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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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BYE

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This one goes out to all the cross-country truckers

Episode 243

June 26th, 2020

1 hr 6 mins

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About this Episode

Extracting configs with awk, Apple announces stuff, and salad dressing. That’s the topics. Mostly.

Mood board:

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

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