Episode 201: The 10 pillar strategy

"This week there has been a lot of confusion on social media” around MeetUp charging more, along with the launch of a rival service at LinkedIn. Yeah, we get deep into LinkedIn talk! Then we discuss into what exactly a GitLab is.

Mood board:

• Hard to come down on a definitive opinion on carrots.
• We can educate Coté.
• Learning from each other, the more you know!
• There’s a lot of kube shit.
• Non-subjugating windows.
• Anyone can do a hyphen, you have to go out of your way to do an em-dash.
• What’s a ‘fixie’?
• HOT LINKEDIN ETHICS DEBATE.
• You’re probably using the Twitter webpage and following the “Suggested Follows.”
• There have been reports in social media.
• It’s the chaos monkey for business models.
• We can Armchair Product Management this thing.
• I've been asked if crocodiles are considered "pescatarian-friendly."
• It’s kind of like the yaml version of the Rational dream.
• The whole rest of the world was putting together best of breed tools.
• If you say so, Grammerly.
• “Monty-python simulation”
• Stay out of the room Mr. AI!
• It’s paper size A-somebullshit.
• We’re puttin’ the Plan column back on!
• Space carpets.

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Relevant to your interests

• Meetups
  • Meetup wants to charge users $2 just to RSVP for events — and some are furious
  • LinkedIn Launches Events to Facilitate Professional Meet-Ups
  • freeCodeCamp is building an open source alternative to Meetup
• GitLab
  • Blood money is fine with us, says GitLab: Vetting non-evil customers is 'time consuming, potentially distracting'
  • GitLab reset --hard bad1dea: Biz U-turns, unbans office political chat, will vet customers
• AWS
  • AWS Promotional Credits for Open Source Projects | Amazon Web Services
  • Amazon migrates more than 100 consumer services from Oracle to AWS databases
  • Migration Complete – Amazon’s Consumer Business Just Turned off its Final Oracle Database | Amazon Web Services
• Security
  • Google teams up with Yubico to build a USB-C Titan Security Key
  • Thoma Bravo makes $3.9 billion offer to acquire security firm Sophos
  • Potential bypass of Runas user restrictions
  • Sudo Flaw Lets Linux Users Run Commands As Root Even When They're Restricted
• Kube Corner
  • Microsoft launches new open-source projects around Kubernetes and microservices
  • Red Hat Flexes OpenShift Kubernetes Muscles
  • MuleSoft Announces Anypoint Service Mesh, Extending the Power of Anypoint Platform to Any Microservice | MuleSoft
• Facebook Can Be Forced to Delete Content Worldwide, E.U.’s Top Court Rules
• Ahead of Zuckerberg testimony, new setbacks for Libra
• Inside Mozilla's 18-month effort to market without Facebook
• Tim Cook’s Company-Wide Memo on HKmap.live Doesn’t Add Up
• Open Source Gerrymandering
• Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku
• Docker Desktop asset, fiscal stress prompt acquisition buzz
• Building China's Comac C919 airplane involved a lot of hacking, report says
• Headless CMS company Strapi raises $4 million
• Why Richard Stallman doesn’t matter
• IBM stock falls on revenue miss
• IBM Reports Messy Results @themotleyfool #stocks $IBM

Nonsense

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Conferences, et. al.

• Nov 2nd - EmacsConf 2019
• Nov 3rd to 7th - Gartner Symposium, Barcelona. Coté has a €625 discount code if you ask him for it.
• December - 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted: Toronto Dec 2nd.
• December 12-13 2019 - Kubernetes Forum Sydney
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Recommendations

• Brandon: Epson Scanner.
• Matt: Anti-pick: The Dead Don’t Die. This Must Be The Gig podcast: Mike Patton.
• Coté: The Fifth Season.