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We’re making some big Changelog changes in 2025, the previously featured Stanford study on ghost engineers doesn’t live up to the hype, Git ingest is a simple service that turns any GitHub repository into a simple text ingest of its codebase, Simon Willison dishes out some hard-earned wisdom he acquired by working at Lanyrd / Eventbrite & Matheus Lima warns us about six mistakes that new managers make.
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Chris Coyier and Dave Rupert join Adam and Jerod for a ShopTalk & Friends conversation on the viability of the web, making content, ads to support that content, Codepen’s future plans, books, side quests, and social networks devaluing links.
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- Chris Coyier – Twitter, GitHub, Website
- Dave Rupert – Twitter, GitHub, Website
- Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
- Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
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Big news - A new era for the Changelog Podcast Universe and CPU.fm launches in 2025.
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Jerod is joined by Hack Clubber Acon, who is fresh off the GitHub Universe stage and ready to tell us all about High Seas, a new initiative by Zach Latta and the Hack Club crew that’s incentivizing teens to build cool personal projects by giving away free stuff.
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CHANGELOGwhen you sign up to get $100 off the team plan. Learn more about what they shipped for Launch Week and Session Replay for Mobile. - Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps close to your users — global Anycast load-balancing, zero-configuration private networking, hardware isolation, and instant WireGuard VPN connections. Push-button deployments that scale to thousands of instances. Check out the speedrun to get started in minutes.
- AssemblyAI – Turn voice data into summaries with AssemblyAI’s leading Speech AI models. Built by AI experts, their Speech AI models include accurate speech-to-text for voice data (such as calls, virtual meetings, and podcasts), speaker detection, sentiment analysis, chapter detection, PII redaction, and more.
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- Leave us a voicemail for state of the “log”!
- How do you do, fellow Hack Clubbers? (Changelog Interviews #536)
- High Seas | Hack Club
- Apocalypse: Toronto’s zombified high school hackathon!
- Celeste
- Nitro Type | Competitive Typing Game | Race Your Friends
- Secret of Mana - Wikipedia
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Alex Russell answers the question, “If not React, then what?” Csaba Okrona identifies four core problems that create and reinforce knowledge silos, Rob Koch’s Markwhen is like Markdown for timelines, Jeff Geerling is quite impressed by Apple’s latest iteration on the Mac mini & Sylvain Kerkour took the time to draw a comparison of Amazon’s O.G. S3 service with Cloudflare’s R2 competitor.
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Nick Sweeting joins Adam and Jerod to talk about the importance of archiving digital content, his work on ArchiveBox to make it easier, the challenges faced by Archive.org and the Wayback Machine, and the need for both centralized and distributed archiving solutions.
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- Nick Sweeting – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
- Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
- Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Show Notes:
- ArchiveBox
- ArchiveBox/abx-dl
- ArchiveBox/abx-pkg
- So you want to build a social network?
- The Internet Archive Loses Its Appeal of a Major Copyright Case
- Hachette v. Internet Archive | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Fahrenheit 451 - Wikipedia
- Winamp Skin Museum
- Fiscal Sponsorship – Hack Club
- DigestBox
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