The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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• Forking Cal.com to closed source (Interview)

  September 3, 2026 · 1 hr 55 min

  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? That's the theory Peer brings to the table this week. We dig into how AI…

• Postgres at PlanetScale (Interview)

  August 25, 2026 · 1 hr 42 min

  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 500TB table in seconds, and the very real…

• Canary tokens and digital tripwires (Interview)

  July 21, 2026 · 2 hr 7 min

  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 until an attacker touches one. We talk…

• From open source hits to OpenAI (Interview)

  June 5, 2026 · 1 hr 46 min

  This week I'm talking with Max Stoiber, currently working on ChatGPT's plugin directory and app platform at OpenAI. We discuss the hundreds of open source projects nobody remembers alongside the big ones like react-boilerplate and…

• MCP on Code Mode (Interview)

  May 15, 2026 · 1 hr 55 min

  This week I'm talking with Matt Carey about Code Mode and how most of us have been thinking about MCP all wrong. Matt works on the Agents SDK and MCP at Cloudflare — we discuss how server-side Code Mode lets one MCP server expose all…

• Automation at the speed of Swamp (Friends)

  May 13, 2026 · 2 hr 26 min

  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. We discuss how he went from an 18-person team down to five and…

• Bitwarden CLI compromised (News)

  April 29, 2026 · 9 min

  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 years leaving anyone running production…

• Exploring with agents (Interview)

  April 24, 2026 · 1 hr 37 min

  Today on the show I’m talking with Amelia Wattenberger — designer, data-viz veteran, ex-GitHub Next, and now designing Intent at Augment Code. What if the last 30% of any software project is about to become the hardest part you’ve ever…