Changelog's 8th annual year-end episode collects 8 listener voicemails from contributors including Brett Cannon, Jamie Tanna, and Andrew Patton, plus original Breakmaster Cylinder remixes and picks from hosts Jerod Santo and Adam Stacoviak. The episode runs standard length for free listeners. Changelog++ members skip 8 minutes of ads.
The crowd-sourced episode list reveals what actually landed with the audience this year: agentic infrastructure, SQLite rewrites in Rust, a 1000x faster financial database, npm supply chain attacks, and Werner Vogels predicting the future. Jamie Tanna alone flagged 16 episodes. The repeat appearances, specifically Friends #75, #96, #105, and Interviews #635 and #664, tell you which conversations cut through the noise in 2025.
The full episode is worth your time not for the summary but for the listener reasoning. Why did Brett Cannon pick 'Build software that lasts' and 'The power of the button' back to back? Why did Jerod flag autonomous drone delivery alongside a live Nora Jones interview? Those juxtapositions reveal more about where the developer community's head is at than any trend report.
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