We’re kicking off 2025 with some massive adjustments. Beginning in January, we’ll be focusing all of our efforts on producing The Changelog (Information, Interviews, Mates) as the only greatest developer podcast expertise.
To be able to do that, we’re stopping manufacturing of Go Time, JS Occasion, Ship It, and Sensible AI. However don’t fear—there’s continuation and spin-offs in movement!
This transformation will permit us to focus extra on bringing you even higher content material, increased manufacturing high quality, and thrilling new options—together with full-length video episodes on YouTube.
We’re additionally beginning one thing new. It’s known as CPU.fm (brief for Changelog Podcast Universe)—a brand new community of world-class developer pods you’ll be able to subscribe to. We’ve prolonged an invitation to our hosts and panelists to hitch CPU.fm and plans are within the works.
What’s altering and what it means for you
A very powerful change is that the principle factor is turning into the principle factor once more. Right here’s what you’ll be able to count on from this.
- Extra in-depth content material: With all our artistic vitality centered on The Changelog, you’ll be able to count on deeper dives into the subjects you care about most.
- Enhanced manufacturing high quality: We’re upping our recreation to ship an much more polished and interesting listening expertise. If you happen to’ve favored the place we’ve been, you’ll love the place we’re going.
- Video episodes: Get pleasure from full-length episodes on YouTube, bringing you nearer to the conversations and making it simpler to have interaction with us. We’re shifting past clips and shorts and leaning right into a video-first manufacturing.
- Constant schedule: Look ahead to a continued dependable lineup—information on Mondays, interviews mid-week, and speak reveals on Fridays.
- Extra group: We’ll have extra bandwidth to work together with you, reply your questions, and have your insights. Changelog++ members will probably be getting much more love as nicely.
About our different reveals
For a lot of of our mates on the market, which means your favourite developer pod, no less than in its present type, goes away. We’re deeply saddened by this and we’ve struggled for a while with making this alternative. However, to paraphrase Newton’s Third Regulation of Movement, typically so as to transfer ahead, it’s important to depart one thing behind.
Nevertheless, that is the place our imaginative and prescient for CPU.fm comes into play. Spin-offs are being deliberate and new podcasts will type from this modification (and CPU.fm will probably be there to assist them). Right here’s what we all know to date:
- JS Occasion will get a spin-off! dysfunctional.fm with Nick, KBall, and Amy
- Go Time will get a spin-off! fallthrough.fm with Kris, Ian, and extra
- Ship It will get a spin-off! fafo.fm with Justin and Autumn (Quickly)
- Sensible AI strikes to practicalai.fm underneath Daniel and Chris’ management (Quickly)
Why are we doing this?
Through the years (15 years!!) we’ve loved many eras for The Changelog and our podcast portfolio. We began in 2009 as a aspect challenge to chronicle the fast change in open supply. In 2012, we nearly pod pale on account of day jobs and life adjustments. In actual fact, we got here near shutting issues down. In 2013, we relaunched the podcast with a brand new mission and new mates. We experimented with new reveals like Request for Commits and AFK and grew the portfolio to the podcasts you’ve come to know and love immediately. The long run was centered on going vast, not deep.
Producing a number of weekly podcasts and delivery every day required us to scale our manufacturing operations and workflows. We needed to mature quickly and repeatedly iterate on our tech and staff to maintain up with the calls for. Whereas we’ve been nice at constantly delivery every day for years, this intense manufacturing schedule has made it difficult for us to search out time to experiment and discover like we had earlier than. Working the manufacturing machine has left little room for innovation, and we realized we have to create area to discover new concepts and instructions.
This transformation is all about enabling that. To refocus on the principle factor and to enhance and develop all issues The Changelog podcast.
So, what’s CPU.fm?
CPU.fm (Changelog Podcast Universe) is our new dwelling for spin-offs and collaborations. It’s a burgeoning community of developer pods with an enormous imaginative and prescient, however we’re simply getting began.
- Extra content material: Anticipate new podcasts to emerge, that includes new and acquainted voices and views.
- Extra mates: By way of CPU.fm, we’ll outline an index of developer pods value your consideration. Anticipate cross-posting and collaboration with our prolonged pod mates community.
- Extra extra: We’ll be offering this community of pods with the assist they should proceed their reveals of their full management and nonetheless be related. This implies the content material you like continues and will get higher.
- Extra alternatives: We’ll proceed to serve the various wonderful manufacturers that attain out to us for assist in reaching builders in significant methods. CPU.fm will probably be a brand new place for manufacturers to get featured and assist wonderful developer podcasts.
Thanks for persevering with to pay attention!
We all know change may be stunning, but it surely’s pushed by our dedication to deliver you one of the best. We’re extremely grateful on your assist through the years, and we’re excited in regards to the future and the following stage we’ve about to unlock.
Keep tuned for extra updates, and thanks for being a part of the Changelog group!
Thanks for podcasting with us!
We wish to sincerely thank each one that has hosted podcasts with us through the years! You could have without end improved our lives and the lives of numerous of your fellow builders all over the world. 💚
And, in fact, y’all have an open invitation to hitch us on Changelog & Mates!
