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Frederic Lardinois @fredericl.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

In Vegas this week. Somebody screwed up my reservation at the W, so I’m in the Mandalay Bay, but the view is alright.

Frederic Lardinois @fredericl.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Me: Great. Flight to Amsterdam is arriving early. Might even get an earlier train to my father’s place. Also me: in a hotel in Amsterdam 12 hours later because the trains didn’t run all day because of snow. Not a proud Dutchman today.

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Frederic Lardinois @fredericl.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Werner’s last keynote. End of an era.

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Frederic Lardinois @fredericl.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

If this is really Werner’s last re:Invent keynote, then this is a fitting way to wrap up.

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Frederic Lardinois @fredericl.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

A very analog opening to the Werner Vogels closing keynote at re:Invent. String quartet and a newspaper.

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Frederic Lardinois @fredericl.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Based on my inbox, I’m guessing AWS released the media list for re:Invent yesterday or today. Only problem: at this point, I can’t really fathom taking any additional meetings. #reinvent

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Frederic Lardinois @fredericl.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Special guest at GitHub Univers: Satya Nadella.

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Frederic Lardinois @fredericl.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

GitHub is adding a new developer every second.

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Frederic Lardinois @fredericl.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Not sure there’ll be much of interest from Sam Altman interviewing Jony Ive, but I’m happy to report they did try to color-coordinate their outfits but didn’t quite hit the mark.

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Frederic Lardinois @fredericl.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Another week. Another conference. OutSystems in Lisbon. Moderating one panel today, another tomorrow.

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Frederic Lardinois @fredericl.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Somebody at the FAA is having a bit of fun today. #chemtrails

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Frederic Lardinois @fredericl.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

I don’t get why people keep saying the Vegas Strip has gotten too expensive. #dunkin

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Frederic Lardinois @fredericl.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Fox News on the dumbest speech ever given at the U.N.:

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Frederic Lardinois @fredericl.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Of course, when Trump makes up a story ('sir!') about a beautiful, perfect baby, it's a blond-haired boy.

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Frederic Lardinois @fredericl.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

This conference is great and all, but now I want this camera robot for our podcasts.

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Frederic Lardinois @fredericl.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

I was wondering how Fox would cover Trump’s birthday book drawing.

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Frederic Lardinois @fredericl.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

The weather on Sunday was too nice to not fly down the Oregon coast for a while.

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Frederic Lardinois @fredericl.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

How long until LLMs use Trumpian capitalization?

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Frederic Lardinois @fredericl.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

And that caps off the week at the Open Source Summit in Denver. Submit your patches.

A gigantic blue bear trying to attend a conference.

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Frederic Lardinois @fredericl.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

No shit. Now stop working with them.

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Frederic Lardinois @fredericl.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Good morning from the Databricks conference, where the press rows are in the back, have Ethernet cables without dongles and no power. Only a three-hour keynote.

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Frederic Lardinois @fredericl.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

iOS 26 pro tip: Settings - Accessibility - Display & Text size - Reduce Transparency. Some sanity restored.

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Frederic Lardinois @fredericl.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

The Safari back button now also has a forward button. Courage.

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Frederic Lardinois @fredericl.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

It's too easy to create deepfakes with Google Flow. I don't know what kind of safety research they did, but it wasn't enough.

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Frederic Lardinois @fredericl.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Currently at SFO. Waiting to board a United flight. There’s smelly trash from a few days ago on the plane and no catering team to be found to pick it up. Also: no food or drinks expected to be on the plane.

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Frederic Lardinois @fredericl.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Another day, another AI conference. Anthropic's Code with Claude is on the program today.

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Frederic Lardinois @fredericl.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Sergey Brin made a surprise appearance at the Demis Hassabis talk at I/O (it was so packed, I ended up on the lawn).

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Frederic Lardinois @fredericl.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

I still remember when Google announced that it would support Kotlin for Android app development. Today, that’s a given, but we’re just building with natural language now anyway, right?

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Frederic Lardinois @fredericl.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

The audience reaction when Google announced the $249/month AI Ultra plan was intersting... Some people are still trying to see if they really saw that price correctly.

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Frederic Lardinois @fredericl.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

The stock market is not impressed by Google's I/O announcements.

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Frederic Lardinois @fredericl.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

My working theory to explain Nvidia’s success is that Jensen has never turned down an invite to a partner conference.

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Frederic Lardinois @fredericl.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Hanging out in Vegas this week. ServiceNow Knowledge 2025. It’s my first time and I don’t realize how many people would be here. Chances are, there’ll be AI agents, too.

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Frederic Lardinois @fredericl.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Right side of my favorite IEMs suddenly stopped working. I have neither the time nor energy for this rabbit hole. There’s some new keyboard switches I still have to lube, after all.

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Frederic Lardinois @fredericl.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Last week was London. This week it’s Paris.

A view of the Paris hotel on the Vegas Strip. Mood: sad.

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Frederic Lardinois @fredericl.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

One of the key messages Google Cloud is clearly trying to land today is that, yes, if you’re an enterprise, you can really get value out of AI. (And create some FOMO in the process, of course)

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Frederic Lardinois @fredericl.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Another year, another Google Cloud Next. Getting bigger every year. Stadium is already full. I wonder if they’ll talk about agents today… #cloudnext

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Frederic Lardinois @fredericl.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Time to trade rainy Portland for too hot Vegas. Off to #googlecloudnext.

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Frederic Lardinois @fredericl.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Sometimes you want to connect in Denver but land in Colorado Springs. #kubecon

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Frederic Lardinois @fredericl.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Now they’re trying to blame Goldberg, which is insane. But the funniest part here is that I think they tried to explain to Trump what Signal is. Of course it didn’t get through to him at all. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Frederic Lardinois @fredericl.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Nvidia’s quantum day was interesting. Maybe Jensen wasn’t the best moderator, but fun to see pretty much everyone show up for this (hard to say no to Nvidia, though, I guess).

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Frederic Lardinois @fredericl.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Jensen apologized for tanking quantum stocks. “I didn’t know they were public.” Basically says he set this session with quantum CEOs up because of that.

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Frederic Lardinois @fredericl.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Quantum day at #gtc2025. Packed auditorium to hear from Jensen and an array of quantum CEOs.

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Frederic Lardinois @fredericl.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

I see United finally brought back real printed menus in Polaris. Clearly it's been a while since I was on an international flight.

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Frederic Lardinois @fredericl.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Thursday night of #reinvent. Vegas is already healing. Bachelorette parties have moved in. Cowboys are getting ready for the rodeo. Restaurants have seating.

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