Kaizen! Slightly more instant (Friends)
Fri, 13 Oct
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Gerhard joins us for the 12th Kaizen and this time talk about what we DIDN'T do. We were holding S3 ...
Coming to asciinema near you (Interview)
Wed, 11 Oct
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This week we're joined by Marcin Kulik to talk about his project asciinema. You've likely seen this ...
RTO vs WFH & the case for strong static typing (News)
Mon, 09 Oct
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Jacob Kaplan-Moss' recommendations for remote vs colocated teams, Duarte Carmo created a neural sear...
The beginning of the end of physical media (Friends)
Fri, 06 Oct
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On September 29th, Netflix shipped its final DVDs, marking the end of an era in physical media. So, ...
Tauri’s next big move (Interview)
Thu, 05 Oct 2023 20:00:00 +0000
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This week we're joined by Daniel Thompson, Co-founder and Core Member of Tauri. It's been a year sin...
InfluxDB drops Go for Rust but gokrazy is really cool (News)
Mon, 02 Oct
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InfluxDB finishes a multi-year rewrite in Rust, the Raspberry Pi 5 will be on sale by the end of the...
#define: a game of fake definitions (Friends)
Fri, 29 Sep
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Jerod gathers a group of friends for our first game show experiment here on Changelog & Friends! Thi...
Vibes from Strange Loop (Interview)
Thu, 28 Sep 2023 01:00:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This week we're taking you to the hallway track of the final Strange Loop conference. First up is An...
The missing sync layer for modern apps (News)
Mon, 25 Sep
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ElectricSQL is a project that offers a local-first sync layer for web and mobile apps, Ned Batchelde...
Open source is at a crossroads (Interview)
Wed, 20 Sep
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This week we're joined by Steve O'Grady, Principal Analyst & Co-founder at RedMonk. The topic today ...
Death by a thousand microservices (News)
Mon, 18 Sep
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Andrei Taranchenko says the software industry is learning once again that complexity kills, Casey Mu...
What do we want from a web browser? (Friends)
Fri, 15 Sep
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A hoy hoy! Our old friend Nick Nisi does his best to bring up TypeScript, Vim & Tmux as many times a...
Attack of the Canaries! (Interview)
Wed, 13 Sep
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This week we're joined by Haroon Meer from Thinkst — the makers of Canary and Canary Tokens. Haroo...
Bun 1.0 is here & Mojo is ready for download (News)
Mon, 11 Sep
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Bun 1.0 is out of the oven, Mojo is now available for local download, Vince Lwt asked 60+ LLMs a set...
Doomed to discuss AI (Friends)
Fri, 08 Sep
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Author, journalist, travel writer & software engineer Jon Evans joins us to weigh in on the cultural...
OpenTF for an open Terraform (Interview)
Wed, 06 Sep
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This week we're talking about the launch of OpenTF and what it's going to take to successfully fork ...
A portrait of the best worst programmer (News)
Tue, 05 Sep 2023 18:20:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Dan North tells the tale of Tim, the worst programmer he's worked with (who also is a heck of a prog...
You call it tech debt I call it malpractice (Friends)
Fri, 01 Sep
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Go Time panelist (and semi-professional unpopular opinion maker) Kris Brandow joins us to discuss hi...
Back to the terminal of the future (Interview)
Wed, 30 Aug
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This week on The Changelog Adam is joined by Zach Lloyd, Founder & CEO of Warp. We talked with Zach ...
OpenTF sticks a fork in Terraform (News)
Mon, 28 Aug
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OpenTF announces they're forking Terraform and joining the Linux Foundation, Meta gets in the LLM-fo...
The serenity of building your own OS (Interview)
Thu, 24 Aug 2023 19:00:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This week we're talking to Andreas Kling about SerenityOS and Ladybird. Andreas started SerenityOS a...
All your CAPTCHAs are belong to bots (News)
Mon, 21 Aug
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New research shows that CAPTCHAs are now utterly useless, hundreds of concerned technologists signed...
An aberrant generation of programmers (Friends)
Fri, 18 Aug
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Our friend Justin Searls recently published a widely-read essay on enthusiast programmers, inter-gen...
30 years of Debian (Interview)
Thu, 17 Aug 2023 19:00:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This week we're talking with Jonathan Carter who's on his fourth term as Debian Project Lead (DPL) a...
The relicensings will continue until morale improves (News)
Mon, 14 Aug
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HashiCorp adopts a Business Source license, Matt Rickard hypothesizes why Tailwind CSS won, WarpStre...
Kaizen! S3 R2 B2 D2 (Friends)
Fri, 11 Aug
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Gerhard joins us for the 11th Kaizen and this one might contain the most improvements ever. We're on...
Thinking outside the box of code (Interview)
Wed, 09 Aug
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Leslie Lamport is a computer scientist & mathematician who won ACM's Turing Award in 2013 for his fu...
The open source licensing war is over? (News)
Mon, 07 Aug
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Matt Asay thinks the open source licensing war is over, LangUI is an open source Tailwind component ...
DX on DX (Interview)
Thu, 03 Aug 2023 21:00:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This week Adam is joined by Abi Noda, founder and CEO of DX to talk about DX AKA DevEx (or the long-...
Something interesting is going on at Stack Overflow (News)
Mon, 31 Jul
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The fall of Stack Overflow, researches dig up some new (and potentially unavoidable) LLM attacks, Go...
Homelab nerds, unite! (Friends)
Fri, 28 Jul
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Ok Homelabbers, it's time to unite! Join Adam and his new friend Techno Tim for 1.5 hours of homelab...
From Docker to Dagger (Interview)
Fri, 28 Jul
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This week we're joined by Solomon Hykes, the creator of Docker. Now he's back with his next big thin...
Supabase quietly went public (News)
Mon, 24 Jul
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Our friends at Supabase quietly went public today, Redpoint's InfraRed 100 report is out, Twitter is...
Bringing the cloud on prem (Friends)
Fri, 21 Jul
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Adam was out when Bryan made his podcast debut here on The Changelog, so we had to get him back on t...
Storytime with Steve Yegge (Interview)
Thu, 20 Jul 2023 21:00:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This week it's storytime with Steve Yegge! Steve came out of retirement to join Sourcegraph as Head ...
Magical shell history & why engineers should focus on writing (News)
Mon, 17 Jul
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Ellie Huxtable's Atuin makes your shell history magical, Dmitry Kudryavtsev writes why he thinks eng...
Dear Red Hat... (Friends)
Fri, 14 Jul
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Red Hat's decision to lock down RHEL sources behind a subscription paywall was met with much ire and...
Types will win in the end (Interview)
Thu, 13 Jul 2023 20:10:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This week we're talking about type checking with Jake Zimmerman. Jake is one of the leads at Stripe ...
Oracle smacks IBM over RHEL (News)
Mon, 10 Jul
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Oracle smacks IBM for their handling of RHEL, the folks at The Dam share a Slack clone in 5 lines of...
Efficient Linux at the CLI (Interview)
Thu, 06 Jul 2023 13:00:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This week we're talking to Daniel J. Barrett, author of Efficient Linux at the Command Line as well ...
Streak redemption, vectors are the new JSON, CommonJS is hurting JavaScript & the rise of the AI Engineer (News)
Mon, 03 Jul
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Lukas Mathis writes about streak redemption, Jonathan Katz thinks vectors are the new JSON, Andy Jia...
Even the best rides come to an end (Friends)
Fri, 30 Jun
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
On Monday, Kelsey Hightower announced his retirement from Google. On Tuesday, he sat down with us to...
Don't make things worse! (Interview)
Wed, 28 Jun
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Taylor Troesh joins Jerod to discuss a bevy of software development topics: yak shaves, dependency s...
AI poisoned its own well, libraries to UnsuckJS, we need more Richard Stallman & ChatGPT package hallucination (News)
Mon, 26 Jun
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Tracy Durnell thinks AI has already poisoned its own well, Adam Hill's microsite catalogs everything...
There's a whole PEP about that (Friends)
Fri, 23 Jun
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Brett Cannon (our unofficial ambassador to the Python community) is here to help alleviate our pip i...
Rebuilding DevOps from the ground up (Interview)
Thu, 22 Jun 2023 13:30:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This week we're joined by Adam Jacob and we're talking about his mission at System Initiative to reb...
An open platform for LLMs, speed matters, imaginary problems, Val Town & how to finish your projects (News)
Mon, 19 Jun
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
An open platform for operating LLMs in production, working quickly is more important than it seems, ...
"Mat Depends" (Friends)
Fri, 16 Jun
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Mat Ryer is back and he's brought with him 10 tips to be a 10x developer (like he is). After that, w...
Passkeys for a passwordless future (Interview)
Thu, 15 Jun 2023 14:00:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This week we're talking about Passkeys with Anna Pobletts, Head of Passwordless, at 1Password. Will ...
Reddit goes dark, Lemmy lights up, OpenObserve, some blogging myths & Jefro on Automotive Linux (News)
Mon, 12 Jun
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Reddit goes dark as subreddits protest, Lemmy lights up as disillusioned redditors turn to the fediv...
Reactions to Apple’s new vision (Friends)
Fri, 09 Jun
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Homebrew project leader Mike McQuaid joins us to weigh in on Apple's big Vision Pro announcement. We...
ANTHOLOGY — It's a Cloud Native world (Interview)
Thu, 08 Jun 2023 21:00:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This is our last week of hallway track coverage at The Linux Foundation's Open Source Summit North A...
Starlight, Knuth asks ChatGPT, Stack Overflow mods strike, Reddit API pricing revolt & open source AI has a new champ (News)
Mon, 05 Jun
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The Astro team releases a new documentation builder, legendary computer scientist Donald Knuth plays...
Kaizen! The best pipeline ever™ (Friends)
Fri, 02 Jun
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Gerhard is back! Today we continue our Kaizen tradition by getting together (for the 10th time) with...
ANTHOLOGY — Maintaining maintainers (Interview)
Wed, 31 May
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This week on The Changelog we're continuing our Maintainer Month series by taking to you back to the...
An API store for LLMs, DeviceScript, Nyxt: the hacker's browser, expectations debt & there's still no silver bullet (News)
Tue, 30 May 2023 20:00:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The Gorilla team is building an API store for LLMs, DeviceScript is Microsoft's new TypeScript progr...
Introducing Changelog & Friends (Friends)
Fri, 26 May
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What if your favorite conference's hallway track continued year round? That's the vibe we're trying ...
ANTHOLOGY — Open source AI (Interview)
Wed, 24 May
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This week on The Changelog we're taking you to the hallway track of The Linux Foundation's Open Sour...
Trogon, StableStudio, life after Apple, Google's problematic new TLDs & how to discuss programming languages (News)
Mon, 22 May
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Will McGugan's Trogon auto-generates friendly TUIs for your CLI apps, Stability AI's official open s...
Engineering management (for the rest of us) (Interview)
Wed, 17 May
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This week Sarah Drasner joins us to talk about her book Engineering Management for the Rest of Us an...
Syncthing, Thunderbird, Baseline & vector databases (News)
Mon, 15 May
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Thunderbird is thriving on small donations, Syncthing is a super-cool continuous file sync program, ...
How companies are sponsoring OSS (Interview)
Wed, 10 May
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This week we're celebrating Maintainer Month along with our friends at GitHub. Open source runs the ...
Mojo might be huge, chatbots aren't it, big tech lacks an AI moat & monoliths are not dinosaurs (News)
Mon, 08 May
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Jeremy Howard thinks Mojo might be the biggest programming language advance in decades, Amelia Watte...
Livebook's big launch week (Interview)
Wed, 03 May
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
José Valim joins Jerod to talk all about what's new in Livebook – the Elixir-based interactive co...
Hyperswitch, the future of programming, Thoughtworks' latest tech radar & your docs aren't "simple" (News)
Mon, 01 May
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Hyperswitch is like the adapter pattern for payments, Austin Henley writes about the future of progr...
Hard drive reliability at scale (Interview)
Wed, 26 Apr
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This week Adam talks with Andy Klein from Backblaze about hard drive reliability at scale.
Dataset wars, Bark, Kent Beck needs to recalibrate, StableLM & blind prompting is not prompt engineering (News)
Mon, 24 Apr
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The dataset wars are heating up, Bark is a transformer-based text-to-audio model that can generate h...
How do you do, fellow Hack Clubbers? (Interview)
Wed, 19 Apr
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This week we're joined by Zach Latta, the Founder of Hack Club. At 16, Zach tested out of high schoo...
Free Dolly, GitHub Accelerator's cohort, improving Tailscale via Apple’s open source & what the heck are passkeys?! (News)
Mon, 17 Apr
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Kara Deloss announces GitHub Accelerator's 2023 cohort, Databricks releases the first open source, i...
Examining capitalism's chokepoints (Interview)
Fri, 14 Apr
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This week we're talking with Cory Doctorow (this episode contains explicit language) about his newes...
Ken Thompson's keynote, Tabby, The LLama Effect, Codeberg & facing the inevitable (News)
Mon, 10 Apr
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Ken Thompson's 75-year-project is a jukebox for the ages, Tabby is a self-hosted AI coding assistant...
LLMs break the internet (Interview)
Fri, 07 Apr
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This week we're talking about LLMs with Simon Willison. We can not avoid this topic. Last time it wa...
Twitter's open algorithm, Auto-GPT, LLMs as "calculators for words", SudoLang & stochastic parrots (News)
Mon, 03 Apr
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Twitter publishes (some of) its recommendation algorithm, Toran Bruce Richards puts GPT-4 on autopil...
A new path to full-time open source (Interview)
Wed, 29 Mar
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
After years of working for Google on the Go Team, Filippo Valsorda quit last year to experiment with...
GitHub Copilot X, Chatbot UI, ChatGPT plugins, defining juice for software dev, Logto, Basaran & llama-cli (News)
Mon, 27 Mar
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
GitHub announces Copilot X, Mckay Wrigley created an open source ChatGPT UI buit with Next.js, TypeS...
Bringing Whisper and LLaMA to the masses (Interview)
Wed, 22 Mar
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This week we're talking with Georgi Gerganov about his work on Whisper.cpp and llama.cpp. Georgi fir...
Self-hosting in 2023, no more Alpine Linux, type constraints in 65 lines of SQL, Initial V, Minimal Gallery, the legacy of Visual Basic, tracking fake GitHub stars & Mastodon's 10M (News)
Mon, 20 Mar
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Michal Warda on self-hosting in 2023, Martin Heinz will never use Alpine Linux again, Oliver Rice at...
Goodbye Atom. Hello Zed. (Interview)
Wed, 15 Mar
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This week we're talking with Nathan Sobo about his next big thing. Nathan is known for his work on t...
Dalai, InputOutput.dev, Wik, Rspack, Doodle, Marqo & iLLA (News)
Mon, 13 Mar
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Dalai is the simplest way to run LLaMA on your local machine, simple web tools that just work withou...
Chasing the 9s (Interview)
Thu, 09 Mar 2023 22:00:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This week Adam talks with Marcin Kurc about chasing the 9s. Marcin is the Co-founder and CEO of Nobl...
New OpenAI APIs, self-hosting all the things, the Dart Frog project, curl's NuGet story & Hacker Stations (News)
Mon, 06 Mar
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Reorx lists awesome apps & tools using the new ChatGPT API, Ernie Smith ranks self-hosted app altern...
You’re just a devcontainer.json away (Interview)
Wed, 01 Mar
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This week we're joined by Brigit Murtaugh, Product Manager on the Visual Studio Code team at Microso...
Stack Overflow's architecture, Lobsters' killer libraries, Linux is ready for modern Macs, what to expect from your framework & GoatCounter web analytics (News)
Mon, 27 Feb
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Sahn Lam details Stack Overflow's monolith/on-prem architecture, Hillel Wayne asks the Lobsters comm...
Into the Fediverse (Interview)
Fri, 24 Feb
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This week Evan Prodromou is back to take us deeper into the Fediverse. As many of us reconsider our ...
Sidney Bing, Elk for Mastodon, writing an engineering strategy, what's next for core-js & cool tool lightning round (News)
Mon, 20 Feb
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Simon Willison rounds up the goings on around Microsoft's new GPT-powered Bing search, The Vue/Vite ...
What it takes to scale engineering (Interview)
Fri, 17 Feb
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This week we're talking to Rachel Potvin, former VP of Engineering at GitHub about what it takes to ...
Load testing a $4 VPS, TOML for .env files, counting unique visitors sans cookies, the Arc browser & a love letter to Deno (News)
Mon, 13 Feb
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Alice Girard Guittard finds out how much she could you really get out of a $4 VPS, Brett Cannon wond...
Git with your friends (Interview)
Fri, 10 Feb
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This week we invited our friend Mat Ryer to join us for some good conversation about some Git toolin...
OpenAI's new text classifier, teach yourself CS, programming philosophies are about state, you might not need Lodash & overrated scalability (News)
Mon, 06 Feb
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
OpenAI's working on an AI classifier trained to distinguish between AI-written and human-written tex...
Data tool belts, Build Your Own Redis, the giscus comments system, prompt engineering shouldn't exist & ALPACA (News)
Mon, 30 Jan
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Jeremia Kimelman takes stock of his "data tool belt", Build Your Own Redis with C/C++ is ready to re...
Mainframes are still a big thing (Interview)
Fri, 27 Jan
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This week we're talking about mainframes with Cameron Seay, Adjunct Professor at East Carolina Unive...
Prioritizing tech debt, UI components to copy/paste, learnings from 20 years in software, git-sim & jqjq (News)
Mon, 23 Jan
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Max Countryman wrote up a framework for prioritizing tech debt, shadcn builds a copy/paste-able UI c...
Just Postgres (Interview)
Fri, 20 Jan
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This week we're talking about by Postgres with Craig Kerstiens, Chief Product Officer at Crunchy Dat...
Premium PCB cheat sheets, a disappearing AWS dev, HyperSwitch, Servo is back at it & Cloudflare Wildebeest (News)
Mon, 16 Jan
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
WestArtFactory's premium PCB cheat sheets, Maxime Topolov tells of a disappearing AWS dev, Juspay Te...
The principles of data-oriented programming (Interview)
Sat, 14 Jan
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Jerod is joined by Yehonathan Sharvit, author of Data-Oriented Programming, to discuss the virtues o...
A simpler alternative to deleted_at, rules of thumb for better software, faking it until you automate it, the only civilized way to read online & AI and the big five (News)
Mon, 09 Jan
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Brandur Leach's easy, alternative soft deletion strategy, Lane Wagner's zen of proverbs, Nicolas Car...
Don't sleep on Ruby & Rails (Interview)
Fri, 06 Jan
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Welcome to 2023 — we're kicking off the year talking to Justin Searls about the state of web devel...
Clipboard, unbundling tools for thought, microfeed, prepare to be productive & a look inside Matrix (News)
Mon, 02 Jan
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Jackson Huff's clipboard powertool for the command line, Fernando Borretti thinks tools for thought ...
State of the "log" 2022 (Interview)
Fri, 23 Dec
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Our 5th annual year-end wrap-up episode! Sit back, relax, pour a glass of your favorite beverage and...
GPT has entered the chat (Interview)
Fri, 16 Dec
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
To wrap up the year we're talking about what's breaking the internet, again. Yes, we're talking abou...