December 20, 2024

State of the "log" 2024

2 hours 8 minutes

Our 7th annual year-end wrap-up is here! We’re featuring 12 listener voicemails, dope Breakmaster Cylinder remixes & our favorite episodes of the year. Thanks for listening! 💚

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Featuring:

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

Show Notes:

Many episodes were favorited more than once! We only list the first mention here…

AJ Kerrigan’s favs:

We have a right to repair! with Kyle Wiens (Interviews #582)

Building customizable ergonomic keyboards with Erez Zukerman (Interviews #608)

Open source threaded team chat?! with Alya Abbott (Interviews #607)

Erno Voutilainen’s favs:

Retirement is for suckers with Cameron Seay (Friends #36)

#define: legendary with Thomas Eckert, Nick Nisi & Mat Ryer (Friends #47)

Two tickets for Departure, please with Helena Zhang & Tobias Fried (Interviews #618)

Don Mackinnon’s favs:

From Chef to System Initiative featuring Adam Jacob (Friends #55)

Rails is having a moment (again) with DHH (Interviews #615)

Brett Cannon’s favs:

From Sun to Oxide with Bryan Cantrill (Interviews #592)

Free-threaded Python with Pablo & Łukasz (Interviews #611)

Gradually gradually typing Elixir featuring José Valim (Friends #28)

Linux distros with Jorge Castro (Ship It! #122)

Let’s talk FreeBSD (finally) with Allan Jude (Interviews #574)

The Oban Pros with Shannon & Parker Selbert (Friends #35)

Why we need Ladybird with Andreas Kling & Chris Wanstrath (Interviews #604)

Retired, not tired. with Kelsey Hightower (Interviews #595)

Nabeel Sulieman’s favs:

The Moneyball approach with John Nunemaker (Interviews #612)

Into the Bobiverse featuring Dennis E. Taylor (Interviews #603)

Rusty Nail’s favs:

Lessons from 10k hours of programming (Remastered) with Matt Rickard (Interviews #613)

“Founder Mode” at work when you’re not a founder (Go Time #332)

The best, worst codebase with Jimmy Miller (Changelog Interviews #609)

Bus factors & conspiracy theories (Friends #70)

Jamie Tanna’s favs:

Yeeting stuff into public with Jamie Tanna (Friends #31)

OpenAPI & API design with Jamie Tanna (Go Time #328)

1999: A Film Odyssey (Changelog++ 🔐) (Friends ++)

Hack Club takes to the High Seas featuring Acon (Interviews #620)

Gotta give to get back with Danny Thompson @ THAT (Interviews #617)

Jerod’s favs:

We ain’t afraid of no Ghostty! with Mitchell Hashimoto (Interviews #622)

Kaizen! NOT a pipe dream with Gerhard Lazu (Friends #50)

You have how many open tabs?! featuring the hallway track at THAT (Friends #29)

Future of [energy, content, food] featuring the hallway track at THAT (Friends #30)

The man behind the Sandwich featuring Adam Lisagor (Interviews #601)

Starbucks DVD peddlers with Emily Freeman & Justin Garrison (Friends #60)

Adam’s favs:

In the beginning (of generative AI) with Joe Reis (Interviews #576)

Shift left, seriously. with Deepak Prabhakara & Schalk Neethling (Interviews #575)

Also mentioned:

Prime Digital Academy

Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) - IMDb

The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) - IMDb

Jump Around - Wikipedia

FreeBSD At 30: The History And Future Of The Most Popular BSD-Based OS

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

...more

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December 20, 2024

State of the "log" 2024

2 hours 8 minutes

Our 7th annual year-end wrap-up is here! We’re featuring 12 listener voicemails, dope Breakmaster Cylinder remixes & our favorite episodes of the year. Thanks for listening! 💚

Join the discussion

Changelog++ members save 11 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!

Sponsors:

Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps close to your users — global Anycast load-balancing, zero-configuration private networking, hardware isolation, and instant WireGuard VPN connections. Push-button deployments that scale to thousands of instances. Check out the speedrun to get started in minutes.

Featuring:

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

Show Notes:

Many episodes were favorited more than once! We only list the first mention here…

AJ Kerrigan’s favs:

We have a right to repair! with Kyle Wiens (Interviews #582)

Building customizable ergonomic keyboards with Erez Zukerman (Interviews #608)

Open source threaded team chat?! with Alya Abbott (Interviews #607)

Erno Voutilainen’s favs:

Retirement is for suckers with Cameron Seay (Friends #36)

#define: legendary with Thomas Eckert, Nick Nisi & Mat Ryer (Friends #47)

Two tickets for Departure, please with Helena Zhang & Tobias Fried (Interviews #618)

Don Mackinnon’s favs:

From Chef to System Initiative featuring Adam Jacob (Friends #55)

Rails is having a moment (again) with DHH (Interviews #615)

Brett Cannon’s favs:

From Sun to Oxide with Bryan Cantrill (Interviews #592)

Free-threaded Python with Pablo & Łukasz (Interviews #611)

Gradually gradually typing Elixir featuring José Valim (Friends #28)

Linux distros with Jorge Castro (Ship It! #122)

Let’s talk FreeBSD (finally) with Allan Jude (Interviews #574)

The Oban Pros with Shannon & Parker Selbert (Friends #35)

Why we need Ladybird with Andreas Kling & Chris Wanstrath (Interviews #604)

Retired, not tired. with Kelsey Hightower (Interviews #595)

Nabeel Sulieman’s favs:

The Moneyball approach with John Nunemaker (Interviews #612)

Into the Bobiverse featuring Dennis E. Taylor (Interviews #603)

Rusty Nail’s favs:

Lessons from 10k hours of programming (Remastered) with Matt Rickard (Interviews #613)

“Founder Mode” at work when you’re not a founder (Go Time #332)

The best, worst codebase with Jimmy Miller (Changelog Interviews #609)

Bus factors & conspiracy theories (Friends #70)

Jamie Tanna’s favs:

Yeeting stuff into public with Jamie Tanna (Friends #31)

OpenAPI & API design with Jamie Tanna (Go Time #328)

1999: A Film Odyssey (Changelog++ 🔐) (Friends ++)

Hack Club takes to the High Seas featuring Acon (Interviews #620)

Gotta give to get back with Danny Thompson @ THAT (Interviews #617)

Jerod’s favs:

We ain’t afraid of no Ghostty! with Mitchell Hashimoto (Interviews #622)

Kaizen! NOT a pipe dream with Gerhard Lazu (Friends #50)

You have how many open tabs?! featuring the hallway track at THAT (Friends #29)

Future of [energy, content, food] featuring the hallway track at THAT (Friends #30)

The man behind the Sandwich featuring Adam Lisagor (Interviews #601)

Starbucks DVD peddlers with Emily Freeman & Justin Garrison (Friends #60)

Adam’s favs:

In the beginning (of generative AI) with Joe Reis (Interviews #576)

Shift left, seriously. with Deepak Prabhakara & Schalk Neethling (Interviews #575)

Also mentioned:

Prime Digital Academy

Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) - IMDb

The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) - IMDb

Jump Around - Wikipedia

FreeBSD At 30: The History And Future Of The Most Popular BSD-Based OS

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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