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Adam here! 👋
Last week Jerod and I talked with Solomon Hykes about Daggar, Docker, and the state of deploying applications to production. That ships later this week!
Ok, here’s this week’s top stories. (Audio Edition)
🤪 Supabase quietly went public today
This tweet from Paul Copplestone making this announcement is a joke, but the photo of them being feature on Times Square is very much real.
So, the actual news is Redpoint’s InfraRed 100 report featuring Supabase and 99 other transformative companies in cloud infrastructure.
These trailblazers have set new benchmarks for reliability, scalability, security, and innovation, enabling businesses to thrive in a cloud era and ushering a new paradigm of building applications.
You really should listen to the audio edition because me writing out this joke just doesn’t do it justice.
𝕏 Twitter is now X?
Twitter has officially changed its logo to “X”.
Musk tweeted… I mean xexted, or maybe X’d? “And soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds.”
Linda Yaccarino, CEO of Twitter…I mean X said this about the change:
It’s an exceptionally rare thing – in life or in business – that you get a second chance to make another big impression. Twitter made one massive impression and changed the way we communicate. Now, X will go further, transforming the global town square.
X is the future state of unlimited interactivity – centered in audio, video, messaging, payments/banking – creating a global marketplace for ideas, goods, services, and opportunities. Powered by AI, X will connect us all in ways we’re just beginning to imagine.
There’s absolutely no limit to this transformation. X will be the platform that can deliver, well….everything. @elonmusk and I are looking forward to working with our teams and every single one of our partners to bring X to the world.
I’m not even sure what Linda is saying, but this super app idea could be the downfall of Twitter, or it could the rise of X. Time will tell. Hit ‘reply’ and share your thoughts.
🤖 GitHub’s Copilot Chat is now in public preview (for businesses)
Earlier this year GitHub announced Copilot X, extending its Copilot code completion tool to more use cases. They also shared plans for a ChatGPT-based chatbot. Until now, this chatbot was only available in a private preview, but as of last Thursday Copilot Chat is now available as a limited public beta for all GitHub business users on Visual Studio and VS Code.
As we prepare to bring the entirety of GitHub Copilot X to general availability, we believe every developer could be made 10 times more productive. This means 10 days of work, done in one day. 10 hours of work, done in one hour. 10 minutes of work, done with a single prompt command. This will allow your developers to amplify their truest self-expression. And it will help a new generation of developers learn and build at the speed of thought.
First of all, that’s a lot of 10s and second…could this truly be the era of the REAL 10x developer?
Let’s hear from Mat Ryer on the subject on “Mat Depends”
🚀 Speakeasy feature week
Thanks to Speakeasy for launching on Changelog News 💰
They’re of out stealth and have 11M in the bank heading in to their first ever Feature Week.
APIs are getting a brand new DevEx. Get ready because Speakeasy, the API infrastructure company, is officially launching! Join us for an exciting week of special feature announcements as we unveil tools to make creating developer-friendly interfaces for your API easy. Give your API the #DevEx it deserves. Speakeasy managed SDKs are idiomatic, type-safe, and readable. In other words they’re…crafted by developers, for developers.
Learn how Speakeasy manages the full SDK lifecycle, how they validate OpenAPI docs, how you should go about creating SDKs, and catch an awesome demo of using Speakeasy to build a terraform provider from your OpenAPI spec. Check it out!
🍎 Get your Apple Vision Pro developer kit
Apple will loan you a Vision Pro developer kit to prepare your app for the launch of the new App Store on Vision Pro.
You’ll also receive:
- Help setting up the device and onboarding.
- Check-ins with Apple experts for UI design and development guidance, and help refining your app.
- Two additional code-level support requests, so you can troubleshoot any issues with your code.
This Apple-owned development device “needs to be returned upon request”.
Apply for your Vision Pro developer kit here.
🛠️ Oxide in the Homelab
OK, I’m cheating because I really want to promote this clip from our recent Changelog & Friends with the folks at Oxide where Bryan shares their 2050 roadmap and their long-term plans for Oxide Homelab edition. If you haven’t, you should listen to the whole show. It’s a keeper.
On TechCrunch: VR is dead (AR ate it and has an equally murky future)
🎧 ICYMI: Recent good pods from us
Storytime with Steve Yegge - Steve came out of retirement to join Sourcegraph as Head of Engineering. Their next frontier is Cody, their AI coding assistant that answers code questions and writes code for you by reading your entire codebase and the code graph. But, we really spent a lot of time talking with Steve about his time at Amazon, Google, and Grab.
Bringing the cloud on prem - I was out of town when Bryan made his podcast debut on The Changelog, so we had to get him back on the show along with his co-founder and CEO Steve Tuck to discuss Silicon Valley (the TV show), all things Oxide, homelab possibilities, and bringing the power of the cloud on prem.
This is going to be Lit 🔥 - Justin Fagnani joined us on JS Party to talk about Lit, a library that helps you build web components. Tune in to learn about what makes this tiny library so incredibly lit!
Legal consequences of generated content - Damien Riehl, technologist, coder, and lawyer joined Daniel and Chris to discuss the legal and practical consequences of generative AI. He answered questions about generated content, copyright, dataset licensing/usage, and the future of knowledge work.
The tools we love - Andy Walker joined the cast of Go Time to discuss what tools and editors they’re using, the ones they wish existed, how they go about finding new ones, and why they sometimes choose to write their own tools.
That’s the news for now!
On Wednesday’s interview show we’re talking with Solomon Hykes about Daggar, Docker, and the state of deploying applications to production and on Friday I’m talking with our new friend Techno Tim about all things Homelab.
(Wow, you made it to the end! Did this suck or was it awesome? Hit reply and let me know!)
Have a great week, forward this email to a friend who might dig it, and I’ll talk to you again real soon. 💚
–Adam