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Aug 30, 2024 • 1h 35min
#define: piggyback
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…
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Featuring:Carol Lee – GitHub, LinkedIn, MastodonTaylor Troesh – Website, GitHub, LinkedInThomas Eckert – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XMat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
firecrawl
Rate us in Pocket Casts!
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Aug 23, 2024 • 1h 45min
The great escape room
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!
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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
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Aug 16, 2024 • 1h 40min
The Winamp era
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.
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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
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Aug 9, 2024 • 1h 7min
Picking a database should be simple
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.
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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.
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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)
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Aug 3, 2024 • 2h 19min
From Chef to System Initiative
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.
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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
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Jul 26, 2024 • 1h 32min
The BSOD CrowdStrikes back
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.
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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
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Jul 19, 2024 • 1h 53min
There’s a TUI for that
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.”
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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
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Jul 12, 2024 • 1h 33min
Last DevRel standing
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.

Jul 5, 2024 • 1h 30min
A different kind of rug pull
Adam & Jerod discuss the news! But first, we discuss how you can keep up with the software world (good question, Tyler Boyd!) On the docket: Developer job postings trend, the Ladybird Browser Initiative, the Polyfill.js supply chain attack & is the future self-hosted?
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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.
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Featuring:Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
Software Development Job Postings on Indeed in the United States
Announcing the Ladybird Browser Initiative
Chris Wanstrath’s announcement
Polyfill supply chain attack hits 100K+ sites
The future is self-hosted
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Doggo – CLI DNS client for humans
Doggo on Socket
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Jun 28, 2024 • 1h 39min
Kaizen! NOT a pipe dream
Welcome to Kaizen 15! We go deep on the big Changelog News redesign, give shout outs to folks who’ve helped us along the way & Gerhard takes us on his journey to turn Jerod’s pipe dream into a reality!
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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.
Featuring:Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
Discussion #511: 🎧 Kaizen 15 - changelog.com/friends/50
Navel gazing on Wikipedia
Omphaloskepsis on #define: game theory, dude
Pull Request #510: News redesign
Pull Request #517: 29 reasons to subscribe to Changelog News
Pull Request #513: Remove # from episode numbers in commit messages
Pull Request #516: Trace GitHub Actions Workflows
Support for HTTPS tracing protocol
corentinmusard/otel-cicd-action
worldpagespeed.fly.dev
pipedream.changelog.com
🎬 Let’s build a CDN
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