Show Notes
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.
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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
Cloudflare blames massive internet outage on 'latent bug'
Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025
Replicate is joining Cloudflare
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Outage Tracker | Updog By Datadog
Jeff Bezos Creates A.I. Start-Up Where He Will Be Co-Chief Executive
PowerPoint is your therapist, Gamma is your coach | Andreessen Horowitz
Red Hat Introduces Project Hummingbird for “Zero-CVE” Strategies
A new era of intelligence with Gemini 3
The platform that needs a platform
The AI Coding Startup Favored by Tech CEOs Is Now Worth $29.3 Billion
The Smartest Fliers Use This App to Survive America’s Travel Hell
Oracle's Market Cap Decline: Analyzing the Impact on Finance
OpenAI's Fidji Simo Plans to Make ChatGPT Way More Useful—and Have You Pay For It
Europe’s cookie nightmare is crumbling
Nonsense
AI-Powered Teddy Bear Caught Talking About Sexual Fetishes and Instructing Kids How to Find Knives
Whipped Cream Worth $80K Stolen in Ontario
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