State of the "log" 2024 (Changelog & Friends #74)
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Celebrating Music and Memories
In this chapter, the hosts share the joy of celebrating a music album release by hosting a spontaneous dance party with their children. They delve into their experiences with streaming music and favorite video game soundtracks, particularly reminiscing about Castlevania and its nostalgic value. The conversation shifts to their reflections on prior podcast highlights, celebrating the camaraderie in their tech discussions and the moments that resonate from the past year.
Our 7th annual year-end wrap-up is here! We’re featuring 12 listener voicemails, dope Breakmaster Cylinder remixes & our favorite episodes of the year. Thanks for listening! 💚
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Show Notes:
Many episodes were favorited more than once! We only list the first mention here…
AJ Kerrigan’s favs:
- We have a right to repair! with Kyle Wiens (Interviews #582)
- Building customizable ergonomic keyboards with Erez Zukerman (Interviews #608)
- Open source threaded team chat?! with Alya Abbott (Interviews #607)
Erno Voutilainen’s favs:
- Retirement is for suckers with Cameron Seay (Friends #36)
- #define: legendary with Thomas Eckert, Nick Nisi & Mat Ryer (Friends #47)
- Two tickets for Departure, please with Helena Zhang & Tobias Fried (Interviews #618)
Don Mackinnon’s favs:
- From Chef to System Initiative featuring Adam Jacob (Friends #55)
- Rails is having a moment (again) with DHH (Interviews #615)
Brett Cannon’s favs:
- From Sun to Oxide with Bryan Cantrill (Interviews #592)
- Free-threaded Python with Pablo & Łukasz (Interviews #611)
- Gradually gradually typing Elixir featuring José Valim (Friends #28)
- Linux distros with Jorge Castro (Ship It! #122)
- Let’s talk FreeBSD (finally) with Allan Jude (Interviews #574)
- The Oban Pros with Shannon & Parker Selbert (Friends #35)
- Why we need Ladybird with Andreas Kling & Chris Wanstrath (Interviews #604)
- Retired, not tired. with Kelsey Hightower (Interviews #595)
Nabeel Sulieman’s favs:
- The Moneyball approach with John Nunemaker (Interviews #612)
- Into the Bobiverse featuring Dennis E. Taylor (Interviews #603)
Rusty Nail’s favs:
- Lessons from 10k hours of programming (Remastered) with Matt Rickard (Interviews #613)
- “Founder Mode” at work when you’re not a founder (Go Time #332)
- The best, worst codebase with Jimmy Miller (Changelog Interviews #609)
- Bus factors & conspiracy theories (Friends #70)
Jamie Tanna’s favs:
- Yeeting stuff into public with Jamie Tanna (Friends #31)
- OpenAPI & API design with Jamie Tanna (Go Time #328)
- 1999: A Film Odyssey (Changelog++ 🔐) (Friends ++)
- Hack Club takes to the High Seas featuring Acon (Interviews #620)
- Gotta give to get back with Danny Thompson @ THAT (Interviews #617)
Jerod’s favs:
- We ain’t afraid of no Ghostty! with Mitchell Hashimoto (Interviews #622)
- Kaizen! NOT a pipe dream with Gerhard Lazu (Friends #50)
- You have how many open tabs?! featuring the hallway track at THAT (Friends #29)
- Future of [energy, content, food] featuring the hallway track at THAT (Friends #30)
- The man behind the Sandwich featuring Adam Lisagor (Interviews #601)
- Starbucks DVD peddlers with Emily Freeman & Justin Garrison (Friends #60)
Adam’s favs:
- In the beginning (of generative AI) with Joe Reis (Interviews #576)
- Shift left, seriously. with Deepak Prabhakara & Schalk Neethling (Interviews #575)
Also mentioned:
- Prime Digital Academy
- Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) - IMDb
- The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) - IMDb
- Jump Around - Wikipedia
- FreeBSD At 30: The History And Future Of The Most Popular BSD-Based OS
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