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The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

If Changelog News had an extended edition, this might be it! Jerod & Adam discuss Hashicorp’s Cease and Desist letter, Redis getting forked, Boston Dymanics’ scary cool new robot, Justin Searls’ extensive use of the Apple Vision Pro, Thorston Ball moving from Vim to Zed, Firefox becoming hard to use, Beeper joining Automattic & more.

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Featuring:

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

Show Notes:

• Our Response to Hashicorp’s Cease and Desist Letter
• Redis is forked
• Boston Dynamics’ new humanoid moves like no robot you’ve ever seen
• Vision Pro was a better deal than my Mac Studio
• From Vim to Zed
• It’s getting hard to use and recommend Firefox, I’m afraid for the free web
• Leading and building Raycast (Changelog Interviews #587)
• Beeper is joining Automattic
• Texts.com
• Pidgin, the universal chat client
• MarkdownDown
• Turndown
• Playroom - Build Multiplayer Games in Minutes

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1. Let's talk! (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Cloudflare (00:00:38)

https://www.cloudflare.com/developerweek

3. Just the two of us (00:02:58)

4. The massive Cease and Desist (00:03:51)

https://opentofu.org/blog/our-response-to-hashicorps-cease-and-desist/

5. Redis is forked (00:08:54)

https://vickiboykis.com/2024/04/16/redis-is-forked/

6. Sponsor: FireHydrant (00:14:55)

https://firehydrant.com/signals

7. Boston Dynamics' new Atlas (00:17:15)

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/boston-dynamics-debuts-humanoid-robot-destined-for-commercialization

8. From Vim to Zed (00:26:43)

https://registerspill.thorstenball.com/p/from-vim-to-zed

9. Searls Vision Pro (00:33:19)

https://justin.searls.co/posts/vision-pro-was-a-better-deal-than-my-mac-studio/

10. Firefox hard to recommend (00:39:22)

https://www.ntietz.com/blog/firefox-and-the-free-web/

11. Emotional software (00:48:24)

12. Raycast > Alfred (00:49:03)

13. Sponsor: CrabNebula Cloud (00:59:31)

https://crabnebula.dev/cloud/

14. Beeper joins Automattic (01:02:20)

https://blog.beeper.com/2024/04/09/beeper-is-joining-automattic/

15. Pidgin > Piper Chat (01:10:05)

16. MarkdownDown (01:15:01)

https://markdowndown.vercel.app

17. Bye friends (01:17:14)

18. Coming up next (01:17:36)