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Your personal guide to developer news worth your attention. We keep it brief, entertaining & always on point.

Changelog News Changelog News #47

Starlight, Knuth asks ChatGPT, Stack Overflow mods strike, Reddit API pricing revolt & open source AI has a new champ

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2023-06-05T21:00:00Z šŸŽ§ 26,773

The Astro team releases a new documentation builder, legendary computer scientist Donald Knuth plays with ChatGPT, over 500 volunteer mods have signed an open letter to Stack Overflow Inc, Reddit faces a revolt due to their new API pricing & the Technology Innovation Institute release Falcon, a new open source LLM that’s topping Hugging Face’s leaderboard.

Changelog News Changelog News #45

Trogon, StableStudio, life after Apple, Google's problematic new TLDs & how to discuss programming languages

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2023-05-22T19:20:00Z šŸŽ§ 26,487

Will McGugan’s Trogon auto-generates friendly TUIs for your CLI apps, Stability AI’s official open source variant of DreamStudio, John Calhoun writes about life after 26 years programming at Apple, Google’s news TLDs could be a boon to scammers & Pablo Meier documents a way to discuss programming languages.

Changelog News Changelog News #139

The AI 2027 scenario

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2025-04-07T20:00:00Z šŸŽ§ 26,444

Daniel Kokotajlo and the AI Futures Project lays out a potential scenario of superhuman AI’s impact, Liam ERD generates beautiful, interactive ER diagrams from your database, Mozilla takes on Gmail with ā€œThundermailā€, algernon explains why grepping remains terrible & Vitor M. de Sousa Pereira rans on the insanity of being a software engineer.

Changelog News Changelog News #62

Death by a thousand microservices

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2023-09-18T19:30:00Z šŸŽ§ 26,285

Andrei Taranchenko says the software industry is learning once again that complexity kills, Casey Muratori outlines a long list of Unity alternatives, Filip Szkandera builds a functioning (macro) processor for RISC-V & Matt Basta tells the tale of the time he built a web-based Excel clone inside Uber only to have it discarded a week later.

Changelog News Changelog News #108

Practices of reliable software design

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2024-08-19T19:30:00Z šŸŽ§ 26,218

Chris Stjernlƶf got nerd-sniped and ended up writing down his practices of reliable software design, Ben Visness has had enough with the npm community’s propensity to pull in micro-libraries to suit every need, ā€œStay SaaSyā€ makes three metaphors for problem solving categories, Troy Hunt takes us inside the ā€œ3 billion peopleā€ National Public Data breach & Dasel is one data tool to rule them all.

Changelog News Changelog News #145

Windows Subsystem for Linux is open source

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2025-05-19T22:00:00Z šŸŽ§ 25,982

Microsoft finally opens the source of WSL, Paolo Scanferla describes an inherent trade-off in TypeScript’s type system, Alberto Fortin is taking a step back from heavy LLM use while coding, a pseudonymous hacker spent two weeks coding from their Android phone, and NLWeb might become the HTML of the open agentic web.

Changelog News Changelog News #142

I just want to code

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2025-04-28T20:00:00Z šŸŽ§ 25,970

Zach Bellay tells us about the devil and the angel on his shoulders, Pete Koomen thinks today’s AI apps are like horseless carriages, Hyperwood is an open source system for crafting furniture from simple wooden slats, Scott Antipa agrees with YAGNI but adds YAGRI & Antony Henao debunks three common myths that get engineers stuck.

Changelog News Changelog News #46

An API store for LLMs, DeviceScript, Nyxt: the hacker's browser, expectations debt & there's still no silver bullet

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2023-05-30T20:00:00Z šŸŽ§ 25,632

The Gorilla team is building an API store for LLMs, DeviceScript is Microsoft’s new TypeScript programming environment for microcontrollers, Nyxt is a hackable browser written in Lisp, Morgan Housel writes about expectations debt & I issue a gentle reminder to my fellow software engineers: there’s still no silver bullet.

Changelog News Changelog News #59

OpenTF sticks a fork in Terraform

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2023-08-28T20:00:00Z šŸŽ§ 24,744

OpenTF announces they’re forking Terraform and joining the Linux Foundation, Meta gets in the LLM-for-codegen game with Code Llama, Matt Mullenweg announces WordPress.com’s new 100-year plan, Paul Gichuki from Thinkst learns that default behaviors stick (and so do examples) & Marco Otte-Witte makes his case for Rust on the web.

Changelog News Changelog News #63

The missing sync layer for modern apps

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2023-09-25T19:20:00Z šŸŽ§ 24,646

ElectricSQL is a project that offers a local-first sync layer for web and mobile apps, Ned Batchelder writes about the myth of the myth of ā€œlearning stylesā€, Carl Johnson thinks XML is better than YAML, Berkan Sasmaz defines and describes ā€œidempotencyā€ & HyperDX is an open source alternative Datadog or New Relic.

Changelog News Changelog News #60

A portrait of the best worst programmer

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2023-09-05T18:20:00Z šŸŽ§ 24,085

Dan North tells the tale of Tim, the worst programmer he’s worked with (who also is a heck of a programmer), Kevin Lin declares that OpenTelemetry delivers on its promise for open observability, Justin Garrison details Terraform vs GitOps vs System Initiative, Inc. writes how Apple beats burnout & Aline Lerner’s advice on how (not) to sabotage your salary negotiations before you even start.

Changelog News Changelog News #118

Developing with Docker (the right way)

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2024-10-28T11:00:00Z šŸŽ§ 23,631

Daniel Quinn weighs in on how to develop with Docker The Right Way, Mitchell Hashimoto says Ghostty will be publicly released this coming December, Kevin Li writes about the value of learning how to learn, The Browser Company moves on from Arc & the React Native team ships its new architecture.

Changelog News Changelog News #129

DeepSeek-R1's epic pull request

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2025-01-27T20:30:00Z šŸŽ§ 23,538

Xuan-Son Nguyen opened a low-level code PR written 99% by DeepSeek-R1, Adam Wathan announces the release of Tailwind CSS 4.0, Matheus Lima opens up the Computer Science history books to create list of influential papers, Namanyay Goel thinks AI is creating a generation of illiterate programmers & Russell Baylis shares what he’s learned about optimizing WFH lighting to reduce eye strain.

Changelog News Changelog News #73

Leaked GPT prompts & Firefox on the brink

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2023-12-04T21:15:00Z šŸŽ§ 23,458

ChatGPT’s new GPTs feature leak their prompts, Firefox’s share of the browser market will soon drop below 2%, Robin Berjon tries to formalize a name for those who can’t be named, Amy Lai tells the tale of the weirdest bug she’s ever seen & Facundo Olano trumps the ā€œcode is read more than writtenā€ cliche with his own: ā€œcode is run more than read.ā€

Changelog News Changelog News #65

RTO vs WFH & the case for strong static typing

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2023-10-09T19:30:00Z šŸŽ§ 23,299

Jacob Kaplan-Moss’ recommendations for remote vs colocated teams, Duarte Carmo created a neural search engine from Changelog transcripts, Tom Hacohen says strong static typing is a hill he’s willing to die on, Orhun Parmaksız created a CLI that makes your keyboard sound like a typewriter & Luke Plant spits hard truths about simplicity.

Changelog News Changelog News #66

LMMS are the new LLMs

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2023-10-16T16:15:00Z šŸŽ§ 23,278

Chip Huyen documents the shifting sand of large data models, Herman ƕunapuu reviews the Zimaboard, Bryan Braun shares 4 of his most recent VSCode configuration discoveries & Swizec Teller wrote a great summary of the inaugural AI Engineer Summit.

Changelog News Changelog News #116

Working from home is powering productivity

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2024-10-14T19:30:00Z šŸŽ§ 23,271

Nicholas Bloom finds WFH is powering a productivity boom, Matt Mullenweg has decided that WP Engine’s beatings will continue until morale improves, Levels.fyi has added a salary heat map, Gareth Edwards highlights just how fragile the Internet really is & Artem Zakirullin details how cognitive load is what really matters in software development.

Changelog News Changelog News #112

Why GitHub actually won

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2024-09-16T20:00:00Z šŸŽ§ 23,152

Scott Chacon writes up his insider take on GitHub’s success, Sentry wants other companies to take the Open Source Pledge, Benj Edwards used AI to reproduce his late father’s handwriting, Dave Kiss explains the current hype that PHP is getting & Taylor Otwell raises $57 million series A from Accel.

Changelog News Changelog News #133

AI killed the tech interview. Now what?

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2025-02-24T22:20:00Z šŸŽ§ 22,815

Kane Narraway thinks through the radical change AI tools have brought to the technical interview process, Rhys Kentish built an app that makes him touch grass, Microsoft announced their progress on quantum computing, Chris Horsley learns about software estimations by yak shaving a washing machine install & Andreas Gohr built StumbleUpon for the IndieWeb.

Changelog News Changelog News #69

How to write a good comment

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2023-11-06T19:15:00Z šŸŽ§ 22,795

David Hugh-Jones has a lot to say about what makes a good comment, Hugging Face released a distilled variant of Whisper for speech recognition, The New Stack reports on C++ creator Bjarne Stroustrup’s plan for bringing safety to the language, Jeff Sandberg declares that CSS is fun again & Jose M. Gilgado praises the beauty of finished software.

Changelog News Changelog News #74

Open source LLMs are catching up

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2023-12-11T20:00:00Z šŸŽ§ 22,684

A group of researchers set out to test claims that its open source rivals had achieved parity (or even better) with ChatGPT on certain tasks, Richard Hipp and his team have rewritten SQLite’s text-based JSON functions, Ratatui is a Rust crate for cooking up TUIs, Morris Brodersen built a complex app in vanilla JS as a case study & Headscale is Kristoffer Dalby’s open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server.

Changelog News Changelog News #68

What will React come up with Next?

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2023-10-30T19:00:00Z šŸŽ§ 22,660

The hubbub of the web dev world right now is Next.js’ integration of React Server Components, Kent C. Dodds writes up why he doesn’t use Next, Lee Robinson responds with why he does, the NixOS team hits a milestone in their reproducible builds effort & OpenSign is an open source alternative to DocuSign.

Changelog News Changelog News #117

Naming conventions that need to die

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2024-10-21T19:15:00Z šŸŽ§ 22,550

Will Crichton wishes some naming conventions would die already, GitHub user brjsp noticed that Bitwarden’s new SDK dependency isn’t open source, Joaquim Rocha details his forking best practices, Sophie Koonin explains why you should go to conferences & Mike Hoye puts WordPress on SQLite.

Changelog News Changelog News #135

Everyone is talking about MCP

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2025-03-10T17:30:00Z šŸŽ§ 22,400

Vibe coding is the new vibe, AI engineers are all taking about MCP, Tom Usher wants you to kill your algorithmic feeds, Curiositry shares his troubleshooting expertise, Nikola Ɛuza thinks we should keep blogging for the LLMs & James Stanier answers the question, should managers still code?

Changelog News Changelog News #123

If not React, then what?

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2024-12-02T20:00:00Z šŸŽ§ 22,340

Alex Russell answers the question, ā€œIf not React, then what?ā€ Csaba Okrona identifies four core problems that create and reinforce knowledge silos, Rob Koch’s Markwhen is like Markdown for timelines, Jeff Geerling is quite impressed by Apple’s latest iteration on the Mac mini & Sylvain Kerkour took the time to draw a comparison of Amazon’s O.G. S3 service with Cloudflare’s R2 competitor.

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