This one goes out to all the cross-country truckers
Episode 243 · June 26th, 2020 · 1 hr 6 mins
About this Episode
Extracting configs with awk, Apple announces stuff, and salad dressing. That’s the topics. Mostly.
Mood board:
- One
- How come Slack doesn’t have a DropBox yet?
- I got the Call Recorder!
- Brand Police.
- You’d get to do a lot of writing, but you’d get a lot of editing.
- Dunning Keurig
- Yeet your email.
- I don’t know where it comes from, but my kids got me saying it.
- People just throwing tickets into the wind.
- Awk yeah
- You should sanitize your inputs every day, Matt Ray.
- I’ve been treating Apple news like Star Wars news.
- The Builders.
- We got piles of clip art.
- Elfin robot children on a sea of green binary.
- MacOS 11.1, “Green Goddess”
- There’s only one MC who talks about space and cross-country truck driving.
- Watch the get to school on time tapes.
- John Irving Parenting.
- Until then, I’ll just ground him from his iPad.
The Rundown
- Kool Keith interview: “I’m dis-attached from reality on my own terms.”
- Luxury Email
- Cote reviews HEY
- Outlook update: e works in the Mac desktop app.
- Superhuman’s email app is overhyped and overpriced
- Basecamp is good at PR — How Basecamp bent Apple
- Wait — Slack is killing email with Slack Connect
- M&A
- ServiceNow to acquire Belgian configuration management startup Sweagle
- Not sure about people who use the word “infra.”
- I think it’s a configuration store that plugs into CI pipelines - sort of like a ConfigMap for Jenkins.
- “SWEAGLE provides a quality gate for your configuration data. Includes versioning, management, and validation of all types of config data.” https://github.com/jenkinsci/sweagle-plugin
- It will run validates to make sure the hostname is valid, there are no empty values, etc. Has a JavaScript SDK for writing validation code.
- ServiceNow integration that extracts confit from CMDB. https://github.com/sweagleExpert/integrations/tree/master/ServiceNow
- Microsoft confirms acquisition of CyberX to boost security in its Azure IoT business
- Apple has acquired Fleetsmith, a startup that helps IT manage Apple devices remotely
- ServiceNow to acquire Belgian configuration management startup Sweagle
- Apple Talk
- Are you actually changing?
Relevant to your interests
- Google pushes “text fragment links” with new Chrome extension
- Spotmicro - robot dog by KDY0523
- The Segway’s Inventor Has a New Project: Manufacturing Human Organs
- Fortnite’s new season has flooded the map
- The Next Step for Mixer - From the Myxer
- Announcing the HashiCorp Cloud Platform
- WSJ News Exclusive | Dell Explores Spinoff of $50 Billion Stake in VMware
- Amazon is looking to add live TV to Prime Video
- kelseyhightower/nocode
- Containers to capture 15 percent of all enterprise apps across 75 percent of business by 2024
- Inside the Baffling World of Masayoshi Son's Presentations
Nonsense
- Chocolate Digestives
- Scottish Man tries Southern Snacks
- Emoji Search Finally Coming to iOS in iOS 14
- Not enough public toilets in Amsterdam especially for women, wheelchair users
- BYE
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Recommendations
- Brandon: **The Data Coach - Against the Rules with Michael Lewis; Trust Fall : Invisibilia. ****- Matt Ray: The Coup: Party Music
- Coté: Razer Kiyo.
Outro: "Livin' Astro," Kool Keith.