Jerod Santo

As I mentioned previously, being indie for most of my career means I missed out1 on all kinds of Very Adult things like “Eng All-Hands” meetings, scheduling PTO, and wielding a YubiKey without accidentally brushing it with my finger and spraying OTPs into…

As I made my way through Socket’s onboarding materials, I was pleasantly surprised to see Ken Thompson’s Reflections on Trusting Trust in the list of required reading.

When I said goodbye to The Changelog in March, people asked me about this bit: Part of me wants to go get a software engineering job.

Here’s a smattering of things I found interesting lately.

Prior to this Summer, I can’t remember the last movie I saw in the theaters.

With every auto-update, Claude Code has gotten better at writing software.

Last night was a somewhat typical Sunday.

Here’s a smattering of things I found interesting lately.

It’s officially late July and I feel officially compelled to notify you that Late July’s Jalapeño Lime chips are officially the greatest snack chips in the known universe.

Sometimes, while agentic coding… I feel like Michael Scott: Dunder Mifflin’s best salesman who got Peter principle’d into a management role1 he’s kinda terrible at and now spends his days watching other people make all the sales calls.

A year ago this week, I hopped a flight to Denver1 to pick up my shiny, new Tesla Model 3.

I was enjoying Benn Stancil’s latest column1 on generalized vs specialized models (his typical, punchy, link-ridden screed) until this paragraph jump scared me: And that’s the turn nobody priced in.

My first thought when I saw Cursor’s Origin announcement last week was: You could see this move coming a mile away My second thought was: Dang, GitHub really is under siege Cursor is now building1 the exact thing that GitHub is: the place our code actually

Here’s a hearty amen to Tom Bedor’s answer to the question, “When is it OK to forward the output of an AI to another human to read?”

From this morning’s Robinhood Snacks: The ancient Egyptians believed that the measure of a person’s worth was calculated upon their death when Anubis, god of the afterlife, would weigh their heart against a feather to see if a heavy heart would be fed to…

The legendary adage Steve Jobs deployed to push the original Macintosh team over the finish line has outlived the hardware it helped ship.

This essay by Owen McGrann about his “dead economy theory” is the best doomer take on the AI debate I’ve read yet.

Why exactly do coding agents make us feel so much more productive as developers?

When it comes to systems design, John Gall knew his stuff.

I guess I can’t help myself.

After 13 years, 1042 podcasts, 452 newsletters, and countless friends made along the way… it’s time to say goodbye to The Changelog.

One fascinating part of our conversation1 with Steve Ruiz from tldraw started when he confessed that he feels bad going to bed without his Claudes working on something.

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to make people stop typing this drivel into textareas near me.

In September of last year, I covered a post by Mike Judge arguing that AI coding claims don’t add up, in which he asked this question: If so many developers are so extraordinarily productive using these tools, where is the flood of shovelware?

At this point, anybody saying things about AI’s usefulness in software development like notch did on X the other day is either a) burying their head in the sand, b) an old man yelling at clouds, or c) seriously entrenched for some other reason.

One of my goals when I refreshed my blog was to publish with Hugo, but write with Obsidian.

I remember once telling curl creator, Daniel Stenberg, he’d achieved total world domination.

The homeschool basketball program that all three of my boys play in (and I have coached in a volunteer capacity for ~10 years) is doing a little fundraiser to help keep registration fees low.

Justin Searls quit social media by posting more.

It’s about time!

I have discovered a natural law of the Universe.

Here’s me, writing in Changelog News last October: I’m getting back in to reading.

I’ve needed to refresh the ol’ blog for years, but I never have the time.

Some may say my path was paved My skin color made it so.

Adam Wathan invited me on his excellent Full Stack Radio podcast to talk about building Changelog.com with Elixir and Phoenix.

I was honored to be interviewed by Elmer Thomas for SendGrid’s very cool Some Coding Required podcast.

It’s been a good year.

We shipped 44 episodes of The Changelog in 2016.

To celebrate episode 100 of Jaymie Jones’ Coder Catchup podcast, Jaymie reached out to a handful of people and asked us 5 questions about web development, which he then read on the show.

This fact will ruin your day if, for instance, you are expecting Rails’ jQuery UJS to Just Work when you add a remote: true or method: :post to that link_to helper.

It’s been a few weeks since I started the process of setting up my new laptop.

Spring is in the air and a shiny new 13" MacBook Pro is in my office1.

The features that had me the most excited with the advent of iOS 8 and Yosemite fall under Apple’s Continuity umbrella.

One Ruby feature that I fell in love with back in the day is the ability to tack conditionals on at the end of a line.

I’ve been battling pain in my left hand1 and wrist for the past couple of years.

One virtue shared by the people I admire most is this: they are deeply thoughtful.

As I teased on Monday, two things I’m excited about were announced this week.

I’m at the tail end of a couple-day sickness.

I watched The Truman Show again recently.