The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source episodes

January 14The GitHub problem (and other predictions) (Friends)
Mat Ryer is back and he brought his impromptu musical abilities with him! We discuss Rob Pike vs thankful AI, Microsoft’s GitHub monopoly (and what it means for open source), and Tom Tunguz’ 12 predictions for 2026: agent-first design, the rise of vector databases, and are we about to pay more for AI than people?!
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Featuring:
Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
How Rob Pike got spammed with an AI slop “act of kindness”
How GitHub monopoly is destroying the open source ecosystem
12 predictions for 2026
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 42 min
January 12Linus Torvalds gets the AI coding bug (News)
Linus Torvalds pushes AI generated code, Jordan Fulghum thinks this is the year of self-hosting, FracturedJson formats for compact / human readability, Scott Werner believes a flood of adequate software is coming, and Sean Goedecke explains why generic software design advice is useless.
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Featuring:
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
6 min
January 07From GitLab to Kilo Code (Interview)
We’re joined by Sid Sijbrandij, founder of GitLab who led the all-in-one coding platform all the way to IPO. In late 2022, Sid discovered that he had bone cancer. That started a journey he’s been on ever since… a journey that he shares with us in great detail. Along the way, Sid continued founding companies including Kilo Code, an all-in-one agentic engineering platform, which he also tells us all about.
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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.
Featuring:
Sid Sijbrandij – Website, LinkedIn, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Sid’s cancer journey
Kilo.ai
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 18 min
January 05The move faster manifesto (News)
Brian Guthrie lists his seven rules for moving faster in software, Continuous-Claude-v2 is a context management system for Claude Code, Gas Town is Steve Yegge’s multi-agent orchestrator for Claude Code, Paul Dix sees a great engineering divergence in 2026, and Mattias Geniar thinks web development is fun again.
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8 min
December 19, 2025State of the "log" 2025 (Friends)
Our 8th annual year-end wrap-up is here! We’re featuring 8 listener voicemails, dope Breakmaster Cylinder remixes & our favorite episodes of the year. Thanks for listening! 💚
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Augment Code – Adam loves “Auggie” – Augment Code’s CLI that brings Augment’s context engine and powerful AI reasoning anywhere your code goes. From building alongside you in the terminal to any part of your development workflow.
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Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Andrew Patton’s favs:
It’s a peccadillo circus (Friends #75)
Hello, Matworld! (Friends #90)
Kaizen! Pipely is LIVE (Friends #105)
The 1000x faster financial database (Interviews #635)
Adventures in babysitting coding agents (Friends #96)
Agentic infra changes everything (Interviews #664)
Changelog Beats by Breakmaster Cylinder
Vibing into the vibe (Friends #89)
Try harder. Ultrathink! (Friends #102)
Very important agents (Friends #120)
Brett Cannon’s favs:
The power of the button (Interviews #623)
The 1000x faster financial database (Interviews #635)
Build software that lasts! (Interviews #627)
wsl.exe – cat hello.cs (Friends #95)
Don MacKinnon’s favs:
Turso is rewriting SQLite in Rust (Interviews #626)
Fernando Bevilacqua’s favs:
Flowing with agents (Interviews #658)
Reaching industrial economies of scale (Interviews #632)
Solving the AI energy crisis (Interviews #652)
Jamie Tanna’s favs:
npm under siege (what to do about it) (Friends #111)
There will be bleeps (Friends #113)
The world of open source metadata (Interviews #665)
Of agents & agency (Friends #86)
Over the top auth strategies (Friends #78)
It’s a peccadillo circus (Friends #75)
Hello, Matworld! (Friends #90)
Change my mind (Friends #81)
DO repeat yourself! (Interviews #666)
Programming with LLMs (Interviews #629)
Vibing into the vibe (Friends #89)
Try harder. Ultrathink! (Friends #102)
Very important agents (Friends #120)
Agentic infra changes everything (Interviews #664)
Adventures in babysitting coding agents (Friends #96)
Agent, take the wheel (Interviews #648)
Jarvis Yang’s favs:
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Minnebar 20
Nabeel Sulieman’s favs:
Kaizen! Pipely is LIVE (Friends #105)
Jerod’s favs:
From open source to acquired (Interviews #625)
Discovering discovery coding(Friends #80)
#define: I’m going pants (Friends #93)
LIVE from Denver with Nora Jones! (Interviews #653)
Inside Oxide (Friends #110)
Autonomous drone delivery in a Zip (Interviews #670)
Adam’s favs:
Turn him into a walrus (Friends #87)
Adventures in babysitting coding agents (Friends #96)
Chasing that next BIG thing (Interviews #639)
Inside Oxide (Friends #110)
Reinventing Python tooling (Interviews #660)
Werner Vogels predicts the future (Interviews #669)
LIVE from Denver with Nora Jones! (Interviews #653)
The state of homelab tech (2025) (Friends #79)
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 43 min
December 18, 2025Agents in the database (Interview)
Ajay Kulkarni from Tiger Data (Co-founder/CEO) is on the pod this week with Adam. He asked him to get vulnerable and trace his path to becoming a CEO. They dig into the themes that have shaped his career, and explore how founder values end up forming company culture (whether you intend them to or not). From his enterprise days to building Timescale (and the rename to Tiger Data), we cover the whole journey — even the haters, because haters gonna hate. Here’s where it gets really interesting: Agents in the database! Not the hype. The real thing baby. They get into how fast you can go from idea to shipped these days, what it actually means to talk to your database, and the whole API/CLI/MCP/Skills movement.
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Augment Code – Adam loves “Auggie” – Augment Code’s CLI that brings Augment’s context engine and powerful AI reasoning anywhere your code goes. From building alongside you in the terminal to any part of your development workflow.
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Ajay Kulkarni – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Agentic Postgres
timescale/tiger-cli
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 23 min
December 15, 2025The code, prose & pods that shaped 2025 (News)
This episodes diverges from our traditional fare. I’ve reviewed the 49 previous editions and picked (IMHO) the coolest code, best prose & my favorite podcast episode from each month!
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Featuring:
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
17 min
December 12, 2025Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)
Alex Kretzschmar joins Adam for a trip down the Linux rabbit hole – Docker vs Podman, building a Kubernetes cluster, ZFS backups with zfs.rent, bootc, favorite Linux distros, new homelab tools built with AI, self-hosting Immich, content creation, Plex and Jellyfin, the future of piracy and more.
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Augment Code – Adam loves “Auggie” – Augment Code’s CLI that brings Augment’s context engine and powerful AI reasoning anywhere your code goes. From building alongside you in the terminal to any part of your development workflow.
Framer – Design and publish in one place. Get started free at framer.com/design, code CHANGELOG for a free month of Pro.
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Alex Kretzschmar – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Tailscale YouTube
Docker
Podman
Kubernetes
zfs.rent
bootc
Immich
Plex
Jellyfin
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 46 min
December 10, 2025Autonomous drone delivery in a Zip (Interview)
We’re joined by Zipline cofounder / CTO, Keenan Wyrobek. Zipline is on a mission to build the world’s first logistics system that serves all people equally via their fleet of autonomous drones that started in Africa delivering medical supplies and can now deliver packages (up to 8 lbs) directly to your door. They’ve solved a lot of gnarly technical and regulatory challenges along the way. We go deep with Keenan. We hope you’ll find this one fascinating.
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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.
Framer – Design and publish in one place. Get started free at framer.com/design, code CHANGELOG for a free month of Pro.
Featuring:
Keenan Wyrobek – GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Zipline drone delivery & logistics
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 35 min
December 08, 2025The "confident idiot" problem (News)
Why AI needs hard rules (not vibe checks), what Anthropic’s acquisition of Bun’s creators tells us about the AI takeover, Jonah Glover couldn’t get Claude to recreate Space Jam’s 1996 website, Google finally unkills something, and Bazzite is a distro for the next generation of Linux gaming.
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8 min