State of the "log" 2021 (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

Our 4th annual year-end wrap-up episode! We don’t naval gaze often, but when we do… we make sure you get your money’s worth. Reflections, most popular episodes, our favs, and new this year: listener voice mails. Thanks for listening! 💚

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Featuring:

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

Show Notes:

The Changelog’s most popular episodes of 2021:

• Why we love Vim
• Modern Unix tools with Nick Janetakis
• OAuth, “It’s complicated.” with Aaron Parecki
• Why Neovim? with TJ DeVries

Jerod’s personal favorites of 2021:

• Community perspectives on Elastic vs AWS
• Exploring Deno Land with Ryan Dahl
• Why we love Vim
• Lessons from 10k hours with Matt Rickard
• Song Encoder: $STDOUT

Adam’s personal favorites of 2021:

• We ask a lawyer about GitHub Copilot
• Exploring Deno Land with Ryan Dahl
• Leading a non-profit unicorn with Quincy Larson
• Let’s mint some NFTs with Mikeal Rogers
• Every commit is a gift with Brett Cannon
• Shopify’s vision for the future of commerce with Ilya Grigorik
• Oh my! Zsh with Robby Russell
• The business model of open source with Adam Jacob

Other links mentioned:

• Ship It! 1
• Ship It! 15
• Changelog Merch
• Tim Caswell on Twitter
• Dumb & Dumber: And Totally redeem yourself!

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