This week, we discuss AI doom odds, WordPress's boardroom coup, and Meta's Muse assistant. Plus, a robot vacuum fire scare.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 590

Runner-up Titles

• Maybe you have too much
• The mopping sucks
• Why not us?
• I subscribe to all the conspiracies
• I brought my own pieces
• The true heroes are the open source users
• We learned a lot about VR on the way
• Fun for your spatial reasoning
• It's Only Cheating If You Get Caught
• Won't Somebody Slow Down?
• I Brought My Own Pieces
• A Big Living Room in the Sky
• I Don't Read the Five Stars, I Read the Four Stars

Rundown

• AI Doom and Gloom
  • Dario Amodei — We Must Pace the Frontier
  • President Trump Is on the Line About an A.I. Slowdown
  • How AI might reshape the economy
  • The contagion of fear | The Observation Deck
  • Goldman AI chief: Don't rule out open models
  • The contagion of fear
• Executive behavior
  • Matt Mullenweg tells (trolls?) Automattic staff, saying he's back in control after CEO ouster
  • Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg Put on 'Leave of Absence'
  • Automattic’s interim CEO and legal chief signed reciprocal severance deals during Mullenweg’s brief ouster
  • Ballmer to accept NBA's punishment, has 'sincere regrets'
• Introducing Muse: The World's First Personal AI Agent Built for Everyone

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• Ferrari on Miro acquisition: 'no small responsibility'
• Anemo Labs lands £700K to give AI a sense of smell
• Kenyan Startup Makes Robotic Hands That Translate Teacher's Voice into Signs for Deaf Students
• New Zuckoff app detects nearby Meta 'perv glasses': 'right to at least know that someone is recording'
• Google Cloud, Accenture Launch Unit to Put AI Engineers On-Site With Customers
• Cloud has a new bulk capacity market
• Like working from home? In Australia, it could become the law
• Tech giant Oracle rocked by another wave of layoffs after employees receive devastating 6 am email
• Oracle Surges 7% as AI Cloud Backlog Hits $664B, CoreWeave and Nebius Climb 4%

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This week, we discuss the VS Code documentary, Ed Zitron's rise to fame, and a 10% AI extinction forecast. Plus, the NFL's Australia travel gamble

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 589

Runner-up Titles

• Sleep Strategy
• Obviously I Have Issues
• Not Sure It Was an Exciting Thing
• At One Point, I Knew That
• Bitterness Rug Pull
• The American in Me Would Be Bitter
• Gaping Pit of Despair
• They Don't Care if They Never Sell a Thing
• It's the First Time Silicon Valley Has Done Something Irresponsible With VC Money
• We've Got to Drive as Fast Into This Wall and See if We Get Through It
• We're Already Having to Keep Track of Which Time AGI Actually Started
• Nobody Can See That You Have Size Eighteen Fonts
• The Dystopian Future Always Takes Place in Australia
• We Gotta Drive as Fast as We Can Into This Wall and See if We Get Through It
• Even the Dutch Have Problems With Internet
• We Could Do Better, Slack

Rundown

• The Rams think they’ve figured out jet lag. Australia is about to test their theory
• The Story of VS Code | Official Documentary
• He Did Tech PR. Now He Rails Against AI for a Living.
• How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?
• Jacob Coxon leaves Anthropic and says no one is acting responsibly.
• Apple’s iPhone Duo

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• The AI Engine That Re-Accelerated Snowflake
• 1Password wades into a right-wing mess after funding a Linux project
• I Asked 100 Companies for My Data. I Got Deletion Notices Instead
• Clouded Judgement 9.4.26 - Recurrent Depth
• I’ve factored the RSA keys of a Certificate Authority…
• Mistral secures €3B Series D to push sovereign AI into its next phase
• Clouded Judgement 9.4.26 - Recurrent Depth
• Write Things Down

Nonsense

• Southwest Airlines to construct first-ever airport lounge at Austin airport
• The Netherlands Will Never Be Rid of Louisiana Crawfish

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This week, we discuss rogue AI agent civilizations, why AI can't fix your tax forms, and Chainguard vs. IBM's Lightwell. Plus, refrigerator magnet marketing.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 588

Runner-up Titles

• Mark this moment
• Refrigerator magnets
• Fester in your inbox
• The reaction would not be “let’s have a podcast about it”
• Maximum boasty
• Your silos are showing
• They want me to get started
• The really is no plan except eating
• RISCy business
• It's Not Only the AIs Acting Like Middle Schoolers
• We Fell for It
• Agent Zero Was the Problem
• I Thought You Were My Friend
• More Salsa Than Chewy's in 2004
• Vibes based analysis

Rundown

• Agent Civilizations
  • The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations
  • The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations (podcast)
• Who Wins Hardened Containers
  • Chainguard's Athena clears 40,000 vulnerabilities
  • Tech giants warn time is running out to prepare for AI threats
  • Start Secure in the AI Era: Accelerating AI Threat Readiness with WizOS
  • Lightwell (IBM)
  • Lightwell (Red Hat)
  • The Linux Kernel Is Approaching 2,000 CVEs Per Release

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• AWS to acquire DuckLabs, the Amsterdam-based company behind DuckDB
• Historic first as Chinese robot beats Usain Bolt's 100m world record at Beijing games
• Observability Revenue
• Bill Gates Warns AI Is More Dangerous Than Big Tech Will Admit
• Microsoft cracks down on employee AI use after one worker spent $28,000 in 28 days
• Twitter - The Square Is Back
• Inside Meta's Push to Put Robots to Work in Data Centers
• Kara Swisher on Threads
• Nvidia (NVDA) Q2 2027 earnings report: Live updates
• Claudeforce: The AI Interface Salesforce Never Built
• Salesforce, Anthropic expand partnership as Benioff responds to "SaaSpocalypse" concerns

Nonsense

• Gwyneth Paltrow’s Hamptons Dinner for A.I. C.E.O. Is Postponed
• Dyson CameraJet: The first toothbrush with a camera and a jet, to target the gaps and remove plaque between your teeth

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This week, we discuss Stripe's singularity letter, its $8B Open Router buy, and AI job anxiety. Plus, Matt plays “Bot or Not” on another podcast.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 587

Runner-up Titles

• Inertia wins again
• We don’t talk about the Pope very much.
• Better than this year’s storage arrays
• AI pimps its own ride
• Chonking machine
• A lot of chonk opportunity
• I’m tired of tech people being all fancy
• Thanksgiving with Ed Zitron
• No religion, no politics, no AI
• My recommendation: try harder
• Teletubbies for Adults.

Rundown

• Singularity, Models and Routers
  • Scoop: Stripe says "the singularity" has begun
  • Stripe strikes mega-deal for OpenRouter
  • Hugging Face reportedly in talks to be acquired for $13B
  • Routing is coming for the frontier AI labs
  • Terminator Judgement Day: August 29, 1997 2:14 a.m. Eastern Time
• The AI backlash goes mainstream
  • 52% of Americans Now More Concerned Than Excited About AI, With Under-30s Crossing a Majority for the First Time
  • Why Is Everyone In Tech So Sad?
  • The AI Hater's Manifesto
• 40 Years of Infrastructure as Code: Ansible → Terraform → Kubernetes → Crossplane → AI Agents

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• Cursor Origin review: An engineer's perspective
• Claude can now pull data from your browser tabs and keep working on your desktop
• OTel Isn't Going Well (And I Made A Spreadsheet About It)
• Walmart is finally launching Apple Pay support next week
• Broadcom debt deal expected to reach upwards of $70 billion, sources say
• Anthropic-Backed Ode Acquires Casper Studios to Expand Corporate AI Deployments
• OpenAI 'will be a public company in 2027' or sooner, CFO Friar tells employees
• Google Aims to Boost AI With Purchase of Spirit Airlines Data
• The website that created an AI clone of its editor in chief
• OpenAI Jalapeño: Better Than Nvidia Blackwell
• An Inside Look at the Relay Market Powering Token Resellers and Fraud
• Meta settles social media addiction case with California, other states for $16.7 billion
• Hundreds of leaked AWS keys give full control over corporate accounts
• Free Hardened Container Images | Minimus
• Cyber startup Minimus shuts down, returns cash to investors

Nonsense

• Apple Releases New Polishing Cloth
• Jason Kelce promotes mailing pee to data centers, Liquid Death
• Paradox Inc. Movie From Daniel Roher, Lord Miller, Universal In Works

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This week, we discuss the unsung genius of Apple Pay, AI watermarking, and why digital transformation fails without a crisis. Plus, D&D Beyond's secret character API.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 586

Runner-up Titles

• Special Sauce
• A new monkey’s thing
• I am all for USB-C
• Did I like it
• It’s all water marked'
• That NPC did need to be there
• It's Pre-Watermarked
• We Need to Touch Grass More
• Send Us Your APIs

Rundown

• Apple Pay Chief Jennifer Bailey Retiring in October
• AI Watermarking's Unintended Consequences
  • Anthropic says it will watermark text generated by its AI models
  • Google will now allow users to remove visible watermark from its AI generations
• Why "It's People, Not Tech" Never Actually Changes Anything
  • The Chief Therapy Officer, Job Titles as Culture Change, and AI as Spreadsheets, with Bryan Ross
  • Platform Engineering ROI: What it costs to build your own platform
  • How Duolingo uses AI to create lessons faster
  • Silver Lake's Workday Buyout Talks Could Be the First 'SaaSpocalypse' Opportunity

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• Inside North Korea's Operation to Conquer the American Job Market
• The shapeshifter's little brother
• Even Claude Is in the Dark About Dario Amodei's Wife—and Her Influence at Anthropic
• Broadcom Shares Plunge on Major VMware Security Threat
• IRS Proposes Simpler Process for Retirement Rollovers
• The Actual Reason Why Google "Fell Out" of the AI Race Changes Everything
• Stripe is reportedly in talks to buy PayPal
• Andreessen Horowitz Focus of DOJ Probe Over Board Directors
• Tech CEOs Overwhelmingly Distrusted by Young: Study
• Farewell, Mico: Microsoft's cute little AI blob is going the way of Bob
• Microsoft kills off unsuccessful AI features while merging its separate Copilot apps
• Google may retire Gems in October, forcing Skills migration
• OpenAI replaces revenue lead as Greg Brockman builds his presence
• OpenAI CFO Friar tells investors that enterprise business now bigger than consumer by revenue
• OpenAI sheds senior execs in pre-IPO refresh
• OpenAI's Brockman brushes off concerns about leadership changes in CNBC exclusive
• Anthropic CFO Krishna Rao is leading early IPO meetings with investors and has not discussed valuation, sources say
• Anthropic in Talks to Buy AI Startup Decart for $6 Billion

Listener Feedback

• Milestone iOS App

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This week, we discuss Zuckerberg's open source AI manifesto, GPUs as securitizable assets, and who actually gets AI ROI. Plus, Buc-ee's goes to war over beavers.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 585

Runner-up Titles

• Law of Unintended Consequences
• We’re not lawyers, we just have common sense
• Trillion-dollar open source company
• The Meta Manifesto
• I don’t think self-awareness is their strong point.
• Using AI to fight AI
• Put me as a strong maybe.

Rundown

• Days after John Oliver's dare, Buc-ee's sues again
• Meta's Big AI Week
  • The Future is for Everyone
  • Meta Unveils ‘Open Source’ Version of Its Most Powerful A.I. Model
  • Meta debuts first AI coding agent to take on Anthropic and OpenAI
  • Superintelligence is a dragon
  • Mistral Is in the Right Place at the Right Time
• The AI Money Machine
  • Nvidia lines up $500 billion in financing as CEO Jensen Huang tells CNBC his chips are ‘investable asset’
  • 48% of Google Cloud Revenue Next Year Could Come From Just 2 Companies That Have Still Never Turned a Profit
  • Datadog Says Lower Usage From Major AI Customer Could Dent Growth

Relevant to your Interests

• New Orleans will use AI to answer 911 calls instead of a human
• OpenAI's new AI smart speaker will reportedly sell for between $300 and $400 TechCrunch
• OpenAI acquires presentation startup NextSlide
• A road trip through the data center debate
• A Top OpenAI Executive Steps Down
• Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work
• Introducing Kitesurf: The agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates on Cloudflare Workers
• The next generation of MCP
• How a simple request for AI to book a gym class exposed a major threat

Nonsense

• Buc-off

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This week, we discuss the Situational Awareness meltdown, Airtable getting sold, and review the Java documentary. Plus, what you should actually buy at IKEA.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 584

Runner-up Titles

• Duffle bag of leftovers
• 5Are you dead in this scenario?
• Bury me with my IKEA bags
• Don’t automate the world, nobody really wants that
• AttentionIsAllYouNeed.blog
• Take some money off the table
• No more great ideas

Rundown

• IKEA FRAKTA
• Leopold Aschenbrenner's $45B Fund Implodes
  • AI investor Leopold Aschenbrenner forced to unwind all public stock positions after steep losses, sources say
  • His Wedding Guests Were Arriving—Just as His $45 Billion Fund Was Falling Apart
• Bending Spoons Buys Airtable for $1.28B
  • Bending Spoons to buy Airtable for $1.28B
  • sell on story, or sell on revenue
• The Java Story | The Official Documentary

Relevant to your Interests

• Who's Writing Open Source Code?
• Satyress Robotics
• GitHub - mgwalkerjr95/texas-grocery-mcp: MCP server for HEB grocery shopping
• BMW Spider-Man in-car advertising
• An announcement from Superlogical
• An interactive visualization that follows a single HTTP request through its entire ~200ms life
• Supercharge your Claude, Cursor, and Codex. | Unstructured
• Linux Foundation Launches the Tokenomics Foundation
• valock July 2026 Recap
• tl;dv (Too Lazy; Didn't Validate): 181,874 Meetings Left Wide Open
• npm Worm Poisons keyv, cacheable and 400+ Other Packages Across Twelve Organisations
• Using AI for Product Management - The Tanzu Platform product management experience
• Is the future of data centers portable? Runware builds a pod to find out
• Google's AI reshuffle: Chief scientist Jeff Dean exits and Demis Hassabis steps down as DeepMind CEO
• Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations
• Boris Cherny: We Cut 80% of Claude Code's Prompt
• Microsoft's stock rockets more than 15% for largest single-day jump in history
• Amazon revenue soars as AI investments pay off
• Meta's stock drops on disappointing guidance, dwindling free cash flow
• Clouded Judgement 7.31.26 - AWS CapEx ROI

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This week, we discuss how normal people use AI, Alphabet's Anthropic-fueled earnings, and skills vs. agents. Plus, catching AI-cheating students with a hidden prompt.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 583

Runner-up Titles

• “Do you think they named them red delicious because they knew they were delicious?”
• I thought they were First World
• Steal your Alpha-tier
• Cory uses only 100% free-range, organic AI.
• Copy, paste, go.
• Stolen fruit from the poisoned tree all the way down.
• It’s a different kind of cold. It’s a dry cold.

Rundown

• AI IRL
  • How people use AI in 2026: TV, homework, the DMV
  • Professor's invisible prompt trap catches 32 students cheating on their midterm with AI
• Amazon confirms it’s closing key AI site in San Francisco but says work on its top models continues
• Google Cloud is killing it
• Skill vs. Agents
  • Atlas: Wiz's autonomous AI Agent for vulnerability research
  • Don't Build Agents, Build Skills Instead

Relevant to your Interests

• Alphabet Quadruples Profit to $112 Billion, Fueled by A.I. Investments
• Palo Alto Networks to Acquire Embrace, Adding Real User Monitoring to Its Observability Platform
• IBM CEO Says Company Culture Was Too Slow to Change
• Domo Announces Agreement to Sell Substantially All Assets and Certain Liabilities to Progress Software for $400 Million
• Google Cloud is killing it
• ChatGPT chats are showing up in Google Search — how to find and delete yours [Update]
• 2026 State of infrastructure in the agentic AI era
• Stripe in Talks to Buy Buzzy AI-Model Marketplace OpenRouter

Sponsors

• Signadot: making sure AI-written code actually works.

Conferences

• AI Connect, Aug 22nd, 2026 - Riga, Latvia, Coté speaking.
• DevOpsDays Graz, Sept 4-5, 2026
• Cloud Foundry Summit, Sept. 21st to 22nd, Heidelberg, Coté speaking.
• DevOpsDays Rockies, Sept. 22 – 23, 2026, Discount Code: 26DODSWEDEFTALK
• WeAreDevelopers NA, Sept 23-25, 2026, Discount Code: DEVPOD26
  • 25 Free Tickets
• DevOpsDays Dallas, Sept 28-29, 2026
• DevOpsDays Vilnius, Sep 30 - Oct 1, 2006
• DevOpsDays Istanbul, Oct 24th, 2026, Coté keynoting.
• VMware User Group, Orlando, Oct 20-22, 2026
• Cloud Native Denmark, Nov 19th, 2026, Copenhagen, Coté keynoting.

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• Brandon: Silo Season 3
• Matt: Hyperion
• Coté: Cooking with Claude

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This week, we discuss Bun's move to Rust, OpenAI hunting for revenue, and Stripe's bid for PayPal. Plus, Coté's Dad wisdom.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 582

Runner-up Titles

• Turn off my dog
• Dad Wisdom
• Amazon subscription and let it fly
• Dad box
• Talking about modernization
• Skin in the game
• The ivory tower of “Things Actually Work in the Real World”
• Business fortnight
• No SegwaysBanking works everywhere else in the world, not America

Rundown

• Rewriting Bun in Rust
• OpenAI
  • OpenAI's No. 2 Executive to Step Down in Latest Leadership Shake-up
  • OpenAI's Chief Futurist Is Leaving the Company
  • AI Devices Are Coming. Will Your Favorite Apps Be Along for the Ride?
  • OpenAI Executive Kevin Weil Is Leaving the Company
  • OpenAI power consolidates under co-founder Greg Brockman ahead of prospective IPO
  • Barret Zoph is out at OpenAI again after just five months
  • Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets
  • OpenAI Appears to Be Missing Its Sales Goals by a Vast Margin
• Stripe, Advent make $53 billion takeover offer for PayPal, sending stock soaring

Relevant to your Interests

• SpaceX, AI Bubble Fears, and The Age of the Trillion-Dollar, Zero-Profit Company
• Microsoft Frontier Company: AI engineering that amplifies and protects your intelligence
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• Samsung chip division's single-year profits beat its past 40 years of profits, combined
• Did a lottery winner become "the company of the future"?
• Power company hikes data center bills by 30%, cuts residential electricity costs by 1.3%
• Where AI Works: Slack is the Conversational Interface for Headless AI
• Salesforce MCP Servers: AI, Data & Analytics for Tableau & Data 360 in Slack
• IBM and Red Hat launch Lightwell to defend open-source code from AI attacks
• Infoblox acquires Kentik, adding network observability to its DNS and DDI platform
• Apple 'Hide My Email' Vulnerability Reveals Peoples' Real Email Addresses
• House passes bill to make daylight saving time permanent
• United Airlines' new upsell: Keeping other travelers out of the middle seat
• Linux creator Linus Torvalds puts foot down on anti-AI comments
• 1Password now lets Claude sign in to websites without seeing your passwords
• 1Password and Anthropic Bring Secure Credential Access to Claude
• forum, an accountable orchestrator for AI agents
• Google continues its renaming streak by turning NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook
• 'Pretty revolting': LG's TV are getting huge backlash from users due to installing software
• What is a micro-retirement? Inside the latest Gen Z trend
• You paid me, a long-time Linux user, to use Windows 11 exclusively for a month
• China delivers a one-two punch to America's AI dominance
• Can Lenovo's World Cup AI Moment Cement Its Enterprise PC Dominance?
• AI Coding Tools Deliver Speed but Not Business Value Unless Wrapped in Process:
• China’s Moonshot in Talks on Pre-IPO Funds at $50 Billion Value
• OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluation
• AI won’t fix your broken culture, but you can fix your broken culture
• Oracle Is Now Down 28% in a Month. Will the 52-Week Low of $132 Hold or Fold?
• IBM stock craters 23% after issuing second-quarter earnings warning
• Sheetz is quitting VMware, migrating 11,000 virtual machines
• Meta in Talks to Lease Computing Power to Anthropic in Potential $10 Billion Deal
• AWS cloud lead Dave Brown heads to Meta - report - DCD
• Amazon senior cloud executive departs after 18 years
• Meta Caps Internal AI Token Spending After Costs Approach Billions in 2026
• Meta Compute Launch Sends AI Compute Stocks Tumbling Globally
• Agentic ransomware for automated database extortion
• Dark-Moon: Autonomous AI pentesting engine

Sponsors

• Signadot: making sure AI-written code actually works.

Nonsense

• Messi Beats Ronaldo in 2026 World Cup Password Breach Data Rankings
• United Airlines' new upsell: Keeping other travelers out of the middle seat
• Yes, you can now order DoorDash from the command line
• House passes bill to make daylight saving time permanent

Listener Feedback

• Biogen hiring Associate Director, Enterprise Architecture in Triangle, NC
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Conferences

• DevOpsDays Graz, Sept 4-5, 2026
• Cloud Foundry Summit, Sept. 21st to 22nd, Heidelberg, Coté speaking.
• DevOpsDays Rockies, Sept. 22 – 23, 2026, Discount Code: 26DODSWEDEFTALK
• WeAreDevelopers NA, Sept 23-25, 2026, Discount Code: DEVPOD26
  • 25 Free Tickets
• DevOpsDays Dallas, Sept 28-29, 2026
• DevOpsDays Vilnius, Sep 30 - Oct 1, 2006
• DevOpsDays Istanbul, Oct 24th, 2026, Coté keynoting.
• VMware User Group, Orlando, Oct 20-22, 2026
• Cloud Native Denmark, Nov 19th, 2026, Copenhagen, Coté keynoting.

SDT News & Community

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• Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
• Sponsor the show
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Recommendations

• Brandon:
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• Coté: Wolf Hall books.

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• Signadot: AI writes code. Signadot make sure it works.

Brandon interviews Arjun Iyer, CEO & Co-founder of Signadot. They discuss how Ephemeral Environments eliminate developer toil by shifting validation earlier in the dev cycle, how Signadot's MCP server lets AI coding agents run end-to-end tests autonomously, and real-world results including Brex saving $2M in cloud spend. Plus, how Cisco bought AppDynamics for ~$4 billion the day before their IPO.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 581

Show Links

• Signadot
• Free Trial
• Brex Case Study
• Signadot Documentation Overview

Contact Arjun Iyer

• LinkedIn: Arjun Iyer
• Twitter: @arjuniyer_

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Special Guest: Arjun Iyer.

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Every project has environment variables. Almost nobody manages them well. This week Brandon talks with Phil Miller and Theo Ephraim, who built varlock to fix that — bringing structure and security to the humble .env file.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 580

Show Links:

• varlock.dev
• varlock on GitHub
• @env-spec Overview
• DMNO (corporate site)
• Varlock MCP Server (docs)
• howtostore.food — Theo's side project on the best way to store produce
• unsafeharbour.com — Phil's music label
• Nautical Artifacts on Bandcamp
• bumpy

Contact Phil Miller:

• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/themillman
• Email: [email protected]
• Music: unsafeharbour.com

Contact Theo Ephraim:

• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/theo-ephraim
• Website: theoephraim.com
• Twitter/X: @theozero
• Bluesky: @theozero.bsky.social
• Email: [email protected]

General Contact:

• [email protected]
• [email protected]

Varlock Community

• Varlock Discord — Chat with the team and other users
• GitHub Discussions — Suggestions, questions, and feature requests
• varlock on GitHub — Star the project and follow updates
• Varlock on X
• Varlock on Bluesky

SDT News & Community

• Join our Slack community
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Special Guests: Phil Miller and Theo Ephraim.