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.

Lessons from 10k hours of programming
- Rank: 1
- 2021-10-08
- Score: 5091
Today we’re talking to Matt Rickard about his blog post Reflections on 10000 Hours of Programming. Matt was clear to mention that these reflections are purely about coding not career advice or other soft skills. These reflections are just about deliberately writing code for 10000 hours which also correlates with the number of hours needed to master a skill. If you count the reflections we cover on the show and be the first to comment on this episode we’ll get in touch and send you a coupon code to use for a 100% free t-shirt in the merch store. Good luck…
Modern Unix tools
- Rank: 2
- 2021-07-31
- Score: 4981
This week we’re talking with Nick Janetakis about modern unix tools and the various commands tooling and ways we use the commmand line. Do you Bash or Zsh? Do you use cat or bat? What about man vs tldr? Today’s show is a deep dive into unix tools you know and love or should know and maybe love.
The future of Mac
- Rank: 3
- 2020-11-20
- Score: 2709
We have a BIG show for you today. We’re talking about the future of the Mac. Coming off of Apple’s “One more thing.” event to launch the Apple M1 chip and M1 powered Macs we have a two part show giving you the perspective of Apple as well as a Mac app developer on the future of the Mac. Part 1 features Tim Triemstra from Apple. Tim is the Product Marketing Manager for Developer Technologies. He’s been at Apple for 15 years and the team he manages is responsible for developer tools and technologies including Xcode Swift Playgrounds the Swift language and UNIX tools. Part 2 features Ken Case from The Omni Group. Ken is the Founder and CEO of The Omni Group and they’re well known for their Omni Productivity Suite including OmniFocus OmniPlan OmniGraffle and OmniOutliner – all of which are developed for iOS & Mac.
What's so exciting about Postgres?
- Rank: 4
- 2020-10-23
- Score: 2091
PostgreSQL aficionado Craig Kerstiens joins Jerod to talk about his (and our) favorite relational database. Craig details why Postgres is unique in the world of open source databases which features are most exciting the many things you can make Postgres do and what the future might hold. Oh and some awesome psql tips & tricks!
Open source civilization
- Rank: 5
- 2021-01-29
- Score: 1904
This week we’re talking about open source industrial machines. We’re joined by Marcin Jakubowski from Open Source Ecology where they’re developing open source industrial machines that can be made for a fraction of commercial costs and they’re sharing their designs online for free. The goal is to create an efficient open source economy that increases innovation through open collaboration. We talk about what it takes to build a civilization from scratch the Open Building Institute and their Eco-Building Toolkit the right to repair movement DIY maker culture and how Marcin plans to build 10000 micro factories worldwide where anyone can come and make.
What the web could be (in 2021 and beyond)
- Rank: 6
- 2021-01-12
- Score: 1849
Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch and JS Party panelist Amal Hussein join Jerod to discuss the state of the web platform! We opine on why it’s so important and unique where it stands today what modern web development looks like and where the whole thing is headed in 2021 and beyond.
Shopify’s massive storefront rewrite
- Rank: 7
- 2020-10-16
- Score: 1816
Maxime Vaillancourt joined us to talk about Shopify’s massive storefront rewrite from a Ruby on Rails monolith to a completely new implementation written in Ruby. It’s a fairly well known opinion that rewrites are “the single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make” and generally something “you should never do.” But Maxime and the team at Shopify have proved successful in their efforts in this massive storefront rewrite and today’s conversation covers all the details.
GPT has entered the chat
- Rank: 8
- 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.
Estimating systems with napkin math
- Rank: 9
- 2020-09-11
- Score: 1792
We’re joined by Simon Eskildsen Principal Engineer at Shopify talking about how he uses a concept called napkin math where you use first-principle thinking to estimate systems without writing any code. By the end of the show we were estimating pretty much everything using napkin math.
The Kollected Kode Vicious
- Rank: 10
- 2020-11-13
- Score: 1730
We’re joined by George Neville-Neil aka Kode Vicious. Writing as Kode Vicious for ACMs Queue magazine George Neville-Neil has spent the last 15+ years sharing incisive advice and fierce insights for everyone who codes works with code or works with coders. These columns have been among the most popular items published in ACMs Queue magazine and it was only a matter of time for a book to emerge from his work. His book The Kollected Kode Vicious is a compilation of the most popular items he’s published over the years plus a few extras you can only find in the book. We cover all the details in this episode.
State of the “log” 2020
- Rank: 11
- 2020-12-21
- Score: 1705
It’s the end of 2020 and on this year’s “State of the log” episode Adam and Jerod carry on the tradition of looking back at our favorite moments of the year – we talk through our most popular episodes our personal favorites and must listen episodes top posts from Changelog Posts and what we have in the works for 2021 and beyond.
Why we 💚 Vim
- Rank: 12
- 2021-07-21
- Score: 1690
On this special edition of The Changelog we tell Vim’s story from the mouths of its users. Julia Evans Drew Neil Suz Hinton and Gary Bernhardt join Jerod Santo for a deep and wide-ranging discussion about “the best text editor that anyone ever wrote.”
The future of the web is HTML over the wire
- Rank: 13
- 2021-04-05
- Score: 1677
This week we’re joined by long-time web developer Matt Patterson. Earlier this year Matt wrote an evocative article for A List Apart called The Future of Web Software Is HTML-over-WebSockets. In this episode Matt sits down with Jerod to discuss in-detail why he believes the future of the web is server-rendered (again) and how Ruby on Rails is well positioned to bring that future to us today.
Open source not open contribution
- Rank: 14
- 2021-03-26
- Score: 1665
This week we’re talking with Ben Johnson. Ben is known for his work on BoltDB his work in open source and as a freelance Go developer. Late January when Ben open sourced his newest project Litestream in the readme he shared how the project was open source but not open for contribution. His reason was to protect his mental health and the long term viability of the project. On this episode we talk with Ben about what that means his thoughts on mental health and burnout in open source choosing a license and the details behind Litestream - a standalone streaming replication tool for SQLite.
OAuth "It's complicated."
- Rank: 15
- 2021-08-23
- Score: 1651
Today we’re joined by Aaron Parecki co-founder of IndieWebCamp and maintainer of OAuth.net for a deep dive on the state of OAuth 2.0 and what’s next in OAuth 2.1. We cover the complications of OAuth RFCs like Proof Key for Code Exchange also known as PKCE OAuth for browser-based apps and next generation specs like the Grant Negotiation and Authorization Protocol also known as GNAP. The conversation begins with how Aaron experiements with the IndieWeb as a showcase of what’s possible.