Best The Change Log Episodes

These are the top ten epsidoes of The Change Log as choosen by our algorithm. Rankings are recalculated daily. How it works.

• State of the "log" 2023 (Interview)

  • Rank: 1
  • 2023-12-20
  • Score: 992

  Our 6th annual year-end wrap-up episode! This time we're featuring 12 (yes 12!) listener voice mails our favorite episodes of the year & some insanely cool Breakmaster Cylinder beats made just for this occasion. Thanks for listening! 💚
• You call it tech debt I call it malpractice (Friends)

  • Rank: 2
  • 2023-09-01
  • Score: 979

  Go Time panelist (and semi-professional unpopular opinion maker) Kris Brandow joins us to discuss his deep-dive on the waterfall paper his dislike of the "tech debt" analogy why documentation matters so much & how everything is a distributed system.
• Engineering management (for the rest of us) (Interview)

  • Rank: 3
  • 2023-05-17
  • Score: 921

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

  • Rank: 4
  • 2024-12-18
  • Score: 915

  Mitchell Hashimoto joins the show to discuss Ghostty the newest terminal in town. Mitchell co-founded HashiCorp took it all the way to IPO exited in 2023—and now he's working on a terminal emulator called Ghostty. Ghostty is set to 1.0 this month so we sat down to talk through all the details.
• The state of the 2023 tech market (Friends)

  • Rank: 5
  • 2023-12-01
  • Score: 913

  Gergely Orosz is back for our annual year-end update on the tech market writ large. How is hiring? Has AI really changed the game? What about that OpenAI fiasco? We also talk in-depth about Gergely's self-published book The Software Engineer's Guidebook which has been four years in the making.
• State of the "log" 2024 (Friends)

  • Rank: 6
  • 2024-12-20
  • Score: 903

  Our 7th annual year-end wrap-up is here! We're featuring 12 listener voicemails dope Breakmaster Cylinder remixes & our favorite episodes of the year. Thanks for listening! 💚
• #define: game theory dude (Friends)

  • Rank: 7
  • 2023-12-17
  • Score: 891

  What happens when you take four grizzled #define veterans and throw an Emma Bostian into the mix? Find out on this episode because our award-worthy game of fake definitions is back and this time it's even better!
• Discovering discovery coding (Friends)

  • Rank: 8
  • 2025-02-14
  • Score: 880

  Fire up a REPL grab your favorite Stephen King novel and hold on to the seat of your pants! Jimmy Miller returns to reveal why at least for some of us discovery coding is where it's at.
• Livebook's big launch week (Interview)

  • Rank: 9
  • 2023-05-03
  • Score: 876

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

  • Rank: 10
  • 2023-06-15
  • Score: 876

  This week we're talking about Passkeys with Anna Pobletts Head of Passwordless at 1Password. Will Passkeys enable a passwordless future? Time will tell. Anna shares the what the why how and the when on Passkeys.
• From Docker to Dagger (Interview)

  • Rank: 11
  • 2023-07-28
  • Score: 874

  This week we're joined by Solomon Hykes the creator of Docker. Now he's back with his next big thing called Dagger — CI/CD as code that runs anywhere. We're users of Dagger so check out our codebase if you want to see how it works. On today's show Solomon takes us back to the days of Docker what it was like on that 10 year journey his transition from Docker to Dagger Dagger's community-led growth model their focus on open source and community how it works and even a cameo from Kelsey Hightower to explain how Dagger works.
• Hard drive reliability at scale (Interview)

  • Rank: 12
  • 2023-04-26
  • Score: 870

  This week Adam talks with Andy Klein from Backblaze about hard drive reliability at scale.
• DX on DX (Interview)

  • Rank: 13
  • 2023-08-03
  • Score: 867

  This week Adam is joined by Abi Noda founder and CEO of DX to talk about DX AKA DevEx (or the long-form Developer Experience). Since the dawn of software development there has been this push to understand what makes software teams efficient but more importantly what does it take to understand developer productivity? That's what Abi has been focused on for the better part of the last 8 years of his career. He started a company called Pull Panda that was acquired by GitHub spent a few years there on this problem before going out on his own to start DX which helps startups to the fortune 500 companies gather real insights that leads to real improvement.
• Hyperswitch the future of programming Thoughtworks' lat...

  • Rank: 14
  • 2023-05-01
  • Score: 864

  Hyperswitch is like the adapter pattern for payments Austin Henley writes about the future of programming by summarizing recent research papers Thoughtworks published their 28th volume of their Tech Radar the team at General Products reminds devs to scan our technical writing for words such as "easy" "painless" "straightforward" "trivial" "simple" and "just" & we finish with a lightning round of cool tools.
• Reactions to Apple’s new vision (Friends)

  • Rank: 15
  • 2023-06-09
  • Score: 859

  Homebrew project leader Mike McQuaid joins us to weigh in on Apple's big Vision Pro announcement. We also hit on our favorite (and least favorite) non-AR things from the WWDC 2023 keynote.