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 (https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/rapper-and-producer-kool-keith-on-creating-your-own-worlds/): “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 (https://www.theverge.com/21299681/superhuman-email-app-review-price-gmail-iphone-mac)
Basecamp is good at PR — How Basecamp bent Apple (https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/issues/how-basecamp-bent-apple-258687?utm_campaign=Issue&utm_content=view_in_browser&utm_medium=email&utm_source=The+Interface)
Wait — Slack is killing email with Slack Connect
M&A
ServiceNow to acquire Belgian configuration management startup Sweagle (https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/22/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 (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 (https://github.com/sweagleExpert/integrations/tree/master/ServiceNow)
Microsoft confirms acquisition of CyberX to boost security in its Azure IoT business (https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/22/microsoft-confirms-acquisition-of-cyberx-to-boost-security-in-its-iot-business/)
Apple has acquired Fleetsmith, a startup that helps IT manage Apple devices remotely (https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/24/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 (https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/22/apple-will-let-you-emulate-old-apps-and-run-ios-apps-on-arm-macs/)
The End of OS X (https://stratechery.com/2020/the-end-of-os-x/)
Apple Docker Tweet (https://twitter.com/TALlama/status/1275175905749417984?s=20)
Apple is switching Macs to its own processors starting later this year (https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/22/21295475/apple-mac-processors-arm-silicon-chips-wwdc-2020)
Are you actually changing? (https://buttondown.email/cote/archive/are-you-actually-changing/)
Relevant to your interests
Google pushes “text fragment links” with new Chrome extension (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/06/google-pushes-text-fragment-links-with-new-chrome-extension/#p3)
Spotmicro - robot dog by KDY0523 (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3445283)
The Segway’s Inventor Has a New Project: Manufacturing Human Organs (https://onezero.medium.com/the-segways-inventor-has-a-new-project-manufacturing-human-organs-7a6a2da7c8f4)
Fortnite’s new season has flooded the map (https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/17/21292876/fortnite-chapter-2-season-3-splashdown-launched-trailer-battle-pass)
The Next Step for Mixer - From the Myxer (https://blog.mixer.com/2020/06/22/the-next-step-for-mixer/)
Announcing the HashiCorp Cloud Platform (https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/announcing-cloud-platform/)
WSJ News Exclusive | Dell Explores Spinoff of $50 Billion Stake in VMware (https://www.wsj.com/articles/dell-explores-options-for-81-vmware-stake-11592942687)
Amazon is looking to add live TV to Prime Video (https://www.protocol.com/amazon-prime-live-tv)
kelseyhightower/nocode (https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode)
Containers to capture 15 percent of all enterprise apps across 75 percent of business by 2024 (https://www.theregister.com/2020/06/25/container_forecast_gartner/)
Inside the Baffling World of Masayoshi Son's Presentations (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-06-23/golden-geese-and-unicorns-inside-the-eccentric-presentations-of-masayoshi-son)
Nonsense
Chocolate Digestives (https://mcvities.co.uk/products/chocolate-digestives)
Scottish Man tries Southern Snacks (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_IlrGLBuzw)
Emoji Search Finally Coming to iOS in iOS 14 (https://www.macrumors.com/2020/06/22/emoji-search-ios-14/)
Not enough public toilets in Amsterdam especially for women, wheelchair users (https://nltimes.nl/2020/06/24/enough-public-toilets-amsterdam-especially-women-wheelchair-users)
BYE (https://bye.fyi/)
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Conferences
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SDT news & hype
Listen to interview with Brian Gracely (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/242)
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
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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
Brandon: ** (https://www.amazon.com/ZeroZeroZero/dp/B084GJTDYV)The Data Coach - Against the Rules with Michael Lewis (https://atrpodcast.com/episodes/the-data-coach-s1!68200); Trust Fall : Invisibilia (https://www.npr.org/2020/06/02/868001948/trust-fall).
****- Matt Ray: The Coup: Party Music (https://amzn.to/3dyODcb)
Coté: Razer Kiyo (https://www.bol.com/nl/p/razer-kiyo-streaming-camera-webcam/9200000084404822/).
Outro: "Livin' Astro," Kool Keith.

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?

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

Sponsor

strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT

Conferences

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

SDT news & hype

Listen to interview with Brian Gracely
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

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.

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