Best Pull Request Podcasts (2025)

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When life gives you LLMs... (Friends) 1:40:24

18h ago1:40:24

1:40:24

Our old friend, Zeno Rocha, returns to discuss email etiquette, the strange new world of AI SEO, the coming LLM enshittification, and SLATE Auto – the just-announced $20k modular EV truck. Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 3 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today! Sponsors: Heroku – The Next Generation of Hero…

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Chasing that next BIG thing (Interview) 1:39:39

1d ago1:39:39

1:39:39

Drew Wilson is back! It’s been more than a decade since Adam and Drew have spoken and wow, Drew has been busy. He built Plasso and got acquired by GoDaddy. He built a bank called Letter which didn’t work out…and now he’s Head of Design at Clerk and back to chasing that next big thing. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 7 minutes on this e…

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Elizabeth Coriat: Failed by the System, Killed by Her Son 52:17

4d ago52:17

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In August 2012, 76-year-old Elizabeth Coriat was found dead in her Forest Hill flat. She had been killed – and decapitated – by her own son, Daniel. He was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, known to mental health services, and had made disturbing statements about Elizabeth long before her death. Despite this, he was discharged and deemed low r…

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A New Direction - Episode 472 13:55

4d ago13:55

13:55

In this episode, Ted discusses the desire to take his podcast in a new direction after almost 10 years of the Ted in Your Head Podcast. How to overcome anxiety, how to be more confident, how to let go of worry, these are good topics that Ted have been addressing but now he is asking the question: “How can we live life in a way that allows us to fee…

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I just want to code (News) 7:23

5d ago7:23

7:23

Zach Bellay tells us about the devil and the angel on his shoulders, Pete Koomen thinks today’s AI apps are like horseless carriages, Hyperwood is an open source system for crafting furniture from simple wooden slats, Scott Antipa agrees with YAGNI but adds YAGRI & Antony Henao debunks three common myths that get engineers stuck. View the newslette…

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Hello, Matworld! (Friends) 1:15:10

8d ago1:15:10

1:15:10

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. Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bo…

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Make sales not features (Interview) 1:08:10

10d ago1:08:10

1:08:10

Kendall Miller is a bubbly extrovert who sticks his fingers in a lot of pies. He advises tech companies like FusionAuth, positions tech products like Civo & Tensorlake, organizes tech networks like CTO Lunches, and even sells whiskey & gin to tech people like us via his Friday Deployment Spirits brand. Kendall has learned a lot since he first enter…

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"An accident waiting to happen" - The Croydon Tram Derailment 1:01:18

11d ago1:01:18

1:01:18

It’s Hannah’s birthday 🎉 and in true Sinister South fashion, we’re celebrating with one of the most devastating public transport disasters in British history. This week, we’re in Croydon. In 2016, a packed tram derailed at high speed on a tight curve at Sandilands. Seven people lost their lives. Dozens more were injured. But behind the headlines wa…

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Fresh beats for endless flow state (News) 9:19

12d ago9:19

9:19

We drop our fourth Changelog Beats album, Dex Horthy proposes the 12-factor AI agent, Thorsten Ball takes us step-by-step through building a coding agent, Zachary Huang builds an LLM framework in 100 lines of code & Philip Laine’s Spegel project gets unknowingly forked by Microsoft. View the newsletter Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 1…

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Vibing into the vibe (Friends) 1:31:28

15d ago1:31:28

1:31:28

Nick Nisi joins us to confess his AI subscription glut, drool over some cool new hardware gadgets, discuss why the TypeScript team chose Go for their new compiler, opine on the React team’s complicated relationship with Vercel, suggest people try Astro, update us on his browser habits, and more. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 7 minute…

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Making DNSimple (Interview) 1:46:43

17d ago1:46:43

1:46:43

Anthony Eden, Founder & CEO of DNSimple, joins the show to talk about the world of managed hosting for DNS and more. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 9 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Retool – The low-code platform for developers to build internal tools — Some of the best teams out ther…

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The Queenpins of Crime: South London's Forty Elephants 57:46

18d ago57:46

57:46

They didn’t need getaway cars or sawn-off shotguns just a killer wardrobe and a razor-sharp plan. In this episode, we dive into the world of the Forty Elephants an all-women crime syndicate that ruled the streets and department stores of London from the late 1800s well into the 20th century. Based in the Elephant and Castle, these women weren’t jus…

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Google's new protocol has AI agents talkin' (News) 8:45

19d ago8:45

8:45

Google announces an open protocol for AI agent collaboration, Datastar is an Alpine.js / htmx love child, Matthias Endler documents things he finds common in the best programmers, turns out Linus Torvalds built Git in 10 days & Zev is a CLI that helps you remember (or discover) terminal commands using natural language. View the newsletter Join the …

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Proud pod parents (Friends) 1:39:53

21d ago1:39:53

1:39:53

Richard Moot joins us to discuss Changelog helping Square launch a developer pod and the excitement around MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers. What might it foretell about the future of human/robot relations? Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 9 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Heroku – …

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The era of durable execution (Interview) 1:40:03

23d ago1:40:03

1:40:03

Stephan Ewen, Founder and CEO of Restate.dev joins the show to talk about the coming era of resilient apps, the meaning of and what it takes to achieve idempotency, this world of stateful durable execution functions, and when it makes sense to reach for this tech. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 10 minutes on this episode because they …

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South London’s Night Stalker: The horror of Delroy Grant 1:06:59

25d ago1:06:59

1:06:59

For 17 years, someone was targeting elderly people across South London, slipping into their homes in the dead of night. Behind the mask was Delroy Grant, a man living a quiet life in Lewisham, known to neighbours as a family man and carer. But the reality was far darker. In this episode, we explore the long investigation to uncover the truth, the m…

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The AI 2027 scenario (News) 9:04

26d ago9:04

9:04

Daniel Kokotajlo and the AI Futures Project lays out a potential scenario of superhuman AI’s impact, Liam ERD generates beautiful, interactive ER diagrams from your database, Mozilla takes on Gmail with “Thundermail”, algernon explains why grepping remains terrible & Vitor M. de Sousa Pereira rans on the insanity of being a software engineer. View …

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Turn him into a walrus (Friends) 1:10:08

29d ago1:10:08

1:10:08

Jerod turns Adam into Lego, a Walrus, and a Walrus in the style of Studio Ghibli…and so much more. This is a good one to watch on YouTube. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 9 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Augment Code – Developer AI that uses deep understanding of your large codebase a…

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The 1000x faster financial database (Interview) 1:40:28

1M ago1:40:28

1:40:28

In July of 2020, Joran Dirk Greef stumbled into a fundamental limitation in the general-purpose database design for transaction processing. This sent him on a path that ended with TigerBeetle, a redesigned distributed database for financial transactions that yielded three orders of magnitude faster OLTP performance over the usual (general-purpose) …

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When love turns lethal: The Tai O'Donnell story 1:09:09

1M ago1:09:09

1:09:09

This week, we start with a much-needed debrief on brain fog, Expo madness, and why Rachel may or may not be developing narcolepsy (spoiler: she’s not, but Hannah’s definitely worried). Tai O’Donnell was just 19. A music student with plans, talent, and a mum who adored him. In March 2021, Tai was murdered by his ex-girlfriend, Kamila Ahmad, in his f…

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The idealization of farming by tech (News) 8:14

1M ago8:14

8:14

Theodore Morley wonders why tech workers so frequently point our wanderlust toward hands-on trades, Eduardo Bouças explains why he’s lost confidence in Vercel’s handling of Next.js, “xan” is a command line tool that can be used to process CSV files directly from the shell, Pawel Brodzinski takes us back to Kanban’s roots & Sergey Tselovalnikov weig…

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Of agents & agency (Friends) 1:37:53

1M ago1:37:53

1:37:53

Long-time JS Party panelist Amal Hussein joins Jerod to catch up on her career path, to opine on the viability agentic coding, to feel all the feelings that AI brings out of us as developers, and to share something new in her life that changes everything. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 8 minutes on this episode because they made the a…

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Leading leaders who lead engineers (remastered) (Interview) 1:14:21

1M ago1:14:21

1:14:21

This week we’re bringing you a remaster of our epic 2021interview with Lara Hogan – author of Resilient Management and management coach / trainer for the tech industry. The majority of our conversation focuses on the four primary hats leaders and managers end up wearing; mentoring, coaching, sponsoring, and delivering feedback. We also talk about k…

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The Balham Mystery: Who Poisoned Charles Bravo? 1:25:26

1M ago1:25:26

1:25:26

This week, Rach takes us on a wild romp through Victorian south London with the mysterious death of Charles Bravo – a seemingly respectable barrister who died in agony from antimony poisoning in his plush home near Tooting Bec Common. Was it suicide? A medical accident? Or did someone in the house have very good reason to want him gone? We unpack t…

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Revenge of the junior developer (News) 8:14

1M ago8:14

8:14

Steve Yegge’s latest rant about the future of “coding”, Ethan McCue shares some life altering Postgres patterns, Hillel Wayne makes the case for Verification-First Development, Gerd Zellweger experienced lots of pain setting up GitHub Actions & Cascii is a web-based ASCII diagram builder. View the newsletter Join the discussion Changelog++ members …

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Here's my Siri theory (Friends) 2:02:55

1M ago2:02:55

2:02:55

Justin Searls from Breaking Change joins the show to discuss Apple’s Intelligence blunder, the end of the good times in the tech industry, and POSSE Party, his in-progress product that lets “any dummy with a website enjoy a life of algorithm-free luxury.” Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 6 minutes on this episode because they made the a…

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Securing ecommerce: "It's complicated" (Interview) 1:05:09

1M ago1:05:09

1:05:09

Ilya Grigorik and his team at Shopify has been hard at work securing ecommerce checkouts from sophisticated news attacks (such as digital skimming) and he’s here to share all the technical intricacies and far-reaching implications of this work. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 7 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappea…

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Burglary Turned Fatal: The death of Henry Vincent and the Richard Osborn-Brooks case 1:30:41

2M ago1:30:41

1:30:41

When 78-year-old Richard Osborn-Brooks awoke to find two intruders in his South London home, he made a split-second decision that would change his life forever. One burglar fled. The other, Henry Vincent, was fatally stabbed. But what followed was almost as shocking—the pensioner’s arrest, a furious public debate over self-defence laws, and a tense…

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Fear of Public Speaking - Episode 471 14:21

2M ago14:21

14:21

It’s been said that for many, fear of public speaking is a fear worse than death. However, in today's business environment, chances are you will be required to give reports or presentations to colleagues or clients. Or, you may be asked to give a toast, or speak at a wedding or funeral. As with all fears, fear of public speaking is learned, and wha…

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Our interfaces have lost their senses (News) 6:47

2M ago6:47

6:47

Amelia Wattenberger bemoans the computer’s great flattening, the Learnk8s team lets you manage your cluster from a spreadsheet, Jan Swist gets a surprising response from Cursor, the French and German governments team up for an open source Notion alternative & XPipe lets you access your entire server infrastructure from your local desktop. View the …

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Friends on the frontend (Friends) 1:47:30

2M ago1:47:30

1:47:30

Adam’s friend on the frontend, John Long joins the show to explore his usage of AI, design tools and the stack he prefers. We talk Next.js vs Rails, maintaining open source, building websites with Framer, their mutual love for Figma, and more. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 9 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear…

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Reaching industrial economies of scale (Interview) 1:44:49

2M ago1:44:49

1:44:49

Beyang Liu, the CTO & Co-founder of Sourcegraph is back on the pod. Adam and Beyang go deep on the idea of “industrializing software development” using AI agents, using AI in general, using code generation. So much is happening in and around AI and Sourcegraph continues to innovate again and again. From their editor assistant called Cody, to Code S…

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Everyone is talking about MCP (News) 9:08

2M ago9:08

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Vibe coding is the new vibe, AI engineers are all taking about MCP, Tom Usher wants you to kill your algorithmic feeds, Curiositry shares his troubleshooting expertise, Nikola Ðuza thinks we should keep blogging for the LLMs & James Stanier answers the question, should managers still code? View the newsletter Join the discussion Changelog++ members…

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Self Sabotage: Identifying How You Stop Your Success - Episode 470 15:07

2M ago15:07

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If you have the sneaky feeling that you are holding yourself back from taking the actions that lead to success, then there is a good chance you are engaging in self-sabotage. While some self-sabotage behaviors are easy to see, some are subconscious and therefore, hidden. In this episode of the Ted in Your Head Podcast, Ted describes the behaviors a…

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Friendly Feud: JS Party Edition (Friends) 1:12:34

2M ago1:12:34

1:12:34

Our award-winning JS Party game show is back with a new name, a new channel, and the same ol’ survey-response-guessing fun! The JS Party crew join us to see who knows y’all best. Survey says! Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 9 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Augment Code – Developer AI …

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Antirez returns to Redis! (Interview) 1:33:59

2M ago1:33:59

1:33:59

Antirez has returned to Redis! Yes, Salvatore Sanfilippo (aka Antirez), the creator of Redis has returned to Redis and he joined us to share the backstory on Redis, what’s going on with the tech and the company, the possible (likely) move back to open source via the AGPL license, the new possibilities of AI and vector embeddings in Redis, and some …

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Hunted in Broad Daylight The Killing of Johanita Dogbey 54:50

2M ago54:50

54:50

Right, before we get into this one, a quick heads-up - tech issues. The recording gods were not on our side, and there are a few little glitches in this episode. We’ve done what we can to tidy them up, but if you notice any weird jumps or crackles, just know we’re as annoyed as you are. Bear with us, we promise it’s worth it. Johanita Dogbey was ju…

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JavaScript fatigue strikes back (News) 8:29

2M ago8:29

8:29

Allen Pike on the JavaScript ecosystem after a decade away, Lars Wirzenius was there at the birth of Linux, Piotr Migdał archives things in Markdown, Jacob Stopak is gamifying Git with Devlands & Juan Diego Rodríguez runs down how CSS functions (will) work. View the newsletter Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 1 minute on this episode be…

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Kaizen! Pipely goes BAM (Friends) 1:58:41

2M ago1:58:41

1:58:41

It’s Kaizen 18! Can you believe it? We discuss the recent Fly.io outage, some little features we’ve added since our last Kaizen, our new video-first production, and of course, catch up on all things Pipely! Oh, and Gerhard surprises us (once again). BAM! Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 7 minutes on this episode because they made the ad…

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Building for application developers (Interview) 1:52:33

2M ago1:52:33

1:52:33

Anurag Goel, Founder/CEO of Render, joins Adam to discuss what they’re doing to solve cloud problems for application developers. They just raised $80M they don’t even need and they’re poised to solve boring problems like object storage, and less boring things like building for the AI era. Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 4 minute…

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A Single Punch: The Tragic Killing of Oliver Dearlove 1:18:30

2M ago1:18:30

1:18:30

On a warm August night in 2016, Oliver Dearlove was out with friends in Blackheath, South London, when a casual conversation with a stranger turned into an unthinkable tragedy. A single, unprovoked punch from a man he'd never met ended his life within seconds, shattering the world of those who loved him. In this episode, we discuss Oliver’s life, t…

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AI killed the tech interview. Now what? (News) 6:23

2M ago6:23

6:23

Kane Narraway thinks through the radical change AI tools have brought to the technical interview process, Rhys Kentish built an app that makes him touch grass, Microsoft announced their progress on quantum computing, Chris Horsley learns about software estimations by yak shaving a washing machine install & Andreas Gohr built StumbleUpon for the Ind…

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Change my mind (Friends) 1:56:32

2M ago1:56:32

1:56:32

Jerod and Adam use Chris Kiehl’s post on development topics he’s changed his mind on (over the last 10 years) as a proxy for discussion on dev things they HAVE and HAVE NOT changed their minds on. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 9 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Retool – The low-code p…

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Programming with LLMs (Interview) 1:31:22

2M ago1:31:22

1:31:22

For the past year, David Crawshaw has intentionally sought ways to use LLMs while programming, in order to learn about them. He now regularly use LLMs while working and considers their benefits a net-positive on his productivity. David wrote down his experience, which we found both practical and insightful. Hopefully you will too! Join the discussi…

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South London's Summer of Fear: The Stockwell Strangler 1:24:47

2M ago1:24:47

1:24:47

Episode 7! South London, summer of '86. It's boiling, windows are open, and an unseen predator is creeping inside. One by one, elderly residents are found dead in their beds, strangled, their homes disturbed but not ransacked. The press dub him 'The Stockwell Strangler', and fear grips the city. Who was Kenneth Erskine, and what drove him to prey o…

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AI is stifling tech adoption (News) 8:06

3M ago8:06

8:06

Declan Chidlow proposes that AI is stifling tech adoption, Ariel Salminen shares 17 pieces of advice she’s learned about leading successful product teams, Benj Edwards tells the story of WikiTok, the React team sunsets Create React App & Ruben Schade says boring tech is mature, not old. View the newsletter Join the discussion Changelog++ members su…

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How To Find Something In Your Life That's Worth Waking Up For - Episode 469 16:56

3M ago16:56

16:56

In this episode, Ted answers a question sent in by a Ted in Your Head listener: “I’m having a hard time waking up in the morning. I feel like there’s nothing to look forward to. How can I go about finding something in my life that’s worth waking up for?” Great question: Why get out of bed if it’s only going to be “the same ole same ole…”?Only you c…

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Discovering discovery coding (Friends) 1:53:56

3M ago1:53:56

1:53:56

Fire up a REPL, grab your favorite Stephen King novel, and hold on to the seat of your pants! Jimmy Miller returns to reveal why, at least for some of us, discovery coding is where it’s at. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 9 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Temporal – Build invincible ap…

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Fostering open source culture (Interview) 1:24:13

3M ago1:24:13

1:24:13

Arun Gupta is back, this time with his latest book in hand titled “Fostering Open Source Culture” to share his wisdom and experiences of fostering open source culture. BTW you can use the code OSCULTURE20 to get 20% off (both print and e-book). Use this link and enjoy. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 8 minutes on this episode because t…

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Diamonds, Diggers & Deception: The Millennium Dome Diamond Heist 1:17:13

3M ago1:17:13

1:17:13

Season 2 episode 6! A flawless diamond, a gang of 'old school' crooks, and a JCB digger smashing through the Millennium Dome in Greenwich - what could possibly go wrong? In this episode, Rach takes us inside one of the most audacious (and utterly disastrous) heist attempts in British history - the 2000 Millennium Dome raid. A gang of career crimina…

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