Hello and welcome to SED News. As I sure some of you know already, this is a different format of software engineering daily, where Sean and I've got Sean with me.

I should say, say hi, Sean, as usual.

Hey, hey, Gregor.

Hey, everyone.

Hey, often forget to let Sean say hello.

Yes, we are here, a slightly different format where we touch on some of the main headlines.

In tech, we then go into a bigger topic in the middle

and then we take a fun spin look at hacker news highlights that Sean and I have picked up

over the last couple of weeks so as we often do though a bit of a catch-up I think Sean and I

both being wrapped up in conferences over the last couple weeks. So yeah, Sean, which exactly. Yeah. So where have you been and how was it going? So I was in Las Vegas recently for Cloud Next, which was fun. I'd never actually been to Cloud Next, even though I worked at Google, I worked in Google Cloud and I partnered with them a number of times, but for whatever reason, I just never ended up by Claudinx, but it was good. And then I was actually supposed

to be an... I worked in Google Cloud and I've partnered with them a number of times, but for whatever reason, I just never ended up by Cloud Next.

But it was good.

And then I was actually supposed to be in India this week, but thankfully that trip got postponed because I would have been back to back to back because I leave for Boston for IBM Think Sunday night.

So there's kind of a lot going on.

We're thick into the spring event season anyway with like May, June and so forth. So you're in San Francisco where I live. So how are things going? How are you enjoying it so far? Yeah, absolutely. No, it's nice to be back. I think last time I was in SF was end of 20, 24, actually. So yeah, been a while in the tech terms. But really nice to be back. Always like the weather

here. Nice change from Singapore. I was at Stripe Sessions, which has grown enough. So it's in

Moscone West, which is like the sort of second largest, I think, probably venue in SF. So yeah,

really awesome production. I think just to call out one little detail,

I'm not sure if people watch the Stripe podcast. I'm sure many of you do. It's called Cheeky Pint.

And it has John or Patrick Collison sitting in a mock Irish pub having a pint of Guinness with a guest.

And they had actually put together like a full

mock up of that set in the venue and people could go in and get free pints of free little

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