State of the "log" 2024 (Friends)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

Our 7th annual year-end wrap-up is here! We’re featuring 12 listener voicemails, dope Breakmaster Cylinder remixes & our favorite episodes of the year. Thanks for listening! 💚

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Featuring:

• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

Many episodes were favorited more than once! We only list the first mention here…

AJ Kerrigan’s favs:

• We have a right to repair! with Kyle Wiens (Interviews #582)
• Building customizable ergonomic keyboards with Erez Zukerman (Interviews #608)
• Open source threaded team chat?! with Alya Abbott (Interviews #607)

Erno Voutilainen’s favs:

• Retirement is for suckers with Cameron Seay (Friends #36)
• #define: legendary with Thomas Eckert, Nick Nisi & Mat Ryer (Friends #47)
• Two tickets for Departure, please with Helena Zhang & Tobias Fried (Interviews #618)

Don Mackinnon’s favs:

• From Chef to System Initiative featuring Adam Jacob (Friends #55)
• Rails is having a moment (again) with DHH (Interviews #615)

Brett Cannon’s favs:

• From Sun to Oxide with Bryan Cantrill (Interviews #592)
• Free-threaded Python with Pablo & Łukasz (Interviews #611)
• Gradually gradually typing Elixir featuring José Valim (Friends #28)
• Linux distros with Jorge Castro (Ship It! #122)
• Let’s talk FreeBSD (finally) with Allan Jude (Interviews #574)
• The Oban Pros with Shannon & Parker Selbert (Friends #35)
• Why we need Ladybird with Andreas Kling & Chris Wanstrath (Interviews #604)
• Retired, not tired. with Kelsey Hightower (Interviews #595)

Nabeel Sulieman’s favs:

• The Moneyball approach with John Nunemaker (Interviews #612)
• Into the Bobiverse featuring Dennis E. Taylor (Interviews #603)

Rusty Nail’s favs:

• Lessons from 10k hours of programming (Remastered) with Matt Rickard (Interviews #613)
• “Founder Mode” at work when you’re not a founder (Go Time #332)
• The best, worst codebase with Jimmy Miller (Changelog Interviews #609)
• Bus factors & conspiracy theories (Friends #70)

Jamie Tanna’s favs:

• Yeeting stuff into public with Jamie Tanna (Friends #31)
• OpenAPI & API design with Jamie Tanna (Go Time #328)
• 1999: A Film Odyssey (Changelog++ 🔐) (Friends ++)
• Hack Club takes to the High Seas featuring Acon (Interviews #620)
• Gotta give to get back with Danny Thompson @ THAT (Interviews #617)

Jerod’s favs:

• We ain’t afraid of no Ghostty! with Mitchell Hashimoto (Interviews #622)
• Kaizen! NOT a pipe dream with Gerhard Lazu (Friends #50)
• You have how many open tabs?! featuring the hallway track at THAT (Friends #29)
• Future of [energy, content, food] featuring the hallway track at THAT (Friends #30)
• The man behind the Sandwich featuring Adam Lisagor (Interviews #601)
• Starbucks DVD peddlers with Emily Freeman & Justin Garrison (Friends #60)

Adam’s favs:

• In the beginning (of generative AI) with Joe Reis (Interviews #576)
• Shift left, seriously. with Deepak Prabhakara & Schalk Neethling (Interviews #575)

Also mentioned:

• Prime Digital Academy
• Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) - IMDb
• The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) - IMDb
• Jump Around - Wikipedia
• FreeBSD At 30: The History And Future Of The Most Popular BSD-Based OS

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1. Let's "sotl" (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Fly.io (00:01:26)

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3. Teasers & Friends (00:04:11)

4. A failed mini-game (00:05:28)

5. AJ Kerrigan VM (00:08:41)

6. Reacting to AJ (00:09:56)

7. AJ Kerrigan BMC Remix (00:10:42)

8. Adam's green ears (00:11:33)

9. Erno Voutilainen VM (00:12:27)

10. Reacting to Erno (00:15:14)

11. Erno Voutilainen BMC Remix (00:16:48)

12. Breaking news (00:18:35)

13. Don MacKinnon VM (00:18:58)

14. Reacting to Don (00:19:43)

15. Don MacKinnon BMC Remix (00:23:15)

16. Andrew O'Brien VM (00:24:33)

17. Reacting to Andrew (00:25:22)

18. Andrew O'Brien BMC Remix (00:32:06)

19. Sponsor: Eight Sleep (00:34:21)

https://www.eightsleep.com/changelog

20. Sponsor: Wix Studio (00:36:38)

https://www.wix.com/studio

21. Jarvis Yang VM (00:37:32)

22. Reacting to Jarvis (00:38:45)

23. Jarvis Yang BMC Remix (00:41:48)

24. Brett Cannon VM (00:43:08)

25. Reacting to Brett (00:45:38)

26. Brett Cannon BMC Remix (00:49:31)

27. The longest episode (00:51:32)

28. Nabeel Sulieman VM (00:53:43)

29. Reacting to Nabeel (00:55:18)

30. Nabeel Sulieman BMC Remix (00:57:21)

31. Lars Wikman VM (00:59:47)

32. Reacting to Lars (01:00:58)

33. Lars Wikman BMC Remix (01:04:05)

34. Changelog Beats! (01:04:49)

35. Nick Nisi VM (01:07:40)

36. Reacting to Nick (01:08:30)

37. Nick Nisi BMC Remix (01:10:39)

38. Rusty Nail VM (01:11:39)

39. Reacting to Rusty (01:14:29)

40. Rusty Nail BMC Remix (01:16:17)

41. Jump Around (01:17:22)

42. Mat Ryer VM (01:18:45)

43. Reacting to Mat (01:19:32)

44. Mat Ryer BMC Remix (01:20:35)

45. Jamie Tanna VM (01:22:03)

46. Reacting to Jamie (01:25:51)

47. Jamie Tanna BMC Remix (01:31:09)

48. Jay-Z: we have concerns (01:31:41)

49. Sponsor: Retool (01:33:20)

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50. Now it's our turn! (01:37:52)

51. Favorite titles (01:39:13)

52. Jerod's list (01:44:59)

53. Adam's list (01:51:46)

54. The through line (01:55:59)

55. Is Friends better? (02:00:28)

56. Bye, friends (02:02:42)

57. Thanks for a great year! (02:05:21)