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- Episode 535: Don’t put randomness in your workflow
This week, we discuss AI disillusionment, the good and bad of AI use cases, and VMware news. Plus, we compare tech mergers to Taylor Swift’s engagement.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 534
Runner-up Titles- I’m going to turn off the Roomba
- Spider Patrol
- My old office had a door
- The dog was up all night
- Exiting our bubble
- The child’s name is Steve
- We don’t want to anger the Swifties
- It’s fine isn’t good enough
- I am leaving my wife for Google Search
- It’s all made-up anyway
- Anything you see, CSV just pops out
- Stop digging
Rundown- Trough of Disillusionment?
- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Concedes GPT-5 Was a Misfire, Bets on GPT-6 - Decrypt
- Suddenly, Silicon Valley Is Lowering AI Expectations — New York Magazine
- It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes
- The Search for Product Market Fit
- Clouded Judgement 8.22.25 - Workflows Are the New Databases
- AWS CEO says AI replacing junior staff is 'dumbest idea'
- Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately
- VMware
- Modern Private Cloud: The Data Center’s Next Chapter - Broadcom News and Stories
- Broadcom calls for tech to go back where it belongs: On-prem
- Feds: Critical Software Must Drop C/C++ by 2026 or Face Risk
Relevant to your Interests- Microsoft says U.S. law takes precedence over Canadian data sovereignty
- Removing XSLT From the Web Platform
- Walmart Fires VP for Taking Daily Kickbacks Starting from $30K
- YouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos. The results could bend reality
- Bye-bye barrel jack: Framework brings 240W USB-C charging to laptops
- Google scores six-year Meta cloud deal worth over $10 billion
Nonsense- Nerd! How the word popularized by Dr. Seuss went from geeky insult to mainstream
- K-Pop Demon Hunters os recommend in the Slack
- Python Package Management tool “uv”
- PROMOTE STICKERS
Conferences- 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: Gmail Manage Subscriptions
- Matt:
- Deskflow
- Search Engine: A Dubai Chocolate Theory of the Internet
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52 min - Episode 534: Capitalism is working
This week, we discuss the US backing Intel, SaaS staying power, and AI’s impact on deep work. Plus, Matt Ray’s moving tips and more kolache talk in the after show.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 534
Runner-up Titles- It’s all in your head
- Little brother podcasting
- Chaos Monkey Inspections
- “Let’s face it, everything runs on computers now.”
- AI - Army of Interns
Rundown- Intel
- SoftBank Group and Intel Corporation Sign $2B Investment Agreement
- Lutnick says Intel has to give government equity in return for CHIPS Act funds
- Trump Administration Discusses Taking 10% Stake in Intel
- The Return of Software
- Prompting is easy, people are hard.
- Just updating your Java version gets people’s hearts racing.
- Deep Thinking
- Will AI Usher In the End of Deep Thinking? — Plain English with Derek Thompson
- Will AI Usher In the End of Deep Thinking? - The Ringer
- AI coding tools may not speed up every developer, study shows
- Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity
Relevant to your Interests- Apple returns blood oxygen monitoring to the latest Apple Watches
- The AI Investor
- Apple’s Wallet app just made Amazon returns easy, and more is coming
- Cognition Cinches About $500 Million to Advance AI Code-Generation Business
- Three weeks after acquiring Windsurf, Cognition offers staff the exit door
Nonsense- Interview with Senior DevOps engineer 2025
Conferences- SpringOne, Las Vegas, August 25th to 28th, 2025. See Coté’s pitch.
- Explore 2025 US, Las Vegas, August 25th to 28th, 2025. See Coté’s pitch.
- Wiz Capture the Flag, Brisbane, August 26.
- 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 to 16th, London.
- 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: America's Team: The Gambler and His Cowboys
- Matt: IKEA delivery
- Coté: Patagonia Nomad Volleyball shorts, Terravia Tote Pack 24L.
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1 hr 23 min - Episode 533: It’s a Type 2 Kolache
This week, we discuss GPT 5.0, the emerging AI ecosystem, and why TAM is basically a bedtime story for investors. Plus, Coté serves up a masterclass on kolaches.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 533
Runner-up Titles- Yeehaw Buns
- Bush Turkey
- Pigs in Blanket
- The Czech Stop
- "The Central Texas Kolache Corridor"
- “I’m over here in Gemini-land.”
- What if this is as good as it gets?
- How smart are humans?
- You’re Tony Randall!
- Is this the dystopian future we signed up for?
- Extreme in Hungary (Tilberg, actually)
- I don’t think there’s a honey-badger outcome.
- All the porridge
- A bedtime story for investors
Rundown- OpenAI
- OpenAI Finally Launched GPT-5. Here's Everything You Need to Know
- OpenAI launches new GPT-5 model for all ChatGPT users
- GPT-5 is alive
- OpenAI is raising money at a $300 billion valuation
- Sam Altman says Gen Z are the ‘luckiest’ kids in history thanks to AI, despite mounting job displacement dread
- Three big lessons from the GPT-5 backlash
- Mr. Short-Term Memory
- The AI Ecosystem Apps are growing
- Your AI workloads still need a service mesh
- AI Security Company | Manage GenAI Risks & Secure LLM Apps
- Requesty - Unified LLM Platform
- The latest AI news we announced in July
- Oxide and Friends | Oxide's $100M Series B
Relevant to Your Interests- Google Pixel 10 | Soon
- The Man Who Beat IBM
- Linus Torvalds Rejects RISC-V Changes For Linux 6.17: "Garbage"
- Zuckerberg’s Compound Had Something That Violated City Code: A Private School
- The 20-Year David Ellison Plan
- AOL Will End Its Dial-Up Internet Service (Yes, It’s Still Operating)
- Ford's cheaper, simpler $30K electric vehicles are how 'we can make money on EVs,' CEO says
- Goodbye API Keys: Gemini CLI GitHub Actions with Workload Identity Federation
- I Tried Every Todo App and Ended Up With a .txt File
- Intel shares drop after Trump calls for CEO to resign immediately
- Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub
- GitHub will join Microsoft’s CoreAI division with departure of CEO Thomas Dohmke
Nonsense- The FDA Wants to Change the Definition of Orange Juice for the First Time in 60 Years
Conferences- SpringOne, Las Vegas, August 25th to 28th, 2025. See Coté’s pitch.
- Explore 2025 US, Las Vegas, August 25th to 28th, 2025. See Coté’s pitch.
- Wiz Capture the Flag, Brisbane, August 26. Matt will be there.
- 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, Frankfurt, October 7th, 2025.
- AI for the Rest of Us, Coté speaking, October 15th to 16th, London.
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: AirPods Max
- Matt: Devolutionary Times
- Coté:
- “Connaissais de Face,”
- “Evan Finds The Third Room.”
- Live performance of the song “People Everywhere”
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1 hr 7 min - Episode 532: Less Goofy. More Enterprise.
This week, we discuss cloud earnings, what’s driving valuations, and why AWS says it’s still early innings for cloud. Plus, Coté does a deep dive on Shipley Donuts.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 532
Runner-up Titles- Dangerous to do things in bed
- Free Donut Holes
- Dark Fiber
- BET
- A man can not believe anything that devalues their index funds.
- They just open sourced last year’s homework.
- It doesn’t use as many emdashes
- Anchorman Vibes
Rundown- AI & Cloud Trends for July 2025
- Cloud Earnings
- Microsoft posts Q4 beat on top and bottom line on cloud, AI strength
- Clouded Judgement 8.1.25 - The AI Operating Model
- Richard Seroter's Architecture Musings
- AI
- OpenAI’s new waited model whatever
- Simon Willson says local tool calling might be better
- Exclusive: OpenAI Secures Another Giant Funding Deal
- OpenAI has made $5.25 billion in 2025 so far, and Anthropic $1.5bn. In both cases, I have found a pattern of deceptive leaks of annualized revenues to suggest they're making far more.
Relevant to your Interests- How Olipop is sweetening the PTO deal for employees
- Anaconda Secures $150M Funding, Hits $1.5B Valuation
- Figma raises $1.2 billion, creating new playbook for going public in the summer
- AI vs. AI: Prophet Security raises $30M to replace human analysts with autonomous defenders
- API Simulation Reduces MCP Server, Microservices Overload
- Google loses appeal in antitrust battle with Fortnite maker
- Exclusive: More details emerge on how Windsurf’s VCs and founders got paid from the Google deal
- OpenAI is teasing a GPT-5 release.
- Cloud Software Group to Acquire Arctera
- For the first time, OpenAI models are available on AWS | TechCrunch
- Agents or Bots? Making Sense of AI on the Open Web
- Three weeks after acquiring Windsurf, Cognition offers staff the exit door
- Apple has now shipped 3 billion iPhones
- Apple Growth Rebounds on Strength of iPhone 16 Line, China
- Apple Earnings; Cook’s AI Comments; Apple’s AI Strategy, Redux
Nonsense- Microsoft’s Windows XP Crocs are no joke
Listener Feedback- JD recommends Charm
Conferences- SpringOne, Las Vegas, August 25th to 28th, 2025. See Coté’s pitch.
- Explore 2025 US, Las Vegas, August 25th to 28th, 2025. See Coté’s pitch.
- Wiz Capture the Flag, Brisbane, August 26. Matt will be there.
- 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, Frankfurt, October 7th, 2025.
- AI for the Rest of Us, Coté speaking, October 15th to 16th, London.
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: CalDigit TS4.
- Coté:
- Sunday roast at Mount St. Restaurant, London.
- Internal developer platform marketing series: part one, part two, and part three.
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1 hr 7 min - Episode 531: YAYAML
This week, we discuss the AI hype cycle, Astronomer’s viral moment, and yet another YAML flavor — KYAML. Plus, private equity is coming for your donuts.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 531
Runner-up Titles- Sometimes it’s hard to make money
- I’ve given into Big Donut
- Maybe you can fake your way through life
- At some point you have to have some expertise
- AI has no taste
- Can you fix my PowerPoint?
- There is a chance we’re all going to be naked soon
- Gobbling up the dark fiber
- WHYAML
- Waymo for Babies
Rundown- Beloved Texas doughnut chain sold to California equity firm
- AI Mid-Year Hype-Cycle Check-in
- Gartner hype cycle
- Betting on AI: The Delusion Driving Big Tech - Last Week in AWS Podcast
- Clouded Judgement 7.25.25 - TAMs Lie
- Microsoft’s AI CEO thinks Copilot will age and ‘have a room that it lives in’
- Flaw in Gemini CLI coding tool could allow hackers to run nasty commands
- Claude Code is a slot machine
- The Hater’s Guide to the AI Bubble
- 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey
- 2025 Stack Overflow sentiment and usage section
- Astronomer
- Data Pipelines with Apache Airflow
- Astronomer (@astronomerio) on X
- Ryan Reynolds' ad agency, was behind the Gwyneth Paltrow Astronomer ad
- Introducing KYAML, a safer, less ambiguous YAML subset / encoding
- Palo Alto Networks to acquire CyberArk in $25 billion deal
Relevant to your Interests- Microsoft's Satya Nadella says job cuts have been 'weighing heavily' on him
- IBM shares drop as software revenue misses
- MSFT Teams in your car?
- Y2K38 bug? Debian switching to 64-bit time for everything
- A.I.-Driven Education: Founded in Texas and Coming to a School Near You
- How Anthropic teams use Claude Code
- Anthropic unveils new rate limits to curb Claude Code power users
- Alphabet's Q2 revenue beats estimates as cloud computing surges
Listener Feedback- Steve recommends Lessons from Production Podcast
Conferences- Sydney Wizdom Meet-Up, Sydney, August 7. Matt will be there.
- SpringOne, Las Vegas, August 25th to 28th, 2025. See Coté’s pitch.
- Explore 2025 US, Las Vegas, August 25th to 28th, 2025. See Coté’s pitch.
- Wiz Capture the Flag, Brisbane, August 26. Matt will be there.
- SREDay London, Coté speaking, September 18th and 19th.
- Civo Navigate London, Coté speaking, September 30th.
- Texas Linux Fest, Austin, October 3rd to 4th. CFP closes August 3rd.
- CF Day EU, Frankfurt, October 7th, 2025.
- AI for the Rest of Us, Coté speaking, October 15th to 16th, London.
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: Uber Teen
- Matt: Software Defined Interviews - Chris Dancy
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1 hr - Episode 530: His proper name is Sasquatch
This week, we cover AI going rogue, Cloudflare declaring independence, and the secure container craze. Plus, Matt bravely judges 9 new emoji.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 530
Runner-up Titles- VP of getting it on
- Neutral trombone
- Good Margin
- Independent from what?
- The New Benevolence
- I have plenty of cynicism for other things
Rundown- Emojis
- Australian Bigfoot
- Unicode's new emoji refuses to put respect on Bigfoot's name
- Matt’s Rankings:
- Hairy Creature
- Trombone
- Treasure Chest
- Fight Cloud
- Orca
- Landslide
- Apple Core
- Ballet Dancers
- Distorted Face
- AI coding platform goes rogue during code freeze and deletes entire company database — Replit CEO apologizes after AI engine says it 'made a catastrophic error in judgment' and 'destroyed all production data'
- Cloudflare
- Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025
- Content Independence Day: no AI crawl without compensation!
- Accidental Tech Podcast: 649: Prove It With Cameras
- Anubis Web AI Firewall
- Announcing Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server for AWS Price List
- Chainguard builds a market, everyone else wants in.
- Bitnami Secure Images
Relevant to your Interests- Browser extensions turn Trojan and infect 2.3 million Chrome and Edge users
- Code was the least interesting part of my multi-agent app, and here’s what that means to me
- Dell employees are not OK
- How Uber Became A Cash-Generating Machine
- Clouded Judgement 7.18.25 - The Return of the Point Solution
- Mid-Year 2025 CNCF Open Source Project Velocity
- new Date("wtf")
- Intel axes Clear Linux, the fastest distribution on the market — company ends support, effective immediately
- The Epic Battle for AI Talent—With Exploding Offers, Secret Deals and Tears
- Cursor snaps up enterprise startup Koala in challenge to GitHub Copilot
- Lovable becomes a unicorn with $200M Series A just 8 months after launch
- Apple details how it trained its new AI models, see highlights
- Instacart’s former CEO is taking the reins of a big chunk of OpenAI
- The Enshittification of American Power
- Customer guidance for SharePoint vulnerability CVE-2025-53770
- Mike Lynch’s Estate Ordered to Pay Hewlett Packard $945 Million
- OpenAI announces ChatGPT agent for web browsing
- OpenAI’s new ChatGPT Agent can control an entire computer and do tasks for you
- ChatGPT Numbers
- Move Mesos to the Attic
- Anthropic hired back two of its employees — just two weeks after they left for a competitor.
- Investors Float Deal Valuing Anthropic at More Than $100 Billion
Nonsense- Coldplay’s Kiss Cam Exposes Astronomer’s CEO Andy Byron Alleged Affair With HR Chief Kristin Cabot
- Unicode's new emoji refuses to put respect on Bigfoot's name
- Atari Is Re-Releasing Its 2600+ To Celebrate Pac-Man's 45th Birthday
Conferences- Sydney Wizdom Meet-Up, Sydney, August 7. Matt will be there.
- SpringOne, Las Vegas, August 25th to 28th, 2025. See Coté’s pitch.
- Explore 2025 US, Las Vegas, August 25th to 28th, 2025. See Coté’s pitch.
- Wiz Capture the Flag, Brisbane, August 26. Matt will be there.
- SREDay London, Coté speaking, September 18th and 19th.
- Civo Navigate London, Coté speaking, September 30th.
- Texas Linux Fest, Austin, October 3rd to 4th. CFP closes August 3rd.
- CF Day EU, Frankfurt, October 7th, 2025.
- AI for the Rest of Us, Coté speaking, October 15th to 16th, London.
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: Magic Keyboard with Touch ID and Numeric Keypad for Mac
- Matt: Spirited
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48 min - Episode 529: Windsurf, AI Agents, and Kiro
This week, we discuss Windsurf being acquired (again), how much AI agents really help with coding, and AWS launching Kiro. Plus, Matt attempts to design a new closet.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 529
Runner-up Titles- "The backlog will always be with you."
- The things I dream about…
- Closet debt
- It’s about the money
- They call it business for a reason
- The children are the future
- The best and brightest are going to be making better advertising
- Ghost Developers are Architects
- TaskRabbit LLM
- Crabs in a pot
- You’re on a temporary plateau on your way to Product Management
Rundown- Windsurf and Coding Agents
- Is Cursor having their Docker moment?
- OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off — and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google
- Windsurf's CEO goes to Google; OpenAI's acquisition falls apart
- Cognition, maker of the AI coding agent Devin, acquires Windsurf
- It’s about the research. Ignore the money.
- How much does AI impact development speed?
- Measuring the actual impact of AI coding with Abi Noda, CEO of DX
- Introducing Kiro
Relevant to your Interests- How much money has Linda Yaccarino made as X´s CEO during her tenure?
- NLWeb: Tapping MCP for natural language web search
- Introducing Comet: Browse at the speed of thought
- AWS reportedly set to launch agentic AI marketplace with Anthropic next week
- New Smart Glasses Block Out All Real-Life Advertising
- Exclusive | SpaceX to Invest $2 Billion Into Elon Musk’s xAI
- Figma's $300k Daily AWS Bill Isn't the Scandal You Think It Is
- DraftGPT: The Brave New World of AI Hits the NBA
- Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab is worth $12B in seed round
- AI Tooling, Evolution and The Promiscuity of Modern Developers
Sponsor- Subscribe to the Fork Around and Find Out Podcast
Listener Feedback- Wes recommends reMarkable eReader
- Jeroen recommends BooX
Conferences- Sydney Wizdom Meet-Up, Sydney, August 7. Matt will be there.
- SpringOne, Las Vegas, August 25th to 28th, 2025. See Coté’s pitch.
- Explore 2025 US, Las Vegas, August 25th to 28th, 2025. See Coté’s pitch.
- SREDay London, Coté speaking, September 18th and 19th.
- Civo Navigate London, Coté speaking, September 30th.
- Texas Linux Fest, Austin, October 3rd to 4th. CFP closes August 3rd.
- CF Day EU, Frankfurt, October 7th, 2025.
- AI for the Rest of Us, Coté speaking, October 15th to 16th, London.
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: F1 The Movie
- Matt: Dune Prophecy
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48 min - Episode 528: You can’t spell Clippy without CLI
This week, we discuss the return of command line tools, Kubernetes embracing VMs, and the steady march of Windows. Plus, thoughts on TSA, boots, and the “old country."
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 528
Runner-up Titles- Pool Problems
- Stockholm Pool Syndrome
- The Old Country
- VMs aren’t going anywhere
- Vaya con Dios
- This is why we have milk
- Why’s he talking about forks?
- Commander Claude
- The Columbia Music House business plan
- Beat this horse into glue
- Reinvent Command Line
- “Man falls in love with CLI”
- Windows is always giving you the middle button
- CBT - Claude Behavioral Therapy.
Rundown- TSA tests security lines allowing passengers to keep their shoes on
- KubeCon Is Starting To Sound a Lot Like VMCon
- Claude Code and the CLI
- Gemini CLI: your open-source AI agent
- Cursor launches a web app to manage AI coding agents
- AI Tooling, Evolution and The Promiscuity of Modern Developers
- Introducing OpenCLI
- Windows
- Windows 11 has finally overtaken Windows 10 as the most used desktop OS
- Microsoft quietly implies Windows has LOST millions of users since Windows 11 debut — are people really abandoning ship? [UPDATE]
Relevant to your Interests- Public cloud becomes a commodity
- Nvidia Ruffles Tech Giants With Move Into Cloud Computing
- Which Coding Assistants Retain Their Customers and Which Ones Don’t
- Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models
- Sam Altman upstages the critics
- The Ultimate Cloud Security Championship | 12 Months × 12 Challenges
- Denmark to tackle deepfakes by giving people copyright to their own features
- Why Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg went to war over WordPress
- How Nintendo locked down the Switch 2’s USB-C port and broke third-party docking
- CoreWeave to acquire Core Scientific in $9 billion all-stock deal
- Valve conquered PC gaming. What comes next?
- Datadog stock jumps 10% on tech company’s inclusion in S&P 500 index
- Jack Dorsey just released a Bluetooth messaging app that doesn't need the internet
- Unlock the Full Chainguard Containers Catalog – Now with a Catalog Pricing Option
- Oracle stock jumps after $30 billion annual cloud deal revealed in filing
- Docker State of App Dev: AI
- X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform
- Meta's recruiting blitz claims three OpenAI researchers
- OpenAI Reportedly Shuts Down for a Week as Zuck Poaches Its Top Talent
- OpenAI Leadership Responds to Meta Offers: ‘Someone Has Broken Into Our Home’
- Sam Altman Slams Meta’s AI Talent-Poaching Spree: ‘Missionaries Will Beat Mercenaries’
- Report: Apple looked into building its own AWS competitor
- Cloudflare launches a marketplace that lets websites charge AI bots for scraping
- The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers
Nonsense- After 8 years of playing D&D nonstop, I’ve finally tried its biggest alternative
- TSA tests security lines allowing passengers to keep their shoes on
Conferences- Sydney Wizdom Meet-Up, Sydney, August 7. Matt will be there.
- SpringOne, Las Vegas, August 25th to 28th, 2025. See Coté’s pitch.
- Explore 2025 US, Las Vegas, August 25th to 28th, 2025. See Coté’s pitch.
- SREDay London, Coté speaking, September 18th and 19th.
- Civo Navigate London, Coté speaking, September 30th.
- Texas Linux Fest, Austin, October 3rd to 4th. CFP closes August 3rd.
- CF Day EU, Frankfurt, October 7th, 2025.
- AI for the Rest of Us, Coté speaking, October 15th to 16th, London.
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: Park ATX Free Parking Codes: FREE15ATX1 and FREE15ATX2
- Matt: Careless People
- Coté: Wizard Zines bundle, Julia Evans.
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1 hr 10 min - Episode 527: Victor Adossi on WebAssembly
Brandon interviews Victor Adossi, an engineer at Cosmonic. They discuss the state of WebAssembly, wasmCloud, and why Wasm is poised for growth. Plus, Victor shares what it’s like to live as an expat in Japan.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 526
Show Links- Cosmonic
- Bytecode Alliance
- WebAssembly Specifications
- The WebAssembly Component Model
- Emscripten
- wasmCloud
- wasmCloud Examples
- Jco (Javascript ecosystem) Examples
- FFmpeg
Contact Victor- Github: t3hmrman and vados-cosmonic
- Twitter: @vadosware
- Web: vadosware.io
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Special Guest: Victor Adossi.
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- vadosware.io
1 hr 7 min - Episode 526: The Optimist, the Origin, and the Deck
This week, we unpack The Optimist, the new Sam Altman biography; revisit OpenAI’s early days; and break down Coatue’s AI strategy deck. Plus, tips for squeezing in side projects between thought leadership presentations.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 526
Runner-up Titles- Flow State
- Altman and AI
- Day 2 Thinking
- Growth Mindset
- Less of you
- You don't need a Harvard Business Review subscription to know that
- Running unnecessary hardware in your house
- Lifelong Costco member here.
- Pre-populate Everything
- There’s no ROI on a good hotdog
Rundown- AI Native vs. AI Add-on
- AI Frenzy
- The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future
- Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab valued at $10bn after $2bn fundraising
- ChatGPT's Enterprise Success Against Copilot Fuels OpenAI and Microsoft's Rivalry
- Iyo vs. Io — OpenAI and Jony Ive get sued
- Zuckerberg Leads AI Recruitment Blitz Armed With $100 Million Pay Packages
- After trying to buy Ilya Sutskever's $32B AI startup, Meta looks to hire its CEO
- Message from CEO Andy Jassy: Some thoughts on Generative AI
- Clouded Judgement 6.19.25 - The Dropping Cost of Intelligence
- Coatue's 2025 EMW Keynote Replay
- Slides in online PDF
- Coatue’s Laffont Brothers. AI, Public & VC Mkts, Macro, US Debt, Crypto, IPO's, & more
- Agents and the Web
- Remote MCP support in Claude Code
- Agentforce 3, it's agents all the way down.
- Google Cloud donates A2A to Linux Foundation- Google Developers Blog
- Linux Foundation Appoints Jonathan Bryce as Executive Director, Cloud & Infrastructure and Chris Aniszczyk as CTO, Cloud & Infrastructure to Oversee Major Open Source Initiatives
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- the six-month recap: closing talk on AI at Web Directions, Melbourne, June 2025
- Snap acquires Saturn, a social calendar app for high school and college students
- Frequent reauth doesn't make you more secure
- Checking In on AI and the Big Five
- U.S. House tells staffers not to use Meta’s WhatsApp
- How AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux Have Diverged Since CentOS
- AI search finds publishers starved of referral traffic
- 10 years of platform engineering at SIXT: Lessons in scaling and innovation - Boyan Dimitrov
- What Would a Kubernetes 2.0 Look Like
- kubectl-ai
Nonsense- Costco Executive Members get extended hours
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