Changelog & Friends

Jerod & Adam share our Zulip first impressions, react to Elasticsearch going open source (again), discuss Christian Hollinger’s blog post on why he still self-hosts & answer a listener question: how do we produce podcasts? Join the discussionChangelog++ members get a bonus 22 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today!Sponsors:Sentry – Code breaks, fix it faster. Don’t just observe. Take action. Sentry is the only app monitoring platform built for developers that gets to the root cause for every issue. 100,000+ growing teams use sentry to find problems fast. Use the code CHANGELOG when you sign up to get $100 OFF the team plan. Paragon – Ship native integrations to production in days with more than 130 pre-built connectors, or configure your own custom integrations. Built for product and engineering. Learn more at useparagon.com/changelog 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 Test Double – Find out more about Test Double’s software investment problem solvers at testdouble.com. Featuring:Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: All Things Open 2024 Elasticsearch is Open Source, Again Elastic’s return to open source Why I still self host my servers (and what I’ve recently learned) Is Linux collapsing under its own weight? (Changelog News #111) We take requests! Grafana’s Big Tent Riverside: HD Podcast & Video Software Kaizen! Four PRs, one big feature (Ship It! #70) A guided tour through ID3 esoterica (Changelog Interviews #508) A Nick-level emergency (JS Party #333) Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Emily Freeman joins the show alongside our Ship It co-host, Justin Garrison! We hear Emily’s burnout story & learn how she and Forrest Brazeal are putting tech-focused influencers on tap. But first: area code turf wars, bad movie reboots & buying used DVDs… at Starbucks?! Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 12 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Sentry – Code breaks, fix it faster. Don’t just observe. Take action. Sentry is the only app monitoring platform built for developers that gets to the root cause for every issue. 100,000+ growing teams use sentry to find problems fast. Use the code CHANGELOG when you sign up to get $100 OFF the team plan. 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. Paragon – Ship native integrations to production in days with more than 130 pre-built connectors, or configure your own custom integrations. Built for product and engineering. Learn more at useparagon.com/changelog 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 Featuring:Emily Freeman – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, XJustin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: 1999: A Film Odyssey (Changelog++ 🔐) The Andromeda Strain Song Encoder: Forrest Brazeal freeman + forrest Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

What happens when you take two #define champs (Taylor Troesh, Thomas Eckert), a grizzled veteran (Adam Stacoviak), a british bard (Mat Ryer), a PhD (Carol Lee) & you pit them against each other in a game of fake tech definitions?! There’s only one way to find out… Join the discussionChangelog++ members get a bonus 27 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today!Sponsors:Supabase – Supabase just finished their 12th launch week! Check it out. Or get a month of Supabase Pro (FREE) by going to supabase.com/changelogpod Paragon – Ship native integrations to production in days with more than 130 pre-built connectors, or configure your own custom integrations. Built for product and engineering. Learn more at useparagon.com/changelog Socket – Secure your supply chain and ship with confidence. Install the GitHub app, book a demo or learn more Featuring:Carol Lee – GitHub, LinkedIn, MastodonTaylor Troesh – Website, GitHub, LinkedInThomas Eckert – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XMat Ryer – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: firecrawl Rate us in Pocket Casts! Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Adam & Jerod catch up with our ol’ friend, Suz Hinton! It’s been a couple years since Suz was a regular on JS Party. Since then, she moved back to Australia, earned a degree in cyber security & won a fidget spinner from the NSA… but that’s not all! Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 10 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Supabase – Supabase just finished their 12th launch week! Check it out Speakeasy – Production-ready, enterprise-resilient, best-in-class SDKs crafted in minutes. Speakeasy takes care of the entire SDK workflow to save you significant time, delivering SDKs to your customers in minutes with just a few clicks! Create your first SDK for free! Test Double – Find out more about Test Double’s software investment problem solvers at testdouble.com. Socket – Secure your supply chain and ship with confidence. Install the GitHub app, book a demo or learn more Featuring:Suz Hinton – GitHub, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Suz on Changelog pods Suz on freeCodeCamp pod Suz Live coding: OSCON edition Lego Cooking - YouTube New Kids On The Block - Hangin’ Tough - YouTube NSA Codebreaker Challenge Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

You won’t believe the bizarre secrets Jordan Eldredge found investigating corrupt Winamp skins (#7 will shock you)! You also won’t believe how long we can wax nostalgic about the era of Napster, Aladdin & Pearl Jam. Join the discussionChangelog++ members get a bonus 5 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today!Sponsors:Paragon – Ship native integrations to production in days with more than 130 pre-built connectors, or configure your own custom integrations. Built for product and engineering. Learn more at useparagon.com/changelog 1Password – Build securely with 1Password - 1Password simplifies how you securely use, manage, and integrate developer credentials. Manage SSH keys and sign Git commits. Access secrets stored in 1Password. Automate administrative tasks. Integrate with third-party tools. Also, check out our INFRASTRUCTURE.md file for more details on how we do secrets with 1Password. Unblocked – Other developer tools can’t tell you how your codebase works and why. Unblocked can. We augment your code with context from Slack, Confluence, Jira, and more, so you get accurate answers without having to search for them. Sign up for free at getunblocked.com Featuring:Jordan Eldredge – Website, GitHub, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Webamp.org The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins Mainlining Nostalgia: Making the Winamp Skin Museum The Winamp Skin Museum is powered by an sqlite3 database Winamp Skin Museum AC/DC - Back In Black (Official 4K Video) - YouTube Tom Waits - “Alice” - YouTube A 1979 Tom Waits interview : r/OldSchoolCool Led Zeppelin - Black Dog (Official Audio) - YouTube Led Zeppelin IV - Wikipedia Jain - Makeba (Official Video) - YouTube One Jump Ahead - YouTube Justin Frankel - Wikipedia All Apologies - YouTube Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Database aficionado, Ben Johnson, joins Jerod to answer the age ol’ question: which database should you use? Answering that isn’t always easy, which means it’s time to play the “It Depends” jingle & weigh (some of) the options. Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 9 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Sentry – Code breaks, fix it faster. Don’t just observe. Take action. Sentry is the only app monitoring platform built for developers that gets to the root cause for every issue. 90,000+ growing teams use sentry to find problems fast. Use the code CHANGELOG when you sign up to get $100 OFF the team plan. 1Password – Build securely with 1Password - 1Password simplifies how you securely use, manage, and integrate developer credentials. Manage SSH keys and sign Git commits. Access secrets stored in 1Password. Automate administrative tasks. Integrate with third-party tools. Also, check out our INFRASTRUCTURE.md file for more details on how we do secrets with 1Password. Intel Innovation 2024 – Early bird registration is now open for Intel Innovation 2024 in San Jose, CA! Learn more OR register Featuring:Ben Johnson – Website, GitHub, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Jepsen - Consistency Models LiteFS litestream rqlite BoltDB, InfluxDB, Key-Value Databases with Ben Johnson (Changelog Interviews #170) Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Adam Jacob goes solo with Adam for an epic pod into his journey to get to System Initiative. From SysAdmin at 8 years old, to discovering Linux and working for Mom-and-pop ISPs, to open source changing his life and starting Opscode and building Chef. Buckle up. This is a different flavor of “Friends” for you. Enjoy. Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 12 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Neon – Fleets of Postgres! Enterprises use Neon to operate hundreds of thousands of Postgres databases: Automated, instant provisioning of the world’s most popular database. Test Double – Great software is made by great teams. Test Double builds both. 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 Intel Innovation 2024 – Early bird registration is now open for Intel Innovation 2024 in San Jose, CA! Learn more OR register Featuring:Adam Jacob – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: System Initiative Ximian Any Given Sunday speech I’ll Devour You! (I shall look forward to the fight) RIP Ezra Zygmuntowicz Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Robert Ross joins us in CrowdStrike’s wake to dissect the largest outage in the history of information technology… and what it means for the future of the (software) world. Join the discussionChangelog++ members get a bonus 9 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today!Sponsors:Cronitor – Cronitor helps you understand your cron jobs. Capture the status, metrics, and output from every cron job and background process. Name and organize each job, and ensure the right people are alerted when something goes wrong. 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 Socket – Secure your supply chain and ship with confidence. Install the GitHub app, book a demo or learn more Intel Innovation 2024 – Registration is now open for Intel Innovation 2024 in San Jose, CA! Featuring:Robert Ross – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Inside the 78 minutes that took down millions of Windows machines How the CrowdStrike outage unfolded — a timeline Nick Burns, Your Company’s Computer Guy Real men test in production… The truth about the CrowdStrike disaster No More Blue Fridays House committee calls on CrowdStrike CEO to testify on global outage CrowdStrike CEO called to testify to Congress over cybersecurity’s firm role in global tech outage Beyond the Headlines: The Unsung Art of Software Outage Management Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Nick Janetakis is back and this time we’re talking about TUIs (text-based user interfaces) — some we’ve tried and some we plan to try. All are collected from Justin Garrison’s Awesome TUIs repo on GitHub. This episode is “AI free.” Join the discussionChangelog++ members get a bonus 17 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today!Sponsors:Cronitor – Cronitor helps you understand your cron jobs. Capture the status, metrics, and output from every cron job and background process. Name and organize each job, and ensure the right people are alerted when something goes wrong. Sentry – Code breaks, fix it faster. Don’t just observe. Take action. Sentry is the only app monitoring platform built for developers that gets to the root cause for every issue. 90,000+ growing teams use sentry to find problems fast. Use the code CHANGELOG when you sign up to get $100 OFF the team plan. Paragon – Ship native integrations to production in days with more than 130 pre-built connectors, or configure your own custom integrations. Built for product and engineering. Learn more at useparagon.com/changelog 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:Nick Janetakis – Website, GitHub, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Justin Garrison’s awesome-tuis repo aristocratos/bashtop - Linux/OSX/FreeBSD resource monitor aristocratos/btop - A monitor of resources “Getting started with tmux” on YouTube Changelog Interviews #511: The terminal as a platform (with Will McGugan) LazyDocker - manage everything Docker Superfile - fancy and modern terminal file manager Ranger - VIM-inspired filemanager Elia - TUI for interacting with large language models Atuin - Making your shell magical Warp - the terminal reimagined Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Shawn 'swyx' Wang discusses the state of DevRel, the impact of AI Engineering, speculation on AGI, and the mis-steps during Cognition's launch. They explore the future of AI innovations and the rise and fall of job openings in the tech industry.