Changelog & Friends

By Changelog Media

A weekend talk show with the best conference hallway track vibes... more

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Changelog & Friends episodes:

July 25, 2025#define: props to astronomer
Welcome back to #define, our game of obscure jargon, fake definitions, and expert tomfoolery. This time we’re joined by three Changelog++ members, to see who has the best vocabulary and who can trick everyone else into thinking that they do.
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Featuring:
Jamie Tanna – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Spencer Lyon – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
E. David Aja – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Posit
Positron
Quarto
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1h 7min
July 18, 2025Try harder. Ultrathink!
Nick Nisi joins us to discuss all the Windsurf drama, his new agentic lifestyle, whether or not he’s actually more productive, the new paper that says he maybe isn’t more productive, the reckoning he sees coming, and why we might be the last generation of code monkeys.
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Featuring:
Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
How Windsurf was Split between OpenAI, Google, and Cognition in a billion-dollar acquisition deal?
Repo Prompt
AI slows down open source developers. Peter Naur can teach us why.
How I use Git Worktrees
Ultrathink++ | ClaudeLog
Changelog LIVE in Denver
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
...more
1h 32min
July 11, 2025Measuring the actual impact of AI coding
Abi Noda from DX is back to share some cold, hard data on just how productive AI coding tools are actually making developers. Teaser: the productivity increase isn’t as high as we expected. We also discuss Jevons paradox, AI agents as extensions of humans, which tools are winning in the enterprise, how development budgets are changing, and more.
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Outshift by Cisco – AGNTCY is an open source collective building the Internet of Agents. It’s a collaboration layer where AI agents can communicate, discover each other, and work across frameworks. For developers, this means standardized agent discovery tools, seamless protocols for inter-agent communication, and modular components to compose and scale multi-agent workflows.
Featuring:
Abi Noda – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Measuring AI code assistants and agents
DX Core 4 Reporting
Jevons paradox - Wikipedia
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
...more
1h 4min
July 04, 2025Selling mountain bikes all over the planet
Jeff Cayley joins Adam to talk about selling mountain bikes all over the planet and making some of the best outdoor and mountain bike gear, parts, and accessories you can buy. They have a killer YouTube channel as well.
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Featuring:
Jeff Cayley – Website
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Video: Yeti Cycles Factory Tour
Video: Revel Bikes Factory Tour
Yeti Cycles
Revel Bikes
Worldwide Cyclery
KETL Mtn Apparel
Trail One Components
Bad Birdie Golf Apparel
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
...more
2h 9min
June 27, 2025Let's build something phoenix.new
Our old friend Chris McCord, creator of Elixir’s Phoenix framework, tells us all about his new remote AI runtime for building Phoenix apps. Along the way, we vibe code one of my silly app ideas, calculate all the money we’re going to spend on these tools, and get existential about what it all means.
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Featuring:
Chris McCord – Website, GitHub, X
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Phoenix.new
Bolt.new
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...more
1h 36min
June 20, 2025Just on the rocks
Jerod tells Adam about how bad he hates the taste of Gin, sips on some Generative A Rye (on the rocks), they open the comments section for a bit, and then land the plane talking about being alone, naked, and afraid.
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Depot – 10x faster builds? Yes please. Build faster. Waste less time. Accelerate Docker image builds, and GitHub Actions workflows. Easily integrate with your existing CI provider and dev workflows to save hours of build time.
Outshift by Cisco – AGNTCY is an open source collective building the Internet of Agents. It’s a collaboration layer where AI agents can communicate, discover each other, and work across frameworks. For developers, this means standardized agent discovery tools, seamless protocols for inter-agent communication, and modular components to compose and scale multi-agent workflows.
Featuring:
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Generative A Rye
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...more
1h 30min
June 13, 2025Saltiness about frostiness
Justin Searls joins Jerod in Apple’s WWDC wake for hot takes about frosty UIs. We go (almost) point-by-point through the keynote, dissecting and reacting along the way. Concentricity!
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Featuring:
Justin Searls – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Apple WWDC 2025 Keynote
These 4 Code Snippets won WWDC
Apple to Let iPhone Users Watch Videos on CarPlay Screen While Parked
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...more
2h 8min
June 06, 2025Adventures in babysitting coding agents
The ever-provocative Steve Yegge joins us fresh off a vibe coding bender so productive, he wrote a book on the topic alongside award-winning author Gene Kim. Steve tells us why he believes the IDE is dead, why babysitting AI agents is more fun than coding, when vibe coding might take over the enterprise, how software devs should approach coding agents, and what it all means for society.
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Outshift by Cisco – AGNTCY is an open source collective building the Internet of Agents. It’s a collaboration layer where AI agents can communicate, discover each other, and work across frameworks. For developers, this means standardized agent discovery tools, seamless protocols for inter-agent communication, and modular components to compose and scale multi-agent workflows.
Featuring:
Steve Yegge – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Claude Code
Amp
OpenAI Codex
Revenge of the junior developer
Steve’s book
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...more
1h 34min
May 31, 2025wsl.exe -- cat hello.cs
We bring you back to Microsoft Build 2025 to nerd out with Craig Loewen on Windows Subsystem for Linux and Mads Torgersen on leading the design of C#.
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Featuring:
Craig Loewen – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Mads Torgersen – GitHub, LinkedIn
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source
“Backslashes are Trash” by Mat Ryer on YouTube
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1h 28min
May 23, 2025Dull, dirty or dangerous
We sit down with Scott Hanselman at Microsoft Build 2025 to discuss open sourcing all the things, cool stuff Windows can do, where we want (and don’t want) AI to fit into our lives, building arcade cabinets, and so much more.
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Depot – 10x faster builds? Yes please. Build faster. Waste less time. Accelerate Docker image builds, and GitHub Actions workflows. Easily integrate with your existing CI provider and dev workflows to save hours of build time.
Outshift by Cisco – AGNTCY is an open source collective building the Internet of Agents. It’s a collaboration layer where AI agents can communicate, discover each other, and work across frameworks. For developers, this means standardized agent discovery tools, seamless protocols for inter-agent communication, and modular components to compose and scale multi-agent workflows.
Featuring:
Scott Hanselman – Website, GitHub, X
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Keys Left?
Scott Hanselman.com
microsoft/winget-cli
Cephable
Pieces for Developers
Arcade | Scott Hanselman’s Blog
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1h 9min

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