Changelog Interviews

This week we're doing some Linux mythbusting and talking retro gaming with Jay LaCroix from Learn Linux TV. This is a preview of what's to come from our trip to All Things Open next week. By the way, make sure you come and check us out at booth 60. We'll be recording podcasts, shaking hands, giving out t-shirts and stickers...and speaking of gaming, you can go head-to-head with us on Mario Kart or...

This week we're talking with Will McGugan about using the terminal to not just build software, but also to deliver software. Will is a few months into his journey of building Textualize, a company he started around his open source projects Textual and Rich. When combined Textual and Rich give you a Python framework to build beautiful full-featured TUIs for the Terminal. We talk with Will about his...

This week we're talking about serverless Postgres! We're joined by Nikita Shamgunov, co-founder and CEO of Neon. With Neon, truly serverless PostgreSQL is finally here. Neon isn’t Postgres compatible…it actually is Postgres! Neon is also open source under the Apache License 2.0. We talk about what a cloud native serverless Postgres looks like, why developers want Postgres and why of the top 5 data...

This week we're talking fresh, faster, and new web frameworks by way of JS Party. Yes, today's show is a web framework sampler because a new batch of web frameworks have emerged. There's always something new happening in the front-end world and JS Party does an amazing job of keeping us up to date. So...what's fresh, faster, and new? The first segment of the show focuses on Deno's Fresh new web fr...

This week we turn the mics on ourselves, kind of. Lars Wikman joins the show to give us a guided tour through ID3 esoterica and the shiny new open source Elixir library he developed for us. We talk about what ID3 is, its many versions, what it aims to be and what it could have been, how our library project got started, all the unique features and failed dreams of the ID3v2 spec, how ID3v2 and Podc...

This week we're talking about product development structures as systems with Lucas da Costa. The last time we had Lucas on the show he was living the text-mode only life, and now we're more than 3 years later, Lucas has doubled down on all things text mode. Today's conversation with Lucas maps several ideas he's shared recently on his blog. We talk about deadlines being pointless, trajectory vs ro...

This week on The Changelog we're talking about Stable Diffusion, DALL-E, and the impact of AI generated art. We invited our good friend Simon Willison on the show today because he wrote a very thorough blog post titled, "Stable Diffusion is a really big deal." You may know Simon from his extensive contributions to open source software. Simon is a co-creator of the Django Web framework (which we do...

This week we're joined by Jason Bosco, co-founder and CEO of Typesense — the open source Algolia alternative and the easier to use ElasticSearch alternative. For years we've used Algolia as our search engine, so we come to this conversation with skin in the game and the scars to prove it. Jason shared how he and his co-founder got started on Typesense, why and how they are "all in" on open source,...

This week we're sharing the most popular episode of Go Time from last year — Go Time #196. We believe this episode was the most popular because it's all about building actually maintainable software and what goes into that. Kris Brandow is joined by Johnny Boursiquot, Ian Lopshire, and Sam Boyer. There's lots of hot takes, disagreements, and unpopular opinions. This is part two of a three part min...

This week we're talking with Alex MacCaw — he's well known for his work as founder and CEO of Clearbit. In May of 2021, Alex shared a personal update with the world on his blog. After much reflection, he decided to step down as CEO of Clearbit to go back to his roots. In his words, "I love the early stages of company building. Hacking together code, setting up the Stripe account, getting the first...

This week we're re-broadcasting a very special episode of Founders Talk. Adam was invited by our friends at Square to host a fireside chat with Jack Dorsey as the featured finale of their annual developer conference called Square Unboxed. Jack is one of the most prolific CEOs out there. He's a hacker turned CEO, often working at the very edge of what's to come. He's focused on what the future has...

eBPF is a revolutionary kernel technology that has lit the cloud native world on fire. If you're going to have one person explain the excitement, that person would be Liz Rice. Liz is the COSO at Isovalent, creators of the open source Cilium project and pioneers of eBPF tech. On this episode Liz tells Jerod all about the power of eBPF, where it came from, what kind of new applications its enabling...

Episode 500!!! And it has been a journey! Nearly 13 years ago we started this podcast and as of today (this episode) we've officially shipped our 500th episode. As a companion to this episode, Jerod and Adam shipped a special Backstage episode where they reflect on 500 episodes. And...not only has it been a journey for us, but it's also been a journey for our good friend Chris Coyier and CSS-Trick...

This week we're joined again by Ben Ubois and we're talking about RSS. Yes, RSS...the tech that never seems to die and yet so many of us rely on it daily. Ben is the creator of Feedbin, which is self-described as "a nice place to read on the web." Ben is also the maker of a new app on iOS for people who like podcasts. It's called Airshow and you can download it at airshow.fm. Ben catches us up on...

This week we're joined by On Freund, former VP of Engineering at WeWork and now co-founder & CEO of Wilco. WeWork you may have heard of, but Wilco maybe not (yet). We get into the details behind the tech and scaling of WeWork, comparisons of the fictional series on Apple TV+ called WeCrashed and how much of that is true. Then we move on to Wilco which is what has On's full attention right now. Wil...

This week we're talking with Daniel Thompson about Tauri and their journey to their recent 1.0 release. Tauri is often compared to Electron - it's a toolkit that lets you build software for all major desktop operating systems using web technologies. It was built for the security-focused, privacy-respecting, and environmentally-conscious software engineering community. The core libraries are writte...

Today we have a special treat: Bryan Cantrill, co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer! You may know Bryan from his work on DTrace. He worked at Sun for many years, then Oracle, and finally Joyent before starting Oxide. We dig deep into their company's mission/principles/values, hear how it it all started with a VC's blank check that turned out to be anything but, and learn how Oxide's integrated app...

Adam and Jerod are joined once again by James Long. He was on the podcast five years ago discussing the surprise success of Prettier, an opinionated code formatter that's still in use to this day. This time around we're going deep on Actual, his personal finance system James built as a business for over 4 years before recently opening it up and making it 100% free. Has James given up on the busine...

Adam and Jerod are joined by Ken Kantzer, co-founder of PKC Security. Ken and his team performed upwards of 20 code audits on well-funded startups. Now that it's 7 or 8 years later, he wrote up 16 surprising observations and things he learned looking back at the experience. We gotta discuss 'em all!

This week Lee Robinson joins us to talk about his journey as a DevRel. We talk about what it means to be a DevRel, what orgs they fall under, how he runs his team at Vercel, Lee's three pillars of DevRel: education, community, and product, we compare the old days of DevRel vs now, and of course what makes a DevRel a good DevRel.

This week Jesse Grosjean joins us to talk about his career as a solo indie Mac dev. Since 2004 Jesse has been building Mac apps under the company name Hog Bay Software producing hits such as WriteRoom, Taskpaper, and now Bike. We talk through the evolution of his apps, how he considers new features and improvements, why he chose and continues to choose the Mac platform, his business model and pric...

This week we're peeking into the future again — this time we're looking at the future of modern code review and workflows around pull requests. Jerod and Adam were joined by two of the co-founders of Graphite — Tomas Reimers and Greg Foster. Graphite is an open-source CLI and code review dashboard built for engineers who want to write and review smaller pull requests, stay unblocked, and ship fast...

This week we're talking with Bruce Schneier — cryptographer, computer security professional, privacy specialist, and writer (of many books). He calls himself a "public-interest technologist", a term he coined himself, and works at the intersection of security, technology, and people. Bruce has been writing about security issues on his blog since 2004, his monthly newsletter has been going since 19...

This week we're joined by Mike Riley and we're talking about his book Portable Python Projects (Running your home on a Raspberry Pi). We breakdown the details of the latest Raspberry Pi hardware, various automation ideas from the book, why Mike prefers Python for scripting on a Raspberry Pi, and of course why the Raspberry Pi makes sense for home labs concerned about data security. Use the code `P...

We’re talking with Woody Zuill today about all things Mob Programming. Woody leads Mob Programming workshops, he’s a speaker on agile related topics, and coaches and guides orgs interested in creating an environment where people can do their best work. We talk through it all and we even get some amazing advice from Woody’s dad. We define what Mob Programming is and why it’s so effective. Is it a r...