Jerod Santo (@jerod) — bluesky.baby

So long, and thanks for all the logs After 13 years, 1042 podcasts, 452 newsletters, and countless friends made along the way… it’s time to say goodbye to The Changelog. I shipped my final News last Monday and Adam shipped our Friends finale yesterday. For reasons I cannot explain, during “big change” moments like this my brain shoots clichés at me like Nitro fired tennis balls at approaching American Gladiator contenders.1 “Parting is such sweet sorrow” “All good things must come to an end”

After 13 years, 1042 podcasts, 452 newsletters, and countless friends made along the way...

03.03.2026 19:16 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Agentic anxiety One fascinating part of our conversation1 with Steve Ruiz from tldraw started when he confessed that he feels bad going to bed without his Claudes working on something. I share the feeling. But why? We analyze it on the pod, but I wanted to jot down some thoughts here as well, if for no other reason but to get it out of my head. Just one more level… After talking with tldraw Steve, I read a different Steve’s confession post, AI Vampire, in which he points to one aspect of what’s going on: good ol’ fashion addiction

I'm not the only one who's feeling it, am I?

16.02.2026 16:08 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

7 phrases that need to die before I do God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to make people stop typing this drivel into textareas near me. Tell me you’re $X without telling me you’re $X1 You 👏 don’t 👏 have 👏 to 👏 clap 👏 between 👏 words2 I was today years old when…3 The. One. Where. Every. Word. Is. A. Sentence.4 I don’t know who needs to hear this…5 I’m not crying, you’re crying.6 Six Seven7 That’s all for now. I’m sure I’ll despise future phrases in the future. Before I go, here’s one more from the past: “automagically” is a dumb word (but makes for a pretty good song)

"I'm not condensating, you're condensating." "Sir, this is a Wendy's."

06.02.2026 17:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The shovelware cometh In September of last year, I covered a post by Mike Judge arguing that AI coding claims don’t add up, in which he asked this question: If so many developers are so extraordinarily productive using these tools, where is the flood of shovelware? We should be seeing apps of all shapes and sizes, video games, new websites, mobile apps, software-as-a-service apps — we should be drowning in choice. We should be in the middle of an indie software revolution. We should be seeing 10,000 Tetris clones on Steam.

Batten down the hatches. "Show Hacker News" signals the coming flood. 🌊

02.02.2026 15:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thinking about custom software in a new way At this point, anybody saying things about AI’s usefulness in software development like notch did on X the other day is either a) burying their head in the sand, b) an old man yelling at clouds, or c) seriously entrenched for some other reason. Here’s notch’s take, so you don’t have to bounce: Reminder that using AI to write code is an incredibly bad idea still, and anyone advocating for it is either incompetent or evil.

Custom software? Embrace. Extend. Enjoy!

28.01.2026 16:19 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Remember when people used to say *boss*, when they were describing something that was really cool? One of my goals when I refreshed my blog was to publish with Hugo, but write with Obsidian. Turns out that was as simple as: ln -s ~/src/jerodsanto/net/content/posts ~/Dropbox/obsidian/Jerod/blog That’s a good start, but once I’m writing in Obsidian… I don’t exactly want to leave. There’s friction when managing various Hugo tasks from a separate terminal session. So, I had Claude Code write me an Obsidian plugin to add those features. It’s called Hugo Boss1 and I submitted it to the Obsidian community plugins list, so hopefully you’ll be able to install it from there soon2. The plugin adds a button that has four features today:

Remember when people used to say *boss*, when they were describing something that was really cool?

23.01.2026 17:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

My code review process:

1. Open the PR
2. Type "LGTM!"
3. Click Merge button

https://youtube.com/shorts/oHzNH_gljXk

23.05.2023 14:10 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Cool cool cool we got @changelog.com on here now ✌️

18.05.2023 13:50 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Engineering management (for the rest of us) with Sarah Drasner, Director of Engineering at Google (Changelog Interviews #540) This week Sarah Drasner joins us to talk about her book Engineering Management for the Rest of Us and her experience leading engineering at Zillow, Microsoft, Netlify, and now Google.

Here’s our conversation with the amazing @sarahedo.bsky.social!

https://changelog.fm/540

18.05.2023 03:22 👍 16 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

Friday night coding session?

14.05.2023 12:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

How companies are sponsoring OSS with Alyssa Wright, Chad Whitacre & Duane O’Brien (Changelog Interviews #539) This week we’re celebrating Maintainer Month along with our friends at GitHub. Open source runs the world, but who runs open source? Maintainers. Open source maintainers are behind the software we use everyday, but they don’t always have the community or support they need. That’s why we’re celebrating open source maint...

How companies are sponsoring OSS

🎙️ https://changelog.fm/539

11.05.2023 21:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Mojo might be huge, chatbots aren't it, big tech lacks an AI moat & monoliths are not dinosaurs (Changelog News #43) Jeremy Howard thinks Mojo might be the biggest programming language advance in decades, Amelia Wattenberger is not impressed by AI chatbots, a leaked Google memo admits big tech has no AI moats &amp; Werner Vogels reminds us that monoliths are not dinosaurs.

Just dropped the latest Changelog News 💥

https://changelog.com/news/43

09.05.2023 02:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Livebook's big launch week featuring José Valim (Changelog Interviews #538) José Valim joins Jerod to talk all about what’s new in Livebook – the Elixir-based interactive code notebook he’s been working on the last few years. José made a big bet when he decided to bring machine learning to Elixir. That bet is now paying off with amazing new capabilities such as building and deploying a Whisper...

José and his team have been working on some really cool stuff. It’s always fun catching up with him

https://changelog.fm/538

08.05.2023 13:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Them: RTFM!
Me:

04.05.2023 02:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Just had an awesome convo with @sarahedo.bsky.social for an upcoming episode of The Changelog!

Coming soon… 😎

03.05.2023 21:24 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

where my devs at

30.04.2023 00:26 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

What’s the best read on the AT protocol?

29.04.2023 20:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That’s an animated gif I promise

26.04.2023 13:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Everybody’s making their LLMs generate tasks for their other LLMs meanwhile I’m over here watching this for loop I finally got working right like

26.04.2023 13:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

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