Best The Change Log Episodes

These are the top ten epsidoes of The Change Log as choosen by our algorithm. Rankings are recalculated daily. How it works.

• State of the "log" 2023 (Interview)

  • Rank: 1
  • 2023-12-20
  • Score: 994

  Our 6th annual year-end wrap-up episode! This time we're featuring 12 (yes 12!) listener voice mails our favorite episodes of the year & some insanely cool Breakmaster Cylinder beats made just for this occasion. Thanks for listening! 💚
• You call it tech debt I call it malpractice (Friends)

  • Rank: 2
  • 2023-09-01
  • Score: 979

  Go Time panelist (and semi-professional unpopular opinion maker) Kris Brandow joins us to discuss his deep-dive on the waterfall paper his dislike of the "tech debt" analogy why documentation matters so much & how everything is a distributed system.
• We ain't afraid of no Ghostty! (Interview)

  • Rank: 3
  • 2024-12-18
  • Score: 918

  Mitchell Hashimoto joins the show to discuss Ghostty the newest terminal in town. Mitchell co-founded HashiCorp took it all the way to IPO exited in 2023—and now he's working on a terminal emulator called Ghostty. Ghostty is set to 1.0 this month so we sat down to talk through all the details.
• The state of the 2023 tech market (Friends)

  • Rank: 4
  • 2023-12-01
  • Score: 913

  Gergely Orosz is back for our annual year-end update on the tech market writ large. How is hiring? Has AI really changed the game? What about that OpenAI fiasco? We also talk in-depth about Gergely's self-published book The Software Engineer's Guidebook which has been four years in the making.
• State of the "log" 2024 (Friends)

  • Rank: 5
  • 2024-12-20
  • Score: 906

  Our 7th annual year-end wrap-up is here! We're featuring 12 listener voicemails dope Breakmaster Cylinder remixes & our favorite episodes of the year. Thanks for listening! 💚
• #define: game theory dude (Friends)

  • Rank: 6
  • 2023-12-17
  • Score: 891

  What happens when you take four grizzled #define veterans and throw an Emma Bostian into the mix? Find out on this episode because our award-worthy game of fake definitions is back and this time it's even better!
• Discovering discovery coding (Friends)

  • Rank: 7
  • 2025-02-14
  • Score: 885

  Fire up a REPL grab your favorite Stephen King novel and hold on to the seat of your pants! Jimmy Miller returns to reveal why at least for some of us discovery coding is where it's at.
• Passkeys for a passwordless future (Interview)

  • Rank: 8
  • 2023-06-15
  • Score: 876

  This week we're talking about Passkeys with Anna Pobletts Head of Passwordless at 1Password. Will Passkeys enable a passwordless future? Time will tell. Anna shares the what the why how and the when on Passkeys.
• From Docker to Dagger (Interview)

  • Rank: 9
  • 2023-07-28
  • Score: 874

  This week we're joined by Solomon Hykes the creator of Docker. Now he's back with his next big thing called Dagger — CI/CD as code that runs anywhere. We're users of Dagger so check out our codebase if you want to see how it works. On today's show Solomon takes us back to the days of Docker what it was like on that 10 year journey his transition from Docker to Dagger Dagger's community-led growth model their focus on open source and community how it works and even a cameo from Kelsey Hightower to explain how Dagger works.
• DX on DX (Interview)

  • Rank: 10
  • 2023-08-03
  • Score: 867

  This week Adam is joined by Abi Noda founder and CEO of DX to talk about DX AKA DevEx (or the long-form Developer Experience). Since the dawn of software development there has been this push to understand what makes software teams efficient but more importantly what does it take to understand developer productivity? That's what Abi has been focused on for the better part of the last 8 years of his career. He started a company called Pull Panda that was acquired by GitHub spent a few years there on this problem before going out on his own to start DX which helps startups to the fortune 500 companies gather real insights that leads to real improvement.
• Human skills to pay the bills (Friends)

  • Rank: 11
  • 2023-10-20
  • Score: 852

  Long time friend KBall makes his "first" appearance on The Changelog by way of Changelog & Friends. You likely know Kevin from his panelist position on JS Party. Today he's sharing his passion for coaching and developing human skills.
• The state of homelab tech (2024) (Friends)

  • Rank: 12
  • 2024-01-19
  • Score: 847

  Techno Tim is back with Adam to discuss the state of homelab in 2024 and the trends happening within homelab tech. They discuss homelab environments providing a safe place for experimentation and learning network improvement as a gateway to homelab trends in network connection speeds to Unifi or not storage trends ZFS configurations TrueNAS cameras home automation connectivity routers pfSense and more.Umm should we make these conversations between Adam and Tim more frequent?
• An aberrant generation of programmers (Friends)

  • Rank: 13
  • 2023-08-18
  • Score: 846

  Our friend Justin Searls recently published a widely-read essay on enthusiast programmers inter-generational conflict & what we do with this information. That seemed like a good conversation starter so we grabbed Justin and Landon Gray to discuss. Let's talk!
• Programming with LLMs (Interview)

  • Rank: 14
  • 2025-02-19
  • Score: 842

  For the past year David Crawshaw has intentionally sought ways to use LLMs while programming in order to learn about them. He now regularly use LLMs while working and considers their benefits a net-positive on his productivity. David wrote down his experience which we found both practical and insightful. Hopefully you will too!
• Efficient Linux at the CLI (Interview)

  • Rank: 15
  • 2023-07-06
  • Score: 838

  This week we're talking to Daniel J. Barrett author of Efficient Linux at the Command Line as well as many other books. Daniel has a PhD and has been teaching and writing about Linux for more than 30 years (almost 40!). So we invited Dan to join us on the show to talk about efficient ways to use Linux. He teaches us about combining commands re-running commands $CDPATH hacks and more.