Jerod & Adam discuss Nvidia’s recently announced personal AI supercomputer, Waymo’s latest infinite loop, what’s involved in getting a “modern” terminal setup, and whether or not AI has gone mainstream… warts & all!

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Show Notes:

• Min | A fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy
• Nvidia announces $3,000 personal AI supercomputer called Project Digits - The Verge
• We talked to the guy who was stuck in a Waymo robotaxi on a dizzying loop
• What’s involved in getting a “modern” terminal setup?
• Warp docs - Terminal features
• Connections Episode 1: The Trigger Effect : James Burke and Connections on Wikipedia
• chriskempson/base16: Not a theme, but a framework

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• Sonos CEO Patrick Spence steps down after disastrous app launch

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Elecia White, host of Embedded.fm and author of Making Embedded Systems, joins us to discuss all things embedded systems. We discuss programming non-computers, open source resources for embedded, self-driving cars, embedded system like the GoPro, Traeger smokers, and even birthday cards. According to Elecia, embedded is going everywhere.

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

Show Notes:

• Embedded.fm
• Making Embedded Systems: Patterns for Software Development (Amazon)
• Making Embedded Systems (ClasspertX)
• Wokwi
• MicroPython on GitHub
• Nordic Thingy:91 X – Prototyping cellular IoT and Wi-Fi locationing
• FreeRTOS
• Adafruit
• Kalman filter (Wikipedia)
• Chibitronics
• CrunchLabs
• FIRST Inspires
• Hackster.io
• Hackaday
• Instructables Circuits
• A Smart Lamp That Wakes You Up at the Optimal Time (Instructables)
• Open Source Hardware Summit (2025)
• CrowdSupply Teardown (Portland 2025)
• Hackaday SuperCon (2024)
• Hardwear.io
• Electronica

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Bloomberg reports on a concerning new trend in tech hiring, Sean Goedecke has a lot to say about large established codebases, Jacob Bartlett thinks Apple is ruining Swift’s original vision, Ahmed Khaleel built a cool tool for turning GitHub repos into interactive diagrams & Bridget Harris goes deep on the potential of crypto stablecoins to disrupt Visa and Mastercard’s duopoly.

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Mat Ryer is back! He plays the piano, we tell each other truths/lies, we pay homage to the 8” floppy disk, Mat accepts an open source medal, and so much more. It’s a real circus. MatGPT!

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Show Notes:

• Floppy disk - Wikipedia
• stretchr/testify
• Piccadilly Circus - Wikipedia

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Rachel Plotnick joins us for the first show of 2025 to discuss her book “Power Button” and the research she did, and why we love/hate buttons so much. We also discuss her upcoming book “License to Spill” as well as the research she’s doing on energy drinks.

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

Show Notes:

• RachelPlotnick.com
• Touchscreens Are Out, and Tactile Controls Are Back.
• Power Button
• License To Spill

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M.G. Siegler goes way out on a limb with some BIG predictions of things that could happen this year, Simon Willison’s year-end roundup is a must-read and perhaps the only thing you have to read to get up-to-speed on the state of the LLM, Allen Pike describes a method for magic, Tom Critchlow thinks small databases are magic & James Stanier agrees with me about Parkinson’s Law and the usefulness of deadlines.

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

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