This week we're doing some Linux mythbusting and talking retro gaming with Jay LaCroix from Learn Linux TV. This is a preview of what's to come from our trip to All Things Open next week. By the way, make sure you come and check us out at booth 60. We'll be recording podcasts, shaking hands, giving out t-shirts and stickers...and speaking of gaming, you can go head-to-head with us on Mario Kart or Rocket League on the Nintendo Switch. We're giving that Switch away to a lucky winner at the confer...
Oct 28, 2022•1 hr 39 min
Valerian Saliou's Sonic search backend, Brandon Willett on how to build software like an SRE, DHH on why they're leaving the cloud, Amos' HTTP crash course nobody asked for & Sam Magura tells why he and the Spot team are breaking up with CSS-in-JS.
Oct 24, 2022•8 min
This week we're talking with Will McGugan about using the terminal to not just build software, but also to deliver software. Will is a few months into his journey of building Textualize, a company he started around his open source projects Textual and Rich. When combined Textual and Rich give you a Python framework to build beautiful full-featured TUIs for the Terminal. We talk with Will about his big idea of the terminal as a platform, how he got here from first principles, what it takes to bui...
Oct 21, 2022•1 hr 13 min
We revisit our Harmonai story from last week, Jamie Tanna reviews posting his salary history publicly, Sid Sijbrandij's new (open core) venture fund, Zed Shaw thinks Stripe is like Paypal in 2010 & Helix is a new Rust-based terminal.
Oct 17, 2022•7 min
This week we're talking about serverless Postgres! We're joined by Nikita Shamgunov, co-founder and CEO of Neon. With Neon, truly serverless PostgreSQL is finally here. Neon isn’t Postgres compatible…it actually is Postgres! Neon is also open source under the Apache License 2.0. We talk about what a cloud native serverless Postgres looks like, why developers want Postgres and why of the top 5 databases only Postgres is growing (according to DB-Engines Ranking), we talk about how they separated s...
Oct 14, 2022•1 hr 24 min
The libSQL community is forking SQLite, StabilityAI announces Haromai and Dance Diffusion, Robin Rendle doesn't believe in sprints, Shubham Garg curates some awesome diagramming tools & Chris Pressey writes up some must-read facts about state machines.
Oct 10, 2022•7 min
This week we're talking fresh, faster, and new web frameworks by way of JS Party. Yes, today's show is a web framework sampler because a new batch of web frameworks have emerged. There's always something new happening in the front-end world and JS Party does an amazing job of keeping us up to date. So...what's fresh, faster, and new? The first segment of the show focuses on Deno's Fresh new web framework. Luca Casonato joins Jerod & Feross to talk about Fresh – a next generation web framewor...
Oct 07, 2022•1 hr 35 min
Digital Ocean kicks off Hacktoberfest 2022, Divam Gupta releases DiffusionBee 1.0 with "Image To Image" support, Zeno Rocha open sources Dracula UI for React, GitX gets brought back from the brink & Prerender.io engineers save a bundle by moving off AWS. Oh, and join us at All Things Open in early November!
Oct 03, 2022•12 min
This week we turn the mics on ourselves, kind of. Lars Wikman joins the show to give us a guided tour through ID3 esoterica and the shiny new open source Elixir library he developed for us. We talk about what ID3 is, its many versions, what it aims to be and what it could have been, how our library project got started, all the unique features and failed dreams of the ID3v2 spec, how ID3v2 and Podcasting 2.0 are solving the problem differently, and how all of this maps back to us giving you (our ...
Sep 30, 2022•1 hr 23 min
Mozilla says Firefox will continue to support current content blockers, Nabeel Sulieman thinks NATS is great and recommends you check it out, InfoQ breaks down Uber's recent security breach, Klemen Sever explained OAuth2 by drawing cute shapes & Jorge Manrubia reflects back as an aging programmer.
Sep 26, 2022•5 min
This week we're talking about product development structures as systems with Lucas da Costa. The last time we had Lucas on the show he was living the text-mode only life, and now we're more than 3 years later, Lucas has doubled down on all things text mode. Today's conversation with Lucas maps several ideas he's shared recently on his blog. We talk about deadlines being pointless, trajectory vs roadmap and the downfall of long-term planning, the practices of daily stand-ups and what to do instea...
Sep 23, 2022•1 hr 27 min
Andreas Kling's new cross-platform browser project, Dan Hollick's nerdy deep-dive on QR code tech, Stephan Dilly's Rust-based terminal UI for Git, Miłosz Piechocki's opinion on junior vs senior engineers & Divam Gupta's Tensorflow port of Stable Diffusion.
Sep 19, 2022•8 min
This week on The Changelog we're talking about Stable Diffusion, DALL-E, and the impact of AI generated art. We invited our good friend Simon Willison on the show today because he wrote a very thorough blog post titled, "Stable Diffusion is a really big deal." You may know Simon from his extensive contributions to open source software. Simon is a co-creator of the Django Web framework (which we don't talk about at all on this show), he's the creator of Datasette, a multi-tool for exploring and p...
Sep 16, 2022•1 hr 17 min
Jacob Kaplan-Moss writes up a hot take on software quality, Wilfred Hughes creates the diff tool he's always wanted, Josh Collinsworth thinks React is only great at being popular, Jetpack's Devbox project looks pretty cool & James Williams sets out to find the shortest URLs on the internet. Oh, and chapters are here!
Sep 12, 2022•10 min
This week we're joined by Jason Bosco, co-founder and CEO of Typesense — the open source Algolia alternative and the easier to use ElasticSearch alternative. For years we've used Algolia as our search engine, so we come to this conversation with skin in the game and the scars to prove it. Jason shared how he and his co-founder got started on Typesense, why and how they are "all in" on open source, the options and the paths developers can take to add search to their project, how Typesense compare...
Sep 09, 2022•1 hr 20 min
Martin Heinz thinks you should be using Python's walrus operator, you probably believe some falsehoods about email, Carlos Fenollosa threw in the towel after self-hosting his email for 23 years & Leon is an open source personal assistant that can live on your server.
Sep 06, 2022•5 min
This week we're sharing the most popular episode of Go Time from last year — Go Time #196. We believe this episode was the most popular because it's all about building actually maintainable software and what goes into that. Kris Brandow is joined by Johnny Boursiquot, Ian Lopshire, and Sam Boyer. There's lots of hot takes, disagreements, and unpopular opinions. This is part two of a three part mini-series led by Kris on maintenance. Make sure you check out Go Time #195 and Go Time #202 to contin...
Sep 02, 2022•1 hr 15 min
Qalculate has a command-line interface, Michael Eischer adds compression to Restic, Emery Berger warns his fellow CS professors about Copilot, and Heroku GM Bob Wise details Heroku's next chapter (which excludes free accounts).
Aug 29, 2022•9 min
This week we're talking with Alex MacCaw — he's well known for his work as founder and CEO of Clearbit. In May of 2021, Alex shared a personal update with the world on his blog. After much reflection, he decided to step down as CEO of Clearbit to go back to his roots. In his words, "I love the early stages of company building. Hacking together code, setting up the Stripe account, getting the first customer. That's my jam." We talk with Alex about this portion of his journey at Clearbit, the Cata...
Aug 27, 2022•1 hr 25 min
Carlos Alexandro Becker shared some SSH tips, Sakun Acharige (a Comp Sci student + visual design enthusiast) created System.css, Felix Krause built a browser app that shows the JavaScript commands being executed by iOS app in-app browers, Yan Zhulanow decided to create Marta, and Lőrik Levente did a comparrison between Tauri & Electron using a real world application he’s building called Authme.
Aug 22, 2022•6 min
This week we're re-broadcasting a very special episode of Founders Talk. Adam was invited by our friends at Square to host a fireside chat with Jack Dorsey as the featured finale of their annual developer conference called Square Unboxed. Jack is one of the most prolific CEOs out there. He's a hacker turned CEO, often working at the very edge of what's to come. He's focused on what the future has to offer and an innovator at scale. He's also a Bitcoin maximalist and has positioned himself and Bl...
Aug 19, 2022•46 min
Lucas F. Costa on why your daily stand-ups don't work and host to fix them, Mahdi Yusuf deeply explains Redis, the Deno team announces some big changes coming, DevDash is a highly configurable terminal dashboard for developers and creators & Brett Cannon determines what is a Minimum Viable Python (MVPy).
Aug 15, 2022•6 min
eBPF is a revolutionary kernel technology that has lit the cloud native world on fire. If you're going to have one person explain the excitement, that person would be Liz Rice. Liz is the COSO at Isovalent, creators of the open source Cilium project and pioneers of eBPF tech. On this episode Liz tells Jerod all about the power of eBPF, where it came from, what kind of new applications its enabling, and who is building the next generation of networking, security, and observability tools with it....
Aug 14, 2022•1 hr 5 min
We add episode chapters to the website, KubeSail sells a PiBox, Nima Badizadegan wants you to use one big server, Gergeloy Orosz details oncall compensation across the software industry, Greg Kogan isn't impressed with how swamped you are at work, a dashboard template built on Bootstrap & Charm releases a CLI tool for shell scripts.
Aug 08, 2022•8 min
Episode 500!!! And it has been a journey! Nearly 13 years ago we started this podcast and as of today (this episode) we've officially shipped our 500th episode. As a companion to this episode, Jerod and Adam shipped a special Backstage episode where they reflect on 500 episodes. And...not only has it been a journey for us, but it's also been a journey for our good friend Chris Coyier and CSS-Tricks — which he grew from his personal blog to a massively popular contributor driven model, complete w...
Aug 05, 2022•1 hr 35 min
Oleksii Trekhleb has a new drawing app, Zach Leatherman did some markdown generator speed tests, Jorge Fioranelli built a framework for Engineering Managers, Crockford got interviewed on Evrone & Daniel Sieger wrote up his clean coding advice.
Aug 01, 2022•7 min
This week we're joined again by Ben Ubois and we're talking about RSS. Yes, RSS...the tech that never seems to die and yet so many of us rely on it daily. Ben is the creator of Feedbin, which is self-described as "a nice place to read on the web." Ben is also the maker of a new app on iOS for people who like podcasts. It's called Airshow and you can download it at airshow.fm. Ben catches us up on the state of Feedbin, we discuss the nine lives of RSS and its foundational utility for the indie we...
Jul 29, 2022•1 hr 42 min
Brandur thinks soft deletion probably isn't worth it, the orange website delivers a high quality discussion on data structures, Podge O'Brien drops satirical management advice, team pico delivers prose.sh, Mat Ryer shares his thoughts on estimations & Matt Rickard's thoughts on RSS have us thinking about it as well.
Jul 25, 2022•7 min
This week we're joined by On Freund, former VP of Engineering at WeWork and now co-founder & CEO of Wilco. WeWork you may have heard of, but Wilco maybe not (yet). We get into the details behind the tech and scaling of WeWork, comparisons of the fictional series on Apple TV+ called WeCrashed and how much of that is true. Then we move on to Wilco which is what has On's full attention right now. Wilco has the potential to be the next big thing for developers to acquire new skills. Wilco aims t...
Jul 24, 2022•1 hr 28 min
Anthony Hobday has 37 ways to spice up your designs, James Bennett has opinions on open source and PyPi security, Alicia Sykes compiled some awesome security/privacy options, ContextKeeper layouts out the real price of context switching, and Nick Nisi tells us all about jqq. Bam! Bam! Bam!
Jul 18, 2022•7 min
