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You can now pay open source developers directly, well, those in the closed beta. Seems like a good idea, really. Also, the Commonwealth and Friends club doesn’t like Huawei, and thought lords can be bores.

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Also:

• What kind of hippy were you, Coté?
• Any whistles?
• Low-tech rave.
• 3 slides in Guam.
• Thought-acting.
• New hire announcements need to be auto-deleted.
• Not for you.
• I can assure you conference organizers… I am not polished.
• YAML for good.
• No YAML for payment.
• It’s going to be more than $10,000 for LDAP.
• Can’t tell if I like American Gods, but I keep reading/watching it.
• German crossbow guys, aka, crossbow bolt cult in Germany.
• A crossbow only does d4 of damage.
• Every time I log into Skype there's an upgrade.
• British people totally into yelling at their kids.

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  • The Tech Cold War Has Begun
• How to thought lead — Twitter Thread
  • Shingy’s Wikipedia page is up for deletion
  • David Shing
  • Adam Jacob at ChefConf
• Why no Docker
• Splunk adds 400 enterprise customers in Q1, ups outlook
  • What’s the deal with Splunk (and, sort of, ServiceNow)?
  • Are they just the new normal that everyone buys, the new “legacy” and/or “lock-in as too expensive?”
  • Also, like, maybe they work really well…?
• Containers, microservices, and service meshes
  • “~jpetazzo/index” - the World Wide Web!
  • Jesus - why the fuck isn’t this just built into how networking works? Was SDN too expensive, or something?
  • “it made more sense to build a new proxy than to extend an existing one” - ladies and gentlemen: the story of open source.
  • So. Basically, with a loc