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2020
Project Nautilus
Tuesday, January 21, 2020
Introducing VMware Project Nautilus: Project Nautilus brings OCI container support to Fusion, enabling users to build, run and test apps for nearly any OS or cloud right from the comfort of your own Mac. With Project Nautilus, Fusion now has the ability to run Containers as well as VMs. Pull images from a remote repository like Docker Hub or Harbor, and run them in specially isolated 'Pod VMs'.This is built into the latest Tech Preview of VMware Fusion, which we've changed how we're releasing.
Lots of people, in the interest of privacy, don’t want to give their phone number to Twitter. They’ve made some mistakes with them.
Ironically, I just looked, and I am one of them. bleepingcomputer.com/news/technolog…
Anyone who travels with an Apple Magic Mouse have a good carrying case option? I recently picked up a second one to keep in my bag, because using the trackpad for extended periods of time was bothering my wrist.
No edit button for you! theverge.com/2020/1/15/2106…
Resume Deletions
Monday, January 13, 2020
There are some things that just aren’t worth putting on your resume. This was the reminder that came to mind during replies to Owen Williams on the tweet machine. I once joined a company that announced on my first day that they had very little money left, and that all "unnecessary" spending (i.e, what I was hired to do) would be cut immediately. Learned a hard lesson to ask specifics about company finances during the interview.
Sorry, I misspoke, the Chiefs aren’t actually playing. Just running around Arrowhead.
🙎🏼♂️ Go write them out 10 times. … 👦🏼 Here 👱🏻♂️ These ones are spelled wrong, and you only did it 4 or 5 times. Go try again. 👦🏼 YOU ARE SO MEAN 🤷🏼♂️ … 👦🏼 Here, I did a new page. 🙎🏼♂️ This is the same page you did before except you just erased the incorrect ones. 👦🏼 YOU ARE TERRIBLE
👱🏻♂️ Did you study your spelling words? 👦🏼 Yes 👱🏻♂️ Did you write them out? 👦🏼 Yes 👱🏻♂️ Show me your notebook. 👦🏼 Well… 🙎🏼♂️
Veeam Team
Thursday, January 9, 2020
The first time I used Veeam's backup software was in 2010. Up to that point I'd had experience with Symantec Backup Exec, Microsoft Data Protection Manager, and Commvault Simpana. The first time I used VBR to backup my vSphere infrastructure it was like the proverbial iced water to a man in hell. As a consultant I'd deployed VBR for customers more times than I can count. Bringing iced water to the hot masses.
You know what? I’m going to avoid getting too worked up about this. Every time Twitter changes something about the service (280 characters) we freak and say they’re ruining it, and in the end it’s… fine. theverge.com/2020/1/8/21056…
Oh, 2020, you had such promise.
When the latest iteration of Twitter for Mac launched it was OK, but pretty rough around the edges, it’s been interesting to see how they’ve iterated on it over time to make feel more and more Mac-like. Case in point, today’s update added support for the Touch Bar.
Delicious Strategy
Tuesday, January 7, 2020
I don't know who Peter Drucker is, but Matt's quote attributed to him, is sound: "Culture eats strategy for breakfast" This cannot be overstated. pic.twitter.com/pWwjEw8Z4j — Matt Haedo (@matthaedo) January 7, 2020 Apparently Peter is a kind of a big deal, at least according to Wikipedia: Peter Ferdinand Drucker (/ˈdrʌkər/; German: [ˈdʀʊkɐ]; November 19, 1909 – November 11, 2005) was an Austrian-born American management consultant, educator, and author, whose writings contributed to the philosophical and practical foundations of the modern business corporation.
Skip Day
Monday, January 6, 2020
It turns out that finding something to write about every day is really hard. Shocking, I know. You may have noticed (or, maybe not) that January 1-4 there was a new post here every day. I skipped yesterday, but I blame my participation with this tweet from Jehad. A decision I’m happy about in 2019 is writing more. I didn’t write as much as I’d like but it’s been really helpful to articulate my thoughts.
Outlook Overload
Saturday, January 4, 2020
For the last couple weeks I’ve been confused why Microsoft Outlook on my Mac would start consuming over 100% CPU while sitting idle, spinning up my fans, and generating a bunch of disk write activity. At first I assumed it was because I am running the Fast Ring in order to run the new macOS design. However, the same build on my wife’s Mac, also running Catalina, never came anywhere near that even during what could be described only as “aggressive emailing.
Nonsense Awareness
Friday, January 3, 2020
Jessica Joy Kerr in her blog post titled “Open your eyes to the nonsense” has a great anecdote from a friend, about the software development process at a utility company: “We make power, not sense.”But she goes on to make a wider point about evaluating the existing culture and processes of institutions. Culture doesn’t make sense, to anyone from outside. Culture is common sense, to anyone embedded in it. To understand and work with a large organization, let go of trying to make sense of it.
Thirty Eight K
Thursday, January 2, 2020
I've historically been pretty terrible at two things: negotiating salaries, and promoting to my own skills. As someone who freely admits the movie of his life story could very well be titled The Imposter Syndrome, when it came time to discuss with a recruiter or hiring manager what I was worth, I've been a slow learner. I was working as a university system systems administrator. I was severely underpaid. — Michael Stanclift ⎋ (@vmstan) December 3, 2019 The question that prompted this blog post.
Resolution Delusion
Wednesday, January 1, 2020
I'm not one for making new years resolutions. They always get broken, and then you're disappointed in yourself. However, Brent Simmons posted something on Inessential which I think is a good goal for anyone this year: My resolution is to try harder to get angry only when it’s actually worth it. I can be angry at cruelty, angry at the forces destroying democracy for their own corrupt power, angry at the malevolences driving our climate crisis.
I feel like 2020 Me has already let 2019 Me down.