Our 7th annual year-end wrap-up is here! We’re featuring 12 listener voicemails, dope Breakmaster Cylinder remixes & our favorite episodes of the year. Thanks for listening! 💚
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Notes & Links
Many episodes were favorited more than once! We only list the first mention here…
AJ Kerrigan’s favs:
- We have a right to repair! with Kyle Wiens (Interviews #582)
- Building customizable ergonomic keyboards with Erez Zukerman (Interviews #608)
- Open source threaded team chat?! with Alya Abbott (Interviews #607)
Erno Voutilainen’s favs:
- Retirement is for suckers with Cameron Seay (Friends #36)
- #define: legendary with Thomas Eckert, Nick Nisi & Mat Ryer (Friends #47)
- Two tickets for Departure, please with Helena Zhang & Tobias Fried (Interviews #618)
Don Mackinnon’s favs:
- From Chef to System Initiative featuring Adam Jacob (Friends #55)
- Rails is having a moment (again) with DHH (Interviews #615)
Brett Cannon’s favs:
- From Sun to Oxide with Bryan Cantrill (Interviews #592)
- Free-threaded Python with Pablo & Łukasz (Interviews #611)
- Gradually gradually typing Elixir featuring José Valim (Friends #28)
- Linux distros with Jorge Castro (Ship It! #122)
- Let’s talk FreeBSD (finally) with Allan Jude (Interviews #574)
- The Oban Pros with Shannon & Parker Selbert (Friends #35)
- Why we need Ladybird with Andreas Kling & Chris Wanstrath (Interviews #604)
- Retired, not tired. with Kelsey Hightower (Interviews #595)
Nabeel Sulieman’s favs:
- The Moneyball approach with John Nunemaker (Interviews #612)
- Into the Bobiverse featuring Dennis E. Taylor (Interviews #603)
Rusty Nail’s favs:
- Lessons from 10k hours of programming (Remastered) with Matt Rickard (Interviews #613)
- “Founder Mode” at work when you’re not a founder (Go Time #332)
- The best, worst codebase with Jimmy Miller (Changelog Interviews #609)
- Bus factors & conspiracy theories (Friends #70)
Jamie Tanna’s favs:
- Yeeting stuff into public with Jamie Tanna (Friends #31)
- OpenAPI & API design with Jamie Tanna (Go Time #328)
- 1999: A Film Odyssey (Changelog++ 🔐) (Friends ++)
- Hack Club takes to the High Seas featuring Acon (Interviews #620)
- Gotta give to get back with Danny Thompson @ THAT (Interviews #617)
Jerod’s favs:
- We ain’t afraid of no Ghostty! with Mitchell Hashimoto (Interviews #622)
- Kaizen! NOT a pipe dream with Gerhard Lazu (Friends #50)
- You have how many open tabs?! featuring the hallway track at THAT (Friends #29)
- Future of [energy, content, food] featuring the hallway track at THAT (Friends #30)
- The man behind the Sandwich featuring Adam Lisagor (Interviews #601)
- Starbucks DVD peddlers with Emily Freeman & Justin Garrison (Friends #60)
Adam’s favs:
- In the beginning (of generative AI) with Joe Reis (Interviews #576)
- Shift left, seriously. with Deepak Prabhakara & Schalk Neethling (Interviews #575)
Also mentioned:
Chapters
| Chapter Number | Chapter Start Time | Chapter Title | Chapter Duration |
| 1 | 00:00 | Let's "sotl" | 01:26 |
| 2 | 01:26 | Sponsor: Fly.io | 02:45 |
| 3 | 04:11 | Teasers & Friends | 01:17 |
| 4 | 05:28 | A failed mini-game | 03:13 |
| 5 | 08:41 | AJ Kerrigan VM | 01:15 |
| 6 | 09:56 | Reacting to AJ | 00:46 |
| 7 | 10:42 | AJ Kerrigan BMC Remix | 00:51 |
| 8 | 11:33 | Adam's green ears | 00:54 |
| 9 | 12:27 | Erno Voutilainen VM | 02:47 |
| 10 | 15:14 | Reacting to Erno | 01:34 |
| 11 | 16:48 | Erno Voutilainen BMC Remix | 01:47 |
| 12 | 18:35 | Breaking news | 00:23 |
| 13 | 18:58 | Don MacKinnon VM | 00:45 |
| 14 | 19:43 | Reacting to Don | 03:32 |
| 15 | 23:15 | Don MacKinnon BMC Remix | 01:18 |
| 16 | 24:33 | Andrew O'Brien VM | 00:48 |
| 17 | 25:22 | Reacting to Andrew | 06:44 |
| 18 | 32:06 | Andrew O'Brien BMC Remix | 02:15 |
| 19 | 34:21 | Sponsor: Eight Sleep | 02:18 |
| 20 | 36:38 | Sponsor: Wix Studio | 00:54 |
| 21 | 37:32 | Jarvis Yang VM | 01:14 |
| 22 | 38:45 | Reacting to Jarvis | 03:03 |
| 23 | 41:48 | Jarvis Yang BMC Remix | 01:20 |
| 24 | 43:08 | Brett Cannon VM | 02:29 |
| 25 | 45:38 | Reacting to Brett | 03:54 |
| 26 | 49:31 | Brett Cannon BMC Remix | 02:00 |
| 27 | 51:32 | The longest episode | 02:11 |
| 28 | 53:43 | Nabeel Sulieman VM | 01:36 |
| 29 | 55:18 | Reacting to Nabeel | 02:03 |
| 30 | 57:21 | Nabeel Sulieman BMC Remix | 02:26 |
| 31 | 59:47 | Lars Wikman VM | 01:10 |
| 32 | 1:00:58 | Reacting to Lars | 03:08 |
| 33 | 1:04:05 | Lars Wikman BMC Remix | 00:44 |
| 34 | 1:04:49 | Changelog Beats! | 02:52 |
| 35 | 1:07:40 | Nick Nisi VM | 00:49 |
| 36 | 1:08:30 | Reacting to Nick | 02:09 |
| 37 | 1:10:39 | Nick Nisi BMC Remix | 01:00 |
| 38 | 1:11:39 | Rusty Nail VM | 02:50 |
| 39 | 1:14:29 | Reacting to Rusty | 01:48 |
| 40 | 1:16:17 | Rusty Nail BMC Remix | 01:06 |
| 41 | 1:17:22 | Jump Around | 01:23 |
| 42 | 1:18:45 | Mat Ryer VM | 00:47 |
| 43 | 1:19:32 | Reacting to Mat | 01:03 |
| 44 | 1:20:35 | Mat Ryer BMC Remix | 01:28 |
| 45 | 1:22:03 | Jamie Tanna VM | 03:48 |
| 46 | 1:25:51 | Reacting to Jamie | 05:18 |
| 47 | 1:31:09 | Jamie Tanna BMC Remix | 00:33 |
| 48 | 1:31:41 | Jay-Z: we have concerns | 01:39 |
| 49 | 1:33:20 | Sponsor: Retool | 04:31 |
| 50 | 1:37:52 | Now it's our turn! | 01:21 |
| 51 | 1:39:13 | Favorite titles | 05:47 |
| 52 | 1:44:59 | Jerod's list | 06:47 |
| 53 | 1:51:46 | Adam's list | 04:13 |
| 54 | 1:55:59 | The through line | 04:29 |
| 55 | 2:00:28 | Is Friends better? | 02:14 |
| 56 | 2:02:42 | Bye, friends | 02:40 |
| 57 | 2:05:21 | Thanks for a great year! | 01:29 |