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The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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Aug 7, 2023 • 8min

The open source licensing war is over? (News)

Matt Asay thinks the open source licensing war is over, LangUI is an open source Tailwind component library for your AI chat app, Ivan Kuleshov modded a Mac mini to run via PoE, Apple joins Pixar and others in the Alliance for OpenUSD & John D. Cook says sometimes you shouldn’t pick the best tool for the job. View the newsletterLeave us a commentChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. 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. Featuring:Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
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Aug 3, 2023 • 1h 38min

DX on DX (Interview)

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. Leave us a commentChangelog++ 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 – GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteAdam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteShow 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!
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Jul 31, 2023 • 9min

Something interesting is going on at Stack Overflow (News)

The fall of Stack Overflow, researches dig up some new (and potentially unavoidable) LLM attacks, Google proposes a new API that Ron Amadeo calls a DRM gatekeeper for the web, the Python Steering Council affirms PEP 703 & Lucas McGregor writes why no one wants to talk to your chatbot. View the newsletterLeave us a commentChangelog++ members save 1 minute on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Tailscale – Simple, secure networks for teams of any scale. Built on WireGuard. Featuring:Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
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Jul 28, 2023 • 1h 34min

Homelab nerds, unite! (Friends)

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. Leave us a commentChangelog++ 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 – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteAdam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteShow 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!
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Jul 28, 2023 • 1h 34min

From Docker to Dagger (Interview)

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. Leave us a commentChangelog++ 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 – Twitter, GitHubAdam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteJerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedInShow 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!
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Jul 24, 2023 • 10min

Supabase quietly went public (News)

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 newsletterLeave us a commentChangelog++ 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 – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
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Jul 21, 2023 • 1h 37min

Bringing the cloud on prem (Friends)

Adam was out when Bryan made his podcast debut here on The Changelog, so we had to get him back on the show along with his co-founder and CEO Steve Tuck to discuss Silicon Valley (the TV show), all things Oxide, homelab possibilities, bringing the power of the cloud on prem, and more. Leave us a commentChangelog++ 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:Bryan Cantrill – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteSteve Tuck – Twitter, LinkedInJerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedInAdam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteShow Notes: Crate tui On the Metal with Jeff Rothschild Oxide specs The Changelog #496: Oxide builds servers (as they should be) Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
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Jul 20, 2023 • 1h 43min

Storytime with Steve Yegge (Interview)

This week it’s storytime with Steve Yegge! Steve came out of retirement to join Sourcegraph as Head of Engineering. Their next frontier is Cody, their AI coding assistant that answers code questions and writes code for you by reading your entire codebase and the code graph. But, we really spent a lot of time talking with Steve about his time at Amazon, Google, and Grab. Ok, it’s storytime! Leave us a commentChangelog++ members get a bonus 9 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today!Sponsors:Sentry – Code-level APM built for developers! Stay ahead of latency issues and trace every slow transaction to a poor-performing API call or database query. Sentry is the only developer-first application monitoring platform that shows you what’s slow, down to the line of code. Use the code CHANGELOGMEDIA and get the team plan FREE for six (6) months. Drata – Put security and compliance on autopilot. Build trust with your customers and scale securely with Drata, the smartest way to achieve continuous framework compliance for SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR, and more. 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:Steve Yegge – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedInAdam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteJerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedInShow Notes: Steve Yegge’s Google Platforms Rant steve-yegge-platform-rant-follow-up.md Steve Yegge joins as Head of Engineering (or, “Why I left retirement to join Sourcegraph”) All You Need Is Cody Cody is Cheating A good day with Jeff Steve Yegge on Wikipedia Why I left Google to join Grab Cody AI Yin and Yang on Wikipedia Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
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Jul 17, 2023 • 7min

Magical shell history & why engineers should focus on writing (News)

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 newsletterLeave us a commentChangelog++ 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 – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
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Jul 14, 2023 • 1h 15min

Dear Red Hat... (Friends)

Red Hat’s decision to lock down RHEL sources behind a subscription paywall was met with much ire and opened opportunity for Oracle to get a smack in and SUSE to announce a fork with $10 million behind it. Few RHEL community members have been as publicly irate as Jeff Geerling, so we invited him on the show to discuss. Leave us a commentChangelog++ 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:Jeff Geerling – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteJerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedInAdam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteShow Notes: Jeff: Dear Red Hat: Are you dumb? Jeff: Removing official support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Jeff: I’m done with Red Hat (Enterprise Linux) The rise of Rocky Linux with Greg Kurtzer Oracle coverage on Changelog News Debian is cool TechCrunch: Why SUSE is forking Red Hat Enterprise Linux Adam Jacob’s tweet Red Hat’s June 21st blog post Red Hat’s June 26th blog post Oracle’s epic press release Mike McGrath’s post clarifying use of the term ‘freeloaders’ Mike McGrath posting about ‘bad-faith action’ An analysis of the GPL issues with RHEL Business Model SUSE’s fork press release Rocky Linux’s response The problem with Rocky Linux and free beer | LinkedIn AlmaLinux’s response Huge Open Source Drama - YouTube LTX 2023 Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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