There will be bleeps (Friends)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

Mike McQuaid and Justin Searls join Jerod in the wake of the RubyGems debacle to discuss what happened, what it says about money in open source, what sustainability really means for our community, making a career out of open source (or not), and more. Bleep!

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Featuring:

• Mike McQuaid – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Justin Searls – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• Breaking Change podcast
• Rubygems.org AWS Root Access Event
• Ruby Central’s “security measures” leave front door wide open
• nayafia/lemonade-stand
• The transition of rubygems repository ownership

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Chapter

1. Let's talk! (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: CodeRabbit (00:00:37)

https://www.coderabbit.ai

3. Cross-posts & Friends (00:01:45)

4. The reason for the bleeps (00:02:39)

5. Setting the stage (00:04:16)

6. The root access event (00:07:02)

7. What Ruby Central is (00:11:19)

8. Back to the story (00:12:59)

9. Mea culpa, anyone? (00:16:27)

10. Two more timeline things (00:20:35)

11. Sponsor: Outshift by Cisco (00:32:12)

https://agntcy.org

12. A five-alarm fire (00:33:29)

13. Muddy money (00:34:50)

14. Jerod pre-empts Justin (00:40:02)

15. Justin has the floor (00:40:40)

16. Open source as a hobby (00:46:46)

17. Abstract pattern (00:51:37)

18. The lemonade stand (00:52:33)

19. The best things in life (00:54:21)

20. Making money music (01:07:03)

21. Conflating things (01:09:29)

22. What Gen "Zed" thinks (01:13:27)

23. What if no dependencies (01:18:08)

24. Justin lives it (01:20:07)

25. Mike on Copilot (01:24:55)

26. Moving up the value chain (01:30:10)

27. The times are a changin' (01:33:15)

28. Obligatory pithy one-liners (01:34:51)

29. Unhappy maintainers should quit (01:38:21)

30. Bye, friends (01:38:41)

31. Next week on the pod (01:39:27)