The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

Author: Changelog Media Language: English Episodes: 100
Each week, the team at Changelog Media sifts through the noise of the software world to bring you a thoughtful mix of news, analysis, and conversation. The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source is more than a weekly brief; it’s a long-form dialogue with the developers, maintainers, and thinkers who are shaping the future of technology. You’ll hear in-depth technical interviews that go beyond surface-level takes, exploring the real challenges and triumphs behind significant open source projects and industry trends. The discussion is grounded in the daily reality of building software, making the content immediately relevant whether you’re a seasoned engineer or deeply curious about the craft. This podcast operates with the belief that open source is more than code-it’s about the people and the communities that sustain it. By tuning in, you join a conversation that values depth over hot takes and substance over speed, all while keeping a pulse on the weekly developments that matter. It’s a consistent source for anyone who wants to understand not just what is changing in software development, but why it matters and how it all fits together.
Episodes
The overlooked power of URLs (News) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 7:30
Ahmad Alfy explains how URLs are state containers, Shrivu Shankar shares how he uses every Claude Code feature, Yusuf Aytas laments how AI broke technical interviews, Wu Xiaoyun tells how he saved TikTok $300k during his…
We see dead projects (Friends) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:18:33
It's a FRIGHT...when your record a podcast with dead projects all around. Tech debt, poor choices, timing, market shift, and optimizing for the wrong things are all lurking around waiting to pop out at you! Just don't fo…
Agentic infra changes everything (Interview) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:03:40
Adam Jacob joins us to discuss how agentic systems for building and managing infrastructure have fundamentally altered how he thinks about everything, including the last six years of his life. Along the way, he opines on…
Code like a surgeon (News) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 8:24
The Dead Internet Theory dies, Geoffrey Litt tries to code like a surgeon, Matt Sephton thinks spreadsheets are great for UI design, Nate Meyvis advocates for front-end maximalism, Hemant Pandey thinks 9-5 employment is…
Kaizen! Mop-up job (Friends) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:47:36
It's our first Kaizen after the big Pipely launch in Denver and we have some serious mopping to do. Along the way, we brainstorm the next get-together, check out our new cache hit/miss ratio, give Pipely a deep speed tes…
Bringing Atuin to the desktop (Interview) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 56:39
Ellie Huxtable's magical shell tool, Atuin, won developers' hearts by syncing, searching, and backing up our shell history with ease. Now Ellie is tackling the desktop with a GUI built to help teams make their workflows…
The science behind developer flow states (News) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 6:47
Csaba Okrona lays out exactly what Flow is (then shows you how to engineer your way back to it), a smart vacuum turned against an innocent hacker, Matz and the Ruby core team step up to steward RubyGems, Simon Willison t…
There will be bleeps (Friends) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:41:45
Mike McQuaid and Justin Searls join Jerod in the wake of the RubyGems debacle to discuss what happened, what it says about money in open source, what sustainability really means for our community, making a career out of…
Spec-driven development with Kiro (Interview) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:25:20
We're joined by Deepak Singh from the Kiro team. Kiro is AWS's attempt at building an AI coding environment to take you from prototype to production. It does that by bringing structure to your agentic workflow with spec-…
The great software quality collapse (News) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 8:45
Denis Stetskov describes how we've "normalized catastrophe" in the software industry, Meta is officially handing React and React Native over to a foundation, The New Stack reports on GitHub's Azure migration priority, Mi…