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Changelog & Friends
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A weekend talk show with the best conference hallway track vibes
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Automation at the speed of Swamp
3w ago02:26:00Tap to summarizeThis week I’m talking with Adam Jacob, founder of System Initiative and creator of Swamp, about what happens when AI agents change the entire shape of software development. We discuss how he went from an 18-person team down to five and shipped Swamp 900 times in four weeks, why he brought User Acceptance Testing (UAT) testing back from the 90s, why software architecture (and domain-driven design) suddenly matters more than knowing how to write code, the live demo where I pointed Swamp at my Proxmox box and watched it write its own automation (blew my mind!!), and why he’ll never accept a pull request to Swamp, ever. Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 9 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Coder.com – Secure environments where devs and agents work in parallel. Open by design. Secure by default. Tailscale – Adam loves Tailscale! Easy, secure, identity-based access to anything. Tailscale deploys quickly and enables Zero Trust access to any resource on your network. From CI/CD runners across multi-cloud environments, to SaaS tools and infrastructure, Tailscale connects it all, seamlessly. RWX – CI/CD platform for high velocity teams. When agents help developers write code in minutes, validation becomes your bottleneck. RWX gives agents programmatic control, sub-second cached builds, and semantic outputs they can act on. No commit required. Just iterate until CI passes, then push. 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. Featuring:Adam Jacob – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:Featured Swamp Club Swamp manual Swamp extensions Swamp leaderboard Swamp on GitHub Swamp extensions on GitHub System Initiative System Initiative on GitHub AI coding tools Claude Code Claude Code docs OpenAI Codex CLI Codex on GitHub Infrastructure and automation Chef Infra Proxmox VE QEMU Grafana Honeycomb Better Auth TypeScript Talos Linux Ubiquiti DigitalOcean Hetzner Cloud Amazon S3 Incus Kubernetes Developer platforms and companies GitHub GitLab Block Related Changelog episodes Rebuilding DevOps from the ground up From Chef to System Initiative From Chef to System Initiative (remastered) The war for the soul of open source OSCON Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Transcribe →Finale & Friends
Mar 201:46:22Tap to summarizeAdam and Jerod get into the news, Jerod officially retires from the pod (and Changelog), plus a bonus for our Changelog++ subs! Join the discussionChangelog++ members get a bonus 16 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today!Sponsors: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. Squarespace – Turn your expertise into a business with the all-in-one platform for websites, services, and getting paid. Use code CHANGELOG to save 10% on your first website purchase. Notion – Custom Agents that automate the busywork so your team can focus on real work. Try them free at notion.com/changelog Featuring:Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI - Ladybird The JavaScript Oxidation Compiler Become an Oxc Sponsor | The JavaScript Oxidation Compiler Boshen (@boshen_c) / X Am I the only one who genuinely prefers on-prem? : r/devops The Software Development Lifecycle Is Dead | Boris Tane THE 2028 GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE CRISIS Anish Acharya on X: “a different way this could go down…” The Mythical Agent-Month – Wes McKinney NanoClaw - Secure AI Agent for WhatsApp, Telegram & More Zed — Agent Client Protocol Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Transcribe →Han shot first
Feb 1302:00:17Tap to summarizeOur ol’ friend, Brett Cannon, is back to talk all things Python. But first! Star Wars, Machete Order, Lost, Babylon 5, Game of Thrones, Murderbot, Ted Lasso, Project Hail Mary, David Attenborough, perpetual voice rights, and the AI uncanny valley. Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 4 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Namespace – Speed up your development and testing workflows using your existing tools. (Much) faster GitHub actions, Docker builds, and more. At an unbeatable price. Tiger Data – Postgres for Developers, devices, and agents The data platform trusted by hundreds of thousands from IoT to Web3 to AI and more. 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. Featuring:Brett Cannon – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, MastodonJerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: What is the Star Wars Machete Order? Pep 665 (lock file format) python-build-standalone Astral: high-performance Python tooling Pypi: Page Not Found Incus documentation Python/prebuilt-cpython Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Transcribe →It's a renaissance woman's world
Feb 601:43:08Tap to summarizeAmal Hussein returns to tell us all about her new role at Istari, what life is like outside the web browser, how she’s helping ambitious orgs in aerospace, what the SDLC looks like in 2026, and a whole lot more. Wait, moon vacuums?! Join the discussionChangelog++ members get a bonus 21 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. 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. Namespace – Speed up your development and testing workflows using your existing tools. (Much) faster GitHub actions, Docker builds, and more. At an unbeatable price. NordLayer – Toggle-ready network security for modern businesses. Get an exclusive offer: up to 22% off NordLayer yearly plans plus 10% on top with the coupon code changelog-10-NORDLAYER. Try it risk-free with a 14-day money-back guarantee at nordlayer.com/thechangelog Featuring:Amal Hussein – GitHub, XJerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Istari: level the digital playing field AWS Re:invent keynote Blue Origin Frictionless book Jevons paradox Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Transcribe →Natural born SaaS killers
Jan 3001:13:12Tap to summarizeWe discuss the buzz around Clawdbot / MoltBot / OpenClaw, how app subscriptions are turning into weekend hacking projects, why SaaS stocks are crashing on Wall Street, and what it all means. Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 5 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. Namespace – Speed up your development and testing workflows using your existing tools. (Much) faster GitHub actions, Docker builds, and more. At an unbeatable price. Squarespace – A website makes it real! Use code CHANGELOG to save 10% on your first website purchase. Featuring:Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: OpenClaw — personal AI assistant Mintlify Macrumors Buyer’s Guide: Mac Mini Your app subscription is now my weekend project The future of software engineering is SRE Why SaaS stocks are crashing on Wall Street Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Transcribe →The state of homelab tech (2026)
Jan 2402:02:50Tap to summarizeTechno Tim joins Adam to dive deep into the state of homelab’ing in 2026. Hardware is scarce and expensive due to the AI gold rush, but software has never been better. From unleashing Claude on your UDM Pro to building custom Proxmox CLIs, they explores how AI is transforming what’s possible in the homelab. Tim declares 2026 the “Year of Self-Hosted Software” while Adam reveals his homelab’s secret weapons: DNSHole (a Pi-hole replacement written in Rust) and PXM (a Proxmox automation CLI). 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. Tiger Data – Postgres for Developers, devices, and agents The data platform trusted by hundreds of thousands from IoT to Web3 to AI and more. Notion – Notion is a place where any team can write, plan, organize, and rediscover the joy of play. It’s a workspace designed not just for making progress, but getting inspired. Notion is for everyone — whether you’re a Fortune 500 company or freelance designer, starting a new startup or a student juggling classes and clubs. 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. Featuring:Techno Tim – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:People Techno Tim - Tim Stewart’s website, YouTube channel, and documentation hub Crosstalk Solutions - Chris’s channel, mentioned for building custom Ubiquiti API tools Virtualization & Infrastructure Proxmox VE - Open-source virtualization platform for VMs and containers TrueNAS - Enterprise-grade open-source storage operating system built on ZFS HexOS - Consumer-friendly NAS OS built on TrueNAS (in development) Proxmox VE Helper Scripts - Community-maintained scripts for easy LXC and VM deployment Self-Hosted Software Paperless-NGX - Self-hosted document management system with OCR Paperless-GPT - AI-powered enhancement for Paperless-NGX using LLMs Ollama - Run large language models locally on your own hardware Open WebUI - Self-hosted web interface for interacting with local LLMs Plex - Media server for organizing and streaming your personal media library Home Assistant - Open-source home automation platform Pi-hole - Network-wide ad blocking via DNS filtering Document Intelligence & RAG Dockling - IBM’s open-source document parsing library for AI/RAG pipelines PaddleOCR - Multi-language OCR toolkit for document recognition AI & Agents Claude - Anthropic’s AI assistant, used for homelab automation in this episode OpenCode - Open-source AI coding agent (mentioned as potential homelab tool) Model Context Protocol (MCP) - Protocol for connecting AI models to external tools and data Networking Ubiquiti - Enterprise networking gear popular with homelabbers (UDM Pro, UniFi) Tailscale - Zero-config VPN for secure networking between devices Container & Orchestration Docker - Container platform for packaging and running applications Kubernetes - Container orchestration for managing containerized workloads Fly.io - Platform for running containers close to users globally Monitoring & Observability Grafana - Open-source analytics and visualization platform Prometheus - Open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit Security & Authentication Bitwarden - Open-source password manager (self-hostable) Authelia - Open-source authentication and authorization server Databases MariaDB - Community-developed fork of MySQL Redis - In-memory data store for caching and messaging PostgreSQL - Advanced open-source relational database Hardware Mentioned Intel Optane - Ultra-low latency storage drives (discontinued but prized for ZFS special vdevs) NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 - GPU used for Plex transcoding and local AI inference Concepts & Techniques ZFS Special Vdevs - ZFS feature for accelerating metadata and small file operations PCIe Bifurcation - Splitting a PCIe slot to support multiple NVMe drives Medallion Architecture - Bronze/Silver/Gold data lake pattern discussed for document ETL Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Transcribe →Kaizen! Let it crash
Jan 1701:41:07Tap to summarizeGerhard is back for Kaizen 22! We’re diving deep into those pesky out-of-memory errors, analyzing our new Pipedream instance status checker, and trying to figure out why someone in Asia downloads a single episode so much. Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 6 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Namespace – Speed up your development and testing workflows using your existing tools. (Much) faster GitHub actions, Docker builds, and more. At an unbeatable price. 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. Squarespace – A website makes it real! Use code CHANGELOG to save 10% on your first website purchase. Featuring:Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XJerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Kaizen 22 discussion #554 Tw93/mole: 🐹 deep clean and optimize your mac. Stuff Goes Bad: Erlang in Anger Abacus.ai - the world’s first super assistant for professionals and enterprises Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Transcribe →The GitHub problem (and other predictions)
Jan 1401:41:28Tap to summarizeMat Ryer is back and he brought his impromptu musical abilities with him! We discuss Rob Pike vs thankful AI, Microsoft’s GitHub monopoly (and what it means for open source), and Tom Tunguz’ 12 predictions for 2026: agent-first design, the rise of vector databases, and are we about to pay more for AI than people?! Join the discussionChangelog++ members get a bonus 3 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today!Sponsors:Namespace – Speed up your development and testing workflows using your existing tools. (Much) faster GitHub actions, Docker builds, and more. At an unbeatable price. Notion – Notion is a place where any team can write, plan, organize, and rediscover the joy of play. It’s a workspace designed not just for making progress, but getting inspired. Notion is for everyone — whether you’re a Fortune 500 company or freelance designer, starting a new startup or a student juggling classes and clubs. Squarespace – A website makes it real! Use code CHANGELOG to save 10% on your first website purchase. Featuring:Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, XJerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: How Rob Pike got spammed with an AI slop “act of kindness” How GitHub monopoly is destroying the open source ecosystem 12 predictions for 2026 Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Transcribe →State of the "log" 2025
Dec 1901:42:24Tap to summarizeOur 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 – Website, 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!
Transcribe →Down the Linux rabbit hole
Dec 1201:45:20Tap to summarizeAlex 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!
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