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- Episode 555: After the Dream
This week, we discuss Gemini powering Siri, AWS’s biggest competitor, and AWS strategy choices. Plus, when should your next meeting actually start?
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 555
Runner-up Titles- Swedish Death Cleaning
- Give it a best effort
- Trying it bad for profits.
- That pen better be really good
- You do all the nerd shit, we’ll be cool
- Looking at a hundred rabbits’ assholes.
- The Kremlinologist of AWS
- The aaSes of Cloud
- They’ll like our apples better
- Running on hopes and dreams until you’re sure they don’t exist
- What we have is a situation
Rundown- Apple gets AI from Google
- Joint statement from Google and Apple
- Kuo: Apple's AI Deal With Google Is Temporary and Buys It Time
- Google's Apple AI deal marks 'huge loss' for OpenAI
- AWS in 2026: The Year of Proving They Still Know How to Operate
Relevant to your Interests- Anthropic reportedly raising $10B at $350B valuation
- Dell Reverses Course, Brings Back XPS Laptops
- Google is unleashing Gemini AI features on Gmail. Users will have to opt out
- Bose is open-sourcing its old smart speakers instead of bricking them
- Google Guys Say Bye to California
- Amazon gives managers a new way to spot who's barely coming into the office
- A decade of open source in CNCF with 300,000+ contributors and counting
- CrowdStrike to Acquire SGNL to Transform Identity Security for the AI Era
- Snowflake Announces Intent to Acquire Observe to Deliver AI-Powered Observability
- Nvidia Hires Google Veteran as Its First Chief Marketing Officer
- The Fediverse Experiment
- RIP the metaverse
Nonsense- American Airlines rolls out free Wi-Fi to loyalty members
Conferences- cfgmgmtcamp 2026, February 2nd to 4th, Ghent, BE.
- Coté speaking - anyone interested in being a SDI guest?
- DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA
- Use code: DEVOP for 50% off.
- Devnexus 2026, March 4th to 6th, Atlanta, GA. Coté has a discount code, but he’s not sure if he can give it out. He’s asking! Send him a DM in the meantime.
- KubeCon EU, March 23rd to 26th, 2026 - Coté will be there on a media pass.
- Whole bunch of VMUGs: Amsterdam (March 17-19, 2026), Minneapolis (April 7-9, 2026), Toronto (May 12-14, 2026), Dallas (June 9-11, 2026), Orlando (October 20-22, 2026)
SDT News & Community- Join our Slack community
- Email the show: [email protected]
- Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected]
- Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky
- Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok
- Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
- Sponsor the show
Recommendations- Brandon: Google Nest Doorbell (Wired, 3rd Gen)
- Matt: MTV Rewind
- Coté:
- “These 36 Airlines Offer iPhone Feature That Helps Find Your Lost Bags.”
- Distroless, Helm Charts, & Hardened Images: Security That Ships (with William Jimenez)
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1 hr 10 min - Episode 554: The Alpha and The Omega
This week, we discuss AI’s impact on Stack Overflow, Docker’s Hardened Images, and Nvidia buying Groq. Plus, thoughts on playing your own game and having fun.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 554
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Runner-up Titles- It’s all brisket after that.
- Exploring Fun
- Should I go build a snow man?
- Pets
- Innersourcing
- Two books Michael Lewis should write.
- Article IV is foundational.
- Freedom is options.
Rundown- Stack Overflow is dead.
- Hardened Images for Everyone
- Tanzu’s Bitnami stuff does this too.
- OpenAI
- OpenAI’s New Fundraising Round Could Value Startup at as Much as $830 Billion
- OpenAI Reportedly Planning to Make ChatGPT "Prioritize" Advertisers in Conversation
- OpenAI bets big on audio as Silicon Valley declares war on screens
- Sam Altman says: He has zero percent interest in remaining OpenAI CEO, once
- Nvidia buying AI chip startup Groq's assets for about $20 billion in its largest deal on record
Relevant to your Interests- Broadcom IT uses Tanzu Platform to host MCP Servers.
- A Brief History Of The Spreadsheet
- Databricks is raising over $4 billion in Series L funding at a $134 billion
- Amazon's big AGI reorg decoded by Corey Quinn
- “They burned millions but got nothing.”
- X sues to protect Twitter brand Musk has been trying to kill
- Mozilla's new CEO says AI is coming to Firefox, but will remain a choice | TechCrunch
- Why Oracle keeps sparking AI-bubble fears
- What's next for Threads
- Salesforce Executives Say Trust in Large Language Models Has Declined
- Akamai Technologies Announces Acquisition of Function-as-a-Service Company Fermyon
- Google Rolling Out Gmail Address Change Feature: Here Is How It Works
- The Enshittifinancial Crisis
- MongoBleed: Critical MongoDB Vulnerability CVE-2025-14847 | Wiz Blog
- Softbank to buy data center firm DigitalBridge for $4 billion in AI push
- The best tech announced at CES 2026 so far
- Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter
- Manus Joins Meta for Next Era of Innovation
- The WELL: State of the World 2026 with Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky
- Virtual machines still run the world
- Databases in 2025: A Year in Review
- Chat Platform Discord Files Confidentially for IPO
- The DRAM shortage explained: AI, rising prices, and what’s next
Nonsense- Palantir CEO buys monastery in Old Snowmass for $120 million
- H-E-B gives free groceries to all customers after registers glitch today in Burleson, Texas.
Conferences- cfgmgmtcamp 2026, February 2nd to 4th, Ghent, BE.
- Coté speaking - anyone interested in being a SDI guest?
- DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA
- Use code: DEVOP for 50% off.
- Devnexus 2026, March 4th to 6th, Atlanta, GA. Coté has a discount code, but he’s not sure if he can give it out. He’s asking! Send him a DM in the meantime.
- KubeCon EU, March 23rd to 26th, 2026 - Coté will be there on a media pass.
- Whole bunch of VMUGs, mostly in the US. The CFPs are open, go speak at them! Coté speaking in Amsterdam.
- Amsterdam (March 17-19, 2026), Minneapolis (April 7-9, 2026), Toronto (May 12-14, 2026), Dallas (June 9-11, 2026), Orlando (October 20-22, 2026)
SDT News & Community- Join our Slack community
- Email the show: [email protected]
- Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected]
- Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky
- Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok
- Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
- Sponsor the show: [email protected]
Recommendations- Brandon:
- Why Data Doesn't Always Win, with a Philosopher of Art (Apple Podcasts)
- Why Data Doesn't Always Win, with a Philosopher of Art (YouTube)
- Coté: “Databases in 2025: A Year in Review.”
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1 hr 13 min - Episode 553: 2025 Year in Review
This week, we review our 2025 predictions, discuss the big stories, and speculate on 2026. Plus, Coté dives deep into the EU broth market.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 553
Runner-up Titles- I was up at 1am thinking, “are there any good billionaires.”
- Maybe you forgot your shoes
- Not just room temperature, but cold
- I thought Europe was known for its soups
- Ice, air conditioning, and, broth - we have solved those three problems.
- Sloppy search
- Cutlery, tupperware, COVID
- The Young People.
- The Automation Apologist.
- I’m disappointed in everything
- Models don’t matter anymore
- Shade-tree programmer
- An empty farm in Waco
Rundown- 2024 Year in Review
- Scaling Platform Engineering in the CNCF Community - Abby Bangser
- Syntaso’s Platform as a Product book
- Claude Skills are way under-rated
- “Agents are [just] models using tools in a loop.
- 2026 Predications
- Are we in an AI Bubble?
- Do Anthropic or OpenAI IPO?
- New AI use cases?
- Altman remain CEO?
- Do Apple or AWS make an AI acquisition?
- CFB Championship?
Conferences- cfgmgmtcamp 2026, February 2nd to 4th, Ghent, BE.
- Coté speaking and doing live SDI with John Willis.
- DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA
- Use code: DEVOP for 50% off.
- Devnexus 2026, March 4th to 6th, Atlanta, GA. Coté has a discount code, but he’s not sure if he can give it out. He’s asking! Send him a DM in the meantime.
- Whole bunch of VMUGs, mostly in the US. The CFPs are open, go speak at them! Coté speaking in Amsterdam.
- Amsterdam (March 17-19, 2026), Minneapolis (April 7-9, 2026), Toronto (May 12-14, 2026), Dallas (June 9-11, 2026), Orlando (October 20-22, 2026)
SDT News & Community- Join our Slack community
- Email the show: [email protected]
- Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected]
- Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky
- Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok
- Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
- Sponsor the show: [email protected]
Recommendations- Brandon: Pluribus — slow but interesting
- Coté: AirPods Pro 3
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1 hr 10 min - Episode 552: Tech Strategy: Past, Present, Future
This week, Brian Gracely joins to dissect strategic choices made by Broadcom, Docker, Netflix and Intel. Plus: The AI Bifurcation—are models commodities or product pillars?
Rundown- Licensing in VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0
- Hardened Images for Everyone
- Introducing Chainguard EmeritOSS
- Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros.
- Anthropic reportedly preparing for one of the largest IPOs
Conferences- cfgmgmtcamp 2026, February 2nd to 4th, Ghent, BE.
- Coté speaking and doing live SDI with John Willis.
- DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA
- Use code: DEVOP for 50% off.
- Devnexus 2026, March 4th to 6th, Atlanta, GA.
- Whole bunch of VMUGs, mostly in the US. The CFPs are open, go speak at them! Coté speaking in Amsterdam.
- Amsterdam (March 17-19, 2026), Minneapolis (April 7-9, 2026), Toronto (May 12-14, 2026), Dallas (June 9-11, 2026), Orlando (October 20-22, 2026)
SDT News & Community- Join our Slack community
- Email the show: [email protected]
- Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected]
- Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky
- Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok
- Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
- Sponsor the show: [email protected]
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Special Guest: Brian Gracely.
1 hr 17 min - Episode 551: An Australian Documentary
This week, we discuss Oracle’s AI vibes, Chainguard’s EmeritOSS, and GitHub’s pricing U-turn. Plus, a robust robot vacuum debate.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 551
Runner-up Titles- It has CarPlay
- iPad Range Anxiety
- an Australian documentary
- Oracle got popped
- Intentions
- I don’t feel bad for them
- Open Source old folks home
- Spreadsheets love it
- Robots are going to take care of us
- The Median User
- Nobody feels bad for the whales
- I have a dog
- I have a Korean microwave
- We’re the Neal Stephenson of podcasts
Rundown- Ford pulls the plug on the all-electric F-150 Lightning pickup truck
- AI Investment
- Oracle plummets 11% on weak revenue, pushing down AI stocks like Nvidia and CoreWeave
- Oracle Shares Drop the Most Since 2001 on Mounting AI Spending
- OpenAI in Talks to Raise At Least $10 Billion From Amazon and Use Its AI Chips
- S&P 500 falls after nearing record as Oracle disappointment drags down AI stocks
- Inside The $1T AI Economy
- Introducing Chainguard EmeritOSS: Sustainable stewardship for mature open source
- Runners
- Announcing powerful upgrades & a new pricing model for self-hosted runners
- GitHub to charge for self-hosted runners from March 2026
- GitHub postpones changes to self-hosted runners pricing plans
- Why GitHub Why?
- Coursera to buy Udemy, creating $2.5 billion firm to target AI training
- Roomba Maker iRobot Files for Bankruptcy, With Chinese Supplier Taking Control
Relevant to your Interests- Harness raises a $240M Series E at a $5.5B valuation
- A great platform as a product paper, and a fun platform philosophy thereof
- Google Launches Managed Remote MCP Servers for Its Cloud Services
- Fake Leonardo DiCaprio Movie Torrent Drops Agent Tesla Through Layered PowerShell Chain
- Useful patterns for building HTML tools
- Waymo Seeking Over $15 Billion Near $100 Billion Valuation
- Write your CV or resume as YAML, then run RenderCV, and get a PDF with perfect typography. No template wrestling. No broken layouts. Consistent spacing, every time
- Roomba Maker iRobot Files for Bankruptcy, With Chinese Supplier Taking Control
Nonsense- The Full Text of Marco Rubio’s Directive on State Department Typography, Re-Establishing Times New Roman
Listener Feedback- Sent stickers to Jelle in Belgium
Conferences- cfgmgmtcamp 2026, February 2nd to 4th, Ghent, BE.
- Coté speaking and doing live SDI with John Willis.
- DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA
- Use code: DEVOP for 50% off.
- Devnexus 2026, March 4th to 6th, Atlanta, GA.
- Whole bunch of VMUGs, mostly in the US. The CFPs are open, go speak at them! Coté speaking in Amsterdam.
- Amsterdam (March 17-19, 2026), Minneapolis (April 7-9, 2026), Toronto (May 12-14, 2026), Dallas (June 9-11, 2026), Orlando (October 20-22, 2026)
SDT News & Community- Join our Slack community
- Email the show: [email protected]
- Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected]
- Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky
- Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok
- Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
- Sponsor the show: [email protected]
Recommendations- Brandon: Humble Audiobook Bundle: Shadows, Stars & Screams: Epic Audiobooks
- Matt: Termination Shock - Neal Stephenson
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1 hr 1 min - Episode 550: Typeface Philosophy
This week, we discuss how Netflix is disrupting media, IBM’s Confluent acquisition, and Anthropic buying Bun. Plus, an important discussion on fonts and typography.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 550
Runner-up Titles- Blame the children
- I never liked that font
- No emojis, this is business time
- Mahalo
- You need a Chief Economist
- On the cutlery tray
Rundown- Rubio Deletes Calibri as the State Department’s Official Typeface
- Cartridge
- Source Code Pro
- It’s Official: Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros. in Deal Valued at $82.7 Billion
- Confluent stock soars 29% as IBM announces $11 billion acquisition deal
- Bun is joining Anthropic
- Claude Code is coming to Slack, and that's a bigger deal than it sounds
- OpenAI enterprise usage study.
Relevant to your Interests- Antigravity Is Google's New Agentic Development Platform
- Amazon CTO Werner Vogels' Predictions for 2026
- ‘End-to-end encrypted’ smart toilet camera is not actually end-to-end encrypted
- AWS AI IDE, AgentCore throw down gauntlets for Microsoft
- Admins and defenders gird themselves against maximum-severity server vuln
- Andy Jassy says Amazon's Nvidia competitor chip is already a multibillion-dollar business
- 52 things I learned in 2025
- State of AI | OpenRouter
- Microsoft has a problem: nobody wants its poor AI products
- DHH & Open Source
- Gruber: Apple employees 'giddy' about Alan Dye’s departure - 9to5Mac
- Apple announces the departure of general counsel and policy chief
Nonsense- All of the Men’s Clothing We Loved (and Didn’t) From Costco’s Kirkland Signature
Conferences- cfgmgmtcamp 2026, February 2nd to 4th, Ghent, BE.
- Coté speaking and doing live SDI with John Willis.
- DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA
- Use code: DEVOP for 50% off.
- Devnexus 2026, March 4th to 6th, Atlanta, GA.
- Whole bunch of VMUGs, mostly in the US. The CFPs are open, go speak at them! Coté speaking in Amsterdam.
- Amsterdam (March 17-19, 2026), Minneapolis (April 7-9, 2026), Toronto (May 12-14, 2026), Dallas (June 9-11, 2026), Orlando (October 20-22, 2026)
SDT News & Community- Join our Slack community
- Email the show: [email protected]
- Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected]
- Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky
- Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok
- Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
- Sponsor the show: [email protected]
Recommendations- Brandon: Short Power Extension Cord Outlet Saver
- Matt: Everything is Tuberculosis
- Octopus Project - Music is Happiness
- Coté: The Octopus Organization.
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1 hr 11 min - Episode 549: The Fermi Paradox of Agentic Development
This week, we discuss AWS re:Invent announcements, Agentic Development, and OpenAI's Code Red. Plus, a Digital ID field test and more on silverware sorting.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 549
Runner-up Titles- Did you order the Code Red?
- In the year 2000
- Jane go swiftly
- Another day in the coal mine
- Goal Driven Development
- I want to believe
- Prove me wrong
- AI’s going to dig this hole faster
- Tornado of Innovation
- Revenue times Story
Rundown- SiteAngel - bonus press quote from Brandon
- AWS
- Amazon announces $50B investment to expand AI and supercomputing capabilities for US government
- Top announcements of AWS re:Invent 2025
- All the biggest news from AWS’ big tech show re:Invent 2025
- AWS announces preview of AWS Interconnect - multicloud
- The Future of AWS CodeCommit | Amazon Web Services
- Nova Act
- Code Red
- OpenAI CEO declares “code red” as Gemini gains 20 0 million users in 3 months
- Anthropic reportedly preparing for one of the largest IPOs ever in race with OpenAI: FT
- Microsoft stock sinks on report AI product sales are missing growth goals
- AI & Cloud Trends for November 2025
Relevant to your Interests- Under My Roof Home Inventory + App - App Store
- Thoma Bravo invests in Azul
- Streamline Development with the Google Workspace Extension
- As its voice dictation app takes off, Wispr secures $25M from Notable Capital | TechCrunch
- Valve makes almost $50 million per employee
- HelixGuard
- What to know about a recent Mixpanel security incident
- ServiceNow to Expand Security Portfolio With Acquisition of Veza’s Leading AI-native Identity Security Platform
- Vista-Backed LogicMonitor Buys Monitoring Startup Catchpoint
- Google releases Nano Banana Pro, its latest image generation model
- Years of JSONFormatter and CodeBeautify Leaks Expose Thousands of Passwords and API Keys
- Netflix kills casting from phones
Nonsense- Victorian Name Generator
Conferences- cfgmgmtcamp 2026, February 2nd to 4th, Ghent, BE.
- Coté speaking and doing live SDI with John Willis.
- DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA
- Use code: DEVOP for 50% off. CFP open until Dec. 1st.
- Devnexus 2026, March 4th to 6th, Atlanta, GA.
SDT News & Community- Join our Slack community
- Email the show: [email protected]
- Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected]
- Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky
- Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok
- Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
- Sponsor the show: [email protected]
Recommendations- Brandon: Dampf Good BBQ
- Matt: UmamiPapi chilli oil
- Coté: Anta, slightly more in English. Also XdgBaseDirs.
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1 hr 12 min - Episode 548: Household CMDB
This week, we discuss the Cloudflare outage, their current business strategy, and paying OSS maintainers. Plus, thoughts on loading the dishwasher and managing your home.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 548
Runner-up Titles- Mystery Knob
- Vegans are cursed vegetarians
- Skilled enough
- Defrag the dishwasher
- Design Intentions
- QR codes everywhere
- I don’t know where we draw the line, but I know where we start
- SDT IoT CMBD, Home Edition.
- SDT Open Source Money Maker
- Lead with Nagware
- Stocks go up, stocks go down
- Safari’s my naked browser
- Coté wanted to add periods to all of these but did not.
Rundown- FFmpeg to Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs
- Cloudflare blames massive internet outage on 'latent bug'
- Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025
- Replicate is joining Cloudflare
Relevant to your Interests- The Walt Disney Company Announces Multi-Year Distribution Agreement With YouTube TV
- Anthropic claims of Claude AI-automated cyberattacks met with doubt
- Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign
- Compact, human-readable serialization of JSON data for LLM prompts
- Outage Tracker | Updog By Datadog
- Jeff Bezos Creates A.I. Start-Up Where He Will Be Co-Chief Executive
- PowerPoint is your therapist, Gamma is your coach | Andreessen Horowitz
- Red Hat Introduces Project Hummingbird for “Zero-CVE” Strategies
- A new era of intelligence with Gemini 3
- The platform that needs a platform
- The AI Coding Startup Favored by Tech CEOs Is Now Worth $29.3 Billion
- The Smartest Fliers Use This App to Survive America’s Travel Hell
- Oracle's Market Cap Decline: Analyzing the Impact on Finance
- OpenAI's Fidji Simo Plans to Make ChatGPT Way More Useful—and Have You Pay For It
- Europe’s cookie nightmare is crumbling
Nonsense- AI-Powered Teddy Bear Caught Talking About Sexual Fetishes and Instructing Kids How to Find Knives
- Whipped Cream Worth $80K Stolen in Ontario
Conferences- DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA
- Use code: DEVOP for 50% off. CFP open until Dec. 1st.
SDT News & Community- Join our Slack community
- Email the show: [email protected]
- Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected]
- Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky
- Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok
- Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
- Sponsor the show: [email protected]
Recommendations- Brandon: The Beast in Me
- Matt: The Prestige
- Coté: Fantastic 4 with that Boba Fett guy, “Winter’s Mourning,” from Uncaged Goddesses.
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1 hr 3 min - Episode 547: Whitney goes to KubeCon
This week, Whitney Lee joins us to discuss KubeCon news, Coding Assistants, and conference tips. Plus, vegan food and note-taking recommendations.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 547
Rundown- Slutty Vegan
- Cloud Native Rejekts
- Maintainer Summit
- Conference Parties
- Ingress NGINX Retirement: What You Need to Know
- Linkerd Forever
- Migrating from Ingress Resources
Conferences- DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA
- Use code: DEVOP for 50% off. CFP open until Dec. 1st.
SDT News & Community- Join our Slack community
- Email the show: [email protected]
- Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected]
- Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky
- Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok
- Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
- Sponsor the show: [email protected]
Recommendations- Brandon: GE Attic Mount Digital TV Antenna
- Whitney: Obsidian, Wispr Flow
- Coté: MacWhisper
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Special Guest: Whitney Lee.
1 hr 10 min - Episode 546: The cURLing Test
This week, we discuss Facebook scams, engineering management trends, and the past and present of curl. Plus, when’s the right time to put up the Christmas tree?
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 546
Runner-up Titles- Matt has a lot of room tone.
- I shut the kitchen door .
- You gotta just reboot all of Australia every morning.
- Did you see my water dragons?
- Didn’t he die?
- I’m worried about the future.
- Quality of revenue.
- The spatula is higher than the plunger.
- This discussion has really raised my morale.
- I know what your API is.
Rundown- Meta estimates that it earns 10% of its revenue from scams, report says
- "Good engineering management" is a fad
- When CEO pay exploded
- Yes, really, curl is still developed
Relevant to your Interests- Apple Nears $1 Billion-a-Year Deal to Use Google AI for Siri
- Sam Altman on Trust, Persuasion, and the Future of Intelligence
- ‘Vibe coding’ named Collins Dictionary’s Word of the Year | CNN Business
- Automattic Inc. Claims It Owns the Word 'Automatic'
- IKEA Debuts 21 HomeKit-Compatible Smart Bulbs, Sensors, and Controls
- The wildest stuff Elon Musk said at Tesla’s shareholder meeting
- CNCF Launches Kubernetes AI Conformance Program
- Russia's grand reveal of humanoid robot couldn't have gone worse
- How AWS is losing the younger generation with complexity
- OpenAI Races to Quell Concerns Over Its Finances
- 'Big Short' investor Michael Burry accuses AI hyperscalers of artificially boosting earnings
- Here's How Much OpenAI Spends On Inference and Its Revenue Share With Microsoft
- Apple Announces Launch of U.S. Passport Feature in iPhone's Wallet App
Nonsense- Interview with Dying Company's VP
- As Seen on TV
Conferences- Wiz Wizdom Conferences, November 17-19, London
- The good hospitality from Keith Townsend.
- DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA
- Use code: DEVOP for 50% off. CFP open until Dec. 1st.
SDT News & Community- Join our Slack community
- Email the show: [email protected]
- Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected]
- Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky
- Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok
- Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
- Sponsor the show: [email protected]
Recommendations- Brandon: Pluribus
- Matt: Hades 2
- Coté: Camo
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