The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source - Supabase quietly went public (News)

Episode Date: July 24, 2023

Our friends at Supabase quietly went public today, Redpoint's InfraRed 100 report is out, Twitter is now X, GitHub's Copilot Chat now in public preview (for businesses) & Oxide has homelab plans (in 2050).

what's up nerds this is adam and this is changelog news for the week of monday july 24th 2023 let's do this did you see that paul copplestone and team quietly took super base public earlier this morning. Yes, that's right. From beta to IPO is the new benchmark in unicorn status. Why is Paul calling me right now? Hello? Hey, Adam, that was just a joke. Are you serious?

That was just a joke. We're just being featured by Redpoint in their Infra 100 list. Okay. Yeah, they featured us on Times Square. It's so cool, right? Yeah, it's just a joke. I'll let them know. Okay, so apparently that was just a joke. And as an angel investor in Superbase, I guess I got a little too excited.

But it is true that Redpoint did feature them in Times Square for their Infra 100 list. This is the 100 transformative companies in cloud infrastructure. Quote, these trailblazers have set new benchmarks for reliability, scalability, security, and innovation, enabling businesses to thrive in a cloud era and ushering a new paradigm of building applications. The list, of course, includes Superbase, Jellyfish, Hugging Face, PlanetScale, Red Panda, Pulumi, Retool, Dagger, Incident.io, Linear, Railway, Neon, 1Password, Docker, Databricks, OpenAI, Replit, Sourcegraph, Vercel, and many, many more. The Infra 100 is Redpoint's annual thing now,

and they'll be doing this to honor the latest companies that have excelled in building next-generation cloud infrastructure solutions. Okay, so Twitter has officially changed its logo to the letter X. What letter is this? Look at that for yourself, Froggy. We did. What letter is this? These two lines that cross each other. What letter is this, huh?

Should we tell them? When you get two lines that cross like this, what letter is that? Anybody know? Let's do it on three. We'll tell them, okay? One, two, three. What letter is this? X! X! No. Let's do it on three. We'll tell them, okay? One, two, three. What letter is it? X. X.

And according to Musk, he tweeted, I mean, X did, quote, and soon we shall bid adieu to the Twitter brand and gradually all the birds, end quote. And Linda Iaccarino, CEO of Twitter, I mean, X, says, quote, it's an exceptionally rare thing in life or in business that you get a second chance to make another big impression. X is the future state of unlimited interactivity centered in audio, video, messaging, payments, banking, creating a global marketplace for ideas, goods, services, and opportunity. Powered by AI, X will connect us all in ways we're just beginning to imagine. There is absolutely no limit to this transformation. X will be the platform that can deliver, well, everything. Elon Musk and I are looking forward to working with our teams and every single one of our partners to bring X to the world, end quote.

So I guess tweeting will become X-ing and Musk. Well, I just don't even know what to say about this. It's just the craziest thing, but that's where we're at in this world. Crazy things happen every day. Next up, GitHub's Copilot chat is now in public preview for businesses. Earlier this year, GitHub announced Copilot X, extending its Copilot code completion tool to more use cases. They also share plans for a chat GPT-based chatbot. And until now, this chatbot was only available in a private preview. But as of last Thursday, Copilot chat is now available as a public beta for all GitHub business users on Visual Studio and VS Code.

From the GitHub blog, quote, as we prepare to bring the entirety of GitHub Copilot X to general availability, we believe every developer could be made 10 times more productive. This means 10 days of work done in one day, 10 hours of work done in one hour, 10 minutes of work done with a single prompt command, end quote. First of all, that's a lot of 10s. And second, could this truly be the era of the 10x developer? Maybe our good friend Matt Ryer has some insights to share on this. A lot of people think 10x developers are mythical, like Australians. I haven't really got time to get into it now, but there's a lot of evidence that Australia is not real. What?

But this is real. I'm here to tell you that 10x developers do exist. I happen to be one of them. I'm coming to just admit that now and just be honest about it. And also come and just share 10 simple tips to be a 10x developer. Okay. Just give it away for free.

Of course, that clip comes from an episode of Change Login Friends, episode four, lovingly titled Matt Depends. So check the show notes for links to both Matt Depends and GitHub's announcement. And now for some sponsored news. Our friends at Speakeasy are using AI to automate API creation and distribution. Earlier this month, the company emerged from stealth with a $7.6 million seed investment. Last week was their first ever feature week, launched on July 10th through the 14th.

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Both are linked in the newsletter. Last story of the week. Okay, so last week on Change Logging Friends, we invited Brian Cantrell and Steve Tuck to talk about Oxide, the Home Lab, and a bunch of other fun stuff. Here is a clip of Brian laying out their 2050 roadmap and how Oxide will eventually be available in the Home Lab. In order for us to be able to, and this is the hand on heart honest answer, in order for us to be able to ever serve those smaller edge use cases,

which is still probably in the enterprise, but would get us much closer to the home lab, we need to survive and thrive as a company. And that means we got to focus on this core market that we're going after, which is this enterprise DC market. So good answer. Yeah, I'll put my hat down then

because I for sure agree with extreme focus. So I give you that. However, I will also say I begin with if you conquer. Okay. I mean, we can look forward to the future. Like, yes, absolutely. For sure. There you go. There you go. Yes. I do feel that like we, I mean, our aspirations are really to be the kind of company that young engineers can come up in, that customers love to buy from, that people are enthusiastic about. And it's like we're veterans, right? And we are trying to pull from the best of our collective pasts and careers and where companies really get this right. And then they lose their way. And we want to certainly seen a lot of, and we are trying to pull from the best

of that and build something that can be really generational and special. So yes, in that future, absolutely. Fantastic. Home Lab. Yes. Oxide Home Lab edition. He finally landed on the correct answer. 2050 Oxcon is going to be just really the big announcement there.

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