It’s the end of 2020 and on this year’s “State of the log” episode Adam and Jerod carry on the tradition of looking back at our favorite moments of the year – we talk through our most popular episodes, our personal favorites and must listen episodes, top posts from Changelog Posts, and what we have in the works for 2021 and beyond.
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Featuring:
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
The Changelog’s most popular episodes of 2020:
- Good tech debt featuring Jon Thornton
- The ONE thing every dev should know with Jessica Kerr
- The 10x developer myth with William Nichols
- What’s so exciting about Postgres with Craig Kerstiens
- Meet Algo, your personal VPN in the cloud featuring Dan Guido
Jerod’s personal favorites of 2020:
- Laws for hackers to live by with Dave Kerr
- Engineer to manager and back again with Lauren Tan
- Must listen: The developer’s guide to content creation with Stephanie Morillo
Adam’s personal favorites of 2020:
- Designing and building HEY with Jonas Downey
- It’s OK to make money from your open source with Zeno Rocha
- Must listen: Securing the web with Josh Aas, Shipping work that matters with Ryan Singer, Leading GitHub to a $7.5 billion acquisition with Jason Warner
Top Changelog posts of 2020:
- Monoliths are the future (Kelsey Hightower)
- Slaying Changelog’s compilation beast (Owen Bickford)
- Git is simply too hard (Mislav Marohnic)
- There’s a good reason why experienced devs say “it depends” so often (Jerod Santo)
Other links mentioned:
- Backstage #10: YouTube made me do it with Owen Bickford
- The Changelog #362: Machine powered refactoring with AST’s featuring Amal Hussein
- The Changelog #420: The Kollected Kode Vicious with George Neville-Neil
- Founders Talk #60: Leading data-driven software teams and products
featuring Travis Kimmel - Let’s set up a free, personal VPN in the cloud with Algo VPN
- 4 sources of endless content ideas 💡 by Stephanie Morillo
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