The GitHub problem (and other predictions) (Friends)
Mat Ryer is back and he brought his impromptu musical abilities with him! We discuss Rob Pike vs thankful AI, Microsoft’s GitHub monopoly (and what it means for open source), and Tom Tunguz’ 12 predictions for 2026: agent-first design, the rise of vector databases, and are we about to pay more for AI than people?!
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Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
How Rob Pike got spammed with an AI slop “act of kindness”
How GitHub monopoly is destroying the open source ecosystem
12 predictions for 2026
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Git with your friends (remastered) (Friends)
Our Changelog & Friends proof-of-concept with Mat Ryer has been remastered! Now with full-length video on YouTube. Originally recorded: 2023-02-08
Mat joins us for some good conversation about some Git tooling that’s been on our radar. We speculate, we discuss, we laugh, and Mat even breaks into song a few times. It’s good fun.
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Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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Git Heat Map
Git Sim
git-bug
GitUI
Git Branchless
Jerod’s pick - GitX
Mat’s pick - ReviewPad
How did Git get its name?
MacStadium
Beyond Code Season 1: Keep Ruby Weird 2014
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Hello, Matworld! (Friends)
Join us on a journey to make believe worlds with our good friend Mat Ryer. The assignment; we each get to make up a new world where we invent a new gadget and declare a new rule. This episode is sure to delight loyal fans and especially those who enjoy Mat Ryer on the show and a good/bad song or two.
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It's a peccadillo circus (Friends)
Mat Ryer is back! He plays the piano, we tell each other truths/lies, we pay homage to the 8” floppy disk, Mat accepts an open source medal, and so much more. It’s a real circus. MatGPT!
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Show Notes:
Floppy disk - Wikipedia
stretchr/testify
Piccadilly Circus - Wikipedia
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#define: piggyback (Friends)
What happens when you take two #define champs (Taylor Troesh, Thomas Eckert), a grizzled veteran (Adam Stacoviak), a british bard (Mat Ryer), a PhD (Carol Lee) & you pit them against each other in a game of fake tech definitions?! There’s only one way to find out…
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firecrawl
Rate us in Pocket Casts!
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#define: legendary (Friends)
What happens when you take three #define newbs (Thomas Eckert, Nick Nisi, Mat Ryer) & pit them against the grizzled vet, Adam? Find out on this episode because our award-worthy game of fake definitions is back & this time it’s even more legendary!
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github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei
devy.page
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Backslashes are trash (Friends)
Mat Ryer returns with his guitar, an unpopular opinion & his favorite internet virus.
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Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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ILOVEYOU - Wikipedia
Samy (computer worm) - Wikipedia
MySpace Worm Explanation
The Net (1995) - IMDb
Renfield (2023) - IMDb
The Rock (1996) - IMDb
Adaptation. (2002) - IMDb
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"Mat Depends" (Friends)
Mat Ryer is back and he’s brought with him 10 tips to be a 10x developer (like he is). After that, we try a new segment we’re calling “Tool Time” (and try out a few jingles for it along the way). Finally, it’s time to review our previous unpopular opinions and put some new ones into the world for your (dis)agreeing pleasure. Join us for an automagical time!
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Show Notes:
How ‘Back to the Future 2’ Tricked You Into Thinking Crispin Glover Returned
Mat on The Changelog #526
The Synergistic Interplay between Vitamins D and K for Bone and Cardiovascular Health
Introducing Wood Milk: Aubrey Plaza’s Newest Product #drinkwoodmilk - YouTube
golangci-lint
credo for Elixir
1Password
ntfy.sh
Queen Latifah - U.N.I.T.Y. - YouTube
NextDNS
NextDNS wiki on UnifiOS
I Made a Tiny Touch ID Button for Mac!
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Git with your friends (Interview)
This week we invited our friend Mat Ryer to join us for some good conversation about some Git tooling that’s been on our radar. You may know Mat from Go Time and also Grafana’s Big Tent, which we help to produce. We speculate, we discuss, we laugh, and Mat even breaks into song a few times. It’s good fun.
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Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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Git Heat Map
Git Sim
git-bug
GitUI
Git Branchless
Jerod’s pick - GitX
Mat’s pick - ReviewPad
How did Git get its name?
MacStadium
Beyond Code Season 1: Keep Ruby Weird 2014
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xbar puts anything in your macOS menu bar (Interview)
On this episode we’re talking with our good friend Mat Ryer whom you may know from the Go Time podcast. Mat created an awesome open source tool for putting just about anything in your Mac’s toolbar. It was originally written in Objective-C, but it just got a big rewrite in Go and abig rename from BitBar to xbar.
If you don’t use a Mac don’t hit skip on this episode quite yet! There are lessons to be learned for anyone interested in hacking on tools to make your life better. Plus, with this rewrite Mat has positioned xbar to go cross-platform, which we talk about as well.
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Show Notes:
The Changelog #3 - Rob Pike
xbar’s website
What happens when your old open-source project unexpectedly gets to the top of Hacker News?
Go Time #154 - Where Jerod shares his unpopular opinion
Go Time #144 - Building desktop apps with Go + web tech
Wails.app
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xbar on GitHub
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We really needed new jingles
Go Time’s Mat Ryer joins Jerod, KBall, and Nick to play Story of the Week, Today I Learned, Unpopular Opinions, and Shout Outs!
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Story of the Week
Faster JavaScript calls in V8
Blitz.js
Blitz on JS Party
Citibank just got a $500 million lesson in the importance of UI design
TIL
Embedding SVG filters directly in CSS
Accessing hardware devices on the web
Shout Outs
freeCodeCamp’s DS Curriculum
swyx on Twitter
Vite
Miscellany
We hear Go Time is pretty good
Watch our live recording on YouTube
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Betting on Svelte for pace.dev
We often try new frameworks and tools in side projects or throwaway contexts, but you don’t learn that much about a thing until you use it to build something real. That’s why we have Mat Ryer and David Hernandez joining us to share their experience of using Svelte while building their new startup, Pace.dev.
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Show Notes:
Mat and David talk MachineBox on Practical AI
Their open source Go tool: oto
The blog post about their Svelte Grouper component
Pace.dev is now in public beta
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Putting AI in a box at MachineBox [rebroadcast] (Interview)
In this special episode of The Changelog we’re sharing a full-length episode of our newly launched podcast called Practical AI — covering AI, Machine Learning, and Data Science. In this episode Mat Ryer and David Hernandez joined Daniel and Chris to talk about MachineBox, building a company around AI, and democratizing AI.
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MachineBox
Practical AI #2: Putting AI in a box at MachineBox with Mat Ryer and David Hernandez
Practical AI with Chris Benson and Daniel Whitenack
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Putting AI in a box at MachineBox
Mat Ryer and David Hernandez joined Daniel and Chris to talk about MachineBox, building a company around AI, and democratizing AI.
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MachineBox
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“Go Programming Blueprints” by Mat Ryer
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Gopherize.me, GitHub Stars, BitBar
Mat Ryer joined the show to talk about creating your own Gopher avatar with Gopherize.me, the importance of GitHub Stars, his project BitBar, and other interesting Go projects and news. Special thanks to Kelsey Hightower for guest hosting too!
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Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
Carlisia Thompson – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
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Create your very own Gopher avatar with gopherize.me
Buffalo from Mark Bates
Beautiful Packages in Go
We talked through the Go 1.8 release notes
murlokswarm/app - Like Electron but in Go
gdlv - Linux GUI for Delve
Fission - A framework for serverless functions on Kubernetes
Your First PR: Contributing to an Open Source Go Project
Kelsey Hightower predicted the future! - “it’s Go Time!”
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