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  • 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.

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    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.
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                      • 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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                          • 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.

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                            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.
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                                            • Brandon: Uber Teen
                                            • Matt: Software Defined Interviews - Chris Dancy

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                                              • 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.

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                                                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:
                                                      1. Hairy Creature
                                                      2. Trombone
                                                      3. Treasure Chest
                                                      4. Fight Cloud
                                                      5. Orca
                                                      6. Landslide
                                                      7. Apple Core
                                                      8. Ballet Dancers
                                                      9. Distorted Face
                                                      10. 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'
                                                      11. 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
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                                                                  • Recommendations
                                                                  • Brandon: Magic Keyboard with Touch ID and Numeric Keypad for Mac
                                                                  • Matt: Spirited

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                                                                    • 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
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                                                                                • 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
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                                                                                    • Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky
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                                                                                    • Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
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                                                                                      • Recommendations
                                                                                      • Brandon: F1 The Movie
                                                                                      • Matt: Dune Prophecy

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                                                                                        • 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
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                                                                                                        • Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
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                                                                                                          • Brandon: Park ATX Free Parking Codes: FREE15ATX1 and FREE15ATX2
                                                                                                          • Matt: Careless People
                                                                                                          • Coté: Wizard Zines bundle, Julia Evans.

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                                                                                                            • 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.

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                                                                                                              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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                                                                                                                  • 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.

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                                                                                                                    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
                                                                                                                              • Relevant to your Interests
                                                                                                                              • Amazon orders employees to relocate to Seattle and other hubs
                                                                                                                              • Microsoft announces advancement in quantum error correction
                                                                                                                              • Datadog DASH: A Revolving Door Of Operations And Security Announcements
                                                                                                                              • 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
                                                                                                                                  • Listener Feedback
                                                                                                                                  • Warp
                                                                                                                                    • Conferences
                                                                                                                                    • CF Day EU, Frankfurt, October 7th, 2025.
                                                                                                                                    • 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.
                                                                                                                                    • Texas Linux Fest, Austin, October 3rd to 4th. CFP closes August 3rd.
                                                                                                                                      • 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
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                                                                                                                                      • Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
                                                                                                                                      • Sponsor the show: [email protected]
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                                                                                                                                          • Brimstone Angels
                                                                                                                                          • Rebels of Reason: The Long Road from Aristotle to ChatGPT and AI's Heroes Who Kept the Faith

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                                                                                                                                            • Episode 525: AI Native vs. AI Add-on

                                                                                                                                              This week, we try a shorter format inspired by the Dithering podcast. The conversation digs into the difference between apps built with AI from the ground up and those with AI bolted on after the fact.

                                                                                                                                              Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 525

                                                                                                                                              Rundown
                                                                                                                                              • Format inspired by Dithering
                                                                                                                                              • An Interview with Cursor Co-Founder and CEO Michael Truell
                                                                                                                                                • SDT News & Community
                                                                                                                                                • Join our Slack community
                                                                                                                                                • Email the show: [email protected]
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                                                                                                                                                  • Photo Credits

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                                                                                                                                                • Episode 524: It’s a Box in a Box

                                                                                                                                                  This week, we cover Apple’s WWDC updates—from containerization to Foundation Models—and the Linux Foundation’s new FAIR Package Manager. Plus, we crown the best SDT Uber rider.

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                                                                                                                                                  Runner-up Titles
                                                                                                                                                  • Infinite Workday.
                                                                                                                                                  • No more Eudora
                                                                                                                                                  • Revealed productivity.
                                                                                                                                                  • I threw up a tarp over my desk.
                                                                                                                                                  • We agreed to not talk about it
                                                                                                                                                  • It’s a box in a box
                                                                                                                                                  • alias docker=containerization
                                                                                                                                                  • When does systemd get an MCP server?
                                                                                                                                                  • All the AIs are above-average
                                                                                                                                                  • We’re not going to do anything and Apple’s going to make our podcast better
                                                                                                                                                  • I should go read it again, but I won’t
                                                                                                                                                  • Don’t make the Linux Foundation clean up your mess
                                                                                                                                                  • The Internet Foundation
                                                                                                                                                  • Option (Alt) + Shift + 2 == €
                                                                                                                                                    • Rundown
                                                                                                                                                    • Breaking down the infinite workday
                                                                                                                                                    • WWDC Enterprise Recap
                                                                                                                                                      • Containerization
                                                                                                                                                      • Mac containers
                                                                                                                                                      • Meet Containerization - WWDC25 - Videos - Apple Developer
                                                                                                                                                      • Apple updates Spotlight to take actions on your Mac
                                                                                                                                                      • Apple Supercharges Spotlight in macOS Tahoe With Quick Keys and More
                                                                                                                                                      • Foundation Models
                                                                                                                                                      • Foundation Models adapter training
                                                                                                                                                      • Apple brings ChatGPT and other AI models to Xcode
                                                                                                                                                      • Apple services deliver powerful features and intelligent updates to users this fall
                                                                                                                                                      • tvOS 26 Introduces Automatic Sign-In Feature for Apple TV Apps
                                                                                                                                                      • Welcome to WWDC25
                                                                                                                                                      • One Year Left: Apple’s Long Goodbye For Intel Macs
                                                                                                                                                      • Apple is shipping through it
                                                                                                                                                      • WordPress must play FAIR
                                                                                                                                                        • Linux Foundation Announces the FAIR Package Manager Project for Open Source Content Management System Stability
                                                                                                                                                        • WordPress veterans launch FAIR project to tackle security and control concerns
                                                                                                                                                        • FAIR Package Manager project
                                                                                                                                                          • Relevant to your Interests
                                                                                                                                                          • Door Dash delivery at O’Hare exposes hole in airport security
                                                                                                                                                          • Cursor's Anysphere nabs $9.9B valuation, soars past $500M ARR
                                                                                                                                                          • Ensh*ttification, Live! Micah and Cory Doctorow in Conversation
                                                                                                                                                          • Quant Firm’s $1 Billion Code Is Focus of Rare Criminal Case
                                                                                                                                                          • BYD Unleashes an EV Industry Reckoning That Alarms Beijing
                                                                                                                                                          • No Yapping
                                                                                                                                                          • Apple supercharges its tools and technologies for developers
                                                                                                                                                          • Starbucks to roll out Microsoft Azure OpenAI assistant for baristas
                                                                                                                                                          • The Modern Observability Roundtable: AI, Rising Costs and OpenTelemetry
                                                                                                                                                          • Python's Security Savior: Chainguard Battles Supply Chain Risk
                                                                                                                                                          • A Look Back at Q1 '25 Public Cloud Software Earnings
                                                                                                                                                          • Amazon’s Jassy Says AI Will Reduce Company’s Corporate Workforce
                                                                                                                                                          • Message from CEO Andy Jassy: Some thoughts on Generative AI
                                                                                                                                                          • The changing landscape for news podcasts across countries
                                                                                                                                                          • FAA to eliminate floppy disks used in air traffic control systems - Windows 95 also being phased out
                                                                                                                                                          • Incremental AI is better than civilization changing AI
                                                                                                                                                          • Message from CEO Andy Jassy: Some thoughts on Generative AI
                                                                                                                                                          • Meta in Talks for Scale AI Investment That Could Top $10 Billion
                                                                                                                                                          • Remote MCP support in Claude Code
                                                                                                                                                          • Sam Altman says Meta tried and failed to poach OpenAI's talent with $100M offers
                                                                                                                                                            • Nonsense
                                                                                                                                                            • TSA urges people to stop trying to use a Costco card as a sufficient REAL ID
                                                                                                                                                            • Buc-ee’s, a Pit Stop to Refuel Cars, Stomachs and Souls, Spreads Beyond Texas
                                                                                                                                                            • 201 ways to say ‘fuck’: what 1.7 billion words of online text shows about how the world swears
                                                                                                                                                            • Are you a loudcaster?
                                                                                                                                                              • Listener Feedback
                                                                                                                                                              • Wes recommends iSH — Linux shell of the iPhone
                                                                                                                                                                • Conferences
                                                                                                                                                                • CF Day EU, Frankfurt, October 7th, 2025.
                                                                                                                                                                  • SDT News & Community
                                                                                                                                                                  • Join our Slack community
                                                                                                                                                                  • Email the show: [email protected]
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                                                                                                                                                                    • Recommendations
                                                                                                                                                                    • Brandon: Watch Dept. Q
                                                                                                                                                                    • Matt: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered
                                                                                                                                                                    • Coté: INFILTRATE. SURVEY. PERCEIVE by Reyes Makes Games.

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                                                                                                                                                                      • Episode 523: Sterling Chin on APIs, AI, and Building MCP Servers

                                                                                                                                                                        Brandon talks with Sterling Chin, Senior Developer Advocate at Postman, about building great APIs, why AI needs APIs, and what’s new at Postman. Plus, hear how he made the leap from 3rd-grade teacher to dev advocate.

                                                                                                                                                                        Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 523

                                                                                                                                                                        Episode Links
                                                                                                                                                                        • Postman
                                                                                                                                                                        • POST/CON Keynote Recap
                                                                                                                                                                        • Postman Agent Mode
                                                                                                                                                                        • Postman API Network
                                                                                                                                                                        • Postman MCP Servers Directory
                                                                                                                                                                        • Postman Learn
                                                                                                                                                                        • Postman Academy
                                                                                                                                                                        • Join Postman Discord
                                                                                                                                                                          • Contact Sterling Chin
                                                                                                                                                                          • Web: www.sterlingchin.com
                                                                                                                                                                          • LinkedIn: @sterlingchin
                                                                                                                                                                          • Twitter: @SilverJaw82
                                                                                                                                                                          • BlueSky: @sterlingchin.bsky.social
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                                                                                                                                                                          • YouTube: @SterlingChin
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