Microsoft kills Python 3.7 ¦ … and VBScript ¦ Exascaling ARM on Jupiter - DevOps.com

The moral of the story: So long, and thanks for all the fish

Meta Mayhem: Hybrid Work FAIL ¦ Yet More Layoffs - DevOps.com

The moral of the story: Be where you are—otherwise you will miss your life

In this week’s #TheLongView:
1⃣ @Meta’s enforced #HybridWork plan is failing badly, and
2⃣ #Meta makes more #layoffs.

At @TechstrongGroup’s @DevOpsDotCom: https://t.co/UaQUYO9CXq #DevOps $META

— @Richi 🤓 Jennings (@RiCHi) October 4, 2023

Raspberry Pi 5: Faster, Better, Stronger — Spendier - DevOps.com

The moral of the story: You’re not defined by your past—you’re prepared by it

In a cheeky extra #TheLongView: Everyone’s favorite single-board #ARM computer, #RaspberryPi, has a new gen. coming soon. #RPi5 has double the performance, quadruple the base RAM and far more capable I/O.

At @TechstrongGroup’s @DevOpsDotCom: https://t.co/veGdjSH0cY #DevOps

— @Richi 🤓 Jennings (@RiCHi) September 29, 2023

FCC: Net Neutrality is a ‘Thing’ Again ¦ Meta Shutters Big UK Site - DevOps.com

The moral of the story: In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit

In this week’s #TheLongView:
1⃣ #NetNeutrality is back on the @FCC’s agenda, and
2⃣ unused #London office gets Zucked.

At @TechstrongGroup’s @DevOpsDotCom: https://t.co/8GDM0zf6OH #DevOps $META

— @Richi 🤓 Jennings (@RiCHi) September 27, 2023

Google De-Recruits 100s of Recruiters ¦ ARM Valued at $45½B in IPO - DevOps.com

The moral of the story: You only pass through this life once—you don’t come back for an encore.

In this week’s #TheLongView:
1⃣ #Google fires hundreds of #recruiters, and
2⃣ $ARM gets a sky-high #IPO valuation.

At @TechstrongGroup’s @DevOpsDotCom: https://t.co/OoxF8PAx8h #DevOps

— @Richi 🤓 Jennings (@RiCHi) September 14, 2023

Oracle Bill is 5x Client’s Budget ¦ Toyota Out of Space - DevOps.com

The moral of the story: Comparison is the thief of joy

In this week’s #TheLongView:
1⃣ #Birmingham looks like the Detroit of the UK—is it #Oracle’s fault?
2⃣ Was #Toyota’s factory failure caused by running out of disk space?

At @TechstrongGroup’s @DevOpsDotCom: https://t.co/caZCFl8rOw

— @Richi 🤓 Jennings (@RiCHi) September 7, 2023

‘Scrum == Cancer’ ¦ Plus: Linux 6.5 Ships - DevOps.com

The moral of the story: When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too

In this week’s #TheLongView:
1⃣ #Scrum sucks, sources say; and
2⃣ Here comes the #Linux 6.5 kernel.

At @TechstrongGroup’s @DevOpsDotCom: https://t.co/Dx8Mj1xV1C #DevOps

— @Richi 🤓 Jennings (@RiCHi) August 28, 2023

IBM LLM AI: COBOL to Java ASAP ¦ ARM IPO is GO! - DevOps.com

The moral of the story: Life’s tough—but it’s tougher when you’re stupid

In this week’s #TheLongView:
1⃣ Translating legacy #COBOL code to a slightly more modern language, and
2⃣ @Arm will go public (again) next month.

At @TechstrongGroup’s @DevOpsDotCom: https://t.co/VJ9LY358o7 #DevOps

— @Richi 🤓 Jennings (@RiCHi) August 23, 2023

80% of Bosses ‘Regret’ Stopping WFH ¦ PSA: Disable STS! - DevOps.com

The moral of the story: Be nice to people on the way up, because you may meet them on the way down

In this week’s #TheLongView:
1⃣ Rethinking return-to-office mandates and
2⃣ A ridiculous, ancient Windows bug.

At @TechstrongGroup’s @DevOpsDotCom: https://t.co/kCtkMiU6PX #DevOps

— @Richi 🤓 Jennings (@RiCHi) August 17, 2023

Google’s Shiny New AI Dev Environment — the ‘Experimental’ Project IDX - DevOps.com

The moral of the story: You live once and life is wonderful, so eat the damned red velvet cupcake

In this week’s #TheLongView: @Google’s full-stack, browser based development environment in the cloud. It’s not just a #Copilot clone, but aims to help you “get an app from zero to production.”

At @TechstrongGroup’s @DevOpsDotCom: https://t.co/Cp2d9LIZsA #DevOps #ProjectIDX #AI

— @Richi 🤓 Jennings (@RiCHi) August 10, 2023

2024—Year of the Linux Desktop? ChromeOS Reflects its Inner Penguin ¦ GNOME Rethink - DevOps.com

The moral of the story: People of accomplishment rarely sit back and let things happen to them

In this week’s #TheLongView: Can the #Linux desktop installed base ever break the mythical 10% barrier?

1⃣ @Google has been refactoring #ChromeOS, and
2⃣ @GNOME is working on new #WindowManager ideas.

At @TechstrongGroup’s @DevOpsDotCom: https://t.co/Gug1nV3SoZ #DevOps

— @Richi 🤓 Jennings (@RiCHi) August 3, 2023

Overture Maps’ Challenge to Google ¦ Frontier Model Forum’s AI Safety Shtick - DevOps.com

The moral of the story: You have two hands—one for helping yourself, the other for helping others

In this week’s #TheLongView:
1⃣ A big-tech consortium goes toe-to-toe with @GoogleMaps, and
2⃣ A big-tech consortium tries to fool #AI regulators.

At @TechstrongGroup’s @DevOpsDotCom: https://t.co/mUoIqlO36p #DevOps

— @Richi 🤓 Jennings (@RiCHi) July 27, 2023

AI ‘is Getting Worse’ ¦ AI ‘Will Lose India Jobs’ (Probably Isn’t ¦ Probably Won’t)

The moral of the story: It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it

In this week’s #TheLongView, a conundrum:
1⃣ On the one hand, researchers say #ChatGPT is losing the plot
2⃣ On the other, we hear outsourced coding jobs in #India will be replaced by #AI.

At @TechstrongGroup’s @DevOpsDotCom: https://t.co/WjwMN8dEYf #DevOps

— @Richi 🤓 Jennings (@RiCHi) July 20, 2023

Forking RHEL! Oracle and SUSE Join the Fight ¦ Silverman Sues AI Firms - DevOps.com

The moral of the story: There are no mistakes, only opportunities

In this week’s #TheLongView:
1⃣ @SUSE announces a @RedHat Enterprise Linux fork after @Oracle said a similar thing, and
2⃣ @SarahKSilverman says @OpenAI and @Meta have stolen her words.

At @TechstrongGroup’s @DevOpsDotCom: https://t.co/nuSPG714aV #DevOps

— @Richi 🤓 Jennings (@RiCHi) July 12, 2023

Threads: Twitter Killer or Ad-Infested Hellscape? - DevOps.com

The moral of the story: When you cease to dream you cease to live

In this week’s #TheLongView: @Meta launches its much-leaked #Threads microblogging app.

A spinoff from @Instagram, it’s already reached 30M signups at the time of writing. How is Meta’s #DevOps team making it scale?

At @TechstrongGroup’s @DevOpsDotCom: https://t.co/lqHivV95MV

— @Richi 🤓 Jennings (@RiCHi) July 6, 2023

IBM/Red Hat Sparks Anger at GPL ‘breach’ as RHEL Source Locked Up - DevOps.com

The moral of the story: Every moment is a fresh beginning

In #TheLongView: @RedHat Enterprise #Linux (@RHEL) goes closed source. Well—not really; but @IBM’s lawyers are accused of skating so close to edge of legality that they risk violating the GNU Public License.

At @TechstrongGroup’s @DevOpsDotCom: https://t.co/bYn9jTeZSI #DevOps

— @Richi 🤓 Jennings (@RiCHi) June 29, 2023

Google Calls Microsoft Azure Anti-Competitive ¦ Gen-Z Can’t Email - DevOps.com

The moral of the story: The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes

In this week’s #TheLongView:
1⃣ @Google complains to the @FTC about @Microsoft market abuses, and
2⃣ new graduates don’t know how to office.

At @TechstrongGroup’s @DevOpsDotCom: https://t.co/WXOpmNpH84 #DevOps #GenZ

— @Richi 🤓 Jennings (@RiCHi) June 22, 2023

92% of Devs Use AI, Survey Says ¦ Intel One Mono Font

The moral of the story: Live as if you were to die tomorrow—learn as if you were to live forever

In this week’s #TheLongView:
1⃣ @GitHub touts unbelievable #AI stats, and
2⃣ @Intel’s beautiful #OpenSource #font.

At @TechstrongGroup’s @DevOpsDotCom: https://t.co/tcwJtusV8h #DevOps

— @Richi 🤓 Jennings (@RiCHi) June 15, 2023

Microsoft’s 9th Outage in 2023 ¦ RISE of RISC-V ¦ Meta Ends WFH - DevOps.com

The moral of the story: Every human has a finite number of heartbeats—I don’t intend to waste any of mine

In this week’s #TheLongView:
1⃣ Redmond #SaaS keeps failing,
2⃣ @RISC_V is #RISE’ing, and
3⃣ @Meta is enforcing #HybridWork.

At @TechstrongGroup’s @DevOpsDotCom: https://t.co/lFuPD3Aws5 #DevOps $MSFT $META

— @Richi 🤓 Jennings (@RiCHi) June 7, 2023

Dev Jobs are Dead: ‘Everyone’s a Programmer’ With AI ¦ Intel VPUs - DevOps.com

The moral of the story: Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears

In this week’s #TheLongView:
1⃣ @Nvidia’s CEO grabs headlines by saying your career is toast, and
2⃣ @Intel is still fighting.

At @TechstrongGroup’s @DevOpsDotCom: https://t.co/Ym8m7piEbD #DevOps $NVDA $INTC

— @Richi 🤓 Jennings (@RiCHi) June 1, 2023