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Adam Stacoviak

Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Changelog

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Changelog & Friends Changelog & Friends #64

Developer (un)happiness

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2024-10-04T19:00:00Z #culture 🎧 21,128

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 they’re doing at DX to help orgs and teams to understand the metrics behind their developer’s happiness and productivity.

Changelog Interviews Changelog Interviews #609

The best, worst codebase

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2024-09-18T20:30:00Z 🎧 20,961

Jimmy Miller talks to us about his experience with a legacy codebase at his first job as a programmer. The codebase was massive, with hundreds of thousands of lines of C# and Visual Basic, and a database with over 1,000 columns. Let’s just say Jimmy got into some stuff. There’s even a Gilfoyle involved. This episode is all about his adventures while working there.

Changelog Interviews Changelog Interviews #608

Building customizable ergonomic keyboards

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2024-09-12T14:25:00Z #hardware +2 🎧 28,765

Erez Zukerman shares the story of launching the ErgoDox EZ on Indiegogo (May 2015), what it takes to create customizable ergonomic keyboards, the benefits of split keyboards and custom key layouts, repairability and longevity, community engagement, and the attention to detail required in everything they create. We talk through their keyboard lineup, our personal experience with how we mouse and keyboard…we cover it all.

Changelog Interviews Changelog Interviews #607

Open source threaded team chat?!

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2024-09-05T17:00:00Z #oss +2 🎧 30,915

We’re joined by Alya Abbott from Zulip, the open source, organized, threaded, team chat for distributed teams of all sizes. We talk about Zulip’s origins, how it’s open source, the way it’s led, no VC funding, what makes it different/better, how you can self-host it or use their cloud, moving to Zulip, contributing and being a part of the community…all the things.

Changelog Interviews Changelog Interviews #606

Reinventing Kafka on object storage

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2024-08-29T18:00:00Z #cloud +1 🎧 32,420

Ryan Worl, Co-founder and CTO at WarpStream, joins us to talk about the world of Kafka and data streaming and how WarpStream redesigned the idea of Kafka to run in modern cloud environments directly on top of object storage. Last year they posted a blog titled, “Kafka is dead, long live Kafka” that hit the top of Hacker News to put WarpStream on the map. We get the backstory on Kafka and why it’s so widely used, who created it and for what purpose, and the behind the scenes on all things WarpStream.

Changelog Interviews Changelog Interviews #604

Why we need Ladybird

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2024-08-14T21:45:00Z #oss +2 🎧 34,976

Andreas Kling and Chris Wanstrath have joined forces to form a non-profit called Ladybird Browser Initiative to manage the newly forked Ladybird browser. We discuss what it’s going to take to get to alpha, the why behind Ladybird, avoiding incentives other than those of the users, their plans for incremental adoption of Swift as the successor language over C++, and of course what they hope Ladybird can achieve as a truly independent open source browser that’s for the people.

Changelog Interviews Changelog Interviews #603

Into the Bobiverse

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2024-08-07T20:30:00Z #culture 🎧 30,047

Dennis E. Taylor joins the show to take us “Into the Bobiverse” and other books he’s written. Dennis shares the backstory on how he went from programmer to author/writer and creator of Audible’s Best Science Fiction Book of 2016, his process for iterating and developing the story as he writes, plans for a Bobiverse movie, and what’s next in book 5 coming out in September 2024.

Changelog & Friends Changelog & Friends #55

From Chef to System Initiative

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2024-08-03T14:00:00Z #oss +2 🎧 32,958

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 “Friends” for you. Enjoy.

Changelog Interviews Changelog Interviews #601

The man behind the Sandwich

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2024-07-24T19:00:00Z #apple +1
🎧 28,913

Adam Lisagor (Sandwich Video founder) takes us behind the Sandwich to share his insights into the importance of storytelling in the tech industry, the value of helping Founders communicate their stories effectively, the details behind his new AI company, and the apps he’s making for Apple Vision Pro at Sandwich Vision.

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