The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

Our 8th annual year-end wrap-up is here! We’re featuring 8 listener voicemails, dope Breakmaster Cylinder remixes & our favorite episodes of the year. Thanks for listening! 💚 Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 8 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Depot – 10x faster builds? Yes please. Build faster. Waste less time. Accelerate Docker image builds, and GitHub Actions workflows. Easily integrate with your existing CI provider and dev workflows to save hours of build time. Augment Code – Adam loves “Auggie” – Augment Code’s CLI that brings Augment’s context engine and powerful AI reasoning anywhere your code goes. From building alongside you in the terminal to any part of your development workflow. Framer – Design and publish in one place. Get started free at framer.com/design, code CHANGELOG for a free month of Pro. Rules and restrictions may apply. Featuring:Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:Andrew Patton’s favs: It’s a peccadillo circus (Friends #75) Hello, Matworld! (Friends #90) Kaizen! Pipely is LIVE (Friends #105) The 1000x faster financial database (Interviews #635) Adventures in babysitting coding agents (Friends #96) Agentic infra changes everything (Interviews #664) Changelog Beats by Breakmaster Cylinder Vibing into the vibe (Friends #89) Try harder. Ultrathink! (Friends #102) Very important agents (Friends #120) Brett Cannon’s favs: The power of the button (Interviews #623) The 1000x faster financial database (Interviews #635) Build software that lasts! (Interviews #627) wsl.exe – cat hello.cs (Friends #95) Don MacKinnon’s favs: Turso is rewriting SQLite in Rust (Interviews #626) Fernando Bevilacqua’s favs: Flowing with agents (Interviews #658) Reaching industrial economies of scale (Interviews #632) Solving the AI energy crisis (Interviews #652) Jamie Tanna’s favs: npm under siege (what to do about it) (Friends #111) There will be bleeps (Friends #113) The world of open source metadata (Interviews #665) Of agents & agency (Friends #86) Over the top auth strategies (Friends #78) It’s a peccadillo circus (Friends #75) Hello, Matworld! (Friends #90) Change my mind (Friends #81) DO repeat yourself! (Interviews #666) Programming with LLMs (Interviews #629) Vibing into the vibe (Friends #89) Try harder. Ultrathink! (Friends #102) Very important agents (Friends #120) Agentic infra changes everything (Interviews #664) Adventures in babysitting coding agents (Friends #96) Agent, take the wheel (Interviews #648) Jarvis Yang’s favs: changelog.news Minnebar 20 Nabeel Sulieman’s favs: Kaizen! Pipely is LIVE (Friends #105) Jerod’s favs: From open source to acquired (Interviews #625) Discovering discovery coding(Friends #80) #define: I’m going pants (Friends #93) LIVE from Denver with Nora Jones! (Interviews #653) Inside Oxide (Friends #110) Autonomous drone delivery in a Zip (Interviews #670) Adam’s favs: Turn him into a walrus (Friends #87) Adventures in babysitting coding agents (Friends #96) Chasing that next BIG thing (Interviews #639) Inside Oxide (Friends #110) Reinventing Python tooling (Interviews #660) Werner Vogels predicts the future (Interviews #669) LIVE from Denver with Nora Jones! (Interviews #653) The state of homelab tech (2025) (Friends #79) Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Ajay Kulkarni from Tiger Data (Co-founder/CEO) is on the pod this week with Adam. He asked him to get vulnerable and trace his path to becoming a CEO. They dig into the themes that have shaped his career, and explore how founder values end up forming company culture (whether you intend them to or not). From his enterprise days to building Timescale (and the rename to Tiger Data), we cover the whole journey — even the haters, because haters gonna hate. Here’s where it gets really interesting: Agents in the database! Not the hype. The real thing baby. They get into how fast you can go from idea to shipped these days, what it actually means to talk to your database, and the whole API/CLI/MCP/Skills movement. Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 9 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Depot – 10x faster builds? Yes please. Build faster. Waste less time. Accelerate Docker image builds, and GitHub Actions workflows. Easily integrate with your existing CI provider and dev workflows to save hours of build time. Augment Code – Adam loves “Auggie” – Augment Code’s CLI that brings Augment’s context engine and powerful AI reasoning anywhere your code goes. From building alongside you in the terminal to any part of your development workflow. Framer – Design and publish in one place. Get started free at framer.com/design, code CHANGELOG for a free month of Pro. Rules and restrictions may apply. Featuring:Ajay Kulkarni – GitHub, LinkedIn, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Agentic Postgres timescale/tiger-cli Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

This episodes diverges from our traditional fare. I’ve reviewed the 49 previous editions and picked (IMHO) the coolest code, best prose & my favorite podcast episode from each month! View the newsletterJoin the discussionChangelog++ members save 1 minute on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Tiger Data – Postgres for Developers, devices, and agents The data platform trusted by hundreds of thousands from IoT to Web3 to AI and more. Featuring:Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Alex Kretzschmar joins Adam for a trip down the Linux rabbit hole – Docker vs Podman, building a Kubernetes cluster, ZFS backups with zfs.rent, bootc, favorite Linux distros, new homelab tools built with AI, self-hosting Immich, content creation, Plex and Jellyfin, the future of piracy and more. Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 10 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Tiger Data – Postgres for Developers, devices, and agents The data platform trusted by hundreds of thousands from IoT to Web3 to AI and more. Depot – 10x faster builds? Yes please. Build faster. Waste less time. Accelerate Docker image builds, and GitHub Actions workflows. Easily integrate with your existing CI provider and dev workflows to save hours of build time. Augment Code – Adam loves “Auggie” – Augment Code’s CLI that brings Augment’s context engine and powerful AI reasoning anywhere your code goes. From building alongside you in the terminal to any part of your development workflow. Framer – Design and publish in one place. Get started free at framer.com/design, code CHANGELOG for a free month of Pro. Featuring:Alex Kretzschmar – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Tailscale YouTube Docker Podman Kubernetes zfs.rent bootc Immich Plex Jellyfin Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

We’re joined by Zipline cofounder / CTO, Keenan Wyrobek. Zipline is on a mission to build the world’s first logistics system that serves all people equally via their fleet of autonomous drones that started in Africa delivering medical supplies and can now deliver packages (up to 8 lbs) directly to your door. They’ve solved a lot of gnarly technical and regulatory challenges along the way. We go deep with Keenan. We hope you’ll find this one fascinating. Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 9 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Tiger Data – Postgres for Developers, devices, and agents The data platform trusted by hundreds of thousands from IoT to Web3 to AI and more. Depot – 10x faster builds? Yes please. Build faster. Waste less time. Accelerate Docker image builds, and GitHub Actions workflows. Easily integrate with your existing CI provider and dev workflows to save hours of build time. Augment Code – Developer AI that uses deep understanding of your large codebase and how you build software to deliver personalized code suggestions and insights. Augment provides relevant, contextualized code right in your IDE or Slack. It transforms scattered knowledge into code or answers, eliminating time spent searching docs or interrupting teammates. Framer – Design and publish in one place. Get started free at framer.com/design, code CHANGELOG for a free month of Pro. Featuring:Keenan Wyrobek – GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Zipline drone delivery & logistics Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!