Episode 487: WordPress Drama and Chicken Sandwiches

This week, we recap the WordPress showdown between Automattic and WP Engine, and discuss the future of OpenAI. Plus, Coté has a lot (maybe too much) to say about Chick-fil-A coming to the UK.

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Runner-up Titles

• Time change is a-comin’.


• Don’t worry, I’m wearing clothes under this bathrobe.


• Where-ever there are chickens, there is fried chicken, I assume.


• Waffle Chips


• Free Refills and Ice


• The tyranny of no free refills


• Take the Five Guy approach


• You can’t change the rules in the race


• Fill the square

Rundown

• Chick-fil-A to open in the UK


• Wordpress
  
  
  • Big chronological list of WordPress/WP Engine drama
  
  
  • The WordPress vs. WP Engine drama, explained
  
  
  • How much would it cost to fork WordPress?
  
  
  • Charitable Contributions
  
  


• OpenAI
  
  
  • New funding to scale the benefits of AI
  
  
  • OpenAI Is A Bad Business
  
  

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• Pure Storage announces VM assessment service


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• The streaming wars are over.


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• Windows 11 Patch Tuesday preview is a glitchy disaster


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• How North Korea Infiltrated the Crypto Industry


• How to share your access to media with family and simultaneously sweep the annual nerdy nephew of the year awards

Nonsense

• A guide to 30 of Australia's iconic Big Things


• Chick-fil-A to open in the UK

Listener Feedback

• Observability Architect (Remote, USA)

Conferences

• Cloud Foundry Day EU, Karlsruhe, GER, Oct 9, 2024, 20% off with code CFEU24VMW.


• VMware Explore Barcelona, Nov 4-7, 2024. Coté speaking.


• GoTech World, Coté speaking, Bucharest, Nov 12th and 13th.


• SREday Amsterdam, Nov 21, 2024. Coté speaking, 20% off with code SRE20DAY.


• DevOpsDayLA at SCALE22x, March 6-9, 2025, discount code DEVOP

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Recommendations

• Brandon:
  
  
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  • Cloud News of the Month - September 2024
  
  


• Matt: Some Like it Hot


• Coté:
  
  
  • Creaks
  
  
  • Software Defined Interviews relaunch, with Whitney Lee.
  
  

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