Podcast · 232 episodes
The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
by Changelog Media · English
Software's best weekly news brief, deep technical interviews & talk show.
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Forking Cal.com to closed source (Interview)The episode argues that AI has “flattened the knowledge graph,” making open-source repositories easier to compromise at scale.3 Sep 2026 · 1 h 55 min
Postgres at PlanetScale (Interview)PlanetScale’s approach to Postgres scaling and “agent-safe” database operations, including Metal/NVMe-backed infrastructure, sharded Postgres (Niki), and how Cursor agents optimize and deploy changes…25 Aug 2026 · 1 h 42 min
Canary tokens and digital tripwires (Interview)Canary tokens and digital tripwires—how Thinkst’s “canaries” (hardware/VM honeypots) and “canary tokens” (deployable tripwires) detect attackers quickly and with high-fidelity signals, including live…21 Jul 2026 · 2 h 7 min
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Forking Cal.com to closed source (Interview)The episode argues that AI has “flattened the knowledge graph,” making open-source repositories easier to compromise at scale.3 Sep 2026 · 1 h 55 min · 40 chapters
Postgres at PlanetScale (Interview)PlanetScale’s approach to Postgres scaling and “agent-safe” database operations, including Metal/NVMe-backed infrastructure, sharded Postgres (Niki), and how Cursor agents optimize and deploy changes…25 Aug 2026 · 1 h 42 min · 36 chapters
Canary tokens and digital tripwires (Interview)Canary tokens and digital tripwires—how Thinkst’s “canaries” (hardware/VM honeypots) and “canary tokens” (deployable tripwires) detect attackers quickly and with high-fidelity signals, including live…21 Jul 2026 · 2 h 7 min · 42 chapters
From open source hits to OpenAI (Interview)Max Stoiber’s career arc from open source to building community platforms, then into AI-era product work; includes discussion of how “sharing” and abstractions matter as code becomes easier to…5 Jun 2026 · 1 h 46 min · 38 chapters
MCP on Code Mode (Interview)Cloudflare’s work on agents and Model Context Protocol (MCP), focusing on “Code Mode” (models writing TypeScript to call tools) and how Cloudflare exposes its ~2,500 API endpoints through an MCP…15 May 2026 · 1 h 55 min · 46 chapters
Automation at the speed of Swamp (Friends)The episode argues that recent AI advances have changed software development and operations, and introduces Swamp, Adam Jacob’s project for “reusable automation at the speed of agents.” It also…13 May 2026 · 2 h 26 min · 57 chapters
Bitwarden CLI compromised (News)Weekly developer news (Apr 27, 2026): Warp becoming open source; Bitwarden CLI supply-chain compromise; TypeScript 7.0 beta; Ubuntu 26.04 LTS; plus sponsored and other tooling updates (Coder, Spinal,…29 Apr 2026 · 9 min · 5 chapters
Exploring with agents (Interview)Agentic software development and developer tooling in an “agent-first” world, focusing on why the last 30% of projects becomes hardest, and how to coordinate multiple agents safely.24 Apr 2026 · 1 h 37 min · 42 chapters
Astral has been acquired by OpenAI (News)News roundup on AI coding agents and developer tooling, plus supply-chain security and open-source ecosystem maintenance.27 Mar 2026 · 11 min · 6 chapters
From Tailnet to platform (Interview)This episode of "The Changelog" features an interview with David Carney, co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Tailscale.11 Mar 2026 · 1 h 42 min · 34 chapters
Big change brings big change (News)In this episode, the hosts discuss significant recent developments in the tech world, including:10 Mar 2026 · 5 min · 5 chapters
Finale & Friends (Friends)Adam Stachowiak and Jerod Santo2 Mar 2026 · 1 h 46 min · 36 chapters
Opus 4.5 changed everything (Interview)In this episode of *The Changelog*, host Adam Stachowiak speaks with Burke Holland, a member of the GitHub Copilot team, about the transformative impact of Opus 4.5 on software development and AI…27 Feb 2026 · 1 h 44 min · 36 chapters
The mythical agent-month (News)Software Development, Open Source23 Feb 2026 · 8 min · 4 chapters
Selling SDKs in the era of many Claudes (Interview)Software Development, Open Source19 Feb 2026 · 1 h 50 min · 46 chapters
All the Claw things (News)In this episode, Peter Steinberger of OpenAI provides insights into his transformative journey with OpenClaw, the emergence of innovative alternatives like ZeroClaw and Mimiclaw, a discussion on…16 Feb 2026 · 6 min · 3 chapters
Han shot first (Friends)The episode features a discussion with Brett Cannon, focusing on Python and branching into pop culture topics like Star Wars, TV shows, and other entertainment media.13 Feb 2026 · 2 h · 51 chapters
Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview)Building the Machine That Builds the Machine (Interview)11 Feb 2026 · 1 h 37 min · 32 chapters
Vouch for an open source web of trust (News)In this episode of "The Changelog," the discussion revolves around several significant developments in the world of open source software and AI, including a new trust management system for open…9 Feb 2026 · 8 min · 4 chapters
It's a renaissance woman's world (Friends)Software Development, Open Source6 Feb 2026 · 1 h 43 min · 39 chapters
Setting Docker Hardened Images free (Interview)Software Development, Open Source4 Feb 2026 · 1 h 17 min · 32 chapters
The tech monoculture is finally breaking (News)The tech monoculture is finally breaking (News)2 Feb 2026 · 9 min · 5 chapters
Natural born SaaS killers (Friends)In this episode of The Changelog, hosts dive into the discussions surrounding the open-source project formerly known as Clawdbot (now OpenClaw), the burgeoning trend of app subscriptions evolving…30 Jan 2026 · 1 h 13 min · 26 chapters
Securing npm is table stakes (Interview)Nicholas Zakas, creator and maintainer of ESLint29 Jan 2026 · 1 h 21 min · 26 chapters