Everything about this is wrong
This week we discuss the digital transformation of paid TV, the struggle to modernize the IRS and DHH’s MRSK project. Plus, Matt is Factorio famous…
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 403 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ep_x-LOg4M)
Runner-up Titles
Forbidden
Everything needs cables
Got to be Grammarly
I’ve got a lot of hills to die on
A hatred for their customers
They wanted to hate your corpse
Except for The Wu-Tang Saga
You’ve abandoned the ship
No, no, we need to spy on you
You are gaslighting what your selling
I wouldn’t touch this
Full of chef kiss quotes
Rundown
What the NBA Can Learn From Formula 1 (https://stratechery.com/2023/what-the-nba-can-learn-from-formula-1/)
IRS tech is so ‘archaic’ the agency struggles to find people to work it (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/24/irs-technology-gao-report-archaic/)
Screaming in the Cloud #357: Stepping Onto the AWS Commerce Platform with James Greenfield (https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/screaming-in-the-cloud/stepping-onto-the-aws-commerce-platform-with-james-greenfield/)
US Digital Service (https://www.usds.gov/)
Individual Master File (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individual_Master_File)
Introducing MRSK (https://world.hey.com/dhh/introducing-mrsk-9330a267)
mrsked/mrsk (https://github.com/mrsked/mrsk)
Justin Garrison @rothgar’s take (https://twitter.com/rothgar/status/1630634683313848320)
Relevant to your Interests
After Fraud Charges Against Slync’s Ex-CEO, Goldman Sachs Doubles Down With $24 Million Investment (https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidjeans/2023/02/22/slync-goldman-sachs-chris-kirchner-funding/?sh=52642f354594)
ChatGPT-style search represents a 10x cost increase for Google, Microsoft (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/02/chatgpt-style-search-represents-a-10x-cost-increase-for-google-microsoft/)
Why everyone’s talking about Section 230 - The Hustle (https://thehustle.co/02232023-Section-230/)
Reveal Survey Report: Top Software Development Challenges For 2023 (https://www.revealbi.io/whitepapers/reveal-survey-report-top-software-development-challenges-for-2023)
Microsoft previews cost-efficient Azure VMs (https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/22/microsoft_cheap_azure_vms/)
DOJ Preps Antitrust Suit to Block Adobe’s $20 Billion Figma Deal (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-23/doj-preparing-suit-to-block-adobe-s-20-billion-deal-for-figma)
Oracle Cloud Made All The Right Moves In 2022 - Moor Insights & Strategy (https://moorinsightsstrategy.com/oracle-cloud-made-all-the-right-moves-in-2022/)
DoJ to block Adobe purchase of Figma on competition concerns (https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/24/doj_to_block_adobe_purchase/)
Your jailbroken ChatGPT might violate OpenAI’s safety guidelines when role-playing as ‘DAN’ (https://www.fastcompany.com/90845689/chatgpt-dan-jailbreak-violence-reddit-rules)
Is WebAssembly Really the Future? (https://thenewstack.io/is-webassembly-really-the-future/)
Elon Musk says remaining Twitter employees will receive ‘very significant’ stock awards on March 24th (https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/27/23616933/elon-musk-twitter-employees-stock-awards-march-after-more-layoffs)
Salesforce weighing up more job cuts to hit margin goal (https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/27/salesforce_job_losses_not_over/)
Alphabet Needs to Replace Sundar Pichai (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/alphabet-needs-to-replace-sundar-pichai)
LastPass Reveals Second Attack Resulting in Breach of Encrypted Password Vaults (https://thehackernews.com/2023/02/lastpass-reveals-second-attack.html)
Stack Overflow Stats (https://twitter.com/sahnlam/status/1629713954225405952)
Nonsense
Twitter had 88,188 channel (https://twitter.com/zoeschiffer/status/1630346916335865857?s=46&t=DiH5HJagHYkpKEP13Yz6Cg%20%20Zoë%20SchifferZoë%20Schiffer%20@ZoeSchiffer) but they don’t have THE THREAD. (https://softwaredefinedtalk.slack.com/archives/C5GPMBXQT/p1590186505165200)
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Coté and Matt arranging a live recording.
PyTexas 2023, Austin, TX April 1 - 2, 2023 (https://www.pytexas.org)
KubeCon EU Amsterdam, April 18-21 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/) - Matt & Cote will be there
DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL 2023 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-birmingham-al/welcome/), April 20 - 21, 2023
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Matt
Factorio Story Missions (https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Story-Missions)
Recent podcast appearances
Software Engineering Daily (https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2023/02/10/kubernetes-cost-management/)
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