Episode 286: Press the turbo button on that one

This week we discuss the demise of the blameless post mortem, a $500 Million mistake and some forgiveness for Red Hat. Plus, a live update on the Texas Winter Apocalypse.

Rundown

• Citi Can’t Have Its $900 Million Back


• Brian Armstrong on the Crypto Economy (Ep. 115)


• Operating Systems
  
  
  • CentOS Stream: Why it’s awesome
  
  
  • The world’s second-most popular desktop operating system isn’t macOS anymore
  
  

Relevant to your interests

• ‘Millions’ of Ford cars to be powered by Android in major Google deal


• Miami Pushes Crypto With Proposal to Pay Workers in Bitcoin


• Online workspace startup Notion hit by outage, citing DNS issues – TechCrunch


• Penpot | Design Freedom for Teams


• Taiga: Your opensource agile project management software


• Facebook Meets Apple in Clash of the Tech Titans—‘We Need to Inflict Pain’


• CEOs of Reddit and Robinhood and ‘Roaring Kitty’ slated to testify in GameStop hearing


• Building a tool to measure real-time behavior of Wikipedia users


• Excel Is The World’s Most Used “Database”


• Code With Me Beta: Support for Audio and Video Calls


• The four reasons AWS succeeded, according to Andy Jassy


• The Mars Relay Network Connects Us to NASA’s Martian Explorers


• Elon Musk's SpaceX raised $850 million, jumping valuation to about $74 billion


• This Cloud Computing Billing Expert Is Very Funny. Seriously.


• Changes to Sharing and Viewing News on Facebook in Australia - About Facebook


• Security
  
  
  • Logging startups are suddenly hot as CrowdStrike nabs Humio for $400M
  
  
  • Datadog bolsters app security and observability data with Sqreen and Timber acquisitions
  
  
  • The Long Hack: How China Exploited a U.S. Tech Supplier.
  
  


• Passwords
  
  
  • LastPass Free Accounts Will Now Work on Either Your Phone or Computer, Not Both
  
  
  • Apple releases Chrome extension for iCloud passwords
  
  


• Hardware highlights…?
  
  
  • Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2020.
  
  
  • Microsoft, Google, and Qualcomm are reportedly nervous about Nvidia acquiring Arm
  
  


• Audio is the future?
  
  
  • Clubhouse’s Inevitability
  
  
  • The new media mogul: Andreessen Horowi
  
  

Nonsense

• 90-year-old man spends $10,000 on Wall Street Journal ads to shame AT&T


• Elon Musk predicts Austin, Texas, will be 'the biggest boomtown that America has seen in 50 years'

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Listener Feedback

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Conferences

• DevOpsDay Texas on March 2nd.


• SpringOne.io, Sep 1st to 2nd - CFP is open until April 9th.


• Two SpringOne Tours: (1.) developer-bonanza in for NA, March 10th and 11th, and, (2.) EMEA dev-fest on April 28th.

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Recommendations

• Matt: HDMI LCD controllers.


• Brandon: Fake Famous.


• Coté: Susan Sontag’s first book, Against Interpretation.

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