I was perusing this popular VS Code feature request yesterday1 when I spotted a disturbing trend: more than a dozen comments containing nothing more than a +1 This is problematic You can derive by how many 👎 reactions these comments received that they’re not appreciated by others. Why might that be?...

I’m excited to welcome Tim Smith as our newest team member and Senior Producer. 👋 Tim joins the team to help us take our podcasts and films to the next level. When he’s not writing at Brightly Colored, producing videos for his YouTube channel, or publishing one of his podcasts he’s spending time wit...

The Changelog team has been publishing news and podcasts for developers for a long time, but the podcasts have been front-and-center with news being quietly delivered to developer inboxes around the world via our Trello-based newsletter CMS. Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Not anymore, baby! We rejiggered our p...

If you’re anywhere near Austin, Texas this week (May 10th and 11th, 2017), then you gotta come to OSCON and hang out with us! Adam and I will be workin’ the hallway track (booth 231 of the Expo Area) doing interviews for Spotlight and giving away swag! 🎉 Good News #0 O’Reilly has been gracious enoug...

We’ve made a bunch of improvements to Changelog.com since we relaunched last October. Here’s a few of the big ones. We hope you 💚 ’em! Site Search You may have noticed there’s a new item in Nav Town 👆. The ability to search our archive of episodes and posts was on the hit list since day one1, but it...

GopherCon is one of our favorite conferences. Every year we head there with our cameras in hand to capture the heart and spirt of this awesome community. We make friends. We get some hugs. And we have a ton of fun. Here’s the recap video we produced for GopherCon 2016.   If you haven’t registered ye...

Editor’s Note: I originally wrote this for Fuel Your Coding back in May of 2010. Unfortunately, that site is now defunct, so I’m republishing the article here for posterity’s sake1. I considered updating it for modern times, but I think it holds up well enough as is. The parts that don’t hold up are...

Editor’s Note: I originally wrote this for Fuel Your Coding back in October of 2010. Unfortunately, that site is now defunct, so I’m republishing the article here for posterity’s sake1. I considered updating it for modern times, but I think it holds up well enough as is. Enjoy. Today’s software deve...

Do you want to spend a month in South America working on open source — expenses paid? We’re excited to announce that we’ve partnered with our friends at Hacker Paradise to offer two open source fellowships for their upcoming trip to Argentina and Peru in South America. Apply for the fellowship or co...

Changelog.com is not a Rails app, but it is a Turbolinks app. Think about that for a moment. That means we aren’t using Turbolinks because it’s Omakase. We aren’t using Turbolinks because we forgot to delete it from our Gemfile. We actively chose Turbolinks, installed it, and integrated it in to our...

Hello everyone at All Things Open! We’re excited to be at #ATO2016 this year in partnership with the organizers of All Things Open to produce a series of podcasts around this great conference and community. Our plan is to talk to those leading the way for open source and open communities to share th...