State of the "log" 2022

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

Our 5th annual year-end wrap-up episode! Sit back, relax, pour a glass of your favorite beverage and join us for listener voice mails, our favorite episodes, some must-listens, and of course the top 5 most listened to episodes of the year. Thanks for listening! 💚

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Featuring:

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

Show Notes:

Listener favs:

• Go Time #250: Mat’s GopherCon EU diary
• Ship It! #44: Fundamentals with Kelsey Hightower
• The Changelog #454: The return of Richard Hipp
• Backstage #18: Tenet with heavy spoilers
• Backstage #23: The Oban Pro with Parker Selbert
• The Changelog #464: This insane tech hiring market with Gergely Orosz
• The Changelog #516: This !insane tech hiring market with Gergely Orosz
• The Changelog #480: Git your reset on with Annie Sexton
• The Changelog #494: Lessons from 5 years of startup code audits with Ken Kantzer

Jerod’s favs:

• The Changelog #474: Complex systems & second-order effects with Paul Orlando
• The Changelog #477: Song Encoder: Forrest Brazeal
• The Changelog #506: Stable Diffusion breaks the internet with Simon Willison

Adam’s favs:

• The Changelog #486: Practical ways to solve hard problems with Frank Krueger
• The Changelog #502: Fireside chat with Jack Dorsey from the main stage at Square Unboxed 2022

Both our favs:

• The Changelog #513: The story of Heroku with Adam Wiggins
• The Changelog #484: Wisdom from 50+ years in software with Brian Kernighan

Adam’s must-listens:

• The Changelog #515: Advocating for and supporting open source at ATO ’22
• The Changelog #508: A guided tour through ID3 esoterica with Lars Wikman
• The Changelog #500: The legacy of CSS-Tricks with Chris Coyier

Jerod’s must-listens:

• Ship It! #62: Operational simplicity is a gift to you with Gary Bernhardt
• JS Party #244: The spicy React debate show 🌶️
• Go Time #256: gRPC & protocol buffers with Akshay Shah

Most popular episodes of 2022:

1. ONE MORE thing every dev should know with Jessica Kerr
2. Wisdom from 50+ years in software with Brian Kernighan
3. Securing the open source supply chain with Feross from Socket
4. Principles for hiring engineers with Jacob Kaplan-Moss
5. Making the command line glamorous with Toby Padilla from Charm

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Timestamps:

(00:00) - This week on The Changelog
(01:19) - Welcome, friends
(04:04) - Puneet favs Go Time #250
(09:18) - Eli favs Ship It! #44
(14:14) - Jordi & bleeping
(20:51) - Brett favs The Changelog #454
(24:13) - Rory favs The Changelog #516
(26:39) - Jarvis & Wordle
(31:41) - Rusty favs The Changelog #480
(38:01) - Sean favs The Changelog #494
(40:09) - Tillman favs Neovim
(44:31) - Jerod favs The Changelog #474
(48:03) - We both fav The Changelog #513
(50:43) - Jerod favs The Changelog #477
(54:51) - Adam favs The Changelog #475
(57:59) - We both fav The Changelog #484
(1:01:33) - Adam favs The Changelog #486
(1:04:25) - Jerod favs The Changelog #506
(1:07:42) - Adam favs The Changelog #502
(1:10:22) - Must-listen! The Changelog #515
(1:13:09) - Must-listen! The Changelog #508
(1:13:58) - Must-listen! The Changelog #500
(1:14:14) - Must-listen! Ship It! #62
(1:14:27) - Must-listen! JS Party #244
(1:15:51) - Must-listen! Go Time #256
(1:17:03) - Yak shaving YepNope debates
(1:20:27) - Let's talk about popularity
(1:21:05) - #5: Making the command line glamorous
(1:21:38) - #4: Principles for hiring engineers
(1:22:00) - #3: Securing the open source supply chain
(1:22:32) - #2: Wisdom from 50+ years in software
(1:22:49) - #1: ONE MORE thing every dev should know
(1:24:39) - Reviewing last year's most popular
(1:25:28) - Wrapping up!
(1:26:32) - Outro (Changelog++!)