Episode 447: 2023 Year in Review

This week, we grade our 2023 predictions, revisit the key trends that shaped the year, and gaze into the crystal ball to anticipate what 2024 might hold. Plus, we answer listener questions. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08SHFMhMyK4) 447 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08SHFMhMyK4) Runner-up Titles Flat budgets are better then no budget Applauding as the Titanic goes down They weren’t going to be patriated But this is you! Now we know The hippies have lost Keep your head on an open-source swivel Once it works, it’ll be great At least we got USB C Great year for cables Rundown 2022 Year in Review (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/394) (Last Year’s Recap Episode) Travel App Recommendations FlightRadar24 (https://www.flightradar24.com/30.26,-97.75/6) Flighty (https://www.flightyapp.com) Final Numbers (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-pro-rata-dbe3d2df-7e47-4bd3-82b9-2e4961b9d190.html?chunk=9&utm_term=emshare#story9) The Problems with Money In (Open Source) Software (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTCuLyv6SHo) Slides Benedict: AI, and everything else’. (https://www.ben-evans.com/presentations) Conferences That Conference Texas, Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1 (https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/The-Business-BS-Dictionary--CFtt8vL15hIcWTIAgoxIWH6nAg-xCwuOhkOT7Ts26WfLtsX8) CfgMgmtCamp, Feb 5-7th (https://cfgmgmtcamp.eu/ghent2024/) SCaLE 21x/DevOpsDays LA, March 14th to 17th, 2024 (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x) KubeCon EU Paris, March 19-22 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/) DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17-18, 2024 (https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-birmingham-al-2024/cfp) SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), Mastodon (https://hachyderm.io/@softwaredefinedtalk), BlueSky (https://bsky.app/profile/softwaredefinedtalk.com), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/), TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@softwaredefinedtalk), Threads (https://www.threads.net/@softwaredefinedtalk) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! Recommendations of the Year Brandon: Pastebot (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/394) Matt: Vale FLOSS Weekly (https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly) (RIP) Coté: Google Looker (https://lookerstudio.google.com) Photo Credits Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/a-beach-with-a-heart-drawn-in-the-sand-3fGYGza-43g) Artwork (https://unsplash.com/photos/the-numbers-are-written-with-sparkles-in-the-dark-DwavFNdXa1I)