Year: 2023
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Motivating IT people to change, talking to developers
You know how things go. Somedays, all of the sudden, it’s 4:17 and you have your last meeting of the day at 4:30, and it’s also your daughter’s third birthday, so you need to get to that. And while you managed to eat a really great sandwich, it also, turns out no one’s walked the…
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Sometimes, you need start with the explanation and see what opinion fits
These 5 tactics are good for a 13 year old student or an adult knowledge worker Here are the five test taking and essay test taking tips I shared with Cormac: If you’re doing the assignment in Google Docs, or whatever, of possible, copy and paste the questions into your document. This way, you have…
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The Narcissism of Small Differences in Charts
The Narcissism of Small Differences in Charts In surveys, just because something is last doesn’t mean it’s bad. It’s true the other way as well. Now, if there’s a huge difference between the first and last thing, then, sure. If 85% of people like the first choice, and 15% like the last, you’ve got a…
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I very much so want to use this style for reports. Those charts are amazing. Feedback on today’s piece. Here’s my final article. What do you think? Tell me your analysis of what I could have prompted you with to get your responses close to this final version. 🤖Your final article effectively discusses the challenges…
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The Silo Unifier’s Paradox
If no one owns the problem, no one can fix it – The Silo Unifier’s Paradox Solving the IT silo problem is challenging as there’s no one person responsible for the entire process. Each solo is owned by different groups like software developers, operations, security, project managers, and more. These groups often have competing goals,…
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Shifting to new metrics for platform engineering
Suggested theme song for this episode: download share download share Embed this tracksmallmediumlarge Email: – – – Sorry, this track or album is not available. Sorry, this player does not support your browser. Your browser must either support native HTML audio or have the Flash plugin installed. Changing Infrastructure People’s Metrics…
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In-Office vs. Remote: Tackling the Productivity Puzzle in a World of Waste
Re: Iron Law of Remote Work Last time, I suggested that bosses generally want in-office people, and workers want to work from home. This is regardless of any data, studies, or “reality.” It’s pure human preference. One of you asked me if this was because of an increase in productivity or a decrease. I took…
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“Current macro-economic trends”
Just links and waste book this episode. The Village Lawyer, Pieter Brueghel the Younger. Wastebook If you’re looking for quality in clothes, bags, and such, add YKK zippers to your search. I feel like there’s some way of figuring out the type of work you do by how often you look up people in the…
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Picture Wastebook 02
Saturday is when I clean out the pictures wastebook. Each picture links back to the source, and if there is no link, I took the picture…or lost the link. Logoff See y’all next time!
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🎧 📈📉👨💻Cloud Repatriation and Low CI/CD Usage
This was a fun episode: There’s been a lot of talk about controlling cloud costs by bringing workloads back to the datacenter, you know, private cloud. The three of us discuss what’s going on here. Also, surveys consistently show that only about half of developers are doing continuous integration (CI), and fewer are doing continuous…
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They were just wearing Levi’s because of what it symbolizes
Not much time for original content today: a Link Gourmand, my own links, the wastebook, and quick chair. Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam, March, 2023 For several years, I took a lot of pictures of thrown out chairs in Amsterdam. Here’s a small selection of early ones – I’ll have to upload…
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Driven by art, the diffusion of innovation, or just being weird
What is a Life Dedicated to Art? What does it mean to live a life dedicated to art, focused on art? I know what it means and feel like for a software developer to dedicate your life to programming, to technology innovation. It is somewhat indescribable: you just do it because you think it’s important…
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Picture Wastebook 01
Just images on Saturday. Logoff This just images edition is inspired by readjpeg.com. Sure, it could be, like, in tumblr. But why not here for some Saturday easy viewing? Here is the plan. I’ll send these types of picture stream posts out on Saturdays. Each picture is linked if I got it from somewhere else,…
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How Gareth Rushgrove finds links for Devops Weekly
I’m on vacation these week, so I have no musings on the seven year distraction of kubernetes, platform engineering, or business strategies for ChatGPT. However, we’re down near Ghent, so maybe we’ll have some more pickle problems. Thankfully, Gareth sent me a great edition of The Link Gourmand, so I can lean on him for…
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Reading the Internet – Using ChatGPT as a reading log, Readwise Reader Review
Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam. A short Readwise Reader Review I’ve been using Readwise and its Reader app for about a month. I think it’s great – I pay for it. Reader is a straight-up Instapaper replacement with a text-to-speech function and AI capabilities for summarizing articles and answering questions. The AI stuff isn’t that great…
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How’s your free/busy cal for the “Discuss Options for Uncle Frank’s Casket” meeting?
Suggested theme song: that’s some real-deal wigglin’. Meetings It’s that time of year again: lots of planning meetings. In my role, I’m usually so far out to sea and into terra incognita that I don’t get to many corporate meetings. But, I have recently. Here’s four things I’ve been thinking: 1. Categorize meetings into two…
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ChatGPT Wrote This 👉 All Art is at Once Surface and Symbol: The Paradox of Parachute Pants and Work Clothing in Late Stage Capitalism
Preface: not too much time today to write something on my own. I was finally able to sign up for ChatGPT Plus yesterday, which is fun. For today, I asked ChatGPT to write about the history of parachute pants in the style of Susan Sontag. I spent some time massaging it, throwing in new ideas…
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Shift left only matters if the system on the right is doing a bad job
Just some catch-up on links and wastebook’ing since the speedy episode last time. Wastebook The Wine Glass, Vermeer, c. 1660. Seeing a Vermeer in person is much different than printed in a book, or even a poster. It has that luster to it. Not all of the pictures, some are fuzzy more like a Rembrandt.…
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