ANTHOLOGY – Self-hosted, self-confident & self-employed (Friends)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

We take you one last time back to the All Things Open 2024 hallway track to talk with some friends, new & old. We speak with Alex Kretzchmar about self-hosting. We speak with Israa Taha about self-confidence. We speak with Avindra Fernando & Adhithi Ravichandran about self-employment.

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Featuring:

• Alex Kretzschmar – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Israa Taha – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Avindra Fernando – Twitter, LinkedIn, Website
• Adhithi Ravichandran – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

• Self-hosted media server goodness (Changelog & Friends #44)
• Self-Hosted Show
• Nix & NixOS
• Self-Hosted 133: No Google October
• Perplexica is an AI-powered search engine
• Foo Camp - Wikipedia
• BarCamp - Wikipedia

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1. Let's talk! (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Sentry (00:00:38)

https://sentry.io/

3. Alex Kretzchmar intro (00:03:55)

4. Nice to meet Alex (00:04:16)

5. Sell hosting to self-hosters (00:05:01)

6. Writing a book (00:06:33)

7. NixOS excitement (00:09:19)

8. To self-host or not (00:12:57)

9. What's new at Tailscale (00:16:55)

10. No Google October (00:27:13)

11. Perplexica (00:30:00)

12. Sponsor: Coder.com (00:32:31)

https://coder.com/

13. Sponsor: Eight Sleep (00:34:30)

https://www.eightsleep.com/changelog

14. Israa Taha intro (00:37:06)

15. Nice to nudge Israa (00:37:31)

16. ATO first impressions (00:38:24)

17. HallwayConf! (00:39:01)

18. Foo Camp & BarCamp (00:41:11)

19. THAT spaces (00:42:41)

20. React Native space (00:46:50)

21. Keeping up with RN (00:48:17)

22. Expo & new RN arch (00:48:51)

23. Is it GPT-able? (00:49:29)

24. Learn by doing what? (00:50:20)

25. Israa's magic wand (00:51:27)

26. Israa the podcaster (00:52:35)

27. Sponsor: AssemblyAI (00:52:49)

https://www.assemblyai.com/?utm_source=changelog&utm_medium=podcast

28. Avi & Adhiti intro (00:56:13)

29. Nice to mispronounce Avi (00:56:43)

30. Rock chalk, Jayhawk! (00:57:15)

31. Avi's career path (00:58:02)

32. Avi's life path (00:58:26)

33. Starting a business (00:58:59)

34. Opportunistic (01:01:45)

35. The hardest part (01:02:38)

36. Hunting down checks (01:03:35)

37. Mean-time to payment (01:03:55)

38. Hours worked vs hours billed (01:05:40)

39. Maintaining balance (01:07:03)

40. Bringing kids to confs (01:09:08)

41. Power couple (01:10:12)

42. The next generation (01:11:30)

43. Nice to break fasts with Adhithi (01:12:22)

44. Avi's story checks out (01:14:11)

45. Adhithi's career path (01:14:34)

46. Separation of concerns (01:15:56)

47. How it happened (01:17:13)

48. Two eggs, one basket (01:18:21)

49. Referral fee, plz (01:19:02)

50. De-risking (01:20:04)

51. What drives her (01:20:29)

52. Imagine having a boss (01:21:23)

53. Scaling biz, kids (01:21:54)

54. Let's talk again soon! (01:23:47)

55. (Butter snobbery) (01:24:53)