We see dead projects (Friends)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

It’s a FRIGHT…when your record a podcast with dead projects all around. Tech debt, poor choices, timing, market shift, and optimizing for the wrong things are all lurking around waiting to pop out at you! Just don’t forget to push record.

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Featuring:

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

Show Notes:

• Sass
• Ampcode
• Meteor
• Quicksilver (QSApp)
• Raycast
• RethinkDB
• FaunaDB
• Asciinema

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Kapitler

1. Let's talk! (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Namespace (00:00:31)

https://namespace.so

3. Push record!! (00:02:13)

4. Death by...? (00:05:44)

5. Sass and SCSS (00:13:32)

6. Sponsor: Tiger Data (00:23:36)

https://www.tigerdata.com

7. Greenfield with Sass (00:25:14)

8. Let's THINK about it Amp (00:25:47)

9. What language should I use??! (00:29:03)

10. Meteor.js is unalive? (00:32:14)

11. App launchers like Quicksilver, Launchbar, Raycast (00:44:49)

12. Sponsor: Notion (00:55:26)

http://notion.com/changelog

13. RethinkDB is 100% unalive (00:57:15)

14. FaunaDB the company is dead (01:02:37)

15. Here's a short list (01:04:33)

16. Amp is free (with ads) (01:12:16)

17. Show Asciinema ads! (01:14:13)

18. Bye friends! (01:16:01)

19. Boo! (01:16:53)