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Changelog & Friends The GitHub problem (and other predictions)Mat Ryer is back and he brought his impromptu musical abilities with him! We discuss Rob Pike vs thankful AI, Microsoft’s GitHub monopoly (and what it means for open source), and Tom Tunguz’ 12 predictions for 2026: agent-first design, the rise of vector databases, and are we about to pay more for AI than people?! Join the discussionChangelog++ members get a bonus 3 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today!Sponsors:Namespace – Speed up your development and testing workflows using your existing tools. (Much) faster GitHub actions, Docker...

2026-01-141h 41

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source The GitHub problem (and other predictions) (Friends)Mat Ryer is back and he brought his impromptu musical abilities with him! We discuss Rob Pike vs thankful AI, Microsoft’s GitHub monopoly (and what it means for open source), and Tom Tunguz’ 12 predictions for 2026: agent-first design, the rise of vector databases, and are we about to pay more for AI than people?! Join the discussionChangelog++ members get a bonus 3 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today!Sponsors:Namespace – Speed up your development and testing workflows using your existing tools. (Much) faster GitHub actions, Docker...

2026-01-141h 41

Changelog Master Feed The GitHub problem (and other predictions) (Changelog & Friends #123)Mat Ryer is back and he brought his impromptu musical abilities with him! We discuss Rob Pike vs thankful AI, Microsoft’s GitHub monopoly (and what it means for open source), and Tom Tunguz’ 12 predictions for 2026: agent-first design, the rise of vector databases, and are we about to pay more for AI than people?! Join the discussionChangelog++ members get a bonus 3 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today!Sponsors:Namespace – Speed up your development and testing workflows using your existing tools. (Much) faster GitHub actions, Docker...

2026-01-141h 41

Changelog Master Feed Git with your friends (remastered) (Changelog & Friends #107)Our Changelog & Friends proof-of-concept with Mat Ryer has been remastered! Now with full-length video on YouTube. Originally recorded: 2023-02-08 Mat joins us for some good conversation about some Git tooling that’s been on our radar. We speculate, we discuss, we laugh, and Mat even breaks into song a few times. It’s good fun. Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 7 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Depot – 10x faster builds? Yes please. Build faster. Waste less time. Accelerate Docker image builds...

2025-08-221h 47

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source Git with your friends (remastered) (Friends)Our Changelog & Friends proof-of-concept with Mat Ryer has been remastered! Now with full-length video on YouTube. Originally recorded: 2023-02-08 Mat joins us for some good conversation about some Git tooling that’s been on our radar. We speculate, we discuss, we laugh, and Mat even breaks into song a few times. It’s good fun. Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 7 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Depot – 10x faster builds? Yes please. Build faster. Waste less time. Accelerate Docker image builds...

2025-08-221h 47

Changelog & Friends Git with your friends (remastered)Our Changelog & Friends proof-of-concept with Mat Ryer has been remastered! Now with full-length video on YouTube. Originally recorded: 2023-02-08 Mat joins us for some good conversation about some Git tooling that’s been on our radar. We speculate, we discuss, we laugh, and Mat even breaks into song a few times. It’s good fun. Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 7 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Depot – 10x faster builds? Yes please. Build faster. Waste less time. Accelerate Docker image builds...

2025-08-221h 47

Changelog Master Feed Hello, Matworld! (Changelog & Friends #90)Join us on a journey to make believe worlds with our good friend Mat Ryer. The assignment; we each get to make up a new world where we invent a new gadget and declare a new rule. This episode is sure to delight loyal fans and especially those who enjoy Mat Ryer on the show and a good/bad song or two. Join the discussionChangelog++ members get a bonus 12 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today!Sponsors:Depot – Build faster. Waste less time. Accelerate Docker im...

2025-04-251h 15

Changelog & Friends Hello, Matworld!Join us on a journey to make believe worlds with our good friend Mat Ryer. The assignment; we each get to make up a new world where we invent a new gadget and declare a new rule. This episode is sure to delight loyal fans and especially those who enjoy Mat Ryer on the show and a good/bad song or two. Join the discussionChangelog++ members get a bonus 12 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today!Sponsors:Depot – Build faster. Waste less time. Accelerate Docker im...

2025-04-251h 15

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source Hello, Matworld! (Friends)Join us on a journey to make believe worlds with our good friend Mat Ryer. The assignment; we each get to make up a new world where we invent a new gadget and declare a new rule. This episode is sure to delight loyal fans and especially those who enjoy Mat Ryer on the show and a good/bad song or two. Join the discussionChangelog++ members get a bonus 12 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today!Sponsors:Depot – Build faster. Waste less time. Accelerate Docker im...

2025-04-251h 15

Changelog Master Feed It's a peccadillo circus (Changelog & Friends #75)Mat Ryer is back! He plays the piano, we tell each other truths/lies, we pay homage to the 8” floppy disk, Mat accepts an open source medal, and so much more. It’s a real circus. MatGPT! Join the discussionChangelog++ members get a bonus 11 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today!Sponsors:Sentry – Use the code CHANGELOG when you sign up to get $100 off the team plan. Notion – Notion is a place where any team can write, plan, organize, and rediscover the joy of play. It’s a w...

2025-01-101h 17

Changelog & Friends It's a peccadillo circusMat Ryer is back! He plays the piano, we tell each other truths/lies, we pay homage to the 8” floppy disk, Mat accepts an open source medal, and so much more. It’s a real circus. MatGPT! Join the discussionChangelog++ members get a bonus 11 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today!Sponsors:Sentry – Use the code CHANGELOG when you sign up to get $100 off the team plan. Notion – Notion is a place where any team can write, plan, organize, and rediscover the joy of play. It’s a w...

2025-01-101h 17

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source It's a peccadillo circus (Friends)Mat Ryer is back! He plays the piano, we tell each other truths/lies, we pay homage to the 8” floppy disk, Mat accepts an open source medal, and so much more. It’s a real circus. MatGPT! Join the discussionChangelog++ members get a bonus 11 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today!Sponsors:Sentry – Use the code CHANGELOG when you sign up to get $100 off the team plan. Notion – Notion is a place where any team can write, plan, organize, and rediscover the joy of play. It’s a w...

2025-01-101h 17

Changelog Master Feed That's Go Time! (Go Time #340)Mat gathers the entire cast (sans Natalie, sadly) alongside our producer, Jerod Santo, for one last Go Time. That’s right, this is Go Time’s finale episode. After eight years and 340 episodes, we are going out on top. Join us one last time, you won’t regret it! We share our feelings, reminisce on the good times, list some of our favorite moments & share a few opinions, which may (or may not) be unpopular. 😉 Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 10 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Spon...

2024-12-181h 27

Changelog Master Feed AI for Observability (Go Time #335)Yasir Ekinci joins Johnny & Mat to talk about how virtually every Observability vendor is rushing to add Generative AI capabilities to their products and what that entails from both a development and usability perspective. Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 10 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:JetBrains – Sign up for the free “Mastering Go with GoLand” course and receive a complimentary 1-year GoLand subscription at bytesizego.com/goland Retool – The low-code platform for developers to build internal tools — Some of the best teams out there trus...

2024-10-231h 09 $Grafana\'s Big Tent$

Grafana's Big Tent Monitoring Kubernetes: Why traditional techniques aren't enoughIn this episode of Grafana's Big Tent, hosts Mat Ryer and Tom Wilkie dive into the world of monitoring Kubernetes with guests Vasil Kaftandzhiev from Grafana Labs and Dio Tsoumas who leads the DevOps team at the consumer research company GWI. They explore why traditional monitoring techniques aren't enough for Kubernetes environments and discuss the evolving landscape of observability in cloud-native architectures.

2024-10-181h 08

Changelog Master Feed Unpop roundup (Go Time #334)The last time we did a roundup of our unpopular opinion polls, it was November of 2021! That’s too long ago, so today we fix that bug. Join Go Time producer, Jerod Santo, as he ranks & reviews the most (un)popular opinions of 2022. Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 9 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps close to your users — global Anycast load-balancing, zero-configuration private networking, hardware isolation, and instant WireGuard VPN connections. Push-button deployme...

2024-10-0937 min $Grafana\'s Big Tent$

Grafana's Big Tent Adapting to the Metrics Cardinality CrisisJoin host Mat Ryer as he explores the world of Adaptive Metrics with Grafana Labs engineers Patrick Oyarzun and Mauro Stettler, alongside guest Oren Lion from TeleTracking. What started as a hackathon project has evolved into a game-changing feature that helps organizations manage their metrics more efficiently and cost-effectively. They discuss the challenge of metric cardinality explosion in modern cloud-native architectures, the journey from prototype to production, and balancing cost savings with data accessibility and reliability. Whether you're dealing with metric overload or just curious about the latest in observability, this episode will help you understand how organizations are...

2024-10-0455 min $Cup o\' Go$

Cup o' Go 🍯🍎 It's Rosh Hashana! (Replay) John Arundel's advice for those who aren't enjoying Go so muchNo episode this week, as Shay's celebrating Rosh Hashana and John's moving countries. So enjoy this replay of our interview with John Arundel from episode 21 of the show!Interview with Go 👨‍🏫 teacher and 📚 author, John ArundelOn Twitter: @bitfieldOn LinkedIn: bitfieldconsultingWeb site: bitfieldconsulting.comVideo: Things in Go I Never Use by Mat RyerVideo: What is the best book to learn Go in 2023? ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

2024-09-3033 min $Grafana\'s Big Tent$

Grafana's Big Tent The (No) Blame Game: A Sustainable Approach to Incident ManagementIn this episode, hosts Tom Wilkie and Mat Ryer are teaming up with Grafana Labs’ Devin Cheevers and Prezi’s Alex Koehler to tackle the world of on-call responsibilities and incident management. Alex digs into Prezi's tech stack and provides a real-world look at observability practices and the lessons learned from managing a complex microservices architecture. Tune in to hear best practices for balancing innovation and reliability, but stay to hear everyone share the worst incident they’ve caused.

2024-09-061h 02

Changelog & Friends #define: piggybackWhat happens when you take two #define champs (Taylor Troesh, Thomas Eckert), a grizzled veteran (Adam Stacoviak), a british bard (Mat Ryer), a PhD (Carol Lee) & you pit them against each other in a game of fake tech definitions?! There’s only one way to find out… Join the discussionChangelog++ members get a bonus 27 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today!Sponsors:Supabase – Supabase just finished their 12th launch week! Check it out. Or get a month of Supabase Pro (FREE) by going to supabase.com/ch...

2024-08-301h 34

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source #define: piggyback (Friends)What happens when you take two #define champs (Taylor Troesh, Thomas Eckert), a grizzled veteran (Adam Stacoviak), a british bard (Mat Ryer), a PhD (Carol Lee) & you pit them against each other in a game of fake tech definitions?! There’s only one way to find out… Join the discussionChangelog++ members get a bonus 27 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today!Sponsors:Supabase – Supabase just finished their 12th launch week! Check it out. Or get a month of Supabase Pro (FREE) by going to supabase.com/ch...

2024-08-301h 34

Changelog Master Feed #define: piggyback (Changelog & Friends #59)What happens when you take two #define champs (Taylor Troesh, Thomas Eckert), a grizzled veteran (Adam Stacoviak), a british bard (Mat Ryer), a PhD (Carol Lee) & you pit them against each other in a game of fake tech definitions?! There’s only one way to find out… Leave us a commentChangelog++ members get a bonus 27 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today!Sponsors:Supabase – Supabase just finished their 12th launch week! Check it out. Or get a month of Supabase Pro (FREE) by going to supaba...

2024-08-301h 34 $Grafana\'s Big Tent$

Grafana's Big Tent Cache Rules Everything Around MeTo kick off season two of Grafana's Big Tent podcast, our host Mat Ryer is back and he's bringing along some heavy hitters! Get ready for a deep dive into the world of caching with Memcached maintainer Alan Kasindorf (aka dormando), along with caching aficionados Danny Kopping and Ed Welch. They’ll discuss CPU-level to application-level caching and share strategies that supercharge performance, especially in high-traffic, distributed systems like Grafana Loki.

2024-08-231h 07

Changelog Master Feed How Mat writes HTTP services in Go (Go Time #322)Mat Ryer has been writing HTTP services in Go for more than 13 years. Needless to say, he’s learned a lot along the way. Today, Johnny & Ian sit down with Mat to ask him all about it. Leave us a comment Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all ove...

2024-07-091h 11

Changelog Master Feed Gophers Say! GopherCon EU Berlin 2024 (Go Time #320)Our award winning worthy survey game show is back, this time Mat Ryer hosts it live on stage at GopherCon EU Berlin 2024! Join in & play along as we see which team can better guess what these GopherCon gophers had to say! Leave us a comment Changelog++ members save 6 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Speakeasy – Production-ready, Enterprise-resilient, best-in-class SDKs crafted in minutes. Speakeasy takes care of the entire SDK workflow to save you significant time, delivering SDKs to your customers in minutes with just a f...

2024-06-2541 min

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source #define: legendary (Friends)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! Join the discussionChangelog++ members get a bonus 6 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today!Sponsors:Cronitor – Cronitor helps you understand your cron jobs. Capture the status, metrics, and output from every cron job and background process. Name and organize each job, and ensure the...

2024-06-071h 52

Changelog Master Feed #define: legendary (Changelog & Friends #47)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. Join today! Sponsors: Cronitor – Cronitor helps you understand your cron jobs. Capture the status, metrics, and output from every cron job and background process. Name and organize each job, and ensur...

2024-06-071h 52

Changelog & Friends #define: legendaryWhat 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! Join the discussionChangelog++ members get a bonus 6 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today!Sponsors:Cronitor – Cronitor helps you understand your cron jobs. Capture the status, metrics, and output from every cron job and background process. Name and organize each job, and ensure the...

2024-06-071h 52

Explain IT ObservabilityDo you know everything that’s going on in your organisation?Today we’re talking about Observability. It isn't just a buzzword; it is the evolution of application and network performance monitoring into a seamless way to measure your full systems health.As IT environments become more complicated, observability is crucial for pinpointing the root causes of issues, harnessing data and logs from every corner of your environment to ensure that your systems remain efficient, reliable, and customer-centric.Hosted by Ashleigh Baker, guest host and Team Leader in Softcat’s Architecture Servic...

2024-05-2832 min $Cup o\' Go$

Cup o' Go slices.Pete and slices.Repeat sat on a fence, and interview with Daniel MartíProposals:new: add slices.Repeat functionaccepted: deprecate runtime.GOROOTFrom the Go blog: Routing Enhancements for Go 1.22How I write HTTP services in Go after 13 years by Mat RyerWeaveworks shutting downOn Reddit: Go 1.22 yielding a 18% regression in single-threading performanceOn YouTube: Why I Use Golang in 2024 by ThePrimeTimeInterview with Daniel MartíProjectsgofumptCUEshSocialGitHubBluesky ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

2024-02-1658 min

Changelog Master Feed Gophers Say! GopherCon EU Athens 2024 (Go Time #303)Our award winning worthy survey game show is back, this time Mat Ryer hosts it live on stage at GopherCon EU Athens 2024! Join and and play along as we see which team can better guess what these GopherCon gophers had to say! Leave us a comment Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or El...

2024-02-1428 min

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source Backslashes are trash (Friends)Mat Ryer returns with his guitar, an unpopular opinion & his favorite internet virus. Join the discussionChangelog++ members get a bonus 11 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today!Sponsors:Statsig – Build faster with confidence. Startups to Fortune 500s rely on Statsig to make data-driven decisions. Ship smarter and faster with the unified platform for feature flags, experimentation, and analytics. Our listeners get free white-glove onboarding, migration support, and 5 million free events per month. Socket – Secure your supply chain and ship with confidence. Install the GitHub app, book...

2023-11-111h 30

Changelog Master Feed Backslashes are trash (Changelog & Friends #21)Mat Ryer returns with his guitar, an unpopular opinion & his favorite internet virus. Leave us a comment Changelog++ members get a bonus 11 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today! Sponsors: Statsig – Build faster with confidence. Startups to Fortune 500s rely on Statsig to make data-driven decisions. Ship smarter and faster with the unified platform for feature flags, experimentation, and analytics. Our listeners get free white-glove onboarding, migration support, and 5 million free events per month. Socket – Secure your supply chain and ship with confidence. Install the GitHub app, b...

2023-11-111h 30

Changelog & Friends Backslashes are trashMat Ryer returns with his guitar, an unpopular opinion & his favorite internet virus. Join the discussionChangelog++ members get a bonus 11 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today!Sponsors:Statsig – Build faster with confidence. Startups to Fortune 500s rely on Statsig to make data-driven decisions. Ship smarter and faster with the unified platform for feature flags, experimentation, and analytics. Our listeners get free white-glove onboarding, migration support, and 5 million free events per month. Socket – Secure your supply chain and ship with confidence. Install the GitHub app, book...

2023-11-111h 30

Changelog Master Feed The se7en deadly sins of Go (Go Time #294)John Gregory’s GopherCon talk “7 Deadly Gopher Sins” is the ostensible basis of this spooky Go Time episode, but with Mat Ryer at the helm… the only thing to expect is the unexpected. And failed jokes. Expect lots of failed jokes. Leave us a comment Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com Fly.io...

2023-10-251h 15

Backend Banter #017 - Writing Go at Multi-Million Dollar Companies with Mat RyerLane chats with Mat Ryer, a host of the amazing GoTime.fm podcasts sits down with Lane to chat about his experience as a Go developer. Among other things, they chat about how Mat used Go to successfully build and sell a multi-million dollar company.Learn back-end development - https://boot.devListen on your favorite podcast player: https://www.backendbanter.comMat Ryer's Twitter: https://twitter.com/matryerGoTimeFM: https://changelog.com/gotimeMat on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@matryer7143Blue Monday: https://github.com/microcosm-cc/bluemondayBig...

2023-09-041h 12

Changelog Master Feed A deep dive into Go's stack (Go Time #288)A technical dive into how the Go stack works and why we as programmers should care. Leave us a comment Changelog++ members save 6 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Tailscale – Simple, secure networks for teams of any scale. Built on WireGuard. Changelog News – A podcast+newsletter combo that’s brief, entertaining & always on-point. Subscribe today. Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com Fly.io – Th...

2023-08-111h 12

Changelog Master Feed Building world-class developer experiences (Go Time #287)Today we’re talking with Alice Merrick & Andy Walker about building a world-class developer experience. You know it when you see it, things just feel right. But it’s more than just a pleasant UI or lipstick on a pig (which is a saying), it really matters. Leave us a comment Changelog++ members get a bonus 5 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today! Sponsors: Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud p...

2023-08-021h 20

Changelog Master Feed So do we like Generics or not? (Go Time #286)So, do we like generics or not? Some people feared they’d be the end of the language. Others were very hopeful, and had clear use cases, and were thrilled about the feature coming to the language. It was also often touted as the reason a lot of people didn’t adopt Go. So what do we think now? Mat and Kris are joined by Roger Peppe and Bryan Boreham to discuss the state of Generics in Go. Leave us a comment Changelog++ members save 1 minute on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join...

2023-07-251h 28

Changelog Master Feed The tools we love (Go Time #285)The Go ecosystem has a hoard of tools and editors for Gophers to choose from and it can be difficult to find ones that are a good fit for each individual. In this episode, we discuss what tools and editors we’re using, the ones we wish existed, how we go about finding new ones, and why we sometimes choose to write our own tools. Leave us a comment Changelog++ members save 1 minute on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast...

2023-07-191h 37

Changelog Master Feed Gophers Say! GopherCon EU 2023 (Go Time #284)Our award winning worthy survey game show is back, this time Mat Ryer hosts it live on stage at GopherCon Europe 2023! Elena Grahovac joins forces with Björn Rabenstein to battle it out with Alice Merrick & Mohammed S. Al Sahaf. Let’s see who can better guess what the GopherCon Europe gophers had to say! Leave us a comment Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move b...

2023-07-1125 min $Cup o\' Go$

Cup o' Go Go 1.21 coming soon! Plus John Arundel's advice for those who aren't enjoying Go so muchThank you to this week's sponsor, Koyeb!🇪🇺 GopherCon EU next week in Berlin! June 26-29🧪 Go 1.21rc2 is outRead the draft release notes💬 Discussion (closed): Add package forwarding💬 Discussion (ongoing): Move HTTP/2 to the standard libraryCommunity highlights🎮 Dendy, NES emulator written in Gogrank.io, Go packages ranked by Google Page Rank and GitHub starsKoyeb is a developer-friendly serverless platform to deploy apps globally. No-ops, servers, or infrastructure management. You can run Web apps & APIs, event-driven serverless functions, background workers, and even cron jobs!Interview with Go 👨‍🏫 teacher and 📚 author, John ArundelOn Twitter: @bitfieldOn LinkedIn: bitfieldconsultingWeb site: bitfieldconsulting.comVideo: Things in Go I Never Use by M...

2023-06-2355 min

Changelog Master Feed "Mat Depends" (Changelog & Friends #4)Mat Ryer is back and he’s brought with him 10 tips to be a 10x developer (like he is). After that, we try a new segment we’re calling “Tool Time” (and try out a few jingles for it along the way). Finally, it’s time to review our previous unpopular opinions and put some new ones into the world for your (dis)agreeing pleasure. Join us for an automagical time! Leave us a comment Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: F...

2023-06-161h 40

Changelog & Friends "Mat Depends"Mat Ryer is back and he’s brought with him 10 tips to be a 10x developer (like he is). After that, we try a new segment we’re calling “Tool Time” (and try out a few jingles for it along the way). Finally, it’s time to review our previous unpopular opinions and put some new ones into the world for your (dis)agreeing pleasure. Join us for an automagical time! Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Fastly –...

2023-06-161h 40

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source "Mat Depends" (Friends)Mat Ryer is back and he’s brought with him 10 tips to be a 10x developer (like he is). After that, we try a new segment we’re calling “Tool Time” (and try out a few jingles for it along the way). Finally, it’s time to review our previous unpopular opinions and put some new ones into the world for your (dis)agreeing pleasure. Join us for an automagical time! Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Fastly –...

2023-06-161h 40

Changelog Master Feed Of prompts and engineers (Go Time #279)Tips, tricks, best practices and philosophical AI debates abound when OpenAI ambassador Bram Adams joins Natalie, Johnny & Mat to discuss prompt engineering. Leave us a comment Changelog++ members save 2 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your...

2023-06-061h 08

Changelog Master Feed The files & folders of Go projects (Go Time #278)Return guests Ben Johnson & Chris James join Mat & Kris to talk about the files and folders of your Go projects, big and small. Does the holy grail exist, of the perfect structure to rule them all? Or are we doomed to be figuring this out for the rest of our lives? Leave us a comment Changelog++ members save 3 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their pow...

2023-05-311h 04

Changelog Master Feed Domain-driven design with Go (Go Time #273)Matthew Boyle, the author of Domain-Driven Design with Golang, sits down with Jon & Mat to talk about (you guessed it!) DDD with Go. Leave us a comment Changelog++ members get a bonus 6 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today! Sponsors: Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes...

2023-04-141h 11

Changelog Master Feed The biggest job interview of GPT-4's life (Go Time #272)Mat & Johnny interview everyone’s favorite LLM (Natalie with a special hat on) to see if it’d make a good hire as a Go dev. Also, Mat tries to turn it into his very own creepy robot by asking personal questions about his co-hosts. Things get weird. In a good way? Discuss on Changelog News Changelog++ members save 2 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their p...

2023-04-061h 07

Changelog Master Feed Cross-platform graphical user interfaces (Go Time #271)We’re joined by the creators of Wails and Fyne to dig into writing Go code for different architectures and operating systems. Discuss on Changelog News Changelog++ members get a bonus 5 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today! Sponsors: Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can ru...

2023-03-301h 08

Changelog Master Feed The bits of Go we avoid (and why) (Go Time #269)The panel discuss the parts of Go they never use. Do they avoid them because of pain in the past? Were they overused? Did they always end up getting refactoring out? Is there a preferred alternative? Discuss on Changelog News Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com Fly.io – The home of Cha...

2023-03-161h 00

Changelog Master Feed This will blow your docs off (Go Time #268)In a world where most documentation sucks, large language models write better than humans, and people won’t be bothered to type full sentences with actual punctuation. Two men… against all odds… join an award-worthy podcast… hosted by a coin-operated, singing code monkey (?)… to convince the developer world they’re doing it ALL wrong. Grab your code-generator and heat up that cold cup of coffee on your desk. Because this episode of Go Time is about to blow your docs off! Discuss on Changelog News Changelog++ members save 2 minutes on this episode beca...

2023-03-101h 14

Changelog Master Feed What's new in Go 1.20 (Go Time #267)Our “what’s new in Go” correspondent Carl Johnson joins Mat & Johnny to discuss… what’s new in Go 1.20, of course! What’d you expect, an episode about Rust?! That’s preposterous… Discuss on Changelog News Changelog++ members save 2 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to y...

2023-02-171h 12

Changelog Master Feed Git with your friends (The Changelog #526)This week we invited our friend Mat Ryer to join us for some good conversation about some Git tooling that’s been on our radar. You may know Mat from Go Time and also Grafana’s Big Tent, which we help to produce. We speculate, we discuss, we laugh, and Mat even breaks into song a few times. It’s good fun. Discuss on Changelog News Changelog++ members save 4 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and da...

2023-02-101h 40

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source Git with your friends (Interview)This week we invited our friend Mat Ryer to join us for some good conversation about some Git tooling that’s been on our radar. You may know Mat from Go Time and also Grafana’s Big Tent, which we help to produce. We speculate, we discuss, we laugh, and Mat even breaks into song a few times. It’s good fun. Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 4 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databa...

2023-02-101h 40

Changelog Interviews Git with your friendsThis week we invited our friend Mat Ryer to join us for some good conversation about some Git tooling that’s been on our radar. You may know Mat from Go Time and also Grafana’s Big Tent, which we help to produce. We speculate, we discuss, we laugh, and Mat even breaks into song a few times. It’s good fun. Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 4 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databa...

2023-02-101h 40

Changelog Master Feed How Go helped save HealthCare.gov ♻️ (Go Time #262)Paul Smith (from “Obama’s Trauma Team”) tells us the tale of how Go played a big role in the rescuing and rebuilding of the HealthCare.gov website. Along the way we learn what the original team did wrong, how the rescue team kept it afloat during huge traffic spikes, and what they’ve done since to rebuild it to serve the people’s needs. Discuss on Changelog News Changelog++ members get a bonus 2 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today! Sponsors Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers...

2023-01-1259 min

Changelog Master Feed A special New Year's fireside chat (Go Time #261)Mat and the gang ring in the new year by gathering around a make believe fireplace and discussing what they’re excited about in 2023, their new years resolutions & a little bit of Go talk, too. But only a little. Discuss on Changelog News Changelog++ members get a bonus 4 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today! Sponsors Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com Fly.io – ...

2023-01-0658 min

Changelog Master Feed Making Go more efficient (Go Time #260)Mat invites Bartłomiej Płotka, Kemal Akkoyun & Christian Simon to discuss how to make Go code more efficient through modern observability practices. Discuss on Changelog News Changelog++ members get a bonus 12 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today! Sponsors Sourcegraph – Transform your code into a queryable database to create customizable visual dashboards in seconds. Sourcegraph recently launched Code Insights — now you can track what really matters to you and your team in your codebase. See how other teams are using this awesome feature at about.sourceg...

2022-12-151h 02

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source Building a VM inside ChatGPT, Advent of Code 2022, webdev Liam Neeson, Fedifinder & BDougie (News)Jonas Degrave builds a virtual machine inside ChatGPT, Advent of Code 2022 is in full swing, Mat Ryer impersonates Liam Neeson as web developer, Luca Hammer’s Fedifinder project helps you join the Fediverse & we chat with Brian (BDougie) Douglas about Open Sauced at All Things Open 2022. View the newsletterJoin the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Brian Douglas – Website, GitHub, XJerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

2022-12-0528 min

Changelog Master Feed Building a VM inside ChatGPT, Advent of Code 2022, webdev Liam Neeson, Fedifinder & BDougie (Changelog News)Jonas Degrave builds a virtual machine inside ChatGPT, Advent of Code 2022 is in full swing, Mat Ryer impersonates Liam Neeson as web developer, Luca Hammer’s Fedifinder project helps you join the Fediverse & we chat with Brian (BDougie) Douglas about Open Sauced at All Things Open 2022. Discuss on Changelog News Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring Brian Douglas – Twitter, GitHub, Website Jerod Santo – Twitter, GitHub Adam Stacoviak – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website Notes and Links Send us a messag...

2022-12-0528 min

Changelog News Building a VM inside ChatGPT, Advent of Code 2022, webdev Liam Neeson, Fedifinder & BDougieJonas Degrave builds a virtual machine inside ChatGPT, Advent of Code 2022 is in full swing, Mat Ryer impersonates Liam Neeson as web developer, Luca Hammer’s Fedifinder project helps you join the Fediverse & we chat with Brian (BDougie) Douglas about Open Sauced at All Things Open 2022. View the newsletterJoin the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Brian Douglas – Website, GitHub, XJerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

2022-12-0528 min

Changelog Master Feed To TDD or not to TDD (Go Time #258)That is the question. Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous test coverage, or to take arms against a sea of bugs… Discuss on Changelog News Changelog++ members save 5 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors Sourcegraph – Transform your code into a queryable database to create customizable visual dashboards in seconds. Sourcegraph recently launched Code Insights — now you can track what really matters to you and your team in your codebase. See how other teams are using this awesome f...

2022-12-011h 12

Changelog Master Feed Spooky stories to scare devs 👻 (Go Time #253)Mat Ryer gathers a gang of ghouls and ghosts to tell spooky developer stories! Join us to hear tales of Mat’s $1k nightmare, Dee’s infinite loop of horror, Natalie’s haunted time as a junior dev & many, many more. Discuss on Changelog News Changelog++ members save 4 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors Sourcegraph – Transform your code into a queryable database to create customizable visual dashboards in seconds. Sourcegraph recently launched Code Insights — now you can track what really matters to you and your team i...

2022-10-271h 00

Changelog Master Feed Mat's GopherCon EU diary (Go Time #250)Join Mat Ryer on his journey to Berlin for GopherCon EU 2022. Along the way he chats with Egon Elbre, Ale Kennedy, Ole Bulbuk, Christian Haas, Bill Kennedy & Ron Evans. Danke! Discuss on Changelog News Changelog++ members save 5 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors Sourcegraph – Transform your code into a queryable database to create customizable visual dashboards in seconds. Sourcegraph recently launched Code Insights — now you can track what really matters to you and your team in your codebase. See how other teams are using this...

2022-10-071h 05 $Grafana\'s Big Tent$

Grafana's Big Tent Shift left observability, SLOs, logs — all the highlights from season 1From the saddest log line in the multiverse to how metrics, logs, and traces are like a mother sauce, our intrepid hosts, Mat Ryer, Matt Toback, and Tom Wilkie, have been joined by distinguished guests to tackle a wide-range of discussions (not to mention a few conversational detours). For a special bonus episode to cap off the first season, Mat, Matt, and Tom got together to share their favorite episodes from the past season and plot their plans for the next one.

2022-09-3044 min

Changelog Master Feed Avoiding bloat (Go Time #246)Egon Elbre and Roger Peppe join Mat for a conversation all about bloat (and how to avoid it). Expect talk of code bloat, binary bloat, feature bloat, and an even-more-bloated-than-usual unpopular opinion segment. Discuss on Changelog News Changelog++ members save 6 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors Sourcegraph – Transform your code into a queryable database to create customizable visual dashboards in seconds. Sourcegraph recently launched Code Insights — now you can track what really matters to you and your team in your codebase. See how other teams...

2022-09-081h 03

Changelog Master Feed Gophers Say! GopherCon EU Edition (Go Time #241)Our award winning worthy survey game show is back, this time Mat Ryer hosts it live on stage at GopherCon Europe 2022! Go Time’s Natalie Pistunovich joins forces with Ronna Steinberg & Robert Burke to battle it out with V Körbes, Tamir Bahar & Konrad Richie. Let’s see who can better guess what the GopherCon Europe gophers had to say! Discuss on Changelog News Changelog++ members save 4 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors Sourcegraph – Transform your code into a queryable database to create c...

2022-08-0440 min

Changelog Master Feed What's new in Go 1.19 (Go Time #240)Go 1.18 was a major release where we saw the introduction of generics into the language as well as other notables such as fuzzing and workspaces. With Go 1.19 slated to come out next month, one has to wonder what’s next. Are we in store to be blown away by new and major features like we saw in 1.18? Not exactly but there are still lots of improvements to be on the lookout for. Joining Mat & Johnny to touch on some of the most interesting ones is Carl Johnson, himself a contributor to the 1.19 release. Discuss on Ch...

2022-07-281h 13

JavaScript Jabber Upcoming Performance Metrics for the Web - JSJ 542Today we have three guests on the show, Annie Sullivan, Yoav Weiss, and Michal Mocny, all of who are engineers who work for Google on the Chrome Web platform. Looking forward to Google’s new developments for measuring web performance, we dive deep into upcoming performance metrics Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) and Interaction to Next Paint (INP), a full page lifecycle metric. We discuss what user page interactions we can measure successfully and which we cannot. We discuss the challenges of single-page applications when looking at core web vitals. SponsorsTop End DevsCoaching | Top End DevsLinksTop End Devs...

2022-07-261h 16

Changelog News Soft deletion, obscure data structures, driving away your best engineers, a blog platform for hackers & moar RSSBrandur thinks soft deletion probably isn’t worth it, the orange website delivers a high quality discussion on data structures, Podge O’Brien drops satirical management advice, team pico delivers prose.sh, Mat Ryer shares his thoughts on estimations & Matt Rickard’s thoughts on RSS have us thinking about it as well. View the newsletterJoin the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

2022-07-2506 min

Changelog Master Feed Soft deletion, obscure data structures, driving away your best engineers, a blog platform for hackers & moar RSS (The Changelog)Brandur thinks soft deletion probably isn’t worth it, the orange website delivers a high quality discussion on data structures, Podge O’Brien drops satirical management advice, team pico delivers prose.sh, Mat Ryer shares his thoughts on estimations & Matt Rickard’s thoughts on RSS have us thinking about it as well. Discuss on Changelog News Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring Jerod Santo – Twitter, GitHub Notes and Links Soft Deletion Probably Isn’t Worth It Ask HN: Wh...

2022-07-2506 min

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source Soft deletion, obscure data structures, driving away your best engineers, a blog platform for hackers & moar RSS (News)Brandur thinks soft deletion probably isn’t worth it, the orange website delivers a high quality discussion on data structures, Podge O’Brien drops satirical management advice, team pico delivers prose.sh, Mat Ryer shares his thoughts on estimations & Matt Rickard’s thoughts on RSS have us thinking about it as well. View the newsletterJoin the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

2022-07-2506 min

Changelog Master Feed Go tooling ♻️ (Go Time #237)We’re talking about the tools we use every day help us to be productive! This show will be a great introduction for those new to Go tooling, with some discussion around what we think of them after using some of them for many years. Discuss on Changelog News Changelog++ members save 4 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors Sourcegraph – Transform your code into a queryable database to create customizable visual dashboards in seconds. Sourcegraph recently launched Code Insights — now you can track what really matters...

2022-07-071h 07

Changelog Master Feed Thoughts on velocity (Go Time #236)A deep discussion on that tension between development speed and software quality. What is velocity? How does it differ from speed? How do we measure it? How do we optimize it? Discuss on Changelog News Changelog++ members save 6 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors Sourcegraph – Transform your code into a queryable database to create customizable visual dashboards in seconds. Sourcegraph recently launched Code Insights — now you can track what really matters to you and your team in your codebase. See how other teams are using...

2022-06-301h 14

JavaScript Jabber To TypeScript or Not to TypeScript - JSJ 538Today we talk with Matt Pocock, who comes from Oxfordshire, England. As a big fan of TypeScript and maintainer of the Xstate library, we discuss the benefits and downsides of TypeScript. As the discussion gets a bit heated, we debate the true value of TypeScript, and where it holds value to the programming community. SponsorsTop End DevsCoaching | Top End DevsLinksAdvanced TypeScript - Become a TS WizardTypeScript Error TranslatorPodcast Hosting and Analytics - Welcome to Fireside!Transistor - podcast hosting for creatives, brands, professionalsStately - Visualize your application logicMatt Pocock - YouTubeTwitter: @mattpocockukPicksAJ- dotGo 2015 - Ro...

2022-06-281h 11

Changelog Master Feed 2053: A Go Odyssey (Go Time #235)The year is 2053. The tabs-vs-spaces wars are long over. Ron Evans is the only Go programmer still alive on Earth. All he does is maintain old Go code. It’s terrible! He must find a way to warn his fellow gophers before it’s too late. Good thing he finally got that PDQ transmission system working…

2022-06-2354 min

Changelog Master Feed Observability in the wild: strategies that work (Go Time #234)This week we’re featuring an episode of Grafana’s Big Tent! LEGO Group principal engineer Nayana Shetty swaps observability survival stories (to drill or not to drill?) with hosts Mat Ryer and Matt Toback. The trio also reveals new and different observability strategies that have been successful and effective in their organizations. Plus: Nayana shares how she built her successful observability career brick by brick.

2022-06-1658 min $Grafana\'s Big Tent$

Grafana's Big Tent Observability in the wild: strategies that workLego Group principal engineer Nayana Shetty swaps observability survival stories (to drill or not to drill?) with hosts Mat Ryer and Matt Toback. The trio also reveals new and different observability strategies that have been successful and effective in their organizations. Plus: Nayana shares how she built her successful observability career brick by brick.

2022-06-0250 min

Changelog Master Feed Analyzing static analysis (Go Time #227)Matan Peled from Technion University joins Natalie & Mat to discuss his PhD research on meta programming and static analyzers. How does Go’s measure up? What would Matan’s look like if he built one? All that and more!

2022-04-2858 min

Changelog Master Feed Instrumentation for gophers (Go Time #226)Björn Rabenstein & Bartlomiej Płotka join Mat & Johnny to discuss observability, monitoring and instrumentation for gophers.

2022-04-2159 min

Changelog Master Feed Helping Grafana set up their Big Tent (Backstage #22)For the first time ever, we’re producing somebody else’s podcast! Our friends at Grafana asked us to help them launch a show for the observability community. It’s called Big Tent and on this episode we are backstage with Tom Wilkie, Mat Ryer, & Matt Toback talking through what they’re up to and why we’re helping out.

2022-04-0455 min $Grafana\'s Big Tent$

Grafana's Big Tent What even is observability?So … what is observability? There's usually talk about metrics, logs, and traces, but it's more than just data and it's not simply configuring any one technology or tool. In our premiere episode, hosts Mat Ryer, Tom Wilkie, and Matt Toback dig into key components that help define a successful observability strategy, such as the USE and RED methods, SLO-driven alerting, cost-effective monitoring systems, and more. Added bonus: You'll learn how all of these concepts relate to Tom's impressive knowledge of cooking and the mother sauces.

2022-03-2552 min $Grafana\'s Big Tent$

Grafana's Big Tent Welcome to Grafana's Big Tent!Just as Grafana brings together different technologies onto one platform, "Grafana's Big Tent" is our opportunity to shine a spotlight on the incredible people, innovative products, and surprising projects that are shaping the observability world today. Grafana Labs' Mat Ryer, Matt Toback, and Tom Wilkie host these lively episodes filled with sharp insight, candid conversations, exciting new voices from the community, and much more.

2022-03-2512 min

Changelog Interviews Returning to GitHub to lead SponsorsToday we’re joined by Jessica Lord, talking about the origins of Electron and her boomerang back to GitHub to lead GitHub Sponsors. We cover the early days of Electron before Electron was Electron, how she advocated to turn it into a product and make it a framework, how it’s used today, why she boomeranged back to GitHub to lead Sponsors, what’s next in funding open source creators, and we attempt to answer the question “what happens to open source once it’s funded?” Join the discussionChangelog++ members get a bonus 7 minutes at the end o...

2021-12-021h 38

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source Returning to GitHub to lead Sponsors (Interview)Today we’re joined by Jessica Lord, talking about the origins of Electron and her boomerang back to GitHub to lead GitHub Sponsors. We cover the early days of Electron before Electron was Electron, how she advocated to turn it into a product and make it a framework, how it’s used today, why she boomeranged back to GitHub to lead Sponsors, what’s next in funding open source creators, and we attempt to answer the question “what happens to open source once it’s funded?” Join the discussionChangelog++ members get a bonus 7 minutes at the end o...

2021-12-021h 38

JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web Development Best of the fest! Volume 1JS Party listeners and panelists celebrate our favorite moments from the past 100 episodes! You’ll hear from over 20 of your favorite voices across 14 episodes. We also share some behind-the-scenes and read/hear from listeners! Here’s to the last 200 episodes, and the next 200 as well. 🥂 Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 3 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Retool – Retool is a low-code platform built specifically for developers that makes it fast and easy to build internal tools. Instead of building internal tools from scratch, the world...

2021-11-0556 min

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source xbar puts anything in your macOS menu bar (Interview)On this episode we’re talking with our good friend Mat Ryer whom you may know from the Go Time podcast. Mat created an awesome open source tool for putting just about anything in your Mac’s toolbar. It was originally written in Objective-C, but it just got a big rewrite in Go and abig rename from BitBar to xbar. If you don’t use a Mac don’t hit skip on this episode quite yet! There are lessons to be learned for anyone interested in hacking on tools to make your life better. Plus, with this rewrite...

2021-06-211h 05

Changelog Interviews xbar puts anything in your macOS menu barOn this episode we’re talking with our good friend Mat Ryer whom you may know from the Go Time podcast. Mat created an awesome open source tool for putting just about anything in your Mac’s toolbar. It was originally written in Objective-C, but it just got a big rewrite in Go and abig rename from BitBar to xbar. If you don’t use a Mac don’t hit skip on this episode quite yet! There are lessons to be learned for anyone interested in hacking on tools to make your life better. Plus, with this rewrite...

2021-06-211h 05

Ardan Labs Podcast From Idea to Execution with Mat RyerMat Ryer is a serial entrepreneur and a panelist on the Go Time podcast! He is currently the co-founder at Pace.dev & Firesearch.dev. In this episode, we hear about Mat’s very early experiences with programming at the age of six and how teachers influenced his opinions of higher education. Then Bill digs in to find out how Mat is able to continually identify product opportunities and execute at lightning speed. Connect with Mat:Pace.devFiresearch.devXbar (formerly Bitbar)GithubTwitterLinkedinMentioned in today’s episo...

2021-03-171h 35

JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web Development We really needed new jinglesGo Time’s Mat Ryer joins Jerod, KBall, and Nick to play Story of the Week, Today I Learned, Unpopular Opinions, and Shout Outs! Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 4 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Strapi – Open source headless CMS that frontenders love. It’s 100% Javascript, fully customizable, and developer-first. Strapi is also enterprise-ready. Head to strapi.io/jsparty and click the “Get started” button for a step-by-step guide to create a sample app using create strapi-app. DevDiscuss – An original podcast by team behind dev.t...

2021-02-261h 08

Practical AI When AI goes wrongSo, you trained a great AI model and deployed it in your app? It’s smooth sailing from there right? Well, not in most people’s experience. Sometimes things goes wrong, and you need to know how to respond to a real life AI incident. In this episode, Andrew and Patrick from BNH.ai join us to discuss an AI incident response plan along with some general discussion of debugging models, discrimination, privacy, and security.Sponsors:Linode – Our cloud of choice and the home of Changelog.com. Deploy a fast, efficient, native SSD cloud...

2020-09-1558 min

Practical AI Speech tech and Common Voice at MozillaMany people are excited about creating usable speech technology. However, most of the audio data used by large companies isn’t available to the majority of people, and that data is often biased in terms of language, accent, and gender. Jenny, Josh, and Remy from Mozilla join us to discuss how Mozilla is building an open-source voice database that anyone can use to make innovative apps for devices and the web (Common Voice). They also discuss efforts through Mozilla fellowship program to develop speech tech for African languages and understand bias in data sets.Sp...

2020-09-0958 min

JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web Development Betting on Svelte for pace.devWe often try new frameworks and tools in side projects or throwaway contexts, but you don’t learn that much about a thing until you use it to build something real. That’s why we have Mat Ryer and David Hernandez joining us to share their experience of using Svelte while building their new startup, Pace.dev. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Rollbar – We move fast and fix things because of Rollbar. Resolve errors in minute...

2020-06-1254 min