Year: 2023
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There is no relationship between The Doobie Brothers and AI generated D&D battle maps and
If you thought yesterday’s edition was way too long deep into some stinky, weeds, today’s episode is for you! Johnny Ghoul. Using Midjourney and DALL-E to generate Dungeons and Dragons Battle Maps It works well enough, I think, given how cool they look. The scaling is obviously not perfect, but it’s fine. I just did…
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It takes a village to make a king, not just developers
This is an example of a weird use of “developers are the new kingmakers”: There is a simple rule: developers rule. You run the global economy, right? Not politicians, not CEOs – developers are the ones running this global economy. What aspect of your life is not getting more digital? Everything, sports, entertainment, social experience…
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idling insignificantly
How to survive giving a lot of presentations at conferences I think it was John Willis who told me that a long time ago. Relative to your interests What is Technical Debt? – “In practice, my observations are that most development teams, even in small companies, are too far separated from these types of financial…
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The only people who don’t like metrics are the people being measured, or, developer productivity metrics quicksand
No links today, but this: Measuring Developer Productivity Once you suggest tracking an individual software developer’s performance, you get into big trouble with the thought leaders. This is, you know, pretty much a correct a response. McKinsey decided to have a go recently, giving us all a chance to think about “developer productivity” again. In…
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Kubernetes Service & Distro Usage
Just a few things today. The Network is the Computer “Sun Microsystems founders (left to right) Bill Joy, Andy Bechtolsheim, Scott McNealy and Vinod Khosla stand in front of their sports cars at the company’s facilities in Palo Alto in 1987”. Posted by readjpeg.raw. Kubernetes Distro Usage If you’re interested in marketshare, usage trends, and…
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The container management market is $1.6bn in 2022, going to $3.6bn in 2027
Suggested theme song. Just links and fun finds today. Relevant to your interests VMware named a Leader in the 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant – Nice spot for VMware in the MQ. // This is a pretty small market! Hopefully the market is selling around container management, the stacks of app dev support above it, and…
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Why do they even have nets in Dungeons & Dragons 5e?
Software Defined Talk #434 That’s the opening topic of our podcast this week. Oh, and we talk about a bunch of tech shit too: Watch the video above, or just listen to the audio only, edited podcast. Do Less My colleague Bryan Ross has been writing up some tiny videos I made last year. They’re…
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The Tech Marketer’s Problem
Thought Leadership Hidden in Plain Sight There’s a variation of The Plumber’s Problem that I suffer from: The Tech Marketer’s Problem. When I see a new idea in tech bubbling up and I can smell the marketing strategy behind it (which, with my background, I usually can), I stop enjoying the, you know, story. This…
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“We gave a profession of bullshit generators access to GPT-4. You won’t believe what happened next.” – If the work you’re doing is predictable – in this case, a lot of the junior level work at management consulting firms to come up with new strategies and GTM – the AI can help. The positive side:…
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A new way of thinking about open source sustainability – If you’re using open source components in your IT stack, don’t forget that long term reliability and stability is costly, and worth paying for.
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What is a service mesh? Why do you need a service mesh? And which is the best service mesh?
The infrastructure drives the app architecture A cloud native applications is typically designed as a bunch of little components that coordinate with each other over a network. They may use events instead, and while that isn’t the same as point-to-point network communications, it follows the same idea: you have a bunch of indepedent-ish bundles of…
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Did I Make a Mistake Selling Del.icio.us to Yahoo? – Plan to never get past slide one: “Any decision was an endless discussion. I remember once, we had to present to a senior vice-president. We had a 105-slide deck prepared, and we didn’t get past the second slide because they ratholed about one fucking slide.…
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Second Wave DevOps – The tools keep changing: “Let’s face facts: our implementation is what’s letting us down. What worked for John and Paul in 2009 is, in broad strokes, exactly what we have been asking every single DevOps practitioner to do since. We’ve replaced all the individual tools in the system multiple times (look…
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Survey: Majority of US Workers Are Already Using Generative AI Tools, But Company Policies Trail Behind – “The new survey finds that 56 percent of workers are using generative AI on the job, with nearly 1 in 10 employing the technology on a daily basis. Yet just 26 percent of respondents say their organization has…
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iOS 17 release: everything you need to know about Apple’s big updates – A concise list. The journaling app comes out later this year.
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A handsome grandfather clock
A NEW CAR! The first episode where Bob has his real hair. I’m not sure how it happened, but The Price is Right is a major show in my life canon. The music, the camp, the excitement and sincerity of it all – it’s perfect in every way. At my first job at a dot.com…
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The Poetry of Pricing – “Pricing is a signal. It’s a conversation between seller and buyer containing information that both parties will exchange. On the part of the seller it suggests both the cost of the offering and the value it provides. Buyers are inclined to see if they can stretch to the next higher…
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