Episode 517: Trademark’s in the Mail

This week, we discuss the new Slate Pickup, Synadia’s attempt to reclaim NATS from the CNCF, and the latest DORA AI report. Plus, Google leaves old Nest thermostats out in the cold. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is2JhdgLpIg) 517 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is2JhdgLpIg) Runner-up Titles We have a dumb house Ultimately I blame myself You can educate people, but they’re not going to listen It’s hard to have the same level of empathy with a talking logo I don’t want a subscription car No Take Backs Rugpulls are part of the landscape now Vacuum Hypothesis Major releases forever Making bad developers 10x faster Spaces or Braces Don’t bring tabs into this Rundown Google will stop supporting early Nest thermostats on October 25 (https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/26/google-will-stop-supporting-early-nest-thermostats-on-october-25/) The Slate Truck is a whole new kind of car (https://www.theverge.com/the-vergecast/657836/slate-truck-auto-pickup-screen-time-vergecast) Open Source Regret Syndrome How Synadia's attempt to exit the CNCF by holding a trademark hostage might have backfired (https://www.runtime.news/how-synadias-attempt-to-exit-the-cncf-by-holding-a-trademark-hostage-might-have-backfired/) Protecting NATS and the integrity of open source: CNCF’s commitment to the community (https://www.cncf.io/blog/2025/04/24/protecting-nats-and-the-integrity-of-open-source-cncfs-commitment-to-the-community/?ref=runtime.news) DORA Impact of Generative AI in Software Development (https://cloud.google.com/resources/content/dora-impact-of-gen-ai-software-development?hl=en) Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI (https://www.theverge.com/news/657594/duolingo-ai-first-replace-contract-workers) Google launches AI tools for practicing languages through personalized lessons (https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/29/google-launches-ai-tools-for-practicing-languages-through-personalized-lessons/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9uZXdzLmdvb2dsZS5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAACKh9xMr7tOVcmFQP-5C8PDElghg3W1m2SmQAVKY4UhlHXs69qyd-CrNSI5aLcFTcZCQ0_crhAmIf4h3m816HtKLF1FfYof3Tcfai-qMt_sbXeTLDn2ap8l_X54hB-MNXCQtjjpNo0rHs9yMrXlXQbcRqLKfEAERgEh3piRMF_KM) Viral Shopify CEO Manifesto Says AI Now Mandatory For All Employees (https://www.forbes.com/sites/douglaslaney/2025/04/09/selling-ai-strategy-to-employees-shopify-ceos-manifesto/) Introducing the Meta AI App: A New Way to Access Your AI Assistant (https://about.fb.com/news/2025/04/introducing-meta-ai-app-new-way-access-ai-assistant/) Relevant to your Interests 2D Chip Breakthrough: 6,000 Transistors, 3 Atoms Thick (https://spectrum.ieee.org/2d-semiconductors-molybdenum-disulfide) AMD 2.0 – New Sense of Urgency (https://semianalysis.com/2025/04/23/amd-2-0-new-sense-of-urgency-mi450x-chance-to-beat-nvidia-nvidias-new-moat/) Apple Partner TSMC Unveils Advanced 1.4nm Process for 2028 Chips (https://www.macrumors.com/2025/04/24/apple-partner-tsmc-1-4nm-process-2028-chips/) Elon Musk forced back to the boardroom as Doge ‘blowback’ pummels Tesla (https://on.ft.com/3Rx0z4z) Amazon CEO Andy Jassy's 2024 Letter to Shareholders—Annotated (https://www.lastweekinaws.com/2024-amazon-ceo-letter-to-shareholders/?ck_subscriber_id=512840665&utm_source=convertkit&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=%20[Last%20Week%20in%20AWS%20Extras]:%20Amazon%20CEO%20Andy%20Jassy) How Commodore Invented the Mass Market Computer (https://every.to/the-crazy-ones/the-first-king-of-home-computing) Yahoo wants to buy Chrome (https://www.theverge.com/policy/655975/yahoo-search-web-browser-prototype-google-trial-antitrust-chrome) Microsoft launches Recall and AI-powered Windows search for Copilot Plus PCs (https://www.theverge.com/news/656106/microsoft-recall-copilot-plus-pc-available) Tech Workers Are Just Like the Rest of Us: Miserable at Work (https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/tech-workers-are-just-like-the-rest-of-us-miserable-at-work/ar-AA1DDKjh) Backblaze: A Loss-Making Data Storage Business Mired in Lawsuits, Sham Accounting, and Brazen Insider Dumping (https://www.morpheus-research.com/backblaze/) IBM pledges $150 billion to boost U.S. tech growth, computer manufacturing (https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/28/ibm-to-invest-150-billion-to-boost-us-tech-growth-computer-manufacturing.html) Economic Termites Are Everywhere (https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/economic-termites-are-everywhere) 40 years ago, Acorn fired up the first Arm processor (https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/29/arm_40/) Nonsense Between 2 Servers - S1E2 - Not THAT Hasselhoff feat. Dr. Kate Holterhoff (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6VrO8rl-iM) Fold 'N Fly » Paper Airplane Folding Instructions (https://www.foldnfly.com/) Conferences Cloud Foundry Day US (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cloud-foundry-day-north-america/), May 14th, Palo Alto, CA, Coté speaking. KCD Texas Austin 2025 (https://community.cncf.io/events/details/cncf-kcd-texas-presents-kcd-texas-austin-2025/), May 15th, Whitney Lee Speaking Fr (h