This week, we recap the biggest tech news and trends of 2024, grade our predictions from the year, and look ahead to 2025. Plus, we share our New Year’s resolutions.

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Runner-up Titles

I blame Product Management
I don’t think I’m gonna buy a pair of jeans this year.
Should I go full Kirkland?
That’s a boring prediction, but a good prediction
We need the Dril for LinkedIn
2024: the year we internalized the rug pull
Are you an artist or a house painter?
The Suicide Squad Strategy
SSH is failure.
Resolutions

Rundown

Revisiting 2024 Predictions
- Apple Vision Pro
- Twitter vs. Threads vs. Mastodon vs. Bluesky
News and Trends from 2024
- Open Source License Changes
- Antitrust Investigations
- AI Is Everywhere
- Platform Engineering
Listener Questions
- What’s worked well for the podcast?
- What tips do you have for aspiring podcasters?
- How did NO SSH JJ and Tasty Meats Paul get their nicknames?
2025 Predictions
- Ray-Ban Meta Glasses will not be widely adopted.
- Apple will keep trying with the Vision Pro, but not much will happen.
- Federation between social sites will not gain traction; social silos will remain the norm.
- Nvidia will continue to grow and exert dominance.
- Tech monopolies will persist, but no significant remedies will be imposed.
2025 Resolutions
- I will accept that OSS projects may change their licenses and adapt accordingly.
- I will remain calm when OSS projects stop offering easy-to-use, free versions.
- I will accept that hyperscalers hosting or monetizing OSS projects is inevitable.
- I will see forking OSS projects after a license change as a natural evolution of open source.
- I will use AI to summarize my writing and send the summary if it communicates my point more effectively.

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