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Jerod Santo

Jerod co-hosts The Changelog, crashes JS Party & takes out the trash (his old code) once in awhile.

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901 episodes

Changelog Interviews Changelog Interviews #627

Build software that lasts!

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2025-02-05T20:15:00Z 🎧 7,056

After 30+ years in the software industry, Bert Hubert has experienced a lot. He founded PowerDNS, published articles for places like IETF / IEEE, and built his own parliament monitoring system. That just scratches the surface.

Recently, Bert wrote about what it takes to build software for the long term. Let’s dig in.

Changelog News Changelog News #130

Everyone knows your location

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2025-02-03T20:30:00Z 🎧 14,122

Tim Sh tracked himself down through in-app ads, Sniffnet comfortably monitors your Internet traffic, Cate Huston opines on what makes a good team, Victor Shepelev draws on 25 years of coding to share seven things he now knows & Grant Slatton tells you how to write a good design document.

Changelog Interviews Changelog Interviews #626

Turso is rewriting SQLite in Rust

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2025-01-30T13:00:00Z #sqlite +1 🎧 18,751

Glauber Costa, co-founder and CEO of Turso, joins us to discuss libSQL, Limbo, and how they’re rewriting SQLite in Rust. We discuss their efforts with libSQL, the challenge of SQLite being in the public domain but not being open for contribution, their choice to rewrite everything with Limbo, how this all plays into the future of the Turso platform, how they test Limbo with Deterministic Simulation Testing (DST), and their plan to replace SQLite.

Changelog News Changelog News #129

DeepSeek-R1's epic pull request

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2025-01-27T20:30:00Z 🎧 19,101

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 Interviews Changelog Interviews #625

From open source to acquired

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2025-01-23T14:00:00Z #oss +1 🎧 17,540

Ashley Jeffs shares his journey with Benthos, an open source stream processor that was acquired by Redpanda. We talk about the evolution of data streaming technologies, the challenges he faced while growing the project, the decision to bootstrap versus seek venture capital, and what ultimately led to the acquisition. We discuss reactions to licensing changes, what it’s like to have your thing acquired, the challenging yet fulfilling nature of open source work, what’s next for Benthos, and what it takes to enjoy the journey.

Changelog News Changelog News #128

Make computing personal again

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2025-01-20T20:00:00Z 🎧 17,928

Benj Edwards wants to put the “personal” back in “personal computer”, the answer.ai folks took Devin for a month-long spin, Asaf Zamir explains why senior engineers can remain ICs and still have a fulfilling career, Fabrizio Ferri Benedetti rethinks documentation by putting user actions first & Tero Piirainen lays out his case for Nue, the standards first web framework.

Changelog & Friends Changelog & Friends #76

Other people's robots

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2025-01-17T20:30:00Z 🎧 18,541

Jerod & Adam discuss Nvidia’s recently announced personal AI supercomputer, Waymo’s latest infinite loop, what’s involved in getting a “modern” terminal setup, and whether or not AI has gone mainstream… warts & all!

Changelog News Changelog News #127

The new $30,000 side hustle

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2025-01-13T20:45:00Z 🎧 18,607

Bloomberg reports on a concerning new trend in tech hiring, Sean Goedecke has a lot to say about large established codebases, Jacob Bartlett thinks Apple is ruining Swift’s original vision, Ahmed Khaleel built a cool tool for turning GitHub repos into interactive diagrams & Bridget Harris goes deep on the potential of crypto stablecoins to disrupt Visa and Mastercard’s duopoly.

Changelog News Changelog News #126

10 big predictions for 2025

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2025-01-06T20:00:00Z 🎧 19,112

M.G. Siegler goes way out on a limb with some BIG predictions of things that could happen this year, Simon Willison’s year-end roundup is a must-read and perhaps the only thing you have to read to get up-to-speed on the state of the LLM, Allen Pike describes a method for magic, Tom Critchlow thinks small databases are magic & James Stanier agrees with me about Parkinson’s Law and the usefulness of deadlines.

Go Time Go Time #340

That's Go Time!

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2024-12-18T16:15:00Z #go 🎧 16,351

Mat gathers the entire cast (sans Natalie, sadly) alongside our producer, Jerod Santo, for one last Go Time. That’s right, this is Go Time’s finale episode. After eight years and 340 episodes, we are going out on top. Join us one last time, you won’t regret it!

We share our feelings, reminisce on the good times, list some of our favorite moments & share a few opinions, which may (or may not) be unpopular. 😉

Changelog News Changelog News #124

A new era for the Changelog Podcast Universe

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2024-12-09T20:00:00Z 🎧 19,749

We’re making some big Changelog changes in 2025, the previously featured Stanford study on ghost engineers doesn’t live up to the hype, Git ingest is a simple service that turns any GitHub repository into a simple text ingest of its codebase, Simon Willison dishes out some hard-earned wisdom he acquired by working at Lanyrd / Eventbrite & Matheus Lima warns us about six mistakes that new managers make.

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