Astral is joining OpenAI, which says a lot about where the center of gravity is moving for developer tools, LiteLLM got hit by a nasty supply-chain attack, and OpenCode blew up as the latest serious open source swing at the coding-agent stack. We’ve also got Rust doing a very public reality check on its own pain points, WorkOS pushing AuthKit into CLI auth, Ryan Lizza using AI to build an open source TurboTax alternative, and a fresh httpx fork that turns open source maintenance drama into a real dependency story. If nothing else, this week was a good reminder that tools, trust, and control all move together. View the newsletter Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 1 minute on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: * WorkOS – Auth for CLI with AuthKit from WorkOS — Bring secure browser-based login to your terminal apps using the OAuth Device Flow, with the same polished AuthKit experience plus SSO, MFA, and passkeys. Learn more at WorkOS.com and AuthKit.com Featuring: * Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

This week’s been wild — Iran bombed AWS data centers to take down Claude, OpenAI dropped GPT-5.4 (and it’s seriously good for coding), and living brain cells are literally playing DOOM. We’ve also got a heartfelt take on what it feels like to be a 10x engineer in the age of AI, plus some cool new tools like Handy for speech-to-text and web haptics. Oh, and new MacBook Pros with M5 Pro and M5 Max are up for pre-order. Try not to impulse buy (or do). View the newsletter Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: * Sonatype – Develop software fearlessly. Find out how at sonatype.com. Featuring: * Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Adam and Jerod get into the news, Jerod officially retires from the pod (and Changelog), plus a bonus for our Changelog++ subs! Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 16 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today! Sponsors: * Augment Code – Adam loves “Auggie” – Augment Code’s CLI that brings Augment’s context engine and powerful AI reasoning anywhere your code goes. From building alongside you in the terminal to any part of your development workflow. * Squarespace – Turn your expertise into a business with the all-in-one platform for websites, services, and getting paid. Use code CHANGELOG to save 10% on your first website purchase. * Notion – Custom Agents that automate the busywork so your team can focus on real work. Try them free at notion.com/changelog Featuring: * Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X * Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: * Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI - Ladybird * The JavaScript Oxidation Compiler * Become an Oxc Sponsor | The JavaScript Oxidation Compiler * Boshen (@boshen_c) / X * Am I the only one who genuinely prefers on-prem? : r/devops * The Software Development Lifecycle Is Dead | Boris Tane * THE 2028 GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE CRISIS * Anish Acharya on X: “a different way this could go down…” * The Mythical Agent-Month – Wes McKinney * NanoClaw - Secure AI Agent for WhatsApp, Telegram & More * Zed — Agent Client Protocol Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Burke Holland works on GitHub Copilot by day and codes with his AI agents always. Early January, Burke posted about how Opus 4.5 changed everything. We were all still buzzing from the holiday-season 2x usage bump Claude gave us, and Opus 4.5 felt like a genuine step function in capability. Burke and I get into all the details. Opus 4.5 may have started the fire, but GPT-5.3 Codex is certainly living up to the hype. Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 17 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today! Sponsors: * Augment Code – Adam loves “Auggie” – Augment Code’s CLI that brings Augment’s context engine and powerful AI reasoning anywhere your code goes. From building alongside you in the terminal to any part of your development workflow. * Squarespace – Turn your expertise into a business with the all-in-one platform for websites, services, and getting paid. Use code CHANGELOG to save 10% on your first website purchase. * Notion – Custom Agents that automate the busywork so your team can focus on real work. Try them free at notion.com/changelog Featuring: * Burke Holland – Website, GitHub, X * Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: * Opus 4.5 is going to change everything * Jon Gjengset Explains Rust 2026 * How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week Rebuilding Next.js using AI in a single week * The era of the Small Giant (Changelog #673) * Layercode — Voice AI infrastructure for TypeScript developers * Diffs — An open source diff and code rendering library * Pierre Computer Company * Code Storage * Entire — Developer platform from former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke * Tigris Data * @traskjd tweet * GitHub Copilot Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Wes McKinney on the mythical agent-month, install Peon Ping to employ a Peon today, Andreas Kling explains why Ladybird is adopting Rust, Cloudflare has a new MCP server that’s quite efficient, and Elliot Bonneville thinks the only moat left is money. View the newsletter Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: * Augment Code – Adam loves “Auggie” – Augment Code’s CLI that brings Augment’s context engine and powerful AI reasoning anywhere your code goes. From building alongside you in the terminal to any part of your development workflow. Featuring: * Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Steve Ruiz joins us for a deep-dive on tldraw (a very good free whiteboard) and the business he’s built selling SDKs that help others build very good whiteboards (and more) with tldraw’s high-performance web canvas. Along the way, we discuss the excitement/fear we share about keeping our agents busy, how SDK and infra companies are affected differently by agentic software than SaaS companies, how Steve is approaching the coming era of internal tooling, what will happen when we equip LLMs with an infinite canvas, and more. Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 15 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today! Sponsors: * Augment Code – Adam loves “Auggie” – Augment Code’s CLI that brings Augment’s context engine and powerful AI reasoning anywhere your code goes. From building alongside you in the terminal to any part of your development workflow. * NordLayer – Toggle-ready network security for modern businesses. Get an exclusive offer: up to 22% off NordLayer yearly plans plus 10% on top with the coupon code changelog-10-NORDLAYER. Try it risk-free with a 14-day money-back guarantee at nordlayer.com/thechangelog * Squarespace – A website makes it real! Use code CHANGELOG to save 10% on your first website purchase. Featuring: * Steve Ruiz – Website, LinkedIn, X * Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X * Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: * tldraw.com * tldraw.dev * Remarkable: the paper tablets for focused work * Agent starter kit • tldraw docs * tldraw fairies Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI, ZeroClaw is “claw done right”, MimiClaw runs on a $5 chip, Steve Yegge on managing the AI Vampire, and the day the telnet died. View the newsletter Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: * Tiger Data – Postgres for Developers, devices, and agents The data platform trusted by hundreds of thousands from IoT to Web3 to AI and more. Featuring: * Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Paul Dix joins us to discuss the InfluxDB co-founder’s journey adapting to an agentic world. Paul sent his AI coding agents on various real-world side quests and shares all his findings: what’s going to prod, what’s not, and why he’s (at least for a bit) back to coding by hand. Update: He’s back to letting the AIs write code, but with a lot more oversight. For now… Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 4 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: * Namespace – Speed up your development and testing workflows using your existing tools. (Much) faster GitHub actions, Docker builds, and more. At an unbeatable price. * Tiger Data – Postgres for Developers, devices, and agents The data platform trusted by hundreds of thousands from IoT to Web3 to AI and more. * Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps close to your users — global Anycast load-balancing, zero-configuration private networking, hardware isolation, and instant WireGuard VPN connections. Push-button deployments that scale to thousands of instances. Check out the speedrun to get started in minutes. Featuring: * Paul Dix – GitHub, X * Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X * Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: * Build the machine that builds the machine * Paul dix on X: “2026: the great engineering divergence” * InfluxData Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Mitchell Hashimoto’s trust management system for open source, Nicholas Carlini has a team of Claudes build a C compiler, Stephan Schwab recounts the history of attempted developer replacement, NanClaw is an alternative to OpenClaw, and Sophie Koonin can’t wrap her head around so many people going so hard on LLM-generated code. View the newsletter Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 1 minute on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: * Sonatype – Develop software fearlessly. Find out how at sonatype.com. Featuring: * Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Amal Hussein returns to tell us all about her new role at Istari, what life is like outside the web browser, how she’s helping ambitious orgs in aerospace, what the SDLC looks like in 2026, and a whole lot more. Wait, moon vacuums?! Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 21 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today! Sponsors: * Tiger Data – Postgres for Developers, devices, and agents The data platform trusted by hundreds of thousands from IoT to Web3 to AI and more. * Namespace – Speed up your development and testing workflows using your existing tools. (Much) faster GitHub actions, Docker builds, and more. At an unbeatable price. * NordLayer – Toggle-ready network security for modern businesses. Get an exclusive offer: up to 22% off NordLayer yearly plans plus 10% on top with the coupon code changelog-10-NORDLAYER. Try it risk-free with a 14-day money-back guarantee at nordlayer.com/thechangelog Featuring: * Amal Hussein – GitHub, X * Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X * Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: * Istari: level the digital playing field * AWS Re:invent keynote Blue Origin * Frictionless book * Jevons paradox Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Jason Willems believes the tech monoculture is finally breaking, Don Ho shares some bad Notepad++ news, Tailscale’s Avery Pennarun pens a great downtime apology, Milan Milanović explains why you can only code 4 hours per day, and Addy Osmani on managing comprehension debt when leaning on AI to code. View the newsletter Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 1 minute on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: * Tiger Data – Postgres for Developers, devices, and agents The data platform trusted by hundreds of thousands from IoT to Web3 to AI and more. Featuring: * Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

We discuss the buzz around Clawdbot / MoltBot / OpenClaw, how app subscriptions are turning into weekend hacking projects, why SaaS stocks are crashing on Wall Street, and what it all means. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 5 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: * Tiger Data – Postgres for Developers, devices, and agents The data platform trusted by hundreds of thousands from IoT to Web3 to AI and more. * Namespace – Speed up your development and testing workflows using your existing tools. (Much) faster GitHub actions, Docker builds, and more. At an unbeatable price. * Squarespace – A website makes it real! Use code CHANGELOG to save 10% on your first website purchase. Featuring: * Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X * Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: * OpenClaw — personal AI assistant * Mintlify * Macrumors Buyer’s Guide: Mac Mini * Your app subscription is now my weekend project * The future of software engineering is SRE * Why SaaS stocks are crashing on Wall Street Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

As the creator and long-time maintainer of ESLint, Nicholas Zakas is well-positioned to criticize GitHub’s recent response to npm’s insecurity. He found the response insufficient, and has other ideas on how GitHub could secure npm better. On this episode, Nicholas details these ideas, paints a bleak picture of npm alternatives like JSR, and shares our frustration that such a critical piece of internet infrastructure feels neglected. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 6 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: * Namespace – Speed up your development and testing workflows using your existing tools. (Much) faster GitHub actions, Docker builds, and more. At an unbeatable price. * Tiger Data – Postgres for Developers, devices, and agents The data platform trusted by hundreds of thousands from IoT to Web3 to AI and more. * Squarespace – A website makes it real! Use code CHANGELOG to save 10% on your first website purchase. Featuring: * Nicholas C. Zakas – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, Mastodon, X * Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X * Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: * How GitHub could secure npm * JSR: the javascript registry * vlt /vōlt/ Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Clawdbot drives Mac Mini sales, Swizec Teller on the future of software engineering being SRE, Daniel Stenberg decided to end curl’s bug bounty program, zerobrew takes some of the best ideas from uv and applies them to Homebrew, and Phil Eaton on LLMs and your career. View the newsletter Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: * Tiger Data – Postgres for Developers, devices, and agents The data platform trusted by hundreds of thousands from IoT to Web3 to AI and more. Featuring: * Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Techno Tim joins Adam to dive deep into the state of homelab’ing in 2026. Hardware is scarce and expensive due to the AI gold rush, but software has never been better. From unleashing Claude on your UDM Pro to building custom Proxmox CLIs, they explores how AI is transforming what’s possible in the homelab. Tim declares 2026 the “Year of Self-Hosted Software” while Adam reveals his homelab’s secret weapons: DNSHole (a Pi-hole replacement written in Rust) and PXM (a Proxmox automation CLI). Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 8 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: * Depot – 10x faster builds? Yes please. Build faster. Waste less time. Accelerate Docker image builds, and GitHub Actions workflows. Easily integrate with your existing CI provider and dev workflows to save hours of build time. * Tiger Data – Postgres for Developers, devices, and agents The data platform trusted by hundreds of thousands from IoT to Web3 to AI and more. * Notion – Notion is a place where any team can write, plan, organize, and rediscover the joy of play. It’s a workspace designed not just for making progress, but getting inspired. Notion is for everyone — whether you’re a Fortune 500 company or freelance designer, starting a new startup or a student juggling classes and clubs. * Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps close to your users — global Anycast load-balancing, zero-configuration private networking, hardware isolation, and instant WireGuard VPN connections. Push-button deployments that scale to thousands of instances. Check out the speedrun to get started in minutes. Featuring: * Techno Tim – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X * Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: People * Techno Tim - Tim Stewart’s website, YouTube channel, and documentation hub * Crosstalk Solutions - Chris’s channel, mentioned for building custom Ubiquiti API tools Virtualization & Infrastructure * Proxmox VE - Open-source virtualization platform for VMs and containers * TrueNAS - Enterprise-grade open-source storage operating system built on ZFS * HexOS - Consumer-friendly NAS OS built on TrueNAS (in development) * Proxmox VE Helper Scripts - Community-maintained scripts for easy LXC and VM deployment Self-Hosted Software * Paperless-NGX - Self-hosted document management system with OCR * Paperless-GPT - AI-powered enhancement for Paperless-NGX using LLMs * Ollama - Run large language models locally on your own hardware * Open WebUI - Self-hosted web interface for interacting with local LLMs * Plex - Media server for organizing and streaming your personal media library * Home Assistant - Open-source home automation platform * Pi-hole - Network-wide ad blocking via DNS filtering Document Intelligence & RAG * Dockling - IBM’s open-source document parsing library for AI/RAG pipelines * PaddleOCR - Multi-language OCR toolkit for document recognition AI & Agents * Claude - Anthropic’s AI assistant, used for homelab automation in this episode * OpenCode - Open-source AI coding agent (mentioned as potential homelab tool) * Model Context Protocol (MCP) - Protocol for connecting AI models to external tools and data Networking * Ubiquiti - Enterprise networking gear popular with homelabbers (UDM Pro, UniFi) * Tailscale - Zero-config VPN for secure networking between devices Container & Orchestration * Docker - Container platform for packaging and running applications * Kubernetes - Container orchestration for managing containerized workloads * Fly.io - Platform for running containers close to users globally Monitoring & Observability * Grafana - Open-source analytics and visualization platform * Prometheus - Open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit Security & Authentication * Bitwarden - Open-source password manager (self-hostable) * Authelia - Open-source authentication and authorization server Databases * MariaDB - Community-developed fork of MySQL * Redis - In-memory data store for caching and messaging * PostgreSQL - Advanced open-source relational database Hardware Mentioned * Intel Optane - Ultra-low latency storage drives (discontinued but prized for ZFS special vdevs) * NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 - GPU used for Plex transcoding and local AI inference Concepts & Techniques * ZFS Special Vdevs - ZFS feature for accelerating metadata and small file operations * PCIe Bifurcation - Splitting a PCIe slot to support multiple NVMe drives * Medallion Architecture - Bronze/Silver/Gold data lake pattern discussed for document ETL Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!