In this Weekly Squeak I have my old cohost back to discuss recent trends in IoT and her visit to IFA
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October 1 · Issue #78 · View online
A weekly geeky squeak.
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In this Weekly Squeak I have my old cohost back to discuss recent trends in IoT and her visit to IFA in Berlin, will the hybrid format be the future of conferences in the medium term? I also cover Goodreads, Flutter, Swift, Kubernetes, and famous historical deaths. xx Chinch
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Did Google Open Sourcing Kubernetes Backfired?
Over the last few years, Kubernetes have become the de-facto standard for container orchestration and has also won the race against Docker for being the most loved platforms among developers.
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Why Goodreads is bad for books
On a typical day, a long-time user of Goodreads, the world’s largest community for reviewing and recommending books, will feel like they’re losing their mind.
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Now Windows 10 gets Apple's Swift programming language and Google's Flutter
Apple’s Swift programming language and Google’s Flutter UI framework for its Dart programming language have arrived for Windows 10.
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Adobe finally figured out how to make PDFs make sense on a phone
When screens got small, faithfully replicating paper documents became a problem. Enter the Acrobat Reader’s new Liquid Mode. 7 minute ReadIn the beginning, there was the 8 ½-by-11-inch piece of paper, a standardized size for documents of many kinds. (In the U.S.
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The Life of a Data Byte
Be kind and rewind. Jessie Frazelle A byte of data has been stored in a number of different ways through the years as newer, better, and faster storage media are introduced. A byte is a unit of digital information that most commonly refers to eight bits.
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Google and Microsoft staff set to join the UK’s first tech trade union
A group of workers have launched the UK’s first union branch dedicated exclusively to the tech sector to tackle issues ranging from working conditions to racial injustice and the climate crisis.
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Virtual Conferences 2020 ~ a Speaker’s Review
After speaking at half a dozen (and attending almost twenty) virtual conferences this summer, I’ve experienced a great variety of new tools and techniques that have arisen out of the growing market for high-quality virtual events.
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The Mysterious Deaths of 6 Historical Figures
You might think that dying while famous means a well-documented death proceeding from an obvious cause, but nothing could be further from the truth.
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DXpose - Getting started with the Microsoft Quantum development kit
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Episode 102 - Cats in space and heavenly senators
Rebecca, Jason, and Chris try to encourage cats in space to give opinions and senators in heaven are selling meeples. Will the games we create be total nonsense, or race to the top of the hotness lists?
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