Episode 234: The “severe ramifications” episode

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 (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/21/zuckerberg-50percent-of-facebook-employees-could-be-working-remotely.html).
Gartner: IT spending will drop 8% as COVID-19 hits enterprise wallets (https://www.networkworld.com/article/3544008/gartner-it-spending-will-drop-8-as-covid-19-hits-enterprise-wallets.html#tk.rss_all)
“devices and data-center (https://www.networkworld.com/article/3223692/what-is-a-data-centerhow-its-changed-and-what-you-need-to-know.html) systems experiencing the largest drops in spending.”
Slack mobile app gets UI refresh for easier navigation (https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.computerworld.com/article/3543788/slack-mobile-app-gets-ui-refresh-for-easier-navigation.amp.html)
“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 (https://www.wired.com/beyond-the-beyond/2020/05/farewell-beyond-beyond/)
Coté: I could never find the RSS feed for this so I missed out on it, mostly.
Relevant to your interests
Gartner: IT spending will drop 8% as COVID-19 hits enterprise wallets (https://www.networkworld.com/article/3544008/gartner-it-spending-will-drop-8-as-covid-19-hits-enterprise-wallets.html#tk.rss_all)
“devices and data-center (https://www.networkworld.com/article/3223692/what-is-a-data-centerhow-its-changed-and-what-you-need-to-know.html) systems experiencing the largest drops in spending.”
Slack mobile app gets UI refresh for easier navigation (https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.computerworld.com/article/3543788/slack-mobile-app-gets-ui-refresh-for-easier-navigation.amp.html)
“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 (https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/hybrid-cloud/announcing-google-cloud-vmware-engine)
yaml-is-not-a-programming-language (https://github.com/mirceaulinic/yaml-is-not-a-programming-language)
New York’s Newest Unicorn: DigitalOcean Raises $50M At $1.15B Valuation (https://news.crunchbase.com/news/new-yorks-newest-unicorn-based-digitalocean-raises-50m-at-1-15b-valuation/)
Virtana Raises $15M In Funding (http://www.finsmes.com/2020/05/virtana-raises-15m-in-funding.html)
Facebook to acquire Giphy in a deal reportedly worth $400 million (https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/15/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 (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-12/software-maker-chef-hires-guggenheim-to-help-raise-funds)
Airlines vs. Zoom (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EYGl-bBWAAEcG3h.jpg)
Andreessen Horowitz leading deal for voice chat app Clubhouse (https://www.axios.com/clubhouse-andreessen-horowitz-79107413-e83f-4203-8cfe-9f1e7dde0e2c.html)
Farewell to Beyond the Beyond (https://www.wired.com/beyond-the-beyond/2020/05/farewell-beyond-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.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EYGl-bBWAAEcG3h.jpg)## Nonsense
The Great Asshole Fallacy (https://medium.com/m/global-identity?redirectUrl=https%3A%2F%2F500ish.com%2Fthe-great-asshole-fallacy-82e108a755c7)
This is What Peak Hello World Looks Like (https://h313.info/blog/cpp/2020/05/17/this-is-what-peak-hello-world-looks-like.html)
Ditching Zoom for Red Dead Redemption (https://www.boredpanda.com/red-dead-redemption-work-team-meeting/)
Sponsors
MongoDB
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Conferences.
FlylessConf (https://flylessconf.com/) May 27
ChefConf 2020 (https://chefconf.chef.io/) June 2, 2020 All Digital. (https://www.chefconf.io/)
Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Virtual Conference (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/) on August 17th-20th
MongoDB’s virtual event http://MongoDB.Live on June 9-10, 2020
THAT Conference (https://www.thatconference.com/wi) August 3 - 6 in Wisconsin Dells®. Fill out their survey (https://forms.gle/KGhcUAaiuDmSHbgE9).
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
Send your postal address to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) and we will send you free laptop stickers!
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Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/). Check out the back catalog (http://cote.coffee/howtotech/).
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Recommendations
Coté: ftrain’s newsletter (https://ftrain.substack.com/archive); LumaFusion (https://luma-touch.com/lumafusion-for-ios-2/) for video editing; My short videos (https://www.youtube.com/user/bushwald/videos?view_as=subscriber). Also available in TikTok (https://twitter.com/thepacketrat/status/1260641184713760768).
Matt Ray: Quiet fans; Anti-pick- Google Meeting links getting added to invitations.

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.

Relevant to your interests

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

Sponsors

MongoDB

Sign up at: https://www.mongodb.com/cloud/atlas/register. After you create your account enter code ATLASSDT in the payments & billing section and get $200 in free credits.

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 [email protected] 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.

Sponsored By:

MongoDB: Sign up at: https://www.mongodb.com/cloud/atlas/register. After you create your account enter code ATLASSDT in the payments & billing section and get $200 in free credits! Promo Code: ATLASSDT