The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

Apr 12 2025 877 ep. 62 mins 18.7k
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Proud pod parents (Friends)

Apr 12 2025 99 mins  
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? Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 9 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Heroku – The Next Generation of Heroku “Fi

The era of durable execution (Interview)

Apr 10 2025 100 mins  
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. Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 10 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!

The AI 2027 scenario (News)

Apr 07 2025 9 mins  
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. View the newsletterJoin the d

Turn him into a walrus (Friends)

Apr 04 2025 70 mins  
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. Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 9 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Augment Code – Developer AI that uses deep understanding of your large codebase and how you build software to deli

The 1000x faster financial database (Interview)

Apr 02 2025 100 mins  
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 j

The idealization of farming by tech (News)

Mar 31 2025 8 mins  
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 codin

Of agents & agency (Friends)

Mar 28 2025 97 mins  
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. Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 8 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:H

Leading leaders who lead engineers (remastered) (Interview)

Mar 26 2025 74 mins  
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

Revenge of the junior developer (News)

Mar 24 2025 8 mins  
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. View the newsletterJoin the discussionChangelog++ members save 1 minute on this epis

Here's my Siri theory (Friends)

Mar 21 2025 122 mins  
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.” Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 6 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Spon