Logbot (Nov 12 2025 at 21:00): Logbot (Nov 12 2025 at 21:00):Prolific software blogger, Sean Goedecke, joins us to discuss why he believes software engineers need to be involved in the politics of their organization, how to avoid worry driven development, what is "good taste" in software engineering, where agentic coding will take our industry, why getting the main thing right is so important, and how to get your blog to the top of Hacker News. :link: https://changelog.fm/666
| Ch | Start | Title | Runs |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 00:00 | Welcome to The Changelog | 01:14 |
| 02 | 01:14 | Sponsor: Tiger Data | 01:43 |
| 03 | 02:57 | Start the show! | 00:58 |
| 04 | 03:55 | Sean's blogging story | 01:52 |
| 05 | 05:47 | Having something to say | 04:14 |
| 06 | 10:01 | Do repeat yourself! | 02:04 |
| 07 | 12:04 | Let's get political (in our orgs) | 01:38 |
| 08 | 13:42 | Confidence: how? | 02:39 |
| 09 | 16:22 | How to influence company politics | 06:56 |
| 10 | 23:18 | Sponsor: Depot | 02:49 |
| 11 | 26:07 | Emotional Intelligence | 04:05 |
| 12 | 30:12 | What is good taste | 03:58 |
| 13 | 34:10 | Agents rock the foundations | 05:17 |
| 14 | 39:27 | Same stuff, different pile | 01:12 |
| 15 | 40:39 | The value of code review | 02:51 |
| 16 | 43:30 | Spec-driven change | 01:34 |
| 17 | 45:05 | Tools change the game | 02:41 |
| 18 | 47:46 | Sponsor: Augment Code | 01:30 |
| 19 | 49:16 | Sponsor: NordLayer | 01:39 |
| 20 | 50:55 | Mistakes engineers make in code review | 04:12 |
| 21 | 55:07 | Outsized influence | 03:14 |
| 22 | 58:21 | Getting the main thing right | 06:40 |
| 23 | 1:05:01 | The TikTok intern | 02:09 |
| 24 | 1:07:10 | A high stakes game | 01:50 |
| 25 | 1:09:00 | How to top Hacker News | 04:47 |
| 26 | 1:13:47 | Jerod fluffs you up ;) | 01:30 |
| 27 | 1:15:16 | Everyone's a critic | 02:19 |
| 28 | 1:17:35 | Wrapping up | 00:30 |
| 29 | 1:18:06 | Closing thoughts (join ++!) | 01:51 |
Daniel Buckmaster (Nov 12 2025 at 23:24):Whoah I had no idea Sean was Melbourne based! Keen for this, I have been enjoying Sean's blog recently.
Ron Waldon-Howe (Nov 12 2025 at 23:26):yeah, as an Australian, i definitely under-appreciate / under-estimate the technical talent/experience we have here
Daniel Buckmaster (Nov 13 2025 at 01:01):Not sure if this recent post will come up in the episode, but I thought it was a) good advice for a lot of business writing in general and b) the opposite of the Oxide approach, which is more what I aspire to :joy: https://www.seangoedecke.com/technical-communication/
Ron Waldon-Howe (Nov 13 2025 at 01:19):hehe, yeah, I almost always have a "TL;DR: ..." at the top of my pages at work with a few bullet points
Matthew Sanabria (Nov 13 2025 at 22:33):You gotta do
the LinkedIn
multiple line
tactic
Ron Waldon-Howe (Nov 13 2025 at 23:34):what :clap:about :clap: clapping :clap:after :clap: each :clap: word? :clap:
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