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.
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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.
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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).
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