Episode 243: This one goes out to all the cross-country truckers

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
  
  


• Apple Talk
  
  
  • Apple will let you emulate old apps and run iOS apps on ARM Macs – TechCrunch
  
  
  • The End of OS X
  
  
  • Apple Docker Tweet
  
  
  • Apple is switching Macs to its own processors starting later this year
  
  


• Are you actually changing?

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• Announcing the HashiCorp Cloud Platform


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• 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.
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Outro: "Livin' Astro," Kool Keith.

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