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- All your packages are belong to us (Interview) · 2 t. 19 min.AI agents can write the code, choose the packages, and run the install. Who's checking what they just invited onto your machine? This week I'm joined by Ahmad Nassri, CTO of…
- We now have Kerr’s Law (Interview) · 2 t. 27 min.Dave Kerr created hacker laws, and now he finds himself reviewing agent-written code for them. Back on the show after six years, Dave names what he sees limiting teams today…
- The future is Postgres (Interview) · 1 t. 46 min.Craig Kerstiens returns to talk about the ever-expanding world of Postgres: a deliberately boring core, a thriving extension ecosystem, and pg_lake bringing DuckDB and Iceberg…
- Building what's next (Interview) · 2 t. 0 min.This week I'm talking with Zeno Rocha, CEO of Resend, about scaling "boring" email to 3 million users, the secret Go rewrite behind it, and building for agents. We cover…
- From zero to NanoClaw (Interview) · 2 t. 42 min.Gavriel Cohen, creator of NanoClaw and co-founder of NanoCo, joins Adam to explain how a 40-hour weekend project became a viral open source hit and the foundation of an…
- Forking Cal.com to closed source (Interview) · 1 t. 54 min.This week I'm joined by Peer Richelsen, co-founder of Cal.com. What if the majority of open source repositories are already compromised and we just don't know it yet? That's the…
- Postgres at PlanetScale (Interview) · 1 t. 42 min.Sam Lambert is back after 4 years and he does not hold back! We cover $5 PlanetScale Postgres, the Neki "do-over" of Vitess, agents shipping schema changes through deploy…
- Canary tokens and digital tripwires (Interview) · 2 t. 6 min.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…
- From open source hits to OpenAI (Interview) · 1 t. 46 min.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…
- MCP on Code Mode (Interview) · 1 t. 54 min.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…
- Automation at the speed of Swamp (Friends) · 2 t. 26 min.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…
- Bitwarden CLI compromised (News) · 9 min.Bitwarden's CLI got hit by the Checkmarx supply-chain campaign, TypeScript 7.0 beta lands with the Go-rewritten compiler running ~10x faster than 6.0, and pgBackRest lost its…
- Exploring with agents (Interview) · 1 t. 36 min.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…
- Astral has been acquired by OpenAI (News) · 11 min.Astral is joining OpenAI, which says a lot about where the center of gravity is moving for developer tools, LiteLLM got hit by a nasty supply-chain attack, and OpenCode blew up…
- From Tailnet to platform (Interview) · 1 t. 42 min.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…
- Big change brings big change (News) · 5 min.This week's been wild — Iran bombed AWS data centers to take down Claude, OpenAI dropped GPT-5.4 (and it's seriously good for coding), and living brain cells are literally…
- Finale & Friends (Friends) · 1 t. 46 min.Adam and Jerod get into the news, Jerod officially retires from the pod (and Changelog), plus a bonus for our Changelog++ subs!
- Opus 4.5 changed everything (Interview) · 1 t. 44 min.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…
- The mythical agent-month (News) · 8 min.Wes McKinney on the mythical agent-month, install Peon Ping to employ a Peon today, Andreas Kling explains why Ladybird is adopting Rust, Cloudflare has a new MCP server that's…
- Selling SDKs in the era of many Claudes (Interview) · 1 t. 50 min.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…
- All the Claw things (News) · 6 min.Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI, ZeroClaw is "claw done right", MimiClaw runs on a $5 chip, Steve Yegge on managing the AI Vampire, and the day the telnet died.
- Han shot first (Friends) · 2 t. 0 min.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…
- Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview) · 1 t. 36 min.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…
- Vouch for an open source web of trust (News) · 8 min.Mitchell Hashimoto's trust management system for open source, Nicholas Carlini has a team of Claudes build a C compiler, Stephan Schwab recounts the history of attempted…
- It's a renaissance woman's world (Friends) · 1 t. 43 min.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…
- Setting Docker Hardened Images free (Interview) · 1 t. 16 min.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…
- The tech monoculture is finally breaking (News) · 9 min.Jason Willems believes the tech monoculture is finally breaking, Don Ho shares some bad Notepad++ news, Tailscale's Avery Pennarun pens a great downtime apology, Milan Milanović…
- Natural born SaaS killers (Friends) · 1 t. 13 min.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…
- Securing npm is table stakes (Interview) · 1 t. 21 min.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…
- Clawdbot triggers a run on Mac Minis (News) · 7 min.Clawdbot drives Mac Mini sales, Swizec Teller on the future of software engineering being SRE, Daniel Stenberg decided to end curl's bug bounty program, zerobrew takes some of…
- The state of homelab tech (2026) (Friends) · 2 t. 2 min.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…
- The era of the Small Giant (Interview) · 1 t. 38 min.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…
- Agent psychosis: are we going insane? (News) · 6 min.Armin Ronacher thinks AI agent psychosis might be driving us insane, Dan Abramov explains how AT Protocol is a social filesystem, RepoBar keeps your GitHub work in view without…
- Kaizen! Let it crash (Friends) · 1 t. 41 min.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…
- The GitHub problem (and other predictions) (Friends) · 1 t. 41 min.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…
- Linus Torvalds gets the AI coding bug (News) · 5 min.Linus Torvalds pushes AI generated code, Jordan Fulghum thinks this is the year of self-hosting, FracturedJson formats for compact / human readability, Scott Werner believes a…
- From GitLab to Kilo Code (Interview) · 1 t. 17 min.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…
- The move faster manifesto (News) · 7 min.Brian Guthrie lists his seven rules for moving faster in software, Continuous-Claude-v2 is a context management system for Claude Code, Gas Town is Steve Yegge's multi-agent…
- State of the "log" 2025 (Friends) · 1 t. 42 min.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! 💚
- Agents in the database (Interview) · 1 t. 22 min.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…
- The code, prose & pods that shaped 2025 (News) · 16 min.This episodes diverges from our traditional fare. I’ve reviewed the 49 previous editions and picked (IMHO) the coolest code, best prose & my favorite podcast episode from each…
- Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends) · 1 t. 45 min.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…
- Autonomous drone delivery in a Zip (Interview) · 1 t. 34 min.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…
- The "confident idiot" problem (News) · 8 min.Why AI needs hard rules (not vibe checks), what Anthropic's acquisition of Bun's creators tells us about the AI takeover, Jonah Glover couldn't get Claude to recreate Space Jam's…
- Very important agents (Friends) · 1 t. 38 min.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…
- Werner Vogels predicts the future (Interview) · 1 t. 30 min.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…
- What actually makes you senior (News) · 9 min.Matheus Lima on what makes senior developers actually senior, Tega Brain created a browser extension for avoiding AI slop, Andrew Kelley moves Zig from GitHub to Codeberg, Matias…
- The 4 DIMM problem (Friends) · 1 t. 50 min.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.
- The inner workings of Wikipedia (Interview) · 1 t. 48 min.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…
- What is a tech bubble anyway? (News) · 9 min.Cedric Chin says comparisons of our current AI *maybe-bubble* to the dot-com bubble and the 2008 GFC are limiting, Matthew Prince does a post-mortem on last week's Cloudflare…
