The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

Software's best weekly news brief, deep technical interviews & talk show.

  1. Stop uploading your data to Google (News)

    1 DAY AGO

    Stop uploading your data to Google (News)

    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.

    8 min
  2. Saltiness about frostiness (Friends)

    4 DAYS AGO

    Saltiness about frostiness (Friends)

    Justin Searls joins Jerod in Apple's WWDC wake for hot takes about frosty UIs. We go (almost) point-by-point through the keynote, dissecting and reacting along the way. Concentricity!

    2h 7m
  3. The Roc programming language (Interview)

    6 DAYS AGO

    The Roc programming language (Interview)

    Jerod chats with Richard Feldman about Roc – his fast, friendly, functional language inspired by Richard's love of Elm. Roc takes many of Elm's ideas beyond the frontend and introduces some great ideas of its own. Get ready to learn about static dispatch, platforms vs applications, opportunistic mutation, purity inference, and a whole lot more.

    1h 36m
  4. Never. Let. AI. Write. Your. Tests. (News)

    9 JUN

    Never. Let. AI. Write. Your. Tests. (News)

    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.

    10 min
  5. Adventures in babysitting coding agents (Friends)

    6 JUN

    Adventures in babysitting coding agents (Friends)

    The ever-provocative Steve Yegge joins us fresh off a vibe coding bender so productive, he wrote a book on the topic alongside award-winning author Gene Kim. Steve tells us why he believes the IDE is dead, why babysitting AI agents is more fun than coding, when vibe coding might take over the enterprise, how software devs should approach coding agents, and what it all means for society.

    1h 34m
  6. We're all Builders now (Interview)

    5 JUN

    We're all Builders now (Interview)

    We're on location at Microsoft Build 2025 with Amanda Silver, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft's Developer Division. Amanda leads product, design, user research, and engineering systems for some of the tools you use every day. We discuss the latest AI announcements from Microsoft at Build 2025, how AI is reshaping development tools, what's next for VS Code, TypeScript, GitHub's evolution, and even emerging editors like Windsurf that are forking the VS Code ecosystem.

    1h 15m
  7. The 'developer replacement' hype cycle (News)

    2 JUN

    The 'developer replacement' hype cycle (News)

    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.

    8 min
  8. wsl.exe -- cat hello.cs (Friends)

    31 MAY

    wsl.exe -- cat hello.cs (Friends)

    We bring you back to Microsoft Build 2025 to nerd out with Craig Loewen on Windows Subsystem for Linux and Mads Torgersen on leading the design of C#.

    1h 28m
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