The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

Steve Ruiz, creator of TL Draw (a free whiteboard and canvas SDK), joins The Changelog to discuss running a software company as AI coding agents compress development timelines from quarters to days.

This episode of Changelog News covers Peter Steinberger joining OpenAI to advance AI agents, explores competing projects like ZeroClaw and Mimiclaw for low-cost AI hardware, and discusses Postgres tuning challenges and telnet security vulnerabilities.

GitHub Actions takes the first hit for being slow.

Paul Dix, co-founder of InfluxDB, joins The Changelog to discuss six months of using AI coding agents to develop InfluxDB3 and what he learned when things went wrong.

This episode of Changelog News covers recent tech stories, including AI.com's costly DDoS mishap, Mitchell Hashimoto's Vouch system for open-source trust, an AI agent team's expensive but flawed C compiler, a historical look at software development simplification, and critiques of AI-generated code.

The cold open is very Changelog.

This episode of Changelog News discusses the breaking of tech monoculture with new device diversity, covers security breaches like Notepad++, and explores topics such as outage transparency, forkable databases for AI, and developer productivity limits.

Personal SaaS gets small fast here.

npm feels neglected.

This episode of Changelog News covers tech developments including Clawdbot, an open-source AI assistant sparking excitement, the efficiency of Mac Minis for AI, insights on software engineering fundamentals, the end of curl's bug bounty, and advancements in Postgres extensions and package managers.

Home lab talk starts loose, then finds the good stuff.

Damien Tanner returns to The Changelog after almost 17 years.

This episode of ChangeLog News covers key software development topics, including AI agent addiction, social file systems, security risks in AI dependencies, Postgres best practices, and web dependency issues.

GitHub Actions feels painfully slow.

GitHub Actions is slow.

This episode covers tech news including Stack Overflow's decline due to AI, Linus Torvalds using AI for coding, AI agents enabling easier self-hosting, improved JSON formatting, and reflections on software nostalgia and design.

Sid Sabrandage is back on the Changelog, and this one has a lot packed into it.

This episode of Changelog News covers software development trends for 2026, including Brian Guthrie's Move Faster Manifesto with seven rules for speed, solutions to Cloud Code's context loss, Steve Yegge's Gastown multi-agent system, Depot's build acceleration insights, and how AI is making web development more creative and enjoyable.

Late December again.

Adam traces Ajay Kalkarni's path to Tiger Data.

Host Jared reviews the top tech highlights of 2025, selecting the coolest code, best prose, and favorite podcast episodes from each month.

Welcome to the Linux rabbit hole.

Zipline starts with medical supply delivery.

This episode explores the 'confident idiot' problem in AI, where models hallucinate and agree with users, and discusses solutions like the STEER SDK.

"Agents are the new developers." The cold open starts there, then gets into databases, generated code, and what infrastructure has to handle when agents fetch context, fan out work, start sandboxes, and run migrations.

Vogels looks at 2026 and beyond.

A developer argues that reducing ambiguity, not technical skills or experience, is what truly separates senior engineers from the rest.

Adam may be a distro hopper.

Wikipedia runs on trust.

A single line of Rust code brought down much of the internet when Cloudflare suffered a major outage last week.

Swarm is the word getting a closer look.

Spencer Chang makes the internet feel like something you can hold.

This episode of Changelog News covers multiple tech topics including the Zig programming language's innovative features, creativity techniques without drugs, debates about MCP servers versus Bash tools, BuildKit's Docker build optimization, and the value debate around AI-generated art.

ZSTD gets the Friends treatment.

Sean Gedeke's highlighted thread is about taste.

This episode of Changelog News covers emerging trends in software development, including the rise of Forward Deployed Engineers in AI, critiques of cloud platforms like AWS, and insights on LLM agents and React's dominance.

This episode discusses the performance issues with GitHub Actions in CI/CD workflows and introduces Namespace as a faster, drop-in alternative that caches dependencies and Docker layers to speed up builds and improve developer productivity.

Adam Jacob discusses how agentic systems are revolutionizing infrastructure management, shares insights on the AWS outage, debates the AI bubble, and reflects on personal lessons in open source.

Kaizen starts with tired complaints finally turning into control.