State of the "log" 2023 (Changelog Interviews #571)

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:

• Interviews #524: Mainframes are still a big thing with Cameron Seay

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:

• Friends #9: Homelab nerds, unite! with Techno Tim

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:

• Interviews: #568: Gleaming the KubeCon
• Friends #24: HATEOAS corpus with Kris Brandow

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

Also mentioned:

• Hobo Johnson’s Tiny Desk Concert
• AllttA - The Woods

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