This week, we discuss Matt Asay accusing OpenTufu of "lifting code" and recap the Google Next '24. announcements. Plus, we share some thoughts on camera placement and offer listeners a chance to get free coffee beans.

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Runner-up Titles

• Hey, I’m VP of Cables, not VP of Hubs.
• Well, I still have meetings.
• The Cote’ Experience
• ClosedTofu
• Our Cloud is Huge(tm)

Rundown

• Matt Asay vs. OpenTofu
  • OpenTofu may be showing us the wrong way to fork
  • OpenTofu vehemently disagrees with any suggestion that it misappropriated
  • Matt Asay Follow up Tweet
  • Bryan Cantrill calls it an extraordinarily serious accusation
  • Adam Jacob says “incendiary claim with no actual facts backing it up. The code looks completely different.
• Google Cloud Next ’24
  • Introducing Google’s new Arm-based CPU
  • Google’s first Arm-based CPU will challenge Microsoft and Amazon in the AI race
  • Welcome to Google Cloud Next ‘24 | Google Cloud Blog
  • Gemini for Google Cloud is here | Google Cloud Blog
  • Google Cloud Next '24 Opening Keynote
  • Google Cloud Next '24 Developer Keynote

Relevant to your Interests

• WhatsApp goes down in Meta's second big outage this year
• Alphabet is weighing an offer for $32 billion marketing tech firm HubSpot, sources say
• OpenStack debuts its first easy-to-upgrade release
• No, Amazon Isn’t Killing Just Walk Out But Rather “Pushing Hard” On It
• Substack Is Setting Writers Up For A Twitter-Style Implosion
• Why WASI Preview 2 Makes WebAssembly Production Ready
• Why Broadcom may set the future of software licensing
• Rust developers at Google twice as productive as C++ teams
• New York City defends AI chatbot that advised entrepreneurs to break laws
• Apple opens the App Store to retro game emulators
• The Status of Just Walk Out, TSMC Gets CHIPS Act Grant
• Baldur's Gate 3 Dev Larian's Publishing Director Calls Games Industry Layoffs an 'Avoidable F*ck Up' - IGN
• Access: A New Portal for Managing Internal Authorization
• Android’s upgraded Find My Device network is here
• Gemini 1.5 Makes a Scholarly Connection that Took Me Years to Find
• Android’s upgraded Find My Device network is here
• KKR Weighs Sale or IPO for $15 Billion BMC Software

Nonsense

• Dude Perfect scores $100M+ investment from Highmount Capital
• Costco selling as much as $200M in gold bars per month, Wells Fargo estimates

Listener Feedback

• The first person to send their United States postal address to sdt@newinstancecoffee.com will receive a bag of Dawn Python Coffee Beans from New Instance Coffee.

Conferences

• Open Source Summit North America, Seattle April 16-18. Matt’s speaking.
• NDC Oslo, Coté speaking, June 12th.
• DevOpsDays Amsterdam, June 19-21, 2024, Coté speaking.
• DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 2024.

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Recommendations

• Brandon:
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  • How A Small Team of Developers Created React at Facebook | React.js: The Documentary
• Matt: Qatar Airlines Stopover Tour
• Coté: Noah Kalina YouTubes (follow-up: he’s three years younger than Coté, so same cultural cohort as theorized.)

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