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Changelog Interviews Changelog Interviews #616

ANTHOLOGY ā€” Packages, pledges & protocols

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2024-11-06T22:30:00Z #oss +2

The hallway track at All Things Open 2024 ā€” features Carl George, Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat for a discussion on the state of open source enterprise linux and RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux), Max Howell, creator of Homebrew and tea.xyz which offers rewards and recognition to open source maintainers, and Chad Whitacre, Head of Open Source at Sentry about the launch of Open Source Pledge and their plans to helps businesses and orgs to do the right thing and support open source.

Changelog News Changelog News #119

Tactile controls are back in vogue

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2024-11-04T20:15:00Z šŸŽ§ 14,555

IEEE Spectrum reports on the return to physical buttons and dials, Microsoft released GenAIScript, iFixitā€™s Elizabeth Chamberlain announces a big Right to Repair win, Daniela Baron reimagines technical interviews & John Oā€™Nolan, shares some thoughts on open source governance and how to create trust within technology, communities, and media

Changelog Interviews Changelog Interviews #615

Rails is having a moment (again)

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2024-10-31T20:45:00Z #rails +3 šŸŽ§ 19,260

(Includes expletives) David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH), creator of Ruby on Rails and co-owner of 37signals, joined the show to discuss this Rails moment and renewed excitement for Rails. We discuss hard opinions, developers being cooked too long in the JavaScript soup, finding developer joy, the pros and cons of the BDFL, the ongoing WordPress drama with WP Engine, and whatā€™s to come in Rails 8.

Changelog News Changelog News #118

Developing with Docker (the right way)

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2024-10-28T11:00:00Z šŸŽ§ 19,616

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 Interviews Changelog Interviews #614

Elasticsearch is open source, again

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2024-10-24T15:00:00Z #startups +2 šŸŽ§ 18,361

Shay Banon, the creator of Elasticsearch, joins us to discuss pulling off a reverse rug pull. Yes, Elasticsearch is open source, again! We discuss the complexities surrounding open source licensing and what made Elastic change their license, the implications of trademark law, the personal and business impact of moving away from open source, and ultimately what made them hit rewind and return to open source.

Changelog News Changelog News #117

Naming conventions that need to die

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2024-10-21T19:15:00Z šŸŽ§ 19,897

Will Crichton wishes some naming conventions would die already, GitHub user brjsp noticed that Bitwardenā€™s new SDK dependency isnā€™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 Interviews Changelog Interviews #613

Lessons from 10k hours of programming (Remastered)

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2024-10-17T21:00:00Z #practices +1 šŸŽ§ 19,183

This week weā€™re going back in time to one of our top performing shows of all time where we talk with Matt Rickard about his blog post Reflections on 10,000 Hours of Programming. These reflections are about deliberately writing code for 10,000 hours. Most donā€™t apply to beginners. He was clear to mention that these reflections are purely about coding, not career advice or soft skills. If you count the reflections we cover on the show and be the first to comment the amount of reflections on this thread in Zulip, weā€™ll give you a coupon code to use for a 100% free t-shirt from the merch store. Good luckā€¦

Changelog News Changelog News #116

Working from home is powering productivity

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2024-10-14T19:30:00Z šŸŽ§ 21,100

Nicholas Bloom finds WFH is powering a productivity boom, Matt Mullenweg has decided that WP Engineā€™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 Interviews Changelog Interviews #612

The Moneyball approach

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2024-10-10T17:15:00Z #startups +1 šŸŽ§ 22,404

John Nunemaker joins us to share his new thesis for acquiring Rails based SaaS apps. Heā€™s early days on his next big thing called Very Good Software and recently acquired Fireside, a podcast hosting service started by Dan Benjamin. This comes after many years since Johnā€™s acquisition of a lifetime of Speakerdeck to GitHub, which laid the foundation for these moves.

Changelog & Friends Changelog & Friends #64

Developer (un)happiness

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2024-10-04T19:00:00Z #culture šŸŽ§ 23,269

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 theyā€™re doing at DX to help orgs and teams to understand the metrics behind their developerā€™s happiness and productivity.

Changelog Interviews Changelog Interviews #611

Free-threaded Python

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2024-10-02T18:30:00Z #python šŸŽ§ 23,648

Jerod is joined by the co-hosts of core.py , Pablo Galindo & Łukasz Langa, a podcast about Python internals by people who work on Python internals. Python 3.13 is right around the corner, which means the Global Interpeter Lock (GIL) is now experimentally optional! This is a huge deal as Python is finally free-threaded. Thereā€™s more to discuss, of course, so we get into all the gory details.

Changelog Interviews Changelog Interviews #610

Leveling up JavaScript with Deno 2

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2024-09-26T15:30:00Z #deno +2 šŸŽ§ 22,752

Jerod is joined by Ryan Dahl to discuss his second take on leveling up JavaScript developers all around the world. Jerod asks Ryan why not try to fix or fork Node instead of starting fresh, how Deno (the open source project) can avoid the all too common rug pull (not cool) scenario, whatā€™s new in Deno 2 & their pragmatic decision to support npm, they talk JSR, they talk Deno KV & SQLite, they even talk about Ryanā€™s open letter to Oracle in an attempt to free the unused ā€œJavaScriptā€ trademark from the giantā€™s clutches.

Changelog News Changelog News #113

Imagine Fly.io on your own VPS

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2024-09-23T19:15:00Z šŸŽ§ 20,008

Mahmoud Mousa releases Sidekick, a tool for hosting side projects on a cheap VPS, Ryan Dahl, has had enough of Oracle bogarting ā€œJavaScriptā€ but not even using it, Thomas Rampelbergā€™s kty is a sweet terminal for Kubernetes, Redis users are considering alternatives after their relicense & a bunch of smart JS folks wrote up nine Node.js pillars.

Changelog Interviews Changelog Interviews #609

The best, worst codebase

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2024-09-18T20:30:00Z šŸŽ§ 22,012

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. Letā€™s just say Jimmy got into some stuff. Thereā€™s even a Gilfoyle involved. This episode is all about his adventures while working there.

Changelog News Changelog News #112

Why GitHub actually won

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2024-09-16T20:00:00Z šŸŽ§ 22,177

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

Changelog Interviews Changelog Interviews #608

Building customizable ergonomic keyboards

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2024-09-12T14:25:00Z #hardware +2 šŸŽ§ 29,707

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 keyboardā€¦we cover it all.

Changelog News Changelog News #111

Is Linux collapsing under its own weight?

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2024-09-09T19:30:00Z šŸŽ§ 27,864

A Rust for Linux developer resigns amidst rising tension in the Linux community, Bret Victor shows off what heā€™s been working on for years, Rachel (by the bay) laments how useless ā€œSREā€ has become as a role, Doug Turnbull makes the case for hiring junior devs & Baldur Bjarnason says the LLM honeymoon phase is about to end.

Changelog Interviews Changelog Interviews #607

Open source threaded team chat?!

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2024-09-05T17:00:00Z #oss +2 šŸŽ§ 31,478

Weā€™re joined by Alya Abbott from Zulip, the open source, organized, threaded, team chat for distributed teams of all sizes. We talk about Zulipā€™s origins, how itā€™s open source, the way itā€™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 communityā€¦all the things.

Changelog News Changelog News #110

Cursor wants to write all the world's code

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2024-09-03T19:30:00Z šŸŽ§ 27,568

The Cursor AI code editor raises $60 million, RedMonkā€™s Rachel Stephens tries to determine if rug pulls are worth it, Caleb Porzio details how he made $1 million on GitHub Sponsors, Elastic founder Shay Banon announces that Elasticsearch is open source (again) & Tomas Stropus writes about the art of finishing.

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