Recommendations: gadgets, books, and Octopus Organization

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.

Relevant to your Interests

• Antigravity Is Google's New Agentic Development Platform
• Amazon CTO Werner Vogels' Predictions for 2026
• ‘End-to-end encrypted’ smart toilet camera is not actually end-to-end encrypted
• AWS AI IDE, AgentCore throw down gauntlets for Microsoft
• Admins and defenders gird themselves against maximum-severity server vuln
• Andy Jassy says Amazon's Nvidia competitor chip is already a multibillion-dollar business
• 52 things I learned in 2025
• State of AI | OpenRouter
• Microsoft has a problem: nobody wants its poor AI products
• DHH & Open Source
• Gruber: Apple employees 'giddy' about Alan Dye’s departure - 9to5Mac
• Apple announces the departure of general counsel and policy chief

Nonsense

• All of the Men’s Clothing We Loved (and Didn’t) From Costco’s Kirkland Signature

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
  • Use code: DEVOP for 50% off.
• Devnexus 2026, March 4th to 6th, Atlanta, GA.
• Whole bunch of VMUGs, mostly in the US. The CFPs are open, go speak at them! Coté speaking in Amsterdam.
  • Amsterdam (March 17-19, 2026), Minneapolis (April 7-9, 2026), Toronto (May 12-14, 2026), Dallas (June 9-11, 2026), Orlando (October 20-22, 2026)

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Recommendations

• Brandon: Short Power Extension Cord Outlet Saver
• Matt: Everything is Tuberculosis
  • Octopus Project - Music is Happiness
• Coté: The Octopus Organization.

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