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HashiCorp adopts a Business Source license, Matt Rickard hypothesizes why Tailwind CSS won, WarpStream sets out to make a Kafka-compatible offering on S3, Vadim Kravcenko publishes an excellent guide for managing difficult software engineers & Russ Cox gives an update on Go 2.

Matt Asay believes the open source licensing war is finally over. LangUI, a Tailwind component library for AI chat apps, is introduced. Ivan Kuleshov's intriguing modification of a Mac mini to run on Power over Ethernet (PoE) is discussed. Apple recently joined the Alliance for OpenUSD alongside Pixar and others. John D. Cook advises against always choosing the best tool for the job.

The podcast discusses the fall of Stack Overflow, new LLM attacks, Google's propose of a DRM gatekeeper, the affirmation of PEP 703 by the Python Steering Council, and why no one wants to talk to chatbots.

Our friends at Supabase quietly went public today, Redpoint’s InfraRed 100 report is out, Twitter is now X, GitHub’s Copilot Chat now in public preview (for businesses) & Oxide has homelab plans (in 2050). View the newsletterJoin the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Speakeasy – Instantly create SDKs that make API integration easy for your users. Check it out today. Featuring:Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Ellie Huxtable’s Atuin makes your shell history magical, Dmitry Kudryavtsev writes why he thinks engineers should focus on writing, LazyVim promises to transform your Neovim setup into a full-fleged IDE, Geoff Graham shares with Smashing Magazine how he writes CSS in 2023 & Brad Fitzpatrick collects a public list of bad issue track behaviors. View the newsletterJoin the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Passbolt – It’s time for a new password manager. Read why Featuring:Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Oracle smacks IBM for their handling of RHEL, the folks at The Dam share a Slack clone in 5 lines of Bash, Justin Jaffray writes up 13 ways to think about joins, llama.cpp learns web chat thanks to a contribution by Tobi Lütke & Meta is willing to pay 3 engineers to remove Python’s GIL. View the newsletterJoin the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Speakeasy – Instantly create SDKs that make API integration easy for your users. Check it out today. Featuring:Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Lukas Mathis writes about streak redemption, Jonathan Katz thinks vectors are the new JSON, Andy Jiang says CommonJS is hurting JavaScript & Swyx on the rise of the AI Engineer. View the newsletterJoin the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Sentry – See the untested code causing errors - or whether it’s partially or fully covered - directly in your stack trace, so you can avoid similar errors from happening in the future. Use the code CHANGELOG and get the team plan free for three months. Featuring:Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Tracy Durnell thinks AI has already poisoned its own well, Adam Hill’s microsite catalogs everything you need to UnsuckJS, Lionel Dricot thinks we need more Richard Stallman, not less & the Vulcan team proves you can’t trust ChatGPT’s package recommendations. View the newsletterJoin the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Sentry – See the untested code causing errors - or whether it’s partially or fully covered - directly in your stack trace, so you can avoid similar errors from happening in the future. Use the code CHANGELOG and get the team plan free for three months. Featuring:Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

An open platform for operating LLMs in production, working quickly is more important than it seems, imaginary problems are the root of bad software, Val Town is a social website to write and run code & Aaron Francis’ guide to finishing your projects. View the newsletterJoin the discussionChangelog++ members save 1 minute on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:HasuraCon 2023 – Our friends at Hasura would like to invite you to HasuraCon on June 20th through the 22nd! Three days to learn, share, celebrate, and geek out on the future of Hasura and data APIs. And best of all, it’s 100% FREE and easily accessible online. Get all the details and register today hasura.io/hasuracon Featuring:Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Reddit goes dark as subreddits protest, Lemmy lights up as disillusioned redditors turn to the fediverse, OpenObserve is a cloud native observability platform, Julia Evans dispels some myths about blogging & Red Hat’s Jeffrey “Jefro” Osier-Mixon tells Adam and Jerod all about Automotive Linux at Open Source Summit NA. View the newsletterJoin the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Speakeasy – Instantly create SDKs that make API integration easy for your users. Join the beta today. Featuring:Jefro – GitHub, LinkedIn, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X