Nora Jones

With the strife in the open source ecosystem this year, there were some really good discussions about some of the drama and some of the threats.

Some of the really good episodes around this were Feroz in Changing Organ Friends 111, Mike McQuaid and Justin Sells in Changing Organ Friends 113, and a related discussion with Andrew Nesbitt and the excellent work he is doing with ecosystems in Interviews 665.

I've also really enjoyed what feels like an increase in levity this year.

And especially some of the conversations with your friends, like Amal in Friends 86, Dan Moore in Friends 78, Matt Ryer in 75 and 90, and a whole lot of other Friends episodes.

As ever, things like Hash Divine and Friendly Few game shows have been really, really great.

And I've really enjoyed them, especially even like

participating myself was really cool.

I also really enjoyed some of the deep dives you'll have done into things like different folks' blog posts.

So for instance, Friends 81 and the interview you had with Sean in Interview 666.

As a little bit of an AI skeptic, it has been really interesting digging into some of the interesting cases of AI without a lot of the hype you all have done.

So in particular, things like the interview with David Kroshaw in Interview 629.

Nick Nisi in Friends 88, 102 and 120.

And Adam Jacob in Interviews 664.

And Stevie Yeagey in Friends 96.

And also Torsten Ball in Interviews 648.

Finally, I want to again repeat that it's been really nice just having a few episodes of just the two of you just chatting about stuff.

Not necessarily even about the tech, just about life and

movies and stuff.

It has been really interesting and yeah, a really nice balance between different things.

So thanks for a great year and here's to another.