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! 💚
• We ain't afraid of no Ghostty! (Interview)

  • Rank: 2
  • 2024-12-18
  • Score: 924

  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.
• State of the "log" 2024 (Friends)

  • Rank: 3
  • 2024-12-20
  • Score: 920

  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! 💚
• 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.
• #define: game theory dude (Friends)

  • Rank: 5
  • 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: 6
  • 2025-02-14
  • Score: 888

  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.
• Programming with LLMs (Interview)

  • Rank: 7
  • 2025-02-19
  • Score: 859

  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!
• Human skills to pay the bills (Friends)

  • Rank: 8
  • 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: 9
  • 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?
• Leading leaders who lead engineers (remastered) (Interview)

  • Rank: 10
  • 2025-03-26
  • Score: 842

  This week we're bringing you a remaster of our epic 2021interview with Lara Hogan -- author of Resilient Management and management coach / trainer for the tech industry.The majority of our conversation focuses on the four primary hats leaders and managers end up wearing; mentoring coaching sponsoring and delivering feedback. We also talk about knowing when you're ready to lead empathy and compassion and learning to lead.
• Fostering open source culture (Interview)

  • Rank: 11
  • 2025-02-13
  • Score: 837

  Arun Gupta is back this time with his latest book in hand titled "Fostering Open Source Culture" to share his wisdom and experiences of fostering open source culture. BTW you can use the code `OSCULTURE20` to get 20% off (both print and e-book). Use this link and enjoy.
• Open is the way (Interview)

  • Rank: 12
  • 2024-07-31
  • Score: 836

  Joseph Jacks (JJ) is back! We discuss the latest in COSS funding his thesis for investing in commercial open source companies the various rug pulls happening out there in open source licensing and Zuck/Meta's generosity releasing Llama 3.1 as "open source."
• Let's archive the web (Interview)

  • Rank: 13
  • 2024-11-27
  • Score: 830

  Nick Sweeting joins Adam and Jerod to talk about the importance of archiving digital content his work on ArchiveBox to make it easier the challenges faced by Archive.org and the Wayback Machine and the need for both centralized and distributed archiving solutions.
• Observing the power of APIs (Interview)

  • Rank: 14
  • 2023-11-02
  • Score: 826

  Jean Yang's research on programming languages at Carnegie Mellon led her to realize that APIs are *the* layer that makes or breaks quality software systems. Unfortunately developers are underserved by tools for dealing with securing & understanding APIs.That realization led her to found Akita Software which led her to join Postman by way of acquisition. That move at least in part also led her to join us on this very podcast. We think you're going to enjoy this interview we sure did.
• Build software that lasts! (Interview)

  • Rank: 15
  • 2025-02-05
  • Score: 823

  After 30+ years in the software industry Bert Hubert has experienced a lot. He founded PowerDNS published articles for places like IETF / IEEE and built his own parliament monitoring system. That just scratches the surface.Recently Bert wrote about what it takes to build software for the long term. Let's dig in.