The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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Forking Cal.com to closed source (Interview)

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? Tha

Sep 3
1 h 54 min

Postgres at PlanetScale (Interview)

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

Aug 25
1 h 42 min

Canary tokens and digital tripwires (Interview)

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 yo

Jul 21
2 h 06 min

From open source hits to OpenAI (Interview)

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

Jun 5
1 h 46 min

MCP on Code Mode (Interview)

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 d

May 15
1 h 54 min

Automation at the speed of Swamp (Friends)

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 developmen

May 13
2 h 26 min

Bitwarden CLI compromised (News)

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

Apr 29
8 min

Exploring with agents (Interview)

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

Apr 24
1 h 36 min

Astral has been acquired by OpenAI (News)

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 b

Mar 27
10 min

From Tailnet to platform (Interview)

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

Mar 11
1 h 42 min

Big change brings big change (News)

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 literall

Mar 10
5 min

Finale & Friends (Friends)

Adam and Jerod get into the news, Jerod officially retires from the pod (and Changelog), plus a bonus for our Changelog++ subs!

Mar 2
1 h 46 min

Opus 4.5 changed everything (Interview)

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 buz

Feb 27
1 h 44 min

The mythical agent-month (News)

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

Feb 23
7 min

Selling SDKs in the era of many Claudes (Interview)

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 mor

Feb 19
1 h 50 min

All the Claw things (News)

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.

Feb 16
6 min

Han shot first (Friends)

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

Feb 13
2 h 00 min

Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview)

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 a

Feb 11
1 h 36 min

Vouch for an open source web of trust (News)

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

Feb 9
7 min

It's a renaissance woman's world (Friends)

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

Feb 6
1 h 43 min

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IgorGanapolsky123 · Apr 2025

I was searching for a software development podcast over the summer, but as someone who kind of has impostor syndrome with regard to the field, I felt like anything I’d find would be intimidating at best and impossible to follow at worst with all kinds of jargon and tech stack talk I’ve never touched. I found the Changelog and it’s really been amazing. It’s made me realize I actually do love hearing and learning about this stuff again. Changelog News is a surefire way to keep on top of an industry that is impossible to do otherwise. And the interviews are just great. Easy to follow conversation, some humor that is welcomed but not chock full of inside jokes. The only thing that is nerve wracking for me is how in the world I am going to tackle the back catalog of episodes! As someone who kind of dabbles in this audio world stuff, Jerod and Adam are tremendous hosts. I highly, highly recommend this podcast!

henry1966 · Oct 2024

I’ve been listening for a couple of years now. The short summaries of weekly finds gives me just enough context to inform me whether I would want to deep dive and find out more. I have a growing collection of to-read-later thanks to this. The soundbites and humor keep the listening fun too. The above comments are about the short length weekly news podcast, but the other podcasts in the stable have similar high production and entertainment value as well and are worth checking out

cl7070 · May 2024

Been listening to the host, Jerod and Adam, covering news and interviews with people across the industry for a month now. Highly recommend for staying up to date with the highlights of the week, getting some in-depth insight, and some laughs along the way. Keep it up folks!

weirdion · Apr 2024

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