Adam & Jerod discuss the news! Our Merch sale, useful built-in macOS CLI utilities, the slow death of the hyperlink, systematically estimating a project’s bus factor, The Browser Company abandoning Arc, the Dead Internet theory & more!

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Show Notes:

• Merch on sale!
• All Things Open AI Conference
• The Internet Archive is back as a read-only service after cyberattacks
• Useful built-in macOS command-line utilities
• The slow death of the hyperlink
• The github plugin my coworkers asked me not to write.
• The Bus Factor | MClare Blog
• A Novel Approach for Estimating Truck Factors
• Glass Onion (2022) - IMDb
• Knives Out (2019) - IMDb
• Arc is a dead browser walking (How-To Geek)
• Better version of the same story (via The Verge)
• You should go to conferences

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• IronCalc - Open-Source Spreadsheet Engine
• Why you’re bad at giving feedback

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• WP Engine Tracker
• wpenginetracker.com

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We’re on the main stage at THAT Conference with Danny Thompson. He has an amazing story and journey into tech. Thanks to our friends at Cloudflare for helping us get to THAT Conference earlier this year to enable this conversation.

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Changelog Merch is now on sale, IronCalc sets out to democratize spreadsheets, Grant Slatton writes about algorithms we develop software by, Mark Rainey gives respect to the ultimate in debugging, Gitpod is leaving Kubernetes & Johannes Kaufmann’s html-to-markdown converts entire websites into Markdown.

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We take you one last time back to the All Things Open 2024 hallway track to talk with some friends, new & old. We speak with Alex Kretzchmar about self-hosting. We speak with Israa Taha about self-confidence. We speak with Avindra Fernando & Adhithi Ravichandran about self-employment.

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• Self-hosted media server goodness (Changelog & Friends #44)
• Self-Hosted Show
• Nix & NixOS
• Self-Hosted 133: No Google October
• Perplexica is an AI-powered search engine
• Foo Camp - Wikipedia
• BarCamp - Wikipedia

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The hallway track at All Things Open 2024 — features Carl George, Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat for a discussion on the state of open source enterprise linux and RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux), Max Howell, creator of Homebrew and tea.xyz which offers rewards and recognition to open source maintainers, and Chad Whitacre, Head of Open Source at Sentry about the launch of Open Source Pledge and their plans to helps businesses and orgs to do the right thing and support open source.

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• Chad Whitacre – Twitter, GitHub
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Show Notes:

• RHEL
• AlmaLinux
• Rocky Linux
• tea.xyz
• opensourcepledge.com

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IEEE Spectrum reports on the return to physical buttons and dials, Microsoft released GenAIScript, iFixit’s Elizabeth Chamberlain announces a big Right to Repair win, Daniela Baron reimagines technical interviews & John O’Nolan, shares some thoughts on open source governance and how to create trust within technology, communities, and media

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We join the Whiskey Web and Whatnot podcast live from the hallway track at All Things Open 2024. Topics include: Chianti, content creation, open source, fake jobs, cancel culture, Silicon Valley (ding), frontend frustrations, the Roman empire & more.

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Show Notes:

• Whiskey Web and Whatnot: Web Development, Neat
• Tenuta di Capraia Chianti Classico Riserva 2018

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(Includes expletives) David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH), creator of Ruby on Rails and co-owner of 37signals, joined the show to discuss this Rails moment and renewed excitement for Rails. We discuss hard opinions, developers being cooked too long in the JavaScript soup, finding developer joy, the pros and cons of the BDFL, the ongoing WordPress drama with WP Engine, and what’s to come in Rails 8.

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• Rails World 2024 Keynote - David Heinemeier Hansson
• What’s New in Ruby on Rails 8
• Rails is leaning hard into SQLite right now
• The Empowered Programmer (Justin Searls) - Rails World 2024
• Kamal - Deploy web apps anywhere
• LiteFS - Distributed SQLite
• Turso - libsql
• RubyGems.org
• Automattic is doing open source dirty
• Matt’s “Response to DHH”
• Capture less than you create
• My Freedom of Speech
• Open Source and Power with Matt Mullenweg (Rework podcast)
• Breaking Camp
• Our cloud-exit savings will now top ten million over five years

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Daniel Quinn weighs in on how to develop with Docker The Right Way, Mitchell Hashimoto says Ghostty will be publicly released this coming December, Kevin Li writes about the value of learning how to learn, The Browser Company moves on from Arc & the React Native team ships its new architecture.

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At the tail end of 2019, we got together with Quincy Larson to celebrate ten years of Changelog & five years of freeCodeCamp by recording back-to-back episodes on each other’s pods. Can you believe it’s now five years later and we’re all still here doing our thing?! Let’s learn what Quincy and the amazing community at freeCodeCamp have been up to!

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• Five years of freeCodeCamp (Changelog Interviews #369)
• Ten years of Changelog (Backstage #9)
• How to Learn to Code and Get a Developer Job [Full Book]
• Learn to Code RPG – A Visual Novel Video Game Where you Learn Computer Science Concepts
• podcast - freeCodeCamp.org

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Shay Banon, the creator of Elasticsearch, joins us to discuss pulling off a reverse rug pull. Yes, Elasticsearch is open source, again! We discuss the complexities surrounding open source licensing and what made Elastic change their license, the implications of trademark law, the personal and business impact of moving away from open source, and ultimately what made them hit rewind and return to open source.

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Show Notes:

• Elasticsearch Is Open Source. Again!
• Changelog Interviews #429: Community perspectives on Elastic vs AWS
• Why we had to change Elastic licensing
• Changelog Interviews #578: What exactly is Open Source AI?
• Drafts of the Open Source AI Definition
• Llama.com
• “Llama the leading open source model family”

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