November 15, 2024

Bus factors & conspiracy theories (Changelog & Friends #70)

1 hour 18 minutes

Adam & Jerod discuss the news! Our Merch sale, useful built-in macOS CLI utilities, the slow death of the hyperlink, systematically estimating a project’s bus factor, The Browser Company abandoning Arc, the Dead Internet theory & more!

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Featuring:

Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

Merch on sale!

All Things Open AI Conference

The Internet Archive is back as a read-only service after cyberattacks

Useful built-in macOS command-line utilities

The slow death of the hyperlink

The github plugin my coworkers asked me not to write.

The Bus Factor | MClare Blog

A Novel Approach for Estimating Truck Factors

Glass Onion (2022) - IMDb

Knives Out (2019) - IMDb

Arc is a dead browser walking (How-To Geek)

Better version of the same story (via The Verge)

You should go to conferences

Links we didn’t get to

IronCalc - Open-Source Spreadsheet Engine

Why you’re bad at giving feedback

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