State of the "log" 2023 (Interview)
The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Reflecting on a Year of Podcasting
In this chapter, the speakers celebrate their podcasting journey over the past year, expressing gratitude for their listeners and the diverse content produced. They share personal insights about resilience and the emotional depth of music, alongside discussions on influences and memorable episodes. As they look ahead to 2024, they emphasize the challenges of sustaining creativity and innovation while staying connected to their audience.
Our 6th annual year-end wrap-up episode! This time we’re featuring 12 (yes, 12!) listener voice mails, our favorite episodes of the year & some insanely cool Breakmaster Cylinder beats made just for this occasion. Thanks for listening! 💚
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Featuring:
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Arthur Maltson’s favs:
- Friends #11: An aberrant generation of programmers with Justin Searls & Landon Gray
- Interviews #551: DX on DX with Abi Noda
- Interviews #453: Leading leaders who lead engineers with Lara Hogan
Hal’s favs:
- Interviews #524: Mainframes are still a big thing with Cameron Seay
- Interviews #545: Rebuilding DevOps from the ground up with Adam Jacob
- Friends #20: Beat freak in residence with BMC
- Changelog News
Rory O’Connor’s favs:
Brett Cannon’s favs:
- Interviews #565: Pushing back on unconstrained capitalism with Cory Doctorow
- Interviews #558: Open source is at a crossroads with Steve O’Grady
- Interviews #549: Storytime with Steve Yegge
- Interviews #537: Hard drive reliability at scale with Andy Klein
- Special: Next Level
- Interviews #553: 30 years of Debian with Jonathan Carter
- Interviews #533: A new path to full-time open source with Filippo Valsorda
- Interviews #524: Mainframes are still a big thing with Cameron Seay
- Interviews #523: Just Postgres with Craig Kerstiens
Jarvis Yang’s favs:
Jamie Curnow’s favs:
- Interviews #540: Engineering management (for the rest of us) with Sarah Drasner
- Interviews #527: What it takes to scale engineering with Rachel Potvin
- Friends #16: The beginning of the end of physical media with Christina Warren
- Changelog Beats!
AJ Kerrigan’s favs:
- Interviews #553: 30 years of Debian with Jonathan Carter
- Interviews #547: Efficient Linux at the CLI with Danil J. Barrett
- Friends #15: #define: a game of fake definitions
- JS Party #299: Tech by Choice with Valerie Phoenix
- Friends #20: Beat freak in residence with BMC
Alex’s favs:
- Friends #23: The state of the 2023 tech market with Gergely Orosz
- Interviews #535: Examining capitalism’s chokepoints with Cory Doctorow
- Interviews #565: Pushing back on unconstrained capitalism with Cory Doctorow
- Interviews #534: LLMs break the internet with Simon Willison
Schalk Neethling’s favs:
- Friends #11: An aberrant generation of programmers with Justin Searls & Landon Gray
- JS Party #288: Refined thinking with Jim Nielsen
- Friends #12: You call it tech debt I call it malpractice with Kris Brandow
- Go Time #291: Go templating using Templ
- Friends #18: Human skills to pay the bills with KBall
- JS Party #299: Tech by Choice with Valerie Phoenix
- Cory Doctorow on restoring the dream of tech workers - YouTube
- Matteo Collina on how he believes AWS fooled devs & sabotaged the industry (to make more money) - YouTube
- Unpopular opinion! We’ll move from streaming back to owning content - YouTube
Tillman Jex’s favs:
- Interviews #549: Storytime with Steve Yegge
- Interviews #565: Pushing back on unconstrained capitalism with Cory Doctorow
- Friends #7: Dear Red Hat… with Jeff Geerling
Jamie Tanna’s favs:
Adam’s favs:
- Friends #17: Kaizen! Slightly more instant
- Interviews #557: Attack of the Canaries! with Haroon Meer from Thinkst
Jerod’s favs:
- Interviews #526: Git with your friends featuring Mat Ryer
- Interviews #532: Bringing Whisper and LLaMA to the masses with Georgi Gerganov
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