This week we discuss TriggerMesh going open source, the new Enterprise Mac and Honeycomb raising VC . Plus, will Matt become a TikTok influencer…?
Rundown
Introducing TriggerMesh Open Source (https://www.triggermesh.com/blog/introducing-triggermesh-open-source)
Cockroach Labs Announces CockroachDB Serverless (https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/10/cockroachdb-serverless/)
The Enterprise of the MacBook Pro
macOS Monterey Release Candidate Undoes Safari Changes, Reintroduces Old Tab Design (https://www.macrumors.com/2021/10/18/macos-monterey-reverts-safari-changes/)
HDMI Port Limitations (https://twitter.com/tapbot_paul/status/1450166030446235650)
Apple innovators do it again with $19 'Polishing Cloth' (https://mashable.com/article/apple-polishing-cloth)
Apple’s new 140W charger can fast charge a lot more than just your MacBook Pro (https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/19/22734233/apple-140w-macbook-charging-brick-gan-usb-c-pd-3-1-third-party-chargers)
Funny Tweet Storm of Apple Event (https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1450146483030749184)
Steven Sinofsky on Apple (https://twitter.com/stevesi/status/1450255227945242628?s=21)
How Honeycomb Is Using $50M in New Funding to Bring Observability to All (https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/series-c-funding-bringing-observability-to-all)
Expensify builds a SQLite Database from their S-1 (https://twitter.com/craig_tracey/status/1450459102975565829?s=21)
Yes, there’s a market for Excel influencers on TikTok (https://www.protocol.com/workplace/productivity-app-influencers)
Relevant to your interests
Welcome to Dagger.io (http://dagger.io/)
Microsoft shutting down LinkedIn in China (https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-58911297)
How Windows NTFS finally made it into Linux (https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/13/how_ntfs_finally_made_it/)
GitLab jumps 22% in its Nasdaq debut after code-sharing company priced IPO above expected range (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/14/gitlab-jumps-in-nasdaq-debut-after-pricing-ipo-above-expected-range.html)
Elastic to buy 'continuous profiling' startup Optimyze (https://www.zdnet.com/article/elastic-to-buy-continuous-profiling-startup-optimyze/)
Slackers of the World, Unite! (https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/11/slack-office-trouble/620173/)
Amazon To Allow Employees To Work Remotely Indefinitely (https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/amazon-to-allow-employees-to-work-remotely-indefinitely-7573211.html)
Google bets on the cloud breaking up (https://www.ft.com/content/ab36b9e2-00e0-469c-9388-fa034f9bfd63)
The replacement for Google Reader? (https://twitter.com/__apf__/status/1446503789586894850?s=20)
Why a Key Google Cloud Product Ended Up Generating Less Than 0.1% of Revenue (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/why-a-key-google-cloud-product-ended-up-generating-less-than-0-1-of-revenue?utm_source=ti_app)
Fully-local simulator for Cloudflare Workers (https://github.com/cloudflare/miniflare)
The Largely Untold Story Of How One Guy In California Keeps The World’s Computers On The Right… (https://onezero.medium.com/the-largely-untold-story-of-how-one-guy-in-california-keeps-the-worlds-computers-on-the-right-time-a97a5493bf73)
Expensify Announces Filing of Registration Statement for Proposed Initial Public Offering (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211015005640/en/Expensify-Announces-Filing-of-Registration-Statement-for-Proposed-Initial-Public-Offering)
Programming languages ranked by how much electricity they use: (https://twitter.com/mit_csail/status/1450135081226489857?s=21)
Yes, there’s a market for Excel influencers on TikTok (https://www.protocol.com/workplace/productivity-app-influencers)
IBM shares drop on weaker-than-expected quarterly revenue (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/20/ibm-earnings-q3-2021.html)
Facebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name (https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/19/22735612/facebook-change-company-name-metaverse)
****- Amazon cloud storage challenger Backblaze files to go public (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/18/cloud-object-storage-company-backblaze-files-to-go-public.html)
Snowflake Launches A Media Cloud, As It Builds Out Programmatic Services (https://www.adexchanger.com/platforms/snowflake-launches-a-media-cloud-as-it-builds-out-programmatic-services/)
Twilio delves more deeply into marketing with new tool built on $3.2B Segment acquisition (https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/20/twilio-delves-more-deeply-into-marketing-with-new-tool-built-on-3-2b-segment-acquisition/)
Nonsense
this is hilarious but also really awesome ux (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FBs8RaiVEAAlDJL.jpg)
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Conferences
TriggerMesh Open Source Software Webinar (https://www.triggermesh.com/oss-intro) - October 28, 2021
MongoDB.local London 2021 (https://events.mongodb.com/dotlocallondon) - November 9, 2021
THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022 (https://that.us/activities/call-for-counselors/tx/2022)
Listener Feedback
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