December 20, 2021

State of the "log" 2021

1 hour 51 minutes

Our 4th annual year-end wrap-up episode! We don’t naval gaze often, but when we do… we make sure you get your money’s worth. Reflections, most popular episodes, our favs, and new this year: listener voice mails. Thanks for listening! 💚

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Featuring:

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

Show Notes:

The Changelog’s most popular episodes of 2021:

Why we love Vim

Modern Unix tools with Nick Janetakis

OAuth, “It’s complicated.” with Aaron Parecki

Why Neovim? with TJ DeVries

Jerod’s personal favorites of 2021:

Community perspectives on Elastic vs AWS

Exploring Deno Land with Ryan Dahl

Why we love Vim

Lessons from 10k hours with Matt Rickard

Song Encoder: $STDOUT

Adam’s personal favorites of 2021:

We ask a lawyer about GitHub Copilot

Exploring Deno Land with Ryan Dahl

Leading a non-profit unicorn with Quincy Larson

Let’s mint some NFTs with Mikeal Rogers

Every commit is a gift with Brett Cannon

Shopify’s vision for the future of commerce with Ilya Grigorik

Oh my! Zsh with Robby Russell

The business model of open source with Adam Jacob