Episode 450: Workers of the world, don’t let HR hide in darkness

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
  • 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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