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New research shows that CAPTCHAs are now utterly useless, hundreds of concerned technologists signed the OpenTF Manifesto to keep Terraform open source forever, Josh Collinsworth writes down all the things you forgot (or never knew) because of React, Mike Seidle shared some quick-but-powerful advice on building new software features & Erlend Sogge Heggen urges new open source projects to join the Fediverse (by way of Mastodon).

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Featuring:

• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

All links mentioned in this episode of Changelog News (and more) are in its companion newsletter.

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Chapters

1. Intro (00:00:00)

2. CAPTCHAs are now utterly useless (00:01:09)

https://qz.com/ai-bots-recaptcha-turing-test-websites-authenticity-1850734350

3. The OpenTF Manifesto (00:02:10)

https://opentf.org/

4. Things you forgot (or never knew) because of React (00:03:06)

https://joshcollinsworth.com/blog/antiquated-react

5. Sponsor: Sentry (00:04:53)

https://sentry.io/resources/the-future-of-open-source-saas-the-final-frontier/?utm_medium=paid-community&utm_source=changelog&utm_campaign=newsletter&utm_content=newsletter

6. Work, Like, Love (00:05:44)

https://mikeseidle.com/2023/08/15/work-like-love/

7. Greenfield OSS projects should join Mastodon (00:06:31)

https://blog.erlend.sh/every-greenfield-oss-project-should-join-mastodon

8. Outro (00:07:37)

https://changelog.com/news/58/email