Our 7th annual year-end wrap-up is here! We’re featuring 12 listener voicemails, dope Breakmaster Cylinder remixes & our favorite episodes of the year. Thanks for listening! 💚

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

Show Notes:

Many episodes were favorited more than once! We only list the first mention here…

AJ Kerrigan’s favs:

• We have a right to repair! with Kyle Wiens (Interviews #582)
• Building customizable ergonomic keyboards with Erez Zukerman (Interviews #608)
• Open source threaded team chat?! with Alya Abbott (Interviews #607)

Erno Voutilainen’s favs:

• Retirement is for suckers with Cameron Seay (Friends #36)
• #define: legendary with Thomas Eckert, Nick Nisi & Mat Ryer (Friends #47)
• Two tickets for Departure, please with Helena Zhang & Tobias Fried (Interviews #618)

Don Mackinnon’s favs:

• From Chef to System Initiative featuring Adam Jacob (Friends #55)
• Rails is having a moment (again) with DHH (Interviews #615)

Brett Cannon’s favs:

• From Sun to Oxide with Bryan Cantrill (Interviews #592)
• Free-threaded Python with Pablo & Łukasz (Interviews #611)
• Gradually gradually typing Elixir featuring José Valim (Friends #28)
• Linux distros with Jorge Castro (Ship It! #122)
• Let’s talk FreeBSD (finally) with Allan Jude (Interviews #574)
• The Oban Pros with Shannon & Parker Selbert (Friends #35)
• Why we need Ladybird with Andreas Kling & Chris Wanstrath (Interviews #604)
• Retired, not tired. with Kelsey Hightower (Interviews #595)

Nabeel Sulieman’s favs:

• The Moneyball approach with John Nunemaker (Interviews #612)
• Into the Bobiverse featuring Dennis E. Taylor (Interviews #603)

Rusty Nail’s favs:

• Lessons from 10k hours of programming (Remastered) with Matt Rickard (Interviews #613)
• “Founder Mode” at work when you’re not a founder (Go Time #332)
• The best, worst codebase with Jimmy Miller (Changelog Interviews #609)
• Bus factors & conspiracy theories (Friends #70)

Jamie Tanna’s favs:

• Yeeting stuff into public with Jamie Tanna (Friends #31)
• OpenAPI & API design with Jamie Tanna (Go Time #328)
• 1999: A Film Odyssey (Changelog++ 🔐) (Friends ++)
• Hack Club takes to the High Seas featuring Acon (Interviews #620)
• Gotta give to get back with Danny Thompson @ THAT (Interviews #617)

Jerod’s favs:

• We ain’t afraid of no Ghostty! with Mitchell Hashimoto (Interviews #622)
• Kaizen! NOT a pipe dream with Gerhard Lazu (Friends #50)
• You have how many open tabs?! featuring the hallway track at THAT (Friends #29)
• Future of [energy, content, food] featuring the hallway track at THAT (Friends #30)
• The man behind the Sandwich featuring Adam Lisagor (Interviews #601)
• Starbucks DVD peddlers with Emily Freeman & Justin Garrison (Friends #60)

Adam’s favs:

• In the beginning (of generative AI) with Joe Reis (Interviews #576)
• Shift left, seriously. with Deepak Prabhakara & Schalk Neethling (Interviews #575)

Also mentioned:

• Prime Digital Academy
• Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) - IMDb
• The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) - IMDb
• Jump Around - Wikipedia
• FreeBSD At 30: The History And Future Of The Most Popular BSD-Based OS

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Mitchell Hashimoto joins the show to discuss Ghostty, the newest terminal in town. Mitchell co-founded HashiCorp, took it all the way to IPO, exited in 2023—and now he’s working on a terminal emulator called Ghostty. Ghostty is set to 1.0 this month, so we sat down to talk through all the details.

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• Retool – The low-code platform for developers to build internal tools — Some of the best teams out there trust Retool…Brex, Coinbase, Plaid, Doordash, LegalGenius, Amazon, Allbirds, Peloton, and so many more – the developers at these teams trust Retool as the platform to build their internal tools. Try it free at retool.com/changelog

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• Mitchell Hashimoto – Website, GitHub, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• First episode with Mitchell Hashimoto! Changelog Interviews #72: Vagrant and virtualized environments
• Ghostty 1.0 is Coming and more at Ghostty 👻.
• Zig - Zig is a general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal and reusable software.
• Warp
• Changelog & Friends #53: There’s a TUI for that
• Changelog Interviews #511: The terminal as a platform
• Changelog Interviews #555: Back to the terminal of the future
• Michael Flarup runs Pixel Resort and created the Ghostty icon

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This episodes diverges from our traditional fare. I’ve reviewed the 50 previous editions and picked (IMHO) the coolest code, best prose & my favorite podcast episode from each month!

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Gerhard is back for Kaizen 17! We discuss our CPU.fm changes in-depth, detail new Zulip / Neon integrations & put our Pipedream to the test. Oh, and a Gerhard surprise (of course)!

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• Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• Discussion #525: 🎧 Kaizen 17
• iA Presenter
• A new era for the Changelog Podcast Universe (CPU.fm)
• #533: Enable team members to replace changelog_dev with a prod db dump
• #534: Enable team members to run dev with a Neon db branch
• Get started with 1Password CLI
• thechangelog/pipedream
• Namespace – Accelerate your developer workflow
• Hurl - Run and Test HTTP Requests
• vcr/vcr: Record and reply your test suite’s HTTP interactions
• pipely.tech

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Kurt Mackey is back for a deep dive into what it takes to build the developer cloud. Kurt joins Adam to discuss the alliance between companies and cloud, something Kurt refers to as the “Rebel Alliance,” cloud complexity vs usability, Fly’s future with Postgres and why they’ve waited, thoughts on Neon and Supabase (Kurt shares a hot take), and our CDN saga and plan to build a simple CDN on Fly called Pipely (still a Pipedream).

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

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• Founders Talk #80
• Tigris
• Upstash
• Supabase
• Neon
• Retool
• DHH shade on Fly
• Percona
• vantage.sh/cloud-cost-report
• Pipedream

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We’re making some big Changelog changes in 2025, the previously featured Stanford study on ghost engineers doesn’t live up to the hype, Git ingest is a simple service that turns any GitHub repository into a simple text ingest of its codebase, Simon Willison dishes out some hard-earned wisdom he acquired by working at Lanyrd / Eventbrite & Matheus Lima warns us about six mistakes that new managers make.

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Chris Coyier and Dave Rupert join Adam and Jerod for a ShopTalk & Friends conversation on the viability of the web, making content, ads to support that content, Codepen’s future plans, books, side quests, and social networks devaluing links.

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Big news - A new era for the Changelog Podcast Universe and CPU.fm launches in 2025.

• ShopTalk Show
• Codepen
• Number Flow
• Dave’s bookshelf

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Jerod is joined by Hack Clubber Acon, who is fresh off the GitHub Universe stage and ready to tell us all about High Seas, a new initiative by Zach Latta and the Hack Club crew that’s incentivizing teens to build cool personal projects by giving away free stuff.

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• Leave us a voicemail for state of the “log”!
• How do you do, fellow Hack Clubbers? (Changelog Interviews #536)
• High Seas | Hack Club
• Apocalypse: Toronto’s zombified high school hackathon!
• Celeste
• Nitro Type | Competitive Typing Game | Race Your Friends
• Secret of Mana - Wikipedia

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Alex Russell answers the question, “If not React, then what?” Csaba Okrona identifies four core problems that create and reinforce knowledge silos, Rob Koch’s Markwhen is like Markdown for timelines, Jeff Geerling is quite impressed by Apple’s latest iteration on the Mac mini & Sylvain Kerkour took the time to draw a comparison of Amazon’s O.G. S3 service with Cloudflare’s R2 competitor.

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Nick Sweeting joins Adam and Jerod to talk about the importance of archiving digital content, his work on ArchiveBox to make it easier, the challenges faced by Archive.org and the Wayback Machine, and the need for both centralized and distributed archiving solutions.

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• WorkOS – AuthKit offers 1,000,000 monthly active users (MAU) free — The world’s best login box, powered by WorkOS + Radix. Learn more and get started at WorkOS.com and AuthKit.com

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• Nick Sweeting – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• ArchiveBox
• ArchiveBox/abx-dl
• ArchiveBox/abx-pkg
• So you want to build a social network?
• The Internet Archive Loses Its Appeal of a Major Copyright Case
• Hachette v. Internet Archive | Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Fahrenheit 451 - Wikipedia
• Winamp Skin Museum
• Fiscal Sponsorship – Hack Club
• DigestBox

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Adam & Jerod hallway-track-it before our All Things Open interviews. We discuss the trend in rebooting old school vehicles, our likes & dislikes of EVs, the Hummer’s new crab walk, Tesla’s gambit & more (This episode is for Changelog++ ears only.)

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Show Notes:

• Changelog++ (It’s better!)
• Scout Revival - YouTube
• “Push the Button” - YouTube
• Lidar - Wikipedia
• SUDDAR | Bobiverse Wiki
• Waymos make bad neighbors - YouTube

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