This week, we discuss Apple’s AI struggles, the never-ending access management puzzle, and the latest Kubernetes vulnerability. Plus, let’s not kill the fun of Vibe Coding.
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Runner-up Titles
It’s either this or Chips
Break glass
I’m just making the worst soup
Everybody loves a quokka
They shipped the product, nobody used it
We’re at 95% of setting timers
Enterprise software fixes everything
Vibecoding for Dummies is already in print (not really)
Keep Vibe Coding Pure
By making it better, you are making it worse
I sold high, bought low and it’s still low
Rundown
Apple Media “clutching their pearls”
Apple puts the Vision Pro guy in charge of Siri (https://www.theverge.com/news/633358/apple-replace-siri-leader-john-giannandrea)
Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino (https://daringfireball.net/2025/03/something_is_rotten_in_the_state_of_cupertino?ref=sidebar)
Access Management has taken over
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans (https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its-war-plans/682151/)
Hegseth Disclosed Secret War Plans in a Group Chat (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/us/politics/hegseth-classified-war-plans-group-chat.html)
Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities in Ingress NGINX (https://www.wiz.io/blog/ingress-nginx-kubernetes-vulnerabilities)
Nvidia
Nvidia CEO stops by Denny's food truck to eat and serve Nvidia Breakfast Bytes (https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/nvidia-ceo-stops-by-dennys-food-truck-to-eat-and-serve-nvidia-breakfast-bytes-before-gtc-2025)
GTC AI Conference 2025 (https://www.nvidia.com/gtc/)
Vibe Coding
Not all AI-assisted programming is vibe coding (but vibe coding rocks) (https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/19/vibe-coding/)
The Vibe Coding Handbook (https://itrevolution.com/product/vibe-coding-handbook/)
Relevant to your Interests
Tech worker found guilty of sabotaging company’s systems (https://ia.acs.org.au/article/2025/tech-worker-found-guilty-of-sabotaging-company-s-systems.html?ref=newsletter&deliveryName=DM25608)
SoftBank Group to Acquire Ampere Computing (https://group.softbank/en/news/press/20250320)
Backstage is dominating the developer portal market (https://newsletter.getdx.com/p/backstage-and-the-developer-portal-market)
Clouded Judgement 3.21.25 - M&A Roars Back (https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/p/clouded-judgement-32125-m-and-a-roars?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=56878&post_id=159514016&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=2l9&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email)
‘Forced Joy’ Is a Miserable Corporate Trend (https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-03-12/starbucks-tiffany-and-alphabet-make-forced-fun-part-of-the-job)
Nonsense
Office Space - Joanna - Your Flair (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ChQK8j6so8)
'I made the world's worst keyboard': This YouTuber's homemade board has over 1,000 keys and types in words, not letters (https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/gaming-keyboards/i-made-the-worlds-worst-keyboard-this-youtubers-homemade-board-has-over-1-000-keys-and-types-in-words-not-letters/)
Mac - Lumon Terminal Pro (https://www.apple.com/mac/lumon-terminal-pro/)
Conferences
KubeCon EU (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/), April 1-4, London.
DevOps Days Atlanta (https://devopsdays.org/events/2025-atlanta/welcome/), April 29-30
Cloud Foundry Day US (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cloud-foundry-day-north-america/), May 14th, Palo Alto, CA
NDC Oslo (https://ndcoslo.com/), May 21-23, Coté speaking.
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