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.

• We ain't afraid of no Ghostty! (Interview)

  • Rank: 1
  • 2024-12-18
  • Score: 924

  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.
• State of the "log" 2024 (Friends)

  • Rank: 2
  • 2024-12-20
  • Score: 921

  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! 💚
• Discovering discovery coding (Friends)

  • Rank: 3
  • 2025-02-14
  • Score: 888

  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.
• Dear new developer (Interview)

  • Rank: 4
  • 2024-01-04
  • Score: 884

  Hello 2024! We're kicking off the year with Dan Moore author of ‘Letters to a New Developer’ — a blog series of letters of what Dan wished he had known when starting his developer career. We discuss the value of online communities for new developers the importance of communication skills and the need to stay relevant in a rapidly changing industry. Dan shares his best advice for new developers including the importance of saying no leaving code better than you found it and the value of skill stacking. So much wisdom and advice in this episode!
• Programming with LLMs (Interview)

  • Rank: 5
  • 2025-02-19
  • Score: 859

  For the past year David Crawshaw has intentionally sought ways to use LLMs while programming in order to learn about them. He now regularly use LLMs while working and considers their benefits a net-positive on his productivity. David wrote down his experience which we found both practical and insightful. Hopefully you will too!
• The state of homelab tech (2024) (Friends)

  • Rank: 6
  • 2024-01-19
  • Score: 847

  Techno Tim is back with Adam to discuss the state of homelab in 2024 and the trends happening within homelab tech. They discuss homelab environments providing a safe place for experimentation and learning network improvement as a gateway to homelab trends in network connection speeds to Unifi or not storage trends ZFS configurations TrueNAS cameras home automation connectivity routers pfSense and more.Umm should we make these conversations between Adam and Tim more frequent?
• Leading leaders who lead engineers (remastered) (Interview)

  • Rank: 7
  • 2025-03-26
  • Score: 842

  This week we're bringing you a remaster of our epic 2021interview with Lara Hogan -- author of Resilient Management and management coach / trainer for the tech industry.The majority of our conversation focuses on the four primary hats leaders and managers end up wearing; mentoring coaching sponsoring and delivering feedback. We also talk about knowing when you're ready to lead empathy and compassion and learning to lead.
• Fostering open source culture (Interview)

  • Rank: 8
  • 2025-02-13
  • Score: 837

  Arun Gupta is back this time with his latest book in hand titled "Fostering Open Source Culture" to share his wisdom and experiences of fostering open source culture. BTW you can use the code `OSCULTURE20` to get 20% off (both print and e-book). Use this link and enjoy.
• Open is the way (Interview)

  • Rank: 9
  • 2024-07-31
  • Score: 836

  Joseph Jacks (JJ) is back! We discuss the latest in COSS funding his thesis for investing in commercial open source companies the various rug pulls happening out there in open source licensing and Zuck/Meta's generosity releasing Llama 3.1 as "open source."
• Let's archive the web (Interview)

  • Rank: 10
  • 2024-11-27
  • Score: 836

  Nick Sweeting joins Adam and Jerod to talk about the importance of archiving digital content his work on ArchiveBox to make it easier the challenges faced by Archive.org and the Wayback Machine and the need for both centralized and distributed archiving solutions.
• Build software that lasts! (Interview)

  • Rank: 11
  • 2025-02-05
  • Score: 829

  After 30+ years in the software industry Bert Hubert has experienced a lot. He founded PowerDNS published articles for places like IETF / IEEE and built his own parliament monitoring system. That just scratches the surface.Recently Bert wrote about what it takes to build software for the long term. Let's dig in.
• The world of embedded systems (Interview)

  • Rank: 12
  • 2025-01-15
  • Score: 825

  Elecia White host of Embedded.fm and author of Making Embedded Systems joins us to discuss all things embedded systems. We discuss programming non-computers open source resources for embedded self-driving cars embedded system like the GoPro Traeger smokers and even birthday cards. According to Elecia embedded is going everywhere.
• Action absorbs anxiety (Friends)

  • Rank: 13
  • 2025-08-29
  • Score: 825

  Arun Gupta now a "free agent" after his surprise exit from Intel joins us to discuss how he's dealing with his first job hunt since the 1990s. Along the way we talk about agentic coding strategies what GPT-5's release implies about the future and more. (US buys 10% of Intel)++
• Turso is rewriting SQLite in Rust (Interview)

  • Rank: 14
  • 2025-01-30
  • Score: 822

  Glauber Costa co-founder and CEO of Turso joins us to discuss libSQL Limbo and how they're rewriting SQLite in Rust. We discuss their efforts with libSQL the challenge of SQLite being in the public domain but not being open for contribution their choice to rewrite everything with Limbo how this all plays into the future of the Turso platform how they test Limbo with Deterministic Simulation Testing (DST) and their plan to replace SQLite.
• The state of homelab tech (2025) (Friends)

  • Rank: 15
  • 2025-02-07
  • Score: 822

  Techno Tim joins Adam to catch up on the state of Homelab for 2025 the state of AI at home and on-prem (AI Homelab) and where that's heading building a creator PC choosing the parts for your build GPU availability Windows being user hostile and why Tim is happy to be using Windows Mac AND Linux.