This week, we discuss Matt Asay accusing OpenTufu of "lifting code" and recap the Google Next '24. announcements. Plus, we share some thoughts on camera placement and offer listeners a chance to get free coffee beans.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VBJU8UdLOA) 462 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VBJU8UdLOA)
Runner-up Titles
Hey, I’m VP of Cables, not VP of Hubs.
Well, I still have meetings.
The Cote’ Experience
ClosedTofu
Our Cloud is Huge(tm)
Rundown
Matt Asay vs. OpenTofu
OpenTofu may be showing us the wrong way to fork (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3714980/opentofu-may-be-showing-us-the-wrong-way-to-fork.html)
OpenTofu vehemently disagrees with any suggestion that it misappropriated (https://twitter.com/opentofuorg/status/1776398008558493991?s=46&t=kiCCT8LlOOqj0WYcmUddTg)
Matt Asay (https://x.com/mjasay/status/1776635226124632423?s=46&t=EoCoteGkQEahPpAJ_HYRpg) Follow up Tweet
Bryan Cantrill (https://x.com/bcantrill/status/1775962870762844212) calls it an extraordinarily serious accusation
Adam Jacob says “incendiary claim with no actual facts backing it up. The code looks completely different. (https://twitter.com/adamhjk/status/1775663819693703674)
Google Cloud Next ’24
Introducing Google’s new Arm-based CPU (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/introducing-googles-new-arm-based-cpu/)
Google’s first Arm-based CPU will challenge Microsoft and Amazon in the AI race (https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/9/24125074/google-axion-arm-cpu-ai-chips-cloud-server-data-center)
Welcome to Google Cloud Next ‘24 | Google Cloud Blog (https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/google-cloud-next/welcome-to-google-cloud-next24)
Gemini for Google Cloud is here | Google Cloud Blog (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/gemini-for-google-cloud-is-here)
Google Cloud Next '24 Opening Keynote (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6DJYGn2SFk)
Google Cloud Next '24 Developer Keynote (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMH5OcW5UYw)
Relevant to your Interests
WhatsApp goes down in Meta's second big outage this year (https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/03/whatsapp-goes-down-in-metas-second-big-outage-this-year/)
Alphabet is weighing an offer for $32 billion marketing tech firm HubSpot, sources say (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-google-parent-alphabet-weighs-134439629.html)
OpenStack debuts its first easy-to-upgrade release (https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/04/openstack_caracal_released/)
No, Amazon Isn’t Killing Just Walk Out But Rather “Pushing Hard” On It (https://www.forrester.com/blogs/no-amazon-isnt-killing-just-walk-out-but-rather-pushing-hard-in-it/)
Substack Is Setting Writers Up For A Twitter-Style Implosion (https://homewiththearmadillo.blog/2024/04/02/substack-is-setting-writers-up-for-a-twitter-style-implosion/comment-page-1/#comments)
Why WASI Preview 2 Makes WebAssembly Production Ready (https://thenewstack.io/why-wasi-preview-2-makes-webassembly-production-ready/)
Why Broadcom may set the future of software licensing (https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/05/the_world_is_watching_broadcom/)
Rust developers at Google twice as productive as C++ teams (https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/31/rust_google_c/)
New York City defends AI chatbot that advised entrepreneurs to break laws (https://www.reuters.com/technology/new-york-city-defends-ai-chatbot-that-advised-entrepreneurs-break-laws-2024-04-04/)
Apple opens the App Store to retro game emulators (https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/5/24122341/apple-app-store-game-emulators-super-apps)
The Status of Just Walk Out, TSMC Gets CHIPS Act Grant (https://stratechery.com/2024/the-status-of-just-walk-out-tsmc-gets-chips-act-grant/)
Baldur's Gate 3 Dev Larian's Publishing Director Calls Games Industry Layoffs an 'Avoidable F*ck Up' - IGN (https://www.ign.com/articles/baldurs-gate-3-dev-larians-publishing-director-calls-games-industry-an-avoidable-fck-up)
Access: A New Portal for Managing Internal Authorization (https://discord.com/blog/access-a-new-portal-for-managing-internal-authorization)
Android’s upgraded Find My Device network is here (https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/8/24124174/android-find-my-device-network-offline-tracker-tag-chipolo-pebblebee)
Gemini 1.5 Makes a Scholarly Connection that Took Me Years to Find (https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1bkcjs4/gemini_15_makes_a_scholarly_connection_that_took/)
Android’s upgraded Find My Device network is here (https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/8/24124174/android-find-my-device-network-offline-tracker-tag-chipolo-pebblebee)
KKR Weighs Sale or IPO for $15 Billion BMC Software (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-10/kkr-is-said-to-weigh-sale-or-ipo-for-15-billion-bmc-software?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_content=tech&cmpid%3D=socialflow-twitter-tech&utm_medium=social&embedded-checkout=true)
Nonsense
Dude Perfect scores $100M+ investment from Highmount Capital (https://www.axios.com/2024/04/09/dude-perfect-investment-highmount-capital)
Costco selling as much as $200M in gold bars per month, Wells Fargo estimates (https://nypost.com/2024/04/10/business/costco-selling-as-much-as-200m-in-gold-bars-per-month-wells-fargo/)
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Recommendations
Brandon:
Node.js: The Documentary (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB8KwiiUGy0)
How A Small Team of Developers Created React at Facebook | React.js: The Documentary (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pDqJVdNa44)
Matt: Qatar Airlines Stopover Tour (https://www.qatarairways.com/en/offers/qatar-stopover.html)
Coté: Noah Kalina YouTubes (https://www.youtube.com/@NoahKalina) (follow-up: he’s three years younger than Coté (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah_Kalina), so same cultural cohort as theorized.)
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