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.

• GPT has entered the chat (Interview)

  • Rank: 1
  • 2022-12-16
  • Score: 1815

  To wrap up the year we're talking about what's breaking the internet again. Yes we're talking about ChatGPT and we're joined by our good friend Shawn "swyx" Wang. Between his writings on L-Space Diaries and his AI notes repo on GitHub we had a lot to cover around the world of AI and what might be coming in 2023.Also we have one more show coming out before the end of the year — our 5th annual "State of the log" episode where Adam and Jerod look back at the year and talk through their favorite episodes of the year and feature voices from the community. So stay tuned for that next week.
• Git with your friends (Interview)

  • Rank: 2
  • 2023-02-10
  • Score: 1615

  This week we invited our friend Mat Ryer to join us for some good conversation about some Git tooling that's been on our radar. You may know Mat from Go Time and also Grafana's Big Tent which we help to produce. We speculate we discuss we laugh and Mat even breaks into song a few times. It's good fun.
• State of the "log" 2022 (Interview)

  • Rank: 3
  • 2022-12-23
  • Score: 1608

  Our 5th annual year-end wrap-up episode! Sit back relax pour a glass of your favorite beverage and join us for listener voice mails our favorite episodes some must-listens and of course the top 5 most listened to episodes of the year. Thanks for listening! 💚
• The principles of data-oriented programming (Interview)

  • Rank: 4
  • 2023-01-14
  • Score: 1549

  Jerod is joined by Yehonathan Sharvit author of Data-Oriented Programming to discuss the virtues of treating data as a first-class citizen in our applications and the four principles that make it possible.
• Data tool belts Build Your Own Redis the giscus comment...

  • Rank: 5
  • 2023-01-30
  • Score: 1512

  Jeremia Kimelman takes stock of his "data tool belt" Build Your Own Redis with C/C++ is ready to read giscus is a comments system powered by GitHub Discussions Matt Rickard says prompt engineering shouldn't be a thing and won't be a thing in the future & Kolja Lubitz's ALPACA is engine for building adventure games and interactive comics.
• Mainframes are still a big thing (Interview)

  • Rank: 6
  • 2023-01-27
  • Score: 1509

  This week we're talking about mainframes with Cameron Seay Adjunct Professor at East Carolina University and a member of the Governing Board of the Open Mainframe Project. If you've been curious about mainframes this show will be a great guide. Cameron explains exactly what a mainframe is and how it's different from the cloud. We talk COBOL and the state of education and opportunities around that language. We cover the state-of-the-art in mainframe land System Z Linux on mainframes and more.
• ANTHOLOGY - Wasm efficient code review & the industrial ...

  • Rank: 7
  • 2022-12-02
  • Score: 1464

  This week we're back at All Things Open 2022 covering the hallway track. Up first is Shivay Lamba and he's schooling us on all things server-side WASM. It's the new hotness. After that we talk with Yishai Beeri CTO of LinearB about the world of code review PR queues AI developers and making human developers more efficient and happier. And last we talk with Guy Martin from NVIDIA about what's going on in the Industrial Metaverse. He shares details about an open source project developed by Pixar called Universal Scene Description (USD) and what they're doing with NVIDIA Omniverse.
• Coming home to GitHub (Interview)

  • Rank: 8
  • 2022-12-09
  • Score: 1460

  This week we're joined by Christina Warren Senior Developer Advocate at GitHub and a true tech and pop culture connoisseur. From her days at Mashable covering the intersections of entertainment and technology to Gizmodo to Microsoft and now her current role at GitHub we talk with Christina about her journey from journalist to developer and the latest happenings coming out of GitHub Universe.BTW we're planning to get Christina on Backstage in the new year to talk about Plex MakeMKV and all things that go into hosting your own media server. Drop a commment on this episode with a +1 if you want to see that happen.
• Just Postgres (Interview)

  • Rank: 9
  • 2023-01-20
  • Score: 1453

  This week we're talking about by Postgres with Craig Kerstiens Chief Product Officer at Crunchy Data and a well known ambassador for Postgres. Just Postgres. That's what this week's show is about.
• tRPC a bug tracker embedded in git awesome ChatGPT prom...

  • Rank: 10
  • 2022-12-12
  • Score: 1396

  tRPC helps you move fast and break nothing Michael Muré embeds a bug tracker in git Fatih Kadir Akın curates some awesome ChatGPT prompts Mike Nikles thinks dev environments in the cloud are a half-baked solution & Georgi Gerganov ports OpenAI's Whisper model to a lightweight portable C/C++ program.
• Free Heroku EOL Stable Diffusion 2.0 Twitter SRE explai...

  • Rank: 11
  • 2022-11-28
  • Score: 1194

  Heroku's free plans officially reach EOL Swyx explains the mixed reaction to Stable Diffusion 2.0 a real Twitter SRE explains how it continues to stay up even with ~80% gone Tyler Cipriani tells us about one of Git's coolest most unloved features & we chat with Joel Lord about brewing beer with IoT & JavaSCript at All Things Open 2022.Oh and help make this year's state of the "log" episode awesome by lending your voice!
• This !insane tech hiring market (Interview)

  • Rank: 12
  • 2022-11-25
  • Score: 1165

  This week we're back talking to Gergely Orosz — this time not quite about the insane tech hiring market but more so the flip side the 180 the not so good tech hiring market the layoff market and what you can expect. There's a lot of FUD out there so hopefully this show gives you a lens into what's really going on and what to really expect. Maybe more so how to keep your job or find a new job. We come to this topic with great compassion and great understanding so please...there is a community here for you. There's a lot of people in our Slack. Call it your home it's free to join and everyone is welcome.
• Taking Postgres serverless (Interview)

  • Rank: 13
  • 2022-10-14
  • Score: 1030

  This week we're talking about serverless Postgres! We're joined by Nikita Shamgunov co-founder and CEO of Neon. With Neon truly serverless PostgreSQL is finally here. Neon isn’t Postgres compatible…it actually is Postgres! Neon is also open source under the Apache License 2.0.We talk about what a cloud native serverless Postgres looks like why developers want Postgres and why of the top 5 databases only Postgres is growing (according to DB-Engines Ranking) we talk about how they separated storage and compute to offer autoscaling branching and bottomless storage we also talk about their focus on DX — where they’re getting it right and where they need to improve. Neon is invite only as of the recording and release of this episode but near the end of the show Nikita shares a few ways to get an invite and early access.
• Don't sleep on Ruby & Rails (Interview)

  • Rank: 14
  • 2023-01-06
  • Score: 1029

  Welcome to 2023 — we're kicking off the year talking to Justin Searls about the state of web development and why he just might write a "You Might Not Need React" post. He's been so productive using Turbo and Stimulus (and tailwind) in Rails 7 that we had to talk about the state of Rails development today and a bunch of other fun topics around building for the web in 2023.
• Stable Diffusion breaks the internet (Interview)

  • Rank: 15
  • 2022-09-16
  • Score: 1021

  This week on The Changelog we're talking about Stable Diffusion DALL-E and the impact of AI generated art. We invited our good friend Simon Willison on the show today because he wrote a very thorough blog post titled "Stable Diffusion is a really big deal."You may know Simon from his extensive contributions to open source software. Simon is a co-creator of the Django Web framework (which we don't talk about at all on this show) he's the creator of Datasette a multi-tool for exploring and publishing data (which we do talk about on this show)...most of all Simon is a very insightful thinker which he puts on display here on this episode. We talk from all the angles of this topic the technical the innovation the future and possibilities the ethical and the moral -- we get into it all. The question is will this era be known as the initial push back to the machine?