Retreat to attack (Friends)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

Do you like director’s commentaries and extended cuts? This episode is like that, but for this week’s News. We go deep on the alive internet theory, Meshtastic mesh networks, Zstandard compression, the FDE job explosion, React’s seemingly perpetual dominance, and more.

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Featuring:

• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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Show Notes:

• Changelog News #169
• Alive internet theory
• The Winamp era
• Meshtastic
• Zstandard
• FDE exploding with 800% more postings
• Dead framework theory
• You should write an agent

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1. Let's talk! (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Tiger Data (00:00:38)

https://www.tigerdata.com

3. Shutdown & Friends (00:02:21)

4. Undead internet reality (00:04:36)

5. Alive internet theory (00:07:18)

https://alivetheory.net/

6. Written By AI (00:09:40)

7. Sponsor: Depot (00:16:47)

https://depot.dev

8. Meshtastic (00:19:36)

https://meshtastic.org/

9. Retreat to attack (00:26:42)

10. Return to analog (00:30:21)

11. Meshtastic use cases (00:34:32)

12. Spec nerdery (00:36:31)

13. Benchmark Z-STD! (00:42:21)

14. Let AI be your guide (00:51:39)

15. Give it the Neuralyzer (00:53:48)

16. Sponsor: Augment Code (00:58:38)

https://www.augmentcode.com

17. Sponsor: NordLayer (01:00:08)

https://nordlayer.com/thechangelog

18. Forward-Deployed Engineer (FDE) (01:01:47)

https://www.interviewquery.com/p/ai-forward-deployed-engineer-jobs-2025

19. dead framework theory (01:13:25)

https://aifoc.us/dead-framework-theory/

20. Who needs libraries? (01:26:53)

21. Hypothesize a step change (01:34:09)

22. Pulling legs (01:37:26)

23. Go write an agent (01:38:19)

24. Bye, friends (01:39:21)

25. Next week on the pod (01:41:17)

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26. (your favorite ever show) (01:42:47)