The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source episodes

July 10, 2023Oracle smacks IBM over RHEL (News)
Oracle smacks IBM for their handling of RHEL, the folks at The Dam share a Slack clone in 5 lines of Bash, Justin Jaffray writes up 13 ways to think about joins, llama.cpp learns web chat thanks to a contribution by Tobi Lütke & Meta is willing to pay 3 engineers to remove Python’s GIL.
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Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
8 min
July 06, 2023Efficient Linux at the CLI (Interview)
This week we’re talking to Daniel J. Barrett, author of Efficient Linux at the Command Line as well as many other books. Daniel has a PhD and has been teaching and writing about Linux for more than 30 years (almost 40!). So we invited Dan to join us on the show to talk about efficient ways to use Linux. He teaches us about combining commands, re-running commands, $CDPATH hacks, and more.
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Daniel J. Barrett – Website, LinkedIn, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Efficient Linux at the Command Line
Daniel’s books
Dan on O’Reilly
Cold Ice Cream & Hot Kisses
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 23 min
July 03, 2023Streak redemption, vectors are the new JSON, CommonJS is hurting JavaScript & the rise of the AI Engineer (News)
Lukas Mathis writes about streak redemption, Jonathan Katz thinks vectors are the new JSON, Andy Jiang says CommonJS is hurting JavaScript & Swyx on the rise of the AI Engineer.
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7 min
June 30, 2023Even the best rides come to an end (Friends)
On Monday, Kelsey Hightower announced his retirement from Google. On Tuesday, he sat down with us to discuss why, how & what’s next.
Along the way, Kelsey teaches us how not to suck at work, analyzes his magical demos, fights off the haters (again) & opines on System Initiative, Dagger & 37Signals moving off the cloud.
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Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
“Today I’m announcing my retirement from Google.”
Not Everyone Can Be Kelsey Hightower - Greg Poirier - YouTube
Rebuilding DevOps from the ground up with Adam Jacob
Why we’re leaving the cloud
We have left the cloud
MRSK — Deploy web apps anywhere
Two decades as a solo indie Mac dev with Jesse Grosjean
btop on GitHub
Dagger
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1 hr 29 min
June 28, 2023Don't make things worse! (Interview)
Taylor Troesh joins Jerod to discuss a bevy of software development topics: yak shaves, dependency selection, -10x engineers, IKEA-oriented development, his new content-addressable programming language & much more along the way.
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Show Notes:
Taylor Town
IKEA-Oriented Development
11 Ways to Shave a Yak
How to be a -10x Engineer
The Lindy Effect
Crafting Interpreters
The Unison language
Scrapscript
The Mother of All Demos - Wikipedia
Opening Keynote: Greg Young - Stop Over-Engenering - YouTube
The art of destroying software (Greg Young) - YouTube
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1 hr 8 min
June 26, 2023AI poisoned its own well, libraries to UnsuckJS, we need more Richard Stallman & ChatGPT package hallucination (News)
Tracy Durnell thinks AI has already poisoned its own well, Adam Hill’s microsite catalogs everything you need to UnsuckJS, Lionel Dricot thinks we need more Richard Stallman, not less & the Vulcan team proves you can’t trust ChatGPT’s package recommendations.
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9 min
June 23, 2023There's a whole PEP about that (Friends)
Brett Cannon (our unofficial ambassador to the Python community) is here to help alleviate our pip install anxiety. Along the way, we ask him about Python 4, removing the GIL, what he thinks about Chris Lattner’s Mojo project, Rust in the Python world & way more (of course).
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Brett Cannon – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, Mastodon
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
In response to the Changelog #526
Raku
Perl Mongers
pipx
Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe
Mojo.🔥
Why Mojo
Astral
RustPython: A Python Interpreter written in Rust
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1 hr 32 min
June 22, 2023Rebuilding DevOps from the ground up (Interview)
This week we’re joined by Adam Jacob and we’re talking about his mission at System Initiative to rebuild DevOps. They are out of stealth mode and ready to show off their transformative new power tool that reimagines what’s possible from DevOps. It’s an intelligent automation platform that allows DevOps teams to build detailed interactive simulations of their infrastructure and use them to rapidly update their production environments.
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Adam Jacob – Website, GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
System Initiative
System Initiative launch demo
What if Infrastructure as Code never existed, by Adam Jacob
10+ deploys per day at Flickr
Changelog Interviews #353: The war for the soul of open source
Changelog Interviews #460: The business model of open source
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1 hr 28 min
June 19, 2023An open platform for LLMs, speed matters, imaginary problems, Val Town & how to finish your projects (News)
An open platform for operating LLMs in production, working quickly is more important than it seems, imaginary problems are the root of bad software, Val Town is a social website to write and run code & Aaron Francis’ guide to finishing your projects.
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8 min
June 16, 2023"Mat Depends" (Friends)
Mat Ryer is back and he’s brought with him 10 tips to be a 10x developer (like he is). After that, we try a new segment we’re calling “Tool Time” (and try out a few jingles for it along the way). Finally, it’s time to review our previous unpopular opinions and put some new ones into the world for your (dis)agreeing pleasure. Join us for an automagical time!
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Typesense – Lightning fast, globally distributed Search-as-a-Service that runs in memory. You literally can’t get any faster!
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Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
How ‘Back to the Future 2’ Tricked You Into Thinking Crispin Glover Returned
Mat on The Changelog #526
The Synergistic Interplay between Vitamins D and K for Bone and Cardiovascular Health
Introducing Wood Milk: Aubrey Plaza’s Newest Product #drinkwoodmilk - YouTube
golangci-lint
credo for Elixir
1Password
ntfy.sh
Queen Latifah - U.N.I.T.Y. - YouTube
NextDNS
NextDNS wiki on UnifiOS
I Made a Tiny Touch ID Button for Mac!
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 41 min