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The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

Nick Nisi joins us to dig into the latest trends from this year and how they’re impacting his day-to-day coding and Vision Pro wearing. Anthropic’s acquisition of Bun, the evolving JavaScript and AI landscape, GitHub’s challenges and the AMP/Sourcegraph split. They dive into AI development practices, context management, voice assistants, Home Assistant OS and home automation, the state of the AI browser war, and we close with a prediction from Nick.

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Featuring:

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

Show Notes:

• Apple Vision Pro upgraded with M5 chip and Dual Knit Band
• Bun is joining Anthropic
• Anthropic acquires Bun as Claude Code reaches $1B milestone
• Amp, Inc.
• The Browser Company explains why it stopped developing Arc
• Letter to Arc members 2025
• The Browser Company launches Dia in beta
• Home Assistant 2025.12: Triggering the holidays
• Home Assistant Green

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1. Let's talk! (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Tiger Data (00:00:38)

https://www.tigerdata.com

3. Very Important Friends! (00:02:17)

4. Weeping for the youth (00:03:13)

5. Nick style (00:04:02)

6. GoldenEye 007 (1997) (00:04:32)

7. Nick is that Vision Pro guy (00:04:45)

8. Date of Purchase, pls. (00:06:54)

9. Bun is joining Anthropic (00:09:55)

10. Nick goes to SquiggleConf (00:16:55)

11. GitHub still exists?! (00:19:00)

12. Is this a pod? (00:22:22)

13. Sponsor: Namespace (00:27:33)

https://namespace.so

14. Adam is surprised by Codeberg (00:29:15)

15. Let's play with Sora! (00:37:09)

16. Amp, Inc. (00:43:23)

17. Do you have Skills? (00:48:11)

18. Sponsor: Notion (00:56:26)

http://notion.com/changelog

19. Sponsor: NordLayer (00:57:58)

https://nordlayer.com/thechangelog

20. AI browser wars! (00:59:29)

21. Voice AI? (01:08:15)

22. Zed is dead to Nick (01:18:49)

23. The web still lives, but is it changing? (01:19:55)

24. Let's meshtastic (01:26:30)

25. Nick predicts the future? (01:27:07)

26. Let's push pause (++ teaser!!) (01:31:51)

27. ++ teaser (01:36:05)