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21 stories

ChangelogVoicesFrom zero to NanoClaw (Interview) Gavriel Cohen, creator of NanoClaw and co-founder of NanoCo, joins Adam to explain how a 40-hour weekend project became a viral open source hit and the foundation of an enterprise AI company.

10.09

ChangelogVoicesForking Cal.com to closed source (Interview) This week I’m joined by Peer Richelsen, co-founder of Cal.com. What if the majority of open source repositories are already compromised and we just don’t know it yet?

09.03

ChangelogVoicesPostgres at PlanetScale (Interview) Sam Lambert is back after 4 years and he does not hold back! We cover $5 PlanetScale Postgres, the Neki “do-over” of Vitess, agents shipping schema changes through deploy requests, rolling back a…

08.25

ChangelogVoicesCanary tokens and digital tripwires (Interview) Haroon Meer is back! Haroon is the Founder of Thinkst, the ~50-person bootstrapped company behind Canary and Canarytokens — honeypots and tripwires you sprinkle inside your network and forget about…

07.21

ChangelogVoicesFrom open source hits to OpenAI (Interview) This week I’m talking with Max Stoiber, currently working on ChatGPT’s plugin directory and app platform at OpenAI.

06.05

ChangelogVoicesMCP on Code Mode (Interview) This week I’m talking with Matt Carey about Code Mode and how most of us have been thinking about MCP all wrong.

05.15

ChangelogVoicesAutomation at the speed of Swamp (Friends) This week I’m talking with Adam Jacob, founder of System Initiative and creator of Swamp, about what happens when AI agents change the entire shape of software development.

05.13

ChangelogVoicesBitwarden CLI compromised (News) Bitwarden’s CLI got hit by the Checkmarx supply-chain campaign, TypeScript 7.0 beta lands with the Go-rewritten compiler running ~10x faster than 6.0, and pgBackRest lost its maintainer of thirteen…

04.29

ChangelogVoicesExploring with agents (Interview) Today on the show I’m talking with Amelia Wattenberger — designer, data-viz veteran, ex-GitHub Next, and now designing Intent at Augment Code.

04.24

ChangelogVoicesAstral has been acquired by OpenAI (News) Astral is joining OpenAI, which says a lot about where the center of gravity is moving for developer tools, LiteLLM got hit by a nasty supply-chain attack, and OpenCode blew up as the latest serious…

03.27

ChangelogVoicesBig change brings big change (News) This week’s been wild — Iran bombed AWS data centers to take down Claude, OpenAI dropped GPT-5.4 (and it’s seriously good for coding), and living brain cells are literally playing DOOM.

03.10

ChangelogVoicesOpus 4.5 changed everything (Interview) Burke Holland works on GitHub Copilot by day and codes with his AI agents always. Early January, Burke posted about how Opus 4.5 changed everything.

02.27

ChangelogVoicesThe mythical agent-month (News) Wes McKinney on the mythical agent-month, install Peon Ping to employ a Peon today, Andreas Kling explains why Ladybird is adopting Rust, Cloudflare has a new MCP server that’s quite efficient, and…

02.23

ChangelogVoicesSelling SDKs in the era of many Claudes (Interview) Steve Ruiz joins us for a deep-dive on tldraw (a very good free whiteboard) and the business he’s built selling SDKs that help others build very good whiteboards (and more) with tldraw’s…

02.19

ChangelogVoicesAll the Claw things (News) Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI, ZeroClaw is “claw done right”, MimiClaw runs on a $5 chip, Steve Yegge on managing the AI Vampire, and the day the telnet died.

02.16

ChangelogVoicesHan shot first (Friends) Our ol’ friend, Brett Cannon, is back to talk all things Python. But first! Star Wars, Machete Order, Lost, Babylon 5, Game of Thrones, Murderbot, Ted Lasso, Project Hail Mary, David Attenborough…

02.13

ChangelogVoicesBuilding the machine that builds the machine (Interview) Paul Dix joins us to discuss the InfluxDB co-founder’s journey adapting to an agentic world. Paul sent his AI coding agents on various real-world side quests and shares all his findings: what’s going…

02.11

ChangelogVoicesVouch for an open source web of trust (News) Mitchell Hashimoto’s trust management system for open source, Nicholas Carlini has a team of Claudes build a C compiler, Stephan Schwab recounts the history of attempted developer replacement…

02.09

ChangelogVoicesSetting Docker Hardened Images free (Interview) In May of 2025, Docker launched Hardened Images, a secure, minimal, production-ready set of images. In December, they made DHI freely available and open source to everyone who builds software.

02.04

ChangelogVoicesNatural born SaaS killers (Friends) We discuss the buzz around Clawdbot / MoltBot / OpenClaw, how app subscriptions are turning into weekend hacking projects, why SaaS stocks are crashing on Wall Street, and what it all means.

01.30

ChangelogVoicesSecuring npm is table stakes (Interview) As the creator and long-time maintainer of ESLint, Nicholas Zakas is well-positioned to criticize GitHub’s recent response to npm’s insecurity.

01.29