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Aug 16, 2024 • 1h 4min
Cloud-centric security logging (Ship It! #117)
Justin & Autumn are joined by Steven Wu from Scanner. Scanner built logging infrastructure focused on security teams and occasional querying. We dive deep into how architectural decisions affect your business.
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Featuring:Steven Wu – GitHub, LinkedIn, XJustin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, XAutumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, XShow Notes:Interview
Steven Wu at scanner.dev
How things break
Azure Status History
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Aug 15, 2024 • 58min
Forging Minecraft's scripting API (JS Party #334)
Raphael Landaverde & Jake Shirley work on Minecraft full-time. How cool is that?! On this episode, they join Jerod to tell us all about the web tech that drives Minecraft’s scripting infrastructure, how they incrementally change a massive / always-moving target, the best / worst parts of the job & much more.
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Featuring:Raphael Landaverde – GitHub, XJake Shirley – Website, GitHubJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
Hyrum’s Law
Introduction to Scripting in Minecraft
Minecraft Bedrock Editor Overview
microsoft/minecraft-scripting-samples
Active community Discords
Raph on Discord: MidoriTerra
Jake on Discord: DarkNavi
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Aug 14, 2024 • 1h 43min
Why we need Ladybird (Changelog Interviews #604)
Andreas Kling and Chris Wanstrath have joined forces to form a non-profit called Ladybird Browser Initiative to manage the newly forked Ladybird browser. We discuss what it’s going to take to get to alpha, the why behind Ladybird, avoiding incentives other than those of the users, their plans for incremental adoption of Swift as the successor language over C++, and of course what they hope Ladybird can achieve as a truly independent open source browser that’s for the people.
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1Password – Build securely with 1Password - 1Password simplifies how you securely use, manage, and integrate developer credentials. Manage SSH keys and sign Git commits. Access secrets stored in 1Password. Automate administrative tasks. Integrate with third-party tools. Also, check out our INFRASTRUCTURE.md file for more details on how we do secrets with 1Password.
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Featuring:Andreas Kling – Website, GitHub, XChris Wanstrath – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
Ladybird announcement (from Chris Wanstrath)
Ladybird.org
Ladybird Browser (on GitHub)
The Changelog #10: All things GitHub with Chris Wanstrath
Changelog Interviews #554: The serenity of building your own OS with Andreas Kling
Swift.org
Crafting Interpreters by Robert Nystrom (book)
Click (2006) Official Trailer (from Adam Sandler)
Plug: Void.dev
Plug: Andreas Kling on YouTube
Plug: Cozy lofi from Katalin Kult (ghost whiskers)
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Aug 14, 2024 • 46min
Only as good as the data (Practical AI #282)
You might have heard that “AI is only as good as the data.” What does that mean and what data are we talking about? Chris and Daniel dig into that topic in the episode exploring the categories of data that you might encounter working in AI (for training, testing, fine-tuning, benchmarks, etc.). They also discuss the latest developments in AI regulation with the EU’s AI Act coming into force.
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Featuring:Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XDaniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Aug 13, 2024 • 1h 6min
Big shoes to fill (Go Time #326)
Kris, Angelica & Johnny react to the recently announced Go team changes, discuss the finding that 80% of developers surveyed by Stack Overflow are unhappy & disagree about the concept of tech debt (but agree that something’s gotta give).
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Featuring:Kris Brandow – GitHub, XAngelica Hill – GitHub, LinkedIn, XJohnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:
Russ Cox: passing torches to Austin and Cherry
80% of professional programmers are unhappy (Changelog News #106)
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Aug 12, 2024 • 8min
The best, worst codebase (Changelog News #107)
Jimmy Miller tells us about the best, worst codebase he’s ever seen, The Phylum Research Team follows up on the great npm garbage patch, Zach Leatherman logs his findings on sneaky serverless costs, David Cain wants you to go on quests instead of goals & Ashley Janssen gives us szeven rules for effective meeting culture.
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Featuring:Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Aug 9, 2024 • 1h 7min
The Zookeeper of jujutsu (Ship It! #116)
Tim Banks joins Justin and Autumn — there’s nothing quite like being punched in the face by Zookeeper or being taken down by a “hot” shard.
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Featuring:Tim Banks – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XJustin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, XAutumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, XShow Notes:Interview
Tim Banks X
Tim Banks website
Links of the week
RSA hack
Google wont acquire Wiz
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Aug 9, 2024 • 1h 7min
Picking a database should be simple (Changelog & Friends #56)
Database aficionado, Ben Johnson, joins Jerod to answer the age ol’ question: which database should you use? Answering that isn’t always easy, which means it’s time to play the “It Depends” jingle & weigh (some of) the options.
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1Password – Build securely with 1Password - 1Password simplifies how you securely use, manage, and integrate developer credentials. Manage SSH keys and sign Git commits. Access secrets stored in 1Password. Automate administrative tasks. Integrate with third-party tools. Also, check out our INFRASTRUCTURE.md file for more details on how we do secrets with 1Password.
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Featuring:Ben Johnson – Website, GitHub, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
Jepsen - Consistency Models
LiteFS
litestream
rqlite
BoltDB, InfluxDB, Key-Value Databases with Ben Johnson (Changelog Interviews #170)
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Aug 8, 2024 • 1h 14min
OpenAPI & API design (Go Time #328)
We’re talking OpenAPI this week! Kris & Johnny are joined by Jamie Tanna, one of the maintainers of oapi-codegen, to discuss OpenAPI, API design philosophies, versioning, and open source maintenance and sustainability. In addition to the usual laughs and unpopular opinions, this week’s episode includes a Changelog++ section that you don’t want to miss.
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Featuring:Jamie Tanna – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XKris Brandow – GitHub, XJohnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:
oapi-codegen is moving to its own org
Creating a more sustainable model for oapi-codegen in the future
I’m Now A Full-time Profession Open Source Maintainer
Does the tech industry thrive on free work?
Jamie’s GitHub Sponsors Profile
How do you represent a JSON field in Go that could be absent, null or have a value?
APIs as infrastructure: future-proofing Stripe with versioning
Common Haus
Workflow
Introduction to OpenRewrite
OpenAPI Changes
quobix.com
pb33f.io
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Aug 7, 2024 • 1h 31min
Into the Bobiverse (Changelog Interviews #603)
Dennis E. Taylor joins the show to take us “Into the Bobiverse” and other books he’s written. Dennis shares the backstory on how he went from programmer to author/writer and creator of Audible’s Best Science Fiction Book of 2016, his process for iterating and developing the story as he writes, plans for a Bobiverse movie, and what’s next in book 5 coming out in September 2024.
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1Password – Build securely with 1Password - 1Password simplifies how you securely use, manage, and integrate developer credentials. Manage SSH keys and sign Git commits. Access secrets stored in 1Password. Automate administrative tasks. Integrate with third-party tools. Also, check out our INFRASTRUCTURE.md file for more details on how we do secrets with 1Password.
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Featuring:Dennis E. Taylor – XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
dennisetaylor.org
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) - on Audible
Not Till We Are Lost - on Audible
Feedback - on Audible
Xprize - Deep Tech + Quantum
Self-replicating spacecraft on Wikipedia
Hard science fiction on Wikipedia
Dennis E. Taylor on Wikipedia
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