Changelog & Friends – Episode #70
Bus factors & conspiracy theories
with Adam & Jerod discussing the news
Adam & Jerod discuss the news! Our Merch sale, useful built-in macOS CLI utilities, the slow death of the hyperlink, systematically estimating a project’s bus factor, The Browser Company abandoning Arc, the Dead Internet theory & more!
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Notes & Links
- Merch on sale!
- All Things Open AI Conference
- The Internet Archive is back as a read-only service after cyberattacks
- Useful built-in macOS command-line utilities
- The slow death of the hyperlink
- The github plugin my coworkers asked me not to write.
- The Bus Factor | MClare Blog
- A Novel Approach for Estimating Truck Factors
- Glass Onion (2022) - IMDb
- Knives Out (2019) - IMDb
- Arc is a dead browser walking (How-To Geek)
- Better version of the same story (via The Verge)
- You should go to conferences
Links we didn’t get to
Links discussed during BONUS++
Chapters
Chapter Number | Chapter Start Time | Chapter Title | Chapter Duration |
1 | 00:00 | Let's talk! | 00:38 |
2 | 00:38 | Sponsor: Sentry | 02:15 |
3 | 02:53 | Rivalries & Friends | 03:02 |
4 | 05:55 | That sweet, sweet merch 👀 | 05:52 |
5 | 11:47 | Going way back (machine) | 01:05 |
6 | 12:52 | Useful macOS CLI utilities | 10:35 |
7 | 23:27 | The slow death of the hyperlink | 06:15 |
8 | 29:42 | Sponsor: Fly.io | 02:23 |
9 | 32:05 | Sponsor: Eight Sleep | 02:30 |
10 | 34:35 | The Bus / Truck factor | 11:56 |
11 | 46:31 | Glass Onion vs Knives Out | 04:03 |
12 | 50:33 | Arc is a dead browser walking | 08:35 |
13 | 59:08 | Sponsor: AssemblyAI | 01:28 |
14 | 1:00:36 | Are you on Bluesky? | 07:33 |
15 | 1:08:10 | Dead Internet theory | 07:33 |
16 | 1:15:43 | Bye, friends | 00:40 |
17 | 1:16:22 | Next week on The Changelog | 01:37 |