Changelog News All rights reserved https://changelog.com/news en-us Developer news worth your attention. Brief, entertaining & always on point. The software world moves fast. Keep up with Changelog News. Every Monday, Adam Stacoviak brings you the software news you absolutely need to know about, without the fluff. Developer news worth your attention. Brief, entertaining & always on point. The software world moves fast. Keep up with Changelog News. Every Monday, Adam Stacoviak brings you the software news you absolutely need to know about, without the fluff. false Changelog Media Changelog Media [email protected] Support our work by joining Changelog++ Adam Stacoviak Bitwarden CLI compromised changelog.com/16/2828 https://changelog.com/news/185 Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:00:00 +0000 Bitwarden's CLI got hit by the Checkmarx supply-chain campaign, TypeScript 7.0 beta lands with the Go-rewritten compiler running ~10x faster than 6.0, and pgBackRest lost its maintainer of thirteen years leaving anyone running production Postgres with a real dependency-trust task this week. We've also got Ubuntu 26.04 LTS shipping with TPM-backed full-disk encryption, and Matz dropping Spinel as an AOT path that takes Ruby to native binaries. This week was a good reminder that the tools we depend on are all moving at once. Security, performance, and maintenance aren't isolated threads. full 08:33 false Adam Stacoviak Bitwarden’s CLI got hit by the Checkmarx supply-chain campaign, TypeScript 7.0 beta lands with the Go-rewritten compiler running ~10x faster than 6.0, and pgBackRest lost its maintainer of thirteen years leaving anyone running production Postgres with a real dependency-trust task this week. We’ve also got Ubuntu 26.04 LTS shipping with TPM-backed full-disk encryption, and Matz dropping Spinel as an AOT path that takes Ruby to native binaries. This week was a good reminder that the tools we depend on are all moving at once. Security, performance, and maintenance aren’t isolated threads.

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]]> Astral has been acquired by OpenAI changelog.com/16/2827 https://changelog.com/news/184 Fri, 27 Mar 2026 20:00:00 +0000 Astral is joining OpenAI, which says a lot about where the center of gravity is moving for developer tools, LiteLLM got hit by a nasty supply-chain attack, and OpenCode blew up as the latest serious open source swing at the coding-agent stack. We've also got Rust doing a very public reality check on its own pain points, WorkOS pushing AuthKit into CLI auth, Ryan Lizza using AI to build an open source TurboTax alternative, and a fresh httpx fork that turns open source maintenance drama into a real dependency story. If nothing else, this week was a good reminder that tools, trust, and control all move together. full 10:48 false Adam Stacoviak Astral is joining OpenAI, which says a lot about where the center of gravity is moving for developer tools, LiteLLM got hit by a nasty supply-chain attack, and OpenCode blew up as the latest serious open source swing at the coding-agent stack. We’ve also got Rust doing a very public reality check on its own pain points, WorkOS pushing AuthKit into CLI auth, Ryan Lizza using AI to build an open source TurboTax alternative, and a fresh httpx fork that turns open source maintenance drama into a real dependency story. If nothing else, this week was a good reminder that tools, trust, and control all move together.

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]]> Big change brings big change changelog.com/16/2825 https://changelog.com/news/183 Tue, 10 Mar 2026 20:00:00 +0000 This week's been wild — Iran bombed AWS data centers to take down Claude, OpenAI dropped GPT-5.4 (and it's seriously good for coding), and living brain cells are literally playing DOOM. We've also got a heartfelt take on what it feels like to be a 10x engineer in the age of AI, plus some cool new tools like Handy for speech-to-text and web haptics. Oh, and new MacBook Pros with M5 Pro and M5 Max are up for pre-order. Try not to impulse buy (or do). full 05:10 false Adam Stacoviak This week’s been wild — Iran bombed AWS data centers to take down Claude, OpenAI dropped GPT-5.4 (and it’s seriously good for coding), and living brain cells are literally playing DOOM. We’ve also got a heartfelt take on what it feels like to be a 10x engineer in the age of AI, plus some cool new tools like Handy for speech-to-text and web haptics. Oh, and new MacBook Pros with M5 Pro and M5 Max are up for pre-order. Try not to impulse buy (or do).

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]]> The mythical agent-month changelog.com/16/2818 https://changelog.com/news/182 Mon, 23 Feb 2026 20:45:00 +0000 Wes McKinney on the mythical agent-month, install Peon Ping to employ a Peon today, Andreas Kling explains why Ladybird is adopting Rust, Cloudflare has a new MCP server that's quite efficient, and Elliot Bonneville thinks the only moat left is money. full 07:48 false Jerod Santo Wes McKinney on the mythical agent-month, install Peon Ping to employ a Peon today, Andreas Kling explains why Ladybird is adopting Rust, Cloudflare has a new MCP server that’s quite efficient, and Elliot Bonneville thinks the only moat left is money.

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]]> All the Claw things changelog.com/16/2816 https://changelog.com/news/181 Mon, 16 Feb 2026 19:30:00 +0000 Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI, ZeroClaw is "claw done right", MimiClaw runs on a $5 chip, Steve Yegge on managing the AI Vampire, and the day the telnet died. full 06:24 false Jerod Santo Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI, ZeroClaw is “claw done right”, MimiClaw runs on a $5 chip, Steve Yegge on managing the AI Vampire, and the day the telnet died.

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]]> Vouch for an open source web of trust changelog.com/16/2813 https://changelog.com/news/180 Mon, 09 Feb 2026 19:00:00 +0000 Mitchell Hashimoto's trust management system for open source, Nicholas Carlini has a team of Claudes build a C compiler, Stephan Schwab recounts the history of attempted developer replacement, NanClaw is an alternative to OpenClaw, and Sophie Koonin can't wrap her head around so many people going so hard on LLM-generated code. full 07:35 false Jerod Santo Mitchell Hashimoto’s trust management system for open source, Nicholas Carlini has a team of Claudes build a C compiler, Stephan Schwab recounts the history of attempted developer replacement, NanClaw is an alternative to OpenClaw, and Sophie Koonin can’t wrap her head around so many people going so hard on LLM-generated code.

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]]> The tech monoculture is finally breaking changelog.com/16/2811 https://changelog.com/news/179 Mon, 02 Feb 2026 20:30:00 +0000 Jason Willems believes the tech monoculture is finally breaking, Don Ho shares some bad Notepad++ news, Tailscale's Avery Pennarun pens a great downtime apology, Milan Milanović explains why you can only code 4 hours per day, and Addy Osmani on managing comprehension debt when leaning on AI to code. full 08:46 false Jerod Santo Jason Willems believes the tech monoculture is finally breaking, Don Ho shares some bad Notepad++ news, Tailscale’s Avery Pennarun pens a great downtime apology, Milan Milanović explains why you can only code 4 hours per day, and Addy Osmani on managing comprehension debt when leaning on AI to code.

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]]> Clawdbot triggers a run on Mac Minis changelog.com/16/2808 https://changelog.com/news/178 Mon, 26 Jan 2026 20:00:00 +0000 Clawdbot drives Mac Mini sales, Swizec Teller on the future of software engineering being SRE, Daniel Stenberg decided to end curl's bug bounty program, zerobrew takes some of the best ideas from uv and applies them to Homebrew, and Phil Eaton on LLMs and your career. full 06:50 false Jerod Santo Clawdbot drives Mac Mini sales, Swizec Teller on the future of software engineering being SRE, Daniel Stenberg decided to end curl’s bug bounty program, zerobrew takes some of the best ideas from uv and applies them to Homebrew, and Phil Eaton on LLMs and your career.

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]]> Agent psychosis: are we going insane? changelog.com/16/2804 https://changelog.com/news/177 Mon, 19 Jan 2026 20:30:00 +0000 Armin Ronacher thinks AI agent psychosis might be driving us insane, Dan Abramov explains how AT Protocol is a social filesystem, RepoBar keeps your GitHub work in view without opening a browser, Ethan McCue shares some life altering Postgres patterns, and Lea Verou says web dependencies are broken and we need to fix them. full 06:14 false Jerod Santo Armin Ronacher thinks AI agent psychosis might be driving us insane, Dan Abramov explains how AT Protocol is a social filesystem, RepoBar keeps your GitHub work in view without opening a browser, Ethan McCue shares some life altering Postgres patterns, and Lea Verou says web dependencies are broken and we need to fix them.

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]]> Linus Torvalds gets the AI coding bug changelog.com/16/2802 https://changelog.com/news/176 Mon, 12 Jan 2026 19:35:00 +0000 Linus Torvalds pushes AI generated code, Jordan Fulghum thinks this is the year of self-hosting, FracturedJson formats for compact / human readability, Scott Werner believes a flood of adequate software is coming, and Sean Goedecke explains why generic software design advice is useless. full 05:05 false Jerod Santo Linus Torvalds pushes AI generated code, Jordan Fulghum thinks this is the year of self-hosting, FracturedJson formats for compact / human readability, Scott Werner believes a flood of adequate software is coming, and Sean Goedecke explains why generic software design advice is useless.

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]]> The move faster manifesto changelog.com/16/2800 https://changelog.com/news/175 Mon, 05 Jan 2026 20:00:00 +0000 Brian Guthrie lists his seven rules for moving faster in software, Continuous-Claude-v2 is a context management system for Claude Code, Gas Town is Steve Yegge's multi-agent orchestrator for Claude Code, Paul Dix sees a great engineering divergence in 2026, and Mattias Geniar thinks web development is fun again. full 07:06 false Jerod Santo Brian Guthrie lists his seven rules for moving faster in software, Continuous-Claude-v2 is a context management system for Claude Code, Gas Town is Steve Yegge’s multi-agent orchestrator for Claude Code, Paul Dix sees a great engineering divergence in 2026, and Mattias Geniar thinks web development is fun again.

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]]> The code, prose & pods that shaped 2025 changelog.com/16/2798 https://changelog.com/news/174 Mon, 15 Dec 2025 20:00:00 +0000 This episodes diverges from our traditional fare. I’ve reviewed the 49 previous editions and picked (IMHO) the coolest code, best prose & my favorite podcast episode from each month! full 16:23 false Jerod Santo This episodes diverges from our traditional fare. I’ve reviewed the 49 previous editions and picked (IMHO) the coolest code, best prose & my favorite podcast episode from each month!

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]]> The "confident idiot" problem changelog.com/16/2796 https://changelog.com/news/173 Mon, 08 Dec 2025 20:00:00 +0000 Why AI needs hard rules (not vibe checks), what Anthropic's acquisition of Bun's creators tells us about the AI takeover, Jonah Glover couldn't get Claude to recreate Space Jam's 1996 website, Google finally unkills something, and Bazzite is a distro for the next generation of Linux gaming. full 07:47 false Jerod Santo Why AI needs hard rules (not vibe checks), what Anthropic’s acquisition of Bun’s creators tells us about the AI takeover, Jonah Glover couldn’t get Claude to recreate Space Jam’s 1996 website, Google finally unkills something, and Bazzite is a distro for the next generation of Linux gaming.

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]]> What actually makes you senior changelog.com/16/2791 https://changelog.com/news/172 Mon, 01 Dec 2025 20:30:00 +0000 Matheus Lima on what makes senior developers actually senior, Tega Brain created a browser extension for avoiding AI slop, Andrew Kelley moves Zig from GitHub to Codeberg, Matias Heikkilä says there's no free lunch for vibe coding, and your SSD data at rest might be at risk. full 09:27 false Jerod Santo Matheus Lima on what makes senior developers actually senior, Tega Brain created a browser extension for avoiding AI slop, Andrew Kelley moves Zig from GitHub to Codeberg, Matias Heikkilä says there’s no free lunch for vibe coding, and your SSD data at rest might be at risk.

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]]> What is a tech bubble anyway? changelog.com/16/2787 https://changelog.com/news/171 Mon, 24 Nov 2025 20:45:00 +0000 Cedric Chin says comparisons of our current AI *maybe-bubble* to the dot-com bubble and the 2008 GFC are limiting, Matthew Prince does a post-mortem on last week's Cloudflare outage, "hl" is a fast / powerful log viewer for humans, Enthusiast Guy's Continuum 93 is a fantasy computer emulator, and a list of things that aren't doing the thing. full 08:46 false Jerod Santo Cedric Chin says comparisons of our current AI maybe-bubble to the dot-com bubble and the 2008 GFC are limiting, Matthew Prince does a post-mortem on last week’s Cloudflare outage, “hl” is a fast / powerful log viewer for humans, Enthusiast Guy’s Continuum 93 is a fantasy computer emulator, and a list of things that aren’t doing the thing.

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]]> Why is Zig so cool? changelog.com/16/2784 https://changelog.com/news/170 Mon, 17 Nov 2025 20:30:00 +0000 Nilo Stolte explains why Zig is "a totally new way to write programs", George Mack gives twelve actionable ways to be more creative, Mario Zechner shares his findings on using MCP vs Bash tools, Josh Collinsworth compares creating AI art to medieval alchemy, LibrePods unlocks AirPods features for Android, and our first ever Changelog News Classifieds. full 09:07 false Jerod Santo Nilo Stolte explains why Zig is “a totally new way to write programs”, George Mack gives twelve actionable ways to be more creative, Mario Zechner shares his findings on using MCP vs Bash tools, Josh Collinsworth compares creating AI art to medieval alchemy, LibrePods unlocks AirPods features for Android, and our first ever Changelog News Classifieds.

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]]> This new AI role is exploding changelog.com/16/2781 https://changelog.com/news/169 Mon, 10 Nov 2025 20:00:00 +0000 A new AI-led tech role has emerged with a massive increase of job postings, Corey Quinn explains why younger devs won't tolerate pain in the AWS, Thomas Ptacek makes the case that you should write an agent, Paul Kinlan goes deeper on his dead framework theory, and Andrew Gallagher says to stop vibe coding your unit tests. full 08:43 false Jerod Santo A new AI-led tech role has emerged with a massive increase of job postings, Corey Quinn explains why younger devs won’t tolerate pain in the AWS, Thomas Ptacek makes the case that you should write an agent, Paul Kinlan goes deeper on his dead framework theory, and Andrew Gallagher says to stop vibe coding your unit tests.

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]]> The overlooked power of URLs changelog.com/16/2779 https://changelog.com/news/168 Mon, 03 Nov 2025 20:00:00 +0000 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 internship, and TOON is a new serialization format to save us some LLM tokens. full 07:30 false Jerod Santo 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 internship, and TOON is a new serialization format to save us some LLM tokens.

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]]> Code like a surgeon changelog.com/16/2776 https://changelog.com/news/167 Mon, 27 Oct 2025 19:45:00 +0000 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 a great option for most, David Miranda compares React to Backbone in 2025. full 08:24 false Jerod Santo 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 a great option for most, David Miranda compares React to Backbone in 2025.

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]]> The science behind developer flow states changelog.com/16/2773 https://changelog.com/news/166 Mon, 20 Oct 2025 19:00:00 +0000 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 things Claude Skills could be bigger than MCP, and Luke Plant looks at technical debt from a more positive perspective. full 06:47 false Jerod Santo 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 things Claude Skills could be bigger than MCP, and Luke Plant looks at technical debt from a more positive perspective.

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]]> The great software quality collapse changelog.com/16/2770 https://changelog.com/news/165 Mon, 13 Oct 2025 18:00:00 +0000 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, Miguel Grinberg benchmarks Python 3.14, and The Oatmeal's Matthew Inman published his take on AI art. full 08:45 false Jerod Santo 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, Miguel Grinberg benchmarks Python 3.14, and The Oatmeal’s Matthew Inman published his take on AI art.

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]]> The best coders should exit the feed changelog.com/16/2766 https://changelog.com/news/164 Mon, 06 Oct 2025 18:45:00 +0000 Abner Coimbre makes a compelling case why our biggest technical talent should abandon for-profit social platforms, Noah Brier creates a Claude Code and Obsidian starter kit, Bharath Natarajan documents the Vercel vs Cloudflare fight, Toolbrew is a well-designed website brimming with common utilities, and Yusuf Aytas analyzes why over-engineering happens. full 07:42 false Jerod Santo Abner Coimbre makes a compelling case why our biggest technical talent should abandon for-profit social platforms, Noah Brier creates a Claude Code and Obsidian starter kit, Bharath Natarajan documents the Vercel vs Cloudflare fight, Toolbrew is a well-designed website brimming with common utilities, and Yusuf Aytas analyzes why over-engineering happens.

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]]> Hiring only senior engineers is killing companies changelog.com/16/2762 https://changelog.com/news/163 Tue, 30 Sep 2025 01:30:00 +0000 Andrew Churchill thinks companies should really be hiring junior engineers, Addy Osmani announces Chrome DevTools MCP, GitHub lays out a roadmap to fend off npm attacks, Jerry Liu builds an app that generates a timeline of your day's activities, and Sean Goedecke attempts to define "good taste" in the context of software engineering. full 06:41 false Jerod Santo Andrew Churchill thinks companies should really be hiring junior engineers, Addy Osmani announces Chrome DevTools MCP, GitHub lays out a roadmap to fend off npm attacks, Jerry Liu builds an app that generates a timeline of your day’s activities, and Sean Goedecke attempts to define “good taste” in the context of software engineering.

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]]> An escape route from YAML hell changelog.com/16/2759 https://changelog.com/news/162 Mon, 22 Sep 2025 19:00:00 +0000 Adolfo Ochagavía believes we're approaching the problem of configuration from a flawed starting point, Annie Mueller hits us with a wakeup call about how she reads beginner tutorials, Brian Kihoon Lee spends some time meditating on taste, Namanyay thinks vibe coding is coders braindead, and Can Elma speculates on why AI helps senior engineers more than juniors. full 06:45 false Jerod Santo Adolfo Ochagavía believes we’re approaching the problem of configuration from a flawed starting point, Annie Mueller hits us with a wakeup call about how she reads beginner tutorials, Brian Kihoon Lee spends some time meditating on taste, Namanyay thinks vibe coding is coders braindead, and Can Elma speculates on why AI helps senior engineers more than juniors.

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]]> Just enough automation changelog.com/16/2756 https://changelog.com/news/161 Mon, 15 Sep 2025 20:00:00 +0000 Zach Gates quantifies the value of automating things, Albania's new prime minister names an AI "minister" to his Cabinet, Eckart Walther launches Really Simple Licensing (RSL) along with some big names on the web, Vishnu Haridas praises UTF-8's design, and Justin Searls disagrees with last week's headline story about AI coding tools and shovelware. full 07:30 false Jerod Santo Zach Gates quantifies the value of automating things, Albania’s new prime minister names an AI “minister” to his Cabinet, Eckart Walther launches Really Simple Licensing (RSL) along with some big names on the web, Vishnu Haridas praises UTF-8’s design, and Justin Searls disagrees with last week’s headline story about AI coding tools and shovelware.

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]]> Why AI coding claims don't add up changelog.com/16/2755 https://changelog.com/news/160 Mon, 08 Sep 2025 17:00:00 +0000 Mike Judge breaks down why he doesn't believe the AI coding claims add up, the folks behind Cactoide create an open source alternative to Meetup / Eventbrite, Ryan Farley tells the story of how RSS beat Microsoft, Dominik Szymański ditched Docker for Podman (and thinks you should too), and Stripe announces a new layer 1 blockchain called Tempo. full 08:53 false Jerod Santo Mike Judge breaks down why he doesn’t believe the AI coding claims add up, the folks behind Cactoide create an open source alternative to Meetup / Eventbrite, Ryan Farley tells the story of how RSS beat Microsoft, Dominik Szymański ditched Docker for Podman (and thinks you should too), and Stripe announces a new layer 1 blockchain called Tempo.

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]]> Next.js is infuriating changelog.com/16/2752 https://changelog.com/news/159 Tue, 02 Sep 2025 18:15:00 +0000 Dominik Meca is infuriated by Next.js, Josh Bressers explains why open source is just one person, Huon Wilson describes the usefulness of "Copy as cURL", Herman Martinus re-licenses Bear, and Nawaz Dhandala unpacks why dependency bloat is such a pervasive problem. full 08:14 false Jerod Santo Dominik Meca is infuriated by Next.js, Josh Bressers explains why open source is just one person, Huon Wilson describes the usefulness of “Copy as cURL”, Herman Martinus re-licenses Bear, and Nawaz Dhandala unpacks why dependency bloat is such a pervasive problem.

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]]> Omarchy 2.0: Best Linux setup ever? changelog.com/16/2750 https://changelog.com/news/158 Mon, 25 Aug 2025 19:15:00 +0000 Elon Musk and xAI take on Microsoft, DHH ships version 2 of Omarchy (his love letter to Linux), Glyn Normington on managing developer's block, Mitchell Hashimoto declares that all Ghostty contributions must disclose AI tooling, the United States government takes a 10% stake in Intel, and Adam Derewecki thinks we should do things that don't scale, then don't scale. full 07:41 false Jerod Santo Elon Musk and xAI take on Microsoft, DHH ships version 2 of Omarchy (his love letter to Linux), Glyn Normington on managing developer’s block, Mitchell Hashimoto declares that all Ghostty contributions must disclose AI tooling, the United States government takes a 10% stake in Intel, and Adam Derewecki thinks we should do things that don’t scale, then don’t scale.

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]]> Cursor’s problem isn't just Cursor's problem changelog.com/16/2747 https://changelog.com/news/157 Mon, 18 Aug 2025 19:15:00 +0000 Cursor has a big problem, Alireza Bashiri thinks plaintext beats todo apps, Manish built an offline AI workspace, OverType is a WYSIWYG markdown editor that's just a textarea, and sshrc lets you bring your config with you to remote machines. full 07:37 false Jerod Santo Cursor has a big problem, Alireza Bashiri thinks plaintext beats todo apps, Manish built an offline AI workspace, OverType is a WYSIWYG markdown editor that’s just a textarea, and sshrc lets you bring your config with you to remote machines.

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]]> Open source regrets changelog.com/16/2744 https://changelog.com/news/156 Mon, 11 Aug 2025 19:15:00 +0000 Open source maintainers share their regrets, Thomas Dohmke steps down as GitHub CEO, James Kettle breaks down HTTP/2 from a security perspective, PHP is getting the pipe operator this November, and a class action copyright suit threatens Anthropic and the rest of the AI industry. full 09:29 false Jerod Santo Open source maintainers share their regrets, Thomas Dohmke steps down as GitHub CEO, James Kettle breaks down HTTP/2 from a security perspective, PHP is getting the pipe operator this November, and a class action copyright suit threatens Anthropic and the rest of the AI industry.

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]]> The smell of vibe coding changelog.com/16/2741 https://changelog.com/news/155 Mon, 04 Aug 2025 19:45:00 +0000 Alex Kondov knows when you've been vibe coding. (He can smell it.) our friends at Charm release a Go-based AI coding agent as a TUI, Jan Kammerath disassembled the "hacked' Tea service's Android app, Alex Ellman made a website that provides up-to-date pricing info for major LLM APIs, and Steph Ango suggests remote teams have "ramblings" channels. full 07:33 false Jerod Santo Alex Kondov knows when you’ve been vibe coding. (He can smell it.) our friends at Charm release a Go-based AI coding agent as a TUI, Jan Kammerath disassembled the “hacked’ Tea service’s Android app, Alex Ellman made a website that provides up-to-date pricing info for major LLM APIs, and Steph Ango suggests remote teams have “ramblings” channels.

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]]> It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA changelog.com/16/2738 https://changelog.com/news/154 Mon, 28 Jul 2025 19:45:00 +0000 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. full 07:48 false Jerod Santo 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.

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]]> Humanity has prevailed (for now!) changelog.com/16/2734 https://changelog.com/news/153 Mon, 21 Jul 2025 19:15:00 +0000 Przemysław Dębiak beat an advanced AI model from OpenAI in a 10-hour head-to-head coding marathon, Linux breaks 5% desktop share in U.S., Stefano Marinelli is writing a series on making your own backup system, César Soto Valero switched to Python (and is liking it), and Charlie Graham thinks it's rude to show AI output to people. full 06:47 false Jerod Santo Przemysław Dębiak beat an advanced AI model from OpenAI in a 10-hour head-to-head coding marathon, Linux breaks 5% desktop share in U.S., Stefano Marinelli is writing a series on making your own backup system, César Soto Valero switched to Python (and is liking it), and Charlie Graham thinks it’s rude to show AI output to people.

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]]> An app can be a home-cooked meal changelog.com/16/2732 https://changelog.com/news/152 Mon, 14 Jul 2025 19:45:00 +0000 Researchers in Japan achieve a world record in data transmission speeds, Robin Sloan explains how an app can be a home-cooked meal, Windsurf founders Varun Mohan & Douglas Chen are headed to Google, new Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan says it's too late for the incumbent, Anton Zaides says stop forcing AI tools on your engineers, and Adrien Friggeri visualized his ten-year running streak. full 08:45 false Jerod Santo Researchers in Japan achieve a world record in data transmission speeds, Robin Sloan explains how an app can be a home-cooked meal, Windsurf founders Varun Mohan & Douglas Chen are headed to Google, new Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan says it’s too late for the incumbent, Anton Zaides says stop forcing AI tools on your engineers, and Adrien Friggeri visualized his ten-year running streak.

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]]> Full-breadth developers for the win changelog.com/16/2727 https://changelog.com/news/151 Mon, 07 Jul 2025 20:00:00 +0000 Justin Searls describes the "full-breadth developer" and why they'll win because AI, Cloudflare comes up with a way publishers can charge crawlers for access, Hugo Bowne-Anderson explains why building AI agents fails so often, the Job Worth Calculator tells you if your job is worth the grind, and Sam Lambert announces PlanetScale for Postgres. full 08:54 false Jerod Santo Justin Searls describes the “full-breadth developer” and why they’ll win because AI, Cloudflare comes up with a way publishers can charge crawlers for access, Hugo Bowne-Anderson explains why building AI agents fails so often, the Job Worth Calculator tells you if your job is worth the grind, and Sam Lambert announces PlanetScale for Postgres.

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]]> Coding agents have crossed a chasm changelog.com/16/2726 https://changelog.com/news/150 Mon, 30 Jun 2025 20:00:00 +0000 David Singleton says coding agents have crossed a chasm, Anton Zaides explains how SWEs should approach the "squeeze", Mat Duggan has ideas for Kubernetes 2.0, Sean Goedecke does a nice job elucidating the coding agent commoditization, and one more good reason to write, even though it's hard. full 06:25 false Jerod Santo David Singleton says coding agents have crossed a chasm, Anton Zaides explains how SWEs should approach the “squeeze”, Mat Duggan has ideas for Kubernetes 2.0, Sean Goedecke does a nice job elucidating the coding agent commoditization, and one more good reason to write, even though it’s hard.

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]]> Stop uploading your data to Google changelog.com/16/2719 https://changelog.com/news/149 Mon, 16 Jun 2025 20:30:00 +0000 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. full 08:19 false Jerod Santo 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.

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]]> Never. Let. AI. Write. Your. Tests. changelog.com/16/2716 https://changelog.com/news/148 Mon, 09 Jun 2025 19:30:00 +0000 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. full 10:09 false Jerod Santo 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.

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]]> The 'developer replacement' hype cycle changelog.com/16/2713 https://changelog.com/news/147 Mon, 02 Jun 2025 20:00:00 +0000 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. full 08:02 false Jerod Santo 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.

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]]> Entry-level tech jobs are getting wiped out changelog.com/16/2710 https://changelog.com/news/146 Tue, 27 May 2025 21:15:00 +0000 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. full 09:57 false Jerod Santo 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.

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]]> Windows Subsystem for Linux is open source changelog.com/16/2708 https://changelog.com/news/145 Mon, 19 May 2025 22:00:00 +0000 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. full 07:39 false Jerod Santo 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.

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]]> A critical look at MCP changelog.com/16/2704 https://changelog.com/news/144 Mon, 12 May 2025 19:15:00 +0000 Rasmus Holm takes a critical look at MCP, Stefan Judis shares a new term he learned from Scott Hanselman, Raf beautifully describes the curse of knowing how, Void is an open source Cursor alternative & React Jam is back for its 6th online game jam. full 08:13 false Jerod Santo Rasmus Holm takes a critical look at MCP, Stefan Judis shares a new term he learned from Scott Hanselman, Raf beautifully describes the curse of knowing how, Void is an open source Cursor alternative & React Jam is back for its 6th online game jam.

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]]> Firefox could be doomed changelog.com/16/2702 https://changelog.com/news/143 Mon, 05 May 2025 19:15:00 +0000 The DOJ's beef with Google might spell doom for Mozilla, Clayton Ramsey makes a plea for not using ChatGPT for writing, Tim Cook loses a big gamble, Brandon Reinhart migrates his game dev away from Rust and Bevy, and Ibrahim Diallo throws zip bombs at malicious bots. full 09:47 false Jerod Santo The DOJ’s beef with Google might spell doom for Mozilla, Clayton Ramsey makes a plea for not using ChatGPT for writing, Tim Cook loses a big gamble, Brandon Reinhart migrates his game dev away from Rust and Bevy, and Ibrahim Diallo throws zip bombs at malicious bots.

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]]> I just want to code changelog.com/16/2698 https://changelog.com/news/142 Mon, 28 Apr 2025 20:00:00 +0000 Zach Bellay tells us about the devil and the angel on his shoulders, Pete Koomen thinks today's AI apps are like horseless carriages, Hyperwood is an open source system for crafting furniture from simple wooden slats, Scott Antipa agrees with YAGNI but adds YAGRI & Antony Henao debunks three common myths that get engineers stuck. full 07:23 false Jerod Santo Zach Bellay tells us about the devil and the angel on his shoulders, Pete Koomen thinks today’s AI apps are like horseless carriages, Hyperwood is an open source system for crafting furniture from simple wooden slats, Scott Antipa agrees with YAGNI but adds YAGRI & Antony Henao debunks three common myths that get engineers stuck.

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]]> Fresh beats for endless flow state changelog.com/16/2695 https://changelog.com/news/141 Mon, 21 Apr 2025 19:00:00 +0000 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. full 09:19 false Jerod Santo 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.

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]]> Google's new protocol has AI agents talkin' changelog.com/16/2693 https://changelog.com/news/140 Mon, 14 Apr 2025 20:30:00 +0000 Google announces an open protocol for AI agent collaboration, Datastar is an Alpine.js / htmx love child, Matthias Endler documents things he finds common in the best programmers, turns out Linus Torvalds built Git in 10 days & Zev is a CLI that helps you remember (or discover) terminal commands using natural language. full 08:45 false Jerod Santo Google announces an open protocol for AI agent collaboration, Datastar is an Alpine.js / htmx love child, Matthias Endler documents things he finds common in the best programmers, turns out Linus Torvalds built Git in 10 days & Zev is a CLI that helps you remember (or discover) terminal commands using natural language.

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]]> The AI 2027 scenario changelog.com/16/2690 https://changelog.com/news/139 Mon, 07 Apr 2025 20:00:00 +0000 Daniel Kokotajlo and the AI Futures Project lays out a potential scenario of superhuman AI's impact, Liam ERD generates beautiful, interactive ER diagrams from your database, Mozilla takes on Gmail with "Thundermail", algernon explains why grepping remains terrible & Vitor M. de Sousa Pereira rans on the insanity of being a software engineer. full 09:04 false Jerod Santo Daniel Kokotajlo and the AI Futures Project lays out a potential scenario of superhuman AI’s impact, Liam ERD generates beautiful, interactive ER diagrams from your database, Mozilla takes on Gmail with “Thundermail”, algernon explains why grepping remains terrible & Vitor M. de Sousa Pereira rans on the insanity of being a software engineer.

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]]> The idealization of farming by tech changelog.com/16/2686 https://changelog.com/news/138 Mon, 31 Mar 2025 19:30:00 +0000 Theodore Morley wonders why tech workers so frequently point our wanderlust toward hands-on trades, Eduardo Bouças explains why he's lost confidence in Vercel's handling of Next.js, "xan" is a command line tool that can be used to process CSV files directly from the shell, Pawel Brodzinski takes us back to Kanban's roots & Sergey Tselovalnikov weighs in on vibe coding. full 08:14 false Jerod Santo Theodore Morley wonders why tech workers so frequently point our wanderlust toward hands-on trades, Eduardo Bouças explains why he’s lost confidence in Vercel’s handling of Next.js, “xan” is a command line tool that can be used to process CSV files directly from the shell, Pawel Brodzinski takes us back to Kanban’s roots & Sergey Tselovalnikov weighs in on vibe coding.

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]]> Revenge of the junior developer changelog.com/16/2682 https://changelog.com/news/137 Mon, 24 Mar 2025 19:45:00 +0000 Steve Yegge's latest rant about the future of "coding", Ethan McCue shares some life altering Postgres patterns, Hillel Wayne makes the case for Verification-First Development, Gerd Zellweger experienced lots of pain setting up GitHub Actions & Cascii is a web-based ASCII diagram builder. full 08:14 false Jerod Santo Steve Yegge’s latest rant about the future of “coding”, Ethan McCue shares some life altering Postgres patterns, Hillel Wayne makes the case for Verification-First Development, Gerd Zellweger experienced lots of pain setting up GitHub Actions & Cascii is a web-based ASCII diagram builder.

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]]> Our interfaces have lost their senses changelog.com/16/2679 https://changelog.com/news/136 Mon, 17 Mar 2025 19:00:00 +0000 Amelia Wattenberger bemoans the computer's great flattening, the Learnk8s team lets you manage your cluster from a spreadsheet, Jan Swist gets a surprising response from Cursor, the French and German governments team up for an open source Notion alternative & XPipe lets you access your entire server infrastructure from your local desktop. full 06:47 false Jerod Santo Amelia Wattenberger bemoans the computer’s great flattening, the Learnk8s team lets you manage your cluster from a spreadsheet, Jan Swist gets a surprising response from Cursor, the French and German governments team up for an open source Notion alternative & XPipe lets you access your entire server infrastructure from your local desktop.

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]]> Everyone is talking about MCP changelog.com/16/2676 https://changelog.com/news/135 Mon, 10 Mar 2025 17:30:00 +0000 Vibe coding is the new vibe, AI engineers are all taking about MCP, Tom Usher wants you to kill your algorithmic feeds, Curiositry shares his troubleshooting expertise, Nikola Ðuza thinks we should keep blogging for the LLMs & James Stanier answers the question, should managers still code? full 09:08 false Jerod Santo Vibe coding is the new vibe, AI engineers are all taking about MCP, Tom Usher wants you to kill your algorithmic feeds, Curiositry shares his troubleshooting expertise, Nikola Ðuza thinks we should keep blogging for the LLMs & James Stanier answers the question, should managers still code?

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]]> JavaScript fatigue strikes back changelog.com/16/2674 https://changelog.com/news/134 Mon, 03 Mar 2025 19:30:00 +0000 Allen Pike on the JavaScript ecosystem after a decade away, Lars Wirzenius was there at the birth of Linux, Piotr Migdał archives things in Markdown, Jacob Stopak is gamifying Git with Devlands & Juan Diego Rodríguez runs down how CSS functions (will) work. full 08:29 false Jerod Santo Allen Pike on the JavaScript ecosystem after a decade away, Lars Wirzenius was there at the birth of Linux, Piotr Migdał archives things in Markdown, Jacob Stopak is gamifying Git with Devlands & Juan Diego Rodríguez runs down how CSS functions (will) work.

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]]> AI killed the tech interview. Now what? changelog.com/16/2671 https://changelog.com/news/133 Mon, 24 Feb 2025 22:20:00 +0000 Kane Narraway thinks through the radical change AI tools have brought to the technical interview process, Rhys Kentish built an app that makes him touch grass, Microsoft announced their progress on quantum computing, Chris Horsley learns about software estimations by yak shaving a washing machine install & Andreas Gohr built StumbleUpon for the IndieWeb. full 06:23 false Jerod Santo Kane Narraway thinks through the radical change AI tools have brought to the technical interview process, Rhys Kentish built an app that makes him touch grass, Microsoft announced their progress on quantum computing, Chris Horsley learns about software estimations by yak shaving a washing machine install & Andreas Gohr built StumbleUpon for the IndieWeb.

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]]> AI is stifling tech adoption changelog.com/16/2667 https://changelog.com/news/132 Mon, 17 Feb 2025 20:30:00 +0000 Declan Chidlow proposes that AI is stifling tech adoption, Ariel Salminen shares 17 pieces of advice she's learned about leading successful product teams, Benj Edwards tells the story of WikiTok, the React team sunsets Create React App & Ruben Schade says boring tech is mature, not old. full 08:06 false Jerod Santo Declan Chidlow proposes that AI is stifling tech adoption, Ariel Salminen shares 17 pieces of advice she’s learned about leading successful product teams, Benj Edwards tells the story of WikiTok, the React team sunsets Create React App & Ruben Schade says boring tech is mature, not old.

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]]> Tech is supposed to make our lives easier changelog.com/16/2661 https://changelog.com/news/131 Mon, 10 Feb 2025 21:45:00 +0000 Bill Maher excoriates the software industry for making our lives more difficult, two professors from the University of Washington put together a curriculum to help us manage life in the ChatGPT world, Daniel Delaney thinks deeply on chat as a dev tool UI, Benedict Evans explores our assumptions that computers be 'correct' & the Thoughtbot team writes up six cases when not to refactor. full 08:25 false Jerod Santo Bill Maher excoriates the software industry for making our lives more difficult, two professors from the University of Washington put together a curriculum to help us manage life in the ChatGPT world, Daniel Delaney thinks deeply on chat as a dev tool UI, Benedict Evans explores our assumptions that computers be ‘correct’ & the Thoughtbot team writes up six cases when not to refactor.

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]]> Everyone knows your location changelog.com/16/2659 https://changelog.com/news/130 Mon, 03 Feb 2025 20:30:00 +0000 Tim Sh tracked himself down through in-app ads, Sniffnet comfortably monitors your Internet traffic, Cate Huston opines on what makes a good team, Victor Shepelev draws on 25 years of coding to share seven things he now knows & Grant Slatton tells you how to write a good design document. full 07:18 false Jerod Santo Tim Sh tracked himself down through in-app ads, Sniffnet comfortably monitors your Internet traffic, Cate Huston opines on what makes a good team, Victor Shepelev draws on 25 years of coding to share seven things he now knows & Grant Slatton tells you how to write a good design document.

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]]> DeepSeek-R1's epic pull request changelog.com/16/2655 https://changelog.com/news/129 Mon, 27 Jan 2025 20:30:00 +0000 Xuan-Son Nguyen opened a low-level code PR written 99% by DeepSeek-R1, Adam Wathan announces the release of Tailwind CSS 4.0, Matheus Lima opens up the Computer Science history books to create list of influential papers, Namanyay Goel thinks AI is creating a generation of illiterate programmers & Russell Baylis shares what he's learned about optimizing WFH lighting to reduce eye strain. full 08:48 false Jerod Santo Xuan-Son Nguyen opened a low-level code PR written 99% by DeepSeek-R1, Adam Wathan announces the release of Tailwind CSS 4.0, Matheus Lima opens up the Computer Science history books to create list of influential papers, Namanyay Goel thinks AI is creating a generation of illiterate programmers & Russell Baylis shares what he’s learned about optimizing WFH lighting to reduce eye strain.

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]]> Make computing personal again changelog.com/16/2651 https://changelog.com/news/128 Mon, 20 Jan 2025 20:00:00 +0000 Benj Edwards wants to put the "personal" back in "personal computer", the answer.ai folks took Devin for a month-long spin, Asaf Zamir explains why senior engineers can remain ICs and still have a fulfilling career, Fabrizio Ferri Benedetti rethinks documentation by putting user actions first & Tero Piirainen lays out his case for Nue, the standards first web framework. full 09:45 false Jerod Santo Benj Edwards wants to put the “personal” back in “personal computer”, the answer.ai folks took Devin for a month-long spin, Asaf Zamir explains why senior engineers can remain ICs and still have a fulfilling career, Fabrizio Ferri Benedetti rethinks documentation by putting user actions first & Tero Piirainen lays out his case for Nue, the standards first web framework.

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]]> The new $30,000 side hustle changelog.com/16/2649 https://changelog.com/news/127 Mon, 13 Jan 2025 20:45:00 +0000 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. full 08:18 false Jerod Santo 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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]]> 10 big predictions for 2025 changelog.com/16/2646 https://changelog.com/news/126 Mon, 06 Jan 2025 20:00:00 +0000 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. full 07:13 false Jerod Santo 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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]]> The code, prose & pods that shaped 2024 changelog.com/16/2642 https://changelog.com/news/125 Mon, 16 Dec 2024 20:30:00 +0000 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! full 17:30 false Jerod Santo 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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]]> A new era for the Changelog Podcast Universe changelog.com/16/2637 https://changelog.com/news/124 Mon, 09 Dec 2024 20:00:00 +0000 We're making some big Changelog changes in 2025, the previously featured Stanford study on ghost engineers doesn't live up to the hype, Git ingest is a simple service that turns any GitHub repository into a simple text ingest of its codebase, Simon Willison dishes out some hard-earned wisdom he acquired by working at Lanyrd / Eventbrite & Matheus Lima warns us about six mistakes that new managers make. full 07:16 false Jerod Santo We’re making some big Changelog changes in 2025, the previously featured Stanford study on ghost engineers doesn’t live up to the hype, Git ingest is a simple service that turns any GitHub repository into a simple text ingest of its codebase, Simon Willison dishes out some hard-earned wisdom he acquired by working at Lanyrd / Eventbrite & Matheus Lima warns us about six mistakes that new managers make.

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]]> If not React, then what? changelog.com/16/2630 https://changelog.com/news/123 Mon, 02 Dec 2024 20:00:00 +0000 Alex Russell answers the question, "If not React, then what?" Csaba Okrona identifies four core problems that create and reinforce knowledge silos, Rob Koch's Markwhen is like Markdown for timelines, Jeff Geerling is quite impressed by Apple's latest iteration on the Mac mini & Sylvain Kerkour took the time to draw a comparison of Amazon's O.G. S3 service with Cloudflare's R2 competitor. full 07:33 false Jerod Santo Alex Russell answers the question, “If not React, then what?” Csaba Okrona identifies four core problems that create and reinforce knowledge silos, Rob Koch’s Markwhen is like Markdown for timelines, Jeff Geerling is quite impressed by Apple’s latest iteration on the Mac mini & Sylvain Kerkour took the time to draw a comparison of Amazon’s O.G. S3 service with Cloudflare’s R2 competitor.

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]]> Busting the ghost engineers (0.1x-ers) changelog.com/16/2627 https://changelog.com/news/122 Mon, 25 Nov 2024 20:30:00 +0000 Ben Affleck's take on AI replacing actors, Stanford researcher (Yegor Denisov-Blanch) busts the ghost engineers, Electrobun takes a crack at Electron apps, April King opens up a cookies can of worms, John Arundel thinks many of us are making a career ending mistake & Typogram's CodingFont.com is like Zoolander's Walk Off but for coding fonts. full 08:00 false Jerod Santo Ben Affleck’s take on AI replacing actors, Stanford researcher (Yegor Denisov-Blanch) busts the ghost engineers, Electrobun takes a crack at Electron apps, April King opens up a cookies can of worms, John Arundel thinks many of us are making a career ending mistake & Typogram’s CodingFont.com is like Zoolander’s Walk Off but for coding fonts.

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]]> AI makes tech debt more expensive changelog.com/16/2619 https://changelog.com/news/121 Mon, 18 Nov 2024 20:45:00 +0000 Evan Doyle says AI makes tech debt more expensive, Hunter Ng researches the ghost job ad phenomenon, Gavin Anderegg analyzes Bluesky in light of its recent success, Martin Tournoij rants against best practices & Evan Schwartz tells us why he thinks binary vector embeddings are so cool. full 08:59 false Jerod Santo Evan Doyle says AI makes tech debt more expensive, Hunter Ng researches the ghost job ad phenomenon, Gavin Anderegg analyzes Bluesky in light of its recent success, Martin Tournoij rants against best practices & Evan Schwartz tells us why he thinks binary vector embeddings are so cool.

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]]> The democratization of spreadsheets changelog.com/16/2614 https://changelog.com/news/120 Mon, 11 Nov 2024 20:05:00 +0000 Changelog Merch is now on sale, IronCalc sets out to democratize spreadsheets, Grant Slatton writes about algorithms we develop software by, Mark Rainey gives respect to the ultimate in debugging, Gitpod is leaving Kubernetes & Johannes Kaufmann’s html-to-markdown converts entire websites into Markdown. full 09:16 false Jerod Santo Changelog Merch is now on sale, IronCalc sets out to democratize spreadsheets, Grant Slatton writes about algorithms we develop software by, Mark Rainey gives respect to the ultimate in debugging, Gitpod is leaving Kubernetes & Johannes Kaufmann’s html-to-markdown converts entire websites into Markdown.

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]]> Tactile controls are back in vogue changelog.com/16/2609 https://changelog.com/news/119 Mon, 04 Nov 2024 20:15:00 +0000 IEEE Spectrum reports on the return to physical buttons and dials, Microsoft released GenAIScript, iFixit's Elizabeth Chamberlain announces a big Right to Repair win, Daniela Baron reimagines technical interviews & John O'Nolan, shares some thoughts on open source governance and how to create trust within technology, communities, and media full 09:14 false Jerod Santo IEEE Spectrum reports on the return to physical buttons and dials, Microsoft released GenAIScript, iFixit’s Elizabeth Chamberlain announces a big Right to Repair win, Daniela Baron reimagines technical interviews & John O’Nolan, shares some thoughts on open source governance and how to create trust within technology, communities, and media

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]]> Developing with Docker (the right way) changelog.com/16/2603 https://changelog.com/news/118 Mon, 28 Oct 2024 11:00:00 +0000 Daniel Quinn weighs in on how to develop with Docker The Right Way, Mitchell Hashimoto says Ghostty will be publicly released this coming December, Kevin Li writes about the value of learning how to learn, The Browser Company moves on from Arc & the React Native team ships its new architecture. full 07:24 false Jerod Santo Daniel Quinn weighs in on how to develop with Docker The Right Way, Mitchell Hashimoto says Ghostty will be publicly released this coming December, Kevin Li writes about the value of learning how to learn, The Browser Company moves on from Arc & the React Native team ships its new architecture.

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]]> Naming conventions that need to die changelog.com/16/2596 https://changelog.com/news/117 Mon, 21 Oct 2024 19:15:00 +0000 Will Crichton wishes some naming conventions would die already, GitHub user brjsp noticed that Bitwarden's new SDK dependency isn't open source, Joaquim Rocha details his forking best practices, Sophie Koonin explains why you should go to conferences & Mike Hoye puts WordPress on SQLite. full 09:26 false Jerod Santo Will Crichton wishes some naming conventions would die already, GitHub user brjsp noticed that Bitwarden’s new SDK dependency isn’t open source, Joaquim Rocha details his forking best practices, Sophie Koonin explains why you should go to conferences & Mike Hoye puts WordPress on SQLite.

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]]> Working from home is powering productivity changelog.com/16/2585 https://changelog.com/news/116 Mon, 14 Oct 2024 19:30:00 +0000 Nicholas Bloom finds WFH is powering a productivity boom, Matt Mullenweg has decided that WP Engine's beatings will continue until morale improves, Levels.fyi has added a salary heat map, Gareth Edwards highlights just how fragile the Internet really is & Artem Zakirullin details how cognitive load is what really matters in software development. full 08:16 false Jerod Santo Nicholas Bloom finds WFH is powering a productivity boom, Matt Mullenweg has decided that WP Engine’s beatings will continue until morale improves, Levels.fyi has added a salary heat map, Gareth Edwards highlights just how fragile the Internet really is & Artem Zakirullin details how cognitive load is what really matters in software development.

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]]> The slow death of the hyperlink changelog.com/16/2578 https://changelog.com/news/115 Mon, 07 Oct 2024 19:00:00 +0000 A bias against hyperlinking has developed on platforms, GitHub engineering continues to evolve Issues, Evan You announces VoidZero, some companies are only pretend hiring & Klaas van Schelven asks: does it scale (down)? full 09:06 false Jerod Santo A bias against hyperlinking has developed on platforms, GitHub engineering continues to evolve Issues, Evan You announces VoidZero, some companies are only pretend hiring & Klaas van Schelven asks: does it scale (down)?

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]]> Display custom maps on your website for free changelog.com/16/2574 https://changelog.com/news/114 Mon, 30 Sep 2024 19:45:00 +0000 OpenFreeMap puts OpenStreetMap data on your website for free, Fatih Arslan builds a Dieter Rams inspired iPhone dock, Joseph Gentle thinks the Rust programming language feels like a first-gen product & the web dev community is debating the viability of Web Components once again. full 10:14 false Jerod Santo OpenFreeMap puts OpenStreetMap data on your website for free, Fatih Arslan builds a Dieter Rams inspired iPhone dock, Joseph Gentle thinks the Rust programming language feels like a first-gen product & the web dev community is debating the viability of Web Components once again.

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]]> Imagine Fly.io on your own VPS changelog.com/16/2568 https://changelog.com/news/113 Mon, 23 Sep 2024 19:15:00 +0000 Mahmoud Mousa releases Sidekick, a tool for hosting side projects on a cheap VPS, Ryan Dahl, has had enough of Oracle bogarting "JavaScript" but not even using it, Thomas Rampelberg's kty is a sweet terminal for Kubernetes, Redis users are considering alternatives after their relicense & a bunch of smart JS folks wrote up nine Node.js pillars. full 08:10 false Jerod Santo Mahmoud Mousa releases Sidekick, a tool for hosting side projects on a cheap VPS, Ryan Dahl, has had enough of Oracle bogarting “JavaScript” but not even using it, Thomas Rampelberg’s kty is a sweet terminal for Kubernetes, Redis users are considering alternatives after their relicense & a bunch of smart JS folks wrote up nine Node.js pillars.

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]]> Why GitHub actually won changelog.com/16/2563 https://changelog.com/news/112 Mon, 16 Sep 2024 20:00:00 +0000 Scott Chacon writes up his insider take on GitHub's success, Sentry wants other companies to take the Open Source Pledge, Benj Edwards used AI to reproduce his late father's handwriting, Dave Kiss explains the current hype that PHP is getting & Taylor Otwell raises $57 million series A from Accel. full 08:22 false Jerod Santo Scott Chacon writes up his insider take on GitHub’s success, Sentry wants other companies to take the Open Source Pledge, Benj Edwards used AI to reproduce his late father’s handwriting, Dave Kiss explains the current hype that PHP is getting & Taylor Otwell raises $57 million series A from Accel.

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]]> Is Linux collapsing under its own weight? changelog.com/16/2553 https://changelog.com/news/111 Mon, 09 Sep 2024 19:30:00 +0000 A Rust for Linux developer resigns amidst rising tension in the Linux community, Bret Victor shows off what he's been working on for years, Rachel (by the bay) laments how useless "SRE" has become as a role, Doug Turnbull makes the case for hiring junior devs & Baldur Bjarnason says the LLM honeymoon phase is about to end. full 10:13 false Jerod Santo A Rust for Linux developer resigns amidst rising tension in the Linux community, Bret Victor shows off what he’s been working on for years, Rachel (by the bay) laments how useless “SRE” has become as a role, Doug Turnbull makes the case for hiring junior devs & Baldur Bjarnason says the LLM honeymoon phase is about to end.

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]]> Cursor wants to write all the world's code changelog.com/16/2548 https://changelog.com/news/110 Tue, 03 Sep 2024 19:30:00 +0000 The Cursor AI code editor raises $60 million, RedMonk's Rachel Stephens tries to determine if rug pulls are worth it, Caleb Porzio details how he made $1 million on GitHub Sponsors, Elastic founder Shay Banon announces that Elasticsearch is open source (again) & Tomas Stropus writes about the art of finishing. full 09:30 false Jerod Santo The Cursor AI code editor raises $60 million, RedMonk’s Rachel Stephens tries to determine if rug pulls are worth it, Caleb Porzio details how he made $1 million on GitHub Sponsors, Elastic founder Shay Banon announces that Elasticsearch is open source (again) & Tomas Stropus writes about the art of finishing.

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]]> What good programmers worry about changelog.com/16/2544 https://changelog.com/news/109 Mon, 26 Aug 2024 19:20:00 +0000 Waymo cars make bad neighbors, Leonardo Creed pulls together wisdom from Linus Torvalds & the Art of Unix Programming to conclude what good programmers worry about, Max Schmitt makes the argument that toast notifications create a bad user experience, ChartDB is a web-based database diagramming editor, Simon Tatham makes a list of code review anti-patterns & scientists confirm that 'flow state' is very much a thing. full 09:26 false Jerod Santo Waymo cars make bad neighbors, Leonardo Creed pulls together wisdom from Linus Torvalds & the Art of Unix Programming to conclude what good programmers worry about, Max Schmitt makes the argument that toast notifications create a bad user experience, ChartDB is a web-based database diagramming editor, Simon Tatham makes a list of code review anti-patterns & scientists confirm that ‘flow state’ is very much a thing.

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]]> Practices of reliable software design changelog.com/16/2540 https://changelog.com/news/108 Mon, 19 Aug 2024 19:30:00 +0000 Chris Stjernlöf got nerd-sniped and ended up writing down his practices of reliable software design, Ben Visness has had enough with the npm community's propensity to pull in micro-libraries to suit every need, "Stay SaaSy" makes three metaphors for problem solving categories, Troy Hunt takes us inside the "3 billion people" National Public Data breach & Dasel is one data tool to rule them all. full 08:38 false Jerod Santo Chris Stjernlöf got nerd-sniped and ended up writing down his practices of reliable software design, Ben Visness has had enough with the npm community’s propensity to pull in micro-libraries to suit every need, “Stay SaaSy” makes three metaphors for problem solving categories, Troy Hunt takes us inside the “3 billion people” National Public Data breach & Dasel is one data tool to rule them all.

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]]> The best, worst codebase changelog.com/16/2526 https://changelog.com/news/107 Mon, 12 Aug 2024 20:00:00 +0000 Jimmy Miller tells us about the best, worst codebase he's ever seen, The Phylum Research Team follows up on the great npm garbage patch, Zach Leatherman logs his findings on sneaky serverless costs, David Cain wants you to go on quests instead of goals & Ashley Janssen gives us szeven rules for effective meeting culture. full 08:18 false Jerod Santo Jimmy Miller tells us about the best, worst codebase he’s ever seen, The Phylum Research Team follows up on the great npm garbage patch, Zach Leatherman logs his findings on sneaky serverless costs, David Cain wants you to go on quests instead of goals & Ashley Janssen gives us szeven rules for effective meeting culture.

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]]> 80% of professional programmers are unhappy changelog.com/16/2517 https://changelog.com/news/106 Mon, 05 Aug 2024 20:00:00 +0000 The latest Stack Overflow Developer Survey has some concerning results, Joeri Sebrechts helps you do plain vanilla web dev, MIT's "missing semester" course looks pretty amazing, a dive into the fascinating history of CSV & a tool to get request analytics from the nginx access logs. full 06:44 false Jerod Santo The latest Stack Overflow Developer Survey has some concerning results, Joeri Sebrechts helps you do plain vanilla web dev, MIT’s “missing semester” course looks pretty amazing, a dive into the fascinating history of CSV & a tool to get request analytics from the nginx access logs.

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]]> The Swiss government goes open source changelog.com/16/2511 https://changelog.com/news/105 Mon, 29 Jul 2024 18:45:00 +0000 The Switzerland federal government requires releasing its software as open source, Google decides not to deprecate third-party cookies, Mark Zuckerberg says "open source" AI is the path forward, GitHub allows anyone access to deleted / private repository data & Tailscale wants to build a New Internet. full 07:06 false Jerod Santo The Switzerland federal government requires releasing its software as open source, Google decides not to deprecate third-party cookies, Mark Zuckerberg says “open source” AI is the path forward, GitHub allows anyone access to deleted / private repository data & Tailscale wants to build a New Internet.

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]]> Southwest flies high over CrowdStrike outage changelog.com/16/2500 https://changelog.com/news/104 Mon, 22 Jul 2024 21:15:00 +0000 Brendan Gregg details how eBPF can help us have no more blue Fridays, Misty De Meo thinks GitHub is starting to feel like legacy software, Gavin D. Howard does not want Rust to be used for everything, The Notion team published a deep dive into how they used the WASM version of SQLite to improve browser performance & Gregor Ojstersek writes up how to build good relationships inside and outside your engineering teams. full 08:17 false Jerod Santo Brendan Gregg details how eBPF can help us have no more blue Fridays, Misty De Meo thinks GitHub is starting to feel like legacy software, Gavin D. Howard does not want Rust to be used for everything, The Notion team published a deep dive into how they used the WASM version of SQLite to improve browser performance & Gregor Ojstersek writes up how to build good relationships inside and outside your engineering teams.

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]]> The six dumbest ideas in computer security changelog.com/16/2495 https://changelog.com/news/103 Mon, 15 Jul 2024 19:30:00 +0000 Marcus J. Ranum's 2005 post on dumb ideas in computer security still holds up, Barry Jones argues why story points are useless, Posting is an HTTP client as a TUI, Varnish ceator Poul-Henning Kamp (_phk_) reflects on ten years of working on the HTTP cache & es-tookit is a major upgrade to Lodash. full 08:14 false Jerod Santo Marcus J. Ranum’s 2005 post on dumb ideas in computer security still holds up, Barry Jones argues why story points are useless, Posting is an HTTP client as a TUI, Varnish ceator Poul-Henning Kamp (phk) reflects on ten years of working on the HTTP cache & es-tookit is a major upgrade to Lodash.

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]]> Programming advice for my younger self changelog.com/16/2488 https://changelog.com/news/102 Mon, 08 Jul 2024 19:10:00 +0000 Marcus Buffett writes his younger self programming advice, Swyx asks and answers whether or not DevRel is dead, the Ghost team opens up their ActivityPub server, Pongo is like MongoDB but on Postgres, Jack Kelly is funding Ladybird because he can't fund Firefox & Hyrum's Law. full 08:46 false Jerod Santo Marcus Buffett writes his younger self programming advice, Swyx asks and answers whether or not DevRel is dead, the Ghost team opens up their ActivityPub server, Pongo is like MongoDB but on Postgres, Jack Kelly is funding Ladybird because he can’t fund Firefox & Hyrum’s Law.

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]]> The scariest chart in all of software changelog.com/16/2476 https://changelog.com/news/101 Mon, 01 Jul 2024 19:15:00 +0000 Software developer jobs are trending down, the creator of dotenv creates a better dotenv, the Chrome team puts Gemini Nano AI model right inside your browser, a pollyfill.js supply chain attack hits 100k+ sites & Steph Ango asks, "What can we remove?" full 07:52 false Jerod Santo Software developer jobs are trending down, the creator of dotenv creates a better dotenv, the Chrome team puts Gemini Nano AI model right inside your browser, a pollyfill.js supply chain attack hits 100k+ sites & Steph Ango asks, “What can we remove?”

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]]> Please let this be Peak LLM changelog.com/16/2472 https://changelog.com/news/100 Mon, 24 Jun 2024 19:15:00 +0000 Søren Fuglede Jørgensen builds a font thats also an LLM, Hugo Landau writes about the demise of the mildly dynamic website, SQL Studio is the simplest little database explorer ever, Mathew Duggan reviews GitHub Copilot Workspace & Stephan Schmidt lays out the case against mocking + what to do instead. full 10:54 false Jerod Santo Søren Fuglede Jørgensen builds a font thats also an LLM, Hugo Landau writes about the demise of the mildly dynamic website, SQL Studio is the simplest little database explorer ever, Mathew Duggan reviews GitHub Copilot Workspace & Stephan Schmidt lays out the case against mocking + what to do instead.

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]]> The onset of "Senior Engineer Fatigue" changelog.com/16/2463 https://changelog.com/news/99 Mon, 17 Jun 2024 20:00:00 +0000 Luminousmen writes about Senior Engineer Fatigue, Microsoft rethinks its AI-based Recall feature, Mike Hoye gives a big shout out to the "diff" program, Thom Holwerda covers ChromeOS' quiet switch to Android Linux subsystems & Mihail Eric tells the inside story on how Alexa dropped the ball on being the top conversational system on Earth. full 08:39 false Jerod Santo Luminousmen writes about Senior Engineer Fatigue, Microsoft rethinks its AI-based Recall feature, Mike Hoye gives a big shout out to the “diff” program, Thom Holwerda covers ChromeOS’ quiet switch to Android Linux subsystems & Mihail Eric tells the inside story on how Alexa dropped the ball on being the top conversational system on Earth.

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]]> Apple finally gets Siri-ous changelog.com/16/2455 https://changelog.com/news/98 Mon, 10 Jun 2024 19:45:00 +0000 Apple announces its "new" style of AI, piku gives you "git push" deployment on your own servers, Dabo Chen rebuilds nanoGPT in a spreadsheet, Mark Seemann thinks you'll regret using natural keys in your database design & Glyph Lefkowitz describes his grand unified theory of the AI hype cycle. full 07:49 false Jerod Santo Apple announces its “new” style of AI, piku gives you “git push” deployment on your own servers, Dabo Chen rebuilds nanoGPT in a spreadsheet, Mark Seemann thinks you’ll regret using natural keys in your database design & Glyph Lefkowitz describes his grand unified theory of the AI hype cycle.

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]]> Yet another open source rug pull changelog.com/16/2448 https://changelog.com/news/97 Mon, 03 Jun 2024 19:45:00 +0000 A popular open source iOS authenticator app goes rogue under new ownership, Andreas Kling steps back from SerenityOS & forks Ladybird, Vhyrro takes a thought-provoking try at a "static effect system", Matt Bessey is over GraphQL & Marc-Andre Giroux still likes GraphQL sometimes (in the right context). full 09:47 false Jerod Santo A popular open source iOS authenticator app goes rogue under new ownership, Andreas Kling steps back from SerenityOS & forks Ladybird, Vhyrro takes a thought-provoking try at a “static effect system”, Matt Bessey is over GraphQL & Marc-Andre Giroux still likes GraphQL sometimes (in the right context).

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]]> Why you shouldn't use AI to write your tests changelog.com/16/2444 https://changelog.com/news/96 Tue, 28 May 2024 19:45:00 +0000 Swizec's article on not using AI to writes tests, LlamaFs is a self-organizing file system with Llama 3, a Pew Research analysis confirmed that the internet is full of broken links, Sam Rose built a spectacular interactive study of queueing strategies & Jordan Cutler shares a real-life experience of him writing clear/readable code... and it backfiring. full 08:46 false Jerod Santo Swizec’s article on not using AI to writes tests, LlamaFs is a self-organizing file system with Llama 3, a Pew Research analysis confirmed that the internet is full of broken links, Sam Rose built a spectacular interactive study of queueing strategies & Jordan Cutler shares a real-life experience of him writing clear/readable code… and it backfiring.

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]]> Kyle explains "Legacy Software" to the aliens changelog.com/16/2435 https://changelog.com/news/95 Mon, 20 May 2024 16:45:00 +0000 Taylor Troesh writes Kyle explaining "Legacy Software" to the aliens, Vitaly Friedman addresses why so many designers feel misunderstood and under appreciated in business contexts, Oracle dumps Terraform for OpenTofu & hackers discover how to reprogram NES Tetris from within the game. full 06:48 false Jerod Santo Taylor Troesh writes Kyle explaining “Legacy Software” to the aliens, Vitaly Friedman addresses why so many designers feel misunderstood and under appreciated in business contexts, Oracle dumps Terraform for OpenTofu & hackers discover how to reprogram NES Tetris from within the game.

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]]> Avoiding the soft delete anti-pattern changelog.com/16/2428 https://changelog.com/news/94 Mon, 13 May 2024 19:45:00 +0000 Tim Fisken explains the problem with soft deletion, a simple measure of software dependency freshness is proposed, a deep-dive on sound design in software, a web app with over 80 handy developer tools built in & Luke Plant reminds us that programming mantras are proverbs, not laws. full 07:12 false Jerod Santo Tim Fisken explains the problem with soft deletion, a simple measure of software dependency freshness is proposed, a deep-dive on sound design in software, a web app with over 80 handy developer tools built in & Luke Plant reminds us that programming mantras are proverbs, not laws.

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]]> Why your framework doesn't matter changelog.com/16/2423 https://changelog.com/news/93 Mon, 06 May 2024 19:15:00 +0000 Bahaa Zidan says your web framework doesn't matter, DHH writes about magic machines, Dylan Huang reviews thousands of opinions on HTMX, Tim Ottinger says programming is thinking & Tim Spann says small language models (SLM) for the win. full 08:03 false Jerod Santo Bahaa Zidan says your web framework doesn’t matter, DHH writes about magic machines, Dylan Huang reviews thousands of opinions on HTMX, Tim Ottinger says programming is thinking & Tim Spann says small language models (SLM) for the win.

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]]> Good ideas in computer science changelog.com/16/2417 https://changelog.com/news/92 Mon, 29 Apr 2024 19:15:00 +0000 Daniel Hooper lists out all the good ideas in computer science, Jeff Geerling declares 2024 the year corporate open source dies, Jared Turner says all kinds of works-in-progress are waste, Daroc Alden covers the leadership crisis in the Nix community & John Hawthorn explains why Ruby may be faster than you think. full 08:26 false Jerod Santo Daniel Hooper lists out all the good ideas in computer science, Jeff Geerling declares 2024 the year corporate open source dies, Jared Turner says all kinds of works-in-progress are waste, Daroc Alden covers the leadership crisis in the Nix community & John Hawthorn explains why Ruby may be faster than you think.

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]]> The threat to open source comes from within changelog.com/16/2411 https://changelog.com/news/91 Mon, 22 Apr 2024 19:45:00 +0000 Forrest Brazeal is concerned about the open source threat from within, Vicki Boykis explains why Redis is forked, John O'Nolan and the Ghost team plan to federate over ActivityPub, Llama 3 is now available for "businesses of all sizes" & nolen writes up questions to ask when you don’t want to work. full 09:59 false Jerod Santo Forrest Brazeal is concerned about the open source threat from within, Vicki Boykis explains why Redis is forked, John O’Nolan and the Ghost team plan to federate over ActivityPub, Llama 3 is now available for “businesses of all sizes” & nolen writes up questions to ask when you don’t want to work.

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]]> Devin's Upwork "side hustle" exposed changelog.com/16/2400 https://changelog.com/news/90 Mon, 15 Apr 2024 18:50:00 +0000 YouTuber "Internet of Bugs" breaks down why AI "software engineer" Devin is no Upwork hero, Redka is Anton Zhiyanov's attempt to reimplement Redis with SQLite, OpenTofu issues its response to Hashicorp's Cease and Desist letter, Brian LeRoux introduces Enhance WASM & PumpkinOS is not your average PalmOS emulator. full 07:10 false Jerod Santo YouTuber “Internet of Bugs” breaks down why AI “software engineer” Devin is no Upwork hero, Redka is Anton Zhiyanov’s attempt to reimplement Redis with SQLite, OpenTofu issues its response to Hashicorp’s Cease and Desist letter, Brian LeRoux introduces Enhance WASM & PumpkinOS is not your average PalmOS emulator.

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]]> HashiCorp strikes back changelog.com/16/2397 https://changelog.com/news/89 Mon, 08 Apr 2024 19:30:00 +0000 HashiCorp sends OpenTofu a nasty-gram in the wake of Matt Asay's infringement claims, Polar is like Patreon but for software creators, a Common Corpus of LLM data is released on HuggingFace & Loki is an open source tool for fact verification. full 09:08 false Jerod Santo HashiCorp sends OpenTofu a nasty-gram in the wake of Matt Asay’s infringement claims, Polar is like Patreon but for software creators, a Common Corpus of LLM data is released on HuggingFace & Loki is an open source tool for fact verification.

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]]> Who in the world is Jia Tan? changelog.com/16/2390 https://changelog.com/news/88 Mon, 01 Apr 2024 19:45:00 +0000 The big story right now is the recently uncovered backdoor in _liblzma_ (aka _XZ_) – a relatively obscure compression library that happens to be a dependency of OpenSSH. This incident is noteworthy for so many reasons: the exploit itself, how it was deployed, how it was found, what it says about our industry & how the community reacted. Let's dig in! full 09:53 false Jerod Santo The big story right now is the recently uncovered backdoor in liblzma (aka XZ) – a relatively obscure compression library that happens to be a dependency of OpenSSH.

This incident is noteworthy for so many reasons: the exploit itself, how it was deployed, how it was found, what it says about our industry & how the community reacted. Let’s dig in!

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]]> Another one bites the dust changelog.com/16/2379 https://changelog.com/news/87 Mon, 25 Mar 2024 20:00:00 +0000 Redis' re-licensing prompts forks like Drew DeVault's Redict, Matthew Miller thinks we need more community built software, Paul Gross makes the case that DuckDB is the new jq, Anton Zhiyanov shares how he makes a living as a developer despite being "pretty dumb" & Baldur Bjarnason chimes in on the state of the web developer job market. full 09:07 false Jerod Santo Redis’ re-licensing prompts forks like Drew DeVault’s Redict, Matthew Miller thinks we need more community built software, Paul Gross makes the case that DuckDB is the new jq, Anton Zhiyanov shares how he makes a living as a developer despite being “pretty dumb” & Baldur Bjarnason chimes in on the state of the web developer job market.

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]]> No Maintenance Intended changelog.com/16/2374 https://changelog.com/news/86 Mon, 18 Mar 2024 20:00:00 +0000 A new badge for open source projects that won't be getting any maintenance, everything Chip Huyen learned from looking at 900 open source AI tools, CNBC writes up tech's renewed layoff trend, Teable is a Postgres-Airtable fusion & Target announces an open source fund. full 08:02 false Jerod Santo A new badge for open source projects that won’t be getting any maintenance, everything Chip Huyen learned from looking at 900 open source AI tools, CNBC writes up tech’s renewed layoff trend, Teable is a Postgres-Airtable fusion & Target announces an open source fund.

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]]> Puter is the internet OS changelog.com/16/2366 https://changelog.com/news/85 Mon, 11 Mar 2024 19:20:00 +0000 Puter puts an entire operating system in your web browser, the kapa.ai team write down how to structure your docs for LLMs, Daytona is an open source Codespaces alternative, Gleam v1.0 has been released & Rolldown is a JavaScript bundler written in Rust. full 09:33 false Jerod Santo Puter puts an entire operating system in your web browser, the kapa.ai team write down how to structure your docs for LLMs, Daytona is an open source Codespaces alternative, Gleam v1.0 has been released & Rolldown is a JavaScript bundler written in Rust.

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]]> Apple backs off killing EU web apps changelog.com/16/2354 https://changelog.com/news/84 Mon, 04 Mar 2024 18:00:00 +0000 Apple backs off killing web apps (but the fight continues), Luka Kladaric writes about how to ship quality software in hostile environments, Deno's new package registry is an npm superset, Martin Fowler on the value of periodic face-to-face & Eugene Ghanizadeh wants us to get more decentralized than the Fediverse. Leave us nice words! full 08:27 false Jerod Santo Apple backs off killing web apps (but the fight continues), Luka Kladaric writes about how to ship quality software in hostile environments, Deno’s new package registry is an npm superset, Martin Fowler on the value of periodic face-to-face & Eugene Ghanizadeh wants us to get more decentralized than the Fediverse. Leave us nice words!

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]]> Natural Language Programming changelog.com/16/2351 https://changelog.com/news/83 Mon, 26 Feb 2024 20:30:00 +0000 GPTScript is a new scripting language to automate your interactions with LLMs, Adam Wiggins conducts a retrospective on Muse, Nikita Prokopov surveyed a bunch of popular websites to see how much JS they loaded on their pages, Pages CMS is a no-hassle CMS for GitHub pages & Jim Nielsen writes about the subversive hyperlink. full 06:41 false Jerod Santo GPTScript is a new scripting language to automate your interactions with LLMs, Adam Wiggins conducts a retrospective on Muse, Nikita Prokopov surveyed a bunch of popular websites to see how much JS they loaded on their pages, Pages CMS is a no-hassle CMS for GitHub pages & Jim Nielsen writes about the subversive hyperlink.

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]]> Quantum computing gets a reality check changelog.com/16/2343 https://changelog.com/news/82 Mon, 19 Feb 2024 20:40:00 +0000 Ship It is back! IEEE Spectrum writes about quantum computing's reality check, Maxim Dounin announces freenginx, Nadia Asparouhova goes deep on AI & the "effective accelerationism" movement, Angie Byron helps first time open source contributors avoid common pitfalls & Miroslav Nikolov writes up his advice for high-risk refactoring. full 07:31 false Jerod Santo Ship It is back! IEEE Spectrum writes about quantum computing’s reality check, Maxim Dounin announces freenginx, Nadia Asparouhova goes deep on AI & the “effective accelerationism” movement, Angie Byron helps first time open source contributors avoid common pitfalls & Miroslav Nikolov writes up his advice for high-risk refactoring.

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]]> We can dance if we want to... changelog.com/16/2338 https://changelog.com/news/81 Mon, 12 Feb 2024 21:00:00 +0000 Changelog Beats drops a new Dance Party album, Will McGugan's new Toolong (`tl`) terminal app, Mitchell Baker is out as Mozilla CEO, Microsoft's Jordi Adoumie announces sudo for Windows, Tatu Ylonen tells the tale of how they got SSH to be port 22 & Jack Lindamood gives an "Endorse" or "Regret" rating for ~50 different services, tools & processes he used over the 4 years he led infrastructure at a startup. full 08:31 false Jerod Santo Changelog Beats drops a new Dance Party album, Will McGugan’s new Toolong (tl) terminal app, Mitchell Baker is out as Mozilla CEO, Microsoft’s Jordi Adoumie announces sudo for Windows, Tatu Ylonen tells the tale of how they got SSH to be port 22 & Jack Lindamood gives an “Endorse” or “Regret” rating for ~50 different services, tools & processes he used over the 4 years he led infrastructure at a startup.

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]]> The promise of hackable software changelog.com/16/2327 https://changelog.com/news/80 Mon, 05 Feb 2024 21:00:00 +0000 Geoffrey Litt thinks browser extensions are underrated, Adolfo Ochagavía on being a generalist in a specialist's world, Jack Garbus praises the Arch Wiki, Terence Eden tries to rebuild FourSquare for ActivityPub using OpenStreetMap & Sebastien Dubois teaches us how to connect ideas together. full 08:48 false Jerod Santo Geoffrey Litt thinks browser extensions are underrated, Adolfo Ochagavía on being a generalist in a specialist’s world, Jack Garbus praises the Arch Wiki, Terence Eden tries to rebuild FourSquare for ActivityPub using OpenStreetMap & Sebastien Dubois teaches us how to connect ideas together.

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]]> $100k for indie game devs changelog.com/16/2320 https://changelog.com/news/79 Mon, 29 Jan 2024 15:15:00 +0000 The Rune team announces $100k in open source grants for indie game devs, the Zed code editor is now open source, the Ollama team releases Python & JavaScript libraries, Max Bernstein tells the story of Scrapscript & Pooya Parsa writes up some notes from a tired maintainer. full 08:51 false Jerod Santo The Rune team announces $100k in open source grants for indie game devs, the Zed code editor is now open source, the Ollama team releases Python & JavaScript libraries, Max Bernstein tells the story of Scrapscript & Pooya Parsa writes up some notes from a tired maintainer.

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]]> GitHub Actions as a time-sharing supercomputer changelog.com/16/2315 https://changelog.com/news/78 Mon, 22 Jan 2024 20:15:00 +0000 Alex Ellis' new actions-batch project uses GitHub Actions as a time-sharing supercomputer, DevDocs.io combines multiple API documentations in a fast, organized, and searchable interface, Jarred Sumner announces Bun's very own JavaScript shell, Shoelace is a forward-thinking library of web components & Martin Heinz writes an awesome guide to building an indoor air quality monitoring system with Prometheus, Grafana & a CO2 sensor. full 07:23 false Jerod Santo Alex Ellis’ new actions-batch project uses GitHub Actions as a time-sharing supercomputer, DevDocs.io combines multiple API documentations in a fast, organized, and searchable interface, Jarred Sumner announces Bun’s very own JavaScript shell, Shoelace is a forward-thinking library of web components & Martin Heinz writes an awesome guide to building an indoor air quality monitoring system with Prometheus, Grafana & a CO2 sensor.

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]]> A plea for lean software changelog.com/16/2305 https://changelog.com/news/77 Mon, 15 Jan 2024 21:30:00 +0000 Niklaus Wirth makes his plea for lean software, PocketBase puts your entire backend in 1 file, Vanna is a Python RAG framework for accurate text-to-SQL generation, Henrik Karlsson wants you to think more about what to focus on & Calvin Wankhede shares how he built a fully offline smart home (and you should too). full 07:41 false Jerod Santo Niklaus Wirth makes his plea for lean software, PocketBase puts your entire backend in 1 file, Vanna is a Python RAG framework for accurate text-to-SQL generation, Henrik Karlsson wants you to think more about what to focus on & Calvin Wankhede shares how he built a fully offline smart home (and you should too).

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]]> The I in LLM stands for intelligence changelog.com/16/2301 https://changelog.com/news/76 Mon, 08 Jan 2024 20:30:00 +0000 Daniel Stenberg is frustrated with the state of AI tooling for finding security bugs, Brian Birtles is surprised by weird things engineers believe about web dev, Feross Aboukhadijeh details the fallout from a nasty npm prank, Rob Pike shares what he thinks they got right and wrong with Go & Gavin Howard writes up why he believes "all code is tech debt" is all wrong. full 08:19 false Jerod Santo Daniel Stenberg is frustrated with the state of AI tooling for finding security bugs, Brian Birtles is surprised by weird things engineers believe about web dev, Feross Aboukhadijeh details the fallout from a nasty npm prank, Rob Pike shares what he thinks they got right and wrong with Go & Gavin Howard writes up why he believes “all code is tech debt” is all wrong.

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]]> The code, prose & pods that shaped 2023 changelog.com/16/2290 https://changelog.com/news/75 Mon, 18 Dec 2023 22:40:00 +0000 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! full 14:38 false Jerod Santo 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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]]> Open source LLMs are catching up changelog.com/16/2286 https://changelog.com/news/74 Mon, 11 Dec 2023 20:00:00 +0000 A group of researchers set out to test claims that its open source rivals had achieved parity (or even better) with ChatGPT on certain tasks, Richard Hipp and his team have rewritten SQLite's text-based JSON functions, Ratatui is a Rust crate for cooking up TUIs, Morris Brodersen built a complex app in vanilla JS as a case study & Headscale is Kristoffer Dalby's open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server. full 07:26 false Jerod Santo A group of researchers set out to test claims that its open source rivals had achieved parity (or even better) with ChatGPT on certain tasks, Richard Hipp and his team have rewritten SQLite’s text-based JSON functions, Ratatui is a Rust crate for cooking up TUIs, Morris Brodersen built a complex app in vanilla JS as a case study & Headscale is Kristoffer Dalby’s open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server.

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]]> Leaked GPT prompts & Firefox on the brink changelog.com/16/2281 https://changelog.com/news/73 Mon, 04 Dec 2023 21:15:00 +0000 ChatGPT's new GPTs feature leak their prompts, Firefox's share of the browser market will soon drop below 2%, Robin Berjon tries to formalize a name for those who can't be named, Amy Lai tells the tale of the weirdest bug she's ever seen & Facundo Olano trumps the "code is read more than written" cliche with his own: "code is run more than read." full 07:57 false Jerod Santo ChatGPT’s new GPTs feature leak their prompts, Firefox’s share of the browser market will soon drop below 2%, Robin Berjon tries to formalize a name for those who can’t be named, Amy Lai tells the tale of the weirdest bug she’s ever seen & Facundo Olano trumps the “code is read more than written” cliche with his own: “code is run more than read.”

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]]> Was Jamstack a zero interest rate phenomenon? changelog.com/16/2278 https://changelog.com/news/72 Mon, 27 Nov 2023 20:00:00 +0000 Zach Leatherman on the tension and future of the Jamstack community, Chenxin Li helps you avoid 13 bad practices in data visualization, Laravel Pulse is coming real soon, Max Chernyak develops a new way to accomplish long term refactors & Spencer Baugh makes the case for more libraries and less services in our software stacks. full 08:26 false Jerod Santo Zach Leatherman on the tension and future of the Jamstack community, Chenxin Li helps you avoid 13 bad practices in data visualization, Laravel Pulse is coming real soon, Max Chernyak develops a new way to accomplish long term refactors & Spencer Baugh makes the case for more libraries and less services in our software stacks.

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]]> Watching OpenAI unravel in real-time changelog.com/16/2266 https://changelog.com/news/71 Mon, 20 Nov 2023 20:20:00 +0000 The internet watches OpenAI unravel in real-time, tldraw has a new experiment going with GPT-4 Vision that turns mockups into code, Tony Ennis makes the case for HTML First, James Somers writes a "eulogy" to coding for The New Yorker & Laurence Tratt describes and details four kinds of optimisation. full 08:49 false Jerod Santo The internet watches OpenAI unravel in real-time, tldraw has a new experiment going with GPT-4 Vision that turns mockups into code, Tony Ennis makes the case for HTML First, James Somers writes a “eulogy” to coding for The New Yorker & Laurence Tratt describes and details four kinds of optimisation.

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]]> Share your terminal with anyone on the web changelog.com/16/2260 https://changelog.com/news/70 Mon, 13 Nov 2023 19:45:00 +0000 sshx lets you share your terminal with anyone on a multiplayer infinite canvas, Herbert Lui writes three things about your competitors, Anton Medvedev's fx is a terminal JSON viewer & processor, Danny Castonguay shares advice on attending large conferences & Jeremy Pinto's experimental RAGTheDocs project is working toward an exciting reality. full 06:49 false Jerod Santo sshx lets you share your terminal with anyone on a multiplayer infinite canvas, Herbert Lui writes three things about your competitors, Anton Medvedev’s fx is a terminal JSON viewer & processor, Danny Castonguay shares advice on attending large conferences & Jeremy Pinto’s experimental RAGTheDocs project is working toward an exciting reality.

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]]> How to write a good comment changelog.com/16/2258 https://changelog.com/news/69 Mon, 06 Nov 2023 19:15:00 +0000 David Hugh-Jones has a lot to say about what makes a good comment, Hugging Face released a distilled variant of Whisper for speech recognition, The New Stack reports on C++ creator Bjarne Stroustrup’s plan for bringing safety to the language, Jeff Sandberg declares that CSS is fun again & Jose M. Gilgado praises the beauty of finished software. full 07:40 false Jerod Santo David Hugh-Jones has a lot to say about what makes a good comment, Hugging Face released a distilled variant of Whisper for speech recognition, The New Stack reports on C++ creator Bjarne Stroustrup’s plan for bringing safety to the language, Jeff Sandberg declares that CSS is fun again & Jose M. Gilgado praises the beauty of finished software.

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]]> What will React come up with Next? changelog.com/16/2253 https://changelog.com/news/68 Mon, 30 Oct 2023 19:00:00 +0000 The hubbub of the web dev world right now is Next.js' integration of React Server Components, Kent C. Dodds writes up why he doesn't use Next, Lee Robinson responds with why he does, the NixOS team hits a milestone in their reproducible builds effort & OpenSign is an open source alternative to DocuSign. full 07:14 false Jerod Santo The hubbub of the web dev world right now is Next.js’ integration of React Server Components, Kent C. Dodds writes up why he doesn’t use Next, Lee Robinson responds with why he does, the NixOS team hits a milestone in their reproducible builds effort & OpenSign is an open source alternative to DocuSign.

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]]> Introducing Changelog Beats changelog.com/16/2249 https://changelog.com/news/67 Mon, 23 Oct 2023 19:15:00 +0000 Changelog drops full-length musical albums in collaboration with Breakmaster Cylinder, Justin Searls on why the right tools fail for the wrong reasons, The Unix Sheikh says we have too many level of abstractions, Adam at PiCockpit compares the newly-announced Raspberry Pi 5 to the competition & Jorge Medina assures us that we're not lacking creativity, we're just overwhelmed by content. full 10:01 false Jerod Santo Changelog drops full-length musical albums in collaboration with Breakmaster Cylinder, Justin Searls on why the right tools fail for the wrong reasons, The Unix Sheikh says we have too many level of abstractions, Adam at PiCockpit compares the newly-announced Raspberry Pi 5 to the competition & Jorge Medina assures us that we’re not lacking creativity, we’re just overwhelmed by content.

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]]> LMMS are the new LLMs changelog.com/16/2245 https://changelog.com/news/66 Mon, 16 Oct 2023 16:15:00 +0000 Chip Huyen documents the shifting sand of large data models, Herman Õunapuu reviews the Zimaboard, Bryan Braun shares 4 of his most recent VSCode configuration discoveries & Swizec Teller wrote a great summary of the inaugural AI Engineer Summit. full 06:28 false Jerod Santo Chip Huyen documents the shifting sand of large data models, Herman Õunapuu reviews the Zimaboard, Bryan Braun shares 4 of his most recent VSCode configuration discoveries & Swizec Teller wrote a great summary of the inaugural AI Engineer Summit.

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]]> RTO vs WFH & the case for strong static typing changelog.com/16/2243 https://changelog.com/news/65 Mon, 09 Oct 2023 19:30:00 +0000 Jacob Kaplan-Moss' recommendations for remote vs colocated teams, Duarte Carmo created a neural search engine from Changelog transcripts, Tom Hacohen says strong static typing is a hill he's willing to die on, Orhun Parmaksız created a CLI that makes your keyboard sound like a typewriter & Luke Plant spits hard truths about simplicity. full 08:38 false Jerod Santo Jacob Kaplan-Moss’ recommendations for remote vs colocated teams, Duarte Carmo created a neural search engine from Changelog transcripts, Tom Hacohen says strong static typing is a hill he’s willing to die on, Orhun Parmaksız created a CLI that makes your keyboard sound like a typewriter & Luke Plant spits hard truths about simplicity.

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]]> InfluxDB drops Go for Rust but gokrazy is really cool changelog.com/16/2236 https://changelog.com/news/64 Mon, 02 Oct 2023 19:40:00 +0000 InfluxDB finishes a multi-year rewrite in Rust, the Raspberry Pi 5 will be on sale by the end of the month, the Bruno team builds an open source API explorer that's local-first and will never have a cloud, Xe Iaso thinks gokrazy is really cool & Matt Rickard shares lessons from years of debugging. full 08:09 false Jerod Santo InfluxDB finishes a multi-year rewrite in Rust, the Raspberry Pi 5 will be on sale by the end of the month, the Bruno team builds an open source API explorer that’s local-first and will never have a cloud, Xe Iaso thinks gokrazy is really cool & Matt Rickard shares lessons from years of debugging.

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]]> The missing sync layer for modern apps changelog.com/16/2218 https://changelog.com/news/63 Mon, 25 Sep 2023 19:20:00 +0000 ElectricSQL is a project that offers a local-first sync layer for web and mobile apps, Ned Batchelder writes about the myth of the myth of "learning styles", Carl Johnson thinks XML is better than YAML, Berkan Sasmaz defines and describes "idempotency" & HyperDX is an open source alternative Datadog or New Relic. full 08:10 false Jerod Santo ElectricSQL is a project that offers a local-first sync layer for web and mobile apps, Ned Batchelder writes about the myth of the myth of “learning styles”, Carl Johnson thinks XML is better than YAML, Berkan Sasmaz defines and describes “idempotency” & HyperDX is an open source alternative Datadog or New Relic.

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]]> Death by a thousand microservices changelog.com/16/2214 https://changelog.com/news/62 Mon, 18 Sep 2023 19:30:00 +0000 Andrei Taranchenko says the software industry is learning once again that complexity kills, Casey Muratori outlines a long list of Unity alternatives, Filip Szkandera builds a functioning (macro) processor for RISC-V & Matt Basta tells the tale of the time he built a web-based Excel clone inside Uber only to have it discarded a week later. full 08:37 false Jerod Santo Andrei Taranchenko says the software industry is learning once again that complexity kills, Casey Muratori outlines a long list of Unity alternatives, Filip Szkandera builds a functioning (macro) processor for RISC-V & Matt Basta tells the tale of the time he built a web-based Excel clone inside Uber only to have it discarded a week later.

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]]> Bun 1.0 is here & Mojo is ready for download changelog.com/16/2207 https://changelog.com/news/61 Mon, 11 Sep 2023 19:00:00 +0000 Bun 1.0 is out of the oven, Mojo is now available for local download, Vince Lwt asked 60+ LLMs a set of 20 questions & published the answers, Textual Web turns TUIs in to web applications & James Haydon dives deep to discover the bug that the UK air traffic control meltdown. full 08:32 false Jerod Santo Bun 1.0 is out of the oven, Mojo is now available for local download, Vince Lwt asked 60+ LLMs a set of 20 questions & published the answers, Textual Web turns TUIs in to web applications & James Haydon dives deep to discover the bug that the UK air traffic control meltdown.

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]]> A portrait of the best worst programmer changelog.com/16/2204 https://changelog.com/news/60 Tue, 05 Sep 2023 18:20:00 +0000 Dan North tells the tale of Tim, the worst programmer he's worked with (who also is a heck of a programmer), Kevin Lin declares that OpenTelemetry delivers on its promise for open observability, Justin Garrison details Terraform vs GitOps vs System Initiative, Inc. writes how Apple beats burnout & Aline Lerner's advice on how (not) to sabotage your salary negotiations before you even start. full 08:27 false Jerod Santo Dan North tells the tale of Tim, the worst programmer he’s worked with (who also is a heck of a programmer), Kevin Lin declares that OpenTelemetry delivers on its promise for open observability, Justin Garrison details Terraform vs GitOps vs System Initiative, Inc. writes how Apple beats burnout & Aline Lerner’s advice on how (not) to sabotage your salary negotiations before you even start.

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]]> OpenTF sticks a fork in Terraform changelog.com/16/2195 https://changelog.com/news/59 Mon, 28 Aug 2023 20:00:00 +0000 OpenTF announces they're forking Terraform and joining the Linux Foundation, Meta gets in the LLM-for-codegen game with Code Llama, Matt Mullenweg announces WordPress.com's new 100-year plan, Paul Gichuki from Thinkst learns that default behaviors stick (and so do examples) & Marco Otte-Witte makes his case for Rust on the web. full 07:56 false Jerod Santo OpenTF announces they’re forking Terraform and joining the Linux Foundation, Meta gets in the LLM-for-codegen game with Code Llama, Matt Mullenweg announces WordPress.com’s new 100-year plan, Paul Gichuki from Thinkst learns that default behaviors stick (and so do examples) & Marco Otte-Witte makes his case for Rust on the web.

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]]> All your CAPTCHAs are belong to bots changelog.com/16/2183 https://changelog.com/news/58 Mon, 21 Aug 2023 19:45:00 +0000 New research shows that CAPTCHAs are now utterly useless, hundreds of concerned technologists signed the OpenTF Manifesto to keep Terraform open source forever, Josh Collinsworth writes down all the things you forgot (or never knew) because of React, Mike Seidle shared some quick-but-powerful advice on building new software features & Erlend Sogge Heggen urges new open source projects to join the Fediverse (by way of Mastodon). full 08:25 false Jerod Santo New research shows that CAPTCHAs are now utterly useless, hundreds of concerned technologists signed the OpenTF Manifesto to keep Terraform open source forever, Josh Collinsworth writes down all the things you forgot (or never knew) because of React, Mike Seidle shared some quick-but-powerful advice on building new software features & Erlend Sogge Heggen urges new open source projects to join the Fediverse (by way of Mastodon).

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]]> The relicensings will continue until morale improves changelog.com/16/2181 https://changelog.com/news/57 Mon, 14 Aug 2023 19:15:00 +0000 HashiCorp adopts a Business Source license, Matt Rickard hypothesizes why Tailwind CSS won, WarpStream sets out to make a Kafka-compatible offering directly on S3, Vadim Kravcenko publishes an excellent guide for managing difficult software engineers & Russ Cox gives an update on Go 2. full 08:04 false Jerod Santo HashiCorp adopts a Business Source license, Matt Rickard hypothesizes why Tailwind CSS won, WarpStream sets out to make a Kafka-compatible offering directly on S3, Vadim Kravcenko publishes an excellent guide for managing difficult software engineers & Russ Cox gives an update on Go 2.

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]]> The open source licensing war is over? changelog.com/16/2176 https://changelog.com/news/56 Mon, 07 Aug 2023 20:30:00 +0000 Matt Asay thinks the open source licensing war is over, LangUI is an open source Tailwind component library for your AI chat app, Ivan Kuleshov modded a Mac mini to run via PoE, Apple joins Pixar and others in the Alliance for OpenUSD & John D. Cook says sometimes you shouldn't pick the best tool for the job. full 07:41 false Jerod Santo Matt Asay thinks the open source licensing war is over, LangUI is an open source Tailwind component library for your AI chat app, Ivan Kuleshov modded a Mac mini to run via PoE, Apple joins Pixar and others in the Alliance for OpenUSD & John D. Cook says sometimes you shouldn’t pick the best tool for the job.

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]]> Something interesting is going on at Stack Overflow changelog.com/16/2172 https://changelog.com/news/55 Mon, 31 Jul 2023 20:00:00 +0000 The fall of Stack Overflow, researches dig up some new (and potentially unavoidable) LLM attacks, Google proposes a new API that Ron Amadeo calls a DRM gatekeeper for the web, the Python Steering Council affirms PEP 703 & Lucas McGregor writes why no one wants to talk to your chatbot. full 09:12 false Jerod Santo The fall of Stack Overflow, researches dig up some new (and potentially unavoidable) LLM attacks, Google proposes a new API that Ron Amadeo calls a DRM gatekeeper for the web, the Python Steering Council affirms PEP 703 & Lucas McGregor writes why no one wants to talk to your chatbot.

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]]> Supabase quietly went public changelog.com/16/2167 https://changelog.com/news/54 Mon, 24 Jul 2023 21:00:00 +0000 Our friends at Supabase quietly went public today, Redpoint's InfraRed 100 report is out, Twitter is now X, GitHub's Copilot Chat now in public preview (for businesses) & Oxide has homelab plans (in 2050). full 09:33 false Adam Stacoviak Our friends at Supabase quietly went public today, Redpoint’s InfraRed 100 report is out, Twitter is now X, GitHub’s Copilot Chat now in public preview (for businesses) & Oxide has homelab plans (in 2050).

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]]> Magical shell history & why engineers should focus on writing changelog.com/16/2164 https://changelog.com/news/53 Mon, 17 Jul 2023 20:00:00 +0000 Ellie Huxtable's Atuin makes your shell history magical, Dmitry Kudryavtsev writes why he thinks engineers should focus on writing, LazyVim promises to transform your Neovim setup into a full-fleged IDE, Geoff Graham shares with Smashing Magazine how he writes CSS in 2023 & Brad Fitzpatrick collects a public list of bad issue track behaviors. full 07:00 false Jerod Santo Ellie Huxtable’s Atuin makes your shell history magical, Dmitry Kudryavtsev writes why he thinks engineers should focus on writing, LazyVim promises to transform your Neovim setup into a full-fleged IDE, Geoff Graham shares with Smashing Magazine how he writes CSS in 2023 & Brad Fitzpatrick collects a public list of bad issue track behaviors.

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]]> Oracle smacks IBM over RHEL changelog.com/16/2127 https://changelog.com/news/52 Mon, 10 Jul 2023 20:30:00 +0000 Oracle smacks IBM for their handling of RHEL, the folks at The Dam share a Slack clone in 5 lines of Bash, Justin Jaffray writes up 13 ways to think about joins, llama.cpp learns web chat thanks to a contribution by Tobi Lütke & Meta is willing to pay 3 engineers to remove Python's GIL. full 08:00 false Jerod Santo Oracle smacks IBM for their handling of RHEL, the folks at The Dam share a Slack clone in 5 lines of Bash, Justin Jaffray writes up 13 ways to think about joins, llama.cpp learns web chat thanks to a contribution by Tobi Lütke & Meta is willing to pay 3 engineers to remove Python’s GIL.

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]]> Streak redemption, vectors are the new JSON, CommonJS is hurting JavaScript & the rise of the AI Engineer changelog.com/16/2122 https://changelog.com/news/51 Mon, 03 Jul 2023 19:30:00 +0000 Lukas Mathis writes about streak redemption, Jonathan Katz thinks vectors are the new JSON, Andy Jiang says CommonJS is hurting JavaScript & Swyx on the rise of the AI Engineer. full 06:20 false Jerod Santo Lukas Mathis writes about streak redemption, Jonathan Katz thinks vectors are the new JSON, Andy Jiang says CommonJS is hurting JavaScript & Swyx on the rise of the AI Engineer.

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]]> AI poisoned its own well, libraries to UnsuckJS, we need more Richard Stallman & ChatGPT package hallucination changelog.com/16/2118 https://changelog.com/news/50 Mon, 26 Jun 2023 20:45:00 +0000 Tracy Durnell thinks AI has already poisoned its own well, Adam Hill's microsite catalogs everything you need to UnsuckJS, Lionel Dricot thinks we need more Richard Stallman, not less & the Vulcan team proves you can't trust ChatGPT's package recommendations. full 08:03 false Jerod Santo Tracy Durnell thinks AI has already poisoned its own well, Adam Hill’s microsite catalogs everything you need to UnsuckJS, Lionel Dricot thinks we need more Richard Stallman, not less & the Vulcan team proves you can’t trust ChatGPT’s package recommendations.

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]]> An open platform for LLMs, speed matters, imaginary problems, Val Town & how to finish your projects changelog.com/16/2115 https://changelog.com/news/49 Mon, 19 Jun 2023 20:30:00 +0000 An open platform for operating LLMs in production, working quickly is more important than it seems, imaginary problems are the root of bad software, Val Town is a social website to write and run code & Aaron Francis' guide to finishing your projects. full 07:27 false Jerod Santo An open platform for operating LLMs in production, working quickly is more important than it seems, imaginary problems are the root of bad software, Val Town is a social website to write and run code & Aaron Francis’ guide to finishing your projects.

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]]> Reddit goes dark, Lemmy lights up, OpenObserve, some blogging myths & Jefro on Automotive Linux changelog.com/16/2107 https://changelog.com/news/48 Mon, 12 Jun 2023 20:30:00 +0000 Reddit goes dark as subreddits protest, Lemmy lights up as disillusioned redditors turn to the fediverse, OpenObserve is a cloud native observability platform, Julia Evans dispels some myths about blogging & Red Hat's Jeffrey “Jefro” Osier-Mixon tells Adam and Jerod all about Automotive Linux at Open Source Summit NA. full 28:57 false Jerod Santo Adam Stacoviak Jefro Reddit goes dark as subreddits protest, Lemmy lights up as disillusioned redditors turn to the fediverse, OpenObserve is a cloud native observability platform, Julia Evans dispels some myths about blogging & Red Hat’s Jeffrey “Jefro” Osier-Mixon tells Adam and Jerod all about Automotive Linux at Open Source Summit NA.

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]]> Starlight, Knuth asks ChatGPT, Stack Overflow mods strike, Reddit API pricing revolt & open source AI has a new champ changelog.com/16/2101 https://changelog.com/news/47 Mon, 05 Jun 2023 21:00:00 +0000 The Astro team releases a new documentation builder, legendary computer scientist Donald Knuth plays with ChatGPT, over 500 volunteer mods have signed an open letter to Stack Overflow Inc, Reddit faces a revolt due to their new API pricing & the Technology Innovation Institute release Falcon, a new open source LLM that's topping Hugging Face's leaderboard. full 09:48 false Jerod Santo The Astro team releases a new documentation builder, legendary computer scientist Donald Knuth plays with ChatGPT, over 500 volunteer mods have signed an open letter to Stack Overflow Inc, Reddit faces a revolt due to their new API pricing & the Technology Innovation Institute release Falcon, a new open source LLM that’s topping Hugging Face’s leaderboard.

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]]> An API store for LLMs, DeviceScript, Nyxt: the hacker's browser, expectations debt & there's still no silver bullet changelog.com/16/2094 https://changelog.com/news/46 Tue, 30 May 2023 20:00:00 +0000 The Gorilla team is building an API store for LLMs, DeviceScript is Microsoft's new TypeScript programming environment for microcontrollers, Nyxt is a hackable browser written in Lisp, Morgan Housel writes about expectations debt & I issue a gentle reminder to my fellow software engineers: there's still no silver bullet. full 07:51 false Jerod Santo The Gorilla team is building an API store for LLMs, DeviceScript is Microsoft’s new TypeScript programming environment for microcontrollers, Nyxt is a hackable browser written in Lisp, Morgan Housel writes about expectations debt & I issue a gentle reminder to my fellow software engineers: there’s still no silver bullet.

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]]> Trogon, StableStudio, life after Apple, Google's problematic new TLDs & how to discuss programming languages changelog.com/16/2084 https://changelog.com/news/45 Mon, 22 May 2023 19:20:00 +0000 Will McGugan's Trogon auto-generates friendly TUIs for your CLI apps, Stability AI's official open source variant of DreamStudio, John Calhoun writes about life after 26 years programming at Apple, Google's news TLDs could be a boon to scammers & Pablo Meier documents a way to discuss programming languages. full 08:27 false Jerod Santo Will McGugan’s Trogon auto-generates friendly TUIs for your CLI apps, Stability AI’s official open source variant of DreamStudio, John Calhoun writes about life after 26 years programming at Apple, Google’s news TLDs could be a boon to scammers & Pablo Meier documents a way to discuss programming languages.

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]]> Syncthing, Thunderbird, Baseline & vector databases changelog.com/16/2080 https://changelog.com/news/44 Mon, 15 May 2023 20:30:00 +0000 Thunderbird is thriving on small donations, Syncthing is a super-cool continuous file sync program, LLMs are so hot right now and they're making vectors hot by proxy & MDN defines a Baseline for stable web features. full 05:39 false Jerod Santo Thunderbird is thriving on small donations, Syncthing is a super-cool continuous file sync program, LLMs are so hot right now and they’re making vectors hot by proxy & MDN defines a Baseline for stable web features.

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]]> Mojo might be huge, chatbots aren't it, big tech lacks an AI moat & monoliths are not dinosaurs changelog.com/16/2073 https://changelog.com/news/43 Mon, 08 May 2023 19:30:00 +0000 Jeremy Howard thinks Mojo might be the biggest programming language advance in decades, Amelia Wattenberger is not impressed by AI chatbots, a leaked Google memo admits big tech has no AI moats & Werner Vogels reminds us that monoliths are not dinosaurs. full 09:05 false Jerod Santo Jeremy Howard thinks Mojo might be the biggest programming language advance in decades, Amelia Wattenberger is not impressed by AI chatbots, a leaked Google memo admits big tech has no AI moats & Werner Vogels reminds us that monoliths are not dinosaurs.

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]]> Hyperswitch, the future of programming, Thoughtworks' latest tech radar & your docs aren't "simple" changelog.com/16/2065 https://changelog.com/news/42 Mon, 01 May 2023 19:00:00 +0000 Hyperswitch is like the adapter pattern for payments, Austin Henley writes about the future of programming by summarizing recent research papers, Thoughtworks published their 28th volume of their Tech Radar, the team at General Products reminds devs to scan our technical writing for words such as "easy", "painless", "straightforward", "trivial", "simple" and "just" & we finish with a lightning round of cool tools. full 07:06 false Jerod Santo Hyperswitch is like the adapter pattern for payments, Austin Henley writes about the future of programming by summarizing recent research papers, Thoughtworks published their 28th volume of their Tech Radar, the team at General Products reminds devs to scan our technical writing for words such as “easy”, “painless”, “straightforward”, “trivial”, “simple” and “just” & we finish with a lightning round of cool tools.

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]]> Dataset wars, Bark, Kent Beck needs to recalibrate, StableLM & blind prompting is not prompt engineering changelog.com/16/2060 https://changelog.com/news/41 Mon, 24 Apr 2023 19:25:00 +0000 The dataset wars are heating up, Bark is a transformer-based text-to-audio model that can generate highly realistic, multilingual speech as well as other audio, Kent Beck needs to recalibrate after using ChatGPT, the team behind Stable Diffusion release a new open source language model & Mitchel Hashimoto weighs in on prompt engineering. full 08:09 false Jerod Santo The dataset wars are heating up, Bark is a transformer-based text-to-audio model that can generate highly realistic, multilingual speech as well as other audio, Kent Beck needs to recalibrate after using ChatGPT, the team behind Stable Diffusion release a new open source language model & Mitchel Hashimoto weighs in on prompt engineering.

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]]> Free Dolly, GitHub Accelerator's cohort, improving Tailscale via Apple’s open source & what the heck are passkeys?! changelog.com/16/2055 https://changelog.com/news/40 Mon, 17 Apr 2023 19:45:00 +0000 Kara Deloss announces GitHub Accelerator's 2023 cohort, Databricks releases the first open source, instruction-following LLM, fine-tuned on a human-generated instruction dataset licensed for research and commercial use, Mihai Parparita writes how he improved Tailscale thanks to Apple's open source & Neal Fennimore asks and answers the question: Passkeys: what the heck and why?! full 08:31 false Jerod Santo Kara Deloss announces GitHub Accelerator’s 2023 cohort, Databricks releases the first open source, instruction-following LLM, fine-tuned on a human-generated instruction dataset licensed for research and commercial use, Mihai Parparita writes how he improved Tailscale thanks to Apple’s open source & Neal Fennimore asks and answers the question: Passkeys: what the heck and why?!

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]]> Ken Thompson's keynote, Tabby, The LLama Effect, Codeberg & facing the inevitable changelog.com/16/2053 https://changelog.com/news/39 Mon, 10 Apr 2023 21:30:00 +0000 Ken Thompson's 75-year-project is a jukebox for the ages, Tabby is a self-hosted AI coding assistant, Codeberg is a collaboration platform and Git hosting for open source software, content and projects, TheSequence explains The LLama Effect & Paul Orlando writes about Ghosts, Guilds and Generative AI. full 08:07 false Jerod Santo Ken Thompson’s 75-year-project is a jukebox for the ages, Tabby is a self-hosted AI coding assistant, Codeberg is a collaboration platform and Git hosting for open source software, content and projects, TheSequence explains The LLama Effect & Paul Orlando writes about Ghosts, Guilds and Generative AI.

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]]> Twitter's open algorithm, Auto-GPT, LLMs as "calculators for words", SudoLang & stochastic parrots changelog.com/1/2047 https://changelog.com/news/38 Mon, 03 Apr 2023 20:30:00 +0000 Twitter publishes (some of) its recommendation algorithm, Toran Bruce Richards puts GPT-4 on autopilot, Simon Willison shares a good way for us to think about LLMs, Eric Elliot creates a powerful pseudocode programming language for LLMs & I define and demystify the term "stochastic parrot". full 07:36 false Jerod Santo Twitter publishes (some of) its recommendation algorithm, Toran Bruce Richards puts GPT-4 on autopilot, Simon Willison shares a good way for us to think about LLMs, Eric Elliot creates a powerful pseudocode programming language for LLMs & I define and demystify the term “stochastic parrot”.

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]]> GitHub Copilot X, Chatbot UI, ChatGPT plugins, defining juice for software dev, Logto, Basaran & llama-cli changelog.com/1/2036 https://changelog.com/news/37 Mon, 27 Mar 2023 18:45:00 +0000 GitHub announces Copilot X, Mckay Wrigley created an open source ChatGPT UI buit with Next.js, TypeScripe & Tailwind CSS, OpenAI is also launching a ChatGPT plugin initiative, Brad Woods writes about juice in software development, Logto is an open source alternative to Auth0, Basaran is an open source alternative to the OpenAI text completion API & llama-cli is a straightforward Go CLI interface for llama.cpp. full 07:04 false Jerod Santo GitHub announces Copilot X, Mckay Wrigley created an open source ChatGPT UI buit with Next.js, TypeScripe & Tailwind CSS, OpenAI is also launching a ChatGPT plugin initiative, Brad Woods writes about juice in software development, Logto is an open source alternative to Auth0, Basaran is an open source alternative to the OpenAI text completion API & llama-cli is a straightforward Go CLI interface for llama.cpp.

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]]> Self-hosting in 2023, no more Alpine Linux, type constraints in 65 lines of SQL, Initial V, Minimal Gallery, the legacy of Visual Basic, tracking fake GitHub stars & Mastodon's 10M changelog.com/1/2030 https://changelog.com/news/36 Mon, 20 Mar 2023 18:00:00 +0000 Michal Warda on self-hosting in 2023, Martin Heinz will never use Alpine Linux again, Oliver Rice at Supabase creates type constraints in Postgres with just 65 lines of SQL, Aaron Patterson converted a BMW shifter into a Bluetooth keyboard that can control Vim, Piet Terheyden has been curating beautiful & functional websites daily since 2013, Ryan Lucas put together a history of Visual Basic, turns out it's easy for an open source project to buy fake GitHub stars & Mastodon hit 10 million accounts. full 04:34 false Jerod Santo Michal Warda on self-hosting in 2023, Martin Heinz will never use Alpine Linux again, Oliver Rice at Supabase creates type constraints in Postgres with just 65 lines of SQL, Aaron Patterson converted a BMW shifter into a Bluetooth keyboard that can control Vim, Piet Terheyden has been curating beautiful & functional websites daily since 2013, Ryan Lucas put together a history of Visual Basic, turns out it’s easy for an open source project to buy fake GitHub stars & Mastodon hit 10 million accounts.

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]]> Dalai, InputOutput.dev, Wik, Rspack, Doodle, Marqo & iLLA changelog.com/1/2028 https://changelog.com/news/35 Mon, 13 Mar 2023 19:00:00 +0000 Dalai is the simplest way to run LLaMA on your local machine, simple web tools that just work without annoying you, Wik is a tool to view wikipedia pages from your terminal, Rspack is a fast, Rust-based web bundler, Doodle is a pure Kotlin UI framework, Marqo is tensor search for humans & iLLA is an open source alternative to Retool. full 07:10 false Jerod Santo Dalai is the simplest way to run LLaMA on your local machine, simple web tools that just work without annoying you, Wik is a tool to view wikipedia pages from your terminal, Rspack is a fast, Rust-based web bundler, Doodle is a pure Kotlin UI framework, Marqo is tensor search for humans & iLLA is an open source alternative to Retool.

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]]> New OpenAI APIs, self-hosting all the things, the Dart Frog project, curl's NuGet story & Hacker Stations changelog.com/1/2022 https://changelog.com/news/34 Mon, 06 Mar 2023 20:45:00 +0000 Reorx lists awesome apps & tools using the new ChatGPT API, Ernie Smith ranks self-hosted app alternatives, Very Good Ventures brings Dart to the server, Daniel Stenberg tells curl's NuGet story & Hacker Stations showcases tech workspace setups from all over the world. full 07:06 false Jerod Santo Reorx lists awesome apps & tools using the new ChatGPT API, Ernie Smith ranks self-hosted app alternatives, Very Good Ventures brings Dart to the server, Daniel Stenberg tells curl’s NuGet story & Hacker Stations showcases tech workspace setups from all over the world.

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]]> Stack Overflow's architecture, Lobsters' killer libraries, Linux is ready for modern Macs, what to expect from your framework & GoatCounter web analytics changelog.com/1/2016 https://changelog.com/news/33 Mon, 27 Feb 2023 22:30:00 +0000 Sahn Lam details Stack Overflow's monolith/on-prem architecture, Hillel Wayne asks the Lobsters community for killer libraries, Linux 6.2 is ready to run on M1 Macs thanks to Asahi Linux, Johan Halse writes up what to expect from your web framework & Eli Bendersky on using GoatCounter for blog analytics. full 07:21 false Jerod Santo Sahn Lam details Stack Overflow’s monolith/on-prem architecture, Hillel Wayne asks the Lobsters community for killer libraries, Linux 6.2 is ready to run on M1 Macs thanks to Asahi Linux, Johan Halse writes up what to expect from your web framework & Eli Bendersky on using GoatCounter for blog analytics.

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]]> Sidney Bing, Elk for Mastodon, writing an engineering strategy, what's next for core-js & cool tool lightning round changelog.com/1/2014 https://changelog.com/news/32 Mon, 20 Feb 2023 20:50:00 +0000 Simon Willison rounds up the goings on around Microsoft's new GPT-powered Bing search, The Vue/Vite team build a nimble web client for Mastodon, Will Larson writes about writing an engineering strategy, Denis Pushkarev seeks support to maintain core-js & I share a lightning round of cool tools I've found and used recently. ⚡️ full 08:45 false Jerod Santo Simon Willison rounds up the goings on around Microsoft’s new GPT-powered Bing search, The Vue/Vite team build a nimble web client for Mastodon, Will Larson writes about writing an engineering strategy, Denis Pushkarev seeks support to maintain core-js & I share a lightning round of cool tools I’ve found and used recently. ⚡️

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]]> Load testing a $4 VPS, TOML for .env files, counting unique visitors sans cookies, the Arc browser & a love letter to Deno changelog.com/1/2007 https://changelog.com/news/31 Mon, 13 Feb 2023 20:15:00 +0000 Alice Girard Guittard finds out how much she could you really get out of a $4 VPS, Brett Cannon wonders if using TOML for .env files is a good idea, Nic Mulvaney details how they count unique visitors to a website without using cookies, UIDS, or fingerprinting, after a few months, Chris Coyier is still using the Arc browser & Alex Kladov pens a love letter to Deno. full 09:27 false Jerod Santo Alice Girard Guittard finds out how much she could you really get out of a $4 VPS, Brett Cannon wonders if using TOML for .env files is a good idea, Nic Mulvaney details how they count unique visitors to a website without using cookies, UIDS, or fingerprinting, after a few months, Chris Coyier is still using the Arc browser & Alex Kladov pens a love letter to Deno.

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]]> OpenAI's new text classifier, teach yourself CS, programming philosophies are about state, you might not need Lodash & overrated scalability changelog.com/1/2000 https://changelog.com/news/30 Mon, 06 Feb 2023 21:40:00 +0000 OpenAI's working on an AI classifier trained to distinguish between AI-written and human-written text, Oz Nova and Myles Byrne created a guide to teach yourself computer science, Charles Genschwap recently realized that all the various programming philosophies can be boiled down into a simple statement about how to work with state, you probably don't need Lodash or Underscore anymore & Waseem Daher thinks scalability is overrated. full 07:56 false Jerod Santo OpenAI’s working on an AI classifier trained to distinguish between AI-written and human-written text, Oz Nova and Myles Byrne created a guide to teach yourself computer science, Charles Genschwap recently realized that all the various programming philosophies can be boiled down into a simple statement about how to work with state, you probably don’t need Lodash or Underscore anymore & Waseem Daher thinks scalability is overrated.

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]]> Data tool belts, Build Your Own Redis, the giscus comments system, prompt engineering shouldn't exist & ALPACA changelog.com/1/1993 https://changelog.com/news/29 Mon, 30 Jan 2023 20:30:00 +0000 Jeremia Kimelman takes stock of his "data tool belt", Build Your Own Redis with C/C++ is ready to read, giscus is a comments system powered by GitHub Discussions, Matt Rickard says prompt engineering shouldn't be a thing and won't be a thing in the future & Kolja Lubitz's ALPACA is engine for building adventure games and interactive comics. full 07:02 false Jerod Santo Jeremia Kimelman takes stock of his “data tool belt”, Build Your Own Redis with C/C++ is ready to read, giscus is a comments system powered by GitHub Discussions, Matt Rickard says prompt engineering shouldn’t be a thing and won’t be a thing in the future & Kolja Lubitz’s ALPACA is engine for building adventure games and interactive comics.

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]]> Prioritizing tech debt, UI components to copy/paste, learnings from 20 years in software, git-sim & jqjq changelog.com/1/1990 https://changelog.com/news/28 Mon, 23 Jan 2023 19:50:00 +0000 Max Countryman wrote up a framework for prioritizing tech debt, shadcn builds a copy/paste-able UI component library in public, Justin Etheredge shares 20 things he's learned in his 20 years as a software engineer, Jacob Stopak's git-sim lets you easily visualize git operations without affecting your repo & Mattias Wadman implemented jq in jq. full 09:08 false Jerod Santo Max Countryman wrote up a framework for prioritizing tech debt, shadcn builds a copy/paste-able UI component library in public, Justin Etheredge shares 20 things he’s learned in his 20 years as a software engineer, Jacob Stopak’s git-sim lets you easily visualize git operations without affecting your repo & Mattias Wadman implemented jq in jq.

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]]> Premium PCB cheat sheets, a disappearing AWS dev, HyperSwitch, Servo is back at it & Cloudflare Wildebeest changelog.com/1/1974 https://changelog.com/news/27 Mon, 16 Jan 2023 20:30:00 +0000 WestArtFactory's premium PCB cheat sheets, Maxime Topolov tells of a disappearing AWS dev, Juspay Technologies releases HyperSwitch for payment processing, Servo gets new funding for 2023 & Cloudflare's open source Wildebeest. full 06:43 false Jerod Santo WestArtFactory’s premium PCB cheat sheets, Maxime Topolov tells of a disappearing AWS dev, Juspay Technologies releases HyperSwitch for payment processing, Servo gets new funding for 2023 & Cloudflare’s open source Wildebeest.

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]]> A simpler alternative to deleted_at, rules of thumb for better software, faking it until you automate it, the only civilized way to read online & AI and the big five changelog.com/1/1966 https://changelog.com/news/26 Mon, 09 Jan 2023 21:45:00 +0000 Brandur Leach's easy, alternative soft deletion strategy, Lane Wagner's zen of proverbs, Nicolas Carlo says fake it until you can automate it, Felix A. Crux thinks feeds are the only civilized way to read online & Ben Thompson analyzes AI and the big five tech companies. full 08:22 false Jerod Santo Brandur Leach’s easy, alternative soft deletion strategy, Lane Wagner’s zen of proverbs, Nicolas Carlo says fake it until you can automate it, Felix A. Crux thinks feeds are the only civilized way to read online & Ben Thompson analyzes AI and the big five tech companies.

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]]> Clipboard, unbundling tools for thought, microfeed, prepare to be productive & a look inside Matrix changelog.com/1/1958 https://changelog.com/news/25 Mon, 02 Jan 2023 20:00:00 +0000 Jackson Huff's clipboard powertool for the command line, Fernando Borretti thinks tools for thought should be unbundled, Listen Notes helps you run a microfeed on Cloudflare, Martin Rue says to be productive, be prepared & Paul Sawers takes TechCrunch readers inside Matrix and features its recent adoption wins. full 06:15 false Jerod Santo Jackson Huff’s clipboard powertool for the command line, Fernando Borretti thinks tools for thought should be unbundled, Listen Notes helps you run a microfeed on Cloudflare, Martin Rue says to be productive, be prepared & Paul Sawers takes TechCrunch readers inside Matrix and features its recent adoption wins.

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]]> tRPC, a bug tracker embedded in git, awesome ChatGPT prompts, half-baked cloud dev envs & Whisper.cpp changelog.com/1/1948 https://changelog.com/news/24 Mon, 12 Dec 2022 20:00:00 +0000 tRPC helps you move fast and break nothing, Michael Muré embeds a bug tracker in git, Fatih Kadir Akın curates some awesome ChatGPT prompts, Mike Nikles thinks dev environments in the cloud are a half-baked solution & Georgi Gerganov ports OpenAI's Whisper model to a lightweight, portable C/C++ program. full 07:17 false Jerod Santo tRPC helps you move fast and break nothing, Michael Muré embeds a bug tracker in git, Fatih Kadir Akın curates some awesome ChatGPT prompts, Mike Nikles thinks dev environments in the cloud are a half-baked solution & Georgi Gerganov ports OpenAI’s Whisper model to a lightweight, portable C/C++ program.

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]]> Building a VM inside ChatGPT, Advent of Code 2022, webdev Liam Neeson, Fedifinder & BDougie changelog.com/1/1945 https://changelog.com/news/23 Mon, 05 Dec 2022 21:00:00 +0000 Jonas Degrave builds a virtual machine inside ChatGPT, Advent of Code 2022 is in full swing, Mat Ryer impersonates Liam Neeson as web developer, Luca Hammer's Fedifinder project helps you join the Fediverse & we chat with Brian (BDougie) Douglas about Open Sauced at All Things Open 2022. full 28:44 false Jerod Santo Adam Stacoviak Brian Douglas Jonas Degrave builds a virtual machine inside ChatGPT, Advent of Code 2022 is in full swing, Mat Ryer impersonates Liam Neeson as web developer, Luca Hammer’s Fedifinder project helps you join the Fediverse & we chat with Brian (BDougie) Douglas about Open Sauced at All Things Open 2022.

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]]> Free Heroku EOL, Stable Diffusion 2.0, Twitter SRE explains why it stays up, Git Notes & Joel Lord changelog.com/1/1942 https://changelog.com/news/22 Mon, 28 Nov 2022 20:30:00 +0000 Heroku's free plans officially reach EOL, Swyx explains the mixed reaction to Stable Diffusion 2.0, a real Twitter SRE explains how it continues to stay up even with ~80% gone, Tyler Cipriani tells us about one of Git's coolest, most unloved features & we chat with Joel Lord about brewing beer with IoT & JavaSCript at All Things Open 2022. Oh, and help make this year's state of the "log" episode awesome by lending your voice! full 25:10 false Jerod Santo Adam Stacoviak Joel Lord Heroku’s free plans officially reach EOL, Swyx explains the mixed reaction to Stable Diffusion 2.0, a real Twitter SRE explains how it continues to stay up even with ~80% gone, Tyler Cipriani tells us about one of Git’s coolest, most unloved features & we chat with Joel Lord about brewing beer with IoT & JavaSCript at All Things Open 2022.

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]]> Kindle as a smart device, Changelog on Mastodon, GPT-3 up in your CLI, no arch better than bad arch & Mish Manners changelog.com/1/1938 https://changelog.com/news/21 Mon, 21 Nov 2022 20:00:00 +0000 Matt Healy says your next smart device is a $30 Kindle, Changelog sets up an instance as Mastodon takes off, Anurag Bhagsain puts OpenAI's GPT-3 in your CLI, Kirill Rogovoy argues that no architecture is better than bad architecture & we talk to Mish Manners at All Things Open 2022. full 20:58 false Jerod Santo Adam Stacoviak Mish Manners Matt Healy says your next smart device is a $30 Kindle, Changelog sets up an instance as Mastodon takes off, Anurag Bhagsain puts OpenAI’s GPT-3 in your CLI, Kirill Rogovoy argues that no architecture is better than bad architecture & we talk to Mish Manners at All Things Open 2022.

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]]> Tracking layoffs, tech worker demand still high, ntfy, devenv, Markdoc & Mike Bifulco changelog.com/1/1936 https://changelog.com/news/20 Mon, 14 Nov 2022 17:45:00 +0000 Roger Lee has been tracking all tech layoffs since COVID-19, Amanda Hoover says tech worker demand is still high, ntfy helps you send push notifications for free, devenv lets you share development environments without containers, Markdoc scales from personal blogs to massive documentation sites & we talk with Mike Bifulco at All Things Open 2022. full 17:19 false Jerod Santo Adam Stacoviak Mike Bifulco Roger Lee has been tracking all tech layoffs since COVID-19, Amanda Hoover says tech worker demand is still high, ntfy helps you send push notifications for free, devenv lets you share development environments without containers, Markdoc scales from personal blogs to massive documentation sites & we talk with Mike Bifulco at All Things Open 2022.

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]]> Useful Vim commands, bad first ideas, PETS config manager, Kaizen shirts for sale & infinite canvas tools changelog.com/1/1931 https://changelog.com/news/19 Mon, 07 Nov 2022 21:45:00 +0000 Colin Bartlett's 50 useful Vim commands, Jeremey Utley on why your first ideas aren't always the best, Emanuele Rocca's pets configuration management project, our Kaizen shirts are now on sale & Arun Venkatesen makes a microsite for infinite canvas tools. full 06:51 false Jerod Santo Colin Bartlett’s 50 useful Vim commands, Jeremey Utley on why your first ideas aren’t always the best, Emanuele Rocca’s pets configuration management project, our Kaizen shirts are now on sale & Arun Venkatesen makes a microsite for infinite canvas tools.

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]]> Sonic search, building software like an SRE, leaving the cloud, an HTTP crash course & breaking up with CSS-in-JS changelog.com/1/1881 https://changelog.com/news/18 Mon, 24 Oct 2022 17:55:00 +0000 Valerian Saliou's Sonic search backend, Brandon Willett on how to build software like an SRE, DHH on why they're leaving the cloud, Amos' HTTP crash course nobody asked for & Sam Magura tells why he and the Spot team are breaking up with CSS-in-JS. full 08:09 false Jerod Santo Valerian Saliou’s Sonic search backend, Brandon Willett on how to build software like an SRE, DHH on why they’re leaving the cloud, Amos’ HTTP crash course nobody asked for & Sam Magura tells why he and the Spot team are breaking up with CSS-in-JS.

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]]> Harmonai revisited, lessons learned from public salary, Open Core Ventures, Stripe is Paypal in 2010 & Helix changelog.com/1/1879 https://changelog.com/news/17 Mon, 17 Oct 2022 19:30:00 +0000 We revisit our Harmonai story from last week, Jamie Tanna reviews posting his salary history publicly, Sid Sijbrandij's new (open core) venture fund, Zed Shaw thinks Stripe is like Paypal in 2010 & Helix is a new Rust-based terminal. full 06:38 false Jerod Santo We revisit our Harmonai story from last week, Jamie Tanna reviews posting his salary history publicly, Sid Sijbrandij’s new (open core) venture fund, Zed Shaw thinks Stripe is like Paypal in 2010 & Helix is a new Rust-based terminal.

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]]> Forking SQLite, generative AI for music, saying no to sprints, awesome diagramming tools & state machine facts changelog.com/1/1871 https://changelog.com/news/16 Mon, 10 Oct 2022 18:30:00 +0000 The libSQL community is forking SQLite, StabilityAI announces Haromai and Dance Diffusion, Robin Rendle doesn't believe in sprints, Shubham Garg curates some awesome diagramming tools & Chris Pressey writes up some must-read facts about state machines. full 07:14 false Jerod Santo The libSQL community is forking SQLite, StabilityAI announces Haromai and Dance Diffusion, Robin Rendle doesn’t believe in sprints, Shubham Garg curates some awesome diagramming tools & Chris Pressey writes up some must-read facts about state machines.

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]]> Hacktoberfest is ON, DiffusionBee is 1.0, Dracula UI is out, GitX is undead, Prerender is off AWS & we'll be at ATO! changelog.com/1/1864 https://changelog.com/news/15 Mon, 03 Oct 2022 17:45:00 +0000 Digital Ocean kicks off Hacktoberfest 2022, Divam Gupta releases DiffusionBee 1.0 with "Image To Image" support, Zeno Rocha open sources Dracula UI for React, GitX gets brought back from the brink & Prerender.io engineers save a bundle by moving off AWS. Oh, and join us at All Things Open in early November! full 12:12 false Jerod Santo Digital Ocean kicks off Hacktoberfest 2022, Divam Gupta releases DiffusionBee 1.0 with “Image To Image” support, Zeno Rocha open sources Dracula UI for React, GitX gets brought back from the brink & Prerender.io engineers save a bundle by moving off AWS.

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]]> Firefox supports blockers, NATS is great, Uber's MFA fatigue, OAuth2 drawn in cute shapes & an aging programmer changelog.com/1/1859 https://changelog.com/news/14 Mon, 26 Sep 2022 15:30:00 +0000 Mozilla says Firefox will continue to support current content blockers, Nabeel Sulieman thinks NATS is great and recommends you check it out, InfoQ breaks down Uber's recent security breach, Klemen Sever explained OAuth2 by drawing cute shapes & Jorge Manrubia reflects back as an aging programmer. full 05:25 false Jerod Santo Mozilla says Firefox will continue to support current content blockers, Nabeel Sulieman thinks NATS is great and recommends you check it out, InfoQ breaks down Uber’s recent security breach, Klemen Sever explained OAuth2 by drawing cute shapes & Jorge Manrubia reflects back as an aging programmer.

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]]> Ladybird, how QR codes work, GitUI, software vs systems & Stable Diffusion ported to Tensorflow changelog.com/1/1850 https://changelog.com/news/13 Mon, 19 Sep 2022 18:45:00 +0000 Andreas Kling's new cross-platform browser project, Dan Hollick's nerdy deep-dive on QR code tech, Stephan Dilly's Rust-based terminal UI for Git, Miłosz Piechocki's opinion on junior vs senior engineers & Divam Gupta's Tensorflow port of Stable Diffusion. full 07:58 false Jerod Santo Andreas Kling’s new cross-platform browser project, Dan Hollick’s nerdy deep-dive on QR code tech, Stephan Dilly’s Rust-based terminal UI for Git, Miłosz Piechocki’s opinion on junior vs senior engineers & Divam Gupta’s Tensorflow port of Stable Diffusion.

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]]> Quality is systemic, React is a self-fulfilling prophecy, Difftastic, Devbox & the shortest URLs on the web changelog.com/1/1840 https://changelog.com/news/12 Mon, 12 Sep 2022 18:30:00 +0000 Jacob Kaplan-Moss writes up a hot take on software quality, Wilfred Hughes creates the diff tool he's always wanted, Josh Collinsworth thinks React is only great at being popular, Jetpack's Devbox project looks pretty cool & James Williams sets out to find the shortest URLs on the internet. Oh, and chapters are here! full 09:55 false Jerod Santo Jacob Kaplan-Moss writes up a hot take on software quality, Wilfred Hughes creates the diff tool he’s always wanted, Josh Collinsworth thinks React is only great at being popular, Jetpack’s Devbox project looks pretty cool & James Williams sets out to find the shortest URLs on the internet. Oh, and chapters are here!

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]]> Python's :=, email falsehoods, no more self-hosting & Leon changelog.com/1/1835 https://changelog.com/news/11 Tue, 06 Sep 2022 21:00:00 +0000 Martin Heinz thinks you should be using Python's walrus operator, you probably believe some falsehoods about email, Carlos Fenollosa threw in the towel after self-hosting his email for 23 years & Leon is an open source personal assistant that can live on your server. full 05:21 false Jerod Santo Martin Heinz thinks you should be using Python’s walrus operator, you probably believe some falsehoods about email, Carlos Fenollosa threw in the towel after self-hosting his email for 23 years & Leon is an open source personal assistant that can live on your server.

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]]> Qalculate is awesome, Restic adds compression, CS teachers coping with Copilot & Heroku's next non-free chapter changelog.com/1/1816 https://changelog.com/news/10 Mon, 29 Aug 2022 17:45:00 +0000 Qalculate has a command-line interface, Michael Eischer adds compression to Restic, Emery Berger warns his fellow CS professors about Copilot, and Heroku GM Bob Wise details Heroku's next chapter (which excludes free accounts). full 08:53 false Jerod Santo Qalculate has a command-line interface, Michael Eischer adds compression to Restic, Emery Berger warns his fellow CS professors about Copilot, and Heroku GM Bob Wise details Heroku’s next chapter (which excludes free accounts).

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]]> SSH tips and tricks, retro Apple UIs, iOS Privacy and TikTok, Marta & Tauri vs Electron changelog.com/1/1813 https://changelog.com/news/9 Mon, 22 Aug 2022 20:00:00 +0000 Carlos Alexandro Becker shared some SSH tips, Sakun Acharige (a Comp Sci student + visual design enthusiast) created System.css, Felix Krause built a browser app that shows the JavaScript commands being executed by iOS app in-app browers, Yan Zhulanow decided to create Marta, and Lőrik Levente did a comparrison between Tauri & Electron using a real world application he’s building called Authme. full 06:11 false Adam Stacoviak Carlos Alexandro Becker shared some SSH tips, Sakun Acharige (a Comp Sci student + visual design enthusiast) created System.css, Felix Krause built a browser app that shows the JavaScript commands being executed by iOS app in-app browers, Yan Zhulanow decided to create Marta, and Lőrik Levente did a comparrison between Tauri & Electron using a real world application he’s building called Authme.

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]]> Stand-up advice, Redis explained, big changes for Deno, DevDash & Minimum Viable Python changelog.com/1/1805 https://changelog.com/news/8 Mon, 15 Aug 2022 17:40:00 +0000 Lucas F. Costa on why your daily stand-ups don't work and host to fix them, Mahdi Yusuf deeply explains Redis, the Deno team announces some big changes coming, DevDash is a highly configurable terminal dashboard for developers and creators & Brett Cannon determines what is a Minimum Viable Python (MVPy). full 05:57 false Jerod Santo Lucas F. Costa on why your daily stand-ups don’t work and host to fix them, Mahdi Yusuf deeply explains Redis, the Deno team announces some big changes coming, DevDash is a highly configurable terminal dashboard for developers and creators & Brett Cannon determines what is a Minimum Viable Python (MVPy).

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]]> Chapters, PiBox, using one big server, oncall compensation, being swamped is normal, Tabler & Gum changelog.com/1/1797 https://changelog.com/news/7 Mon, 08 Aug 2022 17:50:00 +0000 We add episode chapters to the website, KubeSail sells a PiBox, Nima Badizadegan wants you to use one big server, Gergeloy Orosz details oncall compensation across the software industry, Greg Kogan isn't impressed with how swamped you are at work, a dashboard template built on Bootstrap & Charm releases a CLI tool for shell scripts. full 08:02 false Jerod Santo We add episode chapters to the website, KubeSail sells a PiBox, Nima Badizadegan wants you to use one big server, Gergeloy Orosz details oncall compensation across the software industry, Greg Kogan isn’t impressed with how swamped you are at work, a dashboard template built on Bootstrap & Charm releases a CLI tool for shell scripts.

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]]> OkSo, Markdown generator speeds, Egr Mgr framework, Crockford says retire JS & messy code not required changelog.com/1/1791 https://changelog.com/news/6 Mon, 01 Aug 2022 19:45:00 +0000 Oleksii Trekhleb has a new drawing app, Zach Leatherman did some markdown generator speed tests, Jorge Fioranelli built a framework for Engineering Managers, Crockford got interviewed on Evrone & Daniel Sieger wrote up his clean coding advice. full 06:51 false Jerod Santo Oleksii Trekhleb has a new drawing app, Zach Leatherman did some markdown generator speed tests, Jorge Fioranelli built a framework for Engineering Managers, Crockford got interviewed on Evrone & Daniel Sieger wrote up his clean coding advice.

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]]> Soft deletion, obscure data structures, driving away your best engineers, a blog platform for hackers & moar RSS changelog.com/1/1755 https://changelog.com/news/5 Mon, 25 Jul 2022 18:25:00 +0000 Brandur thinks soft deletion probably isn't worth it, the orange website delivers a high quality discussion on data structures, Podge O'Brien drops satirical management advice, team pico delivers prose.sh, Mat Ryer shares his thoughts on estimations & Matt Rickard's thoughts on RSS have us thinking about it as well. full 06:30 false Jerod Santo Brandur thinks soft deletion probably isn’t worth it, the orange website delivers a high quality discussion on data structures, Podge O’Brien drops satirical management advice, team pico delivers prose.sh, Mat Ryer shares his thoughts on estimations & Matt Rickard’s thoughts on RSS have us thinking about it as well.

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]]> Spicy designs, more open source opinions, privacy-focused services, the real cost of context switching & jqq changelog.com/1/1717 https://changelog.com/news/4 Mon, 18 Jul 2022 16:30:00 +0000 Anthony Hobday has 37 ways to spice up your designs, James Bennett has opinions on open source and PyPi security, Alicia Sykes compiled some awesome security/privacy options, ContextKeeper layouts out the real price of context switching, and Nick Nisi tells us all about jqq. Bam! Bam! Bam! full 07:07 false Jerod Santo Anthony Hobday has 37 ways to spice up your designs, James Bennett has opinions on open source and PyPi security, Alicia Sykes compiled some awesome security/privacy options, ContextKeeper layouts out the real price of context switching, and Nick Nisi tells us all about jqq. Bam! Bam! Bam!

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]]> Bun, K8s is a red flag, "critical" open source packages, Rustlings & FP jargon in simple terms changelog.com/1/1711 https://changelog.com/news/3 Mon, 11 Jul 2022 18:30:00 +0000 Jarred Sumner's Bun comes out of the oven, Jeremy Brown doesn't want you prematurely optimizing, Armin Ronacher's not excited about his "critical" Python package, Daniel Thompson from Tauri thinks you should check out Rustlings, and we draw a straight line between Functional Programming jargon and boujee Gen Z slang. full 06:27 false Jerod Santo Jarred Sumner’s Bun comes out of the oven, Jeremy Brown doesn’t want you prematurely optimizing, Armin Ronacher’s not excited about his “critical” Python package, Daniel Thompson from Tauri thinks you should check out Rustlings, and we draw a straight line between Functional Programming jargon and boujee Gen Z slang.

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]]> DevTool platform types, things to know about databases, starting with commas, Lobsters turns 10 & Upptime changelog.com/1/1709 https://changelog.com/news/2 Tue, 05 Jul 2022 20:00:00 +0000 We're listening! This week's experimental, super-brief Monday edition of "The Changelog" has the following new features: It's longer, there's no background music during the stories, and it includes stories previously not featured in the newsletter. If you like this better than the last one, would listen to it, and want us to keep it going... let us know in the comments or by tweeting @changelog! full 08:03 false Jerod Santo We’re listening! This week’s experimental, super-brief Monday edition of “The Changelog” has the following new features: It’s longer, there’s no background music during the stories, and it includes stories previously not featured in the newsletter.

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]]> Markwhen, Tauri 1.0, SLCs & imposters changelog.com/1/1693 https://changelog.com/news/1 Mon, 27 Jun 2022 17:30:00 +0000 We're experimenting with something new: a super-brief Monday edition of "The Changelog" to help start your week off right and keep you up with the fast-moving software world. If you like this, would listen to it, and want us to keep it going... let us know in the comments or by tweeting @changelog. If you'd rather we didn't... also let us know! full 04:19 false Jerod Santo We’re experimenting with something new: a super-brief Monday edition of “The Changelog” to help start your week off right and keep you up with the fast-moving software world.

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