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Adam Stacoviak

Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Changelog

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Changelog Interviews Changelog Interviews #644

We're all Builders now

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2025-06-05T12:30:00Z #ai +1 🎧 10,652

We’re on location at Microsoft Build 2025 with Amanda Silver, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft’s Developer Division. Amanda leads product, design, user research, and engineering systems for some of the tools you use every day. We discuss the latest AI announcements from Microsoft at Build 2025, how AI is reshaping development tools, what’s next for VS Code, TypeScript, GitHub’s evolution, and even emerging editors like Windsurf that are forking the VS Code ecosystem.

Changelog Interviews Changelog Interviews #643

The Web Development Engine

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2025-05-30T16:00:00Z #design +2 🎧 16,641

We’re joined by Andreas Møller, Co-founder of Nordcraft — the team behind Nordcraft Engine, a powerful new platform designed to give web developers what gaming developers have had for years. Andreas shares what inspired them to build Nordcraft Engine, why they believe the web is overdue for a shift in how we approach designing and building for the web, ee explore how the platform works, how you can get started, and what’s next for Nordcraft.

Changelog Interviews Changelog Interviews #642

Refactored in prison

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2025-05-23T20:00:00Z 🎧 14,687

Preston Thorpe joins us from inside prison, where he awaits a hopeful release within the next 12 months. His journey has been anything but easy—marked by hardship and uncertainty. But over the past few years, Preston has undergone a profound transformation. He’s refactored not just his skills, but his identity. Today, he proudly calls himself a software engineer and an open source contributor. In this episode, Preston shares his story of redemption, resilience, and what comes next.

Changelog Interviews Changelog Interviews #641

NATS and the CNCF kerfuffle

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2025-05-16T19:30:00Z #oss +1 🎧 15,303

Derek Collison — creator of NATS and Co-founder & CEO of Synadia — joins the show to dive into the origins, design, and evolution of NATS, a high-performance, open-source messaging system built for modern cloud-native systems and part of the CNCF. Derek shares the story behind NATS, what makes it unique, and unpacks the recent tensions between Synadia and the CNCF over the future of the project.

Changelog & Friends Changelog & Friends #90

Hello, Matworld!

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2025-04-25T19:00:00Z #culture 🎧 18,876

Join us on a journey to make believe worlds with our good friend Mat Ryer. The assignment; we each get to make up a new world where we invent a new gadget and declare a new rule. This episode is sure to delight loyal fans and especially those who enjoy Mat Ryer on the show and a good/bad song or two.

Changelog & Friends Changelog & Friends #89

Vibing into the vibe

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2025-04-18T17:30:00Z 🎧 20,796

Nick Nisi joins us to confess his AI subscription glut, drool over some cool new hardware gadgets, discuss why the TypeScript team chose Go for their new compiler, opine on the React team’s complicated relationship with Vercel, suggest people try Astro, update us on his browser habits, and more.

Changelog Interviews Changelog Interviews #634

Leading leaders who lead engineers (remastered)

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2025-03-26T18:15:00Z #leadership 🎧 20,451

This week we’re bringing you a remaster of our epic 2021interview with Lara Hogan – author of Resilient Management and management coach / trainer for the tech industry.

The majority of our conversation focuses on the four primary hats leaders and managers end up wearing; mentoring, coaching, sponsoring, and delivering feedback. We also talk about knowing when you’re ready to lead, empathy and compassion, and learning to lead.

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