The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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Open is the way (Interview) Jul 31, 2024

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Joseph Jacks (JJ) is back! We discuss the latest in COSS funding, his thesis for investing in commercial open source companies, the various rug pulls happening out there in open source licensing, and Zuck/Meta’s generosity releasing Llama 3.1 as “open source.”

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Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

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The Swiss government goes open source (News) Jul 29, 2024

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The Switzerland federal government requires releasing its software as open source, Google decides not to deprecate third-party cookies, Mark Zuckerberg says “open source” AI is the path forward, GitHub allows anyone access to deleted / private repository data & Tailscale wants to build a New Internet.

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The BSOD CrowdStrikes back (Friends) Jul 26, 2024

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Robert Ross joins us in CrowdStrike’s wake to dissect the largest outage in the history of information technology… and what it means for the future of the (software) world.

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The man behind the Sandwich (Interview) Jul 24, 2024

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Adam Lisagor (Sandwich Video founder) takes us behind the Sandwich to share his insights into the importance of storytelling in the tech industry, the value of helping Founders communicate their stories effectively, the details behind his new AI company, and the apps he’s making for Apple Vision Pro at Sandwich Vision.

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Sandwich (Video)
useful.computer - The AI app/company Adam and Beamer are working on
Sandwich Vision - Television and Theater apps for Apple Vision Pro

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Southwest flies high over CrowdStrike outage (News) Jul 22, 2024

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Brendan Gregg details how eBPF can help us have no more blue Fridays, Misty De Meo thinks GitHub is starting to feel like legacy software, Gavin D. Howard does not want Rust to be used for everything, The Notion team published a deep dive into how they used the WASM version of SQLite to improve browser performance & Gregor Ojstersek writes up how to build good relationships inside and outside your engineering teams.

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There’s a TUI for that (Friends) Jul 19, 2024

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Nick Janetakis is back and this time we’re talking about TUIs (text-based user interfaces) — some we’ve tried and some we plan to try. All are collected from Justin Garrison’s Awesome TUIs repo on GitHub. This episode is “AI free.”

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Justin Garrison’s awesome-tuis repo
aristocratos/bashtop - Linux/OSX/FreeBSD resource monitor
aristocratos/btop - A monitor of resources
“Getting started with tmux” on YouTube
Changelog Interviews #511: The terminal as a platform (with Will McGugan)
LazyDocker - manage everything Docker
Superfile - fancy and modern terminal file manager
Ranger - VIM-inspired filemanager
Elia - TUI for interacting with large language models
Atuin - Making your shell magical
Warp - the terminal reimagined

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What even is the modern data stack (Interview) Jul 17, 2024

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Benn Stancil’s weekly Substack on data and technology provides a fascinating perspective on the modern data stack & the industry building it. On this episode, Benn joins Jerod to dissect a few of his essays, discuss opportunities he sees during this slowdown & explain why he thinks maybe we should disband the analytics team.

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The six dumbest ideas in computer security (News) Jul 15, 2024

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Marcus J. Ranum’s 2005 post on dumb ideas in computer security still holds up, Barry Jones argues why story points are useless, Posting is an HTTP client as a TUI, Varnish ceator Poul-Henning Kamp (phk) reflects on ten years of working on the HTTP cache & es-tookit is a major upgrade to Lodash.

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Last DevRel standing (Friends) Jul 12, 2024

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Shawn “swyx” Wang is back to talk with us about the state of DevRel according to ZIRP (the Zero Interest Rate Phenomenon), the data that backs up the rise and fall of job openings, whether or not DevRel is dead or dying, speculation of the near-term arrival of AGI, AI Engineering as the last job standing, the innovation from Cognition with Devin as well as their mis-steps during Devin’s launch, and what’s to come in the next innovation round of AI.

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Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

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It all starts with Postgres (Interview) Jul 11, 2024

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Paul Copplestone, CEO of Supabase (the meme-lord himself), joins the show to take us on the journey of Supabase leading Postgres for life, and how it all starts with Postgres as the base-layer substrate for the entire Supabase platform. They’re laser focused on the drive ahead, not the rear-view mirror.

Disclosure: Adam and Jerod are angel investors in Supabase.

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Paragon – Ship native integrations to production in days with more than 130 pre-built connectors, or configure your own custom integrations. Built for product and engineering. Learn more at useparagon.com/changelog
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Paul Copplestone – Website, GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

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Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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