Benn Stancil’s weekly Substack on data and technology provides a fascinating perspective on the modern data stack & the industry building it. On this episode, Benn joins Jerod to dissect a few of his essays, discuss opportunities he sees during this slowdown & explain why he thinks maybe we should disband the analytics team. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 13 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Cronitor – Cronitor helps you unde...
Jul 17, 2024•1 hr 12 min
Marcus J. Ranum’s 2005 post on dumb ideas in computer security still holds up, Barry Jones argues why story points are useless, Posting is an HTTP client as a TUI, Varnish ceator Poul-Henning Kamp ( phk ) reflects on ten years of working on the HTTP cache & es-tookit is a major upgrade to Lodash. View the newsletter Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Neon – Fleets of Postgres! Enterprises use Ne...
Jul 15, 2024•8 min
Shawn “swyx” Wang is back to talk with us about the state of DevRel according to ZIRP (the Zero Interest Rate Phenomenon), the data that backs up the rise and fall of job openings, whether or not DevRel is dead or dying, speculation of the near-term arrival of AGI, AI Engineering as the last job standing, the innovation from Cognition with Devin as well as their mis-steps during Devin’s launch, and what’s to come in the next innovation round of AI. Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a b...
Jul 12, 2024•1 hr 33 min
Git was designed to be distributed but there is a lot of gravity around GitHub. What does the model look like for a business that encourages you to run your own git server and what does the backend for gitea.com look like? Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 9 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Sentry – Code breaks, fix it faster. Don’t just observe. Take action. Sentry is the only app monitoring platform built for developers that gets to ...
Jul 12, 2024•1 hr 13 min
Paul Copplestone, CEO of Supabase (the meme-lord himself), joins the show to take us on the journey of Supabase leading Postgres for life, and how it all starts with Postgres as the base-layer substrate for the entire Supabase platform. They’re laser focused on the drive ahead, not the rear-view mirror. Disclosure: Adam and Jerod are angel investors in Supabase. Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 5 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today! Sponsors: Sentry – C...
Jul 11, 2024•1 hr 35 min
KBall takes another dive into recent hot topics around reactivity and build systems, this time with three members of the Ember core team. They also talk about some of the reasons why the Ember community has been so long lived, how thinking about upgradeability leads to universality, and how features first built specifically for frameworks make their way into the language specification or universal libraries. Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 16 minutes at the end of this episod...
Jul 11, 2024•1 hr 23 min
Daniel & Chris explore the advantages of vector databases with Roie Schwaber-Cohen of Pinecone. Roie starts with a very lucid explanation of why you need a vector database in your machine learning pipeline, and then goes on to discuss Pinecone’s vector database, designed to facilitate efficient storage, retrieval, and management of vector data. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 3 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Plumb – Low-code AI...
Jul 10, 2024•44 min
Mat Ryer has been writing HTTP services in Go for more than 13 years. Needless to say, he’s learned a lot along the way. Today, Johnny & Ian sit down with Mat to ask him all about it. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) a...
Jul 09, 2024•1 hr 11 min
Marcus Buffett writes his younger self programming advice, Swyx asks and answers whether or not DevRel is dead, the Ghost team opens up their ActivityPub server, Pongo is like MongoDB but on Postgres, Jack Kelly is funding Ladybird because he can’t fund Firefox & Hyrum’s Law. View the newsletter Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 1 minute on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Neon – Fleets of Postgres! Enterprises use Neon to operate hundreds of...
Jul 08, 2024•9 min
Gareth Greenaway from the Salt project joins us for a trip down memory lane with configuration management and why open source projects have changed over the past decade. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 10 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Sentry – Code breaks, fix it faster. Don’t just observe. Take action. Sentry is the only app monitoring platform built for developers that gets to the root cause for every issue. 90,000+ growing team...
Jul 06, 2024•1 hr 12 min
Adam & Jerod discuss the news! But first, we discuss how you can keep up with the software world (good question, Tyler Boyd!) On the docket: Developer job postings trend, the Ladybird Browser Initiative, the Polyfill.js supply chain attack & is the future self-hosted? Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 15 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today! Sponsors: Sentry – Code breaks, fix it faster. Don’t just observe. Take action. Sentry is the only app moni...
Jul 05, 2024•1 hr 30 min
Philipp Burckhardt, Athan Reines & the team behind stdlib.io believe in a future in which the web is a preferred environment for numerical computation. They’ve been working toward building that future for over a decade. Thanks to listener, Brian Zelip, Jerod sits down with Philipp to learn all about this excellent effort: where it’s been & where it’s headed. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 5 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: S...
Jul 04, 2024•51 min
Dependencies! We need them, but how do we use them effectively and safely? In this week’s episode Kris is joined by Ian and Johnny to discuss the polyfill.io supply chain attack, the history of dependency management and usage in Go, and the Go Proverb that “a little copying is better than a little dependency”. Of course, we wrap up the episode with some Unpopular Opinions! Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 5 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Spon...
Jul 03, 2024•1 hr 4 min
Carol Lee (Clinical Scientist) shares her research on code review anxiety. We dive deep into her recent research paper “Understanding and Effectively Mitigating Code Review Anxiety”. We get into all the nooks and crannies of this topic — common code review myths, strategies for coping, the need for awareness and self-reflection, the value of exposure and practice to build confidence, the importance of team dynamics, respect, empathy, and connection, and more. This show is jam-packed with goodies...
Jul 03, 2024•1 hr 12 min
We’ve had representatives from Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) on the show in the past, but we were super excited to talk through their 2024 AI Index Report after such a crazy year in AI! Nestor from HAI joins us in this episode to talk about some of the main takeaways including how AI makes workers more productive, the US is increasing regulations sharply, and industry continues to dominate frontier AI research. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save ...
Jul 02, 2024•47 min
Software developer jobs are trending down, the creator of dotenv creates a better dotenv, the Chrome team puts Gemini Nano AI model right inside your browser, a pollyfill.js supply chain attack hits 100k+ sites & Steph Ango asks, “What can we remove?” View the newsletter Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Sentry – Code breaks, fix it faster. Don’t just observe. Take action. Sentry is the only ap...
Jul 01, 2024•8 min
Bailey Hayes & Taylor Thomas from Cosmonic join the show for a look at WebAssembly Standard Interfaces (WASI) and trade-offs for portable interfaces. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 12 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Neon – Fleets of Postgres! Enterprises use Neon to operate hundreds of thousands of Postgres databases: Automated, instant provisioning of the world’s most popular database. Retool – The low-code platform for develo...
Jun 29, 2024•1 hr 17 min
Welcome to Kaizen 15 ! We go deep on the big Changelog News redesign, give shout outs to folks who’ve helped us along the way & Gerhard takes us on his journey to turn Jerod’s pipe dream into a reality! Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 7 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today! Sponsors: Cronitor – Cronitor helps you understand your cron jobs. Capture the status, metrics, and output from every cron job and background process. Name and organize each job,...
Jun 28, 2024•1 hr 39 min
Jerod sits down with React Native aficionado, Simon Grimm, to catch up on everyone’s favorite native app platform & learn about Expo , which Simon thinks is the way forward for devs building with React Native. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 10 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Socket – Secure your supply chain and ship with confidence. Install the GitHub app , book a demo or learn more Neon – Fleets of Postgres! Enterprises use N...
Jun 27, 2024•58 min
Predrag Gruevski and Chris Krycho joined the show to talk about SemVer. We explore the challenges and the advantages of semantic versioning (aka SemVer), the need for improving the tooling around SemVer, where semantic versioning really shines and where it’s needed, Types and SemVer, whether or not there’s a better way, and why it’s not as simple as just opting out. Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 7 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today! Sponsors: Socket...
Jun 26, 2024•1 hr 32 min
Daniel & Chris engage in an impromptu discussion of the state of AI in the enterprise. Then they dive into the recent Apple Intelligence announcement to explore its implications. Finally, Daniel leads a deep dive into a new topic - Advanced RAG - covering everything you need to know to be practical & productive. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 6 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Neo4j – Is your code getting dragged down by JOI...
Jun 25, 2024•45 min
Our award winning worthy survey game show is back, this time Mat Ryer hosts it live on stage at GopherCon EU Berlin 2024! Join in & play along as we see which team can better guess what these GopherCon gophers had to say! Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 6 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Speakeasy – Production-ready, Enterprise-resilient, best-in-class SDKs crafted in minutes. Speakeasy takes care of the entire SDK workflow to sa...
Jun 25, 2024•41 min
Søren Fuglede Jørgensen builds a font thats also an LLM, Hugo Landau writes about the demise of the mildly dynamic website, SQL Studio is the simplest little database explorer ever, Mathew Duggan reviews GitHub Copilot Workspace & Stephan Schmidt lays out the case against mocking + what to do instead. View the newsletter Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: FireHydrant – The alerting and on-call t...
Jun 24, 2024•11 min
Daniel Stenberg shares his guiding principles for BDFL’ing curl, gives us his perspective on the state of the internet, talks financial independence, ensuring curl won’t be the next XZ & more! Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 7 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today! Sponsors: Socket – Secure your supply chain and ship with confidence. Install the GitHub app , book a demo or learn more Neon – Fleets of Postgres! Enterprises use Neon to operate hundreds...
Jun 21, 2024•1 hr 41 min
Devyn Cairns & Jakub Žádník join Justin & Autumn to talk about building a new kind of cross-platform shell that provides easy extensions with traditional command compatibility. That’s no easy feat! Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 11 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Sentry – Code breaks, fix it faster. Don’t just observe. Take action. Sentry is the only app monitoring platform built for developers that gets to the root cause f...
Jun 21, 2024•1 hr 13 min
Polypane purveyor Kilian Valkhof joins Nick & Jerod to tell us all about his efforts building a web browser just for web development. We cover it all: from the business concerns, to the technical details, to his excellent choice not to use TypeScript! We even sneak in a feature request that already made its way into this excellent dev tool for ambitious web developers. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 10 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Spo...
Jun 20, 2024•1 hr 29 min
Jacob DePriest, VP and Deputy Chief Security Officer at GitHub, joins the show this week to talk about securing GitHub. From Artifact Attestations, profile hardening, preventing XZ-like attacks, GitHub Advanced Security, code scanning, improving Dependabot, and more. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 14 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Socket – Secure your supply chain and ship with confidence. Install the GitHub app , book a demo or l...
Jun 19, 2024•1 hr 30 min
Daniel & Chris sit down with Denis Yarats, Co-founder & CTO at Perplexity, to discuss Perplexity’s sophisticated AI-driven answer engine. Denis outlines some of the deficiencies in search engines, and how Perplexity’s approach to information retrieval improves on traditional search engine systems, with a focus on accuracy and validation of the information provided. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 6 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Spon...
Jun 19, 2024•46 min
This week we’re catching up on the news! Kris is joined by Ian to discuss some of the recent news from around the Go community. Listen in to hear whether the co-hosts believe there’s software that shouldn’t be written in Go, their thoughts on if Go is evolving in the right direction & whether common nouns make good package names. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 6 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Neo4j – Is your code getting dragg...
Jun 18, 2024•1 hr 14 min
Luminousmen writes about Senior Engineer Fatigue, Microsoft rethinks its AI-based Recall feature, Mike Hoye gives a big shout out to the “diff” program, Thom Holwerda covers ChromeOS’ quiet switch to Android Linux subsystems & Mihail Eric tells the inside story on how Alexa dropped the ball on being the top conversational system on Earth. View the newsletter Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: 1P...
Jun 17, 2024•9 min
