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A view to a transitions API

Jerod & the gang discuss the news (Astro 3.0, Vercel + Astro, Python in Excel) then play eight crazy rounds of HeadLIES! Headline or headLIE? You decide… Leave us a comment Changelog++ members save 6 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Convex – Convex is a better type of backend — the full-stack TypeScript development platform that lets you replace your database, server functions, and glue code. Get started at convex.dev Caisy – Caisy is the headless CMS that gives developers endless possibilities. Learn more at caisy.io Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs. Featuring: Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedInAmal Hussein – Twitter, GitHubNick Nisi – Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteChristopher Hiller – Twitter, GitHub, Website Show Notes: Astro 3.0 Vercel official hosting provider of Astro Python in Excel Something missing or broken? PRs welcome! Timestamps: (00:00) - It's party time, y'all(00:39) - Sponsor: Convex(03:15) - Hello, hello(04:02) - Things in the news(04:20) - Astro 3.0(13:25) - Astro + Vercel(20:36) - What happened with Gatsby?(22:37) - Python in Excel(29:21) - Sponsor: Caisy(32:27) - Time for HeadLIES!(35:08) - Round 1: FCC on ISPs(36:59) - Round 2: Meta on Fediverse(40:39) - Round 3: SF on crime(41:41) - Round 4: X on legal bills(44:41) - Round 5: Crockford on TS(47:07) - Round 6: Swifties on amnesia(49:16) - Round 7: NSA on dignity(52:20) - Round 8: Microsoft on ELA(55:04) - And the winner is...(55:54) - Unsolicited feedback(58:51) - Chris gets the final word(59:31) - Next up on the pod(1:00:37) - (JavaScwipt Party)

Modernizing packages to ESM

Mark Erikson (web dev professor/historian, OSS Maintainer & engineer at Replay) joins us to talk about the shift from CommonJS to ESM. We discuss the history of module patterns in JS and the grueling effort to push the world’s biggest developer ecosystem forward. Get ready to go to school kids, this one’s deep! Leave us a comment Changelog++ members get a bonus 5 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today! Sponsors: Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs. Typesense – Lightning fast, globally distributed Search-as-a-Service that runs in memory. You iterlly can’t get any faster! Changelog News – A podcast+newsletter combo that’s brief, entertaining & always on-point. Subscribe today. Featuring: Mark Erikson – Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteAmal Hussein – Twitter, GitHub Show Notes: My Experience Modernizing Packages to ESM - Mark’s epic blog post History and Timeline of ES Modules Node API Reference for ESM Andrew Branch’s WIP TypeScript module processing documentation Sindre Sorhus: Pure ESM packages Modern Guide to Packaging a JS Library Guide for shipping ESM and CJS in one Package Something missing or broken? PRs welcome! Timestamps: (00:00) - It's party time, y'all(00:56) - Welcoming back Mark(03:28) - A history lesson(10:36) - UMDs were hot ...(11:49) - History continued(16:59) - Enter TypeScript(21:28) - Publish as a Service(22:51) - Common pain points(31:30) - Sponsor: Changelog News(32:42) - Recapping the post(44:22) - Running multiple tests(51:51) - We need standards(59:07) - Parting thoughts(1:03:03) - Closing time(1:04:06) - Next up on the pod (Changelog++!)

Ten years of TypeScript bliss

Nick celebrates a decade of writing everyone’s favorite language with guest Josh Goldberg, who contributes to TypeScript, maintains typescript-eslint, and is an all-around great person! Jerod is also here to join the celebration, but let’s keep that a secret from him! Leave us a comment Changelog++ members save 3 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs. Typesense – Lightning fast, globally distributed Search-as-a-Service that runs in memory. You iterlly can’t get any faster! Changelog News – A podcast+newsletter combo that’s brief, entertaining & always on-point. Subscribe today. Featuring: Josh Goldberg – Twitter, GitHubNick Nisi – Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteJerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn Show Notes: Nick’s been writing TypeScript for a decade TSConf TypeScript 2.0 announcement Nick’s utility type for deeply-nested objects Kaka Ruto Vim tweet A Language Server for Postgres Learning TypeScript - Josh’s book Deno Bun |> pipeline operator Something missing or broken? PRs welcome! Timestamps: (00:00) - It's party time, y'all(00:55) - Welcoming Josh back to the show(03:33) - Jerod "doxxes" Josh(07:58) - Let's talk about TypeScript(11:54) - Getting into TS(18:10) - When Nick Nisi hesitates...(21:04) - Nick airs his early TS grievances(30:50) - Present day TS(39:17) - Sponsor: Changelog News(40:54) - Even Postgres gets an LSP(41:42) - An aside: Neovim(45:27) - Nick bashes TS(47:48) - Feeling the pain(50:18) - TSLint & complexity(52:14) - The JSDoc trend(59:24) - Josh's competition hot take(1:00:37) - Major TS pain points(1:03:01) - What Josh wants in TS(1:04:32) - Will Jerod ever use TS?(1:05:47) - Closing call to ACTION(1:07:09) - Next up on the pod(1:08:14) - BONUS++ (FOR ALL)

Refined thinking

Jim (Hyphen) Nielsen joins Jerod & Nick for a fun conversation about language-level toll roads, when (and how) to quit, the stratification of social networking & the state of the world in publishing your thoughts on the internet. Leave us a comment Changelog++ members get a bonus 13 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today! Sponsors: Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs. Typesense – Lightning fast, globally distributed Search-as-a-Service that runs in memory. You iterlly can’t get any faster! Featuring: Jim Nielsen – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteJerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedInNick Nisi – Twitter, GitHub, Website Show Notes: Language-Level Toll Roads The Art of Knowing When to Quit Metalsmith Gorilla is back Subscribe Wherever You Get Your Content Something missing or broken? PRs welcome! Timestamps: (00:00) - It's party time, y'all(00:55) - Hello, hello(02:04) - Welcoming Jim to the show(05:15) - The trough of AI disillusionment(06:19) - The Thing of the Moment(07:25) - Language-level Toll Roads(22:15) - The art of knowing when to quit(30:24) - Shout out to Metalsmith(32:17) - But HOW do you quit?(38:22) - Stratification of social networking(43:49) - A podcaster's perspective(53:13) - On Mastodon(57:25) - RSS *is* the indie social web(1:01:33) - Closing time(1:03:05) - Next up on the pod (Changelog++!)

Take me to Val Town

Val Town is a shiny, new social programming environment to write, run, deploy and share code. Steve Krouse –Val Town creator– joins Jerod & Amal to tell us all about it. Leave us a comment Changelog++ members get a bonus 5 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today! Sponsors: Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs. Typesense – Lightning fast, globally distributed Search-as-a-Service that runs in memory. You iterlly can’t get any faster! Changelog News – A podcast+newsletter combo that’s brief, entertaining & always on-point. Subscribe today. Featuring: Steve Krouse – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteJerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedInAmal Hussein – Twitter, GitHub Show Notes: Val Town Something missing or broken? PRs welcome! Timestamps: (00:00) - It's party time, y'all(00:55) - Welcoming Steve(03:22) - A great concept(13:36) - "Sent from my phone"(17:24) - What does my code live?(24:01) - Fraud & abuse(25:24) - Sponsor: Changelog News(26:32) - Smart people behind it(28:33) - The business side of things(34:01) - Getting your data(36:58) - Sharing is caring(38:56) - Discovering Vals(40:57) - Large Val-based systems(47:55) - The pricing story(50:13) - Val's tech stack(52:05) - Questions from the chat(55:57) - Security concerns(58:08) - Closing time(59:06) - Next up on the pod