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Leveling up JavaScript with Deno 2 (Changelog Interviews #610)

Jerod is joined by Ryan Dahl to discuss his second take on leveling up JavaScript developers all around the world. Jerod asks Ryan why not try to fix or fork Node instead of starting fresh, how Deno (the open source project) can avoid the all too common rug pull (not cool) scenario, what's new in Deno 2 & their pragmatic decision to support npm, they talk JSR, they talk Deno KV & SQLite, they even talk about Ryan's open letter to Oracle in an attempt to free the unused "JavaScript" trademark from the giant's clutches.

September 26, 2024

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GraphRAG (beyond the hype) (Practical AI #288)

Seems like we are hearing a lot about GraphRAG these days, but there are lots of questions: what is it, is it hype, what is practical? One of our all time favorite podcast friends, Prashanth Rao, joins us to dig into this topic beyond the hype. Prashanth gives us a bit of background and practical use cases for GraphRAG and graph data.

September 25, 2024

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Imagine Fly.io on your own VPS (Changelog News #113)

Mahmoud Mousa releases Sidekick, a tool for hosting side projects on a cheap VPS, Ryan Dahl, has had enough of Oracle bogarting "JavaScript" but not even using it, Thomas Rampelberg's kty is a sweet terminal for Kubernetes, Redis users are considering alternatives after their relicense & a bunch of smart JS folks wrote up nine Node.js pillars.

September 23, 2024

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The best, worst codebase (Changelog Interviews #609)

Jimmy Miller talks to us about his experience with a legacy codebase at his first job as a programmer. The codebase was massive, with hundreds of thousands of lines of C# and Visual Basic, and a database with over 1,000 columns. Let's just say Jimmy got into some stuff. There's even a Gilfoyle involved. This episode is all about his adventures while working there.

September 18, 2024

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How I lost my (old) job to AI (Go Time #331)

In this follow-up to episode #306, "How soon until AI takes my job?", the gang of (grumpy?) veteran software engineers candidly chat about how their day to day is changing in the midst of improving AI tooling & hype.

September 18, 2024

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Why GitHub actually won (Changelog News #112)

Scott Chacon writes up his insider take on GitHub's success, Sentry wants other companies to take the Open Source Pledge, Benj Edwards used AI to reproduce his late father's handwriting, Dave Kiss explains the current hype that PHP is getting & Taylor Otwell raises $57 million series A from Accel.

September 16, 2024

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Reverse rug pull, so cool? (Changelog & Friends #61)

Jerod & Adam share our Zulip first impressions, react to Elasticsearch going open source (again), discuss Christian Hollinger's blog post on why he still self-hosts & answer a listener question: how do we produce podcasts?

September 13, 2024

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Undirected hyper arrows (JS Party #338)

Chris Shank has been on sabbatical since January, so he's had a lot of time to think deeply about the web platform. On this episode, Jerod & KBall pick Chris' brain to answer questions like, what does a post-component paradigm look like? What would it look like if the browser had primitives for building spatial canvases? How can we make it easier to make “folk interfaces” on the web?

September 12, 2024

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Building customizable ergonomic keyboards (Changelog Interviews #608)

Erez Zukerman shares the story of launching the ErgoDox EZ on Indiegogo (May 2015), what it takes to create customizable ergonomic keyboards, the benefits of split keyboards and custom key layouts, repairability and longevity, community engagement, and the attention to detail required in everything they create. We talk through their keyboard lineup, our personal experience with how we mouse and keyboard...we cover it all.

September 12, 2024

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Is Linux collapsing under its own weight? (Changelog News #111)

A Rust for Linux developer resigns amidst rising tension in the Linux community, Bret Victor shows off what he's been working on for years, Rachel (by the bay) laments how useless "SRE" has become as a role, Doug Turnbull makes the case for hiring junior devs & Baldur Bjarnason says the LLM honeymoon phase is about to end.

September 9, 2024

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Starbucks DVD peddlers (Changelog & Friends #60)

Emily Freeman joins the show alongside our Ship It co-host, Justin Garrison! We hear Emily's burnout story & learn how she and Forrest Brazeal are putting tech-focused influencers on tap. But first: area code turf wars, bad movie reboots & buying used DVDs... at Starbucks?!

September 6, 2024

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Open source threaded team chat?! (Changelog Interviews #607)

We're joined by Alya Abbott from Zulip, the open source, organized, threaded, team chat for distributed teams of all sizes. We talk about Zulip's origins, how it's open source, the way it's led, no VC funding, what makes it different/better, how you can self-host it or use their cloud, moving to Zulip, contributing and being a part of the community...all the things.

September 5, 2024

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AI is more than GenAI (Practical AI #285)

GenAI is often what people think of when someone mentions AI. However, AI is much more. In this episode, Daniel breaks down a history of developments in data science, machine learning, AI, and GenAI in this episode to give listeners a better mental model. Don't miss this one if you are wanting to understand the AI ecosystem holistically and how models, embeddings, data, prompts, etc. all fit together.

September 5, 2024

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Metrics Driven Development (Practical AI #284)

How do you systematically measure, optimize, and improve the performance of LLM applications (like those powered by RAG or tool use)? Ragas is an open source effort that has been trying to answer this question comprehensively, and they are promoting a "Metrics Driven Development" approach. Shahul from Ragas joins us to discuss Ragas in this episode, and we dig into specific metrics, the difference between benchmarking models and evaluating LLM apps, generating synthetic test data and more.

August 29, 2024

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Reinventing Kafka on object storage (Changelog Interviews #606)

Ryan Worl, Co-founder and CTO at WarpStream, joins us to talk about the world of Kafka and data streaming and how WarpStream redesigned the idea of Kafka to run in modern cloud environments directly on top of object storage. Last year they posted a blog titled, "Kafka is dead, long live Kafka" that hit the top of Hacker News to put WarpStream on the map. We get the backstory on Kafka and why it's so widely used, who created it and for what purpose, and the behind the scenes on all things WarpStream.

August 29, 2024

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The community of gophers (Go Time #329)

On this episode, Angelica is joined by Go community leaders from around the world: meetup organizers from Guadalajara, St. Louis, New York & Go Bridge Atlanta. Together, they explore the ins & outs of organizing meetups, the benefits of attending, the Go Developer Network (GDN) & the current state of the Go Meetup community.

August 28, 2024

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Threat modeling LLM apps (Practical AI #283)

If you have questions at the intersection of Cybersecurity and AI, you need to know Donato at WithSecure! Donato has been threat modeling AI applications and seriously applying those models in his day-to-day work. He joins us in this episode to discuss his LLM application security canvas, prompt injections, alignment, and more.

August 22, 2024

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Flavors of Ship It! (Changelog Interviews #605)

Flavors of Ship It on The Changelog — if you're not subscribed to Ship It yet, do so at shipit.show or by searching for "Ship it" wherever you listen to podcasts. Every week Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash explore everything that happens after `git push` — and today's flavors include running infrastructure in space, managing millions of machines at Meta, and what it takes to control your 3D printer with OctoPrint.

August 21, 2024

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⚡ Lightning Talk life ⚡ (Go Time #327)

This episode focuses on the art of delivering concise Lightning Talks, a popular format at conferences worldwide where speakers present in a short timeframe. Joined by some of this year's GopherCon Lightning Talkers, we'll discuss their experiences, challenges & tips for effective communication within a limited time.

August 21, 2024

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Forging Minecraft's scripting API (JS Party #334)

Raphael Landaverde & Jake Shirley work on Minecraft full-time. How cool is that?! On this episode, they join Jerod to tell us all about the web tech that drives Minecraft's scripting infrastructure, how they incrementally change a massive / always-moving target, the best / worst parts of the job & much more.

August 15, 2024

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Why we need Ladybird (Changelog Interviews #604)

Andreas Kling and Chris Wanstrath have joined forces to form a non-profit called Ladybird Browser Initiative to manage the newly forked Ladybird browser. We discuss what it's going to take to get to alpha, the why behind Ladybird, avoiding incentives other than those of the users, their plans for incremental adoption of Swift as the successor language over C++, and of course what they hope Ladybird can achieve as a truly independent open source browser that's for the people.

August 14, 2024

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Only as good as the data (Practical AI #282)

You might have heard that "AI is only as good as the data." What does that mean and what data are we talking about? Chris and Daniel dig into that topic in the episode exploring the categories of data that you might encounter working in AI (for training, testing, fine-tuning, benchmarks, etc.). They also discuss the latest developments in AI regulation with the EU's AI Act coming into force.

August 14, 2024

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OpenAPI & API design (Go Time #328)

We're talking OpenAPI this week! Kris & Johnny are joined by Jamie Tanna, one of the maintainers of oapi-codegen, to discuss OpenAPI, API design philosophies, versioning, and open source maintenance and sustainability. In addition to the usual laughs and unpopular opinions, this week's episode includes a Changelog++ section that you don't want to miss.

August 8, 2024

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Into the Bobiverse (Changelog Interviews #603)

Dennis E. Taylor joins the show to take us "Into the Bobiverse" and other books he's written. Dennis shares the backstory on how he went from programmer to author/writer and creator of Audible's Best Science Fiction Book of 2016, his process for iterating and developing the story as he writes, plans for a Bobiverse movie, and what's next in book 5 coming out in September 2024.

August 7, 2024

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Gaudi processors & Intel's AI portfolio (Practical AI #281)

There is an increasing desire for and effort towards GPU alternatives for AI workloads and an ability to run GenAI models on CPUs. Ben and Greg from Intel join us in this episode to help us understand Intel's strategy as it related to AI along with related projects, hardware, and developer communities. We dig into Intel's Gaudi processors, open source collaborations with Hugging Face, and AI on CPU/Xeon processors.

August 7, 2024

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Broccoli AI at its best 🥦 (Practical AI #280)

We discussed "🥦 Broccoli AI" a couple weeks ago, which is the kind of AI that is actually good/healthy for a real world business. Bengsoon Chuah, a data scientist working in the energy sector, joins us to discuss developing and deploying NLP pipelines in that environment. We talk about good/healthy ways of introducing AI in a company that uses on-prem infrastructure, has few data science professionals, and operates in high risk environments.

July 31, 2024

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Open is the way (Changelog Interviews #602)

Joseph Jacks (JJ) is back! We discuss the latest in COSS funding, his thesis for investing in commercial open source companies, the various rug pulls happening out there in open source licensing, and Zuck/Meta's generosity releasing Llama 3.1 as "open source."

July 31, 2024

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Going flat with ESLint (JS Party #332)

Josh Goldberg joins Nick & Chris to discuss the latest updates from ESLint, typescript-eslint & the new flat config format. They also discuss creating reusable configs & project generators before pivoting to talk about a new conference focused on developer tooling. Finally, Chris & Josh talk about the past, present & future of Mocha.

July 25, 2024

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Hyperventilating over the Gartner AI Hype Cycle (Practical AI #279)

This week Daniel & Chris hang with repeat guest and good friend Demetrios Brinkmann of the MLOps Community. Together they review, debate, and poke fun at the 2024 Gartner Hype Cycle chart for Artificial Intelligence. You are invited to join them in this light-hearted fun conversation about the state of hype in artificial intelligence.

July 24, 2024

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The man behind the Sandwich (Changelog Interviews #601)

Adam Lisagor (Sandwich Video founder) takes us behind the Sandwich to share his insights into the importance of storytelling in the tech industry, the value of helping Founders communicate their stories effectively, the details behind his new AI company, and the apps he's making for Apple Vision Pro at Sandwich Vision.

July 24, 2024

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There’s a TUI for that (Changelog & Friends #53)

Nick Janetakis is back and this time we're talking about TUIs (text-based user interfaces) — some we've tried and some we plan to try. All are collected from Justin Garrison's Awesome TUIs repo on GitHub. This episode is "AI free."

July 19, 2024

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Building LLM agents in JS (JS Party #331)

KBall and returning guest Tejas Kumar dive into the topic of building LLM agents using JavaScript. What they are, how they can be useful (including how Tejas used home-built agents to double his podcasting productivity) & how to get started building and running your own agents, even all on your own device with local models.

July 18, 2024

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The first real-time voice assistant (Practical AI #278)

In the midst of the demos & discussion about OpenAI's GPT-4o voice assistant, Kyutai swooped in to release the *first* real-time AI voice assistant model and a pretty slick demo (Moshi). Chris & Daniel discuss what this more open approach to a voice assistant might catalyze. They also discuss recent changes to Gartner's ranking of GenAI on their hype cycle.

July 18, 2024

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What even is the modern data stack (Changelog Interviews #600)

Benn Stancil's weekly Substack on data and technology provides a fascinating perspective on the modern data stack & the industry building it. On this episode, Benn joins Jerod to dissect a few of his essays, discuss opportunities he sees during this slowdown & explain why he thinks maybe we should disband the analytics team.

July 17, 2024

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Last DevRel standing (Changelog & Friends #52)

Shawn "swyx" Wang is back to talk with us about the state of DevRel according to ZIRP (the Zero Interest Rate Phenomenon), the data that backs up the rise and fall of job openings, whether or not DevRel is dead or dying, speculation of the near-term arrival of AGI, AI Engineering as the last job standing, the innovation from Cognition with Devin as well as their mis-steps during Devin's launch, and what's to come in the next innovation round of AI.

July 12, 2024

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It all starts with Postgres (Changelog Interviews #599)

Paul Copplestone, CEO of Supabase (the meme-lord himself), joins the show to take us on the journey of Supabase leading Postgres for life, and how it all starts with Postgres as the base-layer substrate for the entire Supabase platform. They're laser focused on the drive ahead, not the rear-view mirror. Disclosure: Adam and Jerod are angel investors in Supabase.

July 11, 2024

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The Ember take on recent hot topics (JS Party #330)

KBall takes another dive into recent hot topics around reactivity and build systems, this time with three members of the Ember core team. They also talk about some of the reasons why the Ember community has been so long lived, how thinking about upgradeability leads to universality, and how features first built specifically for frameworks make their way into the language specification or universal libraries.

July 11, 2024

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Programming advice for my younger self (Changelog News #102)

Marcus Buffett writes his younger self programming advice, Swyx asks and answers whether or not DevRel is dead, the Ghost team opens up their ActivityPub server, Pongo is like MongoDB but on Postgres, Jack Kelly is funding Ladybird because he can't fund Firefox & Hyrum's Law.

July 8, 2024

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A different kind of rug pull (Changelog & Friends #51)

Adam & Jerod discuss the news! But first, we discuss how you can keep up with the software world (good question, Tyler Boyd!) On the docket: Developer job postings trend, the Ladybird Browser Initiative, the Polyfill.js supply chain attack & is the future self-hosted?

July 5, 2024

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A standard library for JavaScript (JS Party #329)

Philipp Burckhardt, Athan Reines & the team behind stdlib.io believe in a future in which the web is a preferred environment for numerical computation. They've been working toward building that future for over a decade. Thanks to listener, Brian Zelip, Jerod sits down with Philipp to learn all about this excellent effort: where it's been & where it's headed.

July 4, 2024

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Dependencies are dangerous (Go Time #321)

Dependencies! We need them, but how do we use them effectively and safely? In this week's episode Kris is joined by Ian and Johnny to discuss the polyfill.io supply chain attack, the history of dependency management and usage in Go, and the Go Proverb that "a little copying is better than a little dependency". Of course, we wrap up the episode with some Unpopular Opinions!

July 3, 2024

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Code review anxiety (Changelog Interviews #598)

Carol Lee (Clinical Scientist) shares her research on code review anxiety. We dive deep into her recent research paper "Understanding and Effectively Mitigating Code Review Anxiety". We get into all the nooks and crannies of this topic — common code review myths, strategies for coping, the need for awareness and self-reflection, the value of exposure and practice to build confidence, the importance of team dynamics, respect, empathy, and connection, and more. This show is jam-packed with goodies for everyone...and we even give a nod to the work we did on our podcast Brain Science.

July 3, 2024

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Stanford's AI Index Report 2024 (Practical AI #276)

We've had representatives from Stanford's Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) on the show in the past, but we were super excited to talk through their 2024 AI Index Report after such a crazy year in AI! Nestor from HAI joins us in this episode to talk about some of the main takeaways including how AI makes workers more productive, the US is increasing regulations sharply, and industry continues to dominate frontier AI research.

July 2, 2024

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The Kubernetes of Lambda (Ship It! #110)

Bailey Hayes & Taylor Thomas from Cosmonic join the show for a look at WebAssembly Standard Interfaces (WASI) and trade-offs for portable interfaces.

June 29, 2024

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MAJOR.SEMVER.PATCH (Changelog Interviews #597)

Predrag Gruevski and Chris Krycho joined the show to talk about SemVer. We explore the challenges and the advantages of semantic versioning (aka SemVer), the need for improving the tooling around SemVer, where semantic versioning really shines and where it's needed, Types and SemVer, whether or not there's a better way, and why it's not as simple as just opting out.

June 26, 2024

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Apple Intelligence & Advanced RAG (Practical AI #275)

Daniel & Chris engage in an impromptu discussion of the state of AI in the enterprise. Then they dive into the recent _Apple Intelligence_ announcement to explore its implications. Finally, Daniel leads a deep dive into a new topic - Advanced RAG - covering everything you need to know to be practical & productive.

June 25, 2024

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Gophers Say! GopherCon EU Berlin 2024 (Go Time #320)

Our award winning worthy survey game show is back, this time Mat Ryer hosts it live on stage at GopherCon EU Berlin 2024! Join in & play along as we see which team can better guess what these GopherCon gophers had to say!

June 25, 2024

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Where DOESN’T curl run (Changelog & Friends #49)

Daniel Stenberg shares his guiding principles for BDFL'ing curl, gives us his perspective on the state of the internet, talks financial independence, ensuring curl won't be the next XZ & more!

June 21, 2024

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How to build a Nushell (Ship It! #109)

Devyn Cairns & Jakub Žádník join Justin & Autumn to talk about building a new kind of cross-platform shell that provides easy extensions with traditional command compatibility. That's no easy feat!

June 21, 2024

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Securing GitHub (Changelog Interviews #596)

Jacob DePriest, VP and Deputy Chief Security Officer at GitHub, joins the show this week to talk about securing GitHub. From Artifact Attestations, profile hardening, preventing XZ-like attacks, GitHub Advanced Security, code scanning, improving Dependabot, and more.

June 19, 2024

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Is Go evolving in the wrong direction? (Go Time #319)

This week we're catching up on the news! Kris is joined by Ian to discuss some of the recent news from around the Go community. Listen in to hear whether the co-hosts believe there's software that shouldn't be written in Go, their thoughts on if Go is evolving in the right direction & whether common nouns make good package names.

June 18, 2024

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Putting the Apple in AI (Changelog & Friends #48)

Justin Searls joins us for hot takes on Apple's 2024 WWDC keynote. Apple Intelligence stole the show, but did it steal our hearts? Oh, and we learn all about Justin's Vision Pro Life and how he hopes/expects Apple's latest device to improve in future iterations.

June 14, 2024

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The infrastructure behind a PaaS (Ship It! #108)

Render founder/CEO Anurag Goel joins us for a look behind their platform. An application native hosting option that hides the lower levels still requires a LOT of infrastructure.

June 14, 2024

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1999: A Film Odyssey (Changelog++ 🔐) (Changelog & Friends)

Adam & Jerod hallway-track-it between Microsoft Build interviews. Was 1999 the best year in film history? Was 2004 the worst? Have you heard the full story behind Blues Traveler's "Hook"? Are you still reading this? Go listen! (This episode is for Changelog++ ears only.)

June 13, 2024

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Retired, not tired. (Changelog Interviews #595)

Kelsey Hightower is back to share more of his wisdom. This time it's one year after his retirement from Google. But guess what? He might be "retired," but he's not tired. In this episode Kelsey shares what drives him, what he fears, and how he thinks through his life choices and parenting. This is a good one.

June 12, 2024

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How things get done on the Go Team (Go Time #318)

Angelica is joined by Cameron Balahan, Sameer Ajmani & Russ Cox from the Go Team at Google to talk about how things get done on the Go Team, how do they decide what to improve and then how do they go about improving it. We also discuss how they decide what to work when & what the future of Go might look like.

June 12, 2024

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#define: legendary (Changelog & Friends #47)

What happens when you take three #define newbs (Thomas Eckert, Nick Nisi, Mat Ryer) & pit them against the grizzled vet, Adam? Find out on this episode because our award-worthy game of fake definitions is back & this time it’s even more legendary!

June 7, 2024

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Should web development need a build step? (JS Party #326)

We’re back with another spicy YepNope debate! This time, Nick & regular guest Eric Clemmons are arguing that web development should need a build step, while KBall & special guest Amy Dutton argue that we really shouldn't. Of course, the stance each panelist is taking is assigned ahead of time. Is that how they really feel? Tune in to find out!

June 6, 2024

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Microsoft is all-in on AI: Part 2 (Changelog Interviews #594)

Mark Russinovich, Eric Boyd & Neha Batra join us to discuss the state of AI for Microsoft and OpenAI at Microsoft Build 2024. It's safe to say that Microsoft is all-in on AI.

June 5, 2024

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Rise of the AI PC & local LLMs (Practical AI #272)

We've seen a rise in interest recently and a number of major announcements related to local LLMs and AI PCs. NVIDIA, Apple, and Intel are getting into this along with models like the Phi family from Microsoft. In this episode, we dig into local AI tooling, frameworks, and optimizations to help you navigate this AI niche, and we talk about how this might impact AI adoption in the longer term.

June 4, 2024

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Microsoft is all-in on AI: Part 1 (Changelog Interviews #593)

Scott Guthrie joins the show this week from Microsoft Build 2024 to discuss Microsoft being all-in on AI. From Copilot, to Azure AI and Prompty, to their developer first focus, leading GitHub, VS Code being the long bet that paid off, to the future of a doctor's bedside manner assisted with AI. Microsoft is all-in on AI and Build 2024's discussions and announcements proves it.

May 30, 2024

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Your ultimate guide to mastering Go (Go Time #317)

Angelica is joined by Samantha Coyle to talk about her newly published textbook: Go Programming - From Beginner to Professional. This book serves as a go-to guide to master Go for real-world software dev success covering fundamentals to advanced topics.

May 29, 2024

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It's a long & windy road (Changelog & Friends #45)

We kick off our Microsoft Build 2024 "coverage" in this free-wheelin' conversation with our friend, Shaundai Person! We're talking Netflix infra, we're talking sales, we're talking real-world AI usage, we're talking career choices.... What's a good next step? Listen in!

May 24, 2024

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From Sun to Oxide (Changelog Interviews #592)

Bryan Cantrill, Co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company, joins Adam to share his journey from Sun to Oxide -- from Sun and Fishworks, to DTrace, to ZFS, to Joyent and Node.js, and now working to build on-prem cloud servers as they should be at Oxide.

May 22, 2024

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FROM guests SELECT Andrew (Ship It! #104)

Andrew Atkinson joins Autumn & Justin to tell them why folks should (and are) picking PostgreSQL as their database in 2024 and how to scale it.

May 18, 2024

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Self-hosted media server goodness (Changelog & Friends #44)

Alex Kretzschmar joins Adam to discuss their experiences with building the "perfect media server" and all the hardware and software involved to make it happen — LinuxServer.io, PerfectMediaServer.com, Plex, Jellyfin, ZFS, mergerfs, TrueNAS, Docker Compose and so much more in this episode.

May 17, 2024

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Building the Patreon for developers (Changelog Interviews #591)

Birk Jernström from Polar joins the show to tell us all about the creator platform for developers: why he built it, how it works, why it works how it works, what's in store for the future & we even give Birk some super deep UX feedback on the funding flow.

May 15, 2024

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Full-stack approach for effective AI agents (Practical AI #269)

There's a lot of hype about AI agents right now, but developing robust agents isn't yet a reality in general. Imbue is leading the way towards more robust agents by taking a full-stack approach; from hardware innovations through to user interface. In this episode, Josh, Imbue's CTO, tell us more about their approach and some of what they have learned along the way.

May 15, 2024

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Motivated by play (Changelog & Friends #43)

Annie Sexton has been on quite a journey since she was last on the show back in early '22. On this episode, Annie takes us on that journey, shares her new-found perspective & tells us about how she's approaching her side project this time around.

May 10, 2024

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What if Google lays off the Go team? (Go Time #315)

In this week's episode we're talking about the news! In this laugh-filled episode, Kris is joined by Ian & Johnny to discuss the future of Go, both the Go team itself and iterations of packages within the standard library; Microsoft creating a Go blog & a Go fork; and SQLite and Go.

May 8, 2024

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Good timing makes great products (Changelog Interviews #590)

Paul Orlando is back to talk about his book titled "Why Now?" You may remember Paul from his last appearance (a fan favorite) talking with Jerod about complex systems & second-order effects. Paul's book, "Why Now?" explores the concept of timing and the importance of understanding the 'why now' in business and product development. We discuss timing examples from the book that were either too early or too late (such as the first video phone and car phones), the need to consider both technological advancements and user demand when assessing timing, the significance of timing in the success of companies like Apple and the launch of the iPhone, Uber and Heroku, and more. Also, join our Slack community for a chance to get a signed copy of Paul's book.

May 8, 2024

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Managing Meta's millions of machines (Ship It! #102)

Anita Zhang is here to tell us how Meta manages millions of bare metal Linux hosts and containers. We also discuss the Twine white paper and how AI is changing their requirements.

May 4, 2024

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Castro leans into indie (Changelog Interviews #589)

This week we're joined by Dustin Bluck to discuss his acquisition of the well known (and beloved) Castro podcast app to take it indie-focused once again. As previous users of Castro, we were excited to dig into the details behind this popular podcast client to see what's next, how the deal was done, a peek into the code, and where exactly this indie and creator focused podcast app can go.

May 1, 2024

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Private, open source chat UIs (Practical AI #267)

We recently gathered some Practical AI listeners for a live webinar with Danny from LibreChat to discuss the future of private, open source chat UIs. During the discussion we hear about the motivations behind LibreChat, why enterprise users are hosting their own chat UIs, and how Danny (and the LibreChat community) is creating amazing features (like RAG and plugins).

April 30, 2024

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Let's go back to AOL chat rooms (Ship It! #101)

In this episode Justin and Autumn are joined by Mandi Walls to take you back to a time before the cloud. Before Kubernetes. When a/s/l was common and servers were made of metal. Back to the days of AOL to discuss how chat rooms worked.

April 27, 2024

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The ol' hot & juicy (Changelog & Friends #41)

Frequent guest (and *almost* real-life-friend) Adam Jacob returns to share his spicy takes on all the recent "open source meets business" drama. We also take some time to catch up on the state of his open source-based business, System Initiative.

April 26, 2024

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Run Gleam run (Changelog Interviews #588)

This week we're joined by Louis Pilfold, the creator of the Gleam programming language. For the uninitiated, Gleam is a functional programming language for building type-safe systems that compiles to Erlang and JavaScript and it's written in Rust. We discuss the inspiration and development of Gleam, how it compares to other languages, where it shines, the overwhelming amount of support Louis is getting through GitHub sponsors, what's next for Gleam and their near-term plans for a language server.

April 24, 2024

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What's new in Go's cryptography libraries: Part 3 (Go Time #313)

The 3 Musketeers return! Filippo Valsorda, Roland Shoemaker & Nicola Murino continue their deep-dive conversation with Natalie about Go's crypto libraries. Also listen to Part 1 and Part 2!

April 23, 2024

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The threat to open source comes from within (Changelog News #91)

Forrest Brazeal is concerned about the open source threat from within, Vicki Boykis explains why Redis is forked, John O'Nolan and the Ghost team plan to federate over ActivityPub, Llama 3 is now available for "businesses of all sizes" & nolen writes up questions to ask when you don’t want to work.

April 22, 2024

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Bluesky apps (Ship It! #100)

Paul Frazee joins the show to tell us all about how Bluesky builds, tests, and deploys mobile and web applications from the same code base.

April 19, 2024

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Local cert management for mere mortals (Go Time #312)

In this episode, Ben Burkert & Chris Stolt join Johhny to explore the ups & downs of trying to get secure local development environments set up, why it's hard & what you can do about it.

April 17, 2024

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Leading and building Raycast (Changelog Interviews #587)

This week Adam is joined by Thomas Paul Mann, Co-founder and CEO of Raycast, to discuss being productive on a Mac, going beyond their free tier, the extensions built by the community, the Raycast Store, how they're executing on Raycast AI chat which aims to be a single interface to many LLMs. Raycast has gone beyond being an extendable launcher -- they've gone full-on productivity mode with access to AI paving the way of their future.

April 17, 2024

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Udio & the age of multi-modal AI (Practical AI #265)

2024 promises to be the year of multi-modal AI, and we are already seeing some amazing things. In this "fully connected" episode, Chris and Daniel explore the new Udio product/service for generating music. Then they dig into the differences between recent multi-modal efforts and more "traditional" ways of combining data modalities.

April 16, 2024

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Replacing Git with Git (Changelog Interviews #586)

This week we're talking to Scott Chacon, one of the co-founders of GitHub, to discuss the history and future of Git and Scott's new project Git Butler, a branch manager tool that's aiming to improve the developer experience of Git using Git. We also touch on the contentious topic of open source licensing and the challenges of defining "Open Source", FSL vs GPL, and more.

April 12, 2024

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Kaizen! There goes my PgHero (Changelog & Friends #38)

This is our 14th Kaizen episode! Gerhard put some CDNs to the test, we've taken our next step with Postgres on Neon & Jerod pushed 55 commits (but 0 PRs)!

April 5, 2024

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Getting to Resend (Changelog Interviews #585)

This week Adam is joined by Zeno Rocha — the creator of the beloved Dracula theme and Co-founder and CEO of Resend. They discuss his personal journey and the challenges of balancing work and family life, how becoming a parent has given him new perspectives and influenced his decision to start his own company, the role of citizenship and immigration in his journey, how he prepared for the Y Combinator interview, meeting Paul Graham, the challenges of sending email, and the future of Resend and the possibility of a Series A round.

April 4, 2024

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Should kids still learn to code? (Practical AI #263)

In this fully connected episode, Daniel & Chris discuss NVIDIA GTC keynote comments from CEO Jensen Huang about teaching kids to code. Then they dive into the notion of "community" in the AI world, before discussing challenges in the adoption of generative AI by non-technical people. They finish by addressing the evolving balance between generative AI interfaces and search engines.

April 2, 2024

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The undercover generalist (Changelog & Friends #37)

Which is smarter: specializing in a particular tech or becoming more of a generalist? It depends! Which is why Jerod invited "undercover generalist" Adolfo Ochagavía on our "It Depends" series to weigh the pros & cons of each path.

March 29, 2024

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We're flipping the script (Changelog Interviews #584)

Script flipped! Today we're sharing two interviews of us on Other People's Podcasts (OPP): Kathrine Druckman from the Open at Intel podcast invited us on the show at KubeCon NA in November and Den Delimarsky hosted Jerod on The Work Item podcast in February.

March 27, 2024

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Debugging (Go Time #309)

In this episode Matt, Bill & Jon discuss various debugging techniques for use in both production and development. Bill explains why he doesn't like his developers to use the debugger and how he prefers to only use techniques available in production. Matt expresses a few counterpoints based on his different experiences, and then the group goes over some techniques for debugging in production.

March 26, 2024

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Productivity engineering at Netflix (Ship It! #96)

What's the difference between productivity engineering and platform engineering? How can you continue to re-platform with a moving target? On this episode, we're joined by Andy Glover, who spent ten years productivity engineering at Netflix, to discuss.

March 23, 2024

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It's a TrueNAS world (Changelog Interviews #583)

This week Adam talks with Kris Moore, Senior Vice President of Engineering at iXsystems, about all things TrueNAS. They discuss the history of TrueNAS starting from its origins as a FreeBSD project, TrueNAS Core being in maintenance mode, the momentum and innovation happening in TrueNAS Scale, the evolution of the TrueNAS user interface, managing ZFS compatibility in TrueNAS, the business model of iXsystems and their commitment to the open-source community, and of course what's to come in the upcoming Dragonfish release of TrueNAS Scale.

March 22, 2024

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Questions from a new Go developer (Go Time #308)

In this episode we answer any/all questions from a new Go developer. Features, best practices, quirks of the language... it's all on the table for discussion.

March 20, 2024

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Containers on a diet (Ship It! #95)

Kyle Quest joins the show to tell Autumn & Justin all about the evolution of DockerSlim & minimal container images. Why are small container images important? What are different strategies to make containers smaller? Let's find out!

March 16, 2024

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The Oban Pros (Changelog & Friends #35)

Today you get Sorentwo for the price of one! We are joined by Shannon & Parker Selbert, both halves of the mom-and-pop software shop behind Oban, the robust job processing library that's been delivering our emails & processing our audio for years.

March 15, 2024

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We have a right to repair! (Changelog Interviews #582)

This week Adam went solo — talking to Kyle Wiens, Founder and CEO at iFixit, about all things Right to Repair. They discussed the latest win here in the US with Oregon passing an electronics Right to Repair law to allow owners the right to get their stuff fixed anywhere as well as limit the anti-repair practices of parts pairing. They also discussed the history of the DMCA, the challenges posed by Section 1201, the challenges of recycling products with glued-in batteries, the need for producer responsibility, the future of repairability, repair scoring systems to inform consumers, and so much more. Did you know that iFixit funds its advocacy work through the sale of its tools and parts? So cool.

March 15, 2024

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Advocating for the future of the open web (JS Party #316)

Alex & James Moore, founding members of the Open Web Advocacy (OWA), join Amal to talk about the critical work the OWA has been doing to ensure users have browser choice and that web apps can be first-class citizens on mobile devices. We learn about how an ad-hoc group of software engineers worked with regulators, legislators & policymakers to help drive some of the most impactful legislation curbing anti-competitive behaviors on the web for tech giants such as Apple, Google & Microsoft via the EU's Digital Markets Act (DMA). Tune in for this deeply important & timely discussion as we also unpack recent events with Apple and their DMA (un)compliance, and how the OWA helped successfully organize thousands of web developers from around the world to hold ground for a free & open web.

March 14, 2024

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Jumping into an existing codebase (Go Time #307)

Jumping into a codebase you're unfamiliar with can be challenging. Are there better & worse ways to go about it? In this episode, Ian gathers a panel (Johnny, Kris & Jon) to discuss the ins & outs of familiarizing yourself with an existing codebase.

March 12, 2024

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It's not always DNS (Changelog Interviews #581)

This week we're talking about DNS with Paul Vixie — Paul is well known for his contributions to DNS and agrees with Adam on having a "love/hate relationship with DNS." We discuss the limitations of current DNS technologies and the need for revisions to support future internet scale, the challenges in doing that. Paul shares insights on the future of the internet and how he'd reinvent DNS if given the opportunity. We even discuss the cultural idiom "It's always DNS," and the shift to using DNS resolvers like OpenDNS, Google's 8.8.8.8 and Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1. Buckle up, this is a good one.

March 8, 2024

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Getting a pulse on your Core Web Vitals 🩺 (JS Party #315)

This week, Amal and Nick are joined by Rick Viscomi and Annie Sullivan from the Chrome team to dive into Core Web Vitals, a set of performance metrics geared towards helping developers surface web page quality signals that are key to delivering great user experiences. We deconstruct the different vitals and learn how they are helpful, as well as introduce the newest vital to hit the scene, Interaction to Next Paint (INP). Join us for a fun and nerdtastic discussion as we dive into the humbling universe of web performance!

March 7, 2024

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