Podcast profile
The Changelog
By Changelog Media
Software's best weekly news brief, deep technical interviews & talk show.
Latest episode
Forking Cal.com to closed source (Interview)
1 hr 55 min
- Cadence
- Irregular
- Typical length
- 1 hr 37 min
- Latest release
- Sep 3
- Language
- EN-US
- Activity
- Current — released within 30 days
Podcast Classification
Topics
Open Source & Governance
Open-source projects, maintainers, communities, licensing, sustainability, and governance.
Developer Experience
Developer productivity, tooling, workflows, platforms, and engineering enablement.
Software Architecture
Application architecture, modularity, APIs, maintainability, and technical design decisions.
Formats
Interview
Host-led conversation where a guest supplies most of the subject matter.
Panel & Roundtable
Recurring multi-host or multi-guest discussion and debate.
Audience level
Advanced
Regularly assumes specialist knowledge and discusses implementation, architecture, protocols, code, or research in depth.
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Forking Cal.com to closed source (Interview)
This week I’m joined by Peer Richelsen, co-founder of Cal. What if the majority of open source repositories are already compromised and we just don’t know it yet? That’s the theory Peer brings to the table this week.
Postgres at PlanetScale (Interview)
Sam Lambert is back after 4 years and he does not hold back! We cover $5 PlanetScale Postgres, the Neki “do-over” of Vitess, agents shipping schema changes through deploy requests, rolling back a 500TB table in seconds, and the very real question of whether to open source any of it.
Canary tokens and digital tripwires (Interview)
Haroon Meer is back! Haroon is the Founder of Thinkst, the ~50-person bootstrapped company behind Canary and Canarytokens — honeypots and tripwires you sprinkle inside your network and forget about until an attacker touches one.
From open source hits to OpenAI (Interview)
This week I’m talking with Max Stoiber, currently working on ChatGPT’s plugin directory and app platform at OpenAI. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 9 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! PRs welcome!
MCP on Code Mode (Interview)
This week I’m talking with Matt Carey about Code Mode and how most of us have been thinking about MCP all wrong. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 9 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! PRs welcome!
Automation at the speed of Swamp (Friends)
This week I’m talking with Adam Jacob, founder of System Initiative and creator of Swamp, about what happens when AI agents change the entire shape of software development. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 9 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! PRs welcome!
Bitwarden CLI compromised (News)
Bitwarden’s CLI got hit by the Checkmarx supply-chain campaign, TypeScript 7.0 beta lands with the Go-rewritten compiler running ~10x faster than 6.0, and pgBackRest lost its maintainer of thirteen years leaving anyone running production Postgres with a real dependency-trust task this week.
Exploring with agents (Interview)
Today on the show I’m talking with Amelia Wattenberger — designer, data-viz veteran, ex-GitHub Next, and now designing Intent at Augment Code. What if the last 30% of any software project is about to become the hardest part you’ve ever done? That’s the argument Amelia is making today.
Astral has been acquired by OpenAI (News)
Astral is joining OpenAI, which says a lot about where the center of gravity is moving for developer tools, LiteLLM got hit by a nasty supply-chain attack, and OpenCode blew up as the latest serious open source swing at the coding-agent stack.
From Tailnet to platform (Interview)
Adam talks with Tailscale co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer David Carney about where Tailscale is headed next: TSIDP, TSNet, multiple tailnets, and Aperture.