Welcome to Kaizen 15! We go deep on the big Changelog News redesign, give shout outs to folks who’ve helped us along the way & Gerhard takes us on his journey to turn Jerod’s pipe dream into a reality!
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Notes & Links
- Discussion #511: 🎧 Kaizen 15 - changelog.com/friends/50
- Navel gazing on Wikipedia
- Omphaloskepsis on #define: game theory, dude
- Pull Request #510: News redesign
- Pull Request #517: 29 reasons to subscribe to Changelog News
- Pull Request #513: Remove # from episode numbers in commit messages
- Pull Request #516: Trace GitHub Actions Workflows
- worldpagespeed.fly.dev
- pipedream.changelog.com
Chapters
| Chapter Number | Chapter Start Time | Chapter Title |
| 1 | 00:00 | Let's Kaizen! |
| 2 | 00:38 | Sponsor: Cronitor |
| 3 | 02:04 | Bidets & Friends |
| 4 | 03:47 | A random fact |
| 5 | 05:09 | What Kaizen means |
| 6 | 07:49 | Naval gazing |
| 7 | 08:26 | Omphaloskepsis |
| 8 | 08:59 | Naval gazing naval gazing |
| 9 | 11:34 | Improvement vs change |
| 10 | 12:52 | No peeing in pools |
| 11 | 13:55 | News redesign (PR 510) |
| 12 | 18:39 | Gerhard's feedback |
| 13 | 20:05 | Pyramidical scheme (PR 517) |
| 14 | 22:11 | 99 reasons to subscribe?! |
| 15 | 23:51 | Sponsor: Retool |
| 16 | 28:23 | Gerhard shares a feature |
| 17 | 29:44 | Jerod & Adam's favorites |
| 18 | 32:27 | The idea behind the design |
| 19 | 33:28 | Improving the design |
| 20 | 35:10 | Neon branches FTW |
| 21 | 36:00 | Jerod's socks/prod anxieties |
| 22 | 38:26 | Dev branch cost follow-up |
| 23 | 40:34 | Booty call(back) |
| 24 | 41:03 | Kaizening News |
| 25 | 48:10 | Look for the money bags |
| 26 | 50:59 | Sponsor: Neon |
| 27 | 56:43 | Thanks, Brendon! (PR 513) |
| 28 | 58:18 | Making ++ even better |
| 29 | 1:06:10 | Tracing GH Actions (PR 516) |
| 30 | 1:10:00 | worldpagespeed.fly.dev |
| 31 | 1:11:29 | What do we see? |
| 32 | 1:17:18 | The BIG demo |
| 33 | 1:25:24 | Pipe dream reactions |
| 34 | 1:28:07 | Do we continue? |
| 35 | 1:34:55 | The BIG analogy |
| 36 | 1:35:50 | Adam's ++ proposition |
| 37 | 1:37:18 | Bye friends! |
| 38 | 1:37:34 | Coming up next |