🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday for 2024-12-22
Hot Fudge Sunday 🤔 💡 🤯 🤓 is a free weekly newsletter containing a digest of the Hot Fudge Daily paid newsletter at hot.fudge.org in a single easy to reach URL. This free weekly edition is posted every… wait for it… Sunday.
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Last week, I recovered from the prior week in Las Vegas at Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies (IOCS) Conference. It was fun comparing notes with my NexusTek peers and attending post-event deeper dive meetings with Gartner analysts to discuss Agentic AI. 🔮🤖☁️🔐
LinkedIn #OpenToWork Weekly
Per our reader survey, each week, I’m going to be highlighting a newsletter community reader that is #OpenToWork.
This week I’m highlighting Chris Mojica.
More about Chris Mojica:
Seasoned technical sales professional and technologist with proven pre and post sales engineering experience. Experience includes supporting startups, system integrators, vendors, channel partners/VARs, OEMs and end customers. I am always open to Solutions Architect or Sales/Systems Engineering opportunities.
Technical backgrounds include the disciplines of HCI, Virtualization, Software Defined (SDN/SDS/SDC) storage area networks (SAN), network, and broadband technologies. Additionally, having supported various levels within multiple organizations demonstrates my ability to effectively conduct business and technical level discussions within each of these tiers.
Leveraging my knowledge, background and experience allows me to understand complex datacenter environments. This technical acumen allows me to propose creative solutions that maximize ROI and minimize TCO. Strong organizational skills and ability to support multiple projects allows me to meet multiple deadlines.
Source: Chris Mojica on LinkedIn
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Housekeeping note: I’m experimenting with Bluesky (again)
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📈 Markets Monday for 2024-12-16
As a reminder, this is an end of day snapshot…
Quick Recap
For Market Monday, I continue to look at the same key indicator that I take from a simple Yahoo Finance webpage each week. It’s how I look at things through the lens of the closing bell on Monday.
Last week…
This week, Yahoo Screener is now part of “Research Hub” which... appears to have changed the layout options…
Previously, I decided on a view from Yahoo Finance. For example, this was a view of intraday in Technology which usually gets around a dozen or so interesting companies when the market is moving and a smaller handful of companies when the market is not moving as much.
If you are using Yahoo Applied Filters for Stocks screener you can bookmark your own heat map view.
% Change in Price (Intraday):greater than 4
Region: United States
Market Cap (Intraday): Mid Cap and Large Cap and Mega Cap
Price (Intraday):greater than or equal 5
Volume:greater than 15000
Sector: Technology
Industry: Software—Infrastructure and Information Technology Services and Computer Hardware and Software—Application and Communication Equipment and Electronics & Computer Distribution and Consumer Electronics and Electronic Components and Scientific & Technical Instruments and Semiconductor Equipment & Materials and Semiconductors
🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2024-12-17
Two hot takes on one story that caught my eye on Tuesday.
💰 + 📊 No matter what you think is an impressive raise in the past... this tops them all. Amazing.
💰 + 🤖 When you consider how important it will be for the next wave of data-driven business to embrace embeddings of actionable intelligence — it highlights why the need to extract actionable insights is critical. If the rest of the 2020s play out to favor the companies that make better informed and timely data-driven decisions, it is likely Databricks will play an outsized role in the success of those companies that utilize these capabilities to their advantage.
https://www.techmeme.com/241217/p16#a241217p16
🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2024-12-18
Each Wednesday I go through dozens of Slack communities.
I then select the most interesting shared links.
This will always be a safe for work list. 🙈
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/10/fred-battle-solara/
🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2024-12-19
What happens when the web forgets?
https://www.techmeme.com/241219/p15#a241219p15
Just over a decade ago, a similar story played out in the press.
https://www.techmeme.com/130923/p54#a130923p54
Even Wikipedia recognizes link rot as important.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_rot
Indeed, I’ve even written about link rot enough to create a topic / tag.
https://fudge.org/archive/plugins-patterns-and-potpourri/
(Yes, I finally fixed my hacked up og-image script)
✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2024-12-20
The tech news story that caught my eye this week was that Second Life… is still around and thriving?
https://www.techmeme.com/241220/p9#a241220p9
In my early years going to SXSW, I remember seeing Life 2.0 back in 2010. At the time, Second Life was something I knew about but never fully grasped — much like many aspects of the wider Internet culture.
https://filmschoolrejects.com/sxsw-review-life-2-0-94b522a7887c/
🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2024-12-21
By Friday, everything seems to be reaching the peak of getting news turned in before a deadline or dread-line. It sometimes seems like we reach a fever pitch in news coverage throughout the week.
Peak 🏔️ vs. Peek 👀
Then there is a trope, cliché, or bromide about slow news days and the quietly mentioned news updates sent on a Friday — to try and sneak it past wider coverage. Or, in a nutshell, peak patronizing publishing.
In that spirit, here are a few stories that you might have missed on the slow news of a Friday.
Insert Let's See Who This Really Is Meme
https://www.techmeme.com/241219/p26#a241219p26
Insert Ceiling Cat Meme
https://www.techmeme.com/241220/p12#a241220p12
Insert We're All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This Meme
https://www.techmeme.com/241219/p33#a241219p33
Insert That Wasn't Me, That Was Patricia Meme
https://www.techmeme.com/241220/p11#a241220p11
Insert Anthony Adams Rubbing Hands Meme
https://www.techmeme.com/241221/p2#a241221p2
