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. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 487 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 Relevant to your Interests Announcing Upgraded Docker Plans OpenAI Discusses Giving Altman 7% Stake in For-Profit Transition Intel's Transformation 2.0 Intel begins reducing real estate holdings worldwide Arm Is Rebuffed by Intel After Inquiring About Buying Product Unit Hurricane Helene May Have Given Intel Pure Storage announces VM assessment service Attacking UNIX Systems via CUPS, Part I Clouded Judgement 9.27.24 - The Foundation of Foundation Models The streaming wars are over. Uber’s next act: taking on Amazon Trump Says He'll Prosecute Google If He Retakes Power Epic is suing Google — again — and now Samsung, too Windows 11 Patch Tuesday preview is a glitchy disaster Observe Inc. Introduces AI-Powered Observability, Closes Series B Funding Of $145M 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 SDT News & Community Join our Slack community Email the show: [email protected] Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected] Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté Sponsor the show: [email protected] Recommendations Brandon: Balatro on the App Store Cloud News of the Month - September 2024 Matt: Some Like it Hot Coté: Creaks Software Defined Interviews relaunch, with Whitney Lee. Photo Credits Header Artwork