The code, prose & pods that shaped 2025 (News)

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  What's up nerds?

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  I'm Jared and this is Change Log News for the week of Monday, December 15th, 2025.

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  Can you believe this is already our final news episode of the year?

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  Thanks for listening and reading along in 2025.

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  Just like the prior two years' finales, this episode diverges from our traditional fare.

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  I reviewed the 49 previous editions and picked, in my humble opinion, the coolest code,

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  the best pros, and my favorite episode of the show from each month.

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  Enjoy!

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  In January, big AI data center investments are big,

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  people see Spotify's Ghost Artists, and DeepSeek R1 Shocks and Oz.

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  The coolest code is PrinterCow, which transforms any USB thermal printer into a networked,

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  HTTP-powered, API endpoint so any service can send print jobs to it.

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  If that's not cool, I don't know what is.

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  Best Pros goes to, it's time to bring back personal computing.

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  Benj Edwards, deftly,

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  describes how surveillance capitalism and DRM turned home tech from friend to foe by asking a litany of rhetorical questions about the past.

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  I didn't know it at the time,

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  but this article started a theme of coverage for us that continues to this day.

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  And my favorite episode in January from open source to acquired with Ashley Jeffs.

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  I almost picked Alicia White on the world of embedded systems,

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