After 13 years, 1042 podcasts, 452 newsletters, and countless friends made along the way...
https://jerodsanto.net/2026/03/so-long-changelog/
So long, and thanks for all the logs
After 13 years, 1042 podcasts, 452 newsletters, and countless friends made along the way… it’s time to say goodbye to The Changelog. I shipped my final News last Monday and Adam shipped our Friends finale yesterday.
For reasons I cannot explain, during “big change” moments like this my brain shoots clichés at me like Nitro fired tennis balls at approaching American Gladiator contenders.1
“Parting is such sweet sorrow”
“All good things must come to an end”
Agentic anxiety
One fascinating part of our conversation1 with Steve Ruiz from tldraw started when he confessed that he feels bad going to bed without his Claudes working on something. I share the feeling. But why?
We analyze it on the pod, but I wanted to jot down some thoughts here as well, if for no other reason but to get it out of my head.
Just one more level…
After talking with tldraw Steve, I read a different Steve’s confession post, AI Vampire, in which he points to one aspect of what’s going on: good ol’ fashion addiction
"I'm not condensating, you're condensating." "Sir, this is a Wendy's."
https://jerodsanto.net/2026/02/normalize-not-saying-this-stuff/
7 phrases that need to die before I do
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to make people stop typing this drivel into textareas near me.
Tell me you’re $X without telling me you’re $X1
You 👏 don’t 👏 have 👏 to 👏 clap 👏 between 👏 words2
I was today years old when…3
The. One. Where. Every. Word. Is. A. Sentence.4
I don’t know who needs to hear this…5
I’m not crying, you’re crying.6
Six Seven7
That’s all for now. I’m sure I’ll despise future phrases in the future. Before I go, here’s one more from the past: “automagically” is a dumb word (but makes for a pretty good song)
Batten down the hatches. "Show Hacker News" signals the coming flood. 🌊
https://jerodsanto.net/2026/02/the-shovelware-cometh/
The shovelware cometh
In September of last year, I covered a post by Mike Judge arguing that AI coding claims don’t add up, in which he asked this question:
If so many developers are so extraordinarily productive using these tools, where is the flood of shovelware? We should be seeing apps of all shapes and sizes, video games, new websites, mobile apps, software-as-a-service apps — we should be drowning in choice. We should be in the middle of an indie software revolution. We should be seeing 10,000 Tetris clones on Steam.
Thinking about custom software in a new way
At this point, anybody saying things about AI’s usefulness in software development like notch did on X the other day is either a) burying their head in the sand, b) an old man yelling at clouds, or c) seriously entrenched for some other reason.
Here’s notch’s take, so you don’t have to bounce:
Reminder that using AI to write code is an incredibly bad idea still, and anyone advocating for it is either incompetent or evil.
Remember when people used to say *boss*, when they were describing something that was really cool?
https://jerodsanto.net/2026/01/hugo-boss-obsidian-plugin/
Hugo bloggin' with Obsidian like a boss
One of my goals when I refreshed my blog was to publish with Hugo, but write with Obsidian. Turns out that was as simple as:
ln -s ~/src/jerodsanto/net/content/posts ~/Dropbox/obsidian/Jerod/blog
That’s a good start, but once I’m writing in Obsidian… I don’t exactly want to leave. There’s friction when managing various Hugo tasks from a separate terminal session. So, I had Claude Code write me an Obsidian plugin to add those features.
It’s called Hugo Boss1 and I submitted it to the Obsidian community plugins list, so hopefully you’ll be able to install it from there soon2. The plugin adds a button that has four features today:
Mars was cool, but what if curl makes it to the Super Bowl?!
https://jerodsanto.net/2026/01/all-the-places-curl-will-go/
Wow, curl is even used heavily in the NFL playoffs
I remember once telling curl creator, Daniel Stenberg, he’d achieved total world domination. Turns out, he was just getting started.
Fast forward to last weekend when football fans around the world witnessed curl propelling the LA Rams to the NFC Championship game (and on to the Super Bowl?)
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Basketball Buckets-for-bucks
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The Temporal API finally lands in Chrome 144
It’s about time! They’ve been working on this since time immemorial. Next question: when will it land in Safari on iOS? Not any time soon, it seems. Until that fateful day… polyfills, y’all. Polyfills.
