What up nerds, I'm Jared and this is changelognews for the week of monday, August 11, 2025 I'm in an existential mood today So here's two thoughts that were impressed on me over the weekend juxtaposed The first thought comes from a recent Ben Stansel essay in which he does the math on the gobsmacking amount of money floating around Silicon Valley these days And how everyone does the math to see how much everyone else is worth Ben concludes quote We don't do the math to measure ourselves. We do the math to compare ourselves and quote so true But that's just the setup the money quote is a footnote to that sentence quote The recent grad is troubled by how much the designer who got the job they want makes the designer is troubled by how much the engineer makes The engineer by the researcher the researcher by the founder that got acquired the acquired founder by the founder who acquired them The founder by the billionaire the billionaire by Jeff Bezos Jeff Bezos by Elon Musk and Elon Musk by the recent grad end quote The second thought I'd like to share comes from a not at all recent man named Job After receiving news that he lost everything to Raiders and a mighty wind Job said quote naked I came for my mother's womb and naked shall I return there the Lord gave and the Lord is taken away blessed to be the name of the Lord Okay, let's get into the news open source regrets a recent hacker news ask HN thread piqued my interest Maybe it will yours as well. Here's the question open source is usually seen as a win for learning visibility in the community But have you ever regretted it? Maybe became a burden to maintain a track to the wrong users or got used in ways you didn't expect would love to hear your Experience good or bad now I'm about as pro open source as devs come but only a purist would say it's always an unadulterated win This thread is filled with people sharing their open source regrets which are worth hearing about here's one for instance Quote when I was about 14 I open source a script to auto configure x11's x-rander It was pretty lousy had several bugs I mentioned on a kde mailing list and a kde core contributor told me it was embarrassing code and to kill myself I took it pretty hard and didn't contribute to kde or x11 ever again Probably took me about a year to build up the desire to code again end quote that was a singular event for this person But still just awful.
Here's another one which is more longitudinal quote to be honest I do regret it after 20 years of working on fast projects I've invested enormous amounts of time effort and money into these and other free open source initiatives It was enjoyable initially there's something addictive about receiving praise from strangers and unknown communities You keep going because it feels good and you develop a sense of moral superiority But years later when the people closest to you are no longer around you pause and reflect on how much energy you devoted to Run strangers instead of those who shared your life if I had invested even 1% of the time and effort I put into fast projects into my relationships with loved ones they would have been so much happier now I'm left wondering what the hell I was doing all those years get home's latest CEO says farewell Thomas Donkey is stepping down as github CEO so he can build another startup his announcement post on a says quote over a decade ago My family and I made the leap to move from Germany to the United States after the sale of my startup to Microsoft in the years since I've had the privilege of working with many exceptional human beings including hubbers micro softies customers partners our github stars open source maintainers and developers around the world Who've helped us shape github still after all this time my startup roots have been tugging on me And I decided to leave github to become a founder again end quote Thomas took the reins in 2021 when net Friedman stepped down after taking the reins in 2018 when Chris Wonsrass stepped down after the Microsoft acquisition who will take the reins next we don't know yet HTTP to the sequel is always worse James Kittle breaks down HTTP to from a security perspective and finds it breaks down pretty easily Quote HTTP to is easily mistaken for a transport layer protocol that can be swapped in with zero security implications for the website behind it In this paper, I'll introduce multiple new classes of HTTP to exclusive threats caused by both implementation flaws and RFC imperfections and quote James shows How these flaws enable h2 exclusive desync attacks with case studies targeting some pretty high-profile websites. It's now time for sponsor news Augment code has GPT 5 ogment code has GPT 5 y'all until now ogment ran only on cloud sonnet 4 They've added GPT 5 and a model picker so you can select the right engine per task sonnet stays a default GPT 5 is there When you want extra caution and cross file brain power they tested both on the same coding chores They tested single file edits multi-file refactors bug fixes and they found a clear trade-off sonnet equals speed and decisiveness GPT 5 equals completeness and stronger cross file reasoning this enables bear task alignment quick tweak So don't you go to big refactor or careful logic re-write GPT 5 brings that extra context and TLC the picker also delivers resiliency in continuity smarter routing and Cost latency control if one model slows down or dressing quality you can instantly switch without breaking your flow over time ogment Can learn your preferences and even auto route sonnet for quick diffs and GPT 5 for the heavy lifts learn more and start testing GPT 5 for Yourself at ogment code comm and follow that link to read the rest of their announcement post in the newsletter PHP 8.5 adds pipe operator the pipe operator is the coolest and PHP is going to have it this November when version 8.5 ships Here's some history the pipe operator appears in many languages mostly in the functional world F sharp has essentially the exact same operator as Does O'Caml e-Lixer has a slightly fancier version which we considered but ultimately decided against for now and numerous PHP libraries exist in a while that offer similar capability with many extra expensive steps The story for PHP pipes though begins with hack slash HVM Facebook's PHP 4 knee competitive implementation hack included many features beyond what PHP 5 of The day offered many of them eventually ended up in later PHP versions one of his features was a unique spin on a pipe operator and quote Sarah Goldman started the effort to bring hacks pipes to PHP directly in 2016 fast forward to 2025 and Larry Garfield finally got it done Meanwhile JavaScript pipe operator is still a stage 2 draft copyright suit could financially ruin AI industry Many of our conversations around the future of tech after the AI of people have included a sometimes explicit sometimes implicit big But you know like but something could happen that radically changes the AI course We're currently on turns out the largest copyright class action suit of all times might prove to be that Calipigian but we've been eluding to quote AI industry groups are urging an appeals court to block What they say is the largest copyright class action ever certified They've warned that a single lawsuit raised by three authors over anthropics AI training now threatens to financially ruin the entire AI industry if up to Seven million claimants end up joining the litigation and forcing a settlement and quote if the appeals court denies anthropics petition They could face a $150,000 fine for each of those seven million claimants whose works span a century of publishing history Quote confronted with such extreme potential damages anthropic may lose its right to raise valid defenses of its AI training deciding It would be more prudent to settle the company argued and that could set an alarming precedent considering all the other lawsuits Generative AI companies face over training on copyright and materials and quote yikes all eyes will be fixed on this But until further notice that's the news for now But go and subscribe to the changelog newsletter for the full scoop of links worth clicking on such as Sit on your ass development You might not need t-mucks and oh yaml dot wtf Get in on the newsletter at changelog dot news last week on the pod We shipped our shows from Denver nor Jones on Wednesday and Kaizen with Gerhard Lazu on Friday scroll up in your feed And listen to those if you haven't yet and stay tuned for some awesome pods this week on Wednesday Dr. Evelina kudos joins us to talk bio computing and on Friday Brian Cantrell from oxide computer is on changelog and friends discussing their $100 million Raise have yourself a great week like subscribe and five-star review us if you like the show and I'll talk to you again real soon