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You What

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up nerds? I'm

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Jared and this is

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Change Log News for

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the week of Monday,

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April 28th, 2025. It

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has come to my attention

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thanks to Camilo that the Change

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Log newsletter has been redesigned

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in Gmail. I have changed

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nothing. Google has announced

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nothing. but the exact same

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email I sent a couple weeks

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ago looks radically different now. Just

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another day in the world of

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distributed systems where a complete stranger

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pees into the wind and you

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get the privilege of washing urine

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off your clothes. Oh

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well, let's get into this week's

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news. I just want

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to code. Zach belays

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lifelong enjoyment of both

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A, computers, and B.

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Hustle culture has cultivated in

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him the classic angel and

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devil on the shoulder. Zach

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says, quote, I constantly find the

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devil on my shoulder trying to convince

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me to start a new side

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hustle. Starting a new monetizable side project

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is like a latent addiction. Giving

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in feels like relapsing. The angel says,

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don't worry about some side hustle.

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Just do well in your day job

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and code for fun as a

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hobby. but the devil keeps telling me

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that you can be your own

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boss and earn what you're worth." Zack

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has decided, at least back when

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this was written in 2023, that he

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must manage that devil, not vanquish

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it, because the bills will never

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stop coming. But he's also learned this,

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quote, I can no longer force

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myself to work on things that I

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don't like forever, since I will

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burn out. As I mature, I am

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better honing perception for when and

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when not to give in to the

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devil's call to build something for

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profit. AI Horseless Carriages Peter Kuhn noticed

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something the other day. He enjoys

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using AI to build software more than

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he enjoys using most AI applications. I

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agree with him. Pete says, quote, when

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I use AI to build software, I feel

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like I can create almost anything I

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can imagine very quickly. AI feels like a

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power tool. It's a lot of fun. Many

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AI apps don't feel like that.

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Their AI features feel tacked on

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and useless, even counterproductive." Pete is

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beginning to suspect that these apps

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are the horseless carriages of the

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AI era. They're bad because they

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mimic old ways of building software

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that unnecessarily constrain the AI models

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they're built with. To illustrate this

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point, Pete picks apart Gmail's AI

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Assistant app and explains how much

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better it could be if they

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rethought it from the ground up. His

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biggest gripe is his inability as the

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core user to edit the system

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prompt, which would make all of these

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apps more personal and useful. Open

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source furniture. Well,

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this sounds incredibly cool. Quote,

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Hyperwood is an open

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source system for crafting furniture

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from simple wooden slats.

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Hyperwood empowers anyone, DIY enthusiasts,

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designers, interior architects, and

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small manufacturers. to

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build beautiful, robust furniture using

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minimal tools and locally sourced materials."

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The concept is intended for everyone,

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but the state of the project

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right now makes it more suitable

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for hackers like us. All you

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need to get started is a

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terminal, a chop saw, and

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some wood slats. There are two

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published designs so far, a bench

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and a trough. It's

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now time for sponsored news. Next

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Gen Heroku is built on

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open source standards. The next

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generation of Heroku is called FUR

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and is being built on

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open source standards and cloud

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native tech like the open container

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initiative, cloud native build packs,

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open telemetry and Kubernetes. This

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next technology stack represents, represents

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the next decade and

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beyond for Heroku while building

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on their core principle,

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maximize developer productivity. by

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distractions. Here's what Terrence has

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to say about Fur. Quote, FUR

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is still the Heroku you know

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and love. It's rooted in the

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world -renowned developer experience while built

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on a bedrock of security and

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stability. We achieve this by offering

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seamless functionality out of the box

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with the flexibility to customize as

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needed. In today's complex development landscape,

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minimizing cognitive load is crucial. This

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allows you to focus on what

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truly matters, delivering value to your

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customers. Yeah, agree. you

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are going to read it. Here's a

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fun twist on Yagney, one of my favorite

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acronyms. You might not need it, but

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you probably are going to read it. Quote,

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it means that you shouldn't just store

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the minimum data required to satisfy

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the current product spec. You should also

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store data that you'll likely use and

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read, such as timestamps and contextual metadata.

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This problem tends to happen when a

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UI design shows that you only need

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to display a few specific bits of

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data to the user, so you only

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store those exact fields in the database.

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You've satisfied the design and ship it,

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then later you realize you're missing valuable

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info to help debug an issue, do

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internal analytics, etc. To

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guard against this eventuality, the

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author suggests adding these fields to

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almost any table. created at, updated

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at, deleted at for soft

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deletes, created by, etc., and

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permissions used during CRUD. See also

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my post from a few years

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back, you might as well timestamp

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it. Three myths that

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keep engineers stuck. Anthony Heneo

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believes software engineers don't get stuck

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in their career because they lack

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skills, but because they follow outdated

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assumptions about how their careers are

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supposed to work. To help you

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get unstuck, Anthony is here to

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debunk three common myths. One,

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someone will guide you. Two, promotions

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are the only sign of growth.

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And three, career progression

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is linear. Anthony wants

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you to pause for a moment and answer this

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question. If I could break free from

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these myths, How would I want my

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career to look? I like

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that question, especially the second half. Myths

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aside, it's always worth asking yourself

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what you want your career to look

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like, but more importantly, append and

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why to the end. What do I

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want my career to look like

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and why? Then you might get

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