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Sep 1, 2023 • 1h 39min
You call it tech debt I call it malpractice
Go Time panelist (and semi-professional unpopular opinion maker) Kris Brandow joins us to discuss his deep-dive on the waterfall paper, his dislike of the “tech debt” analogy, why documentation matters so much & how everything is a distributed system.
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Featuring:Kris Brandow – GitHub, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
“Waterfall” doesn’t mean what you think it means
Kris’s Go Time take on the tech debt analogy
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Aug 18, 2023 • 1h 22min
An aberrant generation of programmers
Our friend Justin Searls recently published a widely-read essay on enthusiast programmers, inter-generational conflict & what we do with this information. That seemed like a good conversation starter, so we grabbed Justin and Landon Gray to discuss. Let’s talk!
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Featuring:Justin Searls – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, XLandon Gray – LinkedInJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
Justin’s post
Justin’s monthly newsletter
Justin’s Ruby Kaigi coverage
Justin’s previous Changelog appearances
Test Double
nodenv
Destroy All Software
Louisville’s AI Schoolbus Route fiasco
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Aug 11, 2023 • 1h 19min
Kaizen! S3 R2 B2 D2
Gerhard joins us for the 11th Kaizen and this one might contain the most improvements ever. We’re on Fly Apps V2, we’ve moved from S3 to R2 & we have a status page now, just to name a few.
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Typesense – Lightning fast, globally distributed Search-as-a-Service that runs in memory. You literally can’t get any faster!
Featuring:Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
All Kaizen episodes
Kaizen 11 Discussion on GitHub
Oban Pro
Apps V2
Changelog Nightly
status.changelog.com
Changelog Community Slack
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Jul 28, 2023 • 1h 34min
Homelab nerds, unite!
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.
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Typesense – Lightning fast, globally distributed Search-as-a-Service that runs in memory. You literally can’t get any faster!
Featuring:Techno Tim – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow 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!

Jul 21, 2023 • 1h 37min
Bringing the cloud on prem
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.
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Typesense – Lightning fast, globally distributed Search-as-a-Service that runs in memory. You literally can’t get any faster!
Featuring:Bryan Cantrill – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XSteve Tuck – LinkedIn, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow 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!

Jul 14, 2023 • 1h 15min
Dear Red Hat...
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.
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Typesense – Lightning fast, globally distributed Search-as-a-Service that runs in memory. You literally can’t get any faster!
Featuring:Jeff Geerling – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow 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!

Jun 30, 2023 • 1h 29min
Even the best rides come to an end
On Monday, Kelsey Hightower announced his retirement from Google. On Tuesday, he sat down with us to discuss why, how & what’s next.
Along the way, Kelsey teaches us how not to suck at work, analyzes his magical demos, fights off the haters (again) & opines on System Initiative, Dagger & 37Signals moving off the cloud.
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Typesense – Lightning fast, globally distributed Search-as-a-Service that runs in memory. You literally can’t get any faster!
Changelog News – A podcast+newsletter combo that’s brief, entertaining & always on-point. Subscribe today.
Featuring:Kelsey Hightower – GitHub, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
“Today I’m announcing my retirement from Google.”
Not Everyone Can Be Kelsey Hightower - Greg Poirier - YouTube
Rebuilding DevOps from the ground up with Adam Jacob
Why we’re leaving the cloud
We have left the cloud
MRSK — Deploy web apps anywhere
Two decades as a solo indie Mac dev with Jesse Grosjean
btop on GitHub
Dagger
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Jun 23, 2023 • 1h 31min
There's a whole PEP about that
Brett Cannon (our unofficial ambassador to the Python community) is here to help alleviate our pip install anxiety. Along the way, we ask him about Python 4, removing the GIL, what he thinks about Chris Lattner’s Mojo project, Rust in the Python world & way more (of course).
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Typesense – Lightning fast, globally distributed Search-as-a-Service that runs in memory. You literally can’t get any faster!
Featuring:Brett Cannon – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
In response to the Changelog #526
Raku
Perl Mongers
pipx
Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe
Mojo.🔥
Why Mojo
Astral
RustPython: A Python Interpreter written in Rust
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Jun 16, 2023 • 1h 40min
"Mat Depends"
Mat Ryer is back and he’s brought with him 10 tips to be a 10x developer (like he is). After that, we try a new segment we’re calling “Tool Time” (and try out a few jingles for it along the way). Finally, it’s time to review our previous unpopular opinions and put some new ones into the world for your (dis)agreeing pleasure. Join us for an automagical time!
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Typesense – Lightning fast, globally distributed Search-as-a-Service that runs in memory. You literally can’t get any faster!
Featuring:Mat Ryer – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
How ‘Back to the Future 2’ Tricked You Into Thinking Crispin Glover Returned
Mat on The Changelog #526
The Synergistic Interplay between Vitamins D and K for Bone and Cardiovascular Health
Introducing Wood Milk: Aubrey Plaza’s Newest Product #drinkwoodmilk - YouTube
golangci-lint
credo for Elixir
1Password
ntfy.sh
Queen Latifah - U.N.I.T.Y. - YouTube
NextDNS
NextDNS wiki on UnifiOS
I Made a Tiny Touch ID Button for Mac!
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Jun 9, 2023 • 1h 23min
Reactions to Apple’s new vision
Homebrew project leader Mike McQuaid joins us to weigh in on Apple’s big Vision Pro announcement. We also hit on our favorite (and least favorite) non-AR things from the WWDC 2023 keynote.
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Featuring:Mike McQuaid – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
Apple’s official Vision Pro page
Sarah Dietschy: I Tried the Apple Vision Pro 👀
The Verge: Apple Vision Pro first look
Valve Index
WWDC Highlights
Apple sure kicked Meta’s butt today, right?
CmdrTaco on the iPod
Day One
Aaron Levie’s tweet
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