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Jun 21, 2024 • 1h 41min
Where DOESN’T curl run
Daniel Stenberg shares his guiding principles for BDFL’ing curl, gives us his perspective on the state of the internet, talks financial independence, ensuring curl won’t be the next XZ & more!
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Featuring:Daniel Stenberg – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
curl turns 26 today
My BDFL guiding principles
The I in LLM stands for intelligence
tiny-curl
Verified curl
How to verify a curl release
github.com/curl/trurl
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Jun 14, 2024 • 2h 1min
Putting the Apple in AI
Tech enthusiast and AI expert Justin Searls shares insights on Apple's latest innovations at the 2024 WWDC keynote, discussing the future of Apple Intelligence and his vision for Apple devices. Topics range from math problem-solving on iPads, mobile CoPilot assistants, password management apps, Safari compatibility challenges, screen time restrictions, and humorous incidents with new Apple features. The conversation also explores the Apple Vision Pro device, virtual reality gestures, Apple's potential support for Linux on Mac devices, and optimism for the future of Apple technology.

Jun 13, 2024 • 5min
1999: A Film Odyssey (Changelog++ 🔐)
Adam & Jerod hallway-track-it between Microsoft Build interviews. Was 1999 the best year in film history? Was 2004 the worst? Have you heard the full story behind Blues Traveler’s “Hook”? Are you still reading this? Go listen! (This episode is for Changelog++ ears only.)
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Featuring:Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
Changelog++ (It’s better!)
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Jun 7, 2024 • 1h 52min
#define: legendary
What happens when you take three #define newbs (Thomas Eckert, Nick Nisi, Mat Ryer) & pit them against the grizzled vet, Adam? Find out on this episode because our award-worthy game of fake definitions is back & this time it’s even more legendary!
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Featuring:Thomas Eckert – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XNick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Bluesky, Mastodon, XMat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei
devy.page
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May 31, 2024 • 1h 39min
Is it too late to opt out of AI?
Tech lawyer Luis Villa returns to answer our most pressing questions: what’s up with all these new content deals? How did Google think it was a good idea to ship AI Summaries in its current state? Is it too late to opt out of AI? We also discuss AI in Hollywood (spoilers!), positive things we’re seeing (or hoping for) & Upstream 2024 (June 5th)!
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Featuring:Luis Villa – Website, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
Upstream 2024 | A celebration of open source
ANTHOLOGY — The way of open source (Changelog Interviews #563)
On self driving, Waymo is playing chess while Tesla plays checkers
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May 24, 2024 • 1h 7min
It's a long & windy road
We kick off our Microsoft Build 2024 “coverage” in this free-wheelin’ conversation with our friend, Shaundai Person! We’re talking Netflix infra, we’re talking sales, we’re talking real-world AI usage, we’re talking career choices…. What’s a good next step? Listen in!
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Neon – The fully managed serverless Postgres with a generous free tier. We separate storage and compute to offer autoscaling, branching, and bottomless storage.
Featuring:Shaundai Person – GitHub, LinkedIn, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

May 17, 2024 • 1h 43min
Self-hosted media server goodness
Alex Kretzschmar discusses building a perfect media server with LinuxServer.io, Plex, Jellyfin, ZFS, TrueNAS, and Docker Compose. Topics include hardware/software, data management, advantages of ZFS, server naming, Plex vs. Jellyfin, DRM removal, and favorite audiobooks and movies.

May 10, 2024 • 1h 37min
Motivated by play
Annie Sexton has been on quite a journey since she was last on the show back in early ‘22. On this episode, Annie takes us on that journey, shares her new-found perspective & tells us about how she’s approaching her side project this time around.
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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.
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Featuring:Annie Sexton – Website, LinkedIn, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
Git your reset on (Changelog Interviews #480)
I’m rebuilding my notes app, Typist, and here’s why
Ben Gillin on Instagram
How to talk to LLMs | Storybot demo - YouTube
AI video post-processing in the cloud | Sieve + Daily - YouTube
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May 3, 2024 • 1h 45min
The Wu-Tang way
Our friend Ron Evans is a technologist for hire, an open source developer, an author, a speaker, an iconoclast, and one of our favorite people in tech. This conversation with Ron goes everywhere: from high-altitude weather balloons, to life on Mars, to Zeno’s paradox applied to ML, to what open source devs should learn from the Wu-Tang Clan & more.
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Featuring:Ron Evans – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
Book: A City on Mars
Bio-Dome - Wikipedia
Zeno’s paradoxes
TinyGo on Hackaday
ggerganov/llama.cpp: LLM inference in C/C++
What exactly is Open Source AI? with Stefano Maffulli
On the dangers of stochastic parrots | The Alan Turing Institute
2053: A Go Odyssey (Go Time #235)
Getting started with TinyGo
Looking back at Go from 2053 with Ron Evans - YouTube
The Hybrid Group
Ali Spagnola - YouTube
GopherCon 2024 - Register Now
FOSDEM 2024 - Home
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Apr 26, 2024 • 1h 43min
The ol' hot & juicy
Adam Jacob, founder of System Initiative, shares spicy takes on 'open source meets business' drama. They discuss IBM's acquisition of HashiCorp, controversies in the tech industry, image optimization with Image Proxy, strategic decision-making in open source and enterprise models, and open source sustainability. The conversation also explores revolutionizing infrastructure as code, modern heavy metal bands, and personal music preferences.