Tue. 03/17 - Microsoft Wants To Own The Dev Stack

Tech Brew Ride Home

Amalgamated Internets, LLC

News, Tech News, Technology

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Big acquisition for GitHub... which really means: big acquisition for Microsoft as it continues to gobble up the entire developer stack. The iPhone 9 chips will not be underpowered at all. How Amazon is, in fact, trying to cope with the Corona-surge. And is this crisis the tipping point for streaming media? Sponsors: Tinycapital.com TryExpressVPN.com/ride Links: Microsoft's GitHub acquires npm to help JavaScript developers (WindowsCentral) iOS 14 code confirms Apple planning ‘iPhone 9 Plus’ with A13 as larger version of rumored entry-level model (9to5Mac) Amazon ramps hiring, opening 100,000 new roles to support people relying on Amazon’s service in this stressful time (Amazon Day One Blog) Uber, Lyft suspend pooled rides in U.S., Canada to limit spread of coronavirus (Reuters) Phones Could Track the Spread of Covid-19. Is It a Good Idea? (Wired) To Track Coronavirus, Israel Moves to Tap Secret Trove of Cellphone Data (NYTimes) With Movie Theater Shutdown, Universal Pictures to Stream New Release Films on Prime Video, iTunes, & More (The Streamable) Movie Crowds Stay Away. Theaters Hope It’s Not for Good. (NYTimes) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Welcome to the tech meme ride home for Tuesday, March 17th, 2020.
0:07.0	I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:09.0	Big acquisition for GitHub, which really means big acquisition for Microsoft as it continues to gobble up basically
0:15.0	the entire developer stack.
0:17.1	The iPhone 9 chips will not be underpowered at all.
0:20.4	How Amazon is in fact trying to cope with the Corona surge and is this crisis the tipping point for streaming media?
0:27.4	Here's what you miss today in the world of tech
0:32.0	Pretty big news that I missed yesterday because it broke while I was recording.
0:37.0	GitHub announced it has signed an agreement to acquire NPM, which is home to more than 1.3 million JavaScript packages with 75 billion
0:46.6	downloads per month, quoting Windows Central.
0:50.0	For developers that currently use the registry, the most important takeaway is that it will remain free.
0:55.0	NPM's blog post states that its registry of packages will remain public, free, and as available as ever.
1:02.0	GitHub's Friedman states that,
1:04.0	quote, the public NPM registry will always be available
1:07.0	and always be free, end quote.
1:09.0	Paying customers that use NPM pro, teams, and Enterprise to host private registries will still be able to do so.
1:16.0	Friedman explains that the focus of this deal is to invest in infrastructure and platform,
1:20.3	improve the core experience, and engage with the community.
1:23.0	In the future, GitHub will integrate with NPM,
1:26.0	allowing developers to trace a change from a GitHub pool request
1:30.0	all the way to an NPM package version.
1:32.0	NPM package version.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Amalgamated Internets, LLC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Amalgamated Internets, LLC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.