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Developer news worth your attention. Brief, entertaining & always on point. The software world moves fast. Keep up the easy way with Changelog News. Every Monday, Jerod Santo brings you the software news you absolutely need to know about, without the fluff.
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Aug 8, 2022 • 8min
Chapters, PiBox, using one big server, oncall compensation, being swamped is normal, Tabler & Gum
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.
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Aug 1, 2022 • 7min
OkSo, Markdown generator speeds, Egr Mgr framework, Crockford says retire JS & messy code not required
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.
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Jul 25, 2022 • 7min
Soft deletion, obscure data structures, driving away your best engineers, a blog platform for hackers & moar RSS
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.
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Jul 18, 2022 • 7min
Spicy designs, more open source opinions, privacy-focused services, the real cost of context switching & jqq
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!
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Jul 11, 2022 • 6min
Bun, K8s is a red flag, "critical" open source packages, Rustlings & FP jargon in simple terms
Jarred Sumner’s Bun comes out of the oven, Jeremy Brown doesn’t want you prematurely optimizing, Armin Ronacher’s not excited about his “critical” Python package, Daniel Thompson from Tauri thinks you should check out Rustlings, and we draw a straight line between Functional Programming jargon and boujee Gen Z slang.
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Jul 5, 2022 • 8min
DevTool platform types, things to know about databases, starting with commas, Lobsters turns 10 & Upptime
We’re listening! This week’s experimental, super-brief Monday edition of “The Changelog” has the following new features: It’s longer, there’s no background music during the stories, and it includes stories previously not featured in the newsletter.
If you like this better than the last one, would listen to it, and want us to keep it going… let us know in the comments or by tweeting @changelog!
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Jun 27, 2022 • 4min
Markwhen, Tauri 1.0, SLCs & imposters
We’re experimenting with something new: a super-brief Monday edition of “The Changelog” to help start your week off right and keep you up with the fast-moving software world.
If you like this, would listen to it, and want us to keep it going… let us know in the comments or by tweeting @changelog. If you’d rather we didn’t… also let us know!
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