State of the "log" 2022 (Interview)

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 – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

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!

Capitole

1. This week on The Changelog (00:00:00)

2. Welcome, friends (00:01:19)

3. Puneet favs Go Time #250 (00:04:04)

https://gotime.fm/250

4. Eli favs Ship It! #44 (00:09:18)

https://shipit.show/44

5. Jordi & bleeping (00:14:14)

6. Brett favs The Changelog #454 (00:20:51)

https://changelog.fm/454

7. Rory favs The Changelog #516 (00:24:13)

https://changelog.fm/516

8. Jarvis & Wordle (00:26:39)

9. Rusty favs The Changelog #480 (00:31:41)

https://changelog.fm/480

10. Sean favs The Changelog #494 (00:38:01)

https://changelog.fm/494

11. Tillman favs Neovim (00:40:09)

12. Jerod favs The Changelog #474 (00:44:31)

https://changelog.fm/474

13. We both fav The Changelog #513 (00:48:03)

https://changelog.fm/513

14. Jerod favs The Changelog #477 (00:50:43)

https://changelog.fm/477

15. Adam favs The Changelog #475 (00:54:51)

https://changelog.fm/475

16. We both fav The Changelog #484 (00:57:59)

https://changelog.fm/484

17. Adam favs The Changelog #486 (01:01:33)

https://changelog.fm/486

18. Jerod favs The Changelog #506 (01:04:25)

https://changelog.fm/506

19. Adam favs The Changelog #502 (01:07:42)

https://changelog.fm/502

20. Must-listen! The Changelog #515 (01:10:22)

https://changelog.fm/515

21. Must-listen! The Changelog #508 (01:13:09)

https://changelog.fm/508

22. Must-listen! The Changelog #500 (01:13:58)

https://changelog.fm/500

23. Must-listen! Ship It! #62 (01:14:14)

https://shipit.show/62

24. Must-listen! JS Party #244 (01:14:27)

https://jsparty.fm/244

25. Must-listen! Go Time #256 (01:15:51)

https://gotime.fm/256

26. Yak shaving YepNope debates (01:17:03)

27. Let's talk about popularity (01:20:27)

28. #5: Making the command line glamorous (01:21:05)

https://changelog.fm/481

29. #4: Principles for hiring engineers (01:21:38)

https://changelog.fm/479

30. #3: Securing the open source supply chain (01:22:00)

https://changelog.fm/482

31. #2: Wisdom from 50+ years in software (01:22:32)

https://changelog.fm/484

32. #1: ONE MORE thing every dev should know (01:22:49)

https://changelog.fm/483

33. Reviewing last year's most popular (01:24:39)

34. Wrapping up! (01:25:28)

35. Outro (Changelog++!) (01:26:32)

https://changelog.com/++