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Jerod Santo

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

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Changelog Interviews Changelog Interviews #656

Python documentary companion pod

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2025-08-27T18:30:00Z #python +1 🎧 20,402

Our friends at Cult.Repo launched their epic Python documentary on August 28th, 2025! To celebrate, we sat down with Travis Oliphant –creator of NumPy, SciPy, and more– to get his perspective on how Python took over the software world.

Stick around for the twist ending! We set aside Python and dissect Travis’ big idea to make open source projects financially sustainable through direct investment.

Changelog News Changelog News #158

Omarchy 2.0: Best Linux setup ever?

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2025-08-25T19:15:00Z 🎧 26,865

Elon Musk and xAI take on Microsoft, DHH ships version 2 of Omarchy (his love letter to Linux), Glyn Normington on managing developer’s block, Mitchell Hashimoto declares that all Ghostty contributions must disclose AI tooling, the United States government takes a 10% stake in Intel, and Adam Derewecki thinks we should do things that don’t scale, then don’t scale.

Changelog Interviews Changelog Interviews #654

Biocomputing on human neurons

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2025-08-14T20:00:00Z #hardware +2 🎧 19,141

Dr. Ewelina Kurtys is leading the way in biocomputing at FinalSpark where she is working on the next evolutionary leap for AI and neuron-powered computing. It’s a brave new world, just 10 years in the making. We discuss lab-grown human brain organoids connected to electrodes, the possibility to solve AI’s massive energy consumption challenge, post-silicon approach to computing, biological vs quantum physics and more.

Changelog News Changelog News #156

Open source regrets

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2025-08-11T19:15:00Z 🎧 21,969

Open source maintainers share their regrets, Thomas Dohmke steps down as GitHub CEO, James Kettle breaks down HTTP/2 from a security perspective, PHP is getting the pipe operator this November, and a class action copyright suit threatens Anthropic and the rest of the AI industry.

Changelog Interviews Changelog Interviews #653

LIVE from Denver with Nora Jones!

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2025-08-06T19:30:00Z 🎧 21,629

We’re LIVE at the historic Oriental Theater in Denver, CO with Nora Jones. Nora is the founder of Jeli.io, recently acquired by PagerDuty and she’s been shaping the way we think about reliability, incident response, and human-centered engineering for years.

We get into the real story behind the deal. Not just the headline, but what it’s like selling your company, what it takes to actually integrate a product into a larger platform, how customers responded, what changed for her team, and why her new role at PagerDuty is basically everything she was building Jeli for.

Changelog News Changelog News #155

The smell of vibe coding

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2025-08-04T19:45:00Z 🎧 27,058

Alex Kondov knows when you’ve been vibe coding. (He can smell it.) our friends at Charm release a Go-based AI coding agent as a TUI, Jan Kammerath disassembled the “hacked’ Tea service’s Android app, Alex Ellman made a website that provides up-to-date pricing info for major LLM APIs, and Steph Ango suggests remote teams have “ramblings” channels.

Changelog & Friends Changelog & Friends #104

SO much to dig into

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2025-08-01T19:45:00Z 🎧 24,005

Adam & Jerod (plus zero other randos) dig into Stack Overflow’s 2025 developer survey results. We discuss SO’s decline, the desire for younger devs to have real chats with real people, the rise of uv and more Python winning, why people are frustrated with AI, and more.

Changelog News Changelog News #153

Humanity has prevailed (for now!)

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2025-07-21T19:15:00Z 🎧 17,112

Przemysław Dębiak beat an advanced AI model from OpenAI in a 10-hour head-to-head coding marathon, Linux breaks 5% desktop share in U.S., Stefano Marinelli is writing a series on making your own backup system, César Soto Valero switched to Python (and is liking it), and Charlie Graham thinks it’s rude to show AI output to people.

Changelog & Friends Changelog & Friends #102

Try harder. Ultrathink!

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2025-07-18T20:00:00Z 🎧 21,342

Nick Nisi joins us to discuss all the Windsurf drama, his new agentic lifestyle, whether or not he’s actually more productive, the new paper that says he maybe isn’t more productive, the reckoning he sees coming, and why we might be the last generation of code monkeys.

Changelog News Changelog News #152

An app can be a home-cooked meal

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2025-07-14T19:45:00Z 🎧 16,510

Researchers in Japan achieve a world record in data transmission speeds, Robin Sloan explains how an app can be a home-cooked meal, Windsurf founders Varun Mohan & Douglas Chen are headed to Google, new Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan says it’s too late for the incumbent, Anton Zaides says stop forcing AI tools on your engineers, and Adrien Friggeri visualized his ten-year running streak.

Changelog & Friends Changelog & Friends #101

Measuring the actual impact of AI coding

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2025-07-11T19:05:00Z 🎧 20,963

Abi Noda from DX is back to share some cold, hard data on just how productive AI coding tools are actually making developers. Teaser: the productivity increase isn’t as high as we expected. We also discuss Jevons paradox, AI agents as extensions of humans, which tools are winning in the enterprise, how development budgets are changing, and more.

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