In this episode, various news updates and announcements are discussed, including the release of Changelog Beats, the Too Long (TL) terminal app, Mitchell Baker stepping down as Mozilla CEO, and the introduction of sudo for Windows. The story of SSH and the assignment of port number 22 is also explored, along with a blog post rating different services and tools.
Mitchell Baker stepping down as Mozilla CEO to focus on AI and internet safety as chair of the nonprofit foundation.
Will McGoogan introduces Too Long (TL), a user-friendly and efficient terminal app for log file analysis.
Deep dives
Mozilla Corp. announces leadership change
Mozilla Corp. announced that Mitchell Baker is stepping down as CEO to focus on AI and internet safety as chair of the nonprofit foundation. Laura Chambers, a Mozilla board member and entrepreneur with experience at Airbnb, PayPal, and eBay will step in as interim CEO to run operations until a permanent replacement is found. The short-term plan is to focus on building new products that address privacy concerns while actively looking for a full-time CEO.
Introduction of Too Long terminal app
Will McGoogan from textualize has introduced a new terminal app called Too Long or TL, which provides a snappy and straightforward way to view, tail, merge, and search log files. As a former web developer, McGoogan wanted to create a tool that improves upon the friction experienced when using Unix tools like tail, less, and grep for analyzing logs. Too Long aims to offer a more user-friendly and efficient experience for log file analysis.
Changelog Beats drops a new Dance Party album, Will McGugan’s new Toolong (tl) terminal app, Mitchell Baker is out as Mozilla CEO, Microsoft’s Jordi Adoumie announces sudo for Windows, Tatu Ylonen tells the tale of how they got SSH to be port 22 & Jack Lindamood gives an “Endorse” or “Regret” rating for ~50 different services, tools & processes he used over the 4 years he led infrastructure at a startup.
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