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Matt Asay believes the open source licensing war is over. Ivan Kuleshov modded a Mac mini to run via PoE. John D. Cook says sometimes you shouldn’t pick the best tool for the job.

This week Adam is joined by Abi Noda, founder and CEO of DX to talk about DX AKA DevEx (or the long-form Developer Experience). Since the dawn of software development there has been this push to understand what makes software teams efficient, but more importantly what does it take to understand developer productivity? That’s what Abi has been focused on for the better part of the last 8 years of his career. He started a company called Pull Panda that was acquired by GitHub, spent a few years there on this problem before going out on his own to start DX which helps startups to the fortune 500 companies gather real insights that leads to real improvement. Join the discussionChangelog++ members get a bonus 33 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today!Sponsors:Sentry – Watch Lazar Nikolov livestream on YouTube at youtube.com/@nikolovlazar. Use the code CHANGELOGMEDIA and get the team plan FREE for six (6) months. Caisy – Caisy is the headless CMS that gives developers endless possibilities. Learn more at caisy.io Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs. Featuring:Abi Noda – Website, GitHub, LinkedInAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: DX GitHub acquires Pull Panda DevOps Research and Assessment A Better Way to Measure Developer Productivity DevEx: What Actually Drives Productivity How Google Measures and Manages Tech Debt Defining, Measuring, and Managing Technical Debt Changelog Interviews #527: What it takes to scale engineering (with Rachel Potvin) Dr. Nicole Forsgren Joins DX For our ++ subs $STDOUT Changelog Interviews #466: Song Encoder on $STDOUT Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

KBall and Amal go deep on careers. They share their career journeys, talk through learnings and mishaps that happened along the way, and break down key factors to understand about big role transitions like “Senior->Staff” as well as “Engineer->Manager”. Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 2 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs. Typesense – Lightning fast, globally distributed Search-as-a-Service that runs in memory. You literally can’t get any faster! Changelog News – A podcast+newsletter combo that’s brief, entertaining & always on-point. Subscribe today. Featuring:Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XAmal Hussein – GitHub, XShow Notes: From engineering to product (JSParty #203) Bocoup Amal on The Changelog talking about bossing up Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Today we’re talking with Alice Merrick & Andy Walker about building a world-class developer experience. You know it when you see it, things just feel right. But it’s more than just a pleasant UI or lipstick on a pig (which is a saying), it really matters. Join the discussionChangelog++ members get a bonus 5 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today!Sponsors:Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs. Typesense – Lightning fast, globally distributed Search-as-a-Service that runs in memory. You literally can’t get any faster! Changelog News – A podcast+newsletter combo that’s brief, entertaining & always on-point. Subscribe today. Featuring:Alice Merrick – LinkedIn, XAndy Walker – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XMat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, XKris Brandow – GitHub, XShow Notes: Charm on GitHub Use system fonts Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Prashanth Rao discusses trade-offs and exploration of vector databases, including indices, hosting options, and query optimization. The podcast covers the evolution of vector databases in AI workflows and combining them with large language models for natural language querying. The hosts also explore future possibilities of vector databases and integration of graph databases for enhanced knowledge retrieval.

The podcast discusses the fall of Stack Overflow, research on adversarial attacks on large language models, Google's proposal for a web environment integrity API, Python Enhancement Proposal 703, and why chatbots are not popular.

Ok Homelabbers, it’s time to unite! Join Adam and his new friend Techno Tim for 1.5 hours of homelab goodness. From networking and WiFi, virtualizing Ubuntu running Docker containers, to Home Assistant and automation, building a Kubernetes cluster, to gutting a perfectly good machine just to build exactly what you need to run the ultimate Plex server — that’s what homelab is about. Let’s do this. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs. Typesense – Lightning fast, globally distributed Search-as-a-Service that runs in memory. You literally can’t get any faster! Featuring:Techno Tim – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:Subscribe to Techno Tim on YouTube Ubiquiti / Unifi Proxmox Ubuntu Rocky Linux 45drives - Storinator AV15 Docker Portainer Kubernetes Plex Pi-Hole Tailscale ZFS (OpenZFS) Changelog Interviews #475: Making the ZFS file system (with Matt Ahrens) Protectli Sysracks Rackstuds ASUS ProArt Z790 Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

This week we’re joined by Solomon Hykes, the creator of Docker. Now he’s back with his next big thing called Dagger — CI/CD as code that runs anywhere. We’re users of Dagger so check out our codebase if you want to see how it works. On today’s show Solomon takes us back to the days of Docker, what it was like on that 10 year journey, his transition from Docker to Dagger, Dagger’s community-led growth model, their focus on open source and community, how it works, and even a cameo from Kelsey Hightower to explain how Dagger works. Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 4 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Square – Develop on the platform that sellers trust. There is a massive opportunity for developers to support Square sellers by building apps for today’s business needs. Learn more at developer.squareup.com to dive into the docs, APIs, SDKs and to create your Square Developer account — tell them Changelog sent you. Passbolt – It’s time for a new password manager. Read why Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs. Featuring:Solomon Hykes – GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: dagger.io docs.dagger.io Changelog & Friends #6: Even the best rides come to an end Ship It! #48: Launching Dagger Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Una and Adam from The CSS Podcast defend their Frontend Feud title against challengers Chuck and Robbie from Whiskey Web and Whatnot. They play games to guess the favorite programming language, workplace benefits, and essential SaaS. They also delve into their feelings about GitHub co-pilot and discuss recent developments in CSS.

Roger Peppe and Bryan Boreham join Mat and Kris to discuss the state of Generics in Go, including benefits like cleaner code, solving problems with few lines of code, and simplifying processes with the slices package. They also explore limitations and challenges, potential performance implications, and technical aspects of implementing generics at compile time. The discussion covers unpopular opinions, code formatting, balance between simplicity and help, tech debt, debt management, risk-taking in interactions, and collaboration despite mistakes.