The Weekly Squeak - Confluent Cloud with Dan Rosanova

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In the wake of the death of George Floyd at the hands of the police in Minneapolis, and the protests that have ensued, companies large and small have decided that now is the time for them to make public their allegiance to the Black community.

The Free Software Foundation's (FSF) annual conference LibrePlanet went fully virtual in 2020 due to ongoing issues caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

The Linux kernel has officially deprecated its coding style that the length of lines of code comply with 80 columns as the "strong preferred limit".

In the annals of Silicon Valley history, Nolan Bushnell’s name conjures up both brilliant success and spectacular failure. His two landmark achievements were founding Atari in 1972–laying the groundwork for the entire video game industry–and starting Chuck E.

“What platform should I use for my startup’s community? Should I move from Slack to Discourse? Wait...there’s a Discourse and a Discord?” Now is a great time to build a community online, and there’s no shortage of really great tools to help.

In the week after George Floyd’s murder, hundreds of thousands of people joined protests across the US and around the globe, demanding education, attention, and justice.

Sure, there are plenty of great companies out there building tools that solve payments for your product, but Stripe has built up an evangelical user base of engineers who’ll recommend it as the payments product of choice when they walk into their next company. How?