On Thursday, September 17th, Changelog is taking over PlanetScale’s HQ in San Francisco for an evening of short talks and conversations about AI, developer tools and what people are building. We’ll have a few conversations with some special guests and time afterwards for questions, food, drinks and hanging out. If you’re in San Francisco, register to come!
It’s been more than six months since we invited Zulip’s Alya Abbott on the pod and decided to kick the tires to see if Zulip could replace Slack for Changelog’s community. The answer has been a resounding YES! Here’s why.
We’re kicking off 2025 with some big changes. Starting in January, we’ll be focusing all of our efforts on producing The Changelog (News, Interviews, Friends) as the single best developer podcast experience. In order to do this, we’re stopping production of Go Time, JS Party, Ship It, and Practical AI. But don’t worry—there’s continuation and spin-offs in motion!
In the 14+ years we’ve been making The Changelog podcast, it has never gone viral. I’m not here to complain about that!
We’ve had tons of success with our shows and I’m super grateful that we get to make awesome developer pods for a living. I do think the fact is interesting, though, and worth exploring. Hopefully this exploration is an encouragement to other folks who record deep conversations for niche audiences like we do.
This short from my Ship It! apperance created a firestorm of comments from folks who were unsatisfied with the lack of explanation behind my conclusion. Let me explain…
We’re excited to announce the release of TWO full-length musical albums for your streaming and purchasing pleasure! If you’ve been head nodding to our beats during our shows and you’ve been wishing for a way to listen outside of our pods, then this release will be an absolute delight.
My spicy take is that XML is better than YAML, because there are situations where XML is appropriate, but there’s no situation where YAML is appropriate. Let me explain…
The LAST Strange Loop conference is right around the corner!
The conference has accumulated 673 videos on its YouTube channel, which means there’s gold in them hills, but finding the gold might consume some of your precious time. Good news!
I was hanging out in the conference’s Slack when someone asked:
What are some of y’all’s favorite past Strange Loop talks? As someone who knows the conf by reputation but hasn’t been before, I’m curious what some of your favorites are!
A barrage of YouTube links followed, so I scooped them up to share here so everyone can enjoy these golden Strange Loop talks ✨
This post expands on my waterfall is far superior Unpopular Opinion, providing the background for how I arrived at it, adds some suggestions for improving your software development process, and includes a bonus Unpopular Opinion at the end.
We asked 100 JS Party listeners what ONE thing they always have to remind themselves when coding. Survey says!
The advantages of WebAssembly, with its tight security model, very fast boot-up time, scalability at the edge, much smaller footprints, and portability across environments will really drive a shift away from container-based runtimes for things Kubernetes and edge workloads by 2030.
There’s a ton of energy around making this happen within the WebAssembly community.
After reading Lucas da Costa’s Why deadlines are pointless and what to do instead, I agree with almost every point he makes, especially this one:
It’s about time we start calling deadlines by their real name: pressure
Lucas goes on to describe how deadlines can cause harm, can’t actually make people code faster, and so on. I agree with that too. But does that make them pointless? Not necessarily!
Sometimes a little pressure is just what the doctor ordered. Here’s what I mean by that.
I helped build chapter support for Changelog podcasts. Let’s parse some ID3 tags!
Our shows have chapters baked in now, whoop whoop! This post details some of the challenges we had to overcome to get that done, including a brand new open source Elixir library for reading & writing ID3v2 tags.