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If ClueCon is on your radar, this is your nudge 👀 📍 The Midland Hotel, Chicago 🗓 August 10–14, 2026 💻 By developers, for developers Prices go up May 1st, lock in your spot before the jump. 👉 hubs.la/Q04dJRj60 Thinking about coming? Drop a 👇 or comment “I’m in” We're curious who we’ll see there!

How do you protect open source when AI starts generating endless security reports? The cURL Project founder Daniel Stenberg discusses maintainer overload, bug bounty changes, AI code analysis, and transparency in security reporting. Watch: youtu.be/P2FehtzYgBo #OpenSource #Cybersecurity #AI #ClueConWeekly

Most Voice AI works great in a demo. Real callers are a different story. This week on #ClueConWeekly, we talk with Brian West about building Voice AI with more control, better observability, and more consistent outcomes. Watch here: youtu.be/2wpdf7GO_K4 #VoiceAI #AIagents #SignalWire #VoIP

How much DevOps do you really need to ship and maintain an app? Jon Gray talks with Lionel Sapp about the one-person DevOps stack, AI-assisted workflows, and how solo builders can keep client apps alive without a giant team. Watch: youtu.be/luwrx0nHxuY #ClueConWeekly #DevOps #AI #Nextjs #Supabase

New ClueCon Weekly 🎙️ Jon Gray talks with Brian Meeker (Eng Manager @ GetThrough) about unionizing in tech, job security, AI-driven layoffs, and what unions can actually negotiate (on-call, hours, severance, AI guardrails). Watch: youtu.be/QoxuqRGFfZY What’s your take — will unions become more common in tech? #ClueConWeekly #Tech #AI #JobSecurity

Jon Gray talks with JB Kemp (VideoLAN, Kyber) about: 🔹“Open source AI” vs open weights (big difference) 🔹Why VLC / FFmpeg / x264 quietly run the internet’s video 🔹OSS sustainability + funding in the AI era 🔹AI coding: great for seniors, painful for maintainers Watch/listen: youtu.be/3VuULH7zRLo #OpenSource #AI #FFmpeg #VLC #ClueConWeekly

Nicole Derr joins us to discuss life after tech. Career pivots, transferable skills, and how to tell burnout from something deeper. 🎧 youtu.be/qafm6lcLGwk #ClueConWeekly #TechCareers #CareerPivot #Burnout

New ClueCon Weekly 🎙️ Dan Vega talks adding AI to existing apps without a rebuild. Spring AI model abstraction (swap LLMs via config), MCP servers, local vs cloud tradeoffs, and why fundamentals still matter. youtu.be/ZeZre8uXDAc #Java #SpringAI #LLM #MCP #ClueConWeekly

Welcome to Our New 2026 Event Partner: HSBC! We’re excited to welcome HSBC Innovation Banking as a ClueCon 32-bit event partner! HSBC Innovation Banking supports startups and technology companies with specialized banking solutions designed to help innovators grow faster and operate globally. Welcome, HSBC!

This week on #ClueConWeekly, we’re joined by Daniele Scasciafratte to talk about Amber Lang — a modern scripting language that transpiles to Bash so you get readability + safety without losing portability. We cover runtime safety, type checking, arrays, regex gotchas, and why shell scripts fail quietly. 🎥 Watch: youtu.be/oGQg3FdSpXc #opensource #linux #bash #devops #programming

“It works on my machine” isn’t a release strategy. 😅 In this CCW Episode, Jon Gray gets the low down from Bob Fornal on testing in CI/CD—brittle tests, dashboards that lie, visual regression with Playwright, and where to start when you have zero tests. 🎧 Watch: youtu.be/sondLDsENSg #DevOps #CICD #Testing #QA #Playwright

Math doesn’t have to live on paper. 📜 In this week’s ClueCon Weekly, Jon Gray chats with @c_yatteau (DevRel @ Esri, former CS + math teacher) about Math in Motion—bringing concepts like unit circles + sine waves to life with HTML/CSS/JS + canvas. Watch: youtu.be/bN1RS2jJmls #JavaScript #WebDev #DevRel #EdTech #ClueConWeekly

New #ClueConWeekly is out 🎙️ Diego Gosmar (AI lead + longtime open source telephony contributor) joins us to break down Agents vs workflows (what’s actually different) If you’re building voice AI or automation, this one’s for you. 👉youtu.be/0K1TH1O5htE #VoiceAI #LLM #opensource

New ClueCon Weekly 🎙️ Daniel Mierla + Fred Posner on Kamailio 6.1: multi-threaded TLS, new modules, ARM packaging + why the community still matters. If you touch SIP/VoIP, don’t miss this. youtu.be/czDpGuES-gk #Kamailio #SIP #VoIP #OpenSource #RTC

New ClueCon Weekly (Part 2) w/ Carlus Henry 🎙️ CI/CD for small teams: ✅ tests first ✅ GitHub Actions vs Jenkins ✅ Heroku vs Cloud Run vs AWS ✅ monitoring + version tags ✅ when (not) to use Kubernetes Watch: youtu.be/gVOjIz_PiUM #DevOps #CICD #Cloud

Why WebRTC beats WebSockets for real-time AI voice (most of the time) with Sean Dubois (Pion creator, OpenAI). Latency, packet loss, RTP, VAD, and what actually makes voice agents feel responsive. Watch: youtu.be/cKzAt8Xoy4U #WebRTC #VoiceAI #ClueConWeekly

Code reviews shouldn’t be the bottleneck. Jon Gray + Pavel Oborin chat on why PRs stall and what actually helps: CI/linting, merge queues, code owners, and pushing decisions upstream with RFCs/ADRs. Also: how AI changes what’s worth reviewing. Watch: youtu.be/EgipC5_-fnU

Colleges and universities in the US are keeping up with the rise in demand for AI education by introducing new related majors and departments. Read about it here: hubs.la/Q03YRlXc0

🔁 Check out this ClueCon Weekly w/ Sarah Aamir Practical GenAI security + low-latency voice agents. Covers Bedrock + voice-to-voice STT/TTS and real guardrails (data classification, access controls, anonymization, HITL, testing). youtu.be/u-twghehFBE

The New Year is almost here, making this a great time to reflect. Check out 21 lessons Addy Osmani learned over 14 years as a Software Engineer at Google: hubs.la/Q03YRmLb0