Recorded June 16, 2018

#spotpodnewsbrief <– join the conversation

Summary

In today’s On the SPOT News Brief, Jay Leask and Craig Jahnke  catch up after a multi-month hiatus with Jay’s move, and newborn son, and Craig’s new job and summer plans. And they discuss their goals for the podcast and how hard it can be to find the motivation to record, edit, and release this. So thank you for putting up with us as we try to rebuild our cadence!

In technology they discuss news out of the SharePoint conference, GitHub, a sunken data center, Project Maven, WWDC, GDPR and those pesky privacy policies. They also put out a call for someone to help them understand what Apple has been doing for the past 5+ years – I mean, really, what’s iNew?

If you have a topic you want us to discuss ping us on Twitter to let us know!

Full Transcript

Jay Leask: – 00:14 – Today is June 16, 2018. This is Jay Leask, and you’re listening to On The SPOT.

Craig Jahnke: – 00:20 – Hey, with Jay, this is Craig Jahnke for the Speed of Technology podcast. It’s been a while, Jay. Sorry, I thought when you were starting this that you were doing the testing things, so I-

Jay Leask: – 00:30 – No, no, no. There’s no need to test. We’re pros at this.

Craig Jahnke: – 00:32 – That’s why I was trying to demo my Spanish, and I could count to ten.

Jay Leask: – 00:37 – No, hey, I’m going to start out by apologizing. I’ve got a brand-new laptop, so my hardware’s running great, but I’m in a new house, so I don’t have my setup. I’m using the cheap little microphones on my headset, I’m sure the quality is crap.

Craig Jahnke: – 00:51 – Well, it sounds good to me.

Jay Leask: – 00:52 – Yeah, yeah, we’ll see what happens when I check the audio, and it picks up every click and clop and everything in the background. But Craig, to the listeners, Craig and I were just talking about the podcast and the goal of the podcast, and what we enjoy doing, and what we don’t. It occurred to both of us that we should really be recording this, because it was more of a conversation about technology than anything else. To bring us up to speed, I think, maybe reiterate, I think I speak for both of us when I say I really enjoy doing this. I enjoy talking with you about technology. But it is hard to motivate in between … What has it been, four months since we last sat down to do this?

Craig Jahnke: – 01:34 – Well, that was a … I won’t say the motivation wasn’t there. I think for you there was a child. There was a move. There were other things that were probably more important in life in general. But you have your own little motivational quirks and stuff, so you tell me if that isn’t the case.

Jay Leask: – 01:53 – No, that is also true. I do have a one-month-old … No, a two-month-old in the other room right now with my wife and the almost six-year-old. She’ll be six in two weeks. Ah geez, she’ll be six in 10 days, eight days, yeah, no, eight, 10, 12, somewhere in there, about two weeks.

Jay Leask: – 02:12 – We’ve got all the activities she does. Right now she’s doing swim and dance and taekwondo. In taekwondo, she’s auditioning for the demo team, which if you’re on my Facebook-

Craig Jahnke: – 02:12 – I saw that.

Jay Leask: – 02:23 – … I posted the video of her demo team in Reston...