As others have said, if your VMs are Linux, set up unattended_updates and forget about it.

If your VMs are windows, then Action1 is free up to 200 clients, it does need an agent installed, but that auto updates too.

I always loved reading Joel’s stuff, clear & well thought out. It was especially exciting when they were building Stack Overflow, but that’s kinda got buried now. Things come & things go…

Interesting article, I agree with his analysis, not sure (yet) that I agree with his conclusions. My brain needs to think about it in the background for a bit (just the way mine works).

TLDR: we should expect conversational interfaces to be an addition to the workflows we currently use.

Yeah. I retired a year ago, every now & then I say to myself “I’m sure I had a script for that…” bit then I can’t find it of course, which makes me sad.

Oh & I used to sign in to GitHub with a username & password, then GitHub said I needed to change my password, and emailed me a link to my old work address, which I can no longer access.

So I’m going to have to fork my own stuff!

Some say the mice are testing us (Douglas Adams)

Yeah, shout out for rsync also. It’s awesome. Combine it with ssh & it feels pretty secure too.