Episode 280: It would be nice if calendaring were fixed

This week we offer advice to Zoom on why they should build a calendar and what companies they should acquire. Plus, Matt explains why you want to mount your browser tabs as files.
Rundown
Zoom to build a calendar
Buoyed by Video Success, Zoom Explores Email, Calendar Services (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/buoyed-by-video-success-zoom-explores-email-calendar-services)
Zoom may launch an email service and calendar app to compete with Google and Microsoft (https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/23/22197057/zoom-email-service-calendar-app-microsoft-google-competition)
Mount your browser tabs as a filesystem (https://twitter.com/rsnous/status/1344837715976572929)
Relevant to your interests
A round-up of our favourite charts of 2020 (https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/12/24/a-round-up-of-our-favourite-charts-of-2020)
Google, Alphabet employees unionize (https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/04/google-alphabet-employees-union/)
How Google workers secretly built a union (https://www.protocol.com/google-union-awu)
Warren Ellis Returns For 2021 (https://bleedingcool.com/comics/warren-ellis/)
AWS IAM Talk (https://twitter.com/rothgar/status/1343642150605520896?s=21)
Stripe’s Developer Coefficient (https://stripe.com/files/reports/the-developer-coefficient.pdf)
VMware files suit against former exec for moving to rival company (https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/29/vmware-files-suit-against-former-exec-for-moving-to-rival-company/)
VMware Issues Statement Regarding Litigation Against Rajiv Ramaswami (https://www.vmware.com/company/news/updates/2020/vmware-statement-litigation-rajiv-ramaswami.html)
Wondery to join Amazon Music (https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/wondery-to-join-amazon-music)
SECURITY: New maintainer is probably malicious (https://github.com/greatsuspender/thegreatsuspender/issues/1263)
Amazon, Berkshire, JPMorgan healthcare joint venture to shut business next month (https://www.reuters.com/article/BigStory12/idUSKBN29922L)
Haven will shut down, ending joint healthcare bid by Amazon, Berkshire, JP Morgan (https://www.geekwire.com/2021/haven-will-shut-ending-joint-healthcare-bid-amazon-berkshire-jp-morgan/)
WSJ News Exclusive | Roku Nears Deal to Buy Rights to Quibi’s Content (https://www.wsj.com/articles/roku-nears-deal-to-buy-rights-to-quibis-content-11609725389)
When Big Brands Stopped Spending On Digital Ads, Nothing Happened. Why? (https://www.forbes.com/sites/augustinefou/2021/01/02/when-big-brands-stopped-spending-on-digital-ads-nothing-happened-why/?sh=5abd13031166)
Ticketmaster admits it hacked rival company before it went out of business (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/01/ticketmaster-pays-10-million-criminal-fine-for-hacking-a-rival-company/)
Ticketmaster Will Pay $10 Million Fine to Settle Federal Charges It Hacked Rival’s System (https://variety.com/2020/digital/news/ticketmaster-10-million-fine-hack-songkick-competitor-1234877108/)
DALL·E: Creating Images from Text (https://openai.com/blog/dall-e/)
Quest Software Acquires Data Governance Company Erwin - ChannelE2E (https://www.channele2e.com/investors/private-equity/quest-software-acquires-data-governance-company-erwin/)
The FAA just moved drone deliveries one step closer to your front door (https://thehustle.co/01062021-Amazon-drone-delivery/)
CNCF Annual Report 2020 | Cloud Native Computing Foundation (https://www.cncf.io/cncf-annual-report-2020/)
Introduction to WebAssembly (https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-to-webassembly-runtime)
Computer Fraud And Abuse Act Reform (https://www.eff.org/issues/cfaa)
Georgia’s runoff may have saved net neutrality (https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/6/22216843/georgia-runoff-net-neutrality-fcc-jon-ossoff-raphael-warnock-democrats-senate)
Reproducible builds and docker (https://twitter.com/lorenc_dan/status/1343921451792003073?s=21)
Statement on the story from The New York Times regarding JetBrains and SolarWinds (https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2021/01/06/statement-on-the-story-from-the-new-york-times-regarding-jetbrains-and-solarwinds/)
Widely Used Software Company May Be Entry Point for Huge U.S. Hacking (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/us/politics/russia-cyber-hack.html)
Storageless storage is the 'answer' to Kubernetes data challenges – Blocks and Files (https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/12/22/the-storageless-storage-paradox/)
An open source, drop-in replacement for CentOS is on its way (https://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/CloudLinux-Commits-Over-1-Million-Dollars-to-CentOS-Replacement)
Nonsense
KFC launches 4K, 240FPS gaming console with a built-in chicken warmer (https://www.gamesradar.com/kfc-launches-4k-240fps-gaming-console-with-a-built-in-chicken-warmer/)
In China, McDonald’s serving Spam burger topped with Oreo crumbs: ‘When you hate someone but have to invite him to dinner. (https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-mcdonalds-spam-burger-oreo-china-20201221-sjiyjndirzdudahsgo6ftw7az4-story.html)
Brexit deal mentions Netscape browser and Mozilla Mail (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-55475433)
Sponsors
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Conferences
Call for Papers (https://sessionize.com/devopsdays-texas-2021/) for DevOpsDay Texas on March 2nd. (https://devopsdays.org/events/2021-texas/welcome/)
SDT news & hype
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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.
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Recommendations
Matt:
Uncivil (https://gimletmedia.com/shows/uncivil) podcast
MF DOOM Will Never Really Die (https://slate.com/culture/2021/01/mf-doom-dead-rapper-producer-madvillain.html)
Brandon:
Listen to the recent interviews with Sebasti (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/278)e (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/278)n on Serverless (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/278) and Squire on Security (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/279).
Listen to Brandon’s guest appearance on The Cloudcast talking hybrid cloud (https://www.thecloudcast.net/2021/01/a-hybrid-cloud-look-ahead-for-2021.html)
Soul (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/soul_2020)
Coté: Coconut Rice (https://youtu.be/i9EmC0pM1YE). Raised by Wolves (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raised_by_Wolves_(American_TV_series)).
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This week we offer advice to Zoom on why they should build a calendar and what companies they should acquire. Plus, Matt explains why you want to mount your browser tabs as files.

Rundown

Zoom to build a calendar

Buoyed by Video Success, Zoom Explores Email, Calendar Services
Zoom may launch an email service and calendar app to compete with Google and Microsoft

Mount your browser tabs as a filesystem

Relevant to your interests

A round-up of our favourite charts of 2020
Google, Alphabet employees unionize
How Google workers secretly built a union
Warren Ellis Returns For 2021
AWS IAM Talk
Stripe’s Developer Coefficient
VMware files suit against former exec for moving to rival company
VMware Issues Statement Regarding Litigation Against Rajiv Ramaswami
Wondery to join Amazon Music
SECURITY: New maintainer is probably malicious
Amazon, Berkshire, JPMorgan healthcare joint venture to shut business next month
Haven will shut down, ending joint healthcare bid by Amazon, Berkshire, JP Morgan
WSJ News Exclusive | Roku Nears Deal to Buy Rights to Quibi’s Content
When Big Brands Stopped Spending On Digital Ads, Nothing Happened. Why?
Ticketmaster admits it hacked rival company before it went out of business
Ticketmaster Will Pay $10 Million Fine to Settle Federal Charges It Hacked Rival’s System
DALL·E: Creating Images from Text
Quest Software Acquires Data Governance Company Erwin - ChannelE2E
The FAA just moved drone deliveries one step closer to your front door
CNCF Annual Report 2020 | Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Introduction to WebAssembly
Computer Fraud And Abuse Act Reform
Georgia’s runoff may have saved net neutrality
Reproducible builds and docker
Statement on the story from The New York Times regarding JetBrains and SolarWinds
Widely Used Software Company May Be Entry Point for Huge U.S. Hacking
Storageless storage is the 'answer' to Kubernetes data challenges – Blocks and Files
An open source, drop-in replacement for CentOS is on its way

Nonsense

KFC launches 4K, 240FPS gaming console with a built-in chicken warmer
In China, McDonald’s serving Spam burger topped with Oreo crumbs: ‘When you hate someone but have to invite him to dinner.
Brexit deal mentions Netscape browser and Mozilla Mail

Sponsors

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

Conferences

Call for Papers for DevOpsDay Texas on March 2nd.

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 Twitch, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.
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.
Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk!

Recommendations

Matt:

Uncivil podcast
MF DOOM Will Never Really Die

Brandon:

Listen to the recent interviews with Sebastien on Serverless and Squire on Security.
Listen to Brandon’s guest appearance on The Cloudcast talking hybrid cloud
Soul

Coté: Coconut Rice. Raised by Wolves.

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