🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday for 2024-11-17
This week highlights market milestones, tech updates, quirky links, and travel innovations!
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I’ve been traveling for ~3 weeks, working with clients, refining my everyday carry co-working setup, and will have some more news to share in my next update.
📈 Markets Monday for 2024-11-11
New Recap
For Market Monday, I must acknowledge the moment. Yes, this week saw the Dow reach 44K and the S&P 500 reach 6K while NASDAQ is still around 19K but will likely be flirting with 20K.
As the old saying goes about eggs in a basket…
🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2024-11-12
Two hot takes on the two stories caught my eye on Tuesday.
💰 + ☁️ During All Things Open conference in Raleigh, I had a chance to speak with the LocalStack team… congrats!
Techmeme: Zurich-based LocalStack, which helps developers emulate and test cloud apps locally, raised a $25M Series A led by Notable Capital (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)
By Paul Sawers / TechCrunch. View the full context on Techmeme.
💸 + ☁️ Not just one but two (2!) cloud fiscal responsibility (aka FinOps) investments across ScaleOps and PointFive!
Techmeme: New York-based ScaleOps, which offers cloud spend management tools, raised a $58M Series B led by Lightspeed, taking its total funding to $80M (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
By Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch. View the full context on Techmeme.
Techmeme: PointFive, which helps companies track usage across multiple clouds, raised a $20M Series A led by Salesforce Ventures, after raising a $16M seed in June 2024 (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
By Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch. View the full context on Techmeme.
🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2024-11-13
Each Wednesday I go through dozens of Slack communities.
I then select the most interesting shared links.
This will always be a safe for work list. 🙈
63-year-old man arrested after allegedly stealing $400k worth of cheese - Dexerto
A 63-year-old man has been charged with fraud after allegedly stealing over 48,000 pounds of cheddar with a nearly $400k value.
STARLINKMAP.ORG - Real-Time Starlink Satellite Tracker
Track the Starlink satellite constellation in real-time.
Guy makes “dodgy e-bike” from 130 used vapes to make point about e-waste - Ars Technica
It’s not a project for most people, but watching someone ride up to 20 miles, and up to 30 mph, on tossed-out vape batteries is transfixing.
The Keanu Reeves Whoa API
A free JSON API for every 'whoa' said by actor Keanu Reeves in his movies.
🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2024-11-14
Back in 2008, the Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) certification was meant to help untangle the growing number of cables required to connect various consumer digital devices. Then, a few years later, Apple had released AirDrop.
By 2014, “Kiss Connectivity” was envisioned as an end to the need for the various cables needed to connect devices for basic file transfers. Next, less than 4 years ago, Google Android responded with Nearby Share.
Today, the cable hassle can be the cloud hassle of having to upload a file over a network to a public cloud target just so another device can download from that public cloud target. However, there are a few more options that focus on cloud hassle free simplicity such as ShareIt which relies on ad hoc Wi-Fi hotspot creation and LiveDrop which leverages innovations in computer vision.
Techmeme: How ShareIt became the go-to file transfer app in countries where mobile data is prohibitively expensive; the company claims the app has 2.4B downloads globally (Rest of World)
From Rest of World. View the full context on Techmeme.
✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2024-11-15
This week, the top stories that caught my eye revolved around coming enhancements to technologies that might lower travel anxiety and simplify hybrid work.
🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2024-11-16
By Friday, everything seems to be reaching the peak of getting news turned in before a deadline or dread-line. It sometimes seems like we reach a fever pitch in news coverage throughout the week.
Peak 🏔️ vs. Peek 👀
Then there is a trope, cliché, or bromide about slow news days and the quietly mentioned news updates sent on a Friday — to try and sneak it past wider coverage. Or, in a nutshell, peak patronizing publishing.
In that spirit, here are a few stories that you might have missed on the slow news of a Friday.
Insert Let's See Who This Really Is Meme
Techmeme: Some GitHub projects have been targeted with malicious commits; a Texas researcher claims someone is impersonating him to make the submissions and smear him (Ax Sharma/BleepingComputer)
By Ax Sharma / BleepingComputer. View the full context on Techmeme.
Insert Ceiling Cat Meme
Techmeme: Sources: T-Mobile's network was among the systems hacked by the China-linked Salt Typhoon group, and some foreign telecommunications firms were also compromised (Wall Street Journal)
From Wall Street Journal. View the full context on Techmeme.
Insert We're All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This Meme
Techmeme: Many Netflix viewers faced issues while watching the Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson fight and the undercard bouts, including the stream glitching and losing sound (Dominic Patten/Deadline)
By Dominic Patten / Deadline. View the full context on Techmeme.
Insert That Wasn't Me, That Was Patricia Meme
Techmeme: Eighteen GOP state AGs sue the SEC and its commissioners, including Gary Gensler, alleging crypto regulatory overreach without Congressional authorization (Decrypt)
From Decrypt. View the full context on Techmeme.
Insert Anthony Adams Rubbing Hands Meme
Techmeme: A senior SDNY prosecutor says the office will devote fewer resources to policing crypto crimes after securing several major convictions, including that of SBF (Luc Cohen/Reuters)
By Luc Cohen / Reuters. View the full context on Techmeme.
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