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- Episode 545: No one cares about Chickens
This week, we discuss cloud earnings, Siri teaming up with Gemini, and AI bottlenecks. Plus, is cloning your dog weird?
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 545
Runner-up Titles- Stack the deck
- Pets and Chickens
- Blame it on Android
- They’re fungible
- Are they going to have to introduce a new principle?
- Managers of rocks
- The world we live in
- Marketing wins
- We’re the healthy skeptics
Rundown- Ex-NFL star QB Brady claims his dog is a clone
- Cloud Earnings
- AI & Cloud Trends for October 2025
- Alphabet tops $100 billion quarterly revenue for first time, cloud grows 34%
- Google Cloud Q3 revenue surges 34% as backlog hits $155 billion
- Microsoft Azure sees 40% revenue growth in Q1
- Meta stock drops 10% as heightened AI spending overshadows strong results
- Amazon revenues rise 13% on strength in cloud computing unit
- Clouded Judgement 10.31.25 - Cloud Giants Report Q3
- 7m OpenAI work users
- Amazon's culture went the wrong way
- Octoverse: A new developer joins GitHub every second as AI leads TypeScript to #1
- What do we think of GitHub saying there are 180m developers in the world?
- AWS and OpenAI announce multi-year strategic partnership
- Amazon stock jumps on $38 billion deal with OpenAI to use hundreds of thousands of Nvidia chips
Relevant to your Interests- Azure outage: Microsoft still working on fix, says recovery expected in several hours
- Microsoft takes $3.1 billion hit from OpenAI investment
- Meta Stock Slides After Earnings.
- AWS to Bare Metal Two Years Later: Answering Your Toughest Questions
- Meta denies torrenting porn to train AI, says downloads were for “personal use”
- Shocker! Reversal in AI ROI slide-wisdom: AI does works well
- SaaS Monopoly | Khushi Lunkad
- The State of Developer Experience and Developer Productivity
- Why the “Free” Chef Version Could Be Your Most Expensive Mistake | Chef
Nonsense- Disney yanks channels from YouTube TV after media giants fail to resolve carriage dispute | CNN Business
- Traffic hits record high as commuters rewrite the rush hour - Texas A&M Transportation Institute
- Denny's to be acquired and taken private in a deal valued at $620 million
Conferences- SREDay Amsterdam, November 7th, Coté speaking.
- Wiz Wizdom Conferences, November 17-19, London
- 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: Liquid Glass Transparency Toggle
- Matt: The Other Two
- Coté: NØLSON shirts
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1 hr 13 min - Episode 544: The Enterprise Turing Test
This week, we discuss Claude’s new Excel skills, whether AI is augmenting or automating humans, and the latest developer surveys. Plus, AI making the command line cool again!
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 544
Runner-up Titles- Cote’ shock jock mode
- Art with squids
- Command-Line Life Style
- AI isn’t for experts.
- The triumph of the command line
- The command line lifestyle is now available
- I don’t even know what sed is
- The Human Line
Rundown- Anthropic's Claude is learning Excel so you don't have to
- Amazon targets as many as 30,000 corporate job cuts: Reuters, citing sources
- The State of Developer Ecosystem in 2025
- “The Pragmatic Engineer 2025 Survey: What’s in your tech stack? Part 3.”
Relevant to your Interests- ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web - Anil Dash
- OpenAI acquires Software Applications Incorporated, maker of Sky
- PayPal shares surge 13% after OpenAI deal to become the first payments wallet in ChatGPT
- Internet Pioneer AOL to Be Acquired by Italian Tech Company Bending Spoons
- What is Configuration as Data?
- RDEL #115: What are the 2025 benchmarks for the DORA 4 metrics?
- a16z Is Funding a 'Speedrun' to AI-Generated Hell on Earth
- An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’
- Removing Jeff Bezos From My Bed ◆ Truffle Security Co.
- Grammarly rebrands to 'Superhuman,' launches a new AI assistant
- Why the “Free” Chef Version Could Be Your Most Expensive Mistake
- The Wayback Machine’s snapshots of news homepages plummet after a “breakdown” in archiving projects
Nonsense- How Hacked Card Shufflers Allegedly Enabled a Mob-Fueled Poker Scam That Rocked the NBA
Conferences- Wiz Wizdom Conferences, NYC November 3-5, London November 17-19
- SREDay Amsterdam, November 7th, Coté speaking
- DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA
- Uxse 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: Who Is Michael Lombardi? Debunking the Myths of UNC's GM
- Matt: Shell Game podcast
- Coté: "What Grant Reviewers Actually Look For (and What They Ignore)."
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1 hr 3 min - Episode 543: Arts and Crafts
This week, we discuss OpenAI’s new browser, AI trying to build spreadsheets, and when to use Claude skills. Plus, Coté explores the art of the perfect staycation.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 543
Runner-up Titles- Firewire is dead
- USB, what are you going to do?
- It’s like I tell my son: you know what to do, you chose not to do it.
- I am just a guest.
- I don’t need helpful
- An amazing hole.
- Slides for nobody
- You closed the loop
- It’s pretty amazing, but does it need to exist?
- Slackhole
Rundown- OpenAI
- Introducing ChatGPT Atlas
- OpenAI Is Building a Banker
- OpenAI has five years to turn $13 billion into $1 trillion
- AI agents are not amazing, they are slop: says OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy as he strongly disagrees with CEO Sam Altman on AGI timeline - The Times of India
- OpenAI’s ChatGPT will soon allow ‘erotica’ for adults in major policy shift
- OpenAI Inks Deal With Broadcom to Design Its Own Chips for A.I.
- Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP
- OpenStack Flamingo pays down technical debt as adoption continues to climb
Relevant to your Interests- Elon Musk will settle $128 million Twitter execs lawsuit
- GitHub Will Prioritize Migrating to Azure Over Feature Development
- The Discord Hack is Every User’s Worst Nightmare
- Cursor-Maker Anysphere Considers Investment Offers at $30 Billion Valuation
- Rubygems.org AWS Root Access Event – September 2025
- This Discord Zendesk compromise has gotten more silly
- WP Engine Vs Automattic & Mullenweg Is Back In Play
- Windows 11 removes all bypass methods for Microsoft account setup, removing local accounts
- Introducing the React Foundation: The New Home for React & React Native
- Wiz Finds Critical Redis RCE Vulnerability: CVE‑2025‑49844 | Wiz Blog
- DevRel is -Unbelievably- Back
- The Ruby community has a DHH problem
- YouTube rolls out its redesigned video player globally
- Oracle stock rises as company confirms Meta cloud deal
- Adiós, AirPods
- NVIDIA shows off its first Blackwell wafer manufactured in the US
- This Is How Much Anthropic and Cursor Spend On Amazon Web Services
- Automattic CEO calls Tumblr his 'biggest failure' so far
- Marc Benioff says Salesforce is saving about $100M a year by using AI tools in its customer service operations
- Amazon cloud computing outage disrupts Snapchat, Ring and many other online services
- Amazon Outage Forces Hundreds of Websites Offline for Hours
- Today is when Amazon brain drain finally caught up with AWS
- AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright - Dexerto
Nonsense- Streetlights Are Mysteriously Turning Purple. Here's Why
- Buc-ee's is not America's top convenience store; Midwest chain takes No. 1 spot
- French post office rolls out croissant-scented stamp
Listener Feedback- Jeffrey is looking for college interns.
Conferences- Wiz Wizdom Conferences, NYC November 3-5, London November 17-19
- SREDay Amsterdam, Coté speaking, November 7th.
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 PR Guy Who Says the AI Boom Is a Bust
- Matt: Comfort Ear Grip Hooks
- Coté: MSG on popcorn, Claude Skills, Masman Curry, Sora?
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1 hr 7 min - Episode 542: Yuriy Shyyan on owning your own Cloud.
Matt Ray talks to Yuriy Shyyan, the Director of Cloud Systems Architecture for OpenMetal. They discuss the cost of running your enterprise in the public cloud, high school hacking, building a business on OpenStack, and recognizing that cloud credits are an invitation to purchase a timeshare.
Show Links- OpenMetal.io
Contact Yuriy Shyyan- LinkedIn: Yuriy Shyyan
Sponsor- OpenMetal — Cloud Native IaaS. Fixed Cost.
SDT News & Hype- Join us in Slack.
- Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers!
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- Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.
- Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk!
Special Guest: Yuriy Shyyan.
Sponsored By:
- OpenMetal: OpenMetal — Cloud Native IaaS. Fixed Cost.
1 hr 3 min - Episode 541: Why not do everything
This week, we discuss Apps in ChatGPT, OpenAI’s Agent SDK and Codex. Plus, Matt has a possum problem down under.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 541
Runner-up Titles- Living in the dark ages of Sequoia
- He’s the racoon remover of the neighborhood
- Don’t say we don’t cover everything
- They’re hoping someone’s going to unlock a lot of value here, because I’m not seeing it
- The Low Code Trap
- Use the code “SDT150” and we’ll send you money
Rundown- Open AI DevDay
- The Next Great Distribution Shift
- AMD stock skyrockets 30% as OpenAI looks to take stake in AI chipmaker
- OpenAI’s Golden Touch Spreads as Stocks Soar
- OpenAI Is Good at Deals
## Relevant to your Interests- Your Meta AI Chats Will Soon Influence the Ads You See
- AWS API MCP Server v1.0.0 release - AWS
- Inside the cybersecurity boom, strong team, and bold gamble that helped Wiz CEO Assaf Rappaport win a $32 billion deal with Google
- Linus Torvalds Lashes Out At RISC-V Big Endian Plans
- Open Printer
- Have we passed peak social media?
- Apple working on MCP support on Mac, iPhone, and iPad
- A cartoonist's review of AI art
- GitHub leads the enterprise, Claude leads the pack—Cursor’s speed can’t close
- Cursor CLI
- Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.5
- GitHub Copilot CLI is now in public preview
- Meet Jules Tools: A Command Line Companion for Google’s Async Coding Agent
- Announcing The Gem Cooperative
- Qualcomm Buys Arduino, Will Bring AI Tools to Your DIY Tech Projects
Listener Feedback- Join the Boulder AWS - Amazon Web Services | Meetup
Conferences- AI for the Rest of Us, Coté speaking, October 15th-16th, London. Use code SDT20 for 20% off.
- Wiz Wizdom Conferences, NYC November 3-5, London November 17-19
- SREDay Amsterdam, Coté speaking, November 7th.
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: Shark NV352 Navigator Lift Away Upright Vacuum
- Matt: Murderbot
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55 min - Episode 540: How to build a factory
This week, we dig into the latest DORA report and OpenAI’s big product updates. Plus, some hot takes on airline status and the Eurostar.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 540
Runner-up Titles- Just plug in an iPhone
- Be helpful, not helpless
Rundown- Announcing the 2025 DORA Report | Google Cloud Blog
- OpenAI
- Agentic Commerce
- The New Sora App
- Introducing ChatGPT Pulse
Relevant to your Interests- Intel and Apple hold investment talks, no deal in sight - 9to5Mac
- Ed Zitron is mad as hell
- TikTok will stay: Trump signs executive order to keep app in the US
- 10+ Hidden Features in iOS 26
- Splunk .conf25: Forging a Data Foundation for Cisco's AgenticOps Vision
- JFrog SwampUp 2025: The Agentic Development Era Emerges From The Swamp
- RIP, AOL dial-up: Take a walk down memory lane to 5 other now-defunct tech icons that defined millennials' youths
- Logitech launches MX Master 4 flagship productivity mouse – the best mouse we've tested adds haptic feedback, circular Action Ring shortcuts
- Charlie Javice Sentenced to 85 Months in Prison for Fraud
- Spotify CEO Daniel Ek to step aside
- Cloudscape - Cloudscape Design System
- Cursor CLI
- Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.5
- Cursor CLI
- Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.5
- GitHub Copilot CLI is now in public preview
- Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover
- How Ruby Went Off the Rails
- Open source to closed doors: RubyGems control fight erupts
- Platform Engineering and AI - Two Buzzwords Finally Meet! | Michael Cote
Nonsense- Build-A-Bear Stock Outperforms Nvidia (The Onion)
Conferences- CF Day EU, Coté speaking, Frankfurt, October 7th, 2025.
- AI for the Rest of Us, Coté speaking, October 15th-16th, London. Use code SDT20 for 20% off.
- Wiz Wizdom Conferences, NYC November 3-5, London November 17-19
- SREDay Amsterdam, Coté speaking, November 7th.
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: Black Rabbit
- Coté: Sune, Hackney, London.
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1 hr 10 min - Episode 539: The Final Demand
This week, we cover Oracle’s OpenAI deal, the RubyGems drama, and Atlassian buying DX. Plus, does anyone still use widgets?
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 539
Runner-up Titles- It’s a two knob problem
- The healthy jaundice of success
- My homework is to go home
- Are you enjoying the widgets?
- I get you on the Ponzi Scheme
- Hanlon’s Razor strikes again
- Blogging: Hardest form of social media
Rundown- Oracle
- Exclusive | Oracle, OpenAI Sign Massive $300 Billion Cloud Computing Deal
- Oracle and OpenAI are full of crap
- OpenAI doesn’t have the cash to pay Oracle $300 billion — raising it will test the very limits of private markets
- Nvidia stock jumps on $100 billion OpenAI investment as Huang touts 'biggest AI infrastructure project in history
- Ruby Central Takes Over RubyGems
- Atlassian
- Atlassian acquires DX, a developer productivity platform, for $1B
- Atlassian acquires developer productivity startup DX for $1B
- The AI Shift: Static Software vs. Living AI Systems
- RSS co-creator launches new protocol for AI data licensing
- Nvidia to Invest $5 Billion in Intel, Furthering Trump’s Turnaround Plan
Relevant to your Interests- Tesla Wants Out of the Car Business
- Google is shutting down Tables, its Airtable rival | TechCrunch
- Oracle's stock pump, Meta's $600B, Bronny Ellison and Warner Bros, European stereotypes
- Atlassian goes cloud-only, customers face integration issues
- Getting a slice of the Kubernete$ management pie
- Cote on Multicloud
- ServiceNow Says Windsurf Gave Its Engineers a 10% Productivity Boost
- Most Work is Translation
- Microsoft warns users that Windows 10 is in its final days
- How to use Tahoe's new Use Model shortcut to summarize articles
- Credit scores drop at fastest pace since the Great Recession | CNN Business
- Workday to buy AI firm Sana for $1.1 billion as HR software deal-making heats up
- Wasm 3.0 Completed - WebAssembly
- Exclusive: AI's ability to displace jobs is advancing quickly, Anthropic CEO says
- From the facepalm community on Reddit: Meta's live AI cooking demo fails spectacularly
- Meta CTO explains the cause of its embarrassing smart glasses demo failures
- New H-1B rules sparked weekend chaos
- The Man Calling Bullshit on the AI Boom
- Trump’s H-1B visa fee isn’t just about immigration, it’s about fealty
- Vivaldi takes a stand: keep browsing human | Vivaldi Browser
- Zoom Bets on Agentic AI With AI Companion 3.0 Amid Sluggish Growth
- The Secret Service has dismantled a telecom threat near the UN. It could have disabled cell service in NYC
- Enterprise AI Looks Bleak, But Employee AI Looks Bright
- Obot AI Secures $35M Seed to Build Enterprise MCP Gateway - obot
- Announcing the 2025 DORA Report | Google Cloud Blog
Conferences- Civo Navigate London, Coté speaking, September 30th.
- Texas Linux Fest, Austin, October 3rd to 4th.
- CF Day EU, Coté speaking, Frankfurt, October 7th, 2025.
- AI for the Rest of Us, Coté speaking, October 15th-16th, London. Use code SDT20 for 20% off.
- Wiz Wizdom Conferences, NYC November 3-5, London November 17-19
- SREDay Amsterdam, Coté speaking, November 7th.
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: Task
- Matt: OpenCore Legacy Patcher
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57 min - Episode 538: Michael Irwin on Docker, Developers, and AI
Brandon interviews Michael Irwin, Principal Engineer at Docker. They cover Docker’s evolution, why hardened images matter, and how AI fits in. Plus, Michael shares stories from teaching computer science.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 538
Show Links- Docker
- Docker Hub
Contact Michael- LinkedIn: mikesir87
- Github: mikesir87
- Twitter: mikesir87
- Blog: https://blog.mikesir87.io/
Sponsor- Docker: Your foundation for secure, intelligent development
SDT News & Hype- Join us in Slack.
- Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers!
- Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube.
- Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.
- Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk!
Special Guest: Michael Irwin.
Sponsored By:
- Docker: Docker: Your foundation for secure, intelligent development
49 min - Episode 537: YOLO acquisitions
This week, we dig into Atlassian buying The Browser Company, whether Pay Per Crawl makes sense, and Oracle’s cloud jackpot. Plus, a quick lesson in Aussie slang.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 537
Runner-up Titles- "I have a plan to make things slightly better.”
- Matt Ray comes off the top rope
- We are in that demographic
- Flip-flops, thongs, and slides.
- No Translation Needed
- Do we have a fashion channel?
- Why not us too?
- Let’s just try it
- Hooters adjacent tech story
- Pay-per-crawl.
- I don’t know how DNS works, nobody does
- Cool, copyright, I love it
- Just lots of weird stuff going on.
- Y’all are weird
Rundown- Final thought on Australia
- Atlassian agrees to acquire The Browser Company for $610 million
- VMware buying Slide Rocket in 2011, which is now ClearSlide
- An Interview with Cloudflare Founder and CEO Matthew Prince About Internet History and Pay-per-crawl
- Anthropic Agrees to Pay $1.5 Billion to Settle Lawsuit With Book Authors
- Apple unveils iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max
- Catch up quick | Apple September event highlights
- Apple introduces AirPods Pro 3 with live translation feature
- Nvidia's top two mystery customers made up 39% of the chipmaker's Q2 revenue
- Oracle Financial's US parent jumps 27% in extended trading on Tuesday; Here's why - CNBC TV18
Relevant to your Interests- Google, Apple, and Mozilla Win in the Antitrust Case Google Lost
- Privacy Nightmare: Your Doorbell Camera Is Snitching to Insurance Companies
- Broadcom Stock Soars as AI Demand Drives Strong Earnings—Crucial Price Levels to Monitor
- Addressing the unauthorized issuance of multiple TLS certificates for 1.1.1.1
- Exclusive | Databricks Crosses $4 Billion in Annual Revenue Rate
- SpaceX strikes $17B deal to buy EchoStar's spectrum for Starlink's direct-to-phone service
- Google Cloud CEO sees sunny prospects thanks to AI demand
- Apple unveils iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max
- Catch up quick | Apple September event highlights
- Apple introduces AirPods Pro 3 with live translation feature
- Claude can now create and use files
- The $69 Billion Domino Effect: How VMware’s Debt-Fueled Acquisition Is Killing Open Source, One Repository at a Time
Nonsense- 2025 AI Darwin Award Nominees - Worst AI Failures of the Year
- Ground staff strike: KLM cancels over 100 flights on Wednesday - DutchNews.nl
Listener Feedback- Carless People
- What We’ve Learned About the Kawhi Leonard Situation—and What We Haven’t
Conferences- VMUG London, Coté speaking, September 18th.
- SREDay London, Coté speaking, September 18th and 19th.
- Civo Navigate London, Coté speaking, September 30th.
- Texas Linux Fest, Austin, October 3rd to 4th.
- CF Day EU, Coté speaking, Frankfurt, October 7th, 2025.
- AI for the Rest of Us, Coté speaking, October 15th-16th, London. Use code SDT20 for 20% off.
- Wiz Wizdom Conferences, NYC November 3-5, London November 17-19
- SREDay Amsterdam, Coté speaking, November 7th.
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: Python: The Documentary | An origin story
- Matt: macOS - Sound Output → another computer beats using a headphone switcher
- Coté: back to Obsidian. Marriott lifetime platinum luggage tags, check out this deep dive.
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1 hr 7 min - Episode 536: My search engine couldn’t help me
This week, we discuss the effectiveness of reorgs, Meta’s new AI team, and the Google antitrust ruling. Plus, some strong thoughts on cold brew and bathtubs.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 536
Runner-up Titles- Buy once, cry once
- Annual Recurring Regrets
- The Bathtub Problem
- Bathtime is My Time
- Your Daily Stoic
- No one cares about open source cold brew
- Once you have it pick up the phone and call someone, the dream of the Internet is dead.
- The Chrome ecoverse.
Rundown- The VC who married Paris Hilton uses his cryochamber twice a day and launches an AI agent before bed
- OpenAI starts building out its app team
- OpenAI shuffles executive roles, acquires Statsig for $1.1 billion
- Reorganizations
- Zuckerberg’s AI hires disrupt Meta with swift exits and threats to leave
- No Amount of Money Can Make People Want to Work for Zuck
- Inside Amazon's 'hardcore' culture reset
- New Research Debunks Open Source Business Model Myths
- Google gets to keep Chrome but is barred from exclusive search deals, judge rules
Relevant to your Interests- Opinion | A.I. May Be Just Kind of Ordinary
- Anthropic Settles High-Profile AI Copyright Lawsuit Brought by Book Authors
- Zen Browser — What Mozilla Firefox Should Be?
- Asahi Linux Lead Developer Steps Down
- How to prepare for the Bitnami Changes coming soon
- Metal³ - Metal Kubed
- How This A.I. Company Collapsed Amid Silicon Valley’s Biggest Boom
- AI Experts No Longer Saving for Retirement Because They Assume AI Will Kill Us All by Then
- Unix Co-Creator Brian Kernighan on Rust, Distros and NixOS
- Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters
- Tanzu having nothing to do with Kubernetes anymore
- There is no Tanzu Kubenetes, only VKS.
- Nvidia stock turns positive in premarket trading as investors buy dip following earnings report
- MongoDB Soars: Analyzing the Recent Surge
- NVIDIA Q2 Profit Soars 59% as Blackwell AI Surge Fuels Record Revenue
- Nvidia, $NVDA, has reported that a single customer accounted for 23% of its total quarterly revenue of $46.7 billion, per Bloomberg
Nonsense- The Dutch are quietly shifting towards a four-day work week
Conferences- VMUG London, Coté speaking, September 18th.
- SREDay London, Coté speaking, September 18th and 19th.
- Civo Navigate London, Coté speaking, September 30th.
- Texas Linux Fest, Austin, October 3rd to 4th.
- CF Day EU, Coté speaking, Frankfurt, October 7th, 2025.
- AI for the Rest of Us, Coté speaking, October 15th-16th, London. Use code SDT20 for 20% off.
- Wiz Wizdom Conferences, NYC November 3-5, London November 17-19
- SREDay Amsterdam, Coté speaking, November 7th.
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: GFiber
- Matt: Zen web browser
- Coté:
- Apple-brand woven USB cables (1 meter and 2 meter).
- Tenshi Sushi Duivendrecht
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