Changelog & Friends

Jimmy Miller, a savvy web developer and coding enthusiast, returns to discuss the intriguing world of discovery coding. He explains how this hands-on approach contrasts with traditional coding methods, promoting creativity and problem-solving. The conversation covers the evolution of AI in development, enhancing productivity with tools like Augment Code and Notion. Miller also shares amusing anecdotes about coding challenges and emphasizes the importance of personal reflections in code, advocating for a more intuitive and organic approach to programming.

Techno Tim joins Adam to catch up on the state of Homelab for 2025, the state of AI at home and on-prem (AI Homelab) and where that’s heading, building a creator PC, choosing the parts for your build, GPU availability, Windows being user hostile, and why Tim is happy to be using Windows, Mac AND Linux. Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 8 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Retool – The low-code platform for developers to build internal tools — Some of the best teams out there trust Retool…Brex, Coinbase, Plaid, Doordash, LegalGenius, Amazon, Allbirds, Peloton, and so many more – the developers at these teams trust Retool as the platform to build their internal tools. Try it free at retool.com/changelog Temporal – Build invincible applications. Manage failures, network outages, flaky endpoints, long-running processes and more, ensuring your workflows never fail. Register for Replay in London, March 3-5 to break free from the status quo. DeleteMe – Text CHANGELOG to 64000 to join DeleteMe. They make it quick, easy, and safe to remove your personal data online. Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps close to your users — global Anycast load-balancing, zero-configuration private networking, hardware isolation, and instant WireGuard VPN connections. Push-button deployments that scale to thousands of instances. Check out the speedrun to get started in minutes. Featuring:Techno Tim – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Building My ULTIMATE Linux Workstation Homelab Services Tour 2025 - What am I Self-Hosting HomeLab Hardware Tour (Early 2025) Building a Low-Power, Fully Loaded Plex Server MacWhisper by GoodSnooze (Gumroad) Mel Robbins: Let Them Theory Changelog News - Everyone knows your location Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Dan Moore from FusionAuth joins us for a wide-ranging discussion about modern auth strategies. We talk magic links, OTP, MFA, passkeys, password managers & so much more. Join the discussionChangelog++ members get a bonus 9 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today!Sponsors:Retool – The low-code platform for developers to build internal tools — Some of the best teams out there trust Retool…Brex, Coinbase, Plaid, Doordash, LegalGenius, Amazon, Allbirds, Peloton, and so many more – the developers at these teams trust Retool as the platform to build their internal tools. Try it free at retool.com/changelog Temporal – Build invincible applications. Manage failures, network outages, flaky endpoints, long-running processes and more, ensuring your workflows never fail. Register for Replay in London, March 3-5 to break free from the status quo. Notion – Notion is a place where any team can write, plan, organize, and rediscover the joy of play. It’s a workspace designed not just for making progress, but getting inspired. Notion is for everyone — whether you’re a Fortune 500 company or freelance designer, starting a new startup or a student juggling classes and clubs. Featuring:Dan Moore – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Dear new developer (Changelog Interviews #572) N-Acetyl Cysteine (NAC): Uses and Risks Authentication & User Management Software - FusionAuth We Don’t Want Your Password Magic Links Have Rough Edges, but Passkeys Can Smooth Them Over Passkeys for a passwordless future (Changelog Interviews #544) Password Safe Microsoft’s new password manager works across Edge, Chrome, and mobile devices Building A Self-hostable Product A few more links from Dan Passkeys: they’re not perfect but they’re getting better Passkey Adoption Doubles in 2024 WebAuthn Explained Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Kris Brandow & Matthew Sanabria from Fallthrough.fm join Jerod to discuss tools we’re switching to, whether or not Go is still a great systems programming language choice, user-centric documentation, the need for archivists & more. Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 7 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Augment Code – Developer AI that uses deep understanding of your large codebase and how you build software to deliver personalized code suggestions and insights. Augment provides relevant, contextualized code right in your IDE or Slack. It transforms scattered knowledge into code or answers, eliminating time spent searching docs or interrupting teammates. Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps close to your users — global Anycast load-balancing, zero-configuration private networking, hardware isolation, and instant WireGuard VPN connections. Push-button deployments that scale to thousands of instances. Check out the speedrun to get started in minutes. Featuring:Matthew Sanabria – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XKris Brandow – GitHub, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Fallthrough.fm CPU.fm Tools Worth Changing To in 2025 Helix Jujutsu Replacing Git with Git featuring Scott Chacon Reddit comment The Seven-Action Documentation model Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Jerod & Adam discuss Nvidia’s recently announced personal AI supercomputer, Waymo’s latest infinite loop, what’s involved in getting a “modern” terminal setup, and whether or not AI has gone mainstream… warts & all! Join the discussionChangelog++ members get a bonus 8 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today!Sponsors:Augment Code – Developer AI that uses deep understanding of your large codebase and how you build software to deliver personalized code suggestions and insights. Augment provides relevant, contextualized code right in your IDE or Slack. It transforms scattered knowledge into code or answers, eliminating time spent searching docs or interrupting teammates. Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps close to your users — global Anycast load-balancing, zero-configuration private networking, hardware isolation, and instant WireGuard VPN connections. Push-button deployments that scale to thousands of instances. Check out the speedrun to get started in minutes. DeleteMe – Text CHANGELOG to 64000 to join DeleteMe. They make it quick, easy, and safe to remove your personal data online. Featuring:Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Min | A fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy Nvidia announces $3,000 personal AI supercomputer called Project Digits - The Verge We talked to the guy who was stuck in a Waymo robotaxi on a dizzying loop What’s involved in getting a “modern” terminal setup? Warp docs - Terminal features Connections Episode 1: The Trigger Effect : James Burke and Connections on Wikipedia chriskempson/base16: Not a theme, but a framework BONUS++ Sonos CEO Patrick Spence steps down after disastrous app launch Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Mat Ryer is back! He plays the piano, we tell each other truths/lies, we pay homage to the 8” floppy disk, Mat accepts an open source medal, and so much more. It’s a real circus. MatGPT! Join the discussionChangelog++ members get a bonus 11 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today!Sponsors:Sentry – Use the code CHANGELOG when you sign up to get $100 off the team plan. Notion – Notion is a place where any team can write, plan, organize, and rediscover the joy of play. It’s a workspace designed not just for making progress, but getting inspired. Notion is for everyone — whether you’re a Fortune 500 company or freelance designer, starting a new startup or a student juggling classes and clubs. DeleteMe – Text CHANGELOG to 64000 to join DeleteMe. They make it quick, easy, and safe to remove your personal data online. Featuring:Mat Ryer – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Floppy disk - Wikipedia stretchr/testify Piccadilly Circus - Wikipedia Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Our 7th annual year-end wrap-up is here! We’re featuring 12 listener voicemails, dope Breakmaster Cylinder remixes & our favorite episodes of the year. Thanks for listening! 💚 Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 11 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps close to your users — global Anycast load-balancing, zero-configuration private networking, hardware isolation, and instant WireGuard VPN connections. Push-button deployments that scale to thousands of instances. Check out the speedrun to get started in minutes. Eight Sleep – Up to $600 off Pod 4 Ultra — Go to eightsleep.com/changelog and use the code CHANGELOG. You can try it for free for 30 days - but we’re confident you will not want to return it (we love ours). Once you experience AI-optimized sleep, you’ll wonder how you ever slept without it. Currently shipping to: United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Europe, and Australia. Wix Studio – Wix Sudio is for devs who build websites, sell apps, go headless, or manage clients. Integrate, extend and write custom scripts in a VS code-based IDE. Leverage zero set up dev, test and production environments. Ship faster with an AI code assistant. And work with Wix headless API’s on any tech stack. Retool – The low-code platform for developers to build internal tools — Some of the best teams out there trust Retool…Brex, Coinbase, Plaid, Doordash, LegalGenius, Amazon, Allbirds, Peloton, and so many more – the developers at these teams trust Retool as the platform to build their internal tools. Try it free at retool.com/changelog Featuring:Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:Many episodes were favorited more than once! We only list the first mention here… AJ Kerrigan’s favs: We have a right to repair! with Kyle Wiens (Interviews #582) Building customizable ergonomic keyboards with Erez Zukerman (Interviews #608) Open source threaded team chat?! with Alya Abbott (Interviews #607) Erno Voutilainen’s favs: Retirement is for suckers with Cameron Seay (Friends #36) #define: legendary with Thomas Eckert, Nick Nisi & Mat Ryer (Friends #47) Two tickets for Departure, please with Helena Zhang & Tobias Fried (Interviews #618) Don Mackinnon’s favs: From Chef to System Initiative featuring Adam Jacob (Friends #55) Rails is having a moment (again) with DHH (Interviews #615) Brett Cannon’s favs: From Sun to Oxide with Bryan Cantrill (Interviews #592) Free-threaded Python with Pablo & Łukasz (Interviews #611) Gradually gradually typing Elixir featuring José Valim (Friends #28) Linux distros with Jorge Castro (Ship It! #122) Let’s talk FreeBSD (finally) with Allan Jude (Interviews #574) The Oban Pros with Shannon & Parker Selbert (Friends #35) Why we need Ladybird with Andreas Kling & Chris Wanstrath (Interviews #604) Retired, not tired. with Kelsey Hightower (Interviews #595) Nabeel Sulieman’s favs: The Moneyball approach with John Nunemaker (Interviews #612) Into the Bobiverse featuring Dennis E. Taylor (Interviews #603) Rusty Nail’s favs: Lessons from 10k hours of programming (Remastered) with Matt Rickard (Interviews #613) “Founder Mode” at work when you’re not a founder (Go Time #332) The best, worst codebase with Jimmy Miller (Changelog Interviews #609) Bus factors & conspiracy theories (Friends #70) Jamie Tanna’s favs: Yeeting stuff into public with Jamie Tanna (Friends #31) OpenAPI & API design with Jamie Tanna (Go Time #328) 1999: A Film Odyssey (Changelog++ 🔐) (Friends ++) Hack Club takes to the High Seas featuring Acon (Interviews #620) Gotta give to get back with Danny Thompson @ THAT (Interviews #617) Jerod’s favs: We ain’t afraid of no Ghostty! with Mitchell Hashimoto (Interviews #622) Kaizen! NOT a pipe dream with Gerhard Lazu (Friends #50) You have how many open tabs?! featuring the hallway track at THAT (Friends #29) Future of [energy, content, food] featuring the hallway track at THAT (Friends #30) The man behind the Sandwich featuring Adam Lisagor (Interviews #601) Starbucks DVD peddlers with Emily Freeman & Justin Garrison (Friends #60) Adam’s favs: In the beginning (of generative AI) with Joe Reis (Interviews #576) Shift left, seriously. with Deepak Prabhakara & Schalk Neethling (Interviews #575) Also mentioned: Prime Digital Academy Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) - IMDb The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) - IMDb Jump Around - Wikipedia FreeBSD At 30: The History And Future Of The Most Popular BSD-Based OS Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Gerhard is back for Kaizen 17! We discuss our CPU.fm changes in-depth, detail new Zulip / Neon integrations & put our Pipedream to the test. Oh, and a Gerhard surprise (of course)! Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 8 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Sentry – When your app breaks, fix it faster with Sentry Use the code CHANGELOG when you sign up to get $100 off the team plan. Learn more about what they shipped for Launch Week and Session Replay for Mobile. Coder.com – Instantly launch fully configured cloud development environments (CDE) and make your first commit in minutes. No need to traverse README files or await onboarding queues. Learn more at Coder.com Eight Sleep – Up to $600 off Pod 4 Ultra — Go to eightsleep.com/changelog and use the code CHANGELOG. You can try it for free for 30 days - but we’re confident you will not want to return it (we love ours). Once you experience AI-optimized sleep, you’ll wonder how you ever slept without it. Currently shipping to: United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Europe, and Australia. Wix Studio – Wix Sudio is for devs who build websites, sell apps, go headless, or manage clients. Integrate, extend and write custom scripts in a VS code-based IDE. Leverage zero set up dev, test and production environments. Ship faster with an AI code assistant. And work with Wix headless API’s on any tech stack. Featuring:Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Discussion #525: 🎧 Kaizen 17 iA Presenter A new era for the Changelog Podcast Universe (CPU.fm) #533: Enable team members to replace changelog_dev with a prod db dump #534: Enable team members to run dev with a Neon db branch Get started with 1Password CLI thechangelog/pipedream Namespace – Accelerate your developer workflow Hurl - Run and Test HTTP Requests vcr/vcr: Record and reply your test suite’s HTTP interactions pipely.tech Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Chris Coyier and Dave Rupert join Adam and Jerod for a ShopTalk & Friends conversation on the viability of the web, making content, ads to support that content, Codepen’s future plans, books, side quests, and social networks devaluing links. Join the discussionChangelog++ members get a bonus 11 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today!Sponsors:Sentry – When your app breaks, fix it faster with Sentry Use the code CHANGELOG when you sign up to get $100 off the team plan. Learn more about what they shipped for Launch Week and Session Replay for Mobile. Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps close to your users — global Anycast load-balancing, zero-configuration private networking, hardware isolation, and instant WireGuard VPN connections. Push-button deployments that scale to thousands of instances. Check out the speedrun to get started in minutes. Coder.com – Instantly launch fully configured cloud development environments (CDE) and make your first commit in minutes. No need to traverse README files or await onboarding queues. Learn more at Coder.com AssemblyAI – Turn voice data into summaries with AssemblyAI’s leading Speech AI models. Built by AI experts, their Speech AI models include accurate speech-to-text for voice data (such as calls, virtual meetings, and podcasts), speaker detection, sentiment analysis, chapter detection, PII redaction, and more. Featuring:Chris Coyier – Website, GitHub, XDave Rupert – Website, GitHub, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:Big news - A new era for the Changelog Podcast Universe and CPU.fm launches in 2025. ShopTalk Show Codepen Number Flow Dave’s bookshelf Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Adam & Jerod hallway-track-it before our All Things Open interviews. We discuss the trend in rebooting old school vehicles, our likes & dislikes of EVs, the Hummer’s new crab walk, Tesla’s gambit & more (This episode is for Changelog++ ears only.) Join the discussionChangelog++ members get a bonus 34 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today!Sponsors:Changelog++ – You love our content and you want to take it to the next level by showing your support. We’ll take you closer to the metal with extended episodes, make the ads disappear & more. It’s better! Let’s do this Featuring:Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Changelog++ (It’s better!) Scout Revival - YouTube “Push the Button” - YouTube Lidar - Wikipedia SUDDAR | Bobiverse Wiki Waymos make bad neighbors - YouTube Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!