On this year’s “State of the ‘log’” episode we’re going behind the scenes to look back at 2018 as we prepare for 2019 and onward. We talk through our most popular episodes, most controversial episodes, and even some of our personal favorites. We also catch you up on some company level updates here at Changelog Media. We hired Tim Smith earlier this year as our Senior Producer, we retired Request for Commits, started some new shows…

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Featuring:

• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

Before we officially head into the year end I wanted to take a moment to thank you for your time and attention, it means the world to us. We work very hard to produce this podcast and we do it for you, the listeners — so thank you. Please be safe over the holiday break. Enjoy your time with family, friends, and loved ones. We’ll see you again in 2019!

Most popular episodes

• #291 – Winamp2 JS with Jordan Eldredge
• #288 – Live coding open source on Twitch with Suz Hinton
• #295 – Scaling all the things at Slack with Julia Grace
• #298 – The beginnings of Microsoft Azure with Julia White
• #297 and #314 on GraphQL

Most controversial

• #300 – Corporate interests in open source and dev culture with Zed Shaw
• Throwback to #205 – A protocol for dying with Pieter Hintjens

Staff favorites

• Adam: Drupal is a pretty big deal
• Jerod: A call for kindness in open source

New shows!

• You can listen to Backstage on the web or subscribe via Master
• You are subscribed to Master, right? 😉
• Listen to the new and improved JS Party
• Founders Talk is back in a big way!
• Tim Smith’s Away from Keyboard is a must-listen
• Maybe start with episode #4?
• We didn’t talk too much about Practical AI, but it’s rad too

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!