This week, we discuss Oracle’s AI vibes, Chainguard’s EmeritOSS, and GitHub’s pricing U-turn. Plus, a robust robot vacuum debate.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 551

Runner-up Titles

• It has CarPlay
• iPad Range Anxiety
• an Australian documentary
• Oracle got popped
• Intentions
• I don’t feel bad for them
• Open Source old folks home
• Spreadsheets love it
• Robots are going to take care of us
• The Median User
• Nobody feels bad for the whales
• I have a dog
• I have a Korean microwave
• We’re the Neal Stephenson of podcasts

Rundown

• Ford pulls the plug on the all-electric F-150 Lightning pickup truck
• AI Investment
  • Oracle plummets 11% on weak revenue, pushing down AI stocks like Nvidia and CoreWeave
  • Oracle Shares Drop the Most Since 2001 on Mounting AI Spending
  • OpenAI in Talks to Raise At Least $10 Billion From Amazon and Use Its AI Chips
  • S&P 500 falls after nearing record as Oracle disappointment drags down AI stocks
  • Inside The $1T AI Economy
• Introducing Chainguard EmeritOSS: Sustainable stewardship for mature open source
• Runners
  • Announcing powerful upgrades & a new pricing model for self-hosted runners
  • GitHub to charge for self-hosted runners from March 2026
  • GitHub postpones changes to self-hosted runners pricing plans
  • Why GitHub Why?
• Coursera to buy Udemy, creating $2.5 billion firm to target AI training
• Roomba Maker iRobot Files for Bankruptcy, With Chinese Supplier Taking Control

Relevant to your Interests

• Harness raises a $240M Series E at a $5.5B valuation
• A great platform as a product paper, and a fun platform philosophy thereof
• Google Launches Managed Remote MCP Servers for Its Cloud Services
• Fake Leonardo DiCaprio Movie Torrent Drops Agent Tesla Through Layered PowerShell Chain
• Useful patterns for building HTML tools
• Waymo Seeking Over $15 Billion Near $100 Billion Valuation
• Write your CV or resume as YAML, then run RenderCV, and get a PDF with perfect typography. No template wrestling. No broken layouts. Consistent spacing, every time
• Roomba Maker iRobot Files for Bankruptcy, With Chinese Supplier Taking Control

Nonsense

• The Full Text of Marco Rubio’s Directive on State Department Typography, Re-Establishing Times New Roman

Listener Feedback

• Sent stickers to Jelle in Belgium

Conferences

• cfgmgmtcamp 2026, February 2nd to 4th, Ghent, BE.
  • Coté speaking and doing live SDI with John Willis.
• DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA
  • Use code: DEVOP for 50% off.
• Devnexus 2026, March 4th to 6th, Atlanta, GA.
• Whole bunch of VMUGs, mostly in the US. The CFPs are open, go speak at them! Coté speaking in Amsterdam.
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This week, we discuss how Netflix is disrupting media, IBM’s Confluent acquisition, and Anthropic buying Bun. Plus, an important discussion on fonts and typography.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 550

Runner-up Titles

• Blame the children
• I never liked that font
• No emojis, this is business time
• Mahalo
• You need a Chief Economist
• On the cutlery tray

Rundown

• Rubio Deletes Calibri as the State Department’s Official Typeface
  • Cartridge
  • Source Code Pro
• It’s Official: Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros. in Deal Valued at $82.7 Billion
• Confluent stock soars 29% as IBM announces $11 billion acquisition deal
• Bun is joining Anthropic
• Claude Code is coming to Slack, and that's a bigger deal than it sounds
• OpenAI enterprise usage study.

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• Antigravity Is Google's New Agentic Development Platform
• Amazon CTO Werner Vogels' Predictions for 2026
• ‘End-to-end encrypted’ smart toilet camera is not actually end-to-end encrypted
• AWS AI IDE, AgentCore throw down gauntlets for Microsoft
• Admins and defenders gird themselves against maximum-severity server vuln
• Andy Jassy says Amazon's Nvidia competitor chip is already a multibillion-dollar business
• 52 things I learned in 2025
• State of AI | OpenRouter
• Microsoft has a problem: nobody wants its poor AI products
• DHH & Open Source
• Gruber: Apple employees 'giddy' about Alan Dye’s departure - 9to5Mac
• Apple announces the departure of general counsel and policy chief

Nonsense

• All of the Men’s Clothing We Loved (and Didn’t) From Costco’s Kirkland Signature

Conferences

• cfgmgmtcamp 2026, February 2nd to 4th, Ghent, BE.
  • Coté speaking and doing live SDI with John Willis.
• DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA
  • Use code: DEVOP for 50% off.
• Devnexus 2026, March 4th to 6th, Atlanta, GA.
• Whole bunch of VMUGs, mostly in the US. The CFPs are open, go speak at them! Coté speaking in Amsterdam.
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This week, we discuss AWS re:Invent announcements, Agentic Development, and OpenAI's Code Red. Plus, a Digital ID field test and more on silverware sorting.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 549

Runner-up Titles

• Did you order the Code Red?
• In the year 2000
• Jane go swiftly
• Another day in the coal mine
• Goal Driven Development
• I want to believe
• Prove me wrong
• AI’s going to dig this hole faster
• Tornado of Innovation
• Revenue times Story

Rundown

• SiteAngel - bonus press quote from Brandon
• AWS
  • Amazon announces $50B investment to expand AI and supercomputing capabilities for US government
  • Top announcements of AWS re:Invent 2025
  • All the biggest news from AWS’ big tech show re:Invent 2025
  • AWS announces preview of AWS Interconnect - multicloud
  • The Future of AWS CodeCommit | Amazon Web Services
  • Nova Act
• Code Red
  • OpenAI CEO declares “code red” as Gemini gains 20 0 million users in 3 months
  • Anthropic reportedly preparing for one of the largest IPOs ever in race with OpenAI: FT
  • Microsoft stock sinks on report AI product sales are missing growth goals
• AI & Cloud Trends for November 2025

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• Under My Roof Home Inventory + App - App Store
• Thoma Bravo invests in Azul
• Streamline Development with the Google Workspace Extension
• As its voice dictation app takes off, Wispr secures $25M from Notable Capital | TechCrunch
• Valve makes almost $50 million per employee
• HelixGuard
• What to know about a recent Mixpanel security incident
• ServiceNow to Expand Security Portfolio With Acquisition of Veza’s Leading AI-native Identity Security Platform
• Vista-Backed LogicMonitor Buys Monitoring Startup Catchpoint
• Google releases Nano Banana Pro, its latest image generation model
• Years of JSONFormatter and CodeBeautify Leaks Expose Thousands of Passwords and API Keys
• Netflix kills casting from phones

Nonsense

• Victorian Name Generator

Conferences

• cfgmgmtcamp 2026, February 2nd to 4th, Ghent, BE.
  • Coté speaking and doing live SDI with John Willis.
• DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA
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This week, we discuss the Cloudflare outage, their current business strategy, and paying OSS maintainers. Plus, thoughts on loading the dishwasher and managing your home.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 548

Runner-up Titles

• Mystery Knob
• Vegans are cursed vegetarians
• Skilled enough
• Defrag the dishwasher
• Design Intentions
• QR codes everywhere
• I don’t know where we draw the line, but I know where we start
• SDT IoT CMBD, Home Edition.
• SDT Open Source Money Maker
• Lead with Nagware
• Stocks go up, stocks go down
• Safari’s my naked browser
• Coté wanted to add periods to all of these but did not.

Rundown

• FFmpeg to Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs
• Cloudflare blames massive internet outage on 'latent bug'
• Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025
• Replicate is joining Cloudflare

Relevant to your Interests

• The Walt Disney Company Announces Multi-Year Distribution Agreement With YouTube TV
• Anthropic claims of Claude AI-automated cyberattacks met with doubt
• Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign
• Compact, human-readable serialization of JSON data for LLM prompts
• Outage Tracker | Updog By Datadog
• Jeff Bezos Creates A.I. Start-Up Where He Will Be Co-Chief Executive
• PowerPoint is your therapist, Gamma is your coach | Andreessen Horowitz
• Red Hat Introduces Project Hummingbird for “Zero-CVE” Strategies
• A new era of intelligence with Gemini 3
• The platform that needs a platform
• The AI Coding Startup Favored by Tech CEOs Is Now Worth $29.3 Billion
• The Smartest Fliers Use This App to Survive America’s Travel Hell
• Oracle's Market Cap Decline: Analyzing the Impact on Finance
• OpenAI's Fidji Simo Plans to Make ChatGPT Way More Useful—and Have You Pay For It
• Europe’s cookie nightmare is crumbling

Nonsense

• AI-Powered Teddy Bear Caught Talking About Sexual Fetishes and Instructing Kids How to Find Knives
• Whipped Cream Worth $80K Stolen in Ontario

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This week, Whitney Lee joins us to discuss KubeCon news, Coding Assistants, and conference tips. Plus, vegan food and note-taking recommendations.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 547

Rundown

• Slutty Vegan
• Cloud Native Rejekts
• Maintainer Summit
• Conference Parties
• Ingress NGINX Retirement: What You Need to Know
  • Linkerd Forever
  • Migrating from Ingress Resources

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Special Guest: Whitney Lee.

This week, we discuss Facebook scams, engineering management trends, and the past and present of curl. Plus, when’s the right time to put up the Christmas tree?

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 546

Runner-up Titles

• Matt has a lot of room tone.
• I shut the kitchen door .
• You gotta just reboot all of Australia every morning.
• Did you see my water dragons?
• Didn’t he die?
• I’m worried about the future.
• Quality of revenue.
• The spatula is higher than the plunger.
• This discussion has really raised my morale.
• I know what your API is.

Rundown

• Meta estimates that it earns 10% of its revenue from scams, report says
• "Good engineering management" is a fad
  • When CEO pay exploded
• Yes, really, curl is still developed

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• Apple Nears $1 Billion-a-Year Deal to Use Google AI for Siri
• Sam Altman on Trust, Persuasion, and the Future of Intelligence
• ‘Vibe coding’ named Collins Dictionary’s Word of the Year | CNN Business
• Automattic Inc. Claims It Owns the Word 'Automatic'
• IKEA Debuts 21 HomeKit-Compatible Smart Bulbs, Sensors, and Controls
• The wildest stuff Elon Musk said at Tesla’s shareholder meeting
• CNCF Launches Kubernetes AI Conformance Program
• Russia's grand reveal of humanoid robot couldn't have gone worse
• How AWS is losing the younger generation with complexity
• OpenAI Races to Quell Concerns Over Its Finances
• 'Big Short' investor Michael Burry accuses AI hyperscalers of artificially boosting earnings
• Here's How Much OpenAI Spends On Inference and Its Revenue Share With Microsoft
• Apple Announces Launch of U.S. Passport Feature in iPhone's Wallet App

Nonsense

• Interview with Dying Company's VP
• As Seen on TV

Conferences

• Wiz Wizdom Conferences, November 17-19, London
• The good hospitality from Keith Townsend.
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This week, we discuss cloud earnings, Siri teaming up with Gemini, and AI bottlenecks. Plus, is cloning your dog weird?

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 545

Runner-up Titles

• Stack the deck
• Pets and Chickens
• Blame it on Android
• They’re fungible
• Are they going to have to introduce a new principle?
• Managers of rocks
• The world we live in
• Marketing wins
• We’re the healthy skeptics

Rundown

• Ex-NFL star QB Brady claims his dog is a clone
• Cloud Earnings
  • AI & Cloud Trends for October 2025
  • Alphabet tops $100 billion quarterly revenue for first time, cloud grows 34%
  • Google Cloud Q3 revenue surges 34% as backlog hits $155 billion
  • Microsoft Azure sees 40% revenue growth in Q1
  • Meta stock drops 10% as heightened AI spending overshadows strong results
  • Amazon revenues rise 13% on strength in cloud computing unit
  • Clouded Judgement 10.31.25 - Cloud Giants Report Q3
  • 7m OpenAI work users
• Amazon's culture went the wrong way
• Octoverse: A new developer joins GitHub every second as AI leads TypeScript to #1
  • What do we think of GitHub saying there are 180m developers in the world?
• AWS and OpenAI announce multi-year strategic partnership
  • Amazon stock jumps on $38 billion deal with OpenAI to use hundreds of thousands of Nvidia chips

Relevant to your Interests

• Azure outage: Microsoft still working on fix, says recovery expected in several hours
• Microsoft takes $3.1 billion hit from OpenAI investment
• Meta Stock Slides After Earnings.
• AWS to Bare Metal Two Years Later: Answering Your Toughest Questions
• Meta denies torrenting porn to train AI, says downloads were for “personal use”
• Shocker! Reversal in AI ROI slide-wisdom: AI does works well
• SaaS Monopoly | Khushi Lunkad
• The State of Developer Experience and Developer Productivity
• Why the “Free” Chef Version Could Be Your Most Expensive Mistake | Chef

Nonsense

• Disney yanks channels from YouTube TV after media giants fail to resolve carriage dispute | CNN Business
• Traffic hits record high as commuters rewrite the rush hour - Texas A&M Transportation Institute
• Denny's to be acquired and taken private in a deal valued at $620 million

Conferences

• SREDay Amsterdam, November 7th, Coté speaking.
• Wiz Wizdom Conferences, November 17-19, London
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This week, we discuss Claude’s new Excel skills, whether AI is augmenting or automating humans, and the latest developer surveys. Plus, AI making the command line cool again!

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 544

Runner-up Titles

• Cote’ shock jock mode
• Art with squids
• Command-Line Life Style
• AI isn’t for experts.
• The triumph of the command line
• The command line lifestyle is now available
• I don’t even know what sed is
• The Human Line

Rundown

• Anthropic's Claude is learning Excel so you don't have to
• Amazon targets as many as 30,000 corporate job cuts: Reuters, citing sources
• The State of Developer Ecosystem in 2025
• “The Pragmatic Engineer 2025 Survey: What’s in your tech stack? Part 3.”

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• ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web - Anil Dash
• OpenAI acquires Software Applications Incorporated, maker of Sky
• PayPal shares surge 13% after OpenAI deal to become the first payments wallet in ChatGPT
• Internet Pioneer AOL to Be Acquired by Italian Tech Company Bending Spoons
• What is Configuration as Data?
• RDEL #115: What are the 2025 benchmarks for the DORA 4 metrics?
• a16z Is Funding a 'Speedrun' to AI-Generated Hell on Earth
• An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’
• Removing Jeff Bezos From My Bed ◆ Truffle Security Co.
• Grammarly rebrands to 'Superhuman,' launches a new AI assistant
• Why the “Free” Chef Version Could Be Your Most Expensive Mistake
• The Wayback Machine’s snapshots of news homepages plummet after a “breakdown” in archiving projects

Nonsense

• How Hacked Card Shufflers Allegedly Enabled a Mob-Fueled Poker Scam That Rocked the NBA

Conferences

• Wiz Wizdom Conferences, NYC November 3-5, London November 17-19
• SREDay Amsterdam, November 7th, Coté speaking
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This week, we discuss OpenAI’s new browser, AI trying to build spreadsheets, and when to use Claude skills. Plus, Coté explores the art of the perfect staycation.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 543

Runner-up Titles

• Firewire is dead
• USB, what are you going to do?
• It’s like I tell my son: you know what to do, you chose not to do it.
• I am just a guest.
• I don’t need helpful
• An amazing hole.
• Slides for nobody
• You closed the loop
• It’s pretty amazing, but does it need to exist?
• Slackhole

Rundown

• OpenAI
  • Introducing ChatGPT Atlas
  • OpenAI Is Building a Banker
  • OpenAI has five years to turn $13 billion into $1 trillion
  • AI agents are not amazing, they are slop: says OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy as he strongly disagrees with CEO Sam Altman on AGI timeline - The Times of India
  • OpenAI’s ChatGPT will soon allow ‘erotica’ for adults in major policy shift
  • OpenAI Inks Deal With Broadcom to Design Its Own Chips for A.I.
• Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP
• OpenStack Flamingo pays down technical debt as adoption continues to climb

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• Elon Musk will settle $128 million Twitter execs lawsuit
• GitHub Will Prioritize Migrating to Azure Over Feature Development
• The Discord Hack is Every User’s Worst Nightmare
• Cursor-Maker Anysphere Considers Investment Offers at $30 Billion Valuation
• Rubygems.org AWS Root Access Event – September 2025
• This Discord Zendesk compromise has gotten more silly
• WP Engine Vs Automattic & Mullenweg Is Back In Play
• Windows 11 removes all bypass methods for Microsoft account setup, removing local accounts
• Introducing the React Foundation: The New Home for React & React Native
• Wiz Finds Critical Redis RCE Vulnerability: CVE‑2025‑49844 | Wiz Blog
• DevRel is -Unbelievably- Back
• The Ruby community has a DHH problem
• YouTube rolls out its redesigned video player globally
• Oracle stock rises as company confirms Meta cloud deal
• Adiós, AirPods
• NVIDIA shows off its first Blackwell wafer manufactured in the US
• This Is How Much Anthropic and Cursor Spend On Amazon Web Services
• Automattic CEO calls Tumblr his 'biggest failure' so far
• Marc Benioff says Salesforce is saving about $100M a year by using AI tools in its customer service operations
• Amazon cloud computing outage disrupts Snapchat, Ring and many other online services
• Amazon Outage Forces Hundreds of Websites Offline for Hours
• Today is when Amazon brain drain finally caught up with AWS
• AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright - Dexerto

Nonsense

• Streetlights Are Mysteriously Turning Purple. Here's Why
• Buc-ee's is not America's top convenience store; Midwest chain takes No. 1 spot
• French post office rolls out croissant-scented stamp

Listener Feedback

• Jeffrey is looking for college interns.

Conferences

• Wiz Wizdom Conferences, NYC November 3-5, London November 17-19
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Matt Ray talks to Yuriy Shyyan, the Director of Cloud Systems Architecture for OpenMetal. They discuss the cost of running your enterprise in the public cloud, high school hacking, building a business on OpenStack, and recognizing that cloud credits are an invitation to purchase a timeshare.

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This week, we discuss Apps in ChatGPT, OpenAI’s Agent SDK and Codex. Plus, Matt has a possum problem down under.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 541

Runner-up Titles

• Living in the dark ages of Sequoia
• He’s the racoon remover of the neighborhood
• Don’t say we don’t cover everything
• They’re hoping someone’s going to unlock a lot of value here, because I’m not seeing it
• The Low Code Trap
• Use the code “SDT150” and we’ll send you money

Rundown

• Open AI DevDay
• The Next Great Distribution Shift
• AMD stock skyrockets 30% as OpenAI looks to take stake in AI chipmaker
• OpenAI’s Golden Touch Spreads as Stocks Soar
• OpenAI Is Good at Deals ## Relevant to your Interests
• Your Meta AI Chats Will Soon Influence the Ads You See
• AWS API MCP Server v1.0.0 release - AWS
• Inside the cybersecurity boom, strong team, and bold gamble that helped Wiz CEO Assaf Rappaport win a $32 billion deal with Google
• Linus Torvalds Lashes Out At RISC-V Big Endian Plans
• Open Printer
• Have we passed peak social media?
• Apple working on MCP support on Mac, iPhone, and iPad
• A cartoonist's review of AI art
• GitHub leads the enterprise, Claude leads the pack—Cursor’s speed can’t close
• Cursor CLI
• Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.5
• GitHub Copilot CLI is now in public preview
• Meet Jules Tools: A Command Line Companion for Google’s Async Coding Agent
• Announcing The Gem Cooperative
• Qualcomm Buys Arduino, Will Bring AI Tools to Your DIY Tech Projects

Listener Feedback

• Join the Boulder AWS - Amazon Web Services | Meetup

Conferences

• AI for the Rest of Us, Coté speaking, October 15th-16th, London. Use code SDT20 for 20% off.
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This week, we dig into the latest DORA report and OpenAI’s big product updates. Plus, some hot takes on airline status and the Eurostar.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 540

Runner-up Titles

• Just plug in an iPhone
• Be helpful, not helpless

Rundown

• Announcing the 2025 DORA Report | Google Cloud Blog
• OpenAI
  • Agentic Commerce
  • The New Sora App
  • Introducing ChatGPT Pulse

Relevant to your Interests

• Intel and Apple hold investment talks, no deal in sight - 9to5Mac
• Ed Zitron is mad as hell
• TikTok will stay: Trump signs executive order to keep app in the US
• 10+ Hidden Features in iOS 26
• Splunk .conf25: Forging a Data Foundation for Cisco's AgenticOps Vision
• JFrog SwampUp 2025: The Agentic Development Era Emerges From The Swamp
• RIP, AOL dial-up: Take a walk down memory lane to 5 other now-defunct tech icons that defined millennials' youths
• Logitech launches MX Master 4 flagship productivity mouse – the best mouse we've tested adds haptic feedback, circular Action Ring shortcuts
• Charlie Javice Sentenced to 85 Months in Prison for Fraud
• Spotify CEO Daniel Ek to step aside
• Cloudscape - Cloudscape Design System
• Cursor CLI
• Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.5
• Cursor CLI
• Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.5
• GitHub Copilot CLI is now in public preview
• Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover
• How Ruby Went Off the Rails
• Open source to closed doors: RubyGems control fight erupts
• Platform Engineering and AI - Two Buzzwords Finally Meet! | Michael Cote

Nonsense

• Build-A-Bear Stock Outperforms Nvidia (The Onion)

Conferences

• CF Day EU, Coté speaking, Frankfurt, October 7th, 2025.
• AI for the Rest of Us, Coté speaking, October 15th-16th, London. Use code SDT20 for 20% off.
• Wiz Wizdom Conferences, NYC November 3-5, London November 17-19
• SREDay Amsterdam, Coté speaking, November 7th.

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This week, we cover Oracle’s OpenAI deal, the RubyGems drama, and Atlassian buying DX. Plus, does anyone still use widgets?

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 539

Runner-up Titles

• It’s a two knob problem
• The healthy jaundice of success
• My homework is to go home
• Are you enjoying the widgets?
• I get you on the Ponzi Scheme
• Hanlon’s Razor strikes again
• Blogging: Hardest form of social media

Rundown

• Oracle
  • Exclusive | Oracle, OpenAI Sign Massive $300 Billion Cloud Computing Deal
  • Oracle and OpenAI are full of crap
  • OpenAI doesn’t have the cash to pay Oracle $300 billion — raising it will test the very limits of private markets
  • Nvidia stock jumps on $100 billion OpenAI investment as Huang touts 'biggest AI infrastructure project in history
• Ruby Central Takes Over RubyGems
• Atlassian
  • Atlassian acquires DX, a developer productivity platform, for $1B
  • Atlassian acquires developer productivity startup DX for $1B
  • The AI Shift: Static Software vs. Living AI Systems
• RSS co-creator launches new protocol for AI data licensing
• Nvidia to Invest $5 Billion in Intel, Furthering Trump’s Turnaround Plan

Relevant to your Interests

• Tesla Wants Out of the Car Business
• Google is shutting down Tables, its Airtable rival | TechCrunch
• Oracle's stock pump, Meta's $600B, Bronny Ellison and Warner Bros, European stereotypes
• Atlassian goes cloud-only, customers face integration issues
• Getting a slice of the Kubernete$ management pie
• Cote on Multicloud
• ServiceNow Says Windsurf Gave Its Engineers a 10% Productivity Boost
• Most Work is Translation
• Microsoft warns users that Windows 10 is in its final days
• How to use Tahoe's new Use Model shortcut to summarize articles
• Credit scores drop at fastest pace since the Great Recession | CNN Business
• Workday to buy AI firm Sana for $1.1 billion as HR software deal-making heats up
• Wasm 3.0 Completed - WebAssembly
• Exclusive: AI's ability to displace jobs is advancing quickly, Anthropic CEO says
• From the facepalm community on Reddit: Meta's live AI cooking demo fails spectacularly
• Meta CTO explains the cause of its embarrassing smart glasses demo failures
• New H-1B rules sparked weekend chaos
• The Man Calling Bullshit on the AI Boom
• Trump’s H-1B visa fee isn’t just about immigration, it’s about fealty
• Vivaldi takes a stand: keep browsing human | Vivaldi Browser
• Zoom Bets on Agentic AI With AI Companion 3.0 Amid Sluggish Growth
• The Secret Service has dismantled a telecom threat near the UN. It could have disabled cell service in NYC
• Enterprise AI Looks Bleak, But Employee AI Looks Bright
• Obot AI Secures $35M Seed to Build Enterprise MCP Gateway - obot
• Announcing the 2025 DORA Report | Google Cloud Blog

Conferences

• Civo Navigate London, Coté speaking, September 30th.
• Texas Linux Fest, Austin, October 3rd to 4th.
• CF Day EU, Coté speaking, Frankfurt, October 7th, 2025.
• AI for the Rest of Us, Coté speaking, October 15th-16th, London. Use code SDT20 for 20% off.
• Wiz Wizdom Conferences, NYC November 3-5, London November 17-19
• SREDay Amsterdam, Coté speaking, November 7th.

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Brandon interviews Michael Irwin, Principal Engineer at Docker. They cover Docker’s evolution, why hardened images matter, and how AI fits in. Plus, Michael shares stories from teaching computer science.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 538

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This week, we dig into Atlassian buying The Browser Company, whether Pay Per Crawl makes sense, and Oracle’s cloud jackpot. Plus, a quick lesson in Aussie slang.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 537

Runner-up Titles

• "I have a plan to make things slightly better.”
• Matt Ray comes off the top rope
• We are in that demographic
• Flip-flops, thongs, and slides.
• No Translation Needed
• Do we have a fashion channel?
• Why not us too?
• Let’s just try it
• Hooters adjacent tech story
• Pay-per-crawl.
• I don’t know how DNS works, nobody does
• Cool, copyright, I love it
• Just lots of weird stuff going on.
• Y’all are weird

Rundown

• Final thought on Australia
• Atlassian agrees to acquire The Browser Company for $610 million
• VMware buying Slide Rocket in 2011, which is now ClearSlide
• An Interview with Cloudflare Founder and CEO Matthew Prince About Internet History and Pay-per-crawl
• Anthropic Agrees to Pay $1.5 Billion to Settle Lawsuit With Book Authors
• Apple unveils iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max
• Catch up quick | Apple September event highlights
• Apple introduces AirPods Pro 3 with live translation feature
• Nvidia's top two mystery customers made up 39% of the chipmaker's Q2 revenue
• Oracle Financial's US parent jumps 27% in extended trading on Tuesday; Here's why - CNBC TV18

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• Google, Apple, and Mozilla Win in the Antitrust Case Google Lost
• Privacy Nightmare: Your Doorbell Camera Is Snitching to Insurance Companies
• Broadcom Stock Soars as AI Demand Drives Strong Earnings—Crucial Price Levels to Monitor
• Addressing the unauthorized issuance of multiple TLS certificates for 1.1.1.1
• Exclusive | Databricks Crosses $4 Billion in Annual Revenue Rate
• SpaceX strikes $17B deal to buy EchoStar's spectrum for Starlink's direct-to-phone service
• Google Cloud CEO sees sunny prospects thanks to AI demand
• Apple unveils iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max
• Catch up quick | Apple September event highlights
• Apple introduces AirPods Pro 3 with live translation feature
• Claude can now create and use files
• The $69 Billion Domino Effect: How VMware’s Debt-Fueled Acquisition Is Killing Open Source, One Repository at a Time

Nonsense

• 2025 AI Darwin Award Nominees - Worst AI Failures of the Year
• Ground staff strike: KLM cancels over 100 flights on Wednesday - DutchNews.nl

Listener Feedback

• Carless People
• What We’ve Learned About the Kawhi Leonard Situation—and What We Haven’t

Conferences

• VMUG London, Coté speaking, September 18th.
• SREDay London, Coté speaking, September 18th and 19th.
• Civo Navigate London, Coté speaking, September 30th.
• Texas Linux Fest, Austin, October 3rd to 4th.
• CF Day EU, Coté speaking, Frankfurt, October 7th, 2025.
• AI for the Rest of Us, Coté speaking, October 15th-16th, London. Use code SDT20 for 20% off.
• Wiz Wizdom Conferences, NYC November 3-5, London November 17-19
• SREDay Amsterdam, Coté speaking, November 7th.

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This week, we discuss the effectiveness of reorgs, Meta’s new AI team, and the Google antitrust ruling. Plus, some strong thoughts on cold brew and bathtubs.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 536

Runner-up Titles

• Buy once, cry once
• Annual Recurring Regrets
• The Bathtub Problem
• Bathtime is My Time
• Your Daily Stoic
• No one cares about open source cold brew
• Once you have it pick up the phone and call someone, the dream of the Internet is dead.
• The Chrome ecoverse.

Rundown

• The VC who married Paris Hilton uses his cryochamber twice a day and launches an AI agent before bed
• OpenAI starts building out its app team
• OpenAI shuffles executive roles, acquires Statsig for $1.1 billion
• Reorganizations
  • Zuckerberg’s AI hires disrupt Meta with swift exits and threats to leave
  • No Amount of Money Can Make People Want to Work for Zuck
  • Inside Amazon's 'hardcore' culture reset
• New Research Debunks Open Source Business Model Myths
• Google gets to keep Chrome but is barred from exclusive search deals, judge rules

Relevant to your Interests

• Opinion | A.I. May Be Just Kind of Ordinary
• Anthropic Settles High-Profile AI Copyright Lawsuit Brought by Book Authors
• Zen Browser — What Mozilla Firefox Should Be?
• Asahi Linux Lead Developer Steps Down
• How to prepare for the Bitnami Changes coming soon
• Metal³ - Metal Kubed
• How This A.I. Company Collapsed Amid Silicon Valley’s Biggest Boom
• AI Experts No Longer Saving for Retirement Because They Assume AI Will Kill Us All by Then
• Unix Co-Creator Brian Kernighan on Rust, Distros and NixOS
• Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters
• Tanzu having nothing to do with Kubernetes anymore
• There is no Tanzu Kubenetes, only VKS.
• Nvidia stock turns positive in premarket trading as investors buy dip following earnings report
• MongoDB Soars: Analyzing the Recent Surge
• NVIDIA Q2 Profit Soars 59% as Blackwell AI Surge Fuels Record Revenue
• Nvidia, $NVDA, has reported that a single customer accounted for 23% of its total quarterly revenue of $46.7 billion, per Bloomberg

Nonsense

• The Dutch are quietly shifting towards a four-day work week

Conferences

• VMUG London, Coté speaking, September 18th.
• SREDay London, Coté speaking, September 18th and 19th.
• Civo Navigate London, Coté speaking, September 30th.
• Texas Linux Fest, Austin, October 3rd to 4th.
• CF Day EU, Coté speaking, Frankfurt, October 7th, 2025.
• AI for the Rest of Us, Coté speaking, October 15th-16th, London. Use code SDT20 for 20% off.
• Wiz Wizdom Conferences, NYC November 3-5, London November 17-19
• SREDay Amsterdam, Coté speaking, November 7th.

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This week, we discuss AI disillusionment, the good and bad of AI use cases, and VMware news. Plus, we compare tech mergers to Taylor Swift’s engagement.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 534

Runner-up Titles

• I’m going to turn off the Roomba
• Spider Patrol
• My old office had a door
• The dog was up all night
• Exiting our bubble
• The child’s name is Steve
• We don’t want to anger the Swifties
• It’s fine isn’t good enough
• I am leaving my wife for Google Search
• It’s all made-up anyway
• Anything you see, CSV just pops out
• Stop digging

Rundown

• Trough of Disillusionment?
  • OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Concedes GPT-5 Was a Misfire, Bets on GPT-6 - Decrypt
  • Suddenly, Silicon Valley Is Lowering AI Expectations — New York Magazine
  • It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes
• The Search for Product Market Fit
  • Clouded Judgement 8.22.25 - Workflows Are the New Databases
  • AWS CEO says AI replacing junior staff is 'dumbest idea'
  • Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately
• VMware
  • Modern Private Cloud: The Data Center’s Next Chapter - Broadcom News and Stories
  • Broadcom calls for tech to go back where it belongs: On-prem
• Feds: Critical Software Must Drop C/C++ by 2026 or Face Risk

Relevant to your Interests

• Microsoft says U.S. law takes precedence over Canadian data sovereignty
• Removing XSLT From the Web Platform
• Walmart Fires VP for Taking Daily Kickbacks Starting from $30K
• YouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos. The results could bend reality
• Bye-bye barrel jack: Framework brings 240W USB-C charging to laptops
• Google scores six-year Meta cloud deal worth over $10 billion

Nonsense

• Nerd! How the word popularized by Dr. Seuss went from geeky insult to mainstream
• K-Pop Demon Hunters os recommend in the Slack
• Python Package Management tool “uv”
• PROMOTE STICKERS

Conferences

• SREDay London, Coté speaking, September 18th and 19th.
• Civo Navigate London, Coté speaking, September 30th.
• Texas Linux Fest, Austin, October 3rd to 4th.
• CF Day EU, Coté speaking, Frankfurt, October 7th, 2025.
• AI for the Rest of Us, Coté speaking, October 15th-16th, London. Use code SDT20 for 20% off.
• Wiz Wizdom Conferences, NYC November 3-5, London November 17-19
• SREDay Amsterdam, Coté speaking, November 7th.

SDT News & Community

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This week, we discuss the US backing Intel, SaaS staying power, and AI’s impact on deep work. Plus, Matt Ray’s moving tips and more kolache talk in the after show.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 534

Runner-up Titles

• It’s all in your head
• Little brother podcasting
• Chaos Monkey Inspections
• “Let’s face it, everything runs on computers now.”
• AI - Army of Interns

Rundown

• Intel
  • SoftBank Group and Intel Corporation Sign $2B Investment Agreement
  • Lutnick says Intel has to give government equity in return for CHIPS Act funds
  • Trump Administration Discusses Taking 10% Stake in Intel
• The Return of Software
  • Prompting is easy, people are hard.
  • Just updating your Java version gets people’s hearts racing.
• Deep Thinking
  • Will AI Usher In the End of Deep Thinking? — Plain English with Derek Thompson
  • Will AI Usher In the End of Deep Thinking? - The Ringer
  • AI coding tools may not speed up every developer, study shows
  • Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity

Relevant to your Interests

• Apple returns blood oxygen monitoring to the latest Apple Watches
• The AI Investor
• Apple’s Wallet app just made Amazon returns easy, and more is coming
• Cognition Cinches About $500 Million to Advance AI Code-Generation Business
• Three weeks after acquiring Windsurf, Cognition offers staff the exit door

Nonsense

• Interview with Senior DevOps engineer 2025

Conferences

• SpringOne, Las Vegas, August 25th to 28th, 2025. See Coté’s pitch.
• Explore 2025 US, Las Vegas, August 25th to 28th, 2025. See Coté’s pitch.
• Wiz Capture the Flag, Brisbane, August 26.
• SREDay London, Coté speaking, September 18th and 19th.
• Civo Navigate London, Coté speaking, September 30th.
• Texas Linux Fest, Austin, October 3rd to 4th.
• CF Day EU, Coté speaking, Frankfurt, October 7th, 2025.
• AI for the Rest of Us, Coté speaking, October 15th to 16th, London.
• SREDay Amsterdam, Coté speaking, November 7th.

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This week, we discuss GPT 5.0, the emerging AI ecosystem, and why TAM is basically a bedtime story for investors. Plus, Coté serves up a masterclass on kolaches.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 533

Runner-up Titles

• Yeehaw Buns
• Bush Turkey
• Pigs in Blanket
• The Czech Stop
• "The Central Texas Kolache Corridor"
• “I’m over here in Gemini-land.”
• What if this is as good as it gets?
• How smart are humans?
• You’re Tony Randall!
• Is this the dystopian future we signed up for?
• Extreme in Hungary (Tilberg, actually)
• I don’t think there’s a honey-badger outcome.
• All the porridge
• A bedtime story for investors

Rundown

• OpenAI
  • OpenAI Finally Launched GPT-5. Here's Everything You Need to Know
  • OpenAI launches new GPT-5 model for all ChatGPT users
  • GPT-5 is alive
  • OpenAI is raising money at a $300 billion valuation
  • Sam Altman says Gen Z are the ‘luckiest’ kids in history thanks to AI, despite mounting job displacement dread
  • Three big lessons from the GPT-5 backlash
  • Mr. Short-Term Memory
• The AI Ecosystem Apps are growing
  • Your AI workloads still need a service mesh
  • AI Security Company | Manage GenAI Risks & Secure LLM Apps
  • Requesty - Unified LLM Platform
  • The latest AI news we announced in July
• Oxide and Friends | Oxide's $100M Series B

Relevant to Your Interests

• Google Pixel 10 | Soon
• The Man Who Beat IBM
• Linus Torvalds Rejects RISC-V Changes For Linux 6.17: "Garbage"
• Zuckerberg’s Compound Had Something That Violated City Code: A Private School
• The 20-Year David Ellison Plan
• AOL Will End Its Dial-Up Internet Service (Yes, It’s Still Operating)
• Ford's cheaper, simpler $30K electric vehicles are how 'we can make money on EVs,' CEO says
• Goodbye API Keys: Gemini CLI GitHub Actions with Workload Identity Federation
• I Tried Every Todo App and Ended Up With a .txt File
• Intel shares drop after Trump calls for CEO to resign immediately
• Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub
• GitHub will join Microsoft’s CoreAI division with departure of CEO Thomas Dohmke

Nonsense

• The FDA Wants to Change the Definition of Orange Juice for the First Time in 60 Years

Conferences

• SpringOne, Las Vegas, August 25th to 28th, 2025. See Coté’s pitch.
• Explore 2025 US, Las Vegas, August 25th to 28th, 2025. See Coté’s pitch.
• Wiz Capture the Flag, Brisbane, August 26. Matt will be there.
• SREDay London, Coté speaking, September 18th and 19th.
• Civo Navigate London, Coté speaking, September 30th.
• Texas Linux Fest, Austin, October 3rd to 4th.
• CF Day EU, Frankfurt, October 7th, 2025.
• AI for the Rest of Us, Coté speaking, October 15th to 16th, London.

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• Brandon: AirPods Max
• Matt: Devolutionary Times
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This week, we discuss cloud earnings, what’s driving valuations, and why AWS says it’s still early innings for cloud. Plus, Coté does a deep dive on Shipley Donuts.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 532

Runner-up Titles

• Dangerous to do things in bed
• Free Donut Holes
• Dark Fiber
• BET
• A man can not believe anything that devalues their index funds.
• They just open sourced last year’s homework.
• It doesn’t use as many emdashes
• Anchorman Vibes

Rundown

• AI & Cloud Trends for July 2025
• Cloud Earnings
  • Microsoft posts Q4 beat on top and bottom line on cloud, AI strength
  • Clouded Judgement 8.1.25 - The AI Operating Model
  • Richard Seroter's Architecture Musings
• AI
  • OpenAI’s new waited model whatever
  • Simon Willson says local tool calling might be better
  • Exclusive: OpenAI Secures Another Giant Funding Deal
  • OpenAI has made $5.25 billion in 2025 so far, and Anthropic $1.5bn. In both cases, I have found a pattern of deceptive leaks of annualized revenues to suggest they're making far more.

Relevant to your Interests

• How Olipop is sweetening the PTO deal for employees
• Anaconda Secures $150M Funding, Hits $1.5B Valuation
• Figma raises $1.2 billion, creating new playbook for going public in the summer
• AI vs. AI: Prophet Security raises $30M to replace human analysts with autonomous defenders
• API Simulation Reduces MCP Server, Microservices Overload
• Google loses appeal in antitrust battle with Fortnite maker
• Exclusive: More details emerge on how Windsurf’s VCs and founders got paid from the Google deal
• OpenAI is teasing a GPT-5 release.
• Cloud Software Group to Acquire Arctera
• For the first time, OpenAI models are available on AWS | TechCrunch
• Agents or Bots? Making Sense of AI on the Open Web
• Three weeks after acquiring Windsurf, Cognition offers staff the exit door
• Apple has now shipped 3 billion iPhones
• Apple Growth Rebounds on Strength of iPhone 16 Line, China
• Apple Earnings; Cook’s AI Comments; Apple’s AI Strategy, Redux

Nonsense

• Microsoft’s Windows XP Crocs are no joke

Listener Feedback

• JD recommends Charm

Conferences

• SpringOne, Las Vegas, August 25th to 28th, 2025. See Coté’s pitch.
• Explore 2025 US, Las Vegas, August 25th to 28th, 2025. See Coté’s pitch.
• Wiz Capture the Flag, Brisbane, August 26. Matt will be there.
• SREDay London, Coté speaking, September 18th and 19th.
• Civo Navigate London, Coté speaking, September 30th.
• Texas Linux Fest, Austin, October 3rd to 4th.
• CF Day EU, Frankfurt, October 7th, 2025.
• AI for the Rest of Us, Coté speaking, October 15th to 16th, London.

SDT News & Community

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• Brandon: CalDigit TS4.
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