Episode 398: To the Moon

This week Brandon is joined by JJ Asghar and they discuss the rise Mastodon, Netflix’s Strategy and DevOpsDays CFP ideas. Plus, some thoughts on tipping…

Rundown

• Tipping
  • How Much You Should Tip Across The World, Mapped
  • Tipping Is Weird Now
• Mastodon
  • The unofficial SDT Mastodon Server: hachyderm.io
  • Follow SDT on Mastodon
  • Tapbots launches a new Mastodon client, Ivory, after Twitter kills its Tweetbot app
  • The Iconfactory Co-Founder Gedeon Maheux Talks Accessibility On Twitter, ‘The Blow’ Of Losing Twitterrific In New Interview
  • ‘Slow-Moving Hurricane’, With Craig Hockenberry
  • Mastodon in two files
• Netflix
  • Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters Are Now Co-CEOs of Netflix,
  • The Netflix Tech Blog
• What we want to see at DevOpsDays
  • DevOpsDays Austin 2023

Nonsense

• ‘Tron 3’ on Track at Disney With Jared Leto and ‘Maleficent 2’ Director Joachim Rønning
• It's been 230 years since pirates stopped metric in the US
• Airlines squeeze rewards programs
• Salesforce, but for dating

Conferences

• CloudNativeSecurityCon North America, Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023
• Coté speaking at cfgmgmtcamp, Feb 6th to 8th, Ghent
• State of Open Con 2023, London, UK, February 7th-8th 2023
• Southern California Linux Expo, Los Angeles, March 9-12, 2023 Matt & Cote!
  • Use Discount Code: DEVOP
• DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL 2023, April 20 - 21, 2023
• DevOpsDays Austin 2023, May 4-5

SDT news & hype

• Join us in Slack.
• Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers!
• Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, LinkedIn and YouTube.
• Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.
• Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk!

Recommendations

• Brandon:
  • The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness
  • Ideas That Changed My Life
  • Follow Brandon on Mastodon
• JJ:
  • For All Mankind
  • Follow JJ on Mastodon

Photo Credits

• Header
• CoverArt

Special Guest: JJ Asghar.