Fallthrough & Friends (Friends)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

Kris Brandow & Matthew Sanabria from Fallthrough.fm join Jerod to discuss tools we’re switching to, whether or not Go is still a great systems programming language choice, user-centric documentation, the need for archivists & more.

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Featuring:

• Matthew Sanabria – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Kris Brandow – GitHub, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• Fallthrough.fm
• CPU.fm
• Tools Worth Changing To in 2025
• Helix
• Jujutsu
• Replacing Git with Git featuring Scott Chacon
• Reddit comment
• The Seven-Action Documentation model

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Розділи

1. Let's talk! (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Augment Code (00:00:38)

https://www.augmentcode.com

3. Fall Out Boy & Friends (00:04:07)

4. That Go Time legacy (00:05:00)

5. Tool time 2025 (00:05:33)

https://matthewsanabria.dev/posts/tools-worth-changing-to-in-2025/

6. Helix talk (00:06:19)

https://helix-editor.com/

7. Jerod's new tools (00:08:09)

8. Ghostty talk (00:08:53)

9. Kris' new/old tools (00:10:08)

10. *Cries in Linux* (00:13:30)

11. Jujutsu talk (00:15:48)

https://jj-vcs.github.io/jj/latest/

12. The Oxide Way (00:20:39)

13. Go as a choice in 2025 (00:22:54)

14. Simplicity is a hard sell (00:30:02)

15. Go 2 thoughts (00:31:30)

16. Sponsor: Fly.io (00:37:14)

https://fly.io/

17. Go source as output (00:40:21)

18. User-centric docs (00:47:01)

https://passo.uno/seven-action-model/

19. E_TOO_MANY_DOCS (00:54:13)

20. Companies need archivists (00:57:30)

21. Impediments to improvement (01:00:34)

22. Archivists sales pitch (01:01:37)

23. Fallthrough talk (01:04:11)

https://fallthrough.fm

24. CPU talk (01:09:07)

https://cpu.fm

25. Coming home (01:12:12)

26. Building podcaster tools (01:13:25)

27. CPU hopes (01:14:58)

28. Library hopes (01:16:17)

29. Bye, friends (01:17:08)

30. Coming up next (01:17:38)

31. (Your favorite ever show) (01:19:08)