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The 'developer replacement' hype cycle (Changelog News #147)

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 2, 2025 8:02


We're doing a live show in Denver this July, Danilo Alonso has seen the 'developer replacement' hype cycle many times, Dan Sinker says we're in the Who Cares Era, Cap looks like a solid alternative to typical CAPTCHA solutions, Michael Flarup on the return of texture, depth, and expressiveness in UI & Kan is an open source alternative to Trello.

wsl.exe -- cat hello.cs (Changelog & Friends #95)

Play Episode Listen Later May 31, 2025 87:48


We bring you back to Microsoft Build 2025 to nerd out with Craig Loewen on Windows Subsystem for Linux and Mads Torgersen on leading the design of C#.

The Web Development Engine (Changelog Interviews #643)

Play Episode Listen Later May 30, 2025 93:28


We're joined by Andreas Møller, Co-founder of Nordcraft — the team behind Nordcraft Engine, a powerful new platform designed to give web developers what gaming developers have had for years. Andreas shares what inspired them to build Nordcraft Engine, why they believe the web is overdue for a shift in how we approach designing and building for the web, ee explore how the platform works, how you can get started, and what's next for Nordcraft.

Entry-level tech jobs are getting wiped out (Changelog News #146)

Play Episode Listen Later May 27, 2025 9:57 Transcription Available


The San Fransisco Standard published some sobering news for new graduates, the Forge team decided to put an AI agent in your shell, Fernando Borretti says you can choose tools that make you happy, Jujutsu's flexibility and safety changed Nathan Witmer's approach to version control, Anil Dash is as excited about MCP as almost everyone else is & Alex Kladov shares two rules of thumb around pushing "ifs" up and "fors" down.

Dull, dirty or dangerous (Changelog & Friends #94)

Play Episode Listen Later May 23, 2025 68:07 Transcription Available


We sit down with Scott Hanselman at Microsoft Build 2025 to discuss open sourcing all the things, cool stuff Windows can do, where we want (and don't want) AI to fit into our lives, building arcade cabinets, and so much more.

Refactored in prison (Changelog Interviews #642)

Play Episode Listen Later May 23, 2025 102:14 Transcription Available


Preston Thorpe joins us from inside prison, where he awaits a hopeful release within the next 12 months. His journey has been anything but easy—marked by hardship and uncertainty. But over the past few years, Preston has undergone a profound transformation. He's refactored not just his skills, but his identity. Today, he proudly calls himself a software engineer and an open source contributor. In this episode, Preston shares his story of redemption, resilience, and what comes next.

Windows Subsystem for Linux is open source (Changelog News #145)

Play Episode Listen Later May 19, 2025 7:39


Microsoft finally opens the source of WSL, Paolo Scanferla describes an inherent trade-off in TypeScript's type system, Alberto Fortin is taking a step back from heavy LLM use while coding, a pseudonymous hacker spent two weeks coding from their Android phone, and NLWeb might become the HTML of the open agentic web.

#define: I'm going pants (Changelog & Friends #93)

Play Episode Listen Later May 16, 2025 104:26 Transcription Available


Welcome back to #define, our game of obscure jargon, fake definitions, and expert tomfoolery. We've gathered some awesome friends, new and old, to see who has the best vocabulary and who can trick the everyone else into thinking that they do.

NATS and the CNCF kerfuffle (Changelog Interviews #641)

Play Episode Listen Later May 16, 2025 96:21 Transcription Available


Derek Collison — creator of NATS and Co-founder & CEO of Synadia — joins the show to dive into the origins, design, and evolution of NATS, a high-performance, open-source messaging system built for modern cloud-native systems and part of the CNCF. Derek shares the story behind NATS, what makes it unique, and unpacks the recent tensions between Synadia and the CNCF over the future of the project.

A critical look at MCP (Changelog News #144)

Play Episode Listen Later May 12, 2025 8:13


Rasmus Holm takes a critical look at MCP, Stefan Judis shares a new term he learned from Scott Hanselman, Raf beautifully describes the curse of knowing how, Void is an open source Cursor alternative & React Jam is back for its 6th online game jam.

Kaizen! Tip of the Pipely (Changelog & Friends #92)

Play Episode Listen Later May 9, 2025 102:01


Kaizen 19 has arrived! Gerhard has been laser-focused on making Jerod's pipe dream a reality by putting all of his efforts into Pipely. Has it been a big waste of time or has this epic side quest morphed into a main quest?!

Building Zed's agentic editing (Changelog Interviews #640)

Play Episode Listen Later May 7, 2025 112:27


Nathan Sobo is back talking about the next big thing for Zed—agentic editing! You now have a full-blown AI-native editor to play with. Collaborate with agents at 120fps in a natively multiplayer IDE.

Firefox could be doomed (Changelog News #143)

Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2025 9:47


The DOJ's beef with Google might spell doom for Mozilla, Clayton Ramsey makes a plea for not using ChatGPT for writing, Tim Cook loses a big gamble, Brandon Reinhart migrates his game dev away from Rust and Bevy, and Ibrahim Diallo throws zip bombs at malicious bots.

When life gives you LLMs... (Changelog & Friends #91)

Play Episode Listen Later May 2, 2025 100:24


Our old friend, Zeno Rocha, returns to discuss email etiquette, the strange new world of AI SEO, the coming LLM enshittification, and SLATE Auto – the just-announced $20k modular EV truck.

Chasing that next BIG thing (Changelog Interviews #639)

Play Episode Listen Later May 1, 2025 99:39


Drew Wilson is back! It's been more than a decade since Adam and Drew have spoken and wow, Drew has been busy. He built Plasso and got acquired by GoDaddy. He built a bank called Letter which didn't work out...and now he's Head of Design at Clerk and back to chasing that next big thing.

I just want to code (Changelog News #142)

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 28, 2025 7:23


Zach Bellay tells us about the devil and the angel on his shoulders, Pete Koomen thinks today's AI apps are like horseless carriages, Hyperwood is an open source system for crafting furniture from simple wooden slats, Scott Antipa agrees with YAGNI but adds YAGRI & Antony Henao debunks three common myths that get engineers stuck.

Hello, Matworld! (Changelog & Friends #90)

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2025 75:10


Join us on a journey to make believe worlds with our good friend Mat Ryer. The assignment; we each get to make up a new world where we invent a new gadget and declare a new rule. This episode is sure to delight loyal fans and especially those who enjoy Mat Ryer on the show and a good/bad song or two.

Make sales not features (Changelog Interviews #638)

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 23, 2025 68:10


Kendall Miller is a bubbly extrovert who sticks his fingers in a lot of pies. He advises tech companies like FusionAuth, positions tech products like Civo & Tensorlake, organizes tech networks like CTO Lunches, and even sells whiskey & gin to tech people like us via his Friday Deployment Spirits brand. Kendall has learned a lot since he first entered the industry and he's eager to share what he knows, and who he knows, with the world.

Fresh beats for endless flow state (Changelog News #141)

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 21, 2025 9:19


We drop our fourth Changelog Beats album, Dex Horthy proposes the 12-factor AI agent, Thorsten Ball takes us step-by-step through building a coding agent, Zachary Huang builds an LLM framework in 100 lines of code & Philip Laine's Spegel project gets unknowingly forked by Microsoft.

Vibing into the vibe (Changelog & Friends #89)

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2025 91:28


Nick Nisi joins us to confess his AI subscription glut, drool over some cool new hardware gadgets, discuss why the TypeScript team chose Go for their new compiler, opine on the React team's complicated relationship with Vercel, suggest people try Astro, update us on his browser habits, and more.

Making DNSimple (Changelog Interviews #637)

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2025 106:43


Anthony Eden, Founder & CEO of DNSimple, joins the show to talk about the world of managed hosting for DNS and more.

Google's new protocol has AI agents talkin' (Changelog News #140)

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 14, 2025 8:45 Transcription Available


Google announces an open protocol for AI agent collaboration, Datastar is an Alpine.js / htmx love child, Matthias Endler documents things he finds common in the best programmers, turns out Linus Torvalds built Git in 10 days & Zev is a CLI that helps you remember (or discover) terminal commands using natural language.

Proud pod parents (Changelog & Friends #88)

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 12, 2025 99:53 Transcription Available


Richard Moot joins us to discuss Changelog helping Square launch a developer pod and the excitement around MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers. What might it foretell about the future of human/robot relations?

The era of durable execution (Changelog Interviews #636)

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 10, 2025 100:03 Transcription Available


Stephan Ewen, Founder and CEO of Restate.dev joins the show to talk about the coming era of resilient apps, the meaning of and what it takes to achieve idempotency, this world of stateful durable execution functions, and when it makes sense to reach for this tech.

The AI 2027 scenario (Changelog News #139)

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 7, 2025 9:04


Daniel Kokotajlo and the AI Futures Project lays out a potential scenario of superhuman AI's impact, Liam ERD generates beautiful, interactive ER diagrams from your database, Mozilla takes on Gmail with "Thundermail", algernon explains why grepping remains terrible & Vitor M. de Sousa Pereira rans on the insanity of being a software engineer.

Turn him into a walrus (Changelog & Friends #87)

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 4, 2025 70:08


Jerod turns Adam into Lego, a Walrus, and a Walrus in the style of Studio Ghibli...and so much more. This is a good one to watch on YouTube.

The 1000x faster financial database (Changelog Interviews #635)

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 2, 2025 100:28


In July of 2020, Joran Dirk Greef stumbled into a fundamental limitation in the general-purpose database design for transaction processing. This sent him on a path that ended with TigerBeetle, a redesigned distributed database for financial transactions that yielded three orders of magnitude faster OLTP performance over the usual (general-purpose) suspects. On this episode, Joran joins Jerod to explain how TigerBeetle got so fast, to defend its resilience and durability claims as a new market entrant, and to stake his claim at the intersection of open source and business. Oh, plus the age old question: Why Zig?

The idealization of farming by tech (Changelog News #138)

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 31, 2025 8:14 Transcription Available


Theodore Morley wonders why tech workers so frequently point our wanderlust toward hands-on trades, Eduardo Bouças explains why he's lost confidence in Vercel's handling of Next.js, "xan" is a command line tool that can be used to process CSV files directly from the shell, Pawel Brodzinski takes us back to Kanban's roots & Sergey Tselovalnikov weighs in on vibe coding.

Of agents & agency (Changelog & Friends #86)

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 28, 2025 97:53


Long-time JS Party panelist Amal Hussein joins Jerod to catch up on her career path, to opine on the viability agentic coding, to feel all the feelings that AI brings out of us as developers, and to share something new in her life that changes everything.

Leading leaders who lead engineers (remastered) (Changelog Interviews #634)

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 26, 2025 74:21


This week we're bringing you a remaster of our epic 2021interview with Lara Hogan -- author of Resilient Management and management coach / trainer for the tech industry. The majority of our conversation focuses on the four primary hats leaders and managers end up wearing; mentoring, coaching, sponsoring, and delivering feedback. We also talk about knowing when you're ready to lead, empathy and compassion, and learning to lead.

Revenge of the junior developer (Changelog News #137)

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2025 8:14 Transcription Available


Steve Yegge's latest rant about the future of "coding", Ethan McCue shares some life altering Postgres patterns, Hillel Wayne makes the case for Verification-First Development, Gerd Zellweger experienced lots of pain setting up GitHub Actions & Cascii is a web-based ASCII diagram builder.

Here's my Siri theory (Changelog & Friends #85)

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 21, 2025 122:55


Justin Searls from Breaking Change joins the show to discuss Apple's Intelligence blunder, the end of the good times in the tech industry, and POSSE Party, his in-progress product that lets "any dummy with a website enjoy a life of algorithm-free luxury."

Securing ecommerce: "It's complicated" (Changelog Interviews #633)

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 20, 2025 65:09


Ilya Grigorik and his team at Shopify has been hard at work securing ecommerce checkouts from sophisticated news attacks (such as digital skimming) and he's here to share all the technical intricacies and far-reaching implications of this work.

Our interfaces have lost their senses (Changelog News #136)

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 17, 2025 6:47


Amelia Wattenberger bemoans the computer's great flattening, the Learnk8s team lets you manage your cluster from a spreadsheet, Jan Swist gets a surprising response from Cursor, the French and German governments team up for an open source Notion alternative & XPipe lets you access your entire server infrastructure from your local desktop.

Friends on the frontend (Changelog & Friends #84)

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2025 107:30 Transcription Available


Adam's friend on the frontend, John Long joins the show to explore his usage of AI, design tools and the stack he prefers. We talk Next.js vs Rails, maintaining open source, building websites with Framer, their mutual love for Figma, and more.

Reaching industrial economies of scale (Changelog Interviews #632)

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 12, 2025 104:49


Beyang Liu, the CTO & Co-founder of Sourcegraph is back on the pod. Adam and Bryant go deep on the idea of "industrializing software development" using AI agents, using AI in general, using code generation. So much is happening in and around AI and Sourcegraph continues to innovate again and again. From their editor assistant called Cody, to Code Search, to AI agents, to Batch Changes, they're really helping software teams to industrialize the process, the inner and the outer loop, of being a software developer on high performance teams with large codebases.

Everyone is talking about MCP (Changelog News #135)

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 10, 2025 9:08


Vibe coding is the new vibe, AI engineers are all taking about MCP, Tom Usher wants you to kill your algorithmic feeds, Curiositry shares his troubleshooting expertise, Nikola Ðuza thinks we should keep blogging for the LLMs & James Stanier answers the question, should managers still code?

Friendly Feud: JS Party Edition (Changelog & Friends #83)

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 7, 2025 72:34


Our award-winning JS Party game show is back with a new name, a new channel, and the same ol' survey-response-guessing fun! The JS Party crew join us to see who knows y'all best. Survey says!

Antirez returns to Redis! (Changelog Interviews #631)

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 7, 2025 93:59


Antirez has returned to Redis! Yes, Salvatore Sanfilippo (aka Antirez), the creator of Redis has returned to Redis and he joined us to share the backstory on Redis, what's going on with the tech and the company, the possible (likely) move back to open source via the AGPL license, the new possibilities of AI and vector embeddings in Redis, and some good 'ol LLM inference discussions.

JavaScript fatigue strikes back (Changelog News #134)

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 3, 2025 8:29


Allen Pike on the JavaScript ecosystem after a decade away, Lars Wirzenius was there at the birth of Linux, Piotr Migdał archives things in Markdown, Jacob Stopak is gamifying Git with Devlands & Juan Diego Rodríguez runs down how CSS functions (will) work.

Kaizen! Pipely goes BAM (Changelog & Friends #82)

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 28, 2025 118:41


It's Kaizen 18! Can you believe it? We discuss the recent Fly.io outage, some little features we've added since our last Kaizen, our new video-first production, and of course, catch up on all things Pipely! Oh, and Gerhard surprises us (once again). BAM!

Building for application developers (Changelog Interviews #630)

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 27, 2025 112:33


Anurag Goel, Founder/CEO of Render, joins Adam to discuss what they're doing to solve cloud problems for application developers. They just raised $80M they don't even need and they're poised to solve boring problems like object storage, and less boring things like building for the AI era.

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