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?

Relevant to your interests

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• 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

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Outro: "Livin' Astro," Kool Keith.