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Episode 283: There are no chicken tenders in calendaring
This week we give our hot takes on GameStop, Clubhouse and Calendly. Plus, is Austin really a bad place to move?
Rundown
Matt Ray finds a snake…?
The Battle of GameStop
VC
Clubhouse Gets Investment Interest at $1 Billion Valuation
How Atlanta’s Calendly turned a scheduling nightmare into a $3B startup
Bitcoin Follow up
Graham says we were close to getting Crypto but missed it.
Nathan from Slack says: “The problem with Bitcoin is that people treat it as an investment rather than a currency. “
Central bank digital currency
Bitcoin | Acquired Podcast
Earnings
IBM revenue slide continues in Q4 2020
Microsoft reports 17% revenue growth as cloud business accelerates
Relevant to your interests
https://open.engineer (rating engineers by public GitHub, what could go wrong?)
Stepping up for a truly open source Elasticsearch | Amazon Web Services
Vagrant First Commit
Google threatens to shut off search engine in Australia over news law
Otter.ai’s new Chrome extension can transcribe Google Meet calls in real time
Tucows closes its once-popular software download site
Advice on Lambda
End-to-end operators are the next generation of consumer business
Google employees have formed another union, this one international
Twitter acquiring newsletter publishing company Revue
Discord looks to grow beyond its gaming roots
Raspberry Pi
Raspberry Pi Foundation launches $4 microcontroller with custom chip – TechCrunch
I bought 200+ Raspberry Pi Model B's and I'm going to fix them! Part 1 - James Dawson
How a Linux migration led to the creation of Amazon Web Services
Four security vendors disclose SolarWinds-related incidents | ZDNet
Nonsense
Costco Prices
California man blasts Texas 'dystopia' in Op-Ed after moving to Austin (originally from a 2016 Quora answer).
Tom Morello impressed with this Guitarist
US Man Installs Crypto Mining Rig in Hybrid BMW Sportscar
Sponsors
strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT
Listener Recommend Jobs
Dan wants you to work at Gymshark as a Platform Reliability Engineer in the U.K.
Michael Neale wants to work at CloudBees as a Senior Ops Engineer in U.S. East or EMEA
Prash wants to work at CDK as a Software Architect in the U.K.
Conferences
Call for Papers ends on Jan. 31st for DevOpsDay Texas on March 2nd.
SpringOne.io
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack.
Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com 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: Earth at Night in Colour
Transferwise
Brandon: Wyze Outdoor Cam
Coté: Money. micro.blog
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There are no chicken tenders in calendaring
Episode 283
January 29th, 2021
1 hr 2 mins
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About this Episode
This week we give our hot takes on GameStop, Clubhouse and Calendly. Plus, is Austin really a bad place to move?
Rundown
- VC
- Bitcoin Follow up
- Nathan from Slack says: “The problem with Bitcoin is that people treat it as an investment rather than a currency. “
- Earnings
Relevant to your interests
- https://open.engineer (rating engineers by public GitHub, what could go wrong?)
- Raspberry Pi
Nonsense
- California man blasts Texas 'dystopia' in Op-Ed after moving to Austin (originally from a 2016 Quora answer).
Sponsors
- strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT
Listener Recommend Jobs
- Dan wants you to work at Gymshark as a Platform Reliability Engineer in the U.K.
- Michael Neale wants to work at CloudBees as a Senior Ops Engineer in U.S. East or EMEA
- Prash wants to work at CDK as a Software Architect in the U.K.
Conferences
- Call for Papers ends on Jan. 31st for DevOpsDay Texas on March 2nd.
SDT news & hype
- Join us in Slack.
- Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers!
- 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
- Matt: Earth at Night in Colour
- Brandon: Wyze Outdoor Cam
- Coté: Money. micro.blog
Episode Sponsors
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Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.](http://strongdm.com/SDT)