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April 26, 2023Hard drive reliability at scale
This week Adam talks with Andy Klein from Backblaze about hard drive reliability at scale.
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Featuring:
Andy Klein – Website, LinkedIn, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Backblaze Drive Stats for 2022
10 Stories From 10 Years of Drive Stats Data
Hard Drive Life Expectancy
The SSD Edition: 2022 Drive Stats Review
SSD 101: How Reliable are SSDs?
Hard Drive Cost Per Gigabyte
A Behind the Scenes Look at Our US East Data Center
Sean Has a New Friend. His Name Is Guido.
The Storage Pod Story: Innovation to Commodity
We love 45Drives. If you need an intro to them, let us know.
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 41 min
April 19, 2023How do you do, fellow Hack Clubbers?
This week we’re joined by Zach Latta, the Founder of Hack Club. At 16, Zach tested out of high school and moved to SF to join Yo as their first engineer. After playing a key role at Yo, he founded Hack Club to help teen hackers start coding clubs around the world. Today, teen hackers can meet IRL, online, at a hackathon, or leverage Hack Club Bank a fiscal sponsor to create their own organization. Hack Club is the program Zach wished he had in high school.
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Rocky Linux – Enterprise Linux, the open source community way.
Featuring:
Zach Latta – GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Invest in the future hacker generation
hackclub.com
Hack Club Bank
hackclub/sprig
Sprig - The game console where every player is a creator
Meet the 18-year-old who left his job at ‘Yo’ to spread the joy of coding
Founders Talk #81: The future of code search with Quinn Slack
Changelog Interviews #369: Five years of freeCodeCamp
with Quincy Larson
SSH Tron
The World’s Longest Hackathon: The Hacker Zephyr, July 2021
ToorCamp
Thanks to the “How Do You Do, Fellow Kids?” meme for this title’s inspiration.
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 34 min
April 14, 2023Examining capitalism's chokepoints
This week we’re talking with Cory Doctorow (this episode contains explicit language) about his newest book Chokepoint Capitalism, which he co-autored with Rebecca Giblin. Chokepoint Capitalism is about how big tech and big content have captured creative labor markets and the ways we can win them back. We talk about chokepoints creating chickenized reverse-centaurs, paying for your robot boss (think Uber, Doordash, Amazon Drivers), the chickenization that’s climbing the priviledge gradient from the most blue collar workers to the middle-class. There are chokepoints in open source, AI generative art, interoperability, music, film, and media. To quote Cory, “We’re all fighting the same fight.”
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Square – Develop on the platform that sellers trust. There is a massive opportunity for developers to support Square sellers by building apps for today’s business needs. Learn more at developer.squareup.com to dive into the docs, APIs, SDKs and to create your Square Developer account — tell them Changelog sent you.
Typesense – Lightning fast, globally distributed Search-as-a-Service that runs in memory. You literally can’t get any faster!
Featuring:
Cory Doctorow – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Buy Cory’s books
Gig Work Is the Opposite of Steampunk
TikTok’s Enshittification
Rural towns and poor urban neighborhoods are being devoured by dollar stores
What is Chokepoint Capitalism?
Revenge of the Chickenized Reverse-Centaurs
Cory on Twitter explaining “chickenization “
Red Team Blues: Another audiobook that Amazon won’t sell
The Memex Method
Changelog Interviews #221: How we got here with Cory Doctorow
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 28 min
April 07, 2023LLMs break the internet
This week we’re talking about LLMs with Simon Willison. We can not avoid this topic. Last time it was Stable Diffusion breaking the internet. This time it’s LLMs breaking the internet. Large Language Models, ChatGPT, Bard, Claude, Bing, GitHub Copilot X, Cody…we cover it all.
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Postman – Build APIs together — More than 20 million developers use Postman for building and using APIs. Postman simplifies each step of the API lifecycle and streamlines collaboration so you can create better APIs—faster.
Typesense – Lightning fast, globally distributed Search-as-a-Service that runs in memory. You literally can’t get any faster!
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Featuring:
Simon Willison – Website, GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
AI-enhanced development makes me more ambitious with my projects
Cerebras-GPT: A Family of Open, Compute-efficient, Large Language Models
I lost everything that made me love my job through Midjourney over night.
ChatGPT plugins
nomic-ai/gpt4all
Houston AI
Unreal Engine 5.2 - Next-Gen Graphics Tech Demo (State of Unreal 2023)
Apple’s secret M1 coprocessor
For our Changelog++ subs…
For the fiscal year 2021, Alphabet (Google’s parent company) reported revenues of $182.5 billion, and the revenue breakdown was as follows:
Advertising: $147.5 billion
Google Cloud: $14.9 billion
Google Play and other sources: $25.1 billion
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1 hr 43 min
March 29, 2023A new path to full-time open source
After years of working for Google on the Go Team, Filippo Valsorda quit last year to experiment with more sustainable paths for open source maintainers. Good news, it worked! Filippo is now a full-time open source maintainer and he joins Jerod on this episode to tell everyone exactly how he’s making the equivalent to his total compensation package at Google in open source.
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Postman – Build APIs together — More than 20 million developers use Postman for building and using APIs. Postman simplifies each step of the API lifecycle and streamlines collaboration so you can create better APIs—faster.
Sentry – Session Replay! Rewind and replay every step of the user’s journey before and after they encountered an issue. Eliminate the guesswork and get to the root cause of an issue, faster. Use the code CHANGELOG and get the team plan free for three months.
Typesense – Lightning fast, globally distributed Search-as-a-Service that runs in memory. You literally can’t get any faster!
Featuring:
Filippo Valsorda – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Filippo on Go Time talking fuzzing
Filippo on Go Time talking security
I’m now a full-time professional open source maintainer
age file encryption
mkcert
yubikey-agent
Lemonade Stand
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 5 min
March 22, 2023Bringing Whisper and LLaMA to the masses
This week we’re talking with Georgi Gerganov about his work on Whisper.cpp and llama.cpp. Georgi first crossed our radar with whisper.cpp, his port of OpenAI’s Whisper model in C and C++. Whisper is a speech recognition model enabling audio transcription and translation. Something we’re paying close attention to here at Changelog, for obvious reasons. Between the invite and the show’s recording, he had a new hit project on his hands: llama.cpp. This is a port of Facebook’s LLaMA model in C and C++. Whisper.cpp made a splash, but llama.cpp is growing in GitHub stars faster than Stable Diffusion did, which was a rocket ship itself.
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Postman – Build APIs together — More than 20 million developers use Postman for building and using APIs. Postman simplifies each step of the API lifecycle and streamlines collaboration so you can create better APIs—faster.
Sentry – Session Replay! Rewind and replay every step of the user’s journey before and after they encountered an issue. Eliminate the guesswork and get to the root cause of an issue, faster. Use the code CHANGELOG and get the team plan free for three months.
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Typesense – Lightning fast, globally distributed Search-as-a-Service that runs in memory. You literally can’t get any faster!
Featuring:
Georgi Gerganov – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
ggerganov/whisper.cpp
examples/main
Arm Neon technology
Apple’s secret M1 coprocessor
ggerganov/llama.cpp
Introducing LLaMA: A foundational, 65-billion-parameter large language model
facebookresearch/llama
Ludacris Llama Llama Red Pajama Freestyle
The Changelog #506: Stable Diffusion breaks the internet with Simon Willison
Large language models are having their Stable Diffusion moment
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 12 min
March 15, 2023Goodbye Atom. Hello Zed.
This week we’re talking with Nathan Sobo about his next big thing. Nathan is known for his work on the Atom editor while at GitHub. But his work wasn’t finished when he left, so…he started Zed, a high-performance multiplayer editor that’s engineered for performance. And today, Nathan talks us through all the details.
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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
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Featuring:
Nathan Sobo – GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
zed.dev
Zed raises $10M for a code editor built for collaboration
The Changelog #241: The Story of Atom with Nathan Sobo
GitHub officially says farewell to Atom
Founders Talk #7: Henk Rogers / The Tetris Company
Prioritize enablers and blockers - linear.app
Zed’s language support
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 28 min
March 09, 2023Chasing the 9s
This week Adam talks with Marcin Kurc about chasing the 9s. Marcin is the Co-founder and CEO of Nobl9 where they build tools for managing service level objectives, aka SLOs. We also talk about service level agreements (SLAs), service level indicators (SLIs), error budgets, and monitoring, and how it all comes together to help teams align on goals, improve customer satisfaction, manage risks, increase transparency, and of course, a favorite around here…continuous improvement. Kaizen! This is an awesome deep dive into the world of chasing those 9s, and how teams are levering SLOs to earn the trust of their customers as well showcase transparency.
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Square – Develop on the platform that sellers trust. There is a massive opportunity for developers to support Square sellers by building apps for today’s business needs. Learn more at changelog.com/square to dive into the docs, APIs, SDKs and to create your Square Developer account — tell them Changelog sent you.
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.
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Featuring:
Marcin Kurc – Website, LinkedIn, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
New to SLOs?
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
55 min
March 01, 2023You’re just a devcontainer.json away
This week we’re joined by Brigit Murtaugh, Product Manager on the Visual Studio Code team at Microsoft, and we’re talking about Development Containers and the Dev Container spec. Ever since we talked with Cory Wilkerson about Coding in the cloud with Codespaces we’ve wanted to get the Changelog.com codebase setup with a dev environment in the cloud to more easily support contributions. After getting a drive-by contribution from Chris Eggert to add a Dev Container spec to our codebase, we got curious and reached out to Brigit and asked her to come on the show to give us all the details.
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Square – Develop on the platform that sellers trust. There is a massive opportunity for developers to support Square sellers by building apps for today’s business needs. Learn more at changelog.com/square to dive into the docs, APIs, SDKs and to create your Square Developer account — tell them Changelog sent you.
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.
Featuring:
Brigit Murtaugh – GitHub, LinkedIn
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
containers.dev
Dev containers templates and on GitHub
Dev containers CLI
PR #437 (from Chris Eggert): Add GitHub Codespaces support - https://containers.dev 👀
Beginner’s Series to: Dev Containers
The Changelog #459: Coding in the cloud with Codespaces with Cory Wilkerson
The Changelog #277: The Story of Visual Studio Code
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1 hr 11 min
February 24, 2023Into the Fediverse
This week Evan Prodromou is back to take us deeper into the Fediverse. As many of us reconsider our relationship with Twitter, Mastodon has been by-and-large the target of migration. They helped to popularize the idea of a federated universe of community-owned, decentralized, social networks. And, at the heart of it all is ActivityPub. ActivityPub is a decentralized social networking protocol published by the W3C. It is co-authored by Evan as well as; Christine Lemmer-Webber, Jessica Tallon, Erin Shepherd, and Amy Guy. Today, Evan shares the details behind this protocol and where the Fediverse might be heading.
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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
Featuring:
Evan Prodromou – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
ActivityPub - W3C Recommendation (23 January 2018)
PeerTube
Twitter says it’s intentionally blocking apps like Tweetbot
Changelog.social
Mastodon Roadmap
The Changelog #257 with Evan Prodromou
Medium embraces Mastodon
Cosocial
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 19 min

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Conversations with the hackers, leaders, and innovators of the software world. Adam Stacoviak brings you in-depth interviews with the best and brightest in software engineering, open source &…