Best Modern Data Stack Podcasts (2024)

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What even is the modern data stack (Interview) 1:12:05

12d ago1:12:05

1:12:05

Benn Stancil’s weekly Substack on data and technology provides a fascinating perspective on the modern data stack & the industry building it. On this episode, Benn joins Jerod to dissect a few of his essays, discuss opportunities he sees during this slowdown & explain why he thinks maybe we should disband the analytics team. Leave us a comment Chan…

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Into the Bobiverse (Interview) 1:30:45

3h ago1:30:45

1:30:45

Dennis E. Taylor joins the show to take us “Into the Bobiverse” and other books he’s written. Dennis shares the backstory on how he went from programmer to author/writer and creator of Audible’s Best Science Fiction Book of 2016, his process for iterating and developing the story as he writes, plans for a Bobiverse movie, and what’s next in book 5 …

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80% of professional programmers are unhappy (News) 6:44

2d ago6:44

6:44

The latest Stack Overflow Developer Survey has some concerning results, Joeri Sebrechts helps you do plain vanilla web dev, MIT’s “missing semester” course looks pretty amazing, a dive into the fascinating history of CSV & a tool to get request analytics from the nginx access logs. Leave us a comment Changelog++ members support our work, get closer…

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From Chef to System Initiative (Friends) 2:18:52

2d ago2:18:52

2:18:52

Adam Jacob goes solo with Adam for an epic pod into his journey to get to System Initiative. From SysAdmin at 8 years old, to discovering Linux and working for Mom-and-pop ISPs, to open source changing his life and starting Opscode and building Chef. Buckle up. This is a different flavor of “Friends” for you. Enjoy. Leave us a comment Changelog++ m…

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Open is the way (Interview) 1:49:25

3d ago1:49:25

1:49:25

Joseph Jacks (JJ) is back! We discuss the latest in COSS funding, his thesis for investing in commercial open source companies, the various rug pulls happening out there in open source licensing, and Zuck/Meta’s generosity releasing Llama 3.1 as “open source.” Leave us a comment Changelog++ members save 13 minutes on this episode because they made …

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The Swiss government goes open source (News) 7:06

2d ago7:06

7:06

The Switzerland federal government requires releasing its software as open source, Google decides not to deprecate third-party cookies, Mark Zuckerberg says “open source” AI is the path forward, GitHub allows anyone access to deleted / private repository data & Tailscale wants to build a New Internet. Leave us a comment Changelog++ members support …

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The BSOD CrowdStrikes back (Friends) 1:31:32

8d ago1:31:32

1:31:32

Robert Ross joins us in CrowdStrike’s wake to dissect the largest outage in the history of information technology… and what it means for the future of the (software) world. Leave us a comment Changelog++ members get a bonus 9 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today! Sponsors: Cronitor – Cronitor helps you understand your cron jo…

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The man behind the Sandwich (Interview) 1:39:30

10d ago1:39:30

1:39:30

Adam Lisagor (Sandwich Video founder) takes us behind the Sandwich to share his insights into the importance of storytelling in the tech industry, the value of helping Founders communicate their stories effectively, the details behind his new AI company, and the apps he’s making for Apple Vision Pro at Sandwich Vision. Leave us a comment Changelog+…

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The greatest tech comes when we ignore ROI 24:19

2h ago24:19

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Inspired by watching the surge in space exploration during his childhood in 70s India, through the 80s microchip era and on into the internet boom and a 25-year career innovating software at a large enterprise scale - Netscape, Bang Networks and finally VMware – Raghu Raghuram can claim authority and perspective on close to the entirety of our indu…

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Southwest flies high over CrowdStrike outage (News) 8:17

2d ago8:17

8:17

Brendan Gregg details how eBPF can help us have no more blue Fridays, Misty De Meo thinks GitHub is starting to feel like legacy software, Gavin D. Howard does not want Rust to be used for everything, The Notion team published a deep dive into how they used the WASM version of SQLite to improve browser performance & Gregor Ojstersek writes up how t…

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There’s a TUI for that (Friends) 1:53:12

13d ago1:53:12

1:53:12

Nick Janetakis is back and this time we’re talking about TUIs (text-based user interfaces) — some we’ve tried and some we plan to try. All are collected from Justin Garrison’s Awesome TUIs repo on GitHub. This episode is “AI free.” Leave us a comment Changelog++ members get a bonus 17 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today! Spo…

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Unlocking Value from Unstructured Data, Real-World Applications of Generative AI | ep 17 36:28

1h ago36:28

36:28

In this episode of "How AI is Built," host Nicolay Gerold interviews Jonathan Yarkoni, founder of Reach Latent. Jonathan shares his expertise in extracting value from unstructured data using AI, discussing challenging projects, the impact of ChatGPT, and the future of generative AI. From weather prediction to legal tech, Jonathan provides valuable …

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The six dumbest ideas in computer security (News) 8:14

4d ago8:14

8:14

Marcus J. Ranum’s 2005 post on dumb ideas in computer security still holds up, Barry Jones argues why story points are useless, Posting is an HTTP client as a TUI, Varnish ceator Poul-Henning Kamp (phk) reflects on ten years of working on the HTTP cache & es-tookit is a major upgrade to Lodash. Leave us a comment Changelog++ members support our wor…

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Last DevRel standing (Friends) 1:33:23

12d ago1:33:23

1:33:23

Shawn “swyx” Wang is back to talk with us about the state of DevRel according to ZIRP (the Zero Interest Rate Phenomenon), the data that backs up the rise and fall of job openings, whether or not DevRel is dead or dying, speculation of the near-term arrival of AGI, AI Engineering as the last job standing, the innovation from Cognition with Devin as…

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Data Processing for AI, Integrating AI into Data Pipelines, Spark | ep 16 46:26

1d ago46:26

46:26

This episode of "How AI Is Built" is all about data processing for AI. Abhishek Choudhary and Nicolay discuss Spark and alternatives to process data so it is AI-ready. Spark is a distributed system that allows for fast data processing by utilizing memory. It uses a dataframe representation "RDD" to simplify data processing. When should you use Spar…

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It all starts with Postgres (Interview) 1:34:47

11d ago1:34:47

1:34:47

Paul Copplestone, CEO of Supabase (the meme-lord himself), joins the show to take us on the journey of Supabase leading Postgres for life, and how it all starts with Postgres as the base-layer substrate for the entire Supabase platform. They’re laser focused on the drive ahead, not the rear-view mirror. Disclosure: Adam and Jerod are angel investor…

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Programming advice for my younger self (News) 8:46

11d ago8:46

8:46

Marcus Buffett writes his younger self programming advice, Swyx asks and answers whether or not DevRel is dead, the Ghost team opens up their ActivityPub server, Pongo is like MongoDB but on Postgres, Jack Kelly is funding Ladybird because he can’t fund Firefox & Hyrum’s Law. Leave us a comment Changelog++ members save 1 minute on this episode beca…

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A different kind of rug pull (Friends) 1:29:30

14d ago1:29:30

1:29:30

Adam & Jerod discuss the news! But first, we discuss how you can keep up with the software world (good question, Tyler Boyd!) On the docket: Developer job postings trend, the Ladybird Browser Initiative, the Polyfill.js supply chain attack & is the future self-hosted? Leave us a comment Changelog++ members get a bonus 15 minutes at the end of this …

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Building AI Agents for the Enterprise: Realistic Use Cases, Cost Controls, Seamless UX | ep 15 35:12

9d ago35:12

35:12

In this episode, Nicolay talks with Rahul Parundekar, founder of AI Hero, about the current state and future of AI agents. Drawing from over a decade of experience working on agent technology at companies like Toyota, Rahul emphasizes the importance of focusing on realistic, bounded use cases rather than chasing full autonomy. They dive into the ke…

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Code review anxiety (Interview) 1:12:07

1M ago1:12:07

1:12:07

Carol Lee (Clinical Scientist) shares her research on code review anxiety. We dive deep into her recent research paper “Understanding and Effectively Mitigating Code Review Anxiety”. We get into all the nooks and crannies of this topic — common code review myths, strategies for coping, the need for awareness and self-reflection, the value of exposu…

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The scariest chart in all of software (News) 7:52

18d ago7:52

7:52

Software developer jobs are trending down, the creator of dotenv creates a better dotenv, the Chrome team puts Gemini Nano AI model right inside your browser, a pollyfill.js supply chain attack hits 100k+ sites & Steph Ango asks, “What can we remove?” Leave us a comment Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads…

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Kaizen! NOT a pipe dream (Friends) 1:39:01

1M ago1:39:01

1:39:01

Welcome to Kaizen 15! We go deep on the big Changelog News redesign, give shout outs to folks who’ve helped us along the way & Gerhard takes us on his journey to turn Jerod’s pipe dream into a reality! Leave us a comment Changelog++ members get a bonus 7 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today! Sponsors: Cronitor – Cronitor help…

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Mastering the billion-dollar software playbook 29:59

1M ago29:59

29:59

Born of the same crucible as Reid Hoffman, Peter Thiel and Elon Musk, Joe Lonsdale and Eric Poirier have been building and investing in software for over two decades. As the General Partner of 8VC and the CEO of Addepar respectively, they have seen industries evolve and innovate.Speaking at Hg's recent 'Software Leadership Gathering', Matthew Brock…

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Building Predictable Agents: Prompting, Compression, and Memory Strategies | ep 14 32:14

16d ago32:14

32:14

In this conversation, Nicolay and Richmond Alake discuss various topics related to building AI agents and using MongoDB in the AI space. They cover the use of agents and multi-agents, the challenges of controlling agent behavior, and the importance of prompt compression. When you are building agents. Build them iteratively. Start with simple LLM ca…

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MAJOR.SEMVER.PATCH (Interview) 1:32:08

23d ago1:32:08

1:32:08

Predrag Gruevski and Chris Krycho joined the show to talk about SemVer. We explore the challenges and the advantages of semantic versioning (aka SemVer), the need for improving the tooling around SemVer, where semantic versioning really shines and where it’s needed, Types and SemVer, whether or not there’s a better way, and why it’s not as simple a…

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Data Integration and Ingestion for AI & LLMs, Architecting Data Flows | changelog 3 14:53

18d ago14:53

14:53

In this episode, Kirk Marple, CEO and founder of Graphlit, shares his expertise on building efficient data integrations. Kirk breaks down his approach using relatable concepts: The "Two-Sided Funnel": This model streamlines data flow by converting various data sources into a standard format before distributing it. Universal Data Streams: Kirk expla…

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Please let this be Peak LLM (News) 10:54

28d ago10:54

10:54

Søren Fuglede Jørgensen builds a font thats also an LLM, Hugo Landau writes about the demise of the mildly dynamic website, SQL Studio is the simplest little database explorer ever, Mathew Duggan reviews GitHub Copilot Workspace & Stephan Schmidt lays out the case against mocking + what to do instead. Leave us a comment Changelog++ members support …

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Where DOESN’T curl run (Friends) 1:41:27

2M ago1:41:27

1:41:27

Daniel Stenberg shares his guiding principles for BDFL’ing curl, gives us his perspective on the state of the internet, talks financial independence, ensuring curl won’t be the next XZ & more! Leave us a comment Changelog++ members get a bonus 7 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today! Sponsors: Socket – Secure your supply chain…

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Securing GitHub (Interview) 1:29:38

2M ago1:29:38

1:29:38

Jacob DePriest, VP and Deputy Chief Security Officer at GitHub, joins the show this week to talk about securing GitHub. From Artifact Attestations, profile hardening, preventing XZ-like attacks, GitHub Advanced Security, code scanning, improving Dependabot, and more. Leave us a comment Changelog++ members save 14 minutes on this episode because the…

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ETL for LLMs, Integrating and Normalizing Unstructured Data | ep 13 36:48

2M ago36:48

36:48

In our latest episode, we sit down with Derek Tu, Founder and CEO of Carbon, a cutting-edge ETL tool designed specifically for large language models (LLMs). Carbon is streamlining AI development by providing a platform for integrating unstructured data from various sources, enabling businesses to build innovative AI applications more efficiently wh…

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The onset of "Senior Engineer Fatigue" (News) 8:39

1M ago8:39

8:39

Luminousmen writes about Senior Engineer Fatigue, Microsoft rethinks its AI-based Recall feature, Mike Hoye gives a big shout out to the “diff” program, Thom Holwerda covers ChromeOS’ quiet switch to Android Linux subsystems & Mihail Eric tells the inside story on how Alexa dropped the ball on being the top conversational system on Earth. Leave us …

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Putting the Apple in AI (Friends) 2:01:15

1M ago2:01:15

2:01:15

Justin Searls joins us for hot takes on Apple’s 2024 WWDC keynote. Apple Intelligence stole the show, but did it steal our hearts? Oh, and we learn all about Justin’s Vision Pro Life and how he hopes/expects Apple’s latest device to improve in future iterations. Leave us a comment Changelog++ members save 10 minutes on this episode because they mad…

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Serverless Data Orchestration, AI in the Data Stack, AI Pipelines | ep 12 28:06

30d ago28:06

28:06

In this episode, Nicolay sits down with Hugo Lu, founder and CEO of Orchestra, a modern data orchestration platform. As data pipelines and analytics workflows become increasingly complex, spanning multiple teams, tools and cloud services, the need for unified orchestration and visibility has never been greater. Orchestra is a serverless data orches…

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1999: A Film Odyssey (Changelog++ 🔐) (Friends) 4:36

1M ago4:36

4:36

Adam & Jerod hallway-track-it between Microsoft Build interviews. Was 1999 the best year in film history? Was 2004 the worst? Have you heard the full story behind Blues Traveler’s “Hook”? Are you still reading this? Go listen! (This episode is for Changelog++ ears only.) Leave us a comment Changelog++ members get a bonus 43 minutes at the end of th…

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Retired, not tired. (Interview) 1:33:26

1M ago1:33:26

1:33:26

Kelsey Hightower is back to share more of his wisdom. This time it’s one year after his retirement from Google. But guess what? He might be “retired,” but he’s not tired. In this episode Kelsey shares what drives him, what he fears, and how he thinks through his life choices and parenting. This is a good one. Leave us a comment Changelog++ members …

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Apple finally gets Siri-ous (News) 7:49

1M ago7:49

7:49

Apple announces its “new” style of AI, piku gives you “git push” deployment on your own servers, Dabo Chen rebuilds nanoGPT in a spreadsheet, Mark Seemann thinks you’ll regret using natural keys in your database design & Glyph Lefkowitz describes his grand unified theory of the AI hype cycle. Leave us a comment Changelog++ members support our work,…

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The rapid experimentation of AI agents (w/ Yohei Nakajima) 45:55

2M ago45:55

45:55

Yohei Nakajima is an investor by day and coder by night. In particular, one of his projects, an AI agent framework called BabyAGI that creates a plan-execute loop, got a ton of attention in the past year. The truth is that AI agents are an extremely experimental space, and depending on how strict you want to be with your definition, there aren't a …

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#define: legendary (Friends) 1:52:11

2M ago1:52:11

1:52:11

What happens when you take three #define newbs (Thomas Eckert, Nick Nisi, Mat Ryer) & pit them against the grizzled vet, Adam? Find out on this episode because our award-worthy game of fake definitions is back & this time it’s even more legendary! Leave us a comment Changelog++ members get a bonus 6 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. …

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Mastering Vector Databases: Product & Binary Quantization, Multi-Vector Search 40:06

1M ago40:06

40:06

Ever wondered how AI systems handle images and videos, or how they make lightning-fast recommendations? Tune in as Nicolay chats with Zain Hassan, an expert in vector databases from Weaviate. They break down complex topics like quantization, multi-vector search, and the potential of multimodal search, making them accessible for all listeners. Zain …

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Microsoft is all-in on AI: Part 2 (Interview) 2:46:59

2M ago2:46:59

2:46:59

Mark Russinovich, Eric Boyd & Neha Batra join us to discuss the state of AI for Microsoft and OpenAI at Microsoft Build 2024. It’s safe to say that Microsoft is all-in on AI. Leave us a comment Changelog++ members save 14 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Cronitor – Cronitor helps you understand your…

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Yet another open source rug pull (News) 9:47

2M ago9:47

9:47

A popular open source iOS authenticator app goes rogue under new ownership, Andreas Kling steps back from SerenityOS & forks Ladybird, Vhyrro takes a thought-provoking try at a “static effect system”, Matt Bessey is over GraphQL & Marc-Andre Giroux still likes GraphQL sometimes (in the right context). Leave us a comment Changelog++ members save 1 m…

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Is it too late to opt out of AI? (Friends) 1:39:05

2M ago1:39:05

1:39:05

Tech lawyer Luis Villa returns to answer our most pressing questions: what’s up with all these new content deals? How did Google think it was a good idea to ship AI Summaries in its current state? Is it too late to opt out of AI? We also discuss AI in Hollywood (spoilers!), positive things we’re seeing (or hoping for) & Upstream 2024 (June 5th)! Le…

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Building Robust AI and Data Systems, Data Architecture, Data Quality, Data Storage | ep 10 45:33

1M ago45:33

45:33

In this episode of "How AI is Built", data architect Anjan Banerjee provides an in-depth look at the world of data architecture and building complex AI and data systems. Anjan breaks down the basics using simple analogies, explaining how data architecture involves sorting, cleaning, and painting a picture with data, much like organizing Lego bricks…

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Microsoft is all-in on AI: Part 1 (Interview) 1:04:14

2M ago1:04:14

1:04:14

Scott Guthrie joins the show this week from Microsoft Build 2024 to discuss Microsoft being all-in on AI. From Copilot, to Azure AI and Prompty, to their developer first focus, leading GitHub, VS Code being the long bet that paid off, to the future of a doctor’s bedside manner assisted with AI. Microsoft is all-in on AI and Build 2024’s discussions…

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Why you shouldn't use AI to write your tests (News) 8:46

2M ago8:46

8:46

Swizec’s article on not using AI to writes tests, LlamaFs is a self-organizing file system with Llama 3, a Pew Research analysis confirmed that the internet is full of broken links, Sam Rose built a spectacular interactive study of queueing strategies & Jordan Cutler shares a real-life experience of him writing clear/readable code… and it backfirin…

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Funnel analytics and AI models for event sequences (w/ Misha Panko) 44:09

2M ago44:09

44:09

Misha Panko has worked in data for a long time, including on high performance data teams at Uber and Google. Today, Misha is the co-founder and CEO of Motif Analytics, a product focused on helping growth and ops teams understand their event data. In this episode, Tristan and Misha nerd out about the state of the art in computational neuroscience, w…

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It's a long & windy road (Friends) 1:06:34

2M ago1:06:34

1:06:34

We kick off our Microsoft Build 2024 “coverage” in this free-wheelin’ conversation with our friend, Shaundai Person! We’re talking Netflix infra, we’re talking sales, we’re talking real-world AI usage, we’re talking career choices…. What’s a good next step? Listen in! Leave us a comment Changelog++ members get a bonus 6 minutes at the end of this e…

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Modern Data Infrastructure for Analytics and AI, Lakehouses, Open Source Data Stack | ep 9 27:53

2M ago27:53

27:53

Jorrit Sandbrink, a data engineer specializing on open table formats, discusses the advantages of decoupling storage and compute, the importance of choosing the right table format, and strategies for optimizing your data pipelines. This episode is full of practical advice for anyone looking to build a high-performance data analytics platform. Lake …

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From Sun to Oxide (Interview) 2:32:33

2M ago2:32:33

2:32:33

Bryan Cantrill, Co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company, joins Adam to share his journey from Sun to Oxide – from Sun and Fishworks, to DTrace, to ZFS, to Joyent and Node.js, and now working to build on-prem cloud servers as they should be at Oxide. Leave us a comment Changelog++ members save 11 minutes on this episode because they made the ad…

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Kyle explains "Legacy Software" to the aliens (News) 6:48

2M ago6:48

6:48

Taylor Troesh writes Kyle explaining “Legacy Software” to the aliens, Vitaly Friedman addresses why so many designers feel misunderstood and under appreciated in business contexts, Oracle dumps Terraform for OpenTofu & hackers discover how to reprogram NES Tetris from within the game. Leave us a comment Changelog++ members support our work, get clo…

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