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Retreat to attack (Friends)
Nov 14, 2025 · 1 hr 44 min · 100.3 MB
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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.
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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
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- 0:00Let's talk!
- 0:38Sponsor: Tiger Data
- 2:21Shutdown & Friends
- 4:36Undead internet reality
- 7:18Alive internet theory
- 9:40Written By AI
- 16:47Sponsor: Depot
- 19:36Meshtastic
- 26:42Retreat to attack
- 30:21Return to analog
- 34:32Meshtastic use cases
- 36:31Spec nerdery
- 42:21Benchmark Z-STD!
- 51:39Let AI be your guide
- 53:48Give it the Neuralyzer
- 58:38Sponsor: Augment Code
- 1:00:08Sponsor: NordLayer
- 1:01:47Forward-Deployed Engineer (FDE)
- 1:13:25dead framework theory
- 1:26:53Who needs libraries?
- 1:34:09Hypothesize a step change
- 1:37:26Pulling legs
- 1:38:19Go write an agent
- 1:39:21Bye, friends
- 1:41:17Next week on the pod
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