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Building a VM inside ChatGPT, Advent of Code 2022, webdev Liam Neeson, Fedifinder & BDougie_transcript.txt

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+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+What up, nerds? I'm Jerod and this is Changelog News for the week of Monday, December 5th 2022.
+
+We are still accepting audio message submissions for our upcoming state of the log episode. We record it next week, so you're running out of time to get your voice on the pod and get your hands on a free t-shirt. So far we've received 5 awesome messages and 1 super weird, not safe for work, Stable Diffusion generated picture of a cow.
+
+**Dodgeball:**
+
+[I threw up in my mouth a little bit](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGPYBb2DRsg)
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+I'd love to double our listener messages count before next week and I'd also love to never receive another cowpic like that ever again.
+
+Send us your voice message at changelog.fm/sotl, short for state of the log, once again that's changelog.fm/sotl and keep your weird cowpics to yourself.
+
+**Bart Simpson:**
+
+Don't have a cow.
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Ok. Let's get in to the news.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+ChatGPT is the biggest news since Stable Diffusion broke the internet a few months back. If you haven't heard, ChatGPT is the latest release from OpenAI. It's an improvement in a few big ways over GPT3. Notably, ChatGPT has long-term memory of up to 8,192 tokens, which means it can recall the contents of conversations. This feature helps enable the _killer_ feature of ChatGPT: a very good chat interface where you can talk back and forth with it, instructing it to modify what it generates.
+
+The chat experience plus the fact that OpenAI is allowing free use of ChatGPT for now has generated countless tweets & toots demonstrating its abilities over the weekend, some of which are truly astounding. The most impressive to me, and the one we'll link to in the show notes, is by Jonas Degrave who discovered that you can build an entire virtual machine inside ChatGPT. From there, he uses curl inside ChatGPT to access OpenAI's API... which is where things start to get really interesting. Here's a quote from the article:
+
+"So, inside the imagined universe of ChatGPT's mind, our virtual machine accesses the url https://chat.openai.com/chat, where it finds a large language model named Assistant trained by OpenAI. This Assistant is waiting to receive messages inside a chatbox... We can chat with this Assistant chatbot, locked inside the alt-internet attached to a virtual machine, all inside ChatGPT's imagination. Assistant, deep down inside this rabbit hole, can correctly explain us what Artificial Intelligence is."
+
+I've seen this movie before...
+
+**Inception Soundtrack:**
+
+[Dream is Collapsing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzLhXesNkCI)
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+It's December, which means the 8th annual Advent of Code is in full swing. If you haven't heard, Advent of Code is an advent calendar of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill sets and skill levels that can be solved in any programming language you like. People use them as interview prep, company training, university coursework, practice problems, a speed contest, or to challenge each other.
+
+Each day a new puzzle is introduced, which means there are 5 of them waiting for you to solve right now if you'd like.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+We now interrupt your regularly scheduled programming for a special transmission from Mat Ryer impersonating Liam Neeson: Web Developer
+
+**Mat Ryer:**
+
+[I have a very particular set of skills...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXPYUQtoEKw)
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Mastodon and the Fediverse continue to rise in popularity amongst devs.
+
+**Princess Leia:**
+
+[The more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNuaGQ6-KnY)
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Here's some related anecdata. We post the exact same Unpopular Opinion polls to Go Time's Twitter and Mastodon channels. On Twitter, the @gotimfm account over 9400 followers. On Mastodon, @gotime@changelog.social has less than 300. And yet, the unpop polls receive more votes on Mastodon than they do no Twitter. 1/40th the following!
+
+**Darth Vader:**
+
+Impressive.
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+One thing that makes the switch off Twitter difficult is recreating your social graph on the other side. For that, check out Luca Hammer's Fedifinder project. It's a web app that helps you join the Fediverse in 5 steps. Connect your Twitter account and Fedifinder will crawl your list of followers, extracting their Mastodon handle and instance from their profile or pinned tweets so you can import them into your Mastodon account.
+
+**SSX Tricky:**
+
+That's a sweet, funky, dope manuever.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+That is the news for now, but stick around for our _final_ bonus conversation from ATO 22. Adam and I are talking to BDougie, the self-proclaimed Beyonce of open source.
+
+Have a great week and we'll talk to you again on Friday.

Bun, K8s is a red flag, critical open source packages, Rustlings & FP jargon in simple terms_transcript.txt

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+**Jerod Santo:** Hello friends, I'm Jerod and this is Changelog News for the week of Monday, July 11th, 2022
+
+Just one note before we get started. I was pleasantly surprised to hear that y'all enjoy the little pop culture sound bites I've been sprinkling in, but it can be frustrating when you miss a reference. So, from now on I'll name and link to each sound bite's source material in the transcript.
+
+**Guinness ad:**
+
+[Brilliant. Brilliant!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K8Osz9RnvY)
+
+**Jerod Santo:** OK, now to the news.
+
+Probably the biggest piece of software to drop into our laps of late is Jarred Palmer's fast, all-in-one JavaScript runtime: Bun.
+
+**Sir Mix-a-Lot:**
+
+[Don't want none unless you got buns, hun](https://genius.com/4102404)
+
+**Jerod Santo:** You can do side bends or sit-ups, but please don't lose that native bundler, transpiler, task runner and built-in npm client. Bun is here to compete with Node and Deno and is designed to be a drop-in replacement for your current JS and TS apps. The goal of Bun is to run most of the world's JavaScript outside of browsers, which is ambitious to say the least, but it has early testers and users confessing to its impressive speed.
+
+**Lightning McQueen:** [Focus. Speed. I am speed](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LaYn0541ro)
+
+**Jerod Santo:** Jeremy Brown writes: Kubernetes is a red flag that signals premature optimization.
+
+Which is weird, because he's spent much of his life advocating for and selling a distribution of Kubernetes and consulting services around it. Now, he didn't write this post merely to pick on Kates. Do people say Kates? Kay Eight Ess. Kubernetes. He says he's, "directing this post at every possible bit of premature optimisation engineers make in the course of building software."
+
+The overwhelming sentiment can be summed up in these two points. One: Your organization needs engineers to create an impact on the mission, and two: try do more with less
+
+Over the weekend, Armin Ronacher blogged a blog called "Congratulations: We Now Have Opinions on Your Open Source Contributions"
+
+But I think he's being sarcastic about that congratulations bit, because he's not too excited about this.
+
+**Inigo Montoya:** [You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTRKCXC0JFg)
+
+**Jerod Santo:** This post is in response to a change made in Python's PyPi package manager. They are beginning to require 2 factor auth for "critical" packages. About this, and his newly deemed "critical" package, Armon says: "Once packages are within a certain level of adoption compared to the global downloads, they are considered critical. Currently if you maintain a "critical" package it means that you need to enroll a multi factor authenticator. It appears that the hypothetical consequence of not enrolling into 2FA is not being able to release new versions. My visceral reaction to this email was not positive."
+
+I think we can all agree that increasing supply chain security is a noble goal for every package ecosystem, and on paper it makes sense for this requirement to not affect every package maintainer (at least not at first), but I can still see how it rubs people the wrong way. Again, Armon says: "When I create an Open Source project, I do not chose to create a “critical” package. It becomes that by adoption over time. Right now the consequence of being a critical package is quite mild: you only need to enable 2FA. But a line has been drawn now and I'm not sure why it wouldn't be in the index's best interest to put further restrictions in place."
+
+File this one under: open source... it's complicated.
+
+Next up, Rustlings: small exercises to get you used to reading and writing Rust code. This repo (that's maintained by the Rust team) has made Changelog News in the past, but Daniel Thompson from Tauri (yes, that's how you pronounce it: Tauri) recommended it on The Changelog so we linked it up again. Here's a bit of Daniel telling us how Tauri is like a gateway to Rust:
+
+**Daniel Thompson:** Because you don't need to write Rust from the beginning, it lowers the barrier to entry. Because you can say you've built a Rust-based application. Just being able to say this is one of those visualization techniques of getting better at things... understanding that, yes, you are capable of doing it. And the fact is  people get interested by it. Over the three years we've been working on this project a couple people have very visibly improved in their Rust. In the beginning they're like, "this is hard!" Everything is hard if you've never done it before. Having Tauri as a gateway to understanding: ok, well I need a compiler. Why do I need a compiler? Well, having a compiler is good because it makes my app small. Great, so you get that out of the way. Then you discover that, oh maybe there's this special custom feature you want to make and you follow the instructions and you write a couple lines of Rust. Then the compiler's like, "you did it wrong", and you're like, ok what'd I do wrong? Oh that's what I did wrong! And you figure it out. Suddenly you've written a couple lines of Rust.
+
+**Jerod Santo:** Last one for today: Jargon from the functional programming world in simple terms!
+
+FP provides many advantages and I can say that in my career as I learned and applied functional principles to my code  (even in OOP languages like Ruby and JavaScript) my software became easier to reason about, less error-prone and more maintainable.
+
+Unfortunately, all that FP jargon can be a real sticking point. It can make you feel like a Baby Boomer trying to communicate with Gen Z:
+
+**Gen Z Villain:** [You tryin' to flex on me... pull up in a suit? I'm not trying to buy car insurace, bruh.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65kPTniJusE)
+
+**Jerod Santo:** If arity, currying, idempotent, monoid, monad, or applicative functors have you cappin'... Check out this glossary which includes defintions and example code.
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+That's the news for now. We'll be back in your ears on Friday with that Tauri episode. It's a deep one, clocking in at almost an hour forty before mastering.
+
+We'll talk to you then.

Bun, K8s is a red flag, ＂critical＂ open source packages, Rustlings & FP jargon in simple terms_transcript.txt

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+[0.00 --> 12.18]  Hello friends, I'm Jared, and this is Changelog News for the week of Monday, July 11th, 2022.
+[12.78 --> 17.74]  Just one note before we get started, I was pleasantly surprised to hear that y'all enjoy
+[17.74 --> 22.22]  the little pop culture soundbites I've been sprinkling in, but it can be frustrating when
+[22.22 --> 28.34]  you miss a reference. So, from now on, I'll name and link to each soundbite's source material in
+[28.34 --> 37.10]  the transcript. Okay, now to the news. Probably the biggest piece of software to drop into our laps
+[37.10 --> 42.32]  of late is Jared Sumner's fast, all-in-one JavaScript runtime, Bun.
+[45.56 --> 51.18]  You can do side bends or sit-ups, but please don't lose that native bundler, transpiler,
+[51.18 --> 57.98]  task runner, and built-in NPM client. Bun is here to compete with Node and Dino and is designed to be
+[57.98 --> 64.96]  a drop-in replacement for your current JS and TS apps. The goal of Bun is to run most of the world's
+[64.96 --> 70.28]  JavaScript outside of browsers, which is ambitious to say the least, but it has early testers and
+[70.28 --> 76.30]  users confessing to its impressive speed. Focus. Speed. I am speed.
+[77.12 --> 78.68]  Jeremy Brown writes,
+[78.68 --> 85.80]  Kubernetes is a red flag that signals premature optimization, which is kind of weird because he's
+[85.80 --> 91.72]  spent much of his life advocating for and selling a distribution of Kubernetes and consulting services
+[91.72 --> 98.68]  around it. Now, he didn't write this post merely to pick on Kates. Do people say Kates? K-8-S.
+[99.18 --> 103.40]  Kubernetes. He's not picking just on Kubernetes. He says he's, quote,
+[103.40 --> 109.58]  directing this post at every possible bit of premature optimization engineers make in the
+[109.58 --> 114.32]  course of building software, end quote. The overwhelming sentiment can be summed up in these
+[114.32 --> 120.34]  two points. One, your organization needs engineers to create an impact on the mission, and two,
+[120.60 --> 127.90]  try to do more with less. Over the weekend, Armin Ronicher blogged a blog called Congratulations,
+[127.90 --> 133.76]  we now have opinions on your open source contributions. But I think he's being sarcastic
+[133.76 --> 137.28]  about that congratulations bit. He's not too excited about this.
+[137.40 --> 140.98]  You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.
+[141.14 --> 145.66]  This post is in response to a change made in Python's PyPy package manager.
+[146.06 --> 152.22]  They are beginning to require two-factor auth for, quote, critical packages. About this and his
+[152.22 --> 158.32]  newly deemed critical package, Armin says, quote, once packages are within a certain level of
+[158.32 --> 163.88]  adoption compared to the global downloads, they are considered critical. Currently, if you maintain
+[163.88 --> 169.82]  a critical package, you need to enroll a multi-factor authenticator. It appears that the hypothetical
+[169.82 --> 176.42]  consequence of not enrolling into 2FA is not being able to release new versions. My visceral reaction
+[176.42 --> 182.00]  to this email was not positive, end quote. I think we can all agree that increasing supply chain
+[182.00 --> 186.92]  security is a noble goal for every package ecosystem. And on paper, it makes sense for
+[186.92 --> 191.82]  this requirement to not affect every package maintainer, at least not at first. But I can
+[191.82 --> 196.82]  still see how it rubs people the wrong way. Again, Armin says, quote, when I create an open source
+[196.82 --> 201.94]  project, I do not choose to create a critical package. It becomes that by adoption over time.
+[202.26 --> 207.48]  Right now, the consequence of being a critical package is quite mild. You only need to enable 2FA.
+[207.48 --> 213.44]  But a line has been drawn now, and I'm not sure why it wouldn't be in the index's best interest to put
+[213.44 --> 220.00]  further restrictions in place, end quote. We can file this one under open source. It's complicated.
+[220.64 --> 228.98]  Next up, Rustlings. Small exercises to get you used to reading and writing Rust code. This repo that's
+[228.98 --> 234.68]  maintained by the Rust team has made changelog news in the past, but Daniel Thompson of Towery, yes, that's how you
+[234.68 --> 240.42]  pronounce it. Towery. Recommended it on the changelog, so we linked it up again. Here's a clip of Daniel
+[240.42 --> 243.32]  telling us how Towery is like a gateway to Rust.
+[243.50 --> 249.96]  Because you don't need to write Rust from the beginning, it lowers the barrier to entry because
+[249.96 --> 256.44]  you can say you have now built a Rust-based application. And just being able to say this is
+[256.44 --> 262.10]  kind of one of those visualization techniques of getting better at things, is understanding that,
+[262.10 --> 269.36]  yes, you are capable of doing it. And the fact is, people get interested by it. Like, over the three
+[269.36 --> 276.82]  years we've been working on this project, a couple people have very visibly improved in their Rust.
+[277.04 --> 282.24]  At the beginning, they're like, this is hard. Everything is hard if you've never done it before.
+[282.24 --> 289.24]  And having Towery as a gateway to understanding, well, okay, I need a compiler. Why do I need a
+[289.24 --> 294.98]  compiler? Well, having a compiler is good because it makes my app small. Great. So you get that out
+[294.98 --> 301.18]  of the way. And then you discover that, oh, maybe there's this special custom feature that you want
+[301.18 --> 305.64]  to make. And you follow the instructions and you write a couple lines of Rust. And the compiler's like,
+[305.68 --> 309.06]  oh, you did it wrong. And you're like, oh, okay, what did I do? Oh, that's what I did wrong. And
+[309.06 --> 312.06]  you figure it out. And suddenly you've written a couple lines of Rust.
+[312.74 --> 318.26]  Last one for today, jargon from the functional programming world in simple terms.
+[318.72 --> 324.30]  FP provides many advantages. And I can say that in my career, as I learned and applied functional
+[324.30 --> 330.36]  principles to my code, even in OOP languages like Ruby and JavaScript, my software became easier to
+[330.36 --> 336.94]  reason about, less error prone, and more maintainable. Unfortunately, all that FP jargon can be a real
+[336.94 --> 341.74]  sticking point. It can make you feel like a baby boomer trying to communicate with Gen Z.
+[342.14 --> 346.18]  Hey, you trying to flex on me, Kerr? Pull up in a suit? I'm not trying to buy car insurance, bruh.
+[346.32 --> 348.46]  Okay, laugh and say, I'm dead.
+[349.60 --> 349.94]  What?
+[350.00 --> 351.02]  It's Gen Z, remember?
+[351.24 --> 352.82]  Ha! I'm dead.
+[353.18 --> 360.12]  If arity, currying, idempotent, monoid, monad, or applicable functors have you cappin',
+[360.12 --> 361.40]  say you cappin'.
+[361.40 --> 362.56]  You cappin'.
+[362.56 --> 367.24]  Check out this glossary, which includes definitions and example code.
+[367.92 --> 372.96]  That is the news for now. We'll be back in your ears on Friday with that Towery episode.
+[373.36 --> 377.62]  It's a deep one clocking in at almost an hour and 40 before mastering.
+[377.98 --> 379.88]  Stay tuned for that. We'll talk to you then.
+[379.88 --> 386.36]  Game on!

Chapters, PiBox, using one big server, oncall compensation, being swamped is normal, Tabler & Gum_transcript.txt

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+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+What up, nerds?
+
+**Revenge of the Nerds:** [NERDS!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZEdDMQZaCU)
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+I'm Jerod and this is Changelog News for the week of Monday, August 8th 2022.
+
+We start with a little bit of news from us, your friends at Changelog. Last week we added chapters to the episode pages on changelog.com.
+
+**Bill and Ted:** Excellent!
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+You'll find them between the show notes and the transcript. Each chapter is titled with its time offset that's clickable, of course, so you can play the episode starting from there.
+
+Next up, we're working on adding the very same chapters to our mp3s so you can use them in your podcast app of choice. People are calling it the single greatest technical improvement to Changelog podcasts since transcripts. And when I say "people", I mean "me". I've been calling it that.
+
+I can't give you an ETA on the mp3 chapters, because no self-respecting developer would opt in to a deadline that's easily avoidable. But hopefully they'll ship Real Soon Now.
+
+Ok, let's get into what else is news.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+First up, it's the [PiBox](https://pibox.io). Designed for hackers, tinkerers, and self-hosters, the PiBox combines a Raspberry Pi CM4, WiFi, 8 gigs of RAM, up to 16TB of SSD Storage, and a suite of software that provides an app store, backups, remote access, and more.
+
+They call it the most versatile personal server ever. It's powered by KubeSail, which works on any Linux OS that can run Kubernetes. KubeSail looks sorta open source? There's lots of open repos on their GitHub org, but there is a KubeSail.com control panel and other private parts, as far as I can tell. However, since it's all about self hosting, they aren't running your apps as a service.
+
+Entry level pricing is $159 with the plug N play maxed out offering at $529. Batch 1 of the PiBoxes are shipping now, but they're taking pre-orders for batch 2, which is expected to ship in October.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Speaking of hosting, Nima Badizadegan
+
+**Heisenberg:** [Say my name.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eZOOEkrf6Q)
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+I tried, I really tried. Nima writes on the advantages of using one big server over a distributed system architecture. Nima says, "We have all gotten so familiar with virtualization and abstractions between our software and the servers that run it. These days, “serverless” computing is all the rage, and even “bare metal” is a class of virtual machine. However, every piece of software runs on a server. Since we now live in a world of virtualization, most of these servers are a lot bigger and a lot cheaper than we actually think."
+
+The article covers the capabilities of one server, what it'll cost you, how scaling up is easier than scaling out, and rebuts a bunch of common objections to the One Big Server approach.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Gergely Orosz has a two-part series about how the software industry approaches oncall. Part 1 covers [healthy oncall practices](https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/healthy-oncall-practices) and part 2 dives into oncall compensation for software engineers.
+
+The article goes through more than 80 data points on how much different companies pay for oncall. So you can find out which companies pay the most, which companies pay the least, and which companies don't pay at all.
+
+**Peter Venkman:** [24 hours a day, seven days a week. No job is too big, no fee is too big.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slFsrr6Lp48)
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+A valuable resource, for sure, if and when you're job shopping.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Are you always swamped with work? Greg Kogan says that's normal and not impressive. Ouch.
+
+**Hansel:** [And I felt like, this guy's really hurting me. And it hurt!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scy0PV_vZHY)
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+"I used to think being swamped was a good sign. I’m doing stuff! I’m making progress! I’m important! I have an excuse to make others wait! Then I realized being swamped just means I’m stuck in the default state, like a ball that settled to a stop in the deepest part of an empty pool, the spot where rainwater has collected into a puddle."
+
+Reading this reminded me of Woody Zuill's distinction between productivity and effectiveness.
+
+**Woody Zuill:**
+
+There’s so much more than thinking productivity is important. I don’t think productivity is important at all. I think being effective is important.
+
+So productivity is like another proxy measurement that a lot of managers need to use, because that’s how they think work should be, and they do it. But there’s a famous quote from Russell Ackoff, I think, who said, “Because managers can’t figure out how to measure what they want, they start wanting what they can measure.” This is like a critical thing to think about. What do we do in our daily work that we do because we can’t really figure out how to do things a better way?
+
+Here’s the thing… If we’re focused on flow, that is taking something from beginning to end directly, there are many benefits we get from that.
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+When he first said it to us on the show, I thought it was a distinction without a difference, but the more I thought about it, the more I think Woody (and Greg) are on to something.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Have you heard of Tabler? It's a premium open source dashboard template with a responsive and high-quality UI. It works cross-browser of course, uses modern HTML and CSS, and is built with Bootstrap. Remember?
+
+**Obi-wan Kenobi:** [Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time. A long time.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=031vKBPk5eA)
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+There are also React components available for Tabler in a separate repo. Links to both are in the show notes.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Last, but certainly not least: our friends at Charm released a new tool for glam'ing up your shell scripts. It's called gum, which gives you the power of their Bubbles and Lip Gloss tools without having to write any Go code! When Toby Padilla from Charm was on the show, he sang Go's praises for writing CLIs:
+
+**Toby Padilla:**
+
+We think Go is a good language to build command line tools in, for a number of reasons. One is you get a compilable binary that you can ship, a single file, and you don’t have to force all of your users to install all of the dependencies that you’ve used to develop, a la Node.js or Python or something like that. So it’s sort of a natural fit for this type of tooling. It’s just a nice language; it’s got a really good standard library… So a lot of stuff that you might want to do to make a really cool command line app is just straight up available in the Go standard library. It’s got an HTTP server, it’s got an HTTP client. It’s got a lot of stuff inside of it. So that was why we focused on it.
+
+We like lots of languages, and we come from backgrounds where we – I was a Clojure developer for six years. I was doing Rust actually for two years before I moved to Go… And Muesli - I follow him on GitHub, and I got jealous of all the cool libraries that he was starting all the time. I’m like, “I want that.” Because he’s a Golang developer, and he’s like “Super-cool crypto thing”, or whatever. And I’m like, “Hey, that looks neat. I’m in Rust, writing my own bencoding library, because such a thing doesn’t exist.” At some point I just thought “You know, I love Rust, it’s really cool, it’s a super-exciting language”, but I jumped ship. I’m like, I wanna be more productive, I wanna use all the fun toys, and so I started doing Go.
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+But it's super cool to see Toby and the team bringing their CLI tools to the broader community.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+That's the news for now. Stay tuned for our regular edition of The Changelog on Friday when I go one-on-one with Liz Rice. If you've been living under a cloud native rock, Liz is the Chief Open Source Officer with eBPF pioneers Isolovalent. If there's one person on earth who could best school us on the power of ePBF, it'd be Liz. And she'll do just that on Friday. Have a great week. Talk to you then.

DevTool platform types, things to know about databases, starting with commas, Lobsters turns 10 & Upptime_transcript.txt

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+**Jerod Santo:** Hello friends, I'm Jerod and this is Changelog News for the week of Monday, July 4th, 2022. But we're shipping out on Tuesday instead of Monday, because \[Freedom...! 00:00:16.11\]
+
+First up, thanks to everyone for sharing your thoughts on this little experiment of ours. We are listening and adapting, so please continue with the feedback. Here's what's different this time around. One, almost everyone said to make it longer. \[As you wish... 00:00:37.10\] This episode is about twice as long as last week's.
+
+Two - many of you also read Changelog Weekly, and since we're covering the most interesting links from Sunday's edition of the newsletter, it makes the audio version less new or interesting. So we are now mixing in stories that we haven't previously covered. Hopefully, that keeps it fresh for everybody.
+
+Three, many of you think the music bed is distracting, and asked us to turn it lower, or turn it off altogether. So let's try it without, and see how that sounds. Nice and quiet.
+
+Okay, let's get into the news.
+
+On DX tips, Swyx writes about the 4.5 kinds of dev tools platforms. This is his attempt to make sense of the overwhelming world of developer tooling. If you work for or invest in dev tool startups, I think this mental model is a good one. What are the 4.5? One, application platforms that make the user productive. Two, infrastructure platforms make the application run. Three, data platforms make the data useful. Four, developer platforms make developers productive. And the point five, internal services with cross-cutting needs to interface with every platform. Those are his high-level conclusions. Read the whole article for his thinking behind the matter.
+
+Did you know there are things you should know about databases? Lots of things. And did you also know there is an excellent - and I mean, excellent post on architecturenotes.co to teach you some of those things. It's focused mostly on indexes and transactions, explaining them in great detail with some seriously impressive diagrams to make sure it all clicks. Not much else to say about this one, except that it was the number one clicked link in the newsletter, and there's a link for you to click in the show notes.
+
+Brandon Rhodes wants you to start all of your commands with a comma. Why is that? If you have your own Bin directory somewhere in your path, which you probably should, and you put all your own little scripts and executable bits in there, like you probably should, eventually you'll hit a problem or your script names start to conflict with the built-in and bundled commands. But if you start all your commands with a comma, like Brandon does, this problem melts away. \[You cursed brat! Look what you've done! I'm melting, melting. Ohhhhh, what a world, what a world. 00:02:56.22\]
+
+As a bonus, team this technique with tab completion, and it's super-easy to browse your collection of commands. Just type comma, then tab, and there they are.
+
+Lobsters turns ten. Over the weekend, the website's creator, Joshua Stein, tweeted "Ten years ago today, I "pooped out" a better version of Hacker News in my spare time." As Thomas Ptacek eloquently put it. It didn't really mature into the thing that I hoped it would, and I don't use it much anymore, but I'm happy some people are still finding it a nice place to be.
+
+Over on the site itself, current administrator Peter Bhat Harkins says "Over that time, our community of 15,013 users have submitted 87,530 stories, written 381,460 comments, and cast 2,536,117 votes." That's a lot. I am a fan of the site, which usually features more esoteric and engineering-heavy posts than other tech aggregators. The conversations there can still get toxic from time to time, but were on the internet is that not the case? Seriously, if you know of such a place, holler at me. \[I want to go to there 00:04:18.09\]
+
+\[04:20\] James Hawkins and his team at PostHog have interviewed 725 people, and one of his big takeaways is "It's normal for candidates not to ask harder questions about our company, so they usually miss out on a chance to 1) de-risk our company's performance, and 2) increase the chances they'll like working here." So he shares some really important job interview questions engineers should ask, but don't. Questions like "Does the company have product-market fit? How much runway does the company have? What's the culture like?" and a whole bunch more. Definitely worth a bookmark for the next time you're job shopping.
+
+Go Time listeners already know this, but for the rest of you, our recent episode with Ron Evans a.k.a. @deadprogram is just too good to miss, even if Go isn't your thing. Here's the conceit - the year is 2053; the tabs versus spaces wars are long over. Ron Evans is the only Go programmer still alive on earth. All he does is maintain old Go code. It's terrible. He must find a way to warn his fellow gophers before it's too late. Good thing he finally got that PDQ transmission system working. What results is a hilarious and somehow still insightful conversation with so many funny moments like this one about the future of social media.
+
+"You know, when you're building something that's gonna survive a two year trip to Mars, believe me, your mp3s sound pretty funny by the time the ship gets to its destination... Or so I've been told. I don't know, actually those might be AIs sending back those reports. There might even be no humans that survived the trip. There's a rumor going around they're all just AIs." "How's it going around? Who's it going around?" "Social media still exists in 2053." "Oh, thank goodness. I don't know what you'd do without it." "I use Minder. You know, it's where you're allowed to dump your actual mind directly." "That's cool." "Is it text? Is it visual?" It's more like a feeling." "It's just Hex." "Remember the feeling you used to get when there was somebody being wrong on the internet? It's like that all the time." "Is it XML though?" "No, you just plug directly into your brain-computer interface, and you're just really mad right away." "Oh, I love it." "Yeah, it's beautiful."
+
+Listen to the rest in our Go time feed, or on the web at Gotime.fm/235.
+
+Last up for today. Upptime. Upptime. No, I wasn't stuttering. \[Did I stutter? 00:06:43.00\] That's U-p-p-t-i-m-e. That's how you say that, right,? A super-cool uptime monitor and status page powered entirely by GitHub. It uses GitHub Actions as the uptime monitor itself, checking your website every five minutes. GitHub issues for incident reports, opening new ones when endpoints are down, and assigning team members appropriately, and GitHub Pages for a status website built with Svelte and Sapper. This project is not affiliated with or endorsed by GitHub, but it is super-cool, super-free, and endorsed by over 1,000 people who have set it up for themselves.
+
+That's the news for now. Let us know in the comments if you liked this better than last week; or worse, or whatever. Seriously, we do want to hear from you. We have an excellent conversation coming up for you on Friday. Brian Cantrell from Oxide Computer joins the show for a deep-dive on their attempt to build servers as they should be - hardware, with the software baked in for running infrastructure at scale. Adam's on vacation this week, so I have a special guest/co-host joining us as well. Can you guess who? We'll talk to you then.

Firefox supports blockers, NATS is great, Uber's MFA fatigue, OAuth2 drawn in cute shapes & an aging programmer_transcript.txt

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+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Hello, friends. I'm Jerod and this is Changelog News for the week of Monday, September 26th 2022. Let's do this.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Mozilla reaffirms that Firefox will continue to support current content blockers. Why does that matter? Because Chrome (and Chromium-based browsers like Edge and Brave) are moving to a new manifest, version 3, which hamstrings version 2's blocking WebRequest API. This API powers many blockers, such as the massively popular uBlock Origin extension.
+
+To be clear, content blocking will still be possible in Chrome once manifest V3 roll out, but it will be limited in what all you can do. For example, setting up custom filter lists or using multiple extensions that rely on the API might run you into artificial limits set by Google.
+
+As we all know, the GOOG is highly incentivized to block ad blocking.
+
+**Mark Normand:**
+
+[Give it a goog!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5iVkEmGtIw)
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Now that Mozilla has reaffirmed their position, a renewed interest in Firefox has been on display on social media sites like Reddit. Over the years, Firefox has seen its once substantial browser market share dwindle to low single digits...
+
+**Terry Malloy:**
+
+[You don't understand I could have been a contender.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efHzGxEzDQA)
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Maybe this is just the boost it needs to remain relevant and fight back against Google's web browsing hegemony.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Nabeel Sulieman thinks NATS is great and recommends you check it out if you're running any kind of microservices architecture. What is NATS, exactly? Nabeel describes it as a light-weight, easy to deploy service that provides pub-sub functionality with very little fuss. It is a tiny application, written in Go, that listens on a port for connections from clients.
+
+His blog post on NATS started a nice discussion Changelog News where Dwayne Bradley agreed that more people should investigate NATS. He says there are so many things you can remove from your infrastucture by using it. Things like load balancers, firewalls, VPNs, traffic shapers, services meshes, Kubernetes, and more.
+
+That's a compelling list of things you might not actually need.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+You may have heard of Uber's recent security breach, but have you heard how it went down? Turns out it was a new vector for the oldest technique in the book: social engineering
+
+The attacker disguised themselves as Uber IT and spammed the target with repeated multi-factor auth requests until they eventually authorized access. Uber believes the attacker had previously purchased the user's password on the dark web and performed the MFA fatigue to subvert the last line of defense. Once they had access to Uber's intranet they scanned the network until they found a PowerShell script with admin credentials and it at that point, it was pretty much over.
+
+**Negan:**
+
+[Easy peasy lemon squeezy]()
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Speaking of auth... you know what's difficult to grasp? OAuth2. Aaron Parecki spent an entire episode of The Changelog with Adam and I explaining it to us and by the end he was like...
+
+**Detective Carter:**
+
+[Do you understand the words coming out of my mouth?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8t52ROZCxg)
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Good news if you're a visual learner, Klemen Sever explained OAuth2 by drawing cute shapes. Describing those cute shapes would be a waste of your time and mine, so we'll just link to his drawings in the show notes. One Twitter commenter had this to say about Klemen's effort: "I thought its gonna be one of those cringe 'look I just bought an ipad with a pen drawings', but these were actually pretty good!"
+
+To which Klemen responded: "Thanks, I guess"
+
+**Helent Hunt:**
+
+[That might be the best compliment of my life.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrtpRNsdfYs)
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Jorge Manrubia writes: "Back in college, they told me that I would start my career writing code, but eventually, I would move to a position where I would ask others to code my designs. To celebrate that this turned out to be completely false, here are some assorted reflections as a 40-year-old programmer that looks back:"
+
+What follows is a bulleted-list that includes thoughts like: "I don't enjoy switching contexts. My perfect agenda is composed of a single meaty task I can focus on for days." and "I am way more cautious when deploying things."
+
+He finishes up by answering a Quora thread, which asks: "Do people lose interest in programming as they age? Is it accurate to expect that older programmers are slower, make more mistakes, and would rather be doing something else such as managing programmers?"
+
+Jorge's answers: No, No, and no.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+That is the news for now. We'll be back in your ears on Friday when Adam and I are joined by our good friend Lars Wikman (or as we Americans lovingly refer to him: Lars Wikman). To support our chaptering efforts, Lars wrote an open source Elixir library for us that reads and writes ID3v2 tags. He picked up a bunch of esoteric knowledge along the way. Like, did you know each mp3 may have an embedded popularimeter inside the file?
+
+If you like nerding out on specs, waxing nostalgic for the good ole' days of Napster, or ever wondered what it's like to have me hire you to write some code, you're gonna enjoy this one.
+
+Have a great week and we'll talk to you again real soon.

Forking SQLite, generative AI for music, saying no to sprints, awesome diagramming tools & state machine facts_transcript.txt

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+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+What up nerds...
+
+**Budweiser Commercial:**
+
+[Wazzzupppppp!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OQ46D_RoR0)
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+I'm Jerod and this is Changelog News for the week of Monday, October 10th 2022.
+
+You know, it's been months since we heard a significantly unpopular opinion on Go Time. Well, except this one:
+
+**Erik St. Martin:**
+
+[Pineapple on pizza is good. Fight me.](https://gotime.fm/245)
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+So, yesterday on Twitter we asked Go Time's followers to help us out and post their most unpopular tech opinions. That resulted in a fun thread of spicy takes like user @mylescristopher saying: "infrastructure as code is almost always a waste of time", @robertoguerra19 saying: "TDD is a cult"
+
+**Emma Bostian:**
+
+You did not just say that!
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+To which @britanyellich replied: "Okay maybe, but it's a good cult!"
+
+**Michael Scott:**
+
+[Boom, roasted.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDnSQnh3Les)
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+And @a4w_m6h saying "Your choice of database is more important than your choice of programming language."
+
+I actually agree with that one... There's a link to the thread in your show notes. Hop on there and add your unpopular opinion. Who knows, maybe we'll feature it in a future episode.
+
+Ok, let's get in to the news.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+libSQL is a fork of SQLite that is both open source, and open contributions. Everyone loves SQLite, and there's a lot to love, but not everyone is in love with its contribution model, which is pretty much limited to Richard Hipp and his team.
+
+The creators of this fork want to see a world where everyone can benefit from all of the great ideas and hard work that the SQLite community contributes back to the codebase. Who forms this new community? Right now it appears to be just Glauber Costa and his team at
+ChiselStrike, but they're hoping others will join them. They're siren call asks what do you think SQLite could become?
+
+Could it become a distributed database? Could it be optimized with an async API? Could it be embedded in the Linux kernel? Could it support WASM user-defined functions?
+
+If these are questions you'd like to see answered, join the libSQL community and start hacking.
+
+**Jerry Maquire:**
+
+[Who's coming with me?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IXOK0b4_kk)
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+StabilityAI is back in the news already. This time they're announcing Harmonai, a community-driven org releasing open source generative audio tools to make music production more accessible and fun for everyone. The first of these tools: Dance Diffusion, which is kinda like Stable Diffusion, but for music.
+
+**Simon Willison:**
+
+You're a wizard and you've found a new spell.
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+What kind of music are these tools capable of today? Here's one sample audio file generated by Harmona i, and here's another. Sound familiar? I think we just got journeyrolled by Dance Diffusion. It's a work in progress...
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Robin Rendle doesn't believe in sprints. Has he been listening to The Changelog?
+
+Robin says, "I’ve never seen a good team improved by sprints and I’ve never seen a crappy team improved by them either... In fact, every efficient and productive team I’ve worked on has ignored the concept of sprints altogether; people are more focused without them, they communicate better. When you’re on a team like that, then it’s easy to see how everyone else mistakes the bureaucracy around the work for the work itself."
+
+He goes on, as you can imagine. And if you appreciate a solid rant, definitely read the whole thing. What I appreciate about these kinds of posts is that they question the status quo, which is healthy. Reminds me of Lucas Da Costa questioning our stand-up practices:
+
+**Lucas Da Costa:**
+
+[So when it comes to stand-ups...](https://changelog.com/podcast/507#transcript-197)
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Speaking of Lucas, he praised cumulation charts on the pod. He thinks they're an awesome diagram for managing software production systems. Meanwhile, Shubham Garg created an entire repo of awesome diagramming tools used by software engineering teams. His list lays outs different factors you should consider when picking a tool such as cost, open or closed source, ease of use, code vs hand drawn, and visual appearance.
+
+Bookmark this one for the next time you need an awesome tool to help create that awesome diagram.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+While we're talking about tooling, let's talk about state machines real quick. Chris Pressey's Facts about State Machines repo is a must-read for anyone unfamiliar with tech. Chris says,
+
+"I hold the opinion that state machines are often misunderstood and under-applied. And that's why I wrote this. The goal of this list of facts is not to teach you what state machines are or how to use them; there are plenty of other resources for that. Rather, the goal here is to motivate their usage and to highlight things about them that are frequently overlooked, but nonetheless relevant."
+
+This is not your typical primer or intro-only write-up. It starts there, but quickly goes deep into state charts, implementation strategies, nesting state machines, and much more. The guy knows his stuff. And you can know it, too, by giving it a read.
+
+**Neo:**
+
+I know kung fu.
+
+**Morpheus:**
+
+Show me.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+That is the news for now. We'll be back with a fresh show on Friday. The topic of conversation: taking Postgres serverless. That is what Nikita Shamgunov and his team at Neon are trying to do, and they're off to a great start having already separated compute and storage. This is a great episode for anyone with a vested interest in data storage (which is pretty much all of us) and the future (which again, all of us).
+
+Have a great week! We'll talk to you then.

Free Heroku EOL, Stable Diffusion 2.0, Twitter SRE explains why it stays up, Git Notes & Joel Lord_transcript.txt

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+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Hidley ho!
+
+**Ned Flanders:**
+
+[Hidley Ho, neighborinos!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_YBngq5mc0)
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+I'm Jerod and this is Changelog News for the week of Monday, November 28th 2022.
+
+It's hard to believe, but 2022 is almost a wrap. Adam and I are prepping once again for our 5th annual state of the “log” episode where we look back at the year, discuss some of our favorite episodes, the most popular ones, and talk a bit about what we have in the works for 2023 and beyond.
+
+Last year we included listener voices for the first time, and I thought it turned out super cool, so we're doing it again. Please share with us your favorite Changelog guests, topics, or a-ha moments you’ve had over the last year.
+
+If you get your message included in the episode, we’ll send you a free t-shirt.
+
+It doesn’t have to be super produced. Just pop open your Voice Memos app on your phone or use QuickTime or Audacity on your laptop. Tell us what’s on your mind.
+
+Then upload your audio to [changelog.fm/sotl](https://changelog.fm/sotl) (short for state of the "log"). Once again that's changelog.fm/sotl.
+
+**Ben Stiller:**
+
+Do it. DO IT.
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Ok. Let's get into the news.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+We start with a PSA: Heroku will delete all free dbs and shut down all free dynos today. And by today I mean Monday, November 28th. If you're listening to this on delay... sorry too late.
+
+**Bloodsport:**
+
+[Too late? No such thing as too late.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMYZX50ILMc)
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+"free" dynos, "hobby-dev" Heroku Postgres, and "hobby-dev" Heroku Data for Redis plans are affected. It's the end of an era, for sure. Where will you move your small and personal web projects? What about starting new ones? I'd love to hear where and why. Let us know in the comments.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Stable Diffusion 2.0 dropped last week to much excitement... but it quickly turned to mixed responses once people started playing with the results. Shawn "swyx" Wang has a solid rundown of what's new and what's disappointing the Stable Diffusion community on his L-Space Diaries Substack. After displaying a bunch of side-by-side results from identical prompts Swyx says: If you looked closely and couldn’t decide if SD2 was better than SD1, you weren’t alone...
+
+That said: the task of deciding if a generated image is “better” or “worse” is quite subjective and hard to quantify across a literally infinite unbounded latent space - FID scores being the best we have so far.
+
+and: prompts are a moving target - the same prompt generates different things in SD1 vs Midjourney 3 vs Midjourney 4 vs Dall-E 2 vs SD2 - and users will discover new magic keywords and best practices that subjectively improve results. So perhaps SD2 initially looks “worse” than SD1, but then improves as users learn how to wield it better.
+
+He goes on to explain why "prompt engineering" itself is a product smell. Good stuff, worth a read.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Real Twitter SRE, Matthew Tejo, writes: "Twitter supposedly lost around 80% of its work force. What ever the real number is, there are whole teams with out engineers on it now. Yet, the website goes on and the tweets keep coming. This left a lot wondering what exactly was going on with all those engineers and made it seem like it was all just bloat. I’d like to explain my little corner of Twitter (though it wasn’t so little) and some of the work that went on that kept this thing running."
+
+Matthew was an SRE for five years at Twitter, working on the Cache team. That's Cache with a capital "C", not the generic idea of caching things, Twitter's Cache is a core part of their infrastructure. He explains in this post how the Cache works and how it keeps running even with nobody around to scale it up and down. It's a fun and interesting read, but the coux de grace is in the comments, where Johnny Manu 40 said, "When everything works fine, they wonder why they hired you. When everything stops working, they wonder why they hired you. IT in a nutshell"
+
+**Austin Powers:**
+
+[No, this is me in a nutshell...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsmfH0On_ds)
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Odds are, you've never heard of Git Notes. Tyler Cipriani calls it Git's coolest, most unloved feature... and says they're almost a secret. What are git notes? They're a built-in place to stow metadata about anything tracked by git—any object: commits, blobs, and trees. All without futzing with the object itself.
+
+One example use of this is the git project itself, which uses notes to link each commit to its discussion on the project's mailing list. But that's just the start and we'd see a lot more uses of this if more people knew about the feature. Tyler shares a few ideas of his own in his blog post, but just having knowledge of its existence is half the battle.
+
+**GI Joe:**
+
+[Knowing is half the battle.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pele5vptVgc)
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+That is the news for now. Up next in our All Things Open bonus series we have Joel Lord telling us all about how he brews beer with help from IoT and JavaScript.
+
+Have a great week and we'll talk to you again real soon.

Hacktoberfest is ON, DiffusionBee is 1.0, Dracula UI is out, GitX is undead, Prerender is off AWS & we'll be at ATO!_transcript.txt

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+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+What up, nerds.
+
+**Homer Simpson:**
+
+[Nerd!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7_QQn_2McM)
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+I'm Jerod and this is Changelog News for the week of Monday, October 3rd 2022.
+
+Yes, October has arrived and you know what that means. Hacktoberfest 2022 is in full swing. This year, there's a new emphasis on non-code contributions, which is super cool.
+
+**Mr. Freeze:**
+
+Freeze!
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Get your 4 contributions accepted during the month of October and Digital Ocean will plant a tree in your name, or send you the official Hacktoberfest 2022 t-shirt.
+
+Our transcripts repo is a great way to get started. Pick an episode that interests you, fix the unintelligibles in the markdown file, and open up a PR. Legend has it, we operate the fastest merge button this side of the metaverse.
+
+**Han Solo:**
+
+[She's fast enough for you old man](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bosSsgzgenA)
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Ok, let's see what's new.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Divam Gupta's DiffusionBee turns 1.0: I mentioned this GUI app for macOS on our episode with Simon Willison. It is the easiest way to run Stable Diffusion locally on your M1 Mac. One-click installer, no dependencies or technical knowledge required, and so on.
+
+On the pod, I said DiffusionBee supports "Text to Image" generation (which it did), and "Image to Image" generation (which it did not). I was fooled by the UI, which had a placeholder for the feature, but when you actually click on it, it said "Coming Soon". Soon is right, because it works now and it's amazing. If you're on an M1 Mac, I highly recommend checking out DiffusionBee.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Our friend and repeat podcast guest Zeno Rocha released Dracula UI this week.
+
+**Count Dracula:**
+
+[Allow me to reintroduce myself. I'm Count Vladislaus Dragulia.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVWrVCLs8ms)
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+It's an open source and totally free dark-first collection of patterns and components made with React. If you've heard Zeno on the show, you know he sweats the details like we do. Dracula UI is built for dark mode first, designer friendly with a carefully crafted Figma fila, and has a great DX with VS Code snippets provided. Check it out at ui.draculatheme.com.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+GitX is back with new maintainers
+
+**Dr. Frankenstein:**
+
+[It's alive. It's alive!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuoKNZjr8_U)
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+I mentioned this macOS git GUI two weeks back while covering GitUI. GitX is the only tool I've preferred over the command-line for performing certain git tasks like chunk & line staging. The app has a long history of various branches and versions maintained by various people over the years. At some point, it fell into a state of disrepair, but a few open source samaritans picked it up off the side of the road and gave the project new life.
+
+The gitx org & gitx repo are an attempt to consolidate and move forward with a current, common, community-maintained version. I've been using it for the last week and I couldn't be happier that this tool made a comeback.
+
+**LL Cool J:**
+
+[Don't call it a comeback...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi7v2ZqnpXA)
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+The engineering team at Prerender.io just finished a multi-month migration off AWS and saved themselves a bundle of money in the process. Their annual server costs reduced from $1 million to just $200k: that's an 80% reduction.
+
+Now, it's worth noting what they were doing with AWS. Prerender caches and prerenders their customers' JavaScript pages so search engines can have a pure HTML file to crawl and index. They're handling over 70,000 pages per minute, and storing around 560 million pages.
+
+Side note: perhaps server-rendering and pre-rendering HTML are good ideas after all? Just sayin'
+
+Turns out storing multiple terabytes of prerendered web page contents in this way on a 3rd party server is hugely expensive. Not only that: but traffic costs add up too.
+
+Moving off AWS and on to internally owned storage and saved Prerender big, but they state the major savings was on the outbound traffic cost. "The true hidden price for AWS is coming from the traffic cost, they sell a reasonably priced storage, and it’s even free to upload it. But when you get it out, you pay an enormous cost."
+
+I wonder what a switch to Cloudflare's R2 would've done to their costs? Outbound traffic on R2 is completely free and it would probably be a much faster and easier migration that might yield them most of those same savings.
+
+The takeaway for me: the cloud is a great place to get started, but when your business begins to scale it pays off to revisit that strategy and see if there are better options.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+That's the news for now. But stick around if you have a few more minutes. Adam and I recorded a special message inviting you to join us at All Things Open at the end of the month. Have a great week and we'd love to see you there.

Harmonai revisited, lessons learned from public salary, Open Core Ventures, Stripe is Paypal in 2010 & Helix_transcript.txt

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+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Hello Again
+
+**Neil Diamond:**
+
+Hello my friend, hello.
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+I'm Jerod and this is Changelog News for the week of Monday, October 17th 2022. Ok. Let's do it.
+
+**Break:**
+
+Let's start with a quick update on the HarmonAI story from last week. After listening to the pod, HarmonAI Director Zach Evans informed me that the audio samples I shared aren't actually from Dance Diffusion. The author of the article I referenced mislabeled some style transfer attempts as original output from the model. So that explains why the one sample included Journey's "Don't Stop Believing" track. They were testing out some style transfers on their Discord server, which is where the journalist obtained them.
+
+My apologizes to Zach and the HarmonAI team for perpetuating that mistake. But I won't apologize for that journeyroll'd joke.
+
+**Journeyroll:**
+
+Don't Stop Believing in!
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Wow, how'd you fall for it again?! Journeyroll'd!
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Just over a year ago, Jamie Tanna did something quite "out there", even for him, and posted his salary history publicly. When he did that, he made a note to himself to come back in a year for a review. To summarize his review: a bunch of people have seen it, he got a lot of private thank you notes from folks it helped, more people have begun sharing theirs, he doesn't believe it's had any negative impact on his career, it's been great for his employers at Deliveroo because they compensate so well, and he has no regrets.
+
+**The 80's guy from Futurama:**
+
+[My only regret is that I have boneitis.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6w-QIgMIydo)
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Ok, that one's obscure. If you got the reference without checking the transcript... We should be friends.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+GitLab CEO Sid Sijbrandij is putting his money to work at Open Core Ventures, a new approach to venture capital. Instead of looking for companies to fund, OCV identifies promising open source projects and creates companies around them. So far Sid and the team have invested in five companies surrounding open source projects osquery, Node-Red, Rook, OBS, and Mermaid, and they're planning to add one company a month.
+
+If this excites you enough to get your pitch deck all ready to present... don't. You don't pitch OCV, OCV identifies open source projects with traction and potential and then seeks out builders and technologists to launch their ideas.
+
+**Nick Miller:**
+
+[I don't wash the towel. The towel washes me.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxdjPH0JrDM)
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Zed Shaw thinks Stripe is Paypal circa 2010. And, no. That is not a compliment.
+
+**The insulting Frenchmen:**
+
+[I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberry.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvJF0j-RLxk)
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Zed used Stripe about 10 years ago but switched to Paypal for chargeback fee and fraud non-prevention reasons. Now he's back on Stripe and has this to say about the experience. "I honestly do not understand the belief that Stripe is better than Paypal. Everyone who begged me for an "alternative to Paypal" would recommend Stripe but my experience so far, and that of other people, is that Stripe is not better than Paypal. They're both moderately terrible. This review is an attempt to make sense of why Stripe's documentation doesn't work, why it's the same for Paypal, and how Stripe's only real advantage now is mostly smoke and mirrors. Hopefully this helps people who are running straight to Stripe avoid a painful lesson."
+
+Zed doesn't pull any punches, and this post goes deep on the shortcomings of both Paypal and Stripe. The nugget of gold is buried all the way at the end, though, where he gives this advice. "I advocate to people to be ready to switch payment processing at a moment's notice. Right now I could flip two options and I'd be back on Paypal. If I was pressed I could probably implement any other payment processor in about a week or a day. The ability to quickly switch payments is your only defense against frozen accounts, fraud, and rogue employees."
+
+That's good advice for almost all 3rd-party integrations. Keep an abstraction layer between your app and their API that can be swapped with minimal effort. Because...
+
+**Forrest Gump:**
+
+[My momma always said, life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJh59vZ8ccc)
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Helix, a post-modern modal text editor. It's written in Rust, inspired by Neovim and Kakoune (a pronunciation I'm not even going to apologize for) and it's terminal-based. Helix is quite easy on the eyes, as well. Check your chapter image or the show notes to see what I mean.
+
+So what's so post-modern about it? Nothing, really. That's just a joke. From what I can tell, it's kind of like Neovim after somebody who has a lot of time on their hands has pimped it out all the way.
+
+**Pimp My Ride:**
+
+[Theme song.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uP_nTCluxRw)
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+When Helix hit Hacker News's frontpage recently, one commenter boldy proclaimed: "I fully expect Helix to replace Vim, Neovim, and Kakoune for most users in the long run." To which another commenter replied, "Yeah, that’s not going to happen."
+
+Regardless of who's right, if you enjoy trying out different editors to see which one maps best to the way your brain works, give Helix a look.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+That is the news for now.
+
+If you're a fan of these News episodes we produce for you each Monday... I would absolutely love it if you'd share the podcast with your friends and colleagues.
+
+We'll be back in your ear holes on Friday talking to Will McGugan about Textual, a Text User Interface framework for Pythonistas inspired by modern web dev.
+
+Have a great week! We'll talk to you then.

Kindle as a smart device, Changelog on Mastodon, GPT-3 up in your CLI, no arch better than bad arch & Mish Manners_transcript.txt

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+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+What up, nerds?! I'm Jerod and this is Changelog News for the week of Monday, November 21st 2022. Let's do it.
+
+**Break:**
+
+The top story from Sunday's edition of Changelog Weekly was Matt Healy announcing, "Your next smart home device is a $30 used Kindle". He says:
+
+"... a lot of tools that used to be separate have now converged into one: the phone.
+
+You might not buy another camera again, and you probably won’t buy a calculator. For the most part, it’s a good trade-off: what we lose in the tactile pleasures of a good single-purpose device, we gain back tenfold in having all those devices in our pocket all the time.
+
+That’s all fine for calculators, cameras, music players, and the like — things that are there when we need to use them, and can forget about when we don’t. But our phones are also the nexus of all kinds of data we want pushed to us — news, messages, notifications, alerts, status updates. Things we want to know about without going looking for them.
+
+A phone isn’t actually great for this kind of ambient awareness. It’s usually in a pocket or purse, so the ways it can get our attention are limited: a buzz, a notification on the lock screen, a red dot on an app icon. I can choose to let myself be interrupted, or I can compulsively check in to see what the latest alerts might be.
+
+I’ve found myself wanting a less intrusive channel for ambient data. Something I can glance at in passing, without giving my full attention or opening myself up to whatever other interruptions my phone might have in store. It should be easy to check, but just as easy to ignore."
+
+The device he landed on is, you guessed it, a wifi-connected Kindle 4 mounted on the wall. In the post he walks you through why this is the perfect setup: why e-ink, why a kindle, why a screenshot of a web page... he also provides instructions so you can set up a $30 Kindle to do the same.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Amidst all the Twitter turmoil, Mastodon is bustin at the seams as technologists from all around the world turn to the Fediverse and ActivityPub as a potential answer to their social networking woes. As a result, I spent some time last week setting up an official Changelog instance hosted by our partners at Fly.io. It was pretty easy, thanks to Docker and a config repo by Aman Gupta Karmani that I forked and customized for our use. I'll link to his and our fork in the show notes, if you're curious how everything's wired together.
+
+**Series of Tubes:**
+
+[Tubes!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cZC67wXUTs)
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Adam and I first spoke with Mastodon creator Eugen Rochko in September of 2018. That was episode #315 of The Changelog which, it turns out, is more relevant today than ever. Take a quick listen.
+
+**Eugen Rochko:**
+
+In March 2016 I just wanted to check, “Well, how is that GNU social thing doing right now?” I saw that it was still alive, but it obviously looked kind of awful visually… So I was like, “Yeah, I like using TweetDeck; I kind of wanna make an interface for it that works like TweetDeck, and that looks good, and maybe people will switch.” But I didn’t have any big ambitions about that; I just I’d make something that people who really used GNU social would just switch to. I wasn’t expecting anyone from outside that circle to make a jump.
+
+I soon found that GNU social had a rather arcane codebase, and very old-style PHP. I kind of decided to try starting from scratch…
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+We called that episode, "Join the federation?! Mastodon awaits..." and I did set up a changelog account on mastodon.social after publishing, but we never ended up using it. I guess Mastodon had to wait a few years for us to finally join the federation, but we're here now. You can find us at changelog.social/directory
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+The AI-in-your-devtools revolution continues apace.
+
+**T2:**
+
+[Come with me if you want to live.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfw-MgDlE4w)
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+This time, Anurag Bhagsain puts GPT3 all up in your CLI, answering your questions. After installing with `npm` and configuring your OpenAI API key, you can ask it how to do things, such as `ai ask "Check process running on port 800"`. It will take that question, hit OpenAI's GPT-3 API, and return its best guess at the matching command. In this case, `lsof -i tcp:8000`
+
+**T2:**
+
+[Trust me.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfw-MgDlE4w)
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+What's better? Bad software architecture? Or no architecture at all? Kirill Rogovoy argues it's the latter. He says, "It took me several years to learn how to write code that scales to 10s of team members and a million lines of code. It took even more time to learn to write stupid code again.
+
+Turns out, "building a solid architecture" in your code can easily be busy work and procrastination.
+
+Turns out, you can waste a lot of energy trying to get rid of all code duplication and coming up with powerful abstractions to support "future use cases."
+
+Turns out, one part of your code can intentionally be a well-thought, protected piece of engineering marvel, while the other one should get you fired."
+
+He doesn't claim to have the answers yet, but shares a few practical heuristics that have helped him avoid poor outcomes: one: no code is equal, two: let it beg for structure first, and three: always start with one
+
+If you want to know what exactly those things mean, read the post.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+That's the news for now, but stick around for a fun bonus conversation with Mish Manners in the hallway track at ATO '22.
+
+Coming up on Friday, we revisit last Fall's episode with Gergely Orosz on the insane tech hiring market. Things couldn't be more different than they were a year ago, and Gergely has been tracking and reporting on all the goings on. He has some great insights on where we're headed, solid thoughts on how to avoid being laid off, if possible, and actionable advice about moves you can make to get back on your feet quickly.
+
+Have a great week and we'll talk to you again real soon.

Ladybird, how QR codes work, GitUI, software vs systems & Stable Diffusion ported to Tensorflow_transcript.txt

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+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+It's Monday again...
+
+**The Bangles:**
+
+[Just another Manic Monday, wish it were Sunday](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VshgeeW0NOI)
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+I'm Jerod and this is Changelog News for the week of Monday, September 19th 2022.
+
+If you dig these News episodes, maybe tell a friend about the podcast. That'd be a cool thing to do, I think.
+
+Let's get into it.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+First up, Ladybird. A new cross-platform web browser from Andreas Kling, creator of SerenityOS. In his announcement blog post, Andreas says: "Since starting the SerenityOS project in 2018, my goal has been to build a complete desktop operating system to eventually use as my daily driver.
+
+What started as a little therapy project for myself has blossomed into a huge OSS community with hundreds of people working on it all over the world. We’ve gone from nothing to a capable system with its own browser stack in the last 4 years.
+
+Throughout this incredible expansion, my own goals have remained the same. Today I’m updating them a little bit: in addition to building a new OS for myself, I’m also going to build a cross-platform web browser."
+
+He originally imagined Ladybird as a debugging tool, but two months later he finds himself using it for most of his browser development work. So, the project is being upgraded from a browser engine for SerenityOS to a cross-platform browser engine.
+
+**Beyonce:**
+
+[Let me upgrade u...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYQPR-5DK3g)
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+This ain't your typical Chromium fork. Both LibWeb and LibJS that drive Ladybird are novel engines.
+
+Andreas works on these projects full-time thanks to his generous supporters on GitHub Sponsors, Patreon and PayPal. Pitching in your hard-earned cash at this point would go towards paying other devs full-time to join him.
+
+Check out Ladybird and if you want us to host Andreas on The Changelog, let us know (and ping him too while you're at it.)
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Ever wondered how QR codes work? Dan Hollick takes us down the rabbit hole...
+
+**Neo:**
+
+[Follow the white rabbit](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IDT3MpSCKI)
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+This is a nerdy deep-dive on the inner workings of this once-maligned but turns-out-actually useful tech. Finder patterns, Quiet zones, error correction and maskings abound in Dan's highly visual and surprisingly easy to follow article. He saves the coolest fact for the end, which I'll spoil for you now because why not right?
+
+Dan says, "Perhaps the coolest thing about QR codes is that Denso Wave, the company that invented them, never exercised their patent and released the technology for free!"
+
+That's super cool. And to celebrate, here is an entire minute of cold and ice-related puns delivered by Arnold Schwarzenegger as Mr. Freeze in 1997's Batman & Robin. The best-worst Batman movie in cinematic history.
+
+**Arnold Schwarzenegger:**
+
+[Mr. Freeze's Puns](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRH-Ywpz1_I)
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+From cool to hot, GitUI is a blazing fast terminal UI for Git.
+
+**The Mask:**
+
+Smokin!
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Stephan Dilly does most of his git work in a terminal, but frequently found himself using git GUIs for some use-cases like: index, commit, diff, stash, blame and log. Unfortunately, he found that popular git GUIs all fail on giant repositories or become unresponsive and unusable. So he built GitUI, which provides you with the UX and comfort of a GUI but right in your terminal while being portable, fast, free and open source.
+
+My usage mirrors Stephan's. I use the command-line for 90% of my git interactions, but I do appreciate a GUI for staging and commiting changes. For years I used rowanj's GitX-dev fork, but it eventually fell into disrepair so I switched to GitUP, which I like.. but don't love.
+
+So, I'm super-excited to try GitUI for myself. I'd love to hear how you get your git on, and the tools you use to do so. Let me know in the comments.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Here's a long-standing question in the software world: what differentiates a junior engineer and a senior engineer? Miłosz Piechocki wrote up his thoughts on the subject. In brief: Junior Engineers care about writing software and Senior Engineers care about building systems.
+
+**Hattori Hanzo:**
+
+[Funny. You like samurai swords. I like baseball.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eb4gdvkOkKA)
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+What's the difference?
+
+Miłosz says writing software includes things like code quality, best practices, adopting cutting-edge technologies with the ultimate goal of creating elegant, performant, maintainable software.
+
+Building systems, he says, means creating software is just one of the steps. You must also question whether the software needs to be built in the first place, ask what problems would it solve and why it's important to solve them, inquire who will be using the software and on what scale. Stuff like that.
+
+These are just Miłosz's thoughts. I'm sure you have your own. Let us know in the comments. There's a link to the discussion thread for this episode in your show notes.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Stable Diffusion continues to break the internet.
+
+**Wreck-It Ralph:**
+
+[I'm starting to understand why people like this game! Very Zen.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhcQOKPxTtI)
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Divam Gupta, creator of the Diffusion Bee macOS app I referenced on the podcast, has ported the Stable Diffusion model to Tensorflow with Keras. This implementation is easy to understand, being about 500 lines of code, runs about 4 times faster on his 8GB M1 Macbook Air, and perhaps most importantly, brings the game-changing model to a whole new set of users and hackers.
+
+What will happen next? I have no idea! But I can heartily recommend the Stable Diffusion subreddit to keep up with the latest.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+That is the news for now. We'll be back on Friday with an old friend, Lucas Da Costa returns to The Changelog for the first time since 2019. Back then he was telling us about his text-mode life. This time, we're discussing his recent writings on product development structures, which Lucas sees as systems, not art or a series of guesses.
+
+Velocity, scrum, stand-ups, TDD, sprints... all modern development practices will be questioned. There are no sacred cows on Friday's episode.
+
+Have a great week, we'll talk to you then.

Markwhen, Tauri 1.0, SLCs & imposters_transcript.txt

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+**Jerod Santo:** Hello, friends. I'm Jerod, and this is Changelog News for the week of Monday, June 27th, 2022. "Whatthe what?!" So we are experimenting with something new: a super-brief Monday edition of The Changelog to start your week off right by keeping you up with what's going on in the software world.
+
+We'll cover a handful of the top stories and links from Sunday's Changelog Weekly Newsletter. If you like this, would listen to it and want us to keep it going, let us know in the comments, or by tweeting @Changelog. If you'd rather we didn't, also let us know in the comments, or by tweeting @Changelog.
+
+Like I said, we are experimenting here, and feedback is paramount. Okay, let's go!
+
+First up, Markwhen is like Markdown for timelines, but instead of marking stuff down, you mark stuff when. Yeah.
+
+There's a long history of timeline tools for the web, and I've tested what feels like pretty much all of them. Most of them have you inserting data into an XML file, some JSON object, or worse yet, right into the HTML itself. Markdown-style plain text to the rescue? That is the bet that Markwhen is making. And after taking a look at the two demos, I think it looks pretty solid. Oh, and the resulting timeline looks great, too. So that's promising.
+
+After nine months of betas and four months of release candidates, Tauri released its big 1.0 milestone on June 19th.
+
+What's Tauri? They call it an app construction toolkit that lets you build software for all major desktop operating systems using web technologies. I call it the first major contender to Electron in the cross-platform web tech app builder space. I was trying to make mine shorter than theirs... Oh, well.
+
+People are excited about this because the project's focus is on security, privacy and the environment, which proxies to performance. How are they going after these three pillars? Rust, that's how.
+
+Will Tauri deliver, and how do you even say Tauri? We shall see, and we shall ask, because we're having one of the project's founders on The Changelog real soon now.
+
+Everyone knows of MVPs. Not Most Valuable Player, but Minimum Viable Products. But have you heard of SLCs?
+
+They are products that are simple, lovable, and complete. Jason Cohen first coined the term on his blog back in 2017, and Herman Martinez plus-oned the concept on his post about why products should be slick, not just viable.
+
+If you're interested in the topic, definitely read both posts which are linked in the show notes. Herman concludes his with some steps to think about when you're building your next project. One, keep the feature set small and manageable, as opposed to large and hastily built. Two, make the product delightful to interact with. Three, stay focused on the core idea of the project, and four, have fun with it. I have to admit, there's something slick about building things that are simple, lovable and complete.
+
+Last up, a public service announcement. No one knows what they're doing. Seriously. We're just making up as we go along, didn't you know?
+
+Andy Brice writes, "When I was a child, I assumed that all the adults running the world knew what they were doing. Now that I am an adult, I am under no such illusions. Just look at the current British government. They clearly don't have a clue."
+
+Setting that nicely-landed political jab aside, Andy has a solid point here. He goes on to say "I'm going to let you in on a little secret - most of us who are running businesses had no real idea what they were doing when they started, and still struggle with decisions now."
+
+I tell people this all the time when they ask me for business advice. I'll still give them my advice, but it comes with this disclaimer, "I really have no idea what I'm doing."
+
+That's the news for now... Do you dig it? Do you hate it? Let us know in the comments, or tweet at Changelog.
+
+**David Starsky:** [Seriously, do it. Do it!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4eScf6TMaM)
+
+**Jerod Santo:** You'll hear from us again on Friday, when Adam and I talk to James Long about his journey building Actual, a personal finance system as a business for four years before deciding to make it 100% free and open source forever.
+
+Talk to you then!

OkSo, Markdown generator speeds, Egr Mgr framework, Crockford says retire JS & messy code not required_transcript.txt

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+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Good Monday!
+
+**Office Space:**
+
+[Uh oh, sounds like somebody's got a case of the Mondays!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AB9zPfXqQQ)
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+I'm Jerod and this is Changelog News for the week of Monday, August 1st 2022.
+
+Did you know Adam talked to the founder of his favorite bike brand on Founders Talk? You should check it out. [founderstalk.fm/93](https://founderstalk.fm/93).
+
+Ok, let's do it.
+
+**CDM Referree:** [Let's get it on](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hDNXE0v8kU).
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+[Ok! So](https://okso.app/about)... here's the thing. No, seriously. It's called OK! So...
+
+It's an in-browser drawing app to express, grasp, and organize your thoughts and ideas.
+
+Oleksii Trekhleb created it as an alternative to pencil and paper. He cites a few drawbacks to these old school drawing tools such as:
+
+1.  You may forget it at home.
+2.  The page space might not be enough to contain all the details.
+3.  Often you only have pens of one or two colors.
+4.  If you made a typo you can't just undo/redo it, the sketch is not really editable.
+
+And let's face it, when it comes to digital tools that last one is the killer feature.
+
+With OkSo, Oleksii is addressing all of these shortcomings while provideing organizational tools like nested pages. He's also taking a minimalist approach over other drawing apps which keeps it clean and aesthetically pleasing.
+
+**American Psycho:** [Business card scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZVkW9p-cCU)
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+That scene from American Psycho is so... psycho. Check out Oleksii's new drawing too at [okso.app](https://okso.app)
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Eleventy creator Zach Leatherman asked himself a question: [which generator builds markdown the fastest](https://www.zachleat.com/web/build-benchmark/)? Thankfully, he followed up by answering it. Otherwise, it wouldn't really be news, would it?
+
+Zach says, "Given that Markdown is a very popular document format for blogging, this gives us the opportunity to compare the performance of different site generators for this pervasive use case. Let’s see how each generator stacks up when consuming markdown files from the local project’s file system and building into a production-ready project."
+
+**Celebrity Deathmatch:** [Theme song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d7joO9vKac)
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+I'll give you the rankings and leave the commentary up to Zach (link in the show notes). Hugo took first place followed by Eleventy then Next.js. There were other competitors as well, but let's obscure the names to protect the innocent. Forth and fifth place was a near-tie between The Great character Leonardo Dicaprio played in the film and the Jetsons family dog. Pulling up the rear was that deal where you take a song and make it again, only different this time.
+
+**Chris Hiller:** [What?](https://jsparty.fm)
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Have I completely lost you? Read Zach's post and hopefully you'll get it. Oh, and you can also read his benchmark process and caveats, for all the nuance that's lacking here.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Up next: [A framework for Engineering Managers](https://github.com/jorgef/engineeringladders). This is cool. Its purpose is to allow software engineering managers to have meaningful conversations with their direct reports around the expectations of each position and how to plan for the next level in their career ladder.
+
+**The Bobs:** [What would you say you do here?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNQ-Ae5V6kA)
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+It works by delineating 4 different career ladders: Developer, Tech lead, Technical Program Manager, and Engineering Manager.
+
+And relies heavily upon radar charts to show visually the different perspectives and expectations of a given position. I'm going to stop describing it now, because the radar chart is worth a thousand words. Click through and check it out for yourself.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Did you hear what Douglas Crockford said [in an interview with Evrone](https://evrone.com/douglas-crockford-interview)? Well, let me back up a bit.
+
+Do you know who Douglas Crockford is? He's well-known in the JavaScript world because of his books, including JavaScript: The Good Parts and because of his son: JSON. Wait, no sorry I read that wrong. JSON. His son, JSON?
+
+Did you hear what Douglas Crockford said in an interview with Evrone?
+
+He said, "The best thing we can do today to JavaScript is to retire it."
+
+**Emma Bostian:** [You did NOT just say that](https://jsparty.fm)
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+He did, Emma. He really did. And he went on to say, "Twenty years ago, I was one of the few advocates for JavaScript. Its cobbling together of nested functions and dynamic objects was brilliant. I spent a decade trying to correct its flaws. I had a minor success with ES5. But since then, there has been strong interest in further bloating the language instead of making it better. So JavaScript, like the other dinosaur languages, has become a barrier to progress. We should be focused on the next language, which should look more like E than like JavaScript."
+
+The Crock had a lot more to say, as you may imagine. Read the full interview at evrone.com. Link in the show notes.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Last item in the queue for this week, Daniel Sieger assures us that [our code doesn't have to be a mess](https://www.danielsieger.com/blog/2022/07/25/your-code-doesnt-have-to-be-a-mess.html). This may sound like it's going to be a lecture from an overbearing parent.
+
+**Will Ferrell:** [Get off the shed!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRpTb-OZTxk)
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+But it's not! Daniel shares some actionable, high-level strategies to keep software simple. Things like: defining clear goals, setting up constraints, saying "no", and more. Here's my favorite bit, in a section on minimizing dependencies. "Be picky about adding any dependencies. Don’t treat code re-use as a holy grail. Carefully consider the pros and cons. Dependencies might break, disappear, turn into garbage, or become a security risk. Consider to vendor by default. If the functionality in question is crucial for your core business: Consider doing it yourself."
+
+I couldn't have set it better myself.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+That's the news for now. Don't forget you can submit your projects, articles, and epic twitter threads (probably no) to be included in Changelog News at changelog.com/submit. And if you aren't a regular reader of the newsletter, head to changelog.com/weekly to fix that bug. Remember, we highlighted just 3 of the 20ish awesome links and stories included in this Sunday's email.
+
+We'll be back in your ear holes on Friday. Can you believe it'll be our 500th interview episode? We've invited our long-time internet friend to celebrate with us and hear his story of selling CSS-Tricks. Yup, it's the one and only Chris Coyier on The Changelog episode 500. We'll talk to you then.

Python's =, email falsehoods, no more self-hosting & Leon_transcript.txt

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+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+What up nerds, I'm Jerod and this is Changelog News for the week of Monday, September 5th 2022.
+
+But it's shipping out on a Tuesday because Labor Day.
+
+**Lucy:**
+
+[Today will not be known as Taco Tuesday. It will be known as Freedom Friday. But still on a Tuesday!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEnQnei6dk8)
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+This week we're keeping it short and sweet. Like this intro. Which ends right now.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Martin Heinz thinks you should be using Python's walrus operator, and he's here to tell you why.
+
+**The Beatles:**
+
+[I am the eggman, they are the eggmen, I am the walrus, goo goo a'joob](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKuvJLTeJYY)
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+The walrus operator was added in Python 3.8, but Martin says it's still somewhat controversial and many people have unfounded hate for it. If you're not aware, the walrus operator is a colon followed by an equals sign, which looks like a sideways walrus, I guess. But it's officially called the assignment expression operator. How's it different from traditional assignment?
+
+**Dr. Evil:**
+
+[You just don't get it, do ya? You don't.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wmHVHTCKzw)
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+An assignment expression returns the value after assigning it. So you get two operations for the price of one. It's syntax sugar, but Martin thinks it's a really good addition to the language that "if you use it properly, then it can help you make your code more concise and readable."
+
+His post points out five different scenarios where the walrus operator shines and finishes up with some gotchas & limitations. A solid read if you're not sure about the feature, or if you want to link slap a skeptical colleague.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+You probably believe some falsehoods about email. If you don't think so, check out this epic list of things programmers think about email which aren't always true.
+
+**Colonel Jessop:**
+
+[You can't handle the truth.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j2F4VcBmeo)
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Maybe you think everyone has an email address, maybe you think email addresses don't change, maybe you think an email can only have one "from" address, maybe you think that that regular expression which validates an email address that you copied off the internet and paste into every codebase since is fool-proof...
+
+You'd be wrong about each of those, and I have a blog post about that regular expression, if you're not convinced.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Speaking of email, Carlos Fenollosa self-hosted his email for 23 years, but recently threw in the towel. He says the oligopoly has won.
+
+**Jim Sturgess:**
+
+[Winner, winner, chicken dinner!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKAjiwjJ9fI)
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Carlos says, "I have been self-hosting my email since I got my first broadband connection at home in 1999. I absolutely loved having a personal web+email server at home, paid extra for a static IP and a real router so people could connect from the outside. I felt like a first-class citizen of the Internet and I learned so much.
+
+Over time I realized that residential IP blocks were banned on most servers. I moved my email server to a VPS. No luck. I quickly understood that self-hosting email was a lost cause. Nevertheless, I have been fighting back out of pure spite, obstinacy, and activism. In other words, because it was the right thing to do.
+
+But my emails are just not delivered anymore. I might as well not have an email server."
+
+That last bit is what made Carlos finally give up. Email deliverability is being nerfed by Big Tech. And Carlos thinks it's deliberate. Check his post for the reasoning if you're interested. He also provides a simple proposal where everybody wins.
+
+**Michael Scott:**
+
+With win-win-win, we all win.
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Man, I love that sound byte. Fun fact: the first name I came up with for my recently-retired software consultancy was win-win-win. But my wife rolled her eyes at it. So, hey. The name's up for grabs. And it's pretty cool, if you ask me. Just don't ask my wife.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Have you met Leon? No, not the professional.
+
+**Leon:**
+
+[If you open your mouth, I pull the trigger. Kapiche?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNB8EUOZkEc)
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+This Leon is an open source personal assistant that can live on your server. He does stuff when you ask him to.
+
+**Westley:**
+
+[As you wish!](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093779/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Created by Louis Grenard, Leon is a Node.js powered app that's been in the works since 2016. It's built on a modular architecture so you can create or use shared skills that fit your needs. And, of course, Leon uses all the latest in AI to pull it together: Natural language processing, plus text-to-speech and speech-to-text so you can talk to Leon, or text him stuff to do.
+
+Think of Leon like a permissively licensed, open source Siri that you can self-host and has a public roadmap. Cooler than cool.
+
+**Outkast:**
+
+[What's cooler than being cool? Ice cold](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWgvGjAhvIw)
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+That is the news for now. Don't forget to subscribe to our weekly newsletter that includes these stories and more. Get in on it at changelog.com/weekly. Have a great week, and we'll talk to you again real soon.

Python's ：=, email falsehoods, no more self-hosting & Leon_transcript.txt

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+[0.00 --> 10.96]  what up nerds i'm jared and this is changelog news for the week of monday september 5th
+[10.96 --> 17.76]  2022 only it's shipping out on a tuesday because labor day today will not be known as taco tuesday
+[17.76 --> 21.76]  it will be known as freedom friday
+[23.84 --> 29.84]  but still on a tuesday this week we're keeping it short and sweet like this intro which ends
+[29.84 --> 36.24]  right now martin heinz thinks you should be using python's walrus operator and he'll tell you why
+[36.24 --> 50.86]  the walrus operator was added in python 3.8 but martin says it's still somewhat controversial
+[50.86 --> 56.52]  and many people have unfounded hate for it if you're not aware the walrus operator is a colon
+[56.52 --> 60.92]  followed by an equal sign which looks like a sideways walrus i guess but it's officially
+[60.92 --> 66.36]  called the assignment expression operator how is it different from the traditional assignment you just
+[67.08 --> 72.36]  don't get it do you you don't an assignment expression returns the value after assigning
+[72.36 --> 77.96]  it so you get two operations for the price of one it's syntax sugar but martin thinks it's a really
+[77.96 --> 83.00]  good addition to the language and quote if you use it properly then it can help you make your code more
+[83.00 --> 89.32]  concise and readable end quote his post points out five different scenarios where the walrus operator
+[89.32 --> 95.16]  shines and finishes up with some gotchas and limitations a solid read if you're not sure about
+[95.16 --> 99.40]  the feature or if you're a big fan of the walrus operator and you want to link slap
+[100.12 --> 107.96]  a skeptical colleague newsflash you probably believe some falsehoods about email if you don't think so
+[107.96 --> 113.88]  check out this epic list of things programmers think about email which aren't always true you want
+[113.88 --> 120.52]  answers i think i'm entitled you want answers i want the truth you can't handle the truth maybe you
+[120.52 --> 126.52]  think everyone has an email address maybe you think email addresses don't change maybe you think an email
+[126.52 --> 131.48]  can only have one from address maybe you think that that regular expression which validates an email
+[131.48 --> 136.92]  address that you copied off the internet and paste into every code base ever since is foolproof you would be
+[136.92 --> 141.56]  wrong about each of those and i have a blog post about that regular expression if you're not convinced
+[142.36 --> 150.76]  speaking of email carlos fenillosa self-hosted his email for 23 years but recently threw in the towel
+[150.76 --> 160.76]  he says the oligopoly has won winner winner chicken dinner carlos says quote i have been self-hosting my email
+[160.76 --> 167.88]  since i got my first broadband connection at home in 1999 i absolutely loved having a personal web plus
+[167.88 --> 174.20]  email server at home paid extra for a static ip and a real router so people could connect from the outside
+[174.20 --> 179.72]  i felt like a first-class citizen of the internet and i learned so much over time i realized that
+[179.72 --> 185.40]  residential ip blocks were banned on most servers i moved my email server to a vps no luck i quickly
+[185.40 --> 191.08]  understood that self-hosting email was a lost cause nevertheless i have been fighting back out of pure
+[191.08 --> 197.40]  spite obstinacy and activism in other words because it was the right thing to do but my emails are just
+[197.40 --> 203.72]  not delivered anymore i might as well not have an email server end quote that last bit is what made
+[203.72 --> 211.24]  carlos finally give up email deliverability is being nerfed by big tech and carlos thinks it's deliberate
+[211.24 --> 216.04]  check his post for the reasoning if you're interested he also provides a simple proposal
+[216.04 --> 222.36]  where everybody wins with win win win we all win man i love that sound bite fun fact the first name i
+[222.36 --> 228.36]  came up with for my recently retired software consultancy was win win win with win win we all
+[228.36 --> 234.52]  win unfortunately my wife rolled her eyes at it so hey that name's up for grabs and it's pretty cool
+[234.52 --> 241.72]  if you ask me just don't ask my wife have you met leon no not leon the professional if you
+[241.72 --> 247.64]  tip your mouth i pull the trigger i can appreciate this leon is an open source personal assistant that
+[247.64 --> 258.12]  can live on your server he does stuff when you ask him to created by lewis granard leon is a node.js
+[258.12 --> 264.20]  powered app that's been in the works since 2016. it's built on a modular architecture so you can
+[264.20 --> 270.44]  create or use shared skills that fit your needs and of course leon uses all the latest in ai to pull
+[270.44 --> 277.16]  it together natural language processing plus text to speech and speech to text so you can talk to leon
+[277.16 --> 283.00]  or you can just text him stuff think about leon like a permissively licensed open source siri that
+[283.00 --> 286.68]  you can self-host and has a public roadmap that's cooler than cool
+[286.68 --> 302.68]  that is the news for now don't forget to subscribe to our weekly newsletter that includes these stories
+[302.68 --> 310.68]  and a whole lot more get in on it at changelog.com slash weekly have a great week and we'll talk to you again real soon
+[310.68 --> 312.68]  you

Qalculate is awesome, Restic adds compression, CS teachers coping with Copilot & Heroku's next non-free chapter_transcript.txt

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+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Hey hey, guess who's back?
+
+**Slim Shady:**
+
+[Guess who's back, Guess who's back, Guess who's back, Guess who's back...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVkUvmDQ3HY)
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Adam did a mighty fine job while I was out. In fact, listener Lars Ellingsen in our Slack channel even revelled in the fact that he was finally able to understand 100% of the references on Changelog News.
+
+**Jared Dunn:**
+
+[You reckless child!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5mYCemlflg)
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Apologies in advance to Lars and other fans of HBO's Silicon Valley. Reaching 100% references acknowledged on this episode, might be painful.
+
+**Bill:**
+
+[Do you find me sadistic? You know, Kiddo, I'd like to believe that you're aware enough even now to know that there's nothing sadistic in my actions. t this moment, this is me at my most... masochistic.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwg2bvY3_Ek)
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Did you catch that one? It's from one of my favorite Quentin Tarantino films: Kill Bill. It's not his best film, that's Pulp Fiction. but if I could watch just one Tarantino flick for the rest of my days, I'm pretty sure I'd pick Kill Bill.
+
+But that's niether here nor there. Let's get into the news.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+First up, it's a calculator. Yes, a calculator.
+
+**Rain Man:** [246 toothpicks](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kthFUFBwbZg).
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+It's called "Qalculate!" with a "q". And it's not just any ole' calculator, an open source, multi-purpose, cross-platform  desktop calculator that provides power and versatility normally reserved for complicated math packages, as well as useful tools for everyday needs (such as currency conversion and percent calculation).
+
+Here's something cool about it that I learned on the r/commandline, it has a companion CLI `qalc` q-a-l-c that's super handy. It can handle stuff like: `1500$/week to btc/year` or `5 apples + 3 oranges - 1 apples`. The coolest part is it doesn't merely give you the answer, it shows the broken down steps along the way. For example, give it `100 / 1000` and it will give you back `100 / 1000 = 1/10 = 0.1`
+
+A link to the Reddit thread with more examples is in the show notes.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Restic 0.14 has been released with a much-anticipated feature: compression!
+
+(Don't you dare insert a Pied Piper joke, Jerod. Don't do it! Error: E_TOO_MANY_SILICON_VALLEY_REFERENCES!)
+
+
+What's Restic? It's a backup program that can back up your files from Linux, BSD, Mac and Windows to... nearly anywhere you want.
+
+We've had Restic's creator, Alex Neumann, on both The Changelog and Go Time. Restic is seriously impressive software and Alex is a thoughtful dev and kind open source maintainer. Here's a moment from my conversation with Alex on The Changelog:
+
+**Alexander Neumann:**
+
+This was one of the very interesting discoveries when I discussed it initially with my friends and my co-workers, that the most important thing about the Restic project is not the implementation itself, but it is the repository format… Because users expect that they can restore their backups even ten years or twenty years from now. So the most important thing is not what features does the backup program have, but how good is the specification of the storage format.
+
+There are toy implementations that reimplement all the things needed to access data in a Restic repository from scratch, just by using the design document. This is somehow like the – I think there’s a FreeBSD manual which explains the design of the operating system FreeBSD from the ground up. I haven’t read it, but it’s on my bucket list to do that. This is something like that for the repository format.
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Well said. You obviously saw where I was driving to when I said “You need Restic to restore Restic”, because if restore is the feature and it’s not stored as like an operating system level primitive - although it is, at the end of the day, but it has its own format - then you obviously want Restic to be around… But it sounds like you guys are well prepared for backwards compatibility, and even this specification where Restic could disappear, it could be completely changed, but somebody could go out and reimplement the restore, because it’s been documented so well…
+
+Hearing how careful he is with the repository format, leads me to believe that adding compression was no small task for Alex and the team. We'll link to the announcement blog post which detailst the new feature as well as that episode of The Changelog if you want to hear more on the topic.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Emery Berger, a professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst writes a warning to their fellow Computer Science educators: AI-based dev tools are gunning for your assigments.
+
+**The Borg:**
+
+[Resistance is futile. Your life as it has been is over. From now on you will serve us.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtEaR1JU-ps)
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Emery says, "Using Copilot, students can instantly generate code solutions as auto-completions, given just the problem statement or even just the function name or even by concentrating really hard and staring at the screen, ok not actually the last one but I expect that feature any day now."
+
+This is an interesting phenomenon, and something to think about. AI-based tools will contine to proliferate and disrupt most areas of our work/life. I'm not too worried about it. Resistance is futile, but adaptation is not. So, CS teachers can adapt. You know, like math teachers did when students started showing up to class with calculators in their pockets.
+
+**Kraftwerk:**
+
+[I'm the operator with my pocket calculator.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oD7rJ4ufciM)
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Heroku's next chapter does NOT include free plans.
+
+**SNL Jingle:**
+
+Here comes [Debbie Downer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfE93xON8jk)
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Salesforce EVP and Heroku's General Manager, Bob Wise, writes: "Starting October 26, 2022, we will begin deleting inactive accounts and associated storage for accounts that have been inactive for over a year. Starting November 28, 2022, we plan to stop offering free product plans and plan to start shutting down free dynos and data services."
+
+Listener joerick commented on the story on Changelog.com, asking: "Has the hacker culture left Heroku? In the blog post, I see a lot of language focused on small / medium sized business, but none about celebrating the creativity of individuals and tiny teams. This is confusing to me, because I always felt that Heroku’s key strength was that as a single developer, you could focus entirely on your product, and outsource all the ops to the service. And it’s fantastic for that... So then the question is - if not the hackers, where are Heroku going to get new customers from? Because cloud ops is a hella crowded market."
+
+I agree, Joe, and as one of those solo developers, this change in direction makes me sad. The good news is, other players will step in to fill this gap Heroku is leaving in the market.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+That is the news for now. So, how many of the 7 pop culture references did you catch? Let us know in the comments. There's a link to the thread at the top of your show notes. Oh, and while you're there suggest an awesome sound byte we should use in future episodes. If your suggestion makes the show, I'll send you some free Changelog stickers. How about that?
+
+Hope you have a great week. Talk to you soon.

Quality is systemic, React is a self-fulfilling prophecy, Difftastic, Devbox & the shortest URLs on the web_transcript.txt

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+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Top of the muffin to ya
+
+**Elaine Benes:**
+
+[Top of the muffin to you?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_z9NyQnDdz4)
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+I'm Jerod and this is Changelog News for the week of Monday, September 12th 2022.
+
+We have two quick bits of Changelog News before we get to the rest of what's new.
+
+First, I just booked my flight to Raleigh, North Carolina for All Things Open this Fall. Yes, Adam and I will be there in the flesh helping celebrate one of our favorite conference's ten year anniversary. More info on our involvment coming soon. If you were thinking about attending, now you have one more good reason to do it.
+
+**Ben Still:**
+
+Do it. DO IT!
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Second, last month I announced we added chapters to each episode page on changelog.com. As promised, we have now brought those same chapters into your podcast app. In fact, you're in a chapter right now. We'll call it: "The chapter about chapters"
+
+**Dom Cobb:**
+
+[Dreams... they feel real while we're in them, right? It's only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.](https://youtu.be/KZWxPWa8xOs)
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Now, if you don't see any chapters in your podcast app of choice, it's possible that app doesn't support the feature. In that case, maybe contact the developers and ask them to add it. Or, try out some other podcast apps that do support chapters. It's a great feature, worth switching.
+
+If your app does support chatpers, but you're still not seeing them. There is a chance that we have a bug in our ID3v2 frame generation code. And since I didn't write that code, I'm emotionally OK with that being a real possibility. In that case, please let us know in the comments.
+
+OK, enough Changelog-gazing for now, let's get into the news.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+First up, Jacob Kaplan-Moss dropped a hot take on software quality. And we picked it up.
+
+**Lil Wayne:**
+
+[Drop it like it's hot, drop drop it like it's hot.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpQrAbkM3dI)
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Jacob says, "Software quality is more the result of a system designed to produce quality, and not so much the result of individual performance. That is: a group of mediocre programmers working with a structure designed to produce quality will produce better software than a group of fantastic programmers working in a system designed with other goals."
+
+He goes on to list out what he means when he says 'software quality', then describes the virtuous cycle between the human and technical factors involved. I'll jump you to the end for two quick conclusions, but you should definitely read Jacob's full post for yourself.
+
+One: "If your team is producing defective code, consider that it may not be because they all suck at their jobs. It’s probably because the environment isn’t allowing them to produce quality software."
+
+Two: "Instead of spending tons of time and effort on hiring because you believe that you can “only hire the best”, direct that effort towards building a system that produces great results out of a wider spectrum of individual performance.""
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+If you don't know Jacob Kaplan-Moss from the Django project, perhaps you remember him from his appearance on The Changelog #479 where we talked principles for hiring engineers. This was one of the most listened to episodes of the year. Here's a clip, in case you missed it:
+
+**Jacob Kaplan-Moss:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+If you did miss that one, or you just want to give it another listen, head to changelog.fm/479
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Difftastic is, the "Fantastic Diff"! Wilfred Hughes always wanted a structrual diff tool, so he built difftastic. And he calls it the most fascinating, most frustrating, and most challenging program he's ever written.
+
+How does it differ (see what I did there) from other diff tools? Instead of diffing files line-by-line or character-by-character, difftastic is aware of the syntax of the actual programming languages involved, so it can be much more accurate. For example, difftastic understands nesting, indentation, and line-wrapping. What results are much cleaner results, which are easier for humans to read.
+
+**Scuba Steve:**
+
+[Be nice to the delivery guy, would ya? It's not his fault he can't read!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PhwiJHnbdM)
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+We will link to Wilfred's blog post where he goes deep on the process of building difftastic, which got a lot of attention last week.
+
+A side-note of interest: we first linked to difftastic back in July of 2021, but this blog post was published over a year later and garnered a bunch of attention for the tool. Two takeaways from this fact:
+
+One, follow Changelog News for the freshens. We find cool stuff before it blows up.
+
+Two, if you release something and nobody seems to care, maybe try writing more about it as you have inspiration. Or, as Carl Lange put it years ago when he was writing about having success: "Do things, tell people."
+
+**Christopher Hiller:**
+
+"That's a great idea I'm glad I thought of it."
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Josh Collinsworth knows how to start a flame war. Are you ready? Josh says, "React isn’t great at anything except being popular."
+
+**Russell Crowe:**
+
+[Are you not entertained? Is this not why you are here?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of_jyeDZ3Sg)
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+OK, let's balance that out before moving on, he also says, "React is good. Even I, a noted and unapologetic React non-fan, readily admit that. Give me a choice between React and no frontend framework at all, and given any project of sufficient size or complexity, I will happily take React, thank you very much."
+
+Now, you've already heard his hot take, so I'm sure you can predict the big "BUT" that follows. Actually, there are a bunch of "buts" that follow.
+
+**Cable Guy:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+There’s a lot to unpack in this post. Josh got into the details on the best choice for the job, covering: performance, learning curve, bundle size, scalability, community and support, financial backing, hireability, and developer experience. This post isn't merely a React hater hating on React. There's a lot of thoughtfulness here. Worth a read.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Devbox is a command-line tool that lets you easily create isolated shells and containers. You define a list of packages required by your development environment, and Devbox uses that definition to create an isolated environment just for your app. It's built on top of Nix and Docker. But the README assures use we don't have to learn Nix and Docker is only required if you want to create containers. The shell functionality works without it.
+
+Getting started seems pretty easy. After installing Nix, Docker (if you need it), and Devbox itself, run: `devbox init`
+
+That creates a `devbox.json` (sorry jue-sawn) in the current directory.
+
+**Douglas Crockford:**
+
+I think you should probably pronounce it 'jue-sawn'
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Then you can add command-line tools from Nix packages, such as `python310`. When you're done, run `devbox shell` and you'll be in a brand new shell with Python 3.10 installed. Just `exit` when you're finished and you're back to your regular shell.
+
+This tool was first shared by Tammer Saleh in the #shipit channel of Changelog's community slack. If you haven't joined our community yet, let's fix that bug. It's high-signal, low-noise, full of nice people, and 100% free. Join today at changelog.com/community. Why not, right?
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Let's finish up with a fun one, shall we? James Williams set out to find the shortest URLs on the internet. Can you guess what they are?
+
+If you're thinking Google's `g.co` or Facebook's `m.me`, you're close but no cigar. How do you get shorter than that? James says, "there’s nothing stopping TLD registry operators serving A records at the apexes of their TLD zones. For example, if Verisign (the operator of the com TLD registry) wished, they could add an A record at the apex of the `com` TLD zone – `com` would then resolve to that IP, and your browser would connect to that IP when you visited `https://com`"
+
+With that knowledge in hand, James scanned the interwebs to see if any registry operators actually do this. And the answer is: yes
+
+One example, if you visit `http://ai` you will hit a retro landing page for "Offshore Information Services", who maintain the `.ai` TLD. Crazy, huh.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+That's the news for now. We hope you enjoy our new chapters feature. We'll dive into all the details behind it, including the new open source library we had to build to make it a reality, on this week's Kaizen episode of Ship It! That episode will drop into the Ship It! feed as well as our Master feed on Wednesday.
+
+Have a great week! We'll talk to you again real soon.

SSH tips and tricks, retro Apple UIs, iOS Privacy and TikTok, Marta & Tauri vs Electron_transcript.txt

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+[0.00 --> 13.48]  test one two test one two test is this thing on what up fake friends sorry Dinesh you will now
+[13.48 --> 18.06]  have one less fake friend I'm just kidding we're real friends don't worry we love you
+[18.06 --> 25.32]  hey this is Adam and this is changelog news for the week of Monday August 22nd 2022 so Jared is
+[25.32 --> 31.36]  out this week and that means I get to do the news but where is Jared good question thankfully
+[31.36 --> 35.60]  nothing has gone wrong and he's probably hitting some golf balls right about now but while I'm
+[35.60 --> 40.00]  talking about Jared I just want to say what an awesome job he's done starting this Monday edition
+[40.00 --> 45.16]  of the podcast seriously I'm impressed I've been loving it and I'm a listener let's give him a
+[45.16 --> 50.28]  round of applause ladies and gentlemen Pied Piper appears to have just doubled the best Wiseman
+[50.28 --> 57.60]  score ever measured doubled it Pied Piper ladies and gentlemen okay let's get into the news
+[57.60 --> 62.32]  first up Carlos Alexander Becker shared some SSH tips he's learned over the years
+[62.32 --> 66.92]  including YubiKey integration you know I still haven't set up a YubiKey I need to do that
+[66.92 --> 75.08]  yes I have an SSH key in my house written down cool wow uh Carlos covers SSHing straight into
+[75.08 --> 79.38]  Tmux adding an alias for commonly used hosts this is something to use every single day of a template
+[79.38 --> 85.10]  I use making connections last longer by adding a server alive interval program to the host star
+[85.10 --> 90.42]  record and YubiKey and GitHub without touching it every time but he admits this goes against
+[90.42 --> 97.46]  the principles of using a YubiKey the link is in the show notes next up Sakun Acreage a comp
+[97.46 --> 104.92]  science student and visual design enthusiast created system.css it's a css library for building retro
+[104.92 --> 112.52]  apple inspired interfaces like when Steve was around uh uh jobs or wasniac system.css lets you
+[112.52 --> 120.18]  build interfaces that resemble apple's system os which ran from 1984 to 1991 design wise not much
+[120.18 --> 126.32]  really changed from system 1 to system 6 but this library is based on system 6 as it was the final
+[126.32 --> 133.82]  monochrome version of mac os if you're feeling retro check it out on to ios privacy and this one
+[133.82 --> 139.30]  is quite concerning Felix Krause built a browser app that lists the javascript commands being executed
+[139.30 --> 144.10]  by the ios app that's rendering the page here's how you use it first you open up an app you want to
+[144.10 --> 150.02]  analyze then you share the url in appbrowser.com somewhere inside the app for example send a dm to
+[150.02 --> 155.38]  a friend or post the link to your feed then tap the link from inside the app to open it inside the
+[155.38 --> 160.90]  in-app browser then read the report on the screen his findings after using this for a bit are quite
+[160.90 --> 167.00]  concerning especially tiktok tiktok is subscribing to all keyboard inputs this includes passwords
+[167.00 --> 172.18]  credit card information every tap on the screen the buttons you tap the links you click all that
+[172.18 --> 178.02]  for too long these large tech companies have harvested our data they have violated our privacy
+[178.02 --> 185.26]  they have tracked our every move yikes now let's turn to mac os after trying many different file
+[185.26 --> 189.42]  managers for mac os and then waiting around for a year and a half for someone to make one or for
+[189.42 --> 195.72]  the existing file managers to get better yanzu lan i decided to create marta marta is a native mac os
+[195.72 --> 202.26]  app with a minimalist design it sports a dual pane ui it's customizable and themable it's native it's
+[202.26 --> 209.10]  extensible and it's fast giddy up i haven't tried this yet but it is on my list okay towery versus
+[209.10 --> 216.40]  electron i'll bite this is a comparison from lork levente using a real world application that he's
+[216.40 --> 222.28]  building called off me this comparison focuses on these key points bundle size startup time
+[222.28 --> 229.62]  performance app backend rendering your app security auto update and developer experience so is electron
+[229.62 --> 238.86]  being replaced you guys it worked it it it happened we we did it we we won we did it yeah lork says
+[238.86 --> 245.14]  quote yes towery is way better but it still misses a lot in a couple of years i'm sure the towery team
+[245.14 --> 250.34]  will catch up to electron the things i'm excited for are dino as a back end better auto update and
+[250.34 --> 256.54]  ios android support end quote in case you missed it check out episode 497 of the change law we talked
+[256.54 --> 261.84]  to daniel thompson about towery and their journey to the recent 1.0 here's a clip from that episode
+[261.84 --> 267.14]  where we're talking about app sizes for towery towery definitely i think is well positioned because of
+[267.14 --> 272.62]  these very small app sizes that you all produce to change the game once again and allow
+[272.62 --> 283.56]  better cross-platform apps to be built the smallest app size that i know of was 450 kilobytes for
+[283.56 --> 294.14]  a functional hello world mac os app granted the the icns the icon file for mac if you do your if you play
+[294.14 --> 300.02]  it right the the icon is generally the largest piece of your code base i was gonna say they like to have
+[300.02 --> 305.14]  nice big icon files yeah that's you know there's your 700 800 kilobytes right there
+[305.14 --> 312.70]  and and the code that we need to build the app is 300 kilobytes if you write solid tight minified
+[312.70 --> 319.58]  javascript and you use svgs right you know and and you do like the awesome parts of rust compression
+[319.58 --> 327.54]  then you can absolutely get down to two three megabytes for a small app for massive apps okay
+[327.54 --> 333.64]  sure there's maybe a bit more javascript and then it's eight or nine megabytes again that's episode
+[333.64 --> 340.56]  497 links are in the show notes that's the news for now stay tuned for our regular edition of the
+[340.56 --> 345.56]  change log on friday when jared and i talk to alex mccall about life at sea and building reflect
+[345.56 --> 347.62]  have a great week talk to you then
+[347.62 --> 360.72]  it developed a general solution to discrete log in polynomial time what okay is this a good thing
+[360.72 --> 366.80]  or a bad thing someone tell me how to feel abject terror for you build from there
+[366.80 --> 367.80]  you

Soft deletion, obscure data structures, driving away your best engineers, a blog platform for hackers & moar RSS_transcript.txt

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+**Jerod Santo:** Hello, there.
+
+**Obi-wan Kenobi:** [Hello, there.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFBB-Xp9GZI)
+
+I'm Jerod and this is Changelog News for the week of Monday, July 25th 2022. Let's get right to it.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+[Soft deletion is probaby not worth it](https://brandur.org/soft-deletion), says Brandur, an engineer at Crunchy Data. What he's referring to is the practice of not actually deleting data in your application but instead marking it as deleted (often with a `deleted_at` timestamp) in your database. There's a few reasons to do this, sometimes it's regulatory. And it allows for undelete, which is a nice feature. I've done this in the past but it always felt a little "icky", like, yeah my man we totally deleted your account. No probs.
+
+**Monty Python:** [Wink wink. Nudge nudge. Say no more.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V8KdGqUfek)
+
+But that's not Brandur's point in the article. He says soft deletion has some major downsides. It bleedgs logic to all parts of your code because you have to filter out the deleted_at records every time. It also makes foreign keys kinda worthless because you aren't actually deleting records, which triggers the safeguards that foreign key constraints provide.
+
+But most of all, Brandur says soft deletion is a common case of YAGNI. You ain't gonna need it! He worked on systems that soft deleted at Heroku, Stripe, and now Crunchy Data and says, "never once, in ten plus years, did anyone at any of these places ever actually use soft deletion to undelete something."
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Over on the orange website user Uptrenda asked HN: [What are some cool but obscure data structures you know about?](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32186203)
+
+745 comments later, this discussion thread got thick.
+
+**Ian Malcolm:** [That is one big pile of sh\*\*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnun8y7r8_U).
+
+**Jerod Santo:** There's good stuff in there, for sure. In fact, Uptrenda kicked it all off with their own favorite: bloom filters. Saying, "Lets you test if a value is definitely NOT in a list of pre-stored values (or POSSIBLY in a list - with adjustable probability that influences storage of the values.) Good use-case: routing. Say you have a list of 1 million IPs that are black listed. A trivial algorithm would be to compare every element of the set with a given IP. The time complexity grows with the number of elements. Not so with a bloom filter! A bloom filter is one of the few data structures whose time complexity does not grow with the number of elements due to the 'keys' not needing to be stored."
+
+I did not know that, but I'm glad I do now!
+
+**NBC PSA:** [The more you know jingle](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD6qtc2_AQA)
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Podge O'Brien blogged some solid advice on [how to drive away your best engineers](https://blog.hulacorn.com/2021/09/08/how-to-drive-away-your-best-engineers/). Advice like, Hire managers that cannot build software, do as many meetings as possible, make delivering software painful, and make engineers estimate their work.
+
+Speaking of estimations, Go Time's Mat Ryer shared his opinion on them in gotime.fm/236
+
+**Mat Ryer:** We should keep estimation sessions, but throw away the estimations. The sessions themselves are great. They’re so useful to talk through all the work, get all our ideas out, see where the interest lies, of who’s going to maybe do the work, but the estimations are useless, pretty much…
+
+
+**Jerod Santo:** That sounds brilliant to me. I like the way you framed that, and I think it's a smart idea.
+
+**Natalie Pistunovich:** Yeah.
+
+**Jerod Santo:** So I think this is not an unpopular opinion, but just a good idea.
+
+**Mat Ryer:** Well, I sure hope it makes it to the Twitter feed... \[laughter\]
+
+**Jerod Santo:** We'll see.
+
+**Mat Ryer:** We will see, because I'll be keeping an eye on it like a hawk.
+
+**Jerod Santo:** Have you done an unpopular opinion before? Or is this your first one ever? Because it's gonna be wildly popular, by the way...
+
+**Mat Ryer:** I've done one, and I've regretted it ever since. And I knew I would. So I knew before I said it that was going to regret it. I then said it, thinking "I'm gonna regret this" and then later now, I regret saying it. Do you know what I mean?
+
+**Jerod Santo:** \[laughs\] I do. That's utter. They call that utter.
+
+**Mat Ryer:** Utter.
+
+**Jerod Santo:** What about this one? Do you regret saying this one?
+
+**Mat Ryer:** No, I think this is alright, this one.
+
+**Jerod Santo:** That's because it's gonna be popular.
+
+**Natalie Pistunovich:** It might not be unpopular, but still a good opinion.
+
+**Mat Ryer:** We'll see what people say on Twitter. We'll let them decide really.
+
+**Jerod Santo:** Yeah, they're brutal out there.
+
+**Mat Ryer:** They'll are. They tell the truth when you ask them a question.
+
+**Jerod Santo:** Turns out I was correct on the opinion, 84% of GoTimeFM followers that voted on the poll agreed with Mat. That's episode 236 of Go Time, which is a good listen, in my humble opinion. Back to Podge's how to list... it ends by saying, "The above are some common anti-patterns for running engineering teams. There are fixes. Some of them are very easy to say and hard to implement because you live in a system, and changing systems, especially ones based on humans, are complex. So I leave you with this common saying I acquired from a boss I had in the UK many years ago. If you cannot change your company, change your company."
+
+**Guinness Ad guys:** Brilliant!
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:** Here's a new service that looks interesting: prose.sh
+
+A blog platform for hackers where you can create an account with nothing more than an SSH public key, create posts with your favorite editor in plain text files, and publish your posts by copying the file to their server with `scp`.
+
+There's more to it than just that. A few of the team's goals are to promote human communication and collaboration, build a space for the smaller web, use modern tools with care, and do one thing, well.
+
+**Mr. Burns:** Well, well, well
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:** Speaking of blogging, Matt Rickard shared some of his thoughts on RSS, which you know is one of our favorite technologies here at Changelog.
+
+**Lloyd:** [I like you a lot.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXYiW5aHeGA)
+
+**Jerod Santo:** Matt writes, "No technology other than RSS has had more think pieces written proclaiming the death of RSS (2006, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013) and the rebirth of RSS (2009, 2010, 2011, 2018, 2018, 2019)."
+
+Matt's thoughts about the forces acting on RSS in 2022 got us thinking about RSS again, too. So, we invited our old friend Ben Ubois back on The Changelog. Ben is the creator of Feedbin, which has been my daily RSS driver for many years. He has a lot of thoughts of his own on RSS and we had a great conversation on the indie social web, podcasting 2.0, and more. That episode will drop on your podcast feed on Friday.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:** That is the news for now. If you dig it, share it with a friend. That'd be pretty cool. I'll talk to you next time.

Sonic search, building software like an SRE, leaving the cloud, an HTTP crash course & breaking up with CSS-in-JS_transcript.txt

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+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+I'm Jerod and this is Changelog News for the week of Monday, October 24th 2022.
+
+Heads up y'all, there will not be a News episode next Monday because we'll be in Raleigh, North Carolina for All Things Open's 10th annual conference. If you're going to be there, don't forget to stop by booth 60, the best booth in the building, and say hi. We'll have stickers, t-shirts, our microphones, and a Nintendo Switch, which we're giving away at the end. Come game with us.
+
+**Ben Stiller:**
+
+Do it. DO IT.
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Ok, let's get in to the news.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Search tooling innovation continues apace. The newest (to me) entry to the space is Sonic: a fast, lightweight & schema-less search backend. It's an alternative to Elasticsearch that runs on a few MBs of RAM.
+
+Its creators describe it as a simple alternative to super-heavy and full-featured search backends such as Elasticsearch in some use-cases. It is capable of normalizing natural language search queries, auto-completing a search query and providing the most relevant results for a query. Sonic is an identifier index, rather than a document index; when queried, it returns IDs that can then be used to refer to the matched documents in an external database.
+
+It was built in Rust with performance and code cleanliness in mind and provides benchmarks and limitations (which we'll link to) for those interested.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+After 5 years of site reliability engineering, Brandon Willett shares his view on how to build software like an SRE. This post is filled with lessons on coding, on merging, on deploying, and on operating.
+
+Here's an example from the coding section which directly contradicts my current practice. Brandon says you should not have in-code fallbacks for configs. Here's why: "If your service can’t load the config on startup for any reason, it should just crash – that’s much easier to diagnose than the result of one borked instance going down an ancient code path because no one remembered to clean up that line `config.get(enable_cool_new_thing, false)` after finishing their rollout."
+
+He also says use Git, use Docker, use Kubernetes, use Helm, and run 3 of everything. I'm starting to believe Brandon would fit right in with Gerhard on Ship It!
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Speaking of "Ship It!", Ruby on Rails creator David Heinemier Hansson will be on the pod in early November to discuss 37Signals's move off the cloud. In the meantime, he also wrote about it on HEY... World... HEY World. Their reasoning is two-fold: turns out AWS is super-expensive at scale, but also DHH says: "It’s... about what kind of internet we want to operate in the future. It strikes me as downright tragic that this decentralized wonder of the world is now largely operating on computers owned by a handful of mega corporations. If one of the primary AWS regions go down, seemingly half the internet is offline along with it."
+
+I tend to agree with him on that point. I'm not as hopeful about the future of the internet as this guy was back in 1996...
+
+**Chip Douglas:**
+
+["The future is now" speech.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3wRvmPmUr0)
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Amos, also known as fasterthanlime...
+
+**Mitch Hedberg:**
+
+[Saved by the buoyancy of citrus.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEyna39ouDM)
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+has published the HTTP crash course nobody asked for. Beware: it is a 60 minute read. Amos starts with HTTP 1.1 and then covers H2 as well. This article has everything: netcat, tcpdump & wireshark, openssl, rustls, httparse, nom, and of course, being very pedantic about nomenclature and citing RFCs every other paragraph.
+
+**Julie Andrews:**
+
+[These are a few of my favorite things...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IagRZBvLtw)
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+If you're in webdev, but don't feel like you have a great handle on exactly how HTTP works. This is your chance to fix that bug.
+
+**Break:**
+
+Sam Magura is a software engineer at Spot and the 2nd most active maintainer of Emotion, a widely-popular CSS-in-JS library for React. So, the webdev community took notice when Sam announced in a blog post that he and the entire Spot engineering team have decided to switch away from it.
+
+**Cable Guy (again):**
+
+So what are you trying to say?
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Sorry, I have Cable Guy on the brain this morning. What were we talking about? Oh yea, CSS-in-JS. For the unitiated, this is the controversial practice of co-locating a component's CSS styles directly in the related JavaScript code. In his post, Sam lays out the good, the bad, and the ugly of it. The good includes locally-scoped styles, so you don't accidentally get bit by the cascade. The bad focuses on additional runtime overhead and increased bundle size. The ugly is about how the practice forces the browser to do a lot of extra works and the numerous things that can go wrong, which Sam is quite familiar with as a maintainer of Emotion. Let's just say the project gets more than its fair share of bug reports.
+
+Sam's conclusion: "Like any technology, it has its pros and cons. Ultimately, it's up to you as a developer to evaluate these pros and cons and then make an informed decision about whether the technology is right for your use case. For us at Spot, the runtime performance cost of Emotion far outweighed the DX benefits, especially when you consider that the alternative of Sass Modules + utility classes still has a good DX while providing vastly superior performance."
+
+In other words, "It's not you, CSS-in-JS, it's me."
+
+**Neil Sedaka:**
+
+[Breaking Up Is Hard To Do](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbad22CKlB4)
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+That is the news for now. We have an awesome conversation for you on Friday. Jay LaCroix from Learn Linux TV hops on the pod to do some serious Linux mythbusting with us and to top it off we nerd out on retro video gaming and the Retro Pi.
+
+Have a great week, we'll talk to you again on Friday.

Spicy designs, more open source opinions, privacy-focused services, the real cost of context switching & jqq_transcript.txt

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+**Jerod Santo:** What up nerds, I'm Jerod and this is Changelog News for the week of Monday, July 18th 2022.
+
+You might be wondering why this super short episode of The Changelog is in your feed.
+
+It's our new, experimental Monday News brief companion to the regular
+long-form interview show you know and hopefully love.
+
+Early reviews are positive. Like this one from Justin Dorfman:
+
+> [Whatever this is @jerodsanto, I want more.](https://twitter.com/jdorfman/status/1546986900212158466)
+
+Thanks dorfman! Here's some more for ya:
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:** Erik Kennedy submitted a new post by Anthony Hobday called [37 Easy Ways to Spice Up Your UI Designs](https://www.learnui.design/blog/spice-up-designs.html)
+
+Side note: You, too, can submit articles and projects to be features on Changelog News. Find the form at [changelog.com/submit](https://changelog.com/submit)
+
+Changelog Weekly subscribers clicked the dog doo out of this link, because everybody likes to spice their designs up a notch.
+
+
+**Bender:** [Bam it again, Elzar](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4BOZcDMw_A)
+
+**Jerod Santo:** Anthony writes, "Ever been working on a design that feels too plain? Let’s look at a few dozen simple ways to spice things up. Get ready to bookmark this page, because you’ll want to reference this list in the future. It’s unbelievable how many incredible pro-level designs feature solid foundations plus a few techniques listed below."
+
+Bookmark away for the next time you could use some spice.
+
+**Emeril Lagasse:** [Bam bam bam bam!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dxpMxULHnA)
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:** James Bennett writes, [Yes, I have opinions on your open source contributions](https://www.b-list.org/weblog/2022/jul/11/pypi/)
+
+This is a reaction blog to Armin Ronacher's post that we covered last week. Remember that one? [Congratulations: We Now Have Opinions on Your Open Source Contributions](https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2022/7/9/congratulations/)
+
+Armin was not happy with how the Python Package Index declared his package "critical", soon requiring 2FA and who knows what else in the future. James disagrees with a lot of what Armin said, so he wrote it up.
+
+Side note: Reaction blogs, remember these? So cool, so fun.
+
+James has a lot to say on the matter, so I'll just include one snippet to whet your appetite: "If you believe nobody has the right to ”demand” an open source maintainer do something or abide by some policy or restriction, then that ends the argument in more ways than people are appreciating. If you just want to say “nobody can demand I do this”, then OK, but you also can’t demand PyPI — which is an open source project, too — do any particular thing or abide by any particular policy you’d like, which more or less removes any grounds you might have had to criticize their account security approach. They don’t owe you anything and don’t have to do what you want them to do, the end."
+
+Follow the link in the show notes to read his full argument.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:** Alicia Sykes compiled an excellent list of [awesome privacy & security-focused software and services](https://github.com/lissy93/awesome-privacy).
+
+**Bill and Ted:** [Excellent!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Dc6Pre77AY)
+
+**Jerod Santo:** The repo's intro paragraphs says, "Large data-hungry corporations dominate the digital world but with little, or no respect for your privacy. Migrating to open source applications with a strong emphasis on security will help stop corporations, governments, and hackers from logging, storing or selling your personal data."
+
+**Rodney Dangerfield:** [That's the story of my life. No respect!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx2dzYz2F8g)
+
+In this list you'll find everything from essentials like password managers & private browsers to home automation and voice assistants to encrypted cloud storage and file drop utilities. Good stuff.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:** We all know what it's like to get ripped out of our flow state, but [what's the real cost of interruption and context switching](https://contextkeeper.io/blog/the-real-cost-of-an-interruption-and-context-switching/)?
+
+According to a new post on the ContextKeeper blog, it takes at least 10-15 minutes to get back into the "zone" after an interruption. And it can take more than that if the task is particularly complex and/or you're low on mental energy.
+
+If you're interested in improving how you spend mental energy through the day, the author suggests David Rock's book [Your Brain at Work](https://davidrock.net/portfolio-items/your-brain-at-work/). He also lays out some handy techniques to rebuild context after task switching so you can get back to moving fast and taking names.
+
+**Dark Helmet:** [Light speed is too slow. We're gonna have to go right to ludicrous speed](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oApAdwuqtn8)
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:** Most of us have heard of and used jq. But have you heard of jqq? I hadn't, until Nick Nisi told me about it during our _Today I Learned_ segment on [JS Party](https://jsparty.fm/232).
+
+
+**Nick Nisi:** Have you ever heard of another tool called jq?
+
+**Jerod Santo:** jq for searching in JSON?
+
+**Nick Nisi:** Yeah.
+
+**Jerod Santo:** Yes.
+
+**Nick Nisi:** It's like a query language, so it kind of ties into what you were talking about a little bit... But it's for JSON files. And so you can type the syntax and search through a JSON file, and get out like a specific piece of ,that you could modify in the JSON file in different ways... But when I use that, I constantly have to have the reference open to figure out what I'm actually doing. There's also online tools that let you like paste some JSON in one side, and then write a query, and it'll show you the results on the other side. Kind of like a tool that you'd use for doing regular expressions. And that's really cool, but kind of marrying the two of those together is a tool that I just found the other day called jqq. And it is a visual wrapper around jq, that kind of does the fzf type thing where as you're writing out your query, it's live showing you like a preview in like virtual text of exactly what would get returned by what you're querying as you go. So you can kind of use that as a nice tool to build out your jq syntax, or your jq query, and in real time get that feedback.
+
+**Jerod Santo:** That sounds super-useful, because I've never found jq syntax to be good for me... Or how do I say it...?
+
+**Nick Nisi:** I didn't want to say it...
+
+**Jerod Santo:** Easy...? Well, just for me; it's not like blaming anybody. It just doesn't make sense in my head. I'll just cat my JSON and pipe it into grep and find what I'm looking for. Or open it up in Sublime Text, which handles JSON files quite easily, and do Command+F inside of there.
+
+**Nick Nisi:** Yeah.
+
+**Jerod Santo:** Because every time I have to use jq, I have to feel like I'm learning the query language for the first time, because I use it infrequently. I think if I used it daily, it would be less so. So it sounds like this is really great for discovering how that query language works more in a tactile way.
+
+**Nick Nisi:** Absolutely.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:** That's what's new for now. We'll be back in your podcast feed on Friday. I don't want to overly hype Friday's episode, but let me say this: if you watched WeCrashed on AppleTV+... you know, the fictionalization of the rise and fall of WeWork with Jared Leto and Anne Hathaway... if you watched that: we have a special treat for you. If you didn't watch it, you'll still enjoy the episode... or maybe binge watch it before Friday? Your call. Totally your call.
+
+Either way, we'll talk to you then.

Stand-up advice, Redis explained, big changes for Deno, DevDash & Minimum Viable Python_transcript.txt

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+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Hello, world!
+
+**Louie Zong on YT:** [hello world](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw6u6YkTgQ4)
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+I'm Jerod and this is Changelog News for the week of Monday, August 15th 2022.
+
+We've had a few listeners write in recently thanking us for the podcasts. (Hi, William!). Some say they don't have time to listen to all of the shows.
+
+**Sweet Brown:** [Ain't nobody got time for that!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGxwbhkDjZM)
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Hey, we totally get it! It's a full-time job for us to produce 5 or 6 episodes each week, we know only the most loyal listeners (and perhaps those with the longest commute) listen to everything that we ship.
+
+But there are more snackable, less time-intensive ways to keep up with all the awesome conversations going on in the Changelog Podcast Universe. Once of the best of those is our YouTube channel. We post 1 or 2 clips, like super short 1-minute to 3-minute highlights on YouTube every day. So, if you're like William and you love our shows but don't have time to catch 'em all, maybe join the 4k+ brilliant sofware pros who have already subscribed at [youtube.com/changelog](https://youtube.com/changelog).
+
+Ok, let's get into the news.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Lucas F. Costa blogged about [why your daily stand-ups don't work and host to fix them](https://lucasfcosta.com/2022/08/07/how-to-improve-daily-standups.html).
+
+> Daily stand-ups are a classic example of learned helplessness. We all know they’re useless, but we tell ourselves \“that’s just how things are\” and do nothing about it.
+
+Lucas provides a set of five symptoms that indicate you’re doing stand-ups wrong and says if your team hits at least three of the five, your stand-ups are useless. Do you want to know what they are?
+
+**Brad Pitt:** [What's in the box?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1giVzxyoclE)
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Ok ok I'll tell you. They are: stand-ups take more than 15-minutes, people talk about their work instead of talking about goals, people stop showing up regularly, people talk to their manager (or “scrum master”) instead of talking to their peers, or if the manager or “scrum master” can’t show up, the stand-up doesn’t happen.
+
+Does your team exhibit three or more of those? Then you need to read Lucas's post. Instead of just telling you to stop doing stand-ups (which is what I'd probably tell you), Lucas provides solid advice on how to make them useful again.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Mahdi Yusuf is at it again with his Architecture Notes. He previously covered what you should know about databases, this time he's doing a deep technical dive into [all things Redis](https://architecturenotes.co/redis/). Covering various Redis topologies, data persistence and process forking.
+
+Accompanying Mahdi's excellent prose are spectacularly crafted diagrams that are much better felt than telt.
+
+**Seinfeld:** [They're real. And they're spectacular.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQNkeugaAMc)
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+This is a masterclass in technical content creation and an excellent primer on everyone's favorite data structure server.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+There are some [big changes ahead for Deno](https://deno.com/blog/changes).
+
+**Neo:** [You're afraid of change. I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it's going to begin.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4iL4Wd2Akg)
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+The TLDR of this announcement post penned by Ryan Dahl and Alon Bonder has four bullet points. I'll read you the two big ones and leave the rest for the uber-curious. The first bullet point, "We've been working on some updates that will allow Deno to easily import npm packages and make the vast majority of npm packages work in Deno within the next three months." And the second, "Our goal is to make Deno the fastest JavaScript runtime. For starters, the next release of Deno will include a new HTTP server. It is the fastest JavaScript web server ever built."
+
+Is this a reaction to the recently released Bun runtime? Probably! But that's awesome and shows how healthy competition catalyzes innovation an our industry.
+
+**Michael Scott:** With win-win-win, we all win.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+[DevDash](https://thedevdash.com) is a highly configurable terminal dashboard for developers and creators. It's written in Go, runs in your Terminal, and pulls in data from Google Analytics, GitHub, Feedly, and pretty much any system that can run a shell command, whether locally or over SSH.
+
+Check it out at thedevdash.com.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Our good friend (the tall, snarky Canadian) has spent the last 2 years on his blog writing about Python's syntatic sugar. For his [last post on the topic](https://snarky.ca/mvpy-minimum-viable-python/), Brett Cannon devised a subset of the language he's calling Minimum Viable Python, or MVPy.
+
+**Jurassic Park:** [Clever girl.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plzw1NWVYSM)
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Brett lists 15 bits of syntax that if you can implement them, then you can do a syntactic translation to support the rest of Python's syntax. What Brett didn't realize, is that MVPs are out. SLCs are the new hotness.
+
+**MIB:** [Old and busted. New hotness](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ha-uagjJQ9k)
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Maybe for his next post he can convert Minimum Viable Python into something a little more Simple, Lovable, CPython? I dunno, that bit fell apart real fast.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+That is the news for now. We've hit the summer doldrums and vacation time, so this week on The Changelog we're rebroadcasting Adam's Founders Talk interview with Jack Dorsey from earlier this year. If you didn't catch it the first time, stay tuned. If you've already heard it, well, then it's a good time to catch up on HBO's Silicon Valley. (Adam told me to say that. Don't do it. We are the resistance. Stay strong!)
+
+Have a great week! We'll talk to you then.

Tracking layoffs, tech worker demand still high, ntfy, devenv, Markdoc & Mike Bifulco_transcript.txt

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+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+I'm Jerod and this is Changelog News for the week of Monday, November 14th 2022.
+
+We're knee deep in post-production of all the excellent conversations we recorded at All Things Open.
+
+Expect one or two anthology episodes of our Friday interview show coming soon.
+
+We'll also be attaching one conversation to the end of our Monday News show for the next few weeks.
+
+Now, we are committed to keeping these News briefs brief... so the interviews will always be at the end so you can skip 'em if you're not interested or simply don't have the time. Once we've emptied the queue, it's back to your regularly scheduled programming.
+
+Speaking of the news, let's get in to it.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+The top clicked link in yesterday's edition of Changelog Weekly is a bit of a downer. It was the layoffs tracker at layoffs.fyi.
+
+Roger Lee has been tracking all tech layoffs since COVID-19. All the data is compiled from public reports and stored in Airtable, which provides embeddable table listings and charts.
+
+So far in 2022, 788 tech companies have laid off 120,699 people. Notable, last Tuesday when I posted the tracker to Changelog News, 757 companies had laid off 104,791 people.
+
+That means 31 companies laid off 16,908 people in the past week alone. A huge portion of that total, of course, is due to Meta performing the largest layoff in absolute terms of 11,000 people. Devastating.
+
+Our heart goes out to each and every one of you who lost your job this year. And we have high hopes that you'll get back on your feet quickly... which brings up to our next bit of news.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Amanda Hoover writes for Wired: Despite Big Layoffs, Tech Workers Are Still in Demand
+
+"While many individual workers must now find new jobs, the broader outlook for tech workers remains strong. Their skills are still in demand, and their peers have responded to recent cuts with a wave of grassroots support to help laid-off workers find new jobs. Despite their command of the headlines, Big Tech companies are just one niche in the broader tech industry. Many smaller firms and companies in adjacent industries are still hiring tech workers, albeit at slower rates than tech giants recently did, and potentially for lower salaries. Some companies are now jumping at the chance to attract people previously monopolized by recruiters from the largest companies."
+
+Turns out Big Tech has scooped up so many of us over the past few years that many other industries have been left in the dust. From government to retail to ag, many companies are jumping at the opportunity to land talented workers like us that they previously couldn't.
+
+We've also been banding together to help one another land safely with new employment, which is awesome. The article mentions a LinkedIn group for workers let go by Meta and a Google sheet with potential opportunities for laid off workers. We'll link to both in the show notes for ya.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Here's a cool new thing. Notify (spelled ntfy) is a simple HTTP-based pub-sub notification service that lets you send notifications to your phone or desktop via scripts from any computer, entirely without signup, cost or setup.
+
+You publish messages via a PUT or POST request to ntfy.sh with your topic as the URL path. Since there's no sign up, the topic is essentially a password. Then you subscribe to topics using your phone, a given web UI, or in your own app by using the subscribe API.
+
+Apps are available for iOS and Android and the entire system is completely free and open source forever. Here's Notify's creator Philipp C. Heckel talking about that: "I love free software, and I'm doing this because it's fun. I have no bad intentions, and I will never monetize or sell your information. This service will always stay free and open. You can read more in the FAQs and in the privacy policy."
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+devenv is a tool that lets you build, share, and run your local development environments with a single command. Without containers. How does it do that? With Nix, that's how.
+
+You define your development processes declaratively in a `devenv.nix` file and start them with `devenv up`. There are 80,000+ prebuilt packages for Linux/macOS and X64/Arm64. And yes, Windows users: it works with WSL.
+
+We've been thinking about how we might revamp our contribution flows for changelog.com. I've always disliked our Docker-based flow because I don't want to run it myself... devenv might be just the tool for the job.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Lastly, have you checked out Markdoc? It's Stripe's open source, Markdown-based authoring framework that scales from personal blogs to massive documentation sites. I'll keep it brief, because today's bonus interview from All Things Open is with Mike Bifulco who gave a talk about Markdoc in the developer track and then talked to us even more about it in the hallway track.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+That is the news for now. We hope you enjoy this bonus interview and stay tuned to The Changelog because on Friday we're shipping our first anthology episode with special guests Arun Gupta from Intel, Chad Whitacre from Sentry and Ricardo Sueiras from AWS.
+
+Have a great week, share The Changelog with your friends & we'll talk to you again real soon.

Useful Vim commands, bad first ideas, PETS config manager, Kaizen shirts for sale & infinite canvas tools_transcript.txt

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+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+What up fellow nerds, I'm Jerod and this is Changelog News for the week of Monday, November 7th 2022.
+
+**John Wick:**
+
+People keep asking if I'm back...
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Yes, we are back from last week's All Things Open conference and, wow, it was so much fun seeing old friends and meeting new ones. Shout out to everyone who stopped by the best booth in the building. We had so many visitors that y'all ran us completely out of stickers, keychains, and pins, which is awesome.
+
+Two full days in the hallway track means we recorded a bunch of awesome conversations that we'll be releasing over the coming weeks. Stay tuned for that, and congrats to GitHub's Mish Manners for taking home our prized Nintendo Switch.
+
+Ok, let's get into the news.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+The top clicked article from this week's Changelog Weekly newsletter was Colin Bartlett from VimTricks.com shared 50 useful vim commands that work in normal mode. Many of them can be combined and modified to produce dozens more, of course. Colin says you can these as inspiration for your own repeatable workflows.
+
+Two of my favorites from Colin's list. `gg` which is how you tell your files 'good game' at the end of a coding session and '`gf` which is when you love Vim so much you refer to it as your girlfriend.
+
+**Emma Bostian:**
+
+You did not just say that...
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Kidding of course! For the real meaning of `gg` and `gf` you'll have to check out Colin's post.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Pets is a new Go-based Configuration Management System for computers that are Pets, not Cattle. Its author says, "This is for people who need to administer a handful of machines, all fairly different from each other and all Very Important. Those systems are not Cattle! They’re actually a bit more than Pets. They’re almost Family. For example: a laptop, workstation, and that personal tiny server in Sweden. They are all named after something dear."
+
+While other configuration management tools typically focus on usage scenarios involving complex relationships between multiple, fairly homogeneous systems. For that you need a templating language, some way to store and share information about the various systems, and a way to either push the changes to all hosts or pull them from a central location. It's complicated and can discourage you from using a config management tool at all: why bother with Chef syntax and ERB templates if you just need to edit a few files?
+
+Pets instead focuses on the individual, local machine. No need to ssh anywhere, no puppetmaster to configure, nada. It works by reading your regular, static configuration files (say muttrc) with added pets modelines, inspired by the concept of vim modelines. Pets can copy your configuration files to the right place, fix permissions, install packages, and run commands upon file update.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Jeremy Utley says, "keep 'em coming: your first ideas aren't always the best"
+
+Jeremy is the director of executive education at Stanford's d.school and he was recently featured on their _Think Fast, Talk Smart_ podcast helping listeners explore how we can focus less on finding the “right” answer and open ourselves up to more innovative ideas. Here's a moment from that show:
+
+**Jeremy Utley:**
+
+Most people think: “Can I just look in the back of the textbook and see: Did I get it right?”
+
+And that’s the wrong way to approach … What the subject line of this email should be, there’s no right answer. How I open this presentation, there’s no right answer. How I give this piece of feedback, there’s no …
+
+So forget even new products and new services. If you think about the problems most managers or professionals face, they’re problems of “I’m trying to solve this thing right now.” And if they’re aware that their tendency is to fixate on the answer, if they shift their mindsets and say, “Instead of trying to come up with the right answer, I’m going to try to generate as many as I can possibly think of,” that actually has — it’s called what Luchins referred to as an “interrupt effect.” It interrupts your cognitive tendency to fixate on a first idea, but the important thing is you’re actually shifting the goal posts. You’re saying: “Instead of looking for the right answer, I’m trying to generate as many possible answers as I can.”"
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Jeremey also has a new book out called "Ideaflow" that you should look in to if this is a topic that interests you.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+We now interrupt this program for a very important Merch Alert.
+
+**Beetlejuice:**
+
+[Attention K-Mart shoppers!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7pF7WNJp3Y)
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Our much anticipated and often-asked-about Kaizen t-shirt is now available for order in the Changelog Merch shop! If you haven't heard of Kaizen, it's a Japanese word that's come to mean continuing improvement in personal life, home life, social life, and working life. We do a Kaizen episode on our Ship It! podcast every tenth episode and this shirt is perfect for fans of Ship It! and/or fans of continuous improvement.
+
+This awesome tee uses a special discharge method to achieve the front print. It is printed on a super soft black tri-blend short sleeve tee from American Apparel. Order yours at merch.changelog.com, quick before they run out!
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Have you heard of the concept of an infinite canvas? People have been organizing and processing information spatially for centuries, whether by writing in a notebook or posting paper on walls. This kind of thinking harnesses areas of the brain dedicated to spatial thinking and mapping relationships. When it comes to software, Traditional tools like text editors and presentation software have linear interfaces that mimic their output. Infinite canvas tools instead embrace the messy, circuitous paths we take when brainstorming, sketching, and distilling ideas.
+
+The story of infinite canvas software goes back more than half a century, but it's just starting to catch on thanks to the success of apps like Miro and Figma. Arun Venkatesen and the folks at Muse are so excited by this trend that they developed a microsite explaining the history and cataloging the apps that are paving the way in this area. Check it out at infinitecanvas.tools.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+The infinite canvas idea is new to me. Heroku co-founder Adam Wiggins told us about it during our recording of part 2 of his story. On last Friday's episode we learned the story of Heroku and this coming Friday will be all about his journey beyond Heroku. Stay tuned to The Changelog, have a great week, and we'll talk to you again real soon.

tRPC, a bug tracker embedded in git, awesome ChatGPT prompts, half-baked cloud dev envs & Whisper.cpp_transcript.txt

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+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+How do you do?
+
+**Steve Buscemi:**
+
+[How do you do, fellow kids?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMin0i_h8PI)
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+I'm Jerod and this is Changelog News for the week of Monday Dec 12th, 2022. Let's do it.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+First up, it's tRPC which allows you to easily build & consume fully typesafe APIs without schemas or code generation. How does it do that? By making good use of TypeScript inference. And since TypeScript is core to tRPC, it comes with autocompletion and all the tooling benefits that TS users love. tRPC creator Alex says this about the project:
+
+"I built tRPC to allow people to move faster by removing the need of a traditional API-layer, while still having confidence that our apps won't break as we rapidly iterate. Try it out for yourself and let us know what you think!"
+
+**Lloyd:**
+
+[That sounds good, I think I'll have that.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aufzEgP97Kg)
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+The top-clicked link in the latest Changelog Newsletter was Michael Muré's git-bug repo. This is a cool idea: a bug tracker that is fully embedded in git, which means that anywhere your git repo goes, the bug tracker goes with it.
+
+**Matt Foley:**
+
+[Ol' Matt's gonna be your shadow. Here's you, here's Matt. There's you, there's...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv2VIEY9-A8)
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+You create and manage bugs right from its CLI with commands like `git bug add`, `git bug push`, `git bug ls` and such. The software ships with an interactive terminal UI and a work-in-progres web UI as well.
+
+git-bug also bridges to other bug trackers like GitHub, GitLab, Jira & Launchpad. This project is super cool, but in the README Michael says, "Help needed! This project has grown bigger than I can handle by myself, especially with a day job. I'm looking for people to help on or maintain part of it..."
+
+If you know Go, or want to learn it by experience, this looks like a great open source project to get involved with.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Are you captivated by ChatGPT? Have you tried asking it a few things and gotten mixed results?
+
+**Mrs. Doubtfire:**
+
+[Help is on the way, dear! Help is on the way!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGUORSB1V14)
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Check out prompts.chat, an awesome list of prompts that get great results. Here's an example I cribbed from the list and adapted for the lulz: I want you to act as a poet. You will create poems that evoke emotions and have the power to stir people’s soul. Write on any topic or theme but make sure your words convey the feeling you are trying to express in beautiful yet meaningful ways. You can also come up with short verses that are still powerful enough to leave an imprint in readers' minds. My first request is "I need a poem about changelogs."
+
+Without further ado, I present to you a poem about changelogs by ChatGPT:
+
+**ChatGPT:**
+
+A changelog is a record of change
+A document that tracks each new feature and fix
+Each update, each addition, each bug that is squashed
+A changelog is a living, breathing document.
+
+It grows with each release, each iteration
+A reflection of the hard work and dedication
+Of the team behind the code, the ones who pour their hearts and souls
+Into making something better, something whole
+
+A changelog is a glimpse into the past
+A record of all that has come to pass
+A reminder of the progress we have made
+And the road that still lies ahead, unafraid
+
+So here's to the changelog, a testament to growth
+A celebration of change and all that it brings
+May it continue to evolve and shine
+A beacon of hope in a world that is constantly changing.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+Mike Nikles thinks dev environments in the cloud are a half-baked solution.
+
+**Half Baked:**
+
+[Brian's list of munchies.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzIJNG5__8s)
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+We've talked a lot about Codespaces and a little about GitPod, even as recently as last week with Christina Warren, so I found this article super timely and compelling. Here's Mike's top-level gripes with cloud dev environments: 1) you must have internet access, 2) service availability is never 100%, 3) product quality varies, 4) latency is an issue, 5) vendor lock-in is a thing, and 6) the pricing model incentivizes not working.
+
+Mike finishes up by saying the fully baked solution is a hybrid in your backyard and he places his bet on who has the best host at building such a solution. If you're curious about that, you know where to find the link.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+The last bit of news for today, OpenAI's Whisper model has been ported to C/C++. Georgi Gerganov's implementation has no dependencies, treats Apple Silicon as a first-class citizen, supports x86 architectures, has low memory usage, and runs on the CPU. The entire implementation is of the model is contained in just 2 source files. I played with this some over the weekend and can confirm it's very easy to compile and run compared to the official Python/PyTorch setup and works extremely well for me so far.
+
+Because this port is so lightweight it can go many places PyTorch cannot. For example, Georgi shows it running the model on an iPhone 13 fully offline and it even runs in the browser via Wasm.
+
+**Break:**
+
+**Jerod Santo:**
+
+That's the news for now and this is the final News episode of the year. We always take two weeks off at the end of December to relax, rejuvenate, and reboot our brains for what's next.
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+We'll still ship our regular interview show this Friday, which is a fun one. Shawn "Swyx" Wang returns to the pod this time to discuss these new prompts in our lives. Stable Diffusion 2, ChatGPT vs Google, and all that jazz.
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+**Chicago Soundtrack:**
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+[And all that jazz...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_YaxIL8MvM)
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+**Jerod Santo:**
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+After that you can expect our annual state of the log episode sometime next week. And then that's it, we're done 'til the calendar flips a new one.
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+Thanks so much for listening, have a great week and we'll talk to you again on Friday.