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May 13 · 2 hr 26 min
Automation at the speed of Swamp
This week I’m talking with Adam Jacob, founder of System Initiative and creator of Swamp, about what happens when AI agents change the entire shape of software development. We discuss how he went from an 18-person team down to five and shipped Swamp 900 times in four weeks, why he brought User Acceptance Testing (UAT) testing back from the 90s, why software architecture (and domain-driven design) suddenly matters more than knowing how to write code, the live demo where I pointed Swamp at my Proxmox box and watched it write its own automation (blew my mind!!), and why he’ll never accept a pull request to Swamp, ever. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 9 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Coder.com – Secure environments where devs and agents work in parallel. Open by design. Secure by default. Tailscale – Adam loves Tailscale! Easy, secure, identity-based access to anything. Tailscale deploys quickly and enables Zero Trust access to any resource on your network. From CI/CD runners across multi-cloud environments, to SaaS tools and infrastructure, Tailscale connects it all, seamlessly. RWX – CI/CD platform for high velocity teams. When agents help developers write code in minutes, validation becomes your bottleneck. RWX gives agents programmatic control, sub-second cached builds, and semantic outputs they can act on. No commit required. Just iterate until CI passes, then push. Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps close to your users — global Anycast load-balancing, zero-configuration private networking, hardware isolation, and instant WireGuard VPN connections. Push-button deployments that scale to thousands of instances. Check out the speedrun to get started in minutes. Featuring: Adam Jacob – Website, GitHub, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: Featured Swamp Club Swamp manual Swamp extensions Swamp leaderboard Swamp on GitHub Swamp extensions on GitHub System Initiative System Initiative on GitHub AI coding tools Claude Code Claude Code docs OpenAI Codex CLI Codex on GitHub Infrastructure and automation Chef Infra Proxmox VE QEMU Grafana Honeycomb Better Auth TypeScript Talos Linux Ubiquiti DigitalOcean Hetzner Cloud Amazon S3 Incus Kubernetes Developer platforms and companies GitHub GitLab Block Related Changelog episodes Rebuilding DevOps from the ground up From Chef to System Initiative From Chef to System Initiative (remastered) The war for the soul of open source OSCON Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
March 2 · 1 hr 46 min
Finale & Friends
Adam and Jerod get into the news, Jerod officially retires from the pod (and Changelog), plus a bonus for our Changelog++ subs! Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 16 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today! Sponsors: Augment Code – Adam loves “Auggie” – Augment Code’s CLI that brings Augment’s context engine and powerful AI reasoning anywhere your code goes. From building alongside you in the terminal to any part of your development workflow. Squarespace – Turn your expertise into a business with the all-in-one platform for websites, services, and getting paid. Use code CHANGELOG to save 10% on your first website purchase. Notion – Custom Agents that automate the busywork so your team can focus on real work. Try them free at notion.com/changelog Featuring: Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI - Ladybird The JavaScript Oxidation Compiler Become an Oxc Sponsor | The JavaScript Oxidation Compiler Boshen (@boshen_c) / X Am I the only one who genuinely prefers on-prem? : r/devops The Software Development Lifecycle Is Dead | Boris Tane THE 2028 GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE CRISIS Anish Acharya on X: “a different way this could go down…” The Mythical Agent-Month – Wes McKinney NanoClaw - Secure AI Agent for WhatsApp, Telegram & More Zed — Agent Client Protocol Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
February 13 · 2 hr
Han shot first
Our ol’ friend, Brett Cannon, is back to talk all things Python. But first! Star Wars, Machete Order, Lost, Babylon 5, Game of Thrones, Murderbot, Ted Lasso, Project Hail Mary, David Attenborough, perpetual voice rights, and the AI uncanny valley. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 4 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Namespace – Speed up your development and testing workflows using your existing tools. (Much) faster GitHub actions, Docker builds, and more. At an unbeatable price. Tiger Data – Postgres for Developers, devices, and agents The data platform trusted by hundreds of thousands from IoT to Web3 to AI and more. Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps close to your users — global Anycast load-balancing, zero-configuration private networking, hardware isolation, and instant WireGuard VPN connections. Push-button deployments that scale to thousands of instances. Check out the speedrun to get started in minutes. Featuring: Brett Cannon – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, Mastodon Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: What is the Star Wars Machete Order? Pep 665 (lock file format) python-build-standalone Astral: high-performance Python tooling Pypi: Page Not Found Incus documentation Python/prebuilt-cpython Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
February 6 · 1 hr 43 min
It's a renaissance woman's world
Amal Hussein returns to tell us all about her new role at Istari, what life is like outside the web browser, how she’s helping ambitious orgs in aerospace, what the SDLC looks like in 2026, and a whole lot more. Wait, moon vacuums?! Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 21 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today! Sponsors: Tiger Data – Postgres for Developers, devices, and agents The data platform trusted by hundreds of thousands from IoT to Web3 to AI and more. Namespace – Speed up your development and testing workflows using your existing tools. (Much) faster GitHub actions, Docker builds, and more. At an unbeatable price. NordLayer – Toggle-ready network security for modern businesses. Get an exclusive offer: up to 22% off NordLayer yearly plans plus 10% on top with the coupon code changelog-10-NORDLAYER. Try it risk-free with a 14-day money-back guarantee at nordlayer.com/thechangelog Featuring: Amal Hussein – GitHub, X Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: Istari: level the digital playing field AWS Re:invent keynote Blue Origin Frictionless book Jevons paradox Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
January 30 · 1 hr 13 min
Natural born SaaS killers
We discuss the buzz around Clawdbot / MoltBot / OpenClaw, how app subscriptions are turning into weekend hacking projects, why SaaS stocks are crashing on Wall Street, and what it all means. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 5 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Tiger Data – Postgres for Developers, devices, and agents The data platform trusted by hundreds of thousands from IoT to Web3 to AI and more. Namespace – Speed up your development and testing workflows using your existing tools. (Much) faster GitHub actions, Docker builds, and more. At an unbeatable price. Squarespace – A website makes it real! Use code CHANGELOG to save 10% on your first website purchase. Featuring: Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: OpenClaw — personal AI assistant Mintlify Macrumors Buyer’s Guide: Mac Mini Your app subscription is now my weekend project The future of software engineering is SRE Why SaaS stocks are crashing on Wall Street Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
January 24 · 2 hr 2 min
The state of homelab tech (2026)
Techno Tim joins Adam to dive deep into the state of homelab’ing in 2026. Hardware is scarce and expensive due to the AI gold rush, but software has never been better. From unleashing Claude on your UDM Pro to building custom Proxmox CLIs, they explores how AI is transforming what’s possible in the homelab. Tim declares 2026 the “Year of Self-Hosted Software” while Adam reveals his homelab’s secret weapons: DNSHole (a Pi-hole replacement written in Rust) and PXM (a Proxmox automation CLI). Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 8 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Depot – 10x faster builds? Yes please. Build faster. Waste less time. Accelerate Docker image builds, and GitHub Actions workflows. Easily integrate with your existing CI provider and dev workflows to save hours of build time. Tiger Data – Postgres for Developers, devices, and agents The data platform trusted by hundreds of thousands from IoT to Web3 to AI and more. Notion – Notion is a place where any team can write, plan, organize, and rediscover the joy of play. It’s a workspace designed not just for making progress, but getting inspired. Notion is for everyone — whether you’re a Fortune 500 company or freelance designer, starting a new startup or a student juggling classes and clubs. Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps close to your users — global Anycast load-balancing, zero-configuration private networking, hardware isolation, and instant WireGuard VPN connections. Push-button deployments that scale to thousands of instances. Check out the speedrun to get started in minutes. Featuring: Techno Tim – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: People Techno Tim - Tim Stewart’s website, YouTube channel, and documentation hub Crosstalk Solutions - Chris’s channel, mentioned for building custom Ubiquiti API tools Virtualization & Infrastructure Proxmox VE - Open-source virtualization platform for VMs and containers TrueNAS - Enterprise-grade open-source storage operating system built on ZFS HexOS - Consumer-friendly NAS OS built on TrueNAS (in development) Proxmox VE Helper Scripts - Community-maintained scripts for easy LXC and VM deployment Self-Hosted Software Paperless-NGX - Self-hosted document management system with OCR Paperless-GPT - AI-powered enhancement for Paperless-NGX using LLMs Ollama - Run large language models locally on your own hardware Open WebUI - Self-hosted web interface for interacting with local LLMs Plex - Media server for organizing and streaming your personal media library Home Assistant - Open-source home automation platform Pi-hole - Network-wide ad blocking via DNS filtering Document Intelligence & RAG Dockling - IBM’s open-source document parsing library for AI/RAG pipelines PaddleOCR - Multi-language OCR toolkit for document recognition AI & Agents Claude - Anthropic’s AI assistant, used for homelab automation in this episode OpenCode - Open-source AI coding agent (mentioned as potential homelab tool) Model Context Protocol (MCP) - Protocol for connecting AI models to external tools and data Networking Ubiquiti - Enterprise networking gear popular with homelabbers (UDM Pro, UniFi) Tailscale - Zero-config VPN for secure networking between devices Container & Orchestration Docker - Container platform for packaging and running applications Kubernetes - Container orchestration for managing containerized workloads Fly.io - Platform for running containers close to users globally Monitoring & Observability Grafana - Open-source analytics and visualization platform Prometheus - Open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit Security & Authentication Bitwarden - Open-source password manager (self-hostable) Authelia - Open-source authentication and authorization server Databases MariaDB - Community-developed fork of MySQL Redis - In-memory data store for caching and messaging PostgreSQL - Advanced open-source relational database Hardware Mentioned Intel Optane - Ultra-low latency storage drives (discontinued but prized for ZFS special vdevs) NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 - GPU used for Plex transcoding and local AI inference Concepts & Techniques ZFS Special Vdevs - ZFS feature for accelerating metadata and small file operations PCIe Bifurcation - Splitting a PCIe slot to support multiple NVMe drives Medallion Architecture - Bronze/Silver/Gold data lake pattern discussed for document ETL Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
January 17 · 1 hr 41 min
Kaizen! Let it crash
Gerhard is back for Kaizen 22! We’re diving deep into those pesky out-of-memory errors, analyzing our new Pipedream instance status checker, and trying to figure out why someone in Asia downloads a single episode so much. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 6 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Namespace – Speed up your development and testing workflows using your existing tools. (Much) faster GitHub actions, Docker builds, and more. At an unbeatable price. Depot – 10x faster builds? Yes please. Build faster. Waste less time. Accelerate Docker image builds, and GitHub Actions workflows. Easily integrate with your existing CI provider and dev workflows to save hours of build time. Squarespace – A website makes it real! Use code CHANGELOG to save 10% on your first website purchase. Featuring: Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: Kaizen 22 discussion #554 Tw93/mole: 🐹 deep clean and optimize your mac. Stuff Goes Bad: Erlang in Anger Abacus.ai - the world’s first super assistant for professionals and enterprises Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
January 14 · 1 hr 41 min
The GitHub problem (and other predictions)
Mat Ryer is back and he brought his impromptu musical abilities with him! We discuss Rob Pike vs thankful AI, Microsoft’s GitHub monopoly (and what it means for open source), and Tom Tunguz’ 12 predictions for 2026: agent-first design, the rise of vector databases, and are we about to pay more for AI than people?! Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 3 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today! Sponsors: Namespace – Speed up your development and testing workflows using your existing tools. (Much) faster GitHub actions, Docker builds, and more. At an unbeatable price. Notion – Notion is a place where any team can write, plan, organize, and rediscover the joy of play. It’s a workspace designed not just for making progress, but getting inspired. Notion is for everyone — whether you’re a Fortune 500 company or freelance designer, starting a new startup or a student juggling classes and clubs. Squarespace – A website makes it real! Use code CHANGELOG to save 10% on your first website purchase. Featuring: Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: How Rob Pike got spammed with an AI slop “act of kindness” How GitHub monopoly is destroying the open source ecosystem 12 predictions for 2026 Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Dec 19, 2025 · 1 hr 42 min
State of the "log" 2025
Our 8th annual year-end wrap-up is here! We’re featuring 8 listener voicemails, dope Breakmaster Cylinder remixes & our favorite episodes of the year. Thanks for listening! 💚 Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 8 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Depot – 10x faster builds? Yes please. Build faster. Waste less time. Accelerate Docker image builds, and GitHub Actions workflows. Easily integrate with your existing CI provider and dev workflows to save hours of build time. Augment Code – Adam loves “Auggie” – Augment Code’s CLI that brings Augment’s context engine and powerful AI reasoning anywhere your code goes. From building alongside you in the terminal to any part of your development workflow. Framer – Design and publish in one place. Get started free at framer.com/design, code CHANGELOG for a free month of Pro. Rules and restrictions may apply. Featuring: Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: Andrew Patton’s favs: It’s a peccadillo circus (Friends #75) Hello, Matworld! (Friends #90) Kaizen! Pipely is LIVE (Friends #105) The 1000x faster financial database (Interviews #635) Adventures in babysitting coding agents (Friends #96) Agentic infra changes everything (Interviews #664) Changelog Beats by Breakmaster Cylinder Vibing into the vibe (Friends #89) Try harder. Ultrathink! (Friends #102) Very important agents (Friends #120) Brett Cannon’s favs: The power of the button (Interviews #623) The 1000x faster financial database (Interviews #635) Build software that lasts! (Interviews #627) wsl.exe – cat hello.cs (Friends #95) Don MacKinnon’s favs: Turso is rewriting SQLite in Rust (Interviews #626) Fernando Bevilacqua’s favs: Flowing with agents (Interviews #658) Reaching industrial economies of scale (Interviews #632) Solving the AI energy crisis (Interviews #652) Jamie Tanna’s favs: npm under siege (what to do about it) (Friends #111) There will be bleeps (Friends #113) The world of open source metadata (Interviews #665) Of agents & agency (Friends #86) Over the top auth strategies (Friends #78) It’s a peccadillo circus (Friends #75) Hello, Matworld! (Friends #90) Change my mind (Friends #81) DO repeat yourself! (Interviews #666) Programming with LLMs (Interviews #629) Vibing into the vibe (Friends #89) Try harder. Ultrathink! (Friends #102) Very important agents (Friends #120) Agentic infra changes everything (Interviews #664) Adventures in babysitting coding agents (Friends #96) Agent, take the wheel (Interviews #648) Jarvis Yang’s favs: changelog.news Minnebar 20 Nabeel Sulieman’s favs: Kaizen! Pipely is LIVE (Friends #105) Jerod’s favs: From open source to acquired (Interviews #625) Discovering discovery coding(Friends #80) #define: I’m going pants (Friends #93) LIVE from Denver with Nora Jones! (Interviews #653) Inside Oxide (Friends #110) Autonomous drone delivery in a Zip (Interviews #670) Adam’s favs: Turn him into a walrus (Friends #87) Adventures in babysitting coding agents (Friends #96) Chasing that next BIG thing (Interviews #639) Inside Oxide (Friends #110) Reinventing Python tooling (Interviews #660) Werner Vogels predicts the future (Interviews #669) LIVE from Denver with Nora Jones! (Interviews #653) The state of homelab tech (2025) (Friends #79) Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Dec 12, 2025 · 1 hr 45 min
Down the Linux rabbit hole
Alex Kretzschmar joins Adam for a trip down the Linux rabbit hole – Docker vs Podman, building a Kubernetes cluster, ZFS backups with zfs.rent, bootc, favorite Linux distros, new homelab tools built with AI, self-hosting Immich, content creation, Plex and Jellyfin, the future of piracy and more. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 10 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Tiger Data – Postgres for Developers, devices, and agents The data platform trusted by hundreds of thousands from IoT to Web3 to AI and more. Depot – 10x faster builds? Yes please. Build faster. Waste less time. Accelerate Docker image builds, and GitHub Actions workflows. Easily integrate with your existing CI provider and dev workflows to save hours of build time. Augment Code – Adam loves “Auggie” – Augment Code’s CLI that brings Augment’s context engine and powerful AI reasoning anywhere your code goes. From building alongside you in the terminal to any part of your development workflow. Framer – Design and publish in one place. Get started free at framer.com/design, code CHANGELOG for a free month of Pro. Featuring: Alex Kretzschmar – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: Tailscale YouTube Docker Podman Kubernetes zfs.rent bootc Immich Plex Jellyfin Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Dec 5, 2025 · 1 hr 38 min
Very important agents
Nick Nisi joins us to dig into the latest trends from this year and how they’re impacting his day-to-day coding and Vision Pro wearing. Anthropic’s acquisition of Bun, the evolving JavaScript and AI landscape, GitHub’s challenges and the Amp/Sourcegraph split. We dive into AI development practices, context management, voice assistants, Home Assistant OS and home automation, the state of the AI browser war, and we close with a prediction from Nick. Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 10 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today! Sponsors: Tiger Data – Postgres for Developers, devices, and agents The data platform trusted by hundreds of thousands from IoT to Web3 to AI and more. Namespace – Speed up your development and testing workflows using your existing tools. (Much) faster GitHub actions, Docker builds, and more. At an unbeatable price. Notion – Notion is a place where any team can write, plan, organize, and rediscover the joy of play. It’s a workspace designed not just for making progress, but getting inspired. Notion is for everyone — whether you’re a Fortune 500 company or freelance designer, starting a new startup or a student juggling classes and clubs. NordLayer – Protect your business with NordLayer, the toggle-ready network security platform built for modern teams. VPN, access control, and threat protection—no hardware or complex setup required. Get 28% off NordLayer yearly plans this Black Friday with code changelog-28 at nordlayer.com/thechangelog Featuring: Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Bluesky, Mastodon, X Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: Apple Vision Pro upgraded with M5 chip and Dual Knit Band Bun is joining Anthropic Anthropic acquires Bun as Claude Code reaches $1B milestone Amp, Inc. The Browser Company explains why it stopped developing Arc Letter to Arc members 2025 The Browser Company launches Dia in beta Home Assistant 2025.12: Triggering the holidays Home Assistant Green Migrating from GitHub to Codeberg Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Nov 28, 2025 · 1 hr 50 min
The 4 DIMM problem
Our old friend Lars Wikman returns to the show to discuss Linux distro hopping, Elixir, Nerves, embedded systems, home automation with Home Assistant, karate, and more. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 8 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Tiger Data – Postgres for Developers, devices, and agents The data platform trusted by hundreds of thousands from IoT to Web3 to AI and more. Augment Code – Developer AI that uses deep understanding of your large codebase and how you build software to deliver personalized code suggestions and insights. Augment provides relevant, contextualized code right in your IDE or Slack. It transforms scattered knowledge into code or answers, eliminating time spent searching docs or interrupting teammates. Depot – 10x faster builds? Yes please. Build faster. Waste less time. Accelerate Docker image builds, and GitHub Actions workflows. Easily integrate with your existing CI provider and dev workflows to save hours of build time. Framer – Design and publish in one place. Get started free at framer.com/design, code CHANGELOG for a free month of Pro. Featuring: Lars Wikman – Website, GitHub, X Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: Nerves project ZimaBoard Home Assistant n8n Beam Radio Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Nov 21, 2025 · 1 hr 41 min
NOT a swarm!
Practical AI co-host, Chris Benson, joins us to discuss the latest advancements in AI, drones, home automation, and robotic swarming tech. Chris defines “swarm” with detail/precision and it turns out that what most people are calling a swarm today is NOT a swarm! Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 8 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Tiger Data – Postgres for Developers, devices, and agents The data platform trusted by hundreds of thousands from IoT to Web3 to AI and more. Namespace – Speed up your development and testing workflows using your existing tools. (Much) faster GitHub actions, Docker builds, and more. At an unbeatable price. Augment Code – Developer AI that uses deep understanding of your large codebase and how you build software to deliver personalized code suggestions and insights. Augment provides relevant, contextualized code right in your IDE or Slack. It transforms scattered knowledge into code or answers, eliminating time spent searching docs or interrupting teammates. NordLayer – Protect your business with NordLayer, the toggle-ready network security platform built for modern teams. VPN, access control, and threat protection—no hardware or complex setup required. Get 28% off NordLayer yearly plans this Black Friday with code changelog-28 at nordlayer.com/thechangelog Featuring: Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: Practical AI Jeff Bezos takes Co-CEO role at Project Prometheus I Tried the First Humanoid Home Robot. It Got Weird. IKEA launches new smart home range with 21 Matter-compatible products Swarm Robotics – Wikipedia Swarm Robotic Platforms – Wikipedia Swarm Intelligence – Wikipedia Ant Robotics – Wikipedia The Matter specifications Home Assistant – Open Source Home Automation The Besieged Fortress (2006) Programming Multiple Robots with ROS 2 ROS 2 Multi-Robot Simulation Best Practices Hugging Face AI Agents Course Embassy – Embedded async framework for Rust Tokio – Asynchronous Runtime for Rust Beginner’s Guide to Self-Hosting Your Own AI Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Nov 14, 2025 · 1 hr 44 min
Retreat to attack
Do you like director’s commentaries and extended cuts? This episode is like that, but for this week’s News. We go deep on the alive internet theory, Meshtastic mesh networks, Zstandard compression, the FDE job explosion, React’s seemingly perpetual dominance, and more. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 8 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Tiger Data – Postgres for Developers, devices, and agents The data platform trusted by hundreds of thousands from IoT to Web3 to AI and more. Depot – 10x faster builds? Yes please. Build faster. Waste less time. Accelerate Docker image builds, and GitHub Actions workflows. Easily integrate with your existing CI provider and dev workflows to save hours of build time. Augment Code – Developer AI that uses deep understanding of your large codebase and how you build software to deliver personalized code suggestions and insights. Augment provides relevant, contextualized code right in your IDE or Slack. It transforms scattered knowledge into code or answers, eliminating time spent searching docs or interrupting teammates. NordLayer – Protect your business with NordLayer, the toggle-ready network security platform built for modern teams. VPN, access control, and threat protection—no hardware or complex setup required. Get 28% off NordLayer yearly plans this Black Friday with code changelog-28 at nordlayer.com/thechangelog Featuring: Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: Changelog News #169 Alive internet theory The Winamp era Meshtastic Zstandard FDE exploding with 800% more postings Dead framework theory You should write an agent Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Nov 7, 2025 · 1 hr 42 min
#define: sheer resistance
On this seventh iteration of our award-worthy game show filled with obscure jargon, fake definitions, and expert tomfoolery: past winners battle to determine the champion of champions. (Also, Adam.) Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 6 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Tiger Data – Postgres for Developers, devices, and agents The data platform trusted by hundreds of thousands from IoT to Web3 to AI and more. Augment Code – Developer AI that uses deep understanding of your large codebase and how you build software to deliver personalized code suggestions and insights. Augment provides relevant, contextualized code right in your IDE or Slack. It transforms scattered knowledge into code or answers, eliminating time spent searching docs or interrupting teammates. Outshift by Cisco – The open source collective building the Internet of Agents. Backed by Outshift by Cisco, AGNTCY gives developers the tools to build and deploy multi-agent software at scale. Identity, communication protocols, and modular workflows—all in one global collaboration layer. Start building at AGNTCY.org. Miro – The innovation workspace for the age of AI. Built for modern teams, Miro helps you turn unstructured ideas into structured outcomes—fast. Diagramming, product design, and AI-powered collaboration, all in one shared space. Start building at miro.com Featuring: Taylor Troesh – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn Thomas Eckert – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X Matthew Sanabria – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X E. David Aja – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, Mastodon, X Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: Moar game shows! Chorus Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Oct 31, 2025 · 1 hr 18 min
We see dead projects
It’s a FRIGHT…when your record a podcast with dead projects all around. Tech debt, poor choices, timing, market shift, and optimizing for the wrong things are all lurking around waiting to pop out at you! Just don’t forget to push record. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 6 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Namespace – Speed up your development and testing workflows using your existing tools. (Much) faster GitHub actions, Docker builds, and more. At an unbeatable price. Tiger Data – Postgres for Developers, devices, and agents The data platform trusted by hundreds of thousands from IoT to Web3 to AI and more. Notion – Notion is a place where any team can write, plan, organize, and rediscover the joy of play. It’s a workspace designed not just for making progress, but getting inspired. Notion is for everyone — whether you’re a Fortune 500 company or freelance designer, starting a new startup or a student juggling classes and clubs. Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps close to your users — global Anycast load-balancing, zero-configuration private networking, hardware isolation, and instant WireGuard VPN connections. Push-button deployments that scale to thousands of instances. Check out the speedrun to get started in minutes. Featuring: Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: Sass Ampcode Meteor Quicksilver (QSApp) Raycast RethinkDB FaunaDB Asciinema Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Oct 24, 2025 · 1 hr 47 min
Kaizen! Mop-up job
It’s our first Kaizen after the big Pipely launch in Denver and we have some serious mopping to do. Along the way, we brainstorm the next get-together, check out our new cache hit/miss ratio, give Pipely a deep speed test, discuss open video standards, and more! Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 5 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Augment Code – Developer AI that uses deep understanding of your large codebase and how you build software to deliver personalized code suggestions and insights. Augment provides relevant, contextualized code right in your IDE or Slack. It transforms scattered knowledge into code or answers, eliminating time spent searching docs or interrupting teammates. Outshift by Cisco – The open source collective building the Internet of Agents. Backed by Outshift by Cisco, AGNTCY gives developers the tools to build and deploy multi-agent software at scale. Identity, communication protocols, and modular workflows—all in one global collaboration layer. Start building at AGNTCY.org. Featuring: Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: Pipely Loophole labs A homelab network FASTER than an NVMe Launching Pipely live on stage in Denver Clickhouse Make it Work Club Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Oct 17, 2025 · 1 hr 41 min
There will be bleeps
Mike McQuaid and Justin Searls join Jerod in the wake of the RubyGems debacle to discuss what happened, what it says about money in open source, what sustainability really means for our community, making a career out of open source (or not), and more. Bleep! Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 2 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today! Sponsors: CodeRabbit – AI-native code reviews, built for the modern dev stack. — CodeRabbit is your always-on code reviewer—flagging hallucinations, surfacing smells, and enforcing standards, all without leaving your IDE or GitHub PRs. Trusted by top teams to ship better code, faster. Start free at CodeRabbit.ai Outshift by Cisco – The open source collective building the Internet of Agents. Backed by Outshift by Cisco, AGNTCY gives developers the tools to build and deploy multi-agent software at scale. Identity, communication protocols, and modular workflows—all in one global collaboration layer. Start building at AGNTCY.org. Featuring: Mike McQuaid – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Justin Searls – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: Breaking Change podcast Rubygems.org AWS Root Access Event Ruby Central’s “security measures” leave front door wide open nayafia/lemonade-stand The transition of rubygems repository ownership Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Oct 10, 2025 · 1 hr 29 min
A new direction for AI developer tooling
Elixir creator, José Valim, is throwing his hat into the coding agent ring with Tidewave –a coding agent for full-stack web development. Tidewave runs in the browser alongside your app, but it’s also deeply integrated into Rails and Phoenix. On this episode, José tells us all about it. Also: his agent flow, YOLO mode, an MCP hot take, and more. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 6 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Depot – 10x faster builds? Yes please. Build faster. Waste less time. Accelerate Docker image builds, and GitHub Actions workflows. Easily integrate with your existing CI provider and dev workflows to save hours of build time. Fabi.ai – The all-in-one data analysis platform for modern teams. From ad hoc queries to advanced analytics, Fabi lets you explore data wherever it lives—spreadsheets, Postgres, Snowflake, Airtable and more. Built-in Python and AI assistance help you move fast, then publish interactive dashboards or automate insights delivered straight to Slack, email, spreadsheets or wherever you need to share it. Learn more and get started for free at fabi.ai Miro – The innovation workspace for the age of AI. Built for modern teams, Miro helps you turn unstructured ideas into structured outcomes—fast. Diagramming, product design, and AI-powered collaboration, all in one shared space. Start building at miro.com Featuring: José Valim – Website, GitHub, X Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: Tidewave Agent Client Protocol Model Context Protocol Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Oct 3, 2025 · 1 hr 35 min
npm under siege (what to do about it)
Over the past two months, we’ve seen some of the most serious supply chain attacks in npm history: phishing campaigns, maintainer account takeovers, and malware published to packages with billions of weekly downloads. What is going on?! What can we do about it? Our old friend, Feross Aboukhadijeh, joins us to help make sense of it all. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 2 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Depot – 10x faster builds? Yes please. Build faster. Waste less time. Accelerate Docker image builds, and GitHub Actions workflows. Easily integrate with your existing CI provider and dev workflows to save hours of build time. Featuring: Feross Aboukhadijeh – Website, GitHub, X Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: Active supply chain attack: npm phishing campaign Npm phishing email targets developers with typosquat Nx npm packages compromised in supply chain attack Introducing socket firewall Changelog News Classifieds Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!