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State of the "log" 2024 (Changelog & Friends #74)
Our 7th annual year-end wrap-up is here! We’re featuring 12 listener voicemails, dope Breakmaster Cylinder remixes & our favorite episodes of the year. Thanks for listening! 💚
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Featuring:
Show Notes:
Many episodes were favorited more than once! We only list the first mention here…
AJ Kerrigan’s favs:
- We have a right to repair! with Kyle Wiens (Interviews #582)
- Building customizable ergonomic keyboards with Erez Zukerman (Interviews #608)
- Open source threaded team chat?! with Alya Abbott (Interviews #607)
Erno Voutilainen’s favs:
- Retirement is for suckers with Cameron Seay (Friends #36)
- #define: legendary with Thomas Eckert, Nick Nisi & Mat Ryer (Friends #47)
- Two tickets for Departure, please with Helena Zhang & Tobias Fried (Interviews #618)
Don Mackinnon’s favs:
- From Chef to System Initiative featuring Adam Jacob (Friends #55)
- Rails is having a moment (again) with DHH (Interviews #615)
Brett Cannon’s favs:
- From Sun to Oxide with Bryan Cantrill (Interviews #592)
- Free-threaded Python with Pablo & Łukasz (Interviews #611)
- Gradually gradually typing Elixir featuring José Valim (Friends #28)
- Linux distros with Jorge Castro (Ship It! #122)
- Let’s talk FreeBSD (finally) with Allan Jude (Interviews #574)
- The Oban Pros with Shannon & Parker Selbert (Friends #35)
- Why we need Ladybird with Andreas Kling & Chris Wanstrath (Interviews #604)
- Retired, not tired. with Kelsey Hightower (Interviews #595)
Nabeel Sulieman’s favs:
- The Moneyball approach with John Nunemaker (Interviews #612)
- Into the Bobiverse featuring Dennis E. Taylor (Interviews #603)
Rusty Nail’s favs:
- Lessons from 10k hours of programming (Remastered) with Matt Rickard (Interviews #613)
- “Founder Mode” at work when you’re not a founder (Go Time #332)
- The best, worst codebase with Jimmy Miller (Changelog Interviews #609)
- Bus factors & conspiracy theories (Friends #70)
Jamie Tanna’s favs:
- Yeeting stuff into public with Jamie Tanna (Friends #31)
- OpenAPI & API design with Jamie Tanna (Go Time #328)
- 1999: A Film Odyssey (Changelog++ 🔐) (Friends ++)
- Hack Club takes to the High Seas featuring Acon (Interviews #620)
- Gotta give to get back with Danny Thompson @ THAT (Interviews #617)
Jerod’s favs:
- We ain’t afraid of no Ghostty! with Mitchell Hashimoto (Interviews #622)
- Kaizen! NOT a pipe dream with Gerhard Lazu (Friends #50)
- You have how many open tabs?! featuring the hallway track at THAT (Friends #29)
- Future of [energy, content, food] featuring the hallway track at THAT (Friends #30)
- The man behind the Sandwich featuring Adam Lisagor (Interviews #601)
- Starbucks DVD peddlers with Emily Freeman & Justin Garrison (Friends #60)
Adam’s favs:
- In the beginning (of generative AI) with Joe Reis (Interviews #576)
- Shift left, seriously. with Deepak Prabhakara & Schalk Neethling (Interviews #575)
Also mentioned:
- Prime Digital Academy
- Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) - IMDb
- The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) - IMDb
- Jump Around - Wikipedia
- FreeBSD At 30: The History And Future Of The Most Popular BSD-Based OS
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