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Lukas Mathis tells us to stop uploading our data to Google, Robert Vitonsky wants web devs to not guess his language using his IP, Tom from GameTorch reminds us that software talent is gold right now, Austin Parker from Honeycomb describes how LLMs are upending the observability industry, and Vitess co-creator, Sugu Sougoumarane, joins Supabase to lead their Multigres effort to bring Vitess to Postgres. View the newsletter [https://changelog.com/news/149/email] Join the discussion [https://changelog.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/455469-news] Changelog++ [https://changelog.com/++] members save 1 minute on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: * Fly.io [https://fly.io/] – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps close to your users — global Anycast load-balancing, zero-configuration private networking, hardware isolation, and instant WireGuard VPN connections. Push-button deployments that scale to thousands of instances. Check out the speedrun [https://fly.io/speedrun/] to get started in minutes. Featuring: * Jerod Santo – GitHub [https://github.com/jerodsanto], LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jerodsanto], Mastodon [https://changelog.social/@jerod], X [https://x.com/jerodsanto]

Diwank explains why you should never let AI writes your tests, Apple redesigns all of their software platforms, AI has brought about the rise of judgement over technical skills, Peter Steinberger says Claude Code is now his computer, and the curious case of Memvid. View the newsletter [https://changelog.com/news/148/email] Join the discussion [https://changelog.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/455469-news] Changelog++ [https://changelog.com/++] members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: * Fly.io [https://fly.io/] – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps close to your users — global Anycast load-balancing, zero-configuration private networking, hardware isolation, and instant WireGuard VPN connections. Push-button deployments that scale to thousands of instances. Check out the speedrun [https://fly.io/speedrun/] to get started in minutes. Featuring: * Jerod Santo – GitHub [https://github.com/jerodsanto], LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jerodsanto], Mastodon [https://changelog.social/@jerod], X [https://x.com/jerodsanto]

We’re doing a live show in Denver this July, Danilo Alonso has seen the ‘developer replacement’ hype cycle many times, Dan Sinker says we’re in the Who Cares Era, Cap looks like a solid alternative to typical CAPTCHA solutions, Michael Flarup on the return of texture, depth, and expressiveness in UI & Kan is an open source alternative to Trello. View the newsletter [https://changelog.com/news/147/email] Join the discussion [https://changelog.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/455469-news] Changelog++ [https://changelog.com/++] members save 1 minute on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: * Retool [https://retool.com/changelog] – 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 [https://retool.com/changelog] Featuring: * Jerod Santo – GitHub [https://github.com/jerodsanto], LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jerodsanto], Mastodon [https://changelog.social/@jerod], X [https://x.com/jerodsanto]

The San Fransisco Standard published some sobering news for new graduates, the Forge team decided to put an AI agent in your shell, Fernando Borretti says you can choose tools that make you happy, Jujutsu’s flexibility and safety changed Nathan Witmer’s approach to version control, Anil Dash is as excited about MCP as almost everyone else is & Alex Kladov shares two rules of thumb around pushing “ifs” up and “fors” down. View the newsletter [https://changelog.com/news/146/email] Join the discussion [https://changelog.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/455469-news] Changelog++ [https://changelog.com/++] members save 1 minute on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: * Depot [https://depot.dev] – 10x faster builds? Yes please. Build faster. Waste less time. Accelerate Docker image builds, and GitHub Actions workflows. Easily integrate with your existing CI provider and dev workflows to save hours of build time. Featuring: * Jerod Santo – GitHub [https://github.com/jerodsanto], LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jerodsanto], Mastodon [https://changelog.social/@jerod], X [https://x.com/jerodsanto]

Microsoft finally opens the source of WSL, Paolo Scanferla describes an inherent trade-off in TypeScript’s type system, Alberto Fortin is taking a step back from heavy LLM use while coding, a pseudonymous hacker spent two weeks coding from their Android phone, and NLWeb might become the HTML of the open agentic web. View the newsletter [https://changelog.com/news/145/email] Join the discussion [https://changelog.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/455469-news] Changelog++ [https://changelog.com/++] members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: * Retool [https://retool.com/changelog] – 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 [https://retool.com/changelog] Featuring: * Jerod Santo – GitHub [https://github.com/jerodsanto], LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jerodsanto], Mastodon [https://changelog.social/@jerod], X [https://x.com/jerodsanto]