Changelog Interviews

This week Sarah Drasner joins us to talk about her book Engineering Management for the Rest of Us and her experience leading engineering at Zillow, Microsoft, Netlify, and now Google. Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 10 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:DevCycle – Build better software with DevCycle. Feature flags, without the tech debt. DevCycle is a Feature Flag Management platform designed to help you build maintainable code at scale. 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. Rocky Linux – Enterprise Linux, the open source community way. 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 Featuring:Sarah Drasner – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: sarahdrasnerdesign.com Sarah Drasner on CSS Tricks Book: Engineering Management for the Rest of Us The Peter principle Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations Dr. Nicole Forsgren The Engineer/Manager Pendulum Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

This week we’re celebrating Maintainer Month along with our friends at GitHub. Open source runs the world, but who runs open source? Maintainers. Open source maintainers are behind the software we use everyday, but they don’t always have the community or support they need. That’s why we’re celebrating open source maintainers during the month of May. Today’s conversation features Alyssa Wright (Bloomberg), Chad Whitacre (Sentry), and Duane O’Brien (Creator of the FOSS Contributor Fund and framework). We get into all the details, the why, the hows, and the struggles involved for companies to support open source. Join the discussionChangelog++ members get a bonus 4 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today!Sponsors:Sentry – Get to the root cause of an error or latency issue faster by seeing all the technical details related to that issue in one visual replay on your web application. Use the code CHANGELOG and get the team plan free for three months. Rocky Linux – Enterprise Linux, the open source community way. DevCycle – Build better software with DevCycle. Feature flags, without the tech debt. DevCycle is a Feature Flag Management platform designed to help you build maintainable code at scale. 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:Chad Whitacre – GitHub, XAlyssa Wright – GitHub, LinkedIn, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:We’re at Open Source Summit North America 2022 this week. If you’re there, come see us at the Maintainer Month booth in the expo area. FOSS Funders (fossfunders.com) - Working together to fund open source. Maintainer Month Bloomberg Launches FOSS Fund to Support Free and Open Source Projects Bloomberg Corporate Philanthropy Hire My Team Changelog Interviews #392: Indeed’s FOSS Contributor Fund with Duane O’Brien Sovereign Tech Fund Changelog Interviews #490: Schneier on security for tomorrow’s software Investing in Open Source: The FOSS Contributor Fund by Duane O’Brien, Mandy Grover Changelog Interviews #515: ANTHOLOGY — Advocating for and supporting open source Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

José Valim joins Jerod to talk all about what’s new in Livebook – the Elixir-based interactive code notebook he’s been working on the last few years. José made a big bet when he decided to bring machine learning to Elixir. That bet is now paying off with amazing new capabilities such as building and deploying a Whisper-based chat app to Hugging Face in just 15 minutes. José demoed that and much more during Livebook’s first-ever launch week. Let’s get into it. Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 9 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Sentry – Get to the root cause of an error or latency issue faster by seeing all the technical details related to that issue in one visual replay on your web application. Use the code CHANGELOG and get the team plan free for three months. Rocky Linux – Enterprise Linux, the open source community way. Typesense – Lightning fast, globally distributed Search-as-a-Service that runs in memory. You literally can’t get any faster! 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 Featuring:José Valim – Website, GitHub, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Livebook The Changelog #439: Elixir meets machine learning Launch Week Day 1: Deploy notebooks as apps & quality-of-life upgrades Day 2: Distributed² Machine Learning notebooks with Elixir and Livebook Day 3: Hubs and secret management Day 4: Build and deploy a Whisper chat app to Hugging Face in 15 minutes Day 5: Data wrangling in Elixir with Explorer, the power of Rust, the elegance of R Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

This week Adam talks with Andy Klein from Backblaze about hard drive reliability at scale. Join the discussionChangelog++ members get a bonus 15 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today!Sponsors:DevCycle – Build better software with DevCycle. Feature flags, without the tech debt. DevCycle is a Feature Flag Management platform designed to help you build maintainable code at scale. 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. Postman – Build APIs together — More than 20 million developers use Postman for building and using APIs. Postman simplifies each step of the API lifecycle and streamlines collaboration so you can create better APIs—faster. Typesense – Lightning fast, globally distributed Search-as-a-Service that runs in memory. You literally can’t get any faster! Featuring:Andy Klein – Website, LinkedIn, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Backblaze Drive Stats for 2022 10 Stories From 10 Years of Drive Stats Data Hard Drive Life Expectancy The SSD Edition: 2022 Drive Stats Review SSD 101: How Reliable are SSDs? Hard Drive Cost Per Gigabyte A Behind the Scenes Look at Our US East Data Center Sean Has a New Friend. His Name Is Guido. The Storage Pod Story: Innovation to Commodity We love 45Drives. If you need an intro to them, let us know. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

This week we’re joined by Zach Latta, the Founder of Hack Club. At 16, Zach tested out of high school and moved to SF to join Yo as their first engineer. After playing a key role at Yo, he founded Hack Club to help teen hackers start coding clubs around the world. Today, teen hackers can meet IRL, online, at a hackathon, or leverage Hack Club Bank a fiscal sponsor to create their own organization. Hack Club is the program Zach wished he had in high school. Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 10 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:DevCycle – Build better software with DevCycle. Feature flags, without the tech debt. DevCycle is a Feature Flag Management platform designed to help you build maintainable code at scale. Postman – Build APIs together — More than 20 million developers use Postman for building and using APIs. Postman simplifies each step of the API lifecycle and streamlines collaboration so you can create better APIs—faster. Rocky Linux – Enterprise Linux, the open source community way. Featuring:Zach Latta – GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Invest in the future hacker generation hackclub.com Hack Club Bank hackclub/sprig Sprig - The game console where every player is a creator Meet the 18-year-old who left his job at ‘Yo’ to spread the joy of coding Founders Talk #81: The future of code search with Quinn Slack Changelog Interviews #369: Five years of freeCodeCamp with Quincy Larson SSH Tron The World’s Longest Hackathon: The Hacker Zephyr, July 2021 ToorCamp Thanks to the “How Do You Do, Fellow Kids?” meme for this title’s inspiration. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

This week we’re talking with Cory Doctorow (this episode contains explicit language) about his newest book Chokepoint Capitalism, which he co-autored with Rebecca Giblin. Chokepoint Capitalism is about how big tech and big content have captured creative labor markets and the ways we can win them back. We talk about chokepoints creating chickenized reverse-centaurs, paying for your robot boss (think Uber, Doordash, Amazon Drivers), the chickenization that’s climbing the priviledge gradient from the most blue collar workers to the middle-class. There are chokepoints in open source, AI generative art, interoperability, music, film, and media. To quote Cory, “We’re all fighting the same fight.” Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 8 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:DevCycle – Build better software with DevCycle. Feature flags, without the tech debt. DevCycle is a Feature Flag Management platform designed to help you build maintainable code at scale. Postman – Build APIs together — More than 20 million developers use Postman for building and using APIs. Postman simplifies each step of the API lifecycle and streamlines collaboration so you can create better APIs—faster. 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. Typesense – Lightning fast, globally distributed Search-as-a-Service that runs in memory. You literally can’t get any faster! Featuring:Cory Doctorow – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Buy Cory’s books Gig Work Is the Opposite of Steampunk TikTok’s Enshittification Rural towns and poor urban neighborhoods are being devoured by dollar stores What is Chokepoint Capitalism? Revenge of the Chickenized Reverse-Centaurs Cory on Twitter explaining “chickenization “ Red Team Blues: Another audiobook that Amazon won’t sell The Memex Method Changelog Interviews #221: How we got here with Cory Doctorow Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Simon Willison, technology expert and LLM enthusiast, joins the hosts to discuss the influence of LLMs on the internet, progress in AI technology, fear and optimism regarding AI power, the release of GPT-4, prompt injection attacks, running Chat GPT locally, Apple's WWDC predictions, and the future of technology.

After years of working for Google on the Go Team, Filippo Valsorda quit last year to experiment with more sustainable paths for open source maintainers. Good news, it worked! Filippo is now a full-time open source maintainer and he joins Jerod on this episode to tell everyone exactly how he’s making the equivalent to his total compensation package at Google in open source. Join the discussionChangelog++ members get a bonus 7 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today!Sponsors:Postman – Build APIs together — More than 20 million developers use Postman for building and using APIs. Postman simplifies each step of the API lifecycle and streamlines collaboration so you can create better APIs—faster. Sentry – Session Replay! Rewind and replay every step of the user’s journey before and after they encountered an issue. Eliminate the guesswork and get to the root cause of an issue, faster. Use the code CHANGELOG and get the team plan free for three months. Typesense – Lightning fast, globally distributed Search-as-a-Service that runs in memory. You literally can’t get any faster! Featuring:Filippo Valsorda – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Filippo on Go Time talking fuzzing Filippo on Go Time talking security I’m now a full-time professional open source maintainer age file encryption mkcert yubikey-agent Lemonade Stand Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

This week we’re talking with Georgi Gerganov about his work on Whisper.cpp and llama.cpp. Georgi first crossed our radar with whisper.cpp, his port of OpenAI’s Whisper model in C and C++. Whisper is a speech recognition model enabling audio transcription and translation. Something we’re paying close attention to here at Changelog, for obvious reasons. Between the invite and the show’s recording, he had a new hit project on his hands: llama.cpp. This is a port of Facebook’s LLaMA model in C and C++. Whisper.cpp made a splash, but llama.cpp is growing in GitHub stars faster than Stable Diffusion did, which was a rocket ship itself. Join the discussionChangelog++ members get a bonus 12 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today!Sponsors:Postman – Build APIs together — More than 20 million developers use Postman for building and using APIs. Postman simplifies each step of the API lifecycle and streamlines collaboration so you can create better APIs—faster. Sentry – Session Replay! Rewind and replay every step of the user’s journey before and after they encountered an issue. Eliminate the guesswork and get to the root cause of an issue, faster. Use the code CHANGELOG and get the team plan free for three months. 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 Typesense – Lightning fast, globally distributed Search-as-a-Service that runs in memory. You literally can’t get any faster! Featuring:Georgi Gerganov – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: ggerganov/whisper.cpp examples/main Arm Neon technology Apple’s secret M1 coprocessor ggerganov/llama.cpp Introducing LLaMA: A foundational, 65-billion-parameter large language model facebookresearch/llama Ludacris Llama Llama Red Pajama Freestyle The Changelog #506: Stable Diffusion breaks the internet with Simon Willison Large language models are having their Stable Diffusion moment Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

This week we’re talking with Nathan Sobo about his next big thing. Nathan is known for his work on the Atom editor while at GitHub. But his work wasn’t finished when he left, so…he started Zed, a high-performance multiplayer editor that’s engineered for performance. And today, Nathan talks us through all the details. Join the discussionChangelog++ members get a bonus 14 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today!Sponsors:Postman – Build APIs together — More than 20 million developers use Postman for building and using APIs. Postman simplifies each step of the API lifecycle and streamlines collaboration so you can create better APIs—faster. 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:Nathan Sobo – GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: zed.dev Zed raises $10M for a code editor built for collaboration The Changelog #241: The Story of Atom with Nathan Sobo GitHub officially says farewell to Atom Founders Talk #7: Henk Rogers / The Tetris Company Prioritize enablers and blockers - linear.app Zed’s language support Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!