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Speakers discuss the decline of enthusiast programmers and the changing demographics of programmers. They explore topics such as the concept of a 10x developer, the challenges of software engineering, and the use of AI tools in programming. They also reflect on their own journeys in programming and emphasize the importance of experience and understanding in the industry.

Jim Nielsen, a guest with experience in Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, and websites, joins the hosts to discuss language-level toll roads, quitting, social networking, and the state of the world in publishing thoughts on the internet. They talk about the embarrassment of looking back at old blog posts and explore the impact of writing and feedback. They also delve into the concept of language-level toll roads and the benefits of Lua as a programming language. The hosts discuss the challenges of finishing a project versus quietly quitting, the power and freedom of podcasting, and the decline of content creation for the open web. They also explore the appeal of Google Reader and the potential for a TypeScript RSS project.

Jonathan Carter, Debian Project Lead for four terms, discusses the 30-year history of Debian and its transition from Ubuntu. They explore the democratic and community-driven nature of Debian, its structure, stability, and reliability. The podcast covers sponsorship, formalization, and relationships in Debian, as well as tension in the Debconf treasurer team. They also discuss the connection between Debian and Toy Story, packaging free software and compatibility, a comparison between Debian and Canonical, communication and collaboration methods in the Debian project, and the Hack Club non-profit organization.

Matt Rickard discusses why Tailwind CSS won. Other topics include HashiCorp adopting a Business Source license, WarpStream's Kafka-compatible offering on S3, managing difficult software engineers, and Russ Cox's update on Go 2.

The podcast discusses various improvements including moving from S3 to R2, implementing blue-green deployment, caching fixes, and migration to Fastly. They also talk about the potential acquisition of Dagger by GitHub, the importance of backup systems, and invite listeners to join their podcast community on Slack.

In this podcast, the speakers dive deep into how the Go stack works and why programmers should care. They discuss topics such as memory management, the growth and allocation of the stack, the perception of intelligence in the Go community, the use of pointers and structs in Go programming, reordering fields in structures for optimization, and a proposal for arbitrary precision and array bounds checking in Go. They also share amusing anecdotes about printers and express their gratitude to community contributors and listeners.

Steve Krouse, Val Town creator, joins Jerod & Amal to talk about Val Town, a social programming environment. They discuss its advantages, handling abuse, building trust, targeting hobbyists, scalability, AI for a smart linter, and security considerations. Exciting insights shared!

Leslie Lamport is a computer scientist & mathematician who won ACM’s Turing Award in 2013 for his fundamental contributions to the theory and practice of distributed and concurrent systems. He also created LaTeX and TLA+, a high-level language for “writing down the ideas that go into the program before you do any coding.” Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 7 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Tailscale – Simple, secure networks for teams of any scale. Built on WireGuard. Sentry – Watch Lazar Nikolov’s livestream series on YouTube at youtube.com/@nikolovlazar. Use the code changelog and get the team plan FREE for three (3) months. Featuring:Leslie Lamport – WebsiteJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Leslie Lamport - A.M. Turing Award Laureate The Man Who Revolutionized Computer Science With Math - YouTube TLA+ Helps Programmers Squash Bugs Before Coding - IEEE Spectrum The TLA+ Home Page Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

They discuss the governance of AI through new laws and legal frameworks in the United States and European Union, reviewing the White House's approach and noting potential consequences.