This episode with ...

Nushell for the GitHub era (Interview)

27 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Jonathan Turner, Andrés Robalino, and Yehuda Katz joined the show to talk about Nushell, or just Nu for short. It’s a modern shell for the GitHub e...

Machine powered refactoring with AST's (Interview)

19 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Amal Hussein (Engineering Manager at npm) joined the show to talk about AST’s — aka, abstract syntax trees. Amal is giving a talk at All Things Op...

Generative engineering cultures (Interview)

17 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Dave Kaplan (Head of Software Engineering at Policygenius) joined the show to talk about Generative Engineering Cultures and how they have become the ...

Modern software is built on APIs (Interview)

06 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Abhinav Asthana (founder of Postman) joined the show to talk about Postman, an ADE — API Development Environment — that began as open source and i...

Maintainer spotlight! Feross Aboukhadijeh (Interview)

29 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode we’re shining our maintainer spotlight on Feross Aboukhadijeh. Feross is the creator and maintainer of 100's of open source projects...

OSCON 2019 anthology (Interview)

23 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We're on the expo hall floor of OSCON 2019 talking with Eric Holscher, Ali Spittel, and Hong Phuc Dang. First up, we talk to Eric about his work at Wr...

Shaping, betting, and building (Interview)

16 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan Singer, head of Product Strategy at Basecamp, joined the show to talk about their newest book — Shape Up: Stop running in circles and ship work...

Observability is for your unknown unknowns (Interview)

07 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Christine Yen (co-founder and CEO of Honeycomb) joined the show to talk about her upcoming talk at Strange Loop titled “Observability: Superpowers f...

Federating JavaScript's language commons with Entropic (Interview)

02 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We're joined by C J Silverio, aka ceejbot on Twitter, aka 2nd hire and former CTO at npm Inc. We talk with Ceej about her recent JS Conf EU talk title...

Go is eating the world of software (Interview)

25 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We're joined by Ron Evans at OSCON on the expo hall floor talking about Go and how it's eating the world of software. Specifically we're talking about...

The war for the soul of open source (Interview)

16 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Adam Jacob (co-founder and board member of Chef) joins the show to talk about the keynote he’s giving at OSCON this week. The keynote is titled "The...

Learning the BASICs (Interview)

16 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We partnered with Red Hat to promote Season 3 of Command Line Heroes — an original podcast from Red Hat, hosted by Saron Yitbarek, about the people ...

The Pragmatic Programmers (Interview)

11 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt, best known as the authors of The Pragmatic Programmer and founders of The Pragmatic Bookshelf, joined the show today to tal...

Python's Tale (Interview)

02 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We partnered with Red Hat to promote Season 3 of Command Line Heroes — an original podcast from Red Hat, hosted by Saron Yitbarek, about the people ...

Maintainer spotlight! Ned Batchelder (Interview)

28 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode we’re shinning our maintainer spotlight on Ned Batchelder. Ned is one of the lucky ones out there that gets to double-dip — his da...

Boldly going where no data tools have gone before (Interview)

19 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Computer Scientist Yaw Anokwa joins the show to tell us how Open Data Kit is enabling data collection efforts around the world. From monitoring rainfo...

The state of CSS in 2019 (Interview)

14 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We’re talking with Sacha Greif to discuss the State of CSS survey and results. CSS is evolving faster than ever. And, coming off the heels of their ...

Python's new governance and core team (Interview)

06 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We’re talking with Brett Cannon for a behind the scenes look at Guido stepping down as Python’s BDFL (Benevolent dictator for life) and the proces...

Creating and selling multiplayer online games (Interview)

24 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We’re talking with Victor Zhou about the explosion of the .io game genre. We talked through all the details around building and running one of these...

Off the grid social networking with Manyverse (Interview)

18 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We’re talking with Andre Staltz, creator of Manyverse — a social network off the grid. It’s open source and free in every sense of the word. We ...

Quirk and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) (Interview)

10 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We're talking with Evan Conrad — for most of Evan's life he has suffered from severe panic attacks, often twice per week. Eventually he stumbled upo...

Inside 2019's infrastructure for Changelog.com (Interview)

05 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We're talking with Gerhard Lazu, our resident ops and infrastructure expert, about the setup we've rolled out for 2019. Late 2016 we relaunched Change...

Running functions anywhere with OpenFaaS (Interview)

25 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We're talking with Alex Ellis, the founder of OpenFaaS — serverless functions made simple for Docker and Kubernetes. We talked about the backstory a...

From zero to thought leader in 6 months (Interview)

18 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We’re talking with Emma Bostian about going from zero to thought leader in 6 months. We talk about the nuances of UX including the differences betwe...

Wasmer is taking WebAssembly beyond the browser (Interview)

12 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We’re talking with Syrus Akbary about WebAssembly and Wasmer — a standalone just in time WebAssembly runtime aiming to be fully compatible with Em...

All things text mode (Interview)

04 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We’re talking all things text mode with Lucas da Costa — we logged his post "How I'm still not using GUIs in 2019" a guide focused on making the t...

Why smart engineers write bad code (Interview)

29 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We're talking with Adam Barr, a 23 year Microsoft veteran, about his book “The problem with software,” sub-titled "Why smart engineers write bad c...

Funding OSS with Mozilla Open Source Support awards (Interview)

13 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We're talking with Mehan Jayasuriya program officer at Mozilla about MOSS — the Mozilla Open Source Support (MOSS) program which recognizes, celebra...

Homebrew! Part Deux (Interview)

06 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We're talking with Mike McQuaid about Homebew 2.0.0, supporting Linux and Windows 10, the backstory and details surrounding the security issue they ha...

Containerizing compute driven workloads with Singularity (Interview)

28 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We're talking with Greg Kurtzer, the founder of CentOS, Warewulf, and most recently Singularity — an open source container platform designed to be s...

Enabling open code for science at NumFOCUS (Interview)

22 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We’re talking with Gina Helfrich the Communications Director for NumFOCUS about their story and history, the impact of open code on science, the dif...

With great power comes great responsibility (Interview)

15 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Adam and Jerod are joined by JS Party panelist Nick Nisi and #causeascene advocate Kim Crayton for a deep discussion on ethics in the technology indus...

Tactical design advice for developers (Interview)

06 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Adam talks with Erik Kennedy about tactical design advice for developers. Erik is a self-taught UI designer and brings a wealth of practical advice fo...

A UI framework without the framework (Interview)

30 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Jerod and Adam talked with Rich Harris –a JavaScript Journalist on The New York Times Investigations team– about his magical disappearing UI frame...

GitHub Actions is the next big thing (Interview)

23 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Adam and Jerod talk to Kyle Daigle, the Director of Ecosystem Engineering at GitHub. They talk about GitHub Actions, the new automation platform annou...

source{d} turns code into actionable insights (Interview)

16 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Adam caught up with Francesc Campoy at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2018 in Seattle, WA to talk about the work he's doing at source{d} to apply Machine Le...

Perspectives on Kubernetes and successful cloud platforms (Interview)

09 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Adam caught up with Brendan Burns (co-creator of Kubernetes and Partner Architect at Microsoft Azure) at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2018 in Seattle, WA ...

State of the "log" 2018 (Interview)

19 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

On this year's "State of the 'log'" episode we’re going behind the scenes to look back at 2018 as we prepare for 2019 and onward. We talk through ou...

Untangle your GitHub notifications with Octobox (Interview)

13 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Jerod is joined by Andrew Nesbitt and Ben Nickolls to talk Octobox, their open source web app that helps you manage your GitHub notifications. They di...

The insider perspective on the event-stream compromise (Interview)

05 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Adam and Jerod talk with Dominic Tarr, creator of event-stream, the IO library that made recent news as the latest malicious package in the npm regist...

A good open source password manager? Inconceivable! (Interview)

28 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Perry Mitchell joined the show to talk about the importance of password management and his project Buttercup — an open source password manager built...

Tidelift's mission is to pay open source maintainers (Interview)

21 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this special crossover episode of Founders Talk, Adam talks with Donald Fischer. Donald Fischer and the team at Tidelift are on a mission of making...

The road to Brave 1.0 and BAT (Interview)

14 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week Adam and Jerod talk with Brian Bondy, Co-founder and CTO of Brave. They talked through the beginnings of Brave and how BAT (Basic Attention ...

There and back again (Dgraph's tale) (Interview)

09 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week we talk with Manish Jain about Dgraph, graph databases, and licensing and re-licensing woes. Manish is the creator and founder Dgraph and we...

Drupal is a pretty big deal (Interview)

31 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Adam and Jerod talk with Angie Byron, a core contributor and staple of the Drupal community. We haven't covered Drupal really (sorry about that), but ...

Venture capital meets commercial OSS (Interview)

25 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Joseph Jacks, the Founder and General Partner of OSS Capital joined the show to share his plans for funding the future generation of commercial open s...

Keepin' up with Elm (Interview)

17 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Jerod invites Richard Feldman back on the show to catch up on all things Elm. Did you hear? NoRedInk finally had a production runtime error, the commu...

BONUS – Sustain Summit 2018 (Interview)

15 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this special bonus call, Adam and Jerod talk with Allen "Gunner" Gunn about the Sustain Summit. They talk about what it is, the kind of conversatio...

A call for kindness in open source (Interview)

10 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Adam and Jerod talk to Brett Cannon, core contributor to Python and a fantastic representative of the Python community. They talked through various de...

#Hacktoberfest isn’t just about a free shirt (Interview)

01 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

#Hacktoberfest is a once per year event in the month of October celebrating open source. For many it's an on ramp to open source, PRs galore for maint...

REST easy, GraphQL is here (Interview)

26 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this special rebroadcast of JS Party, Jerod and Suz talk with John Resig about how he's using GraphQL at Khan Academy, some of the mistakes and suc...

Join the federation?! Mastodon awaits... (Interview)

19 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

We talked with Eugen Rochko, the creator of Mastodon, about where Mastodon came from the problem it aimed to solve. How it’s not exactly Twitter alt...

Kubernetes brings all the Cloud Natives to the yard (Interview)

12 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

We talk with Dan Kohn, the Executive Director of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation to catch up with all things cloud native, the CNCF, and the wor...

The first cloud native programming language (Interview)

05 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Jerod talked with Paul Fremantle, the CTO and Co-Founder of WSO2, about their new programming language, Ballerina — a cloud-native language which ai...

Segment's transition back to a monorepo (Interview)

29 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Adam and Jerod talk with two members of Segment’s engineering team: Co-founder and CTO, Calvin French-Owen, as well as Software Engineer, Alex Noona...

Istio service mesh and microservices (Interview)

22 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Adam and Jerod talk with Jason McGee, VP and CTO of IBM Cloud Platform about Istio — an open platform that provides a uniform way to connect, secure...

Open sourcing the DEV community (Interview)

15 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

We talk with Ben Halpern the founder and webmaster of dev.to — a community for developers to talk about software. Last Wednesday they open sourced t...

Jeff Robbins is an actual rockstar [rebroadcast] (Interview)

10 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

On this special bonus episode of The Changelog, we're playing the latest episode of Away from Keyboard with Jeff Robbins. While some dream of having a...

Rebuilding Exercism from the ground up (Interview)

08 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Adam and Jerod invite back Katrina Owen after years away focusing on Exercism—a 100% free platform for code practice and mentorship with over 2500 e...

Biases in AI, helping veterans get jobs in software, open science (Interview)

01 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Adam and Jerod are on location at OSCON and talk with Camille Eddy about recognizing biases in AI, Jerome Hardaway about the work he’s doing to prep...

AWS Amplify and cloud-enabled apps (Interview)

25 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

We talk with Nader Dabit, Developer Advocate for Amazon Web Services, about the role of DevRel and what's involved in this "dream job", frontend and m...

The Great GatsbyJS (Interview)

18 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

From open source project to a $3.8 million dollar seed round to transform Gatsby.js into a full-blown startup that's building what's becoming the defa...

Putting AI in a box at MachineBox [rebroadcast] (Interview)

11 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this special episode of The Changelog we’re sharing a full-length episode of our newly launched podcast called Practical AI — covering AI, Mach...

The impact of AI at Microsoft (Interview)

04 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

We're on location at Microsoft Build 2018 talking with Corey Sanders and Steve Guggenheimer — two Microsoft veterans focused on artificial intellige...

Programmable infrastructure (Interview)

27 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Jerod Santo is riding solo talking with Kurt Mackey, co-founder of Fly. He talked to him about his work at Ars Technica, his prediction on tabs being ...

Computer Science without a computer (Interview)

20 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Adam Stacoviak and Jerod Santo talk with Tim Bell, the founder and creator of CS Unplugged, a collection of free teaching material that teaches comput...