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: 992

  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.
• A new path to full-time open source (Interview)

  • Rank: 3
  • 2023-03-29
  • Score: 974

  After years of working for Google on the Go Team Filippo Valsorda quit last year to experiment with more sustainable paths for open source maintainers. Good news it worked! Filippo is now a full-time open source maintainer and he joins Jerod on this episode to tell everyone _exactly_ how he's making the equivalent to his total compensation package at Google in open source.
• LLMs break the internet (Interview)

  • Rank: 4
  • 2023-04-07
  • Score: 962

  This week we're talking about LLMs with Simon Willison. We can not avoid this topic. Last time it was Stable Diffusion breaking the internet. This time it's LLMs breaking the internet. Large Language Models ChatGPT Bard Claude Bing GitHub Copilot X Cody...we cover it all.
• Engineering management (for the rest of us) (Interview)

  • Rank: 5
  • 2023-05-17
  • Score: 921

  This week Sarah Drasner joins us to talk about her book Engineering Management for the Rest of Us and her experience leading engineering at Zillow Microsoft Netlify and now Google.
• We ain't afraid of no Ghostty! (Interview)

  • Rank: 6
  • 2024-12-18
  • Score: 915

  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: 7
  • 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.
• Goodbye Atom. Hello Zed. (Interview)

  • Rank: 8
  • 2023-03-15
  • Score: 898

  This week we're talking with Nathan Sobo about his next big thing. Nathan is known for his work on the Atom editor while at GitHub. But his work wasn't finished when he left so...he started Zed a high-performance multiplayer editor that's engineered for performance. And today Nathan talks us through all the details.
• State of the "log" 2024 (Friends)

  • Rank: 9
  • 2024-12-20
  • Score: 898

  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: 10
  • 2023-12-17
  • Score: 890

  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!
• Bringing Whisper and LLaMA to the masses (Interview)

  • Rank: 11
  • 2023-03-22
  • Score: 889

  This week we're talking with Georgi Gerganov about his work on Whisper.cpp and llama.cpp. Georgi first crossed our radar with whisper.cpp his port of OpenAI’s Whisper model in C and C++. Whisper is a speech recognition model enabling audio transcription and translation. Something we're paying close attention to here at Changelog for obvious reasons. Between the invite and the show's recording he had a new hit project on his hands: llama.cpp. This is a port of Facebook’s LLaMA model in C and C++. Whisper.cpp made a splash but llama.cpp is growing in GitHub stars faster than Stable Diffusion did which was a rocket ship itself.
• Discovering discovery coding (Friends)

  • Rank: 12
  • 2025-02-14
  • Score: 880

  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.
• Livebook's big launch week (Interview)

  • Rank: 13
  • 2023-05-03
  • Score: 876

  José Valim joins Jerod to talk all about what's new in Livebook – the Elixir-based interactive code notebook he's been working on the last few years.José made a big bet when he decided to bring machine learning to Elixir. That bet is now paying off with amazing new capabilities such as building and deploying a Whisper-based chat app to Hugging Face in just 15 minutes. José demoed that and much more during Livebook's first-ever launch week. Let's get into it.
• Passkeys for a passwordless future (Interview)

  • Rank: 14
  • 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: 15
  • 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.