Hiring only senior engineers is killing companies (Changelog News #163)

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Andrew Churchill thinks companies should really be hiring junior engineers, Addy Osmani announces Chrome DevTools MCP, GitHub lays out a roadmap to fend off npm attacks, Jerry Liu builds an app that generates a timeline of your day’s activities, and Sean Goedecke attempts to define “good taste” in the context of software engineering.

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1. What up, MLB nerds? (00:00:00)

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/46357017/mlb-approves-robot-umpires-2026-part-challenge-system?utm_source=changelog-news

2. Hiring only senior engineers is killing companies (00:00:50)

https://workweave.dev/blog/hiring-only-senior-engineers-is-killing-companies?utm_source=changelog-news

3. Introducing Chrome DevTools MCP (00:01:38)

https://addyosmani.com/blog/devtools-mcp/?utm_source=changelog-news

4. GitHub's plan for a more secure npm supply chain (00:02:24)

https://github.blog/security/supply-chain-security/our-plan-for-a-more-secure-npm-supply-chain/?utm_source=changelog-news

5. Sponsor: Changelog News (00:03:20)

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6. Generate a timeline of your day, automatically (00:03:51)

https://github.com/JerryZLiu/Dayflow?utm_source=changelog-news

7. What is "good taste" in software engineering? (00:04:57)

https://www.seangoedecke.com/taste/?utm_source=changelog-news

8. That's the news for now (00:05:56)

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