Changelog News

Redis re-licensing prompts forks like Redict, advocacy for community-built software, DuckDB replacing jq, a developer succeeding despite self-perceived limitations, and insights on the web developer job market.

Topics covered include a new badge for unmaintained open source projects, insights from evaluating 900 AI tools, tech layoffs, database fusion with Teable, and Target's open source fund.

Puter is an advanced internet OS built with Vanilla JavaScript and jQuery, structure your docs for LLMs, an open source Codespaces alternative called Daytona, Gleam v1.0 release, Rolldown JavaScript bundler in Rust.

Apple backtracks on killing EU web apps, shipping quality software in tough environments, Deno's npm registry, Martin Fowler on face-to-face value, Eugene Ghanizadeh advocates for decentralization beyond Fediverse

The podcast discusses GPTScript for automating LLM interactions, Muse project retrospective, JS loading on websites survey, Pages CMS for GitHub, and subversive hyperlinks. Sponsor ad highlights Neo4j graph databases. Other topics include user-friendly CMS on GitHub, permissionless link sharing, and the impact of well-designed software.

Maxim Dounin announces freenginx in a reality check for quantum computing. Nadia Asparouhova dives into AI acceleration and Angie Byron shares open source pitfalls. Miroslav Nikolov advises on high-risk refactoring in this engaging episode.

New Dance Party album by Changelog Beats, new 'Toolong' terminal app by Will McGugan, Mitchell Baker steps down as Mozilla CEO, Microsoft announces 'sudo' for Windows, Tatu Ylonen talks about SSH port 22, Jack Lindamood rates 50 services/tools, creation of SSH in 1995, infrastructure decisions reviewed with endorse/regret ratings.

Geoffrey Litt on the underrated potential of browser extensions, Adolfo Ochagavía on the tension between generalists and specialists in the tech industry. Terence Eden tries to rebuild FourSquare for ActivityPub using OpenStreetMap. Sebastien Dubois teaches us how to connect ideas together using knowledge graphs and tools like obsidian.

The Rune team announces $100k in open source grants for indie game devs, the Zed code editor is now open source, the Ollama team releases Python & JavaScript libraries, Max Bernstein tells the story of Scrapscript & Pooya Parsa writes up some notes from a tired maintainer.

Alex Ellis talks about his new project Actions Batch that turns GitHub Actions into a time-sharing supercomputer. Other topics include DevDocs.io, BUN Shell, web components, and building an air quality monitoring system with Prometheus, Grafana, and a CO2 sensor.