Practical models to pay maintainers

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

Conferences

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• Brandon: The Beast in Me
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