The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

Engineering management (for the rest of us)

Syncthing, Thunderbird, Baseline & vector databases

How companies are sponsoring OSS

Mojo might be huge, chatbots aren't it, big tech lacks an AI moat & monoliths are not dinosaurs

Livebook's big launch week

Hyperswitch, the future of programming, Thoughtworks' latest tech radar & your docs aren't "simple"

Hard drive reliability at scale

Dataset wars, Bark, Kent Beck needs to recalibrate, StableLM & blind prompting is not prompt engineering

How do you do, fellow Hack Clubbers?

Free Dolly, GitHub Accelerator's cohort, improving Tailscale via Apple’s open source & what the heck are passkeys?!

Examining capitalism's chokepoints

Ken Thompson's keynote, Tabby, The LLama Effect, Codeberg & facing the inevitable

LLMs break the internet

Twitter's open algorithm, Auto-GPT, LLMs as "calculators for words", SudoLang & stochastic parrots

A new path to full-time open source

GitHub Copilot X, Chatbot UI, ChatGPT plugins, defining juice for software dev, Logto, Basaran & llama-cli

Bringing Whisper and LLaMA to the masses

Self-hosting in 2023, no more Alpine Linux, type constraints in 65 lines of SQL, Initial V, Minimal Gallery, the legacy of Visual Basic, tracking fake GitHub stars & Mastodon's 10M

Why Neovim?

This podcast episode delves into the history, development, and features of Neovim, a popular text editor that emerged as a fork of the well-known Vim. It explores the similarities and differences between Neovim and Vim, highlighting the use of Lua as Neovim's configuration language. The episode discusses the design pri...

Docker and Linux Containers (Interview)