The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source episodes

March 11From Tailnet to platform (Interview)
Adam talks with Tailscale co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer David Carney about where Tailscale is headed next: TSIDP, TSNet, multiple tailnets, and Aperture. They get into clickless auth (via TSIDP), TSNet apps, multiple tailnets for isolation and control, and Aperture, Tailscale’s private AI gateway for API key management, observability, and agent security.
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Featuring:
David Carney – Website, GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Send an email to David ~> [email protected]
Mentioned in this episode
Tailscale
Aperture by Tailscale
TSIDP
TSNet
Multiple tailnets
Tailnet policy file syntax
Model Context Protocol (MCP)
MCP specification
Proxmox VE
Incus
OIDC / OpenID Connect
OAuth 2.0
Okta
Microsoft Entra ID
Google Workspace
Keycloak
Salesforce
Anthropic
Amazon Bedrock
Oso
Cerbos
Go
GopherCon
Simon Willison
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 43 min
March 10Big change brings big change (News)
This week’s been wild — Iran bombed AWS data centers to take down Claude, OpenAI dropped GPT-5.4 (and it’s seriously good for coding), and living brain cells are literally playing DOOM. We’ve also got a heartfelt take on what it feels like to be a 10x engineer in the age of AI, plus some cool new tools like Handy for speech-to-text and web haptics. Oh, and new MacBook Pros with M5 Pro and M5 Max are up for pre-order. Try not to impulse buy (or do).
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6 min
March 02Finale & Friends (Friends)
Adam and Jerod get into the news, Jerod officially retires from the pod (and Changelog), plus a bonus for our Changelog++ subs!
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Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI - Ladybird
The JavaScript Oxidation Compiler
Become an Oxc Sponsor | The JavaScript Oxidation Compiler
Boshen (@boshen_c) / X
Am I the only one who genuinely prefers on-prem? : r/devops
The Software Development Lifecycle Is Dead | Boris Tane
THE 2028 GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE CRISIS
Anish Acharya on X: “a different way this could go down…”
The Mythical Agent-Month – Wes McKinney
NanoClaw - Secure AI Agent for WhatsApp, Telegram & More
Zed — Agent Client Protocol
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 47 min
February 27Opus 4.5 changed everything (Interview)
Burke Holland works on GitHub Copilot by day and codes with his AI agents always. Early January, Burke posted about how Opus 4.5 changed everything. We were all still buzzing from the holiday-season 2x usage bump Claude gave us, and Opus 4.5 felt like a genuine step function in capability. Burke and I get into all the details. Opus 4.5 may have started the fire, but GPT-5.3 Codex is certainly living up to the hype.
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Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Opus 4.5 is going to change everything
Jon Gjengset Explains Rust 2026
How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week Rebuilding Next.js using AI in a single week
The era of the Small Giant (Changelog #673)
Layercode — Voice AI infrastructure for TypeScript developers
Diffs — An open source diff and code rendering library
Pierre Computer Company
Code Storage
Entire — Developer platform from former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke
Tigris Data
@traskjd tweet
GitHub Copilot
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 44 min
February 23The mythical agent-month (News)
Wes McKinney on the mythical agent-month, install Peon Ping to employ a Peon today, Andreas Kling explains why Ladybird is adopting Rust, Cloudflare has a new MCP server that’s quite efficient, and Elliot Bonneville thinks the only moat left is money.
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8 min
February 19Selling SDKs in the era of many Claudes (Interview)
Steve Ruiz joins us for a deep-dive on tldraw (a very good free whiteboard) and the business he’s built selling SDKs that help others build very good whiteboards (and more) with tldraw’s high-performance web canvas.
Along the way, we discuss the excitement/fear we share about keeping our agents busy, how SDK and infra companies are affected differently by agentic software than SaaS companies, how Steve is approaching the coming era of internal tooling, what will happen when we equip LLMs with an infinite canvas, and more.
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Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
tldraw.com
tldraw.dev
Remarkable: the paper tablets for focused work
Agent starter kit • tldraw docs
tldraw fairies
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 51 min
February 16All the Claw things (News)
Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI, ZeroClaw is “claw done right”, MimiClaw runs on a $5 chip, Steve Yegge on managing the AI Vampire, and the day the telnet died.
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7 min
February 13Han shot first (Friends)
Our ol’ friend, Brett Cannon, is back to talk all things Python. But first! Star Wars, Machete Order, Lost, Babylon 5, Game of Thrones, Murderbot, Ted Lasso, Project Hail Mary, David Attenborough, perpetual voice rights, and the AI uncanny valley.
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What is the Star Wars Machete Order?
Pep 665 (lock file format)
python-build-standalone
Astral: high-performance Python tooling
Pypi: Page Not Found
Incus documentation
Python/prebuilt-cpython
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2 hr 1 min
February 11Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview)
Paul Dix joins us to discuss the InfluxDB co-founder’s journey adapting to an agentic world. Paul sent his AI coding agents on various real-world side quests and shares all his findings: what’s going to prod, what’s not, and why he’s (at least for a bit) back to coding by hand.
Update: He’s back to letting the AIs write code, but with a lot more oversight. For now…
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Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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Build the machine that builds the machine
Paul dix on X: “2026: the great engineering divergence”
InfluxData
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1 hr 37 min
February 09Vouch for an open source web of trust (News)
Mitchell Hashimoto’s trust management system for open source, Nicholas Carlini has a team of Claudes build a C compiler, Stephan Schwab recounts the history of attempted developer replacement, NanClaw is an alternative to OpenClaw, and Sophie Koonin can’t wrap her head around so many people going so hard on LLM-generated code.
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8 min