Adam Stacoviak

​We're happy to have Adam Stacoviak, founder and editor-in-chief of Changelog, at PlanetScale's HQ for Changelog IRL! ​An evening of short talks and candid conversations about AI, developer tools, and what people are actually building. Adam will be joined by two featured guests, with plenty of time for audience questions, food, drinks, and hanging out.

I have been on an ongoing quest to free myself from cloud services for years now. During this time, I have hosted my personal email (@bloomqu.ist) on a Google Apps G Suite Google Workspace account, which, while convenient, also means that my personal emails are at the whims of one of the world’s most privacy-hostile companies. Google’s famous slogan. Obviously, this cannot stand forever. I wanted to self-host my email, but I know that self-hosting email is fraught with issues.

Intro Everyone 1 and their dog 2 loves Git. I know I do. It works, it’s efficient, it has a brilliant data model, and it sports every feature under the sun. In 13 years of using it, I’ve never found myself needing a feature it didn’t have. Until recently. But before I tell you about it, let’s talk about GitHub. There are three groups of GitHub users, distinguished by how they prefer to merge pull requests: Merge commit, squash, or rebase? There’s no single best answer to that question.