The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source episodes

February 06It's a renaissance woman's world (Friends)
Amal Hussein returns to tell us all about her new role at Istari, what life is like outside the web browser, how she’s helping ambitious orgs in aerospace, what the SDLC looks like in 2026, and a whole lot more. Wait, moon vacuums?!
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Featuring:
Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Istari: level the digital playing field
AWS Re:invent keynote Blue Origin
Frictionless book
Jevons paradox
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1 hr 44 min
February 04Setting Docker Hardened Images free (Interview)
In May of 2025, Docker launched Hardened Images, a secure, minimal, production-ready set of images. In December, they made DHI freely available and open source to everyone who builds software. On this episode, we’re joined by Tushar Jain, EVP of Engineering at Docker to learn all about it.
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Tushar Jain – LinkedIn
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Hardened images for everyone
Hardened images catalog
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1 hr 17 min
February 02The tech monoculture is finally breaking (News)
Jason Willems believes the tech monoculture is finally breaking, Don Ho shares some bad Notepad++ news, Tailscale’s Avery Pennarun pens a great downtime apology, Milan Milanović explains why you can only code 4 hours per day, and Addy Osmani on managing comprehension debt when leaning on AI to code.
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9 min
January 30Natural born SaaS killers (Friends)
We discuss the buzz around Clawdbot / MoltBot / OpenClaw, how app subscriptions are turning into weekend hacking projects, why SaaS stocks are crashing on Wall Street, and what it all means.
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Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
OpenClaw — personal AI assistant
Mintlify
Macrumors Buyer’s Guide: Mac Mini
Your app subscription is now my weekend project
The future of software engineering is SRE
Why SaaS stocks are crashing on Wall Street
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 14 min
January 29Securing npm is table stakes (Interview)
As the creator and long-time maintainer of ESLint, Nicholas Zakas is well-positioned to criticize GitHub’s recent response to npm’s insecurity. He found the response insufficient, and has other ideas on how GitHub could secure npm better. On this episode, Nicholas details these ideas, paints a bleak picture of npm alternatives like JSR, and shares our frustration that such a critical piece of internet infrastructure feels neglected.
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Featuring:
Nicholas C. Zakas – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, Mastodon, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
How GitHub could secure npm
JSR: the javascript registry
vlt /vōlt/
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 22 min
January 26Clawdbot triggers a run on Mac Minis (News)
Clawdbot drives Mac Mini sales, Swizec Teller on the future of software engineering being SRE, Daniel Stenberg decided to end curl’s bug bounty program, zerobrew takes some of the best ideas from uv and applies them to Homebrew, and Phil Eaton on LLMs and your career.
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7 min
January 24The state of homelab tech (2026) (Friends)
Techno Tim joins Adam to dive deep into the state of homelab’ing in 2026. Hardware is scarce and expensive due to the AI gold rush, but software has never been better. From unleashing Claude on your UDM Pro to building custom Proxmox CLIs, they explores how AI is transforming what’s possible in the homelab. Tim declares 2026 the “Year of Self-Hosted Software” while Adam reveals his homelab’s secret weapons: DNSHole (a Pi-hole replacement written in Rust) and PXM (a Proxmox automation CLI).
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Notion – Notion is a place where any team can write, plan, organize, and rediscover the joy of play. It’s a workspace designed not just for making progress, but getting inspired. Notion is for everyone — whether you’re a Fortune 500 company or freelance designer, starting a new startup or a student juggling classes and clubs.
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Techno Tim – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
People
Techno Tim - Tim Stewart’s website, YouTube channel, and documentation hub
Crosstalk Solutions - Chris’s channel, mentioned for building custom Ubiquiti API tools
Virtualization & Infrastructure
Proxmox VE - Open-source virtualization platform for VMs and containers
TrueNAS - Enterprise-grade open-source storage operating system built on ZFS
HexOS - Consumer-friendly NAS OS built on TrueNAS (in development)
Proxmox VE Helper Scripts - Community-maintained scripts for easy LXC and VM deployment
Self-Hosted Software
Paperless-NGX - Self-hosted document management system with OCR
Paperless-GPT - AI-powered enhancement for Paperless-NGX using LLMs
Ollama - Run large language models locally on your own hardware
Open WebUI - Self-hosted web interface for interacting with local LLMs
Plex - Media server for organizing and streaming your personal media library
Home Assistant - Open-source home automation platform
Pi-hole - Network-wide ad blocking via DNS filtering
Document Intelligence & RAG
Dockling - IBM’s open-source document parsing library for AI/RAG pipelines
PaddleOCR - Multi-language OCR toolkit for document recognition
AI & Agents
Claude - Anthropic’s AI assistant, used for homelab automation in this episode
OpenCode - Open-source AI coding agent (mentioned as potential homelab tool)
Model Context Protocol (MCP) - Protocol for connecting AI models to external tools and data
Networking
Ubiquiti - Enterprise networking gear popular with homelabbers (UDM Pro, UniFi)
Tailscale - Zero-config VPN for secure networking between devices
Container & Orchestration
Docker - Container platform for packaging and running applications
Kubernetes - Container orchestration for managing containerized workloads
Fly.io - Platform for running containers close to users globally
Monitoring & Observability
Grafana - Open-source analytics and visualization platform
Prometheus - Open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit
Security & Authentication
Bitwarden - Open-source password manager (self-hostable)
Authelia - Open-source authentication and authorization server
Databases
MariaDB - Community-developed fork of MySQL
Redis - In-memory data store for caching and messaging
PostgreSQL - Advanced open-source relational database
Hardware Mentioned
Intel Optane - Ultra-low latency storage drives (discontinued but prized for ZFS special vdevs)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 - GPU used for Plex transcoding and local AI inference
Concepts & Techniques
ZFS Special Vdevs - ZFS feature for accelerating metadata and small file operations
PCIe Bifurcation - Splitting a PCIe slot to support multiple NVMe drives
Medallion Architecture - Bronze/Silver/Gold data lake pattern discussed for document ETL
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2 hr 3 min
January 22The era of the Small Giant (Interview)
Damien Tanner (founder of Pusher, now building Layercode) is back for a reunion 17 years in the making. Damien officially returns to The Changelog to discuss the seismic shift happening in software development. From the first sponsor of the podcast to frontline builder in the AI agent era, Damien shares his insights on why SaaS is dying, why code review is a bottleneck (and non-existent for some), and how small teams can now build giant things.
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Tiger Data – Postgres for Developers, devices, and agents The data platform trusted by hundreds of thousands from IoT to Web3 to AI and more.
Notion – Notion is a place where any team can write, plan, organize, and rediscover the joy of play. It’s a workspace designed not just for making progress, but getting inspired. Notion is for everyone — whether you’re a Fortune 500 company or freelance designer, starting a new startup or a student juggling classes and clubs.
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:
Damien Tanner – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Layercode
Pusher
AI Engineer London Meetup
How Claude Code Works (Jared Zoneraich, PromptLayer)
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 39 min
January 19Agent psychosis: are we going insane? (News)
Armin Ronacher thinks AI agent psychosis might be driving us insane, Dan Abramov explains how AT Protocol is a social filesystem, RepoBar keeps your GitHub work in view without opening a browser, Ethan McCue shares some life altering Postgres patterns, and Lea Verou says web dependencies are broken and we need to fix them.
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7 min
January 17Kaizen! Let it crash (Friends)
Gerhard is back for Kaizen 22! We’re diving deep into those pesky out-of-memory errors, analyzing our new Pipedream instance status checker, and trying to figure out why someone in Asia downloads a single episode so much.
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Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Kaizen 22 discussion #554
Tw93/mole: 🐹 deep clean and optimize your mac.
Stuff Goes Bad: Erlang in Anger
Abacus.ai - the world’s first super assistant for professionals and enterprises
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 42 min