Show Notes
This week, we discuss how Netflix is disrupting media, IBM’s Confluent acquisition, and Anthropic buying Bun. Plus, an important discussion on fonts and typography.
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Runner-up Titles
Blame the children
I never liked that font
No emojis, this is business time
Mahalo
You need a Chief Economist
On the cutlery tray
Rundown
Rubio Deletes Calibri as the State Department’s Official Typeface
Cartridge
Source Code Pro
It’s Official: Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros. in Deal Valued at $82.7 Billion
Confluent stock soars 29% as IBM announces $11 billion acquisition deal
Bun is joining Anthropic
Claude Code is coming to Slack, and that's a bigger deal than it sounds
OpenAI enterprise usage study.
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Admins and defenders gird themselves against maximum-severity server vuln
Andy Jassy says Amazon's Nvidia competitor chip is already a multibillion-dollar business
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Microsoft has a problem: nobody wants its poor AI products
DHH & Open Source
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Apple announces the departure of general counsel and policy chief
Nonsense
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Conferences
cfgmgmtcamp 2026, February 2nd to 4th, Ghent, BE.
Coté speaking and doing live SDI with John Willis.
DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA
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Devnexus 2026, March 4th to 6th, Atlanta, GA.
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