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March 28, 2025Episode 512: Let’s Not Ruin This
This week, we discuss Apple’s AI struggles, the never-ending access management puzzle, and the latest Kubernetes vulnerability. Plus, let’s not kill the fun of Vibe Coding.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 512
Runner-up Titles
It’s either this or Chips
Break glass
I’m just making the worst soup
Everybody loves a quokka
They shipped the product, nobody used it
We’re at 95% of setting timers
Enterprise software fixes everything
Vibecoding for Dummies is already in print (not really)
Keep Vibe Coding Pure
By making it better, you are making it worse
I sold high, bought low and it’s still low
Rundown
Apple Media “clutching their pearls”
Apple puts the Vision Pro guy in charge of Siri
Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino
Access Management has taken over
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
Hegseth Disclosed Secret War Plans in a Group Chat
Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities in Ingress NGINX
Nvidia
Nvidia CEO stops by Denny's food truck to eat and serve Nvidia Breakfast Bytes
GTC AI Conference 2025
Vibe Coding
Not all AI-assisted programming is vibe coding (but vibe coding rocks)
The Vibe Coding Handbook
Relevant to your Interests
Tech worker found guilty of sabotaging company’s systems
SoftBank Group to Acquire Ampere Computing
Backstage is dominating the developer portal market
Clouded Judgement 3.21.25 - M&A Roars Back
‘Forced Joy’ Is a Miserable Corporate Trend
Nonsense
Office Space - Joanna - Your Flair
'I made the world's worst keyboard': This YouTuber's homemade board has over 1,000 keys and types in words, not letters
Mac - Lumon Terminal Pro
Conferences
KubeCon EU, April 1-4, London.
DevOps Days Atlanta, April 29-30
Cloud Foundry Day US, May 14th, Palo Alto, CA
NDC Oslo, May 21-23, Coté speaking.
SDT News & Community
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Recommendations
Brandon: Perform quick actions on iPhone
Matt: Audio Hijack Transcribe
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55 min
March 21, 2025Episode 511: G-Wiz
This week, we discuss Google acquiring Wiz, the rise of Vibe Coding, and what really counts as legacy software. Plus, Coté runs a post-acquisition all-hands meeting.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 511
Runner-up Titles
Tattoo “BUSINESS AS USUAL” on the inside of your eyelids
BUSINESS AS USUAL
One billion a month
Turns out they’re gonna put lions in the product.
Vibe coding is outcomes-focused.
Cote’s AI Thunderdome
Don’t make me learn
Think About Time
VibeCOBOL
I don’t like the no-head
Rundown
Google in Fresh Talks to Buy Cybersecurity Startup Wiz for $30 Billion
Intel board announces Lip-Bu Tan as new CEO
Vibe Coding
AI IDEs Need Moats
AI coding assistant refuses to write code, tells user to learn programming instead
Github Coploit does have an agent mode
AI coding assistant Cursor reportedly tells a 'vibe coder' to write his own damn code
Vibe Coder job listing
Legacy Software
Relevant to your Interests
Saudi Arabia Buys Pokémon Go, and Probably All of Your Location Data
Open R1: Update #3
Sonos has canceled its streaming video player
ServiceNow releases no-code, low-code AI agent builder
Meta Seeks to Block Further Sales of Ex-Employee’s Scathing Memoir
AirPods Getting Live Translation Feature Later This Year
Clouded Judgement 3.14.25 - Authentication in the Age of AI Agents
Google allows users to personalize their Gemini conversations with new features
Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture
Job Seekers Hit Wall of Salary Deflation - WSJ
Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino
OpenStack comes to the Linux Foundation | TechCrunch
Accusations of Corporate Espionage Shake a Software Rivalry
IBM Mergers: Closing on HashiCorp and Intent to Acquire DataStax
Nonsense
The Problem with Time & Timezones - Computerphile
Southwest Airlines CEO Video via WFAA
Southwest Airlines Just Broke the $5 Chicken Rule, and There Goes What Once Made It Great.
Conferences
SREday London, March 27-28, Coté speaking. 10% with code LDN10
Monki Gras, London, March 27-28, Coté speaking.
Cloud Foundry Day US, May 14th, Palo Alto, CA
NDC Oslo, May 21-23, Coté speaking.
KubeCon EU, April 1-4, London.
SDT News & Community
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Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
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Recommendations
Brandon: Severance **
Matt: Geoff Huntley’s blog
Coté: Barthes: A Very Short Introduction, Coté — When Shit Hits the Fan.
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March 14, 2025Episode 510: Vibe Code This Baby
This week, we discuss Discord’s IPO plans, Cursor’s big raise, and how much coding developers actually do. Plus, is Southwest making a huge mistake with bag fees and assigned seats?
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 510
Runner-up Titles
Cote’s not here, so we’ll keep it tight
They treated me like I’m stupid
I’m not here to buy into the culture
Go eats some rocks and glue
My head is full of simultaneous thoughts
Fly high Icarus, fly high
We are certain of the uncertainty
Rundown
Southwest Airlines shifts to paid baggage policy to lift earnings
Discord in Early Talks With Bankers for Potential I.P.O.
IDE Follow up
DevTasks outside of the IDE (PDF)
How Much Are LLMs Actually Boosting Real-World Programmer Productivity? — LessWrong
[AI [CursorStartup Anysphere in Talks for Close to $10 Billion Valuation
Market Trends
Nvidia Is Down 27% From Its Peak.
Millennium Loses $900 Million on Strategy Roiled by Market Chaos
Relevant to your Interests
OpenAI executives have told some investors about plans for a $20,000/month agent
Introducing the Framework Desktop
Utah becomes the first state to pass an app store age verification bill
Latest Turing Award winners again warn of AI dangers
Does Big Tech’s suckiness open the door for leaner startups?
Apple Explains Why the New Mac Studio Doesn't Have an M4 Ultra Chip
Your Boss Wants You Back in the Office. This Surveillance Tech Could Be Waiting for You
Melbourne start-up launches 'biological computer' made of human brain cells
What the Dot-Com Bust Can Tell Us About Today’s AI Boom
Microsoft is replacing Remote Desktop with its new Windows app
A 10x Faster TypeScript - TypeScript
Niantic's Next Chapter: Introducing a New Home for Niantic Games
iRobot Shares Drop 34% in Premarket Trading After Warning of Financial Uncertainty
Health NZ used single Excel spreadsheet to track $28b of public money
$16bn health agency managed finances with Excel spreadsheet
Oracle's Cash Squeeze
Apple Pulls iPhone 16 Ad Showing Off 'More Personal Siri'
Apple's AI strategy is showing troubling cracks
Nonsense
Swearing as a Response to Pain: Assessing Hypoalgesic Effects of Novel “Swear” Words
Chuck E. Cheese gets a rebrand — which means no more animatronic band
Listener Feedback
JD recommends The DuckDB Local UI
Conferences
DevOpsDays Chicago, March 18th, 2025.
SREday London, March 27-28, Coté speaking. 10% with code LDN10
Monki Gras, London, March 27-28, Coté speaking.
Cloud Foundry Day US, May 14th, Palo Alto, CA
NDC Oslo, May 21-23, Coté speaking.
KubeCon EU, April 1-4, London.
SDT News & Community
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Email the show: [email protected]
Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected]
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Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
Sponsor the show: [email protected]
Recommendations
Brandon: Belkin MagSafe Charger, 3-in-1
Matt: Wired
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March 07, 2025Episode 509: It’s like the Suburbs
This week, we discuss IBM acquisitions, IDEs in the age of AI, and bidding farewell to Skype. Plus, the dos and don’ts of using chat in corporate meetings.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 509
Runner-up Titles
I’m going to make a point until the other people stop talking
Is there a place I can type?
Rediscovering USENET
Let me introduce you to Del.icio.us
That Big Blue HOA
That assumes that enterprise IT is compelling
The Costco liquor store is Open Source
Lights out programming.
The WebKit of IDEs
The DevRel that makes a difference
Rundown
IBM roll ups?
Accelerating Production AI and Bringing NoSQL Data at Scale to All Enterprises
IBM Completes Acquisition of HashiCorp,
IDE up for grabs
AI disruption - code editors are up for grabs
Google launches a free AI coding assistant with very high usage caps
Google’s principles for measuring developer productivity
Goodbye
Update on Support for Amazon Chime
Exclusive: Microsoft is finally shutting down Skype in May, Om’s ode to Skype.
Relevant to your Interests
The Death and Life of Prediction Markets at Google—Asterisk
Microsoft’s Majorana 1 chip carves new path for quantum computing - Source
Microsoft Says It Has Created a New State of Matter to Power Quantum Computers
Trump Enforcers Affirm Lina Khan's Approach to Antitrust
No Rules Are Implicit Rules
Is AWS Delivering on Its 3-Layer Approach to AI?
Apple Unveils New Lower-Priced iPhone With A.I. Features
HP adds 15 minutes waiting time for telephone support calls
YouTube Plans Lower-Priced, Ad-Free Version of Paid Video Tier
Google may be close to launching YouTube Premium Lite
He created one of the world’s first websites. It was IMDb.
Processing 23 Billion Rows of ALIEN TXTBASE Stealer Logs
Introduction to Service Mesh
Slack is down — live updates on massive outage
Introducing Alexa+, the next generation of Alexa
Alphabet's Google cuts some cloud division staff, Bloomberg reports
British musicians release a silent album to protest plans to let AI use their work
NVIDIA Announces Financial Results for Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2025
The Job Market Is Frozen
The Hardest Career Shift No One Talks About
Intel breaking new organizational ground by formalizing the idea of a co-CEO that reports to a (third?) CEO to be named later.
NVIDIA's CEO Jensen Huang Addresses The "DeepSeek Fiasco" For The First Time; Says Investors "Overreacted" & "Got It All Wrong"
Uber and Waymo officially launch autonomous vehicle service in Austin; what to know
How to Get Hired When AI Does the Screening
How's that open source licensing coming along?
Apple unveils new Mac Studio, the most powerful Mac ever
Apple introduces iPad Air with powerful M3 chip and new Magic Keyboard
Sponsors
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Nonsense
Everyone Hates Pennies, Except This Guy
Mother's Flour Tortillas
A Comprehensive Guide to American Regional Cuisine
Listener Feedback
Episode 94: Adding more condiments to the 7 layer networking burrito, with Marino Wijay
Multi Tool
Warren recommends: Micra Multi-Tool | Leatherman
Mykel recommends ROXON 802 Phantom
Matt recommends the Swiss+Tech Utili-Key 6-in-1 Multi-tool | REI Co-op
Conferences
DevOpsDayLA at SCALE22x, March 6-9, 2025, discount code DEVOP
Open Source Career Day 2025, March 9, 2025
VMUG NL, March 12th, Coté speaking.
DevOpsDays Chicago, March 18th, 2025.
SREday London, March 27-28, Coté speaking. 10% with code LDN10
Monki Gras, London, March 27-28, Coté speaking.
Cloud Foundry Day US, May 14th, Palo Alto, CA
NDC Oslo, May 21-23, Coté speaking.
KubeCon EU, April 1-4, London.
SDT News & Community
Join our Slack community
Email the show: [email protected]
Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected]
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Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
Sponsor the show: [email protected]
Recommendations
Brandon:
“I’m Not a Robot” (2025 Academy Award Winner)
IKON Friends and Family Discounts
Matt: Zero Day
Coté: The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live.
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53 min
February 28, 2025 Episode 508: Software Defined Interviews Crossover: PaaS and Career Advice with Brian Gracely
This week, we're sharing a Software Defined Interviews episode. Coté and Whitney talk with Brian Gracely from the Cloudcast and Red Hat about cloud news, PaaS evolution, and career advice. If you like this, subscribe to Software Defined Interviews for more great conversations!
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Special Guests: Brian Gracely and Whitney Lee.
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February 21, 2025Episode 507: Battery of Potential
This week, we discuss how banks beat PayPal with Zelle, what the Wiz survey says about AI usage, and whether you can really “disagree and commit.” Plus, are multitools actually useful?
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 507
Runner-up Titles
Royal Human Skin
I feel bad for the multitools
The Hulu of Payments
Floppy disk mindset
Upgrading the status quo
The floppy disk mindset, the floppy disk award.
A triangle fighting itself.
Fancy database tools
Apple’s grammar powers.
Rundown
Zelle payments top $1 trillion in 2024 as network's growth outpaces rivals including PayPal
The State of AI in the Cloud 2025 | Wiz
How to add a directory to your PATH
Relevant to your Interests
Juniper CEO, HPE blast DOJ deal denial
These are the 50 most common four-digit PINs leaked on the dark web
Believing in Aliens Derailed This Internet Pioneer’s Career. Now He’s Facing Prison
Arm secures Meta as first customer for ambitious new chip project
Inside Amazon’s Messy Push to Bring Everyone Back to the Office
EU ditches plans to regulate tech patents, AI liability, online privacy
Jamie Dimon offered up candid, lengthy thoughts about remote work
TSMC Considers Running Intel’s US Factories After Trump Team Request
The danger of relying on OpenAI’s Deep Research
The Feds Push for WebAssembly Security Over eBPF
How to add a directory to your PATH
The “AI Agent As Coworker” Narrative Is Nonsense
This is Meta’s brand new ad for Horizon Worlds.
Jamie Dimon offered up candid, lengthy thoughts about remote work
Nonsense
Smalls Sliders: Cheeseburger Slider Restaurant
never obsolete
Gartner Hype Cycle Demystified
Smalls Sliders: Cheeseburger Slider Restaurant
Conferences
DevOpsDayLA at SCALE22x, March 6-9, 2025, discount code DEVOP
VMUG NL, March 12th, Coté speaking.
DevOpsDays Chicago, March 18th, 2025.
SREday London, March 27-28, Coté speaking. 10% with code LDN10
Monki Gras, London, March 27-28, Coté speaking.
Cloud Foundry Day US, May 14th, Palo Alto, CA
NDC Oslo, May 21-23, Coté speaking.
KubeCon EU, April 1-4, London.
SDT News & Community
Join our Slack community
Email the show: [email protected]
Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected]
Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky
Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok
Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
Sponsor the show: [email protected]
Recommendations
Brandon: Cursor
Matt: Fall; or, Dodge in Hell: A Novel
Coté: The Substance.
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February 14, 2025Episode 506: Put It On Ice
This week, we discuss how LLMs are changing software development, OpenAI’s deep research, and why the Gartner Hype Cycle persists. Plus, a business plan built entirely around ice!
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 506
Runner-up Titles
I bought the DevOps
I’m always looking for tomatillas
You’re making a strong case for RTO
The CEO of ice. The VP of Ice Machines.
What you are doing is toil
I think about WALL-E every day
Eliminating the first draft
Rundown
The End of Programming as We Know It
Apple Earnings, OpenAI Deep Research, The Unbundling of Substantiation
Gartner's Grift Is About To Unravel
Relevant to your Interests
Google goes heavy on investment but light on detail
Researchers created an open rival to OpenAI's o1 'reasoning' model for under $50
Dumping open source for proprietary rarely pays off: Better to stick a fork in it
Report: OpenAI's ex-CTO, Mira Murati, has recruited OpenAI co-founder John Schulman
Broadcom and Nvidia are capitalizing on the return of the winner-take-all AI trade
When will remote workers see their pay cut?
How Microsoft Releases Changes to Azure - Safe Deployment
Servers can last a long time
Matt Mullenweg: WordPress Controversy, Future of Open Source AI, and Navigating Backlash
Turn/River Agrees to Buy SolarWinds Years After Cyber-Attack
Gartner's Grift Is About To Unravel
Developer creates endless Wikipedia feed to fight algorithm addiction
You Didn't Notice MP3 Is Now Free
The DevTools Ceiling: great as Open Source, AND a Terrible Business
The VGHF Library opens in early access | Video Game History Foundation
Docker Announces Don Johnson as New CEO, Succeeding Scott Johnston
Developers Unhappy With Tool Sprawl, Lagging Data, Long Waits
Thomson Reuters Wins First Major AI Copyright Case in the US
Apple brings heart rate monitoring
Nonsense
TabBoo
Conferences
DevOpsDayLA at SCALE22x, March 6-9, 2025, discount code DEVOP
VMUG NL, March 12th, Coté speaking.
DevOpsDays Chicago, March 18th, 2025.
SREday London, March 27-28, Coté speaking. 10% with code LDN10
Monki Gras, London, March 27-28, Coté speaking.
Cloud Foundry Day US, May 14th, Palo Alto, CA
NDC Oslo, May 21-23, speaking.
KubeCon EU, April 1-4, London.
SDT News & Community
Join our Slack community
Email the show: [email protected]
Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected]
Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky
Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok
Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
Sponsor the show: [email protected]
Recommendations
Brandon: Oxide and Friends | AI Disruption: DeepSeek and Cerebras
Matt: Beats Fit Pro
Coté: Alfred. PoliticalWire.com.
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1 hr 6 min
February 07, 2025Episode 505: There Could be Extra Innings
This week, we discuss cloud’s never-ending “early innings,” OpenAI Canvas vs. Gemini, and Dell’s RTO reversal. Plus, is there such a thing as too much optimism?
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 505
Runner-up Titles
Fastball to the head
Not enough AI eggs
Toxic Positivity
Rundown
Cote’s Early Innings Research
Slides and stream recording of presenting it at cfgmgmtcamp 2025
Cloud Revenue
Microsoft Q2 cloud revenue falls short of expectations, sending the stock lower
Alphabet shares drop as much as 9% on revenue miss, soaring AI investments
Google parent Alphabet’s earnings disappoint Wall Street amid stiff AI competition
DeepSeek Debates: Chinese Leadership On Cost, True Training Cost, Closed Model Margin Impacts
DeepSeek Debates: Chinese Leadership On Cost, True Training Cost, Closed Model Margin Impacts
Dell RTO Timeline
Aug 2020: Dell: 60% of our people won't be going back into an office regularly
March 2024: ****Dell says remote workers must go hybrid if they want any hope of a promotion
Jan 2025: Dell ends hybrid work policy despite remote work pledge
5 Signs Your Optimism Is Hurting Your Team
Relevant to your Interests
Jack Dorsey’s Block has an AI agent too
Can We Build a Five Gigawatt Data Center?—Asterisk
Purely AI-generated art can’t get copyright protection, says Copyright Office
'Everything I Say Leaks,' Zuckerberg Says in Leaked Meeting Audio
What Elon Musk should learn from Larry Ellison
DOGE, Software, and Government
DOJ sues to block HP Enterprise from buying Juniper Networks
Mark Zuckerberg to employees in leaked all-hands meeting: ‘buckle up’
There’s Something Very, Very Wrong With Tech Today.
Microsoft Enforces Tougher Layoff Rules: No Severance, Immediate Termination
Apple reportedly gives up on its AR video glasses project
uBlock Origin is dead for Chrome, but ad blockers live on
Add F*cking to Your Google Searches to Neutralize AI Summaries
Palantir soars 24% to record high as AI powers strong earnings and guidance
'Eternal' 5D memory crystal capable of storing 360 TB of data for billions of years now holds a full human genome
AI Company Asks Job Applicants Not to Use AI in Job Applications
OpenAI's nightmare: Deepseek R1 on a Raspberry Pi
Why Chinese AI has stunned the world
Why the AI world is suddenly obsessed with a 160-year-old economics paradox
OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole From Ue
Exposed DeepSeek Database Revealed Chat Prompts and Internal Data
Gurman: Apple is launching new iCloud service as soon as this week, codenamed "Confetti" - 9to5Mac
Nonsense
Funny note from JP Morgan Analyst about Tesla
Waffle House is passing along the sky-high cost of eggs to diners with a 50-cent surcharge
Optimized Charging
Listener Feedback
ChatGPT Explains the difference between ‘.bashrc` and .bash_profile
Optimized Charging
Conferences
Civo Navigate North America, San Francisco, Feb 10-11, 2025
DevOpsDayLA at SCALE22x, March 6-9, 2025, discount code DEVOP
VMUG NL, March 12th, Coté speaking.
DevOpsDays Chicago, March 18th, 2025.
SREday London, March 27-28, Coté speaking. 10% with code LDN10.
Monki Gras, London, March 27-28, Coté speaking.
Cloud Foundry Day US, May 14th, Palo Alto, CA
NDC Oslo, May 21-23, speaking.
KubeCon EU, April 1-4, London.
SDT News & Community
Join our Slack community
Email the show: [email protected]
Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected]
Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky
Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok
Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
Sponsor the show: [email protected]
Recommendations
Brandon: Blackstone Griddle
Matt: The Flaming Lips Live
Coté:
ChatGPT Canvas
Couches (direct link).
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January 31, 2025Episode 504: Socrates Didn’t Whiteboard
This week, we discuss the latest news about DeepSeek, how to make sense of the countless hot takes, and a review of The Nvidia Way. Plus, some thoughts on Valentine’s Day.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 504
Runner-up Titles
The Paperclip Apocalypse
Markets Over Management
The Nest Egg
This is cheaper than therapy
Valentine’s Day
“Turns out, guys…”
You can burn a candle out, and when it’s out there’s no candle.
I don’t think Jensen is struggling
Rundown
DeepSeek
China's DeepSeek appears to have built AI models that rival OpenAI, while allegedly using much less money, chips, and energy.
DeepSeek FAQ
DeepSeek and the Enterprise
Four big reasons to worry about DeepSeek (and four reasons to calm down)
DeepSeek Disruption Has Its Upside
Dario Amodei — On DeepSeek and Export Controls
Bonus Clouded Judgement - Inference Time Compute
CEO Pat Gelsinger is already using DeepSeek instead of OpenAI at his startup, Gloo
Relevant to your Interests
Trump administration fires members of cybersecurity review board in 'horribly shortsighted' decision
Rethinking developer experience at T-Mobile: DevEx vs devprod, exec buy-in, and developer self-service
FTC Finalizes Long-Awaited Updates to Children's Privacy Rule
FTC Finalizes Changes to Children’s Privacy Rule Limiting Companies’ Ability to Monetize Kids’ Data
Free OpenAI & every-LLM API Pricing Calculator
GitHub Is Showing the Trump Administration Scrubbing Government Web Pages in Real Time
Microsoft's LinkedIn sued for disclosing customer information to train AI models
We’re launching Opengrep, a fork of Semgrep CE
Semaphore is Going Open Source in 30 days
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Gov for U.S. government agencies
"Digital shoplifting" is on the rise among the well-off Gen Z crowd
Kubernetes Cloud Repatriation Saves Millions for Data Platform Provider
Warp vs. Ghostty: Which Terminal App Meets Your Dev Needs?
Cheriton School of Computer Science researchers’ update to Linux kernel could cut energy use in data centres by up to 30%
Stargate artificial intelligence project to exclusively serve OpenAI
Nonsense
Why Speaking Like a Wanker at Work Is Essential
Stripe accidentally sent an image of a duck when notifying some employees they were getting laid off
Conferences
CfgMgmtCamp, Ghent, Belgium, February 2-5, 2025.
Civo Navigate North America, San Francisco, Feb 10-11, 2025
DevOpsDayLA at SCALE22x, March 6-9, 2025, discount code DEVOP
VMUG NL, March 12th, Coté speaking.
DevOpsDays Chicago, March 18th, 2025.
SREday London, March 27-28, Coté speaking. 10% with code LDN10.
Monki Gras, London, March 27-28, Coté speaking.
Cloud Foundry Day US, May 14th, Palo Alto, CA
NDC Oslo, May 21-23, speaking.
KubeCon EU, April 1-4, London.
SDT News & Community
Join our Slack community
Email the show: [email protected]
Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected]
Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky
Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok
Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
Sponsor the show: [email protected]
Recommendations
Brandon: Paradise
Matt: Tell me which Ardupilot/PX4 Autopilot platform I should buy?
Holybro X500 v2 or QAV250 dev kit?
Coté:
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“The Joy of Extradimensional Spaces,” Michael Polkinghorn, in Candlekeep Mysteries.
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1 hr 8 min
January 24, 2025Episode 503: Maybe Puppies Solve Everything
This week, we explore how AI is reshaping software development, the slow adoption of Service Mesh, and the latest effort to modernize the U.S. Government. Plus, chili debates, and Wiz proves puppies make everything better.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 503
Runner-up Titles
Just start it, I’ll catch up
Let’s not get distracted by the corn
AI’s never eaten a bowl of chili, Brandon.
No beans for you
Streetfights about chili
Get out of my right pane
Single Thread Pizza
That is a response to a problem I don’t want to have.
This is not listener feedback, this is more Matt feedback.
Rundown
Visual Studio Code helped Microsoft win developers. New AI coding editors want to own the future
Anysphere, a Maker of A.I. Coding Software, Raises $105 Million
Model Distillation
DeepSeek claims its 'reasoning' model beats OpenAI's o1 on certain benchmarks
Istio Creators on Mistakes To Avoid for Any Project
Trump signs order setting up DOGE with a focus on government tech
Trump’s Treasury pick pledges to keep IRS Direct File open this tax season
Relevant to your Interests
This Hedge Fund Created an Excel on Steroids
The $500 Million Debacle at Sonos That Just Won’t End
Thoma Bravo-owned SailPoint reveals narrower loss in US IPO filing
The First Big Trump Scam Is Already Blowing Up in Everyone’s Faces
We’re in the Netflix-opens-a-restaurant stage of the cycle.
Google Invests Another $1 Billion in AI Developer Anthropic
Product Name Changes
Gartner: VMware migrations will be long, costly, and risky
Developers and IT folks, please be careful when installing Homebrew
Capital One gives update on deposit issues as customers demand answers
Many remote workers say they’d be likely to leave their job if they could no longer work from home
Schrödinger's Cat breakthrough could usher in the 'Holy Grail' of quantum computing, making them error-proof
Nonsense
This Southern Grocery Store Was Just Named The Best In The Nation And We're Not Surprised
Soup You Can Suck On: Introducing Progresso Soup Drops, the Ultimate Cold and Flu Season Comfort
New England Patriots VP of content says NFL told team to shut down Bluesky account
Listener Feedback
Wiz has gone to the dogs (puppies)?
Conferences
CfgMgmtCamp, February 2-5, 2025.
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