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Open source LLMs are catching up from 2023-12-11T20:00
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-...
ListenHATEOAS corpus from 2023-12-08T18:20
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 ...
ListenHare aims to be a 100 year language from 2023-12-06T22:00
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 rob...
ListenLeaked GPT prompts&Firefox on the brink from 2023-12-04T21:15
ChatGPT’s new GPTs feature leak their prompts, Firefox’s share of the browser market will soon drop below 2%, Robin Berjon tries to formalize a name for those who can’t be named, Amy Lai tells the ...
ListenThe state of the 2023 tech market from 2023-12-01T19:00
Gergely Orosz is back for our annual year-end update on the tech market, writ large. How is hiring? Has AI really changed the game? What about that OpenAI fiasco? We also talk in-depth about Gergel...
ListenGleaming the KubeCon from 2023-11-30T22:30
This week we’re gleaming the KubeCon. Ok, some people say CubeCon, while others say KubeCon…we talk with Solomon Hykes about all things Dagger, Tammer Saleh and James McShane about going beyond clo...
ListenWas Jamstack a zero interest rate phenomenon? from 2023-11-27T20:00
Zach Leatherman on the tension and future of the Jamstack community, Chenxin Li helps you avoid 13 bad practices in data visualization, Laravel Pulse is coming real soon, Max Chernyak develops a ne...
ListenBringing Dev Mode to Figma from 2023-11-22T16:50
This week on we’re joined by Emil Sjölander from Figma — talking about bringing Dev Mode to Figma. Dev Mode is their new workspace in Figma that’s designed to bring developers and design to the sam...
ListenWatching OpenAI unravel in real-time from 2023-11-20T20:20
The internet watches OpenAI unravel in real-time, tldraw has a new experiment going with GPT-4 Vision that turns mockups into code, Tony Ennis makes the case for HTML First, James Somers writes a “...
ListenIt dependencies from 2023-11-17T18:30
Jerod goes one-on-one with our old friend Justin Searls! We talk build vs buy decisions, dependency selection&how Justin has implemented POSSE (Post On Site Syndicate Elsewhere) in response to the ...
ListenAll the places Swift will go from 2023-11-16T21:00
This week we’re talking about Swift with Ben Cohen, the Swift Team Manager at Apple. We caught up with Ben while at KubeCon last week. Ben takes us into the world of Swift, from Apple Native apps o...
ListenShare your terminal with anyone on the web from 2023-11-13T19:45
sshx lets you share your terminal with anyone on a multiplayer infinite canvas, Herbert Lui writes three things about your competitors, Anton Medvedev’s fx is a terminal JSON viewer&processor, Dann...
ListenBackslashes are trash from 2023-11-11T14:20
Mat Ryer returns with his guitar, an unpopular opinion&his favorite internet virus.
ListenPushing back on unconstrained capitalism from 2023-11-10T22:00
This week we’re talking with Cory Doctorow (this episode contains explicit language) about how we can get back to that “new good internet.” Cory’s new book The Internet Con offers a lens to this co...
ListenHow to write a good comment from 2023-11-06T19:15
David Hugh-Jones has a lot to say about what makes a good comment, Hugging Face released a distilled variant of Whisper for speech recognition, The New Stack reports on C++ creator Bjarne Stroustru...
ListenBeat freak in residence from 2023-11-03T23:00
We’re joined this week by the beat freak in residence himself, the mysterious Breakmaster Cylinder. Listen along as we talk about how we make our beats, what inspires us for our music, and some beh...
ListenObserving the power of APIs from 2023-11-02T14:45
Jean Yang’s research on programming languages at Carnegie Mellon led her to realize that APIs are the layer that makes or breaks quality software systems. Unfortunately, developers are underserved ...
ListenWhat will React come up with Next? from 2023-10-30T19:00
The hubbub of the web dev world right now is Next.js’ integration of React Server Components, Kent C. Dodds writes up why he doesn’t use Next, Lee Robinson responds with why he does, the NixOS team...
ListenProtecting screen time from 2023-10-27T17:15
Jared Henderson joins us to discuss the state of the art in software parental controls and how we protect our children and lock down our home networks from the constant onslaught of malicious and u...
ListenANTHOLOGY — The way of open source from 2023-10-27T13:00
This week we’re taking you to the hallway track of All Things Open 2023 in Raleigh, NC. Today’s episode features: Matthew Sanabria (former Engineer at HashiCorp working on Terraform Enterprise), Ni...
ListenNext Level from 2023-10-23T19:30
Listen to our Next Level album as a podcast! We grew up in the days of the Nintendo Entertainment System and the Sega Genesis. It’s no surprise that so many of our tracks are inspired by the 8-bit ...
ListenIntroducing Changelog Beats from 2023-10-23T19:15
Changelog drops full-length musical albums in collaboration with Breakmaster Cylinder, Justin Searls on why the right tools fail for the wrong reasons, The Unix Sheikh says we have too many level o...
ListenHuman skills to pay the bills from 2023-10-20T20:15
Long time friend KBall makes his “first” appearance on The Changelog by way of Changelog&Friends. You likely know Kevin from his panelist position on JS Party. Today he’s sharing his passion for co...
ListenPushing ntfy to the next level from 2023-10-20T17:00
This week Jerod goes solo with Philipp Heckel, creator of ntfy, to discuss this simple HTTP-based service that lets you send notifications to your phone or desktop via scripts from any computer. Th...
ListenLMMS are the new LLMs from 2023-10-16T16:15
Chip Huyen documents the shifting sand of large data models, Herman Õunapuu reviews the Zimaboard, Bryan Braun shares 4 of his most recent VSCode configuration discoveries&Swizec Teller wrote a gre...
ListenKaizen! Slightly more instant from 2023-10-13T19:30
Gerhard joins us for the 12th Kaizen and this time talk about what we DIDN’T do. We were holding S3 wrong, we put some cash back in our pockets, we enabled HTTP/3, Brotli compression, and Fastly we...
ListenComing to asciinema near you from 2023-10-11T20:30
This week we’re joined by Marcin Kulik to talk about his project asciinema. You’ve likely seen this out there in the wild — asciinema lets you record and share your terminal sessions in full fideli...
ListenRTO vs WFH&the case for strong static typing from 2023-10-09T19:30
Jacob Kaplan-Moss’ recommendations for remote vs colocated teams, Duarte Carmo created a neural search engine from Changelog transcripts, Tom Hacohen says strong static typing is a hill he’s willin...
ListenThe beginning of the end of physical media from 2023-10-06T16:30
On September 29th, Netflix shipped its final DVDs, marking the end of an era in physical media. So, we invited our friend Christina Warren (aka film_girl) from GitHub to pour out a drink with us an...
ListenTauri’s next big move from 2023-10-05T20:00
This week we’re joined by Daniel Thompson, Co-founder and Core Member of Tauri. It’s been a year since we last had Daniel on the show. He catches us up on all things Tauri, their continued efforts ...
ListenInfluxDB drops Go for Rust but gokrazy is really cool from 2023-10-02T19:40
InfluxDB finishes a multi-year rewrite in Rust, the Raspberry Pi 5 will be on sale by the end of the month, the Bruno team builds an open source API explorer that’s local-first and will never have ...
Listen#define: a game of fake definitions from 2023-09-29T19:30
Jerod gathers a group of friends for our first game show experiment here on Changelog&Friends! This is a game of obscure jargon, fake definitions&expert tomfoolery. Our contestants checked their im...
ListenVibes from Strange Loop from 2023-09-28T01:00
This week we’re taking you to the hallway track of the final Strange Loop conference. First up is AnnMarie Thomas — an engineering, business, and education professor. AnnMarie gave one of the openi...
ListenThe missing sync layer for modern apps from 2023-09-25T19:20
ElectricSQL is a project that offers a local-first sync layer for web and mobile apps, Ned Batchelder writes about the myth of the myth of “learning styles”, Carl Johnson thinks XML is better than ...
ListenOpen source is at a crossroads from 2023-09-20T13:00
This week we’re joined by Steve O’Grady, Principal Analyst&Co-founder at RedMonk. The topic today is the definition of open source, the constant pressure on the true definition of the term, and the...
ListenDeath by a thousand microservices from 2023-09-18T19:30
Andrei Taranchenko says the software industry is learning once again that complexity kills, Casey Muratori outlines a long list of Unity alternatives, Filip Szkandera builds a functioning (macro) p...
ListenWhat do we want from a web browser? from 2023-09-15T19:30
A hoy hoy! Our old friend Nick Nisi does his best to bring up TypeScript, Vim&Tmux as many times as possible while we discuss a new batch of web browsers, justify why we like the ones we do&try to ...
ListenAttack of the Canaries! from 2023-09-13T22:00
This week we’re joined by Haroon Meer from Thinkst — the makers of Canary and Canary Tokens. Haroon walks us through a network getting compromised, what it takes to deploy a Canary on your network,...
ListenBun 1.0 is here&Mojo is ready for download from 2023-09-11T19:00
Bun 1.0 is out of the oven, Mojo is now available for local download, Vince Lwt asked 60+ LLMs a set of 20 questions&published the answers, Textual Web turns TUIs in to web applications&James Haydo...
ListenDoomed to discuss AI from 2023-09-08T19:15
Author, journalist, travel writer&software engineer Jon Evans joins us to weigh in on the cultural history (and present-day sentiment) of AI doom. Along the way, we talk plausible Sci-Fi, ultrasoun...
ListenOpenTF for an open Terraform from 2023-09-06T18:00
This week we’re talking about the launch of OpenTF and what it’s going to take to successfully fork HashiCorp’s Terraform. We’re joined by Josh Padnick to discuss what exactly happened, how HashiCo...
ListenA portrait of the best worst programmer from 2023-09-05T18:20
Dan North tells the tale of Tim, the worst programmer he’s worked with (who also is a heck of a programmer), Kevin Lin declares that OpenTelemetry delivers on its promise for open observability, Ju...
ListenYou call it tech debt I call it malpractice from 2023-09-01T20:00
Go Time panelist (and semi-professional unpopular opinion maker) Kris Brandow joins us to discuss his deep-dive on the waterfall paper, his dislike of the “tech debt” analogy, why documentation mat...
ListenBack to the terminal of the future from 2023-08-30T16:30
This week on The Changelog Adam is joined by Zach Lloyd, Founder&CEO of Warp. We talked with Zach last year about what it takes to build the terminal of the future, and today Adam catches up with Z...
ListenOpenTF sticks a fork in Terraform from 2023-08-28T20:00
OpenTF announces they’re forking Terraform and joining the Linux Foundation, Meta gets in the LLM-for-codegen game with Code Llama, Matt Mullenweg announces WordPress.com’s new 100-year plan, Paul ...
ListenThe serenity of building your own OS from 2023-08-24T19:00
This week we’re talking to Andreas Kling about SerenityOS and Ladybird. Andreas started SerenityOS as a means of therapy. It’s self-described as a love letter to “‘90s user interfaces with a custom...
ListenAll your CAPTCHAs are belong to bots from 2023-08-21T19:45
New research shows that CAPTCHAs are now utterly useless, hundreds of concerned technologists signed the OpenTF Manifesto to keep Terraform open source forever, Josh Collinsworth writes down all th...
ListenAn aberrant generation of programmers from 2023-08-18T17:45
Our friend Justin Searls recently published a widely-read essay on enthusiast programmers, inter-generational conflict&what we do with this information. That seemed like a good conversation starter...
Listen30 years of Debian from 2023-08-17T19:00
This week we’re talking with Jonathan Carter who’s on his fourth term as Debian Project Lead (DPL) and we’re talking about 30 years of Debian!
ListenThe relicensings will continue until morale improves from 2023-08-14T19:15
HashiCorp adopts a Business Source license, Matt Rickard hypothesizes why Tailwind CSS won, WarpStream sets out to make a Kafka-compatible offering directly on S3, Vadim Kravcenko publishes an exce...
ListenKaizen! S3 R2 B2 D2 from 2023-08-11T17:30
Gerhard joins us for the 11th Kaizen and this one might contain the most improvements ever. We’re on Fly Apps V2, we’ve moved from S3 to R2&we have a status page now, just to name a few.
ListenThinking outside the box of code from 2023-08-09T21:45
Leslie Lamport is a computer scientist&mathematician who won ACM’s Turing Award in 2013 for his fundamental contributions to the theory and practice of distributed and concurrent systems. He also c...
ListenThe open source licensing war is over? from 2023-08-07T20:30
Matt Asay thinks the open source licensing war is over, LangUI is an open source Tailwind component library for your AI chat app, Ivan Kuleshov modded a Mac mini to run via PoE, Apple joins Pixar a...
ListenSomething interesting is going on at Stack Overflow from 2023-07-31T20:00
The fall of Stack Overflow, researches dig up some new (and potentially unavoidable) LLM attacks, Google proposes a new API that Ron Amadeo calls a DRM gatekeeper for the web, the Python Steering C...
ListenHomelab nerds, unite! from 2023-07-28T21:30
Ok Homelabbers, it’s time to unite! Join Adam and his new friend Techno Tim for 1.5 hours of homelab goodness. From networking and WiFi, virtualizing Ubuntu running Docker containers, to Home Assis...
ListenFrom Docker to Dagger from 2023-07-28T17:00
This week we’re joined by Solomon Hykes, the creator of Docker. Now he’s back with his next big thing called Dagger — CI/CD as code that runs anywhere. We’re users of Dagger so check out our codeba...
ListenSupabase quietly went public from 2023-07-24T21:00
Our friends at Supabase quietly went public today, Redpoint’s InfraRed 100 report is out, Twitter is now X, GitHub’s Copilot Chat now in public preview (for businesses)&Oxide has homelab plans (in ...
ListenBringing the cloud on prem from 2023-07-21T21:00
Adam was out when Bryan made his podcast debut here on The Changelog, so we had to get him back on the show along with his co-founder and CEO Steve Tuck to discuss Silicon Valley (the TV show), all...
ListenStorytime with Steve Yegge from 2023-07-20T21:00
This week it’s storytime with Steve Yegge! Steve came out of retirement to join Sourcegraph as Head of Engineering. Their next frontier is Cody, their AI coding assistant that answers code question...
ListenMagical shell history&why engineers should focus on writing from 2023-07-17T20:00
Ellie Huxtable’s Atuin makes your shell history magical, Dmitry Kudryavtsev writes why he thinks engineers should focus on writing, LazyVim promises to transform your Neovim setup into a full-flege...
ListenDear Red Hat... from 2023-07-14T20:45
Red Hat’s decision to lock down RHEL sources behind a subscription paywall was met with much ire and opened opportunity for Oracle to get a smack in and SUSE to announce a fork with $10 million beh...
ListenTypes will win in the end from 2023-07-13T20:10
This week we’re talking about type checking with Jake Zimmerman. Jake is one of the leads at Stripe working on Sorbet — an open source project that does Type checking in Ruby and runs over Stripe’s...
ListenOracle smacks IBM over RHEL from 2023-07-10T20:30
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...
ListenEfficient Linux at the CLI from 2023-07-06T13:00
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...
ListenStreak redemption, vectors are the new JSON, CommonJS is hurting JavaScript&the rise of the AI Engineer from 2023-07-03T19:30
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.
ListenEven the best rides come to an end from 2023-06-30T17:45
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...
ListenDon't make things worse! from 2023-06-28T17:30
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 lang...
ListenAI poisoned its own well, libraries to UnsuckJS, we need more Richard Stallman&ChatGPT package hallucination from 2023-06-26T20:45
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 te...
ListenThere's a whole PEP about that from 2023-06-23T17:15
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 ...
ListenRebuilding DevOps from the ground up from 2023-06-22T13:30
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 to...
ListenAn open platform for LLMs, speed matters, imaginary problems, Val Town&how to finish your projects from 2023-06-19T20:30
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 co...
Listen"Mat Depends" from 2023-06-16T18:30
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). F...
ListenPasskeys for a passwordless future from 2023-06-15T14:00
This week we’re talking about Passkeys with Anna Pobletts, Head of Passwordless, at 1Password. Will Passkeys enable a passwordless future? Time will tell. Anna shares the what, the why, how, and th...
ListenReddit goes dark, Lemmy lights up, OpenObserve, some blogging myths&Jefro on Automotive Linux from 2023-06-12T20:30
Reddit goes dark as subreddits protest, Lemmy lights up as disillusioned redditors turn to the fediverse, OpenObserve is a cloud native observability platform, Julia Evans dispels some myths about ...
ListenReactions to Apple’s new vision from 2023-06-09T18:50
Homebrew project leader Mike McQuaid joins us to weigh in on Apple’s big Vision Pro announcement. We also hit on our favorite (and least favorite) non-AR things from the WWDC 2023 keynote.
ListenANTHOLOGY — It's a Cloud Native world from 2023-06-08T21:00
This is our last week of hallway track coverage at The Linux Foundation’s Open Source Summit North America 2023 in Vancouver, Canada. Today’s anthology episode features: Jeffrey Sica (Developer Exp...
ListenStarlight, Knuth asks ChatGPT, Stack Overflow mods strike, Reddit API pricing revolt&open source AI has a new champ from 2023-06-05T21:00
The Astro team releases a new documentation builder, legendary computer scientist Donald Knuth plays with ChatGPT, over 500 volunteer mods have signed an open letter to Stack Overflow Inc, Reddit f...
ListenKaizen! The best pipeline ever™ from 2023-06-02T18:40
Gerhard is back! Today we continue our Kaizen tradition by getting together (for the 10th time) with one of our oldest friends to talk all about the continuous improvements we’re making to Changelo...
ListenANTHOLOGY — Maintaining maintainers from 2023-05-31T21:00
This week on The Changelog we’re continuing our Maintainer Month series by taking to you back to the hallway track of The Linux Foundation’s Open Source Summit North America 2023 in Vancouver, Cana...
ListenAn API store for LLMs, DeviceScript, Nyxt: the hacker's browser, expectations debt&there's still no silver bullet from 2023-05-30T20:00
The Gorilla team is building an API store for LLMs, DeviceScript is Microsoft’s new TypeScript programming environment for microcontrollers, Nyxt is a hackable browser written in Lisp, Morgan House...
ListenIntroducing Changelog&Friends from 2023-05-26T18:00
What if your favorite conference’s hallway track continued year round? That’s the vibe we’re trying to capture with Changelog&Friends, a new Friday talk show from your friends at Changelog. In this...
ListenANTHOLOGY — Open source AI from 2023-05-24T21:00
This week on The Changelog we’re taking you to the hallway track of The Linux Foundation’s Open Source Summit North America 2023 in Vancouver, Canada. Today’s anthology episode features: Beyang Liu...
ListenTrogon, StableStudio, life after Apple, Google's problematic new TLDs&how to discuss programming languages from 2023-05-22T19:20
Will McGugan’s Trogon auto-generates friendly TUIs for your CLI apps, Stability AI’s official open source variant of DreamStudio, John Calhoun writes about life after 26 years programming at Apple,...
ListenEngineering management (for the rest of us) from 2023-05-17T19:30
This week Sarah Drasner joins us to talk about her book Engineering Management for the Rest of Us and her experience leading engineering at Zillow, Microsoft, Netlify, and now Google.
ListenSyncthing, Thunderbird, Baseline&vector databases from 2023-05-15T20:30
Thunderbird is thriving on small donations, Syncthing is a super-cool continuous file sync program, LLMs are so hot right now and they’re making vectors hot by proxy&MDN defines a Baseline for stab...
ListenHow companies are sponsoring OSS from 2023-05-10T13:00
This week we’re celebrating Maintainer Month along with our friends at GitHub. Open source runs the world, but who runs open source? Maintainers. Open source maintainers are behind the software we ...
ListenMojo might be huge, chatbots aren't it, big tech lacks an AI moat&monoliths are not dinosaurs from 2023-05-08T19:30
Jeremy Howard thinks Mojo might be the biggest programming language advance in decades, Amelia Wattenberger is not impressed by AI chatbots, a leaked Google memo admits big tech has no AI moats&Wer...
ListenLivebook's big launch week from 2023-05-03T19:00
José Valim joins Jerod to talk all about what’s new in Livebook – the Elixir-based interactive code notebook he’s been working on the last few years. José made a big bet when he decided to bring ma...
ListenHyperswitch, the future of programming, Thoughtworks'latest tech radar&your docs aren't"simple" from 2023-05-01T19:00
Hyperswitch is like the adapter pattern for payments, Austin Henley writes about the future of programming by summarizing recent research papers, Thoughtworks published their 28th volume of their T...
ListenHard drive reliability at scale from 2023-04-26T21:00
This week Adam talks with Andy Klein from Backblaze about hard drive reliability at scale.
ListenDataset wars, Bark, Kent Beck needs to recalibrate, StableLM&blind prompting is not prompt engineering from 2023-04-24T19:25
The dataset wars are heating up, Bark is a transformer-based text-to-audio model that can generate highly realistic, multilingual speech as well as other audio, Kent Beck needs to recalibrate after...
ListenHow do you do, fellow Hack Clubbers? from 2023-04-19T18:15
This week we’re joined by Zach Latta, the Founder of Hack Club. At 16, Zach tested out of high school and moved to SF to join Yo as their first engineer. After playing a key role at Yo, he founded ...
ListenFree Dolly, GitHub Accelerator's cohort, improving Tailscale via Apple’s open source&what the heck are passkeys?! from 2023-04-17T19:45
Kara Deloss announces GitHub Accelerator’s 2023 cohort, Databricks releases the first open source, instruction-following LLM, fine-tuned on a human-generated instruction dataset licensed for resear...
ListenExamining capitalism's chokepoints from 2023-04-14T17:00
This week we’re talking with Cory Doctorow (this episode contains explicit language) about his newest book Chokepoint Capitalism, which he co-autored with Rebecca Giblin. Chokepoint Capitalism is a...
ListenKen Thompson's keynote, Tabby, The LLama Effect, Codeberg&facing the inevitable from 2023-04-10T21:30
Ken Thompson’s 75-year-project is a jukebox for the ages, Tabby is a self-hosted AI coding assistant, Codeberg is a collaboration platform and Git hosting for open source software, content and proj...
ListenLLMs break the internet from 2023-04-07T20:00
This week we’re talking about LLMs with Simon Willison. We can not avoid this topic. Last time it was Stable Diffusion breaking the internet. This time it’s LLMs breaking the internet. Large Langua...
ListenTwitter's open algorithm, Auto-GPT, LLMs as"calculators for words", SudoLang&stochastic parrots from 2023-04-03T20:30
Twitter publishes (some of) its recommendation algorithm, Toran Bruce Richards puts GPT-4 on autopilot, Simon Willison shares a good way for us to think about LLMs, Eric Elliot creates a powerful p...
ListenA new path to full-time open source from 2023-03-29T13:45
After years of working for Google on the Go Team, Filippo Valsorda quit last year to experiment with more sustainable paths for open source maintainers. Good news, it worked! Filippo is now a full-...
ListenGitHub Copilot X, Chatbot UI, ChatGPT plugins, defining juice for software dev, Logto, Basaran&llama-cli from 2023-03-27T18:45
GitHub announces Copilot X, Mckay Wrigley created an open source ChatGPT UI buit with Next.js, TypeScripe&Tailwind CSS, OpenAI is also launching a ChatGPT plugin initiative, Brad Woods writes about...
ListenBringing Whisper and LLaMA to the masses from 2023-03-22T21:00
This week we’re talking with Georgi Gerganov about his work on Whisper.cpp and llama.cpp. Georgi first crossed our radar with whisper.cpp, his port of OpenAI’s Whisper model in C and C++. Whisper i...
ListenSelf-hosting in 2023, no more Alpine Linux, type constraints in 65 lines of SQL, Initial V, Minimal Gallery, the legacy of Visual Basic, tracking fake GitHub stars&Mastodon's 10M from 2023-03-20T18:00
Michal Warda on self-hosting in 2023, Martin Heinz will never use Alpine Linux again, Oliver Rice at Supabase creates type constraints in Postgres with just 65 lines of SQL, Aaron Patterson convert...
ListenGoodbye Atom. Hello Zed. from 2023-03-15T14:00
This week we’re talking with Nathan Sobo about his next big thing. Nathan is known for his work on the Atom editor while at GitHub. But his work wasn’t finished when he left, so…he started Zed, a h...
ListenDalai, InputOutput.dev, Wik, Rspack, Doodle, Marqo&iLLA from 2023-03-13T19:00
Dalai is the simplest way to run LLaMA on your local machine, simple web tools that just work without annoying you, Wik is a tool to view wikipedia pages from your terminal, Rspack is a fast, Rust-...
ListenChasing the 9s from 2023-03-09T22:00
This week Adam talks with Marcin Kurc about chasing the 9s. Marcin is the Co-founder and CEO of Nobl9 where they build tools for managing service level objectives, aka SLOs. We also talk about serv...
ListenNew OpenAI APIs, self-hosting all the things, the Dart Frog project, curl's NuGet story&Hacker Stations from 2023-03-06T20:45
Reorx lists awesome apps&tools using the new ChatGPT API, Ernie Smith ranks self-hosted app alternatives, Very Good Ventures brings Dart to the server, Daniel Stenberg tells curl’s NuGet story&Hack...
ListenYou’re just a devcontainer.json away from 2023-03-01T22:30
This week we’re joined by Brigit Murtaugh, Product Manager on the Visual Studio Code team at Microsoft, and we’re talking about Development Containers and the Dev Container spec. Ever since we talk...
ListenStack Overflow's architecture, Lobsters'killer libraries, Linux is ready for modern Macs, what to expect from your framework&GoatCounter web analytics from 2023-02-27T22:30
Sahn Lam details Stack Overflow’s monolith/on-prem architecture, Hillel Wayne asks the Lobsters community for killer libraries, Linux 6.2 is ready to run on M1 Macs thanks to Asahi Linux, Johan Hal...
ListenInto the Fediverse from 2023-02-24T22:00
This week Evan Prodromou is back to take us deeper into the Fediverse. As many of us reconsider our relationship with Twitter, Mastodon has been by-and-large the target of migration. They helped to...
ListenSidney Bing, Elk for Mastodon, writing an engineering strategy, what's next for core-js&cool tool lightning round from 2023-02-20T20:50
Simon Willison rounds up the goings on around Microsoft’s new GPT-powered Bing search, The Vue/Vite team build a nimble web client for Mastodon, Will Larson writes about writing an engineering stra...
ListenWhat it takes to scale engineering from 2023-02-17T21:00
This week we’re talking to Rachel Potvin, former VP of Engineering at GitHub about what it takes to scale engineering. Rachel says it’s a game-changer when engineering scales beyond 100 people. So ...
ListenLoad testing a $4 VPS, TOML for .env files, counting unique visitors sans cookies, the Arc browser&a love letter to Deno from 2023-02-13T20:15
Alice Girard Guittard finds out how much she could you really get out of a $4 VPS, Brett Cannon wonders if using TOML for .env files is a good idea, Nic Mulvaney details how they count unique visit...
ListenGit with your friends from 2023-02-10T21:00
This week we invited our friend Mat Ryer to join us for some good conversation about some Git tooling that’s been on our radar. You may know Mat from Go Time and also Grafana’s Big Tent, which we h...
ListenOpenAI's new text classifier, teach yourself CS, programming philosophies are about state, you might not need Lodash&overrated scalability from 2023-02-06T21:40
OpenAI’s working on an AI classifier trained to distinguish between AI-written and human-written text, Oz Nova and Myles Byrne created a guide to teach yourself computer science, Charles Genschwap ...
ListenData tool belts, Build Your Own Redis, the giscus comments system, prompt engineering shouldn't exist&ALPACA from 2023-01-30T20:30
Jeremia Kimelman takes stock of his “data tool belt”, Build Your Own Redis with C/C++ is ready to read, giscus is a comments system powered by GitHub Discussions, Matt Rickard says prompt engineeri...
ListenMainframes are still a big thing from 2023-01-27T22:00
This week we’re talking about mainframes with Cameron Seay, Adjunct Professor at East Carolina University and a member of the Governing Board of the Open Mainframe Project. If you’ve been curious a...
ListenPrioritizing tech debt, UI components to copy/paste, learnings from 20 years in software, git-sim&jqjq from 2023-01-23T19:50
Max Countryman wrote up a framework for prioritizing tech debt, shadcn builds a copy/paste-able UI component library in public, Justin Etheredge shares 20 things he’s learned in his 20 years as a s...
ListenJust Postgres from 2023-01-20T20:30
This week we’re talking about by Postgres with Craig Kerstiens, Chief Product Officer at Crunchy Data, and a well known ambassador for Postgres. Just Postgres. That’s what this week’s show is about.
ListenPremium PCB cheat sheets, a disappearing AWS dev, HyperSwitch, Servo is back at it&Cloudflare Wildebeest from 2023-01-16T20:30
WestArtFactory’s premium PCB cheat sheets, Maxime Topolov tells of a disappearing AWS dev, Juspay Technologies releases HyperSwitch for payment processing, Servo gets new funding for 2023&Cloudflar...
ListenThe principles of data-oriented programming from 2023-01-14T22:00
Jerod is joined by Yehonathan Sharvit, author of Data-Oriented Programming, to discuss the virtues of treating data as a first-class citizen in our applications and the four principles that make it...
ListenA simpler alternative to deleted_at, rules of thumb for better software, faking it until you automate it, the only civilized way to read online&AI and the big five from 2023-01-09T21:45
Brandur Leach’s easy, alternative soft deletion strategy, Lane Wagner’s zen of proverbs, Nicolas Carlo says fake it until you can automate it, Felix A. Crux thinks feeds are the only civilized way ...
ListenDon't sleep on Ruby&Rails from 2023-01-06T22:00
Welcome to 2023 — we’re kicking off the year talking to Justin Searls about the state of web development and why he just might write a “You Might Not Need React” post. He’s been so productive using...
ListenClipboard, unbundling tools for thought, microfeed, prepare to be productive&a look inside Matrix from 2023-01-02T20:00
Jackson Huff’s clipboard powertool for the command line, Fernando Borretti thinks tools for thought should be unbundled, Listen Notes helps you run a microfeed on Cloudflare, Martin Rue says to be ...
ListenState of the"log"2022 from 2022-12-23T15:30
Our 5th annual year-end wrap-up episode! Sit back, relax, pour a glass of your favorite beverage and join us for listener voice mails, our favorite episodes, some must-listens, and of course the to...
ListenGPT has entered the chat from 2022-12-16T20:00
To wrap up the year we’re talking about what’s breaking the internet, again. Yes, we’re talking about ChatGPT and we’re joined by our good friend Shawn “swyx” Wang. Between his writings on L-Space ...
ListentRPC, a bug tracker embedded in git, awesome ChatGPT prompts, half-baked cloud dev envs&Whisper.cpp from 2022-12-12T20:00
tRPC helps you move fast and break nothing, Michael Muré embeds a bug tracker in git, Fatih Kadir Akın curates some awesome ChatGPT prompts, Mike Nikles thinks dev environments in the cloud are a h...
ListenComing home to GitHub from 2022-12-09T22:30
This week we’re joined by Christina Warren, Senior Developer Advocate at GitHub, and a true tech and pop culture connoisseur. From her days at Mashable covering the intersections of entertainment a...
ListenBuilding a VM inside ChatGPT, Advent of Code 2022, webdev Liam Neeson, Fedifinder&BDougie from 2022-12-05T21:00
Jonas Degrave builds a virtual machine inside ChatGPT, Advent of Code 2022 is in full swing, Mat Ryer impersonates Liam Neeson as web developer, Luca Hammer’s Fedifinder project helps you join the ...
ListenANTHOLOGY - Wasm, efficient code review&the industrial metaverse from 2022-12-02T23:00
This week we’re back at All Things Open 2022 covering the hallway track. Up first is Shivay Lamba and he’s schooling us on all things server-side WASM. It’s the new hotness. After that, we talk wit...
ListenFree Heroku EOL, Stable Diffusion 2.0, Twitter SRE explains why it stays up, Git Notes&Joel Lord from 2022-11-28T20:30
Heroku’s free plans officially reach EOL, Swyx explains the mixed reaction to Stable Diffusion 2.0, a real Twitter SRE explains how it continues to stay up even with ~80% gone, Tyler Cipriani tells...
ListenWarp wants to be the terminal of the future from 2022-04-26T20:00
Today we’re talking with Zach Lloyd, founder of Warp — the terminal being re-imagined for the 21st century and beyond. Warp is a blazingly fast, rust-based terminal that’s being designed from the g...
ListenPractical ways to solve hard problems from 2022-04-22T22:00
Frank Krueger joined us to talk about solving hard problems. Earlier this year he wrote a blog post titled “Practical Guide to Solving Hard Problems,” and a lot of what he had to say really resonat...
ListenThe story of Vitess from 2022-04-12T19:00
This week we’re joined by Deepthi Sigireddi, Vitess Maintainer and engineer at PlanetScale — of course we’re talking about all things Vitess. We talk about its origin inside YouTube, how Vitess han...
ListenWisdom from 50+ years in software from 2022-03-30T17:15
Today we have a special treat. A conversation with Brian Kernighan! Brian’s been in the software game since the beginning of Unix. Yes, he was there at Bell Labs when it all began. And he is still ...
ListenONE MORE thing every dev should know from 2022-03-11T21:00
The incomparable Jessica Kerr is back with another grab-bag of amazing topics. We talk about her journey to Honeycomb, devs getting satisfaction from the code they write, why step one for her is “g...
ListenSecuring the open source supply chain from 2022-03-01T22:00
This week we’re joined by the “mad scientist” himself, Feross Aboukhadijeh…and we’re talking about the launch of Socket — the next big thing in the fight to secure and protect the open source suppl...
ListenMaking the command line glamorous from 2022-02-26T00:00
This week we’re talking to Toby Padilla, Co-Founder at Charm — where they build tools to make the command line glamorous. We talk about the state of the art, the next big thing happening on the com...
ListenGit your reset on from 2022-02-15T16:30
This week we’re joined by Annie Sexton, UX Engineer at Render, to talk about her blog post titled Git Organized: A Better Git Flow that made the internet explode when she suggested using reset inst...
ListenPrinciples for hiring engineers from 2022-02-08T17:00
This week we’re joined by Jacob Kaplan-Moss and we’re talking about his extensive writing on work sample tests. These tests are an exercise, a simulation, or a small slice of real day-to-day work t...
ListenLearning from incidents from 2022-02-04T22:00
This week we’re joined by Nora Jones, founder and CEO at Jeli where they help teams gain insight and learnings from incidents. Back in December Nora shared here thoughts in a Changelog post titled ...
ListenSong Encoder: Forrest Brazeal from 2022-01-31T20:45
Welcome to Song Encoder, a special series of The Changelog podcast featuring people who create at the intersection of software and music. This episode features Pwnie Award-winning songwriter Forres...
ListenSupabase is all in on Postgres from 2022-01-25T03:30
This week Paul Copplestone, CEO of Supabase joined us to catch us up on the next big thing happening in the world of Postgres. Supabase might be best known as “the open source Firebase alternative,...
ListenMaking the ZFS file system from 2022-01-18T20:30
This week Matt Ahrens joins Adam to talk about ZFS. Matt co-founded the ZFS project at Sun Microsystems in 2001. And 20 years later Adam picked up ZFS for use in his home lab and loved it. So, he r...
ListenComplex systems&second-order effects from 2022-01-10T17:30
Paul Orlando joins Jerod to talk through some unintended consequences that occur when systems operate at scale. We discuss Goodhart’s Law, The Cobra Effect, how to design incentive systems, depende...
ListenState of the"log"2021 from 2021-12-20T20:30
Our 4th annual year-end wrap-up episode! We don’t naval gaze often, but when we do… we make sure you get your money’s worth. Reflections, most popular episodes, our favs, and new this year: listene...
ListenAI-assisted development is here to stay from 2021-12-17T22:00
We’re joined by Eran Yahav — talking about AI assistants for developers. Eran has been working on this problem for more than a decade. We talk about his path to now and how the idea for Tabnine cam...
ListenDeeply human stories from 2021-12-08T18:45
Today we’re bringing our appearance on DevDiscuss right here to The Changelog. Jerod and I guested their launch episode for Season 7 to talk about deeply human stories we’ve covered over the years ...
ListenHelp make state of the"log"2021 extra special! from 2021-12-03T00:25:43
We’re prepping for our 4th annual state of the “log” episode where we look back at the year, discuss some of our favorite episodes as well as the most popular ones, and talk a bit about what we hav...
ListenReturning to GitHub to lead Sponsors from 2021-12-02T00:00
Today we’re joined by Jessica Lord, talking about the origins of Electron and her boomerang back to GitHub to lead GitHub Sponsors. We cover the early days of Electron before Electron was Electron,...
ListenShopify's vision for the future of commerce from 2021-11-19T22:00
Today we’re joined by Ilya Grigorik to talk about Shopify’s developer preview release of Hydrogen and the preview release of Oxygen which is in early access preview with select merchants on Shopify...
Listen1Password is all in on its web stack from 2021-11-12T22:00
This week we’re bringing JS Party to The Changelog — Mitch and Andrew from the 1Password team talk with Amal and Nick about the company’s transition to Electron and web technologies, and how the co...
ListenConnecting the dots in public from 2021-11-05T18:00
Today we’re joined by Shawn “swyx” Wang, also known as just “swyx” — and we’re talking about his interesting path to becoming a software developer, what it means to “learn in public” and how he’s b...
ListenSong Encoder: $STDOUT from 2021-10-29T14:00
Welcome to Song Encoder, a special series of The Changelog podcast featuring people who create at the intersection of software and music. This episode features $STDOUT and contains explicit language.
ListenThis insane tech hiring market from 2021-10-19T20:30
This week we’re joined by Gergely Orosz and we’re talking about the insane tech hiring market we’re in right now. Gergely was on the show a year ago talking about growing as a software engineer and...
ListenLessons from 10k hours of programming from 2021-10-08T21:00
Today we’re talking to Matt Rickard about his blog post, Reflections on 10,000 Hours of Programming. Matt was clear to mention that these reflections are purely about coding, not career advice or o...
ListenLearning-focused engineering from 2021-10-01T21:00
This week we’re joined by Brittany Dionigi, Director of Platform Engineering at Articulate, and we’re talking about how organizations can take a more intentional approach to supporting the growth o...
ListenFauna is rethinking the database from 2021-09-24T21:30
This week we’re talking with Evan Weaver about Fauna — the database for a new generation of applications. Fauna is a transactional database delivered as a secure and scalable cloud API with native ...
ListenThe business model of open source from 2021-09-17T20:30
This week we’re joined by Adam Jacob, CEO of System Initiative and Co-Founder of Chef, about open source business models and the model he thinks is the right one to choose, his graceful exit from C...
ListenCoding in the cloud with Codespaces from 2021-09-11T04:00
On this special edition of The Changelog, we’re talking with Cory Wilkerson, Senior Director of Engineering at GitHub, about GitHub Codespaces. For years now, the possibility of coding in the cloud...
ListenWe ask a lawyer about GitHub Copilot from 2021-09-08T12:00
This week we’re bringing JS Party to The Changelog — Nick Nisi and Christopher Hiller had an awesome conversation with Luis Villa, co-founder and General Counsel at Tidelift. They discuss GitHub Co...
ListenWhy Neovim? from 2021-08-31T21:30
This week Neovim core maintainer TJ DeVries joins Jerod and guest co-host Nick Nisi (from JS Party) to follow-up on our Vim episode with a conversation dedicated to Neovim. TJ tells us why Neovim w...
ListenOAuth,"It's complicated." from 2021-08-23T21:30
Today we’re joined by Aaron Parecki, co-founder of IndieWebCamp and maintainer of OAuth.net, for a deep dive on the state of OAuth 2.0 and what’s next in OAuth 2.1. We cover the complications of OA...
ListenBuilding software for yourself from 2021-08-23T18:00
Today we’re talking to Linus Lee about the practice of building software for yourself. Linus has several side projects we could talk about, but today’s show is focused on Linus’ dynamically typed f...
ListenRichard Hipp returns from 2021-08-19T21:30
This week, Richard Hipp returns to catch us up on all things SQLite, his single file webserver written in C called Althttpd, and Fossil – the source code manager he wrote and uses to manage SQLite ...
ListenLeading leaders who lead engineers from 2021-08-11T11:00
This week we’re joined by Lara Hogan – author of Resilient Management and management coach&trainer for the tech industry. Lara led engineering teams at Kickstarter and Etsy before she, and Deepa Su...
ListenKaizen! The day half the internet went down from 2021-08-05T11:00
This week we’re sharing a special episode of our new podcast called Ship It. This episode is our Kaizen-style episode where we point our lens inward to Changelog.com to see what we should improve n...
ListenModern Unix tools from 2021-07-31T01:00
This week we’re talking with Nick Janetakis about modern unix tools, and the various commands, tooling, and ways we use the commmand line. Do you Bash or Zsh? Do you use cat or bat? What about man ...
ListenWhy we ?Vim from 2021-07-21T14:15
On this special edition of The Changelog, we tell Vim’s story from the mouths of its users. Julia Evans, Drew Neil, Suz Hinton, and Gary Bernhardt join Jerod Santo for a deep and wide-ranging discu...
ListenThe story behind Inter from 2021-07-19T20:30
This week we’re talking to Rasmus Andersson about his journey as a software creator. We talk about the work he’s doing right now on Playbit, a computing environment which encourages playful learnin...
ListenMassive scale and ultra-resilience from 2021-07-09T19:00
This week we’re sharing a recent episode from Founders Talk that we continuously hear about from listeners. Listen and subscribe to Founders Talk at founderstalk.fm and anywhere you listen to podca...
ListenThe foundations of Continuous Delivery from 2021-07-02T23:00
This week we’re sharing one of the most popular episodes from our new podcast Ship It. Ship It launched in May and now has 8 episodes in the feed to enjoy…it’s hosted by Gerhard Lazu, our SRE here ...
Listenxbar puts anything in your macOS menu bar from 2021-06-21T20:00
On this episode we’re talking with our good friend Mat Ryer whom you may know from the Go Time podcast. Mat created an awesome open source tool for putting just about anything in your Mac’s toolbar...
ListenFunds for open source from 2021-06-18T21:00
This week we’re talking with Pia Mancini about the latest updates to the mission of Open Collective. Earlier this year Open Collective announced “Funds for Open Source.” The idea is simple, make it...
ListenEvery commit is a gift from 2021-06-10T11:00
Maintainer Week is finally here and we’re excited to make this an annual thing! If Maintainer Week is new to you, check out episode #442 with Josh Simmons and Kara Sowles. Today we’re talking Brett...
ListenExploring Deno Land ? from 2021-06-08T12:00
This week we’re joined by Ryan Dahl, Node.js creator, and now the creator of Deno - a simple, modern and secure runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript that uses V8 and is built in Rust. We talk with...
ListenMaintainer week! from 2021-05-28T21:00
This week is all about Maintainer Week — it’s a week long event starting June 7th for open source maintainers to gather, share, and be celebrated. We’re joined by Josh Simmons (Ecosystem Strategy L...
ListenInside 2021's infrastructure for Changelog.com from 2021-05-21T21:00
This week we’re talking about the latest infrastructure updates we’ve made for 2021. We’re joined by Gerhard Lazu, our resident SRE here at Changelog, talking about the improvements we’ve made to 1...
ListenOpen source goes to Mars ? from 2021-05-14T19:00
This week we’re talking about open source on Mars. Martin Woodward (Senior Director of Developer Relations at GitHub) joins us to talk about the new Mars badge GitHub introduced. This collaboration...
ListenElixir meets machine learning from 2021-05-07T21:00
This week Elixir creator José Valim joins Jerod and Practical AI’s Daniel Whitenack to discuss Numerical Elixir, his new project that’s bringing Elixir into the world of machine learning. We discus...
ListenLet's mint some NFTs from 2021-04-27T11:00
This week we’re talking about NFTs — that’s right, non-fungible tokens and we’re joined by Mikeal Rogers, who’s leading all things InterPlanetary Linked Data at Protocol Labs. We go down the NFT ra...
ListenInto the Nix ecosystem from 2021-04-20T11:00
This week we’re talking about Nix with Domen Kožar. The Nix ecosystem is a DevOps toolkit that takes a unique approach to package management and system configuration. Nix helps you make reproducibl...
ListenCurl is a full-time job (and turns 23) from 2021-04-12T21:45
This week we’re talking with Daniel Stenberg about 23 years of curl. Daniel shares how curl came to be, what drives and motivates him, maintaining a good cadence of an open source product, what to ...
ListenThe future of the web is HTML over the wire from 2021-04-05T21:00
This week we’re joined by long-time web developer Matt Patterson. Earlier this year Matt wrote an evocative article for A List Apart called The Future of Web Software Is HTML-over-WebSockets. In th...
ListenRestic has your backup from 2021-04-02T19:45
This week Alexander Neumann takes Jerod on a tour of Restic, the world-class backup solution that’s fast, secure, and cross-platform. We discuss why he created Restic in the first place, how (and w...
ListenOpen source, not open contribution from 2021-03-26T20:00
This week we’re talking with Ben Johnson. Ben is known for his work on BoltDB, his work in open source, and as a freelance Go developer. Late January when Ben open sourced his newest project Litest...
ListenBig breaches (and how to avoid them) from 2021-03-24T19:00
This week we’re talking about big security breaches with Neil Daswani, renowned security expert, best-selling author, and Co-Director of Stanford University’s Advanced CyberSecurity Program. His bo...
ListenLeading a non-profit unicorn from 2021-03-16T15:00
This week we’re talking about the future of freeCodeCamp with Quincy Larson and what it’s taken to build it into the non-profit unicorn that it is. They’re expanding their Python section into a ful...
ListenDarklang Diaries from 2021-02-26T20:00
This week Jerod is joined by Paul Biggar the creator of Dark, a new way to build serverless backends. Paul shares all the details about this all-in-one language, editor, and infrastructure, why he ...
ListenCommunity perspectives on Elastic vs AWS from 2021-02-17T17:00
This week we’re talking about the recent falling out between Elastic and AWS around the relicensing of Elasticsearch and Kibana. Like many in the community, we have been watching this very closely....
ListenOpen source civilization from 2021-01-29T22:00
This week we’re talking about open source industrial machines. We’re joined by Marcin Jakubowski from Open Source Ecology where they’re developing open source industrial machines that can be made f...
ListenThe rise of Rocky Linux from 2021-01-22T17:00
This week we’re talking with Gregory Kurtzer about Rocky Linux. Greg is the founder of the CentOS project, which recently shifted its strategy and has the Linux community scrambling. Rocky Linux ai...
ListenWhat the web could be (in 2021 and beyond) from 2021-01-12T18:00
Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch and JS Party panelist Amal Hussein join Jerod to discuss the state of the web platform! We opine on why it’s so important and unique, where it stands today, what modern w...
ListenState of the “log” 2020 from 2020-12-21T20:00
It’s the end of 2020 and on this year’s “State of the log” episode Adam and Jerod carry on the tradition of looking back at our favorite moments of the year – we talk through our most popular episo...
ListenYou can FINALLY use JSHint for evil from 2020-12-20T05:00
Today we welcome Mike Pennisi into our Maintainer Spotlight. This is a special flavor of The Changelog where we go deep into a maintainer’s story. Mike is the maintainer of JSHint which, since its ...
ListenCoding without your hands from 2020-12-13T05:00
What do you do when you make a living typing on a keyboard, but you can no longer do that for more than a few minutes at a time? Switch careers?! Not Josh Comeau. He decided to learn from others wh...
ListenGrowing as a software engineer from 2020-12-02T22:00
Gergely Orosz joined Adam for a conversation about his journey as a software engineer. Gergely recently stepped down from his role as Engineering Manager at Uber to pursue his next big thing. But, ...
ListenThe future of Mac from 2020-11-20T22:45
We have a BIG show for you today. We’re talking about the future of the Mac. Coming off of Apple’s “One more thing.” event to launch the Apple M1 chip and M1 powered Macs, we have a two part show g...
ListenThe Kollected Kode Vicious from 2020-11-13T22:00
We’re joined by George Neville-Neil, aka Kode Vicious. Writing as Kode Vicious for ACMs Queue magazine, George Neville-Neil has spent the last 15+ years sharing incisive advice and fierce insights ...
ListenInside 2020's infrastructure for Changelog.com from 2020-11-06T22:45
We’re talking with Gerhard Lazu, our resident SRE, ops, and infrastructure expert about the evolution of Changelog’s infrastructure, what’s new in 2020, and what we’re planning for in 2021. The mos...
ListenMaintaining the massive success of Envoy from 2020-10-30T22:00
Today we welcome Matt Klein into our Maintainer Spotlight. Matt is the creator of Envoy, born inside of Lyft. It’s an edge and service proxy designed for cloud-native applications. Envoy was unexpe...
ListenWhat's so exciting about Postgres? from 2020-10-23T21:45
PostgreSQL aficionado Craig Kerstiens joins Jerod to talk about his (and our) favorite relational database. Craig details why Postgres is unique in the world of open source databases, which feature...
ListenShopify’s massive storefront rewrite from 2020-10-16T21:00
Maxime Vaillancourt joined us to talk about Shopify’s massive storefront rewrite from a Ruby on Rails monolith to a completely new implementation written in Ruby. It’s a fairly well known opinion t...
ListenSpotify's open platform for shipping at scale from 2020-10-09T20:00
We’re joined by Jim Haughwout (Head of Infrastructure and Operations) and Stefan Ålund (Principal Product Manager) from Spotify to talk about how they manage hundreds of teams producing code and sh...
ListenThe team that fashioned Apollo 11 from 2020-10-08T11:00
We’re helping Atlassian to promote Season 2 of Teamistry. If this is the first time you’re hearing about this podcast, Teamistry is an original podcast from Atlassian that tells the stories of team...
ListenGitter’s big adventure from 2020-09-30T13:00
Gitter is exiting GitLab and entering the Matrix…ok, we couldn’t help ourselves with that one. Today we’re joined by Sid Sibrandij (CEO of GitLab) and Matthew Hodgson (technical co-founder of Matri...
ListenHow open source saved htop from 2020-09-24T20:00
Today we welcome Hisham Muhammad into our Maintainer Spotlight. Hisham is the creator of htop - a well known cross-platform interactive process viewer. This conversation with Hisham covers the gamu...
ListenEstimating systems with napkin math from 2020-09-11T22:15
We’re joined by Simon Eskildsen, Principal Engineer at Shopify, talking about how he uses a concept called napkin math where you use first-principle thinking to estimate systems without writing any...
ListenInside GitHub's Arctic Code Vault from 2020-09-04T21:00
Earlier this year on February 2nd, 2020 Jon Evans and his team of archivists took a snapshot of all active public repositories on GitHub and sent it to a decommissioned coal mine in the Svalbard ar...
ListenBringing beauty to the world of code sharing from 2020-08-26T14:55
Carbon is an open source web app that helps you create and share beautiful images of your source code. Whether you’ve used Carbon personally or not, odds are you’ve seen its dent on the universe of...
ListenCelebrating Practical AI turning 100!! ? from 2020-08-21T16:15
We’re so excited to see Chris and Daniel take this show to 100 episodes, and that’s exactly why we’re rebroadcasting Practical AI #100 here on The Changelog. They’ve had so many great guests and di...
ListenWorking in Public from 2020-08-12T21:30
Nadia Eghbal is back and this time she’s talking with us about her new book Working in Public. If you’re an old school listener you might remember the podcast we produced with Nadia and Mikeal Roge...
ListenDesigning and building HEY from 2020-08-07T21:00
We’re talking about designing and building HEY with Jonas Downey, the lead designer behind HEY. In their words, “Email sucked for years, but not anymore.” We were super interested in how they went ...
ListenMaking Windows Terminal awesome from 2020-07-31T21:00
Kayla Cinnamon, Program Manager at Microsoft for Windows Terminal, Console, Command Line, and Cascadia Code joined us to talk about the release of Windows Terminal 1.0 and the new Windows command-l...
ListenIt’s OK to make money from your open source from 2020-07-22T22:00
Adam loves a good dark theme and supporting a fellow creator, and Hedy Li finished the episode we did with Nikita Prokopov covering FiraCode and reached out saying Zeno Rocha’s work on Dracula dese...
ListenLaws for hackers to live by from 2020-07-16T11:00
Dave Kerr joins Jerod to discuss the various laws, theories, principles, and patterns that we developers find useful in our work and life. We unpack Hanlon’s Razor, Gall’s Law, Murphy’s Law, Kernig...
ListenWhat's next for José Valim and Elixir? from 2020-07-10T17:30
We’re joined again by José Valim talking about the recent acquihire of Plataformatec and what that means for the Elixir language, as well as José. We also talk about Dashbit a new 3 person company ...
ListenThe intersection of coding and fonts from 2020-07-03T18:00
A listener request led us to Nikita Prokopov and FiraCode, and we’re sure glad they did. When we think of open source software, fonts aren’t usually high on the list of things that need maintaining...
ListenBig updates in Safari 14 from 2020-06-29T21:30
We’re joined by Ronak Shah and Beth Dakin from the Safari team at Apple about their announcements at WWDC20 and the release of Safari 14. We talk about Safari WebExtensions, Face ID and Touch ID co...
ListenShipping work that matters from 2020-06-25T11:00
We’re revisiting Shape Up and product development thoughts with Ryan Singer, Head of Product Strategy at Basecamp. Last August we talked with Ryan when he first launched his book Shape Up and now w...
ListenThe ONE thing every dev should know from 2020-06-16T18:00
The incomparable Jessica Kerr drops by with a grab-bag of amazing topics. Understanding software systems, transferring knowledge between devs, building relationships, using VS Code&Docker to code t...
ListenCreating GitLab’s remote playbook from 2020-06-09T11:00
We’re talking about all things all-remote with Darren Murph, Head of Remote at GitLab. Darren is tasked with putting intentional thought and action into place to lead the largest all-remote company...
ListenDe-Google-ing your website analytics from 2020-05-27T11:00
Plausible creators Uku Täht and Marko Saric join the show to talk about their open source, privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics. We talk through the backstory of the project, why it’s o...
ListenLeading GitHub to a $7.5 billion acquisition from 2020-05-18T18:30
Jason Warner (CTO at GitHub) joined the show to talk with us about the backstory of how he helped to lead GitHub to a $7.5 billion acquisition by Microsoft. Specifically how they trusted their gut ...
ListenVisiData is like duct tape for your data from 2020-05-12T17:00
Saul Pwanson is the creator and maintainer of VisiData, a terminal interface for exploring and arranging tabular data. On this Maintainer Spotlight episode, Saul joins Jerod for a wide-ranging disc...
ListenGatsby's long road to incremental builds from 2020-05-06T11:00
Gatsby creator Kyle Mathews joins Jerod fresh off the launch of incremental builds to tell the story of this feature that’s 3 years in the making. We talk about Kyle’s vision for Gatsby, why increm...
ListenIndeed's FOSS Contributor Fund from 2020-04-30T21:00
Duane O’Brien (head of open source at Indeed) joined the show to talk about their FOSS Contributor Fund and FOSS Responders. He’s super passionate about open source, and through his role at Indeed ...
ListenWork from home SUPERCUT from 2020-04-22T11:00
Today we’re featuring conversations from different perspectives on working from home from our JS Party, Go Time, and Brain Science podcasts here on Changelog.com. Because, hey…if you didn’t know we...
ListenVisualizing the spread of Coronavirus from 2020-04-13T21:00
Harry Stevens is a Graphics Reporter at The Washington Post and the author of “Why outbreaks like coronavirus spread exponentially, and how to ‘flatten the curve’” — the most popular post in The Wa...
ListenSecuring the web with Let's Encrypt from 2020-04-07T20:00
We’re talking with Josh Aas, the Executive Director of the Internet Security Research Group, which is the legal entity behind the Let’s Encrypt certificate authority. In June of 2017, Let’s Encrypt...
ListenThe 10x developer myth from 2020-03-31T21:00
In late 2019, Bill Nichols, a senior member of the technical staff at Carnegie Mellon University with the Software Engineering Institute published his study on “the 10x developer myth.” On this sho...
ListenWelcome to The Changelog from 2020-03-30T20:31:18
The Changelog is deep discussions in&around the world of software… and it’s been going for over a decade. We talk to hackers, like Chris Anderson from 3D Robotics… leaders, like Devon Zuegel from G...
ListenPrepare yourself for Quantum Computing from 2020-03-24T19:00
Johan Vos joined us to talk about his new book ‘Quantum Computing for Developers’ which is available to read right now as part of the Manning Early Access Program (MEAP). Listen near the end of the...
ListenEngineer to manager and back again from 2020-03-18T20:30
Lauren Tan joined us to talk about her blog post titled “Does it spark joy?” In this post Lauren shared the news of her resignation as an engineering manager at Netflix to return to being a softwar...
ListenPushing webpack forward from 2020-03-13T21:45
We sit down with Tobias Koppers of webpack fame to talk about his life as a full-time maintainer of one of the most highly used (4 million+ dependent repos!) and influential tools in all of the web...
ListenAltair 8800 and the dawn of a revolution from 2020-03-11T11:00
We partnered with Red Hat to promote Season 4 of Command Line Heroes — a podcast about the people who transform technology from the command line up. Season 4 is all about hardware that changed the ...
ListenEnter the Matrix from 2020-03-09T20:15
Matthew Hodgson (technical co-founder) joined us to talk about Matrix - an open source project and open standard for secure, decentralized, real-time communication. It’s open source, it’s decentral...
ListenFrom open core to open source from 2020-03-02T22:00
Frank Karlitschek joined us to talk about Nextcloud - a self-hosted free&open source community-driven productivity platform that’s safe home for all your data. We talk about how Nextcloud was forke...
ListenThe developer's guide to content creation from 2020-02-21T15:30
Stephanie Morillo (content strategist and previously editor-in-chief of DigitalOcean and GitHub’s company blogs) wrote a book titled The Developer’s Guide to Content Creation — it’s a book for deve...
ListenThe dawn of sponsorware from 2020-02-17T22:00
Caleb Porzio is the creator&maintainer of Livewire, AlpineJS, and more. His latest open source endeavor was announced as “sponsorware”, which means it lived in a private repo (only available to Cal...
ListenProductionising real-world ML data pipelines from 2020-02-14T21:00
Yetunde Dada from QuantumBlack joins Jerod for a deep dive on Kedro, a workflow tool that helps structure reproducible, scaleable, deployable, robust, and versioned data pipelines. They discuss wha...
ListenGood tech debt from 2020-02-06T12:00
Jon Thornton (Engineering Manager at Squarespace) joined the show to talk about tech debt by way of his post to the Squarespace engineering blog titled “3 Kinds of Good Tech Debt”. We talked throug...
ListenThe soul of an old machine from 2020-02-04T12:00
We partnered with Red Hat to promote Season 4 of Command Line Heroes — a podcast about the people who transform technology from the command line up. Season 4 is all about hardware that changed the ...
ListenOpen source meets climate science from 2020-01-31T22:30
Anders Damsgaard is a climate science researcher working on cryosphere processes at the Department of Geophysics at Stanford University. He joined the show to talk with us about the intersection of...
ListenIntro to Rust programming from 2020-01-24T19:30
We teamed up with some friends of ours at Heroku to promote the Code-ish podcast so we’re sharing a full-length episode right here in The Changelog’s feed. This episode features Chris Castle with s...
ListenMeet Algo, your personal VPN in the cloud from 2020-01-20T21:00
The commercial VPN industry is a minefield to navigate and many open source solutions are a pain to use or ill-suited for the task. Algo VPN, on the other hand, is a self-hosted personal VPN design...
ListenState of the “log” 2019 from 2020-01-14T22:30
Welcome to 2020 — on this year’s “State of the ‘log’” episode Jerod and I look back at our favorite moments from 2019 and forward to 2020 and beyond. We talk through our most popular episodes, our ...
ListenGerhard goes to KubeCon (part 2) from 2019-12-27T21:00
Gerhard is back for part two of our interviews at KubeCon 2019. Join him as he goes deep on Prometheus with Björn Rabenstein, Ben Kochie, and Frederic Branczyk… Grafana with Tom Wilkie and Ed Welch...
ListenGerhard goes to KubeCon (part 1) from 2019-12-18T16:30
Changelog’s resident infrastructure expert Gerhard Lazu is on location at KubeCon 2019. This is part one of a two-part series from the world’s largest open source conference. In this episode you’ll...
ListenTrending up GitHub's developer charts from 2019-12-14T16:00
In this episode we’re shining our maintainer spotlight on Ovilia. Hailing from Shanghai, China, Ovilia is an up-and-coming developer who contributes to Apache ECharts, maintains Polyvia, which does...
ListenBuilding an open source excavation robot for NASA from 2019-12-11T16:00
Ronald Marrero is a software developer working on NASA’s Artemis program, which aims at landing the first woman and next man on the Moon by 2024. How Ron got here is a fascinating story, starting a...
ListenRe-licensing Sentry from 2019-12-08T04:00
David Cramer joined the show to talk about the recent license change of Sentry to the Business Source License from a BSD 3-clause license. We talk about the details that triggered this change, the ...
ListenThe making of GitHub Sponsors from 2019-12-01T04:00
Devon Zuegel is an Open Source Product Manager at GitHub. She’s also one of the key people responsible for making GitHub Sponsors a thing. We talk with Devon about how she came to GitHub to develop...
ListenFive years of freeCodeCamp from 2019-11-15T18:00
Today we have a very special show for you – we’re talking with Quincy Larson the founder of freeCodeCamp as part of a two-part companion podcast series where we each celebrate our 5 and 10 year ann...
ListenFinding collaborators for open source from 2019-11-10T04:00
Jeff Meyerson, host of Software Engineering Daily, and the founder of FindCollabs (a place to find collaborators for open source software) joined the show to talk about living in San Francisco, his...
ListenBack to Agile's basics from 2019-10-31T14:00
Robert C. Martin, aka Uncle Bob, joined the show to talk about the practices of Agile. Bob has written a series of books in order to pass down the wisdom he’s gained over his 50 year software caree...
ListenPioneering open source drones and robocars from 2019-10-18T11:00
Chris Anderson, former Editor-in-Chief of WIRED and a true pioneer in the world of drones, joined the show to talk about his hobby gone wrong, how he started 3D Robotics, DIY Drones, and Dronecode....
ListenLet's talk Elixir! from 2019-10-09T19:00
Jerod is joined by Chris and Desmond (co-hosts of the ElixirTalk podcast) to catch up on what’s moving and shaking in the Elixir and Phoenix communities. We discuss what’s attractive about Elixir,...
ListenMaintainer spotlight! Valeri Karpov from 2019-10-02T17:42:58
In this episode we’re shining our maintainer spotlight on Valeri Karpov. Val has been the solo maintainer of Mongoose since 2014. This episode with Val continues our maintainer spotlight series whe...
ListenNushell for the GitHub era from 2019-09-27T19:00
Jonathan Turner, Andrés Robalino, and Yehuda Katz joined the show to talk about Nushell, or just Nu for short. It’s a modern shell for the GitHub era. It’s written in Rust, and it has the backing o...
ListenMachine powered refactoring with AST's from 2019-09-19T11:00
Amal Hussein (Engineering Manager at npm) joined the show to talk about AST’s — aka, abstract syntax trees. Amal is giving a talk at All Things Open on the subject so we asked her to give us an ear...
ListenGenerative engineering cultures from 2019-09-17T11:00
Dave Kaplan (Head of Software Engineering at Policygenius) joined the show to talk about Generative Engineering Cultures and how they have become the goal of industry-aware tech teams. We talk thro...
ListenModern software is built on APIs from 2019-09-06T11:00
Abhinav Asthana (founder of Postman) joined the show to talk about Postman, an ADE — API Development Environment — that began as open source and is now a full-fledged company that just announced a ...
ListenMaintainer spotlight! Feross Aboukhadijeh from 2019-08-29T20:00
In this episode we’re shining our maintainer spotlight on Feross Aboukhadijeh. Feross is the creator and maintainer of 100’s of open source projects which have been downloaded 100’s of million of t...
ListenOSCON 2019 anthology from 2019-08-23T11:00
We’re on the expo hall floor of OSCON 2019 talking with Eric Holscher, Ali Spittel, and Hong Phuc Dang. First up, we talk to Eric about his work at Write the Docs, ethical advertising, and the Pac-...
ListenShaping, betting, and building from 2019-08-16T11:00
Ryan Singer, head of Product Strategy at Basecamp, joined the show to talk about their newest book — Shape Up: Stop running in circles and ship work that matters. It’s written by Ryan himself and y...
ListenObservability is for your unknown unknowns from 2019-08-07T20:00
Christine Yen (co-founder and CEO of Honeycomb) joined the show to talk about her upcoming talk at Strange Loop titled “Observability: Superpowers for Developers.” We talk practically about observa...
ListenFederating JavaScript's language commons with Entropic from 2019-08-02T11:00
We’re joined by C J Silverio, aka ceejbot on Twitter, aka 2nd hire and former CTO at npm Inc. We talk with Ceej about her recent JS Conf EU talk titled “The Economies of Open Source” where she laid...
ListenGo is eating the world of software from 2019-07-25T17:00
We’re joined by Ron Evans at OSCON on the expo hall floor talking about Go and how it’s eating the world of software. Specifically we’re talking about TinyGo and what they’re doing to bring the Go ...
ListenThe war for the soul of open source from 2019-07-16T11:05
Adam Jacob (co-founder and board member of Chef) joins the show to talk about the keynote he’s giving at OSCON this week. The keynote is titled “The war for the soul of open source.” We talked abou...
ListenLearning the BASICs from 2019-07-16T11:05
We partnered with Red Hat to promote Season 3 of Command Line Heroes — an original podcast from Red Hat, hosted by Saron Yitbarek, about the people who transform technology from the command line up...
ListenThe Pragmatic Programmers from 2019-07-11T11:00
Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt, best known as the authors of The Pragmatic Programmer and founders of The Pragmatic Bookshelf, joined the show today to talk about the 20th anniversary edition of The Pra...
ListenPython's Tale from 2019-07-02T11:00
We partnered with Red Hat to promote Season 3 of Command Line Heroes — an original podcast from Red Hat, hosted by Saron Yitbarek, about the people who transform technology from the command line up...
ListenMaintainer spotlight! Ned Batchelder from 2019-06-28T20:00
In this episode we’re shinning our maintainer spotlight on Ned Batchelder. Ned is one of the lucky ones out there that gets to double-dip — his day job is working on open source at edX, working on ...
ListenBoldly going where no data tools have gone before from 2019-06-19T18:20:57
Computer Scientist Yaw Anokwa joins the show to tell us how Open Data Kit is enabling data collection efforts around the world. From monitoring rainforests to observing elections to tracking outbre...
ListenThe state of CSS in 2019 from 2019-06-14T19:00
We’re talking with Sacha Greif to discuss the State of CSS survey and results. CSS is evolving faster than ever. And, coming off the heels of their annual State of JavaScript survey, they’ve decide...
ListenPython's new governance and core team from 2019-06-06T11:00
We’re talking with Brett Cannon for a behind the scenes look at Guido stepping down as Python’s BDFL (Benevolent dictator for life) and the process they had to go through to establish a new governa...
ListenCreating and selling multiplayer online games from 2019-05-24T11:00
We’re talking with Victor Zhou about the explosion of the .io game genre. We talked through all the details around building and running one of these games, the details behind Victor’s super popular...
ListenOff the grid social networking with Manyverse from 2019-05-18T21:00
We’re talking with Andre Staltz, creator of Manyverse — a social network off the grid. It’s open source and free in every sense of the word. We talked through the backstory, how a user’s network ge...
ListenQuirk and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) from 2019-05-10T21:00
We’re talking with Evan Conrad — for most of Evan’s life he has suffered from severe panic attacks, often twice per week. Eventually he stumbled upon a therapy method called Cognitive Behavioral Th...
ListenInside 2019's infrastructure for Changelog.com from 2019-05-05T04:00
We’re talking with Gerhard Lazu, our resident ops and infrastructure expert, about the setup we’ve rolled out for 2019. Late 2016 we relaunched Changelog.com as a new Phoenix/Elixir application and...
ListenInside 2019's infrastructure for Changelog.com from 2019-05-05T04:00
We’re talking with Gerhard Lazu, our resident ops and infrastructure expert, about the setup we’ve rolled out for 2019. Late 2016 we relaunched Changelog.com as a new Phoenix/Elixir application and...
ListenRunning functions anywhere with OpenFaaS from 2019-04-25T17:00
We’re talking with Alex Ellis, the founder of OpenFaaS — serverless functions made simple for Docker and Kubernetes. We talked about the backstory and details of OpenFaaS, “the curious case of serv...
ListenFrom zero to thought leader in 6 months from 2019-04-18T16:30
We’re talking with Emma Bostian about going from zero to thought leader in 6 months. We talk about the nuances of UX including the differences between an UX Designer and a UX Engineer, we touch on ...
ListenWasmer is taking WebAssembly beyond the browser from 2019-04-12T11:00
We’re talking with Syrus Akbary about WebAssembly and Wasmer — a standalone just in time WebAssembly runtime aiming to be fully compatible with Emscripten, Rust, and Go. We talked about taking WebA...
ListenAll things text mode from 2019-04-04T19:00
We’re talking all things text mode with Lucas da Costa — we logged his post “How I’m still not using GUIs in 2019” a guide focused on making the terminal your IDE. We talked through his Terminal st...
ListenWhy smart engineers write bad code from 2019-03-29T11:00
We’re talking with Adam Barr, a 23 year Microsoft veteran, about his book “The problem with software,” sub-titled “Why smart engineers write bad code.” We examine that very idea, the gap between in...
ListenFunding OSS with Mozilla Open Source Support awards from 2019-03-13T11:00
We’re talking with Mehan Jayasuriya program officer at Mozilla about MOSS — the Mozilla Open Source Support (MOSS) program which recognizes, celebrates, and supports open source projects. Earlier t...
ListenHomebrew! Part Deux from 2019-03-06T14:35:53
We’re talking with Mike McQuaid about Homebew 2.0.0, supporting Linux and Windows 10, the backstory and details surrounding the security issue they had in 2018, their new governance model, Mike’s n...
ListenContainerizing compute driven workloads with Singularity from 2019-02-28T12:00
We’re talking with Greg Kurtzer, the founder of CentOS, Warewulf, and most recently Singularity — an open source container platform designed to be simple, fast, and secure. Singularity is optimized...
ListenEnabling open code for science at NumFOCUS from 2019-02-22T18:00
We’re talking with Gina Helfrich the Communications Director for NumFOCUS about their story and history, the impact of open code on science, the difference between sponsored and affiliated projects...
ListenWith great power comes great responsibility from 2019-02-15T12:10
Adam and Jerod are joined by JS Party panelist Nick Nisi and #causeascene advocate Kim Crayton for a deep discussion on ethics in the technology industry at-large and our roles as software develope...
ListenTactical design advice for developers from 2019-02-06T12:00
Adam talks with Erik Kennedy about tactical design advice for developers. Erik is a self-taught UI designer and brings a wealth of practical advice for those seeking to advance their design skills ...
ListenA UI framework without the framework from 2019-01-30T21:25:14
Jerod and Adam talked with Rich Harris –a JavaScript Journalist on The New York Times Investigations team– about his magical disappearing UI framework called Svelte. We compare and contrast Svelte ...
ListenGitHub Actions is the next big thing from 2019-01-23T21:38:27
Adam and Jerod talk to Kyle Daigle, the Director of Ecosystem Engineering at GitHub. They talk about GitHub Actions, the new automation platform announced at GitHub Universe this past October 2018....
Listensource{d} turns code into actionable insights from 2019-01-16T12:00
Adam caught up with Francesc Campoy at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2018 in Seattle, WA to talk about the work he’s doing at source{d} to apply Machine Learning to source code, and turn that codebase i...
ListenPerspectives on Kubernetes and successful cloud platforms from 2019-01-09T12:00
Adam caught up with Brendan Burns (co-creator of Kubernetes and Partner Architect at Microsoft Azure) at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2018 in Seattle, WA to talk about the state of Kubernetes, the impo...
ListenState of the"log"2018 from 2018-12-19T12:00
On this year’s “State of the ‘log’” episode we’re going behind the scenes to look back at 2018 as we prepare for 2019 and onward. We talk through our most popular episodes, most controversial episo...
ListenUntangle your GitHub notifications with Octobox from 2018-12-13T18:41:10
Jerod is joined by Andrew Nesbitt and Ben Nickolls to talk Octobox, their open source web app that helps you manage your GitHub notifications. They discuss how Octobox came to be, why open source m...
ListenThe insider perspective on the event-stream compromise from 2018-12-05T21:50:10
Adam and Jerod talk with Dominic Tarr, creator of event-stream, the IO library that made recent news as the latest malicious package in the npm registry. event-stream was turned malware, designed t...
ListenA good open source password manager? Inconceivable! from 2018-11-28T18:22:36
Perry Mitchell joined the show to talk about the importance of password management and his project Buttercup — an open source password manager built around strong encryption and security standards,...
ListenTidelift's mission is to pay open source maintainers from 2018-11-21T12:00
In this special crossover episode of Founders Talk, Adam talks with Donald Fischer. Donald Fischer and the team at Tidelift are on a mission of making open source work better — for everyone. To pay...
ListenThe road to Brave 1.0 and BAT from 2018-11-14T12:00
This week Adam and Jerod talk with Brian Bondy, Co-founder and CTO of Brave. They talked through the beginnings of Brave and how BAT (Basic Attention Token) could be driving the future of how we of...
ListenThere and back again (Dgraph's tale) from 2018-11-09T17:45
This week we talk with Manish Jain about Dgraph, graph databases, and licensing and re-licensing woes. Manish is the creator and founder Dgraph and we talked through all the details. We covered wha...
ListenDrupal is a pretty big deal from 2018-10-31T18:35:18
Adam and Jerod talk with Angie Byron, a core contributor and staple of the Drupal community. We haven’t covered Drupal really (sorry about that), but the call with Angie was inspiring! From the bac...
ListenVenture capital meets commercial OSS from 2018-10-25T15:35
Joseph Jacks, the Founder and General Partner of OSS Capital joined the show to share his plans for funding the future generation of commercial open source software based companies. This is a growi...
ListenKeepin'up with Elm from 2018-10-17T11:00
Jerod invites Richard Feldman back on the show to catch up on all things Elm. Did you hear? NoRedInk finally had a production runtime error, the community grew quite a bit (from ‘obscure’ to just ‘...
ListenBONUS – Sustain Summit 2018 from 2018-10-15T18:24:03
In this special bonus call, Adam and Jerod talk with Allen “Gunner” Gunn about the Sustain Summit. They talk about what it is, the kind of conversations that happen there, issues the open source co...
ListenA call for kindness in open source from 2018-10-10T17:05:23
Adam and Jerod talk to Brett Cannon, core contributor to Python and a fantastic representative of the Python community. They talked through various details surrounding a talk and blog post he wrote...
Listen#Hacktoberfest isn’t just about a free shirt from 2018-10-01T18:10:36
#Hacktoberfest is a once per year event in the month of October celebrating open source. For many it’s an on ramp to open source, PRs galore for maintainers, and t-shirts for those who submit 5 or ...
ListenREST easy, GraphQL is here from 2018-09-26T15:40:07
In this special rebroadcast of JS Party, Jerod and Suz talk with John Resig about how he’s using GraphQL at Khan Academy, some of the mistakes and successes using GraphQL, John’s feelings on jQuery...
ListenJoin the federation?! Mastodon awaits... from 2018-09-19T16:50:57
We talked with Eugen Rochko, the creator of Mastodon, about where Mastodon came from the problem it aimed to solve. How it’s not exactly Twitter alternative, although that’s its known claim to fame...
ListenKubernetes brings all the Cloud Natives to the yard from 2018-09-12T11:00
We talk with Dan Kohn, the Executive Director of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation to catch up with all things cloud native, the CNCF, and the world of Kubernetes. Dan updated us on the growth ...
ListenThe first cloud native programming language from 2018-09-05T11:00
Jerod talked with Paul Fremantle, the CTO and Co-Founder of WSO2, about their new programming language, Ballerina — a cloud-native language which aims to make it easier to write microservices that ...
ListenSegment's transition back to a monorepo from 2018-08-29T11:00
Adam and Jerod talk with two members of Segment’s engineering team: Co-founder and CTO, Calvin French-Owen, as well as Software Engineer, Alex Noonan, about their journey from monorepo to microserv...
ListenIstio service mesh and microservices from 2018-08-22T16:47:06
Adam and Jerod talk with Jason McGee, VP and CTO of IBM Cloud Platform about Istio — an open platform that provides a uniform way to connect, secure, control, and observe microservices. They cover ...
ListenOpen sourcing the DEV community from 2018-08-15T17:00
We talk with Ben Halpern the founder and webmaster of dev.to — a community for developers to talk about software. Last Wednesday they open sourced the codebase of the dev.to platform, so we wanted ...
ListenJeff Robbins is an actual rockstar [rebroadcast] from 2018-08-10T19:06:44
On this special bonus episode of The Changelog, we’re playing the latest episode of Away from Keyboard with Jeff Robbins. While some dream of having a successful career, Jeff Robbins has already ha...
ListenRebuilding Exercism from the ground up from 2018-08-08T16:20:51
Adam and Jerod invite back Katrina Owen after years away focusing on Exercism—a 100% free platform for code practice and mentorship with over 2500 exercises and 48 different language tracks. They t...
ListenBiases in AI, helping veterans get jobs in software, open science from 2018-08-01T11:00
Adam and Jerod are on location at OSCON and talk with Camille Eddy about recognizing biases in AI, Jerome Hardaway about the work he’s doing to prepare veterans for jobs in software, and Abby Cobun...
ListenAWS Amplify and cloud-enabled apps from 2018-07-25T11:00
We talk with Nader Dabit, Developer Advocate for Amazon Web Services, about the role of DevRel and what’s involved in this “dream job”, frontend and mobile developers using AWS Amplify to build clo...
ListenThe Great GatsbyJS from 2018-07-18T11:00
From open source project to a $3.8 million dollar seed round to transform Gatsby.js into a full-blown startup that’s building what’s becoming the defacto modern web frontend. In this episode, we ta...
ListenPutting AI in a box at MachineBox [rebroadcast] from 2018-07-11T17:51:44
In this special episode of The Changelog we’re sharing a full-length episode of our newly launched podcast called Practical AI — covering AI, Machine Learning, and Data Science. In this episode Mat...
ListenThe impact of AI at Microsoft from 2018-07-04T11:00
We’re on location at Microsoft Build 2018 talking with Corey Sanders and Steve Guggenheimer — two Microsoft veterans focused on artificial intelligence and cloud computing. We talked about the dire...
ListenProgrammable infrastructure from 2018-06-27T11:00
Jerod Santo is riding solo talking with Kurt Mackey, co-founder of Fly. He talked to him about his work at Ars Technica, his prediction on tabs being a fad, and Kurt being a founding member of Mong...
ListenComputer Science without a computer from 2018-06-20T11:00
Adam Stacoviak and Jerod Santo talk with Tim Bell, the founder and creator of CS Unplugged, a collection of free teaching material that teaches computer science through engaging games and puzzles. ...
ListenPython at Microsoft from 2018-06-13T11:00
We talked with Steve Dower and Dan Taylor at Microsoft Build 2018 about the history of Python at Microsoft, the origination of IronPython, Python Tools for Visual Studio, flying under the radar to ...
ListenCorporate interests in open source and dev culture from 2018-06-06T11:00
Zed Shaw – creator of Mongrel, Learn Python the Hard Way, and more – joined the show to talk through a recent Twitter thread from Zed where he shared his thoughts on open source, making money in op...
ListenCurl turns 20, HTTP/2, QUIC from 2018-05-31T11:00
Daniel Stenberg joined the show to talk about 20 years of curl, what’s new with http2, and the backstory of QUIC - a new transport designed by Jim Roskind at Google which offers reduced latency com...
ListenThe beginnings of Microsoft Azure from 2018-05-23T15:05
We’re on location at Microsoft Build 2018 talking with Julia White, Corporate Vice President at Microsoft — a 17 year Microsoft veteran. We talked with Julia about her take on this “new Microsoft”,...
ListenPrisma and the GraphQL data layer from 2018-05-16T11:00
Johannes Schickling, co-founder and CEO of Prisma, joined the show to catch us up on all things GraphQL — the tech, the possibilities, the community, how Prisma turns your database into a GraphQL A...
ListenBurnout, open source, Datasette from 2018-05-09T11:00
Adam is on location at ZEIT Day talking with Jessica Rose about burnout, Henry Zhu about his passions and pursuit of open source, and Simon Willison about data and his passion for interesting datas...
ListenScaling all the things at Slack from 2018-05-02T15:04:27
Julia Grace joined the show to talk bout about scaling all the things at Slack. Julia is currently the Senior Director of Infrastructure Engineering at Slack, and has been their since 2015 — so she...
ListenCode Cartoons, Rust, WebAssembly from 2018-04-25T11:00
Lin Clark joined the show to talk about Code Cartoons, her work at Mozilla in the emerging technologies group, Rust, Servo, and WebAssembly (aka Wasm), the Rust community’s big goal in 2018 for Rus...
ListenEmber four years later from 2018-04-18T11:00
Chad Hietala joined the show to talk with us about the long history of Ember.js, how he first got involved, his work at LinkedIn and his work as an Ember Core team member, how the Ember team commun...
ListenElasticsearch and doubling down on"open" from 2018-04-11T11:00
Philipp Krenn joined the show to talk with us about Elasticsearch, the problem it solves, where it came from, and where it’s at today. We discussed the query language, what it can be compared to, w...
ListenWinamp2 JS from 2018-04-06T11:30
Jordan Eldredge joined the show to talk with us about Winamp2-js — a reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and Javascript. For many of our listeners, talking about Winamp may bring to mind some e...
ListenThat's it. This is the finale! from 2018-03-30T19:00
We’re rebroadcasting the finale episode of the beloved Request For Commits. But don’t worry, The Changelog will be back with new episodes next week. In this finale episode of Request For Commits, w...
ListenAutomated dependency updates from 2018-03-23T19:00
Rhys Arkins joined the show to talk about automating dependency updates using Renovate. Renovate is an open source tool to keep source code dependencies up-to-date using automated Pull Requests. We...
ListenLive coding open source on Twitch from 2018-03-16T19:00
Suz Hinton joined the show to talk about live coding open source on Twitch. We talk about how she got interested in Twitch, her goals and aspirations for live streaming, the work she’s doing in ope...
ListenTruffle framework and decentralized Ethereum apps from 2018-03-13T19:00
Tim Coulter joined the show to talk about Truffle — a development environment, testing framework, and asset pipeline for Ethereum. We talked with Tim about how he got into Ethereum and dapp develop...
ListenJavaScript sprinkles in Basecamp turned Stimulus from 2018-03-06T20:00
David Heinemeier Hansson joined the show to share the story of how JavaScript sprinkles in Basecamp evolved into a full-fledged framework called Stimulus. We talked about ins and outs of Basecamp a...
ListenWe couldn’t afford an Oculus so we built one from 2018-02-23T20:00
Max Coutté joined the show to share his journey of learning the math and programming required to build an open source Oculus headset for $100. Max is 16 and lives in a small village in France. And ...
ListenMoore's Law and High Performance Computing from 2018-02-16T20:00
Todd Gamblin, a computer scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, joined us to talk about Moore’s Law, his work at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the components of a micro-chip...
ListenDevhints - TL;DR for Developer Documentation from 2018-02-09T20:00
Rico Sta. Cruz joined us to talk about his project Devhints (cheatsheets for developers). There are more than 365 cheatsheets you can contribute to and it’s open source. We talked about the design,...
ListenThe impact and future of Kubernetes from 2018-02-02T20:00
From KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2017 — Brendan Burns (Kubernetes co-founder) and Gabe Monroy (creator of Deis) joined the show to talk about the origin, impact, and future of Kubernetes and cloud inf...
ListenGitcoin: sustaining open source with cryptocurrency from 2018-01-26T20:00
We’re joined by Kevin Owocki, the founder of Gitcoin. Gitcoin is a platform to monetize or incentivize work in open source software. We talked about how Gitcoin sits at the intersection of sustaini...
ListenBuilding a secure Operating System (Redox OS) with Rust from 2018-01-19T20:00
We talked with Jeremy Soller, the BDFL of Redox OS, a Unix-like Operating System written in Rust, aiming to bring the innovations of Rust to a modern microkernel and full set of applications. In th...
ListenSecure Messaging for Everyone with Wire from 2017-12-15T20:00
We talk with Alan Duric, Co-founder and CEO of Wire, an open source end-to-end encrypted instant messaging app for voice and video calls. In 2005 Alan co-founded Camino Networks which was later acq...
ListenBlockchains and Databases at OSCON from 2017-12-14T20:00
We went back into the archives to conversations we had around blockchains and databases at OSCON 2017. We talked with Monty Widenius, creator of MariaDB the open source forever fork MySQL, Brian Be...
ListenThe Story of Visual Studio Code from 2017-12-05T16:00
We’re back in NYC at Microsoft Connect(); talking about the backstory of Visual Studio Code with Julia Liuson (Corporate Vice President of Visual Studio), Chris Dias (Principal Program Manager of V...
ListenThe Cloud Native Computing Foundation from 2017-11-29T20:00
Dan Kohn, Executive Director of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, joined the show to talk about what it means to be Cloud Native, the ins and outs of Dan’s role to the foundation, how they mak...
ListenThe History of GNOME, Mono, and Xamarin from 2017-11-21T20:00
We talked with Miguel de Icaza last week at Microsoft Connect(); in New York City. Miguel gave us the backstory on how he’s been competing with Microsoft for most of his developer career, and he sh...
ListenFaktory and the future of background jobs from 2017-11-18T20:00
Mike Perham is back for his 4th appearance to talk about his new project Faktory, a new background job system that’s aiming to bring the best practices developed over the last five years in Sidekiq...
ListenData Science at OSCON from 2017-11-10T20:00
We went back into the archives to conversations we had around data science at OSCON 2017. We talked with Vida Williams (Data Scientist) and Michelle Casbon (Director of Data Science at Qordoba) abo...
ListenFunctional CSS and Tachyons from 2017-11-10T18:00
Adam Morse joined the show to talk about Functional CSS and his project Tachyons - a CSS Toolkit that lets you quickly build and design new UI without writing CSS. We talk about Scalable CSS, the d...
ListenMy roadmap to become a blockchain engineer from 2017-11-08T20:00
Preethi Kasireddy, a self-employed blockchain and smart contract Engineer, joined the show to talk about why she left the best job in the world at Andreessen Horowitz on the deal team, how she got ...
ListenRails as a day job, Diesel on the side from 2017-11-04T18:30
Sean Griffin joins the show to talk about doing Rails full-time, his love of Rust. and his project Diesel - a safe, extensible ORM and query builder for Rust. We discuss Sean’s path to working full...
ListenBisq, the decentralized Bitcoin exchange from 2017-11-03T16:00
Chris Beams joins the show to talk about Bisq, the P2P decentralized Bitcoin exchange and open-source desktop application that allows you to buy and sell bitcoins in exchange for national currencie...
ListenOperação Serenata de Amor (Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Government Corruption ?) from 2017-10-31T16:00
Eduardo Cuducos joined the show to talk about Operação Serenata de Amor an Artificial Intelligence and Data Science project that aims to inform the general public about government corruption and sp...
ListenFunctional Programming from 2017-10-28T19:00
Eric Normand joined the show to talk about Functional Programming. We talked about FP vs OOP vs Imperative, why FP is popular again, the advantages and disadvantages of Functional Programming, and ...
ListenThe Future of RethinkDB from 2017-10-17T19:00
Mike Glukhovsky joined the show to talk about the future of RethinkDB. Mike was a co-founder of RethinkDB along-side Slava Akhmechet. RethinkDB shutdown a year ago officially on October 5, 2016 — a...
ListenThe Kotlin Programming Language from 2017-10-13T19:00
Dmitry Jemerov joined the show to talk about Kotlin - a language created by JetBrains that’s designed to be an industrial-strength object-oriented language, and a “better language” than Java. We as...
ListenAutomating GitHub with Probot from 2017-10-06T19:00
We talk with Brandon Keepers and Bex Warner about GitHub’s Probot — GitHub Apps to automate and improve your workflows. You can use pre-built apps or easily build and share your own.
ListenConversations about sustaining open source from 2017-09-22T19:00
This episode features conversations from Sustain 2017 at GitHub HQ with Richard Littauer, Karthik Ram, Andrea Goulet, and Scott Ford. Sustain was a one day conversation for open source software sus...
ListenCommunity, Building Remote-first Teams, and Web Performance Inclusivity from 2017-09-08T19:00
Karolina Szczur joined the show to talk about community building, building remote-first teams, the hiring process in tech, product development, and the inclusivity factor of web performance.
ListenBuilding an artificial Pancreas with Elixir and Nerves from 2017-08-11T19:00
We talked with Tim Mecklem about building an artificial Pancreas with Elixir and Nerves to help those with Type 1 Diabetes who want to “loop” — a process which involves monitoring glucose levels, p...
ListenYou Are Not Google/Amazon/LinkedIn from 2017-08-04T19:00
If you find yourself chasing shiny objects and squirrels all time, you should ?listen to this episode featuring Ozan Onay (President of Bradfield School of Computer Science) where we discuss his re...
ListenANTHOLOGY — The Future of Open Source at OSCON 2017 from 2017-07-28T19:00
This is an anthology episode from OSCON 2017 featuring awesome conversations with Kelsey Hightower (OSCON Co-Chair and Developer Advocate at Google Cloud Platform), Safia Abdalla (Open Source Devel...
Listen10 Years of RabbitMQ from 2017-07-21T19:00
We are thrilled to produce this show to honor RabbitMQ’s 10th anniversary. Karl Nilsson and Michael Klishin joined the show to talk through 10 years of RabbitMQ — one of the most widely deployed op...
ListenThe power of wikis, the problem with social networks, the promise of AI from 2017-07-14T15:00
Evan Prodromou has been involved in open source since the mid ‘90s. His open source travel guide – Wikitravel – grew up alongside Wikipedia and the web itself. In this episode, we hear Evan’s histo...
ListenUbuntu Snaps and Bash on Windows Server from 2017-07-07T19:00
We talked with Dustin Kirkland (Head of Ubuntu Product and Strategy at Canonical) at OSCON about 12.04’s end of life, the death of the Ubuntu phone, Snaps and snapd, and Bash on Ubuntu on Windows S...
ListenWhy is GraphQL so cool? from 2017-06-30T19:00
Johannes Schickling (Founder of Graphcool) joined the show to talk about GraphQL — an application layer query language from Facebook. We talked about what it is, where it makes sense to use it, its...
ListenDeploying Changelog.com from 2017-06-23T19:00
This week we take you behind the scenes of the new infrastructure for Changelog.com and talk with Gerhard Lazu. We relaunched the new brand and site for Changelog on Phoenix/Elixir in October of 20...
ListenThe serverless revolution from 2017-06-16T19:00
We talked with Pam Selle at OSCON about the serverless revolution happening for JavaScript developers. This episode kicks off our mini-series from the Expo Hall floor at OSCON 2017.
ListenGitHub's Open Source Survey (2017) from 2017-06-09T22:00
On Friday, June 2, 2017 – GitHub announced the details of their Open Source Survey – an open data set on the open source community for researchers and the curious. Frannie Zlotnick, Nadia Eghbal, a...
ListenJAMstack, Netlify CMS, and 10x-ing Smashing Magazine from 2017-05-30T19:00
Matt Biilman and Chris Bach joined the show to talk about JAMstack, Netlify CMS, how open source drives standards, and 10x-ing the speed of Smashing Magazine.
ListenThe Backstory of Kubernetes from 2017-05-21T07:00
Tim Hockin and Aparna Sinha joined the show to talk about the backstory of Kubernetes inside Google, how Tim and others got it funded, the infrastructure of Kubernetes, and how they’ve been able to...
ListenBONUS - Sustain Open Source Software from 2017-05-04T17:45
Justin Dorfman joined us for a special BONUS episode of The Changelog to share some details about Sustain Conference with you. It’s a one day conversation for Open Source Software sustainers at Git...
ListenOpen source at Microsoft, inclusion, diversity, and OSCON from 2017-04-28T21:00
Scott Hanselman joined today’s show produced in partnership with our friends at OSCON. Scott is a Program Chair of OSCON, host of the podcast Hanselminutes, and advocate for open source inside of M...
ListenOpen source lessons learned from 2017-04-28T17:50
Zeno Rocha, Principal Developer Advocate at Liferay, joined the show to talk about DevRel, his open source work (clipboard.js, Dracula Theme, jQuery Boilerplate, Browser Diet, et al), and his passi...
ListenFirefox Debugger and DevTools from 2017-04-17T19:00
Jason Laster joined the show to talk about Firefox Debugger and DevTools. We talked about the backstory of Firefox, Firebug, the new Debugger.html, why React and Redux made a good fit to develop De...
ListenFirst-time contributors and maintainer balance from 2017-04-10T17:00
Kent C. Dodds joined the show to talk about guiding and supporting first time contributors to open source. We talked about the many ways to be first-timer friendly, how to contribute to open source...
ListenOpen Source at Google from 2017-03-28T17:00
Will Norris (Engineering Manager at Google’s Open Source office) joined the show to talk about their new release of the Google Open Source website as well as the release of Google’s internal docume...
ListenLearning JavaScript and Bringing People Together from 2017-03-25T03:00
Tracy Lee joined the show to talk about bringing people together, helping people, and making an impact. We covered learning JavaScript, the ins and outs of her road to get to where she’s at today, ...
ListenLet's Encrypt the Web from 2017-03-18T03:00
Jacob Hoffman-Andrews, Senior Staff Technologist at the EFF and the lead developer of Let’s Encrypt, joined the show to talk about the history of SSL, the start of Let’s Encrypt, why it’s important...
ListenThe Burden of Open Source from 2017-03-09T12:00
James Long joined the show to talk about his recent post, “Why I’m Frequently Absent from Open Source”. He shared several points in his blog post that struck a chord with us, so we invited him on t...
ListenThe Story of Atom from 2017-02-24T20:00
Nathan Sobo, founding member of the Atom editor team at GitHub, joined the show take us all the way back to the beginning of Atom to learn where it came from, the founding team, the problem it solv...
ListenFeedbin and RSS resurgence from 2017-02-21T20:00
Ben Ubois, the creator of Feedbin (a simple, good-looking online RSS reader) joined the show to talk about the indie web and developers, how RSS usage has changed over the years – particularly sinc...
ListenManaging Secrets Using Vault from 2017-02-17T20:00
Seth Vargo, the Director of Technical Advocacy at HashiCorp, joined the show to talk about managing secrets with their open source product called Vault which lets you centrally secure, store, and t...
ListenANTHOLOGY – Hacker stories from OSCON and All Things Open from 2017-02-10T20:00
Karen Sandler, Rachel Nabors, and Jono Bacon joined the show by way of some great conversations at OSCON in London, UK and All Things Open in Raleigh, NC. We talked about free software, web animati...
ListenReproducible builds and secure software from 2017-02-03T20:00
Chris Lamb joined the show to talk about his project Reproducible Builds — which is funded by The Linux Foundation’s Core Infrastructure Initiative. We talked about the importance of having a verif...
ListenGunDB, Venture Backed and Decentralized from 2017-01-27T20:00
Mark Nadal joined the show to talk about his hacker story and his venture backed open source datastore project called GunDB — a realtime, decentralized, offline-first, graph database engine. We tal...
ListenANTHOLOGY – Hacker Stories From OSCON, All Things Open, and Node Interactive from 2017-01-13T20:00
In this anthology episode we’re featuring three awesome hacker stories from OSCON, All Things Open, and Node Interactive — Giovanni Caligaris about how he brought LibreOffice to the people of Parag...
ListenOpen Collective and funding open source from 2017-01-09T23:00
Pia Mancini joined the show to talk about Open Collective, her background and where she came from, her passion to upgrade democracy, funding and sustaining open source, what open collective is, how...
ListenHomebrew and Swift from 2016-12-09T20:00
Max Howell, famous for creating Homebrew, joined the show to talk about his start in software and open source, the tweet that was heard around the world when he interviewed with Google and didn’t g...
ListenHTTP/2 in Node.js Core from 2016-12-06T18:00
In this special episode recorded at Node Interactive 2016 in Austin, TX Adam talked with James Snell (IBM Technical Lead for Node and member of Node’s TSC and CTC) about the work he’s doing on Node...
Listen18F and OSS in the U.S. Federal Government from 2016-11-25T20:00
From 18F — Hillary Hartley and Aidan Feldman joined the show to talk about how 18F is changing the way the federal government builds and buys digital services.
ListenPython, Django, and Channels from 2016-11-25T16:30
Django core contributor Andrew Godwin joins the show to tell us all about Python and Django. If you’ve ever wondered why people love Python, what Django’s virtues are as a web framework, or how Dja...
ListenServo and Rust from 2016-11-18T14:00
Jack Moffitt joined the show to talk about Servo, an experimental web browser layout engine. We talked about what the Servo project aims to achieve, six areas of performance, and what makes Rust a ...
ListenMad science, WebTorrent, WebRTC from 2016-11-11T14:00
Feross Aboukhadijeh joined the show this week to talk with us about his backstory, passive income, WebTorrent, WebRTC, Electron and the ins and outs of packaging apps for all platforms.
ListenThe Road to Font Awesome 5 from 2016-11-04T16:00
Dave Gandy joined the show to talk about the history of Font Awesome, what’s to come in Font Awesome 5 and their Kickstarter to fund Font Awesome 5 Pro, and how everything they’re doing is funnelin...
Listen99 Practical Bottles of OOP from 2016-10-28T14:00
Sandi Metz joined the show to talk about her beginnings on a mainframe, her 30+ years of programming experience, the ins and outs of OOP, her book Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby (aka POOD...
Listen.NET Core and Microsoft's Shift to Open Source from 2016-10-21T14:00
Bertrand Le Roy joined the show to talk about all things .NET Core, their recent 1.0 release, where it’s going, the open source around it, and Microsoft’s shift towards more open source.
ListenHomebrew and package management from 2016-10-07T14:00
Mike McQuaid joined us to catch us up on the latest in Homebrew and the recent 1.0.0 release. We talked about no more /usr/local — Homebrew moves to /usr/local/Homebrew to keep /usr/local cleaner, ...
ListenEthereum and Cryptocurrency from 2016-09-30T20:00
Gavin Wood joined the show to talk about Ethereum, Cryptocurrency, The DAO, Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), what could you build with Ethereum, and the future of digital currency. Gavin Wood is Fou...
ListenHow we got here from 2016-09-23T20:00
Cory is a science fiction author, activist, journalist, co-editor of Boing Boing and the author of many books. We talked to Cory about open source, the open web, internet freedom, his involvement w...
ListenGitLab's Master Plan from 2016-09-16T20:00
Sid Sijbrandij, CEO of GitLab, joined the show to talk about their recent unveiling of the GitLab Master Plan, $20 Million secured in a Series B funding round, their idea of Conversational Developm...
ListenTensorFlow and Deep Learning from 2016-09-09T20:00
Eli Bixby, Developer Programs Engineer at Google, joined the show to talk to talk about TensorFlow, machine learning and deep learning, why Google open sourced it, and more.
ListenSourcegraph the'Google for Code' from 2016-08-26T20:00
Beyang Liu, the CTO and co-founder of Sourcegraph, joined the show to talk about the backstory of Sourcegraph, how it works, how they’re aiming to be the ‘Google for Code’, ideas around offline sup...
ListenGitHub's Electron from 2016-08-19T20:00
Zeke Sikelianos joined the show to talk about GitHub’s Electron project and the future of web folks making cross platform desktop apps. We talked about the web revolution around native vs web app, ...
ListenBest Practices Badge from Core Infrastructure Initiative from 2016-08-12T20:00
David A. Wheeler, from Core Infrastructure Initiative, joined the show to talk about the CII Best Practices Badge program.
ListenLibscore, Velocity.js, Hacking from 2016-08-06T01:00
Julian Shapiro, startup founder and developer, joined the show to talk about his story of entrepreneurship, open source, growth hacking, and more. Julian’s story is a story you don’t want to miss —...
ListenZEIT, HyperTerm, now from 2016-07-30T01:00
Guillermo Rauch joined the show to talk with Adam about how he got into programming, how that lead him to what he’s doing now at ZEIT, the design of HyperTerm, and now.
ListenSiteSpeed.io and Performance from 2016-07-23T01:00
Peter Hedenskog joined the show to talk about SiteSpeed.io and web performance. We covered where it came from, where it’s going, and more importantly, simple ways you can focus on your web performa...
ListenOpen Source at Facebook from 2016-07-15T15:00
James Pearce, Head of Open Source at Facebook, joined the show to talk about that very subject — open source at Facebook, his path to software development, why he’s the person to lead open source a...
Listenngrok and Go from 2016-07-09T01:00
Alan Shreve, creator of the beloved ngrok, joined the show to talk about ngrok — what it is, why it exists, why he wrote it in Go, and ultimately why 1.0 is open source but 2.0 is not.
ListenGitHub and Google on Public Datasets&Google BigQuery from 2016-06-29T20:00
Arfon Smith from GitHub, and Felipe Hoffa&Will Curran from Google joined the show to talk about BigQuery — the big picture behind Google Cloud’s push to host public datasets, the collaboration betw...
ListenEcto 2 and Phoenix Presence from 2016-06-22T06:00
José Valim and Chris McCord joined the show to talk all about how they’re advancing the “state of the art” in the Elixir community with their release of Ecto 2.0 and Phoenix 1.2. We also share our ...
ListenUbuntu Everywhere from 2016-06-18T01:00
Dustin Kirkland joined the show to talk about Ubuntu — the most widely used flavor of Linux. We talked about the rise of Ubuntu, Ubuntu being everywhere, their collaboration with Microsoft to bring...
ListenThe advantages of being a blind programmer from 2016-06-11T01:00
Parham Doustdar is a blind programmer and joined the show to talk about the advantages he has being a blind programmer, the tools he uses, why he had to quit school, and carving your own path. Note...
ListenA protocol for dying from 2016-06-04T01:00
Since airing this show, Pieter passed away due to his battle with a metastasis of bile duct cancer in both lungs. But rather than listen to this show with sadness, listen with a happy heart and let...
ListenIPFS (InterPlanetary File System) from 2016-05-21T01:00
Juan Benet joined the show to talk about IPFS (InterPlanetary File System), a peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol to make the web faster, safer, and more open — addressed by content and identities. We...
ListenJewelbots and Getting Kids Coding from 2016-05-14T01:00
Sara Chipps, the creator of Jewelbots, and George Stocker, the VP of Engineering at Jewelbots joined the show to talk about connected wearables for kids, keeping UX simple, building a business on o...
Listen23 years of Ruby from 2016-05-07T01:00
Big show! Matz, creator of the Ruby programming language, joined the show to discuss where he began as a programmer, the origins of Ruby, its history and future, Ruby 3.0, concurrency and parallel...
ListenWhy SQLite succeeded as a database from 2016-04-30T01:00
This episode is part of our remastered greatest hits collection and features Richard Hipp, the creator of SQLite, talking with us about its history, where it came from, why it has succeeded as a da...
ListenJavaScript and Robots from 2016-04-19T01:00
Raquel Vélez, aka Rockbot, joined the show to talk about where she came from, how she got into programming with JavaScript, her passion for robots and mechanical engineering, the culture of npm, an...
ListenYour Huginn Agents Are Standing By from 2016-04-15T01:00
Andrew Cantino joined the show to talk with Jerod about Huginn, a system for building agents that perform automated tasks for you online. They can read the web, watch for events, and take actions o...
ListenHaskell Programming from 2016-03-26T01:00
Chris Allen and Julie Moronuki joined the show to talk about Haskell, their book “Haskell Programming”, learning to program, their book writing process, and more.
ListenThe future of WordPress and Calypso from 2016-03-04T09:30
Matt Mullenweg, the creator of WordPress and the CEO of Automattic, joined the show to talk about the past, present, and future of WordPress. We talked about the role of JavaScript for WordPress, t...
ListenTiddlyWiki from 2016-02-27T02:00
Jeremy Ruston joined the show to talk about TiddlyWiki — a unique non-linear notebook for capturing, organizing, and sharing complex information. It’s written in JavaScript and sports a custom fake...
ListenfreeCodeCamp from 2016-02-12T23:00
Quincy Larson is the creator of an open source community called freeCodeCamp. We talked with Quincy about “the secret to getting good at coding”, their curriculum that spans a solid year (totaling ...
ListenElixir and the Future of Phoenix from 2016-02-09T10:15
José Valim joined the show to talk about Elixir. We learned about the early days of José’s start as a programmer. José took us back to the beginning of Elixir and shared why Erlang got him so excit...
ListenFunding open source from 2016-01-30T01:00
Nadia Eghbal joined the show to discuss a HUGE topic that’s near and dear to our heart – funding open source! We discussed what it takes to fund open source software development, Nadia’s current in...
ListenCrystal: Fast as C, Slick as Ruby from 2016-01-29T08:00
Ary Borenszweig and Juan Wajnerman, the folks behind Crystal, joined the show to talk about the goals of the language, how it’s the best of both worlds between Ruby and C, why if it’s so close to a...
ListenElm and Functional Programming from 2016-01-16T02:00
Richard Feldman from NoRedInk joined the show to talk about Elm and Functional Programming. Elm labeled itself “the best of functional programming in your browser” and boasts “no runtime exceptions...
ListenJSON API and API Design from 2016-01-01T07:30
Yehuda Katz joined the show to talk about JSON.API — where the spec came from, who’s involved, compliance, API design, the future, and more. We also finally got Yehuda on the show alone, so we were...
ListenDOUBLEHEADER — 24 Pull Requests and Libraries.io + Flynn from 2015-12-25T02:45
We have a special doubleheader holiday show for you. Andrew Nesbitt joined the show to talk about 24 Pull Requests and Libraries.io, and Jonathan Rudenberg is back to catch us up on Flynn.
ListenRedux, React, and Functional JavaScript from 2015-12-18T10:00
Dan Abramov, creator of Redux, joined the show to talk about his path to becoming a programmer, his introduction to open source, React, JavaScript, functional programming in JavaScript, his thought...
ListenBuilding the Ultimate Hacking Keyboard from 2015-12-11T07:30
László Monda (aka Lotsy) joined the show to talk about a keyboard for hackers — the Ultimate Hacking Keyboard. We discussed the features, the hardware design, the open source that powers it, and more.
ListenKong, APIs, Microservices from 2015-12-05T02:00
Ahmad Nassri from Mashape joined the show to talk about Kong, an open-source management layer for APIs and Microservices.
ListenDiscussing Vue.js and Personal Projects from 2015-11-28T03:00
Evan You joined the show to talk about Vue.js - his library for building web interfaces. We discussed what Vue.js offers, what makes it different, why developers should trust this project even if i...
ListenThe Offline First Revolution and Speech Recognition from 2015-11-21T02:00
Tal Ater joined the show to talk about the offline first revolution, the use of service workers, how UpUp is helping on that front, speech recognition, and annyang.
ListenMetabase and Open Source Business Intelligence from 2015-11-14T02:00
Sameer Al-Sakran and Tom Robinson from Metabase joined the show to discuss Metabase - their open source tool that’s laying the foundation of their goals for open source business intelligence.
ListenRethinkDB, Databases, the Realtime Web from 2015-11-07T02:00
Slava Akhmechet joined the show again to catch us up on RethinkDB and the awesome progress they’ve made to power the realtime web. We talked about innovation in databases, compared and contrasted t...
ListenOtto, Vagrant, Automation from 2015-11-04T00:30
Mitchell Hashimoto joined the show to talk about HashiCorp’s new tool - Otto, how it compares to and compliments Vagrant, Automation, and we even talked to Mitchell about his history with software ...
ListenCaddy HTTP/2 Web Server from 2015-10-31T01:00
Matt Holt and Sebastian Erhart joined the show to talk about Caddy the HTTP/2 web server written in Go. It’s time to serve the web like it’s 2015!
ListenOAuth 2.0, Oz, Node.js, Hapi.js from 2015-10-20T01:00
Eran Hammer joined the show to talk about updates to Hapi.js, Node.js, OAuth, and deep discussions about Oz – Eran’s replacement for OAuth 2.0.
ListenCylon.js, Gobot, Artoo, IoT from 2015-10-10T01:00
Ron Evans, ringleader of The Hybrid Group and creator of a fleet of open source robot libraries, joined the show to talk about open source and robotics, Cylon.js, Gobot, Artoo, teaching, KidsRuby, ...
ListenCROSSOVER — CodeNewbie and Community from 2015-10-03T01:00
Saron Yitbarek, creator of CodeNewbie and the CodeNewbie podcast, joined the show to talk about helping more people discover software development, embarrassing moments, lessons learned along the wa...
ListenOSCON and Open Source from 2015-09-25T00:15
Rachel Roumeliotis, the Strategic Content Director at O’Reilly Media, joined the show to talk about the history of OSCON, what you can expect from this year’s conference and the importance of open ...
ListenMetasploit, InfoSec, Open Source from 2015-09-22T23:30
Trevor Rosen and James “Egypt” Lee joined the show to talk about Metasploit, a collaboration of the open source community and Rapid7 – its penetration testing software that helps you verify vulnera...
ListenCROSSOVER — Turing-Incomplete from 2015-09-11T11:30
The entire crew behind Turing-Incomplete podcast joined the show to talk about the history and focus of their show, the ins and outs of technical podcasting, software industry trends, and more.
ListenGitUp and the UX of Git from 2015-09-05T01:00
Pierre-Olivier Latour joined the show to talk about his history as a software developer - everything from creating Quartz Composer, working at Apple, to his new project GitUp and the user experienc...
ListenClojure, ClojureScript, and Living Clojure from 2015-08-29T01:00
Carin Meier joined the show to talk about Clojure, ClojureScript, her book Living Clojure, all the fun things she loves about math, physics, and creating a programming language.
ListenBoltDB, InfluxDB, Key-Value Databases from 2015-08-22T01:00
Ben Johnson joined the show to talk about BoltDB, InfluxDB, and several other key-value store databases out there and why he’s so passionate about developing open source software.
ListenMiddleman and Static Site Generators from 2015-08-15T01:00
Thomas Reynolds, the creator of Middleman, joined the show to talk about the history of static site generators, how he got into open-source, his love for Go, and what’s to come in Middleman v4.
ListenPrometheus and service monitoring from 2015-08-07T06:45
Julius Volz from SoundCloud joined the show to talk about Prometheus, an open-source service monitoring system written in Go.
ListenMesos and Mesosphere DCOS from 2015-07-31T07:45
Tobi Knaup, co-founder&CTO of Mesosphere joined the show to talk about the datacenter operating system, and all the open source around it.
ListenJavaScript in the Wild at NEJS Conf from 2015-07-25T01:00
Jerod Santo took off his host hat this show and joined Zach Leatherman, and Nick Nisi, his co-organizers of NEJS Conf to talk about JavaScript in the wild in Omaha, Nebraska.
ListenBetting the company on Elixir and Ember from 2015-07-18T01:00
Brian Cardarella joined the show to talk about the bet he’s placed on Elixir and Ember to be the focus of his company.
ListenSemantic UI Returns from 2015-07-11T01:00
Jack Lukic is back again to talk about what’s new with Semantic UI, the progress he, 104 contributors, and hundreds of translators have made towards a front-end standard only rivaled by Twitter’s B...
ListenGo in the Modern Enterprise and Go Kit from 2015-07-04T01:00
Peter Bourgon joined the show to talk about building microservices using Go in the modern enterprise and his microservices toolkit Go kit.
ListenOctopress 3.0 from 2015-06-26T13:30
Brandon Mathis joined the show to tell us all about the much anticipated 3.0 release of Octopress - his Jekyll-based blogging framework for hackers. Octopress 3.0 is a complete rewrite and has been...
ListenThe HTTP/2 Spec from 2015-06-19T08:30
Ilya Grigorik is back again — this time we’re talking about his true passion, internet plumbing, web performance, and the HTTP/2 spec. We cover everything around HTTP/2, the spec, HTTP/1 history, S...
ListenAmpersand.js, SPAs, WebRTC from 2015-06-13T01:00
Henrik Joreteg joined the show to talk about Single Page Apps (SPAs), Ampersand.js, WebRTC, JavaScript coding styles, and more.
ListenSustaining Open Source Software from 2015-06-05T08:45
Mike Perham joined the show to talk about sustaining open source software, living a healthy life, how to treat one another, and more.
ListenBuilding Bridges from 2015-05-29T09:00
Sarah Allen, cofounder of RailsBridge and Bridge Foundry, joined the show to talk about the incredible ability to make something with software, leading and teaching a community, teaching programmin...
ListenModern WordPress using Bedrock and Sage from 2015-05-22T08:30
Ben Word and Scott Walkinshaw joined the show to talk about a more modern WordPress stack, Bedrock and Sage, dependency management, WordPress deployment, smarter development setup with tools like A...
ListenGopherCon 2015 from 2015-05-19T10:45
Brian Ketelsen and Erik St. Martin, the organizers of GopherCon, joined the show to talk about what it takes to create and run a conference like GopherCon, the size of the event, the speaking track...
ListenThe Future of Node.js from 2015-05-16T02:00
Scott Hammond, the CEO of Joyent, joined the show to talk about the history of Node, Joyent’s interest in Node, how they’ve handled the stewardship of Node over the years, their support of io.js jo...
ListenAll Things Ruby with 2015's Ruby Heroes from 2015-05-16T01:00
Our guests this week are 2015’s RUBY HEROES! Big show today, lots of great Ruby talk with these heroes, great insights from this past year of Ruby, and more.
Listen17 Years of curl from 2015-05-01T07:00
Daniel Stenberg joined the show to talk about curl and libcurl and how he has spent at least 2 hours every day for the past 17 years working on and maintaining curl. That’s over 13k hours! We cover...
ListenBONUS — Magic cURL Feature from 2015-04-30T14:00
This is a bonus clip from the after call with Daniel Stenberg for episode #153. Daniel shared the details of a “magic feature” in cURL that’s been there for over 6 years. It’s a feature he feels mo...
ListenTypeScript and open source at Microsoft from 2015-04-24T05:45
Anders Hejlsberg and Jonathan Turner from the TypeScript team at Microsoft joined the show to talk about TypeScript, a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript from Microsoft....
ListenThe Rust Programming Language from 2015-04-11T21:00
Steve Klabnik and Yehuda Katz joined the show to talk about the Rust Programming Language, a systems programming language from Mozilla Research. We covered memory safety without garbage collection,...
ListenInternet Connected Things Using Spark from 2015-04-04T03:00
Zach Supalla joined the show to talk about Spark - a complete, open source, full stack solution for creating amazing internet connected things. We talk about making connected hardware easier, using...
ListenReact, React Native, Flux, Relay, GraphQL from 2015-03-27T08:45
Christopher “vjeux” Chedeau and Spencer Ahrens joined the show to talk about React, React Native, Flux, Relay, and GraphQL. They also announce on this show that React Native is now open source on G...
ListenThe State of Go in 2015 from 2015-03-25T10:30
Andrew Gerrand joined the show to talk about the state of Go in 2015, how Go compares to other concurrent languages, why people choose Go over other languages, the C to Go toolchain conversion, and...
ListenElixir and Phoenix from 2015-03-20T06:00
Chris McCord joined the show to take us on a deep dive into the Phoenix web framework and Elixir. We covered the similarities between Ruby and Erlang, getting started with Elixir, and deploying Pho...
ListenMind the Gender Parity Gap from 2015-03-13T09:45
Sarah Mei joined the show to talk through a recent article she authored titled “Mind the Gap” and why we’re missing our best chance for gender parity. We discussed our innate subconscious assumptio...
Listen10+ Years of Rails from 2015-03-06T18:00
David Heinemeier Hansson, aka DHH joined the show to talk through the past, present, and future of Ruby on Rails — the most beloved web application framework in the Ruby community.
ListenGitHub Archive and Changelog Nightly from 2015-02-27T18:45
Ilya Grigorik joined the show to talk about GitHub Archive, logging and archiving GitHub’s public event data, and how he uses Google BigQuery to make querying that data accessible to everyone.
ListenFront-end Developer Interview Questions from 2015-02-21T02:15
Darcy Clarke joined the show to talk about his repo on the HTML5 Boilerplate org on GitHub “Front-end Developer Interview Questions”. We discussed why the repo has been so successful, the challenge...
ListenLaravel PHP Framework from 2015-02-13T22:45
Taylor Otwell, the creator of the Laravel PHP framework, joined the show for a deep dive into Laravel, why he doesn’t release without good documentation, building apps to test your own framework, w...
ListenGoing fulltime on The Changelog from 2015-02-11T22:15
BIG news! This is the episode where we discuss Adam going fulltime on The Changelog.
ListenAurelia, Durandal, Leaving AngularJS from 2015-02-06T23:45
Rob Eisenberg joined the show to talk about why he left the AngularJS team, how the community responded, the allure of working for Google and getting paid to work on open source full time, why some...
ListenThe Rise of io.js from 2015-01-30T23:00
Mikeal Rogers joined the show to talk about io.js, a friendly fork of Node.js with an open governance model. We discussed why the io.js fork exists, why they choose open governance, the roadmap and...
Listenrkt, App Container Spec, CoreOS from 2015-01-23T17:15
Alex Polvi, CEO of CoreOS, joined the show to talk about their new open source product rkt, their App Container Spec, and CoreOS - the container only server OS focused on securing the internet.
ListenBetter GitHub Issues with HuBoard from 2015-01-16T21:30
Adam and Jerod talk with Ryan built about HuBoard - a project management solution for teams and organizations using GitHub. He gives us an inside look at how he created HuBoard, how he made the tra...
ListenPhusion Passenger (aka Ruby Raptor) from 2015-01-08T19:45
Adam and Jerod talk with Hong Lai, one of the co-founders of Phusion. His company recently got a lot of attention for their upcoming version of Phusion Passenger, which they decided to call Ruby Ra...
ListenEnd of Year 2014 from 2014-12-20T03:00
Adam and Jerod close out the year and give thanks to everyone who helps support The Changelog – community members, listeners, readers, sponsors, as well as our various partners. We also discuss top...
ListenOpen Sourcing .NET Core from 2014-12-10T20:30
Adam and Jerod talk with the members of the .NET Core team at Microsoft about Microsoft’s motivation for open sourcing the base class libraries of .NET, open source vs source open, the true goal of...
ListenAll things Perl from 2014-12-03T20:15
Adam and Jerod talk with Curtis “Ovid” Poe about how he got started with Perl, what Perl is really good at, why he doesn’t expect everyone to love Perl, why Perl doesn’t get no respect, the differe...
ListenBuckets CMS on Node.js from 2014-11-28T18:00
Adam and Jerod talk with David Kaneda about Buckets (a simple, open source CMS built on Node.js), how he’s building Buckets, what competing with Wordpress and Drupal is like, the process of working...
ListenThe Road to Ember 2.0 from 2014-11-18T15:15
Adam and Jerod talk with Tom Dale and Yehuda Katz about the road to Ember 2.0 and the complete front-end stack it is today.
ListenInspeqtor and OSS Products from 2014-11-11T17:30
Adam and Jerod talk with Mike Perham about his new project Inspeqtor and his approach to better application infrastructure monitoring.
ListenThe PHP Language Specification from 2014-11-11T02:00
Adam and Jerod talk with Sara Golemon about her work at Facebook, The PHP Language Specification, and making PHP awesome.
ListenLineman.js and JavaScript apps from 2014-08-28T02:00
Adam and Jerod talk with Justin Searls about Lineman.js, building for the web with JavaScript, and his abstract “The Social Coding Contract.”
ListenKeep a CHANGELOG from 2014-08-08T01:00
Adam and Jerod talk with Olivier Lacan about keeping a CHANGELOG and his passion for keeping a human facing, readable history, for software projects.
ListenXiki and Reimagining the Shell from 2014-07-16T03:00
Adam and Jerod talk with Craig Muth about his project Xiki, the current Kickstarter he has to raise funds so he can work on it full time, and reimagining the shell.
ListenBlogging for Hackers from 2014-07-16T02:00
Parker Moore joined the show to talk with Adam about blogging for hackers with Jekyll and GitHub Pages.
ListenTedit, JS-Git, Jack from 2014-07-16T01:00
Adam and Jerod talk with Tim Caswell about getting started in open source, exploring new frontiers, and his latest project Tedit – a development platform that makes programming JavaScript easy and ...
ListenGittip and Open Companies from 2014-05-29T23:00
Adam and Jerod talk with Chad Whitacre the Founder of Gittip to talk about what’s new this year for Gittip and the directions they are taking things.
ListenRails Girls Summer of Code and Travis Foundation from 2014-05-20T00:30
Adam and Jerod talk to Anika Lindtner and Floor Drees about Rails Girls Summer of Code, Travis Foundation, fundraising, supporting open source through grants, and ways the community is showing thei...
ListenGoogle's Dart Programming Language from 2014-05-08T23:00
Adam and Andrew talk with Lars Bak and Seth Ladd from Google about Dart, a new language and platform started by Google for scalable web app engineering.
ListenRuby Tooling, chruby, ruby-install, Security from 2014-05-02T07:30
Adam and Andrew talked to Postmodern about his open source projects chruby, ruby-install, chgems, ronin, and more.
ListenMEAN.js&Full-Stack JavaScript from 2014-04-25T22:00
Andrew talks with the fellas behind MEAN.js, Amos Haviv and Roie Cohen. MEAN.js is a full-stack JavaScript solution using MongoDB, Express, AngularJS, and Node.
ListenThe Sass Way and Open Publishing from 2014-04-18T17:00
Adam and John talk about Sass, The Sass Way, Middleman, and open publishing on GitHub.
ListenGo, Martini, Gophercasts from 2014-04-16T17:00
Jeremy Saenz joined the show to talk about Go, Martini, Gophercasts, and more.
ListenNode Black Friday at Walmart from 2014-01-11T09:00
Eran Hammer joined the show to talk about Node.js and Black Friday at Walmart.
ListenFlynn Updates from 2013-12-20T14:45
Andrew talks with Jonathan Rudenberg and Jeff Lindsay about their hard work and updates on Flynn, their open source PaaS.
ListenKeep npm Running from 2013-11-26T15:00
Isaac Schlueter and Charlie Robbins joined the show to talk about the “crashyness” of npm recently and the community fundraiser they are starting to ask the community to support npm and to keep it ...
ListenZURB Foundation 5 and Front-End Frameworks from 2013-11-16T10:00
Adam and Andrew talk with Jonathan Smiley and Mark Hayes from ZURB about Foundation 5, front-end frameworks, and Ink — their new email framework project.
ListenHoodie, noBackend, Offline-First from 2013-11-09T10:45
Andrew and Adam talk with Caolan McMahon from Hoodie to talk about very fast web development where you can build complete web apps in days, without having to worry about backends, databases or serv...
ListenCapistrano and Burnout from 2013-10-30T12:30
Adam and Andrew talk with Lee Hambley about some serious subjects such as Capistrano 3.0/2.0, open source burnout, various conversations around deploying, Ruby, respect, handing over the reigns and...
ListenOpen Karma and Design Love for OSS from 2013-10-26T07:00
Adam and Andrew talk with Justine Arreche a Designer at Travis CI and Sebastian Gräßl a Freelance Developer. Together, they’re the creators of Open Karma, a tool to help bridge the gap between deve...
ListenExercism.io and Crowd-Sourced Code Reviews from 2013-10-16T12:30
Adam and Jerod talk with Katrina Owen about Exercism.io - an open source platform for crowd-sourced code reviews on daily practice problems. Practice problems are available in Ruby, Elixir, JavaScr...
ListenBalanced Payments and Open Sourcing Everything from 2013-10-09T13:00
Andrew and Adam talk with Marshall Jones from Balanced Payments about all they do in open source, and how they approach being an open company that desires to release as much software as they can as...
ListenGhost Blogging Platform from 2013-09-26T13:00
Andrew and Adam talk with John O’Nolan about his open source blogging platform Ghost written in JavaScript (Node.js), and how he and his team are working hard to create this beautifully designed pl...
ListenKickstarting Espruino from 2013-09-20T06:15
Andrew and Jerod talk with Gordon Williams about his hardware/software open source project called Espruino that’s currently raising funds on Kickstarter. Espruino is the world’s first JavaScript mi...
ListenGitLab and Open Source from 2013-09-13T12:45
Andrew and Adam talk with Sytse Sijbrandij, one of the Co-founders of GitLab, about building GitLab, sustaining open source, community management, and ways to handle a “road map” for your product o...
ListenRVM and Ruby Version Managment from 2013-09-06T12:30
Adam Stacoviak and Jerod Santo talk with Michal Papis about the history and future of RVM, the plan for RVM 2.0, the complexities of managing your Ruby version, Ruby 2.0 and more.
Listennpm Origins and Node.js from 2013-08-22T13:00
Andrew and Adam talk with Isaac Schlueter about the origins of npm, building an asynchronous web with Node.js, and how to get paid to open source.
ListenGo Programming from 2013-08-14T13:00
This episode is part of our remastered greatest hits collection and features Rob Pike and Andrew Gerrand talking about the history and latest updates to the Go programming language.
ListenFlynn, Tent, Open Source PaaS's from 2013-08-13T13:00
Adam Stacoviak and Andrew Thorp talk with Jeff Lindsay and Jonathan Rudenberg about Flynn, open source, PaaS and more.
ListenAFNetworking, Helios, iOS Development from 2013-08-06T13:00
Adam Stacoviak, Andrew Thorp and Kenneth Reitz talk with Mattt Thompson, Mobile Lead at Heroku, about his many contributions to open source.
ListenAPI Wrappers and Ruby from 2013-07-30T11:00
Adam Stacoviak and Andrew Thorp talk with Drew Blas of Chargify about API wrappers, Ruby, open source, and more.
ListenRuby off Rails from 2013-07-22T13:00
Adam Stacoviak and guest co-host Tim Smith talk with Jesse Wolgamott about learning Ruby, his course and mentorship Ruby off Rails, and more!
ListenCivic Hacking and Code for America from 2013-07-03T15:00
Adam Stacoviak and Andrew Thorp talk with Michal Migurski (CTO) and Ezra Spier (Fellow) about civic hacking at Code for America, technical sustainability in government, skill gap for more modern so...
ListenSass, libsass, Haml from 2013-06-27T03:00
Adam Stacoviak and Andrew Thorp talk with Hampton Catlin about Sass, libsass, Haml, Tritium, Moovweb and more.
ListenSass, Bourbon, Product Design from 2013-06-12T13:00
Adam Stacoviak talks with Phil LaPier about Sass, Bourbon, Neat, sustaining open source, product design, and more.
ListenSidekiq and Ruby from 2013-06-07T15:00
Adam Stacoviak and Andrew Thorp talk with Mike Perham about sustaining open source, sidekiq, message processing with Ruby, and more.
ListenDiscover Meteor.js from 2013-05-29T13:00
Adam Stacoviak and Andrew Thorp talk with Sacha Greif about his new book Discover Meteor, Meteor.js, sustaining open source and more.
ListenPair Programming and Ruby from 2013-05-22T13:00
Adam Stacoviak, Andrew Thorp, and Steve Klabnik talk about pair programming, distributed teams, workflows, Ruby and more with Avdi Grimm.
ListenDocker and Linux Containers from 2013-05-17T13:00
Adam Stacoviak and Andrew Thorp talk about Docker, linux containers, and dotCloud with Solomon Hykes - Founder&CEO of DotCloud and the creator of Docker.
ListenVagrant and HashiCorp from 2013-05-15T13:00
Adam Stacoviak and Andrew Thorp talk with Mitchell Hashimoto, the creator of Vagrant and founder of HashiCorp.
ListenSustaining Open Source and Building an Open Company from 2013-05-09T13:00
Adam Stacoviak, Andrew Thorp and Kenneth Reitz talk with Chad Whitacre about sustaining open source through Gittip, building an open company and more.
ListenDiscourse and Ruby from 2013-05-03T13:00
Adam Stacoviak, Andrew Thorp and Kenneth Reitz talk with Jeff Atwood about Discourse and more.
ListenWe're Back and We're LIVE! from 2013-04-22T13:00
Adam Stacoviak, Andrew Thorp, Steve Klabnik, Kenneth Reitz and Jerod Santo take the show live for the first time since August 8th, 2012.
ListenCloud 9 IDE from 2012-07-17T13:00
Wynn caught up with Ruben and Matt from Cloud 9 to talk about what’s new with their IDE in the cloud.
ListenRuby Motion and MacRuby from 2012-06-26T13:00
Wynn and Sam caught up with Laurent Sansonetti to talk about MacRuby, RubyMotion, and more.
ListenCelluloid and Concurrency from 2012-05-31T13:00
Wynn talked with Tony Arcieri, creator of Celluloid, about concurrency in Ruby and his thoughts on Erlang, Clojure, and design patterns.
ListenLuvit and Lua Bindings for libuv from 2012-05-23T13:00
Wynn caught up with Tim Caswell to talk about Luvit, his new project that provides Lua bindings for libuv.
ListenAdhearsion, Telephony, XMPP from 2012-04-13T13:00
Wynn caught up with Ben Klang and Ben Langfeld of the Adhearsion project to talk about Adhearsion 2.0, the future of telephony apps, XMPP, and more.
ListenCocoaPods and MacRuby from 2012-04-05T13:00
Wynn caught up with Eloy Durán, creator of CocoaPods to talk about the project, MacRuby, and his favorite Objective-C libraries.
ListenSolarized and Linux on the Desktop from 2012-03-30T13:00
Wynn sat down with Ethan Schoonover, creator of Solarized to talk about the science and design behind the wildly popular color scheme as well as his love for Arch Linux.
Listen.NET, NuGet, Open Source from 2012-03-16T13:00
Wynn caught up with Phil Haack to talk about NuGet and growing the .NET open source community at GitHub.
ListenTravis CI, Scaling Apps, Riak from 2012-03-06T14:00
Wynn caught up with Josh Kalderimis and Mathias Meyer from Travis CI to talk about hosted CI in the sky, scaling apps, and a little Riak.
ListenThe League of Moveable Type from 2012-02-23T14:00
Adam and Wynn caught up with Micah Rich from The League of Moveable type to talk about open source typography.
Listentmux, dotfiles, and Text Mode from 2012-02-17T14:00
Wynn sat down with Brian Hogan and Josh Clayton to talk about tmux, dotfiles, and the joys of text mode.
ListenVagrant and Virtualized Environments from 2012-02-09T14:00
Wynn caught up with Mitchell Hashimoto from the Vagrant project to talk about virtualized environments, DevOps, and more.
ListenSpine and Client-Side MVC from 2011-12-20T14:00
Wynn caught up with Alex MacCaw to talk about Spine, CoffeeScript, writing books, and working at Twitter.
ListenFoundation and Other Zurb Goodies from 2011-12-07T14:00
Wynn caught up with Jonathan and Matt from Zurb to talk about Foundation, their HTML5 front end scaffold and many projects from the Zurb playground.
ListenSpree and Ecommerce in Rails from 2011-11-03T13:00
Wynn sat down with Sean and Brian from Spree to talk about ecommerce in Rails, SpreeConf, and their recent $1.5M funding round.
ListenGrowl and Open Source in the App Store from 2011-10-11T13:00
Adam and Wynn caught up with Chris Forsythe, lead of the Growl project to talk about Growl, their App Store launch, and his work on Adium and Perian.
ListenHTML5 Boilerplate and JavaScript from 2011-08-19T13:00
Adam and Wynn caught up with Paul Irish of Google’s Chrome developer relations team to talk about HTML5, JavaScript, CSS3, polyfills, and more.
ListenRVM and BDSM from 2011-08-04T13:00
Steve and Wynn caught up with Wayne Seguin to talk about his Ruby enVironment Manager and BDSM shell scripting framework projects.
ListenCode for America from 2011-07-26T13:00
Adam and Wynn caught up with Erik and Max, Fellows at Code for America to talk about civic-focused development and open source.
ListenPow, Rails 3.1 Asset Pipeline, CoffeeScript and More from 2011-07-13T13:00
Adam and Wynn caught up with Sam Stephenson from 37Signals to talk about his his many open source projects and developing Basecamp Mobile.
ListenIronJS, F#, and .NET from 2011-06-02T13:00
Wynn caught up with Fredrik Holmström to talk about IronJS, F#, and open source in .NET.
ListenFog, the Ruby Cloud Services Library from 2011-05-20T13:00
Wynn sat down with Wesley Beary from Engine Yard to talk about the Fog project and the Cloud, live from Red Dirt Ruby Conf.
ListenRubyGems and RubyGems.org from 2011-05-11T13:00
Wynn sat down with Nick Quaranto at Red Dirt Ruby Conference to talk about Gemcutter, RubyGems.org, and how to get started creating your own Ruby gem.
ListenTwisted and Evented Programming in Python from 2011-05-03T13:00
Kenneth and Wynn caught up with Glyph Lefkowitz from Twisted to talk about the project and evented programming in Python.
ListenAmplify.js, jQuery, CoffeeScript from 2011-04-27T13:00
Wynn caught up with Mike Hostetler and Scott González from AppendTo to talk about Amplify.js, jQuery, CoffeeScript, Microsoft, the web, and open source.
ListenVim round table discussion from 2011-04-12T13:00
Wynn sat down with three Vim users and experts to talk about tips and tricks for using and pimping the popular text editor.
ListenGoliath, Event Machine, SPDY from 2011-04-06T13:00
Wynn caught up with Ilya Grigorik, Founder and CTO of PostRank to talk about Goliath, async Ruby web development, and Google’s SPDY.
ListenErlang, CouchBase, Merging with Membase from 2011-03-30T13:00
Wynn sat down with Chris Anderson from CouchBase to talk about CouchDB, the merger with Membase, Erlang, and bringing NoSQL to PHPers.
ListenFormalize and News Roundup"Design Edition" from 2011-03-22T13:00
Adam and Wynn were joined by Nathan Smith, creator of 960.gs to talk about his new project Formalize and the latest news on The Changelog.
ListenServe, RadiantCMS, Design and Prototyping from 2011-03-16T13:00
Adam sat down with Designer/Developer John Long, creator of RadiantCMS about his new project Serve, design, and running a successful open source project.
ListenMongoDB, NoSQL, Web Scale from 2011-03-09T14:00
Steve and Wynn sat down with Eliot Horowitz from 10gen to talk about MongoDB, the NoSQL landscape, and the fun of building at Web Scale.
ListenRuby, Rails, the Cloud from 2011-03-01T14:00
Steve and Wynn caught up with Dr. Nic from Engine Yard to talk about the cloud, Jenkins, Ruby, and lowering the barrier of entry for learning Rails on Windows.
ListenGit, Showoff, XBox Kinect from 2011-02-22T14:00
Kenneth and Wynn caught up with GitHubber Scott Chacon to talk about Git, distributed version control, and his quest to kill Word as a book authoring tool.
ListenJenkins and Continous Integration from 2011-02-08T14:00
Kenneth and Wynn caught up with Kohsuke Kawaguchi and Andrew Bayer from the Jenkins project to talk about continuous integration, Java, and corporate backing drama.
ListenOpen Government and the Citizen Coder from 2011-02-01T14:00
Adam and Wynn caught up with Carl Tashian from Open Government to talk about OpenGovernment.org, OpenCongress.org, and the rise of the Citizen Coder.
ListenYUI 3, Node.js, JSLint, Douglas Crockford Code Reviews from 2011-01-25T14:00
Adam and Wynn caught up with Adam Moore and Satyen Desai from the YUI team to talk about YUI 3, Node.js, and working with Douglas Crockford.
ListenRedis In-Memory Data Store from 2011-01-17T14:00
Wynn caught up with Salvatore Sanfilippo to talk about Redis, the super hot key value store.
ListenRuby 1.9, Nokogiri, Tender Lovemaking from 2011-01-10T14:00
Wynn caught up with Aaron Patterson, aka @tenderlove, to talk about Ruby 1.9, Nokogiri, and muscle cars.
ListenHackety Hack and _why from 2011-01-05T14:00
Steve Klabnik joined the show to talk about learning to program with Hackety Hack and why the lucky stiff.
ListenRails 3.1 and SproutCore from 2010-12-09T14:00
Adam and Wynn caught up with Yehuda Katz to talk about upcoming changes in Rails 3.1, SproutCore, and his growing list of open source projects.
ListenBuilding Telephony Apps from 2010-11-30T14:00
Wynn caught up with Chris Matthieu of Voxeo Labs to talk about Phono, Tropo, Adhearsion, and building telephony apps with open source tools.
ListenRiak Revisited from 2010-11-09T14:00
Wynn sat down with Andy Gross and Mark Phillips of Basho and John Nunemaker of Ordered List to talk about Riak, Riak Search, and moving an open source community to GitHub.
ListenScripty2, Zepto.js, Vapor.js from 2010-10-26T13:00
Wynn caught up with Thomas Fuchs to talk about script.aculo.us, Scripty2, Zepto.js and the future of Prototype.
ListenDevOps and Chef from 2010-10-12T13:00
Wynn sat down with Corey Donohoe from GitHub and Seth Chisamore from Opscode to talk about DevOps, Chef, agile infrastructure and innovation in the datacenter.
ListenPubSubHubBub and the Real-Time Web from 2010-10-05T13:00
Wynn chatted with Julien Genestoux (github/twitter) from Superfeedr about PubSubHubBub, XMPP, Websockets, and the real-time web.
ListenDjango Dash, Python, Ruby from 2010-09-23T13:00
Kenneth and Wynn caught up with Daniel, Christian, and Matt from Pragmatic Badger to talk about the Django Dash, Python, and Ruby.
ListenHomebrew and OSX Package Management from 2010-09-14T13:00
Adam and Wynn caught up with Max Howell, creator of Homebrew to talk about package managment on OSX, beer, and scrobbling.
ListenMongrel2 and high performance web sites from 2010-09-08T13:00
Wynn caught up with Zed Shaw’s non-rockstar alter ego to talk about Mongrel2, high performance web sites, guitar, and software community ponzi schemes.
ListenNode Knockout from 2010-08-31T13:00
Micheil and Wynn caught up with Gerad and Visnu from the Node Knockout to talk about the 48 hour Node.js development competition and its entries.
Listen960.gs and CSS Grid Frameworks from 2010-08-19T13:00
Adam and Wynn caught up with Nathan Smith from 960 Grid System to talk about web development and CSS grid frameworks.
ListenThe WebSocket protocol from 2010-08-09T13:00
Wynn and Micheil sat down with Peter Griess from Yahoo Mail, Martyn Loughran from Pusher App, and Guillermo Rauch from Socket.IO to talk about Websockets.
ListenSencha Touch from 2010-07-27T13:00
Wynn caught up with David Kaneda to talk about mobile web app development with Sencha Touch.
ListenCoffeeScript and JavaScript from 2010-07-23T13:00
Wynn and special guest host Micheil Smith sat down with Jeremy Ashkenas from DocumentCloud to chat about CoffeeScript, a cool language that compiles to JavaScript.
ListenMobile Web Development and jQuery from 2010-06-25T13:00
Adam and Wynn caught up with John Resig at TXJS and talked about mobile web development with jQuery and TestSwarm, a continuous integration project from Mozilla Labs.
ListenPadrino Ruby Web Framework from 2010-06-17T13:00
Adam and Wynn caught up with Arthur Chiu and Nathan Esquenazi from Padrino, the Ruby web framework built on top of Sinatra.
ListenJSON and JavaScript from 2010-06-08T13:00
While at TXJS — Adam and Wynn caught up with Douglas Crockford, author of both JavaScript: The Good Parts and the JSON spec, and a global namespace unto himself.
ListenRaphaëlJS and Running an Open Source Project from 2010-05-25T13:00
Wynn caught up with Dmitry Baranovskiy to talk about his project RaphaëlJS, running an open source project, and why living in Australia is better than living anywhere else in the world.
ListenTornado, Hip-hop, Three20 from 2010-05-18T13:00
Adam and Wynn caught up with David Recordon and other Facebook developers to talk about their wide range of open source projects including Tornado, Hip-Hop, and Three20 as well as OpenGraph and OAu...
ListenThe Ruby Racer from 2010-05-11T13:00
Wynn and Gregg Pollack did a special LIVE episode at Red Dirt Ruby Conf where they sat down with Charles Lowell to talk about embedding JavaScript engines in Ruby.
ListenSammy.js and Semantic Versioning from 2010-04-20T14:00
Adam and Wynn caught up with Aaron Quint, the brains behind Sammy.js, a neat JavaScript framework built on top on jQuery fashioned after Ruby’s Sinatra.
ListenTweets from Chirp, Twitter's Developer Conference from 2010-04-20T13:00
While in San Francisco for Chirp, Wynn caught up with Erik and John from 140Proof, Hayes Davis from CheapTweet, and Christie Koehler from Open Source Bridge about Twitter and open source development.
ListenNode.js and Server-Side JavaScript from 2010-04-06T13:00
Adam and Wynn caught up with Felix Geisendörfer to talk about Node.js, server-side JavaScript, and JSConf 2010.
ListenRuby, TextMate, Red Dirt Ruby Conf from 2010-03-30T13:00
While in OKC for OpenBeta4, Adam and Wynn sat down with James Edward Gray II and talked about his many Ruby gems, TextMate bundles, and his upcoming Ruby conference Red Dirt Ruby Conf this May.
ListenNoSQL Smackdown! from 2010-03-18T13:00
While at SXSW Interactive, Adam and Wynn got to attend the Data Cluster Meetup hosted by Rackspace and Infochimps. Things got a bit rowdy when the panel debated features of Cassandra, CouchDB, Mong...
ListenOpen Source Publishing from 2010-03-11T14:00
Adam and Wynn caught up with Geoffrey Grosenbach, Brandon Mathis, and Tim Caswell to talk about publishing with open source tools, open blogging, and the back-to-the-future world of static site gen...
ListenAjax.org frameworks from 2010-03-08T14:00
Adam and Wynn caught up with Ruben Daniels and Rik Arends from Ajax.org and talked about APF and O3, their frameworks for both browser and server based JavaScript applications.
ListenOAuth, Hurl.it, Baconfile from 2010-02-27T14:00
Adam and Wynn caught up with Leah Culver and talked about startups, APIs, and her open source work on OAuth, oEmbed, Hurl.it, Baconfile, and more.
ListenRiak, the New Erlang-based NoSQL Store from 2010-02-18T14:00
Adam and Wynn caught up with Andy Gross from Basho and Sean Cribbs, a freelance Ruby developer, to discuss Riak, the new Erlang-based NoSQL store and Ripple, Sean’s new Ruby wrapper for Riak.
ListenCivic hacking from 2010-02-10T14:00
Adam and Wynn caught up with Luigi Montanez and Jeremy Carbaugh from Sunlight Labs and discussed their Python and Ruby projects, government transparency, and civic hacking - open source contributio...
ListenGordon is such a Showoff from 2010-02-03T14:00
Adam and Wynn continued chatting with John Nunemaker about recent featured projects on the blog — including Gordon, Showoff, jQuery Lint, JSpec, congomongo and more.
ListenOrdered List, RailsTips.org, and MongoMapper from 2010-01-29T14:00
John Nunemaker joined the show to talk about open source, improving your craft, building a business, and how MongoDB has changed his life.
ListenAll things GitHub from 2010-01-25T14:00
Chris Wanstrath joined the show to talk about the past, present, and future of GitHub.
ListenFix-me, Configliere, more Node.js from 2010-01-19T14:00
Marshall Culpepper Appcelerator is back and we go through the news together.
ListenAppcelerator's Titanium and Titanium Mobile from 2010-01-14T14:00
Marshall Culpepper joined the show to talk about Appcelerator’s Titanium Desktop and Titanium Mobile.
Listen10gen and MongoDB from 2009-12-17T14:00
Mike Dirolf joined the show to talk about how MongoDB came about, design decisions, and the future of this cool NoSQL server.
ListenThe Weekly News from 2009-12-15T14:00
Friend of the show, Steven Bristol from LessEverything join us to discuss the latest in open source.
ListenDocument Cloud and Underscore.js from 2009-12-06T14:00
Jeremy Ashkenas is the Lead Developer at DocumentCloud about their effort to revolutionize the way media organizations gather news. Jeremy discusses their open source projects CloudCrowd, Underscor...
ListenChrome OS, Thor and ROaR from 2009-12-01T14:00
In this show we’re still trying to find our footing with this podcast stuff. Seriously, we get better at this.
ListenThe Go Programming Language from Google from 2009-11-27T14:00
Rob Pike is a Principal Engineer at Google and Tech Lead for Google’s Go team. Rob is also a co-creator of the Go programming language. We talked with Rob about Go — Google’s new open source progra...
ListenThe original Changelog Weekly from 2009-11-25T14:00
This goes WAAAAY back in the archive of The Changelog. So far back, that our audio was down-right horrible and you can tell we were nervous to even be recording. We were green and wet behind the ea...
ListenHaml, Sass, Compass from 2009-11-19T14:00
Natalie Weizenbaum and Chris Eppstein joined the show today to discuss Haml, Sass, and Compass.
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