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Your one-stop shop for all Changelog podcasts. Weekly shows about software development, developer culture, open source, building startups, artificial intelligence, shipping code to production, and the people involved. Yes, we focus on the people. Everything else is an implementation detail.

Episodes

Reverse rug pull, so cool? (Changelog & Friends #61)

Jerod & Adam share our Zulip first impressions, react to Elasticsearch going open source (again), discuss Christian Hollinger's blog post on why he still self-hosts & answer a listener question: how do we produce podcasts?

Sep 13, 20241 hr 26 min

Undirected hyper arrows (JS Party #338)

Chris Shank has been on sabbatical since January, so he's had a lot of time to think deeply about the web platform. On this episode, Jerod & KBall pick Chris' brain to answer questions like, what does a post-component paradigm look like? What would it look like if the browser had primitives for building spatial canvases? How can we make it easier to make “folk interfaces” on the web?

Sep 12, 20241 hr 8 min

Building customizable ergonomic keyboards (Changelog Interviews #608)

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 keyboard...we cover it all.

Sep 12, 20241 hr 40 min

Cybersecurity in the GenAI age (Practical AI #286)

Dinis Cruz drops by to chat about cybersecurity for generative AI and large language models. In addition to discussing The Cyber Boardroom, Dinis also delves into cybersecurity efforts at OWASP and that organization's Top 10 for LLMs and Generative AI Apps.

Sep 11, 202452 min

Home automation with Go (Go Time #330)

Join Johnny as he dives into the world of home automation with Ricardo Gerardi & Mike Riley, two tinkerers who've taken the plunge with Go. We explore the challenges (and the fun) they encounter along the way. If you're interested in automating your home (or working with micro controllers) come learn how to get started!

Sep 10, 202457 min

Is Linux collapsing under its own weight? (Changelog News #111)

A Rust for Linux developer resigns amidst rising tension in the Linux community, Bret Victor shows off what he's been working on for years, Rachel (by the bay) laments how useless "SRE" 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.

Sep 09, 202410 min

Starbucks DVD peddlers (Changelog & Friends #60)

Emily Freeman joins the show alongside our Ship It co-host, Justin Garrison! We hear Emily's burnout story & learn how she and Forrest Brazeal are putting tech-focused influencers on tap. But first: area code turf wars, bad movie reboots & buying used DVDs... at Starbucks?!

Sep 06, 20241 hr 18 min

Learning & teaching networking & AI (Ship It! #120)

Du'An Lightfoot, dev advocate at AWS, joins Justin & Autumn to discuss networking, a knowledge gap people many people have. You can ignore the things you don't understand or you can invest time to learn it.

Sep 06, 20241 hr 20 min

Don’t ever use these TypeScript features (JS Party #337)

Jerod, Nick & Chris discuss a next-gen JavaScript bundler, Node getting even tighter with TypeScript, the top programming languages according to IEEE Spectrum, Chris' feelings on Node's built-in test runner & more!

Sep 05, 202449 min

Open source threaded team chat?! (Changelog Interviews #607)

We're joined by Alya Abbott from Zulip, the open source, organized, threaded, team chat for distributed teams of all sizes. We talk about Zulip's origins, how it's open source, the way it'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 community...all the things.

Sep 05, 20241 hr 32 min

AI is more than GenAI (Practical AI #285)

GenAI is often what people think of when someone mentions AI. However, AI is much more. In this episode, Daniel breaks down a history of developments in data science, machine learning, AI, and GenAI in this episode to give listeners a better mental model. Don't miss this one if you are wanting to understand the AI ecosystem holistically and how models, embeddings, data, prompts, etc. all fit together.

Sep 05, 202440 min

Cursor wants to write all the world's code (Changelog News #110)

The Cursor AI code editor raises $60 million, RedMonk'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.

Sep 03, 202410 min

The diagram IS the code (Ship It! #119)

What if your infrastructure diagram was responsible for the actual infrastructure?! John Watson & Scott Prutton from System Initiative join Justin & Autumn to discuss.

Aug 30, 20241 hr 22 min

#define: piggyback (Changelog & Friends #59)

What happens when you take two #define champs (Taylor Troesh, Thomas Eckert), a grizzled veteran (Adam Stacoviak), a british bard (Mat Ryer), a PhD (Carol Lee) & you pit them against each other in a game of fake tech definitions?! There's only one way to find out...

Aug 30, 20241 hr 35 min

Metrics Driven Development (Practical AI #284)

How do you systematically measure, optimize, and improve the performance of LLM applications (like those powered by RAG or tool use)? Ragas is an open source effort that has been trying to answer this question comprehensively, and they are promoting a "Metrics Driven Development" approach. Shahul from Ragas joins us to discuss Ragas in this episode, and we dig into specific metrics, the difference between benchmarking models and evaluating LLM apps, generating synthetic test data and more.

Aug 29, 202442 min

Reinventing Kafka on object storage (Changelog Interviews #606)

Ryan Worl, Co-founder and CTO at WarpStream, joins us to talk about the world of Kafka and data streaming and how WarpStream redesigned the idea of Kafka to run in modern cloud environments directly on top of object storage. Last year they posted a blog titled, "Kafka is dead, long live Kafka" that hit the top of Hacker News to put WarpStream on the map. We get the backstory on Kafka and why it's so widely used, who created it and for what purpose, and the behind the scenes on all things WarpStr...

Aug 29, 20241 hr 44 min

The community of gophers (Go Time #329)

On this episode, Angelica is joined by Go community leaders from around the world: meetup organizers from Guadalajara, St. Louis, New York & Go Bridge Atlanta. Together, they explore the ins & outs of organizing meetups, the benefits of attending, the Go Developer Network (GDN) & the current state of the Go Meetup community.

Aug 28, 20241 hr 10 min

What good programmers worry about (Changelog News #109)

Waymo cars make bad neighbors, Leonardo Creed pulls together wisdom from Linus Torvalds & the Art of Unix Programming to conclude what good programmers worry about, Max Schmitt makes the argument that toast notifications create a bad user experience, ChartDB is a web-based database diagramming editor, Simon Tatham makes a list of code review anti-patterns & scientists confirm that 'flow state' is very much a thing.

Aug 26, 20249 min

The great escape room (Changelog & Friends #58)

Adam & Jerod catch up with our ol' friend, Suz Hinton! It's been a couple years since Suz was a regular on JS Party. Since then, she moved back to Australia, earned a degree in cyber security & won a fidget spinner from the NSA... but that's not all!

Aug 23, 20241 hr 45 min

MySQL performance (Ship It! #118)

Silvia Botros joins Justin & Autumn for a phenomenal conversation about databases, her career path & the ins/outs of writing _High Performance MySQL_.

Aug 23, 20241 hr 9 min

There be a11y dragons (JS Party #335)

Eric Bailey joins Jerod to discuss everything Dungeons & Dragons taught him about writing alt text, building accessible websites, Primer, the problem with a11y overlays & more.

Aug 22, 202456 min

Threat modeling LLM apps (Practical AI #283)

If you have questions at the intersection of Cybersecurity and AI, you need to know Donato at WithSecure! Donato has been threat modeling AI applications and seriously applying those models in his day-to-day work. He joins us in this episode to discuss his LLM application security canvas, prompt injections, alignment, and more.

Aug 22, 202455 min

Flavors of Ship It! (Changelog Interviews #605)

Flavors of Ship It on The Changelog — if you're not subscribed to Ship It yet, do so at shipit.show or by searching for "Ship it" wherever you listen to podcasts. Every week Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash explore everything that happens after `git push` — and today's flavors include running infrastructure in space, managing millions of machines at Meta, and what it takes to control your 3D printer with OctoPrint.

Aug 21, 20242 hr 9 min

⚡ Lightning Talk life ⚡ (Go Time #327)

This episode focuses on the art of delivering concise Lightning Talks, a popular format at conferences worldwide where speakers present in a short timeframe. Joined by some of this year's GopherCon Lightning Talkers, we'll discuss their experiences, challenges & tips for effective communication within a limited time.

Aug 21, 20241 hr 12 min

Practices of reliable software design (Changelog News #108)

Chris Stjernlöf got nerd-sniped and ended up writing down his practices of reliable software design, Ben Visness has had enough with the npm community's propensity to pull in micro-libraries to suit every need, "Stay SaaSy" makes three metaphors for problem solving categories, Troy Hunt takes us inside the "3 billion people" National Public Data breach & Dasel is one data tool to rule them all.

Aug 19, 20249 min

The Winamp era (Changelog & Friends #57)

You won't believe the bizarre secrets Jordan Eldredge found investigating corrupt Winamp skins (#7 will shock you)! You also won't believe how long we can wax nostalgic about the era of Napster, Aladdin & Pearl Jam.

Aug 16, 20241 hr 40 min

Cloud-centric security logging (Ship It! #117)

Justin & Autumn are joined by Steven Wu from Scanner. Scanner built logging infrastructure focused on security teams and occasional querying. We dive deep into how architectural decisions affect your business.

Aug 16, 20241 hr 4 min

Forging Minecraft's scripting API (JS Party #334)

Raphael Landaverde & Jake Shirley work on Minecraft full-time. How cool is that?! On this episode, they join Jerod to tell us all about the web tech that drives Minecraft's scripting infrastructure, how they incrementally change a massive / always-moving target, the best / worst parts of the job & much more.

Aug 15, 202458 min
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