The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

Jerod & Adam share our Zulip first impressions, react to Elasticsearch going open source (again), discuss Christian Hollinger’s blog post on why he still self-hosts & answer a listener question: how do we produce podcasts?

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

Show Notes:

• All Things Open 2024
• Elasticsearch is Open Source, Again
• Elastic’s return to open source
• Why I still self host my servers (and what I’ve recently learned)
• Is Linux collapsing under its own weight? (Changelog News #111)
• We take requests!
• Grafana’s Big Tent
• Riverside: HD Podcast & Video Software
• Kaizen! Four PRs, one big feature (Ship It! #70)
• A guided tour through ID3 esoterica (Changelog Interviews #508)
• A Nick-level emergency (JS Party #333)

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Erez Zukerman shares the story of launching the ErgoDox EZ on Indiegogo (May 2015), what it takes to create customizable ergonomic keyboards, the benefits of split keyboards and custom key layouts, repairability and longevity, community engagement, and the attention to detail required in everything they create. We talk through their keyboard lineup, our personal experience with how we mouse and keyboard...we cover it all.

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• Sentry – Code breaks, fix it faster. Don’t just observe. Take action. Sentry is the only app monitoring platform built for developers that gets to the root cause for every issue. 100,000+ growing teams use sentry to find problems fast. Use the code CHANGELOG when you sign up to get $100 OFF the team plan.
• Paragon – Ship native integrations to production in days with more than 130 pre-built connectors, or configure your own custom integrations. Built for product and engineering. Learn more at useparagon.com/changelog
• Coder.com – Instantly launch fully configured cloud development environments (CDE) and make your first commit in minutes. No need to traverse README files or await onboarding queues. Learn more at Coder.com
• Test Double – Find out more about Test Double’s software investment problem solvers at testdouble.com.

Featuring:

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

Show Notes:

• ErgoDox EZ
• Changelog Interviews #582: We have a right to repair! with Kyle Wiens (iFixit)
• FairPhone
• ZSA.io
• DIY trackpad for the Voyager
• How to spray paint your keyboard
• ZSA cards
• Linus Tech Tips - Ergodox EZ Review
• Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic Keyboard
• Pagat.com - A website dedicated to cards and card games.
• Ergodox EZ on Indiegogo

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Nick Nisi joins Adam and Jerod to talk about Karaoke, ARC and the business model of web browsers, this WordPress drama, and an epic bonus for Changelog ++ subscribers.

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

Show Notes:

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• Zulip with us!
• Enchanted iOS / macOS app
• Ollama
• Tuning a guitar with ChatGPT
• Arc CVE
• Pocket Casts iOS
• WP Engine is not WordPress
• WP Engine Cease and Desist (PDF)
• Automattic sends WP Engine its own cease-and-desist | TechCrunch
• WP Engine is banned from WordPress.org
• WP Engine is not WordPress<...

OpenFreeMap puts OpenStreetMap data on your website for free, Fatih Arslan builds a Dieter Rams inspired iPhone dock, Joseph Gentle thinks the Rust programming language feels like a first-gen product & the web dev community is debating the viability of Web Components once again.

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This week we’re talking fresh, faster, and new web frameworks by way of JS Party. Yes, today’s show is a web framework sampler because a new batch of web frameworks have emerged. There’s always something new happening in the front-end world and JS Party does an amazing job of keeping us up to date. So...what’s fresh, faster, and new?

The first segment of the show focuses on Deno’s Fresh new web framework. Luca Casonato joins Jerod & Feross to talk about Fresh – a next generation web framework, built for speed, reliability, and simplicity.

In segment two, AngularJS creator Miško Hevery joins Jerod and KBall to talk about Qwik. He says Qwik is a fundamental rethinking of how a web application should work. And he’s attempting to convince Jerod & KBall that the implications of that are BIG.

In the last segment, Amal talks with Fred Schott about Astro 1.0. They go deep on how Astro is built to pull content from anywhere and serve it fast with their next-gen island architecture.

Plus there’s an 8 minute bonus for our ++ subscribers (changelog.com/++). Fred Schott explains Astro Islands and how Astro extracts your UI into smaller, isolated components on the page, and the unused JavaScript gets replaced with lightweight HTML — leading to faster loads and time-to-interactive.

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• Square – Develop on the platform that sellers trust. There is a massive opportunity for developers to support Square sellers by building apps for today’s business needs. Learn more at changelog.com/square to dive into the docs, APIs, SDKs and to create your Square Developer account — tell them Changelog sent you.
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Featuring:

• Luca Casonato – GitHub, X
• Fred K. Schott – Website, GitHub, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Feross Aboukhadijeh – Website, GitHub, X
• Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Amal Hussein – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• Fresh docs
• 1 Listener