Episodes

  • Why your framework doesn't matter (News)

    Why your framework doesn't matter (News)
    May 6 2024
    Bahaa Zidan says your web framework doesn’t matter, DHH writes about magic machines, Dylan Huang reviews thousands of opinions on HTMX, Tim Ottinger says programming is thinking & Tim Spann says small language models (SLM) for the win.
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    8 mins
  • The Wu-Tang way (Friends)

    The Wu-Tang way (Friends)
    May 3 2024
    Our friend Ron Evans is a technologist for hire, an open source developer, an author, a speaker, an iconoclast, and one of our favorite people in tech. This conversation with Ron goes everywhere: from high-altitude weather balloons, to life on Mars, to Zeno’s paradox applied to ML, to what open source devs should learn from the Wu-Tang Clan & more.
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    1 hr and 45 mins
  • Castro leans into indie (Interview)

    Castro leans into indie (Interview)
    May 1 2024
    This week we’re joined by Dustin Bluck to discuss his acquisition of the well known (and beloved) Castro podcast app to take it indie-focused once again. As previous users of Castro, we were excited to dig into the details behind this popular podcast client to see what’s next, how the deal was done, a peek into the code, and where exactly this indie and creator focused podcast app can go.
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    56 mins
  • Good ideas in computer science (News)

    Good ideas in computer science (News)
    Apr 29 2024
    Daniel Hooper lists out all the good ideas in computer science, Jeff Geerling declares 2024 the year corporate open source dies, Jared Turner says all kinds of works-in-progress are waste, Daroc Alden covers the leadership crisis in the Nix community & John Hawthorn explains why Ruby may be faster than you think.
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    8 mins
  • The ol' hot & juicy (Friends)

    The ol' hot & juicy (Friends)
    Apr 26 2024
    Frequent guest (and almost real-life-friend) Adam Jacob returns to share his spicy takes on all the recent “open source meets business” drama. We also take some time to catch up on the state of his open source-based business, System Initiative.
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    1 hr and 43 mins
  • Run Gleam run (Interview)

    Run Gleam run (Interview)
    Apr 24 2024
    This week we’re joined by Louis Pilfold, the creator of the Gleam programming language. For the uninitiated, Gleam is a functional programming language for building type-safe systems that compiles to Erlang and JavaScript and it’s written in Rust. We discuss the inspiration and development of Gleam, how it compares to other languages, where it shines, the overwhelming amount of support Louis is getting through GitHub sponsors, what’s next for Gleam and their near-term plans for a language server.
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    1 hr and 16 mins
  • The threat to open source comes from within (News)

    The threat to open source comes from within (News)
    Apr 22 2024
    Forrest Brazeal is concerned about the open source threat from within, Vicki Boykis explains why Redis is forked, John O’Nolan and the Ghost team plan to federate over ActivityPub, Llama 3 is now available for “businesses of all sizes” & nolen writes up questions to ask when you don’t want to work.
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    10 mins
  • Rug pull, not cool! (Friends)

    Rug pull, not cool! (Friends)
    Apr 19 2024
    If Changelog News had an extended edition, this might be it! Jerod & Adam discuss Hashicorp’s Cease and Desist letter, Redis getting forked, Boston Dymanics’ scary cool new robot, Justin Searls’ extensive use of the Apple Vision Pro, Thorston Ball moving from Vim to Zed, Firefox becoming hard to use, Beeper joining Automattic & more.
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    1 hr and 19 mins