What happens when you take two #define champs (Taylor Troesh, Thomas Eckert), a grizzled veteran (Adam Stacoviak), a british bard (Mat Ryer), a PhD (Carol Lee) & you pit them against each other in a game of fake tech definitions?! Thereâs only one way to find outâŚ
Adam & Jerod catch up with our olâ friend, Suz Hinton! Itâs been a couple years since Suz was a regular on JS Party. Since then, she moved back to Australia, earned a degree in cyber security & won a fidget spinner from the NSA⌠but thatâs not all!
You wonât believe the bizarre secrets Jordan Eldredge found investigating corrupt Winamp skins (#7 will shock you)! You also wonât believe how long we can wax nostalgic about the era of Napster, Aladdin & Pearl Jam.
Database aficionado, Ben Johnson, joins Jerod to answer the age olâ question: which database should you use? Answering that isnât always easy, which means itâs time to play the âIt Dependsâ jingle & weigh (some of) the options.
Adam Jacob goes solo with Adam for an epic pod into his journey to get to System Initiative. From SysAdmin at 8 years old, to discovering Linux and working for Mom-and-pop ISPs, to open source changing his life and starting Opscode and building Chef. Buckle up. This is a different flavor of âFriendsâ for you. Enjoy.
Robert Ross joins us in CrowdStrikeâs wake to dissect the largest outage in the history of information technology⌠and what it means for the future of the (software) world.
Nick Janetakis is back and this time weâre talking about TUIs (text-based user interfaces) â some weâve tried and some we plan to try. All are collected from Justin Garrisonâs Awesome TUIs repo on GitHub. This episode is âAI free.â
Shawn âswyxâ 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 Devinâs launch, and whatâs to come in the next innovation round of AI.
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?
Welcome to Kaizen 15! We go deep on the big Changelog News redesign, give shout outs to folks whoâve helped us along the way & Gerhard takes us on his journey to turn Jerodâs pipe dream into a reality!
Daniel Stenberg shares his guiding principles for BDFLâing curl, gives us his perspective on the state of the internet, talks financial independence, ensuring curl wonât be the next XZ & more!
Justin Searls joins us for hot takes on Appleâs 2024 WWDC keynote. Apple Intelligence stole the show, but did it steal our hearts? Oh, and we learn all about Justinâs Vision Pro Life and how he hopes/expects Appleâs latest device to improve in future iterations.
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 Travelerâs âHookâ? Are you still reading this? Go listen! (This episode is for Changelog++ ears only.)
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 itâs even more legendary!
Tech lawyer Luis Villa returns to answer our most pressing questions: whatâs up with all these new content deals? How did Google think it was a good idea to ship AI Summaries in its current state? Is it too late to opt out of AI? We also discuss AI in Hollywood (spoilers!), positive things weâre seeing (or hoping for) & Upstream 2024 (June 5th)!
We kick off our Microsoft Build 2024 âcoverageâ in this free-wheelinâ conversation with our friend, Shaundai Person! Weâre talking Netflix infra, weâre talking sales, weâre talking real-world AI usage, weâre talking career choicesâŚ. Whatâs a good next step? Listen in!
Alex Kretzschmar joins Adam to discuss their experiences with building the âperfect media serverâ and all the hardware and software involved to make it happen â LinuxServer.io, PerfectMediaServer.com, Plex, Jellyfin, ZFS, mergerfs, TrueNAS, Docker Compose and so much more in this episode.
Annie Sexton has been on quite a journey since she was last on the show back in early â22. On this episode, Annie takes us on that journey, shares her new-found perspective & tells us about how sheâs approaching her side project this time around.
Our friend Ron Evans is a technologist for hire, an open source developer, an author, a speaker, an iconoclast, and one of our favorite people in tech. This conversation with Ron goes everywhere: from high-altitude weather balloons, to life on Mars, to Zenoâs paradox applied to ML, to what open source devs should learn from the Wu-Tang Clan & more.
Frequent guest (and almost real-life-friend) Adam Jacob returns to share his spicy takes on all the recent âopen source meets businessâ drama. We also take some time to catch up on the state of his open source-based business, System Initiative.
If Changelog News had an extended edition, this might be it! Jerod & Adam discuss Hashicorpâs Cease and Desist letter, Redis getting forked, Boston Dymanicsâ scary cool new robot, Justin Searlsâ extensive use of the Apple Vision Pro, Thorston Ball moving from Vim to Zed, Firefox becoming hard to use, Beeper joining Automattic & more.
Our beat freak in residence returns, this time to discuss the shiny new Dance Party album! We deconstruct its nostalgic mix, break down some of our favorite tracks & even learn that BMC is writing a mysterious bookâŚ
This is our 14th Kaizen episode! Gerhard put some CDNs to the test, weâve taken our next step with Postgres on Neon & Jerod pushed 55 commits (but 0 PRs)!
Which is smarter: specializing in a particular tech or becoming more of a generalist? It depends! Which is why Jerod invited âundercover generalistâ Adolfo OchagavĂa on our âIt Dependsâ series to weigh the pros & cons of each path.
THE Cameron Seay joins us once again! This time we learn more about his life/history, hear all about the boot camps he runs, discuss recent advancements in AI / quantum computing and how they might affect the tech labor market & more!
Adam is joined by Robert Ross, Founder and CEO of FireHydrant â they discuss Bourbon, sniffing arms, better software, leading a successful startup, scaling teams, building vs acquiring, and Adam even gets Robert to commit to watching Silicon Valley!!
The Zed text editor has come a long way since Nathan Sobo came on the show last year to tell us about this follow-up to Atom. Zed is open source now, has the underpinnings of collaboration built in, is beginning its journey toward full extensibility, is coming to Linux soon & shows serious promise if Nathanâs team can mix their secret sauce just right.
Mike McQuaid, maintainer of Homebrew, and now CTO at Workbrew joins us to discuss open tabs, social media spam and distractions, TikTokâs addictive nature, Apple Vision Pro and its potential future, the maintenance of software, the swing back to old school web development, the value of telemetry in open source projects, Mikeâs ongoing involvement in Homebrew and what theyâre working on at Workbrew, Homebrewâs relationship with Apple, the importance of developer experience, and sooo much more.
