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Sometimes, I put down my keyboard and pick up my microphone to record a solo podcast that I like to call Breaking Change. It's an intermittent series of long-form discussions on whatever's happening in my little corner of life and technology. Each episode also features a hand-crafted pun delivered to us by Aaron "@tenderlove" Patterson and then I rank the pun on air. So that's fun.
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Should I listen to it?

If you like to listen to podcasts while you do the dishes, walk the dog, or drive from A to B, and you enjoy blazing hot takes marinated in uncomfortably personal banter about Apple rumors, AAA gaming, whatever's streaming on TV, and life as a programmer, then yes!

If you like tightly-produced, heavily-sponsored, 30 minute panel discussions on a narrow topic, keep moving.

Solo? No cohost? Just you?

They are unusual, for sure. The podcast has a real drive time radio feel, which has become something of a lost in the current era that seems to dictate all podcasts must be interviews and panel discussions. Trust me, I have plenty of voices in my head for the both of us. When you're listening to Breaking Change, It's just me and you out there.

How do I get my ideas into the show?

Have a question you want me to answer or a hot take and want me to react to? Shoot me an e-mail at podcast@searls.co and I'll try to fit it on the next show! I read each and every e-mail.

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I started a second podcast called Merge Commits. It's a cool new interview show where the only rule is that I'm always the guest. As in, I am sometimes featured on other people's podcasts and I syndicate a Searls-only feed of them all for posterity. (Hence, "Merge Commits".)
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Wait, what is this?

A podcast that does nothing but mirror my appearances on other people's podcasts.

What? Why?

Well, sometimes I get interviewed as a guest on other podcasts, and I didn't necessarily want to throw them on the main Breaking Change feed. Breaking Change is designed to be an inclusive potty-mouthed podcast that never gets too technical, and if episodes started showing up in my cousin Jay's feed that were nothing but API technobabble, he'd probably unsubscribe. And to be honest, my ego needs every subscriber I can get.

Should I subscribe?

Two reasons you might want to subscribe to Merge Commits:

  1. You are a Justin Searls superfan, and you would like to consume every morsel of content I excrete (also: gross)
  2. You want to discovering new podcasts that occupy my particular corner of the Internet

If neither of these are particularly appealing to you, DO NOT SUBSCRIBE to Merge Commits. I want to be very clear about that.


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InfoQ: Testing the Frontend

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Lisa Crispin and I were both interviewed live from this offshoot of the national Agile software conference that was more focused on, you know, actual software. No one was surprised when it didn't last.

Appearing on: The InfoQ Podcast
Published on: 2016-05-26
Original URL: https://www.infoq.com/podcasts/crispin-searls/

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Fog Creek: Open Source Fragility

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Fog Creek (before it became Glitch) hosted me as the fifth and final entrant in its podcast series "Make Better Software".

Appearing on: Fog Creek: Make Better Software
Published on: 2015-11-04
Original URL: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/justin-searls-the-problems-with-open-source-and-how/id1042282738

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.NET Rocks: Mature TDD

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Came back to .NET Rocks to discuss TDD after the capital-A agile boomtimes.

Appearing on: .NET Rocks
Published on: 2015-10-20
Original URL: https://www.dotnetrocks.com/details/1207

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RubySteps: Building on Trust

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Pat Maddox used to have a podcast called RubySteps, and I joined to talk a bit about how we sought to differentiate Test Double from other software consultancies.

Appearing on: RubySteps
Published on: 2015-06-01
Original URL: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/005-justin-searls-builds-a-software-consultancy/id994166212?i=1000343723148

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Changelog: Lineman.js

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My first appearance on The Changelog podcast, promoting Test Double's doomed-but-now-defunct JavaScript project management CLI, Lineman.js.

Appearing on: The Changelog
Published on: 2014-08-28
Original URL: https://changelog.com/podcast/128

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.NET Rocks: Enterprise JavaScript

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Was a guest on the long-running .NET Rocks show with Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell to discuss the JavaScript world with a couple C# guys.

Appearing on: .NET Rocks
Published on: 2014-01-09
Original URL: https://www.dotnetrocks.com/details/940

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.NET Rocks: Live in Bulgaria

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One of the weirdest conference trips I ever took was to Sofia, Bulgaria, where I talked about JavaScript testing to a room full of .NET developers at a conference in a shopping mall run by Telerik.

Appearing on: .NET Rocks
Published on: 2013-10-29
Original URL: https://www.dotnetrocks.com/details/919

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Wide Teams: Test Double

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Avdi Grimm used to host a podcast about remote work, and he had me on to discuss Test Double. The fact we were remote from day one was a bit controversial back in 2011, as silly as that sounds now.

Appearing on: Wide Teams
Published on: 2012-06-20
Original URL: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-37-justin-searls-of-test-double/id526426688

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