This week, we discuss the role of DevRel, Remote Work and Layoffs. Plus, Matt reveals his latest keyboard recommendation.

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Runner-up Titles

• Life is a series of (shitty) cliffhangers
• Sales is crazy
• Donut over-eating avoidance
• Fundamentals don’t change
• Do you have good recipes for golden geese?
• We need better Dungeons and Dragons
• The AI has been prompted beyond its level of competence.
• Peter Pan as DevRel
• Hard stop goes soft
• HR in volume feels dehumanizing
• Mad Libs for layoffs
• Workers of the world, don’t let HR hide in darkness.
• We’ve had a great time, that other keyboard and I, but we’ve made a decision…
• Status quo wins again
• The Strangler Pattern for password management
• Schwag cannot be stolen.

Rundown

• 2024 Look Ahead - Surviving the Q1 Kickoff (Podcast)
• DevRel
  • The trouble with DevRel
  • Amazon’s silent sacking (Podcast)
• Work, RTO and Layoffs
  • WebMD’s RTO Video
  • Brittany Pietsch on LinkedIn: TikTok
  • Brittany Peach cloudflare layoff TikTok
  • Cloudflare CEO responds to viral layoff video
  • Signs that it’s time to leave a company…
  • A tool to algorithmically estimate fair compensation
  • Remote Workers Are Losing Out on Promotions, New Data Shows
  • Discord is laying off 17 percent of employees
  • Citi layoffs hit 20,000 -- as the bank spends big on tech
  • Infosys co-founder repeats call for 70-hour working weeks
• Passwords and Keyboards
  • Microsoft Copilot keyboard keys are coming to Windows 11 PCs at CES 2024
  • Microsoft’s keyboards and mice will live on under a unique new partnership
  • Migrating from 1Password to Apple Keychain
  • Now in beta: Create and unlock a 1Password account with a passkey

Relevant to your Interests

• Authy is shutting down its desktop app
• OpenTofu is going GA
• Framework Laptop 16 pre-orders are now open
• Google Cloud removes data transfer fees when clients switch to rivals
• Feds charge eBay over employees who sent live spiders and cockroaches to couple; company to pay $3M
• Nearly a Thousand People Were Convicted of Stealing Over Decades. It Was a Computer Glitch.
• How a $300 Million Flop Turned Into an Improbable Hit
• Slack Executives are all gone
• WhatsApp is Finally Starting to Dominate in the United States. Here’s Why.
• World's R&D spending
• Apple Relocating Siri Evaluation Team in San Diego to Austin
• The Worst Devices of CES 2024!
• App Store to Be 'Split in Two' Ahead of EU iPhone Sideloading Deadline
• Red Hat Developer Hub Now Generally Available
• Google Ends Cloud Switching Fees, Pressuring Amazon and Microsoft
• Gartner Says 50% of Critical Enterprise Applications Will Reside Outside of Centralized Public Cloud Locations Through 2027
• Slashing Data Transfer Costs in AWS by 99%

Nonsense

• Costco $COST opened its 6th store in China
• These Are the World’s Most Powerful Passports in 2024
• The Official Passport Index Ranking
• why stanley is on its way out #stanleycup #stanleytumbler #genztrends #greenscreen
• These smart binoculars can identify birds and animals for you

Listener Feedback

• Sent stickers to Dan in Indiana
• Shara recommends the Owala FreeSip.
• Craig shared a Hacker News link about the Google Dev experience that is called google3

Conferences

• That Conference Texas, Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1
• CfgMgmtCamp, Feb 5-7th - Coté speaking.
• The Uk's Open Technology Conference Open Source Software, Open Hardware Feb 6-7
• SCaLE 21x/DevOpsDays LA, March 14th to 17th, 2024 - Coté speaking, and there’s still sponsorship slots.
• KubeCon EU Paris, March 19-22 - Coté on the wait list for the platform side conference.
• DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17-18, 2024

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Recommendations

• Brandon: Carrot Weather App (the Netherlands weather app Coté mentioned is Buienradar).
• Matt: Murderbot Diaries Book 7: System Collapse
  • Aliens Fireteam Elite on sale for <$10
• Coté: The Lost Kingdom, book.

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