The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

Adam & Jerod (plus zero other randos) dig into Stack Overflow’s 2025 developer survey results. We discuss SO’s decline, the desire for younger devs to have real chats with real people, the rise of uv and more Python winning, why people are frustrated with AI, and more. Join the discussion [https://changelog.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/455613-friends] Changelog++ [https://changelog.com/++] members save 4 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: * Auth0 [https://auth0.com/ai] – The identity infrastructure for the age of AI. Built by developers, for developers—Auth0 helps you secure users, agents, and third-party access across modern AI workflows. Token vaulting, fine-grained authorization, and standards-based auth, all in one platform. Start building at Auth0.com/ai [https://auth0.com/ai] * 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] * Adam Stacoviak – Website [https://adamstacoviak.com/], GitHub [https://github.com/adamstac], LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamstacoviak], Mastodon [https://changelog.social/@adam], X [https://x.com/adamstac] Show Notes: * 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey [https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/] * Stack Overflow’s decline — Eric Holscher [https://www.ericholscher.com/blog/2025/jan/21/stack-overflows-decline/] * uv: Unified Python packaging [https://astral.sh/blog/uv-unified-python-packaging] Something missing or broken? PRs welcome! [https://github.com/thechangelog/show-notes/blob/master/friends/changelog--friends-104.md]

Greg Osuri, Founder and CEO of Akash Network joins us to share the backstory in his testimony before congress on the energy crisis and what it’s going to take to power the future of AI. From powering datacenters, to solar, decentralized AI compute, to zombies in SF. Join the discussion [https://changelog.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/456187-interviews] Changelog++ [https://changelog.com/++] members get a bonus 2 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today! Sponsors: * Auth0 [https://auth0.com/ai] – The identity infrastructure for the age of AI. Built by developers, for developers—Auth0 helps you secure users, agents, and third-party access across modern AI workflows. Token vaulting, fine-grained authorization, and standards-based auth, all in one platform. Start building at Auth0.com/ai [https://auth0.com/ai] * 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. * 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: * Greg Osuri – Website [https://akash.network], LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/gosuri] * Adam Stacoviak – Website [https://adamstacoviak.com/], GitHub [https://github.com/adamstac], LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamstacoviak], Mastodon [https://changelog.social/@adam], X [https://x.com/adamstac] * Jerod Santo – GitHub [https://github.com/jerodsanto], LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jerodsanto], Mastodon [https://changelog.social/@jerod], X [https://x.com/jerodsanto] Show Notes: * StartCluster Akash [https://akash.network] * Base Power Company [https://www.basepowercompany.com] * Pluralis AI [https://pluralis.ai] * Gensyn [https://www.gensyn.ai] * CoreWeave [https://www.coreweave.com] * Akash Accelerate 2025 Livestream [https://akash.network/akash-accelerate-2025-livestream/] * ICML Conference [https://icml.cc] * YouTube – Akash Accelerate 2025 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhIJs4zbH0o] Something missing or broken? PRs welcome! [https://github.com/thechangelog/show-notes/blob/master/podcast/the-changelog-652.md]

Jono Alderson takes aim at SPAs thanks to modern CSS, copyparty turns almost any device into a file server, Ernie Smith honors the Game Genie’s 35th anniversary, Anthropic shares how their teams use Claude Code, and Drew Lyton tells why he believes the future is NOT self-hosted. View the newsletter [https://changelog.com/news/154/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: * 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]

Welcome back to #define, our game of obscure jargon, fake definitions, and expert tomfoolery. This time we’re joined by three Changelog++ [https://changelog.com/++] members, to see who has the best vocabulary and who can trick everyone else into thinking that they do. Join the discussion [https://changelog.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/455613-friends] Changelog++ [https://changelog.com/++] members get a bonus 14 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. 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. * CodeRabbit [https://www.coderabbit.ai] – AI-native code reviews, built for the modern dev stack. — CodeRabbit is your always-on code reviewer—flagging hallucinations, surfacing smells, and enforcing standards, all without leaving your IDE or GitHub PRs. Trusted by top teams to ship better code, faster. Start free at CodeRabbit.ai [https://www.coderabbit.ai] Featuring: * Jamie Tanna – Website [https://www.jvt.me/], GitHub [https://github.com/jamietanna], LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamietanna], Mastodon [https://www.jvt.me/@www.jvt.me], X [https://x.com/Jamietanna] * Spencer Lyon – GitHub [https://github.com/sglyon], LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/spencer-lyon-27991541], X [https://x.com/spencer_lyon] * E. David Aja – Website [https://edavidaja.com], GitHub [https://github.com/edavidaja], LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/edavidaja], Bluesky [https://bsky.app/profile/edavidaja.com] * Jerod Santo – GitHub [https://github.com/jerodsanto], LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jerodsanto], Mastodon [https://changelog.social/@jerod], X [https://x.com/jerodsanto] * Adam Stacoviak – Website [https://adamstacoviak.com/], GitHub [https://github.com/adamstac], LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamstacoviak], Mastodon [https://changelog.social/@adam], X [https://x.com/adamstac] Show Notes: * Posit [https://posit.co/] * Positron [https://positron.posit.co/] * Quarto [https://quarto.org/] Something missing or broken? PRs welcome! [https://github.com/thechangelog/show-notes/blob/master/friends/changelog--friends-103.md]

Sugu Sougoumarane, creator of Vitess, comes off sabbatical to bring Vitess to Postgres. We discuss what motivated Sugu to come off sabbatical, why now is the time, the technical challenges of doing so, the implementation details of Multigres (Vitess for Postgres). We also discuss the state of Postgres at scale. Join the discussion [https://changelog.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/456187-interviews] Changelog++ [https://changelog.com/++] members save 6 minutes 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. * CodeRabbit [https://www.coderabbit.ai] – AI-native code reviews, built for the modern dev stack. — CodeRabbit is your always-on code reviewer—flagging hallucinations, surfacing smells, and enforcing standards, all without leaving your IDE or GitHub PRs. Trusted by top teams to ship better code, faster. Start free at CodeRabbit.ai [https://www.coderabbit.ai] * 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: * Sugu Sougoumarane – GitHub [https://github.com/sougou], LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/sougou], X [https://x.com/ssougou] * Adam Stacoviak – Website [https://adamstacoviak.com/], GitHub [https://github.com/adamstac], LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamstacoviak], Mastodon [https://changelog.social/@adam], X [https://x.com/adamstac] * Jerod Santo – GitHub [https://github.com/jerodsanto], LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jerodsanto], Mastodon [https://changelog.social/@jerod], X [https://x.com/jerodsanto] Show Notes: * Multigres [https://multigres.com] * Vitess [https://vitess.io] * Supabase [https://supabase.com] * Neon [https://neon.com] * PlanetScale [https://planetscale.com] Something missing or broken? PRs welcome! [https://github.com/thechangelog/show-notes/blob/master/podcast/the-changelog-651.md]