State of the "log" 2023 (Interview)

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Our 6th annual year-end wrap-up episode! This time we’re featuring 12 (yes, 12!) listener voice mails, our favorite episodes of the year & some insanely cool Breakmaster Cylinder beats made just for this occasion. Thanks for listening! 💚

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Featuring:

• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

Arthur Maltson’s favs:

• Friends #11: An aberrant generation of programmers with Justin Searls & Landon Gray
• Interviews #551: DX on DX with Abi Noda
• Interviews #453: Leading leaders who lead engineers with Lara Hogan

Hal’s favs:

• Interviews #524: Mainframes are still a big thing with Cameron Seay
• Interviews #545: Rebuilding DevOps from the ground up with Adam Jacob
• Friends #20: Beat freak in residence with BMC
• Changelog News

Rory O’Connor’s favs:

• Interviews #524: Mainframes are still a big thing with Cameron Seay

Brett Cannon’s favs:

• Interviews #565: Pushing back on unconstrained capitalism with Cory Doctorow
• Interviews #558: Open source is at a crossroads with Steve O’Grady
• Interviews #549: Storytime with Steve Yegge
• Interviews #537: Hard drive reliability at scale with Andy Klein
• Special: Next Level
• Interviews #553: 30 years of Debian with Jonathan Carter
• Interviews #533: A new path to full-time open source with Filippo Valsorda
• Interviews #524: Mainframes are still a big thing with Cameron Seay
• Interviews #523: Just Postgres with Craig Kerstiens

Jarvis Yang’s favs:

• Friends #9: Homelab nerds, unite! with Techno Tim

Jamie Curnow’s favs:

• Interviews #540: Engineering management (for the rest of us) with Sarah Drasner
• Interviews #527: What it takes to scale engineering with Rachel Potvin
• Friends #16: The beginning of the end of physical media with Christina Warren
• Changelog Beats!

AJ Kerrigan’s favs:

• Interviews #553: 30 years of Debian with Jonathan Carter
• Interviews #547: Efficient Linux at the CLI with Danil J. Barrett
• Friends #15: #define: a game of fake definitions
• JS Party #299: Tech by Choice with Valerie Phoenix
• Friends #20: Beat freak in residence with BMC

Alex’s favs:

• Friends #23: The state of the 2023 tech market with Gergely Orosz
• Interviews #535: Examining capitalism’s chokepoints with Cory Doctorow
• Interviews #565: Pushing back on unconstrained capitalism with Cory Doctorow
• Interviews #534: LLMs break the internet with Simon Willison

Schalk Neethling’s favs:

• Friends #11: An aberrant generation of programmers with Justin Searls & Landon Gray
• JS Party #288: Refined thinking with Jim Nielsen
• Friends #12: You call it tech debt I call it malpractice with Kris Brandow
• Go Time #291: Go templating using Templ
• Friends #18: Human skills to pay the bills with KBall
• JS Party #299: Tech by Choice with Valerie Phoenix
• Cory Doctorow on restoring the dream of tech workers - YouTube
• Matteo Collina on how he believes AWS fooled devs & sabotaged the industry (to make more money) - YouTube
• Unpopular opinion! We’ll move from streaming back to owning content - YouTube

Tillman Jex’s favs:

• Interviews #549: Storytime with Steve Yegge
• Interviews #565: Pushing back on unconstrained capitalism with Cory Doctorow
• Friends #7: Dear Red Hat… with Jeff Geerling

Jamie Tanna’s favs:

• Interviews: #568: Gleaming the KubeCon
• Friends #24: HATEOAS corpus with Kris Brandow

Adam’s favs:

• Friends #17: Kaizen! Slightly more instant
• Interviews #557: Attack of the Canaries! with Haroon Meer from Thinkst

Jerod’s favs:

• Interviews #526: Git with your friends featuring Mat Ryer
• Interviews #532: Bringing Whisper and LLaMA to the masses with Georgi Gerganov

Also mentioned:

• Hobo Johnson’s Tiny Desk Concert
• AllttA - The Woods

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1. This week on The Changelog (00:00:00)

2. Our 6th annual tradition (00:01:04)

3. There's something about Mary Hightower (00:05:10)

4. Arthur Maltson VM (00:08:50)

5. Reacting to Arthur (00:12:17)

6. Clip from changelog.fm/551 (00:13:58)

https://changelog.fm/551

7. Reacting to Arthur (cont) (00:16:09)

8. Arthur Maltson BMC Remix (00:21:14)

9. Hal (9000) VM (00:22:10)

10. Reacting to Hal (00:23:27)

11. Clip from changelog.fm/524 (00:24:55)

https://changelog.fm/524

12. Reacting to Hal (cont) (00:25:55)

13. Hal (9000) BMC Remix (00:28:47)

14. The pain of finding a good name (00:29:15)

15. Rory O'Connor VM (00:37:11)

16. Reacting to Rory (00:37:53)

17. Rory O'Connor BMC Remix (00:37:58)

18. Brett Cannon VM (00:39:04)

19. Reacting to Brett (00:40:46)

20. Brett Cannon BMC Remix (00:43:42)

21. Mikhail VM (00:44:56)

22. Reacting to Mikhail (00:45:19)

23. "Backslashes Are Trash" by Mat Ryer (00:45:55)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc-KKJUf3q4

24. Reacting to Mikhail (cont) (00:47:13)

25. Mikhail BMC Remix (00:54:07)

26. Jarvis Yang VM (00:55:37)

27. Reacting to Jarvis (00:57:23)

28. Jarvis Yang BMC Remix (00:59:28)

29. Jamie Curnow VM (01:00:01)

30. Reacting to Jamie (01:01:19)

31. Clip from changelog.fm/540 (01:02:16)

https://changelog.fm/540

32. Reacting to Jamie (cont) (01:03:05)

33. Clip from changelog.com/friends/16 (01:05:16)

https://changelog.com/friends/16

34. Reacting to Jamie (cont cont) (01:06:48)

35. Jamie Curnow BMC Remix (01:08:01)

36. AJ Kerrigan VM (01:09:14)

37. Reacting to AJ (01:09:49)

38. AJ Kerrigan BMC Remix (01:12:29)

39. Hobo Johnson (01:13:22)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8a2EosJIbM

40. Alex VM (01:15:31)

41. Reacting to Alex (01:16:25)

42. Alex BMC Remix (01:18:51)

43. Schalk Neethling VM (01:20:40)

44. Reacting to Schalk (01:22:07)

45. Clip from jsparty.fm/294 (01:22:56)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l3H6iY8Obg

46. Reacting to Schalk (cont) (01:27:20)

47. Schalk Neethling BMC Remix (01:28:11)

48. Tillman Jex VM (01:28:48)

49. Reacting to Tillman (01:29:51)

50. Tillman Jex BMC Remix (01:31:44)

51. Jamie Tanna VM (01:33:42)

52. Reacting to Jamie (01:35:45)

53. Jamie Tanna BMC Remix (01:36:02)

54. Adam's (not yet mentioned) favs (01:36:43)

55. Jerod's (not yet mentioned) favs (01:38:40)

56. What's next? (01:40:27)

57. Thanks! (01:44:03)