The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source episodes

January 27, 2025DeepSeek-R1's epic pull request (News)
Xuan-Son Nguyen opened a low-level code PR written 99% by DeepSeek-R1, Adam Wathan announces the release of Tailwind CSS 4.0, Matheus Lima opens up the Computer Science history books to create list of influential papers, Namanyay Goel thinks AI is creating a generation of illiterate programmers & Russell Baylis shares what he’s learned about optimizing WFH lighting to reduce eye strain.
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Featuring:
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
9 min
January 24, 2025Fallthrough & Friends (Friends)
Kris Brandow & Matthew Sanabria from Fallthrough.fm join Jerod to discuss tools we’re switching to, whether or not Go is still a great systems programming language choice, user-centric documentation, the need for archivists & more.
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Augment Code – Developer AI that uses deep understanding of your large codebase and how you build software to deliver personalized code suggestions and insights. Augment provides relevant, contextualized code right in your IDE or Slack. It transforms scattered knowledge into code or answers, eliminating time spent searching docs or interrupting teammates.
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Kris Brandow – GitHub, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Fallthrough.fm
CPU.fm
Tools Worth Changing To in 2025
Helix
Jujutsu
Replacing Git with Git featuring Scott Chacon
Reddit comment
The Seven-Action Documentation model
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1 hr 21 min
January 23, 2025From open source to acquired (Interview)
Ashley Jeffs shares his journey with Benthos, an open source stream processor that was acquired by Redpanda. We talk about the evolution of data streaming technologies, the challenges he faced while growing the project, the decision to bootstrap versus seek venture capital, and what ultimately led to the acquisition. We discuss reactions to licensing changes, what it’s like to have your thing acquired, the challenging yet fulfilling nature of open source work, what’s next for Benthos, and what it takes to enjoy the journey.
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Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Data streaming and Benthos with Mihai Todor & Ashley Jeffs (Go Time #192)
Announcing Bento, the open source fork of the project formerly known as Benthos - WarpStream - Stream More, Manage Less
warpstreamlabs/bento: Fancy stream processing made operationally mundane. This repository is a fork of the original project before the license was changed.
Benthos | Benthos
Redpanda Acquires Benthos to Deliver a Complete, End-to-End Streaming Data Platform
redpanda-data/connect: Fancy stream processing made operationally mundane
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1 hr 49 min
January 20, 2025Make computing personal again (News)
Benj Edwards wants to put the “personal” back in “personal computer”, the answer.ai folks took Devin for a month-long spin, Asaf Zamir explains why senior engineers can remain ICs and still have a fulfilling career, Fabrizio Ferri Benedetti rethinks documentation by putting user actions first & Tero Piirainen lays out his case for Nue, the standards first web framework.
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10 min
January 17, 2025Other people's robots (Friends)
Jerod & Adam discuss Nvidia’s recently announced personal AI supercomputer, Waymo’s latest infinite loop, what’s involved in getting a “modern” terminal setup, and whether or not AI has gone mainstream… warts & all!
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Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Min | A fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy
Nvidia announces $3,000 personal AI supercomputer called Project Digits - The Verge
We talked to the guy who was stuck in a Waymo robotaxi on a dizzying loop
What’s involved in getting a “modern” terminal setup?
Warp docs - Terminal features
Connections Episode 1: The Trigger Effect : James Burke and Connections on Wikipedia
chriskempson/base16: Not a theme, but a framework
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Sonos CEO Patrick Spence steps down after disastrous app launch
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1 hr 24 min
January 15, 2025The world of embedded systems (Interview)
Elecia White, host of Embedded.fm and author of Making Embedded Systems, joins us to discuss all things embedded systems. We discuss programming non-computers, open source resources for embedded, self-driving cars, embedded system like the GoPro, Traeger smokers, and even birthday cards. According to Elecia, embedded is going everywhere.
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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.
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Embedded.fm
Making Embedded Systems: Patterns for Software Development (Amazon)
Making Embedded Systems (ClasspertX)
Wokwi
MicroPython on GitHub
Nordic Thingy:91 X – Prototyping cellular IoT and Wi-Fi locationing
FreeRTOS
Adafruit
Kalman filter (Wikipedia)
Chibitronics
CrunchLabs
FIRST Inspires
Hackster.io
Hackaday
Instructables Circuits
A Smart Lamp That Wakes You Up at the Optimal Time (Instructables)
Open Source Hardware Summit (2025)
CrowdSupply Teardown (Portland 2025)
Hackaday SuperCon (2024)
Hardwear.io
Electronica
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1 hr 38 min
January 13, 2025The new $30,000 side hustle (News)
Bloomberg reports on a concerning new trend in tech hiring, Sean Goedecke has a lot to say about large established codebases, Jacob Bartlett thinks Apple is ruining Swift’s original vision, Ahmed Khaleel built a cool tool for turning GitHub repos into interactive diagrams & Bridget Harris goes deep on the potential of crypto stablecoins to disrupt Visa and Mastercard’s duopoly.
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9 min
January 10, 2025It's a peccadillo circus (Friends)
Mat Ryer is back! He plays the piano, we tell each other truths/lies, we pay homage to the 8” floppy disk, Mat accepts an open source medal, and so much more. It’s a real circus. MatGPT!
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Show Notes:
Floppy disk - Wikipedia
stretchr/testify
Piccadilly Circus - Wikipedia
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1 hr 18 min
January 09, 2025The power of the button (Interview)
Rachel Plotnick joins us for the first show of 2025 to discuss her book “Power Button” and the research she did, and why we love/hate buttons so much. We also discuss her upcoming book “License to Spill” as well as the research she’s doing on energy drinks.
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Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
RachelPlotnick.com
Touchscreens Are Out, and Tactile Controls Are Back.
Power Button
License To Spill
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1 hr 13 min
January 06, 202510 big predictions for 2025 (News)
M.G. Siegler goes way out on a limb with some BIG predictions of things that could happen this year, Simon Willison’s year-end roundup is a must-read and perhaps the only thing you have to read to get up-to-speed on the state of the LLM, Allen Pike describes a method for magic, Tom Critchlow thinks small databases are magic & James Stanier agrees with me about Parkinson’s Law and the usefulness of deadlines.
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8 min