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Matt Ray
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Open source geek & breaker/fixer of toys. Co-host of the @SoftwareDefinedTalk.com podcast, living in Australia.
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This week, @brandonwhichard.com, @cote.io and @mattray.dev discuss the Cloudflare outage, their current business strategy, and paying OSS maintainers. Plus, thoughts on loading the dishwasher and managing your home.

https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/548
Household CMDB
This week, we discuss the Cloudflare outage, their current business strategy, and paying OSS maintainers. Plus, thoughts on loading the dishwasher and managing your home.
www.softwaredefinedtalk.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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great day for people who love beige foods
November 27, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Like dawg how are you the state of freedom and liberty but you close liquor stores at 9 pm and on Sundays?
Texas liquor store laws are dumb.
November 27, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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If you need a gift for a cool weirdo, I am a reliable source for Frasier prints, paintings of Sears, Jerry Orbach artifacts, Mr. T Christmas cards, etc. store.brandonbird.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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Looking around at present reality:

Y’all ever get the uncanny suspicion that Philip K. Dick might have really received that pink space laser download from an alien intelligence and that The Empire Never Ended?
November 22, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Once again thinking about the greatest work of journalism ever written, an article that exists on a level of "every line is the greatest line ever written, until it is surpassed by the next line" that's only really matched by, like, the TF2 Comics.
I Played 'The Boys Are Back in Town' on a Bar Jukebox Until I Got Kicked Out
The boys were back in town, but I was out of the bar, because they asked me to leave.
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November 20, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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Good news: If you would like to watch Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants on YouTube I have done a painstaking 4k upscale of this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0gW...
November 17, 2025 at 2:06 AM
I don't think I'm supposed to laugh during HR training...
November 17, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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This week, @brandonwhichard.com, @cote.io and @mattray.dev discuss Facebook scams, engineering management trends, and the past and present of curl. Plus, when’s the right time to put up the Christmas tree?

https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/546
The cURLing Test
This week, we discuss Facebook scams, engineering management trends, and the past and present of curl. Plus, when’s the right time to put up the Christmas tree?
www.softwaredefinedtalk.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Miss World Chile did is in a metal band. This was her talent portion at Miss World
www.instagram.com/reel/DQuI2W7...
November 7, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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This week, @brandonwhichard.com, @cote.io and @mattray.dev discuss cloud earnings, Siri teaming up with Gemini, and AI bottlenecks. Plus, is cloning your dog weird?

https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/545
No one cares about Chickens
This week, we discuss cloud earnings, Siri teaming up with Gemini, and AI bottlenecks. Plus, is cloning your dog weird?
www.softwaredefinedtalk.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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October 31, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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stupid babies need the most attention
October 31, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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ladies and gentlemen...we got him
October 30, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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October 28, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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This week, @brandonwhichard.com, @cote.io and @mattray.dev discuss OpenAI’s new browser, AI trying to build spreadsheets, and when to use Claude skills. Plus, Coté explores the art of the perfect staycation.

https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/543
Arts and Crafts
This week, we discuss OpenAI’s new browser, AI trying to build spreadsheets, and when to use Claude skills. Plus, Coté explores the art of the perfect staycation.
www.softwaredefinedtalk.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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This playlist might be from the year that I attended this extraordinary thing (@mattray.dev may be able to confirm). youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Oh and @bakoon.bsky.social some of this might be decent stream fodder this month, we’ve got Lord British at his nerdiest and old Texas weirdos galore.
Britannia Manor Halloween 1994 - YouTube
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October 17, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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@mattray.dev talks with Yuriy Shyyan, Director of Cloud Systems Architecture at OpenMetal, about public cloud costs, high school hacking, building on OpenStack, and why cloud credits are like timeshare offers.

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Yuriy Shyyan on owning your own Cloud.
Matt Ray talks to Yuriy Shyyan, the Director of Cloud Systems Architecture for OpenMetal. They discuss the cost of running your enterprise in the public cloud, high school hacking, building a business...
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October 17, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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I follow a Norwegian lighthouse keeper named Paal Bjørndal whose whole bit is sharing profound things that are inaudible due to high winds. I love the internet.
October 15, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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I just discovered strudel.cc and I may never be seen again
Strudel REPL
Strudel is a music live coding environment for the browser, porting the TidalCycles pattern language to JavaScript.
strudel.cc
October 16, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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This week, @brandonwhichard.com and @mattray.dev discuss Apps in ChatGPT, OpenAI’s Agent SDK and Codex. Plus, Matt has a possum problem down under.

https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/541
Why not do everything
This week, we discuss Apps in ChatGPT, OpenAI’s Agent SDK and Codex. Plus, Matt has a possum problem down under.
www.softwaredefinedtalk.com
October 10, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
October 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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The Butlerian Jihad must have sucked for guys who just bought a new computer
October 8, 2025 at 9:44 PM
My dog's not a fan of robots, spent most of the morning barking at the pool vacuum. After I finally brought him down to the pool to "meet it", he seems to have decided it's not a threat.
October 8, 2025 at 2:09 AM