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The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

Emily Freeman joins the show alongside our Ship It co-host, Justin Garrison! We hear Emily’s burnout story & learn how she and Forrest Brazeal are putting tech-focused influencers on tap. But first: area code turf wars, bad movie reboots & buying used DVDs… at Starbucks?!

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Featuring:

• Emily Freeman – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Justin Garrison – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

• 1999: A Film Odyssey (Changelog++ 🔐)
• The Andromeda Strain
• Song Encoder: Forrest Brazeal
• freeman + forrest

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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1. Let's talk! (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Sentry (00:00:38)

https://sentry.io/

3. DMs & Friends (00:02:20)

4. This is where my mom texts me (00:03:45)

5. Area code turf wars (00:04:40)

6. A stable of social ponies (00:07:01)

7. Way too much LinkedIn talk (00:09:11)

8. Tornadoes (00:12:32)

9. Twisters (00:14:48)

10. So many bad movies (00:15:36)

11. Name a good reboot (00:16:20)

12. We are not proper nerds (00:20:09)

13. Starbucks DVD peddlers (00:20:51)

14. Do you strap? (00:23:47)

15. 1995: best year of our lives? (00:25:19)

16. Sponsor: Fly.io (00:32:17)

https://fly.io/

17. Sponsor: Paragon (00:35:20)

https://www.useparagon.com/changelog

18. The "mayor" of AWS (00:38:25)

19. Jump off the ledge, or lily pads (00:41:18)

20. Jumping without a plan (00:44:38)

21. Sabbaticals (00:46:42)

22. Leaving tech behind (00:48:41)

23. Boring businesses (00:50:23)

24. Sponsor: Coder.com (00:52:13)

https://coder.com/

25. Influencers on tap (00:55:52)

26. Obligatory AI chapter (00:59:30)

27. We need more "Hitch" (01:03:20)

28. On podcasts & newsletters (01:06:47)

29. More human than human (01:08:12)

30. Justin is definitely team robot (01:13:18)

31. Scratching the surface (01:15:09)

32. Coming up next (01:16:22)