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The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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Software's best weekly news brief, deep technical interviews & talk show.

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This week I’m joined by Peer Richelsen, co-founder of Cal.com. 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. We dig into how AI has flatte... more

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 ... more

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. We talk about the AWS... more

This week I’m talking with Max Stoiber, currently working on ChatGPT’s plugin directory and app platform at OpenAI. We discuss the hundreds of open source projects nobody remembers alongside the big ones like react-boilerplate and styled-components, ... more

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Recent Guests

Peer Richelsen
Co-founder of cow.com
cow.com
Episode: Forking Cal.com to closed source (Interview)
Sam Lambert
CEO of PlanetScale
PlanetScale
Episode: Postgres at PlanetScale (Interview)
Lachlan Donald
CTO of BuildKite
BuildKite
Episode: Canary tokens and digital tripwires (Interview)
Haroon Meer
Founder of Thinkst, creator of Canary and Canary Tokens
Thinkst
Episode: Canary tokens and digital tripwires (Interview)
Max Stoiber
Founding engineer and creator of Spectrum and style components; later involved with Stellate and OpenAI
OpenAI (ChatGPT plugin directory), Stellate, Spectrum
Episode: From open source hits to OpenAI (Interview)
Matt Carey
Cloudflare engineer working on agents and MCP
Cloudflare
Episode: MCP on Code Mode (Interview)
Alex Kretschmar
Executive at Tailscale
Tailscale
Episode: MCP on Code Mode (Interview)
Nicky Pike
Field CTO for Coder
Coder
Episode: Automation at the speed of Swamp (Friends)
Michael Greenwich
Founder and CEO of WorkOS
WorkOS
Episode: Exploring with agents (Interview)

Hosts

Adam Stacoviak
Co-hosts, organizer, and lead interviewer with deep ties to the show's production and editorial direction.
Jerod Santo
Co-host and interviewer known for in-depth conversations with open source developers and industry leaders.

Reviews

4.7 out of 5 stars from 834 ratings
  • Not sure this is the first time ive heard a human read out AI text but certainly the first time its been painfully obvious. Maybe still listenable if you skip the slop news episodes but not for me

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    6 months ago
  • Not sure this is the first time ive heard a human read out AI text but certainly the first time its been painfully obvious. Maybe still listenable if you skip the slop news episodes but not for me

    Podcast Addict
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    shuffles
    6 months ago
  • Excellent content

    Podcast Addict
    5
    Gump
    7 months ago
  • Used to cover interesting but has now become the mouthpiece for AI companies.

    Podcast Addict
    2
    zkry
    a year ago
  • incredibly valuable for today's tech entrepreneurs

    I love how this show gets to the heart of the matter - how can we move quickly to build our businesses with IT? There is no superfluous marketing nor false advertising. Just brutal honest advice from people who have already achieved success!

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    IgorGanapolsky123
    United Statesa year ago

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A few listeners feel the show can be lengthy or overly technical for casual audiences, but most regard the depth as a strength.
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#41
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#62
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Talking Points

Recent interactions between the hosts and their guests.

Postgres at PlanetScale (Interview)
Q: What makes Nikke different from Vitess, and how does the do-over approach influence its development?
Nikke is a more evolved 'do-over' on Vitess, reflecting years of experience and learning, with a cloud-native, generally available approach that addresses large Postgres workloads, combining Vitess knowledge with PlanetScale's cloud expertise to deliver scalable Postgres sharding.
Postgres at PlanetScale (Interview)
Q: Take me through how the Cursor demo interacts with MCP and PlanetScale's stack and what enables the query to be answered safely.
Cursor loads PlanetScale skills and MCP, querying with narrow, directed instructions, and uses the deploy/test flow to ensure changes are safe before they are produced on production-grade databases, leveraging branches and a robust gate system to prevent unsafe operations.
From open source hits to OpenAI (Interview)
Q: How did Spectrum evolve into a company and what led to the acquisition by GitHub?
Spectrum started as a passion project born from a need for a public, searchable community platform that felt like real-time Slack but lived on the open web. It grew with the help of Style Components and React Boilerplate, and, after experimenting with business models, it became clear that a standalone venture wasn't viable. This led to an acquisition by GitHub, with Spectrum's team and technology transitioning into GitHub Discussions, while other pieces of the business found a new home.
Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview)
Q: Where do you see reinvention coming from for building the machine that builds the machine?
All of the above paths will occur on different timelines: teams creating bespoke internal tooling, vendors delivering agent-enabled platforms, and large model providers evolving their tooling; over time, these capabilities will converge as platforms mature and offer broader, safer agent-enabled functionality.
Opus 4.5 changed everything (Interview)
Q: What sparked this idea of discussing Opus 4.5?
Burke mentioned a post he shared indicating that Opus 4.5 would change everything, correlating it with the major developments in AI during the holiday season.

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A tech-focused show blending quick weekly news with in-depth interviews and thoughtful dialogue about software development, open source, and developer tooling. Episodes frequently explore topics like security tooling, AI-assisted development, open source ecosystems, platform strategy, and cloud-native architectures, often with practitioners from leading tech companies or influential startups. A standout pattern is the mix of practical engineering discussions, firsthand product leadership insights, and occasional sponsor segments that illuminate real-world tool choices for developers and teams. The format's breadth—ranging from hands-on how-tos to big-picture strategy—makes it useful for engineers, tech leads, and decision-makers evaluating ... more

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