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November 24, 2023Episode 442: Dustin Kirkland on Securing Open Source Software
Brandon interviews Dustin Kirkland, VP of Engineering at Chainguard. They delve into Dustin’s experience as a part-time analyst, explore how Chainguard secures open-source software, and Dustin shares his hiking experience on the Camino de Santiago. Plus, some thoughts on men’s fashion and the timeless three-piece suit.
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Chainguard: Fortified Software Delivery
Chainguard Raises $61 Million Series B Round as Enterprises Move to Fortify Open Source Software
Battling the Trojan Horse in Open Source
Our Open Source focus: Securing OSS is not optional
Octopus wolfi
Camino de Santiago
My Walk on the Portuguese Camino de Santiago, 2023
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November 17, 2023Episode 441: The whole point of AI is laziness
This week, we recap the key announcements from Microsoft Ignite, ponder the broader implications of A.I., provide an update on OpenCost, and share some thoughts on migrating child accounts to teen accounts.
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Runner-up Titles
I just want to do less
Kill all the humans
Madlibbing his keynotes
They perked up and turned it off
Legs are the difficult thing
Everyone gets turned into a barnyard animal
Rundown
MSFT Ignite
With a systems approach to chips, Microsoft aims to tailor everything ‘from silicon to service’ to meet AI demand - Source
Microsoft Ignite 2023: all the AI news from Microsoft’s IT pro event
Microsoft and Photonic join forces on the path to quantum at scale - Microsoft Azure Quantum Blog
Introducing Copilot in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Guides - Microsoft Industry Blogs
Microsoft rebrands Bing Chat to Copilot, to better compete with ChatGPT
OpenCost and Azure
Announcing OpenCost Integration with Microsoft AKS Cost Analysis
Export cost details using the FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS)
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Microsoft restricts employee access to OpenAI's ChatGPT
Scoop: Amazon is ditching Android for Fire TVs, smart displays
Octoverse: The state of open source and rise of AI in 2023
Clouded Judgement 11.10.23
Keycaps » Special Edition Drop » dbrand
In a first, cryptographic keys protecting SSH connections stolen in new attack
Linux Foundation Creating The High Performance Software Foundation (HPSF)
2023: The State of Generative AI in the Enterprise - Menlo Ventures
Threat Spotlight: Reported ransomware attacks double as AI tactics take hold
YouTube, Ad Blockers & the Advertising "Tax"
Google sues scammers that allegedly released a malware-filled Bard knockoff
Apple gets 36% of Google search revenue from Safari, Alphabet witness says
RHEL and Alma Linux 9.3 released
Amazon will officially merge Comixology with Kindle in December
Nonsense
AWS staffer shows off former-prison offices on social media
Buc-ee’s and Mercedes-Benz are partnering to add high-speed chargers
In the Office Auto-Reply Emails for a Hybrid Work Schedule
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Facets | Helping you adopt Platform Engineering
8GB RAM in M3 MacBook Pro Proves the Bottleneck in Real-World Tests
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November 10, 2023Episode 440: KubeCon Chicago Recap
This week, we recap Matt's experience at KubeCon Chicago, provide some hot takes on OpenAI's impending App Store, and delve into Apple's claim that 8 GB is all you need.
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Runner-up Titles
Keep on keeping on
They’re not sandbox projects they’re litterbox projects
It was USB thing
If you spent all week in the OpenCost kiosk, this is the report
The platter days
Wait a second, I’m a pro
Microsoft Benchmark Home Edition
Vanity Metrics are for Vanity
Rub some A.I. on it
Rubbing A.I. on all of it
Of course this is the way you’re going to do it
Rundown
Apple insists 8GB unified memory equals 16GB regular RAM
CNCF
October 2023: where we are with velocity of CNCF, LF, and top 30 open source projects | Cloud Native Computing Foundation
AKS Cost Analysis: an Azure-native cost visibility experience built on the OpenCost project
Buoyant and SUSE Expand Partnership to Provide Secure Edge Computing Deployments
OpenAI
OpenAI is letting anyone create their own version of ChatGPT
All the news from OpenAI’s first developer conference
ChatCSV
How OpenAI is building a path toward AI agents
OpenAI debuts GPT-4 Turbo and fine-tuning program for GPT-4 | TechCrunch
CIQ, Oracle, and SUSE unite behind OpenELA to take on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Matt Ray’s Keyboard Quest
Andrew says gets switch tester
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Despite having just 5.8% sales, over 38% of bug reports come from the Linux community
IBM to scrap 401(k) matching, offer alternative benefit
AWS to Azure services comparison - Azure Architecture Center
PagerDuty To Acquire Jeli, Bolstering its End-to-End, Automated Incident Management Solution for the Enterprise
Verdict reached in Sam Bankman-Fried fraud trial
Sam Bankman-Fried found guilty of fraud
The GPU Math", AI's impact on Cloud Rev and Capex
Developer Productivity Engineering at Netflix
Europe is in Decline: A Concerning Future Ahead
Data observability platform Kloudfuse launches out of stealth with $23M
Elon Musk debuts 'Grok' AI bot to rival ChatGPT, others
Post Mortem on Cloudflare Control Plane and Analytics Outage
Datadog stock surges 30% after cloud company beats estimates, revises guidance up
Elevating Cloud-Native Innovation: Craig Box joins the Solo.io Team!
Mozilla will move Firefox development from Mercurial to Microsoft's GitHub • DEVCLASS
Understanding Open Source Adoption: Insights from the 9th State of the Software Supply Chain Report.
New Report Shows Disconnect Between Developers and Security Teams on Software Supply Chain Security Priorities and Responsibilities
Nvidia announces January event after rumors of an RTX 4080 Super launch
Former Apple designers launch $700 Humane AI Pin as smartphone replacement
Big Blue Can Still Catch The AI Wave If It Hurries - The Next Platform
Nonsense
Mint is shutting down, and it’s pushing users toward Credit Karma
Jeff Bezos Says He Is Leaving Seattle for Miami
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November 03, 2023Episode 439: You’re always going to be mad
This week, we discuss Cloud Earnings, OpenCost, the Free Software Product License, paying for Social Media, and Apple's latest announcements. Plus, Matt begins the search for a new keyboard.
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Runner-up Titles
Costservability
Just a second
439 episodes of podcasting nirvana
We’ve never made a mistake
A million Amazon users of Copilot
Chrome exists to serve RAM sales
Two Turntables and a Microphone
Default Search Engines
Rundown
Cloud Earnings Review
Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Q3 2023 Earnings Analysis
Amazon's Jassy: We're 'surprised' at growth of our generative AI business
Clouded Judgement 10.27.23 - Cloud Giants Report Q3 '23
OpenCost Expands Its Horizon: Introducing Multi-Cloud Cost Monitoring
Free Software Product
Open Source in Numbers: The Terraform License Change Impact on Contribution
Open Source and Capitalism with Ashley Williams and Adam Jacob / Oxide
Business Models
Default Search Engine
Google reportedly pays $18 billion a year to be Apple’s default search engine
Google paid a whopping $26.3 billion in 2021 to be the default search engine everywhere
“Chrome exists to serve Google search.” - The Verge
Paid Social
Elon Musk will charge you more to avoid ads than Disney and Netflix
Facebook and Instagram launch a paid ad-free subscription
YouTube tries to kill ad blockers in push for ad dollars, Premium subs
SolarWinds
SEC sues SolarWinds for misleading investors before 2020 hack
Observability provider SolarWinds reportedly exploring a sale
Bad Passwords Are Securities Fraud
Apple
Apple unveils new MacBook Pro featuring M3 chips
Behind the scenes at Scary Fast: Apple’s keynote event shot on iPhone
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The Cloud Computer
Linux Foundation Adopting Terraform Fork Provokes Ire of HashiCorp CEO
12-inch MacBook could return as a budget model, suggests leaker
X usage plummets in Musk's first year as owner
Zuckerberg says Threads has almost 100 million monthly users
Google Fiber is getting outrageously fast 20Gbps service
Alphabet sees $165 billion in market cap wiped after cloud business growth disappoints Wall Street
VMware closes its home for experimental software
Samsung adds DisplayPort and more Multi View options to second massive Ark monitor
Drugmakers Are Set to Pay 23andMe Millions to Access Consumer DNA
What's new in Red Hat OpenShift
Announcing the Platform Engineering Maturity Model
Welcoming Clearbit to the HubSpot Team
Broadcom and VMWare Say $61 Billion Deal Will Close 'Soon'
Chainguard Raises $61 Million Series B Round as Enterprises Move to Fortify Open Source Software
Nonsense
Toyota’s Chairman Is Having His ‘I Told You So Moment’ About EVs
Why Is Apple's USB-C Cable $130?
The restaurant nearest Google
Boston Dynamics turned its robot dog into a talking tour guide with ChatGPT
Unilever is selling Dollar Shave Club to private equity
WeWork Plans to File for Bankruptcy as Early as Next Week WSJ
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Sudesh from Akami is hosting a happy hour at KubeCon
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1 hr 17 min
October 27, 2023Episode 438: This is a 20-year bug
This week, we discuss Microsoft and Google Cloud earnings, the future of passwords, the validity of DORA Metrics, and share some thoughts on esoteric Excel bug fixes.
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Runner-up Titles
Spicy takes and f-bombs
Not pants
Real scientists don’t use Excel
We fixed it
Private equity is coming for you
Jerks on the phone… go!
They’re going to steal our eyes and thumbs
Rundown
Microsoft fixes the Excel feature that was wrecking scientific data
Control data conversions in Excel for Windows and Mac
Cloud News and Earnings
Clouded Judgement 10.20.23
Microsoft blows past earnings estimates as cloud growth comes in hot
Microsoft has over a million paying GitHub Copilot users: CEO Nadella
Jamin Ball on LinkedIn: On the Microsoft earnings call
Google-parent Alphabet's cloud division misses revenue estimates, as Microsoft’s cloud booms
How AI-driven software creation tools speed up your development
Amazon launches European 'sovereign' cloud as EU data debate rages
Passwords
Hackers Stole Access Tokens from Okta’s Support Unit
1Password is the latest victim of Okta’s compromise
Passkeys (Passkey Authentication)
Apple may be planning a surprise October iMac announcement
Despite the Hype, Engineers Not Impressed with DORA Metrics
Amazon Could Reportedly Sign Billion Dollar Microsoft 365 Deal
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Broadcom and VMware Announce Election Deadline for VMware Stockholders to Elect Merger Consideration
Beijing weighs delaying approval of $69bn Broadcom-VMware deal
Announcing Neptyne for Google Sheets
Discord expands online marketplace as it tries to justify $15 billion valuation
Top Apple analyst says MacBook demand has fallen 'significantly'
Amazon managers can now sack employees who won’t work from the office 3 days a week
Amazon’s Andy Jassy Plans to Crash the AI Party
US v Google Antitrust Trial Transcripts I The Capitol Forum
Crane Venture Partners Flight 2023
How Ubuntu Linux snuck into high-end Dell laptops (and why it's called 'Project Sputnik')
What’s inside Apple’s $129 Thunderbolt cable?
Why can't our tech billionaires learn anything new?
Amazon Could Reportedly Sign Billion Dollar Microsoft 365 Deal
Stay in EU, comply with EU law: EU’s digital chief warns X’s Musk
Meta sued by 42 attorneys general for addictive features targeting kids
Apple Silicon M1 Power Consumption Deep Dive Part 1: Safari vs Chrome
Automattic is acquiring Texts and betting big on the future of messaging
The founder of startup Bonobos hid a bipolar diagnosis for decades. Now he’s on a mission to destigmatize mental health at work
Sam Bankman-Fried Set to Testify at His Fraud Trial
Fed wants to lower 'swipe fees,' a potential blow to banks and credit card giants
Nonsense
Costco CEO Craig Jelinek to step down Jan. 1. COO Ron Vachris will take over
McKinsey: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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October 20, 2023Episode 437: The Let it Ride Lifestyle
This week, we discuss Amazon embracing Microsoft Office 365, offer some SBF hot takes, and review the lessons Docker learned when building an open-source business. Plus, we share thoughts on the new Apple Pencil, USB-C, and some Tim Cook fan fiction.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 437
Runner-up Titles
My enemy’s Word Processor is my friend.
You know what we should do, we should just meet about it.
A downgrade would be an upgrade.
Megadeal’s a great word.
It worked for Shingy
Use my template.
Rundown
Amazon moves to the cloud
Microsoft is preparing to bring on Amazon as a customer of its 365 cloud tools in a $1 billion megadeal, according to an internal document
Report: Amazon will use Microsoft 365 cloud productivity tools in $1B ‘megadeal’
SBF
Sam Bankman-Fried’s legal peril deepens as his defense comes up short
Number Goes Up
Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
OSS
Business Success with Open Source
HashiCorp CEO predicts OSS-free Silicon Valley unless...
Docker at 10 — 3 Things We Got Right, 3 Things We Got Wrong
How open source foundations protect the licensing integrity of open source projects
VMware: What China Might Ask Of Broadcom Is Concerning Markets (NYSE:VMW)
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So Far, AI Is a Money Pit That Isn't Paying Off
IRS says Microsoft owes an additional $29 billion in back taxes
Six Months Ago NPR Left Twitter. The Effects Have Been Negligible | Nieman Reports
Data transformation startup Prophecy lands $35M investment | TechCrunch
Google turns up the heat on AWS, claims Cloud Spanner is half the cost of DynamoDB
Apple reaches settlement with Caltech in $1 billion patent lawsuit - 9to5Mac
We tried that, didn’t work
Engage a Wider Audience With ActivityPub on WordPress.com
Apple wants to update iPhones in-store without opening the packaging
Atlassian content cloud migration will work. Users, less so
Opinion | The Five-Day Office Week Is Dead
Minecraft becomes first video game to hit 300m sales
Marc Andreessen -- e/acc on X
Microsoft-owned LinkedIn lays off nearly 700 employees — read the memo here
Apple introduces new Apple Pencil, bringing more value and choice to the lineup
SiFive Rolls Out RISC-V Cores Aimed at Generative AI and ML
Apple introduces new Apple Pencil, bringing more value and choice to the lineup
Amazon quietly rolls out support for passkeys, with a catch | TechCrunch
The price of managed cloud services
Microsoft launches Radius, an open-source application platform for the cloud-native era
UK Atlassian users complain of migration dead end
Passwordless authentication startup SecureW2 raises $80M from Insight Partners
Convicted Fugees rapper Pras Michel's lawyer used AI to draft bungled closing argument
IRS to offer a new option to file your tax return
Welcoming Loom to the Atlassian team
Nonsense
Costco sold $9B of clothing in 2022
United's new boarding system prioritizes window seats
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October 13, 2023Episode 436: Understand what you’re measuring, or you’ll just get measurements
This week, we discuss measuring developer productivity, Unity licensing backlash, and some follow-up on Wireless Emergency Alerts. Plus, thoughts on coconuts.
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Runner-up Titles
One day an ice machine will run on RISC-V
Mo Developers Mo Problems
W3C my ass.
That’s almost an aggressive blue.
Wait. Do I live in an office complex?
You pay the same
Quarantine Quarters
Maybe I have too much mindlessness
Out of my way Costco, I’m going direct.
Candy Corn
Have you tried a bubble-sort?
Omerta for developers
Understand what you’re measuring, or you’ll just get measurements.
KCNA23VMWEO20
Just make the bed
Rundown
Developer Productivity
McKinsey Developer Productivity Review
Even longer rebuttal.
The only people who don’t like metrics are the people being measured, or, developer productivity metrics quicksand
Reports
Kubernetes at Scale: Challenges, Priorities, Adoption Patterns, and Solutions
Announcing the 2023 State of DevOps Report
John Riccitiello is out at Unity, effective immediately
Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA)
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Why companies still want in-house data centres
Understanding the Cyber Resilience Act: What Everyone involved in Open Source Development Should Know
PayPal faces new antitrust lawsuit claiming it unfairly stifles competition with Stripe, Shopify and more
DuckDB Labs puts limit on free support, rules out VC funding
Genetics firm 23andMe says user data stolen in credential stuffing attack
Hackers are selling the data of millions lifted from 23andMe’s genetic database
Datadog stumbles as Bank of America downgrades, citing recent checks
IBM CEO in damage control mode after AI job loss comments
Google announces new generative AI search capabilities for doctors
Be an Open Source Absolutist!
Google Cloud mitigated largest DDoS attack, peaking above 398 million rps
Nonsense
Ice Is Not Necessary. So Why Do Hotels Provide It for Free?
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RedHat hiring Principal Product Marketing Manager, OpenShift in Remote
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October 06, 2023Episode 435: SSH in a for loop but faster
This week, we discuss paying ransom to cyberattackers, an overview of the "Infrastructure as Code" market, and remote worker productivity. Plus, Matt provides a review of the Raspberry 5 and shares his reasons for refusing to install the Global Entry Mobile App.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 435
Runner-up Titles
All my takes are spicy, once I get enough caffeine
We’re doing this for science
No, just no, Dad
No exceeding expectations in that role
I will do horrible things with YAML
My business is my business
They don’t have room for purity
Rundown
Emergency broadcast not used by Trump
CBP announces new
MGM, Caesars Cyberattack Responses Required Brutal Choices
Creator of Ansible ships "Jetporch"
Cloud startup Pulumi raises $41M from Madrona, NEA to grow ‘infrastructure as code’ platform
Red Hat bins Bugzilla for RHEL issue tracking, jumps on Jira
Work From Home Works - Marginal REVOLUTION
The Raspberry Pi 5 is finally here
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OpenAI Seeks New Valuation of Up to $90 Billion in Sale of Existing Shares
Epic Games Asks Supreme Court to Hear Apple Case
FCC announces plans to reinstate net neutrality
Mark Zuckerberg reveals Meta AI chatbot, his answer to ChatGPT
Epic Games cuts around 830 jobs
How Swiggy migrated its k8s workload to Graviton
Passkeys: all the news and updates around passwordless sign-on
The potential gap
Apple acknowledges hot iPhone 15 Pros, says software fixes are coming
What's next for VMware? Long-term Virtzilla-watchers opine
Bill Ackman reportedly said he would 'absolutely' do a deal with X with his new SPARC funding vehicle
Open source Datadog rival SigNoz lands on the cloud with $6.5M investment
Okta acquires a16z-backed password manager Uno to develop a personal tier
Amazon Used Secret ‘Project Nessie’ Algorithm to Raise Prices
Look what ChatGPT vision can do.
Voice and Video Demos with ChatGPT, How AI Could Redeem Meta’s Mixed Reality Bets, OpenAI Explores Hardware
AI, Hardware, and Virtual Reality
The Senate’s email system melted down in the face of security test and reply-all chaos.
Nonsense
Costco is selling gold bars and they are selling out within a few hours
Costco Offers Members $29 Online Health Care Visits
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September 29, 2023Episode 434: Slides Benedict
This week, we discuss Cisco's acquisition of Splunk, AWS's investment in Anthropic, and VC Market Overview Presentations. Plus, we share some thoughts on Dungeons and Dragons, as well as standardized testing.
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Runner-up Titles
So much about sheep
Maybe Ten
Middle mega-cap
The data stays the same, only the story changes
Ribbon Wall
Rundown
Splunk
Cisco acquires cybersecurity company Splunk in cash deal worth $28 billion
Splunk Is Good For Cisco, But Cisco Needs To Convince Splunk Customers That Cisco Is Good For Them
AWS to invest up to $4B in Anthropic
Google invested $300 million in AI firm founded by former OpenAI researchers
Amazon agreed to invest up to $4 billion into Anthropic
I’s $240B Question
Anti Portfolio
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Upbound Contributes Control Plane Provider Technology to Crossplane
Your iPhone can now restore your Apple TV if the streaming box has problems
Elon Musk's Neuralink is recruiting patients for its first human trial
Roblox acquires voice moderation startup Speechly | TechCrunch
Harness launches Gitness, an open source GitHub competitor | TechCrunch
Broadcom-VMware Deal Inches Closer In China: Report | CRN
1Password rolls out public passkey support to its mobile apps and web extensions
Intel Unveils Industry-Leading Glass Substrates
Amazon's Prime Video will show ads unless you pay $3 more per month
Salesforce to acquire Airkit.ai, a low-code platform for building AI customer service agents | TechCrunch
Spreadsheets are the long tail of datasets that don’t have their own SaaS tool yet
Microsoft Cloud hiring to "implement global small modular reactor and microreactor" strategy to power data centers
Demand for Software Developers will STILL outweigh the supply.
No sacred masterpieces
Vista Equity Partners has quietly topped $100 billion in assets under management
ll iPhone 15 Models Can Be Connected To An Ethernet Cable Through The USB-C Port Via Dongle To Enable Incredibly Fast Wired Speeds
U.S. Accuses Amazon of Illegally Protecting Monopoly in Online Retail
Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024 with listeners migrated to YouTube Music
Tech layoffs are all but a thing of the past
Terraform fork OpenTF gets renamed to OpenTofu
What’s Up With Open Terraform? — Arrested DevOps
Open source is at a crossroads with Steve O'Grady from RedMonk (Changelog Interviews #558)
Ads are coming to Amazon Prime Video, unless you pay more
Airlines Are Just Banks Now
## Nonsense
F-35 crash: Pilot called 911 after parachuting into backyard
You can find love on Tinder for $500 a month, if you qualify for its elite tier
Apple Podcasts adds original programming from Apple Music, Apple News+ and other apps | TechCrunch
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October 5 - 6, 2023, Devopsdays Indianapolis 2023
Oct 9th Spring Tour Amsterdam
Oct 10th, 17th, 24th talk series: Building a Path to Production: A Guide for Managers and Leaders in Platform Engineering
November 6-9, 2023, KubeCon NA, SDT’s a sponsor, Matt’s there
November 6-9, 2023 VMware Explore Barcelona, Coté’s attending
Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas
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September 22, 2023Episode 433: Are you telling me GitHub is a good name
This week, we discuss why everyone is envious of Google’s Internal Dev Tools, examine the state of Git, speculate about how 37 Signals plans to reinvent software licensing with ONCE, and share a few thoughts on the Salesforce CEO’s recent comments about work from home.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 433
Runner-up Titles
Lost in an acquisition hole.
Headless Robot Dog.
It’s not better enough.
GoogHub
Why are you on the sad path
Once version 2 is a paid upgrade
You win interesting bingo
Rundown
The Full Circle on Developer Productivity with Steve Yegge
Git is awful. GitHub isn't good enough. It's killing us! (Steve Yegge)
Introducing ONCE
Salesforce CEO takes a bold stand on remote work
Salesforce to Hire 3,300 People After Layoffs Earlier This Year
Relevant to your Interests
David Sacks has a new SaaS startup for other SaaS startups
Results of Major Technical Investigations for Storm-0558 Key Acquisition
Now it's PostgreSQL's turn to have a bogus CVE
HashiCorp Retools Licenses And Software To Grow Its Business - The Next Platform
Clouded Judgement 9.8.23
Inside Hollywood's SBF Mad Scramble
Tubi The Free Streaming Service, Hits 74 Million Monthly Active Users & Almost 250 Free Live Channels As Cord Cutting Grows | Cord Cutters News
IBM Software mandates return to office for those within 80km
Cloud is here to stay, but at what cost, ask customers
Disney and Charter reach deal to end cable blackout in time for 'Monday Night Football'
Microsoft to kill off third-party printer drivers in Windows
Oracle revenue misses estimates as tough economy hurts cloud spending
No privacy in cars
Former CEO of China's Alibaba quits cloud business in surprise move during its leadership reshuffle
A Look Back at Q2 '23 Public Cloud Software Earnings
1 big thing: A long-term plan to secure open-source software
MGM takes systems offline after cyberattack
Disney-Charter deal represents new era for TV bundles
Salesforce introduces Einstein Copilot Studio to help customers customize their AI | TechCrunch
Arm prices IPO at $51 per share, valuing company at over $54 billion
Tim Gurner’s spray about ‘arrogant’ workers lays bare the economic sadism of our time
Cisco discontinues Hyperflex hyperconverged infrastructure
CloudBees Announces New Cloud Native DevSecOps Platform
Jet: Prepare For Liftoff
Artifact’s new Links feature makes it much more than a news app
TriggerMesh, RIP
Clorox says last month's cyberattack is still disrupting production
Excel clone built for Uber China exposed Microsoft mistake
Seattle startup MotherDuck raises $52.5M at a $400M valuation to fuel DuckDB analytics platform
Google’s Bard chatbot can now find answers in your Gmail, Docs, Drive
Elon Musk says X may go behind a paywall for everyone so he can 'combat vast armies of bots'
Restricted Source Licensing Is Here
OpenTofu
RoboFab is ready to build 10,000 humanoid robots per year | TechCrunch
Unified Acceleration Foundation Forms to Drive Open Accelerated Compute and Cross-Platform Performance
Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome
What is a service mesh? Why do you need a service mesh? And which is the best service mesh?
Did I Make a Mistake Selling My Social-Media Darling to Yahoo?
A new way of thinking about open source sustainability
Elon Musk moving servers himself shows his 'maniacal sense of urgency' at X, formerly Twitter
Cable TV Is on Life Support, but a New Bundle Is Coming Alive
Nonsense
McDonald's is getting rid of self-serve soda machines | CNN Business
Delta SkyMiles changes: Delta overhauls how you earn Medallion status in biggest change yet
Australian baby named Methamphetamine Rules
‘Take the Money and Run’ Artist Must Repay Danish Museum
Listener Feedback
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Conferences
October 6, 2023, KCD Texas 2023, CFP Closes: August 30, 2023
November 6-9, 2023, KubeCon NA, SDT’s a sponsor, Matt’s there
November 6-9, 2023 VMware Explore Barcelona, Coté’s attending
Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas
If you want your conference mentioned, let’s talk media sponsorships.
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!
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