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The Changelog

Software's best weekly news brief, deep technical interviews & talk show.

Website ↗ Last published 28 October 2026 1,017 posts collected by Sputnik

Said on The Changelog

“14 years ago, we got JSON and Postgres. I have a secret. We cheated… we validated, it was valid JSON and threw it into a text field. And every headline that came out that year is like, Postgres is now a document database. And I'm like, well, I like the headline, but it's like, no, this is not like actual JSON compressed. There's no indexing for it.” — Craig Kerstiens, The Changelog
Craig Kerstiens · 28 Oct 2026 Listen →
“It's crazy how we went through the whole journey of, okay, the bottleneck are developers. We got to hire more engineers. Then the bottleneck is now PRs. … Our repo used to have like 40 or 50 open PRs at any given time. Now it has 200. … Then the bottleneck became the review process. … And then the bottleneck became the CI. … Man, the bottleneck keeps shifting, right?” — Zeno Rocha, The Changelog
Zeno Rocha · 22 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I was creating maybe a competitor analysis on Claude and OpenAI. I wanted to see what they would recommend. And then they told me, like, oh, Resend is the most expensive service. And I was like, no, I know for a fact that this is not true. … So it turns out that agents don't really like JavaScript enabled sliders. They cannot slide.” — Zeno Rocha, The Changelog
Zeno Rocha · 22 Oct 2026 Listen →
“If you've got 10,000 people in your organization, fast forward two years, you're going to have 100,000 agents in your organization. So every human has to become a manager of agents. And that's a big transition for people who have never done managerial work before.” — Gavriel Cohen, The Changelog
Gavriel Cohen · 9 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I think it doesn't really help you to have open source that's restrictively licensed. So you might as well just go all the way with MIT license and get maximum reach. I don't think the model of building an open source project and then trying to monetize your own user base works because it's so easy to host stuff. It's so easy to fork it.” — Gavriel Cohen, The Changelog
Gavriel Cohen · 9 Oct 2026 Listen →
“My theory is that the majority of open source repositories are compromised right now. We just don't know yet.” — Peer Richelsen, The Changelog
Peer Richelsen · 3 Sep 2026 Listen →

Hosts

The Changelog is hosted by Jerod Santo , Adam Stacoviak , Wynn Netherland , Andrew Thorp , Gerhard Lazu , Nick Nisi , Mat Ryer , Steve Klabnik , Kenneth Reitz , Amal Hussein , Christopher Hiller and Autumn Nash .

Recent Episodes

  1. 28 Oct 2026

    The future is Postgres (Interview)

    With Craig Kerstiens

  2. 22 Oct 2026

    Building what's next (Interview)

    With Zeno Rocha and Michael Grinich

  3. 9 Oct 2026

    From zero to NanoClaw (Interview)

    With Gavriel Cohen

  4. 3 Sep 2026

    Forking Cal.com to closed source (Interview)

    With Nikki Pike , Lachlan Donald and Peer Richelsen

  5. 25 Aug 2026

    Postgres at PlanetScale (Interview)

    With Lachlan Donald , Nikki Pike and Sam Lambert

  6. 21 Jul 2026

    Canary tokens and digital tripwires (Interview)

    With Haroon Meer and Lachlan Donald

  7. 5 Jun 2026

    From open source hits to OpenAI (Interview)

    With Max Stoiber , Nikki Pike and Michael Grinich

  8. 15 May 2026

    MCP on Code Mode (Interview)

    With Matt Carey and Nikki Pike

  9. 13 May 2026

    Automation at the speed of Swamp (Friends)

    With Adam Jacob

  10. 29 Apr 2026

    Bitwarden CLI compromised (News)

    With Nikki Pike

  11. 24 Apr 2026

    Exploring with agents (Interview)

    With Amelia Wattenberger

  12. 27 Mar 2026

    Astral has been acquired by OpenAI (News)

Guests

Adam Jacob (9 episodes), Justin Searls (8 episodes), José Valim (7 episodes), Mike McQuaid (6 episodes), Yehuda Katz (6 episodes), Taylor Troesh (5 episodes), Brett Cannon (5 episodes), Richard Feldman (5 episodes), Zeno Rocha (5 episodes), Chad Whitacre (5 episodes), Daniel Stenberg (5 episodes), Ilya Grigorik (5 episodes), and 723 more.