Software Defined Talk Episode 450: Workers of the world, don’t let HR hide in darkness
Jan 19, 2024
01:24:35
This week, we discuss the role of DevRel, Remote Work and Layoffs. Plus, Matt reveals his latest keyboard recommendation.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 450
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
- 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
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
SDT news & hype
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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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