Do you like director’s commentaries and extended cuts? This episode is like that, but for this week’s <a href="https://changelog.com/news/169">News</a>. 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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<li><a href="https://changelog.com/news/169">Changelog News #169</a></li>
<li><a href="https://alivetheory.net/">Alive internet theory</a></li>
<li><a href="https://changelog.com/friends/57">The Winamp era</a></li>
<li><a href="https://meshtastic.org/">Meshtastic</a></li>
<li><a href="https://facebook.github.io/zstd/">Zstandard</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.interviewquery.com/p/ai-forward-deployed-engineer-jobs-2025">FDE exploding with 800% more postings</a></li>
<li><a href="https://aifoc.us/dead-framework-theory/">Dead framework theory</a></li>
<li><a href="https://fly.io/blog/everyone-write-an-agent/">You should write an agent</a></li>
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