The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source episodes

January 11, 2024Amazon's silent sacking (Interview)
Justin Garrison joins us to talk about Amazon’s silent sacking, from his perspective. He should know. He works there. Well, as of yesterday he quit. We discuss how the cloud and Kubernetes have transformed the way software is developed and deployed, the impact silent layoffs have on employees and their careers, speaking out about workplace issues (the right way), how changes in organizational structure can lead to gaps in expertise and responsibility which can lead to potential outages and slower response times.
By the way, we officially let the cat off out of the bag in this episode. Justin has joined the ranks here at Changelog and is taking over as the host of Ship It! Expect new episodes soon.
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Featuring:
Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Amazon’s Silent Sacking
mintCast
Ship It
Justin on Ship It takeover
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1 hr 21 min
January 08, 2024The I in LLM stands for intelligence (News)
Daniel Stenberg is frustrated with the state of AI tooling for finding security bugs, Brian Birtles is surprised by weird things engineers believe about web dev, Feross Aboukhadijeh details the fallout from a nasty npm prank, Rob Pike shares what he thinks they got right and wrong with Go & Gavin Howard writes up why he believes “all code is tech debt” is all wrong.
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Featuring:
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
9 min
January 04, 2024Dear new developer (Interview)
Hello 2024! We’re kicking off the year with Dan Moore, author of ‘Letters to a New Developer’ — a blog series of letters of what Dan wished he had known when starting his developer career. We discuss the value of online communities for new developers, the importance of communication skills, and the need to stay relevant in a rapidly changing industry. Dan shares his best advice for new developers, including the importance of saying no, leaving code better than you found it, and the value of skill stacking. So much wisdom and advice in this episode!
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Socket – Secure your supply chain and ship with confidence. Install the GitHub app, book a demo or learn more
Neon – The fully managed serverless Postgres with a generous free tier. We separate storage and compute to offer autoscaling, branching, and bottomless storage.
Sentry – Get $100 towards your error monitoring with Sentry! Use the code changelog.
Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs.
Featuring:
Dan Moore – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Letters to a New Developer - What I wish I had known when starting my development career
Letters to a New Developer (the book)
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1 hr 4 min
December 20, 2023State of the "log" 2023 (Interview)
Our 6th annual year-end wrap-up episode! This time we’re featuring 12 (yes, 12!) listener voice mails, our favorite episodes of the year & some insanely cool Breakmaster Cylinder beats made just for this occasion. Thanks for listening! 💚
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Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs.
Typesense – Lightning fast, globally distributed Search-as-a-Service that runs in memory. You literally can’t get any faster!
Featuring:
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Arthur Maltson’s favs:
Friends #11: An aberrant generation of programmers with Justin Searls & Landon Gray
Interviews #551: DX on DX with Abi Noda
Interviews #453: Leading leaders who lead engineers with Lara Hogan
Hal’s favs:
Interviews #524: Mainframes are still a big thing with Cameron Seay
Interviews #545: Rebuilding DevOps from the ground up with Adam Jacob
Friends #20: Beat freak in residence with BMC
Changelog News
Rory O’Connor’s favs:
Interviews #524: Mainframes are still a big thing with Cameron Seay
Brett Cannon’s favs:
Interviews #565: Pushing back on unconstrained capitalism with Cory Doctorow
Interviews #558: Open source is at a crossroads with Steve O’Grady
Interviews #549: Storytime with Steve Yegge
Interviews #537: Hard drive reliability at scale with Andy Klein
Special: Next Level
Interviews #553: 30 years of Debian with Jonathan Carter
Interviews #533: A new path to full-time open source with Filippo Valsorda
Interviews #524: Mainframes are still a big thing with Cameron Seay
Interviews #523: Just Postgres with Craig Kerstiens
Jarvis Yang’s favs:
Friends #9: Homelab nerds, unite! with Techno Tim
Jamie Curnow’s favs:
Interviews #540: Engineering management (for the rest of us) with Sarah Drasner
Interviews #527: What it takes to scale engineering with Rachel Potvin
Friends #16: The beginning of the end of physical media with Christina Warren
Changelog Beats!
AJ Kerrigan’s favs:
Interviews #553: 30 years of Debian with Jonathan Carter
Interviews #547: Efficient Linux at the CLI with Danil J. Barrett
Friends #15: #define: a game of fake definitions
JS Party #299: Tech by Choice with Valerie Phoenix
Friends #20: Beat freak in residence with BMC
Alex’s favs:
Friends #23: The state of the 2023 tech market with Gergely Orosz
Interviews #535: Examining capitalism’s chokepoints with Cory Doctorow
Interviews #565: Pushing back on unconstrained capitalism with Cory Doctorow
Interviews #534: LLMs break the internet with Simon Willison
Schalk Neethling’s favs:
Friends #11: An aberrant generation of programmers with Justin Searls & Landon Gray
JS Party #288: Refined thinking with Jim Nielsen
Friends #12: You call it tech debt I call it malpractice with Kris Brandow
Go Time #291: Go templating using Templ
Friends #18: Human skills to pay the bills with KBall
JS Party #299: Tech by Choice with Valerie Phoenix
Cory Doctorow on restoring the dream of tech workers - YouTube
Matteo Collina on how he believes AWS fooled devs & sabotaged the industry (to make more money) - YouTube
Unpopular opinion! We’ll move from streaming back to owning content - YouTube
Tillman Jex’s favs:
Interviews #549: Storytime with Steve Yegge
Interviews #565: Pushing back on unconstrained capitalism with Cory Doctorow
Friends #7: Dear Red Hat… with Jeff Geerling
Jamie Tanna’s favs:
Interviews: #568: Gleaming the KubeCon
Friends #24: HATEOAS corpus with Kris Brandow
Adam’s favs:
Friends #17: Kaizen! Slightly more instant
Interviews #557: Attack of the Canaries! with Haroon Meer from Thinkst
Jerod’s favs:
Interviews #526: Git with your friends featuring Mat Ryer
Interviews #532: Bringing Whisper and LLaMA to the masses with Georgi Gerganov
Also mentioned:
Hobo Johnson’s Tiny Desk Concert
AllttA - The Woods
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1 hr 47 min
December 18, 2023The code, prose & pods that shaped 2023 (News)
This episodes diverges from our traditional fare. I’ve reviewed the 50 previous editions and picked (IMHO) the coolest code, best prose & my favorite podcast episode from each month!
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15 min
December 17, 2023#define: game theory, dude (Friends)
What happens when you take four grizzled #define veterans and throw an Emma Bostian into the mix? Find out on this episode because our award-worthy game of fake definitions is back and this time it’s even better!
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Neon – The fully managed serverless Postgres with a generous free tier. We separate storage and compute to offer autoscaling, branching, and bottomless storage.
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Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs.
Featuring:
Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
Lars Wikman – Website, GitHub, X
Taylor Troesh – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn
Emma Bostian – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
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I hereby pardon all junior engineers
wigwam.directory
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1 hr 23 min
December 15, 2023ANTHOLOGY — The technical bits (Interview)
This week we’re taking you to the hallway track of All Things Open 2023 in Raleigh, NC. Today’s episode features: Heikki Linnakangas (Co-founder of Neon and Postgres hacker), Robert Aboukhalil (Bioinformatics software engineer) working on bringing desktop apps to the web with Wasm, and Scott Ford who loves taking a codebase from brown to green at Corgibytes.
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Sentry – Get $100 towards your error monitoring with Sentry! Use the code changelog.
Socket – Secure your supply chain and ship with confidence. Install the GitHub app, book a demo or learn more
Typesense – Lightning fast, globally distributed Search-as-a-Service that runs in memory. You literally can’t get any faster!
Featuring:
Heikki Linnakangas – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn
Robert Aboukhalil – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Scott Ford – Website, GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Neon
Sandbox.bio
Corgibytes
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1 hr 28 min
December 11, 2023Open source LLMs are catching up (News)
A group of researchers set out to test claims that its open source rivals had achieved parity (or even better) with ChatGPT on certain tasks, Richard Hipp and his team have rewritten SQLite’s text-based JSON functions, Ratatui is a Rust crate for cooking up TUIs, Morris Brodersen built a complex app in vanilla JS as a case study & Headscale is Kristoffer Dalby’s open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server.
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8 min
December 08, 2023HATEOAS corpus (Friends)
Jerod is back with another “It Depends” episode! This time he’s joined by Kris Brandow from Go Time and they’re talking all things API design. What makes a good API? Is GraphQL a solid choice? Why do we do REST wrong? And WTF does HATEOAS mean, anyway?
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Neon – The fully managed serverless Postgres with a generous free tier. We separate storage and compute to offer autoscaling, branching, and bottomless storage.
Sentry – Get $100 towards your error monitoring with Sentry! Use the code changelog.
Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com
Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs.
Featuring:
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Kris Brandow – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
PHP: a fractal of bad design
PostGraphile Instant GraphQL API
HATEOAS
The Tech Behind the New Grooveshark
OpenAPI Spec
HTTP Specifications
Roy Fielding Dissertation on REST
Mike Amundsen
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1 hr 45 min
December 06, 2023Hare aims to be a 100 year language (Interview)
This week on The Changelog we’re joined by Drew DeVault, talking about the Hare programming language. From the website, Hare is a systems programming language designed to be simple, stable, and robust. When we asked Drew why he created it, he said “[because] I wanted it to exist, and it did not exist.” Wise words.
We discuss Hare (of course), why he’s so passionate about all things open source, the state of the language, fostering a culture that values stability, and oddly enough — what it takes to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
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Featuring:
Drew DeVault – Website, Mastodon
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
sourcehut - the hacker’s forge!
Drew on SourceHut
The Hare programming language
Himitsu
SourceHut’s 2022 Financial report
Can I be on your podcast
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1 hr 6 min