This week's SDT episode hit close to home. We spent an hour talking about Claude Code — specifically how people who don't write code are starting to use it anyway to automate the boring parts of their work. Reports, newsletters, status updates. I'll leave it to you to guess how this newsletter gets drafted. The line between "technical" and "non-technical" keeps moving, and not in the direction most people expected.

From the Network

Inside OpenClaw and Open Source Innovation — The Reasoning Show Sally O'Malley from Red Hat talks about her journey into the OpenClaw community and how open source projects actually evolve. Good episode for anyone who wonders how these communities get built and sustained.

Episode 563: Claude Camp — Software Defined Talk Claude Code for non-coders, automating newsletters and status reports, and AI tax prep. Plus, Coté finds unexpected joy in a coding assistant. Meta? Maybe. Worth listening to.

Episode 345: Damn It… My Excuse Is Now Gone for Disaster Recovery — The Cloud Pod Justin, Ryan, and Matt break down the latest cloud and AI news. If you've been putting off your DR strategy, this one might be the nudge you needed.

Podcast of the Week

Oxide and Friends — Oxide's $200M Series C There was a time when building actual servers was a hot topic — then it mostly faded. The team at Oxide is trying to build the best cloud server ever made, and their podcast is a rare window into how that actually happens: fundraising, engineering decisions, the works. If you think hardware is boring, you haven't heard Bryan Cantrill speak.

Non-Tech Pod of the Week

Pablo Torre Finds Out — Billionaires Policing Billionaires Pablo Torre Finds Out is ostensibly a sports podcast but regularly goes deep on the business and power dynamics of sports. This episode is really about what happens when the richest and most powerful men in the world decide the rules don't apply to them. You don't need to care about the NBA for this one — it's a sharp case study in how power and accountability collide, and how rarely accountability wins.

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