{"id":8843,"date":"2020-02-04T05:00:23","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T19:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/?p=8843"},"modified":"2020-02-18T10:16:08","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T00:16:08","slug":"random-short-take-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/random-short-take-29\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Short Take #29"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Random Short Take #29. You&#8217;d think 29 would be a hard number to line up with basketball players, but it turns out that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/c\/cambyma01.html\">Marcus Camby<\/a> wore it one year when he played for Houston. It was at the tail-end of his career, but still. Anyhoo &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I love a good story about rage-quitting projects, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2020\/01\/21\/rust_actix_web_framework_maintainer_quits\/\">this one<\/a> is right up there. I&#8217;ve often wondered what it must be like to work on open source projects and dealing with the craziness that is the community.<\/li>\n<li>I haven&#8217;t worked on a Scalar library in over a decade, but <a href=\"https:\/\/blocksandfiles.com\/2020\/01\/24\/quantum-reinforces-tape-air-gap-protection-against-ransomware\/\">Quantum is still developing them<\/a>. There&#8217;s an interesting story here in terms of protecting your protection data using air gaps. I feel like this is already being handled a different way by the next-generation data protection companies, but when all you have is a hammer. And the cost per GB is still pretty good with tape.<\/li>\n<li>I always enjoy Keith&#8217;s ability to take common problems and look at them with a fresh perspective. I&#8217;m interested to see just how far he goes down the rabbit hole with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thectoadvisor.com\/blog\/2020\/1\/20\/the-cto-advisors-cloud-journey\">this DC project<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/\">Backblaze<\/a> frequently comes up with useful articles for both enterprise punters and home users alike. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/saving-your-uncles-data-how-to-back-up-a-social-media-profile\/\">This article<\/a> on downloading your social media presence is no exception. The processes are pretty straightforward to follow, and I think it&#8217;s a handy exercise to undertake every now and then.<\/li>\n<li>The home office is the new home lab. Or, perhaps, as we work anywhere now, it&#8217;s important to consider setting up a space in your home that actually functions as a workspace. <a href=\"https:\/\/thinkmeta.net\/2020\/01\/20\/every-impression-matters-home-office-setup\/\">This article<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/andriven\">Andrew Miller<\/a> covers some of the key considerations.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jtroyer.me\/2020\/01\/throat-clearing\/\">This article<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jtroyer\">John Troyer<\/a> about writing was fantastic. Just read it.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scalecomputing.com\/\">Scale Computing<\/a> was really busy last year. How busy? Busy enough to pump out a press release that you can check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scalecomputing.com\/press-releases\/scale-computing-delivers-yearly-growth-rate-of-over-90-in-total-software-revenue-driven-by-oem-relationships\">here<\/a>. The company also has a snazzy new website and logo that you should check out.<\/li>\n<li>Veeam v10 is coming &#8220;very soon&#8221;. You can register <a href=\"https:\/\/go.veeam.com\/v10\">here<\/a> to find out more. I&#8217;m keen to put this through its paces.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Random Short Take #29. You&#8217;d think 29 would be a hard number to line up with basketball players, but it turns out that Marcus Camby wore it one year when he played for Houston. It was at the tail-end of his career, but still. Anyhoo &#8230; I love a good story about rage-quitting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[514,25,750,893,5,1138],"tags":[572,220,1272,976,1273,848,894,1274,963,1181],"class_list":["post-8843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-backblaze","category-dataprotection","category-hyperconverged","category-scalecomputing","category-storage","category-veeam","tag-backblaze-2","tag-blogging","tag-ctoadc","tag-data-protection","tag-quantum","tag-random","tag-scale-computing","tag-tape","tag-veeam","tag-veeamvanguard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8843"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8961,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8843\/revisions\/8961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}