Turn him into a walrus (Friends)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

Jerod turns Adam into Lego, a Walrus, and a Walrus in the style of Studio Ghibli…and so much more. This is a good one to watch on YouTube.

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Featuring:

• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

Adam Pictures:

1. Adam as golfer
2. Adam as LEGO
3. Adam as walrus
4. Adam as Ghibli walrus
5. Adam all forms

• Min Browser mentioned on Friends #76
• Introducing 4o Image Generation | OpenAI
• Lynyrd Skynyrd – That Smell Lyrics
• Show HN: I vibecoded a 35k LoC recipe app
• Recipe Ninja
• Revisit / Catch-Up Episodes
• Haml, Sass, Compass (Changelog #1)
• The Go Programming Language with Rob Pike (Changelog #3)
• Document Cloud and Underscore.js with Jeremy Ashkenas (Changelog #5)
• 10gen and MongoDB (Changelog #7)
• Interview or an ad?
• I Accidentally Became A Meme: Disaster Girl

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Kapitler

1. Let's talk! (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Augment Code (00:00:38)

https://www.augmentcode.com

3. Adam forgets about Min browser!! (00:03:47)

4. OpenAI 4o Image Generation (00:05:23)

5. In the style of Studio Ghibli (00:09:18)

6. OpenAI image gen model vs Apple GenMoji (00:15:38)

7. The AI layer (00:21:27)

8. Sponsor: Depot (00:23:08)

https://depot.dev

9. Jerod got ChatGPT to work finally (00:25:28)

10. Private AI is watching you (00:28:58)

11. Where are they now? (00:34:19)

12. Where is Haml, Sass and Compass now? (00:36:14)

13. Where is Go now? (00:40:36)

14. Where is MongoDB now? (00:44:41)

15. Sponsor: Notion (00:45:27)

http://notion.com/changelog

16. Is this an ad or interview? (00:48:35)

17. Turn him into a Studio Ghibli character (00:59:51)

18. Adam is a big fan of near beer (01:02:33)

19. More comments are welcome (01:07:48)

20. Closing thoughts and stuff (01:08:18)