Kaizen! NOT a pipe dream (Friends)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

Welcome to Kaizen 15! We go deep on the big Changelog News redesign, give shout outs to folks who’ve helped us along the way & Gerhard takes us on his journey to turn Jerod’s pipe dream into a reality!

Leave us a comment

Changelog++ members get a bonus 7 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today!

Sponsors:

• Cronitor – Cronitor helps you understand your cron jobs. Capture the status, metrics, and output from every cron job and background process. Name and organize each job, and ensure the right people are alerted when something goes wrong.
• Retool – The low-code platform for developers to build internal tools — Some of the best teams out there trust Retool…Brex, Coinbase, Plaid, Doordash, LegalGenius, Amazon, Allbirds, Peloton, and so many more – the developers at these teams trust Retool as the platform to build their internal tools. Try it free at retool.com/changelog
• Neon – Fleets of Postgres! Enterprises use Neon to operate hundreds of thousands of Postgres databases: Automated, instant provisioning of the world’s most popular database.

Featuring:

• Gerhard Lazu – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

• Discussion #511: 🎧 Kaizen 15 - changelog.com/friends/50
• Navel gazing on Wikipedia
• Omphaloskepsis on #define: game theory, dude
• Pull Request #510: News redesign
• Pull Request #517: 29 reasons to subscribe to Changelog News
• Pull Request #513: Remove # from episode numbers in commit messages
• Pull Request #516: Trace GitHub Actions Workflows
  • Support for HTTPS tracing protocol
  • corentinmusard/otel-cicd-action
• worldpagespeed.fly.dev
• pipedream.changelog.com
  • 🎬 Let’s build a CDN

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Chapter

1. Let's Kaizen! (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Cronitor (00:00:38)

https://cronitor.io

3. Bidets & Friends (00:02:04)

4. A random fact (00:03:47)

5. What Kaizen means (00:05:09)

6. Naval gazing (00:07:49)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navel_gazing

7. Omphaloskepsis (00:08:26)

https://changelog.com/friends/25#t=1777

8. Naval gazing naval gazing (00:08:59)

9. Improvement vs change (00:11:34)

10. No peeing in pools (00:12:52)

11. News redesign (PR 510) (00:13:55)

https://github.com/thechangelog/changelog.com/pull/510

12. Gerhard's feedback (00:18:39)

13. Pyramidical scheme (PR 517) (00:20:05)

https://github.com/thechangelog/changelog.com/pull/517

14. 99 reasons to subscribe?! (00:22:11)

15. Sponsor: Retool (00:23:51)

https://retool.com/changelog

16. Gerhard shares a feature (00:28:23)

17. Jerod & Adam's favorites (00:29:44)

18. The idea behind the design (00:32:27)

19. Improving the design (00:33:28)

20. Neon branches FTW (00:35:10)

21. Jerod's socks/prod anxieties (00:36:00)

22. Dev branch cost follow-up (00:38:26)

23. Booty call(back) (00:40:34)

24. Kaizening News (00:41:03)

25. Look for the money bags (00:48:10)

26. Sponsor: Neon (00:50:59)

https://neon.tech/enterprise

27. Thanks, Brendon! (PR 513) (00:56:43)

https://github.com/thechangelog/changelog.com/pull/513

28. Making ++ even better (00:58:18)

29. Tracing GH Actions (PR 516) (01:06:10)

https://github.com/thechangelog/changelog.com/pull/516

30. worldpagespeed.fly.dev (01:10:00)

https://worldpagespeed.fly.dev

31. What do we see? (01:11:29)

32. The BIG demo (01:17:18)

33. Pipe dream reactions (01:25:24)

34. Do we continue? (01:28:07)

35. The BIG analogy (01:34:55)

36. Adam's ++ proposition (01:35:50)

https://changelog.com/++

37. Bye friends! (01:37:18)

38. Coming up next (01:37:34)