Richard Hipp returns (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

This week, Richard Hipp returns to catch us up on all things SQLite, his single file webserver written in C called Althttpd, and Fossil – the source code manager he wrote and uses to manage SQLite development instead of Git.

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Featuring:

• Richard Hipp – Twitter, Website
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

• The Changelog #201:Why SQLite succeeded as a database
• SQLite
• Althttpd
• Fossil SCM
• Bedrock
• DuckDB
• AskGit
• Chisel
• Pkchr

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!