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 (https://digg.com/data-viz/link/how-much-you-should-tip-across-the-world-mapped-sY3g24oCCF)
Tipping Is Weird Now (https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/01/technology-pandemic-economy-gratuity-tipping-etiquette-square/672658/?ref=galaxy-brain)
Mastodon
The unofficial SDT Mastodon Server: hachyderm.io (https://hachyderm.io/)
Follow SDT on Mastodon (https://hachyderm.io/@softwaredefinedtalk)
Tapbots launches a new Mastodon client, Ivory, after Twitter kills its Tweetbot app (https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/24/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 (https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenaquino/2023/01/25/the-iconfactory-co-founder-gedeon-maheux-talks-accessibility-on-twitter-the-blow-of-losing-twitterrific-in-new-interview/?sh=43b0cc8a7943)
‘Slow-Moving Hurricane’, With Craig Hockenberry (https://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2023/01/19/ep-367)
Mastodon in (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyB7AFsQoJs) two (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyB7AFsQoJs) files (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyB7AFsQoJs)
Netflix
Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters Are Now Co-CEOs of Netflix, (https://about.netflix.com/en/news/ted-sarandos-greg-peters-co-ceos-netflix)
The Netflix Tech Blog (https://netflixtechblog.com)
What we want to see at DevOpsDays
DevOpsDays Austin 2023 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-austin/welcome/)
Nonsense
‘Tron 3’ on Track at Disney With Jared Leto and ‘Maleficent 2’ Director Joachim Rønning (https://variety.com/2023/film/news/tron-3-jared-leto-joachim-ronning-1235495033)
It's been 230 years since pirates stopped metric in the US (https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/22/retro_metric_imperial/)
Airlines squeeze rewards programs (https://www.axios.com/2023/01/21/travel-credit-cards-loyalty-program-perks-changes)
Salesforce, but for dating (https://dateforce.app/)
Conferences
CloudNativeSecurityCon North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cloudnativesecuritycon-north-america/), Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023
Coté speaking at cfgmgmtcamp (https://cfgmgmtcamp.eu/ghent2023/), Feb 6th to 8th, Ghent
State of Open Con 2023, (https://stateofopencon.com/sponsors/) London, UK, February 7th-8th 2023
Southern California Linux Expo, (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x) Los Angeles, March 9-12, 2023 Matt (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x/presentations/kubernetes-cloud-cost-monitoring-opencost-optimization-strategies) & Cote (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x/presentations/lessons-learned-7-years-running-developer-platforms)!
Use Discount Code: DEVOP
DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL 2023 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-birmingham-al/welcome/), April 20 - 21, 2023
DevOpsDays Austin 2023 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-austin/welcome/), May 4-5
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Recommendations
Brandon: (https://www.homedepot.com/p/Husky-5-Tier-Industrial-Duty-Steel-Freestanding-Garage-Storage-Shelving-Unit-in-Black-90-in-W-x-90-in-H-x-24-in-D-N2W902490W5B/319132842)
The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness (https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Psychology-of-Money-Audiobook/B08D9TXF3H)
Ideas That Changed My Life (https://collabfund.com/blog/ideas-that-changed-my-life/)
Follow Brandon on Mastodon (https://hachyderm.io/@bwhichard)
JJ:
For All Mankind (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_All_Mankind_TV_series)
Follow JJ on Mastodon (https://hachyderm.io/@jjasghar@mastodon.social)
Photo Credits
Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/Kx3o6_m1Yv8)
CoverArt (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_All_Mankind_(TV_series)) Special Guest: JJ Asghar.
