The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

Join us on a journey to make believe worlds with our good friend Mat Ryer. The assignment; we each get to make up a new world where we invent a new gadget and declare a new rule. This episode is sure to delight loyal fans and especially those who enjoy Mat Ryer on the show and a good/bad song or two. Join the discussion [https://changelog.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/455613-friends] Changelog++ [https://changelog.com/++] members get a bonus 12 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today! Sponsors: * Depot [https://depot.dev] – 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. * Notion [http://notion.com/changelog] – Notion is a place where any team can write, plan, organize, and rediscover the joy of play. It’s a workspace designed not just for making progress, but getting inspired. Notion is for everyone — whether you’re a Fortune 500 company or freelance designer, starting a new startup or a student juggling classes and clubs. * 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: * Mat Ryer – Website [http://matryer.com/], GitHub [https://github.com/matryer], LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/matryer], X [https://x.com/matryer] * 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: Something missing or broken? PRs welcome! [https://github.com/thechangelog/show-notes/blob/master/friends/changelog--friends-90.md]

Kendall Miller is a bubbly extrovert who sticks his fingers in a lot of pies. He advises tech companies like FusionAuth, positions tech products like Civo & Tensorlake, organizes tech networks like CTO Lunches, and even sells whiskey & gin to tech people like us via his Friday Deployment Spirits brand. Kendall has learned a lot since he first entered the industry and he’s eager to share what he knows, and who he knows, with the world. Join the discussion [https://changelog.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/456187-interviews] Changelog++ [https://changelog.com/++] members save 5 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: * Depot [https://depot.dev] – 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. * Notion [http://notion.com/changelog] – Notion is a place where any team can write, plan, organize, and rediscover the joy of play. It’s a workspace designed not just for making progress, but getting inspired. Notion is for everyone — whether you’re a Fortune 500 company or freelance designer, starting a new startup or a student juggling classes and clubs. Featuring: * Kendall Miller – LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/kendallamiller] * 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: * Friday Deployment Spirits [https://fridaydeployment.co] * CTO Lunches [https://ctolunches.com/] Something missing or broken? PRs welcome! [https://github.com/thechangelog/show-notes/blob/master/podcast/the-changelog-638.md]

We drop our fourth Changelog Beats album, Dex Horthy proposes the 12-factor AI agent, Thorsten Ball takes us step-by-step through building a coding agent, Zachary Huang builds an LLM framework in 100 lines of code & Philip Laine’s Spegel project gets unknowingly forked by Microsoft. View the newsletter [https://changelog.com/news/141/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] – 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]

Nick Nisi joins us to confess his AI subscription glut, drool over some cool new hardware gadgets, discuss why the TypeScript team chose Go for their new compiler, opine on the React team’s complicated relationship with Vercel, suggest people try Astro, update us on his browser habits, and more. Join the discussion [https://changelog.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/455613-friends] Changelog++ [https://changelog.com/++] members save 7 minutes 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] * Heroku [https://www.heroku.com/changelogpodcast] – The Next Generation of Heroku “Fir” is coming soon — Fir is built on a foundation of cloud native technologies and open source standards, ensuring portability, interoperability, and a vibrant ecosystem for your applications. Cloud Native for everyone, for the next decade and beyond. * Depot [https://depot.dev] – 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: * Nick Nisi – Website [https://nicknisi.com], GitHub [https://github.com/nicknisi], Mastodon [https://nicknisi.com/@nicknisi], X [https://x.com/nicknisi] * 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: * Godwin’s law - Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law] * Gitingest [https://gitingest.com/] * Raycast [https://www.raycast.com/] * Maccy [https://maccy.app/] * BUSY Bar [https://busy.bar/] * Flipper Zero [https://flipperzero.one/] * The Casio Secret Sender [https://mashable.com/article/casio-secret-sender-original-messenger] * Game Genie - Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Genie] * Why Go? · microsoft/typescript-go [https://github.com/microsoft/typescript-go/discussions/411#discussioncomment-12468190] * Astro [https://astro.build/] * Framer [https://www.framer.com/] * Eleventy [https://www.11ty.dev/] * Use long flags when scripting [https://changelog.com/posts/use-long-flags-when-scripting] * ZEN browser [https://zen-browser.app/] * Apple’s Acquisition of Pixelmator is Complete [https://petapixel.com/2025/02/11/apples-acquisition-of-pixelmator-is-complete/] * The Dysfunctional Developer [https://dysfunctional.fm/] Something missing or broken? PRs welcome! [https://github.com/thechangelog/show-notes/blob/master/friends/changelog--friends-89.md]

Anthony Eden, Founder & CEO of DNSimple, joins the show to talk about the world of managed hosting for DNS and more. Join the discussion [https://changelog.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/456187-interviews] Changelog++ [https://changelog.com/++] members save 9 minutes 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] * Heroku [https://www.heroku.com/changelogpodcast] – The Next Generation of Heroku “Fir” is coming soon — Fir is built on a foundation of cloud native technologies and open source standards, ensuring portability, interoperability, and a vibrant ecosystem for your applications. Cloud Native for everyone, for the next decade and beyond. * Depot [https://depot.dev] – 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: * Anthony Eden – Website [https://dnsimple.com/], GitHub [https://github.com/aeden], LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/aeden], X [https://x.com/aeden] * 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: * dnsimple/erldns [https://github.com/dnsimple/erldns] Something missing or broken? PRs welcome! [https://github.com/thechangelog/show-notes/blob/master/podcast/the-changelog-637.md]