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Episode 241: Ask more questions, send more one line emails Jun 19, 2020

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Can email ever be fixed, or is GMail good enough? We discuss. Plus, Coté complains about how he should probably start asking more questions instead of answering them at length. Also, we don’t know what a “digestive” is and do not recommend the Mexican bakery pastries.

Mood board:

I’m perfectly willing to burn my own time on boondoggles.
I introduced my kids to King of the Hill yesterday - they did not like it. Or Beavis and Butthead, or South Park.
How many instructions are in the ARM chip?
Are we gonna start the show?
That looks boring.
What is a biscuit in Australia? A hazy space between crackers and cookies.
More sugar than a Ritz
It’s a medical grade cookie.
The Mexican Bakery Trap.
Just get the tacos.
Hey!
I’ve got 500 email addresses, how am I supposed to disappear?
I think there’s like, 12, 13 calendars on my Mac.
We got to the bottom of HEY!
Marketing Oblique Strategies.
The Seth Godin problem.
The Purple Moo.
Welcome to the Halo Effect.
For your 6 to 50 page strategy memo, email me at cote@hey.com.
You didn’t make a TV show that people wanted to watch.

The Rundown

Hey, do we need a new email service?
- Hey is a wildly opinionated new email service from the makers of Basecamp
- DHH calls Apple a monopoly
Market Power
Too much typing from Coté, from Coté’s newsletter last week.

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Toilet advocates plead for more public facilities during corona.

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Recommendations

Brandon: USPS Informed Delivery and 1917
Matt Ray: Massive Attack vs Mad Professor Part II (Mezzanine Remix Tapes ’98). Humble Fight for Racial Justice Bundle.
Coté: Short Life in a Strange World, short review in Coté’s newsletter last week. KUTX streaming.

Outro: Ice-cream and Chips.

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Episode 240: Todd Gardner on building Web Apps with JavaScript Jun 16, 2020

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Brandon interviews Todd Gardner from TrackJS. They discuss Todd's career and how his consulting projects led him to start TrackJS. Plus, Todd offers advice on how to build web apps using JavaScript and how to decide which JS Framework is right for your next project. His answer may surprise you...

Show Links

Contact Todd

Twitter: @toddhgardner
Company: TrackJS
Latest Project: Request Metrics
Email: todd@trackjs.com
Personal Website: todd.mn

Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash

Special Guest: Todd Gardner.

Episode 238: Shannon Williams on Kubernetes-as-a-Service Jun 09, 2020

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Brandon interviews Shannon Williams from Rancher Labs. They discuss Shannon's journey from journalism to startup founder and how Rancher delivers Kubernetes-as-a-Service. Plus, Shannon recommends his top ski resort in North America and reveals who really decided to buy the cloud.com domain.

Contact Shannon:

Twitter: smw355
LinkedIn: smw355

Photo by boris misevic on Unsplash

Special Guest: Shannon Williams.

Episode 237: Cisco’s string of pearls, also, “daddy, are pirates real?” Jun 05, 2020

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What is a ThousandEyes, Cisco’s acquired businesses and oddly named BUs, nailing your bi-annual performance review. Plus, a review of ChefCon online.

Mood board:

Sounds normal for now.
It was kinda cool, kinda sad.
Covered in yoke.
We just had to speed test it out.
Katamari Damacy M&A.
I hate network monitoring, shut it all down!
The ProductTK.
7G.
What’s the plural of Kubernetes?
Managers are really into career development, what’s the deal with that?
Chernobyl as a metaphor for corporate life.
Return the Jewels.

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MongoDB’s virtual event http://MongoDB.Live on June 9-10, 2020
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Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Virtual Conference on August 17th-20th

SDT news & hype

Join us in Slack.
Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn
Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog.
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.

Recommendations

Brandon: Pod Save America and Pod Save the People podcasts.
Matt Ray: Upload; Run The Jewels 4.
Coté: DrunkAndRetired.com Podcast; The Xero Music Hour; Magma notebooks.

Header photo from Andrew, probably.

Episode 236: Margaret Staples from Twilio on Building Games, Dev Evangelism and Owls. Jun 02, 2020

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Brandon interviews Margaret Staples from Twilio and they discuss building games, Dev Evangelism, working at Twilio and her latest project TwilioQuest.

Margaret on the Web:

TwilioQuest

Photo by Richard Lee on Unsplash

Special Guest: Margaret Staples.

Meanwhile... — **Episode 235: The Real Kube MoMs of Cloud Candy Land** May 29, 2020
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Microsoft nails the Linux desktop and it’s cloud MoM’s for everyone. Plus, Coté goes over the thrilling world of Outlook email rules.

Mood board:

“The triumphant return to the home office. “

Net Ninety.

Software Stockholm Syndrome.

Office Mail 360 Whatever.

I had a lot of time, when I wasn’t fucking going crazy.

I never read those emails.

I hear Trump is shutting down Twitter.

Neck-deep in archaic 2FA.

Aggressively defensive.

Microsoft wins the Linux desktop vision.

MoMs are important.

Cloud Candyland.

I don’t know how to pronounce the Ø in RØDE. I was never into heavy metal.

Feed the baby.

New sign-off catch-phrease: that’s a bunch of information for you.

The Rundown

Microsoft Build

Azure Arc and Kubernetes: a Developer Story

Microsoft is bringing Linux GUI apps to Windows 10

The new Windows command-line: Windows Terminal and WSL 2

New Terminal with all the bells and whistles customized via JSON

Linux in Windows Explorer with Faster File Access

Lightweight VM that supports 100% system calls

Linux GUI Apps on Windows

Remote Work

Remote working from Sid Sijbrandij

Working from home works fine now because we've built up lots of social capital

Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2020

Loved: Rust, Dreaded: VBA, Wanted: Python

GitHub and Slack: 1,2, Teams toward the bottom

50/50 DevOps vs. No DevOps

Primary OS: Windows at ~45%, macOS and Linux split ~25% and who is using BSD

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What Just Happened? Flash Report on Q1 SaaS Sales | Scale Venture Partners

How TechCrunch is like the Iliad

IBM to cut jobs for first time under new CEO Arvind Krishna

Researchers claim new internet speed record of 44.2 Tbps

Hertz, Car Rental Pioneer, Files for Bankruptcy Protection

What the hell, SaaS valuations? – TechCrunch

The Confessions of the Hacker Who Saved the Internet

Linus Torvalds Switches To AMD Ryzen Threadripper After 15 Years Of Intel Systems - Phoronix

Migrating To Kubernetes: Moving To A Better World | Top Business Tech

ARM's Cortex-X custom CPU program may finally make Android flagship performance competitive with Apple

Collaboration Tools

A smaller, simpler Docker looks to get its groove back

Choosing 2FA authenticator apps can be hard. Ars did it so you don’t have to

Nonsense

This 25-minute video is the most riveting sudoku puzzle you will ever watch

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Conferences

ChefConf 2020 June 2, 2020 All Digital.

MongoDB’s virtual event http://MongoDB.Live on June 9-10, 2020

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Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Virtual Conference on August 17th-20th

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Join us in Slack.

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Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog.

Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.

Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, *Digital WTF*, so $5 total.

Recommendations

Brandon: *ZeroZeroZero* on Amazon Prime.

Matt Ray: 8GB Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now at $75 - Raspberry Pi.

Coté: RØDE Wireless Go.

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Episode 234: The “severe ramifications” episode May 22, 2020

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We discuss Facebook’s remote work policy, predictions of 8% less IT spending, the good Slack has done for humanity, and the mystery of a beloved blog that had no RSS feed. Also: Coté is back!

Moodboard:

3rd kids and pandemics
Severe consequences - just another way for companies to fuck you. (The exact wording was “severe ramifications.”)
It’s all just a spatula.
Downwardness.
You should talk less.
“Show Less” not working as expected.
All the complaints flow through my hammer.
Bruce Markup Language.
It is what it is, Matt Ray.
So much trash.
I was already kind of full of webinars.
Shit content is shit content.
Even Screenflow doesn’t do ripple delete by default.
A webinar Renaissance.
I wanna be a software vegan.

The Rundown

This whole never return to the office thing. Facebook says you can work from wherever you want if they can pay you less.
Gartner: IT spending will drop 8% as COVID-19 hits enterprise wallets
- “devices and data-center systems experiencing the largest drops in spending.”
Slack mobile app gets UI refresh for easier navigation
- “Slack’s goal is to have as much of your working life spent there as possible.”
- Topic: is Slack making work better? (Coté: yeah, the normals all use it, so it brings in more collaboration, different norms for doing so. But, do sales people use it? It’s fun to observe who doesn’t use it at work.)
Farewell to Beyond the Beyond
- Coté: I could never find the RSS feed for this so I missed out on it, mostly.

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Gartner: IT spending will drop 8% as COVID-19 hits enterprise wallets
- “devices and data-center systems experiencing the largest drops in spending.”
Slack mobile app gets UI refresh for easier navigation
- “Slack’s goal is to have as much of your working life spent there as possible.”
- Topic: is Slack making work better? (Coté: yeah, the normals all use it, so it brings in more collaboration, different norms for doing so. But, do sales people use it? It’s fun to observe who doesn’t use it at work.)
Google Cloud VMware Engine is now generally available | Google Cloud Blog
yaml-is-not-a-programming-language
New York’s Newest Unicorn: DigitalOcean Raises $50M At $1.15B Valuation
Virtana Raises $15M In Funding
Facebook to acquire Giphy in a deal reportedly worth $400 million
- Aren't there lots of copyright violations?
Software Maker Chef Hires Guggenheim to Help Raise Funds
Airlines vs. Zoom
Andreessen Horowitz leading deal for voice chat app Clubhouse
Farewell to Beyond the Beyond
- Coté: I could never find the RSS feed for this so I missed out on it, mostly.
Matt to tell Coté what a “Redis” is. ## Nonsense
The Great Asshole Fallacy
This is What Peak Hello World Looks Like
Ditching Zoom for Red Dead Redemption

Conferences.

FlylessConf May 27
ChefConf 2020 June 2, 2020 All Digital.
Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Virtual Conference on August 17th-20th
MongoDB’s virtual event http://MongoDB.Live on June 9-10, 2020
THAT Conference August 3 - 6 in Wisconsin Dells®. Fill out their survey.

SDT news & hype

Join us in Slack.
Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn
Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog.
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.

Recommendations

Coté: ftrain’s newsletter; LumaFusion for video editing; My short videos. Also available in TikTok.
Matt Ray: Quiet fans; Anti-pick- Google Meeting links getting added to invitations.

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Episode 233: There’s no space for startups here May 15, 2020

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On this episode we discuss Tik Tok, OpenShift vs. VMware, Amazon simplifying YAML, Eclipse moving to Europe, Unreal Engine 5 and Datadog wins big.

The Rundown

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Conferences.

FlylessConf May 27
ChefConf 2020 June 2, 2020 All Digital.
Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Virtual Conference on August 17th — 20th
MongoDB’s virtual event http://MongoDB.Live on June 9-10, 2020
THAT Conference August 3 - 6 in Wisconsin Dells®. Fill out their survey.

SDT news & hype

Join us in Slack.
Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn
Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog.
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.

Jobs mentioned from the SDT Slack

Ryan says there are jobs at DataDog, DataDog now worth $20B
LoopRock says they are hiring at Ethos
Dominic say they are hiring at MongoDB

Recommendations

Brandon — Facebook Trilogy of Audiobooks:
Matt Ray:
- Starship

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Episode 232: Amazon’s doing OK May 08, 2020

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AWS and Azure announce earnings, Backblaze takes on Amazon, Cloud Native Survey Results and Fortnite takes our suggestions. Plus, Matt updates us on his quest to turn a smartphone into a webcam.

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Chef Tools & Terraform: Better Together from Matt Ray
Michael Coté - Intro - Spring Live
FlylessConf May 27
ChefConf 2020 June 2, 2020 All Digital.
MongoDB’s virtual event http://MongoDB.Live on June 9-10, 2020
THAT Conference August 3 - 6 in Wisconsin Dells®. Fill out their survey.

SDT news & hype

Join us in Slack.
Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn
Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog.
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.

Recommendations

Brandon: American Factory on Netflix
Matt Ray: Small Victories: The True Story Of Faith No More

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