About this episode
The big tech company conferences continued this summer with Vercel hosting Vercel Ship 2025. As you’d expect there was lots of talk about AI and Vercel’s AI Cloud: tools, infrastructure, and platform enhancements to build AI agents and help AI agents use Vercel.On July 1, hosting platform Cloudflare declared Content Independence Day, and changed its settings to block AI crawlers by default unless they pay creators for their content. While we absolutely support this move, Cloudflare’s future vision of a marketplace where content creators and AI companies come together and compensation is based on how much content “furthers knowledge” seems idealistic, but we’ll have to wait and see.Serverless Postgres database company Neon has a new product called Neon Launchpad that can create an instant Neon database with zero configuration or account creation. Users get an automatically generated connection string, 72 hours to claim a new database, and even automatic database seeding with SQL scripts for schema and data initialization.Timestamps:2:13 - Vercel Ship event updates7:49 - Cloudfare declares content independence day16:12 - Neon Launchpad20:03 - Figma IPO22:24 - Deno v. Oracle trademark update25:10 - Antropic lets Claude run a vending machine32:21 - What’s making us happyLinks:News:Paige - Cloudflare declares July 1 Content Independence DayJack - Neon Launchpad instant DBsTJ - Vercel Ship 2025Lightning:Figma has filed for an IPO to trade on the stock exchange as “FIG”Claude ran a vending machine, and the first attempt at “vibe management” wasn’t greatDeno v. Oracle trademark updateWhat Makes Us Happy this Week:Paige - Squid Game season 3Jack - F1: The MovieTJ - Bobby Banilla DayThanks as always to our sponsor, the Blue Collar Coder channel on YouTube. You can join us in our Discord channel, explore our website and reach us via email, or talk to us on X, Bluesky, or YouTube.Front-end Fire websiteBlue Collar Co
