Microsoft nails the Linux desktop and it’s cloud MoM’s for everyone. Plus, Coté goes over the thrilling world of Outlook email rules.
Mood board:
“The triumphant return to the home office. “
Net Ninety.
Software Stockholm Syndrome.
Office Mail 360 Whatever.
I had a lot of time, when I wasn’t fucking going crazy.
I never read those emails.
I hear Trump is shutting down Twitter.
Neck-deep in archaic 2FA.
Aggressively defensive.
Microsoft wins the Linux desktop vision.
MoMs are important.
Cloud Candyland.
I don’t know how to pronounce the Ø in RØDE. I was never into heavy metal.
Feed the baby.
New sign-off catch-phrease: that’s a bunch of information for you.
The Rundown
Microsoft Build
Azure Arc and Kubernetes: a Developer Story (https://mybuild.microsoft.com/sessions/42d3ed24-6773-45c8-82bd-6dec4a583c89?source=sessions)
Microsoft is bringing Linux GUI apps to Windows 10 (https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/19/21263377/microsoft-windows-10-linux-gui-apps-gpu-acceleration-wsl-features)
The new Windows command-line: Windows Terminal and WSL 2 (https://mybuild.microsoft.com/sessions/5b3a111b-ea47-452c-be4d-8387501efbd2?source=sessions)
New Terminal with all the bells and whistles customized via JSON
Linux in Windows Explorer with Faster File Access
Lightweight VM that supports 100% system calls
Linux GUI Apps on Windows
Remote Work
Remote working from Sid Sijbrandij (https://twitter.com/sytses/status/1264341436138270720?s=21)
Working from home works fine now because we've built up lots of social capital (https://twitter.com/spignal/status/1264894800265916417?s=21)
Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2020 (https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dev-survey-2020)
Loved: Rust, Dreaded: VBA, Wanted: Python
GitHub and Slack: 1,2, Teams toward the bottom
50/50 DevOps vs. No DevOps
Primary OS: Windows at ~45%, macOS and Linux split ~25% and who is using BSD
Relevant to your interests
What Just Happened? Flash Report on Q1 SaaS Sales | Scale Venture Partners (https://www.scalevp.com/blog/what-just-happened-flash-report-on-q1-saas-sales)
How TechCrunch is like the Iliad (https://lukekanies.com/how-techcrunch-is-like-the-iliad/)
IBM to cut jobs for first time under new CEO Arvind Krishna (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/22/ibm-to-cut-jobs-for-first-time-under-new-ceo.html)
Researchers claim new internet speed record of 44.2 Tbps (https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/22/21267321/broadband-internet-speed-record-australia-researchers-micro-comb-fiber)
Hertz, Car Rental Pioneer, Files for Bankruptcy Protection (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/22/business/hertz-bankruptcy-coronavirus-car-rental.html?referringSource=articleShare)
What the hell, SaaS valuations? – TechCrunch (https://news.google.com/articles/CBMiQGh0dHBzOi8vdGVjaGNydW5jaC5jb20vMjAyMC8wNS8yMi93aGF0LXRoZS1oZWxsLXNhYXMtdmFsdWF0aW9ucy_SAURodHRwczovL3RlY2hjcnVuY2guY29tLzIwMjAvMDUvMjIvd2hhdC10aGUtaGVsbC1zYWFzLXZhbHVhdGlvbnMvYW1wLw?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen)
The Confessions of the Hacker Who Saved the Internet (https://www.wired.com/story/confessions-marcus-hutchins-hacker-who-saved-the-internet/)
Linus Torvalds Switches To AMD Ryzen Threadripper After 15 Years Of Intel Systems - Phoronix (https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Torvalds-Threadripper)
Migrating To Kubernetes: Moving To A Better World | Top Business Tech (https://tbtech.co/migrating-to-kubernetes-moving-to-a-better-world/)
ARM's Cortex-X custom CPU program may finally make Android flagship performance competitive with Apple (https://www.xda-developers.com/arm-announces-cortex-x-custom-cpu-program/)
Collaboration Tools (https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1265860249371566080?s=20)
A smaller, simpler Docker looks to get its groove back (https://siliconangle.com/2020/05/27/smaller-simpler-docker-looks-get-groove-back/)
Choosing 2FA authenticator apps can be hard. Ars did it so you don’t have to (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/05/choosing-2fa-authenticator-apps-can-be-hard-ars-did-it-so-you-dont-have-to/)
Nonsense
This 25-minute video is the most riveting sudoku puzzle you will ever watch (https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/tldr/2020/5/18/21262771/sudoku-puzzle-cracking-the-cryptic-watch-this-video-simon-anthony)
Sponsors
MongoDB
Sign up at: https://www.mongodb.com/cloud/atlas/register. After you create your account enter code ATLASSDT in the payments & billing section and get $200 in free credits.
Build a Newsletter Website With the MongoDB Data Platform (https://developer.mongodb.com/article/build-newsletter-website-mongodb-data-platform)
Conferences
ChefConf 2020 (https://chefconf.chef.io/) June 2, 2020 All Digital. (https://www.chefconf.io/)
MongoDB’s virtual event http://MongoDB.Live on June 9-10, 2020
THAT Conference (https://www.thatconference.com/wi) August 3 - 6 in Wisconsin Dells®. Fill out their survey (https://forms.gle/KGhcUAaiuDmSHbgE9)
Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Virtual Conference (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/) on August 17th-20th
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/)
Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/). Check out the back catalog (http://cote.coffee/howtotech/).
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Recommendations
Brandon: ZeroZeroZero (https://www.amazon.com/ZeroZeroZero/dp/B084GJTDYV) on Amazon Prime.
Matt Ray: 8GB Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now at $75 - Raspberry Pi (https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/8gb-raspberry-pi-4-on-sale-now-at-75/).
Coté: RØDE Wireless Go (https://wirelessgo.rode.com/).
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