Software Defined Talk

• Episode 550: Typeface Philosophy

  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 (https://www.youtube.com/live/nNpiI00HPDg?si=s_G3zr_Z8yPvGNbB) 550 (https://www.youtube.com/live/nNpiI00HPDg?si=s_G3zr_Z8yPvGNbB) 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 (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/us/politics/rubio-state-department-font.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share) Cartridge (https://www.fontspring.com/fonts/simplebits/cartridge) Source Code Pro (https://adobe-fonts.github.io/source-code-pro/) It’s Official: Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros. in Deal Valued at $82.7 Billion (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/netflix-warner-bros-deal-hollywood-1236443081/) Confluent stock soars 29% as IBM announces $11 billion acquisition deal (https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/08/ibm-confluent-deal-data.html) Bun is joining Anthropic (https://bun.com/blog/bun-joins-anthropic?utm_source=changelog-news) Claude Code is coming to Slack, and that's a bigger deal than it sounds (https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/08/claude-code-is-coming-to-slack-and-thats-a-bigger-deal-than-it-sounds/) OpenAI enterprise usage study (https://cote.io/2025/12/10/highlights-from-that-openai-the.html). Relevant to your Interests Antigravity Is Google's New Agentic Development Platform (https://thenewstack.io/antigravity-is-googles-new-agentic-development-platform/) Amazon CTO Werner Vogels' Predictions for 2026 (https://thenewstack.io/amazon-cto-werner-vogels-predictions-for-2026/) ‘End-to-end encrypted’ smart toilet camera is not actually end-to-end encrypted (https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/03/end-to-end-encrypted-smart-toilet-camera-is-not-actually-end-to-end-encrypted/) AWS AI IDE, AgentCore throw down gauntlets for Microsoft (https://www.techtarget.com/searchsoftwarequality/news/366635669/AWS-AI-IDE-AgentCore-throw-down-gauntlets-for-Microsoft) Admins and defenders gird themselves against maximum-severity server vuln (https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/12/admins-and-defenders-gird-themselves-against-maximum-severity-server-vulnerability/) Andy Jassy says Amazon's Nvidia competitor chip is already a multibillion-dollar business (https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/03/andy-jassy-says-amazons-nvidia-competitor-chip-is-already-a-multi-billion-dollar-business/) 52 things I learned in 2025 (https://medium.com/@tomwhitwell/52-things-i-learned-in-2025-edeca7e3fdd8) State of AI | OpenRouter (https://openrouter.ai/state-of-ai) Microsoft has a problem: nobody wants its poor AI products (https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-has-a-problem-nobody-wants-to-buy-or-use-its-shoddy-ai) DHH & Open Source (https://ma.tt/2025/12/dhh-open-source/) Gruber: Apple employees 'giddy' about Alan Dye’s departure - 9to5Mac (https://9to5mac.com/2025/12/04/gruber-apple-employees-giddy-about-alan-dyes-departure/) Apple announces (https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/04/apple-announces-departure-lisa-jackson-kate-adams.html) the (https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/04/apple-announces-departure-lisa-jackson-kate-adams.html) departure of general counsel and policy chief (https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/04/apple-announces-departure-lisa-jackson-kate-adams.html) Nonsense All of the Men’s Clothing We Loved (and Didn’t) From Costco’s Kirkland Signature (https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/costco-kirkland-signature-menswear/) Conferences cfgmgmtcamp 2026 (https://cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/), February 2nd to 4th, Ghent, BE. Coté speaking and doing live SDI (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com) with John Willis. DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x), March 6th, Pasadena, CA Use code: DEVOP for 50% off. Devnexus 2026 (https://devnexus.com), March 4th to 6th, Atlanta, GA. Whole bunch of VMUGs, mostly in the US. The CFPs are open (https://app.sessionboard.com/submit/vmug-call-for-content-2026/ae1c7013-8b85-427c-9c21-7d35f8701bbe?utm_campaign=5766542-VMUG%20Voice&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_YREN7dr6p3KSQPYkFSN5K85A-pIVYZ03ZhKZOV0O3t3h0XHdDHethhx5O8gBFguyT5mZ3n3q-ZnPKvjllFXYfWV3thg&_hsmi=393690000&utm_content=393685389&utm_source=hs_email), go speak at them! Coté speaking in Amsterdam. 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) SDT News & Community Join our Slack community (https://softwaredefinedtalk.slack.com/join/shared_invite/zt-1hn55iv5d-UTfN7mVX1D9D5ExRt3ZJYQ#/shared-invite/email) Email the show: [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) Follow us on social media: Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Threads (https://www.threads.net/@softwaredefinedtalk), Mastodon (https://hachyderm.io/@softwaredefinedtalk), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/), BlueSky (https://bsky.app/profile/softwaredefinedtalk.com) Watch us on: Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@softwaredefinedtalk) Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Sponsor the show (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads): [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) Recommendations Brandon: Short Power Extension Cord Outlet Saver (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07H9MCTGL?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title&th=1) Matt: Everything is Tuberculosis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_Is_Tuberculosis) Octopus Project - Music is Happiness (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6y5hisXx7s) Coté: The Octopus Organization (https://www.theoctopusorganization.com). 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• Episode 549: The Fermi Paradox of Agentic Development

  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 (https://www.youtube.com/live/Xl7lVVTd4DM?si=APR633y2hmXPHHdb) 549 (https://www.youtube.com/live/Xl7lVVTd4DM?si=APR633y2hmXPHHdb) 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 (https://www.nextgov.com/digital-government/2000/10/angel-watches-over-web-sites/243841/) AWS Amazon announces $50B investment to expand AI and supercomputing capabilities for US government (https://siliconangle.com/2025/11/24/amazon-announces-50b-investment-expand-ai-supercomputing-capabilities-us-government/) Top announcements of AWS re:Invent 2025 (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/top-announcements-of-aws-reinvent-2025/) All the biggest news from AWS’ big tech show re:Invent 2025 (https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/02/all-the-biggest-news-from-aws-big-tech-show-reinvent-2025/) AWS announces preview of AWS Interconnect - multicloud (https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/11/preview-aws-interconnect-multicloud/) The Future of AWS CodeCommit | Amazon Web Services (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/devops/aws-codecommit-returns-to-general-availability/) Nova Act (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/build-reliable-ai-agents-for-ui-workflow-automation-with-amazon-nova-act-now-generally-available/) Code Red OpenAI CEO declares “code red” as Gemini gains 20 0 million users in 3 months (https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/12/openai-ceo-declares-code-red-as-gemini-gains-200-million-users-in-3-months/) Anthropic reportedly preparing for one of the largest IPOs ever in race with OpenAI: FT (https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/03/anthropic-claude-reportedly-preparing-ipo-race-openai-chatgpt-ft-wilson-sonsini-goodrich-rosati.html) Microsoft stock sinks on report AI product sales are missing growth goals (https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/03/microsoft-stock-ai-foundry-sales.html) AI & Cloud Trends for November 2025 (https://www.thecloudcast.net/2025/12/ai-cloud-trends-for-november-2025.html) Relevant to your Interests Under My Roof Home Inventory + App - App Store (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/under-my-roof-home-inventory/id1524335878) Thoma Bravo invests in Azul (https://www.finextra.com/pressarticle/108009/thoma-bravo-invests-in-azul) Streamline Development with the Google Workspace Extension (https://allen.hutchison.org/2025/11/19/bringing-the-office-to-the-terminal/) As its voice dictation app takes off, Wispr secures $25M from Notable Capital | TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/20/as-its-voice-dectation-app-takes-off-wispr-secures-25m-from-notable-capital/) Valve makes almost $50 million per employee (https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/valve-makes-almost-usd50-million-per-employee-raking-in-more-cash-per-person-than-google-amazon-or-microsoft-gaming-giants-350-employees-on-track-to-generate-usd17-billion-this-year) HelixGuar (https://helixguard.ai/blog/malicious-sha1hulud-2025-11-24)d (https://helixguard.ai/blog/malicious-sha1hulud-2025-11-24) What to know about a recent Mixpanel security incident (https://openai.com/index/mixpanel-incident/) ServiceNow to Expand Security Portfolio With Acquisition of Veza’s Leading AI-native Identity Security Platform (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20251201652471/en/ServiceNow-to-Expand-Security-[…]tion-of-Vezas-Leading-AI-native-Identity-Security-Platform) Vista-Backed LogicMonitor Buys Monitoring Startup Catchpoint (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-02/vista-backed-logicmonitor-buys-mon[…]ing-startup-catchpoint?srnd=phx-deals&embedded-checkout=true) Google releases Nano Banana Pro, its latest image generation model (https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/20/google-releases-nano-banana-pro-its-latest-image-generation-model/) Years of JSONFormatter and CodeBeautify Leaks Expose Thousands of Passwords and API Keys (https://thehackernews.com/2025/11/years-of-jsonformatter-and-codebeautify.html) Netflix kills casting from phones (https://www.theverge.com/news/834655/netflix-phone-casting-chromecast-support-killed) Nonsense Victorian Name Generator (https://codebeautify.org/victorian-name-generator) Conferences cfgmgmtcamp 2026 (https://cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/), February 2nd to 4th, Ghent, BE. Coté speaking and doing live SDI with John Willis. DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x), March 6th, Pasadena, CA Use code: DEVOP for 50% off. CFP open until Dec. 1st. Devnexus 2026 (https://devnexus.com), March 4th to 6th, Atlanta, GA. SDT News & Community Join our Slack community (https://softwaredefinedtalk.slack.com/join/shared_invite/zt-1hn55iv5d-UTfN7mVX1D9D5ExRt3ZJYQ#/shared-invite/email) Email the show: [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) Follow us on social media: Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Threads (https://www.threads.net/@softwaredefinedtalk), Mastodon (https://hachyderm.io/@softwaredefinedtalk), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/), BlueSky (https://bsky.app/profile/softwaredefinedtalk.com) Watch us on: Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@softwaredefinedtalk) Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Sponsor the show (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads): [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) Recommendations Brandon: Dampf Good BBQ (https://guide.michelin.com/us/en/north-carolina/cary_2986745/restaurant/dampf-good-bbq) Matt: UmamiPapi (https://umamipapi.com.au/) chilli oil Coté: Anta (https://anta-keelpastilles.nl/smaken/classic/), slightly more in English (https://www.dutchexpatshop.com/en/anta-flu-classic.html). Also XdgBaseDirs (https://cote.io/2025/12/02/an-xdg-library-for-java.html). Photo Credits Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/a-wooden-block-spelling-the-word-website-on-a-table-Vagh0KcwvwQ)

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• Episode 548: Household CMDB

  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 (https://www.youtube.com/live/byFyPbe9HC0?si=DpOApdTKs9oh-bWl) 548 (https://www.youtube.com/live/byFyPbe9HC0?si=DpOApdTKs9oh-bWl) 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 (https://thenewstack.io/ffmpeg-to-google-fund-us-or-stop-sending-bugs/) Cloudflare blames massive internet outage on 'latent bug' (https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/cloudflare-blames-massive-internet-outage-on-latent-bug/) Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 (https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/) Replicate is joining Cloudflare (https://blog.cloudflare.com/replicate-joins-cloudflare/) Relevant to your Interests The Walt Disney Company Announces Multi-Year Distribution Agreement With YouTube TV (https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/the-walt-disney-company-announces-multi-year-distribution-agreement-with-youtube-tv/) Anthropic claims of Claude AI-automated cyberattacks met with doubt (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/anthropic-claims-of-claude-ai-automated-cyberattacks-met-with-doubt/) Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign (https://www.anthropic.com/news/disrupting-AI-espionage) Compact, human-readable serialization of JSON data for LLM prompts (https://github.com/toon-format/toon) Outage Tracker | Updog By Datadog (https://updog.ai/) Jeff Bezos Creates A.I. Start-Up Where He Will Be Co-Chief Executive (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/technology/bezos-project-prometheus.html) Power (https://a16z.com/powerpoint-is-your-therapist-gamma-is-your-coach/)P (https://a16z.com/powerpoint-is-your-therapist-gamma-is-your-coach/)oint is your therapist, Gamma is your coach | Andreessen Horowitz (https://a16z.com/powerpoint-is-your-therapist-gamma-is-your-coach/) Red Hat Introduces Project Hummingbird for “Zero-CVE” Strategies (https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-introduces-project-hummingbird-zero-cve-strategies) A new era of intelligence with Gemini 3 (https://blog.google/products/gemini/gemini-3/) The platform that needs a platform (https://cote.io/2025/11/19/the-platform-that-needs-a.html) The AI Coding Startup Favored by Tech CEOs Is Now Worth $29.3 Billion (https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-ai-coding-startup-favored-by-tech-ceos-is-now-worth-29-3-billion-14c72c02) The Smartest Fliers Use This App to Survive America’s Travel Hell (https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/flighty-app-flight-cancellations-delays-900a8aad) Oracle's Market Cap Decline: Analyzing the Impact on Finance (https://platformonomics.com/2025/11/platformonomics-tgif-108-november-14-2025/) OpenAI's Fidji Simo Plans to Make ChatGPT Way More Useful—and Have You Pay For It (https://www.wired.com/story/fidji-simo-is-openais-other-ceo-and-she-swears-shell-make-chatgpt-profitable/) Europe’s cookie nightmare is crumbling (https://www.theverge.com/news/823788/europe-cookie-prompt-browser-changes-proposal) Nonsense AI-Powered Teddy Bear Caught Talking About Sexual Fetishes and Instructing Kids How to Find Knives (https://gizmodo.com/ai-powered-teddy-bear-caught-talking-about-sexual-fetishes-and-instructing-kids-how-to-find-knives-2000687140) Whipped Cream Worth $80K Stolen in Ontario (https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/whipped-cream-worth-80k-stolen-135930616.html) Conferences DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x), March 6th, Pasadena, CA Use code: DEVOP for 50% off. CFP open until Dec. 1st. SDT News & Community Join our Slack community (https://softwaredefinedtalk.slack.com/join/shared_invite/zt-1hn55iv5d-UTfN7mVX1D9D5ExRt3ZJYQ#/shared-invite/email) Email the show: [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) Follow us on social media: Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Threads (https://www.threads.net/@softwaredefinedtalk), Mastodon (https://hachyderm.io/@softwaredefinedtalk), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/), BlueSky (https://bsky.app/profile/softwaredefinedtalk.com) Watch us on: Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@softwaredefinedtalk) Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Sponsor the show (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads): [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) Recommendations Brandon: The Beast in Me (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.netflix.com/title/81427733&ved=2ahUKEwiy4NnP_P6QAxWGnWoFHU37GesQFnoECGcQAQ&usg=AOvVaw0QnhTLbjScTHWLLBI4qs26) Matt: The Prestige (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0482571/) Coté: Fantastic 4 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fantastic_Four:_First_Steps) with that Boba Fet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fantastic_Four:_First_Steps)t (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fantastic_Four:_First_Steps) guy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fantastic_Four:_First_Steps), “Winter’s Mourning,” from Uncaged God (https://www.dmsguild.com/en/product/382873/uncaged-goddesses)d (https://www.dmsguild.com/en/product/382873/uncaged-goddesses)esses (https://www.dmsguild.com/en/product/382873/uncaged-goddesses). 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• Episode 547: Whitney goes to KubeCon

  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 54 (https://www.youtube.com/live/gBkzVSXZot8?si=jEreOaj-q6-NuMM0)7 (https://www.youtube.com/live/gBkzVSXZot8?si=jEreOaj-q6-NuMM0) Rundown Slutty Vegan (https://sluttyveganatl.com) Cloud Native Rejekts (https://cloud-native.rejekts.io) Maintainer Summit (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/features-add-ons/maintainer-summit/) Conference Parties (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://conferenceparties.com/&ved=2ahUKEwjBxMPVifqQAxVFmGoFHX48B6AQFnoECA0QAQ&usg=AOvVaw21TBO0Hu3TEQZqgF3NG7CT) Ingress NGINX Retirement: What You Need to Know (https://kubernetes.io/blog/2025/11/11/ingress-nginx-retirement/) Linkerd Forever (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/wmorgan_linkerd-forever-activity-7395871463464968192-9fg5?utm_source=social_share_send&utm_medium=member_desktop_web&rcm=ACoAAADVjQ8Btsl3lKfl-gEYa6_6hmjCdJyRJyw) Migrating from Ingress Resources (https://gateway.envoyproxy.io/docs/install/migrating-to-envoy/) Conferences DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x), March 6th, Pasadena, CA Use code: DEVOP for 50% off. CFP open until Dec. 1st. SDT News & Community Join our Slack community (https://softwaredefinedtalk.slack.com/join/shared_invite/zt-1hn55iv5d-UTfN7mVX1D9D5ExRt3ZJYQ#/shared-invite/email) Email the show: [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) Follow us on social media: Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Threads (https://www.threads.net/@softwaredefinedtalk), Mastodon (https://hachyderm.io/@softwaredefinedtalk), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/), BlueSky (https://bsky.app/profile/softwaredefinedtalk.com) Watch us on: Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@softwaredefinedtalk) Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Sponsor the show (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads): [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) Recommendations Brandon: GE Attic Mount Digital TV Antenna (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DNJZ58M?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_dt_b_fed_asin_title_3) Whitney: O (https://obsidian.md)bsidian (https://obsidian.md), Wispr Flow (https://wisprflow.ai) Coté: MacWhisper (https://goodsnooze.gumroad.com/l/macwhisper) Photo Credits Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/selective-focus-photography-of-people-sitting-on-chairs-while-writing-on-notebooks-Hb6uWq0i4MI) Special Guest: Whitney Lee.

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• Episode 546: The cURLing Test

  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 (https://www.youtube.com/live/Zmu61wJDuc8?si=vjtzyCGTvdOpUsIC) 546 (https://www.youtube.com/live/Zmu61wJDuc8?si=vjtzyCGTvdOpUsIC) 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 (https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/06/meta-estimates-that-it-earns-10-of-its-revenue-from-scams-report-says/) "Good engineering management" is a fad (https://lethain.com/good-eng-mgmt-is-a-fad/) When CEO pay exploded (https://www.npr.org/2025/09/17/nx-s1-5543496/when-ceo-pay-exploded) Yes (https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/11/04/yes-really-curl-is-still-developed/), (https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/11/04/yes-really-curl-is-still-developed/) really, curl is still developed (https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/11/04/yes-really-curl-is-still-developed/) Relevant to your Interests Apple Nears $1 Billion-a (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-05/apple-plans-to-use-1-2-trillion-parameter-google-gemini-model-to-power-new-siri?utm_source=www.therundown.ai&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=apple-taps-gemini-for-siri-overhaul&_bhlid=f3b07e5cbf4d320ee5c9499c78df1c65a1d98608)- (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-05/apple-plans-to-use-1-2-trillion-parameter-google-gemini-model-to-power-new-siri?utm_source=www.therundown.ai&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=apple-taps-gemini-for-siri-overhaul&_bhlid=f3b07e5cbf4d320ee5c9499c78df1c65a1d98608)Year Deal to Use Google AI for Siri (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-05/apple-plans-to-use-1-2-trillion-parameter-google-gemini-model-to-power-new-siri?utm_source=www.therundown.ai&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=apple-taps-gemini-for-siri-overhaul&_bhlid=f3b07e5cbf4d320ee5c9499c78df1c65a1d98608) Sam Altman on Trust, Persuasion, and the Future of Intelligence (https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam-altman-2/) ‘Vibe coding’ named Collins Dictionary’s Word of the Year | CNN Business (https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/tech/vibe-coding-collins-word-year-scli-intl) Automattic Inc. Claims It Owns the Word 'Automatic' (https://www.404media.co/automattic-automatic-trademark-matt-mullenweg-kevin-geary/) IKEA Debuts 21 HomeKit-Compatible Smart Bulbs, Sensors, and Controls (https://www.macrumors.com/2025/11/06/ikea-homekit-compatible-matter-products/) The wildest stuff Elon Musk said at Tesla’s shareholder meeting (https://sherwood.news/tech/the-wildest-stuff-elon-musk-said-at-teslas-shareholder-meeting/) CNCF Launches Kubernetes AI Conformance Program (https://www.cncf.io/announcements/2025/11/11/cncf-launches-certified-kubernetes-ai-conformance-program-to-standardize-ai-workloads-on-kubernetes/) Russia's grand reveal of humanoid robot couldn't have gone worse (https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/us/russia-s-grand-reveal-of-humanoid-robot-couldn-t-have-gone-worse/vi-AA1QhJo4) How AWS is losing the younger generation with complexity (https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/04/aws_genz_misery_nope/) OpenAI Races to Quell Concerns Over Its Finances (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/technology/openai-finances-debt-data-centers.html) 'Big Short' investor Michael Burry accuses AI hyperscalers of artificially boosting earnings (https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/11/big-short-investor-michael-burry-accuses-ai-hyperscalers-of-artificially-boosting-earnings.html) Here's How Much OpenAI Spends On Inference and Its Revenue Share With Microsoft (https://www.wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/?ref=ed-zitrons-wheres-your-ed-at-newsletter) Apple Announces Launch of U.S. Passport Feature in iPhone's Wallet App (https://www.macrumors.com/2025/11/12/apple-launches-digital-id-passport-feature/) Nonsense Interview with Dying Company's VP (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCivp2qnhr8) As Seen on TV (https://youtu.be/UWRyj5cHIQA?si=fc1qwhZNEC62rJLy) Conferences Wiz Wizdom Conferences (https://www.wiz.io/wizdom), November 17-19, London The good hospitality from Keith Townsend (https://x.com/CTOAdvisor/status/1988456002425933930). 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