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Zac Smith left his role leading Equinix Metal in June of 2023. Since then, heās been thinking deeply about the present and potential future of data centers, OEMs, chip makers & more.
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Zac Smith left his role leading Equinix Metal in June of 2023. Since then, heās been thinking deeply about the present and potential future of data centers, OEMs, chip makers & more.
Go Time co-host, Johnny Boursiquot, joins Adam & Jerod to discuss not making the (first) cut, applying Founder Mode, being a cog (or not), realizing that companies are posting fake engineering jobs & the (maybe) imminent demise of the .io TLD.
Abi Noda, co-founder and CEO at DX, joins the show to talk through data shared from the Stack Overflow 2024 Developer Survey, why devs are really unhappy, and what theyāre doing at DX to help orgs and teams to understand the metrics behind their developerās happiness and productivity.
Nick Nisi joins Adam and Jerod to talk about Karaoke, ARC and the business model of web browsers, this WordPress drama, and an epic bonus for Changelog ++ subscribers.
Gerhard Lazu joins us for Kaizen 16! Our Pipe Dreamā¢ļø is becoming a reality, our custom feeds are shipping, our deploys are rolling out faster & our tooling is getting just
right.
Jerod & Adam share our Zulip first impressions, react to Elasticsearch going open source (again), discuss Christian Hollingerās blog post on why he still self-hosts & answer a listener question: how do we produce podcasts?
Emily Freeman joins the show alongside our Ship It co-host, Justin Garrison! We hear Emilyās 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 DVDsā¦ at Starbucks?!
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?! Thereās only one way to find outā¦
Adam & Jerod catch up with our olā friend, Suz Hinton! Itās 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 NSAā¦ but thatās not all!
You wonāt believe the bizarre secrets Jordan Eldredge found investigating corrupt Winamp skins (#7 will shock you)! You also wonāt 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 olā question: which database should you use? Answering that isnāt always easy, which means itās time to play the āIt Dependsā 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 āFriendsā for you. Enjoy.
Robert Ross joins us in CrowdStrikeās wake to dissect the largest outage in the history of information technologyā¦ and what it means for the future of the (software) world.
Nick Janetakis is back and this time weāre talking about TUIs (text-based user interfaces) ā some weāve tried and some we plan to try. All are collected from Justin Garrisonās Awesome TUIs repo on GitHub. This episode is āAI free.ā
Shawn āswyxā 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 Devinās launch, and whatās 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 whoāve helped us along the way & Gerhard takes us on his journey to turn Jerodās pipe dream into a reality!
Daniel Stenberg shares his guiding principles for BDFLāing curl, gives us his perspective on the state of the internet, talks financial independence, ensuring curl wonāt be the next XZ & more!
Justin Searls joins us for hot takes on Appleās 2024 WWDC keynote. Apple Intelligence stole the show, but did it steal our hearts? Oh, and we learn all about Justinās Vision Pro Life and how he hopes/expects Appleās 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 Travelerās āHookā? 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 itās even more legendary!
Tech lawyer Luis Villa returns to answer our most pressing questions: whatās 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 weāre seeing (or hoping for) & Upstream 2024 (June 5th)!
We kick off our Microsoft Build 2024 ācoverageā in this free-wheelinā conversation with our friend, Shaundai Person! Weāre talking Netflix infra, weāre talking sales, weāre talking real-world AI usage, weāre talking career choicesā¦. Whatās a good next step? Listen in!
Alex Kretzschmar joins Adam to discuss their experiences with building the āperfect media serverā and all the hardware and software involved to make it happen ā 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 ā22. On this episode, Annie takes us on that journey, shares her new-found perspective & tells us about how sheās 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 Zenoās 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 āopen source meets businessā 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 Hashicorpās Cease and Desist letter, Redis getting forked, Boston Dymanicsā scary cool new robot, Justin Searlsā 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 bookā¦
Thisis our 14th Kaizen episode! Gerhard put some CDNs to the test, weāve taken our next step with Postgres on Neon & Jerod pushed 55 commits (but 0 PRs)!