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Conversations with the hackers, leaders, and innovators of the software world. Adam Stacoviak brings you in-depth interviews with the best and brightest in software engineering, open source & leadership. This is a polyglot podcast. All programming languages, platforms & communities are welcome.

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July 21 · 2 hr 6 min
Canary tokens and digital tripwires
Haroon Meer is back! Haroon is the Founder of Thinkst, the ~50-person bootstrapped company behind Canary and Canarytokens — honeypots and tripwires you sprinkle inside your network and forget about until an attacker touches one. We talk about the AWS API key token attackers just can’t resist trying, the real credit card token backed by an actual bank partnership, Breadcrumbs (their brand-new feature that leads intruders straight to your canaries), a live demo where a hardware Canary becomes a Synology NAS in one click, and how a company with zero outbound sales and no price increase in ten years quietly passed $22.5 million in ARR. Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 4 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today! Sponsors: Buildkite – You deserve better CI. Buildkite is engineered for frontier scale and trusted by the teams setting the pace. WorkOS – Auth for CLI with AuthKit from WorkOS — Bring secure browser-based login to your terminal apps using the OAuth Device Flow, with the same polished AuthKit experience plus SSO, MFA, and passkeys. Learn more at WorkOS.com and AuthKit.com Featuring: Haroon Meer – Website, LinkedIn, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: Thinkst Thinkst Canary Thinkst Canary Security Canary Tokens Canary Tokens Docs Canary Tokens on GitHub OpenCanary on GitHub OpenCanary Docs TechCrunch: A decade in, bootstrapped Thinkst Canary reaches $20M in ARR without VC funding Grafana Labs: Canary Tokens, the unsung heroes of security Canary Love Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
June 5 · 1 hr 46 min
From open source hits to OpenAI
This week I’m talking with Max Stoiber, currently working on ChatGPT’s plugin directory and app platform at OpenAI. We discuss the hundreds of open source projects nobody remembers alongside the big ones like react-boilerplate and styled-components, how Spectrum became part of GitHub and eventually helped shape GitHub Discussions, the founder growth that came from building Stellate, the GraphQL cache that turned into a dual acquisition by Shopify and The Guild, and why ChatGPT apps feel like a new surface for software. 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. WorkOS – Auth for CLI with AuthKit from WorkOS — Bring secure browser-based login to your terminal apps using the OAuth Device Flow, with the same polished AuthKit experience plus SSO, MFA, and passkeys. Learn more at WorkOS.com and AuthKit.com Notion – Custom Agents that automate the busywork so your team can focus on real work. Try them free at notion.com/changelog 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: Max Stoiber – Website, GitHub, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: Featured Max Stoiber Max Stoiber on GitHub OpenAI ChatGPT Developers can now submit apps to ChatGPT ChatGPT Developer mode OpenAI Apps SDK examples OpenAI Apps SDK UI Model Context Protocol Max’s open source and community path styled-components styled-components on GitHub react-boilerplate Max’s open source projects Spec.fm GitHub acquires Spectrum GitHub Discussions Slack Circle GraphQL and Stellate Stellate Announcing Stellate, the CDN for GraphQL APIs GraphCDN is now Stellate and we’ve raised $30M The Guild acquires Stellate GraphQL GraphQL Hive GraphQL Yoga GraphiQL Firebase Vercel RethinkDB Apollo Client urql DataLoader Shopify and storefronts Shopify Shopify Liquid reference Shopify themes Horizon: 10 new free themes by Shopify Horizon documentation Shopify Agentic Storefronts ChatGPT apps and MCP Building MCP servers for ChatGPT and API integrations Build with the Apps SDK Apps in ChatGPT MCP Apps overview Zillow Expedia Leadership and founder references COIN feedback framework Gatsby GitHub The Guild Shopify Engineering Tools, platforms, and companies mentioned Node.js TypeScript Bun Zed Ghostty Fly.io DX Incident.io Clerk Raycast Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
May 15 · 1 hr 54 min
MCP on Code Mode
This week I’m talking with Matt Carey about Code Mode and how most of us have been thinking about MCP all wrong. Matt works on the Agents SDK and MCP at Cloudflare — we discuss how server-side Code Mode lets one MCP server expose all ~2,500 Cloudflare API endpoints in about 1,000 tokens of context, the dynamic Worker loader that runs model-written code safely in a V8 isolate, Matt’s own workflow with Claude, where memory fits into the future of agents, and his Zaggy git wrapper that keeps agents from force-pushing his repos. 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: Matt Carey – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: Featured Matt Carey on the Cloudflare blog You’ve Been a Bad Agent Cloudflare Code Mode: give agents an entire API in 1,000 tokens Code Mode: the better way to use MCP Cloudflare MCP Server Cloudflare Agents SDK Cloudflare Agents SDK on GitHub Cloudflare platform Dynamic Workers Cloudflare Workers Durable Objects AI Gateway Vectorize MCP and code-mode references Model Context Protocol Introducing the Model Context Protocol Code execution with MCP CodeAct paper GitHub MCP Server Datadog MCP Server Pydantic Monty Coding agents and tools Claude Code Claude Code voice dictation OpenCode Cursor OpenAI Codex CLI Changesets Handy Agent memory and personal AI Granola Letta Mastra Supermemory Poke Pi coding agent Homelab and infrastructure Swamp Club Proxmox VE Tailscale 1Password K3s Pi-hole DuckDB Apache Parquet ClickHouse Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
April 24 · 1 hr 36 min
Exploring with agents
Today on the show I’m talking with Amelia Wattenberger — designer, data-viz veteran, ex-GitHub Next, and now designing Intent at Augment Code. What if the last 30% of any software project is about to become the hardest part you’ve ever done? That’s the argument Amelia is making today. We discuss the identity crisis developers are having as agents take over the keyboard, the epic redesign of developer tooling in this agent-first world, the arc from autocomplete to chat to CLI back to UI, why Intent treats a workspace as their core primitive not a chat thread, the tradeoffs between one-worktree-per-agent vs. one-worktree-per-task, and why she thinks prototyping just got easier but finishing got harder. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 8 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: WorkOS – Auth for CLI with AuthKit from WorkOS — Bring secure browser-based login to your terminal apps using the OAuth Device Flow, with the same polished AuthKit experience plus SSO, MFA, and passkeys. Learn more at WorkOS.com and AuthKit.com 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 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: Amelia Wattenberger – Website, GitHub, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: GitHub Copilot — the launch that kicked off this era (mentioned ~12×) GitHub Next — GitHub’s R&D team; where Amelia worked GitHub Actions Intent — Augment Code’s new workspace-first agent app that Amelia is building (the core product discussion) Augie — Augment’s agent Claude Code Codex Notion AI VS Code Incus — system-level containers/VMs; the Canonical LXD fork Proxmox — Adam’s hypervisor platform for the sandbox ZFS — storage layer Incus is built on Bun — JavaScript runtime Rust Go Ruby on Rails SvelteKit Svelte TypeScript TanStack Start Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
March 11 · 1 hr 42 min
From Tailnet to platform
Adam talks with Tailscale co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer David Carney about where Tailscale is headed next: TSIDP, TSNet, multiple tailnets, and Aperture. They get into clickless auth (via TSIDP), TSNet apps, multiple tailnets for isolation and control, and Aperture, Tailscale’s private AI gateway for API key management, observability, and agent security. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 8 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. 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. 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 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. 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: David Carney – Website, GitHub, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: Send an email to David ~> aperture@tailscale.com Mentioned in this episode Tailscale Aperture by Tailscale TSIDP TSNet Multiple tailnets Tailnet policy file syntax Model Context Protocol (MCP) MCP specification Proxmox VE Incus OIDC / OpenID Connect OAuth 2.0 Okta Microsoft Entra ID Google Workspace Keycloak Salesforce Anthropic Amazon Bedrock Oso Cerbos Go GopherCon Simon Willison Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
February 27 · 1 hr 44 min
Opus 4.5 changed everything
Burke Holland works on GitHub Copilot by day and codes with his AI agents always. Early January, Burke posted about how Opus 4.5 changed everything. We were all still buzzing from the holiday-season 2x usage bump Claude gave us, and Opus 4.5 felt like a genuine step function in capability. Burke and I get into all the details. Opus 4.5 may have started the fire, but GPT-5.3 Codex is certainly living up to the hype. Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 17 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: Burke Holland – Website, GitHub, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: Opus 4.5 is going to change everything Jon Gjengset Explains Rust 2026 How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week Rebuilding Next.js using AI in a single week The era of the Small Giant (Changelog #673) Layercode — Voice AI infrastructure for TypeScript developers Diffs — An open source diff and code rendering library Pierre Computer Company Code Storage Entire — Developer platform from former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke Tigris Data @traskjd tweet GitHub Copilot Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
February 19 · 1 hr 50 min
Selling SDKs in the era of many Claudes
Steve Ruiz joins us for a deep-dive on tldraw (a very good free whiteboard) and the business he’s built selling SDKs that help others build very good whiteboards (and more) with tldraw’s high-performance web canvas. Along the way, we discuss the excitement/fear we share about keeping our agents busy, how SDK and infra companies are affected differently by agentic software than SaaS companies, how Steve is approaching the coming era of internal tooling, what will happen when we equip LLMs with an infinite canvas, and more. Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 15 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. 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 Squarespace – A website makes it real! Use code CHANGELOG to save 10% on your first website purchase. Featuring: Steve Ruiz – Website, LinkedIn, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: tldraw.com tldraw.dev Remarkable: the paper tablets for focused work Agent starter kit • tldraw docs tldraw fairies Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
February 11 · 1 hr 36 min
Building the machine that builds the machine
Paul Dix joins us to discuss the InfluxDB co-founder’s journey adapting to an agentic world. Paul sent his AI coding agents on various real-world side quests and shares all his findings: what’s going to prod, what’s not, and why he’s (at least for a bit) back to coding by hand. Update: He’s back to letting the AIs write code, but with a lot more oversight. For now… 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: Paul Dix – GitHub, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: Build the machine that builds the machine Paul dix on X: “2026: the great engineering divergence” InfluxData Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
February 4 · 1 hr 16 min
Setting Docker Hardened Images free
In May of 2025, Docker launched Hardened Images, a secure, minimal, production-ready set of images. In December, they made DHI freely available and open source to everyone who builds software. On this episode, we’re joined by Tushar Jain, EVP of Engineering at Docker to learn all about it. Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 6 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 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: Tushar Jain – LinkedIn Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: Hardened images for everyone Hardened images catalog Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
January 29 · 1 hr 21 min
Securing npm is table stakes
As the creator and long-time maintainer of ESLint, Nicholas Zakas is well-positioned to criticize GitHub’s recent response to npm’s insecurity. He found the response insufficient, and has other ideas on how GitHub could secure npm better. On this episode, Nicholas details these ideas, paints a bleak picture of npm alternatives like JSR, and shares our frustration that such a critical piece of internet infrastructure feels neglected. 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. Squarespace – A website makes it real! Use code CHANGELOG to save 10% on your first website purchase. Featuring: Nicholas C. Zakas – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, Mastodon, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: How GitHub could secure npm JSR: the javascript registry vlt /vōlt/ Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
January 22 · 1 hr 38 min
The era of the Small Giant
Damien Tanner (founder of Pusher, now building Layercode) is back for a reunion 17 years in the making. Damien officially returns to The Changelog to discuss the seismic shift happening in software development. From the first sponsor of the podcast to frontline builder in the AI agent era, Damien shares his insights on why SaaS is dying, why code review is a bottleneck (and non-existent for some), and how small teams can now build giant things. 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: Damien Tanner – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: Layercode Pusher AI Engineer London Meetup How Claude Code Works (Jared Zoneraich, PromptLayer) Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
January 7 · 1 hr 17 min
From GitLab to Kilo Code
We’re joined by Sid Sijbrandij, founder of GitLab who led the all-in-one coding platform all the way to IPO. In late 2022, Sid discovered that he had bone cancer. That started a journey he’s been on ever since… a journey that he shares with us in great detail. Along the way, Sid continued founding companies including Kilo Code, an all-in-one agentic engineering platform, which he also tells us all about. 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. Featuring: Sid Sijbrandij – Website, LinkedIn, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: Sid’s cancer journey Kilo.ai Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Dec 18, 2025 · 1 hr 22 min
Agents in the database
Ajay Kulkarni from Tiger Data (Co-founder/CEO) is on the pod this week with Adam. He asked him to get vulnerable and trace his path to becoming a CEO. They dig into the themes that have shaped his career, and explore how founder values end up forming company culture (whether you intend them to or not). From his enterprise days to building Timescale (and the rename to Tiger Data), we cover the whole journey — even the haters, because haters gonna hate. Here’s where it gets really interesting: Agents in the database! Not the hype. The real thing baby. They get into how fast you can go from idea to shipped these days, what it actually means to talk to your database, and the whole API/CLI/MCP/Skills movement. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 9 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: Ajay Kulkarni – GitHub, LinkedIn, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: Agentic Postgres timescale/tiger-cli Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Dec 10, 2025 · 1 hr 34 min
Autonomous drone delivery in a Zip
We’re joined by Zipline cofounder / CTO, Keenan Wyrobek. Zipline is on a mission to build the world’s first logistics system that serves all people equally via their fleet of autonomous drones that started in Africa delivering medical supplies and can now deliver packages (up to 8 lbs) directly to your door. They’ve solved a lot of gnarly technical and regulatory challenges along the way. We go deep with Keenan. We hope you’ll find this one fascinating. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 9 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. Framer – Design and publish in one place. Get started free at framer.com/design, code CHANGELOG for a free month of Pro. Featuring: Keenan Wyrobek – GitHub, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: Zipline drone delivery & logistics Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Dec 4, 2025 · 1 hr 30 min
Werner Vogels predicts the future
Amazon CTO, Werner Vogels, stops by to help us explore his tech predictions for 2026 and beyond. Will companionship be redefined by consumer robots? Will quantum-safe become the only safe worth talking about? Is this the dawn of the renaissance developer? We’re infinitely curious why Werner came to this particular set of conclusions. Are you? 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. 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: Werner Vogels – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: NoSQL Smackdown! (#18) Tech predictions for 2026 and beyond Jim Gray (computer scientist) Leave us a state of the “log” voicemail! Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Nov 26, 2025 · 1 hr 48 min
The inner workings of Wikipedia
Let’s hear how Wikipedia actually works from long-time Wikipedian, Bill Beutler! Bill has been heavily involved with this “8th wonder of the modern world” for two decades and even built a career on it, founding Beutler Ink –a digital agency known for its pioneering work in Wikipedia public relations. We discuss: the official (and not so official) rules, the editor cabal (which isn’t one), the business model (which really isn’t one), how an edit sticks (or not), how AI chatbots threaten the future of the site (or don’t), and a whole lot more. Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 7 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. 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: Bill Beutler – Website, LinkedIn, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: There Is No Cabal Beutler Ink The Notability Company Eugen Rochko Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Nov 19, 2025 · 57 min
Creating communal computers
Spencer Chang caught our attention with the alive internet theory website, but he creates all kinds of computery things to bring people together around play, connection, and creation. Spencer’s experiments with computing-infused objects inspired him to create an entire line of internet sculptures and real-world computing shrines that will hopefully inspire all of us to keep the internet alive and flourishing for years to come. 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: Spencer Chang – Website, GitHub, X Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: Alive internet theory Internet Sculptures Computing Shrines playhtml Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Nov 12, 2025 · 1 hr 19 min
DO repeat yourself!
Prolific software blogger, Sean Goedecke, joins us to discuss why he believes software engineers need to be involved in the politics of their organization, how to avoid worry driven development, what is “good taste” in software engineering, where agentic coding will take our industry, why getting the main thing right is so important, and how to get your blog to the top of Hacker News. Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 4 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. 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: Sean Goedecke – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: Is it worrying that 95% of AI enterprise projects fail? How I influence tech company politics as a staff software engineer Avoiding worry driven development What is “good taste” in software engineering? Mistakes I see engineers making in their code reviews Situational Awareness: the decade ahead Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Nov 5, 2025 · 1 hr 43 min
The world of open source metadata
Andrew Nesbitt builds tools and open datasets to support, sustain, and secure critical digital infrastructure. He’s been exploring the world of open source metadata for over a decade. First with libraries.io and now with ecosyste.ms, which tracks over 12 million packages, 287 million repos, 24.5 billion dependencies, and 1.9 million maintainers. What has Andrew learned from all this, who is using this open dataset, and how does he hope others can build on top of it all? Tune in to find out. 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: Andrew Nesbitt – Website, GitHub, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: ecosyste.ms ecosyste-ms/oss-taxonomy Octobox Libraries.io Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Oct 30, 2025 · 2 hr 3 min
Agentic infra changes everything
Adam Jacob joins us to discuss how agentic systems for building and managing infrastructure have fundamentally altered how he thinks about everything, including the last six years of his life. Along the way, he opines on the recent AWS outage, debates whether we’re in an AI-induced bubble, quells any concerns of AGI and a robot uprising, eats some humble pie, and more. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 5 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. Featuring: Adam Jacob – Website, GitHub, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: Anthropic on agentic misalignment System Initiative Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!