The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source podcast

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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

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

 

#967

Why is Zig so cool? (News)

Nilo Stolte explains why Zig is “a totally new way to write programs”, George Mack gives t... more

4 hrs Ago

09 MINS

09:07

4 hrs Ago


#966

Retreat to attack (Friends)

Do you like director’s commentaries and extended cuts? This episode is like that, but for ... more

14 Nov 2025

1 HR 44 MINS

1:44:16

14 Nov 2025


#965

DO repeat yourself! (Interview)

Prolific software blogger, Sean Goedecke, joins us to discuss why he believes software eng... more

12 Nov 2025

1 HR 19 MINS

1:19:58

12 Nov 2025


#964

This new AI role is exploding (News)

A new AI-led tech role has emerged with a massive increase of job postings, Corey Quinn ex... more

10 Nov 2025

08 MINS

08:43

10 Nov 2025


#963

#define: sheer resistance (Friends)

On this seventh iteration of our award-worthy game show filled with obscure jargon, fake d... more

07 Nov 2025

1 HR 42 MINS

1:42:41

07 Nov 2025


#962

The world of open source metadata (Interview)

Andrew Nesbitt builds tools and open datasets to support, sustain, and secure critical dig... more

05 Nov 2025

1 HR 43 MINS

1:43:59

05 Nov 2025


#961

The overlooked power of URLs (News)

Ahmad Alfy explains how URLs are state containers, Shrivu Shankar shares how he uses every... more

03 Nov 2025

07 MINS

07:30

03 Nov 2025


#960

We see dead projects (Friends)

It’s a FRIGHT…when your record a podcast with dead projects all around. Tech debt, poor ch... more

31 Oct 2025

1 HR 18 MINS

1:18:33

31 Oct 2025


#959

Agentic infra changes everything (Interview)

Adam Jacob joins us to discuss how agentic systems for building and managing infrastructur... more

30 Oct 2025

2 HR 03 MINS

2:03:40

30 Oct 2025


#958

Code like a surgeon (News)

The Dead Internet Theory dies, Geoffrey Litt tries to code like a surgeon, Matt Sephton th... more

27 Oct 2025

08 MINS

08:24

27 Oct 2025


#957

Kaizen! Mop-up job (Friends)

It’s our first Kaizen after the big Pipely launch in Denver and we have some serious moppi... more

24 Oct 2025

1 HR 47 MINS

1:47:36

24 Oct 2025


#956

Bringing Atuin to the desktop (Interview)

Ellie Huxtable’s magical shell tool, [Atuin] (https://atuin.sh) , won developers’ hearts b... more

22 Oct 2025

56 MINS

56:39

22 Oct 2025


#955

The science behind developer flow states (News)

Csaba Okrona lays out exactly what Flow is (then shows you how to engineer your way back t... more

20 Oct 2025

06 MINS

06:47

20 Oct 2025


#954

There will be bleeps (Friends)

Mike McQuaid and Justin Searls join Jerod in the wake of the RubyGems [debacle] (https://r... more

17 Oct 2025

1 HR 41 MINS

1:41:45

17 Oct 2025


#953

Spec-driven development with Kiro (Interview)

We’re joined by Deepak Singh from the Kiro team. Kiro is AWS’s attempt at building an AI c... more

15 Oct 2025

1 HR 25 MINS

1:25:20

15 Oct 2025


#952

The great software quality collapse (News)

Denis Stetskov describes how we’ve “normalized catastrophe” in the software industry, Meta... more

13 Oct 2025

08 MINS

08:45

13 Oct 2025


#951

A new direction for AI developer tooling (Friends)

Elixir creator, José Valim, is throwing his hat into the coding agent ring with [Tidewave]... more

10 Oct 2025

1 HR 29 MINS

1:29:52

10 Oct 2025


#950

Vite documentary companion pod (Interview)

Our friends at [Cult.Repo] (https://www.cultrepo.com) launch their epic [Vite documentary]... more

08 Oct 2025

1 HR 12 MINS

1:12:22

08 Oct 2025


#949

The best coders should exit the feed (News)

Abner Coimbre makes a compelling case why our biggest technical talent should abandon for-... more

06 Oct 2025

07 MINS

07:42

06 Oct 2025


#948

npm under siege (what to do about it) (Friends)

Over the past two months, we’ve seen some of the most serious supply chain attacks in npm ... more

03 Oct 2025

1 HR 35 MINS

1:35:20

03 Oct 2025


#947

Reinventing Python tooling with Rust (Interview)

Charlie Marsh built [Ruff] (https://docs.astral.sh/uv/) (an extremely fast Python linter w... more

01 Oct 2025

1 HR 43 MINS

1:43:20

01 Oct 2025


#946

Hiring only senior engineers is killing companies (News)

Andrew Churchill thinks companies should really be hiring junior engineers, Addy Osmani an... more

30 Sep 2025

06 MINS

06:41

30 Sep 2025


#945

Inside Oxide (Friends)

Bryan Cantrill and Steve Tuck, the co-founders of Oxide, are on the pod live (to tape) fro... more

26 Sep 2025

1 HR 10 MINS

1:10:48

26 Sep 2025


#944

Voices of Oxide (Interview)

Voices of Oxide on the pod! Cliff Biffle (engineer), Dave Pacheco (engineer), and Ben Leon... more

26 Sep 2025

1 HR 16 MINS

1:16:14

26 Sep 2025


#943

An escape route from YAML hell (News)

Adolfo Ochagavía believes we’re approaching the problem of configuration from a flawed sta... more

22 Sep 2025

06 MINS

06:45

22 Sep 2025


#942

Linux Fest in Texas! (Friends)

Carl George joins the show to talk about Texas Linux Fest, Omarchy, Linux desktop environm... more

19 Sep 2025

1 HR 19 MINS

1:19:17

19 Sep 2025


#941

Flowing with agents (Interview)

Everything is changing. Adam is joined by his good friend Beyang Liu from Sourcegraph — th... more

17 Sep 2025

2 HR 05 MINS

2:05:58

17 Sep 2025