Changelog News

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.

Niklaus Wirth pleads for lean software, Henrik Karlsson emphasizes the importance of focus, and Calvin Wankhede shares his experience building a fully offline smart home.

Experienced developer frustrated with AI tooling for finding security bugs, web developer surprised by weird beliefs in engineering, fallout from nasty npm prank, thoughts on what they got right and wrong with Go, and challenging the view that all code is tech debt.

This podcast episode highlights the coolest code, best prose, and favorite episodes of each month. Topics discussed include AI dominance, Python in AI, Mojo programming language, limitations of chatbots, Apple's new vision, Reddit going dark, Valtown social website, blogging myths, Neon's serverless Postgres, enthusiast programmers, Bon 1.0 release, worst programmer story, decision fatigue, end of physical media, SSHX for terminal sharing, and fake definitions.