State of the "log" 2022 (Changelog Interviews #520)

Our 5th annual year-end wrap-up episode! Sit back, relax, pour a glass of your favorite beverage and join us for listener voice mails, our favorite episodes, some must-listens, and of course the top 5 most listened to episodes of the year. Thanks for listening! 💚

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Featuring:

• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

Listener favs:

• Go Time #250: Mat’s GopherCon EU diary
• Ship It! #44: Fundamentals with Kelsey Hightower
• The Changelog #454: The return of Richard Hipp
• Backstage #18: Tenet with heavy spoilers
• Backstage #23: The Oban Pro with Parker Selbert
• The Changelog #464: This insane tech hiring market with Gergely Orosz
• The Changelog #516: This !insane tech hiring market with Gergely Orosz
• The Changelog #480: Git your reset on with Annie Sexton
• The Changelog #494: Lessons from 5 years of startup code audits with Ken Kantzer

Jerod’s favs:

• The Changelog #474: Complex systems & second-order effects with Paul Orlando
• The Changelog #477: Song Encoder: Forrest Brazeal
• The Changelog #506: Stable Diffusion breaks the internet with Simon Willison

Adam’s favs:

• The Changelog #486: Practical ways to solve hard problems with Frank Krueger
• The Changelog #502: Fireside chat with Jack Dorsey from the main stage at Square Unboxed 2022

Both our favs:

• The Changelog #513: The story of Heroku with Adam Wiggins
• The Changelog #484: Wisdom from 50+ years in software with Brian Kernighan

Adam’s must-listens:

• The Changelog #515: Advocating for and supporting open source at ATO ’22
• The Changelog #508: A guided tour through ID3 esoterica with Lars Wikman
• The Changelog #500: The legacy of CSS-Tricks with Chris Coyier

Jerod’s must-listens:

• Ship It! #62: Operational simplicity is a gift to you with Gary Bernhardt
• JS Party #244: The spicy React debate show 🌶️
• Go Time #256: gRPC & protocol buffers with Akshay Shah

Most popular episodes of 2022:

1. ONE MORE thing every dev should know with Jessica Kerr
2. Wisdom from 50+ years in software with Brian Kernighan
3. Securing the open source supply chain with Feross from Socket
4. Principles for hiring engineers with Jacob Kaplan-Moss
5. Making the command line glamorous with Toby Padilla from Charm

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