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February 02, 2024In the beginning (of generative AI)
This week on The Changelog we’re talking with Joe Reis about data engineering and the beginning of generative AI. We discuss phone hacking via frequency, the role of a data engineer, this AI hype cycle we’re in, build vs buy, the disconnect between data analysts and the business, ethical considerations around AI-generated content, and more. We also discuss the tension between AI and traditional engineering, as well as the inevitability of AI integration into pretty much everything.
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Tailscale – Adam loves Tailscale! Tailscale is programmable networking software that’s private and secure by default. It’s the easiest way to connect devices and services to each other, wherever they are. Secure, remote access to production, databases, servers, kubernetes, and more. Try Tailscale for free for up to 100 devices and 3 users at changelog.com/tailscale, no credit card required.
Read Write Own – Read, Write, Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet—a new book from entrepreneur and investor Chris Dixon—explores one possible solution to the internet’s authenticity problem: Blockchains. From AI that tracks its source material to generative programs that compensate—rather than cannibalize—creators. It’s a call to action for a more open, transparent, and democratic internet. One that opens the black box of AI, tracks the origins we see online, and much more. Order your copy of Read, Write, Own today at readwriteown.com
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Featuring:
Joe Reis – Website
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Data Engineering in 2024. What I’m Seeing.
The Salt Shaker Theory of Leadership
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 25 min
January 26, 2024Shift left, seriously.
This week we’re going deep on security and what it takes to shift left, seriously. Adam is joined by Justin Garrison (co-host of Ship It), plus two members of the BoxyHQ team — Deepak Prabhakara, Co-founder & CEO and Schalk Neethling, Community Manager and DevRel as well as fellow Changelog Slack member.
We discuss how to shift left, the role of the developer and the burden of security, the importance of tooling, the difference between authentication and authorization, and a mindset change for when security takes place — it’s a matter of “when” not “who.”
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Vercel – With zero configuration for over 35 frameworks, Vercel’s Frontend Cloud makes it easy for any team to deploy their apps. Today, you can get a 14-day free trial of Vercel Pro, or get a customized Enterprise demo from their team. Visit vercel.com/changelogpod to get started.
Synadia – Take NATS to the next level via a global, multi-cloud, multi-geo and extensible service, fully managed by Synadia. They take care of all the infrastructure, management, monitoring, and maintenance for you so you can focus on building exceptional distributed applications.
Read Write Own – Read, Write, Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet—a new book from entrepreneur and investor Chris Dixon—explores one possible solution to the internet’s authenticity problem: Blockchains. From AI that tracks its source material to generative programs that compensate—rather than cannibalize—creators. It’s a call to action for a more open, transparent, and democratic internet. One that opens the black box of AI, tracks the origins we see online, and much more. Order your copy of Read, Write, Own today at readwriteown.com
Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs.
Featuring:
Deepak Prabhakara – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Schalk Neethling – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Show Notes:
BoxyHQ.com
SAML Jackson - Enterprise SSO made simple
Enterprise SaaS Starter Kit
MVSP (Minimum Viable Secure Product
Minimum Viable Secure Product (MVSP) checklist
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 29 min
January 17, 2024Let's talk FreeBSD (finally)
This week we’re joined by FreeBSD & OpenZFS developer, Allan Jude, to learn all about FreeBSD. Allan gives us a brief history of BSD, tells us why it’s his operating system of choice, compares it to Linux, explains the various BSDs out there & answers every curious question we have about this powerful (yet underrepresented) Unix-based operating system.
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Vercel – With zero configuration for over 35 frameworks, Vercel’s Frontend Cloud makes it easy for any team to deploy their apps. Today, you can get a 14-day free trial of Vercel Pro, or get a customized Enterprise demo from their team. Visit vercel.com/changelogpod to get started.
Rocky Linux – From Flops and Threads - Episode #4: Ask Me Anything (AMA) with OpenELA — OpenELA will provide sources necessary for downstreams compatible with RHEL to exist, with initial focus on RHEL versions EL8, EL9 and possibly EL7. The project is committed to ensuring the continued availability of OpenELA sources to the community indefinitely. By welcoming other organizations and community members to join and contribute actively, OpenELA seeks to build a robust, community-driven standard that ensures impartiality and equilibrium in the EL ecosystem.
Read Write Own – Read, Write, Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet—a new book from entrepreneur and investor Chris Dixon—explores one possible solution to the internet’s authenticity problem: Blockchains. From AI that tracks its source material to generative programs that compensate—rather than cannibalize—creators. It’s a call to action for a more open, transparent, and democratic internet. One that opens the black box of AI, tracks the origins we see online, and much more. Order your copy of Read, Write, Own today at readwriteown.com
Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs.
Featuring:
Allan Jude – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
The FreeBSD Project
FreeBSD on Wikipedia
Repology, the packaging hub
Allan’s podcast: 2.5 Admins
FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS (Amazon)
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 24 min
January 11, 2024Amazon's silent sacking
Justin Garrison joins us to talk about Amazon’s silent sacking, from his perspective. He should know. He works there. Well, as of yesterday he quit. We discuss how the cloud and Kubernetes have transformed the way software is developed and deployed, the impact silent layoffs have on employees and their careers, speaking out about workplace issues (the right way), how changes in organizational structure can lead to gaps in expertise and responsibility which can lead to potential outages and slower response times.
By the way, we officially let the cat off out of the bag in this episode. Justin has joined the ranks here at Changelog and is taking over as the host of Ship It! Expect new episodes soon.
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Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs.
Featuring:
Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Amazon’s Silent Sacking
mintCast
Ship It
Justin on Ship It takeover
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 21 min
January 04, 2024Dear new developer
Hello 2024! We’re kicking off the year with Dan Moore, author of ‘Letters to a New Developer’ — a blog series of letters of what Dan wished he had known when starting his developer career. We discuss the value of online communities for new developers, the importance of communication skills, and the need to stay relevant in a rapidly changing industry. Dan shares his best advice for new developers, including the importance of saying no, leaving code better than you found it, and the value of skill stacking. So much wisdom and advice in this episode!
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Socket – Secure your supply chain and ship with confidence. Install the GitHub app, book a demo or learn more
Neon – The fully managed serverless Postgres with a generous free tier. We separate storage and compute to offer autoscaling, branching, and bottomless storage.
Sentry – Get $100 towards your error monitoring with Sentry! Use the code changelog.
Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs.
Featuring:
Dan Moore – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Letters to a New Developer - What I wish I had known when starting my development career
Letters to a New Developer (the book)
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 4 min
December 20, 2023State of the "log" 2023
Our 6th annual year-end wrap-up episode! This time we’re featuring 12 (yes, 12!) listener voice mails, our favorite episodes of the year & some insanely cool Breakmaster Cylinder beats made just for this occasion. Thanks for listening! 💚
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Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com
Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs.
Typesense – Lightning fast, globally distributed Search-as-a-Service that runs in memory. You literally can’t get any faster!
Featuring:
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Arthur Maltson’s favs:
Friends #11: An aberrant generation of programmers with Justin Searls & Landon Gray
Interviews #551: DX on DX with Abi Noda
Interviews #453: Leading leaders who lead engineers with Lara Hogan
Hal’s favs:
Interviews #524: Mainframes are still a big thing with Cameron Seay
Interviews #545: Rebuilding DevOps from the ground up with Adam Jacob
Friends #20: Beat freak in residence with BMC
Changelog News
Rory O’Connor’s favs:
Interviews #524: Mainframes are still a big thing with Cameron Seay
Brett Cannon’s favs:
Interviews #565: Pushing back on unconstrained capitalism with Cory Doctorow
Interviews #558: Open source is at a crossroads with Steve O’Grady
Interviews #549: Storytime with Steve Yegge
Interviews #537: Hard drive reliability at scale with Andy Klein
Special: Next Level
Interviews #553: 30 years of Debian with Jonathan Carter
Interviews #533: A new path to full-time open source with Filippo Valsorda
Interviews #524: Mainframes are still a big thing with Cameron Seay
Interviews #523: Just Postgres with Craig Kerstiens
Jarvis Yang’s favs:
Friends #9: Homelab nerds, unite! with Techno Tim
Jamie Curnow’s favs:
Interviews #540: Engineering management (for the rest of us) with Sarah Drasner
Interviews #527: What it takes to scale engineering with Rachel Potvin
Friends #16: The beginning of the end of physical media with Christina Warren
Changelog Beats!
AJ Kerrigan’s favs:
Interviews #553: 30 years of Debian with Jonathan Carter
Interviews #547: Efficient Linux at the CLI with Danil J. Barrett
Friends #15: #define: a game of fake definitions
JS Party #299: Tech by Choice with Valerie Phoenix
Friends #20: Beat freak in residence with BMC
Alex’s favs:
Friends #23: The state of the 2023 tech market with Gergely Orosz
Interviews #535: Examining capitalism’s chokepoints with Cory Doctorow
Interviews #565: Pushing back on unconstrained capitalism with Cory Doctorow
Interviews #534: LLMs break the internet with Simon Willison
Schalk Neethling’s favs:
Friends #11: An aberrant generation of programmers with Justin Searls & Landon Gray
JS Party #288: Refined thinking with Jim Nielsen
Friends #12: You call it tech debt I call it malpractice with Kris Brandow
Go Time #291: Go templating using Templ
Friends #18: Human skills to pay the bills with KBall
JS Party #299: Tech by Choice with Valerie Phoenix
Cory Doctorow on restoring the dream of tech workers - YouTube
Matteo Collina on how he believes AWS fooled devs & sabotaged the industry (to make more money) - YouTube
Unpopular opinion! We’ll move from streaming back to owning content - YouTube
Tillman Jex’s favs:
Interviews #549: Storytime with Steve Yegge
Interviews #565: Pushing back on unconstrained capitalism with Cory Doctorow
Friends #7: Dear Red Hat… with Jeff Geerling
Jamie Tanna’s favs:
Interviews: #568: Gleaming the KubeCon
Friends #24: HATEOAS corpus with Kris Brandow
Adam’s favs:
Friends #17: Kaizen! Slightly more instant
Interviews #557: Attack of the Canaries! with Haroon Meer from Thinkst
Jerod’s favs:
Interviews #526: Git with your friends featuring Mat Ryer
Interviews #532: Bringing Whisper and LLaMA to the masses with Georgi Gerganov
Also mentioned:
Hobo Johnson’s Tiny Desk Concert
AllttA - The Woods
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 47 min
December 15, 2023ANTHOLOGY — The technical bits
This week we’re taking you to the hallway track of All Things Open 2023 in Raleigh, NC. Today’s episode features: Heikki Linnakangas (Co-founder of Neon and Postgres hacker), Robert Aboukhalil (Bioinformatics software engineer) working on bringing desktop apps to the web with Wasm, and Scott Ford who loves taking a codebase from brown to green at Corgibytes.
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Neon – The fully managed serverless Postgres with a generous free tier. We separate storage and compute to offer autoscaling, branching, and bottomless storage.
Sentry – Get $100 towards your error monitoring with Sentry! Use the code changelog.
Socket – Secure your supply chain and ship with confidence. Install the GitHub app, book a demo or learn more
Typesense – Lightning fast, globally distributed Search-as-a-Service that runs in memory. You literally can’t get any faster!
Featuring:
Heikki Linnakangas – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn
Robert Aboukhalil – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Scott Ford – Website, GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Neon
Sandbox.bio
Corgibytes
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 28 min
December 06, 2023Hare aims to be a 100 year language
This week on The Changelog we’re joined by Drew DeVault, talking about the Hare programming language. From the website, Hare is a systems programming language designed to be simple, stable, and robust. When we asked Drew why he created it, he said “[because] I wanted it to exist, and it did not exist.” Wise words.
We discuss Hare (of course), why he’s so passionate about all things open source, the state of the language, fostering a culture that values stability, and oddly enough — what it takes to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
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Neon – The fully managed serverless Postgres with a generous free tier. We separate storage and compute to offer autoscaling, branching, and bottomless storage.
Sentry – On Thursday, December 14th Sentry is doing a FREE web browser performance webinar. Sign up and bring your questions! There will be a Q&A at the end of the stream. ✌️
.Tech Domains – They’re giving selected startups guest spots on the biggest podcasts, conferences, and billboards in the tech game. Apply at startups.tech/changelog
Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs.
Featuring:
Drew DeVault – Website, Mastodon
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
sourcehut - the hacker’s forge!
Drew on SourceHut
The Hare programming language
Himitsu
SourceHut’s 2022 Financial report
Can I be on your podcast
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 6 min
November 30, 2023Gleaming the KubeCon
This week we’re gleaming the KubeCon. Ok, some people say CubeCon, while others say KubeCon…we talk with Solomon Hykes about all things Dagger, Tammer Saleh and James McShane about going beyond cloud native with SuperOrbital, and Steve Francis and Spencer Smith about the state of Talos Linux and what they’re working on at Sidero Labs.
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Neon – The fully managed serverless Postgres with a generous free tier. We separate storage and compute to offer autoscaling, branching, and bottomless storage.
.Tech Domains – They’re giving selected startups guest spots on the biggest podcasts, conferences, and billboards in the tech game. Apply at startups.tech/changelog
Traceroute – Listen and follow Season 3 of Traceroute starting November 2 on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts!
Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs.
Featuring:
Solomon Hykes – GitHub, X
Tammer Saleh – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
James McShane – GitHub, X
Steve Francis – GitHub, LinkedIn
Spencer Smith – GitHub, LinkedIn
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Show Notes:
SOTL 2023
dagger.io
SuperOrbital
Talos Linux
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
2 hr 5 min
November 22, 2023Bringing Dev Mode to Figma
This week on we’re joined by Emil Sjölander from Figma — talking about bringing Dev Mode to Figma. Dev Mode is their new workspace in Figma that’s designed to bring developers and design to the same tool.
The question they’re trying to answer is “How do you create a home for developers in a design tool?” We go way back to Emil’s startup that was acquired by Figma called Visly, how we iterated to here from 20 years ago (think PSD > HTML days), what they did to build Dev Mode, what they’re doing around codegen, the popularity of design systems, and what it takes to go from zero to Dev Mode.
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Neon – The fully managed serverless Postgres with a generous free tier. We separate storage and compute to offer autoscaling, branching, and bottomless storage.
Socket – Secure your supply chain and ship with confidence. Install the GitHub app, book a demo or learn more
Traceroute – Listen and follow Season 3 of Traceroute starting November 2 on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts!
Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs.
Featuring:
Emil Sjölander – GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Dev Mode: Building a design tool that works harder for developers
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 18 min

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