What actually makes you senior (Changelog News #172)

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Matheus Lima on what makes senior developers actually senior, Tega Brain created a browser extension for avoiding AI slop, Andrew Kelley moves Zig from GitHub to Codeberg, Matias Heikkilä says there’s no free lunch for vibe coding, and your SSD data at rest might be at risk.

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1. What up, "sotl" nerds? (00:00:00)

https://changelog.fm/sotl

2. What actually makes you senior (00:00:49)

https://terriblesoftware.org/2025/11/25/what-actually-makes-you-senior/?utm_source=changelog-news

3. Slop Evader (00:02:05)

https://tegabrain.com/Slop-Evader?utm_source=changelog-news

4. Zig moves off GitHub (00:02:55)

https://ziglang.org/news/migrating-from-github-to-codeberg/?utm_source=changelog-news

5. Sponsor: Namespace (00:04:21)

https://namespace.so/?utm_source=changelog-news

6. No free lunch in vibe coding (00:05:34)

https://bytesauna.com/post/prompting?utm_source=changelog-news

7. Your SSD isn't as permanent as you think (00:06:52)

https://www.xda-developers.com/your-unpowered-ssd-is-slowly-losing-your-data/?utm_source=changelog-news

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9. That's the news for now (00:08:49)

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