About this podcast
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.
Episodes
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- All your packages are belong to us · 2 h 19 minAI 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 · 2 h 27 minDave 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 · 1 h 46 minCraig 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 · 2 h 0 minThis 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 · 2 h 42 minGavriel 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 · 1 h 54 minThis 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 · 1 h 42 minSam 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 · 2 h 6 minHaroon 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 · 1 h 46 minThis 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 · 1 h 54 minThis 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…
- Exploring with agents · 1 h 36 minToday 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…
- From Tailnet to platform · 1 h 42 minAdam 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…
- Opus 4.5 changed everything · 1 h 44 minBurke 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…
- Selling SDKs in the era of many Claudes · 1 h 50 minSteve 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…
- Building the machine that builds the machine · 1 h 36 minPaul 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…
- Setting Docker Hardened Images free · 1 h 16 minIn 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…
- Securing npm is table stakes · 1 h 21 minAs 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…
- The era of the Small Giant · 1 h 38 minDamien 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…
- From GitLab to Kilo Code · 1 h 17 minWe'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…
- Agents in the database · 1 h 22 minAjay 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…
- Autonomous drone delivery in a Zip · 1 h 34 minWe'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…
- Werner Vogels predicts the future · 1 h 30 minAmazon 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…
- The inner workings of Wikipedia · 1 h 48 minLet'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…
- Creating communal computers · 58 minSpencer 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…
- DO repeat yourself! · 1 h 19 minProlific 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…
- The world of open source metadata · 1 h 43 minAndrew 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…
- Agentic infra changes everything · 2 h 3 minAdam 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…
- Bringing Atuin to the desktop · 57 minEllie Huxtable's magical shell tool, Atuin, won developers' hearts by syncing, searching, and backing up our shell history with ease. Now Ellie is tackling the desktop with a GUI…
- Spec-driven development with Kiro · 1 h 25 minWe're joined by Deepak Singh from the Kiro team. Kiro is AWS's attempt at building an AI coding environment to take you from prototype to production. It does that by bringing…
- Vite documentary companion pod · 1 h 12 minOur friends at Cult.Repo launch their epic Vite documentary on October 9th, 2025! To celebrate, Jerod sat down with Evan You to discuss Vite's adoption story, why he raised money…
- Reinventing Python tooling with Rust · 1 h 43 minCharlie Marsh built Ruff (an extremely fast Python linter written in Rust) and uv (an extremely fast Python package manager written in Rust) because he believes great tools can…
- Voices of Oxide · 1 h 16 minVoices of Oxide on the pod! Cliff Biffle (engineer), Dave Pacheco (engineer), and Ben Leonard (designer) are on the show today. Jerod and I were invited to Oxide's annual…
- Flowing with agents · 2 h 5 minEverything is changing. Adam is joined by his good friend Beyang Liu from Sourcegraph — this time, talking about Amp (ampcode.com). Amp is one of the many, and one of Adam's…
- XO Ruby is hitting the road · 1 h 32 minJim Remsik has lived on the bleeding edge (but also the heart's center) of the Ruby world for decades. This fall, he's organizing six (yes, SIX) XO Ruby confs all around the…
- Python documentary companion pod · 1 h 54 minOur friends at Cult.Repo launched their epic Python documentary on August 28th, 2025! To celebrate, we sat down with Travis Oliphant –creator of NumPy, SciPy, and more– to get…
- From Chef to System Initiative (remastered) · 2 h 22 minThe epic show with Adam Jacob has been remastered! Now with full-length video on YouTube. Adam goes solo with Adam Jacob for an epic pod into his journey to get to System…
- Biocomputing on human neurons · 57 minDr. Ewelina Kurtys is leading the way in biocomputing at FinalSpark where she is working on the next evolutionary leap for AI and neuron-powered computing. It's a brave new…
- LIVE from Denver with Nora Jones! · 1 h 15 minWe're LIVE at the historic Oriental Theater in Denver, CO with Nora Jones. Nora is the founder of Jeli.io, recently acquired by PagerDuty and she's been shaping the way we think…
- Solving the AI energy crisis · 2 h 2 minGreg Osuri, Founder and CEO of Akash Network joins us to share the backstory in his testimony before congress on the energy crisis and what it's going to take to power the future…
- Bringing Vitess to Postgres · 1 h 15 minSugu Sougoumarane, creator of Vitess, comes off sabbatical to bring Vitess to Postgres. We discuss what motivated Sugu to come off sabbatical, why now is the time, the technical…
- Pivoting to Retool · 1 h 21 minDavid Hsu from Retool joins Adam to discuss how he built Retool. From the pivot in YC, to building the most widely used internal tools platform, to now being the platform for AI…
- Lightspeed search built for devs · 1 h 38 minWe talk with Don MacKinnon, Co-founder and CTO of Searchcraft—a lightspeed search engine built in Rust. We dig into the future of search, how it blends vector embeddings with…
- Agent, take the wheel · 1 h 53 minThorsten Ball returned to Sourcegraph to work on Amp because he believes being able to talk to an alien intelligence that edits your code changes everything. On this episode…
- When vibe coding goes viral · 1 h 11 minChris Anderson joins the show. You may recognize Chris from the early days of CouchDB and Couchbase. Back when the world was just waking up to NoSQL, Chris was at the center of…
- The CEO of htmx likes codin' dirty · 1 h 23 minJerod is joined by Carson Gross, the creator of htmx –a small, zero-dependency JavaScript library that he says, "completes HTML as a hypertext". Carson built it because he's big…
- The Roc programming language · 1 h 35 minJerod 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…
- We're all Builders now · 1 h 14 minWe'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…
- The Web Development Engine · 1 h 33 minWe're joined by Andreas Møller, Co-founder of Nordcraft — the team behind Nordcraft Engine, a powerful new platform designed to give web developers what gaming developers have…
- Refactored in prison · 1 h 42 minPreston Thorpe joins us from inside prison, where he awaits a hopeful release within the next 12 months. His journey has been anything but easy—marked by hardship and…
- NATS and the CNCF kerfuffle · 1 h 36 minDerek Collison — creator of NATS and Co-founder & CEO of Synadia — joins the show to dive into the origins, design, and evolution of NATS, a high-performance, open-source…
