The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source - State of the "log" 2025 (Friends)

Episode Date: December 19, 2025

Our 8th annual year-end wrap-up is here! We’re featuring 8 listener voicemails, dope Breakmaster Cylinder remixes & our favorite episodes of the year. Thanks for listening! 💚...

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Oh, yes, it's late December, once again. That classic change log theme song is bumpin, and it's time for our eighth annual state of the log episode. If this is your first time with us, welcome to the change log. the software world's best weekly news brief, deep technical interviews, and weekend talk show that feels like you're hanging out with your friends in the hallway track of your favorite conference on repeat. Big thanks to our partners at fly.io for helping us bring you awesome developer pods all year long. You know we love fly, the public cloud built for developers who ship. Give it a try at fly.io. All right. State of the log 2025. Let's do it.
Starting point is 00:01:00 Well, friends, I'm here with a good friend of mine. Again, Kyle Galbraith, co-founder and CEO of depot.dev, Kyle, we are in an era of disruption, right? I would also describe it as rethinking what we thought was true. And I guess that's kind of the definition of disruption. But from your perspective, how are teams, reliability teams, CISD, pipeline teams, How are they all rethinking things, and where does Depot fit into that? In the conversations that I have with customers, a lot of DevOps teams, platform teams, site reliability teams, they're really looking at this new era of software engineering that we're all living in. And they're starting to question, like, the bottleneck is no longer the act of writing code.
Starting point is 00:01:48 The bottleneck is shifting. The most time-consuming part is integrating the code. It's everything that comes after. It's the build. It's the pull request review. it's the deployment, it's the getting it into production. Once it's in productions, it's scaling up support teams to support it. It's adding documentation, all of these downstream problems.
Starting point is 00:02:08 And so through the lens of Depot, what we're really starting to think about is there's a very realistic possibility that within the next two to three years, maybe even sooner, that we're going to enter a world where an engineering team of three people could theoretically have the velocity of an engineering team of 300 people. And what's the consequences of that? What's the consequences of the code velocity spiking up to that level with such a small team? There's no way three engineers are going to be able to code review all of the code that's being created. If there's three engineers and 297 agents, also creating features and fixing bugs.
Starting point is 00:02:47 So that's just like from a pull request perspective. But then you think about it through a build lens, too, of if your builds take 20 minutes with three humans, and now you're going to have three humans and 297 agents also running. Well, like, you definitely don't want your builds taking 20 minutes because now, like, the entire pinch point is the build pipeline. And so we're starting to think a lot about how do we eliminate the bottlenecks that come downstream and what can we do with Depot that streamlines that? So obviously, friends, we are in an era of disruption.
Starting point is 00:03:19 Things are changing. You know it, I know it. That's how it is. And the thing with production and what kind of, I was talking about here is how in the world do you get your bills to be faster? How you get them to be more reliable, faster, more observability around those deployments. You need it. It's required and Depot is there to help you.
Starting point is 00:03:36 So a good first step is to go to depot.dev, get faster. Try their trial. It's too easy. Again, depot.dev is where to go. It all begins at depot.dev. Here we are the eighth annual state of the law. Can you believe eight times? Eight times a charm?
Starting point is 00:04:01 Hopefully. Seven times was a charm. This eighth one is going to be a charm too. Oh, my gosh. Don't say the word charm, Jared. Oh, my goodness. Oh, my gosh. Hey, you know what I'm saying, right?
Starting point is 00:04:13 Y'all out there. Welcome. Welcome, everyone. Welcome back, hopefully. Or welcome for the first time. this is your first time listening. This is not how it normally goes, but it normally goes like this once a year. This is how it always goes eight times. That's right. And we have eight voicemails to listen to from some of our longtime listeners and some newer listeners. So that is
Starting point is 00:04:34 cool. Maybe a little recap on what this is. What do you think? A little recap on what this is. Go ahead. Recap it. I was just thinking about that because like, you know, you mentioned the new listener potentially. I was thinking like a tiny little recap. So state of the law. We're called the change log. So this is state of the log. In all year, we, we work tirelessly, Jared, to log, I would say the developer journey, you know, from the new project to the sale of a company, to a new side project, to an acquisition, to you just, you name it, the latest platform that may be out there, the newest framework in the JavaScript world, which is like on the daily, bun acquisitions, just name specifically, you know,
Starting point is 00:05:18 And as we talk to these humans, not just these machines, these humans in this world, we get to podcast and share and all that good stuff. And this is a sort of an examination of that. But first, we invite our listenership, those folks that are listening to the show to submit a voicemail. And then we hand that voicemail. Am I stealing some of your thunder here? I know you do a good job of like doing this. Am I stealing some of this? No, man.
Starting point is 00:05:43 Okay, cool. Bratmaster's cylinder behind the scenes produces our music. I won't share the real name because he's still anonymous. But Brakemaster's still loved by us. Producers all of our music. We love that. And, you know, Jared collects these voicemails. I stay out of it because I want to be surprised in this moment.
Starting point is 00:06:01 I've listened to none of these yet. And so each year we do this state of the law. We kind of go back through. We invite folks to send voicemails. What they love about the show, what they don't love about the show. And then Braetmaster makes these cool remixes, which are super cool. And we have fun listening to those and just kind of like diving in. And for those who may be new and don't know me, I don't like watching movie trailers.
Starting point is 00:06:23 Okay. And so these are like movie trailers. These are like little voicemail movie trailers. I can't watch because it ruins the movie. And so I've heard none of these. This is fresh for me. And I'll hand it back to you, Jared. Hopefully I did a pretty decent job of describing state of law.
Starting point is 00:06:37 That's right. So this is the movie. And we're about to watch it together or listen to it as is the case with voicemail. So thank you to all of you who wrote in and to every. everybody who listened throughout the year. We put out a lot of pods, almost 150. If you count news, if you take news out, that's almost 100, as each of our three legs of our table did about 50 episodes, as we tend to do per year. And so that's a lot. It is tough to pick faves, but we've done the work, and our listeners have done the work. And let's kick off with our first
Starting point is 00:07:13 voicemail. Now, I know what you're thinking. In what order do these voicemails come. Do we do it chronologically by reception? No. Do we do it alphabetically by last name? No. Do we do it alphabetically by first name? Yes. How do we do it? Alphabetically by first name because that's the way finder arranged them. Okay. The files came in and they're just put your first name first name. And so I guess Andrew Patton with first name Andrew gets to go first. So let's listen to Andrew's voicemail. Hello, change log family. first time leaving a voicemail, which is very exciting, though I've been listening for many years. I checked and changed log takes home the gold for my most listened to podcast in 2025 at 105 hours,
Starting point is 00:08:02 which would have been 111.5 hours at 1X because I only use smart speed, so as not to ruin those bang and beats. This year, I really enjoyed Friends 75 with Matt Ryer. As a pianist, it was a joy, hearing him switch from guitar to piano for that episode. And the weird and wonderful Matt World episode, which was episode 90, was also great. The entire Pipe Dream saga in the Kaysen episodes this year was very fun, including that dramatic on-stage live launch. The changelog interview 635 about Tiger Beetle was fascinating. ChangeLog Friends 96 with Steve Yeggy. He's always entertaining and certainly interesting.
Starting point is 00:08:49 The interview 664 with Adam Jacob was another really interesting and enlightening episode. All the change log beats releases and everything that Breakmaster provides. I really missed J.S. Party this year. It's open for a few more dysfunctional developer episodes, but I love the multiple three-way conversations between Jared, Adam, and Nick Neesey, including friends, 89, 102, and the most recent. They are always very funny. They're always very relevant to the issues of the day,
Starting point is 00:09:29 and I find it somewhat mind-blowing when I get a peek into the habits and methods of Nick Necy. Thank you all for all you do, and looking forward to to great 2026. The habits and methods. Yeah, that's a good show title. That's cool.
Starting point is 00:09:52 That's cool, man. Next time Nick's on, we should have one called Habits and Methods of Nick Nisi. Oh, man. I do enjoy Nick as well. I concur with everything. What was his name again? I'm sorry?
Starting point is 00:10:03 Andrew. Andrew. Everything Andrew said, I was too busy listening to catch the first name. I'm sorry, Andrew, but yeah, I concur. Adam Jacob, McNesey, Matt Ryer, piano to guitar. Like, I mean, that's just podcast gold there. So I have collated the list. I'll put that in the show notes.
Starting point is 00:10:23 We'll have all these favorite episodes listed. Andrew listed 11. So that's a lot, not the most. There is somebody who's going to list more than 11. it's probably going to be you, Adam. But in addition to Adam, to somebody else to set up a teaser, they're not a spoiler, but a teaser. He's going to outdo Andrew, but still, that's a good list.
Starting point is 00:10:43 And for our lists, we try not to overlap listener lists. And so you and I both create our own lists, but however, we're kind of crossing off the ones that they mention as they go so that we don't have too much overlap because that's just repetition. And we all want to keep it dry around here. He took a lot of my favorite stuff. I'm not going to lie. A lot of his favorites were my favorites.
Starting point is 00:11:07 And speaking of JS Party and Nick Nisi and Amel Hussein, who was on the show last year, but didn't quite hit the three-timer pace that Nick hit and that Matt Ryer hit. She's coming back on the show in January. So Amel actually did reach out recently and say, hey, how come Nick's on the show more than I am? And I just said, I can't get rid of this guy. You know, he's always hanging around, whereas you disappear for a while and then come back. So you're always welcome, Amel, and she's coming soon. So a little more J.S. Party sprinkled in upcoming episodes.
Starting point is 00:11:38 Yeah. All right, you want the Andrew Patton remix. Hit it. There you go. Hello, change log family. I've been the past for many years, which is very exciting. It's open for a few more banging piano beats from Breakmaster Cylinder. They are always very dramatic and certainly interesting.
Starting point is 00:12:00 Looking forward to weirder. wonderful 2026. There you go. That's our special moments right there, man. Listen to those banging beats, a sweet voicemail remix like that and a nice little crazy outro. If you knew Breakmaster,
Starting point is 00:12:23 like we know Breakmaster, very fitting. That's a very fitting outro to the bang and beats. 100%. All right. Up next because, hey, Hey, his name starts with a bee.
Starting point is 00:12:35 It's our old friend, and I think, every year, call her in her. Come on now. It's Brett Cannon. Brett Cannon. Here we go. Hello, Adam and Jared. It's Brett Cannon calling for that annual tradition to see whether I can read dates appropriately while I tell you about my favorite episodes that I got to listen to this year.
Starting point is 00:12:52 So I'm going to start off with the power of the button, which you actually recorded in 2024 but didn't publish still 2025, so I'm safe. I found that episode kind of fun just to have that twist on it of talking about the physicality of the world and just how that kind of ties into technology and just kind of the different approach of just seeing how things tie in in both sides of both the physical and the software for all of us. The next episode I liked a lot was the 1,000 times faster financial database with Yoran from Tiger Beetle. I just thought that was a really cool chat to show that sometimes you know what you don't have to take the journal solution. Sometimes it's okay to actually
Starting point is 00:13:25 build something from scratch if it leads to a simple solution that really gets you what you're after. I also really enjoyed the chat with Baird-Huberr, build software that last. It's just a lot of good advice that I think a lot of us could stand to listen to consistently. And then finally, the WOSL.exc dash dash cat hello.cs episode, I liked a lot for two reasons. One, Adam's total infatuation with WOSL was rather infectious and great to hear. And also I wanted to
Starting point is 00:13:51 give a letter of recommendation for Mads. He is an awesome person. And with that, to give Breakmaster cylinder something to work with, Andrea did not listen to any of these episodes so she loves them all equally as does our kiddo thanks so to bring everybody else in on that reference of andrea at the end go back to previous states of the log in which bmc created a hilarious remix of brett's previous message where the whole thing is centered around his wife andrea which was one of my favorites from previous years i'm not going to lie bmc's remix of this one also one of my favorites but first do you want to address
Starting point is 00:14:28 Brett's actual content of what he had to say or should we let's see um power the button power the button was definitely powerful you know and that was a I think I mentioned the good for nothing the good for nothing button book in that show and that just brings like the titling of our shows which I think we may introduce a new category which is best title um that was a fun title for me obviously for the content, but then also the good for nothing book that I've read with my kids.
Starting point is 00:15:03 You know, I don't know where the infectious feelings I had towards WSL went. I was going to say. But I think they went with windows out the door to some degree. I'm such a wish you watch the operating system person.
Starting point is 00:15:19 I can't help it. I'm a literal operator. I would say an OS hopper. You're a distro hopper. You want to call it a sample. but it's more of a hopper, I think. Yeah, it kind of is, honestly. You know, I just want to love Windows.
Starting point is 00:15:31 I just wish I would get it together. You know, there's so much good stuff in there and just too much AI getting slapped around. Anyways, WSL is really cool, though, for Windows. Like, I think if you are, for some reason, you got to be in that world where, like, you have no choice because that's what your platform is, your applications are, your company's at, then, you know, it is what it is. That's what, that's what you got to do. I think WSL is the next best thing and super cool. for that to be like embedded in Windows so I mean that to me is it in the logical feat that I love so if I had to be in Windows I could only be there happily because of WSL right which didn't
Starting point is 00:16:11 exist back when I switched away no I think is very cool that it does exist but I just don't have that problem anymore can we address this title though WSL.exe dash dash cat hello dot c s that was your title jared that's right you came up with that all in your own and when you when you said it to me i was like ship it man just ship it just ship it hard time naming that one because it was a it was two interviews and so it was the one about wsl and then the other one with mads is it torgerson i can remember his last name the currently design on c sharp and it's like well it's two different things and i don't know you know this and that you kind of what do you do and then i was like i don't even know where
Starting point is 00:16:55 I came up with that, but I just thought, let's just send a command out there and say hello to C Sharp, you know. Let's just have WSL tell us hello. It's also been too long since we talked to Brett, and I feel like we've done ourselves a disservice with change on good friends, missing that friend. Well said. Come back, Brett. Any time we will invite you personally soon, unless you email us first, and those we'll say. Sure. Come on. Yeah, let's do it. We did some Python coverage this year, but we were talking with other folks, you know? We're just kind of mixing it up a little bit. And not that we have to talk to Brett about Python, but of course, and he moved on from the steering committee, but there's lots of say there.
Starting point is 00:17:37 And I haven't watched John Wick 4, so maybe I've been avoiding them, just like ashamed of myself. Or Dune. We talked about Dune 2 and John Wick 4. Those are the things we were supposed to do to get back together. And I did not watch Dune 2 because I'm still kind of mad at Dune 2. Two is so good, man. It was so good. It is so good.
Starting point is 00:17:56 It's a rewatch for me. Like, I have a hard time going to watch one again because it was sort of a slow burn to the story. It was a slow burn. It never ended, too. But Dune 2 takes all that to the next level. And it's worth it. I mean, it's good. It's good.
Starting point is 00:18:11 Now, I know I told you this, but I'm not sure if I said this on the show. When I went and saw Dune 1, they didn't call it Dune 1. No, they didn't. And I didn't do trailers or anything because I'm like, it's Dune. I want to watch it. It's right. And I don't get out to movies very often. And so I got out to a movie and I went to Dune 1 and I was enjoying the heck out of it, even though it was a slow burn.
Starting point is 00:18:29 I'm patient. I like slow movies. And then I realized it's only half of a movie. And I just got very angry because they didn't say Dune 1. At least then I would have known when I was getting myself into. But I remember being like two hours in thinking, how are they going to get through all this? There's so much more that happens. And then I'm like, oh, they aren't.
Starting point is 00:18:47 And then it was what, three years later for Dune 2? I was just too mad. I'm like, I'm not going to see it. Yeah. I'm just overwit. Now, it's been long enough that maybe I can just change that attitude, my bad attitude, but that was my stance prior. And that's why I haven't seen Dune 2 yet, even though I hear it's pretty good.
Starting point is 00:19:04 It's pretty good. I would recommend it. Speaking of pretty good, you want to hear this BMC remix of Brett Cannon? I cannot wait. There's the power. If you think there's power on the button, just wait for this one. Hello, Adam and Jared. It's Brett Cannon calling for that annual tradition to tell you about my favorite episodes.
Starting point is 00:19:21 So I'm going to start off with the power of the butt talking about the physicality of the butt and just how that kind of ties into technology. The next episode I liked a lot was the 1,000 butt infections. I just thought that was a really cool chat to show that. Sometimes, you know, you don't have to take the journal solution. Sometimes it's okay to actually scratch your butt
Starting point is 00:19:39 if it really gets you what you're after. So I'm safe. And then finally, the kind of fun cat butt episode, just a lot of good cat butt advice that I think a lot of us could stand to listen to consistently. Andrea did not love any of these episodes, but you know what, it's okay. She still is an awesome person. Oh, I hope you like that, Brett.
Starting point is 00:20:04 Oh, man. That's edgy. That's edgy. Do we have to bleep that one at all? There's any bleeps there? I just think, I think Butt is pretty pedestrian at this point. It was good. That was good.
Starting point is 00:20:16 Oh, my gosh. The cat. Oh, gosh. The cat's 12 years old. at heart, you know, a good butt joke just still hits me. Yeah. I'm just past a chest cold, and that made me want to cough some stuff up. It's right out of you.
Starting point is 00:20:33 Yeah, it's kind of like, it's percolating. It's percolating. All right. Next up, another longtime listener and first time guest this year. It's Don McKinnett. Greetings, friends. My favorite episode of 2025 was an early one. Terso is rewriting sequel light in Rust.
Starting point is 00:20:54 One reason is I'm a sucker for people building in Rust, big surprise, but more importantly, I enjoyed it because I got to learn about the concept of deterministic simulation testing, which I found to be pretty fascinating. I always love the episodes where I get to learn about a concept that I haven't run up against before. Anywho, thank you guys for the podcast and looking forward to what you have lined up in 2026. Pretty cool stuff. Of course, we talk about that as well on the Tiger Beetle episode, but Glauber Costa from
Starting point is 00:21:22 Turso certainly introduce it to both of us and apparently a lot of other people on that episode. So, yeah, that's part of what we do here is just kind of uncover techniques that other people are doing that you may have not heard of and maybe they'll help you on your path.
Starting point is 00:21:36 Maybe they won't, but just being more well-rounded. Well, I haven't worked too hard, you know, just listen to a couple of deuce, ask silly questions, and we learn a thing or two. That's a good way to summarize it. I like that. Doofs. A couple of doves.
Starting point is 00:21:54 I don't know. I never done any deterministic simulation testing of you. No, that was actually really, really revealing because I had never heard of that concept. And it seemed to be trying to recall exactly how they were leveraging it. It was like being able to like have confidence in the future because it tested it. And it went kind of like an AI might even do to like figure things. out that you wouldn't normally figure out like non-written tests, they get tested. It's kind of the unknown unknowns kind of thing, you know?
Starting point is 00:22:26 Yeah, it's like a fuzzer, sort of a certain extent. It's like a fuzzer for tests, but it was deterministic, and so it could be completely reproducible, whereas fuzzers generally will produce, you know, pseudo-random stuff. It's reproducible, and therefore you get regression type of assurances as well. Obviously, I don't know exactly how it works. That's why we invite the experts on and tell us. You know, that's, I should look into this more now that this is brought up because, as you may know, I'm working on this thing called DNS hole. And one thing I actually introduced was this thing called DNS chaos, DNS whole chaos.
Starting point is 00:23:04 And it was essentially like throwing chaos at this DNS server to like attack it and like make it push its boundaries. And so pushing different RFCs, different things around it that it is supposed to support and should support. And it's kind of like the Terministic testing or this DST is like that. It's like how can you push a system in a certain way and test its boundaries? That's kind of wild stuff. I should look more into DSTs. You should. D&S hole.
Starting point is 00:23:34 Do we have to bleep that? Oof, I don't think so. All right, here's Don McKinnon's remix. Greetings, friends. I always love the episodes where I get to learn about a concept that I haven't run up against before. My favorite episode, I enjoyed it because I got to learn. I'm in a simulation, which I found to be pretty fascinating. And my friends and the people have always been the simulation.
Starting point is 00:24:01 Big surprise, but... Anywho, thank you guys for the podcast. Into the Matrix. Great matrix sound at the end there. Yeah. And then the, it's still going. Yes, just the little trail off. Trail off in the crowd noise there.
Starting point is 00:24:28 I was thinking was that crowd noise crowd sourced from the meetup in Denver. Oh, wow. Because that's where BMC was with us. And I wonder if you like maybe put out of this phone and captured some sound and they reused it later on for us. We should go ask. That would be a deep cut if that was the case. That would be a deep cut. Like a well-planned deep cut.
Starting point is 00:24:47 Like, I'm going to need this one day. Someday, I'm going to mix this into something they asked me for. Yeah. That would be really cool. And it turned out to be Don McKinn's simulation crowd. All right. Next up, we have Fernando. And his last name is tough because he's from Brazil.
Starting point is 00:25:04 Bevalakua? Bevalaqua. I don't know. He'll say it. So he'll get it right. Here we go. Hey, Adam and Jared. This is Fernando Pivalakwa.
Starting point is 00:25:13 Speaking all the way from Brazil. I've been a long-time listener of the pod since 2015. My favorite episodes of this year were flowing with agents, episode 658, and reaching industrial economies of scale, episode 632, both with Beyond Liu. They were very insightful about the usage of agents in the everyday activities we have with software development. And I think they give us a glimpse into the future of how software development and how the technology in the field will evolve. Last but not least,
Starting point is 00:25:47 episode Solving the AI Energy Crisis 652 with Greg Ozuri. It was a very interesting talk about politics, about infrastructure, about how to grow AI in a more practical way, not about just technology, but how to build the real world, the physical things we need to sustain this kind of advancement. And I just want to say that it took me 10 years, The 2026 will not only be the year of the Linux desktop, but it will be the year that will become a change log plus plus subscriber. Hard earned money will be shared with you guys.
Starting point is 00:26:24 I've been following you and really admire your work and I want to support the creators, especially in this sea of AI slop. I really want to see people with critical thinking and making the good questions, intriguing thoughts and making us reflect on the path we have to fall that's it guys keep on rocking and thanks for all the the pots i don't know about you jeremy that's why we do it man right there oh yeah i mean who could have said it better like in an age of a i slob we are the critical thinkers i mean maybe not me and you necessarily but right by proxy of course we talk critical thinkers yeah that's right um that's cool man all over from Brazil, too. I mean, like, that just shows you how big the world is and how big the reach is for an MP3 on the internet, dude. Like, that's, yeah, that's wild. Yeah, super, super cool. Thank you, Fernando for writing in. Digging the Beyond. Lou episodes, of course, there's one of your critical thinkers there. Always worth talking to Beyond about what he thinks where the world is going and some of what he's, where he's making the world go by what they're doing there.
Starting point is 00:27:38 Merit, Source, Graph, and Am. And, of course, solving the AI energy crisis, that was, I think, one of our more controversial episodes of the year. Yeah. Probably created one of the longest threads in our Zulip channel because people began to debate and discuss the merits of AI and energy and politics, and it gets a little bit drawn down some political lines because of people's approaches to these things. But I liked Greg Asuri episode because he cracked me out.
Starting point is 00:28:08 up a couple times, like when he put on those the glasses and that was funny. He's doing some really cool, weird stuff. This house he's building. Just very interesting human with interesting takes. And the centralized
Starting point is 00:28:23 AI training and inference, I don't know. Now they're trying to talk about space-based stuff too. Not they, Greg, but they the AI hypers are both Google and and X-A-I, and I believe
Starting point is 00:28:40 Bezos has to be talking about it because, you know, he's in the space as well. Yeah. We're talking about training models in space, and I don't know, that's beyond my pay grade. To me, doesn't seem like a very smart idea, but they seem to think it's going to be better. Maybe you're closer to the sun,
Starting point is 00:28:56 so you get better solar power or something. But anyways, we can talk about that some other time, but I got some ideas there. You want to talk about them? You want to? I just briefly. I mean, it would make total sense, right? One, it's cold.
Starting point is 00:29:10 Well, it's a vacuum. You don't have any air movement. So, like, getting the heat away from the source would be difficult. I would think. I guess you have some sort of out and into space. I don't know, that part, but definitely unfettered access to the number one energy source nearest to us. Yeah, closer to the sun makes sense, but you have to move the data up and down as well. Well, that's true.
Starting point is 00:29:32 Well, maybe you can, like, uh, like you get a bad GPU and it's like, dang, we got to send another. rocket up anyways robots i bet robots and automated hard drive delivery or data delivery from up and down there's no pipe i bet that's going to be like taking the data literally from something and down to the earth or just chucking it out right it'll make it right it's gonna make it there's your uh there's your dns request there right udp it'll make it if not uh who cares somebody else will catch it um yeah yeah i don't know smart of people that may say it's smart, but I'm a bit skeptical because it seems like a whole
Starting point is 00:30:13 lot of work to get the stuff up there and doing stuff. And then a whole lot of work to get it back down. And then you have, you have latency. I guess you could do training, but maybe not inference because, I mean, what's the latency even from Starlink? It's not great. It's better than anything else there's been. But anyways, maybe a topic we can dig into in 2026 is like what It's a caching problem, Jared. It's varnish. It is. Vernish will solve this too.
Starting point is 00:30:40 That's right. Varnish in space. Now we're talking. All right. Fernando, remixed. Hey, Adam and Jared. This is Fernando Bivalakwa speaking. It took me years, but 2026 will be the year that will become a secret agent in the field.
Starting point is 00:31:00 I really want to see the world. And I really admire that. And I want to see every day creating the most in politics, faith, justice, and so real rises in my world of intrigue. That's it, guys. Keep on rocking. And thanks for all the thoughts. That's a proper remix right there. I thought it was like Darth Vader entering for a bit there, you know?
Starting point is 00:31:30 Batman. Then I got like heroic. Mm-hmm. Secret agent. Fernando, Batman, Bebalakwa. That's what I'm talking about, yeah. That's what I'm talking about right there, man. That's a nickname for you.
Starting point is 00:31:42 The Dark Knight, yes. Oh, yes. From the South, the deep, deep South. That's right. Deeper than the South. Oh, my gosh. That's cool. I like that one.
Starting point is 00:31:54 That was epic. That was epic. Well, friends, I'm here with my good friend, Chris Kelly, over. at Augment Code. Chris, I'm a fan. I use Augie on the daily. It's one of my daily drivers. Now I use Claude Code. I use Augment Augie. And I also use AMP code and others, but Augie, I keep going back to it. And here's where I'm at. I feel like not enough of our audience knows about Augment code, not enough about Augie, the CLI. It's amazing. I love it. What can you share? Yeah, we often say augment is the best coding assistant you've never heard of. And that's both frustrating as to someone
Starting point is 00:32:33 that works there and it's like very proud of the work we've done but also like inspiring like we want to go and and sort of punch above our weight because like we aren't anthropic and we aren't open AI and so the quality of the product itself you know with our context engine once you do touch it people are like just blown away by that and so like that keeps me going every day so not to bear the lead here but this is a paid spot you are sponsoring this show to get this awareness now at the same time we're selective and I love to use your tool but there is in the world. So a lot of developers look at the space and they say, okay, well, how long can this work? How long is this sustainable in the case of Cursor or a windsurf? Or you pick the name
Starting point is 00:33:15 and you think discounted tokens help me shape a lens for our audience. I think it's a lot of awareness, right? Like Cursor got a lot of publicity early on for like fast revenue growth, which well deserved. I think, you know, frankly, some of the media got the, gets the story wrong in that, like, if I gave you a $1.50 for every dollar you sent me, I'd be the fastest growing startup in the, in the valley. And so when you're selling discounted tokens, yes, of course you're going to grow very fast, but all that money plus more goes to the model providers. So I think the real story is the story of Anthropic and, you know, being an API provider, I think the market has just moved so fast and there's so many pieces of competition out there that it's just hard to
Starting point is 00:33:59 noticed. So friends, I love augment code and I love using Augie. And I highly recommend you use it. I love using Augie. I can hand Augie a well-defined specification, a well-defined pep, as I call them in my world, an agent flow. And it executes flawlessly. So the cool thing about Augie that I love most really is that context engine. And I can hand it a task. And I can just churn away on my well-defined plan and just never bother me and accomplish the mission. It is so cool leveraging the latest models, the context engine, and all the fun things
Starting point is 00:34:36 behind the scenes in that awesome CLI. So yes, go try it out. Augmentcode.com. Right in the top there is a CLI icon, a terminal icon. Click that, install it, and change your world. It's going to be awesome. Obmancode.com.
Starting point is 00:34:56 Up next, we have my previous tease was somebody will outnumber Andrew Patton, and that's Jamie Tanna. Jamie, safe to say, Jamie likes the pod. Let's hear from Jamie. Hey, Adam and Jared. Happy State of the Log again. It's Jamie Tanner. I think this may be one of the most on-time voicemails I've sent you all.
Starting point is 00:35:20 Yeah, thanks again for another great year. I ran the numbers, and this year I've listened to a whopping 74 episodes. which is about five days of listening time. And I've managed to whittle down an amazing year to a shortlift of around 15 episodes. But I'll try and keep it even short than that. With the strife and the open source ecosystem this year, there was some really good discussions about some of the drama and some of the threats.
Starting point is 00:35:48 Some of the really good episodes around this were for us in Changing Underground Friends 111. Mike McQuaid and Justin Selves in Changing Friends 113. and a related discussion with Andrew Nesbitt and the excellent work he is doing with ecosystems in interviews 665. I've also really enjoyed what feels like an increase in levity this year and especially some of the conversations with your friends
Starting point is 00:36:13 like Amal in Friends 86, Dan Moore in Friends 78, Matt Ryer in 75 and 90, and a whole lot of other Friends episodes. As ever, things like Hashdivine and Friendly few game shows have been really, really great, and I've really enjoyed them, especially even, like, being in my own this year. And participating myself was really cool. I also really enjoyed some of the deep dives you'll have done into things like different folks' blog posts. So, for instance, Friends 81 and
Starting point is 00:36:44 the interview you had with Sean in Interview 666. As a little bit of an AI skeptic, it has been really interesting digging into some of the interesting cases of AI, without out a lot of the hype that you all have done. So in particular things like interview with David Crohaw in Interview 629, Nick Nisi in Friends 88, 102 and 120 and Adam Jacob in Interview 66, and Stevie Yege in Friends 96, and also Tourston Ball in interviews 648. Finally, I want to again repeat, but it's been really nice.
Starting point is 00:37:26 just having a few episodes of just the two of you, just chat about stuff, not necessarily even about the tech, just about life and movies and stuff. It has been really interesting and yeah, a really nice balance between different things. So thanks for a great year. And here's to another. Thanks. Cheers, Jamie. That's awesome. Thanks, Jamie. That's awesome. Thanks, Jamie. That's very touching. I mean, just to think about that, like he's not only a listener to that level, five days of listening but he took the time to go through to retrospect he did what mattered and made a comprehensive well articulated list and then shared it via voice to us and then it's going to get remixed i mean like that's spectacular that's yeah i mean honestly jamie's list
Starting point is 00:38:11 pretty much could have just been my list like yeah he hit on a lot of the ones that i would have done and if he hit on you know we were talking about doing eight to ten he got i think he got 15 or 16 in there. But to add a little bit, because he was just going through like, you know, Friends 1-1-1, you know, interviews, 665, to add a little bit of color to those. So he talked about the ones where we do blog posts. So interviews 666, that was Do Repeat Yourself with Sean Get a Key that was recently, in which we had him on. And then there's another one, Friends 81, that he mentioned, called Change My Mind. And this is where we use Chris Keel's post about development topics that he's changed his mind on over the last 10 years as a bit of a launching
Starting point is 00:38:56 pat into discussion that you and I had. Yeah. And about things we have and have not changed our minds on over the years. And so that's a little bit of what Jamie was talking about. Of course, there's many other references there. But what are your thoughts on them? Man, I could probably go on, but I agree. I think even that show in particular, Cheen her mind, I recall coming to that episode
Starting point is 00:39:20 thinking, did I prepare well enough for this? I felt underprepared because I was thinking, like, how much have I changed my mind on? I think, did we have something, something happened before that show that kind of made it a little uniquely recorded? I don't know. I thought something happened that probably a cancellation of a guest, is my guess. Maybe something, I don't recall exactly in the moment, but that was a fun one record. I agree.
Starting point is 00:39:46 I like, I like some of the problems we get to do. Like one of the ones on my list, I guess I can just briefly share it. And no one said it yet was turn him into a walrus. That's on my faves list. That was fun. But those are like the fun episodes where we just like just get together and just get in a groove on whatever it is. And I think, Chino, my, that was a really fun, really fun pod. Probably the best pod that we recorded all year was the Dev Null one that we didn't get a shit.
Starting point is 00:40:15 We were on fire, man. Remember that? Oh, that was. That was pure gold. Honestly, it might have been like the best 45 minutes we've ever done together. That's why we were so mad afterwards because the show that actually went out, I listened back to it. I was like, you know, it's fine. It was good, yeah.
Starting point is 00:40:32 You know, we covered a lot of topics and we had fun and stuff. And we did. But, man, that's 45 minutes. It was pure gold. At least we get to say that and no one can refute it ever. No one can challenge the fact or the opinion. It's more of a fact than opinion. Okay.
Starting point is 00:40:49 A lot of good episodes here, though, like 629, I think it was in this list, 666. David Croshaw. So we had, yes, we had Sean Gedigee, of course, agentic infra changes. Everything, the most recent Adam Jacob episode, which was really good. Yeah. And then, of course, the Steve Yegi episode, I think probably the most referenced as we go through our list here. I mean, Steve Yeager. Adventures in Babysitting Coding agents.
Starting point is 00:41:14 That one was very interesting to a lot of people. another stellar title Look at that title That was one of my That's in my list of best titles For sure Oh man Anytime you get an 80s movie reference
Starting point is 00:41:26 Into a title Come on And it's on point It's like come on It couldn't be a better title There's no other way to title that It's like taking candy from a baby You know
Starting point is 00:41:34 Yeah Which is a really weird Figure of speech Which I would never do Okay Um Jamie Tanner Remix Let's do it
Starting point is 00:41:43 Hey, Adam and Jared. Happy State of the Lock again. It's Jamie Tanner. But it's been really nice just having a few episodes of just the two of you just chat about stuff. Not necessarily even about the tech, just about life. For movies. Fun friends. Game shows.
Starting point is 00:42:10 Fun pipe. Oh, my gosh. You give Brakemaster reason to go just a little. Oh, gosh. That's a throwback. I love that. That's cool. Up next, another longtime listener.
Starting point is 00:42:41 and community member, it's Jarvis Yang. Hello, change log and friends. This is Jarvis checking in once more. Great to see the changelog. News website has finally landed in the right hands. 2025 has been quite the year, and I was happy to help keep an eye on that vanity domain and inform Jared of its availability.
Starting point is 00:43:01 And I really appreciate you, Jared, keeping me updated on all the major news. Thanks get hectic, but I always make sure to carve out time for a listen and a look through the newsletter. My final shout out is for Minibar 20. That's the 20th Unconference for the Minnistar organization here in Minnesota. For those who don't know, Minibar is the nation's largest and longest running technology unconference, first held in 2006.
Starting point is 00:43:27 It's a user-generated participant-led event, meaning there are no keynotes, and all the sessions are run by the local tech and business communities. Best of all, it's free. Mark your calendars. Mini Bar 20 is on Saturday, May 2, 2006. Also, a very happy early birthday to Jared's daughter, whose birthday conveniently aligns with the event weekend. See you all next year.
Starting point is 00:43:56 Conveniently aligns. Do you hear a little bit of a troll in there? We were invited to Minibar. He thought it would be a good place for our next live show, and I told him that we have a conflict that week, and so that's what he's referring to. Okay. But for those who don't know Jarvis, he calls in every year, and he gives us shoutouts,
Starting point is 00:44:14 and then he always gives something else a shout out. Most of the time, some Minnesota-based organization, such as Minibar, which looks like in a really cool event, actually, 20 years to throw an unconference. That's pretty impressive. Is it called Minibar? Minibar, like M-I-N-N-E bar, like Minnesota, I think. Oh, yeah, that makes sense. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:44:36 Okay. Minnesota Bar, Minibah. Minabar. May 2nd. Bar camps are still a thing? Is this really? They must be. At least in Minnesota.
Starting point is 00:44:48 I know I know that the Nebraska, the Omaha Bar Camp, I think, has gone by the wayside. I think someone tried to bring it back. We had it going for five, six, seven years, maybe 10 years. And then eventually it stopped
Starting point is 00:44:59 and then someone tried to bring it back. I'm not sure if it's still going, but I don't hear much about bar camps anymore. Miss that idea. That's cool. I wonder what makes them, I guess just getting people together is hard. It really is. Expensive, hard. Yeah, it is a lot of work. It is a lot of work. It takes some dedication. There's risk involved that is oftentimes undue. You know, like you're like, why am I risking this in my personal life to put on an event? Usually with regards to insurance or, et cetera, or fronting a bunch of money to rent a space out that maybe no one's going to show up to. And you're like, eventually you're like why am I doing this you know you almost need like a nonprofit established for it which is a whole other problem right yeah now you're like basically taking on a second job yeah yeah yeah yeah not easy not easy so thank a
Starting point is 00:45:52 thank an organizer out there y'all when you go to your events yeah for sure definitely thank an organizer because no one's getting rich off these things so they're doing it for the love lots of times or they have ulterior motives but they're usually straightforward And it's still worth thanking them as long as they're doing it on the up and up. Just as maybe a slight mention to that, I was in the GopherCon channel and the Gopher Slack. And I guess there was some concern around timing, you know, because like people wanted a certain time a year and it's kind of hard to do that. Yeah, I know it's moved. It's like August now or in the winter. They've had to move it to different locations and move it to different timing.
Starting point is 00:46:32 and I just saw, like, just a drive-by look, Heather Sullivan, who runs that conference along with, I believe, Brian and Eric, I don't know what the exact structure is anymore, but she was saying it loses money, like a lost $200 grand last year. So even a conference that's well established like that, if that, I don't doubt it's not a true statement, but like how true is the detail of that I'm not aware of, you know, like what's left under the covers I haven't. mentioned here, but I saw our mention in there and GoferCon Slack and the channel there in the Gofer Slack that lost money. So like even if you run a well done conference like that with great organization, every year great production. Yeah. I mean, that's like 12 years running maybe, like a long time. Yeah. Yeah. So you're not immune to the risk even if you've been in a groove for years. Well, even when the who runs Strange Loop, I can't remember his name now. But at the last Strange Loop, one of the last talks was the organizer whose name I'm forgetting, forgive me, who put it on thanklessly, except for the small group of people that thanked him for years, six, seven years.
Starting point is 00:47:47 And he shared all the financials for Strange Loop, which was a very successful conference, small regional, not huge like a KubeCon, but certainly well respected and well run. Yeah. And the financials just didn't make any sense. It's like, you could just tell by the end of it. He was only doing it because he loved doing it. There was no reason why anybody in the right mind would do it otherwise. And that's for like a well-regarded successful conference. So, I mean, that's why unconferences do make some sense because there's less to do.
Starting point is 00:48:16 All right. Like your job is to get people to show up and hopefully there's some catering or whatever. But it's just less. And then you're also less guaranteed that you're going to have quality talks, etc. I'm feverishly trying to get the name of our dear friend who I'm saying. that I've forgotten the name as well. Same. Alex,
Starting point is 00:48:33 Alex Miller. There you go. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, and we were there, thankfully. It was their first and last. It was the last Strange Loop. It was our first. 2023 in St. Louis.
Starting point is 00:48:46 And we met that call in there. That was kind of cool. Longtime listener, Slack and Zulu participant, and then met in the flesh. Fellow Pennsylvaniaan. That's where I'm originally from is Pittsburgh area. But man, that's a great conference. And then Alan, or sorry, Alex, you know, obviously was emotional delivering his final, you know, rollout finale of the conference.
Starting point is 00:49:11 And if you listen to the episode we delivered from there, I was smart enough to not only be there in the moment, but also capture a voice memo and put that on the pot. So at the tail end, the closer of that episode includes some of those final moments from that conference. So if you didn't make it or you did make it and you want to kind of go back with nostalgia, we tried to capture some of that for you. That was a good conference. And if you're wondering about that episode is called Vibes from Strange Loop. And it also featured the moment we met Taylor Troche, who I haven't forgotten ever since. Take my small hand. That's episode 559.
Starting point is 00:49:55 So changelog.fm slash 559. If you want to go back and hear what Adam is talking about, lots of, that was a grab bag, an anthology of conversation. Yeah, man. That was awesome. One of the best.
Starting point is 00:50:06 Remix it. Let's remix it. Hello, friends. Jarvis has finally landed. Check, check, checking in once more. Friends, thanks get hectic. Always make sure to carve out time for Mini Bar 20, the nation's largest technology unconference.
Starting point is 00:50:25 It's free. Best of all, there is a mini-bar, and I really appreciate you, Jared, informing me of the mini-barts availability. I'm happy to help keep an eye on it. See you all next year. Jarvis out. Jarvis out.
Starting point is 00:50:46 Yeah, that's good stuff. Celebrate the mini-bar. Yeah, that's a solid remix, break mass cylinder. Solid remix. So far, so good on these remixes. I don't think it's been a miss yet. No.
Starting point is 00:50:59 All right. Now speaking of longtime friends, here's our very old friend from way back, probably at the beginning of the show, Justin Dorffman. How long were you known Justin, Adam? Oh, my gosh. Forever. Over a decade. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:51:16 Hey, Jared Adam. Justin Dorfman here. A long-time listener, 10 plus years. and I'm really looking forward to 2026 and the guest that you will be having on and maybe even see you in North Carolina, maybe. Anyway, have a great one and thanks for always entertaining, at least me. Yeah, take care. Yeah, I'm a big fan of Justin.
Starting point is 00:51:43 Max CDN days. Oh, yeah. Really involved in the community. Always trying to love on people. That's what I love about Justin. And I'm loving the work he's doing for SourceGraph. And I think by proxy, maybe AMP, too. I'm not sure because of the divide now.
Starting point is 00:51:58 But I'm loving his role and what he's doing for them and just kind of keeping people informed with what SourceGraph is doing, what AMP is doing. And he's, yeah, super awesome, dude. Mm-hmm. I always love to hear from you, Justin. Don't be a stranger. Hopefully we'll see you in North Carolina. Mm-hmm.
Starting point is 00:52:17 Here's your remix. Hey, Jerry. Adam, Justin Dorfman here, a long-time listener, 10 plus years. I'm really looking forward to 26 and the guests that you will be having on and maybe you can see you in North Carolina. Maybe. Anyway, have a great one and thanks always entertaining me. Yeah. Wow. Very musical. Rhythmic even. Very rapy. It was like a little rap.
Starting point is 00:52:52 Justin Dorfman here. Yep. Yeah, very rap-like. To me back to the 80s, man. It's like late 80s, early 90s rap. That was. That was very much like Funkmaster Flex and stuff like that. Mm-hmm.
Starting point is 00:53:08 All right. Our final caller, Nobiel Suleiman. Hello, Adam and Jared. What a year it's been. This has definitely been the year of AI. And I do appreciate and count on your content to keep up to date with all of that. However, my favorite episodes personally are the ones around Home Lab, Kaizen, and Oxide. Those have all been great. But definitely, without a doubt, peak change log for me
Starting point is 00:53:29 was the meetup in Denver. It was great meeting you all and making several new friends along the way. And I mean, who would have imagined that we'd all go adventuring in the wilderness together with the mysterious breakmaster cylinder and battle a whole bunch of rattlesnakes? It was definitely a trip to remember. Anyways, kudos to you all for another great year of great content take care merry christmas happy new year's cheers and uh i'll see you on the other side of the year cheers to you no bill that was awesome battle in the rattlesnakes not not uh it's one one rattlesnake well he floralized it so i like that yeah that's how stories go they get better and better embellish a little bit yeah yeah they get better as you get further with that
Starting point is 00:54:13 story a little bit you know little seasoning won't hurt anybody or that den of rattlesnakes we had stumbled upon Gosh, so many. Just one almost got us. Why'd it have to be snakes? Yeah. Man, HomeLab for sure. You know, you know HomeLab's near and dear to my heart. Proxbox for life, ZFS for life, and Windows for life.
Starting point is 00:54:37 Oh, wait. Well, Windows for a minute. Well, not quite. But I did get support on getting my. Windows license from Nebilt. So that was very kind of Jim. Oh, nice. Yeah. Thanks, Nebill. He lent me his support to get it for a slightly less, which is very, very kind, very kind. Well, I do want to mention Nabil's mention of our AI coverage. And I think Andrew as well or somebody else earlier on, maybe it was Jamie, who said he's kind of a skeptic, but he appreciates our
Starting point is 00:55:12 AI coverage because it's not completely saturated in the hype that you can get out there because we've also been accused of that especially yeah it seems like people on Spotify in particular comment on our shows and they're very upset that we're talking about AI and one guy says it's all we talk about now and blah blah blah and you know you can't
Starting point is 00:55:37 you can't keep everybody happy but it's I want to bring it up because you know it's it is something that we think about and something that we want to both talk about and recognize and use and ponder, but we also understand that it is oversold and that it is over discussed and that we tend to lean into it at times when I think we have less interesting things on the docket. We're like, well, it's always fodder for an interesting conversation because of all the questions, right, because we don't have the answers. And so we're doing our best to both
Starting point is 00:56:15 talk about it but not gush too much but then when we're excited just go ahead and be excited you know yeah i think you probably as you guys have been listening over the years have gotten a taste of both our excitement and then our skepticism and then our disappointments and then our realizations of what it can do and how exciting that is and what it can't do and how frustrating that is and so yeah we're trying and it's not easy because if we want to just chase audience we would just lean hard into it like so many people have and I I've never wanted the change log to become like yet another AI show and so I appreciate that you all appreciate the non-AI topics and if you
Starting point is 00:57:00 and when we hear the criticism we take it very seriously and then I look back at our most recent episodes like I go I go through our playlist and I'm like maybe we are just doing too much of this and I look at it I'm like you know what nope there's plenty of stuff in there that's not it's just like confirmation bias I guess when people say it's all we talk about. I think it definitely is a recurring topic. Oh, yeah. But it's not the isolated primary topic, obviously. Of the show. Yeah. I mean, it's sort of episodes it is. Yeah. I think even like the show I did recently with Alex Kuchmar was that we were talking about the Linux rabbit hole essentially. Because I didn't even, I didn't even plan that really. We just started talking about the fun stuff. And that was kind of fun. And I think we were about 50 minutes in, and he mentioned something he had done vibe coding. And we talked about on the podcast as well.
Starting point is 00:57:57 And I didn't even plan to mention it, really. Yeah. So it wasn't like a topic on my mind. But obviously he laid down the spades. We played spades. Well, just wanted to mention that we do think about it. And we hope to bring somewhat level-headed. and yet also keeping to the edge of what things are going on
Starting point is 00:58:19 and not ignoring it just because it's AI because I feel like that's also foolhardy. And of course, news talks about it all the time because it's so much in the news. And so if you want to keep up with it without having to actually follow the news yourself, of course, I feel like we've tried to be a good resource for that. But, you know, opinions vary and mileage varies as well.
Starting point is 00:58:41 Even my own mileage with the same tool I was using yesterday. day varies today. It's like, oh, I was so excited yesterday and then I hit a road block today and now I'm mad again, you know? It's like doing two all over again. Because we're emotional beings. Well, let's get to Nabil's
Starting point is 00:58:57 and our final breakmaster cylinder remix. Peak change log for me. Was venturing in the wilderness. together with the mysterious breakmaster cylinder and battling a whole bunch of rattlesnakes There's a little trail off there. I love the footsteps.
Starting point is 00:59:51 Yeah, I hope that ending means that we survived, you know. After whatever happened, there happened, the climatic. There was lasers. There was a lot's going on there. Somebody got carried away. Yeah. Like, carried away with their talent, then carried away with their unfortunate event, maybe.
Starting point is 01:00:13 There was no speaking at the end. to walk away. So, I mean, we don't know for sure. Could have been a park ranger getting getting us out of there. We're down and out. All right. We're done with BMC now. Thank you, BMC. Not forever, but just for this particular state of the log. Yes. And thank you to everybody who took the time out of your day. I know y'all are busy. I know I was asking a lot to record a voicemail and upload it through a form. None of that's easy. You know, the, if we were SaaS entrepreneurs, we'd be failing, right? There's too much friction.
Starting point is 01:00:46 Our conversion rates would be low. Yeah. PLG is PLG. All that to say, we thank you for going through that for us because it makes us feel good. And hopefully makes you all feel good too. Should we talk about our own faves now? Let's get to our faves. I mean, come on.
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Starting point is 01:02:55 You want me to go first? You want to go tit for tat? Let's go at the exact same time and talk over each other. We've been known to do that. I mean, Jason will tell you. Yeah. You know, I don't know. I don't have a prescription.
Starting point is 01:03:09 I'll take your lead. All right, well, I have a list that was longer than I was expecting. 10. My list is 10 deep, and these are all 10 that have not been mentioned at all yet, which means I had a bunch of other ones that other people mentioned. And I'm just going to 10 that were not mentioned. And I'll start with the oldest. And that would be Interview 625, Open Source to from Open Source to Acquired with Ashley Jeff.
Starting point is 01:03:38 This was back in January. in which Ash told us all about benthos and his journey to finding an acquire for Benthos and Red Panda. And an open source success story in many ways and also just a guy who cracked me up with the way he was. I mean, his mannerisms, the way he talks, his random contradictions of himself, like he would say left and then right and he would stare at you. You know, like he's just a funny person. I really enjoyed him. I tried to get him back onto a pound to find, because I'm like, you're just funny and fun to be around.
Starting point is 01:04:16 Please come play games with us. And he respectfully declined, but to my chagrin, I really just enjoy that guy. And so that is my first fave is from open source to Acquired with Ashley Jeffs. That was a fun episode. Daddy Pig. Yes. That was a good one.
Starting point is 01:04:41 Should I go now? Yeah, go ahead. Should I comment a little bit? I like that one a lot. That was a good story, too. That was a fun story from Acquired, too. Like, he's having fun to what he's doing, too. He's taking care of his family.
Starting point is 01:04:52 Right. Enjoying what he's doing. He's clearly pretty happy, balanced, it seems. Remember how he sat on that chair? He had that chair set up, and he's like, this makes me more powerful than you guys, and I was like, it's totally working. It is working. It's a funny guy.
Starting point is 01:05:06 Okay, well, I mentioned one during the pod, so I kind of went first. technically right which was which one turn him into a walrus oh yes 87 this is when chat chb t just got good at like dolly two or something happened yes studio gibley was uh was that right and then it's actually so that's permeate like i loved the the short or the clip i'm not sure which one it was uh out there on the socials uh i i had to share that with my brother you know i was like this is this is cool stuff and then because wasn't it it turned me and him into a walrus right we went golfing it was just you you're you're exiting a golf it was just me and you had golf with your brother but he was we weren't in the shot exactly so in my mind behind the scenes i've got uh two pictures one that's a
Starting point is 01:05:56 selfie of me and then one that was just me and that one that was just me i share with you on the pod and then you turned me into a walrus right and then i share that with him because he was there and he would have thought that was really cool and he's not in tech at all and then so then he came back a few months later we golfed again same place took the same oh yeah same selfie but this time it was me him and my son and so behind the scenes in our household i had to make me a walrus again or us a walrus and it's just it's cool yeah so that one's like a heartstring for me not just a good show and a good title but it was a really good show too i thought that was like one of those ones where it's like i think i said on there like this is what the internet was made for like
Starting point is 01:06:37 that's the sauce man that's the sauce yes and this was around the time that i began saying and i to this day i think we should continue to make use software to make things that bring joy to people yeah and like that's the good stuff now we can talk about all the downsides of AI generated images and i'm aware of all these things and i have all the feelings everybody else does but like that's the joy of software is like take this person and turn them into But it's just fun. It's funny. Everybody wants to see it with themselves.
Starting point is 01:07:09 It looks like, oh, that looks like me. Oh, it doesn't look like me. Yeah, it gets old eventually. And, you know, there's creepy things you can do, et cetera, et cetera. But like, let's use it to have a fun. And we did that on an episode, and I agree. That was a great one. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:07:22 Yeah, I was just going to mention it and then move on. But we dug in deep. So I just, I roll with it. But the one I wanted to mention first, and it's because I haven't talked to him in so long. I couldn't believe how long it was. I talked to him. Drew Wilson. So we had Drew Wilson on the pod.
Starting point is 01:07:36 episode 639 of the interview show chasing that next big thing with Drew Wilson. And, you know, I'm not a big fan of the width, you know, titled shows, but that's what that was. Because Drew is always chasing something. He's, he launched Plasso, I believe, which was a banking platform, sold it to GoDaddy or, I don't know what he's, you know, he's done some crazy stuff. The guy is always, he's always on the fringe, like on where it should be. be where like wherever the puck is going he's kind of already there and he's kind of examined it already and you're kind of coming to the puck and he's already been there and that's true so i really appreciated getting back on the pot with him and we produced a podcast together a long time ago
Starting point is 01:08:19 and so it was just while getting to to hang with him again and talk about what he's up to and just it was it was cool it was like a like a reunion it was a reunion it was a reunion after many years next up for me would be discovering discovery coding with jimmy miller episode 80 of friends and this is jimmy miller's return to the show after an excellent episode last year i think was in both of our list was the best worst code base we had him back on this year talking about his new blog post about discovery coding and i just love that even this summary here fire up a repel grab your favorite stephen king novel and hold on to the seat of your pants jimmy email returns to reveal why, at least for some of us, discovery coding is where it's at.
Starting point is 01:09:05 And I'm just like, you know what? I hear that description. I'm like, I want to go to there. I want to listen to that. And that was a fun conversation about his process of discovery coding, which I think honestly is probably different than both what you and I were thinking about and talking about and relating to because his was kind of very specific. But fascinating that guy and the way he writes about what he does.
Starting point is 01:09:30 I wonder if there's a mirror of that happening in the VibeCode world, like, if it's a version of that, but not really. Like, we're all doing discovery coding all the time. Well, like, I think that, yeah, because, like, there's, there's, like, when I putter, I call it puttering. Okay. And I don't have a target. I guess, you know, it is discovery coding. I don't even know what I'm going to pick up. I'm just going to play with something.
Starting point is 01:09:56 Like, today, for example, like, the end of our meeting, I'm like, I wonder if Safari has an API. where you can easily pull back all the tabs, the URLs and I'm in the page titles and turn that into a markdown list. And moments later, we had that script written. And like, that was a version of like, almost discovery coding where it's like, I wonder what. Yeah, I have no purpose here to like write code. Obviously, I didn't write the code either. But the idea is like, can I, can I automate what would be a 10 minute task to take all the tabs that opened up? But it was like 50 tabs of these shows and probably about 30 and make a list why would I do that you know why can't I just query the Safari API and get that list yeah oh it's like it's like discovery coding in a way
Starting point is 01:10:40 yeah to a start extent yeah I'm certainly doing way more than that way more of that than I ever have yeah because I don't have to I don't have to go through the toil of finding the answer I can go do the emails or whatever I'm up to and let the computer do the toiling as I do the discovering and I think that's really fun and probably a lot of what both of us are doing with these things yeah all right what's next on your list let's see here I have a long list let me see one two three four five six seven in my faves and one two three four five six in my must listen list two distinct lists.
Starting point is 01:11:28 Those are the same thing. Kind of all favorites, but, you know, I'm just cheating here because I want to. You know, honestly, I want to say, I won't say them all. I'll spare everybody my, my verbosity. But I would say line number 14 here in this markdown file is inside oxy with Brian Cantrell and Steve Tuck, very special moment to be on stage with them recording in the IRL as part of OxCon 25, 2025, which is their internal conference. It's not really promoted or published much.
Starting point is 01:12:03 If you are in the know with Oxide and what they're doing, then you probably know about OxCon if they're once per year annual internal conference. And this year they had some big news this year internally. We can't share that news because we're on our NDA. But if you were there, wow, I mean, there's some cool stuff happening there. And we've said crossing the chasm, yeah, I'd say it's probably safe to say they've crossed a chasm, honestly. They're not crossing. They've crossed it. And just to be there with,
Starting point is 01:12:28 I would say, internet legends, you know, like, wow, dude. I mean, such a fan of, of Brian and Steve, but then also to be in their headquarters office, on their stage, podcasting about how they do materials, which is a crucial, like, it is the beginning of the DNA of their DNA, of their DNA for oxide. It's how they hire. It's how they choose who to let in. And this process is so critical to their culture. And we got to just jam with them on their stage. And that was that was dope. I suppose dope as you can get, man. Yeah. Well, that one's on my list as well. So we, uh, we teamed up on that one. And I agree with you. That was awesome. I thought it turned out really well and it was quite an honor you know it's like we were there special
Starting point is 01:13:26 guests and it's like why i'm not sure why but here we are anyways let's act like we belong here you know imposter syndrome go go go and it was lots of fun speaking of live on stage let me bring up the other live show that we did now we did have nabil mentioning kaisen pipley is live that was Friends 105 and of course you did that one live on stage we also had Andrew mentioning that as well the one that wasn't mentioned
Starting point is 01:13:54 was the interview show that we did so I wanted to give a shout out to that one live from Denver with Nora Jones interviews 653 you and I Nora Jones on stage is the best interview we've ever done
Starting point is 01:14:10 in our lives probably not you know could have gone better yeah sure of course it could have was it still a cool thing that I'm glad happened and that all in all turned out pretty well and super thankful that Nora showed up for us in big ways yes and so it definitely a highlight for me
Starting point is 01:14:28 was that particular episode which is the other half of the show which has already been previously mentioned as people's favorites yeah well that's on my list too man the Nora Jones episode I mean like it's uh yeah I mean the IRL stuff is is fun obviously I mean I love humans.
Starting point is 01:14:47 And I'm a non-transactional person. If you know me in the reels, which I think you kind of, proverbially, you all listening, know me through the airwaves and the video waves to some degree, you get a pretty good snapshot of who I am. And, you know, who I am here is who I am in person. Like, I'm not a different person. This isn't an act. I can't act that good. You know, it's just, it's just who I am, you know. I'm a lover, not a fighter.
Starting point is 01:15:11 I'll walk away from a fight before I stand there and fight around. And I just love to go deep with people and I love to serve people. And I love just to really relate and have relationship, not transaction and by Sia. So being able to be there with Nora and she accepted and she was from Denver and could easily do it. And it was just like, yeah, that was cool. And to do it on stage in front of a listening audience was cool. We got the stage lighting set really well, some orange and teal. I think it was, it all worked out well.
Starting point is 01:15:44 And that was a, I agree with you. It wasn't our best interview. What could have made it better, though? I think what could have made it better? It was just like better monitoring. Like for me, she could hear us better. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:15:54 Because it wasn't the actual content. It was the execution of the process that made it unless the desire. And a lot of my little jabs that I do throughout the interviews, you know, just like random one-off comments that are there to get, have a moment of levity and, and whatever. She just couldn't hear them. And so like the crowd even kind of laughed a little bit. you and I chuckled and then she's like what and I'm like uh it doesn't even it's not worth it's not worth even saying again like I'm going to feel like an idiot having to say this back I shouldn't have said it the first time you know right like those
Starting point is 01:16:25 little things could have been better but you know whatever whatever yeah a lot of good stuff there man is it me again yes it is okay let me look at my list here and see which ones of the ones I've selected that I will share I'm going to say two more and And I'm going to say the best for last, I think. And I'd say Charlie Marsh, Astral, UV, what they're doing for Python with Rust is super, super cool. I've been looking at the design even of the UV library in terms of like the organization of all the work spaces inside of the way that Rust composed itself in a in a directory structure. So cool. I mean, just really, I mean, they have different teams doing different crates and just like the autonomy, each one of them.
Starting point is 01:17:20 Just such a really very verbose design. I think he even commented on that. But just what they've done for Python on the speed front, I'm a UV user. So whenever I install or mess with Python, which isn't too frequently, I'm reaching for UV over PIP for those reasons. It's just fast. A lot of things to learn. and they're actually making a business around it. Like it's not just dev tooling for dev tooling's sake.
Starting point is 01:17:46 They've built a business around it. They've got a registry. They're doing even more stuff. It's really cool. It's admirable. Heck yeah, man. I'm a fan as well. I do think that was a good one.
Starting point is 01:17:59 I want to give a specific shout out to a specific pound to find game. Now, we play a lot of these games. We've had our listeners mention them as a group. But if we were just the name one from this year, There's been three pound-of-fines this year, one back in May, and then July, and then most recently, of course, we had our tournament of champions in November. But if I had to pick one that just cracked me up and had a blast, I would say it was the one back in May, pound-of-fine.
Starting point is 01:18:30 I'm going pants with Angelica Hill, Matthew Sanabria, John Henry Mueller, you and I, of course, and the mysterious brakemaster cylinder himself, for a hilarious and crazy game of a pound to fine that had me laughing out loud as I listened back later. And so if you haven't listened to our game shows and you're wondering, you know, how do I dip my toe in those waters? I would suggest change,
Starting point is 01:19:00 I'm looking forans 93 pound to find I'm going pants because that is a good one. What would that come from? What did the pants reference come from? me. It was, I think it's either BMC or John who would select pants as the, was the auto complete. I don't know. It was an answer to a question. And I was like trying to get him to lock in and they're like pants. I think it's BMC because that's just how he talks. He's like pants. And I'm like, are you sure? He's like, I'm going pants. It was that. Yeah. I'm in the
Starting point is 01:19:33 transcript. Spulunking. So okay, cool. Yeah. Yeah, it was. It was actually one of the references. I think you said number three comfortable pants for remote working i guess it was an option to select yeah exactly and he's like i'm going pants oh yeah then i laughed and i said i love your conviction he's going pants all right so that just became the show title those are hard ones to to name because how do you name a game show without being boring and so i just name the game and i just pick some sort of sentence that somebody said uh of course props to astronomer was also a good edition that was with change log plus plus members and of course the last one went crazy sheer resistance probably the most conservatively played game of pound defined a lot of piling on we're
Starting point is 01:20:19 going to have to change the rules a little bit just to stop the pylons all the time you guys all picking the same answers man that's the easy button you know went in doubt pile on that's right that's the closest i got to winning too didn't that's true I didn't I win in the I won in plus plus somewhere to one of the east i think yeah i still have one you did you won in the in the after show these are and i didn't even play my trump card here on this one either i had the access to an lLM and i forgot to i forgot to do it the game ended before i can like i was like when can i play my my triple word score come on right that's when they didn't that's when they like have the coach coming in pitch for you you know and then you just stare at you just stare down a strike and
Starting point is 01:21:00 he strikes you out you get struck up by the coach that's what that is uh yeah and i know i i missed I miss my spot there on that one. Yeah, I agree. Those are, those are fun, unique, styled shows. Not your typical podcast. We had any idea for a while. Then we always like coding shows or coding. Dev game shows.
Starting point is 01:21:19 It was dev game shows, but like a long time ago, it was like code games, I believe, was the original kind of idea. And I think it was in Slack. We did something in Slack. And I think you did it for a little bit and just like didn't really catch on. Right. So like there's been iterations to maybe where we're. at from just the idea of like playing games together right so that's cool yeah all right your turn
Starting point is 01:21:43 is this uh how many more should i do like how much more time should we spend doing this i can probably throw one more out there two more at least let's go one let's go one let's go one more each you can do two i'll do one i would say well i wanted to make this one last one but i'm not going to do it we're and talking to the ct of amazon warner vogels on the pod that's recent It's recency bias. That is recent. Just really interesting to talk to a legend like that on a podcast and to go through predictions and to just talk about things that isn't like, so how does Amazon work,
Starting point is 01:22:17 you know, or how does ABS work? I mean, that'd be kind of cool too, but at the same time, like, you get to zoom out and get theory. Like, I'd rather get theory from that level of a thinker than prescription. You know, like, here's what you go to do, A plus B, it's C. You know, I feel like theory, big picture, how he thinks. you know, I got a snapshot of this, this legend. And I don't want to call him an old guy necessarily, but he's obviously, I'm old too.
Starting point is 01:22:41 But he's older than I am. I just mean it like you get to sit down with like an internet legend and kind of a grandpa to software developers and to platform makers, a visionary, a thinker, a discoverer, like he built it on his laptop. Like to me, that's like, wow, you get to talk to somebody who's made a dent in the world that big. That's cool. man i'm like i kind of like got goosebumps now just thinking about it you know it's cool yeah i agree
Starting point is 01:23:09 and i'm also going to go recent because i had so much fun learning about zipline man i felt like cool guest cool company cool combo of questions from us there's a good balance to that show i feel like we all hit it off and i honestly just think that it's a seriously cool technology that is right on the, you know, it's before it changes the world in good ways, but I think it's going to. And yeah, there'll be, you know, unintended consequences as there are with all new tech, but I just think it's, I still just can't wait for Zipline to be in Omaha because I want to order a Chipotle burrito and have it delivered to my house while it's still too hot. It's going to burn my mouth. I want to just come down out of the sky. I think that's just a magical thing.
Starting point is 01:23:58 and I think it's going to just be a cool a cool piece of our lives here in the future and I like to be able to learn about it before it's out there. Much bigger and smaller than I expected. Yeah. Hundreds of drones. Yeah, which was less than I thought he was going to say.
Starting point is 01:24:17 Yeah, I thought it was going to be like a serious fleet. That's still a serious fleet, but here in Texas, from I can tell, Dallas-Fort Worth area, makes sense. Texas is big. Dallas is one of the top cities in Texas. Yeah, it makes a whole sense. And the weather is amenable to it. Yeah, it is.
Starting point is 01:24:36 Yeah. It does get colder there than it does, I guess. I used to live in Houston and I live in Austin. And so I guess it gets a little colder here than it does in Houston. But like I had been in Texas for a decade and I'm like, it gets cold here. It gets like briefly cold in Houston. But not like
Starting point is 01:24:52 cold's going to take your drone out of the sky cold. Right, right. So I just you know, like Dallas still gets enough chill that you can actually maybe get the inclement weather testing ability, but you also get the extreme heat. So you kind of get a little bit of both, really. You get some, a brief moment of extreme cold, maybe brief there is like a month, maybe a couple of weeks. It's cold still yet, but not like super, super cold. And then obviously Texas, gosh, do not come here in July or August, please. If you got somewhere else to be, go, go there. Don't come here. No doubt. Yeah. What a shame.
Starting point is 01:25:27 anyways. All right, back to you. That's Texas for you. Okay. Less ceremonious, but still quite fun. Bringing it back to Home Lab. State of the Home Lab, Tech 2025. Technotim. Technotim. That was the only part I did with him this year. Kind of bummed about that. I like to just circle back with him. I think instead I opted for Alex, not necessarily as a either or, but just more just timing kind of thing.
Starting point is 01:25:55 and I'm a fan of him I love his channel I love his exploration he's always got something cool to share he's a big thinker he's a cool dude he's a he's a fun friend and I just get energized
Starting point is 01:26:07 around him because he's always got something you know he's got something to say about something and he's got some opinion about something he's he's really into the community you know he's he's doing a lot of cool stuff and he's a software developer
Starting point is 01:26:21 still in the daily I think he kind of does a little bit of both where he's not a full-time content creator. He's got a side job or a day job. And then also his platform, he's built out Techno-Tim. I think he's more in that than he is in his day job, though. But I like his perspective on things. And so I miss him.
Starting point is 01:26:42 I had fun talking to him earlier this year. And maybe we'll do that sometime in January. Get that beginning of the year. Like what's going to happen to Home Lab this year? That'd be cool. There you go. All right. Do we do best titles? Do we wrap with best titles?
Starting point is 01:26:58 Yeah, let's wrap. Best titles. So we already mentioned adventures and babysitting coding agents. Yeah. Both love that one. Yeah. Oh, we both liked WsL.exe dash dash cat hello.cs. Yes.
Starting point is 01:27:13 I really liked over-the-top off strategies, mostly because it directly, it was hard one to name. And then we had the reference. We actually talked with Dan Moore about all these different OAuth stuff. and 2FA and blah, blah, blah, and past games. And then we couldn't name the show. It was like there was all these terrible names. And then it's like, wait a second. We talked about Over the Top, which is the awesome Celesteor Stallone arm wrestling movie that I don't think Dan had seen or he wasn't aware of it.
Starting point is 01:27:43 And we actually, I can't remember why, but we, I don't even know why it related to the conversation. But we got it in there on point. And then over the top, off-stratz. I wanted to go over-the-top off-stratz. But, you know, I think it was probably too obscure. Anyways, I thought that was a good one. What was the actual title again? Over the top of the top off strategies, which is kind of a little bit less cool,
Starting point is 01:28:04 but more approachable, like people know what we're talking about. Yeah, I don't know. I would have got either war on that one now that I know that. Oh, okay. Strats would have been maybe one notch above current title. We can go back and rename it. We're going to stop us. It's our show.
Starting point is 01:28:18 That's right. There's no slug that says that, too. So this looks will make it into the URLs. That's right. Just episode 78. there you go. ID only, man. What else do you like title-wise?
Starting point is 01:28:32 Man, it's a tough one there. That's a tough one. Let me see if I've prepared well enough for this. I mean, it's got to be a good title, right? It's got to be a good one. Isn't that what we're doing? Good titles, yeah, good ones. I thought you had a list of these.
Starting point is 01:28:47 My bad. I got a list of a lot of them. I'm just trying to figure out which one is the best title of them. Oh, well, you don't have to pick the best. Just pick one you like. and we'll do a couple of them. That's so hard. How about try harder?
Starting point is 01:28:59 Ultra thing. That was good. That was a good one. I mean, there's a lot of good titles in here, man. It's a fun process to name these shows. Let me see if I can,
Starting point is 01:29:10 I don't know. I kind of liked, you know, honestly, I liked flowing with agents with beyond. That was a fun one to name. That's because it's your code flow. It's your agent flow.
Starting point is 01:29:19 Agent flow, yeah. But that's not the one I'll choose. Oh. gosh here we go here we go do you ready for this one you're sitting down no you're standing up aren't you standing up yeah line 44 from my marked down file refactored in prison oh yeah yeah i mean like good show uh it didn't make my list i you know just it was a good show it was a really good show but the title that's a good title man like reformed in prison refacted in prison like
Starting point is 01:29:54 Yeah. And then talk to somebody in prison. Yeah. Good show. I could probably come up with better ones. I probably more of like a sad letdown, best title from Adam. But so many to choose from. I can be here all day telling you.
Starting point is 01:30:09 Oh, for sure. You know this. One other one I will pick, because it's another movie reference, was the episode with Justin Searle and Mike McQuaid. I had a hard time naming that one. It's about Ruby and drama and it's open source. It's not a career. but I already knew that that was kind of Justin's title he was going with
Starting point is 01:30:26 because this was a crossover episode on both podcasts. And I couldn't think of anything. I think I sent you like seven different things. I can't remember. And then finally I was just like, oh, actually, you know what? I was talking with Justin about it. It wasn't you.
Starting point is 01:30:39 It was Justin because he asked me what I was going to call the episode. And I had sent him some stuff. And I just wasn't happy with any of the titles. And then I thought, you know what? This is one there where Mike at the beginning said, like, I got to be able to cuss on the episode. And I said, you can't cuss. you can cuss on our episodes fine but you're going to get bleeped yeah and that's why he's like
Starting point is 01:30:57 well let's put it on breaking change it'll be unbleaped over there it'll be bleeped on the change log and so the title there will be bleeps i thought was a great there will be blood of course movie reference yeah also tantalizing like okay you're like what i'm not sure they're talking about but it's going to get spicy i thought that was a pretty good title it saved me from an otherwise terrible title i had up like six bad ones before and then i thought you know what let's go a different direction yeah sometimes you have to be a little out there in your thinking but spot on just as well what a good movie though there would be blood oh man dania day lewis man he's the method actor of method actors he is so good uh his co-star in there was really good too yes the kid in the end he's not
Starting point is 01:31:44 a kid anymore but at the time he was right younger dana something or i don't know his name off the top of my but fantastic actor Just a phenomenal movie And I think I heard that he got swapped in Like two weeks before filming started On to that off of somebody else Fact check me or somebody else can afterwards But I heard that
Starting point is 01:32:05 Which would be amazing to know That he actually swapped in late Because his performance is top notch Spot on, yeah His name is Paul Danos You're pretty close Dano, yeah I was like, what I say?
Starting point is 01:32:17 Dave, Dan. Dana is something Yeah, Dana Dana, yeah, Paul Dano, yeah. 2007, this movie came out, so not recent. Takes place right there in Texas, doesn't it? I mean, it's all about oil. You know, I don't know if it's in Texas.
Starting point is 01:32:34 I don't know that either. It might be. I assume it is, but it might not be. I don't know if it's clear what the setting is. If it's in Texas, it probably is in Texas. I mean, it's... Where else would it be when it comes to oil, you know? It's like the Wild West oil trade.
Starting point is 01:32:49 It's got to be Texas, right? Yeah. ruthless silver miner turned Willa Prospector. Exactly. That's the way to open a movie right there, man. Go watch it. It's in 4K. If you've got a theater or if you got yourself aplex box,
Starting point is 01:33:03 go buy it on Amazon or steal it if that's what you do. I don't think you should do it. But, you know. That's your advice? No, I just heard that a lot of people are bypassing. Well, it kind of goes to the fact that you can't get physical media anymore, you know? And so if you can't get access to the physical media, I mean, what are you going to do?
Starting point is 01:33:22 Yeah, I mean, I guess the only option would be to steal it, I guess. Yeah, steal it. You know, I'm not suggesting you do that, though. My, my recommendation is go and buy it. Take yourself and get yourself, make MKV, pop that in there, and then rip it to yourplex and then keep it forever. And that's what I shall do because that is a, I think I actually own that movie. I don't own it in 4K though. I think it's an HD.
Starting point is 01:33:52 Yeah. Take that out there in the bird pile, you know, HD, good for nothing. You know, honestly, though, if you watch HD versus 4K HDR back to back, side by side, you'll know what I'm talking about. The sound is different. The visuals are different. And in fact, one of the things I use is a way to gauge if I'll buy the 4K Blu-ray or not is I go to blue BLU-ray or not. is I go to blue blu dash ray.com and they do phenomenal reviews for when a film makes it to 4K HDR. And they'll talk about the picture and the sound and it scores it.
Starting point is 01:34:31 They pull out stills and frames from it. It's really well done, really great site. Nice. And it's what I tracked to know like new releases too because like being as old as we are, there's films back in our day basically that are now coming to 4K. Right. And one of the ones I just watched recently was Terminator, one. I mean, like, take a film that was never, I guess never intended for 4K.
Starting point is 01:34:58 I can't say that really, but like who knew the future would exist, right? In the past, this is how it works. But this film is funnily CGI, like so bad, so bad. And it just screams through CGI even more when it's crystal clear in 4K. Like what stuff is CGI when he gets like his skin blown off and you can see the metal underneath and stuff? Oh, yeah. Like it's, you can tell it's a puppet. It's so nasty.
Starting point is 01:35:23 Oh, when he's looking himself in the mirror. Right. Like on one shot, it's clearly an animatronic. I mean, just like the whole thing is animatronic. So it's almost better in low res.
Starting point is 01:35:34 You know, I can't see. Yeah, it kind of ruins it. It really does. I mean, if I'm being honest, if you don't like going to an open casse like a funeral or something like that, man,
Starting point is 01:35:43 that's kind of what it is. Okay. That ruins the movie in a way for you. right do that you know do it get the uh 1080p you know yeah i mean i guess in that regard the 720p go back on DVD and just stretch that sucker you'll never know you know what i thought about doing the jerry was this man's i was like i'm gonna go buy i'll reveal i reveal the deep cut here okay i was gonna go on to our favorite place called ebay and purchase a vhs player and rca that to my receiver not not nothing like the NO-H-D-M-H-D-M-R-C-A.
Starting point is 01:36:19 The red, the yellow, and I think the white, I think, brings the audio. Mono, audio, audio. And the film I wanted to get, what was provoking me to do this, was cutting edge. Was that like a skiing movie? It was a very close, yes. Snowboarding, maybe? Very, very close. It was ice skating.
Starting point is 01:36:43 Okay. That makes sense. With D.B. Sweeney, that almost sounds like a will feral comedy. You know what? I think it inspired. I think it probably did. Blades of glory. Blades of glory.
Starting point is 01:36:58 I've never heard of that. What? Yeah. Why? Because my wife and I both love this film before we knew each other. It was released in 92. And so this is one of those movies that as you learn more and more about your wife over the years. It took probably 10 years
Starting point is 01:37:17 for her to tell me that this was one of her favorite movies. Oh, this is a rom-com. I was expecting it to be more of like an 80s chick flick. Sports and romance, dude. Wow. I mean, you know, it's... I mean, double-edged. You consider figure-siding sports. Oh, sorry, just offended some people there. Of course,
Starting point is 01:37:33 the guy has a hockey stick. So, like, he plays hockey and she's a figure skater. Is that the storyline? Yeah. Former Olympic hockey player, Doug Dorsey, played by D.B. Sweeney. pairs up with stuck up figure skater Kate Mosley Moria Kelly is her name
Starting point is 01:37:51 and like the way they come together it's a good love story you know I'm a romantic at heart and but this is the one that was provoking me I was like I haven't done it yet so now that I'm seeing this again I kind of want to do it and it's mainly brought on by the letdown that was 4K Terminator
Starting point is 01:38:08 I kind of wish I didn't do that by 4K yeah I was telling another I'm like, baby, it would be so cool to have a theater like we have, a 120-inch screen, a laser 4K projector, super awesome sound system, and then put a VHS player in there and watch old films from our back in the day. Old films from 1992. I'm missing old film. What's the, now it is. You're right. What's the worst that could happen, though?
Starting point is 01:38:34 It's not like, you know, the kiss scene they cut to like a mannequin or something. Like, there's no CGI in this thing. Not in that one. Yeah, that one there's going to be fun. Like, I thought for the nostalgia. Because I know when I watched it, originally was probably VHS. Oh, yeah. So go back to the roots, you know.
Starting point is 01:38:49 It wasn't on DVD. Then you should also go one step further and get one of those auto rewinders. So you can rewind all your VHSs, you know? Oh, yeah. Put it in there. Just be kind. Rewind. Be kind, rewind, man.
Starting point is 01:39:01 Be kind of rewind. Yeah. So there you go. Yeah, I'd probably skip Terminator in 4K. Unless you just have to have the nostalgia. It was laughable, though, man. So I'm going to watch Terminator 2. and I'm hoping it's not a ruin.
Starting point is 01:39:15 Yeah, I think that one will do better. Some films, though, are just amazing. Like, Alien, the Alien series, Alien, Aliens, those are two distinct movies. Aliens was second, alien was first. Right. A rare example of a sequel being better than the original, perhaps. Yeah, for sure. And, like, aliens, there's a lot of talk, like, don't go and watch it because it's so crystal clear now.
Starting point is 01:39:37 It's so good. Like, it almost ruins the original grunginess of it. and weird but they kind of introduced it in the process so it's clear but it's also grungy i think it's good you know personally that one didn't have a lot of ruin for me but terminate was kind of funny man that's kind of funny that's what you get grabbing at the end y'all there you have a little bit of movie movie hour there at the end awesome well there you have our list check the show notes if you want to click through to any particular episodes otherwise Guys, have a great holiday and New Year's and end of your year, and we'll see you all on the other side.
Starting point is 01:40:15 You know what? Actually, one more, I'll throw one more thing at the year at the end. I think you'll like this. There was a mention in Zulip to talk about the longest running Zulip thread from an episode. And I think we should have the folks listen to this. Like, if you didn't get a voicemail in, you can still get your word in edgewise. Go to Zulip. Changell.com slash community. Hang out with us there. Comment on this episode, some of your favorites. share up conversation if you've got some downtime during this holiday and maybe throw some notes in there and hop in on this episode in Zillop and comment on your favorite episodes if you want to chime in or your favorite 90s era rom-coms or your cutting edge whatever your cutting edge is and share yeah what's the cutting edge to you that's a great question all right bye friends
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