Changelog Media
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Changelog hosts Adam and Jerod talk open source governance, git tooling, and AI coding with engineers.
Changelog & Friends turns developer-world news, company stories, and tool debates into relaxed weekly conversations. The show moves from CI pain and AI code quality to Oxide’s hiring culture, Stack Overflow survey chatter, Git tooling, and the messy incentives behind open source.
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Changelog & Friends is produced by Changelog Media and runs as a blend of one-on-one interviews, multi-person panel conversations, and looser co-host discussion segments. The show is co-hosted by Adam and Jerod Santo, who frame topics, react to guest arguments, and periodically bring in outside voices such as hosts from Go Time, Big Tent, and Breaking Change. A recurring subject is open source project governance and sustainability, illustrated by an extended look at the 2025 RubyGems/Ruby Central dispute with Homebrew maintainer Mike McQuaid and Breaking Change host Justin Searls. Other episodes center on developer tooling ecosystems, including Git-related command-line utilities across Python, Go, and Rust, and CI/CD platforms like GitHub Actions, often featuring guests such as Depot co-founder and CEO Kyle Galbraith. AI coding tools and their tradeoffs form another recurring thread, touching on vibe-coding technical debt, small open-source language models, and skepticism about GPT-5-era progress. The show also engages with broader developer-culture data points, such as the annual Stack Overflow Developer Survey and shifting habits around YouTube-based learning and AI agents. At least one episode profiles a single company in depth, visiting Oxide Computer's headquarters to interview co-founders Bryan Cantrill and Steve Tuck about hiring practices and workplace transparency. Sponsor reads from developer-tool companies such as Fly.io, Depot, CodeRabbit, and Auth0 appear as regular segments woven into episodes. Listeners are typically working software engineers, open source contributors, and developer-tool builders interested in industry debates and tooling news. The overall tone is conversational and loosely structured, closer to an extended hallway conversation than a tightly scripted interview format.
Made for: Software engineers, open source maintainers, and developer-tool builders who want long-form, unscripted industry conversation.
What sets it apart: Combines founder interviews, multi-guest panels, and loose co-host banter on open source politics, git tooling, and AI coding within single episodes rather than sticking to one interview format.
A weekend talk show with the best conference hallway track vibes
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Changelog & Friends connects software tools and industry shifts to the practical judgments developers make while building, reviewing, and maintaining code.
Changelog & Friends turns software culture into a lively, joking conversation grounded in how development work actually gets done. Its discussions move through Git tooling, open-source maintenance, AI-assisted coding, developer surveys, and hiring at Oxide, with practical…
This is the debrief you wanted after AI deleted the wrong config and called it progress.
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A developer-minded crossover on code review pressure and the workplace incentives that push useful tools into open source.
There will be bleeps is a loose Changelog & Friends crossover about the pressure piling onto software teams as code volume rises, AI-generated work enters the mix, and review becomes the choke point. The stronger thread is more personal: open source as a practical workaround.
A warm inside look at Oxide's hiring culture, customer curiosity, and how the company thinks about building itself.
Inside Oxide visits the company's HQ for a loose, warm conversation about how Oxide thinks about culture, hiring, and customer work. The most useful stretch is about recruiting beyond engineering: adapting portfolio questions for new roles, looking for curiosity and…
A practical, skeptical builder conversation about CI pain, AI coding anxiety, and the risk of mediocre generated code.
Changelog & Friends turns developer anxiety into a practical conversation about what breaks under everyday pressure. Kyle Galbraith, co-founder and CEO of Depot, opens with a pointed critique of GitHub Actions: it may be the default CI choice for many teams, but its debugging…
A loose, developer-first tour of Git tooling, CI debugging pain, and the install friction that makes or breaks CLI tools.
Git with your friends (remastered) is for developers who have spent enough time in Git and CI to be annoyed by the details. Kyle Galbraith opens with a pointed case against GitHub Actions: it may dominate CI, but its logs, collapsed steps, and lack of resource metrics can turn…
A sharp developer-culture conversation about AI identity, Stack Overflow, GitHub, YouTube, and how programmers decide what is worth their time.
Changelog & Friends treats the Stack Overflow survey results as a loose springboard into how developers find help now: why Stack Overflow still looms inside the programming echo chamber, why GitHub and YouTube can somehow compete for the same attention, and why chaptered videos…
Austin Brawner and Lily Ackerley break down ecommerce acquisition, retention, and DTC operator playbooks.
Host Jack Rhysider narrates true hacking, breach, and privacy stories from the people involved.
David Pierce and Verge staffers cover AI industry news, gadgets, and tech policy weekly.
Long-form interviews on AI coding agents, infrastructure, and security, plus a recurring SED News roundup.
Founders and engineers on AI coding agents like Claude Code, and supply chain security.
The news is out.
Changelog & Friends hosts visit Oxide Computer Company's HQ and spend a day and a half meeting the 201-person team before sitting down with co-founders Bryan Cantrill and Steve Tuck to discuss how they built it.
The anxiety here is technical debt.
Git tooling gets messy fast.
Stack Overflow still matters, at least in the developer bubble.