Forward Deployed Engineer job postings are up 800% according to Interview Query, and that single data point anchors this extended commentary episode from Jerod Santo and Adam Stacoviak on Changelog Friends 117. It covers six topics from Changelog News 169 in depth, including Meshtastic mesh networking, Zstandard compression, and the alive internet theory.
The mechanical details are worth your time. Zstandard gets a real examination, not a surface mention. Meshtastic's off-grid mesh architecture gets unpacked. React's continued dominance gets weighed against dead framework theory, a piece linked directly in the show notes that argues most frameworks are already corpses.
The alive internet theory discussion alone justifies the runtime. The show notes also link a Fly.io post arguing everyone should write an agent now, which sits in direct tension with the dead framework conversation. Changelog++ members get an 8-minute shorter cut by skipping ads. The full version is worth the extra time.
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