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The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

On this seventh iteration of our award-worthy game show filled with obscure jargon, fake definitions, and expert tomfoolery: past winners battle to determine the champion of champions. (Also, Adam.)

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Featuring:

• Taylor Troesh – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Thomas Eckert – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Matthew Sanabria – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• E. David Aja – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• Moar game shows!
• Chorus

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1. Let's play! (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Tiger Data (00:00:38)

https://www.tigerdata.com

3. Champs & Friends (00:02:16)

4. How the game works (00:07:08)

5. Round 1: Iatrogenic (00:09:06)

6. Round 1 thinking (00:09:25)

7. Round 1 definitions (00:10:23)

8. Round 1 guesses (00:11:23)

9. Round 1 results (00:14:15)

10. Round 2: Heteroscedasticity (00:15:47)

11. Round 2 thinking (00:16:15)

12. Round 2 definitions (00:19:51)

13. Round 2 guesses (00:21:22)

14. Round 2 results (00:25:29)

15. Sponsor: Augment Code (00:27:44)

https://www.augmentcode.com

16. Round 3: Acciaccatura (00:29:18)

17. Round 3 thinking (00:29:29)

18. Round 3 definitions (00:35:16)

19. Round 3 guesses (00:36:48)

20. Round 3 results (00:42:36)

21. Round 4: Steve Jobs ... (00:44:35)

22. Round 4 thinking (00:45:23)

23. Round 4 autocompletes (00:47:39)

24. Round 4 guesses (00:48:21)

25. Round 4 results (00:51:56)

26. Sponsor: Outshift by Cisco (00:53:45)

https://agntcy.org

27. Sponsor: Miro (00:54:57)

https://miro.com

28. Round 5: Weird Flix, but OK (00:56:24)

29. Round 5 thinking (00:57:10)

30. Round 5 synopses (01:04:17)

31. Round 5 guesses (01:05:29)

32. Round 5 results (01:12:03)

33. Round 6: Brobdingnagian (01:14:09)

34. Round 6 thinking (01:15:19)

35. Round 6 definitions (01:19:05)

36. Round 6 guesses (01:20:15)

37. Round 6 results (01:28:10)

38. Round 7: Bill Gates ... (01:30:04)

39. And the winner is... (01:35:03)

40. Bye, friends (01:38:51)

41. Next week on the pod (01:41:20)

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