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This week, we discuss the end of Cloud 1.0, AI agents fixing old apps, and Chainguard vs. Docker images. Plus, the mystery of Dutch broth is finally solved.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 556

• His overall deal
• Been there and done that
• been ignoring that shift key for years
• Cloud is just fine
• I’ll be back in Bartertown
• The “F” Word
• Hardened-washing
• We’ll never do this, but we should check back in in 3 months
• Libraries are the best
• Elves don’t belong in space

• Are we at the end of cloud or cloud 1.0
  • It's the beginning of Cloud 2.0
  • Spec-driven development system for Claude Code
• Anthropic and App Modernization
  • A meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven development
  • What comes next, if Claude Code is as good as people say.
  • Microsoft Spending on Anthropic Approaches $500 Million a Year
  • Claude Code Won't Fix Your Life
  • Coté and Tony contemplate day two AI-generated apps, and an excerpt.
  • Why We've Tried to Replace Developers Every Decade Since 1969
• Well, that escalated quickly: Zero CVEs, lots of vendors

• Beijing tells Chinese firms to stop using US and Israeli cybersecurity software
• China blacklists VMware, Palo Alto Networks software over national security fears
• Kroger taps Google Gemini, announces more key AI moves
• Texas judge throws out second lawsuit over CrowdStrike outage
• Apple will pay billions for Gemini after OpenAI declined
• Dell wants £10m+ from VMware if Tesco case goes against it
• Tailscale: The Best Free App Most Mac Power Users Aren’t Using
• How WhatsApp Took Over the Global Conversation
• Our approach to advertising and expanding access to ChatGPT
• OpenAI’s ARR reached over $20 billion in 2025, CFO says
• Simon Willison’s take on Our approach to advertising and ChatGPT
• The AI lab revolving door spins ever faster | TechCrunch
• How Markdown took over the world
• An Interview with United CEO Scott Kirby About Tech Transformation

• cfgmgmtcamp 2026, February 2nd to 4th, Ghent, BE.
  • Coté speaking - anyone interested in being an SDI guest?
• DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA
  • Use code: DEVOP for 50% off.
• Devnexus 2026, March 4th to 6th, Atlanta, GA.
  • Use this 30% off discount code from your pals at Tanzu: DN26VMWARE30.
• KubeCon EU, March 23rd to 26th, 2026 - Coté will be there on a media pass.
• VMware User Groups (VMUGs):
  • Amsterdam (March 17-19, 2026)
  • Minneapolis (April 7-9, 2026)
  • Toronto (May 12-14, 2026)
  • Dallas (June 9-11, 2026)
  • Orlando (October 20-22, 2026)

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• Brandon: The Library will loan you a 5G hotspot
• Matt: Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor (rogue-like Vampire Hunters-type game)
• Coté: Streamyard shorts generation. Salesforce was inspired by dolphins.

This week, we discuss Gemini powering Siri, AWS’s biggest competitor, and AWS strategy choices. Plus, when should your next meeting actually start?

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 555

• Swedish Death Cleaning
• Give it a best effort
• Trying it bad for profits.
• That pen better be really good
• You do all the nerd shit, we’ll be cool
• Looking at a hundred rabbits’ assholes.
• The Kremlinologist of AWS
• The aaSes of Cloud
• They’ll like our apples better
• Running on hopes and dreams until you’re sure they don’t exist
• What we have is a situation

• Apple gets AI from Google
  • Joint statement from Google and Apple
  • Kuo: Apple's AI Deal With Google Is Temporary and Buys It Time
  • Google's Apple AI deal marks 'huge loss' for OpenAI
• AWS in 2026: The Year of Proving They Still Know How to Operate

• Anthropic reportedly raising $10B at $350B valuation
• Dell Reverses Course, Brings Back XPS Laptops
• Google is unleashing Gemini AI features on Gmail. Users will have to opt out
• Bose is open-sourcing its old smart speakers instead of bricking them
• Google Guys Say Bye to California
• Amazon gives managers a new way to spot who's barely coming into the office
• A decade of open source in CNCF with 300,000+ contributors and counting
• CrowdStrike to Acquire SGNL to Transform Identity Security for the AI Era
• Snowflake Announces Intent to Acquire Observe to Deliver AI-Powered Observability
• Nvidia Hires Google Veteran as Its First Chief Marketing Officer
• The Fediverse Experiment
• RIP the metaverse

• American Airlines rolls out free Wi-Fi to loyalty members

• cfgmgmtcamp 2026, February 2nd to 4th, Ghent, BE.
  • Coté speaking - anyone interested in being a SDI guest?
• DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA
  • Use code: DEVOP for 50% off.
• Devnexus 2026, March 4th to 6th, Atlanta, GA. Coté has a discount code, but he’s not sure if he can give it out. He’s asking! Send him a DM in the meantime.
• KubeCon EU, March 23rd to 26th, 2026 - Coté will be there on a media pass.
• Whole bunch of VMUGs: Amsterdam (March 17-19, 2026), Minneapolis (April 7-9, 2026), Toronto (May 12-14, 2026), Dallas (June 9-11, 2026), Orlando (October 20-22, 2026)

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• Brandon: Google Nest Doorbell (Wired, 3rd Gen)
• Matt: MTV Rewind
• Coté:
  • “These 36 Airlines Offer iPhone Feature That Helps Find Your Lost Bags.”
  • Distroless, Helm Charts, & Hardened Images: Security That Ships (with William Jimenez)

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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

• 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.

• 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

• 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

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

• Wiz Wizdom Conferences, November 17-19, London
• The good hospitality from Keith Townsend.
• DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA
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• Brandon: Pluribus
• Matt: Hades 2
• Coté: Camo

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This week, we second guess recent decisions made by Google and Apple. Plus, what social media sites is everyone actually using these days?

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 456

• Is it Russian hackers?
• Bad upgrade is the 1B to DNS
  
• They’re all bad product launches
• Vikings are 98% more Nordic
• Can I pay for features?
• They’ve defeated vaporware
• Interoperability is for underdogs

• Google
  • Google pauses Gemini AI image generator after it created inaccurate historical pictures
  • Google Pay app is shutting down in the US after being replaced by Google Wallet
  • AT&T outage caused by software update, not malicious intent: Sources
  • AT&T reimburses customers after massive network outage | CNN Business
• Apple
  • Apple Music testing feature that easily imports playlists from Spotify and other services
  • Apple Cancels Work on Electric Car, Shifts Team to Generative AI
  • Apple is already defending iMessage against tomorrow’s quantum computing attacks
  • Apple launches Apple Sports app with scores and betting odds
  • Don't dry your iPhone in a bag of rice, says Apple
  • The Sneaky Genius of Apple’s AirPods Empire

• Reddit’s IPO Is for Redditors
• Open Source Doesn't Require Providing Builds
• Cloud-Native Is In Shambles
• S&P 500 rallies to record high on the back of strong Nvidia earnings: Live updates
• Reducing Waste and Managing Commitments Top Key Priorities for FinOps Practitioners
• SadServers - Troubleshooting Linux Servers
• The Open Source Sustainability Crisis
• Octopus Deploy Acquires Codefresh to Bring CD, CI, and GitOps Into One Trusted Platform
• What to Do about VMware
• Nintendo sues Switch emulator Yuzu for ‘facilitating piracy at a colossal scale’
• Improving Developer Experience Drives Profitability
• ServerlessHorrors | Home
• Sony is laying off 900 employees from its PlayStation unit | TechCrunch
• Future Software Should Be Memory Safe | ONCD | The White House
• Malicious AI models on Hugging Face backdoor users’ machines
• Snowflake says Frank Slootman is retiring as CEO, stock plunges more than 20%
• HDMI Forum Rejects Open-Source HDMI 2.1 Driver Support Sought By AMD

• Dope'n'Stack - Cloud Anthem
• Dope'n'Stack - E.N.T.E.R.P.R.I.S.E.

• SCaLE 21x/DevOpsDays LA, March 14th–17th, 2024 — Coté speaking, sponsorship slots available.
• KubeCon EU Paris, March 19–22 — Coté on the wait list for the platform side conference. Get 20% off with the discount code KCEU24VMWBC20.
• DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17–18, 2024
• Executive dinner in Dallas that Coté’s hosting on March 13st, 2024.
  • If you’re an “executive” who might want to buy stuff from Tanzu to get better at your apps, than register. There is also a Tanzu exec event coming up in the next few months, email Coté if you want to hear more about it.

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• Brandon: Delta Wi-Fi
• Matt: Anti-pick Aliens 3
  • Aliens Dark Descent
• Coté: GM’s Apprentice. Also: How to Survive and Thrive in a Big Company: Tactics and Practices to Manage Your Time and Relationships

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This week, we discuss open source forks, what’s going on at OpenAI and checkin on the IRS Direct File initiative. Plus, plenty of thoughts on taking your annual Code of Conduct Training.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 455

• I live my life one iCal screen at a time
• We always have sparklers
• Meta-parenting
• Everyone is always tired
• Cheaper version of Red Hat
• This week in “Do we need to be angry?”
• All we get is wingdings.
• I’m in a Socialist mood this week
• Pies shot out of my eyes and stuff
• Those dingalings bought my boat
• Dingalings of the mind

• CIQ Offers Long-Term Support for Rocky Linux 8.6, 8.8 and 9.2 Images Through AWS Marketplace
• Will CIQ’s new support program alienate the community
• NGINX fork? freenginx.org
• Struggling database company MariaDB could be taken private in $37M deal
• Tofu
• So Where’s That New OpenAI Board?
• The IRS has all our tax data. Why doesn’t its new website use it?

• Apple on course to break all Web Apps in EU within 20 days - Open Web Advocacy
• Bringing Competition to Walled Gardens - Open Web Advocacy
• Introducing the Column Explorer: a bird’s-eye view of your data
• Apple TV+ Became HBO Before HBO Could Become Netflix
• Sora: Creating video from text
• Sustainability, a surprisingly successful KPI: GreenOps survey results - ClimateAction.Tech
• Slack AI has arrived
• What's new and cool? - Adam Jacob
• Apple is reportedly working on AI updates to Spotlight and Xcode
• Apple Readies AI Tool to Rival Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot
• VMs on Kubernetes with Kubevirt session at Kubecon
• Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline’s chatbot
• Microsoft 'retires' Azure IoT Central in platform rethink
• The big design freak-out: A generation of design leaders grapple with their future
• Most of the contents of the Xerox PARC team's work were tossed into a dumpster
• 1Password expands its endpoint security offerings with Kolide acquisition
• Microsoft Will Use Intel to Manufacture Home-Grown Processor
• In a First, Apple Captures Top 7 Spots in Global List of Top 10 Best-selling Smartphones - Counterpoint
• Google Is Giving Away Some of the A.I. That Powers Chatbots
• Apple Shuffles Leadership of Team Responsible for Audio Products
• Signal now lets you keep your phone number private with the launch of usernames
• How Google is killing independent sites like ours
• VMware takes a swing at Nutanix, Red Hat with VM converter ## Nonsense
• An ordinary squirt of canned air achieves supersonic speeds - engineer spots telltale shock diamonds

• SCaLE 21x/DevOpsDays LA, March 14th–17th, 2024 — Coté speaking, sponsorship slots available.
• KubeCon EU Paris, March 19–22 — Coté on the wait list for the platform side conference. Get 20% off with the discount code KCEU24VMWBC20.
• DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17–18, 2024
• Executive dinner in Dallas that Coté’s hosting on March 13st, 2024.
  • If you’re an “executive” who might want to buy stuff from Tanzu to get better at your apps, than register. There is also a Tanzu exec event coming up in the next few months, email Coté if you want to hear more about it.

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• Brandon: Fair Play on Netflix
• Matt: Julia Evans: Popular Git Config Options
• Coté: Anker USB C Charger (Nano II 65W) Pod 3-Port PPS Fast Charger.

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This week, we discuss the ever expanding CNCF Landscape, bundling and unbundling, and the latest cloud earnings. Plus, some thoughts on soap dispensers in Europe vs. U.S.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 454

• Are we streaming.
• I have the whole earth to roam, so I’m not going to get space madness.
• If you watch it long enough every movie represents all of life.
• The sound track to walking the dog.
• At least it’s open source.
• The Magic Quadrant of Fashion.
• I guess everyone’s cool?
• What pair of pants do I need?
• The AirPods Pro pocket.
• Go down the metaphor hole.
• I was eating steak, and now I’m eating OpenTofu.
• Not good, but good enough.
• The Metaphor Hole

• CNCF Landscape
• Bundling, Unbundling and Ensh*tification (Cloudcast Pod)
• Earnings
  • Meta Beats Sales Forecast Estimates; Announces First Dividend
  • Amazon Projects Profit Topping Estimates on Further Cost Cutting
  • Clouded Judgement 2.2.24 - Cloud Giants Report Q4 '23
  • Alphabet: Cloud Rebounds
  • Platformonomics - Follow the CAPEX: Cloud Table Stakes 2023 Retrospective

• Shift Happens: A book about keyboards
• Broadcom's strategy ignores most VMware customers
• Allen Institute for AI releases ‘truly open source’ LLM to drive ‘critical shift’ in AI development
• OLMo - Open Language Model by AI2
• Threads is growing steadily with more than 130M monthly actives.
• Leaky Vessels: Docker and runc Container Breakout Vulnerabilities - January 2024
• From unicorns to unicorpses: Why billion-dollar startups and even VC firms keep imploding
• Dell said to be preparing broad Return To Office mandate
• Weaveworks shuts down
• A Giant Reborn: Satya Nadella’s Decade as Microsoft CEO
• Is the $139 Amazon Prime Subscription Still Worth It?
• Everbridge Agrees to $1.5B Buyout Offer From Thoma Bravo
• Adam Neumann Tries to Buy Back WeWork
• NinjaOne Notches $1.9 Billion Valuation in Deal Led By Iconiq
• YouTube TV says it has more than 8 million subscribers
• Pivotal founder Rob Mee is back with a new startup.
• ESPN, Fox, WBD shake up media with plans for new sports streaming service
• Arm shares surge 48% after SoftBank-controlled chip designer issues strong forecast
• Sam Altman Seeks Trillions of Dollars to Reshape Business of Chips and AI
• Disney invests $1.5B in Epic Games, plans new “games and entertainment universe”
• Dynatrace hits $1.4 billion ARR, grabs logos from AppDynamics, aims to grow logs offering
• Google and Yahoo Are Cracking Down on Inbox Spam. Don’t Expect Less Email Marketing.
• Cloudflare's crowd-sources another patent troll case victory
• (Almost) Every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret after 4 years running infrastructure at a startup
• 2024 State of Internal Developer Portals | Port
• Amazon’s Cloud Crisis: How AWS Will Lose The Future Of Computing
• Yandex: The end of an era for Russia’s most innovative firm
• How Mastodon made friends with Meta
• The Vision Pro
• Microsoft Teams, Word, Excel, and more are coming to Apple’s Vision Pro at launch
• Apple’s Vision Pro battery pack is hiding the final boss of Lightning cables
• Why Tim Cook Is Going All In on the Apple Vision Pro
• the thing no one will say about Apple Vision Pro
• Working in the Vision Pro
• Forgot Your Apple Vision Pro’s Passcode? You May Have to Take It Back to Store
• Tesla owners told not to wear Apple virtual reality headsets while driving

• Cynical book summaries
• H-E-B's North Texas impact starting to become clear across groceries, real estate
• The 10 Best-Selling Vehicles in America in 2023
• One of Our Best Websites Died While No One Was Looking
• Stanley Made Reusable Cups Huge. Now It Has to Make Them Sustainable
• Most accurate video I’ve ever seen

• Brian recommends Subprime Attention Crisis
• Andrew recommends the Amazon.com: Sink Soap Dispenser

• SCaLE 21x/DevOpsDays LA, March 14th–17th, 2024 — Coté speaking, sponsorship slots available.
• KubeCon EU Paris, March 19–22 — Coté on the wait list for the platform side conference. Get 20% off with the discount code KCEU24VMWBC20.
• DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17–18, 2024
• Executive dinner in Dallas that Coté’s hosting on March 13st, 2024.
  • If you’re an “executive” who might want to buy stuff from Tanzu to get better at your apps, than register. There is also a Tanzu exec event coming up in the next few months, email Coté if you want to hear more about it.

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• Brandon: Chamberlain Smart Garage Control
• Matt: FLOSS Weekly Episode 769: OpenCost — We Spent How Much?
• Coté: chocolate covered dates at Tree of Dates.

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This week, Coté interviews John Willis and they discuss how Kubernetes ultimately won, why large companies struggle with Digital Transformation, and Systems Thinking. Plus, John shares his opinions about Human Resources and Venture Capital.

• Kubernetes: The Documentary
• Deming's Journey to Profound Knowledge
• The Problems with Money In (Open Source) Software
• Profound Deming
• Profound Podcast

• LinkedIn
• botchagalupe@gmail.com

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Special Guest: John Willis.

This week, we examine the balancing act CEOs face between maintaining operations and pursuing growth, the IRS's attempt to automate tax filing, and defining success in thought leadership.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 452

• Know the rules
• Until you reach infinity
• When you’re washing your full ass, don’t half-ass your shower door.
• All-in on Minecraft
• Eminent domain for digital transformation.
• There’s usually a stray banana in the Hilton Garden Buffet.

• Alphabet Shares Fall After Search Revenue Misses Estimates
• Microsoft beats Q2 earnings on AI, cloud strength, shares flat
• The CEO and the Three Envelopes - Kevin Kruse
• Direct File | Internal Revenue Service
• DX: Developer Experience Insights Platform

• Google to Team Up With Startup Hugging Face to Host AI Software
• Chrome updates Incognito warning to admit Google tracks users in “private” mode
• IBM shares soar to more than 10-year high on rosy AI outlook
• Apple is finally allowing full versions of Chrome and Firefox to run on the iPhone
• Michael Leonard on LinkedIn: r/vmware
• A massive tech company exodus is occurring in Texas, reports show
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux scalable pricing to cloud partners announcement
• Info-stealers can steal cookies for permanent access to your Google account
• A brief history of Dell UNIX
• OpenNebula Systems welcomes the EU decision to approve the €1.2B IPCEI-CIS
• Apple Home Devices, Car Veteran Exits for Top Rivian Product Role
• Canon aims to ship low-cost ‘stamp’ machine this year to disrupt chipmaking
• #446: Python in Excel — Talk Python To Me
• Truly shocks me how many people use Apple Mail
• Amazon’s $1.4B iRobot deal is dead. Now what?
• Arc Search combines browser, search engine, and AI into something new and different
• Startup Funding Simulator
• Streaming media company Plex raises $40M as it nears profitability
• Porsche Hands Infotainment Keys To Apple, iPhone Can Now Rule The Cockpit
• Kids spent 60% more time on TikTok than YouTube last year, 20% tried OpenAI's ChatGPT
• ChatGPT is leaking passwords from private conversations of its users, Ars reader says
• Musk Risks Losing World’s Richest Title After Pay Package Voided
• Inside the Numbers: The KubeCon + CloudNativeCon selection process for Europe 2024
• Delaware Tells Musk ‘No’; Alphabet and Microsoft’s AI-Driven Earnings
• But they got back online quickly -- because their trading system used a Novell Netware server that the ransomware didn't understand.

• Fifty Years Ago Today (D&D)
• I built my own 16-Bit CPU in Excel
• More things that blow my American mind about living in Australia
• Make it Taylors Version

• CfgMgmtCamp, Feb 5–7th — Coté speaking.
• The Uk's Open Technology Conference Open Source Software, Open Hardware Feb 6–7
• SCaLE 21x/DevOpsDays LA, March 14th–17th, 2024 — Coté speaking, sponsorship slots available.
• KubeCon EU Paris, March 19–22 — Coté on the wait list for the platform side conference.
• DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17–18, 2024
• Executive dinner in Dallas that Coté’s hosting on March 31st, 2024
  • If you’re an “executive” who might want to buy stuff from Tanzu to get better at your apps, than register. There is also a Tanzu exec event coming up in the next few months, email Coté if you want to hear more about it.

• Join us in Slack.
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• Brandon: Stanley Cups Are Just Water Bottles. How Did They Get So Popular?
• Coté: Mythic Game Master Emulator, version 2 (I don’t think the version matters, really).

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This week, we discuss what “enshittification” is, what causes it, and whether it can be prevented. Plus, stay tuned until the end to hear the Software Defined Talk origin story.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 451

• Enshittification
• The Fahrenheit 451 Reorganization
• Wait for Wifi
• Taxes by beef rib
• It’s actually not fine
• Smoking crack in Disneyland
• AI is accelerating the crappiness.
• Why don’t you just sell more cloud?
• Generated Garbage
• I can’t tell if it’s a coffee mug or a ballistic missile.
• Accidentally upgraded
• Jury duty…”pretty cool.”

• Airalo for mobile cell phones plans when traveling.
• How Google perfected the web
• AdNauseam - Clicking Ads So You Don't Have To
• Subprime Attention Crisis
• 2023 Word of the Year Is “Enshittification”
• Instagram’s co-founders are shutting down their Artifact news app
• Google Search Really Has Gotten Worse, Researchers Find

• Tens of thousands of GPUs go under-utilized in the cloud
• Creating a Sales Commission Plan
• The Quiet Death of Ello's Big Dreams - Waxy.org
• Nutanix set to benefit most from Broadcom's VMware upheaval
• VMware is killing off 56 products amid "tectonic" infrastructure shift
• Taming the dragon - Chinese and US Semiconductor competition
• ‘I dreamed of blocky pixels’: the strange, sweaty, sociable early days of gaming – in pictures
• Lofree Flow — Keyboard Review via Tim Bray
• Remembering Bell Labs as legendary idea factory prepares to leave N.J. home
• IBM Consulting orders a return to office - and means it
• Apple Dials Back Car’s Self-Driving Features and Delays Launch to 2028
• Introducing Docker Build Cloud
• It's time to build
• "And we call it... the Vision Pro holster. We think you're going to love it."
• For a moment there, Lotus Notes appeared to do everything
• Campfire is ONCE #1
• Lessons learned: 1,000 days of distributed at Atlassian - Work Life by Atlassian
• Bosses want to work from home more than employees do, says new survey—but they're still pushing RTO requirements
• Nvidia, a $1 trillion AI powerhouse, is fine with remote work
• Why constant job cuts could be the new normal for Big Tech
• Culture Change at Google
• Frustrated Googlers are speaking out on the corporate dysfunction
• Bell Labs & Google: bookends of the same sad story?
• Mourning Google

• We lost some real stars this past year
• Startups Are Shutting Down!
• It’s Just a Water Bottle

• Robert recomends the Zojirushi SM-SR48E Stainless Mug

• That Conference Texas, Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1
• CfgMgmtCamp, Feb 5–7th — Coté speaking.
• The Uk's Open Technology Conference Open Source Software, Open Hardware Feb 6–7
• SCaLE 21x/DevOpsDays LA, March 14th–17th, 2024 — Coté speaking, sponsorship slots available.
• KubeCon EU Paris, March 19–22 — Coté on the wait list for the platform side conference.
• DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17–18, 2024

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This week, we discuss the role of DevRel, Remote Work and Layoffs. Plus, Matt reveals his latest keyboard recommendation.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 450

• Life is a series of (shitty) cliffhangers
• Sales is crazy
• Donut over-eating avoidance
• Fundamentals don’t change
• Do you have good recipes for golden geese?
• We need better Dungeons and Dragons
• The AI has been prompted beyond its level of competence.
• Peter Pan as DevRel
• Hard stop goes soft
• HR in volume feels dehumanizing
• Mad Libs for layoffs
• Workers of the world, don’t let HR hide in darkness.
• We’ve had a great time, that other keyboard and I, but we’ve made a decision…
• Status quo wins again
• The Strangler Pattern for password management
• Schwag cannot be stolen.

• 2024 Look Ahead - Surviving the Q1 Kickoff (Podcast)
• DevRel
  • The trouble with DevRel
  • Amazon’s silent sacking (Podcast)
• Work, RTO and Layoffs
  • WebMD’s RTO Video
  • Brittany Pietsch on LinkedIn: TikTok
  • Brittany Peach cloudflare layoff TikTok
  • Cloudflare CEO responds to viral layoff video
  • Signs that it’s time to leave a company…
  • A tool to algorithmically estimate fair compensation
  • Remote Workers Are Losing Out on Promotions, New Data Shows
  • Discord is laying off 17 percent of employees
  • Citi layoffs hit 20,000 -- as the bank spends big on tech
  • Infosys co-founder repeats call for 70-hour working weeks
• Passwords and Keyboards
  • Microsoft Copilot keyboard keys are coming to Windows 11 PCs at CES 2024
  • Microsoft’s keyboards and mice will live on under a unique new partnership
  • Migrating from 1Password to Apple Keychain
  • Now in beta: Create and unlock a 1Password account with a passkey

• Authy is shutting down its desktop app
• OpenTofu is going GA
• Framework Laptop 16 pre-orders are now open
• Google Cloud removes data transfer fees when clients switch to rivals
• Feds charge eBay over employees who sent live spiders and cockroaches to couple; company to pay $3M
• Nearly a Thousand People Were Convicted of Stealing Over Decades. It Was a Computer Glitch.
• How a $300 Million Flop Turned Into an Improbable Hit
• Slack Executives are all gone
• WhatsApp is Finally Starting to Dominate in the United States. Here’s Why.
• World's R&D spending
• Apple Relocating Siri Evaluation Team in San Diego to Austin
• The Worst Devices of CES 2024!
• App Store to Be 'Split in Two' Ahead of EU iPhone Sideloading Deadline
• Red Hat Developer Hub Now Generally Available
• Google Ends Cloud Switching Fees, Pressuring Amazon and Microsoft
• Gartner Says 50% of Critical Enterprise Applications Will Reside Outside of Centralized Public Cloud Locations Through 2027
• Slashing Data Transfer Costs in AWS by 99%

• Costco $COST opened its 6th store in China
• These Are the World’s Most Powerful Passports in 2024
• The Official Passport Index Ranking
• why stanley is on its way out #stanleycup #stanleytumbler #genztrends #greenscreen
• These smart binoculars can identify birds and animals for you

• Sent stickers to Dan in Indiana
• Shara recommends the Owala FreeSip.
• Craig shared a Hacker News link about the Google Dev experience that is called google3

• That Conference Texas, Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1
• CfgMgmtCamp, Feb 5-7th - Coté speaking.
• The Uk's Open Technology Conference Open Source Software, Open Hardware Feb 6-7
• SCaLE 21x/DevOpsDays LA, March 14th to 17th, 2024 - Coté speaking, and there’s still sponsorship slots.
• KubeCon EU Paris, March 19-22 - Coté on the wait list for the platform side conference.
• DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17-18, 2024

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